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FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1909. THE MOItNINQ ASTOUIAN, ASTORIA, OHEUON. IT WILL DO THE WORK KLEENO The peer X)f all Washing Powders. Satisfaction & j& guaranteed or money refunded. & & 1 lb. package 10c I A. V. ALLEN SOLEACENT LEWISES UNACCOUNTED FOR I'l IS LID CHICAGO TRAGEDY REVEALS STARTLING NUMBER AND SIMILARITY OF CASES CHICAGO, May 6.-The large rolume in which Chicago records its ansolved mysteries has been open ed again and a new entry has been made. This mystery is the case of "Mrs. C. A. Lewis" whose body was found in the lake near "Suicide I Bridge" in Lincoln Park a week ago. j The police are no nearer the identity l tne woman man o nine uaj mc body was discovered. No le"gal claim ant of the $3750 belonging to the woman, which was found in a safe de posit box has been found . Among the missing "Mrs. Lewises" who have come to the attention of the police, none of which is believed to be the one whase body was found in the lake, are the following: Mrs. Charles A. Lewis of Buffalo N. Y, sister of Mrs. F. Mooney. 317 Forty-third Avenue, Chicago. Mrs. Charles A. Lewis of Kansas City, Mo., proprietress of the St Nicholas Hotel who disappeared about February I, and is believed to have come to Chicago. Mrs. Charles A. Lewis, 617 Wst Lake street, who has been missing for several months. ... .1 . L - , .V' Mrs. Charles A. Lewis of SDokane. Wash. t Mrs. Annie Miller Lewis, recently! married to C A. Lewis of Dawson City, Alaska. She is -reported to 1 have started for Chicago with her , four grst cass cruisers . being sta siste'r, Mrs. Rose . Gardner, 1223 j tioned in the Southern Pacific with Michian Avenue, before Christmas,! ;ts base at fiMml Island, is the and has not been heard of since. n?w, brought by H. M. S Algerine, Mrs. H- V. Lewis of Kansas City.'hich reached port this evening after Mo, who came to Chicago three ,(jve months absence on the South months ago and has not been heard ! American coast. British capitalists from. j who finance nearly all South' Ameri- j can ventures have made a strong plea ENTRIES ARE MADE. i to the Admiralty for fae maintenance j of a squadron of Falkland Islands, NEW YORK. May 6.-Entries for' and it is said that they have decided the stakes of the Westchester Racing on a plan. SYNOPSIS OF THE ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE Northwestern National Insurance Company Of Milwaukee, in the State of Wisconsin, on the 31st day of December, 1908, made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Oregon, pursuant to law: Capital. Amount of capital paid up in cash.. $1 ,000,000.1)0 Income. Premiums received during the year in cash $2,145,769.79 Interest, dividends and rents received during the year 183,062.96 Income from other sources received during the year Total income Disbursements. Losses paid during the year $ 700,768.07 Dividends paid during the year on capital stock 120,000.X) Commissions and salaries paid during the year 743,231-27 Taxes, licenses and fees paid during the year 80.W9.07 Amount of all other expenditures 230,019-86 Total expenditures Assets. Value of real estate owned Value of stocks and bonds owned Loans on mortgages and collateral, etc Cash in banks and on hand Premiums in course of collection and in trans mission 225,793-96 Total admitted assets $5,174,503-62 Liabilities. Gross claims for losses unpaid ...$ 101,656.78 Amount of unearned premiums on all outstanding risks 2,614,975.51 ' Due for commission and brokerage Nil. All other liabilities, conflagration reserve... $175,000 And reserve for taxes due or accrued 55,000 230,000.00 Total liabilities . .. Total insurance in force December Business In Oregon For The Year. Total rioks written during the year...- Gross premiums received during the T)mim reHirnpH flnrincr the vear nqU ni-tnof flip vpar Losses incurred during the year. Total amount of risks outstanding m HMhwnhriT.National Insurance Co. of Milwaukee Wis. By . WILFORD M. PATTON, President. Statutory resident general agent and attorney in fact: MOSES BILLINGS, Portland, Oregon. F. I. DUNBAR, Agent, Astoria, Oregon. Sherman Transfer Co. HENRY SHERMAN, Manager. Backs, Carriages Baggage Checked and Transferred Tnicka a4 Fund ten Wagons Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shinned. 433 Commercial Street - Miln Pfcoeo 1" Association's Spring meeting itBel mont Park, which opens a week from today were announced last night. For the juvenile stakes 52 entries. Laureate. 54, Boquet. 47, Fashion. 24, Natoinal stallion race 55, the Poca tani 29, Withers 26, Belmont 28, Ladies -22, Metropolitan handicap 27. Spring Serial handicap, one entry to qualify for three races, the Croton, Claremont and Vancortlandt handi caps, forty entries. Toboggan handi cap 34, Harlem selling 39, Norwood selling 36, Amateur. MORRIS MEMORIAL TROPHY. W21 be Presented to the Golf Club Making Best Score. vcV YORK. May 6- The Tom Morris memorial trophy, presented to the Western Golf Association by Peter Dawson of Glasgow, in tribute to the memory of old Tom Morris was placed on exhibition today in the Waldorf-Astoria. It will be sent to Chicago in a few days. 4 The trophy is about five feet high, of silver and copper and represents Tom Morris in the act of driving. A panel back of the fire represents the St. Andrews' Golf Links. It is to be awarded to the team of eight players returning the best score against "Par" on its own course. The plan of playing simultaneous team matches all over the country on a fixed date is so new "that an actual test of several years, golfers say, will be needed to demonstrate its advantages. BRITISH FLEET. VITORIA, B. C May 5. That there is likelihood of British South Americans squadron composed of $2328,832.75 $!,877,008.'7 $ 206,050.23 3.381,038,26 1,158,204 84 203,396.33 31, 1908. $ 2,946,632.29 526,686,047-00 $2,197,092.00 year , ivvwl? 4,91)0.91 20.777.63 '' ; Oregon, December 31, 1908. 4,306,854.0,) SMUGGLING NOW A STANDI THREAT SAN FRANCISCO AUTHORITIES DISCOVER AND THWART A CLEVER SCHEME. SAN FRANCISCO. May 6--De- tails of a plot to outwit the Federal officials of this port and to evade the new statute which forbids the im portation of opium into this country have come to the knowledge of the local surveyor. As the result more elaborate precautions have been taken against smuggling than have been used here in years. Under the cov er of silence of the general impression is there would be no attempts made to smuggle opium into this country as long as the present bountiful sup- pty of the drug held out a well or ganized and generously financed ring, according to the customs official was formed with agents in San Fran cisco and the Orient to conduct an illicit trade in the contraband. The first intimation of the conspiracy to evade the new law was conveyed to Surveyor of the Port Edward F. Woodward by the regular; opium dealers of San Francisco, who feared that the dumping of a mass of contra band on the market would reduce their present enormous profits. A number of plainclothes men and special surveyors have been placed at work on the case, but how far their investigations have led them can only be surmised at the present time. It is generally admitted, however, that the headquarters of the alleged ring is in China with agents throughout the' United States. EXPLOSION OF GASOLINE. SEATTLE. Mav 6.-Richard Nash, aged 40, one of the proprietors of the Rainier Valley Record at Columbia, a suburb' of Seattle, died last night from burns received in a gasoline ex plosion in the plant yesterday after noon. Mrs. E. S- Gill wife of the president of the company and C. L- Pierce, a linotvoe operator were badly burned while assisting the dy ing man and securing the company s books.' The damage to the plant was slight. THOMPSON WILL FIGHT. CHICAGO. May 6.-"Cyclone Johnny" Thompson has been match ed to fight Ray Bronson of Indian apolis before the Columbus, Ohio. Sporting Club, May 25- The original articles called for a bout between Thompson and Paddy Sullivan of New York, but Sullivan refused to fieht, and Bronson was substituted. The bout will be a ten round contest, the fighters to weigh 133 poonds at 3 o'clock. EXPOSITION WILL BE HELD. Chicago Will Show The World Just What It Has. CHICAGO. May 6 An industrial exposition will be held in Chicago during 'August. 1909. according to an announcement made by the commit tee on -ways and means for the Chi cago Association of Commerce. "This exposition, said Chairman J. P. Mann, "should attract the at: tention of the world to Chicago's in dustrial, commercial and financial condition and opportunities. We purpose showing Hie world just what Chicago has, can get and wiU do in instituting and increasing trade. To this exposition will come represen tatives from foreign countries and from every section of our own coun try. "It will be the iJrggest thing of the kind ever attempted in this city." SURE CATARRH CURE Bringa the Foresta of Pine and Eucalyptus to Your Home. Germs cannot live when Hyomei (pronounced High-o-me) is used You just breathe in this soothing yrt most powerful antiseptic air and re- ief is immediate. It is exactly the same air as you would breathe in the forests of pine and eucalyptus of Australia where catarrh or con sumption was never known to exist If you have catarrh and are eon stantly embarrassed because you must hawk, spit and snuffle, surely you will give Hyomei the attention it deserves, when T. F. Laurin will guarantee this pleasant remedy to cure all this distress and humiliation or will return your money. Hyomei kills catarrh germs, it re lieves the soreness and distress in five minutes. It stops hawking and snuffling and makes you feel like new man in a week. It k the surest and most satisfactory catarrh treat ment known and gives comfort and relief to consumptives. A complete outfit, including inhal er, costs but $1-00, and extra bottles, if afterward needed, cost but 50c. A few minutes' time each day is all you need to quickly cure the most chronic case. Hyomei is sold by leading druggists. LEAD COMBINE LATEST TRUST MOVEMENT ORIGINATES IN LONDON AND EXTENDS HERE CONTROL THE WORLD'S SUPPLY. NF.W YORK. May 6 If plans which started in London mature on this tide of the ocean as they are ex pected to do, a powerful combine will be 'effected to control seventy per cent of the world's supply and stock of lead, according to a cable gram to (he Herald. John A. McDonald of New ork sailed yesterday from London to complete the deal here. He is said to have effected a set tlement of the differences between thvso-called lead trust and the large Spanish interest. In an interview In is auoted as saying that the English interests have come into the plan of amalgamated and he has assurances that the Gmrcenheims and other larae American owners will be favor ably impressed. Mr. McDonald said that the price of lead, which has been $68.75 a ton, is entirely too low. and is quoted as saving that the price could be from $95 to $100 a ton. The profits to the combine from the in crease in price would vary from $125,000,000 to $225,000,000 provided the price does not go above $100 ton. CHORUS REGISTERS KICK. Rebel In Wearing Knee Dresses in Play. Length BF.RKF.LEY. Cal-. May 6.-AI thouiih one of their own number wrote the senior extravaganza which will be produced by the graduating class of the University of California, this month, the girls, who will ap pear in the chorus have risen in re bellion against wearing the knee length' dresses planned for them. When their ultimatum was carried to Stare Manager F.lmer freckenfcld he said: "We arc simply following the suggestions made bv the writer. Miss Christina Krysto wrote the show and she is one of our most popular co-eds. Surely her taste is ludicious. Then Professor William Dallam Ames of the faculty comrnis ;ion board advisory was called to the aid of the distressed co-eds and the result was comprise whereby the girls are to wear dresses which will permit the bottom rim of the skirt to appear 12 inches above the floor. NEW YORK LETTER NF.W YORK, May 6--Spurred on by scores of parents whose daughters have within the week disappeared in he same city labyrinths from whtcn Adele Boas has just been led, the lice powers are to-day undertaking desperate campaign to thread and trace the by-ways of this metropolis, where any wanderer may now bury himself beyond hope of discovery. Special squads of detectives are be- ng set at work on the slight clues which the stricken fathers and moth ers enn give of the many girls whi have been -suddenly missed from home and swallowed up completely the oblivion of the rush of the town. Hospitals, hotels and every lace of possible . resort are to be strictly canvassed and compelled to report to the authorities each case that might possibly mean a straggler from the home circle. Beyond talc- ng a firm grip on all the sinister agencies that lie in wait for wander ing daughters throughout this city, the police chiefs believe they should pnt themselves in a position to lay hands on the lost with much less Wind groping than they went through for the Boas girl- SPRING STUNTS. Clothes lines are af a premium, feathers scarce and popguns selling feverishly about this town to-day as the small hoy whoops out on the trail over back yards and parks in joyous imitation of the only tsunaio Bill who has just encamped up at Madison Square Garden. There are shows and shows in Gotham, but none of them ever infects the boys, both big and small, with this partic ular form of Dementia Americana For these three weeks in spring, while the Hon. William F, Cody hunts braves and buffalo to the dc light of an arena full of youngsters, strav cats hereabouts run for their lives as the reflex action strikes all boydom. BRIDGE BURDENS, Watching four slender cables strain and sag in holding thousands of tons of steel over East River where the great Manhattan Bridge is being swung, a million daily pilgrim from Brooklyn Borough are today becoming deeply worried over the future of the promised outlet for their rush hour crushes. From the span of the veteran Brooklyn Bridge which is wearing away from its con stant overload of inter-borough traf fic, the crowds have eagerly scanned each stroke that has flung the neigh New York Style Show Today's Correct Clothes for Men and Young Men BEFORE buying your Spring Clothes, come here and see the only Real New York Styles shown in this city. JUDD jBRO 557 Commercial Street The Prices are boring bridge monster high across the river. Soon the historic Brook lyn Bridge must be closed and equip- cd with fresh sinews to play Atiai to all the world of Brooklyn. Now the great sister skeleton that must ake up the burden is visibly sinking nch by inch, while its supporting trands of cable look to be nard rawn and sadly straightened. En- ncers declare that only a temporary roblcm of balance is making things ook out of kilter on the new river broad way; but no one here will breathe freely till the immense struc ture is put firmly on its feet. BATTLE FOR BIRDS. While fruit rather than feathers for the most part adorn the inverted bucket style of headgear which the ladies are now sporting under the pring sun, a crafty band of Broad way feather dealers have to-day suc ceeded in having bird butchery for millinery purposes .legalized for an other year in the closing whirl of the legislature of this state. Opposed at every step by the forces of the Na- lonal Association of Audubon so cieties and the 83.000 farmers of the state grange, who have battled' for the birds that check crop pests, these feather sellers have finally succeeded killing all attempts at a law for real bird protection. To leave the feathered crop guards a prey to the demand for women's hat trimmings for even one year more will sadly de plete the already waning bird re sources of the Empire State, the authorities declare. From the head quarters of the Audubon workers in this city there has conic the assurance to-day, however, that the fight for the birds will not be dropped but pushed ,by every farmer, orchardist and ranchman of the country till the agricultural interests of the land are recognized by the lawmaker instead of the lobbying of a few selfish deal ers in bird scalps. MOURN METROPOLE. With the placing of a padlock on the dismantled front of the old Hotel Metropole to-day, Gotham is seeing the last of what has been the favorite resort of its choicest circle of sport ing gentry for many, chapters of Cores Biliousness, Sick Headache, Sour Stom ach, Torpid Liver and Chronic Constipation. Pleasant to take riothes Made in New Tori for us by Alfred Benjamin &Co. alone make this New York Style Show possi ble at the New York Fashion Centre moderate white light history. To every Ire-1 quenter ol upper Broadway after: dark the Metropole has meant the hub about which alt the night life of the metropolis revolved. In the re cesses of its cheerful cafe every .porting event of recent years has been planned and every move of the leaders of tire gambling underworld plotted- Horsemen, pugilist!, base ball players, jockeys, actors, book makers, promoters and gamblers met and made merry within the walls of this ild-fashioned establishment in the vortex of Broadway's night activ ities. Now that the Metropole is no more, its conclaves will be scattered through a dozen more modern and less picturesque hostelrics, no one of which can ever take Its place to the minds of its old-time frequenters. HOW HE GETS SUBJECTS. "But. of course it happens with every one that the brain is sluggish sometimes, and I have invented a little spur for such occasions. Wit! you just help yourself to that square cardboard on that chair over tqere that's it.. "You see I have two dials set side by side. On one of them is printed, in round robin form, a list of sub jects, for paintings; windmill, old nurcn, nay mcauows, sione sicps at Capri, Alhambra, Coney Island, Notre Dame, and so forth. On the other dial is printed a list of weather or time conditions, like moonlight, sunrise, haze, snow-storm, windy day June clouds, and so forth, You'll notice that only one subject. at a time is shown through the little slit that I have cut in the paper that covers my dials, wow turn the lett-nand dial." I turned it and came on "Oxford." "Now spin the other one for the atmospheric conditions." This brought me "June clouds." "You see; Oxford, in June. Very easy to paint Magdalen Gardens un der June clouds and so it goes. But I seldom have to use my machine, as my mind is full of the places I have seen." Wonderful ninnt If men had never humored their laziness we would have had no great inventions. Why could not authors have a plot dial anjtj a character dial? It might change the style of stAries now current.. Laxative Fruit Syrup T. F. LAUREN OWL DR Ijntfi HjoUaui. tllU ttrar Itiuirll trrrt &att Franrtora Btn location In ibt Cliy. All ModVa Connnltncci. Fireproof Balktlnf Europeta Mm. Rtlii from $1.00 prdr Md up. Rim vltb buh, $1.90 pr i tod up. Dr.jReeds CUSHION SHOE Easiest Shoe on earth . AGENT FOR Bergman's Logging SHOE A. 1 QUALITY S. A. G1MRE Opposite Ross, Higgins!Co. 534 Bond Street. Astoria, 0e. 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