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ASTORIA PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSGCljiJit 1 A. ... V VOL. . ASTOKIA, OKEGOX. NMIMY. JULY 12, SO. 165 ECLIPSE HARDWARE CO. Plumbers ,! Stcanifitters HOLIJ AC1HINTH I'OI S27 BOND FISHING TACKLE Tennis, Crojiirt, and all Kinds of GRIFFIN Fancy and Staple Groceries FLOUR. FEED. PROVISIONS. TOBACCO AND CIGARS- Supplier of all kinds al lowest raU, fur fisbermen, Kniiiw and taggers. A. V. ALLI3N, Tenth and Commercial Mrtttti W. J. Scully, We Rent New v -"r-' p V, M'KKCIINIE. IxhuI Agent. new mm m mum company Of New Zealand W. P. THOMAS, Mgr., San Francisco. UNLIMITED LIABILITY Subscribed Capital, Paid-up Capital, Assets, .... Assets in United States, Surplus to Policy Holders, Has boon Undei writing on tlio Pacific Coast ovei twenty-two yeara SAMUEL ELMORE & CO. Resident Agonta, Astoria, Or. C. Commission, Brokerage, Insurance and Shipping. Aoiw.F.oo-unpioiflotipreMoo'i.' SUPERIOR STEEL RANGES STREET Hascball, Golf, SjHrting CioocU & REED WE ARE SELLINQ AGENTS run. . . Moore's Steel Cooks CmO0 JUST RECEIVED b. 431 BOND STREET. ween Ninth aod Teath Typewriters. Many now improvement added. Soo our latest Mo. 2 Smith Premier Typewriter New Art Catalogue Five . . . I- M. ALEXANDER A CO. Kicluaiv FmIUc Comt IValera 215 Btark St., Portland, Ore. OF SHAREHOLDERS f5,000,000 1,000,000 2,645,114 300,000 1,718,792 D, Custom Houn Broker. astoria; ore CLEVER WORK OF UNION FISHERMEN Eraser River Japs Marooned to Unknown Island. SIXTEEN TAKEN PRISONERS Sinker Sir Tkejr Will Conine tbt Work 1111 Setllcoitat It Reached Jipt Will Be CIokIjt Owrdtd ru. VAN'iM'VKIt. II . July II I .v. npriieina In tin Krm r river nirlW nida tion during Hi" p.mt tui-nty.fiur hour show ihf union fWn-rni'-fi i. have the uppT hand, hiving aiT,iiiii.nh roup M r-liii, which 'a Willi . ut a parnlli In hf history nf the many Ul r diturli nn.e 1:1 llrl:lh Columbia An t !.- re mil: nf n 1 1 1 It- ,,f miiall .at nut un lh- sruif. n battle m lili(i ! were ri lintijii-1. hut In whlrh no ni l.:i !.i n(n were klllel .( -rii Japan. ,. h, .. luk'-n pr'nri'-r by Hik trlk'r Tlif Jjmii'H- o.'iiu hit.- returned a"'! the r t ft - an I filling g -ar nf tin- f in. ri tal thrown Into the wad r an I the Japi thrmMvm taken tn one of the small island awav "in In the gulf Exact ly h(Tt :h: Wand u io.ute i ... cr( only f the white fishermen, fur thev cIhmc It avvrr.il mvlcJ ag i for occaaiotia like thin Th'-y say thiy will continue ii maroon non-union Jaianne there for th n-malnj-r of the -ain or un III the place la Jivoven-J .y the au-lhirlll-a. All tlut la known In that th? Hani la b.'tfii h-iv anl Nanalmo, fifty m'lra aw iy, an.l that It l h&rj to (lml. The Japani-- will N glvrn f . every few rt.iyn anl malntalrirj rmifortaMy, allhongh cion.-ly giiarJ'-.V umll a n'ttle inetit la reihej Th ronatahle arreate.l six white fish ermen Imlay. NK'KKI. IllUPOK WLtJVPSKD. Ten W.rkiti'-n Kllleil and Number In Jurel at Connenut. Ohio. foN.V i:fT. Ohio, July ll.-Juat af ter l' oMxk tolay three cara of the eat end lo al freight w ent llirongh the nick I plate hrldge at SpritiKdeKt. 1'a.. kllliiu ten men an, I injuring a nunitx-r of other Mot of the kllleil were mem ber of the lirl.ltte mi :;fs, which ws. a: work on the bridge. A till waa being male al the bridge and twenty-five workmen were about the structure. The accident xcurr,d Jtit after the m.enger train ha 1 pulled through. The local, aft-r the a.lng .f the pnn ger train, pased with three cir heav ily laden out unto the atrui-lure to un load atone for the m ie in working be ncth. the while trui'ture fell with nn awful rrah. The dead are: ooMM'iTon pun, a. Moonn. J. ZAnoSS, workmnn. Cleveland. OKOROR SWAKTZ. workman, of Hprlngfleld, la. HOMEIt nWKWIRTH. fciretnnn, of Conneaut. WKtfT ItANPAI.U Ppringfleld. Pn. Five Italian, nimes unknown. The men, a the train fell, nil leaped n far na polble thnt only three were burled beneath. TO MKITT DKFICIBNVT. Knights of Pythian Decides on Two Waya to IX) It. CHICAtKl. July ll.-The supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythias, which has been In semlon here considering the charg's of mlsmanngement by the board of control of the endowmint rank, to day divided that the miwt expedient way of meeting the deficiency of JiOO 000 of the treasury was to raise the Insurance rate to the maximum pre scribed by the national fraternal con gress. If In this way the money Is not quickly enough furthcoming. It Is like ly that a special asstvwment of fifty cents will be put on every member of the order for the benefit of the en dowment rank. This latter move would speedily raise 1250.000. The supreme lodge tonight passed a resolution placing Itself on record as responsible for nil debt of the endow ment rank. nBSCLT OF THK WRECK. Nineteen People Dead and Two Not Ex pected to Recover, KANSAS CITY. July ll.-Nlneteen people nre dead as the result of the wreck on the Alton road yesterday. Of the twenty-four Injured, who are still In Kansas City hospitals, two are not likely to live through the night and three others are fatally hurt. REFUSED AMERICAN REQUEST. German Soldier Alleged to Have Been Shot by Araerloan. PEKIN, July 11 Correspondence still continues between tbe American aii'l ' Tnun military regiirJIriK th-- h i' ii'r who woi Mhut at lh- (Sernian I' Katlon ovr a month ago. Major lloMna m, whu la In corninan I it the Amerl.-an Volition guar, r"fui"- to a'lmlt that the ht whlih hit ihf aoMler waa the aute aa the one fl r-'l liy the Amerl'rtn aentry. He akeJ pT iiiUalori to a-ri hi mn doctor to exam ine -he m.i. Oeiu-rul Von Trotha tin refua- d to ullow thin un'll the claim for iliimag In almltte I THi: ''ONBIDINB8 COMMITTED. '!" to lie Tried In HupTlir Court In Heptember. 8KATTI.K. July ll.-Jihn and Tom ('onaldlne are to b tried In the auper or rourt for th killing of Chief of Po lice Mep-dlth. At the end of the four daya' preliminary examination, police Judge Oeorge thia afternoon decided to commit tioth defendantp for trlat. Tim Conalline at leaat will be ad tnltlMl to ball pendlrg the trial of the caa- tx-fore the auirlor rourt In Sep tember; John Con. dine may get ball. Motion aa to the admlailblllty of both brothr will be heard tomorrow morning. I'KN.-UoNKD KtJlt (i;r HKIIVK'F. f'jraiT Maniger of I'aeiflc System of S. I". Will Receive lArge Vllowanioj SAN FRANCISCO. July ll.-The Kx atiunrr say tbit J. A. Fillmore, who ha J uat rralgnrd the p.xiltion of man ager of the Pacific eyatem of the South er:) .Pariftc railroad vill be paid llouo a month by that ;omiany until the end of th year and after that WO a month a long a he live. The corporation give him a penalon oerauie of b'i long and meritorious aervlce. Mr. Fillmore' plan for the future are not known, but ahould he decide to engage In active work that will not (Tol hi iienilon. It la julte poat ble he may undertike aome Important railroad work 'n the east. ROERS SURROUNDED THEM. Startling Disclosure In Letter From British Soldi ?r at Ylakfonteln. LONIKN. July 11. A yeomanry trooper In a letter describing the Vlak fonttla affair. May 2 (when the garri son of VUkfon'eln of Johannesburg Durban railroad had 174 men put out of action by the Doers under General Ddarey) adds 'he startling Inteligence that the British, the night after that fight, discovered ihnt tbe Boers sur rounded their ca up and were obltge.1 to retrc.it leaving their tents standing and their wound-d behind them. PLAGUE ON FRENCH SHIP. Arab S'.ok-vs Complicate Matters Refusing to lie Vaccinated. by MARSEILLES. July U The precau tionary measures taken to prevent an outbreak of buhonlo plague among the crow' and passengers of the French stenmr Laos. Captain FUndin. from Yokohama. May 23. which arrived here July 7, have been handicapped by the refusal of the Arab stokers to submit to vaccination with plague serum. Grave fears are held that the plague will spread unless all the passengers and crew of -he Lao now held In quar antine are ImvuU'.ed. HURRYING TO THE SCENE. Robbers Surrjunded and Posses Going to Join Sheriff Griffith. ANACONDA. Mont.. July 11. spec ial to the Anaconda Standard from Chi nook. Mont., Is to the effect that Sher iff Benner, of Great Falls, and his posse of eleven .nen. left here this af ternoon for Hear Paw Pool ranch, six teen miles away, where horses will be furnished. The Great Falls posse will be Joined by posses from other counties numbering In all sixty-five men. Sheriff Griffiths apparently is confi dent he has the Great Northern rob bers surrounded on Peoples Crook and savs he left a guard of Ave men there. INCREASED COFFEE SALES. Yearly Statistics of the New York Ex change for the Year. NEW. YORK. July ll.-The sales of coffee on the New York Coffee Ex change for the year ending June .".0. ng gregated 7.3S3.000 bags against 5.S7S.50H hairs In 1500. The sales for 1S9 "'ere 1,060,500 bags. The transactions the pat year exceeded those of 1900 by 1--503.500 bags, the gain being lartly due, It Is said, to the large crops abroad. TO SUCCEED KYLE. PIERRE, S. Da., July ll.-Governor Herrled today appointed A. D. Kittredge of Slous Falls. United States senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Kyle. Kltterldge Is forty years old, was born in New Hampshire, Is a graduate of Yale university and law school. He re moved to Slouz Falls In 1SS5 and began the practice of law. He waa for a long time ex-Senator Pettlgrew's trusted lieutenant, but In 1S96 the two parted on the money question. THE STEEL STRIKE STILL UNSETTLED Pittsburg Labor Conference Fail on Agreement. TO STOP FURTHER STRIKES Tkt Coafertice Had Aioikcr Object Vie aid Hill Meet Ajil Today-Over 0c Tsoaiaid BetiUnd Mlstra Go Out. I'lTTSnuiirj. July U.-The lab r con fereice at Hc.e Lincoln today failed to cone to any agreement. Another con ferm e will be held tomorrow. The obje.t A the conference was the aettl-mrnt of the "trlke ordered by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Work-in In the mill of the American Sh-.-t Ste"-I Company and In th- of the Americin Stevl Hoop Com pany. The conference also had another purpose In view, the prevention of a general strike In all the mills controlled by i he United Btaies Stel Corporation, the two i'o-npanl?a in whose mills the str.ke had been ordered being consti tuent companies of the great steel com bine. Presid nt Shaff-r. In behalf of the Amalgamated Association, said I: was a matt r of life and death for the Amal gamate! Association that the non-union mills be done away with. ROSSLAND MINERS GO OUT. Over One Thousand Men Quit Work Yesterday Morning. SALT LAKE. July 11. A special to the Tribune from Spokane says: The biggest strike in many years among miners of the Northwest started th a morning at RossUnd and as a re sult 1200 mlnv are Idle. The strike affects the Lerji and other mine own er by British companies. The trouble which lias been brewing for month started through the action of the manage went In locking out un ion smelter men at the Lerol smelter at Northport, Washington. MACHINISTS RETURN TO WORK. Could Obtain No Funds to Support the Idle Men. NEWPORT NEWS. July 11.- The tnke of the Newport News Shipbuild ing Company machinists came sudden ly to an end tonight when the men de cided to return to work Monday at the old scale. The machinists ould not obtain funds w ith w hich to suppm the Idle men and th" ship yard managements had dom onstrated its ability to fill the vacant places. STEEL RAIL PRICE?. Agreement Reached Between Manufac turers and Advance Will Continue. NEW YORK, July ll.-The Herr.id says : Steel rail manufactur?rs fcrmlnjr what 's known to the trade ea '.he steel rail pool have formally ngreti upon J: a ton as the pri?e whl:h will be asked for the i.oming year. Thla once is 12 a ton high-r than that agreed upon at the steel rail pool meeting las: '.i. when the po.il price war announced. Since May 1. however, a new sched ule went Into effect and prl;;s were td vaneej from 26 a ton to l-'S a ton. The new price list for next year for stand ard section rails, is therefori the ft me as that w hich has prevailed Jo the itst two months. It Is understood that ncgo. (aliens have been carried on for wral days in a quiet manner by ex-Judge Gary, chairman of the Uni'.eJ States S.iel Corporation and President Schwab f the same company, with Pennsylvania railroad officials and the -esul: is that the pool price of $2S a ton Is made. Much Importance Is attached to the fact that the price, $28 a ton will t.e maintained for next year's business. It is considered the best evidence that the t'ie steel trust considers that the prrs ocrous condition In the steel and Iron business will .-ontinue for at least a year. Trices of steel billets, which have been marketed abroad In the last .nonth. will be maintained now that the iteel rail pool has Announced Its determination to sell rails next year at the same fig ures which now prevail. ROSEBERY WILL WED. After Seventeen Years of Waiting No ble Lovers Will Go to the Altar. NEW YORK. July 11. A London dis patch to the .World relative to the re ported betrothal of the Duchess of Al bany to the Earl of Rosebery says: The announcement is not unexpected. The widowed duchess and the bereaved earl would have been married long ago had not the queen declined to counte nance the union. So strongly did her maj-my Insist thnt In the ssventeen years that have elaps-d since the death of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, i th? duches has avoided ' lety and voted her life to the rearing of her and daughter. In the midst of her studies, h .r ch for charily and sojal reforms, she hat erne be- iade came lnteresie.l In iho earl. She m a mild attempt to win the 'iun o ver to consent to the marriage. Th q queen would not hear of li and the doehen waa dVn'ndint UDon an ai al- lowanc made through her mother law' will and did not wish to offc In- nd her. ahe reslirned herself to the Inevl- table. All I easy now aa tbe Prince Wales, the Dreaent kin:, was alwaya of on closest terms of Intimacy with the E iarl of Rosebery. Within the last few days the kin; had a long Interview wltD earl. the TO COMMEMORATE MANILA. Emblem of Dewey's Victory Be'.ng At tached to Crulaer Olympla. NEW YORK. July ll.-The ornament, designed ft commemorate the cruiser Olympiad's great r'ctory at M inlla bay Is being attached to the hull of the ves sel, aays a Boston dispatch to the Times. The stern piece was set up a few lays ago. Naval Constructor William J. Baxter, head of the department of construction and repair at the Charleston navy yard Brt conceived the Idea of theae orna- mnts and at once set about obtaining tbe consent of the navy department to put them on. After this had been ac complished he had the designs made, following his own Ideas. Some of the bronze used In casting the two pieces was taken from the Olympla and this gives added value to them. The stern ornament is the more elaborate. A winged victory holds bigb above her an eagle which she is about to launch Into the air. Victory's wings He aealnst th ship's prow. The stern piece consists of shield with mass of croll work on each side. TO INCREASE CAPITAL STOCK. Virginia-Carolina Company Will Go In to Cotton Oil Business. NEW TORK. July ll.-The Journal of Commerce says: A special meeting of the stockholders of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. has be in called for the near future at Jersey City to act upon a resolution of the dir?ctors providing for an increase of $:6.000.0i In tbe authorized capital of that corporation, thus making the total capital J30.000.000. This action is a result of the current plans of the com- rany In securing cotton oil properties wi:h a view to securing supplies of jot ton seed meal rJm which ammonia'.es ar derived. A circular seit to the tookh alders by the directors cet forth that the tom pany has been figuring a long time on some plan by w hich it could secure the ammoniates, of which it eonsum-'S about $2,000,000 worth annually, In the most economical manner. It Is pointed out that the quantity of ammoniates alone would Justify the company In going in to the cotton seed oil business, but aside from that it is when properly conduct ed. Intrinsically a profitable business and would have the further advantage of placing the company more closely in touch with the fertilizer trade. It Is for the purpose of buying up es tablished mills, or establishing new ones, that the capital stock of the com pany is to be increased to fifty mil lions. The United Cotton Oil Company was recently incorporated under New Jersey laws with $12.00.000 capital stock. Pre sumably this toncern will ae turned over to the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company. The cotton oil plants, which, so far as known, have been acquired by the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, include the Southern Cotton Oil Com pany, a $2,000,000 concern; the Atlantic Refining Company and the Inters.ate Refining Company. Several crude oil nulls are also said to have been pur chased. It is so understood that the company has optlo.is on several other concerns but formal announcement of purchase has not been made. The lo cal representatives of the United Cot ton Oil Company are not Prepared yet to make any statement about that or ganization. MOLDERS MAKE DEMANDS. CHICAGO. July ll.-The executive board of the Iron Molders Union have refused to accept the order of the manu facturers. This was the final proposi tion and It Is believed a strike will re sult which may assume national pro portions, as the agreement between the Internatlon Iron Molders of America and the National Foundrymen's Associ ation depends upon the outcome of the Chicago difficulty. MAIL STEAMER ASHORE. OPORTO, Portugal. July ll.-The mail steamer Mexico, from Buenos Ayres Is ashore oft the south of Vlana. The passengers and crew are being landed. MRS. DAVIS ILL. PORTLAND, Me., July 11. Mrs. Jef ferson Davis, widow of the ex-presldent of the confederacy, Is quite Ul here. SUPREMACY OF NEW BOAT UNCERTAIN Loses to Columbia in Yesterday's Trial Race. BOSTON YACHT GOOD THIRD Caitltatlx Hi Vet I Prv Saperlorltj; li Asjtls kit Very Ll(it Wlidi Corrected Tine of the Yukti. NEWPORT. R. I., July ll.-The Co. lumbia won today' race In fine shape, with the Constitution second and the Independence a remarkably good third. The Boston boat sailed an exciting race with the two Herreshoffs and led the Constitution at the outer mark only to b beaten by ber a little over two min utes on the run to the finish before the waid. The breeze today was much stronger than on the previous days, nd the In dep-ndence sailed fifteen n-.lles to wind ward without her Jib topsail and seem el to hold higher and at the same time footing Just as fast. The result of today's race leave the question of supremacy of three JO-foot-ers uncertain, the Independence being; not so slow after all. while the Consti tution has yet to prove her unquestion ed superiority to the other two yacht In anything except very light wind. The hopes of the Boston contingent have therefore gone upward with a bound, and tonight experts are trying to figure what the Independence will d when It blows a Utile harder. The Columbia on corrected time beat the Constitution four minutes and thirty-seven seconds and the Independence ix minutes and fifty-two seconds cor rected time. The Constitution beat the Independence over the course two min utes and fifteen seconds corrected time. AMERICANS BUY HEAVILY. -NEW YORK, July JX AMirdlng to the London correspondent of the Trib une the prices obtained at Chrisfle's (London) this year, have been higher for furniture, paintings, engravings and Jewels than have ever before been known, and the results are attributed nartlv to American prosperity. Deal ers are becoming speculative when mil lionaires are constantly crossing the At lantic and picking up everything In sight. THEATRICAL MNAGER DEAD. SARATOGA. N. Y.. July 11. Harry Mann, theatrical manager, died here to day of Bright disease. Tbe name of Harry Mann was as sumed by Emanuel Haymen when he went Into the theatrical business. He was a brother of Alf Haymen, both of whom are theatrical managers. STEAMER BREAKS IN TWO. PHILADELPHIA. July 11.- The Spanish steamship Uriate, from Balboa, Spain, with pig Iron, stranded on th Great Gull island, below the Delaware breakwater this morning and broke In two, sinking in a few minutes. The crew landed safely. THE OREGON'S PEN ANT. SALEM. Ore., July 11. Governor Geer today received a telegram from the Bremerton naval station, stating a com mittee of the crew of the -battleship Ore gon would arrive here next Tuesday morning to present the battleship's pen nant to the state. TO INCREASE THE ARMY. WASHINGTON, July 11. An order of the war department provides for anoth er Increase of artillery under the last army law- to take effect on the first of the fiscal year, July 1. About 1800 men will be enlisted at once. BIG LINER ASHORE. PHILADELPHIA, July ll.-The big trans-Atlantic steamer Eagle Point, from Philadelphia for London, with a general cargo, grounded during the night at Horseshoe. In the Delaware river, about ten miles below this city. ITALIANS LYNCHED. VICKSBURG. Miss., July ll.-Natlon-al Piazza, the Italian vice-consul here, received word today of the lynching of two or more Italians at Avon, a small station In Washington county. Piazza has wired the governor urging him to afford his countrymen all pro tection in his power. BASEBALL SCORES. TACOMA, July 11. Spokane, 9; Ta- coma, 8. ' PORTLAND, July 11. Portland, 3; Seattle. 2.