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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1904)
PAGE TWO. THE MORNING ASTORIAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1901. Morning' Astorian Established ImX wr-V 1 ' ' 111 " DAILY EXCEPT MONDAY. " RATES. By nail," per jui'J.L.J IS 00 Bj maH, per month By crriers, per iuontk i,. 50 64 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTORIAX. By wail, jjeryear, ia aJtaace $1 99 ASTOEIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. . : . WALL STREET POPULISM. A humorist in congress recently referred to "the populists of ."Wall street" in one of his speeches, but the joke was so subtile that it failed to get the ap plause it deserves. But it doesnt require a diagram to explain it, and it will be better appreciated before next October ends, says the New York Commercial The populist, in the good old days when he "kept in the middle of the road and let the wind blow through his ample beard," contended that everybody would be roch and happy if the governemnt would only issue an unlimited number of slips of paper stamDed simply "this is $1." "this is $20.". "this is $50," or "this is $1,000,000." These slips were to be given value simply by the "fiat" or declaration of the government that they were so. "Whoever had 'L. B, " are no puzzle and who could confirm, if that were necessary, the evidence which the letter contains that4 the writer has made a long life worth living, says the New .York Tribune. ' ; .Itte'evidthat L. B. has wisely declined, to bother himself with the observance 6f vexatious rules for the promotion of longevity.. "I have no special desire," he says, "to reach a great age," which is far better than a restless longing to make a rvcord woul be. : Ho will be only eighty-eight on his next birthday, and is, perhaps, slightly mortified to find that "his sight and hearing are defective but his frank ad mission of the ,fact puts the stamp of veracity on his communication, and is much more winning than the wiles of Dr. Holme's "poor unmarried aunt," which led the poet to exclaim fd. : J i t How can she lay her glasses down And say she reads as well, "When through a double convex lens - She just makes out to spell ! ; j But though the eyes and ears of L. B. are uo long er in perfect condition, his general health, he in forms us, is as sound as it was 60 years ago, or at any time in his life. Has he weighed and analyzed his food, wondered at every mouthful how many microbes it contained, and been afraid to eat any thing that tasted good t Not he. We rejoice to have his word for it that his diet has been "simple and ordinary," that is, nutritious, palatable and suffi ciently diversified. It is an interesting, though per haps not a momentous, fact that he has never used tobacco in any form, and we are sorry that he forgot to say whether or not he occasionally takos a wee nip Mr. Evarts once observed, in a letter admitting his inability to be present at a dinner in honor of Yale athletes, that he attributed whatever success he had attained in life to the circumstance that he had never taken a partiele of exercise. It would appear that L. B. has not rigidly followed the example of Mr. Evarts, (who, by the way, only lived to be eighty- three), for he speaks of"a strenuous massage every night and morning," from which he thinks he has Are .Robbed by i; biide Btirelars two Eashlorubly Dressed Burg ' lars Get Away With a Good Haul. Seattle, Feb. i.--Well-dressed rob. bera broke Into J. B. Ooddard's house, and with the menacing mussles of black revolver forces Ooddard and William Ouy o He qnlet while they took more than 1500 from their cloth-! of the pair. They left the house end I ti. They left untouched more then ran after they had cleared the thresh rind Immaculate, that his money was wanted. He designated (he trousers pockiti In which he had r.0. The pair ti-ok , this and went into Ooddard's room. ! , , v "; One of the men carried two revolver the other' bore one. Mr. end Mrs. Ooddard were ordered to lie still on pain of death. The thelvea went through Goddwd's trousers. They took IJ80 from one pocket, nitMlng about ISO In their haute. Then Ooddard begged the burglars to leave the reat of hi caah. They did thin. The money of which he spoke wni In another pocket and amounted to more than $1400. Haste was notlcable In every action AST0MA AND COLUMBIA. . RIYER RAILROAD LEAVH I , PORTLAND 1:60 a nif Portland" Union De-i 7;09 p m pot for Astoria and Way Pomta Aniuva itfpm ASTORIA 7:48 am 1:10 pm For Portland and Way Point ' ' U:ttam UMpra BA8IDB DIVISION 1:11am Astoria for Warea 11: It am ton, Flavel fort 1:60 pm Stevena, Hammond land Seaside m i T:Mn 4:00 Dtn Mm am :lt a ml l:M a m 1:10 pm geaslda for War! rtnton, flavtt, Hammond, ' Fort Btevtni Astorlaj ll:Mpm MM am $1500. Goddurd did not report the mat ter to the police until nearly S o'clock yesterday afternoon. , , Ooddard told thla atory: He. hie wife and their baby were aaleep. Ouy waa sleeping In the next room. Both apnrtmenta are on the ground floor of 1709 Noren avenue. ? , '...'. - Two men prlpd up the window to Quy'a room. When Ouy awoke he aaw theree revolver mussles clone to hla face. He waa told by a pair of masked men, whose clothe were uo-to-dule old.. Ooddard la a real eatate and loan broker. He ,wia at one time a afreet preacher. s UWful Spray SlKtvary on rl, bi.l ml unil nit V v T7 lllMllMHlhl.il-r.(.. lulnn i full wrtipiilinU1ti''n In- W I Jr Tnlli.il.lv In HiDm MIHHU OuTJ M 41 fnrfc lH, mr rh. ."Vy I iMrtinil. xl 11 j ..v li. derived advantage; but we judge that he has not to be compelled to part with it for as many of these . . b ' , , . x . slips as somebody else would offer. Happily the people were never forced to make this experiment or given the opportunity to discover how much of this fiat paper it would take to buy a breakfast. . , The populists of "Wall street, dealing largely as they do in paper of their own making, began a few years ago to apply the fiat idea in the making of it. in a most liberal way. They organized on a greatly enlarged scale, ad Issued so-called 'securities ' ', on a truly magnificent plan. These securities were usu ally of three kinds: bonds secured by mortgage on the property in which there was no fiat; preferred stock which was mostly fiat ; and common, which was all fiat. The bonds were for those who were sharp i enough to take nothing else for their property, or money; the preferred stock for the promoters and their intimates ; the common for such lambs as could be induced to buy it. The Wall street scheme has not worked out much better than the Kansas scheme. The fiat securities have met much the same fate that the government's fiat bills would have met had they ever been issued albeit they had something more to recommend them The public, or that part of it that had money to in vest, received them with little, favor at first, buying them at a large discount, but this discount has grown steadily greater until real value has been pretty near ly reached. In some cases it has been fully reached for the combinations have wholly failed,and their pretended securities are as worthV'ss as any other fiat paper. In no case have the advantages expected on one side, and feared on the other, been wholly reajized. Competition has been in some degree re strained, but not wholly prevented. It has not been possible to advance prices to the consumer as hoped Where an unreasonable advance has been made, for a time, it has been found tha consumption was so far restrained as to make it less profitable to main tain it, at the cost of a reduced output than to en courage activity by fair prices. It has been, or at least is being demonstrated that the laws of nature which are the laws of trade, can not be more su& cessfully set at defiance by the populists who do busi ness in New Jersey, and shave their beards, than by those who live west of the Missouri river and do not "The criminal trusts," so-called for the purpose of making a campaign issue, are less dangerous, and in a different way, than those who talk most about them would have us suppose.- Like the old-fashioned blun 'derbus they are more dangerous to those behind than to those in front of them. Their greatest "crimes" are practiced upon those who permit them selves to be induced to invest in their securities, and against those they so alarm that they are afraid to invest in any securities. As Judge Grosscup has so clearly poiniea out, iney neea regulating so far as to permit their repeopleizing, and this can be done by crushing the fiat-out of them, and not by crushing them out of existence. ' gone in for muscular development to any great ex tent. In short, he has led a temperate, rational ex istence, enjoying the good things of life, if they were procurable without more exertion than they were worth. R Prices EIGIMT SEVEN IN TIIE SUN. It gave us ranch pleasure to print yesterday a let ter fro ma Brooklyn, reader of The Thibune, whose name is in our possession, but whose modesty re strained him from giving it to the world. No doubt, however, he has many friends to whom the initials JUSTIFIABLE MURDER. A Portland jury has found Dave Van Houten "not guilty" of the murder of a man whom he shot down in "cold blood. The jury was out for several hours, and at no stage of the deliberations was any member of the jury favorable to more severe punish ment than conviction for manslaughter. Finally a verdict of acquittal was reached, and the defendant walked from 'the court room a free man. The verdict is unique in the crimianl history of Oregon. Van Ilouton killed Albert Young because Young deprived him of the love of his wife. Young's reputation was shown to have been very bad. When Van Houten. learned that Young was the despoiler of his home, he armed himself and deliberately shot down the man.' There was no evidence to show that Young came to his death in any other manner, nor did the jury take into serious onsideration the claim of Van Houten 's attorneys that their client was ment ally deranged at the time of the killing. Sentiment prevailed in the verdict. The Portland jury has placed the moral law above the criminal code in this peculiar case, and there wil be little protest in consequence. Id a spirit of terri ble revenge,' Van Houten killed the man who alien ated the affections of his wife, and a jury of 12 in telligent men has informed him that his method o procedure was the correct one. The civil law provides redress for the man whose wife is un faith ful. but it is mighty poor redress. The moral law provides much more satisfactory means of avenging wrongs such as that suffered by Van Houten at the hands of Young. The jury is to be complimented on its good judgment. . ' I have but few expenses and can sell lower than the lowest. 7 j& See These Prices Sunday only All tralna make clot connection at Gobi with all Northern Paeltto tralni to and from tba Baat and Bound point m J; C. Mayo, General freight and Paaa. Agent The Scenic Line TO TUB EAST AND SOUTH. Through Salt Lake City, Lead villa, Pueblo, Colorado Springe and Denver, M28 lOGRMV'1- ! Offers the Chohe of Three Route Through the Famous Rocky Moun tain Scenery, and Five Dlatlnct Routes Eaat and South of Denver. -FAST TRAINS DAILY-3 IVtween Ogden and Denver, Carrying All Claaaea of Modern Equipment Purfmt Dlolng Car Service and Per tonally Conducted Tourist Ex , curalons to All Points Eaat STOP OVERS ALLOWED On All Classes of Tickets, Fcr Information or Illustrated litera ture call on or address W, C. McBRIDE, - General Agent 124 Third St, Portland, Or. $1500 Overcoats, now only $10.90 $10.00 M " " $ 6.90 &15.50 Suits " " S10.90 8.90 7.25 5.50 3.75 1.45 $10.00 Young Men's 'Suits 9 $ 7.50 " " $ $ 5.00 Boy's Suits for $3 to $ $ 2.00 " " . $ The 'annual report of Fish Warden Van Dusen makes a gratifying showing. The hatcheries of the Columbia river district will turn more than 70,000 000 young fish into the Columbia during the season 19034, insuring a bountiful supply of fish in com ing years. If only 10 per cent of the salmon thus propagated return to theriver and are caught, the value of the output of the plants will have proved to be about .$15,000,000. The state of Oregon should do everything possible to encourage hatchery j work. for it cannot possibly secure as good returns by ex pending its money in other directions. Chief of Police Hunt, of Portland, has never wit nessed an execution, and he has been in public office or about 30 years. If the Portland agitators keep after Mr. Hunt with the zeal recently shown, we have an idea it will not be long before he is afforded an opportunity of viewing his own decapitation. ' Eui-Wha, heir to the Corean throne, is said to be hiding in America. If the 'young gentleman's pic tures do him justice, we trust he will remain in hiding. Shoes, Hats, Underwear and all Furnishing Goods marked down to the last notch. j& j& X? Charles Larson CORNER FIFTEENTH AND COMMERCIAL STREETS list n i I i i i 1 I i I i -41 Cut the Can and compare the quality of Economy Brand Evaporated Cream with any of Its Imitations. note the difference. See how smooth and appetizing our J proouot is, owing to Its heavy consistence, which keeps the butler fat equally omriDuiea. in contrast with I the cheap and thin Imita tions which allow the but- i tor tat to rise and form , unsightly clods. Dr. T. L. Ball DENTST f 524 Commercial street, Astoria Ore. Dr. Oswald H. BecKman PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Klnnej Building. Phone No. 2481. Office hoars. 10 A. M. U12 M., z to 4 PM 7jP.M.,toF. M. Bunduy 1 to 2 M W. C. Logan .DENTIST 57 Commercial Street Shsnahan Building JAY IUTIIE, HI. D. PHYSICIAN AND 8UKGEON Acting Assistant Surgfeon U. 8. Maripe Hospital Sorvice. Offloe i hours : 10 to 12 A. M., 1 to 4 30 P. M. n vummerciai street, 2nd Foor. C.vWe? BaiT Dentist Where, do you get shaved now? ; ( Mansell Building , ' , ' ' 673 Commercial Street, ' Astorja, Ore On the face, of COUrse. TELEPHONE HED 2001. What for? PRAEL & COOK hfc ' TRANSFER COMPANY. ,'. . ' Telephoaa UL DRAYING AND EXPRESSING 1 All goods ahlpped te our ear ' Will receive special attention. No 638 Duane St. W. 3. COOK, Mgr. Where?, At the Occident Barber Shop THE BOSS TONJORAL ARTISTS . ' RELIANCE Electrical Works 'b I 428 BOND ST, These tiny Capsules are superior Cubebs or Injections tndum CURE IN 48 HOURsWr the same diseases with out Inconvenience, OSTEO PATHY DR. RH0DA CHICKS 673 Commercial St Astoria Ore. Mansell Bldg. 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