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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-09-12


HOUSTON. Tex. Sept. ll.-Editor O..
o. Nation. of the Nelasco World, brings
| Information OF .he death OF twenty
two persons In and around Velasco as
result of the storm. Seventeen Of
them were negroes.
DENVER. Sept. 1.-THE Democratic
state convention today raised $500 In
few minutes for the Galveston suf-
ferers.
CHICAGO. Sept. 1.-THE citizens Of
Chicago have donated a train load Of
provisions and $4,000 In money to the
Galveston sufferers.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
clhc railroad has donated $4,000 and will
haul the train load ~ provisions free.
WASHINGTON. Sept. H. Acting
Secretary Meikleiohn today authorized
the charterIng of a special train from
ST. Louis 10 carry quartermas;ers' and
commlssary supplies to the relief Of
the destitute at Galveston.
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 1.-THE grand re-
corder Of the grand encampment Of the
knights Templars OF the United states
has sent the following telegram to-
night To the grand commanders Of ev-
cry state;
Tho recent storm IN Texas has left
numbers Of our fratsrs in dire distress.
Immediate relief is needed Appeal to
your commanderics to send at once
what they can. Wire or send to Hen
ry r. Stoddard, deputy grand master
at Galveston, Texas,
HOUSTON, Tex. Sept, l1,-another
train over the International and Great
Northern road left Houston tonight.
The train carried men. water supplies,
burial necessities and other things Of
which the sufferers are in most urgent
need,
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE Standard
oil Company has sent $4,000 to Cow
ernor Sayers for the Galveston suffer-
ers. and the New York merchants as
ISOLATION has raised A,S60.
GALVESTON. Tex, Sept, H. The
following statement Of the conditions at
Galveston and appeal for aid is issued
by the local relief committee;
"a conservative estimate Of the loss
OF life Is that II will reach 5000; at
least 5000 families are shelterless and
wholly destitute. The entire remainder
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GALVESTON. Tex. Sept. ii.--Some
order is being brought out OF the cha
os here and something like systematic
ATTEMPT Is being made 20 clear the de-
bris ana remove the dead.
fdlers are helng pressed into SER
vice At the point II the bayonet and
made 10 work. and n military Gordon
IL being drawn tighter about the place.
Every horse and mule that was left in
the city is In service
supplies are coming In from Hous-
ton and the first line " communication
with the outside world was obtained
today. via Texas City. Forces are
working on the railroads and in few
days the people Of Galveston believe
that the situation viii be greatly inn
proved.
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WHEAT MARKET.

PORTLAND, Sept. 11.-Wheat. Walla
Walla, SIC; Valley and bluestem. 59c
q 6Oc.
CHICAGO, Sept. wheat, October,
opening. 74h, AZ; closing, 75h, 75K.
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MINEwoRKERs, STRIKE.
viii Probably Be Ordered Tomor-
row.

CHICAGO. Sept. Ill will leave for
Indianapolis tomorrow night and. II
upon my arrival there Thursday
morning I fail to hear anything from
the operator in New York indicative
Of their willingness to meet US in con-
ference, I shall Immediately order a
strike"
These were the words Of John Mitch
ell. president OF the United Minework-
ers of America, tonight.
1T is with the greatest reluctance
that | take this step" continued Mr..
Mitchell. but nothing else remains for
us to do"
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NO LOOTTNG
BY AMERICANS
Stories Of Sacking Of Tien Tsin
by Our Troops Denied.
EMPRESS REPORTED TAKEN
Il fiung Chang Wants Protection on His
Journey to Pekin france Formally
Announces Willingness to
withdraw.
EMPRESS REPORTED TAKEN

WASHINGTON. Sept. 1.-THE war
department today made public the fol-
lowing telegram:
ITO Fowler. Che Foo. Send the fol-
lowing cablegram TO Coolidge. com
nanding the United States forces at
Tien Tsin. It Is reported here that
there has been extensive looting In
Tien Tsin. Report Immediately whether
the American troops took part. II 50
punish severely and repress sternly.
Absolute regard for life and property Of
non -combatants is epjoined.
By order Of the secretary Of war
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OVER TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED
BODIES HAVE ALREADY BEEN FOUND
Number Of Killed in the Galveston Horror Was Under Estimated
and viii Amount TO Five thousand.
THE DEAD CARRIED TO SEA AND THROWN OVERHEARD

Proclaimed Twenty-Five Men Shot Officers aHd
sdsy-u cOInS Food Water and Burial Supplies Are Bsins
Rushed 10 the Appeals Charitable Eyerwhere
Relief Thosands Of Destitute
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DANGER IN OVER CONFIDENCE.
Senator Hanna Warns Republicans Of
the Peril in Inactivity.

CHICAGO. Sept. Ex-senator Hanna,
at a dinner at the Hamilton Club to-
night. in honor of Senator Mason. talk
ed frankly of the danger Of over conf
dence on the part of the Republicans.
and declared with all possible emphasis
that everything that the Republicans
and patriotic Democrats fought for four
years ago was at stake in the present
campaign.
The silver question and not imperial
ism. he asserted, was the paramount
issue.
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CHEZ FOO. Sept. g. via Shanghai.
Sopt. 1O.--The PaO Ting expedition
leaving today numbers 1000 men.
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sent reinlorcements and queiled the
disorders Nine arrests were made,
The United states transport Meade
has arrived here from Manila to De
locked
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METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1f.-silver, e2H:
lead. 4S7ls; brokers, T.
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Office. which was filed by frightened
men ana women. was 2804iz. This
was about 7;30 D. m. II then began
10 rise very slowly. and By 10 D. m.
had reached 300. the wind gradually
subslding. and by midnight the storm
had passed The water. which had
reached a depth Of eight feet on the
strand at 10 o'clock D. M. began 10
ebb and ran out very rapidly, and by
a. m. the crown OF the street was
free Of water. Thus passed out one
Of the most frightful and destructive
storms which ever devastated the coast
Of Texas.
The city ls filled with destitute. be-
reft and homeless. while In the i'm
Droyised mOrg1es are the rigid forms
Of hundreds OF victims. Whole fam
lilies are side by side. The southeast
ern part Of the city was under ten feet
OF water and the barracks located there
are destroyed. the soldiers having a
miraculous escape from drowning.
many substantial residences in the
western and southwestern parts Of the
city were destroyed and the death list
from there viii be large.
A heavy mortality list ls expected
among the resid snts down the island
and adjacent 10 the coast on the main
land. as both were deeply flooded and
the houses were 10 a great extent in
secure. The heaviest losers by the
storm Will be the Galveston Wharf
Company. the Southern Pacific railway.
and Gulf. Colorado & Santa Fe rail-
way company. and the Texas Lone
Star FIGURING Company.
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NUUIIUkE IEUIItIIf
"LOoting by American troops in the
walled city at Tien Tsin Is unfounded
and denied. No property has been de-
strOyed except under military exi-
gency."
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HURRICANE AT CHICAGO.

Wind Blew at Rate Of Fifty Miles Per
Hour Throughout the Day.
CHICAGO, Sept. 1.-THE storm Of
today was one Of the severest that has
visited Chicago in years. At one time
the wind reached a velocity Of u rSiles
per hour and during the day not less
than 50 miles an hour.
Two people lost their lives and a
number were injured.
The damage amounts to thousands Of
dollars
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TARU. Sept. 6. via Shanghai. Sept.
Ic-The expedition to Pao Ting Fu viii
leave on Friday. II IS made w as fol-
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HONG KONG. Sept. 11.-There was
a riot in the village Of Tai Kuk Tsui
last evening. but the Kow Loon police
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British, two resiments Of cavalry, q
battery Of horse artillery and 300 in
fantry: Italians. 100; Japanese, 800;
Russians. 300. Americans, 900.
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HOUSTON Tex. Sept il.-Editor o.
10. Nation. of the Velasco World. brings
Information OF :he death Of twenty
two persons In ana around Velasco as
result of the storm. Seventeen OF
them We're negroes.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-06-25

some member of the household finds
time to cultivate.
There is hardly a crop in this country
that distinctly helps general business
more than cotton. 1t almost equals in
this respect king corn Or wheat. The
farmers, the small merchants, the large
dealers, shippers, machinists, trunkers
in cities, operatives in mills, and clerks
and assistants from New Orleans to
New York and from New York to
Liverpool, find distinct benefit when
ever cotton moves upward and prices
promise good returns to the grower
If our trade in the cotton goods in the
far east proves as large and renumera~
tive as merchants anticipate now there
will be new channels of commerce to
feel the quickening impulse of a large
crop of s and 10-cent cotton.-Scien
tific American
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STORY OF THE MILKY WAY.

Always the seventh day of the
seventh month should be blessed by
fair and radiant weather. The reason
fol this is found in story dear to the
Japanese, who always looks for blue
skies and fair omens on this day. For
at this time-July THE shepherd boy
star, Capricornus, and the spinning
maiden star, Lyra, cross the Milky
Way to meet each other.
In the Japanese story the Milky Way
is called the Silver River Of Heaven.
On the banks once lived Shokujo, the
beautiful daughter of King Sun, who
spent Der time weaving the rosy
shades of morning and the silvery
hues of twilight.
Disturbed because the lovely prin-
'tes7 was so serious, the king, her
father, chose for her a bridegroom,
kingin, who guarded his f1ocks on the
river banks. Then the princess forgot
her work and learned to smile. The
Sun King thought the shepherd had
succeeded in making his daughter
merry, and to separate them, ordered
the young husband to cross the river,
With the privilege of seeing his bride
henceforth but once every year, on the
seventh day Of the seventh month.
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And the Sun King, having summoned
myrlads Of doves. the shepherd was
Obliged to cross the river on their
wings.
The only comfort of the lovers was
to stand on the opposite banks and
gaze at each other longingly.
At last came the seventh night Of
the seventh month. What if it should
rain? thought the lovers For the
river was filed and an extra drop
would sweep away the bird bridge.
But the night was fair and no rain
fell, and the birds made broad bridge
for the spinning maiden" to cross to
her lover. And since then on every
seventh night of the seventh month
when no rain has fallen the birds
have flown to spread their wings
across the Silver River of Heaven and
the happy lovers have met.--New York
Journal.
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WHY HE WAS ANXIOUS.

While Archbishop Trench was dean
of Westminster he delegated Canon
Cureton to preach at the abby on a
certain saints day. On such days the
boys or Westminster school attended
services, and after service had the rest
of the day as holiday. While MI.
Cureton, on the morning of the day he
was to oficiate, was looking over his
sermon at the breakfast table his son
asked in tone vibrating with anxiety:
Father, is yours long sermon to-
day?"
mo, Jimmy, not very"
But how long? Please tell me-"
'Well, about 20 minutes, I should
say. But why are you so anxious to
know?"
Because, father, the boys say they
will thrash me awfully if you are more
than half an hour. "-Pearson's Weekly.
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TIDBITS.

Jamaica has "tooth brush" plant.
1t is species of creeper, and by cut
ting pieces a suitable length and fray
ing the ends the natives convert it in
to a tooth brush; and a tooth powder
to accompany the use of the brush is
also prepared by pulverizing the dead
stems.
An organist who has just died in
Sweden had held the position of choir
master and organist in one church for
seventy-two years without missing a
service. He and his ancestors had
played the organ in the same church
for 200 years.
Emperor William of Germany has a
list of 1,500 employees, including $50
women servants, who are engaged in
looking after the twenty-five royal
palaces and castles that belong to the
crown.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-06-25
COTTON CROPS FUTURE PROMISE
Largest Acreage on Record Likely TO
be Planted This Season.

The most remarkable advance in
cotton for a quarter of century has
been made this winter, and our south
ern cotton belt is in the process OF
transformation that can hardly be COM
pretended by those not directly in
terested in the business. For the past
three years cotton has been selling at
6 and 61a cents per pound, and at that
price there was little profit in the
staple crop of the south; but right on
top of the pessimistic predictions that
cotton would never again prove pay
ing crop in this country, that price
advances to ard 10 cents per pound.
This advance does not represent
proportionate gain to the grower. for
much Of the crops were harvested and
sold before the high prices were
realized. 1t is estimated, however.
that 100000 bales of the crop sold at
a average of 71a cents per pound, or $50
per bale, and 100000 bales at nine
cents, or $45 per bale. This gain rep
resents an enormous amount of wealth
farmers this winter.
But the future of this industry is
even more promising that the present.
The sudden increase in the cotton
valuation naturally attracted the atten-
ton of thousands of farmers who had
decided to give up cotton growing, and
it has been feared that the acreage will
be so largely increased that there will
be big slump in prices next year, and
instead of great gain, the growers
would actually lose. Under the present
system of future" trading, the cotton
farmers could sell their new crop for
delivery between next October and
January at eight cents, or $40 per bale.
This would make the normal yield of
II 100000 bales sell at $4,000, 900, an
increase of some $80,00O,00O over the
present year. The farmer is thus en-
abled to assure himself of eight-cent
cotton even before the crop has been
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Paris. June 4th-The most i'm
portant event during the last ten days
in American circles at the exposi-
ton was the Inauguration of the
United States publishers building,
which occurred on May 31st. This
building is an annex to the depart
ment of liberal arts and is situated
right in the midst of group of trees
just back of buildings in the Esplanade
des Invalides. The construction pre-
scented curious problem to the archi-
tects in charge and to the director, A.
S. Capehart. The latter felt that
more space was needed than had al
ready been assigned in the large
palaces and so made application to the
French commissioner. The latter was
willing enough to let the Americans
have all the space they wanted but
said that they could have the space
if they could find it. This appeared to
settle the matter, for all the space
available for buildings had long ago
been disposed of. The Americans
noticed, however, that the trees in a
grove just back of the large palace in
the Invalides section were regularly
placed and the idea occurred to them
to encase the trees in columns which
would support the roof of the building.
This idea was carried out and the
building was built with about 20 full
grown trees growing up through it..
The building is only one story in
height, so there is plenty of room for
the spreading branches. In this
building are placed the exhibits of
used in publishing and other machinery
used in publishing an up-to-date news
paper. The press used is of the Goss
pattern, made in Chicago, which can
turn out $4,000 16-page papers per
hour. The press will be used to print
daily Paris exposition edition of the
New York Times. The first issue of
this paper was printed Immediately
after the inauguration and copies
fresh from the press were distributed
among those present.
The ceremonies of the Inauguration
were commenced by Mr.. Peck, who
made a short speech which was fol-
lowed by others, by Gen. Horace
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planted, and a profit large enough to
make his industry one of the best pay
ing in the agricultural regions of the
country.
The new acreage Of cotton will un-
doubtedly be the largest on record.
There are safe indications of this in
statistics already collected by official
authorities, and the amount of land in
the South that will be planted with
cotton cannot fall far short Of 26. 600, 900
acres. Last season the cotton crop
was a small one, amounting to from
100000 to 100000 bales, while the
two preceding years it reached 1885,
00G bales. But it was not this
difference in the yield of the two years
alone that caused the unexpected boom.
midas crop proved almost total
failure also, while the Egyptian crop
has more recently been threatened
with a similar fate. In addition to
these causes the worlds consumption
Of cotton has increased, and is likely
to continue for some time. A COM
bination of such factors is directly re-
sponsible for the advance in cotton
prices which transform the conditions
Of the South in gratifying way.
Co-eXtensive with the improvement
of the Gotten field and better has been
the Development Of cotton mills in the
south. The mills Of North Carolina
alone employ 10000 operatives, who
have been raised from miserable con-
dition of poverty to one Of comparative
aff1uence. Ten and Is years ago these
POOR operatives could barely make $3.50
a. year on the average Off their small
farms. They rarely had any ready
money, and they dragged along from
year to year with but few of the
benefits of modern civilization. To-
day in the cotton mill districts there is
hardly family that cannot make from
$500 to $500 annually, and, many Of
them find little difficulty in earning
from $500 to $1,000 year. The
advance in the price Of cotton distinct
ly helps and brightens the future of
most Of these cotton mill settlements
in the south, for besides working in
the factories, nearly every family has
a few acres planted with cotton, which
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-06-25
KIFCHENER'S UGLINESS.

A New Orleans man says: 81 received
a letter from my brother in Cape Town
few days ago, in which he says that
the place is literally overrun with
tourists who seem to regard the war
as big spectacular entertainment.
They are all around with cameras, and
a great many have managed to push
their way to the front line of military
operations, where they have proven
very serious annoyance to the troops.
The day before my letter was mailed
five women were sent in under special
escort. They all claimed to be rep
resentatives of different obscure
provincial newspapers, from which
they had evidently obtained credentials
aS an aid to sightseeing, and after
following Kitchener's division a con-
siderable distance into the Free State
they were obliged to apply to the army
for help. They could get nothing to
eat, and two of them were down with
fever. They were then put under
guard and sent back to Cape Town.
Elsewhere in his letter my brother
says that Gen. Kitchener is the most
unpopular man in South Africa, and
that Cape Town is full of stories about
the way he insults and browbeats the
officers under him. Some of the
particulars he gives are very interest
ing. Among other things, it seems
that an number of the generals staff
lately felt the command and reported
back to headquarters without leave on
account of the manner in which he was
treated. He was arrested for desertion
in the face of the enemy, but later on
released, and the affair hushed up to
avert scandal"
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AN ARDUOUS TASK.
The Inspector of Windsor Castle Has
Multitudinous Duties.

Leonard Goldman, the inspector of
the palace at Windsor Castle, is a man
of singularly equable temperament;
indeed, he could hardly be otherwise,
when the nature of his duties is taken
into consideration. His colleague, Mr..
Taylor, at Buckingham Palace, has a
comparatively easy berth, because
Queen Victoria rarely entertains
guests in London. Mr.. Collman, on
the other hand, has to keep a register
of the likes and dislikes of the many
illustrious personages who are hidden
to Windsor, and extremely particular
most of them are as to the equipment
of their apartments.
For instance, one distinguished Wis
itor requires certain pictures to be in
evidence, while another dislikes them:
one royal princess strongly objects to
the morning sun, shine it ever so
family; and great potentate prefers
a camp bed to lie upon. These are
matters which Mr.. Goldman has con-
stantly to bear in mind, but they are
trifles compared with the anxiety i'm
posed on him by the queens visit to
the Vice-R Regal Lodge, Dublin.
1t may not be generally known that
Her Majesty must always be provided
with chairs rising a certain height
from the ground, and that disrep-
ancy of even half an inch either way
causes the queen the greatest dis
comfort, for she is not of lofty stature,
and once, when visiting Scottish
duke she was given a splendid arm
chair, which, as she herself remarked,
must have been made for the King of
Belgians. Of course, Her Majesty
made no complaints at the time, but
ever since then she has taken her own
chair with her. And as with chairs.
so with beds, sofas and settees. Mr..
Collman's position is no sinecure, and
the change from Bordighera to Phoe-
nix Park has not lightened his labors.
Chicago News.
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FACTS ABOUT HAIR.

The encyclopedias regard hair fall
ing below the feet of women as ex-
traordinary.
In Egypt long hair was considered
an encumbrance. It was a feature of
beauty among the Hebrews and
Greeks. Roman ladies used artificial
hair and set he pace for future colt
feurs.
Short hair was the style under the
Francis I. regime, but with the court
Of Louis XIII. came long hair as
fashion, curls, wigs, powders, peri
wigs, and perukes.
Samson's strength was attributed to
his long hair. and his fate is charged
I'D to Delilah's shears. Absalom's
wealth of tresses was the cause of his
own death.
Marie Antoinetet wore pompadour
and rolls thrown back past her ears.
Queen AnAe wore side curls.
Several years ago Miss E. J.. Whit
ten, Topsham, Me-, was said to have
hair eight feet in length.
Peasant girls in the south of France
cultivate and sell their hair as regu-
lar business practice. Traders who at
tend the fairs purposely to traffic in
tresses frequently find hair five feet
in length, but hair six feet long is
very scarce.
A hair is a succession of cylindrical
or elliptical horny cells. Curly or
kinky hair is due to sudden breaks in
the regularity of the cellular success
sion.-San Francisco Exeminer.