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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1904)
THE MORNING ASTOR1 AN, FRIDAY, APJtlL 1, 1904. PAGE SEVEN. First National Bank of Astoria ESTABLISHED 1886 Capital and Surplus $100,000 VALUE OF MAN'S WHIM Fisher Bros., Company f DKALEU8 IN ruinta, Oils and Glass, Hardware, Iron and Steel, Groceries, lVoviwons and Crockery, Ship Chand lery and Hoat Supplies, MeCormick Mowers and Httkc, Corrugated Iron and Building Material, Hardwood Lumber. FISHER BROS., COMPANY Do You Eat For health and happiness, or wily as a duty If the former, try catwig at the TORE POINT OYSTER HOUSE Every Delicacy in Beaswi. Trivate Kooms. 112 Eleventh Street. BARRELS MADE TO ORDER New Shop, CO, nth and DUANE STREETS. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. M. O. STANOVICH The nonuununoBno I Palace jj Cafe aititiinimnttatittttttaanaitiitiitnii The Best Restaurant RtfoUr Metis. 25 Ceiti Sunday Dinners a Specialty n Eterytnlof toe Market Affords tx Palace Catering Company 2 ttttttttttt)tfttttttitsttttnttttnnnB Doei Person's Taste Belong to Himself or to Orocer, That's the Question. CIRCUIT COURT IS DECIDING ASK TUB AGENT FOR TICKETS VIA 9fiS 3W To Spokane, 8t Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago, 8t Louit, and all points oast and south. Q OVERLAND TRAINS DAILY (J Z The Flyer and 1 he Fast Mai! Zj SPLENDID SERVICE UP TO DATE EQUIPMENT COURTEOUS EMPLOYES Daylight trip aoross tho Casoado and Rooky Mountains. Kof tickets, rates folders and full In formation call on or address IL DICKSON, City Ticket Agent 111 Third Street. Portland, Or. a O, YERKES, Q. W. P. A., (It First Avenue, Seattle, Wash, NORTHERN PACIFIC Tlmo:Oftrd ot Trains " , PORTLAND Leavei Arrive Puget Bound Llmlted.7:25 am : pm Kansas Clty-SL Loula Special U:W am 1:45 P North Coast limited 1:10 o m l:Miu Tacoma and Seattle Night Express " Pm l:OS B Take Puget Sound Limited or North Coast Limited for Gray's Harbor polnta Take Puget Sound Limited for Olym ola direct Take Puget Sound Limited or Kan as City-St Loula Special for polnta on South Bend branch. Double dally train service on Gray's Harbor branch. Four trains dally between Portland. Tacoma and 8eattla D ELIGIITFtIL ROUTE AYLIGHT KIDE IZZY CltAGS EEI CANONS A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY See nature In all he glorious beauty, and then the acme of man's handi work. The first is found along the line of the Denver A Rio Grande Railroad, the latter at the St Loula World's Fair. Your trip will be one of pleas uremake the most of It For infor matlon and Illustrated literature write W. C. McBRIDE, Gen. Agt. Portland, Or. "As the Crow Flies" -The shortest line between Minneapolis, St. Paul and Chicago is the route of the famous North western Limited "The Train For Comfort" every night in the year. Before staitlnnonatrlp-no matter ijj whore-wrlle for InUM-rating Informs- K Mod aDoul comiorutme traveling. H. L SISLER, General Ajent 132 Third St Portland. Oregon. T. W. T(C8DALK, General PasMnxer Agent tit Paul, Minn. Store Clerk In Trouble llecaiisc He TtikcN IJiiNliie From Former lSniloyeriliy Ac quiring HecretM. Chicago, March 32. Whether a per son's own peculiar taste In the matter of tea and coffee Is his property or the property of his grocer will be de cided when the injunction suit of the Koyal Tea Company against William Ounther comes on trial In the circuit court The matter ia of such moment thnt the United States supreme court may be called upon to determine the commercial value of a whim. I'wfore Judge Dunne, attorneys for the Tea Company represented that Ounther had been the avenue of a communication between the firm's of fice and tea expert and several hun dred housewives and chefs In Chicago. Ounther, who drove a wagon over the tea, and coffee routes, in a year's time became familiar with the whims and fancies of 800 customers and with the "Inspirational" blends with wblcb the expert satisfied these preferences. Then he was discharged. It Is alleged Ounther Immediately establlHhed a tea and coffee business of his own, using the secrets he had acquired. Then the company realized the whims of their customers had a money value. Ounther had taken trade from them and they sought to enjoin his further operations. Judge Dunne postponed the hearing for argument DATE IS CHANGED. Stir Caused Amongst Albany Legis lators By Plotter's Work. New York, March 31. Considerable stir has been caused by the discov ery at Albany that a change had been made in the enacting clause of the Walnwrlght bill, framed with a view to compelling patrons of gambling houses to testify against the keepers. The bill was an exact copy of Dis trict Attorney Jerome's measure intro duced In the senate by Dowllng and waii to take effect Immediately. The assembly committee, to facilitate mat ters, took up the Walnwrlght Wll and while discussing it, found the date of enactment had been changed by an unknown penman to read "effective September 11, 1904." The chairman declared that nothing could avail the plotter as the committee will consider the Dowllng. copy Instead of Assembly man Wainwrlght. ' , v ., vs..r,. - , j. a ' ; ', ' " ' - , - 1 ' - '' 'rt f If is. "r 1 ;- -tm Tha Japanese legation a Pekin. Tha ayes of ths world ara now focusedon this point, owing to tha efforts now being mad by tha Japanese minister io China to induce tho latter country to join hands with Japan against Russia. 1 Hon ton can, which was brought as a test. Tle shipment w!i made from equal quantities of white and gray Iceland wool of the third class, valued re spectively above and below 12 cents per pound, which are customarily packed separately and brought and aold at at different prices and which. If separated were respectively dutia ble at the rate of teven and four cents a pound. They were designedly pack ed in one bale so as to reduce th average aggregate value below four cents a pound and the rate of duty on .-ill to four cents. The appraisers held that such pad ding was such a change In condition for the purpose of evading the duty as to subject the entire contents of the bale to twice the duty to Which It would otherwise be subject. LOST MAN FOUND. A CASE OF IT. New Yorker Who Disappeared is Alive and Well. New York. March SI. Lawyer Max Josephs, whose disappearance from Ids office two years ago baffled the po lice. Is said by his father to be alive and well in Australia, although he was long ago given up and Insurance on his lif.- collected from the Koyal Arcanum. Josephs had an office In Wall street and lived in Brooklyn with his wife and child. Two years ago Mrs. Josephs received a note from him saying he had been called to Mount Vernon on bus- neas. Another letter from that place the following day said he had been de tained. His failure to come back led to an Immediate search, but all trace of the lawyer was lost In Mount Ver non, and after the Hudson had been dragged and watched for several weeks he was given up. The letter to his father made no ex planation of Joseph's action. COLONY OF NEGROES WILL SETTLE IN WASHINGTON STATE Manuy Mora Like It In Astoria. aS The following case is but one of many similar occurring dally ia As toria. It Is an easy matter to verify its correctness. Surely you cannot ask for better proof than such a conclus ive evidence. W. R. Mcintosh whose place of resi dence Is at 593 Harrison avenue, says: For years I suffered very much from lameness and soreness across the small of my back. To turn In bed gave me painful twinges and when I was not working but simply standing around there was a constant aching over my hips. The kidney secretions gave me no end of trouble. 4 often thought I had gravel, so painful were the secretions In passing. I read about Doan's Kidney Pills and got a box at Charles Rogers' drug store on Commercial street. On taking them I soon noticed an Improvement In my condition and the pain across my bock was soon wonderfully relleved.Though I did not take Doan's Kidney Pills as regularly as I should have done they did me a great deal of good." For sale by all dealers; price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. IMPORTER'S PROTEST DENIED. Question of Wool Grade Mixing Raised In Courts. New York, March 31.-A decision has been delivered by the board of United States general appraisers, denying a protest from a Boston Importer, and raising tha question as to whether wool can be mixed In grades so as to obtain lower rates of duty. The board decided against the mixture, in the Origin of Eeathquakea. Caribou, Me., March 31. Woodsmen who have Just returned here bring news that Bald Mountain, a small steep hill in the Tiboue valley, only a few miles from the New Brunswick line, has disappeared. In its place a small lake now exists. It Is believed the mountain dropped out or sight dur ing the earthquake of March 21 and that the tremor which then shook New England really had Ha birth in the Maine woods. Bald Mountain was an odd shaped cone with extremely steep of an extinct volcano. Around the sides and was seldom explored. The general belief Is that It waa a crater base of the mountain small hot springs once existed and the rock formation In the neighborhood bears evidence of volcanic origin. - Morgan Goes to England. New York, March 31. It Is an nounced that J. P. Morgan wall sail for Europe next Wednesday for his an nual vacation. No especial signifi cance attaches to his trip and It is de nied that he will make his future home In England. oPdlkc Pvc)3 Oxoedl.tT k'JsCcshouS, Shanghai. The Japanese are deter mined, It would appear, to block Port Arthur channel and six vessels will be sent at a time t Join the fleet. France Presents Claim. v New York, March 31. The Corean foreign office has been presented with a claim, says a Herald dispatch from Seoul, for $45,000 by the French charge d'affaires, here In payment for mater ials ordered from France for use on the Seoul-Wlju Railway, which con cession Japan procured from the Cor ean government soon after signing the recent alliance protocol. Seattle, March 31. An Afro-Ameri can colony In the state of Washington that will in time number 50,000 or 80,- 000 souls Is the dream of Samuel Bur- dette, of this city. It Is not altogether a dream, either, for the first settlers have already taken up their land In the eastern part of the Klickitat county. where it is proposed to locate the col ony. Here, if Mr. Buraeue s scneme goes through, some seven townships viit eventually, be occupied by colored farmers. A town will be built but the community will be primarily an agri cultural one, and the Inhabitants will depend principally on the fertility of the soil for their prosperity. The scheme has been a pet one of Mr. Burdett for years. As long ago as 1893 he organized a fraternal body boasting the title of the Ancient Order of the Sons and Daughters of Ham, but It was a failure. Four years ago he organized a fraternal benefit in surance society called the internation al Council of the World, and It is this that has taken the initiative in the col onization project. A few years ago a similar project was undertaken, con templating a settlement near Pasco, with a town to be known as Blazing Star. This waa allowed to drop, after surveys had been made, because ac cording to Mr. Burdette the soil could r.ot be cultivated without irrigation, and irrigation was impracticable. Now the International Council has had surveys made of the tracts in Klickitat county, the project has been exploited all over the south, and the first immigrants have arrived. Mr. Burdette says, it is bound to be a suc cess, and predicts a glorious future for the new colony. The land lies in the easternmost cor ner of the county, along the Columbia river. It is government territory, and the scheme is for each settler to take up a homestead. It Is to be primarily a colored colony, but Mr. Burdette says no obstacle will be put in the way of whites who wish to take up land there. Seeds will be obtained from the government and the first crops will be put In this spring. Some of the settlers are now on the ground and others will go in a few weeks. Mr. Burdette himself will Join the colony about July. In explaining, his project yesterday, he said: We simply want to establish a com munity where us colored folks can live, where we can make our homes and turn out useful and good citizens. I sent out circular letters all over the south explaining the scheme and I got 17,000 answers. Down south they have got colored folks to burn and they burn trem. Over here we want to make a place for them where they can Hve and be good. If they're not good, we won't burn 'em, but we'll slap em in Jail and give 'em a fair trial. The south is suffering from an over production of colored folks, just like in Arkansas they suffer from an over production of hogs. Now down there when they have too many hogs they just herd 'em all together, tie knots in their tails and shut 'em up In a j field. The ones that crawl through the fence they let go. The ones that j get caught by the knots In their talis jthey keep. Now they can't do that I ! i V. w. Vln..b mnn an wd. nrA firkins' Tf Will. Ul'-H l.HM'1 -' " . v o C mnke a place for him In Washington. Most of the settlers will come from Missouri, Tennessee and North Caro lina. We won't have any shiftless, good-for-nothings. Any man to come must show us that he is able to sus- ta:n himself for six months. If he can't we don't want him. If he can keep himself that long, the Washing ton soil will do the, rest. We are going to locate our town thia summer, but I don't expect It will amount to much before next year. The "big. Immigration won't begin for a year or so. We will have street cars, electric lights and everything that goes to make a first-class town. We will work up a commerce with other parts of the state and we intend to be a valuable section of the com monwealth. ' We have the Northern Pacific on. one aide 12 miles away and the O. R. & N. on the other seven miles away. In time the railroad is bound to come right through our section, but until then we will have a stage line. I have been working at this for the past twelve years and now it's bound to go. It is no wildcat scheme. The colored people of the south are oppres sed. There is no place for them and we want to give them a chance In Washington. COLLIER GETS AWARD. Crew will receive $500 For Saving Bull ion From Cruiser. San Francisco, March 31. United States District Judge Dehaven has' just handed down an opinion awarding J500 to the crew of the United States collier Justin for saving 340,000 worth of property, mostly bullion, from the wreck of the auxiliary cruiser Yoe- emite. The cruiser was caught in a hurricane In the harbor of Guam in November, 1900, and waa carried out to sea. The crew of the Justin followed her and transferred her cargo to the collier. The $500 he divided among 19 men out of a crew of 22, the other men being disqualified, the court finding these were not residents of the North ern District of California and there fore not within Its Juristictlon. Shoots Himself at Party. New York, March 31. Advices from Yokohama are to the effect that Dan iel Bacon, Jr., the 21 year old son of . a New York capatllist has committed suicide theie by shooting. Bacon's death was announced here March 11 as having been due to pneumonia. He was in Japan in search of health. It is now said, that while attending a birthday oarty with 30 or 40 friends he suddenly complained Of illness, stepped into an adjoining room and. shot himself. Long Auto Runs. New York, March 31. Itineraries for the long, distance automobile run have been completed by Chairman Post of the American Autlmobile Association Committee. From New York there will be a choice of four routes coming to gether In Ohio. Inspectors are to be sent over all the four and If It be ad visable to make tours they will be ar ranged by the committee. Prominent foreign automobllists have been invit ed to Join the tourists. IT SAVED HIS LEG. P. A. Danforth, of La Grange, Ga., Buffered for six months with a fright ful running sore on his leg; but writes that Bucklen's Arnica Salve wholly cured it In five days. For Ulcers, Wounds, Plies, ifa the best salve in the world. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Chas. Rogers, druggist