VOL. LV
ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY. AUGUST fi, 1902.
NO. 31
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RAILROAD PRESIDENTS
CONFER WITH FARMERS
Grain Rates Will Be Reduced "From All
Points of Eastern Washington.
president approves InFSPFRATF fiANPi OF
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Returns Pacers of Cadet Pendle- VIUMIlllrtkUO L.JJiil Lj
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With Slg nature.
SPOKANE. Aiiflf. 4 Grain rates will bo reduced from all
points in Eastern Washington in time to benefit the fanners on this
year s crop. The amount of reduction Ms not as yet oeen aeusrmin-
ed but the, conjecture ranges from one to two cents per ousnei.
The Great Northern and Central Washington branch of JNorUicro
Pacific will be connected by the cross road from the. Grand Coulee
to Adrian on the Great Northern. It may bo completed before Jan
uary first. .. . ",
As a result of this arrangement the Northern Pacific will move
its tonnnce to the terminus of tho Central Washington branch.
There it will be taken by the Great Northern to Seattle. These
announcement were made bv President Mellen at Davenport today.
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The occasion was a unique history of American railroading, inree
railway presidents in response ' to the petitions from the leading
farmers had assembled at Davenport to hear their case and ilead
their own interests. They were James J. Hill president Great
Northern, Pres. Mellen, Northern Pacific, and Pres. Mohler, 0. II
& N. lines. Addresses were delivered by the three presidents. Then
an adjournment was taken to the armory, where an old fashioned
country dinner was served to the railway guests and visitors. .
After dinner the farming delegates laid their wishes betore the
railway presidents. The larce hall was packed to the doors, and
scores of farmers, fruit-growers and miners stood ; in .the aisles.
Earnestness ran tbroueh all the speeches. Hill answered many
questions, offered numerous voluntary explanations of matters that
3emed wrong to the farmers, and repeatedly asked farmers to speag.
out their own beliefs and convictions. He was frequently applaud
ed. The entire proceedings were characterized by a good spirit.
This evening the railroad party loll for Uillas. liiernave decided
not to hold the third conference at Walla Walla. I
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4-Piesideut
Roosevelt toJsy returned the papers io
the caae of Alexander G. Pendleton, jr.,
to the war department with bis endorse
ment confirming the sentence of dismis
sal Pendleton was the cadet at Went
Point found guilty of hazing. Be was
appointed from Anions.
OLD MAN COMMITS SUICIDE
SALT LAKE, Aug. 4.-A special to
the Deseret News from Harriman, Utah,
says James Dangle, aged 80 years, baa
committed suicide by hanging. Damie
labored under the hallucination that
others were seeking to kill him.
MORE PENSIONERS.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 4. Gas Hyatt, the train robber
and desperado, tonight led a desperate band of 16 convicts to
berty from the Tennessee penitentiary. Ed Carney, a safe blower,
was killed and Joseph Loss and James Werk were captured, but the
rest of the prisoners escaped. The prisoners were evidently fur
nished with dynamite from the outride and blew an opening in tho
main wing of the prison. Hyatt stood off the inside guard with a
brace of revolvers which had also been furnished from outside, while
the 'men preceded him to liberty.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-Oommis
sioner of Pensions Ware said today that
the legislation enacted by the lsst session
of congress will result in af least 10,000
new pensioners. The number of pension
ers July 1 was 99,446.
CONDEMN ADMIRAL TAYLOR.
BERLIN', Aug. 4. Utterances ajtribu
ten to Bear Admiral Taylor, U. 8. Navy,
as to tbe probable conflict between the
United States and Germany was printed
conspicuously bete. The Tageblatt says
any German admiral so indiscreet would
be relieved of bis duties immediately.
TO ERECT STATUE.
AT GRAVE OF HIS 'WIFE
WASHINGTON, Aug, 1 Command
ar-in-Cbief Torrance, G. A. H, has ap
pointed, a commission to organize the
work of erecting in tbis city a statue of
General B. F. Stevenson, founder and
first provincial commander-in-chief of
the G. A. R
Blind and Aged, Richard Stoddard, Paid
Tribute to His Life Partner.
NEW YORK. Aue. 4 With no minister present and sur
rounded bv old friends of his family, Richard Ileirry Stoddard, the
venerable blind poet, stood beside the grave of his wife in Sag Har
bor and pronounced the eulogy upon her ale.
Rnif.MAl tirriM tho aped noct broke down and wept, fco leebie
aad crippled by rheumatism that he could not stand alone. He was
supported by,, two attendants at the head of the grave, while with
bowed head and trembling voice he paid tribute to his lile com
pnnion. ' " '
CHINA SENDS NOTE TO POWERS
Asks Removal of Foreign Troops-Germany
Expected to Object
. LONDON. Auff. 4. Cabling from Shanghai, the correspondent
of the Times savs.that Liu Hun Yi, Viceroy of Nankin, has addressed
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eign troops from Shanghai in the hope that ureat Britain, franco
and Japan, who are willing to withdraw their forces, will induce
Germany to consent to the proposition.
ATTACKED WIFE WITH POCKET-KNIFE.
PORTLAND. Aucr. 4. -William Lockincton, a stevedore, made
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au attempt tonight to kill his wife and himself with a temte alter a
drunken spree. His wounds are severe. His wife will recover.
ATTEMPTED HOLD-UP FAILS.
EVERETT, Wash., Aug. 4. Sunday night the Great Northern
eastbound overland near Edmunds was set upon by a gang presumably
for the purpose of holding it up. Several volleys were fired from
tbe darkness, crashing through tho. windows of the sleeper and diner
A cook received a alight flesh wound, The tram was not stopped.
CLOSING NUN SCHOOLS.
CHAMBKEI. France, Aug. 4-
Crowdi made demonstrations today
against tbe commissaries of police who
were closing the schools conducted by
nuns. Tbe police were obliged to make
breaches in tbe walls ot the building,
whereupon the sisters, amid tbe cheers
of sympathisers, left by the front doors.
EX-SENATOR INJURED.
LONDON, 'Aug. 4-Former United
States Senator J. Donald Cameron has
been severely injured in Scotland, being
thrown from nis carriage,
ANOTHER TRACY RUMOR.
SPOKANE, Aug. 1-Beyond tbe ru
mor that Tracy was seen near Odessa in
Crab Creek country, there ia nothing
new as to the outlaw's whereabouts.
THREE MEN WOUNDED
IN DRUNKEN ROW
FORT BENTON, Mont., Aug. 1-As
the result of a drunken row Jobs Beavis
and John Allen, a former bartender, and
Laminer, a sheepherder, are . fatally
wounded with no chance of recovery,
BASEBALL
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At Chicago Chicago, 8; Phila
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At Cleveland Cleveland, 1;
Washington, 7.
At St. Louis St Louis, 8; Bal
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At Detroit Boston, 6; Detroit,
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
At Boston St. Louis, 1; Bo?
ton, 0.
At Philadelphia Chicago, 7
Philadelphia, 2. ;
At Now York Pittsburg, 9
New York, 7.
At Brooklyn Brooklyn, 3; Cin
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onyicts Supplied With Dynamite One Kill
ed; Two Re-captured.
HAYTIAN OUTBREAK IS ENDED
Rebels Are Routed by Government Troops
No Further Trouble Expected.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. Captain McCrea, of the Machias, to
day cabled the Navv Department that the outbreak in Hayti ia
practically over. The cablegram, which is dated Cape Haytain,
August 4, is as follows:
'After interviewing the authorities, the aspect of atlairs appear
more satisfactory. Nationals are well armed. Rebels have been
driven from critical positions. Little enthusiasm. No further dan
ger of serious disturbances. Captain McCrea requested permission
to co to San Juan, Porto Rico, for coal. This was granted and the
Machias probably will come aorth unless tlcre is another outoreax
in Hayti." '. . ;
HEIR APPARENT SENT TO PRISON.
LONDON. Autr. 4 The Constantinople correspondent of tho
Daily Cronicle cables that Prince Reshad, heir apparent to the
throne of Turkey and Prince Djimat, next in succession to the throne
have been imprisoned, accused of assisting the Young Turks party.
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