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COVERS THE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA
33rd YEAR. NO. 71
ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1908
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ARM
AND
HOW
Congressman Character
izes Atlantic Fleet.
MERCHANTS MARINE
In Case of War You Cannot Em
ploy Foreign Ships to
Carry Coal.
UNPREPAREDNESS FOR WAR
He Said There Art Only Two Nations
on Thla Earth Who Hava Commit
ted the Coloaaal Polly of Not Build
ing up a Merchant Marina.
BOSTON, Mar. 2I.-"1( we should
have war on the Pacific Ocean today,
Russia's (ate would be ouri," declar
ed Congressman W. E. Humphrey ol
Seattle, at a dinner of the Norfolk Re
publican Club at the Hotel Bruna
wick. Speaking on the subject "Our
merchant marine and the unprepared
nei tf Ihe-Unltcd Slates for war."
During his 'address Humphrey said:
"Of what relative value is the Atlan
tic squadron now in the Pacific ocean
except for show and parade? In case
of war you cannot employ foreign
ships to, carry coal. There are not
sufficient ships for that purpose in the
Pacific and a fleet of battleships with
out coal is as useless as a war fleet
without guns. I do not believe we
are going to have war with Japan but
if war should come, I want my coun
try to be prepared. I believe in the
doctrine of the big stick laid down by
our President in the terms of the old
proverb, 'He that carries a big stick
and talks softly will travel far.' Rus
sia and the United States are the only
nations on this earth that have com-
.itl..l ilia itnant fnllv fit StCluIil1B
enormous sums to build tip a great
nWy without at the same time build
ing up a merchant marine to support
and man it."
TELLS OP KOREA.
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 21.-D.
W. Tevens, diplomatic adviser to the
Korean council of state, was an arri
val yesterday on the Nippon Maru,
returning on a leave of absence after
service of several years in Japan and
Korean. Stevens was at one time
' secretary of the American legation
at Tokio, and later was attached to
the Japanese It-Ration at Washington.
In 1904, under the treaty between Ja
pan and Korea, he was appointed to
his present position.
Stevens says that Korean people
have been greatly benefitted by Jap
anese protection and that they are
begining to look more favorably on
it. He says the Japanese are doing
for the Koreans what America is do
ing for the Thillippines. Continuing,
he said:
"You can get some idea of the con
dition before the war from thiTstate
ment that the government was spend
, ing 3,000,000 yen annually on a stand
ing army of 60,000 yen on public edu
cation. The people are divided into
two classes, the peasantry and the
official classes. The former were
ground down until nothing but a bar?
existance was left from their labor,
while the official was thoroughly cor
rupt. '
"The peasants have welcomed the
Japanese, while the official class has
vtot. but even the officials are begin
ing to see that the only hopes for the
country lies in a reorganization of the
old institutions,"
COLOMBIA OOLD MINING.
NEW YORK, Mar. 21.-Clalming
to have paid out $2,000 in gold dust in
two months in Colombia, Adam
Humbolt of Washington, arrived hers
yesterday on the S,.S. Venctla from
Santa Maria. With him was C. W.
Ilriiin, who had $300 in dust as the re
sult of ten days labor, he asserted.
Both men were enthusiastic over the
field for mining they had visited and
said they expected to return and ob
tain more of the precious metal.
They had penetrated far into the In
terior with only such supplies as they
were able to carry on the backs of
mules. Bad roads made the convey
ing of machinery to the fields impos
sible, the miners say. Both men con
fidently assert their belief that Co
lombia bids fsir to become a second
California, so far as gold production
l concerned.
FAST ON THE ROCKS
Unsuccessful Attempts to Float
Steamer Saratoga.
NEWS CABLED FROM VALDEZ
Very Little Hope is Entertained In
the Northern City That the Steamer
Can be Pulled Off the Rocks With
out the Aid of Wrecking Steamer.
SEATTLE, March 21.-A cable to
the Post Intelligencer from Valdet,
says the attempts to pull the steamer
Saratoga off the rocks this afternoon
were unsuccessful. It is thought at
Valdez that there is little hope of
freeing the vessel without the aid of
a wrecking steamer.
ATTACKED BY WOLVES.
CHICAGO. Mar. 21.-A despatch
to the Tribune from Cheyenne, Who.,
says:
Attacked by a large pack of timber
wolves, the drivers of the Italian car
in the New York to Paris race, were
forced to use rifles and pistols Thurs
day night near Spring Valley to drive
the hungry animals away.
The car was creeping along over
a muddy road when the cry of the
wolves was heard behind them, and
the animals, growing more savage
every moment,- surrounded the car.
They were not frightened by the toot
ing of the horn on the machine, nor
did they fear the light that were
flashed on them. They snapped at
the rubber tires and then the weapons
were brought into use. ,
Cowboys yesterday picked up pelts
of twenty wolves slain by the Italians.
SEARCHING FOR DAUGHTER
NEW YORK, Mar. 21,-After three
years search on his own account for
his missing daughter, involving the
expenditure of more than $9,000
James Gcwitsch, a retired milliner,
has finally appealed to the police to
find the girl. If she is still alive the
missing girl, Olga, is 23 years old.
Since her disappearance private de
tectives have searched for her in half
a dozen countries. Mr. Gewitsch
said last night that he felt sure his
daughter was still living.
"I hope she may see some account
that may be printed of attempts to
find her," he added, "or that the police
may locate her."
He believes the girl ran away to go
on the stage. There is $5,000 wHIed
to her by a relative in Austria, held
in trust for her but she has made no
effort to get it,
The platform Mr. Bryan wrote for
the Nebraska Democrats declares that
"emergency currency should be issued
and controlled by the Federal Gov
ernment." There is not the slightest
doubt that Mr. Bryan is as much a
greenbacker as ever and that he con
siders the government flat alone a
sufficient security for all paper money.
AMENDMENTS
AM LOST
Ruled Out on a Point of
Order.
INCREASE OF SALARIES
Almost the Entire Session Was
Consumed With Considering
Appropriation Bills.
'WHITE BUTTON ED MANDARINS'
Culberson Said it Had Often Been
Charged That American Goods Are
Sold Cheaper to the Foreigner Than
to the People of This Country.
WASHINGTON, March 21. Al
most flie entire session of the Senate
was consumed with the consideration
of the legislative, executive and judic
ial appropriation bill. The bill final
ly passed and carried an appropriation
of $32,945,000 the amount added to
the House biU being $642,000. The
amendment offered by Senator Dixon
to an increase of the salaries of about
a dozen clerks of the Senate commit
tee from $1800 to $2250 called forth a
spirited discussion in Senate but it
went out on a point of order. In dis
cussing his amendment, Dixon made
the complaint of favoritism to an old
Senator, whom he characterized as the
"White buttoned mandarins."
Bacon offered an amendment for
an increase of 20 per cent for all gov
ernment employes in this city, who
receive not more than $1800 but it
was also lost on a point of order. In
order that .the government agents
who are investigating trade conditions
abroad might report upon the whole
sale and retail prices' at which Ameri
can gods are sold abroad, Culberson
offered an amendment to the bill. He
said it had often been charged that
American goods are sold cheaper to
the foreigner than to the people of
this country and is in some cases de
nied, and he wanted to know the facts.
Aldrich said if such an investigation
was to be carried on it should be
brought through a properly framed
resloution and on a point of order
was sustained against the amendment.
FIRST OFFICIAL STEP
Taken by the
CLATSOP COUNTY REPUB
LICAN CENTRAL COM
MITTEE. The following is the text of
the call uttered yesterday by
Chairman W. F. McGregor, of
the Executive Committee, of
the Republican Central Com
mtitee for Clatsop county, to
the members of that main
body:
"Astoria, Oregon,
"March 21, 1908.
"Sir: A meeting of the
Clatsop County Repub
can Central Committee will
be. held at the office of the
Alaska Fishermen's Packing
Company, on Wednesday,
March 25th, at 2 o'clock p. m.
Your attendance, as a member,
is requested. By order of the
Executive Committee.
"(Signed). W. F. McGREGOR,
UNIVERSITY LOSES. ?
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Mar.
Stanford defeated the University of
Southern California on the track to
day by a score of 104 to 18.
STRIKE AT MINES.
SEATTLE, March 21.-A cable to
the Post Intelligencer says that the
Douglass Island local of the Western
Federation of Miners this afternoon
called a strike and notices were sent
out to order the union men and
sympathizers to stay away.
CROWDED
Twelve Hundred Factory Work
ers to the Acre.
SING SING ACCUSED OF THEFT
"Chairman Executive Committee,"
Other Interesting Conditions and
Items Happening in Largest City
on American Continent There Are
Over $4,000,000 Yachts For Sale.
NEW YORK, Mar. 21.-As a re
sult of the money stringency the
strange features never before en
countered is presented here of a bar
gain counter sale of yachts by New
York's millionaire. More than $4,
000,000 of the'largest pleasure" ves
sels of the city's wealthiest inhabit
ants are now on the market at great
ly reduced prices. That the tremen
dous expenditures incident to the
maintenance and operation of a steam
yacht will keep ashore many New
Yorkers who formerly took to the
sea in their own craft each year can
not be doubted. If present condi
tions continue, it is likely that a
sacrifice of automobiles will come
next At present more than fifty of
the largest yachts owhed here are in
the market, an indication of the des
ire of the city's rich to retrench.
They run in size from a 300 foot
ocean going yacht to the seventy foot
racing sloop, and in prices from $300,
000 for the former to $5,000 for the
latter a mere fraction in each case of
the original cost and present value.
Most of the yachts are offered at a
sacrifice constituting a significant in
dication of the present proverty of
New York's millionaires and many
of them contain decorations in the
shape of rugs, pictures and furniture
valued at many times the price asked
for the boats. That the throwing of
more than $4,000,000 worth of these
craft on the market at present is an
indication of the pitiful plight of the
poor millionaire is evidenced by the
fact that the list of owners anxious
to secure a few pennies for their pal
atial pleasure craft comprises such
names as Gould, Vanderbilt, Astor,
Leeds, Billings and others here to
supposed to be beyond the pinch of
hard times.
Although a walk on the East Side
would show anybody who cared to
look the astonishing conditions of
crowding, squalor and misery under
which a large proportion of the city's
population lives, apparently a vast
I number of New Yorkers had no idea
of what these fully were to judge by
the interest that has been aroused by
the Exposition of Congestion held
here during the present week. One
ra.ther surprising point brought out
by this exposition has been the con
gestion of industry as well as popu
lation that exist here. It was shown
that a single block just east of lower
Broadway in the manufacturing dis
trict contains over 4,000 workers, or
1,210 to the acre. . There are no sky
scrapers in this block, the height of
most of the buildings being about
twelve stories. If one will construct
a mental pjcture of more than twelve
hundred persons working on a ground
space of a single acre he will gain
some impression of the intense activ-
REFUSES III
RAISE AGES
Packers Association Will
Not Concede.
DEMANDS OF FISHERMEN
Will Probably Result in One of
the Biggest Shipping Strikes
in Recent Years.
SCHEDULE 7 PER CENT LESS
Tomorrow the Union Win Meet
if Majority Decide to Strike it May
be Necessary to Lay up the Entire
Salmon Fleet
SAN FRANCISCO, March 21.
The refusal of the Alaska Packers'
Association to concede to the demand
of the members of the Fishermen's
Union relative to a raise in wages for,
the ensuing season in Alaska, will in
all probability result in one of the
biggest shipping strikes in recent
years." Tomorrow the unon will have
a meeting and if the majority decide
to strike it may be necessary for the
company to lay up the entire salmon
fleet. According to a statement of
the union officials, the wage schedule
this year is fully 7 per cent less than
it was last year and they can see no
reason why the Packers' Association
can not comply with their request
President Fortman of the Alaska
Packers' Association declares that the
fleet will sail on time regardless of
the attitude of the fishermen.
ity that goes on in the most crowded
beehive of industry in the world.
There are many other parts of the
city that are almost as crowded as
this, one district of 186 acres, about
the size of an average farm, contain
ing over 2,000 factories employing
more than 90,000 workers.
Health, like about everything else,
is at least twice as expensive in New
York as elsewhere. For once in a
way its expensiveness, of which the
city is rather proud, is likely to re
act in a serious manner affecting the
safety of life itself. As a result of
various suggestions in different states
to establish some form or regulation
of physicians' fees, statistics bearing
on this subject have just been collect
ed for the first time by Appleton's
and are now appearing in its April
number. They illustrate in an aston
ishing manner the effect on public
health so far as its care is concerned
of the conditions which makes New
York the most expensive city to live
in in the United States. As a result
of these conditions Father Knkker-
ibocker finds himself in the position
of being less able to attract the most
capable medical talent than are smal
ler communities, since on the author
ity of an eminent physician $30,000 is
not too high an estimate for the
modern Capua before the young doc
tor can be self supporting. In this
country, based on the statistics which
have been collected from more than
6000 doctors in every part of the
Union, the cost, including education,
will hardly average more than $15,
000 including education. Moreover
the figures show that while the prac
titioner who settles here cannot ex
pect to be self supporting much be
fore he is 33 years old, the young
doctor in the smaller communities
can do so several years earlier.. While
this subject has never been brought
to notice before since statistics have
FINAL DRAFT PAID.
DENVER, March 21.-?he final
draft of $25,000 of the $100,000 fund
subscribed for the Democratic con
vention has been mailed to the
democratic national committee by the
Denver convention league.
PORTLAND, March 20. At this
time of the week the demand for
poultry is usually stronger than at
any other time, but the market has
been a dull one all ths week and
there was no perceptible improvement
today. Hens are quoted at 13ic to
14c, Springs at 14c to 14k and fryers
at 17c to 18c, while it is hard to dis
pose of old roosters at 9c to 10c a
pound. Recent receipts of storage
polutry from the East are still an ad
verse factor in the market
SPECIAL MESSAGE
President Will Send One to Con
gress Next Week.
A LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME
Measures Proposed Involve Perplex
ing Difficulties and Will Have a Far
Reaching Effect on Business and
Economic Conditions of. Country
WASHINGTON, March 21-Presi-dent
Roosevelt has determined on a
legislative program, the enactment of
which will be urged upon Congress in
a special message which he said today
will go in next week. Each of the
measures proposed involves perplex
ing difficulties and each will have a
far reaching effects on the business
and economic conditions of the coun
try. The program is the product of
important conferences through which
the President has been put in posses
sion of the views of all the interests
concerned.
Likewise the attitude of the leaders
of both branches of Congress have
been made known. Its success de
pends upon the combined effort which
he believes can be brought to bear in
behalf of the whole plan by those
affected especially by some of its
features.
The program includes the declara
tion in favor of a revision of the
tariff in a speicaj session to be held
after March 4, 1909, an amendmend
to the Sherman anti-trust law so as to
make important concessions to . the
combinations of both labor and Capi
tal Limiting the powers of certain
courts in the use of the injunction in
labor dsputes. The passages of the
Aldrich financial bill.
never been collected, these figures
would seem to indicate that the doc
tors are justified in charging more
for their service here than in other
places because it costs them more
and takes longer to establish a pay
ing practice.
The movement to establish here a
school of really American art has re
ceived new impetus from the utter
ances of the various English sculptor
George E. Wade who sailed from
this city for England this week. As
England's foremost sculptor, Mr.
Wade's opinion is entitled to carry
weight. He said plainly before leav
ng that he thought it a great pity that
America, with so many artists of real
ability, should contnue to allow them
to obliterate their national personality
in old world schools and advanced
the opinion that it would be better to
keep them here by force to develope
the principles of characteristic Ameri
cans. Mr. Wade rather controverted
the prevailing idea when he contend
ed that America is peculiarly gifted
with the artistic temperament which
he considers to be in its broadest
sertse enthusiasm for whatever work
may be in hand. As Mr. Wade is the
author of such famous works as the
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