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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1904)
PAGE EIGHT. ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1904. lecia This '.Wee 0 ., -'' Women's Vici Kid Oxford Ties, hand-turn soles, THIS season's best styles; Regular $3.00 values at MM PETERSON 0 BROWN Astoria's Leading Shot Beaters CARRIED OUT BY CURRENT James C Bobet, Employe at the Jetty, Drowned Yesterday Afternoon. FELL FROM END OF TRESTLE scratched by the woman, whose fright waa very acute. Life Boat Launched, but Man Perishes Larry Sullivan Res. cues Drowning Woman at Seaside. ' James C Bobet, one of the men em ployed in the jetty work at the mouth of the river, was drowned yesterday afternoon while working at the end of the jetty. The body was not recov ered, and probably never win be, as the swift-running current carried it out to sea. News of the accident was received by The Astorian last evening. Bobet waa one of the dumping crew engaged at the jetty. This crew at tends to the dumping of rock into the sea. Yesterday afternoon the men were at work almost at the end of the jetty, where the plledriver Is located. The dumping process always shakes the rock cars, and It is supposed Bobet tost his balance while the rock was being dumped Into the water. There were five other men with him when J he fell Into the sea, but he drowned before assistance could be rendered. The tide was running out like a millrace when Bobet went Into the water. The young man could swim, but he was powerless to make any headway against the tide. In anticlpa tlon of just such accidents, a lifeboat is kept at the end of the jetty, and this boat was immediately lowered. By the time the men manned the boat Bobet had been carried some distance by the tide, and soon sank from sight The unfortunate man was 28 years of age and had been employed at the jetty for 18 months. He Is survived by Mrs. Bobet, who resides at Ham mond. , Fishing Boat Capsizes. Two dasing fishermen, John Ander son and Albert Peterson, were almost drowned at the mouth of the river yesterday morning. The men had gone out to the bar to make a drift and their boat capsized. Another fish erman, P. Pederson, who was drifting; near by, succeeded In picking up the two men, but to get them It was neces sary for him to cut his net adrift. The net was new and was not recovered, although the Cape Disappointment life crew, which hastened to the assist ance of the fishermen, recovered the net and boat of Anderson and Peter son. The other net could not be found. - - ' RUSSIAN FLEET DIPPED IT3 FLAG TO THIS BARKENTINE. James Johnson, Just Arrived From Hakodate, Rsports Series of Ex citing Adventures. Larry Sullivan a Life-Saver. Larry Sullivan, mining promoter, made of himself a hero at Seaside Friday afternoon, when he swam through the surf and saved the life of a Mrs. Tlngry, who had got beyond her depth and was drowning. The ac cident occurred about 1 o'clock, when the beach was crowded with people. Mrs. Tlngry had been In the surf for some time and, getting too far out, was soon in distress. Her frantic gesticulations attracted Mr. Sullivan's attention and he hastened to the res cue. When he reached the woman she was about to sink, but he swam with her to shore. In effecting the rescue Mr. Sullivan was severely Captain Bennecke, of the barkentlne James Johnson, which reached port Friday from Hakodate, Japan, reports having fallen in with three vessels of the Russian Vladivostok squadron which are raiding the Japan sea and the Pacific ocean. The vessel had de livered a cargo of lumber at Shanghai and then proceeded for Hakodate In ballast. On June IS, while passing through Tslgura strait, three warships came In sight and gave chase. The barkentlne crowded on all sail and held her own, but when the wind be gan to fail the warships closed up the Intervening distance. A shot from the squadron prompted Captain Bennecke to come about, and a boarding party went aboard the barkentlne. The ves set's papers were examined and search was made for contraband, but nothing was found that would give the Rus sians cause to hold the barketlne. Cap tain .Bennecke was required to sign a paper to the effect that he had no complaint to offer because his vessel was' stopped. When the boarding party returned to the warships all three ves Psels dipped their colors to the barken tine, and in turn the American flag was dipped. The Johnson continued ton her way to Hakodate, where she sailed into the harbor. As she went In she was signaled by vessels in the harbor and by a tug that came out to meet her, but Captain Bennecke did not understand the signals. When the barkentlne brought up at anchor the members of the crew learned that they had sailed Into a harbor filled with mines, and that the watching crowd In the harbor expected every moment to see the barkentlne blown to atoms, The vessel had missed all of the mines, More Trouble at Bogota. Colon, July 30. News from the coast of Cartagena says rumors are In circulation of an upheaval in Bogota. President Marroquln and President elect Reyes are, the rumors say, de clared to be traitors, and congress has been closed. EYE GLASSES THAI FIT No Charge for Examining the Eyes IIATHERINE WADE, Graduate Optician At Owl Drug Store CLOSE CALL FROM DEATH Fisherman Charles Korpula Res cued by His Brother in a Remarkable Manner, IS PICKED UP AT MIDNIGHT l a trt i jr 1 ..Aiiuo.M .uirucuious viiNe oi i.uvhi Man Whose Death Will livl. dently Not Be by Drowning. Charles Korpula, a fisherman In the employ of the Tallant-Grnnt Packing Company, may be drowned some day. but his experiences thus far Indicate that he was not born to fill a watery grave. Late Thursday night ne naa an escape from death that Is little short of miraculous, and the Incident has been the talk of the Finnish fisher men ever since. Exhausted after long struggle against a strong ebb tide, he was sinking when his own brother, returning home after an accident that cut short his night's fishing, happened along and saved him from death, Matt Korpula Is In the employ of the Columbia River Packers' Association. Thursday evening he went down to the lower harbor to fish, but his net became snagged and he could not make successful drift. Gathering up his damaged gear, he started for home. It was midnight when he reached the vicinity of the Tallant-Grant cannery, The night was unusually dark, but as the boat scudded along before the breeze the boat-puller called Korpula's attenUon to an object tn the water. As nearly as the men could ascertain, the object was alive. At first the fish ermen paid no attention to it, but. after their boat had sailed by, Korpula told his boatpuller he believed he would go back, as It might have been some hapless fisherman wno was struggling In the water. Accordingly the boat was put about and headed In the direction of the ob ject As the fishermen sailed along Korpula, sitting In the stern of his stanch little craft, saw what looked to him like a hand. out of. the water when he first saw It. and by the time the boat reached the spot it was disappearing beneath the surface. Korpula grabbed for the hand just in time to seize It Had the Columbia river suddenly dried up, Korpula could not have been more surprised than he was when, upon hauling the man Into his boat discovered that it was his own brother, Charles. The man was un conscious and was sinking for the last time when his brother saved him. He was revived after an hour's hard work. and related the circumstances to his brother and his surprised boatpuller. Korpula had been ashore Thursday night He went to the cannery' to attend to his boat and in the darkness stepped oft the wharf. The tide was running out with great rapidity, and, although Korpula Is a strong swim mer, he was unable to make headway against the current. He struggled un fits strength was gone, and then, losing consciousness, was sinking to his death when, by the sheerest chance the world, his brother happened along, sailed by the faint object which he had seen in the water, and, more satisfy himself than anything else, returned in time to rescue him. Charles Korpula Is certainly a lucky man. A few nights previously, while he and his boatpuller were fishing near Ilwaco, the steamer T. J. Potter bore down upon their boat. The craft was overturned and the men precipitated Into the water. Korpula was caught by the great wheel of the steamer and carried around three times. He es caped almost without injury. In the light of his latest escape he is satis fied he will never be drowned, and his opinion is pretty generally shared by the fisherfolk of the west end. And up to $3,00 for Bathing Stilts, for Men, Women and Children ? ? ? Bathing Trunks ten cents and wp c. h. co Ope THE BIO STORE R men. This win be supplied at the camps. Entraining and detraining will be considered as part of the Instruc Hon. The problems to be workod out by troops have not yet been made public, but it is understood that the two camps will be maintained as boB' tile forces and will attempt to sur prise and outmaneuver each other. The field Includes 60 square miles of territory. . NATURAL GAS EXPLOSION. Chicago Hotel Demolished and Three Persons Are Injured. Chicago, July 80. An explosion of natural gas early this morning tn the building at 338 State street, known as the Russell Park hotel caused severe Injuries to several persons. The front of the building was blown out and heavy blocks of stone used for side walks were broken In pieces and heaved out lnlto the street 'Michael Docomo, Peter Parevie, and a young woman, all employed by John Rocoro's restaurant on the ground floor were severely burned and bruised and were taken to the Samaritan hospital. All will recover. Pour persons who were on the side walk when the explosion occurred narrowly escaped. There was a The band was P8-0'0 in the hotel but none of the guests were seriously injured. The poperty loss is small. WU OUT OF POLITICS. Famous Chinese 8aid to Have Retired at Last to Private Life. Atlantic City, N. J., July SO.-Wu Ting Fang, for some, years the Chi nese minister at Washington, accord ing to his son, Wu Chao Chu, has re signed the vice presidency of the for. elgn board at Pekln and la said to have permanently retired from pol itics. Wu Chao Chu says his father has determined to lead a quiet life, having built himself a country home near Shanghai. When young Wu was questioned as to the reason for his helrg called home, he said that as far as he could glean from the com munications received, from his father, It was because of a desire to have the family reunited. He Is the only son nnrt he thinks his father wants him nearer home. It is said at the Chinese legation at Washington that Wu Ting Fang's re tirement Is entirely due to his own de sire. taiks of mosquitoes. He was found in the dense woods near the Passaic line. Apparently Almond hud been In the woods several days. He was ex tremely amoclated and his face and hands re swollen out of shape from thousands of bites of mosquitoes and other Insects. MEN ARE DOINQ WELL Typhoid Fever Patients en Our Fleet Will All Recover. New York. July 80. The t'nlted States dispatch boat Mayflower has arrived here, says the Herald's Trieste correspondent, bringing from the fleet at Flume three more ill sailors to be transferred to the hospital Dr. Perry of the Iowa, who was left In charge of the officers and men who are 111 with typhoid fever at the hos pital when the fleet sailed away, rs ports that all those who are 111 are doing well, with the exception of Lieutenant Hudglns. Chaplain Isaacs of the Kearsarge Is recovering rapid ty and It Is thought he will shortly be discharged from the hospital Condition of Stock Market New Tork, July 30. Prices havo given way sharply this week under doubts over this warrant for the pre vious advance. The acute crisis Is de veloped in the relations between Great Britain and Russia with the at tendant effect upon the London money market and the New Y0rtxchanre market which rose to the gold export point waa a dominant factor In the week's market The quarterly state ment of the United States Stol Cor poration was Interpreted as a dis couraging Index of conditions In that trade. Labor troubles cost a shadow of anxiety over the market. It with pots of a unique kind. Her favorite end most recent purchase Is Sweet Alice, a superannuated, descript and blind more, which until recently was a cab horse at a Washington street stand In Boston. Miss O'Nell was driven out to Brook line a few days ago with Sweet Alice In the shafts. Coming back the poor animal broke down and seemed on the point of dissolution. She bought the horse from the cabby and had It taken In an ambulance to her farm, where W la slowly recovering from Its numerous maladies. BASEBALL. 0. NANCE O'NEIL'S WHIMS. Mskes Her Summer Home Refuge for Broken -Down Animals. Lowell, Mass., July 80. Miss Nance O'Nell, the San Francisco tragedienne, who recently purchased a handsome summer estate at Tyngsboro, a few miles from here, has begun to stock Paoifio Cosit League, At Tacoma Portland, 8; Tacoma, t. At Los Angeles Oakland, 1; Los Angeles, 7. At San Francisco Seattle, 4; Francisco, 1, Paoifio National League, At Spokane Boise, 3; Spokane, (Called In fifth.) At Salt Lake-Butte, 4; Salt Lake, 8. American League, At Boston Chicago, I; Boston, 4. At Cleveland Washington, 4; Cleve land, 9. ' At Fhlladolphla-Detrott 1; Phila delphia, 4. At New Tork First game, St Louts, 8; New Tork. 8. Second game, St Louis, 8; New Tork, . , National League. At Boston Brooklyn, 0; Boston, I. At New Tork Philadelphia, 4; New Tork, 6. At Chicago Cincinnati, 0; Chicago, 3. At Pittsburg First game, St Louis, 2; Pittsburg, 6. Second gome, SU Louis, 1; Pittsburg, 8. TO LATE TO CLASSIFY. LADY bookkeeper wanted; state ex perience and salary expeoted. Ad dress C. M.f care of Aatorlan, WANTED Girl or middle aged woman for general housework. Enquire Bay View hotel. JUST LIKE A WOMANI PLANS FOR ARMY MANEUVER8. One Hundred Thousand Men to Be En gaged In Mimio War. New York, July 80. Major General Henry C. Corbin, commanding the At lantic division, has completed the ar rangements for the Joint maneuvers In Virginia to be held September 5 to 10 next by a force of 100,000 regular and National Guard troops. The force will be organized In two divisions with corps headquarters at Gainesville, Vs. The first division will be in command of Brigadier General Grant and its camp will be In command of Brigadier General J. Franklin Bell and will go into camp near Thoroughfare, Va. General Corbin directs that no am munition of any kind be taken to the camp by either officers or enlisted Prevente Train Wreck and .Then Apol ogizes for Her Action, Poughkeepsle, N. Y., July 80. A tree having been blown down near a curve on the Hudon River railroad a short distance from the house, of Mrs. James McKenna, three miles north of this city In a heavy storm, Mrs. McKenna, realizing that a train was due and that the engineer would never be able to see the tree In time to stop the train before striking It seized a red table cloth and sped up the track waving the table cloth. She rounded the curve Just as the train appeared a quarter of a mile up the track and the engineer brought his train to a stop. Mrs. McKenna told of the tree and said: "I hope I do not do wrong In stopping the train." "Not at all, madam. And you are entitled to great praise," replied the engineer. The crew removed the tree. INSECT8 ATTACK HIM. Aged Man Almost Bitten to Death In New York Woods. Mont Clair, N. Y., July SO. A man 70 years old who says he Is John Almond, but because of weakness, is unable to give any account of him self, is in the hospital here hovering between life and death as the result of exposures to storm and the at- Cig'ars You'll Like ILa Veras 99 Clear Havana Best that Can be Produced For a All Dealers Sell Them GUS SCHOENBAECHLER & Manufacturer j& ASTORIA, - - . OREGON