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She VOL. L. ASTOItlA. OllEOON. HATtlKOAY. FEBrtlAKI , 1900, IFor (S3 Years The Bridge & Beach Manufacturing: Co. have always combined every known improvement for in creasing the utility, operation and cooking qualities of their ranges. Their latest can be seen in the window of the Eclipse Hardware Co. The best range in the world. Yon can buy one. The price is not out of sight. BOOK Big Reduction Until February 1, 1900 All 2.V Hmiks now 20C All Mc hooks now 25c All 50c Honk now 40C AH 75c Hooks now 50c All .f 1.00 Hook now S0C Am otl.t-rn li tjMrlu'tt. Hpcclal pilets mi nets. In oor i!.V book uru Included tlx (x li bmlnl Hi-iily Imuk, Kiplinu, rnl ninny older pn!tr authors. GRIFFIN & REED Does Not Belong to the Trust COURTRAI IRISH FLAX GILL NET. TWINE Foard & Stokes Co., Agents PROSPECT OF A CIVIL WAR Situation lu Kentucky Darkens With Ate. COURT MANDATES WILL FAIL Republicans Said to Hate a Tramp Card I'p Their Sleeve Aaother Assassination Kepurted. FRANKFORT. Ky.. Feb. 2.-The fust cliiNh between the executive and Judalaiy power. n( the stale occurred today, A Rllll greater clash lit lin- und bun so Informed the governor, Home significance may attach to the use ot the word "governor" In thin sUtcment, Inasmuch an the reply wax directed to Taylor. FI.ANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 2.Gover- nor Taylor today ordered that no body ti admitted to the ground of the capltol under any circumstances. Passe which heretofore have entitled holder to go through the linen were taken up when presented. The ob ject oi die new order la to prevent any civilian from serving any legal aM-r Ufidi him. It la the Intention of the democrats to secure an Injunc tion retraining Taylor from Interfer Ing In any way with the meeting, of the legislature and enjoining him and Lieutenant-Governor Marshall from exercising the functlona of atate of- flcers. iif ui-HnniBnn.- piun m to make a forrc.il demand for admission to the legislative halla In the sfatehouse ever)- day. Aa on yesterday, they will be denied admittance by the militia, all of wlili h. with the exception of two companies from Purboursvllle, will re main hi re. Then two comr.anlea hav nilnent tomorrow and Ix-yond the poa nihilities or tomorrow Hen a em with' Ixcn ordered to London for the meet skies h i lowering and of no alurmy un , "f I' Kl"l-'ture there neit Tuea- jt.e i Unit no politician of either par- iuy. Taylor give no Intimation of abrogating, hla pr lunutllon calling iy c pn-o.c, erc 11 win can y me f(,r . gMnture , a(.mbu , u I Kentucky milp of Mate. j oon. He la making all There can be no longer any com -al- , '"r ln there. Many MAY AGAIN HIT LADYSMITH Indications Make s That Bailer Will Third Attempt. TERRIFIC CONFLICT IMMINENT Winstoa Churchill Gives Forebodings of Action Worse to Come To Iitide Free State. republi cans went home la at night and this I inorniwr. all Int. n.llnir to v t,. I,.- don Monday. ' It la probable a quorum will not be ! 1'iei.. nt at the opening of the leglsla ! lure," said Representative Yarberry, but there will b; Ixfore Tuesday n'ght. i f that you can rent tenured." He xpid.e with great conlldence and .reatd th. Impression that appenrs ' to be prevalent that the republicans 'hine something In reserve. Democratic members of the leglsla- , ture today filed a bngthly petition In to eirone the ruling of Ita presiding the Franklin circuit court asking for Judge, behind this Judge, democrats ' n, I "medlute Injunction enjoining and will have tomorrow, for the Urst time. r7"-"1'1 Governor Taylor and all ni'i'l of the rut 4hat ulTalis in this slut" are bordering upon a coiilllct at HMf iiih' tluit a bealnnlng of a irlxls is at h md The i lunli of today came when an olluei of the circuit court of Franklin comity wt arnxted by the military while attempting to s.tve notice of legu! pro 'ceding upon Uovernor Tay loi. TU clash of tomorow may come when th" oltl.ers of that court attempt an active exe-uthe head In the iter- ur New tods OVH NKW (ItK)DH JlfiT ARRIVKI) FROM T1IK FAST ASt) NOW RKADY Ft HI OCR 1000 CCSTOMKRN AKK: Combination Book Cases Writing Desks, China Closets Music Cabinets Library Cases ,N WajfaSunr Thoso goods wero bought before tho rise in prices niul will bo sold accordingly. Charles Hellborn 8 Son. WHsHSHSH5---HsHS-MS SOriE EXTRA FINE RIPE HISSION OLIVES JUS TOPENED "HEINTr PAM01S TICKLES, RELISHES, AXD CATSUI'S GORDON DILKOKTH'S JELLIES. AM) 1'KESERVES Commission. Brokerage, Insurance and Shipping. I VJ 1 I PIXE TEAS AND COFFEES CHASE c SAXHORN'S Id) (i)T I 1 1 Othera front removing or attempting , to remove the legUlallve body from n of Ailing Uovernor Beckham, and. j Fiankfort, and aUo from preventing from the democratic etandpoint, a''V force the plaintiffs from entering reguliirly-appolntcd adjutant general, j ll,c llthouse. U hrida itrHftf (Via t rfr.m ma atmtn n..i..! . .... . . " "" 31 IDDLEhHORO, Ky., Feb. 2. It is around the capltol building are bound reported here that William Wright, to obey If they decline to obey the' M-mtmbtr of the Kentucky leglsla- m. .i .h- -t j ure ami a promtn -nt democrat, was . t '. i assajiiintel at Uimhwh Fork. No par- ilalm, he will have the power to or- j ttcUHIll Mle avftllabe. ganlxe military forces of his own and' proceed ngalnst a!) Jjei.ple who defy1 . CALIFORNIA SENATOIISHIP. the uthorlty of hla otfice and that of On the other hand, republicans are ll.Ke1 in their attitude that there la SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. I. This an Insurrection In the state; that ' uflprnoon forty-one republican mem IUrkham and his actions, hla adjutant ber" of the ltl,,latur. " h'-e been LONDON, Feb. 3, 4:10 m.-Hello- araph messages flashed from Lady smith three days ago say that the Uoer Investment lines then were thin ning and that the besiegers were mov ing In orce toward Tugela, Indicating that i collision was expected there. This Intelligence bears out the other lgns that Oenerel Huller proposes arrangements, another attack. The war oilice continues to reveal nothing of what has happened in Na t it. w Ithout exception the military (Titles regard with dmiray the pros itect of a renewal of the unsaults un less Ueneral Huller has been heavily leinfoned. and there Is nothing to in olcate that this is the case. Lord Kltchner has been traveling from army to army In northern Cape Colony and General French, by In structions, is now in Cape Town con sulting with Lord K'jbert. Large en gineering constructions are proceeding at Modder river, sugesting that Lord Melhuen's fortified camp has been se lected as a base from which to In vade the Free State. I'.oks urns Turned Down In a Caucus Last Night. : Volt ilir ni7uinf rnt.tn.i I1.im l! i general and his orders, are those of.n,. , ,.,, . . , . i niet and agreed to vote for Thomas people acting In opposition to the law., r. r;urd. of Ventura, for senator. In They believe, they say. that they j caucus last evening. The Burns forces alone ure In the right, and that asl"''"1 tt committee to the caucus, whlcft the. can be but one right and all else I " of ,he ,!urn men hnd ''tended, , ; o protest against a caucus being ro..g. these fellow, who .how resist-. m.u, unh.M lxtv.one members. a ma- ance to the proclamation of (jovcrnorj Jorlty of the legislature, were present. Taylor are In rebellion against the Thomas Flint, chairman of the cau- conimonw?alth. i ' TJ" '1 lnBl "lajortty or tne elgh- , ,,. , . ... ! ty-lve who had signed the caucus call They will res st any attempt of any t i constituted a quorum and aa the meet kind to remove them from their post- j g W8s adjourned from that held tlon aiot.nJ the capltol, resisting force I lout night, all would he bound by Its with force, and that means civil war. j ted-'lons. The lirst clash of today came when, T1!e B,, co'" the room. : leavlllir llftv-two menihera nnuunl A Alonio Walker, a stenographer em-; VlUl. was taken which resulted ' In ployed by democratic atorneys, was I Batd receiving fifty votes and Grant placed under arrest In the capltol ! two ""rJ was declared to be the grounds, charged lth conduct tending: U8, ' " 18 ""stooa , , ,, ., , . ,t, u,ul l,,e "urns torces win muse to to incite mutiny and riot. This on-; ri,.(,i!111Ee Ule nomlnntlon. duct consisted In pinning to the door j of the private office of Governor Tay- lH'N'S RKV1KW OF lU'SINRSS. Tl..,.v i.. .. ikv..i it- ,. .IximmiI.. o.rt..- ,",'" ,s uuivuuitr j'cuno iicj n nuuiu ui'i'rui before Judge Cantrlll of "the rlrcult court and ask for an Injunction re- NKW YORK. Feb. 3. R. (1. Dun & Says There Is a Noticeable I From Lust Year's Record. LONDON. Feb. J.-There is no effl- ctal news from General Buller's head iuarters, and the only Infonr.atlon which has reached London In any way supporting the news that he has re crossed the Tugela Is found in the As sociated Press dispatches, announcing Lord Dundonald's reconnalsance, and which is taken to indicate a prelude to rene.vtd activity. As the dispatch Is three days old, and Lord Dundon- ald found no difficulty In crossing the river, it Is not lmposible that General Roller may have moved In the interim, and public anxiety is again centered on the Upper Tugela . Dispatches from elsewhere in South Afrlcu merely tell of dtsultory shell fire and the movements of patrols. though Cape Town mentions a rumor that General French has captured 80 Boers, where and how not being an nounced. LOCKENZO MARQL'EZ, Feb. 2.-A dispatch from Gaberones, dated Janu ary 23, describing a reconnalsance of fcome of Colonel Plummer's forces around the Boer laagar southward, seen.8 to dispose of the story that Ma feklng has been relieved. On that date the Rhodeslans captured two Transvaal laags and drove oft the Boer outpost before returning to Gab erones. LONDON. Feb. 2. Spencer Wilkin son, in the Morning Post today, dis cusses a long dispatch from Winston Churchill, dated at Pleterinaritxburg, and describing the sltsatlon In Natal. He says: " This dn.mtch deserves to be closely read. It is an appeal to the public at heme, and its it has been passed by the Hlrainlng Governor Taylor for all In- -lew of trade w, sy ' uisastrous eons-'iuences not easily to oe estimated. u si-ems nil cult, in view of the siraugy accepted at the war office as well as at Cape Town, to believe that General Buller Is to be alowed once more to attack a position with less than the numerical superiority of three t one, which tactleluna common ly irinh necessary for such a task. It is hardly intelligible that ho hhould at tack again without being reinforced. "Apparently, however, a third at irmii win rw matle without loss of time. Indeed, It seems probable that the movement is now In progress. We must hope that the splendid bravery of our men will be rewarded by iuc- cc. When Mr. Churchill says that the public must nerve themselves.' he probably means 'prepare our country mer ai nome for heavy losses In the condng buttle.' " Winston Churchill's dispatch from Pletermarltrburg, In addition to de tails respecting the details on the Tu gela give a mist Interesting survey of the g-neral josition. He ssys: "These most s'rious attacks UDon the war office anix-ar nn(...t tv, great army In Africa Is of the finest quality, beautifully organized and el".!ppfd In all details and has excel lent artillery. The Boer g'ins are few but splendid and are cleserly handled. The Boers tan find the nns of mov ing targets at 7.ui0 yards, often t the first shot of our tuns. We cannot explain how." in an inten-Ming comparison of the TrliiHh and lifer methods of warfar", ai illustrated during the battle of Hplonkop, showing how the British troops were "cramped, mixed and dis organized," and how the "machinery of control was shattered," he says: "TniB would not have alTeotd the Boers, each of whom In pursuance of a g"n.-ral resolve either to hold or to evai uate a position would have acted individually and quite Independently of o:Tlcers. It was a case of a wack of hounds against a llock of sheep. But the nxt morning the British bat talions were again collected and sol Id. Fhowlnjr the advantages of disci pline. A similar loss would have dis heartened the Boers and have caused a Keneral ttek. Herein lies our expec tation of 'ultimate success. The Brit ish have great recuperative powers, 'i'ae Boers have none. The war, there fore, is brought nearer an end ' vep by unsatisfactory oierations." Mr. Churchill, who anticipates t.-i the eonse'4uenc s of the war will not be altogether evil, "as there will be a TO RULE SAME AS TERRITORIES Commission's Plan for Govern-'ing- the Pbillfpiflcs. FINAL REPORT MADE PUBLIC Recommend a Supervisory Commis sion to Watch and Advise the Native Officials. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The presi dent twlay transmitted to congress the Irtt volume of the report of the Phil ippine commission. It Is a volume of iH pages, and is signed by Professor Sehurmann. Admiral Dewev. Colonel Benby and Professor Worcester. The principal subject dealt with Is the plan of government proposed by the cornmixslon. The commission announces itself an. lualif'edly In favor of a government of the Philippines analaznu to that f tie territories of the Vnlted States, with a governor to be appointed by th resident. ' Th'-y ay It Is desirable that the In- habitants of the archlnela should enjoy a large measure of home rule in lis internal affairs, their towns to en- Joy substantially the rights and priv ileges of the towns In a territory. The provinces should be vetted with ub sianti.Uly the same functions of a county in a territory. This system n ight t-e npplled to the Viscayan lal antis at once and a beginning might be made on the coast of Mindanao. Suffrage should be restricted by edu cational or properly qualifications, or both. This system would - necessitate a .mail body of American ofllcials of great ability and integrity, and of pa- great increase of respect between the , 'n' e arc1 tact- ln dealing with the other races, and on tills aeount the combatants and contmpt, the former wedge of cleavage, will be gone for ever," recalls the American civil war and says: "I'nion is never born without tra vail, and after the refining names have cooled we shall fiud the pure gold of a more harmonious system. Let Great Britain persevere." TIU'ST COMPANY ABSORBED. Millionaire Morton Reaches More Business. Out for XKW rORK. Feb. 2. -According to the Turns, the Morton Trust Company, which was incorporated last July with ex-Governor Levi P. Morton at Its head, Is to absorb the State Trust Company. The matter was virtually settled at a meeting of the men who have been caryinjf the negotiations through. The consolidated company, which will bear the name ot the Morton Trust Com pany, will have a capital stock of 2,- lOO.OOU, and a surplus and undivided profits of well over J2.500.000, conmif-sion rtcommends. that they should be paid high salaries. Their main function would be to advise town and ccunty councils in the discharge of duties and to watch the collection of the revenues and its expenditures. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The de- finse in the ca.e if Senator Clark, of Montana, Wore the senate committee on privileges and elections, today, be 'ari the presentations of its side of the controversy. The first half of the day was ijiven to three witnesses for the memorialists, arter which Thomas Lyons, county attorney of Jefferson county, was put on the stand by Faulkner. In Clark's behalf. Lyon's testimony was startling in I"'1'"' 'ii3.rle urougnt Represen tative Campbell, one of the attorneys for the prosecution Into the controver sy, as an active participant In the case saying that Campbell had promised him JI0OO to testify in the case against Clark in this prosecution. He ad nre- viousiy oeen a worker for Clark and The negotiations have been conduct- idithat h act In this matter at ed principally, it is understood, bv ex- , ' i v t urk. playing Secre.ary of the Navy Willian cJ M iln Put it. "of a Whitney, who is a director in tne: 1,,te 8l' n the other aide." Accord Morton Company, as well as a trustee! h? had vlslted Campbell. In the State Trust Company; by ex- . , h,arlnif his Proposition to tes- " " 1 'tlfv that ai&i't.fnt y, .. governor Morton and by George G. i , ' " 7'"' "''oers ot ine legis ts - ..... ... . . '"'" .i.c-ti, u u umi'c in wie uoi ion com- terfertn. with the movements of thJ. ,.H,ay: Thl." yir ",th mu,h of . . , , . . . i "'e yeiu s uusmess aiieuuy aone ana legislature and from his announced at- j n compari(Wn8 wU, pr0Ve misleading tempt to remove It to London, In this If that fact Is not taken Into account. Last year the certainty of treat lm- stato. Tomorrow an Injunction will be ask ed and there Is ro doubt that It will I provement had come before the year j opened and there was a rush to get In ' nl'll.tl'd httfi.lV. tl. ll'clrd li.ntl... t MnM. A oe granted. It Is certain that the re- U and prices advanced. This puuiictuis will pay no attention to the works are already crowded for J'Jdjje Cantrlll or his writs. I '""ntha ahead In most lines and prices ROSS, HIGGINS & CO. C. J. TRENCH ARD, Custom House Broker. ASTORIA, .OREGON Agent W. F. 4Co sod PsolOo Kxprru Co . The democratic member, of tho leg islature today e(TeefeT regular organ-; liatlon for the first time since the .wearing In of Governor Goobel. A se cret stsslon of the member, of both houses wo. held In the parlors of, the Capltol hotel at which tho elec- j tlon of Goebel a. governor and Beck- ham na lieutenant-governor was re-j affirmed, first In separate sessions of j the house and senate and afterward i In Joint session. Preceding this a re-J ward of $:O,0O0 for the nrrest and con-j vlctlon of the would-be nsnsssln of i Governor Goebel was talked of. ! FRANKFORT, Ky.. Feb. 2.-Sonator Goebol passed a comfortable day, and was somewhat better tonight. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-After the cabinet meeting the following state ment was made: "The president and cabinet decides that no case has yet arisen to Justify the Intervention of the national government In Kentucky, i had already advanced so far that a i recoil had already commenced ln the i tvin.e branches and was thought prob I able In others. With tho exception of the woolen I manufactures, the chief Industries I have met loss new business in January j than last yeur, though deliveries on ! previous contracts have been larger than a year ago. In the work turned out, last month probably surpasses nil others, Failures for the week have been In the I nited States against .'24 last year, and 54 in Canada, against 25 last year. PASSED THE BILL. Dutiable Goods Will Be Immediately Transported. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. The senate today passed the bill to extend the privilege of Immediate transportation of dutiable goods to the port of As toria, Oregon. Churchill represents the difficulties of General Buller's task in concise terms. .n.l- . ... . ... i i.e enemy win act witn common sense. They will place outposts on the hills and keep back their main body until thej see the direction of General Buller's movement. They will quickly bring up the main body and extempor ize what defensive works they can, in addition to such as they have pro fusely prepared in anticipation of var ious posible advances. "That is what every one would ex pect them to do, and that their main body can ride faster than General Bul ler's main body can walk, was also pretty generally understood. The con sequence is that the Boer army cannot be turned. Wherever It is attacked, It can present an entrenched front. "There ate "001 Boers watching I.adyamith, the same number hold ready to resist General Buller and 5000 kept ln reserve to reinforce either body In need. Thus, General Buller has to attack 12,000 men entrenched on fa vorable ground. For that purpose, Mr. Churchill thinks he ought to have M.000 men Instead of 23,000. In other words, Genoial Buller ou:;ht to have another division. "This opinion coincides with the view we have all along expressed that the center of gravity of the war He. In Natal and that a British victory there would be decisive while a complete! British defeat In Natal would have pany. . On the side of the Morton Trust Company figures such names as John Jacob Astor, Henry M. Flagler, V. O. Mills, A. J. Juilliard, President Rich ard A. McCudy, of the Mutual Life Insurance Company and ex-Governor Morton, while members of the Whit ney syndicate dominate ln the Metro politan Street Railway Company and in a large number of electric concerns .including besides Mr. Whitney, Thom as F. Ryan and P. A. B. Wldener, represent a large part of the State Trust Company's strength. R. A. C. Smith and Secretary Elihu Boot, who is consul for the Metropolitan, also considerable associates with the Whit ney interests are on the board of trustees. IS JUSTLY SARCASTIC. CITY OF MEXICO. Fob. 2.-The election difficulties ln Kentucky are regarded here as Indicating that that section of tho American union Is In a state of civil war and Correo Es nanol, the organ of the Spanish col ony. -sarcastically remarks that the United States is giving a fine example to Latin-America and adds that If a similar state of things were appar ent la any Latin-America country the newspape-s and the public in Yankee- land would be clamoring for American Intervention. Kentucky has In the past few days attracted about as much at tention as South Africa. re nan oeen. to his irn....t .. -. -...v.r, TTJg,., bribed. Campbell had agreed to pay him the sum mentioned for the evl dence, afterward agreeing to double It" He suid that afterward Campbell hud told him tlvit he (Lyoiw) would ruin htm (Cnmpbeli) if he revealed these facts before the committee, but that he had never said to Campbell that the story he had told Campbell he would tell was false. BANK NOTE CIRCULATION. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The i,nth ly circulation statement Issued by the controller of the cuirency shows that at the close ot business on January 31 IPO.'., the total circulation of national bank notes was $246,987,183, and In crease for the year of 13.745,632, and an increase for the month of S7l,60. i ne circulation based on United States oonus was X21.166.7S9. a de. ret the year of $874,510. and It s use for ncrea.se f, mo monin of $406,804. The circulation secured by lawful money aggregated JXVO.IO:!, and Increase, for the yet,. of HC20.202, an Increase for the m.Vth of $3S4,.S06. The amount of VnlU; States bonds on deposit to secure cir culating notes was $.,:!.1,S.:n,no, Uiu i., secure public deposits $sS,2'j9,4S0. " Sl-f i'.KMU CUUKT UtM.rJIl'TS. SALEM, Teb. 2.-The teceh.u ,t ,v office of the clerk of " ' covrt for th- mootl. of 3 n Z amounted to I !.-. and this ,u 2 w Z yesterday paid Into tho staie t , L by Clerk J. J. Murifcy. 9 l"-ury