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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1905)
Newport Plains Of sF. Walsh CiLr of lb Colorado CroSsus Lit CHapter free tbe "Arabia N Nljhts"Onee fW. He li Maw ths Partner ef ft KiJ. nTTTTTrTTTnTTTTTT K 2 n n LI I .1 Sift V telle it Square b iii i T T T T H T 1 T 1 Till 3.U That's Why Wise People Trade With leraai Wise Astoria's "RELIABLE" Clothier. First National Bank of Astoria, Ore. n ii mi adviser and 2 nartner of King Leo- muiualllliunava min ing expert, t8 tak en ilea ulieu, William Waldorf Aator'f Newport palace, at rental of $100,000 chp snri ia to rater tuoma r. wAi.au. u)n in bla usu at princely fashionthe fnabtun that baa already made I'arla, llniaaels and Washington s-K-lal circles gasp wiui as tonishment. During the summer New port l tbe stronghold of New York's itMlualve Pour Hundred, end, M 88 -Hdeut oi die Walsh sojourn there Wis ttvalyo AVnUh la to make her eocJal de but. Hbe and ber mother have for some time been regarded aa two of tit best gowned women la Washington, and tbe mode-it, genial husband aud father la alwaye at bla beat no matter where be may be-lu tbe palace of a king or la a tent at a new mining camp. Tbe Walsh home at tbe national capital la beyond question tbe fiueet private resl deure In Washington. It contain sixty-four rooma. Almost .every known species of bard wood baa been utilised In the Interior finish, $10,000 worth of gold loaf waa need In decorating the celling of tbe ballroom, some of tbe floor coat $3,000 each, there ere elec tric elevator and a patent system of ventilation, and tbe mansion Itself, no rurnlnbHl, coat the Colorado Croeaua $1,000,000. Surrounding the bouse la an Italian garden ornamented with vases, etatuary and other worka of art, every piece, of wdli h waa aecured from Italy or Greece. Among the feat urea of the mansion are a flue pipe organ, a thea ter and a roof garden. , Tbe history of Tbomaa F. Walsh reada like a page from the "Arabian Nlghts.7 mora In the county of Tip perary,' Ireland, fifty-four yeara ago, fftHi?fty' The king wisnea.tj iinb Ms Auauckt fortune with tuose of Walsh, and a partnership wU formed, j BIS FIRE AT LEWISlOlf. Conflagration in lodaho Town Does' Sev enty Thousand Damage. . LewUton, Idaho, Aug. 8.-A $70,000 Are among buies house early yester day morning threatened the 'entire baai- nena diirlct, and was only checked efur four hours' d-rrate work by aid of excellent water pressure and favorable wind, j lajKuranee lt about one ball. . At t :30 flame were diteovered coming from the North Star shoe store, in an old wooden structure on Main street, at the bead of Fourth,- The department re sponded quickly, but the fire had gained ueh headway that four' building were a mass of Dames before control could be aecured. Went of the frame struc- iturea " was the Donzae . brick; which cheeked the fire there, but on the cast side the Adams block, which is irencered brick; wa on in flames, and the entire third H'xtt wis gutted. Five stream were put on this- building, and after frrmiou efforts of the fire department, the Ore was under control at 7:30. Tbe main floor of this 'building U oecnpied by buttiriess 1ioun- and the upper floors by offhw. As Soon, a indications howel tluit tbe fire was advaneine, everyone in the affected dit,rkt egan' movine out and the scene was one of Bedlam. Those that did not move from the Adams block nuffered almost total loeses imm water and"moy. '-' ';. ' An incident of th fire was the epio ion of a ftas tank, which threw miwik tbrngb windows and a!w struck sev eral bystanders, causing serious injury. The oriifin of the fire is a mystery. DIVI0ED 1HT0 F0CS ' ' -' - SEPARATE C0KP0SATIOKS. i:st.iii.iih:i iHwi. . Capital and Surplusl$100,000 t. a A. flOWl.tiY.PrMldnt . I. I'KTfclWO.V,. Vtee-fMildrat FRAHK PATTOS. C(iter 4, w. UAKSKK, Autat C'aliler Astoria Savings Bank Capital I'Mld In tM.O0, Surplus and Undivided ProflU Trsunneu a aeuewl Banking UuMihsm. Inlerwl on Tlmo Dejxwlts 1C8 Tenth Strsst, ASTORIA, OREGON, W Kitchen Troubles and the Remedy. a Only a few yean ago it w considered good form to encee the link in wood thereby concealing the trap, making it inacceuble ana entering a place for the collection of filth and vermin. If thU condition exka In your household, let ui remedy the trouble by installing a inowjr white. "teaisJsT Porcelab) Enameled Kitchen Sink. Our work Ii Mtla- ' factory and prices right. 1 (ft 1 fe f. A MrriM'rr?.rfcMB7Tiv ActArlo r. t0 s WAS W W A m f w . yy vi S3: V )y f-': .V j . V '" """ y V w " ' ,' ,; Pears' Most soaps clog the skin pores by the fats and free alkali in their ,com positiony Pears' is quickly rinsed off, leaves the. pores open and the skin soft and cool. Established in 1789. FOREST FIRE RACING. Terrific Fire Costumed Acres of Val uable Timber. Grants I'a, Ore Aug. 8. A destruc tive foret fire, which started from a tree that was fired by two boys in an attempt to drive out a wpiirrel, is rag ing in tbe pine and fir woods of North ern Josephine county, along loue creek and Jump-Off-Jo, of the Coast Range mountains. More damage ha already been done by this fire than the combined destruction of ail the forest fires in that part of the mountains lat suntmr. Be sides tbe thousands of acTea of timber that have been "destroyed, miles of fences have been burned, barns and other prop erty destroyed. Five miles of telegraph and tlephone line poles are burned, and the wires down. Communication by tele phone and telegraph with northern points has been cut off, except over the lines of wire following tbe Southern Pa cific railroad, which is "out of the path of the fire.- Tfce main traveled county wagon road between Grants Pass,-which for 12 hours was walled, with columns of ' roaring flames, fa now made impawwble bceause of burning . tref find falling trunM across the highway. Tbe smoldering logs, limbs' and trunks make the work of clearing the road slow, and it will be several days before traffic can be resumed. Bellingham Bay Improvement Company Will Dissolve aad Reorganize. Seattle, Aug. 7.H. 11 Taylor, presi dent of tbe Bellingham Bay It Briton Columbia Railway company, and the Bellingham Bay Improvement company, allied corporations operating a railway and owning a large part of the town site of the City of Bellingham, an nounced tonight that "the Bellingham Bay Improvement company will be di vided into four separate eerporatlona and $100,000 will be expended in im-. proving the mill of ' the- company at Mr. Tavlur declined to affirm or deny the reported sale of 4ie "Bellingham Bay k British Columbia to the Canadian Pa cific. ' . '" The Astorian, 75 cents a month. Fiendish Suffering, if often caused by sores, ulcers and can cers, that eat away your akin. Wm. Be dell, of Flat Rock, Mich., sayss "I have nsed Bucklen'a Arnica Salve, for ulcers, sore and cancers, It is the best healing dressing ! ever found." Soothe and beal cuts burns and scald. 23 c at Charles Rogers' drug atore. ' OUft SUBSCRIPTION LIST. 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At the ago of nineteen be came to America and located in Colorado lie waa poor, but ambitious, had pi ty of brains aud waa a hustler soon made a "strike" In tbe L Hills which netted blia about $100,u For a time after this be ran a hotel iu Leadvillo, devoting all bla spare time to the atudy of gwlogy, mineralogy, metallurgy nud .various phase of eel entlflc Mulug. Finally he evolved a theory of bla own that the beat values would be found near mountain tops. Ula friend laughed at him, but he quietly went to work, and on top of the Sun Juan mountains at our ne own ed the Camn Bird mines, which speedily made him mnuy times a milllonnire. From the start he paid the highest wages for the best labor, gave bis men an eight hour day of his own volition, built them a handsome clubhouse on Cnmp Bird property aud was recently ablo to declare with pardonable pride that ho bud never bad trouble with bis labor and bad never had a strik . When It Is recalled that for rears Colo rado has been the theater of the most determined and vloleut struggles be tween miners and owuors, Mr. Walsh's statement means a meat deal. During bis prospecting days ho grew very foud of the birds that mnde his camp- a rendeavous, and when bo made hla "strlfce." one of the first rules posted at the Camp Bird mines was that no birds or harmless beasts mbs. t. r. walsit. should be killed on tbe property by any employee under penalty of discharge. The cnmp birds aro the scavengers of the mountain-- and follow the miner from one locatlou to another. Tbey become so tame that they will eat out of the hand.. Mr. Walsh was United States com missioner to the last Tarls exposition, and while there he met King LeopoU' who was daizled by the Colorado nil. Uoualre's lavish .style of entertaining -and Impressed by bis apparent $uji Si' "...V ' i . t I j I ' K : ;' V - . , ' s a' I ft ft? 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