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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, AST01UA, OREGON. THURSDAY, HKL'T. 10 Mill H I II I ! The Store F&Mr. Ladies for F A W ... Women BEEfc!flVE Outfitters j MILLINERY '''.' ' FALL DRESS GOODS Shadow stripes in broadcloths, panamas, chevrons and Vandykes in the new colorings London smoke, blues, greens and browns. f We are agents for the Packard and Brown Shoes JAPiESE h ronrnrn 10 itiunuL o CAUGHT ON BERLIN CLEVEI: CAPTURE EFFECTED BY INSPECTOR BONHAM AND OFFICER WILSON. COAST, BAR AND RIVER NEWS OF THE HOUR CRAFT ARRIVING AND DEPARTING IN AND FROM ASTORIA AND THEIR MASTERS, MEN AND MESSAGES The American ship Berlin, Captain Thomas Fry, commanding, crossed in over the Columbia bar at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, bringing down from Nushagak, Bristol Bay, Alaska, the salmon pack of the Portland Packers' Association of 57,- 067 cases: 98 white men and 128 Japanese cannery people. She had a fast trip down, being 15 days en route. Mrs. Fry accompanied her husband on the voyage and reports a pleasant season in the north, but she has a scorching report to make on the cook and cooking that fell to the cabin tables during the sea voy ages up, and back. Thirty people who used the cabins were subjected to almost starvation conditions ow ing as the Captain and Mrs. Fry aver, the utter incompetency of the cook, a Eugene man by the name of Hunt ley, who, beside knowing nothing of his business, was "too wilfully indif ferent to learnand simply compelled all hands to take what messes he saw fit to concoct; and all they say is amply fortified by scores of others in volved in the disagreeable mix-up. The Berlin will be towed to Coble, where she will discharge cargo. loss of the salmon ship Lucille in Bristol Bay on the 19th of last month She belonged to the S. B. Peterson canneries, and broke from her moor ings, going on the rocks in a gale of wind. She had 168 people on board, but all were saved; the cargo, how ever, consisting of 39,000 cases of sal mon and 1200 barrels of salted fish, was lost. The launch Rose City which has been chartered by Master Fish War den H. C. McAllister pending the completion of the new service launch the "Chamberlain," for use in the pa trolling of the Columbia river, arriv ed down from Portland yesterday, and will be used in guarding the fisheries hereabout in accord with the new fishing laws now in iofce. , The fine French bark Le Pillier, Captain David, from Hobart, crossed in yesterday evening, 69 days out, with an uneventful passage to report. She will go on to the metropolis on the first tow line that offers; being consigned to Kerr, Gifford& Com pany, to carry wheat to Europe. The French bark Cornil Bart went up to Portland yesterday afternoon, on the hawsers of the Harvest Queen; the latter being simply loaded to her guards with a huge cargo of salmon, shingles- and bark; but a ship more or less on her lines is no sort of im- The handsome four-masted bark entine Puako was towed over to Knappton yesterday by the Calen der tug Vanguard, and docked at the Columbia mills to load out a lumber cargo for Sydney, Australia. By the way, the name of this fine craft, like 'pediment to the Queen. all Hawaiian Island names, is soft and melodious when pronounced properly; the "u" is short, the "a" also, and the accent falls gently on the final syllable "koM the name sig nifying the bloom on the sugar flower down there. A crew is being assembled and shipped for the schooner Andrew J. Olsen, now in "ordinary" over in "Bryan's Boneyard," and her canvas is being bent, preparatory to her de oarture for Hoouiam tomorrow or next day. The pilot schooner Joseph Pulitzer is about ready for sea again, being taut and trim as a yacht with her new headgear, and a new . coat of paint on her handsome hull. Sh will leave out the first moment her captains can finish up the details of her repairing and get supplies aboard The steamer Alliance arrived in from the Coos country yesterday morning at 9:30 o'clock, with a good wad of freight, and a tine passenger list, the latter including the members of the Georgia Harper theatrical troupe, now en route to the Capital City, where they are billed for an engagement covering the Oregon State Fair week. Word is at hand of the complete STYLISH SUITS The Hammond steamship Geo. W Fenwick yesterday cleared from the custom house in this port, for San Diego, whither she will go today with 2,000,000 feet of good Columbia river lumber. For Ladies' and Misses' areere in perfection and profusion. .They are made on the new models, exception ally well tailored and finished, and cut from the prettiest and most du rable fabrics. There are novelties in designs, and the stock is large and varied enough to afford every oppor tunity for selection. The prices are right. Misses and matrons are invit ed to inspect our stock of new suits. JALOFF'S The four-masted schooner Seahome arrived in yesterday afternoon, from La Boca, Panama, in ballast, and will go into enforced retirement in the classic precincts of Bryan's Boneyard in Young's Bay. The steamer Lurline arrived down last evening with fair business on both decks, and in her manifest was 200 barrels of cement for use in the construction of the new Sidewalks around the court house. The Spencer was on her dot time yesterday coming and going. She took out as a passenger from this city Contractor Charles L. Houston, bound for Portland. The dandy Heather will leave out for Coos Bay and other lower coast points today or tomorrow, deeply loaded with all manner of supplies for the various stations. The fine steamship Roanoke is due down and at the'Callender pier early tomorrow morning, en route to Eu reka, San Francisco and Port Los Angeles. The steamship Breakwater is due down from the metropolis this morn ing outward bound for Coos Bay, with plenty of business. The steamer Sue H. Elmore was among the getaways from this port yesterday, bound for Tillamook Bay with freight and passengers. The steamer Cascades cleared from this veMerdav,, with 550,000 feet of The arrival of the good ship Ber lin from Alaska yesterday developed a passing tragedy, in which Inspector Bontiam, of the federal immigration service in this city, and Police Ofhccr Joseph B. Wilson, took conspicious and clever part in the capture of an escaped Japanese criminal, who is badly wanted m the courts of Los Angeles, Cal. On the 4th of February last, in the City of the Angels, there was a des perate row in the Japanese quarter, which resulted in the cold-blooded murder of one K. Okasaki by a countryman who was known by the distinguished cognomen of I to, but just how he came to bear the name of the great admiral is of small in terest measured by that the Los An geles police subsequently took in his capture. The murderer was traced to San Francisco, where he was lost for a time, but when the Alaska fish ing fleet sailed from there, an intima tion was given them that Ito had sailed on the ship Columbia, for the Nushagak river; and thereupon the police of the whole coast and the federal departments were apprised of the man and the crime, and constant watch has been kept on the coast from Southern California to North ern Alaska. When it was found that Ito did not attempt to return on any of the San Francisco fleet from Alaska, it was thought he might try to get back on the Berlin, and warn ing and descriptions were sent broad cast Inspector Bonham, always on the alert for just such contingencies, had the description of the man and call ed in the service of the Astoria po lice, Officer Wilson being assigned to the task, and both officers went to the ship when she was towed in yes terday afternoon, determined to get the fugitive if he were alive and on board that particular ship. In the due course of the immigra tion inspection the 128 Japanese on the Berlin were lined up and passed under rigid scrutiny by Mr. Bonham, with Officer Wilson sharply on' guard to nab the man that tallied up with the marks and signs registered against Obasaki's murderer, and it was not until the one hundred and twenty-fifth man slouchingly and fal teringly approached the officers, that any gleam of certainty appeared in this ugly concern; but almost in stantly Inspector Bonham passed the quiet signal and Ito was in the hands of the law and its irons upon his wrists. The strong clement in the decriptive matter supplied the officers was the fact that the murderer had lost the first joint of the left little finger by ampuation, and his was the cardinal point on which the seizure was made. The man fitted the bal ance of the description closely enough to justify the arrest; he was of the height declared within a frac1 tion of an inch; he wore a soft tan hat; he owned and had with him, but not on him, a black sweater which was said to be among his effects; he admitted on the spot having been in Los Angeles about the time of the murder and that he had gone north on the ship Columbia, all of which, in conjunction with his intimate ful filment of the physical traces set up in the criminal circulars sent out, warranted the seizure, and he will be held pending the action of the Los Angeles authorities in the matter of extradition. It was cleverly done and there no doubt in the officers' minds as to the identity of the man who now lies in the city prison, and both are en titled to credit for the expeditious manner in which the work of appre hension was carried out. ELECT HEW PRESIDENT COUNTY TREASURER IS " . OF ATHLETIC CLUB BUSY VALUES CAPT. ABERCRQMBIE RESIGNS BUT WHETHER TAXES WILL AND MR. G,C. FULTON IS , ELECTED IN HIS STEAD BE HIGHER OR L0WER DE PENDS ON THE LEVY. At meeting of the director of A . considerable number of people the Astoria Amateur Athletic Club ,mv(f e,,"f !, ,hc '"' of the county last night the resignation of Captain ,rca,l,rcr. Mr. Cornelius, recently to Abcrerombie as president of the or- iml",rc 1,1,0 amount t valuation ganijentioti was. accepted, arid G. C, llm luH ,H'cn I',tfc,, "gainst their Fulton was elected in his stead. Be-rr,,imi um ycur MM are cause of his numerous othPr HiirW ,8"ei1' om -iire discontented and principally with the First Company, ,ome a,re "K7 wi,h what ,hfy ""d Captain Abercrombie found it imnos- s" na,ns' u,c,r mnm' sible to devote all the time that w Generally speaking the valuation of necessary to the A. A. A. A. Club Prolcr'':' in the city will go up, and therefor .deemed it best to rc-Jan" the val"c. 0,1 8" rcal eMa,c' ""' siiin. In the selection of Mr. Pl!ft properties and on timber will be the organization mav deem itself for- Nust ab(n,t doubled. tunate in securing a president who As ,hc val,,ati(n 8 "P. the rate will probably do much to cive the of awsment. or levy, should go new club a fine standing in the com- down 10 a corresponding degree, nev munitv and to make it a success in "Ihelcss il ' "ol Pihlc to accu every way. At the meeting last night rMe,y forccasl what ,hc ,cvy wi" be .Mr. H. I, rrael was elected vice president. The officers are: J. M. S Hawthorne, secretary; E. R. Blair, treasurer; and Fred J. John son, W. A. Eigner and A. V. Allen. Jr., directors. m a a me ciud nopes to dc in its new The city council will fix the rate for the city, and the rate established will include the county and school taxes, while the county court will establish a levy for the county districts, includ ing the school taxes. , Last year the city levy was 57 mills i ...... ., building at the corner of Eleventh " ,nc ,lol,ar' w,,uc u,c co,,n,y lcvy and Duane by the first of October, waa" it is, ot course, quite probable that the rate will be much lower this year for the city, but whether it will be only relatively and not absolutely lower than last year will of course not be known until the rate is establish ed. The big sums spent by the city authorities out of the general fund naturally will make the rate pretty high. Mr, Cornelius says he is not afraid of complaints being made of the rate throughout the county, but it is evi dent that lie anticipates continued complaint within the city because of .L I I!. t will amount to the ,ne "re Pmi.iurci "ere. One of the school districts in the county has already sent in its school levy, but how it is enabled to do this is not dear, as properly the Jcvy cannot be made out until the valua lions are all made and the budget of anticipated expenditures figured out The board of equalization will meet on the third Monday of October, and the rolls will all be added up by the county treasurers office before that time. Some of the properties in the Elk Creek district, and along the coast or very soon thereafter, and it ia starting out under very fine auspices Already the membership, of the sen iors is 275, more than sufficient to vir tually insure the success of the club. The seniors pay an initiation fee of $2 and thereafter each month the sum of $1.25 in dues. Room will he made for (the boys, also, and for the juniors the initiation fee is but $1, and the monthly dues only 75 cents. It is hoped to arrange so that the la dies may have days and hours set apart for their exclusive use of the gymnasium and baths, and in that event their fees same as for the juniors. The building should prove an ex cellent one for the purposes .of the athletic club, as the plans were espec ialy drawn by an architect and every detail is being carefully looked after. Most of the apparatus required "is already at hand, as an heritage of the former athletic club, and new appara tus will be secured when the condi tions warrant. Best of all the entire matter fs in the hands of gentlemen whose presence at the head of the nrtrnni:ilirin will nsnnre ihnt it will be conducted on a proper plane and Kenerally, will perhaps be valued at that it may be considered an honor to be a member of the A. A. A. A. Especially in a city like Astoria, where during the winter months the rainfall prevents much of the outdoor life that many find so pleasurable and desirable, should a fine athletic club flourish in the very best of shape. It is understood that definite ar rangements for an instructor have not yet been made. , about three times two years Ago. what they were IMPORTANT CONFER ENCE PLANNED (Continued from page 1) Subscribe to the Morning Astorian 60c pe: month by mail or carrier. DEFEAT CUMMINS. Forty-two Standpat Republicans Pre vent His Election. mg. The United . Wireless station on Telegraph Hill, reports the U. S. transport Thomas" bound from Ma nila for San Francisco as being 745 miles out of Frisco last night. She expects to arrive at her destination at daylight Saturday morning. TEA Is there a better way to keep the family longer at table, to keep it together? Vour ttoctr rrfnrn. rouf moner U o ico't DKS MOINES, Sept. 9.-True to their pledge to one another 42 stand -pat republicans in the state legisla ture today prevented the election of Cummins to the United States sen ate to fill the unexpired term of the lat W. B. Allison. The stand-paters with the 45 democrats who voted for Porter they outnumbered the 65 re publicans who voted for Cummins. Standpattcrns declare they will dcadi lock the legislature. Both sides say they will not yield. Standpatters of both houses scattered votes among half a dozen candidates. TAFT TO TOUR SOON. Candidate Will Make Extensive Trip Before November. it adheres plainly and simply to the suggestions outlined by Mr. Allen in his interview: "Section 158. The mayor is hereby authorized to create by appointment subject to the approval of the coun cil, a commission compbscd of three members, each of whom shall be resident taxpayer 'of the city of As toria. The commission so created shall be styled 'The Sanitary Investi gation Commission of Astoria.' The commission shall continue until dis solved by a threeourths vote of all the members of the council of the city of Astoria, and any vacancies caused by death, resignation or oth erwise, shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments were made, "Section 159. The commission pro vided for in the preceding section shall have power, and it shall be its duty to make a full investigation of the sanitary condition of the city of, . , j Astoria in ho fur as the same is af fected by the ebb and flow of the tides, mid if it tdtiill appear to such cimiii:isMiii practicable to improve such sanitary condition by the con miction of a ncawall and by tilling the lands now covered by the tide within the limits of the city of As toria, then Midi commission shall cause to be prepared comprehensive plans nml specifications for the con struction of such works iiikI improve ments' as the commission shall rec ommend, together with on cstimato of the cost thereof. "The commission sluitl have au thority In employ such engineers, in spectors, laborers and clerical assist- ancc nccrsi.il ry to the performance of the ditties herein prescribed; provid ed, however, that no expnditurea shall be made or Indebtedness incur red in an amount exceeding $10,000. "Section 160, Each member' of the commission shall receive the sum of $5.00 per day for the time actually employed in the performance of hie lutics. "Section 161. Bills' for the com pensation of the members of the commission and for expenses incur red hereunder shall be paid from the general fund of the city of Astorift upon certificate by the three mem- hltt rtf tit Kiltimld ufr-taa uiliaH kaiiw. tersigncd by the city auditor, and he council of the city of Astoria It hereby authorized to include, from time to time, in the general levy of taxes such sums as may be necessary to cover the amounts so paid out of the general fund. "Section 162, The commission shall, from time to time, report in writing to the common council the result of their investigations, and such "reports, as well as the records of such com mission, shall be public records of the city of Aitoria. "Section 163. No work of general improvement for the reclamation of lands within the city of Astoria cov ered by the ebb and flow of the tide shall be undertaken before the com pletion of ftie investigation , by the commission hereby created." It is said that the interest in the seawall i growing rapidly among the taxpayers of the city, and that this concern i to be manifested by the attendance of a large number of them tonight; a fact that is not un usual in any particular, save that the demonstration seems to have been a long time in materializing, consider ing the vital nature of the project and the extraordinary bearing it has upon the part these men play in the civic affairs of Astoria. At all events the matter will have an airing that is somewhat overdue, but which will be none the less appreciated by the thousands in whose interest the work is going forward. MOLTEN LAVA RISES. HONOLULU, Sept. 9,-Following slight earthquake which occurred on the island of Hawaii last Friday the molten lava in the crater of the vol cano Kilauea has risen from its ustjal level, a ditsance of KKl feet in a few hours, A second shock occurred Saturday and following this the lav.y began to rise again. At the present time it has risen 4(10 feet or to within 1300 feet of its driginal level, and is still rising. TO REBUILD 'FRISCO. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9.-Over a dozen bids have been received for the $3,200,000 worth of municipal bonds for general improvements, and comparison of the figures to be dis closed late today will be of consider able importance in local financial circles, as indicating the returns to be expected for the remainder of the issue amounting to nearly $35,000,- 000. The bonds are non-taxable, will be acceptable as basis for the issuance of emergency currency and will bear interest at 5 per cent. Several eastern concerns are heiicved to nave made offers. CINCINNATI, Sept. 9,-That Taft will make a complete, extensive tour of the United States before the No vember election was annouccd tonight as a personal intention of the candi date. Details will be announced later. Taft made many speeches today, principal effort being at ' Sandusky where he said if he was elected he would follow Roosevelt's policies of business honesty. Tonight Taft is at the home of his brother in this city, from whe the campaign for . the month of September will be com-ductcd. Subscribe to the Morning Astorian, 60 cents per month, delivered by car rier Contains full Associated Press NOW ON SALE Bartlett Pears For canning. Our price is right. Order yours now. , ' V ' ' ' Acme Grocery Co. HIGH GRADE GROCERIES 521 COMMERCIAL STREET PHONE 681