The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930, April 04, 1909, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextfMimhn. 14,11, iN.rJ'; PUBLISHES PULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT COVERS THE MORNINQ FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA 86th YEAR. NO. 82. ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1909 PRICE FIVE CENTS miff Soars to $1.22 1-2 Is Higher Than Any Point on the Fa mous Gates Deal. ONE CHICAGO FIRM BREAKES Only Twic la the Put 20 Yatrt Hm Wheat Rucbod Higher Marks on th Chicago Board of Trade But Parmart Cain Nothing. CHICAGO, April 3-Wheat for May delivery overtopped the highett point reached in the celebrated Catca' deal In 1905, when it aotd on the Board of Trade here today at $1.22 1-4 per pu.hcl Only twice dur ing the last 20 yeara hai wheat aold at a higher figure on the local ex change. In October, 1888, the price reached $1-234 and again in May, 1898, during the Leiter campaign mark of J I -85 wn established. The present high level ia due largely to an exceedingly urgent demand for the cash grain, Announcement wai made on the Board of Trade today of the suspen aion of the firm of John Dickinson ft Co . grain, "lock and provision brok er. In addition to iti membership on the Board of Trade the company also held membership on the Con solidated Stock Exchange of New York. The firm also had from 25 to 30 offices scattered throughout the coun try. The liabilities were said to be in the neighborhood of $250,000. According to J. T. Murphy, man ager of the Chicago office, the firm has been doing a good business here, but the trouble, he said, grew out of the stock business in the East. He stated that Mr. Dickinson, who is now in Mew York, had wired him that the suspension was only tempo rary, and that it wai expected the firm would gle doing business again In a month- When the suspension of the firm was announced on the floor of the Consolidated Exchange in New York today, a representative of the firm in that city said the failure waa due to the recent advance In wheat and to the fac that one of the firm's large customers in Chicago "laid down" on the firm yesterday. This customer, it is stated, failed to furnish addition.il margins when called upon, thus forc ing the suspension. The" firm's com mitments in this case, however, are not believed to be heavy. RAILROAD COMPLETED NORFOLK. Va., April 3-Th arrival today of the first train load of coal from West Virginia over II. II. Rogers' new Virginian Railway, marking the completion of the roiid, was made the occasion for an interest ing celebration. The celebration took place at Sowall's Point, near this city whera the raad has Its terminal. H. H. Rogers came to Norfolk to I Pmr pp flip nro Arf CfUmttlPnreiA a Wo c ri i"r rrrs T?y Un witness the opening, attended by a iv tt uoaaiBiaai mv, party of New York friends. Included In the party were Samuel L. Clement, James M. Deck. Franklin Q. Brown and others. Tonight the distinguish ed visitort are to be given a banquet at the Montlcello Hotel by the busi ness men of Norfolk. The new road affords a direct out let to the coast for the coal and other products of West Virginia and la ex- EMPIRE FARMERS FILE A SUIT FOR COM- II RATES THROUGH TO ASTORIA Purpose of Securing Equitable Rates on Wheat to This Port-Is Of Great Importance To This City. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 3.- secure the best quality and quantity pected to prove an Important factor Congressman Francis W. Cushtnan of (of such products and for taking tie in the Industrial development of that Tacoma, Washington, filed this morn- necessary means to provide and facili- reglon. The line Is 443 miles in ing with the Interstate Commerce ; tate the storing and marketing of length and has cost approximately Commission a petition from the Far- these products as will be most econ- $40,000,000. About half of this amount men Co-Operative and Educational omical and secure to the membership Is said, hat been put up by Mr. Union representing fifteen thousand . of the association the most profitable it Rogers personally. WALLISWOODWARD wheat farmers of the Northwestern ( handling; and that among the general wheat states against the Great Nor:h- j purposes of the association is to se;- ern Railway Company, Northern Pa-jure reasonable rates for the trans cine Railway Company, Astoria & Co-, portation of farm, products, especially SANTA ROSA. Cal., April 3-H)ne lumbia River Railroad Company, from the States of Idaho. Washington of the most brilliant weddings ever Spokane Portland & Seattle Railway and Oregon to the nearest market on seen In this city was that of today Company, Oregon Washington Jcjthe Pacific Coast as a point from hich united Misi Irma Woodward of Idaho Railroad Company, and the which to tranship wheat and other this city and J. Allen Wallia of Dubu- Oregon Railroad St Navigation Cornp que, Iowa. The ceremony took place any. askfng for a rate on grain to As in the First Congregational Church In toria at the mouth of the Columbia the presence of numerous guests. The River common with Puget Soun l Rev. Walter Frear of Oakland, grand- points. father of the bride, officiated. Dubu- The Farmers' Union is represented que,' Los Angeles, Oakland and other by one of the ablest attorneys of the! cities were represented among the at- Northwest, Mr. Frederick H. Murray. tendanti of the bride and bridegroom, well known throughout all the North- and especially to agri- FrllG 1 CHURCH ill BO products direct to foreign markets. It may be said that the Farmers Union controls about .forty wheat warehouses scattered throughout the Great Inland Empirt and that they have determined to establish a ware house of warehouses at Astoria from which they will ship farm products, especially wheat to the Orient and Europe . The Farmers Union has been look ing into the Astoria situation for nearly a year, the Promotion Commit tee of the Astoria Chamber of Com merce having been in correspondence with the farmers since June 9th of last WHEAT JUMPS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK. April 3.-The wheat for May delivery in New York touch ed $1.24 5-8 today, and July $1.15 7-fi, both new high records. There was heavy covering of shorts due to the strong cash situation, higher cables and the suspension of a Chicago grain house reported to have been heavily short of May wheat. PRIESTS DEFEND MIRACLES AND APPARITIONS AGAINST THEIR FOES. GUADALAJARA. Mexico. April 3, Archbishop Ortiu and the pries's western states cultural and manufacturing men. The farmers in their petition aver that they control twenty-five million bushels of wheat and they especially pray that the Interstate Commerce Commission will decide the matter in time for the wheat to be shipped : year. abroad from Astoria this season. Thej The officm o ,he Tjnion visjted farmers ask that after due hearing and )As,oria several months ago and con investigation an order be made com-, 4u,ted with the Promotion Committee manding the railroad companies to After consultation with Chairman Pat- cease their discriminating against As- t0 oth member- of the Committee toria and in favor of Puget Sound and Man,etr Whvt. the f,,mer, because of the injury it does to the ast0nished at the aooarent dis- wheat growing interests. I crimination practiced airainst tlvs They ask the Commission to order por, the railroad companies to furnish; T. .. - ... . of the Catholic church have declared transportation for wheat and cereals j. j, q A Bowlby and Manager open war against the anti-clericals and other farm products from Idaho. e Jo ;he Convention of the far here, the latter of whom are leeking Washington and Oregon to Astoria; . vfhraarv 8th to belittle the miraculous power of over the respective ines and to estab- ; and consuItation the Virgin Mary. Anti-clerical news- lish through and joint tariff rate on determined to do their papen charged the priests with man- such products. M . ffom Astoria and t0 take im. ufacturing "apparitions" In order to They ask that just and reasonable , o ,he Jnt qt frighten the people into believing rates be made applicable to Astoria which farmef mat virgin Mary was appearing a wmcn snan nut u w v. v. rAmm .., ,m various places. The archbishops in a present rate on wheat grain and farm grant them appijcatjon. sermon defended the doctrine of mir- products now applicable to Paget acles and and adjired all member, of Sound points. I At ,hat Conrentioft the farmers the church to remain firm in their They ask that this rate which they , duly assembled passed a resolution faith. The attacking paper was sup- pray the Commission to establish with great eclat unanimously petition- r...,t h . other nwsnanor. n,l shall not be unreasonable and unduly "iff all the railroads operating in the .. . .. ... ... r ."1 . J .L J in retaliation tne clericals started a preierennai in iavor oi anu iu mt u boycott against all three publications vantage of Puget Sound points anl and in addition posted printed pla- against the City of Astoria and the tarda on houses throughout the town mouth of the Columbia River. And wheat country to grant a rate on wheat and grain to Astoria common with the rate to Puget Sound and further pledging the organization iO bearing the following inscription: Honor and glory to Virgin Mary; no impious paper received in this house." finally the farmers pray that the law give its full and hearty co-operation ful rates, regulations and practices efforts d.rected towards the justly and lawfully applicable to such securing m ... .. transnortation be ascertained and that The farmers saw with half an eye Further to confuse the churchmen an order be made by the Commission that the shipping of twenty -five mil the newsoaoers have now henun a remiirintr the said defendants to con- lion ousneis ot wneai uom Asiorna crusade against what they term the form thereto in time to handle thejaftcr such just rate has been granted excessive number of church holidays present year's wheat crop. j would be a saving to them of at least observed in the republic. They assert that of the 365 days in the year, 168 It arc observed as church holidays. ,$250,000 a year, that ts one cent pc was an interesting coincidence 'bushel. LUMBER PRICES HAVEN'T DROPPED Dealers Deny a Story That Bottom Has Fallen Out of the Market PORTLAND. April 3--The Co lumbia and Willamette river lumber manufacturers and loggers are con siderably wrought up over the report that appeared In a number of news papers of the Pacific Coast that the bottom had dropped out of the lum ber market in the Northwest. Prominent men In the lumber busi ness of the state say they see abso lutely no reason for the publication of a report; and that there is no rea son for loggers to reduce prices on present output of logging camps, and that there being no surplus and with cost of labor and stumpage advanc ing, a reduction at this time is out of the question. What will happen if tariff on lumber is greatly reduced, is a problem, but some timbermen maintain that unless the tariff is main tained it will result in a reduction of both cost of stumpage and cost A labor. that the press dispatches brought the news of the filing of this suit by thi Farmers Union at the very moment that some of the railroad officials most directly interested were sitting at a session of the State Railroad Com mission in the Astoria Chamber of Commerce. The Railroad Commis sion was considering, however, an entirely different subject. In a historical way It may be stated that the Farmers' Co-Operative and Educational Union is an association duly organized and consists of practi cally all of the farmers engaged in raising wheat in the Northwest. The objects and purposes of the as sociation are to sell, ship and other wise market and dispose of wheat, grain and other products of the farms owned by the membership; to enlarge the market for the sale of such farm products and to advance and promote the interests of its membership; to associate their interests together for the purpose of the most economical production of their farm products; to They saw upon an examination that big ships will never be able to reach Portland, especially within the life time of any people now living al though ships drawing 40 feet wi'l probably be able to reach Astoria within the next year, as soon as the Dredge Chinook can be operated successfully in a few months. They were made to understand that Port land is opposed to the deepening of the water over the bar to a greater depth than obtained above Astoria up the Columbia and Willamette Rivers to that city. And of course they understood that such a selfish policy on the part of Portland was nothing more nor less than a process of blood sucking from the very vitals of the wheat growing farmers. In fact not a farmer present but felt righteous indignation at the shoit sighted and selfish attitude of Port land which has as a matter of feet driven most of the Columbia River's commerce to i'uget aouna. tion which the Promotion Committee of the Astoria Chamber of Commerce has prepared, comparing the com merce of the Sound with that of the Columbia River. This comparison shows that whereas the commerce o! the Columbia River in 1880 was in some cases as much as two thousand fold greater than that of the Sound at the present time it is scarcely one seventh as large as the Sound's com merce. It is not to be wondered at that the wheat farmers of the Great Columbia Basin when they discovered this enormous commercial crime were indignant and that they immediately determined to lay all of these facts before the Ictrrstate Commerce Com mission where they knew justice an equity would speedily be meted out to them and to Astoria as well. The farmers assert in their petition that a direct, feasible and available route for the transportation of their wheat, grain and farm products is to Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River over the lines of railroads men tioned as defendants. . They say that the lines of railrorad thus mentioned constitute continuous lines of transportation from the wheat growing districts to Astoria. The farmers show that the distance via the Columbia River to Astoria ;5 less than the distance from the wheat growing district to Puget Sound points. The expense of operating railroads over the mountains to Puget Sound through either the Snoqualmie or Stampede Pass they assert is much greater than that of operating to Astoria. The average distance from Spokane on the North, the farm ers assert, and from Wala Walla on the South to Sumas over the Cascade Mountains as shown by the mileage and as published by these railroads is 486 miles. The average distance from Spokane and Walla Walla to Astoria down the Columbia River is only 391 miles. The rate for wheat and cereals from this point to Bellingham and Sumas as well as to other Puget Sound points is 19 1-4 cents per hun drcd pounds while the rate to Astoria is 28 1-4 cents per hundred pounds, The average distance from Spokane and Walla Walla to Sumas is 95 miles further than to Astoria while the charge for freight rates to Astoria is 82 7-10 per cent greater than to Sumas, counting the mileage to Su mas bv the shortest route over the Cascade Mountains. The City of Astoria by virtue of its location is the actual Pacific Coast terminal for the large region tributary to the Columbia, Snake and Willam ette Rivers and the mouth of the Co lumbia River both by nature and commercially is one of the "basing points" of the Pacific Coast from which railroad rates have been and should be fixed with reference to com petition with water transportation as the dominant' factor and is entitled to the rates as a Pacific Coast terminal which has been and is given to other cities of like geographical and com mercial location. is a vigorous as he was a quarter of a century ago, and his mental facul ties are unimpaired. He attributes his wonderful health to the serenity with which he takes life, to sleeping nine hours a night and to always keeping his mind occupied. PRIZED RELICS NEW YORK, April 3.-A letter from President Roosevelt and several authographed photographed photos of Mme Sarah Bernhardt were found in the rooms of Mrs. Matilda M. Shaw who was found dead in her locked quarters in West Eleventh St last night She is said to have been a distant cousin of Mme. Bernhardt. She came to this country sever! years ago and was well known as an author of works in French and as a teacher of that language, her second husband. George Alfred Shaw, was a New York newspaper editor. Ke died several years ago. The letter from President Roosevelt was one of thanks for the receipt of a book by Mrs. Shaw. Mrs. Shaw's death was due to pulmonary trouble- EDWARD HALE 87 YEARS OLD. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 3. Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, chap lain of the Senate, was 87 years old today. The venerable author of "The Man Without a Country" was kept busy during the day receiving the con gratulations of his numerous friends and admirers, among whom are num bered practically all of the men and women prominent in the official or social life of the national capital. Two years ago all the world paid This tribute to Dr. Hale on his eighty-fifth was shown conclusively by a' tabula- birthday. Despite his great age he U. OFO. WINS. Contests Were Hotly Contested But No Records Broken. PORTLAND, April 3. -The Uni versity of Oregon athletes won with ease the championship indoor meet given under the auspices of the Mult nomah Athletic Gub here . tonight their nearest competitors being reo resentatives of the Seattle . Athletic Club and Oregon Agricultural Col lege, who tied for second place- Though no records were broken, the events were all hotely contested. FORT Kill IS HE SWEPT Six Persons toss Lives and the Damages Will Exceed Five Million Dollars IS FANNED BY A STIFF WIND Wide Area is Swept Over by the Devouring Flames, Which Are Not Stopped Until Dynamite ia Resort ed to Started fa Barn. Ill REMOVAL OF LUMBER TARIFF SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COM MERCE SENDS MESSAGE TO J. J. HILL. SEATTLE. April 3. As a result of the reports that J. J. Hill had ap peared before the committee in con gress, openly advocating the removal of the duty on lumber and coal, the trustees of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce today sent a telegram to Hill urging him in the name of the people of the Pacific Northwest whose prosperity contributes so large to that of the railroads he con trols, to oppose rather than urge any reduction in lumber duty. A protest against reduction tariff on coal and lumber was likewise wired to Chair man Aldrich of the senate committee on finance. ACCUSED OF KILLING HOLYOKKE, Mass., April 3.-On the charge that he was guilty of man slaughter in causing the death of his wife by neglect, Martin Gately, seven ty years old. was given a hearing in court today. The woman, who was sixty years of age, was found dead in her home ten days ago. The medi cal examiner gave it as his opinion, after an authopsy had been performed, that death was due to neglect and starvation, and that Mrs. Gately had been dead three days when her body was discovered- The husband plead ed not guilty to the charge against him. . FORT WORTH. Texas. April 3.- Fanned by a stiff wind a fire originat ing in a barn at Jennings avenue and Peter Smith street in the southern portion of the city this afternoon, swept an area of 10 blocks in length and seven blocks in width. It de stroyed property valued at more than $5,000,000 and caused the death of six persons. The fire originated in the fashion able residence district and was be yond control within 15 minutes. It was not checked until dynamite was resorted to four hours later. Assistance was rushed from Dallas and Weatherford on special trains, but the flames were not stopped until they had eaten their way to the Pa cific Railroad reservation on the east side. On the squth the fire was checked at the Texas & Pacific pas senger depot; this steel and stone structure forming a bulwark that saved the wholesale district. The Texas & Pacific roundhouse, 20 engines, the repair shop, four churches, two public school buildings and Walkers' . sanitarium were destroyed. Other buildings destroyed were residences, most 'of them new, and in most exclusive sections. Persons liv ing within radius three blocks of where the fire started had no time to save anything. . A patient whose identity was not established perished in Walkers' sanitarium; three men were electro cuted , and their bodies burned to cinders at Sawyers' electric plant Herbert Stacy was fatally burned while endeavoring to save his home, and a fireman fell from a house top and was killed. H. O. Cowan, assist ant pastor of the Broadway Presby terian church, is missing. It is esti mated that 500 families are homeless Many of these have gone to Dallas. The district is patrolled tonight by 500 troops to prevent looting. CRAZY SNAKE GETS AWAY. It is Said he Has Escaped to the Hills His Others of His Tribe. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., April 3 That Crazy Snake has eluded his pursuers was made certain today, when posses from Henrietta accost ed a party of the leaders of the scouts near Hoffman. The Indians were ordered to surrender, but fled. A dozen shots were exchanged, the Indians escaping uninjured into the hills. They are believed to have re turned to Crazy Snake's new retreat FRENCHMAN WINS MARATHON RACE Styves the Winner, With Durando the Italian Com ing in Second at New York NEW YORK, April 3.r-The first and second honors in the internation al professional Marathon race at the Polo Grounds today went to Styves. Durando second. Styves is a French man and Dorando an Italian. Styves ran a remarkable race and maintained a wonderful pace throughout. Just to show tht he was in good form, Styles finished with a terrific sprint. Styles' time was 2:45:50 3-5- Doran do's time, 2:45:37; Hayes, third, 2: 4927; Maloney, fourth. Shrubb and Longboat quit.