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EFFECT NOW BEING FELT Results of the Great Strike Are Becoming More Pronounced in the Windy City. THE PICKETING EXTENDED Strikers Will Seek to Prevent Deliveries From Branch Warehouses and Whole, sale Markets. Chicago, July SS. Although repre sentatives of the packing companies ttaclare that no further agreements wfth thetr striking employes are de- mired and that no negotiations with them are contemplated, rumors are persistent that two of the big com panies, Sehwantchild and ' Suliberger and the Cudahy Packing Company are ready to make terms with the men. The effects of the strike on the local trade has begun to be felt In Chicago and from now on it Is promised that St will be more pronounced. The pick eting heretofore has been confined to the packing plants and the stockyards district, deliveries of meat from the branch warehouses in different parts f the city not being Interfered with, int now the strikers say these points ss well as the wholesale markets of the big companies will be picketed and aa effort made to tie up all distribu tion. City meat Inspectors report an un asii&lly large quantity of food unfit Jor use is on the market now. They ascribe It to the fact that shippers are rushing all good products to Chi cago to meet the demand caused by tbe stockyards strike. The condemned goods are chiefly fish and veai REVIEW OF IRON MARKET. id-Sumer Dullness Characterizes the Buying in the East Cleveland, O., July 28. The Iron Trade Review in reviewing the Iron situation this weeks says: A moderate increase in pig iron buy ing has been noticed in the past week ftnt finished material markets have set tled farther Into mid-summer dull xess and have so far refused to make good the. reported declarations of Wall street authorities. Now that the steel corporation meeting has been held and the expected action taken in declaring the usual dividend on the preferred stock it may be that the Iron market will be allowed for a time to work out 2s own destiny in the regular way. Pig iron buying was to be looked for In July, since most consumers aimed to come out even at the end of June with their purchases for the first half, and If inquiries are an Index of wants, there are some little business in pros pect for August. Cincinnati has had a good share of the activity the past reek In foundry iron, a number of Indiana buyers taking round lots. The total is between 5000 and 10,000 tons, to which are to be added several good rders placed by Cincinnati foundries and 4000 ton deliveries in the next four months. Sales of 15,000 to 20,000 tons basic iron are also reported by southern sellers. The quotation of JH.50 by southern furnaces is now spute general but as with previous ad vances, business lessens when quota fiaio move up. At present $9.25 for TTo. 2 seems to be the minimum for southern iron, but there is considerable variation in prices on northern foundry Iron, particularly in the east, some fur naces have shown more anxiety to get business and have named low figures; tJuers have advanced their quotations ki the belief that the outlook justified the refusal of prices that cut too close to cost. In the central west, $11.75 at furnaces for No. 2 is still named. Foundries find no increased demand for castings. From 40 to 50 per cent of the output of a year ago is the average with Jobbing foundries and some are running with about one-third force. Voder these conditions stocks of pig iron will not decline without a fur ther blowing our of furnaces. Pres ort indications are that the July pro nM.tfon of pig iron will fall below that T February, though exceeding the total Sor January. Involving thousands of miles of travel, from the Canadian boundary line to Cape Nome. The trip will occupy all summer. On his return General Funs ton will go to New York to take com mand of the department of the east. Another Freak Breaks Out. St. Louis, July 2S. Hitched to a sulky cultivator. William Hoyt pulled his wife and their four-year-old son all the way from Mollne, 111., to the world's fair. Mr. Hoyt sot out upon a wngr and covered the distance of S15 miles in just one month, thus winning his bet of $1000 and Incidentally obtaining an experience which, he said, he would not have missed for any amount. MOUNT TABOR GIRL WEDS .RICH CHINESE MERCHANT Was at Work in Hit Hopftald When the Celestial Fell in Love and Started His Courtship. FUNSTON GOES TO ALASKA. WHf Tour Army Posts, Making Very Long Journey. Seattle, July 28. General Frederick Funston, cotnanding the department of the Columbia and Alaska, accompanied by Major R. K. Evans, his adjutant jproeral, and Lieutenant B. J. Mitchell, personal aide, arrived last night and will leave this morning for Alaska, They go on a tour of inspection of all the army posts in Alaska, a Journey Portland Telegram: Ema Schrum Is a white girt, her folks living at Mount Tabor. In her childhood days, like most of her playmates, she laughed at the Chinese peddlers when annoyed by bad boys throwing rocks after them as they passed along in the quiet and peaceful way characteristic of the Chinese when in a strange land. Little then did she dream that some day she would swear lifelong allegiance to one of them, and had any one dared tell her so trouble would have followed. But Cupid's darts are sometimes aimed In a strange direction and with re markable results, and after a year's courtship sweet-faced Miss Emma, aged 21, has become the better half of Sing Lope, aged 48, and a Celestial of great wealth. The wedding, which came about in a most romantic way, was beld the other day at Vancouver, Wash., and was performed in true American style, a justice of the peace officiating. Some way or other, the facts remained bur ied, although there was no particular reason for secrecy, for Sing is a high ly respected man of his race, and the girl has many friends. After the cere mony, which was performed in the presence of an attorney and a wealthy Chinese merchant from Portland, the bridal couple crossed the Columbia on the ferry and then hurried on to Port land, in an electric car. It was nearly supper time when they reached the city, and the groom, contrary to the customs of the whites, 'secured the services of a Chinese caterer and In vited a lot of friends to dine with him for the last time before settling down to married life. His guests were at tired In loose trousers and wide blouses I and the rooms where the feast was, held bore every Indication of Chinese! occupation. This being a little too much oriental for the new Mrs. Lope, she bade the party goodby for the aft ernoon and went to her old home at Mount Tabor. A few days later the happy couple took possession of the groom's 80-acre hopyard at Gresham, where they will be at home to their friends, and all is said to be running along "smooth as smooth can be." The girl, who flinched not at wed ding outside of her own race, will have considerable to say concerning the operaton of one of the largest hopflelds in the state, and It is due entirely to the existence of this yard that Miss Emma Schrum is today the wife of the wealthy Celestial. About a year ago when the hops were ready to be pluck ed Emma decided upon going out into the fields to make a little pinmoney, and also incidentally to have a bit of recreation in the healthy hopflelds. She worked so well and industrious ly that Sing, the proprietor, could not help admiring the girl from Mount Ta bor, and he spoke to her about hops and things until at last the two were pretty well acquainted. The hops were picked, baled and eventually dis posed of at a handsome profit, but all the while Sing could not forget the pretty white maiden who had helped him to reap his harvest The know ledge of having ample funds to give a woman a comfortable home gave the hopgrower courage to propose, so his friends say, and the ceremony in Van couver shows that he knew how, even though his language is somewhat bro ken and his hair not parted in the mid dle. But, in this connection, it might be said that to one of the witnesses at the wedding Sing confided that soon his queue would be a thing of the past; that he would adopt the cus toms of a white man as much as pos sible In order to overcome the racial contrast of the two who are now one. SALOONS IN THE 8TREETS. How Booze Dispensers of Vale Beat the Sunday Closing Law. That man-made law is not always invulnerable is proven by a letter which has been received In Portland from Vale, county seat of Malheur county. Ore., and headquarters for cat tle and sheepmen, a trading center and "celebration point," Despite vigorous action by the city council, as the re sult of a reform movement for Sunday closing, and the passage of an ordi nance requiring that all saloons must be shut up tight on the Sabbath, those whose thirst impels them to seek In toxicants may still slake their thirsts on the first ,day of the week. However, they must drink In the open air for the regulation about closing saloons Is rigidly obeyed. The boose Is dispensed from bars erected and operated in the street. As a result of ft local reform move ment, the Vale council, passed an or dinance prohibiting saloons from open ing on Sunday. This was a hard blow at the saloon-keepers, whose chief trade comes from cowboys and ranchmen, that generally spend their Sundays In town. ; , " - Since Vale was a little way station long before it became a county seat, back In the '80s, a man had never been forced to go thirsty on Sunday within the town, and the new order created consternation. When the men on some of the large ranches in the Interior wanted to go on a lark they could dis patch a man on horseback to Vale on any day or any night and get the nec essary liquid without any trobule. So, when the Sunday law went Into effect there was widespread mourning. But the saloon-keepers in Vale are evi dently men with wits, for they finally hit upon a most successful plan of get ting around the ordinance. There was nothing in the new regulation to say that whisky should not be sold on Sun dayit only said keep saloons closed. So, when Sunday morning came, bars were placed out on the street where men could come and quench tbelr thirst at will, while the saloons were closed, according to the provisions of the ordinance. The salesmen were duly provided with licenses and escaped ar rest. Whether the reform element Is going to have an ordinance passed to pre vent intoxicating liquor from being sold on the streets on Sunday has not yet been learned, but it Is probable if this is done the wide-awake saloon keepers will find some way of getting around It, also. Sonoma County Hop Crop. Santa Rosa, Cal., July 28. Sonoma county's hop crop this year Is placed at 20,000 bales, a conservative estimate and a considerable increase over the previous season. The present season has been a splendid one for hops, the cool weather holding the blooms baofc properly. The yield of the state is estimated at about 65,000 bales and Sonoma county will furnish more than one-third of the amount. Brutally Tortured. 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PHYSICIAN AND 8UHGE0N Acting Aaslttant Burgeon U.S. Marine Hospital Service. i Office hours: 10 to 12 am. 1 to 4:10 p.m. 477 Commercial Street, Snd Floor. Dr. RIIODA 0. HICKS OSTEOPATIUST Mansetl Bldg. 573 Commercial 8t PHONE BLACK 2065, 0. W. BARR, DENTIST Mansell Building 573 Commercial Street, Astoria, Ore TELEPHONE RED 20fiL Dr. VAUGHAN, Dentist Pytbian Building, Astoria, Oregon. Dr. T. L. BALL Dr. F. I. Friedrich, DENTISTS (24 Commercial street. Astoria Ore. Dr. W. (X LOGAN DENTIST 578 Commercial St., Shanahan Building C. J. TRENCHARD Insurance, Commission and Shipping. CU3TOM3 HOU8E BROKER. Agent Wells-Fargo and Northern Pacific Express Companies, Cor. ELEVENTH and BOND STS. First National Bank of Astoria ESTABLISHED 1886 Capitol and Surplus $100,000 ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK Capital l'ald in 8100,000. Surplus ami Undivided Profits $.$.000 Transacts a general banking bmiu-ss. Interest paid on time deposit. J, Q. A. BOWLBY. O. I. PETEKSOS, FUASK PATTON. J. 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