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I 2 THE MORNING ASTOUIAN, ASTOIUA, OREGON. TUESDAY, HOVItfftZS 7, 1905. THE MORfdNG ASTORIAN Eitablitael 1873. Published Daily by THI J. & DELLINGM COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. 8 mail, per year $7 By nail, per month By carrier, per month .75 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance.. f 1.00 Entered ai tecond-clasa matter June 1KB, ai the iKMtomce at Astoria, un ion, under lb act of Con-rees of March 3, fcyOnVn for the deUnnac of Tib Moair M uroaun to either rnkteao or placs of business nay be made by ratal card or through telephone. Any irrejruUrit? ta de li ttt should be imitwlutly reDorud to ths office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. V WEATHER TODAY. Portland, Xov. 6. Western Washington, and Western Ore- gonf: Sunday, partjy cloudy. Slightly warmer Sunday after- noon in the interior. Eastern Oregon, Eastern Wash- ington: Fair. OPENING A NEW VEIN. Whenever a community develops new w-in of wealth it i to be con grata lated, provided it ninkva proper and timely use of iU acquirement. It is up to the people of Astoria and Clatsop County to follow closely upon the de termination of values declared by Doc tor David T, Day, the Government min Analogical expert, as inherent to the black sands of this county. Just what those values are and how they are a- ' certaini d anvl released from the material, formed the basis of his port on the subject to the Chamber of Commerce last night. The rtport will befound in these columns. raw re RESPECTFULLY REFERRED. There is one particular thing to which the attention" of the Common Council of this city is respectfully called, and that is the wretchedly dark and unsafe con dition of the waterfront streets at night. All the North aui South streets abutting upon the docks of the city, as wclj s i he thoroughfares on and arn-ss thsiim, are too dark icr (ravel, evoii by a man in his sober senses, and to the man who ihas over-indulged in liquor they are but a series of traps in any one of which his life may go out on an instant with no one to find a way to him if he should shout for help ever so loudly. The death of Captain Hansen, of the George C. Perkins, on Saturday morning last, is a case in point, and quite enough as a means of surgest'i;r a plain duty entirely ignored to date. I o EXPERIMENTAL. One week fnm today there will be held in this city the first of its pri mary 'elections under the existing stat ute. It is important that every citi ten, and especially, the Republican ma jority, shall be on record in that event, if only for the value of tlw experiment, from which a local estimate may be formed of the real merit of the law, if it has any, one of the dubious on -Minns still unanswt-red and amenable to solu tion only by direct and personal appli cation. It i hardly fair to prejudge it but its eunilerome text and itliocy-in raking ramifications have --t up a gen eral prejudice that i dilliciilt to with hold from expression. o DUTY AND RESPONSIBILITY. ignore it, but the fact remain that the paper is far of tenor the cause of public sentiment than ita offender. -o BUSINESS AND THE LAW. The careful obaervantv of law .and the equally careful aplicatiou of the rule of business, as ued in the conduct of municipal affairs, will keep the ordinary city officer pretty wtJl employed, and to the certaiu advantage of the com imitiity he serves, without flitting haira over finely drawn issue and evolv ing useless question for tlie fomenting of uselesa quarrels. When the RepuhH can shall take over the governtiuvt of this city on January 1st, next, thi policy will not Wk demonstration. o TIPS EXCEED WAGES. A negro porter In a New York htel is supposed to have murdered an aged newspaperman man because he "guv such small tip." Aside from the fact that the average newspaernian should not be expected to give tips at all, this is a unique excuse for homicide. Flunk eyim has bred tipping in certan sec tions of the country. It is one of the evils th Anclomaniacs have imported. a New xork servitor get about enough in wage to buy sole-leather; and are expected to graft the reK A bill it- cent ly gone inth effect in t.'ie Eat makes it a misdemeanor for a servant to conspire with a tradesman Jto over charge the buyer and share with the servant; yet no hilt has been passed to encourage living wages for servants. Tkvre is scarcely a class of service in which small pay has not forced tipping and of course in the end the outlay is the same with a spirit of creed ad ded. BAD ENOUGH, SOBER. ScpJible iutiomobilUts, will applaur that provision of the bill to he proposrd PECULIAR DROWNING William Mather Strangled in Two Inches" of Water, SEIZED WITH EPILEPTIC FIT Pall on Fact and la Quickly Strutted Missed by Companion and It Found Dead EntageQ in Dieting a Ditch I Near Seaside Had Commenced Suit. Wm. Matfier, a laborer, was drowned m two imhe of water on the farm of John Suudquiot, near Seaaido, yester day morning. With a man named Victor Birch, he TERSE TALES 0 THE TOWN The Hon. County Court in and for Clatsop County, State of Orejpm will meet in adjourned session at 9 o'clock this morning. , Mi Fastahand la serving the city i school department as teacher In thu AI- ilerbmok school, pending inquiry into the mstUii of the) accusations made against Mi Grace Ffc Smith. County Clerk Clinton report the to tal of hunuV licenses, to date at 444. What the per eentage of ducks killed is to this number, he la not in a position to tay. For the sum of $700, H. (1. Van Duaen, yesterday transferred his title to tlto east haf of It No. S in Block No. 91, McClure'a addition to Astoria, to An drew Young. Repair to the Methodist church are 75C PER MONTH For rho MB ASTOB An Delivered right at your door every morniug before breakfast by the NEST CARRIER SYS TEM in the country. was eagaged in digging a ditch to drain bout completed, and the it-dedicating tide land, ftirch was woikiim where the ditch was quite deep, and was out of view of his companion. Mather was starting a fresh place. Birch called o hi companion to bring him a tool, and failing to receive a reply, crawled out of ahe ditch to investigate. He found Mather lying flat on hia face, in a pot where the water waa not over two iiu-U deep, and the bottom perfectly hard. He had been dead but a few moments. Hirch and Mather, went to work on he ditch shortly after 7 o'clock yester day morning, and Hurch ia confident hat it was but ten or fifteen minutes after, thut lie found his companion dead. He at once notified Snndquist, and Cor oner roii l was summoned and wfnt to service will be held Sunday. lr. Daniel L. Rader, an eminent divine of Portland will conduct the service. pick Davies, the il eetate man has associated himself with the Astoria Ab stract Title 1 Trust Company, where he takes full oiutrge of the city branch of ita real estate buina. A famous and popular characetr of the Capital City, is soujourning in As toria just now, old "Uncle Hilly Wright," the horse-radish man. His Salem fri nds here are delimited to see him aud par take again of his pungent and biting wares. Funeral services over the remains of The Morning; Astorlan Contains the Latest Telegraph News. Shipping lateltgence. Condensed Local News. - Portland Market Reports Real Estate Transactions, Society News. Railroad News. Sporting News. County Official News. Complete Want Columns And in fact all of the News of the Country by Senator Wood, of ra.ssalc County, N. j interment the scene of the occurrence on the noon 'Cornelius Rasmus, who died Sundav l ,i a . . ... I ' 1 irm. ne oruerea me Doav Droiwht to t :n i.. - 1 VHMIK W UIIIWIW. IK in'lt (fill is ciiy, w ik-re n. will ne prepared lor -I., by which any intoxicated) person found running an automobile would be rendered liable to arrest and, on con viction, to a fine of $10)10 or a term of not mon than three years' improoin ment, or both. A drunken chauffeur is more dangerous to bis passengers and could not have been etrangled in the general public than a drunken en-later, gineer, for tM- latter ia- at leaat driv ing his engine on rails whiali, for the most part, safeguard it from collision with another train. But the automobile guided by a drunken man responds in No other solution to the mystery of Mather' death, other than that he was siered with an epileptic fit can be made. Had he fell so as to have struck on the ide of his face, instead of ita Wing turned dinwtly toward the ground, he the An examination of the remains re vealed tHf fact that deaUi was due en tirely to drowning. Ilis lungs were fill ed with water, and bore all the other indications of the death of a drowned stantly to the vagarie of ita drir, U-rsnn. It i sUte-Lthat hehaa been and other occupants of a crowded street stid hii own passetigtss are at tha mercy of his befuddled brain and nerve less arm, A democratic organ in Missouri says subject to similar fits before, and Cor oner Pohl is confident that this was the cause of the tragedy. I-Aj-t summer Mather was employed I in tlr- plant of the llwaco Mill & Lum ber Co., at llwaco, and sustained a broV- Pohl a undertaking parlors, at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. The services will I conducted by Rev. C. F Peterson, of the Uppertown MUhodist church, and the interment will be in Greenwood. Dell Scully's attractive souvt-uir card, showing him in the act of catching torn cod through a hole in the sidewalk in front of hia place of bukine, is at hand in lordly quantities and hi friends have only to call and get on. It is a realistic picture and the photograph won a prize for Woodfleld, the artist, from Collier' Magazine content. Watch for the Big Colored Comic Section Ii you are not a subscriber let us show you our proposition and we will convince you that its the best ever made by any newspaper. Telephone Main CC1 for our plan, or if you live out of town write a postal and we'll do the rest. C. C. CLINTON; Circulation Manager. The Morning Astorlan lOth and Commercial ic riiuuncuuB vi jiiBouii Uu uoi fn leg, ly lumber falling. on it. lie wis know how to build upon a victory, to taken to St. Mary' hospital where he enlarge upon an opportunity." That is remained for several weeks. Only last a flattering theory for the old Bourbon week he had commenced a heavy dam gang, but the fact i that tiey dread age suit againxt that corporation as a the next campaign more than any they J result of the injury he sustain? -d. So ever faced before. Thre is a prospect that the Southern people will become, in a very few years, ashamed of the desperate and lawless character cn'.-n them by ignorant white elements under the lead of poli tjeians and demagogue. The visit of far as known, Mather had no relative in this locality. - Coroner Pohl last night wired a brother in Illinois. '('has. If. Heilhorn St, Company are about to take possession of their new ami magnificent store on the aoutii side of Commercial street. They will tak their time about moving their immense stock and both store will be doing buninen for sonw time. They are in poteion of the handsomest quarters in the city.' : First National Bank of Astoria, Ore i j:staiilinii.,i inm. THREE-HOUR HOLD UP. The Astoria express oa the A. A 1 R. railroad left Portland on time la the President may do much to hasten evennig and swung along in good shape until it reached a point near Gobel, the coming of aueh a welcome day. Ex. o The minion of the newspaper it. first to give the news: Secondly, to comment wisely and honestly upon the new it furnishes. Having done this, it is face to face with ita responsibility to main tain ita attkude upon all it has said. PeO' pie differ upon ijonie of its announce ment and opinions, and mar contend against them in the same public chan nel, towit, the other newspaper, but tb; accounting i renderable only to 'the law of tihe land whenever it shall be in voked. Public sr ntiment is an impera tive factor In the control of public ex preion, and it is a hardy editor who Mis Roosevelt is entitled to the synv pathies of the country at. the persist ent manner in which she has been pur sued in Xew York by the representa tiw of yellow journals, witK imperti nent inquiries about her private affair. The President of the country may have no private life Wthile in office, but why hould this be true of his family! - o PERSONAL MENTION Theodora Siverson is back from Chi nook, where lie ojierates a couple of fish traps. Tom Erickson was over from Chinook yesterday. Mis Xelley Munson of Warrenton, has returned from a visit to Thi Dalles. when, without warning, the axle bearing on one or the trucks under a freight car broke short on Mtmg the car to the ground and swinging it directly ath wart the track. Luckily no one was hurt, though the train load of people underwent a momnetary w-are of gcod ly proportion. The train was well in hand and was brought to a top in skill fill faLion, and the work of clearing the track proceeded with dispatch and the train wa underway aain so that slje only lot three hours in reaching this terminal. WATER-PROOFING. Mrs. A.li Tewett has plesMii in an nouncing to her friends and patrons that li! is now in possession of a success ful system ' of water-proofing cloth material.. She will demonstrate the in Mr. snd Mrs. E. K. Turnej- who have tf rfHting prort.s, upon call, at her leen vi-iting here, the guest of Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Dalgity, l-ft for their home in Ketchican, Alaska, yesterday uiorning. Mrs. John Metue Is ill Willi pneu monia, at the home of her mother, Mrs, A. A. Cook, in Portland. Mr. McCue visited her JSundav. room, No. 154 Ninth street. The best way to shape the career of Mime young men is with a club. BiliouY Attack Quickly Cured. A few week ago I had a bilious at tack that wa so severe I wa not able to go to the office for two days. Fail ing to get relief from my family phy ician' treatment, I took three of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab lets, and the next day I felt like a new man. 1L C, Bailey, Editor of the New Chapin, S. C These tablets are for sale by Frank Hart and leading drug gist. Son Loit Mother. "Consumption runs in our family, and through it I lost my mother," writes E. B. Reid, of Harmony, Me. "For the past Are year however, on the illght est sign of a cough of cold I have taken Dr.' King's Ne,w Discovery tor Con sumption which ha saved me from seriou ung- troublu." - Hi mother' death waa a sad loss to Mr. IUed, but he learned that lung trouble must not be neglected; and how to cure it. Quickest relief and cure for cought and cold Price 60e and $1.00; guaranteed at Charle Roger' drug (tore. Trial bottle free. The West Astoria Packing Company lias filed its article of iticoqtoration with -the county clerk. Tliey' shbw a capital stock of $23,000, with Charts Pernu, Hejiry OIn, K. M, Baker, Peter J. Shistad, K. A. Thorgensou and John Pent ilia as incorporators, with headquarters at-Astoria, I TiV rumor is again current that tlu option alleged to be held by the' Ha Tri ms n lines, on the A. & (.'. It, K., prop erty, I soon to expire, and the transfer will shortly be made. The rumors an- omewhat periodical, and as Mr. Ham mond ha emphatically denied the ex istent of the option, little credence is is placed in tlie rejsirt. The city park commission will hold tlieir regular meeting this evening, whr.n it is prolwble that t'ie matter of Improving the park will be taken up. A nurr.lier of citizens are nn.ious to see the work commenced at the earliest pos sible monk tit, and it Is probable a dele gation of these, will be on hand at tli r meeting tonight. Miss Grace Smith, the Alderbrook school teacher accused of shoplifting, wa temporarily suspend! -d by City Superintendent Clark yesterday, and her case will come up for hearing It tha meeting of the sohool board this ev ening. Mis Smith will then undoubt edly be given an opportunity to reply to tier accusers, and it is also probable that tlie accusation against her will bt pre sented in some form. The report that the school board met and took action erroneous, a the matter ha been entirely in the' hand of City Superin tendent Clark. '-.il Capital and (Surplus $100,000 AN ASTORIA PRODUCT ! Pale Bohemian Beer Best lu Tlie Northwest North Pacific! Brewing Co. Neuralgia Pain. Rheumatism, lumbago and clatio paint yield to the penetrating influi ence of Ballard' Snow Liniment. It penetrate to the nerve and bone and being absorbed into the blood, it healing properties are conveyed to every part of the body, and effect tome won derful cures. 25c, 60c, and 11.00. Sold by Hart' drug tor. Your Prescription: Rock Island- If you are going East, X would appreciate your consulting me. X will gladly help you plan your trip and tell you all about Rock Island service. Just drop me a line consultation free! 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