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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA. OREGON. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1907. THE ASTORIAN Establish itr a ablished Dally P Monday by m, J. S. DEXUMGKK WOMPANT. SUBSCRIPTION RATI y mail, pet year .17.00 j wirier, pat month JO I WEEKLY ASTORIAN. 9t mail, per year, In advaaos.. 11.00 Kntwed u lecond-elM mtr July 90. IMS. t the pcwtofflce t Astoria. Ore ion, under the Mt of Congrats ot Mrco t, 1ST wrontem for the aeUwruMt or THi Moss idlTpomi to either rwideooe or pkcy ef tliM onj be mede by posfcd ra or throucb tele phone. Any IrwiKuUrtty tn de unsrr should be immediately reported to the office ot pubitostton. ., , . TELEPHONE MAIN Mi. Official ir of CUttsop county end ihsCily ofAsuwl. WEATHER. 4 Western Oregon Fair; increas- ing cloudiness showers north coast. THE PACE OF PROGRESS. The pace of modem progressive move menu is a hot one and the dillatory com munity is the one that hangs in the back-stretch while its neighbors are awimrinsr under the wire with more -00 or less degrees of winning speed and capturing the prizes of greater or lesser value set up by the hand of generous opportunity. The community with its feet tangled up in the nioss of inanition and supiness is out of the race in this year of grace, "and may as well hark back to village ethics and aspirations and get off the track altogether. There are hundreds of tracks whereon the ordinary town may try-out its own pace and improve it to the limit of successful competition; and it is well to keep pretty regularly in harness and do a stunt every once in a while just to see that the place is nob winded and the pace still unbroken. It pays to keep ftt touch with the records of other places similarly situated, and ascertain that our own record is not being shad owed by some other aspirant in the grand-prize events that come off about at often. Astoria is duly entered in the splendid Oregon event in which the purse and prize is the "Northwestern Rail and Marine Terminal Stakes," than which there i no finer trophy in the realm of chance, or fact, for her. She is in dili gent training and will never forgo her ambition till she lands the victory and takes the emolutiong accompanying the same. She has several rivals and may be hard pressed on the course, but she does not fear even her greatest compe titor, nor the judges who shall give the decision. She has been beaten, times wthout number, but the conditions sur rounding her next race are so changed and modified, that the tricks that served to beat and oust her heretofore, will be ineffectual this time. And here is a new bunch of judges in the box this time, that are to be reckoned with as perfectly just and not liable to be swayed as some of their predecessors have been, against Astoria. We are likely to get a fast race and a hot one but we're cultivating a clip down here that will carry us under the wire if achievements, will do it, and when the event is reported to the world at large, she will be known, for all time to come, as the sea-port for all Oregon, and the wheat-gate of three states besides. confirmation of this etalwart report will follow in due course of time. It will never do to despise rumor. How ever vague it may appear to be, it i, nine times out of ten. the fore-breath of fact, and not infrequently, la in spired for given purposes by the head and front of authority. And then rumor is one of the best agencies for keeping alive certain iked and justifiable hopes that have lingered in the way to fruition far too long, and may be employed to smooth the edges of a too keen disap point meat Rumor is all right, espec ially if it fits nicely into a pending pro gram and we hope to herald some big and gratifying facts', in the course of few day, that will cive grace and solidity to the popular talk of this big purchase by the X. P. THE NEXT PRESIDENT. Be lie whom he may, the next Presi dent of these United States will be one of the strongest men within hep border. temperamentally, ethically, and in in telleetual grasp of the entities. The Rooseveltian era has put mediocre men at so low a discount that no national party dare think of naming such a one as its standard-bearer in he year of ffraee, about to dawn. He will, in a sene, have to tie greater than fiis party, for he will actually stand for the sum of wisdom, discretion, power and pleiiti tude of will, which that party repre sents. We are done with weakling; so tremendous have been the, strides of mosress all along the line of human thought and action in America during the past four year, that we are revolu tionized out of our placidity and hum drum indifference and real!!- arc alive to our future in all its grave and poten tial signifiwnce. The people are taking a hand in government, nowadays, forced into the arena, at last, by the avalanche of fierce disclosures thrust upon them from a thousand accredited sources, and which they dare not ignore any longer. If this people had nothing else to thank Theodore Roosevelt for besides the tremendous candor wherewith he ha opened the eyes and ears of this nation to the vast frauds and impositions and outrages, political, financial, industrial, mercantile and governmental, under which it has staggered for untold years, be would still have all by way of honor the host of ns might contribute for the balance of time. But there is more than this to the course he has led us, and only years of reflection and subsequent, recurring proof, direct to the point, will bring us full realization of the man's in calculable gift to his people And on just such an hypothesis as this we claim that the new political align ment of 1908 is to be among the greatest ever recorded, aa will the history that ensues; for the next administration has an infinitude of problems awaiting solu tion that must be handled with a per spicuity commensurate with the wisdom of the man who raised tbem, Theodore Roosevelt. And not the unkindest decree of fate would be the irresistable edict fro the people, en masse, that he stay and solve them himself. SCARED BY GHOST Town Terrorized By Bullet Proof Specimen. JOKERS MUDDLE THE MYSTERY t GO, Hob Pursues Ghoulish Figure and the Sheriff Shoots Dummy While Trying to Catch Real Apparition Hideously Attired Forma. PAOLt, Ind., Sept. H.-Stories of mid night adventures with ghosts, or maybe human figures dressed in phantom-like apparel, ere being told here daily, and women and children with nervous temp- eramenta seldom venture out after night fall, for fear of an encounter with the dreaded objects that have been frighten ing people here for a week. Women and children congregate iu groups on street corners auj repeat stories told by some one who had a thrilling experience the night before and who escaped with terror the attack of the hideously attired form. These experiences have been, in many instances, of a enous nature, and the lives of those attacked have been in NGTOKI DRY GOOD INEW FALL TAILORED SUITS ; ' $ " . " -. - in,. j ..I ...... ., , 1 , ! The Very Latest Patterns;: $12.56 to $35.00 z .We are showing the season's fashions in the New Fall Tailored Suits by the best known i makers in the land. These garments are made up semi-fitted and double breasted effects I alsolsingle breasted and tight fitted Jackets in broadcloths and fancy striped manish ma f I teffok- Black, navy, brown and hairline stripes. Well made anOinbricllrrougrout x ana a periect tit guaranteed, small, medium and extra sizes SE WINDOW DISPLAY X Our line of New Fall Dress Goods is complete. Every fashionable weave' is represented X here. Broadcloths, Serges, Panamas, Poplins, Taffetas, Lansdown, etc., in the season's most wanted shades of brown, navy, red, green and blacks. Every yard offered comes Mesmer Mesmer- at the Star. -Mesmer the Mystic OBSERVES BIG GROWTH. Former Astorian Says New Buildings Are a Credit to the City. FROM VAGUE BEGINNINGS. There was never a great thing done yet that vague rumors of it did not per colate in and around interested centers long before the final facta were cast loose by way of indisputable confirma tion. It has been held, down here, that the mouth of the Columbia was to be the center of a huge scheme of transpor tation development, founded upon the original fact that the Astoria & Co lumbia River Railroad had been pur chased outright by the Hill interests! and that the Portland 4 Seattle Railway was rushing its north-bank line down the Columbia aa fast as human skill, endurance, and money, could do it, eked cut the rational conclusion that the Hill people were going to make a final, and feature, stand at this ocean port. Now comes the pertinent and whole some rumor, directly in line with this earlier program, that the Northern Pa cific Railway has bought a big tract of 1800 acres, right at the spot where ter minals would be indispensable, on the Warrenton peninsula, and the essential D. R. Jones, manager of the State Lumber & Box Company, of Raymond, Wash., was a visitor in Astoria yester dsy and states that he observes con siderable improvement in the appear ance of the city since he waa here last, more than two yeare ago. He was formerly with the Tongue Point lumber mill. "There are quite a few new buildings in Astoria which are a credit to the city," he said, "Building operations ap pear to be going ahead rapidly and there are evidences of great prosperity in the city. It looks to me as though this place it going to become the sea pert that it should, in a short while. "Of course we feel over in Raymond that we have the best port on the octet," ha remarked. "The harbor bar has 20 feet of water and shipping is in creasing at a great rate. New mills are continually appearing on the scene and the city has a population of 2500. That is growing some for a town only a few years old, and the indications are that we will have a big city on the site of Raymond." lame Back. This is an ailment for which Cham berlain's Pain Balm has proven especial ly valuable,. In almost every instance it affords prompt and permanent relief. Mr. Luke LaGrange of Orange, Mich., says of it: "After using' a plaster and other remedies for three weeks for a bad lame back, I purchased a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and two ap plications effected a cure." For sale by Frank Hart and leading Druggists. Mesmer the Mystic at the Star. great danger of bodily harm. A young n:an named Hotetter, from Mitchell, called on a young womau here, and when he took le.ive of her near the midnight hour he was pursued by some object at tired in black and heavily armed. Bos- tetter, being atsso armed, opened fire on the approaching object, which did not retreat, but approached even more rap idly than before and began emptying the contents of a weapon, the bullets barely missing the young man, who afterward sought refuge in a hotel here, where he remained all night. Other persons have seen on object in woman's garb, with a black shroud en veloping it form, which in some in stances would vanish on the approach of a human being, while in other caes it would follow people for some distance. It has been seen at all hours of the night, Last night a number of men, heavily armed with guns and other weapons, began a search in au endeavor to as wrtain, if possible, what the myster ions thing is, and what its object is in terrorizing timidily inclined citizens The excitement has been made more intense by practical jokers, who take advantage of conditions and play spook pranks. Sentinels were stationed at different parts of the town last night with instructions to spread the alarm in the event of the nightly apparition making its appearance. At about 10 o'clock a sentinal sta' tioned near the plant of the Paoli Cttbi net Company observed a figure on the railroad track near the plant, and he at once gave the alarm by sounding the long shrill blasts of the factory whistle, which was responded to by Sheriff O. L. Maris and Deputy Sheriff Jones, well armed. The sheriff ordered the motionless figure on the railroad track to throw up its hands, saying "that there had been enough foolishness going on about here." The hands remained motionless and the sheriff fired, and had it not been for the entreaties of Deputy Sheriff Jones to spare the life, the form would doubtless have been riddled with bul let The sheriff and his deputies then entured a little nearer and found that the object waa only a stuffed dummy, robed in a hideous garb and wearing a false face of a colored man. The sheriff is saying mean things about the practical jokers, inasmuch as they make the catching of the real ap parition more difficult. . . f I to you direct from the mill and offered to you at prices which we guarantee to be as low and in many instances lower than you can purchase elsewhere. SEE WINDOW DISPLAY New Fall Dress Goods N ew Fall Underwear . - -" - i' ' -m-- 75c Wool Vests and Pants,' 59c j 50c Heavy Union Suits, - 35c i El Real perfect fitting union suits, made of special spun yarns and heavy ; ; weight, come in silver gray and ecru, all sizes from 4 to 6. Special Monday C ; ; AU-Wool vests and pants of fine, pure wool, medium weight, EjjRcal Un- "g j derwear, sizes 5 to 6. Special Monday J C ! : $5.QO - Silk Petticoats. - $5.00 Simons' Silk Taffeta Petticoats, made in tailored styles with 12 inch ruffle, strap stitching, the best silk taffeta petticoat made for $7.50, cornel in all $5.00 colors, brown, navy, red, green, lightjlue and black. Special SIMINGTON DRY GODS COMPANY MI f Mesmer -Mesmer Mesmer the Mystic at the Star. RESTRICT COPPER OUTPUT. BUTTE, Sept. 14. The mines of the Amalgamated Copper Company, of Butte, are not to be closed because of a glut in copper. Work is to be abandoned on Sundays, but there will be no general close down. The product is to be cur tailed until it falls to about eight mil lion pounds per month. It js now about twenty million pounds a month. Mesmer the Mystic at the Star. Had Tetter For Thirty Years. I have suffered with tetter for thirty years and have tried almost countless remedies with little, if any, relief. Three boxes of Chamberlain's Salve cured me. It was a torture. It breaks out a little sometimes, but nothing to what It uses to do. D. H. Breach, Midland City, Ala. Chamberlain's Salve is for sale by Frank Hart and leading Drugists. , ona8naoao SUNDAY AT THE CHURCHES. R ORRURRRRRRRRRRRRRO First Methodist. ' ' ' The sermon themes for Sunday will be found in the following texts s Morning, "For God hath not appointed us to wiath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us that we should live together with him,"! Thess. 5:9-10. Evening, "For tihe mys tery of iniquity doth already work," 2 Theis. 2:27. C, C. Rarick, pastor. f Alderbrook Presbyterian. Services at the Alderbrook Presbyter, ian Church at 10 o'clock a. m. Christian Science. Services at 634 Grand avenue, Sunday at 10 a. m. Subject of sermon, "Mat ter." All are invited. First Lutheran Synod. At the First Lutheran Synod church services at 10:45; evening services at 8 o'clock; Sunday school meets at 9:30 a. m. Theo. P. Neste, pastor. S'at Died." Conrad L. Owen, pastor. ,'.,; Grace, Services at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., Sunday school at 12:30 m. The Her. John Warren will condutc service at C'fllvary Chapel, Seaside, at 10:30 a. and at Holy Innocents' Chapel, Upper- town, at 7:30 p. m. Holy Innocents' Chapel ; Sunday school at 11 a. m., evening service with ser mon, 7:30 p. m. streets. Sunday school, 10 o'clock. Preaching at 11 morning and 8 evening. The Scandinavian people are invited, everybody welcome. Elias Cjerding, pastor. Mesmer the Mystic at the Star. Baptist Morning tlheme, "The Queen of Heav en." Evening, "ihe Testimony of Jesus the Spirit of Prophecy." Sunday school, 10 a. m., B. Y. P. M-, 7 p- me Everyon is given a cordial invitation to attend these meetings Hear Billy Arlington's last reading at the Baptist ' Church Sunday evening, called "Dat Little Crippled Boy First Lutheran. . First Lutheran Church, Gustaf E. Ityd- qulst, pastor. Morning service at ,10:48, Theme for morning sermon; "I say unto thee, young man, arise." Evening ser vice in English at 7:30. Theme for even ing sermon: "The Miracles of Christ.1 Sunday school both at tha Uppertown Church and in the German Lutheran on Grand avenue, at 9:30 a. m., Alema Ny land and Mrs. A. Young, superintend ents. The publio it cordially invited to Attend the above services. , Presbyterian. Morning service at II o'clock, "A Study of a Face" Sunday schol at 12; V, P. S. C. E.( 7:00; evening worship, 8, 'The Bondsman." AH are invited. Wm, 1. Gilbert, pastor. Norwegian Danish M. E. Tha Norwegian and Danish Thurch, Thirty-seventh and M. E. Duane TELLS OF WORK AT PANAMA. Engineer Goethala; Sends Figures by Ca ble to Oyster Bay, OYSTER BAY, Sept. 14.-The follow ing cable dispatch from Engineer Go thals telling how they are making th dirt fly at Panama and the President's note of congratulation In reply were rnwlj, H..1.1I. i.J... t. ,.. ,, . bwi wuay. tnirinccr uoetnaia cabled: "Colon, Sept. 13.-The President: Ex cavations from the cantl prism by steam ahovels and dredges, 1,274,404 oubio yards, 013,960 cubio yards as fol lows: Cclubra, 780,866 cublo ranis: Ga- tun 105,225 cubic yards; Mindi Cha gres Laboca, aggregating 4,801 oubio yards. By dredcinir. 357.464 oubio - yards, as follows: Colon division, 189,- 170 cublo yards; Laboca division, 108, 284 cublo yards. This exceeds all pre vious United Ktkt.A TfiMHvL. MrrWfc - o preceding total for the canal prism wa 1,058,776 oubio yards for July. Rainfall V 11.89 niches. i Mesmer Mesmer the Mystic at the Star,