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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1906)
THE MORNING ASTOHfAN. ASTORIA. OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY 4. Ho COUNTY COURT BUSY Has Called In That $20,000 Lot of Terra Cotta. MUCH ROAD BUSINESS DONE Steel and Stone Contracts for New Court House Paid Off in Full Provision , Made for Indignant Citi zen. One of the very essential thing do'1" m by the county commissioners' court of Clatsop county, yesterday, was the mak ing and recording of the following or dei. The text of the order is calculated to mimify the direct responsibility of the court for the irregular and irrespon sible manner in which the Terra Cotta incident wag handled at the previous term, but those that are familiar with the details of the business as it was con ducted at that time, will not be misled by the allusion to the tax payer and the "report that are being circulated.' It is enough that the court is. at last, putting this important piece of business representing nearly $20,000 of the tax payers' money, in tangible and under standable shape, and the responsibility of the court in this relation will not abate one particle until the last foot of the terra cotta is on the ground, in this city, duly stored and insured after am ple inspection and an order of accep tance. Following is the reading of the order made yesterday: "In the matter of Terra Cotta for the proposed court house: It appearing to the court that certain taxpayers are circulating reports to the effect that the court has no contract as to the delivery of the terra cotta; and the court having now received a letter from Mr. J. C Bayer, on behalf of Gladding & Bean, the manufacture asking permission to make immediate shipment of the same as they need the room' on account of anticipating a great deal " of work from San Francisco "It is ordered by the court that Mr. Bayer be notified to ship the full amount McOinnis for three years was princi of terra cotta as per contract aa Boon pal of the high school at Oconto. Wis. as possible; and that the some be rout- In 1894 he established a newspaper, at ed via the A. 4 C. R. R." The county commissioners' court con vened for the second day's session of the May term at 9 o'clock yesterday morn ing, with Judge Trenchard and Commis sioner Larsen on the bench, Commission er Clark being still absent. Among the matters and things taken under consideration, disposed of, or continued, by the court, were the fol lowing: A warrant in the sum of $2,857.77 was ordered to be issued in favor of the Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company, in full payment for steel fur nished for the new court house, the warrant being drawn against that fund: A warrant in the sum of $932.97 was ordered to issue in favor of Hastie & Dorgarf, contractors, as. payment in full for stone already furnished for use on the county court house and for such is yet to come. In the matter of the complaint here tofore filed in relation to the allowance made to the district attorney, of $25. per month for office rent the court after due consideration, deems the allowance just and confirms it previous order. It was ordered by the court that the clerk publish a call for bids for the What Our Grocery Dept. Has to Offer to Spring House Cleaners. RADIO LAUNDRY SOAP, 32 BARS FOR $1.00 BANNER LYE 3 TINS FOR SC WASHING SODA, 28 POUNDS, FOR 5c ELECTRO SILICON, A BOX 10c GILLETT'S PEPPER BOX BLUEING, 3 BOXES FOR 25c REMEMBER THAT WE HAVE NOT ADVANCED OUR PRICE ON SUGAR SINCE SAN FRANCISCO'S EARTHQUAKE; OUR PRICE IS $6.oo A SACK FOR CASH. THE r ASTORIA'S GREATEST STORE. clearing and grading of Road district Xo. 7". from where L. A. I.arcii's con tract ended, to a point when the said road No. 77 intersects the Columbia county lane. It. lx-ing ascertained by the court. that tlierr was available the sum of $200 for the improvement of road di-triet Xo. 12. Fishawk, it was ordered that V. M, .lones, the supervisor of said dis trict, improve said road to that eteut. from the vet boundary of district on road Xo. 77 to the 34 mile stake; and said supervisor was also directed to ad vise the court of the amount of punch eons necessary on said road Xo. 77. A warrant against the rtmd fund in the sum of $.100, was ordered drawn in favor of L. A. Lnrsen. It was ordered by the court that a contract be let ujmhi the bid of William Hartell. for the gravelling of road dis trict Xo. 4., in accordance with the no tice and bid, and that a Iwnd 1 requir ed in the sum of $200. for said Hartell; the judge to approve said bond in due course. The following matters were continued by the court: The improvement of the road from Seaside to Bereman's north line: The improvement of the Aid rich Point road: The improvement of the John Day road. In the matter of the petition for the relief of E. C. Jacking, it was ordered by the court that the clerk write a let ter to .Mayor loung. of Jeaule. in forming him that the proper papers had been drawn and forwarded to the State Soldiers' Home, at Roseberg. providing for Mr. Jackins' admission as soon as there was a vacancy there; and that in the meantime, Mr. Jackins should be brought to this city and placed in St. Mary's hospital, pending his admittance to the home. Adjournment was then taken until court in course. GOES TO PRISON. Former Author and! Newspaper Man Convicted of Forgery. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. May 3.-M. A. McGinnies a former college professor and author of a standard work on math niatics, was convicted of forgery in the criminal court here yesterday and sen tenced to ten years in the penitentiary. MeGinnU and a confederate forged a deed to a city lot and sold the prop- rty for $300. Medford, Ore. Later he published a paper at Julesburg. Colo., and held im portant political positions jn Logan County, Colo. He is a direct descendant of John Napier, inventor of Logarithms While publishing a newspaper in New ton County, Mo., he was sent to the pen itintiary for misuse of the mails. While in the penitentiary he wrote the book which made him famous with mathe maticians throughout the world. He called it "Algebra, the Universal So lution For Numerical and Literal Equ ations." After his release from prison the book was published simultaneously in America and England. Sciatica Cured After Twenty Years of Torture. For more than twenty years Mr. J. B. Massey, of 3322 Clinton St., Minne apolis, Minn., was tortured by sciatica. The pain and suffering which he endur ed during this time is beyond compre hension. Nothing gave him any perma nent relief until he used Chamberlain's Pain Balm. One application of that liniment relieved the pain and made sleep and rest possible, and less than one bottle has effected a permanent cure. If troubled with sciatica or rheu matism why not try a 5-cent bottle of Pain Balm and see for yourself how quickly it relieves the pain. For sale by Frank Hart, and leading druggists. THE LAW IN THE CASE. County Court Amply Justified in the Al lowance Made. The following matter is plain, defi nite and straight to the point: it speaks for itself and' he "who mux may read." "To th; honorable county court of Clatsop county. "Having lieen requested, by your hon orable body it its present session, to give my opinion as to the monthly al lowance of twenty live dollars for of fice expenses, made to me as county at torney in accordance with your order made at the January term, 100)1, I have the following to say: "While I recognise the fact, that no legal objection has b:en piVorly made, or filed, to the allowance of said sum and that the so called objections, con sists only of oral comments made to the individual nieniWrs of the court, and that such objections, justify no written opinion, tu'ver-the-less, 1 shall take the time to cite the legal authority for j such matters. "Tho constitution of the State of Oregon, article seven, section seventeen, is here quoted. "There shall be elected bv districts comprised of one or morv counties, sufficient number of prosecuting attor neys. who shall be the law officers of the state, and of the counties within their rejiective districts, and shall per form such duties (vertaiuing to the ad ministration of law and general police as the legislative assembly may direct. "By that constitutional provision, the district attorney is made not only the officer to the state in his district, but alo the law officer of the county, and is therefore just as much a county officer as the clerk, sheriff or any other officer. "Section nine-hundred and twelve of Bellinger and Cotton's Code of Oregon is as follows. '"The county court has the authori ty and povveiv pertaining to county commissioners to transact county busi ni.; that is, " '2. To provide offices and furniture, books, stationery, fuel and light there for, for the sheriff, county clerk, and treasurer or other county officers."' "The county court therefore, has the same power to provide office furniture, books, stationery, fuel and light for the district attorney as county attor ney in each county in his district as the said court has an furnih accomoda tions for the sheriff, clerk, treasurer nr other county officers. "Therefore under the law the county attorney is clearly entitled to such al lowance and the court was legally justi fied in making the order. "Very Respectfully Yours, "HARRISON ALLEN. District Attorney. PRELIMINARY BOUTS National Wrestling Championship Will Commence in Chicago. CHICAGO, May 3. The preliminary bouts in the national wrestling cham pionships of the Amateur Athletic I'nion to be held under the auspices of the central department of the local Y. M. C. A. wil be held tonight and the finals Saturday night. The entry list which closed on April 27, contains but few entries from the East but is filled well from local athletic clubs and the Central Y. M. ('. A, New ark, N. J. has sent two strong repre sentatives in George N. Mennert and fius Bauer. Mehnert has seven cham pionships in the 215 pound class to his credit and also won first honors at the St. Louis Olympic games. His towns man Bauer, is the National and Metro politan 115 pound champion. The weights in the various ela-s-s are: Bantams, 105 pounds and under; feath erweight, 115 and under, special weight, 125 pounds and under light weight, 135 and under; welterweight, 145 and un der; middleweight, 158 and under and heavyweight, over 158. OFFICERS DINED. NEW YORK, May 3. A dinner to the senior officers of the French and American warships now in New York harbor with Admiral Campion as the guest of honor, was given by Consuul General Alcide Kbray, of France, last night at Delmonicos. Rear Admiral Jo seph B. Coghlan, commandant of the Brooklyn Navy. Yard; General Horace Porter, and Itearl Admiral Brownsoni were among the guests. Not if as Rich as Rockefeller. If you had all the wealth of Rocke feller, the Standard Oil magnate, you could not buy a better medicine for bowel complaints than Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The most eminent physician can not prescribe a better preparation for colic and diarrhoea, both for children and adults. The uniform success of this remedy has shown it to be superior to all others. It never fails, and when re, duced with water and sweetened, is pleasan to take. Every family should be supplied with it. Sold by Frank Hart, and leading druggist. FOOD EXPERIMENT Systematic Diet Pound to Increase Endurance. TESTS MADE BY PROFESSOR Students Are Given Systematic Diet and the Experiment Proves En durance was Increased and Less Food Eaten. NEW 1I.VVKX. Conn., May 3-l'iofcs mr Irving Fisher of Yale, has conclud ed an experiment covering ten weeks of the relation of endurance to diet, and last night made public the first statement of the ivsnlt. Nine Yale graduates were selected for the expert- ment were given one test immediate ly after the Christinas holidays when they were fresh from vacation and an other after a term of hard work. The experiment consisted of trying to find a truer food instinct than most persons are said to have. Xo attempt was made to prescribe a diet or forcibly alter the quantity of proportions of the food. The men were simply asked to ftdlow the plain, eating slowly and thor oughly masticating their food, giving stecial attention to its tate and fol lowing implicitly the dictates of appe tite. A record was kept of the food consum ed by each man each day. The propor- tious of fat, starches, sugar, and proj tcid were worked out by means of a me chanical diet indicator devised for this purpose by Professor Fisher. It was found that the men had de creased their food ten persent, the pro teid 15 per cent and the consumption of meat and other llesh food by 40 per cent instinctively. In order to test the working power f the men, trials of endurance were aiade at Yale gymnasium, at the Wgin nir of the esperjiuekit. The same tests were repeated at the end. It was then found that each of the nine men had improved anywhere from 15 to more than 100 percent despite the fact that no siecinl physical exercise had been taken. The average physical endurance was over fifty per cent. Strength tests were also given but the improvement in en durance was greater than in strength. Mental tcU were also given in form of problems and it was alo found that most of the men had increased in men tal quickness. As every precaution was taken to pre vent any disturbing factor to which im proved condition of the men mi;'lit be ascribed it is believed that the experi ment has ilemon.strated that it is pos sible for any person in two and one half months time, hut simple mastica tion of the food and following the appe tite lo improve the endurance by one half. TIE UP EXCURSION BOATS. CHICAGO, May 3. The big excursion boats that run during the summer mon ths, being an important factor in the amusement of Chicago people, may In tied up indifnately as a result of the general strike of marine men. The strike grew beyond all expecta tions yesterday when it was declared Jy the union men that no passenger boat which employed non-union mates, could have union employes. Two excursion boats will lie affected at once by this decision. The tieup in the Chicago harbor was complete during the day the decision of the union regarding passenger lioats being the 'last link in the chain which will prevent much business being trans acted from the city. There are more than a score of these boats scheduled to begin the season within the next few days, and their idleness will cost their national hedqurters, probably to if the strike is not of long duration. At a meeting of licensed tugmen held last night, the tugmen decided to walk out as soon as orders were, received from their national headqurters, probably to day. DISCUSS IMMIGRATION. NEW YORK, May 3. The American Social Science Association held here last night the. first session of its annual meeting the subject of the evening's discussion being "Immigration." President John Graham Brooks of Cambridge, Mass; Dr. Lyman Abbott Immigration Commissioner Watchorn, and the Countess I)i Bruzza Savorgnan of Italy, mude addresses. nr (Clothes Are built with brains and judg ment n well as with shears And nee dle madfl of the same good material as are other good clothes. Hut its the way they've been put together that makes them "different" that show Individuality and snap, Our Spring Show ing is full of good things. See, them P. A. Stokes The HOME OF FASHION ttttitntt i n n 1 i in nnxTt itiinn mm i nx lit it WIRELESS OFFERS THE BEST AND SAFEST INVESTMENT F THE DAY. Now that the IV Km eat sys tem i working successfully ac ross the Atlantic the ?:i0,ooo,(HMi earned last year by the Atlnntie Cable Co, will soon 1 transferr ed to the yearly income of the Pe Forest Company. Before invesing a dollar else where it will pay you to investi gate our stock offerings. Call, w rite or phone. AMERICAN DE FOREST WIRE LESS TELEGRAPH CO. Chas A. Lindstrom, Manager 205-208 Mohawk Bldg, Phone 3)IU tsagmrtrrstfflttrmgm8tmasa TAFT ON CANAL. TOIUUNGTi N. Conn.. May 3. - S e retarv W. II. Taft wa a guest here lat nijrlit at a banquet given by the Torrinu- ton Wheel Club. Previous to the Win- quet Secretary Taft delivered all adilr.ss on the Panama ( anal, in which he re- viewed the history of the undertaking and discussed the sen level and hk type of canal, saying that he supported the latter. He 'advocated the letting of the work of const ruction of the water way in the hands of a contractor. Sec retary Taft left at 10:40 o'clock last ni;lit for Washington. We care not how you suffered, nor what failed to cure yon, Hollii-tcr's Rocky Mountain Tea makes the puniest, weakest specimen of man or womanhood strong and healthy, 35 cents, Tea or Tab- ; lets. Sold by Frank Hart. It is Dangerous to Neglect a Cold. How ofton do we hear it remarked: " It's only a cold." and a few days later learn that the man is on his back with pneumonia. This is of such common occurrence that a cold, however slight, should not be disregarded. Chamber lain's Cough Remedy counteracts any tendency of a cold to result in pneu monia, and has gained it great popu larity and extensive sale by its prompt cures of this most common ailment. It always cures and is pleasant to take. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. LEAVES FOR QUEBEC. ST. JOHN', N. II., May 3-Prince Ar thur of fonmiught left last night for Quebec, .lust before leaving here he was tendered a banquet at tic union club. Lieutenant Oovcnior .1, II. Snow ball. Premier L. .J. Tweedie and ex Mayor Hears, spoke. IT PAYS but it does not pay to sell Mf.lNNlilN'S POWDER nearly m well, aa it pays to sell an imperfect and impure substitute which, costing about hulf the cost of M EN NttN'S, yields the dealer double profit. The "just as good" with which some dealers try to palm off a substitute is true any way. If it's only "just as good " for the dealer why push the sale. If it's only "just as good " for the buyer why risk an unknown preparation for MENNEN'S. There's nothing just as good as MEN NEN'S BORATED POWDER, and the dealer who says there is, risks his customer's skin ana safety to make an extra profit on a sale. Have you tried MENNEN'S VIOLET Ml Pic-iimilc of Boi If 4a X VI Copvritht 1906 f llsrt SUial'ner tf MsrX Fancy Oregon Rhubarb Direct from the grower. Its nice and fresh. Fancy Naval Oranges Sweet and Juicy, from 25c to (0c per dozen. 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