The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1902-08-17

George r Wheeler editor 0f the
American Miner and Prospcctor Of San
Francisco, was visiting friends In this
city ycstcrday. Mr.. Wheeler was for
merly an Astoria boy, and his FIRST
newspaper work WAS lone on The AS
torian back In the early S0s. He left
this city by the yea In 1885, and has
since been engaged In the newspaper
business In different parts Of the West.
He started the first paper IN Poca-
tcllo. Idaho; was elected to she Idaho
Legislature from that city. He was
speaker Of the Idaho house If repre-.
sentntives In 1887 and 1855 His pres
ent parer II one Of the largest mining
journals in the uni..d States. and Nj
Wheeler says that It's cir .uatlon Ii
growing every day He left yesterday
evening for a few days visit with
friends nj seaside. fnd from there he
viii 70 to Portland for short visit.
Mr. Wheeler and Police Judge Nelson
are old-time chums. and In. their boy
hood days they went courting togeth-
or ana at the same house, but fortu-
natcly not the same lagsle.
A, special meeting Of the school
board held Friday, the contract for
painting the Mcclure school building
was awarded to William Greenland;
Fisher Bros received the contract for
ed 10 make no arrangements for the
Iniontown school untll the new build
ing is ready for occupancy. The
board approved the course Of study
presented by Professor Clark. The
teachers for the coming school year
were assigned as follows: High school
"A. l.. Clark principal; Miss Badol-
let first assistant: Miss Amy Powell
second assistant; Miss Hulse third as
gistant. McClures-M Miss utznger
Mrs. Josie Mccormick, Miss McCann,
Miss Bllnn, Miss Olsen, Mrs. Fulton.
Olncy~~William McCormac principal:
Miss sinnott Miss Shiyely, Miss
Stockton. shiyely.-A. A. Cleveland
principal Miss Garner. Miss Dealy
Miss Fosseti. Mis- Morgan. Mrs Bu-
sey. Adairs Mrs. Lemon. principal;
Miss Bayles. Miss Gray. Miss Asmus,
Miss plckenson. Alderbrook--N Neil
stupp, principal; Miss o'Neill, Miss
Lewis.
+, NJ. Indegard died at Caloorcan. p.
l., on the llth Of hst month from
cholera. A letter was received yester-
day morning by his sister, Mrs. John
W. Welch, written At Manila, and tell
ism Of the death Of the brave soldier.
lie had been In our Islands across the
seas since rs. and was connected with
the quartcrmaster's department. lie
first went to the Philippines as SER
geant- major Of the First Washington
volunteer infantry, afterwards joining
the regulars The deceased leaves two
sisters and two brothers, Mrs. John W.
welch, Mrs. ]. ]. Jorgenson and Alans
and Antoine Indegarl. There is a
great deal OF cholera among the Amer
lean troops In the philippines and the
death rate. already large, IL increas-
ing. Mora bullets are no. nearly so
much to be iear'd as the laNasts q
this loathsome disease. While Asto-
ria folk have been reading with regret
of the many deaths caused by this
plague. 1t is now brought closer to us
by Mr.. Indegard's untimely death.
Every effort Is heing made by the
10 check the progress cf
the disease and II is hoped that 1t
will be soon wiped out
Fred Pearson, a California fisherman
who has been fishing nere the rast
season, had a basket fun of trouble
yesterday. He had been buying goods
from merchants here all GUNNER and
promising to pay for them as soon as
he settled with the cannery he was
working for. Friday, he told lis mer-
chant friends that he would pay his
bills on next Monday. But .he mer-
chants found out that Pearson had
settled with the cannery and was go
ing around singing Home, Sweet
Home" so they became somewhat sus-
picious. II seems that Pearson got a
friend to purchase a ticket for him on
the steamer Columbia, and also to
check his baggage for the Golden Gate
city. This the store-keepers knew
nothing about, but they did know
that Fred's eyes We're turned Califor-
and so they thought they had
better look out for squalls A police
man was stationed at the steamers
gang plank, and, 10, one Fred Pearson e,
started aboard, but was stopped. He
was a bit surprised, After being
brought TO the police station, he agreed
to nay his debts. and was turned loose.
Some time afterwards, Pearson net
the officer who had nabbed him, and
he started to cuss the officer, but was
quieted very quickly. The city is just
$40 ahead by this fisherman's liberal
use of CAB.
The members of Cape Oisap >oint-
ment life saving crew were called cut
Friday morning to attempt to save
two fishermen, whose boat had cap
sized near Peacock spit about 8 o'clock