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SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN
SAVINGS
BANK
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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. .
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. 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. ,
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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.
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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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