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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1907)
' ' THE MORNING VsTORlAN, ASTORIA OREGON. ", may m. w. .' - ' ' ' ' ; , . . '' ' "" : r I Beautify Your Lawns By Using our Ball Bearing Lawn Mowers Garden Hose (Cottou and Sun Proof Rubber) Rakes, Hoes, Shovels and Spades Grass Hooks and Sprays. A. V. ALLEN. PHONES MAIN 711, MAIN 3871 A DIAMOND THIEF Maiden Lane Jewelers Looking for Diamond Broker. SON OF POLISH NOBLEMAN Broker Had Mad Many Urge Salea and Had Received Valuable Stones On Memoranda Was Last Beard of In Philadelphia. SEW YORK, May 23.-H.ilf a dot en wealthy firms in the Maiden Lane district are looking (for J. Edward Boeok, a diamond broker, to give an accounting of gems of great value en trusted to him on : memoranda, and which he secured to dispose of to al leged wealthy clients. The exact value jewelry so secured by Boeok ia not de finitely known because of the unwilling ness of some of the firms to discuss the transaction at this time, but esti mates on the jewelry establishment place their value at from $100,000 to $230,000. Boeck had office rooms at 170 Broad way, but had not been seen for over a week. He lived in splendid style at an up-town club, but inquiries show that that he had absented himself from bis rooms for some days. Some of the firms who entrusted him with the valu able have called the attention of the grand jury to the matter and that body ia investigating the case. Boeck, who is a big, handsome man. was very successful in selling gem, ac cording to the stories told in the jew elry district He made many big and profitable sales, gained the confidence ami patronage orf wealthy patrons and for that reason, found no difficulty in securing jewels of value on simple mem oranda. He is married, his wife living np-r Tamamia. Ta. Boeck is said to be tnt J0f a Fomn noweman wno was anibed from his country .because he Tefused to recognize Russian rule. When a young man Boeck went to the Far East and lived for years in Shanghai He returned to this country at the opening of the St. Louis Exposition in the suite it is said, of Prince Pu Lin, confidential secretary of the Emperor of China, and representative of the Im perial Chinese government, in charge of the Imperial exhibits at the exposition. At theclose of the (fair he remained -In the United States and about six months ago he went into the jewelry business and was so successful that he was soon in a position to command from the diamond dealer their cost prices and offer to take their goods at cost and split the profits of retailers with them. J. P. Morgan and United States Sen ator Clark are among those who are "Quality We use the best material we can buy and exercise the utmost care at every step of the process in the making and baking of our bread and cakes that's why our m "Butter Loaf and Table Queen Bread" Is the Best Bread in the City, and we give you a Large Loaf for a Nickel, ROYAL BAKERYj 505 Duane Street. 275 W. Bond Street. Branch Store, 1335 Franklin Ave. BRANCH UNIONTOWN PHONE MAIN 713 said to have made large purchases of jewelry through Boeck. Boeck is about 38 yesr old and was last heard of from Philadelphia, his birthplace. He la said to have lived In Pittsburg for t time. TRIUMPH OF I t S. STUDENTS. Four Out of Five Passed State Examina tion; of Those Who Were Hot Students, Only One in Sis Passed. The great work that the International Correspondence Schools, of Scranton, ra are doing was never demonstrated more forcibly than it was when CO can didates for the position of Pre boss presented themselves to take the State examination before the State Mine In spectors at Uniontown, Ta. ; Nineteen of the candidates were I. C S. students fifty were not The prac tical experience of all averaged about the same, and all had equal opportunity to pass the examination. The result was signal triumph for the I CS. system of training by mail The 50 candidates that were not students of the schools averaged frnly 54. per cent in the examination; only seven passed; forty-three failed. The nineteen I. C. S. students averaged 75.2 per cent; 15 passed; only four failed. The examination shows that the man who has the foresight to invest a few dollars and a little spare time in an 1. C. S. Course of special training ha nearly six times the chance to pass the examination as the one that larks such preparation; that the chances that an I. C. S. student will succeed are four to one, while the chances that a non student will fail are six to one. , The foregoing is simply one of a thou sand instances where ICS. students have triumphed in examinations, in promotions, etc. Such success Is easily accounted for, when it is remembered that these Schools have had r early 15 years of experience in teaching by mail and have expended the great sum of one million dollars in the preparation of home-study textbooks, which are so easy to understand and to apply that any man able to read and write can succeed, provided he has a little ambition Started in 1891 with one course, pre pared to help miners pass examinations, the International Correspondence Schools now have more than 200 courses of instruction covering positions in all of the best known trades and profes sions. Drop a card to Mr. II. Harris, who represents the Schools in this city, will be glad to give any one full in formation regarding any course. Of all the fruits that are In the land That grow on bush or tree, I would give up the choicest ones For Rocky Mountain Tea. Frank Hart CLEARANCE SALE. For the next 10 days I will sell my entire stock o high-grade hats at one half reduced price. - This Is the best opportunity In the city to procure an up-to-date stylish hat. Call and look at the stock. Mrs. M. Petersen, Star Theater Bldg., Eleventh and Commer cial streets. Counts" SPECIAL HgjgTOF COUNCIL RESOLUTION ADOPTED REINSTAT ING POLICE FORCE AND RE QUESTING POLICE COMMISSION ERS TO ENFORCE ORDINANCES. The members of the Common Council met ia special session last, evening to consider the report uif the health ana nolle committee and the city attorney on the Mayor's suspension of the police force. Two report from' the committee were submitted, C'ouncilmen Lebeek and Mor ton siirniiut the 'majority report and Councilman Leinenweber the minority. At the conclusion of the rending of the two reports, Leinanweber 1 H that the minority report lie adopted and the motion wa seconded by Councilman Stangeland. The minority report whkh recommended that the Mayor be sus tained, caused considerable discus-Ion between the various members. Leinen weber in support of bis report and mo tion expressed the view that the council ought to go on record in the matter and sustain the suspension of the poiu force, even though the present force would be immediately reinstated by the board of police commissioners. Councilman Logan took the stand that it was the duty of the board of police commissioners to close the dance halls an dthat he thought it rcdiculous for the council to undertake to per form the duties of the various city officials. He emphasised the point by saying that the council was to enact th laws and not to enforce them. He expressed a willingness to close the dance halls and wanted to see them closed in fact, but he did not fliink that the council in voting on the Mayor's sus pension was voting on the question of whether the dance halls should be per mitted to continue but on a matter of principal, in, that be didn't think it the council's duty to perform the duties of the various city officials. In opening hi remark he asked the city attorney the following questions) Logan "Has not the police commis sion full power snd authority over the police, to enforce the ordinance of the city!" City Attorney "Yes." Logan "Then the council is a legis lative bodv to make laws, and the police commisison's place is to enforce them." City Attorney "Yes." Logan "If the council suspends the police force, cannot" the police commis sion re-sppoint them, and thus nullify council's action!" City Attorney-"Yes." Logan "Are you not the legal adviser of the police commission as well as of the council t" City Attorney "Yes." Logan- "Did the police commission ever ask you 'or any advice upon thee questions!" City Attorney "No." The Mayor Has the Mayor or the council power to suspend the polio commission 1' City Attorney "So; they are created by act of the legislature." Councilman Hansen stated as his reasons for not sustaining the Mayor that he did not consider the suspension of the entire police force as just inasmuch as there were some members of the force whoe beats were ct the opposite end of the town on in police station as deBkmen and were not responsible for the non- enforcement of the ordinance below the deadline, when their duties kept them elsewhere. Further that the police commission were the ones to be sus pended. The motion for the adoption of the minority report was lost by a fl to 2 vote, Conncilinen Hansen, Kaboth, Le beck, Logan, Morton, and Robinson vot ing to not sustain the Mayor and Conn cilinen Lelm-nwober and Stangeland voting in the affirmative. Motion to adopt majority report was carried by a reversal of the vote on the minority report, Leincnweber and Stange voting in the negative and the others for it. The following resolution recommending tliat the police (force be reinstated and tiiat the honrd of police commissioners be requested to close the dance halls was introduced by Councilman Morton an,l carried bv a unanimous vote. Whereas, ' The Mayor of the City of Astoria ras under and by virtue 01 tne authority in him vested, suspended the following members of the police iforce, to-witi Chief of Police Charles (Jam- mnl and Patrolmen George Coffman, Fred Oberg, Charles Hanson, Thomas Linville, A. Thompson, E. M. Houghton, John Stark, C, Dubeau and R. T. Twombly, for the alleged reason that said officers have refused and nccrleeteJ to enforce the laws and ordinances of the City of Astoria, and particularly ordinances numbered 3202 and 3206, which action of the Mayor hag been re ported to tlifj' common council, agree ,. ...... ' i ",': able to section 40 of the charter, and Whereas, It appears iion iitvestlga Hon, that several of the said persons suspended are absululely innocent of any neglect and (hat all said office have at nil 'times been diligent and faithful lu the performance of their duty and that they have nmlti several am-sts for the violation of the said ordinances, where any violation has taken place upon their respective beats, and . Whereas, It appear that the failure In any instant to completely suppress dunce halls and 'places of public danc ing has resulted through no fault of itch officer, but is attributable to a policy of frequent lines imposed upon such places for the purpose of restrict ing and punishing the same but not en tirely suppressing the same in the in terest of increasing the revenue of the City of Astoria, and Whereas, Said polk officer sre hired, discharged and governed by a lioard oif police commissioners, composed of three substantial and representative bnine men of the city and who are answerable directly to the voters of the city for the discharge of tbelr duties, and ' Whereas, M,i board of police com missioners constitute a co-ordinate branch of the city government, and It would be manifestly unjust to vacate the office of any police officer for main taining policy established by their superiors and who have the hiring and discharging of such officer and espeo' tally when such action would le futile for the reason that any vacancy would I filled by the board of police com missloners; There'ore, be it Resolved, By the common council of the City of Astoria, that the said suspended police officers be and the same are hereby reinstate! to their respective positions and the said matter of the enforcement of said ordinanect be respect fully wferred to the honorable Ixmrd of police commis sioner of the city of Astoria with the respectful request that all ordinance for the suppression of dance halls and nui-anccs be striettv enforced. The majority report of the health and police committee of the council supported by CnunHlmen Lelieck and Morton recommending that the police force lie reinstated and that the board of police commissioner be requested to close the dance halls and whkh was adopted by a 0 to 2 rote was as follow 1 Astoria, Oregon, May SI, 1907. To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the City of A-torla. Gentlemen: We, your committee on health and police, of the common coun cil, to whom was referred the report of the honorable mayor, suspending the officers of the police force of the city of Astoria, on account of neglect to en force ordinances numbered 3202 and 320fl, most respectfully report that we have investigated such charge and we find that while frequent fines "nave been Imposed upon the proprietor of-dance ball, that the same have not been en- tirely suppressed, but that the failure to entirely suppress such places is not blameable directly to the police officers, but to a system of fines that have been Imposed upon said place for the pur pose of Increasing the revenue of the city without entirely closing such place. Owing to the tfact that such failure was not the fault of the police officers, but Is due to a regulation of their superiors, the lioard of police commissioners, whom we have every rea son to believe are anxious and willing to suppress such evils, snd would not have permitted the same except in the interest of the revenues of the city, we most respectfully recommend that aid polk officers each lie re instated and that the matter of the strict en- forccment of said ordinance lie refer red to the honorable lioard of police commissioners with our resquest that they be strictly enforced. Very respectfully submitted, LEASDKR lkbeck,- d, W. MORTON", The minority report submitted by Councilman Lcinenwcber and which recommended that the Mayor lie sus tained and the police force be discharg ed, was as follows: , ' Astoria. May 23, 1007, To the Honorable Majror and Common Council of the City of Astoria. Ontlcmeni Your committee on health and police to whom was refer red the report of the Mayor for the purpose of investigating and. reporting to your honorable body the tin. lings thereof, which report of the Mayor set forth that be had on the ISth day of May, 1007, suspended from service the entire police force for refusing to en- forcSr ordinance numbered 3202 and 3200, beg leave to report as follows! We found that the above nentioned ordinances were being violated that the police Iforce and the police commission had knowledge of such violation, that the Mayor issued an order to the said police jorce to enforce the an Id ordi nances, that the said police force failed, ncaleetcd and refused so to do, that the Mayor thereupon Issued an order suspending said police force from service 11 11 Ji-zJilteg! TO iter If . I 1 s - (TT Slsst t Sim,. vLJi t SI.4S.. Cltt- Watch for the School's Exhibit in the , Owl Drug Store Window, for a few days only, Commencing June 18 Write to H. Harris, Box 121, Astoria, NOW, regarding SPECIAL PRICES During the Exhibit. pending an investigation, that the laid police force should not be exonerated. Very respect fully submitted, C. LEINESWEBER, Your committee on health tod police. BOAT BUILDING IN THE CITY AT ONE SHIPBUILDING PLANT ALONE THEY HAVE ALL THE WORK THEY CAN DO. So le than six boats are in course of construction at the plant cf R. M. Leather's, at the present moment. One, the Alaska Chief, for the Shahan tan ner v of Alaska Is practically complete except for hor engine, These sr being built in Frisco and their completion is delayed on account of labor troubles. The liont i 64 feet long ana Me engine will be a 35 horsepower three-cylinder Union type. There Is a very pretty boat lielng built Kor the Oregon Fish Warden, She lias the appearance of speed nil over, is 32 feet In length and wiii be nitd with a 15 horsepower three cyJinder Troy made by the Astorto Iron Works. Anotlnr is just being start ed for' J, M- Alexander of Aberdeen, She will be a 44 foot boat and will have a 20 horsepower two-cylinder Standard engine, A deep sea fishing boat Is be- imr constructed for Mr, Mariano,' Z feet long, to have a six horsepower two- cylinder Union engine, A fine boat is that ordered by Captain John Hugblum for river use, It will be a 80-foot launch with another Union engine of 45 horse- nower and three-olllndcrs. There Is also a fine 65-foot hull awaiting machinery which is intended as a tow boat for the fPaclflo Transportation Company's Logging Company at Shoalwater Day, V Momlnf Astorlan, 60 cent per month, delivered by carrier. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Kava Alwsys Bought ?i!-r:it.';i Cf 4 .VrW To a Good Salary Then I direct and easy way for you to help yourself to a desirable position and good pay in the trail ur profes sion that best lulls your last and ambition. 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Thl has oc curred at the Miami Lumber Company' plant at Hobsonville, Tillamook County, A Thl same young angina ws shipped to the const 72 year ago ,and first felt its pulses beating beneath the sunny south ecru skies of California, Hen it did duty for many year lfor th Nevada Mining Company's plant till a spirit of adventure selced it, and travel brought It to Tillamook county, Oregon. And at last It has broken down. It may have broken down many time before, but on this point history is discreetly silent. The fault was the crosshead, and that broke. So the local iron work have a rush job to make a new one. The cni glneer in charge say the engine Is still good in all other parts, but that that crosshesd was the original evil In It. The machine is a 400 horsepower Corliss and is good for many years yet. The Astoria Iron Works have just sold another of their flh boat engines to Alex Muller. This is the third of the kind lie has bought this Reason, We have plotted, planted and figured, working from morning till night, seek ing for a medicine that will take th place of Holllster't Rocky Mountain Tea, but we can't find It. Tea or Tab lets, 85 cent. Frank Hart, YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL SCORES. I Coast League, At San Francisco Oakland 8 San Francisco 2. At Portland Portland 9, 'Los. An gele 11, Northwest League, ; At Tacoma Tacoma 1, Aberdeen 0 (17 innings.) , . ' . At Vancouver Vancouver 2, Seattle 1 At Spokane Spokane 0f Butte 4.