YEAR. NO. 70. ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1909 PRICE nVECENTS 10 II DESTROYED Fire Burnt Ft Leavenworth Penitentiary to the Ground Early This Morning PRISONERS SAFELY REMOVED Sevtral Computet of Troops Quickly Burround th Burning Buildings and With Drawn Rifles Met the Con lct as They Came Out , LEAVENWORTH. Kan., April 1 The military prison at Fort Lesv- eaworth partially deitroytd by labor and free labor, and to givt bet ter protection to Industrie, in which free labor U engaged, Representative Kalin of California hai Introduced i bill making it a misdemeanor, punish able by a fine of from $500 to $5000 or Imprisonment of one year, or both for any person to knowingly transport out of any state or territory in which it I manufactured any -article which it the product of pruon labor. LIE AND MYSTERY Another Peculiar Case Of Sudden Disappearance Recorded. NEW ORLEANS, March Jl.- Having mysteriously disappeared Mrs. E. V. Baker, wife of a grain broker of reputed wealth, who recent ly removed with his family to New Orleans from San Francisco, was last night again with her family in this city. It is said that Mrs. Baker was found In New York. It was declared that she had been dragged by a woman whom she met here on the day of her disappearance and that it was some days after her arrival In New York ;We early this (Thursday) morning. . . . rfaain.A f,.ii nonunion of prisoners were removed irora w her fBeu,ci ad n0,jf)e(j her husband tell bouses under heavy guaro oi f h where,boutl, United Statea troops and confined in dockages. None of the ttcaped. it la believed. prisoners The fire gained great headway oa account of tie low pressure of water. Great ex c'tement prevailed among the prii :ers who feared they would be ' urncd to death. Soon several eom I inles of soldiers were under arms, strong cordon of troopa were thrown around the prison and the de livery of prisoners was begun. When the bolts of the cell house loon were shot back the flames had reached the main building. Perfect order doubtless prevented fatalities. The soldiers, with levelled rifles met lbs convicts as they came out. Cuards were under Instructions to shoot at CRAZY SNAKE STILL K FRO' HIS SURRENDER IS EXPECTED WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. PIERCE, Okla., March 31-Reports that Chitti Marios (Crazy Snake), is any sign of trouble. The display of !nidin the Ti8er Mountains, about weapons effectually awed the pris oners. Loss, $200,000. There were 800 prisoners and at 2 o'clock the cell houses cooled suffic iently to allow half of the prisoners to return. HER JEWELS RETURNED Chaffeur Finda $20,000 Worth Returns Them.. And NEW YORK, March 31.-A jewel case containing a pearl necklace and other gems worth $20,000, the proper ty of Mrs. Russel Hopkins of Atlanta, Ga., was found by the chauffeur of a taxicab last night and returned to its owner before she had been aware of her loss." The chauffeur returned his find through the manager of the hotel St. Regis, where Mr. and Mrs, Hopkins occupy apartments and it was only after an investigation of the contents of the cab had been made that its dwnership was established. The finder was handsomely rewarded. six miles from here, is confirmed. His surrender is expected within 24 hours. The messenger that came in from the chief said that Crazy is slightly wounded but would surrender if promised fair treatment, btu the mes senger did not give location of the camp and the chief has not been found, The chief will be guaranteed a fair trial nicn no MORE Georgia Finally Does Away With Its Abominable Modern Slavery STATE TO WORK PRISONERS For Years It Haa Been the Practice to Lease All Convicts Out to Priv ate Contractors, Who Abused Them Without Mercy. PRISON PRODUCTS WASHINGTON, March avoid competition between 31.-To convict MODELS FOR STATES WASHINGTON, March 31.-Sena- tor Hcyburn of Idaho has Introduced a bill requiring the Secretary of the Navy to have constructed a complete model of each vessel of war of the United States navy which shall have or shall hereafter be given the name borne by a State of the United States to be deposited in a conspicuous place convenient to public view in the cap itol building of the state. YESTERDAY'S BALL GAMES. At Los Angeles Portland 7, Los Angeles 5. . At SacramentoSacramento 1, Ver non 3. At San Francisco Oakland 1, San Francisco 0. WON'T ACCEPT A RATE DECISION .Attorneys for 0. R. & N. Will Contest Decision of Commerce Commission in "Spokane Rate Case" PORTLAND, March 31-The Har- riman lines will, according to W. W. Cotton, general attorney for the O. R. & N. Co., contest in the courts the recent decision of the Interstate Com merce Commission in the case com monly known as the "Spokane Rate Case," on the ground that the Har riman lines were compelled to' carry freight a much longer distance in or der to deliver it at Spokane from Eastern points than are the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Rail roads. Mr. Cotton niakes point, using class "A" freight as an illustration, that Mie rate from Chicago to Spokane is, by the Interstate Commerce Com mission, fixed at $3.00 and the rate from St. Paul to Spokane at $2.50 per hundred weight. In the same classi fication, Mr. Cotton points out that the rate from St. Paul to coast points is $2-50 and from Chicago to coast points $3,00, notwithstanding the haul, by way of the Harriman lines, is many hundred miles less to- the coast than to Spokane. The burden of the contention of the Harriman attorney being that the rate fixed dis criminates in favor of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, which are competing lines to the Harriman system. ATLANTA, Ca., March 3!.-Th convict tease system, which has pro duced so much graft and cruelty dur ing its existence, ends in the State of Georgia today. The law which ill produce this great reform, and hich was passed by the General Assembly in extraordinary session last September, will go into force to morrow. Secretary Goodloe Vancy, of the prison commission, has for several weeks past been engaged a! most constantly in preparing every detail for the coming into force of the new convict law that takes all the convicts out of the hands of les sees forever and turns them over to the state itself their owner. Under the new law all felony con' victs shall be turned over to the Prison Commission after today, in eluding those now in the hands of lessees and those hereafter convicted All misdemeanor convicts not work ed by the counties upon their roads shall also be turned over to the Com mission, counties desiring to use convicts in building roads, bridges, and other public works shall apply to the Prison Commission for their present Cjuota, in writing, not later than February IS of each year. After the pro rata share of each county has been distributed to those desiring them, all countries wanting more shall have them on another propor- tionat e scale. After the second dis tribution, municipalities desiring them shall have them at $100 per con vict per annum- Mate farms are to be leased for five years or purchas ed, if possible, where convicts may be worked. State institutions jieed ing labor may have fifty convicts each. If all these means of dispos ing of convicts do not absorb the to tal number In the Commission' hands, then the Commission and the governor are given authority to dis pose of the remainder as they think best, on work wherin the contractor is not interested in the amount of work the convict can do per day, and, for a period not to exceed twelve months. ' Thus ends a system, wrong in prin ciple and frightfully abused in pract ice, and thus is dealt to private con tractors accustomed to reap the fruits of this obnoxious system, a heavy blow. Under the old law there was no penitentiary in Georgia; there were no workhouses. No prisoners were kept in jails, but at every term of court persons who had been con victed of offences for which impris onment is the penalty in other States, were sold as slaves to whoever de sired that kind of labor, and the money went into the public treasury. These convicts were "leased" to any one who was willing to pay. And other persons who were convicted of offences punishable by fine were "leased1 to any person willing to pay the fine and permit the prisoner to work out the amount at a fixed rate of wages.' Genral Thomas H. Ruger of the United States Army, then military governor of Georgia, without any authority from the people of this state, inaugurated the convict lease system in 1868, by hiring out to the first responsible bidder two hundred of the five hundred convicts then in the penitentiary. The others we; hired out soon afterward either by him or by Governor Bullock. This was done at that time because of the poverty of the State, which has just emerged from devastating war Democratic Legislatures, for the same reasons, continued the system under restraints which reduced its bad features to a minimun, postpon ing to a later and more prosperous period the permanent solution of th penitentiary problem. The Legislature of 1871 even pas ed an act ratifying the Bullock lease and authorizing the continuance of the lease for two years. In 1874 a new lease for twenty years was authorized, and ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown was active in securing the passage of the act, organized a les see company which had the pick of the convicts, and is supposed to have made a large part of his fortune in the profits of the. lease- In 1896 political issue was made of the con vict lease system, and Seaborn Wright, Independent candidate ' for Governor, indorsed by the Populist party forced from the Democratic party the pledge to abolish the sys tern if he should remain in power, The legislature, however violated this party pledge, contending that the 'abolition should be gradual. A few reforms were the only good result of that promise. Leases were made for five years under certain restric tions and were renewed in 1903 for another term of five years. But the cry for reform would not be silenced and the Penitentiary Com' mittee of the Legislature of 1907-8 made a partial investigation of some of the convict camps which disclosed shocking condition. It was also found that State warden Jake Moore had collected commissions from sev era! lessees. It was shown that the contractors realized enormous profit: from the system and often abused the convicts working for them. On this showing the extra session of the Leg islature abolished. '.the system alto gciner. IUFM1S.IE OPEN REBELLION OBJECT TO THE GOVERNMENT PLACING A TAX ON WORK HORSES AND OXEN. of EL PASO, Texas, March 31. The Herald prints a telegram from Chi' huahua declaring that the Temosachic Indians and numerous Mexican farm' ers in the vicinity of San Andres. Chihuahua are in open rebellion gainst the state government because a tax of three cents daily on all work oxen and horses. The tax aroused the ire of the native ranchers who own farms in the valleys. Sev- ral skirmishes were taken between the people and the tax collectors. Regular troops and rurales have been sent to the. scene. The country- is thickly populated and the people are known as sharpshooters who go armed and are skilled in warfare. KNIGHTED BY POPE. NEW YORK, March 31. Mis Eleanor Colgan, a teacher in the training school for teachers, has been singled out by Pope Pius X for enrol lment as a member of the Order of Knighthood of . the church, and the papacy as a reward tor her services in bettering the conditions of the Italians of South Brooklyn. The distinction carries with it a golden cross, the presentation of which was made to her yesterday. Miss Colgan has been for several years devoted to charitable and relig ious work in , connection with the Italian Church of Our Lady of Peace in Brooklyn. . REDUCE WAGES. One of the Largest Coke Concerns Announce 10 Per Cent Reduction. PITTSBURG. March 31.-Notice of a 10 per cent reduction of wages of the employes of W- P. Snyder & Co,, one of the largest manufacturers and coke concerns of the Pittsburg district is announced today. The re duction will be general. VOTE Oil 11 BILL 111 FF Indications are That Date Will be Set on Next Monday April 5 APRIL 10TH MAY BE TIME Advocates of Free Lumber Have Made so Much Noise That it is Probable That the Vote on Lumber Schedule Will be Separate. WASHINGTON, D. C, March 31. Indications today are strong that a rule-will be brought into the House next Monday fixing April 10 as the day for voting on the Payne tariff bill. It is understood that the rule will provide for committee amendments and the opening of the lumber, tea and coffee schedule;- to amendment for placing these articles on the free list. It may be possible that bides will be included for consideration but the sentiment seems to be grow ing that the Senate wilt see that the duty is resored on hides. The rule will probably provide for the reading of the measure under the five-minute rule during next week. This would not give time for the reading of the whole bill under the rule. Advocates of free lumber have made such a clamor in the House that it is said by one of the House leaders that the ways and means com mittee has consented to have a sepa rate vote on the lumber schedule. This means that the free-lumber amendment Wl be proposed, and is feared by Pacific Coast members. it may be carried- It will now be the effort of Western and Southern men to prevent a separate vote on lumber. This can only be shut off by the ways and means committee. The Senate finance committee will give a hearing tomorrow to the lum ber men from Michigan and the South who will protest against the lumber schedule of the Payne bill. It is learned .oirgood authority, that Rep resentatives having lumber mills :r their districts, are afraid that if they ask for a vote in the House on their amendment restoring the lumber duty to $2, that the amendment will be defeated, and that the amendment placing lumber on the free list will be adopted. These members are now willing to accept a cut to $1 if the ways and means committee will bring in. an amendment repealing the maximum and minimum feature as it applies to lumber. This proposition is now be ing considered by the ways and means committee. When the House today resumed consideration of the tariff bill, Mor gan of Missouri, urged protection for the zinc industry. Quoting from speech by President Taft that the primary purpose of a tariff was to provide more revenue for the govern ment, Brantley of Georgia declared this to be a true Democratic doctrine. The primary purpose .of the Payne bill, he contended, was not revenue, but the maintenance of the true Re publican theory of protection. Brant ley laid the present deficit at the door of what he charged was Republican extravagance. Brantley said the Dingley tariff in sawed lumber of $2 a thousand was not prohibitory, but a revenue rate, and said if given the opportunity he ould vote to have it restored. He Hacked the cotton schedule on the ground that it was solely in the inter est of the New England manufacturer. The situaton with which the leaders of the House find themselves con fronted in dealing with the Payne tar- ff bill continues to give the greatest concern at the White House. It s said today that Taft has been direct ly appealed to by Cannon and Payne and Dalzell, who are worried by tac tics of the insurgents. The western manufacturers of wheat products pro-J pose that in order to retain the ex port trade that provision be incorpo rated in the bill that any article manu factured of grain raised in the United States in order to obtain the draw back when exported in lieu of import ed grain, must be manufactured in the same mill or factory as the ar ticle manufactured from imported grain. Further provision would make bran, shorts and other products of imported wheat manufactured in bonded warehouses and withdrawn from domestic consumption, subject to a duty of 25 per centum ad valorem based upon the market price at the place of manufacture. ii inniin f tun rnn I U fl 1 J I J ! I I II r i I v LI 1 1 1 imiuuiHfiiiioiuti IDil Wants Revised Tariff and Better Carrying Law or Both SHOULD REDUCE EXPENSES Wants Also to Have the Sherman Anti-Trust Law Revised as be Does Not Like to be Prosecuted Has Not Much Faith in Administratioa STANDARD OIL CAPITAL NEW YORK, March 31.It is re ported in financial circles here that all preliminary jteps have been taken by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, for the increase of its capital ization from $100,000,000 to $500,000.. 000. The change is said to be prompted by the desire of those in control of th affairs of the corporation to bring the CHICAGO, March 31 Edward H. nominal caoital tins tn th -!.. I Harriman was interviewed nere to- which the shares of the comoanv ni8ht and 8ai1 in Part: "If the ov command in the open market where i ernraent bad revised the tariff or giv the stock is now selling at about 650. ien the ntry good currency law, or both, we would not nave had the Landis decision, and we would 'not have had this wasteful prosecution of ' corporations, nor all this hostile legis- lation against railroads." He spoke of the necessity of the re vision of the Sherman anti-trust act and referring to the financial methods of the government said he would ef fect a reduction in the expenses of the government "By applying the cost per ton per miles rule, so to speak, by which the railroads effect their econo mies. I mean that the railroad man agement know what it costs them to transport a ton of freight one mile and are governed accordingly and constantly striving to reduce that unit of cost If this principle were to be applied to the financial problems of the government jjpu would see mar velous changes in a few years." He said he did not believe the present administration was inclined to make changes in this direction. TRISGO CELEBRATED CLOSE OF CUM FIGHT WAGED AGAINST BD- BONIC PLAGUE NOW AT AN SUCCESSFUL END. SAN FRANCISCO, March 31-San Francisco celebrated officially the close ofjts campaign against the bu bonic plague tonight by giving a pub lic dinner to Dr. Rupert Blue, of the United States Marine Hospital serv ice, and his corps of executive officers at the Fairmont Hotel. Governor Gillett, Mayor Taylor and other no tables were present Impromptu speeches by Dr. Blue, Homer S. King, chairman of the citizens' health com mittee, whose president, Charles S. Wheeler, acted as toastmaster; Gov ernor Gillett, Mayor Taylor, Dr. Regensberger, the president of the state board of health. Dr. T. W Huntington, of San Francisco board of health .presented Dr. Blue with a handsome gold watch appropriately inscribed. FINE BULLDOG DEAD. CHICAGO, March 31.-Gloom has been cast over the bench show of the Chicago Kennel Club by the an nouncement that the noted French bulldog, Mareschal Ney II, owned by Lincoln Bartlett, of Chicago, and valued by its owner at $10,000, is dead. Mr. Bartlett says that the animal had been playing, with children who had thrown corks for it to scamper after. The dog swallowed several of the corks and died of acute peritonitis in spite of the efforts of three doctors to save its life. COURTESY WELL REPAID. Legacy For Girl Who Danced With Elderly Stranger. COLUMBUS, O., March 31. Miss Effie Elliott, daughter of C. S. Elliott, of Arcanium, while a student at the Normal School at Ada, three years ago, went to a dance. There she met an elderly man who was a guest at the home of a member of the faculty. Miss Elliott, noticing that the elderly stranger received scant" attention, danced with him several times. After the dance Miss Elliott did not see the man nor did she hear from him until yesterday when she received notice that he was dead and had left her $35,000 in negotiable se curities. Dr. Elliott refuses to make public the name or last address of his daughter's benefactor. All that is known is that he had lived in the West aad for some time in Kansas City. . WOMAN KIDNAPPER IS NOW ARRAIGNED She Entered a Plea of Not Guilty of Stealing Little Willie Vhitla MERCER. Pa., March 31.-Mrs. Helen Boyle, wife of James H. Boyle, kidnaper of Willie Whitla, was ar raigned before Justice of the Peace Thomas McClain at this place todav, charged with kidnaping. She entered plea of not guilty, and was held for the action of the grand jury in the sum of $25,000 bail. - The Voman was taken from jail and followed by a, couple of deputies. They went to the office of the Justice about a block distant. Mrs. Boyle was asked if she would plead guilty or not guilty, and replied: "Why, I am not guilty, and I enter a plea of not guilty." "Do you want to have a hearing it this time?" asked the Justice, "or will you waive a hearing?" "For the present,"' she replied, "it will be better for me to waive any hearing. "Well that is about all," replied the Justice. "Of course, there will be bail in this case. It is fixed at $25,000. Have you any one that will go on your bond?" "No," replied the woman, and there upon she was committed to jail to await the action of the grand jury.