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THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1907. THE ASTORIAN Established 1873. Published -Datty Except Monday by THE J. S. BELLINGER COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By aull. par year.... IT By carrier, per month -00 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance. . .$1-00 - ....... mttr J ulT , 1, at tb Hnve at A''"''? ixm, uauor uiv uui - 1879 KT-Onhn tor rtw dellwnn ofTst Moss bwlMt r be ma by P01 " through telo.lwoe. Any Irregularity to a IKSry hould be Inunedlatelj reported to t)M office otpabUeatioo. TELEPHONE MAIN 66t. Official naner of ClW County and the City of Astoria. WEATHER. Western Oregon and "Washing tonBain; high southerly winds; interior southerly winds; gales along coast. Eastern Oregon, Washington, Idaho Rain; high southerly winds. Now is the time to Deposit Money in the ; Scandinavian-American Savings Bank to Draw Six Months' Interest July 1, 1908 J. M. ANDERSON, Cashier I NEEDS ITS FRIENDS. There is not a man within living touch of the vast Columbia basin who can afford for an instant to lose interest in the great convention now on at Wash ington under the organic name and style of the National Rivers t Harbors Con gress; and if his interest has not yet been awakened, then it is his duty to his section and his country to get in and study tie program and work of this great assembly of men banded for salva tion of the people from the tremendous and predatory exactions of the affiliated railway interests of the America. Nothing in the way of popular exploi tation has ever approached the scope and significance of this enormous effort and it is sure to make history of incalculable value before the hour arrive for its dissolution. It'a cardinal object is to secure from the Congress of the country, m omnibus appropriation of $500,000,000 to be devoted; exclusively and entirely, at the rate of $50,000,000 a year, to the radical and permanent improvement of the waterways of the United States, in all the fulness, and detail of such a magnificent scheme; a project absolutely without parallel in the records of human ambition. It is so immense in all its bearings that it places every agency it touches profoundly on guard against the chaiice of error and fraud and invokes the largest possible consideration from both its friends and opponents. What Congress will do with the great petitions remains to be seen, but there are eome minds in that assembly that know the concrete aptitude of the huge plan and its uttermost value to the nation at large and who will do their beet to secure the allotment of this huge sum; but there are others (and notable among them, the Speaker of the House of Representatives), who are pre-disposed against the measure and will do what they may toward its de feat. Tet the project will never be kill ed; it will live on and on, and the years will bolster it with larger and graver reasons for its final success as time passes. It is really a living issue, with its final success at time passes. It is really a living issues, with a vitality so immeasurable as to practically defy final annihilation. Naturally, the greater waterways of the country will receive the earliest and deepest consideration and treatment at the hands of the Congressional trustees who shall have control of this appropria tion and the Columbia river and its great tributaries will figure conspicuously in the ileal that contemplates tine full equip ment of these channels of commerce throughout the national domain, and we should be ever and always on the alert to back up this mighty work for the sake of all it means to us of the North west as well as to the whole people. Everything that is done throughout this territory in connection with the Columbia or any of -the rivers that de bouch into it, must be done with an ays single to the ultimate prospects and pur poses of this quasi-public Congress whose 2000 members are bent unifiedly and de voutedly to the redemption and utiliza tion of the waterways of America in order to strike, and hold, a balance, as against the blasting supremacy of the rail trans portation systems that are fast engulf ing the people and their commerce in a mesh of . miserable dependence and despotic extortion. RESUMPTION. Governor Chamberlain has announced his intention of putting an eud to the legal holidays at midnight tn Saturday, December 14th, one week from today i and the whole state will feel better for the order. It has never looked upon the ue of the statutory holidays a any thing more than expedient, and an in determinate means of relief; and they had run to a point that barely left them the right to such designation. The people were beginning to feel that if the banks of the state could not re cover their footing in five or six weeks; there must indeed be something very radically wrong; and while this was practically unexpressed it was fast orniing into a flat and fiat opinion and must have found voice very soon. Astoria has never been possessed of any pronounced fear, nor of an uneasi ness that warranted very much expres sion, as to hep own banks; they have been admittedly sound all through the 'flurry" and have taken very con servative stand in their dealings with their patrons. This city has simply bided ts time, and it is glad to know the time limit Business is on a fair footing here, and while there has been a slight reaction in some of the local industries, there has not been enough of a dubious nature to produce general depression to any de gree whatever. On the other hand this community is in an equable and recep tive condition and her finances are so ample and well-poised as to the volumne of business underway and in prospect, as to establish the widest possible de gree of confidence here when the legal safe-guard shall be removed. Astoria is all right and probably no city in the state will be as glad to see the hour of resumption and freedom as she, will; certainly no other is in better condi tion to meet it. WATERWAY SALVATION. The American Tobacco Company is said to secretly control a large number of the supposedly Independent concerns. There is a modest, struggling, and wholly deserving institution in this city that needs all its friends and the best expression of their good-will. It is the Astoria Seamen's Friend Society, located on xcbange street mwway pet-ween Eleventh and Twelfth. The establishment is now comfort ably housed and is in possession 01 a number of attributes that begin to make it what its founders intend it to be; but ft still needs the constant interest of everyone whose sympathies lie with such an agency for good and with those in whose especial behalf it is maintained. This is a seaport of recognized standing the world over and should possess one among the best of such institutions as this and it is, or should be, as much a matter of local pride as of achieving the particular end! devised for it. The Rev. Mr. Ellefsen and his good wife, who are in immediate charge of the benefice, are doing all in their power to carry on the work successfully and it has grown notably under their admin istration both in a business and an ethical way; but, like all eleemosynary affairs at their initial stages, this one can stand a very definite amount of practical help and it should be promptly and generously, for the good of a good cause and the name of a port that owes much to the men it is designed to relieve and comfort. : WASHINGTON LETTER Secretary Taft Plotted Against at Home and Abroad. FULTON KICKS POLITICALSHIN Senior Senator From Oregon Doing the Anvil Chorus Business to Bourne's Political Aspirations Foraker"! Friends Take Advantage of Taft WASHINGTON. Dec. 0,-Poor Secre tary Taft! While parties of merry Rus sian revolutionists are plottng to blow up the Secretary of War and his party during their journey toward St. l'eters- burg, Senator Foraker at home finally has touched off a mine that may yet top ple the cabinet officer's ' political boom. Senator Foraker's announcement to the country that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for President, while not altogether a surprise, scarcely was expected at this time. It probably never would have been made bad H not been for Secretary Taffs absence. The hour was ripe for such action, and al though the Foraker boom may suffer from premature launching, the end the senior Senator from Ohio bad in view will have been materially advanced. On ly the most sanguine and optimistic of Senator Foraker's friends believe that he has any chance of getting the nomina tion. It is well known that his chief am bition is to demoralize the Taft forces, splitting the State delegation and mak ing it practically impossible for Presi dent Roosevelt to unload the Secretary of War on the country as his successor. From now on the fight in Ohio will lie watdied with much interest, and there is no doubt that it will he a bitter one. RHPORT OF TITO CONDITION OF TUB Astoria Natioual Bank at AitwU, In the State of Oregon, at the close of business, December 3, UH7. UKSWUCES. ' Umiw ami dieuitU . , .(M28.21120 Owrdratt, secured and tin- 1 secured 8,501.00 V, S, bond to secure circula tion 17.500.00 U. iS, lunula to secure U. 8. ' deposits OD.tKHUH) Premium on V. S, bond.,,, 2.88.00 IUmhIh. securities, t tU.147.4ri Hanking house, furniture, ami fixture . 4,340.75 Oilier real estate owned.,.,.. 8,23141 Due from National Dank (not reserve agent) 1 8,157.03 Due from State llank and Hankers 17,22000 lue from approved reserve agent 150,310.50 Checks and other caedi Items. . 2,847.82 Clearing mme certillonte..,. tt.tW0.00 Not of other National llnuk 885.00 Fractional paper currency, . nickels, ami cent 1,230.27 Uw-ful Money Reserve In Rank, vlsi Specie $132,583 Ugltnder note,) 17.000 140,048.00 Redemption fund with U. s. Treasurer (3 per cent circu lation) .... 875.00 Total . t13,300.17 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid In I 50,000100 Surplus fuud 50.000.00 Uudtvitted prollt. less ex pense and taxes paid...... 13,338.5 National Hank notes out standing 17.300.00 I Hie to Mate liaitK ana Hankers 2.277.4! Duo to approved reserve aeenU 000.30 Individual deposit subject to , check m2U0.70 Demand certificates of de posit 58,tM0.75 Time certificate of de posit $330,000.34 Certilled checks ... 180.00 U. S. deposit 50,000.00 777,300.70 Total ....$013,500.17 State vf Oregon, County of Clatsop. ss. I, J. K. Uiggin. Cashier of the above named bonk, do solemnly swear that the above statement I true to the best of my knowledge and belief. 1 1 j. t. iuih.i.n.- Cashier. Subscribed and wrn to before me thi 8th day of Dei-ember. 1907. OF.O. C. FULTON. Notary Public. Correct Attest: iW. If. GKOROE. tSHORUK W. WARREN, L. MANSL'R. Directors. announce any more of the important committees of the house until the latter end of next week. Senator Fulton of Oregon reached Washington this week and at once pro ceeded to administer a brisk kick in the shin to the campaign of his colleague, Senator Bourne, who is working over time in an effort to prepare a Roosevelt stampede in the Republican national con vention. Senator Fulton declared that the people of Oregon are taking Mr. Roosevelt at his word when he says he will not run again, and that they are in favor of Secretary Taft for the nomina tion. He believes that the Secretary of War will get the solid Oregon (Delegation, despite Senator Bourne's "second election term" campaign. Senator Fulton is in favor of legislation in the coming session that will provide a more elastic currency. He attributes the recent financial flurry to stock gambling, and to curb this h would have placed a heavy tax on con tracts made on marvins. In fact, he is considering the introduction of a bill bringing this about. COFFEE The world is full of anonymous coffee : "Java and Mocha." Who returns your money if you don't like 'em? Tear fiaf return 1 mr ssonsr if rw sears' Mb febOUaf 's Best; w r Slav As was predicted, John Sharp Will iams had no opposition whatever in his candidacy for reelection as leader of the minority party in the House. At the last, moment Congressman De Armon.1 of Missouri, who had been widely spoken of as a dangerous candidate for the pos ltion, announced his determination not to enter the race. It is understood un officially that this withdrawal, coupled with the knowledge tlliat this was Mr. Williams' last term in the House, was partly the result of a political deal. Mr.iWIlliamB' public announcement that he will support Eryan for the President ial nomination also had much to do with the withdrawal of other candidates. Have you ordered the Morning Astor- mn delivered at your door! WILL NOT ANNOUNCE. WASHINGTON, D. C. Doe. 0. There excellent authority for stating that it is not likely that Speaker Cannon will For Ecxenu, Tetter and Salt Rheum. The intense itching characteristic of these ailments is almost instantly allay ed by Chamberlain's Salve. Many severe cases have been cured by it. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. FRENCH RACE WINNINGS. NEW YORK, Dec. 0. Announcement of the winnings on the French tun" dur ing the season lust closed show that W. K. Vanderbilt, who headed the list "last year, ranks sixth this year. The largest winner was M. CaMalt with $124,000 while Mr, Vanderbilt' total winners were $05,725. It is better to cure the little cough than to take chances of consumption. The best cough cure Is Kemp's Balsam, Druttrfsts sell it at 23 cents and 50 cents a bottle. IRISH JURY DISAGREES. DUBLIN, Dec. 0. The jury before which James P. Farrell, Irish Nationalist member of parliament, for North Long ford, and 40 other men were being tried on charges of taking part In an unlaw ful assembly likely to cause a riot, has disagreed. Lane's Family Medicine will give you a digestion that will permit you to eat good things instead of "health foods" of various sorts that are as palatable as hay. 1 DIES FROM INJURIES. BOSTON, Dec. 6. Edward Cohen, of Lynn, the man who was shot by John 3teel, an Insane person, in the ante room of. the Governor's office yesterday, died late this afternoon. Holiday Greeting. The happy CHRISTMAS time it fut approaching and I Ukt great pleasure in Inviting you to Inspect my new and well islected llns of Diamond, Watches, Clock, Jewelry, Solid Silver and plaUd ware, Out Glat, Uiiibrillm, and Gold and Silver novelties, I have the largest and finest it 00k this year to select from that I Lavs vr shown In Atoila. TRICKS it RlQIITi QUALITY UNSUR PA8SKD. Coma early and mks your ulvctloni. I will lay them way until you want them. J. H. SEYMOUR the Stor of Qualty. 468 CommsrcUl St., Astoria, Ort. ' M M THE TRENTON 1 Constipation, or irregularity, is very often the caue of slck-headaohe. Lane's Family Medicine is the great preventive and cure of headache. Druggists sell it for 25 cents. PERS..., ... ' John Gertully, of Blind Slough, was in Aartoria yesterday. t ' - Fim-Class Liquors and Cigars 60a Cemnwrda Stmt const ComnureUI sad 14th. ASTORIA. OREGON t t'HMIHHtMl IMIMIIMMMMMMIMMUIMMIMIM. That Dinner, WILL NOT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT SOME OF OUR SELECT TABLE WINES A PARTIAL LIST TO CHOOSE FROM. SWEEa WINES , Sparkling Sec Dry-Fragrant, sffsf Old PortTawny, rich, light and veaoeot. color. RED WINES Old Sherry Pals, clean, nutty. Zlnfaodel-Cleen. light tails wine. AnteUca-Boft, agreeable, fulL Muicatel-Very fruity, sweet. WHITE WINES Burgundy Medium bodied, msllow. Sparkling Burgundy-Brilliant, pleas ant RJesllng-Medlum light table wine. Grape Juice, Maraschino cherries, fruit Sauterae Natural mellow, pronounced and Oognae Brandies, and 4 tvH 1. . llns of Cordials. Chateau Yquem-Full bodied Creme 0' Sauternes. PHONE 1881 PROMPT DELIVERY AMERICAN IMPORTING CO. 589 Commercial Street1, " Q. A. BOWLBY, Presidsat. fRANK PATTON, Ossaisr. 1. I PETERSON, Vlos-Presideni J. W, GARNER, A Mutant Ceealet. Astoria Savings Bank Capital Paia in natjm, surplus and DnaivldMl mBI l,o Transaet a OenwraJ Banking BoiUmu, Inter! Paid 00 Tim Uiwslta FOUR PER CENT FEB ANNUM Eleventh tad Dun streets. ASTORIA, eiXOOI. First National Bank of Astoria, Ore ESTABLISHED 18MO. Capital $100,000 THE GEM ASTORIA C. F. WISE. Prop. Choice Wins, Liquors Merchants Latch 9tm ' ' 1 ad Cigars n:jo. nut njof js. Hot Lunch at all Honrs sj Csati Comsr Ilusntb sod ConmorcUl OREGON Sherman Transfer Co. ...t HENRY SHEB HAN, Manager Hack, Carriages Bgyg Checked andTransferred Trucks tad Fundi xre Wsgons-Plano Mored, Boxed and Shipped. 433Commerdal Street Kali PhOM tsi JOHN FOX, Pres. F. L, BISHOP, See. ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK. Tree. NELWW TPHVWD VU.s-. --.1 0..-1 im Mil oupb 1 ASTORIAniRON WORKS S7!7:;''' DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF THE LATEST IMPROVES .... Canning Machinery, MarineEngines and Boilers COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS FURNISHED, Correspondence Solicited. Foot of Fourth Street '