The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930, February 21, 1908, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1906.. THE MORNING ASTOR1 AH , AS'J.Olt I A. OREGON. OVER NIAGARA FALLS Fate of a Schooner That Was Used as an Experiment SHE WAS DASHED TO PIECES. A Thrilling Sight from the Tim tht truok tht teething Rapid Until th Mighty Falls Tort Htr Into pllnters A Pair of Tough Qseso. Tbo following story of th flrtt pub lie eicurtlon to Niagara Falls wan written n tbo tlmt bjr an eyewitness: "Too schooner Michigan was tbo . largest vessel on Lake Erie at tlmt urns. She was too largo, In fact, to tutor tbo various harbors on tht lsko. and, being somewhat decayed In hoi uppers, the owner, Major Prater, got tbt Idoa tbst she would snswer th purpose of tutting tbe fate of vessel tbst by accident might approach too near tbe cataract and Also the fate ol living things tbst might be caoght in tbt rapid. The proprietors of the Isrge publlo bouses at tbe falls on both sides of the river and of stages snd ' steamboats undo up purse to pur cbtse th schooner, a war that (bey would be amply repaid by the specta tors that tbe exhibition would attract "For several days previous to tkpt 0, 1828. the day for which tbe affair was died, which was Saturday, tbe stages and cniialboata csme to Buffalo crowded with people. On the ulght of Sept 5 wsgons (tiled with country peoplo rattled through the village In unbroken proceeslou all night long, and 00 the morning of 8pt 0 Buffalo it self seemed to be moving In one mass toward the point of attraction. Five steamboats bad been advertised to leave Buffalo Saturday morning. They were the Ilmry Clay, William Fcnn. Pioneer, Niagara and Chippewa. The Chippewa was appolntod to tow the schooner Mlcblgan to tbe Niagara river. 1 was a passenger on her. "As soon ss w got well under way th seen becsiue Interesting. The oth er four steamers cam plowing along In our wake, crowded to tbe guard with passengers and bands of music playing. Tbe Chippewa towed tbe big schooner to Yale's landing, on tbe Can ada side of the Niagara river, where our passenger went ashore, as did ' thou of th William I'enn, Tbe pas sengers of th Henry Clay And Pio neer landed on the Amerk-sn side. Tale's Landing was three miles above th falls, and th crowds of people wer taken from there on down tbe river In wagons of all kinds. The hour fixed for towing the Michigan from Tele's Landing to th rapids was 3 In the afternoon. "This task, an extremely hatardotis one, was Intrusted to tbe oldest sailor on the lake. Captain Rough With n yswl boat and five sturdy oarsmen tbe old captain got the scboooer under way. They towed her to within a quar ter of a mile of the first railds and within half a mile of the tremendous precipice Itsolf-a near as they dared approach. They cut the bhi vessel mill ft. and she ptissed mnjimtlcally on, while the oarsmen of the yawl bad to bond their every nerv and muscle to remove tbemsulves from th peril of being drawn down by tbo rushing wa ters. ' Indeed, such bad been the fear and apprehension of th men that they mnttnlwl aarslnst Captain Rough and y""t"i"i i Ffieumatism ! Diabetes, i Kidney Diseases, I Bladder Troubles, ; Liver Complaint. 1 : Indigestion; I Constipation, all other diseases arista from kidney and bladder troubles oaa be ruieuy, pennueauji aaa ABSOLUTELY CURED X Every- sufferer from say of tfcrmf Xi j i i i . , . . e yiwi uuesMt soouu an m oaesf Xof tit greatest euro known to awd-X TWS COMBO. , HARRIGTON'S TABLETS sj endorsed nj physleleM tvery-I Twhere. They will ear tbmssad f they will SURELY CUIUS TOV. i Send 25 cents Today. for Ubersi box of these tablet. Ii the do not eura you we will refaadf your money. , , 4 rw u coupons and ead H io teX -r BEKINGTOIf MIDICOTB CO. X Oraaa Raplda, Mica. cut tbe towllne before tne time no had set If they bad obeyed th reck less old captain, be, the yawl and it crew would hnv preceded tlie Michi gan over the full. , "The high grounds on both shores of th river were lined with people as the Michigan, ungulded by human agency, approached, bead on, th first rapid of the seething descent, apparently keep lug tbe very course that a skillful nav igator would bnv guided her in, Th American ensign streamed from ber bowsprit and the British Jack floated at ber stern. The vessel shot tbe first rapid unhurt, still bead on, making a plunge, shipping a sea and rising from It In beautiful style. In ber descent of th second rapid, the water momenta rily Increasing Id velocity and tumult, ber towering masts went by the board, giving (h spectatora a startling repre sentation of th crashing of a vessel's spsra in a shipwreck at sot. She swung around and presented ber broadside to th dashing and foaming water, and, after remaining, at It teem ed, stationary for a moment, awung around until tbe was beaded upstream. 'Passing tbe third rapid shs bilged, bnt carried her bull to all appearance whole at the totted and groaned be tween Crass Island and tbe British shore to the IIorsesDo fall, over which she was drown steruforemost and burled Into th thundering abyss. 8h wat dashed to fragment! before tbt ttruck In th seething waters below. Immediately after the went over bun drcds of people bn tried below the falls. Tbe river was covered with fragment of the vessel. Nowhere could be found as much as two boards nailed together, and ber great timbers were broken Into bits Ilk firewood. ( "There were aboard tbo Michigan when she started on ber trip toward tbe falls a wild bull buffalo trom western prairie, two bears from tbt Lake Superior regions, two foxes. raccoon, a dog, a cat and four geese. When the vessel loft Yulo's landing In tow all these were lot loose on the deck except the buffalo. IIo was inclosed In a pen. Tbe two bears got enough of the trip when the vessel began tbe descent of the first rspld, and tbey Climbed down tbe side next tbo Canada shore, plunged Into tbe swift water, breasted Its powerful sweep successful' It and reached th short. Tbey were so exnausteu lien mer g,,t on tana that tbey ituulo no rwlctuuce to being captured. Tbe bears, before they a Urn doued the klilp. climbed the masts of the vessel aud. us It whs presumed. from that outlook saw what their fin lsb would be anyhow nud then deter mined to take tho i-buwes of getting to land, slim as they were. Tho raccoon ran up a mutt snd remained there uu til the, most fell, lie was never st-en again, i lie roxes ran rramicniiy np and down the deck and went over with the schooner, at did tbe buffalo bull and the geese. Not a trace of foxes or buffalo wat erer found. Two of the goeso swsm ashore balf a mile below th fall. The other two met the fate of th buffalo and tbe foxes." 7 Ask Yourself th Question. Why not use Chamberlain's Pain Balm when you have rheumatism? We feel sure that the result will be prompt and satisfactory. One appli cation relieves the pain,, and many have been permanently cured by its use. 25 and SO cent sizes. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. DEPORTED SEVEN TIMES. Htrington Medfcln Oo ' Grand Rapid, luoa. I nlos 25 oent for wkka pleattX end, postage prepaid, 1 bos Esrlaf-f My Nam . My Address . . My Druggist1 Nam ... ... '' Unlets Another Uncle Cuaranteea to Take the Lad in Charge He Will Be Sent Back Again. , NEW YORK, Feb. 20. When Ben jamin Oskrud, 16 years old, of Odes ta, Russia, arrived in this country for the seventh time last November, hav ing been deported by the immigration authorities on each of hit previous ar rivals as a stowaway, he was permit ted to remain on representations that his uncle would take care of him. No whe is again in charge of the im migration authorities on Ellis Island, who may deport him for the eighth time, his temporary guardian here re questing them to take such action, after he had had so much trouble with the lad that he is unwilling to longer keep him in charge. .Success of an appeal to another uncle of Oskrud in Pittsburg to guarantee his support is said to be the only thing between the youth and another trip under the gov ernment s auspices back across the Atlantic. - Italian Shot. CHICAGO, Feb. 20.-Calvi Fortu nati,, who was shot in a saloon Feb ruary 8 and who was spirited away from the Emergency Hospital, sup posedly by "Black Hand" conspira tors, was found, last night in a room ing house. Detectives who found the Italian were unable to learn from him how he left the hospital, or through whose assistance. He refused to talk of the shooting in which he and Fhil ippl Catalona figured. , v It is thought that he M Catalona had quarreled over the payment for a girl that Catalona is supposed to have sold to his friend. Fortunati was found propped up in bed, sur rounded by several Italians. , He was taken by a policeman, although still suffering from the bullet. Catalona is at the county jail charged with shooting Fortunati. , : " OF ' .-. IE 1113MB JLi ' . '.-r .-fff'n: .;. y-'?r?('. -r.fy::f ;;''VV?' Will Be Issued Sunday, February 23 Oct your orders in early for extra copies, as orders for thousands have already been received, and we do not wish to disappoint any one. This edition will be one of the finest ever issued by any publication in the state of Oregon, and will be a resume of the re sources and advantages of Clatsop County and vicinity, beautiful ly illustrated throughout. Copies can be had at The Astorian office, wrapped ready for mailing. Price 15c a copy or 2 Copies for 25c i , PORTLAND MARKETS Latest Quotations In the Portland Markets. Complete Market Reports Corrected Sack Day Giving tht Wholesale Prices of Commodities, Farm Produce, and Vegetables. PORTLAND, Feb. 20l-One car load of sweet potatoes came in from the South today, and this may be the last shipment to this market this sea son'. Tbe supply in California is very much reduced and the market firm. The product is held firmly here at $3 50 a hundred. A car of mixed veg etables and one of cctc-ry are expect ed tomorrow. Celery promises to be scarce for a time as stocks in South ern California are about cleaned up. Grain, Flour, Teed. Wheat-Club, 83c j Valley, 85c j blue- stem, 85c j red Russian. 81c Oats Producers' prices i Whit. $28 j gray, 27. HayValley timotny, fl819( East ern Oregon, S2022 clover, $13 1 chest, 13j alfalfa, $13) grain hay, $U10. Flour Hard wheat, patent. $495; straight, $4.40j grshsm, $4.50; rye, $5 whole-wheat flour, $4.75 1 Valley Hour, $4.40; Dakota, $8.40.80j Eastern rye, te.50j PilUbury,47t Corvallis, $4.40. Rye-$1.23 1.30 per evrt. Grain Bscs Domestic 8oi Calcutta, 9o Corn Whole, (32; cracked, $33 per ton. . BarleyProducers' prloesi Brewing, 28.50j feed, (27 rolled, $3031. Buckwheat $30 per ton, Mlllfeed City bran, (25; country bran, $24; aborts, $24J50j country shorts, (28; ehop, $18; middlings, $29. Uregon uraperoot Fer 100 lbs- $9 $7. Cereal Foods Rolled oats, cream. 90 lb. sacks, $8; lower grade, $6.5070i oatmeal steel cut, 49-lb, sicks, $84Sui 9-lb. saeks, $4.25 per bale; oatmeal ground), 49-lb. aaoka $8.60 per bbl.; -lb. sscks, $4.90 per bale; spirt poai, $4.25 per 100-Ib. saeks; 25-lb. boxes, $1.25; pearl barley,, $4.50 per 100 lbs.i 251b. boxes, (15 per box; poetry flour, IU-1D. SaOKS, $0X0 DDL Groceries, Provision, Etc. Sugar (sack basis) D. 0.. $5.60 1 XX, $5.60; beet, (5.40; Golden C, (5; extra, C (5.40; powdered, (5.50; boxes, 60 ewt, fruit cr berry sugar, $5.00 1 boxes 50 ewt, advance over sack basil (less o. if paid for in 15 days), . , ., , uotree juoona, 84zhoi Java, ranov, 2528os Java, good, 2024o; Java, or dinary, 1720o; Costa Rica, fancy, 18 20c; Cost Rica, good, 1018o; Ar- buokle, (10.03 ewt.: Lion, (15-88 owi; Colombia coffee, 14e lb; Salvador, 111c Rice Imperial Japan, No. 1. $05; Southern Japan, 5J65c! broken, 5c; head, fancy, 7Joi choice, 7o. i Sago and Tapioca Scarce, OIo, Flirs White, per pound. 07ei black, 67e. , ! ,. : .v-.. Provisions Hams, large, 12lo; small, 12io; picnic, Oo; boiled bams, 22o; boiled tenia, 18o; breakfast bacon, fancy, 22oj giisn, loo j ary saitea snort clears, $1.40 box. Raisins Loose mucate!s, 3 -crown. 10c; 2 crown, 0e; bleached seedless SulUnaa, 1013o; unbleached seedless SulUnas, ,8o; London layers, 3-erown, whole boxes of 20 pounds, $2.25; 2 crown, $2-10. Canned Sslmon Columbia River, I lb. tails. $2.00; Mb. tall, $2.95 j fancy, l ib. flats, $2.10; ft lb. fists. (1J0; fsncy. Mb. ovals, (2.85; Alaska tails, pink, 95c red, (1.35; nominal, 2s, talis, $255. Salt-Bale, of 75-2., bale, (255; bales of 00-3s, $255; bales of 40-4. bats, $255; bales of 15-10. bale, (255; bags. 50s, fine, ton, (17.50; bags, OOe; genuine Liverpool, (20; bags, 60s, ground, (13; lOOs, ton, $12Ji R. 8. V. P. 80 5-lb. cartons, $255; R.8.V. P., 3-tb. cartons. $1-76; Liverpool lump, per too, (20.50. Lard Kettle-rendered, tierces, life; tuba, 12c; 60s, 12; 20s, 121; 10s. 121c; 5s, 12c. Standard pure: Tierces, le less; compound, tierces, 8c; leaf, 13c. Kuts Walnuts, No. 1, toft shell. 18c: filberts, 17c; Brasils, 20c; Pecans, 19 20o; filberts, 17e; Brarils, Sue; Pecans, 23c; hickory, 8c j Virginia peanuts, 81c; Jumbo Virginia peanuts, lue; Japanese peanuts, 7ic; onestnuts, Italian lOe, unto 25c; oocoanutv dosens, 8590c; pine nuts, 171& Spices Cloves, 19le lb.; chillies, 13so per pound. ; I vegeuDiea. Cabbage 75c$l ewt.; cauliflower, 75 $1 dos.; celery, 85c$l do.; parsley, $155; hot house lettuce, (LO0 (155 box; heads, (5 cents doces; spinach, box. (1-25; Brussels sprouts, 8c; artichokes, 90c(1.15 do.; okrs, S5e lb.; tomatoes, (1552.00 orate-, peppers, 814e lb ; pumpkins, (155 . t-rate; beans, green and wax, 15c lk; egg-plant. loo lb. i beets, El per ewt.; turnip, 75e (1 per ewt.; carrots, 50c(l per ewt. ma, 100 ID. Hops, Wool, Eidet, etc. Hope 1907 crop. 471e pound. Feather Geese, white, S540c: geese, gray or mixed. 2530e; duck. white, 1520e; duok, mixed, 1215e. Wool Valley, 1820c; Eastern Ore gon, 1218c, as to shrinkage. Oascara Sagrads, (chittim bark) 51 7o per pound. Bceowsx Good, clean and pure, 221 2"o per pound. Tallow Prime, 5c; No. 2 and grease, Z8o per pound. Fruita. Domestio Fruits Apples, fancy, $1.50 S2 box; good, 7ao$l53 box; peart. 50o$1.60 box; cranberries, $8ll per barreu Tropioal Frluts Lemons, $3.505.00 box; oranges, new navels, (2552.7I bpx; grape-fruit, $4.25 box; banana, Be lb.; crated, 6o lb.; iragegranate, (S crate; tangerines, (2 box; pineappl, (46 doxen. Dried Fruits Applies, 910e per lb.; aplioota, 16 19c; peaches, ll13ej pears, lll14e; Italian prune, 2J8o; California figs, wbite, in sacks, 56te per lb; black, 415c; bricks, 75c$255 per box; Smyrna, ,18120o per ft; date, Persian, 6i7e per lb. Produce. Butter Country creamery, 3035o; sity creamery, 3537lc; etore, 1920o; butter M, 33138e. - Eggs Ranch, candled. 30(332. Cheese Young America, 18o; Oregon full creams, flats, 17c, . .. Honey Dary, 101lle; amber, 12 13ci fancy whit. 1415c s Poultry Old roosters, 910o lb; hens, 1314e lb; dressed stock, 23e higher than uve; ducks, I4isc re; turkeys, live. 10l,o lb; dressed, 1820e ft; geese, live, 910o lb; pigeons, old. $1.00 per dozen; squabs, $($9. per dozen. BEHIND THE TIMES. Hlllllllllllltlinii IIIHrM IIIIMMIMt IHIKte THE LOUVRE CONCERT HALL I FIRST CLASS LIQUORS AND CIGARS SEVEHTH AJTD ASTOS STREETS. Rooms in Connection. Vic Lindbeck, Prop, t in in m a ,,tt 1 1 1 it i im u ut THEi TRENTON S First-Class Liquors and Cigan 602 Commercial Street. Corner Commercial and 14th. ' - ASTORIA, OREGON MHiinntnt iiiiiinmti t nit iiiiinniiiniiiinT, THE GEM ASTORU C. F. WISE, Prop. Choice Wines, Liquors Merchants Lonch From and Cigar 11:30 a. m. to 1:30 p. m, Hot Lunch at All Hours. 5 Cents Corner Eleventh and ConunerdaL OSXGOir February Official Tide Tables Compiled by the U. S. Government for Astoria and Vicinity. rcBRUARY, 1908. 8 High Water. Date. Saturday Saturday 1 SUNDAY .... Monday Tuesday weanesuay ... Thursday Friday ........ Saturday SUNDAY Monday 10 Tuesday 11 Wednesday .....12 Thursday 13 Friday 14, Saturday 15 Saturday 15 11:45 SUNDAY 16 1:02 Monday Tuesday ........18 Wednesday 19 Thursday 30 Friday .....II Saturday 23 SUNDAY ....... t3 Monday 14 Tuesday 25 Wednesday .....3 Thursday 17 Friday ...18 Saturday 39 A. ML nun. 0:30i 11: BO 1:14 1:6 1:40 1:20 4:00 4:40 6:30 1:25 7:10 8:24 9:14 10:20 11:06 0:30 1:30 1:6 1:25 1:51 1:20 1:65 4:35 5:18 (:14 7:24 8:37 :48 10:50 ft 7.61 9.3 8-1 8:61 8.7 8.8 8.8 8.7 8.3 8.1 8.0 7.8 7.8 7.9 8.0 7.4 8.1 7.7 7.91 8.0 8.1 8.3 8.8 8.2 8.1 8.0 7.9 7.8 7.9 8.1 .( P. M. tun. I ft. 12:40 l::o 1:20 3:10 4:05 5:05 4:12 7:34 8:58 10:10 11:03 11:54 12:14 1:00 1:35 1:10 2:45 8:80 4:18 5:15 6:25 8:00 9:25 10:34 11:15 9.4 9.3 1.0 8.4 7.8 7.1 6.6 6.1 6.1 6.4 6.8 7.1 FEBRUARY, 19. Low Water. Data. Saturday SUNDAY ...... Monday Tuesday Wednesday Tnursday maay .. Saturday OTTvn a -JUAASAX .... Monday ....10 Tuesday 11 Wednesday 13 Thursday 13 Friday 14 Saturday 15 SUNDAY 16 Monday 17 Tuesday ........18 Wednesday .....19 Thursday ........20 Friday ..21 Saturday 22 SUNDAY 23 Monday 24 Monday 24 Tuesday t..25 Wednesday . . ...261 Thursday 27 Friday ...28 Saturday 291 A M. nan. 6:051 7:00, 7:60 8:40 9:30 10:16 U:15 0:10 1:12 3:24 3:36 4:40 5:35 6:20 6:56 7:80 8:00 8:30 8:65 9:33 10:13 11:05 0:55 2:2 1:66 5.05 ft. .3 2 2.3 1 1.6 1.3 1.3 2.6 3.3 3.6 3.8 8.7 8.5 3.3 8.1 3.8 S.5 1.1 1.8 1.6 1.2 1.2 8.9 4.1 3.9l 3. S P. M. hjn. I ft 6:60 7:35 8:18 9:00 9:42l 9.9 10:24 11:14 12:16 1:25 l:36j 1:42 4:40 6: 81 1:05 6:43 7:14 7:40 8:06 8:30 8:68 9:30 10:15 10:50 12:05 111: 44 1:18 2:38 8:60 4:64 6:46 1.6 1.1 i-1.1 4.7 9.8 1.7 e!i 0.3 -9.1 O.t 0.7 Banking System aa at Present Years Behind the Times.. 50 pie Eni 1 (?! hnnlm lfltn. Dates-Oolden, 801b. boxes, C6Scj r . . . . Mb. package. 80, Fard. 15-lb. tox, CHICAGO, Feb. 20. ''The bankers in wail Street are as nonest as the farmers in Illinois," said David R. Forgan, president of the City National Bank, in his speech last night before 300 members of the Evanston and North Shore Business Men's associa tion, which held its annual banquet in Evanston. "Where 90 per cent of the business of a nation is conducted on a credit system, as it is in this countryconfi dence must be retained or a panic will follow such as was experienced here in October," said Mr. Forgan. "Credit rests on the confidence one man has in another. In New York last Octo ber this confidence was shaken for a time and the panic followed as a na tural consequence. , "Where one dishonest man is found in the banking business there are hun dreds of others who are honest "Our banking system was a good one when it was organized, but it is 50 years behind the times." Morning Astorian, 60 cents month. Delivered by carrier.