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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1904)
THE MORNING ASTORIA N. ASTOM4 . OREGON. SUNDAY, DECEMIER 11, 1904. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. FREDERICK V. MOHN, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Offlc and residence, over Peterson A Brown', Office hours: I to 11:30 a. m and 1 to 4:30 p. m.; evenings, I to I. Sunday By Appointment DR. J. A. REGAN Dentist Office over V. Allen's Store, Office hours, I to It and 1 to 6. JAY TUTTLE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SUKOEON Acting Aaitstant Surgeon C.8. Marine Hospital Serrlce. Office hour: It to 11 s-m. 1 to 4:10 p-m. 4TT Commercial Street, tnd floor. Dr. RHODA C. HICKS OSTEOPATHIST ManaeU Bid. I7S Commercial St FHONK BLACK IH. C. W. BARR, D. D. S. Ha Opened Dental Parlor in Rooms I " 117-818, The Dekum. PORTLAND, OREGON. Where he will be pleased to meet Friend and Patron. , Dr. VAUGHAN, Dentist Pythian Building, Astoria, Oregon. Dr. T. L. BALL DENTIST U4 CommercUI street. Astoria Ore. Dr. W. C. LOGAN DENTIST 678 Commercial SU Shanahan Boildioa I MISCELLANEOUS. C. J. TRENCHARD Insurance, Commission and Shipping CUSTOMS HOUSE BROKER. Agent WeUs-Fargo and Northern Pacific Express Companies. Cor. ELEVENTH and BOND BT& A KIUDLEN, Merchant Tailor. Occident Building. JAPANESE GOODS New stock of fancy goods just arrived at Yokohama Bazaar. Call and see the latest novelties from Japan. BEST 15 CENT MEAL. You can always find the best 15-cent meal in the city at the Rising Sun Restaurant, 612 Commercial St. First-class meal i for 15c; nice cake, coffee, pie, or doughnuts, 5c, at U. S. Restaur ant 434 Bond St WOOD! WOOD! WOODj Cord wood, mill wood, box wood, any kind of wood at lowest price. Kelly, the transfer man.' 'Phone 2211 Blaok, Barn on Twelfth, opposite opera I nous. BAY VIEW HOTEL E. G LASER, Prop. Home Cooking, Comfortable Beds, Reason able Ritti and Nice Treatment THE NEW NEHALEM HOUSE Car. Fourteenth and Exchame 8ts. One block back of Foard A Blokes Store. I J. H. ANSON, Prop., - - Astoria, Ore. Board and Ledin $1.00 and up Cleanest Bedi in the City. Fine Table Board, New Furniture Throughout Rates made to steady Theatrical Troupes ASTORIA HOTEL Corner Seventeenth and Duine Sis. 75 cents a day and up. Meals 20 cents. Board and lodging $4 per week. Fbone 217S Red. Open Day andJNigbt. The Astoria Restaurant MAN MING, Proprietor. Fine meals served at all hours. Oysters served in any style. Game in season. SM Bond Street, Cot'. th. Astoria, Ore. ri Off the Ku ( riaar. "No, Indeed. I do not Hi ink much of tli man who will out the eud of hi ci gar off with A knife, nip It oT with it nipper or clip It off with a clipper" aald tb smoker, "though I suppose most portous will regard the matter a of small consequence. I'rotu my way f looking at it the habit of rutting the ad off a cipar hefore beginning to smoke it Is barbarous. "So far a t know uo question of eti quette la Involved In tlie matter. You can ottt. nip or clip or bite. Just aa yjv please, so far ax the etiquette of the natter la concerned. It la uot matter of form. But there la a question ol getting the best results, and that's tlia only point I have In mind. Hits the end f your cigar off, old man. If you want the beat results, and 1 ought to know what I'm talking about, for I have tmoked a long time and hive tried all systems." New Orleana Times-Demo crat Vocatloa mm Aeeeatlea. "Uncle Ephratm, what do you do for a llvlngr "I preache an' I raise punklns, bow." "Whleh pay you the betterr "Well, o' eo'se, I gits mo money out'n de punklns, but I gita 'nuff dis tinction out'n de preaehln" to make np de dlffunce, boss. "-Chicago Tribune, Plata ET.ryday fellow. "I am really and sincerely proud of the common people." sald Mr. Poiupus. 'I am fond of the plain everyday fel low who can never hope to be great Call It quixotism, if you wish" "Oh. I wouldn't say that," interrupt ed Pepprey. "I'd call It egotism."- Pbiladelpbla Press. Her DlaeeTerr. Tour trouble, madam." said the physician, "seems to be du to an i fees of adipose tissue," "My goodness T' exclaimed Mrs, Plumpton. "I wonder It that isn't what make me so awfully fatr Chicago News. Get Hostetter's Stomach Bitters immediately when yon notion ane or wees symptoms, Poor Appetite, Belching, Heart' burn, Sick Headache, Costlve ness or Sleeplessness and you'll save vonraelf a lot of nnnecflsaarr anflarinff. Nothing else can take its place so we nrge yon again to insist on having Hostellers with a Private stamp over neck of bottle- it also cores uyspep sia, Indigestion, Chills, Colds and aiaiarta- Try and see. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters 000000000 I HANDKERCHIEF CARNIVAL, I w A lama ahtnmant of Jananaaa v I initialed silk handkerchiefs just I racaivaa iram ine unem. iney 10 contain an xne latest oriental ae- q signs and fashions. You will IO want aome for Xmaa. if you see O them. J. W. KWONQ CO. ? 420 Commercial Street 2 DO00OSO0000 When yon buy canned clama ask for RAZOR BRAND Clean and wholesome and a home product. For sale by all leading grocers. Warrention Clam Com pany, Warrenton, Or. rKiimiiiiiisiiitiiiiiiiiiisimnmsmsmtt PARKER HOUSE H. B. PARKER, Proprietor Free Coach Urge Sample Rooms on Ground Floor. Rooms 50c, 75c, $1.00 and $1.50 per Day. Foot of Ninth Street ASTORIA. OREGON DrfCGaWe TdSDEETTX H0U3 TMATKatT cumach, Hna,ktdna, a.i has nyiM vwia noaa. oau aM aim. raUeaai tka mu m blanka aaS etraolaja. Imi mum fMMam- TATIOSI nSX. aJlaUb The C Ca Wo Chinest BaSdsc Cs SS AMar S, SVateaUaa aaam These tiny Capsules are tuperio to oaiiam or v.opaioa, Cubebs or Injections indfirnyj CURE IN 48 HOURSUIJl the same diseases with.a out inconvenience. animal m aa Saat anatvea n ) a. H coma wltfe f ia a awmSwOU UU-f SkXtTlMf mtm mmbm, raMa, SaAt, I NjeTLi "I ansa aad yajnailiaf -T? . J SSiraCSX S .,.. i iaVa, , J eaaa U ja, . Tbranga jha af s MM aaBas af ever MS tisunatma" dfea, W kaswmaafettjraaai la etsaraat Slaaans. -1 1 ii nan aiianS. ma 10M ARE STILL FIGHTING Alaska Election Promises Developments Fine REGISTRATION LISTS IN SOAK Pierre Ledieu Refuses to Come Across With the Much Wanted Tabu lation of the Territorial Voter. Dawson. T. TH Dec, 10. Intense ex citement prevailed In the city last night because of the failure of the roglatra uon omcera to deliver copies of the voters' list to the agent of Dr. Wilfred Thompson, the independent antl-a-ov- ernment candidate for the Canadian parliament, running In opposition to ex-Governor r. T. Consdon. the sov ernment candidate. Political filing runs so night that violence la feared on election day, particularly It the regis tration officers persist In their refusal to deliver the lists aa required by law Orders were received yesterday from the Canadian secretary nt att Mr Scott, directing Returning Officer Herre Ledieu to turn the list over to Thorn p sons representatives. Ledieu la atlll procrastinating. CLERK IN TROUBLE. Application of the Eight-Hour Law the Cause. New York. Dec. 10. Waldo W. Val entine, a clery In the money order de partment of the New Tork postolllce, has been suspended for Insubordination. In consequence the postmaster general, It Is understood, will have a test case before him shortly, as the claim Is made that Valentine's refusal to 'work more than eight hours a day was the basis for his suspension and the preferring of charges against him. Valentine, the postofllce officials claim, does not come under the law which makes eight hours the day's They hold work of a letter carried. that the clerks must work Just so many hours as Is necessary to clean up busi ness. Valentine clalma the law fixed hla day at eight hours. Under civil service rulea he could not be discharged except under charges which had been proved. State Building Sold. St. Louis Dec. 10. The New Tork state building and Us contents, at the world's fair, which sold today for $7, 000, brought the highest price that has been paid for rfny state building. The purchasers were the architects, Culd well & Drake, and another person. Po sesslon was taken immediately, and al most before the Ink used In signing the agreement was dry the new own era had an auctioneer selling the furni ture and carpets to souvenir seekers. All the furniture was disposed of at high prices. This building cost $59,018 and the furniture 118,000. THOMAS WILL BREED. He Secures the Gideon Farm in the 8tate of New Jersey. New York, Dec. 10. Edward R. Thomas of this city, who sold most of his racing stable when the season closed on the Metropolitan tracks, has leased from David Gideon the latter's splen dldly appointed breeding farm at Holm del, N. J., for & term of years and has an option on Its purchase. The place embraces 400 acres and represents an Investment of about 1250,000. Many well known racers were bred there, and It Is understood Mr. Thomas will short' ly put Into effect his plans for breeding another stable. The Gideon horses will be transferred to Kentucky. He Gets His. New Tork, Dec. 10. A sentence of four months in prison has been pro nounced on the editor of a Dresden Newspaper for asserting, says, a Times dispatch from Berlin, that great dis satisfaction prevailed In Saxony bo- cause the civil list of the new king had been Increased, although the people were suffering under a great tax bur den. The state's attorney said that the article was a perversolon of fact and that It made the authority of the ruler ridiculous. Underwriters Combine. New Tork, Dec. 10. A scheme re cently proposed to form a national or ganization for the purpose of looking after the Interests of miscellaneous underwriters, such as personal accident and health, employers and public lia bility surety, plate glass and steam- boilers, has been perfected at a meeting here. Twenty-two companies were per. sonally represented and many other un able to do so sent communications an nouncing their Intention to Join. jonn T. stone or Maryland was chosen president of the new organiza tion, which will be known as the board of casualty and security underwriters. IN SOCIETY'S REALM. Doings of Astoria Society People Our ing the Past Week. The past week him been dull In so ciety circles. Kveryone Is netting ready for the hiillldiiya, during- whit h tunny features will be on the tapis. The W. O. T. V, giive a awlnl nt Mia. ilriilmm's, 4U Kxehmige street. Tues day. An Interesting program was pre Dented and Interesting tuples discussed. The Monday Afternoon Club gave the first of a aeries of dattees nt Lo gan's hall last Monday night. Over 70 couples were In attendance ami n most delightful time enjoyed by all present. Miss Anna McLean has returned home from an extended visit with friends In California. Nathaniel Tnllent and wife returned front Han Francisco Tuesday after hav ing enjoyed a very pleasant visit with friends. Mlsa Floretta Elmore entertained the members of the Thursday Afternoon Club this week. The Women's Club held Its regular weekly session at the A. O. IT. V. hall yesterday. An Interesting program and discussion of timely topics were the principal features of the meeting. He freshmenta were served. Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Pinch will en tertain the members of of the flrldge Whist Club next Thursday evening. Mrs. Nelson Troyer of Portland hue been visiting friends In the city this week. The members of the Semi-Monthly Club will be entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Calllway on New Tear's eve. The ladles of the Every Monday Club gave a sociable and sule of fancy artl- cl" fr ,he'r Wfmto " TUM,,"y Bft ernoon and evening, The annual sale of fancy articles of the Ladles' Guild of Uruce Episcopal hurch was held Friday afternoon In the basement of the church. A abort musical program was rendered. The members of the Kpworth League were entertained at the residence of Mrs. Itremner on Friday evening. The hnndsome parlors were appropriately decorated with autumn leaves and tenia. A musical and literary pro gram was the feature of the entertain ment. EAST INDIAN METHODS.' A (ervaat'e Sabtla bat laaaeeeufal Sekaaie For Revaaa;. A trade Journal tells a story of nn adventure which nearly cost one Its correspondents In India bis life. The Indian merchant was a wealthy man 'Uo Byt ou well with tlii'V'tlves, but two of his servants bad had quarrel over a girl whom Uiey both wooed. The merchant Interfered In the fight The unsuccessful suitor, Lai began to mske trouble, and bis rival, the husband, warned the merchant against him. Nothing happened for some months. Then the merchant went away on business. On bis re turn he was told that LaJ bad been caught In his bedroom and locked up. In the east this meant trouble. The merchant called his servants and bud a thorough seurtu made of the house. They examined every trunk, burea and bedstead, every picture, statue and crevice In the wall and crack In the floor, expt-ctlng to And n hooded cobrn or other poisonous reptile. They scru unizeu every kuou, unuuie and gar ment to seo If It hod leen smeared with poison or with Juices which at traded venomous creatures. Thes they searched the wine cellar, the pan try and the storeroom. But they found nothing. The merchant was tired and after eating went to the cabinet where he kept his cigars. It was a large case of teak and plate glass, with an old fash toned silver Indian lock. As ho was about to Insert the key In the keyhole LaJ's successful rival, who had been active in the search, cried, "Look out, sahib; some one has been meddling with that lock!" They examined the keyhole and found traces of wax. When they opened the case the merchant found everything apparently untouched. Five boxes of cigars were unopened. Be had opened the sixth before he went away and removed a few cigars. As be took this box up be noticed on It the marks of fingers. The cigars looked as if they bad not been disturbed. lie was about to take one when be noticed that something was wrong with the bead. A second and a third were like the first In each a small, almost imperceptible rose thorn had bean Inserted, and on it was dab of brown slime still moist the same color as the cigar. "Do not touch them, sahib," said the Indian. "They are poisoned." The merchant sat down and wrote a note to the police. In half an hour an officer appeared with Lai under guard The merchant stated the case to the officer and, taking one of the cigars, handed It to LaJ, with the command, "Take it and smoke it" The man turned gray and refused. His guilt was proved. silent Japaneae Women. Japan has Its communities of silent female recluses. There is a convent at a place called Tunakawa, about sev en mncs from Hakodate. A matron of some fifty years presides, and her instructions are implicitly obeyed. The women are ail young, ranging from six teen to twenty-seven, and some of them are described as very beautiful. The building stands in a farm of some 250 acres, but the women do not en gage in any agricultural work. They spend most of their time Indoors, and the observe a strict rule of silence. CLASSIFIED IMTKHt First Insertion, One Cent a Word. One Week, ICach Mne, 30c. Two Weeks, Much Line, 45c. One Month, Karh Mne, 73c, Astorlan. Free Want Ads. rnyoiie Desiring a Situation tan Insert an Advertisement in thii Column of Three Line Two Times Fres of Charge. HELP WANTED. WANT ED V OMAN KOlt UKNKKAL housework. Inquire 10 Franklin. Wanted A girl for general house work. Apply at "IS Exchange. Mrs. Slnfield. CIRCULARS AND HAMI'LE DIM inouiors wantea everywhere; no cunvasslng; good pay. Co-operative Adv. Co.. New Tork. THE ORIGINAL JOHN A. MOLER has opened one of the famous bar- her colleges at (44 Clay St., San Fran cisco; special Inducements this month; positions granted; tuition earned while learning. Write correct number, 644 Clay at., San Francisco. FOR RENT ROOMS. ROOMS FOR RENT INQUIRE Astorlan Office. AT For RentFurulshed or unfurnished housekeeping rooms. 127 Heventh at. FOR RENT HOUSES. Kor Itent-Hlx-room house, corner 47th and Cedar streets, Alderhrook, two blocks from car line. Inuulre of Mrs. K. Johnson, over Fisher tiros.' store. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS, For Sale You can get three stoves for $10 at 141 Fifth street. HoRSE. lirOOV AND IIARNIVH for sale. Address M, Astorlan. For Sale A lot of nice household furniture, as good ns new. Inquire of Mrs. R. O. Owens, 171 Exchange St. INCUBATOR FOR SALK-400 EUU8 capacity; also thri'e 100 rapacity brooders; first-class condition. Ad dress A. Astorlan Office. For sale At Gaston's feed stable, No. 105 Fourteenth street; one Landle's harness machine; one Smith-Premier typewriter; one 20 hp motor and belt ing; 1000 good sacks. OLD PA PERU FOR BALK AT THIS Office; z5c per hundred. Fisher's Li E. SELIG, Week Commencing flonday, Dec. 5 ANNOUNCEMENT JAMES And his entire company, presenting a new line of plays. High class Vaudeville Specialties between the acts, Popular Reserved Scats, 50c; Gallery, morning at Griffin's Dook Store. The TROY Laundry Is the only White Labor Laundry in the City, Does the Best of Work at very reasonable Prices, and is in everyway worthy of your patronage. Cor. 10th and DUANE STS. Phone 1991 EXZZZXZZZXl FRESH AND CURED MEATS , Wholesale and Retail Ships, Logging Camps and Mills supplied on short notice. LIVE STOCK BOUGHT AND SOLD WASHINGTON MARKET - CHRISTENSON Q CO. IX Reliance Electrical Works H.W.CYkOB, stanafer ADVERTISING. SPECIAL NOTICES. Stockholders' Meeting, The tiiinuiil meeting of the stockhold ers of the Astoria, Klevtrlo Company will be held at the offlce of the com imny Pug block. Astoria, Oregon, on Monday, the Vlh day of January, 1906, at the hour of 1 o'clock p, m for the purpose of electing a board of directors to serve during the ensuing year and for the transaction of such other busi ness as may lawfully coins before the meeting, C. N. HUUC1INH, flee, 8. JS. M1TCIIKLU Pres. December 10, 104. ll-ll-2t Bank Notice. The nineteenth annual meeting of the stockholders of the Flint National Dank of Astoria, for the election of directors and transaction of other business, will be held at the banking ottli-e, Tuesday, January 10th, 1905, at S p. m. S. 8. UOriDON. Cashier. December 11th, 1904. Notice to Stockholders. Notice Is hereby given that the regu lar annual meeting the stockholders of the Columbia River Packers Associa tion will be held at the offices of the company at Astoria, Oregon, on De cember 12th, 104, at It o'clock, A. M., for the purpose of electing Directors, sr.d the trsnsactlon ef such other business aa may properly bs considered. OISO. II. GEORGE. Beo'y. Astoria. Or., Nov. It. 1904. "MISCELLANEOUS." To the Public Notice Is hereby given that polling place for precinct number six In the city of Astoria, for the election to be held on the 14th dny of December, 1904, has been moved from the old Adair schoolhouse to the mess house near McGregor's mill. OLOF ANDERSON. Auditor and Police Judge. Hansen McCanna, who occupy the shop formerly used by T. S. Simpson, adjoining the city water offlce, are prepared to do all kinds of sign snd carriage painting. They will make a specialty of work of this class and guarantee satisfaction. pera louse Lessee and Manager EXTRAORDINARY ! KEANE Prices 25c. Seat sale opens Saturday XXXXXITTTTTTTTm 111IHM fill We are thoroughly prepared for making estimates and executing orders for all kindi of electrical installing and repairing. Supplies in stock. We tell the Celebrated SHELBY LAMP, Call np Phone 118L 428 BOND STREET