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MMWlflMlW&'A'MIHSm NOTION I ' Books. Periodica,, Vfi ASTORIA P,UBMTASS0M0K. Tflvm AW VOLUME LVI. ASTORIA, OREGON, .TUESDAY, Jl'.NK 1903. NUMBER U9. 'l"Ti I i , ' 1873 WE SELL THE GOODS But not the buyers of them. We clothe the men and boys and they are satisfied because well dressed v Enormous selling enables ns to carry a Urge var iety and maintain low prices. Jast now let us direct your attention to a fine display of seasonable underwear, Just what you want for this weather. P. A. STOKE S K"H ! BATHS RUSSIAN AT 539 COMMERCIAL ST. Im from il l M. to it A. M. dully, exc't Kuiidiiva, On SiiikIjijh from K 1. M. to il A. M. f Irnt-rlujoi cliiropo dUt 111 rtUrudniice. T. It. IAVII'.M, I'roprlotor. RUBBER HGSC AT FISHER BROTHERS We Guarantee every foot of our hose FOR 4 Office AND Horn e J . N . GRIFFIN. THE BEE HIVE LAWNS BEAUTIFUL LAWNS Yard 10c HwtSduffacr V Mara Hind Tutored N if 10 l'amou Clobe-Wernicke Sectional Filing Devices t?irand?2r Book Cases Handsomest and most convenient furniture made. Sold in bections for all uses, sizes and shapes. Call and see Samples. , Our Strong Feature Is the Work We Do Soma plumber make a featura of the bllU thy aend thafa not our atyle. We aend a good man; ha doe good i work and we charge a right price. If its New Work er Repairs We want to handle It and will handle It to your aatlsf action. W.J.SCULLEY 470-472 Commercial, Fhone Black 2243 Lawn remnants in 3 and 9 yard lengths, choice patterns, suitable lor dresses and Kemonas, at a bargain. Beautiful, two-toned, mercerized Lawns. Reduced from 50c to 85c. ;' All kinds of trimmings, medallions, Appliques and imitation Clumy- . ... -. 'v :i ;' great bargain in white embroidered , Valenciennes band at 5c yard. CLEARING WRECKAGE Debris And Refuse Being Remov ed And Improved Order Of Things Prevails. SANITARY CONDITION BETTER Wwlti-r Arc Kyoto-mat Ivnlly Or- Kiuil.eil and KtMilt U Ilali ly Evident. f,nldiiic Oiiiirdi-d Agalnid. H-ppnr, June 11. Four belles were found today and all of th'-m were Identified. They are Mr. Itob't Morgan, Andrew Peterson, Mm. 8. Mo Bride, Iv Ashbaugh. , t Clearing away the debris caused by the flood I proKrtMtliig rapidly. The i mult of organisation In a systematic manner Is evident ujion nil sides and soon all wreckage will huve been re muved. Only two building remain m the main street that were tarried here by wtr and pediment, that wan do posited nn the stioeu, 1 being speedily lemoved. Tli sanitary condition of tin? town at present are fur better than had been hoped for. but every precau tion 1 being taken to guard agalnxt an epidemic. Dr. Smith who represents the sutc board of health ordered alka II from the hills to be placed on t metis and that work I no blng a compltshed. Missing bodies now number about 35. BTI1ANGE DEATH OF WAITRESS J Ilr Par Wat Scarred. and Burned by Carbolic Acid. New York. June 13. Detectives are luvMUgutlng'tbe'denth of Gretchen pt- ten, a wuitree. wfrtth wua at first up poaed to have been a cuee of eutclde by carbolic ald. Examination, bow tver. ahowed that the girl ad not drunk the acid, but that the fluid had destroyed her eye and scarred her face "aril that ahe had been severely vhoked. A "ynff man who la ald to have breti the father of a child to wljk-h the girl gave birth a year ago ! being sought for In the hop that he may throw .some light upon the af fair. Ml'ST MARRY NEW JERSEY GIUL Under Such Condition MOO.000 Will Be Young Man'a Portion. New York, June !2. A Newark, N. J., man Is seeking renldents of New Jer sey, who; he say, are heirs under a pe- cullar will made by James Ruahell, who died In California about four months ago, leaving a large estate. Be sides bequests of one or two thousand dollars to a number of persons, tt Is stated that Rushcll left 1400,000 to his son. provided he aha 11 marry a New Jersey girl. None of the alleged heirs. nor the desired bride has been found yet. HOUNDS TO TRACE MURPEUER New York, Tune 22. The police au thorities of New Roohelle ransacked every house In the Italian quarter In an endeavor to locate the murderer of Special Policeman Ahearn. who was killed earlv Saturday morning by a man believed to have been a burglar, Their efforts w'ere unsuccessful, but It Is expected they will be renewed ,to day when the bloodhound are pro cured, v BALLOT COUNTING IS SLOW Re-election of Walking Delegate, Un der Indictment, In Doubt. New York, June 22. Slow progress hue been made In the counting of bal lot coat for officers of the House smiths" and Brldgemen'a union, and another day I likely to pas before It can be known with certainty what was the result In the case of Samuel Parks, the walking delegate and candidate for re-eleotlon who Is under Indictment on the charge of extorting money from employers In consideration of calling strike off. As the count stands thus far, however, there I little doubt of Parks' re-election. , YOUNG MAN KILLED BY TRAIN Seattle, June 21. John Courtney, aged 18 year, was killed on the Inter urban, near Vanasselt, tonight shortly before 8 o'clock. Whether he fell un der the wheels while trying to Jump off the car or was run down, cannot be determined, for the trainmen ay they know nothing about the matter. HAS SLET FOR ONE MONTH Worry Ovs-r (TJuxlneii Affalm Iiringf on Bute of Coma, New York, .June II. Tne Aranite rasa of C. Endl'-ott Allen, a young Har vard man. I; attracting muoh- atten tion. He ban bten asleep with ort In terval of W!iul-coiineounei, for the last month, In a hospital at Long Branch. The only cauxe so far as can tie learn id is worry over business rc-v't-rsca which recently cams to W fath er, forcing the fm to go out Into the world' fur himself. ' ' - , Tho hospital physician ha diagnosed the caMi hyuterla and nald there U hope that he Villi yei come out of his long lep Bftfi" a few week. For 30 diy Allen ha taken very little wild fiod. Ll lb Id food U foroed down liiront, a he rannot be nufflt'lently nrouaed to wallow naturtilly. Never theteM, the patient bo gained 'n weight. . . ' PANIC ON TROLLEY CAR Blowing fhit of Fuse Drives people Out.f Their Wit. New York. June 22. Three person have be"i severely hurt and a score were cut and bruined In a panlu alKiart' an AniKterd-.tm aveiiue trolley car. The fu In the controller bo blew, out und Jets of blue fire frightened those sitting nearby almost out of their wlta. A worimn leaped off and struck her head against an Iron pillar. She was badly cut Hf husband Jumped with their llttle-glrl and also was badly cut. The child was iinlnjured. : V Another man broke one of hi legs. Dy this time the excitement aboard the crowded car hd become intense. Sev eral women fainted and their fellow passengers trampled them under foot In tho rush for the exite. - THEY ATE AND THEY ATE Dinner In Brooklyn wui frooaoiy naise Prk e of Beef. New York, June 22 Ex-Mayor Robert Van Wyck retains the tUle of lhaniplon beef eaur of Gttater New York- An fit fort to beat his reported record of two year ago of elgnt and three-quarter pounds at one sitting falltsl at a con test Just held In Williamsburg. The contestants were: Michael Schaupauf aud F. Oschean, Fully 600 Brooklynltes watched the con test. The time limit was one hour and 40 mlnu48. Schaupauf took the lead at the second steak, holding It until the finish-, when it was announced that he had eaten In addition to 100 dams and crackers, five and three-quarter pounds of steak. 50 oysters two loaves of breud, a bunch of asparagus and 10 crabs.' TO PREVENT DISORDER Effort WUI Be Made to Convene Con gress Without Rupture. Nv York, June 22. The government Is (taking active measures to prevent any disorder In connection with the opening of congress, says a Herald dispatch from Lima, Peru. A procla mation has been Issued by President Candamo." pparently the government has sufficient force to maintain order. The government has decided to secure on a three years contract a geologist from the United States or Europe to study the fossil formations of Peru. FUGITIVE SURGEON GIVES UP Boston, June 22. Without friends, and hungry, with no place to sleep, wet and footsore. 1 ln Walter H. Price, once a prosperous physician and sur geon of this city has surrendered to the police. He explained that a warrant had been issued against him more than a year ago on a charge of performing a criminal operation. He was tired of dodging the police, he said, and wanted to be locked up and then given a trial. Dr. Price was taken to Jail. , PROMINENT NEW YORKER DEAD New York, June 22Danlel Judson Holden, a member of the law firm of Curtis Brothers, Is dead at his home In this city. He was stricken very sud denly. Mr. Holden was a member of many leading clubs and ah official of several large southwestern development companies. Boston, June 22. In less than a month In this state there have been at least four deaths from glanders In human beings. The board or heaitn, fearing an epidemic is making every effort to prevent the spread of the dis COAL CARS RUN AWAY Long Train Tore Wildly Through Spokane At Early Hour In The Morning. FOUR PEOPLE WERE KILLED After. Lfttvliij; Track (liiiiana? Ie iiiolKlird lInIldiitK And Then IMle fnTaii.'l fifty i;l In llolglit. ?Ikane, June 23. X runaway train of 0 or more cars, without an engine, rushed four miles down grade through ton early this morning; demolishing a dwelling house,- wrecking a laundry, killing at least four people, injuring nine other and piling up a tangled max of debris estimated to be (0 feet high. Just how many ears Trade the long dash down hill Is unknown, but the es timates run from 60 to 90 nearly the entire train being heavily loaded with soft coal. These cars were eoupled to gether and left standing on the old Spokane Falls & Northern line, part of the Great Northern system, now used as a storage track. From Hilfyard a Kng grade slopes down to Division street, In Spokane, four miles away." ' About 2:30 o'clock this morning the jYtavjr train began to slide slowly down the grade. Gaining momentum rapidly. It was soon rushing through the city with a tremendous force.' Every switch was clear and so far as knowo nothing Impeded Its progress until It struck an empty box car near the old 8. F. & N. depot. In this car William Thomas and another man, supposed to have been a tramp, ' were sleeping. Shoving this car ahead of it as a bump er, the runaway train swept on to Di vision street! Here be track ended, but the train plugged . forward, cross lng the street, running over a rockplle and swinging along the south side of Harrison avenue. v . . , j , . Nearly 200 feet from the end of the track sctood' a six-room house occupied by the families of John Slee and Mrs. Myers. Striking this house squarely In the center, the flying train smashed It to kindling wood. Still rushing fori ward, the cars tore over the rough ground for 200 feet further striking the frame building occupied by the Crystal Steam laundry. This was not demol ished, but was moved bodily, being shoved three or four feet west Hure the runaway train had spent Its force. Nine people were sleeping in the Slee house when the train struck It How any escaped Is a mystery, as it is said nearly every timber in' the building; was broken. James Slee, the father. was pulled 'out of the ruins practically uninjured. The dead body of hla son, James, Slee. Jr., was found near by. Another son, Clarence, and the baby, Viola, were found to be Injured and were taken to the' hospital. Of t&e three children of Mrs. Myers who were sleep ing in the house, only one Irene, was Injured. ' ' ' ' I Not far from the house were found the bodies of Thomas and bis com panion. They had been carried nearly 1000 feet from the place where their box car was first struck. !v , ' h . The momentum of the train may be Judged from the discovery of wheels and axles more than 100 feet from Us path. Along the route taken by the cars, the wreckuge is scattered for nearly a quarter of a mile. At Division street the cars are piled up in a heap of wreckage 50 feet high. Narly S9 curs are piled UP, near this point and other at points along the path of the runaway.. 11 .'. ' . ;:V ;"" Billy RecordJ the hook tender at Ye-on-Pelton camp at Rainier, hoida the record for yarding logs on the CoUint bla, says the Oregon lumberman. In 10 hour he yarded out 111 logs. V. A. W.- Schlappl, the efficient boom man, Is not very alow himself. In six and a half hour he hung the sticks and made up a, raft of 260,000 feet. He wag assisted by his 16-year-old son, Arthur. This Is good work. was the first maker of sticks of soap for shaving. Sticks in 3 sizes; shaving cakes in 3 sizes. ' fears' Soap ciUUuhed am loo yeas. INTERRUPTED iSURIAL PUTS , f TOWN IN AN UPROAR Body of Housekeeper of Prominent Pol- Iticlan Will Have Autopsy Per formed Before It Is Interred. , New. York, June 22-Telephone mes sages sent by Coroner He holer of this etty to Paaualc, have prevented the ln tesment of the body of Mr. Cora Sny der, a musle teacher, and eet the New Jtrsey town In an uproar. Mr. Sny der for the lat year had lived at the home of a prominent politician, where she wa housekeeper and governess of the politician' daughter.: Her death occurred last Friday bt the apartment of a midwife in this city. Her child also died. 1 Until the Interrupted funer al h was supposed in Passaic that ap pendicitis was the cause of Mrs. Sny der' death.'. . -; - . - On receipt of Dr. Soboler" telephone message the; Passaic authorities took Immediate action.. The county physi cian, McBrjfle, ordered the local under taker who had, charge of the funeral, to atop the proceedings. In order to prevent a- sensation. Dr. Mc Bride de cided to a'low tire funeral to take place and to "prevent only the Interment. The funeral a as held as had been planned. A large number of the woman's friends followed her ; body to the cenwetery. Instead of placing the casket In the grave, "it was announced that It would be kept temporarily In a vault, owing to water In -the grave. The mourners departed without a suspicion of the state of affairs. ... i . A oon aa the last of the carriages had disappeared, the undertaker took the body out of the vault and It was taken back to Ms mortuary- Pending the report of an autopsy, the authori ties have taken no official action. ADDITIONAL LOCAL. CHILD LOST SINCE . -t SATURDAY EVENING A Hundred Fall to Find Little Albert Erickson, Wbo Suddenly Dis appeared at Smith's Point. One hundred eager searchers aided by the two "Tracy" bloodhounds, failed yesterday la the search for lit tle Albert. Erickson, two and a half years old, who bas been missing from hi home on Smith' point since S clock on Saturday evening. The child I the son of Ole Erickson, resident at the gardens of the lat A. J, Johnson, government, forestry expert, who wa the brother of Mrs. Erickson. On Saturday afternoon Albert was seen with some other children, but since that time not a trace of him ha been fcund. It la aa though the earth bad opened .and swallowed him up. Crowds of men have helped In the search' for him. Charley Wise gave the use of hi bloodhounds. William Beasly took out bis stag hounds, and every spot of ground was gone over. The theories advanced to. account for the boy'a disappearance are four in number. He might have fallen Into the water, been carried off by 'a cougar, have fallen Into a bog pen close by and been eaten by the hogs, or he might have been done away with by the Chi nese that lives next door to the Erick son house. All of these are mere sup positions for not a clue has been dis covered. , . That the boy fell Into the water is the most generally accepted theory, al though it is some distance to the river from where he was last seen. In sup port of this belief is the tact that the bloodhounds on taking the trail fol lowed it to the water. It Is unlikely FORCIBLE FACT 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 5T0HE 588 Commercial Street MACHEN IS INDICTED Result 6f Investigation By Grand; Jury Into Frauds Of Postal x Department. FIVE INDICTMENTS RETURNED The iirott And Two Others Must! face The 51 .ile With Disgraced Kx-Oindul. Evidence Damning. v Washington, June , 22. The grand Jury, which has been Investigating pos tal affair today returned an Indict ment against August W. Mac hen, Dll ler B. Graft, Samuel A. Croft, George E. Lorenx and Martha J. Lorenz, the two latter being residents of Toledo, Ohio. As previously stated In these dispatches, the specific charge 1 con spiracy to defraud the government The indictment I baaed on section uVS of the revised statute,, which provides a penalty of $10,000 off two years' Im prisonment, or both, in the discretion of the court i - The Indictment sys that this agree ment wa carried out by Machea on June 30, recommending the puchase of 6000 cf the fasteneiB at the price men tiond, that the Groff brother en the same date presented a blU for 000 fas teners at the price mentioned; that on September 13 of the stme year Macben recommended to the - first assistant postmaster-general ' tAe payment . of that bill.' and that the Groff brothers, "having thereafter on September 22 of that yean received from the United States 27500 in payment of the bill"; Diiler B. Groff on October 20, the same year, paid 23000 to George E. and Mar tha Lorenz. . , 1 . that there were any cougars about or Beaaley's dogs would have' found trace of them. A to the Chinese, thefe Is no reason to connect hhn h any way with the loss of the child, be yond the fact thai some of- the neigh, boring youngsters are said to have an noyed him by destroying plant In ni garden. Chief Hallock, who Investi gated the matter", say that he is con vinced that the Chinese bad nothing to do with the afftlr. There is a possi bility that the boy might have fallen in to the hog pen and have been eaten bodily by the bogs Htfd any of hla clothing been undevoured. It might eas ily have been trampled Into the mud. which lie there six Inches deep. As has ben stated, however, there Is absolute ly no' clue to base any reasoning tip on. and any of the four possibilities enumerated may contain the correct so-. lution. ' , The only person In the district tha is not thoroughly anxious about the boy' loss Is his mother. Mrs Eric son has consulted a spiritualist, and the spiritualist ha said that little AJV bert is safe and sound somewhere, so the mother is convinced of hi being recovered ultimately. - , There are seven other children In the Erickson family, one younger than the boy that 1 missing. INTERRED IN PORTLAND The body of James McCarthy was In terred in the Catholic cemetery In Port land yesterday In the early morning low mass was said, over the remain at the local Catholic church, after which the casket waa escorted to the train by a delegation from Seaside lodge. , .