PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRE8S REPORT
COVERS THE MORNINO FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA
86th YEAR. NO. 118.
ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1909J
PRICE FIVE CENTS
mm
Defeats Hugo Kelley of Chicago
the First Round of a Forty
five Round Go
KELLEY NEVER STRUCK PAPKE
Middleweight Champloruhlp Easily
Won With Only Few Blows, All
of Which Landed on Kelly, Knock
ln( Him Down and Out
SAN' FRANCISCO. May 15-One
miiiutt and thirty seconds of the
scheduled 40-round contest wat suf
ficient to demonstrate that Hugo
Kelly, of Chicago, is no match in
peed or skill with Billy Papke, the
Illinois thunderbolt. At the end of
thi) brief period, after a half doten
short rallies, Papke stood unmarked,
white Kelly lay unconscious in the
center of the ring, with a deep cut
over his right eye and his chances for
the middleweight championship gone
glimmering.
Fapke apparently toyed with his
opponent. In several clinches he
smothered Kelly's attempts at in
fighting and pushed him away, only
to Und stinging rights and lefts that
found Kelly almost unprotected.
Kelly lout the battle when Popke
landed his first clean right and left
to the jaw. He went to the floor
wltti a count of nine and arose with
out sufficient vitality to resist the
finishing punish prior to which Fapke
had shot a terrific left hook to the
temple which laid open an inch-long
gah just above Kelly's right eye.
Papke's wonderful speed and strength
was the feature of the brief contest,
at a battle which took place in the
open sir and was witnessed by ap
proximately 6000 people, and wss the
fourth meeting of these rivals. Papke
was the favorite in the betting at
odds of 10 to 8. Fnpke's victory car
ries with it the middleweight cham
pionship title.
BAD MAN IN JAIL.
LAMAR, Colo., May IS. -Harry
Starr, arrested in Doise, Ariz., on the
charge of robbing the bank at Amity.
Colo., in January Inst, reached here
last night and taken to the county
jail under heavy guard. Starr was
in the custody of Sheriff Simpson and
Detective Fcnton who stated their
trip had been without incident. Dur
ing yesterday several men rode into
Lamar from the Southern part of the
county, where the Starr gang for
merly flourished. Local officers,
however, thwarted any possible at
tempt to rescue Starr by having a
heavily armed posse at the station to
convey the prisoner to jail.
TO COME WEST.
DENVER, Colo., May lS.-Pre'-limitiary
steps for establishing west
ern headquarters in this city for the
Federal Council of Churches in
America was taken yesterday at a
luncheon attended by pastors and
laymen from Denver and Colorado
Springs. Final action will be taken
at the June meeting of the National
Executive Committee to be held in
New York. '
WOMAN'S TROUSERS
AGREED UPON
Directoire is Backed off the Stage by New York
Dressmakers Who Decide Upon Length
NEW YORK, May IS. Just one
year ago came the first tidings that
the directoire was headed toward
New York. Now comes the dress
maker who introduced the Innovation
with another creation still more
startling. When the wearer stands
still it resembles an ordinary party
START" rfUMOR.
Rumor of ' " Jeath Precedes Ac-
jy 12 Hours.
SA' Kin., May 15,-Twelve
hours t "we he wat crushed to death
beneath nis overturned automobile,
the rumor spread throughout this
city that Ferry Morse. well-known
young seed-grower had been killed on
the road between here and Watson
vllle. Late yesterday, just 12 hours
after the rumor wss circulated, Morse
was found fatally crushed beneath his
wrecked machine. But in the mean
time Morse had driven into town.
After circulating about for some
time to show his friends that he was
really alive be departed alone in the
car for Watsonville and a few hours
later he was found dying underneath
his oevrturned automobile. The tragic
death of Morse coupled with the
strange rumor which preceded it has
caused much excitement here.
YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL
National League.
Philadelphia 0, Chicago 3.
Boston 3, St. Louis 5.
Brooklyn 5, Pittsburg 6.
New York 4, Cincinnati 5.
American League,
Detroit-BostonRain.
Cleveland 3, New York 4.
St. Louis 7, Washington 1.
Chicago 2, Philadelphia 3.
Coast League.
Portland 1. Vernon 4.
San Francisco 2, Oakland 1.
Sacramento 2. Los Angeles 0.
Northwest League.
Portland 1. Tacoma 5.
Spokane 0, Seattle 1.
uberdren 1, Vancouver 0.
JAP 10 WHITE GIRL
HARRY IN SEATTLE
BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM
WERE BOTH RESIDENTS
OF DENVER.
SEATTLE. May IS. A marriage
license was issued today by the
county clerk of King county to
Mahahe Kuky. aged 24, a native of
Japan, and Mayme Jeffery, aged 21,
both of Denver. Kuky is said to be
well educated and has held positions
of trust in a bank in Colorado. The
Japanese and white girl expect to go
to. Vancouver on a wedding trip.
SHIFTING COLONELS.
NEW YORK, May 15-Lieutenanf
Colonel P. Andrews, Second Cavalry,
is relieved from duty at Shattuck
School, Faribault, Minn., and ordered
to assume command of the post and
recruits department at Fort Logan,
Colo. Colonel A. Mann, Sixth Cav
alry, has been ordered to assume com
mand of post and recruit depot at
Jefferson Barracks, Mo. , Lieutenant
Colonel Leonard A. Levering, Fourth
Infantry, has been ordered to com
mand the post and recruit depot at
Fort McDowell, Cal. .
ARMY INTERESTED.
WASHINGTON, May lS.-Major
David I. Stanley, a quartermaster of
the army, has been detailed to wit-
. ness a series of tests to be. made on
I or about May 20 hy the publk roads
j commission of the division of agri
culture in New York to determine the
effect of different kinds of traffic on
macademized roads.
costume. The moment she moves it
is quite different, What has seemed
a skirt parts just above the knees
and regular trousers are revealed.
Just trousers they make no pretense
of being anything else. They meas
ure 36 inches around the bottom and
(reach to the shoe soles.
INTERSTATE RATE
POSTPONED
Interstate Commerce Commls
lion Holds a Meeting and
Decides to Postpone.
PRESENT RATES WILL STAND
All Railroads Involved Were Notified
After Meeting and Will Work Un
der Old Rates Until Cane is Final
ly Settled by the Commission.
WASHINGTON. May IS. After
the result of several conferences the
interstate commerce commission to
day announced tlie postponement
from June 1st to July 1st as the time
for the taking of effect of its decis
ion in the Spokane rate case. The
railroads involved are the Northern
Pacific. Great Northern. Union Pa
cific, Oregon Railway & Navigation
ompany, Oregon Short Wine and the
Chicago & Northwestern- Each of
the companies were today notified of
the decision, and also the assignment
of the case for hearing on June 9.
The railroads will on July 1st put
into effect, in accordance with the
decision of the commission, what are
known as class rates from the Pacific
Coast points to Spokane which are
16 2 3 per cent lower than the pres
ent rates, but not as low in propor
tion as those ordered by the commis
sion. Commissioner Prouty stated to
day that the commission had declined
to express an opinion either way as
to the reasonableness of the reduc
tion in rates from the Pacific Coast
and the commodity rates from the
east to Spokane and that the ques
tion had been deferred for future
consideration. The purpose of the
proposed hearing is to allow any pos
sible objection that may be made to
the filing of the rates on the short
time notice.
ACCIDENTAL SUICIDE.
Man on Operating Table Disobeys
His Surgeons and Dies.
OAKLAND. May lS.-According
to the surgeons of the receiving hos
pital here, George Turner, a teamster,
who was accidentally crushed beneath
his wagon and a hitching post, com
mitted accidental suicide while he was
on the operating table. Suffering aw
ful agony from his terrible injuries,
Turner, disregarding the surgeon's
warning, rolled over in an effort to
relieve his pain, In moving he drove
the jagged ends of a broken rib into
his heart and lungs and a moment
later expired. The death of Turner
was particularly pathetic as he had
been married only a week.
GOOD FOR SHIPFY1
CHICAGO, May IS. Chief of Po
lice Shippy has issued a sweeping or
der to prevent crime, vice and destitu
tion among children. In the daily
bulletin of the police departments he
instructs the police when they find a
boy smoking cigarettes on the street
to get his name and address so that
his parents may be informed. When
a youth is seen leaving a saloon with
beer or other intoxicants the police
are requested to get the name and
address of his parents and the name
of the saloonkeeper. The same pro
ceedure is stipulated for sellers of
tobacco, cigarettes, the renters of
rooms to youth and the billiard hall
owners who permit boys to play and
lounge Around such places.'
CRIMINALFROM CHOICE.
SEATTLE, May lS-Swearing that
he would never cam an honest living
under the Stars and Stripes, Larry
Kelly, known now as "King of the
Smugglers" left the Confederate
Army after Lee surrendered nt Ap
pomatox, Kelly says he has kept his
word. He will now, approaching his
70th birthday, start serving an other
prison term, He must serve one year
in the United States penitentiary on
McNeill's Island for smuggling. He
had just finished serving a term when
he was arrested on the charge of
which he has just been convicted.
GET $750 PLUNDER IN STORES.
Robbers Flee on S. P. Tricycle $100
Reward Up For Capture.
IIALSEY, Or., May 15.-For two
orthree days suspicious characters
had been loitering around Halscy, but
yesterday morning they were gone.
So was considerable property belong
ing to McCully Bros. & Company and
the hardware store of Cross & White.
From McCully Bros & Co. the rob
bers took what loose change they
found in the tills and a quantity of
silverware and jewelry, some hats and
perhaps some suitcases, as the show
case under where the suitcases were
stored was smashed as if from a
man trying to stand on it. Another
expensive case was broken, They
emptied several sacks of oyster shells
on the floor of a back room, and per
haps used the sacks to carry their
plunder in- A fine new safe which the
firm purchased about a year ago was
drilled ready to load, but they either
gave up the project or were frighten
ed by some noise. McCully Bros. &
Co.'s store was robbed about a year
ago, and no trace of the robbers was
ever discovered.
From Cross & White's hardware
store! they took about $50 worth of
pocket knives and razors and what
change they found in the tills. A bunch
of church funds stored in the corner
of one till was left undisturbed. Mc
Cully Bros. & Co.'s loss is about $700.
Two posses started in pursuit from
here. Their only clew is a broken
tricycle, vhich they left about a mile
north of town. Several people heard
the men speeding down the road, but
thought section men had been order
ed to some special work.
One hundred dollars reward is of
fered for their capture.
TAFT, OF THE O. A. R.
WASHINGTON. May IS. Mr.
Taft is to become an associate mem
ber of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic. A large party of veterans from
posts in New YorkXity and Mount
Veraon, N. Y.. reached Washington
last night and today will visit the
White House for the purpose of in
itiating the President. The movement
permitting associate members to join
the organization was started a few
years ago when veterans began to
thin out and "associate members"
were desired among such men who
could be of assistance in maintaining
these posts and keeping a live interest
in the organization.
MRS. LARGE OROPS HER
E
HUSBAND HAD PAID NO AT
TENTION TO PROCEEDINGS
THOUGHT IT A JOKE.
IIILLSBORO, Or., May 15. -Divorce
proceedings against Dr. C. L.
Large, brought this week at Hillsboro
by Mrs. Large, have been dropped
and the complaint has been with
drawn. The complaint came as a
surprise to the physician who says
that while he had heard his wife
make some remarks about intending
to separate, he had thought she was
only joking and had paid no further
attention. Mrs. Large is of a sensi
tive disposition and she thought Dr.
Large meant a good many of the ut
terances he declares were due only to
his being in a hurry or being over
worked. "I get busy sometimes." said Dr.
Large, ''and it's my nature to say
things sometimes when I'm not alto
gether in earnest. My wife didn't un
derstand that, it seems, and somebody
persuaded her she would be happier
without me."
"I have a very sensitive tempera
ment," said Mrs. Large, "and when
the doctor spoke crossly or hastily, I
was sure he meant it all. When the
complaint was served on him, he at
once explained, and that made every
thing all right."
Dr. and Mrs. Large are again living
together in Forest Grove, with their
three-year-old daughter, Lucile.
HAULS DOWN HIS FLAG.
BROOKLYN, May lS.-Caspar F.
Goodrich, commandant of the Brook
lyn navy yard, will haul down his
ensign today. The command will be
turned over to Joseph B. Murdock.
All the officers at the yard and ma
rine band will take part in the ceremony.
CHIEF CAMPBELL
Thieves Break into City Hall and
Steal Valuable Papers Be
longing to Chief
FIRE HYDRANT DOCUMENTS
Papers Stolen Were Relied Upon by
Chief Campbell in Hydrant Investi
gation Case and Persons Interested
Believed to be -the Guilty Parties.
PORTLAND, May IS. -Another
sensation in the political history of
Portland was sprung today when un
known marauders broke into Fire
Chief David Campbell's apartments
in the City Hall last night, pried open
his desk, and stole all the papers
containing the data on which he
relied to protect himself during the
investigation as to the responsibility
for the delay in installing fire
hydrants. No papers were abstracted
except those figurng in the attacks of
which he has lately been the object.
Duplicates for all. however, are kept
in a safe. .
Investigation by Police Detectives
Hyde and Reed shows that entrance
was effected with a key. The locks,
being of a patent variety, were not
picked, and the theory of the authori
ties is that the crime was committed
either by one of the holders of the
keys ot through his connivance. The
method of work adopted by the bur
glar tends to indicate that he was
familiar with the premises and the
habits of the Fire Chief, or was care
fully informed as to what would be
necessary to procure the coveted
documents.
News of the burglary spread
quickly after is discovery by George
Urquhart. the janitor, about 6 o'clock
this morning, and caused consider
able excitement. Many City Hall
attaches and others inspected the
premises. Among the number were
Councilman George L. Baker and
Chief of Police Gritzmacher, who
personally instructed the investigat
ing officers to do their utmost to
place the responsibility for the out
rage. WANT JUDGES SELECTED
TO TRY GORDON
FIVE JUDGES OF SUPERIOR
COURT HAVE REQUESTED
HAY TO SELECT ONE.
SPOKANE, May 15.-Five judges
of the superior court of Spokane
county have requested Governor Hay
to select the judge who shall preside
over the trial of M..J. Gordon, former
chief justice of the supreme court now
charged with embezzlement of funds
from tlte Great Northern . Railway.
They ask that a judge from some
other county be appointed. The case
is expected to come up for trial in
June.
COMMITTEES MEET BRYAN
All is Not Harmony at Entertain
ment of the Commoner.
COLUMBUS, O.. May lS.-Repre-sentatives
from two rival commit
tees, the Board of Trade, headed by
former Congressman John J. Lentz,
and the Jefferson Democrat Club,
were at the Union Station today to
meet William J. Bryan in automo
biles. National Committeeman Har
vey Garber has joined Lentz and an
effort will be made to get Bryan to
go to Garber's house. Former Sen
ate Clerk Dougherty declared today
that the police would put any mem
bers of "the Board of Trade commit
tee off the stage if they dared attend
the banquet tonight given by the
Jefferson Club in Bryan's honor.
ADMIRED, OF COURSEI
BERLIN. May 15-Lou Dillon,
queen of the American turf, was
jhown to the public yesterday at the
opening meeting of the new trotting
course at Ruhleben. It was her Tirt
public appearance in Europe. She
was driven for an exhibition by her
trainer over a short distance only.
She was greatly admired by ' the
crowd.
TOUGH TOWN, TACOMAI
TACOMA. Wash., May lS.-Whi!e
seven or eight customers were in the
Jefferson saloon 1914 Jefferson
Avenue last night a masked man en
tered and held them up. He took $50
from the cash drawer and made his
escape.
SUNDAY SCHOOL PARADE.
DENVER, Ma7lS.-Dr. A. W.
Halsey of New York, secretary of the
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis
sions,, has completed arrangements
for a monster parade and meeting of
Sunday school children to take place
Sunday May 23. during the meeting
of the Presbyterian General Assent-
bly-
SENATE DISCUSSES THE
PAYKE TARIFF BILL
ENTIRE DAY DEVOTED TO
SCHEDULE ON WIRE GOODS
CONTAINED IN SCHEDULE
WASHINGTON, May. IS. -The
lowering of duties, in the case of eight
or ten classes of wire goods contained
in the steel schedule was agreed to
upon motion of Senator Aldrich who
has charge of the tariff bill in the
senate. The result have great encour
agement to the senators who are ad
vocating revision downward. The en
tire session was devoted to the steel
schedule. After few hours debate
the senate adjourned until Monday.
RESTORE FORMER RATES.
Arrival of Kansas City Means Old
Fare to Frisco.
PORTLAND. May lS.-On the
arrival of.the Kansas City from New
York, it is reported that the passen
ger fares between Portland and San
Francisco on the Harriman steamers
will be restored to $10 and $15, the
same rate as charged by the North
Pacific Steamship Company, operat
ing the Roanoke and Geo. W. Elder
out of here in the coastwise trade.
The fare on the steamers operated by
the San Francisco & Portland Steam
ship Company was slashed more
than a year ago, in order that they
might compete successfully with the
large number of steam schooners
running out of here to San Francisco,
which were carrying passengers for
$8 and $12. But owing to the Fair
and other attractions on the Coast
this Summer, it is claimed that the
steamers will be unable to take care
of the heavy traffic, and the old rates
might as well be restored. Steerage
passengers on the Harriman steamers
are now carried at $5. The -Kansas
City is expected to arrive the first
week in July. Until then the State
of California will be kept on the
route.
WERE VICTIMS OF
A CONSPIRACY
Martin Kvalshaug Killed by Chas. F. Newcomb and
Man and Woman Have Confessed to Police
TACOMA. May 15. A victim of a
conspiracy entered into between his
wife and Charles W. Newcomb, a,
laundry wagon driver named Martin
Evalshaug, 31 years old, was shot
down in cold blood at midnight last
night just after alighting from a street
car on the outskirts of the city. That
the murder was the result of a care
fully arranged plot was evidenced this
afternoon by a confession from both
Newcomb and Mrs. Evalshaug. In
IH1A SUICIDE
UOII
Man and Woman Register at
Cecil Hotel and Woman
Shoots Herself
CONSORT WAS INTOXICATED
Registered at Seattle Hotel at Man
and Wife and -Man Became De
spondent Over Financial Troubles
and Both Agreed to Suicide.
SEATTLE, May 1S.-A man and
woman who registered at the Cecil
hotel here this morning as "H. O.
Eames and wife, Tacoma." are believ
ed to have come to this city for the
express purpose of committing sui-
cide together and the woman is dead
in the city hospital with a bullet
wound in the left breast The couple
were shown to a room and four hours
later a pistol shot was heard by the
clerk who, upon entering the room
found the woman in bed bleeding
from the wound and the man stupid
drunk from drink. The woman was
taken to the city hospital where she
died without being able to speak.
Eames told the police that the
woman's name was Mrs. Anna Burke;
that he had come from Denver with
her two years ago; that they lived
at 769 C street. Tacoma, as man and
wife. That he had been drinking for
several days and became despondent
over financial troubles, they had de
cided to come to Seattle and . kill
themselves. While he was absent from
the hotel room, Eames ' says, Mr
Burke took his pistol from a bureau
drawer and shot herself. The police
believe Eames' story as they found
the pistol under the bed clothes where
it had been dropped from Mrs.
Burke's hand and in her valise they
found more than a pound of cyanide
of potassium which she had bought
this morning from a drugstore in Ta
coma. Eames says Mrs. Burke was ,
30 years old and attractive, Eames is '
about 3S years of age.
PREPARING HIS ADVENTURES.
NAIROBI. British , East Africa.
May 15. Theodore Roosevelt, who is
at present the guest of George Mc-,
Millan at the Juja ranch, -whither he
repaired from his camp at Machakos,
in the Athi River district, spent his
first day at the ranch in his room
resting. He has, however, begun
work on a series of articles describ
ing his adventures up to date. Mr.
Roosevelt has found time to visit
parts of the McMillan estate and to
discuss the prospects of sport with
F. S. Selous, the well known Eng
lish hunter and his host. Mr. Roose
velt will resume his shooting expedi
tions on Monday of next week.
GRAND JURY DISCHARGED.
TULSA, Colo.. May lS.-Upon mo
tion of the government, Judge Mar
shal of Utah today dismissed the
grand jury empanelled to investigate
the Muskogee town lot fraud cases.
The judge upheld the government's
contention that the jury had been
subjected to improper influences.
.confessing Newcomb stated that he
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couple were to pass a large rock and
struck down the victim and then
while the victim was struggling on
the ground fired three shots into him.
Mrs. Evalshaug then picked up the
revolver and fired two more shots
into her husband's body. Newcomb
blames the woman for the murder,
stating that the plot originated in
her brain.