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PAGE TWO. THE MORNING ASTORIAN, FRIDAY, MARCIMM9W.,. A MorningjAstoriatf ' " Established 18; v xw ..... v DAILY EXCEPT MONDAY. J 4 f ... J J !. . - f ' i RATES. iy mail, por year .. . . , By mail, per month (. . . . By carriers, per .month . . $0 00 50 60 THE SE31I-WEEKLY ASTOlilAN. By mail, per year, iu advance . . ... ..... . $1 00 ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. THE OREGOXIAN'S SIDE WON. The decisive defeat of the Simon faction of the republican party in the Multnomah county primaries was a decided victory for the Oregonian, which would ' likewise have won a decided victory had the Mitchell faction been defeated. The logie of a situation of this sort ought to be just as clear as mud to anyone who ever was committed to the insane asylum for the benefit of his mental condition. The two factions have been at it for a. long time. In a strongly republican county they have waged war against each other to the mutual detriment of each wing of the party, and occasionally, as a result , of their fight, the democratic sprinters have passed the two struggling elements on the-political race tracl Two years ago the Simonites lost by a few hundred votes, while this year they have gone down to crushing defeat ; The Simon faction was most in discreet in promulgating its issues, one of which was the election of an Astoria man to the United States senate. It would seem the voters of the county have vigorously repudiated the former senator, whose showing was a miserable one, even with the assistance of his democratic friends. The unique feature of the situation is the Ore gonian 's attitude. Every one knows Mr. Scott feels aggrieved because of his failure to land himself in the United States senate, where he might hobnob with his friend Senator Hoar and the other senators whom his paner has so long vilified. Mr. Scott did not get the plum, which went to an Astoria man a rank outsider who had committed the capital offense of taking un-his residence in Astoria. The editor told friends he hoped the Mitchell faction would win but we have an idea he had his fingers crossed when he made the statement However, he saw the hand writing on the wall, and the Oregonian merely sold its colums at $100 each and permitted each side to present its claims. Editorially ' it said nothing. Pending the count of the ballots, how could it know which side it was on? To have previously commit ted itself would have been to disregard all the ethics of diplomacy. Surely the defeat of the Simon' faction was a great and lasting victory for the Oregonian. existence and utilization and use of this gas a Fro donU became widely known, both in this country and abroad'aud excited the liveliest interest among scien tific l inen. ' So little suspected, bowce", was, the' pres ence of the euormous volume of pas since developed that, when it was further explored, it was pronounc ed "unpara lolled on the face of; the jrlobe," and Humboldt is quoted as declaring it the eighth wonder of the world. ' v r ? - ' -. - -,: Its introduction into commercial use was kIow, but after its value was fully demonstrated there-was rush of capital, and a large amount of money was invested in gas territory, gas wells, end pipe lines, Then followed a period of reckless consumption and appalling waste. Many or the orirmal nekis were rapidly depleted of their hiirh pressure. Not until it was fully realized that a large portion of the nat ural supply had been consumed and dissipated by the extravagant methods in use were improved means adopted for holding back the gas in the original rock reservoirs. This was done by shutting off the wells, by cutting off all fclow off standjtipes and escapes, by improving the joints of the pipe lines, and by the more economical consumption of the gas. .This economy came rather late,1 but enough of the original supply remains, stored principally in the deep and prolific sands of northern and sjmthwest era , Pennsylvania and western West Virginia, to furnish this ideal household fuel for many years to come. What may be done by deeper drilling and improved methods to" prolong its use indefinitely is yet unknown. IDEAL FUEL OF THE UNITED STATES. ; Had Zoraster pondered the problems of ex istence on the northwest flank of the Appalach ian mountains instead of along the shores of the Caspian sea, he would probably not have lacked the inspiration which! gave to his philosophy a symbol of the eternal, for the everlasting fires of the Parsees might be more than duplicated by the springs of i natural gas in the United States. Indeed, there is no country in the world which can compare with ourSj in its production of this perfect fuel. The combined production of all other countries is not over 1 per cent of the quantity produced in the United States,! which had in 1902 a value of $30,867,668. A large portion of even the small outside production comes indeed from our neighbor, Canada. "' " ' ' ' " Mr. F. II. Oliphant's report on the production of natural gas in 1902, which the United States geolog ical survey has just published as an extract from its annual volume of mineral resources, is full of inter esting details about the history, output, value,, and uses of this most satisfactory combustible, ' y - , the records of early investigators and mission aries show that natural gas has been known to exist . in natural springs in western New York, western Pennsylvania," central West Virginia, northeastern ' Kentucky and southeastern Ohio for at least 250 years. In 1775 General Washington visited a burn ing natural gas spring on the northeast bank of the Great Kanawha river in West Virginia, a few miles east of the present city of Charleston. He was so im pressed by the phenomenon that he preempted an acre of land surrounding the spring and declared it to be public forever. The earliest economic use of natural gas in this country was probably made in lighting the village of Fredonia, Chautauqua county, !n. Y., in 1821. The AMERICA THE SECOND NAVAL POWEli. The ' report of the house naval committee ac companying the navy appropriation bill embodies certain facts that ought to be reassuring to those who fear that we are being left behind in the race for supremacy on the sea. An inspection t)f the com parative tables of American and foreign construc tion shows, among other things: t! That when the ships now building are finished we shall be the third naval power in the world in paper tonnage ana tne second in real lighting strength. That we are building as much as France and Russia, now the second and third naval powers, put together. That we are building almost as much as Great Britain,' and more than Germany, Russia and Japan combined. ( That of jfirst-class battleships, the chief strength of a navy, we are building a greater tonnage than any other power, not excepting England, and more than France and Germany combined. That of armored cruisers, the remaining element of the battle line, we are" building a greater tonnage than any power except England, and more than all other powers conbined aside from England and France. . That our ships nov under construction will more than double the strength of our navy, and when they are finished the navy will be more than three times as large and five times as strong as it was at the out break of the Spanish war. That our new program of construction provided in the pending naval appropriation bill is four times as great in tonnage of fighting ships as that of France the only country that still stands between us and second place in the list of naval powers. If the Monroe doctrine depends upon the strength of the American navy, as some of its guard ians say it does, it appears to be a reasonably protect ed infant. The accident at the residence of Police Commis-t sioner'Cook which resulted in the death of the ser vant, Miss y men, was indeed a lamentable allair, which no ohe so sincerely regrets as the members of the family. That the shooting was purely accidental is evident from the manly statement of the little fel low.whose blunder cost the life of the maid. In the case of an older person, a confession similar to that of Mr. Cook's son would be equivalent to a plea of "guilty' to criminal carlessness. the child lacks the discretion of an adult, but his good breeding comes to the. surf ace when he truthfully throws the whole of the blame upon himself. The accident merely dem onstrates that boys and guns should be as widely separated as possible, and should serve as a warning to thosef ond parents who provide their children with fire arms as a means of amusement. Mr. Cook com mitted himself to no such folly, and can in no way be held Fesponsible for the death of the maid. ' The question whether coal is or is not rightly to be considered contraband of war may be more per manently settled by the war in the far east than has ever been agreed upon before. While at Portland for repairs, the bar dredge Chinook might find it expedient to dredge a hole in the Multnomah political situation. St. Patrick may have chased all the snakp out of Ireland, but he didn't chase all the Irish outof snakeland. 1 The Simon faction lost by a nose. 7. 1 IPRAEL O CO0IC TRANSFER CO. 'I'eletUuMi 221. v Draying and Expressing ) K AllgooiMithlpptKl toourcure will receive special attention, 709-715 Ccmrnerclal Street. ; II J I'Wf'IOI' H'" i"f! HH m i is i itef i&.'ga .m ii :i 11 u r nat'v a. i .v.u n lMiMTl,Wj-fty EC0RATING The quiet, artistic beauty of any liome is easily marred by luck of tasto in wall 'decorations. We wish to state that tlio New Year will find us in a better Position to do decorat ing than ever Wore. New patterns are beginning to arrive, and all wo , ask is that you favor us with an op Iortunity to show you the lino. B. F. ALLEN SON. ?657 Commercial Street. s i 1 id BLACKSMITH I NG. first-class hokhe Work. CARRIAGE AND WAGON BUILDING. HIIOELNO. 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