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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1901)
1 NOTIOR! Booke, Periodicals, Magazines, ire Wot to bo Taken Library wahouVficVniR 0 ono ,(KJ (;u.;iy fJf ,;, t h - i will be liable to prosec 4t i UJIAk -A NQL 1111 ASTOKIA, QKEGOX. SATIKDAY, MAY II, 1901. x0, m The Cheapest Yet A SIX STEEL. RANGE FOR ECLIPSE HARDWARE CO. Plumbers and Steamfltters Diamond IN GREAT VARIETY Bats, Balls, Masks, Pads, Gloves And everything clao in that line to inula the boys happy. If you do not play hull we can hIiow yoa an elegant line of FISHING LINES, FLIES. REELS, BASKETS, ETC. GRIFFIN R&L ft Li AT 'f - -mm,i -ir L .... 1 Si'i it J.l-r-; Fancy and Staple Groceries FLOUR, FEED, PROVISIONS, TOBACCO AND CIOARS Supplies of all kinds at lowest rates, for fishermen, Farmers and Loggers. A V ALfLwBN, Tenth and Commercial Streets We Rent New "" F W. M'KECHNIE, Local Agent. HOLE 0.00 Outfits AND AT ALL PRICES & REED Are You Going to Build a Home? Buy Your Locks and Hardware at the Foard & Stokes Go IfI! Mr 1 flvat REPRESENTS PUBLIC OPINION Reputation represents publlo opinion. How to get In your favor. Make a fim-claj, re liable article ilka the Char ttrOak 8tove and Rang. Every Charter Oak la guar anteed. For sale In Astoria only by W. J. SCULLY, 131 TtmiJ ft . Between Ninth and Tenth. Typewriters. Many new improvement added. See our latest No. 2 Smith Premier Typewriter New Art Catalogue Free . . . . L- M, ALEXANDER CO. Exclusive Paoiflc Coast Dealera 246 Stark St. Portland. Ore. PERMITTED HIS HOUSE TO BURN Santa Barbara Fire Chief Wanted to See McKinley. THIEVES FOLLOW PRESIDENT One ( ProltHleailt Opcratlif. at Polali Visiles' by Party McXInlcy Ow kclmttf With Flowers at Every Slot. 8 AN' LUIS OHISI'O, Cl., May 10. Th rout of (lie president's train west wsrd from Ls Angeles today lead through the Santa Clara valley, r.et llns under the fog-swathed mountains to the roam, where It ran for hours along- the edge of cliff overhunging the Pacific ocean. At every stopping place toduy there wan a flower show: rivaling In Iwauty the Moral parade which the president wlineiiHl yest-r.lay at L Angeles. At Ventura a:id Santa Barbara the president wan simply overwhelmed with fl:wern. The carriage Id w hlch lie n.le were lined with Ihein and the streets over wh'ch he paiu-d were pav ed with them. There was no abatement today of the enthusiasm which nas attended the president' progress minor he reached California. A he apprcached hi d. 1 1(1 at luti at Han Friru-lsvo the program at the different stops are more enjoy able and le fatiguing. The preiildeiit Man very much Interr ed In the old Spanish missions filled with historic rvllra which he visited both at Ventura and at Santa Barbara Han Luis OblHpo w m the lant mnp of the day. It ww reached at 7 o'clH-k thl evenliiB In time for a drive through the town- After criMiln(r the mountain ran.- the train will drop down to Mon terey, where the party will remain to morrow an. Sunday. At Snriia Uarbara. Pr.nld.-nt MtKln ley made the prlnrlat addr- of the (t.iy. An uniiual Incident occurred dur ln the prelilenfa May nt Ksnta ltar bara. The renldem-e of the chief of the fire brlKiiile cauKtit fire. The fire chief, who van on ihe atreet awaltlnR the coming f the- rrldt-nt, win In formed that hla houe una In llamea. U'l It burn." he replied, ' I will wait and nee the prenldent. I can build an other houae, liut I may never have another opportunity to nee the presi dent of the t'nltel State. " And he remained while bin house burned to the srround. OTHK11S WRRE UOIinKD. LOS ASOKLES. May 10. It oppoara that Secretary Wilson ond 0l. Chan A. Moore were not the only members of the preMdenfa party who auffrrej at the hand of thieve durtnff their itay here. Admiral Melville wan anoth er victim. During- hla absence from the hotel vex'erday hla room waa en tered and over $600 taken from hl valla. A Kinr of profeaalonal .hleves la trav ellnn In the wake of the presidential party to take advantage of the crowds at the hotels. SKAT CONORESS. Fifteen Hundred Player Expected Take Part. to CHICAGO. May 10. The fourth na tional akat congress will be held here May 11. 13 and IS. Arrangements have been made for tables to accommodate 15W players. The first grand tourney will be held Saturday, followed next day by election of officers, a banquet and the second grand tourney. Monday will be devoied to a trip down the drainage canal, and the dosing session, when the distribution of prlxes valued at )2000 will be made. NO TROUBLE WITH ITALY. Put Attack on Italian Worklngtnen Will Be Investigated. CHICAGO. May 10. Count Anthony L. Roxwadowskl. the Italian consul in Chicago, has sent a request to the con sular agent In Kansas City, the Cbev aller Jerome Fedell, requesting him to Investigate the labor trouble In lola. I Kas.. that resulted in several Italians ...CORSETS... The celebrated R. & G. and THOMP- In colored, black and white, with long ted to stout ladUs, large ladies, Um es at right prices. HANA bHrijr driven from- that twn after hav liiif been aanault'rd by Am.rl,'an work men, and report at once to the KeneTul COIiHIllllle. Cnuiit Itotwadownkl aakl: "All the Infr-mallon I ponxe !n re viird f i that matter la what I rea l In the tmtiera. The matter of no po litical conaeuence but itf emm mut be carefully lnvtlraied to ascertain that the authorltb-q In lola have used every reasonable precaution to protect the ve of ih. Italian worklngmen. I expert that fhevaller Fedell will re iiort In a letter In a few days." AMERICANS WITHDRAW. Eviuu,it Diatrtcts In IVkln Under Their Control Excep Forbidden City. PEKIN. May 10. The Americans have evacuatl the districts under their control, with the exception of the For hi Men City, which they will continue to orrunv In snlt of fureiicn objections. uneii orJ'-r to the contrary are ' celvel from Washington. As It would b Inifiosslble to turn over the Ameri can dlstrk'ts to the Chinese, who cer tainly would not be allowed to keep them lndepnd-tly, O-neral Chaffee, in order to prevent chaos, notified Count Von Walderse", a week ago, that he would evacuate today. Those portions adjoining the Ilrltish districts were a slifn -d to thm. an4 the remaining; por tlons were assigned to the Hermans. Th departure of the troops for Ma nila has be?n delayel ten days owing to the tran(Mrt India being .(Uaran Mn1'! at Nagasaki because of a case of smallpox on board. The American soldiers have leen vacelnatenl. BOILER EXPLODED. Four Members of a Pennsylvania Freight Train Crew Killed. HCNTINOTON. Pa.. May lO.-The boiler of a freight engine on the Hunt ington li Proud Top Railroad ut Mount Dallas exploded this morning, killing four members of the Jocal freight crew. The dead are: A. 8. n E R K STRESS E R, engineer. CHARLES HOLLINGSHEAD. con ductor. JOHN RICHIE. THOMAS EDWARDS, fireman. TIME OF MEETINGS CHANGED. Western Classification Committee VU Meet Next In St. Louis In January. DKL MONTE. Cal.. May 10. The Western Classification Committee In session here hns decided to change the lime of meetings of the committee from the first Tuesduy In May to the second Tuesday In April and January. ?t. Louis hus been chosen as the place for the next meeting. The Burlington and Northwest .-n Railroad has been admit ted to .nemb.'rshlp. . PORTE'S REPLY RETURNED. Foreign Ambassadors Consider Them "e!vefl Insulted. CONSTANTINOPLE. May lO.-The German. Austrian. French and British ambassadors promptly sent back the Porte's reply to their representations on the subject of Turkish eeiiure of foreign malls, owing to the offensive allegations that the foreign postofflces facilitated smuggling. Pending a settlement of the question embassy couriers are taking the European malls to and from the Bulgarian frontier. SCHLEY IN LONDON. Will Remain There Ten Days Before Sailing for America. LONDON. May 10. Rear-Admiral W, S. Schley has arrived In London, on his way to the United States. He la ac companied by Lieutenant James H, Sears. The admiral is visiting his daughter's relatives, the 8tu&rt-Wort leys. He will dine with Mr. Choate, the United States ambassador, tonight, and will stay here about ten days be fore sailing for New York. CHARGES NOT SUSTAINED. Canadian Claimed That He Was Of fered a Senaborshlp for $10,000. OTTAWA. Ont., May 10. The com mlttee appointed to Investigate the al legations made by H. H. Cook that he was offered a senatorshlp for $10,000 has made Its report. The report Is in ef feet that the charges of bribery have not been sustained. SON'S Glore Fitting. ! Complete line fronts, short fronts, straight fronts; sul ladies, tall ladles, short ladles and miss AN NO FAILURES ON STOCK EXCHANGE Control of Northern Pacific Re mains Undecided. MARKET HAS RECOVERED Ltfltioutt BiiIicsi Wit Not Affected Flirry la StMkt Leaios Operator Drivci liMae-Cbksp AMi With Ciik. sew yohk, May 10. It Is a re markable fact that the unprecedented violence of Thursday's upset should have resulted in not a single faHure on the stock exchange. NORTHERN PACIFIC CONTROU NEW YORK. May 10. It is notice able thdt the discussion tonight t-en ters upon the question of the control of the Njrtt?rn Pacific. So far as the actual control Is concerned, the impres slon Is gaining ground that.lt will be the party with the most money that will acoulre It. Many of the dally papers and Some financial papers today expressed the belief that the control of the North ern Pacific was stlil vested in the Mor Kan-Hill party. On the other hand, one of the leading papers of the city and some of the financial organs of th street still express the opinion that ihe Harriman party Is In control. One thing seems settled tonight and that Is that Kuhn, Loeb & Company do not yet admit defeat. Late today Otto H. Kuhn. of the firm, did not hesitate to say: "We believe we have control." J, Hill, on the other hand, however, was quite as decisive In reiterating his prev lous statement that the "control has not changed." As a matter of fact there seems to be no reason for doubt Ing that both Interests have control so far as the stock In their possession plus contracts for delivery are concerned, but which Intereat -uiil eventually be able to vote control in the form of ac tual certlfl?s,tes remains to be seen and w ill. It Is tonight believed, not be deft nitely known until the annual meeting in the fall. STOCKS UP AGAIN. NEW YORK. May 10.-WalI street emerged from its gloom this morning and with growing confidence In the day- manifested something like buoyant elation. Prices of stocks went up with a rush, at last closing ar about the top and with the net Josses left after yes terday's session pretty largely recov ered. There were some clouds remaining on the situation this morning and some natural trepidation lest the violent col laps? of yesterday should have some casualties which would not be closed until the clearing house sheets of the stock exchange had been made up Early In the day an official announce ment was made that the sheets of all members of the exchange had been cleared perfectly and that all checks had been honored. This relieved the last feeling of ap prehension and the feverish and earn est signs which were manifested In the stock market during the first hour dis appeared. Things quieted down Into a steady condition of business such, aa V as not been witnessed In Wall street for many weeks. The measures taken over night to clear the situation left little to tear. The agreement to allow the shorts In Northern Pacific to settle at 130 real ly went to the root of the criMa and wiped out the Impelling cause of yes terday's panic. The announcement bv the banks that yesterday's loans which had been provided by agreement among the leading Institutions of the street would not be called today kept the sit uation free from additional tension With threatening conditions removed a rebound In prices was natural and In evidence. The extent to which It ran was. however, a surprise and waa attributed to various causes. There U no doubt that among those who were heavy losers in yesterday's slump were many of ample resources, who viewed the situation with the sporting instinct and the determination to recover their losses by the following market. The obvious leadership of the move ment of the Union Pacific and South western group gave ground for the con' lecture that It was based on benefits expected to accrue io the Union Pa cific from control of the Northern Pa clfle, a control which was still stoutly claimed today but as emphatically de nied by Hill-Morgan parties. It Is evident that the contesting par ties in Northern Pacific are not yet prepared to let g of a single available share of stock. The settlement witli the shorts progressed today at the of fices both of Kuhn, Loeb and Company and 3. P. Morgan and Company and It is probable that only the completion of the settlement will reveal how much of the purchases of stock made by the two parties within the last week CJn b.i delivered. Tomorrow's Impending holiday, It was felt, Insured a period for calm reflection which must ten J to clear the situation still further. The commission houses generally were averse to accepting much new business today. About one-third of the commission hounes would not take buying orders from customers who would pay for them In full, and others required so excessive margins as to re strict trading greatly. The heaviest buyers came from syn dicates that have been active In arrang ing deals for the absorption of other properties. These Interests seemed to regard the developments of yesterday as the most favorable thing that could have happened for the carrying out of their plans and the accumulation of stocks by them was resumed cn a large scale during the day. BUSINESS NOT INJURED. NEW YORK. May 10. R. G. Dun it Company's Weekly Review of Trade to morrow will say: "The panic In Wall street does not mean that legitimate business has sud denly ceased to prosper, nor is the con dition of the mercantile trade and man ufacture adversely affected by the vlo lent fall in prices of securities. Through. out the entire country the fundamental conditions were never so sound as at the present time, reports from nearly every city this we?k hawing an exceptional volume of transactions and payments promptly mit. The failures for the week numbered 187 In the United States against 192 last year, and 26 :.n Canada against 15 last year. LONDONERS WENT WILD. NEW YORK. May 10. A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from In don says: The London stock exchange closed one hour after the New York exchange opened, owing to the difference In time. Hence the full force of the Wall street fluctuations was not felt until evening, when the cables told of the panic In New York. Still the exchange, despite Its suspense over New York's action, had the most exciting time of Its his tory. Interest in everything save the American stocks having ceased. There was tremendous confusion but comparatively little business was done. No broker would make prices; nobody would buy. But. after the exchange closed hundreds of brokers and specu lators and Investors gathered on the curb In Shorter's Court to await the news from New York anxd to carry on business. It was a miserable day on 'change, but in the street, after hours. the dcene beggared description. Lon don has never seen the like before. In a drenching ra'.n, up to the ankles in muJ and menaced by passing carts and stared at by unsympathetic police men, was a dense crowd or naggara. frightened men, speculators, brokers. dealera. clerks, clients, all huddled to- gather In almost votceless alarm. Now and again hatless men would rush frantically from the adjacent courts on ly to find the price in something which had gone to pieces. Dealers were afraid to deal and brokers did not know whom to trust. The !o3.3 In the last few days have been appalling. So sudden and over whelming a break In prices has never before been witnessed here and the panic. Incraaed to a ten-fold degree. has chilled the health of those who live by stocks. There may be a raJly and prices may rise again, It Is said by some, but any auch, movement Is devoid of htvne for those who have already lost their all. The utter helplessness of the crowd In the street was the most striking fea ture of the panic. The leaders of the market had vanished from the scene and the arbitrage houses which do business between London and' America were not represented. As a result small dealers did not know what prices were and could not tell whether they were beggars beyond hope or still had a chance of saving something from the wreck. In that miserable state of uncertainty they must remain until morning but thev waited for hours in dull expect ancy appearing to exact some dreary comfort from mingling with others as wretched as themselves. No more de plorable picture of the ills that wait upon the speculator has ever been wit nessed In London. Among the freniied crowd which aft er the exchange had closed meit on the curb and received -the New York cables telling of disaster were many men who, as they saw their all swept away. looked and actfd as It their reason would go to smash as their wealth had gone. One particularly young dealer, who bears a name long honored in the London stock exchange, completely lost his reason. He offered to sell stocks at any oriees many dollars below their worst quotations current. His broken-voiced cries were made more distressing by the fact that no other ound for the time broke the still ness. However, even at such a time of general despair, nobody tried to profit by his temporary madness. The extent of the movement In Amer ican railroads was not revealed in the quotations and the differences on the balance sheets conveyed little Idea of the ituctuatlons In prices. Most inter- (Continued on Fourth Page.) WANT GOVERNOR DOLE REMOVED Memorial Sent McKinley by Ha waiian Legislature. ASK FOR EXTRA SESSION Dole Will Not Oast Oat Clalnlsg That Bribery Has Bees Taklof Flscs Claries Mads Afalost Gv crier. . HONOLULU, May 4, via San Fran cisco, May 10. The first territorial leg islature of Hawaii came to an end on the evening of April 30, according to Governor Dole, and on the next night, according to a majority in both houses. The legislature ended Its existence at loggerheads with the governor all along the line and without having passed a single one of the Important measures to which the home rulers were com mitted except the county government act, which the governor has killed by a pocket veto. The last act of the house on the even ing of the 30th was to pass a concur rent resolution containing a memorial to President McKinley for the removal of Governor Dole. Dole is charged with having hindered the work of the ses sion by his hostility toward the legis lature, withholding Information and re ports that were called for and refus ing to co-operate with the lawmakers. The president Is asked In the resolu tion to use his influence in behalf of an extra session of the legislature to trans act general legislation which Dole re fuses to grant Governor Dole created a sensation in both houses by Informing the commit tee sent to him to ask for an extra session that one of his reasons for not granting the extra session was that he had been reliably informed (hat brib ery was raking place. The roost important law enacted was the income tax law, assessing 2 per cent en all Incomes above $1000. CURI0U3 RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Train In Bavaria Dashed Through Sta tion Wall. IXDWIGSHAFEN. Bavaria, May 10. A curious accident occurred today to the Strasburg express, by which a wo man waskilled and several other persons injured. Owing to the air brakes fall ing to work, the train dashed through tbe station wall, crossed a street 30 yards wide, plowed through a fretght train on the harbor siding, and went over an embankment Into the river. MANCHESTER IN COURT. Affairs of Duke Made Bad Showing In Bankruptcy Court. LONDON. May lO.-The Duke of Manchester's affairs were again a' red In the bankruptcy court today, when the accounts lodged disclosed a total Indebtedness of 37,794. and assets of 7545. The liabilities Include 5W0 In connection with theatrical speculation. end 6000 for the promotion of a com oanv. . SALISBURY'S CONDITION. Causes Anxiety as He Shows No Recu perative Power. , 4 T NEW YORK. May I0.-A dispatch to the World from London says: . The statement has 'been given out that Lord Salisbury will be brought back to London by Saturday but that he is not well enough to resume work. It is ad mitted that his condition Is causing anx iety as he shows no recuperative power. FIVE PERSONS DROWNED. Steamer Caught Fire In Lake Superior and Was Beached. HOUGHTON. Mich.. May lO.-The passenger steamer Bon Voyage caught Ore in Lake Superior tonight and was beached near the portage ship canal. A telephone message from Red Ridge village, the nearest spot to where the steamer was put on shore, says that five passengers, all women, were drown- ed In getting from a boat to tbe short. VICTORY FOR BERKELEY. . University of Washington Athletes Bad ly Beaten. SEATTLE. May 8. The track and field meet between the University of California and tbe University of Wash ington resulted In am overwhelming victory for the former, the score of points being 81 to 35. MUSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED. BERLIN, May lO.WThe late Dr. Abra ham, proprietor of the music publishers' concern of C. E. Peters, in Lelpsic, has bequeathed 400,000 marks for the es tablishment of a musical library.