THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER I?, 1907.
. THE
MORNING ASTORIAN
Established 1873.
Published Daily Except Monday by
IHE J. S. BELLINGER COMPANY.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
By msJl. per year.....
By carrier, per month.
.$7.00
.60
WEEKLY ASTORIAN.
By mail, per year. In advance,
.$1.90
Rnterea aa econfl-ela matiar July
on!and" Us iot of Con ol March S,
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k.h 4T ba made by post1 .OT
BwJy should t imio2atlj wporwd to Um
office or pubUcattoo.
TELEPHONIC MAIN Mi.
Official ppr of CiatsoT County and
Qm City of Astoria.
WEATHER.
Western Oregon and Washing
tonPartly eloudy; probably oc
casional rain; westerly winds.
Eastern Oregon and Washing
inirton, Idaho Fair.
JUDGE 1ANDIS' "STRAW."
Accordine to President Louis W. Hill
of the Great Northern Railway, the
imposition of the S29.OO0.O00 fine 1m
muI hv .Tmlpp Landis against the
i
Standard Oil Company, was the con
crete expression of popular antipathy
against the "Interests"; that it was
ilia str that broke the camel's
back." etc- etc. We had not looked on
tha subject from Mr. Hill's peculiai
point'of view, but now that he has made
it so plain to us, we hasten to say
that iw do not believe his conclusion
tenable for an instant. Judge Landis
aid not render any such decision against
the Standard Oil people because he
thought it would' be popular; because he
m insnimi with a, desire to mate
himself "sood" with the peple of the
country; because he had "his ear to
the ground' and took bw cue from an
outraged public sense of wrong; because
it conformed to the tenor and tone of
current and accepted estimate of
daring and patent jobbery: He did
what he did as a jurist without. fear
and without reproach, under the law,
at the behest of the people for whom
that law stood and to whom he was
rroonsible: he did it because the
Standard Oil Company had absolutely
failed in the doing of its own duty .to
that people; and if, aa Mr. Hill aays,
"it was the straw that broke the
camel' back," then Judge Landis' duty
baa been better done that we thought.
Mr. Hill, aa a railway president, may
be classed among the "Interests," but
we refuse to place him, as we have
alwavs refuse to nlace his father, In
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that particular category that the Stand
ard Oil stands for; or "where certain
other inimical combines figure; and we
deprecate his voluntarily doing it him
self even in defense of a class-interest;
H is a far-cry from the policy of ex
pansion, of development, of empire-
building, to which James J. Hill has
given the best year of his life (and
which it is presumed bis able son has
adopted along with the mantle flung to
his own young shoulders by that
father), to the incredible system of
conscienceless robbery to which the
giant oil combine descended and chal
lenged such judicial Dunishmemt: We
insist that there are interests, and in
terests; and that some of them are
wholly bad and inedfensibly rotten;
and we further insist that President
Hill and the base nropertiea he renre
cents, have no place in the estimates
reached by Judge) Landis and the people
at large; and, we again, and still in
sist, that the great fine is no sort of
"straw" until it is paid into the federal
treasury.
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OVER THE "OREGON'S" PATH,
Sixteen Icr.llv ftahtine-machines.
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armed, equipped, officered and manned
to perfection, and representing the
power and place of this nation on the
nigh-seaa of the earth, are, an thus
writing, swinging their imperious flight
down the Florida coast and will soon be
on thq path of the famous old "Oregon"
from the Atlantic- to the Pacific, and,
incidentally, to Astoria nd Portland.
,Tha Eastern contingent lias civen them
a superb send-off, and will watch their
progress with devoted intensity, while
. we of the west will, with alert anxietv.
scan the passage to its end. And we
must be prepared to give them a wel
come , equalling, - and surpassing, the
pride that characterized their farewell
on the Lome station.
It lety be an epoch on this coast that
may not bo passed over liahtlv: ami it
will serve immensely to brighten and
: signalize the customary inertia of the
"Presidential flection year.". The eyes
of all nations are. centered on this dem
onstration, and in the main, with friend
ly hope for its complete success. But
in this broad land there is not a loyal
W ,Trwm tint thrill with' pride
and Riger interest in the history-making
cruise that is to advise the world that
ara shoulder to shoulder with, the
modern best of its peoples ' both Hi
peace and war.
In from KW to 120 days, we, or the
Pacific, will be craning neck and eye
along the coast-line to catch the first
srlimnse of the beautiful white array
that mean so much to us all; and once
they are with us, in our very midst, we ! turn of the plunge is reached, and It
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ore likely to oreaK toos ami uu nnils iiaeii lmprisuwu iu me ui, m
some stunts in the line or welcome fM.ae blocked everywhere by the in
only
v Honey deposited fat the
SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN SAVINGS
BANK
can be withdrawn at any time; if left
on time, interest will be allowed accord
ing to our rules. Come in and ask
about it
If you want to buy a draft, borrow
' some money, or transact any other busi
ness in the banking line, our best service
are at your command.
SHERIFFS REPORT ON TAXES.
Nltirltr IVnuerov. whit hna liven with
holding his report on tho collection of
taxes, until after the holidays, 1ms
finally made it as follows 1
Amount of tax roll.. 1, ......
Amount of sheriff's nance
went , .................
Amount uf peualty and In
tvrcxt . . . ...
C F. Hendrlcksen
Dr. Henry W. Cee
Erick Maunula
Gust Holmes
Andrew Young .
Aug. Danielsoa
John Mattson
C. O. Palmberg
J. M. Anderson
. . W71.731.32
Paid treasurer ....... .1. 5!Ul,(M3.8o
Three per een rebate. . . . . .... 0,0SD,83
Hrror, double 'assessments.
etc.... ... 403.80
lVlim.iioitt Mild unpaid.., 3.204.3S
In MiimtariiHm with the rroort of lat
yr, it will I woted that for htA year
the dvllmiuriutiee amounted to $3732.13,
wltile'.tnte year ey only amount 10
$:eM.:S8, ttkhouKh the tax roll la nearly
lM),m) liigher- than last year,
l Hying start, but flov to its tremendous
leap as quietly as any other unsuspicl
ous untrapped thing might approach I
pitfall. But once launched on its do.vn
ward course, it becomes m subterranean
cataract of more than twice Xiagara
height. It is no wonder that the air,
cainiht in millions of minute bubbles
from the lips of special feedpipes which
touch the flowing stream at the top of
its leap, is helpless to cape till the bot
unheard of even in this land of per
petual welcome. '
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TOMORROW'S BANQUET.
Tomorrow night -will witness the in
augural of the series of public dinners
to be gtoon in the future by the Astoria
Chamber of Commerce, and it should be
made so decidedly interesting and pro
lific of result that its successors will
be looked for eagerly, as the newest
and best medium for the expression of
the civic needs and advan'ages.
There will be plenty of intellectual
fodder as well as the viands that serve
the inner man and lend aest to the
quality and tone of discussion. There
should be no limitations act on 'the
range of suggestion and argument of
th hour, exceot the hours themselvs;
and our citizens and their guests should
realises the scope of the occasion ana
moka their several plays to fit and coin
cide, as to subject, and treatment, and
time, no aa to tret as much of value ana
interaat: in tM ion as OOSsible. We
ho, it will be a. "red-letter" nicht in
the annals of the Astoria Chamber of
Commerce and the interests it stands
for.
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ASTORIA'S NORMAL GOOD SENSE.
lYesterdajr morning at the banking
hour in this city there was absolutely
nothing to indicate that the people had
any sort of misgivings about tneir
banks: there were no crowds nor lines
nor nnnarent siims of any nature be
I I c w .
yond the normal attention to current
business in the local banking field; and
it is a tribute to the practical good
sense of the people of Astoria, lhe city
is manifestly glad of its own command
of a disagreeable situation so manuesi
in every hour of the eight weeks it has
lasted and especially at the crucial hour
of resumption; it speaks volumnes for
the business acumen that pervades that
whole community and will prove a huge
asset in tha clearing up of a season 01
public disquiet. ;
Tt i but another lesson in tne scnooi
of axnerience and a rare one in its un
usual expression. It will pay handsome
ly in tne long run and contnoutes
mightily to the" credit of thefcity and
itg people, in more ways than one.
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TRICKING THE AIR INTO SERVICE.
vincible wnter, and its freedom
purchasable in exchange for the energy
i fall has developed;
President Roosevelt and his cabinet
are said to be in perfect harmony. In
the event of a disturbance would it be
proper to classify it as a tennis racket?
New Route Eaat
The new Canadian Pacific Spokane
route ia the abort line between Portland
ami St. Paul.' Their time the fastest.
The line ia equipped with the finest
dining, sleeping and observation ears in
the world, being the latest design of (he
car builder. It ia to the Interest of
the traveling public to investigate this
service. Through tickeU from Astoria.
Local office, 377 Commercial street.
COFFEE
Schilling's Best is a business-like
name; you know
what it means; and' it
means what you want
Your fioctr returns roar aioncy If 70a doo'l
Uk It; w par him. f
In a mountain side in northern Michi
gan there is a hole that strikes down into
the ground some three hundred and fifty
feet, for the purpose of entrapping a
river and compelling it to do a Strang
new thing, to writes H. G. Hunting in
the Technical World Magazine for Jan-
nary. '
In an underground chamber at the bot
tom of this hole, the plunging water once
caught is held up and robbed of a very
precious possession 'which it is trieked
into bringing down with it, and which
oddly enough becomes more precious the
father down from the surface it is car
ried. For the treasure is air, which be
comes compressed air, as she river carries
it, down into the -underground chamber,
and when it is released in the rocky cav
ern, cut in the solid heart of the moun
tain for its purpose, it is under such
a pressure that it is ready and eager to
act, and so is vry valuable indeed for
power in the neighboring mines.
The jump which the river makes is not
at all spectacular, because it is all hidden
inside of. great steel tubes, five feet in
diameter and, to be exact, three hundred
and forty feet long. It does not make
No Student No Cocaine, No Gat.
fill
World
Wo will forfeit $1000 to any char
itable institution for any Dentist who
eaa eompeta with ns in crown and
bridge work, or teeth without plates.
Pay no fancy fees until yon have eon
suited us. Our continued success In
our many offices ia due to the uni
form hlfh-orada work dona br Tears
of anarianeait onerators. The Driest
epoUd below are absolutely the best
opportunity to get your money
worth which has ever been offend.
We ns nothing but tha beat ma
terials, -
Beat SUm Tillingi 50c
Platinum nuisgi ...txo
Gold h Platlnnm Alloy Piniap.l1.a5
Gold niinga. , .mo to Is-oo
& 8. White Layon Crown m
Cold Crnwna. haat 12k- extra
henry ...oo
Bdagewonc, per tootn, neat woix..V5
Beit Robber Plate, & & wbito
teeth . f&oo
A Inmtnttm-llnaA Plata tin fa fit
A binding guarantee given with all
wont lor iv jean.
VEGETABLE VAPOR
Used only by ns for Palnleaa Extrac
tinn of teath. coe.
Read What Mrs, Jessie Level Say.
I had 12 teeth extracted by the net
of Vmtablii Vanor. ahanlntalv nam
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lest the most pleating effect and
higniy recommend tne metnoo. xonrt
truly.
MRS. JESSIE LEVEL.
Lafayette, Oregon.
NERVOUS PEOPLE.
Anil tiinaa afflicted with heart weak
nets can have their teeth extracted
and .filled without the least pain
wbatow.
Chicago Dental Parlors
Northwest Cor. Commercial and nth.
, t Phone Main 3901.
The largest and best-equipped Den
tal establishment in the Northwest.
Seventeen offices In the United States
LADY IN ATTENDANCE.
See that you are In the right office.
1270,753.73
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MUMM'
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The Store Jw Ladles'
forWomenHKb HiVE0tfltters
Ladies' and Children Long
Coats Greatly Reduced
The days of profit sscrilUdug have in the women'! Coat
Motion. MilU U havo. enjoyed an trdlnanr trad. In this
department, we And ourselves with umre coats than we need at
th a time, la order to turn t!.ee coals into cash as quickly aj
possible we have decided to cut prion as they have never been cut
before. AH Idea of profit eliminated and In many .saes we
are willing to take less than the actual manufacturer's coat dur
ing tl.lt X You know that for styin lit and general gneas
there are no women's coats hereabouts to compare with ours.
Whether you buy one for a ChrWmas gift fWf"V
all means buy. Not woman who read this advertisement can
nffoM to mlsa the bargain. Hundreds of them ! every
Wanted color and atyle. Prices range from f.5.00 to i0.00.
The big store in the middle of the block
Due from stockhoklorsou
paid subscription .....
Expense . . ..............
Cash iu Imiik,
Capitol stock
Surplus fund .
Profit. .....
Deposit's . . ...
Liabilities.
. 10.530.00 I
. 1,042.30
,. ll.071.0t! X
t72.M9.08
IX
...... 30,000.00 :t
5.000.00 X
231.55 it
17,303.13
1
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172.530.08 !
NEW SUGAR REFINERY.
SAY FRAWJSOO. Dec. II. A local X
firm has, it is said, contracted for the'T
. ...... - . L . rr t..l.. miu,.il.
rntirts output of the Honolulu Plantation !
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Now is the time to subscribe for .
the 1908 Magazines.
There is no nicer Xmas present for all ages than a
subscription to one or more of the late magazines.
Come in and look over the clubs and decide
. for yourself. '
Company which is in the neighborhood f
01 mi,khj ion piT jrar ot ury (jmnu
luted cane sugar and involve an invest
ment of about $3,000,000. This sugar
will be refined at the Honolulu Cora
nanv's new iilnnt which has recently
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been erected at a cost of more than tl,-
ow,uw. Aa there are only two cane
sugar refineries on the Pacifio Coast and
they have heretofore enjoyed the whole
trade, this put another cane sugar com
pany competitor on the market.
E. A. HIGOINS CO.,
MD8IO 1IOOK8 8TATIONF.U Y
lls)M
Read the Morning Astorlan.
Danger In Aakbif Advice.
"When you have a cough or cold do
not ak torn one what is good for it,
a, there is danger In taking some un
known preparation. Foley'a Honey and
Tar ourea cough, cokls, and prevents
pneumonia. The genuine it in a yellow
package. Refuse substitutes. T. F.
Laurin, Owl Drug Store.
Notice to Our Customer
w. .r. nlrased to anuouno that
Foley' Honey and Tar for eougha, cold
aid lung trouble is not anecwa oy w
vtlnnl Pur Food and Drug law as H
contains no opiate or other harmful
drugs, and we recommena i
remedy for children and adult. Bold
by T. F. Laurlo. owl yrug otor.
BROWN'S TALK
Well, I've got everything ready for a Merry Christ
mas at my store, Santa Claus is here and I want every child
in the dty to come here alone or with their parents and be
one of us this week. You won't be in the way; I am here
to sell shoes, but that isn't all. I want to make more friends
than any man on this coast, and if I can win the little folks'
hearts I'll feel pretty chesty. x'Terry" is here, the pet of the
herd of calves, whose little hides are used for your shoes.
Come and see him in my windowhe's a dandy.
To those who are undecided what to give, my shoes
and slippers offer most timely and valuable suggestions. What
could be more practical, more welcome or more appropriate ?
Dealing exclusively in this line I feel justified in saying
with pardonable pride, I lead the Pacific Coast in Quality, As
sortment and Values.
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Shoes and Slippers
50c to $7.00
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1 ; ,TH FAMILY . SHOE MAN
Brown
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