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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-21

Progress Slow chaa, iIeilborn. who
has been visiting In San Francisco dur
ius the past week, returned TO THIS clty
yoatorday. iIo reports the industrial
situation In this southern metropolis
AZ Hull ,ilsorgnnizrd by the great di1-
ap,er uf last year, ana tho progroas OF
tho city IN slow
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-21

More Bee Stands--O. l. Peterson, yes
terday hauled dozen new bee stand;
from this city to his Lewis & CLARK
farm to eke out the other forty he now
has in service there.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-21
Dorcas Society Entertained

Dorcas Society Entertained The
Dorcas. Society of the First Lutheran
Church will be entertained at the home
of Miss Dora Larson of Uppertown. A
musical program and refreshments will
be the order of the evening. Members
and friends are invited to be present.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-21

Lumber Inspector Here-A. M. Ha-
gen, Chief Inspector of the Bureau OF
Grades established by the Oregon and
washington Lumber Manufacturers
Association Is in this city on business
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-21

Gold Fish-Have you seen the beau
tiful gold fish in the windows OF Hi
debrand & Cor? Look them up. Fan
Tails, IS cents; straights, rs cents
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-21

Celebrate Washington's Birthday
Exercises will be held in the various
rooms of the public schools Thursday
afternoon to mark the anniversary Of
George Washingtons birthday. No
classes will be held on Friday.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-21

For Fine Watch and clock repairing
go to Frank ]. Donnerberg. the re-
liable jcwelor. III lib St
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-21

Tho very best board 10 bs obtained
I'm tho city In at The Occidcnt Hotel "
Rates very reasonable
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-21

orkwik has received n sample Of the
National bicycle for the senson Of
1907.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-21
IERSE TALES OF THE TOWN
Morning Antorian. 90 cents n month.
delivered by carrier.

Go 10 A. o. Craig for your tents.
awnings and aii kinds OF canvas w9rh
i.,h and Exchange. u
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-21

J. A. GiIbauoh d. Company, Under
takers. b4e Duane street. corner Of
Twelfth. II
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-21

Dell u. Scuily, Notary Public At
'cully's Cigar Store. Any old hour
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-21
ASTORIA IS A GAME
LOSER

PORT OF COLUMBIA" BILL FAXED
..THRoUoH LEGISLATURE YES.
TERDAY BAD FAITH SHOWN AT
EVERY TURN FUTURE ACTION
PRoBL EMATicAL.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12
DROWNED NEAR NEW YORK A DAYS FATALITIES Four Newark Men Lose Lives as Launch
 Capsizes.

New York, Aug. 11.-Eleven drown ings were reported in the immediate vicinity of New York to-day,
 Four Newark men were drowned by the sinking of launch in which they were sailing in Raritan bay, off Port Monmouth, N. J., late to-day. Seven other men who were in the launch were saved by passing sail boat. The drowned were Charles Guehther, Gustav Mezer, Charles Weber and a man named Schieber. The bodies of the first two named were recovered. Following a slight leak in the launch Captain Guenther had started the bilge pump when sud- denly the crank of the engine struck the reach of the pump and drove the pump through the bottom of the boat tearing out plank. The boat began to sink and the eleven men jumped overheard.
 Thomas Moracho, eighteen years old and his brother Tony, twelve years old, of New York, were drowned while in bathing at Coney Island tonight. The elder boys body was recovered.
 George Clement, twenty years old, of Hackensack, N. J., was drowned by the Upsetting of a boat from which he and a friend were fishing in the Hackensack river The friend who was a good swimmer. tried to rescue Clement but was unable to drag him to shore.
 Michael Cesuli of Newark N. J., was taken with cramps while bathing off Oriental Point, Sheepshead Bay, and was drowned before help could reach him.
 George Flynn, fourteen years old, of Brooklyn, while bathing in Jamaica Bay, off Rockaway Point, got beyond his depth and was drowned, his com rades being unable to save him. His body was recovered.
 John Kelly, nineteen years old, was drowned in the Harlem river off Two Hundred and Thirty-fir street Kel- ly's companions say that men standing on the river bank within few feet of the drowning boy made no effort to rescue him.
 Peter Goodrich, a wealthy retired mason and builder, and lieutenant of the Yonkers branch of the United States Volunteers Life-Saving corps, was drowned in the Hudson river at Yonkers while diving for the body of Thomas Ferguson, a small boy, who lost his life there on Saturday night.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12
CHAMPION BACK
 WITH BROOKS BODY
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traces of cyadnide of potassium was found on the dresser and the man had been dead for several hours With the body was the letter to Mir, Champion.
 There Is much favorable comment for the way MT. Champion has treated the whole case, bringing back the man af~ ter he had robbed hiw and providing decent burial. He believes that unless the man had been demented he would never have gone away. Mrs. Champion says in regard to the letter:
 q was never more friendly with Brooks than his position at my kennels demanded. Naturally I feel somewhat upset to learn that he has killed him self. It Is inconceivable that he should write a letter to me such as the papers say he did, and perhaps the missive was meant for some one else. Certain ly he has had no occasion to reproach me for my conduct either toward him or any one else. 1 think he must have been crazy"
 The letter which was found with Brooks dead body follows:
 Dear Minnie; As things are going there is no use in staying to be with you. When I am gone, all I ask is to sometimes think of me. You may then wish that you had been different to- ward me. As long as you can go and have a good time. that Is all that you care. It won't be very hard for you to forget me, as your friends can take up your lime. have been different man with what thought was your love, but you cannot love me, as you claim tc be so happy away from me. If I say anything, all I hear is: T have got tc do it. Perhaps some time in the future you may want good time and honest | love, but then it will be for someone else, for in twenty-four hours after leave you, I swear you will hear ot some one more unhappy passing away q certainly can't stand 1t any more I am cross and sick and nearly crazy Give Frank anything of my things he wants, as what I take with me I shall send to mother. ARTHUR"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12
MahIer Coming Here,

Vienna, Aug. 11.-Gustav Mahler, the famous director of the Vienna Imperial opera house, will introduce himself in a few months to the musical public of America, manager Conried having en- gagged him as musical director for the Metropolitan opera house of New York The prospective departure of Herr Mahler has created a distinct sensation in musical circles, since he has estab- lished a reputation for surpassing gen. ihs, unknown in Vienna before.
 The exact time of Herr Mahler's de- parture for America is not yet fixed One of the first requirements is to ob- tain a formal discharge from his post as director of the Imperial opera house This position makes him an officer un- der the civil service of the state and requires official discharge.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12
THINK THEY WERE FOOLISH TOACCEPT COMPROMISE Men in First Four Years Will Get Less Than
 Formerly.

Waterbury, Aug. 1.-The conductors and motormen of this city are not so sure as they were as to how much they will profit by the new schedule of pay and new set of regulations an- nounced to them by General Manager Punderford of the Connecticut com pany The members of the new union at their meeting Thursday night voted to accept the terms offered by the troll ley company, but it transpires that the vote was by no means unanimous and some of the men nov are sure that in adopting the new agreement they made an error
 There were some things in the troll ley corporation's compromise, as pre- sonted to the men Thursday night by National Organizer Orr, which excited discussion at the time, and which a number of the men now say are 'jok- ers'' worthy of a wicked legislature. In the first place, the new scale of wages as announced means an increase in pay only for men who have served the company four years or longer. It provides a rate of only 20 cents an hour for flrst-year men, while they have been receiving 2015 under the old system of rates. And the new sched- ule, 1t is said, will also have the ef- feet of reduction in the pay of sec ond, third and fourth-year men.
 The new agreement also stipulates that regular men breaking in new men shall receive only their usual pay. This clause has nothing to recommend it to the trolleymen, as it takes away the fee they have received heretofore for breaking in This fee amounted to 25 cents for each time a regular man was called upon to instruct a green hand in the mysteries of the controller, the bell-rope and the fare- register
 The Bridgeport trolleymen have de- handed flat rate of 27 cents, and the Bridgeport union has voted to reject the compromise offered by the trolley company.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12
SACRIFICED FOR
 FOREIGN TRADE
(Con'tinued from First Page.)


 
 ent prices on the same grade of oil in different localities, and 1t actually takes advantage of that position. In locaM- ties where the Standard has no compe- tition, 1t exacts immensely higher pric- es for it's products than it charge in localities where it is obliged to meet competition.
 It is shown in the report that seven mills per gallon on Illuminating oil, af- fords profit of about ten per cent, on the investment in refining and market ing the oil. But the actual differences in the Standards prices among compe- titive and non-competitive towns and areas" says Commissioner Smith, "of- ten amounts to several cents per gal lon. A combination which can com mand the profits that these figures dm- ply, over large areas, has therefore ob- viously attempted weapon when it en- tefs on aggressive price cutting against independent concerns.
 r The report adverts to a striking" instance of this divergence in the prices of the same grade of oil in Cali fornia, where the Standard carries oil from it's refineries near San Francisco several hundred miles by water and rail to Southern California and there sells it for several cents a gallon less than it charges for it in San Francis co. Commissioner Smith declares that the evidence lis absolutely conclusive" [" that the Standard takes full advantage of all non-competitiye conditions to impose the highest prices possible and it uses similar means to drive from the competitive field all would-be IT. vals for business.
 Some astonishing statements, too, are made regarding the methods pursued by the Standard toward various rail- roads of the country in supplying to them their necessary lubricating oils Some lines which have shown a dis position and have the power to com
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12

striking telegraphers held in Brande hall this afternoon.
 Several persons were unable to gain admiptance to the building So great was the enthusiasm in calling out a crowd. The order of railway telegraphers was represented by National Secretary Quick who informed the strikers that his organization was at their disposal, both morally and financially
 We have $1,OOO,0OO in our treasury" !" said he, land 1t Is at your disposal. Your fight Is our fight and we will stand for you until the end"
 Before the mass meeting 320 union telegraphers employed by companies using leased wires held 8 meeting. At this gathering operators for brokers, news agencies and commercial organi- cations including the stockyards pack ing houses were represented. A reso- lution was adopted declaring that this class of labor was underpaid and that the various firms would be asked to sign a wage scale and also to employ none but union telegraphers. It was decided to let the private wire men prepare and present their own sched- ule at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, asking for a minimum wage of $3O a week.
 The men employed by the press asso- citations presented their requests at 7:30 o'clock tonight, giving employers 24 hours to comply with the request.
 The schedule calls for $S5 a week for six nights week and 70 cents an hour overtime for night operators, hours to constitute a nights work with half an hour for lunch. Operators employed by news associations and newspapers for day work ask for $30 a week and 60 cents an hour overtime, hours to constitute a days work and the regular lunch hour.
 The Western Union operators at Att lanta, Ga, Charleston, S. C., and Tex arkana, Ark, went out to-day. The Washington and Boston locals. decided not to strike at the present time,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12
BROKE AGREEMENT
Head of Telegraphers Gives Reason for
 Strike,

San Francisco, Aug 11.-President S. J. Small of the telegraphers union to- day gave out correspondence between himself and Labor Commissioner Neill in regard to the strike of the opera tors. Mir. Neill telegraphed Mir Small asking what the precise trouble was and asking him, If the strikes already called had been without authority and so illegal, what guarantee could Mir. Nell give that any adjustment would seem satisfactory to the men on strike. He says that he is willing to do any thing in his power. The reply of MT. Small says that the present trouble is caused by the repudiatidn of the San Francisco agreement and that the ofic- lals there have repeatedly discriminate ed against strikers. He says he can guarantee immediate resumption of work if government will insist upon in- vestigation of conditions. Otherwise he will authorize a strike Tuesday.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12
EXCFLs DREADNOUGHT
Reported Capacity of New British Ves-
 sel Agitates Washington.

Washington, Aug. 11.-Naval cir cles are agltated over a report that the British admiralty is about to lay down the keel of giant ship 50 per cent greater in tonnage than the Dreadnought. It is difficult to secure any information respecting the plans for this ship, and 1t is said that the British government will again, as in the case of the DreadnQught, build the vessel behind closed gates. It is un- derstood that the new ship is to be of 30,000 tons displacement, against 20,- 000 tons of the Dreadnought The design is also believed to include many novelties.
 The report of the British plan has caused American ship designers to propose the laying down of a battle- ship of 40, 600 tons displacement, plac- ing the American navy clearly in the lead. Such a ship would cost S20,- GOO, ,000, but, in view of the predom- finance 1t would give to America as a naval power, 1t is argued, 1t would be an economical investment by tending to insure peace.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12
ASK PASTOR TO RESIGN.
Andover Reverend on the Outs with
 Wife and Son.

Because his wife and son had decid- CT not to have anything to do with him, and because his nelghbors and fellow church members made 1t their business to talk about the fact. the Congrega- tional church, at Andover. this state has asked its pastor, the Rev. William M Weeks, for his resignation, inasmuch as his domestic affairs were bringing about public scandal.
 The troubleis said to have started sometime ago, through the pastor ob- tecting to his wife giving music les sons, whereby she could make @ little money over her husbands salary of $500. It eliminated when his son, who is an instructor in a New York Athletic club, came home for a visit, and the father objected to the son and mother playing the piano at all, or sitting up to talk after 9 o'clcck.
 Father and son finally becoming in- volved in heated argument. Mrs Weeks ran screaming from tho house. A member of the church committes was near by and ran in, 1t Is said just in time to hear the pastor threaten to hit his son with rock, the son passing back the remark that it would not be the first time that the clergyman had thrown things, A church meeting was held and it was voted 70 ask for the immediate resignation Of the pastor
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12

pound their own lubricants obtain fa- vorable rates from the Standard, but from all, other roads the highest prices are exacted, An animation of the req son why the railroads are willing to pay the high prices demanded by the Standard when they might obtain their supply at considerably lower rates frcm independent concerns is con- tained in Commissioner Smiths state ment thst the reasons are entirely apart from the matter of fabrication. |"
 Commissioner Smith expresses his belief that he has made clear in this report .'the obnoxious policy of the standardis price policy" and that he
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12

has shown that the Standard has mai tained it's monopoly mot by superiori of service and by charging reasonah prices, but by unfair methods of q stroying competition; combinatlI which then uses the power thus ui fairly gained to oppress the pub through wholly -extortionate prices,
 By direction of the president, Co1 missioner Smith says he has withhe from publication at this time soI important evidence of price discrin nation on account of the proceedin which have been instituted by the ga ernment to dissolve the Standard company.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12
SITUATION VERY GRAVE
Outbreak of Yellow Fever at CienfuegoA
 Worse Than Supposed.

Havana, Aug. 1.-The outbreak of yellow fever in the American garrison at Cienfuegos proves to be much gray CT than was at first supposed. Eight additional cases were reported to- day making total of ten thus far. A rigid inspection of the quarters of the men has been made by the hospital corps and the utmost care Is being taken to prevent spread of the dis ease to the remainder of the garrison.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12
PEACE CONFERENCE
Limitation of Armaments sheIved at The Hague,

The Hague,
 The Hague, Aug 1.-The peace conference has now been sitting for eight weeks and the time is appropriate for a review of the work accomplished and of what is likely to be accomplish ed.
 The question which has aroused the greatest interest-that of the limita- ltion of armaments-has been shelved by the present conference, but there Is nothing to prevent 1t coming up for discussion in future conferences. h. deed, the British proposition, which is certain to be unanimously carried, strengthens that proposed by M, Bour- geoise (French) and adopted by the conference in 1899. All the other work of the present lconference may be divided into two
 categories, one composed of technical propositions designated to render war
 more human, and the other of polite
 al propositions involving a principle Intended to prevent international conflicts. In the former category the
 British and German propositions con- | cerning prize courts, although the
 first to be presented to the conference,
 have not made the progress that they
 were expected to make from the un- ! Iderstanding reached between the two lschemes, as the small powers object to , the expense of a permanent court,
 which would only exercise it's func-
 tions during war. In this category the
 United States had only one proposi-
 tion to offer, that regarding the bom-
 bardment of undefended towns, vll- llages, etc, which were approved unan-
 imously. The only other propositions
 of this category which was approved
 unanimously was the adoption of the
 Geneva convention to sea warfare.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12
1907 MAN AN EDITOR
Fred. D. Abrams Takes Charge of oIean
 Herald.

Fred Davis Abrams. who graduated from the academic department of Yale this June, has been appointed editor of the 0lean Herald. Mfr Abrams has lived in Olean all his life. and his father, who Is a rrominent rral estate dealer there, Is a member of President Roose- velt's walking club,
 While in Yale, during his senior year, Mir Abrams did newspaper work in this city. and was well known as a dra- matic critic. The Herald is an even ing paper and is the leading paper in Clean.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12
DROWNED IN THE PEaUABucK.
Boys of 14 and 0 Were Playing on q
 Raft When ft TJnaef

Boys of 14 and 0 Were Playing on .
 Raft When It Upset.
 Charles and William Grancet. four teen and nine years old respectively. were drowned in the Pequabuck river near the railroad station in Plainville Saturday, and their bodies were later recovered.
 The boys were playing on a raft in company with Willie Kingsbury, twelve years old, when 1t upset, throwing the three boys in the river. The Klngsbury boy managed to reach the bank, but the brothers sank almost immediately, The accident occurred within fifteen feet of the bank of the river
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12
Bebr and Haxton Home.

New York, Aug. tt.-H R. Haxton the oarsman and Karl Behr. the tennis s.player, arrived here to-day on the
 -0er Etruria from Liverpool.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12
MOORS SLOWLY
 MOVING BACK

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New-York tribune., 1907-10-06
Watching the Monster

WIATtH the monster ur~lipped from It's
w tube and leaplng IN eager p4rabOia into
the sea It. discharge = recorded IL q book,
where Is kept the record ot that particular
weapon. precisely as though i was q human
servant oi the State Il has scarcely plunged
lts blunt nose into the swell before II takes
HE and begins - trave - th!rtv-tive mile ~
hour diving and rt~iug Ike d porpoi~c and
steered with eXgu,- ire delicacy Try IL spinning
CyroScope. Ir7:e. 1rs pro -pectlve victim az
eighteen thou-and-ton fortress Of steel. is
keeping q keen lookout. or !; II Is night j.
sweeping the sea with vast bars ot light More
than thl-, he has .et down hey immense cr.Go-
line OF torpedo net intended to STAY he
destructive h-h ere the fatal stroke Is gwen
against her mighty armed hank- ONLY ID lew
years ago Rcar-Admiral a K. Wilson ii the
British navy, invented kind of scissors cut
ter which Is now attached 10 the torpedo
nose, adding q new terror 70 this dread engine
hv enabling i o. cut through the defense nets
and gain the necessary impact.
Every wear the torpedo becomes larger and
suTeT II is deadly purpose. Thus We have
today a twelve hundred pound monster fitted
with turbine engines actuated from an ar
flask nincty-thrce inches long. made TO stand
a pressure of TWENTY-FIVE hundred and iittv
Dounds 10 the square inch This, the latest
and greatcet dIrlg,blc torpedo, : known as the
Bliss -LeavItt and our Government has con
tracted for nearly FIVE hundred of them. They
have already been fully tested both with and
without the War hcaG-WhiCh reminds one
that frequently an old hulk is blown sky high
At a cost ot several thousand dollars, III order
10 test the destructive force Of the full charge
of pcrhaps three hundred pounds Of guncotton.
The new torpedo can te fired from the old
Whitehead tubes, and so exquisitely Is i
constructed that il thousands Ct parts TT
together Ike the works of watch. with
scarcely q Joint visible The tiny she'll con
tains I turbine engine of one hundred and