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vICKERs.c cRAMP COMBINE
Negotauors viii Be Completed with
in Ten Days.

NEW YORK. Feb lS.--A dispatch To
the WorlG from London says;
Ii is NOW stated hat TIE nesotja-
tions Of the Vickers- -Cramp combination
Alll most probably b. completed with
IN ten days. The delay in the compile
ton OF the deal is said 10 have been
-dus,d by the Midvf,e Steel Company.
whose directors were for a time unde-
cided out who now have agreed 10
JOIN the combination.
The lev company's preference shares
VIII be underwritten by an American
Syndicate composed Of Kuhn. Loeb &
Conpsny, and the Horton Trust Conn
pauy. both Of whom are covered by the
Chaplain, Milne, Greenfield Company OF
London.
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Big Expedition Starts Against
China Saturday.
BEGIN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN
Russia and Unltsd States Not ia u Olser
Powers Making GreA, Preparations
New Stories Of Gennao
Atrocities.

WASHINGTON. Feb. lS-The United
States government is facing serious
crisis Ia Cl.iaa, owing to the Announce
,nent " the purpose Of Field Marshal
Won Waldersce 10 begin another Of
fsnsive campaign. General Chaftea has
been Invited e Join in the expedition,
which is to be mobilized on larger
scale than anything attempted In Chi
IA since the allied army began its
march to Pekin. The general inform
ed the war department today and the
officials Of the state department have
been advised of the situation.
Thls German movement is viewed
with absolute dismay here, for it is
feared that It requires the immediate
decision by the United States govern
mtnt Of its whole line of policy toward
the Chinese question. General Chaffee
viii be told that he is not to participate
in this camraign. He has been keeping
the American forces in Pekin, ever
since the city was pacitied, simply as
a legation guard.
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that the visit Of thes, officials means
that there W,ll be a renewal OF the
friendly relations that have existed
between the Armour line, the Cont
mental FruI; Express line and the SAN
ia Fe Fruit ana Refrigerator line dur
rig the last two years,
Despite this opinion, however Vice
President Morton declared that the
Santa Fe was not refusing any bust
ness that It could secure and hoped 70
ot able III the near future to obtain n
larger share of the green fruit bust.
ness than Il has received IN the past
lle aided that the company WIS build
ing 100 new refrig cars,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-02-19
ATROCITIES OF GERMANS.

NEW YORK, Feb. lS.-George Lynch,
an English war correspondent who
saw service in Cuba and South Africa,
and was then commissioned by two
London papers TO accompany the al
lied sorLes on the march TO Pekin,
writes the Herald a long description
Of the terrible atrocities by the allies
with which the campaign was accom-
panied. Mr. Lynch personally v0uches
for the accuracy Of the facts hs re-
lates. He says;
But il is to the Germans that we
aust award the laurels of outrage in
this campaign They arrived late for
the hunt-the man hunt-or man,
woman and child hunt. There was
something particularly coldblooded
about their proceedings. They arrived
when the country ought TO have been
settling down, to avenge the murder Of
their minister and to carry out the
mandate OF their kaiser.
After marching into Pekin, leaving
their path stained with the blood Of
hundreds o. innocent people who had
Just ventured to return to their homes,
the Germans established a military
reign Of terror IN their section of the
city. Every day there were executions
Ore day sixty-eight were shot They
did not hesitate to resort to the Orien-
tai methods for the purpose of extract
ing evidence from their witnesses. The
treatment of their prisoners, as can
personally testify from what / saw
was most brutal"
MI. Lynch takes the missionaries to
task fol- their looting Further on he
says:
THE policy Of the United States
throughout this whole Chinese business
has, to my mind. been altogether ad-
mirable. ! recollect being with General
Chaffee the day after the relief He
said to me-
I'VE had to come right up to relieve
these people in the legations and now
the sooner we can get out and go back
home the better pleased I shall be-
"This appears to me the right policy,
not alone for the United States. but for
albtthe rest of the powers"
Mr.. Lynch thinks the Chinese spirit
of rebellion is still very active and will
be revived in the spring.
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GREAT PREPARATIONS.

PEKIN. Feb. 1S.-The foreiSn ENJOYS
nave held a conference regarding the
Chinese reply concerning the punish
ment Of the guilty persons named by
the powers. The reply was considered
unsatisfactory and the ENJOYS decided
&c insist uron compliance with .their
original demands.
Meanwhile great preparations are be-
ing made by the various commanders
preparatory TO a big expedition. APP
parently the only commanders who
have enough Of anything for long
campaign are the Americans, British
and japanese. The others are deficient,
especially the Germans,
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ASTRONOMICAL PARTY LEAVING
Sail for Sumltra to Observe Eclipse OF
the Sun.

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. lS.-The W.
II. Crocl;er expedition from the Lick
observatory 20 observe the total eclipse
Of the sun in Sumatra on May j vii
sail frcm San Francisco on the Nip
pon Maru tomorrow. The expedition
IS in charge Of Assistant Astronomer
c. d. Perrne. lie will be accompanied
by Ralph H. curtis for the past year
student assistant 4 the observatory at
Berkeley and now an assistant on tn ,
Lick observatory STAFF These astrono-
mers will l'select their assistants from
experts employed by the Dutch offlcia ;
at Pddang
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sHIPBUILDING YARDS.
Greatest in the World to BE Established
on Staten Island.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1S.-The Press
says:
Another of Andrew Carnegle's dreams
is nearing realization That is the es-
tablishment here Of the greatest ship
building yards in the world right
alongside the largest iron and steel
plant ever projected. Staten island is
the place named for these industries
and some recent purchases Of several
hundred acres Of choice land are said
to have been made with this object
finally in view.
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land in the Tartar city here, on which
they expect to build. II we do not do
jomcthlng at once, we win find our
Sc ves shu, of permanently from what
wc should have--a respectable legation
worthy Of ns and commensurate with
,ur interests cut here, II congress
Mou.d aI prorriate $leO,OOO W. could Sc
cure all the necessary land and build
IN the N Sded buildings for the legation
and for the guard which must remain
here, probably for years to come, A
ye.r from now It will be too late. 1t
as without any exaggeNtion, now or
never"
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FRIENDLY RELATIONS RENEWED
Conference Between Officials Of Refrig-
orator Car Lines.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18.-Paul
Morton, second vice-president Of the
Santa Fe; Edward Chambers, general
freight agent Of the Santa Fe line
west Of Albuquerque, and z. II. Da-
Wis. manager Of the Santa Fe Fruit and
Refrigerator line, have arrived in this
city.
It is said in local railroad circles
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-02-19
FIRsT OF NEW LINE.
Steamer Palena Arrives at San Fran.
cisco From Valparaiso

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1S.-The
steamer Palena, the first of the Cam
pania Sud Americana VapOres to reach
this city, has arrived from Valparaiso
and way ports With a cargo Of coffee.
The company owning the Palena is an
ally Of the Panama Railroad Company
IN ifs fight against the Pacific Mail
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-02-19
ALASKA RAILROAD DEAL.
White Pass and Yukon Road Buys
Property Of Canadian Develop
ment Company.

TACOMA, Feb 1S.-Advices have
been received here that the White Pass
and Yukon road has purchased the
property Of the Canadian Development
CoiaPsny, to take effect April l. By
this extensive acquisition of property
the railroad company practically ex-
tends its line from Skagway 10 Daw-
son.
This practically gives the White
Pass Railroad Company the control Of
all water ways to the interior as it
also controls the Atlin route.
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TO START SATURDAY.

LONDON. Feb. 1S.-Count Won Wal
dersee has prepared his plans for a
new expedition" says the Pekin cor
respondent of the Morning Post, and
il win start next Saturday. All the
powers except Russia and the United
States have agreed to allow their forces
- Ioin
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-02-19
IDAHO LEGISLATURE.
Bill to Apply Principle Of Local Option
to Gambling Was Defeated

BOISE. Ida, Feb. 1S.-In the house
today in committee Of the whole bill
20 apply the principle Of local op-
tion TO gambling was defeated by vote
Of &c to 20. The speaker refused to
permit report" to be made 10 the
house from the committee Of the whole,
so final action was not taken.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-02-19
TEXAS BANK ROBBED.
Robbers Got $4,000 and ESCAPED on a
Handcar.

CHICAGO, Feb. 1s.-A special TO the
Chronicle from Texarkana, Tex says:
The bank Of Omaha at Omaha. Tex.
thirty miles south Of this place. has
been robbed Of $4,000 in cash and paper
amounting to $4,000. The robbers made
their escape upo1 handcar The lone
occupant Of the bank was decoyed from
the town by bogus kilograms and re-
n.aiied away from Omaha on the night
Of the robbsry.
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COYOTE AND WOLF ESCAPED.
rloosevelt Enjoyed the Hunt but Bag
gCd No Game.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Feb. lS.
"A party >: six persons, Of which the
central figure was Vice-President-e elect
Theodore Roosevelt. enjoyed a coyote
hunt Of about thlrty-hve miles, south
of Colorado Springs today.
One coyote and one gray wolf af-
forded the chase and both animals es-
caDed.
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capital Stock 100000
FULLY PAID AND NON-AS- =
sESSABLE. PAR VALUE 81.
EACH SHARE.

One-half the entire capital stock has
been placed In the treasury Of the COM
pany as a working capital. To complete
necessary dItches and place on the river
bed several gold steam dredges. the
company now offers limited number
OF It's shares at
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LEGATION SITE NEEDED.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1S..-A special to
the Tribune says:
While the indiscriminate seizure Of
property in China by foreign nations
continues there Is some interesting in
Formation in a letter Senator Lodge
has received from w. Woodville Rock
NIL. who was sent to Pekin to assist
Minister Cnnger. He says:
"conger has written to the depart
.nent aud I have written to the secre-
tary suggesting the urgent need Of Sc
curing at present a good site for our
legation here. All the other powers
have alreaoy rreempted large tracts Of
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-02-19
AN INCUMt FOR LIFE
FROM
GREATEST Of COLO PROPERTIES
$3.50 ACREs-S MILES IN LENGTH
2SO MILLION TONS.

Richest collaborating quarts, ground
by natures hand into gold-laden
gravel, from 90 to 600 feet In depth over
the entire property, In addition the
company tNns IA miles In length OF
frvcr bed, each mile of which contains
many millions OF gold. situated ON the
Rio Grande, in Taos county, New Mex
leo,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-06-22

lowing teachers have volunteered to
assist in the work of the vacation
school without compensation: Emma
F. Merritt, Rosetta Boston, Charity
Hathman, Anna Thompson, Anna J.
Bell, Mary V. Dickerson, Musette
Brooks and Emma Beckwith.
+ High School hall, on M street, be-
tween First street and New Jersey ave-
nue. northwest, was the scene of a large
gathering Friday night to witness the
annual graduation exercises of Nor
NAL School No. 2. Commissioners Mac
farland, who was to have conferred the
diplomas on the fifty-nine graduates
was unable to be present, and Gen. H.
V. Boynton, president of the board of
education, offciated in his stead. Gen.
George H. Harries, chairman of the
committee on high and normal schools,
was present, as were also Mrs. I. G.
Myers and w. S. Montgomery, assist
ant superintendent; Mrs H. L. West
MIR. James F. Bundy and Mrs. J. R.
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Francis, Of the board of education
Principal Terrell, of the Washington
High School; Maj. Arthur Brooks and
others. Mrs. L. b.. Moten, principal OF
the school, had charge of the exercises
The programme was an interesting
one. On the stage, handsomely deco
rated with flowers and bunting, Old
Glory stood cut prominently in honor
of Flag Day, and each Of the graduates
wore miniature flag. The exercises
were opened with music, following
which Rev. F. j. Grimke delivered the
invocation. Prof. L. B. Moore, of
Howard University, delivered the adj
dress to the class. Miss Zita Dyson,
the valedictorian of the class, in the
course of her ffteen-minute essay,
spoke in high terms Of Mrs. Moten and
her assistants. Miss Beatrice Warrick
rendered a selection from Rubinstein.
The class song, the words Of which are
by Miss Bertha Washington, was then
sung, and after benediction by Rev. w.
II. Brooks the exercises were brought
to a close with music Following is
the list of graduates Mary E. AM.
bier, Alberta G. Brooks, Isabella v.
Brooks, Ell N. Brown, Halle S. Brown,
Adelaide Bruce, Fanny Burrell, Lucy
A. Clarke, Mary p. Clarke, Mary E.
Davis, Able B. Dyson. Zita q. Dyson,
Sarah German, Grace P. Green, Rachel
B.. Guy, Christine Harris, Adelaide F.
Hall, Emma B. Hall, Ada M. Hender-
son, Julia b. Jackson, Mary A. E..
Johnson, Mildred b. Jones, Marie~Jor-
dan, Maggie B. Key, Emily e. Lewis,
Mary M. Mallory, Bessie E. Miller, Ida
E. Mitchell, Genevieve E. Morris, Flor
ence A. Murray, Estelle V. Nelson,
Charlotte e. Only, Ne1lena Payne, Julia
i. Payne, Mabel M. Payne, Alma Pitts,
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ATLANTA UNIVERSITY
Summary of the Results Obtained at the
Sixth Atlanta Conference.

Summary of the Results Obtained a the
Sixth Atlanta Conference,
The Sixth Atlanta Conference, held
during Commencement week at At
lanta University, Atlanta, Ca, investi-
gated the Afro-American Common
School of the South.
DR.. w. E. B. Dubois, one of the most
advanced thinkers of the race, was
corresponding secretary, and President
Bumstead presided. Representatives
from half of the Southern states and
from Massachusetts, Connecticut and
New York were present. The result
of their investigation showed that
there are 28,568 AfrO-American teach
ers in. the common schools.
The number of AfrOAmerican chill
dren of school age in the United States
is 2,912,910, but a few less than the
whole race at the breaking out of the
war. Of this number 1,511,61S were
enrolled in schools last year. This is
just a fraction over one half The
average daily attendance was 969,011,
which is only 80 per cent of the total
number. In the South, since the in
auguration of the public school system,
there has been spent on the Afro
American public schools SOL 1860, 661.
Of this vast amount, the Afro-Ameri-
can has contributed by direct taxation
more than $29,O00,O00, and by indirect
taxation sum ranging between $4O,-
100000 and $75,000,000.
In Georgia, South Carolina, and
Louisiana the Afro-Americans get less
out of the common school fund than
they put into it by direct and indirect
taxation.
The condition of the American
school teacher is best in Texas. and
worst in Louisiana.
School facilities in the South are
totally inadequate for the children of
school age, and the most pressing
| problem is an increase in educational
plants. The percentage of school at
| tendance does not equal half the school
population for either race.
The Atlanta Conferences have in
yestigated and published reports upon
the following subjects during the past
six years:
1S96-Causes of Afro-American Nor
tality.
1S97-Social and Physical Condition
of the AfroAmerican in Cities.
| 1S98-Eforts of Afro-Americans for
Social Betterment
1S99-The .Afro-American in Bust
| ness.
1900-The College-Bred Afro-Ameri-
can. .
1901-The Afro-American Common
! School.
Twentyfour graduates from the
Normal department; six from the Col
lege. The attendance in these de-
partments was the largest in the his
tory of the institution.
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Among the many things Afro-Ameri-
cans are said to need to break down
the asinine prejudice against them are
education and money. They are do
ing better in getting the former than
the latter, despite the many obstacles
they must surmount. But when it
comes to getting money the road is
much more rocky. There are only
very few avenues of labor open to
them except the mental ones and even
among those there are some which
are almost closed against them. It
has not been many years since the
killing of some Afro-Americans in
Memphis by some white rivals in bust
ness, and few days ago similar case
occurred in Pine BLUM, Ark, when
Robert and Thomas Clegg, two prom
inent young white men, shot and kill
ed Everett E. Fluker and his nephew,
Solomon Fluker. The trouble arose
over competition in business. Everett
Fluker was a leader among his people
and was one of Jefferson county's
wealthiest Afro-Americans. He was
grand master of Afro-American Odd
Fellows of Arkansas and a member of
the orders executive board of the
United States. The estate is worth
about $4,000. The Cleggs are in jail,
but what will be done with them?2
This is the sort of encouragement we
get, in the South, when we try to get
a firm hold on the white mans Cod
money.
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SATURDAY, JUNE %, 1901.

Daniel Emmett, the composer Of the
music of Dixie the song which the
young Afro-Americans of Chicago's
schools refused to sing on Memorial
Day." is dying, if not already dead, at
his hermit's home near Mount Vernon,
Ohio. = - 80 t.--- @
Mr.. Emmett is eighty-six, and for
years has lived retired in a suburban
home, avoiding men and their ways
and seeking companionship only in the
wife Of his old age and few dogs.
The circumstances which led to his
writing Dixie are related by a resi-
dent of Mount Vernon. Emmett was
playing in New York with the cele-
brated Bryant Minstrels. Mr.. Bryant
one day requested him to compose q
new walk round" of heroic kind
One said he, (which the bands will
want to play and which the boys will
whistle in the streets" The next
morning Emmett appeared with the
music Of Dixie" as it is now played
There was little enough in the words
mere clatter, reallyb but the music
took at once in the North and was
seized by the South for its own whe1
the Northern soldiers took it thithel
early in the war. The original word.
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THE BALEARsC ISLANDS,
CONTINUED From First Paxe.)

prosecutors, waxed r1cner ana raised larg-
er families, and, though outwardly sub
scribing to the Roman Catholic religion.
remain Jews to the backbone.
The visitor to Palma should take a car
riage to the castle of Bolivar, first OBJ
tanning from the commandment an order
for admission. The picturesque fortress
stands on wooded height four hundred
feet. above the town and barber. IT va,
built by Don jamie H., and consists OF
a two-storied circular tower and two
interior galleries with vaulted roofs
strengthened by semi circular bastiora
and surrounded by a double rnoat. There
s IS detached tower of much greater size
called La Tore del Homenaga, comn,,-
nicating with the main building nv two
remarkable bridges, or arches, one above
the other In the lowest arch is a gloomy
dungeon, under the level of the naoat to
which there is access only by a small hole
In the roof. It is known as la ola ftbe
Jar, and heaven only knows what TRACE
dies have been committed in it. The view
from the top of this tower is somethinp
to remember. Fannie n vrara =
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There is at least one white WON;

There is at least one white woman
in the South who doesn't wish to have
the blood of an innocent man on her
hands, even though the man is an
Afro American. Tom Watson forced
his wife to join him in making an affi-
davit that Will Bussey, an Afro-Ameri-
can, had criminally assaulted her at
Camden, Ark, and Bussey was by some
unaccountable means allowed to es-
cape lynching and was imprisoned,
tried and sentenced. to hang the latter
part of this month. The part Mrs.
Watson had played in the matter
preyed so heavily on her mind that
about three weeks ago she made a
written statement that she had sworn
falsely against Bussey and on learning
this Gov. Davis suspended Bussey's
sentence. The confession of the wom-
an SO incensed the good citizens of
Camden against Watson that a com
mittee of them took him last Monday
night and gave him five hundred lash
es, put him on train going South and
instructed him not to stop in Arkan-
sas. If. some others who have sworn
they were outraged would make confess
sicns they would at, least clear the
names of the innocent men who have
been lynched for crimes they did not
commit .sls- ~ Gs5zs." =
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ministers and their widows. The in
corporators are the Revs. George w
Lee, Waller H. Brooks, Robert John
son, J. Anderson Taylor, William P.
Gibbons, William j. Howard and Isaac
Amanda Sherman, fifty years old,
fell through the skylight to the third
floor at No. 300 Tenth street north
west, Monday night, and was severely
injured. The woman was on the roof
hanging out some clothing she had
washed when the accident happened.
She was badly bruised about the body,
and received several painful cuts about
the neck and face. The ambulance
was summoned, and the injured wom-
an was taken to the Emergency Hospi-
tai, where her several injuries were
dressed.
President Mckinley has pardoned
Isaac Warren Lewis, thirteen year
Old *AfrO7American boy in the southern
district of Mississippi, convicted Of
embezz1ing mail matter while a mes
sehger, Sentenced May 10, 1901, to pay
a fine of 800 and costs, and to be i'm
prisonedI for one year in the Tennessee
state prison. Execution of sentence
suspended pending his application for
pardon. The president pardoned him
on the recommendation Of the district
i7ftt and judge. The attorney
general, in his Endorsement, said: The
Petitioner was thirteen-year-old
child atthe time Of his alleged offense,
and should not have been prosecuted
Permission has been granted by the
board Of education for the establish
m men ct a vacation school for Afro
American children. The school is to
pc heid for six weeks in the Stevens
school building, the term beginning
Monday W June "a. The course is to
combine industrial education with
studies TO strengthen delinquent pupils
u subjects in which they are weak.
! plan was promulgated by Mr. n.
- ard!oza, who out lined the proposed
work II a communication to Mrs. Bet
tle = Francis, chairman of the com
m llI pn Industrial education of the
Doard Pr education In asking that
inns aff .n be taken Mr.. Cardoza re-
Ierred TO what he regarded as the
pecui1af needs of the Afro Americans.
industrial education, he considered,
was especially necessary, because Of
the polerty OF their parents. The fol-
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ganization has been formed by Dwight
c. Kilbourn, of Litchfeld, Conn.,, an
ardent admirer of the man from Os-
sawatomie, to be known as the John
Brown Association. The price of the
homestead, which consists of half
dozen stony acres and a barn-like
dwelling, in which the martyr was
born May 9, 1900, is $4,000, and the as
ISOLATION will issue stock to raise that
sum, which will certainly be an easy
matter. -, ~ r ss.-5 = =. s.