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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1904)
TIIElMORNINGjASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. Nothing Is Elore Sui table THE IE F village, they secured lodgings. Early In the morning the village constable, ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK Capitol Pld Id 1100,000. 8urpln and Undivided Profit. $23,000 Transact, a jeoeri banking business. Interest paid on time deposits. J. O, A. BOWLBT. O. L PETERSON, FRANK PATTON. J. W. GARNER, President Vie. President Cashier. Asst. Cashier under telephone direction, from the La A CHRISTMAS PRESENT than a crosse police, arrested them. Brag' glng the girl behind him Dunbar dashed New Umbrella. on to th. frozen river. When they reached a point near the Peserted Tot is Given Name And open channel, the Ire broke and they You can get almost any kind you ish.,it iki new umbrella itorev All repair work neatly done. Good Home. were set drifting on a large cake Stepping from cake to cake they made their , way to the, Minnesota .Id. In 18 TENTH STREET. ASTORIA, ORE. ' f jf ' safety. 43! Cnnrcll BtrMC ; h j tjf LUVail, AlfePtED rBY A FARMER. ARSNIC IN TOBACCO. UNDAY DECEMBER 28, 1904. o o o o o o o o o o MMlEtlTOt) LUMBER GO. Menuf.oturers of and DaaUra In Fir, Spruce and Hemlock LUMBER Submit us your specifications on any bill you wish and we will give you best prices. We make a specialty of Spruce Bevel Siding and Factory Stock. TwnJKE Worrenton, Or. Cspselty 76,000 fet p.r day. ' ! MEATS FISH - GAAIE - POULTRY MMMMiiIiitMlimMMMMMIitMMIMMtMiMMIIIimiMMMtIMMIMMM Everthing-seasonable is in our Market. We sell only fresh, pure andclean foods. Prompt delivery. Evcrycustomer satisfied. ! Astoria Fish, Game and Poultry Market. flALAR BROS., Proprietors, Twelfth Street. BBS For Sty 1 i s h M e n Be correctly Jw . Suits with the Snap, Style and Finish, dressed. It coots no more if you seo ANDREW LAKE 482 Commercial Street. Scow Bay Iron 8 Brass Works Manufacturers cf Iron, Steel, Brass and Bronze Castings. General Foundryuuen and Patternmakers. Absolutely firstclass work. Prices lowest Phone 2451a Comer Eighteenth and Franklin. PRAEl 0 COOK TRANSFER CO. Telephone 221. Draying and Expressing All good, shipped to our care will receive speolal attention. 709-715 Commercial Street. pimiltlTtTlIITHHTHHIIHIIHltTIITItlTttttttnt Staple and Fancy Groceries ' KLOUIt, FEED, PROVISIONS, TOBACCO AND CIGARS. Supplies ot all kinds at lowest prioes for Fishermen, Farmer, and Loggers Branch Unionlown, Phones, 711, Uniontown; 713 A. V. ALLEN, Tenth and Commercial Streets, ' t ASTORIA. OREGON. aWtlHTIHIlHHIHtHyftniHIHIIIlHtfTttHWW A flvs WeeRs Old Baby Discovered at senvllle, Ind by Some Miner, and Will be Wall Taken Car of by King Friends. Boonvllle, Ind, Dec. 23. If . Bret Harte had never written lila world- famous story. "Luck of Roaring Camp," some one might now delight the read Ing public with the scene laid In this town, which has adopted a foundling, the town baby, as Roaring Camp took Tuck" Into Its great, warm, rough heart in the California tale, and Eldora Booh la a living, crowing baby girl In stead of a character In cold type. , In the Warrick county orphan.' home i the queen of the establishment, Eldora, ha. been Installed as the town 1aby, She has been showered with toys, money snd clothing, and has been named In honor of the town. Several week, ago John Griffin, who, with several other miners, win pre paring to begin work In the Stock mine., almost atumbled over a HttU white parcel on the water box. "Why, if. a baby I " he exclaimed, and other, crowded forward to ex amine It. The little tot waa sleeping, with a bottle of milk tied fast to It. little pink band. It wa. a girl, apparently 4 or 5 weeka old. , "We'll Just naturally adopt thl. here youngster," said Griffin, "and so's every one can have a chance at It equal, and no one will keep It, we'll take It to the orphans' home." Scores of townspeople flocked to see It, and th. dea of a "town' baby" wa. Instantly Indorsed. he will belong to the whole town, like Luck of Roaring Camp,'" ex claimed a chtldle.a matron, hugging the unconscious little one to her bosom A meeting of the orphans' home true tees was held and the unanimous opln Ion was to call the little one Eldora Boon, In honor of Boonvllle and Boon township. Eldora Is an abbreviation for Eldorado, a Spanish name. The fact .that the baby was found at mine suggested the name to Mis. Wilder, the matron. So It woe settled and Eldora Boon took her place among men petted, dandled, kissed and hugged a. few Boonvllle babies ever were before. Presents began to arrive the next day from Eldora's multitude of foster pa' rents, and money was showered upon her. It was all put away In a little bank for future use, and when con trlbutor. would put coin. Into her lit tle dainty hand Eldora would grasp and hold It with all her might, which Miss Wilder My. I. a sure sign that .he will some day be a rich woman. An attempt waa made to trace her parentage, and people were found who saw a strange couple in town with market basket the night before Eldora waa found at the mine, but the officers' search revealed nothing. But, one week ago, a wealthy farmer made application for the little tot, and she was carried away from the or phans' home. Today Eldora Boon Is the daughter of one of Warrick coun ty'a wealthiest farmer., and 15 years hence, it she Uvea, she will probably be the belle of her vicinity. Princeton Resident's Narrow Escaae from "Christmas Gift." , Frinceton. N. J., Dec. 24. A most peculiar attempt at murder was made her. yesterday, when William Luts, commercial man of this town, received small package through th. malL On opening it he found It to contain a plug of tobacco, with the following note: "Friend Will: Accerft this little token as a Christmas present Hoping you will enjoy It With greetings." No signature accompanied the note. Luts thought nothing more of it ex cept that he told a friend that he had received his llrst Christmas present A. he was about to use the plug, however, Luts happened by chance to notice a carefully concealed .lit In the side. Thinking thl. .trans, he Dried the tobacco open, and found it filled with a powder. This aroused his sus picions, and he hurried with the pack age to a chemist, whose analysis showed that the plug contained 32 grain, of arsenic and pari, green. Had It not been for hi. casual glance at the tobacco before he bit it Luti might have been killed. Every effort Is being made to run the would-be murderer to the ground. 1 CURE TOR CONSUMPTION. Ms 00000000000000000000 1 0 Wholes ale CIGARS. PIPES, TOBACCO, ETC. o s c c t WILL MADISON 030 roMMPUCIAL ST. :-i 114 ELEVENTH ST. 00000000000000000000r HOT E Lr PORTLAND The Finest Hotel In the Northwest PORTLAND OREGON. Fax Vacated. Paris, Dec. 23. The correspondent at Tangier of Ler Matin says that after calling at the French mission, the in In inters of the several power's ordered all the people of their nationalities to quit Fes. x For Killing Jews. Klshlneff, Dee. 23. sentences were pronounced today upon the persons found guilty of participation In the anti-Jewish riots here In May, 1903. Seventeen ot them are. sentenced to 170 days' imprisonment, two to 80 days and 11 were acquitted. LIKE ELIZA. Mississippi River Not Nearly So Ter rifying .. Angry Mother, Behind. . Lacrosse, Dec. 24. Calling to each other, and goaded to desperation by the hostile shouts of a constable behind them, pretty 16-year-old Inex Pierce and her boy lover, Archie Dunbar leafed like Eliza from cake to cake of floating ice in the Mississippi river and landed safely on the Minnesota side. Miss Pierce is a daughter of a stern and stylish mother. She was sentenced to the Industrial school because she persisted In receiving the attention of Dunbar. The court granted her last evening her freedom and she went home with her mother. Dunbar called and they escaped. Hur. rying south on foot to Genoa, a small ; n Threatened With Quick Consum ption to Have Window. Open. Paterson, N. J., Dec. 24. To over come the effects of the change from the hardships of army life to the luxuries of a modern house, Betchel H. Scott of No. 297 Ellison street I. sleeping in building little better' than a shed In the yard bock of hi. house. Before he began this treatment he was so weak that be could hardly stand alone. Now he Is rapidly gaining strength and weight and hi. physicians have no doubt of a complete recovery. Mr. Scott 1. a son of George Scott of the Knickerbocker Express Company Of New Tork. He enlisted In the Spanish war, serving In Company O, Twelfth New Tork regiment He bad three years of army life In Cuba, and when he returned home he was In fine physl col condition. Soon after his return his appetite began to fall. After while he grew weaker. Specialists de- clased the case to be one of quick con sumption. More fresh air was advised. As the winter wore on the danger of leaving the windows and doors open causing a free.Ing of pipes and other annoyances confronted the family. It was decided to erect a building In the yard. Before Mr. Scott is ready to retire at night the room is heated with an oil stove. The stove Is then re moved and the windows In the build Ing are opened, and they remain open the entire night When he began this treatment Mr. Scott had fallen from 160 pounds to 111 pounds. Within a month he has gained more than 10 pounds and he ia now able to go about without aid. first National Danii of Astoria ESTABLISHED 1886 Capital and Surplus $100,000 ASTORIA IRON WORKS g.LB18IiOP,8eereU!7 ABTOEIA SAVINGS BAHJC, Tree. Designers and Manufacturers of THl LITEST IMPROVED CANNING MACHINERY, MARINE ENG1NESJJAND BOILER! COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS FURNISHED. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Foot of Fourth Street, - . . . ASTORIA, OREGON. .3 ANDREW ASP, BLACKSMITH. Having insulted a Rubber Tiring Machine of the latest pattern I am prepared to do all kinds of work ' in that line at reasonable prices. Telephone 29L ' CORNER TWELFTH AND DUANE STREETS. ANOTHER ACCIDENT. A Gun That Wasn't Loaded Kill, a Young Lady. San Bernardino, Dec. 24. Miss Irene Lamar, a great favorite In social clr cles, was accidentally shot and killed by her 18-year-old brother, Charles La mar, at the Needles today. The young man was clearing in Winchester rifle when the weapon was discharged, the bullet penetrating a door and screen it and entering the next room, where embedded Itself in the girl's neck. As soon as the young man saw that he had wounded his sister he ran to summon surgical assistance, but before the physicians could arrive the girl had expired, the bullet having sev ered both the spinal cord and the Jug ular vein. , . , Miss Lamar, when she received her death wound, was sitting alone, doing some needlework.. . ...,, -, The unfortunate girl was the only daughten of the senior, member ot the firm of Lamar Bros., and was to have been graduated this, year from the high school at the Needles. The coroner's Jury gave a verdict of death, by occi dental shooting. , 4 FISHER BROTHERS COMPANY Agents Th Unfit Tbreafl Co. 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I Improved at once and now Pra completely recovered. For Liver, Kidney, Stomach and Bowel troubles Electrlo Bitters Is th. only medicine. Oaly EOo. It'a guaranteed by Chaa. Roger. Druggist. Schllts'a beer made Milwaukee fa mous, and 1. having the same effect on the Grotto. Nothing better oh the market YOU CAN DO BETTER HERE WE BUY FOR CASH AND SELL FOR CASH ONLY Heating Stoves, Cook Stoves, Ranges. Iron Beds, Springs and Mattrasse. are our specialties. - . . . . L. H. HENNINGSEN ft (JO. SffS CENTRAL MEAT MARKET - . G. W, Morton and John Fnhrmao, Proprietors, , CHOICEST Fit ESQ AND SALT MEATS. PROMPT DELIVER! 543 Commercial St. Phone Main 321. 433 Commercial Street Phone Main 121 Sherman Transfer Co. - HENRY SHERMAN, Manager , Hacks, Carriages Baggag Checked and Transfened Truaks mi Furniture Wagons- Pianos Moved, "Boxed and Shipped. a