THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA. OREGON.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1907.
THE
ASTORIAN
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a ablished Dally P Monday by
m, J. S. DEXUMGKK WOMPANT.
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Kntwed u lecond-elM mtr July
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ion, under the Mt of Congrats ot Mrco t,
1ST
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unsrr should be immediately reported to the
office ot pubitostton. ., , .
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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N
ew Fall Underwear
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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 ; ;
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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
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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
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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,