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HETTON COAL
The finest Product of Australian
mines for domestic use.
The best house coal ever
brought to Astoria
400 TONS JUST ARRIVED
Will be sold at same old
price while it lasts.
Free Delivery in tKe City.
ELMORE & CO
Phone 1961 9th and Commercial Streets.
NEIGHBORS ,
SEARCHING
Starved or to Have Been
Killed in the Woods.
G0IN
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FOUL PLAY NOT SUSPECTED
l. TRAVEL IS GENUINE. PLEASURE ON
Baltli4iore & Ohio R. R.
ROYAL JpMS"
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Finest and Fastest series of trains in the world. Palatial Coach
fes, Pullman Buffet Tarter and Drawing Boom Cars. ;
The Flriest Dining Car Service In the World.
' T ; Is operated by the Baltimore & Ohio Bailroad. ;
B. I1MUSTIN, General Pass. Ait- - CblcaSo, ill,
Young: Men Had No Knemlea, Ho
It in Thought Tlirlr AbMence
Can Only Ho Accounted
for By Accident.
little Oilow returned horn Wednesday
nlKht at 10. 30 after being abwnt nce
Tuti&r', hi vu welUnlch nahuHtcd.
He told hie partnu and the neighbor
an apparently atralghtforward . atorjr
ua to how he htut bn kidnaped about
S o'clock TuMday afternoon nrar
Two Brothm Believed to Hm,' ;. """V ."1
but the boy repeated It m thoroughly
In detail that frleruja and txtreritft were
convlnred. No motive for the kidnap
ing, however, could .be.aacrlbed by
anyone.
Yesterday morning one of the city
detectives vlotted the Deck home, and
Prank tuek to hla atory. Later In the
Any hi father again took him In hand
and then the boy told the truth, ad
mitting that he waa not kidnaped at
all, ' .
"lie biM he Jumped In the wagon to
get a ride home'.aald Mr. Keck, yea-
ttrday. . "The wagon drove fat, and
owing to his broken arm he said 'he
could not get out until the tldeflats
were reached, when the wagon slowed
down, and then II was too muddy. He
rode to a point beyond the reservation.
where the wagon stopped to water the
horses, and here he got but and start
ed to walk home. He says the driver
of the wagon asked him where he was
going when he got In, and that he said
he was going home and the man let
him ride.
"'When he got out of the wagon he
walked In the wrong direction and
reached Auburn, where he spent Tues
day night in an unfinished house,
starting out again about 8 o'clock In
the morning and again going wrong
and towards Seattle until he stopped
at an Interurban station, where hi was
directed which way to go to Tacom
He was completely exhausted by his
experience, having been without food
all the time, and Is not yet able to stand
on his feet as, ft result of his long walk.
"He admitted to me today mat ne
was not kidnaped at all.; He. did not
want to tell that he was lost and took
that method of explanlng his absence.
He was so thoroughly exhausted and
famished when he got home Wednes
day night that he will not soon forget
the experience. I want the facts to
the matter stated so that other, people
who have children will not be worry
Ing for fear theirs, too. may be kid
aad.
Port Arigfels, March 22. A story of
mysterious disappearance and prob
ably violent and lonely death In the
forest reached here today when Henry
Marshall, of the Qulllayute, came to
the county seat to ask the court to
put some one In charge of the prop
erty of the two missing men. The
men were brothers, young Germans,
Mathias and Martin Ertle, M to 40
years of age who lived on a small
rented place a mile from the Qulllay
ute postofflce. Here they were feed
ing a small bunch of catle and some
sheep, while both had homesteads four
or fiv miles distant in the woods.
The two brothers were last seen
alive on the 17th or' 18th of February,
when they got their mall at the post-
,.fflr and did some little trading at a
- : f
nunr.bv store They' were In the
habit of calling regularly for thelr'mall
once a week or oftener, but no atten
tion was paid to their absence for two
or three trips. When they failed to
show un for three weeks or more,
however, Inquiry began to be made
concerning the'm In the neighborhood,
with the result that neighbors went to
their place to see what could be learn
ed. It was found that the brothers
had locked tip carefully, as was their
custom when going away for the day,
having first fed the stock, but that
they bad never been back.
A calf that had been shut In the
barn was' dead of .starvation, and a
horse dead of the same cause In the
barn lot. The cattle, which had been
allowed to run aut, were living barely,
having subslstded on such feed as
they could find in, the fofesjt. It, la
toii.vad hr thit nela-hbors that the
brothers went for a, visit to their
homesteads and that they were killed
by a falling tree or some kindred ac
cident while In the woods.
When the discovery was made on
last Tuesday & hurried WjJi of the
vicinity was made without result, and
Mrt Marshall report that the entire
neighborhood was preparing to or
ganize for a thorough search of the
woods when he left. The brothers are
said to have had no enlmles, and foul
play is not suspected. Neither did
they leave the country by any of the
known routes of travel, and the only
conclusion Is that they were either
tilled In the forest or lost their way
and died of starvation endeavoring to
get out.', .
Combination of Capital' Greatest
Burden the Country na$
to Bear.
VALUE OF CHITTEM BARK.
A CURSE TO
THE PEOPLE
IT CHOKES - INDIVIDUALITY
W. II. Trwsdale Belletes That
Itailroad Business the Chief
Industry Makes Address
to College Students.
New York. March 22. In an ad
dress before students of the College of
the City of New York, W. 11. Trues-
dale, president of the Delaware, Lack-
awana & Western railway, has des
eribed treat combinations of labor and
of capital as socialist!,' declaring that
their tendency Is to shackle, 1f not to
destroy, American ' Individuality, to
which the country owes J so irtuch.
But he deemed himself fortunate, he
said, to have lived in a period during
which irigantlc strides had been made
in tartifi problems.
After describing the developments of
the great Industries of the United
Slates greatest of which, he declared,
is the railroad business, Mr. Trues-
dale expressed "the opinion that the
gain from year to. year. Is due to the
spirit of American freedom. He does
not jx i ect - the same proportionate
mileage to be constructed hereafter as
the cost of terminal where there la
not actually a prohibiUon will Inter
fere, but the Improvements will con
tinue as rapidly as Te.,'...i;';;'''-:','''"
He said that the great combinations
of capital.' are impossible elsewhere,
and It is a question if they do not
stifle individuality. Labor organlxa
tlons may bV beneficial in a, way;
they have done good In some cases
and they have done injury in others.
When they stifle ambition, however,
they do harm. 1 Both sorts of combi
nation, he declared, are socialistic In
their tendency.
drinks, and McCIunn and Lass a!!g
that they visited the place and were,
served with four drinks of whisky. A
raid was made on the place on Febru
ary 27 by Captain Martin Short, De
tective Sergeant Grossbeck, of Inspec
tor Balwin's staff, and Officers Me
Clunn and Lass. The officers say that
two women were in the place when the
raid was made.
gince- Hum was arrested, Officers
Lass and McCIunn say that Flum haa
followed them up, offering them money
and wanted them to testify that they
never saw whlky in bis place. He
found out where Lass lived and called
there three times. V,' :
Yesterday the officers said Flum me
them in a restaurant at Bedford ave
nue and Division street Roundsman
Helwig, in plain clothes, was with the
bicycle pt! icemen, but Flum would do
nothing while the roundsman was
there, and he arranged to meet ths two
officers at Lass' home, 151 Webster
avenue, 'ParkvtJte, last night at
o'clock.
Lass Is the owner of an old-fash
ioned folding bed in the shape of a
bureau. He and McCIunn got to work
at the bed. took the . inside out and
bored holes hi the front and back. Ser-
B.,u.v v.""""-
wig concealed themselves in the bed
so that they could see and hear every
thing that was going on in-the room.
Flum, the officers allege, then of
fered to give Lass 115 to testify that
he neither drank nor saw whisky In
his place, and afterwards offered and
paid to 'McCIunn 15 to testify the
same as Lass.
McCIunn then invited Flum out to
have a drink and Loss said:
."Watt and let me show you what I ve
got here.'
Lass then opened the folding bed
and Sergeant Grossbtck and Rounds
man Helwig stcpoed out Flum waa
astonished and said;
"Let me sit down; I'm sick."
,He wa then arrested and taken ta
the Parkville police station.
i He was taken to tb Flatbush court
this morning charged by McCIunn with
briber.
Flum asked for an adjournment, end
the case was set down for next Thurs
day. He wss held in S100Q ball.
FAVORS ' PENSION BILL.
NOT KIDNAPED AT ALL.
Boy Admits He Has Bssn Fibbing Re
garding His Disappesrsnce.
Tacoma, March 21. Eleven-year-old
Frank Beelc, who returned to his
home, 809 Alnsworth avenue, after an
absence of nearly two days, and un
folded a weird tale of v having been
kidnaped off the streats of Tacoma by
bold, bad men, who bound, gagged and
threw him in the bottom of a wagon
and covered him with burlaps, hauling
him to a point near Auburn, where
they let him go late Tuesday night,
was not kidnaped at all.
The boy has confessed to his father.
Joseph Beck, that he had misled him.
The lad's explanation was that he had
jumped into a wagon for a ride hdme,
and when he discovered the wagon
was not going towards his home, had
been unable to get out, and, had been
carried over the Indian reservation
and than, after leaving the wagon, had
lost his way. He concocted the talc
of kidnaping, fearing boy-like, to ad
mit that he had been lost. When the
TAKING COLD
Then you need instant attention. You
feel chilly and have frequent sneeaing
spells. You'll ; be surprised at the
amount of good a few doses of Hostet
ter's Stomach Bitters will do vyou. Try
it today. Besides counteracting Chills.
Colds ', and La Grippe it is also un
equalled for Dyspepsia, Indigestion.
Constipation, Insomnia, Poor Appetite.
Dizziness and Malaria. Thousands are
using it with great satisfaction. Why
not try a bottle?
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH EITTERS
8p.cul.tor Busy Contracting For ths
Important Product.
Kalama, March 22. Speculators
have bten .very busy of late trying
to. contract for chlttem. or cascara
bark, from land owners. One propo
sition Is to contract for all that Is
offered at from I to 7 cents per pound
of dry bark delivered at railroad or
river points, Another proposition Is
to buy the bark on the tree at from
1-2 to 1 cent per pound. -
Chittem trees are growing scarce
and ths supply will soon be exhausted
unless some steps are taken to pre
serve it. Owners of land well stocked
with chittem trees should regard It as
valuable property and see that it is
not wasted. A chittem tree one foot
in diameter is worth as much in the
forest as a fir tree four times as large.
One pound of bark for which $ cents
is offered will make one pound of
fluid extract that sells at wholesale
for $3, and the cost of . manufacture
should not exceed 25 cents per pound.
The ruling price paid for the bark
for a number of years has been from
1-2 to 1 cent per pound, which did not
more than pay for the work of peeling
and the owner got nothing at all for
the bark, The demand for the bark Is
very great, as it is prescribed almost
dally by all regular physicians in all
countries of the civilised world, be
sides being an active ingredient in
a great many patent medicines' f The
world's supply must come from the
Pacific coast as It does not grow any
whera else. ' , ':
The bark Is not used for two years
after It is removed from the trees, as
the new bark contains a ferment that
renders ts action harsh, which Is
much modified by the curing proeejs.
On that account the bark can be safe
ly held for a higher price? it only being
necessary to keep it in a dry place.
Diffarenoes Not Settled,
San Francisco, March 22. Another
conference has Just been held here by
by committees from the Marine En
gineers' , Association and the - Steam
Schooners' Association, but as on prev
ious occoslons they failed to reach an
amicable 4'ljustm mt of their differ n fs
It Is saiid; however, that the prospect
of ending the controversary is bright
Famous Colt Dead. ,
San Francisco. March 22. The fa
mous "Worth Its weight in gold'' oolt
is d;ad t the Aptos stock farm. This
youngstsr was sired by the champion
stallion Cresceus, dam Czarina. He
was the only colt of Cresceus in Cali
fornia, so that, his premature death is
a distinct loss to the breeding Industry
of California.
Daisy in Passage Until Deserving Men
Die, Criticised by Veterans.
New York. Mreh 22. ViM ro
dent George A. Hyssey occupied the
chair at the regular meeting of the
War Veterans and Sons Association,
held last night In room 1, Borough
Rennrtlnv for the" grievance
committee, President Walter! Thorne
said that the situation at present was
unique, inasmuch as the committee
had very litUe to report. This satis
factory, situation had been brought
about by the fact that so much work
had already been done. That condition
would not have existed were It not for
what the association had done In the
past Eternal vigilance, - Be 4 pointed
out was the price of liberty.
One comrade had complained that
be had been badly treated In the navy
yard, but It was understood that the
matter was about to be satisfactorily
adjusted so that action on the part of
the association was not necessary.
Speaking of the service pension bill,
providing for the retention of veterans
In the federal service, now before con
gress, he said there had been opposi
tion to it, and there was some fear it
might be shelved. It was now in committee.-
; . "
The chairman asked if Mr. Thorne
was aware' that there was not a news
paper In Greater New York In favor
of the bill, and this precipitated a gen
eral discussion. Comrade Dr. Burdtek
said that he had seen a statement
published to the effect that it had been
suggesced that the passage of the bill
be delayed, as 60,000 of the old veter
ans would die off this year, 75,800 the
next and 100,000 in the twelve months
three years from now, '
Comrade Joseph W.. Kay criticised
the newspapers for attacking men who
were already over the hill of life and
on the decline. Congress would never
act In the matter, he said, until alarm
was thrown into one of the political
parties. . ..
HIDE IN FOLDING BED.
Detectives Obtain Evidence in Rather
Unique Manner.
New York, March 22. Bicycle Po
licemen John C Lass and Dennis Mc
CIunn, of the FarkvilHi station, ar
ranged a unique plan last night In or
der to get evidence in a bribery case.
The two officers are the complainants
in a case now pending In the) Lee ave
nue court against Samuel Flum, 25
years old, of Keap and Ainslee streets,
who is charged with violating the ex
cise law and keeping a disorderly
house. Flum, the police say, kept a
poolroom, where he sold cider and soft
HOUSE EARLY ADJOURNS.
Congressmen Respect Memory of Ala
bama's Late R.praiantativ ,
Washington. March IL Consldera-
in session an hour and 20 minutes to
day, the house adjourned, out of re
spect to the memory of the late rep
resentative Charles Wi Thompson, of
Alabama, who died yesterday fa. this
city. Soon after convening. Mr. Hep
burn offered a resolution reciting cer
tain statements by Baker, of New-
York, contained in the Congressional
Record of last Friday, reflecting on
the Integrity and honor, of Babcock, of
Wisconsin, and providing that they be
expunged from the record Hepburn
explained that Baker bad not delivered
them on the floor of the house, but had
Inserted them in the Record under
leave to print The resolution was
adopted after the democrats had forced
a roll call.
WOMAN'8 SYMPATHY.
is Proverbial. Astoria Women No Ex
ception. How much we owe to the sympa
thetic side of womankind. When oth
ers suiter they cheerfully lend a help
ing hand. They tell you the means
which brought relief to them that you
may profit by their experience. Read
the testimony given here by an As
toria woman. .;. ;'' :
Mrs. Close, wife of John Close, en
gineer at Lindenberger's cold storage
house, foot of Eighth street residing
at 230 Commercial street, says: "Abomt
a year ago we moved here from Port
land and as I had a great deal to look
after I overdid myself and the result
was I brought on kidney trouble. My
back, began to ache and as time rolled
by it kept getting worse Instead of
better. It finally grew so bad' that I
could scarcely stoop or straighten af
ter stooping. When I did any work re
quiring bending I could hardly get up
and I had headaches, dizzy spells and
at times everything before' me looked
blurred. I was Just about to start
to the store for a plaster to put on my
back when I read about Doan's Kidney
pills, and as they were so highly rec
ommended for kidney trouble I made
up my mind to try them and procured
a box at Charles Rogers' drug store
on Commercial street They went
right to the root of the disease and
helped mi from the start and before
I had( finished the box I was cured.
Everything is changed with me now
and I have no symptoms of kidney
trouble whatever." ; -
For sale by all dealers; price 50
cents. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N.
Y., sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name Doan's and
take no substitute.