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ASUHUAft. 1900 New Spring Goods 1 4 IE WILL be show the most complete and best selected stock of cotton, wool and silk fabric ever shown in As toria. Come and see what we have. Don't think you have to buy. All we ask is just come and look. Headquarters For Dry Goods on the Lower Columbia, They Are Now Making Only Half Hearted Resistance to the Re lief of Ladystnith. OHEVRLET OA MP. Wednesday. Steady progress of the relief column !s J uninterrupted. The Biiers Tuesday vere forced fnm their last position south of the Tuvcia. resulting In the evacuation of Colenso, which was promptly re-oocupled by the Dublin fusiliers and the Thornycroft horse. A Transvaal ling was captured, as was a handkerchief Inscribed with General ! Botha's name. This is treasured as a great trophy. The lioer heavily shelled Hlang wana hill and Colento Wednesday. The British advance Infantry v as sub jected to a severe musketry fire, but they had evcellent cover and the cas ualties were Jew. The I'.oers had the railroad running from Colenso to Bul wan. The British continue to discov er large quantities of ammunition. The Boers are well supplied with food, and a quantity of provisions was left be hind. It Is expected that further resistance will be half-hearted, anl that Lady smith will be leached in a few davs. JOLBERT'S NERVES rXSTRlWG. He Has Been Compelled to Relinquish the Chief Command of the Boers. j LONDON. Feb. 22. All the war of fice's information is said to point to General Cronje's escape as an impossi bility, and it Is now generally taken for ranted that Roberts has him sur rounded. All the critics of the after noon newspapers urge rushing rein forcements to Roberts so he may be able to not risk much in endeavoring i to ln'llct a decisive defeat before the ' Boer forces gather from every quarter j to strengthen General Cronje's threat ened force. Sutler's apparent tardi ness and failure to prevent the Boers i from slipping round to assist Cronje creates no little comment. J The relief of Ladysmith is now taken j to be a matter of course and is likely ; to be announced before the end of the j week, but it is quite within the proba-' bilities that severe fighting will occur previous to the relief, while the de- I tachments to be sent by Buller to re- ! inforce Roberts subsequent to the re- j lief are likely to meet with strenuous i resistance In the passes of Draken-! burg, in which fairly powerful burgher j force remain. Boer reports say Jou bert's nerves are unstrung, and he no j longer exercises the chief command. A Olspatch from Sterkspruit, dated Wednesday, says the prominent rebels in this district intend to surrender and the Storberg rebels will shortly lay down their arms. There have been many eulogistic ref erences to the speeches of Laurier and other Canadians on the subject of the losses of the Canadians In South Afri- Little Pimples Turn to Cancer. Oanoer often reialu from u im parity in the blood, inherited from fenerations back. Few people are en tire! j free from some taint in the blood, and it ii impossible to tell when it wfl) break out in the form of dreaded Gen Mr. What ha appeared to be a mere em pie or scratch has developed into e most malignant Cancer. "I had s saver Oanoer which was at ant mlf a few blovohee, that I thought would soo pas away. I wu trailed by several able physlc-lap. but la (pit of their efforts the Can cer epread ntU way oca diilon tteeamealarmtng;. After many nontbs of treatment and growing taJily worse. I da elded to try 8. 8. B. wnicn was so irronsriy rueamneaded. Tbe first . bottle produced an Im provement, looatimie.' :j the nedlelna, and in , four months the last ltt- tie seab dropped oiT. Tea rear have elanaed aad no (align el the tllneage baa returned." R. P. Williams, Gillsbnrg, Hum. It is dangerous to experiment wit): Cancer. Tire disease is beyond theskil; of physicians. S. S. 8. if the only cure, because it is the only remedy which goes deep enough to reach Cancer. for Dlrwl .TheDlUUi! (Swift's Specific) ii the only blood remey guaranteed Purely Vegetable. All otners contain potash and mer cury, the most dangerous of minerals. Books on Caneer and blood disease nailed free by Swift Specific Company, ' l.i!szta, Ceorria. jo e e remiy Monday to J ea, concerning whlch.curiously enough. there Is not a single word, official or otherwise, known or published here ex cept that to officers were wounded. OFFF.RED TO Sl'RRENDKR. Dispatch to London Paper Says Conje So Proposed But Afterwards Reconsidered. LONDON, Feb. 23.-The Daily News has the following dispatch from Mod der river, dated Wednesday, February 21: "The Boer forces under General Conje are estimate at S00 men At II o'clock he asked an armistice of 24 hours, which was refused. Later he sent a messenger to say that he would surrender. "The British general sent a reply telling him to come Into camp. Conje refused, saying there had been a mis understanding and that he would fight to death. "The bombardment was then reop ened and our lyddite shells set fire to the Boer wagons. We continued shell ing the laager throughout the night and in the morning we resumed with Maxims anil rifles, principally from the north side. "On Sunday there was much waste of life in attacktrg and the same result will be achieved without it. , "Prisoners say that General Conje marched from Magersfontein here without spanning, a distance of thirty three miles. Had he succeeded in es caping, it would have beer, one of the finest performances In the annals of war.'' REINFORCED FROM LADYSMITH. Roberts Has Captured Prisoners Just Arrived With Conje's Command. LONDON, Feb. 22. 4:17 p. m. The war office has received from Lord Rob erts the following message, which was delayed in transmission, dated Paarde berg, Wednesday: "Yesterday afternoon I was satisfied by a careful reconnoissance in force of the enemy's position that I could not assault 't without a very heavy loss, which I nas most anxious to avoid. Accordingly, I decided to bombard him with artillery and turn my attention to the enemy's reinforcements. The re sult was most satisfactory. The Boers were driven oft in all directions, losing a good many killed and wounded, and 50 prisoners, who say they arrived from Ladysmith two days ago by railroad. They also say It was our artillery fire which ;au.-ed them to abandon the kopje they were occupying. "Our loss was two officers, Captain Campbell, of the Ninth Lancers, and Lieutenant Houston, of the artillery, and four men, all slightly wound ed." MAXIXI-NORDENFELDTS GOING, , Officers Ordered to Take Fifty Guns to South Africa at One?. LONDON, Feb. 22. Artillery officers received hurried orders today to pro eed to South Africa with 50 one-pound Maxlm-Nordenfeldt guns. THE CANADIAN LOSSES. Report From South Africa Create a Sensation at Muntreal. NEW YORK, Feb. 22.-V special h the Tiibune from Montreal says: The news of the heavy losses of the Canadian battalion created a profound sensation throughout the Dominion. No details of the action have come to hand, except that it was fought by the Canadians on Sunday, while Dursning Conje's army at a drift on the Modder river to the east of Jacobsdal. Seven out nt the eight companies were en gaged and the Canadians lost in killed, wounded and missing 89 men, being about 10 per cent of the force engaged in the battle. The Ion; are scattered o-.er the whole regiment, and number 20 killed and 58 wounded, the rest Do ing missing or captured No officers were killed but two Ma jor Arnold, of Winnipeg, commanding a company, and Lieutenant Mason, of Toronto, we're wounded, the former dangerously. Flags are 'lying at half mast over the city. The spirit In which the public is tak ing the news is shown in the action of J. A. Harry, the rich young merchant of the town. On his way to his office he learned from a bulletin board of the death of his younger brother, Cecil, and proceeded at ones to the teiegraplt office, where be ttdetjraphe.i the gov ernment,: asking perndssinn go? to fouth Africa at his iwn expense tfr take his brother's placi'jn the rCgimj-nt !n the f eld. The newspapers in their I comments agree In saylitg that the blood thus shed will content the union of Canada with the rropirw IMPORTANT ARREST. Man Suspected of Complicity In North western Train Holdup Taken Into Custody. CHICAGO, Fel. 32. "Pat" Crow, who was arrested two weeks ago, sits pected of being one of the men who h Id up a Northwestern train at Tower K, October 13, has been released on ball And the case against him will probably be dismissed. Special Agent R'ley, of the Northwestern, mild he was confident Crow was not connected with the robbery. Police Justice Lud wlg, at Geneva, where the prisoner was confined, allowed Crow's attorney to sign his bond for IIO.O.H). T. prelim inary hearing Is set fr next Monday morning. Riley says that Crow's arrest was, : . . . . . 1 ca-ised by the statement of a man w ho . told Captain Lavln and insi-dor Hunt, of the Chicago poplce drpart- nient. that Crow approached him some , , ,. , I,,, i ki.,, i time before the robbery and asked him . , . c: ,., to enter the plot. Mnce then Riley . u , . ....: . . . has found that Crow was at work In the South Omaha packing-houses at the time of the robbery. T1IK REHKLHOrS KfUDS. Russia Rarely Avoided Having to Send An Army Into Persia. counsel. It is an unusual thing for a defendant who ha been so very well NEW YORK. Feb. 22. European pa- and ably defended by counsel to ad pers Just received slve details of a re- i dress the court. cent rebellion In th- Peisian province' "It U the defendant's desire, and we of Kurdistan, the rising being so scr- ; have nothing to say to him except that ious that Russia contemplated sending we b-lleve It Is his right," said Mr. troops Into Persia. The Kurds of the Sowomch-Houlak district raised the Insurgent banner i against the government of Teheran un der the leadership of El Kan, Dabouklr, Ma hour and Rersadas, the chiefs of leaning forward hy those In the rear the four principal Kurdish tribes. ( to catch everything that was said. These chiefs had received from the I "His counsel," sai l Recorder Goff shah honorific distributions under the J si wly, h:is said for hint all that the form of decorations of high titles. Nev- ' law permits to be said In reply to the ertheless, they had preserved !ioir j question. What has he to say why spirit of Independence. They are rich j Judgment of death should not oe pro and enjoy reat popularity, so that It i nouneed against him?" was easy for them to group around I ''I have advised him that way," sa'd them 1J00 Kurdish landowners. They Mr. Weeks, "hut It is his .desire. Your ar; the blind Instruments of. Mlrsza I Honor." Fetauch, the soul of the antl-Perslan "That is another matter," returned movement In Kurdistan. i the J'jdge. ':if It Is a desire expressed The governors of Ssowoutch-Roulak t up to this time had recognized the real authority of this powerful Individual. Prince Manoutcher-Mlrssa, the new governor, acted as If he did not recog nise it. In order to avenge himself, the cun ning Mirssa Fetauch concealed his sen timents, but he Incited the new govern ment to Inflict corporal punishment on one of the Kurdish boys. This punish ment was resented by the whole proud and bellicose nobility of Kurdistan, ami was the signal for the revolt, one sin gle tribe, with Its chief. Nomad-Aga. remaining faithful to Persia. Manoulrher-Mirsxa sent the com mandant of the troops. General Mushlr Lachker, to Aserbejdchnu to open ne gotiations with the rebels. Rut all propositions 'ailed, and to satisfy the J prisoner's request was to be denied, insurgents, who demanded the recall of Mollneux. with the same firm, reson Princs Manoutcher. the latter was dis- l art voire and with a slight courtesy missed from his office as governor. The toward the recorder, began again: Kurdistans then entered Ssouwoutsch- j "I thank you, Your Honor. Of the Roulak and asked by telegraph that nime for which I stand convicted, and General Mushlr-Lachker should take ; the place of Mar.outcher. Instead of complying with their re quest, the shah sent them the severe and energetic Semld Khan, who had already been governor of the province. This appointment set Are to the already troubled situation and then came the signal for an armed struggle. Thanks to their acquaintances, the rebels en tered the city of Tabriz, the resld'.-nce of the governor, and there were dally fights with the government troops. Finally, Semld Khan left his post and was replaced by a functionary, Musul Mesnaleck; whe was in complicity with the Insurgents. Tranquility has pre vailed from that moment, at least ap parently, for the Kurds continue to demanl a kind of autonomy with the right of choosing their governor, which appointment would merely have to be approved by the shah. COLLEGE PRESIDENTS CONFER. BERKELEY, Cal., Feb. 22. Profes sor Leuschner, director of the students' observatory of the University of Cali fornia, will leave here today to Join President Wheeler in Chicago, They will represent California at the con ference of the leading American uni versities to be held In Chicago on Feb ruary 27, for the consideration of the conferring of higher degrees. BONNER FARM TO CONTINUE. NEW YORK, Feb. 22.-The Bonner stock farm at Tarrytown, N. Y., Is not to pass cut of existence despite the sa!; of all the trotters and pacers which belonged to the late Robert Bonner, except Maud S. David Bonnr will manage the farm, where blooded horses will be bred. The stallion? Highland Faron and Baron Itevle.v have been bought for the stud with a number of Electioneer horses. MOLINEUX SENTENCED. Dramatic Scene in Court on Defend ant's Application to Be Allowed to Make a Statement. New York Tribune. Long before the hour of opening the court, at 10:80 o'clock, the doors of the court room were beselged by hundreds who wanted to witness the Imposition of the sentence of death on Mollneux. Extra policemen were detailed to hold th throngs back from the doors. Re corder GorT, in his official black robes, entered the chamber at 10:37, and al most at once a court officer was sent tvi bring In Mollneux. Necks were craned to get a glimpse of the prisoner as r entered the door at the rear of the chamber. With a quick, buoyant stride he soon reached th bar, where, with Mr. Week on hi right and Mr. tlnttle on hi l-ft, he waited for the sentence. District Attorney Gardiner moved for Ju lgMMit. The clerk asked the pris oner If he had any legal cause to show why Judgment should not be passed. Mr. Weeks said: The defendant, Roland B. Mollncux, respect fully moves for a new trial herein upon the following grounds: The motion was denied, an exception was taken, and Mr, Weeks moved that no Judgment be rendered, on the ground that the fads stated do not constitute a crime. Again the motion was denied: again the exception, and then Mr. Weeks said: "The defendant. Your Honor, desires t.l fllwnk In litia ....... tutk-ir ' .,',. . " . Mollneux, In a ret imnt voice, with- out a tremor, began: "Of the crime for w hich I" i "Just wait a minute," said Recorder . ', Goff, leaning forward slightly and . .. " " ' looking earnestly at the prisoner. "Is thls V dvloe of counsel?" ' Hy reiiuest of the defendant and without regard to the advice of coun sel," nail Mr. Week. Reccrdir Guff hesitated an Instant, and then said: This defendant has been In this court for thrw months, defended by able Weeks. Th- nervous tension was at the snitp- ping point. The tones of th. reccrd-r and the lawyer alternately cut the stil!ne.. and there was an Involunturv by the man at the bar under these circumstances and presented to the court's discretion, that Is one thing, but a thing presented as a matter of right, that Involves another thing." "I hav simply presented It as the defendant's desire and my advice." The scene was like a fencing bout between adepts parry and thrust thrust and parry. "Then," said the recorder, with a tinge of bitterness, "I ignore your ad vice." 'Sir!" said Mr. Weeks sharply. "I Ignore your advice," said the re corder with still more apparent bitter ness, adding: "I will comply with the dcf-ndanfs request." A sigh of relief went up from a hun dred throats, as It was feared that the of still another crime for which I am charged, I am absolutely und entirely Innocent. AH of the evidence" "You are not churged with any other crime," said Recorder Goff, Interrupt ing him. "I supposed that I might refer to It," said the prisoner, unruffled, "since the district attorney did In his opening and closing argument." "Your counsel has attended to all that matter," said the Judge. "Very well, Your Honor," said Moll neux, glancing at a few brief notes outling what he had to say. He went on: Yellow Journalism put a price upon my head! It was an Invitation to every blackmailer, every perjurer, evry rogue, every man without prin ciple, but with a price, and to that In vitation Mr. Heck man responded. The handwriting experts who have testified against me, Your Honor, may give their opinion: they may give their reasons; what they believe; what they think: but I know that these hands (raising his arms toward the court) never put pen to paper to address that poison package or to write the disputed letters. Your Honor will not permit us to make mention of the great Injustice which is a matter of history, but ex perts In handwriting have made mis takes before, and they have repeated It here. Your Honor, alt this Is as nothing to what Is In my heart at this moment. Above and beyond everything else I denounce and despise the action of the district attorney in attempting to vilify and attack the character of the pure and lovely woman who bears my name. It was the act of a blackguard! It was a damnable lie And now, Your Honor, I am pre pared to hear you sentence me. I am not afraid, because I am not guilty. PHASES OF THE MOLINEUX CASE. Brooklyn Standard-Union. Some of the things Roland B. Molln eux said yesterday when asked why sentence of death should not be passed upon him are true. For Instance, it is true that a price was practically set upon his head by the yellow Journals. One of them promised to pay and did pay for an Identification of Mollneux Nothing hag appeared anywhere In print tending to show that the testi mony of the man thus paid was worthy of the slightest1 credence. It is true also that one of' the few w-ltnesses not paid heavily by the prose:utbn for their testimony most of the hand writing experts were paid ') a day and expenses testified that Mollneux was not the man who purchased the silver bottle holder sent with the poi son. At that point the prosecution ut terly broke down. The bottle holder was putvhuaiM at thtt store In Newark where Miss Miller was employed, and of course the umn who purvhnsed It must In some way have be on con nected with the poisoning. Indeed, eli minate the tetlmony of (he handwrit ing expert, who were paid fo a day and exienses by the prosecution for their evidence, mid the case iialnnt Mollneux would not amount t i the dignity of a strong suspicion. When the (act U tiated-.tnd It Is a fact whli h cannot tie succesMl'ully dls) tiled iht one rtt least of the principal ex pens a Imltted he had been utterly mistaken In handwriting to which ho swore In a llrooklyn court It reems dif ficult to understand why, If Hie Jury was not influenced by other evidence laid before tlcin, the reasonable doubt, the benefit of which must be given to the defendant was not aroused. Again, nothing can be plainer than that the pros'cutlon sought to prove that Mollneux murdered by poison his clubmate, llarnet, lie was not Indicted for that crime, hut every line of testl mony tending to show he I'nt poison to I'arnet of the same clmiacter as th poison alleged to have beeen sent to Cornish, and which the latter, think. Ing. as alleged. It was harmless bromo setUor, administered to Mrs. Adams, was calculated to affect the minds of the Jurors unfavorably. Of course, It Is lniMisslble to show nny adequate motive for dtllherat.' murder. Yet no deliberate murder was ever contttiliti-d by .1 sane man without some very strong motive. All hi the wy of mo. live the piose.-u'lon could show for the alleged aitempiel murder by Mo. Iiteu was a qu.irti'l nvrr elult mat ters between Cornish and Mollneux. In I hut there was tiothlti even ap. proachlng a provoking caue for mur der. There In vty little doubt that th.- Unmet testimony was Introduced for the purpose of bringing ,i murder motive Into the case. If a motive on M dlnetix's part could be shown for the murder of Harriot, nnd the fact were established that both Harnt t and Mrs. Adams, died from the same sort of po'son powders sent throuith the mails, the strongest kind of a suspicion would be raised against Mollneux and the puld-for testimony of the handwriting exerts would do the rest. As to the admission of the Burnet teatmony, the recorder wobbled painfully. He finally admitted It, and permitted the district attorney to dwell upon it both In his op.r.lne md whtn rloslnc the case before the Jury. Of cours-, the record er wus not conscious if ny bias, but his fame has bcn made as a prosecu tor, and the way he used his position to worm out of rne woman witness facts, or ulle-ed facts, having no ap parent bearing on the case, yet that could scarcely fall to prejudice the Jury against Mollneux, reminded one rather of the remorseless counsel of the famous l.exow Investigation com mittee than of the ca mly Impartial and Impersonal Judge. District At torney Ot borne attempted 'to sh'.w that Mollneux was )eaious of i:Hrhet. and arlunliy pointed to Mrs. Mollneux In court as the motive In concrete form of th .itt"! :pled murd-r of Cornish, which resulted In ihi aei Mental kill loir, an aleg.., of Mrs. Aditus. The dlstrh t attorney was also permitted by hy the iec-.rder to Intriduce testimony cuticeeninit the young woumn who Is now Molineiix's w lfe'that wns a fright fid assault upon him and upon her. There was a promise to ton'ieet II with the proof of the murder nisi- later on. That promise was not kept. That It was ever Intended to b? kept. In view of the extraordinary statements made by Mrs. Osborne since the trial. Is more than doubtful. It was prob ably a part of the scheme of the pros ecution .'oncocted for him by the young womnn novel vrlter with the dime-novel name, who, he says, out lined the prosecution for him, advis ing him to construct a "garment" of evidence thnt would fit no other man In the world except Mollneux. Well, that nart of the "garment" didn't fit him evidently, for the recorder, afier letting It go before the Jury, ordered them not to consider It, for the reason that It was entirely extraneous mat ter. Altogether It was not a dignified trial. The calmness of the Judicial In quiry wuh wanting. Perhaps we elutll not hav'j any more calm Judicial trials. For more than a year the yellow Jour nals had enveloped the ense In itn at mosphere of sensation. They paid out great sunu of money to witnesses or alleged witnesses to secure the Iden tification of Mollneux and other sen sational testimony. They assumed to take the part of the people, to usurp the delegated powers of the people, as rep resented by the authorities, under the pretense of serving the people, when their real purpose was to make money by creating a vicious appetite for asen sual sensationalism and pandering to the lowest sentiment In the community. It Is held by many men In public lire It was this same greed for the money that is to be gathered from the gut ter through the publication of lying sensations by the yellow Journals , which forced our country Into war with Spain while we were yet In a state of unpreparedness. That the unscrupu lous seoundrellsm of yellow Journal Sauce BEWARE OF IMITATIONS . Is adapted for every variety of dish from Turtle to Beef, from Salrr to Steaks, to all of which it gives a famous relish." , JOHN DUNCAN'S SONS, Agents. N. Y. ism had somw efTec! In that direction, und that It brought death and misery Into tunny homo In consequence Is alt 'oo true. It Is a manifestation of our modern civilisation thnt Is truly debasing, and that must, If not check ed, bring unreality, untruth and sen satlonullsni so Intimately into the lives of a hrgo portion of the rising gener ation as to destroy its moral sense, The harm It has wrought In connec tion with the Mollneux murder trial Is already far reaching. Them was very little of the orderly procedure that the law love about the trial. It had been robbed if It by the riv alry of the yellows. It was lit the un wholesome atmosphere of sensational ism, nuulng up out of the mcphltlo pool of senitatloniil Journalism, that tho Jury to try Mollneux was choem. It would have Ihm'ii more or less than human If It had e apcd attouether from the contagion of the occasion. That Us members honestly rendered the verdict of their environment will not anywhere be disputed; that they would have rendered the kuiim verdict If chosen and acting a thousand mll s fr.Mii New York, away from the Influ ence of the yellow Journals, mid out side of the aitlllcl.il sensationalism that surrounded them during the last two months, Is very open question. The least unworthy and most whole som phases of the Mollneux rase are presented In tho manly defense of his wife made by Mollneux Just before his sentence to death, and the not less manly or pathetic appeal made today by general Mollneux to his fellow countrymen fir Justice and fair-play to his accused son and afflicted family. WHAT M U'Kt'M PROVES. I'hlladclphlt Tlnr. A public slap-incut has been made by ex-Consul Charles K. Macrum. who was United States consul nt Pretoria, the .upltul of the South Afrlesn W publl ', and w ho was charged, by direc tion of our government In obedience to a request from the English govern ment, with the duty of giving proper attention and care to the Interests of English citizens, Thut otllco was very generously crf.riiied by the English consuls during our recent war with Spain, and It was naturally the desire of Piesldent Mi Klnley to reciprocate the klnl offices of the English by our consul at the liner capital protecting English interests as far as It could bo lawfully done. At dl.Ti'ient stages of Macrum's re turn from South Africa, alike la Eurojve and In this country, very mys. terlous intimation were given out by him that he had most Important com 1 mimical Ions to make to the govern ment, the sanctity of which could not be Impaired by even discussion before he reached the state department. Ex pectation was on tiptoe, about' the promised revelations to be made by the consul, but II seem to have been known In Washington even before Ma crum was grunted have to return home, that he had failed In the per formance of his duties, and that be could not furnish any Important In formation wh"n he arrived. When Macrum reached Washington there was ominous silence In official and news.ap,r quarters as to his mis sion. The president and the state U parimi'iil were silent because they hud n "thing to say. They knew all that Macrum knew and probably mu It more than he supposed they had learn ed. There was quiet In the newspa per rlrcls b"cause tho Macrum bubble had been pricked and there was no news In It. Now, after having wandered around for some time in sullen silence brooding over the fuel that he had been superseded, and a very compe tent consul sent out to take his place. Macrum has finally takin the public Into his confidence by the publication of a letter over his signature In which he poses as a common scold against the idmlnlstratlon. As no official notice will be taken of his public statement, Macrum cannot rl to the dignity of controversy, and his case, us presented by himself to tlie public, proves but one thing very clearly that Is, thut th government acted a wise part by calling him home and sending another consul to Pr-torla. Come Just to Look Big Value Chlitawnre Crockery Clamwara .Lamp Ornament NoTCltlca Clock Come Just to Look. Great Ai-'ncaDhjortliiifta Pi BTORES 100 IN NUMBER PRICES A WAT UNDER S71 Commercial St., Aatoria. The Orlgintf Worcestershir- L LEBGCK Crpntp nnd Uulldf tlenwrnl Contractor M0U5U RAI5INU AND MOVINO A iPCCIALTV W. C. A. Pohi," ill in rBim:t. Undertaker, Embnlmer and Funeral Director Caskets ami Funem! Hntipllos constant ly on linml, Comer lllh ami I'uiinu HU, Astoria, Ore II.F.Prael Transfer Co Telphoo ta, DRAYING AND EXPRESSING All Goods Shipped V) Our Car "Will Kscrtve UpeolaJ AOtnUutt. No. RU Duane St., W. J. COOK, Mfr Astoria, Or. Rf. Tei. 111. J. A. Fastabend, General Contractor nnd Builder THE PROOF of th piMlilDf and tha proof of ot ttve pu4iilnf U In Um ttiaa and tha proof of liquors IS IN SAMPLING That's aa arf iKnaol that's c cluetve datnoosumtto. Ours will ataod lbs teat. HUGHES & CO. W. B. Gdwards I'.vcry variety of Kotiuh mut Dressed 1. limber, Moors.. Windows, .Moulding and Ccdur SIiIiikIv. Wnnn (Vmiuon BIsMlsrk. Kir. W U U U 1 1 etulock , Aldrr.rolt Oak. Office Seventh StrcvtDuck Th. Fredoiikson PIANO TUNER INKTMVnON ON TE1.1.0 AND VKU.IN Phons W74. I hot tin Capiulai ire aupet km to Belwn ot copaiba. 1UDD or injection innfijmy CURE IN 48 HOURS t"l. the urn d. ! with, out Incontanience. UEfOUT OF" THE CONDITION OP THE first National Bank OP ASTORIA. At Astoria, In the tiiato of Oregon, at the close of biiHlmnn, Feb ruary 13. 1900. , KIWOflKKS, Loans nnd lincotinls 'iil.;iti'i ill Ovrnlrsfts, sccuied m ml hum cored 1.-4 47. U. S Howls to secure circula tion 'i,M U) 1'rriniunis on I). S IIiumIn..,. ihiII im) HtiH'ks, Sf nirilii s, elo !MI..ViO 0i Itcul CKlule ll.mr 41 1 ut from Niitiiniiil ItHtik unit rvservH imcnis) 4, mil 01 lui from Hint hunk uinl liHiikers :!4,s.V) till 1 tie from Hroved ren-ive auciits .'. iL'O.lli !)1 Checks nnd other riinh item. Mill fVt Notes of other NmHouhI bunks !l." on Nickel snd rt'lils ','. u Lawful money reserve In hank, viz: SjMM'ie tllHI.OOl IHI LeifAl-tftidui "otta 1IU (HI IKJ "(Ml Olt lledcuiption fund with V. H. tressurer, 5 r cent, circu lation...., 50 Total '.fniinjiti :v UAMIMTIKN. Capital stock paid In $ ."ill.UO IK) Hurplus fund L'ft.OOO (Ml Undivided profits, less ex panses and tuxes paid 'll.V'l 7tt Nutional nnnk notes out tandiiiff 4,500 00 Duo to state, hanks und bunk ers 1 ,:'45 'i Individual depos its subjeot to check fi(i7,H2.J 47 Demand certifi cates of deposit. 79,i2 (18 Certified checks. . 127 27 4H7 013 87 Total . 50fl,7l4 35 STATE OP OREGON. County of Ore Ron BS: I, 8. 8. Gordon, cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. B.s8.' OOUDON, Cashier. Bubscrlbed and sworn 'to before me this lth day of February, 1900. V. BOELLINQ, Correct Attest: Notary I'ubllo . Jacob Kamm, W. F. McOrenor, J. O. ilanthorn, Directors. . ' m