Sweet Apple Cider
The pure iuice of the apple i '
40 cents the gallon
Guaranteed Pure.
ROSS, HIGGINS & CO.
Tha Leading Qrooart
ffi IllEHf IEE 10
la tM Pollc Court ,
Judge Anderson yesterday lined a
drunk and disorderly 10. One drunk
forfeited bail.
Marriage License
V A marriage license wu issued to
Chai. Kindred and little 0. Dunham by
the county clerk yeiterday. " f V
Paid Out on Warrant!-
City Tr"nu(r Ialcy hat paid out
nearly 14000 since October lit on war
rente Usued against the different fundi.
Finiahed Contract '
Contractor Lebeck finished tbe work
of driving piling at the new wood dock
of the Astoria Electric Co., yesterday.'
Fiihlnj Not to Promising
The good catches of fall flik whleh
were made a few dayi ago have not kept
up and the receipt! of fiu are not as
large ae they were the latter part of
last week. Steelheads have not appeared
aa yet, allverildee being the bulk of the
catches. 'V-,s.v
A Fin Hnm
P. L Dunbar, tx f$ecretary of State,
baa Jut completed the remodeling of
hi resldenc on HarrUon avenue, and
has made some subitanUal improve
ments. He baa also graded tbe lot, and
tbe grounde and dwelling are pretty and
homelike. ,
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Street Work Progressing
Advantage la beity taken of the prei
ent good weather, by tbe street contrao-
ton, and good progress la Icing made on
aeveral contractu, for itreet work. It
la expected that by the end of the week
three blocki of Irving avenue eaat of
Eighteenth itreet will be finiahed.
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BaaebaU Pennant ...
J. D. Allen and Fred J. Brown, yes
terday received four pennant! from Chi
cago which are aouvenlra of the late
series of baaebaU games for tbe cham
piouahip of the world. Two of them are
of tbe Detroit team and two of the Chi
cago team and are highly valued by tbe
recipient. '
Informal Reception by Irving Club
The Climber of Commerce hai receiv
ed a letter' of invitation from' the Irving
Club to attend an informal reception to
be held in the club roonu between 8 and i
U o'clock on the evening of October
23rd. The invitation thus kindly ex
tended by tbe club I to all of the ofllceri
and memben of the Chamber, and to
their wivei and the ladies of their
houaeholdi.
The letter will be read before the next
meeting of the Chamber on Monday
night and it la the Intention of the
Chamber to attend in at large number
aa possible. The hospitality of ' the
Irving Club ia too well known to mean
anything elae than a moat enjoyable
evening. ' ' T" ' ' '
Eepairi Completed
The rcpaira to the iteamer Wenona
were completed yesterday and ahe will
go on her regular run tlila morning, Ceo.
Morton will ship a pony, by thia boat,
to the farm of I. Bergman to remain
during the winter.
Buahing Work on Road
During , the prevent week the grading
of the new road from tbe power house"
to Williamaport, connecting with the old
road, near the city park, will M com
pleted except a (111 at the lower end.
Tbe placing of crushed rock on thia road
will be commenced next week and it ia
tbe Intention to hurry matters ao aa to
have the road completed for use during
the winter months.
Seeking Recruits
Recruit for the new battleship Ne
braska, are being sought for and W. T,
Boyd, chief turret captain, U. 8. N wai
In tbe city yesterday, on that business.
It bad been intended to open a recruit
ing office in Astoria, but finding jtbat
the time in which to secure the men
was too short it was determined to con
tinue the recruiting office, at Portland,
for the present. About 300 men of dif
ferent claaaes will be needed Wore the
veel (An go Into commission. - , '
Dismantling Completed ,
The dismantling of the bark Galena,
which was begun several months ago,
wo i completed yesterday. All the spars,
rigging, etc., have been removed from
the veanel, and are lying at West's, ready
for shipment. The hull remains partially
buried in this sand and nothing further
will be done with it at present. Later
on it will be determined, whether an at
tempt will be made ia float it The work
of dismantling; tbe vessel waa done by
the Paeifle Iron Works, of this fclty.
Preparing School list
; A list of children, eligible for school
attendance, in Astoria, is being made
and will be submitted, by Superintend
ent Clarki to the principals of the
schools, for a report as to absentees.
This is a result of the recent appoint
ment of a truant officer and this official
will enforce the law enacted for com
pulsory education. All children from
6 to 14 years rouet attend school, and all
between tbe ages of 14 and 16 must at
tend school or be at work. Tbe penalty
for violating this law, by parents, Is a
fine ranging from 5 to $25. The, chil
dren, absenting themselves from -school
will also be punished. JT 1
Ice Cream Sherbets
Candies
SOMETHING NICE
THIS SEASON'S COLUMBIA RIVER v
Salmon Tips
. NOW ON SALE AT
Scltolfield Malison & Co.
112 and 120 Twelfth St. N
Phone 1181 Phone 931
1IEID MAKES STATE
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JoIinsonPhonogrnph CoM
Parlors Seoend Floor ovar Soholfield A Mattaon Co.
SENDS OPEN LETTER TO THE
PROMOTION COMMITTEE OF THE
CHAMBER 07 COMMERCE WITH
HIS SIDE OF THE STORY,
"Portland, Or., Oct. 13, 1907,
"The Kditor of the Aatorian.
t "Dear fciri -Your reporter called on
me lat niuht and John II. Wbyte for
the particulars of what transpired at the
meeting last night, but I thought it best
not to make same public until I bad ad
dressed to G. C. Fulton, tbe chairman of
the committee, the incloced letter, which
show! the true position of affairi. ,
I consequently telegraphed you today
to call at the postoilke tonight for tbe
enclosed copy letter wbieh I hope you
will get inserted in tomorrow (Wednes
day's) Astorian. It is tbe only course
to show the people just how the situa
tion stands. My impression ia that the
Northern Pacific wish to oorrall us be
cause an Independent line, in case we
fall into Ilarriman'a hands an absolute
impossibility. Yours faithfully,
WILLIAM REID."
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, , OPEN LETTER.
Portland Ore., Oct, 15, 1907
To G. C Fulton Esq.,
Astoria, Ore.'. .
Dear Sir: Inferring , to your de
cWon yesterday that the Chamber of
Commerce would not aid the Portland
Oregfn k Seacoast Railway Co. to get
any rigbta of way unless on consign
ment toy it to your Committee of $250,
000. and that the Court would not pass
March, or the third Mopday February
March, or the tbird Monday of February
term rather, I have nothing to any. "You
and your Committee have a perfect right
to come to any decision thereon and
whether it binds tbe people of Astoria
or not is nothing to that Railway Com
pany. I told you In 24 hours you would
have the monies for the six miles Rights
of War desired, nothing more do we need
or sak, which you, however, positively
declined or anything less than a $250,
000, deposit for the Chamber of Com
merce. When I asked you courteously
for aa explanation you indiscreetly
vented your ire upon me ty saying that
I bad never built a Railway in Oregon
and whed I did try I got the Road I
had promoted, into debt and caused
their non completion. These rash un
truthful statements coupled with the
wild mode of expressing them has chang
ed the controversy into' a serious per
sonal charge against me which Iannot
allow to pass 'without correcting you,
although one of your best friends on the
train told me it was proverbial of your
nature and to pay no attention to it.
However I am not built that way, es
peciallly when I have the History of
Oregon to refute your erroneous state
ments and to fall back upon. In this
Astoria Road the wish may be father
to your thought that It should not be
built by roe. hence, tbe public mus1. be
apprised of the facts seeing you ud.lod
yesterday you wmld personally fight
me if I endeavored to refuse to comply
with your 250,000, deposit ' require-!
met-an unheard of demand in Railway
ment by the Astoria Columbia River
Railroad now owned by Northern Pacific
Railway Co, and yet I was the greatest
financial loser therein evidenced ty tbe
fact that C- P. Huntington (whose
greatest desire was to enter Astoria
via the Nehalcm) after getting my ex
penditure, $164,000, audited by his offi
cers at Portland, offered me the same
back without Interest at Hotel Portland
in presence of CeneRal T, H. Hubbard,
bis vice-president (alive today )v For
declining this proposition t apprehend
Astoria holds me to blam'but its peo
ple were equally responsible as -its
directon against Senator Pulton's pro
test bad prior thereto declined Ike loan
C. P. Huntington offered to make to the
Astoria 4 South Coast Railway the
money for which lay in Richard Kohler's
hand at Portland for some weeks. What
happened It is needless to narrate..
' In tbe face of these facta you hold
trie responsible, for -non-completion of
that; road and when I endeavor now to
rebuild it after obtaining the necessary
funds to the Nchalem River guaranteed
rrora London and oner to consiini in
bank the necessary money for the 70
acres rights of way now in litigation,
fit value under $1000, .the Chamber de
cline name unless the Los Angeles peo
ple I represent (for I do not own the
Portland-Oregon & Seacoast .Railway)
in addition deposit with you $230,000 in
cash as security for its completion and
tin In tbe knowledge of the law which
allows appropriation by the courta for
any lands condemned for railway pur
poses. . . . . . ,
In conclusion, construction of these 21
miles of railway (with the court's per
mission, I mean), cannot now be stop
ped by any 'one, as you personally will
see the same in running operation before
the 30th of November next year
nolen volene.
Yours respectfully,
WILLIAM REXD.
Note. The above letter failed to
arrive in time for publication yesterday.
Editor.
NEW BOOKS AT THE LIBRARY.
List Of Books Just Received and Listed
' More to Come.
The following 'new books have been
received bv the library: "The Bond
Woman," by Marah Eltfa Ryan; "Satan
Saaderson," bv HalHe Ermine Rives:
"The Weavers," by Gillett Parker; "Chip
of the Flying TJ," by B. Sinclair; "Jerry
Jr," by Jean Wjebster; "Tristran of
HJIent," by Anthony Hope; "The Mys
tics," by Ka Uterine Cecil Thurston; "By
the Light of the Soul," by Mary . Wil
kins Frecnian; "The Brass Bond," by
Louis Joseph Vance; "The Confessions
of a Daddie," by Ellis Parker Butler;
"The Veiled Lady," bv Hopkinson Smith;
"Grandmother," Laura E; Richards; "The
Southerners,' Cyrus Townsend Brady;
"Empire Builders," by Francis Lynde;
A Man' Woman." bv Frank Norria:
"Macia," by Ellen Olaay Kirk; . Tha
Flyers," hy George Barr McCutcheon;
"Needles and Pins, by Justin Huntley
McCarthy; "Caybegan," by James Hop
per; "Cap'n ErL" by Jos. C, Lincoln;
"The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square,"
by Mrs. Harry de la Pastre," Uther1 and
Igraine," by Warrick Deeping; "Web
ster's International Dictionary."
The books are part of the new vol
umes purchased with the appropriation
of $100 ' recently made by the library
board for the purchase of new volumes,
for the library. Quite a, number of
other books will soon arrive ' and be
circle-as a condition for your Chamber j placed on the shelves,
giving us, without reporting to the
Courts, only theix miles of Right of
Way, 70 acres of treeless land without
a trail or access thereto, which we asked
through it, and offered to pay for. '
Here are the facts controverting your
personal allegations that I never built
any compieiea uoaa. juj. jaenery vu
laifl siad of me (as you do now) in 1S30,
that I never could raise money to build
that line from Rays Landing to Spring
field and father he would, as you now
say also, prevent me building it, yet
that line 94 miles in length was built
by me in Iff months, and is there today
except 10 miles from Rays to Woodburn,
the track of which 10 miles he lifted to
prevent competition with River , Boats
after the lease he made at 0 per cent on
Stock and Bonds was repudiated.- Mr.'
Villard seven months before his death
lived to say to me he should not have
opposed same, and when C P. Hunting
ton acquired it the Bondholders got 100
cents ja tne dular tueiefor as per agree;
ment he signed which I can show you,
The West Side Road started by. Joseph
Gaston, which in opposition to Mr, Vil
lard I completed from its present ter
minjs Airlie to Dundee Junction oo
miles, is there now also is it not and in
operation.! The third line I built from
Portland to 'Dundee Junction and to
Willamette River : SO miles in its con
struction was opposed by C. P .Hunting
ton and yet he bought it at 100 cents
on the dollar of Bondholders in 1889
after it was built and it is at foot of
Jefferson Itreet, Portland today ; ia it
not?. Yet. all these three lines were
acuired for cash, face value and interest
to bondholders. ; . , 1
' Now we come to your bitter pill the
Astoria & South Coast. Railway, Asked
to enter this scheme unsolicited on my
part, by D. K.'Warren and your broth
er, Senator Fulton (and no two more
honorable men ever lived), and by Other
Astorians in 1890 after C. P. Hunting
ton had induced me to build It (see' his
letter nowjwith John H. Why te, Esq.),
and after his meeting with me at San
Francisco Cd'd undertake it. While its
construction was never fiuished and was
unfortunate, nevertheless the 15 miles
1iich wtre built and in operation, sub
sequently paved the way for its acquire-
On Tour of Inspection
E. A. Deals, United States weather
forecaster, ia in the city for a few days
on an inspection trip. Yesterday he
looked over the local situation and to
day he will make a trip to Fort Stevens
and tomorrow will go to North Head
and Fort Canby. After his work is
finished in this section he will go from
bene to Aberdeen. His trip here is to
familiarize himself with local conditions
and see if the service can be improved
in any way. He is of the opinion that
thig field is not covered as fully as it
should be and that a regular observer
stationed here the same as formerly in
years past, would improve the service,
also that there should be a change made
at the mouth "of the river. 'When' the
office was established at North , Head
the vessels used the north channel but
now days they use the south channel
and the station is too far away to prop-,
erly report vessels passing in. . ,
Died at Pillar Rock
(Agnes ' Boldfr, infant daughter of -Mr.
and Mrs. John Boldt, died at Pillar
Rock yesterday morning, aged 3 months.
Funeral will be held at Pillar Rock today.
Infant Child Dies
M&rgaret Blessing, infant daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. G, B. Blessing died at the
family residence at 405 Grand avenue,
yesterday. ''
Building Bridge ,
Birch & Jacobsbn are building a bridge
across the lake on the Taylor ranch at
Clatsop plains. The bridge will be1 300
feet long and the work will be hurried
to completion. .
The Same Old Story
"Thorns and Orange Blossoms" held
down the boards at the Astoria Theatr;
last nijrht. It, was the usual two-bit
show fop 75 cents. However, the au
dience had a great deal to be thankful
for as it was better than the "Denver
Express" that dashed through , town
Sunday night. Sousa and his band
played at Aberdeen last night. .
Piano Contest and Dance for Wise Customers
; - at Logan Hall October 3ist,
1 Piano Number with Each $5 PurcLr:
uO geertka KavbolcftKInks,
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Wise Suits and Overcoatc
01O to 035
"Wise" CJothes are not confined to the
whims of one manufactures.
Wise" Clothes are thejesult of the com
bined efforts of several. of the greatest mas
ter Clothes Builders in America..
-Whatever good taste and experience dic
tate is found in the great "WISE" Store.
Vw l1r fAAltiK f TVUa i"l-4TA .'
I
HERMAN. WISB
Behind Each Article Sold in His Store.
8 n O PERSONAL XENTIOIf O U tt
ouuuttttutxttunnnnnttno
T. Alschorn, of TaconlCis in Astoria
and will remain the balance of the
week.-" : ';' '
Chas. F. Gilman, representative of R,
Naason & Co, who has been in the city
for the past few days, left for Portland
last night.
Martin Foard ia in Portland on a few
days' business trip.
C E. Hueston left for Portland, on
last night's train.
Win. Eigner ia in Portland on busi
ness, '. .- ,: r:.;:h1 "' : ';; t.' ;i
Dr. C B. Linton and wife, of Warren-
ton, were, Astoria visitors today.
G. C Fulton transacted legal business
in Catblamet yesterday.
, John McGowan and wife, of McGowan,
were Portland passengers last evening.
J. W. Osness, who is employed by the
Astoria Electric Co., leaves this morn
ing for a four days' trip up the river.
J. F. Morgan leaves this morning for
Goldfield, Nev. ' 1
G. W. Shelby, of Prosper, Ore, is in
this city.
Peter, Pann, of Chicago, is registered
at the Occident
' John A. McKee, of Portland, came in
from that city yesterday. -N
H. M. Bransford, of South Bend, is
in the city for a few days.
Chas. Carlton, of Chicago, te visiting
Astoria. .
Fred Walton, of Chicago, is visiting
Astoria, arriving here yesterday, . !
F. L. Sheehan armed in Astoria yes
terday from Seattle.
Kenneth OTme, 0f Blake-McFall Co,
will leave this morning for a three dayis
trip to Raymond and South Bend.
Manager Elvers, of the Astoria Thea
tre, received a dispatch yesterday that
his father was dying in Utah.
- R. M. Gaston left for Portland OS
last evening's train.
Arthur Smith, of the Palace Restaur
ant, returned yesterday from a abort
trip to Seattle, and reports everything
i;..i . .
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DONE BY DEED.
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Robert W. Wilson and wife to
Caroline Baum, W 1-2 of lot 5, block
4, Grimes Annex to Ocean Grove.., ..$115
F. J. Friedrich to T. C Bell, lots
28 and 27, blocks 7, Meriwether
Downs Addition 109
B. Jay Sloop and wife to K. F.
Johnson, 20 acres in Clatsop County I
vv , F. McGregor and wife to John
Waterhouse, A. M- Smith and John
H. Smith; -W 1-2 of SW 1-4 see 25 '
and N 1-2 of SE 1-4 of sec 26, T 4
N, R 9 W....
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INSURGENTS KILLED.
PEKIN, Oct. 16 The Imperial Chinese;
troops detached from Yang Tse Eiang
valley, Cantonments, because of the anti
missionary outbreak at Nan King Siea
have driven the so-called 1 Nan Boxes
rebels into the mountains on the borders
of Hwang Tung. In an engagement at
Chung Yi the troops killed 70 of the in
surgents. .;.'.':' f,.f'
Bon Ton "SVELL'Tlillinery
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