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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1906)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1Mi THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. - i Fancy Rogue River Apples. Pineapples 35c apiece. Just received a fresh shipment of Dates JOc the pound. A. V. ALLEN, PUPILS FOR CABINET Roosevelt H Scheme to Secure Services of Trained Men. TEACH FUTURE MINISTERS Will Eliminate th Wast and Friction of Ignorant Worker Garfield is Being Taught by Scrtary f th Interior Hitchcock. a Cabinet place, nor did the early part of hl administration :lvt any ar ticular promise. But by many year at the mm desk, Mr. Wilson hna com. to b rejsrded as an exceptionally valuable man. YAQUI ON WAR PATH Indians Wipe Out Small Station in North Part of Mexico. ONLY MAN AND WIFE SURVIVE Whit Ceupl Put Up D.prate Fight and Keep Antagonist at Bay Un lit Arrival of R.litf Train Othar Placat Attacked. WASHINGTON. Dec J7. A school for Cabinet Minister Is the latest In vention of President Roosevelt. It Isn't, of course, a place where they go and sit with arms folded while a pedagogue lecture them on their du tle. but Is none the less a school. The first pupil entered is James Ru dolph Garfield, who on March , will succeed Ethan Allen Hitchcock as secretary of the Interior. Mr. Garfield Is at present drawing salary as com missioner of corporations, but he U only nominally discharging the duties of that office. By order of Mr. Roose velt, he is going to school. With Mr. Hitchcock as his preceptor. At least a part of almost every day he spends at the Interior department, familiar liing himself with the work he Is to take up. Special attention is being riven to land fraud investigations and nrosecutions. it being the declared purpose of Mr. 'Garfield that there hail ho no diminution of vigor in the war on land grabbers. Other matters of Interior adminis tration are being gone into deeply. and when Mr. Garfield enters the Cab lnet, he will have a good working known-den of the deDartment over which he is to preside. In the mtan tlme, Herbert Knox, deputy commis sioner of corporations. Is qualifying to take Mr. Garfield's place. The actual administration of th? bureau already is in- his hands. Mr. Garfield exercis ing only a general oversight The plan is considered by public men In "Washington as one of the most happy ever born in the fertile brain of Pr? sldent Roosevelt As a rule, a man enters the Cabinet with only the most superficial knowledge of the work that is before him, and the business of the government frequently suffers In consequence. A Cabinet Job Is very much like a Job of any other kindthe more a man learns about It the most valuable he becomes. The case of Secretary of Agriculture "Wil son Is one In point JVhen he entered President McKinley's Cabinet in' 1897 he had no peculiar qualifications for WILt NOT CONFER. AKman Say Japan Question Will Not Be Compromised. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec ST. The departure for the East of United Statea District Attorney Robert T. Devlin, In response to a summons from Secretary Bonaparte give rise to a report that the member of the local board of eductatlon are to explain their position on the Japanese question to the authorities In the belief that the meeting of all parties upon a common ground might lead to a compromise. The portion taken by the board doe not seem to favor a proposition "of this kind. According to President Altmann. There is nothing to compromise." "Debate win scarcely alter condi tions or accomplish any change." said President AKman today, "and a con ference at Washington could not mod ify the law under which the board Is acting." QUIET IN CUBA. Disorders in Santa Clara Provinces Re ported at an End. HAVANAl Dec. 17. No further ad vice have been received here regard ing the disorder In Santa Clara pro vince. The American troops which were sent into the district this morn ing from Camp Columbia will scout through the province. Governor Ma- goon said yesterday he had no Inten tion of using these troops to suppress the roving bands of negroes In Santa Clara, but that practice marches In the disturbed district would have a good moral effect and support through the guards, to whom he entrusted the actual work of scattering the ma rauders. A freight train has been held up at Alto Cerro. on the Cuban Central Railroad, 125 miles east of Camaguey, supposedly by mn in sympathy with the strikers In the railroad shops at Camaguy. Rural guardsmen have been dispatched to the scene. Do You Realize FAMOUS ARTIST DEAD. NEW YORK, Dec. 17. Walter Ap pleton Clark, the well known artist and illustrator, died early today at his home in this city. Mr. Clark was 31 years old. He was born In Worcester. Mass., In 1S76. In his profession he won a high place and his latest work was the illustration of the modern version of "Canterbury Tales," by Percy MacKaye. He was connected with Scribner's Magazine and his cov er designs attracted much favorable comment. In 1902 he married Miss Annie Hoyt of Grennwich, Conn., who survives him. That yea need shoe for the rainy eaaoa that baa now made Ita ap pearance, Juet Arrived for MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN .FALL STYLE 8, 8MART DESIGNS. That pleas th aye, lend comfort to th feet and give perfect durability. CARVE PRESIDENT'S BUST. NEW YORK, Dec. 27. The clay model of the bust of President Roose velt to be executed In marble and set up in the Senate chamber at Wash ington, with the busts of others who have been vice-presidents of the Unit ed States, has been finished by James Earl Fraser, the sculptor, at his studio here. The cutting of the bust in mar ble will be finished this winter. THE BE8T MADE DR. A. REID'8 CUSHIONED 8H0ESs JANITORS RECEIVE RAISE. ' NEW YORK, (Dec. 27. The board of I 1,ir..-itlnn vesferdav decided to raise Feet don't ache or tire, .Investigate ,ha ..irltB of r00 emni0yes of the th quality and be convinced. ! jepartnient. . The total increase will . OUR SPECIALTY LINE 'amount to about $124,000 and Janitors, . . . f J cleaners, and deputy superintendents faction to th Wearer-Non Better; will be benefitted. L08 ANGELKSA Dec. S t.-Colonel H. B. Maison. vice president of the National Irrigation Congrea and sec retary of the board of education of Reno, Nev., who has been spending the last few week In the State of Ponora, Mexico, arrived In Los Angfles today. with a graphic story of the macre of the Mexicans and white which oc curred at the little station of Lan eho, on the Canane. Taqul River Pacific Railroad, last Saturday afternoon. According to the statement of Max- son, hi train topped an hour at Laneho. While there rumor were re ceived that the Taqul were on the war path, and that the few people In the neighborhood of the station and railroad were In danger. The station master, a man named Thompon, be littled the matter and he said he and hi wife would remain at their post. The train bearing Colonel Maxson and party had not left the station more than an hour when the Taquls de scended on the little party of Mexicans and American and butchered four. Station Agent Thompson an! his iff escaped by boarding a work train that pulled in at the time. The train ap peared after four of the people had been killed and Thompson and his wife had defended themselves back of the barricaded door of the station. As the work train arrived the Taqul with- drew. The train bearing Colonel Maxaon and party continued to a station about fifteen miles farther along the line and then, a the sign of the desperadoes uprising became more alarming they decided to return. The train started back toward Laneho and when It ar rived the station house and been burned 'and demolished and four hu man bodies lay along the trucks. The party stopped a few minutes In the hope that survivors might be found and taken to a place of safety. While the train was at the ruins of the station, the desperadoes appeared In the distance, but 1M not come within range of (he 'few armed peo pie on the train. The bodies of the victims were still warm when Maxson saw them and with the aid or others on the train they were given h.isty burial. For many miles along the road the scene was duplicated. Four more dead bodies of Mexicans and AmerleanK were discovered along the tracks. The little band at this station had ben able to repulse the attack of the Ta quls with the loss of but four of their number. The remaining members of the company refused to leave on the train, but said that tlx'y could stand off the Indians until the next day. when the rurales could reach the spot and summary Justice would he meted out to the murderers If captured. EL PASO, Later: Ptal1s of the Ya- qul Indian outbreak at Leneho Station on the Cananea, Yaqul River & Pa cific Railroad Saturday night. In which eight Mexicans were killed and the bodies burned, have been received here. No Americans were killed, al though it is certain that but for the timely arrival of a work train with a large crew of laborers. Foreman Thompson of the well digging gang. and his wife; would have been killed. For several weeks past a restlessness has been observed among the Indians, but an out-break was hardly expect ed. No unusual preparations had been made for a Yaqul attack and most o those killed were ehot down before a defense could be made. The band oi Indian outlaws Is said to numbe about 100. Reports rect-ived here state in addition to eight killed a hiiinWr of Mexicans were wounded. tress, f course, will not P h Galnea bill, but It pssewt rt Inter which I going to Increase at tendance at the 8ente and House slons, though there was no such pur pose In mind when the measure enacted. Th rilrad rale bill is the meas ure referred to. When H was pro vided n the bill thai It should be un lawful for senators and representatlx-es to accept railroad passe. Congress was not looking beyond the necessity of heeding a popular demand. Rut It will operate to keep member at their dutlee. It used to be the pleawnt practice of statesmen to run "out home" every now and then to see how thing were going on the farm or In the Uw office, to attend some banquet or placate some troublesome faction. The number of member absent on "Important business" always ran Into the score. It didn't cost anything to travel, and there wss enjoyment and profit In the trip. When It comes to paying out real money for transpor tation .there will not be nearly ao much "Important business" at home demand ing the attention of law maker. REYELAN, AL80 LANGEL. SEE - S A W Have you Seen our Saw Window. Special Kitchen Sow 2Bc Wo have everything In Saws. The Foard & Stokes Hardware Gojnc. Succetaon tt foard. ItokM Ca, m jui. i i AMUSXMKKTS. Woman Disguised as Man One. Em ployed In Chicago, NEW YORK. Dec, IT. Hiram a Hance, a lawyer of Broadway. I convinced that Nleotal De Reyelan, the Chicago woman who posed a a man, waa employed In the office of th late Colonel T. C. Campbell In this city ten years ago. Th young "man" secured employment as a sten ographer under the name of Langet. and because of his general appear ance and effeminacy .there was a dis position to twit Langel but this disap pear when a woman came to the office, and was Introduced as I.angT wife. iAngel was very efficient and there was regret when lltne forced 'him" to leave and give up work. Mr. Hance said he studied the re cently published photographs of De- Reyelan and was Impreeeed with the almost complete Identity with th fea ture of Langel. Mr. Hance regards a conclusive that De Reyelnn and Langel are one and the same, that De- Reyelan had died of tuberculosis. disease with which Langel was unmts- takeably affected. STAR THEATER Special Stock BtigaBCttictit. Eckhardt's Ideals FIRE IN CHICAGO. Loss Is Calculated at a Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar. CHICAGO. Dec. 27. Fire early to day destroyed the building at 107 and 109 Lake Street, occupied by the Cor bin Cabinet Lock Company, the Cor bin Screw Company, the Robinson Furniture Company and George II Itlfhop. manufacturer of handsaws Th fire spn-nd to th building (t 111 and 113 jke street i eupied by th nower house of Lusky. White A Coolldge, the Reading Hardware Com oiinv and the rniverwii MiimoiiK Company, wher the damage Is etl mated at J35.O0O. The total loss Is tUft.ono. During the hour while the ilaxe was at Its height there was cessation of train movement on the elevated loop. H MIHIMIHHMMHtMMMMfHmHfHMMW but a Leader of All. S. A. G1MRE ! It goes to the root of disease, in jvtgorates, strengthens, exhllerates. Its ! life-producing properties are not con talned in any other known remedy. I Hollister'8 Rocky Mountain Tea. Tea !or Tablets, 25 cents. For sale by 543 Bond Street, Oppoaite Fiachei Bro. Frank Hart. MORE MEMBERS ATTEND. Unexpected Effect on Congress of the Railroad Rate Bill. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. Should Congress pass the bill Introduced by John Wesley Gaines of Tennesses docking Congressmen 13.70 for each day they are absent from their duties Speaker Cannon's problem of keep Ing a. quorum would be solved. Con SPECIAL MERCHANTS RATES. NEW YORK, Dec. 27. The M"r chants Association of New York an nounce that merchant rates to thlt city will be In effect from Trunk Line As aoclatlon territory on February 2S to ! Inclusive and March to 19 Inclu sive, with the customary fifteen day return limit. The special rate will be as usual, a fare and one third for the round trip. CASTOR I A Tot Infants and Children. The Kind Yea Have Always Bought Boars tho Slgnitoro of wO SPICES, (j COFFEEalLA BAKING POWDER FlXVCvJIOEXTHas; Ako!u. Purity, finest mvor. Creator Srmh,fimkfrki CLOSSEraDEYSiS r pORTLWiO, OREGON. Commenting tonight with regular M.tinH Saturday and Sunday, popular 4 -act Comedy Drama, "A RAGGED HERO" First Tim Seen In Artorla. Next Attraction, tartlng Monday, "th 6w..l..t Story Ever Tld," "DORA THORNE" Dramatised from B.rtha M. Clay' fmou Novl. t Evening prices, 15c, 2"c and 35c. Matinee xOc and 25c. 1 HEAR YE ! HEAR YE! HEAR YE! Important Announ cement by Tagg's Confectionery. Important t you beoaus It nablo you to aav money. Lwnyt Chocolate Creams put In Special Christmas Box. 14-pound Box., 30 cents, 1 -pound Box, 60 cent. For th Little Onet Talankana Canrfv it ma. 10 cants and UD. 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