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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ATTACKED BY RoUGHs.
Returning Pennsylvania Democrat
Delegation Meets With Sticks.

CHICAGO, July ia special
despatch to the Tribune from st.
Louis, Mo-, says:
The train bearing the Pennsylvania
delegation from Denver was attacked
BY roughs, al II was entering St.
Louis.
On the side of the special car was
the streamer 81 the Pennsylvania dele
CATION.
The train was running at high
rate Of speed when suddenly there
was fusilade Of stones, bricks and
bullets. VIM. Schuitze, @. w. Max
well and J. H. Curran Of Washington,
Pa. seated together at one side Of the
car, were cut BY the flying glass, but
escaped the stones and bullets.
Colonel James MI Cuffey was seat
ed in the forward end Of the car and
escaped injury.
Since leaving Denver Colonel Cuff
fey has been i'll as the result of the
heat, and the excitement Of the con-
vention. A physician was called to
the train and attended Mr. Cuffey.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
SOCIALISTS ARRESTED

LOS ANGELES, July l3.-The
attitude Of Socialists Of this city, who
are lately insisting upon the right to
address street meetings in spite OF
arrests BY the police, prom
ises to end in somewhat bitter camp
aign. Several sand lot orators have
served chain-gang sentences and at
present four women and a man are
confined in the County Jail awaiting
trials set for October.
Walter v. Holloway, a national
committeeman Of the Socialist party,
whose wife is one of the prisoners,
stated today that his associates were
planning for d large demonstration,
when the police will be compelled to
make arrests, Holloway stated that
sympathizers from other cities were
arriving here and that financial aid
was being sent from many parts Of
the country
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
More Than a Score OF Firemen
Overcome by Smoke
DAMAGE ALMOST sisO,OoO
Flames Start in Basement of the
Hinkley Building = Over Half the
Damage Carried no Insurance =
Jeweler Heaviest Loser.

SEATTLE, July ia FIRE that
started in the basement Of the Hink-
ley building at Second and Columbia
streets this evening, burned for three
hours, and inflicted damage between
100000 and $i500O0 lass than half
which is covered by insurance. More
than a score Of fremen were over
come by smoke and paint fumes and
for a time it was heard that some Of
them lost their lives. All can be ac-
counted for however and none are
expected to die. All but about $50
900 damage to the building is repre-
sented in merchant stocks, destroyed
and damaged, H. Silver, a ieweler,
whose half stock is damaged to the
amount Of $l25,0O0, is the heaviest
loser. He carried no insurance.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY "A, 1908
WATCHES WOMAN DROWN
Dastardly Chicago Crowd Stands Idly
BY And See Her Sink To Death.


& CHICAGO, July i3-With 200 men
and boys standing within few feet
OF her and III sight Of 1000 others
an unidentified women, fell or rolled
purposcly from the North Pier at the
mouth 81 the Chicago river yesterday
and was drowned. Although she
screamed repeatedly for assistance not
q hand in the crowd that watched her
struggles in the water was lifted 70
save her. Instead one Of the gazwrs
stole the woman's purse and hat
which she had placed on the pier be-
side her and fed.
A half hour later the body was
taken from the water BY Capt. Carlad
and his men from the life saving
station. The body was neatly dres-
sed The woman apparently was 50
years old. five feet four inches tall
with dark brown hair and hazel eyes
and weighed los pounds.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
MARINE is DROWNED

SAN FRANCISCO, July IA re-
port has been made to the harbor
police by Lieutenant Owen, comman-
der Of the Marine barracks at Goat
Island, that a. marine whose identity
has not been established was thrown
off the end Of the Clay Street wharf
during a fight with sailor Of the
West Virginia on Saturday night last
and drowned. The information upon
which Lieutenant Owen bases his re-
port says the sailor and the unknown
marine were both precipitated into
the water Of the bay and that the
sailor wa rescued.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14

NEW YORK, July l3.-Not only
are the paper makers keeping their
own employees in idleness, but they
are enforcing idleness upon thousands
Of workers in the printing and pub
fishing plants throughout the coun-
try" This is the conclusion Of Her
man Ridder, the president OF the
American Newspaper Publishers AS
sociation. expressed in a letter to the
president about the paper combi1a-
tions. The letter states that the
promise that the courts would pro-
vide adequate and prompt remedy att
er an appeal to congress had been made
failed. and has not been fulfilled; and
that after "a paper makers, acting to-
gether in the Fibre and Manila As
sociation had been subjected to 4
grand jury investigation, the paper
makers admitted that they placed
their records beyond their reach but
subsequently all but two OF the par
Elephants pleaded guilty, and thai
immunity was practically granted
every individual who participated IN
the pool. The treasurer and tht
originator Of the pool, John H. Park:
| is now, says the letter, a fugitive II
Europe.
"such a finish to the procedure,
the letter further states, rs q miscar-
riage Of justice" y 'r~t ~ti
/ "The situation the letter states
requires drastic treatment and at
appeal is made that steps be taken tc
bring the law-breakers to their senses
and end these lawless conditions
which interferes with the return tc
prosperity"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
RESCUING MINERS.
Men Are Busy on Scene Of the
Wyoming Disaster.

HANNA, Wyo, July l3.-The
Eastern slope OF the Pacific Mine No.
Lin two disasters which occurred on
March 30 has been opened for dis
,ancc OF 100 feet and the work Of
cleaning out the debris 10 progressing.
After several days, the workmen will
proceed further into the mine. The
body OF Electrician Armstrong, who
after the first explosion went into the
mine 10 repair lights for the rescuers
and who was burned by the second
explosion was recovered today.
There are still 81 bodies in the mine,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
Another Land Scheme Arrest Is
Made
TO LOOT PUBLIC DOMAIN
Henry E. G. Cooke Is Arrested at
Baker City on Charge OF Fraudu-
lent Dealings in Oregon Lands
His Plans Were Daring.

PORTLAND, July l3.-With the
arrest in Baker City, Ore, Of Henry
+, 6. Cooke, head of the Oregon
Ranching aud Timber Company and
the Southwest Texas Development
Company, occupying Offices in the
Tribune building, New York city, on
an indictment returned by the Federal
grand jury Of Gotham, charging him
and A. G. Marshall with conspiracy
what appears to be colossal scheme
to loot the public domain has come
to light.
Cooke was taken into custody by
the Baker City authorities upon tele.
graphic advices from District Attor-
ney John McCourt, who was advised
by wire from New York to cause the
arrest Of the alleged land manipula-
tor on true bill found against him.
A deputy United States marshal will
leave here at once for Eastern Ore
gon to bring the prisoner to Portland
in the event he is unable to furnish
bail
In all the palmy days Of the opera
tions Of the Oregon 'land frauders"
nothing equalling in point OF daring
or originality the alleged methods Of
Cooke was ever devised, and the
,effrontery which is said to character
lie the mode Of action Of the Oregon
Ranchng and Timber Company indi-
Gated that the concern, banking on
legal advise, is entirely fearless Of the
consequences,
Twenty to one for your money" is
the bait which is said to have been
offered to those desirous Of joining
the alleged "get-rich-quick' move
ment, and from the glowing prospec-
tus compiled by the concern the in
vestment Of 500 will produce $1,000
in three months
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
POSITION OF FLEET


HONOLULU, July ia wireless
message from Lieutenant Fullinwaid-
er, Associated Press correspondent on
board the battleship Connecticut, re-
ceived late last night says the position
OF the Atlantic fleet at 5 p. m. was in
Latitude 28.lo; Longitude l46l5 The
feet will slow down to nine knots an
hour tomorrow noon in order to pass
the leper settlement on Molokai in
daylight Thursday morning, The
Nebraska is l40 miles behind the feet
arc will overtake the other vessels
Tuesday morning. The sea is
smooth"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
TO JURY WEDNESDAY.
Steve Adams Produces Eight Strong
Witnesses.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo, July
i3.-The defense rested today in the
case Of Steve Adams, charged with
the murder Of Arthur Collins, mine
superintendent after producing eight
witnesses who testified that Adams
was playing cards at Mrs. Mennan's
boarding house at Ophir on the
night Collins was shot in Telluride,
and was still there when man
brought the news Of the murder. The
prosecution announced that it would
close rebuttal evidence by noon to-
morrow and the case will probably go
to the jury Wednesday,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
TO SUPPORT BRYAN.

LINCOLN, July 1s - President
Gompers Of the American Federation
OF Labor, and practically 100000 vot-
ers Of organized labor, will support
Bryan in the camapign. While
Gompers promised his support today,
he specifically denied any present in
tention Of taking to the stump,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS.
Hitchcock Locates and Says Taft VIII
Not Make Speeches Until Sept

NEW YORK, July IS. - Chairman
Hitchcock OF the Republican National
Committee today selected quarters in
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
building here, The active presidential
campaign will begin August lst when
the committee opens headquarters.
Hitchcock says he has intention to
remain in New York and direct the
fight He states Taft will not make
any speeches until after September I.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
Or. Simpson Is Shot by the
Woman He Made a Widow,
After Being Warned
OUTCOME DOMESTIC TROUBLE
His Wife Who Took Witness Stand
Against Him at Former Trial
Refuses to See Him-Is in Serious
Condition.

NORTHPORT. N. Y, July 49,
Standing within few feet Of where
little more than two years ago he shot
and killed his father-in-law, DR.. Jas.
Waddell Simpon, dentist Of New
York was shot and perhaps mortally
wounded today by his mother-in-law,
Mrs. 2artiey Horner, whom he made
a widow.
DR.. Simpsons wife from whom he
had been estranged for many months
was near when the shot was fired,
but she was not witness to the
shooting Upon learning that 1t was
her husband who had been wounded
she refused to 90 near him and DIR.
Simpson had to crawl to the house
200 feet away to have his wounds at
tended TO.
Mrs. Horner was later arrested and
held in $1,000 bail. while DIR. Simpson,
with Tie assistance of two friends
made his way to the Roosevelt hos
pital in New York The bullet lodged
in the liver and an immediate opera
ton was performed to take the bull
LEI out The doctors said tonight that
Simpson has only small chance of
recovery. Statements from Simpson
and Mrs. Horner as to the circum-
stances attending the shooting dis
agree, The dentist says he had re-
ceiyed word from his wife that she
intended to sue him for divorce and
that he went to the Horner home to
talk with her about It, He says he
rang the door bell and upon receiving
no response peered through the door
pane, He saw Mrs. Horner he says,
and called upon her to open the door.
Then DR.. Simpson says, she grabbed
up a revolver and shot him. The
bullet entered his body above the
abdomen and he fell back against the
doorsill A second shot was fired at
him, he declares, but the bullet went
wild. Mrs, Horner does not deny
that she did the shooting but claims
justification. Through her lawyer,
Rowland Miles, she said, Simpson
had several times called at the house
and he and his visits were unwel-
come. When he came today, she
ays, she ordered him away and
when he refused to go, she took up
revolver and shot at him.
Constable Hanson, who arrested
Simpson in 1905 when the dentist
shot Mrs. Horner's husband, arrested
Mrs Horner this evening. This sec
ond tragedy is only another chapter
Of the unhappy domestic events Of the
last few years, The shooting of
Horner, BY Simpson, aroused the
countryside, and when the dentist
was put on trial for life, his wife
took the stand against him as did his
mother-in-law,
DIR. Simpson was going through
manual-of-arms with shotgun when
he was shot BY Mrs Horner,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
IL Feet Of Water Sweeps Down
Dry Canyon
HEPPNER PARTLY FLOODED
Eastern Oregon Town Has Stores
Submerged-No Lives Lost and
Damage IS Only Slight - Power
House Out OF Commission.
PENDLEToN, Or. July ia

PENDLEToN, Or, July ls.-A
cloudburst in the vicinity Of Heppner
today flooded Dry Canon and sent
water pouring down il II feet deep.
The water swept down the steep in
stead Of following the river channel
through Heppner, flooding the lower
stories Of houses in the upper end Of
town to depth Of two feet. The
power house was put out Of business
and the damage can not be repaired
for "a hours. No lives are lost and
no serious damage has been done,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
HITS WoMANs SUFFRAGE.

. COLUMBUS. July 13. Before the
State Convention today Temporary
Chairman H, L. Peake Of Sandusky
assailed woman suffrage, which has
come to be an established tenet Of
the party. He declared that women
drink more, and men less. than de-
cade ago, and that the weakest laws
regulating the liquor traffic, are in
the woman suffrage states Of Colo
RADIO, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
American Athletes Point Out In
justice In the Methods,
However
KING EDWARD IS THERE
Revival Of the Olympic Championship
Games Opened Yesterday and the
American Men Show up All Right
lis a Worldwide Event.

LONDON, July i3.-The American
team Of athletes is we'll satisfied with
the results obtained by them on the
first day OF the revival OF the Olympic
championship games which opened at
the Stadium here today, having got
two men, ]. II. Sullivan and Melvin
w. Sheppard, both OF the Irish
American Athletic Club, into the final
heat Of the ls00-metcr race. They
were unfortunate, however. Ia the
first heat. when two OF their best men
at the distance had to run against
each other and these same conditions
prevailed in the second heat, when
J. r. Halstead, New York Athletic
Club. was beat by his team partner,
Melvin w, Sheppard, BY half yard,
The Americans point out the injustice
caused by the English drawing for
heats as shown by the fact that Hal
stead, although he ran much faster
than the winners Of the other heats,
Is eliminated from the final, as he
finished second,
Heavy rain made the 1000 athletes
assembled, thinks that the opening Of
the Stadium at Shepherds Bush would
have to be postponed.
AS the day advanced the downpour
gave way TO a drizzle, which however,
soon passed over, and as the time ap-
preached for the opening the sun
came out occasionally, and with the
assistance OF light breeze frightened
up the decorations. Crowds gathered
inside and outside OF the Stadium, and
long before the arrival of the King
and Queen the cheaper sections OF
the Stadium were filled with the
spectators prepared to stay out the
afternoon, no matter what the condi-
tions were.
Shortly after 3 o'clock in the after
noon the royal box, which had been
fitted up for the accommodation OF 40
persons, began to fill up, the early
arrivals including the Grown Prince
and Princess Of Sweden and their
children the Crown Prince and Prin-
cess OF Greece, the Dake and Duchess
OF Connaught and the Duke and
Duchess OF Argyle. A short time af-
forwards the playing of the national
anthem by band of the Grenadier
Guards announced the arrival Of King
Edward, Queen Alexandra and Prin-
cess Victoria with their suites, who
had been driven in state from Buck
ingham Palace. Lord Desborough,
chairman Of the council of the British
Olympic Association, welcomed their
Maiesties at the entrance to the Sta
dium and presented the members OF
the Olympic Council
AS the King entered the royal box
bugler gave signal the gates
leading to the competitors quarters
few open and the athletes marched
out under the banners Of their re-
spective nations. The procession was
formed in alphabetical order, Austria
leading, with the exception that the
English-speaking races came last
This latter section was led by an
American team.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
POTTER IMPROVING.

COOPERSTOWN, July l3.-Bish-
op Potter's condition showed mark
ed improvement today and he was
able to sit UP for time.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-14
APPEAL TO PRESIDENT
Rider, Of American Newspaper
Association, Says Courts
Promise Fails
TO END LAWLEss CONDITION

The Situation Requires Drastic Treat
ment and an Urgent Appeal is
Made to Bring About Satisfactory
Settlement.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-08-16

soon fell back into quietude and disuse.
1t was now evident that it was her work
and charm that kept the movement alive.
There were other workers and other
speakers in the far west, but they were not
Katie Kehm Smith, and in her death
rationalism lost an invaluable ally and
worker.
But Kate Kehm Smith did not live In
vain. The seeds she had succeeded in
planting in youthful hearts, fructiled and
grew and brought forth good fruit. Why
was it necessary for her to die so young,
in the hey-day of youthful glory and I'M
sullied career? Yet it is not for us to
determine. Could our cause boast one
hundred such women today the god myth
and Christian superstition would not much
longer enthrall the mind of humanity.
Glory to her name Honor to her memory.
Katie Kehm Smith is dead but her works
still live and in this she has won an i'm
mortality that cannot be obtained by
faith.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-08-16
TO THE CHRISTIAN.

(By John T. Bays)
How can you boast of Christian work,
While in the slums We see
The hungry children cry for bread
And you heed not their plea?
We see that instead of helping them
You build your churches fine,
And lavish gold in grand display,
AS upon some pagan shrine.
If Christian work is what you say,
Why send your prayers on high,
While children cry for want of bread
And in the slums they die?
It's plain to see that Christian love
Is only a love for god;
And not for those who need your help,
The poor, who go unshod.
The Christian donor gives the church
And the minister, his wifi,
While truly good men give their all,
Some weak brother to uplift.
The church gets millions every year,
But do they feed the poor?
No! They spend for costly buildings
And tten they beg for more.
Why should these more unfortunate
Remain in need? While we
Are wasting millions every year,
That would satisfy their plea.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-08-16

With the subject of this sketch we can
truly say that it is indeed a calamity that
the delicious manuscript of youth should
be brought to a sudden and early close.
But for the interference of the grim reaper
with young brilliant and useful life, none
can predict what good might have been
accomplished for the cause of Liberalism
on the golden shores of the far Pacific.
Katie Kehm Smith, during her active
career as a ,Freethought propagandist, was
probably, the youngest FreethOught advO-
cate in America, but with her youth came
a beauty of grace and gentleness that con-
stituted a peculiar and singular charm
characteristic of the woman, of her work.
and her very nature. Earnestness of pur
pose and deep sincerity of effort marked
the course of her life and those who knew
her and worked with her came to love her
for her mental and moral worth, greatest
of all factors in solving the complex prob
lens that beset human society. Active
and energetic, she never faltered in the
course of her brief, but brilliant career,
and the Freethinkers of America do honor
to themselves by honoring this sublime
character.
Katie Kehm was born at Warsaw, I'LL
nois, in the fall of 1868. She was given
fairly good education by admitting parents,
such as the common public schools of that
period could afford, and her inclination
leaning towards pedagogy she became a
teacher in the schools of her immediate
district, duly qualifying therefor, at the age
of but seventeen years. To acquire the
necessary art to perform this great duty
she attended a college at Ottumwa Iowa,
from which she graduated with high hon.
ors in 1885. School teaching now became
her chosen profession, but with it all there
appeared a strong vein of liberalism In
her work, which was a decided departure
which she lived and taught Before taking
become a convert 10 Freethought, a mental
plane acquired by her own effort. brought
about by close study and effective reason
ing. She was in all things an observant
student and her contact with the people
revealed to her susceptible mind the
wrongs that were being perpetrated upon
them in the name of religion and she re-
solved, as opportunity came to her, to
strive to remedy these wrongs as far as
she was able so to do.
At the age of seventeen years she had
given her first Freethought lecture Bible
believers opposed and criticised her. This
did not check her but on the contrary she
fought them at every stage and with tre-
success. She soon turned her at
tention to the great west and was found
next In Oregon, where she prosecuted her
Freethought work with undated hope and
vigor. The great Liberal spirit
Of the west was more in accord with her
own mind and she found an abundance OF
and help for the cause she was
advocating
In 1891 we find her in Port Townsend