PRIQAY, JANUARY tl, 1M1
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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA. OREGON.
NUISANCE ABATED
Disgusting Bill Boards Will Soon
Be a Thing of Past in Astoria.
DEMAND UNANIMOUS
The Women of Astoria Pl.d With
the Policy of the Attorian and
Commend the Action, of tht
Common Council.
Several communications have bwn
received at the Aslorian office com
mending the course of the paper and
the actions of the common council rel
ative to the bill board nuisance. In
the communications Instances are cited
where accidents have occurred which
' have never been published. Several
ladies have Indorsed the actions of the
. common council In their efforts to re
move the unsightly bill boards from
; off the public thoroughfares. Probab-
ty no class of people have been as much
annoyed as the women, not only on ac
count of the dirt and filth washed off
the boards on the sidewalks, but the
character of the advertisements that
have been posted on them. The nude
in art may be all right in art galleries,
but when disgusting advertisements
are displayed where they can be seen
by children they are not calculated to
inspire the rising generation with
thoughts of morality and decency.
There is not a city in the United
States where bill boards are allowed.
Public sentiment in the east has been
educated up against them, resulting
, in their removal. One of the principal
objections against the bill board nuis
ance is the demoralising adverttoe
, ments that are posted on them. The
concerns that send out this class of ad
vestisements have no regard for the
morals of the youth of the land, as
long as they can sell their nostrums.
The ownsers of bill board care little
about the effect upon society, so long
as they can reap a harvest from bill
board advertising.
' Many other objections are urgeJ by
the people of Astoria against the bill
board nuisance, the principal one being
that when the rain washes off the ad
vertisements tbey lay all over the side
walks making travel both dangerous
and annoying. Ladies' skirts drag
through the filth, and many times they
are compelled to walk in the streets to
avoid the nuisance. The common coun
cil is determined to eradicate the nuis
ance, and it is very probable that two
ordinances will be Introduced. One de
daring all bill boards a nuisance and
providing for their removal, and an
other raising the bill posters' license
to 150 per month. The latter method
will probably be the most effective, as
there can be no contest over what con
stitutes a nuisance and the law can
become operative at once. This will
do away with posting immoral adver
tisements, and in the mean time, the
nuisance ordinance can be enforced and
the boards removed from the public
thoroughfares. In their efforts to elim
inate this disgusting nuisance, the
common council will have the hearty
co-operation of everyone in Astoria
with the single exception of the owner
of the bill boards.
CONDITIONS IN METAL.
Pig Iron Trade Is Brisk This Month
and Business Good.
Cleveland, Jan. 12. The Iron Trade
review this week says:
The usual January quietness of the
Iron market is substantially unbroken,
Inquiries for pig iron for pipe found
ries are an exception to the rule, one
company's option covering 30,000 tons,
and round sales are expected this week.
The pig iron output of the United
States Steel Corporation is now great
er than at any time. Of all furnaces
using Lake Superior ores and reporting
to the Bessemer Big Iron Association
i6 per cent of the capacity was active
on January 1, as against 78 per cent
on December 1 and 45 per cent on
January 1, 1904.
Railway buying has not been as
large thus far as it was expected to
be but the program of railroad flnan-
ing has not developed for 1905, so that
further time may elapse before mill
schedules are affected.
Bridge work. It is believed, will be
on a scale much larger than In 1904,
if plans already well along are not in
terrupted. The real business of the week has
included 30,000 tons closed in the Chi
cago district, but the trade still waits
for much of the large tonnage that
was talked of two months ago as cer
tain to be placed when the price for
1905 was announced.
Only a Tramp.
New York, Jan. 12. The steamer re
ported ashore at Fire island this morn
ing is sugar laden tramp Indus with a
crew of 25 men. She carried no pas
sengers. Efforts were made all day to
float her without success, and at mid
night tonight, she Is still fast on the
bar with little prospect of being float
ed before high tide tomorrow.
MARINE NEWS.
Captain Samuel Coul.on Dies in Port
land.
Captain Samuel Coulson, who wi re
cently stricken by paralysis while at
the wheel of his vessel In the river, died
in Portland yesterday. Captain Coulson
was one of the best known of the cap
tains on the river, having been here
for nearly 40 years. Fr many years he
was of the moat trusted of the em
ployes of the O. It. N.
The steamer Oeo, V. Klder left out
at 1! o'clock yesterdny for San Fran
cisco. She leaves Frisco on her regular
trip on the l"th.
terday afternoon with freight and pas
terday afternoon with freight and aps-
sengers from San Fraivlsco,
Captain Turner of the Columbia will
be master of the new steamer Roanoke
when she toes on the San Francisco
run In opposition to the O. R. A N.
fleet.
The schooner Bulah has cleared for
San Francisco with a cargo of nearly
500.000 feet of lumber from the Hume
mUL
The schooner Luaon arrived down the
river yesterday with a cargo of lumber.
Placing the steam schooner Lakme
on the drydock at Hunters Point has
proved more disastrous for the coaster
than all the bumping she experienced
on the Humboldt bar. When the Sea
River, which brought the Lakme in
from sea, shoves her waterlogged
charge inside the big basin the Lakme,
although full of water, was sound of
hull. So tight, in fact, were the coast
er's seams that holes had to be bored
through the planking, as the drydock
slowly emptied, to release the water
shipped at sea. Before the Lakme's
bull was out of water the steam
schooner, which had not been securely
braced, toppled over and in the fall
several of the keel blocks were driven
through the Lakme's Umbers. As a
result of this fall the Lakme la a good
deal of a wreck and the cost of re
pairing her will now be some thousands
of dollars greater than it otherwise
would have been.
The steamer Columbia left San Fran
cisco yesterday for Astoria and Port
land. The name of only one vessel is at
present on the overdue list at the Mer
chants' exchange. The solitary belated
windjammer is the British bark Stork.
now out 108 days from Hudson Bay for
London. She- Is quoted at 75 per cent,
and hope of her ever showing up is
fast fading.
Because of a blunder made by the
prosecution, Olof Anderson, master of
the schooner Vine, escaped conviction
yesterday In the United States dis
trict court in San Francisco, and was
released. Captain Anderson was
charged with beating and wounding
his steward, John Sanders, on the high
seas while the Vine was at the Caro
line Islands last August Sanders Is
a Japanese, and he failed to have the
captain's coffee on time. The beating
was proved by all the witnesses and
it looked like a conviction until Judge
de Haven exploded a thunderbolt In
his charge to the Jury. He said that
among other things, before a convic
tion could be had, it was necessary
that it should have been proved that
the Vine was an American vessel. The
jury might poslbly remember, said the
judge, that such testimony had been
Introduced, but the court did not Upon
this hint the Jury acquitted Captain
Anderson.
A libel has been filed In the United
States district court at San Francisco
by the owners of the tug Traveler
against the steamer Redondo to recover
salvage for saving the Redondo off
Grays Harbor on November 24, 1904.
They demand J3200 from the defend
ants, which the defendants refused to
pay. The Traveler is owned by G. H.
Emerson of Hoquiam.
Coast Freezes Up.
Vancouver, Jan. 12. For the first
time In many years, the salt water in
the Inlets and bays along the British
Columbia coast are frozen over.
Weekly Astorian.
Commencing January 13 the Semi-
Weekly Astorian will eb discontinued
and the Weekly Astorian issued In
place of it. This Is made necessary on
account of the question of legality of
legal notices published and the re
fusal of the postofflce department to
deliver semi-weekly and dally news
papers by carrier, which Is prohibited
by the postal regulations. The Weekly
Astorian will contain the same matter
as has been published In the semi-
weekly, and will be the best weekly
newspaper published In Clatsop coun
ty.
A BIG RUSH.
A large number of Bargain hunter
have already crowded Herman Wise's
Clothing Store; fortunately Mr. Wise's
stock of fine overcoats and suits for
Men and Boys is so large that a great
many more smart buyers can get suit
ed without trouble; this Is certainly
the greatest sale of fine goods in Ore
gon. Don't wait too long and be sorry
later. NOW Is the time to get spe
cial Bargains at Herman Wise's big
Clothing shop. WISE knows how.
WIFE'S .vSSr. .SALE?
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CLOTHING
PRICES
SHAVED
ILwirylbodly
Prices that paralyze competition.
Prices that please our customers.
There is not a store in the whole State of Oregon today that can
match PRICES with us.
Not just a few old style
Overcoats but all our
Latest Up-to-Date Goods
SLASHED.
OVERCOATS
and RAINCOATS
during this sale
25 per cent Off.
DON'T HESITATE I
Because before you know
it the month will be over
and then you'll be sorry
you didn't take advantage
of WISE'S Reduction.
(SUITS.
S 10.00 SUITS FOR 18.00
$12.60 surra for 10.00
$16.00 SUITS FOR 12.00
$17.10 SUITS FOR 14.00
$20.00 SUITS FOR 140
122.50 SUITS FOR 18.00
$25.00 SUITS FOR 20.00
$27.50 SUITS FOR 22.00
$30.00 SUITS FOR 24.00
THE SAME IN THE STORE AS IN
THIS PAPER.
Every garment bears the
ORIGINAL price tad and
when Wise says
20 per cent or
25 per cent off
it means jnst what Wise says
OVERCOATS
$10.00
$12.50
$18.00
$17.50
$2000
$32.50
$28.00
$27.60
$20.00
OVERCOAT FOR 1.7.80
OVERCOAT FOR 9.40
OVERCOAT FOR MM
OVERCOAT FOR 1S.1S
OVERCOAT FOR MM
OVERCOAT FOR 11.90
OVERCOAT FOR 1fc7
OVERCOAT FOR 20.95
OVERCOAT FOR 22.90
THE SAME IN THE STORE AS IN
THIS PAPER.
You nccdth c Clothes, Wise needs the Money, Hence these Close Prices.
MAKE NO MISTAKE IN THE PLACE.
WISE
THE RELIABLE CLOTHIER
Opposite Palace Restaurant. Opposite Palace Restaurant.
PMIDFlIiBMCECO
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Of New Zealand
W. P. THOMAS, Mgr., San Francisco.
UNLIMITED LIABILITY OF SHAREHOLDERS
Has been Underwriting on the Pacific Coast for twentj-five years.
ELMORE a CO., Sole Agents
Our annual sale Is the talk of the
town patrons have been waiting for
it don't miss It; come early. C. H.
Cooper, the leading house of Astoria.
Astoria,
Oregon.
The TROY Laundry
Is the only White Labor laundry in the City. Does the Best
of Work at very reasonable Prices, and is in every way worthy
of your patronage. Cor. 10th and DUANE ST8. Phone 1991
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FRESH AND CURED MEATS
Wholesale and Retail
Ships, Logging Camps and Mills supplied on short netice.
LIVE STOCK BOUGHT AND SOLD
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Electrical
Works
We are thoronghjy prepared for making
estimate! and executing orders (er
all kinds of eleotrical installing ani
repairing. Supplies in stock. We
tell the Celebrated SHELBY LAMP.
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