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PAGE FOUR. THE MORNING ASTORIAN,' FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1901. Oe morning Jlstorian ESTABLISHED 1873 PUBLISHED BY ' - '' ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. JL H. CARTER, GENERAL MANAGER. RATES, 3Jy vmr per year .' . 6 00 By mail, per month I " 50 Uj carriers, per month CO THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOIHAX. By mail, per year, in advance , . $1 00 salmon supply through hatcheries. He warmly see ;onds the recommendation made by the special fish commission last summer that the government under take the work of propagation. "Artificial propagationthese two words," says Kutehm, "to my mind embody the solution of the vexed question of the perpetuation of the Alaska salmon fisheries, and it may be Btated with equal brevity that the attempt of the government to exact that this work be done by the packers of the salmon has been, and must continue to be, a failure. Suffice it to say that out of about 40 companies and indi viduals engaged in the packing business only a single one the Alaska Packers' Association has gone into hatchery effort with anything like earnest purpose and thorough business-like method, and even this concern by no means covers the tenitory in which it operates nor produces an approximate percentage of the ratio called for by the hatchery regulation." The scarcity of fish has begun to make itself manifest in the season's total output. In his statisti cal report Mr. Kutehin shows that, whereas the out put of 1902 from all the concerns asrsrivcatml 9 CM . THE LATEST HORROR. k MBO- fW w "Z , ' , . 2,301,782 cases, a falling of! of 269,538 cases, repre- ratook the excursion steamer Slocum in East river, senting a loss of 12 1-2 per cent. In the central Kew York, necessarily makes, momentary comment Alaskan region about the Cooks inlet and Prince nore severe than otherwise would be the case. Pend-1 " "bam sound waters the salmon runs have been is- the official investigation, then, it will be difficult noticeably short. Some of the more rare and valued to place the blame for the loss of the lives of 600 or sPecies hsh are being diminished to the extent are women and children, if indeed anyone is really an enforced suspension of packing in those brands, to be held accountable for the catastrophe. Not to the decreasing numbers of the fish alone is Because of the circumstances surrounding the due the threatened shortage in supply, but also East river disaster, it is not unlike the Chicago the- to tne frequent violation of the fish laws in force ater horror, which is still fresh in public memory. along Alaskan waters. Though the special agent In Iwth instances the victims were mostly women and declares in his report that the laws are obeyed in hlldrenv for whom there was no assistance. It is r116 mam Wltn about as great an observance as any EEcaft to understand how the accident could occur law commands, he cites frequent and flagrant viola at snch a time, as it would seem the utmost precaution Fon te measure which prohibits the seining of would le observed for the safety of the immense more than one-third of a stream's waterway. Some nwd of excursionists that the Slocum carried. Tet I unscrupulous canneries, which, in the absence of disasters of the kind are not infrequent, and in most le inspectors, fence in an entire stream with wire eases the blame is not directly chargeable to anyone, netting, do much to destroy the fish supply. So long as people congregate in vast numbers, From the reading of the special agent's report jsst to long will terrible calamities occur to strike d a consideration of the report made by the grief and terror to the nation and to the world. Those special fish commission appointed to investigate the tkmsands who crowd the theaters accept a certain methods of the canneries in Alaska last summer, it xsly just as the thousands who crowd excursion appears that if the wealth of the Alaska canneries tensers take their lives in their hands. The col- is to continue unimpaired, the fish packers them hpatt tf the grandstand at the race track on derby selves must see to it that every regulation made by day will result ia hundreds of deaths, and the weaker the government is stringently enforced, says the mSl be trampled beneath the feet of the stronger in San Francisco CalL If they are prodigal with their the immense crowds that gather on public occasions supply now they can blame nobody but themselves f moment I should the exhaustion of the salmon force suspen- It is too early as yet to say whether or not any-jsion of business in the future. really to blame for the East river horror, hnt I aQ probability everything possible was done to OUR UNTAMED BRETHREN. mut uira vj. me Heiress eicursiunisis aiier nre a census Duueun just issued dv tne ceasus discovered aboard the vessel It is only reason- bureau trives the nooulation of onr new noaaemion. 1 I T 7T T, ' 7 t the Philippines, and tells some interesting things ""jiKM m utiicia vi une naiore, mat sucu disasters I , . auuui me natives. Accoraing to me Duueun, me JUST FOR INSTANCE. The Tale of Jupiter Brown. III. During the next year and a half Jupiter Brown was the honored eltl- n of ancient Rome, lie Initialled ( telephone ayatem, constructed a tele irnph line, built a steamboat and did divers things that mined him In public esteom. Hut on a certain day mere whs a thunderstorm. Caeaar got hiHk at the telephone; the telegraph line burned out Just aa the High Mightiness desired to send a message to his troopar the ateainboat blew up and killed half the court beaut lea and Jupiter mown went to prison In chalna. In order to regain his liberty he stated that he could construct a piece of machinery that would turn out to be the greatest mean of transporta tlon In the world. Brown had visions of a ateam engine. Caeaar gave him a year In which to make good. Brown got buay. Me- hanlct were aent to his aid. Piece after piece of metal was forged and fitted. The engine grew rapidly. It was a crude affair, but Jupiter Brown deiended upon It to get him out of the acrape. Then came the great day. The en gine was taken to the center of the arena and all Rome assembled to wit ness the test. Brown fired up. The steam began to hiss! Then he stepped forward and began a speech. "You see before you the greatest Invention of all time," said Brown. "With It you can conquer your en emies, astound you friends, build up your country! The hissing you hear means the eternal supremacy of the Roman empire! And I even I Brown, did It! Pardon me a moment!" Brown stepped back and pulled a lever. There was a roar, and the face of Jupiter Brown turned white. A scream rent the air. "Run for your lives," yelled Brown; "I've forgotten to put on a safety valve!" The explosion caused the forum to totter and startled the Inhabitants in far-away Greece. And then Brown woke up. (Finis.) Dlt. VAUOHAN, Dentist rytbUn Building, Astoria, Oregon. Dr. T. L. BAl.lt Dr. F. I. Friodrich, DENTISTS K4 Commercial street. Astoria Ore, JAY TUTTLE, M. D. rilYSICIAN AND 8U11QE0N Acting AMktant Rurgeon V.8. Mrlo lliMpltal Hervlee, Office hours: 10 to 11 a.m. 1 to 4: it pnk 477 Commercial Street, Ind Floor. Dr. W. O. LOGAN DENTIST 678 Commercial St., Bhanahao Ruildlng C. J. TRENCUARD Inaurance, Commission and Shipping, CUSTOMS HOUSE BROKER. Agent W'ells-Fargo and Northern Pacific Expreaa Companies. Cor. ELEVENTH and BOND 8T& Dr.RHODA 0. HICKS OSTEOPATHIST Mansell Bldg. 171 Commercial it, moNK iiuck auu. 0. W. BARR, DENTIST Mansell Building 673 Commercial Htreel, Astoria, Or TELEPHONE RED SOfiL "Neglected colds make fat grave. yardi." Dr. Wood's Norway wnt Syrup helps men and women to a happy, vigorous old air. The TROY Laundry Is tho only White Labor laundry in the City. Dooa the Best of Work at very reasonable Prices, and is in every way worthy of your patronage. Cor. 10th and DUANE ST8. Phono 1091 TURNING OUT THE RASCALS. A Tear 's Disclosure and Development" is the a feature of the age. There is no law that will endow people with brains: and the man. woman or totaI population of the islands is 7,633,426, of whom eMM who is always safe from danger is the one whose 6,987,686 are civilized, or partly so, and 647,740 ttason keeps him out of it , are wild. The report states that the aborigines of the Phil ippines are believed to be the Negritos, of whom 23,- Inm .. ;n tv,.,.. ,.,i : .t.i t. taV f a namnlilot. inr UA W ih VtiA.l Vn. a"" R,ua,u' lwJr olc iuuiJU ,u auuuugu iu.-r v. - v iuvu vi uvaua iu- i akipal League. The book is compiled by the secre- not aU' of the Prvmces, living in a primitive state tary of the league, Clinton Rogers Woodruff, and 1,iey are very sliort, the males averaging about cfeals interestingly with municipal conditions 4 feet 10 inches in height, while the females are throDghout the country. - . : . shorter. Their color is black, their hair is woolly and " One of the most interesting of the showings of k,lt.i, . ,, , ,T . -,. , . . - . ? - . bushyt their toes are remarkably prehensie, and .miitliPvl.nlPMlo.iWnf wn,rt,,fcnnf hAthy can ttse thcm wel1 their fingers, Jtttian. Mr. Woodruff shows that in many of the They Wear no clothin exce a strinS' and live dales interest in municipal elections had waned, but ?n SUcb food 88 the can find'' the have no tflate the people have been manifesting more inter- UdUuau0DS or occupations, Dut wander about in ts ia their own affairs, with the result that the the orest8 havin but little contact with other graftos have been indicted, and, in many instances, peoPle' "P1 when. tiding. They are skillful in imprisoned. He expresses the logical conviction that he use of the in throwing stones, and in mak the momber of arrests for malfeasance in office is not s a fire wnich thev d0 h? rubbing together two indicative of increase in boodling, but rather that it PKC dry bamboo. The women, as usual with iot&cates a disposition on the part of the people to unciTiuzed races, do all the work. They are not Toaway with the present boodlers. without a religious belief; the principal deity is the 3Ir. Woodruff tells of the successful efforts of the moon- The7 are very shy and distrustful, and all people of the larger cities to clean up their municipal eorts to civilise them have apparently failed. They afiairs. In almost every one of the great commercial probably approach as nearly to the conception of centers the dishonest city officials have been defeated primitive man as any people thus far discovered. at the polls and honest men have been put into The origin of the Negritos is not known, but from power. In New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, the fact that people of the same type are found in the Louis, Philadelphia and other cities of prominence Malay peninsula and the Andaman islands, bay. of the voters have awakened to their duty and have Bengal, leads to the belief that they once occupied tamed out the rascals in almost every instance. That the entire Malay archipelago. With the arrival of tiere will hereafter be tolerated much less of the the Malays in the Philippines, the Negritos gradually wuiiuyuuu niucu uas cuarauierizeu uie conauci 01 wnnarew or were driven away from the coast into Municipalities 13 quite evident irom tne league s the mountains. The Japanese are beginning to real ise that war Is exactly what General Sherman said It was. e We understand that certain ladies have said the hose team's running suits are not in style. Wouldn't that make you take a trip to Paris! Those correspondents who state that they are being detained at Russian headquarters run an awful chance of hereafter being detained at home! McCULLET. PRAEL O COOK TRANSFER CO. Telephone 221. Draying and Expressin All goods ahipped tootir car will receie special attention. 700-715 Commercial Street. Reliance Electrical Works H.w.nryyn, MmiKfrr Ws are tuorouf hj prepared for making estimahi and executing order, (or all k!u!s of electriral Installing and repairing. Happllet is .tock. W wll th. Celebrated SHELBY LAMP. Call nprbon.liel. 428 BOND STREET nriTnmriTniiuiiiiuixxirriiiiiiiiiitii,.,....f.. jaaatphlet, and it is equally as apparent that the de sired relief will be brought about only by means of tie-ballot "Salem now claims a population of 13,000.". rortiand Evening Telegram. (Be accurate. It is 13,287, and they are all here.) -Salem Statesman. But, alas I many under restraint TIIE ALASKA FISHERIES. Howard M. Kutehin, special agent of the depart- mem. 01 commerce and labor lor the inspection of the There is an effort on foot to have the Oregon Alaskan salmon fisheries, has embodied in his report City land office removed to Portland Better re- iar the year 1903, which is now published by the do- move the whole state to Portland and be done with it pertinent, an intelligent review of the operation of mBsuing laws in Alaskan waters and some strongly Russell Sage objects to the vacation habit carphaazed advice upon the perpetuation of the is getting so close that he hates to spend time. He JAPANESE ARMY RATIONS. General Weston, chief of subsistence of the American army, has aolved what he believes to be the great secret of the wonderful mobility of the Jap anese army. It lies In the field ration, a sample of which he has received from Major W, B. Barker at Naga saki, one of the American officers who are watching the war. The ration shows that the Japanese soldier can live and fight for a month on a food supply that weighs less than the dally ration of the American soldier in the field. The fish received by General Weston is about seven Inches long and an Inch and a half thick, in the middle, and is dried until It resembles petrified wood. It weighs only 12 ounces, but Major Parker says It will sustain a Japanese soldier for seven days. When soldiers are on the march they eat the fish just as It is, biting oft small pieces, which are thoroughly masticated, but when they are In camp the fish is shaved off in small slices and cooked with rice. The fish re sembles a mackerel, but Its Japanese name Is "mamlbushi," The fish la about two feet long and thick and solid before preparation for the army ration. In preparing It for army use It Is cut In two and steamed and dried alternately until It is re duced to about one-eighth of Its orig inal size, wnth a corresponding reduc tion In weight. Each Japanese soldier can carry enough fish and rice to last him three or four weeks and a whole army can be made absolutely Independent of the commissary train that are indispen sable in other armies. If the Russian soldier could live on as little aa the Japanese require the Siberian rail road would have little to do but haul troops, for one tralnload of died fish and rice would sustain General Kuro- patkln's army for weeks. Dried fish is used only as a field ration. The regular dally ration in the Japanese army consists of one and a half pounds of rice and half a pound of canned meats. The dally ration In the United States army weighs about four pounds and the emergency ra tions Is not a great deal lighter. j FRESH AND CURED MEATS Wholesale and Retail Ships, Logging Camps and Mills supplied on sliort notice. LIVE STOCK IiOUGHT AND SOLD WASHINGTON MARKET . CHRISTENSON S CO. tXUALllXlXXlltlltJTJfJXaiXXJXXXXllTmrrrTrrrr MATTRESSES Wool, Curled Hair, Mohuir, Spring. 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