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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1907)
s THE MORNING ASTOMAN. ASTORIA, OREGON. WV, ::r: 10.57. If Fancy Gravenstien Apples, Luscious Pomegranites, Hubbard Squash, Pumpltins. A. V. ALJLEN. BRANCH UNIONTOWN PHONE MAIN 713 PHONES MAIN 711. MAIN 3871 Sole Agents for Baker's Barrington Hall Steel Cut Coffee 1 PRICES FOR VOTES Freak Election District ? Fifty Apiece. Pays PASSING POLITICAL HOTELS Sew York Has "Pistol Party" Like Fa mous Boston Tea PartyIf Price of ' newspapers go op Russell Sage's Prao i tice Hay Become GeneraL NEW YORK, Oct. 12. An official price of $50 each has been established by the city as the highest figure which it trill pay for votes at the coming mum ciml election. Father Knickerbocker las not established a corruption fund, aowever for the purchase of votes, and veo if he had ,in these daya of yellow 4op funds running into millions, $50 would not go far in the vote buying line. The $50 apiece for votes which the city will pay represents the cost to the mu vicipaJity of furnishing facilities for the casting of ballots in the freak election district in the city. Located in a most populous section, this whole district has just four voters, for1 with Harlem on one vide and the great uptown hotel center o the others, it is made up of a part of Central 'Park in which the only residents re the proprietor and three employes f s famous old tavern. To allow their ballots to be cast, however, the city will have to furnish a full set of election affinals who must serve on the three registration days as well as election day itself .and voting booths, while each party, for the patronage which there is in it, will have watchers and spotters on fand to go through the pretense of seeing that there is no ballot box stuf fing. For all this the city will have to pay at least $200 and as just four votes can be cast the cost of each, even if the whole voting population turns out, will be $50 apiece. In past years the ballot has been known to be much larger in this eighth election district, known as the queerest in the city, if not the country, for it is remembered that that hi one busy season the tavern had seven employes, thus doubling the pres ent vote. There is never any question as to the pontics ot this district as Sbowm by its ballots, for as the pro prietor of the tavern votes so do his employes. Five thousand revolvers and firearms, filling 32 big packing cases, and valued at more than $25,000, were ceremonious ly dumped into the waters of the outer iiarber.this week, forming the chief act of a "New York Pistol Party" which may take its place in history with the celebrated party in Boston harbor a eentury and a third ago in which tea instead of pistols took the prominent part. The pistols in question make up Ih arsenal seized by the police in the last year and a quarter from citizens and emigrants who were addicted to the concealed weapon habit. Formerly these firearms were sold at auction just be fore the Fourth of July, but as this placed most of the min the hands of the same classes from which these trouble makers had been confiscated, a new law was pass-ed last winter enabl ing police Commissioner Bingham to de stroy them. It was decided that the safest thing to do would be to throw them into the sea, since while they would not endanger the fish they would be safe from recovery. This was accordingly done, the firearms being carried to the police boat on patrol wagons and then taken down the bay to their watery end by Commissioner Bingham himself. A more varied collection of weapons it would be difficult to find even in the, largest museums. All varieties from au-' tomatics and gold mounted pearl hand led American revolvers to curious old-: fashioned pistols from Oriental coun tries appeared in the lot. Many taken in the Syrian quarter show Strang Ara bic workmanship and are strangely wrought. Many would have wrought high prices as curious, but the police believed that it was better to retire them permanently from circulation. THE I III TO DUY Our complete fall stock is now in and if you want the pick and choice of one of the best selected, stocks of Men's and Boy's Clo'hing, Underwear, Hats and Furnishings, Etc., in the north west, we insist you should come to this store and come soon. n I U?1 SI , , jb if Bat-Haas, NEW FALL SUITS, $10.00 to $35.00 I F a correct appear ance is of any con sequence to you, you must have "Correct Clothes." 1 We are' exclusive agents for Alfred Ben jamin & Co., makers of 'Correct Clothes for Men," which are in a class by them selves, a standard that is only reached by the finest tailors in Amer ica. Come and see for yourself. Russell Sage, it is said, used never to buy a newspaper, but to pick up in the cars one which someone else had dropii ped. Just how soon" the public here niay'iT ii . 1. It nave to adopt tms practice on a Rimpie basis of economy is an open question for someone has started the discussion as to how much longer New Yorkers will be able to get their newspapers at pres ent prices of pne, two or three cents, a point which seems to be doubtful. Like all other purveyors of public service, the publishers of the daily papers have dis. covered that these are bad days for any one selling a commodity whose retail price is absolutely fixed. Street car companies have found that on account of present high prices of labor and sup plies, the nickel which today transports passenger as far as it did ten years ago, or even tanner, does not go nearly so far in the matter of paying operating costs and reasonable dividends upon the! capital invester. Telephone people get! no more from the individual subscriber formerly; indeed, in New York, as in IX A 001 CraVfinette HatS. &O.00 manv M.hpr nlanea. there have been. TZ within the last two or three years, con spicuous reductions in the price of tele phone service. Meantime, it is a matter of general knowledge that many of the independent telephone companies, east and west, have been forced into bank ruptcy by the increased cot of opera tion sometimes in spite of having rais ed their rates contrary to franchise pro- niises-r-and that still others are faciing the same fate unless conditions change. Overcoats & Raincoats, $10.00 to $30.00. OUR fall showing of overcoats and rain coats is without doubt the finest ever shown in this city. Benjamin Coats have been the standard for more than a quarter of a century. They have the reputa tion of being the finest Overcoat and Raincoat makers in America. Benjamin Overcoats and Raincoats can only be found here. I 1 i . ' ::: i I y J ' 1 . !' 1 , v. I . 'J H ' 1 I I 1 o ' I 1 ' ' H I 11"" ' I II ; " U :::: f - :::: , J I $ V 'V '' ' 'i J . : AT A. I Y i EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR "MALLORY CRAVBINETTE HATS." The only genuine 'rain proof hat made. Rain will neither wet nor spot them. Cravenette Hat, $3.50.s Exclusive agents for the ' HERCULES " Shower Proof, All Wool. $5-SUITS.--.$5 Positively the strongest and best boys' suit made. Guaranteed all wool Pants Linen Lined. Rain Proof. 111 u v JUDD BROS., Brownsville Woolen Mills Store. Commercial Street, Near Twelfth. lit" uatiy vuuin - cauii vikui ' . lar difficulties. White paper is costing ''' ) very much more than ever 'before and with all the other necessities of news. . vi:: .i : .,k. days in the week to give paper puui'BiiniK uucuia "raw uuu-, . . lis!,erePare beginning to resize that WLJ ! it "class" ac- belong in the same class with other sel lers of public service. i JUST RECEIVED BY EXPRESS A NEW LOT OF UMBRELLAS COME EARLY AND IT GET Y0UC PICKf FRANK J, DONIfERBERG, 430 J. ELEVENTH AND BOND STS. The passing of the Fifth Avenue Hotel within the next few months will mark the disappearance of the last of the city's hotel possessing a distinctively political atmosphere. The Fifth Avenue has been the center of Republican ac tivity in New York practically ever since the party came into existance, and its Amen Corner is famous the country over. Until the last state campaign the party headquarters for the state was in the hotel and during the years when Thomas C. Piatt was the party, boss he resided there. Now Piatt, has no .longer had moved away to an obscure -side street, and only a few old time politicians are to be met wandering through the cor-' ridors of the famous building on Madi son Square. The Hoffman House once occupied a position in Democratic poli tics similar to that of the Fifth Avenue in Republican affairs, but now the old building has been replaced by a new one very much as the old leaders of Democ cracy have been. About the only promi nent political figure at present closely dientifled with any metropolitan hotel is CJovemment Hughes, who "has just announced that his legal residence is the big Hotel Astor fronting on Broadway at Longacre Square. If the Hughes pol itical star rises aft far in the assendent as the Governor's admirers expect, it may be that the new Astor will fall heir to the political glories of the old Fifth Avenue. It is more probable, however, that the side of the great new establishments like the Astor and the varied interests centered in them will prevent them from becoming famed es pecially for their political importance. ', J. Pierpont Morgan is to appear be hind a bar in New York, and not a par ticularly fine one either, all day long six ing this because he want to, but be casue for once in a way he can't help himself, disagreeable as he finds the situ ation. It should be understood, however, that it is the great financier's portrait, painted by a famous Swedish artist, and not Mir. Morgan in his physical reality that is to appear behind the bar. But the father of the steel trust doesn't find any relief in that for to be hung in effigy in a saloon doesn't appeal to his artistic taste. It is this well known love for art that brought about the trouble, fop when the portrait for which he has given the commission in Sweden arrived in New York, Mr. Mprgan refused to ac cept it because he said it did not look like him. In consequence it was placed with a lot of other goods on which the duty had not been paid, to be sold at auction. At the sale it was knocked down to a saloonkeeper for $35 just a moment before a representative of Mr. Morgan arrived to rescue it. To all of fers of this representtive the purchaser remained deaf, persisting that he was "going to have Mri Morgan behind the bar to tone up the place." Consequently his customers can meet the financier face to face in future as they absorb their liquid nourishment. ; , , ; KNOW NOTHING OF SIMPKINS. ' L-EWISTON, Iilaho,' Oct. 12. So far as can be learned at the present time there is no truth in the report that Jack Simpkins' body has been found near Pierce City, Idaho. " Telephone ' teports today brought out the fact that nothing is known there pf.the reported discovery of Simpkins' body. It is believed pos sible that it may have been found in the extreme northern end of the Shoshone alley, in which event news would reach Joeur d'Alene first. 1 The story is be lieved to be untrme in Pierce City. FROM ELY TO GOLDFIELD. Tex Rickard Said to Have Interested Eastern Capital in New Project. SALT LAKE, Oct. 12. Tex Rickard has recently been in New York, where he consulted with a number oi financiers and railroad magnates with a view to interesting them in building a new road between Ely and Uoldfield. It is said he met with such success that representa tives of the railroad and of the Guggen heim interests will go to Ely to con sider the proposition thoroughly. It is said, moreover, that the financing of the project is already well under way. The new railroad will put Ely in direct touch with Goldfield and will be 180 miles long. It is estimated that the road can be built at a cost of $1,800,000, or about $10,000 a mile. It is understood tlmt the line will run almost parallel to the sur vey for the proposed Nevada & Utah. The grade along this survey is light and but one range of mountains is encoun tered. This is the Hot Creek range and since it is cut by numerous passes, it will interpose no serious obstacles. jf complete, the road would play an important part in the development of the Goldfield and Ely and tributary mining districts. It would make market able some of the low grade ores that are not now being worked and would give employment to thousands of miners and workmen of all classes. . Traffic arrange ments might be made with the Moffat road, the Western Pacific and the Ne vada Northern, which would give a direct line from Denver to Goldfield. ( i PRISON LABOR TO BUILD ROADS. Illinois May. Embark Extensively Upon That Plan. CinOACO, 111., Oct. 12. Prison labor will, construct, good roads in Ilinois if plans of the supervisors, county commis sioners and county clerks, who are hove attending their 21st annual convention., arc carried out. A new plai, which U receiving serious consideration from highway commissioners, and upon whlji they expect help 'from the legislatur.', is the construction of "good roads" without an increased burden upon the taxpayers, by getting stone and gravel from state prisons solely. To accom plish this the highway commission advo cates the building of small sub-prisoni in various parts of the state to supply the demand. The plan would accom plish wonderful results, according to the chief engineer of the . commission, and cimte a new state Industry. Union labor will probably object to the plan, as it might be constructed n interfering with one of (their branches. . 1 CASTOR I A For Infanti and Children. 1 The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of HATS! HATS!! HATS!!! fUST received a large 'shipment of both large and small J j; J 'hats from the Cast. Our prices are the lowest and right. Remodeling and retrimming of old hats a specialty. . Plumes dyed. Cleaned and Oiled. Lc Palais Royal, Millinery, ' Com. St. STAR THEATRE BUILDING
