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36th YEAR. NO. 100. ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1009 PRICE FIVE CENTS STARIG AIID IIIDU Conservative Estimates Place the Number of Killed In Re cent Massacre at 20,000 PROVISIONS BADLY NEEDED Moslems Continue Their MatMcres and Many Women and Children Ar Fugitivet in Mountains Help li Urgently Needed Everywhere. BEIRUT. Atiatic Turkey, AprU 24. -Contervative citimalct now place (he number of killed in the Armenian niatiacrct in Adana Vilayet at from twenty to thirty thousand. At th town ol Adama it it known that more than a hundred have been killed. Ac cording to the luteal information of tbt progrett of the fanatical ami Christian rioting in the country around Alexandretta, the Armenian village of Ketiab hat been burned and many peuoni have been killed there. The women and children of Ketab are fugitive in tba surround ing mountain!, exposed to hunger and violence. Help it urgently needed every where on the coast The tituation at Beilan. a short dlttance toutb of Alexandretta, it critical No newt hat been received from Hadjin, where five American women missionaries were reported two days aio to be in danger of violence at the hands of the infuriated tribes men. Native hordes are mpving on Sue diah, 18 miles southwest of Antioch, Beirut is quiet. WHAT BIO HATS DID. In Illinois They Hurt The Cause Of Woman Suffrage. CHICAGO, April 24.-The real reason for the anti-big hat bill Intro duced in the Legislature by Repre sentative George C Hilton has come to light. The Informant ii Mrt. Hit ton herself and moreover she does t'ot agree with her husband's view. "I was down at Springfield," she taid, "while the suffragist people were there. Many of them wore such big "hata that it was impossible for the members of the Legislature to get around. .. .. "I think that thote big hats did more damage to the cause of woman suffrage than anything else that hap pened there. The poor legislators were always bumping their facet! against big straw hats or scratching themselves on feathers or long hat pins.'" Legislators, when interviewed, ac knowledged that the information was correct. The position of the opposition is thus stated by Mrs. Oliver W. Stew art, president of the Illinois woman Suffrage Association: "If the Illinois Legislators would use tome of their energy in seriously considering woman suffrage or tome of the other Important issues before them instead of thinking up such rid iculous measures as this hat bill, they would be of greater service to their state," ,W. H. HUNTER ARRESTED. LOS ANGELES, April 24.-W. H. Hunter was arrested here todav charged with embezzling $24,000 front the Pacific Livestock Associa tion. He is being held 1iere for the Spokane authorities,. Hunter refuses to discuss the case. WOMAN APPEARS IN BARRINGTON CASE PES MOINES, April 24 Claiming to represent the British consul at St. Louis in behalf of Lord fTarrington, who is serving a life term in the peni tentiary for murder of James E. Mc Cfmn, of St. Louis, Miss LilHar Gates arrived in the city and created a sensation by appearing before the United States mnrshall's office todav identifying James C, Maybray, the YESTERDAY'S BALL SCORES Coast League. At Portland Lot Angeles 4, Port land 3. At San Fraucisco Sacramento 4, Oakland 8. At Lot Angeles San Francisco 4, Vernon 3. , Northwest League At Seattle Portland 6. Seattle 16, . At Spokane Aberdeen 6, Spokane 7. At Tacomi Tacoma 2. Vancouver a National League. At Pittsburg Cincinnati 4, Plttt- burtr 0. At Philadelphia -Philadelphia 4, Boston a At New York Brooklyn 2. New York a r At St.' Loult-Chicago 5, St Loult 1. American League. At Boston Philadelphia 4. Bos ton 1. . . At New York -New York 17. Washington 0. At Chicago Chicago S, Detroit 1. A DISHWASHER'S LUCK. LOS ANGELES. April 24.-From dishwashing to comparative wealth, is the jump Oscar Stein, heir to $30,- 000 In Milwaukee, has made. He di.I not know of hit good luck last" night for his friends In the Lot Angeles Y. M. C. A. through whom the young man wat located after a worldwide search have not teen him for several days. There sre two other helrt to the estate left Stein ,by hit mother. One it hit half brother, Dr. Edward Schnittker now serving time In the Wisconsin state prison for man slaughter, and the other It Stein's father, hit mother't second husband. Both of these have been disinherited. 1 SCOLDS WOM EN FOR GOSSIPPING FOR DROWNRlGHT DEVILISH NESS NOTHING CAN EQUAL .A WOMAN'S TONGUE. PITTSFIELD, Mass., April 24. Deacon John P. Styles, a wealthy and influential church member, has sprung Into the limelight by an un qualified arraignment of "Woman In some of her unlovely aspects. The occasion wat the annual dinner of the South Congregational Church, and some of his critical observations were as follows: "The gossiping woman surpasses all others for downright devilishness. She hatn't an equal. She is the worst foe of society, respontible for troub les innumerable. If I had my way, I would banish her to the land of Si beria or relegate her to the infernal regions. "From time immemorial men have tried to know woman but her pointt Irre to numerous at a buzi saw and just 1 at endless. Playing with a WO' man is just at fatal at playing with a huzz saw." "It is stated that woman was creat ed for the delecation of man. I take issue with this statement. She was created t0 .deceive' him. She tasted the apple and offered it to the man He tasted and thought it good, but it proved everlastingly bitter. This shows that she Is' smarter at tricks and displays her faulty nature. Adam was the first man deceived, but not the last one. "The gosjip gets husbands and wives into a quarrel, brothers and sisters into antagonisms. She dis gusts the minister with his flock and the flock with the minister. Her tongue is like an adder's fork, distri buting its deadly poison in the house, in the neighborhood and in the pre cincts of the sanctuary." alleged nfke horse race promoter' as being McCan'n, the victim of Barring ton. It developed later in the dRy that "Miss Gates is a friend of Bar rington and had made the same claim as men engaged in an endeavor to get Harrington out of prison. The polics officers are inclined to doubt the woman's story, says, nothing in I. the woman is crazy. c F ALLEGED III II Excise Board Petition In Port land Discovered to Contain Fraudulent Signatures PROBABLY NOT SUBMITTED Frienda of the Gortenburg System Waging a Bitter Fight on McKenna Initiative Petition to Regulate Sa loon Licenses With Good Success. PORTLAND, April 24--The ques tion of the election of a mayor and councitmen in this city is greatly overshadowed by the bitter fight be ing waged between the McKenna in itiative petition providing for an ex cise board and the advocates of the Gottenburg system. Mutilation of the McKenna initia tive petition providing for the ap pointment of an excise board by the Mayor to control the issuance of li quor licenses in this city in the office of the City Auditor Monday night, said to have been done by Maurice Relnstein and S. Bretrauer, of the Portland Brewing Company, followed by attacks upon the same petition by the Retail Liquor Dealers' Associa tion and certain promoters of the Gothenburg tyitem, In a concentrated effort to prevent the excise board pro position from being submitted to the voters at the coming municipal elec tion, leads to the belief that there is k Rlgantlc conspiracy among, all branches of the liquor men of the city to defeat the McKenna ordinance. Opponent! of the" proposition have now come forward with the afleira tion that there have beer! wholesale forgeries to the tignatures on the ex cise board petition by those who cir ciliated them, and close inspection1 Of the petitions disclose the fact that their accusations are well founded, It is apparent that many of the tig' natures have been written by the same Individual, and that many names have been signed which cannot be found ekher on the voters' register or in the city directory. When check' ing of the petitions was well under way this morning it was further dis closed that in addition to the alleged forgeries many individuals signed their names twice to the petitions. DIOICK is m OREGON CITY MAN LAUNCHES HIS BOOM AT MEETING AT CANBY. OREGON CITY. Or., April 24. County Judge Dimmick pf Oregon City announced his candidacy for the governorship of Oregon and his boom was launched at a political meeting held at Canby tonight. Among others invited to participate in breaking the ground for the budding of the new boom is Colonel E. Hofer. of Salem. Hofer has himself been mentioned as Gubernatorial timber, but has accept ed the invitation to attend, and will speak on state matters and tell about the plunderbund which has increased taxes, created new offices and mads things generally burdensome for the taxpayer. Judge Dimmick is the first aspirant for Governor to make formal entry into the race, and in his speech today will talk on state politics. HEALTH METHODS OBSOLETE URBANA'. III., April 24.-A radical revolution in state health . methods may result from the conference on public health held at' the University of Illinois which has developed the fact that Illinois is regarded as one of the worst) states in the Union at far as the prevention of disease goes. Her methods are denounced as obso lete and her people as uneducated in this matter.' Far reaching plans for the betterment of conditions havi been broached. ,. FJI TURK TALKS TURK. And Incidentally Payt Hia Respect! To Christiana And Their Ways., CHICAGO, April 24, "The Turk is a blot upon civilization. He is a religious fantic and there will always be murder and revolution in Turkey and her provinces until the fanatical Mohammedan it packed across the Bosphorua to Asia and there isolated in some province where he may prac tice his religion undisturbed by, civili zed nations." Thit statement is made by M. M. Mangasarian, a native of Constantin ople. "This late uprising in Turkey, while supposed to be political," said Mr. Mangasarian, is entirely religious. The Armenians are all Christians anJ the Turks are Mohammedan!. Christ ianity and Mahammedanism have never mixed well and never will. The Christian missionaries have been working In Turkey for over a hun dred yeart and I challenge anyone to find half a dozen converted Maham mcdan in the whole Turkish empire. All that the millions of dollars that have been spent by Christian mission aries have accomplished is the con verting of the members of the Greek, Gregorian and Catholic Churches into Baptists, Methodists, etc. "Since the adoption of the new constitution in Turkey last Summer, hy which the Christians, who had hitherto been spat upon and reviled as infidels by the Turks, were put on a basis of civic equality, these Christ ians have become intolerant. They have not confined themselves to the teachings of brotherly love, but have ridiculed and desecrated the mort sacred" tenets of the Mohammedan religion.'' Mr. Mangasarian advocates, "The establishment of a republic at Con stantinople and the migration of the Turks to Asia to end the disorders. EASTERN ATHLETICS lfE CHICAGO UNIVERSITY" CAP TURES PRIZE AND YALE BREAKS TWO RECORDS. PHILADELPHIA, April 24.-Two records weft broken today, Yale win ning the two-mile race and reduced the collegiate figures from 8:04 2-5 to 8:02 2-5. The high school record held by the Brooklyn Mutual Train ing School was also redaeed by th same institution. The eastern athletes took fWfl of the three national relay champion- shin races todav at the annual rSrni val of sports on the Franklin field' Chicago university captured the one mile blue ribbon event. Yale won the two mile relay championship and Pennsylvania won the four-mile race. from Michigan. The freshmen cham plonship was won by Princeton. AFTER VIRGINIA SALOONS. ROANOKE, Val. April 24.-Sa loons in Roanoke with more than ow door must either close the front en trance or shut up shop, Judge Spates of the corporation court made this an nourteement yesterday to applicants for licenses. ilJICTI DISSOLVED INJUNCTION TO RESTRAIN RAILROADS FROM MAKING THREE CENT RATE, KANSAS CITY, April 24!-Fed- eral . Judge Phillips today issued' an order dissolving the temporary in junction recently obtained by the cir cuit court attorney at St, Louis iri the state courts to prevent the eighteen railroads entering Missouri from re turning to the three-cent rate. An attempt was made by the legislature to reduce the rate to two cents, but it failed of passage, although the rail road companies in anticipation of its passage reduced the . rates to two cent9 and now have decided to return to the three-cent rate. Judge Phillips ruled that unless the .state officials and state courts keep out of the case, they will be in contempt. P II TURKEY Constitutionalists in Full Control of the Turkish Capital-Sultan a Prisoner in Palace NEGOTIATIONS ARE PENDING Number of Casualties aa Result of Battle Will Probably Never be Known, But Run up Into Thou sands and Many Houses Wrecked. CONSTANTINOPLE. April 24. The constitutional forces are in com plete control of the capital tonight The Sultan is virtually a prisoner in the palace. His formal submission has not yet been given but he and the troops with him are at the mercy of the army of occupation. Mahmoud Schefket Pasha, commander in chief of the invading forces desires to fin ish the work without further blood shed. He is negotiating with the Sultan's representatives and has ex tended the period of grace within which the Sultan must make his final decision. Trie Yildiz Kiosk may be rushed during the night for some 5000 infantry are disposed within a mile and a half of the palace. What disposition will be made of the Sultan when he Is In the hands of the 'constitutionalists is unknown to the ambassadors, although the opinion is held in authoritive quar ters that he will continue as the nominal constitutional executive largely responsible to the cabinet who tn tuffi will be responsible to parlia ment Complete tranquility prevails in the city at present, the serious fea ture of the situation being in the city ai present, the serious feature of the situation being in the possible refusal of the garrison at the palace to submit. The Yildiz garrison pot' sess artillery and it is believed that the neighborhood is mined. The constitutionalists improved their posi tion during the day. Garrison after garrison falling before their" advance until the invaders occupied all the Doints of .vantaee. The loyalists resisted bravely, but could not hold out in face of the on slaught of the enemy. Discipline, valor and friendly courtesy was mani fest by the invading troops, particu lafly the gendarmes of Saloniki were noticeable. The1 number of casual ties wilt probably never be known; but are estimated far into the thou sands- Private' houses within the fir ing line suffered greatly. The misuse of the white ag followed by a heavy fire after the insigna Of surrender was hoisted caused heavy losses.. AmbaS' sador Leishman declared that the fconduct of the Americans during the fighting, and while, he was arranging to send them off on the steamer Was splendid. They displayed the Jceene'sV interest in the strange battle and the . ... Mrt. women flowed great piucK. mere was no fainting,, no hysterics. At noon the battle ceased and precau tionary measures were taken imme diately by the victors to insure the safety of the residents. No disorders of any kind occurred during the af ternoon and no looting was permit ted. General satisfaction seemed to be felt at the swift change from un certainty to constitutional orders. Should the Sultan remain in office it will only be in a nominal way. His allowance will be greatly restricted and he will have no means for further agitation should, his mind turn in this direction. " WAS UP AGAINST IT. Must Find His Mother In Law Or! Pay A Fine. CHICAGO, April 24-Conreid Warnecke has been given the alter native by Judge Girten, of finding his mother in law and living in the same house with her until Sunday or pay ing a fine of $100. Domestic troubles led to her departure, together with his. wife. "How cSn I Jive with my mother- in-law, until Sunday it I don t know where she is? "asked he of the desk sergeant. "I don't know," admitted the po lice judgd- "But if I don't live with her, then I must pay a fine of $100? " asked the man. ; "You certainly must," was the reply- ' : ; And Conreid hurried from the tta tion in a forlorn still hunt. TEMBLOR VREATES LAKE. Small Local Earthquake In California ,'-..' Is Reported. LOS ANGELES, AprU 24-A spec ial dispatch from Ventura says an earthquake, causing the slide of a great mountain of the Sierra range hat changed the ntire surface of Santa Paula canyon, dammed the Santa Paula creek and made a lak-s in the south fork canyon that in the wild beauty of, its turroundingt it said to rival Taho. The creek bed is said to. have been raised 200 feet above its former level and the water pours out from over a fall 200 feet high. The new lake it is estimated is about 1000 feet long and 50 feet wide. The water it about 50 feet deep. The earthquake that threw the mountain out of place occured April 10. The shock was local in character, it not being felt at any of the nearby towns. STRUBB DEFEATS ST. IVES. NEW YORK, April 24.-A!fre1 Strubb of England, tonight defeated Henry St Ives of France in the 15 mile race ' at the American League grounds. He was two laps ahead at the end of the eight miles, and eon tented with the position remained at his opponents side during the balance of the race. 101 THL IMS 13 BISE EES WOMEN. NEW YORK. April 24.-Jda M. Tarbell, well known as the feminine Standard Oil Specialist, gave a wo man's view of the Payne Tariff bill in an address at the dinner of the Academy of Political Science last night. "I am not talking of the woman who goes abroad and comes back with something contraband in her sleeve," began Miss Tarbell. I am talking 6f the woman who ' never goes abroad and who practically never buys an imported article. She is the average American woman. "What has the Payne bill done for the ten or twenty million .mothers bringing up familes on an income of a few hundred dollars a year? It has done some curious things. Take the matter of clothing. To begin at the head, it makes hats and all the fear. ful and wonderful things that go on them deared; I shall not complain of this. I rather think that we deserve to be penalized for wearing the things we do. , I tdoes not matter so much wheth er the hend is covered or not, but it is of vital importance that we should be" shod. ' We must have hose to be gin" with". Our stockings have been steadily' decreasing in quality and in creasing in prices. Mr. Payne has compensated for what he has put on hosiery by what he has taker) off from shoes or at least has tried to take off. The in crease in the cost' of shoes in the last few years has been' one of the traged ies of working women. , . But how about one other article of footwear almost as important to women and child as trie shoe itself the rubber overshoe.' In the last three or four years the prices of the storm rubber has gone up' from 50 to 70 cents. Mr. Payne has done noth ing to clip the wings of the rubber shoe- trust for the duty still remains." GRAND JURY RETURN THREE MORE BILLS SPOKANE. April 24,-Three more true bills were returned against Judge Gordon this afternoon by the grand jury, making six true bills in all. They charge' him all told with em bezzling $28,000 while acting as coun sel for the Great Notrhern Railway Company. He was ordered to give $10,000 additional bail on Monday, TARIFF IS n IISID1D Senate Committee on Finance Discuss Duty on Wood Pulp and Paper Schedule STEEL MEN ARE IN EVIDENCE No Action Was Taken oh the Crude Petroleum Schedule But Believed the Rate as Fixed by the House Will be Agreed to. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 24.- Important work of picking up the loose ends in the making of the new tariff was begun today by the senato committee on finance. Wood pulp and print paper were items consider ed and it was agreed that an amend ment should be drafted by a tub committee in the nature of a com promise between the manufacturers of print paper and those who are de manding free pulp and reduced duties on paper. . - The question of duty on coal wat not considered by the committee b it hat decided to recommend a con tinuance of the present rate. The steel men have been insisting that a rate of $3.92 per ton on rails it too low to give the American manufac turers adequate protection. It has been expected that an increase to $fr$k will be made on rails, but it is now regarded as settled that the rate by the bouse will stand. No action was taken on crude petroleum, but it is admitted that tnm nmt .; ...V (ducers. It is not likely however1, :nar it will be 50 per cent advaloram. No action was taken on the lumber schedule, it being generally admitted that the rate fixed by the house will not be disturbed. After considering a few amendments an adjournment was taken until Monday. . DANCER OF MUSI! S lyiiOiT MOHAMMEDANS AND DRUSES TRIBESMEN EXPECTED TO CONTINUE WARFARE. CONSTANTINOPLE. April 24. Ambassador Leishman received a telegraph today from the American consul at Beirut setting forth the danger of a collision tomorrow be tween the Mohammedans and the Druses Tribesmen. In reply the am bassador suggested that a message be sent to the Father of the late Deputy Arsian, telling him of the success of the liberal forces here and suggesting that avengance be left to' the govern ment. ; PURE FOODFINES. LOS ANGELES, April 24.-Fines aggregating more than $12,000 have been paid, in Southern California for prosecutions under the state pun food law since it became effective, ac cording to in estimate made by Stat' Senator McCartney, ,: who introduced the bill in the legislature. Tht3 amount represents about 500 prosecu tions against both manufacturers and distributors of edibles and confections which were mislabeled or odulterated. making $30,000 in all. It is reported that the grand jury may soon take a recess and wait in' hope of being able to serve papers upon President Hill of the Great Northern who is wanted as a witness. Fire Commissioner J. H. Shivley arrived today from Olym pia to answer to the indictment re turned against him.