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NOTION! nooks, Periodicals, MaRazinei, tic, ' 5rol!otio b3TdcnFr::.iTho l--J-M-'y v...houl ; 'vision. Any will be liable to prosecution. ASTORIA PUBLIC LIBRARY AOTTIOfi. 6? if V0L 1111 ASTOKIA, OKEfiOX, SIM) AT, MAKCH 31, 1901, NO, 78 . 1 i i 1 1... i ECLIPSE HARDWARE 0. AHTOIIIA, OI1BGOIN Wo Choree Nothing for Advice L: Book Bargains ftOO Cloth Hound IWIch, (iK).l fVt 141 Titles, r.iilinj;niil Authors Id I -P Just the Kind for These Lonjj Winter Evenings Fivt'-Volumo 8fU of Kipliuj:, RuRHfll,Ilolmf8,llMity,Mfulo mid other good uuthorn .... GRIFFIN COFFEE NOB HILL ROAST HmIIm tho Mow! Fatatldlouai DAISY UNROASTED Pronounced Perfect FOARD X STOKES CO "1 431 BOND STREET, between Ninth and Tenth Streeti Fancy and Staple Groceries FLOUR, FEED. PROVISIONS. TOBACCO AND CIGARS Supplies of all kinds at lowest rates, for fishermen, Farmers and Loggers. A. V. ALLEN, Tenth and Commercial Streets We Rent New C. kJ Commission, Brokerage JB TRENCHAR Insurance and Shtpjlng. A.8atw.r.ooM.n(ipMlfl0tapreMC'0.l! PLUMBING UP TO DATE A goad 'vorkmaa ran d" more work and do it better In a day than a poor una. In ordr to make plumbln chMer for our cuaionnri w employ none but akUed mechanics. If you want firm rla plumbing or (am flt tlng dona Inquire at th C 7fJ Ppp pt J I vl Ot-l & REED COFFEE TWO THINGS TO EE JEfEtBJlED NAPOLEON Was tht World's Ltidlry Genual WE ARE Astoria's Leading llcnse FOR .Stoves and Ranges.. I..V I.I W. J. Scully, Typewriters. Many new improvements added. See our latest " No. 2 Smith Premier Typewriter New Art Catalogue Free ... L- n. ALEXANDER CO. . Jixoluaiva Pacific Coast Dealers 245 Btark St., Portland, Ore. F W.M'Ki:( HME..ocsl Agent. Cuatom Houao Broker. ASTORIA HPF CZAR'S LAW COULD NOT BE ENFORCED Russian Ministers of State Over rule Their Ruler. STEP TOWARD DEMOCRACY Rejected Ut Was Casit tf Stu.est Iprliloi Tolilol Statf. Cur Appeal A(iiat Horror. Pcrpelr.ir. la HI. Nae. NTW York, Miroh JO.-PHnc- ppfr A. Krttkin, tha famous Russian an- KliUt. was in thin city t the Gerard Hotel lam night. 'The irt ff -c'.Ive blow ha li -n d-alt l autocracy in ilussla," paid prince Kmplkln, 111 dlrtcuswing the affulin of ouiilry. It ha been struck with In th,. i.uit fortnight. Th" ministers of .lata huv-. ixitlfl'd the rzar thut a law le tr.n:uliit' J -.nl,j nirt bo enforced. Thin U th.. first time It ha ever been !"( Ii marks the first m-p In the iiiciifirM thut will eventually nuk; of Itux-lii n fei.Tii government mnh a ; th.it ,.f th- Unite 1 Slate. 'Thin of the emperor' was the cutii... if i ho recent student uprlwlng In K' l''-tMl.ut if . Th.- trouble all arone 'u: of an In, Id -lit a: tho 1'nlvemiiy i.f Kl'-ff. A Mtud-til lui.l hceoiiu- uiii'-Hfi. niuly ifvolvej In ome ndul there and the oth-r Hiu l-iiia h-U nu'etlng toUe tld what nhoulil be done to jirolivt th lr f.-liow -student from Motorl-ty. The I in -f the niiiverulty arrenftd a num ber if itu lenm, and the matifr wan re l"'rte, the minister of public In itrucil.iri. who took It all to the ctar, "The nar la an lrreH)iinibl", not very i l-ver. vountf man, and be r'init. ly IfHiiei an order according to which all Mud.-nts who participated In mefi iiiK i f any kind will be at onre ent to tlv anny for service of two r three yearn, a ih i-aae may b. At the pren iit time the 12,tijo university atudenta '.f the empire are exempted from urmy duly. "frit -r thl ne.v law. m students from the fiiivmlty of Kl-ff have bw-n s.y to the army. The new law la un eii'mtliutlonal, for, while tho r.ir muy cm.'? a law to be made In one of two a, the old law must bu repealed be. fore .i n.-w l.iw li made. The Md law exempts n(ulen:s from army service. It bun not i-ejal-M and the mln- Ixlers v'f stale wore not consulted In the fot niatlon of the present obnoxious U cne. "I hive a l.'tt r from a woman of high rank In ItmMa, In which ihe cays that the public prosecutor at Kleff, the gen-ei-al of th' if'iidarnv'sand a mllliaorrn. civil u hii llnnim ti fh ..initnlwMlun n... fliioliited to draft th? MUdents, have Join- tl In a memorial to the caar In which thev say that it Is Impossible to con d"nn younir men In thla ruthless fash Ion. The ministers of state have also taken up the subject. They have in formal the cilr that his law cannot be enforce 1. His decree will not be repealed, but th execution of It will not be attempted, and the KlefT students wi'l he quietly released. It la the flrM time In the history of Russia that the car h.is ever lnn overridden." l'rlnee Kroptkin said that he does not think the car lOvnild be killed. "I believe the (fteatest foe to auto cracy in Itusala today Is Nicholas U.. lie ald. "He Is so stupid that he will ni ike many mistake. Every one of thoe mistakes will weaken his power and the power of the throne. If I thought that he shoulj be killed I be lieve I should do my best to kill him. I do not believe In asking some one els.- to do what you would not do your self." TrliKv Kroptkin said he did not be lieve the czar was responsible for the calling of The Hague peace conference, lie still he thought th pope was at the back cf the whole movement. "The pojie had a great friend at the Kutslan cctirt," said the prince, "In the person of Tobledonostzw. one of the .ar's ministers. The pope did not think Kmperor AVIlllam a suitable per son to call the conference, go, through his friend, he prevailed upon the crar to call It." l'i ln, i Kr.iptk.ln says letters tbat have come to lilm from Kusslu are to the n 1 ( n v V 1 A 11 MSaVX . YMl 1 1 lya O B B 1 nettI HUFKLED CUitTAtXS. eff'.ft(thut the general sfntlm'nt tli"i Is against the HcJlitlon of Manchu ria. He says Ilusslan public sntlmnt Is bolllmr. The fr;ir m III be a-ke l fntn tint" to time i, inal!- eertaln conces loiia In the .1lr -rtlou , liberty. He will not have th-. " .1.. i, nmke (he roneesNlona that ar demanded, and trotibhi will result. TOWror WHITKH TO CZAl'.. NBW YORK. March 10. a dis, at.-h to the Journil an I Adv.-ril--r fiom Imdon says: Willi a pHltlon of Uoukohhor women, be)f(flii(f to be allr'.vel to Join their hus band in Panada, Tolttol has written the folbjwln letter to the car: 'Tens of hundred, of Itimsla's best children uffr trial as heavy and of ten heavier than before under the pre. ent rdlalous persecution; that Incon ceivably madneM spreads wider and wider over Hussla, but whlcht enllgU tened men and Kovernmenta have long corn'? 1 1 r'nard as futile and stupid ln lustlce,. "I hive lonn f-lt It to be my sac- re I duty to endeivor before I die to onen voiir eye to th senseless and horrible cru'-ltl perp.-trat-'d In your name. This touching apiKl of the lionkobli r forces me to delay no longer. Tnoutiaiid and thousamls of men, deep ly religious and thus representing -ttr; nation's truest and chlefeut utriitfth, have been brought to ruin, Imprls orimetit In exile or driven forth from ltuil 1. "1 ik this maltt-r Into your hand, if e 1 not the counsels f the 11. n whi Instigated the STSUtlons; hd not t'obe.iri"sis-ff, an evil, obstinate, hard hearted .nan. born out of his time, nor Klpjejfln, a short-sighted sup'Tllrial. un-enllght'-n" I man, but revl.- or repeal all the existing rdltfious ifrsecut!oii, whli-h have lnK o-iued to exiit In every ilvlllxed country except ItUs sia." oavknpokt itu.vo aiisohiikix fine of Jliwt Imporlsnt Steps In Re cent History of Weet-rn Rail roading. I'llIOAW. March .10. A meeting of ottli lals of C. M. St. P.. C. R. & Q., Davenport. ltK-k Island and Northern railroads wan held In t'hUago today and the dHails of an operation were d'i-id"d upon In conne-tlon with the Joint tivitTlc airr'.UiufU. reached some time ago for the operation of the Ia venp u t road by the St. Paul and Bur llntrion systems. H. it. Williams, gen eral ninnain-r of L)ie Pt. Paul, waselei-t-ed presl I -lit of the Imvenport road. The practl-'al absorption of the Da venport road by the St. Paul and Bur llnaion svstems Is regardeil as one of tho most Important steps in the recent histoiy of Western lallr ja ling. To the lUiiilnglon system .t give? access for the tlift time to the lavenport and brines that rad into active competi tion for the traffic of that territory. rn i:si 1 i:nti al a vin ntm knts. Kx-SuiMtor McHride Made Member of the Louisiana Purchase t'om mlsslon. WASIUNiimV, March SO.-Thls af ternoon the president made the follow ing appointments: To be delegates of the congress of American states. Cyrus Northrop, of Minnesota; It. '". Davis, of West Vir ginia; W. I. Buchanan, of Iowa; Chas. M. Pepper, of the District of Colum bia: Volney B. Foster, of Illinois. To be members of the Louisiana purchase commission, John M. Thurston, of Ne braska; Thomas H. Carter, of Mon tana; Wm. IJndsay, of Kentucky; G. W. McRrid. of Oregon; F. A. Be.ts, of Connecticut; John M. Alien. ;f Missis sippi. Martin H. Glynn, of New York; John P. Miller, of Indiana, and Phillip D. Scott, of Arkansas. INTariCOLLKG IATK CONTESTS. I'lilversity of California Will Meet Cni versity of Oregon. OAKLAND. Cal.. Mar. 30. Ten picked men will leave here on May 4th to un hobl the colors of the Vnlverslty of California In Washington and Oregon. They will contest with the Oregon Pnl vcrslty men May 7, and with tlv? Uni versity of Washington men on May 11. ROLAND REED DBA P. . NEW YORK. March 30. Roland Re., the actor, died today from can cer of the stomach. Just Heeeived. . . . 100 pairs Bobblnet Ruffled Curtains. The Swell Window Display, on which we are making a SPECIAL SALE. Also a new line of Ladles' Writing Desks 1n Flemish Golden Oak and Birds' Eye Maple FUNSTON GETS HIS PROMOTION Appointed Brigadier-General in Regular Army. MORE FILIPINOS SURRENDER NitKei Jeer it Their ImpriMaetf Chief feitoa. Aatl.Aaplaa4 film -America V U.tr Need, a Urje Amy. WASHINGTON. March TO.-The pres. ident has appo.nted General WheaOn to be major-ger.'ral and Colonel Jj cob Smith and Oneral Frederick G. Funston to be brliradler-gen-.raln n the regular army. - AMERICA CON.KMNED. ST. PETERSliL'P.G. March 30,-The RuHslan presx has not -partkularly commented on the capture of Affuinal do. The t. Petersburg Zeltunif (Ger man) alone attacks the United States for using tnitors. The paper thinks the ambition of the United States to exBr cle Its Influence to secure a foo:hld alongside old-world power is positive Iv insulting. ANTIS DKNC.l'NCK M'KINLEY. BOSTON. Marcn 30.-Preldent Mc Klnley's administration was denouneed and Agulnaldo's name loudly applaud ed by a large audience that listened to the speakers at the anti-imperialistic meeting in Faneuil hail tonight. MORE SURRENDERS. WASHINGTON. March 30. The war department today received the follow ing cablegram from (Kneral MeAr thur. dated Manila. March 30: ''General Geronlnio, commanding eastern lialucan. Morong province, j-ur-rendered yesterday with twelve officers, twenty-nine men. thirty-nine guns, took the oath and returned to the mountains In ord ?r to secure more guns. Contreas. eommindlng north Panay and Sulzah, surrendered Panay with thirty guns. AGUINALDO IN PRISON. MANILA. March 30. In company with Col. Vellla. hb chief of staff, and Dr. Barcelona, ex-treasurer of the Fili pino government, Aguinaldo now occu pies one of the nicest apartments of the Malcanan pala-e. He is closely guard ed and courteously treated. Captain Francis J. Kernan. of the Second In fantry': Captain William L. Kenley. of the First artlliery. members of Gen eral MacArthur's staff; Captain Ben lamin H. Randolph and Lleutenint Gilbert A. Youngberg. of tne Third ar tillery with five guards are watchlns him. Aguinaldo, nervously pacing the floor and deeply thinking, thrusts his hands through his hair. He smokes many cl ears and cigarettes and he alsj has I a hearty appetite. He speaks onlv a few words of English. He is conscious of his dignity, but tries to talk pleas antly with his guards. He often prais es the skill and audacity of General Funston in effecting his capture, saying tht only by stratagem could he have be?n captured. It Is said that Aguin aldo .is very strongly adverse to re try ting from his former attitude but that he must regard the best Interests of the Filipino people. The Bisters of Dr. Barcelona have called upon him, bringing a supply of linen. Aguinaldo Is well supplied with money and he ordered a supply of new clothes. He is care."ul of his personal appearance. He celebrated his thirty seoond birthday before he was captured. The birthday festivities were prolonged and only terminated upon the arrival of General Funston. . Aguinaldo tries to read the American newspapers and is anxious to learn the state of public opinion In the. United Stapes concerning Philippine affairs. He had a confereme with General Trias and Chief Justice Arellano, but his future Intentions have not been announced. He spends much time seated by a barred window watching the boats passing up and down the Paslg river. This morning Aguinaldo was recognized by a crowd of natives going up the river In a lighter. The natives gazel on him a while in silence then began to leer, calling him Emllio and vile names in the Tagal language. The guilds quieted the disturbance and Ag uinaldo left the window in disgust. The natives In Manila are unde.non.strative oomerning Agulnaldo's capture and it is difficult to ascertain what a ma jority of them really think of it. It is certain that Agulnaldo's influence is less strong than formerly, though It is still great. A representative of the Associated Press has Interviewed many Filipinos, including both business and profession al men in Manila, as well as represent atives -of the lower classes and former Insurgents, on the capture of Aguin aldo. The majority of the persons fiuestloned were unfelgnedly glad that Aguinaldo had been captured and said they considered, that the worst obsta cle to the speedy pacification of the Islands1 had been removd. Soma men distrust Aguinaldo and advlt-e his im mediate deportation. Others believe he can render vast assistance by urging his eountrvmen to acquiesce to Ameri can authority. All the men agree that the outlook today is much brighter. INSTRUCTIONS SENT M'ARTHUR. WASHINGTON, March 30.-A tele gram sent General MacArthur today ex pressing the appreciation of the pr?s ident an J secretary of war over the suc cessful xtlltion of General Funston also contained instructions to General MacArthur. The nature of these In struction is not made public but It Is known that they related to Aguinaldo. The position of the government re garding the Insurgent prlsonar is at present the same as toward other Fili pino prisoners, whether i.hey have vol untarily surrendertdto the Americans or been captured In battle. The people of the Philippine who have b?en Jn arms against the United States hav been offered amnesty If they lay down their arms and accept the sovereignty of the United States. Thoga who do so before the first of Miy of tlie present year are not debarred from holding oflice or from all other rights under the United Stat- government in the Philippine. This amnty doea not apply to those who havrf violated the rules of wir and subletted themselves to trial on crim inal charges for acts which are cut hide of the conduct of war. AgMinaldo has not placed himself in a noxitlon to "oe offered any terms ty the UniteJ Staes under any of the proclamations or instructions gov-rhing the Philippines. No attempt will be made to bargain with him and he will first have to accept the sovereignty of the Unitfil States and also show that he comes wit hi a the terms of the am nesty offered before he culd be of fered a position under the government if It seemd desirable to :;se him in a governmental capacity in the future. RECRUITING MAY BE STOPPED. WASHINGTON. March 30. As a re sult of the capture of Aguinaldo and a belief among officials that the speedy and complete collapse of the insurrec tion in the Philippines will follow, the full strensrth of the army authorise! by the recnt army reorganization act ray not be enlistel. The question is being canvassed by the president and author ities but nt decisUn.-wlll b reachei un til the vl-fws of General MacArthur and others in the Philippines are ob ta 1. If the conditions turn out as the official believe they will, there will be no necessity of recruiting an army of 100.000 men. To pnyulner.t senators with whom the President talk-Jd today he said that the strength of the new army would n't be greater than necessary to meet the conditions. Not a .nan would lie enlist ed whose services were not required to cope with the occasion. The new army act provides for an army with a min imum force of 65.000 men and maximum strength of 100.000 men. With theo limitation, discretion us to the size of the force to be enlisted Is lodged in the president. HONOLULU CHURCH ROW. Episcopal Rector Charged With At tempting to Found a New Sect. HONOLULU, March 23. Tw0 official statements which partake of the char acter of indictments have been issued bv the Very Rev. Alfred Willis, Angli can bishop of Honolulu, charging that the Rev. John Osbourne. the rector of St. Clement's chapel, has attempted to establish a new sect, under the nam? of the "Episcopal Church at large." In defending their position the mem bers of St. Clement's chapel ass.-rt thiit th hi shun has taken this means of doing injury to them because they declined to turn over their church property to him, unless he made cer tain concessions which they desired. It is possible that the dispute will be carried to higher church authorities. Rev. Osbourne and those associated with him deny emphatically that they have attempted to leave the jurisdic tion of the local diocese. BURGLAR IMPORTED. Negro Plantation Hand Rifled Safe in Hawaiian Islands. HONOLULU, Mch. 23, via San Fran cisco. March 30. Reports from the Isl and of Maui state that burglars broke into the store at Spreckelsville and carried away the safe, which they op ened and rifled of over $900 in cash on tha night of March 14. A negro was arrested and charged with the crime, nenrtv nil of the stolen money being found on him. He Is one of the negroes who was Imported here from the South ern states to work on the sugar plan tations. COTTON MILLS SHUT DOWN. Eight Thousand- Hands Thrown Out of ' Employment in Massachusetts. FAIJj RIVER, Mass., March 30. Twenty cotton mills In this city were shut down today and will remain closed until April 8 for curtailment. These mills employ about 8000 hands. STAFF OFFICERS SENT TO COREA Japanese Government Investigate ing Russian Policy. CONFERENCES ARE FREQUENT Mikado J Oe.enli la Caaialfatlaa-Eaf IbJ Waal. America to Pall Cl mm Ckot.ai. Oat al Riff flaa Fir. LONDON, March 30. Th Yokohama, correspondent of the Daily Mail wlrea: "There ia great tension In official cir cles. , The foreign office Is . open day and night.' Frequent conferences art held between the senior generals. Tha emperor has b?en present and has made anxious inquiries as to condition of the se vlces. Three staff officers have been dispatched to Corea to mak investigations. The possibilities of war are freely discussed." STRONG ACTION NEEDED. NEW YORK, March 30.-A dlsoatch to the Tribune from London taya: while the Chineg situation remains obscure the powers are clearly in a more conciliatory temper and anxious to explain away their differences. Rus sia has sought to minimize the lmDort- ance of the Manchuria convention and convince Japan that it merely Civolve temDorarv arrangements for expediting the evacuation of the country and the construction of a railway In which all tii? countries are interested. There is an easy method of reassuring Eng land, as welt as Japan, that it is an Innocent treaty, which all the powers will be glad to sanction. This Is to publish the text and dispel the mys tery now enveloping it. The strenuous opposition of the Yang-tse viceroys and the reform governors to the Manchuria convention Is proof that the Russian in trigue with the Manchu dynasty is dreaded tha. patriotic officials who saved the situation last year. The German emperor has emphasis ed, in an ostentatious way, his good feeling for .Russia, and the Berlin press, under official guidance, continues to sx- clude Manchuria from the operation of the Anglo-German agreement. The for eign office hsre still affects ignorance of the provisions of the Mancburlan con vention and declines either to use prov ocative language toward Russia or ac cept Count Von Bulew's flexible inter pretation of the Anglo-German agree ment. There Is a temporary pause, dur ing which the Manchuria convention may be modified at the instance of Russia. This Is the result which ODtl- mlsts in parliament were forecasting yesterday when convinced that the ori ginal draft had not been signed. There is little doubt that the foreign office here would welcome strong action bv the United States government against the detachment of Manchuria from the general scope of the diplomacy covered by the concert. Both England and Germany would follow this Amer ican lead, although neither Is at liber ty to take a strong line of Its own. Japan would welcome an energetic American protest against the eeveranc . of Manchuria from China, and the re form movement headed by the Yang-ts? viceroys, which is a most hopeful sign of the revival of Chinese nationality, would be strengthened by It. Some of the best-informed men In diplomatic and political circles assert that energetic action bv the Washington government would be most helpful at the pres ent time and that it would be a prac tical expedient for enforcing the open door principle by the power which is not embarrassed by foreign alliances and holds written guarantees for the -freedom of commerce In the far East. CHARGED WITH LIBEL. "j Democratic Candidate for Mayor of Cleveland Causes Arrest of a Barber. CLEVELAND, March 30. Hon. Tom I.. Johnson, Democratic candidate for mayor of Cleveland, today caused the arrest of Augustus Hubbell, a barber, upon a charge of criminal ibel. In the affidavit made by Hubbell and publish ed today the latter declared that John son had pall him $300 to be used in behalf of the Democratic candidate. INSURANCE COMPANIES SUED. Will Be Prosecuted Under Antl-Trust Law.. TOPEKA, March 30.-County Attor noy Nichols brought suit In the district court today against fifty-nine insurance companies doing business In Topeka to prosecute them under the anti-truat laws of 1897. PRICE OF SILVER. NE: YORK, Match f0. Silver, D3i.