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N (J T 1 i,j . ooks, iVnoilicals. r.ViiineiV .":., Are He! lo k Token r.:r.iTto : '' V vv.il lotit i itM.)r)i.i. -'.ny firoiHPiiBfcirBMiiT:r"::.;Tic" 'II U li.ible to pisccijlio VOL. 1.1 II ASTORIA, OKKGON, St JUMY, AtGCST II, 1901. NO. IS mm. . i. ECLIPSE HARDWARE CO. Plumbers and Steamfitters HOI. I- AC1I2NTH I'Olt B27 BOND FISHING TACKLE Tennis, Croquet, Haschall, Ciolf, and all KimlM of SjMirtinjf Good GRIFFIN & REED Fancy and Staple Groceries FtOUR. FEED, PROVISIONS. TOBACCO AND CIGARS Suj'I'lio of nil kiii'U at lowint rutos, for fishermen, Funnel uinl Iqjjjers. At V. ALLEN, Tenth and Commercial Street WI CkJI., J OCUllVf Pacific Navigation Company Steamer "Sue II. Elmore" mij "V. II. Ilarrlmtn" Only llne-Antorla to 1 llmH.k, i.nrihuldi an J Hm- City, HohsonvllU Connecting at Astoria with th Or (on Tillrc4 Navigation Com pan? and also th Aatorla Col urn bl River KaJlnd for San Frn clioo. Portland tad all point Bast. K fralftit and paaaenfer rates apply to Hctmuo! Elmore Si Co., Ot'tieral Agents, ASTORIA, OIUs ( O, R, A N, It, D, Co., AGENTS a. C, It, R. Co, P. ( I. C. LAMB, Tillamook, We Rent New ,P KOPP'S BEST ADelicious and Palatable Drink Absolutely Pure Tha North Pacific, Rrowery, of whl ch Mr. John KopP li proprietor, make beer for doiwwtlc and export trade.. Bottled beer for family use or keg br supplied at anny time. Delivery In tha city freo. North Pacific Brewery Commission, Brokerage, Insurance and Shipping:. SUPERIOR STEEL RANGES STUI2BT WE ARE SELLING AGENTS I OK. . . Moore's Steel Cooks CIRLOxO JUST RECEIVED i BOND 3TKEET, Between Ninth and Tenth Portland. Portlantl. Oregon. Typewriters. Many now improvements addoil. Soo our latest No. 2 Smith Premier Typewriter Now Art Catalogue Frwi . . . L. M. ALEXANDER A CO. Kxolnviva PaciHc. Coast IValnrs 245 Mark St., Portland, Ore, F W. M'KKl lINIK, Ial Agent. D, Cualom Houae Broker. ASTORIA, ORE. Aaoat W. F. AOa. and Paolno Kxpreu Oo'l. GENERAL STRIKE ORDER EFFECTIVE Thousands Quit Work at Presi dent Shaffer's Call. OUTSIDE AID IS OFFERED Mlncrker tad Ftdertiloa ol Labor WI Aid Sinker i I allot Extern Mllli la H Mottd Froai Plltibari. IMTTHIIfltU. Aug 11-Th'' gnat l.'rl n t r k 'Hi geti-rul -.rder f Pre. I l-nt Hh.ifT-r. of th- Amalgamate 1 An .cintlm, becum,. rffvvlv to lay rill thi'iinpiU of wi.rkm-n lift tti-lr place, t.i r-turn ui a tii Inl-fl l time in tin futur,. vlth-r vl tor. hi. out iho Ir-n ini.fn ir Hi iium.il,. d-f Ml, T!i,. ner ! tnke a rf.-tf-1: ty i.V wherever (he urk-r -re rKttiii.l an I m r ill.l 'ii tho i .if iii AiiiiU umt -l A-iv:H n, hut i l l M 'nly l.rf"r nn Bi-i iirii"" i iuti! i l- nul l - ,f tii. nini ll I llV JMlli. nut. A grrat mny ..f III- mill !. ! P it u r i y an I r".-Tl Sunliy nlgnt mil tin- 'iu : t t ..f :r ngiti ..f :i,r .-,.ni. n I lug l lr vi li- furnl.h.-l .y Ihi? im-n win return In iik i'ln.irr.i.v ir M n dy. Tli iii:. y ..f !ln Am'rU-un l r.il!.n i f Ijil"r h. n.! Wen fully J.. l w I y.-t. an I :h: '-( run'rtbut,- an ither Irinrii! nf un 'r:.iln:y in thi aliua'.lnn. TIk i-l.n if th iXHulhv .ar-l of mliiwtv ui kr a: In liaii iil: .l.iy In ic n'.vlng t.i upp r: tin- :rlki rhce.a th. Am;ilg.imt'J m.-n an) thry ar. rnntl-'ti-nt that in filira:lnn will alJ them ti ihr fullt pxtint. Thl d.y, wtil.h I llif :rik rontr. win rlm an I un .lijturli' l. Tli'r?. u nn vlnl -n. hut !h- p ll.'e Im-.n-I an orjrr mixpi-nillnK f-T the : tti. h-l.ig the va.-a'l.ui sy-li-m. hut :h-y 1 1 n.t antlrlpat trnuhl. Tlu-v it t.i have every man here rra.lv f r duty in cav truuMe I'uni-i. A ei-lkliw .1.-vel.inii.-iit of the itiy nun the iiflli-. i) ann un.nent .if ihe A'lieil iin Tin I'l.it,. Cimpiny . th.- of f.i t that r.-rtaln il:n: orlple,l hy :he .trike w.iiill lv illm inlli-,1 and n-mnv- il n Mo'i.-.e,-i. WII.I. MoVi: TIIKIK Mll.!-. Several rian'.a Will II 1 lmn:i!!e d l.nd Taken ( M m e.en. riTTSIirifJ, Aug HV A formal r.n ii. itini'eiii Mil given by Wlllam lyfeila to the A .H-lati'd I'r.-aa la a f"llo: 'Th. olll-era of the American Tm Plate (oinjiany authorlxea the following attttement: "Since the re'ntlo.ia hetem the Amer ican Tin I'late workmen at XI.me.ia-n hv, been mutually aatlafactory, Inaur Ing ateady and profitable operation, I: ha b.vn determined to more than dou ble the plant at that point, and aome of the mllla nor Idle, on acount of the atrlke, declared In violation of contracts algn'd hy the Amalgamated Association will he dlamnntlej and moveil to Mon easen. I'n louhtevlly thla will be done In the caa8 of the work In which the aenllment of the employe delay re sumption of work." TENDER FOU ARDITRATIOX. Prealdent Shaffer Propo,- to Select Three Men to Settle Difficulty. PITTSnrai, Aug. 10. rreldent Shaffer began hla final tour among the atrlk?r early today. In the afternoon he apnke to CftOO people In the Ampl the.iter at Cascade? Tark and submitted nn offer 'or aubmlaalon of the Issue of the atrlke to arbitration. Thlg was hla formal tender for urbltratlon: "Now In our willingness to settle the matter, we are ready to arbitrate. l: the Amnlg un ited Association select one man an I the trust select one man, and they to sel'ct a third, and We will abide hy the dedal n of the three." AUniTltATIO.V WAS ItKJlX'TKP. President Shaffer's Proposition Turned Divn by J. P. Morgan. PITTSItrrta, Aug. 10. Itcferouce male by President Shaffer at Newcastle today to the willingness 0f the Amalga mated Assocliil.m to arbitrate was fol lowed here lonlgtit by the announcement on belnlf cf the strikers that on Fri day an offer to arbitrate was formally submitted to the United States Sttvl t'orporatlnn. Awordlng to this sta:e- nu'nt tho offer was referred to J. P. Morgan, whose reply rejecting It was: "This Is no time for arbitration." WINTEItS THU.S THE STOltV. Describes in Detail How Robbery Was Executed. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10. Winters told the officer that he planned the rob bery long ago with minute detail. He had been two or three month at work on hla little tunnel. It had taken two night of labor to cut through the brick wall of the smel- t'-r. Mm: nf the horlng 'n hottom nf tin! vnulK hii l h -ii i.im- nn In" nti()it whi-n the guld n inki-ri. IU earrl-il the liinlr, which wj very heavy, frnm the vault to the wan-r and dc li.it.i t whr,. the water n five or lx f --t 'I -i ii at .i- t;ir. The dll.ini: fr nn the vault t :hl milk- i aliiut a 'UHrtT of a mile mil he iiiu-lc four-le-n round trip". He wja at rk four hnurn on M 'ii'lay night. Four m;ill hir of ri-Miii-il gnlit hr concal'-J am ng the Hioii.a of the br'-aknafr. iur;)e had b't-n to ue ililn gold fir pri-.rit n"-d. Wlnt-r, on hla I mt '.rli, ha I pcrci'lvel .that ilan waa hr-aklng. Not daring to complete the trip, he laid on the ahore two hrh k wlilih were f und Turn lay morning. Ir: view of the fart that iirnml- of cl'iiieiiry w.-re mad Winter In conald critlofi of hl unearthing the gold. It I fi'iugh: that hla puniehm'-nt will he light. I -: tlve i)lhin I. nu it.l a itay :ng tint It la prmilx-d Winter! by I'rul h ut I'.a'aton, of the Helhy Hme'.t Ing worka. that he ahnul l rmt only he unir.ia.-cu:e hu- ah -ul 1 r -elve iZo.W- "Winter, cannot hr pr-'euted." a lid Ii.-!.-. live tiili. in, "f ir ihere l no evi dence ag.ilti.t him. All that lu been 1 , 1 r a - f r m htm an ecur. J hy dc. jt:v- un l r the iromle that It wnul I 'hi', he uel ng:n: hln. I'nl.-r :hee j .'. iiliur rircuni!a'ir-e It will be 'tr ni.ly dutlcult l I'liire a cmvk- tl .n " IHVISIVi-: HKFKAT K T1IK COU MUIA ( .i:l'.u:l in Win hy fivrr Four Mln-ut- lv-r Tnlrty-MII Course ImpnvM by Alterations. I1ATKSMAXH I'oINT, It. I.. Aug. 10. Ti e C uvtllu'ion, entirely refitted, to day decisively d f 'itel the Columbia over a thlr:y-in;. course In a !en-kn : hreire. The race was ;he first of an other serle of thr- to be sailed off tMa point, and adltional Interest at tachnl to the race because It wa the first sines the Constitution had received the alteration, to her rig. She bad been given a new mast several feet longer than the old one nnl other alteration designed to Improve he boat had been made. lto: for biat. the amended Constitu tion bi't the Cojum'jla today by four minute and nine s.o.id. It was a liar himm'r to windward in an S-knot brecie. The new Her-'schoff racer In line form did wonderful -vork but the result was not altogether satisfactory as the tost jf their relatlv? 'p'-d. because fifteen minute after the atari the Columbia suffered a mishap which cost her all )f llv- minutes In time, la the Judgment of most g.vod y i.'Mstiun of the race. Mer bowsprit shroud were found to be too Img. As the wind freshened and i she lay at a big angle, a btg stick which they supported buckled danger ously so that It was necessary to luff her In'o the wind and take In a stack of salts. At the same time the steer ing gear was unless for 'mf minutes wli-n she was Jumping on the seas and she y.iwed about almost helplessly. Itepulrs were made with remarkable skill and speed, and she was sent away again, but well astern of her rival. Ml'RDERED FOR MONET. Hody of C. Link Found Near Port An geles, PORT ANGELES, Wash.. Aug. 10. The body of C. Link was found on the beach at the mouth of Siberia creek, eight mile east of Port Ang-elea, yester day. Link had a revolver in his right band, and a bullet hole In the temple and breast. He was a stranger and came from Victoria. While here he was seen to have a large amount of money In gold and bills, but only titty cents was found on his body. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that he wag killed by an unknown party. ni'SINESS SECTION DESTROYED. Half WUted Man Starts Fire in Arm strong, It. C. VANCOUVER. R. C. Aug. 10.- A large part of the business tection of Armstrong, It. C, was burned today. The total loss Is JtW.Oofl and Insurance K3.000. The origin of the fire was Incendiary, a half-witted man named Eagles lin ing Htarte a blaze w ith the aid of coal ell. Eagles confessed his guilt. He was arrested and Is now In Jail. NO NEARER SETTLEMENT. Iloth Sides Firm In San Francisco La bor Troubles. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10. The lo cal labor troubles nppear no nearer a settlement than at the beginning of the week. "There Is nothing new," said Attor ney Michael, of the Employers' Asso ciation. This was taken as meaning that employer are as firm as ever. The forces of organixed labor are equal ly firm. SILVER MARKET. NEW YORK, Aug. lO.-Silver, 57. COMBINE HAS BEEN COMPLETED Money and Stock Delivered to Individual Canncrs. FOURTEEN CONCERNS ARE IN Alaska Flsberati'i Caaipiar l Tklt City Not Isclsded, Stockholder Refaalof t Auepl Price Ollcred -Oplloa Ha Expired. PORTLAND. Aug. 10-The salmon combine ha been complete and the rion-y an-1 stot k delivered to the Indl tldual c-jniiers. The le'ails were c m I h licl today aft-r the promoters worked id last night. The f ill'iiving omptnl- constitute the Pacific Packing & Navigation Cim Pny: Pa. ID Am-rl .an FIsh.Ti-? Compiny. Pa 'iflc Steam Whaling Company. A-naw trth 4 Duin. Fatrhaw-n Cinn-ry Company. Qua Ira Packing Company. Icy Straits Packing Company. Taku Packing Company, laku Fishing Company. Chllk Kit Pack'ng Company. Thltnk. Packing Company. Western FUhe.-ti Company. Chatham Strilts Packing Company. Huston Fisblng & Packing Company. Hum; itroi. & Hum President John Nordstrom, of ihe Alaska Fishermen' Company, etatd to an Astoriin reporter last night that his company had not oeei included In the format! m of the salmon combine. Mr. Nordstrom said that the most favorable proposition off red was to pay $100,000 cash and 1200,000 In common and prefer red stock. This the stockholders of the company refused to acrept and the deal Is off, the option on the company's prop erty expiring yesterday. ORANOTTI KNOWN TO PATERSON ANARCHISTS He Was the B isom Friend of Brescl and a Rabid Anarchist. NEW YORK. Aug. 10.-Lu!gui "Gia n 'ttl" is not known among the Paterson. N. J., anarchists, says the World, but Luigul Granr.ti Is well known to them and It Is probable that he Is the man un ler arrest. Granottl was known as a ribld anarchist. He was the founder of "La Question Soclale," the anarchist organ and was the closest friend of Bread, boarding wfth King Humbert's assassin at Paters.m. List February he sailed for Europe. arriving there Just one month ahead of Brescl. Benjamin Maxxottl. the present leader of the "Group for the Right of Existence" In Paterson, said: "I know Granottl well, but I do not know Glanottl. Granottl and Brescl met In France and went to Italy about the eame time. When Brescl arrived at Monxa he telegraphed to Granottl, who wag In another city, and I am quite certain Granottl was present when King Humbert was killed. "Granottl was chased through Italy, Germany and France by the Italian gov ernment detectives. While he was hid ing In Paris we received a letter from him and a subscription was at once tak en up for him. We sent him enough money to pay his passage to South America and I was under the Impression that he had galled for there." IN THE WRONG BOTH WAYS. Canadian Railroads Accused of Charg ing Too Much and Too Little for Hauling Hay. NEW TORK. Aug. lO.-The Canadian railway managers find an element of humor In the proceedings entered acralnst them before the Interstate Com merce Commission by th? National Hay Association, says the Montreal corres pondent of the Times. The roads affected are the Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk and Canada At lantic and nn Inquiry Is at preesnt be ing held by tho government Into the charges of Canallan fanners that their rates are too high. "At the same time." said O. M. Bos worth, freight traffic manager of the C.inadinn r.iclfi.-, "proceedings are be ing tak-m against us by the Interstate Commerce Commission because our rates for carrying hay and straw Into th United States are too low." LONDON BOOK MARKET. Fromlnent Publishers Say That tho Prospect for the Autumn Trade Is Good. NEW YORK, Aug. 10. According to the London correspondent of the Trib une, English publishers report that the gales of books have Increased recently and that the prospects of the autumn trade are brighter thin for years. Heln- emann asserts that he has never sold many :x-h.lilng and six-penny book a he ha this arason. Th 'rn are many signs that th public la finding the rewsjrfip-rs dull and are revolting to hooks. H-lnemann I issu ing Poultney lilg-low'g colonial bo'ik thla week and he will issue a bright story by Mrs. Illgeiow latT in the month. He Is advertising an edition of I'tO.W) copies cf Hall C'alnt' Eternal City, and has completed plana for a li brary of twelve French masterpieces. Mrs. Meyneli' fr-sh volume of verse rray be expected In the course of a few weks. Chapman and Hall are under taking complete edition of Richard- n' novels in twenty volume. EUROPEAN WHEAT CROP. Definite Figure Are Unobtainable but a Shortage Is Apparent. NEW YORK, Aug. 10. A dispatch to th Journal of Commerce from Paris fays: "Nothing 1 yet known regarding the wheat crop with any exactness whlrh Is noj already plain to oidlnary experts. F r France even the first results of th threshing are not kno-.vn. Taking Franc? as an example, it Is certain that the year's crop is heavily d'.flclent. "The only doubt concerns the approx imate amiunt of the wheat which will have to be Imported to supply the needs of the rational consumption. The esti mates range from 27,5oi),000 bushels to 6O.oOO.Oij0 bushels. SHAMROCK II. EXPECTED. Upton's Cup Challerger Is Due In New York After Crossing the Atlantic. NEW YORK, Aug. 10 -Shamrock II is now hourly expected. She left Gour ock on the Clyde on July t", and five days afterwards dropped anchor at the Axorea after a run of 1300 mile. As soon as she raches p.irt he will be taken to Erl Bisln where her racing rig which has preceded her. will be Instaled. M-n will be get to work upon I: at once and It will not take long to remove her trivel stained clothes and replace them with the fine raiment In which Sir Thomas Upton and hi advisers hope she will succeed In bearing away the cup. . INSURANCE DEAL OFF. Negotiations for Consolidation of Two London Assoc! itions Are Blocked. NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-A dispatch to the Journal of Commerce from London i says: A hitch has occurred In the Atlas-Phoe.-iix Insurance Company combina tion deal which may postpone or possi bly even u.'S-t Its formation consum mation. The conferences have for the present stopped. PAYS OF INTERVIEWING OVER. Senator Depew Says He Has Given Vp the Job. LONDON, Aug. 10. "I am going to retire from the Interviewing business permanently," said Senator Chauncey M. Depew to a representative of the Associated Press today. "I have served my full term and have generally en Joyed It, but there have been so many fictitious and erroneous reports of my sayings and speeches since I arrived In Europe this summer that I have con cluded to give up the Job." WHAT'S THE TROUBLE. Senator Depew Shuns Publicity and Re fuses Social Invitations Abroad. NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-Senator De pew Is almost the only prominent Amer ican In London, says the Tribune's London correspondent. He has accept ed nt Invitations to country houses and has avoided publicity as much as pos sible. The senator wll spend another week In London. DIMMiCK'S BOND INCREASED. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10. The bonds of Walter N. Dimmlck. former chief clerk of he United States mint, w ho is under arrest for embezzling $l!0. C00, have been placed at J37,0O0. RECORDED EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS VICTORIA, B. C, Aug. 10. The Seis mograph at the metorologlcal otllce here Friday recorded some very severe shecks of earthquake which the superintendent believes ocurred In Alaska, as the rec ords are similar to those made when the last earthquake occurred up north. WHEAT MARKET. PORTLAND, Aug. 10. Wheat, Walla Walla, 57; blue-stem, 59. TACOMA. Aug. 10. Wheat, bluestem, 574; club, 56. CHICAGO, Aug. 10. Wheat, Decem ber, opening, 13i; closing, K. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10. Wheat, December, 10214. BOMB EXPLODED ON BRITISH SHIP Attempt to Destroy Transport at New Orleans. EXTRA PRECAUTIONS TAKEN Torpeda Explode' at Slip's Side but tie Bulkkcid Saved tkc Vessel Frosj Sliklor-Work ( Beer Syapitfeliert. NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 10-What la regarded a an attempt of Boer sym pathizers ;o blow up a British trans port occurred shortly after midnight when a terrfflj explosion occurred at th? tock landing where the Harrison steamer Mechanician Is moored. Tha Mechanician I to carry mules to South Africa- New evidences of a plot to destroy the British mule ship were discovered hy an officer of that vessel today. At tached to an anchor chain near the sur face of the watr' was found a cotton wrapped wire "about 125 feet long, to which was evidently attached a bomb or torpedo that exploded last right and trove in the plates of the ship on th port side at the water line. Tho British offices here and agents of the lines employed by the British government for the transportation of mules and horses to South Africa are much exercised over the attempted des truction of the ship, and the vessel has been moved out In midstream with double watch on board. This Is true of the other nule transports In port But for the torpedo explxllng were bulk head sustained the plates, the vessel un doubtedly would have been sunk. JAPANESE TOURING COUNTRY. Distinguished Foreigners Visit Different ' Public Improvements In New York. NEW YORK. Aug. 10,-Takahiko Of ujl, professor In the University of Kio to, Japan, and his brother, J. Ofuji, a civil engineer of Kioto, accompanied by Yasnosko Ohkl, the Japanese acting; conu) In this city, are visiting the dif ferent miblic Improvemens and Institu tions, including the bridge and the rap id transit system. INDIANA AT HALIFAX. Battleship Arrives at Canadian Port With Flags at Half Mast. HALIFAX Aug. 10. The United States battleship Indiana has arrived here. The battleship came up the har bor with her flags flying half-mast. In cluding the German standard flying from her turret half-maat as a tribute to the late German empress dowager. CONSIDINES" TRIAL SET. SEATTLE, Aug. 10. John and Tom Consldine, charg-Jd with the murder of Chief of Police Meredith, were arraigned this morning before Judge Emory, In the supreme court, and both having Pleaded not guilty the trial was set for September 1. NEGRO BURNED TO THE STAKE. SAVANNAH, Ga., Aug. 10.-A negro who attempted rape on the wife of a railroad section master near Ways Sta tion, Ga., July 2$, was burned to a stake near the scene of his crime late tonight. MRS, DAVIS FOUND GUILTY. SPOKANE, Aug. 10. After a trial lasting over two days, Mrs. J. G. Da vis, a Christian Science healer, was found guilty today of failure to report a case of scarlet fever as required by law and was given the minimum fine of $o and costs. THREE GRILS DROWNED. LONG BEACH. Cal.. Aug. 10. Elsie and Imogene Wallace, sisters, aged res pectively 16 and IS years, and Cora Wal. lace, their cousin, aged 19, were drow n ed while In bathing at Asburg Park this morning. The strong undertow swept them oft their feet and the glrla were carreid beyond reach and drowned. MILLION DOLLAR SALE. BUTTE, Mont.. Aug. 10. The Clipper Boss Tweed group of mines at Pony, Madison county, has been bought by the Amalgamated Copper Company for one million dollars. BASBJALL SCORES. SPOKAN3, Aug. lO.-Seattle, 4; Spo kane, 3. TACOMA, Aug. 10. Tacoma. 8; Port land, (.