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.
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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.
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