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1 irary w-;" ' ' ' " J Wi.'f b- i;-Y.1 ' cnenso, Mtmm 21 astoria, QRUGO.v, Wednesday; april is, 1903. NUMBER 90. VOLUME LVI, II M. 1903 1873 I : You ctt.n Appear to the. Best Advantage of the man who knows what custom tailored clothes are likeat their best. Made by Ooui & Brandloii, Manufacturing Tailors, Utica, R Y., it Is metropolitan in style, and bring cloe rating It appeals particularly to the man of slim build and those wishing a snug fitting garment Made in a variety of fancy worsteds and cheviots. The Graceful curve-in at the wuist and the concave shoulders that cling to e form will please evtry careful duscr, p. a: STOKES JUST RECEIVED ONE HUNDRED BOXES OF FANCY APPLES FLSHER BROTHERS J WW F RE A B S11K Petticoats, $4 $475 $5 and $9 Silk Dress Skirts $10.00 to $20.00 Silk Monte Carlo Jackets, $9 to $11 WASH SlURTS-Demlms, 85ci Grass cloth, $1.00i Linen, $2.00 to $3.50. White Skirts, 85c to $3.00. THE BEE HIVE on promenade or during business In the Arvon Four-DuUon Sack Suit In design and shapeliness this is the dresser's idea, of snappy apparel that gives a man an individual appearance,' Men with an appreciative eye for high-class tailored clothes will discern these same qualities In the ARVON. In other words It Meets the The Chicago Perfect in touch, speed, dura bility and appearance, $35. VISIBLE WRITING J. N. GRIFFIN A CONSPICUOUS MAN IS THE PLUMBER., . When you want htm you are are ulwy In a hurry. W nr always glad to respond to your hurry calls and relieve the difficulty. We have much experience In repairing and new work and will tlx the bad plumbing and supply the good on short notice. ' W.J.SCULLEY Phone Black S185 470-472 Commercial street. PRESIDENT BREAKS CAMP After a Shojt Time At the Fort H He Will Be Where the Geysers Spout. HAS NOT SHOT AT LIONS Had Chance to Bag Big Came, but Declined to Do Sol$ In Best of Health. Clnnlbur, Mont., April 14.-President Roosevelt broke ramp, yesterday and Is working his way toward Fort Yel lowstone. He Is expected to arrive in Yancey tonight or tomorrow morning. He will remain there one day and will then start ror Norrla, where, the gey sers are. There Is a good deal or snow between the rort and TJorrls, and the engineer corps Is at work opening the road Word reeelvd rrom the president to day 'M to the effect that he was In the best of health and thoroughly en Joying hl outing. In addition to horseback riding, he takes long walks owr mountain trails. Notwithstand ing reports to the contrary the presl dent has not fired a shut nt a mountain Hon. and has no Intention of doing so". It Is estimated that there are 600 of these animals In the park and they are killing large quanta, f deer and elk, twrmlned effort Is being made to eitermlnete them, and Bpffalo Jones, game warden of the park, to gether with his scouts, Is slaying them on every possible occasion. Jones has offered to round up ft Hon or two for the president to shoot at, but the 1st ter declined to do so. The weather continues to b all that could he desired, and the member of the party who are living on the train nt Clnnlbar are having a good time llshing and rldlnn thrjugh the country fiutle. Artrll 14. A special to the 'Miner from Helena, My: News if President Itooitrvelt In the national park Is a very rare article. Some of the most enterprising news papers In the country have been en deavoring by ail sorts of strategy to get A birds eye view of the chief ex- ecutle. The president Is having an expert enie that falls to few. He does not permit hluwlf to carry a gun. Since he has been In the park he has seen two mountain lions killed by ecoul but the most novel of all his exper iences was when he wllnessd the start ling spectacle of an eaalo In mortal combat with a yearling elk. In this Instunce the president saw an eagle plunge his talons into the ttesh of the wenkllng elk and kill the young ani mal and then start to feast on hjm The president who Is a member of the OrJcf of Elks, could not bear such spectacle, and scouts forced the eagle to leave his prey. No Development In Investigation Washington, April lt.-Investlgntlon of the affaire nt the postofflee depart ment resulted In no complete develop ments today. Inspector Fasnes, for mcr director general of the post of Cu ba, and one of Brlstow's chief assist ants In conducting the Inquiry, was en gaged today In the Investigation of a free, delivery bureau. Inspector Thorpe of New Tork believed to be looking Into the charges affecting a re- adjustment of the salaries and allow ances for post clerks In New Tork city.. Payne announced tonight that there would be no charges pending the close of Investigation. Used Too Much Good Powder New York. April 14. Much havoc was caused In the Bronx yesterday by Wast fired In the work of cutting One Hundred and Seventy-second street through from Third avenue to Fulton avanue. The cutting Is through an Immense wall of solid rock. The blast broke the windows of more than a score of houses In Third avenue and nartlv wrecked one house, and the shock knocked down several children who were on their way to school, In Jurlng some of them slightly. A fragment of rock weighing half a ton was sent crashing through a frame house, tearing through four partitions and th front and rear walls and de- niollslilng a jiiano and several armies of furniture, Fragment of rock broke the window of a dentists' operating room,, cov ering the dentist nd a pallent with broken glass. Ten block from the Wait, window, against which a baby was pressing Its face, was broken, but the baby escaped harm. A woman, III from heart disease. In the same house. swooned and needed the attention of a physician for hour afterward. Th foreman in charge of the opera- lion was arreted and arraigned in court, but the magistrate paroiea mm to appear today. Rome Burning Once More Rome. N. T.. Apr! 14.-Ftre whkh sarled In th Washington Opera house at 1 o'clock this morning destroyed that structure qukkly and spread to the Arlington ,hotel.; Nearly every room In the hotel wo occupied and some of the guests had narrow escapes. tio far as :an be ascertained no lives were lost. In the Arlington hotel build Ing are many business offices and store, and at thl hour It look as K the entire structure I doomed. Although the apera house la a mass of flame, the fire are now devoting their enersfies to the hotel building. It Is estlmafd that the total loo will reaih ItiS.OOO. ' 1 Hard WorR Saved Levee New Orleans, April 14. Prompt and effective work tooy arrested threat ened destruction of the Wa ted loo le vee, about 70 miles above the city on the east bank of the river. A craw flh hole developed near Its base and widened to a diameter of 20 Inches. For a time there wa much appre hension that the levee would go. but aft er a day of hard work the run around una completed and the source of trouble made reasonably secure. , HONORS EASILY SATITFIED New York. April 14. Congressmen Willuendaa und (Jannondla "fought duel with swords on Sunday, says the Tribune's Havana correspondent. Seu or Ourmondla was wound! slightly in the rlslit wrist. Four congressmen act ed us seconds.' The d'u -I m the re sult of words exchanged In the lower house on April 6. " ' Villuendlas called Carmondenlt a Ut ile, rude, ugly person and a clown. Carmondlla prepared a letter for sig nature by Vlllu?ndak In which the lat tcr retracted hi epithet, but Vllluen- das refused to sign It and snld he would give suUsfactlor on the field of honor. No Policy Adopted, New Orleans, April 14. The first day's session of the annual convention of the National Association of Manu facturers ended without any definite In dication as to whether the organisation will adopt as its own policy an aggr slve hostility to union labor methods, as outlined by President D. H. Parry In hi annual report. .. .va,; FOR UNSKILLED LABOR. Washington, April 14. The organlxa tlon of the International Building I borers" union, made up of unskilled laborers In building trade throughout the United States and Canada, was pcrf Jctiid today st a convention of the repr?sntutlves of the laborer being held her. A constitotlon for the union was adopted. , . , Vice-President Ailes. Washington, .April 14.-Mllton Alles, assistant secretary of the treasury, will sever hi connection with th de partment tomorrow to accept th vice presidency of he Rigg National bank of Washington." ' . TORNADO IN ALABAMA. ; Birmingham, Ala., April 14. A brief special to the Herald from Evergreen, Ala says at least nine person were killed and an appallng loss of prop erty was caused by a tornado which visited Burnetcorn and Peterman, In In Monroe county, yesterday. BEAD OF CENSUS BUREAU. Boston, April 14. S. N. D. North of this city has decided to accept the di rectorship of the United State census bureau. The position wa recently of fered him 'by President Roosevelt, DEMOCRATS NOMINATE MATORT. , Spokane, April 14. The democratic city convention tonight nominated State Senator Herbert Rusher for mayor. IMITATING JAMES BOYS Two Robbers Hold Up Postoffice and Publicly Fire Upon the , Village Citizen. TERRORIZED THE INHABITANTS Desperados Thought to Be Es caped Convicts From British Columbia-Cannot Trace. Whatcom, Wash., April 14. Two masked robbirs held up the village of Femdale in true Missouri style last night, shot at evry man who appeared on the streets, :obbed the postofTice of va, and succeeded In- making their escape without me Migniesi ciue to their Identity. Th outlaws made their first appear ance In the postofTice, where they ord ered the postmaster to deliver to them the- contents of hi till. The poet master refused, and while one with two revilvvrs in his hands kept him covered, the other emptied the content of the till Into a sack. Nothing but money wa taken. Four men who were In the office when the robbers came were compelled to leave, the robbers firing shot over their head as they took their departure. Knowing nothing of what was go ing on. William Keener started to en ter the office while the robbers were at their work. Two shots which bare ly missed him caused him to beat i hasty retreat. As the robbers departed they shot into t a!oon where five men were look ing through a window Into the street. The bullet flattened out against an iron strip across it without doing any damage. ' " " The offli'ers returned from Femdale today (without being able to get any trace of 'he robbers or a description which tallied from any two citizens. They are believed by the authorities here to be two convicts w ho last week broke out of the provincial peniten tiary at New Westminster, B. C, and who immediately made their way to Vancouver, where they provided them selves with firearm by burglarising a hardware store.,, The leader was "Incarcerated at New Westminster under the name of Jones, but he has served two terms In the penitentiary of this state under the name of King. His companion's name Is Clark. Tonight posse are guarding all the highways leading from the vi cinity of the outrage. Doctor Lorenz Is Here Again New Tork, April 14.-Dr. A. Lorenx, who during his last visit to the United State performed a number of blood less surgical operations, arrived her today on the steamer Lahn from Genoa He goes to Chicago to remove the cast from the hip of Lollta Armour, daugh ter of J. Ogden Armour, who he oper ated upoft when he juade his visit to America. From Roosevelt To Pope Leo Iialtlmore, April 14. President Roose velt has sent to Cardinal Gibbons and hi eminence has forwarded by special messenger to Pope Leo XIII a gift to be presented to the holy father on the celebration of his jubilee. The girt consist of 10 handsomely bound vol ume containing all messages and of ficial documents" of the presidents of the United States from Washington to Roosevelt, SOME RULES FOR DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS New Tork, April 14. Letters from ex-President Cleveland, W. J. Bryan, and es-Senator David B. Hill, were read at last night's Thomas Jefferson dinner of the Tammany hall general committee of the Thirty-fifth assembly district. Mr. Cleveland wrote: "In th crowding Incident and con stantly changing conditions of our people' life, new Issue and new sub ject of political thought and action must frequently present themselves to the test ot democratic Judgment. The only sincere way for our party to deal with these Is, first,, to discover their character and their tendencies for good or evil, and thereupon to treat them in such a manner as will recognUe' con stitutional restrictions and the neces sity of safe conservatism, while at the falling guide, and the supreme object of our political endeavor, a conscien tious regard for the best and hbghest Interest of the people of the land with out favo.itism or unjust discrimina tion." "Mr. Bryan In his letter, safd: ' 1 trust 'hit the banquet will Inspire those present to Imitate Jefferson In a fight for he applicalon of democratic principle of 'fov-jrnment without com promise with plutocracy or concessions to time server and patronage seek ers. In hi letter, written from Wolfert Roost, ex-S4'or Hill announced that "a united democracy can win the great contest In 1904 and route the force of plutocracy." " - Edward M. Shepard, referring to the national administration, spoke of Pres ident Roosevelt practically a a fire brand who I teaching the nation to desire war. MILL BOILER EXPLODES. Gallipolis, Ohio. April 14. The boiler of Charl? Beven' sawmill at Rugby. Ohio, exploded today, killing Charles Bevan. Richard Houck, Rufus Houck, and two boy named Getridge Sev eral other were badly Injured. - Base Ball Scores. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. At Los Angeles Los Angeles. San Francisco, . - , j At Pacramento Seattle, I; mento, 1.' ; Sacra- At Oakland Oakland, I; Portland, 0. PACIFIC NATIONAL LEAGUE. , At Los Angeles Los Angeles. 4; Hel ma, 3. t Seattle Seattle, 3: Taeoma. I. At San Francisco San Francisco, 3: Butte. 0. At Portland Portland, I; Spokane. S. Cbt good clothes went of thz season We have arranged with the renowned tailoring house of Strauss Bros.. Chicago, to display their entire line of fine woolens in tbe piece at our store on TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, APRIL' 2122 AND 23 The display will be made under the supervision of special representative from Chicago; 500 newest patterns in tbe line; low prices.. Even if you're not yet ready to order, call and let us "post" you.-We can interest you. C. H. C OOPER ECLIPSE HARDWARE CO. Pta 525-527 BOND STREE RETURN TO THEIR WORK Building Trades Strikers In Port land Now At Peace With the Employers. PAINTRRS ARE OUT ALONE Existing Scale to Prevail and Due Notice Will Be Given for Euture Demands. 1 Portland April 1 14. The strike of brkkhandier and mortar meg Is over, at least temporarily. : The Building Trade council appointed a committee last night to confer with George Long-' ford, the mason work contractor, and conduct an ' Investigation along line suggested by that gentleman In a let ter read before the count-it. In con formity with thl gclton the commit tee appointed last night and a com-' mittee from the Portland Laborers" Protective union No. SI24 met with Mr. Longford late this forenoon and. after considering all phase the strike, so far a the mortar, brick and cement men is concerned, was declared off for the present at least and the men are to return to work a t the existing scale. " , t " " ' According to an agreement between the mason and master builder, th former. In making new demands, are to glv? the builders at least days' notice, Mr. Langford showed the com mittee that the first communication that "he had received announcing that an increase In wages would be demand ed April I, was received March 4 from (Continued on Page 4.) feamfitters "'l"YY;':. Y,: Yv, ; ( Y;Y';' v !
