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pi 'TasTi m a a I -i Cr T oj"- ' M te Mm . AA . 4fey VOL. XXIII, NO. 112. ASTORIA, OREGON, SrSDAY MAY 10, 18.85. PRICE, FIVE CENTS BUSINESS CARDS. T"VBS. A. L. and J. A. FUITOX. Physicians and SurRcons. Will gie promDt attention to all calls. irom any part 01 tne city or country. Offlceoer Allen's More, corner Cass and Smiemoqua streets, Astoria, Oregon. Telephone No. 41. JVi. FKXS1L PAGE. Physician and Surgcou. Ofllce. EoomC, oer D.A. Mcintosh's stoie. Officr nouns :-9 to 11 a. m. ;-3 to 3 r. M. Residence, opposite the Johansen building OKO. A. DOltUIS, GEO. 2TOLAKD KOKAKD & IOKRIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. onice hi Kinney's niock, ipposlte City Hull, Astoria, Oregon. r. V,'. FULTON". G. a FUXTOJf. TUr.TOX BROTHERS. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Rooms 5 and C.Odd Fellows Buildluj TOSEPH A. GILL. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Officf, on Cass street, I door south of Odd Fellows Building. J." A. ItOWLBY, Attorney and Counsellor itt Law, Office on Chenanuis Street. Astoria. Oregon. K!,0 V. PAltX&HK. SURVEYOR OF Clatsop County, and City or Astoria Office :-Chenamus street, Y. M.C. A. hall Room No. 8. O. IV. IiESCIt, ARCHITECT AND SUPERINTENDENT. Office : Room 0, Klnnej's Rrick Block, TAY TUTTL.KT3I.b. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Rooms l, 2, and 3. rythlan Build g. RK8IDKNCE On Cedar Street, back ol St. Mary's Hospital. f r. mcKB. A. I- BHAW. HICKS & SII IW, DENTIS1S. Rooms lu Allen's Building, up .stairs, coi ner Cass and Squemoqua streets. Astona. Oregon. BANKING AND INSURANCE! i. W. CASE, Broker, Banker, and Insur ance Agent, ASTORIA, - REG OS. OFFICE HOURS: From 3 o'clock -A. M. until 3 o'clock P. M. Bozortii & Johns, tte&l Estate and Insurenco Apentc and Brolerg ASTOItrA, --- - Oregon. We write policies in the following well known Fire Insurance Companies : PHC2NIX OF HARTFORD. SCOTTISH UNION AND NATIONAL OF EDINBORG. LION. OF LONDON HOME. OF NEW YORK. LONDON AND LANCASHIRE. Or LIVER POOL. PHCENIX, OF BROOKLYN. CONNECTICUT. OF HARTFORD. OAKLAND HOME, OF OAKLAND. CALA. And also represent the WESTERN, or and AMERICAN STEAM BOIL ER Insurance co. Rf&lEsUte Bought aad Sold on Commission. M. W. FECHHEIMER, -H.W.COKBETT. - -EDWARD HALT.. - President Yice President Secretary THE 0EES0N Fire and MariLe "Insurance Go. OF PORTLAND. OREGON. Capital Paid Up, 8220.oo9.eee Cash Assets Rxneed. - 2HO,ooe,eo C. LE1SENWEBER, - Agent, ASTORIA. OREGON. C. E-. Bain & Co. Are now prepared to furnish Doors. Windows. Mouldings AND . 3B DEL -A. O S353 J3? S . Orders1 Solicited.' Private Boarding House. THE UNDERSIGNED RESPECTFULLY announces that she is prepared to fur nish Ladles or Gentlemen with Board only, or 1 th Board and Furnlshodltoomsat ory reasonable rates. No extra charge lor use of "Parlor or Bath room, and eery effort will be made to make her guests feel com (ortable and at home. Blnnrr Served from 5:30 to C?30 P. JH. MRS. E. C, ROLDX, SE Cotilaln and Jefferson streets. Dissolution of Copartnership. NOTICE LS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE copartnership heretofore existing un der the Arm name and stlc of Thomes and Knowles is this day dissolved by mutual agreement. C. "W, KNOWLES. C.T.1H0MES. Astoria, Oregon, April 13th. 1885. 4w OMEN I Needing renewed atrcsgtli, cr who tafTer from i lnfirralUc peculiar to their er, ibould try mm THE TONIC This medicine combines Iron with, pare TereUble tonics, and is inrajoible for Diseues pecnlUr to Women, and all who lead eedenUrjr Urea. II En riches and Parifics the Ulead, StltualateH tho Appetite, ;treHKtbens the aiasdcM and Clean the oomplelion. and makes the skin smooth. crrcn in xacc tnoroacnirxBTicorniefl. It does not blacken the teeth, cause headache, or produce constipation all ether Iron nedtcinti do. Mas. Fuzabtth Bainn. 74 Fanrell Atb., Milwau kee. Wis., eajn, under date of Dec. 25th. 1851: I have nsed Brown's Iron Bitters, and it has been more than a doctor to me. hanng cored me of the weakness ladies baTe in life. 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Together with Wines, UquorsJobaccoXigarfi Moore's Remedy -FOR- MOORE'S REJIEDY Cures and Prevents POISON OAK. CUBES Piles. Burns, Cuts: itE- KIOVES Sunburn and Freckles, Cold in the Head or Lungs Croup. XiEC.. eco. An Invaluable FAMILY SALVE. Sold by all Druggists. 5 Ceats a .Bex. - Try It! l B I R 01 BE5T THE CZAR OF SKOIMSE. A Russian Bank Manager Gets Away with 58,000,000 in Eighteen Years As tounding DI$closnre of Official Corruption. '.Russia has iu its service but two honest men, you and me," tho Empe ror Nicholas once said lo his son Al exander. It such a remark were justifiable half a century ago, it would seem that the country has made but little progress iu either of ficial or business honesty, whatever it may have made iu olhar directions. Bobbery goes on in every department of tho state and permeates every branch of business. "Bobbery is the rule, honesty the exception,' says a recent writer on Bnssian affairs. "No cheating, no sales," is one of the cyn ical proverbs of thocouutry; and tho majority of the business people seem to hold it a fundamental rule that dis honesty is tho only sure road to com mercial success. Tho revelations at the trial of By kov, once manager of the defunct bank of Skopine, which took placo re cently at the Moscow assizes, illus trate this national dishonesty with startling emphusis. The extent of the depredations, the number of years they had been allowed to go on un checked, tho number and character of the people implicated iu tho rob bery, tho fact that tho exposure was due to the efforts of an obscure news paper and the necessarily rotten con dition of a community in which such a robbery was rendered possible, all tended to give the case an almost European notoriety. The amount of the swindle perpetrated by the bank manager and his confederates was 12,000,000 rouble or about $8,000,000. When, after two years of legal shuf fling and delay, tho conspiracy was at last exposed in open court, tho fig ures, large as they were, dropped into insignificance when compared with tho social and political questions raised by this extraordinary trial. The bank of Skopine was founded in 1863, at a time of considerable in dustrial activity in BuBsia. It was a communal bank, hence not strictly a government institution; but it was under the direct supervision of the government, being placed under the control of the ministries of tho inte rior and finance, and obliged to ren der to tho latter department n period ical and detailed account of it operations and its position. Bykov was appointed manager, notwith standing tho fact that he had been guilty of fraud whilo holding a pre vious appointment. The people of Skopine made a feeble pretest against his appointment, but with out effect. In 1868, as the evidence showed, there was a deficit of 5M,000 rubles. Being reluctant to publish this unpleasant fact to the world or impart it to the minister of finance Minager Bykov did what, as his lawyer ingenuously put it, anybody in his pbco would have done drew up a false balance sheet, and of so satisfactory a charac ter that it drew deposits from all parts of the country. From this date the affairsof the bank went from bad to worse, and tho more des desperate became its condition the more brilliant grew its balance sheets. Though he was doing no legitimate banking business whatever, Bykov by offer of 7K per cent inter est on deposits when other bauks were paying but 5, procured funds in abundance. To show how his exceptional profits were earned, Bykov entered in the bank's books divers ingenuously-contrived financial operations. There wero fictitious discounts, fictitious loans, fictitious purchases and ficti tious sales. An old man in tho pay of the bank, so illiterate that ho could hardly write his own name, signed every December a contract for the" purchase of several millions' worth nE imaginary Be6uritie3, and this transaction, frith the imaginary profits thereon always figured in the balance sheet presented to the min ister and published in the Gazette. Fictitious bills with imagica-y names were discounted, the manager pocketing tho money. Bykov sub scribed largely to schools, churches and charitable institutions, taking the money from the bank and charging it up to dummy., customers After awhile even the formality of discounting bogus paper ceased to be observed. "They -took money from the cash-box without counting it." said one witness, referring to Bykov's kinsmen and accomplices. "They came with a pocket-handcrchief and filled it with bank-notes and went home," testified another. Large in terest was always paid depositors. And thus tho swindle went on, not for weeks or mouths, but for fifteen long years. Everybody in Skopino knew it was a robbery; among the 6,000 customers of the bank when the crash came, not one dwelt in that town, and only nineteen wero discov ered in tho entire province. The law places commercial banks under tho immediate supervision of mayors and municipalities; it is their duty to make a monthly examination 61 the books, count the cash, and examine the securities. How was it, then, that for fifteen years the municipali ties failed to unmask the gross frauds perpetrated by their bank manager? Simply because the officials were all privy to the frauds and participators in tne plunder. Everybody, from tho town consta ble up to tho mayor, got a share of tbo spoils. The policemen wero in the ring; the ispracnic, or chief of police, was in Bykov's pay. The jus tices of the peace received an annual stipend from Bykov. In fact, Bykov was the czar of" Skopine by right of purchase. ACen of good report were arbitrarily expelled from the city at a hint from Bykov. One contumacious inhabitant was sentenced to a term of imprisonment on a bogus charge. The police were ready at any moment to carry ont Bykov's slightest behe3t. He lorded it over everything and ev erybody in the most open manner. Still, there were a few honest men in the city. One of them, M. Diakonov, denounced Bykov, and was cast into prison, ostensibly for debt, and re mained there eleven months. Anoth er was ex-mayor Leonon. Leonon wanted a monthly audit of tho bank, according to law, and was fired out of office, and a more complaisant mayor chosen in his place. As far back as 1S63 Leonon aud a few other citizens petitioned the governor of the province for an inquiry into the affairs of tbe bank, setting forth their reasons for so doing. In 187 six years later a reply was received to tho effect that the petition was not drawn up iu the prescribed form, and, therefore, could not be acted upon. In 1878 an appeal of a similar naturo was made to the minister of tho in terior. The circumlocution office again got in its work the reply was that the document did not carry tho proper stamp 20 copecks, or about 12 cents and consequently was in valid. Then a properly stamped pe tition wa3 sent, but an answer never came, The evidence showed that the gov ernor of the provinco had been bribed like all the rest. He got 79,000 ru bles. The vice-governor got 100,000 rubles. The marshal of the nobility skipped out when the trial was or dered. The councilor of the provin cial government, tho members of the tribune and tho procurator were all tarred with the same brush. The trial failed to furnish proofs equally convincing as to the implica tion of tho bureaucracy at St. Pe tersburg, which was, perhaps, due to the fact that nobody dared to follow up that phase of the matter.? The president of the court, the crown prosecutor and the prisoner's . coun sel all fought shy of it. No represen tative of the ministry was placed on tho stand to explain how the fraud had been overlooked so long, pr why petitions of Leonon and others had not been noticed. Bykov hinted that he could implicate certain high and mightv personages if he so desired. It was shown that 1,000,000 rubles had gone to some mysteriousper Eonage iu St. Petersburg, and that the emperor's adjutant-general and the prince Obolinski was largely in debt to the bank. Bykov, it was shown, had found it necessary to spend money without stint, but no body seemed to be interested iu find ing out why. The cxposnre and arrest of the criminals -were due to tho persistent efforts of Leonon and two other hon est citizens aud the courage of a sin gle newspaper the lliuisiun Courier. These meu were ex-members of the municipality aud in good position, otherwise they -would have suffered tho fate of Diakonov. Fiuding them selves utterly una.ile to obtain a hear ing from either the local, provincial or higher authorities, they resolved on that (iu Bussia) doubtful and des perate expedient an appeal to the press. For two years they dispatched letters to various papers, 'nottine of which ever reached" its destination. The postmaster and the manager of the telegraph office wero all in the pay of Bykov, and everything was in tercepted that threatened his inter ests. It wa3 a rule that all letters to newspapers, on any subject whatever, should be intercepted and handed to Bykov. Eventually, in 1882. these men succeeded in communicating with the newspapers, but the only pa per that dared to publish the letters or notice the affairs of the bank was the Courier, one of the few liberal onrans left, and one that has been persecuted by the government to the verge of extinction. The publication of the letters was tho death-sentence of the bank. There J was an immediate run of the credit ors; but tbe strong room, instead of containing 12,000,000 rubles, as shown in the balance-sheet, was empty and the bill-cases were filled with bogus paper. The bank fell, and the panic and scandal caused a run on nearly every commercial bank in Bussio. A "few banks stood the shock, but a full dozen came down, and when their affairs were looked into they were found to bo in pretty much tho same condition as those of tho bank of Skopine, but on a -smaller scale, and tho mayor of that town and sev eral of its wealthiest inhabitants were at once arrested. In the other banks the case was equally as bad. Airloff, th9manager of tho bank of Orel, had appropriated as much as Bykov, his defalcations spreading over twelve years. From the lowest office in the local and municipal governments on up to tho high departments of state it is hardly an exaggeration, in face of the proven facts, to say that dishonesty is the rule and honesty the exception. The Sovremenn Tzcestia. a Russian paper, published in 18S2 a list of, the robberies known to have been com mitted during the previous few years by public functionaries. According to this account there were twenty- five thefts of from 20,000 to 60,000 rubles each; six ranging from 400,000 to 500,000, and six ranging from 1,0UU, 000 to 12,000,000 in all 27,000,000 rubles or about S18.000.000. During Bykov's trial he protested warmly against what he termed' the iujustice of tho public and the press. "They say that I am a monster; that I have stolen six millions. It is a gross calumny. I swear before you. gentlemen of the jury, that I stole out one million ono million only." He protested with indignant gesture and unconscious humor. This was probably true, in the sense that he took only oue million for his person al use, but to enable him to get that he had to spend the other millions of the bank a3 hush money. It is ou ly in a state where free'Speech is sup pressed and the press1 muzzled, and where the government and the peo ple arc alike corrupt and dishonest, that such a glaring swindle could run for years unchecked and unpun ished. ToGetRIdofSiitry. What is tho uso of suffering from dys pepsia, nervous prostration or debility when Brown's Iron Bitters will tone you up and cast these horrors out? There is joy in every bottle of this valuable tonic It makes bad blood good, and bids dismal people be cheer ful. It brings good cheer to tho din ner table, and makes the family hap py. It drives away the blues, and helps you to enjoy a hearty laugh. And all the respectable druggists keep it The Kit Carson monument has ar. rived at Santa Fe. The formal un veiling will take place this week. Scott's Emalslon ofParc Co dLlvcr Oil. with. 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Floats! Bloats! CANNERYMEN who arc in need of Floats. Copper Handles and Mallets should send their orders to B. W. BLOOD. Clatskanie, Oregon, who has a quantity oa. hand whicn-willte sold at reasonable rates. 'SECURE THE SHADOW' Ere the substance fade, and when you risl Portland, make It a part of your business to can on W. H. towite, at the Sun Fran cisco Gallery, S. W. corner First and Morrison streets-, and have your phetograph taken la thsjiighest style of the ait. i- K