The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899, March 16, 1899, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text''Or. o 1ST0R1A PuBUC Iff Tie ASTORIA bu the Urfeit elrcutitloa of toy papsi oa thi Columbia Rlvti TIE DAILY ASTORIA! U t5 fcljftst an J best paper , oa Use ColDfflbla R!vi '.,r uj it i m FULL ASSOCIATKI) PRESS RKPORT AfiTOJUA, OREGON. THURSDAY JMltS'lNC. MARCH IB, I8M. VOL XLIX. 197 Stove Store ... IN ASTORIA ... Our Mpoclnlty; HTOVE8 ANI I1ANOI3H W know the huninesji. Twenty yearn experience. If you wunl a GOOD Btove, sen tlio stock lit the Eclipse Hardware Co. - 4 GRIFFIN - n p NISW THIS W1SISK! Jiiht received from the factory full supply of HOAT-SAIL DRILLINf;, CANVASS DUCK, COTTON TWINKi Inxpcet our Mock Foard & Stokes Co Fancy Sugar-Cured Hams Krenh Kkhh, Creamery Butter MfirtlfiH Cretini Clieewe New Somhoii'h Codfish Spring Snlmoii TlpH (ind BellieB Yarmouth Hloatem. ROSS, HIGGINS & CO Great Remnant Sale Direct from the Manufacturers; 50,000 yards mill remnants; neat, stylish patterns. Wo place them on sale today at nearly half the regular price. 10,000 yards Outing Flannels in stylish platls nntl figure; regular price 10c yd, at (ic by the remnant. 1 1 ,'000 yards I'ercalo in all tho latest designs; good value at 12c remnant prico 7e. 8,000 yards A monkong A. F. C. Dress Ginghams, all this season's patterns; regular price 10c yd, remnant price 7Jc. 1,000 yards Worsted rinds, handsome stylos; regular price 25 and 3.r)c yd, remnant prico about 18c yd. Remnants of Tablo Linen; Remnants of Piques; Remnants of Calicos; Remnants of Chivoits, etc. Everybody should attend this Great Remnant Sale and save money. N. B. A big linfe of Figured Silk in all shades and patterns to be closed out at 25c yd, worth three tlme6 the price asked. ; Shanahan Bros. BOOKS... Blank and Miscellaneous. PAPER... New Crape and Type-writing. Waterman Fountain Pens I (ox Orcnrtitccl I 'opcr Mini Kri vclc'-mo. & REED COTTON ROIMC. before tm y in jx. SWISS WATCH REPAIR SHOP Victor Rost Chronometers (Hatches md Nautical Instruments Promptly Died and repaired. AInrm Clocks Irom $1 up. WnrnitiU d. 110 Eleventh St. H.i I to Postal TaUftTM- IT'S CUT PRICES I W r miking a great cat In special linn. Tour opportunity it at bind. Toil i r bound :o need .hi end .hould buy now while th advantage L 10 or-vlotmly In your f.ror. The,. .hoe r rot back I number of unrrtln age, (se end quality. They're ell standard toc and '(ood valuta for twice what we aak. i llrd. Srhobvr Co.'. reduced from (4 SO an4 UM to O H aod an, Petersen & Brown. THE PROOF of tba puddlnx m la tko tint and tko proof of Uqooro IS IN SAMPLING Th.t'a ao arrum.nt that", eon. cluilro drmon.tratlon. Our. will .tand tho tat. HUGHES & CO. L. LEIiECK Corpenter nncJ Bultdop tlencrol Contractor HOUSE RAI5IN0 AND nOVINO A SPECIALTY HFPraelTransferCo. Telepbooe at DRAYINU AND EXPRESSING All Good Shipped to Our Car Will Receive Special Attention. No. US Duan St, W. J. COOK. Mgr. Aatorla, Or. He. TU ill. BIG BATTLE NEAR PASIG General Wheaton's Brigade Encounters Three Thous and InsurgentTroops. REBELS WEBE ROUTED Many Killed In the Flf ntlnf, and Three Hundred ind Fifty ToKen Prisoner. PASIG AND PATEPOS TAKEN Our Loss Was Very Small. While Over One Hundred Dta i Filipinos Were Found Near Pislf. 14 iH AXOKI.B8, March 1S.-A i-p dal raliii-(rm to thu Tlmra from I! readier '(lenrrul llarrlaon Oray Oil., dated Mi. nlU. March li. ay: : "The Twrniltth Infantry bad an all.day M at I'anlK. Thrrr ihouund rebili Tt rlirounterrd and drfratrd. Thvy lir routfd with hravy Our low miuli. Thnr hundr-d and tlfty r-tl olilL-r. iTv made rloiier of war. ' Whru-.nn'a brlicadc now hld the town of I'axlK and l'atrru. Thin n"W la buacd on ofnclal information. Our river a"uiit"aia fnuKbt tlirlr way mtu the lake." ' REHKIA MHT HKAV11.Y. WASIIINOTON. March 15-TTie foll. w Ins OliHu-h from (Unrral (tin ha. bi.n jrei-rlved: "MniilU. March 11. Thrw; thousand In. urgi-nln moved down l:ml nlj ht to thr town f Vamt and Pntrros. on the j.hore of IMiuna d- hay. fronting Wheat. on'a iroi.pa on the l"ajt- river line. By heavy Dk-hiUia- Whmtun haa dialdK'd and driven Vwm tack, ukmit ) prton. jer. and InflMlnit heavy limaea In killed ,und woundrd. He report, hi. !o.e only j moderate. He now oi-ruplr these town. with sufficient force to hold them. i "tyiid" M A N V TAjvEX rRISONElt. I MANILA, Murch 15 -4 45 p m.-General 1 Wheaton. commanding the t'nitcd State. 1 flying column, attacked and defeated a i force of ) Filipino, at Purtg thl. after. ; noon. Indicting heavy loa. upon them. The American captured 3M Filipino. Many bodies of rebels killed In the en. gagement are floating down the river. The American to., was .light. S:SS p. m. Private Fornoff. of the Twentieth Infantry, wa. killed today. Private Newman, of the Twentieth In fantry, and Private. Carroll. Marih.. Coomb and Roger, of the Twenty, (econd infantry, were wounded. About 0 Filipinos nurrenderod at the town of Tagulg to the Washington vol. unteera, and 175 Filipino were captured ! at Pajriff hv rh Twentieth Infantrv. Our 'troop found 106 dead Filipinos and 100 new grave, near Palg. The prinner I were unnrmcd. and therefore It I pre. .unied i hey executed their threat of 1 throwing their nrniu Into the river. I LIST OF WOl'NPEn. j WASIIINViTuN. Miirch K..-UH cahl, (the following canvmltieo: March 13 KtHed l"wenrieth Kansas, Private James Kline; Twenty-second In. fantry. Privates George Stewart. Winn 'P. Munson und Wesley J. Hennessey, j Wounded-Twenty.second lnf;uitry, Prl ivates William Itenshart. Wlllett Herman, Wlllitim O lirien. John Mabahllle. Theo. dore A. Mliner, Pan CnrroJI, John lloff. 'man, Pavid Mulholland. tharles Simon. I Thomn. Miller, r'rank Wash. R. F. Plp. r. jLeatwr M. Folger. Charles Sharkey. Chus. j Davis. Corporal Chris H. Thompson, Cor. Iporal Charles J. Vsley. Twentieth Infantry Privates WUHam Sampnon, Adolph Woepper, Peter J. Phe. Ian. Corporal J. E. Hoffman. Second Oregou Company li, rrhaie Walter Errtn, foot (moderate). Maroh H.-Kllled-Flrst Wnshii gton., company E, Private Van Huskirk. Wounded-Socond Oregon-Company D, Private Alfred O. Carden. cheat (severe); Company F. W. D. H. Dvdson, slightly; company E. Charles J. -Olson, foot (se vere). if .1 LACK. OF TRANSPORTS THE CAUSE OF GREAT DELAY. Dopartment Officers Much Worried Over Bringing Volunteer Regiments Home From Porto Rico. NEW YORK, Miirch 15. It Is expected that the I'nlted States transport Jfc- Clellnn will sail for r.orto Rico tomor. row. Part of her curgo will be garbage cans and sprinkler for the health office in San Juan. Tho war department Is much worried now as to how It will be able to get all the . volunteer regiments away from Cuba and Porto Rloo before the quar antine goes Into effect. After that all soldiers coming north will be obliged to remain In trnnanorts after reaching the United States until the health officer decide that there Is no danger of their developing yellow fever and other con. tRglous diseases. This would be a great Inconvenience, and the department la bending every energy to move all the troops as soon as possible. For thl rea son many of the transits are being kept In commission which should be laid up for much needed repairs. For the same reason the department ha abandonid It first Intention In regard to the Dixie, which has Just been trans, ferred from the navy to the transport service. The first plan was to send her to Manila, but now order have been given to hurry her to the south, with all po.ltla dlapatrh. Tha order art for her to .all noit Monday, March 10. Although rtia veiwel haa nut yet arrived from tba Icarus laland navy yard, fpeclflcwtlon and contract art already being prepared for tho raflftlng which will tm neeea.ary befora ih a will o uaeful a. a Iran., port. 1'IIOM.KM Of DIHANDMENT WILL BE SETTLED BOON. If a Taction Wanu Troubl. With tha United Htatea Jt Will Then Becoma Known. NEW YORK, March 15.-A dltptteh to th. Tribune from Waihtngton aayf: War drpartmont official aw amdifled rhat within 10 day th problem of dl.baad. ment of tha Cubwn army will b settled. Then. If there 1 a, faction that want troubl wirn rhe United State, It will be known. Soma of th Inaurgent chlefj," .aid an official thl. afternoon, "talk a if they wanted to go on tha war path. The quicker wo know It, If that I true, the better." No advice have been received from Oeneral Brooke Indicating tfiat he look for trouble. It I only a queatlon of how many follower th malcontenlj In the aaaetnbly can periuade not to lay down their arm. The advice recelvtd ar to the effect that a majority of th Cuban aoldler will au.taln ome In whatever action he may taJte. Thoae who are tlkelr to mipport the embly ar In. eluded In the dame who Joined the In aurgent rank after the aurrender of 8atu Hugo, and would not. therefore. b en titled to receive the $100. The bet In formation t that the number on the roll did not exceed ft.iju men and offi cer. Definite word In expected Wedneday a. to whether the distribution will' be I made through General Gome In plte of hi deposition from the ccoimend of I the ranka of the Inaurgent army, or dl ' ri.-tly to tha inaurgent in the 1 'provlne. The original plan wa that I the American military commander hi leach province .hould distribute the .urn I In conjunction with the ranking officer 'commanding the lnurgeut In tha'. 'province. It rem. entirely with Goirni jwtiat arrangement, .hall be made. In. aofar an reiatea to his position with ref erence to the Innurgent troop, all the report, received lncreae the confidence felt In his ability to meet the iltuatin. The demand that I made by ome of the Cuban for rtic forcible dl.soluilon of the assembly by the American mllltiry authorities will not be heeded at present AMHASSADOll PACNCEFOTE WILL BE APPOINTED. Has Consented to Accept Appointment As One of tb Delegates to Cxar's Disarmament Congre. WASHINGTON. March 15-In consult. Ing Sir Julian Pauncefote. the British ambassador, as to whether an appoint, ment as one of the British delegates to the ctar's disarmament congress will be agreeable to him. the purpose wa made known to have the delegate accompanied by army and naval attache and by a stalT commensurate with the importance of the mission. These officials doubtless will stand In the position of experts able to show the extent and cost of the great standing armies and navies of the world. Sir Julian' appointment as one of the delegates Is practically settled, al. though the official notification ha not ei vettli gives. W1IJ INSPECT ROUTE8. WASHINGTON. Mrch 15.-AbOtK W senators and representatives have ac cepted invitations for a trip that has been planned to Inspect the routes of the proposed Nicaragua and Panama canals, coming home by way of Santiago and oiher points of Interest 'In the West In. die.. They will go a. guests of the PV.n. ami Canal Comp:wiy, in accordance with an Invitation extended on the last day of congress to Representative Burton's committee on rivers and harbors, and Senator Frye's committee on commerce. The InvUatlon has since been extmded so as to include a number of members of both houses outside of the two commit- tees. The party will have an ocean i steamer to itself and will sail from N w York about March 3 and from Mobile April 15. ESCAPES FROM A WHALER. SEATl'LE. March 15.-A letter from Captain W. B. Parker, master of the barge Admiral, which Is In winter quart, ers five miles off St. Michaels, says: "Six men have arrived from the North American Transportation & Trading Company's steamer P. B. Weare, which Is Ice-bound In the Yukon, near Holy Cross Mission. The men do not think they will be able to save her' In the spring. Seven men left the steamer, but one got lost coming down and the others think he was froxen to death." RECEPTION TO CHOATE. LONDON, March 15.-Joseph H. Choate. United State ambassador to the court of St. James, made his first public appear ance In England at the banquet of the Association of the Chamber of Com merce of the United Kingdom, held at the Metropole hotel this evening. There was a brilliant and distinguished gather ing. Mr. Choate, who was welconvd heartily, sat In the place of honor on the right of the cfoalrman. CONDUCTOR KILLED. SIHJKANE, March 15.-Frank R. P1 lett, a Great Northern freight conductor, was killed early this morning at Adr an. 20 miles west of Spokane. He was on the caboose, Into w.iloh a light locomotive crashed. The caboose was crushed to pieces, and two cars were derailed. Con! ductor Pellet t leaves a widow und two children. PINGREE'S BOOM STARTED. DETROIT. March 15. Tweed Pomeroy, of Newark, N. J., Issued a call for a social and political convention at Buffalo, June 28 to July S. Governor Plngroe's name heads the list of signers, which Include nearly 100 prominent reformers. Some here construe It as the beginning of the Plngree movement for the presi dential nomination. BEEF WAS VERY BAD Lieutenant Davis, of Oregon Says He Found Maseets In the Canned Article. CANNED "ROAST BEEF" Much of It Hal to Be Ttrowo Away, , as It Was Unfit to Serve to toe Men. BEEF MADE THE MEN SICK Vomited After Eltlnf It; ACCOrdlBf tO the Testimony of Dr. Shaw-State-neat of W. J- Wilsoa. " CHICAGO. March U.-The last wltne colied before the army beef court of In. quh-y today proved en.atlonal. He was an officer of the regular array, First Li. u- tenant M. F. Davi. of the First cavalry. called at the request of Major Lee. rep. reoentatlve of Oeneral Mile. Lieutenant Davi. testified that In Cuba one-half of the canned roast beef Issued to the oU dlcr wa thrown away becaus It wa unfit to eat He Matlfled that be had opened one can himself and found mag. got In it. Major Lee asked: "How did rh mag. got. get In there?" "They wer canned In there," the wit- pUDihlng the crime of obtaining trana nee replied. porta: Ion on railroad trains without pay. Colonel Davis "Are you aware that, mg therefor. He also vetoed the bill pro. In the proces of canning, thl meat un. vidlng for the aaoptlon and use of school dergoes such Intense heat that no animal ' texttooks in all school districts. Including life could survive It?" "I don't mean to say they were alive; they were dead." appointed to Under cros- Lieutenant Davis wa West Point from Oregon. Dr. 6haw was called. examination he told about being called out one night to look after the men of company A, who were reported to have been poisoned by eating, canned roast beei. He said they vomited fearfully and It seemed that hypodermic Injections of morphine would hardly relieve the na In Thpv wr Mrk tnr amn dsvs afterwards, with a great deal of dlar- ( Today ex-Mayor George E. Lane, of rhoei and intestinal trouble. , oiympla. received from the United Sate "When the men ceased eating canned navy department the flag and penant of roast meat, was there any Improvement?" A Spanish war veasel captured toy the asked Major Lee. gunners of the flagship Oiympla In Mi. "Yes; canned roast beef generally gave nlja jiay j, d the same are now them diarrhoea' and gastro enteritis." 0n exhibition In the state building. The "Did you In an official way recommend pennant Is 80 feet long. Lane expects Its discontinuance?" 'ooo to receive the flag and pennant of "Yes, sir, to my Immediate commander. the war vessel Oiympla, which made the Borne times we substituted what they call capture. baoon, but a great deal of u had maggots In It, and had to be condemned." The board left for Omaha tonight. An Inspection of stockyards will be made at Omaha and Kansas City, and at the lat- ter city some evidence wRI be taken, The Intention of the court Is to return to Chicago by next Tuesday and proceed with the examination of witnesses here. STATEMENT OF W. J. WILSON. CHICAGO. March 13. William J. Wil son, formerly West Park commissioner, and founder of the Wilson Packing Com. pany which supplied the British army with canned beef during the first Zulu war. where the temperature was hotter than It was In Cuba or Porto Rico, may go before the war Inquiry board before ft leaves Chicago. The Wilson company went out of ex. Istence In 1SS5.- and it had no, successor. according to its founder. It ls said the firm was the first of the Chicago packing companies to go Into the business of can- nlng compressed beet 'There never was such an article as canned roast beef for commm'erclal pur- , . poses." said Mr. Wilson today. "It Is SAN FRANCISCO, March 15.-The Jap. possible to can It. but too expensive to aneSe cruiser Chltose will sail for Yoko. ' make it practicable. Every bit of beef bama about March 21 The published that Is sold under the label of canned por, that she has met with several mis roast ibeef Is nothing out boiled meat, haps to her machinery since being turned Canned roast beef is a trade He, and that over to the Japanese crew Is denied by ls all you can say for It. ner engineers. " "I do not hesitate to speak plainly 1 1 t . ' about It for the reason I tnink It will MANY CLERKS DISCHARGED. do the packing trade good to have this ; matter stirred up. "I have some canned beef and tongue at my house which my company put up 18 years ago, and It ls as good and sweet as on the day It wa canned." Continuing. Mr. Wilson said: "I will not say whether the beef that Is being put up now will Keep as long as that. It does not look, from the tes- tlmony before the war Inquiry board, as though It would. Competition has driven the big packing nouses to can tneir beet In a dlfferen way from that In which it was canned 10 years ago. To save money and time, they have to use less effective processes. "When the first Zulu war broke out, I vn nunnlvln? th English froveriiment wlih canned compressed beef-not corned luvf, hut beef In square an tl at liad been packed by vacuum processes. When the English troops were defeated th savages captured over b)0.o00 worth of this canned beef and ate it. I never heard of their being sick by It, either. uv uvj ifmwu V BSCIUTILYPURE . Makes the food more delicious and wholesome novi BAHWO co , aw w. "Berloualy, tHong-h. during th wbo! of th Zulu war, the Wllaon Packing Company shipped thouaand of dollar ' worth of canned beef to th Kngllah army, In the hotte.t country In th world. Out of all that qtiantrty w. never received a prote.t from th Engll.bj goyernm.nt about th beef .polling. It was not th am kind of canned beef that wat fur. nlshed to th American troop last yr, "Tbi beef th Ameriran troops torn, plained of, a I under.tandi It, wag la round can. It wa cot what la known a compressed beef. It wag simply bollrdj beef. "Bu.lnasa 1 builn., but th live of th American troop ar worth tnort than few dollar, and I bellev th war Inquiry ought to get at tb fact. It ought to' glr a ome of the people a cbanc to tell their stories." GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT RE FLUES TO INTERFERE. Inclines to Commute tba Sentsnco of Mr.. Mac and Sto Will B Electro, cuted Next Wk. ALB ANT. N. T.. Marco, lS.Govmor Rooaev.lt ha refused to commute th sentence of Mrs. Martha Place, the Brooklyo murderess, and she will be tlctrcutd next week. In hi memoranaum announcing ;n d j ol.ion, Governor Roosevelt ay: "No more painful case can come before wurse of Juatlc In or.lr to av a wo. man from capital punishment, when that' woman' gutit has txen clearly estab lisbtd and when there are no circum stance, whatever to mitigate the crime. If there were any reaaooagt doubt, of ; lullt, 1 should so interfere. . ; "To interfere with the course of the ,, lnui 0M b. ustmed onJy on tD. r0uni tn.t hereafter. 'under ,r circumstance, hou.a capital pum,hnent be Indicted on any murder. e een tbough the rlctlm was herself , woman, and even though that victim' torture preceded lier death. ! .There . but one cour open to me. I jitn, to Interfere with the cour of tD law." DOINGS AT OLYMPIA. OLTMPIA, March 15. Geovernor Rog er today vetoed the bill defining and town maintaining high schools. This ; bu, he says, should properly have been an act Increasing the number, variety . aui C0K 0f school book ! In the case of the 'Oregon Mortgage ' company, limited) appellant, v. L. W. Estes and Viola Estes. respondent, th ' rePort .of the referee is sustained by the fupreme court and the Judgment of the iOWrr court is reversed. This case "come rrc,rm Walla Walla and Is an aetlon to foreclose a mortgage given, to secure notft for the principal sum of snl t . . TWO NEW TRUSTS. NEW YORK. March 15.-The Herald I : tomorrow will say: Makers of bicycles have arranged details of the formation of a trade combination that will Involve a capital to the amount of $50,000,000. It ls understood that 10 of the leading mak- ers of wheels have entered the combine and that several otners will probably be persuaded to add their signatures to un agreement. A. G. Spalding is credited with being the moving spirit in the pro. combine. With him are associated A A Pope and R. Pnmp Gormully. of , Gormun. & Jeftery Manufacturing, Company 0f Chicago, ' CHICAGO, March 15.-8hoe tops, will goon lurned out by a trU8t. Under th morata title of American Hide and LtMther Company, with a gross capital, iaton 0f Jo,000,00 ; 25 out of the 30 lead, lng tanneries In the United States hav. ls sald decided to pool Issues. , the CHITOSE ALL. RIGHT. , WASHINGTON, March 15.-There wa a heavy reduction In the clerical force in the war department today, 120 em.' ployes being reduced in grade, and 59 being discharged from the government service. The reason was the reduced appropriations for their employment. ; JOHN SHERMAN ILL. ' ! FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique, rarch 15. John Sherman, of onio, sua i making a tour of the West Indiaa islands, is 111 here with pneumonia. Mr. Sherman has been very sick, but thl, evening his condition I reported a lm proving. " CARTER WILL BE- RENOMINATED. CHICAGO. March 15.-The result of th democratic primaries, which were held today, Insures the renomination of Carter H. Harrison for mayor. Ex-Govemor Altgeld will run Independent. y t i a :