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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1905)
THE M0KN1NT. ASTOUIA N ASTOIUA OUFOON. THURSDAY, JUNE 13, J. 4 4 " , - ... - - - - I .r a imi I IL I MAKlNt BAD COUNTY ROADS Delegate Gives Some Suggestions on Road Building. SHOULD BE ON THE LEVEL The Roads Out of Astoria Arc Not Less Than Twelve Per Cent Grade and It it Impossible to haul a Load Over a Boad With that Grade. Editor Astorian. A number of the citizens of Clatsop County have been ap pointed to attend the state Good Roads Convention, about to be convened in the state. It is necessary to do some hurrah work to pet people awakened sometimes to their own interests. There arj few primary principles to be observed in road building. First, low grade. A power that can draw 1000 pounds on a level road can draw but four hundred pounds on a road which rises ten feet in one hundred. The road out of Astoria are about 12 pcf cent, or twelve feet in one hun dred, hence a teamster who comes in from the Xehalem and occupies about three or four days for the round trip can handle but one-quarter of a load, whether the road beyond the city is. good or not. Remedy care in location. It may be more economical to go around hills, o build switch backs on mountain sides than to tunnel or make deep cuts and fills. Second The surface of the road bed should be firm. A road bed may be so soft or muddy that the team can, with difficulty, draw an empty wagon over it Remedy, care in locating the roaa in countries like this, where wind and sun can reach it, and the ground is dry. In constructing provide thorough drain age. Much of the year a good road can be maintained on these two principles. Third cover the roadbed, either with sheds overhead to keep off the rain, r place on the ground materials which are impervious to water. In Clatsop county, it is belter lo u materials on the ground. Wood ami stone are the materials at hand. Tin first as poles, puncheons, or sawed planks. The second in the form of grave! or crushed lxvk. Close, practical study of these prin eiples, with a wise consideration of th cost of the application, and an economi cal construction of road are the point to be considered in this county. Topography, soil, climate and mater ials, differ according to locality, so that in different places different factor en ter iuto the question of good roads, and the means to attain them. ONE OF THE DELEC.ATES. HOTEL ARRIVALS. Occident. F. 0. Field and wife. Chicago. B. F. Fleckenstein, Portland. C. V. Taylor, 1'ortladd. J. W. Palmer and wife, Portland. C, V. T. Koch. Chicago. C. W. Lawton. Chicago. J. A. Miller, Chicago. Benj. Sweet, Milwaukee. Albert A. Tilles, Boston. , Parker. Lauris Tjtng. Portland. John Ryan. Bay City. A. Mattson. Uwaco. Matt ellnderson. Ilwaco. John Hodsoit. lak Point, .las. Crewinna, St. Louis. J. 11. Bell. Indiana. E. K. Robinson, Portladd. R. A. Hcinman. Portland. Pete Nelson, Portland. R. M. Mason. Ft. Stevens. Joe Clapp, Ft. Stevens. H. Wichney, Chicago. J. C. Fox. Altoona. Victor Eriikson. Altoona. A. C. Spotts, Portland. C. Dist, Ilwaco. John Juopier, Ilwaco. E, Lister, Ilwaco. H. Hiekorys, Portland. Martin Latree, Seattle. G. E. Richards, Seattle. John Hobson, Seattle. G. S. Stewart South Bedd. A. P. Johnson, Salem, Mo. Chas Young, Clatsop. Sunday Excursions to North Beach. The Ilwaco and Navigation Company sre selling round trip tickets every Sun day from Astoria to all points on Long Beach including Xaheotta, at rate of one dollar for the round trip. " ) SfieFOARD $ STOKES CO. Mohairs Still Md First Place" Those dainty, practical, d"st-shedding fabrics so popular this season are just as much in demand as ever. So great has been their popularity that merchants all over the country have been unable to meet the demand they have created. We predicted early in the Spring that such would be the case and governed our buying accordingly. The result is that we now have the Grandest Assortment of New Mohairs This City Has Ever Seen And we would like to have every lady in Astoria visit our Dry Goods Department this week and see them. It will do your heart good. Prices range from 49c to $1.50 per yard. Patterns that will suit you. The Foard & Stokes Go. Astoria's Greatest Store. Where New Things Are First Introduced. ULWUOT Steamer Alliance Brings Number of Passengers. ALSO EXHIBITS FOR THE FAIR The United States Engineers Have Ap proved the Specifications for The DalletCeulo Canal and Bids For the Work Will Be Advertised for Soon. With all her passenger aceommoda tions occupied the steamer Alliance went up the river snd arrived in Portland yes trrday morning. Most of her IH1 pass engers are here to see the fair. Captain llarduk-k reports having encountered a heavy northwester all the way from Eureka, but at the same time his ves sel did not suffer from the blow. She left Eureka Saturday evening ami arrived at Coo Bay the following morn ing. She remained there in order to con neet with the train and lot some time thereby, but made up by getting all the passengers she could carry. When the Alliamv was at Eureka the steamer Newport was there undergoing some slight repairs. This will proliably explain the Newport's slow progress up the coast, for. according to calculations she should U in port by this time. The Alliance brought little freight thi time, but one package was in the nature of a freak. It was a sdted hair seal from Coos Hay, addressed to A. II. Bald win, who has charge of the fisheries ex hibit in the government building at the Uwis and Clark fair. The seal is a young one and was captured by the crew of the tug Arago. It will prove a val uable acquisition to the government ev hibit, for it is said that spotted seals or leopard seals, as they are sometimes known, are very scarce. The Alliance al so brought a shipment of monster clams and era! for exhibit at the Coos county building. Major V. C. Langfitt, United States engineer, today received advice from the department in Washington to the effect that his specifications for work on the Dalles-Celilo canal have been approved. Proposals will now be advertised for in a few days, and this will mean that work on the cannal w ill 1 commenced. The oil barge Monterey and the tug Dauntless tleared at Portland yesterday for San Francisco, the former in ballast and the latter with 5000 feet of lumber. The tug and barge arrived a couple m days ago with oil for the station down the river. Captain Thomas Popham was today enrolled at the customs house as mastei of the ferry Tacuma. which iqienite he- ween Kalama and tJoble for the North ern Pacific Railroad Company. Captain Popham fills a vacancy caused by the leath of ("apt. fi. A. tiore, who died thr 28th of last month. The schooner Gerald C. wan sold yes- terday by A. C. and I. A. Fisher to Walter W. Ridchalgh, for the Elmore Packing Company. The schoouer will 1 kept on the same route she is now on and also will 1 used as tender for his company's canneries during the fishing season. The U. S. cruiser Marblchead arriv ed down the river yesterday and sailed for Puget ound where she will engage in target practice. The cruisers Chicago ami Ronton are due today from San Francisco. The steamer Homer leaves out this morning for Eldreed Rock, Alaska, with a cargo of building material which will I used in constructing a new lighthouse at that point. The brigantine Lurline arived in from Sun Francisco and will tuke a load of lumber at the Tongue Point Lumber Co. mill. The tug Dauntless with an oil barge in tow, left out last evening for Port Hanford. Tli. .(earner Toledo arrived in last evening from Gray's Harbor points. The. bark Ileda is in the lower bar bor and will sail for Manila today The steamer Elmore sailed for-Tilla mook yesterday. DOLL A You will save by buying that suit of clothes here. Terhaps you have laid away a tweuty spot for a suit. Well, see what others will show you for yout tweuty, then look at our line for $17.50. There's no dif ference except two dollars and a half in your favor. VARSITY - SACK The accompanying cut shows one of our varsity sacks with a full broad shoul der; body fitting and vented scams. A very stylish garment throughout $17.50 a Suit V Mus DON'T FAIL to iuspect our two piece suits in serges and mixtures at $10.00 to $18. OO P. A. Stokes Keeps a Dressy Shop for Dressy Men. f5' ( ( fe. I IHmMumI 1 vsiv. vjfff 1 mm that he was but 19 years old, was charg ed with being drunk and disorderly. The man was fined !, the fine to be sus pended if he left the city. If the men that sold him the whiskey had been fined, it would have subserved the ends of justice. A family row in the east end came to an abrupt termination when the name of Rubie Davis was called and she failed to respond. She was arrested for abus ive language to Mrs. Van Ruren. The hail of $10 was declared forfeited. J& t5he L- BEE ' o HIVE This is not a case of quantity, ei- eept in so far as you can get more for your money than ever before. Sel dom docs a store offer such QUALITY AT THE PRICES We hav quoted for this week's sale. Today's Weather. Portland, June 14. Western Oregon and western Washington partly cloudy Kastenv Oregon and Eastern Washington fair. Police Court. Yesterday was a busy day in the po lice court. Joseph Reed vas arrenla. for ling drunk in a public place and Judge Anderson fined him $o.00 with an admonition that it would be doubled If he appeared again. J. Stevenson, a young boy, who stateo CLEARANCE S ALE OF WASH SUITS FIGURED MADRAS AND PERCALE SUITS, SPECIAL 95 CENTS WHITE LAWN SUIT, nicely finished worth $-1.00, Special, the suit, . .I1.7J GREY LAWN and other materials, worth $.1.00. Special, the suit . .$1.75 Suits of Figured Sateen, etc., worth $3.00, SPECIAL la.oo WHITE LINEN SUIT, well finished worth $3.60, SPECIAL I4.00 Tailored Suits NOW $3.50, $5.50, $70 and $9.80. Worth double the iiric-e. Must le closed out; fekirts or jackets sol alone at just half that price. Knit selling special at $.V."0, will Is- brok en and skirt or ja;ketsold at $2.73, etc., etc. New Arrival of Stylish Braid Hats The hat for the season. Maxine El liott, Rolled Rack Suilors and othc shapes. A nice hat at a low price See tnem. Slatttry Missing. James Slatti-rly, who ha been In charge of the Seaside house, tha Holi day pros-rty at Seaside, and Judge C. H. Carey and the gentleman who re cently purchased the property, started out Tuesday to investigate m spring for the purpo of supplying the house with water. After being out several hours they became bewildered and lost their way. Slatterly said "I guess It Is every man for himself," snd started off, while . Judge Carey and the other gentleman J started over the hill, supxwing that 1 Slatterly would follow them. They a? ! rived home and waited several hours snd the missing man did not show up, neither did he put in an appearance during the night. Albert Johnson and K. E. Hrnd hurry snd several others organized a searching party and started out to find him Tuesday, and went out again . yesterday, but were unable to find any ! trace of him. It is uppocd that he j went over the marshy Uud and must have stuck in a Ht of quicksand and sunk out of night. Mr. Nlatterly hit leen taking care of the property fm about eight months. Ladies! Attention !t Apprentices wanted to perfect tbenv selves in the art of cutting, fitting anil designing. Taught quickly by latest method. Full course, $3.00 system In cluded. , SATISFACTION CUARAN1EED. MRS. C. G.WILSON 56Z Commercial St. I'p Starrs. Fi-he Real Estate Transfer. Crimen t rove Land Co., to F. A hit 1, luVk A, Seaside; II.V). Jacob Sture and wife to M. J, Kinney E half of SE quarter and N E quarter of the N' E quarter of sect inn 18, and the NV quarter of the NW quarter of sec tion 17. all in T. N'., It. V; 3. J. I. Wagoner and wife to ilcite Muel ler, lot 8, Mock 7, Mct'lure's; $. Alex. Cilhcrt and wife to Ik-rtha 11, Huchanan, lot 7, block I), llermosa l'ark) $:i;hi. He is Delighted with the shoes he bought at our store That's what all our customers are delighted with the style, quality and reasonable prices of our FOOTWEAR FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILD REN. See ths tant w bars just received. Many styles, all sites. The family restaurant of Astoria is recognized as the Hess restaurant. The liet meals and the best service in As toria. 120 Eleventh street. jai Commercial Street. she, BEEGMVEI Now is Oxford Time To cur customers who know the character and quality of our goods, the prices quoted below will appeal very strongly. To those who are not our customers we can only say this is a good chance (01 you to become acquainted with us and our goods and save yourself money. Just notice the prices we have made, Women's Tan Oxfords in calf skin, made with welt, new lasts, $3.50 and $3.00 Women's Button Oxfords, made with welt, $3.50 Women's Tan Oxfords, bluchcr cut $2.50 Oxfords for Children . and Young Ladies, the famous Steel Shod line $1.75 to $2.25 Girls and Children's Tan Oxfords in calf and kid, '. - 4 - - $1,50 and $2.00 Barefcc: Sandals cut in new patterns, that will not cause sore toes, Children's, 00c, Misses, $1; Women's $1.35. Wherity, Ralston & Company The Leading Shoe Dealers. (