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NO'nrmi Hooks, F"' i 10 i , !';" i )':,. r r fin m.i t lh., ,. Am I!g! ti T . ' l.if'ji.iry ,...., ; if::'' ill. '. 1,1 Clio f ... ,,r; ! , . . oil'Miv, Will bcj hublu ly ,r(;.ai;ion. ipE ASTOIMAN nj tin Urfdt circulation of iiy paper on tin Columbia ftlvtr VVy TEE DAILY ASTQP.iAN Is t!i I) tiggest am test tijsr on tfca ColumtU LV? FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT. la VOL, XLIX. AH10U1A, 0KB00N. THUKSDAY MOttNJNO, OCTOBER I ft JM8. NO. JO i rr !.- vrvfy o ROUGH SHOES FOR LITTLE GIRLS i" . om.tlmta. ..peruiily school nM (hfr lil Ihwn; good, wj.y mm., Inn a rcitf nil httfd lo wf out Ai for lha boy, 0, aymihli with jrnu mi iht yr llimtigh. fur lh lion r great u( on hMil. hrt and pwkaibtwh. but rlKlit h.r. our aympaihy inkn a practical turn, llv. yuu in our apevlal .ho, for buys? Petersen & Brown. THE PARKER HOUSE KlrHt-ClfiHH in Every Kcfjpect. BAR AND BlIiltlAHO ROOM Special KntcH to Theatri cal Partle h A. ii. MAHON, Prop AMTOMIA, OMK. l7 109 Fisher Brothers ASTORIA.... LUBKICATINO OILS A SPLCIALTY BIIIP CHANDLERY II A ROW Alt K IKON AND tTECL (OA I, j'AINTM. tin A NO VAItNJSHEl fx.Hk ANI WINDOWS AOrtH'I'l.TMA.!, TMri.RMCNTfl WAOONH AND VEHICLE ASTORIA AND COLUMBIA RIVER RAILROAD. rrlv. i iu. p.m. H.m. r hi I'orlUml .ul At"rU Ki t nnon. rixrl. latkl III.. (Icll.lr; rllllKPllin i Hinl'l lor ihi Kut .nil I'll (4 Ihiunil hiIiiI 13 tt A.lnrU Hr.tld. ml Nr 7;M 4 lirl l'iHirr lrli, tiV rrliloa .ml Mcl All tr.ln. (vln Aitorl folnf lo Id. ml rvturnlng from Beaalil. run on th. lv.l Urnch. J. C. MA0. a. r. h v. a. WET Mackintoshes Umbrellas FOE LADIES, GENTS, MISSES, YOUTHS KM CHILDBEN Reliable O. H. COOPEBj THE LEADING HOUSE OF ASTORIA The Only ... IN ASTORIA ... Our Hpoclolty: HTOVI-H AND ItAtNCiEH We know t!i(j liiHi'ncHd. Twenty yum expriYnee, If you want n (iOOD Htovc, sec the stock at the Eclipse Hardware Co. . w d i ii , II..,., n .. . r i State: ft rW l mm 1 1 . ti FOARD & STOKES CO. Our Mottoi .. "We Buy and SPECIALTIES FOR THIS WEEK "Hoba" Roast Coffee Try It and Be Convinced Royal Cream Flour flaple Leaf Butter White Sewing mm R Goods; Lowest Prices Stove Store CITY BOOK STORE IIndjuar(rrn for SCHOOL BOOKS. SCHOOL SUPPLIES, STATIONERY, BLANK BOOKS TYPEWRITER PAPEfl, RIBBONS, ETC., ETC GRIFFIN & REED Sell Everything" .. None Equal to It . ... THE FINEST Machine THE BEST ON EARTH ubbers LAWMAKERS WERE BUSY Many Matters of Importance Acted Upon by Both Leg islative Branches. PILOTAGE BILL PASSES Spirited Dttate Tock Place When It Came Up, But It went Through the Senate. TWO NEW FISH MEASURES One Consolidates All Present Flshlcf Laws tai the Other Provides for the Protection of Stu feoa. HAI.KM. (. ll-Tha houe thla afir mion pttMrd avtn bill and one Joint rvlutln. Bnillh't bill, rwiulftig th. Inkln of a dUrovery .hiift at lJt 10 fiH-t (! In 'i dy nfti-r th. p ullnit of u noili. of lha dlwovfry f mlriliitc claim. wvl lh homie. K'irdniy'a bill, fixing the l.nio fur the holding of thn tiTWH of court In the KiKhth Judli lut dla trlct, prkmM. a did ulno CuriU' bill nmitidlng lllU'a code a aa to m.ike the guvrrnor qualify rtu- .econd M 'li'lay In January. WhUrwy'a bill. lllihliig the kUU InmiH of nillwuy rommlnMoncra. passed. Till, bill la thf aame aa that of Daly, of , lk'. fWlilch hiia ttlrrudy ivo-lved the nlgiiNlurc of thr eieoutlv, with Ihe rvption that It further contains the em ergency clauiw. Hy lla page Ihe .tate wlil luive about In aalurlc. Klimlcy' bill. iiDpropriatliia: U.(iuO for th relmbnriMTnent of .ubcrll-r to the Omaha Mwwltlon fund, nlmllar In rviry reixs-t t' lUti'ltlne'a aimte bill. pa.-el by a vol. of a to S. Th way and mnnna commltie In the arnnte rt-Krtl ba k th wenate bill pro viding f-r the payment of expenw of the Onvun cwnmllon at Omahu and carry ing an apirorlalin of JIS.'mJ. The aame was tabled. 1 ne houne on urrent resolution, pro viding for the l:;m-tlon of the alate normal achool. after being tablid. wa recalled bv 8tiator Mulkey, who offered an amendment, providing for a ub-com-mltte of Ave from the committee on ways and mean to vlxlt and tnventlgate the state normal chHj and college and re lrt, said report having the force of r--ort from th. full commltte.'. The amendment was adopted nu the tpkoIu tlon a amended . jumsiM. Th' hour bill t rtgulate the carrying of fheep by espresa wax vi..ed up by Sen ator Mlchell and pn.ed. The senate Joint message by Fulton to congress. pK'a.itig lor natlon:tl legisla tion in behalf of the veterans of tha Cay use and oilier lmilan wars, was read and adopted unanimously. The hnu-se bill repealing the act creatine a slate board of railroad commissioners, with an emergency clause, under susp. n nlon of tho rules, passes! unanimously. Curtis' bill, oonsoltdatln-r all fishing laws, passed the house, and went to the senate, where It waa referred to the fish eries committee. Senator Maekay'a pilotage bill came up In the senate for thin) rewding and a splr- Ited debate took place on an amendment to refer It to tho regular session. The amendment was lost by a vote of 10 to 9, one member being absent. The house passed Curtis', sturgeon b'.ll this evening. It prohibits the catching of sturgeon unuer four feet In length, and fishing with Chinese sturgeon lines; also creates a close season from March 1 to November 1. The committee on Judiciary to which was referred tho Uutt'a bill creating the supreme court commissioners, reported adversely, and the matter was Indefinitely postponed, which practically kills tho bill for this session. TOBACCO FACTORIES WILL BE FOUGHT AGAINST. Fight on Between Eastern Factories Which Will Result In a Reduction of 10 Cents a Pound. ST. LOUIS, Oct. ll-Now that the American Tobacco Company controls the Drumntond plant, It Is making ready for a big Jlght against nil Independent fac tories. A reduction of ten cents a pound In tho leading brand manufactured by the Drumniond company will be announced In a day or two. When It became assured that the Amer ican Company would buy out Drumntond, a 10 per cent cut was made by Liggett & M - rs. Up to a month iu"o the two St. Loula concerns were allied against the American Tobacco Company and Jointly met every reduction that was made by tha American. ' Just prior to the passage of the Inter- n I revinua Mil lnorilng th tut on tol(o, both oi th. Bt. LoiV. companlet mlnd tha prli on their good. io ti to cnvr th !IMiTii Ih nd during th. pi.-nd.nry of the neffotiittl'ina to form th. j Continental TobvJco Comftny, th flsht Ijotwiwrn th. Indfl(ndent fuctoil. and th. Amrkan company waa atoppd. Now It la on aguln and It prornlat to b. mora bltttr than ver. Th. new condition, plac. th. brum mond clxaretti. whlcb bav brn UMd k a club on th. American company. In oppo iltlon to lit. production ot th. Liggett Jt Myer Company. WITHIN THE WAliLB OS" MOBRO CASTLE. Bumuei Ensiga fttturns to ftockford After Being Thirteen Years a Prisoner A Story of Buffering. KOC'KFORD. III.. Oct. 12.-Bimue! En Ign. an engineer U lha old-time Bac:n. A Mlislulppl' railroad', and a resident of this city for many years, no. returned, Old and broken In health, with a sad try of Imprisonment and suffering In Cube. Whtn Ensign left Rockford he wtnt to Cuba, where he obtained a situation at an .nglruwr In ft sugar refinery. On. night Ensign, with two fellow workmen, resisted an assault mad. upon a n&tiva woman by Spanish soldiers. Th. nut morning. Ensign says, all were taken prisoner, to Havana, whore they were placed In Morru Castle. On. of the mm dltd In seven months and the other lKed, two years. For tN'teen years und five months. En sign (dJt-g'n. he was confined In the castle, aiiuwed to speak to no one and only to walk through a corridor tA feet long for recreation. At the expiration of that time he was taken out to work, with a ball and chain on his ankle, construct ing a plaza. At that he worked five yuars. He became friendly with the priests and attendants In a neighboring monastry and one night was spirited away and placed on a man-of-wiir that finally landed him In Mexico. Wnen placed In prison Ensign claims he had certificates of deposit to the amount ot and tl(M In money, none of which wa returned to him. VAST AREAS DESTROYED BY GREAT FOREST FIRES. II. r- Than Eleven Billion Feet of Public T.mber Buruwl Sheep Graters' Tres . pasting Causes Much Loss. WASHINGTON. Oct. 11-Th. annual report of Land Commissioner Hermann intimates that over U.OuO.ftiO.CvO feet of oubllo timber has been destroyed by fire during the past S3 years. The report says forest tlree form the main subject for at tention at the land office, now threaten ing, as they do, not only the growing forets, but forest lands, the prouuctlve ness of which it retards Indefinitely. The direct efftxt on the flow of streams and deuendenl agricultural possibilities the import continues, also must be considered. Moreover, the loss has been wholly without compensation, for none of the timber has gone to develop the country, and i. :;val Interests have been btne. meu u iargvi, as ... ..ie i vi "-; cutting. The matter is clearly one de-; mandlng. from an economic standpoint, measures proportionate to the Issues In- volved. Sheep graxing Is another difficulty In administering to some of the preserves, and special efforts have been directed to-w-urd rinding particular regions of which rhe conditions demand the exclusion of sheep, and to determine tho nature of the restrictions regulating slieep grating In such regions. During the year 355 case of trespass on public lanus were reported. Involving public timber and Its products to the value of $G26.1S2. recoverable to the "ovcrnmcnt. CUNNINGHAM INDICTED BY THE GRAND JURY. The Tendleton Murderer Appears In Court Friendless and Penlless One In dictment Charges Murder. FENDLETON. Oct. li-Cunningham. J thn nrlnchuil In tho recent shootlnar af- I , , . , . , k ... fiilr her In which Oliver lounir was murdered and Mrs. J. J. Worcester wounded for life, was tooay Indicted by tho grand jury, which returned two in dictments, one for the murder of Young, anu the other for shooting Mrs, Worces ter, The first charges murder In the u. dogre. Ho appeared In court v. ...lout an attorney, and said ne hud no funds nor any friends able to employ ono for him. Judge Lowell appointed Thomas Fltzirenvld to defend. Cunningham has i not yet pleaded to the Indictment, but ' will enter a plea tomorrow. AN EDUCATED BURGLAR. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 12,-Frank R. Ma son, a graduate of West Point, pleaded guilty to burglary today and was sent enced to ten years In the penitentiary H Is 4(i years old, and was arrested for stealing a watch from a ..ouse, SAILORS FOR DEWEY. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 12.-On the Guollc, which has sailed for Hong Kong, were 40 sailors for Dewey, They were In charge of Lieutenant Commander Lom bard, and are destined for the Culgoa, ono of the vessels captured by Dewoy from the Spaniards. FIGHT WAS DESPERATE Union and Negro Miners Clash at Ylrden, 111.. With Aw fol Loss of Life. EIGHT MEN WERE KILLED Train Bearing Imported Metroes Fired Upon ty Union Men and the Fire Was Returned. MINE OWNERS ARE TO BLAME Iniporte J Men Were Criminals nl tbe Coil Compinles Were Warned not to Brlnf Them to tne Mines. VIRDEX, III.. Oct. 11- Th. little town of Virden 1. comparative. y quiet tonight, after a day of riot and bloodshed brought about by tbe long expected clasn between union miners and Imported negroes. At 12:40 this afternoon a Chicago at Al ton special train, bearing S ngro min er, from th. south, arrived at the stock ade around the Chlcago-Vlrden Coal Com pany' mines, and Immediately a terrific battle began. The list at 10 o clock to night stand t dead and IS wounded. Tho dead are: EDWARD WELCH, of Springfield. FRANK BILYEAC, of Sprtngfle.-, ALtiERT SMITH, of Mount Olive. JOE KITTERLY, of Mount Olive. ERNEST KEUTNER. of Mount Olive. A, H. BRENEMAN. of Glrard. D. P. KILEY. a Chicago & Alton detec tive. . TOM PRESTON, of Chicago. If Is said six men Were wounded Inside the stockade, but thla baa not been veri fied, and those Inside tbe stockade refuse to communicate with outsiders. For the past two weeks, rumors have reached Vtrden dally that a train having negroes from Alabama would reach tbe city and the Chicago & Alton depot has been surrounded day and night by vigi lant miners, determinedly awaiting their arrival. Today the Chicago & Alton limited, due to 'ass here at 10 o'clock, shot through en route to Chicago, an hour late, display ing nags on the rear. Indicating that a special was following. Immediately the wore was spread, and a dense crowd ot I mlnen nej gtatlon pla,fonni whe another crowd collected at the entrance of the stockade, half a mil. north of the station. D. B. KUey, a Chicago & Alton detective, stood guard at th. switch at the eoUth end of tbe platiorm to see that It was not tamDerej wleh At the spet,a, tra,n pMgcd an(J ggna, Bnots wfre flred from goulh . ena 0f (he train announcing the special's ' Immedlttteljr ghou were flred from the movintf train and the outside, and the battle was on. a few moments after the train had passed the switch where KUey was stationed, and while he was talking with two citizens, he threw up ms arms and dropped dead, with a bullet through his brain. He was the first man killed. The train continued to the stockade, the miners firing Into It all a.ong the route, and the negro passengets returning tne fire. The moment the train reached the stockade the miners opened a desperate lire with Winchesters, revol I vers and firearms of all descriptions. The i . . ... negroes on the train answered with a steady fire. Engineer Burt Tigar received a bullet In the arm and dropped from his eeat. His fireman seized the throttle, pulled It open, and with a Jerk the train was unaer speed, carrying the load of ntgro passengers to Springfield. The tower of the stockade was filled with sharpshooters, armed with Winches ters, and they kept up a steady fire Into the crowd of union miners. SHOT BY THE MILITIA. VIRDEN. 111.. Oct 12.-A detail of ma lltla at 10:30 tonight killed ex-Lieutenant of Police Tom Preston of Chicago, at the Btockade. He was standing outside the stocicude as guard. The militia gave I the bystanding miners a command to halt i and Preston stepped back to the gate. The nialltla filed and he was shot In the stomach. MINE OWNERS TO BLAME. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Oct 12.-In an ln ten-lew with Governor Tanner thla even ing regarding the Vlrtlen riot, ho said: T. C. Louke, president, and Mr. Luken I superintendent, of the Vlrden Coal C'om- 1 pany, today made good their threats to i ' land a train load of Imported laborers from tho Bouth, and attempted to put them to work In their mines at the point of the bayonet tand the muzzle of Win chesters, such laborers being drawn largely, If not entirely from the criminal class ex-convicts, who learned tholr trade while doing tlm. In the peripn'V arte, of Alabamaafter having been fully advised and having full knaartcU () th. landing of such Imported lahoiena would precipitate ft riot. I have wlrrl them that. If they brought these Import" laborers, they did so at their own pern. instantly on learning of tha tronbie 1 directed Adlutant General Reece to oti'W Caotain Craltr, of tbe Galenburg battery, and on. company of tha Hons of V.teranr regiment, now stationed at Pans, to pro ceed at once by th. quickest route to tka cen. of th. trouble. Oetieral Reet. ao com. renld Captain Orslg. and I bav. in structed General Reec. to quell the rfol and maintain order, protect lif. and pro perty, to. disarm all person, bwtrtrtj arm, and to not allow Imported laborera to unload from any train within tb tOr limits, nor to march In a body. "These .rartdou. mine owners Jwv a far forgotten their duty to security aa t bring about this blot upon the fair name of our state. 'And I say now to such ana all other that thla Is a thing of th. past; that It shall not b. tolerated In Illinois while 1 am governor, These men, Ihm president and officers of this company, who participated In th' riot bv bringing; In Imported labor, are guilty of murfliar. and should be, and I believe will be, lav dieted by the grand Jury." ESTABLISHMENT OP THE BRAZILIAN REPUBLIC Oregon ',and Other Warships Ordered t. Be Present at the Inauguration of th. First President' WASHINGTON. Oct Jl-Th. navy de partment has sent Instructions to Cap tain Barker of the battleahln Orfgon, senior officer of the squadron under or ders to proceed to Honolulu, to h st Rio. Brazil, on November 13, to portlcisat In the celebration' of the .stabilshmirat of the Braiillan republic and the inaug uration of the first pres cient of tbat conn try This action was taken on the nxl8 iion of the Brazilian legation here of the approach of th. Important event. Tb. Oregon, Iowa, iris, Celtic and Scandlfi will sail tomorrow, the Bars, A barm da having preceded the squadron. The Ster ling sailed today from Hampton Roads for Montevideo. DECIDED AGAINST TOWNE. DENVER. Oct 11-Judge Butler la the district court today decided that Chartt A. Towne, ;cbalrman of the national sil ver republican committee had ne author ity to remove Richard Broad from Cbt chairmanship of the state committee tar Colorado, and that the Broad factloa of the party was entitled to tbe same name and emblem on the ballot The Teller silver republicans, who fused a the nominations with democrats and pop ulists, will carry the case to the supreme court The committee of tb. middle of the road populists to fill vacancies oa the state ticket has chosen Judge Jamre Glynn, of Leadvllle. as the candidate tar overnor In place of Simon Guggenheim. who deciWd. . i CUBAN RAILWAY EXTENSION. WASHINGTON. Oct. ll-Secretary Al ger will recommend to congress that the existing railway system In Cuba be ex tended so as to form a line running di rectly from Cape Majsl at the east end1 of the Island to Cape Antonio oa tb western extremity. RESUMED JURISDICTION. MANILA. Oct. 12. In accordance wltfc a general order ot the mil'.tary governor. all the Spanish civil courts within the PhulDptne territory now subject to Ameri can control, have resumed the exercise of their lurtsdlctlon subject to the super vision of the American military govern ment, which reserves the exclusive right to exercise criminal Jurisdiction. OELRICHS LEGACY. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12.-The First National bank, as rhe assignee of Her man Oeirlchs. has petitioned the supjrlot- court for the payment of a legacy doe Oeirlchs from the estate of James Fslc The legacy Is in the sum ot W.000 anal the bank avers that sufficient funds are tm the hands of the executors to pay tb. full amount without injury to the estate. SAILS UNDER SEALED ORDERS. NEW YORK. Oct 11-The battleship Oregon and Iowa sailed today with sealed orders from Washington. Captain A- H. Barker is In command of the Oregon and Captain Silas Terry command Che Iowa. Tbe Royal Is tbe highest grade baklaf kaowa. Actual testa skew it goesea third further tbaa say tar brass. pawain Absolutely Pure OVU. SAKIM remtt CO., KIW nw.