SATURDAY, DECEMBER jo, 1905.
' tite MOiisrtfG ATonrAw. Astoria. Oregon,
IT 18 UP TO ASTORIA
FOR YOUR NEW YEAR'S DINNER
Our Annual
y fhnuM hav on of our nk ft, juif
To Build the Railway Line Hence
TurHeys, Geese or Chicltens
to Tillamook.
NOW GOING ON
For satisfactory rating there are 110 letter in the market. We offer for
sIh only such poultry weswouM eat ourselves, Mid have no cold
storage blrda. K you want s.rn-t ding good you want OIKS.
T$ FIRST FRUITS ARE HERS
Sale
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ROSS, HIGGINS , Co.
Hew Clarkv-O. J. t'arlcton, of Kolem,
U expected to arrive here Monday to
tale a position as rink in Fih Warden
Van Dusen'e offloe.
Still They Come.-County Cleik Clin
too yestrrday issued a marriage license
to Mr. John I'rrila and Mi Kdeth
JUkkanola, both of (bit city.
Return From Hunting Trip. Artbor
F Petersen, the jovial proprietor of
the Occident barber shop, returned thi
evening from, a two day' hunting trip.
Died la California.-At her home in
Uraaa Valley, Cel., on November 19th
last, Mra. 8. P. Ihrey, th mother of
Mm. W. I. Howard formerly of Atoria.
Hunttre License -Since the law com
pelling huntei to take out llene
went into effect in June lnt, County
Clerk Clinton haa in.ucd 4W license to
the close of buine hour yesterday.
With Bags Full. -Captain A. C. I'l.li
er, Frank Pat ton and I. A Stokes re
turned yesterday on the forenoon ev
pre, from a day'e shooting on their
preaervea near Qulnn' landing All
bag were full of game and all band
reported a jolly outing.
Repair Jetty. United htate engi
neer working on the jetty at the mouth
of the river have dispensed with the
services of forty men. The contract for
delivery Ing rock ia nearly done and the
labor of these n were no needed any
longer. About one hundred men are
however, atill employed a some repair
will have to be made on the jelty, which
auffered considerable damage from the
etorra of tbo paat few day.
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Strictly Fresh
RANCH
' EGGS
Two Dcgcn
1 65 cents
JOHNSON BROS.
GOOD GOODS.
118 122 Twelfth St, Aitorla, Ore.
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Start the New Year
Right.
By Trading "With Astoria's Biggest
and Finest Furniture Store,
For the Best See Us.
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ft vi lit we 1 1 uivwviu . -"n
Diea of Consumption. After a brief
Hln Paul Peterson 'died yesterday at
St. Mary's hoapitsl in this city of con
sumption. The deneaaed wa alwiit 30
yeara of age and bad no relative a
far aa known. Funeral arrangement
havt Dot yet beea made, t
Will Close Monday .-A Monday U
N'ew Yeark'a day aJl the city, county,
state, and federal offices will be closed.
The pot office will remain open the
usual Sunday hour. Most of the busi
ness hounea will aUo obeerve the day
by cloning.
Cooper' Annual Clearance Sale Row
Going On. Dont Mite It.
Wedded Yetteroay.-Mr. It. S. Smith,
the general railroad agent at Warren
ton, waa joined to Mies Mollie Denver,
In the holy aU'e of matrimony, yeUr
day afternoon by R. Luther 1. Ma-
hone, of the Congregational church.
Their many friend wih them a safe
and happy journey on their wedded life.
Wot Yet Found. The body of Harry
Lamb who i believed to have been
drowned at Al'oona a few day ago ha
not jet been recovered though diligent
erarrb baa been made 'The only tra-e
thu far diocove red- ia the finding of
hi pipe floating near shore. Thi eeeme
to imitate that f the unfortunate man
wa drowned.
Repair Weather Station. Weather
Forcater Reala arrived here -let even
Inc from Portland on bia way to the
wrecked weather station at North Heed.
He had a complete net of Mcterological
instrument wl.i:h he will Inntall in
place of the old one det roved by the
lightning. A lineman accompanied him
to place the w apparatu in place.
Married in San Francisco. In Sun
Francisco Lt "Ttlardy at St.- I.ukeV
chunh, Mia Cirol H. M. Young, a
daughter of Colonrl and Mr. Morris
Young of Salt lake City, wa united
in nmrriage to I. W. Millard Wedlelgh,
Itev. M. 1. WiUonj-formerly rector of
;ra-e Church in thi city, officinting.
Ir. Wadleigh ia the grandson of Mr,
A. Van Duen of Aatorla.
Coopera Annual Oearanca Salt Now
Going On. Don't Misa It.
Returtration ..Date.-On . .Tne.d.iy
morning neit January 2, County
Clerk Clinton willwpen tle regiirati"n
bw)ka for the primary and gem riil elw
tione, clooing them on April 10th; they
will W kvpt cltmed until after the prim
ary election on April 20th, and will bo
reopened on April 2.1th ami remain open
until May loth. The general election
takea place on Monday, June 4th. (
Council Paid Off. Warrant wcie i
ued yenterday by the city ahditir to
pay the aalariea of (he mayor and conn
rilmen for the year 1W5. The late
Mayor Supernaut, Coumilinen Liner-
welier, Hnnn, Stangland, and llobin-
on, did not mis a regular or (pcciiil
na-eting and Councilman' lim-nweber
ha the dintinction of being present at
every roll call.
i ah jlhah
Proposition on Foot and Soon to be Sub-
mitted Feaaible, Practical and Val-uable-AatorU
Can if Aatorla WU1
Detail! Later.
It ia up to Antorial (
Will ahe Uke the initiative! .,
U ber pluck equal to her pluck in
8ir2!
When Dr. Auguat Kinney, eager with
Inspiration and hope of a railroad from
Aatoria to'Goble and Portland, made
Tactical deroonntration of bia deam
by urging the popular enterprise of thi
city to a point where it effected the
;laimihle and convincing exhibition of
the potkibilitie of the scheme by way
of a profile map showing its feaaihility
and a schedule of estimate showing it
within the financial reach of the com
munity, be and hi fellow citizen took
an iutiative that coat them in the neigh
borhood of $10.V). A pitifull sum in-
Iced when measured with the splendid
reHull of thnt show of public spirit!
There I- any amount of railroad build-
ng going on nowaday, on paper. Most
of it with a purpose to prevent the
Imilding of railroads. largely in the
interest of big corporation that do not
wish any interference with rights-of-
way that they intend to utilize in the
dim future, when they get good and
readvi almo-t wholly in subversion of
honest, project by clever people who
would do right now, what these rail
road coinbinea are nursing for future
exploitation. The pre of the three
wast tati-e U ringing these change
continuously to blind the communities
hungry for railroad Improvement, be
muse each of the great railways that
dominate the eoaat have deliberate pur
pose in keeping down thee ebullition of
hical enterprle, and direct the publi
cation of thene projeted lines, through
their own pre bureaus, for that sole
purpose apd that alone.
They have an-immense effect In check
ing local endeavor along theae line and
ninety-nine communities out of a bun-
I red are humbugged into desuetude and
soon become entirely oblivious of their
original ho and take what they can
get when it cornea, which i, practically,
never.
lately the Oregon press has been
having a good deal to say about two or
three projected lines into the Nehalem
and Tillamook count rie and Mr. Lytic.
the auccessful builder of the Columbia
Southern, has been named in conspic
uoiia fashion with one of the exploits;
but there is nothing of certitude even
in this most encouraging feature of the
several enterprise now under consid
eration. -
There i always an alternative with
in the reach of any city or county or
loth, or other live community, that has
aspirations of this sort, and that is.
TAKIXO THK INITIATIVE. Astoria
did this oikv with with magnificent sue
ces and she is going to he urged to do
the like again, with a still more feasible
project, namely, the starting of an
ASTORIA XK1IALKM TILLAMOOK
railway of her own.
Why should she wait for the Northern
Pacific, the Oreat Northern, the. South
ern Pacific, or any other great trunk
line, to do what Is well within bcr own
power of accomplishment! She took the
bit in her teeth for the launching of
a m-heme to build sixty miles of rail
rood and came through with abundant
auoce aimply because she had the sand
to START IT INTELLIGENTLY and
alio can do.the same good work with the
(mailer proposition to build forty miles
of road that involves no heavier nop
more discouraging phases of engineer
ing and construction.
(Why should she ait down aupinely
and wait for the consummation of a
valuable, commercial design of this sort
at the hands of some powerful concern
that can afford to take ita timo in tho
doing of it, so long as it holds the whip-
hand in naming the day it shall be
started at all It i well inside, her
mean to determine the possibility of
tha plan, by doing just aa ahe did be
fore; having the survey made and the
mapping done along with a careful esti
mate of the cost of construction, and
the correlative estimate of the produc
tiveness of the territory utilized in the
work. At least aha can Uke the first
band and make a demonstration that
shall compel recognition of her deter
mined enterprise and force the coallition
of such other agencies aa shall feel the
pinch of her progreao and come to time
with a show down of capital and enter
C. II.
The Leading
prise that means consummation of the
project.
For yetrt to come the City of Atoria
will be the one depot for the vast tim
ber resources of the Nehalem forests
and the Nehalem and Tillamook farms,
dairies and. fisheries with all their end
less wealth of produce and there is no
eartly reason why ahe should wait for
thia while some big and wealthy cor
poration takes it own time about de
spoiling her of the market and revenues
certainly indigenous to the scheme.
It is feasible. All engineering of the
sort is feasible now. Barriers that were
wont to paralyze the skill and ambition
of aurveyors, have become mere tep-ping-stones
to their success, and there
are but two momentous olistaclea con
fronting the boilderi of this line: Cir
cumventing Tillamook Head and the
grade over or around Nccarnie Moun
tain. Jf the way about, over, under or
through these impedimenta is wanted, it
will be found and it will be utilized, just
as the treacherous quick-sand flats along
the line of the Columbia river were
overcome, by the determined wit and
energy of the nan paid to find the ex
pedient. The question above all others, at the
present moment Is, WHJ, ASTORIA
TAKE HOLD and go It alone, as she
did before, and demonstrate the prac
ticability and value of the undertaking!
That once done, there will be no want
of encouragement of the mot material
sort ready at her hand for th,e full and
final completion of the work.
THE FIRST FRUITS OF THIS EN
TERPRISE BELONG TO ASTORIA.
On Special Mhai'on. W. S. U. Ren,
the well known Oregon City attorney,
wa the city yesterday in the interest
of the Oregon Tower League, of which
he i one of the promoter and otlicers.
The league haa for it object the fram
ing, presentation, and enactment 'of so-
called popular legislation. It deires a
membership of WW and ha secured
about one-fifth of this number to date.
He will remain here today, returning
to the Willamette Valley on tonight's
express.
I
Early, But Valuable. There ia a good
deal of misinformation abroad about
the Qualifications for a voter at a gen
eral state election In Oregon, and one
of the commonest blunders Is that neld
by some people that one must have been
in the county for ninety daya and in
the precinct for thirty days next pre
ceding the date of the election. There
is but one true qualification and that is
that the Toter must have been in the
State for six months next preceding the
day of election. If he is 21 years of
age, he has nothing els-e to consider,
being American born.
Cooper Annual Clearance Sale Row
Going On. Dent Mits It.
New Astoria Itema.-Arthur F. Flet
cher of Fort tSevens died yesterday
while undergoing a a operation for rup
ture. Forty men in the engineer's de
partment at Fort Stevens have been
laid off owing to the damage done to
the jetty during the recent atorms,
though a number have been retained to
make necessary repairs on the big work,
another consequence of the gate. Geo.
Prescott ia reported to have takea a
Every article in the house reduced.
This is the greatest offering in Fine
Dry Goods, Qothing, Furnishing
Goods. Etc, placed before the people
of the Lower Columbia for a year
COOPER,
Dry Goods and Clothing House of Astoria.
bad fall through a bole in the Ham
mond sidewalk, after dark, atriking his
side Ticioaaly on a neighboring picket
fence. He will recover.
Death of Mrs. OUen. Mrs. Marie
Olaea of thia city passed away at an
early hour yesterday morning of can
cer from which ahe had been a aufferer
for some time. The deceased waa a
native of Norway and 43 yeara old. A
husband and three children eurrire her.
The funeral will occur tomorrow after
noon at 2 o'clock from the K. of P. hall,
Rer. W. S. Short, of the Grace Episco
pal Church, officiating The eervicea
will be conducted under the auspices
of the Rathboifa SUters of whkh the
deceaaed waa a member'. The inter
ment will be in Greenwood cemetery.
Any phase of hanger can be daintily
gratified at any hoar of the day or
night at the Palace Restaurant. The
kitchen and dining room aervic art of
the positive best Privity dining noma
for ladies. Oe call inspires regular cus
tom. Try it Commercial street, oppo
site Page building. '
Do you wiah.to atudy the piano!
Piano harmony and history of music
taught at Misa Tawney atudio. MS
Commercial Fultoa building, Phone
Black. 2149.
Hot drink and aandwkhej at Hoef-
ler'e.
Morning Astorian, 75 cents a month,
BlanK Books, BUI Files,
. Book Keeping' Material
of all Kinds at
wSvensoiVs Book , Store
Fourteenth and Commercial Street
We art tole ageata ia Aatoria for the
Celebrated Stoves and Ranges
-jefl 11 JR.
jyjM.
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CLOSOTO OUT SALE.
On the fifteenth of Hertmber, Ua ay
tire atock'of goods at the IitUa Baa
Store, win be put on sale at eoat Christ
mas bargains ia book, atationery
altiea, ate 174 Tenth etraet.
Coopera Aasnal Clearance Salt Hew:
Going Oa. Dost Kiaa It.
TOUt XZZT.
Nerer hare to wait long at the Oa
ddeat Barber Shop. A. E. PeUraeav
proprietor. ' .
MOVZD AHD KZADT.
Charlea Heilborn k Co, kaw
into their sew store and make tha asv
Boaacement that they aiw sow opea far
business' and art ready to fill all rdatg
promptly. t
N. A. Ackermaa, 421 Bond St, doeaaS
manner of taxidermy, furniture ' apaMts
j sic ring, carpet eleaaimg and laying, mat-
tree making a specialty and all work
guaranteed.
Wood! Wood! Wood! Wood! Wood!
For choice dry box-wood, talepaoaa
2064 Black, or leava orders at the As
toria Grocery. 0. Kelson, The Woai
Man."
lira. Tilda Anderson, maaaage, 147
Grand Avenue. Given either at home ar
will calL
j The Little Book Store for aale.
Niagara Stove Work of Baffale, V. X.
TEX ZXiriTH AlfD TIX STAff.
Every oat guaranteed. Will let yasj
ataad or ait oa the oven door If yew
wiih, Prioae reduced oa all stoves a ad
ranges till after th Holiday.
l"J. J. Scully
470 472 COUKLSdAL STBJET
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