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NOTIOHi Books, Periodical, Mnaii-r-r. " c, Are Not to bo Taken Froi "i'ii-o Library without permission. Any oihi .ml i.uilty of such offense will be liable to prosecution. Em iH nwltfi mum VOL. LV ASTORIA, ORIXOX, SUNDAY. Al'C.l'ST 21, 1902. THE HEIRS OF T1RS ' " ' "a Mr - - - 1 i .... 1 . ... . ........ - - ' ... . ' 111 1H PRESIDENT VISITS NEW ENGLAND Enthusiastic Reception Tendered " . .- , ., - - AMERICAN KILLED &fe FAIR WILL NOT FIGHT IN SWITZERLAND Hhannie ILr & Hume started the salmon industry and Astoria grew from a village to a city. The Hume mind sees the possi bilities of the lumber industry and Astoria will grow from a city to a metropolis. Astoria Will Boom In about six months there'll be a stir in Astoria that will please all, so put on your best smile and decent duds and you'll be in the procession. For Decent Duds See Wise Wisell Throw in the SMILE SMILINGLY YOURS 1 1 1 j 0OOtOOO0000f0! BUY A DOZEN Of our Himtlftome ami Artistic Hounted and Matted Pictures 2 inl itmirntu your homo or your beach cottage. Son the Whitlow Dilny i GRIFFIN 6b REED 0HOC0O4CC400OO40O4O00OO0Kf0OCtO4O2 I BRACES, BITS AND DRILLS J A Nqw LLlnc Just K j Received nt - h 1 Fisher Bros., 540-550 Bend st. jj ?xnt:xx:axtixxxxuximxxxxxKxi::xx::xx::xiKXX!:ixnrxnx2 nm:t:tt:::ti!:;::t::::i::tn::iiismmn:tat:!itntnmiu:ts:t5tmsiititssn!ttnmit: 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. P. A. STOKE 0400WO000OKW00 EASTERN RELATIVES OF DEAD WOMAN HAVE ARRIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO. Mother of Deceased Says She Wants Her Children to Oct What They Are Entitled to. HAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23.-Mr. Hannah N'limn, mother of the late Mr Charles L, Fulr ha arrived here from her home In Newmarket, N. J. Hh I accompanied by her son, A. O. Nelson, who conducts a general mer chandise, business at I'lulnfelrt, N. J. Ffp Fowler, a nephew of Mm. Fulr by marriage, and his wife are also here. Mr. Nelson I ft woman of 79 year and she was greatly fatigued by her journey across the continent. Joseph Harvey, the llfedong frlnd of Charles Fair, and Charles ft .NYnl. nuiniiKer of the Fair estate, went to Ileim to meet Mr. Nelson and her son. Harvey and Neal also met Chn. Nelson, a brother of' the lute Mrs. Fair, at' Reno, who has come to Oil city from Boulder Crtek. Colo. Mrs. Nelson declined to talk for publication , but to Mr. Harvey she said: " I don't care much what becomes ji injr nm ui rsimr, mil l warn to see my children get all they are entitled to." A. O. Nelson said: "There will be I no contest between my mother and Mr. Smith. He Is my half brother. Of course, my mother will go Into court, but th legal matter rests with her counsel altogether. She will ask for .letters of administration on the ea- itute, and for that reason we intend .to take up our residence In San Fran- cIsco, J " My mother," he conttnoed, "we re g.ird as the ml heir, fo there will be no contest (ts far as w are con cerned" j "There will be no content nt all," ,remarked Joseph Harvey, who was present. "The whole matter will be nothing definite has yet been decided on." The Call this morning says " It Is nm generally known that the I Fairs will authorize Herman Oelrlcha .to Inform the relatives of Mrs. Fair I thai they can take possession of certain properties of her estate. To this es j tn to w 111 a!.o probably be added a sum jOf money, Whnt the amount will be hna not yet been settled upon. Tl'.e de tails have not yet been dts-ussed." iFNOL.VXn ASKS FOR PROTECTION Of Colombia for Rrltlsh Vessels Wh;. h Are In Pnng.r of Destrucllon. PANAMA, Aug. 23.-.impHr-ntlons caused by the refusal of the Pacific is,0'" N'nvigntion company t.t uw pooi io iranspon tne troops n mi Hue na Ventura to the isthmus tn the steamer Ecuador has not yet -nded. J General Pnlanar has received com imunlcntlona from Acting Rrltlsh Contul Hudpon. saying his mnsty govern ment nks whnt protection Colombia icould givo the Rrltlsh veids from destruction by the Insurgent forces In j the event of their trunspDrilng Ihe I troops of the Colombian government. (General Sabiitar replied that the Til cine team Navigation Company was obliged to transport the government I troops by terms of contract made !n l&.y between the company and his government; that this contract should be fulfilled by the company without the necessity of the government giving a previous guarantee of protection. MASKED MEN FLAY ROLD GAME. After Robbing Two Men of 1300 They Appear and Fire on Tvo Others. BAKER CITY Aug. 23.-Two mask ed men held up and rob'Jid Cherles Keller this afternoon on the road be tween Cornucopia and Carson In the northern part of this county, fecuilng between $200 and 300. Shortly after Keller was robbed. Jonn Moose and a man named Moffat were drlylng on the same road, when the robbers made their appearance again and fired rev- oral shots at Moore and Moffat, but did not rob them. CONSTRUCTING ELECTRIC TRAIN. Will Make 10 Miles an Hour Location of Track Not (llvn. NEW YORK, Aug. 2t-An electrical company at. Lyin, Mass.. Is building a tra'n which Is soon to be used in Illinois, says r special dispatch from Lynn, and which the engineers esti mate will make 90 to ".to miles an hour. It It added that the track lor the (rain In Illinois Is atmo-l com I Intel; Hint the line is about l.'.O mile lor.g alid Is remarkable for solidity and strength. As far 11 s rofslble (trades have bei-n ellmlnted. Elcetric ity will be the motive power, and rhc third rail system will be uks.), A train of three cars has been built for the flint trials. The tialn will be 'quipped with 12 motors ,f UO horse power eitcb. Instead of the IiIkIi speed Increasing the danger, It Is claimed. that the train will be safer and run less risk of leaving the rulls than an ordinary street ear. The theory held by electricians Is that the train Is practically el", trlrally welded to the track and cannot ,-ave It while the poavr is on. The loca tion of the track Is not given. IRELAND FOR carplw.l. His SpUnd:d Work Regarding Philip pines May Re Rewarded by ?uch. NEW YORK, Aug. 2J. the statement is cabled to the Trl'tune from Rome that the rcomniend,ukn under so lliltatlona io the Vall'lan to have Archbishop Ireland nominated as a cardinal have now issumel lmp.Hing proportions, as st-ttln forth that the red hat should be a du? reward for the success of the papacy obtained throuith him by-the T.ift mission com ing to Rome. The statement Is furth er made thit some of Ar. h')inhon Ire land',! friends filervli are to Influen tial that the Vat Ira 1 would like to satisfy notwithstanding the rdu lance to httvu Anirlca have more tlian or.e cardinal. This f'lati of having Arch bishop Ireland a arJln.il ut the Cm la resldlnc at Rum.! is option .-d by lb other cardinal of the Curia, who And him too cluvyr, too progressive and too Amerl'-an. A project that l '.vhijipereJ, cntinui s the correspondent, is that Uishop ijuig- Icy, of RulTaK having lefuscJ the !archblidioprJ..'i;f. Chl.is;o, Arcbblthup .v.,, Plxiiiin in. n- u u ut feld for his acil-itl-u, and belli crea- led a cardinal, he would have the West undr his Jurisdiction, while Cardinal dlbbol.s o.,'J ouve the K.it. 1 . - . SCHWAB NOT FORMING COMPINSS Will Not Cjinbln.' Hritisn Steel Works Into Morgnii Trust. NEW YORK. Auu. 23. -Speaking cf reports cabl..l from American that Mr. Schwab contemplates the amalga mation of the American, Rr!Hsh and Relglum Rteel and Iron Industries, the iTrll.une's London icpio.wntatlve says the report excites amusement among the leaders of th'it Industry here. jStrenuoiH effort have been made to 'form a i'.iilii-h collusion during the laM eight mouths, but without suc cess. There Is no practical method of securing the valuation of either plant or good will when the nr.. ftln' ry Is behind the limes, yet it Is appraised by th? owiurs high above U dividend earning capacity. There Is no longer any talk of combining the ,reat Rrlt lsh lion and steel works into nn anti Morgan trust. TWO MINERS KILLED. After Lighting Blast In Seeking Safety Fall In Shaft and Are Frowned. " ROSSI.AND. R. C, Aug. it-Two minus named Hopkins lost their lives their lives at the Joslo mine today. The men lighted a blast and turned to seek a plice of safety. They fled toward on unused shaft mid plunged headlong. The shaft was filed with water, and Lobb and Hoski-is rere dead when taken out. FIRST DISEASE OF ITS KNIO. NEW YORW, Aug . 2t-Rudolph Fltcdner, of New Brunswick, N. J Is dead after a lingering illness of n rare dlsearc of the skin, known to sci entists as pon'phlgus vulgar us. No other case of tho disease has ver been known In the United States, It Is asserted. Flledner's skin became as if scalded, and his nurses had to swath his entire body In cotto.i. Mr. FUedner wns first taken 111 In May. Specialists were colled who studied the case with great interest, but could do nothing to relieve him, and ho died of exhaustion. He was Kk years old, and starting as a factory laborer he had built up a big busi ness. GRAND DUKE SERIOUSLY ILL. CHICAGO Aug. 23. Grand Duke Bo ris has postponed his departure from Chicago indoilnitaly, owing' to the ill ness cf Chevalier do Schaalc, personal attache to the duke. 'Che patiei-.t l:as soma--symptoms of typhod fever and a rdi; Jlcl-tu in tu constant attendance on him at his hotel. Him by Grand Army Veterans. WILL ATTEND CHRISTENING His UciiitM -ra tic Way Comtautl? I'mUcd-Newport Thronget! With Loyal ICooxeveK Admirer. NEWPORT, R. I., Aug. 21-Presldent I , .us vuiiu uay s juur- ney through New England tonight at Newport, where he Is the guest of Wliithrop Chanter. While here hi will jattend the christening cf the Chanter jbaby. The president's democratic jways are constantly referred to ana In (hls speeches he seems to reach the .people at once. At Willlamantlc his remarks were referred to by several in" a heart-to-heart talk. Peihaps the most enthusiastic recep tion accorded him at the r-maller laes was at River Point, R. t. The Pastime park was thronged wlih peo ple, among them hundreds of Grand -Army men. I The demonstration at Providence fas (a cllmai to the eventful day. The ( multitude In front of the city hall gave ,vent to their feelings time and again ( throughout the course of his addretm, and at the conclusion he was over- .T 1 . . - . .... "iii-iiuiii nun congratulations. LI Ht'NO CHANG'S PHYSICIAN ARRIVK3 IN CHICAGO. Says the Late Greatest Statesman Was Man of China. the CHICAGO, Aug. 23.-Dr. Robert Colt man, of Pekin, China, ex-physician t& LI Hung Chang, and now secretary to . a Chinese general. Is In Chicago. His .family lives In Washington an he Is ,m ma way wnn a nine months leave of absence to visit them, " LI Hung Chang was the greatest man I ever knew," be said last night, ("He killed himself with overwork and il was with him when he died. He had a wonJ'r'ul mind and China may iieer nave so great a man again. He jknew everything, even to the smallest .details, that went on In his own house. hould and In the great empire. What ever he once took up he mastered completely before he once finished H." China, Dr. Coitinan thinks, Is now assured of a lasting peace and is making steady progress. FASTEST BATTLESHIP IN AMERICAN NAVY. New Battleship Maine Makes Success ful Trip Around Ca;e Speed Eighteen Knots. BOSTON, Aug. ,'3.-The new battle ship Maine raced around the cape on her trial course today. Her contract calls for a speed of IS knots an hour for four continuous hours of .'team ing. The mean speed developed with out Allowances was given tut as 1S.3. She Is the fastest battleship in the American navy. SENATOR MITCHELL LEAVES FOR HAWAII. Chairman of Committee to InvestigUe. Condition of Islands. -PORTLAND, Aug. 23. -United States Senator Mitchell left today for Hawaii. Ho is chalrmhn of the sub-committee of the senate conmmlttee on the raclfio Islands and Porto Rico. The sub-committee goes to Hawaii to Investigate conditions there. WOMAN ARRESTED FOR BEGGING Has Done Such in New York for Many Tears Supports Large Family, NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-The police (have arrested a woman representing 'herself to be Mrs. Harris Hunter the widow of a or.e-tlme member of the .Chlcagj Board of Trade, on the tech nical charge of vagrincy, and a mag istrate has h.dd the woman tn $500 bail .for eximlnatlon. She is 60 years of age, slight of build, with gray hair, and was dressed in mourning. She jwas arrostad in front of Kuhn, Loeb & vuioutiuv a uaimiug voice ujr ttii Bgem of the charity organisation and de tectives from the central office. Mrs. Hunter had tried to obtain fi nancial aid by saying she had an In valid brother, for who:n she -vlshed to buy an Invalid's chair. She was told to como back at a certain hour. As soon as she had left a clerk tele phoned the charities organisation and Informed them that for tho past five yeacs a wo-nan answering her descrip tion had bejn going the rounds ol tho prominent brokers' offices collect ing money upon one pretext or an other. She would Invariably repre- sent hr?df as the widow of a former president of .he Chicago Hoard r,f Trade, It was said, and as having lost her money through several failuies. When sh came back to the bark she was arrestM. It Is alleged that dirr tiaveltd frjm San Franemv to New ,York, collecting money all the time un til It Is sid she has amassed at I: .i $50,000. Mrs. Hunter says of herself; " I come from Sheridan, Wis., where I have left a father 81 ysars old. a son down with consumntlon ami o daughter 14 years old. I have ben living In Brooklyn. The folks out West have no means of support, so I m about securing aid for them. In re. eelvlr.g money from people In this el y i I have done no wrong." LAST SURVIVOR OF li!2 WAR. Is Slowly Dying at Dunbrook, da County, New York. Onei- NEW YORK, Aug. 23,-Word rch. ed this city from Dunbrcok, OneMa county, this state, that Hiram Cron the only soldier of the war of 1812 up- lon the government nensinn mil. i dying at his home here. Cron is In his 103-4 year and has had the tinctlon of having lived in Ihree ren- turies. About three months ago his he;,ith began to fail and for some time he has been confined to his bed and Is growing weak. He STvml-i much of the time sleeping. Last' week he Blfpt for three days and two nlfch's. LntU about two years aao the irnv. ernment allowed him is. a nonth hnt Congressman Sherman secured the pas sage of a special act incraslntr the pension to $25. DISTINGUISHED WEDDING.. Granddaughter of General Crant and Cousin of PresUent Roosevelt. COBUP.O.Ont., A-cir li Th. ttmrs rlasre of Vivian May Sartorls and Fred erick Roosevelt Scovel wat solemniz ed hero today in the presence of a dis tinguished aremblage. The bride is a granddaughter of the late Gene-al U. S. Grant and tho C ' ' .V . VVUBlll of President Roosevelt. ( SUSPECT FOUL FLAY. Jury Decides That Pete Pouchene Was Murdered by Persons Unknown. PORTLAN, Aug. 23.-The verdict of the coroners Jury In the we of Pete Bouchene, who was found dead on Jefferson 'street late last .light, was that he came to his death by persons to the jury unknown. An autopsy to day revealed the fact thatR.Juchiier's :8kull had been fractured by a blow from a blunt instrument. IIGHWAYMEN CI EN FIVE YEARS Men Who Beat Swede Laborer and Whom Posse Captured. WALLA WALLA, Aus?. 2J.-Jack Ryan and George McDo iMld, who beat a Swede laborer nearly to death at jTouchet Station and who were chased by bloodhounds until can'ur.'d, near Athena, Ore., were arraigned today on a charge of highway robbery. They pleadel guilty and were sentenced to five years each ia the penitentiary. DUCHESS HAS APPENDICITIS. NEW YORK. Amr. 2t-C-tblin from Vienna, the Herald correspondent says that the Duchess Marguerite Sophie of Wurtemberg, has just been operated on for appendicitis, nt Gumnden, by Professors Grau and Chlari. Fears are entertained for tne atlont's life. ffitftTl?i'flMIIMMMM,MlMttt tCntTttlt E PLURIBUS UNUM THE ECLIPSE HARDWARE COMPANY Plumbers and Steamfitters, Sit DUnu 01 ACCI ROBBERS ATTACK HIM NEAR MAISON BLANCHE HE IS STRANGLED. 'Boasted to Friends That He Never Carried a Weapon in the Wilds of America. NEW YORK, Aug. 2t-Uuotlnir tbV Francals, the evening edition of tha Vfntln rftA Ta-I a . - . I vvi ivnjKinueni oi ul World cables the following story: I "vtor Evandale, an American, about '-10 vrars .1,1 ,wi.,-.,,i . ...... jthat he had lived for 10 years la the wutiost regions of western Unite.! States and never carried a weapon and never was afraid. Several Frenchmen who were present, told him that Paris was more dangerous. " They asserted thae he could not go' from Grenelle to Montroug. for ex ample, after 10 o'clock at night with out being killed unless he wore labor er's clothes. "Evandale left the cafe after a time without reverting to the conversation about dangerous localities. " Next morning his comoanlons of thi night before were horror stricken to read of the discovery of i3vandale body In the Glacis of the fortiflcationa" near the Slalson Blanche. It is sun-' posed he must have actually attempted. to walk from Grenelle to Montrouga immediately after leaving his friends.. Evidently he was attacked from be hind. Tight around his neck waa found a thin leather throng which had been used to strangle him. His pock--ets were rifled,, his shoes and coat re--- moved. PFJCDLETOV HAS ANOTHER FIRE." Third Fire in Two Weeks Loss r- tlmated at $30,103. PENDLETON, Aug. 2t-A $30,000 fire occurred today in the O. R. & N. yards. Kerr Giffords warehouse waa burned. The warehouse was nearTv empty. Six thousand cedar posts, five jboT ears, a pile driver, the supply jhouse and its contents valued at $8000, .belonging to the railway ' company, wore destroyed. The oil tanks barely escaped. Eight hundred thoroughbred heeo were saved that would have been ( suffocated by five minutes delay. This (lsr Pendletons third big Are in the lo cality of the O. R. & N. station in two weeks. BASEBALL NORTHWEST LEAG-TB. At Butte Butte, 1: Portland, J., At Helena Helena, 6; Seattle, 4. At Tacomn Taeoma, S; Spokane, S. NATIONAL LEAGUE. At St. Louii St Louis, 3; New York, 4. I tA Pittsburg Pittsburg, 8: Brook lyn. 9. At Cincinnati Cincinnati, 7; Phl'a- delthi, 9. At Chi' ago Chicago, 14; Boston, f. AMERICAN LEAGUE. At Boston Boton.l; St. Louis, .0. At Washington Washington; 6; De troit 2. I t Phiuv 'n ...i.-.i , ,.. leiphia-Philadelphla, 12; At Baltimore Baltimore, J 4; Chl- cago, S. 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