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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1900)
? 1. ' 1 L'i c'".i. -;. ,: fa mm ( Ayiy Ay i w ! VOL LU. AHTOUIA, OKKGON. VVKDNESDAY. DKCKMBKK H, 1900.. J0. US it WE ARE SELLING AGENTS IN ASTORIA FOR BRIDGE, . Superior Stool Ranges BEACH Sylph Heater tfi CO.h Olio Heater COLE Hot Blast Heater for Coal MFG. Dome Top Heater for Wood CO.'b Russia Iron Heater tor Wood Wo iik) nmiiufacturo a IIuhmh Iron Queen Heater for Wood. TIiomo comjrin tlio best lino of stoves in tho ntat. Wo nt-11 no whioihI-cIamij tovt. An in Hpection of our lino of utoven will pay you. ECLIPSE .HARDWARE CO. WE HAVE RECEIVED MANY COMPLIHENTS on our holiday linlny. Wo di wire to call your Hjxciul iitU-ntion to our Hooks and Calendars. Uenu tiful and dainty CSift Hooks. Tlio poets in nil htylc of bindiiiK. Our twenty-five rent lino can not lo Hurpn.-wod, muli nulhont on llenty, Optic, Kipling, etc., are included. Our Cnlendan imint bo seen to bo appreciated. Wo have tliem at all prices from 10c to 2.50eacli. You will find many articles in our store suitable fur Christina. We ask you to call and see them. Our prices aro right. GRIFFIN & REED. . . Extra Fine Xntts Beef, Turkey., Geese, Chickens, etc. Candies, Fruits and Nuts of All Varieties, Plum Pud ding, etc., f - w - i ROSS, HIGGINS & CO. JUST RECEIVED. pciimiic Norway Stockfish ULriUIllL Norway Mackerel Norway Herring GEORGE'S CODFISH FINDON HADDOCK KIPPERED HERRING Foard 8 Stokes Company... A LONG ROW one W. J. Scully, 431 BOND STREET, Between Ninth aid Tenth Streets Commission, Brokerage, Insurance and Shlccln?. WE ARE READY FOR THE CHRISTMAS RUSH With a WW Stock of Good Things Of our new and up-to-date Air tight Heaters are still on hand. Wo figured on considerable cold weather and purchased an un usual quantity; but tho weather has moderated, consequently sales have been slow. We are over stocked and must have tho room. From now on these splendid heat ing stoves will bo sold at a reduc tion of 20 per cent FOR CASH. CHARD, Cuitom Homo Broker. , ASTORIA, ORE ltn W. K. 4Co, and Pttlflo Kxpkm Co. INVESTIGATION OF HAZING OF IJOOZ Classmates Refute Charges Made by Cadet's Father. WAS NOT HIT NEAR HEART Nor Was Hi Interfere With ti Account at Hit Religions Belief or Tendencies His Clasimnlei Considered Him Cownrd. WEST POINT. N. T. Dec. 1.-The military court of Inquiry, which began taking testimony at Bristol, Pa., ye, terday. arrived at the military aead.-my today and continued It investigation of the charges of lll-ln-ntmcnt made by the parent of former Cadet Oscar L. Rouge, who died recently at his home In Bristol. Sixty-eight nwmber of thf ctujt of 1!I. to which H'mix" belonged until he resigned In September or October, IS9S, were lutnmnned to the court. Four of the sixty cndi of the a'c- ond das were examined and alt of them who knew IIhii declared that his stand Ins: with his rlnmnteii wax not very high n they looked upon him a a coward. The itory of hln fight with Keiiur In 1WS was told by Cadet O. N. Tyler, who seconded Hoot. All denied that Boo had been Inter fered with on account of his rellgloui belief or tendencies. Cadet O. N. Tyler atd: "I waa present at the fljtht." "Was there a knock-out blow deliv ered?" "Yes. sir. noon was hit In the region of the stomach and when he waa on the ground he said the wind waa knocked out of him." "Waa there any blow delivered In ths region of the heart?" "No. ilr." "Wan It a fair fight?" "Tes. sir. It wo," ''Wert there any mark pn. Boon af ter It waa over?" "Tea, air. He had a black eye and a I cut over the left eye.'' The witness said he had never been made to take hot enure but he had aeon IP given In the nx-s hall. He never saw It given to Boot. PMNCE OF WALES CENSURED. Dr. Parker Attacks Gambling Habits of the British Aristocracy. LONDON. Doc. IS.-Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker, pnstor of the City Temple, who ha assumed for a week the editorship of the London Sun, In today's liwue of the paper, under the heading. "Bet ting and Gambling Forecasts," tilts at the Prince of Wale and Lord Roseber ry aa follows: 'Woe to any country In which the helra to the throne and prime minis ter favor the race course, aa It exists among us today. If princes are guil ty. It Is a poor consolation for us to rebuke peasant. If the premier can blaspheme he ha no right to rebuke ribaldry upon the treet. I would rash--er have as premier a man of solid character than one of brilliant mind addicted to habit that may have the effect of a pestilence upon the rlnlng generation." BID8 FOn MEN-OF-WAR. Board of Naval Construction Has De- elded to Accept Bids of Union Iron Works for Two Vessels. WASHINGTON. Dec. 18.-The board of naval construction, considering the bids for the construction of battleships and cruisers, has settled these points: One of the big armored cruisers shall go to Cramps, one to Newport New and one to the Union Iron Works in California, One battleship shall go to Fore River Engine Work, at Qulncy, Mass. Thl leave seven ship to be dis posed of, and while In view of the fact that another meeting of the board Is to be held It Is not possible to make a pre diction with absolute accuracy, Indica tions are that they will be distributed as follows: One cruiser and one battleship to SPECIAL FOR A NEW Mantel Folding Beds JUST RECEIVED Ladles Dressing Table In Golden Oak, Mahogany and Birds' Eye Maple IRON BEDSTEADS, FULL BRASS TOP, $6.50 CHARLES HEILBORN oc ' SON Cramps, making ' three for them; one cruiser and one battlexhlp to Newport News, making throe for them; one crui ser and one buttleahlp to the I'nlin Iron Works, muklng three for them and one batlleahlp to Iiulh Iron Works. There la atlll a poimlblllty that Moran Ilroa., of Beanie, may get the battle ship slated fr the Cnlon Iron Works or the i;ath Iron Works, AHHOCIATr'I) PItKHS WON, Buprenw Cinjrt of MldSmrl lieclded That It la N'H a Monopoly. ST. Lot'I.H, I)c. 1.-The fuprt-me court of Muwuiuri, at Jefferson City, to day handed down an opinion In the cuae of the Blar Publishing .Vnpany vs. Tho Amoclated Prvia of Illlnola, de ciding the caw uoanlmoudly In favor of The AwtiM-lttU-d Iresa. The Btar Company was engiu;d l.i publishing ao evening newpiier In Kt. Loula known as The Btar, and It brought suit for a writ of mandamus to require The Associated Press to serve It with an evening news repir:. The Axaoclated Preai anbwered that while It waa In form a corporation It wa ementlaJly a co-operative society bawd upon tin agreement b-ftw-a-n Its niemlxTi to gathi-r and furnlh news to each other; that It u not engaged In liewflgathcrlng as a commercial enter prise and that It carried on Its bulnc without any effort at profit making. It denied that Ita ao-calted executive contract were In violation of the laws Of the United State, the state of Illi nois or the state of Mliwour). Tho opinion sustain The Aoc!ated Pne at every point. It holds that The Associated Preaa la not a monopoly and that It does not violate the antl-truKt law of the state of Missouri. CLAIMS AGAINST CUBA. Many Will Be Presented When Ameri can Control of the Inland Is Withdrawn. WASHINGTON. Dec. 18. The state department has rendered an opinion to the effect that the United State gov ernment cannot Intervene In favor of Porto Rico in the matter of her claim againht Cuba for IJ.WO.000. The fc'panlsh government raised a ioan to this amount for the Porto Rlc ans to help prosecute military opera tions In Cuba, baaing the loan upon tho revenues of tbe latter Island. In substance the decision of the United State government is to the effect that, leaving aside the question of equity In this caff, to sanction the collection of this claim against Cuba would now be to open the door to numberless other claims which would exhaust the finan cial resources of the Island, It Is known to the authorltief that most of the claim sought to be Includ ed In the trtaty of t-eace at Pari but resolutely excluded by the United States commissioner are not regarded by the claimant a dead by any means but are simply held In abeyance to be pre sented and enforced by the full pow ers of foreign governments if they can be evoked by the claimants as soon aa the United States' control of tbe Isl and ceases. NOT LIBERTY BUT LICENSE. New Zealander Denies Men Should Be Allowed to Strike When They Please. CHICAGO, Dec. 18. The conference on arbitration and conciliation waa en livened during tbe day by a debate between Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor and Hugh H. Lusk. ex-member of the par liament of New Zealand. The venerable New Zealander ex pressed displeasure at a declaration nuide by Gompers In his address last night. The labor leader asserted that he wanted to see the labor organisa tions retain the privilege of striking when they pleased, or merely because they pleased. "That I not liberty." cried Lusk, "It I license." PUT INTO MARSHFIELD. Whaling Steamer Fearless In After a Two Years' Cruise. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. IS.-Advlce to the Merchants' Exchange state that the whaling steamer Fearless put Into Marshfleld. Oregon, today for coal and provisions. The Fearless was built In Norway and has been out two years on her maiden crulso. THIS WEEK LINE OK . . . TWO BOER FORCES raid an COLONY General MacDonald Reported to Be Forcing Them Back. BRITISH OFFICERS RESIGN They Are Asiloui to Return to Civil Life Tbinkifisf Services at St. Pant's An Deferred Till tbe War li Over. LONDON. Dec. 18. "The Br have raided Cape Colony at two separate (mints 100 mile distant," says the Cape Town correspondent of the Dally Mall. "One commando advanced upon Phll llppstown between Colenberg and Klm berley. The other, supposed to b Heraeg commando, crossed the Orange river between Oderwlaabstroom and Bethulle. northwest of Burghersdi-rp. It objective apparently being Cradock. "General MacDonald la engaging the Invader, who have guns, twenty mile west of Burghersdorp. The latest news Is that they are being slowly forced back to the OrBnge river, wher? a warm reception is being prepared for them." THANKSGIVING POSTPONED. LONDON. Dec. 18. The contemplated Thanksgiving service In St. Paul's ca thedral In connection with the return of Lord Robert from South Africa ha been abandoned owing, as the govern ment announce, "to It being consid ered desirable to defer the general thanksgiving until the close or opera tions In South Africa." The program now is for Lord Roberta to debark In the Solent to vllt the queen at Osborne house, January 2, to reembark and to Anally land ac Southampton, coming from that point to London. OFFICIALS WANT TO QUIT. LONDON Dec. 18. The mvernment requests employer who have kept open situations for tho yeomanry, colonials and volunteers to continue their pa triotic efforts to minimise the sacri i flees of these men in the service of I their country. Numerous volunteer officers' r.signa : tlons are gaxetted tonight lawyers. physicians and business men who have j j urgently represented that their affairs j i are going to ruin. Tho war office, on account of these j ; representations, ha let them off. i CLEMENTS BARELY ESCAPES. JOHANNESBURG. Dec. 17. Details of the defeat of the British, at Nooit- j gedachl indicate that General Clements' j entire force had a narrow escape from capture. The Boer plan were splen didly laid. If the main British column had tarried a little longer, there would have been a complete success for thej Boers, who exposed themselves un dauntedly, yelling and waving their arms. Their rushes were only stemmed by artilleay. After the British retreat the Boers held a prayer meeting. Their hymns could be heard by the retiring British. All accounts Indicate a heavy Boer ! loss. Colonel Legg exhibited splendid brav ery. He shot five Boers with his re volver before he fell with three bullets In his body. ANOTHER BOER VICTORY. CAPE TOWN, Dec. 18.-The Boers who crossed the Orange river Into Cape Colony, west of Allwa North, on Sat urday, encountered the Cape Rifles and Brabant's force, who retired with loss. ' UNCONFIRMED RUMORS. NEW YORK. Dec. 18. A dispatch to the Tribune from London says: Rumors were current in London last night that General Knox inflicted a crushing defeat on the Boer comman does and that the Boer force had been utterly routed on the Orange river. At the war office no continuation could be obtained of these reports. News of a decisive British success at this time would add considerably to the average Englishman's enjoyment of Christmas festivities. REPORT ON CANAL QUESTION. Senator Morgan Thinks That if Eng land Did Not Like the Hepburn Bill a Protest Would Have Been Made. WASHINGTON, Dec. IS. Senator Morgan, chairman of the senate com mittee on Inter-oceanlc canals, to which the Isthmian canal commission today submitted a partial report -thereon In connection with the protocols of agree ments with Costa Rica and Nicara gua relating to the proposed canal which were submitted recently to the senate. In th course of the report It Is said that the statements of tha Walker com mission and the protocols referred to have a direct bearing on what Is known a the Hepburn bill now on the senate calendar. "That bill," ays the report. "Is a detlitratlon of policy of the United 8tat-s for a canal under th control tl this government." Tne report says: "The passage of the Hepburn bill by an alme.st unanimous vote In the hous muxt have called for a prote-t fiom Great Britain If that government con slelers that any right of hers Is In con flict with that measure. If the pis sage of that measure through the sen ate cils fr any such a protest then will be an appropriate time for Its con sideration and for taking measures to answer It. Until then we can never know th grounds of objection Great Britain may choose to make. "The senate engaged in negotiations with Great Britain which may or may neK result in an agreement, and can not afforj to refus to consider a bill so Important to the country as thel Hepburn bill merely tc await the pleas ure of one-third of that body. The senate as a part cf the treaty-making power ha no more Just right to sus pend legislation on this subject than the president, who is the other part of that power, has to surpend legislation by his order." VO LUNTEE R9 R ETC RNING. They Will Proceed to the United State In Practically the Same Order In Which They Went Out. MANILA. Dec. 18. The volunteer regiments will proceed to the United States to be mustered out In practical ly the same order as they arrived in the Philippine Islands. They will be replaced by regulars provided by the army bill. The thirty-seventh volun teer regiment, which Is to begin the homeward movement by embarking on New Year's day. was brought from Laguna de Bay district and win start on the transport Sheridan. Officers of regular army holding com missions In volunteer regiments will be retained in the Philippine and volun teer officers on special duty will be re lieved only on authority of headejuar ters. Volunteers desiring to leave the ser vice and remain in the Philippines will be allowed to do so. Enlisted natives will be discharged. It Is believed that the temporary de pletion of many posts and the check ing of operations will rvult In re newed Insurgent activity. WHEAT TO BE SHUT OUT. Having Excluded American Meats Germany Agrarian Now Want to Shut Out Breadstuffs. WASHINGTON. Deo. 18.-The Agrar ian party in Germany, having success fully brought about a law at the last session of the reichstag prohibiting. In effect the importation of American canned meats. Is now using Its dow erful Inluence to Increase heavily the import duties on all grains entering the empire, notably on wheat, reports Unit ed States Consul Dietrich at Bremen to the state department. The aim of the Agrarians, according to the conml. is to make Germany en tirely Independent of all countries for Its breadstuffs and food supplies. SLIM ATTENDANCE. Cold Shoulder Given Governor Pin gree's Banquet. LANSING. Mich.. Dec. IS. Governor Plngree's banquet, which was announc ed In honor of the members of the state legislature. Justices of the su preme court and railroad ofliclals of the state, was given In the hall of the house of representatives. None of the Justice of the supreme court or railroad officials Invited were present, while only three state sena tors and forty-six representatives at tended. Not one of the stata officials elect accepted Governor Plngree's In vitation to be present. CAUSE OF THE WRECK. Captain of the Alpha Chose the Inside Passage. VANCOUVER. B. C. Dec. lS.-The latest news of the foundering of the steamer Alpha with the loss of nine lives Indicates that the cause of the disaster was primarily the taking of an unusual course into the coaling station at Union bay. Encountering a fierce southwest gale while steaming up the stream, the cap tain decided to take what is known as the inside passage and kept on the Inside of Denman island. STRIKE WAS A MISTAKE. Telegraphers Want Nothing Now but to Be Reinstated. CHICAGO. Dec. 18. According to a statement Issued tonight by J. M. Barr, vice-president of the Santa Fe railroad company, a committee composed of dif ferent railroad trainmen's organizations who have taken up the grievances of the striking telegraphers consider . the strike a mistake and at tomorrow's conference, to be held here with officials of the Santa Fe, nothing but the retire ment of the non-union telegraphers will be requested from tbe company. UNION PACIFIC AWARDS CONTRACT $6,000,OCO for Cutoff From Echo, Wyoming, to Salt Lake. WILL HAVE AN AIR LINE Reported to Have Formed a Deal With the Recently Incorporated Loi Aojelei nnd Silt Lake Railroad Company. SALT LAKE. Dec. 18. A special to the Tribune from Cheyenne. Wyo.. says: The Union Pacific Railroad Cewnpuny today awarded to Kllpatrkk Bros, and Collins the contract for a cut-off :nrouh Echo canyon from Echo, Wyo., to Salt Lake, a distance of forty miles. The contract price, 16 000,000, 1 one of the largest In the history of rall- read construction In the West. The contractors have four year In which to complete the work. It Is aid that the Union Pacific has formed a deal with the recently Incor porated Los Angeles and Salt LakO Railroad Company which will give them practically an air line from Chicago to the Pacific coast, via Salt Lake. PANAMA CANAL ROUTE. Colombian Govrnment Explains Its At titude in Regard to Concessions. NEW YORK. Dec. 18.-A dispatch to the Herald from Panama says: Senor Martines Sllvela, the Colombian minister of foreign affairs, cables from Bogota this statement of Colombia's at titude on the construction of an isth mian canal: "The Colombian government will do everything within its power to facili tate and hasten the opening of a canal by the Panama route, whether It is effected by the actual company holding the concessions which expire In 1905 or by whomsoever may represent thtlr rights. "The government will make reserva tions only to preserve national society and to give assurance that free tran sit by way of tbe canal for all nations shall be fully guaranteed. "The Colombian minister to Washing ton will leave soon to attend to this matter." CENTENNIAL OVERDUE. Considerable Anxiety at San Francisco Over Non-Apptaranc of Seattle Steamer. SAN FRAVC1SCO. Dec. 18. Consid erable anxiety is expressed in shipping circle as to the fate of the steamer Centennial, now overdue at this oort from Seattle. It Is thought she may be disabled or that the recent storm compelled her to put to sea. ALL RECORDS SMASHED. Membership on New York Stock Ex change Sold for 50,5O. NEW YORK. Dec. 18. Records in the price of stock exchange seats have been smashed, $Sfc,500 having been paid for a membership. This compares with $13, 500, the lowest record made in 1393, and $47,500 the old high record made a few weeks ago. NORDBERG WANTS DAMAGES. San Francisco Captain Was Forcibly Ejected From His Ship by the Owners. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 18. E. M. Nordberg, formerly master of the Amer ican schooner Carrie and Annie, has filed a suit in the U. S. district court to recover $499 alleged to be due for wages and damages. The damages consist In llbellant being forcibly ejected from the ship ut Golovln bay while en route to Alaska, COMMUNIST SCHWAB DEAD. NEW YORK, Dec. 18. Justun H. . Schwab, the communist who was sent to the penitentiary for his alleged par ticipation in the Tompkins Square riots In January, 1874, and who was pardoned by Governor Dix, Is dead. STEAMER OVERDUE. VICTORIA. B. . C, Dec. U-The steamer Royalist I out thirty-one days from MoJI, Japan, with sugar for Brit ish Columbia. Even with the stormy weather she should be here by now. WHEAT MARKET. PORTLAND, Dec. 18. Wheat. Walla Walla. 64. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 18.-Whcat, May, W'o'h; cash. Wi. CHICAGO, Dec. 18. Wheat. May, opening. 13'i'STi-ii: closing, 72 ji. LIVERPOOL, March. U. d. Dec. 18. WlK-at. V 1