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1 ' A , X.iU k.,r' f .... M OAILY ASTOIUAN U tte tlcst anj test pof?r oa tbe Columbia i'.iv THE ASTORIAN fell tb largest circulation of iny piptr! oo the Columfcli Klvct FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT. ASTORIA. OKKGON. 8ATUUDAV Jl'JttNlNO. JANUARY W, lm NO. 159 VOL. XLIX. The Only ... IN ASTORIA ... Our Hpoclnlty: HTOVI2H AND IcANCJKH V,sb Wo know tint btmiiH'HH. Twenty your oxporioiicii. If you wunt o OOOI) Ktovo, oit tfio htotk ut tin- Eclipse Hardware Co. invvnnnnannvvvvwiruwvvv 18QQ Pocket and Office Diaries Tide Tables Calendar Pads World's Almanac Griffin tuu uym ruvxruv uvuuuuu u u uxruvi Reduction Sale Household Goods Hareware Foard & Stokes Co Pacific Sheet Metal Works " " ""' ' ; " " :r.. -"" :" MANUFACTURERS OF Salmon Vegetable Frolt ...CANS... Lithographing on Tin a Specialty. San Francisco. Cat. Astoria, Ore. Fairnaven, Wash. Write U for Prloc C. HEILBORN & SON- The OIdet House in Astoria. Tho Lnrost ntul Only Carpet and Furniture House in Astoria. Tho largest niid-finest Htock of Carjicts nrnl Furniture carried nny Ik me iu Oregon outfido of Portland. Reduction Sale... To close out our 'overstock wo offer at Big Reductions Fancy Columbian Soups, eight or ten varieties. Fancy Sliced Peaches and Apri cots, in small cans. Fancy Evaporated Bartlett Pears. All tho nhovo btrictly fancy goods. ROSS, HIGGINS & CO COLUMBIA IRON WORKS Blacksmiths BoilerMakers Machinists Foundrymen Logging BnglnoM Unlit unci Keptilrod. Heavy Forging Under Power Hammer a Specialty Sole Manufacturers of the Unsurpassed ... " Harrison Sectional" Propellor Wheel ... Masificturcrs for the Pacific Coast for the ROBERTS WATER-TUBB BOILER. Stove Store i UariiiiiH in Cloth Hound Hook". & Reed. u-jv uwuwuu iuvAvanu uu uru Loggers' Supplies Kept In Stock FAIR WARNING! Our 25 per cent REDUCTION SAIiE For cash Ends positively On the Last Day of this Month. Herman Wise The Reliable CLOTHIER & HATTER CUT PRICES W are maklnc a treat rut In apodal line. Your opportunity li at band. Tou am hound to need thtn'ii and should buy now while the advantage Is io obvtoutly In your favor. Thet inoo are not oacK number of uncertain axe. s te and quality. They're all standard stock and good value (or twice what we ask. Laird, Schobor Co.'t reduced rrom Ji.W and JS.00 to HBO and $175. Petersen & Brown. THE PROOF of the pudding m In the eating . and the proof of liquor IS IN SAMPLING That's an argument tos-t's oon cluivs demo nitration. Our wlU stand the teat HUGHES & CO. L. LEBECK Carpenter eind UMllder General Contractor HOUSE RAISING AND nOVINQ A SPECIALTY H.F.fyaelTransferCo. Telephon tL DRAYING AND EXPRESSING All Qoods Shipped to Our Oar Will Rtoslva foeetal Attsatt. If 9. M Dosm 9L, .Tf. J. COOT, ksjr. EGAN CASE CONCLUDED Court-Martial Fixes Commis sary Gereral's Punish ment at Dismissal. VERDICT SOON REACHED Trial Board Brought In Its Find ings Forty-five Minutes After Case Ended. CLEMF.NCY MAY BE ASKED Elgin's FrlenJs Will Request Presi dent ttcKlnley to Detail Hint to Garrison Duty. CUK'AUO. Jarw 27.-A spe. lal to tho Ttm.-Herald from Wantilngton ay: IMiilal from military service of th l"Til.l Hitte ulihout any nonm-m-il.itliil for r!"ttii n y. la tin- verdict Ii.iiiiuhI ly th oun-murtl;il upfn Com miixfciry liw rl Kaxan for till recent viruinit atluk uinm Major Gonfml Mlim. T1m vTillt a ivarhitl wilhm C inliiuim af.'T tho trial tmtlrd today. N.it Mlint.in.ljtiK ihc nutur.i of the court's cvjn -lusiuna. tho jircHUlcnt win cxorrlM lifiin ni-y If lie no d'nirw. and Ufiwnil K.ian's frl.oila will urtsv hat hla puulKhnunt tm i-iiflmd lo MlfVing him from the dutti s of ciimmiwnry gen. rrnl of milxtf l'nf and to di'tall him to Kiirriwai iltty. NO OKKICIAL 8TAT15MENT. WASHINGTON. Jan. J7. Th lhm of tNimtniHuary' G'wral ."harl P. Kucan, clunvM with iwiilurt tondrin; to the prejiitllo tf good ordrr nl military dlx. o)illii'. la now in thr hmitla of the court nutrtlul awiointcd to trj- hlnu Toilny the tuJcins 'f tMilmoiiy was vlonl and the argument of tho counaels au)mitird. TIib trial tail thrre d:iys and coti!umd lta ihun fixht hour ot actual silting. A wiwlim llnd closed ikors of an hour or so auftloixl tor the court to nanh a conclualon and embody It In Its report. WluU Om verdict will be is altogether a nuuwr of speculation, and offlaliUly at Iwuit It will not be murta public by the trial Winl, mlllrary retaliations rwjulr biff lltat its nnriintra nhall go through the pnwrtUil clutnmila end be kopt scrt until aitton be hod and promulgated by the proper revlewm auth)t.' BRITISHERa nrviNO AMERICAN HORSES. A Big Supply Purchased at Good Prices in Ohfoago. to Be l ewl as coacn and Bus Horses, CHIfAOO Jan. IT.-The Record says: Chlram will auiinty BuroDe with 10. W) ocaoti and 'bus ftorsev TBr re to come from dtfrnrent natts of Iltlnols and Iowa ml will tv ahtiHwd at tho note of SM bead a wet-k. The first oonpi?nmint will 'eava tody for Indon anc Liverpool. A vMirs a a ChkKO doaler sent a shipload it 'orf md offer -.1 llwmn th English jimrkots. At first he could nni liiduc ihp au?'i-ior t allow them to tv brought Into the pavilion, wliere lhn auloa worn to take place. At last tne horses wore placl on sale. "They won In a walk." is l c the cablegram rfbulnhnt Ht.nt bft'K to America, since that ttm ordtTS for Amorloun horsos hav Ikwi irnulunlly on the increase and now comes th order for '0. tW. Already there nre sewnvl horwmen in thrt rliv n hiivi crossed the ocean to buy and take home some of our horses. iiMmr ih.m nr.i Heotor erveck. or Lon don; Job Johnson, of Holfa.t. Inland; f5ntii Ttov. of rnris: it. or ijon. don: Hurt Siviiildlnir. of London, and Reml IVponke. who cone f. purcncbe e-erol hmulred 'bus horse to be used In Antwerp. At ih. iitivkvjjla tho exporters aro Jubilant over tho blc orOer. Tho prices paid. too. a.re mtlsfaetory. ranging from $150 to tTiiiO for iM-st coa'h horses and J100 to t2T0 Air 'bus horses. DR. ABBOTT srEAKS ON POLTCY OF EXPANSION. Lauds the Aotion of Amorloan Gowrn. ment In a Lecture Bofore Woman s Post-Graduato Club at Capital. iviatirvnTrtV. Jan. 27. Dr. Lyman Abbott addressed Joint meeting of the post-graduate club of coiumoia ana me Wnmnn'a Poat.Ornduatn CIUD or C0I. umbla In Bornard College hall last night. Dr. Abbott during hla torture made It elnar 'that h thought it cowardly to de stroy tlie government of any country and then sail away and lonv mo country K Ita nnrn rHOiirces. He extuvssed the opinion that the United States should exorcise a protectorate over Its newly acquired territory until tho people have been educated to a condition where they oan govern themselves. Ha would then leave it to them to determine by suffrage whether they wis to govern "themselves or bo governed by the United states. He said further: "What la tht eour.trv to do? I be. Hove, myself, that the late war was a righteous one, I did not believe the A.niM thills in nor war with Mexico, but after the conclusion of that war I ac. oepted conditions as they were and be lieved with those who thought that w ought to accept the new conditions. How aro wo to accept tha ooiwiuons now Nnfrantlnff ua? We can disavow the relations w find ourselves In with Cub and the Philippines, We can sail away from Cuba and the Philippine and say; 'We have freed your land of the Bpaa. tarda: mow do the best you can.' The gAWen rulo to a good on. I bekave that II ai.ll. t tuition an wl as to in iMvl'limla.' HupiHrsn we wre lo intve ttutut roiimrlfs to tlvTiiiiH yes, now that w Iwve wtiukin thlr fornvrr govern inrit to thi r'JOt. "f think wo ran mipfily a bett'-r gov eniniiint for lh-n. I think we mlglit ful (Jnoy to Cuba and CrokT to tlte tftllippini and Improvn thr r govern nvit an1 ptrtifip we would Improve our ot. Applalll'.) It Is foolish 'for any govrnm nt to a t on Its triulltlons. It la almost 1nor!'t)le that any tntelll-d-iit 'm nhould t W nk that a mini. tor nhoiild think as ministers thought In th JCih cenlury. It S ittf.pyllble to be. l, vo that any such person should ex- p1 any polltliHan to think as politicians thougtit in ih tftth century. Life Is a condition of intelkctual growth. We ought to apply now thoughts to new con. Minora. "I have no fnr for Imperialism. I think we ought to exercise a protectorate over Culia and the PhilipMne. We ouifiit to say to the pople that w will prtK'l lhm from internal strife and from outside attack. "How enn we esoapo the reaponalWl. Ity? We can show thrm tat we can give them a Ix-tter government than th.-y had. We ran do Juat what w have been do. Ing. W en Improve their streets, es. tabllnh vf'U and lntHute a civil gov ernmit as K! as our own." IN.SCIWENT TROOPS ARE GETTINtJ RESTI.K.H8. Anxious for More Definite Information About First Payment-Customs House rYaud CTKcked. NEW YORK, Jitn. 27-A dlptch to ihB Tr.buiio from Havana sayi: The payment of the Insurgent troops is be coming an urgent guestion Mid much jnn exlsta due partly to the lai-k of dtiflnite information from the commu nion which visaed Washington. All the n!Wjap-rs " m "lUl arl;cl'a on the subj-cl. Some are violent, but the nmjor.ty onUJt themalves with urging the Imporumee of a definite plan which would result In the uiabandment of the troops and tb formation of a portion of them Into rural poltc under the Ameri can mliilury auiliorltiw. It ia ;Uo notcl that the agUUon is much greater in i Havana where all the politicians gather. than in th country wnere tne turan soldiers are. The executive committee ff the S-inta Crux anioiy nas nxea me uai oi uc r.utvmbllrig of that body February IS, Inmnul of February I purpose ia to await the rvport of the Washington commiaalon and also to secure the pres ence of Gomes, The UUtec Is now keep ing in cloim touch with his followers. The executive cummhtea m au address published today counsels patience until lh8 payment of tho troops Is settled. It speaks of Cubtin snldlcrs. but the Cubans themselves 'know beltr. " The committee has arrangeil with General Ludlow for tha celebration of the fourth annlwrsary of tho revolution on Feb. ruary 24, and the expectation is to have Gomes then disband his armed follow, era. Customs frauds arc rw-oiving severe, checks. Yesterday some silk ooneiarned to Chlneae merchants was seixed, and to day a fruit steamer named Victoria from South American porta was detained for false entry of a cargo of ooooanut. A hitch has occurred in the proceed ings for tho transfer of tho San Jose hrvM and .warehouses to a Boston syndicate, and tha consummation of the sale 4s uncertain. The Oeiay is aue to u attitude of the preset owners, who wan further conwsslona, though they have not raised the price. Tha JJSO.000 forfait put up by the American capitalists re mains, and their offer holds good. Chas. E. Watson, their representative, wU re turn to Boston by tomorrow's suamr. NEWLY MARRIED COUPLE 8UDDENLY DISAPPEAR. Rudolph Kurtieiter and His Bride of Three Weeks Mysteriously Disap pearFoul Play Suspected. CHICAGO. Jan. J7. A special to the n.,vni from Sioux Cfty says: The po lice are looking for Rudolph Kurtieiter, a prosperous witor here, and his bride of three weeks. Tlw counla rented a house In the city January 13, immediately after returning from their wedding trip. They pUd a mnnth'a rent In advance, moved in sev eral hundred dollars' worth of household goods and on tho night of the 15th en- tertnlnwl visitors at their new home, The next dny callers at the house ftrjnd it empty. The premises seemed to have been abandoned at a moment's notice, and not only the furniture, but the occu pants' clothing was left behind. The Kuraxelters have not been seen since, nor have any of their relatives hoard from them. Foul play is suspected. BRITISH MILITARY ATTACHE. NEW YORK. Jan. 27. A Time special from London says: The British govern, merit has decided to craaite a post per manent as British military attache to Its embassy at "Washington. Of course 0e United States govirninont will pre viously have been asked whether such a step will bo agreeable to K, and will have given an affirmative answer. Hitherto the British government has had military attaches to embassies and lega tion at Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg, Vienna. Rome, Constantinople. Teheran, Ttoklo and Peking. The first British at tache at 'Washington will be Captain Lee. royal artillery, who was for nearly five years professor of military topog raphy at the royal military college at Kingston, Out., and who accompanied the American forces throughout the Cu. ban and Porto Rloan campaigns as mil itary attache, and whose article on tho American regulars In a recent nwgaxlne attracted much attention. He will be raised to the rank of lieutenant-colonel In hl new post, PIPE IRON COMBINE. NEW YORK, Jan. 87.-A story has been printed to the effect that a leading com bination of tho manufacturers of pipe Iron has Just been made with Franklin d. Locke, of Buffalo, as the principal ! organlxer. It la said that the new com jblnatlon would be authorlxed to Issue $no,OOO,0OO worth of stock. Mr. Locke said !ta nlrfit tha th reiort was not based 'on faota "There has been some talk of j eastern companies getting together," he added. . "la tha hope of securing some- , thing Ilka, a more t ml cable trade union. , This, talk baa trot brought about tta de sired tftaot". TOOK MONEY FROM GRANT Speaker Wright, of the Cal ifornia Assembly, Found Guilty of Corruption. RESULT OF INVESTIGATION Committee, Finds That Grant Was the Only Candidate Who Used Monetary Influence PLAN TO DEFEAT BOSS QUAY Democrats and Osposior Republicans Have Arreel to Stay Away From tbe Capitol At Olympic SACRAMENTO, Jan. 77.-The special committee appointed to Inveatfeate Into tbe scandals in connection with the fight for a United States senator filed Its re port today. The committee finds that Howard E. Wright, speaker of the as sembly, received from U. S. Grant, Jr., through bis political manager, Milton J. Green. Vfti aa a gift and XTJ ad a loan; that Wright, prior to his election, de ceive! John I. Spreckeis and W. S. Leake to secure thir support for the speakership, stating that be was ' un. pieiigti to ahy senatorial candidate; that, by promising to vote for Robert N. Bulia for United States senator, he secured Bulla's support for the speakership; that, by the acceptance of Grant's money and by tho solidnuion of Daniel M. Burns' influence ' to secure hla election as speaker, Wright lead each of those can didates) for United States senator to ex. pect his vote. Tha report further states that .Milton J. Green, duly appointed and accredited agent of Grant, Jr., expended a large mm of money, exceeding In the oggre. gate fcD.IXV but tho exact amount of which is to the committee unknown, to secure the elettkm of republican legislators, and the committee finds that D. M. Burns, Robert N. Bulla, W. H. L. Barne and the other senatorial candidates, except Grant, expended no money and promised no patronage to promuta their respective candidacies. The committee of Investi gation recommends: First That tho conduct of Howard E. Wright, speaker of the assembly, be held to be reprohenaibla in an extreme degree, and that no 'mens censure on the part of the assetnbly can meet the re quirements of justice, but the matter of sdqeuate punishment Is left entirely to the assembly, without rocommeodatlon from the committee. Second That the expenditure ot large sums of money m aid of the candidacy of a United: States senator Is wrong and reprehensible. WILL PREVENT. AN ELECTION. HARRISBURO, Pa.. Jan, Z7.-A caucus of democratic senators and representa tives was held this afternoon at which it was decided to remain away from to morrow's and .Monday's session of the Joint assembly. Many of the legislators have business to attend to, and to pre. vent the election of a United States sena tor by the republicans they have decided to absent themselves from the conven tion. Tho anti-Quay republicans have taken similar action. LITTLE CHANGE AT OLYMPIA. OLYMPIA, Jan. 2T.-Eight ballots were taken in tonight's republican caucus. On the first ballot Dorsey, of Clallam county, went from Wilson to Foster. He made a statement In which he recited that- he had voted steadily thus far for Wilson, but, becoming satisfied that lw could not be elected, he had decided that, all things being considered, especially for the bt interests of the republican party of the state of Washington and for the purpose of settling the senatorial fight.it would be a wise move now to vote for the man who seemed most likely of being alected. He thought It time the republicans of the legislature got together and elected a man satisfactory to the greatest number of members. No other changes were recorded until after the conclusion of the rollcall, when Palmer, of King coumy, broke away from Humes and went to Wilson. This Is the first breakaway In any of the larger counties of the state. 'King county has 14 republican members in the legls. mture, H of whom luive heretofore voted solidly for Humes. Palmer made no statement. On the remaining seven bal lots there were no changes and the cau cus adjourned until Monday night. AGONCILLO ADVISED FIGHTING THE AMERICAN3. His Dispatch to Agulnaldo Was Inter. cepted Dewey and Otis Informed of His Plans. CHICAGO. Jan. 27. A special to the Record from Washington says: When Agonclllo learned that the senate had set a day for voting ou the ratidcatlon Makes the food core 11 - MI tnu of 'the peace treaty he prvp.trd a tilt, patch to the Fll'pmo Junta at Hong Kong, conveying tho news, and I tt' ported to rave added rhe sinrgnttlon that If Agulnskto was to forcibly itomt American rontrol h thwild strlk the blow at or.te, as with tho tr.ity rstltlrd and further nnforcement the Ameri cana would be In a better position to maintain order. This dltatch was Imtm'cpted and brought t the attention of ocr. tarlea Long and Alger. Neither secretary will dlwus the accuracy of the state, ments, but both are said to have for. warded Instruction to thrir representa tives at Manila Ofieral Otis and Ad. mlral Dewey to forewarn them of Agon, clllo'a suggestion, which must be car ried from Hong Kong to the Iti.llpplno by steamer, as the American force art In control of the Manila end of the cable and are exerclwlng a censorship. There Is no Intention on the part of the administration, so far as can b Inarned, to disturb Agoncillo and his associates, but thir arrnst or d-pnrt&. tlon would promptly follow the declara. Uoti of war against the Unltsd States by Agulnaldo and h- aasooiates. FARM A1.I F INCREASING. tV""-yrrON. Jan. n.-Tha depart ment of agriculture today lsud the following: Return a.' the number of livestock on farms In the United States January L im. shows U.6I.Sfl horses; 1134.211 mules; 1G.JM.115 milch oows; 27,. VM.ZS oxen and other caMIe; 29.1H,Ci sheep and 38.361.S11 swine. The figures how decrease of 296,601 In the number of horses; S8.QC9 In that of mules; lJt,9TI in that of oxeo and other cattle, and L108.&2 in that of twine. On the other hand, thore Is an increase of 19,329 milch cows and 1.CT.493 sheep. The average farm value of every d senption of livestock Is higher then on tb first of January, 1S98. TRADE CONDITIONS GOOD. NEW YORK. Jan. J7.-R. O. Dun & Oo.'s weekly report will say tomorrow: The country la in a stronger position than a week ago. The rnmarkabie strength In its industries is important, but not tha chief element. Public conlldence in th business of the country and fci Its in. curt ties has bvm testetl to an unusual extent by the sudden fall in stocks and tha subsequent rlae. Conlldence In th value o f wlteat. corn and cotton has been shown by the markets and at rising prices the world buys because it has to buy. Failures for the week hare bean 234 in the United States, against 342 last year, and 33 in Canada, against 34 last year. OTIS 13 CONFIDENT. WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. -The situation at aianila is recanted as critical, of course, but officials see no reason why they cannot command it for a time at least. General Otis reported yesterday In connection with some matters con nected with the shipment home of some sick Spanlf-h soldiers that he could hold out beyond doubt until his reinforcements arrived, and added that, as newt had reached Manila that there was every prospect that the peace treaty would be soon ratified by the United States aenata. the effect' on the native element had been satisfactory. NOTHING DECIDED UPON. , WASHINGTON.. Jan. 27.-After the cabinet session today, two cabinet offi cers, when asked regardhnr the Philip- Pines, said that at no time in tha cab. I net session had the president expressed to the -cabinet his- Intentions as to th final disposition of the islands and added thug the president has not determined what disposition the Interests- of th United States -would make necessary. Most of toilay's session was devoted to the administrative details of the tariff, customs and puet service on the islands now occupied by the United States. BALFOUR'S IRISH LETTER. NEW YORK". Jan. 27.-A Times dispatch from London says: On the whole the re ception of Mr. Balfour's letter concern. Ing the Irish university oc-tveiuo !u been favorable. The Irish-Catholic press re ceives the proposal warmly. The Times adopts a iMutLou aUituri,. ai d the lib. erals are more enthuslasta th.n the conservatives. There has been no time yet for opposition, neither non-ounform-1st nor Orange, to develop, as the letter took the publL- by surprise. ANOTHER GREAT DISCOVERY. SEATTLE, Jan. 27. The first news from the Golovln bay district of Alaska to be received here since the clone of navigation has been brought by Edward Seaben, of San Francisco, who left there November 19. Seabern tells of a strike made on Neukuk river that rivals the Klondike. This was found by a man named Campbell, in almoat the limits of Council City, between the moutht of Oihlr and Metslng creeks, and turned out to the pan. WARM WAVE IN CALIFORNIA. SAN FRANCISCO. Jam. 27.-An unusu ally warm wave for this time of the year has been hovering over California for the past three days, the temperature in the central part averaging about 80 degruea. In some places It went far above this figure. The present spell is the warm est that has prevailed at this season since the records of weather conditions were kept STEPHEN DOUGLAS' WIFE DEAD. WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. Mr. Robert Williams, formerly wife of Stephen A. Douglas. 1 dead. She was one of the most brilliant figures in Washington society Ufa since the days of Dolly Madl. son. deHdous cr.d wholcsco , 1 WW w. mt i I A f