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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1907)
8 THE MORNING ASTOKIAXV ASTOHIA. OREGON. I WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER ., ,907. CHRISTMAS IN CHINA Is, being celebrated here famously. The whole store is replete with pretty things that show the art of Crockery Making To perfection. There are gifts jjsbrc. Fancy Haviland and Hand Painted China. Bric-a-Broc, Art Goods, Steins, Table, Gloss Ware, Lamps, Etc. Some of them are quite expensive, but more are well within reach of the jmost modest person. But high or lowprtced they are all pretty and service able. To see them is to admire, aa you will admit when you make ua a call. Xmas stocks are now at their best A. V. ALLEN Phones Main 711, Min 3S71 Brnch Union-town Phore Main 713 H. S. Fry's Celebrated Cut Glass. TI MILLION SHORT Accounts Show Bank Has Many Bad Securities. BROWN IS STILL IN JAIL Xen Responsible for Collapse of Cali fornia Safe Deposit & Trust Company perty which is consideral good. In add it ion to tliis there are loan ami other asset which it was thought might bring in $2,000,000 more. This made a total of 17,000,000 of possible asseta aguinst liabi lities amounting to $!.000,CHX. Other as sess whk-h hap been carried on the books of the company as good were regarded as practically worthless. The. local banking situation yesterday gave no indication of having been affect ed in the slightest degree by the insolv ency of the California, Sm'e Deposit and Trust Company. Business moved along in the normal way and all thoxe desiring mowv for the conduct of business on normal lines found no difficulty in ob taining it. The list of shareholders of the bank Will be Tried on Many Charges Many j s a long one and includes persons and False. Entries Were Made, SAX FRAXCISCO, Dec. 10.-Valter J. Bartnett was released yesterday on $75,- 000 bail but J. Dalzell Brown was usable to obtain- bonds and spent another night in the city prison. David F. Walker, pre sident of the suspended bank, is still in custody at Santa Barbara, lie will be brought to this city today. Pending the appointment of a receiver for the bank tie lank commissioners lave named Attorney Cbas. S. Cushing to act as temporary custodian. The men tesponsible for the collapse of (be California Safe Deposit and Trust Company are not to be let off merely on barges of embezzlement Assistant Dis trict Attorney Francis J. Heney has greed to co-operate with the de positors and wi" conduct a full investi gation into the bank's affairs when the next grand jury is impaneled. This will take place before the end of the month. The inquiry will include an investigation into the charges that officers of the bank Bade false enteries which made it appear that $200,000 had been loaned to two Hew York banks when the money had ever been forwarded; that the officers received deposits when they knew the in stitution to be solvent, including the deposit of $233,000 from an Ogden bank and that the officers made loans iit a manner calculated, to deceive in lending Beady $500,000 for the purposes of the Carnegie Bick Company, one of the in stitutions industrial companies. All of these constitute statutory Tenses and if proved will not only in ToKe the men already undep arrest but ether who co-operated with them. A long statement setting forth the as sets and liabilities of the company was presented to the stock holders yesterday, li showed the gum of $9,000,000 due the depositors. A brief examination of the assets showed about $3,000,000 in pro- corporations from Paris to Vladivostok A number of small banks in the interior are, hit by the failure, mostly as pledges for the stock in large and mall amounU. are hit by the failure, mostly as pledgee about $150. Since then it has depreciat ed to about $100 and it was at that val uation or in the neighborhood thereof that the pledgees accepted it ' BROWS STILL IN JAIL. SAX FRAXCISCO, Dec. 10,-James Dalzell Brown, general manager of the suspended California Safe Deposit 4 Trust Co., was unable to obtain the bond of $75,000. Tonight he occupies a cell in the female ward of the city prison. David F. Walker, the president, arrived from Santa Barbara in the cus tody of the officers. 1 IS J a HQ PERSONAL MENTION 088 Special Reduction ON Japanese Goods AT Yokohama Bazar AD kinds of Japanese goods, including China wares, baskets, silk handkerchiefs, Brass wares, fans, toys, bamboo furni tures, etc., etc. Some goods at half price. 26 Commercial Street Isaac Pietila, of Blind Slough, is in tho city. Vi'm. Frazer, of Portland, arrived last night. F. C. Stain-ford, of Portland, is visiting Astoria. R. E. Lamb, of Portland, registered at the Occident last night. Seid Back, the well-known Chinese nt rchan t of Portland, is on a busings trip to Astoria. F. E. Ash, who -represents the Ameri can Tin Plate Co., is doing business in this city. Mesetrs. Oscar Olson. Clias. Anderson and Mat Matron, of Gray's River, came to Astoria yesterday for a few days. John Card, and wife, of Kelly's Camp, arrived in Astoria on Monday and will ltemain here for a week or more. Chas. Francis, who is locomotive engi neer at Blind Slough is on a week's visit to Astoria. W. A. Jones is in Astoria from Seattle. J. H. Hubbard, of Portland, was in Astoria yesterday. A. G, Forbes, of Chicago, 111., is regis tered at the Occident. J. Wesley Smith is a guest at the Occident from Inverness. Notice to Mariners. Capt. B. Kopp of the German steam ship Sakkapah, reports to the Branch Hydrographic office, San Francisco, Cal., that on December 1, 1007, in latitude 25 51 minutes north longtitude 114 11 minutes west, he passed a large tree, about 50 feet in length, 'with roots and branches attached, about 4 feet in diam eter. John McXulty, nautical expert. TEA , Good tea and tea are quite different, both grow on the same bush. oar grocer rcturni onr money If jos don' Ilk SchUlins'i Beit; we par bio. Conservative ; 1 Overcoats for Professional Men These very stylish but conservatively designed Coats were Made In New York in the Tailor Shops of Alfred Benjamin & Co. especially for the use of Professional Men and others who aim at a conservative but distinctive character in their dress. The representative mills from which come the most perfectly woven fabrics are called upon to supply the clothes used in these splendid garments. Every yard is pure wool and in quiet but elegant patterns. Sensible and Practical Gifts for Men Useful Articles which Men Appreciate Can Be Found Here FINE UMBRELLAS ' NECKWEAR SUSPENDERS SILK MUFFLERS SILK HANDKERCHIEFS GLOVES FANCY VEST SMOKING JACKETS BATH ROBES LEATHER COLLAR BAGS Small Articles put up in nest individual boxes. JUDD BROS. The Brownsville Wollen Mill Store Corrrci Oolites for Men MADE IN NEW YORK If it's from Judds' It's good MANYRESCUERSSICn Work of Bringing Corpses From Mines Causes Illness. HUNDREDS HAVE RISKED LIVES Work of Bringing Maim;d and Blackened Bodies to Surface Still Progress: Many Orphans Are L't to Mourn For Fathers Church Cares for Them. MOXOXGAM, W. VA., Dec 10. Bodies brought from mines Xnmliers 0 and 8 of the Fairmont Coal Company, where pro bably more than 100 miner were killed by an explosion last Friday, during hist night carried the list of victims beyond the hundred mark and others an being arried into the morgue at short inter- als. Today dawned with bright pro- iect of bringing to the surface a ma jority of those still in the wakings, deep Kh bci'ii here M-dtiug local clergy men '.'i easing for lh:ir parishioner and as '. ''.'. in n niimU'r of ihe Minerals. He 'It -l tinny of the homes of miner Mid found o many children niadu or-uitiiii- by ihe di-astei' tlmt he immed iately took up the work of providing home fur thetii. lie will nrriiiige to have as many in can be acciinmoduted sent to the orphanage maintained by the church iit llm.itiiiglon mid Wheeling. 'A (urge iiunilxT of funerals tvere held yes!' H'.iy. T.:v relief work is well under way and w'll s-io;t Iih systematized. There is now plenty of food, but there is urgent need of cMhing in many families. Cash fund are lieing raised in many places run! installments have already been for- l war':l from some point. The co.il ' ompnnie o' this district have contributed $20,000 cah and the money has lieen placed in a bank at the dii-posl of the committee ns soon as it alnnized to act. , The bodies token out lat night, like those ivcovered earlier were for the most part iu bud condition, being maim ed an! blackened and beside, any of i hem were far advanced in decomposi tion. Msiny o the rescuers have Is'en strick pii with illness and it wa found necess ary to bring a nomlner of recruits here from the Georges Civek District. MM Slmte Mine Insixvtor .1. W. Paul DREDGE SINKS ON LAKE. Fills With Wster and Plunges to Bottom But Crew Escapes. CTIICAW, Dec. 10. Under the batter ing of a heavy sea the heavy hydraulic dredge Illinois with 28 men on board filled with water ami plunged to the bot tom of bike Michigan two snd a half miles off Fortieth street last night. As its warns opened up snd the waves pour ed in the crew si-armbled to board a tug which had the dredge in tow. All suc ceeded iu getting away, though for some lime it was a i.urrow esvnpe. The Illi nois was one of the largest hydraulic dredges on the great hikes and was valued at $05,000. KILLED IN ROW OVER WOMAN. n the bowels of the hill and for the en trances. It is believed that the prelum-l i: minted us snvintr he lielieves the ex- losion 'ua started by an electric spark ary work ot the rescuers has at last lieen completed, after many interruptions and com plica lions, and that conditions are now favorable for the expeditions gathering together ami bringing into the open! the maimed and blackened corpses to secure which brave fellow workmen to the number of hundreds have rirked their lives for nearly !HI hours. Tjieut Governor McDetmott of West Virginia who came here as the personal representative of Gov. Dawson, complet ed his investigation lust night and left for his home in Morgantown. There he will prepare his report awl mail it to the executive. Before leaving he said he had found nothing to .justify telegraph- tig ft report. Bishop P. J. Donahue of the Wheeling Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. from runaway vais in the main entry. A string o.' these rais wa piled up in the entry at the bottom of a slope. HAS FRANCISCO, Dec. 10.-Cha.rlcs Sales, a negro barkeeper in a saloon at .")20 Pacific street, was shot through the hank and instantly killed by Geo V. Jones of 1204 Stockton street, also a negro, in ft row over a woman last night. The crowd, which filled the saloon and dai.ee hall, set on Jones and beat him to a. pulp, brea k ing nil arm, a leg and f meter ing his skull. Both men were removed to the Central Emergency hospital where Sales died. Seattle Fish Matt 77 Ninth St near Ilond 'Fresh and Salted Fish. Game and Poultry. Groceries, Produce and Fruit Imported and Domestic Goods. P. Bakotitch & Feo, Proprs, Phone Red n6; Do Not Read This Without Making up your mind to b- come one of my pleased customers. Good work alwfcys pleases. Carl E. Franseen, The Astoria Tailor. 179 nth St. Phone Main 3711 MANY BODIES RECOVERED. MOXOXGAH, Dec. 10 When darkness fell tonight 141 bodies had actually been lirougli! to the surface, while a large niimbir had been located to lie brought to the surface as rapidly as possible. j w.. . -j" , - r l t ,;v;i - S:. H. B. PARSES, Proprietor. E. P. PASSER, Manager. PARKER HOUSE EUROPEAN PLAN. First Class In Ertry Respect Free Coach to the House. Bar and Billiard Room Good Sample Rooms on Ground Floor for Commercial Men Astoria Oregon Suits made to order, patterns to select from, to date. Hundreds of Every one up ;n SPICES, rf COFFEE JEA BAKflriO POWDER. FU?cn:;;3EXTn:,as JtaMttofy. finis Flivor. CLOSSETdPIWS ' POtTTtANOeORXOON.