TILLAMOOK HF. A PLIGHT. MARCH 23, * GAMES ALL CLOSED. France Orders Warships to Vene zuelan Waters Astoria Keeps the Law Under Rather That Than Yield Their Orders of the Sheriff. Privileges. W ashington , March 20.—The French DRIVEN TO PEACE. S t . P eter bsrg , March 22.—General Kuropatkin has been appointed com mander of the first Manchurian Armv. The appointment is gazetted in the offi cial messenger todav. C hicago , III., March 21.—A special cablegram to the Daily News from Tsarskoe Selo says : France s refusal to lend Russia more money without the indorsement of a na tional assembly has induced the bureau cracy to prefer peace to resigning its pre rogatives. The spreading of agrarian troubles has converted both landowners and nobility into active anti-war parti sans. The Czar presided over a meeting held yesterday to discuss peace terms One of the most prominent members of the committee said to the Daily News correspondent as he left the conference : "The mobolizing of further troops, the equipment and dispatch of the navy to the Far East and the improvement of the Trans Siberian Rail way before mak- inganv attempt to negotiate peace terms indicate that there will be a limit to the concessions that will be made, and that beyond that limit the war must go on. Russia is succumming to an unholy alli ance of cosmopolitan high finance, inter, national Socialism and Jewish perfidy.’’ While thecountiy at large cornmends Kuropatkin's conduct in desiring to re main at the front and to serve under General Linievitch, General Dragonii- roff’s friend, Prince Eristoff, said this morning : “I know Kuropatkin. He is subtle. I do not trust his assumption of humility. I hope Admiral Aiexieff’s friend, General Linievitch, will not consent to his pres ence with the army.’’ Will Raise Russian Ships. V ictoria , B C March 22.—The steam er Hyades brought news from Japan that the English company has been awarded a contract to raise the sunken ships at Port Arthur. There was some talk of making a cofferdam at the harbor mouth and pumping out the water, but this plan was abandoned in favor of placing cofferdams about each of the sunken craft, by which means, it is claimed, every vessel, with the possible exception of the Sevastopol, can be rais ed a ml repared. The former Russian cruiser Variag, sunk at Chemulpo, has been raised and brought to Nagasaki. She is being rapid. Iv repaired with a view to arming and commissioning her under the Japanese Hag. Revised figures of the Japanese losses at the lu.ttle of Mukden place the num ber at 50,000. and revised estimates of the Russian losses from the commence ment of thebattle of Mukden and ending with the .fighting at Tie Pass place the total at 175.000 killed, wounded or captured. Shot by a Boy. A storia , Oie., March 21.—For the Cable Company complications have first time in years all gambling devices, reached a crisis, and Minister Bowen with the exception of slot machines, has informed the State Department that licensed by the city, are closed in the French Minister at Caracas, by in Astoria. This is a direct result of an or structions of his Government, has noti der issued by Sheriff Linville, who this fied the Venezuelan government that afternoon notified the proprietors of all there must be no further proceedings on places in which gambling has been con its part toward the cancellation of the ducted that the games mvist be stopped. company’s franchise or interference with He made no arrests, but informed the proprietors that in case the games are its property. Further, Mr. Bowen reports that two reojiened he will arrest not only those French warships, the cruisers Dupleix running the games, but all who are play and Jurien de Lagravierre, have been ing as well. In speaking of his action ordered post haste to Venezuela to act this afternoon. Sheriff Linville said : | in accord with the instructions of the “ I do not wish to pose as a reformer, French Minister. The warships are now for I am not one, but I do not propose to have the law so flagrantly violated in the Caribbean Sea. It is the expectation here that the ap- as it has been in the past, unless the pea rance of these ships at La Guayra city authorizes it by issuing licenses, and I will cause President Castro to accede thus receives a revenue from every game. I promptly to the demands of the French I have notified all the gambling house-*, Minister, failing which the Minister and this includes the Chinese lotteries as | probably will place the legation in care well, that they must close. ! of some other Minister at Caracas and go “ The slot machines I shall not inter i aboard one of the warships, thus sever fere with, except to see that the license | ing diplomatic relations between France ordinance passed by the city is strictly complied with. The city has decided ! a nd Y’evezuela. I The present situation cannot continue that it wants to license these machines, in order the secure a revenue from them, more than a few days, according to the and I shall do nothing to conflict with I official opinion there. There may be that, but this license ordinance provides some further exchanges relative to the that a license shall l>e posted in a con affairs of the cable company through spicuous place on each machine. Be third parties, and the possibility of pres, ginning tomorrow morning, I shall close sure being brought to bear on President down every machine which has not a Castro by other diplomates at Caracas citv license posted on its front where is suggested. It the Venezuelan govern ment sizes thecable office near La Guayra every one can see it. “ Regarding the other forms of gam it is fully expected that the French war bling, if the city wants them to eon-' ships will make a demonstration, at tinue. it can issue licenses fur each tempt to take a force to recover posses game, and have the licenses posted in sion of the property, and if resisted open conspicuous places on the tables, then I fire on the defensive works recently con will not interfeie. That will insure the structed to command the harbor at La city getting a revenue from every game Guavra. running, and will take the responsibility j The Dutch government has lodged a for the violations off me as a public very serious complaint with President officer sworn to'enforce the state laws, Castro against the treatment of its citi if the city authorities want gambling, zens, and it may join with Ftance in and will assume the responsibility of coercive measures. The French gov passing arid enforcing such a license ernment has not asked the consent of the ordinance, all right, but gambling will I United States to its proceedings against not continue any longer under present Castro, nor does it feel called upon to do so. But with a perfect knowledge of the conditions.” policy of the United States in such mat Fight on With Baker Saloons. ters as outlined in the correspondence B aker C itv , Or., March 20.—L. R. between the State Department and Von Rusk, James Selters and Thomas Wright, Holleben, the German Ambassador here all of Bourne, were arraigned this morn, in connection with the German naval ing in the Circuit Court on the charge of demonstration at La Guavra in the violating the Sunday closing law. They Winter of 1902, the French Government were allowed the statutory time to is proceeding on the theory that there plead. Another batch of indictments is will be no intervention of this Govern ment. This assumption is correct, pro. expected at anv time. Over 100 indictments have been viding there is no intention on the part brought against Baker Citv and Countv of the French of seizing with a view to liquor dealers by the grand jury now in its retention and Venezuelan territory. session. This crusade against gambling and Sunday liquor selling is laid at the door of Sheriff Brown, as the result of threats said to have been made last fall by the saloon clement at the time of the former crusade. Trails are set to com mence Wednesday morning Senator J L. Rand entered a plea of not guilty Saturday for the numerous liquor dealers to ap|>ear. When the trials came up last fall, juries in the Justice Court either re- turrled not guilty verdicts or failed to agree, until the saloon men called a halt and proposed to enter a general plea of guilty and allow the court to fine them. It cost them $10 each and costs. In the present cases the saloon men are likely to demand jury trils for each case, when it would require all summer to clear the docket. City and county have always been wide open night and da y Sundays and Saturdays, until last Scp- tember’s movements. V iborg , European Russia, March 20.— Governor Miaaordoff was shot ami seri ously wounded today by a boy about 15 years old, who obtained ail entrance to the Governor's office and bred three times at him, one bullet inflicting a serious wound and the others slightly wounding the Governor in the leg. The Governor’s clerks and secretary were unable to stop the would-be assassin, who reached the street, w here, however, he was arrested without a struggle. The Governor's condition is critical. The youth who shot the Governor has : been identified as Malli lljalmar Reiuikkc, who admits that he is a revolutionist. Factory a Totnb He hails from Kurikke Parish in the northwest part of Finland, but recently B rockton , Mass., March 20.— At least has been living in Stockholm, to avoid arrest on account of Ins know n revolu 00 persons were killed early today bv I the explosion of a boiler in a large shoe tionary idea. Hr returned four days ago to Finland by way of Tornea, and spent manufacturing establishment in the three days in Viborg, but declines to re | ' Cambell district conducted bv the R. B. | Grover Company. The explosion was veal his stopping place. Governor Miasoredoff has been most i ! immediately followed by a flash of flame energetic in the Russification of Finland, which consumed the factory, a long four ami memorials have been sent to the1 story structure, as it it were a house of Estates petitioning for his removal on cards, and incinerated an unknown num- account of Ins alleged illegal methods lier of men and women who were unable and the general conditions in his pro« to extricate themselves from the mass of tangled wreckage formed bv the ter v nice. | ritic upheavel in the boiler-room. More Alcohol and Degeneracy. than 50 of the employes in the building J were maimed, homed or bruised bv the N kw Y ork , March 20.— Alcoholism I time they reached safe ground. Some is steadily growing worse in France, had jumped from the roof, some from while it is »Itvreasing elsewhere, accord* | windows and others had been injured in ing to assertions made by Dr. Poitou the mad rush to escape the doomed fac Du plcss v, in i public address, cables the lory, all parts of which emitted the Herald's Pans cot respondent. The heat of an infer no, driving back the band h|<eaker is a well known physician ot hcroic rescuers who in a few minutes " To the drink evil,’’ he said, “could (»erforined gallant service. >»e traced the gradual disapjiearance of The fire extended from the factory to racial attributes. Gradual degeneracy seven other buildings in the vicinity and is sure to result unless alcoholism is destroyed them. One of these buildings checked.' was a three story wooden block, the Dr Duplessv declared that drink is other being cottages ol'small value and a prime factor in causing tulieiculosis a blacksmith shop. The wooden dwell and madness, misery and crime. The ings near the engine room were practic only way to successfully abate the evil, ally demolished by the flying boiler, but be says, is to arouse the public con none of their occupants were seriously science. The law of social solidarity, injured. The total financialfloss is esti he says, has a scientific basis, which mated at $250.009. $200,000 of which imposes a m< ral duty upon memliers of , tails on the K B Grover Company. society to defend themselves and their fellows from such a menace as that If he wants the job at a salary of $100,- which alcoholism now presents. <*oo a year. Horace G. Burl, cx-prvsidcnt i of the I mon Pacific, now traveling tn Next Sundav evening Rev. E. M Pat Europe, mar be placed in charge of the ter son will deliver his second adtlrew construction work of the Panama Canal from the ' S< i mon on the Mount his It is stated that Mr Burt has been ap theme Iwdng Christ*» modifications of proached several times on the subject at the Mosaic Law All iuvlted. the instigation of President Roosevelt. i Independence. 1905, it can honor wealth and education, or faith and virtue. T he nation that our ancestors fought for an exbtance is fast becoming a nation of trumps, prostitutes, insane, while the popular church is asleep to#the damaging effect of youthful follies and feteside. The future of the nation is with the young and middle aged men. They are the ones who need the kindest attention and the gravest consideration. To blast their hope or to dis courage them of a home and family is ruina tion. A church is for or against the people. The Russian church is a foe to the common people and on ally to the aristocracy. It i» much easier to establish an independent church for God and the right than to try to remodel a church that has lost its faith and virtue. J- C. Govs. The Best SOUTH PRAIRIE Stormy weather tor dairying, hut the grass is growing nicely and stock is in good condition. The Marolf children have the sympathy of their neighbors and friends in the loss of a kind and indulgent father and a good neighbor. Lem Johnson’s little child has been quite sick, but is better. The local sports have killed several fine bear lately. Thomas Goyne is getting quite a bit of his land cleared up. Home N e wspapers. WOMAN A PESSIMIST. The average woman is a dyed-in- the-wool pessimist. Almost every woman over 30 years of age looks {¡stressed. Iler brows are bent, her mouth drawn into a tight line, and there are deep furrows down her cheeks. She looks exactly as if she were considering how to provide a dinner for 25 cents that will satisfy twenty-five small children, when in reality she may have nothing more serious on her mind than buying £ pair of socl cs for George. No wonder women grr >w old faster than men. for they hug their worries to them and let them show in their faces. There was once an elderly servant who was superstitious to a degree and who always expected the worst to happen. Did she find a needle on the floor, did a picture fall in the house or a bird fly into one of the rooms, she was instantly plunged into woe. "We’re going to have a heap of bad luck!" she would say, and then she’d be lachrymose until some one had the toothacne or the cows got into the corn, when she would consider the demon luck ex- »rcised or satisfied for a time and (row as cheerful as it was her habit to be. Some one once asked her if <he did not have any good-luck signs. "Why. certainly," she replied, ‘‘but they don’t count—T don’t believe in the good-luck ones," which, by the by. is thoroughly characteristic of the sex. Here is a woman who suffers—suf fers is the word—from insomnia. ‘‘I can’t imagine why T don’t sleep." she says to ber friend». “I’m sleepy as anything when I go upstairs, but then I begin to wonder if my son Arthur, who travels for a drug firm, is on a train, and in a minute I see him iust as plainly bleeding and mangled in a wreck. When I decide that he is really dead, T think of John, and worry because he hasn’t a better position. Then Molly comes into mv mind, and I feel sure that one of her children must be ill. I feel so blue about ber. I fret over Lucy’s throat a bit then, and by this time I’m wide awake. It’s the strangest thing! I don’t understand why I should be so wakeful!" Her physician does, however, and now he's prescribing for her a course of cheerfulness and of “looking for the best." It’s a medicine that most women need—their faces show it— hut there are few who are sensible enough to take it. There is a bright as well as a dark side to independence. To one mind to have to stand alone is banishment, to another independence. Our forefathers conceived the idea of indepen dence and signed the declaration of indepen" denee that established the grandest govern ment that has ever been. Governments have their functions, but they are not the whole thing A church and neighborhood,are both of as much importance to mankind as a government and have a God given right to independence as well. Antagonists are a foe to independence. They are ever trying to build up a favored class at the expense of the people, creating divisions on nonessentials. All men are created equal before an Indepen dent Government. Church and neighborhood. True independence consists in not thinking more highly of ones own need than of a neighbor's, a fellow citizen's, or a brother's. Why should he not enjoy as much of life, liberty and happness as I ? The wants of men are either natural or fictitious. It is the will of God that the natural wants of men should be satisfied in a , natural way. Men must be fed. clothed J eared for in sickness and death He must be ' perpetuated in this world and in the world Drivth fnnted by to come. He mutt be protected against the , Mosquitoes are now charged with vicious, and the weak against the strong. communicating erysipelas as well as He must be educated and encourage«!. Every malaria and yellow fever. A New man who subscribes to the sovereign will of God may reasonably expect God's providence York physician has issued a death in supplying his natural wants. The Church, certificate in the case of a 14 months' government, or neighborhood that fails to old babe, in which he says "Death ! point to God's sovereignty has no marks of was caused by erysipelas due to the independence. Men who object to God’s bite of a mosquito." It is only fair sovereignty have no right to independence ' to the mosquito to record that the nor could he enjoy it if he did for he soon ' board of health officers refused to acquires fictitious wants that absorb his accept the certificate until a coro natural resources. The wrong use of wine ner’s physician bad investigated and and woman, opates, trying tQ provide for wants after he is dead, etc., he becomes concluded that there was no other visionary, and if he is not a thief or abscon apparent cause for the death than der he is liable to try to appropriate what thj* mosquito bite.—Youth’s Compan rightfully belongs to others. He may think ion. he is honest, but his fictitious wants drive “€<»•*♦ He«rtM 1« t*e Latest. him to bankruptcy. My ideal of indepen Medical examiners for life insur dence is the man who has a home and family, with health and strength and an ance societies have added the term honest industry or visible means of support, “coffee heart" to their regular classi contented with being a unit in the inde fication of the functional derange pendent church, government ami neighbor ments of that organ, Its effect is in hood. Serfdom in uu-American. God never shortening the long heat of the made a serf who trusted in him. Indepen h ea rt. C ~ Coffee topers, they are dence is G« m ! given and self accepted. The plentiful, and are as much tied to proper division of the offices of the church, their cups as the whisky toper. The government an«l neighborhood promotes their independence. A neighbor could en effect of the coffee upon the heart is lasting. and consequently courage the sick, whereas If the government more had it to do he would die of despondency. worse, than that of liquor.—Dietetic The Church could >*ersuade to rei*entance and Hygienic Gazette, London. the one that the government would make AV r I cn XAnntn Keprraen (Rtion. a hardenetl criminal or drive mad. The "Gallant little Wales." says the Lon government can deal with crime that is in o>»en defiauce of the church, taxi's sanction don Chronicle, “is putting forward n is our independence. claim for representation in the royal Every thinking man in the nation knows eoat-of-arms, as well as for inclusion that it is high time that we have a church in the union jack. With this objs?t that is imiependent of sectarianism, that is a provisional committee has drawn up purely American, ami that can deal with the abominable practices of race suicide a memorial to the queen, praying that w ithout luring hampered by any ecclesiastical the fourth quarter of the royal shield rot or dogmas. •' A house divided against which, as they very truly say. is prac tically unfilled, since it is a repetition itself cannot stand " Instead ot having a lot of proprietory of the first quarter-lie devoted to in churches to promote antagonism, we nets! I signia for Wales. The claims of th. one of a national character in the interest ! principality to heraldic recognition are of the whole people. There arc but two j not to be disputed. It is the only na sides of the question either. God is sovereign tionality in Europethat has no distinct- kingin whom we trust, or distrust Meis able and disposed to consider the welfare of ive blazon to exhibit to the world, each individual or he is not. church has a although its history is associated with prevailing m due tux in a nation for weal or more than one symbol " woe. It is either for distinction or equality. W eekly Oregonian and Tillamook ! leadlight, $2.25 a year. Subscribe Now, for the Best Home Newspapers.