The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930, January 17, 1907, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1007. THE MORNING ASTOPJAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1I7J. Published Dally Except Monday by Tlk J. S. DELLINGEK COMPAHY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mill, per year $7.00 By carrier, per month W WEEKLY ASTORIA. 8, mail, per year, In advance.. 1.00 Entered at iiwcmd-elaM matter July SO. WOS. at the pwtofflee at Alitor!, ore ion, aider Uie act of Congress ot March I, 1st. w-Onfen for the dfhwnng of TBI Moan nwuKOftuxtoemxir residence or pUce ot DusIim nar ba made by postal card or through teierhooe. Any Irregularity la de livery should be immediately reported to the office of pabUotOon. TELEPHONE MAIN Mi. Official paper of Clatsop county and the City ofAitorta, WEAXHER. Western Oregon Rain or snow south and possibly snow flurries north portion. Not so cold. Western Washington Fair and slightly warmer. v ASTORIA'S EXPERIENCE. It is not given to Astoria to really suffer from such colJ snaps as these. Thev are infrequent, at worst, and do not Impose any extraordinary hardships on anyone here. Incon venience falls far short of re?.l want and deprivation, and we venture the boast that no city of its size in the vest of America has less to contenl "with in the way of actual,' broadcast poverty, than the City-by-the-Sea. The cold weather coming simultan eously with the fuel shortage has em phasized the situation In pronounced fashion, but aside from 'an enforce'! prudence In the handling of the avail able supply of inflamables, and a 11: of worry as, to the outcome in case the freeze shall be protracted, thare is nothing to affright the people of .this place. We are fortunate an? should deeply appreciate our freedom from the extremities to which other communities are subjected further east and higher up. It pays some tim to be near the ocean levels. WORK AT SALEM. It Is, of course, too early to say any thing of the work at the state cap ital, other than to rejoice that no time has been lost in the Introduction of bills for the relief from railroad dom ination. This Is to be a cardinal de mand there, and the whole people are directly behind the legislators in their Insuperable task. We are not asking that Injustice shall be done the great corporations, nor that they nhall be wronged nor denied nor undone in anv particular, but the day of account! ig Is at hand, and the people are look Ing for relief from the weight of ttnir own reckless consideration of these agencies In the past. They have glvui much, more has been appropriated, and the concessions have been infinitely abused and boldly misdirected. The pendulum must swing for awhile and the largess of the public kindrs must reach the authors of It for once In the history of the state. The a? poratlons will be avid and exacting and relentless In their efforts to emascu late all that Is done In the way of re-adjustment; all the wisdom of the house and senate must be alive t the thwarting of these attempts W defeat everything in this line. It is going to take bold and honest work, plain, everyday business methods and an 'unceasing vigilance to com pass the desired ends, but we beltev the spirit or reform is in tne air, and that every legislator knows hi duty and the honor, and the peril, of Its performance or its non-perform ance. o ANOTHER STRICKEN CITY. Kingston, Jamaica, has gone down before the rigors of a tremendous earthquake, and while the loss of life and property is not to be measured with the consequences borne by S.;r Francisco, they are ample to invok? the broadest sympathy of Americans, and especially of Pacific Coasters. That it will be given, practically, and spiritually, goes without saying. It would Seem that we are in the midst of cycle of natural disorder and likely to be up against even more than Is now of record; and these visitation are to be welcomed and braved and borne with courage. In the single hope that they may be efficacious In chang ing the current of human thought iutl endeavor from the vicious and value less things toward which it is, nt present, In such head-long pursuit, nnd sober down the trend of things to solider and richer ends'. We are gointr the paen with a vengeance, we Amer icans, and it would seem tortuttom that we should suffer and lose an I yield to forces we cannot control, fv the sake of our own enlightenment and deliverance from the wretchedness we are Invoking so lustily and reckless1. THE ELEVENTH STREET TEST. The proposed work of making a fill on Eleventh street, for one blok. with earth, and the macadamizing of It, as a test, for the settlement of the future treatment of the thorough fares of Astoria, will be watched with very great Interest, as it Is believ"d to be a valuable and practical solution of the question of method and expanse, of such work. It Is hoped that it w'll prove efficacious in all ways and that the tendency of Its adoption will go far toward hastening the revolution in street conditions In the commercial district of Astoria. KID CRITICISM. Here la an Astoria small boy's es say on newspapers. He ought to mak? a good editor when he grows up: "Newspapers are sheets of paper on which stuff is printed. The men look over It, and see their names In it. I don't know how newspapers came Into the world. I don't think Go.l does The bible' says nothing about editor and I never heard of one being a heaven. The first editor I heard o was a fellow who wrote up the flood. He has been here ever since. Somo editors belong to the church and som? try to raise whiskers. All of them raise hell In their neighborhood. Some times the paper dies and then peo ple feel glad, but some one starts It up again. Editors never went to school because editors don't get licked. Our paper Is a mighty poor one, but we take It so ma can us; it on her pantry shelves. Our editor don't amount to much, but pa says he had a poor chance when a boy. He goes without underclothes in winter, wears no socks and has a wife i support him. Pa has not paid his subscription in five years and don't In tend to." EDITORIAL 8ALAD. Professor Burbank, who has suc ceeded in growing blue roses, spine less cactus, seedless apples and var ious other freaks of plant life, says he can't obtain one seed of horse radish, and he offers $1,000 for an ounce of seed of the horseradish. o A partial record shows that la-it year on the Atlantic coast alone over 1,000 persons were drowned while in bathing, purely because they wt-re un able to swim, while no doubt hundrels more bathers lost their lives of whom no record was obtained. Chain letters are Illegal. If our read ers receive begging letters on behalf of a "little cripple boy," with a re quest that they copy them and mail to several friends, we advise them to --e-port to the post office inspectors through their local postmaster. Su.r;h letters are fraudulent. o Large business interests everywhe--2 are crying out for more twenty dol lar men. The world has a surplus of two-dollar men. The young man of this day and age who is frittering away his time, wasting his opportunities and growling about his luck will never amount to anything In the business world. There are more first-class op portunities for the educated, polite, in dustrious sober young men and wo men of today than thoir forefathers ever had. This old world of ours U moving along at a wonderfully rapid rate am the young man who Intends to keep up with the procession has no time to waste in preparing himself for the positions which are in front of him. These- places of honor can not be secured by the young man who loafs around the bar room or the gam bling den. They cannot be had by the young man -who imagines the world owes him a living. They can only be had by those who have prepared them selves for thorn. If you have no friends or money, In the river you can fall; Marriages are quite common nd, More people there will be, Provided you take Rocky Mountain Tea. For sale by Frank Hart. OREGON IRRIGATION Lack of Accurate Measurments Handicap lo Engineers. WATER SUPPLY IS NOT GAGED Extracts from Report of Consulting Engineer Upon Projects in Cen tral Part of State Rainfall Should be Measured. The following ar extracts from th-J report of Mr. C. E. Orunsky, consult ing Engineer. United States Reclama tion Service, upon the feasibility of Irrigation projects In that State. Mr. Oirunsky states: The recon naissance which I have just made In south-central Oregon has given me an opportunity to become ticiiualntcd with the main physical features that mu.t be considered in planning the Irriga tion of lands In that part of the state. I desire. In the first place, to confirm the conclusions of other engineers of the Service who have mado more or less thorough examinations through out this region, that Information re lating to the amount of water that iv i be made available for irrigation Is 1 fUtent and unreliable nnd that it is o' treat importance that a continuous study of the water resources in thn! part of Oregon shall be made. Reli able conclusions relating to the amount of water that can be made avalla' le for Irrigation cannot be drawn fr no the records of stream flow until such records cover a series of years. Therj should therefore be no delay in extend ing the study of water resources t., those streams. The region under consideration Is u succession of Interior drainage basins in which the lowest areas are flat al- kali beds or shallow lakes often su. - rounded by extensive swamp land ,ir- ona Sih streams ns there are have brief early spring flood In which lh I and the remainder will be In tec rush of water Inundates large bodies ! years, tho life of the wooden bulk of land now mainly ued for growing j head, cost of wood. 40, Interest 'or wild hay. Notwithstanding the apparent abun dance of water It is quite dear that submergence of large areas after oc- .visional winters of copious snow fill in the mountains together with som surplus water discharged into the lak es, Is not conclusive as to the actu'.l suply of water that can be made avail able year after year for beneficial uie. Each source of supply must be stud led to ascertain its yield before con clusions can be reached that will be u satisfactory basis for the planning of works. It is to be stated in this connection that more information is also r'fiuir;l relating to the amount of water that Is needed to supplement rainfall. Th residents at some points in this section ot the State are just making the dis covery that there are some seasons in which grain crop can be product! by dry farming. It is being discover ed, too, that climatic conditions there ASTORIA IRON WORKS JOHN FOX, Pres. F L BISHOP. Secretary Designers and Manufacturers oi JTHE LATLrit IMIKOVKD Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers, Complete Cannery Ouuits FurniskJ. CORRESPONDENCE "SOI CITED Foot of Fourth tttrent SCO! BAY IRON AKTOKIA, IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS Up-to-l.'Kte Haw Mill Mni hinerjl IKtli and Franklin Ave, Sherman Transler Co. HENRY HHERMAN, Manager Hacks, Carriages Baggage Checked and Transferred Trucks ard Furaltun Wagons Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped. 433 Commercial Street. are not unfavorable for the product! in of hurdler fruits and vegetables. There Is not however, enough known of rain fall condition ami (he behavior of soils under cultivation to determine how much water must be applied per acre of Irrigated luiul. Not even the rainfall conditions are known with any degree of accuracy, The desert conditions which prevail over a great portion of this part of the State Indicate a deficient supply of moisture In the form of ruin and snow. Hut there Is some precipitation. At Sliver take It amounts to about ten Inches In a normal year. The normal rullfall at Hums In Marney Valley lies probably somewhere between ten and fourteen Inches. At Paisley there is no record of rainfall but It Is general ly supposed that this point ha so much or more rainfall than Silver take. Rainfall records should be kept at Rosland, Fnlaley, Christmas take. Alkali take. Summer Lake, Riley on Silver take and at the Narrows be tween Malheur and Harney takes. Observers should be selected and the necessary apparatus for rainfall ob servations should be Installed at O e earliest possible moment. HE MAY BE RIGHT. Judge Bowlby Has An Idea as to the New Earth Fill. Judge Bowlby In the following com munication rather deprecates the san guine views expressed In this pa pur yesterday morning a to the value of the proposed earth fill on Eleventh street; and he may be right. At any rate, it will all come out In the due course cf time after the test block Is laid. He says: "To the Editor: "In your article this morning on the Improvement of Eleventh sired be- tw.-.-n Huane nnd Exchange, the con- elusion that concrete bulkheads will be cheaper in the long run than wood s-cins to me erroneous. "The use of the bulkhead will lit temporary, whether built of permunea. material or not. Waving the question tit ability to k'-ep the concrete w.il from spreading at the bas. or break ing by bulging, the bulkhead will r(t I ne nceuen uuer n.c --,.. j be Improved. One quarter of the I t ! -ire now Improved (that Is, built upon, ten years at 7 p-r cent, makes the total cot JfiSSO. When no longer $ t .705. Interest add- j needed concrete, ed will make cost at end of ten jeurs $2,898.50: or J2.1MS.0O In favor of wood. "Suppose bulkheads will be needed twenty years ami wooden one shall ten-built, then the costs at end of tw-n ty years will be: Wood, Jl.fc.lfi; con crete $4,926.65. The end bi.lkh.-ad will be useless as soon an the fill shall be extended northwest. "J. Q. A. HOW Ml Y." How to Avoirl Apoennlcitis. Most victims- of appendicitis are those who are habitually constipated. Orlno Laxative Fruit Syrup cures chronic constipation by stimulating the liver and bowels and restores the natural action of the bowels. Orlno Laxative Fruit Syrup does not nau seate or gripe and Is mild and plens ant to take. Refuse substitutes, T. F. Laurln, Owl Drug Store. (Nelson Troytj, Vice-Pros, and Supl. AHTOKIA HAVINGS UANK.Tre.us & BRASS OREGON LAND AND MARINE ENGINEERS I'rou.pt HttentKiti't'lvc ti ti;il. ripilrwoik Tel. Main Ufut- Main Phone 121 WORKS THE CORRECT 1 if House Cleaning Hoy's Jersey Storm Coats, nj;es 1 ........a. ..,. t... l.irt J ,.... $5.0(1, Special - at $ 2.70 2.H5 Child's Covert Box Coatn, (i to 10, regular price JS.fiO, SiK'cial at $ Child's Blue KcvftTH, regular price, $:t.0l), Special at $ Iloy'a Overcoat Broken Line, 4 to H, regular price $ 1.00 to $7.50, Special at $ l.UO 2.35 Child's Rutodiiri BIouho SuitH, Knickerbocker Panta -l to K, worth $1.00, Special at - $ 2.70 Hoys Jacket nnd Pants Suits, odds and ends, G5 suits in this lot, hk-h G to 10, values $4.00 to $5.50, SiK'cinl at - $ 2.85 Boys Jacket and Pants Suits of Cheviot materials, fi to 12 years, $2.50 to $1.00 values at $ 1.4! U5 Mens Suits in broken lines, 1, 2, and 3 suits of a kind, Cheviots and Worsteds, $'J.50 to $11 values at $ 0.45 Mens Fancy Worsted Suits, jrood values, late models, $15.00 to$ 16. 50 values," Sjchdjit$J 0.H5 FISHERMEN, ATTENTION! SEE OUR WINDOW! EVERYTHING YOU NEED! PAINT, COTTON ROPE, SAIL CLOTH, NETTING TWINE, NETTING NEEDLES, OARS & FLOATS The Foard & Stokes Hardware Co., Inc. Successor! to Foard & Stokei Co. MEN TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY ! To benefit yourselves, aud to give us work during the month of January. Wc are go ing to sell 20 SUITS for 30 DOLLARS A SUIT. Suits like these we have been selling for 40 dollars. GIVE US A CALL fiautala TAILORS, 491 To Be Happy and Gay Means not only good things to eat, but alto the best of thing to drink, and the best of all good drinks is 8und & Carlson's Rye and Bourbon Whiskies, Choice Wines and Champagnes. THE COMMERCIAL 609 CLOTHES SHOP Kvcu nt a first glance this "Uousc-Clcftring Sale" of ours is a big opportunity, but there's more behind it than appeals on the surface, In order to realize fully what a really great chance this is you must remember that at this big annual January sale contract goods excepted. EVIRY1HINC UK lHt HOUSE DRASTICALLY WOUCID Overcoats at Big Reductions, Suits for Less. Furnishings Reduced. Hats at Bargain Prices. And every garment in this sale is brand new-is a fine ex ample of the most careful and skillful tailoring is a model of good taste and good style, and can be depended ou to give the most satisfactory service. This week promises to be one of the greatest in this wonderful in clusive sale but we're all pre pared for as many as come. Substantial drops have been made from the consistently low all season prices affording mighty fine opportunities for the judicious buyer. Sales Extra Specials. Mens Blue Kerwy Overcoats in broken i iitt-it, Jn.'iu and ?io. values , Special at $7.20 Metis -11 in Heavy CheVoit Ovens ats, $1:1.50 to $10.50 values, Special at - $11.45 Mens Knill (oats, Mackin toshes, ('nivenolleH, etc, odd lots, one and two of a size, $10. to $15.00 values, Special nt - $S.:t5 Coif Shirts, sizes H 1-2. K, 10 1-2 nnd 17, 75c nnd H.lx) values for - - - - Me Underwear, Overshirts, Neck wear, Hats, Cloves, Sweaters, etc., nil at reduced prices. Trunk, s Suit Cases, Bans, etc, all reduced. lit The Store That Never Disappoints. Astoria's Foremost Clothiers Raitanen BOND 8TREET. Commercial 8t.