THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1908. AN ACCURATE LIST Mutual' List of Policyholders Steamer Telegraph Resumes Her Correct as Possible. Usual Schedule. ALL CHARGES ARE DENIED SADTALEOFTHEJORDAN'SCAT il DECK AND DOC It NEWS THE WELL DRESSED MAN President of Mutual Denies Allegations That th Company Furnished Inac curat Lists of Policyholders to the Committes. NEW YORK,' July 24. Replying to repeated charges nude by the interna the Mutual life Insurance Company cad used every means in its power to defeat the plans of the committee by sending to Albany inacurate lists of it policyholders, Charles A. Peabody, pres ident of the company, said yesterday: "There is no truth whatever in the story that the Mutual Life lists contain any intended errors. The lists as filed in Albany contain the names and ad dresses, so far as they exeist in the records of the company. ."Changes of residence since the Nu ance of policies are not noted in the records of the company by the policy holders, of course, the management has no means of tracing or correcting. It is also untrue that the company is en gaged in the preparation of another list. It was not in the power of the com-! pany to make any better or more aceu rata list than it has already made. The statement that there was ny intent to mislead the policyholders is nntrue, and obviously issued for wrongful purposes.' There will be a meeting of the Mu tual's trustees tomorrow, at which it Is stated a question will come up of con tinuing on the administration ticket the four members of the International Pol icyholderg' Committee who were placed upon it and who hare declared that they will not attempt to have their names as sociated wth the other 32 men who will be voted for by the adherents of the present regime. James McKeen, genera counsel to the company, continues to maintain that the four men will hare to remain on the ticket. He declared the law is plain and will have to be adhered to. In this opinion he is contradicted by eminent lawyers and it is said some of the trustees are inclined now to take sides with the policyholders. The Becktnham'a Master Files Protest Against Tonnage Tax She Leaves the Drydock Today Odda and Ends of Waterfront Gossip. TWO WOMEN DROWNED. Boat Capsizes on Lake George . Female Occupants Drown. and HULLETTS LANDING, Lake George, N. Y. July 24. Sophia and Corinne Pid dian, of Brooklyn, were drowned in the lake yesterday. The two women, ac- and Stanley Lynch, of Oliphant, started The master of the steamship Becken- ham has entered a protest gainst the payment of her tonnage tax in the sum of $89.64, alleging the same had been duly paid at San Francisco on her ar rival there from the Russian coast, and as she came from Fan Francisco, making the Royal Roads at Victoria a port of calk she was actually from the American port, and not from a foreign port, and therefore not amenable to the tax. Captain Cmgg's state is in substance as follows: At Astoria the vessel was charged 3 cents per ton on 2088 tons as coining from a British Columbia port. As the vessel was only ordered to Royal Roads, not a port of entry. I rightfully consider that the vessel is from San Francisco and having paid tonnage dues there, the vessel ought to be free from a second charge. L therefore, most respectfully protest against the action of the cus toms authorities at Astoria in making a charge of $$9.64 and ask that the amount be refunded." .. Collector "W, L. Robb, of the customs service, will forward the protest to the authorities at Washington. ' Captain Stuart, of the Cape Disap pointment life saving crew, was in the city yesterday, and in conversation with a reporter of the Astorian. said that the new motor bat was a good thing, but she lacked power sufficient to make the time necessary in life saving. The captain cited the drowning of Jisko on Tuesday, when he might have been saved if he could only have driven her a bit faster and reached the man before be sank; this was, of course, after he had saved the captain of the fishing boat, Karpela. The new launch is a 12-borse-power boat, and should, he thinks, be equipped wjfrb. a motor of at least twenty-five horse-power. This being the case, there is no good reason for denying the addi tional power, for the boat and the crew that handles hei are employed in a service that may be granted anything, so great and valuable is it Is not always the man who spends the most money on his clothes; but it is THE HAN WHO KNOWS how to buy clothes who combines purse with quality; he who trades with a store in which he places implicit confidence If you want to dress-well, leave it to U9 we will not let you buy -an ill-fitting garment -We owe our great success to a long line of satisfied customers We Are Still Closing Out Our Two-Plece Suits P. A. STOKES "Good Clothes for Men Who Know." The 0. R. 4 X. Company is up against it hard and fast, for the want of t steamer to transport her Ilwaco pasen gers from this city. She can find no boat that is amenable to charter nor hire, except incidentally, as they shall be idle. The Saturday runs may bj provided for with some certainty, but the daily service cannot be fulfilled on any sort of schedule. The German ship Kmelie did not sail for Copenhagen yesterday, as was ex pected. She is short-handed to the tune of four men. and the crew refused to sail on so long a voyage without the full complement. Nothing Captain YViklin could say changed their determination, and he will have to remain until he can ship the necessary men. The steamer Hassalo brought down the heaviest load of her season yesterday morning. She did not have room for another pound, and her cabin facilities were taxed to the limit. It is said her state-rooms are sold for the whole of the present week; owing no doubt to the laying off of the T. J. Potter. Peterson, the cook of the. steamer Jor dan ba, for some time past, lavished his good will on a fine Tomcat that seemed to reciprocate the kindly feeling until yesterday morning, when he did some thing in the stealing line for which he The dandy little Kitsap made it into Seattle in good shape on Tuesday and was cordially received by all her sister craft in the Sound waters, as she passed in. She made a record (of 14 knots all the way over, and behaved splendidly outside. Mr. Supple is very proud of hi Portland product. TAKE A DIFFERENT VIEW DEFENSE FOB THAW THINKS LET TERS OF MRS. KOLMAN, MOTHER OF EVELYN NESBIT, TO WHITE, WILL AID RATHER THAN INJURE from this place in a light boat and had paid the penalty of death. He was row about a mile up the lake near Agnes Island, when the boat was capsized by a heavy squall and all were thrown into the water. The men clung to the boat and made a brave effort to rescue their companions. They were unable, however, to reach them and both women sank. Two campers put out a skiff the moment the accident happened, and succeeded in rescuing Mr. Piddian and Mr. Lynch. Morning Astorian, 65 cents per month, delivered by carrier. caught in the very act of nabbing some thing from one of the warehouses near the Jordan's berth, and the watchman captured him, sacked him, put an old propeller-blade in along with him, and dropped him into the bay. It U one of the unwritten laws of the waterfront that a thieving cat or dog shall go that way, and he went. Peterson says he never named him, until after his dismal end yesterday morning, and then he named him "McGinty." Untimely, but suggestive. TAKE THE ELEVATOR! TO OUR NEW DEPARTMENTS And See the Fine Assortment of Crockery, Glassware, Graniteware, Tinware, Silver Plated Ware, Stoves and Ranges. EVERYTHING FOR THE HOME All On the Second Floor, Especially Arranged for the Convenience of the Buying Public to Make Shopping Easy FOARD 81 STOKES GO. Captain Richardson will leave out this afternoon with the handsome Columbine fop a trip to Gray's Harbor, and Uma tilla light-ship, No. 76, carrying water. coal and supplies to the latter; snd water and buoy supplies to the harbor. She will lie gone for several days. The Luriine arrived down at 6 o'clock last evening and went back at 7 with the following people on her register: V. H. Hogue, Mrs. J. B. Stickney, and Hon. Dan J. Ingalls. Captain Larkin is still under the weather and will not Iw in command for some days yet. The steamship Beckenham is still on the city sands and her crew is busy scraping barnacles from her. She will probably pull off on the flood this after noon, and proceed to Portland without further delay. The steamer Jordan took on all the passengers she is allowed to carry, from the noon express of yesterday, and took them over to Ilwaco. They were 0. R. 4 X. people bound for the northshore. The lively little Telegraph made her appearance yesterday afternoon, on her usual schedule, with 40 people on board for this city. She left up with quite a number, at 2:30 o'clock. The British steamship Richmond came down from Portland at 2 o'clock p. m. yesterday, with an immense load of lumber for Taku, China. She left out yesterday evening. The schooner Sailor Boy has arrived in port from San Francisco, and will load lumber at the Clutsop Mill dock at once. The steamer Whittier arrived in from San Francisco yesterday morning, and after a few hours' delay here at. the oil docks, went on to the metropolis. The steamship Nevadan will be down from Portland, this morning, en route to Honolulu, via Seattle and Tacoma. NEW YORK. July 24.-The dcfeuie in the case of Harry Thaw placed an en tirely different construction yesterday on the meaning of the letters written by Mrs. Uolman, Evelyn Xesbit's mother, which were made public on Sunday. In stead of conceding that Thaw's case bad received a hard blow the opinion of the counsel for the defense yesterday was that the letters would aid Thaw mater "I am not the least bit worried by the publication of the letters, Clifford W, Hartridge, chief counsel for Thaw said, "I leave you to draw your own conclusions from the letters. They don't worry me. Xeither do they worry Mr. Thaw or Mrs, Thaw in the slightest. I may have a statement from either or both of them in a day or two regarding the letters. Of that I am not yet sure." It is understood that the defence in terprets the letters altogether differently from the prosecution. Whereas the prose cution holds that Thaw was placed in as unenviable a light as possible the defense holds that White is more injured than anyone else. The fact that Mrs. Holman accepted money from him and also asked him for mouey in the letters is one ground given. ' Mrs. Holman, the defen-e holds, was cognizant of her daughter's behaviour at all times and when Thaw succeeded in gaining her affection she pleaded with White to try to win her away from Thaw. The letters, the defense, believes' verify this idea. In a reply to a note which w sent to Mxs. Harry Thaw Inst night inform ing her of a report originating in Pitts burg that she was about to bring suit for divorce, she wrote: "It is perfectly absurd." POLICEMEN STRIKE IN BERRELY UNLESS THE CITY RAISES THE OFFICERS' PAY IT WILL BE LEFT WITHOUT POLICE PROTECTION TRUSTEES POSTPONE ACTION BERKELEY, Cab July 24.-ht police force of Berkeley with the exception of Chief August Yollmer's office force gavo notice hist evening that unlet the pay of each officer is increased at once lh town will U left without polico protec tion. Eight veteran olllcer presented their ultimatum to the town trustees. Chief Vulltner was their spokesman. His sympathies are all with the men who filed their written resignations with the chief yesterday and the resignation were in the chiefs pocket when he ex plained the situation to the town trifle. Thee policemen get 170 a month for 12 hours' work'. The board postponed ac tion on the request. COFFEE WE ARE SOLE AGENTS FOB Greggs Brands of Coffees JUST RECEIVED A SHIPMENT TODAY. FRESH THIS COFFEE IS THE VERY BEST ON THE MARKET EVERY POUND GUARANTEED TO PLEASE OR YOUR MONEY REFUNDED, CREW IS SELECTED. BOSTON', July 24.-Tl.e Harvard crew which won the race against Yale at New London and which will try poni-limions with the Cambridge University boat, con sists of Captain Filley, strokes Xewhall. Xo. 7; Bacon, Xo. 0, Richsrdson. Xo. 5; Olims, Xo. 4; Morgan, Xo. 3; Flh. Xo. 2s and Tappan, bow. Two men who row ed in the freshmen cr-w at Xew Loixloii, Faulkner and I.unt, will im as suhntl- tute. ACCEPTS PROFESSORSHIP. XEW HAYEX, Conn.. July 24.l)r. Clmrles Wellvr, rector of Hopkins finim- mar school in this city has accepted the call to the chair of fircck in the Univer sity of Iowa. He is a graduate of Yale, class of 1805. CALL FOR SAMPLE PACKAGE. ALL KINDS OF FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES IN SEASON AST0RIAGR0CERY Phone Mais 61 1. 3s j Commercial St NEWSPAPERS SUPPRESSED, KARATOKF it.i-.ln. July 24,-Alltbo newftpaprrs of this city have boon sup- prrd, A Sweet Breath is what all should have, and it can be ensured by the judicious use of Hcccham's Tills. A iwcct breath denotes that everything is well, so at the slightest indication of the di gestive orKans not working prop erly, do not forget to take Beecham's Pills Sold Everywhere. In boxes Wo. and !S& ., DEAF MUTE DROWNED. MARTIXEZ, Cal., July 24.-Harry M. Issict, the son of John Isiet, a wealthy rancher, of Martinez, was drowned while bathing in the river at Knightson. This is the third son of John Ixsiet who Im been drowned in the waters of the bay near here. All the sons were deiif mutes and when in danger while bathing had no means of attracting the attention of those who might have saved them. SIX LIVES ARE LOST. CHICAGO, Juy 24. Six lives consti 'tuted the total paid yesterday by Chi ' cago and its vicinity to lakes and rivers. Two boys were drowned while swim ming. One lost his life in the effort to get a water lily 15 feet from shore. A man fell from a bridge where he was fishing. The fifth victim died from In juries suffered by striking a timber while driving. The sixth fell into the river while running to catch a ball in a base ball game. ' Pharmacists throughout the world have devoted their lives to the perfecting of Hollisters Rocky Mountain Tea. It contains the choicest medical roots and herbs known to modern medicine. Tea or Tablets, 35 cents. Frank Hart, drug gist. - " Croup. Is a violent inflammation of the mucous membrance of the wind pipe, which sometimes extends to the larynx and bronchial tubes; and is one of the most dangerous diseases of children. It almost always comes on in the night. Give frequent small doses of Ballard's Horehound Syrup and apply Ballard's Snow Liniment externally to the throat, 25c, 50c and $1.00. Sold by Hart's drug store. : Weel'sBargaioSale OF PRETTY SUMMER DRESS GOODS ON ACCOUNT OF THE UNSEASONABLE WEATHER CONDITIONS OF APRIL, MAY AND JUNE WE CARRIED OVER A LOT OF SUMMER DRESS GOODS THAT SHOULD HAVE SOLD AT LEGITIMATE PRO FIT. THEY WILL HAVE TO GO NOW AT A LOSS IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE INCOMING FALL STYLES. ORGANDIES that were bought to sell for 25c, , , , ,ars now igc GINGHAM SILKS that were bougt to sell for 48c ars now 330 MULL SILKS that were bought to sell for 48c are now 35c EMBROIDERED SWISS that were bought to sell for 48c. .are now 350 RAJAH SILKS that were .bought to sell for 75c arenowfloc THESE BEAUTIFUL DRESS GOODS WILL ATTRACT, NAY, COMMAND ATTENTION AT THE REDUCED PRICES. WE HAVE REDUCED THE PRICE ON THESE FIVE LINES FOR A GREAT CLEAN UP,