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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1906)
THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. SATURDAY, JULY ill 1909, D , 1 n . , , ,, - , - .' n .i.i,.4.AtWmtirtiofltIi chalt. IC It tnis chthatconuiMthi unpleasant .stringent principle (tannin), on c mailt of which coiice Arinkiiur docs not f with some people. BarringtoiCHall tjute the difference in the first cupful: The chaff kaa beta 00 S this coffee by a wonderful steel-cuttlng process. Pack XTaSntS in 'in.-it i. the only pure coffee, free fro dust ana iuuu-u"-n PRICE, PCF POUND, 40 CENTS. A. V. ALLEN SOLE AGENT ;'?'' SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY. ' NEWS OF OREGON AND THE NORTHWEST. 3S The Art of Fine Plumbing ha progressed with the development of the science of sanitation and we have kept Dice with the improvements. Have jrou f Orb your bathroom one of the old fashfoncd, unhealthy kind f If jroo nt sdQ using the "closed in" fixtures often years ago, it would be well to remove them and install in their stead, snowy white Staaiard" Porcelain Enam eled Ware, of which we have samples displayed in our showroom. Let us quote you prices. Illustrated catalogue tree. ?, A. Montgomery.OAstoria. I GOES BANKRUPT. SAX FRANCISCO, July 27.-George G. Hadley one time partner of Senator Stephen B. Elkins. Richard B. Kerens, both of West Virginia, ajid Henry fiaa way Davis, candidate for vice-president on the Parker ticket, filed an application in bankruptcy yesterday. He state that his liabilities amount to $24,540. The better portion of this amount is represented by indebtedness to the Tar rytown National Bank of Tarrytown, N.Y. The papers in the application declar that the applicant is a co-partner with the named politicians in 20,000 acres of coal lands in West Virginia that were purchased 20 years ago for the sum of $300,000. He declares that it has been impossible for him to realize upon the property in which he has a one eighteenth interest and which has in creased in value ten-fold since the pur phase was made. Children like Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar. The pleasantest and best cought syrup to take, because it contains no opiates. Sold by C Rogers. J FORGER IS ARRESTED. PASADENA, CaU July 2". Frank Hart well, wanted in Albany, Oregon, to answer a charge of embezzling $500 from Fohay and Maon merchants, and also on charge of forgery and pasing bad checks in Seattle, Wash., Salem, Oregon, and other Northwest cities, was arrested here today. AFTER STANDARD AGAIN. CHICAGO, July 27.-Tbe Standard Oil Company's methods of transporting its products are to be investigated August 6 when the Federal Grand Jury will con vene in Chicago and take testimony oa the subpect It is declared new and im portant evidence has been discovered In the matter. NAMES THE MURDERER. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 27.-Frank "Kern, who with Bertha Bowlin, was brutally assaulted late at night, a week ago in Kersey Coates terrace, fully re gained conscientness tonight and mads a statement in which he said Albert M. Crone committed the assault. Crone js now in the county jail charged with mur der in the first degree, awaiting a pre liminary hearing, Miss Bowlin having succumbed. CASTOR I A Tor Infanti and Children. Be Kind You Have Always BongM Urrkld Fmrnttj. There seems to be a general mfseon ccptlon as to Just what an orchid la Many call any plant which grows on a fee or baa some peculiar feature an orchid. This mistake Is frequently made with the pitcher plants and the "tall flowers." The uniting In one or gan, called the column, of the stamens and pistils serves to distinguish the orchid family from all related ones. The orchid family embraces 6,000 or 7,000 species, of which comparatively few are found In the warm temperate and almost none in the cold temperate zones. They are mostly distributed in the tropical regions, in hot, humid, places. Orchids, however, do not Inva riably prefer humid conditions. Nearly all tropical orchids grow on trees,, but In temperate regions they grow la earth.-Youth's Companion. C. H, MERCANT DEAD. MAPvSlIKlFJJ), Ore., July 27.-C. H. Merchant, one of Oregon' early pioneers and Coos County's wenlthlM men, pa ed sway at his home in this city lust evening. Mr. Merchant in early days had charge of the Simpson Lumber Com pany' interest on Cik Buy, Inter taking charge of the E. 11, Dean Company, where he ivmained for many years, ami owned a large interest iu this company up to a few years ago, when he sold out. since which time he has taken several long trips in the hope of benellting his health, but the latter part of April hi health took a turn for the worse, and since then he has been confined to the house. He Imim widow and a lame family. Mr. TOO MUCH WATER IS CAUSE OF HIS DEATH ALBANY, Ore, July 27.-lWnse h dmiik too much water while on a moun tain trip, John U. Smith, a farmer who tvsided near Nolo, died yesterday, Smith went to the mountains two weeks ago, lie drank n enormous quantity of water ami before he reached home he was tak en ill and never Mt his bed. He leave a widow and three children. EAGLES' BAND CONCERTS. rHNtl.r7roN, Ore- July 27 Arrange, iiienl have been made for a series nl public band concert to be given In this city by the Eagles Band of 20 pieces, The surplus money left over from the Fourth of July fund has cn turned over for the purpose, and concerts will j he iflven euch Friday evening during the Merchant was a man who made friends , . . iulmm.r on the court- wherever he went. He was one of tl1 ; hou t-outula. leading members of the Masonie lodge J here, and belonged to the Mystic Slimi er. He had heavy holdings in Coos Bay, also in Oakland, Cal. The funeral will take place here on Sunday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. FORTUNE AWAITS HIM. SEATTLE. Wash., July 27.-Merritt Robert, said to have been employed on some Seattle newspaper as a reporter until a few mouths ago, is being sought by his uncle. Norman Barber, of Tacoma. Roberts is the heir to a small fortune left him by his mother, who died recently in Milwaukee. Roberts left his home in anger because his mother bad eluded hiss for hi misdeeds. Before- she died she forgave him and willed bins all of her be longing. The young man Is saw oy nis uncle to have worked in th city under an assumed name, and he asserts that the boy was in Seattle not! more than three weeks ago. MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS SECTION HAND INJURED. S1LVEUTON. Ore- July 27 -A section hand named Theodore Hbfurls met with an accident yesterduy morning, when both bonen of his right leg were broken below the knee. He was riding on the hand-car, with hi feet hanging down in front of the car, aud a they ran upon the street erosslng near the depot his foot struck the guard-rail, ftming his leg beneath the wheels. Shfaria was taken to the flic of Dr. Brook, where the fractured memler was treated, and later sent to Portland, where he will remain in the hospital for some tiirte. F0RBST FIRE STILL RACING. SALK.NL July 27,-A small forest fir has been raging In the vicinity of Mill City, about 13 miles southeast of that place, since yesterday morning. It Ha burned over about 200 acre of ground', but little damage has been done o far, at there- i little timber of any value in BOUND FOR1 SUMMIT j section lamed. The ore is working northward into the mountains and no erioa daawge is expert ed. There are no farm bouses or town in its path. The origin of the fire is unknown. BELLINGHAM. Wash., July 7v-Al- most 100 mountain climbers bound for the sumaut of Mount Baker and flying the flag of the Mazama Club boarded the train ' this morniay for Glacier, in the foothills of the Baker district.. More than half the party is composed of omen. There were dressed in the k test fashion for mountoia climbing. wnicD included Alpine stocks, cameras and" field sses. All arrangements were care fully made before Hand and every detail of the program so far has worked out smoothly. The party expects to be in the permanent camp in time for dinner this evening. WILX NOT ACCEPT FRANCHISE. TACOWA, July 27. It l ofH.-ially an nounced from Seattle that the Union Pacific will not accept the franchise granted by the Taeoma City Council. The reason' is that the Union fariHc has since changed its plans to the betterment for both the railroad and the city. A new ranchwe is now being drawn, to 1 submitted to the- next meeting of the Tacorna Council. Bears the Signature of Nothing Makes Life So Sweet. Lost Boy Like Loat Umbrella, , The tourist stopped at the little cabin where an old colored mammy was bending over a big tub. "Good morning, mammy,' greeted the tourist "Mawnln. Bah," responded mammy. "Where's your son Sam?" "Gone, sab; I dunno wbeb. "Well, he always was a bad boy, mammy." "'Deed be was, sah. He was dess lak det ole blue embrella Ah los' In de tbunderstohm. He was bahd to raise, powahful bahd to raise, an' afteh Ah did raise hlin he Jes' Jumped away fum me, an' Ah ain't seen him since." Chicago News. AS EASY COMFORTABLE SHOES. NOTHING MAKES LIFE AS UNBEARABLE AS POORLY FITTING SHOES. COME TO ME AND GET ABSOLUTE SATIS FACTION. S. A. G1MRE 343 Bond St, Opp. Fisher Brofc Best kind of logging shoes; hand nade; always on hand. All klndi of shoe repairing neatly Arithmetical. "Yes," said the old mathematician. with a gleam In his eyes, "I've always looked at It that way. Marriage Is ad dltlon, when the little ones come It's multiplication, when dissension looms up to cloud the horizon of their bappl ness It's division and when the final parting comes It's subtraction." "And how about divorce?" asked the listener. "Oh, I guess that would come under the denomination of fractions." New York Press. A Rare Article Indeed. A little girl not long ago displayed a bit of feather-black, as It happened to a caller at the house. This man looked Impressed and Inquired gravely, "What Is that Nelly, an angel's wing?" The child slowly shook her bead. "Oh, no." she answered at once. "Angels' feathers are white, and I think they are very scarce." Silence. Johnny 'Whuf's silence, Freddy? Freddy-It's what you don't hear when fou llsten.-Kansa City Independent, The man who Is trying to keep his head above wutor realizes thut a float ORIGIN OF NEW YORK NAMES Sew Dora Replaced Town ThrU I)trr'J hr Fire. There- are some names of places ill Greater New York, comc.au enough i the modern to::gw, bet the- origin or which fe not so generally known. New Dorp, on Staterr Ham!, rras so named bv thf Dutch to dlstfr.Kiil-.-b It from Oude Dorp (OH. Drpi. rite first Dutch settlement on the Island, which wan thrice- destroyed by the Indians. Old Dorp stood t the Ufjufhwest of I ort Wadsworth. 11 bout where Arroeliar now stands. Two- mir to the west of the ruins of Old D-a-p the persistent Dutch built flieir New Dorp. The nortlw-ust sertlon of Staten Is land, which nnil tb formation or Greater Now York was known ns Cas tfcton. and is iitill gemM-ally so called. takes Its name finm the fact tnat It once formed Governor iMigiin's "man or of Cnstleton."' Dongiiu the Doiignn hills are mimed: from Mm was of the family at the Enrt f Limerick, ami the peat of the earl la Ireland was CiwtJe- town. In tli2 ("ornty KiMnre. Many of flfiffortwir rxmsan's descendants still live on Sta.'eu Island, some of thorn oc cupying and owning houses on tnc mini of the. old manor. At first Governor Dougnn merely had a hunting lodge on Staten Island, and It is s!xiilliiait of the state of that portion of New- York city at the end of the seventeenth cen tury that ft a i::ell!!S of the eolonlal council tb governor was entered on the rnlnutoi a;i "absent, beluff engaged at his hnnil!i!r Man 011 Kinten Island killing hears." Bedlow's Island, on which the statue of Liberty stands, was prirctiaHou 10 1710 bv an Englishman named r.edlow who had amassed a large fortune In the East India trade and was an acquaint anefl of the then governor, tho notort riiiu T, fieri rnrnlnii'v. Itcdlow received from Cornlmry the privilege of victual lnir tho Hrltisb flttcts which ffeuuctited New York. It Wns a most profitable monopoly, having In It great possllilll t!es of graft. Cornbury Is supposed to have "stood In" with liodloyYj!?5 Tledlnw illeil snddoiil v ('oi'Iil)lir.V seized all Ids tinners, collected all Ui Mit standing debts due i!m "ii,triU'toiVnd lient ovei'vt!i!ii:r of r.ediow'a ho could lav his Inn t on. leavin rU'v": wld OlV llti l Hi'1 I" li'i'-eiiv r.ell'i" islaubrwuyboughfunil usoir by the con tractor while he victualed tfe fleets as 0 depot for his stores. Corleur'w Hook takes Its name from Jacob ('oi-lear. iTh city trumpeter In the old Dutch days. Governor neck man loiiKht It from him. The governor also bought a country estate, the site of which Is commemorated by ltwk mnn street. The trne- meuuirrg of the- word Man hattan, originally spelled variously as Mana-ha-ta, Miinftnttoes and Manhat tan. Is hid In mystery. It Is not even certain whether It wns the name of tue place or of the tribe whlcb bibablted It, or of both. The old Idea tout tho word meant Tlnce of Drunkenness has been satisfactorily confuted, but what does the word! mean ? New York Press. rI5pffAICElWn-,QB 1 1 iw jm in , H -ir. M 4 m 1 Spencor and t'oor. HerbiTt Spencer's notions of art were very crude. 111s nivorue coior wu what be called' "Impure- puriile." He wore 'impure purple" gloves and, find ing thut the furniture wus a little som ber, bad a binding- of nmpnro purple" paste-t round ft by n seamstress. We cut the first strip hinwif and showed ber how to stick It oa with paste. Ho L...1 bin vnscs filled wrtth urtlliclnl flow. ers. He wfabed to bnvo everything: bright about lilm and consequently en Joyed color. When It was suggested lie conld get thut In rail flowers he re- pjledr "Booh! Tliey would want eoo stant replenish Iu?:" He wanted to know why the people should object to artificial flowers la a room any more than to 1111 artificial landscape. "Home Life With Herbert Spencer." Vg In China. A Peking correspondent suyst "It Is no uncommon sight to seo twelve or thirteen enomioua fat pigs, with tholr legs tied, huddled close together having a ride lu, a Chinese curt with some sort of light cargo on top of them and a man witting on the cargo. Tho pigs arejsih-nt, mid consequently one would thliiK tiiey should not l objects for the action of the Sucloty For the Pre vention of Cruelly to Anliimls, The faetlrrhal-tlic iiuluml nro too fat and Jitsv .tpTiniil.'! any noise until dlsturlied at lliiilr Journey's cud, when bagil,ies nro us lti:ii.in opera to the terrific squealing I i-unl," NOTICE TO PIAN0BUYEKS Today Is the Last Day of Eiler's Piano House Sale We Quote You Some Mighty AttractiveOffers But They Must Be Taken By 11 O'Clock Tonight v No Use Wasting Words Now You Want the Prices and You've Got Them Here with a Vengeance. Our Salesmen Leave for Walla Walla Sunday Evening. A FINE KIMBALL pUa eltfintly finished in French walnut Tali style piano stilt inywbm fortes- Tody (QOQ1 , (SVVK only A Beautiful VICTOR plano-thi is the pUno that thi Chicago School Board selected in the severest kind of a "try-out"; It has the wear; It retails for 1450; today only (we actually los money at the price but w want to !! thest instruments if w possibly cin) today only, w aa Z 5290 A swell golden oak, very UUst style, BAILEY & COMPANY of Nw 1 York, fully fuaranteed; retails for lj5. To QQ (fsoo is lis less than wt hsvs offered It in this sale.) I A maialfictnt ai-octTt CABLE organ; ba la use thrti ysart; - but well-mannered folk havt had it; not a mark on It. It cost thsm la Portland fioy-Wo wast just f6 for it, but for today only. $62 Another, good toned orgia for. .tai-00 Liberal Time Payments on Any of These Bargains Store Open Tonight Until 11 O'ClocK NOTE Mr. L. P. Bruce, manager of our Pianola Player department la Portland will be in Astoria all day and anyone Interested in thesa famous instruments should hsar Mr. Bruce make them speak as living things. Coma In, boy, or no buy. It's worth anybody's while to hear the modern pianola piano. EILERS PIANO HOUSE . Today is the Last Day of Our Astoria Sale Off COMMERCIAL STREET. OPP. SHERMAN TRANSFER CO. : SEASIDE PICTURES f A FINE" LINE OF PRINTS IN BLACKS AND COLORS, 5C EACH. MATTED PRINTS IN ALL SIZES, COLORS, ' AND SUBJECTS, 5c. to 50c. EACH, SUITABLE FOR 7 ANY SEASIDE COTTAGE. FOR THE MORE IMPORTANT PLACES ON YOUR " WALLS, OUR LINE OF FRAMED PICTURES, RANG ING UPWARD FROM 15c. SHOULD APPEAL TO YOU BUT TO FURTHER INDUCE YOU TO EXAMINE THEM, AND ENCOURAGE THEIR SALE DURING THE SUM MER WE OFFER 25 Per Cent Off Any Framed Picture J. N. GRIFFIN Books Stationery Sowvetiiers Modern Existence. To dress better, live bettor and occu py better houses that are bettor fur nished forces men to work harder and longer than their predecessors did, Tho result of tills Is that tho ordinary man Is separated from his wife and family almost as much as If be were absent Truth. Wnnt to Know th IlMson Wby, ' Costlijue It's funny that somo peo ple aro never satisfied to know a thing la so and so, but must ask the why and wherefore, Happy Yes, I woudsl Why It Is Huff.-! In tnlvcx. Buffalo calves, na a rule, are born in April 1111! May, They ure active, vigorous little iToutures, mild eyed us domestic ciilves, lint pwsesslng lunch ' greater strength and euilurance. In 11 few seconds alter birth they can get on their feel, nnil In twenty iiiimucK they are usually 11 is imiieirswy defend themselves nt this tender age. as a buffalo row Is ijulte capable of at tending to any business which may ttl'lse hi ritlllieclloii Willi the ie'eisii of her precious baliy.-Wuidilngtoii Hlur, lit to light for their live:;, I Is imiieirswy for them b I and quickly ions, ing debt Is n poor life preserm,