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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1907)
t THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, ORKGON. SUNDAY. FEDRUARY 3, 1007. A QUICK LUNCH Why spend a couple of hours preparing your noonday lunch? We carry a large line of ready cooked foods. Little Neck Clams. Canned Crabs, Chicken Tomales- Spanish, Asparagus Tips, Etc.. which can be prepared in a very few minutes. A. V. ALLEN, Phones 3871 and 711 Main. Sals Agents for Baker' Barrington Hall Stesl Cut Coffee. FOR GOOD OF OREGON AMONG THE MISSING Hundreds Disappear Every Year in the City of New York. than oiuMirth of the Jls:ipii;miivvs can bo loud to the door of montal uu aoumltu'ss. No one knows the reason; no one ever knows the explanation. Hut every year tww hundred.' are ad ded to the city army of 'lcv-t, tntsstiiK tuul unlndentttled." LEAVE NO CLUE BEHIND One Person Out of Every Ten Thou sand in New York Vanishes Never to Return Many Foundlings Unclaimed. HUNTING FOR TROUBLE. Tve lived In California CO years and and am still hunting for trouble In the way of bums, sores, wounds, bolls, out, si.ir.Uns, or a case of piles that Huekkvi's Arnica Salve won't quickly . . .....I.--.. tit... i cure writes i. mines want-in, m .u-- ghany, Sierra Co. No use hunting Mr. Walters; it cures every case. Guar anteed at Chas. Rogers' drug store. lie. Spring Rates on Railways for West-Bound Rourists. ALL HANDS ARE INTERESTED Means the Bringing of Thousands of Good People to the Whole North west, with a Share to Oregon and to Astoria. Twenty -live dollars to almost any point In tiivtf-m from the (jieat Middle West, In.-ludlns' the imp'i lam cities TRAIN IS DERAILED NEW YORK, Feb. 2. "Enrolled In the city's army of lest and missing," that was the fate of 423 persons In New York, the city of mysteries, last1 year. One and all they vanished never to be heard of again, and vanished in the most commonplace manner, sim ply stepping out of their houses, offices or hotels in the most commonplace way in the majority of cases, and fail ing either to return or to leave any clew whatever behind them. In the last decade this list which is increas ing each year totalled enough to popu late a fair sized western town. To the questioa "Where do they go," there Is only the grim reply of the police, "Oh me kill themselves, some start life over somewhere else, some sneak back after a few years an dlive in secrecy, and some why, nobody knows what becomes of them. They Just disap pear." According to these figures one person out of every 10,000 in New York vanishes never to return, a rather start ling percentage. Coupled with these figures are others hardly less interest ing, which show that out of a total of 2,213 children found by the police dur ing the year, 446 or about 20 per cent, were never claimed. Of the 372 bodies ' Corvallis Passenger Leaves the Track At Mc Coy Station. THIRTEEN WERE INJURED Train Going at Low Rate of Speed Is Wrecked Cause of Accident Is Not Known, But Investigation Is Being Made. PORTLAND, Feb. 2. As a result of the derailment of the Corvalls pas senger train, No. 2, on the Southern Pacific, one mile north of McCoy, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, 13 per sons were Injured, two of these se- Hdii-iv. The train left here at 7 !,.!, ,.ior.1,.v mnrnlne and the i country that Ilialus cause of the accident has not yet been prosperous city. nreg'in content statement that advortlst; th'-se rates, but we must b :ir In mind that when they an- ad""rt!slnif r.i'es t" r':m, these same rates are Jut as on the Missouri as well as the Miss issippi Ulver, and $;!. and $.US from Kan as Clt territory. Si- I .-ml and CHoaKo. respectively, to -ooila. is probably bolus more th.'nmK'-ily discussed today by the Indus; ilal an 1 comnavv'a! bodies of itvr."ii than at any time la the history .( the State, i These rates will Ku Into effect on. March I and continue until April HO. I and will be on sale every day and as, they are available to n'oout twenty-j five millions of people at about a cent and a half per tn'Ie, It will be netsll Keiice on the part of the people of ore-. son if a cro.ii many thousand Indus- j ,,, r.ui). ,,r li. trieus cl'li-.ens are not added to the ! an,i moiie rty h population of the state. These rates are good on any and ull railroads leading We-t. and while the cities are used here, from which lie rates are good, It must be home In mind that the same rates are avail able from the smaller point ', adj o'etit to the cities. For instance, a vast portion of the Northwest, IncHidlnt; the most of Miun-sota and the i'ako ta, take the St. Paul and Minneapo lis rates, while Kansas. Nebraska and a large portion of Iowa and Missouri, take the rate from Kari'as City. St. Joseph and Omaha, Sioux City, etc. The rate which are quoted from St. Louis and Chicago also cover an enormous nertlon of country, and islve the privilege of seeing Oregon at a low rate, to many millions. Unfortunately in the past a great many people throughout the State of Oregon have felt that these rates were good to Portland only, and as the railroads usually advertise the larger cities because they (lre more familiar to the general public, the people of the Interior of the state felt that the metropolis gets the chief advantage, when as a mutter of fact it Is to the interest of the people residing In the city of Portland to have as many Bet tiers koate In the tributary country as possible, fur It is a prosperous and upholds a schools, the result would be of enor mous advantage to the Hlalo ef Ore gon, Kxory commercial and Industrial body In the State of Oregon, as well as every real estate tlrm and corpor ation, should make Ihese rales ell iter Introductory or Hie central IIkUI'o of their advertising and If ll real ed.ile man's clientele Is In the state of Kan sas, f.r Instance, let him give the rale as from the State of Kansas, and cir culate the mutter there, In order to make It local at the other end of the line, If olllitens from other stales, who have found a home In Oregon within the last two or three years, would write a teller to their old home paper and make especially pr.'iuineul this low rale to various points In Oregon, the inlvel tlslng received would l f wonderful benellt to Oregon, Itmulrle being received by the Ore gon I levelopment League at their Portland olllee, cover all kinds of questions, Many piospei us farmers in lown. Kansas an. I oilier si s. want to know how they can properly Invest live thousand dollars to (en thousand dollars, other d. -are small tracts of land, many InuulibM come regarding logged oft lands, and the opportunities in the dairying business. There are thousands of Inquiries about the Wil lamette Valby, and the opportunities pre-cnted throughout all We item Oregon. The same Js tine with ref erence to the uhe.it and live stock portions of Kas'.cui Oregon. Irriga tion Is the cans.' of many Inquiries There are mere Inquliles, possibly, in ret;ar-I to fruit i-rowli i; and poul try raising, than any other, and It Is .111!', lent bllsl' ess men l.l. is In the many vm- iiiunl-les of oieg.m, If those questions are ton anW'iel, because the er.tlie op'liso is eiuluace,! In 'tamps, clerk hire and the piloted matter. The mall being received by the ir But, 1 levelopment League Is simply enormous and not a name or a. hires art Ives, which Is lit furnlsaed to each and every one of the witty-three or ganizations composing tin- League. I.lst.s of names will be supplied to any regularly oigaulx.d connie-rolil body In any community In Oregon, which becomes attllla'ed with the ore. got) I levelopment League. The Old Stove Man Has been hunting around for year or more o find Una of T O V E a. aood or better than the kind h. aold here twenty ye.ra auo (soma of these ar. b.glnnlno to wear out). He think, h. ha. found th. line. He will show them to you If you will call at tha storo of w. C, LAWS a CO. Plumbers and Steam Fitters. To Be Happy i arid Gay Mono, not only god hln0 but ' b,,t of iMn t0 dr,nk, and the best of all good drinks Is Bund & Carlson's Rve and Bourbon Whiskies, i m . .... t Choice wines ana uiampnsnes. THE COMMERCIAL ii . , . . i 503 Commercial oi. 4 GIVES MILLIONAIRES MONEY. Awards Over Quarter Million to Swed' ith Millionacy Society. found durincr 1905. only 118 were in- ..... ia r,Hii trains carrylni? ! Many citizens ,f u . utrtt-i mine. Jentified, the remaining 251 remaining; physicians and nurses were dispatched! themselves with th "unknown." So from the ranks of the! . . h. scene of the wreck and the in-' the railroads will young, the old, and the dead, the past j jUr(,, taken care of. year in New York furnished nearly 1,- , Division Superintendent L. R. Fields 000 mysteries in which the chief char- j jf.ft for e S(:f.ne today and wired back acter either disappeared or was never a 1)st of tne injured, which Is as fol made known by Identification. Less , ... 1 T Huntley, Independence, A IiILK.V, Kan., Feb. -'. Judgment given today for IHGO.OiiO In tin- district court hen- by th.- transcript from the Illinois Courts against Peter Anderson, of Chicago, the Klondike millionaire. In favor of Wit Ilultbeig, repr-sent-Ing the Swedish Mission Society. An derson was I's missionary when he found the gold mine which enriched him and the society al!"g''s that it owns the lb Id. It w ill try to secure jca.enft worth of land In this cmiry, if th- Supreme court ailirms the Judgment. II n A II B E 7! II II f4 ti II I B I You Can Be Easyl W. L. Douglas Shoe They are the Greatest of All Shoes In single and double soles, warm and j strong, protecting the feet and health j t the same time. These shoes havej that soft, velvety feeling, and havej that peculiar action making walking a! pleasure. They are gratifying to the most sensitive feet. Our Specialty Line of Loggers Shoes guarantee satisfaction to the wearer. No better but a leader of all. S. A. G1MRE right arm hurt; Mrs. Zadee Handy, Kelso, Wash., seriously: E. V. Cun ningham, Pullman, Wash., hand bruised; Mrs. Cunningham. hand i,r,,ic,.,i- II T. Freeman, i'oruano, i shoulder bruised; Mary R. Sparks, Al jbany, seriously; Pierce McCloskny. ' mail clerk, back hurt; E. N. Purwell, ! mail clerk, right hand and shoulder !brui-ed; C. A. Mende, Carlton, Ore., ! leg hurt; Andrew Clay, Portland, shoulder hurt; N. C. Nylanaer, news ager.t, arms bruised; J. L. Rraden, ex press messenger, head bruised and hands cut, and Ben ScholfielJ, Cornel ius, hand bruised. The train, which was made up of five cars, three of which contained passengers and all turned over after leaving the track. A stove turned over in one car and a woman's dress became ignited, but the fire was sub dued before doing material damage. Doors of the cars were jammed be cause of the derailment and it became necessary to batter them down before the imprisoned passengers could get out. The equipment did not suffer much and the cars later were lifted to the track and taken to Corvalls. A broken rails is one reason assigned for the mishap, while others contend the rails spread, but a strict investi gation is being carried on by Super intendent Fields. The train was not traveling at high speed, which ac counts for the absence of more serious injuries. 643 Bond St., opposite Fisher Bros ? Oregon Restaurant Is now open as an up-to-date house. Serves ! the best meals in the city. Everything strictly first class. ' REGULAR HOME DINNER. 35c. SUNDAY CHICKEN DINNER A SPECIALTY 50c. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Wm.G. PATTERSON, Prop NINTH AND ASTOR STREETS. good to Texas, the Indian Territory and Oklahoma; the :ame rates are good to all points in the south, and all points in th- west; Colorado and V:ah are working for new citizens, ;w are the Iiakotas, and It Is generally) understood that ther.j is Home little activity In California ami Canada along these lin'-s, and that Washing-1 ton is n't inactive. Whenever a col-! oniut rate goes into effect, and Is good to any portion of Oregon, It Is also good to any portion of the Northwest, Middle West, and Southwest, and It Is, the community that g"ts up and bus- 1 ties that gets the population and the wealth. ' Through a combined effort, lhe: Portland Commercial club and the: Oregon Development League have been j carrying en an extensive advertise-: merit of the Stale of Oregon, ami it might as well be admitted at thlsj time as to tell it. lab r, -.h,U the fund are about exhausted and that, the sev eral communities, in the state must take up and carry on a thorough cam paign of adverlslng, if we are going to get the full results. The names of thousands of Inquir ers are being furnished to the sixty three organizations that compose the Oregon Development League, and if a single one of the mis not tending out literature, it is their own fault, for the entire cost is covered in stamps and printed matter. These colonist rates present a remarkable opportun ity for active advertising, In which every, school boy ami school girl, as well as every grown man and woman in the State can participate. There Is no subject of greater interest to the school boys and girls than the re sources, attractions and advantages of their own state, and better still, of their own community, and if they could be kept busy a portion of their time during the next few weeks In writing to relatives, friends and ac quaintances In the older states, ad vising them of these opportunities, and at the same time giving them the rates to their particular town, It would certainly result in attracting a great deal of attention to Oregon. If every county and city superintendent of schools, as well as each and every principal and teacher, would make it a point to put this matter before their CASTOR I A for Inl.'.iit 3 r. The m Ycj P Children. Eouht rt'.iii'.c : 1 FISHERMEN, ATTENTION! SHE OUR WINDOW! EVERYTHING YOU NEED!' PAINT, COTTON ROPE, SAIL CLOTH, NETTING TWINE, NETTING NEEDLES, OARS L FLOATS The Foard & Stokes Hardware Go.Jnc. Successors to Foard & Stokea Co. ASTORIA IRON WORKS JOHN FOX, Tree. V I lilSHOl'. Hwretno 1K..U..H Tr.,i. . Viei..Pri mill Sard. AHTOIUA Ha'vINUH iAN K. Tro Designers and Manufacturers of ;iHK i-AThriT lMrKoVU) Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers, Complete Cannery Outfits Furnish,! ORRESPONOENCE 'SOleCITlD root of rnnrtli Htnwt- First National Bank of Astoria. Ore. r.STAlU.IKIir.ll 1NHIL Capital $100,000 "O SPICES, Q C0FFEEJEA, BAKING POWDER, FLAVOHG EXTRACTS Absolute P'jrity, finesr Flavor, Creator St rer$h, ttasoitttk Prii CL055ET&DEYER5 WHAT IS IT YOU NEED? Your house wired? Your door bell fixed? or your telephone connected up? STEEL EWART UP-TO-DATE ELECTRICIAN8. No. 222 TWELFTH 8TREET, 4 ' A Our Doors Are Open We are anticipating your patronage and will appreciate it. We will do business on the basis of "A Dollar in Value for a Dollar in Cash." We offer nothing but the best and genuine Liquors and Wines Our reputation going with the goods as they are sold. Drop in and look over the stock we are handling. We dispose of our wares only in bulk, bottle and package. A wholesale line on wholesale terms. American - Importing - Co. Successors to Foard & Stokes, 589 Commercial Street, Phone Main 1883. tea w&, 7 M.K r "