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ASTORIA PBtUC LIBRARY AfcOu V EXCLUSIVE TELEGRAPHIC PRESS REPORT. VOL. XLII, NO. 141. ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1894. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. THE SEWING In tho manufacture of cloth ing and tho quality of labor employed depends their wear ing qualities. We handle only tho best grades obtain able anywhere clothing we know is made by the best woikmeu. Tho product of (he "sweaters" or Chinese never enters our store to our knowledge. Our permanent success depends upon tho permanency of tho satisfaction we give in selling Mens' and Boys' Clothing, Hat3, Caps, Boots and Shoes, Trunli3, Valise3, etc., etc. POL SCHEDULE FIXED The Republicans Secure Sfhnie I SENATOR RANSOM ON SUGAR Sliffht Modifications. I'll e Price of Desert Land Fixed by the Semite-Wreck of the Bark James Allen. Osgood pfpjiTihE go. The One Price Clothiers, Hatters and Furnishers 50(5 and 501) COMMERCIAL STREET, ASTORIA, OK. WON ON MERIT. LAY THOSE TWO FISHING OUTFITS ASIDE. You needn't keep them more than a half hour. We've examined several outfits in different stores, and we to want go to another. t We saw an outfit in a window u 1 1 jjth of us want to go and see it. Tliiis said two customers to whom we had shown our fishing ackle. Further said they We like your' goods, but want to be sure of getting the best value for our money. We'll be back and let you see what we've bought if we like the other outfits better. In less than half an hour back they come and say We don't see anything that pleases us as well as yours. We'll take them. . GRIFFIN & REED. CALIFORNIA WINE HOUSE. . Fine Wines mi Mqaok " I have made arrangements for supplying any brand of wines in quantities to suit at the lowest cash figures. The trade and families supplied. All orders delivered free in Astorja. A. W. UTZIflGEfy, fHaln Street, Astoria, Oregon. Str. R. P. ELMORE heave for Tillamook Every four Days as Jlear as the meather mill permit. The steamer R. P. Elmore connects with Union Pacific steamers for Portland and through tickets are issued from Portland to Tillamook Bay points by the Union Pacific Company. Ship freight by Union Pacific Steamers. ELflORE, SANBORN & CO., . Agents, Astoria. UNION PACIFIC R. R. CO., Agents, Portland. $2 FOR flH $80 LOTT BY BECOMING A MEMBER OF HILL'S LOT CLUBS YOU CAN GET A FIRST CLASS . LOT IN HILL'S FIRST ADDITION TO ASTORIA. LOTS WILL BE DELIVERED WEEKLY. NOW IS THE TIME TO PROCURE A Iiot to Build a Home, fr $2 Associated Press. Washington, June 16. In the senate today a bill was passed fixing the price of desert lands at 1.25, and authorizing the refunding of all payments made In excess of that. Peffer's amendment to the tariff- bill to transfer all manufac tures composed wholly or part of wool to tlie free list was defeated 6 to 45. Allen, Kyle and Peffer cast the affirma tive votes. Hansbj-ough announced he would vote "aye" had he not been paired. The sen ate then plunged into the aot'ial consid eration of the wool schedule, and tin fight over that schedule was 'ended,' and that, as well as the following schedules (silk and silk goods), -was disposed of in quick time. The Republicans have been fighting for certain modifications of the woollen schedule, and were partially successful. They succeeded In having the rates on woollen and worsted yarns valued at over 40 centa per pound In creased from 35 to 40 per cent nd va lorem, and the dividing line on woollens and children's dress goods decreased from $1 to 00 cents, a duty of 40 per cent being Imposed on gctods valued at less than 50 cents per pound, and 50 per cent when of greater value. This latter modification Is the one, it Is understood Quay was fighting for. As soon, as It was 'decided upon, Quay's Jong speech suddenly ended. The other modifica tions of the schedule were such as had been proposed by the finance committee or by the Jones compromise amend mente. Messrs. Berry, of Arkansas, and Coke, of Texas (Democrats), Teller and two Populists' voted against the class! ficallons of women's and children's dress goods. Aldrlch and other New Eng land Republicans protested that these rates in the woollen schedule were en tirely Inadequate, and gave notice of their intention to continue the struggle for higher rates when the bill was re ported to the senate. Altogether 24 para graphs of the. bill were disposed of to day. after that on two occasions bought $10 worth of sugar stock." Mr. Ransom proceeded to relate that several weeks ago Capt. Barnes had come to him to tell him that a friend had Informed him that he, the senator, had been speculating In Sugar. The senator denied the story and sent Mr. Barnes to Investigate. He said there was no grounds for the assertion. Senator Brlce was very explicit and emphatic In his denial of any knowledge of campaign contributions In 1892. He never attended any meetings on Bene dict's yacht at which pledges were made in sugar Interests. ALASKA NEWS. The Bark James Allen Wrecked. The Packers of Choice !olumbia River Salmon fj-ieir Brands and Locations. Astoria Pk'g Co .Astoria.. Booth A. rk'gCo iAstorii . M. J. Kinney. . it Ailoria... Colual)iaiTerl"inCo Atoria Klimire Samuel .rAfloria G eorje ft Barker Astoria J O. Han thorn & Co. Artoria - i J, Q MeglrfSCo DrooiBeU ruher.aeo'i VH Co.. LslorU IfAitnria Pk'g Co.! ; Kniney : I John A. l)cvUu Cocktall 'online Vkg Co.Js. Kfancl'eo ' I Vno!l ...Elmore, Sanborn' ..,,. - j W'tile Star.. i Co Aatorta -5.&0W BarkerLtoria. Jj.O.Iianlhorn&Co'j. O. Hanlho.-a Artoria, . tag, St. George...' J. G. Hegler. firookleld Wa -ii Kither-m '. ' Seal ninavian Plh,rmn'a rirbensvn'f! .'e0- Aaloria. THI3 BRIBERY COMMITTEE. Senator Ransom Creates a Sensation. Washington, June 16. Senator Ran rom created a sensation, when he ap peared before tho sugar Investigating committee today. He was asked, as were the others, the following question by Senator Lodge: "Has any member of your family, or any person In your employ, or any clerk employed under the laws of the United States In your service, been Interested In any transac tions In sugar stocks or certificates?" Replying to the question, Mr. Ransom asked leave to make a statement. On the night of last Thursday he was visited at his home by Mr. Howland, a correspondent of the New York Press who asked hlrti substantially the same question as was put to him by the com mittee. Mr. Ransom made explicit de nial, whereupon Mr. Howland Informed him that a brokerage firm In New York, Silsbee & Co., had an entry in their books which indicated that the senator had speculated In sugar Btocks during the period of the tariff debate. "Mr. Howland," continued Mr. Ran som, "asked me If I knew any other per son by tho name of Ransom In the city. 1 told hint I knew of one person, nnd that was my son George, who was my clerk. He asked mo where he was, and I said he was In the parlor and I would ; step In and bring him In I went to the parlor door, where my son was, and beckoned him to come In. I did not speak to him or see him between the parlor and my room, and when he got Into my room I asked the gentleman to state his business to him, and told my son whatever the matter was to tell the truth about it. He then stated to the gentleman. In my presence, that he had bought some sugar on the 17th or 18th of April. He put up a margin of $10, which he paid the broker, on the sugarl stock. He said on the same day he put up a margin of $25 on cotton. He said he lost the cotton and made $10 on the sugar, and after that he repeated the same bet on sugar, but not on cotton, and I think he lost the second time. He then stated that he and Capt Barnes, a messenger here, at'the committee room. Nanalmo, B. C, June 16. The steamer Willamette called here this evening on the way to Comox, from Dutch Harbor, Alaska. She brings a meagre report of the loss of the American whaling bark James Allen, which was wrecked off the Atku Island, 200 miles weat of Alaska, May 11. The Alaska Commercial Com- l.any's steamer Dora picked up 20 of the crew on Bonen Island June 7. The men were In a starving condition, their only food being seal meat. The men reported that tho bark Allen ran on a rock oft Atka Inland and sank almost Immedi ately.' ... Tlw Condition of Portland Re mains Aticut the-Same. DANGER OF AN EPIDEMIC Every Honr tli' Kecking Odors in the Flooded District Uecome Worse. Special-Correspondence of Astorian. Portland, Or.. June 15, 1894. Between one's Inclinations and duty there gener ally, probably more often than not, is a wide divergence. It Is so with myself, and f believe with yourself and your readers, In connection with Portland'p THE RAILWAY UNION. Proposed Organization of a Labor Trust Company. Chicago, June 16. At tho American Railway Union convention today the Pullman strike committee reported that the company refused to treat with rep resentatives of the union, but the sec ond vice president, Mr. Wicker, said he would treat with ex-employes. The matter was referred to the Pullman delegation, with Instructions to appoint a committee to confer with the officials and rei)ort to the American Railway Union, A proposition ras been made 'to establish labor trust companies In every sta:e nnd to create a perpetual fund to carry on strikes. It Is thought the plan will be adopted with some modifica tions. '. TO, BE ARRAIGNED. The Indicted Correspondents Ordered to Appear. Washington, June 16. Correspondents Edwards and Shrlver, who were Indict ed by the grand Jury for refusing to answer the questions of the senate sugar trust Investigating committee, have been notified to appear for arraign ment next Tuesday. SUICIDE AT WASHINGTON. Ex-Member of Congress Bayne, of Pennsylvania. Washington, June 16. Ex-Representa tive Thomas M. Bayne, of Pittsburg, committed' suicide today at his home In this city by shooting himself through the heart. Supposed Ill-health and pos sibly financial reverses caused the deed. RAIN IN NEBRASKA. The Heaviest In Years Causes a Rise In the Missouri. Omaha, June 16. The heaviest rain for years fell throughout Nebraska last night. The Missouri river rose one foot In 48 hours. It Is within 18 inches cf the danger line, with the prospect of a more rapid rise in the next 24 hours. SUPREME LODGE A. O. U. W. Atlanta, Ga., the Place for Holding the Next Session. San Francisco, June 16. At the ses sion of the supreme lodge, order of Workmen, this morning, Atlanta, Ga., was chosen as the place for the next convention. A GREAT MUSICAL FESTIVAL. A. Chorus of Ten Thousand Male Voices, New York, June 16. A festival of song, a national sacngerfest, which promises to beat any previous effort of the kind attempted In this country, will be given In the spacious Madison Square gardens June 23, under the auspices of the Vernlgten Saenger society. All the principal singing soclptles in every state east of the Mississippi will be rep resented, and it Is expected that a horus of ' 10,000 male voices will be heard. President Cleveland and Gov, Flower have written to the committee accepting Invitations to attend, and It Is expected that many notable persons from different states will come to sec the performance. COLORADO HAILSTORM. Brighton, Col., June 1. Tho hail storm yesterday was the worst known here for yean, and destroyed all the crops In Us path. Its track was from four to six miles wide and from eight to ten miles long. The loss to crops will reach many thousands of dollars. As! an evidence of the Immensity of the waterfall, the Platte river rose one foot1 in an hour. present calamity. It is not well fur newspaper to manufacture lies out of whole cloth for the sake.of pandering to a declre or ambition. There Is alway a "come back" that strikes hard, and when this Willamette flood is still fresh In the minds of ieoHe, when a state ment made concerning a present, actual cond'tlon of affairs can so easily be proved or disproved by the eyesight of anybody anxious to get at the truth, It would be suicidal to diverge In these letters away from the sober facts. That Is a plain proposition. There is no As toria man, 'or Salem man, or Tacoma man, or Ashland man, .who has visited Portland during the past week that will not join In deploring the circumstances, and In sympathizing, In no stilted or affected manner, with our metropolis In her misfortune. Neither is there one of these men who can shut hla eyes to the actual damage that has been wrought by the flood, or to the true nature of the losses sustained thereby. The peo ple of Portland themselves are the first to acknowledge the facts, nnd to their credit be it said they are setting an ex ample of genuine grit In meeting their misfortunes that compels tho admira tion of every part of the Btato of Ore gon. Why, then, should tho lending newspaper of tho northwest deliberate ly accuse not only outsiders, but the vast majority of residents of its own town, of lying in the premises and of exaggerating a molehill Into a moun tain? Your readers' may turn for confirma tion of what has been said In previous letters, and of what will be said In fu ture ones, to their own neighbors, who have come to this city and Investigated for themselves. The watara are now stationary, al though this morning they fell about three Inches. The- Btatemer.t la the Telegram this evening that tho river Ib rising again a little Is not borne out by facts. It Is still, that Is all, and none of the members of the weather bureau here believe that there will be a rise of any kind again this season. The fctop page of the fall is easily accounted for by the very great heat of the liist two Jays. Even If this heat continues, the backbone of tlie flood huB be 'n undoubt edly broken, and It will not recover anything like Its former dimensions.. I regret to eay that the sanitary condi tions get worse, despite the precautions taken by the board of health "to en sure absolute cleanliness and vigilance." Front street continues as odorous as ever, only more so, and In the lower end of that thoroughfare are some of the vilest, most fllth-reeklng localities that ever existed. The authorities, while seeming to recognize the Importance of this subject, are proving themselves la mentable managers, with no knowledge concerning the right metins of immedi ately checking the evil and avoiding serious consequences. The stench in the heart of First street, near Washington, was something fearful this evening, and expressions of disgust and alarm are dally becoming more frequent. Nobody seems to have any ability to carry any scheme of Improvement In this respect to completion, and all that the authori ties are apparently able to do Is to shake their heads gravely and let tho nuis ance go unchecked. The boasted "clean up" so far has consisted in the sprink ling of. chloride of lime In front of about thirty buildings In different parts of the city. Every cellar ventilator sends up Into the centre of the side walks the breatn of pollution, and every hour, of course, makes the nuisance more abominable. This state of affairs, too, Is confined to no particular section, but Is common wherever the flood has gone. Generally speaking. It Is worse where the wtiter has left the sifrfaee of tho streets, nnd where It only remains In cellar premises. Without Intending to pose as an alarmist. It certainly seems to me that It only needs a few days more of official Inaction nnd stu pidity, with a continuation of the pres ent heat, to bring about a condition In this city that will bf truly pitiable. Women and children are thoroughly nauseated every hour of the day on all tho principal streets, and things must come to a crisis before very long. Tho germs of disease breed quickly, and wait for the pleasure of nobody. FIRST STREET.. Distance of submerged Btreet.. 2 miles Number of firms affected 254 Estimated damage $210,000 The alove estimate will, I believe, he found very substantially correct. First street, though not as deeply flooded as Front, Is to all appearances In a' very much worse condition. This idea is brought about chiefly, no doubt,- by the contrast between the liner looking store i and buildings that crowd First, and the dismal appearance created by the flood. Most of tho Front street architecture leans more to solidity than beauty, and the havoc wrought In an artistically furnished Jewelry store apieals more to the eye than the damage to a stern looking front of a Jobbing house, though of course the greater loss lies with the latter. Beginning at Taylor street, at which point the water now rests, we will take a glance along First, and row down that thoroughfare Blowly. The water, of course, gets deeper as we approach the end of our Journey past the Union Ticket office. The cobblestones those eyesores and enrachers that have been the bane of many a resident of Port landare badly broken up, -and there are not two stones In the whole road that are holding together. The horse- em; line rails are, of course, twisted out of shape completely, nnd only serve as a trough, where tho-water Is shallow, to hold the filth and gnrla,ifo in the niM- ril of tho l-onil. At Yiinihtll nti-wr tlia filth become thicker, belmr nlled un on the Bides of tho culverts and "smelling 1 to heaven." In this vicinity are several Handsome stores that show the ravages of the flood. Forbes & Breeder, the fur niture men, have lost to some extent by damage to material on the ground floors that could not be moved out in time. Krk'krnan's tiling and chimney furni ture store is badly damaged, and a great deal of beautiful decorative ware and paneling la destroyed. Sanborn Vall's fine art store has felt the effects of the trouble, too, to no small extent. Then come the A. D. T. Co., Feldenhelmer's Jewelry store, the C. P, R rollroad office and Hundley & Hans' bookstore. The C P. R. office Is In a fearful moss. Several tons of stuff are damaged, and a whole lot of fine furniture and office fixings generally badly stained and demolished. IMffum & Pendleton's hat store, the Skldmore Drug Co., and L. C. Henrick- son's Jewelry store are completely wash ed out Plate glass windows are smuh ed, and In this centre of the favorite prinenade district, rise huge nmssos of debtfs that make the spot one of the vilest In the whole olty at the present tlmo. liaum & Btondes' candy store and roBtaurant have been invaded by the waters and everything they have touched Is blackened and ruined. The Oilman House lleH deep In the water with its plate windows roughly boarded up and Its guests sitting on planks six feet high, built over the counter of the office. THo noted altogether Just now looks less reHjkectable than the ' scow of a fisherman. Every store In tills region Is filthy. The slime murks denoting the various levels of the water are numerous and cover every d(xir and window with recking noisome matter. From Alder to Washington we puss several more of the most fashionable business houses In the city. Woodord, Clark & Co., the handsomo offices of the Southern Pacific Co., Nlcoll's tail oring establishment, Gunst A Co., the tolKicconists, and the Merchants' Na tional bunk all looking like shack stores that have been without occu pants for ten years. But the greatest sights of tho whole thoroughfare are the two buildings that aland opposite one unother at the corner of Flint and Washington streets the First National Bank and the Northern oclflo ticket office. A description of thews places will give a fair Idea of the havoo wrought everywhere else on the (Continued on Third Page.) Highest of all in Leavening Tower, Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Ml 1 m c u k ssmzm ii ABSOLUTE!? F3uS