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NOTIOiU Periodicals, Mop;azht.rj?. : , ct to bo Men iron T! ) without p rinioii in. -tr ""I v, July of inch offense, ell. . , ASTORIA PUBUC LIBRARY A5S0 .11.. Y Ui.'k. ft naoio to urosecution.. If lb 0 VOL. LIV ASTORIA, . OR I-GON. FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1902. KO. 126. t BALL A! SUPPER mgm&2 for eseeeeee HERMAN WISE'S CUSTOMERS AUGUST 30 Kwp Your 8lijw of Purchase nimlo at my loro ami when you linvo enough to covur Twenty Italian worth of (UrniU Kxchange your for n Krco Ticket The Dance Will Be All Right. The Supper Will Be All Right. Our Clothes and Prices are All Right. jtiiitartlllik. t Witanlmi WATERMAN'S IDEAL Tlui mcml ' jwrfoct, practical ami con" venient Fountain IVn ever made Every Pert Gwrntitecd Money nsfunded it nut sstiidai-tory. Jw-t Ike thing for every tiny nun. Nothing more at-ce pUble hi tilt. . GRIFFIN & REED . LAWN MOWERS $2.90 to $5.60 FISHER BROS. TAILOR MADE 11 PANTS LATEST STYLES NOBBIEST PATTERNS EVERY PAIR PERFECT See Our Window Dinplny for Sumplos of Elegant goods nt LOW PRICES SWEATERS We Have Them in Every Va riety, Style, Kind and Color At the Leading Clothing House of P. A. STOKES WILL DECORATE THE GRAVES Scarred Veterans Will Be Iii Line In Astoria Today TO HONOR THE HEROES OF GRIM WAR School Children Will lake Part Today Astorians Will Show I heir Appreciations of Heroism. K GENERAL OBSERVANCE After (iruteN Are Decorated In (cresting Program Will be Itendered at Opera Hounc. Thi S Memorial Day. The people of Aalorl atll honor the dead oldleri. The store will jt close. The poetofllce will observe the legal hours. Every patriotic cltlMn will do something In honor cf the dead. Thi survivor of the great strggl will rV) in evidence. It la they who realise the sentiment In the day. It U they who will be re minded of the days of the - 'Ms, when blood and carn.ige was rite; It la they who ran strew, rlnwer on all of the graven aJike, for all were heroes. The . only thing that i lacking In celebrating the day properly, la the failure to provldo music for the ocraa lon. The veterans are not to blame. These grand old fellows ars only a few In number here, and they could not afford to hire a band. The business men of Astoria, who havo a reputation for push and vim, did not do it and the day U wHtnut music. How grand would have been a few patriotic airs by the excellent local band' The " Star SpangUM lienner" once more ,to which those sleepers marohed to their death! " Hall Columbia.'' the glorious music of freedom I Yet, according to reports lost nltfht not on? strain will be heard todny. The eld vet-rans are p(Kr. They could not afford tj employ the band. The busy men of AstjrU wou'd fur nish munle fcr ;t rcgaita, a holiday parade, a !ny where (loats advertised private interests were IHng paraded, but when theae scaivej ol 1 veterans hobble slung the streets on arad marching slowly to the grave of their former companion, whom thy mut soon follow, not one chord Is to be heard. Thry will not bo with us much long er. Only a few more years and the men of the 0. A. R. will be numbered with the history of the country. It is said that tr-e prop.r sentiment d es not exist to show them the honor and make their most solemn occasion one fully up to the standard. Without muslo the occasion will be one more solemn khan Win dark funeral which ushered the gallant dead to their graves In tho.-e stormy lime. But by this neglect they are none the less thought i f and honored. The musicians are not to blame. They work for a living. Muslo Is their pro fescion, from which they derive their only Income, Muslo and Instruments cost money; who Is to pay for themt A small contribution from the public would have brought them out In their new uniforms and the dy wou'd have been a saccs. Tha old veterans would have been mi1 happy. What enterprising business man or collection of business men will start ou: on Trad ing the Astorian this morning and raise funds to furnish- the old veteran mu sic for the day? Regattas, Fourth of Julys and fete days are all right, but do not neglect the veterans. The day was fittingly observed tn all public school Mterdny by approprl- tte programs anl the schools will Join la the services At the opera house. Among the programs rendered yester day In the various ajh j!i the Astorian rcelv.l the following: Bong Red. White and Blue School, ' f Recitation Lincoln's Gettysburg Alvln Campbell. Recitation Decoration Day Tyyne Juntll. ;" ang The Little Hoy In Blue Olrls of Room I. Recitation Our Flag Terry Oberg. Recitation .... The Meaning of Colors Three GliI o Room I. Bng Scatter the F.owers Ulrls of th Orado. Recitation . Ready to Be Mustered Out Lots Parker. Red tat Ion The Peacemaker Bong A Lilly Offering 1 Girls Room 1. Recitation Bring Flowers ; Oearhart Larson. Acrostic Memorial Day II OirU of Room S. Recitation The Blue and Gray Robert Bremner, Instrumental Trio , Heliotrope Misses Fay Dellinger, Mary Par ker and Lota Parker. Flag Drill I Pupils Room I Recitation. Emblems of Dceratlon Dar Class, Room 1. Song Hurrah for the Flag School. 1 Addresses Members of G. A. R. Song. , t. America SHIVERY SCHOOL. Rooms 1, I and S , Salute School America School Rec., "Bring Flower" .. Aiva Jeldness Guard the Flag School Our Offering Cw of Girls Rec. "A Little Child" Myrtle Harrison The 8oUHtrs' Mmrial Day .... School Mraning of the CoIimh ... Class of Boy Columbia. Gent of the Ocean ... 8ohool Rec, "Bring Ti Blossom". K. Griffiths Flag Has Never Known Defeat.. School Rec, "Coyer Them tyver . Jack Smith AH Hall the Flag School Rec, "Last Tribute" ...Fred Hardesty Battle Hymn of Republic .... School Rooms 4, 5 and 6 Red. White and Rlu School To the Veterans...... Class Recitation In One Grave May Lovell The Flair Hlllla SIeCroskv J Will Stand by the Flag. Chorus of Boys j A Toung Soldier JesMe Harris The Drummer Boy .... Willie Vil;on Black, r.lue and Gray . Mildred Smith Rattle Hymn of republic. Solo-Chorus Memorial Day Josephine May Decoration Day Mary Gustafson Scatter the Flower Girls' Chorus America .; School ALDHRUROOK SCHOOL. Columbia, Gem of the Ocean... School Origin of tlw Day ... John Jrgencn Meanlng'ot the Day ... Edith Benson Red, White and Blue Three BoyJ Raise the Rimer Jas. Moberg When Soldiers Sleep ... Julia Krager Just aa the Sun Went Down. ..Room 1 The Best Tribute Harry Olsen Scatter the Flowers .... Sarah Moran Decoration Francis JJ.irberg Memorial Day Six Pupils, Room 1 Forgotten Rachel Tantren My Country Chas. Wade The Chlldrens' Flower, Ju'.ia Paldanlus Break the News to Mother... Room Dottle's Thoughts ... Ruby Wahlgren Decoration Day . Three Pupils, Room 1 Cover Them Over JossUs Welch Exerelso Fifteen f'upls, Room 1 X Flower Gift ....... Clara Bangsund ALDHIUHIOOK SCHOOL. Blue and tho Gray ,,, Birdie Anderson Dialogue Our Nation's Patriots Mary Hennlngsen, Eater Nord strom, May Enberg and Julius Paldanlus OLNET SCHOOL. United at Last Joule Dout Down the Rapp ban rock.. Mary dark There were many other Interesting programs rendered yesterday, but the Astorian warn unable to secure them. The exercises today will occupy most of the day. The members of Cashing Port will properly decorate the graves of deceased comrades and win be at tended by a detachment of soldiers from Fort Stevens. A large number of dtlxens will be In attendance with the customs of the G. A. R. regula tions. ,, At 2 o'clock In the afternoon the pub lic will assemble at Fishers' opera house, where an appropriate program will be rendered. Addresses will be made by Comrades VVfnton and Stockton, and the Rev. Harold Oberg will also deiver an ad dress. After this the different schools will take a part. While all of the school will be represented -the Aito rian could only obtain a program of a few that will take part In the ser vices. - i Among the schools yesterday there were the regular visitations of the G. A. R. members and member of the Women' Relief Corps and a number of interacting speeches were made. It all inspired patriotism. It everybody today Join in the me morial services. (Continued on Page Four.) A NEW LABOR POLICY IUSSIAN OFFICIALS ARE MODERNIZING. UfllOJl PDE FOOT WEAR No Defter in Town Every Pair Tcrfeet Boston Rubber Boots Buy your shoes and boots of a Practical Shoemaker S.A. Gimre. Opposite Rets, Hligloi A Co- Stragetie Moves by Italians to Prevent a Labor , Uprising. (Correspondent of A&'ociate Press.) MOSCOW, Saturday, May 3. In con neltion with the assassination of M. Slpiaguine, the Russian Minister of the Interior, mention has been made of the new working men's policy of Mos- jcow, with the approval of Chief of rotlce Trepoff. Authentic Information rtceived here shows this policy to be one of the oddest and most revolu tionary ever undertaken by the Rus sian Government. Last autum, on the ostensible Inltlaitian of workingmen, a number of university professors and teachers began lecturing to audiences of workingmen on the question of la bor legislation and various other allied subjects. It soon became aonarent that the lectures lad been organized by the secret police, whose tools the al leged worklngmen's leaders were and j all the lecturers except one ceased their discourse. The lectures served a3 be ing Introductory to the organizaition of labor unions, or friendly societies, statutes for several of which have just ben confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior. A characteristic of ihese statutes Is that they permit, as a member of the sociitles, policemen anl priests. It Is provided thait the funds of these organisations may not be used to support strikes. Worklngmen's meetings, conducted by police. In tem porary tea rooms, were allowed to discus. the eight hour movement, free dom of organization, liberty of institut ing strikes and other matters hitherto held to be Seditious. The government scored an Immediate 3Uccees. The secret radical movement was out trumped. Every man was In vited to openly demand what he had preached stealthily and rumors were circulated that the government intend ed buying factories and tunrlng them over to the workingmen. The govern ment' victory attained Its maximum when 25,000 workingmen peaceably cel ebrated on, February 19 the annlver F&ry of the emancipation of serfs In the sacred kremlln, the police officers carefully selecting the participants and giving tickets, In batches of 100 to regular and secret police and spies. Thereupon the governor general of Moscow, Grand Duke Sergius, received a delegation of workingmen and prom ised paternal aollottude foe their wel fare. Celebrations In commemoration of emancipation day had been strict ly forbidden heretofore . PHILIPPINE BILL IN THE SENATE Morgan is Generally Favorable , to the Present Measure. WANTS SOME DECLARATION Clay Urge That the Polity or the Government Should II Immediately An nounced. - WASHINGTON, May Interest tn the Philippine debate Is Increasing as the discussion draw, to a close. Today the senate galleries were thronged with auditors, and the attendance on the floor was lighter than for some t me. Lodge, in charge of the bill, offered the most important amendment, being one extending to the Philippine a pro vision of bill of right of the consti tution of the United States, excepting any rlghta to bear arm and the right to trial by jury. Morgan made an ex tended speech, in which be supported in the main the bill a presented by the committee. , He said it looked toward peace, and towa'd a Just and peace ful government in the islands. Clay opposed the measure. He re garded the action of the United States fetnee the ratification of the treaty of Paris as Che great mistake, and urged that t nongovernment ought to due are Us purpose In the Philippine. Late In tbe afternoon, Spooner be gan a speech in ; support of "the bill, and the administration' policy in thi Philippines, whlcJT .-UlIol ciNsettda the general debate on -Hie measure by the Republican side. He reviewed the alt nation of the islands and said the re sponsibility for it rested not on any one party, but on alt alike. Spooner -will conclude his speech Sat urday. ' COINAGE OF SILVER. WASHINGTON. May . The hooae today passed a bill to. increase aub sidary silver octnage. Democrats di rected their fight chiefly against the provision to re-coin standard silver dollars Into subsidiary coin, as public necessities might require. "The conference reports on the tmnf' bua publlo building and forUflcatlo.i appropriation bill were adopted, and the house adjourned until Monday. The text of the subsidiary coinage Mil follow:: ' That the secretary of the treasury is authorixed to coin silver bu'.Bon in the treasury,, purcha ed under the act of July 14, 1890, into such special de nominations of aubsldlary llver coin age as he may deem necessary to meet the public requirement, and thereafter as the public necessities may demand, to re-coln stiver dollars Into subsidiary coins. FAVORABLE TO SOUND. ' WASHINGTON, May 29.-Th ways and means committee today favorably reported bills extending to Tacoma and Seattle the privilege of Immediate transit of merchandise in bond. DEATH CAUSED BY TRAIN WRECK Gravel Trains Collided VYift Railroad Officials' Aboard. WAS GOING ON A SWITCH Consulting: Engineer Wa Killeel Out Right and Number or Trainmen Serious ly Injured. ALMA, Wis., May St.-One maa vM Wiled and four seriously wounded tv a wreck on he Burlington road today. A gravel train on wMoh were six etV fieials of the road was going on ' switch when another gravel train, crashed lota It. The dead:' J. BLAKE, consulting engineer. The injured: 8. D. Purcy, roadmaster, wiu'dl.: D. C. Cunningham, superintendent; may die. . ; W. L. Breekenridge, chief engineer seriously. 4 J. B. Besaler, general superintendents seriously. ' BRITT A WINNER. Larigne Passe Off tbe Stage He Wh Outclassed. SAN FRANCISCd, May M.Wunniy Britt, defeated George , Lavign ' fcx night after, eight rounds of hard fight ing. . Lavigne'a arm failed him but ho had been plainly outclassed. Britt now aspires to match wV.tr MeGoveW" or Toung fcrbetN-'. J" " RAILROAD WASHOUT. TACOMA. May 29.-A disastrous washout has occurred aa the North ern Pacific, near BonrU, Mont. AH of the overland passenger train wlal have to be transferred ait Bonita aad Bonner untH the water baa subsided and the track replaced on the waste SHORTAGE IN BEEF. - CHICAGO. May 29. Thousand at persons in Chicago were unable to bug beef today at any price, and it Is de clared that the shortage will be felt mere seriously tomorrow. Two hundred butchers on the north anl west side nave decided to close shops until the teamsters shall be granted the conces sion asked and many others wi t be fcrced to close because of the Inability to get fresh meat. v , BHEEP CREEK MINES SOLD. SEATTLE, May 29. Portland (Ore.) men, associated with Eastern capital ists, have about completed a deal foe the famous Sheep Creek quaes mine, back of Juneau. The price is $350,008. One of the principal promoters of thai deal Is John E. Maloney, of Juneau, who spent several days last week la Portland, Interesting capitalists. f The Eclipse Hardware Co. Plumbers 2nd Steamf liters Steam Eoat and Gasoline Boat Work a Specialty. . . Stoves and Tinware 527 BOND STREET ASTORIA, OREGON