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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-03-25
kEPT POLICEMAN BUSY.
After Arrssting Woman For Abusing
Husband 1lueeoat Runs Down
Wife 6easer.

San Francisco. March 2a.--From
rescuing man who was being fright
fully beaten by his wife, Policeman w.
NJ. Phlllipps had to run short dis
tance and rescue woman who was
being abused by her husband last
night.
Philips arrested the wife in the first
instance and the husband in the other
and both were taken before Police
Judge Mogan this morning on charges
OF disturbing the peace. The former
went TO the county jail for three
months, but the man went free be-
cause his wife refused to prosecute
and he made promises to be good.
NeIshbors notified officer Phillpps
that Annie Dunn was. laying violent
hands on her invalid husband at their
home on Shlpley street, between
Fourth and Fifth streets. He found
the man on the floor and the woman
over him. Both were shouting at the
top Of their voices and the woman's
hands were making loud smacks with
unpleasant frequency
With difficulty she was taken to the
Southern police station. She was
slightly dnder the influence Of liquor
and beat Dunn because he refused TO
siye her more money with which to
replenish her supply Of liquor. Some
time ago she was sentsnced to 90 days
in JAN for doing the same trick.
John Henry was the principal figure
in the other domestic tragedy He Is
a young man and clerk, living on
clara street, near Fifth. He was in
toxicated on his arrival home last
evening. His wife protested and he
became abusive and they were having
a lively war Of words until the wife
| ran out for a policeman
Henry was OF a contrite spirit this
morning He said whisky had caused
him to be In bad mood and he as
serted that he would hereafter leave
the liquor alone. He did not take the
pledge, but his wife was willing tc
believe him. However, last night wa'
the policemans second visit to th'
Henry home and Judge Mogan SAID
ANOTHER visit would mean the count,
Jail for Henry.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-03-25
FOUND DEAD IN SHACK.
Pereptrator Of Awful Crime May
Have Escaped.

Vancouver. B. c.. March 24.--Seven
weeks ago John Spittal was murdered
in his shack near Terra Nova, on the
Frazer river, and only now has the
crime been brought to light Al the
inquest held at Eburne the other night
the coroner's jury brought in verdict
Of murder. and the provincial police
are already on the track Of the sup
posed homicide The suspect Is d
young man whose name they decline
to give, but who Is not unfamiliar with
the inside of,a Jail, he having served a
three months sentence in this city
and his picture adorns the rogues gal
lery The murderer first shot his sic-
tim in the head, and while SpIttal lay
on the ground in his last agonles his
slayer emptied his rifle into his neck,
there being hole through the right
lung.
The crime was very sudden cccur-
renee. II is the theory OF the neigh
bors that the young fellow was robblng
the shack when Spittal suddenly re-
turned from days duck hunting The
pilferer, who ha1 been under the i'm
preston that Spittal was far away in
the squamish hunting deer raised bis
rife as he saw the owner Of the cabin
on the threshold and the first shot took
effect in the brain Then the homicide
dragged the body through the dool
into the shack, put another shot into
it, went out, padlocked the door ant
fed.
When the police examined the prem
ises they found coat belonging Il
the suspect. A gun and a rife ar
missing from the cabin, and It ha
been learned that the young fellow Of
fered two such firearms for sale to
Vancouver milkman. That Spittal wa
first shot outside the cabin Is show
by the marks Of blood leading into tn
shack, proving that he had bee
dragged inside by his assailant. TIL
evidence seems to show that the dee
was committed on February 2 or 3, $
that it was 4e lays before the discov
cry was made.
The criminal, whoever he was, coul
be on the other side Of the world b
this time. Nobody knows whetht
spittal had any money in his shac
He was one of those quiet, lnoffensiN
fellows, who keep their business
themselves.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-03-25

Item which appeared recently In the
San Francisco Bulletin will be OF In
terest to the many local friends OF the
popular officer. Captain Harold T.
Cloke. artlcllery corps. u, $. A.. Is re-
celvlng hearty congratulations from
his many friends on the honor which
is his In commentator from the war
department on the excellence Of his
work and OF the gunners under him.
Captain Cioke l. one OF the most bril-
liant young officers In the service and
with his charming wife. who was Miss
Alice Findley, will be sadly missed
when the time comes for them to take
station In the east"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-03-25
". ". fOLlONt InAAfHleahS
c. J. CURTIS, Secretary.
Republican County, Convention.

Republican County Convention.
Notice is hereby given, that Re-
publican County Convention for Clat-
sop county. State of Oregon, will be
held at the City Of Astoria, on Satur-
day, April 9, 1904, at the court house
at 10 o'clock a. m, Of said day for the
purpose of nominating the following
eounty officers to be voted for at the
state election to be held on Mon1ay,
June 6, 1904, and electing 10 delegates
to attend the Republican state con-
vention to be held at the city Of Port
land, on Tuesday, April 12, 1904, and
10 delegates to the congressional con-
Yention;
Two representatives,
One county clerk,
One sheriff.
One treasurer.
One county commissioner.
One coroner.
One assessor
One surveyor.
one school superintendent.
Justices of the peace and constab-
les in the various precincts.
The various precincts Of the county
are entitled to one delegate at large
and one delegate for every rs votes
or fraction over of the votes cast for
F. /. Dunbar for secretary of state, the
apportionment being as follows:
Astoria No. 1..................... II
Astoria No. 2...........F,....... II
Astoria No. 3..............,.... 10
John Day ..... ............'''''.' .
| Syensen..... ...'..' '.'..'''''''' :
| Wallush ..... ...... '''..'''''''' .
New Astoria ........... ,..''''... .
Warrenton .......... ............
Clatsop 49,. .......,............
Seaside ........ .........'''''''..
Melville .......... ......,...''''''
Chadwell ....... .............
Youngs River .....................
Olney ....,....... ...'..s..''''.''
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-03-25
Republican Primaries.

Notice is hereby given. tnat the re-
publican primary election will be held
in the city OF Astoria, Clatsop county.
State OF Oregon. on Saturday. April 2.
1904. for the purpose Of electing a del
egates to the Republican County con-
vsntiOn to be held in the City Of AS
toria. on Saturday. April Q. 1904. for
the purpose Of nominating candidates
for the various county Offices to be
filied at the general election to be hsld
on Monday, June 6. 1904 The follow
ing Ia the number OF delegates. polling
places and judges and clerks appoint
ed for said primary election:
Ward No. Polling place. No.
two's engine house; judges. J. g.
Trulllnger. c. Il. Stockton. James Ellis
worth; clerks. Jas. Hannaford. Chas
Abercrombie: IL delegates.
Ward, No. 2.-Polling place. Welch
office: judges. Jas. w. Welch. Sam
Gallich. e. C. Foster: clerks. 7. r.
Davis, w. C. Curtis; II delegates.
Ward No. s.-Polllng place. w. f.
McGregor's office; judges. VIM. Paint
er, l. Agren and John Nordstrom:
clerks, w. p. o'Brien. Geo. Iceland;
10 delegates.
G. C. FULTON, Chairman,
c. J. CURTIS, Secretary.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-03-25
IT SAVED HIS LEG.
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the world. Cure guaranteed. Sold by
Chas. Rogers. druggist.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-03-25

Captain Cloke, formerly stationed at
Fort Stevens. but who is now at San
Francisco, will go east in September.
He has been appointed TO a military
post in New York The following brief
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-03-25

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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-03-25

The committee recommends that the
primaries be held on Saturday. April
2. lsO4 O. C. FULTON.
Chairman.
c. J. CURTIS. Secretary.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-03-25
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-01-15

them for lack of patrons, says the Times.
1t is worth while, however, to make the
fight. The new editor of the Telegram
is Rev. Walter r. Davenport, for six
years pastor of the Methodist church in
Barre, formerly principal of Montpelier
seminary, and for a number of years
presiding elder of Montpelier district.
Mr.. Davenport has numerous friends
and acquaintance in this section who
will watch his career with interest. He
takes up the editorial pen after wide
experience with men and affairs, and is
well equipped to give the Telegram able
and vigorous editorial management
Former Editor H. G. Whitaker has for
seven years published a creditable paper
under adverse conditions and passes over
the reins to his successors with the best
wishes of the newspaper fraternity of
state.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-01-15
A Good Story on Mr.. Cross.

The following story about L. Bart
Cross of Montpelier is going the round
of the state press and is worth reprint
ing:
Some years ago Mr.. Cross father, the
late Charles H. Cross, planned trip to
Boston. Bart wished the old gentlemen
made comfortable and so wired ahead to
have the suite of rooms at the fashionable
hotel commonly engaged by himself on his
frequent trips to the Hub assigned to his
father. When the elder Cross arrived
he was very politely ushered up to a
suite whose luxurious apartments made
the frugal old gentleman gasp. AS soon
as he caught his breath he inquired,
"What is the-er-price of these rooms
per day." "Seven-ffty." "Guess you
may give me something a little less ex-
pensive," ventured Mr.. Cross. "Why
these are your sons rooms and he wanted
them given YOU" replied the clerk.
Yes, but he's got rich father;
haven't"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-01-15
The RoweII Case.

George NJ. Rowell, who was arrested
some time ago on a charge of selling
fraudulent insurance policies was released
from Chittenden county Jail last week
upon furnishing bail of 500 in the two
cases against him. Mr.. Rowell secured
bail when first arrested but it was
surrendered the following day and he
has since been in Jail, H. w. Spafford
furnished bail for Mr. Rowell The
cases against Mr.. Rowell are set for
January 90 He absolutely denies all
the charges against him and claims he
was duped by other parties who claimed
they were licensed to sell insurance in
Vermont
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-01-15

Drops from the think tank of H. L.
Hindley preserved on paper in the Lud-
low Tribune office:
Snow and the fragments of New
Years resolutions have been falling
quite freely of late.
Burlington is to have a new opera
house. Build it with steel curtain and
keep bunch lights off the stage.
With the thermometer dallying
around % below, stories of Arctic ex-
ploration rather lose their point and
interest.
1t is matter of some congratulation
that Leon Perham will gaze upon the
interior of prison for the rest of his
natural life, that is, if the pardoning
fiend does not get in his fine work.
The saw-buck has entered the region
of the erstwhile. If ever there was a
boy-killing job it was bucksawing hard
wood. How the knots used to howl,
how the round sticks used to squirm,
how the heavy logs would bind and jam
the saw, and how unspeakably the boys
back did ache!
The Mortified News thinks that
Hiram Atkins would turn in his narrow
GRAVE IL no Soulu ioou VIC unoht pohei
Argus. Well, Hiram probably knows
all about the matter but is taken up with
concerns that fully occupy his active
mind.
What washing is to the girl, sift,
ing cinders is to the boy. A girl just
naturally loathes the greasy, sloppy,
handspring job of cleansing the house
hold crockery three times a day, but OF
course it has to be done. A boy despse'
with the full strength of his vigorous
boyhood the hair-whitening, clothes
spelling, tempertearing episode of the
ash-barrel. Coal is high today, bu
stoves and furnaces are so greatly i'm
proved that very little need now remains
for the ash-sifter and its spirit-breakinl
labor. For all of which the boy SHOULD
give thanks.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-01-15
THE NEWS VALUE OF ADVERTISING.

When you bring new goods into your
store-that is important news to the
people who are apt to need such goods.
When you decide to cut prices on a par
ticular stock of goods-that is real news
to the folks who might not have been
quite induced to purchase these things
at the old price. You should realize that
your store is an actual news center in
these respects; and your advertising
should tell this news without underrat-
ing its Importance to the people.-Fair
Haven Era.
This is fair statement of facts that
every successful advertiser knows are
absolutely true. Every merchant who
will will test the above by systematic
ads. in a good Newspaper will be con-
WINGED that advertising pays. Make
your ads. newsy.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-01-15
Rev. Davenport and his Paper.
1Rellnus Enlla Times

The new management of the Barre
Evening Telegram had something to say
Saturday. 1t was announced that the
paper had been purchased by syndi-
cate of Barre business men and that a
new press and new type would be pro-
vided. The paper will be Independent
in politics and will oppose licensing the
liquor traffic. Regarding the liquor
question it says:
"On the subject of license the paper
will at all times, without fear or favor,
take the ground that the licensing of the
traffic in Intoxicating drinks is forever
wrong from an ethical standpoint and
forever fatal from practical standpoint.
With the coming March election in view,
facts and arguments will be given from
time to time and an effort made to fairly
and squarely meet the gage of battle
thrown down by the other side. Con-
ceding that our opponents may be just
as honest as ourselves and that they
have Just as good right to their opin-
ion as we to ours, we shall answering
ly maintain that total abstinence from
intoXicants as beverage is the only safe
rule of practice for the individual, and
that supreme task before the temper.
ance workers in the immediate future is
the securing of an intelligent adherence
by increasing thousands, to the platform
of abstinence, so that the saloons, which
are evil and only evil in their influence
may, if not legisated out of existance
ultimately close, perforce, for lack OF
patrons"
This is a most sensible view. 1t has
never been possible to legislate saloons
out of existence, and we fear it will be &
long while before education will close
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-01-15
State After Fire Traps.

The State authorities do not intend
that lives shall be lost in Vermont
through failure of theatres, ,halls, hotels,
etc, to comply with laws regulating fire
escapes, etc. DR.. H. d. Holton, secre-
tary of the State board of health, has
sent the following circular letter to each
local board of health in Vermont:
Gentemen:-Your- attention is called
to sections 4701, 4702, 4703 and 4704 of
the revised laws. You will examine all
hotels, public halls, places of amusement,
factories, mills, workshops or other
buildings coming under the provisions of
these sections and see that they are not
only provided with fire escapes as re-
quired by law. but that such ladders or
other means of exit from such buildings
are in perfect working order. That the
janitors and other persons connected
with the care of such buildings are famil.
lar with the way by which they can be
reached. That all passageways are free
from membranes. That during the
hours of day or night when such build.
ings are occupied, the doors or openings
open out from the rooms. and that the
means of exit are so arranged that they
can be readily."opened from the inside by
any person.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-01-15
BEAN MURDER CASE.
Evidence Produced I'm Windsor County
Court.


Court.
Following DR.. w. d. Huntington came
Mrs. Victoria Huntley, wife of Albert
Huntley, in the case of State VS.. Joseph
Bean on the charge of the murder of
Ephraim Root, in Rochester, October 12,
1908. Her testimony was largely as to
statements she had heard the respondent
make in regard to Mrs. Green and Eph-
ram Root. The respondent told witness
that detectives were watching those two.
He also said, Il heard Mrs. Wiley had
couple of detectives swatching Eph Root
and Mrs. Green, and the first thing we
shall hear there will be one of them
killed."
Further, he said he had asked Mrs.
Green why she did not send Eph. i Root
away and that shel replied that Eph.
Root had always been dog for every
body and that she would not turn him
out for anyone; that he-Bean-said to
her, "He Root has been good dog for
you" Bean also said to the witness, 81
should hate awfully to be. in Mr.. Roots
boots. l expect there will be some
trouble" The respondent at another
time told the witness that if Eph Root
did not stay there at Green's, that re
| Beam should be there.
The day of the killing the witness and
her husband were moving from Roches-
ter to Pittsford, and had to pass the
John Green house on the way. They
stopped to see if they could get their
horse fed. Mrs. Huntley got out of the
wagon and went to the Green house.
In response to her knock the door was
opened 10y Joseph Bean. Mrs Huntey
inquired for Mrs. Green and Bean said
she was sick abed. The witness said she
would go up and see Mrs. Green. She
did so and found her partly dressed and
lying on the bed, crying. Some slight
conversation was had and the witness
left the house and she and her husband
at once started away in their wagon
No one was at home and the Huntley.
did not wait to feed their horse.
The witness was sharply cross exam
med by Mr.. Maloney She admitted
that her husband and Joe Bean had haC
some trouble.
Albert Huntley corroborated the last
part of the testimony of his wife.
Joseph Cropo and his wife told about
a certain Saturday night when Joe Bear
came to their house before the killing OF
Root. Bean left his team and borrowing
lantern went away saying he haC
dropped his horse blanket somewhere or
the road. He returned in about an hou
and half, but had no blanket. Til,
, Cropos live in the neighborhood.
Leroy Simons testified that Bean cam,
to hire him and young Louis Carter t.
, 90 and watch Mrs. Green and Root
but the boys would not undertake thu
job.
Boney Martell told of the importunitie
of Bean that he, the witness, should xii
Root. Bean said that root had gottel
Beams home away from him. for Green
was the only home he, Bean, had, ant
that he should be there now if it wer
not for Eph. Root. Bean told the wit
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-01-15
Deer Hunters VS. Farmers.


There are two parties in the argument,
deer-hunters and property holders. The
former desire the deer protected at all
hazards and are not at all concerned
whose property is overrun or destroyed.
The latter as a class are not unreason-
able, but insist that their property rights
shall be respected, all of wnich is
eminently proper.
Ludlow and vicinity is the heart of
the deer district. Each year more deer
are killed in this and adjoining towns
than in any similar territory in Yer
mont. Hunters come from near and far,
scour our forest and uplands. leave some
money with our friends and carry away,
now and then, deer, which is a desir
able condition of things.
The trouble does not arise, however,
from the open season wholly, although
measures of restriction are desirable at
that time. Farmers claim that the deer
now belong to the state, that the state
does not feed them and that they must
live off the farmer.
"Who feeds the DEER" asked farmer
of the Tribune's editor. is it the state
of Vermont, or is it us fellows who own
farms in the deer country? The deer
must live. Who supports him. And
yet the law says that no one must shoot
a deer in the close season, under severe
penalties, and the animals are maintain
ed as wards of the state, every farmer
in the deer county being taxed, so to
speak, to feed these wards.
What the farmers in Plymouth and
elsewhere want and what they are going
to get is compensation for deer damages.
There have been exaggerated descrip-
tions of how deer descend in a body on
farm and garden, and lay it waste in a
night, how they mix with the cattle and
rob them of their food, etc, but it is a
fact that deer do accomplish some
damage, that they annoy and aggravate
the farmers and that they are in
creasing fully as fast as they are being
slaughtered. What follows?
Let hunters from outside the state be
licensed. Give the wardens more power
and give us more wardens in the shoot
ing season. Let the state bear the ad
ditional expense, which ought to be
more than provided for by license fees
Follow up and punish the doe-shooters
Let the annual slaughter continue, but
let it be regulated with something like
the care that is exercised on the private
shooting preserves of rich sportsmen
Vermont owns the deer. Let Vermont
take care of them.
Then compensate the farmers if theil
crops are damaged. Empower towr
clerks to draw orders for the damage, OF
satisfactory proof thereof, the amount
to be determined by the selectmen. Pay
the farmers in their own towns, pay
them freely, then collect the lump sun
from the state. This is common justice
nothing more, and much more practi
cal way of handling the question than by
permitting the farmers to shoot damage
doing deer at all times, which would
practically nullify the law.
The Tribune's solution of the matte
is, then, full and final protection for the
deer, full and free compensation for thu
farmer