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8 THE MORNING ASTOR1AN, ASTORIA,' OREGON. SUNDAY, JULY 1, iod. fell !Sii nte to fat BOILED HAM, SLICED, lb .,30c CHIPPED BEEF, SLICED, lb .:3oc MINCED HAM, SLICED, lb ..15c CANNED LUNCH TONGUE, CAN,..oc IMPORTED SARDINES, t TINS....ui -4r QUEEN OLIVES, MANZANILLA OLIVES, SWEET PICKES, SALTED WAFERS NABISCO WAFERS. A. V. ALLEN'S SOLE AGENT BAKER'S BARRING TON HALL STEEL CUT COFFEE. NEWS OF OREGON AND THE NORTHWEST. J SORJEOFOIRSPEGIALTIES WALL PAPER Best Selection in the City at the Low est Prices JAPANESE MATTINGS Just the Thing for the Floor of Any Room; Easily Kept Clean PREPARED WALL BURLAPS For the Den or Dining Room. Made in Beautiful Shades A Large Assortment of Room Mouldings and Plate Rails B. F. ALLEN S SON SEVENTEEN CORVALLIS MEN WANT JANITORSHIP CORVALUS. Ore, July 7.-The tM meeting of the new official of the Ben ton County Court cloned today after a two day tiiloii. Contrary to expee tatiou, no change ha been made for the office of janitor, The present incumbent, J. J. Wells, appointed umW the previous administration, i a democrat, and there were 17 applications for hi position. The matter was continued until next term of court, a was likewise the ap pointment of a new ferryman for the TODAY IN THE AMERICAN HISTORY. 1663 Charles II renews charter of Rhode Island and Provi dence plantations, to the surprise and joy of the colonists. 1675 Lord Culpeper appoints governor of Virginia for We. 1758 Battle of Tieonderoga won by the French. 1776 Declaration of Independ ence read from the steps of the Statebouse in Phila delphia and to the Conti nental army. 1777 Americans under Living stone defeated in the battle of Fort Ann, losing 128 cannon and stores. , 1778 French fleet of eighteen vessel, with 400 men un-' der Count d'Estaing, ar: rives at the mouth of the Delaware to help Ameri cans against British. 1856 The Senate rejects the bill to admit Kansas as a free State. ' 1867 Right of suffrage extended to negroes in the District o'f Columbia. HIGGINS TAKES OIL OPERATORS PART might eyes are an infallible Index to youth, windows from which Cupid shoots his arrows- Hollister'a Rocky Mountain Tea makes bright eyes, rosy cheeks. Tea or Tablets, 35 cents. Sold by Frank Hart. BRYAN WILL ACCEPT., WASHINGTON, July 7. Former United States, Senator James K. Jones of Arkansas, chairman of the democratic National Committee 1896 and 1900 when Bryan made his campaign for the Presi dency, has received a letter from Bryan dated June 18th in which be says he will accept the nomination for president the third time if tendered. EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS TO ROOSE VELT RELATIVE TO INDIAN TER SITORY OIL LEASES THINKS HITCHCOCK IS TO BLAME ALBANY, N. Y July 7.-Governor Iliggins lat night explained his part in the controversy over the oil leases in Indian and Oklahoma Territories which has become a public question through the investigation by Secretary of the interior Hitchcock. -wnen tne uovernor attention was called to a published article which stat ed that be had interceded with Presi dent Roosevelt in behalf of the oil oper ator, he said: "It is true that I have expressed my view to the president relative to oil leases in Indian Territory. I live in an oil country and many of my friends and constituents are interested in the oil business, migrating at various times from one oil country to another. There has been a great deal of dissatisfaction over the manner in which the lease question has been handled by the De partment of the Interior, especially in Oklahoma and Indian Territory. The method is as far as I know, unusual, and I have so informed the President. "Among other suggestions I thought it would be; wise for Secretary Hitchcock to advise with some practical oil men on the subject" -, 0 . DYNAMITE BOMB " THROWN AT HOTEL PLAN BIG IMPROVEMENTS IN KLAMATH COUNTRY KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., July ?. The .Midway Telephone & Telegraph Company of which 11. V. Gates of Kills boro is president. Intend building a telephone line from her to Lakevlew this summer, and also a telegraph line from the Falls to Montague, Cat, The present telephone service to Ashland I insullleient and nnatitfaetory fur hand" ling the large amount of liulne that now piufe ovef the wire. Another improvement to be effected county ferry, for which position there immediately wll be t ie inflation of a . . .... I ... was aiso a numuer of applications. metallic telephone circuit, between the W. O. Emery of Corvallis. was em- Falls and Merrill, 24 miles south of here. ployed by the coui$ to expert the records The Klamath Falls Light Jt Water of the eouuty officers tor the past two Company of which corporation Mr. Gate ears I is alo president, will exnend about 20. 000 this season iu extensions of Its light NEW FLYING MACHINE. nd water systems. The coutnnnv now W w lias three miles of iron pine at Pokecunu VICTORIA, B. C, July 7.-A flying and two more miles will arrive there machine or air motor i the latest shortly. The water svitom will be tx product of British Columbia Inventive tended so a to reach all imrts if ;he genius. It it the product of Andrew! city, affording excell-nt fire protection Thompson, of Grand Forks, who an- and supplying every house with pure nouncea a trial cruise in it for the end I spring water. 01 Juiy. iayi ne: nt electric lluhtino svstem will also .... 1 . .uy airship will tie propelled ly a I be extended, and electric power will be srnau gasoline engine. An airship large supplied t the itreet railways, whkh enough for one man will be six feet will be in operation here in the near high, eight feet long and four feet wide. I future. and will weigh 200 pounds. One of this sue will carry 600 pounds. The top of RAIN FALLS FROM the motor it covered with strong canvas CLOUDLESS SKY which can be arranged to serve the pur- SALEM. July 7.-Out f an abso pose of wings and lower the ship grad- lutely clear sky, Salem had the unique ually should anything go wrong with the experience of enjoying a mild sprinkling pver. win make ten mue an nour of rain at 11:30 o'clock thi morning, with ease and shall cruise at" a height of Only a few drops fell, but it was suf one mile. Models have been sent with nVient to attract the atcntion of people my applications for patent rights to all on the street, and was plainly vUible on me leaumg countries of the worm." the sidewalks. . The sun was shinimr clear and the thermometer reiriattred Rtf I NEW MO SIC idle hours sun flower ........... city swells DOUBLE TROUBLE PEACHES AND CREAM.,. A GARDEN IN FINK ... NEW MOWN HAY..'. (Intermtno) And tunny others. Ifee the show window, ... , ..(Novelette) . .....1... (Two-Step) ... (March, Two-Step) ..(March, Two-Step) . ....(Rag) .....(Intfrmeno) J. N. GRIFFIN v. : THE UNION GAS ENGINE COMPANY Marine and Stationary Gas and Gasoline Engines. WE ARE NOW FILLING ORDERS FROM OUR NEW WORKS. WRITE US FOR PRICES AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. F. P. Kendall. General Sales Agent, eW Front St, Portland, Or. . V NAPT0N IS MADE DEPUTY. VALE. Ore., July 7.-County Clerk B. W. Mulkey, who was elected clerk of Malheur County at the June election, has appointed Frank Napton as deputy. in the shade. BIG LUMBER INDUSTRY. 525 The Art of Fine Plumbing ALBANY, Ore, July ing industry on the 7.- The lumber North Santiam Mr. Xapton is thoroughly familiar with I River has recently been receiving eon the records of this county. He served I "Merable of an impetus. Besides the the past three years aa secretary and (great improvements of the Curtis I.um abstractor of the Malheur Abstract ber company, which now lias one of the Company. He held the position of largest sawmill industries on the Coast County Clerk for several years in Mon- Mill City, supplied by "many logging tana. I camps, the smaller concerns are making great strides. , The Hoover Lumber Company, which operates a mill at the eastern terminus of the Corvallis & Eastern Railroad, ju-t beyond Detroit, is now doubling the capacity of its plant. Another big en gine is being installed. The Gilbert mill at Detroit has been bat progressed with the development of the science of sanitation and we hive kept pace with the improvements. Hare you Or U your bathroom one 1 the old laiUoBcd, unheaixhy kind I If 700 art (till tuing the "closed In" futures of tea yean ago, It would be well to remove them and install In their tiead, ! tnowy white latKiftd Porcelain Enam eled Ware, of which we kave temples displayed la our showroom. Let 01 quote 70a price. Jflmtrettd catalogue free. V I, A. Montgomery, Astoria, 9 CORVALLIS IS CLEANING. WILL VISIT KING EDWARD. CORVALLIS. Ore- July 7. Today la "cleaning-up day" as per proclamation of Mayor Johnson, and as a consequence, all Corvallis is busy trimming lawns and nlnn n t n s mtt n tAr wn wA A MS. .nd ,,pt ... S "" " " """"" " "' SII SS C premises during the day and report any m. llK"c' ,ka VAN'COL VKR. U. C- July 7.-fcMayor DuHMmU hlyu sic turn turn halo cliaon wawa kanowa yaka Niwasli tillieum. Yaka wawa nika wawa mike tiuhee. konoway ieta wawa kiahowya, neglect of work. "A prettier, cleaner city" is' th motto of the day. IMPROVING SUMPTER STREET, WALLA WALLA JOBBING CENTRE. SUMPTER. Ore., July 7.-ranite A Banker, a Student, a Society Beau or a WorKingman. IT'S ALL THE SAME, IN THE RANKS OF ALL THESE, YOU WILL FIND WEARERS OF THE W. L. DOUGLAS SHOE. ALL STAND UPON A SOLID FOOT ING. YOU WANT A DRESSY OXFORD FOR. THE SUMMER TRY A DOUGLAS. S. A. G1MRE 543 Bond St, 0pp. Fisher Broa. Best kind of logging shoes j hand made 1 always on band. Morning Aitorian, 09 eenti per month. Explodes in Areaway Causing But Injuring No One. Panic, LINCOLN, In July 7. An unsuccess ful attempt was made before dawn to day to wreck the Commercial Hotel with dynamite. A dynamite bomb, thrown into an areaway, exploded with terrific force, damaging walls of the hostelry and Tweaking windows generally in the vicinity. A panic ensued and the guests swarmed from the hotel in night attire, but none were hurt. REIDS ENTERTAIN BRYANS. LONDON, July 7. William J. Bryan and Mrs. Bryan are spending the week end as the guests of Ambassador White- law Reid and Mrs. Reid at West Park, to which place they rode in an automo bile this morning. Among the guests invited to meet Mr. and Mrs. Bryan are Lord Goschen, Miss Goschen, Lady Her bert, Lady Evelyn Ward and Lord and Lady Monson. FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY. SAN FRANCISCO, July 7. Frank Walker, a negro fireman on the steam schooner National City shot and fatally wounded Ole Alison, a shipman, while the boat was lying in the stream. Wal ker says it was In alf defense. Both men were armed. The shooting was the oiitpome. of the sailors' strike, Three members of the crew dny Walker's story. kiahowya. Kilapl tonus sun kopa can I in kopa mitlit iltahce." In t!iee words Mr. Gibson, City Controller of Vancouver, wished bon street, the principal thoroughfare of the voyage to the four Indian chiefs and 0. R. & N. Will Make New Distributing city' Mn reI,lanked w'th a new cov- their interpreter, who are now on their T 'ft ft im n K,,"8 " pine luium-r. (uio .lunns, mei w urawn, r,ng;iBnu, mrir uiijfov Xantt Out Of Walla Walla. merchant, bus the contract, and evneot. beinir to sea Kimr Edward and "la at to have the work finished in one week, the foot of the throne" their orlevances PORTLAND, July 7 A meeting of Th- matter of imnrovlmr this street aaainst the white men "who have taken the Washington railway commission and has for some time been a bone of con- away their lands and Interfered with the traffic officials Of the O. R. A N. Co. I tentinn in th Citv Cminoil. the nrnnertv. the flshillir and huntlnif richts whli-h - - - - j , - 1 - i - - n - n f owners being divided in their opinion as their fathers enjoyed." A free translation to how the improvement should be made, of Mr. Gibson's Chinook address 1st "Mayor Buscombe's heart Is grieved CONFERENCE AT NEWBERG. " because he could not be at the station to say good-bye to his Slwash friends. was held here today for the purpose of reaching some agreement for a new dist ance tariff schedule in Washington. It was announced after the meeting that the railroads will rannage a new distri butive tariff out of Walla Walla and owing to the stupendous task of the preparation of such a table, the meeting adjourned to come together at some future. The new schedule will have the NEWBERG, Ore., July 6. The annual ' hoPed KinK Edward wm,Itl unnt conference of the Friends Church, known ln(',r n vuwa w'm P"" as the Oregon yearly meeting of Friends ant Journy '"d return in the big Church, which is held each vear in the cano 10 lhlr own nomM- mnnth a .TiiIp at vuhrfF nunui hr The delegation consists of Chief Jo effect of making Walla Walla a jobbing tw. marning with presldent Mwll eeph Copilano. a.ief John Slllester of MeGrew. of Pacific Colleee. in the chair. Plc''ft( 'ef "' of Kamiopps. anil The sessions will consist of meetings for c,,lef Cbarlle, of Cowkhan. Several days business each mornlne and afternoon, "'P W1" w mane amifKips. aim me with preaching services at nitrht. Party Wl11 t,iei1 Vrwee via Montreal. The st. amer Undine did not get down from Portland until 0:30 yesterday morning, practically 12 hours behind her schedule ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ASTORIA Astoria's New and HOTEL! Modern Mr. Astoria Man t f Did Tou ever flmira how manv thou. sand canltallsta visit tha Paclfln Cos.t ' I without coming to Astoria? WHY? SERIOUS FIRE. BOISE, July 7. A serious fire oc currcd at Cambridge on the Pacific and Idaho Northern this afternoon. The loss was $40,000. The fire started from an explosion of coal oil used to start fire in a cook stove by Mrs, Lee Bar- COSSACKS KILL MINERS. ST. PETERSBURG, July 7.-The Cos sacks fired on a number of miners mak- incr a lcmnnntrntinn at tlio Auwka ley. A number of buildings including wrk. ,j TT1 1. 4 -TV. 1 V " Morning Astorian, 05 cents per month. the Moran Hotel burned. is light, The insurance ROSENBERG AN ANARCHIST. OREGON MAN'S BODY FOUND .IN WISHKIAH" RIVER ABERDEEN, .Wash., July 7. Two SEATTLE, July 7. The police have bodies were found floating in the Wish- received positive evmence that Kosen kiah River yesterday. Hie first was berg was in league with the late Johann identified as that of Nels Nelson, 30 Most, and other notorious anarchists. I years old, employed on the steamer The police say Rosenberg presided over Fearless, and a resident of this place, a meeting in Seattle five years ago, ad- The second was A. A. Meadly, 23 years dressed by Most, and was loudest in his old. of Newport, Ore,, employed at the applause of the anarchistic utterances of Slade mill. His mother is sick in Port- Most. The German covcrnrnent will be land, and his father is in Freewater. A informed of the evidence against Rosen- brother-in-law :from Edna, Wash., is ex- berg. "Behold the Western sky, Where people live but never die." Tl. ..... 4M. I. ..!..( 1- hid i piv. jvr .ma m jjiniii tu . They all take Rocky Mountain Tea, Sold by Frank Hart. . peeted-today,' My a strange coincidence, the tuo. youm? men were seen tulklng together 'fioyirdny night, the last time they were ecn alive. Mnitihig Asturian, 05 cents per month, ucnvcreu uy carrier, "O SPICES, o BAianiPowDEH, Ah&IuftrSiiry. flnisr Flavor. CLOSSETiPEVUS If only 100 Investor! came to Astoria during each year and only one or two of them invested, would we all be benefitted! YOU BET I t Would It Injure the restaurants and lodging housei now here if the tourist who now stay away would come to Astoria? ' NOT MUCH! We cannot have a hotel In front of every lot. ' But every lot will be benefitted by a FINE HOTEL. Have you the nerve to Invite your influential friends to visit Astoria now? Where will they etop la Astoria f Opportunity knock but once other knockers please copy. You can't go ahead by sitting still. Respectfully, THE NEW HOTEL COMMITTEE. Notice Life insurance companies, will reduce the rate 33 per oent to all who agree to use nollister'a Rocky Mountain Tea. A wise measure, Tea op Tablets, 38 cents. Sold by Frank Hart, The motor schooner Gerald C. ar- jj rived In from AWa yesterday after- '-J noon. , tit ..... ' 1 The steamer Aurelia was the first vei- J ' sl to pan outward yesterday, going to Baa Francisco.