j - : - 1903 1873 VOLUME LVI. Just Nobbiest Salts In Astoria Largest, Newest and Best Se lected Stock & Full Value With Every Put chase Lowest Price Consistent With Honest Values : ', lit! P. A. STOKES WHIPS 0 AT FISHER BROTHERS NEW H AMMOCKS - Large assortment of unusually hand some goods just received. 75 cents to $5.00. I . J . G R I F F I N. f DRY GOODS. BOOTS ANU SHOES I Dost lilies in the city for the money GROCERIES Prompt delivery of Freshest Fruits, Vegetables, Prepared Foods Cured Meats, Flour, Feed, etc. Cor Eleventh and Bond y H. COFFEY lave Isu fetiGed Our Embroidery Window? Grand values at 10c end 12c a yard J- Tomorrow and all nextVeek we will have ; with us the representative of one ot the largest manu facturers of hair goods. Beautiful switches and pompadours will bo shown in great variety. ' 7 You will be equally welcome to the demon stration whether you buy or come only to see them THE Received hi Plumbing Troubles . Impurl'uct plumbing makes real trouble. If you have an iiniKJifect job, better tlx it. We'll make it right for you. Whether it'g repair or new work wo respond promptly, do it well and get your approval with our pay. W.J.SCULLEY 470-473 Commercial. Phone Black 224S : s BEEi H I VE ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY DAY OF. APPREHENSION FOLLOWED BY FAILURES Two Well Known Firms Go to the Wall Causing Stir With BroKers Spirited Selling Follows Believed That Southern Pacific Was - Bad Blood Existing Because of Suit-Leading Member Thought Wealthy New York, July 24.-The announce-1 the opinion today tbt If be had uf ment lot. today on atock exchange of hrM any loi be wa well able to .k. r..n..,. r.t 3 TAwlor & Comi.any ' ami of W, T. Stowe & Company follow ed day of suppressed uneaalnea and apprehension. Ik-are rushed to cover their Mhort tontrai t on selling induced i.u ...... (h. failure, and avlolent , refund followed. ' I TV ..perAllon of rh firm of W. t. ..... i.r .ul In Mexican Central and. In the difficulties which have actuated upon them are understood by the price of eleven loduy and high level lit 31 1-S lam yfir. Tin) failure of T. J. Taylor & Co. t aswx-Uted with the name. or Ja. It. Keen, hit brother-in-law. although hi nam- do- nut appear In the company mime. The market management of the United State steel Mockn during the lliitutlon, and of the recent pool In Southern Pacific stock, will be .look d upon being a factor In the fail ure. Taylor wan believed to be a man ..( great wealth and Wall street held to VIOLENT DEATHS IN NORTH ONE MAN CUT HIS THKOAT W H1I.K O.THKR3 MKET FATK TllftOL'OH APSIZINQ OF Bl)AT. Tacomn. Wash., July 24.-cven .letithn are sported on BrlnK '. ii ji th of Nome, by recent arrival from . ... that ouarter. The boat steerer or ie . 1 ,.. hi. ihroat and bled to death. Burly In July a native was carried from Cape York on the Ice pack and drowned. A short t!W previa two native of Dtomede inland met a similar ate. Native from Metellarvlk. 18 mile north of Cape Prince of Wale report d that a boat containing four white niwi oruhed to piece the first v.ek n July. Three of the wen were drowned, the other man having reach ed shore. The name of the men are not known. The Indian at Caje 1 Tinea of Wale caught no whales this TO REMOVE DICKENS RELIC ALLEGED OLD CURIOSITY SHOP WILL HE BROUGHT TO UNITED STATES AND REBUILT" New York. July 24.-Thl city Is to lose another of Its show places, say a Herald dispatch from Iondon.. A building In Portugal street. Lincoln1 Inn Fl)ds. which Is said to rmve been the original of the Old Curiosity Shop tmmortullied byDlckens. has been sold to Americans, wo will eventually take It to piece and re-eiect It In the United State. T Thousand have ppld for the prlv liege of Mng the venerable edifice and of purchasing Dickens curios, cor ing but little whether the house writ ten about by the master novelist really existed there, or as many sup poned, in Fetter Lane. McCHESNEY 19 RECOVERING. New York, -July 24.-McChesney, the .ern race horse, brought here to contest the championship with Water tw t Brlehton Beach, but went lame, entailing the cancellation of the nintch.' I reported to have been Bhip ped back to Chlqago. The horse Is understood. have n.ear,y wcovered but it is doubtful whether the match will be run off at Saratoga. MRS. BLAINE'S WILL FILED. A,.ffusta. Maine. July 24.-The will of Mr. James G. Blaine (has been filed for probate here. No public bequests r. made. The will Is dated at Wash- i.nn. Aorll 6. 1901. No Inventory wa made of the estate, but It is es tlmated at over half a million, and is jAi.uj ' twttvMn the children and U I Y I W V grandchildren, After Scalps of Keene and Taylor, stand them, twm ll rammi m turn fullure Crwt inn. be traced to buslnew or Industrial condition outside of ex change, Both firm nave been tersely concerned In the mecul live toi k mar ket, pool lormeu i"r ,.u.- ... " '" of "utaln,n their price by .upportlng order, real or iminliiuliitlve and seeking to realize profit by nelllng; out to ouUtderat high price. Taylor ft Co. have been keen broker for the lat three yearn. There are many who-teller the fail ure I directly due to bud bipod stirred up by tlie firm and Keene In' the Houthern Pacific uit. It haa been culd the Harriman and Whitney Inter rut would not be aatlgncd with any thing left than the mlpn of Keene and Taylor. The di m of W. I-. Utowe & Co. waa crganixi'd In 1899 and ha been known almost ever alnee aa atock market rep renenatlve of the Mexican Central liallrnad. WHAT HAPPENED TO JONES? DETECTIVES AKE UWKINO FOR VALET WHO IS WANTED FOR CAUSING DEATH OF RICE. - ' -' ... V New -York. Ju'y 2t.-Dctective who ! have been aearchlng for Charles F. ; Jones, who confpfed to having cauaed : ..... ...... i, ,.t iho Tvn millionaire . "" - W.lllam M. nice. whoe valet he was have been searching the south In vain for the man. Jones received immunity from be coming a state witness apainut Albeit T. Patrick who was charged v,ith kil ling Kice.through the Ini'trurcentality of Jones, for the purpose of securing the Illce millions. In June. 1902, Jones was given his freedom on the nomi nal ball of 1.00. Before" Jones was per mltted to leave prison he was made to agree that he would keep In constant communication with the district attor ney's office and with thl he was per mitted to return to his old home in Texas. Nearly every one he had known in childhood, passed him In sll Unce on the street. "Ifo was practical ly. In solitude am6ng hli former friends He went to Houston where he had worked us a clerk for Ulce In a ware house. He met with ik-oirr wnerever he went and In the letters sent to the dlstict attorney's ottlcj complained bit teriy of the treatment. As a last resort Jones went to Galveston and shipped under an assumed name us a mate on the schooner Raphaelo, which made trips from Galveston to the San Jacin to river. Then he went to New Or leans, when his letters stopped. It became necsssary to locate Jones In a proceeding connected with the Patrick appeal, but no . trace or mm inn be found. - MISS DOTBEER'S FORTUNE. San Francisco, July 24.-Miss Ber tha Dotbeer. only daughter of the Vte John Dotbeer. will soon be In control of her Inheritance, estimated at $1,-00,-000,. Including Interests in vessels, dividend-bearing etocks in various cor uorations. realty and cash. The exec utors of the will have filed their final report In the superior court and ask ed for an odrer of distribution. The to tal amount of the estate now In the hands of the executors Is $1,331,176, After deducting Miss Dotbeer' inner! tence one eighth of the residue is to be given to Mls Ellen Hall of New Ham pshire. ' v FEVER KILLING THE' SOLDIERS. vr' Tint. Julv 24.-A letter from the Acre territory says, according to the Rio De Janeiro correspondent that the Braaillun army is perishing under atmcki Six hundred officers and men are dead and 400 are ill Some detachments ot troops1 are with ut medicine. ' 25, 1903. INDIANS ARE CANNIBALS Prospectors Captured, Killed and Eaten by Band of Base Savages. . TALE OF H0R0RBY MINERS Mexican Soldier Vlalt Spot of Carnage ami Take Six or Them I'rlwmer. Tticaon.Ars.. July 24.-A party of mln lug men from thl city, returning from Guaymas, report the arrival of a a latchment of Mexican soldllera with three prieoiiera from the Tlburon Inland. The Indians are charged with murder and cannahalism. A party of Mexican prospector who landed on the lland two week ago are kiIiI lo have been captured, killed and partly eaten by the Indian. ' HAG PICKERS UNIONIZE AUE PUOKLY PAID BY CONTRACT OR3 AND THE WORK IS NOT PLEASANT OCCUPATION. New York, July 24. A rag pickers1 union haa been organized In his city. There were 200 persons present at the first meeting, one thifd of whom were women. The union will be a branch of the United Hibrew trades and Its headquarters will be on the lower east side. Said the chalrmann; "The work a not very attractive and we are very poorly paid. We are em ployed by contractors, who allow u only 7 and $8 a -Aeek. It is our tntefi- alon to demand Jl- and $15." Labor Calls MasMeetint Merchants and Citizens Invited To Gather in Hanthorn's Hall on Monday Night 1 A mass meeting of all the labor un Ions In .-ti!..i, to which the business men particularly and citizens gener ally aie urged to attend, has been call ed for Monday r.lght by the Astoria Central Labor Council, to be held In Hanthorn's hall. The meeting will be uddrwed by G. Y. Harry, of Portland general orr-xr of the American Kv,i.riii,.n r T-iihor. who arrived in the ctty yesterday. The purpose of the meeting Is to ex plain to the people of the city, partic ularly the bualnes men, the object of the American Federation of Labor. and to show In black and white what labor purposes ;o accomplish by organ bong nto one great body. Mr. Harry says he will show by facts and figures how closely dentifled are the Interests of the business men with the workers, and the meeting is called primarily for the purpose of enlisting the sup. pit of the business Interests of the city In the organisation of labor. There are representatives of 16 tabor unions in Astoria at the present time, a ma Jority of which maintain active unions In the city. Besides being general organizer of the American Federation of Labor, Mr Harry is also a member of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition com mission, appointed Uy Governor Cham hviiain. He will leave for Brookfield Wn., today, where he goes to invest! ent a difference that exlfts between the Tjoopers' Jnlon of that town and Pniiloml He will return to Astoria In time for the meeting on Monday In an Interview with a reporter of The Astorlan yesterday Mr. Harry said: "I am particularly anxious to meet the business men of this city and have a little heart to heart talk with them on the subject of labor and labor un ions. I feel that such a meeting as hiia been called cannot help but be pro ductive of good results, and I gladly embrace this opportunity to meet the businessmen as well as. the members of the unions affiliated with the Amer ican Federation of Labor. We feel that our Interests are very closely al lied with t'hfit of the merchants, and we wint to have a better :mderstand Ing exist between us. Laccr has nothing to conceal; we :ourt Investi gation, If such a thing Is necessary.but I think we are justlfiedMn pointing to nn ever increasing membership as an indication of the sound principles on which our organization Is based. " : Mr. Harry also referred to the cob - V , . ... WHO WILL BE POPE? THAT IS Rampolla" Is First Choice, But Gooti Is Close Second Agreement Reached Between Two Great Cardinals ' Should Rampolla Fait Short on Strength to Great Colleague-Latter Held In Distrust By Many t . i . Rome, July 24. Tbe nearer the con clave approaches, the more two dis tinct tendencies are shown In the Sa cred College, especially mong the car di rials of the curia, that Is to say, those living In Rome; but In which the car dinals from the provinces a well as the foreign cardinals, canot help par ticloatlng. These -two tendencies spring from the personality of Cardi nal Rampolla, as the gTeat struggle continues to be in his favor or against him. i:- . If Rampolla finds on the first bal lot he has a considerable number of. votes, he will try againi, U he has few voles and one of his opponents hus lection of exhibits for the St. "Louis ex position. He says that he bopes that the people of Clatsop county will be well In front with an appropriate and comprehensive exhibit of the resources of the county, and he Invites the as sistance of everybody In the county In the collection of such an exhibit. Immediately after the mass meeting on Monday night, the Astoria Central Labor Council will go Into executive session, to discuss, among other Import ant business matters, the Labor Day celebration. -. - v FLOURISHING SUICIDE CLUB POLICBOF HOBOKEN BELIEVE THAT ONE "EXISTS IN THEIR TOWN DEATHS ARE STRANGE. New York, July 24. The Hoboken police are investigating several recent cases of sudden death which lead them to believe a suicide club is flourishing In that town. In most eases two pers ons have planned to make away with themselves simultaneously. The most recent case occurred In a saloon. A stevedore, after treating the habitues, had the bar keeper go to a drug store and buy a package of rat poison. He empetled half of It In a glass of water and the bar keeper i poured out the remainder. eyi drank together and the stevedore stag gered out under the influence of the poison. He has not been seen since The barkeeper was taken to the hos pital, where he Is reported to be in a critical condition. ' SHERIDAN WILL SAIL IN AUGUST San Frxnclsco, July 24 Major De- vol. general superintendant of the army transport - service, states that the Sheridan will salt for Manila on August 1, via Honolulu and Guam. The Thomas will sail September 1 over the same route- ' I Camp Furniture Cots, Stools, Stoves, Cheap Elatresses and Everything for ...the Seaside... Elegant Iron Beds v Handsome Tables and Chairs Prices guaranteed the lowest Robinson's Furniture. Store NUMBER 177. THE QUESTION First Ballot He Is to Throw His many, he will renounce, hi chances, -and he and all his friend will support ;irst. Cardinal Gottl, with whom he has now come to some such ageement. and attempt to raise Gottl to the su preme office with Rampolla a an ul ly. This would mean that the main tenance of Pope Leo's policy on exact- ly the same lines, and entrusted to tbe same men. ' P-dt Gottl Inspires great distrust. A he belongs to the religious orders, he would render the situation of the pa pacy extremely difficult at the present moment, considering the conditions prevailing In France, Spain and the Philippine. FOUND DEAD IN NORTH RIVER. New York, July 4. The body of a man found In the North river several day since with a satchel containing a heavy stone tied about his neck haa not been identified. Son of J. T. H. Crismond, a prominent citizen of Fred cricksburg. Va., h j believe the body was that ot their fathfr, arrived here, but were unable to identify the dead man. . ASSOCIATE PRESS DISPATCH ES The tnorning Astorlan haa an ex clusive 'ARsioelated Press franchise la Astoria, , and .is., enabled ., thereby la give the people' of this cltjr a "digest of the world' important news several! hours ahead of the outside papers, and also to give the important new of the world that happens during the early hours of the day to the public through ' the courtesy of local buslnes men who display the bulletins. Amerlcaa newspaper enterprise has cautatd ser ious concern In France, where the fact has been commented on that the first news of the death ot the pope reached Paris from New York, through the medium of the Associated Press; Lon. ' don also heard of tbe death ot the H- l.istrious prelate through the same agency. The first news of the death of the pope received in Astoria cam to The Morning Astorian from the A fr Hociated Press, aud was immediately hi.iietlns.rt all aver the city by this ot- ficp In .oCher words, the news of the - pope's death was nasnea across uib continent from the New York office of the Associated Press Into the editorial rooms of The Morning Astorlan, nearly S5ii0 miles from Rome, and posted oa the bulletin board and in the windows of the principal stores in the city, before the news of his death' had reached the capitals of Europe and the people of those great centers Jiad been informed of the momentous event. The Morning Astorlan publishes Associated Press dispatches In Astoria every morning. . ' See Our New Line Of : v Item Suites