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NOTIO'vl i rv without ; w,.l be liable toprosecution. mm ASTORIA. OREGON, TUESDAY. AUGUST 12, 1X)2. NO. 37 VOL. LV xnxxajajtittxxjttxiaxxntanxtaxKXHxxxtxtn:xnxnxx ALU Mimanimt Iff tUlAMIt J ltanxttxtmixnxnxnxnxuxuxnxi:nxttxnxint:xnxntnxt:xttxt:xttx!tx$ BUY A DOZEN Of our Ilandoome and Artistic flounted and Matted Pictures otul decornto your home or your bench cottnge. 8t tlio Window Display I GRIFFIN 4 QQaOCO0C0OOOO OCCCO00C040000g Txxxttxxtaxtxx:txxuxx8xxttxxxxxxstxx:txxnxxuxxxxnxxnx I BRACES, BITS AND DRILLS n A New Line Just I Received ot - B Fisher Bros.. iMfi-iiso Rend st. w:ixxuxxt:xxttxixx::xxi:xxttxxxx::xit:xx::xx::ixnxx::xxnxxax2 CLOTHING From the largest manufac turers of up-to-date clothing in America. We are JUST OPENING UP A Large Shipment of the Smart est Clothing ever displayed in the City of Astoria. IT'S FOR SALE and will go rapidly at the low prices asked. Hats, Shoes, Fur nishing Goods Complete Stock. Call Early and make your selections. STRAW HATS HALF PRICE Mutattlll&z I & REED PLANS TO END MINER'S STRIKE Pointed Out to President Roose veltReferred to Attorney Qcneral. FARMERS BEING MOLESTED Striker Foraging In Agricultural Dlhtrlctn-FuriiKTK Threaten to Take Concerted Action. NEW YOP.K, Aug. ll.-Presldcnt Koonevelt ha In hli hands, according to the World, n plan submitted by Muriln Dolphin, ex-presldent of tho International Order of Hallway and Cnmmeri lul Telegrapher, by whl h Mr. Dolphin think the strike In the anthracite coal fields could be ended. President Roosevelt referred the prop osition to .hi attorney-general' de partment, nil ! It I. now being consid ered by II. M. Hoyt, acting attorney gener;il. Thin plan In to have the government cscn lw tho right of eminent domain iiiu! seize a certain number of the mine and operate them for the pur pose of taking out nil the hard coal r'iulrei by the government In ltt var ious bulldlncs, on the ship of the nnvy department and for all other govern mental purpose. The right of the overnmen. to Intervene In ft tr!k which Interfere In any way with gov ernmentiil function wa proved, Mr. Dolphin contend, by President Cleve land' action In the Chicago strike In 1M, when he ordered out United Stit troop to keep the striker from Interfering with the transportation of the mall. . In tho present cam Interventl m of the kind he advocate, Mr. Dolphin ny, woull a I no break the backbone of the utrlke by forcing the operator to resume work In all the mine. STRIKERS ANNOY FARMERS. SHENANDOAH, Pa.. Aug. ll.-Com-nhilnt was made to brigadier head quarter today that the striker are, foraging In the agricultural district north of here, and raid have reached such a scrim proportion that the farmer are preparing to take some concerted net Ion to stop further dep redation. The soldier In camp are d:illv feeding several hundred women 'ind children. They come there, say ing they nre hungry and the ofTtccr permit the soldiers to give something to the needy applicant. Official of the mlneworkcrs' union deny that there is nny actual want. They maintain that the local unions nre well nhle to take care of all the ease of distress. siiEnriiEr.DFiis attack - CATTLEMEN'S TOWN. RATTLE, Wyo., Aug, U.-A crowd of crowd of Mexican fhecpherder at tempted to take the town of Bailie, with the result that two of the num ber were killed. Several made their eonpe in the woods .one man being shot In the leg. One oltlaen was hit on the heel nnd Mis Estell Sanders, a resident, vns severely cut in the face by a "Indow pane broken by a stray shot. Every man In town I armed fearing that the Mexicans will swoop down on the town ,n there are score of them in the vicinity. The attack wn In retal iation for the slaughter of B0O0 sheep by the townpeople who had ordered the sheepmen to keep away, as thi territory is reserved for the cattle men. , GENERAL SMITH GIVEN A ROYAL WELCOME. PORTSMOUTH, O., Aug. ll.-Qen-eral Jacob Smith wa given a royal re ception at hi home tonight, fully 5000 people being at 'the station to meet Win, The crowd Included several com panies of the Ohio national puard, es corted the generul to hi residence. General Smith retu-ied to diBcusa the order relieving him. When th tluw comes to n ako a sitt 'U.it It wculd be made, and not until then. GIVES HISTORY OF ALBERMHRLE ISLAND SAN FRANICSCO. Aug. ll.-Captaln Richard Nte. who wns nna nf thnne onhe steamer W. S. Phelp. tell of many woader of Galapagos Islaryls, whit that vessel recently tislted. In ,la Interview he said: ton of pure sulphur. The crater 1 about 10 mill's Inland and u tramAiy will be necessary fi,r transportation to the. coast, but this should be a wtnull Ditttter considering tho oslM profit. One of the queer thing In Albermarle I that It I overrun with wild dogs. The atilmul are a mongreul breed and were left on the Island by whalers. The Ann luive become wild and are exttcmcly vl lous. The nre wolf-like in their habit and run In droves." Captain Nye n'so t';ll of a remark able lake on the Island of Chatham at an elevation of 2040 feet above the sea level. This lake, according to the captain, rise and fall with the tide and no sounding line ha ever reached It bottom. Many relics of an ancient race were found. JUDGE GRAY RESIGNS OFFICE. Venerable Justice No Longer Able to Conduct Ills Labor. OYSTER BAY, Aug. ll.-The presi dent today appointed Oliver Wendell Holme, now chief ujstlce of the su preme court of Masihusetts, to be SMociate Juslke of the supreme court of th United State In place of Jus tice Gray, who ha Just resigned. The resignation of Justice Gray was due to III hca'th Several ir.i.r.ths npo he suffered a slroke of apoplexy, which sometime later wa followed by another. HI advanced age, H years, told against hi recovery with a ser ious force. Realizing that he prob ably never would be able to again as sume the place which he so long had filled with distinguished ability and honor, he decided a short time ago to ten ler his resignation to the president. With the exception of Justice Harlan, he had served upon the bench of the United State supreme court longer than any of his present colleagues. Judse Holmes, Justice Gray' suc- csfor Is one of the it.ost distinguish ed lawyer and Jurist of Massachu setts. HI career on the bench, par ticularly a the chief justice of Mass- ehusetts supreme court ha attracted wide attention. He Is a son of the late Dr. Holmes the poet. PEORIA HAS l.ftOO FIRE. Doy Arrested Who Hi Charged With Attempting to Set City on Fire. PEORIA. III.. Aug. ll.-It Is believ ed an attempt was made to burn the business section of the city today. Neumlllers livery barn, Clark Roller Mills and O'Learys undertaking es tablishment were destroyed and the store-rooms of the Rials Brewing Co. and a residence were fired. The loss I estimated at J250.000. The police have arrested Edward Flanagan, 20 year of age, on the charge of arson. They say they have direct evidence against him. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS ARRIVE. Grand Lodge Will open Session To morrow. SAN FRANCISCO. Aurj. 11. -''an Francisco was turned oxer to the Knights of Pythias today, t rd the gold lace and uniforms have tulno posses sion of the city. Fully 6000 vis'lors arrived yesterday .and today 11,000 Kniffbts of the Uniform P.ntik Mufced the Golden Gate. Tomorrow the grand lodge will be gin It session. WOMAN TO PILOT STEAMER. LOUISVILLE. Aug. lt.-Mrs. John Golden, of Jeffersonvllle, Ind., has been granted a license to pilot steam ers on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers und today she will start on her first trip a a licensed officer. She will be at the wheel of her husband's steamer, the Shawnee, which goes South with a large store boat, the Mount Vernon, in tow. Mrs. Golden has devoted nu'ch of her time to the river and has trav ersed the various waterway of the South with Captain Golden. GAGE CHARGED WITH LIBEL. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. U.-John Spreckels, proprietor of fho Morning Call, has sworn a .varrint charging Governor Gage with !lbel. The al leged 'libel is contain ;d In the state ment, published Friday, In which the governor said that the charsea against him. recently published In the Call were made for the express purpose of fttemptlng to defeat his re-noninat!on. SHIP BUILDING PLANT TRANSFERRED PRICE $1,500,000 WILMINGTON. Del.. Aui ll.-The Hafland & Holllngsworth shipbuilding olant. located here, was tonight trans ferred to the United State Shipbuild ing Company. The price Is said to be $1,M0,C00. . TRANSPORT A1EADE LEAV1C9 FOR SAN FRANCISCO. wiiinifiTJlM Aim. II. -The t !!- REBEL LEADER BURNS CITY Pour Thousand Persons Homeless and Petit Goare a Pile of Ruins. NEUTRAL VESSELS PROT ECTED HrmiiiUtH Force Establish Block ade at Cape Hay HanGun boat Maclilaa Is Still There. PORT AU PRINCE, Aug. ll.-The correspondent of the Associated Press visited Petit Goave yesterday and found that the town had been entire ly destroyed, there being nothing left but a Pile of ruins. About 1000 per son are homeless and are greatly In need of assistance. The greater num ber of them have sought shelter In the Slmmond factories .near the town. The French cruiser D'Assas ar rived at Petit Gooave yesterday with provisions for the sufferer and return ed to Port Au Prince with 200 women and children, and 15 wounded men. The authorities refused to permit the Flrmlnist to leave, fearing they would so to other points to tape up arms again. Each party accuses the other of hav ing set fire to Petit Goave, but the general belief I that Chlcayoe, the Flrmlnist commander, resolved to de stroy the town, when he saw that he could not hold It against the Foueh ardlsts. According to that dispatch General Chlcayoe, who 1 minister of the Inter ior to the Flrmlnist provisional gov ernment, set fire to the town and abandoned It BLOCKADE AT CAPE HAYTIEN, Hard Feeling Against Foreigners In crease. PORT AU PRINCE, Aufr. ll.-The gunboat Crete-A-Pierrot, which I In Flrmlnite service, gave notice yester day of the blockade of Cape Haytien. The foreign consul and Commander McCrea of the United State gunboat Machias, protested against this action. The bad feeling against forelngers has Increased. MINISTER POWELL REPORTS. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. Minister Powell has cabled the state depart' ment from Cape Haytien that the pro visional (Vasquez) government of Hnytl has notified the United States legation that Gonavles, Port de Petit Goave and St. Marie provinces are in rebellion. The government troops cap tured Petit Goave, after strong resist ance. In which many lives were last. Firniin's troops, In retreating from the place, set (ire to and destroyed that town. EARTHQUAKE AT SKAGWAY. Shock Lasted Seconds No Lives Were Lost. SEATTLE, Aug. 11. A special to the Times from Skngway, says: Yesterday a severe earthquake was felt here. The shock was B0 seconds long, rattling things up generally. Scveraly large plate glass windows were broken and chimneys tumbled down. The water In Lynn canal rose five feet very suddenly, then subsid ed as quickly, Aroport from Juneau says a little fleet there was pitched around and several were capsized. DISASTROUS FIRE ON YUKON. SEATTLE. Aug. 11. The ware houses of the North American Trans portation and Trading Company at Fort Cudahy on the Yukon River were destroyed by fire August 7. The con- lagration wiped out probably more property than any fire ever occurring on the Yukon except at Dawson. REMAINS OF SENATOR M'MIL- LAN TAKEN TO DETROIT MANCHESTER, Mass., Aug. ll.-The body of the late United State Sena tor McMlUbn will be taken to De troit, Senator McMillan's home. At Detroit the public funeral services will be held on Thursday aftevnoon. r TO IGNORE CUBAN RECIPROCITY. NEW YORK, Aug. 11. Senator Thomas C. Piatt has clearly Indicat ed, according to the Herald, that the Repullcan state platform this year wvfl Mior atiban rttprolty as d- Toonta Wy President osetelt M 1- the state platform, Senator Piatt said: " I have not heard that matter dis cussed. I do not know that the state platform will deal with Federal Is sue. We have Issue enough of our own here In the stat." It was suggested that the Repub licans of Iowa had taken a different view of the matter. "As the Republican of Iowa have about everything In the national gov ernment it I proper that they should take charge of Federal Issue," Sen ator Piatt replied. WITNESS FOUND IN DENVER. Left Chicago to Escape Murderer' Wrath. DENVER. Aug. lL-Mllton L. P Edwards, who roomed at 'he louse f Mrs. Bartholin in Chlcaga, and for whom the police of that city have been looking to find out what be k.-:ows of the murder of Mr. Eartholln and Mi Minnie Mitchell I In Denver. He tell a straightforward story and say he came here looking for c rk and ha at no time concealed hi Identity or hi locality. He ay he is willing to return to Chicago at any time if the police wish him to. One reason he left Chicago 1. he claims, that l.e feared William Bartholin, who 1 accused of the murder of the two women, would also kill him. Before he left Chicago he say he expressed hi suspicion of Bartholin. REVIVALIST UNDER ARREST. Charged With Throwing Lighted Gas oline Torch at Rowdies. NEW YORK, Aug. ll.-The Rev. Charles S. Dennis, of Flushing, a well known Long Island revivalist, is in prison in Queens county Jail charged with felonious assault While he was conducting a service some boys who live nearby threw stones into the meeting room. This was a repetition of similar annoyances and Mr. Dennis is said on this occasion to has sprung from the platform In anger. It is said he tort a burning gasoline lamp from its fastening in front of the door and hurled it Into the crowd of boys. It struck James Fretenxo, 20 years old, and he was so badly burned that fear are entertained that he will diet PROMINENT CATTLEMEN Gt'ILTY OF CONSPIRACY. Charged With Killing Homesteaders' Stock and Burning Homos. GUTHRIE, O. T., Aug. 11. War rants were issued today by the Unltjd States attorney for the arrest of eight prominent cattlemen of eWstern Okla homa, charged with conspiracy in at tempting to defeat the rights of home steaders in a war waged against the farmers by the cattlemen in possession of extensive government pasture ranges. The cattlemen are charged with driving away and killing stock, waylaying and shooting thetr owners, burning the houses of homesteaders and destroying their crops and lands. SOLDIERS SENT TO REIN FORCE GEN. BERTE MISSING. NEW YORK, Aug. ll.-Cabling from Panama, the correspondent of the Herald sayB the Colombian gunboat Boyaca, which left here July 29 with 300 soldiers to reinforce General Berti at Aguit Dulce, Is still missing. In coming vessels have sen nothing of her. The dispatch is dated Sunday. SIAN BURNED IN ROARING LUMBER FURNACE. SEATTLE, Aug. 11. J. M. Kidney, an employe of Stetson-Fest mills, was burned to death In a roaring furnace used to consume the waste lumber, this attention. While In an epileptic fit he grabbed the wire conveyor ca ble and was dragged more than 400 feet to the furnace. E PLURIBUS UNUM . Vrt .--- " . . THE ECLIPSE HARDWARE COMPANY Mamfcirs ti Steanfltters, 137 tf 80 SHEET - ASTQUA. 0RECO3 MILLIONS OF SHEEP ARE LOST Terrible Droughts in Australis Beggar Wealthy Ranch Owners. GERMANS BUTCHER NATIVES One Hundred and Thirty Island er Killed and a Village la Wiped Out to Avenge a Murder. VICTORIA, B. C Aug. U. Advices from Australia tail of the terrible drought In New South Wales and Queensland, which has devastated tha sheep ranches. Millions of sheep have ''led and men formerly considered wealthy have been compellid to seek employment Salluet McCaughoy, the sheep king of Australia, lost over av million sheep of a herd of a million and a quarter and other large iheep men have been equally unfortunate. GERMANS BUTCHER NATI7ES. '. VICTORIA, R C, Aug. lt-The work of wiping out the natives of tha South Sea Islands goes merrily on. If the reports in the Australian papers are to be relied upon. The papers give an account of the expedition by tha Germans to New Hebrides to avenge the murder of Mrs-i Wolff. The expe dition wiped out a village. A hundred and thirty persons were killed. QUESTION HOW HE GOT 6000 MARKS. NEW YORK, Aug. H.-Geise Rabin Ivlci and his six children are being held ft sgeond time rt Ellis island by the Immigration authorities. . The man and his family, who are Roumanians, reached here several weeks ago and were deported because they had na money. The eldest daughter had come to marry a young man, who objected strenuously to her being ent back to Europe. This time the father of the family brought with him 6000 marks and the authorities are holding him to find out how he got so much money In. so short a time. TO INCORPORATE COMPANY t AT SALT lAKS (ITY. PORTLAND, Ore.. ug. It-Chief Engineer Kinney, of the Great Central railroad (proposed Salt Lake-Coos Bay line) has arranged for Mm incorpora tion of the local company In Salt Lake City, to handle that end of the enterprise. The law firm or Pierce. Crithclow & Barrette has been given charge of the matter. Plerc Is now in Portland. He is Senator W. A. Clark's legal representative in Utah. , BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE. At St. Louis St. Louis, 8; Wash ington, 1. " ' At Chlcapo Chicago, 5; Boston, 4. At Detroit-Philadelphia, 1; Detroit At Cleveland Cleveland, 17; Balti more, 1L NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Phlladelphla-Plttsburg, S; Phila delphia, 0. At Brooklyn Brooklyn, 3; St Louis, 0. i At New York New York, 3; Chlca- ro. 3: (Tie). i jliort Md Mind - Htrft by th lew plalfam h(M i ,bf boat, da yirU lfu( 8th for Itarn rMM v ft i n.nlia Anft MS anlteV an I ' . mm w jm sft (! ti sxtt ifcaWt mlV la A ratr, l W14T t f Ir, tgt m,0$ k m ,c ffr nftDt J P. A. STOKES