The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930, April 21, 1909, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT COVERS THE MORNINO FIELD ON THE LOWE v s IA 36th YEAR. NO. 95. ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1909 o t me tenia J0TOC0I Sultan Will Remain With His . Family and Resignedly Wait for the Final HAS NOT ABDICATED THRONE Constitutionalists Lines Now Enve lop ths City of Constantinople and Invading Army Expect to Enter Tomorrow Without Any Opposition , CONSTANTINOPLE, April 20. Sullin odul Himld ii witing in his pstsce for whatever may befall his grand viier. Tewfik Pasha has an' nounced that the Sultan is without fear. The Sultan will remain with his family and accrpt resignedly the fate prrpared for him and his coun try. Tewftk rha and the minister of war, Edhlm Pasha, who sent In their resignations last nigth hsve de cided to withdraw them today and the grand viier Is passing the most of his time with the Sultan. Natlra Paiha is still in command of the gar rison, but no preparation has been made to resist the advance of the Salonlca troops. The Constitutional ists lines now envelope the city, but the commsnder in chief, General Husni Paofta Is still at Hsdemoki and It Is not likely that the Invaders will enter the city before tomorrow night or the following day. It (a understood that the Salonicans have submitted to the government a list of persons whose punishment Is desired for com plicity in the recent mutiny. Tewfik Pasha, commenting to one of the ambassadors on the rumors thst the Sultan had taken flight on Sunday, aid the Sultan is not physi cally timid and would remain. The Constantinople garrison is deserting to the side of the Constitutionalists. Capital troops have been leaving the city since Sunday morning, but the outward flow set In heavily today. It is estimated that 4000 men have gone over to the invading army without opposition from the officers or com rades. The principle suburban rail ways ran special trains throughout the day to accommodate the thou sands who are anxious to tee the ad vancing troops. The rank and file of the invading army, especially the volunteers, are a fine body of looking young men. They appear to know the alms of the committee on union and progress and are enthusiastic and determined in their support. YESTERDAY'S BALL SCORES. At Portland Portland 8, Los An geles 0. At Oakland Oakland 5, Sacra mento 4. i . At Vernon San Francisco fi, Ver non 2. Western League. , At Seattle-Seattle 1, Portland S. At Tacoma Tacoma 1. Vancou ver 7. At Spokane Spokane 4, Aberdeen 0. THE SULTAN'S FATE. LONDON, April 20. Speclnl dis patches from Constantinople give varying reports of the Sultan's fate. According to one dispatch, the Rus- ILLINOIS FLECTION ON LOCAL OPTION Several Cities Voted on a Large CHICAGO, Aoril 20,-Municinal elections are being held today in this state in which the issue in most In stances was local option. Among the cities that voted to drive out the sa loons were Saybrook, Leroy, Hay worth and Weldon, Those voting for license are Colfax, Danvers, Antioch, signs and Russian ambassadors have promised to do their utmost to protect his life. The same dispatch aayi 200 young Turks officers have arrived in the capital to insure the execution of the Sultan and that preparations for the enthronement of Mohammed Rachad Efendi will begin tomorrow. DICKENSON TO PANAMA. CHARLESTON, April 20.-Secre tary of War Dickenson, accompanied by a party including Mrs. Dickenson arrived to take passage for Panama on the naval yacht Mayflower which sails tomorrow afternoon. BAXER'S RISINO TO IT. NEW YORK, April 2i).-Two mass meetings of bakers will be held here tomorrow night to discuss the high price of flour as a result of the Patten wheat corner. Whether any con crete action looking toward a general rise In the price of bread will be taken has not been decided. Some of the bakers are of the opinion that such a step would be illegal. TO PROTECT FOREIGNERS, CORFUD. April 20 The German cruiser Hamburg has been ordered to Messina to protect foreigners and look out for the interests of Ger many. UNLUCKY PIE-BITER. CHICAGO. April 20. Alia Massar is in 'a hospital, with a broken leg, an injury he sustained while trying to eat a piece of pie and at the same time guide his bakery wagon over a mound of dirt In the road. The ve hicle upset and threw Massar under a wheel. CENSUS BILL SENT TO CONFERENCE AMENDMENTS RELATING TO CIVIL SERVICE LAW AND RESIDENCE. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 20. The census bill was sent back to the conference committee by the senate today in order that ita amendments relating to the civil service law and requiring construction of the building for census work in this city might be considered further. Senator Stone spoke at length in favor of free trade with the Philippines and for the inde pendence of the islands within a speci fied time. MORE FIGHT TALK. NEW YORK. April 20.-More light talk is going the rounds in New York today. Sam Bcrger, Jeffries' manager, says that Jeffries will an nounce tonight that he will fight Jack Johnson for the heavyweight cham pionship of the world. He said Jef fries had made up his mind that he can get in condition for the battle and that all arrangements wilt be made in ashort time. HAS HIS HANDS FULL. CHICAGO, April 20. Dr. B. F. Roller, of Seattle, is matched to wrestle Tom Winklchofer at Danville, III., tonight. He will meet Jim Cal- vin here tomorrow night, and this bout is expected to give the public a true line on his ability. Friday night Roller will take on Leo Pardello. the Question and Report Vote Cast jLibertyvillg, Marengo, Kekanee, Cres cent City, Lebanon, utchheld, Car lisle, Piano, Naples and Dubois. .Great interest was taken and a determined fight was made by both sides. At midnight the indications point to a number of cities heretofore dry will remain so. Nothing definite is heard from cities voting on local option. SHARP WEST OU INCOME TAX Opponents and Supporters of the Income Tax Will Wage 1 Wordly War on Bill DEMOCRATS FAVOR THE TAX Expected With United Democratic Vote Aasiated by a Number of Re publicans Who Favor an Income Tax Measure Will be Passed. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 20. It is evident from the activity of op ponents and supporters of the income tax proposition to ascertain the strength of the other that this ques tion will furnish the sharpest contest to be waged in the Senate during the tariff revision session of Congress. In view of the fact that the Democrats are said to be unanimous for an in come tax measure, the leader! of the insurgent" Republican faction appear to be confident of victory. On the other hand, opponents of the income tax assert that the Demo crats are not united and declare that some of the insurgent strength for ad dilonal internal taxes will be lost the moment Senators are convinced that the pending bill will produce sufficient revenues for the needs of the Gov ernment. Among the Republicans declared to be in favor of an income tax are: Senators Borah, Brown, Burkett Clapp, Crawford, Cummins. Dixon, Gamble, Guggenheim, La Foiiette and Nelson. In addition to these, some insurgents are claiming Sena tors Jones, Bourne, Heyburn. John son of North Dakota and Dolliver. If the votes of all these Senators should be cast for an income tax pro vision, they would be more than suf ficient to pass it in the Senate, unless a break should occur in the Demo cratic ranks. NEW YORK LOCAL ITEM. NEW YORK. Anril ltt-After hav- ing been inspected by Fire Chief Croker. it is likely that changes will be made in the new stands erected at the polo grounds, or National League Fark. in the upper part of the city. Chief Croker does not consider the stands safe in case of fire, as there has been some criticism of the ar rangement of the exits. A report on the subject is now in the hands of Commissioner Hayes. VICTIM OF FOOTBALL. , WABASH, Ind.. April 20--John McArthur, 20 ears old, captain of the Huntington Football team, is dead as the result of injuries he received in a game hye with the Wabash High school eleven. ' STUDY THE SOULS OE THE CHILDREN ANOTHER EFFORT TO SAVE AND REDEEM YOUNGSTERS AT WINDY CITY. CHICAGO, April 20.-Study the souls of children. That is one of the purposes of the Juvenile Psychopa thic Institute, organized in Chicago by philanthropic citizens and promi nent settlement workers. Its final ob jects are to obtain for juvenile offend ers proper treatment, according to their mentatility and surroundings and to achieve a diminution of juve nile criminality by eradicating the contributing causes in individual cases. The organization has employed competent medical talent and each child brought into the juvenile court will be examined physically and men tally and his home surroundings and even his ancestry inquired into with a view to determining the cause of delinquency. LICENSE IS REVOKED. SAN FRANCISCO, April 20,-The license of Captain C. J. Lancaster who is in command of the steamer Inman when she was wrecked on Marin county coast was suspended for six months today by the inspectors of hulls and boilers. FISHING VESSEL SEIZED. VICTORIA, April 20-The govern ment steamer Kestrel passed Cape Lazo this afternoon with the Ameri can fishing schooner supposed to be the Levy Woodbury in tow. The vessel is considered to be the seized fishing vessel captured by the Kestrel which arrived at Vancouver late to night. FIRE DESTROYS COTTON. Five Thousand Bale Go Up In Smoke At Little Rock. LITTLE ROclcArk... April 20. Five thousand bales of cotton, esti mate din value at $250,000 were burn ed early today in a fire which for several hours threatened to destroy the plant of the St. Louis Compress company, valued with its contents at $1,000,000. The fire was discovered shortly after 1 o'clock and fanned by a stiff iwnd, gained quick headway and was soon beyond all control. After it had burned for almost two hours, a sudden shift in the wind diverted the blaze from the main portion of the building in which were stored 15,000 hales of staple and the fire was fnallv checked shortly after 3 o'clock. The loss i fully covered by insurance. While the origin of the fire has not been definitely ascertained, the super intendent, W. T. Black, thinkf that a spark from a passing locomotive might have been responsible. IUIEIIEI UNDER SUFFOLK BANK SUCCEED IN SECURING $1500 AND MAKING THEIR ES CAPE. SUFFOLK. Va., April 20.-Tunnel- ing their way under four other build ings to reach the vaults, robbers gained admittance to the bank of Suf folk and escaped with $1500. It is believed that the robbers must have worked for ten days or more before they reached the bank. Inside of the tunnel were found empty bottles, ci gar stumps and bits of food. TRACING A MURDER. San Francisco Police Learn Where abouts Of Fugitive Woman. SAN FRANCISCO. April 20.- Through a letter written to an Italian woman in this city the police have found trace of Mrs. Pietre Tertorico and a possible clew to the where abouts of her husband, who has been sought since Aprils 1905, for the brut al murder of Bragioillardo. For a year atter'the crime was com mitted Mrs. Tertorico was shadowed in the hope that she would eventually lead the detectives to her husband's hiding place. She went to New Or leans and there all trace of her was lost. Recently it was learned that the wo man had written a letter to a friend here declaring she longed to return. The missive was dated at Chicago and the police of that city have been re quested to watch the movements of the writer. Tertorico it is charged, cut up the body of Villardo, and carried it in a sack for several blocks. LOOKS LIKE ACID THROWING- New York Police Investigating Trouble Arising Out Of Strike. NEW YORK. Aoril 20,-The do- lice are investigating what appears to be a case of acid throwing in connec tion with the teamsters strike aeainst several down own firms. Two men who said they were strike breakers, applied for treatment at a dispensary yesterday afternoon, both of whom were badly burned about the face and neck with sulphuric acid. The attack suonosed to have been made on the waterfront near Canal Street, al though the police have no record of such an encounter. The condition of one of the men is serious. Ill FIGHT NEGRO Will Defend His Title to the Un defeated Champion Pugilist of the World CHAMPION LOUDLY CHEERED When the Announcement Was Made That Jeffries Would Fight Jack Johnson, Audience Leaped From Their Seats and Cheered Lustily. NEW YORK, April 20. "I will fight Mr. Jack Johnson. I will de fend my title as the undefeated heavy weight champion of the wdrld" Before an audience that packed American Music Hall in which there were as many women as men, James J. Jeffries made this formal announce ment tonight. It was the signal for great joy. Excited men leaped from their seats, shouted and cheered and the women applauded. Their shrill and exciting cries of approval as they stood up and waved their handker chiefs and even their peach basket hats, bowing and blushing the unde feated champion added picturesque ness to the scene. In the streets w,ere hundreds of persons who could not get into the theatre, although high premiums were offered for seats. After his sparing exhibition with Sam Berger, the audience shouted for Jeffries to come out and make the statement he had promised. The big fellow soon appeared. His dressing gown only revealing his shaggy head and great red fists. The house went literally wild and Jeffries stood near the footlights bowing and raising his hands for order. After several min utes the audience became reasonably quiet and Jeffries began. "Ladies and gentlemen." "Cut that out Jeff; come to the point," cried voices from the gallery. "I thank you from the bottom of my heart ." "Never mind that; are you going to fight," same another voice. "I suppose you want to hear some thing else, continued Jeffries, only smiling at the interruption. "You bet we do," yelled dozens. "Well, I am satisfied after about seven weeks' work " " that I can get into as good as I ever was and I will fight Mr. Jack Johnson." If Jeffries had anything more to say he never heard it. He ran off the stage while the auditorium became a bedlam of noise and cheers There are several conditions at tached to Jeffries re-entry into the ring. First, Johnson must defeat Ketchel. Then Jeffries cannot sign articles for possibly ten months and he insists that the fight take place in this country and the number of rounds be unlimited. FASTEST DESTROYER IN NAVY PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 20. The torpedo boat destroyer Smith, the first of a new type of vessel and which is expected to have a greater speed and a wider steaming radius than any now in the United States Navy, was successfully launched to day at Cramps' shipyard. The christ ening ceremony was performed by Mrs. Edward B. Richardson of Brook line, Mass. Mrs. Richardson is a daughter of .Rear Admiral Pillsbury and a distant relative of Lieut. Joseph B. Smith, in mpmory of whom the vessel launched today was named. Lieut. Smith was a distinguished of ficer of the navy during the civil war period and was in command of the warship Congress when the vessel was sunk in Hampton Roads by the Confederate ironclad Virginia. TO BREAK WHEAT CORNER. . WASHINGTON, April 20.-Repre-sentative Hughes of West Virginia has evolved a method which he be lieves would relieve the wheat market. He has introduced a bill authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to make full rebate of the duty imposed by ,the Dingley act on wheat imported into the United States from foreign countries for a period of one year, from the passage of this bill. CROKER TO LEAVE. NEW YORK. April 20-John Fox, president of the Democratic Club, confirmed last night the report that the club has abandoned the idea to give Richard Croker a farewell dinner before his departure for Ireland next week. It had been reported on sev eal occasions that Mr. Croker would be present at a "Harmony dinner" at which it was hoped that some of the warring factions in Tammany might be brought together. But it is now probable that an informal reception for the old leader will be the only tes timonial before he sails. It is under stood that he decidedly vetoed being a political "harmonist" and the dinner plan was dropped at his request- ; DIES OF BROKEN HEART. Grief Of Chicago Girl For Her Dead ' Brother Kills. CHICAGO. April 20--Miss Rose FremcL fell dead at the funeral of her brother, Bohumil yesterday as the last words of eulogy were being said over the casket Pent up grief, which had found no utterance since the death of the broth er she loved, more than a week ago in Colorado, had prevailed. Physicians declared that her death was caused by a broken heart While the physicians were working over her lifeless body, her parents and sisters were following the body of her brother to the grave, ignorant of their double berevement They be lieved she merely had fainted. When they returned to their home . they found it again a house of death. Brother and sister had been com panions and playmates since the sister the younger, could lisp. ANOTHER PEACE (08 GRESS TO BE HELD CHICAGO PREPARING FOR RE- CEUTION OF THOUSANDS OF VISITORS. CHICAGO. April 20. Limitations of armaments by the great world powers is to be one of the chief ques tions to be discussed at the coming national peace congress, set here for May 3, 4 and 5. The report of the committee on resolutions of which Judge E. O. Brown of Chicago is chairman, is likely to deal in detail with this topic. It is expected that the congress will bring to Chicago be tween 30,000 and 40.000 visitors. CONSUMER GETS IT. PASADENA, Cal.. April 20 As the result of the high prices of flour, Pasadena bakers have decided to cut down the weight of the five cent loaf of bread from 14 to 12 ounces. The ten cent loaf will remain at 24 ounces. UTAH ELKS TO HAWAII. Will Arrive There in January or Feb ruaryMany Will Go. HONOLULU, Hawaii, April 20. F. T. Collins, of Salt Lake City, is here gathering data preliminary to a large excursion of Utah B. P. O. Elks which will come to the Islands next January or February. Mr. Col lins expects five to seven hundred Elks will make the trip. For several years the Salt Lake lodge has been making a trip to Southern California, but they desire to vary this by com ing to Hawaii next winter. CHIEF OF POLICE IN DICTED FOR BRIBERY Former Mayor Harper and Former Chief of Police Kern Were Investigated But Not indicted LOS ANGELES. April 20,-Thos. H. Broadhead for a short period chief of police of this city was indicted by the special grand jury on several charges of accepting" bribes from keepers of houses of prostitution. It is reported that several indictments were returned. Former Mayor Harp BULLS III Wlil CAUSE DIP Secretary Wilson Knows Some thing About Crops, so Say the Knowing Ones Outside THE SPECULATIVE PENDULUM Small Speculators Who Pinned Their Faith to Pattea Find Themselves Down and Out, While Pattea is Making Millions. CHICAGO, April 2a-Bulls in wheat were leaderless today and the dashing bear raid wrought confusion in the pit when July closing at 112 5-8 showed a material net loss. The raid weeded out a large number of small margin traders, enabling a lot of profit to be taken by the shorts not to mention the reinstatement of long lines previously disposed of at a material net loss. The raid weeded out a large number of small margin traders, enabling a lot of profit to be taken by the shorts not to mention the reinstatement of long lines prey iously disposed of at a higher figure. "Tis Old Mother Earth warning Patten" that Secretary Wilson know something about crops," said the speculative pendulum, reaction is only natural," said the bulls. "Why didn't the Patten crowd sup port the market?" was the question put by small speculators who had pinned their faith to Patten and asked that the bull leader would take care that prices did not run away. "Because it is none of Patten's business," Patten's side answered. He has lots of wheat but is not manipu lating prices. He knows the condi tions will cause prices. Whether Patten purchased is a matter of con jecture although there was an uncon firmed report that the bull leader bought heavily as the decline and stopped July before it got below 112i in its headlong tumble. Customers of Patten's house, however, declare that there was nothing throughout the day to indicate that the bull leader had taken any interest in the market Apparently, he left it to its fate, al though his eyes seldom left the black board " where ' the quotations were marked up- N- MEETING OF SUNDAY SCHOOL. JACKSON, Miss., April 20 Sever al hundred Sunday School workers from all parts of Mississippi are here to attend the annual convention of the State Sunday School Association. A number of other delegates are expect ed before tomorrow making the gath ering one of the. best ever held. The initial session was held thjs afternoon the programme opening with song and devotional services, followed by a conference on organized Sunday school work. A reception for the delegates at the Capitol has been ar ranged for tonight. Marion Lawrence, the international ' secretary, and several other noted Sunday" school workers are scheduled to address the succeeding sessions of the convention, which will continue through Wednesday and . Thursday. The reports of the several officers and committees prepared for presentation to the convention indicate a healthy growth of the State organization. er and former Chief of Police Kern, who were investigated by the grand jury were not indicted and no true bills returned against them. The grand jury after submitting its investiga tions adjourned and were discharged "by the court. It is not stated when 1 Broadhead's trial will begin.