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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OEEUON. FRIDAY. APRIL 16, 1909. WE KNOW WE HAVE THE BEST J tea on the market HER MAJESTY'S BRAND, $1.00 Per Pound $ O'CLOCK BRAN.D, 75c Per Pound. Try a 1-4 pound can; if you don't aay it'a the best tea you have ever drtnk, your a money refunded. FIGHTING THE SCHOOLjg BOOK TRUST A. V. ALLEN a ae I Hi- J-.-i.J. JI'iL ' ! A YOUNG MAN MARRIES HIS STEP MOTHER . . . Sole Agent for . . . Barrineton Hall Steel Cut COFFEE 40C CAN AFTER HIS FATHER'S DEATH THE SON SUCCESSFULLY WOES HER. PASSENGERS ARE SAFE. Finally Escape From Snow Blockade On The Divide. CHICAGO. April 15.-Harry Beck with ,of Chicago, son of the late Dr. Beckwith, has wedded his stepmother. This interesting event took place Saturday when the young man who is 26 years old, was married to Mrs. Elinor T. Beckwith, formerly Miss Elinor Torguson of Albert Lea, Minn . after a courtship which interrupted his college course in Cornell Univer sity. News of the romance and the annsual matrimonial venture has just become known. The bride is 30 years old, DENVER, April 1S.-AU but seven of the 75 passengers of the snow bound Denver, Northwestern 4 Pa cific train, which has been stalled 'several days at Corona, the point at which the road crosses the Continen tal divide, were safely landed at Sul phur Springs last night, after having walked two miles through huge drifts to a relief train which had penetrated the banks of snow to that point The seven preferred to remain in the snowshed until today when the rotary plow preceding the relief train would make another effort to clear the tracks. ROSEBERY'S HEIR WEDS. LONDON, April lS.-Two of the foremost families of England were united today when Dorothy Gros- The introduction to the romance Is'venor became the bride of young almost as interesting as the final chapter. As a young girl Mrs. Beck with met George Beckwith. They were married and moved to Ithaca, N. Y. At that time Harry was 13 years old. After the time of his father's death he corresponded with hit stepmother and was deeply at-1 tached to her. Mrs. Beckwith became stenogra pher to Professor Harry Powell in the Bureau of Foreign Travel of Cor nell University, and lived abroad for several years- Returning to America, she moved to Chicago. Young Beckwith followed her when lie had completed his preparatory course in the Ithaca high school He went to Cornell University to study Architecture, was graduated in Febr ruary and returned to this city. The Beckwith family is well known in Ithaca and the bride an dbride groom have a host of friends in Chicago. CHILD LOST ON ROOF. One of New York's Countless Tbou ands Likely To Die. NEW YORK. April lS.-Jacob Co lien, a little tot of three and a half years, died of exposure early today after been found on the roof of a ten ement house on the East Side last night where he was marooned for at least 12 hours, possibly for 20. His moans and cries were heard from tim! to time Tuesday night during Wed nesday but not until 10 o'clock last ni(jht was he found- The janitor, who lives on the top floor, heard faint moans from over head that drifted in through an open window of his room. Lord Dalmeny. The bride is the daughter of Lord Henry Grosvenor. an uncle of the Duke of Westminister whose wealth is equal to that posses sed by any man in the United King dom. Lord Dalmeny. the bride groom, is the son and heir of the former premier, the Earl of Rosebery Lord Dalmeny has been much in the public eye since he came of age and society gossips have had him married off a number of times. But not until he met the beautiful and de mure 19-year-old Miss Grosven or was his lordship tempted to give up the life of the young blood which had been enjoying to the full for sev eral years past. Lord Dalmeny will come into at least $300,000 a year, left by his mother, who was a daughter of Baro nRoths child. He will also inherit Ment more in Bucks, a lordly castle filled with immensely valuable art treas ures collected by the late Baron Lionel Rothchild. CHICAGO TEACHEIvS MAY PRE PARE "HOME-MADE" BOOKS FOR THEIR USE. CHICAGO, April 15.- "Home made" textbooks, written by Chicago teachers and printed by the school board. This is the policy that is like ly to be adopted as the result of the report made to the board of educa tion showing discrimination against Chicago school children. While the district superintendents today are busying themselves, with the report checking up the prices for books in various parts of the country, the special committee on text books is turning its attention to the "home made" book proposition. Members point out that the board has demonstrated its ability to com pete successfully with the publishers in printing books for use in the schools. For some time past th school trustees have been experiment ing along these lines and the result of their test is said to be favorable to the idea. FIREMAN'S BRAVE ACT. Chicago Laddie Saves Women From What Appeared Certain Death. CHICAGO, April 15.-Fireman James A. Joyce is in hiding. Louis B. Clarke, a banker, is looking for him with what he describes as a "Search warrant". The situation is due to an act of heroism on the part of the fireman which called forth the plaudits of thousands in the Loop district, who saw him stop a runaway horse at the imminent risk of his own life, thereby saving two women, who seemed Taking a lighted lantern he made j doomed to death or injury. One was his way to the roof. For a moment the wife of Mr. Clarke and it is the he stood still and listened and in a modesty of the fireman in secluding little while was guided by the repeat- j himself that has aroused Clarke to d sounds to a chimney. There, hud-1 find him, "Even if it necessitates a died in its slight protection, he found ! trip with a search warrant." the boy in overalls, soaked through j Joyce was sitting with a newspaper with the rain, "Cold as a lump of ice," land a pipe in front of his quarters he said, and dying. j when the runaway, dragging a light As the child of Ignatz Cohen had j cab, dashed by. In a flash the pipe been missing since early Tuesday I dropped, paper hurled to one side and night the parents were notified of the ; his chair overturned behind him finding of the little form on the roof : Fireman Joyce made his leap. Dur and the father identified the body of i ing the next moment the excited his son at a police station. Cohen 'crowds witnessed a spectacular rescue told the police that he and his wife of two women from what had appear thought that the boy was sleeping j ed to be certain death. Clutching at soundly in another room Tuesday ' the horse s bridle, Joyce was dragged night, but that in some way he had , over the asphalt for more thin a slipped from his bed and left the j block before he stopped the animal house. He could not imagine, he said I Cut and bruised, besmudged and be Bow the little fellow had made his 'smeared, he disentangled himself from way to the tenement where he was j the horse's hoofs, saw to it that the found, nearly three quarters of a mile , women were lifted out and taken care from the Cohen home, or how he had , of and then hastened back into his reached the roof. company quarters and hid himself. WOMEN TIDY UP STREETS, washingtond. c April 15.- Thanks to Washington club wwomen the streets of the nationnl capital are cleaner today than ever before with in the memory of the "oldest inhabit ant". Of late the streets and alleys of the city became so covered with dirt and littered with papers, tin C8ns and other refuse that their condition was a subject for ridicule and com ment on the part of visitors. The Twentieth Century Club, whose, membership embraces many women' of Washington's prominent families. decided to take the initative in the re form movement. Not satisfied with adopting resolutions criticising the authorities whose duty it is to keep the streets clean, the club women re solved to do the street cleaning them selves rather than tolerate the dirt and filth any longer. Accordingly, this morning was appointed as the time for the spring cleaning. The members of the club, with the co-op era'tion of their friends and neighbors, donned their old dresses and set to work collecting the dirt and rubbish on streets and parkways in the vicin ity of their homes. Before noon, as a result of the women's work, the clip ital came nearer to looking like "Spot less Town . than ever before in its history. ory inspector warrants charging nils- mcattor ere ismcd t;uiiist M. ory, manager at the Chicago opera house, and against Augustus I'itou, at the Illinois Theater.. Managers of the Peoples, Marlowe, Thirty First Strcrt and the New Grand Theater will answer charges of violating the child labor law in the municipal court. This round up of theaters U the result of a vigorous campaign waged by the factory in spection bureau during the last few weeks. It was undertaken in an effort to determine just how much child labor was employed in Chicago Theaters and is of particular significance at this time in view of the fact that theater interests have now before the Legislature a bill to nullify the law prohibiting child labor in play houses. 37f AT THE JfCATPr - - ALL - - THIS WEEK BOY KILLED BY PLAYMATE. SPRINGFIELdTIiI.. April 1S. Bafett F. James, 14 years old. and a freshman of the Springfield High School, it dead as the result of a fracture of the skull suffered on the school campus when a four and one half pound discus slipped from the hand of a schoolmate during practice - the SYRIAN STUDENTS REVOLT. American College There Hat Trouble With Armenians. VASinNGTOApril IS A dis patch from J. B, Jackson. American consul at Apnella, Syria, says that the students of the Central Turkey College, in American institution at Taintab, .recently revolted, defying the president of the College and the faculty. For a time the lives of Americans and other members of the faculty, and the safety of American property were threatened. The request of the consul brought a force of soldiers to the scene, for the protection of American interests. The students were armed, but were overawed by the unexpected appear ance of a considerable military force. Friend Field Good sell, president of the college, said that the offending students were all Armenians. EVENTS IN HONOLULU. mm nm i m top A TOKIA, OltKliON Iron and Brass Foudert Land and Marine Engineer Up-to-Date Sawmill Tlwhlsiare Prompt attention given to all repji' 18tr and Franklin Ave work. Tel. Main 241 John Fox, Pres. F. L. Bishop, See. Astoria Saving 9mk, Tnu Nelson Troyer, Vice-Pres. and Supt ASTORIA IRON WORKS DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF THE LATEST IMPROVED ... Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS FURNISHED. Correspondence Solicited. - Foot of Foarth f treat Fairbanks Family Expected Soon On Their Way To Japan, HONOLULU, April 7 via SAN FRANCISCO, April 15- Former Vice-President C. W. Fairbanks, ac companied by his wife and daughter, are expected to arrive here April 23, and remain until May 11, on their way to Japan. They will be heartily welcomed and hospitably entertained during their stay. Admiral liichi and his olticers were the guests of Captain Rees, command ant of the naval station yesterday on a trip to Pearl Harbor, and after wards at a luncheon at the University club. The Hawaiian Irrigation Company has floated an issue of a million dol lars to construct a vast irrigation ditch on the island of Hawaii by which water for fluming and irrigation will be brought to several well estab lished plantations. The Maui Association of Congre gationa! Churches has disfellowshiped the Rev. John Hihio and the Rev. John Kalmo, well known native past ors. ' The customs authorities are taking precautions against the Recrudescence of opium smuggling. FIGHTING SOCIALISM NEW YORK, April 15.-How the National Civic Federation is opposing socialism in this country was tod by Seth Low, former president of Co lumbia University, in the course of an address last night before the mem bers of the National Metal Trade As sociation. "Do you know," he asked, "that there are Sunday schools in this city where socialism is taught to little children?" Their literature is on our battleships and circulates in our army urging desertion and mutiny. But we are doing what we can to counter act that propaganda. We began this at the request of the labor leaders in the federation. "Such men as Mr. Gompers and Mr. Mitchell have been fighting Socialism in their labor union for years." CHILD LABOR LAW. Chicago Theater Managers Are Ar rested For Alleged Violation. CHICAGO, April 15. Six Chicago theater managers were today arrested on charges of violation of the child labor law. On the complaint of Edgar T. 'Davics, chief of department of fac- COLLEGE PRESS ASSOCIATION. COLUMBIA, S. C, April 15.-The College Press Association of South Carolina began a two day's meeting in Columbia today, with representa tives present from the University of South Carolina. Converse College. Wofford College, Clemson College. College of Charleston College and other leading educational institutions of South Carolina. SHOOTS TO KILL, MARSTIALLTOVVN. Iowa, April 15 In the presence of 200 men as sembled at a billiard hall to hear the returns of the Gotch-Mahmout match last night. "Doc" Seibert became in volved in a fight with Harry Lashell. Lashell shot Seibert three times. Seibert died on the way to the Hospi tal. Seibert's brother Fred, is Evan gelist "Billy" Sunday i aide. Royal Hawaiian Orches tra and Glee Club Rendering different Songs and Music every afternoon and evening. These singers will sing any song anyone in the audience desires by notifying the manager. ENTIRE CHANGE OF PROGRAM TONIGHT New Pictures, New Songs Matinee this Afternoon From 3:30 to 5:00 o'clock Admission lO Children under 12 5c. TURK WRESTLER TALKS OF 118 OPPONENT FINANCIAL, " JOHANN'S COURTING. On of the ffoyal Romance. of the Kepsburjj. More than ono royal romnn.-e has oc curred In the family f too llnpsburgs. The best of nil, perhupH, Is that of the Archduke Johnnn. brother of the Em peror Francl I. One day he was traveling Incognito when be arrived In a village where he desired to take o coach fur Vienna. He looked around to hire a carriage, for which, having been obtained, ho sought n driver. At length a lud was brought to him. "Your n.i'.ne?" queried the archduke. "Johaim, Kir," answered the lad. The archduke was cute. lie had seen at n glance that this wag no boy before him. but a girl disguised. 'Y.'tiat do yen call yourself when you nrc at borne helping your mother in the kitchen?" he asked, smiling. 'Anna Hochl." sue answered. "And what Is your name?" Johaim too. I am an archduke." I supple vou will tmy that you are the emperor himself next?" sue laugh ed back at him. Then she drove his carriage Into Vienna. Here, bcf-uld, the people saluted, and phe made Inquiries, thus finding out the real facts. But she thought little more of the matter until a month later the archduke stroda Into her father" cottage Just at the dinner hour and aaked permission to Join the family gathering. The girl began apologies, but tho archduke laughed tbcra asldo and Insisted on being called plain "Jo- hann" The visit was repeated again and again, and at lant the villagers bevfln to talk unkindly. Anna at last an'.;cd the archduke to come no more beeauw of the gonslp. That settled it. He asked her to marry him, and, despite the objections of the emperor, the two were married. Later the girl, once daughter of a Jobmaster, wag created baroness and countess and at last forgiven by the emperor. Philadelphia Ledger. MAHMOUT SAYS GOTCH WAS SIMPLY THE BETTER MAN OF THE TWO. CHICAGO, April 15 The easy overthrow of Ym(T Mahmout. the highly touted Turkish rettcr. by Frank Gotch at last night's contest for the championship robbed the after math of comment of much of the us ual interest. "I had him beaten when I laid my hands on him," said Gotch. "He is a strong fellow, but I am stronger and know more about wrestling than he does. I am glad I won became I am an American and the title still remains here. I have made no plans for the future and don't know when I'll wrestle again." "I did not know Gotch was so good," said Mahmout. "I beat all the men that Gotch did and I thought I had a chance. He is the best man I ever met and I don t know any one who can beat him. I am going t- my home thi Summer in Bulgaria and take a rest. I may return next year and try to get another match At present he is a better man." Ed Smith, referee, made the follow ing statement: "Gotch simply outclassed Mahmout. 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