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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-12-18

comparison of the guns and mounts
made ten or fifteen years ago with
those now being made. The latter are
arranged much more conveniently and
consequently their rate of fire is much
faster. odern six-inch guns are be-
ing fired from ships eight or ten times
in minute at targets about the size
OF ship and mile distant and hit
ting the target at each shot. OF course
doing this from stable platform on
shore would be comparatively easy.
The projectile of these guns weigh 100
pounds, the powder charge about 40
to so pounds, and the weight of the
gun, including all the tu, ming parts, is
about 25, 900 pounds. This weight must
be moved, TO keep the sights on the tar
get, by one man. and it will be seen
that it is of the greatest Importance
to Law out all the shafting and gearing
with a minimum of friction and lost
motion.
With this advance in the convenient
layout of the gun and it's mount is go
ing on at the present time a steady
increase in the weight and length of
guns. Six-inch guns which used to
weight II, 900 pounds, now weigh $4,000
to 10000 pounds. The weight Of the
proiectile of these guns has not in
creased, and has remained always 100
pounds. but the velocity at which the
nroiectile leaves the gun has increased
from about 1000 feet per second to from
5000 to $500 feet per second, in conse-
ouence. OF a three Or fourfold increase
in the charge of powder. 1t may Oe
argued that this change-that is the
constantly increasing weight of guns
of a given caliber--is not wise one.
The great care and attention bestowed |
ing of the gun, however, can be nothing |
but an Improvement. The growth and |
progress in change in artillery con-
struction sometimes seems arbitrary
seems sometimes to be as arbitrary as
the fashion in clothes. Old guns MADE
800 years ago, which may be seen IN
the arsenals in this country and in Eu-
ROBE, had about the same shape ana
we're in many respects similar to the |
guns of today. In the intermediate
period. say about 100 years ago, the
guns had shrunken up, and become
shorter and larger in diameter Win
larger bcres. We are now returmng'
or, perhaps, more correctly, it should
he said we have returned, to the fash
ions in artillery of 300 years ago.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-12-18

give to Astoria by far the best paper
ever published in any of the smaller
cities OF the coast. The capacity Of
the mechanical department is fully
doubled-the old machine must not be
slandered, gentle reader-and the paper
is in position to give to its patrons, as
it has always done the greatest guam
tity and best quality of news.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-12-18

man has been arrested in Seattle
because, as he expresses it, he is en-
gagged in the business of making
crooked tools for square gamblers. :"
The case should be dropped at once.
The man is altogether too valuable to
be run out of or placed under restraint
aft Seattle
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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-12-18
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.

Take Laxative Bromo Qulnlne lap-
let's, All druggists refund the money
If II fails to cure. e. w. Groves sig
nature is on each box. 25c. tt
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-20
BLOW AT SCIENCE,
Practitioners Must Be Licensed
Pass Four Years Course.

Harrisburg, Pa, Feb. 13.-There. are
good grounds for the statement that
The bill recently introduced in the
house by A~ssemblyman T.. p. Ray, pro-
viding for examination and licensing
IF practitioners of medicine and sur
gerry, is aimed at Christian Scientists,
o~steopaths and other healers not OF
She regular schools.
This was admitted by friends of the
measure at last evenings hearing Civ
IN the opponents of the bill before the
judiciary committee, which still has
the measure In it's keeping. Chairman
McCarrell stated last night that the
friends Of the bill had given notice of
their intention to offer several amend
ments, presumably to, mollify the OPP
ponents Of the bill.
The bill prohibits the practice of
healing "by the use Of any medicines
Or by any other Means" for a consider
alton or free, by any person not regu-
larly examined and licensed. 1t re-
quires from applicants a fo~ur-year reg
ular course of study of medicine, in
Guiding four regular courses of lee
lures in different years in some legally
incorporated medical college, instead Of
q three years course az at present.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-20
TRAIN IS HELD UP.
A Burlington Passenger, East
bound, on Northern Pa
cific Is Rifled.

Butte, Mont, Feb. ia double-head.
ed Burlington express, eastbound, was
held up shortly after midnight on the
Northern Pacific, eight miles east OF
here, by five mounted men.
They covered the trainmen with guns,
uncoupled the engines, mail and express
EARS, and ran them ahead a quarter OF
a mile. Here the robbers dynamited
the express cars, wrecking them.
Reports as to the amount Of booty Sc
cured vary. The express messenger
says the robbers got $500. In other quar-
ters it is said the plumber will amount
to several thousand dollars. 1t is also
said several mail pouches We're ritled.
Mail Clerk Shot.
The railway mai clerk was shot by
The hold-ups, but 1t Is not thought the
Wound is dangerous. When the express
messenger realized there was a hold
up he tossed a package of money he
held in his hand upon the rack above
mis- head, and this money wa. probably
saved. After the robbers had left with
the engine, and cars the trainmen has
tened back towards Butte and met an
incoming freight train, the engine of
which was u%ncoupled n run to Butte.
where an alarm was given. A sher-
left for the scene on a special train. a
special bearing the ~penitentiary blood
hounds also left Deer Lodge at 8
o'clock this morning for the scene of
the hold-up.
The Northern Pacific company has
offered a reward Of So, 900 for the arrest
Ind conviction of the men.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-20

only means by which industrial peace
can be maintained. Every appeal and
every prayer of the men, he said, was
contemptuously rejected by the oper-
ators.
No human being could have done
more than the Organization of miners
did to prevent the civil strife that was
thrust upon the people of the country.
we will not treat with you, but will
post notices OF our works, which shall
be your contract for the coming year."
the operators said. They forced the
strike that they might demonstrate to
the men, and to generations yet to
come, that the owners of capital are
the masters of their Workmen. They
tried to crush the union, which was the
first ray of hope and inspiration that
has entered the dark lives of the men.
But at this late day, after months Of
strife OF the part of the men to meet
their masters, the operators come in
with a proposition. Mr.. barrow pre-
dicted the time will come when the OPP
orators combination will be destroyed
by the people, who will take possession
of the riches under the ground and
relieve themselves of the tyranny of
those men. So long as the laws Of the
country do not prevent industrial
war, he said, and so long as the mas
tiers of capital want to fight, so long
will the workingmen fight.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-20
ALEXANDER ON STAND.
indianapolis Doctor Tells of Relations
With the Ghouls-CantreII Held
to Be Insane,

Indianapolis, Feb. 13.-Tuesday's session
OF the trial Of DR.. Alexander, charged
with g~rave-robbing, opened with the tes-
timony of Jacob Kurtz, a detective, for
merly turnkey at the county Jail. He
corroborated DR.. Anderson that CantrelI
~telephoned October is from the Jail to DR..
Alexander's office.
The court admitted the war record,
which showed Cantrell discharged from
the army because Of mental condition.
DR.. H. M. Lash, a specialist in mental
diseases, said:
II would consider the man of unsound
mind"
DR.. Alexander took the stand. He ap-
peared pale, but not Ill at ease, and spoke
in a low, clear tone. He was graduated
March 25, 1895, from the Indiana college
and opened an office in this city. He was
employed to deliver thirty lectures at the
Central college during the school term
of 1902, on anatomy of skeletons. He ad-
mitted his duty was to procure dissecting
material.
w used possibly ten or twelve bodies
a season." he said. He received, all told,
$50 for each body.
II paid for the material, preservation,
and delivered 100 lectures" 1t cost him
about $12.50 to preserve a body and place
it in brine.
" AN oid Sou lISI IlGGI 1tuIuS Can't
reil'
In June, 1902. He told me he had tele-
phoned to DR.. Bret and came to see me.
l did not know what he wanted. We had
a lot of unclaimed skeletons in the old
college building. Cantrell, who was alone,
told me he had worked about colleges and
wanted employment. I telephoned to either
DIR. Barnsill or DR.. Eastman about the
matter and they referred me to DIR. AL
len. I told Cantrell, whom + knew then
as William Rufus, to return in a few
days"
Alexander said he employed Cantrell to
clean the skeletons for SIS and advanced
him $3.50 to buy overalls and a meal ticket.
He made efforts to secure dissecting ma
terial in different parts Of the state with
out avail. About this time he took Can't
rells clothes out of a pawnshop and stood
security.
On one occasion in July, 1902, he said, he
talked with Cantrell about procuring
bodies.
He told me he had procured bodies for
different colleges at times and would like
to do it again"
DR.. Alexander said he made orange
ments with Cantrell to supply the college
with material for $50 a body, C. O.. d. at
the college,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-20
DON'T NEED VOTES NOW
So Senator Clark Pays Fancy Prices for
Works of Art at Auction.

-E. No VI ~ at NoSSiSls
New York. Feb. l4.-Senator Clark Of
Montana, under the name Of u. c. Car
ter" took command Of the sale Of the
Davis c. Lyall paintings by Auctioneer
Thomas c. Kirby in Mendelsohn hall
last night. What he wanted he got.
More than a quarter of a million
dollars was realized on the first nights
bidding, and of it Senator Clark spent
$75, 900.
He paid the top price-S25, 5Oo-for a
Breton, lie Fin de Tarvail." He also
paid sl1, 500 for Daubigny's Sunset on
the River
In all, LOS pictures were put up, SO Of
them oils n the remaining 10 water
cclors. They netted $251, O45, an aver
g of almost $1,000 a painting. The
audience of bidders was large, enthus-
iastic and representative.
Besides many well known art col
l%ectors, all the principal dealers were
there. Senator Clark's first purchase
as "J. c. Carter" was Rosseau's "Plow-
ing" for which he wrote his check for
$500. Immediately he gave $500 for
D~aubigny's "Bords de River"
Durand Ruel paid $11,100 for De la
CroiX's Il Enlessement de Rebecca,"
but Schaus got the superb De Melville
Destruction of the Telegraph Line
for S12, 200. Schreyer's "a Sortie" went
to John A. Hoagland for $1S,900, and
Millet's famous La Naissance de
Veau,' was captured by George A.
Dowden for $500.
There was rapid-f1re bidding for the
star Carrot lie Bouleau," and Mr.. Dow
den finally won 1t on his $40, 900 bid.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-20
CHECK LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Indiana Measure, 1t Is Held, Would Re
duce Number of Saloons.

Indianapolis. Ind, Feb. 13.-Temper
arce people will be interested in a meas
ure Senator Kittenger has prepared,
and which is understood to meet the
views of many advocates of reform in
the liquor traffic, and also Of the liquor
interests which supported the Luhring,
amendment to the Nicholson law,
which was defeated last week.
The new measure places the license
fee at $1,000, retains many Of the pro-
tective features of the present law and
limits the number of saloons to one for
each thousand population. It Is esti-
mated the bill would reduce the num-
Der OF saloons in Indiana one-half.
The bill preparedby the attorney gen.
eral providing for trial of corporations
and individuals charged with being a.
trust or combination in restraint of
trade, directly before the supreme
court, provoked a long discussion in the
senate the opponents of the bill arguing
it gives the attorney general too much
power, and denies to persons charged
with crime the right to trial by jury.
After six hours discussion the bill
was killed by a motion to Indefinitely
postpone.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-20
CHEAP RIDES MADE EASY
Novel Plan to Get Passes and Half
Rates Worked in Chicago.

r ~
Chicago, Feb, 14.-Congressman
Foster was in town today, and when
his telephone rang this conversation
took place:
Hello, Mr.. Foster; this is O'Toole,
the saloonkeeper at Forty-first and
Ashland"
How are you, O'Toole?" cordially
replied the congressman, the saloon
man being a constituent with some
pull.
pretty WE'LL" replied the instrument,
but my wife is sick. Doctor says she
must go to Colorado. Can you get
me a half-rate ticket?"
Il guess So" replied the statesman.
|. 81 can't come over now" said the
man at the other end, but I'll end my
brother-in-law for your letter."
"All right" And Mr.. Foster wrote
a letter to the Rock Island general
offices asking the half-rate for his con-
stituent.
Just as the. "brother-in-law" came in,
Assistant City Engineer Roach also
appeared.
Sending that half-rate order to
O'Toole?" he asked cheerfully.
Yes; how'd you know about it?"
quickly replied the statesman.
Il happened to hear O'Toole talking
to o at the other end; only it wasn't
O'Toole at all. 1t was a CRATER work.
ing you for transportation. That's an
old gag, too. They work aldermen and
everybody else with enough drag to
get a pass or a half-rate permit"
Mr.. Foster didn't send the letter.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-20
LOOKING FOR
Macedonian Revolutionists Only Fear
They Nav Not Get ENOUGH,

'SJ ''A 49, $50.
London, Feb. 14.-The Macedonian
revolutionists are making efforts to Sc
cure a Condemnation Of the Austro-
Russian proposals for reform before
the text has been submitted to the
sultan or published in any continental
capital.
There is an evident desire of the Bal
kan agitators to produce an unman-
ageable situation and drag Bulgaria,
Servia and Russia into war with Tur-
key.
The work which preceded the Rus
sian campaign of 1877 was conducted
with secrecy and subtlety, whereas the
present operations are noisy, and re-
Yea plainly the methods of profess
sional agitators.
Some of the closest observers are
convinced the czar is anxious to pre-
vent an outbreak and that Russia is
not prepared to supply money for a
campaign.
The Macedonian agitators are appre-
hensive the sultan may forestall the
movement by acquiescence to the
wishes of the powers. An early suit
break of hostilities is favored by the
open weather in the Balkans. and Bull
garia and Servia may be carried away
by the excitement.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-20
SIGNED BY BOWEN.
For Venezuela He Accepts the British
Protocol.

SNSSSFSS ssS
Protocol.
Washington, Feb. 12.-Great Britain's
protocol has been formally accepted by
Minister Bowen for Venezuela. The
German and Italian conventions are
still undergoing revision, blu assur-
ances are given in authoritative quarters
that they eventually will be made to
conform in all essential respects to that
Of the British ambassador.
Owing to the illness Of the British
ambassador, Mr.. Bowen called at the
embassy yesterday and personally sig
nifed his approval to the ambassador.
He then presented his formal note of
acceptance, and it has been forwarded
to the London foreign office.
1t is understood that the insertion in
the German protocol of the provision
for advance payment Of the original
$4,000 demanded of President Castro
in the German ultimatum was the re-
suit Of a misunderstanding on the part
Of the German foreign office of certain
steps in the negotiations here. Through
the activity Of the German minister,
Baron Speck Won Sternburg, this point
Is being cleared up.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-20
ELkENS BILL IS
REPORTED IN HOUSE
Hepburn Committee Recon-.
mends Measure for Passage,
With Amendment.
ROOSEVELT FAvORs BILL
He Secured Promises From Members Of
the House Committee That They
Would Bring 1t Out-Hen-
derson Is Not Friendly.

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE house
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce today agreed to report the
Elkins anti-rebate bill, with certain
amendments.
The committee recommends an
amendment to the last provision of sec
ton 3, striking out the words .'or cor
~poration," so the provision will read:
But no person shall be prosecuted or
subjected to any penalty or forfeiture
for or on account of IN transaction,
matter or thing concerning which he
may testify or produce evidence, docu-
mentary or otherwise, in such pro-
ceedings." The committee proposes hat
section he further amended by addi-
ton Of the following provision:
And provided that the provisions of
an act to expedite the hearing and de-
termination of suits in equity pending
or hereafter brought under the act of
July 2, 1890, entitled AN act to protect
trade and against unlawful
restraints and monopoly, and to regu-
late commerce, approved February 4,
1857 or any other acts having like
purpose that may hereafter he enact
ed" shall apply to any cas-, prosecuted
under direction of the attorney general
In the name of the interstate COM
merce commission" s,
The conference report was called UP
and after some debate adopted, 251
to 10.
Consideration Of the sundry civil app
preparation bill was then entered up
on. The bill carried over SIT, 600, 900
more tina the current law. The in
crease is accounted for by large APP
preparations for rivers and harbors and
relief of distressed people in the Phil
ippines.
The house today set aside Sunday,
Feb. %, for paying tribute to the mem
DRY of Representatives Rumple Of Iowa
and Tongue Of Oregon.
The Administrations Program.
In order that the administrations
antitrust program of legislation may
be rendered entirely symmetrical, 1t is
known President Roosevelt desires that
the Elkins rebate bill be enacted into
law. The measure passed the senate
last week and vert to the interstate
nd foreign ommerce committee Of the
house, Of which Hepburn of Iowa is
chairman. For several days the presi-
dent has been comforting, as opportun-
lty offered, with prominent members of
the house about the bill, and the SUBJ
ject was considered last night at a
conference at the White House be-
tween the president and several, lead
ars. The president also has had q con
ference with Speaker Henderson con-
cerning the bill. 1t is understood that
While the speaker is not wholly in sym
pathy with the measure, he will not
stand in the way Of it's consideration
by the house Indeed, 1t can be stated
upon excellent authority that the
speaker and committee on rules, of
which he is the ex-officio head, will
authorize, If necessary, a special rule
providing for consideration of the hill
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-20
M ust Pay Old Bills.

Iowa City, Ia, Feb. 1.-The Univer.
sity Of Iowa baseball and track teams
cannot take part in Iowa athletics the
coming spring, unless the 5000 deficit
Is made good before the season opens.
The university athletic team has
lost steadily on spring athletic ventures
and Professor A. G.. Smith OF the board
of control declared today that the mat.
ter could be ignored M longer.
President MacLean is in receipt of
a letter from Senator Allison, saying
Senator Geo. r. Hnar has consented to
deliver the commencement address
here Tune II.
DR.. F. f.. Bolton of the University Of
Iowa has declined the proffered presl-
dency of the Philippines Normal
School.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-20

We are not left to conjecture. The
facts are before US that the United
Mine Workers have created a monster
monopoly. They shut up the anthray
cite mines for more than FIVE monthsi
they taxed bituminous miners and all
laborers over whom organized labor
had control, to support the strike. Own.
ers Of bituminous mines, some in self
defense, others in nope of gain, on
ibute to the strike fund. With What
result? The price Of both anthracite
n bituminouS coal was more thar
doubled. The supply was inadequate
and the public suffered not only from
the high price but from o scarcity Of
coal. Industrial operations closed
down and men We're thrown out of en-
ployment. All over the land, except in
districts thai could be supplied by the
great anthracite coal companies. poor
honest workmen and the well-to-dc
suffered for want of fuel. The record
shows hat honest effort was made tc
convince the United Mine Workers that
their demands We're unjust"
Mr.. Baer's Proposition.
Mr.. Baer then gave a comprehensive
account of the difficulties and expense
entailed in the production Of anthra-
cite. Concerning wages, he expressed
the belief that the evidence on the
wage queSllOl luSlllleS lllS pOSlllOl VI
the operators.
After reviewing the Did sliding
scale" wage system, Mr.. Baer present.
ed this proposition:
That the rate Of wages now paid
shall be a minimum basis for the neXt
three years; hat from November l to
April l, 1903, all employees other than
contract miner shall be paid an addi-
tional 5 per cent; that on and after
A ,,~f1 I co., Nn,I.E na,,tr ~ .ax.oacr ~
81 so per ton on the average price real
lied for white ash coal in h harbor
of New York on all sizes above pea,
wages shall be advanced l per cent.
Wages to rise or fall l per cent. for
each 5 cents increase or decrease In
prices; but they shall never fall, dur
ing the next three years, below the
present basis.
1.-THE average price for each region
to be ascertained by a competent ac-
countant to be appointed by Judge
Gray OF n of h United States cir
cult judges of Philadelphia. Compen-
satlon o t accountant to be fixed by
the judge making the appointment, and
to be paid by the operators in proper
ton to the tonnage at each mine. Each
operator to submit a full statement
each month to said accountant Of all
sales Of white-ash coal, and the prices
realized therefrom, +. O. B. New York,
with the right Of the accountant to have
access to the books to verify state
ment."
During his address Mr.. Baer said
that in disputes between capital and
labor the general public is largely in
sympathy with labor.
1T is human he said, land a good
trait in the race to sympathize with
the weak against the strong n there
fore l can find no fault with the criti-
cisms, though they are harsh, thai have
been made against u.s."
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-20
ENTERTAIN LOUBET.
Wrench President is Expected at Wis
consin Town Next Year.

T~rempealeau, Wis, Feb. 13.-Trem-
.pealeau may entertain President Lou
bet of France, who Is expected to ar
rive here by steamer from down the
Mississippi i've on or about the Fourth
81 July, 1904.
1t Is learned through the French coll
ony at New Orleans the president OF
France will reach that city June Is,
1904, en- route to the worlds fair at st.
Louis. 1t Is said he intends to. retrace
The steps of historic French explorers.
T~rempealeau is the site of a fort,
built BY Nicholas Pierrot in 1854, which
was the headquarters of the early
French explorers. and it is thought
President Loubet will spend some time
looking Yer the ruins. 1t Is intended
10 give him a hearty welcome.