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teTORIH PUBLIC IJBEAH ASSOCUW. one. rOIrtK- "UI r,nr V6 Where the Oregon Stops Rolling ' Read Oar Ms It fore Luylnd WW The Associated Press News Service Fresh From the Wires. VOLUME LVII. -X ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1903. NUMBER 22. r i i BSSSSaJ ' THE SMART DRESSER Is smart because he buys f "I t Vvw (31 ' Ofr J! lit i )- 1 : ' .w'r - 1 ; lliflSchtfTncf ' A- v M,r HAND TAILORED CLOTHING i Made by Cronse. Brandegee & f o. Hart. Schaffne r & Marx They cui tbo , beaten Sold in Astoria by P. A. STOKES i FISHER BROTHERS Agents for the Famous Atkins Saws, Sharpie's Cream Separators, Hardware Dealers and Ship CHANDLERS Cor. Bond and 12th Sts. Astoria, Oregon DO IT NOW!! Buy FLINCH Fifty Cents Commercial St. Window I J. N. GRIFFIN Bad Plumbing will catch the man who put it in. Our Plumbing is hon est and we watch the details of each job and see that every piece of pipe is sound and ' every joint perfect. Tinning and gas fitting. W.J.SCULLEY 470-473 Commercial Phone Black 224S Don't You Feel Cold These Chilly Mornings? It's Simply a Reminder that we have a Large Assortment of HEATING STOVES Justin. Call and see them FOARD $ STOKES CO. ASTORIA, OREGON First Class in Every Respect Bar and Billiard Room American and European Plan Free Coach to the House PARKER HOUSE H. ByPABKER, Proprietor , E P. PARKER, Manager. Good 8nmplo;Booms on Ground Floor for Commercial Men ASTORIA - - - - i OREGON CARRIES A FINE STOCK OF S. A. GIMRE opp. Fisher Bros, store Boots and Shoes on Bond St., Astoria DALLES MAN IS INDICTED BY THE JURY Former Congressman Moody Will Have to Answer a Serious Charge in the United Stilts Court Accused of Having Opened a Let ter Addressed to Mrs. Mar garet L Conroy. SAYS CHARGE IS TRUMPED UP Avert That It Is Brought Tor I'olltlcul Purposes Ore iron Menntor Con sult Hitchcock. Portland, Oct. 28.-Tho federal grand jury today returnd an indictment ugnlnNt ex-Congressman Malcolm A. Moody, charging him with withholding letter-from the person to whom It was nddrvwed. Mr. Moody appeared In court this morning and his counsel waived arraignment and entered a plea tf not ttullly. He naked to have the hem-In wt for the lint day of the trial twm. The court released Moody on hla own reoogntonce, without ball, to ap pear for hearing. Mr. Moody aerts that the charges are trumped up for political purposes. The Mti-r In question waa addressed to Mrs. Margaret L. Conroy by the con troller of the currency and contained a receipt for her signature for a claim against The Du.Uk National bank, of which Moody waa cashier. SEXATOIt SEE HITCHCOCK Belli at Close Figure Say They Will Help lllm toDhv . - cover Frauds. ., - Washington, .Oct. 28. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock today stated that he did not accuse any United Plates senator of being concerned In the land frauds In the Pacific coast states. " Senators Mitchell and Fulton, of Ore gon, had a conf erence with the secre tary today relative to the land frauds and assured him of their hearty co-op-erntlon In all efforts toward the dis covery and punishment of persona In volved In Irregularities. They, said they had united In recommending Receiver Thomson, of the LaGrande office, who has been Indicted for bribery and had done no because of their con fidence In him, the nan being a farm er and' a former member of the legis lature. They said that, while they would suspend Judgment pending trial, they would do nothing to shield him. The secretary talked with the sena tors aa to the advisability of amending the tlmebr and stoae act and home-' stond laws to prevent frauds such as those which are being perpetrated, and they assured him of their wllllngnew to do all possible to that end. The sen ators agreed with the secretary that there had been some fraudulent prac tices In the administration of the land law, but .ontended that there were no more frauds In Oregon than in other states. They referred to the entry of land in lieu uf patented lands within forest reserves and said that, while there had undoubtedly been some sharp practices in that connection, the fault was largely due to the law. Senator Mitchell pointed out that a stricter in spection of the area to be enclosed In intended forest reservations would do much to prevent he frauds complained oi. 1903, has hunted tha south seas and tha wuters along tha coast of Japan and came here from tha Oktotsk sea. Her luck was fair, Bhe reports that in com puny with tha whalers California and Alice Know!?s she passed through the hurricane which In January last swept the Iaumoto,lslands with, such tragic results, when", alt the vessels suffered more or less danger. A Portuguese sailor died on tha voyage. The rest of tha whaling fleet la expected her within tha next few days. WENT BADLY VUONO. Tucson, Aria., Oct. 2. Alexander Casey, a vealthy mint owner of Tur quoise, Aria., walked into the Wlllard hotel at Tucson, of which he is owner, and begin to shoot !n every direction. Tha guests escaped for the most part through window. The shooting attract ed Ave officers who attempted to arrest him. Casey opened lira and seriously wounder Constable Pacheco, The other officers then began to shoot and Casey was seriously and probably fatally wounded. Casey bad been drinking heavily. MRS. BOOTH-TUCKER REPORTED KILLED Kansas City, Oct 28. A Santa Fe passenger train has been wrecked at ran Lake. Mo. Seven were Injured, some fatally. It is reported that Mrs. BootbiTucker of the Salvation Army died of injuries received;, , AGED MINISTER DYING. Tekoa, Wn., Oct. 28.-Itev. J. 8. Kesslsy, believed to be the oldest Meth odlst minister in the west, was stricken with paralysis tonight and la dying. He U 80 years of rge and haa been in the pulpit W years. j Contestants to Have Conference Heinze, Scallon and Others Will Meet the Mediation Com i mittee Immediately. Butte, Oct. 2S. United States Sen ator Clark has received a message from Senator Paris Green stating that he, in company with J. J. Hill, president of the Great Northern, would reach Butte tomorrow. Governor Toole will also bo In the city, and it is expected the mem-Ix-rs of the mediation committee will meet and formulate plana in the effort to settle the struggle between Helnxe and the Amalgamated Copper Com pany. President Scallon of the Anaconda Copper Company and leading Amalga mated officials in Montana and Mr. Helnse have all signified a willingness to meet the mediation committee. - ASK EXTRA SESSION. Helena, Oct. 28 A Joint committee representing the Butte Mlnera Unton and the Mill and Smelter Men's Union of Great Falls thla afternoon presented to Governor Toole resolutions asking him to call an extra session of the leg islature to k-elleve the situation at Butte. The governor stated that he would give the resolutions careful con sideration. The governor declined to discuss the merits of the case, but said he had the beet Interests of the state at heart and would take euch actelon as his conscience dictated. TWO NEW RECORDS ARC MADE Memphis Meetlngr Closes With Exciting: Sport. IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL Now Tork, Oct. J8.-Justlce Holt," of the United States district court for the Southern New Tork district, haa hand ed down a decision In the suit of the New Tork and Cuban Mali Steamship Company, brought as a test case under the clause of the war revenue act of 1S9S, imposing a stamp tax on manifests for the clearance of cargoes for a for eign port, In which he holds the tax In question to be unconstitutional, aa be ing in effect a 'ax on exports, , Should the government not appeal from this decision, or in event of the decision be ing sustained by the supreme court of the United States, the amount paid aa such tax by the various steamship companies will be refunded by the gov ernment. This cae is the outcome of a decision by tle Unltsd States supreme court that the tax on export bills of lading was contrary to the provisions of ar ticle one, section nine of the Constitu tion of the United States, that no tax or duty shall be laid on articles export ed from any state. . It was urged by the government that the tax on export bills of lading was a tax on the document or paper, but the court held that 't was In reality a tax on the goods represented In the bill of ladlntr. . . , WHALING CRUISE SUCCESSFUL San Franclaco,,Oot. 28. The whaling bark Charles W. Morgan, CaptalnEarle the first of the blubber hunters came in to port with a cargo valued at about 122,000. She left here November 22, Memphis, Oct. 28. The eight days' meeting of the Memphts Trotting As sociation was brought to a close thla afternoon with the breaking of two ad ditional world's trotting records. Lou Dillon. Mr. Billings' champion trotter, driven by her owner, went the mile to a wugon In 2 minutes flat, cutting a second and three-quarters from the previous record made by herself, The Monk and Equity, driven by Mr. Bil lings, the owner, lowered the world a trotting record, 2:09 1-4, for a mile to thu pole to 2:08. EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYES MIX. New Tork. Oct. 28. In a statement Issued to the publio by the firm of William 'Bradley & Co., contracting stone cutters In Brooklyn, it Is alleged that the employes, about 100 In number have been organising a strike at the instfeatlon of an association employing etone cutters which haa formed an al IL.nce with labor unions connected with the trade in Greater New Tork. The firm charges that members of the association regularly add 10 per cent to all bids for stone work and after aver aging bid, the association's officers ap portion the contracts; that this added 10 per cent amounts annually to 2600,000 which Is divided with the unions, the latter receiving about 860,000, the bal ance going to the association. The president of the corporation, E F. Glberson, threatens an appeal to the courts if his men do not return to work. It Is said that soma of the employers admit having agreed to add 10 per cent on all contracta in New Tork having made an arrangement for dividing with the unions. , ,. BASEBALL SCORES. - i At Seattle Seattle 12; San Francisco 7. -"I . - At San Francisco SacramentoO; Oak land. : PAYMENTS WITHHELD FOR TIME St Louis Trust Companies Compel Observance of Sixty-Day Rule by the De- ' positors. Officials Have No Fear That the ; Present Scare Will Pre cipitate Crisis. , DEPOSITORS STILL ANXIOUS Long Lines of People Go to the Banks at Early flour, bat No Money Is Paid Out to Them. St. Louis, Oct. 23. Long before the hour of opening, lines of depositors stretched away from th closed doors of the Mississippi Valley Trust Com pany, the Lincoln Truct Company, the MirrrantileTrust Company and the Mis souri Trust Company., Small crowds assembled before till doors of other savings institution ar by. Most of those In line were working people.many of them women, whose savings were not heavy. ' Owing to the action taken by the of ficials of eight trust companies doing business in St. Louis, requiring 20 and days notice of intention to draw funds, depositors were not able to get any money. All they could do was to declare their Intention of withdrawing their deposits at the end of the time taken advantage of by the companies under their rules. The trust compan ies also decided not to pay certificates of deposit before maturity. At the various institutions named the officials stated to the Associated Press that current accounts are being received and paid out as usual. The early crowds which thronged the doors of the banks gradually thinned out, many of the savings depositors taking home their blank notices of withdrawal. The officers of the trust companies tate that voluntary offers of help have been received from outside finan cial Institutions, but were declined for the reason that they had sufficient cash to handle their business. chanan, of the International Associa tion of Bridge St Structural Iron Work ers, who has beer, here several days en deavoring to patch up the existing dif ficulties between the Iron League and the Housesmiths Union, has received a letter from the secretary of the league refusing to meet the executive com mittee of the International association. The strike committee of the IronLeague says there Is nothing to settle. It is through with all negotiations with the Housesmiths Union and the members of the League are only employing mem bers of the union formed by the Em ployers Association. Until the union expresses Us willingness to sign the plan of arbitration the iron league will have nothing to do with H. As the union is on record as opposed to the signing of the plan it is expected a strike will be ordered now on all the contracts held by members of the iron league out of town in retaltatun. Men, it is expected, will be called out in Bos ton, Baltimore Philadelphia, New Or leans and Newark. The order would affect f00 iron workers and probably 5000 men In the building trades of these cities who are dependent upon the work of the iron workers will be forced into idleness. GEN. MILES IN SEATTLE. : Seattle, Oct. 28. General Kelson A Miles came to Seattle last night from California where he has been looking after property interests. He will leave today for his home In Washington, D C. General Miles denied recent stories that he had made heavy investments in oil fields and Intended to make that state' hla home. He declared be had no Intereats in Texas. . Dynamite Found In Seattle Depot Twelve Sticks of Explosive Dis covered in the Toilet of Interurban Station. ENORMOUS TRANSFERS. New Tork, Oct. 28. The total trans fers to St. Louis at the sub-treasury today were 22,100,000, making grand total to St. Louis, Chicago and New Orleans of 82,950,000. Thlc breaks all previous records of a single day's transfer from this city. TRYING TO PATCH UP.' New Tork, Oct. 28. President Bu- Scattle, Oct. 28. Twelve sticks of dynamite In two packages, with split fuses attached ready to light, were found concealed n the toilet of the ih terurban depot this afternoon. There was enough of the explosive to have blown up all the buildings within a radius of two blocks and damage prop erty a distance of several blocks from the depot. One package containing six sticks, had been placed behind a washstand bowl. The second package, containing the same amount, wa secreted behind the toilet bowl. The discovery was made by a laborer named Wilson. ' His eye fell on the package beside the washstand and the fact that it was concealed struck him as peculiar. He pulled it out and dis covered it was dynamite. Detectives are searching for the dyna miters, but with slight hopes of appre hending the criminals. Several arrests have been made during the last few weeks, but the suspects usually told a plausible tale and were released. DETECTIVE TOOK AWAY HER PISTOL Second Mrs. McBride Aain At tempts to Take the Life of Portland's Juvenile , Bigamist Tries to Shoot Him in Chief Hunt's Office, But is Disarmed by Weiner. SAYS SHE TRIED IT BEFORE She Explains to the Police How McBride' Throat Came to Be Slashed Last Sunday, Portland.Oct. 28. The woman known as Mrs. McBride No. 2 attempted to shoot Frank. McBride- In, the office of . Chief of Police Hunt this afternoon,. l')t the prompt action of Detect! veWet ner in disarming her prevented a trag edy. The couple left the station later apparently reconciled, but the police fear a tragedy may yet occur. The second Mrs. McBride states that her mother Is related to Mrs. McKlnley, wife Of the late president, but offers no proof to support her claim. She con-, f ersed to the police that she attempted to kill McBride Sunday night, when the ' man's throat waa slashed. ' MoBride returned to the apartments of the woman known as wife No. 1 to night. He would vouchsafe no Infor mation regarding the alleged reconclll- atlon effected with wife No, 2 at the office of tlje chief of police this after noon.' District Attorney Manning ex pressed the hope that the marital diffi culties of the- trio may be patched up in some manner without the necessity of invoking the law. .. . . s SCHOONER GOES ON ROCKS Wempe Brothers Tolally Wreck. ed on Vancouver Island. Seattle. Oct.28. The schoonerWemps Brothers, of San Francisco, went on the rocks off Bonllla Point, Vancouver Is land, in a dense fog thla morning and is reported to be a complete loss. The schooner waa bound, in ballast, for Ballard. The crew was picked up up by che tujg Wanderer, and taken to Neah Bay. The Wempe Brothers was about four years old and owned byWU liam Olson, of San Francisco. The craft was worth about 250,000. Experience is .the best teacher in the world, but sometimes her rates of tuition are pretty high. If you want anything good go to Dunbar' All That is DAINTY, STYLISH AND SERVICEABLE In new Ftll Goods we are k now showing in " NBOKWEAE, TRIMMINGS, GLOVES, DRY GOODS, VEILS, MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. DOMESTIC LINENS, SEPARATE WAISTINGS, FALL KNIT UNDERWEAR. the A0 Dunbar ( The Cheapest Place in Astoria for Fine Goods