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.. .. : . r 1 I 7 !- - ' Peri D(V,':V " i-jj-,.'- " y .jBsssssafLj -, Mi ; V, THE DAILY ASTCP:4N !l tifj est ir,J test ;:r oa tie ColaaitU rivt- THE AST01UAN DU till Until clrculitloD of my pipeit 00 thi Columbia Klvci " ... ' v "Ml' FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT. AST01UA. OWm. FltlDAY JWHN1NG. JANliAKV 27, I WW no. n VOL. XLIX. SteSiito f Till I. . A A v A J Stove Store ... IN ASTORIA ... Our Hpoclnlty: HTOVI3H AINI ItAINGCH Wo know tlio tuHlnwM. Twenty years experience. If you wont GOOD Btovc, Heo tho Block ut the Eclipse Hardware Co. 1899 Pocket and Office Diaries Tide Tables Calendar Pads Blank Books World's Almanac Hurnim Griffin v. rhU innnAon ru vmnjvwv wnnnvjv irwwuiru uwuvoriAj inuvi Special This Week. jf MIRHKNTM GIVEN AWAY With Purchases of i TEA. CQFFKB, 1 I1AKINO POWDER, and HI'ICtCH. I FOARD & STOKRS CO. Pacific Sheet MANUFACTURERS OF Salmon Vegetable ... O... Fruit ... ... Syrup Lithographing on Tin a Specialty. San Francisco. Cat. Astoria, Ore. Falrhaven, Wash. Write Um for Prlccsi C. HEILBORN & SON. The Oldest Houue in Astoria. Tho Lnrcst nnl Only Carpet and Furniture House in Astoria. Tho lnrgent Aml-fiiipjit stock jiny 1 uc iu Orept outside of Reduction Sale... To close out our overstock wo offer at Big Reductions Fancy Columbian Soups, eight or ten varieties. Fancy Sliced Peaches and Apri cots, in small cans. Fancy Evaporated Bartlett Pears. All tho ahovo strictly fancy goods. ROSS, HIGGINS & CO COLUMBIA IRON WORKS Blacksmiths BoIlerMakers Machinists Logging Englnefi Foundrymen Heavy Forging Under Power Hammer a Specialty Sole Manufacturers of the Unsurpassed ... M Harrison Sectional" Propellor Wheel ... Manufacturers for the l'aciflc Coast for the ROBERTS WATER-TUBB BOILER. in Cloth Jloutnl lluoks. c & Reed. Metal Works of Cnrjiots nudFurniturc carried Portland. Loggers Supplies Kept in Stock Built and Hepnlrcd. FAIR WARNING! Our 25 per cent REDUCTION SALE For cash Ends positively On the Last . Day of this' Month. Herman Wise The Reliable CLOTHIER k HATTER CUT PRICES W r m.klnr a treat cut In ipcclit lines. Tour opportunity U it hand. Tou are bound to neeJ h.fj tnd ihould buy now while the advantage Ik 10 obviously In your favor. Theie hoe are not back numbers of uncertain age, and quality. ' They're all standard stock and good values for twlca what we ssk. Laird. Schober Co.'s reduced from fe.fiO and IS.00 to U M and Sift. Petersen & Brown. THE PROOF of the pudding m la the eating and ths proof of liquors IS IN SAMPLING that's an argument that's con clusive demonstration. Ours wlU stand ths tst HUGHES & CO. L. LEBECK Cnrpontor and Builder Gcncrnt Contractor HOUSE RAISlNO AND nOVINQ A SPECIALTY H.F.PraelTransferCo. Telephone VL. DRAY1NG AND EXPRESSING All Goods Snipped to our Car WJ1 Reoeivs Bpaoial Attamtloc , N4. Rl Duu 8L, astons. Ore. W. J. COOK. Ifgr. Baa.Tal.Ufc AIR. M'GUIRE ATTACKED Selling of Multnomah Want ed to Know Why He W2S at Salem. SENATOR FULTON'S REPLY Defended tbe Fish Commissioner In tbe Most Brilliant Speech of the Present Session. BUSY DAY AT THE CAPITOL i Both Houses Cot Down to Work anl Considered a Creat Number of New Propose! Laws. BAI.KM. Jtu M.-The Iwiuiw tronwu-hd n-rtuts mKt biMiicM thi aftorn'Kn than Jiy hiy nc. the n tilnic of the iin. Thu fiitur rf thu w-wt m w.ls ill.- uuwe ti IMoirts' ttll snrr'utlriK tlj.ou t'T tti.i Ai.Ii1.uhI nirmal wlioui, plaiw lh (Kli'id wiili utatrt control and chiinjro tho nom.1 tu ti ftmthrrn Oregon Mtiit.. ii.M-inal ndioil. Hill's llut:i! I IH, which u alo a lHal urdrrthls uftTn'n. wa reportl bm k ailh anii-ntlni4i(s nui.iiK coru-fw-s.ons l tho pMs. and was pn.isid by a wl of 13 to S. thu only nn-mlMT vot. Uig UK u! nut It l-ttir Curtis. Fre'lund. Krueo, llntU, Hewl.T. SinlUi. Thomp m. of t'liu-kamaa. and Young. Whallcy tmn-lm-.'.J a bill to fl the miltiry of thf goviriKir hi fim. the mo to 10 Into vtt't t at oin o, awl ihf sstlarira of th m-.n-i.to' of stute an.! state trcn unv at U'j"). to go Into vffent January 1. !. rt. ll nit proii-nitd a lxmbiihll In the frm f a rvwWutkm dm-kuinir that the M-notn views with UUpUMisure the pe ta-l t an officer of the itatiej n-nialntnx away from Ms dory while drawing full iwy and lbhyii)g for iqwikil intWBts at tho bictalaturv. Thre wua aomc mys. try as to whom h roferrwl. ond Kuy kpinlall dttnarulrd to know bvfore voflnK-. Sullttwr wild It was Pish CVminUl"mor atcOuir. who lud b-.-n hvre for ac-erul diiys working to gvt an apiiroprimlon of tS.tW for jtaJmon hatcherlea. Fulton tim0 to MoOulre'a defense In tlMt mom nloqucnl sit of the sosnUm, In wlUuh ha averred thnt McOuIre was crmlng hla duty by belnjr hore; that ho would be rativaiit to hla duty If he remained ewwy under these circum. stana. and he should not be censured for doing hie plain duty, and moved to refr the resolution to tho commrttee on fUhertca fhalrman Reed, of that owru mlotee. snld he had sent for the fWh commfasloner to rive ladvloe conoerning maXters umlvr consideration. The resolu tion wan rrfarred. SPAIN I'ltGES RELEASE OF SPANISH PRISONERS. General Otis Ordered to Give Attention to the Matter, but Their Release Im prolMiblo Except by Force. NEW TORK. Jan. .-A dlepatch to tho Herald from Wniphlnfrton uys: ThroURh the Frenrh emlwssy here 8paln has again urged tho I'nlteO States to procure the reltnw of the Spanish prls. oners held by the- Philippine Insurgents. Information officially received by the Mndrld government from tho Philippines shows that the llwe of Spanish women nnd children, as well as mon, are In dn- gvr. and that prisoners are not receiving proper trentment. The Spanish govern. ntont callwl attention to that provision of tho treaty requiring this government to use tu good oltHvs to procure the re lease of the prisoners and urged the United Stat to do everything possible. Secretary Hay roplled tluit General Otts had been Inntruoted to give Imme diate attention to the matter, but this government has made no promisee to ohtuin tho release of the prisoners. It Is tho growing belief that tlwy will be able to obtuln the release of the prison ers only by force. Information has also been received hre showing tlait 500 Mara held as prisoners, are compelled by the FUlplnoa to utulergt oil sorts of menial labors, such as aituwdlng to the horsos of Fili pino officers, paving the streets of towns and so forth. FORMATION OF COMRINE9 BECOMING NUMEROUS. Fancy Valuation Put Upon Moribund Property as a Result Fusion of the Ijpadling Tin Plate Bar Makers. NEW YORK. Jan. 2t!.-The Iron Age In Its weekly review today says: A per fect erase Is developing for combination, aided largely by the eagerness of bank ora to promote such undertakings. They seem to be outblddtng one another and encourage the disposition to put fancy prices on moribund property. Active work is going on la the cast Iron pipe Industry. In the soil pipe branch there has been a movement for some itlme. but it has been progressing so slowly that some of the concerns have grown impaltlemt. The oarbuilders have had their meetings and the sheet mills ha vi been In conference over a plan to consolidate. Tho nvost Intcvnstlng developments dur ing the week, however, have been In con nection with the tin plate Industry. The same parties who carried through tbe consolidation In 'this Industry are re ported to have perfected now fusion of the leading makers In the central weot of tin plate bars, five great plants being named. It Is reported that arrange ments have been made with one great works In Pittsburg and another In tbe Wheeling district to . secure exclusive mfil of this brunch of raw material. In oihnr word outside mills ire to find It difficult to oUnln tin plate bars. Another lmprrtajrt tv In tb same d'rwnln Is tfm omplntlon of srrange mn) with foundries and marhtai shops wh;-h mfik! pitKy of tin pla ma, lnry, to wntrol th'lr capacity f'r a cnsld"ffibl ptf cui. The ffort vld"ntly Is to keep out a runh of outsltie cap tol lulu tti bualrxwa. Krim nil quarters wim buoyant re ports cowrn'r.tt th volume of buslnfas and ih, utrenfrth of tho nvu-kfts. In pi Irrm ths demand U active and what Iron Is ofr4e! Is readjly snapper up without munh qunrrrllnx as to ths prloe. The btllot vukiit has ben animated. Fu orn buyers have purchased consider able quarrtitlr la the west. In the (. tm-la Iltlsburg rnports tlx sale ft on bl'k of 3,M tomi. while a modrM ham n dVme by oth-r mills. A consldfrrable tonnage of rails for forn countries Is betng tonaidured, but llttlo has bn (actually pUicftd. 8ps havs been very active In ban and In car material of all kinds. Among the transactions rnwrted Is a lot of 40.. WO tnns for stetl cars to cover the ma. tirUI for smie large contracts recently taken. Koroigs rnqulrlw tt all kipls of ma-U-rtol fwntlnu numTous and In some taws ore pruning, thus showing that the advnnc has not frightened buyers off. NEW FEATURES IN THE HARNETT POISONING CASE. The Poisoner Used the Names of His Victims In Order It the Prtson From the Drug Store. NEW YORK. Jan. .-The Evening Jourrml says: A private letter bo In die name of II. C. Bamett wan rented at 15 Wmt Forty-second strwt under clr. cumsutnees Mmllar to the rental of a private letter box at US) llroadway In the name of H. Cornish. It s learned that Von Mohl & Co., of dndnattl. snt to both bklruMas a boa of pills ordered under different names. The handwriting from both parties Is -the same. It Is aim tatrned that, the handwriting of the person who ddrtsl the poisoned pockog to Harrj' Cornish at the Knlc kerlxxker Club 1a the some as that of the letters to Von Jlohl A Co.. signed "V. Cornish," and "H. C. Barr.ett." ordering the pills. The deduction Is Inevitable thaC the polsoiMC In each case used the name of his Intended Victim to shield himself. The most stnaatJonal feature of this dls cowry Is that the letter signed "H. C. Harnett" was written last May, Indicat ing that the plot to murder Earnett and Ornish was formed months ago ami. w.th deliberation that is .ppa.ung- per fected Wt by bit. KAUTZ TO INVESTIGATE THE 8AMOAN AFFAIR. Department Determined to Follow Up Its Demands to German Govern ment Through Ambassador White NEW YORK. Jan. 2S.-A dispatch to th Herald from Washington says: Rear Admiral Kautt haa been Instructed upon his arrival with the Philadelphia et Apia to investigate the entire Samoan situa tion and report the facts to the depart ment. Reinforced by this report, the depart- rim will h able to follow un Kg de mands to the Germain covemment by Ambassador White, provided the report con firms the dispatches sent by Consul General Osborne. , Twin r merit officials believe that the PhUadetDhie.. under the orders tele graphed to Bear Admiral Kautt. will leave Santiago Thursday for Honolulu en route to Anra. The vessel may toe de layed to case ohkrf engineer A. B. Bates should not put In an appearance. It Is exiwtcd that within 13 days the cruiser will reach her destination. SCHOOLTEACHER FATALLY STABBED BY A PUPIL. Charles Ayers Slashes the Throat of His .Teacher WUh a Jack Knife Cut ting a Frightful Gash. ALBANY, Mo.. Jan. 26.-T. B. Hunter, a teacher In the Adams school, 12 miles east of here, has been fatally stabbed by n IS year old pupil namt. Charles Ayers, whom he was whipping. According to the statement of the pu pils. Hunter was punishing Ayers by holding a switch close to his free, bonding it back and alloying It to snap against him. The switch almost drew the blood every time. Suddenly the boy whipped out a jack knife and made a slash at the teacher's throaV The blade strueh beneath the loft ear and went down around the neck, cutting a frightful iraah. The children all fied from the' school after the stab bing and Hunter was left for some time without assistance. FRUIT-GROWERS' MEETING. SPOKANE. Jan. S6.-The Northwest Fru it -Gro weirs' Association today elected the following officers: Dr. Blalock. of Walla Walla, president; F. L. Wheeler, of Yakima, vice-president for Washington; L. A. Porter, of Lewis ton, vtoe-preeldent for Idaho; E. L. Smith, of Hood rtver, vice-president for Orogon; E. Hutchinson, of Ladner, vice president for British Columbia; C. A. TVmneaon, of Taooma, eecretary; W. S. Offner. of Walla Walla, treasurer. Ta ooma waa selected as the place for tho meeting of the convention nextyear. Resolutions were passed favoring the early construction of the Nlcaraguan canal and the Improvement of the Co lumbia and Snake rivers. MERRIAil NOT A CANDIDATE. 8AN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26.-Major General Merriam will leave today for Denver, where he will command the de. partment of the Colorado. He said em phatically: "I am not a candidate for secretary of war to succeed Secretary Alger tut anyone else." OKLAHOMA WANTS STATEHOOD. GUTHRIE. O. T.. Jan. 26. The terri torial statehood convention haa resolved for a constttutlonal convention in June and a state election In October on a proposition to go to congress and demand admission tn December . HOT TIMES IN HELENA Dribery Charges Against Can didate Clark, of Dutte, Did Not Stick. THE ACCUSER IS UNSEATED Senator Whiteside, Who Made Charges, Thrown Out and Branded as a Liar. NO RESULT YET AT OLYMPIA Republicans Weie in Caucus Last Mt. tut Failed to Afrte-WII son's Supporters Desert. HELENA, Mom.. Jan 2S.-6enaions came thick and fast today In the Mon tana legislature. Before the members met in joint n-salon today to vote for United States senator the grand Jury re ported that It had heard no evidence on which to return any Indictments. For two weeks the grand Jury had been faithfully investigating the charge of bribery made by State Senator Whiteside, of Flathead county, who had dramatic ally turned over to a Joint committee Fsu.uuO in bills, swearing to high heaven they had been given him and three others by agents of W. A. Clark, of Butte, to influence their votes In his favor for the United Stat senate. Whiteside re. pealed his story to the grand Jury, and 33 other witnesses were examined on all phases of the matter. One Of Whiteside's alleged co-partners In the vote-selling business repudiated him horly end dis credited him before the grand Jury. Other contradictory and refutatory evidence was given of such Indubitable character that the grand jury could do nothing else than disbelieve Whites-)!, The resurt was tbe sweeping and complete vindica tion of Hon. W. A. Cku-k, of Butte. At tbe session of the senate this after, noon, by a vote of 14 to , Whiteside was unseated on contest fur his office and his republican opponent given the seat. Whiteside's majority on the face of the returns was one and a recount of the votes by the senate resulted hi a reversal of the result. Nine democrats and Ave re publicans voted to unseat him. In the Joint seMon Whiteside made a long speech, in which he made unsup ported charges of bribery against every man who voted for Clark. After his harangue was ended one of the accused members vigorously denounced Whiteside a a liar of to deepest dye. CAUCUS COMES TO NAUGHT. OLYMPIA. Jan. 26. The -republicans of the legislature went Into caucus to. night at S o'clock. Speaker Guie, of the house of repreeetaitlvee, presided. By order of the caucus call the balloting was restricted to rdlcall. Three ballots were taken, all resulting as follows: Foster X Wilson IB Humes 20 Ankeny 10 On rollcall for the -first ballot Represen tative Minard left Wilson tor Foster, and Senator Sehofld went from Tlson to Ankeny. Schofleld mode a speech in ex planation of his vote, In which be sold the election of Wilson would disrupt the re publican party of the state, and again turn Washington Into the populist ranks. So long as Tacoma and Seattle could not agree, he said neither could elect, and therefore he proposed to vote for Ankeny. He said he had voted for Wilson until he was satlslied that he could not be eleoted. He praised Wilson for what he had done as senator on behalf of his country, but he did not propose to permit him to ruin and d.srupt the republican party. The Ankeny men applaudwl Schofield and the balloting continued. There were no other speeches. On motion of Senator Hamilton, chair man of Foster's home delegation, Ibhe caucus agreed, before the balloting be gan, to adjourn until tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, in case no selection was made. VIOLENT CYCLONES SWEEP OVER THE SOUTH SEAS. Whole Villages Wrecked and Much Dam age to Shipping Over 500 Natives Reported Killed. VICTORIA. B. C. Jan. 28. The steamer Amnc4 from Australasia, bring-) de tails of the terrible cyclones which swept the south seas about the middle of De cember, devastating villages, wrecking shipping and causing many deaths. At bmmi in New Guinea, on December 11, the gale waa terrific. Coca palms went down by hunareas ana were carnea to smu Torrents of rain fell. Tlv vessels were wrecked. The cutter Mayflower and Nabua were total awk at BaslllakL Tho ketches Beben and Balden were lost off Goodenough island, and Mr. Kennedy, manager or the x- nuiriA Development Company, waa drowned, together with his crew, save one boy. The mission steamer AiDeri vit..m went ashore and the lugger Lysander and the cutter Fleetwing were Makes the food more flfWAt tAtfW. mm AT totally wrecked at rV'edun. The ciw.tr Portia was smnshed war Port Cia-yguw. The schooner Elbm Oowan and the cut ter Ivy were lost In th KomiiA group, aitd Captain Golet ami crew WfiM drownI. in the Solomons the hunnnrs did mo deunags, whole village being dmiroyed, . Hundreds of cocoa plantations were up. rwtftd and yam patches leveled. Over W native ore reported to have been killed. Captain Pentecost, of the yacht St. AubLn, who brought the news of the UsaU- to Sydney, says he saved a wo man who was to have been killed a a sorceress, she being accused of having caused the hurricane. He bought her, the purchase pries bni.ns; a pig, and took her to notbxf Island, where she was re leased. IRVINO'S VISIH TO AMERICA. NEW TORK, Jan. 21-Tbe Herald says: Sir Henry Irving la now In active negotl. attons by moil end cable with several Arrmriran managers looking to the eom plticm of hts plans for the tour of Amer ica, which he will make next season. He has personally communicated to them the ideas he haa tn mind for the trip. It Is Sir Henry's preaoit Intention to produce "Robespierre,' his new Bardou play, at the Lyceum In London at Earner and his engagement there will last untH well into the summer. At it termina tion and after a short reel he will sail for America early m October. HI stay In Amerioa win be limited to 20 weeks and rn that time It la hla wish to visit all the prlndpai cities. He Is particularly anxious to play again la Ban Francisco, where hla previous engagement sev eral years ago woa remarkably ruouessful la every way. "Robespierre" be baa decided upon aa the feature of his repertoire during his American tour, but he will also present several of the pieces that proved popular on his other visits here. 8tr Henry has found considerable diffi culty In arranging his tour just as be w'hes It on account of the small amount of open lime at tbe theaters throughout the country. Several managers are confident, how. ever, that they ican arrange matters sat. isfactorlly and have Informed 8lr Henry thevt tbey will be pleased to undertake the direction of his tour. RUMORS OF RAILROAD TEALS. NEW YORK. Jan. 26. The Tribtma says: Reports are current that large to- terests eotne ot the! rumors any lithe Vandarbllts. and others a combination of the VanderbUU and the Pennsylvania railroad-are acquiring the control of the Lake Erie A Western road, the stock especially mentioned as thus being trans, f erred, being the holdings of the Calvin 8. Iirk-e estate. Concerning thle report. Frederick Y. Whtteldgc, chairman of th board, says: "Mrs. Brloe has not sold her Lake Erie tc Western stock and as far as known she does not Intend to sell K. I don't know of any large blocks of stock Iter, tng changed hands or about to be trans ferred. If any such deal as is rumored were ruider way, I should probably know about ft." i Two of The other directors of the Lake Erie & Western said that they knew nothing of any movement for transferrtnaT control of the road, although the activity in the stock might indicate (hat an at tempt by certain Interests was being made to purchase the controlling Inter, esta. Only One meeting of the directors has been held since the death of President Br ice, and at that meeting the subject of the sale of the road was not discussed or even mentioned. It was said by soma persons thsut the Big Four (the Cleveland, Ctncinnaitl Chicago & St . Louis), had bought or wfcs planning to buy the Lake Erie 4b Wee fern. FEARS FOR THE DOULETT. NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 26.-Lawrence Jones, owner of the 111-Rwed launch Paul Jones, which wus lost near Breton Island about January S, with ttll on board, and Mayor Taggart, of Indianapolis, whona daughter was among the party, have returned to the city from down the river, after 'having made a fruitless search for some trace of the victims of the dis aster. They found only some more wreckage, among which Is a part of tho stern of th launch. They have abandoned all search and will return -to their homes today. No news has been received since SiUur. dav rerarddrs? the tug Doulett. sent out ', to search for the Paul Jones' victims, and the friends of the men on board ere greatly alarmed. Violent storms have been ragtiur tn the section Visited by the tog and It Is temred that the boat has met with a rrciwtiap. CUTTER'S CRSW MURDERED. VICTORIA. B. C Jan. 20. The steam ship Aorangi brings news that the steam. er Ysabel conveyed to Sydney a report from Mr. Forrest, the resident trader at Santa Crui, that Information had reached him through native channels thtut a Sydney yacht hod been wtptured by the natives, but that hwr crew of two white men had escaped Into the buah. This was the island where the cutter Curlew was cut out early In the year and her crew murdered. The Ysabel proceeded to Utupua. to make inquiries. They land, ed fully armed at the villages on Basllllc harbor and found that Hhe one burned by H. M. S. Mohawk In revenge for the murder of the cutter Curlew's crew bad been rebuilt They rescued the Curlew's boy, the sole survivor of that unfortun ate vessel. ACCIDENT TO THE FOX. PORTLAND, Jan. 26. The torpedo-boat Fox started on her official trip today, but before proceeding far broke one of her propeller blades by running against some driftwood. She returned to the yards In this city tor repairs. t f 6 f-I , - 'a . k. uvj irowpau delicious ond wholesome j !