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THE MORNING AStORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER a, 1907. THE HORNING ASTORIAN Istabliiliei 1I7 tblUhed Dally Except Monday by ?Ik J. S. DEXLIKGES COMPAKT. SUBSCSUPTIOH RATH. y mail, per year...... ,. 17.00 By eanier, per month. JO WEEKLY ASTORIA 1, mail, per year, in advance. . 11.60 tntmii u aMtand-elftM matter Jnly SO, 190S. v the poBtoffloe t Astoria, Ore gon, unaer un o 01 .879 ... ' 'r,Awm tnr th dnHveruur of TBI Mo< 7ro.i tn Mtthar raaideooe or place of tNwtoeM may be made bjr postal i owl or through telecbone. Any Irregularity to de- linn ahould be immediately reported to toe omoe of publication. TELEPHONE MAIK Mi. Offlelal paper of Clatsop county and the City ofAstori. enough of dignified poise in the group at Interest to hold down such manifes tations as were made in thitsinetance. It weiv infinitely better to permit the favored citizen to go his way without special mark of honor and cheer, than to hail him forth a principal in so wretched an up roar as was this. The leading citizens of Warrenton are profoundly stirred by the untoward event and are Very frank in their utter ances about it, the threads of shame and sorrow predominating all through their expressions. The whole thing reflects disastrously upon the civic tone of the town, since many of the representatives of its best families were inseparably connected with tbe affair and so involved those whose best efforts are directed to the social, as well as the business, up lift of the place. It is most earnestly hoped thaW this is the last record: of its kind that will be sent up from this lively and inter esting Clatsop town, and that even this may be passed over with a silence that will prove' as curative for those respon sible for the trouble, s It will be bene ficial to Warrenton itself. ASTORIA ALL AGOG This Promises to be the Event of the Season THE USUAL FALSE PREMISE. The Oregonian of Monday last con tained a peurile complaint alleging that because of the failure of the "Port of Columbia'' law, Portland would be de ' nied the advantage of a fleet of steam ers plying in the Alaska trade; the ' predicate being so densely hidden as to leave lue wsi mioiaieu peupie uunu here all at sea s to what that notorious measure might have contributed to the desired situation. The only thing that seems at all plausible, being, that the pilots on the Columbia bar are, in some hypothetical ' way, responsible for the fact that Oregon ha3 not, today, an Alaska-Portland line. This fact is ad judged to be the cause, because when the .Oregonian has no other line of mean attack on Astoria it jumps on this fine body, of men sail assesses them with any old delinquency i cannot palm off on any other set. Portland knows pretty well why it has no steamship line to Alaska, and if it does not know, Seattle and Tacoma are not so far away as to preclude a quick and certain explanation; or, the records of the Portland Board of Trade might be utilized very conclusively, if not happily. It certainly was not denied on any score of pilotage fees or quality of serv ice in that line, for it is common fame that all coastwise steamers are free of such charges from the sea to Astoria, and only meet them when the vessels go above Tongue Point, or in other words, to Portland and way ports; and by the way, the pilots in that special behalf all reside at the metropolis. Such bottoms are, by law, exempt from, bar pilotage charges, and the big daily - will have to seek another cause, if it has one, for even sailing vessels in that service are also exempt. Since the "Port of Columbia" bill be came a matter of interest to people on the river, the especial promise of its authors and friends has been that once it was passed' they would correct the vicious evils inseparable from the bar pilot service, and these promises have been accompanied by repeated insulting allusions to the Columbia Kiver Bar Pilots' Association, the reading of which tirades would convince an outsider that this particular group of men werei pirates instead of pilots and used their franchise, and licenses, for the deliber ate robbery of everything afloat and within sight and hall of the bar, wnereas, the real lact is, ttnere is no abler set of men on the Pacifie Coast ' than these same skillful seamen, every one of them a master of his craft and a respectable, law-abiding citizen, to boot, whose incomes are fixed by law and the coming of ships to this river, from abroad; but, unhappily for the Portlander they) all live in Astoria, and for this reason alone, they are utterly discredited at the metropolis, and this 'despite the fact that the records of this great barrier at the mouth of the Colum bia are clearer of wreck, loss and death annals, than any other port-bar on the coasts of America, The whole system of fraud and greed that inspired the "Port of Columbia" bill, is charged with just such eontem tible elements as this, and that it went to the ash-heap upon the clean and. simple pretext of its flagrant ' uncon stitutionality," was a handy road to salvation for the men who framed it; for, had it succeeded, it would have aroused a crusade of bitterness on this river that would have ended only iri' something quite beyond the purview of those responsible for it. MURDERED NEAR HOME. Only, once in a long while does the local public htrVe such an opportunity presented to them in the way of Bona Fide Reductions and Genuine Bargain as are found at the Forced Sale now on at the National Shoe & Clothing Store. In conversation with the manager in charge of the Sale Inst night it was learned the Forced Sale has proven a brilliant success ami he Is in receipt of flattering encomiums from the general manager of the National System of Store, and praise for the purchasing public of this city and section for the real interest they 'have so substantially taken in the Forced Sale and the National's earnest, honest efforts to tide over a rough stretch on it's road to success. And the National will continue to merit, as it has in the past, the patriince of everv careful, conservative buyer in this neck of the woods, during the entire course of thjs Great Forced Sale by virtue of the really wonderful bargains offered in everything to wear for men, women and children. With a long pull and a strong pull altogether the National hopes to pull out on top at the close of this sale and the public's inducement to help will be Genuine Bargains on every hand at 084 Commercial street, the home of the National Store and the Great Forced Sale. Mother of woman Finds Her in Yard With Throat Cut. IOLA, Kansas, Oct. 1. Miss May Seippi the 25-year-old daughter of John X. Schipp, a well-to-do farmer, was found murdered in the back yard of the S!ipp home at Moran, 10 miles from here, las-t night. Her throat had been cut, eviaentiy witn a razor that was found close by. A motive for the mur- oer nas not Deen louna. mere is no clue to the murderer. The body was brought to Iola today and a postmortem examination held. Miss Schipp after dinner last night, tepped out into the yard. She had t EDITORIAL 8ALA& IS S ff 3 Admiral Dewey is still enamoured of the Philippines. They must be his affinity. The Standard Oil Company is not like ly to plead that the $29,000,000 fine is confiscatory. :u any trot ? ever allowed to rot vnivler the Bob staL'e. Kitsjinmmon To elevate it? js to leave the This sort of weather is bad enough for a Ben Davis apple crop. American farmers seem to have learn ed the important art of raising good been gone but a few minutes when .he crop he 8pri"g'8 6tart screamed for her mother. Mrs. Schipp rushed into the yard and found her daughter unconscious, lying in a pool of blood. She died within a few moments from a deep gash in her throat. Her clothes had been torn and her hands cut indicating that she had made a struggle for her life. No trace of the murderer has been found up to late today. There is little question that the Pen nsylvania grafters deserve capital punishment. Egypt reports fine com crop. Strike us iu sort of familiar, that famine-relieving corn crop in Egypt. The reporter who went through the Lusitania's machinery room says it is a cave, ihis new vein is wortn tne at tention of the novelists. Persons who' expect a panic because dishonest methods are exposed have an unreasonably poor opinion of the basis on which business rests. With snow flying oii the fireat Lakes, tlie last week of September seems to be sampling an early Winter. Jack Frost on Wednesday struck the west in the corn belt; the only question is did It strike below the belt. OUR MOTTO ' Perfection in Workmanship Promptness in Execution .Satisfaction in Prices. That's All" W. C. LAWvS (Q, CO. Plumbers Q Steam Fitters Recognized Agents in Astoria for theTHE. AMER. 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The Hoquiamlin Oklahoma at the recent election in- police, under the direction of Chief Mc- dicates bevond a doubt that the new Kinney, accompanied by Captain Dora state has the requisite population, of this city, made an important cap ture at Jdoquiam at a late nour last A Standard Oil dividend was -ac night. For some time Chief McKinney I companied br larger dividends in sub and -Captain Dorn have had their sus-lsidary companies. That is the sort of THE WARRENTON AFFAIR. The Astorian, along with every other citizen of Clatsop county, deeply regrets the occasion, and! issue, of the recent disorderly affair -at Warrenton, which, beginning as a simple friendly expres sion toward a departing citizen, closed in a series of pitched-battles between in dividuals and took on its somberest phase from the pitiful suicide of one of the young guests. "Without placing specific blame upon speciflp people, it is enough to say that Buch affairs had best not) be indulged in at all if there is not picions as to something out of the or dinary in a three-story building near the cannery, and after taking due pre cautions and getting everything in read iness, they made the raid with results far beyond their expectations. "When they had hrawn in the official dragnet, they found that they had captured 45 Chinamen and one Jap, with a quantity of opium, silk goods and whiskey, and other foreign stuff which had not 'gone through the formality of being stamped hyi the revenue officers. Chief McKinney said ther were at least 16 distinct "dope rooms" where the celestials and any others who so desired and were in the confidence of the keepers, could indulge m the dreamy pastime of an opium pipe The keeping of a dope den is a crime against the state law, and this is the fourth time that Hoquiam police have raided such places.' ,Jn all former captures there has been no evidence that the revenue laws have been violated, but in this case there is ample evidence to make a case if the government desires to take it up. Cap tain Dorn stated that in all probability the prisoners will be taken in charge by the federal authorities, and Chief Mc- Kinnek says the government certainly has a case. The state case will not come up today as Justice Ogden is sick, and probably if the federal authorities desire to take charge of the offenders the state will step aside. The parties arrested were up in the attio of the building, lying all over the floor, and were eertainly in pretty thick. They had guarded their secret closely and the local authorities are to be con gratulated on their ability to ferret out the criminals. It is not known iust now much of the plunder found will come under the ban of the federal gov ernment and will not be known until a revenue officer arrives and cheeks it OVef. ,- -; '. :: . 1 GET DYNAMITERS IN CUBA. chaser to keep investors in good humor. Rebel Indulged in Big Talk But He is Safe Now. WASHINGTON, Oct.' l.-Official word of the arrest of conspirators in Havana reached the War Department today, in the following cablegram addressed by Governor Magoon to Acting Secretary Oliver. "Information more specific and cer tain than heretofore received was se cured late tonight that Marro Parra, angered bjr failure to bring about an uprising, threatened to dynamite some buildings in Havana, and then escape. "The local police arrested him and two of his gang, named Lira Miret and Dacase, and they are now in jail." Some diet reformers who advise the people to be vegetarians show a lack of current information when they men tion economy as one of the inducements. Wall Street may be going to the devil as Hetty C.reen asserts, but we wager It's only for a tip and on a return ticket It i announced that Senator Tillman is going to San Francisco to deliver lecture on the Japanese question. We trust nobody sees anv connection be tween this announcement and the send Ing of the battleships to the Pacific Ex-Senator James K. Jones, of Ar kansa.s has reappeared at the front to say that "I have talked with Mr. Bryan lately, and it is by no means certain that ne w''l De ft candidate." Mr. Jones will not even say that he believes democrat will lie elected in 1!)0S. How changed is this once sanguine Bryan leader, but the public may rest assured that it is the same Jones. The $1,000,000 branch of Standard Oil in Indiana made a profit in one year of over .$10,500,000. Such figures might in duce even an Indiana man to abandon literature and its midnight oil. tSome democratic papers are wonder ing who will be named by Bryan, if he decides not to run himself. This is a desperate extremely Mr. Bryan may not consider for twelve or sixteen years more. Within a year the number of stock holders in one prominent railroad com pany has increased from 9000 to 15,000. Confidence in dividends amLhonest ma agement is good backing for popular uses. Since the pure food law vwnt into effect a certain kind of raspberry jam has borne this inscription- "This jam is made of glucose, with artificial seeds, and is colored with harmless analinc dyes." Hayseed seems to be too valu able to some preserve, and artificial seeds, made by machinery, are substi tilted, i'eople who object to jam m which there is no fruit should read the labels. SAY JAPAN BROKE TREATY. A great-grandson of Robert Burns is a police judge in Louisville. If his jus tice is not tempered with mercy the sympathetic warmth of the famous plowman must have been lost in the descent. Coal enough to load 24,105 railroad cars was locked down the Monongahela River in August. This is the one river In the United States that has been thor oughly improved, and its steady traffic is immense. The new turbine steamers put on be tween New- York and Boston easily make the run in fourteen hours, and one has developed a speed of twenty-seven knots ia a favoring tide, which is ahead of the Deutchland's time. A biographical sketch of Senator Tillman states that his friends consider him & poet and a dreamer fighting for his dreams. Poets who fail to make the business pay are inclined to think the pitchfork is mightier than the pen. , The anties should keep their eyes on the new island Uucle Sam proposes to build at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. uch a. position, commanding the water approaches, to Washington, and sur rounded by battleships, would be a for midable imperial stronghold. ' ' Great Britain's importation of apples has reached 9,000,000 barrels a year,' of which half is from the United States. The favorite apples in the British mar ket are certain kinds from this country. Other European countries want' Amer- :n' apples in large quantities. Why Vancouver Citizens Demand Exclusion of Immigrants From Orient. OTTAWA, Oct. 1. W. D. Scott, Do minion immigration' agent, sent to Van-. couver by Sir Wilfred Laurier, i hav ing a strenuous time there. , The Asiatic Exclusion League watted on Mr. Scott, who asked the speakers how they would remedy the surplus immigration of Jap anese. 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