Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1903)
4. ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, UKM IPERSON At 4 MENTION W. S. Barry I In Satan. W. Vunromb It In the city from Port- land. David Marttny tt here from Of iron City. v;"'";" R. J. Young la In th city from I4V Oowan. i : W, A. Fltiod li In the city enroute fur Tillamook.; 2. F. and Mra. Hamilton nrrlvd in the city last night. A. K. Oreen of San Franrtseo w ill leave today for a brief visit at Ilwaco. Charles Brown left tor Portland yes terday where he will remain for a few day. Albert Dunbar went to Salem yester day to take In the last of the session of the Wislature. ' Angus 5or arrived In the city last night and ut up at the Parker house Mi-. Gor formerly resided here.' Andrew Young, county commissioner, returned to his home on Youngs river after a brief visit in the city. Mrs. C. N. Bclmlston arrived In the rlty yesterday from Sisson, Calif., and will leave this morning for tlwaco. Guy P. ilalferty returned yesterday from Warren ton and In the evening left on the train for his home In Mark ham, .Wash.':.. - -. Dr. James E. Miller arrived in the city yesterday enroute for Fort Canby where he is stationed. He Is a guest of the Parker house.. Mrs. B. L. Eddy, wife of Representa tive Eddy of Tillamook arrived In the city last night from Salem, accompan ied fay her little daughter and will leave out today on the steamer Elmore. L. K. G. 3mlth arrived In the city yesterday to look after local property Interests. Mr. Smith reached Portland recently from a tour of the world. - He Is a famous globe trotter and this last trip Is one of many that he has made. He la registered at the Occident. Ing that unless they are granted they will Mtrike. For lite last two days the members of the union have been tak ing vote on the strike proposition. Last night the votes wore counted and while the actual result was not announced, it was given out that the wtc was largely in favor of a strike. The company has offered to arbitrate, and two days ago asked the Chicago arbitration board to take charge of the trouble. The men say that they will not arbitrate for the reason that some tlm ago they asked the company to arbitrate and that It refused. The men make no request for wages, but Insist that the company cease dis criminating against the union. The company insists that it has not done so. "MR AND H El NTS." Senator In Montana Legislature Rather Rattled. Gets WIFE HTPXOTIZED HIM. Relatives of Dei-eased Bring Action Against Widow. New Tork, Feb, lS.-Clarenc A. Blanchard, Nellie B. Hoyt and Mattle B. Fuller, the brother and sisters of George R. Blanchard, who died on Oc tober 8, 1906. leaving considerable real property In Vermont. New Jersey. Bal timore and this city, have begun an ac tion in the supreme court against Mrs. Delia A. Blanchard. his widow, Charles D. Ingersoll and Ada B. Skinner, Mrs. Blanchard and Mr. Ingersoll being the executor of Mr. Blanchard's will, to have the will set aside as Invalid. It la declared by the plaintiffs that their brother was hypnotised by Mrs. Blanchard Into cutting them off with out anything and leaving to her almost all his property. Besides his real property Mr. Blanchard left personality valued at $160,000. Helena, Mont., Feb. II. The moat remarkable filibustering tactic ever inaugurated In the history of Montana took place in the senate yesterday, and lasted up to i o'clock this morning. It was In opposition to a btU permitting change of venue In case where a fair trial cuniot he had and la most Import ant, especially in Butte, where the Am algamated Copper company and F. A. Heinse, of the United Copper company, are pitted against tach other In min ing suits Involving millions. Senators Kennedy and Tewey, for Helnte, held the floor for 13 hours In opposition to the bill, and were met word for word by the Amalgamated men. "Me und Helnie oppose this bill," sivid Senator Kennedy during the early stages of debate. This was In re sponse to a pertinent question by Sen ator Hoffman as to the character of the opposition measure. Kennedy was relieved at times by Senator Tewey. of Silver Bow, who read chapters out of codes. This took hours, but the opposition was strong lunged and did not weary apparently as long as the hours dragged by. Beer and sandwitch-w were sent to the capitol for the refreshment of the force. The United Copper company lobby fil led the halls and encouraged the men on. . , FINANCIAL PROSPERITY. Condition 1n California Has Never Been . .'.'.- Equalled. - San Francisco, Feb. 19. The final sta tistical report of the bank commission for January 1, 1903, shows a state of financial prosperity in California that is believed to be unprecedented In the history of the nation. There are nine saving bank ia San Francisco, with deposit of I144.2S4..235.79 and 1T3.576 deposltors.havlng an average deposit of 1831.24. In the 32 Interior savings banks $53,723,277 Is deposited. These 61 savings banks of the state of California aggre gate the grand total of J198.0tf.51i, dis tributed among 284,962 depositors, with the unparalleled average of 694.S9 per depositor. MAILS WERE DELAYED. Snow In New York Seriously Impedes Postal Business. New York. Feb. 19. Postoftice offic ials had an anxious time yesterday. Not only were the incoming mails se riously delayed by the havy fall of snow, but the almost impassable streets caused an apparently endless seriesof delays in wagon deliveries. Then, to add to Superintendent Tied man's troubles, the pneumatic tubes between the postoftice and the Grand Central station became clogged. Car riers containing 2000 letters each are ordinarily sent through the tube to the Grand Central station at the rate of 15 a minute. As a result of that ac cident extra wagons were called for and the contractors put on nearly a hundred additional two-horse vehicles, but even with these, the deliveries at times were hours behind the schedules. KMPr.OYES HAVE GRIEVANCE. , Vnlon Mi-n Pay Company Has Discrim in,it;l Against Them. Chicago, Feb. 19. The employes of the Chicago C'ty Railway compay will pre sent to Manager McCulloch of that company today an ultimatum setting forth a list of grievances, and declar- GUT1GURA SOAP The World's Greatest Skin Soap. Tfea Standard of Erery Men of tlsa Eartli. - -. of OOsr Sold Wherever Clvlllzstlca Has Penstratel Millions of the world's beat people use Cuticura Soap, assisted by Cuticura Ointment, for preserving, purifying and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening and toothing red, rough and sore hands, for baby rashes, itchlngs and chafing, In the form of baths for annoying Irritations and in flammations, or too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and many sana tive, antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, espe cially mothers, as well as for all the purposes of the toilet, Tata and nur- ""(juticura Soap combines delicate emollient properties derived from Cuti cura, the great (kin cure, with the pur est of cleansing Ingredients and the most refreshing of flower odours. No other medicated soap ever compounded Is to be compared with It for preserv ing, purifying and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair and hands. No other for eign or domestic toilet soap, however expensive, Is to be compared with It for ail the purposes of the toilet, bath and nursery. Thus it combines hi one soap at one price the best skin and complexion soap and the best toilet and baby soap ever compounded. Sale greater than the world's product of all other skin sosps. Sold In erery part of the civilized world. - ACCEPTS INVITATION. President Roosevelt Will Visit Denver as Guest of Commercial Body. Denver, Feb. 19. President Roosevelt Is coming to Denver as the guest of the chamber of commerce while on his western trip during the coming spring, A letter of acceptance to the effect was read to the directors of that body last night by President Myer Friedman. It was in reply to an invitation sent re cently. NEWS FRM PANAMA. New Tork, Feb. 19. Advice from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, say the Her ald's Panama correspondent, state that congress has nominated Juan AnJIel Arias for president of the republic and Maximo Rosales for vice-president Gen eial Si-tre. former president, has left the capital to quell the revolution which started in Amapala on February 1. but which made no headway, receiving neither material nor moral support. AGED DUELIST. Buda Pest, Feb. 19. A duel with swords was fought today between Bar on Fejervary, minister of national de fense, and Deputy Lengyal, as a result of the dispute in the Hungarian cham ber Tuesday, when the minister called the deputy a liar. Baron Fejervary was slightly wounded three times in the right hand. The baron, who la 70 years of age, declined to refuse to ac cept the challenge on account of his old age. FRAUDULENT INSURANCES. Montreal, Feb. 19. Canadian life in surance companies are busy investigat ing many risks taken lately. Six claimants are now seeking to collect through the courts $29,000. The com panies say that misrepresentations have been made In every case and that persons suffering from Incurable dis eases have deceived doctors. The agents say that many cases of fraud have been discovered. DEADLY EXPLOSION. New York, Feb. 19. Three men were killed outright, one man being so se riously Injured that he died later, two men were fatally and at least seven seriously hurt in an explosion In the work room of be naval storage maga zine at Fort Lafayette, in New York bay about 2 o'clock this afternoon. RECOMMEND ENGLISH FIRM. Montral, Feb. 19. Neither of the two rail making firms of Canada is in po sition to turn out 25,000 tons of rails required by the Canadian government for the Intercolonial before June 1. Canadian manufacturer recommend that the contract be placed In England rather than In Germany. FOR CHARITY'S SAKE. New York, Feb. 19. A matinee per formance of "Mary of Magdala," given at the Manhattan theater, realized about $2000, which amount was given to the Regina Angelorum, a home for working girls, in this city. The home IS under the care of the , Sisters of Mercy. .. .. .' ENGLAND THREATENS. New Tork, Feb. 19. A special dis patch to the Noves Vryma, dated from Constantinople, states, according to a Herald dispatch from St. Petersburg, that theHritish government has notified Turkey that if the latter manifests the slightest intention of sending troops to Arabia, England will occupy all the ports of the Red sea. . ABOUT WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY Washington's birthday was made a legal holiday by vote of tiie Massa chusetts lgeistature, the first one ob served being February 23, 187. Prior to that time his birthday was only ob served by personal friends. The birth day of the celebrated Hostetters Stom ach Bitters was 50 years ago, and the fact that it has remained before the public continually since that time is positive proof that it is founded on true merit. There Is also positive proof of its value in the record of cures of heartburn, Indigestion, fatulency, dizziness, dyspepsia, constipation, bit- Uousness, and malaria, fever and ague that is back of it, also in the hundreds of voluntary testimonials received an nually. Give it a fair trial. It will cure you even after other remedies have failed. Be sure to get the genu lne. USHERS OPERA HOUSE L. S.-SELIQ, Leese and Manager. TWO NIGHTS Friday and Saturday, Feb. 20-21 Weston and Herbert BIG-MODERN VAUDEVILLE SHOW Including HUGH J. EMMETT Ventriloquist, Mimic and Monoioglst. 4 BRAGDONS 4 Mln- Introducing Little Clifford, the iature DorksWder. ' AND I Weston and Herbert The King Pint of Musical Comedy. 9 ALL STAR ACTS POLITE -REFINED- FASHIONABLE ADMISSION-Kesvrved seats, T5c; gal lery. 50c. Seat sal opens Thursday morning at Griffin's Book Store. THE ASTORIAN JOB DEPARTMENT for JOB PRINTING Dr. T. L Ball DENTISTS. 524 Commercial street, Astoria Ore. THE Experienced Traveler IS ALWAYS FOUND ON THE MOUS TRAINS OF WW M.-iiJM.i.i'-a For He Knows They Are the Best in Every Respect. The Northwestern Limited Paul Daily Between Minneapolis, St and Chicago, Is the Peer of All Trains. Full Information in regard to lowest rates and comfort In traveling gladly furnished by H. L. SISLEK, GENERAL AGENT, 248 Aid -r St., Portland, Ore. T. W. TEASDALE, Gen'l Passenger Agent, St Paul, Minn. HEDGES & GALLOWAY ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Land Office Business a Specialty. Rooms 1 and 2, Weinhard Bldg Ojugon City, Orison REPORT OP CONDITION OF THE Astoria National Bank at Astoria, in the state of Oregon, at tha close of business, February t, 1903. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts K43.KS 03 Overdrafts, secured and un secured ! V. S. Bonds to secure clrcu- latlon 12.500 00 Premiums on U. S. bonds.... 1.S50 00 Stocks, securities, etc...-. 87,463 2! Banking house furniture and fixtures 3,MJ 01 Other real estate owned 9.965 00 Due from National Bnnks(not re Bene agents) 4 2 Due from state Links and Bankers , 4,257 8 Due from approved reserve agents 150,84 M Internal revenue stumps .. 273 02 Checks and other cash Items.. 3,513 00 Notes of other National Banks 340 00 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents H 5 Lawful Money Reserve In Bank, vis: Specie 142,238 45 Igal tender notes.. 1.0S8 00 43,271 45 Redemption fund with U. 8. treasurer (6 percent "of cir culation 625 00 Total 1645,444 4 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid In f 50.000 00 Surplus fun 10,000 00 Undivided profits, less ex- ' penses and tnx-n paid .... 9,713 49 National Bank not.-s out standing 11.600 00 Individual deposits subject to check $18,650 76 Pemund eertltk'ates' of de posit 98,680 76 Time certificates of de posit 16.398 83 Certified cheeks 2,600 00 464,131 35 ITl A 1TM TAILORING Ji JjlLiNJ COMPANY 285-285 1-2 Washington St.. Four Doors East of PerKint Hotel THE KNIFE IS SHARPENED And We Are Ready to Slash Prices to the Bottom j& j& j& We have mmlo ourselves famous with thii people by giving thorn the greatest valuus ever known in history tlto pet season, but this stilti will bo a hummer. Wo mean to give ilio wage earning hi1o such values as will nut Ik) forgotten for a long time to eoiiw. Wo lire coii)RllctJ to tlo this to make room for the grainiest lino of unclaimed Uilor-mmlu ring elothing ever shown in the work!. Figures tind quality that talk: $6.95 FOR CHOICE OF ANY SUIT IN THE HOUSE 1465 suits to pick from, consisting of doiiblo and ingle-btvtwtel Saeks, Kroeks, Full Dress and Tuxedos, made of cheviots, vassimere, tweeds, P, & 11, broadcloths, etc., valued from $25 to $50 In Our Overcoat Department $8.45 $11.45 Ihiys choice of 218 3-4. length Ihx CoaU, valued from $20 to tt). 123 JlnglniiB, made of the very best material, made by Chicago's lending tailors at from $25 to $15. liny choice of 50 Silk-lined Overcoats, Worsteds, Thiltcts, and Vicunas, None for litis than $50. made up in black unlinuheU of thee coats were made up The Motto Which Miule I s Famous: "Satisfaction or Money BacK" This Is Strain's Way RELIANCE Electrical Works 421 BOND ST. Wt are thoroughly prepartd for making climates and extcutlnf ordtrs for all kinds of sleotrlosl Installing and Repairing Supplies In atock. We ll th celebrated BHKLBT LAMP. Call up Paone 11 tL H. W. CYRLH, . Mar Total U46.444 M State of Oregon, County of Clatsop.ss: I, J. E. HIRln, cashier of the above named Dank, do solemnly swear that the above atatement Is true to the best of my knowledge and belief, J. E. HIOOIN8, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of February. 1903. E. Z. FERGUSON, Notary Public. Correct Attest: George H. George, Wm. II. Barker, A. Scherneckau, Directors, PRICE NOW ONE DOLLAR. There has never been a rem edy that actually cured piles until this one was discovered by Dr. Perrln. There Is not a person who suffers from this distressing dlxetse who is not willing to pay (1 to have the cause removed permanently. Immediate results and you take It, that's all. '- THE WALDORF F. WISE, Propr. V . . Astoria's principal resort. Fins liquors and cigars. C. J. Trenchard Insurance Commission and 0 nipping. Agent Wells Fargo and Pa clfle Express Compsuslas, Cus tom Boass Broksr. . . . Central Meat Market 643 COMMERCIAL ST. Your ortrra for, oirti, bulb F li E S II A K I) S A L T Will be prom pi v nd allHluftorlljr nuUwl to 3, W, MORTON, Prsf. Telepbone Nn. 821. The Boston Restaurant KtO CO.MMKIU HTKKKT Best and Neatest Eating House in Astoria Try Our 2 5-Cent Dinners I Prompt Attention High Class Chef MARINOVICH & BOSKOYICH yW WWW WWW t KOPP'S FAMOUS BEER Bottled or In Keg Free City Delivery i North Pacific Brewing Company, Astoria ' i;.MII, N( III.Ml'l T, ;m rul ManaK r, It UXURIOUS Travel The "Northweatern Lllnl'.d, trains, electric lighted throughou', both inside and out, and steam heated, art with out exception, tbs finest trains la the world. They embsdy tbs Itteat, tiewen and bent ideas for comfort, eon venl rice and luxury ever offered the travelling public, snd sltogether are tht mrsi complete snd splendid production i t thi csr builders' an. Thsw splendid Trains Coiyisot With The Great Nortben The Northern Pacific snd . The Canadian Pacific AT 8T. PAUL FOR CHICAGO and the CAST. No extra charge for these superior scotnmodations and sll rlaisss of tick ets are available for psaMgt co tbt trains on rhl line srs protected by the Interlocking Elocte fiystsm. n A familiar name of the Chicago, Milwaukee ft 8. Paul Railway, known all over the Union as the Great Railway running the '.'Pioneer Limited" trains every day and night between St. Paul and Chicago, and Omaha and Chicago. "The only perfect train In tits world." Understand: Connections are made with ail transcontinental line, securing to paserfger the best service known. Luxurious coaches, electric light, steam heat, of a variety equaled by no other line. See that your ticket reads via "The Milwaukee" when going to any point In the Uuited States or Canada. Alt ticket agents sell them. For rates, pamphlets or other Infor mation, addeas. J. W. CASBT, C. J. EDDY, Tray. Psuw. At on. Agt. Portland, Ore, Portland, Ore. Foley s Honey Tat heals lungs madttopi the cough. .TTTiTnTiiiiiiixxxixmx nuiiiinirxxiiinixixxiy ...THB CITY OF ASTORIA... Is XoU'il its IIm I'luw Win-re Is Muiniruoturfil... Cutbirth's Creosote Shingle Stains Tlie Most Humble, I'rrservativi', nml Handsome Htuios on the Mnrki-t, Nothing keeps out tbe weather like shingU iu tlin wi.IU. ireS4Tvea ami beautltles shingles IlkeUutinrtli nIhiiii, Cutblrth also makes the bmi (JOlTEK TAINT fur Hie l.oll.m.i ater craft. Nothing i( nil rXXZXXXXXX xriTraTTTTWTTTimimy B & O Baltimore 6b Ohio R. R. ROYAL BLUE TRAINS BETWEEN CHICAGO 15 NEW YORK Via WASHINGTON, I). ('. Finest ond Fastent scries of twins in the world. Palntiu couches, Pullman Buffet Parlor and Drawing Room Onrg. , The Finest Dining Car Service in the World Is operated by the Bullimore & Ohio Railroad. B. M. AUSTIN, General Pass. Agt. r Chicago, 111 MxaxaxjtxKXJXinxxxxiax nxaxwxjjxuxtixnxtixtauxaxaxal Thi, ilgaataM it en erery boi of the genaiM Laxative BramrM)tiinliT.hiria ?7'PVta,the remedy that euros soM la osw s) Q