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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1904)
PAGE TIIREK. 3aa IT , 1:8 MANUFACTURED AT HOMi ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1901. As i business proposition, it pays to trade at home, conditions being equal as to - the value offered, but when you can get i better article at home on as good terms there is an added reason for patronizing the home institution. Do You Drink Beer? If you do, then why not drink the best? Beer is not a necessity, but a luxury, and if you must have a luxury of that kind, then get an article that is absolutely pure, and which is made at home by i THe NortH Pacific Brewing Company. Phone 21. , I t - J V. ft. f These , arc all you need With a Rock Iilind Svitem time table and one of our folders, "Across the Continent in a Tourist Sleeper," you can easily figure out your route to any point in the East. The Rock Island has its own lines from Denver, St. Paul and Minneapolis to Omaha, Kantas City, Chicago, Memphis and 1,200 other towns and cities in the Middle West. It ! a good railroad and its trains are as com-' fortable as money can make them. Write or call and I will take pleasure in giving you full information." ' " ' 4 i. . COMMAS, ClMfl B4, 40 TfcW sftPMti PtrilMsl, NOTABLE MAN PASSES AWAY "Citizen" Train, Financier, Re former Traveler and Author, Dies at Hotel. LIFE READS LIKE ROMANCE Serve Kciiteiicen In Many Jail Though Never Oullty of Crime-Great Lover of Children. New York, Jun. U. George Francis Train, who died tale lust night at Mills I Art si No. 1 In Weaker street, u probably one of ihe most picturesque figure In the history of America. Only a few yews ngo, when he was then 74 years old, he dictated the reminiscence of hl extraordinary career and the re ult was published In book form. Sum- COLUMBIA THEATRE I Opens in Old Liberty Hall, Corner Seventh and Horn! St reots Honday Evening. January nth. f ilgh Class Vaudeville TiJUEE HOURS CF HM JUrt OX Hart Comedy Sketch Artists Hildebrand World's Chompion Hand Balancer and Equilibrist. SIMS Celebrated Tramp Cartoonist Hays 01 Winchcl Novell v Sketch Artists and Ihg'Time I'iaiio Players. ADMISSION 10, 20 and 30 CENTS. Rand Concert 7:30. Performance liegins 8:15 Every Evening, USTRALIAH GOAL Best for iSteam Best for Ranges Best for Heaters The most economical and satisfactory Fuel for any purpose. Any Quantity at Any Time on short notice. Free Delivery in the City. ELMORE & GO. Phone 1961. 9th and Commercial Streets. jmurlaed In hi. own rurloua fashion. thl contained the following Informa tion about his career: "Shipping clerk, 1; manager, 18; partner In Train A Co., 10 with Income of f 10.400. Established firm Qeorge Krancls Train 4 Co., Melbourne, Aus tralia, MS, agent White Star Line, Income 190,000. Started 40 clippers to Clalfornla In 1849. Built railroad con necting Erie with Ohio and Mlaslsslp- pl. Pioneered the ft rut street railway In Europe. America, Australia and Eng land. Built first Pacific railway. 18(2 , through Credit M.iblller. owner 5000 tots In Omaha, worth IS, 000.000. Been in U Jails without a crime." Mr. Train's parents, with several brothers and sisters, died at New Or leans from yellow fever, and his child hood home was on his grandmother's farm In Massrchusetts. Not long af ter enuring the Boston shipping house founded by his cousin, he went abroad and from that time on, wandered all over the globe. In 1S73 he began a career as lecturer and atrltator, and held public debates with some of the ablest orators in the country. A few years ago he made a trip around the world In 86 days, saying afterward that hla psychic force en abled hin, to overcome all obHtiiele. vVhon Mills Hotel No- 1 was opened several years ago, Mr. Train went there to live and since then made it his headquarters. One of the features of hl eventful life was his admira tion for children, and for years a fa miliar spectacle In Madison Square was "Cltlsen" Train on a bench sur rounded by a group of little ones. Mr. Train's last misadventure oc curred last summer, when he was quarantined at 8tamford, Conn., in a smallpox Isolation camp and threat ened that city with a suit for $50,000 damages. He was the author of at least 40 books and frequently asserted that his "psychic power" eventually would make him the most potent sov ereign of the earth. the hours are reduced the expenses of the business are added to by 15 per cent. There Is a movement In cong ress to frame an eight hour day which is a dangerous one. We are opposing It because It Is unwise and we are pe titioning our members to have their w nators oppose the bill. We are also antagonizing the anti-injunction bill. "We stand for the open office, al though we agree the union men are the best workmen we can secure." To Enforce 10-Hour Law. New York. Jan. 1. Preparations are being made by MOO union bakers employed here to enforce the 10 hour labor law recently declared constitu tional by the appellate court. Seven shops already have been tied up In Harlem by a strike called because the employers refused to change the hours and the unionists declare there will be no halt In the movement If the law is not obeyed. Inheritance Tax Paid th. State. Trenton, N. J., Jan. 19. Repres entatives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New Tork have paid to the state treasurer 27.33I collateral In heritance tax due the state from the bequest made the museum by Jacob 8. Rogers, the Paterson millionaire. The tax represents five per cent with In terest on nearly $5,000,000. Military Force Being Reduced. " Tellurlde, Colo., Jan. The mil itary fore her. Is to be still further reduced and 73 men will be sent to their homes today, Everything baa been very quiet here since the arrival of the troops, and Major Hill has gradually reduced the force until now little over 100 men remain In the county. Six more- men arrested yesterday wilt be deported today. , JUST AS A FIRE spreads In dry grass and weeds, so does an Inflammation of the throat the re sult of a cold grow down Into the sensitive air-passages of the lungs, The cold, lll.e the fire, should be promtly dealt with. When you begin to cough', use Allen's Lung Balsam. It will cer tainly heal the sore throat and lungs and It may save you from consumption. THEATER MEN UP IN ARAS Managers of Iroquois Will Fight Disclosure of Identy by Coroner's Jury. SUITS REACH THE MILLIONS Financial Interests Back Resi dent Managers la Stand Taken to Oppose the Action. " Chicago, Jan. 19. The Tribune to day says; . , ". , In anticipation of a flood of death claims and ( personal Injury suits that may aggregate $8,000,000. th. financial Interests behind the Iroquois Theater Company have commenced a fight to prevent the coroner's Jury from dis closing their Identity. Harry J. Powers and Will J. Davis, "resident managers," of th. company, wllf probably be heard today, and their appearance on the witness stand will bring final determination of th. rights of the coroner. Under Instructions from Attorney W. J. Rnes, the man agers will 'refuse to answer questions touching: on the financial backing of the play Vouse. "All witnesses will be required to answer such questions as may tend to help the jury In Axing th. criminal responsibility for these deaths." said Coroner Traeger. "If such questions also tend tolay foundations for civil actions, thet cannot be helped." Y0UNQ GIRL ENDS LIFE BY THE PISTOL ROUTE Butte, Jan. 19. In a fit of an ger because she had been taken out of a dance hall and to her home by an officer, Agnes Holland, aged K, shot and almost Instantly killed herself at the home of her sister, Mrs. Mamie Reiroer, 50$ North Wyoming street, about 10 o'clock Saturday night. The bullet, a 3$-calibre ball, entered the light side of the head and the girl fell to the floor dying. Before a physician could arrive she was dead. Miss Holland had caused her parents anxiety for several years. , She could hardly be Induced to submit to the least restraint, and had been sent twice to the Catholic home at Helena. But she could not be kept at th. bom.. With Hanna Crotty and a girl named Rodgers she broke out of the institution on the Monday night be fore Christmas and came to Butte, liv ing while there with her married sis ter, Mrs. Relmer, where here father also resides. Her mother has been living in Seattle for Some time. The girl was much given to being out late and associating" with compan ions said not to bear the best of repu tation. Saturday night the father saw Undersheriff McCarvey and asked him to find the girl and bring- her home. The officer found her at Rensbaw hall and persuaded her to accompany him to the borne of her sister. On reaching the bouse Miss Holland went directly to a bedroom and a mo ment later a shot was heard. Rush ing to the room the girl had entered but a moment before, the father and officer found her on the floor. !y dying. Miss Holland expired with out ottering a word. , Coroner Egan arrived on the seen shortly afterward and the body was sent to Dunnlgan's undertaking rooms. Coroner Egan will hold an Inquest over the remains at Duggan's under taking rooms at 7 o'clock tonight The mother of the rtrl has been nn. tlfied of the tatter's death and Is ex pected to reach th. city from Rrti today. If she arrives the funri .m be held tomorrow. 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