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MIJLfllEIJC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, T.' : . ASTORIA, OttKGON, TUESDAY. 8KPTEMBKK 18, 1900. j.o. 6s VOL. Lll. WE HAVE GOT THOSE COLE'S AIR TIGHT HEATERS... ECLIPSE HARDWARE CO. HHP E WV Iff HIP A Few of Our Late Specialties First-Class Timothy Hay, First Class Cheat Hay, Oats. Rolled Barley, Chop Feed, Shorts, Bran, etc. Corvallis Flour and other First-Class Brands. Chaso & Sanborn's Teas and Coffees. Prime Fresh and Smoked Meats. ROSS, HIGG1NS & C0. SUMMER BASEBALL GOODS, HAMMOCKS, FISHING TACKLE BIRD CAGES, CROQUET SETS, CAMERAS, Etc., Etc. GRIFFIN I HAVE COME TO KEEP YOU WARM AND DRY AND TO ECONOMIZE FUEL... WILSON AIR-TIGHT HEATERS A CAR LOAD FOARD & STOKES CO. CLATSOP MILL CO; ASTORIA, ORE. Fir, Spruce and Cedar Lumber Boxes, Sash and Doors, Shingles and Mouldings I ...The Esmond Hotel.. PORTLAND, ORE., FRONT Kuromaoptan.Soo toll .Moor day. Amorlcau plan, 11.00 to 12.00 per day. C. J, TRBNCHARD, Commission, Brokerage, c-to HOM"B;;' ASTORIA, One csurance and Shipping. Agent W. F. 4 Co, and Pacific Kxprtai Co l. 'EH AGAIN - HI' - P'W'W'" GOODS. U REED OF THEM AT AND MORRISON STS. 8 ft OSCAR ANDERSON, Manager. J. 0. PKNDKGAHT, Chief Cloik LOOTING MADE A CAPITAL OFFENSE Germans Adopt Radical Measures to Check Disorder at Pckin. AMERICAN FORCE ADVANCES Will RtKic Cbrlirtaoi and Make Recoaaal Mi( K Northeast f Pckli-SIc loci Allies Killed It adua poder Exploslv. !NDON. Sept. l There 1. no ad dltlonal r.n from China this morn ing. The Dally Graphic iwawts that II ih Honor have acctited LI Huiik Chmiif and will nrjbiiblv accept Prince China as iHKKilctor. It 'iy that the powers hnv nureed to lnlt that a c'Ttrnl government satisfactory to the power, shall be establish"! In China and Hint full retribution nhiili b ex acted fr the attacks upon the lega tions. WASHINGTON. S ;t K -Th as nf th day without (in event btur 1ft t: on th (."I'liifCf t.1 1 uut lin went lo C'liflrm the 1'ir.llitlon mud lat wek hv the cHlilil. thnt there will be no linmiiliil- liniKrtnt development. The Imrrcsslon In that nothing cn ttr ilnPi until the Chln'-se themselves have impressed further toward the resi,.rttn of a go vernment In Pekln. .Mcnnwhll.? military prctrritlir. for a winter stav In China go on without ci-f.iitldn. though tha officials ar? care ful to point out thnt these are snly rrcnutlonnrv measure, and are not tc hv Uken at an Indication of tlnul de termination on the part of the gov ernment to remain. rniiviltht-d. IMA Associated Press.) PKKIN. Sept. W via Shanghai. Sept. 17 Provost court, have been otioned In Pekln !y all the military commander. The Gorman have made robbery 3 cap ital offatiae. Captain Wm W. Forwyth. with VW men of the Sixth United State. (Kvalrv. will start tomorrow on a tour of the dutilrt !o the Twthenat of Pe kin to n-Dcue Chrlntfun. and to mnke u ten-Java' retonnalMivtice. Other expe dltion have Seen planntj but the inn eral entlment I. opnoied to nuoh un di rt:iklnirn ;i they tend to keep the country disturbed. L'"Nnox, Sept. 1T.The TlrltUh com mander at Tnkn calil-s that a f.itlKue party engaged destroylntr iruntxiwder at Tune Chow luia lieen blown ui. Six teen were klllfd and twenty-two in jured. LONDON. Sept. 1 A upeelal dis patch from Shanehal aav. LI Hun Chnn ha arrived at Tien Tsln. WASHINOTON. Srpt. t7.-Tli- Chi nese inlplct'r has received a dispatch from Prince ChlnK. dated Pekln. Sep tember S, ftatlnir that he hag been clothed with full authority, toucher with LI Ilunar Chanir, to negotiate P-ace, and refiuextlne; Minister Wu to reo.iie'it the state department to in struct Minister! Conner to open neav tlntlons at once. Minister Wu has taken th? dispatch to th. state de partment. WASHINGTON. Sept. K.-The. war dfiMiiment ha rfCelved the followlnx cabltEram from CiencraJ Chaffee: ' Taku (no t'ate). Adjutant-Oenernl. Was.hlr.Rton, Sept. 13. Russian com mander assures ne he has ordered re pair mnterial from Port. Arthur, Vladl vostock and Cniled States and that he feels assured railway will be repaired In two months. Need 5 storm lings and 5,000 more small lings, latter required for Chinese houses to show our pro tection. Goodnow telegraphs on 7th at the request of LI Hun Char.R that the latter leaves Shanrhii lu a week or so. "CHAFFEE." It Is thought at the war department that the date. Sept. 13. refers to the tlmo the message left Pekln. The rail road mentioned Is the line between Tien Tsln anii Pekln. The second dispatch Is as follows: "Tnku. (no date). Adjutant-General, V.'B9liIngton,.-Pekln. Sept. It Expedi tion Tlen Tsln to Taku oD miles south ward, two companies. Fourteenth. In fantry participating. Returned to Tien ..REMOVAL, SALE.. For the next sixty days our entire stock of furniture and carpqts will be closed out at less than cost. Gall early and avoid the rush. CHARLES HE1LB0RN & SON Tula with slinht optx ntlon. Town des trojedby l'i!tlh troops, r.o caMUiltUf. Filed cabin ufllce p. m I'Ah. "CHAFKKK." NKW YOIIK, H-pt. 17.-L1 Hung Chang, who had g"n on board the Jliltlsh st'-amer Anplng for conveyance to Taku. ha l"n d-talned by bad weath-r, say the Tribune corrwpond f tit at ljnd ni. NKW VOKK, fi?pt. 17. A dl-patch to the Times from Parln aays: An Important functionary of th! Ger man foreign olflee now In Pari ay It will soon be generally recognized that Oermony, Gri-at Milt iln and Japan are In accord as to the policy to be followed in China anl that opposition to their plans cum principally from P.ussla. with whom of course Is France. Llttlo doubt Is entertained that Ger many Is slnw-re In her declaration that rh does not "ek t-rrltory but merely to maintain the principle of the "open d.ior'" and to obtain proier Indemnity f'ir the outraged h'T representative, tave unJergon. There Is a belief In well-lnform-d Jlplomatlc circles that the German emperor's p"ll"y Is gradu ally veering around In a sense favora ble to Great Britain, and that for a long time he has done what he could to bring abwt a better understanding between his own country and Great Itrltaln out has been greatly hlndred by popular lll will on both sides. Prince !I"nry's visit to London Is re garded as .f great tolltical Importance, as. Inde.-d, the commencement of the rnpproachmeit between G.-rmany and Circa ISril.iln siins desired by the kaiser. The prince will maintain the pr'nelple cif the 'op'n door" and side with Grent Britain ng.ilnst P.ussla. Ills mission Is to smooth matters over with the form'r country. VICTORIA. B. C. Sept. 17. -Among the advices brought by the lireconshlre from Chin-i were stories of the arrest of Chinese with the heads of foreign soldiers In snc ks. It seems that head money if 50 taels Is paid for each head. This fact was brought to light by the discovery of the private papers of Vice roy Yu Lu of Tlen Tsln. In his day book there Is an entry which reads: "Ta ds 100 paid for the heads of two American marines killed In 'he advance f..r the relief of Tlen Tsln. Taels 60 paid for two guns captured on the same occasion." - The entry explains "nany ghastly In cidents which have been recounted of the killing of wounded. When Captain Ileyt and three marines with him fell at the engagem-nt before Hsl arsenal, at tempts were made to decapitate them. The next night some Chinese were found hidden In the millet and. trying to escape, were bnyonctted. One clung with great tenacity to a bag which, vhen opened, was found to contain the head of a I'nlted States marine. Gun ner Watklns MANNA WAKES THEM TP. CdUtlins Republicans Against Over Cotifldence and Apathy. CHICAGO. Sept 17. Senator Hanna entertained twentv-five leading busi ness men of Chicago at luncheon at the Union league Club today, after which he made a short speech. The drift of thi senator's talk was that the business men of the country are as much Interested In this election as they aere in '96 and that they should take as active a part In It as they did four years ago. He. cautioned them that the onlv danger to Republican success waa overconfldence and apathy on the rart of Hie men who are not accustomed to take an active part in polities, and warned his hearers that Brvan was as much a free silver man now as he was four years ngo. M inna's appeal was that his auditors wake up and go to work. In talking of the purpose of the gathering Senator Hanna said: 'I wanted to wake them up and I guc-ss I did before I got through." FISH TRAT MEN IN TROUBLE. Manager for the Puget Sound Packing Company to Be Arrested. PORT TOWNSEXD. Sept. 17. The fish tran men along the straits of Fuca are In ttouble. and Deputy Fish Com missioner Boardman has caused a warrant to bn Issued for the arrest of B. A. Seaborg. general manager for the Puget Sound Packing Company. Sheriff Smith, of Clallam county. passed through here on his way to Falrhaven to make the arrest. Several heen nut In inside the three- mile limit to the mouths oft the Hoko and Klwjia rivers. FOUR THOUSAND KNOWN TO BE DEAD More Bodies Being; Unearthed at Galveston Every Hour. TRAINS EXPECTED THURSDAY Hone Ciri Ruaalof and Water Service Partially Resumed Rcfurtei Ponr Out of City la Cootloaal Stream. GALVESTON. Sept. 17.-Rports filed at General Rcurrey's headquarters up to 9 o'clock tonight reported the re covery and dlspcsltlon of but forty five bodies during the day. The News representative, however, reports ih burial of 130 bodl. Health OfTieoT Wilkinson stated to day that 40 p-r cent of the debris of every description had been removed from the streets and that 90 per cent of tlfe dea1 bodies had been disposed of ond 45 per cent of the co rcassos of animals had been rtrv..Aed from the city. But, as the wirk of removing the debri.-! goes on more bodies are be ing unearthed every hcur. The revised list of the dead contains about 4.100 names. There Is still an Immense amount of work to be done and In some ciuarters hardly an Impression has been made in the mountains of wreckage piled up fifteen and twenty feet high. The hopeful feature of the situation Is the rapid progress being made by the railroads In their effort to restore rail communication. It is announced that trains will enter the Union depot here Thursday next. Galveston Is beginning to look like itself again. Horae cars are In opera tion in the business part of the city, and the electric line and water service has been partially resumed. The stream of refugees Is kept up. Every departing train acrop. 4he hay is packed. Therj will be refugees leav ing for a week to come. No sadder sight could be Imagined than the pic ture presented by a boatload of refu gees, when the ropes were oast off and the craft swung out Into the bay and away from the storm-swept city. Ev ery face was turned toward the ruin, every eye moistened by tears. So great was the ruli to leave behind the scene of th? storm that the Law rence, the boat which connects with trains at Tex.is City, has not failed to leave her wharf a single day with out denying passage to a portion of those who wanted to get away. At Texas City a Philadelphia news paper has established a relief depot which Is doing pplendld work. This journal sent down a tralnload of sup plies, a staff of special correspondents, a corps of physicians and a band of trained nurses. Instead of waiting un til Galveston was reached to begin work, ster.s were taken to care for ref ugees at thi bay terminal of the Gal veston. Houston & Henderson, and dur ing the night and yesterday hundreds of hungry refugees were fed. while many sick and wounded were cared for. There Is plenty of work on hand for ten times the forces of laborers at present employed. The area which has as vet been untouched embraces four and a half miles of frontage on the bench and bay. and before It is cleared the bodies which lie rotting beneath th? tangled timbers will fall to pieces. Even now there Is no semblance of humanity In the gruesome things which nrs uncovered by the workers. Adjutant-General Scurry, who is In supreme control now. Is unable to pay the laborers for their services. He ar dmlly desires to do so, and today Im pressed upon th committee the need of money. I There is a great deal of trouble In properly distributing supplies, the rush at the depots being as great today as at any time slnc5 thov were opened. Tn line before the relief stations were women of evident refinement. They were Jammed In between negroes and the poorer classes of whites. It must have been a terrible struggle for them to accept succor In such a guise, but there was no alternative. It has Indeed been a divine mercy thnt the weather since the storm has been clear nnd dry. Had it rained a single day the suffering would have been twiblo. for there Is scarcely a whole roof In Galveston. There are now about 200 -soldiers in Galveston doin?: police nnd guard duty. There are numerous cases of Insanity In Galveston as a result of the terrible bereavements sustained by the surviv ors. JANESVILLE. Wis.. Sept. 17. An appeal to all Knights of Pythias for money contributions to relieve the Tex as sufferers was sent out from the of- llce oi the supreme chancellor Knights of Pythias today. It Is urged that money be raised by subscription and sent to Geo. B. Griggs, chairman of the K.' of P.' committee at Houston, Tex., from which point the distribution will be mad-:. GOEBCL MURDER CASE. Some Very Sensational Testimony In troduced Against Howard. FRANKFORT. Ky Sept. 17.-The first really sensational testimony In the trial of James Howard, charged with having fired the shot that killed Wil liam Goebl. was given today by Bow man Gaines, a local liveryman, and James Ptnbblefleld, a former deputy sheriff of Clay county. Thi former Identified Howard as the man who ran out from the rear of the statf house grounds and Jumped over a fence Immediately after the shooting. Gaines was positive In his Identifica tion of the prlsonr as the man and said that the latter then wore a mus tache and wa followed by a man who was tall and slender. The most sennatlonal witness, howev er, and at the same time the most Im portant witness from the prosecution's standpoint, wes James Btubblefleld. a, one-legged and one-armed ex-deputy sheriff of Clay county. Stubblefield tes tified that Howard exultlrgly old him that he flrd the shot that took Goebrt'a life. SIX LIVES LOST IN A FIRE. Salvation Army Nursery for Little Children Burned at Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, Sept. 17.-SU laves were lost, two persons were fatally In jured and several others were serious ly burned In a fire at No. 403 Ea-U Front street this evening. The fire Wus In an old four-storv tenement building that the Salvation Army was using as a day nursery for little children, and five of the v.ctlms killed were Utile cMIdre.n who had been left there to be cared for while their parents were out galnir.a; their livelihood. Another victim was a man who per il hed In the attempt to save the life of his little boy. The dead are: Jas. Harkins. aged 40 years; Herbert Harktns. aged 4; Rhoda Harkin3. aged 5 munths: Hattie Williams, aged months: Edward Mullen, aged 4 years Myrtle Farrel!. aged 8 years. Fatally iujured: Post Captain Elizabeth Erkduon. of New York- Staff Captain Bertha An derson, of Chicago. BRYAN'S LETTER PUBLISHED. He Still Maintains That Imperialism Is the All-Important Issue. LINCOLN. Neb.. Sept. 17. William J. Bryan's letter formally accepting the ni rrlnatlon for the presidency on the Democratic ticket was given to the ; public today. The letter contains about 5,000 words and reviews the various issues of the campaign. On Imperialism' he says: "The subjects, however trteated In this letter. Important as each may be In Itself, dc not press so Imperatively for solution as the question which the Platform declares to be the paramount lrsue In this campaign. No other ques tion can approach It In Importance, no other question demands such im mediate consideration." LE WET KILLED. Kruger Will Sail to Europe for His Health. NEW YORK. Sept. 17. It Is rumored In Johannesburg that General Christian De Wet. the Boer guerrilla, was killed on the seventh Instant near Potschef stroom. says the London correspondent of the Tribune. All doubts as to Mr. Kruger's Inten tions of proceeding to Europe are now at rest. In reply to a telegram sent by the Express, ttie Transvaal consul general stated that the object of Mr, Kruger's proposed European trip was personal and not political. The voyage was to be made for the sake of his health. Mr. Kruger declined to say whether the moment was opportune for a state ment of political character. DEMOCRATS CONFIDENT. Crokor Says That Bryan Will Have lOO.OoO Majority in Greater New York. WASHINGTON. Sept. 17. Senator Jcnes. of Arkansas, chairman of the national Dsmocratlc committee arriv ed here tonight from New York. The senator expressed himself tonight as hopeful of success In November. The outlook in New York state he said, was very promising from the Democratic standpoint. He said that Mr. Croker was confidently expectant of a Demo cratic majority of 100,000 in greater New York. M'KINLEY RETURNS TO WORK. Will Visit Washington for a Few Days Then Return to Canton. CANTON. Sept. 17. President Mc Klnley will start for Washington to morrow to attend to official dutlos and wil' return here the latter part of the week. It in said that some matters bearing on the Chinese question require early attention. GREATEST STRIKE IN OUR -HISTORY One Hundred and Twelve Thous and Miners Quit Work. OTHERS WILL JOIN TODAY Detecllvei Ordered Seal la Large Numbers to the Wyomlof Rerloa-Miay Miaei Have a Partial Force at Work. HAZ ELTON. Pa.. Sept. 17. President Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, tonight gave out the following state ment: "Information received up to tonight dhows that 112.000 mine workers are on ttrike In the anthracite region. Of this number 72,000 are In district No. 1: 30.000 In district No. 3. and 10,000 in district No. 7. "Reports received are to the effect that a large number of those who went to the mines today vM Join In auspersion tomorrow. The number of men now out on strike exceeds that of any other Industrial contest in the history of our country." WILKESBARRE. Pa.. Sept. 17.-The miners' strike haa tied up nearly all the collieries in the Wyoming district. After hearing reports from the mines, tlu; representatives of the big coal com panies and operators went Into confer ence. They did not look for a compro mise now and are going to prepare for the worst. It Is known thnt detective agencies In Pittsburg. Chicago and New York have received orders to send a large number of operatives to the Wyoming region at once. The striking miners held a meeting today, and there was a very large at tendance. Report from the various mines that all hands had refused to go to work caused great enthusiasm. Or ganizer Nlcolls addressed the men. He counseled them to be on "their good be havlor. ' -" " At 1 o'clock a few company hands were at work at the Pennsylvania Com pany's colliery at Plttston. They were cleaning up. and no coal was being mined. The United Mine Workers are pleased over what they term their vic tory at Plttston. They had expected that at least half of the employes of the Pennsylvania Coal Company would report for work this morning. The to tal number of men idle In the Wyom ing region Is 22,000. At 11 o'clock It was given out at strikers' headquarters that not a ton of coal was being mined In the Wyom ing valley, outride of the West End Coal Company's collieries at Mocara iua. A committee of UnKed Mine Workers was despatched to Mocanaqua to confer with the niners there, and if possible Induce .hem to quit work there. The committee will have a diffi cult task, as the company has always treated Its men with exceptional kind ness. ROOSEVELT AT HELENA. Though He Spoke Twice Many Who Wished to Hear Him Coutd Not. HELENA. Sept, 17. The Roosevelt special arrived here at 8 o'clock today, where the night was spent. Tomor row morning the party will leave for Butte, making short stops at Baals, Boulder and Clancy. He will proceed from there to Dillon. Lima. Pocatello. Ida., Ogden and Salt Lake City. Two meetings were held here this evening. Even this arrangement did not permit all. to hear who wanted to get In. WHEAT MARKET. PORTLAND. Sept. 17. Wheat, Walla Walla. 5c57c; Valley and bluestem, 59ci360c. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 17.-Wheat, December, 110i: cash 105. CHICAGO, Sept. 17.-Wheat. October. opening. 76',4: closing. 77. . LIVERPOOL, Sept. 17. Wheat. Sep tember, 6s. 2',,d. COLORADO REPUBLICANS. Nominate for Governer Goudy, Who Has Returned to the Repub lican Fold. DENVER, Sept. 17. The Republican state convention today nominated Frank C. Goudy for governor. Goudy was one of the Colorado delegates who walked out of the Republican national convention with Senator Teller In 1. He declared that he was still loyal to silver but that the question has been taken out of this campaign by the Democratic party. METAL, MARKET. NEW YORK. Sept. 17. Silver, lead, unchanged.