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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1903)
nS? A8 1 -s i v mm VOLUME LVI. ASTORIA, OREGON, WKDiNESDAY, Jt'KIi 17, 1903. NUMBER tU. m 1873 Correct Clo thing Customeri f?f' Never gtrryvL Apologize ."' M" IVY For their (i J PI N Appearance Wrhm j BecuseOur 'if 7 'K- ' Finish ' J J I riW Are Correct &ff RUBBER HOSE AT FISHER BROTHERS We Guarantee every foot of our hose FOR Office AND H o m e N TURKISH AND RUSSIAN B A T H AT THE PALACE 539 Commercial street. Open from t a. ra. to i a. m. daily. On Sunday from 9 to ii a. m. and 7 p. m. to 1 a. m. : T. R. DAVIS, Prop. , . KEEP COOL! v We have anticipated your . nwds with a choice line of WHITE SUITS AND SKIRTS WHITE SHIRT WAISTS WHITE BELTS AND SAILORS Seasonable 'Goods at Reason . , . able Prices. 1 THE BEE HIVE mm STOKES l amou Globe-Wernicke Sectional Filing Devices Book Cases' Handsomest ami most convenient furniture made. Sold in sections for all uses, sizes and shapes. Call and see Samples. GRIFFIN. Our Strong Feature Is the Work We Do Borne plumbers make a feature of the bills thy send that's not our style. We send a good man; he does good work and we charge a right price. If its NewWorK Or Repairs Wo want to handle It and will handle It to your satisfaction. W. J. SCULLEY 40-472 Commercial. Phone Black 2243 DEAD BEING BURIED Two Hundred Bodies Interred And Near. Iy As Many MissingThought Number Of Dead May Reach Five Hun dred Frightful Desolation. Provisions And Other Needed Supplies Are Rushed In By Rail And Wagon Road-Men Needed To Restore Order And To Search Mass Of Debris For Bodies-Road Bed Washed Out Heppner, June I6, Work of burying the d?ad who lost their lives In the terrible ruiumity Sunday evening, has progressed steadily toduy and this evening nearly ZOO bodies had bwn recovered and burled. At least 160 more are missing and at tiki, time the most relluble estimates place the number of dttil at 300. though It may reach 800. All day long provisions, blutikcts and men who have come to bury the chad or help restore order out of the confused conditions, have poured In. The O. It. X. track mu opened as far ns Lexington, nine miles away, this afternoon, and ftr.m now on the work of relief can proceed more expeditiously, a the wagon mad from here to taxing ton Is good and supplies can be brought In by team fa a few hours after they truth the end of the railroad. It will probably be several days before the ttack Is opened Into this place, as the roadbed Is wnshed out for almost the entire nine miles. The scene from the hillside overlooking the town Is one of desolation. Kuan piles of wreckage. In nuiny pltu-es SO feet high. All the canyon for half a mile. As the debris, whk'h covered many feet by mud, Is cleared away more bodies are found. Immense boulders, welshing tons, were rolled along by the flood and deposited In the main stream of the town or lodged against the buildings. " Appeals hfive been sent out for aid. the most pressing need being for men to clean the streets and to assist In searching the great mass of debris for bod lei. " . It Is rertaJn that ninny bodies which were washed down the stream will never be recovered, as tliey have been covered over by sand, gravel and wreckage of nil kinds. Hundreds of men searched for bodies along the Willow cr.ek for 10 miles. The body of Dr. McSward was found 3$ miles down the stream. . - . ; C. E. RedfleUl returned early this morning to And hia home, his wife and children all swept away. As he stood by the scene of desolation he wept aloud In his anguish. Ills ws one of the handsomest houses here and not a vestige remains. RELIEF TRAINS KH'Kl.VU IX Portland and All Nearby Towns Uoir.g to Rescm Portland, June 18. A carload of sup plies left this city tonight for Heppner on the regular O. ft. & N. train, and with It went a! committee who will take charge of Its distribution. The train will reach Lexington, the end of the rallroud track, tonight, and the sup. piles will be forwarded by team tumor low. The O. ft. & N. company Wis given notice that all supplies will be transported free of charge and every train, both east and west, brings "re lief In some form. Pendleton, Wulla Walla, La Grande, Baker City and The Dalles have all atarted relief commit tees with supplies of money, provi sions or blankets for the stricken peo ple., A sum' of $7000 In money, has been raised In this city and more la pouring In. It has been suggested that the Fourth of July fund, amounting to 13000 be turned over to flood sufferers, as was done In the rase of the John stown flood sufferers lnt 18S9. ' DRUMMER GIVES WARNING. As R, D. Ball Returned to Hotel He Rescued Chilled Woman. Pendleton, June 18.-R. D. Ball, a traveling man of Portlend, arrived In this city today from the scene of the flood In Heppner. He said; "When the flood struck the city I was In the PoLice hotel. The water came around the corner and knocked knew what hpd happened houses were being swept down the street. Across the stream from the Palace hotel stood another hotel. 1 We ventured out in th flood to warn a couple of brother traveling men stopping In the hotel. - We reached the hotel just as a house came around the corner and knocked the building oft its foundation. The hotel settled down, but did not float away. We then secured a rope and started down the street rescuing sev eral. I discovered Elisabeth Matlock huddled under some boards, stiffened by the cold and barely able to move. Picking her up on my back I carried her" out to safety." PEOPLE RESPONDING NOBLY. Survivors at Heppner Appreciate Aid , Extended Them. v . Salem, Or.. June 10, Governor Chamberlain tonight received the fol lowing reply to a message sent yes terday to Mayor Phelps of Heppner, of- AND LIVING SUCCORED ferlng state assistance: "People re maining In Heppner appreciate your messige. We require laboring men and money to pay them. Will take 200 men to clean debris. People of state re spond nobly." ' ' RACKD THROUGH HEPPNER. After That Flood Traveled With Pecu liar Slowness. f Portland, June 16. A special to the t regonliin from Heppner says: The slow movement of the flood, after passing Heppner Is a matter of gen eral astonishment Xt this point the hungry torrent raced through the town, but the deluge gathered no speed as it progressed down the valley. The Immense quantities of mud, timber and wreckage which It gathered on Its way seemed to increase its density, and re tard Its progress. Courrlers who were not in the saddle until the crest of the flood had passed their starting point, had no difficulty In overtaking and passing It. An eye witness says: "The water seemed to actually come forward like a stream of molasses, and It seemed of about the same consls tency." NUMBER OK DEAD PLACED HIGH Not More Than 200 Perhaps Lost Their Lives. Heppner, June 10. It Is believed that all estimates of the number of lives lest In the flood Sunday have been too high. Tonight 130 bodies have been re covered and many believe the total number of dead will not greatly exceed 200. ALARMED ABOUT WOOL MEN. Boise, Ida., June 16. The statement that several wool buyers perished In the Heppner dianrter has alarmed Boltfe friends of representatives of Eastern wool houses believed to have been there. They are Frank H. Lee, James Srflter and Edmund Burke, Geo. Colby, whet was thought to have been In Heppner, Ib said to be In San. Fran cisco. ." RIVER AT PORTLAND RISING. Portland, June 16. The river has ris en two feet here In the past 24 hours and now stands at 23.7. Cooler weather of the past few days has caused Snake and the upper Columbia to fall slightly all along the line. Subscribe for the ' Semi-Weekly As- torlan, 21.00 a year. . WANT NO CANAL. Colombian Congress Will Not Opioe Will of People. New fork, June U. The canal treaty will not be pasted by the Colombian congress, called to meet on June 20, says a Herald v disputed from Bogota, Colom-, bla. This Is the concensus of the best Informed opinion In the re- public. "4 - Notwlthstundng any rumor that have been sent from the : capital the fact remains that eon-- gres does not care to defy the wishes of a majority of the peo- pie in the matter. Hhould ft be left to a public vote the test would show n overwhelming majority antagonistic to the proposition. Public opinion hi unanimously against the canal Ooub:l?a there will be no ef- fort on the part of the govern- ment to Induce congress to rV Ify the treaty, but this support 4 will not oway the opponents of the measure. 1 r NO RUriH FOR LANDS. Tract in Southern California Not Suit- - ed for Settlement Los Angeles. June It One million ac res of government land were thrown open to settlement yesterday. The land la along the line of the Santa Fe & Pacfllc railroad from Neddies to Wo Jove and Is all desert land. There was no rush of settlers as the land office bud made known to the thousands of inquirers the nature of the lands. Ow ing to the arid condition of the land only that for which water could be ob tained haa been tytkeiit. little of it be ing capable of producing crops with' nut artificial irrigation. Only half dofcen applications were received ' St the local land office yesterday and these were for tracts In the vicinity of Mojave. i J "-.''. , f ', . BANQUET TO MISSIONARIES. Presbyterian Workers About to Sail to Si , Foreign Lands. , . New York, June 16. More than 150 persons attended a farewell dinner giv. en to newly appointed missionaries by the Presbyterian union of New York. The guests Included the 49 mission ariea who are about to sail for foreign lands, officers and secretaries of the foreign board of missions, and mission arles in this city on furlough. Most of the missionaries will go to their fields by way of San Francisco. , . READ'S HOME SOLD. He use Where "Sheridan's Ride" . Written Brings $12,000. Was Cincinnati, June 16. The historic home of Buchanan Read in which the lumous poem, "snertaan s Hide, " was Written, r8 been sold at auction for $12,009. John Havlln. the theatrics man, wad a bidder. The house has a plate on the wall with an Inscription as to the former ownership by Read. The property was sold for the purpose of paying legacies named in the will of the late contractor, Hugh Campbell. LOST HIS MASK. Three Men Robbed Saloon and One Was Captured. Butte, Mont., June 16. Three masked robbers early this morning held up six men in the Balkovets saloon in the lower part of the city. About $20 was secured from a cash register and three gold watches, one of which w-jis worth $140, were taken from the pockets of atix men. A mask fell from the leader of the gang and he was ifiter captured. HAD FAMOUS GRANDFATHER. Harrison Bull, Merchant Clrcleville. Dead at Mlddletown, N. Y., June 16. Harrt son Bull or Clrcleville, grandson of Samuel Bull, who forged the chain stretched across the Hudson to prevent tha British fleet from ascending the river during the revolution, Is dead, He was a leading merchant FOUR MEN KILLED. Cheyenne, Wyo., June 16. Word has reached here of an accident which caused the death of four men at the grading camp of Kllpatrlck brothers, 20 miles west on the Union Pacific. The report says that a trestle on which cfirs were, run to dump dirt gave out, the men being caught under the car la the fall. ' v . FUNERAL OF ARMY'S HERO Met Death Obstructing Succor To Distressed King, So Received Stately Obsequies. BELLS RING FOR PETER I5T And At Same Time Officer Who Aided Murder Carried To III Tnib. Belgrade, June 16. Simultaneously with the booming of cannon and church tells merrily ringing today in honor of King Peter, down the long main Street marched a funeral cortege, ac companist by alt the panoply of the Greek church, and a regiment of sol diers with Its band, tarrying to the grave the remains of a young lieuten ant who had been accorded the title of the army's hero, the title having been gained as follows: ' The commandant of a division en camped in the environ of Belgrade was surprised tn the' palace by the con spirators on the night of the asasxin ations and managed to escape. He found a mounted orderly, took his horse and galloped to the encampment of his division to summon some of the regiments to succor the king. Just be fore reaching the camp the lieutenant, who was burled today,' overtook the commandant and an encounter ensued, during which the commandant was killed, and the lieutenant received hit mortal wound. PETER TO HAVE LITTLE POWER Principal Power of Servian Govern ment Will Be With Army. Belgrade. June 16. The position of King Peter promises to be almost that of a captive. The government will be a military dictatorship. The deliberations of the senate and eJtuptschUia. were, materially hastened by the attendance of one of the leaders of the revolution. Colonel Miscihllch. The colonel took no part but his pres ence was enough to induce members to accept tie army's choice. ; Premier Avakumovleh stated that the proposed constitution would give the king far less povcr than that of the president of the United States, KING HAS NO ADHERENT. Belgrade, June 16 The new king Is almost without any personal adherent, and ruling spirits of the army. It U thought will as readily murder him, should he oppose their aims. Cxar Nicholas has telegraphed to King Peter extending best wishes of success. SERVIANS ARE INDIFFERENT. Remarkable Attitude Shown by People ,., Over Assasslna'lon, Belgrade, June 16. Workmen are busy repairing the damage caused by flying bullets preparatory to the In stallation of the new ruler. ' The ab sence of all regret among the educat ed class la most striking and leads to the conclulon either the assassinations were extremely popular or Servians are the most Imptisslve people In the world. Salonlca. Turkey. June 16. Several conflicts have recently occurred in Macedonia between Insurgent bands and Turkish troops. Some $0 Bulgar fena bay been killed and many wounded. , FO R C I B L ROBINSON SELLS FURNITURE Sells Good, Stylish Fur nishings At Low Prices. Carpets, Mattings, Lino liums, Rugs, Fancy Rock ers, Stoves, Tables, Bed Room and Parlor Sets. Everything' for the House ROBINSON'S FURNITURE STORE 588 Cottimerclal Street ; TTtIKE BRnVGB OUT TROOP.. General Baldwin Will Order Cavalry Troop to Morencl Denver, June 16. Acting on advices from Washington, General - Baldwin, commanding the department of Colo rado, CI 8, A., today sent orders for one troop of Third cavalry to proceed with ail haste from Fort Apache, ArU., to MorencL'' : Yiwterday U was be lieved that the spirit of the strike was broken and Colonel Lebo. commanding a few troops of the Fourteenth cavalry at Morenel, was ordered to return his eommand to Fort Grant and Kuachuca, but more recent developments have shown the advisability of keeping Fed era! troops on the spot ; OREGON WHEAT GOOD. , Trying Conditions in Washington- But Crop Is Not Seriously Injured. Washington. June 16. The weather bureau's weekly crop report says: A generally favorable condition prevalle-1 on the north Pacific coast, except early in the week In Washington, where dry. Irg winds injured some Sections. The week was unseasonably warm In east- em Oregon and Idaho. Winter wheat Is heading short but with good heads in Oregon. Spring wheat Is in gener ally good condition, but in Washing ton it has experienced trying condi tions, although apparently not serious ly injured. BLIND ATHLETES. Inmates or State Institute Do Good Field Work. Chicago, June 16. A dispatch to the Tribune from Janesvliie, Wis., says: The $8 Inmates of the state Institute for the blind have held their field sports nere. Of the IS who competed for the prizes 13 were totally blind and the other two could see only moving objects. Hurdles, pole vault and ham mer throw were left out, but in their places the standing Jump, the standing broad Jump, the football kick and the Si-yart dash-were contested. ' .. A boy named Gonia, totally blind, was first in the 36-yard dash in four seconds flat The distance for the running broad Jump was 17 feet eight inches, and the standing high Jump was four feet six inches. The foot ball was kicked 108 feet COMPLICATIONS UNLOOKED FOR Affairs in Servla Will Probably Run Sjnoothly. London, June 16. The Times corres pondent at Belgrade sAys there seems to be no probability of change in tha Servian dynasty leading to internation al complications or aggravating the ex isting situation in the Balkans. : BASEBALL, SCORES 4 PACIFIC NATIONAL. At Butte Butte 8; Tacoma 4. At Helena Helena 14; Portland 7. Ae Spokane Spokane 0; San Francis co s. NATIONAL. At Washington Washington 5; De troit L , ' ' ' At Pittsburg Pittsburg 6; Chicago J. Ae Philadelphia Philadelphia 2; New York L AMERICAN. At Boston Boston 0: Cleveland 7. At New York New York 1; Chknigo 0. At Philadelphia Philadelphia : Bt. Louis J. . , . .; ...:'. E P AC tS 1 if 4-