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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1893)
EXCLUSIVE TELEGRAPHIC PRESS REPORT. VOL. XL. NO. 72. ASTORIA, OREGON, TIIUIISDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1893. PRICE. FIVE CENTS, 4 QUESTIONS'? The person giving the best answer will Ein Seidenes Tashehtuch." shall be elected shall qualify and as sume office. The republicans took the offer under advisement, and will cau cus on It tomorrow.' Repsentatiyes of the People Sbonlil EnQorss Candidates. A PLEASANT TALK WITH BISSELL lis Correct Some 1'nantlientlo JJewi- paper Report. Wouien May Be Ap pointed to Office. THE SILVER QUESTION. Washington, March 22. Several friends of the silver coinage In the sen ate claim to have positive assurance from President Cleveland that he will send a delegation to Brussels in May to 'represent the United States at the international monetary conference, and that he has already taken steps to notify the various nations taking part, that our government would be pleased to have them again represented. An Antipe Poli Connty Farmer Worked . . liy Bunco TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS PROBABLY NO EXTRA SESSION. 1. Wild Licked John Sullivan? L. 2. who Carries the larg est and best as sortment of men's and boy's goods? ' 3. WHO cheapest? Sells men's and boy's goods the 1.WII0 Will build the first transconti nental railroad to Astoria. Leave your answers with HERMAN WISE, The Reliable Clothier and Hatter, THE ASSIGNEE'S SALE AT- Parker Hansons Will be continued for a few days until further notice. Everything MUST BE CLOSED OUT Associated Press. Washington, March 22. Two mem bers of the Missouri delegation In con exess called at the postofllce depart ment today and held a conference with Postmaster General BiBsell. The del egation desired some expression from Postmaster General Blssell as to what weight would be given to recommend atlons of members of congress In the appointment of postmasters, It having been repeatedly stated In newspapers, they said, that congressional Influence was to go for nothing. Blssell listened attentively to all that was said, but did not think he could Justly be held re sponsible for what had been published In the newspapers, and he called at tentlon to the fact that thus far not a single postmaster had been appointed who had not the endorsement of a member of congress. He thought, how ever, the question of candidates should In a measure, at least, be decided by the people of the locality In which the postolllce was located. What he most desired was, that he should have the benefit of advices of the people as well as that of their representative in con gress. No one would In any sense be Ignored, and it was folly to suppose that the assistance, advice, and recorrv mendations of men of such high char acter as the representatives of the peo pie in congress were not earnestly de sired. Blssell said he understood a statement had been published , that no woman was to be appointed -to a post mastership, and newspaper men were also to be discriminated against. Nel ther of these stories were true, and he regretted their publication. He bade the delegation good day and hoped they would come and see him whenever they had anything to say In regard to appointments In his department. Washington, March 22. Holman, who called at the White House today is au thority for the statement that the pres ident does not now Intend to call an ex- tra session of congress. He will only call one under a stress of clrcum stances that does not now exist. NEW PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE ABOUT APPOINTEES. AKD PRICES WILL - BE - CUT To Suit the Condition and the times. W. W. PARKER, Assignee. ore. A Good Position Declined Two Aged Republicans Will Be Retained. Washington, March 22.' The com mlsslonership of pensions was offered to ex-Congressman. Wheeler, of Mich! gan, and declined. Wheeler told Cleve- land that he did not feel himself cap able physically of assuming the labor ious duties (Involved in the position. Some comment was caused by the failure to conftrin Edward B. Whitney, of New York, nominated to be assistant attorney general. The nomination was not, it is said, reported from the Judiciary committee. Although the committee met last Monday, the objec tion would carry it over until the next meeting of the committee. At a caucus of democrats which non inated the ticket for the senate offices, It was agreed that certain republicans should not be disturbed. Among them are the venerable assistant door keeper, Isaac Bassett.'and acting as slstant door-keeper, Charles B. Reade, IDAHO MINING TROUBLES. To 1. Tell us the total number of Indi ans in the United States and the popula tion of the earth. 2. What is your shortest and best definition of the word "fame?" 3. What would you do if you had a million dollars? 4. Whose death was it that freed a continent from fear? Answers must be in by Saturday noon. Please send full name, school and class you belong to. In response to numerous requests we take pleasure in inviting all pupils of private schools to enter this competition every week. The age of the contestant HUST be stated Be Investigated by a Select Com- mltee of Seven. Washington, March 22. In the senate today Dubois offered a resolution which was referred to a committee on con tingent expenses , for the appointment of a select committee of seven senators to investigate the facts as to the re cent difficulties between employing sil ver miners and the working miners of Idaho, as to the employment of armed detectives In connection with those dif ficulties, and the necessity for the use of United States soldiers, their conduct, etc., with power to act during the re cess, and take testimony. Washington, , March 22. Senator Monderson has resigned as president pro tern of the senate, and Harrison, of. Tennessee was elected to the position and at once Bworo in. WILL KEEP HIM TO IT. A New York Club After Cleveland With a Stick. New York, March 22. A special com mittee of the Reform Club of this city has completed a draft of a bill which wnen perrectea, win De urged upon congress, as a suDsutute ror the pres ent tariff laws and fulfillment of the pledges under which the democracy ob tained control of the national govera ment. une general principles upon which the proposed tariff are formed are In the main as follows: Crude material in general, is made free of duty. In taking other articles, the general object has been to fix such rates as would produce the largest amount of revenue, in a series of years, consistent with large importations. The purpose oKpbtainlng the largest reve nue, however, is limited by considera tion of the welfare and necessity of the people at large, and especially the poorer classes. All duties made strict ly ad valorem except some of those which are levied as compensatory for Internal revenue taxes, upon similar articles produced at home. In order to Insure the administration of an ad valorem tariff It is essential that the rates of duty upon the great maBS of articles should be kept at very mod erate figures. Upon other articles ex perience has shown that duties cannot be raised above 25 per cent without of fering a dangerous incentive to fraud. A few articles of luxury may be ex cepted from the operation of these general rules. All foreign articles which if made here would be subject to Internal revenue taxes, must, of course, be subject to at least an equal tax. As to liquors and tobacco, the duties upon them should be made with a view of obtaining the greatest possible amount of revenue without any concern as to whether we give or withhold protection to domestic producers. Yielding in part to the popular opinion that silk is luxury, we placed silk manufactures generally at 20 per cent Silk yarns, thread, and sewing silk are placed at 20 per cent, and spun and thrown silk at 15 per cent, leaving raw silk free, All forms of crude metal, not merely In ores, but in pig Iron, Ingots, and bars, with the exception of iron and steel, are made free of duty. The duty upon woolens and worsted manufac tures of every description, are placed at 25 per cent. Leather gloves and all other gloves except silk, are placed in the 25 per cent schedule. Tin-plates should certaln'y not be taxed more than 20 per cent, and perhaps not more than 15 per cent. Manufactures of wood In the most finished forms, are placed In the 20 per cent schedule, as are also buttons, except those of metal or glass. Most provisions are made free of duty, but some, which partake In a mild degree of the nature of lux urles, are put In the 20 per cent sched ule, while breads tuffs are mostly made free. On More Idiot Fll a Victim to the Old Sawduit Trick Cleverly Worked. Associated Press. Salem, Or., March 22. I 8. Skinner, wealthy old farmer who resides Just over the river in Polk county, was smoothly buncoed out of $2,500 today, Skinner owns S40 acres of land oppo site Salem, and is worth probably $50,, 000. A few days ago a couple of men called upon hlin and looked over his place with a view to purchasing It. They offered him $40,000 for the farm, which was accepted, and the contract was tQ have been closed this morning. They told Skinner that they were rep resenting, a lottery company, and that they desired to Introduce their business here. They said also that it would cost him nothing, as they merely wanted to introduce their business. Skinner snapped at the chance. The ticket he held drew $5,000, The fellows had only $16,000 with them. They said, however. that they would pay the full .mount, but that they must first have the as. surance that Skinner was a reflpnnslbl man, Tney said that if he would gel $2,500 In paper money they would glvi him their $1,500, and he could keep I all until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning when they would pay him the $5,000 lr full. Forthwith Farmer Skinner canu to town and borrowed $2,500 for thirty days at tho bank. He got it In a bun dle of $5 bills and left the bank on a run. The sharpers put their $1,500 and Skinner's $2,500 in a tin box which wat locked and placed in the hands of the farmer, as he thought. They tnen left Skinner at his home and drove over the bridge to Salem. The bank officer? who heard of the matter went to Skin ner's house and told him that he had been robbed, but he said "No." He pro tested 'that he had the money in the box. He sent for neighbors to sit ur with, guns and guard the money to night. This evening a near friend of Skinner induced him to open the box before the officers, when It was found to contain simply gravel. Skinner of fers a reward of $400 for the recover) of the money and the arrest of tht bunco men. A BRUTE LYNCHED. a deal of trouble since the Bmall-pox had broken out among them, Is de clared here to be without foundation. Tho Tacoma brought but 110 Chinese, and theso were only admitted after a rigid inspection, and full quarantine. CAPTAIN REED INDICTED. Accused of Inhuman Treatment By His . Whole Crew. San Francisco, March 22. Captain Edward W. Reed, of the ship T. F. Oakes, hearing of the indictment the grand Jury had presented against him, went to the United States marshal to day and surrendered himself. He was subsequently released on $2,600 bonds. The indictment charges Captain Reed with Inhuman conduct on the high seas for having triced Peter Matterson. one of his crew, up by the hands for over two hours and placing handcuffs on his wrists, and confining him in a vile room for a period of five hours. He Is also accused of locking another seaman In the same room for over fifty hours, and also by the whole crew of the ves sel for allowing them to go without food and maltreating them generally. BARKENTINE MODOC INJURED. Part of Her Deck Load of Lumber Jettisoned la a Storm. San Francisco, March 22. The bark entlne Modoe which left Port Blakeley for Shanghai on the 8th Inst, with a cargo of lumber reached this port late last night, leaking badly and with sev eral feet of water In her hold. On the 10th Inst, the vessel was caught in a heavy gale with a very high sea and labored so badly that her seams began to open. The deck load slipped and the vessel was almost on her beam's end. In order to right her, fully 40,000 feet of tho lumber, was pitched overboard. Her cargo will have to be discharged and the vessel docked for repairs. WILL FIGHT THE SALOON. Supported by Prohibition clauses in the Deeds. . MeMlnnvWe, Or., March 22. An in teresting discovery In real estate titles was made here today. W. T. Newby, the original owner of the town site, made deeds to purchasers with a clause that the property should revert to the ichool fund in rase intoxicating liquors were Bold on the grounds, A wealthy owner of the finest pressed brick front " In the city has rented a room for a wloon and the occupants in the. neigh borhood are raising funds to take mat ters Into tho courts in order to prevent the saloon from opening. ORIENTAL EXHIBITS. PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS. Washington, March 22. The presi dent has sent to the senate the follow ing nominations: John S. Seymour, of Connecticut, for commissioner of pat ents; Silas W. Lamoreaux, of Wiscon sin, commissioner general of the land office; William H. Sims, of Mississippi, first assistant secretary of the inter ior; Edward A. Bowers, of Washington, D. C, assistant commissioner general of the land office; Henry C. Bell, second deputy commissioner of pensions; W. H. Lurton, of Tennessee, United States circuit judge for the sixth judicial cir cuit; Frank E. White, United States marshal for Nebraska; Max Judd, of Missouri, consul general at Vienna. DEMOCRATS OFFER COMPROMISE. Washington, March 22. The battle over the senate executive officers be gan in executive session today with a proffer of compromise by the demo crats, the terms of which were that the present officers draw their salaries till July 1st, when the new officers who OXFORD WINS. London, March 22. The Oxford-Cam oriage. ooac face tnis afternoon was Won by Oxford by half a length. Oxford's time, 18:47, was the best ever made. The course was the historic stretch between Putney and Morelake, four and a quarter miles long. JUDGE DEADY DEATHLY ILL. Portland, March 22. Judge Deady In lying dangerously 111 at his home in this city. ' All hope of his recovery is abandoned. At 12:30 a, m., Judge Deady's condi tion was unchanged. EIFFEL NOT TO BE SEEN. Paris, March 22. A rumor is printed that Eiffel has fled. A reporter sent to his residence was told that Eiffel would see no one. MONEY FOR WORLD'S FAIR. Albany. March 22. The World's Fair $300,000 appropriation bill has passed the assembly and now goes to the gov ernor. . i Kills His Wife andHer Sister and Mu tilates His Child. Des Moines, Iowa, March 22. A bru tal tragedy was committed at Hllman, a mining town in Monroe county to day. William Frazler, a miner whost wife left him a few days ago on ac count of drunkenness, went to where she was staying and killed her and het slBter Mrs. Smith who ran to Mrs. Tra der's assistance. Mrs. Frazler had a knife run through her and died imme diately. Mrs. Smith ran into the room where she heard the screaming and was Instantly stabbed In the breast, dying In a few momen'a, The brute then made an attack on his child, mut ilating It. As soon as the tragedy be came known public Indignation was ar oused and Frazier was lynched by an angry mob. DANGEROUS TO JILT. Mrs. Onstall's Brains Beaten Out by Her Discarded Lover. Grldley, Cal., March 22. J. J. ErverB, a farm laborer, early this morning fatally Injured Mrs. Christina Onstall, and'then shot and killed himself. He secreted himself In the wood In the back yard of Mrs. Onstall's house, and when she came Into the yard fired one shot at her ' with a pistol. The shot missed her and the murderer then beat her brains out with a sledge hammer. Her skull was fractured and the brains oozed out from the hole In her head. Ervers then put tho muzzle of the pis tol In his mouth and fired, dying In stantly. . Mrs. Onstall can not recover, though she Is still alive. She waa en gaged to marry Ervers, but Jilted him. Mrs. Onstal is a divorced woman with five children. , A Steamer Load Arrives at San Fran cisco for the World's Fair. San Francisco, Cal., March 22. The steamer Gaelic arrived tonight from China and Japan with a large passen ger Hot and thirty-five hundred tons of freight, most of which is made up of exhibits for the World's Fair from Chi no, Japan, Java, Corea, Borneo, and other Oriental countries. The most in teresting features of tho various exhib its is a Javanese village accompanied by over one hundred peasants from Java. It is proposed to .represent in a realistic manner the everyday aspects of life in a Javanese village. CAPTAIN DEERINO'S SENTENCE. Proves Expensive Business Carrying ' Chinese. San Francisco, , March- 22. Captain Deerlng, of the smuggling schooner 01- sen, was today sentenced to one year's imprisonment and to pay a fine of $14, 500. Deerlng was convicted of illegally landing twenty-nine Chinese in the United States. STATISTICIAN DISCHARGED. Chicago, March 22. A Washington special says the government crop sta tistician, Dodge, has been discharged, though the records will merely show that his resignation has been accepted, , to take effect April 1st. Henry A. Rob- - Inson, of Michigan, will succeed him. THE EXCLUSION ACT IN FORCE. IDAHO BRIBERY CASE. Boise City, Idaho, March 22. Repre sentative A. J. Hopper of Latah county testified before the grand Jury today In regard to the charges of brlberv in the legislature. It Is learned that he testified that a number of legislators from the central part of the state, who figure principally In the proceedings of the house, offered him $100 to vote for the establishing of a school of science at Coeur d'Alene City. AN UNFOUNDED REPORT. Tacoma, March 22. The dispatch from Montreal to the effect that five hundred Chinese landed from the Northern Pacific steamship Tacoma, were giving Canadian health officers I Tacoma, March 22. Secretary Car lisle has replied to. certain Inquiries as to whether he will enforce the provi sions of the Chinese exclusion act, that as the act has not been repealed it will bo enforced so far as lies within the power of the department. GOES FOR REST, NOT GOLD. New York, March 22. Before railing this morning I'lerrepont Morgan de nied the published statement that he Is going abroad to negotiate a govern ment loan of $50,000,000. He said he was simply going abroad for rest, and would return In June. FERRY HONORED IN DEATH. Paris, March 22. Thousands of strangers came to this city today to attend the funeral of Jules Ferry. Every department of the national and municipal government was represented as welt as all foreign nations. A LITTLEJDRAW FIGHT. Portland, Or., March 22. Charles Johnson of St. Paul, and Tommy West of this city, fought thirty-one round at the Pastime Club tonight The fight was declared a draw, ...