THURSDAY, OCTOBER it, lQofJ
TIIE M0RX1XG ASTORIAX, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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LUTllER LEAGUE IN
MILLIONAIRE COOPER
In the Crockery Dept. of A.Y.Allen
Thl week yon n pur -h a 43
piec Cottage pinner Set f.r only $4.20.
They are actually worth 7.00 any
where. Only more t Wft. Intend
ing purchaser of dihe should look at
ibis wonderful bargain and is fad oth
tr bargain we ar offering la all lift
at good. W are diplaving lamp of
all kinds at price ranging from 25c
and up complete. If you want a lamp
this is the store to buy It. ".' .
CENTRAL BODY OP OREGON'S
YOUNG LUTHERANS HOLDS HAP-
YOUNO PHILANTHROPIST WILL BE
IN ST. LOUIS THIRTY DAYS
TALKS OF THE MEDICINES HE
CONTROLS.
SPECIAL
for
THIS WEEK
PY AND SUCCESSFUL SESSION-
ASTORIA CONTRIBUTION.
A. V. ALLEN,
WHERE ALL PEOPLE GO FOR BARGAINS
MAGNATES BATTLE
(Continued from page 1)
rectors acting. Peebody'n resolution of
July IS to be withdrawn and not re
Tired this year, and Harriman to have
Kofen, Loeb k Cbmpany'a proxies turned
over to risk"
Director GriuMll died during the year.
FIa elaima that the Rsrrimaa faction
agreed that GrinnelTs auceeaaor ba a
man whose presenea in th directory
would not Interfere with th independ
ence of the ElinoJ Central, Henry De
Foreat, a director in the Southern Pa
cific, of which Harrimaa is president,
and one of the counsel for Harriman,
waa named Hi a petition signed by Ear;
rimaa and aix other diicferi to succeed
GrinneQ. :
By reason of hie Southern Pacific af-
filiations, DeForest waa not acceptable j
TREASURY
SHY
Counting of Twenty Million Re
veals Discrepancy.
MAY BE ACCOUNTANTS ERROR
Chief Wilkie In St Louis Declares His
Pretence Has Ho Connection With
Discovery by Treasury
Officials.
to Fish. Cromwell declare that under t States tub-treasury, hate diwer4 a
Lfceir ar-reemant Fljsh w. hounJ U m20fX
cent DeForest and t et both Mi own I John F Tn:ki. th' Waited
n,1 the TTarrim.n orox.'ea for him At!5 Srri- U i. the dty,
tW. mt.w tter fnrm.llr h. M"1 that Mi mission baa SO
niM w fWn . th. mT. i pmnfcto w?ta the examination. He
ire In favor- of DeForest. Fiah arose and:M-r he h ker mrel7 the
declared with great emphasiss "I will ! convention,
never nnder any circumstances vote forj United State Sub-Treasure Thomas
DeForest" I B admitted that the experta are
Fish thereupon nominated 3. D. Cut- ' St Loui' but !! that n it&nitt
tin. ,A cast a total of B1ST09 rtJ UttB,Mt wouI le by
for him. Cromwell, as a matter of form. "Putative at Washington had
Toted 2.100 shares aeainst Cutting and fini,hed thtir '"vestigatloi
ST. LOUIS, Oct, I7.-The Republic
today printa the following:
Tbree'expert accountants from the
Treasry Department at Waaliagton,
working under a Deputy United States
Treasurer, counting more thaa 12ft,-
000,000 fa the vault f tie Utfiedlof the hrmnal tb parliamentary rk
TT.e ith annual convention of th
Columbia Central Luthnr league
4ml!cd in tht city day befure yes
enly, at, and under, the au-pwc of
the First Lutheran church of Astoria,
it pu4or, Rv. O. E. Kydtjulst, it of
8ccr and laity. Yctenk waa the
grett day of the two-day convention,
hutrr, and was thoroughly enjoyed
by the hundred in attrnlaiWe.
The program was very long and an'
ply fupjilied with every element of I",
teret that tended to invoke Ui live
liet concern in the perfect tuw-ct of
the gathering, and at ita cloe, UA
night, the verdict of every nil tn
gaged in the work, waa, that the con
vent ion waa one of the moat ante
ful ever held in this behalf in the Pa-
cifle Wet. Not the slightest word or
event of untoward significance marred
the semion and it paaaea into hiUry
Instinct with the bet spirit and fulleet
realiiation conceivable in convention
lifa. and will be rememlrd for all
time by those who had the good lor
tune to participate.
The major portion of the delegates
arrired on the morning train and boat
of Tuesday, and the bwt of them had
registered for yesterday important
wfMi'on, which becan promptly at the
hour of 9. tha church being filed to it
utmost capacity.
The opening service were led by Rev.
Eoefcmer, of STehaJem, and at the ele
la favor of DeForest. Cutting was
thereupon declared elected to fill Grin
nell'a term. Charles M. Beach, J. T.
Hanraban and Corelinua Vanderbilt.
"A man's reputation," aaid Mr. Akins,
i worth more to him than the loss
of $61,200 is to the government. If an
error were made in checking money
whose terma had expired, were elected !from tbe T,ulla on of th
Iic-cuunv oi u ue money on nana
would reveal the error, and also the
without opposition.
Morning Aftorian, 60 eents per month,! P of the-full amount of the mon-
DeUTered by earner. hkh ,bou1d U ln tb Tau,t,
; '"The present inveigtation will de-
tcrmine whether the accounta balance.
j Until then nothing can be said and it
i would be unjust to connect tbe name
J of ny emplove with the discrepancy
' at this time."
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CCFFEEaTEAa
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TLRiOBfiiG EXTRACTS
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r PORTLAND, OREGON.
Some of the nicest people in
the city live in furnished room;
people are moving at frequent
intervals. Tell them in a small
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ting them rented through one of
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S43 Bond Street, Opposite Fischer Bros.
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LOCKOUT IS OFF.
Building Operations Resumed in"
fornia.
CaU-
OAKLAND, Oct. 17. The lockout de
flared Monday which tied up all build
ing operations in Alameda county for
three days, was called off at a meet
ing here tonight. The millmen's atrike
has been called off, the mill owners
having agreed to the demands of the
unions. ,
NO TRACE OF ROBBERS.
LEADVILLE, Oct. 17. Although sev
eral armed posses have been scouring
the hills in the vicinity of the Denver
k Rio Grande hold-up all day, not a
trace of the robbers has been found.
BAD FIRE IN OHIO.
Gasoline Explosion Damages Life and
Property,
CELINO, 0., Oct. 17. Five were
killed and about 100 injured by a gas
oline explosion in the Meinerding dry
goods and hardware store at Fort Re
covery today. The cause of the explo
sions is not known. Fire followed and
the entire town on the west side was
soon ablaze. Calls for help were sent
in all directions and firemen tfrom
neighboring cities responded and assigt
ed in controlling the flames. The loss
will be heavy.
of the Leasroe take up by the
reading of the report of the credentials
committee and the protocol, which were
duly fnt to the records, a were th
report of the following named offtVer
and committee, which were submitted
in sequence: The president, vice-presi
dent, aeereiary, statistical secretary,
treasurer, executive committee, exten
ston committee, prea .'committee and
the special committee of the ly. Af
ter which th following delegates were
elected to the, national eonvention at
Canton, Ohio: Rev. 0. E. Rydqulit, of
Astoria? Rev. Walter I. Eck, of Van
couver. Wash.! and Mr. Galinski. of
Portland. And thi waa promptly fol
lowed by the naming of the new con
vention officer for the ensuing years
President, William Derr, of Vam-ouvers
eeretary, Mi Anna Stublinft of The
Dalle; statistical secretary, Mi Fern
Church, of Portland; treasurer, M!
Alcnia Nvland, of Astoria. At the close
of the election, the formal busines of
the league was dispathced with sat'
factory thoroughness, and thi dipfe(
of the entertainment feature of the pro
gram were broached in sequence, each
affording ample enoyment to all con
cemed.
There was (special music by way of a
lovely vocal duet by the Misses Os
borne and Mellquint; an able and in
teresting paper on the "Value of Rc
reation in Religious Work," by Miss
Josephine Nkklc-en of The Dalles; a
general discusion on convention work
by Mia Church, of Portland, closing
the forenoon sensinn.
Among the principal features of the
afternoon assemblage was a bright and
interesting paper offered by Mia Ma
bel Thompson, of Vancouver, on "What
Kind of Delegates Should Be Elected to
Our Luther League Conventions?"; this
was followed by general discussion, led
by Rev, M. E. Boulton, of The Dalle;
and then the paper par excellence, of the
session, "Modern Christianity, What
Does That Imply 1" waa read by Miss
Alema Nyland, of this city, and was
broadly and happily discussed. Rev. J.
A. Lea, of Portland, leading.
Miss Carlson, of Vancouver, then
sang a beautiful solo, which waa heart
ily encored, and Miss Mary Koch, pf
Portland, presented a logical and in
teresting treatiw on "The Convention
Rally, Its Value," which led to a spir
ited and kindly discussion, Jed by Al
bert Madsen of Vancouver.
This closed the work of the day and
the evening was devoted to the conven
tion rally, prior to which, however, an
informal reception was tendered the
iitor and delegates by the local so
ciety, A beautiful prelude, on the organ, was
the inilal number of the "rally" pro
gram, and in which Mr. John Olin
showed hi complete mastery of the no-i
We instrument; after which there fol
lowed the splendid contribution of the
Norwegian Male Chorus, who sang Dud
ley Buck's majestic "On the Sea," in
a manner that charmed their auditor.
Other musical number that were
finely rendered and most happily re
ceived were Gunod's "Praioe'Ye the Fa
ther,' by the First Church choir; some
delicious selection by the Bethany Man.
ST. I.OUK Oct. 17-1, T. Cwjr.
or the "Cireat Cooper a he Is called.
a n in hi hotel this morning by
reporter awl proved to be Vnpr
lively young man, as he i little over
thirty 'year of age,
Mr, Cooper I the man who is said to
have created a fnat!m In eastern j
citie by his exlenlve charitable work
and the enormou at of two pfepara
tjiww of which h k th owner. While
talking ht fa light np with a smile, :
almost boyish in Us expression, and he
eenia very young to hate acquired th
enormous fortune he 1 aaid to poa.
Whe aked about hi plans for his
visit to St. Louis, he aaid j
"I hU remain in this rlty about
four week. I have com her, to i j
troduce my preparatlona in my usual
way and I will giv the public ample
opportunity to ascertain whether th
claim I make for the medicine en
he verified. "'
"It U n of my belief that every
titYCful man should devote a part
of hi resource In aiding the unfor-,
tunate. I rely to a great extent on :
the publie for Information concerning
families, or individual, who are in need, j
ami I will, therefor. I very grateful j
to all who will send tt the name and
addre4 of people who are destitute." j
Upon being awl4 about the public'
removal of dfne, which he hs male j
In Pittlurjr. and other citle. Mr Coo
per laidi "I have appeared each night
in th eitle I have vUited, before j
d fence that ranged from two to tent
thousand people and have stated that
I would remove fa lesa than three min
nte time deanca of years' , stand-
I have treated in public In thl man
ner over a nuodred petq.i eaca nigni.
I shall do thl work In St. Loui to
mum extent and I will then prove
whether I am anecessful or not. It will
be time to d!cu thl work after I
have given on of the demonstrations
a my claim would now teem extrava
gant.. I
"'The preparation with which I give
the demonotratlon U not the on to
which I owe my sueee aa my New
Dlneovery I my principle remedy.
Thi preparation I for tbe removal of
all form of stomach trouble. ,
, "I have not yet decided wher my
headquarter will I while here but
will know within the next twenty-four
houM." '
FOUNDER OF COLLEGE DEAD.
SEATTLE, Oct. 17.Brothr Calixui,
superior and founder of the college of
Our Lady df Iurde at South Park,
died last night after an illnes of three
and 68 vears old.
A YOUNG MOTHER AT 70.
"My.mother ha suddenly been made
young at 70. Twenty year of Intense
suffering from dyspepsia had entirely
disabled her, until six months ago,
when she began taking Electric Bitters,
which have completely cured her and re
stored the strength and vitality she
had in the prime of life," write Mrs.
W, L Gilpatrick, of Danforth, Me.
Greatest restorative medicine on the
globe. Set Stomach, Liver and Kid
ney right, purine the blood and cure
Malaria, Biliousness and Weakness.
Wonderful Nerve Tonic. Price 60c.
Guaranteed by Chas. Rogers' drug store.
dolin club; Wennerberg" "Uoross Svca,"
by the Norwegian Male Chorus, and the
Rally Hymn. The musical program be
ing interpolated by timely and appro
priate papers, one by Rev, 0. E. Ryd
qiMst, under the title, of a "Luther
League Problem," and another, "The
Luther League, It Spirit and Business,"
by Rev, J. A- Leas, and these, with the
closing remarks of the president, hymn
and benediction wound out one of the
happiest and most auccessful gatherings
df the kind noted In Astoria church history.
A number of the visiting pastora will
remain over today and attend two
meetings in Interest of the convention
aftermath, at the church, at 2 o'clock
this afternoon, and at 7;30 o'clock this
evening.
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