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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1905)
SATURDAY, JULY I, iooj. THE MORNING ASTORIAN ASTORIA ORE. !:-; I- r1 i.t .. -.ti. i.-.EV r. 1 . .('. '! t. FUGITIVES ARE SEEN j 'M'NeillsUnd Convicts Seen Near II Settle. POSSE HOT ON THE TRAIL if n tin Expected They Will Be Apprehended Thi Morning. Matt Moor, Ont of the Escaped Party, Hungry and Aban doned. One of Fosse Shot J; Tacoma, July 8, 3 A. M., A report ! ' came in at 1 o'clock this morning to th ! i effect that three of the MXeiTs island .1 I ! convicts bad been sighted at Point De- j' fiance park, which is just across from j Vaehon island and officers have gone, out ; to investigate. The men a reported f crossed to the mainland in jt row boat j' Edward Stiokncy, the convict taken on i the outskirts of the city last night is j ,' t the only one of the outlaws as yet cap- ; ; tured. Stickney refuses to say anything ' ! to assist in the capture of his pals. Matt Moor (Japanese)has left the is land and is now on the mainland in the vicinity of Gig harbor. Moor called at ; I a store in Ollala and bought fifty cent j ' worth of provisions. He was bare foot 1 ed and almost exhausted and it is be- lieved he has been abandoned by the rest v-- of the convicts. A report received by "'Deputy Marshal Crosby is to the effect that two convicts, one supposed to be Takiouchi, (Japanese) were seen at the t 'Kerth end of the inland this morning. : '' M they were sucessful in getting off the island, undoubtedly they re the eon t i.rfricta reported as having been seen West of Seattle this evening. One of Posse Shot Tacoma, July 7. Ritter Wilkeson, a well known young Tacoman, and a mem ber of Deputy United States Marshal Marris posse, while Marching for the fugitives from ifXeil's island prison, " waa shot in the right arm and painfully although not dangerously wounded by l-.VrJ. C. and F. C. Bergh, members of an other posse. , , The shooting occurred at Maury island late tonight Wilkinson mistook Bergh Watch - This - Space and In a Few Days We will inaugurate for the second time this year a GRAND CLEARANCE SALE t Of all the odds and ends left over in our Dry Goods department. It is our aim to present to our custom ers a dry goods store clean and up to date in every particular. Old and shop worn goods will not be allowed to accu mulate. We are now busily engaged with the work of invoicing. When it is . accomplished LOOK FOR BARGAINS A purchase here will mean A Saving to you of ONE-QUARTER TO ONE-HALF Ready to wear goods will be given special attention. THE FOARD & STOKES CO. Astoria's Greatest Store. The place where new things make their debut. (or the convict and when he ordered him to halt they fired at him. ARRESTED FOR PERJURY. Bender Won After Clint Million Art Jailed. Chicago, July 7. Mr. Matilda Bender and her daughter, Mae, have been ar rested on charge of perjury and conspir acy in connection with their attempt to secure for Charlotte Bender a widow's share in the estate of the late Colonel George T. Cline. The estate for which the Bender were lighting is valued at almost 2.000.000. The storv which was told to Judge Curtis by Mrs, Bender and heY daughter some months ago hangs on their conten tion that Robert Cline, now dead, and the dead millionaire were one and the same person. They declared that while posing a "Robert Cline. cattle buyer from Texas he married Charlotte Bend er. During the proceedings before Judge Cutting and later before the grand jury the supposed widow of the millionaire did not appear to testify, her mother and sister saving that she was being con tilted in an asylum. , Judge Cutting refused to reeognue the claims of Charlotte Bender, and recom mended that the grand jury investigate the case. As areultthe mother and sister of the claimants were indicted and the indictments kept secret until their arrest. SEIZED SEALSKINS. Concealed in Forepeak of the Steamer Martara. San Francisco, July ".Custom Rouse inspectors have seized eight 'taw seal skin valued at aboift $400 in the fore peak of the steamer Martara, which ar rived a few days ago from Alaska with a acrgo of sealskins. ' These sealskins were not on the manifest and were evi dently designed to be smuggled. They were confiscated and will be sold. Jury Instructed. Butte, Mont., July 7. A special to the Miner from Helena say: The jury in the case of the St, Louis Mining and Milling company against the Montana Milling company for $000,000. the value of ores alleged to have been illegally extracted from, the complaint' ant's property near Marysville, was in structed by Judge Hunt in the United States court and entered upon it de liberations. Wait LIBELS CENTRAUA Pipers Served by Seattle Deputy Marshal BOAT HELD AT ABERDEEN Basil of Libel it Injury Sustained By Woman Who Fell Off Gang Plank At San Francisco Tear Ago Nw of Water Front. Aberdeen, Vah., July ".Steamer Centralia was held here three day on account of her being libeled in the sum of $20,1X10 by Mr. Catherine Stertan of San Francisco, Deputy Marshal T. M. Morris, of Seattle, serving the pH-r, The Centralia sailed Sunday morning The basis of the libel was an injury Mr. Stertan sustained about a year ago through falling off the steamer's gangplank on the wharf at San Fran cisco. Mr. Stertan brought suit against the company, and was offered $MIU0 in settlement, which she would not accept. Mate Dies From Injuries. Aberdeen, Wash., July 7. George Krl enson, who wa seriously injured while substituting for the first mate on the tug John Cudahy, last week, died at the marine hospital in lloquiani Tuesday night. While towing a vessel the haw ser slipped, wrapping around hi abdo men and crushing it ALONG THE WATER FI0NT. Steamer Newport, Captain Schnider arrived in yesterday from San Fran cisco, being at set since Friday last. The Newport belongs to the North Pa cific steamship company and wilt run from here to Eureka as a tender for the Roanoke. Loomii Coming Her. San Francisco, July 7. Oil tank steamer George Loo mis and Steamer H. W. Kruger left out today for A torin. Launch Wasp, built for the Warren Packing company, by O. P. Graham, is now in commission as a tender. She is 43 feet in length, 9 feet beam, and is equipped with a 16-horepower gaso line engine. Missouri Overflows, Omaha, Neb., July 7. The worst flood situation, for a number of years, has been experienced in the Missouri river bottoms, in and around Council Bluff. The river overflowed extensive area on the Iowa side where there is low land extending back for several miles is inundated. Will Electrify Railway. New York, July 6. American inter-! est have obtained a contract for the electrification of an Italian railway and have also closed contracts for electrical equipment to be installed in Japan. "The value of these contract is about $2,000,000. The Japanese contract for equipment of the KaMiazawa electric light compa ny. A large hydro-electric plant is to be built at Kanazawa. The plant ha been shipped overland by way of the Pacific Coast. Collision on Lakes. Muskegon, Mich., July fl. Near 8yl van beach resort on tbe East shore of the lake' the steamer Cayuga rammed Ex-President Cleveland' former pleas ure boat Ruth, now owned by the White Lake Ferry . company, yesterday, but the captain of the latter ran bis boat on shore and safely landed 20 passen gers. A panic was averted among tbe passengers through the coolness of tbe captain. Knew all about Shirring. "I think, aid the matron of the cheap reaturant "I'll take shirred eggs." "Ah, ton'." cried the new waitress, ""Quit klddln' me." ( "What?" . "Aw, you can't fool me, I used to be a seamstress, and I know It ain't pos aible to make gateera or tuck In an egg." CathoJlc Standard Times. Way and Means. I "should band together and get control of the primaries." "Mut what method would you advise ?" asked his friend. "Jiu-jitsu or plain as sault and battery ?" St, Louis Globe Democrat. Notable Names In the Dispatches Ocorft Weatlnxhowe, Versatile Oca Is. Jadft Mortal J. 0'Brks Jack Lot tea. Mask la a Senator Lodge's Joke Sir Charles Harding. Tba Shaw Boots. T11EUE are few men of aucb versatility as George West Inghouse, one of the three trustee who were chosen to vote the" Equitable l.f stock recently con trolled by Jauiea II. Hyde. It baa been said tbat be Is a qkorci wnrriiw IRn witn a hundred novst thousand boraepow trhoio by Or... imlli pf him, ao iorJ, N 11 marvelone la bl. eu ergy. He Is engineer, Inventor, manu facturer and financier. ' lie baa an army of about S3.000 men In bl em ploy. He not only Invents things him self, but be eupertuteuda Invention by other. He takes technical atudenta from the college every year and acta them at work In bl factor-lea. Those who show inventive capacity be put at work on the details of problem be wishes solved. The first great Inven tion of Mr. Weetlnghouse wa tb air brake. He bad a hard time getting It into use. He took It to Commodore Vanderbllt, and It I related the bluff railroad magnate dismissed him wltb tbe remark that be bad not time to listen to a fool who expected to atop train with air. At last be got chance to try tbe Invention on one train on a amall country line. It so happened tbat tb air brake had not been In uae fifteen minute before bad accident was avoided through Its aid. Mr. Weetlngbou. ay Work!' Work, waa playing whlt with some friend one evening. After one of tb deal he did not pick his cards up, but kept drawing on a piece of paper be fore him. The other watched him rnrioualy, remarked tbat they were ready to proceed and then waited and waited, enable to understand why be should pay bo attention to them. Sud denly: with a flash of triumph Id bla ey and exultation In bl voice, be cried ont: "Brown, I've got that sat nral twa meter Used? There It )a. It J& f5he SuJ The Fourth is Over But the Clearance Sale of Seasonable Garments Continues. A Clearance Sale OF Shirt Waist Suits gives you an opportunity to get big bargains in Silk and Alpaoca suits: SILK SUITS AT . . . Iiotolij Former price, $15 to $22. ALPACCA SUITS . . . . Is to io Former price 1.75 to $15. Our line of Wash Suits is not all picked over yet. But you must call quickly if you want to take advan tage of bargains at this time. A Pretty White Shirt Waist Suit i just the thing You will find here a good assortment of various styles and all size at price which will make the purchase easy. Children's White Dresses In piques and linons. Bnster Brown and other sty 1m Price range from 60c to $1.50 Embroidery and Lace Trimmed INDIA LINEN DRESSES for girl age 8 to 14, Price 1 1. 00 to 13.75 rannoF fall lo" work ftweeafully." And. picking up hi cards, be asked. 'Whose turn I It to playT Jack Ixmdon, author of "The Call of tbe Wild," la an ardent Socialist and recently joined with John Graham rbelpa Btokea, tbe settlement worker, and other In Issulug an appeal to col leg atudent to make a study of So cialist principle. London baa just bought a tin place on th Pacific roast. and It la rumored b will toon marry a westers bell who la also literary. II la now at work on a aerial for tb Harper. On bl last visit to yew fork London waa Introduced lu a cafe to a iuulclau. "!, too, am a inu Irtan, In amall way," Loudon aald. JACK lOsjBOR. "My musical taleut , waa once the means of saving my life." "llcrw wa tbat 7" tb musician asked. -There waa a great flood In our town in my boyhood," replied London. "When tbe water struck our bouse my father got on a bed and floated wltb tbe tree.u till he wa rescued." "And your aald tbe musician. "Well," aald London, "I accompanied bin on tb piano," Not lone aco Lieutenant UU S. Grafft aa detailed for doty at tbe White House, and aa be la over alt feet tall, handsome and of soklterly bearlug, he at ouce attracted attention. One night when tbe Marlue band waa rending the air wltb ragtime melody a stranger poluted to tbe young officer and asked an usher who be waa. Thre time tbe usher roared th nam Into tbe stranger' ear, the blast from tb band ootdolng blra every time. Then aa tbe usher raised bis voice to It su perlative pitch tbe music suddenly ceased and left him shouting. "Lieu tenant U. S. Grant No, 8!" Jnatlce Mortan J. O'Brien, another of tbe trustees who will vote tbe UydM tock in tb Equitable oclrty, war named but a few day ago a preeld rcg justice of tbe appellate division of the New York state supreme court In tbe first department. He occeeda In this position the late Justice Van Brunt Judge O'Brien la Jurtet whoa record la o blgb tbat In 1001. at ta expiration of roar teen year term, be waa re-eleeted to tbe supreme court without opposition bla name being ou Ifefnorratlc. Repub lican, Clttoen Ta lon and other tick et. He wa bora In New York In 1W2, educated In tb nubile acboola, jrnoa o'aaiiH. fit. John' rollefe. Fordbam, and tbe Colombia law school, waa admitted to tbe bar In 1874 and In tbe Haye and Tllden campaign of 1870 waa promi nent a a Democratic speaker. Ha wa corporation counsel of New York In 188C and in 1887 waa flnt elected to .to bench of the sapreme court of tbe stste. It married a sliter of tbe noted politician and capitalist John D. Crimmlna. ! Colonel J. M. Goffey, th Tlttsburg oil 0ralor who discovered the Neo-i desba oil fields In Kansas, tells a story of two American who were discussing the Ingi'iiniiusm-s of Irish wit while visiting Inland. Ou of tbe gentle-, men apiiruuclied an Irishman walking along the rond and Inquired of bun, "If the devil came along here, who would be take first, jou or meT' Tbe prompt reply was: "He would take me. He I sure of you at any time," ftenntur Henry Cabot Lodge la usu ally In evidence at the.roiuuiencement season and take much. Interest in bl own alma mater. Harvard. He gradu ated from that Institution In 1871, and Just twenty fonr year later bla aon, George Cabot I-odge, took bla bacbe lor'a degree from Harvard also. Tbe on baa literary talents, like bl fa ther, and la a con tributor to leading mngaalnea, Tbe senator Is noted for bla wit. n often visits a In neb 'room in Washington which both house of con grea ar wont to patroulce. On on ccca Ion, finding bis usual seat oc- rupled, be chose one at another table, where, aa It happened, a new man bad been Installed aa waiter. ' "Bring me a piece of Washington pie and a glas of milk," aald tbe senator, giving hi usual order. In a few minute tbe darky returned, bearing a piece of cbocolote pie, where upon tbe senator laughingly aald, "I want Georre Washington, not Booker." IP V-v j The MORNING ASTORIAN 75 CTS. PER MONTH Astoria's Best Newspaper. We're Fishing for Business Howtver, w don't offer you tempt ing bait today, and cheat you tonor tow, but giv solid valuta is hJgk grad clothing tb who! yar rounl In Summer uits W offer neat, n)py pattern a $10.00 to $18.00 P. A. STOKES The Dressy Shop for Dressy Men. NO SEASON FOB IT. When Astoria Citireni Show the Way. There can be no Just reaao why any noyance of urinary disorders, th dan ger ofdiabete or any kidney in wh just reader of this will uwUniH t (uf?ec th torments of as aching beef, th an relief is so near at hand and the ot posit iv proof given that they e b cured. Itead what an A tori a citizen. y si Mr. X. JacoUoo, living at 127 Suomfc street, says: "Is our eiperienc Doaa'a Kidney Till performed all that is el lin ed for them. Their actios wa speedy and th results satisfactory. I pro cured a boi of them at Charle Roger' drug store, 540 Commercial street, for my grandmother, Mrs. M. Beck, and ho used them. From th satisfactory re sult obtained w value Doa'a'a Kidney Till exceedingly." Fur sale by all dealer. Price 60 cent Foster Milium Co , Buffalo, N. Y sola genu for th United State. Remember th name Doan't asds take no other. , Sunday Eicuraloa to Nortk Beach. The Ilwaco Railway and Navigation) Company ar selling round trip ticket every Sundsy from Astoria to alP cotta, at a rate of on dollar for the point on Long Beach, including Nab round trip. QUALITY I alway our fliwt conideratifi Wc are sot conducting a special sale in out Grocery Department At present, but as usual our prices are considerably below those else where. All of our good are fresh, reliable and of the best quality. Tel ephone order carefully and prompt ly attended to. WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. Foard Q S tolies Co THE BIG ST0BE. - 1 V 1