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THE MORNING ASTOItlAW, ASTORIA. OREGON. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER u, 1907. - - . . FANCY CREAMERY BUTTER ' Per Roll 75 Cents A. V. ALLEN. BRANCH UNIONTOWN PHONE MAIN 713 PHONE3 - -! . : 1 . MAIN 711. MAIN 3871 Sole Agents for Barrington Hall Steel Cut Coffee HOST ARRIVES BY BALLOON. Frenchman Invites Friends to Hunt With Him nd Springs a Surprise. PARIS, Sept 21. A few jrears ago a Kew York artist, who was credited with feeing oU-fashioned and unprogressivfc, nsed to look out of his studio window and sar that it would be only a little grhile before peoppto stepped out of Windows into airships to make calls. France at any rate will fulfill the prophecy soon at the rate of progress abe 1s making. Perhaps not the most spectacular, but erainly the most elegant use so far made of an airship was by M. Deutach le la Meurthe, who invited several friends to hunt on his estated. He fixed a rendezvous and said he would arrive there by baloon. The guests assembled at the appointed hour, and saw a bal loon. The guests assembled at the ap pointed hour and saw a balloon ap proaching. When it arrived over the rendezvous it descended easily, and M. Deutsch, attired in hunting costume, dismounted. The balloon, in charge of bis engi neers, then re-aeendei Sometime lajer .word came to the hunting party that the airship had returned safely to its point of departure. WIRELESS POLICE CALL. FATAL WIND STORM. Grandstand at Pennsylvania Fair Falls Killing Five. POTTSYILLE, Pa, Sept. 21.-A wind storm late today struck the fairground at Begins, Schuylkil county, where the county fair is being held and blew down the grandstand upon which were seated several hundred. About fifty were in jured, five faUllv, it Is believed. Other buildings on the grounds were also blown down. City Electrician of Berkeley, CaL, Work ing for Beter Service. SAN FRAXCISOO, Sept 21. Charles K. Parmenter, assistant city electrician of Berkeley, who has completed the erection of a wireless pole on the site for the new town ball, is experimenting with a phone to call policemen from their beats, to police alarm boxes. A aimple communication is the method. A aimple apparatus of comfact form which policeen will carry in their pockets or en their hats ay revolutionize the po lice and fire alarm systems. The appa ratus in the office of the chief of police is, however, more complicated. The chief turns on the current of his batteries, and wireless messages are sent in all directions. The invisible currents eome into contact with the coil which the patrolmen wil carry in their bats, and the message is sent to them. The message is sen in dots and dashes. Though a policeman may not under stand the communication, he will know he is wanted by the ringing of the bell in bin picket. He then will hasten to the nearest police box and telephone the police station, and find out what is wanted. K WASHINGTON MAN ILL. PORT HURON, 31ch., Sept. 21. Wil liam C. Patrick, cupposed to live at Snohomish, Washington, was taken from & Grand Trunk train here today, delir ious and is now in a serious condition in fcospitaL TOM JOHNSON NOMINATED. CLEVELAND, Sept 21. Mayor Tom L Johnson was nominated for a fourth term as mayor by acclamation at the city democratic convention to oppose Congressman Burton, the republican nominee. In the platform adopted 3 cent car fare is put to the fore. , TIMBER MEN ARRESTED. ' MILWAUKEE, Sept 21. A special from Eau Claire, Wis., says that war rants were served today on J. P. Barber and S. E. Moon, pursuant to the action of the grand jury of Idaho, in the tim ber land cases, in which conspiracy is alleged. They gave bonds of $5000 each. The hearing is set for October 26 AUTOMOBILE RECORD. MILWAUKEE. Sept. 21. The world's automobile record for 1000 milea was to day broken by Robert Drach, who gave the machine distance in 21 hours, which is 58 minutes faster than the former record. DEFAULTER'S SON ARRESTED. NEW ORLEON, Sept. 21. With two thousand dollars on his person, George W. Letten, a son of Charles E. Letten, the defaulting tax clerk, was arrested here today. The police are holding money whichUt is alleged is part of the $100,000 or more which the young man's father confessed to having stolen. LUSITANIA STARTS AGAIN. BEATS WORLD'S RECORD, v MONTREAL; Sept. 21. At the ath letic championship here todays, Ralph Eose of San Fra-neisco, put the sixteen pound shot 49 feet 71 inches, beating the world' record of fet 51 inches. In the 220 yard hurdles, F C. Smith of the Multnomah Athletic Club of Port land, won. Time, 23 3-5. AGED MAN IS INJUR) TACOMA, Sept. 21. .John Bottoms an aged man living in the east addi tion, was struck by a cable car this morning on K. street and suffered ser ious injuries. The car knocked him down, and the gripman, not swing his predicament, allowed the car to drag him a short distance before- the car was stopped. DISSOLVES ORDER. LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 31.-In the fed eral court this afternoon, Attorney General Thompson filed a motion of dis solve the restrain, order issued last week to prevent the state railway comnm Bion publishing a new schedule of grain rates on the- gritund there was nothing to, en join.. , 1 ' . ' ENGINEER DROWNS. TACOMA, Sept. 21. Word has been .ivi here of the drowning at Glen Cove of Charles Thurston, aged 25 years, an enpneer employed at Am ton & Iceland's logging camp, yester dav afternoon. Thurston was stand I nn a loo floating in the bay when it suddenly turned and threw him into the water. YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL SCORES At Seattle-Seattle 6, Spokane 5. At Tacoma Tacoma 11, Aberdeen 0 At Portland Los Angeles 0, Port NEW YORK, Sept. 21. Gronied for her fast run on her first voyage east ward, the Luaitsina sailed for Queens- town and Liverpool this afternoon. To beat the New York-Quenstown record made by the Lucania in 1891. the Lusi- tunia must do better than 5 .lays, 8 hours and 38 minutes. HEIRESS SLAIN. MARRIED MAN KILLS THE DAUGH TER OF AUSTRIAN COLONEL IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Sept. 21. Droga Sicgel, an heire9, 20 rears of age and a daugh ter of a colonel in the Austrian army, now dead, was fatally shot tonight by Julius Hoffman, a married man and fromerly a lieutenant of Colonel Siegel's egirnent. The tragedy was the outcome of jernl ousy on the part of Hoffman, who, after shooting Miss Ripgfil, tried to shoot him self, but was prevented by the dying RECORD CRUISE. SUBMARINE BOAT 0PALE TRAVELS DISTANCE OF 2M MILES UNASSISTED. NEW YORK, Sept, 21. A cable to the Sun from Paris says: The subma rine boat Opale has finished the longest voyage exer made by a vessel of that class, traveling from Cherbourg around Britany to the Isle De Croix and back on her own resources, without any stop page, as a test of her seagoing capacity, The distance traveled was 222 miles, and she made it at an average speed of eight knots. The voyage included sev- seral difficult places, notably the doub ling of Oussant and going through the Lands at Tillamook Rock From Small Boat., INSPECTOR'S DARING STUNT 1 Captain Werlich is Second Man Ever to Perform Dangerous Fsat Calmneis of Sea Tempted Him to Try Difficult Landing. Captain P. J. Werlich has the honor of being the second man who ever stop ped from a small boat to Tillamook Rock, having performed the feat Thurs day while going ashore to Inspect the lighthouse station. Only on' two known occasions the sea lias been to rough at that point that every person fending had to step from a boat to a cage in which he would lie hoisted to the rock. Major W. C Langfltt formerly in chadge of the corps of United Statet engineers at Portland, was the first to make landing there without being carried up in the cage. MTiile at the Rock Thursday, Cap tain Werlich say there waa scarcely a ripple on the seu and be decided to take advantage of the favorable condi- ions by going ashore afoot and scaling the side of the promontory to the sta tion situated on the summit la cross ins the Columbia River bar the tame day, he says that hardly a stir could be seen in the water, and had be not been so familiar with it he would not have known where the bat1 began or ended. The German steamship Eva, with a cargo of grain for China, wnt to sea rosterday. The steam schooners Bee, Excelsior and R. P. Inmanwith cargoes of lum ber for California, went to sea yester day morning. The- schooner Jas. A. Campbell with a areo af lumber for California, was tow ed to yesterday. The schooner Honoipw cleared at the custom house yesterday for Hoooipu, Hawaiian Islands, with a cargo 01 w 258 feet of lumber, loaded' at Astoria, The schooner Annie M. Campbell, cleared yeiterday for Rwfontl with a cargo of 700,000 feet of lumber losueu at Stella. The Xorwuciun steamship Tallin with a cargo of coal from British Column hi hie to arrive in this morning.. OIL TANK FIRED. BREAKING OF CIRCUIT WIRE EX TENDING TO GAS PLANT CAUSED BLAZE. OAKLAND, Oal, Sept. 21. The fifty thousand barrel oil tank of the Oakland Cats. Uoht A fTent Company, at the foot of Jefferson stret, near the Southern Pacific tracks, was destroyed by nre this morning. The fire was- originally mused hv the Wreaking of a power wire on Franklin otreet near the .-tt. Mark's hotel, which caused a short circuit ex tending to tb gas plant 'a First mid firove streets, and there ignuea nom the sparks that caused the blaze. Ihc loss is $50,000. Rim?s DvsDewia Tablets do the work. Stomach trouble, dyspepsia, indigestioni bloating, etc, yield quickly. Two day's treatment tree, ask your, aruggiw mi free triat 6old by x'ranic nans Drug store. CASTOR IA For Infants aniCMMrea. Be Kin You Have Always longht Bears the Signature of f T f 'T FRANK J. DONNERBfcRG WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER Will remove on or about Oct. 1st to 574 Commercial St, Between 12th and 13th Sts. it Id-Season ream Itfojjkc n drenm to kuowttint right liertjlie time yojt of clothing; and furnishluK gmMlstobe ietojmtlienijtjlie great discount of 20.1'' wt, which we are offering on everything in this big, new twk ofgooth, for few dayi, right here in the middle of tlie season. 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