FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1908,
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL NO SECRET RECORD
! The Store F&M? Ladies
Buy your bananas by weight, then you pay
for what you get. When you Bbuy by the
dozen, the other fellow who gets the big ones
gets the best of the bargain. Today we offer
FANCY BANANAS
IO Cents the Pound
FOR
Women BEEl2JHIVE Outfitters
After Ten Days Discussion the
Bill Is Completed
Mann Refuses to Receive Names
in Private
SPECIAL SALE
Of a Lot of
THE TOTAL IS $106,966,000
PAPERS PROFITS WIPED OUT
THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
LADIES' TRIMMED HATS
. Trimmed hats ranging from $2.50 to $4.50.
Any of these hats on the west Jj OR
table of the millinery room at... J
DAY'S DOINGS ON THE
ASTORIA DOCKS
WRECK OF THE KELTON
SHIFTED TO TONGUE POINT
-BREAKWATER OUT FOR
COOS-ROSE CITY AND ROAN
OKE OUT TOMORROW.
There is a quiet rumor afloat that
the Bailey Gatzert is to try conclus
ions with the Spencer on the Astor
ia run, this summer. The Spencer will
use the Callender pier and the Gat
zert the A & C dock, and there will
be some records smashed if the re
port is true. They are both fine fast
boats ;nd solendidlv handled, and
both have some records to save and
to make.
The wreck of the steamer Minnie
E. Kelton was towed from the lower
harbor last evening by the tugs GenL
Washington and Lottie to an anchor
age in the bight under Tongue Point
and will be kept there until the bus
iness incident to her salvage is ad
justed. There is a good chance for some
good time making on the San Fran
cisco run hence, between the steam
ships Rose City and Roanoke, on
Saturday next, tomorrow. The for
mer leaves out at 4 o'clock and the
latter at 5 o'clock p. m.
The steamer Shoshone, with 680,000
feet of fine lumber from the Tongue
Point mills, cleared from this port
yesterday morning, and went to sea
and San Francisco last night.
The steamship Breakwater, which
runs almost on clock time, came down
from the metropolis early yesterday
morning, and left out from the O. R.
& N. pier at 9:30 for Coos Bay points.
The steamer Yellowstone arrived
down the river early yesterday morn
ing and departed over the bar at an
early hour for San Francisco.
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' FINANCIAL DEPRESSION.
TOKIO, May 7 The amelioration
of the financial depression monopol
izes the attention of capitalists
throughout the country. The con
ditions are ascribed to the addition
of government measures without con
sulting the capitalists.
Government bonds are below 80,
the standard valuation hitherto has
been 90. Financiers are conferring
with the financial department with
the object of restoring confidence.
A banker connected with the move
ment said to the A. P:
"Japan's finance does not contain
an element injurious to the national
credit. The prevalent feeling is due
to ignorance of the actual state of the
national treasury, but our delegates
have matured plans, the adoption of
which will certainly remove suspic
ion, and an economic improvement
will soon follow. Financiers will
shortly pass a resolution which the
government, I am well advised, will
accept. The result of the present
conference will be published in June."
OPIUM MUST GO.
LONDON, May 7 The House of
Commons lias unanimously adopted a
resolution urging that steps be taken
for the speedy abolition of the system
of licensing opium dens in crown col
onies, particularly Hongkong, the
Straits Settlements and Ceylon.
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
LINE SUGGESTED
PROJECT OF GREAT MERIT IN
WHICH ASTORIA AND PORT
LAND COULD CO-OPERATE
OUTLINED BY MANAGER
WHYTE.
It seems there is one project of
great merit in which Portland and
Astoria can co-operate hand in hand
each with a feeling that the best in
terests of their respective communi
ties are being served, and this is the
promotion of a steamship line between
the Columbia River and Nome, Alas
ka, to touch at all the Alaskan ports
this side of Nome.
As the Alaskan trade situation now
stands Seattle enjoys an undisturbed
monopoly.
There is absolutely no doubt of the
fact that the interests of Astoria and
Portland are identical in this respect,
both having products that could be
marketed to the best advantage in
Alaska. Astoria can sell to Alaska
groceries, fruit, vegetables, dairy pro
ducts, poultry and brick, which Port
land can likewise deliver all of these
same products, as well as others.
It has been stated on god authority
that the grocery business of Alaska
alone, amounted to $20,000,000 a year.
And it might be mentioned that
while it is 4202 miles from Port
Townsend to Yokohoma and 4971
miles from San Francisco to Yoko
hama, from the mouth of the Colum
bia River it is only 3900 miles.
While these latter figures have no
bearing upon Alaskan trade, perhaps,
yet they do show the advantageous
position of the Oregon port and form,
the common ground on which Astoria
and Portland can do some effective
promotion work.
So far as the promotion of a steam
ship line between the mouth of the
Columbia River and Alaska is con
cerned it is a very simple matter and
five or six first-class mercantile
firms, the like of which my be found
in either Astoria or Portland, could
establish a line without any trouble,
without any financial outlay whatso
ever, not evening so much as a
penny.
Here is the plan by which such a
line could be established:
It is a matter of notorious com
ment that there never have been so
many empty charters on the Pacific
Coast as may be found at the present
time. Now if five or six first-class
firms should get together and send
salesmen to Alaska, cargoes could be
secured in advance of chartering ves
sels to carry them from the Colum
bia River.
Furthermore there are a number of
products in Alaska which could be
brought to either Astoria or Portland
with great commercial advantage.
Among these might be mentioned coal
and there are many passengers be
tween the States and Alaska that
would greatly prefer coming to Ore
gon instead of Puget Sound where
there are many idle people. And all
of these passengers, mostly of whom
are miners, would buy their prospec
tive mining and campaigning utensils
in either Astoria or Portland if they
had an opportunity of doing so and
then going directly to Alaska where
they would want to use them.
Another advantage that the steam
ship line would have from the Colum
bia River to Alaska, is, that as most
of the salmon canning in the United
States is done in the Columbia River
and Alaska, the canning interests thus
having a mutal interests would prefer
to use the Columbia River steamers
to the steamers that ply between Se
attle and Alaskan ports.
An effort is now being ,madc to se
cure co-operation on the part of busi
ness men of Portland and Astoria in
the promotion of a steamship line to
Alaska and the merchants of Astoria
sincerely hope that the merchants of
The Principal Resolution of the Day
Related to the Salary and Wage
Scaje to be Paid in the Construction
of the Panama Canal.
WASHINGTON, May 7.-After 10
days' discussion the consideration o
the sundry civil appropriation bill
was completed by the House today,
but before putting it on its passage a
recess until tomorrow was taken. The
bill carries a total appropriation of
$106,966,000 or $1,240,000 more than
was reported by the committee. The
principal resolution of the day related
to the salary and wage scale to be
paid in the construction of the Pana
ma Canal, a provision limiting the
salaries and wages to not more than
25 per cent more than those paid for
the same service in the United States
was defeated.
In the course of the debate on
another section of the bill, Sulzer sug
gested that the supreme court of the
United States was unable to have any
printing done because of its decisions
affecting labor, but Wilson, of Tcnn
sylvania, declared that the typo
graphical union was willing to do all
the printing necessary.
Portland will lend their most effective
aid.
NINE BODIES FOUND
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tions that might involve him is the
theory of the prosecution.
In his cell Lamphere was asked
concerning a secret room in the
Guinness country mansion to which
no one was ever admitted except
Mrs. Guinness herself. She had the
key and kept the door locked con-
tantly. In the night hours no one in
the household was ever near that
room, that, the authorities Deueve,
was the chamber of horrors whose
walls have been spattered with the
blood of the ill-fated victims of the
woman's greed for gold and passion
for blood.
"I never was in that room," Lam
phere said, "I knew that there was a
room in the house that was always
kept locked and there was also a
room in the basement, a sort of ice
box, that no one ever knew much
about. It was a big place capable of
accommodating several persons."
This place near a door which led
out to a barnyard, is believed to
have been the temporary morgue for
the victims. So many bodies have
now been found that the authorities
believe the woman saved her victims
and disarticulated the bodies in
groups and buried them that way,
sewed up in gunny sacks, adding
chloride of lime to the earth to aid in
disintegration.
The identification of another of the
bodies dug up on the Guinness farm
as that of Ole B. Budsbcrg of Iola,
Wis., and as evidence to show that he
like Andrew Helgclin, had been
brought into Mrs. Bella Guinness' net
through the "materimonial advertise
ments", was one of the clarifying fea
tures of today's developments of the
case. A soaking rain prevented fur
ther excavation today and the sheriff
devoted the day to unearthing possi
ble evidence that may be used in the
trial of Ray Lamphere on the charge
of having caused the death of Mrs.
Guinness and her three children. As a
result of his investigations prosecut
ing Attorney Smith announced said
that he would seek the immediate in
dictment of Lampnere.
During the sheriff's absence this af
ternoon two men thought to be from
Michigan City, caused considerable
apprehension by breaking into the
carriage house on the Guinness farm
where nine cadavers had been kept
since exhumation. The men raised
the window and one of them had al
ready made his way into the morgue
when he was discovered by the watch
man. It is thought the men were
merely led by curiosity to view the
grevvsomc skeletons stored in the
carriage house. One subject that was
much discussed tonight is the cores
pondence between Mrs. Guinness and
Helgelin. - The Iatter's brother
brought several letters from Mans
field, S. D. They reveal the guiles by j
Knight Refused to Give the Names,
Saying That the Publishers Had
"Been Hard Enough Hit" Already,
Without Proclaiming Bankruptcy.
WASHINGTON, May 7. -That
there should be no secret record in
the committee of the house investi
gating the wood pulp and print paper
question was made evident today when
mairman Aiann refused to receive
from a witnesses in confidence the
names of certain newspaper publish
ers. The incident arose during the
testimony of C. L. Knight, publish
er of the Akron, Ohio, Beacon-Journal.
Knight had stated to his knowl
edge the increase in the price of pa
per had wiped out the profits of a
number' of papers in Ohio and in fact
had forced one paper to the necessity
of borrowing money to meet their pay
rolls. When called on by Mann to
give the names of those papers he de
clined saying the information came
to him in confidence and that the
publishers had "Been hard enough
hit" already without proclaiming to
the world that they were bankrupt.
He did say however he would give
the names to the committee in confi
dence and that the committee could
summon them and that they could tell
their experiences if they so desired.
Mann refused to receive the names
under this condition, stating that if
he could prevent it the committee
would receive no information that
would not go into the record. A large
number of publishers in different parts
of the country were examined today
and all today the same story of the
steady advance in the price of paper.
Among the publishers heard was
Frank B. Noyes, president of the As
sociated Press and the editor and
proprietor of the Chicago Record
Herald, who told of going into the
market owing to the fear of the scar
city of paper and buying 1000 tons
of paper at $2.45 per hundred when
the maximum of his contract with
another company was $2.10. The
committee will leave tomorrow for
Corinth, N. Y., where the investiga
tion of the Hudson river mill will be
held. .. ...
which Helgelin was induced to enter
the trap laid for him. Endearing terms
were numerous and of frequent oc
currence are such terms as "We must
pray God to protect us from evil."
WAUPACA, Wis., May 7. The
letter which Carl Peterson of Wau
paca from Mrs. Belle Guinness has
been translated from the Norwegian
into English. The letter states that
Mrs. Guinness owns a farm near La
Porte and describes it. Said she valued
it at $15,000. The letter states that
Mrs. Guinness is a widow with three
small children and that she lost her
husband five years before by accident.
She says looking after the farm is
too much of a task and so decided to
take a partner. She adds that in as
much as "We have no acquaintance
ourselves" that she wants him to put
up $1000 as an 'assurance of good
faith. She concludes that if he can
not there is no use talking the matter
over personally as'' she doesn't want
him for a hired man as she was tired
of that and needs a little rest.
WOULD KILL BOTH
PORTLAND, May 7.-When J. L.
Martin left his home at 981 East Al
der street yesterday morning he
threatened that on his return in the
evening he would kill his wife and
16-year-old daughter. His parting
words were: "When I come home to
night I will kill you."
Martin returned in the evening, it
is charged, with a brand-new loaded
revolver in his hand, and when he
entered he drew it-and attempted to
fire at his better half and daughter,
COFFEE
Nothing does more for
a grocer, one way or the
other, than coffee. He
must sell poor; (he needn't
sell it to you) it is good
tH.t makes him.
Your grocer return! your money U jou don't
ttf Scbillioir'i Beit: we par him
Acme Grocery Co.
HIGH GRADE
521 COMMERCIAL STREET
TWO MCN AGAINST ONE WOMAN! AND
YOU CAU YOURSELVES CENTLEMEN!
Scene from "Dora Thome" at the As
toria Theatre Sunday Evening, May
10.
who fled to the street. Martin was
arrested and lodged in the City Jail
on a charge of threatening to kill. He
was given a hearing in the Police
Court this morning and his case was
continued until tomorrow.
It is stated that Martin also told
his wife and daughter that he would
kill V. E. Thompson, a neighbor, who
had protected them when driven from
their home several days ago, Martin
is an employment agent with offices
at Second and Burnside street, and it
is believed that he has become insane
through the constant use of intoxi
cants. ROOSEVELT FIRST CHOICE.
SALT LAKE, May 7.-The na
tional issues figured but slightly in
the republican state convention today.
Roosevelt was named as the first
choice for the Presidential nomination
and Taft the second choice. A reso
lution authorizing the convention next
fall to nominate a candidate for
Senator precipiatcd an acrominous
tight. It was urged by the gentile
party nicknamed the "Insurgents"
and opposed by Smoot and others in
control of the regular organization.
Speeches made were nearly all in
favor of the resolution but votes in
ike proportion, were against it. It
was a personal triumph for Mormon
Senator.
INDORSE BRYAN.
BOSTON, May 7. With some op
position to the instructions in favor
of Bryan and with a decided contest
over the delegates at large Bryan was
endorsed and the four delegates chos
en and instructed to support him by
the Democratic state convention here
today.
NATIONAL CHARITIES.
RICHMOND, May 7.-Bcfore the
national conference of the chanties
and corrections today, addresses were
made by Rev. William I. Kerby of
Washington, D. C, and Mrs. John M.
Glenn of Baltimore.
MARTIN IDENTIFIED
PORTLAND, May 7.-Eurther
than the identification of E. H. Mar
tin as the man who he saw in pawn
broker Wolff's store Friday afternoon
last by A. W. Fields, a watchmaker,
there is no developments today in
case.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR TAFT.
LOUISVILLE, May 7.-The Re
publican convention after a hot con
test today instructed four delegates
to the Chicago convention to support
Taft for the Presidential nomination.
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NEW TO-DAY
The Palace Restaurant
The ever-increasing popularity of
the Palace Restaurant is evidence of
the good management, and the serv
ice, at this popular dining room. For
long time the reputation of tbt
house has been of the best and it
does not wane as time progresses.
The system used, that of furnishing
the finest the market affords, and alt
tan be obtained, in season, is plaa
that will always win, coupled as it it
with the beit of cooking and prompt
service. A common saying nowadays
is "Get the Palace habit"
The very best board to be obtained
In the city la at "The Occident Hotel
Ratea very reasonable.
The Commercial
One of the cosiest and most popular
resorts in the city is the Commercial
A new billiard room, a pleasant sitting
room and handsome fixtures all go to
make an agreeable meeting place for
gentlemen, there to discuss the topics
of the day, play a game of billiards
and enjoy the fine refreshments serv
ed there. The best of goods are only
handled, and this faat being so well
known, a large business Is done at the
Commercial, on Commercial street,
near Eleventh.
The Clean Man.
The man who delights in personal
cleanliness, and enjoys his shave,
shampoo, haircut, and bath, in As
toria, always goes to the Occident
barber shop for these things-and
gets them at their bet
GOOD WOOD.
If yon want a good load of fir wood
or box wood ring up KELLY tbt
WOOD DEALER,
The man who keeps the
PRICES DOWN.
Phone Main 2191 Barn, Cor. 12th
and Duane.
New Grocery Store.
Try our own mixture ot coffeethe
P. B. Fresh fruit and vegetables.
Barkllet St Co.. grocers. Phone Main
1281.
Just received a new line of umbrella
covers. See C. H. Orkwiu, 137 Tenth
street. LADY MANICURIST ENGAGED.
"The Modern," A. E. Petersen's
beautiful tonsorial establishment, has
been further modernized by the per
manent engagement of a highly train
ed young lady manicurist, who will
also serve the house as cashier.
Local theratre-goers will no doubt
be pleased , to hear that Bertha M.
Clay's famous love play "Dora
Thome," will be the attraction at the
Opera House one night only, May
10. This beautiful play has pleased
the old and young alike and one
should not miss seeing it, for it
teaches a strong moral lesson, and
the company, it is said, is far above
the average.
Cheap Round Trip Rates to the East
Via the O. R. & N.
On May 4th the O. R. & N. Com
pany will sell first-class round-trip
tickets from Astoria at the following
rates:
ToKansa's City, Mo... .$60.00
To St. Joseph, Mo $60.00
To Council Bluffs, la... $60.00
To Omaha, Nebr $60.00 i
To St. Paul, Minn $60.00
To Minneapolis, Minn. .$60.00
To St. Louis, Mo $67.50
To Chicago, 111 $72.50
Tickets will be good going ten daye
from date of sale with a return limit
of ninety days from date of sale.
Apply to
G. W. ROBERTS, Agent, ,
O. R. & N. Dock.
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