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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1908)
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 150. Ml NMt EXECUTIVE SESSION This Week "WALNUTS" 15c Per Pound A. V. ALLEN SOLE AGENT FOR BAKER'S BARRINGTON HALL STEEL- CUT COFFEE. PHONES 711 AND 3871 BRANCH PHONE-713 Of the Senate Largely Consumed by Discussion. WAR CLAIMS I ARE UNPAID A Bill to Reorganise the Public School System of the District of Columbia by Placing it Under the Control of a Director. THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON. ill Ami Mmlimm CONSUL AT HARBIN Refuses to Recognize Russian Administration. IS AWAITING INFORMATION When the Data Arrives it Will be Given Prompt Consideration and the Attitude of This Government Will Again be Stated- WASHINGTON, April, 2.-Pro-found interest is manifested in dip lomatic circles over the situation which has grown out of the refusal ef Fred D. Fisher, the American consul at Harbin, who since taking office in January 1907, has refused to recognize the Russian administra tion in Manchuria. Especially among the representatives of the European countries having comercial connec tions in Manchuria was the matter a question of paramount importance and it is understood they have sup plied their chancellories with a com plete statement of the case as it ap pears in the American press. Secretary Root is awaiting certain information from China bearing on Tarious aspects of the concessions given by that country for railroad having a bearing on the treaty of 1866, which figures in the present case, before making a reply to the re presentations of the Russian govern ment. When that data arrives it will be given prompt consideration and the attitude of this government re garding its position respecting for eign rights in Manchuria will again Be stated. called upon to give their aid in com batting the measure, and with unified action on the part of the financiers of three cities, it is expected that a formidable showing against the bill will be made when the house com mittee on banking and currency be gins its hearing on the proposed law next Monday. GASTROENTERITIS Cause of Fatal Illness to be Investigated. CHICAGO, April 2. A coroners investigation of the death of Wm. the boy's fatal illness so clouded the boy's fatal illiness so clouded with doubt that the physicians in charge of the case will make an in quiry into the purity of the ingredi ents used in an old fashioned remedy administered by his mother. A treacle, a mixture of molasses and sulphur, is one of the two sus pected sources of poisoning. The other is that artificially colored candy provided the deadly element. The jury found death had been caused by gastoenteritis resulting from ptomaine poisoning. A second child of the family, Char les Myers, seven years old, was at tacked by the same illness about the same time as his brother, who was 13 years old, but a more hardy con stitution is expected to pull him through. ALDRICH BILL Bank Presidents Will Make an Effort to Have it Killed in The House. CHICAGO, April 2. A combined attack upon the Aldrich Currency Bill by some of the most powerful financial interests in the country will be the outcome of an important con ference of national bank presidents held in Chicago yesterday. "Unwarranted" and "crude" were some of the adjectives applied to parts of the measure as it now stands, and it was unanimously agreed that every effort be made to prevent its passage by the house of representa tives in its present form. Many St. Louis bankers will be FIDDLED HIS WAY OVER. NEW YORK, April 2.-Henry Berchman, a 17 year old boy fiddled his way across the Atlantic on the North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grossc. The boy was sent abroad to study the violin three years ago. His father sent him a re mittance to come home on the Kaiser but the money went astray, and the boy, knowing that his parents would expect him home on the Kaiser, boarded the vessel at Bremen. After the ship was well away from Port, the lad, carrying his violin, made his presence known on board. He explained to the officers that his father would pay his fare on his ar rival, but that if that was not satis factory he would like to work his way over by fiddling. Permission was given him to play away, and so as a sort of official fiddler he came across gratis. WASHINGTON, April 2-An exe cutive session of the Senate today was largely consumed by the discus sion, without the passage of a bill to reorganize the public school system of the District of Columba by placing it under the control of a director ap pointed by the national commissioner of education superceding the board of education composed of citizens of the District of Columbia. A bill relating to the settlement of the claims of the states on account of the disposition of public lands was again taken up and the Bacon amend ment for settling the accounts of owners of cotton seized by the gov eminent during the civil war amount ing to $S,000,0(X) was considered but without results on either bill or amendment. APPROPRIATION FOR FORTS. WASHINGTON, April Z-An ap propriation to carry into effect con templated fortifications for Puget Sound as planned by the Eiulicott and Taft boards, has been agreed up on tentatively yesterday by the sub committee of the senate committee on appropriations which is consider ing the general fortification bill. When completed this work will rep resent an outlay of between nine and ten million dollars, of which more than four million dollars already has been appropriated. NEVADA BANKING SCORED. FURNACE STARTED. HELENA, Mont., April 2.-The American Refining and Smelting plant at East Helena, which a few months ago suspended nearly all op erations because of depression in metal markets, yesterday reinstated sixty former employes and started another furnace. Officials and State Examiners Con demned by Grand Jury GOLDFIELD, Nev., April 2.-The Esmeralda County grand jury, hav ing investigated the affairs of, the State Bank & Trust Co., yesterday found two indictments against the president, T. B. Rickey, charging em bezzlement. The report scores the State bank examiners and implies that their failure to act 'was owing to Rickey having made the State a pre ferred creditor and having made the State's account secure with market able bonds and stock which were con verted into cash. The grand jury finds "that the re habilitation committee, so called, is composed of attorneys and relatives of the board of directors of the wrecked institution, and that their expenses and salaries are being paid out of the remnant of the depositors' money." CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Wi-iWl v3rS Eft.- W--r-'. : : Wirt h ,.:; ni m m 1 ' mwm a? P.iiit ..: j I Willi Mh- tt '-''iWi vW? !Vfr-- . I I r,,1 .vifii m .y.." 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Our assortment of Baby Carriages and Go-carts are by far the largest and most up-to-date line in 'the city, and we are pricing them in this sale within the reach of every mother. During this sale they will go for. cost. ' RE MEM ROBIN ER THESE PRICES ARE FOR CASH ONLY ON FURNITURE COM PA NY 588 Commercial Street