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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1904)
THE MORNING ASTORIAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1904. PAGE SEVEN. First National Bank of Astoria ESTABLISHED 1886 Capital and Surplus $100,000 ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK V Capital lu 1100,000. . 8orpiu iod Uotllvided rfiU $25,000 1 Transaoui t gDrai banking business. Interest piitJ eo lima debits. , i J. 0, A. B0WI.BY. 0. L PETEltKON, FRANK I'ATTON, J. W. GARNEli, rreyoi , Vion President Cashier. . Asst. Quitter : Trt ,ca' R,1( ',ftPPn, r enly as a duty aJ V i J .?,V": If the former, try eating Svt YOU .WK POINT OYSTER HOUSE m Every Delicacy in Season. JOfti Private liooms. 112 Eleventh Street Famous Trains Tho Southwest Limited Kansas City to Chicago, The Overland Limited to Chicago' '7 " via Omaha, The Pioneer Limited St, Paul 4 to Chscugo, run via , Chicaeo. Milwaukee & St. Paul f;EEL ALARM ABOUT CHINA Tension Between Celestial Em- pirt and Russia Subject for Comment. Railway Each routo offers numerous attractions. The principal tiling to insure a quick, comfortable trip cast is to seo that your tickets read via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. It. S. ROwe, GtiMfti Ajtnt 134 Third Street, Portland ASK THE AGENT FOR TICKETS VIA To Spokane, 8t. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago, 8t Louli, and all pointa east and south. 2 OVERLAND TRAINS DAILY Q The Flyer and Hie Fast Mall L 8PLENDID' SERVICE UP TO DATE EQUIPMENT COURTEOUS EMPLOYES D ELIGHTKUL ROUTE A V LI GUT RIDE IZZY CRAGS EEP CANONS A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY 8e nature In all ha glorious beauty, and then the acme of man'a handi work. The first la found along- the line of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, the latter at the St Louis World's Fair. Tour trip will be one of pleas ure maka the most of It For Infor mation and Illustrated literature write W. C McBRIDVGen. A. Portland, Or. Daylight trip aeross the Catoade and Rooky Mountains. For tickets, rates folders -and full In formation call on or address - H. DICKSON, City Ticket Agent. 122 Third Street, Portland. Or. S. Q. Y.ERKES, 0. W. P. A., " 812 First Avenue Seattle, Wash. NORTHERN PACIFIC Time Card ol Trains Leaves Arrives uget Bound Limited. 7;8 am 1:4 P Kansas Clty-St Louts Special .; ....11; 10 am 1:48 pn JNorth Coast Limited l:M o m T:00 a a Tacoma and Seattle Night " ' Express ......11:46 pra 1:06 n Take Puget Sound Limited or North Coast Limited for Gray's Harbor points Take Puget Sound Limited for Olym pla' direct ; ' Take Puget Sound Limited or Kan as City-St Louis Special for point n South Bend branch. ; N ' Double dally train service on Gray's Harbor branch. v',:v.- : "'; ' Four trains dally between Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. SSEJ " As the , Crow Flies" e The shortest line between Minneapolis, St. Paul and Chicago is ' the route of the famous North western Limited "The Train For Comfort" every night " in ' the vyear. v lVftr niai ting on a trip no matter where-wrlto for Intonating lnforma tlou about comfortable traveling. H.LSISLCR, Central Ajent 132 Third St .Portland, Oregon. T, W. TfUSDAlE, Oenoral Passenger Agent, ' , ' ' Bt faul, Mlun. 3J X INTERVENTION 1$ POSSIBLE European Government Adopts Measure to Stand Off the J Breaking Out of llostll-. 1 ties From Pek In. New York, March 24.--A communi cation from a .well known diplomatist in Paris Is published by the aeml- oirlclal Post', says a Berlin dispatch to the Herald, In which It Is assorted that u most pcsslmUtUs view ' Is taken at Pari of the tt-nsion which Is declared to have undoubtedly set In between KUJwIa and China. All fears regard nir the attitude of China toward the war seem, the statement continues, to, tx approaching a realization. Disputes have been received from Pckln stating that the Qhlnese govern ment, denies any intention" of abadonlng Its attitude of neutrality,, but everything, the diplomat avers goes to show that it Is really only waiting for a favorable opportunity to precipitate the, hostilities, The Bus nlan government has received similar reports from Its' mlnlnter In Pekln and Is taking measures In consequence. In the last day or two an exchange of views of an exhaustive . character Is. said to have taken plate between the French and Russian government as to China's intervention In the war but no decision has yet ben reached as to the lines of action to be adopted by France In this eventuality. The answer of the Chinese government to the threatening dispatches sent In by Russia Is atfalted with anxiety. AFTER THE PUBLISHERS. Author Brings Suit, Alleging Mutila tion ef Hie Work.' Denver, CoL, March 24. Walter Juan Davis, a well known writer for newspapers and tnagasines, filed suit In the district court of this county to day against Harper & Bros. Publish ing Company of New York, asking 110.000 damages for alleged mutilation of his story. "A Spendthrift." which was published In Harper's Weekly of January 20, this year. The story as published was reduced to about one half of Its original length and In the editing, tho plaintiff claims, hi work has been denuded of Us literary feat ures and ' otherwise badly mutilated. Owing to the wide circulation of the weekly. Mr. Davis says he considers that his literary reputation has been permanently damaged. The complaint contains over 18,000 words and In cludes copies of the story in Its orig inal form and as published. It Is said the contention raised in the suit has jiever been pat.sed upon by the courts. The attornesi for the plaintiff ar Judge K. T. Wells and John H. Chiles. NOTED THIEF RETURNING. Germany Gives Up Msn Wsntsd By 8sn Franoisoo Courts. San Francisco, March 24. Edwin F. Masterson. who Is accused of embes sling over $100,000 from the Continent al Building and Loan Association, of Economy Brand Evaporated Groan always bears tho above cap label, ft means the same as telling you that we i backup its purity with a , $5,000 guarantee. Made by the largest pro- j ducers of Evaporated Cream In the vorld. this city,' and who inade his escape '(n Germany, ..will arrive In IjOS , Angers within two weelui a prison. IIr will then 'have to face a trial on numerous charges of forgery and mb-txlernrt, ? The 'first Intimation that Masterson would be brought back from Europe fer trial was given this morning when Sheriff White, of Los Angeles, received on his arrival at the Palace hotel a dispatch announcing that the fugitive had. been given up by the German government and he would' arrive at New York on a. German steamer on March 27. The sheriff was thus no tided In order that he might be wait ing on. the dock to take Masterson In custody on his return to American soli. "I went to Berlin for him last July," said Sheriff White. "The German gov ernment, however, declined to give him up at once, and held him pending a trial or an examination. In due time the prisoner was relinquished and sent back to the United States. 1 had to return alone, however, and now It Is necessary to go to New York after him. I expect to leave at once." In conjunction with two other men In Los Angeliis, Masterson Is alleged to have swindled the San Francisco concern out of large sums ol money by a systematic fraud. The business was conducted by men named Taylor and Christie and Masterson, under the name Of Taylor & Co, They acted as Los Angeles representatives, or as a kind of agents, for the Continental Building and Loan AssocUtlonof thls lty. By forging checks and making false returns of the value of lands bought when securing loans from the company they managed, It Is alleged, to defraud the company out of sums agregatlng about 1102,000. When the discovery was mad? Ma terson escaped to Germany, where he was found In a town In the northern lart of the country. His associates In J,os Angeles wer arrested, and they ore now out on ball of $1,000 each pending trial and the return of ihe fugitive. The trials will tajtei place In the southern city where the crimes are said to have been committed. The company will not lose $102,000, however, ax the only losses to tho cor poration will be those represented by the margins between the amount of money loaned nnd the value of the property, as the loans are all secured. The sheriff remarked that owing to the enormous tlse In the values of real estate In Los Angeles since these deals were made, the losses will be reduced to a minimum. MOST VALUABLE ORIGINAL". : GREEK STATUE IN AMERICA The "Meleager" in the Fogg Museum of Harvard University One of the Best f Examples of GreeK Art Extant. t Cambridge, Mass., March 24. There are In this country several notable col lections of interesting objects, large and small, from the classic lands, such as the Ccsnola collection of antiqui ties from Cyprus now In the Metropol itan museum of art, New York, the recently acquired and Immensely val uable Bartlett collection In the Boston Museum of fine arts, and the figurines from Greek Islands in the Chicago art institute. The number of large-sUed authentic , statues Is, nevertheless, small, and most of these would not be accorded ' high rank in any great Eu ropean gallery, Undoubtedly the most! notable single Greek original in the United slates is the statue of Melea ger, of rather more than life size, de posited not long ago In the Fogg mu seum of art of Harvard university. It is by far and away the most famous among perhaps half a dozen pieces of .-:; , ' - - v -s - " MORE RIOTS. Disturbances of strikers are not nearly aa grave aa an Individual disor der of the system. Overwork, loss of sleep, nervous tension will be followed by utter collapse, unless a reliable rem edy is Immediately emp'oytd. There's nothing so efficient to cure disorders of the Llvor and Kidneys as Electric Bitters. It's a wonderful tonic, and effective nervine and the greatest all around medicine for run down systems. It dispels Nervousness, . Rheumatism and Neuralgia and expels Malaria germs. Only 60c, and satisfaction guar anteed by Chaa. Rogers, druggist Dining With Barnum. The late P. T. Barnum was known as an Ideal host, and, next to his in terest In the "greatest show on earth," enjoyed nothing better than entertain ing his friends at his house and table. Among those who visited him most frequently at "Llndencroft" or "Valde mere," and who gave the name to the last residence, was Joel Benton, who sometimes calls himself "author of prose and worse." It Is a peculiarity of this author that with one slight exception, he eata neither butter nor milk, and none of the ordinary meats, not for any hy gienic or philosophical reason, but simply because they are distinctly, un palatable to him. On one occasion when a young lady occupied a seat near Mr. Benton at , Mr. Barnum's table, the waiter handed the bachelor author some butter. "Oh." said Bar num to the waiter. and pointing to the lady, "you shouldn't do that, for he doesn't love any nut her." Mr. Barnum's table, of course, was always bountifully fupplied with a great variety of food, and yet, on an other occasion, when Mr. Benton" re fused the beef, and lamb, and the but ter, Mr. Barnum wearily said: "Well, Benton, you seem likely to starve here. What can we serve you?" "Oh," said Eenton, "I eat' everything that 'flies or swims." .. ?. ' "Very well, then," said Barnum, "we'll get you a. crow and a whale to morrow" Success. , , Granted An Escort. , " New York, March 24. The ministry of foreign affairs has refused the Rus sian military attache a passport to in spect the Chinese forces In Manchuria and Mongolia, cables the Herald's Pe kln correspondent He has, however, been furnished a Chinese escort to ac company him on the same Inspection. Greek statuary In American museums which would be entitled to special men tion In any handbook of ancient art. Its money value? That is some thing no one can tell not even to satisfy the American's natural desle to know what a thing cost, One can only state that .the Meleager Is worth whatever it would fetch and, from the point of view of the artist and art amateur, very much more. To say that its value is one hundred thousand dollars or one million dollars, means nothing. . Enough that this is in the estimation of competent art critics the most valuable piece of original stat uary in the United States; that it was found several years ago at San Marlnella, 30 miles from Rome and about 100 yards from the spot where the Meleager now in the British mu seum was dug up; that it now' stands among a large number of casts and a few other originals in the Fogs muse um In Cambridge, ' , ' ' ' .v. y?v' 7 111 ls I 1 J ' A 0 W x:. lS r" li fm:: A 4 I ( " 1 . 1 . a . r, n It is an original statue In the sense that it was made in the later period of Greek sculpture, or possibly of the Roman empire. It is,' however, one of a number of Meleagers which seem all to have been variations of the same masterpiece, generally h attributed to the sculptor Scopas; and no one can say whether this is the original Me leager or' only one of the replicas. The actual original possibly no one has, though - Prof essor Charles H. Moore, director of the Fogg museum, believes that something of a case a could be made out In favor of this" Harvard example as being of the very workmanship of Scopas or one of his school. At all events he considers its claim better than that of the famous Meleager head In the Villa Medici, Rome, which "many archaeologistshave held to be a portion of the original statue. , Scopus bore the greatest name among the sculptors of this period of the h century B. C of a time when th artists were beginning to have new methods of workmanship and new conceptions of the ancient deities. This Meleager,. attributed to him be longs therefore to one of , the best periods f Greek art and in most es sentials U stands well the test of com parison with such statues as the "Apollo and the Infant Dionysus" or the "Venus of Melos." And certainly among the many renderings of the subject this one which Harvard has acquired is among the most admira ble; although perhaps the most fa mous of all la the one in the Belvidere of the Vatican at Rome. PLENTY COAL AND Oil- Company Will Develop Crude Products In the Far North. "Coal and oil deposits 'in Alaska are the greatest in the country." said M. A. Green, of Clinton, la., who is now in Portland on bis way north after spending the winter at his home. This is his third trip to Alaska, and he is Interested in the development of that country. To the Telegram he said; . . : , Ihe deposit' of coal Is the largest I have ever seen, the veins being from 16 to 48 feet deep. The 16-fopt vein Is on top of slate and lies underneath a1 deposit of sandstone. The coal is a perfectly clean seml-anthraclte qual ity, and Is easily handled. The coal territory, as far as 1 have explored, is 15 to 18 miles long and from two to six miles wide, n ad all over this sec tion, tie coal is exposed by the action of the glacier streams cutting the mountain sides and showing the de posits In great quantities.- "The.-deposit, is only 12 miles from tidewater, the landing place being KU yak. The oil fields are vast and much development work Is being done. I understand that the English company which has been busy drilling wells, has Just ordered 2 carloads of casing, and when this is delivered, with what it alreay has, there will be casing enoueh to drive 60,000 feet of wells, or over 11 miles in Uneirf feet of drilling. 'The company Is determined to se cure the oil, as it haa already been proven that it exists.", Mr. Green will leave tomorrow for Kayack, where he will spend the sum mer. " ' NO CHARGES FIXED. ... 1 I W ... . A H v. n. oancreii nas unxie j o say Re garding Railroad Shakeup. Omaha. Nefc, March 24. W. H. Bancroft, general manager of the Un ion Pacific, returned to Omaha today from the west He admitted that a number of important changes were to be made in the Harrlman lines, but declared none has been consummated aud nothing of importance would be done until Krutschnitt reached Chicago.- . ' . - "The report that I am to have charge of the lines from Omaha to San Fran cisco is absolutely without founda tion," said Mr. Bancroft Regarding the transfer of A. L. Mohler to Omaha In the capacity of vice-president, I know nothlne. ' . . "While I shall continue to have my legal home in Salt Lake, most of my time will be spent in Omaha and in travel.: I shall have my office at local headquarters, no removal of which has. been contemplated." - That Boundary Dispute. New York, March 24. Dr. Osma, the Peruvian minister, has left for Buenos Ayres, says a Herald dispatch from La Pas. Bolivia He goes at the re quest of the president of Argentine to act as arbitrator in the boundary dis pute between Peru and Bolivia. Last Survivor Dead. Baltimore, March 2 L George R. Yewell, one of the last survivors of the Grgely relief expedition, is deadfrom consumption. . , ' v