THURSDAY,. DECEMBER 67, 1M(L THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA OREGON. yeara greater number having S E 'E f S A. Wf come to America In that time thai have arrived at HaU, Omnul Men Fancy Rogue River Apples. Pineapples 35c apiece. Just received a fresh shipment of Dates eral Salto at Honolulu, Intimated Sargent that the Japanese goventmv Have you Seen our-Saw Window. Special Kitchen Saw 2Bc Wo have everything In Saws. The Foard & Stokes Hardware Gojnc. discouraged Ita paopl trora coming Intcrurban Paucn j r and a Work the Vnlted States, because of knowledge of conditions ltlng Train Collide at Milton. thta country, and It waa apprehended that the coming here t great tium br of Japanese might Induce a pre Judlco against them that would lrv embarrassing, ' INVESTIGATIONS MAY END. CARELESS FLAGMAN BLAMED 10c the pound. Succeuora roarj A f tokw C. WRECK NEAR TAGOM A A. V. ALL.BN, .j BAR, BAY AND RIVER Bit; Fleet in and Out During Christmas Time. SHIBATA MARU FOR JAPAN Columbia Arrives front San F raneisoe Lsav.s Out Agam Tomorrow Morning Square-Riggers Get Away in a Bunch. The steamer Lurllne will be on duty some time In the coming week. The Undine came down last evening in good season and went away on bar ? o'clock schedule. Pilot "Scotty" Mc Neill wilt be placed In command of tha steamer Mascot on Tuesday next, on tha Portland-Lewis River run. Pi lot Kane Olney la due to take the wheel of tha Lurllne on January I next Tha steamshlD Columbia was a Christmas arrival here, from San Francisco, going on to, Portland at nee. She will be down tomorrow morning; at 8 o'clock en route to the Bay City. ' Tha American ahlp Luclle, from San Pedro for Portland, was another holiday arrival, and she went on to the metropolis on the hawsers of the Oklahama without delay. ' The British steamship Franklyn left out yesterday, having come down from the metropolis on Christmas day. She goes to Comnx for coal, thence to the Orient. The steamer Johan Poulsen came down the river on Christmas morning and left out for San Francisco yes terday. The Japanese steamship Phlblta Maru, Captain Eekstand, left out over the bar yesterday morning, for Ja pan, direct. The steamer Alliance la due down this morning hound for Coos Bay and Eureka, with freight and passengers. The steamship Geo. W. Elder Is billed to leave out this morning from the Callender pier, for Eureka, San Francisco and Port Los Angeles. The Brltioh steamship Manchester Port, went pver the bar yesterday morning, bound for Europe. Do You Realize That you need shoes for the rainy season that has now made Its appearance. The steamer Northland came In from San Francisco on Tuesday morn ing and went directly on, to Portland. The steamer Tiverton made It out over the bar with the Christmas fleet, San Francisco bound, with lumber. The Empereur Meneltk. the French bark, got .' away for Limerick, on Christmas morning. The British steamship Apollo, lum ber laden for the Orient, went to sea on the great holiday. The steamer South Bay was an. early arrival in this port yesterday morning, from San Francisco, j The American bark Agate went to sea on Christmas morning on the tow lines of the tug Samson, and It is hoped her troubles are at an end for a wblle at least. The schooner Andy Mahoney went to sea yesterday and Is headed for the south on a smashing breese. The French bark Jacobson, Captain De Heron val. left out yesterday for Europe, grain laden, , The American ship Elwell was among the get-aways over the bar yes terday, lumber laden for Redondo. JJall, The American ship Slntram was among the fleet crossing out yesterday. PAINTED FOR FREEDOM. Curious M.thod Employed by Chicago Woman to Gain Liberty. CHICAGO, . Dec. 26. A woman known to the police as "Fainting" Bertha again escaped from the Illinois Insane hospital at Elgin lust night by employing the some means she had used In the last five years, during which time he has made a! chapter In police history In Chicago. Bertha claims to Je an epileptic and she has 'acted" so well that the last time she was arrested she succeeded In being sent to Elgin Instead of Jollet. The woman's system is unique. It was her habit to enter a store, and, when she had located something she wanted and It was within easy reach, she would faint. While those who wer? present had gone for water and assistance, she wculd secrete the ar ticle she had planned to steal and by the time the' water had arrived she would recover sufficiently to be able to leave. It was 'during the Christmas fes tivities at the hospital that Bertha found a chance to get hold of some keys that would nld In her esrapu. Then she fainted. The attendants carried her to the ward In which she was confined and she became hyster ical. Later she became quiet and was left alone, and then she used the keys she had obtained to get her liberty. She made a similar attempt a month ' ago and was captured. The state au thorities offer a reward for her capture. Four' Persona Are Killed and Eleven Injured First Paisenger Car Waa Crushed te Splinters by the , Freight Cars. TACOMA. Dec. Sit. An Interurban passenger train and a work train col llded a mile north of Milton, near Edgewood about ! o'clock this morn ing. Four persons were killed and 11 Injured. Conductor Qoorge Boss Is among the dead and the inotorman Is fatally hurt. The passenger train left Seattle at 1 o'clock. The dead: . OEOROE ROSS, conductor. WILLIAM HARRIS, third-rail man, body cut In two. WILLIAM OUTON, motorman, fa tally Injured. The Injured: Martin Johnson, Georgetown, arm broken. D. E. Conley, of Tacoma, hurt in ternally. J. A, Ward, of Tacoma. badly In jured. The flagman of the freight trln waa sent out, but failed to atop the freight train. The wreck occurred on a sharp grade la a deep cut Two flatcars were piled on the first passenger cur, crushing It to splinters. The flagman whose alleged carelessness caused the wreck, cannot be found. - ATTEMPTED HOLDUP. Martin Nelson Stopped by Lone Rob ber, Whom He Wounds. ' Tuesday morning, at about S o'clock. Martin Nelson, a deckhand on the dredger W. S. Ladd, was accosted by a stranger as he went to work. The man stepped out of a heavy shadow at a corner of lower fourth street, and said sharply; "Qot any money with you?" Nelson waa taken by surprise and merely answered In the negative. A pendant watch-guard at his vest pock et caught the robber's eye, , "Give me your watch, then," he de manded. Take it," was the brief reply. The thief attempted to do so, afld was met by a hard blow on the side of his head with a closed knife, which Nelson had whipped ont of his pocket. Without further parley, he turned and ran, covering the ground at a good pace. The wound must have been rather a severe one, as the Intended victim found his face and coat splashed with the would-be footpad's blood. Mr. Nelson Is unable to give any desrrlp tlon of the man, and the only aid to the officers In their search for him will be the Injured head. Just Arrived for MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN .FALL STYLES, 8MART DESIGNS. V2RAL FAMILY POISONED. CHICAGO. Dec. 2. Trace of poi son have been found In the body of another m?mber of the Viral family and the police believe that they have -! secured additional evidence against That please the eye, lend eomfort te Herman Belek, who is now In custody the feet and give perfect durability. In connection with the deaths of sev- era! members of the family. The """ ! analysis completed today was that, of the body of Rose Vara!. Evidences of THE BEST MADE ; arsenic have been found Sa si! the DR. A- REID'S CUSHIONED SHOES: i bodies nnnlzed. Feet dont ache or tire. .Investigate the quality and be convinced. OUR SPECIALTY LINE OUTWITS THE SURGEON. SAYS PINCHON PREVARICATES. Vatican Makes Dsnisl of Frcneh For eign Minister's Statement. ROME, Pc. 2fi. In spite of the de nials by the French government that It has made any reply regarding the Vatican's protest to the powers' on the subject of the expulsion from France of Monsignleur Montnnmt. the Vati can "has been positively Informed that Foreign Minister Plnchon has made verbal statements In answer to , the protests of several diplomatic repre sentatives at Paris, who telegraphed the minister's communication to their governments. According to the Vati can's authority, M. Plnchon said that Montagnlnl had no diplomatic stand ing; that the papers sequestered at Nunciature were unimportant, all the Important documents having been pre viously removed; and as the French government has not allowed the pnpn! Nuncio to correspond with the French bishops, much less could It permit Montagnlnl to do so. COME FROM HAWAII. i Cough yourself Into a fit of spasms ' and then wonder why you don't get ef Logger-. Shoe. Guarantee. Satia-, w' " W,U ? bott,e f faction to the Wearer-None Better ., m mng of the U 1, but a Leafier of suu positive cure for Coughs, Influence, : Bronchitis, and all Pulmonary Us . , eases.' One bottle will convince you 1 at ypur druggist, 15c, 53c, J1.00. j Hart's Drug Store. i The Morning A.torian 60c per Mo, ; Delivered by Carrier. S. A. G1MRE 14) Bl Street, Opposite Tiackei Broa. Japanese in Sunny Isles Pats Over to the United State. WASHINGTON. Dec. !6. A report on Japanese questions In the Hawai ian Islands will be made to the Pres ident by F. P. Sargent, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, as a result of his recent visit to the Islands. Tha commissioner expressed his opinion that there are fewer Jap anese In the Islands now than two Statute ef Limitations May Quash In diotments Agaln.t Companies. NEW YORK. Det S -Unless the grand Jury hntuls up Indictments n a result of their Investigations of the affairs ot the New York Life Insur ance Company before' the end of this week the statute of limitations will prevent the matter that has kept the December grand Jury busy from be ing placed before another grand Jury. The grand Jury will take up this matter again today and If Indictments are to be ordered ' they must be hand ed up' In Recorder Goff'a court not Inter than Friday on which day It l expected the grand jury will be die charged for Ihe term of court. WIDOW PROVES FORTITUDE. Rises From 8iek Bed te Attend Ob sequies of Husband. NEW YORK, Deo! 31 Mrs. .James E. Pepper, widow of Colonel Pepper who died Monday evening at the Wal dorf Astoria, gave a remarkable dis play of will power yesterday when she got up from a sick bed and made ar rangements for the burial of her hus band. Mrs. Pepper haa been III with bronchial pneumonia for several days. Her friends were ' astonished yester day when ahe decided to accompany the body of her husband to her home in Lexington. Ky. Dr. Gibbons tried to dissuade her, but she ordered the body placed on the 4'SS o'clock train this afternoon for Lexington and with relatives she left on the same train. BUY THEM AT JAL0FF8. A new up-to-date stock of ladles' shirt waists, skirts, silk petticoat, holsery, purses, fancy neckwear, silk handkerchiefs, umbrellas, etc., 110 11th street, near Commercial St WHOLESALE EMMIGRATION, NEW YORK) Dec it. A cable dis patch from Madrid published here to day, says that nine thousand of the Inhabitants of the town of Bejar, which Is 45 miles south of Salamanca, decided some time ago to emigrate In a body. A meeting was held Mon day, which approved the offer of the presldenta of I'ruguny. and Nicaragua to supply ships and funds for the transportation of these emigrant. AMUSEMENT i STAR THEATER Special Stock BntfaKCtnctit, Eckhardt's Ideals Commencing tonight, with regular Matinee Saturday and Sunday, the popular 4-aet Comedy Drama, "A RAGGED AERO" First Tim Seen In Astoria. Next Attraction, starting Monday, "the Sweetest Story Ever Told," "DORATHORNE" Dramatised from Berth M. Clay's famous Novel. Evening prices, 15c, 25c and 35c. , Matinee iuc ana Jcoc. HEAR YE1 HEAR YE 1 1 HEAR YE! Important Announcement by Tang's Confectionery Important te you beeauee It enable you to tav money, Lewney t Cheoolate Cream put In Speelat Christmas Boxes. X Va-peund Base, JO e.nts. jY l.pound Boxes, SO sent. 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