TFIE MORNING ASTORIAN ASTORIA. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH S, 1908. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Eetakliehea 1871. V FMai Dally (Except Moaaay) by iHI J. 8. DELLINGER COMPANY. tUMCRIPTION RATES. By mall, per year By mail, ar month newspaper of Astoria and It U po-MMr- they tray have a hard tlm to rustle that $500, at they have not that amount in the treasury, and no one that Is In terested In patronising home Indus tries should subscribe a cent to the nefarious grafting; proposition. This fight la not to end here. It will be con ttnued until from the ashes of the dr bones of mossbacklsin an organisation will spring up that will represent the St 00 (business and commercial Interests of A PSYCHIC MESSAGE IT ROUSED A RAILROAD OFFICIAL TO SUDDEN ACTIVITY. By carrier, per month It WEEKLY ASTORIAN. 10 the city and county, and not the graft ing propensities of an ttbseure publi cation. By mail, per year, in advance ..SI 00 Entered at the pestefflce at Astoria, Oregon as second-class matter. tVOrdws for the doUwin of TBI Menftixa AaraaiA e either naktaxw or place ef bwiww ay be made by metal card or through t4e fkcoa. Any irrccutatty is drUrery should be ISMMdiatety reported to the office of publication. Telephone Main 661. Tea-ay's Weather. Oretron Fair, nortwesterly winds. Washington Fair, except probablj r etrlctlons. rains on the northwest coast; winds. variable and southerly. , t WHIPPLE FRANCHISE The common council at Its meeting Monday night showed due deference to the rights of the public by adopting the suggestions of the Astorlan rela tive to granting franchisee at the same time showing no Inclination to refuse a rrancnise wnere me purues snoe.i a determination to conform to Its pro visions. The decision to prepare two separate ordinances, one for telephone and telegraph and one for gas and electric light gives the applicants an opportunity of accepting one or both. Mr. Whipple and Mr. Clinton were present and were willing for the coun citl to pass any ordinance granting them a franchise with reasonable re They conveyed the Im presalon that there were people behind th enterprise Uat would not only construct the proposed lines but would bring capital to Astoria. There Is no Question that an Im provement in the present telephone sen-ice will meet with the hearty ap proval of nine-tenths of the people. ADVERTISING ASTORIA. A committee appointed by the v'aanv ber of commerce to consider the besi methods of advertising Astoria, held a meeting yesterday afternoon. TheThe prwr,t company show no Incllna committee was composed of Jas. u. tion to better their service, which Is Welch, president of the chamber oflcon8ijere4 0ne of the poorest In the commerce, A. K. Cyrus, job. w. bur- state, but In this respect. It Is similar prenant and J. Q. A. Bowlby. With thi I to the Bell telephone service In ever) exception of Mr. Bowlby, the commit- jolty where It is used. It Is claimed tee was unanimous In Its views that j that the fault lies principally In the the only way to advertise Astoria was Astoria office. through some obscure publication, and Relative to the gas and electric light It selected the Overland Monthly, a franchise there seems to be a differ. magazine that has never Deen before ence of opinion aa to Its proving a beard of In the state of Oregon, and paying Investment. It is contended by which haa no standing among the the promoters that the price of lights periodicals of the United States. This and gas Is altogether too high and bag been the method employed by thr that they propose to supply a better chamber of commerce since its In J service for less money. For this rea- oeptlon. There has never been a time I son and upon these statements, thi in tile history of that organization granting of the franchise Is approved that it has ever appropriated or spent by a large number. one dollar to assist any home news-1 The opinion obtains among tht, paper. Every dollar spent by the or-1 members of the common council that ganlzation has gone to ouside pubII-no franchise should be granted ex cations, with the result that neither cept under proper restrictions and that the chamber of commerce, nor the city it Is easier to place the restrictions In of Astoria,' or Clatsop county, has ever the ordinance granting the franchise realized one particle of benefit from than to attempt to regulate it after a (he stupidity of Its members. During franchise has been granted. This Is l mil the time that the chamber of com-j along the lines suggested by the As merce has been in existence, it has notjtorian. There Is no one but wants to secured one dollar of capital, It ha (see outside capital come to Astoria not secure one slngel farmer, It has I and invest and no on will place any not secured one single enterprise, and I obstacle In the way for the fulfillment the money paid out for advertising In of any project backed by capital and foreign publications has been wasted.! upon which work Is commenced with This is not the first time this ob-in a reasonable time and completed scure and defunct organization has with a reasonable time. There is no squandered the people's money by ad-1 Intention on the part of the council tt yertislng In obscure publications. It bottle the city up on a long franchise has snent curing its existence thou- as would have been the result had the sands of dollars to advertise Astoria ordinance presented by Mr. Whipple and its resources, but not one penny been passed has ever been paid to a home news- There Is no doubt but the granting paper. The home newspapers have of the franchise, if its provisions are endeavored to build up a sentiment in strictly lived up to, will result In the city for the patronizing of some bringing outside capital to the city merchants and home Industries, butjand that the establishment of the their efforts have always been retard- services proposed will both Improve d bv the mossback organization. the service and cheapen the cost of When it was reported on the streets I lights. yesterday that the committee had Both Mr. Whipple and Mr. Clinton awarded a contract to the Overland are inclined to grant any concessions Monthlv. the indignation knew no and are confident ihat they will be bounds. Dozens of the members of the able to perform all the requirements organization stated that they would of the ordinance. As to whether It withdraw from it and would positive- will be a paying Investment is a mat ly refuse to pay any more dues. The ter which they have probably Invest! result will be that Inside of 30 davs gated and they seem willing to take the chances. There can be no reason ble objection to the enterprise pro viding all the conditions of the fran chlse are strictly lived up to. there will not be onoujfh braln.i left in the organization to hold a coroner' Inquest over. The organization Is sup posed to be composed of the prominent business men of the city, but owing to the mossback proclivities of some or the leading members, they have refused to attend the meetings, and there has not been a meeting of this organlza tlon for the past three months that has had an attendance of to exceed eight members, and most of them were the ' fall of '49, spring of '50 mossbacks. But this Amalgamated Order of . Mossbacks has none of the best of the newspapers of Astoria. Every pub Usher in Astoria has agreed not only 'that they will not attend a meeting of the organization, but they will refuse to publish Its proceedings and pro pose to completely Ignore the order of antiquated ideas. Not only that, but there is not a newspaper that will ever publish a descriptive article of Asto ria ard its resources as long as the , present coterie of hold hulks are at the head of the outfit. If they want to advertise the city and county in an obscure publication and pay $500 for it, they can do so. There has never been a dollar spent by the chamber ol ' Commerce In the past 10 years that has ever brought one single capitalist to Astoria, not a single farmer, not a single manufacturer. When appllca tlons are received from eastern people for a copy of the Astoria papers, the letter will be relegated to the waste basket. The Amalgamated Order of Astoria Mossbacks imagine that they are cutting a squash, and It remains to be seen what the result will be. From now on the Chamber of Com merce will never be notleed In an FARMERS TRUST. The Tillamook Herald is authority for the statement that the farmers In Kansas are going to organize a trust It Is not stated whether it Is to per petuate farming, or keep the cranks out of the asylum. The Herald says: The Kansas man who Is trying to organize a trust among the farmers is likely to be faded to a fraezle by a New Jersey man. He proposes to herd the whole Job lot Into one grand ag gregatlon. His scneme Is to form a trust of farmers for the Importation of farm labor from abroad, the em ployment of worthless men from the great cities, the education of farmers' sons to such a degree that they would be willing to remain on the farms, and the education of farmers' daughters for rural wives instead of for depart ment store cle'rks. In syndicate or trust farming he would have th farmers of every community unite along the trust Idea, some of them to stay at home and work, others to go to the markets to sell and all to buy on the co-operative plan. We do not know bis working plans, but no mat ter wnat tney have there will be a whole lot of Joiners. o THE UNSURPASSED VINTAGE. now being shipped of G. H. Murom's Extra Dry accounts for the phenome nal imports of 131,330 cases in 1904. Immense reserves of the superb 1898. 1899, and 1900 vintages guarantee con tinuance of Its remarkable quality. The Story mt m peelal Tr.li That Was Sidetracked mm Hew the raiHi(r Tnli ei W.rel.g at the Mlakap. A number of railroad officials were chattlug after a business meeting, wbeu the discussion chanced to drift upon the question whether railroad men art superstitious. Presented with the opportunity to display their knowledge, some of thi passenger men drifted into the realms of esoteric Buddhism aud pscychlc phe nomena, with a touch of spiritualism thrown In for full measure. Finally on of the party, a aaeugcr traffic man ager, lualfted that be waa neither su perstitious nor did he understand psychic phenomena. "Just the same," he concluded, "I bad one of those psychic things happen to me when I was engaged In trying U Induce every one In Nashville to travel by the Ixiulsvtlle and Nashville. The! Grau Opera company waa coming to town for a week's engagement and the outfit, scenery and all, waa coming over our line, thanks to the persuasive ability of the Louisville and NashrUlt'i gentlemanly representative, who at that time was your humble servant The day before the grand opera sea son should be upon us the advance agent called upon me and. robbing his hands gleefully, declared that the ad vance sales had been enormous. M'A good first night' he declared, would make the engagement a record breaker. If everything goes well to morrow night they can't atop us. 1 suppose that scenery is on the way all right and will show up on timer I assured blm that It was aa he tup potted, and he left me In a happy frame of mind. The next day as I was sitting In my ot&ce thinking about nothing particular the conviction flushed upon me that it waa up to me to get the Gran scenery to town In time for the opening performance. I laughed at the conviction at first hot It recurred to me with irresistible force, and I could not get It out of my head that the scenery was doing time on a side track somewhere between St Louis and Nashville. I remembered that the opening opera was to be 'A Ida,' wblcb requires the double stage and there fore an endless amount of scenery. Ac cordingly if that scenery did not ar rive no makeHblft would supply the want of It "By early afternoou I bad worked myself into a state bordering upon nervous prostration, and finally I bolt ed for Major James Geddes' office. The major was then a division superintend ent and, after apologizing for mixing up In a matter that was really none of my business. I asked him If the Grau scenery was on the way. " 'Certainly It Is,' he replied convinc ingly. 'It left St Louis early last even ing and Is coming special on a fast schedule. It will be here within an hour from now.' " 'How do you know all that T I de manded. " 'Know it, know It? shouted the ma jor wratlifully. 'How do I know I'm alive? Haven't I got the reports showing the makeup of the special, the time It left St. Louis and the schedule on which It Is running? You had bet ter go back to your office, young man, and keep on selling tickets. Don't med dle with the operating department un less you can talk sense " 'Just the same, major,' I Insisted, have reason to know that the Grau scenery Is not on the way to Nash ville.' The major's wrath knew no bounds. "Where Is It, then?' be snorted. " 'Somewhere on a side track between here and St. Louis,' 1 rnplled. "'Young man, said the miijor, lis ing, 'you are such a blamed fool that will breuk iny rule and take the trou ble to convince you that you are one Instead of kicking you out of iny office. Come with me.' "We rushed upstairs to the truln dis patcher's office, where the major or dered the dispatcher to show me prog ress of the Grau special. "'It's not progressing. It has been lying on the side track at Itlolndo for five hours,' replied the dispatcher, 'and I've been scouring the system for an engine. The special's engine went dead.' "The major forgot me, forgot every thing, except that special. In a trice be had another engine tearing up the track to get to Ulolado from a point a few miles away, and then he cleared the track and gave the scenery the right of way clear to Nashville. That run of 185 miles from Hiolndo to Nashville standi as a southern record today, but It burned up nearly every car In the outfit to make It. The spe cial arrived thirty minutes before open ing time. I had an army of wagons and men waiting for it, and before the curtain was rung up every stick of it was in place." "What did the major say?" was ask ed. 'The next day be sent for me and said, 'Young man, the next time you have one of those nutty hunches bit the main line and see me before It works off.' 8. G. A. In Chicago Bee- ord-Herald. O010SOO$OlOOO(00tO JOOmX)0(!XXX 21 I : 1! 1 mm ill :"SY mm Copyright 1904 by Hart Schaffner Marx Ourt First iShowing' OF Spring) Clothing'. 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