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THE MORNING ASTOKIAN, ASTOIU OREGON. Thursday, jawuary a, .907. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING, HELP WANTED. WANTED A BOY TO LEARN THE printing business. Apply Morning 'Jatorian. HOtf. 'A BRIGHT, INTELLIGENT YOUNG man who desire to learn the veteri nary profession wanted for work in veterinary hospital Cooper's, 20 Mont gomery street, San Francisco, Cal. 14 6t SITUATIONS WANTED. WANTED BY MAN AND WIFE, POSI tion in logging eompj woman to cook experienced. Mrs. Hall. Bay City House. Tenth street. l-H-St. FOR SALE. FOR SALE ONE SIX-POCKET POOL table and one billiard table. tApply to X. A. Abbott, Warrenton, administrator of H. J. Abbott. l-UCt. PROFESSIONAL CARD. ' ATTORHEYS-AT-LAW CHARLES H. ABEHCROMBIE Attorney-at-Law BUSINESS DIRECTORY. RESTAURANTS. City AUorneq Officer City Hall JOHN C. McCUE, Attorney-AMtaw. Deputy District Attorney. Pag Building, 8u!U . FOR SALE A DE LAVEL BABY No. 2 Separator; for particulars apply to J. W. Walllngford, Warrenton. l-a iu TOR SALE A RANCH OF 80 ACRES; -room house; good outside buildings, 11 newly painted; 2W (ruit ueee; u head of cattle; one span of young Hares: two lumber -wagons; mowing machine, hay rake, cultivator, plow, har rows. and new separator; will be sold at one-half of their value on account of staving the country. Address, Nel Olson, Oak Point, Wash. I-4-12t TOR SALE THE STOCK AND Fix tures of a general store located a few die from Astoria; very clean stock, tad will invoke about 17000. . Par tfculars at WESTERN REALTY CO. ONE HUNDRED-ROOM HOTEL FOR ale; doing a splendid business; good pportunity for a first-class hotel man. WESTERN REALTY 00. fOS. SALE ONE-QUARTER OR ONE ialf interest in a summer resort hotel doing a fine business; over 100 teoms and always engaged "way ahead. WESTERN REALTY CO. ICR SALE THE FURNITURE OF A large lodging house; rooms always tall; low rent. Western Realty Co. HOWARD M. BROWNILL, """" ' " H. i . , Attorney-At-Law. Office with Mr. J. A. lakia, at X. 40 Commercial St, Astoria. T0KI0 RESTAURANT. 631 Bond Street. Opposite Ross, Higglus & Co, Coffee with Fie or Cake 10 Cts. , FIRST-CLASS MEALS.. Regular Meals 15 Cts. and Up U. S. RESTAURANT. 434 Bond Street Coffee with Pie or Cake 10 Cts. j. First Class Meali is Centa HOTELS. DENTISTS. Db. vaughan, Baptist Pythian Building, Astoria, Oregon. DR. W. & LOGAN DENTIST Commercial St Shanahan Buttdimg OSTEOPATHS. DR. RHODA C HICKS OSTEOPATH Office Hansel. Bid. Phone Black till 17! Commercial St, Astoria, Or MISCELLANEOUS. NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF Stockholders Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Union Fishermen's Co-Operative Packing Com' pany, will be held according to the by laws of said corporation, and at the hall of the Columbia River Fishermen's Protective Union, in Astoria, Oregon, oa Monday, January 27, 1908, at I o'clock p. m. CHARLES WILSON, President Attest: FRANS KANKKONEN, Secretary. NORTHERN HOTEL Astoria's Newest and Beat Hotel. Eleventh and Duane Streets. Rooms, Single or en Suite, Steam Heated, Baths, Running Water in Every Room. Rates, 50c to (1.80; Special by Week. Phone Main SOU. MRS. J. COLLINS, Manage. FOR RENT. MONEY TO LOAN. MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE security at reasonable rates; bonds, ami oitv warrants and other securities bought and sold; sgent State . . . 1 . r j. m Land Board; lor invesimeui, imiut w per cent interest.- Insurance. F. L Dun fear, 207 Astoria Savings Bank Build fag. l-7-30t. PROPOSALS FOR BIDS. WrTTfiE Bids are hereby asked for publishing proceedings of the County Court for the year 1908. Bids to state price per inch or square and style of type- All bids to be filed on or before Feb joary 1, 1908. Court reserving the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the County Court. J. C CLINTON, Ml-7t. County Clerk. NOTICE Bids are hereby asked f on the ledecking, replacing defective piling or ny piling gone, replacing any defective stringers or caps. Also sway braces and proper railing of the Youngs Bay draw bridge. Turnouts to be made when new piles are driven. . Planking to be 3 in. 18 feet long and laid diagonally. Bidders to state amount and dimensions required. All of the present lumber now on said bridge that ' ean be used, to be used. And all lumber that can not be used to be saved and to be taken care of by the Supervisor. Court reserves the right to purchase the material if considered cheaper by the court Work to be done first-class and to be accepted by the county road master. Court reserves the right to reject any r all bids. Bids to be filed with the elerk on or before February 1, 1908. By order of the County Court. J. C. CLINTON, MM8t. County Clerk. LAUNDRIES. THOSE PLEATED BOSOM SHIRTS The kind known by dressy men in the ummer, are difficult articles to launder nicely. Unless you know just how to to it. the front pleats won't iron down smooth, and the shirt front will look anvssy. Our New Press ironer irons them without rolling or stretching. Try It. Troy Laundry, Tenth and Duane. tfsone Main 1991. ' llildefcrand & Gor Our clearing sale runs : the year through. , BARGAINS AT ANY TIME 467 Commercial Street FURNISHED HOUSEKEEPING ROOMS to rent; no children wanted. 330 Utk at. P. E. Ferchen. 12-15-tf. HOUSE MOVERS. rREDRICKSON BROS We make a tpeclalty of house moving, carpenters, xm tractors, general jobbing: prompt at tention to all orders. Corner Tenth and Duane. ; MESSENGER SERVICE. Hasty Messenger Co. 433 Commercial St. NIGHT OS DAY SERVICE. Phone Main 3721. MASSAGING. HOTEL PORTLAND Finest Hotel in the Northwest PORTLAND, ORE. European Plan Only. H. C BOWERS, Manager. MEDICAL. Unprecedented Successes of DR. I!- GEE WO THE GREAT CHINESE DOCTOR Who is known throughout the United Rtate An account of feffals wonderful einre. No poisons or drags used. He guaran tees to cure catarrh, asthma, lung and throat trouble, rheumatism, nervousness, stomach, liver and kidney, female com plaints and all ehronio dieasee. SUCCESSFUL HOME TREATMENT. If you cannot call write for symptom blank and circular, inclosing 4 cent in stamps. THE a GEE WO MEDICINE CO. 1821 First St., Corner Morrison, PORTLAND, OREGON. Please mention the Astorian. Massaging Q? ALL ITS BRANCHES; WARM baths if necessary; thorough eompe-J tency is assured. I MRS. M. HEYN0, 87 W. Bond Street, Astoria. TRANSPORTATION. PAMENGER8. FREIGHT. The K" Une Steamer - Lurline Night Boat for Portland and j Way Landings. j Leaves Astoria daily except Sunday at JP-a Leaves Portland Daily except Sunday : at j a. m. Quick Service Excellent Meals flnnJt Parti. I Landing Astoria Flavel Wharf. Landing Portland Foot Taylor St G. B. BLESSING, Agent Phone Majn 3761. BOAT BUILDER. No Students, No Cocaine, No Gss. We will forfeit $1000 to any char itable institution for any Dentist who can compete with us in crown and bridge work, or teeth without plates. Fay no fancy fees until you have eon suited us. Our continued success in our many offices is due to the uni form high-grade work done by years of experienced operators. The prices quoted below are absolutely the best opportunity to get your money's worth which has ever been offered. We use nothing but the best ma terials. Beat Silver Fillings 500 Platinum Fillings ji.00 Gold ft Platinum Alloy Fillings. i.5 Gold Fillings fi-oo to I5.00 S. S. White Layon Crown I540 Gold Crowns, best sale, extra heavy 9$m Bridgework, per tooth, best work. .I5 Best Rubber Plate, S. S. white teeth t8.oo Aluminum-lined Plate fxo to I15 A binding guarantee given with all work for 10 years. VEGETABLE VAPOR I Used only by us for Painless Extrac tion of teeth, 50c. Read What Mrs. Jessie Level Say. I had 12 teeth extracted by the use of Vegetable Vapor, absolutely pain lessthe most pleasing effect and highly recommend the method. Yours truly. MRS. JESSIE LEVEL. : Lafayette, Oregon. NERVOUS PEOPLE. And those afflicted with heart weak ness can have their teeth extracted and filled without the least pain whatever. Chicago Dental Parlors Northwest Cor. Commercial and nth. 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. T, U Driscoll Boatbuilding and Rf par ing a Specialty. 22 nd t nd Exchange street. Eagle Concert Hall (320 Astor St) Rooms for rent by the day, week, m month. Best rates in town. P. A. PETERSON, Prop. BOWSER THIEF ALARM Prepares His Home For Possible Inroad of a Burglar. IT AROUSES NEIGHBORHOOD. Devlcs, However, Starts Without Any Assistance From a Marauding House breaker Alimony Question Again Comes Up For Disousslon. t Copyright, by Itomor 9irsu.) When Mrs. Ilowser reached homo the other afternoon after thrvo hours of shopping a workman was picking up his tool, and Mr. Bowser had a sat lstled and complacent look ou his face. When asked how long be had been home aud why ho came he replied: "I got here toon after you started downtown. I came home to tnnke tho house safe." "But what Is the matter with the house?" "The matter is that it could have been robin! by day and burglarised by lii I- a TBI DiUNBM HI PELL OVMt A CUAUL night at any time lu tbo lust ten years, and I can outy wonder that it hasn't been done a dozen times over." "But how could It have been?" "During the day you ore upstair, down cellar or downtown half the time, and the cook Is In tho kitchen. Any man c-uu unlock the frout door and help himself. During the night we sleep like two logs, and a wagon could be backed up and our furniture loaded in. I shiver when I think of the risks we have run; but, thank heaven, they are over with uow.w "What have you been doing?" was asked. ' "Making things safe for the future. I have been wanting to do it for a year past, but haven't had the time. It won reading some criminal statistics thlt forenoon that hurried me up. Mrs. Bowser, do you know that WO bouses were burglarized in Uila city In the last year?" "I bad no idea of it." "And that only seventeen burglero were sent to prison?" "I never read those items." "And that It was the fault of tho householders themselves that there was even one burglary?" "How do you mean?" "I mean that If n bonce Is left unde fended like an old shed some one will be tempted to enter. It Is our careless ness that mokes burglars. We virtual ly Invite them to rob us and then de mand that they be sent to prison. If we bad been murdered In our beds at any time, the law should have held the murderer almost blameless." "And you have done something, have you?" asked Mrs. Bowser as she looked around. "I have. I 'have put In a burglar alarm this afternoon. It's a new thing in alarms, and the Inventor wanted me to try It and recommend It. I may buy a share In the patent and go to manu facturing. See that gong on the wall of the hall? Touch door or window after the bouse is shut and that gong sounds like a fire alarm. The burglar doesn't burgle with that thing ringing. He takes a skate." "Well, It may prove to be a good thing." - Felt That They Were 8afe. "It may! Why, it can't help itself I shall go to sleep tonight feeling that we are perfectly safe, and, even bet ter than that, we shan't be making burglars of honest men and sending them' to prison to end their days." After dinner Mr. Bowser furnished tome more statlRtlcs on burglars and robberies. He showed ' that 24,324 houses in the United , States were robbed last year in the daytime. He showed that 32,6-15 were bur glarized at night. " ; He showed that 750,704 others would have been burglarized but for alarms. He showed that while 233 persons were killed by burglnrs who got In, 80,000,000 escaped death by keeping burglars out. . He showed that burglar alarms had a moral Influence on cats. He showed that they brought hus bands home at an early hour. He showed that the cook ought to work for $2 a month less In a house bo defended. ' He showed that loss of sleep by wor rying over possible burglaries cut short the lives of 50,000 people every year In the United States alone. "And there's another thing," he said, after finishing, off bis statistic. "J have'lieuil trotihto, lis yoU Ihow." "Oood lands, but I never heard of Hint!" exclaimed Mrs. Dowser. "LUven't I mentioned It to your Of course not. When' did "yon'M It out?" t HM,,ntha mnil niAittha bata. If f hv not snld anything It la because I dldnt want to worry you. Suppose you hhouUI dig your elbow Into uio at mid ulKht and wuko me up to announce that there wits a burglar lu the bouse." "Yes." j "J should, of course, spring out of IhhI and grapple with hltn. 1 should choke hi in into luseiiNtblllty and then baud htm over to tltu police, llo would be tried and sentenced, but when all was over I should doubtless coltapHo and go (lend. You see, In put ting In this alarm I am preventing that lamentable canualty." It whs conthleutly expected that Mrs. Bowser would nmko objoctlona aud re fer to the Ore escapes Mr. Ilowser bad at times Invested In, but she had uoth- lug of the sort to say. lie purposely gave bur several opportunities aud was siirprlsoil witi-u she refused to take ad vantage of them, tie finally decided that she rcnlUed he bad struck a great thing at IflKt, and he went to bed half an hour ahead of the usual time to en Joy tbo safe ami comfortable feeling of security. He had slept for two hours when lie got that dig of the elbow, and Mrs. ilowser said to him as he sat up In IhhI; "Now, don't get excited and get your heart to fluttering. The old gong Is rltiRlus. n you bear, and that's a sign that the boruuir hasn't got In. Yon might go down and yell at him from the front door and then turn the thing off." The Alarm Worked. 'Didn't I say aodldn't 1 say so?" w!iIhtci1 Mr. ilowser as he pulled 00 his troiiM-tn. "We get the alarm In at 4 o'cIihK and a burglar arrives before midnight aud U scared away by It. Jbigo, but how tho old thing Is hump IngherHolf!" "Don't run any rlnks," "There will be none. The would be burglar U half a mile away by this time and running like a whitehead." Ho went down and opened the front door. No burglur In sight, ne took a look from the back win dows. Nothing lu Might but tbo Bowser eat trying to walk the clothesline. The opening of the door had Increas ed the ringing of the gong by one half. The shutting of It did no good. Mr. Bowser knew just where to turn the ring off, but In the darkness he fell over a chair, and In getting up be knocked a vase over. This confused htm, and he was groping around when Mrs. Bowser called down: ' "Why, In mercy's name, don't you turn that thing off? People are begin ning to atop at flic gate." "Let 'em stop. I'm not going to break my neck In the durk." Not being able to And a match In the darknemi, Im mniie hut way to the door again and opened It. Then that old gong did IniNlness. It had only been loafing nrmiml before. It rang and buzzed and rattled and groaned and grunted. It brought pedetttrlnn down from one street ami up from another. It woke the sleeping Inmutes of teu hotiHPH, nnd It brought heads to win dows and swear words from mild man nered men. It brought a crowd up on tho r.teps and a doxen demands to know what was wrong. "it's my durucdold burglar alnrmr explained Mr. Bowser. The crowd wouldn't believe It. There were half n dozen who declared that be was torturing somebody, and a mi 11 1 1 hoy bad been promised a cent to go for a polh eiuan when one arrived and pushed his way Into the bull. Ills Hint act was to light the gns. Ills sec ond wan to seize the goug nud tear It out by the rood anil throw It outdoors, Then lie turned to Mr. Bowser and said: "I'll be around lifter you early In the morning, old man, and If the judge don't give you rIjc months for this monkey business I'll ent my hut!" ; Tho crowd was driven away aud the door locked, nud Mr. Bowser climbed the stairs, "How ninny people escaped from be ing murdered In their bed last year?" asked Mrs. Bowser. "Nothing from you, madam!" he re plied. "I understand your little game. We will telephone our respective law yers In the morning, aud I'll fight the alimony question clear to the supreme court at Washington!" M. QUAD. Special Reduction l' ON Japanese Goods AT Yokohama Bazar Trouble In the Jungle. "What's the row here?" domanded tho elephant. "The monkey has just given the gi raffe a shave and a hair cut," explain ed the other animals, "The giraffe Is liiHltdiug on having bis neck shaved for nothing, nud the monkey won't stand for it."-Chleago Tribune. All kinds of Japanese f oedi, Including China wares, baskets, silk hiniJkerchJafa, brass warsa, fans, toys, bamboo furni tures, etc, ttc. Soma goods it naif (riot, 620 Comnferclal Street A Fishy Joke. "Pa," said the young fish, "why do we have to wear scales all the time?" "Probably, my son," replied the old fish, "they are Intended to enable us to get away quickIy."-Houston Post. Stomach Trouble Cured. U yon hare any trouble with your stomach you should take Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablet. Mr. J. P. Klote, of Edina, Mo., says: "I have used a great many different medicines for stomach trouble, but find Obamber lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets more beneficial than any other remedy I ever used." 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