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THE M01lNING,ASTOItIAN. AS'JORJA, OREGON. ff, Q. A. DOWLDY, l'rldwt. ftLkXK. PATTON, OehUr. 0. L riSTPlSON, Vlos-Prwldsot J. W. GARNER, AwUUiit Cash!. Astoria Savings Bank Get Your Deals Extensively With McKenzie Hatchery Affair. Talking Machine? TnuMU auml lnuklng BiuIbwk, , llokrtit raid on Tin UKMf1i THVfUOAY, MAY 9, 1907. Did You 1t Tenth ttet. ASTOMA, OKIOON ASTORIA IRON WORKS JOHN' FOX. I'm. Ninn Trow-f, VlIVe. and flupt. r L LISUUP. BeoreUr) . AU'i'ORIA HAVLN08 i5AftTrM Deilgners and Maaifactereri 01 STUB UTEtfT IMriWTEDI ' Canning , Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers ComplcU Cannery Ouulti FumUhd. CORRESPONDENCE 'SOLICITED) Poot of Fourth btreel. Sherman Transfer Co. UESKY 8HERMAK, Manag Back, Crrif-Bfag Ckokd Md Tnatitmd-Truek 4 Funitor. Wajotfr-rkBot Moved, Bond m4 tUpped. 433 CcamcTdai Street' kiia Flione 121 APPEARANCES Often a person is sized up by his appear ance; by the tone that surrounds him. And more often a business house is sized up by the stationary it uses. 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' Best Value on the Coast Major Paul Whiskey ( Noted for its Fine Flavor DISTRIBUTORS ASTORIA, OREGON i I II I i 418 BOND ST ASTORIA, GtSOOX Carrie tl Fiat tine J Wines, Liquors and , Clears I CALL AKD SEE US Morning Astorlan, (0 canti a month, flfllvwed by oarrler. VAN DUSEN SCORES WEBSTER Investigation Disclose That Dolly Vardtn Trout and White Fish Hav Bton Pttdina on Ooad FryUv Pry Too Agile Por Voraeloui Pifh. To tho Honorable Board of Flh Com mlMlonori, Balcm, Oreion. Oontlomen: In retard to tb pub lUhod Matmenta that hav appoarod In our papera of lata about tho aalmon fry ralaoJ at tho McKonal Rtror Hatnry Station and l!bertd Into tbo B&Konalt Rlvor being dovourod by trout and other fta'a native to that eiream. I will aay that I hav mad careful reaearch Into tho affair, and from 'what I hav boon able to And out, I am more convinced than ever, that with careful hatchery auprln tendent, who will conolntlouly exert hlmtelf at all timet to kaep the hatch, ry olTal (that la, dead Kt and dead fry) from nterlnf the etreeme. aa our auperlntendent ar alway limtructed to do; and will be particular not to liberate any of th fry, until after the yolk-ao baa entirely disappeared, and then, be particular when and where be liberate th fry, w will never have any of them devoured by trout and other flab native to th McKenal and Willamette Rivera, nor In fact any of the other Columbia Rtver trtbutarlea. And further, from th Investigation made, I beg to itat that I have been enabled to determine beyond a ques tion of doubt that th fry. of which X'Supertntendent J. A. Talbert re porta, and of which ex-Deputy Flah Warden It A.Webeter wrote about In hi newspaper article, were dead fry that bad amothered In the hatchery trough th night of Mr. Webster arrival at the station, or the next night following .and that there war at th very least calculation one hundred (100,000) thousand of the ded and mothered fry dumped out together In to the water aupply creek below, the hatchery troughs, a short distance above It confluence with th Me Kenil River, during the night and th neat day, which waa th Id and its, or th fib and 6th of January, 1907; and on th (th, Superintendent Talbert' report shows th catching of th two Dolly Varden trout and three white flsh In a pool at the mouth of this creek .that were full of salmon fry, and of which Webater'e article states were devoured after being liberated from the hatchery In tho usual manner- It aeems that Mr. Webster visited this hatchery unaware to this office, during th forepart of January, 1807. for th apparent purpose of confuting th published reports recently receiv ed from the United States Bureau of Flsherlea and from John Peaao Bab cock, commissioner of British Colum bia on the ubject of "Salmon Fry Destruction," Ifbefated from the hatcheries. -That tit-night of his ar rival at the stationer the first night thereafter, It was very rilny and stormy, and before retiring for the night, along between 0 and 10 o'clock, the hands all being congregated In the dwelling houao, excepting Frank 5 A. Peplot who lived at home. It was sug gested that someone go up to the hatchery troughs which were aome two hundred (200) yards away to see that everything was all right for the night; this Mr. C. T. Peek volunteered to-do, an when he got up there ho found the water aupply shut oft by the trash and sand that came 'down tho supply creek and the young fry all smothering; he Immediately cleared away ; the trash and got the water running again through the troughs and then ran back to the house and gave the alarm and and got all hands out to help resuscl cate the fish; they worked doing this for a couple of hours when Webster and Talbert concluded that the worst of them and better be siphoned out of the trough in order to clear the screens, so at this work, he assisted Mr. Talbert, and Mr. C. I Roadarmel assisted Mr. Webster; that altogether that night four or Ave bucketfulls of these dead and smothered flsh, amount' Ing to forty or fifty thousand, were drawn off and dumped into therwater aupply creek, a short distance above where It empties Into tha McKenste River; after olearlng the screens of tnesrf fish, wntoh was along about mid night, Messra, Webster, Talbert and Roadarmel retlrod for the night and Mr. Peek remained on duty the rest of (Concluded on page t) w : Everybody Wants One We've Got One For Y014 Just Read this Great Offer Great Chance for Music Lovers Subscribe to the Morning Astorion, the best paper on the North Pacific Coast, for one year, payable at the rate of 60 cents a month, and we will give you a splendid f 25.00 Premium Talking Machine, one of the very latest models, and six records of your own selection, worth in all $28.60, for only $16.65. 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