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PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT COVERS THE MORNINQ FIELOON THE LOWES COLUUB1 86th YEAR. NO. 117. ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1909 PRICE FIYE&CENTS yvlf JJS-'vy lwvlO -s . c ; SENATE UPHOLDS COMMITTEE Long Drawn Out Tariff Question ta.the Bone of Contention In Untied States Senate LITTLE PROGRESS IS MADE Entire Day Devoted to a Few Cent Controversy Over Duty on Round I Iron and Finance Committee is Again Indorsed by a Good Majority WASHINGTON. Msy 14. -Again the committee on finance was upheld when the senate today by a vole of 35 to 42 voted down the amendment introduced by Senator Cummins to lower the duty on round Iron and up held the house rate which was recom mended by the senate committee. Almost the entire day was given up to the profits alleged to be made each year by the United States Steel Cor porations. A long debate ensued par ticlpated in by a number of senators and towards the close of the debate, many personalities were Indulged In. Senator Beverldge proposed an am endment Increasing the duty on leaf tobacco and its products. He charg ed that by the continuance of short weight packages of the Spanish American war period, the tobacco trust was reaping a harvest of $21, 000,000 a year. It was alleged that advantages was taken of the internal stamp measure during the war, anil all packages of tobacco were reduc ed in weight from which dishoneft practice the manufacturers made mil lions of dollars. At the conclusion of Senator Beverldge's speech the senate adjourned until tomorrow when the continuation of the duty on iron will be discussed- STRONG CONTENTION. - California Judge Puts It Up To U. S, I. S. C. Commission. SAN FRANCISCO. May 14,-An appeal from the decision of District Judge Dehavcn in favor of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,' charged that the violating the Interstate com merce act in the matting cases trieJ recently was taken direct to the Su preme Court of the United States yesterday by United States Attorney Robert Devlin. This is the first direct appeal taken from the courts of this district since Congress enacted th-J law making it possible to appeal di rectly on points of law. The steamship company, together with the Southern Pacific Railway Company filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission a tariff sched' ule on matting from Japan. In haul ing matting to Eastern points they were accused of rebating. They in timated that as far as the ocean haul was concerned they were not amen able to the Interstate Commerce Com mission and could violate the tariff schedule. This contention was sus tained by Judge Dchaven. Accord ing to Judge-Dchaven, the interstate SEVERAL MEN ARE SENT TO PRISON Violated Provisions of and Receive Fines SAVANNAH, May 14-Judge Wm. B. Shepherd sentenced today five men found guilty of having violated the Sherman anti-trust law. in the naval store cases. Spencer E. Shotter, chair man board of directors American na- vel stores company was sentenced to serve three months in jail and pay a fine of $5000; Edmund E. Nash, pres- Commerce Commission had no jurin- diclion over the ocean and the viola tion did not commence until the goods were landed in the Unite 1 States. t ORANOES CHEAPER. Florida Fruit Will Be Marketed Direct To Wholesalers. DENVER, May 14.-llenceforth the Florida orange crop will be marketed direct to the wholesale brokers and jobbers according to J C. Swinling president of the Florida Fruit and Citrus Growers Association, who was In Denver last night. The orange crop of Florida this year he said, will exceed that of any other year since 1895, and we will produce half as much as the entire crop of California. ' "For years we have submitted to the abuses of brokers who practically regulated the market, making big profits and keeping, up prices of oranges. From now on we will market the Florida output direct and this will reduce the price of orange i 40 per Vent Before this fight is over orangei will be selling at three for five cents inMead'of fivecents apiece" msm of ii mil USH110 FISH COMMISSIONER PRE DICTC IMMENSE RUN OF SOCKEYES THIS YEAR. SEATTLE, May 14 The s6ckeye salmon run this year is expected to break all records, according to a statement made by State Flsb Com misioner Kershaw. The removal of the dams in the Fraser river and its tributaries having restored the breed ing grounds. Mr. Kershaw says every cannery on the Sound are preparing for a big run and there will not be a plant idle. ' LIVED A CHEAT. NEW YORK. May 14.-Scarchers In the home of Mrs. Mary Cleary 90 years of age who died yesterday after living for many years on tho charity of her neighbors, found bank books secreted about her Brooklyn home, representing bank deposits of $12800. For twenty years Mrs. Cleary's only companions in her little hovel were four cats. When well enough she solicited aid from resi dents of the neighborhood, who were almost poor as herself, and when she was ill they brought food to her. EXTENSIVE MANEUVERS. , j NEW ORK, May 14-The largest number of National and state troops which have been engaged in joint maneuvering since the Spanish-American war will take part in the pro gramme announced here last night for the various forts and military grounds in and about Boston In August. Orders were received late today at the headquarters of Major General Roe to hold two regiments of infantry, one of engineers, two comp anies of the signal corps and three batteries of field artillery in readiness for service. Sherman Anti-Trust Law and Jail Sentences. ident of the company fined $3000; J. F. Cooper Myers, president National Telephone & Terminal Co., sentenced to three months In jail and a fine of $2000; Carl Moller of Jacksonville, Fla-, agent of American and general manager of the telephone company, fined $5000. Each of the defendants through their attorneys gave notic-j of appeal. NAMES MUST BE TED Judge BronougH Makes Import ant Decision in Portland on Initiative Petitions. EXCISE PETITION APPEARS Legal Voters Who Have Not Regis tered Have a Right to Sign e Peti tion and Auditor Cannot Reject Their Names For That Reason. ' PORTLAND, May 14.-In the cir cuit court today Judge Bronough handed down a decision in the man damus proceedings brought against Auditor Barbour. The decision is an important one and settles disputes aiatinn office. to several initiative petitions now pending. Judge Bronaugh holds asj follows: t j A petition is not void because is has 21 names to the sheet instead of 2a The law does not require a copy of the proposed act to be attached to each sheet of signatures. Legal voters who are not registered are entitled to sign initiative peti tions. The City Auditor has no right to reject sny signature on at petition, either because the voter is not regis tered or because the signature may be forged. The proposed charter amendments providing for bonds for a municipal lighting plant and for an excise board must be placed on the ballot by the City Auditor, according to the ruling of Presiding Judge Bronaugh in the City Court this morning, though de termined efforts are being made bv City Attorney Kavanaugh and Attor ney L. A. McNary to keep the ques tions off the ballot. Judge Bronaugh also intimated that he would refuse to enjoin a vote on the Sherman street bridge project and the wiring ordinance, saying he did not believe that a court has' power to interfere with,an election. Judge Bronaugh held in effect this morning that the City Auditor had no power to reject any signatures which appear on petitions filed with him, and that tlje ceremony of checking up petitions with the registration books is entirely beyond the authority of the Auditor, and would have no effe :t if it were within his powers. Attorneys for the plaintiffs asked that Judge Bronaugh make hfs man damus order to the Auditor peremp tory, but Attorney McNary asked for time in which to file an answer. This was objected to, and City Attorney Kavanaugh volunteered the state ment that if the court refused per mission to file an answer, he would take the matter into another coui't rand hold' it up anyway. Judge Bro naugh allowed the attorneys until i o'clock to file an answer. It is under stood that the answers are already prepared and in the City A.ttorney'3 hands. Another question which will b.e solved by the amount of delay the at torneys can command is whether the proposed acts can be printed within the 20 days required by the ordinance Rcvv Paul Radcr in the suit to com pel a vote on the Excise Board act, said that the proposed acts must be published in the city 'official paper which appears tomorrow morning, and that great haste is necessary to render the publication possible. The pnper goes to press this aftef nooii, and the City Attorney said it was al ready too late. Attorney Cole insist ed on being allowed to make an ef fort to have the publication made. NO AGREEMENT YET. Trunk Line' Association Fails , Unite On Import Rates. To NEW YORK, May 14--No agres- ment was reached at a meeting of the limport rate committee of the Trunk Line Association, held here yesterday to attempt a settlement of the rate war that has grown out of the cuts made by the Boston & Maine on im port traffic and the cuts made by the Philadelphia. Baltimore and other lines to meet these new England reg ulations. The Baltimore and Phila delphia lines contended they wouid main the differential that previously existed between the Baltimore rate and the Boston rate and that the cuts that these lines have made have had the maintenance of this differential rate as its object. The challenge of the, Boston & Maine to Baltimore'.! right to a differential as compared with Boston lead to the conference yesterday and was the cause of the rate war. It is expected that another conference will be held in a few weeks. The rate war has affected the entire West in traffic of imports. GERMANS TO CHINA. TSIN'GLAU. May 14.-Four Ger man teachers, Messrs. Kayper. Lei ing Haenisch and Glatzer, have been engaged by the Chino-German Uni versity, All have served several years in Chinese schools at Peking, Tientsin and Wu Chang. Dr. Wirtz. interpreter for the Kiachow govern- men tis to assume charge of the trans- No missionaries will be permitted to serve as educators at the university. IE fill K HUB N fl ODUBH VAT WOMEN TAKE BAKER FROM IN A BED AND SOUSE HIM A AT OF DOUGH. NEW YORK, May 14.-Matt Al- hcim, a baker, who would not close his bakery when the bakers recently went on a strike, was dragged "from his bed today ,and thrown into a vat of dough, afte,r his first being given sound drubbing by several women raiders. While this was going o.i others attacked Mrs. Anheira and threw pans full of dough at her. The police dispersed the rioters. Alheim was taken to a hospital. DONT LIKE STRANGERS. Abalone Siezes On Hand Of A Man And Imprisons Him For Hours. LONG BEACH. Cal., May 14 4 Roy Sprattley, a visitor from Wyom ing, is confined to his bed with ner vous collapse, the result of a terrific experience yesterday. Sprattley went over to White's Point to gather shells and reaching under a rock to gather what he supposed was a turtle shell, found his lingers caught in a vice by a big abalone. After trying to extric ate himself, he used his pocketknife to iry open the shell, but broke both blades in the attempt. To add to his terror the tide began to creep up and soon was up to his kntes. For two hours he was held prisoner, until, finally, his cries were heard by Japanese fisherman who succeeded ti releasing him. He was not injured but the shock to his nerves sent him to bed. OUR ELECTRIC SPARK. To Perform Several Important Func tions For A. Y. P. Expo. SEATTLE. May 14.-When Presi dent W. H. Taft presses the golden key in the Whi'tehotise at Washington which will flash across 'the continent the signal that the Alaska-Yukon- Pacific Exposition is officially opened, the electric impulse will open the shutter of a camera focused on Ex position President J. E- Chilberg an.l the group on the platform at the ex position. The same current will un furl a giant flag. As the camera takes a snapshot of the head of the ex position and the group of notables, an electric circuit will start whistles blowing. These whistles will indicate that President Taft has opened the Fair and other whistles will join in the noisy chorus, , President Taft will press the key at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of June 1, Eastern time which, will be 12 o'clock noon Seattle time. STRIKERSAPPEAL . TO HIS- Mass Meeting of Postal Employ ees Held in Paris and Res olutions Adopted. THREATS PRODUCE A SCARE Rank and File of Laboring Men Are Convinced That Strikers Are Acting For Their Personal Ends and Will Not Co-operate With Them. PARIS, May 14. -The striking postal employees adopted resolutions at a meeting today appealing to all workingmen's organizations to make ' common cause with them. The meet ing was attended by representatives of owrkmen who delivered inflamma tory speeches. They promised the postal employees immediate support and threatened if necessary to place themselves under the direction of the revolutionary general federation of labor. These threats produced a big scare, but there is a strong suspicion here that the leaders of the movement are bluffing. The strike of the postmen itself has apparently lost ground. The rank and file of the men are seeming ly convinced that the agitators are acting for their personal end and as tools of the revolutionary proletariat organizations and they hesitate to lose their permanent situations and pensions. At Chartiers and Dijon today the strikers, in view of the at titude taken by parliament voted to return to work. The government of ficials say that the movement is col lapsing and point out that only 48.000 of the 300,000 railway men whose sup port was pledged are mostly track men and artisans employed in the shops. It is reported tonight that the strikers are cutting wires. RAILROAD CO'K- II TO COflK OREGON RAILWAY & NAVIGA TION CO. TO COMMENCE WORK OF CUT-OFF. PORTLAND, May l4.-Announ-ment that the construction of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Com pany of the cut-off between Spokane and Coeur d'Alene Lake would be commenced at once was made today by General Manager O'Brien. Bids have been called for specifications stating that work would be com' menced June 1st and the first eight miles completed by August 1st. The expectation is to complete the cut off in four month. The next road is to branch off from the present line Lockwood and extend for 13 miles to the shore of the lake. It will shorten the distance to the lake about 25 miles and make a difference in the running time of about two hours. YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL. Northwest League. Portland 7, Tacoma 2. Spokane 3, Seattle 2. Aberdeen 1. Vancouver 0. Coast League. Vernon 2, Portland 1. Sacramento 4, Los Angles 0. San Francisco 1, Oakland 2. American League. Chicago-Philadelphia Rain. Detroit-Boston Rain, St. Louis S, Washington 4. Cleveland-New York Rain. National League. Boston 4, Cincinnati 7. New York 0, Chicago 6. Brooklyn 10, St. Louis 4. Philadelphia 2, Pittsburg 0. COMMISSION THE NEW YORK. BOSTON, Mass., May 14. The armored cruiser New York, which has been undergoing general repairs at the Charlestown Navy Yard for the past two years, will be placed in com mission tomorrow. She is under ord' ers to proceed at once to Turkish waters to join the cruisers Montana and North Carolina. The first cap tain of the rebuilt ship wilt be Com mander Spencer S. Wood. U. S. N. While the New York now is not to be compared with the newly built, larger and more powerful .cruisers, still she is a fast ship and one not to be ignored by any eneijty she may come in contact with. She has been fitted with new guns that are far more formidable than those in place when she served as Admiral Sampson's flag ship off Santiago. SPEAKER CAIII10T AFRAID OE OSIER SAYS HE HAS REACHED AGE OF 61 AND SHAKE FIST IN IN OSLER'S FACE. WASHINGTON. May 14.-Speak- er Cannon is not a bit afraid of Dr. Osier and his old age theory. He told Osier so today during an address before the National Association for the study and prevention of tuber culosis. "Dr. Osier, I have reached the age of 61 years and I shake my fist in yonr face," he said. Osier laughed heartily at this deft. The speaker harkened back to the days of his childhood when bath uibs were almost unheard of and the . snow would drift in and cover those lying in bed- He said they had plenty of frTi air tfin Cannot -favored morej. n!.,l rnnH fn, rt,iUr.n K. nrA that legislators be dealt with genbv ! ,niured I"3" hof na,mes could !H if he did not do everything wanted uf be obta,ned 0Mht M,n. eofs him. Osier in his address said that1'0 rePorts have b" "'ved' .e . . t a. in t. 3 t 1-111 I , a tuberculosis was no Ionr a nroblem of the doctors and that it would take but two or three generations to re duce its ravages to the present rate of typhoid. FIRST OF AFTERNOON GARDEN PARTIES INOVATION INTRODUCED BY MRS. TAFT AS TO WEARING APPAREL OF THE MEN. WASHINGTON. May 14. -Diplo matic, official and social Washington gathered in large numbers between 5 and 7 o'clock this evening under the big trees in the rear of the white house to attend the second of four Friday afternoon garden parties ar ranged by Mrs. Taft. Buffet lunch eon was served from a tent. A ma rine band was seated near the east entrance. An innovation was intro 'duced by Mrs. Taft who invited the men to wear short coats, flannsl trousers and straw hats. LARGE ATTENDANCE AT MEMORIAL DA Confederate Soldiers Meet at Norfolk for Th? Annual Memorial Observance. NORFOLK, May 14. -Today's Confederate memorial day observance here was marked by an address by former Secretary Herbert of the navy. He spid in part: "We all agree it is best that there be but one flag. We 'finally triumphed in all our states over the carpet bag and negro rule. T honestly believe now we have reach nnio III k i Train Wrecked, Five Killed, Fi Wounded Is the Result cf j the Terriffic Storm, f DEATH LIST MAY BE GREATE Tornado Swept Over a Large Ar Destroying Thousands of Dollaf Worth o I Property and Carryi Devastation in Its Path. KANSAS CITY, May 14.-A serif of tornadoes in Kansas. Missouri Oklahoma late today killed at lea? I five persons, injured 55 and laid was? one town, wrecked a tram and c v great damage to property. TwentJ five were injured by a storm t!' swept over Mount Washington si! Fairmount Park suburbs of Kans. City. At least two of these are thoug ; to be fatally injured. The town I Hollis near Concordia was swept ev tirely away and three were killed a ten injured. ' 1 Near Great Bend the tornado kill t two . and injured 20. All wires down in that vicinity and it is fear the death list may be greater. T tornado wrecked a work train a blew it into a ditch. Several rcr bers of the crew were blown a d; ance of 100 feet or more. Most the victims at Great Bend were me bers of the crew of the work trs: wrecked by the wind. The wt a great area however, a ' De,nS lnat 10 naa Deen 1"ucu At Hoisington, Kansas, the ton?? do injured a large number and great! 'damaged farm property. It was n as severe, however, as that whi f passed over other portions of t state. At Pond Creek, Okla., a s. vere storm slightly injured four ps sons and unroofed several houses. blinding hail and rainstorm accon panied by a severe wind in all thr states. Many : washouts have ' moralized the railroad traffic. EM trical disturbances crippled the te'J graph and telephone wires and or meager reports from the. storm d trict could be obtained. A heaf wind accompanied by rain and hi prevailed in Kansas City. Muj minor damage was done to traffic j all kinds which were seriously inti ferred with. j ; I RYAN COMES BACK. SOUTH BEND, Ind.. May 14 1 Word has been received from Tomi Ryan of Benton Harbor, Mich-, tlf the former middleweight champi: will again enter the ring and that f first challenge will be to Stanley Kf chel. Ryan is sending word f South Bend stated that he would be ready to take' on a match bef ..... i i . u. ..... ,.-,1 t October, but by that time in excellent condition. ed the solution in the main outline: the negro problem." There was unusually large attendance, reptes-, tatives being present from nearly i ery southern state, many of. wh were old soldiers who fought in f war of the rebellion, but who ch' ' ed lustily for old glory when j speaker referred to one flag, ho,v , animosities heretofore existing h died out.