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nn : .... Y AND ASTORIA DAI L.Y N EWS. I A($TORIAN NO. 72. VOL. LVI1. ASTORIA, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1903. NEWS VOL. XIV. NO. 314 1 i THE BELT rscay m 1 i ' . ': 1 ill! ; ConrifMlMlkrlUrtttttfaaSllaB P. A HOTEL PORTLAND The Finest Hotel PORTLAND. ARE YOU PERPLEXED? Some one to remember and what shall I give? Let us help yon.- Our clerks are all experienced in Xmas trade and will willingly give you every attention and while our Xmas stock is rapidly diminishing we are carrying the largest in this part of the state. We shall be able to supply something appropriate until Santa arrives. J. 3 Up to the i m in mm t -, i e . hall sell at 20 per ceut. reduction from reg ular price th following good: Benedicts Quadruple Silver Plated Knives Forks and Spoons, Berry Spoons, Fruit Spoons, Sugar Spoons, Butter Knives, etc. Also Silver Plated Table Ware for Children, Such as Knives, ForKs, Spoons and Mugs. FOARD STOKES COMP'NY OVERCOAT Quite -the ' most dis tinguished looking of the many good over coats we are showing is this 4 Hart, Schaffner , & Marx "belt overcoat.". The 1 belt is the back only doesn't go all the way 'round. The coat, however, is an "all-round" sty le garment ; has all the characteristics of the Hart, Schaffner & Marx product style fine tailoring, best quality. .STOKES in the Northwest OREGON. GRIFFIN You Need a Bath AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK Tnu might as well baths In the river as In an old wooden tub, but there Is no occasion for doing either so long as up-to-date bath tubs can be had reasonably. Talk with us about the matter. W.J.SCULLEY 470-472 Commercial. Phone Black 2243 Holidays PNEUMONIA ' KILLS MANY Forty-seven Per Cent of Week's Deaths at Chicago Due f to This Disease. ? r VARIABLE WEATHER BLAMED i ; Hospitals Arc Overcrowded and Ser . ious Problem Confronts ' the' '.' ...... Health Authorities 139 j Deaths in Seven ,Days.. t 't. Chicago .Dec. 28. With Pneumonia establishing a new death record in Chicago and the county hospital so crowded that the patients are sleeps ing on mattresses on the floor and less serious cases being turned away, a serious problem confronts the Chica go health authorities. The many varieties ot weather .from which the city has suffered during the last week Is blamed not only for the pneumonia deaths, but for the crowd ing of the hospital In another way.. Within the last few days an unusual number of persons, Injured by falls on Icy sidewalks, have been taken to the county Institution, and, though a new emergency waid has been open ed, all cannot be m.-ed for properly. Last week's alarming Increase from pneumonia is made" the subject of the latest health bulletin. j During the seven days ending Sat urday, pneumonia claimed 139 victims in Chicago, or 27 percent of the total mortality. , WILL APPEAL TO LABOR UNIONS. New York Union Protests Against Deportation of Anarchist. New York, Dec. 28. A resolution has been adopted by the Central Fed erated Union to call a mass meeting for tlie purpose of protesting against the deportation of Uohn Turner, an English anarchist, who is now heid at ir,llls island. All labor unions In the country are to be nppcaled to for support in the matter and will be asked to aid In an effort to secure the repeal of the law under which Turner is being held by the Immigration officials. Delegates who addresed the meeting declared that the law, in Its present form, had the opposite effect of that desired. I TENEMENT DWELLERS WILL BE SENT SOUTH. New York Residents Will Operate Chain of .Cotton Mills in North Carolina Durin the Year. New York, Dec. 28. A plan to oper ate a chain of cotton mills in North Carolina by tenement dwellers of this city, taken there and trained, Is being evolved by men here interested In the cotton business. ' Work on the ilrst mill at Marshall, near Biltmore estate, is to begin In a week or two, and the mill of 15,000 spindles Is expected to be ready early In July.- It Is planned to establish on the nearby hills a model village of five room cottages, which may be purchased at the rate of $1 a month. A company store,togther with schools and church es, will be established. STRANGE DEATH OF A GHOUL. Many Who Stole Negro Bodies Found Dead in Philadelphia. Philadelphia,- Dec. 28. Pursued by a fear for 21 years that death .awaited him at the hands of a negro, Frank McNamee, who was at the head of a syndicate that stole more than 60 ne gro bodies from the Lebanon ceme tery in this city, has been found un conscious at Fifth and Walnut streets, with his head fractured. He died a few hours later. Owing to the fact that McAamee is supposed to have aroused the enmity of negro lot holders who lost relatives In Lebanon cemetery, the police are investigating, but thus far have found no trace of his slayer. Cotton Prices Go Soaring. New York, Dec. 28. (Special) A high record for prices was made and the greatest excitement at the opening of the cotton exchange today. The first prices we.-e at an advance of 23 to SI points. Before the call "was com pleted March sold at 14.01, May at 14.24 and July at 14.14. The advance fo lowed the surprising strength at Liver SCIENTIFIC EXHIBIT HERE. Philippine Collection Reaches San Francisco on Way to St Louis. , San Francisco, Dec. 28. Rev. Fath er Jose Algue, S. J., director of the Manila observatory, and an attache of the United States weather bureau, has just arrived Jere on the steamer Si beria on his way to St. Louis In charge of the scientific portion of the Phil ippine exhibition at the exposition. He is accompanied by Roman Trinidad, a Filipino assistant, and August Fuster, an artist. Trinidad is a mechanic of skill who has been engaged In the man ufacture of many of the instruments in use at the observatory, and brings with him 120 peal shells on which axe painted diftereut Philippine subjects, most of them connected, with the char acteristics and customs cf the various Filipino tribes, which wll be mad a part of the exhibit. Twenty Killed In the Wreck Among the Victims of the Grand Rapids Railroad Collision Was a Portland Man. Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 28. (Special) Revision of the list of per son? killed in the head-end collision of Saturday night shows the number "of dead to have been 20, instead of 33 as at first reported. .Among the victims was AV. G. Smith, a resident of Fortland, Ore. The wreck is charged to the high wind, which extinguished the red sig nal light irt the "order" board at Mc Oord's station, where the westbound train (was expected to stop and receive orders. Two minutes before the train rushed by McCord Station the light was burning, says the operator there: but in that brief interval the blizzard that was raging extinguished it, and train No. 5 flashed by -the station, to crush into eastbound train No. 6 near East Paris. The trains, which were two of tire finest on the system, were reduced to a promiscuous pile of broken and twist ed timber and metal, with dead and In jured people pinned down and crushed by the fragments of the heavy cars. Five cars and two large locomoth-es were jammed into a space ordinarily occupied by three coaches ,and, the wreckage was strewn across the rail road' right of way from fence to fence. JEWS ARE BEING ATTACKED Repetition of Kischinef Outrages Like ly to Occur Next Month. New York, Dec. 28. As a fore-runner of another anti-Semitic demon stration called for January 7 ,(The Greek church Christmas) In a recently issued anonymous circular, Indirect at tacks on the Jews have already com menced, according to a dispatch from Kischinef to the American under date of December 25. The windows of many Jewish houiies have been broken and the Inmates threntened with per sonal violence. The only safety for the Jews sterns now in flight, the cor respondent asserts, and nil are pre paring to emigrate. SERI INDIANS ON WARPATH. Cannibals Who Liv in Gulf f Cal ifornia Will Caui Trouble. Chicago, Dec. 28. A dispatch to the Tribune from Hermoslllo, Mexico, says: The Ssrl Indians, who occupy Tib uron islahd, In th gulf of California, have gone on the warpath and, accord ing to Information tecelved by the mil itary authorities here, the savages are raiding the ranches and committing depredations on the mainland. The Serls are said to tie cannibals and are known :o be the fleetest runners In the world. Consul McLean is Home. San Francisco, Dec. 28. John A. McLean, vice-consul of the United States at Yokohama, has arrived here on his way to Washington on official business. He experts to return to his duties In Japan during the latter part of March. SHEEP MEN ARE KILLED Two Arizona Owners Are Shot to Death at Brush Hollow, in the Tonto Basin. RESULT OF CONTINUED FUED Two Man are Arrested for tht Crime and On Has Mad Full Con fession Implicating Brother. . in th Murder. Globe, Ariz., Dec. 28. News has Just come to this place of the murder of two sheep men near the Glsela set tlement, 80 miles north of Globe. The victims are a young man numed Berry and a Mexican. The crime occurred at Brush Hollow, In the Tonto Basin, the scene of the famous Graham- Tewksbury feud betwen sheepmen and cattlemen. ' . On December 22, while camped near Glsela settlement, two men rode to Berry's camp and shot Berry and his companion, a young Mexican. The Mexican's father arrived at the camp a few minutes later and found both men shot through the body, A de scription of one of the horsemen seen near the camp, as furnished by the old Mexican, tallied with the appear ance of Zack Booth, and two deputy sheriffs arrested Zack and John Booth at their home near Glsela. The prison ers were taken to Payson, and 'It is said here that Zack Booth confessed that he did the shooting, and impli cated his brother John 1 ' The killing of young Barry and the Mexican Is an addition to the long list of victims of the feud between cattle men and the sheep men, which has been" carried on in the basin dis trict for many years. A year ago TSugene Packard, a popular cattleman, was killed in the Tonto basin by, a Mexican sheep herder and ever since then the feeling against sheepmen has been exceedingly bitter. Tariff Reduction Not Favored. New York, Dec. 28. There is much discussion of the government's protect to grant a reduction of 40 per cent in tariff duties on products of all coun tries which, may admit Brazilian coffee free, says a Herald dispatch from Rio WAIT FOR OUR .Annual Sale! 17 and Notion Coming' January 2, 1904. The A. Dunbar Co. i Janeiro. Most of the papers attack the project, saying it is for the bene fit Of the United States, which wishes to obtain facilities for Its own produc tions. It Ms argued that the new lav will promote the production of coffee, but wll bring ruin to all other indos- RUSSIANS ARE-ALARMED. Taking Keen Interest in China's War like Preparations. New York. Deo. 28. The Russlas governmment is noting with the closest attention ai' J keenest interest tk quite uncommon energy now being shown by the Chinese In making war like preparations under the guidance of a largo number' of Japanese instruo-. tors, cables the Herald St.- Peters burg correspondent. ... This has grown so cerious as to come Into the first line of Russia's calcu lations, broadening out the situation on quite new lines. ' , Such a complication would bring into i lace the France-Russian and Angio Japanese treaties Two Battleships Sold. New York, Dac. 28. It Is announced here, says a Herald dispatch from Buenos Ayres ,hat the Aregntine men of war Moreno and RIvadavia, built at the Ansaldos yards in Italy, haw been recently sold by the mediation of the English firm of Anthony Glbbs 4 Co., for $7,500,00), but the government does not say which nation is the real purchaser. r Circuit Will Not Be Altered. Chicago, Dec. 28. The annual meet ing W the American Baseball Asso ciation began here today. The club owners are uncommunicative In re gard of their choice for a new pres ident, who is to be elected at this meet Ing.. Their circuit will remain th same as last year, with clubs at Mil waukee, Indianapolis, Columbus, Louis vllle, Kansas City, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Toledo. ,!'.: Army Supplies to Frisco. San Francisoer, Dec. 28. Nearly train load of army supplies, hospital tents and blankets have arrived her under rush orders, having been ex pressed by the government from Omaha to the superintendent of the transportation service in this slty. The consignment had been carried or the fastest train through the west and was Immediately dispatched to Ban Francisco . i Clearance (IB00OS