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? ... 1 ( V'"" " " '""T v J i ... ,.4 1 'Mfcti i' ... svj. j. ; -. ..' -V "TV ' wweu pdbl'c UBBARr.Assacairaa SAVE TIME The Dally Astoria n 0sw Has Peoi'iA AND PaHjS.NMNT ...Family Circulation.. Much moos than thms timka a LAKiB A THAT Of ANT OtHtll HAM IN ASTORIA. Fxrun How? and worry """i, An "Ad". In Thi Aim hi am ' "WMlCvtunm." EXCLUSIVE TELEGRAPHIC PRESS REPORT. VOL. XLV. ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY MORMNO, DECEMBER 10, 18i)6. NO. New To-day SicctMort to coreiiXD a Tnonsr.!! Largest and Finest Lines of Holiday Goods In the City.... Toys, Toy. Toy. Dolls In endless variety. Iron and wood wagons; velo cipede wagons; dull carriages. Photo and autograph album; fin chin and Venetian glass war. Christ ma and New Tear tarda t.arg assortment of book In lalMt stylo of bindings. Call and examine our stock. GRIFFIN & REED FOARD & STOKES COMPANY THP. ...Leading groceries, flour, mill feed, FRUITS. TO1IACC0H. LIQUORS. ETC. W. ar Doal.rs la h. Abo. I.lna. ol Mih In Ik Clarkson & Mclryin LONG FIR PILING Promptly Fornlshtl Astoria Asphalt and Roofing Co. All Work Roof Halnllnu net KopBlrlnu LMky Hoof. J. A PAST ABEN D, OENERAL CONTRACTOR, HOUSE, BRIDGE AND EHRRF BUILDER HOUat MOVia rlooM Moving Tool lor Rant. ASTORIA ORBOON Emil Schacht ARGHITEGT GEO. NICOLL, Assistant. OFFICE): rfapp's few Brewery Wall Papar, Artl.l' Mtt.ri.la, Paints, Oil. Glass, c. Japan.. Marrlnta, Rug. and Bamboo Oood 365 Ccmmerclal Street. F. B. Morgan PASSliNUHR AOENT 0. R. & N. Company Columbia Rlv.r Rout. 254 V'ashlnnton St. Cor. Third Portland. Or. ALLEN'S . Cut Rate Ticket Office. ...THEATRICAL BOOKING A SI'ECIALTY.., oa third ST., i-ohtlani), or. A. V. ALLEN, DEALER IN Groceries, Flour, Feed, Provisions, Fruits Vegetables, Crockery, Glass and Plated Ware. Loggers' Supplies. Cor. Tenth and Commercial streets. Men's Boys' and Youth's CALF and Cni m.nAc WdtH Cork Soles New Toch Colombia Shoe Go. 523 Commercial St. CITY BOOK STORE chants... hardware, iioat supplies, ship chandlery, ckockehy, glassware, taints. oils. etc. and carry Ih. Matt Coaipl.lt Slock Northwaat. Boom Company 216 and 217 Chamber of Commerce Portland. Oregon I.KAVK OMDKKM AT S I IIMMtK. UAL BTKKKT Guaranteed N. JENSEN and R. O. HANSEN J. B. WYATT, Ph.B. No. 8 Astoria. Orta Hardware, Ship Chandlery, Grocerlee, Provisions, PAINTS and OILS. asocial Atlantic Paid t iapplylag Skis. SEASIDE SAWffllhli. A 00 tn pl.t itock of lumber on hand In Ih rough or dreasod. Flooring, rus tic, oalllng, and all kind of finish; moulding nd hlnglB; also bracket work don to order. Trm reaaonabl and prloea at bedrock. All order promptly attended to, Oltlca and yard at mill. H. F. L. IOOAN, Prop'r. Beaalda, Oregon. UNION MEAT CO. SHIELD BRAND HfliaS, BflGON, LARD CONDENSED MEATS GUARANTEED THE BEST ..IS TI1B MARKET... Cor. 4th and Glisan Sts. PORTLAND OREGON ASTORIA IRON WORKS CoocoalySt.foolof Jtckto. Atotl. General Machinists and Boiler Makesr Lent n4 Marin. Engirt... Boiler work, St.aa oat and Cannary Work Specialty. Ca.ttng. of All DaKrlptton. Mad. to Ord.r o Short Notlc.. John Fox.. ..Preeldent and Superintendent A. U Fox Vlo Prealdent O. B. Prael Secretary Ural National Bank, Treasurer SOW THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY Astoria Can fluke a Great Stride In liulldlny tp the City. INDUSTRIAL ADVANCES MADE During th Period of Conatruclloa Are the M't Kffwitlve NW Enter. rUre rroMrl. In Ulkliig ovrr the future irofU of A.torla and what ahould lie dune to brtir the con.llilon of affair thl wlnltT, Mr. Frunk Htoki-, of Foard A rilokr .alii yraterdiiy tu an Anlorlan rfpi-Nvntatlve tluU In hi opinion the time had come when Aitotian ahould tart wimf Induetrlea her whlc-h would upplemrnt the railroad, furnl.h tralTlc for It and bualmwa for the community. "The flmt lmrtant tfa to be taken lK-ar to me to be the eaiabllahment of a flour mill, eawmlll and drydwk. To three we might add a melter for the reduction of ore. The Importance of the flrt three Indualrlea haa been dwelt upon at length time and again. We all know what It mean to have payroll. We aleo know that factorle cannot be eetabllehed upon wind. It la patent to the moat ilmple minded In thla commu nity that whh a railroad connecting thla port with Portland and transcon tinental railroad, our natural recourera not only Juatlfy th eetablUhment of auch Induatrlea, but make them an ab solute neceeatty. In addition to the ar gument already presented, which have clearly shown the profits to be derived from the building and operation of flour mills, aawmllla, a dry dork and other manufuctnrtea. I will add that there Is a good opportunity to erect and operate her a smeller fur the handling A ore. The state of Oregon la rich In mineral. k are our neighboring state on th north and east. A amelter on tide water could not fail to pay hand some profit. There I aUo here an other element In thla question which timet add to the auccea of auch an en terprise. The tin scraps thrown out by the ton from the canneries on the luu.r Columbia and In Astoria, make the best possible Mux for th reduction of ores. It I now slmpry Jut to no uk w hatever. A good flux la a scarce article, and one of the moat expensive Itema In the management of every smvlter. "There Is abundant room here for the employment of capital In various man ufacturing enterprises, which will give employment to thousands of workmen and build up a lucrative traffic for thla port. These statementa are not vision ary In any sense of the word, and I am firmly convinced that we should aet about establishing some of these In stitutions In order to have them run ning by the time the railroad la com pleted. In the Nehalem valley la also to be found a fine quality of coking coal for furnace use, and I understand It la part of the plan of the railroad to tap this rich territory. In fact, Tarn told that surveyor are already In the field making preliminary urveys for the road. Mr. Hammond will soon be here and we cannot do better than to be preimred to meet him on one or more of these proposition. Never, mind when the road will be finished It will be completed on time. Now Is our gol den opportunity, to get people here and start the town to growing. With all these things under way simultaneously no power can hold back the advance ment of property and the development of the city." THE UNLOADED GVS. The Lady Knew Its Dangerous Char acter and Wanted It Removed." From the Detroit Free Press. She was rather fussy and evidently given, to magnifying mole hills Into mountains, and when a man entered the car In which she sat and leaned a gun he waa carrying against the door she called out: "Oh, sir, won't you please point that gun the other way?" "There Isn't the slightest danger. madam," he said; "I am usea to guns." "Well, I'm not. It would go off In a minute and kill everybody In the car If anything struck the nozile." 'You mean the muixle," said the man. laughing. 'It's all the sajne by any name. Con ductor. I wlRh you would ask men with firearms to stand outside the oar." 'He says It Isn't loaded," answered the conductor. 'What! Not loaded! Then stop the car quick and let me out! Good gra cious, to think I've been riding all this time In the same car with a gun that wasn't loaded! Why, I might have been killed twenty times," and she nearly fell off In her haate to leave the car. MALE VOCALISTS. Without exception the great male vo calists began their vocal training very soon after the change of voice which marks the dividing line between the boy and the man. When the culture of the voice is postponed until the age of thirty It Is not possible by any course of training to secure the purity of tone and flexibility of execution that can be attained when practice U begun and the vocal organs nre young, strong and easily developed In a proper direction. Many men, with naturally good voice and a taste for music, have made cred Itulile riroKiVka even after DO year of age, and fitted themselves to fill situa tion In church choir, or as leader of choruse, but there I no Instance In musical history of a flrst-claiui soloist, either In oiera or oratorio, whose tech nical Instruction In the practlc of vocal music began after the age of JO. Ex change. THE ELECTION. Three Kepublloan Coundlmen Were Choaen Testerday. The election of three coundlmen yea terday was another Itepubllran victory. While the majorltle were mll In two of the watds. the general result 1 con ceded by politicians to be In line with the movement of the time and the re establishment of sound principles of government In national, state and mu nicipal affairs. All credit la due to the city Republican committee for yea terday'a victory. Th day was an aver age Oregon wlntr day. and but little bualnea wast transacted In the city during the time that the polls were open. There was no excitement and ap-par-tly no extraordinary -Interest over the event. Quiet work waa done, how. ever, and In the fact of many prophe cies and beta, all three of th Repub lican candidate were elected. The vote land as follows; First Ward-Polling place No. 1 Clinton, S3; Bergman, 117; Polling place No. J Clinton, 210. Bergman, 117. to tals. Clinton. t3; Bergman. 214; Clin ton's majority, 69 . Second Ward-Polllng place No. J. Trulllttger, 131; Dealy. 130; polling place No. 4. Tmllirurer. S3; Dealy. 45. Total. Trulllnger. 15; Pealy, 176; Trulllnger1 majority, 10. Third Ward Polling place No. 5 Brlx. 105; Blefeldt, 100;Brix' majority, 5. The total vote cast of 1092 as com pared with 2200 In the presidential elc tlon shows a small vote and compara tively little Interest in the result. It was thought lost evening that the Pop ulists have not yet recovered from the effect of the presidential election, . ANOTHER FIC.HT. Thl Time In Court for the JlO.Ooo Purse Between Sharkey and Fltislmmons. San Francisco, December J. The le gal contest between Sharkey and Fltx slmmons for the possession uf the HO. ooo purse has commenced before the su perior court. The excitement was intense when the proceedings began In the courtroom and Manager Julian brought out his wit nesses to prove the conspiracy which he stated had deprived FItxslmmons of the purse. "Australian Bill" Smith, one of Sharkey's trainers, was the first witness. He detailed his work In con nection with preparing Sharkey for the ring and said that when the question of selecting a referee was mooted In Sharkey's training quarters he was asked to suggest a referee. The witness suggested Hiram Cook and Lynch then asked him If he knew Cook well enough to talk business with him." After wards the witness said Lynch charac- terlxod Cook as "nogood." because he would not favor his own brother in a light, On the evening of the frght Shar key told the witness that Esrp had been fixed upon as referee, and that "Eorp w-as all right." Dan Lynch, Sharkey's manager and backer, said: "Australian Billy Smith perjured himself and we will prosecute him for perjury when the present trial is over. He has been bought by the FItxslmmons crowd to give testimony damaging to Sharkey's case. Smith demanded 11,000 after the fight for the four weeks' assistance as trainer. Shar key refused to give him more than J400. This Is the animus of his testl mony In court." NOTE AND COMMENT. The secret of true happiness lies In unselfishness. A brisk morning walk is a rare com plexion beaut lfler. Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Applus Claudius. The early purchaser gets the pick of the Christmas novelties. Miss Dobson Is wearing a lovely all violet tip-tilted hat these days. The full back coat ought to be very popular with fair football devotees. The money problem will stay with us until after New Year's, at any rate. If there were never any partings there would never be the Joy of renulon. The amount paid in wages annually by Glasgow Corporaltlon amount to 590,126 pounds. At a Q. A: R. picnic at Pearsport, Me., three-eighths Inch poarl was rouna in a clam pie. It is asserted thai the Emperor of China has not yet received LI Hung Chang In audience. 'Since the crime of 1873." Bald the argumentative boarder, "there has been no money in wheat." "Renlly, said the Cheerful Idiot, "I thought lots of fel lows were making dough out of It right along."Indianapolls Journal. Meany Is the leading tailor, ana pay the highest cash price tor fur skins. THE EMPLOYES OF USCLE SAM Are to Receive a Ten I'cr Cent Kc dia'tioa In Salaries June HO. PRfJCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE Dingley Bill to Be Taken I'd Demo crat and Populist Vote for the Measure. Heclil to the Astorlan. Washington, December .Allen, of Nebraska, moved the consideration of the Dingley bill In the senate today, and the motion was carried, ayes 15 noes 21. Several Democrat and Popu lists voted to take up the bill. Washington, December . The enate today, by a decisive vote of 35 to 21, adopted the motion to take up the Ding ley tariff bill. Unexpected and surpris ing as this action was It did not have the significance which th vote Itself appear to convey. Immediately fol lowing It Aldrlch, of Rhode Island, one of the Republican members of the fi nance committee, moved to recommit the bill to that committee and thl mo tion was pending when at t o'clock this morning the hour expired and the mat ter lapsed aa though no vote had been taken. Neither the bill nor the motion to recommit It will enjoy any privilege or precedence aa the result of the action today. Senator Chandler today Introduced a bill In the senate for a ten per cent re duction of the salaries of all federal tmptoyes. .The reduction shall begin on June 30, 197, and continue for thirty years, and shall Include all officers and employes of the United States whose salaries are paid from the treasury, ex cept those whose compensation cannot be diminished during their continuance In oftlce. t Washington. December $. When ask ed to explain the motive of his motion in the senate today to take up the Dingley tariff bill. Senator Allen re plied: "I had no motive except, as we used to say In the army, 'to feel the enemy. I wanted to satisfy myself and the country as to the attitude of the Re publicans towards this measure, which they have professed to be so anxious to have become a law, and I think I have at least succeeded In demonstrating, that they have no Intention of trying to do anything." THE JOB NEATLY DONE. Missouri Highwaymen Held Up the Iron Mountain Fast Express. St. Louis, December 9. The Iron Mountain fast express, out-going, was held up one mile from Union station within the city limits tonigth at 9:30 by six masked men. It Is not known yet whether the robbers succeeded In se curing any money from the express car. One of the men stood In the center of the track and waved a red lantern, sig nifying that danger was ahead. The engineer stopped the train and no soon er Jiod he done so than two masked men Jumped on the engine cab and, presenting revolvers, told him to hold the engine still on pain of death. Tvo other robbers made for the express car, while the remaining two stood guard outside. In less than fifteen minutes the whole thing was over and the con ductor hastened to the nearest tele phone and notified the police. The two robbers who went to the ex press car demanded admittance. Ex press Messenger W. J. Egan refused to let them In. They threatened to kill him If he did not, but he demonstrated that the express could not be opened. Fortunately it was a through car and the money was In a time-locked safe. Finding it useless to try to blow this open the robbers Jumped off and noti fied their companions on the engine that they had failed to get anything. Conductor Hall came forward to find out what was the matter. He was met by one of the thieves, who pointed a revolver at his head and ordered him back on the train. The robbers then left and Engineer Green started on. At Jefferson Barracks Express Mesenger Egan said the Pacific Express Com pany lost nothing. FAMOUS SILVER STATUE. Receiver Appointed for the Company Which Paid for the Work. Topeka, December 9. Judge Hazen, of the Shawte county district court. was routed , or Dea at i o ciock tnis morning and asked to appoint a re ceiver for the celebrated silver statue of Ada Rehan, which is on exhibition In a local store. The application was made on behalf of Wm. Beckford and A. N. Mitchell, of Helena, Mont., who claim to have Invested $10,000 in the company that paid for the statu and who also claim that the aff; ft of the company are In bad shape. ( dge Ha zen appointed Samuel Barnura receiver. ANOTHER CHANCE FOR WHEAT. Vancouver, B. C, December 9. J. S. Larke, the Canadian trade commlsslon- r In Australia, has furnished the Van couver Board of Trade with a state ment as to the condition of Australian crop. He state that that country will have to import over five million bushels of wheat this year, owing to the fail ure of the Australian harvest, and says that the bulk of the wheat will come from America. THE MARKETS. Llverpiol. December 9. Hops At London, Pacific Coast, 3 10s. Liverpool, December 9. Wheat, spot. dull; demand poor; No. 2 red apring, (s lOd; No. 1 California, 7s 4d. Futures December. 6'4d; May, 6s 7Vid. Portland, December 9. Wheat Walla Walla, 81c; Valley, HUM. FOR FIFTY YEARS. Philadelphia, December 9. Eminent public men from many cities sat around the board at the Hotel Watton tonight and did honor to Colonel Alexander McClure, editor of the Times, who to Jay completed his SOtn year In Jour nalism. BONDS LISTED. New York, December 9. The New York stock exchange has listed $79,800,- 000 common, and $75,000,000 preferred stock of the Northern Pacific, and trust receipts for 13,0(5,000 Oregon Improve ment first mortgage bonds. MRS. McKLNLEY IMPROVED. Canton. Ohio, December 9. Mrs. Mc- Klnlcy will leave Canton for the first time in several months, going to Chi cago tomorrow evening. She will be a guest of Captain and Mrs, Lafayette McWilllams. IT WAS A DRAW. New York, December 9. Tommy West, of Boston, fought a nineteen- round draw with Joe Waloott, the color ed welter weight, at the Marlborough Club tonight BRYAN AGAIN. Chicago, December 9. W. J. Bryan has accepted the Invitation of Chicago Democrats to rpealr-trt their banqtrer January 8th. AMERICAN WASTE OF FOOD. A writer to the New York Herald says: "I've been pretty much over the world In my time, and I've seen quite a bit; but I know I shall astonish you w hen I say that the thing which Im- J pressed me most Is the economy of food abroad and the waste of food at honl?. "Understand all this statement Im - plies. Absolutely nothing Is thrown away or wasted In continental Europe, And the economy of food Is more mark- ed In China, Japan and the Asiatic streets. Manifestations have been held countries There is no doubt In my!ln front of the ministry for the colon- mind that we In the United States waste more food In a year than Is con sumed In France In the same time. Whit a single New York servant girl throws Into the garbage barrel every week would support a dozen Chinese families. Arid yet our people are al ways complaining of hard times, and are always nuking wry faces about getting along In the world. "This waste begins at the very foun dation of our society and business, and runs all the nay up. The American farmer Is a man who has burned off great tracts of valuable timber, worth five times the land on which It grew, to raise grain to burn for firewood. This land today Is but naif-tilled, tak ing the grain fields of Germany and other European countries Into the com parison. Until very recently all the refuse about mills and manufactories I was destroyed; now many of them turn their slabs Into furniture, and their sawdust Into fuel. Again, as to food. Anybody who has traveled much and j knows what sort of food one gets In the South and West anywhere outside of the big Eastern cities will appre ciate it when I say that at least one- half the food is wasted. This Is part ly through bad cookery, and partly through mere wasteful management. ((All food not assimilated Is wasted worse than wasted, for It wears the system out to no purpose.) The com mon hotel and family cookery makes assimilation practically Impossible, So much for what Is eaten. That which Is actually thrown away would feed mil lions. If it could be diverted into the proper channels it jvould make human suffering from want of food impossible in this country. Moreover, the waste would feed the indigent hungry of the whole world! There Is something actu ally criminal in all this. But I presume it can't be helped until the American nature shall have undergone a change." Frau Amalla Materna has bought an estate at Grata, In Austria, where she intends to live. Highest of all in Leavening Power, Latest U. 3. Govt Report v3 &ESCLSJ'FE2a PUKE TO RECOGNIZE THE INSURGENTS Three Senators Introduce Measures la Congress for That Purpose. MACEO'S DEATH NOT CREDITED Thought to Be a Hoax to Prevent Rec ognition by the United States Spaniard Delighted. Special to the Astorlan. Washington, December 9. In th sen ate today three sets of vigorous reso lutions for Cuban Independence fur nished an Interesting feature. They came from Cameron, of Pennsylvania. Mills, of Texas, and Call, of Florida, and. while differing la terms, breathe the same spirit of recognition by the United States of Cuban Independence. A HOAX TO PREVENT RELIEF. Jacksonville, Fla, December A Key West special to the Citizen says: The correspondents' report from Ha vana this evening differ In details re garding the reported death of Anton l Havceo. The story 1 thought not to be true, but It is believed to have been sent out by the Spanish government to stop action In congress for the relief of the Insurgents. The American cor respondents sent couriers to the seen of battle, but they were chased back to the city by Spanish troops. General Weyler telegraphed front Arteraisa to Havana for reinforcements on December 7, stating be Toad Maceo hemmed In. Two shiploads of troops went into Havana as the Olivette, which arrived today aid brought news of the excitement attending the re ported death of Maceo, passed out. DISCREDIT THE STORY. New York. December 9. Dr. Estrada Palma and Dr. J. Castillo, of the Cuban junta. In this city, refuse to give cre dence to the report of the death of General Antonio Maceo. "This is the seventh time that news of Maceo'a death has been circulated with a'sembl&nce of official authority," said Dr. Castillo. "If he Is dead, his death will not end the contest." said Dr. Castillo, who intimated that he looked upon the story In the light of a Spanish, "fake." "I shall reserve my decision until I receive more authentic Information," was all General Palma would say. WILD WITH DELIGHT. Madrid, December 9. An official an- ! nouncement of the death of Antonio ' Maceo, and Francisco Gomes, son of Maximo Gomes, has been published and jhas caused great enthusiasm. Crowds M students are marching through ths lea, and the crowd cheered for Spain, the army and for Major Clrrujeda, whose column defeated the Insurgents under Maceo near Punta Bravo, In Ha vana province. RAILROAD RATES CUT. Northern Pacific and Great Northern Cause Consternation. Chicago. December 9. The roads of the Transcontinental Passenger Asso ciation are much worried over the re-, port of the action taken by the North ern Pacific and Great Northern. It Is said they have put Into effect a rate of $25 from St. Paul to all North Pa cific coast points for the benefit of new settlers and members of their families going to Join them in the West The $25 rate cuts the regular tariff and has not been authorized by the Transcon tinental Association. The rate affects all transcontinental rates as well as ! those directly Involved. It Is claimed the rate has been made as the result of the work of the Washington Immigra tion association, which had been repre senting to the roads that, if It was granted. It would bring an Increase of Immigrants to the North Pacific coast after the beginning of the year. Neith er of the two roads said to have made the rate has tendered It to any of its connecting lines as a basing rate. MISTAKEN IDENTITY. Superintendent That man you rap ped over the head the other night stands a good chance to croak. What made you soak him so hard?" Officer McGobb "It was th' long hair of im that fooled me. Ol had no Idea OI could hur-r-rt Mm at all. Ol thought he was wan av thim feetball fellies." Indianapolis Journal. Drudgery Is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind ss harrowing and planting those of the earth. Mar garet Fuller. li VVv'vWU v - --n -. r i r