THE MORNING A8TORIAN, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1901.
PAGE SEVEN.
first National Bank of Astoria
ESTABLISHED 1886
Capital and Surplus $100,000
.STORIA SAVINGS BANK
Capital l'ald Id 1100,000. Surplue and Undivided I'roflti $26,000
Transacts genoral banking buiiuwi. Interest pnld en time depoaita.
J. H A. BOWLBY. 0. X. TETEKSON, FKANK PATTON, J. W. GARNER,
President Vio President Caabler. ami. vmuw
168 TENTH STREET, ASTORIA, ORE.
Fisher Bros., Company
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Tainta, Oils and Glass, Hardware, Iron and Stool,
Groceries Provisions and Crockery, Ship Chand
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Hardwood Lumber.
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T. W. TM8DALB,
General Paenirer Agent
St Paul, Minn.
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GOOD TRADE
IS CHECKED
Conflicting Reports regarding
Winter Wheat and Labor
Troubles Upset Things.
RAINS IN THE SOUTHWEST
Condition There Are Improved
IteciuNe of Itecent CoploiiM
Hupply of Molature-Tue
Htrlke tenter Dull.
New Tork, April 1. Special tele
grama from correspondents of the In
ternational Mercantile Agency through
out the United SUtea and Canada,
report a check to the exceptional good
trade in the central weet, following
more aeasonable conditions, but some
disturbance in returna aa to Increased
labor troubles and In the conflicting
report of the condition of the winter
sown wheat,
A depressing Influence Is shown by
the strike of Iowa aoft coal miners
arid dissension In Pennsylvania, in
mlrtltlonn to bitterness of the struggle
between strikers and the militia In
Colorado and the prostx-ct for another
tie up of the New York City building
In.luKtry.
Advicea from the southwest are
that winter wheat has Improved with
(fond rains. In the central west the
plant Is generally well rooted but thin
on tl.e ground. Western centers say
g.wd corn is scarcer than for years.
Reorts nre numerous of the poor con
dition of cribbed corn.
Outlook for cotton mills for the next
six months la not regarded promising
by New England authorities, but wool
en mill there are running on a fuil
lino of orders. Further rhut downs
of cotton mills at Phllldelphla are re
ported. Eastern shoe manufacturers
In some instances are not ordering as
freely a a year ngo.
Chicago and New Tork mall ordera
iind reporta from visiting buyers begin
to point to the prospect for Rn Increas
ing volume of business In staple mer
chandise and retail trade haa been the
let in a long while. In Pittsburg
the March steel and iron haa been the
best in years with some advance In
prices.
Canadian wholesale merchants and
manufacturers report good gains In
nearly all lines now that railroads
have got free of the car congestion
handicap. Requests for spring and
summer goods are not trustworthy
and bank clearings are Increasing.
ANOTHER PULP DECISION.
Rotsed Pulp Wood is Announced Duty
Free as Paper 8tock.
New York, April 1. Another pulp
decision of Interest to paper manufac
turers has been handed down by the
board of United States general ap
praisers which declares that rossed
pulp wood la free of duty aa paper
stock. This case haa Involved more
labor than any other that haa come
before the board for a long time, on
account of the bitter fight made by the
paper manufacturing companlea which
have rosslng plants in the United
States .o keep out the Canadian rossed
wood.
Rossed pulp wood Is spruce or pop
ltr, cut Into logs about two feet long
and with the bark and roughness re
moved by a mechanical process called
roasimr. This Is done In Canada for
economy for transportation and logs In
this condltinon are ready 1o go direct
Into the grinders.
Acting under the direction of the sec
retary of the treasury the customs
officials have been, until the present
time classifying the wood as "blocks
or sticks, rough hewn," at 20 per cent.
AMENDMENTS TO BILL.
Committee on Commerce Acta Favor
ably on Sundry Civil Measure.
Washington, April 1. The senate
committee on commerce haa acted fav
orably on a number of proposed
amendments to the Sundry Civil bill,
which heretofore had been acted on by
tli committee !n the form of bills.
The amendments will be referred to
the committee on appropriation and
are aa follows:
Providing for reveune cutter depot
at Oakland, Cal.: revenue cutter for
Honolulu; Immigration station at San
Francisco; life saving stations at
Cape Nome, Alaska, and Half Moon
Ordinary household accidents have
no terrors when there's a bottle of
Or. Thomaa Electric OH in the medi
cine chest. Heals burns, cuts, bruises
sprains. Instant relief.
bay, Cat., quarter for the lighthouse
keepers at Cape Mnidoclno, point
Conception and Point Bonlta, Cal.,
and fog signals at Quarry point and
Humbolt bay, Cal., , '
The conference on the agricultural
appropriation Mil reached an agree
ment today. The bill now carries
f 5,902,000. The senate amendment
providing for experiments on animal
breeding arid feeding In cooperation
with state agricultural Institutions la
accepted. The house recedea from Ita
disagreement to the state amendment
providing for the publication of Inves
Igatlona into the adulterations of food
and beverngea.
WIDOW TAKES HER LIFE.
Despondent Over Doth of Husband
Woman Drowns Herself.
Oakland, April 1. Despondent over
the death of her husband six months
ago, Mrs. Barbara Page of 8761 Vallejo
atreet committed suicide some time
thla afternoon by drowning In Tem
eacal creek, near the Emeryville race
track.
Mr Page disappeared from her
home about S oclock thla morning.
During the forenoon her grandson,
named Llndblom, appealed to J. C. Co
burn, town clerk at Emeryville, asking
him to aid In a search for the aged
woman. Young Llndblom stated that
he feared hla grandmother was de
mented and that she might end her
ltfe.
A number of persons at once began
a search and the aged woman's foot
steps were aoon traced to the creek,
where her dead body waa found at
noon.. The water at this point, owing
to the recent heavy rains, ia about ten
feet deep.
Mrs. Page'a story is a sad one, About
six months ago the husband died, leav
tng the family nothing but the cot
tae on Vallejo street For several
months she has been seeking to secure
a pension, her husband having been a
Grand Array man. Only a few weeks
ago she stated to Mr. Coburn of Em
eryville that unless relief arrived aoon
ahe and her grandchildren would be
destitute. Page had resided in Emery
ville for many years and waa a highly
respected cltlxen. The family had a
large circle of acquaintances here and
across the bay. The coroner haa taken
charge of the case.
LUMBERMEN OF NORTHWEST
DEMAND BETTER RATES
ASKS FOR FORECLOSURE.
Truat and 8avinga Bank Wants its
Money Out of Packing Company.
Chicago, April 1. Foreclosure of a
trust deed on the International Pack
ing Company's plant valued at II,
300,000 has been asked by the Illinois
Trust & Savings bank. As defend
ants in this latest suit it names the
International and Consolidated Pack
ing Companies and Henry Boere. The
bank avers It acts in the interest of
owners of 12,165,000 of the 12,438,000
outstanding bonds of the International
Company. It is declared there are 240
owners In all. The plaintiff asks that
another receiver be appointed.
John C. Mcpherson, previously
named haa reported his failure to re
cover any of the property he demand-
Tacoma, April 1. The lumbermen of
the northwest ha,ve taken the initiative
In a movement for a lower rate on fir
from western transcontinental termln
Mlssourl river points. The box men of
elite Coast Lumber Manufacturers' As
sociation haa held a meeting here to
consider the matter, and next Tuesday
the Southwestern Washington Lumber
Manufacturers' Association will hold a
meeting at Napavlne to take up the
same question. It is the Intention that
both associations shall act In harmony
and in concert To this end a joint
committee representing both associa
tions will be sent to St. Paul to Inter
view President Elliott, of the North
ern Pacific, and President James J.
HilL of the Great Northern. The Pa
cific Coast Association has empowered
President Griggs, of the association,
to act for It in the selection of the
personnel of the committee. He stated
this afternoon that he would not an
nounce the names of the committee for
a week or more.
Another important thing the com
mittee will take up with the heads of
the two great roads will be the re
duction of the present rates on box
shooks from western terminals to
Missouri river oints. The box men of
the state are vitally interested in this
lance, as of late, on account of an In
creased production of shooks by the
mills of Southern Oregon and of Cal
ifornia, a great deal of the vast trade
in this commodity nmong the fruit
men of California has been wrested
from the mills of the state. The pres
ent rate on box shooks from western
terminals to Missouri river points is
59 i:-nts a hundred pounds. The man
ufacturers declare this is prohibitive.
Thy want the rate cut down to 40
cents, which will enable them to lay
down their product In Kansas City
and Omaha and other great packing
centers of the Miaaourt river country
where enormous numbers of boxes are
used, at a price that will prove re
munerative. Tl.e present rate of 60 cents to tha
100 puunda on fir from western ter
minals to Missouri river points is al
so held to act almost In a prohibitive
manner and makes any attempt to In
vade the Missouri territory perilous
and commercially untenable. A 40
wnt rate ia wanted, which ia the aame
aa at present obatins at St PauL
Such a rat, manufacturers say, will
enable them to run flr Into the Mis
souri river cities on a competitive ba
sis with the yellow pine from the
south. The southern pine enjoys tha
extremely low rate of 22 cents a hun
dred pounds from southern terminals
to the Mlssou-l river points, but ita
greater weight adds to the competitive
handicap it will have to overcome In
its struggle for supremacy with the
western fir. The manufacturers feel
that this is one of the greatest issues
that have come up affecting lumber
ing interests in a long time.
If the box shooks are admitted to
the Missouri river territory on ft 40
cent basis it will enable mills in Wash
lngton to Immediately feature this end
of their business, and spruce and hem
lock timber, which are now going beg
ging practically in the state, will come
Into positive demand, resulting in ft
very considerable expansion of the
milling industry.
There will be no attempt at present
to secure a cut on the cedar rate of
60 cents a hundred to Missouri river
points, as the lumber men frankly con
fess they will be gratified to get the
reduction on fir.
ed. It is declared the bank became
trustee of the Consolidated June 1,
1892, when the company issued $2,500,
000 bonds and that the trusteeship was
continued by the International Com
pany as. successor. It Is alleged both
the International and Consolidated
Companies are insolvent and that $65,
000 interest on their bonds has been
unpaid since May 1.
Directs Codifications.
Rome April 1. The pope of Tils
own accord has directed that a codifi
cation be made of the canon laws
aong lines similar to codification of
the Roman civil laws under Emperor
Just Ian.
Receiver ia Appointed.
Denver, April 1. Henry Altman has
been appointed by Judge Carpenter as
the receiver for Colorado of the Majes
tic Copper Mining and Smelting Com
pany. He has been placed under bonds
of 15000. It Is probable that the ef
forts to wind up the affairs of the cor
poration and the collection of the debts
owing will be transferred to the fed
eral courts. Charges of mismanage
ment and extravagant dissipation of
the assets of the company are made
by John T. McLean against the direc
tors. The company owns a large num
ber of mines and amelters In Utah.-
No Eggs For Eaater.
New York, April 1. Eggs by the
million, shipped from west and south,
and destined for this city, have been
delayed by storms and the packers
fear a famine on Easter and are mak
ing strenuous efforts to meet the de
mand. At the mercantile exchange
the egg market is in a chaotic condi
tional prices fluctuating wildly. Com
pared with last year the receipts for
the week show a falling off of 37,500
cases or more than 140,000,000 eggs.
Baseball Scores. ,
Los Angeles Los Angjeles, 2; Port
land 1.
San Francisco San Francisco, 2;
Oakland, 4.
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