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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1908)
THE MORNING ASTORIAN tetablishet tin- Published D Except Monday bj IBB J. S. DELUNGKK COMPAHY. SUBSCRIPTION um Br mail. pr year By earner, per nana.. laitimm WEEKLY ASTORIA. y mafl. per jeu, In uinM..M M m the poaloffloe Aalora,Oiv Iron, undar tbe Mi ot congraM ol Marcb 1, 1S9 - i JJImmm fit TVS MnU imm MS t naa by psata! can! Uwy ahoaM b tmnwdlatolr repone o Ok WOO H IWUBWMMH. t TKUUPHOITI. HAM Mb Official ppr of CUtsop Count and the city 01 utaruL SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK ' HAS MONEY TO LOAN ON GOOD SECURITY WEATHER. Western Oregon and Wash ington Rain and warmer. Eastern Oregon and Wash- j ington, Idaho Kn or snow. THAT 112 MILES OF RIVER. Some day soon Portland shippers will have to come to the mouth of Columbia in self-defense, as against the enormous cost of channelling 11 miles of water that wont stay dredged; and then, perhaps, Astoria will come into her own. PortlandSs loss in such an event would be merely that of prestige. Just why a ship should enter, and cross, a magnificent, fresh water harbor, and tow that extraordinary distance up the Columbia, and the Willamette, with their negligible depths, to an inferior and very restricted river reach, dubbed by sheer courtesy, a "harbor," is looming up as one of the real commercial problems of the Northwest, especially in San Fran cisco, where the wholesalers are livening up to the recovery of the trade they have lost to Portland since the great fire. It is one of those questions that must be answered sooner or later and the response must be very practical and rational to satisfy hard-headed men of business, with wealth and energy to urge their quest for trade. And it is likely that Astoria must make answer on her own account. She will be better able to meet such a demand if she shall have actual status as a port, with a commission eager and able to respond in compen sating terms; therefore, the crying necessity for the Port of Astoria; ample in boundaries, definite in es tablishment, with legal prerogatives, and facilities appropriate to such a status. That this is the one, and only, real available harbor on the Oregon coast, at this time, has been declared over and over again by such unimpeach able authorities as the late Collis P. Hunting; Hon. Harvey W. Scott, editor of the Portland Oregonian; Louis W. Hill, president of the Northern Pacific Railway; and Archi bald A. Schenck, chief engineer of the New York Central lines, who un hesitatingly asserted that "Whoso ever controls the line to the mouth of the Columbia river, will control the transportation problem of the Pacific Northwest!" We all know where this control .lies now and Astoria expects to be drawn into the radius of considera tion and proper treatment by those who "have solved the transportation problem of the Northwest"; else she will have to look in other directions, for new markets and commercial benefices. She does not propose to be bottled up much longer. The cork has been withdrawn by those who paid hugely for the privilege and en terprise, and who must use the tre mendous advantage as nature and reason dictate that use, or some of its quality will be lost to them. . o . SHEER POVERTY UNKNOWN. There is one thing that speaks won derfully well for the City of Astoria, and which is not often enough con- sidered by those who complain of dull times; that is, that there is less of sheer poverty in this community than in any city of the Northwest. This is altogether a working com munity, with but rarely a voluntary idler, and what of this class there may be, sooner or later go up against the mandate of the police court to "move on"; everybody works here about .and if not at their own par ticular trade, then at the next best employment at hand. It is a creditable thing and we tell it because there is no one on the out side familiar with the fact and able to boast of it From Tongue Point to Clatsop Spit there is varied and unremitting employment for all and it is made use sf, until it is practically impossible to find anything approach ing iamily or individual want. Even those, in churches, fraternities and other organizations next and nearest to such conditions when they do exist, have nothing to report in this line, but on the contrary, aver the happier fact set out above. Few towns of 15,000 can boast such immunity. , o WHOLESALE GROCERY NEXT, There is a strong undertone of in tetest manifest hereabout just now in the project to establish a wholesale grocery in this city, to meet not only the local demands for an abatement in rates and prices here, but the posi tive call for such an agency coming uo from the coastwise folk of the south of us. It is understood that several of the leading grocers of this city are amenable to the scheme and will be found at the forefront of the movement when it shall materialize. It should be encouraged on all sides, and no doubt will be; since it will give an independent tone to the trade here and out of here, and con duce to the shipping interests as well. Every such feature reacts potently for all concerned and adds materially to the commercial energy of the place. ' There is nothing to hinder it. We have plenty of wealth, trained exper ience, and all facilities for despatch ing the business; we have the com mon-point rate on such merchandise from the East, and a waiting trade on the outside, only too ready to fall into line with such a departure. As toria 'has extraordinary need of such a business element and from the looks of things is likely to get it before the summer winds begin to blow. o EDITORIAL SALAD Quit Familiar, "Jlmmle," mild the merchant aolcinn ly at the eleventh hour, "we have for gotten to got a fresh supply of stump," And the office boy In bti excitement responded with "GockIucm, air, to we have! If we ain't a couple of blunder headed idlota '"-London Tlt nita. SIMPLE WASH CURES ECZEMA. Itching, Burning Skin Disease Routed Without Use of Injurious Drugs. Great inventors often have been praised for surrendering the secrets of their discoveries. Practically the same thing happening in the medical world in the case of Dr. Decatur D. Dennis, the eminent skin specialist of Chicago, Dr. Dennis, in his own office prac tice, discovered that pure vegetable oil of wintergreen, properly mixed with other simple remedies was prac tically a sure specific for Enema, psoriasis, barber's itch, salt rheum, and other itching skin diseases. But the oil of wintergreen alone was found ineffective. It required other mild in gredients such as glycerine and thy- moil compounded with the winter green to produce the real eczema crue. This compounded D. D. D. Pre scription positively takes awsy the itch at once the instant it is applied to the skin. This vegetable liquid does away with deleterious drugs so long used in an attempt to doctor the Mood, whereas modern science has determined that eczema is first and all the time a skin disease. II you want to know more about the merits of D. D. D. Prescription, call at our store. We vouch for this remedy. Charles Rogers & Son. WONDERFUL BREAD. The Varsalous Narrative of Its Mall Ing, Baking end "ITow did I happen to become a ho tel clertr ropllud the man behind the desk. "Well, It w thl way; 1 uwfl to bo a sailor. That was where 1 Ion rued about whale. lu fact, I w econd mate of the tlrot Irou ship that ever rounded the Horn, bound from Boston to Sau Francisco,5 loaded with Uour, yeimt and suit to furitlli grub the California miner soon after llw civil war. " got around the Horn nil right when we run Into about the worst bit of weather ever brewed on the Ta clue. Iron ships were an exiH'rhvieiit then, aud soon IvhhhI ourselves' In trouble, The fresh water lank sprang a lenk. and the water ran down over the cargo.. To make matter worse, the Uour barrel and bo so of yoast broke loose, ami with the rolling of the ship we soon had it all mixed up to Brother. In other word, the whole ship below deck wa full of .dough that the rolllug of the ship kueatlod JiiNt us a it'iMlur brcmluiaklog machine does out In ,the kllcheu hem AmV It begau to rl.v, "We fastened down the hatches t first, but stmu had to take them oft on the lower docks or the expanding dough would burst, the alilp. And we put oil all steum fur , Sun Francisco, We crowed the equator like a race horse, and there we made our secoud great mistake. The strain on the engines entitled them to break down, so we hud to go at half speed, and we were at a standstill for two whole day right there under n burning sun. The storm we had run out of, aud the weather wa clear and hot. Whew! "Then we got under full steam again and plowed north to the Golden Gate with a dock baud sitting ou the safety valve. Hut we were too late. The tropic sun had baked that shipload of dough Into one huge loaf ot bread How to get It out of the ship wa a question. 'The owners, who were the captain and oue of our passengers, sold the ship Just as she arrived for only half what they bad paid for her new In H tou. But the new owner was a genlu. He put tho hungry miner to work with picks and shovels cutting out the bread and sold It at the rate of It a shovelful. It was the finest bread you or any one else ever ate. "I was out of a Job as second mate. and when I saw what a profit there was In that bread 1 Just naturally weut Into the feeding bustnes myself, and that's bow I became associated with the hotel business. Front! Show this gentleman to the cafe." Portland Ore- ironiia. Open and Ready FOR BUSINESS , With a full line of spring and summer goods. Imported and Domestic Wool, ens in all the latest patterns and effects, A. BACHMEIER The Up-to-date Tailor. M ' STAR TNKATKC ' nUU.IUNO - - - COR, llth AND COMMgKClAL IT Have You Seen The Wash? In Our Hardware Window The Foard & Stokes Hardware Go Incorporated Succeors to JKourd ft Stokes Co. .(.. BOtTLBT, President. X I PETERSON. Vks Prssldeal HANK PATTON, J. VT. GARNET, AisJetaat Caskl. Astoria Savings Bank Tranaaeta a OtoaraJ Backing Huitowa, iahtnal raid m Time Iwpoalu P0UB PERCENT PER ANNUM Cerent and Das we street a. AJTOIXA, 0UC0I First National Bank of Astoria, Ore. KHTAItLlMUKI) lHm, Capital $100,000 Senator Tillman's latest outbreak against the canal bond issue was no surprise, in fact it might safely have been predicted had anybody thought to do so. The Senate has got so accustomed to these affairs, it is said, that this distinguished body cannot sleep unless the South Carolinian is making a noise. Bryan has addressed the Kentucky legislature, deadlocked over the sena torial question, urging fidelity to the tarty machine. Never in his event ful life has Bryan believed more im plicitly on the necessity of the fidelity of every Democrat to the party nomi nee. Fidelity might mean election next falL The Unted States supreme court is not in politics; therefore it could say what it thought about the anti-blacklisting law. We may be short of currency yet. Jbut we are not short of currency bills and currency opinions. Congress is flooded. ' Magoon pretty good sounding name for secretary of war. Not so much of him as of Taft, but more energetic. . STOESSEL COURTMARTIAL. , ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. S.-The sessions of the ' Stoessel court mar tial are nearing their end and Gen erals Stoessel, Fock and Reiss are be ing tiied for the surrender of the Port Arthur fortress to the Japanese. In his summing up yesterday General Gursky, the judge advocate, demand ed that the court impose the death sentence upon Stoessel, Fock and Reiss; upon Stoessel as the respon sible agent for the shameful surren der of the fortress and the cowardly ending of its glorious defense, and upon Fock and Reiss as the men who inspired and abetted him. 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