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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1908)
ffllUltSDAY, BEPTw 3 THE MORNING. AiSTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. fill: MMiiEmI ""v ihmmk . r fersssaai jrx vvjj j i jl jlv jiav r i Detail Adding egisters $20 $30 at $40 $50 $60 Total Adding o $50 egisters at $75 $100 $125 $150 A New Line of Total R dding egisters WITH DETAIL STRIP - for stores at $ 125 and up. A Cash Register Is a Necessity in Every Business Large or Small This is the best opportunity ever offered for buying a NATIONAL REGISTER, suitable for your requirements, at a LOW PRICE. Investigation costs you nothing and does not mean that you must buy. , Let me show you the registers and tell you what it costs to own one. You can then decide whether or not it is good business to dump your money into an . open cash drawer, unprotected against loss by CARELESSNESS OR DISHONESTY. AsK the man who uses a NATIONAL Liberal exchange allowed on old reg ister; easy terms if desired. (mimL 1 ,,l i i M a, fi t H General Agent for Oregon Portland Office, No. 70 3rd St.) Will be at Merwyn Hotel, No. 4 Sample Room, buane St, Between 11th and 12th, Sept. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, with samples. WAS A BUTTE WOMAN. Sutipicious Circumstances Surround ing Death Of Belle Gilchrist 'BUTTE, Mont., Sept. 1,-Bclle Gil christ, the victim of the Nome mur der, was a resident of thin city up to throe years ago, when she was a well known matron of the mess of the en gineers, fumncn and bosses of the Anaconda Mining Company. She was about 50 years of age, and pos sessed a small fortune, which was all in personal property, a considerable portion being left In the care of E. G. Smith, a bookkeeper of this city. The Gilchrist woman was prominent in church circles during her residence licre. Shortly after her marriage to Johnston, a miner of prepossessing appearance she left for Alaska. The last letter Smith received in Mrs. Johnston's own handwriting was about 18 months ago. Since then two letters came asking for money in lots of $500 or $600 In each case it being explained that Mrs. Johnston had broken her arm and was dictating the letter to her husband. The money was sent ?wid the drafts came back en dorsed in the handwriting of her hus band. ! Three months ago, Johnston came here and demanded an accounting of J the money belonging to Mrs. John-; ston. Mr. Smith's suspicions were aroused and he hesitated about tak ing action without papers better than those of power of attorney, j Johnston flew into a wrath and go ing to Smithjs employer, told him that he had papers in his pocket that would send Smith to the penitentiary. Johnston again approached Smith with threats, but the latter told him that he would have nothing further to do with him and Jonston desisted from further attempts to get money and was not seen again. 4 Smith then communicated with Ross Neagel, general passenger agent of the Oregon Railway & Navagation Company In Seattle, who investiga ted and found that Johnston was liv ing with a woman other than Belle Gilchrist, who represented herself as Johnston's wife, The officers were then notified and Johnstn's arrest followed. WOMAN'S CONFESSION. COMPETENCE VS. DIPLOMAS. CHICAGO, Sept. 2.-Mcdical free dom and demand that competence ra ther than licenses shall dominate," was the declaration of " principles adopted by the Association of Inde pendent Doctors at Its national con vention last night. Chicago was selected as the meet ing place for 1909, and the following officers elected: President, Dr. F. B. Rchman, Youngstown, O; vice-president F. S. Hays, San Antonio, Tex.; secretary treasurer,. Dr. Charles H. McCor mack, Chicago. IS OUT OF DANGER, CHICAGO, Sept. 2. Dr. LaCorio, of the Pasteur institute who has been taking treatment for an infection of rabies obtained by a scratch in his laboratory was reported out of dan last night by members of his family and his associate physicians. Dr. La Gorio was infected 12 days ago. Hypnotyzed, Woman Clears Up Mystery Of Husband's Death. ' NEW YORK, Sept. l.-Hypnotism and evidence secured by its means from Mrs. Charlotte Hitchcock, who is accused of shooting her husband on November 20 last, figured largely in the testimony yesterday before the lunacy commission. After a dispute among the members of the commis sion, Directors McDonald, Hamilton and Robertson and Albert J Tally, counse for" Mrs. Hitchcock, Judge Foster decided that the woman's mental condition at the present time shouhj be considered as well as her state at the time of the shooting. Dr. 1 1. T. VanGleason testified that he had '. hypnotized Mrs. Hitchcock in a cell at the Tombs and obtained her first and Only story of the crime. He told, with the use of a small dose of for: maldchyde he had reduced her to a state of sub-consciousness and then when her head was tilted slightly back and rested on a pillow, he had stood behind her while a stenograph er took down her statements. "I went out to get a steak and cook it," Mrs. Hitchcock said, according to VanGleason's testimony.' "Bob came in with some apples and after eating the steak read a magazine. Then he said: "I'm in a hole. There's ' only one way out. We must cross the river Jordan.' He read to me out of the testament and then said: 'I have ruined our lives.' He made me write on a piece of paper that I was to blame. He got a revolver and shot me three times. I ran into the kit-! Music and Fun Sent on Free Trial pay th. fralffht or r.r t-mph. Olv. 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