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THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1900.
THE MOIININO ASTORI AN, ASTOMA, OREGON. ,
Miicfl In the new house, which will lie
the best company available at that date
and fully worth the best consideration
of tfc local tlintttr fjicrit In behalf of
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of subscription In the pat 24 hour
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LOGANBERRIES
THE FAMOUS
'nd .which he hoje to clear up In a
Judge Bo w!by'i Office Burglarized
short while, nfter which ho will in
stantly prosecute U plan nnd stay with
them until he ha the hoime ready to
open which will prohnhly I In Reptem
her or early In October. The first
night KtiliHcrijft ioti are scheduled at
I.W each, or a much iuor a tbe sub
scriber ifflr to pay for choice location.
Mr, Klver any thl will lm the sixty
llftli theatre he hit liuilt since he him
been In the liimlnc-K, Hin home t In
Hit It Uke City, and he In here armed
with good credential,
and then fired.
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ODDFELLOWS' HALL SCORCH ED
Work of Novice Clumsy Attempt to
Open Safe Hatchet Uied to Pry
Off Knob Failure Suggest
Still Wore Crime,
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THE DICE
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Aitorla Souvenlri at Svanion '.
National BIcycJt for sale at Orkwlti.
Club Cleaning and prewlng parlor j
suit. M cent. Tel. Wack 2184. 72 Oth.
Tk vary best board to bt obtain! U
tha city it at "Tbt Occldnt HottL"
Ratoi vtry raonbl.
adlti' shoes called for, ililned and
vered. Tl. Waek 2255, Biown A
Nullum,
In Pollca Court-One "drunk" revived
it llntt of fJ.OO in jMille,. etiurt yesterday,
and another fortified -VK) fur iit ap
pearing, Hotsl Irving, corner Franklin evtnua
and Eleventh street. European plan;
beat rooms and board In tbe city at
aonable pricaa; fret but.
N. A. Ack-rman, 421 Bond St., doai:
wanner of leaidermy, furniture upbol
staring, carpet cleaning and laying, mat
treee making t specially and al work
guaranteed.
Wai Dangeroui.Thf Kfl feet of nwn.
ing nhovB the aldewnlk on the west front
of the Star theatre building, wa found
to te detaching lUelf from the atruc
ttire yesterday, and the whole thing wa
promptly torn down and hauled away,
before an accident should develop,
Ont Direct Trancfar Among the ntnit
iter of document tent in to the county
e'erk, yeterdy to go t Uie public rec
ord, wa a deed from Mr. Dolly PraH
et ux to N, P. Sttrenaon and Frank Pat
ton, conveying HO acre of land in see
tion 27, T. 8 S., R. 8 W.
Watch Stolan. Tucmlity night an un
known man entered the room of Mr.
Until Knopf in the Welch building, and
when awakened by hi entrance, Mr.
Knopf rained an alarm, the man apolo
gized, naying that he had iinintentially
entered the wrong room, and departed.
In the morning Mr. Knopf found that
the man had made another mistake and
taker her flue gold watch, which wa
lying on the dreer. The watch wa
vnliittl at $I2. The police have a ile
script ion of the man, nnd arc looking for
him.
In Fine Shape. H. H. Parker U fat
getting the Pnrkcr House completely
rehabilitated. It (Ml room have been
overhauled, nnd nicely papered nnd the
furniture renovated and renewed j the
interior and exterior of the house, thor
oughly painted i new front put in for
the restaurant and bar-room, plate glim
predominating on the ground floor, and
thi In addition to the whole new front
installed on the south aide nnd ur
mounted with an ornainenUl tower. lie
ha exiended about $.1MK) in the work
of revamping the building and it ac
cessories. UOEFLER'S
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Orkwitx ell kat,
lell
Coins Ahead. Mi"e. Winifred and
Mil mil- Van Du-en who graduated lat
year at Nt. Helen' Hall and were pot
graduate of the hall Int week, will
vllt at Fort OruHe, Corvallw ami
Kug'iie before returning home, ,Mi
Winifred l now tiklng the examination
of the t'nlted Htatea College Hoard for
Itadcllffe, the Harvard whmd for girl.
Thl i considered the hardeitt examina
tion on the lioard. Recently he took a
Harvard examination on algebra and re
ceived the high mark of 1KI7. .Mi
Maude Van l)uen ha made a apeelulty
of piano muic with imirked aueee and
11 -xt inter will receive a diploma from
the lutll a a u-ceful pupil and capable
teacher of the piano. The hall faculty
are extremely complimentary in their
pral of the ability and charm of thee
yttung ladle.
Stygian Darkneaa. For 30 minuti
lal night, from 11 to 11:30 o'chnk. the
city of A-t-iilit wii in itygiau dark
ue, it gtfnt moUtr at the power houe
uddeiily eo!liiplng from om untowHrd
otue. Hut after a brief npace, the pow
er wan trannferrMl to the auxiliary er
vice, and the light, big, and little, all
over town gave forth their lx-t and
merriet twinkle. The value of a good
lighting plant i never thoroughly real
ized until m!i an imid-nt reveul the
hoHleine of the ituation when it
fuiU ctimpletely. It wa no dark around
thi olJlee that "Jltiiter". the black dog
that board here looked like a un
beam moving around the office on hi
u-t for vagrant rat.
Doing Good Work Contractor F. H.
Allen, who i remotlelling the "!em"
aloon for CharWa F. Wie, at the cor
ner of Eleventh and Commercial treet.
ha Iteen given practically a free hand
in the work and U uing excellent jtnlg
ment lu the Uk of making the place
one of the handomet in the city. In
which, he will 1 ably aiited hy H. F.
Allen & Stm, who have Uie contract for
decorating the establishment; and it i
.iil that when the work i done, the
very bct product from the AMoria
mill will lie in evidence among the
wood and material employed. The work
will coot in the neighUtrhiMid of $2ixw.
Junior! Entertain. The junior cla of
the IiIkIi ehoV)l gave a most uccesful
reception in Logan' hall to the Senior
graduating clat in accordance with the
annual custom. There wn a large crowd
present consisting of the member of the
school, their parent and member of
the alumni. The large hall was appro
priately decorated, and everything done
to make the evening a memorable one.
Refreshment were eerved, and nn ex
client program rendered.
Took Hr Home. Special Detective
R, L. Henninger of the Portland police
force, arrived in the city on the noon
train yesterday with neeeMiary paper
for the arrest of ft certain young woman
(considerably under 19 year of age)
who i wanted at home, whither she
lied lately to follow a life of shame.
He found her easily enough end went
to the metropolis with her, on the
steamer Lurline, last evening.
Received Hr Money. Mr. Norman
Mar, of this city, was the grateful
recipient yetttcrduy of the compact little
mm of $2000, the amount of her late
hiiHband' insurance, with the Ranker'
Life Association of Des Moino. The
Portland Agent, Walter Johnson, made
the payment.
That Nw Theatre It i reported that
the deal I cloned whereby R. E. Elver,
a gentleman with whom theatre build
ing U a practical business, assume the
immediate reconstruction 1 Fisher's
opera house, in thi city, wit'- a five
year lease of the property, the owners
thereof retaining the right to purchase
the same back at the expiration of the
lease-hold, at the sura of $5000. The
floor of the old theatre, which is per
fectly sound, the entire heating plant
now in the cellar and all the 825 chair
aire included at the new dear and are
furnished by Mesv. Fisher, who will
also see to the patent, fire-proof roofing
of the new establishment. . Mr. Elvers
expects the building to cost him, ex
clusive of the item before named, about
$8000. The consumatlon of his plans
hinges upon the prospective sale of $2000
worth of tickets for the initial perform-
IN THE HIGHER COURT.
Order Mad by Judge McBride at
YeiUrday' Seon.
The third day of the dune Scwion of
the Circuit Court for Clatsop county wa
not a particularly busy one; the follow.
Intf matter Ix-ing dUpoed of by Judge
Mcjtride In the eoure of the days
In the case of J. P. Keothan va, C. C.
Cluike, nn tirder wa made, netting Fri
day for hearing the argument on the
demurrer to plaintiff complaint.
In the matter of jCeamUr Lebeek v.
A. 8. I'eid, argument upon the motion
to strike out certain part of the com-
plaint, set for Friday morning.
In the case of the State of Oregon v.
Charle .Icffcr. charged with keeping hi
saloon oiMn on election day. Attorney
C. .1. CurtU appeared and entered a for-
mul plea of "not guilty," and the cae
pased over to the September term for
trial, there lieiug no jury summoned for
ervice at the present term.
Argument wa heard yesterday after
noon iimiii the demurrer to the complaint
in the eae of Uutli M. Knopf va. f.mily
Caliel ct al.
And court adjourned until thl thorn-
ing,
O PERSONAL MENTION. O
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It. L. Adam of Portland, arrived here
yesterday on a busine trip.
It. J. Mel-ean of Columbus, Ohio, wa
doing busines In thi city yesterday.
(': D. Compton of Milwaukee wa a
businc visitor in the, city yesterday.
M. . Pill-bury of Portland was in
the city yesterday on a busines trip.
Walter E. Bli of Portland, wa in
the city yesterday on a business tour.
Mr. Mne Wood of Fresno, Cal., i in
the city and a guest' at the Irving Hotel.
W. H. Hrumner of Seattle wa an As
toria paenger on the noon train ye-
tenia r.
W. If. Coate of Detroit, spent the
lay here yesterday on matter of bui-
ne.
H. T. Burnt rager of Portland wa in
lie citv for a while vetcrday, transact
ing busine.
W. L. Dudley hn-t returned from a
Imief trip to Seattle, and is registered
it the Occident,
C. U. Fifthiun came down from Port
land on the 11:35 exprttt yesterday on
1 matter of buMiie.
C. II. MeCuIloch of Sun Francisco,
pent the day in Astoria yeterdny on
matters of busbies.
Phil S. Rate, the well known news-
jmper man of Portland was in the city
yesterday, nnd having done nil he came
to do, went np on the Telegraph at
2:30 o'clock.
Mr. Captain W. E. Smith, with her
little son and daughter, left on the
0:10 express last evening for a hx
weeks visit with friends in Vancouver,
It. C.
C. Wingate was a homing passenger
from Portland, where he ha Iteen on
business, for the past week. Mr. Win
gate report the metropolis moving
steadily nhend in the matter of general
improvement about the city and do
ing finely with nil her projected com
mercial enterprises. "
MRS. PETERSEN'S.
The fashionable milliner, in the Star
Theater building, Is the bast place to
buy your summer hat
The delicate art of frescoing is only
learned by year of hard tutelage under
expert masters. Each of the proprietor
the Eastern Painting & Decorating Co.,
7.5 Ninth, street, has spent years in the
best shops of the east and is proficient
in the art of decorating and frescoing.
NOTICE.
All property owners having - .suitable
sites for the proposed new and modern
hotel, within the business district of
Astoria, are requested to submit same,
giving location, dimensions and purchase
price, together with a sixty-day option,
to the secretary of the committee Ad
dress F. L. Parker, secretary, P. 0. Box
137, Astoria, Oregon. r .. .
Sig. L. G. Aulettl, violinist; orchestra
furnished for all occasions, teaoher of
violin and mandolin. Address 361 Duane
street, Astoria, One.
A bunglesome attempt to rob the safe
in J. Q. A. Rowlby'a office in , the
I. 0. 0, K, building, and to conceal the
crime by' netting fire to the place, wa
made sometime between the hour of
II night before lat and 4 o'clock yes
terday morning, and that the entire
building wa not destroyed, i due to
the .timely . discovery, and good work
on the part of the fire department.
It w 4 o'clock a. m. when smoke wa
seen coming from the window of the
office occupied by T. C. Curti. on the
second floor, and the alarm rung in. Tbe
department responded promptly, and a
line of hose from the chamjeal wa
quickly laid up the stairway, and the
door leading to T. C. Curti' office w
broken in. At thi time the pent up
smoke in the room, poured into the
hall in auch dense volume, that the
firemen were unable to remain nd were
compelled to retreat down stair, and
raise ladder to the windows, attacking
the flame from thia quarter.
When the smoke had cleared away
from the inside somewhat, an entrance
wa effected, and it wa found that the
flames were beneath the flooring and
seemingly came from the room occupied
by J. Q. A. Howlby, adjoining. By means
of the chemical, and a stream of water,
the fire was extinguished, though not
until the contents of Mr. Bowlby'a office
had been almost totally destroyed. The
floor was burned away to such an ex
tent that falling embers fell to the floor
of the Astoria Savings Bank, and the
water deluged everything, though tbe
bank's lo. will not be very great; $100
probably being ample to cover the
damage.
Tlw room) occupied by F. D. Kuett
ner and wife, in the front of the build
ing,' became filled with smoke, and thi
together with tbe shouts of those out
Aide awoke them. An attempt to make
their way through the smoke-filled hall
way, proved a failure, and they were
forced to the windows, to escape the
suffocating vapor. An extension ladder
wa raised, and all descended in safety.
The lo to Judge Bowlby will prob
ably lie in the neighborhood of $i00, and
to the building perhaps $1000.
When the fire had been extinguished
an investigation showed that the safe in
Judge Bowiby's office had been tampered
with iu a vain and decidedly amateurish
attempt to break it open. The work
was evidenly that of a, novice, for the
combination dial had been pried off with
n chisel or some steel instrument, and
an effort made to drive the lock in; the
burglar evidently thinking that he could
open the afe thi way. His attempt
however proved a failure, for he did not
open the safe.
Just how and why the fire started is
soiuewluit of n mystery, though it is
generally Itelieved that it was the act
of the burglar after trying to open the
safe, thinking in this way to conceal
his work. As it is, the plan was illy
conceived, and badly carried out.
Sheriff Thomas Linville and Chief of
Police Ganimel were soon on the ground
and in close conference on the subject
of the possible perpetrator and the re
sult of their conclusions was the de
tention of a young Finnish law student
by the name of John Henry1 Johnson, a
recent arrival from the East, who, upon
the recommendation of Editor Karinen,
of the Finnish paper in this city, was
permitted to enter the law office of
Judge Bowlby as a law student for the
time being.
The facts that led to his detention
are as follows: lie was the only per
son, Ride from the judge himself, who
was in possession of a key to the office;
he was noticed on Tuesday afternoon
late, pacing up and down in front of
the Astoria Savings Bank, which is
situated immediately under the officer
if Judge Bowlby, and was seen to peer
into the bank over the half drawn cur
tain of the front window; he was known
to have been in the office a late as
5:30 o'clock on Tuesday evening; the
door, for which he held a key, was found
to be unlocked when the place was in
spected yesterday morning, and upon
this hypothesis, he was taken, by Chief
flammal, from his bed at 0:30 o'clock
yesterday morning and brought to the
scene of theft and arson, and while be
ing interrogated by Sheriff Linville,
Chief Gammal and Officer Oberg, fainted
dead away on the stairs near the office
doqr. The sheriff concluded at once to
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hold him, subject to further scrutiny in
to his movement the night before, and
hf wa accordingly locked up in the
Clatsop county jail. ; - '
Inquiry developed the fact that he had
been abroad in the saloons of the re
stricted district until a late hour and
drinking tedily; that he bad gone to
his room on Seventh street, and retired
at half past 3 in the morning of yes
terday. His perambulations about the
city on the night of Tuesday had been
fairly accounted for up to the hour of 1
o'clock, but the remaining two and one-
half hours were entirely blank as far as
anything he. or hi friends, could, or
would, offer.
Yesterday afternoon a reporter for
the Morning Astorian, by courtesy of
Sheriff Linville, interviewed Johnson at
the jail, but no questions, direct, or in
direct, could elicit anything further in
the premises. He specifically denied all
knowledge of the dual crime, and pro
tested his entire innocence in relation
thereto. He was somewhat nervous, but
had recovered poise and wa not at all
uneasy over the predicament in which
he found himself. He offered nothing in
behalf of the interim which needs the
light of proof to release him from sus
picion, and talked quite debonairly of
the circumstances that surrounded him,
saying among other things, that 'if he
was guilty he wanted to take what
wa coming to him, and if innocent, he
wanted his freedom;" the ambiguity of
which statement did not niiinify the
ground upon which he , is being held.
He is a young, fair, good-looking man,
aliout 23 or 30 years of age, and talks
in! an egotistical fashion of his "law
practice? and the probability of his los
ing it in consequence of this episode, and
upon being questioned as to the extent
of, his business, said he had met his
firt client on Tuesday evening upon his
last visitPfflca; i('8'iO;bIoelt:; ;
The matter has been duly reported to
District Attorney Harrison Allen and
that gentleman will probably bring thu
matter to a head this morning; but tf
no further testimony, nor orders, reach
the sheriff, justifying his detention for
legal prosecution, the sheriff will release
him at the expiration of the 24 hours
which the law provides foe the initial
holding of suspected people.
' All that Mr, Johnson has to do to dis
establish the last vestige of suspicion
attaching to him in the matter, is to
offer some tangible account of his time
and movements during the 150 minutes
between 1 aad 3:30 o'clock yesterday
morning, a niatter that it is hoped. he
may do and do quickly for his own "sake,
and to warrant the immediate search for
the guilty party in other directions. A
man of his respectable characteristics
should not find it difficult to supply
CUSTOMERS
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ample testimony in such a juncture and
he will undoubtedly do full justice to'
the imperative demands the peculiar eir-"
cumstancas make upon him.
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM.
Fourteenth Annual Commencement of
the Astoria High SchooL
The follow ing splendid program will
lie unfolded this evening at the First
Methodist church, to mark the four
teenth annual commencement of the
Astoria High School. There is no ques
tion but the house will be crowded to its
utter limit with the relatives and
friends of the young people who are
to celebrate their scholastic exemption,
and it should be, for there is no sea
son in the life of the young quite so in
teresting as. thi initial entree itto the t
larger sphere of life, where the first
burdens of prestige and personal re
sponsibility are taken on by the happy
and eager student, rejoicing in emanci
pation and unfiampered by the newer
engagements of life. "May they live
long, and prosper!"
PART I.
Orchestra "Hope" March Popini
Invocation ....Rev. C. C. Rarick
Selection (a) "The Sweetest Flower
That Blooms"
(b) "The Wind and the
Sunbeam" Hawley
Ladies' Glee Club.
Salutatory "A Plea for Higher Citi
zenship". .Annie Wilhelmina Bergman !
Oration "The Great. Awakening"...... ;
Otto Emile Utzinger.
Vocal Solo "A Summer Night." Thomas ;
Miss Laurie McCann.
Oration "Two Rulers".. Blowden Davies :
Violin Solo "Romance". Spohr .
Miss Maja Fredrickson. 1
PARTIL
ValedictoryThe Growth of Repub
licanism".... Franklin Thomas Parker !
Selection "The Owl a,nd the Pussy
fW .it " Tmrro.
Ingraham
vaw.
. ;'Lffdie; Glee Club. i
Addres "The United States in the J
World's Conflict".Dr. John H. Coleman 1
Vocal Solo V'A Gypsy Maiden 1". Parker ,
Mr. Claire Mbnteith. ,
Presentation of Class. I. N. Carman
Conferring of Diploroas-.Hon. F.J. Taylor
Orchestra Selected. ,
Presentation of Flowers to Class.
Music under management of Miss '
Nellie F. Busey.
Accompanist Mrs. Brooks and Miss('
Anna Campbell. .. . !
9' ? 'of
REMEMBER THE PLACE.
Fine hats at' ,the Bonton Millinery
store. 433 Bond street. Mrs. Jaloff,
milliner. tf.