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VOLUME LVI.
ASTORIA, OREGON, , WUDNESDAY, JUNK 3, 1JK)3.
NUMBER 132.
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Be SIhioft Bo win
Law Abiding People Of Topeka
Will Protect Themselves And
Property Ag'ainst Soulless
Thug's and Robbers.
President Roosevelt Is Grieved By The
Appalling Flood Conditions And
Voices His Sentiments To A '
Multitude In Iowa.
Pestilence, Floods, And Tornadoes May For A Time Overwhelm
... But The American Spirit Will Assert Itself And In The End
' Will Overcome All Calamaties.
P. A. STOKE S
FISHER BROTHERS
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Fishing
Rods: Lines, Flies,
Complete outfits.
Base Ball
Mits, Cloves, Pads,
MasKs, Bats, Balls.
All best grade goods. Prices Lowest,
j. N. GRIFFIN.
Business In Kansas City Will Soon Re
sume Usual ConditionsPresent Rise"
In Ktkw River Merely Due To An
Overflow From Missouri.
Damage To Property Will Reach Far Into The Millions And Loss Of
Life May Never Be Correctly Estimated-Great Crisis
Is Now Safely Passed.
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You can picR a loch here
That can't be picked
When on your door.
AH sorts of locks
At all sorts of prices.
Somo are expensive because of the care with winch they are
mode. Thoy are safe wherever used. Put one
on and your ptoporty ia salo.
phone Clack 1241.
470-471 Commercial street.
W.J. SCULLEY
THIS WEEK ONLY!
TO CLOSE OUT
REDUCTIONS
; - i ' Our entire Hue of
Ladies' Spring Suits
We will Inaugurate
A SPECIAL SALE
, at special prices.
UNHEARD OF
IJluck, blue and brown cheviots, formerly $10, now $5.
Cheviot Blouse Suits reduced from $15 to $11. 50.
Fancy Suiting' reduced lroni $18 to $13. '
Call early while we have sizes.
THE BEE HIVE
Topeka, June, 2. The Hood
situation in Topeka can be briefly
4S. The river has fallen three
feet and is now receding at the
rate of two inches an hour. Dis
tress among refugees will be Igreat.
Qover'nor Bailey has issued a
proclamation calling for help for
the Hood sufferers in tho state.
Fifty deputy sheriffs, armed with
Winchesters will go to North To
peka to protect property with or
ders to shoot looters whenever they
are caucht stealinc. There will
be ou appeal made to the frater
nal organizations and other ap
peals through various sources,
Meetings of the representative
people of North Topeka, who are
on the south side, was held today
to arrange for systematic protec
tion of their property in North
Topeka. Immediately after tho
meeting a large number of armed
men left iu boats for the north side
where they will guard property,
and their orders are to shoot. The
river is three feet below high
water i mark. The water has
receded on Kansas avonuo to the
platform of tho Rock Island de
pot, a distance of 250 feet Tho
situation in the flood stricken dis
tricts is better than it has yet
been, for tho reason that fewer
people are marooned in houses, in
trees and on islands. , There is no
way of getting at the amount of
damage aono Dy noon uj lopesa
and viciuity. The damage may
reach $2,000,000. ' Crops in the
Kansas bottoms are , destroyed.
This makes an enormous loss to
the farmers. Governor Bailey
tonight will communicato with
the federal authorities and hopes
ha. will have no trouble in secur
ing the use of whatever. tents are
needed.
Kansas City, June 2. Blue sky
was visiDie aoove Kansas uuy
this afternoon at 4 p. m. The
rains have ended, the sun was
visible for the first time in a
eok, and for this and other
reasons , it is thought that the
great danger of floods are past.
The waters of Kaw river have fal
llen eigfit niclies tolavmd't6nigbl
are steadily decreasing at the rate
of about half an inch per hour.
In Missouri the high ..stage of
35 feet is still maintained but this
is due to the rise which has been
coming down Missouri proper.and
has been able to offset the fall j
iu the Kaw. It is the water of
tho latter stream, however, that
has caused all the destruction in
this city, and in Kansas City,
Kan., and with it at a normal
stage, business in Kansas City
will shortly resumo usual con
ditions.
This city has, by a narrow
margin, escaped a serious short
age in food; has faced the peril of
fire, being utterly helpless to avert
its conseqdence, and has suffered
millions of dollars of damage to
property and sustained a loss in
ifethatin all probability never
will be accurately measured.
Now, however, there is a promise
of better things.,
Tonight the situation shows an
improvement on almost jeveryj
side, and tho waters are falling.
The day brought to light no fact
on which to base even an approx
imation of deaths by the flood.
Possibly ton bodies have been
seen floating since Sunday, but
estimates from this are valueless
as the bodies .may have floated
down the Kaw from Topeka, or
the bodies, changing with the
ever changing eddies of the flood,
may have been mistaken for
others, ,- .
Denison, la., Jane 2. Thepres
ident's special arrived here early
today. ; Daring tlfle early morning
the president passed through ranch
of the flooded district of Iowa.
Extra pjecautioiis has been taken
by the railroad authorities, and the
tracks over which the train passed
were carefully , watched, and in
some cases the tram slowed on.
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Secretary Shaw and Senators
Allison and Dolliver joined the
party here. President Roosevelt
was greeted by a large crowd and
spoke to them as follows: ;
"Frienda-r-At this time as I
come into your beautuul state
there have come calamities npon
St. Louis, June 2. -The Miss- your people here in Iowa, and to
issippi river has risen to 30 feet, an even greater degree in "Kansas
the danger line, at St. Louis, and and Missouri. I see by ' today's
couUnuea to rimore than two paptjr the awful 1 disaster in
feet a day. : Indications are tnat Georgia. '
3l.firtsf c-rn rrft at .Cf T All id riWi. 1 .... .
. f.-- u lien the hand ot the Lord is
m i... ' ii t. . J J
reau, inuraiay or rnuajr ,UOru- do bn, ,:.,, jg , j
ing, will be exceeded. ' i A 34-foot then in our countrj fmm drougllti
stage at St Louis means immense from fnm tiIence trobIe
loss. Already, thousands of acres and misfortnIie comef bllt oh)
MISSISSIPPI
IS RISING
... ; ;rH ,,r,.
St. Louis Threatened With Heavy
Loss By An Overflow Of The
Father Of Waters.
GREAT AREA IS SUBMERGED
Water Govers Many Farms Caus
ing People To Flee From
Their Homes.
foolishly in matters of legislation,
we shall pay the penalty. If the
business world loses iu head it has
lost what no law can 'supply, ; but
in spite of that we shall go forward.
"We shall keep in the run, not
only of abiding, but of increasing
prosperity, if as people we only
keep our sanity, if as people we
keep the qualities which made ns
win out in the Civil war, and which
s ...
have brought us in triumph
through other crises, so far."
Base Ball Scores.
PACIFIC NATIONAL. '
At Tacorn Tacoma. i; Seattle S.
PACIFIC COAST. ,
At Portland Portland ; Seattle J.
At Oakland-Oakland 6; Loa Angela
4.
At SairmiWMit Sacramento 5;
! Francsc S.
ot land, the most prouuctive in
the Middle West, on the Missouri
and Illinois sides, are Under water,
Hundreds of thousands have
been lost to Illinois and Missouri
farmers through ruined crops
Iu a half-dozen places between
Alton and St. Louis the river,
with its lagoons and bayous, is
from five to seven miles wide.
At St. Charles, Mo., the water has
spread out over three miles of
country', covering farms and driv'
ing families from their homes.
CRUSER TACOMA LAUNCHED.
, San Francisco, Cal., June, 2.
The cruiser Tacoma was launched
at the ship yard of the Union
T ir 1 i .so -i.t-.i.
iron ti ones ui u.o- o cioc k una
evening in the presence of several
thousand people, including a del
egation from Washington- state.
my mends, as 1 drive through
your city this morning and now as
I look at you the men and women
of tliis state, I know that all yoqr
troubles are temporary, that mis
fortunes will be met and overcome
because in heart and hand the
American citizen is able to win his
wy in the long run. . '
"When misfortune that, human
wisdom cannot avoid comes, of
course there will be suffering, there
will, be misery. Those of us who
are free from it can try and must
try to lighten it all we can, but we
cannot help the fact that there
be much suffering. Further
more, if through our own lolly we
do what is wrong, if wo act
- NATIONAL,
At Cint'lnnaU Cincinnati 4; Boston L
At St. Lol-St. Loui t; Phitedel
,i .....
phia 0. ." ' ,'' ' '
At Pittsbnrjr Pittsburg 7; New York
i
At Chicago Chlougo : Brooklyn .
AMERICAN.
At Detroit St. Louis 11; Detroit .
At Chicago Chicago 3: Cleveland JU
At Washington Philadelphia 12; W
ghington 3. , ,1 '
' At New York Boston 9; New York I.
BATTLED WITH THE FRENCH.
Sadia. Alserla, June 2. It W officlallr
stated tht the Moorish tribesmen had 5
killed and 20 wounded in their attack on
M. Jonnart, governor-general of Alger
ia, near Figueig, Saturday. The con
dition of the 17 French sharpshooter
who were wounded in the fighting is
satisfactory. A detachment of French
cavalry left Anl-Hefra for Benonouf.
Governor-General Jonnart has arrived
here. He received assurances of loyal
ty and devotion to Franc from num
erous native chiefs during the journey.
LESTER REIFF WILL RIDE.
Chicago, June 2. Lester Reiff
will ride one of John A. Drake's
horses iu the American Derby.
He was granted a jockey's license
today by the Western Jockey
Club and will begin at once to
prepare for his effort on Derby
day. '
MR. BAER HEARD FROM..
' Philadelphia, Jnue J. President Baa
of the Reading company has irsued or
ders tnat miners who will i not cut
enough coal to keep the breakers In op I
eratlon nine hours a day are to be dis
charged. He says if the present yg-l
tern is kept up the compny will be at
least 1,600,000 tons behind Its output at
the end of the year beginning with
April.
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LARGE AREA SUBMERGED.
Keokuk, la.. June 2. The Egyptian
levee below here Is broken In 20 dif
ferent places and the water Is running
through the streets of Alexandria. A
territory 10 by JO miles in tha Clnrk
county, Missouri bottoms Is submerged.
Inhabitants are on the roofs of the
houses filing guns for help. A. govern
ment boat and men have been sent to
the scene from here. No lif& loss has
lieen reported. ' . - ; " '
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