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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1906)
8 THE MORNING 'ASTOKIAN, ASTOIUA, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 130 9. In the CrockeryDept. of A. V.Allen T1ktB week you can purchase 42 piece Cottage Dinner Set for only $4.20. They e.r actually worth $7.00 any where. Only 0 more seta left. Intend ing purchaser f dishes should look at this wonderful bargain and in fact oth er bargain we are offering in all lines of goode. W are displaying lamp of alt kinds at price ranging from 85c and up complete. If you want a lamp this it the store to buy it, '..'.,. A. V. ALLEN, WHERE ALL PEOPLE GO FOR BARGAINS SAVED 140 PEOPLE .Columbine Comes Home Prom Her AlasKart Trip. STOOD BY THE LOST OREGON CONTESTING WILL Bitter Fight Rageing Over the Priest's Money. BOUGH rHUSBANDSFOR NIECES Jtelatjm Left Out of Win Contend That Hind Wa Unsound and That Undo Influence Wil Used Daring Last Day. the nearest turviving relative waa Mr. tTsthenne jioAWle a sister who died. is claimed, since the present ea baa been on trial, due to over-excitement, over-excitement, Among the other relatlvea are Mr. Plamondon of Chicago and Mra. Thomas II. Dolly of this city, niece, and Mra. urae Aiackin, widow of a nephew and for a number of yeara before hi death the Housekeeper of the priest i The nieces were near the old man In his last daya and to them he left hla estate, Mra. Plamondon being willed a third and the greater portion of tha remainder going to the other. The will was drawn while the testa tor waa on ma aeam bed a year ngo. The contest waa begun on the ground that tha priest waa of unaound mind In L a, At 1 ja mi ias aavs and mat innuence was exerted to prevent him reeosniiine other relative. . CHICAGO, Oct. 13.-A dispatch to the Tribune from Rock Island HI, say: ' That the late Father Thoma Mack in aaid he had given $50,000 to C Plamondon of Chicago to marry his present wife, who ia niece of tha priest, wa the statement made by Mra. Mary Qrummie, wife of a nephew of Mackin, on the stand in the Circuit court here yesterday. Mrs. Crummls was a witnesa In a contest which has been brought by a number of the aid inherited heirs to break the priest's will, which disposed of an estate valued at $200,000. She ia not a party to the case, but her children are. Attorney M. M Surgeon, for the con testants, e-sked her if she recollected any conversation with Father Mackin at a certain period tome yeara ago. Her reply was: Why, ha aaid, in her presence (re ferring to Mra. Grace Mackin, one op the beneficiaries of the will) that I wasn't afaid to work, nor I wasn't afraid to marry a poor man, but tha he had to buy men for his two nieces, and that he gave Fiomondon over $5(1 000" v Father Mackin made his money in win., u (sirtv if .ad while ha we CHICAGO, Oct 13.-Char!es A. Pin mondon said at his residence Inst night that Mrs. PUmondon's right to the leg- acy in Father Mackin a will was un questioned that the property renlly be longed to Mrs, Plamondon'a father and that the priest held it in trust for her under an unusual agreement made by her rather. DETERMINING RAILROAD TARIFFS. Interstate Commerce Commission Take Several Weeks. V.1U WASHINGTON, H. 1.1.-Members of the Interstate Commerce commission do not expect to be able to determine the form of tariff to be published by the railroads and filed with the commission for several weeks. Chairman Knapp of the commission haa explained that it would 1 necessary first to determine certain fundamental principle in the construction of the tariffs, before re form in tariff could be worked out. It would have to be decided for instance, whether a joint tariff should be filed by the initial line; whether common tariffs should be filed; whether class rates shall 1 fifed in a tariff by them selves; and how terminal charge shall Captain Richardson Talks Modestly of of to work Dona by Hia Ship, Of ficers and MenSite for Hin chinbrook light Surveyed. grew. At ihe time the will waa drawn -TfffJffOiHTm V r&tY i V S. A. G1MRE 543 Bond Street, Opposite Fischer Bros, ! Once the principles and similar ones, were decided upon. Chairman Knapp thought the form of the tariff could be worked out without senous dif ficulty. The filing of new tariff with the commission by railroads involves not only a vast deal of labor, but immense expense. Every time a big system of railroad changes its tariff rates the ex pense a syrette between $300,000 and $500,000. Naturally, therefore, the railroads are particularly Interested in the form of tariffs to be prescribed by the commission. Until the subject haa been determined fully by the members of the commission and the experts'of the railroads, no order will be made on the subject by the commission. Nothing to Fear. Mothers need have no hesitancy in continuing to give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to their little ones, as it con tains absolutely nothing injurious, This remedy la not only perfectly aafe to give to small children, but is a medi cine of great worth and merit. It has a world wide reputation for its cures of coughs, colds and croup and can el waya be relied upon. For aale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. Children eat, sleep and grow after taking Hottistera Rocky Mountain Tea. Brings rosy cheeks, laughing eyes, good health and strength. A tonic for sick ly children. Tea or tablets 35 cents. Frank Hart. FOR YOUR Jewelry Wants GOTO Astoria's New But Most Reliable Jeweler. A complete line of new stock just re ceived, including WaU-hes, Clocks, Cut Glass, Opera Glasses, Umbrellas and Souvenir Spoons of Astoria. Fine Watxh Repairing a Specialty. FranR J. Donnerberg, 110 Eleventh St. The handsome light -house tender Co lumbine it lying snug at her pier at the foot of Ninth trcet, just home from a forty-one day's cruise in Alaskan waters, all hand well and hppv, from Captain Charles Richardson down, and glad to get in the home port. A reporter of the Morning Astorlau Doaracd tne steamer yesterday and n joyed a long talk with Captain Rich ardson and hi officer and among other ming louonea upon, waa the expe rience undergone by all hand in the saving of the 114 passengers of the grounded steamship Oregon, one month ago iiu morning, off the aeafront of CHle Hinehinbrook. The Columbine's master, in this relation said in part: "Of course you know that the main obect of our cruise to the north was the fixing surveying and mapping of a ite for the new light house on the westerly extremity of Cape Hinehln brook and when we left here we had on board the surveying party detailed for that purpose, consisting of U. S. Assist ant Engineer Warrack, Architect Carl 1-eick, of Colonel Roessler's staff at Portland, and Superintendent of Con-j struct ion Hcadley, of the same staff audi oflice, and it is needless to say thssa gentlemen did all they were dispatched to do, in good season: but mt hap pily and again most unhappily there as an interruption in the work, where by we were enabled to be of very ma terial service to a large group of peo ple in distres; I refer, of course, to the wreck of the Oregon, on the sunk en reef on the eoutlj side of the cape named, at 11 o'clock on the night of September 13, last. "The Oregon, with he umial crew and good lit of passengers, was bound north, for Valdea and wa well in shore. The night was foggy, raw, cold and squally, and ipUin Sou! was feeling his way gingerly up the miretd coast, without anything to guide him j in the way of light or landmark, and the first thin? he knew his ateamer ipped up on a ragged reef and set tled there, the tide making at the time such a wav a to permit her to mount the rocks without any violence. nd when she settle.!, they penetrated her sheathing and held her for all time "When this happened, the Columbine was about five mile away, lying snug in the shelter of Port Ktches jnst around the cape-head. Along toward daylight the passengers and part of the crew in five of her boats, left the stranded steamship and slowly made their way to, and around, the cape, where the Columbine met them, just a she wsr making her way to the head land to put the surveying party ashore. '"AVe took them on board at once and conveyed them to Port Ktches. They were is a miserabl plight and cold to the bone, and in three minute a'ter boarding ns, the last one of them had hunted out a warm corner somewhere about the Columbine and was soon gratefully warm and assuredly safe, a dual condition that afforded them as much comfort a it did ua. W sooni had them housed at Port Ktches and enjoying life to the limitation of the far-away and benighted village ; and then with such of the crew of the Ore gon as waa with the party, we steamed out and around the cape to the dis tressed ship below. There were still more than fiftv people on the steamer, and she was fast breaking up. Captain Soule and hi officers had gathered all her valuables, including the ships in strumcnt snd papers, and such move ables as were essential and these were transferred to the Columbine by Chief Officer Warrlner and Second Officer Leadbetter, of our abip, and the poor old Oregon was abandoned to her fate, but not until a formal board of survey had assembled and declared her eon demnation and abandonment. This board was made up of Captain Soule, "O SPICES, o COFFEEJEA, DAIdr.G POWDER, aAVOniOEXTRACTS AbioIuhPafy. Finest Flavor, Creator Sf re$ h, CcasoftoMt frkn CL05SET&DEVE6S PORTLAND, OREGON. if t'liicf oniwr warrlner, riilef Eiiulnw Startup, Captain Knthbuns ex -port enptain for the 0. R, A N. Company, who was n passenger on the Oregon and iiiyaclf. As soon ns this board aroe from Its lnbor, the Oregon waa the common prey of the neighboring fn minis ana wane of me country, ami they were nt long in scenting their prey, ..They took everything,, from her In the way or stores and provisions. and such of her fixture a might be redeemnnie with th underwriter, and carried their plunder away in bout -Ion after boat-load. "In the meantime v had left tha scene of the wreck (but not before had taken a fine photogrupn of the shlii and the coast), and slenmed back to Port Ktches. We spent the night at Ktchea and number of the passen gera were ticketed for that port, but the main contingent were due at Se ward City andVahli't, whither we went on the morning of the !3th and landed ail hands at ludo that morning. "I have seen many grateful peoid in my time but for genuine and wholesome good-will commend me to thee peopl who were 0n the Oregon. Nothing could have been more propitious than our presence in those waters, for storm tore up and down that const in the next few hour that would never have spared oul 0f them on that blank and Iwre coast of rock and desolation. Of course all tha orlicer and men on the Columbine were just as glad and happy ever the fortunate turn affair took, aa were those poor people, and the hand ling of the castaways was bi tha sim plest and first of all a seaman's duties. "After we had dona sll that we1 euld for th refugee from the Oregon, we returned at owe to our tk at Cape Hiichln'rjok, and the surveyor went ashore and did the work they were up there to do; all of which will find development in due time by the erec tion .of a fine light house at that dan gerous point. By th war, I have sketch of th Oregon's position on the reef, which I made -while we were lv. ing off and taking her peple and atuff, and which ahow pretty plainly the general condition bv which she was ; surrounded at the time ef the disaster. It was not 1 a work of art, but it was a matter of utility l the Mime. (And it was-FJ.J "Once the matter of the site for the light house at Cape Iflnrhinbrook was fully dlpoed of we went direct to Juneau and from there we visited ev-1 ery light station on the coast of South- ' eastern Alaska, and gradually made our way homeward, and glad enough we are to get here." j Before leaving the Columbine and her j olVicent, h had been to Instrumental : in saving them from unnameable hnr-; rors In that ru;ged coast-land, the fol-j Wing letter wa drafted in the cabin! of the Columbine and aigned br ev-j ery pasenger of the Oregon and all her officers, and presented to Captain Rich ardson and hit officers, and it is need less to say it la counted among the treasure of the Captain' voluminous record of sea life ami it untoward ex periences; s Q-t. !?. !on. To the Officer and Crew of the U. S. Light House Tender 'Co- lumbine; , "We the tin lcr!gned, passn grs, whom' you rescued from the wreck of the S. g. tirecwn. near Ilincliinhronk Point, Alaska, de sire to express our heartfelt thanks 'or timely a"ltance. and kimlnes which was shown to ui while under your care. We feel that had you not picked ns up at se and hatcned to the re lief of those still on the wreck, that the exposure which we would have been subjected to, might have reunited in the Jos nf ores of lives. It is imposi ble for u to expres our feel ings." SPA'KXTV-FTVR SIGNATURES. Thi epit!e bears the signa ture of seventy-five pe"ple and there can be no sort of doubt of the deep eonvlrtjons of profound indebtedness with which each one of them added hi or her name to it. Beside this letter, the captain Is in receipt of numerous other personal ex pressions from the passengers who felt that the company letter waa not quite enough In the way of manifestation as far at they were concerned, and among the latter was one of deep and thank ful tone, signed by a Mr. Birch, a min ing engineer, who accentnated his grat itude by enclosing In hia letter several beautiful nugget of gold, and asked that they be given to, and worn by, Captain Richardson's children; this was supplemented by another, from Masanao ' IJanihara, second secretary of the im perial Japanese legation at Washing ton who wa also a passenger on the JOregnn,' and was deeply aentsible of the kindness with which Captain Rich ardson and hi oscer treated Mm In the hour of peril on the far northern coast. And it seems that this gentle man expressed himself in no unqualified terms in detailing the history of the Incident to his superior, st the lega tion, for Acting Secretary of State Al dee sends out a copv of a mt g'sce- fnl note which reached his offbe from T. Mivaoka. the Japanese miniter at Washington, and with it a copy of his, the secretary's, letter to the Depart ment of Commerce, in relation to the incident, and a!o that department's acknowledgement, over the ignatur of Major William Casey engineer secre tary of the department, addressed to Captain Richardson and his officers. rM- Ct w " Li3 for THIS WEEK SPECIAL, COAT OFFER These Coats ore all new Fall and winter styles Plaids and Stripes made to sell at $12.60 ' $13.50 and $14.50 Your Choice they last. while o.oo FLANNELETTES New Fall and Winter shades' made to sell, at J2 J-2c to 15c lOc the yard. Horse lept?StoreJ with Instruction that the same be read from th quarter deck of the Columbine to the officer and men ,pf the ship. The whole affair makes a happy and creditable incident ia th career of a Ana veuel and in the hUtoriet al tha ! officer and men that had th good for- tune to be at hand at the crucial no- . mcnt, and, more-over, very pleasant j reading for the citiena at home, who i ! A! know the ship and every man on board of her, and from whom nothing ! was to have ix-cq expected. GYPSY WEALTH. Immense Amount of Cold Foand in the Camp. CHICAGO, Oct. 13.-A dispatch to the Tribune from Cairo, lit, aayst On complaint of Gus Mitchell a gyp- ay, a warrant was sworn out Jaat night for the recovery of $1,000, which Mitch, ell claimed had been stolen from kirn by a rival band of gypsies. Taking a down deputies all heaelly armed. Sheriff Grisoom went to the camp and began to search. In tb first wagon examined more than $10,000 was found, mostly In gnld. The second wa gon contained the richest treasure, $13, 000 in gold being found, - A certificate of deposit for $25,000 is-ued by the First National Bank of Chicago was found. On sixty-four men searched, several smaller certificates were found. More than $30,000 in gold and cur rency was found In the camp, The of ficer were smaied at th display of wealth, but were unable to Identify Mitchell's alleged loss. Alarmed at tb exposure of their richea, tb band is camping In town and have hired guard o surround their wagona. "Real Love Letters of a Real Girl" "I am not going to beat th big drum of sentiment and make wailful noise. Nothing I o dead a a dead infatuation. The more person has been infatuated, the more he resents an attempt to gal vanize the dull, dead thing into life. I am wise, you see, to th mL And reasonable, too, I hope. And brave. And brave, I tU yon. Do you think I will be a coward, and cry outf I make, you' present of everything; of the love and happy thoughts, of the pleasant dreams ahd plans, of the little prayers sent up, and the blessings called down there were a great many every day of the kisses and all the dear sweetness. Take it all. I want nothing from you In return. But do you suppose that, having given you all this, I m going to giv you my soul a wllf To moan my life away, my beautiful lifef You are not worth it. Yon are not worth anything, hardly. You are unstable, Invertebrate. My life shall be aplendid In spite of you. You shall not cheat me of one single chance of heaven." (From Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruthrr, in the November Delineator). The swetet, tenderest love messages ever put on paper. By the author of "Eliisalieth and Her German Garden Thl story is on of the many aplendid features of the NOVEMBER DELINEATOR . - FASHIONS IN DRESS NEEDLEWORK HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. Buttericks Patterns for November. Ten Cents" and Fifteen Cents. The Delineator $1.00 per year.