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, ,. t ...... III o v CM VOL L. ASTOlilA. OMCGON, FRIDAY. FEBiiUAKY 9, 1900, NO. 212 IFor 3 Years The Bridge & Ikacli Manufacturing Co. have always combined every known improvement for in creasing the utility, operation and cooking cjualitics of their ranges. Their latest can be seen in the window of the Eclipse Hardware Co. The best range in the world. You can buy one. The price is not out of sight, PAYING THE WAY FOR BAD NEWS Boer "Strength" and Boiler's "Difficulties" Emphasized. ANOTHER PAINFUL SURPRISE (p-Hcl-i)--.(- I Valentines ALU KIND5 AND SUES Fancy, Sentimental and Comics The Navy So Much Depended on IsOne Third Disabled by the Lock of Mod ern Guns A Grievous Defect. Full Assortme tcf Masks . i GRIFFIN & REED ..Columbia Bicycles.. lUrtfiird, model 1900, $35.00 Chalnlrss, model IWO, $75.00 Clmlaloss, model 1899, $60.00 Columbia, model 1W0, $50.00 Columbia, model lift, $42.50 l'l'iinmit, model l'.KKI, $25-00 foard 4 Stokes Co., Agts. --(i----- SOIE EXTRA FINE RIPE HUSSION OLIVES JUS TOPENED "HEINTZ" FAMOUS PICKLES, KCLISHES. AND CATSUPS GORDON DILWORTHS JELLIES AND PRESERVES ) PINE TEAS AND COhTEES CHASE & SANBORN'S ROSS. HIGGINS , CO. LONDON, Feb. , 4 a, m. All mcs agc fr-un the observers with General HulUr throw In a phrase or two about "th strong' h of the liner positions," a ii. I "the difficulties of General liullcr's work, hut they do nut ran y events bryuiii Tuesday evening. Their litHt alender narratives leave tlio British advance on Vaal Ktanti, In the ctiitur of the Mfinl-cln'lti, win-re the troo nru exposed to the I'm-r ar tillery on both side and In the center. Thi fighting continued until 9 o'clock Tuesday evening and altmst without u duiilit continued Wednesday, a the- Boers certainly would not leave thin j wedge Into their line unmolested. It ' in u) uirerrei mat uencral Rulh-r I uumi either continue to advance or j retire. j The 1,1-uvl t fighting appear to have hen on Tuesday. General liullcr's 233 cesoaltlc ii mi ntioned as having oc curred before noon Tuesday. Iauge list are consequently expected for the lert of the day. The casualties al ready reported brings the total British losses during the war up 'to 10,214 kill ed, wounded and captured, The disposition here la rather to min imise the Importance of the fighting In Natal upon the expected declxlve en gagement In Northern Cape Colony and uiHin the Invasion of the Free State by Inl Roberts. At all eentn, thla la the official view. The public does nm like these new waits, and there la a aharp unxlety for further new. In Cupe Colony, General MacDonald haa had a skirmish with a thousand Boer at Koodoibogg. Thla waa on Monday. The Boera have been taking the offensive against General French near Rensburg, aa well us against Ueneral Gatacre In the Storm berg hllla. Since the war haa aualncd the n aourcea of the military ayatein, Eng land haa been troubled by the possl billty that sea fighting might ahow na val defecta which would weaken the flint line of defenae in which she hns placed auch complete truat. Public men have been painfully surprised to leurn that aixteen battleahlpa and eight armored crulaera depend upon muxsle loader. Thla means that the smaller but fast er ahlpa with modern guna would ' be able to atay one thousand or two thou sand -yards out of range and disable ubout one-third of the veeela which appear In the naval Hat aa "first das." The admiralty la underatood to be preparing to remedy thla defect. OUR NEW, GOODS Jiint arrived from the Eaat and uow ready for our 1900 customers are: (Combination Hook Cases, Writing Desks, Cliiou Closets, Musio Cabinets, Library Cases, In Uoldon Uak aud Mnouany. ' Tlicne kwhU were bctight before the rise In prices and will be sold Rccordintily. Charles Hellborn 0 Son 8 (ft INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN. ORDERS SOLICITED Miss Bertha (lartin's lccoruiive cryH..enai,. . Initials i Specialty. Choice Selection of Stamping Design. Stamping Neatly Done. Itimiii HSiO IXikum libllillng, 31 n( Wa.lilngton Bti., 'I'orllnml, Or. Art Room. COUNTING THE COST. One Hundred Million Dollars Spent l'p to Date. LINDON. Feb. 8.-The supplemen tary army estimate to March ol wus laid pro forma before the house of coirmioiM yesterday. It la reported that the call la for 20,000.(00, which would make the coat of the war up to date 30,000.000. The maintenance of 200,00 men at the front, It In estimated, costs between S,00n,lW and 10,000,000 per month. recollection of Holler's two UlnastrouH failures, after auspicious starts, wer not kem In the mind of the public, the list of eMuaktlt published today would be a sufficient reminder of tin tremendous dlincultiia of his task. II la occupation of Vuulkruntz, the key to the lower ridges, while a prulae worthy and gallunt achievement, by no means slmilllca that General White Hill inevitably Join hunds wlih him. I'efore lluller are several days of hurd fighting, and any attempt to forecafct the result would be valueless, u bused on precedent, which can hardly be done In warfare. It would be bound to be In f ivor of the Iloers, for apparently the conditions have not materially altered since tie Inst fruitless attempt. On the other hund th'HHtlsh troops are amurting under defeat and will un doubtedly be nerved to more deaperate efforts than ever before, and If furious gallantry can carry Uullcr over the kopje that face blm, Ladysmlth will lie relieved within a week. Hut so far IJrltlah bravery has been In the main woefully mlngulded. It Is more than likely that General I3art0n, at Chevely, may be string enough to advance upon the Tugela and render valuable assist ance from the southeast, while the be leaguered garrison Itself, accoMlna- to atest dlxpntchcs, should be able to create a potential divtralon when liul-l- r has overcome the Initial dlffculties which ll In the kopj.-g. Immediately north of the Tugcla. ' Turning from the transcendent Inter cut In Uidysmllh, the whole war area rcpreei ts a scene of Important ac tivity. The ISoer atlack on Oenral '.iita. re's forcis, reported February 7. lulled out. -he artillery of the Moers, after shelling the ramp, retiring up- u the ai rival of UrltUli relnfirce- uiint. The atT.ilr acarvely wn rantsi iK-Ing called a skirmish. The HrltlHh annul tie were one man killed and four mn wounded. I.ute advices from Sierkxtroin an- m. unie that Gutacre's cavalry Is In hot pursuit of the Iloers. While nothing Ivi resulted from the uffalr, it Indl catea that the burgh -rs are fully alive to the Inipurtunce of the eoncentra- tlon which Is on the verse of oceur- ing between the forces of Gatacre, Cell y-Klnney and Frnch, and they lo not hesitate to take the acgrcsslve In an effort against an tstablhhed po- Ition, though It Is believed a sufficient- large tody of troopi will aoon be massed at Colesburg to nsure the un opposed advance of the Invading army when It Is ready to start. That it Is not prepared for this move at pivst iit, and that all this acti. ity Is but merely preliminary to what Is now- known aa Iird Roberta' main move- nent, la evidenced by dit-patches from (ae Town under date of Febniury 7. announcing that the director of the triuiKpoit service was alvertlslng for 'X wagons and drivers. Without these it will be useless to think of carrying n un Invnxlon, and it must he a month more before they are ready. An.itner preliminary is that Robtrts has Just sanctioned the formation of a colonial yeomanry, consisting of a troop of 100 men for the east district of the colony to protect loyal farmers. This force will be officered, from among the local eon.ar.ry- Opinion Is divided at to wneiher Roberts and Kitchner have ne to Modder river or to Sterkstrom. General MncDonald'a activity In for-! nier localities, combined with the, iM'llef that the t'oletburg movement is to draw off a portion of the Free Stai rs, his glen rise to the hope that Methuen will shortly be enabled to inukc a successful attack to relieve Kliuberley, while the gradually thin ning forces surrounding Mufeking will liogc ther melt away. THE BURIAL OF USURPER G0EEEL Windy Joe Blackboro Delivers Frenzied Haran?ne. LARGE CROWDS PRESENT ' Justice "Goebel Calls Upon the Peo ple to Maiotalo the "Principles" for Which His Brother Died. FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. g.-Gover- nor Taylor announced thla morning that he had. as et, taken no action re garding the Louisville agreement and did not know whether he would do so today or not. He said there were some things he desired to consider before he mude up his rrilnd aa to the best thing to do. As early aa ( o'clock people began to arrive from the country for the pur- vMK oi attending Goebei a funeral, and by 7 o'clock there was a string of them -K.urlrg through the room In which the body lay. so great that the police had great difficulty in handling It- The crowd grew rapidly and, Judging from thj number that came early In the forenoon, there were no less than 10.060 peoile at the funeral. The formation of the parade began at U o'clock. It was headed by a bat tullon of police and members of the city council, numerous local societies and organisations, citlxena on foot In great numbers, and hundreds of men on horseback made up the procession. The services at the hotel were short and simple, but at the cemetery they were elaborate and were witnessed by 7.GOI) people. The oiatlon of the day was delivered by Senator Blackborn. Is a clew to the asaasMn of Governor Gocbtl of Kentucky. A young man ar rived In the city last fall whose name was George F. Ahlers, claiming that his father was a member of the firm of Hoffman Sc Ahlers, of Cincinnati. He claimed the state f Kentucky as his home and when under the Influence of drink was easily excited and would work hinnelf .,to a violent pansion while discussing politics. He raid re peatedly that It was his evidence thai acquitted Mr. Goebel of the charge of Piurder. He was very bitter In his de nunciation of Coubel and r.ffered to bet large sums of money that Goebel would be assassinated before he reached the gubernatorial thalr. He said a relative of Goebel' victim was pledged to kill the governor, but in case he fulled to keep his word cthera would rot fall. He had left Peoria sometime before the Kentucky tragedy and his present whereabouts are not known. i ANOTHER BAD TRAIN WRECK Rear-End Collision in Michigan on tbe Northwestern. NINE PASSENGERS KILLED Past Preiijht Train in Blinding Snow wStorm Crashes Through Three Passenger Coaches. bLACKBl'RN'S ORATION. Kentuck' New Senator Works l'p u Seiwution at Goebel's Funeral. Frankfort. Ky:. Feb.'s.-in an oration at the funeral of Governor Goe bel today Senator Uluckburn said: "Goebel is dead, but that which he Hood for, and that which he died for. Mill Uvea. &ome men, In their deaths, render greater service to the cause they advocate tlntn It were possible to do In life." As Senator Blackburn continued and his stentorian voice rang out In his denunciation of the shooting of Govern or Goebel, and as he stated that It waa not the work of a crank or a critzed assassin, murmurs of'no" and "that's right" came from the closely packed crowd, while tears btood in the eyes of many of the grim-faced men within hearing of his voice. THE MONTANA DISGRACE. Former Governor Mauser Explains Some of the Peculiarities of Polit ical Campaigns In the State. j ErfCANABA. Mich., Feb. g.The Chi Cago and Northwestern passenger .train, known as the "Fetch Mountain j accommodation," which runa between i this city and Metropolitan, waa wreck- WASHING TON, Feb. . Former j ed in a rear-end collision at the Ford Governor B. T. Hauser, of Montana, river switch at :3o tonlirht ttin. ie,. :ohb were killed, three are reported nissing, five seriously and four slight- was a witness before the senate coin-' mittee on prifiiegca and elections In the contest case against Senator Clark todav. He said he thought he could '"Jured. take "the credit, or discredit, of Indue-, The dead are: W. R. Hill, Estcanaba, Ir-g Clark to anlat us In the campaign i.ag(iageman of the accommodation and afterward to bec-cme a candidate ' ....... , . ... for the senate." train; lUlum Dillon, Escanaba. brake- "I also told him," said the govern r, man on the accommodation train; MIsa "thui we wanted him to help stand the Seynour, Delta county, Michigan; boss Irishman off." ;i.'harles Martin, Escanaba, civil engin- "Asslst hew?" a member of the-com-! r. . . ii, urvigc xv. omen, r,K(iuitua, Clvli Sam Green, Neguanee. agent mission asked. "Kv the liso f.f him l.raina M- engin-.-er; JUSTUS GOEBEL'S STATEMENT. tie Wants the Principles for Which the Dead Man Stood Maintained by the People. LEARNING BV EXPERIKNCE. 1 C. J. TRENCHARD, Commission, Brokerage, Insurance and Shipping. Custom House Broker. ASTORIA, .OREGON Agent W. F. 4 Co, and Faelflo Kxpreia Co s. RULLER'S RECENT CASUALTIES, LONDON, Feb. 8. Buller cabled the war office that the approximate lirltlah casualties In the righting at Potgleter's drift, up to noon Tuseday, are: Offl cers Two killed and 15 wounded: non commissioned officers and men, 21 kill ed aud wounded. The ofJlccrs killed were Major Johnson-Smith and Lieu tenant Shafter, both of the Durham light Infantry. The officers wounded Include Colonel Fltrgerald, of tho Dur ham light Infantry, and Colonel Mont gomery ,of thi Royal artillery, and Lieutenant Sir Cunningham, of the Rifle brigade. BULLER STILL FIGHTING. Hut In, View of Other Failures English Attempt no Forecast of Events. LONDON. Feb. 8. Presumably Rul ler is fighting again today, In hl.s third utlempt to relieve Ladysmlth, and news of great importance may arrive at any time. Yet here there Is more doubt than exultation, for even if the FRANKFORT. Ky.. Feb. 8.-Justus Goebel tonight Issued an open letter in which he says: "Vour friend my brother lies dead before you, murdered for his devotion to the cause of the people. "Should not Kentucky, now and here, swear by his blood that h'er sons will Bee Justice done to those concerned In his foul taking off? 'Will designing men of high station be nermltteri tn itun an (in.ru t ,.,. England Will Not He Caught Napping ,uw ,0 furtner ambitions and Again l-i Military Experience. when that ambition Is disappointed J turn a red-handed murderer loose un- LONDON, Feb. 8.-The Times snys.dw the very roof of the executive Ms morning: mansion? "In. critical limes friendly relations "The grandest tribute possible to be with foreign states are only too easliy'ald him Is to fight for the principles disturbed and therefore It behooves us for which he laid down his life as he not to rely with unthinking opttsm on fought for them." their continued maintenance, j 'The country should tuke a lessonj RESTRAINING ORDER ASKED. from o ur military experience and do! . everything possible to Insure the Taylor's Attorneys Institute Proceeding and his following," was the reply. ; f"r Upper Peninsular Brewing Co.; Clark objected to entering the eon tt.t on atount of the expense. He (the witness! had as.urred him that the pri maries would rot cost to exceed 130,000 or $40,000 and after, that the campaign for tne annate would, not go beyond IC-0,000 or 140,014. This amount would, be fatal; Mrs. Seymour, burned and he thought, cover "all the legitimate inlernul'y Injured; Theo. Deford, Hard expenses and, speaking of legitimate rood, Mich., fatally injured: Richard expenses, Hauser said his idea of leg!-' Roberts. E.icanaba, conductor of the timate expenses in a campaign In Mon- accommodation, leg smashed. Three tana was very different from what it passengers are reported to be missing two unknown men; an unknown wo man, the body charred beyond recog nition. The injured include B. W. Brown, K.-ciinaba. codar merchant, believed to was in th Eestern states. , and their bodies are supposed to be j vjreen b;w uiif rear ngnis ol me irt&in "the : directly ahead aud. with a warning cry "We have to have money to fix the under the burning wreckage, but their workers and saloon men," he said, but j names sould nut be ascertained. I do not Include the purchase of votes'. I The fast freight train was making either In the legulu'ure or out of It.' about 50 miles an hour, forging ahead That certainly i not proper." j through a blinding snow storm, which He then gave some figures of the ex- ; made it Impossible to see the signal rxnditures in former campaigns, say-'lights ahead. When within 100 yards Ing that in the capitol contest at least ' of the switch at Ford river. Engineer a million dollars was spent, and "in the first state election," he added. biS-rutr, so-called, put up Slo.OOO orto his fireman, Jumped. The next m 130,000 or 840.000 each, to begin with, to gtant the fast freight struck tho pas say nothing of their ubeiuent ex- senger train and telescoped three of Pnses.-' the coaches. . Asked who constituted the "btg t tour," the witness replied. "Colonel j MURDER NEAR WALLA WALLA. Broadwater, Clark, Daly and a g-ntle- i . man named Hauser." (meaning him- j jIomment Farmer Shot By His Grand-sel- I 8m WM'e Under the Influence of. Whiskey. .. CYCLONE IN ILLINOIS. j i WALLA WALLA, Feb. S.R. p. Manj Dwellings and Business Houses ' Uoy,.e a Weli-known farmer, was shot Badly Wrecked. and killed this evening at his home U miles from here, by his grandson, I Frank RoyceJ Frank Royci left the city this afternoon In a drunken condi tion. When he reached Dixie he be came Involved In a fight with Itufus Woods, biting his nose nearly off. Royce then proceeded to the Lome of his grandfather, B. F. Royce. w 1th whom he has been living, about two miles above Dixie. Woods followed in pursuit of Royce and the two men Te- ST. LOUIS, Feb. 8. A cyclone is re Krted to have struck near Collinsville, 111. Several houses are reported de-1 stroyed. Doctors have left Collinsville for the scene. Collinsville is on the Vundalia road, about tour milts east of here. I About 2:30 a. m. the storm was first lelt at a point one mile south of Col linsville. The first house demolished wan that AfnnieH hv Prnnlr Knhjirt He. his son and daughter were burled their struggle, in the pretence in the debris and it was some time be maintenance of the navy In the highest state of eMeleucy. To wait for a war lo break out b.-fore we being to impro vise uppliancea which by proper fore sight enn he better and more economi cally proWded beforehand, Is to court disaster." The Standtird says: "It appears from official correspond ence that In December, 1SS4, the chief engineer official of Natal proposed that a survey should be quietly made over, Is not denied, however, that the defend- the Druk-nsburg range but the general jnts in the petition are Governor Beck- eommandiiig replied In effect that for ham et al. After hearing former Gov In the Cincinnati Federal Court. CINCINNATI, Feb. 8. Former Gov ernor Bradley and Attorney MacKoy, attorneys for Governor Taylor, and others appeared before Federal Judge Taft at noon today and were given a hearing in the chambers on a petition for a restraining order, the exact na ture of which was not made public. It fore they were rescued, bruised and bleeding from the wreckage. After the Kohart house, a group of three dwellings was felled by the wind. The Hightsvilie Coal Company build ing was next attacked, the immense smokestack being levelled to the ground. From there the wind reached the Vandal ia tracks, laying waste to the telegraph poles for a distance of a quarter of a mile. Beyond the Vanda lla tracks stood a group of large frame houses occupied by the Lawrence, Od- i f the elder Royce. Frank Royce Bull ed a gun, shot at Wroods but missed him and killed bis grandfather. Young Royce ther. fired several shots at Woods but without effect. After Royce saw what he hud done he set tire to the house, which burned to the ground and the old gentleman's budy was consumed. During the trouble Mrs. B. F. Royce fled to the barn and found safety by hiding. Frank Royce shot four times at F. M. Skinner, a railroad employe who was at work a short distance from the derhole and Fix families. The storm . 8, ene' unH'y dinner wa un levelled them and nothing is left save i harmed- a mass of taneled wreckage. i Ryce then proceeded down the road Two people were seriously Injured. to political reasons It was to move In the matter." undctvirable EXTREME HEATED TERM. Numerous Deaths From Sunstroke Buenos Ayres. in BUENOS AYRES, Feb. 8. The terri- Lbl-j heat continues. There were 2oi sunstrokes on Monday and 1S7 Tues day. The futal cass show a diminu tion, but numerous bodies are decom posing at the cemetery, owing to the strlko f the grave diggers for higher wuges. ernor Bradley and MacKoy, Judge Taft announced to them they should at once make copies of their petitions for the defendants and furnish them with the would be heard in the United States would be heard in the United tSates court of appeals at Cincinnati on Feb ruary 12. Bradley and MacKoy would not say anything about the nature of their proceedings or the plans of their clients. C.OEUEL'S ASSASSIN. PEORIA, III., Feb. 8. The police of Peoria have unearthed what they think with a Winchester In hand and oom Ing to the place of Ben Bllehir fired ! three shots through the house and then j fled. ' , I The sheriff and a posse are in pursuit ' of Royce. Young Royce had been farm- Ing his grandfather's place. It is said ; that they had had difficulty over sev 1 eral matters. Royce Is about 30 years ! old and has a wife and several chil j dren. ' B. F. Royce was a wealthy pioneer 1 of tills county. He was buncoed out ; of $3,000 last spring by "Crooked ' Mouth" Green. The community is aroused and Royce j w ill probably be lynched if caught.' 1 LATER It is believed tonight that i Frank Royce, after setting fire to the fii-intr several Bhota, threw THE NEW COMMISSION. NEW YORK. Feb. 8. A special the Herald from Washington says: Now that the president has received the report of the Philippine commission prepared by President Sehurnian, ac tive consideration is being given to the membership of the proposed commis sion to establish civil government In the island. It seems certain that Colonel Charles Der.by, If he finds he can go, and Pro fessor Worcester will be two members. Judge M. E. Tafr, of West Virginia, is under consideration, and it Is thought he ran he Induced tr. ncei.t the an- house and firing several Bhota, pointmnt. .farms B. Angell and Judge : himsclt ltn ' flatI,es an'1 was cre Thayer, of Massachusetts, have also ! ""-ted with his grandfather. been mentioned, but It Is not believed I the latter will accept. While Mr. McKinley would ilke j President Schurman to return to Mani- INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 9.-A la, Mr. Schurman thinks he cannot go ; "rectal from Terre Haute says: Col back, and his name has not been con- IH;I Richard Thompson, -x-secretary sidered in connection with the new ! ot the navy, died at 1 o'clock this commission. morning. EX-SECRETARY THOMPSON DEAD.