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i THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON THURSDAY, MARCH S, 1908, ; : . r i : : : 1 .. . i BOUT En MACARONI U and SPAGETTI gSCHBBSB; A. V. ALLBN SOLB AGENT FOR BAKER'S BARR1NOTOH HAU. STKEI, .. riiT COFFEE. , w, " . BRANCH PHON&-713 PHONES 7U AND 3871 . . : A NARROW ESCAPE APPALLING CALAMITY (Continued from page 1) ed managed to turn back and they reached the fire escape and the win dow in the rear. What happened at the foot oi that first flight of stair will never be known for all those who were, caught in the full fury of the tunic were killed. After the flames had died away, however, huge heaps of little bodies, burned by fire and trampled to things of horror told the tale as well as anybody need know it Various and unconfirmed statements are made as to the cause of the fire and also that the doors of the build ing had been locked at the front en trance while but one door of the rear entry was unfastened. Janitor Fritz Herter, himself a believer of the children, says that the doors were open according to custom. At any rate the congestion of fleeing chil dren in the hallway below effectually tarred the way and the little ones went to their death totally unable to evade the flames. Within three hours after the start of the fire it had burn ed itself out and the work of recov ering the bodies' proceeded; The village fire department only las two engines and neither upon ar rival at the fire was at all effective in stemming the flames. Janitor Her ter could remember little of what happened after the fire started. "I was sweeping the basement," he said, "when I looked up and saw a wisp of smoke curling out from beneath the front stairway. I ran to the fire alarm and puled the gong that sound ed throughout the building. Then I ran to the front and rear doors. I cannot remember what happened next except that I saw the flames shoot ing all about and the little children running down through them scream ing. Some fell near the entrance and others tumbled over them. I saw my little daughter Helen among them. I tried to put her out but the flames drove me back. I had to leave my child to die." Herter himself was badly burned about the head. Miss Catherine Wheeler, one bf the nine teachers in the school lost her life in a vain effort to marshal the pupils of her class and lead them to safety. She died in the crush at the rear door. Her room was on the second floor, and when the firm alarm was founded she marched her pupils out into the hall, thinking it was only a fire drill. Then the truth dawned upon both teacher and pupils and her control was lost. .The children in a frenzy plunged into a struggling mass ahead of them. Miss Wheeler attempted to stem the rush but went down under it and her body was found an hour later piled nigh with those of her pupils. Miss Fisk, another teacher, was taken out alive, but she cannot live. Burning through the supports of the first floor the flames passed up ward until all three floors crashed into the smouldering pile in the base ment. After the fire had practically burned itself out the work of rescue of bodies began by the firemen and railroad employes from the Lake shore shops. The railroad company turned over one of its buildings to be used as a temporary morgue and thither the charred and broken little bodies were removed as fast as they i-raiM he duir from the ruins. Within five hours practically all had been rmnvtd. . Thev were placed in rows. i.tontifiratinn were made only by means of dothingVor trinkets. The fir had swept away nearly all sem- Mance to human features in the great majority of instances, Distracted parents soon began to gather and the work of identification of blackened corpses began. . The gruesome task of taking out rh blackened bits of human remains was one of the horrors. The line of rescuers, backed by half a doien am bulances, drew up as the bodies were untangled from the debris. Pataa la the lack and aMt may come from the kidneys or liver. Laaft Family Medicine, the tonic-laxative, aad a great kidney and liver remedy,, will give relief. POOR LITTLE KID. LOS ANGELES, Mar. 4.-By one of the strongest decisions ever made here", Jacob Schilb of Minneapolis was to-day granted custody of his daugh ter, Mildred, 10 years old, whom he had sought for seven years from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and recently found at the home of her mother, his former wife. whois now married to another. Singular conditions attach to the award, Judge Monroe stipula ting that Schilb must make his home in Los Angeles, placed the kidnapped child in the custody of another wo man and win the affection of little Mildred before he may actually have her in his keeping. And he must also permit the mother to visit the child. Schilb, who also married again after the divorce from his first wife, de clares he is glad to comply with the conditions. When the decision was rendered early this morning, the mother Mrs. Anna M. Malody, fainted. She re mains unconscious tonight and it is feared she will not recover. THREATENING LETTERS. NEW YORK, March 4. Miss Grace Strachan, who has led the fight in the legislature for pay for women teachers equal to that given men in the same positions, has in formed the police of Brooklyn, where she lives, that she has recently re ceived letters threatening her with death if she does not give up her fight for the equal pay bills in the legisla ture. Although the police are in clined to think the sending of the letters a joke, detectives have been out on the case and the postoffice authorities have been notified ' Beecher's Wedding Fees. When Colll.s P. Huntington was mar ried for the second time Henry Ward" Beecher performed the marriage cere mony. Huntington's first wife bad been dead less than a year, and he de sired the second marriage kept secret until his letnm from Europe. He gave Mr. Beecher a marriage fee of f 1,500. When Huntington returned gome months later he went through a pub lic ceremony, and Beecher again offici ated. He gave Beecher another fee of f 1,500. The great preacher had his hu mor aroused by his second fee. Turn ing to Huntington, be said, "Oolite, I do wish you were a Mormon." Lyce- nmlte and Talent LATEST III SUITINGS Having returned from San Francisco with a splendid stock of spring and summer suitings of the latest style and having spent several weeks In studying the fashions prevalent in that city, we are now more than ever in a position to give thorough satisfaction to the most fastidious dresser. NOT IN WORDS, BUT IN DEEDS. HAUTALA & RAITANEN Tailors, Corner Eleventh and Bond Streets Cavalry Scout Betrayed By a Girl In the South, HE WAITED FOR FRESH MILK But Wat' Confronted by the Com mand to Thow up Hit Handi -She v.FeU in Love With the Scout and Pined and Died. ' In 1861 to 1865 I was a cavalry man and a scout During Sherman's continued fight on his way to Atlanta the enemy would make a stands throw up breastwork and thus bring our forces to halt. Then our cavalry would push out on his flank, get in his rear, and his retreat would com mence again. On one of these oc casions, when we were on his flank, our cavalry commander sent me in advance to report on the position he proposed to occupy. I went in uni form, Which, in case I was taken, would protect me from the fate of a spy. After going the first half of the distance on my horse I picketed him and walked. I had a map show ing the roads over which the Confed erates would march if they retreated, and I crossed most of them without seeing any large bodies of troops. So I resolved to return and report the fact to the general Passing through a wood just off the road, I came upon a house, one of those southern dwellings with an open space between two parts. In this case each part was but a single room. Being concealed by trees, I considered it a good place for rest and something to eat. So I went up to the open door and knocked. A girl about eighteen came to an swer the summons. When she saw a strapping young fellow in blue and yellow, with a carbine slung over his back, she turned pale. But I smiled at her as pleasantly as I could, which seemed to reassure her. She was pretty, so far as a country girl of her station could be pretty, and, judging from an ambrotype in the possession of my grandchildren taken at that time, I was a fine looking young man. I resolved to work my way into her good graces and kept up a perpetual look of admiration for the purpose. I told her that, though a Yankee, I had no reason to do her any harm and if she would give me a snack I would consider myself eternally obliged. There was no one in the house ex cept the girl and an old woman who kept herself in one of the rooms. The girl held me till just before dark. Then I was about to pull away from her, but she said if I would wait till she could find the cow she would fill my canteen with "fresh milk. She took a pail and went away. I waited nearly half an hour and was about to leave without a goodby or the milk when I heard a man's voice order me to throw up my hands. I was sitting on the porch between the two parts of the house. My carbine was rest ing against a chair. I had my revol ver, but dare not draw it, so 1 put my hands above my head arid waited. A man in butternut advanced from be hind a tree covering me with a shot gun, followed by two other men and lastly the girl. She had gone away for the purpose of betraying me. I was disarmed, and the men searched me, finding the map, which they appropriated. One of them went away and returned with a Confcrer ate officer and half a dozen men, all mounted. The officer looked at the map, then at me, and said: "This is spy work. You are in uniform, but you will be treated as a spy." ". The girl was standing by, different expressions flitting across her face. At times she seemed proud of what she had done, then very sorry for it. She asked tfie officer how a spy was treated, and when he said "Hanged!" she turned white as a sheet. The Confederates put a lariat around my neck and, mounting their horses, started me off at a run on foot before them. I cast a reproachful glance back at the girl and saw on her face a look of horror at what she had done. We had gone a mile when we met a troop of cavalry and turned back with them. Repassing the house we had left, the officers who had me in charge told the commander of the troop that he would await "the gen eral" there, and I was 'permitted to sit on the porch in charge of two sen tinels. Suddenly there was a sound of breaking twigs, and a scattered line of horse-men through the wood. My guard darted away, ami when the newcomers reached m the of ficer commanding them was the cap tain of my own company. My general had recoiled order to push on, which he had done without awaiting my return, 1 told him that my guards had been awaiting the coming of the general, which meant that the enemy were again retreating. As soon as I had recovered from this mdden reprieve I expected to be hanged I turned to look at the girl who had betrayed me. I never saw such pleading in any woman's eyes, but 1 was in no mood for it With a look of contempt, 1 turned away from her and soon after left the house. "V Years after while on a train going from the west of Atlanta I got off at a station from which I haa started my scout and drove over to the scene of my adventure. I found the house, but a new family in tt. I asked a woman living there what had become of the girl. "Oh, the gal that was livin' yere in '64? She's dead. She betrayed a Yankee sojer that asked her fo' a snack. She'd fallen in love with him. but she didn't know it. He was tuk back by his own men, and the gal pined and died." PERSONAL MENTION Ike Davis, of Seattle, is a visitor to Astoria. ; R. W. McLear is in Astoria from San Francisco. O. Coulter and wife of Oysterville. Wash., are guests at the Occident. Chas. Spindler, of New York, ar rived in Astoria yesterday, J. C. Driscoll of Portland made one of his periodical trips to Astoria yesterday. WEIGHS 250 TONS. May Bring Egyptian Tom.b to Chic ago for Field Museum. CHICAGO, Mar. 4. An ancient Egyptian tomb, weighing 250 tons situated near the pyramids twenty miles from Cairo, may be removed to Chicago as a speciment for exhibition in the Field Museum of Natural Hist ory.- A representative of the museum is making preparations for the, trans portation of the relic, according to reports from Cairo. The tomb is near pyramid Sak kard and is one est most frequen ists in Egypt A great the museum authorities in removing the relic bodily from Egypt to Chi cago. It will be taken apart and shipped to America in sections. It is believed Professor George A. Dorsey, who is making an exten sive tour in securing relics and speci mens for the museum, has recom mended the removal of the tomb. Prof. James H. Breasted, the Univer sity of Chicago expedition into Egypt in March in search of ancient relics, has visited the tomb several times and studied it. ,airu. is near pyramid Sak ! of the objects of in A icntly visited by toA A great task is bcforlV ClUIM BOSS Ik?. Ml MARINE ClAICl FOUR GIRLS Restored to Health by Lydla E. Piukham's Vegetable Compound. Ktmd Whmt Thy Jay.. MlMMIllnKon.530 EartWth Street, New York, writes: "Lydia K. Plnkbam's Vegtt ible Compound over- came irregularities, pe- Inouio luuenne, ana nervous headaches. latter everything eta ' bad failed to help me, and I feel it a duty to let others know of it." KatliarieC'raig,23M i Lafayette St., Denver, .Col., writea: "Thanks I to Lydia K. Finkbam's I VeeeUbleCom pound I F am well, af ter suffering for montlii from ner vous proamnion." 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MAll JTOlTIMWl lltllN M OLSON I "- " Cheap Rates From the East to Astoria via 0. R. & II, The following Js a list of t (aw points from which cheap ratal will apply between March 1st and April JOthi Atlanta, Qa.......... ....... $51.6$ Baltimore, Md 54JS Boston, Mill 1 1 ...... ...... J4.4S Buffalo, N. .. ............. 47.50 Burlington, la...... 34.60 Chicago, III 38.00 Cincinnati, O. 42.20 Cleveland, O. ...... 44.75 Toledo, O , 43.50 Des Moines, la 32.S5 Louisville, Ky.. 41.70 Memphis, Tenn, 39.05 Milwaukee, Wis. ........... 38.00 Ntw York, N. Y........... 155.00 Oklahoma, O. T,..,. 33.45 Peoria, III.......... 50.08 Datrolt, Mich..., 45.50 Pittsburgh, Pa............. 47.00 Philadelphia ................ 5175 St Louis, Mo, 35.50 Washington, D. C... 53.25 Kanaaa City, Mo..,. 30.00 St. Joseph, Mo....... 30.00 Omaha, Heb... ...... ...... 30.00 St Paul Minn..... 30.00 Minneapolis Minn 30.00 Monev can hm denoatteA here and tickets will be furnished by tl graph without additional coat For further Information call on O. W. ROBERTS, Agent, O. R. ft N. Dock, Astoria Blank books Up to the highest standards Bookbinding After strictly modern methods Printing Of every description Our Facilities Are the Best And we promptly execute all orders J. S. Dellinger Co. v Astoria, Oregon s PARCEL POST SYSTEM fc (Continued from page 1) vide that where a package is of un due size or weight a formal notice shal be scrit to the addresses to call for it. This practice would continue were the weight limit increased to 11 pounds, in the case of offices having free delivery. Nor would it work a hardship, for under the preset weight limit of four pounds the average weight of parcels sent through the mails is but one-third of a pound. Increasing the weight limit would not have nearly as great an effect on the average weight of parcels mailed as seems to be commonly supposed. Where parcel were addressed to per sons living on rural routes they would, of course, be delivered by the rural carriers, who would not thereby be inconvenienced, to the boxes of the patrons).1 ; ; : . . .' ; "It lias been claimed that the special local rate recommended for packages handled on rural routes would event ually be made applicable to the entire postal service. The impossibility of this becomes apparent when attention is directed to the cost of railroad transportation, which has no part in the former service. About $45,000,- 000 was paid last year for mail trans portation and $6,000,000., for . postal cars."'.' March 13 he will sell at public auction the assets of the firm which is re mcmbcrcd by old timers as one of the first in the business in the downtown district. The liabilities are estimated at about $20,000 and the assets at about $6,000. When the firm changed its location to Madison and Wabash Avenue the trade did not follow it. That is given as the main reason for the fail lire. The firm occupied the corner of Clark and Madison Streets for 27 years. For many years the Press Club of Chicago occupied the adjoin ing building and the drug store, be ing one of the first to keep open all night, was a great resort for the old time newspaper men. OLD DRUG HOUSE FAILS. CHICAGO, Mar. 4. Aftef a career of half a centuary in Chicago, the drug firm of Dale and Scmpill has gone into voluntary bankruptcy. '.. 5 Financial ' difficulties . encountered since moving three years ago from the corner of Clark . and, ' Madison Streets culminated yesterday 1 in the appointment of a receiver and on CASTOR I A Por Infanta and Children. pis Kind Yea Kara Always Bought Bears the Signature of I Six yvj, . " Are You- 111? WHY NOT CONSULT Mrs. 0. S. Fowler at Occident Hotel? She will tell you frankly whether you can be cured or not, and teach you to become your own physician in five lessons.' Her classes on the use of electricity to cure disease started Tuesday March 3rd, at 2:30 and 7:30 p. m . ' Health, consultations and phern ological examinations (faily "from 9 ft nt. to 9 p. m. until March 11th. 1