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THE MOKXIXG ASTOKIAX, ThTKSlHY, MAY 2:1 1901. AWFUL CRUELTY TO PRISONERS Wretched Treatment of Inmates of Bogota Prison. COLOMBIAO GENERAL TALKS lafertuaate Creatures Ooly Allowed Slaad. lit Room tei Promlaeit Mci Arc Loaded With Heavy Cbaloi aid Live la Filth. ftl Ui ibe-Urlbe, the Colombian revolu tionary leader, now In this city, IsweJ a statement last night regarding the treatment of political and military pris oners by the present Colombian govern went. He said: "The penitentiary at Bogota is a small one and then In It has been crowded mare than 20M political prisoner be. ides 500 ordinary criminals. In order lo ffet sleep, the prisoners have to take turns lying down as there Is not room for all to He down at once. Their beds are the damp, coid and filthy pavement f the orisoner. Their being neither "water nor sanitary facilities, the wretch brittle only poisoned air and smallpox, dysentery and typhus fever. wmon nave been playing havoc among the unfortunate creatures. These statements are contained In the records published by the official board of health. Well known and prominent men have been loaded with heavy chains. Aimng the prisoners is a large number of boys from 10 to 14 years. The methods followed for sending people to the dunpjoag have been copied after those of the inquisition; that is, the an oarmous denunciations. "General Mirioliano Velei the com mander in chief, on being appealed to by the prisoners and finding himself ooweriess to out a "top to the horrors, resigned. "The gover.-vment prj.uised to release the prisoner if I wvmld Issue a mani festo advising the liberals to stop fighting. In spite of the fact that the government has not kept Its word the flghtin will cease for a time. When, however, the liberals have succeeded In gathering sufficient noney and ammu nition the flj-htlng will l)e resumed. When It begins again I shall return to Colombia to lead the Liberal army." HAD DESIRED EFFECT. A Woman's Tears Defeat Plans of So cial Economics Club. CHICAGO. May 22. A woman's tears defeated certain metoers of the Social Economics Club in their plan for ap Dlvlng for membership In the Federa tion of Colored Women's Clubs. Mrs. William Krohn, after arguing against all the other speakers burst Into tear sand Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett. a colored member of the club out of svninathy. moved to lay the application on the table. When the debate openel the members present appeared to fa vor the resolution asking for member ship. The women who had spoken ir.ost rad ically on the other side were the first to offer Mrs. Krohn sympathy. Mrs. Barnett rose at once and moved that the. resolution be laid uiJon the table. Presidnt Dickinson, who was strongly In favor of the resolution, put the mo tion without heslUtfon. The vote stood eight to five In favor of tabling the resolution. There were about twenty live members present but half of them refused to vote. r MONSTER BATTLESHIPS. Admiral Bowles Recommends That One of 16,000 Tons Displacement Be Built. NEW YORK, May 22.-H the report hear! at the navy department proves correct, says a Times special from (. and OLD PEOPLE . Bad Circulation is the cause of most of the ills that come with old age. With advancing years there is a decline of strength and vigor the machinery of the body moves with less speed and accuracy. Because of the weak and irregular action of the heart the blood moves more slowly, becorks impure and loses much of its life-sustaining properties, and muscles, tissues antrnerves literally starve for lack of nourishment. A sluggish and polluted circulation is followed by a long train of bodily ailments. Cold feet, chilly sensations up and down the spine, poor appetite and digestion, soreness of the muscles, rheumatic pains, hard and fissured skin, face sores, chronic running ulcers on the lower limbs and other parts of the body these and many other diseases peculiar to old people are due to a lack of healthy blood and imperfect circulation. Restoration to health must come through the building op and purification of the blood, thus adding strength and tone to the vital organs and quick, healthy action to the circulation. S. S. S. being strictly a vegetable blood remedy and the best tonic, makes it the most valuable and efficacious of all medicine for old people. It is free from all mineral ingredients, and mild and pleasant in its action. It cures blood diseases of every character, even those inherited or contracted in early life. As the system gets under the influence of S. S. S. there is a marked improvement in the general health, and as richer and purer blood begins to circulate through the body the appetite improves, and there is a softness and elasticity about the skin that you have not noticed for years ; sores begin to heal, pains in muscles and joints grad ually cease, and you find that it is possible to be happy and healthy even in old age. Our medical department is in charge of physicians who make a study of blood and skin diseases. If you would like to have their opinion and advice in your ease, write them all about it and you shall receive such information and advice as you want. This will cost you nothing. Others have found our medical depart ment of great benefit to them their cure being much more rapid as the result of some special directions received from our physicians. Don't be your own doctor when you can get medical advice free. Book on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed to all who desire it. 4 THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY, ATLANTA, OA. Washington, and congress approves the recommendations of Rear-Admiinl HowIhi and the construction board, the liil ted States may have a battleship of 16.000 tons displacement with cor. responding armament, thiis providing a warship of formidable propitious. The largest battleship now owned by any naval power Is of a little more than 15.000 displacement. It is related that the largest one present At the fun- i end deniiuistratlon In honor of Queen j Victoria, was a Jaiwiesc battleship re- 1 oently completed and displacing 15,000 tons, Orvat Hrt:atn has several battle ships of equal tonnage on the way, and Italy's Lepanto of 15,900 tons. The British and Japa'iese battleships of 15.000 tons draw 27 feet of water or more. That would prevent thi'lr en try Into many oi our harbors and the fact that many American harbors can- ' not afford watr for vessels of such.' draught has led to the construction of I battleships drawing the least water, j consistent with stability. The- mean; draught of the .Maine class will be less i than 24 feet. The Idea Is to produce a vessel that wlil not draw much more with the displacement of 16.000 tons. Some members of the construction i uuru nopr iu srcuic uvjikiis prnis- Ing a speed of 21 knots which if obtain ed would make the new battleship equal In speed and sup rlor In power to most or tne annorej cruisers now anon; ana make her a formidable antagonist the powerful battleships built. of DELEGATES TO CONVENTION. Big Party to Leave Chicago to Be Pres ent at San Francisco. CHICAGO. May 22. Between 50 and 75 members of the Railroad and Ware house Commissions of the Eastern and Middle Western states will depart from Chicago next Tuesday in a special train for San Francisco, where they go to attend the thirteenth annual conven tion of National Association of Rail road Commissioners. Many of the dele gates will be accompanied by their wives and other members of their fam ilies and the party will occupy six Pull nun cars. The delegates wlU gather in Chicago Monday and in the after noon they will hold a meeting to dis cuss in advance a number of questions that will come before the convention. rrotn Chicago the route wtll be via i the Burlington to St. Paul, the Great Northern to Neche, Canadian Pacific to Vancouver, the Northern Pacific line to Portland and thence to San Francisco over the South-rn Pacific. Probably the most Important question to be considered by the commissi'mers at their convention will be the proper Interpretation of gross earnings of rail ways. LOUBET RECEIVES MORGAN. New York Banker Has Brief Talk With the Fr?nch President. NEW YORK, May 22. Presid-nt Lou bet has jut revived J. P. Morgan, the American financier, says a World dispatch from Paris. General Porter, the United Sta'es ambassador, pre-ent-od Mr. Mor?in at the Elysee Palace, and the bink'r thanked the president of the French republic for the decora tion of th? Legi n of H'nor w hich was presented as one "f ;he honors conferred upon foreigners in cmn-ctlon with th? exp 'siti jn of 1900. Mr. Mors in, in ;he course of a brief conversation, assur-d Prescient Liulx-t of the sympathy an 1 admiration of the l";i!;ed States for France. Tne presi dent answvr-d in the same g-n-ial pleasant minn-r and congratulated Mr. Morgan upon .lis fluent u-- of the Fivnch language The interview lasted barely five minutes. All rumors to the contrary, n uking was said about the Panama canal. Any reference to thjs subject in a conversation with the French chief (,f state would have been c"tis'.ru-d a gross breach of etiquette, WHEAT MARKET. I PORTLAND. May ?. Wh-at, Walla Walla, 61. SAN FRANCISf 'O. May 12.-Wh-at. Lee-ember. lOSH; cash. 97',. CHICAGO, May 22.-Wheat. opening, n-WiiVti closn.7. 3Vi- Juiy, TROUBLE AT ARMY IVSTS. Larger Number of Men arrested for In temperance Since Abolition of the Canteen. NEW YORK. May 22. -The Times says: Ueneral Brooke has sent an order to all commandants of posts In the de triment of the Ka-H to send lo him on September 1 a complete report of the ivmiWs which haw ensued on the abo- say that these tvports wtll show cavall that intemepruuv has Inctvasvd under the new regime l preilicted that the next c will give serious eonsid'ratlon beyotiil InrflVly utul It ingvets to the (real sltnatlm as it has dewloivd, I Seven privates, absent without leave from Port Et'ian Allen, Vt., have Just bvn locked up In the military prison at O vemor's Island. They disappeared from their xi ImimMfatcly after pay day of this i-inth and their troubles are attributed hv rh nffl ! (kf lw I . ,, ..... ... . , - - i'i'"'"! i ir m n iiumoer o officer at lV)vei-nor's island and every ne of :-hm wnS jimr I told you so." when the -a.se of Fort Sheridan, i Fort finding and Fort Ethan Allen were ciuiej to min-i. ine "mcers there re- I .j It but a matter of a short time when the public sentiment of the na tion will demand the re-estabUshnient of the can'. ??n. Captain Adams who was acting Adjutant-General at Govern ir's Island In Gvn-ral Sheridan's absence said that sine pay day there had been unusual trouble In nearly every post in the de. partment anl he understo,d In other departments also. He understood that the number of men arrested had been Iarg?r than usjal and there have been a noticeable number arrested for i- toxication. He was not prepared to say just what the perventage of increase was. Trouble Is rep irted at Fort Ham- llton. Fort Schuler. Fort Wadswonn Fort Hancock and Willett's Point. Pay day at Fort Totten, WHlett s I Point Long Island sound, came last i Wednesday and the 490 soldier? sta- i ttonea mere urew about K0 per man ! hmcs that time there have been wild i . . ... ; ana mtartous times In the saloons of Whitestone. the nearest village to the reservation anl In the half dozen road I houses that are sltuited at intervals i along the road that leads from the ! fort to the village. The records at the fort show that for i the first twvnty days of this month there have been seven court martial i on drunk and disorderly charges and ; twelve for absence without leave. The I twenty-one absentee and the twelve j now In the guard house will add con ; siderably to thase figures. There have j been since .he last pay day as many I as ten men absent -without leave at one ! time from one company of le than ; 100 men. Commenting on this Major J. W i Hack, the commandant of the f rt. stated that the number was unpret-e- dented in his rc illejtliin. Major Black. , Adjutant Howell and every officer and si;uier interviewee at the fort gave : without hesitation the opinion that the change was for the worse In the gen- ' -ral discipline and wis due entirely to the abolition of the cantevn and the i turning over of th soldier of his monthly pay in his pock, t to the ten der mercies of the outside saloon keep- ers who thrive in the vicinity of mil- itary posts. The force now at F rt Totten consist of four companies of the pe,,,n,i baVal- ion of engineers, the neucleus of thie-- companies ,, the new Third batttillion of engineers that is being recruited and the Eighty-'econ 1 compay of the coast artillery. With few exceptions all these men are veteran soldiers of the highest branches of the service, and in char acter are well up in the average of the i American soldier. TO CAPTl'RK GOLD MINES. Property of New York Company In Mexico Surrounded by Revo lutionists. j NEW YORK. May 22. A dispatch t ; the Herald from the City of Mexico, i says: 1 The gold mines owned by the Omit ; Ian Exploit lion Company, of New York, , in Ouerrero del Oro, states of Ouerrero 1 nare Is surrounded by revolutionists. according to the latest advices. I William Nivon, of New York, man 1 aer of the mine, says that there are ; four Americans and seventy Indian la ! borers at the mines and that thy hive ; constructed fortifications commanding j the trails to the mines. ; I' is thought that lh- purpose (,f the ; revolutionists Is to obtain the arms of the Americans. Government troops have been despatched to the scene. It ! is hoped that they will arrive In time to prevent the capture of the mines. There Is no telegraphic communication with the mines, the nearest office be ing a distance of three days' ride. The ' revolution Is not large but troublesome. For Sale by FOAKD & STOKES CO, Aatoria, Oregon. nv n r Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you cat. This procuration contain ull of tlio dltfostunU ttiul (IIk'i4s ull kituls of food. It (jives Instant relief and never falls to euro. It ullows yon to eat till tho food you want. '1 'lie most sensitive 8tomaelis can take It. Hy Its use many thousands of dyspopties have liecn cured after evervthinu else failed. It is unequalled for ullstounuh troubles. It can't help but do you good Pre"1! only by K.r. 1kViitA.I'o.. l lilcouo '1U0II. IMlllKConiuins.'i i iuii mui jiv. u CrlAS. R00KR8. Druggist. REPORT OF TUB CONDITION OF TUB FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ASTORIA. At Astoria, In the State of Oregon, at the close of business. April 2i i:H)l. RESOURCES. loans and discounts KCTiiT IS Overdrafts, a.t'ure.1 and unse cured Ml 9t V. S. Bonds to seem circula tion i-.:.oo 00 Stocks, securities, etc 95.H3 Other real estate owned 6 160 45 Due from National Dunks tnot reerv .gents) 2.314 Due from State Ranks and Rankers W.9;2 H5 Due from .iDnrovod reserve asenu ST.11S 1! Internal Revenue stamps 479 !9 Checks and other cash items. SO S5 Nickels and cents 110 97 Lawful money reserve In Rank, vis. Sped 114.700 00 Redemption fund with IT. S. Treasurer (5 per cent of circulation) K3 00 Total 61 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid In Wi0 00 Surplus fund K.OOfl 00 Undivided profits. 10s expenses and taxes paid 31. US 77 National Bank notes oiits'and- Ine 12.500 M Individual deposits subject to check. .(415.139 (3 Demand certificates of deposit 89.217 01 Certified checks .... 462 20 504.S18 84 Total $523,907 61 STATE OF OREGON. Countv of Clatsop. 8? : I. S. S. OorJon. canhler of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true to the best of my knowledge and be lief. S. S. OORDON. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of May. 1901 C. THOMSON. N'gtary Public. Correct At test: C. C. Flavei, W. M. Ladd, W. F. McGregor, Directors. THE LOUVRE The headlines of the program at the Louvre this week, are the clever and amusing Irish comedians, McSorley and whltnev. who come to Astoria well rec ommended, after successful engage ments In the larger cities on the cast. GO EAST VIA SHORTEST QUICKEST TO St.Paul, Dulutb.Mianrapolis, (.'bicago and All Polnta Kaat. ' DAILY TRAINS; PAST TIME: SER VICK AND SCENERY UN EQUALED. Through Palace and Tourist Sleeper, Dining and iiufTot Smoking Library Can. Tlcketg to polnta East via Portland and the Great Northern Ry., on sale at O. R. & N. Ticket Offloe, Aatcrla, or Great Northern Ticket Omce Ha THIRD STREET, PORTLAND. For rates, folders and full Informa tion regarding Eastern trip, call on or address, A. B. C. DENNISTON. City Pass, and Ticket Agent. Portland. SLANCARDS IODIDE OF IROiN .'orAN;MIA,POORNi:55of!h?m.OOD. tONb II TV I UMAl WRAKNUSS SCKOIlJLA.lt,-. None genui d un Icm iKnvl " Hl a ncarij" ALL DKI!;r'.iKTki vE.FOUaEKACO.,N.Y. Agtfc forU.S.J AN INCOME FOR LIFE FROM GREATEST OF GOLD PROPERTIES :.0 ACRR3 9 MILKS IN LKNGTH 250 MILLION TONS. Richest gold-bearing quarti, ground by nature IiojuI Into gold laden graved, fnmi 50 to 600 feet In depth over the entire property. In addition th company owns 14 miles In length of river bed, each nillo of which contains many millions if gold, situated on the Klo urands, lu To county. Nw Mex Ico. OVER 00 MILLION DOLLARS For Dividends READ THE PROOFS United Slates Official Report .HAUtS TU COM.MISSlONKlIf OF TUB UNITKD STAThS. UKNKRAL LAND OF FICE. WASHINGTON. D. C. by a reoloKlm and mlninc expert of worldwide reputation. 1'rorenaor Ben jamin Silllmu.n. who spent several months there, then heln connected with the United States urveylnf corps. and In his official report says: "Here are countless millions of tons of rich irold quarti reducrd by the ureal forces of nature to a condition ready for the application of the hydraul ic process, while the entlro b'd of the Rio Orand'? for over forty mile a siulce, on (he bars of which the cold derived from the wearing; awy of th itravri banks has been accumulatlnf for countless aires, and now Ilea ready for extraction by the iiuwt approved methods of river mlnliur. The thick ness of the Rio Orande cold travel ex. ceeds In many places 600 feet, or nearly three times that or the like bed In California, while the average value per cubic yard Is believed to be greater n the New Mexico beds than In any other such accumulations yet discov ered. I have ma ie a reconnalaance of tht whole of this (ravel alone tht Rio Grande, and have examined with all the cure possible hi the time at my command the character of the travel and Its contents of void. Nothing-, I am persuadej, nine th discov ery of California and Australia Is com parable for It Immeasurable resources of irold available by the hydraulic pro c"m to the deep placers of the RIo C.ninde." Other reports from eminent mining experts of national reputation pro mninee the property of this company the richest and most extensive known. Capital tock $2,000,000 FULLY PAID AND NON-AR-SKSSABLK. PAR VALUE $1. KACII SHARE One-half the entire capital stock has b-en placed In the treasury of th com pany as a working- capital, To ompl-te necessary ditches and plac on the river bfj several gnld steam dredges, the company now orrers a limited number of Its shares at 50c PER SHARE AFTER SALE OF WHICH PRICE WILL BE ADVANCED TO 11.00 m SflAtf Applications should be sent promptly. 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