The Morning Astorian (Astoria, Oregon)
September 3, 1908

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33rd YEAR. NO. 204 GERMANY'S- AniTUDE TOW FRANCE ANGERS FREHCNil Kaiser in Regard to Mo rocco Provokes Trouble HAY PRODUCE CRISIS Recognition of Usurper Mulal Comes Like a Bombshell to All France BRUTAL CHANGE OF FRONT X tht Way Germany'! Actiont U Considered by Frenchman, and the Preat Consider the Incident "Pro vocative" Powera Mar Step In.

PARIS, Sept. 2. -The action of Germany in breaking up the concert of the power with regard to Morocco by notifying the signatories to the Algeciras Act that she considered the actual situation demanded the imme diate recognition of Mulai Hafid, the usurping Sultan of Mocco, hai fallen like a bombshell in Park A felling approaching consternation is mani fested in official circles. The notifica tion, which was made verbally, is not accompanied by any explanation of Germany's "brutal change of front," as it i termed here, and in govern ment circles the action of Germany and the dispatch to Fci of Dr. Vasscl, the German consul at Tangier, can no longer be dissociated. France can see In Germany's action only her intention to disregard the Alaeciras Act and seek a soecial nosi- tion in Morocco for he'rself. The con- sequences both from an international and French standDoint are exoected to be deplorable. In answer to Germany's call for rccotrnit on of Mula Hafid before h has entered into engagements with Europe, fanatical Arabs who had been gathering on the Algerian frontier attacked yesterday the French oost at Boni'dib. The Associated Press is in a posi tion to present the French official view of the situation: Germany's notification came as a complete surprise to France and Spaing who are, engaged in elaborat lug a program of the demands to be presented to Mulal Hand for the safe- plank .being adopted. guarding of the common interests of United States Senator Weldon B. Europe and American in Morocco. Heyburn, of Shoshone. These demands are to be submitted Congressman Thomas R, Hamer, to the signatories of the Algeciras; of .Fremont.;. j Act as 'soonUs'Uhey Xrt presented, Governor James H"T Brady of Ban and Germany was so notified several nock, days ago. Germany took no exeep- Lieutenant-Governor L. H. Sweet tion to this course, and we presumed zcr; of Cassia, that she was entirely satisfied until Secretary of State Robert Lans euddenly there came this crash out of don, of Washington, a blue sky. Auditor S. Taylor, of Bonner. There" was no longer any question Treasurer C. .A,.' Hastings Nez "MOTHER OF FOREST" IS ONLY DAMAGED Fire in Calaveras Forest Be Checked STOCKTON, Cal., Sept, 2. -The fire in the Calaveras forest near the big .Jtrces has gone northward away irom tna lamous grove jinu is now running southerly toward the Stanislaus-river, The fire fighters believe 4 l-ii f win ,iPf.lr if Kfm'A nmrniniT 'The? only big tree attacked was ARDS of upholding Abd EI Aziz, Both France and Spain recognized that he had disappeared definitely from the horizon. What we proposed to do was to force Mulai Hafid to ratify the engagements of his brother, Abd El Ariz, towards recognizing him. Now Germany cornea forward with a proposition to recognize Mulai Hafid before he has given any guarantee. It amounts to undoing the work of the Algeciras conference and" reverting to the status quo ante. The powers must decide between the position of Ger many'and that of France; the position of France we consider to be most loyal to the spirit and letter of the Algeciras Act The French press is unanimous in considering Germany's action provo cative, and possibly productive of an actual crisis. DEFEAT STATE TICKET AT ELEVENTH HOUR REPUBLICANS UPSET ALL CAL CULATIONS AT THE IDAHO STATE CONVENTION. T. HAMER FOR CONGRESSMAN Congressman Frtfnch Who Did Not Have a Candidate at Midnight, is Defeated in Short Order When Hamer is Nominated. NOISE, Sept. 2.-Thc republican ,a,c convention gave Idaho its big cst I'"ure prize when at the 1 1th hour it defeated the state ticket agtigatcd on by him, Brady the. nomi nce for governor. The opposition led by George W. Thompson of Nez Perce county put through a deal that N calculations and defeated the one man who was regarded as having clear sailing. Congressman French did not have a candidate against him until midnight last night. Before daylight the nomination had been made to defeat him, and it did so today. After Hamer had been nominated the opposition to the in surgent slate practically quit. There was a warm fight, strongly backed by Senator Heyburn, against the direct primary plank and it was defeated, 169 to 134. The local option Changes Course and Hay in Short Time "Mother of. The Forest," standing at the north end of the grove and that monster according to information at hand, was not much 'damaged. The tree has been dead for many years, but has long branches which caught fire.' An area of four miles has been, burned over. y ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1003 POISOfi NOT THE CAUSE fj dioh death: Woman Who Was Found Dead, Not Poisoned, Says Chemist OAKLAND, Cal., Sept. 2.-No trace of poison was discovered in the digestive organs of Mrs. Daniel Don ahue of Emeryville, whose dead body was four.d buried in a swamp under a furniture factory last Sunday. The chemist says the absence of poison does not preclude the possibility that the woman met death at the hands of a poisoner, but is firmly convinced that at no time was there poison in her system. I'crcc. Mine Inspector F. C. Moore, Sho shone. Superintendent of Public Instruc tion S. Belle Chamberlain, Presidential Electors Edgar Wil son of Ada, John Lamb of Awyhee, A. A. Crane of Kootenai, DEATH BY LIVE WIRE. WALLACE, Idaho, Sept. 2,-Thos. Woodward, chief electrician of the Nbrthwest Light Power Company was electrocuted today. He ascended a power pole to inspect a wire, lost his baalnce and fell across a wire carrying 2300 volts. Death was in stantaneous. He was a prominent mason, and was married only three weeks, FORAKER SURPRISES JUDGE HFT AT 6. A. I CELEBRATIONS Tremendous Cheer Greets Leader As He Joins the Candidate During Parade NO ILL FEELING BETWEEN THE TWO MEN Foraker Takes Occasion During He and Taft Have Ever Best of TOLEDO, O., Sept. 2. That Taft and Foraker are politically together is not only the public admission of both gentlemen, but also the political sen-) veterans received his attention. Af sation of Ohio. Foraker is the advo-( ter expressing his patriotic sentiment cated candidate for United Spates toward them he brought Senator senator to succeed himself and his i Foraker into the discussion. "Your services in the national campaign have been sought by Hitchcock and For- aker has promised to take the stump, Judge Taft did not have the least in-j timation when he left Middle Bass Island this morning, that he was to meet Foraker, but the city of Topeka seemed to know all about it and when few minutes after Taft had taken his position on the stand to review the G. A, R. parade, a carriage which headed the procession stopped in front of the stand and discharged its passengers amid a tremendous shout as the thousands in sight of the re viewing stand caught sight of the senior senator and coIIeaEiie. Sena tor Dick, Governor Harris and Mayor Whitlock also alighting from the car riage. Foraker was the last of the little, party' to reach Taft's side. They greeted each other cordially amid a mighty shout of the crowd and then the roar of cheers. The two sat to gether, and conversed earnestly for more than an hour, incidentally to gether receiving the plaudits of the marching veterans. Foraker left to keep a business engagement, Taft re- s t in the afternoon Taft and Foraker again met at the Lycem theatre where there was to be some speech-making, The crowd expressed their approval T COI'FIHE I.lllL0VNIit Judge Wolverton Gives Decision Dropping the Penalty PORTLAND, Sept 2,-Contending that the United States district attor ney was not warranted by law in at tempting to collect f 1000 from the estate of the late United States Sena tor John H. Mitchell, United States Judge Charles E. Wolverton this morning handed down a decision which vacates the fine imposed on the Senator, July 25, 1905. This action on the part of the court disposes of all matters in which Senator Mitchell was personally concerned and will jiermit the settling of the estate, which has been prevented pending the decision of the federal judge. The late Senator Mitchell was sen tenced to a term, ofr imprisonment and ,the payment of a fine of $1000 as a re sult of his indictment and conviction in the Oregon land fraud cases. The special count cm which he was found guilty was in accepting fees from S. A. D. Puter, leader of the land fraud ring in Oregon, for practicing before the departments. It was proved that Puter gave Mitchell two $1000 bills to expedite the patents on certain lands which were being acquired fraudulently. After the sentence, an appeal was taken to the supreme court by the aged Senator, but before the appeal was decided, Senator Mitchell died. His attorneys then procured an order Speech to Deny the Report That Been Anything But the Friends of the presence of the two and a great burst of cheers rang out. Taft's speech was a witty one and of course the chairman has said that I have filled the office for 20 years almost without a reward. As he did so, Senator Foraker whispered to me that there are some who would accent the honor on the same terms. "It is a pleasure for me to be here with Senator Foraker, because when the Governor of Ohio he gave me my, really first chance, and took a good deal of risk putting a man of 29 on the bench of the superior court of Cincinnati. We are about to enter, or rather we have entered a great oratorical campaign. It is a pleasure j to think we are going to stand in the campaign shoulder to shoulder, with the full strength of the republican party." Taft then went into political argu ment sayihg the real issue is whether the voters of the country will give their endorsement to the Roosevelt policies and deeds of the republican party or turn to the democratic party vith its untried promises. Foraker was introduced a little later with cordiality. He began re- L .l' marks by scoring the press to the ex tent of saying that there came near being a tragedy in his absence, from i the meeting, during the first 10 min- (Continued on page 8) CA10 CHllt! HITCHCOCK TO VISIT TAFI A! HOLE BASS from the court by which the sentence of imprisonment was vacated. The United States district attorney, how ever, sought to collect the fine from the estate. BASEBALL GAMES. National League. Brooklyn 2, Philadelphia 3. Cincinnati 2, Pittsburg 8. Chicago 8, St. Louis 0. American League. Philadelphia 5. New York. 2. Washington 3, Boston 2. Detroit 5, Cleveland 3. Chicago 4, St. Louis 1. Pacific Coast League. Portland 1, Los Angeles 8. Oakland 1, San Francisco 0. Northwest League. Seattle 0, Spokane 3. Tacoma 3, Butte 0. B SLIGHTLY LOWERED VERMONT RESULTS ESTIMAT ED TO SHOW A SIX PER CENT DECREASE. SURPRISING THE LEADERS The Decrease Was Unlooked For Owing to the Many Local Contests and the Heavy Voting at the Poiu. WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, yt, Sept. 2. Complete returns from yes terday's elections in Vermont show the following: George H. Prouty, Republican, for Governor, 45,281 James E. Burke, Democrat, 15953; Quimby S. Backus, Independence League, 1252; Eugene M. Campbell Prohibitionist, 826; J. H. Dunbar, Socialist, 479. .The total vote of all parties 66,747, and Prouty's plurality Burke was 29,376. Although comparisons of this year's vote with the vote of four years ago cannot.be made until the complete vote is received, it is estimated the falling off of the republican vote was somewhat in excess of the reduction of the Democratic vote. The decrease in the Republican vote amounted to 6 per cent, and in the Democratic vote to 3 per cent. The decrease was surprising, in view of the numerous local contests, at which the voting was quite heavy. Political leaders were inclined to look upon the retupns today as indicating that the voters were somewhat apathetic in regard to the national issues, but not to a marked degree. The incoming Legislature will have at least one Democratic Senator, about 30 Democratic Representatives, REP LICAII PLURALITY MYSTERY SURROUNDS SURGEON'S DEATH Dr. Frederick T. Ruslin, a r While Entering His OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 2.-Dr. Fred erick T. Ruslin, one of the most fa mous surgeons in the West, was shot and killed as he was on the point of entering him home this morning at 3 o'clock. There is not a single clue to the murder. 1 Dr. Ruslin had remained out late PRICE FIVE CENTS Conference Expected to Remove Friction SPEAKERS FOR OHIO Committee Promises to Supply Whatever Speakers Are Nec essary in That State TO GET VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN Leaders Decide That Indiana and Ohio Must Both be Worked to the Limit ajid Will Receive Special Attention. CHICAGO. Sept. 2.- Hitchcock, both the republican national man today decided to Indiana and Ohio on his return trip to Xew York. He will leave for In dianapolis tomorrow night and confer with Vice-President Fairbanks Fri day. He will leave the same evening for Toledo, Ohio, and will visit Taft at Middle Bass Island Saturday. The Indiana situation is giving officials of the nation committee some concern that the state must receive special at tention. Fairbanks intends to make a large number of speeches under the auspi ces of the Republican national com mittee. When Hitchcock meets Taft Saturday it is understood that all cause of friction over the manage ment of the campaign in Ohio will be given its fufl quota of funds to de fray the election campaign expenses. and at least six members of the In dependence 'League in ihe lower V'.:' house. Four years ago the House was stood 205 Republicans and 34 Demo over crats, so that the Republican majority of the coming year will be practically unchanged, and will insure the elec tion of a Republican successor to the late Senator Redfield Proctor, prob ably in the person of his son, Gover nor F. D. Proctor. The election of a Democratic mem ber of the State Senate gives the party a representation in that branch of the Legislature for the first time in several years. ALARMING CONDITIONS. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 2-Accord-ing to a report received in this city alarming conditions prevail through out the republic of Honduras which explains the dispatch of the gunboat Bravo to the port of Puerto Cortes by the Mexicon government at the suggestion of the United States. Famous Doctor, Is Shot Home at Omaha for the election returns. His wife was awakened by a pistol shot and rushed downstairs and out on the porch. Dr, Ruslin was sitting in a chair.' "I have been shot," he said, and then lapsed into unconsciousness. He died half an hour later without regaining consciousness. A single pistol ball had entered the abdomen.

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THE MORNING A3TOBIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. THURSDAY, SEPT. i. Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. BELLINGER CO. By mail, per year By carrie-, per month SUBSCRIPTION RATES. WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance ....$7.00 .60 ..$1.50 Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, the postoffice at As toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Orders for the' delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence ..or place of business may be made by postal .card or through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THE WEATHER Oregon Fair. Washington Showers. Idaho Fair in south, showers in the north. TAX-RECEIPT AND BALLOT. probably THE NEW POLICE CHIEF. The farther the appointment of the successor of Police Chief Gammal can be kept from politics, and the closer it can be allied to civic regula tion of the most mandatory sort, is what the people of Astoria are look ing for at the hands of the police commission. They can get no cleaner man than Mr. Gammal; though they may find one who will be more dis tmctively chief in the best sense of that word and title, and who will com mand quick and unquestioned obed ience from his own men and the citi zens that come with the purview of his orders, in the maintenance of the law and the ordinances. I We do not know whom it will be, nor do we care, so long as it is a man that commands the full respect of the community and its confidence as well. There is no post in munici pal affairs that needs backbone and quick action as this one does. Any thing short of that mitigates against the quality of the officer and office and leaves it "up in the air" with the very class that it is maintained to regulate and control. Regulation of the sharpest kind is all that is needed; there is no question of tolerance nor of half-way measures in the prosecu tion of police work, nor do the people want any discriminatin of the sort; all they are asking for is the appoint ment of a man who will make the law respected; this done, all is done that he may do. A CRYING DERELICTION. There is no use attempting to qualify the situation that calls for the exact and permanent establishment of the grades of Astoria. The engineer ing department of the city and the common council might as well go up against this cardinal demand and meet it squarely as to dawdle along further with the incongruities and blunders that are committed con stantly and which the future must remedy. The idea of building great The law in its wide sweep for equal justice, has so devised its mandates on suffrage, as to range the idler, the bum, the non-taxpayer, directly along side the home and business owner and the actual taxpayer, with full and ef fectual rights at the' polls and npon all elective propositions. .This may be the sum of equity, and for the mo ment we pass it by; but there is noth ing in this principle to prevent the taxpayers of Astoria meeting for once on the common ground of safety, in .open convention,' barring every man without his 1908 tax re ceipt, to confer upon, the tax-paying business men who are to be nominat ed for and elected to the municipal offices and commissions in December next; for the time has come to As toria that a clean-cut, purely business administration of her affairs is abso lutely indispensable; and this without regard to, or bearing upon, politics and politicians. She can dispense with as easily as she dispense with some others in this man's town and not know that she has lost anything The matter is under consideration witn some of the leading property owners and if it goes through there will be some charter amendments of fered by petition that will be gladly accepted by the people at large; for be it known, that the Astoria Charter Commission which has been is prac tical existance and session all this year, has not as yet dealt with a single matter of public interest and significance, save the one pet idea of the SEA-WALL. It is time some sort of broad-gauge effort was being made to conserve the larger and gen eral interests. THEIYORLD OF POLITICS BECOMING AGITATED STATE AND NATIONAL AF FAIRS ARE OPENING UP PRECEDENT ELECTIONS AND SIGNS. MIDDLE WEST INDICATIONS Congressional Pointers From Nevada. Nebraska, Michigan, Louisiana and Wisconsin There is Nothing Yet of Certainty. The present swine building on the Oregon State Fair grounds at Salem has a capacity for showing 200 head of fancy porkers, but it is learned that additional room will have to be pro vided for the increased number of porkers that will be on display at the fair during the week commencing September 14, next. Besides the for mer exhibitors, there will be several LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 2.-Rcturns up to this morning at 2 o'clock on Tuesday's prmary election show that three Democratic candidates for gov ernor are running much closer to gether .than expected. James Dahl man, mayor of Omaha, who was look ed upon as low man, is keeping up with Former Congressman Shnllen bergcr and G. W. Berge of Lincoln. Maguire, Democrat, is probably nominated for congress in the first district. The Republicans have re-nominated Congressmen Morris, Boyd and Pollard. Congressman Hitchcock has been renominated by the Demo crats of the first district without op position. The GeneraWemand of the Well-Informed of the World hits always been for a simple, pleasant and efficient liquid laxative remedy of known value; a laxative which physicians could sanction for family use became its com ponent parta are known to them to be wholesome and truly beneficial In effect, acceptable to tho system and gontlo, yet prompt, in action. In supplying that demand with Ita ex cellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies on the merits of the laxative for iU remark- able success. That is one of many reasons why Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna Is given the preference by the Well-informed. To get iU beneficial effects always buy the genuine manufactured by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents per bottle. FINANCIAL THfcsQj i"uwsj I A 8 8 8 8 H LITTLE OVER 3 CENTS A BAY A Small Savings Bank. A Small Savings Account. An Example in Thrift. A Small Fortune. A happy home. THE BANKING SAVINGS ANI) LOAN ASS'C'N, ICS 10th St. ",u h Phone Black 2184 First National Bank of Astoria DETROIT, Sept. 2.-At midnight the Republican nomination for gover nor was still very much in doubt. Michigan's first- primary election for governor and lieutenant .governor re sulted on the Republican side, in an exteremely close contest between Governor Fred M. Warner and Audi tor General J. B. Bradley, the re turns indicating that the winner will have a majority of only two or three thousand votes when the returns from the entire state are completed. Democratic national ticket. He be gan with a defense of unionism and referred to the question of strikes, saying the strike was a weapon of la bor to be used only in cases of ex treme necessity He closed with an eppeal for ev ery man present, regardless of poli tical affiliation, to vote for Bryan. CROOKSTON, Minn., Sept. 2. VV. J. Bryan brought his speech making tour of the northwest to a close last night by a brief address at this place from a platform of his car, J A large crowd had assembled at the' depot to greet him on his arrival. shortly after 10 o'clock. J DIRECTORS Jacob Kamm W. F. McGrecor G. C. Flavei, J. W. Ladd S. S.Gordon Capital .......$100,000 Surplus o5000 Stockholders' Liability 100,000 RNTAtlLIMIIEl) IKmi. J. O. A. BOWLBY, President O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President FRANK PATTON, Ctskler W. GARNER. Assistant CaikJ Astoria Savings Bank CAPITAL AND SURPLUS Transacts a General Banking Buiineit- Elmntta tnd Duane 8ta. FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM. 1227.000 Interest Paid on Tine Deposit Astoria, Ortgea WEDS BANDIT LOVER. Famous Member of Dalton Marries in Oklahoma. Gang TONOPAH, Neb., Sept. l.-When the Democratic state convention as sembled tonight it immediately began aBa to argue over the report of the com mittee on credentials and the fight over this document lasted until mid night, the opponents of Congressman Bartlett trying to defeat him for re- nomination by increasiing Goldtield's delegation. A compromise was ef fected and then the convention took up the platform. An all night ses sion, is planned and nominations for United States Senator, Congressman and Chief Justice will be reached by six o'clock tomorrow morning. CHICAGO, Sept. 2.-A dispatch to the Inter-Ocean from Bartlctsville, Okla., says: Emmet Daltoa and Mrs. Julia Lew is were married here last night. On ly a few months ago Dalton was par doned from the Kansas penitentiary, where he was serving a life sentence! for participation in the raid on thej Coffeyville, Bank, more than 16 years SCANDINAVIAN-A M E R 1,'C A N SAVINGS BANK ASTORIA, OREGON i OUR MOTTO: "Safety 8uprcedti All Other CcuMerathw." Julia Lewis is the widow of Ernest Lewis, who died in a bloody fight with United States Marshals Keeler and AVilliams last November. The romance between Dalton and Julia Lewis began twenty years ago, when the latter was the daughter of "Texas" Johnson, and lived with her parents near the Kansas line, 18 miles north of Bartletsville. She and Dal ton were about the same age and they rode races, practiced shooting with rifles and rode their ponies to dan ces within 30 miles of the Johnson house. While Dalton was hid from the officers, it is aid the girl cooked EWART Electrical Contractors PhoneJMain 3881 426 Bond Street We have just received a new line of The Malleable Range See the difference between it aad others in our HARD WARE WINDOW. new ones three from Washington that Robert C. Wickliffe is leading in with a carload of Berkshires and Po-the race in that district for the nom land Chinas and the exhibit of swine i ination for Congress, lie is nnnnspft --ri NEW ORLEANS, Sept. l.-In the sixth congressional district the re turns received up to a late hour to-, his meals and kept him informed of i night in the Democratic primary show the movement of the pursuers. It was about this time that Dalton was shot while he was raiding the Cof- The Foard Stokes Hardware Co. will certainly surpass any previous at tempt of this kind on the fair grounds. works; of constructing new and prominent commercial houses; of! If the Republicans of Missouri will prosecuting street improvements of l east their full vote they will have the magnitude and startling cost; or of i pleasure of giving the electoral eight doing anything of a permanent and conspicuous character until the datum plane of the city and the grade of its thoroughfares are raised to essential, and feasible, levels, is not only stupid ly wrong, but a menace to the com merce of Astoria and its future pros perity. i The grades south of the A. C. Railway track, along the whole front age are conspicuously low from five to eight feet, at least, to Franklin avenue, and something must be done in this behalf before we can expect anything big and tangible to be done here. It is not yet a month since a certain capitalist was in this city look ing for a site for a wholesale business house that would have involved a block, and who turned his back on Astoria because she had. not, and would not, set up her normal and rightful grades upon which he and his colleagues could do business and have cellar room for the storing of the stocks incideht thereto. And this case will answer the issue of theJ grades just as well as a hundred others; it demonstrates the fact suf ficiently to show that we are standing in our own light by refusing to grap ple with a proposition that is, at last and best, uhescapable. Private interests must not be per mitted to sway this situation aiiy longer; it is too large a question to hang upon the whim or plan or con venience of any one man or group of men. The issue is city-wide and time-wide and it is bad citizenship that urges anything short of the quick and honest fulfilment of this, the largest, and most neglected, task before the city. een of the state to Taft, and of at tending in January the inauguration of Governor Hadley. Let the boom in Taft and Hadley clubs proceed. Venezuela has handed passports to Holland's diplomatic representative at Caracas. Castro is now almost alone in his glory, and may show his Indian blood by scalping the last of the foreign representatives. Refrigerated state rooms are to be added to new steamers in the New Orleans-Carribbean line. When St. Louis gets to be an inland seaport a midsummer run to Panama will be popular. It is only in St. Louis and Kansas City that the state primary made work for the grand juries. By a co incidence, Mr. Cowherd's plurality is similarly located. to George M. Favrot, who now rep resents that district, and Victor M. Lefevbre. In the seventh congressional dis trict Representative A. Jujo and Wil liam Folk are running close, with the former slightly in the lead. Oliver O. Provost is at present leading the other candidates for the one vacancy in the supreme court feyville bank after his brother. j He was sent to the penitentiary and never saw his former sweetheart un til he was released last winter. She wrote to him frequently ana spent a great deal of her time working to gain him a pardon. MILWAUKEE, Sept. l.-Returns from the primary elections through out Wisconsin indicate that United States Senator Isaac Stephenson has received the indorsement of the Re- pany's head offices from H EXTENSION COMPLETED. CHICAGO, Sept. 2.-Thc coast ex tension of the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul Railway now is completed for half the distance across the state of Washington, according to a tele gram received yesterday at the com- B. Wil- Health kidneys filter the impurities from the blood,, and unless they do this good health is impossible. Foley's Kidney Cure makes sound kidneys and will positively cure all forms of kidney and bladder disease. It strengthens the whole system. T. F, Laurin, Owl Drug Store. Good cutlet: is partly in buying: and partly in making; like everything else. Tour grocer return, tonr tamey If jroa deal Vk Schilling'. Beit; w. pay bla. publicans of the state by several thousand plurality over his three op poncnts Samuel A. Cook, Francis G.' McGovern and William Hatton. The Democrats have endorsed Neal Brown of Wausa, over Melvin A. Hoyt of Milwaukee. Governor Jemes O. Davidson re ceived the Republican gubernatiorial nomination and J. A. Aylward has de feated Adolph J. Schmitz to head the Democratic state ticket. Returns from the Eleventh Congressional Dis trict report the defeat of John J. Jenkins, chairman of the ju diciary committee in the House of Representatives for re-nomination by Irvine L. Lenroot of Superior, former speaker of the state Assembly. HELENA, Mont., Sept. 2. It has just been announced here by T. J. Waish who headed the Montana del egation to the national Democratic Convention at Denver, that the mem bers of the delegtion have contributed $1500 to the Bryan campaign fund. There were six members in the dele gation from this state. FORT, WORTH, Tex., .Sept. 2 Sam'uel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, last night opened his campaign for the liams, president of the Chicago, Mil waukee St. Paul Railway of Wash ington. The road is now in operation as" far west as Butte, Mont., and Ida ho trains are being run over a new stretch of track from Plummer to St. Joseph, about 100 miles. Sherman Transfer Co. HENRY SHERMAN, Manager. Hiekf, CniMrBWge Checked and Transferred-Truck, sd Fnnltw THE OEM C. F.WISE. Prop. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars ASTORIA, Corner Eleventh and Commercial OREQOM Cured Hay Fever and Summer Cold. A. J. Nusbaum, Batesville, Indiana, writes: "Last year I suffered for three months with a summer cold so distressing that it interfered with my business. I had many of the symp toms of hay fever, and a doctor's prescription did not reach my case, and I took several medicines which seemed to only aggravate my case. Fortunately I insisted upon having Foley's Honey and Tar in the yellow package, and it quickly cured me. My wife has since used Foley's Honey and Tar with the same success." T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. Sept Official TideTables Compiled by the 17. S. Government for Astoria and Vicinity. 8EPTEMBER, 1908. High Wlater. Date. Tuesday 1 One of the worst features of kidney trouble is that it is an insidious dis ease and before the victim realizes his danger he may have a fatal malady. Take Foley's Kidney Cure at the first sign of trouble as it corrects irregu larities and prevents Bright's Disease and diabetes. T, F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. M Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday SUNDAY Monday Tuesday Wednesday 9 Thursday 10 Friday n Saturday 12 SUNDAY 13 Monday .,..,.,..14 Tuesday 15 Wednesday 16 Thursday 17 Friday 18 Saturday 19 SUNDAY 20J Monday 21 Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Frldav Saturday SUNDAY Monday Tuesday Wednesday ...22 ...23 ...23 ...24 ...25 ...26 ...27 ...28 ...29 ...SO A. M. P. M. h.m.jftnh.mTlft 8:68 60 4:06 8.0 4:60 6.6 4:48 7.9 6:62 6.0 6:89 7.9 7:13 6.7 6:44 7.7 8:45 S.8 7:68 7.8 9:67 6.4 9:12 8.0 10:62 7.0 10:17 8.4 11:88 7.7 11:15 8.8 12:21 8.2 0:09 9.1 12:59 8.7 0:59 9.1 1:88 9.0 1:48 8.9 2:17 8.1 2:37 8.6 2:57 90 8:28 8.0 3:38 8.8 4:23 7.2 4:22 8.6 6:26 6.6 5:12 8.0 :40 6.8 6:10 7.7 8:04 8.2 7:17 7.4 9:18 6.5 8:28 7.3 10:15 6.9 9:83 7.8 10:68 7.3 10:27 7.6 11:83 7.6 11:18 7.8 12:05 8.0 11:58 7.9 12:82 8.2 0:80 8.0 12:68 8.8 1:07 8.0 1:26 8.8 1:43 8.0 1:62 8.4 2:22 7.7 2:21 8.4 3:08 7.4 2:63 6.4 8:48 7.0 8:29 8.2 SEPTEMBER, 1908. Low Water. Date, Tuesday 1 Wednesday 2 Thursday 81 Tiaay 4 aiuroay SUNDAY Monday Tuesday Wednesday mursday .......10 jn-iaay 11 Saturday 12 SUNDAY ......13 Monday ..14 Tuesday 15 Wednesday 16! 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ffllUltSDAY, BEPTw 3 THE MORNING. AiSTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. fill: MMiiEmI ""v ihmmk r fersssaai jrx vvjj j i jl jlv jiav r i Detail Adding egisters $20 $30 at $40 $50 $60 Total Adding o $50 egisters at $75 $100 $125 $150 A New Line of Total R dding egisters WITH DETAIL STRIP for stores at 125 and up. A Cash Register Is a Necessity in Every Business Large or Small This is the best opportunity ever offered for buying a NATIONAL REGISTER, suitable for your requirements, at a LOW PRICE. Investigation costs you nothing and does not mean that you must buy. Let me show you the registers and tell you what it costs to own one. You can then decide whether or not it is good business to dump your money into an open cash drawer, unprotected against loss by CARELESSNESS OR DISHONESTY. AsK the man who uses a NATIONAL Liberal exchange allowed on old reg ister; easy terms if desired. (mimL 1 ,,l i i M a, fi t H General Agent for Oregon Portland Office, No. 70 3rd St.) Will be at Merwyn Hotel, No. 4 Sample Room, buane St, Between 11th and 12th, Sept. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, with samples. WAS A BUTTE WOMAN. Sutipicious Circumstances Surround ing Death Of Belle Gilchrist 'BUTTE, Mont., Sept. 1,-Bclle Gil christ, the victim of the Nome mur der, was a resident of thin city up to throe years ago, when she was a well known matron of the mess of the en gineers, fumncn and bosses of the Anaconda Mining Company. She was about 50 years of age, and pos sessed a small fortune, which was all in personal property, a considerable portion being left In the care of E. G. Smith, a bookkeeper of this city. The Gilchrist woman was prominent in church circles during her residence licre. Shortly after her marriage to Johnston, a miner of prepossessing appearance she left for Alaska. The last letter Smith received in Mrs. Johnston's own handwriting was about 18 months ago. Since then two letters came asking for money in lots of $500 or $600 In each case it being explained that Mrs. Johnston had broken her arm and was dictating the letter to her husband. The money was sent ?wid the drafts came back en dorsed in the handwriting of her hus band. Three months ago, Johnston came here and demanded an accounting of J the money belonging to Mrs. John-; ston. Mr. Smith's suspicions were aroused and he hesitated about tak ing action without papers better than those of power of attorney, j Johnston flew into a wrath and go ing to Smithjs employer, told him that he had papers in his pocket that would send Smith to the penitentiary. Johnston again approached Smith with threats, but the latter told him that he would have nothing further to do with him and Jonston desisted from further attempts to get money and was not seen again. 4 Smith then communicated with Ross Neagel, general passenger agent of the Oregon Railway Navagation Company In Seattle, who investiga ted and found that Johnston was liv ing with a woman other than Belle Gilchrist, who represented herself as Johnston's wife, The officers were then notified and Johnstn's arrest followed. WOMAN'S CONFESSION. COMPETENCE VS. DIPLOMAS. CHICAGO, Sept. 2.-Mcdical free dom and demand that competence ra ther than licenses shall dominate," was the declaration of principles adopted by the Association of Inde pendent Doctors at Its national con vention last night. Chicago was selected as the meet ing place for 1909, and the following officers elected: President, Dr. F. B. Rchman, Youngstown, O; vice-president F. S. Hays, San Antonio, Tex.; secretary treasurer,. Dr. Charles H. McCor mack, Chicago. IS OUT OF DANGER, CHICAGO, Sept. 2. Dr. LaCorio, of the Pasteur institute who has been taking treatment for an infection of rabies obtained by a scratch in his laboratory was reported out of dan last night by members of his family and his associate physicians. Dr. La Gorio was infected 12 days ago. Hypnotyzed, Woman Clears Up Mystery Of Husband's Death. NEW YORK, Sept. l.-Hypnotism and evidence secured by its means from Mrs. Charlotte Hitchcock, who is accused of shooting her husband on November 20 last, figured largely in the testimony yesterday before the lunacy commission. After a dispute among the members of the commis sion, Directors McDonald, Hamilton and Robertson and Albert J Tally, counse for" Mrs. Hitchcock, Judge Foster decided that the woman's mental condition at the present time shouhj be considered as well as her state at the time of the shooting. Dr. 1 1. T. VanGleason testified that he had hypnotized Mrs. Hitchcock in a cell at the Tombs and obtained her first and Only story of the crime. He told, with the use of a small dose of for: maldchyde he had reduced her to a state of sub-consciousness and then when her head was tilted slightly back and rested on a pillow, he had stood behind her while a stenograph er took down her statements. "I went out to get a steak and cook it," Mrs. Hitchcock said, according to VanGleason's testimony.' "Bob came in with some apples and after eating the steak read a magazine. Then he said: "I'm in a hole. There's only one way out. We must cross the river Jordan.' He read to me out of the testament and then said: 'I have ruined our lives.' He made me write on a piece of paper that I was to blame. He got a revolver and shot me three times. I ran into the kit-! Music and Fun Sent on Free Trial pay th. fralffht or r.r t-mph. Olv. EUht HontUa tlm. to W ina enarge no int.rtat. nr. .hi. am MMMifil wttliant Mat dtnalt R&V -r V! .V -L m.,l- i,v.. IWEi inuu on kiivu f. xpreiMft and allow Un Jirir: ft ia htv. th. fairest, uiut and the beat TALKING! MAUM1NIH propo.uioa vor "i""" vy qeciaa II you u navo on. ni on tm oyj .imcu. you tan. bo nmu, ir you ouy oniy rr mm xpen.e to you. tms ame onr na. unn u hundred or others during trie mat moiuu ana ia oyor n I I .k A MA MM A inccance ine t-aioon was itopt in m iiwmw v"V sent baok and there", a reaaoa wnion wui a ml nn ranuAJltni th MIlBOl. Kdlm OUR SPECIAT, OUTFIT NO T ONLT S20.68. f Phaora Dop. 6 Special outfits to fit aay kethookAfC--t.vn fi in ton mall tn isoura a Talk. -V "Jy PIANO lK Machine from Kllera Plaao lu1uf" Hmi.e the larg-et dealers In A JEJ Talking Maohtnes and reoords J? roniana. 0. on the Coast or Nortbwoat iontl8min piaaae aand 40 Store. 1 xrCaulou and parUouian km mm four EdUoa fm Trial Tk PIAWO HO USB, C" WaNHWVMI JW ottar. Addnat chen. My waist was on fire. He helped me put out the fire. Then I crawled back and tried to get the gun but it went off. Bob shot at me again. Then he stood up on the bed and shot himself three times. A dark man and a policeman came in and I told him I had shot Bob. I did it because he had told me to take the blame." Dr. VanGleason said he thought Mrs. Hitchcock was insane at the time of the shooting but was sane now. UNDIGNIFIED DEPARTURE. America's Marathon Winner Slumps Into Vaudeville at Once. NEW YORK, ,Sept. 2.-John J. Hayes, winner of the Marathon race at London Olympic games, is the latest victim of the lure of the foot lights, according to the announce ment made by a local vaudeville com pany. Hayes has signed a contract. it is said, to appear in vaudeville throughout the country, for. a period of 30 weeks, beginning in New York next Monday night. He will tell the story of the Marathon race and will give an exhibition of his style of run ning, using a treadmill for the pun pose. He will carry with him for ad vertising purposes the large bronze trophy which was a prize in the race. A SUMMER DRII Unfennented Grape Juice absolutely non-alcoholic Concord........... ..5oc quart Catawba.... 6oc quart Welch's Grape Juice Nips....... ......10c AMERICAN IMPORTING CO. 589 Commercial Street How To Get Strong. P. J. Daly, of 1247 W. Congress St., Chicago, tells of a way to become strong. J He says: "My mother, who is old and was very feeble, is deriving so much benefit from Electric Bitters, that I feel it's my duty to tell those who need a tonic and strengthening medicine about it. In my mother's case, a marked gain in flesh has re sulted, insomnia has been overcome, and she is steady growing stronger," Electric Bitters quickly remedy stom ach, liver and kidney complaints. Sold under guarantee at Charles Rogers Son's drug store. SOc. How to Avoid Appendicitis. Most victims of. appendicitis are those who are habitually constipated, Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup cures chronic constipation by stimulating the liver and bowels, and restores the natural action of the bowels. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does not 'nau seate or gripe and is mild and pleas ant to take. Refuse sugstitutes. T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store, Fisher Brothers Company SOLE AGENTS Marbour and Finlayson Salmon Twines and Netting McCormick Harvesting Machines Oliver Chilled Ploughs i Sharpies Cream Separators j Raecolith Flooring Storrett's Tools Hardware, Groceries, Ship Chandlery i Tan Bark, Blue Stone, Muriatic Acid, Welch Coal, Tar, Ash Oars, Oak Lumber, Pipe and Fittings, Brass Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass Fishermen's Pure Manilla Rope, Cotton Twine and Sein- Web We Want Yowr-Trode FISHER BROS. BOND STREET John Fox, Pres. F. L. Bishop, See Astoria Savinp Baa, Treaa. Nelson Troyer, Vice-Pres. and Supt ASTORIA IRON WORKS DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF THE LATEST IMPROVED Canning Machinery,; Marine Engines-and Boilers COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS FURNISHED. Correspondence Solicited. Foot of Fearth Itxt

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THE MORNING ASTOIUA'n, ASTORIA, OREGON. Thursday, isrr. 3, f The Store .t,Jr Ladies for ff feA f Women BEE1MIIVE Outfitters MILLINERY FIRST SHOWING OF f ATYII7Q17AT.T. HATS All new stock now in. New Suits a great showing. J X The new Long Coat semi-fitting; in all colors. ST. NICHOLAS 01 HOI DOCK ONCE MORE SECTION OF GRAIN FLEET LEAVES UP THIS MORNING -WATERFRONT ITEMS. At 6 o'clock last evening the bar tug Wallula ranged the American ship St. Nicholas alongside the Kin ney dock with all hands well and happy, after an 18 day passage down from Nusnagak, Alaska, with the season's salmon pack of 51,018 cases in her hold; and she had hardly come within jumping distance ot the pier head before the 200 men on board, all natives or citizens of this city and port were making long and flying leaps ashore, anxious to be again among friends and kinsmen after their four months' sojourn in the far north. The ship represents the interests of the Columbia River Packers' Associa tion, of Astoria, in the salmon indus try as' it is maintained on Bristol Bay; and L. O. Belland, councilman of this city, is the manager of that business up there. He was ashore, accompanied by Mrs. Belland, who was with him in Alaska, this year, and both were cordially welcomed all along the streets en route to their home at the East end. The St. Nicholas sailed from this port on April 16th, last; passed through the Unimak passage on May 10th; and the cannery forces started on fish on the 6th of June, finishing on July 22nd. The ship left out on the 14th of August and reached the Columbia bar on the evening of Tuesday, September 1st. Manager Belland is immensely pleased with the season's work and its results, since he put up more salmon than was ever put up with two lines of machinery in any previous season in those waters. The pack outdoes the 1907 season by just 21,000 cases, or 3000 more than the C. R. P. Asso ciation ever packed before; and 21,- 000 better than was ever put up under the old management of the northern plant. He declares he has been work ing as fine a group" of fishermen as ever served a cannery anywhere, and as for the cannery -force itself, he cannot say enough; the whole sea son's work going forward without hitch, accident, death, or any obtrud ing circumstance of any sort. Both Mr. and Mrs. Belland are ex tremely glad to get back to home and friends and both are in the finest health possible; and their friends are quite as glad to see them back on home ground. Mr. Belland will re sume, his councilmanic duties in due course, and he will find plenty to do, as of old. "Skinch II," the beautiful power craft belonging to Dr. Vaughan and Chester Fox is being gauged and lit ted and made ready for her visit to the Cathlamet Regatta on Saturday next; and she will be the crowning ma rine exhibit in those waters in the matter of model and appointment and, perhaps, of speed also, since she has never yet been tried out. u Messrs. Wilson Bros., the well known shipwrights, have just com pleted.' and are stepping, a new and splendid bow-sprit on the pilot schooner Joseph Pulitzer at the westerly, end of the O. R. N. per, The work will probably be finished today. The spar is a fine specimen of flawless fir. The steamers Harvest Queen- and Oklahama, of the O. R. N. service, arrived down last night and will leave up early this morning with the ships Vigo, Vincennes and Desdamona, on their hawsers, for Portland, whence the square riggers will load out grain for European delivery. The steamer Alliance, Captain 01 sen on the bridge, arrived in from Coos Bay yesterday at noon, and went on to Portland after a brief stay at the Callender dock. She had good passenger list and a cargo full of general merchandise. The fine steamship Rosecrans, with the barge Roderick Dhu, came down the river vesterday afternoon and went to the lower harbor, whence thev will depart on the early flood this morning, for San Francisco. The Nestucca and Astoria liner Delia, Captain Bob Jones on the hridee. left out vesterday for her southern port, well loaded with gen eral cargo. The German ship Aster, 65 days out from Mellijones, Captain Usinger, reached port yesterday, with all hands well and will leave up for the metropolis on the first tow that offers. The steamer Eureka came in yes- tprdav afternoon from the port of that name and stayed a while at the Callender dock before leaving up for Portland. The lighthouse tender Heather went to sea and the Washington coast at noon yesterday for a ten-day cruise, with station supplies. The steamer Homer was an arrival from San .Francisco yesterday, leav ing up for Portland after touching for an hour, at the Callender dock. The steamer Northland deposited 23 tons of fine malt on the Callender pier cbnisgned to the North Pacific brewery. The steamer St. Helens was an other of the San Francisco packet to reach this port yesterday; going on to Portland after a short stay here. i KEEPER FOUND ED GUILTY AS CHARG BUT THE JURY RECOMMENDS MERCY IN CASE OF C. J. BERTLESON. Subscribe to The Morning Astorian. 60 cents per month by carrier. tiittitiintiittitmttmtiiiitnf"t""M' Gome In and Inspect Our New Fall Suits and Millinery Now on Hand Jaloffs, The Style Store 537 Commercial Street 'We, the jury in the above-entitled cause, find the defendant guilty. The" jury recommends the defend ant be granted the extreme mercy of the court." The above verdict was returned by the jury in the case of the citv of storia against C. J. Bertleson, pro prietor of the Warwick saloon on Com mercial street, in police court yester day afternoon. The jury deliberated for only a comparatively short time, but before reaching a verdict they had gone to the Warwick saloon and viewed the wine room which the de fendant was charged with having had open last Thursday night. Judge Anderson imposed a sentence of five days in the city jail or a fine of $10, which was paid. The defend ant had already forfeited $t0 bail money, because he had failed to ap pear in court when the case .was first called, and in addition to this had put up the requisite $6 for a jury trial, thus making his total costs in the mat ter $26. The case attracted much attention and the cqurt room was comfortably filled with auditors yesterday after noon when the trial was commenced Two of the jurymen failed t- up and in their stead were secured T. Cunningham and F. N. Mooers. and these with J. N. Laws, Alex Tagg, Jacob Utzinger and L. E. Howes formed the jury. Police Officer Houghten was the principal witness for the prosecution. He testified that he had seen a wom an and two men enter the rear en trance of the Warwick saloon and fol- owing them in, found them insida one of the wine rooms. They were talking to Lee Herring, the barkeeper. The fact that the wine room was open and the further fact that a woman was inside of it were established be yond a question of doubt, and these facts were even admitted by the dc fense. But the defense offered to explain these facts by adducing extenuating circumstances. The woman who was the wine room testified that she had gone there to use the lavatory The man with her said he was merely chatting with the barkeeper. The de fense, through its attorney, Mr. Cur tis, emphasized the alleged fact that the woman had gone there for a pur pose other than to secure drinks and this apparently had an effect upon the jury, though the mere fact that the woman had sauntered into the place and stepped right into the wine room as if she was very much at home there was taken as an indication by Captain Abercrombic, the city at torney, of direct evidence of guilty mention. Why the woman felt jus tified in freely entering the saloon at all was not explained, as she testified that before the ordinance went into effect prohibiting the wine rooms, she ad frequently been in the place, and ence she knew all about the ordi nance and the fact that the wine rooms were presumed to be closed. It was alleged, however, that this time no effort was made to buy drinks andthe further fact was brought out that the proprietor himself did not even know of the presence of the party in the wine room. Considerable comment was caused the fact that the defense asked that the jury go to the saloon to view the wine room. That what the jury saw influenced their verdict was tak en to be true by many who followed the case, and it is presumed not to have strengthened the defendant's case. Police officers look upon the decis ion as a victory for them, and had the jury held differently it was freely pre dicted that in the future it would be difficult matter to get "an officer to make an arrest in such a case. A warrant has been issued from ustice Goodman's court against Mr. Bertleson, the Warwick's proprietor, harging him with having drawn a revolver upon Officer Houghten at PROPERTY OWNERS ASK CITY TO HELP PETITION FILED ASKING FOR SOME IMMEDIATE ACTION ON IRVING AVE. SLIDE. D. 11. Welch and six others filed a remostrariee with the city auditor yes terday afternoon in relation to the Irving avenue fill. The c,omnuinica tion calls upon the common 'council to take some immediate action in the matter to save the homes and other property of the remonstrants from injury, which, it is alleged, follows as a direct result of the improvement made on Irving avenue. Not a single thing has been done in the matter thus far by the city authorities, though the grave condi tions were pointed out and empha sized at the last meeting of the coun cil. The hill has settled slowly but surely during the past week, and the houses that front on Scow Bay are menaced with serious injury. One of by them, the little home belonging to Mr. Holton, who is one of the pcti tioners of yesterday, is in bad shape It is twisted all awry, and Mr. Hoi ton has found it necessary to pull down a veranda and a small addition to the house. Several other houses are also quite badlyv affected. The sinking up on the avenue at the bad place is now very marked, as the ground has sunk many feet. Hereto fore it was thought that the sliding was encompassed within the confines of the block between Eighteen and Nineteenth streets, but it is now said by gentlemen familiar with the situa tion that there is a tendency to slide, at least, that extends also between Nineteenth and Twentieth, though this falling away is not immediately contiguous to the avenue itself. From the first it has been Council man StangelandS idea that the mat ter would never be whplly solved unless the entire, hillside be cut down and a great fill be made in Scow bay, out to Franklin street. City Engineer Tee also urges this as the only pos sible solution. D. H. Welch, one of the remonstrators of yesterday, said then that such a plan should be car ried out, but he believes the filling should be clear out to Exchange street, and hence it appears as if all those interested in the problem are now virtually agreed upon what should be done. But City Attorney Abercrombic has pointed out that while this plan is an excellent one, nevertheless it is not clear how the city can aid in any such a plan, as the city has no warrant in performing work on merely private land. Hence it would appear as if the private property owners would have to do, this work, but they object to having the entire burden fall upon their shoulders and say the city should aid inasmuch as the whole trouble has been caused to their priv ate property as a result of the public Improvements on Irving avnuc. If the city were to step in and incur ex penses out of the general fund it is feared the precedent would be a very bad one, for then every time there was trouble with a bit of sliding ground the owners would be calling upon the city' to help. CRAWFORD PEACHES...; FOR CANNING Fresh shipments arriving daily. Leave your order with us and you will get satisfaction. Acme Grocery Co. HIGH GRADE GROCERIE8 521 COMMERCIAL STREET PHONE 681 UNDER DRUG INFLUENCE. Commission Expected To So Report In Mrs. Hitchcock'i Cue. 0OOD WOOD. NEW YORK, Sept. 2.-Mcmbcrs of the commission appointed by Judge Foster of the Court of Gener al Sessions to Inquire into the sanity of Mrs. Charlotte Hitchcock, accused of killing her husband and shooting herself last November, have comple ted and signed their report, which will be submitted to the court today, While none of the commissioners would reveal the nature of the report it is understood it would be declared Mrs. Hitchcock was under the influ ence of the opium at the time of the shooting to an extent that she was rendered almost unaware of what was going on. but that she is now sane. In making its report the commis sion decided not to use the evidence of Dr. VanGicson, who declared he had hypnotized the woman and while she was in that condition, obtained! from her a statement that her hus band and not herself had done the shooting. The decision was based, it it learned, not on any desire to dis credit Dr. VanGieson's testimony or to challenge his right to speak with authority on the subject of hypno tism, but because his disclosures did not, in the commission's estimation, !iave any bearing on the question of Mrs. Hitchcock's sanity, which was the sole subject of inquiry. If you want good load of fir wood or bos wood ring up KELLY tht WOOD DEALER, Th. man who keeps tht PRICES DOWN. Phona Mala 2191 Barn, Cor, l2tb and Doana. Tht very best board to be obtained in the city is at "Tht Occident Hotel." Rates very reasonable. Protect Your Valuables. We have steel safety deposit boxea placed in fireproof vault, for rent ,You keep your own key, and hsvt easy access to your valuable papers and other things valuable. Scandinavian-American Savinge Bank. AMUSEMENTS. ..Astoria Theatre.. OLDEST OFFICE BOY. Samuel Brackett Of Trenton, Was 89 Yesterday. N. J., NEW YORK, Sept. 2.-Without any special observance to mark the occasion, Samuel Brackett, of Tren ton, N. J., said to be the oldest of fice boy in the world, is 89 years of age today. He is employed in the office of the Anvil Works in that city, owned by Mr. S. Clark Fisher and he known as an "heirloom" of the family, having ben in its employ the ast 69 years. He now occupies the ame position he did when he first went to work. "Strict attention to business is the way to success in this world," Brack ett said yesterday. That is why I id not want a lot of fuss made over birthday. A number of my personal friends wanted to arrange a big cele bration but I was afraid it would take my mind and too much of my time from my office duties." the time of making the arrest. Subscribe to The Morning Astoria TEA If the tea is good you ask for a second cup; if not, you ask for the money. Tear trocer return roar mautt if ioi doo'l k. ScUlliinf'i Beits r pj him. NEW TO-DAY All Things Modern. "The Modern," the beautiful ton- sorial establishment of Arthur E. Petersen, at 572 Commercial street in this city, is unquestionably the real resort for the most perfect treatment in this behalf, and the most critical finds nothing to criticize there, how soever often he visits the place. The Palace Restaurant Any phase of hunger can be daintily gratified at any hour of the day or night at the Palace Restaurant. The kitchen and dining room service are of the positive best. Private dining tooms for ladies. One call inspires regular custom. Try it. Commercial street, opposite Page building. The Commercial. One of the coziest and most popu lar resorts in the city is the Commer cial. A new billiard room, a pleasant sitting room and handsome fixtures all go to make an agreeable meeting place for gentlemen, there to discuss the topics of the day, play a game of billiards and enjoy the fine refresh ments served there. The best of goods are only handled, and this fact being so well known, a large business is done at the Commercial, on Com mercial street, near Eleventh. Mew Grocery Store. Try our own mixture of coffee the J. P, B. Fresh fruit and vegetables Badollet fit Co., grocers. Phone Main 1281. MINOR MINING STRIKE. TRACY CITY, Tenn., Sept. 2. Trouble over settlement of the wage scale culminated in a strike being cal led at the mines of the Scwanee Coal, Coke Land Company at Coalmont, about seven miles from here yester day, The plant has just recently been acquired by the Alabama Fuel Com pany. Of the 300 union miners em ployed there it is said about 60 re mained at work. All is reported quiet at the mines. The Clean Man. The man who delights in personal cleanliness, and enjoys his shave, shampoo, haircut, and bath, in As toria, always goes to the Occident barber shop for these things and gets them at their best. Sunday, Monday and Monday Matinee Sept. 6 and 7 Mr. C, H. Harris Presents the New York Favorite Comedienne and Prima Donna DAINTY GRACE CAMERON In His Latest Musical Com edy Success "i 11 Dills' Supported by the Great Com edian,' WILL PHILLBRICK and a cast of fifty. 10 Big Advanced Vaudeville Acts. Hear the Great Song Hits 20 Numbers. Entire Pro duction Carried by Company The Sinjyinpv Ringincr Jingling Event of the Season Prices 25, 50, 75, $1 The 6 ra Commercial and Ninth Street, 11(1 Tht New Moving Picture Theatrt Tonight THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT or Save Money? From $1.50 to $2.00 saved by buy ing through tickets in Astoria. Tickets to all points in the United States and Europe now on sale at O. R. N. dock. G. W. Roberts, agent. Summer Excursions During the months of August and September the Ilwan R. R. Co. will sell round trip tickets daily from all points on North (Long) Beach to all points on Clatsop Beach at rate of $1.75. Return limit thirty days. Sunday Excursfons to Long Beach. Steamer Nahcotta leaves O, R. N. dock at 6-AS a. m. daily. Round trip fare to any poi..t on North (Long) Beach, $1.00, Sunday's only THE MYSTERY OF THE STOLEN NECKLACE MY WATCH IS SLOW A SUSPICIOUS HUSBAND BILLY'S ON FIRE ILLUSTRATED SONG "NOBODY'S GIRL" VIEWS OF A TRIP THROUGH PARIS

This Theatre is equipped with the latest and most improved electri cal Machines. Don't fail to see these pictures. ADMISSION, 10c. J

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