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ASTORIA PUBLIC USKARY ASS0C1ATM. 1903 i aoo i mm mm VOLUME LVI. ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY I, 1903. NUMBER 10. An All-around Coat MHWW'' P. A. STOKES JUST RECEIVED ONE HUNDRED BOXES OF FANCY APPLES FI5HER BROTHER STOP THE LEAK Phone Black S1U 470-47 Commercial street. CM WHITE SHIRT WAISTS Received last week a grand line, of White Shirt Waists, unusual Values, Here are a few stylet we describe: , 1. Fine White Lawn, two rows embroidery Insertion, two groups of tucks on each side, bishop sleeve H. S. cuff WOO J. Fine all-over embroidered front I1'25 J. Four vertical rows of laoe Insertion, a cluster of tucks between each row .. U.45 4. Four horlxontal rows lace Insertion, five tucks between 11.85 5. Four rows blind embroidery Insertion, H. S. Collar and cuff, , tucked sleeve .' . S2.60 All goods M represented. ,70)1 cannot duplicate our values In As toria. See the new styles and get the low prices at THE BEE HIVE The many urn for which top coat comet in hjndy make it Imperative that you have one of these Thlrty.Thrte) Inch Top Coats tA of 9!t Covwrta In shades for every taste. In dividuality lit its integiat parts marks this one as standing above Its fellows as an exposi tion of the kind of garment that' it lessening the clientele of tail ordom because the manufac turers being large purchasers and having extensive tailoring shops on the pemlses, they are able to produce garments of this character at a fair price. This Coat Is Correct in many places and finds favor for All-around Wear In mild weather. It permits of asy walking and makes the man in action a paragon of grace and style. Made by CIXOVSE ft BKANDCGCB MaMtKtutos torn, VJKK N. Y. II Juttifitt tronomy in buying ttyUah ctothwf mim Uwy mads w fo& The Chicago Perfect In touch, speed, dura bility and appearance, $35. VISIBLE WRITING J. N. GRIFFIN Tli right way la to have the best In I ho start. W furnish the best mater lot .and conscientious workmen. Our atock of Plumberi' Goods, Hard- ware, Stoves, Tinware, etc,' cannot be beaten. We can supply your wants to your entire -tattsfactlon. W.J.SCULLEY ST. LOUIS WORLD'S FAIR IS DEDICATED St Louis the Scene of Much terday Fierce Wind and Icy Temperature -Made the Day an Unpleasant One. ' Parade Reviewed, Great Spcechmakin j and Then the Fireworks President Made Himself Useful at Lunch-No Cabinet Meeting Wilt be Held In K. G as Rumored. ; m. Louis, April 30. -The building of ; the Louisiana Purrhate exposition were today dedicated with H possible pomp j and ceremony. In every way. wve one, the excriises were nn umxiunlM success, and this one rlrrumstance was j the weather. The wind blew fteirely j from the wt .nerdlng up great clouds j of du'. sail 'Wd to the dlscomfi.i t of 1 the wlnl and duet was the bitter o.ll j tempvriKir. Bnth President Refe. , veil and ex-Prldcnt Cleveland remain j ed In th reviewing utaml expoeed to me Uy wlnl until h end of Ihe l- j rade. ! Purine lunch, wbli'h the iresldent took ill the conclusion of the parade he ihovod hlth -r and thither by htlf j of the pOl who hd Ix-en In the, grand stnnd. Ford wn plmwd nn the rectanriliu- counter and the preeldent, ! Ilk evryl'ly ele helped hlmsrlf. Ow- . Ing to hie adVAitageous po"lt,on. 'be tn-slilvnt iwxm fH callfd upon to help jhe other frlendi .and ho wan kMt ( busy paKlriir plat? wrlrh service he , Ht formed with "Uacrlty and cheerful-! ncse. The rwitmer of the presUI'tit . lunching was sufficiently uiuonven tlonal to excite curlcjilty. j Th Important ceremonies In thf lib- ernl iits bunding were handM with, nil poIWt dispatch. When President, rtootevelt b'gan to speak he was cheer ed tc '-he -cho, Me bowed sgiiln and ; asain. su-trenting by his manner thatj quiet be restored. Taking advantago of a lull, he railed: ; "Now yoa. my fellow rltlsen. give; me all the chance you can. for I need If. Th ?ha-lv'e was given and the pr-: hKnt braT his addn-K. whl-h was In- j terrut'td by-frequent rhterlng. Afterj leaving th r.all the preelilent was en tertalned at dinner In the ball of con-. grew. From the dining hall President Roosevelt and party were escorted to1 President Francis' private office, fromj the windows "f which he viewed the pyrote.-hnlo display. j President Ttoowevelt denied that j cabinet meeting will be held In Kaunas j City, f.s has bri-n rumored. When the) poHtorfloo Investigation was mentioned he declined to discuss the matter furth- j cr thn to say that the Investigation j would be rigid and thorough. After spendlig almcal an hour In viewing, the fireworks the president traKparty I proceeded to make ihelr exit from the ; city and resume thelrjoumey west-j ward with Kansjta'Oity as the first i stopping point.'' The presto nt was acconipanled by Secretary of War Boot, who w 111 travel ' as' fur as Toieka, K.is., with him. ! resident Butler of folumblu itillege will also .iccompany him for some dis tance, j Following Is the text of President Itoosevelt's dedicatory address: j Mr. President, Ladles and Gentle men: At the outset of my address let me recall to the minds of my hearers that the sol) upon which we stand, be fore It was ours, was successively the possession of two mighty empfres.Spaln und France, whose sons made a death less record of heroism In the annals of the new world. No history of the west ern country can be written without paying heed to the wonderful part nlayed therein In the early days by the soldiers, missionaries, explorers, and traders, who did their work for the proud banners of France and Cas tile. While the settlers of English speaking stock, and those of Dutch, German and Scandinavian origin who were associated with them. Were still clinging close to the eastern seaboard, the pioneers ot Spain and France had penetrated deep Into the hitherto un known wilderness of the west and had wandered far and wide within the boun darlea of what is now our mighty country. . The very cttleej themselves St. Louis, New Orleans, Santa Fe, New Mexico bear witness by their titles to the nationalities ot their founders. It was not until the revolution had be gun that the English-speaking settlers pushed west across the Alleghentes, and not until a century ago that they entered In to possess the land upon which we now sjtand. We have met here tojto commem orate the hundredth tiiinlversary of the event which more than any other, after the foundation of the government Pomp and Ceremony Yes and always exi-eptlng Ha preservation, dftcrmlnted the charcter of our na tional llfc determined that we should be a great expanding nation instead of a iflatlvely small and stationary one. or course it was not with the Louis iana punhaM twit our career of ex pansion began. In the middle of the Uevolutionary war the Illinois region, Including the present states of Illinois and Indiana, was added to our domain by force of arms, as a sequel to the. adventurous expedition of Oeorge Itogers Clarke and his frontier rllle men. Later the treaties of Juy and Pirn kney materially extended, our real boundaries to the west. Out none of these even is was of so striking a char acter as to fix the popular (muginatlon. The 13 old coloiles had always claimed that thlr rights stretched westward to the Mississippi, and vague und unreal though these claims were iimde giwd by conquest, settlement and diplomacy, they still served to give the Impression that tlie earliest westward movements of our people were little more than the filling In of already existing national boundaries. 1 ftut there could be no Illusion about the acipilsltion of the vast territory beyond th Mlsiisslupl, streUhlng west ward to the Pati(U which In that day was known as Louisiana..-! ..This Im mense territory was admittedly the ter ritory ot a foreign power, sf a. Euro pean kingdom. None of our people had ever laid claim to a foot of It. Its acquisition could In no sense be treated as rounding out any exlmlng claims. When we acquired it we made evident once for" all that consciously and of st purpose we hod embarked on a career of expansion, that we had taken our place nmong thoxe daring and hardy nations who risk much with the hope and desire of winning hlrh poxltlon among the great powers of the earth. As Is often the case In na ture, th? law of development of a liv ing 'organism showed itself in Its ac tual workings to be wiser thari the wis dom of the wisest. x' 1 hlsi work of expansion was by far the greatest work of our people dur In the yeurs that Intervened between the adoption of the constitution and the outbreak of the Civil war. ' There were othr questions df real moment and Importun, and there were many which at the time seemed such to thou engaged In answering them; but the greatest feat of our forefathers of those generations was the deed ot the men who, with pack train or wagon tralix on horseback, on foot, or by boat upon the waters, pushed the fron tier ever westward across the Continent Never before had the world seen the kind of national expansion which- gave our people all that part of the Ameri can continent lying west of the IS orlg Inl states; the greatest landmark In which was the Louisiana purchase, Our triumph in this process ot expan sion was IndisHolubly hound up with the success of our peculiar kind of fed eral government; and this success has been so complete because of its com pleteness we sometimes now fail to appreciate not only the all-Importance but the tremendous difficulty of the problem with which our nation was originally faced. v . When our forefather joined to call into being this nation, they undertook a task for which there 'was little en couraging precedent. The development of civilisation from the earliest period seemed to show the truth of two propositions: In the first place, it had always proved exceedingly difficult to secure both freedom and strength in any government; and In the second place, it had always proved weH-nlgh Impossible for a nation to expand with out either breaking up or becoming a centralised tyranny,' With the success of our effort to combine a strong and efficient national union, able to put down disorder at home and to maintain our honor and interest abroad, I have not now to deal. This success was sig nal and all-Important, but It was by no means unprecedented In the same sense that our type of expanslan waa un precedented. The history of Borne and ofGreece Illustrates very well the two types of expansion which had taken place In ancient time and which had been universally accepted as the only possible types up to tbe period when as a nation we ourselves began to take iMWwMlfln of this continent. The Grecian states performed remark able feats of colonization, but each col only as soon as created became entire ly Independent of the mother state, and in after years was almost m apt to prove Its enemy as Its friend. Local self-government, local independence, was secured, but only by the absolute sacrifice of anything resembling na tional unity. In consequence, the Greek world, tor all Its wonderful brilliancy and the extraordinary Artistic, literary and philosophical development which has mad all mankind Its debtors for the age, was yet wholly ' unable to withstand a formidable foreign foe, save spasmodically. As soon as pow erful permanent empires arose on Its outskirts, the Greek states In the neigh borhood of such empires fell under their sway. National power and great ness were completely sacrificed to lo cal liberty, ' With Rome the exact opposite occurr ed. The Imperial city rose to abso lute dominion over all the peoples of Italy and then expanded her rule over the entire civilized world by a process which kept the nation strong and united, but gave no room whatever for local liberty and self-government. All other cities and countries we're sub Jict to Rome. In consequence this great and masterful race of warriors, rulers road-builders and administrators stamped their Indelible Impress upon all the after life of our race, and yet let an over-centrallxalion eat out the vitals of the empire until It became an empty shell; so when the barbarian came they destroyed only what had already become worthless to the world. The underlying vkiousness of each type of expansion was plain enough and the remedy now . seems simple enough. But when the fathers of the republic first fomulated the constitu tion under which we now live this remedy was untried and no one could fortell how It would work. They them selves began the experiment almost Im mediately by adding new states to the orlglnat 13. Excellent peP'e in the east viewed this expansion with great alarm. Exactly as during the colonial period many good people in the mother-country thought It highly Import ant that settlers should be kept out of the Ohio valley In the interest of the fur countries, so after we had be come 'a, na'ion many good people on the Atlantic coast felt grave appre hension lest they might somehow be hurt by the westward growth of the nation. These good people shook their heads over the formation ot states, In the fertile Ohio valley which now forms part of the heart of Our nation; and they declared that the destruction of the republic had been accomplished when through the Louisiana purchase we aciulred nearly halt of what Is now that same republic's territory. Nor was their feeling unnatural. Only the adventurous and far-seeing can be ex pected to heartily welcome the pro cess of expansion, for the nation that expands Is a nation that Is entering upon a great career, and with greatness there .must of necessity come perils which daunt all save the most stout hearted. - Wejexpanded by curving the wilder ness into territories and out of the ter ritories building new states when once they had received as permanent set tlers a sufficient number of our own people. Being a practical nation we have ne 'er tried to force on any sec tion of our new territory an unsuit able forni of government merely be cause It was suitable for another sec tion under different conditions. Of the territory covered by the Louisiana pur chase a portion was given statehood within a few years. Another portion has not been admitted to statehood, although a century has elapsed al thoueh doubtless It soon will be. In eiw-h case we showed the practical gov ernmental genius of our race by devis ing methods suitable to meet the actu al existing needs; not by Insisting up on the application of some abstract shibboleth to all our new possessions alike no matter how Incongruous this application might sometimes be. Over by far the major part of the tertitory, however, our people spread In such numbers during the course of the nineteenth century that we were able to build up state after state, each with exactly the satfi complete local Independence In all matters affecting purely Its own domestic Interests as In any of the original IS states-each owing- the same absolute fealty to the union of all the states which each of the original IS states also owea and finally each having the same pro portional right to Its share In shaping and directing the common policy ot the union which Is possessed by any other state, whether of the original IS or not This process now seems to us part of the natural order of things, but It was wholly, unknown until our people devised It. It seems to us a mere mat ter of course, a matter of elementary right and justice, that In the delibera tions 'of the national representative bodies the" representatives ot a Btate which came Into the union but yester day standon a footing ot exact and (Continued on Page 4.) . IT WAS NOT AN ERUPTION Ruin of Little Hamlet of Erank Was Wrought By Huge Slide of Rock. THERE ARE 83 KNOWN DEAD No Further Danger Is Feared From Flood Debris Covers Wide Territory. Vancouver, April SO. Tbe following report has been received here from Wll lam Pearce, Inspector .of surveys sent to Frank by the department ot the In terior, and constitutes the latest offic ial news from Frank: Now that the excitement l practic ally over there Is no doubt in the mind of any one that Ihe'diraster was caus ed by a huge landslide and that there was no eruption nor explosion. There are 83 known d'ad, of whom 13 were women and la children. - There is no further danger from , floods through damming of thi liver. . ... .... . The rock elide Is about 4000 feet long extending from the top of Turtle moun tain westerly. The slide extendi across the valley for one tnd one-quarter miles from the base of Turtle moun tain. The debris Is spread out In a fanshaped mass so that at the extreme end of the slide the mass of rock Is nearly two miles wide. -There Is no trace of the river for one mile but the water Is now going through tbe rock as fast as it is coming down. It Is thanght there will not be a repe tition of the slide, although rocks and dust continue to fall from the moun tain. The fact that all the men work ing in the mini, except two, escaped has ben confirmed. Base Ball Scores. r PACIFIC COAST. At Sao Francisco Sacramento, 1; Oakland, 0. At Portland Los Angelea It; Port land, 2. 1 . At Seattle Seattle. 0; San Francisco, PACIFIC NATIONAL. At Seattle Portland. ; Seattle, 4. At San Francisco Butte, 12; Helena, At Tacoma Spokar.e, S; Tacoma, I. At Ias Angeles Los Angeles, 2; San Franclsco,4. '" : NATIONAL. At St. Louts Pittsburg 13; St. Loul 4. At Philadelphia Philadelphia, 1: New York. 8. At Brooklyn Boston 10; Brooklyn, X At Cincinnati Cincinnati-Chicago game postponed. AMERICAN. At Boston Philadelphia, 11; Boston, " r . ,- . ; ; v; ,At New York New York, 5; . Wash? Ington.S. At " Cleveland Cleveland-St. Louis game iwstponed. ' &e G ot don AMERICA'S BEST $3 HAT Both Soft and Staff THE KNOX HAT None Better New Blocks Ufa above Hats in the new summer styles C. H. Cooper SAFEGUARD OUR TRADE United SUAes Gonsul Makes Re port and Offers Some Good Suggestions. SAYS RUSSIA WILL DOMINATE Official Explains How the United States May Hold Onto Her jl J Present Interests. . Washlntgon, April 30. How the new commercial Interests of the United States In Manchuria may be safeguard ed against further international com plications and our trade in that coun try maintained, Is told In a report re ceived today nt the state department front United States Consul H. B. Mil ler at New Chtf-uig. He says that Russia in the end will practically dom inate th commercial and industrial af fairs of Manchuria unless other coun tries have in every way equal facili ties. In order that our commercial su premacy may be maintained, Consul Miller has made the following recom mendations to the state department: First Establishment of American manufacturers of an expert agent in Manchuria who shall sell directly t borne firms Instead of to Shanghai and Hong Kong. - Second That the Washington gov-, ernment urge tbe opening of all Man churia to the trade of the world, as free to us as to Russia or any other country,1 Third That a new consul-general be addc lo the American consular serv ice, its head to be known as United States cottsul-generU for Manchuria. ' If these things are not done," Miller continues, "it is very clear to my mind that the entire mining Interest of Manchuria, toge'her with whatever trade is desired by Russian merchants, will be entirely' in their hands." . , ROOSEVELT WILL OFFICIATE. Corner Stone for Y. M. C. A. Building to Be Laid in Topeka. Topeka; Kas., April SO. Over 1500 delegates) to the International conven- flon ot the Railroad Y. M. C. A. gath ered In the autdltorlum in this city for a formal opening of the eleventn an nual meeting of the association. A feature of the mating tomorrow -jriU be the addreat of President Rooseveut and the laying of the corner stone of the new Railroad Y. M. C. A. build ing at which the president wll officiats."1 This event will take place at 6 o'clock.' tomorrow evening. President Roose velt will be entertained at dinner by Governor Bailey before speaking at the night meeting. CONFESSED TO WIFE MURDER, Fred C. Fischer Will Hang fbr His v. rimes. Riverside, Cal., April 30. Fred C. FiSchar, who confessed to burning his wife to death last week, was today sen tenced to be hanged July 11. . He plead ed guilty and waived all preliminaries. Fischer also confessed to an extensive criminal career in the east. - SbalWSeasBWset 4tj