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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1908)
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1901, THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA. OREGON. Confidence ' ii 'ifi-v jf ' .) n .. 4. 4 . when i eating that your i food Is of highest wholesomeness that it has nothing, in; it ..that, can i injure or distress ' too makes the repast doubly comfortable and satisfactory This supreme' confidence you have when the food is raised with 'wv a U nohvin tvi it n) vr ' , t-ah o m iwf Mitt ' -fii ; j-nt -' ,. The only baking powder made with Royal Grape Cream of Tartar . There can be no comforting confi dence when eating alum baking pow der food. Chemists say that more or less of the alum powder In unchanged alum or alum salts remains in the food :v:: is.fi . -v -.(.. . 1 . NEW GEOGRAPHIES. The State University Vital Factor in Bringing People West PORTLAND Ore. Mar, 9,-Prof-essor R. S. Tarr, occuying the chair of Physical Geography at Cornell University, it the author of a igcogra lhy now used a text book in a vat nuiiibcr of schools throughout the United Statei, and in revising this book is paying especial attention to the development of Oregon and Washington. The Portland Com mercial Club ha furnished Professor Tarry very complete data on Oregon, together with a number of thorough ly representative picture, and gen uine interval on the part of the author ii apparent from a request for further photograph of specific ubjccti. Washington's commercial bodies will ice that the "Evergreen State" i properly taken care of. The I.oi Angeles Times, the great er paper of the Southwest; include in it market report grain quotation for the Pacific Coast. It is signifi cant that only Portland and Taconia appear in this connection. This is also true of San Francisco papers. No section of the Union surpasses the Pacific Northwest in the excel lence of its public schools, and Ore gon communities are manifesting their interest in the State University by urging upon the State the most liberal appropriations for the main tenance of this institution in a way that will enable it to reach its highest efficiency. This was the meat of a resolution adopted by the Portland Commercial Club recently. Public bodies throughout the Northwest ap preciate that institutions of higher learning are a factor of the greatest importance to F,astcrn people who contemplate making their homes here. , California people are planning to return the visits made that state by the people of Oregon and Washing tonprobably the ; first excursions will be made at the time of Portland's R6se Festival in June. At even this early "date,' too; the Alaska-Yukon- 1'acific Exposition at Seattle is being much discussed in the South. A series of meetings under the aus pices of the Oregon Development League are to be held this week in Ashland, Medford, Roscburg, Grants Pats, Albany, and Stayton. lone held an enthusiastic meeting last week that lasted until two o'clock in the morning. Seventy new member were taken into the Commercial Club there. Eastern people are already begin ning to arrive on the Spring colonist rate. The disposition is to seek the smaller towns and the majority of tiioHC looking for country places in tend to enter fruit growing or dairy ing, two industries especially attrac tive in Washington and Oregon, where they bring greater returns t'.ian in any other part of the country ?T?r" PORflM ABETS No Use to Die ' "1 have found out that there is no use to die of lung trouble as long at you can get Dr. King's New Dis covery," says Mrs. J. P. White, of Rushboro, Pa. "I would not be alive today only for that wonderful medi cine. It loosens up a cough quicker than anything else, and cures lung diesase even after the case is pro nounced hopeless." This most reliable remedy for coughs and colds, la grippe, asthma, bronchitis and hoarse ness, it sold under guarantee at Chas. Rogers & Son's drug store. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. A Lltsrary Bandit. A literary man was traveling In French mountain! when on a lonely read he was stopped by three high waymen, his life threatened and bis valuable domauded. Ills literary In stincts were to the fore even In his extremity, and half unconsciously be burst forth with an appropriate coup lot, quoted from some obscure French poet. "Ilold!" cried the leader of the high waymen.. ".My comrades, this gentle man Is acquainted with the works of oar friend M. So-and-so! lie Is, then, our brother!" t j The purse was returned, courtesies extended, aud the traveler and three bandits adjourned to an Inn near by ind spent a pleasant evening February Official Tide Tables Compiled by the U. S. Government for Astoria and Vicinity. . MARCH. 1908. High "Wlater. Dais. JAAJMHJ908. , .... A. h.m. 1U 11 .....If ... SUNDAY Monday . Tuesday . . Wednesday Thursday tfrtdfl. .... aatnrAnV SUNDAY Monday .TiinariftV Wednesday Thursday . r,iuj Saturday " SUNDAY U 17 181 .....19 .....20 11 .....22 ......23 .....24 .....26 ...2 ...27 .28 Monday Tuesday ... Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday SUNDAY . Monday .... Wednesday Thursday Friday ,. . . Saturday SUNDAY Monday .. Tuesday oTlO 11:14 0:50 1:28 1:05 2:45 8:25 4:06 4:46 B:28 (:80 7:40 8:50 9:60 10:40 11:22 0:20 0:47 1:18 1:45 2:14 2:44 8:20 4:00 4 5:48 ...2910:40 ...80 ...SI M. P.M. ft. h.m. Ift 17s ...7X77. 8.9 .. 8.411:86 (.1 8.8 1:12 9.1 9.0 1:10 1.8 1.1 1:00 8.5 8.9 8:50 7.8 8.6 4:42 T.l 8.8 5:44 6.5 7.9 7:00 6.1 7.6 8:14 6.1 7.2 9:40 6.8 7.2 9:40 1.8 7.211:15 7.1 7.5 11:60 7.6 7.7 7.9 12:05 8.0 8.2 12:42 8.1 8.4 1:20 8.1 8.6 2:00 8.1 8.5 1:88 7.9 8.6 8:22 7.6 8.6 4:10 74 8.2 6:06 6.6 8.0 6.18 6.2 1.6 7:48 6.2 7.4 1:1 7.410:12 7.1 7.711:00 7.7 8.111:40 1.8 8.6 1.7 12:28 8.7 Low Water. Date. SUNDAY . Monday .... Tuesday ... Wednesday Thursday . Friday Saturday . . SUNDAY . Monday .... Tuesday ... Wednesday Thursday ,. Friday Saturday .. SUNDAY .. Monday .... Tuesday ... Wednesday Thursday .. Friday Saturday ,. SUNDAY , Monday .... Tuesday ... Wednesday Thursday .. . Friday...... Saturday . . SUNDAY . Monday .... Tuesday ... 1 . 2 8 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 .10 .11 .12 .18 .16 .17 .18 .19 ,.20 .21 ,.22' .23 ,.24 ,.25 .26; ..IT ,.281 ,.29 ,.80 ..811 A. M. P. M. h.m.1 ft lb.m. ft 6:00 "i'.t "6: SO -0.8 6:50 1.9 7:14-0.6 7:87 1.8 7:54 -0.8 8:17 0.8 8:84 0.1 9:00 0.6 9:10 0.8 9:60 0.5 9:55 1.6 10;40 0.610:40 1.4 11:86 0.8 11:80 t.l 12:40 0.9 0:80 8.7 1:46 1.1 1:46 4.0 2:55 1.0 8:10 4.0 8:66 0.8 4:20 8.7 4:46 0.7 5:14 8.3 6:30 0.6 6:55 8.8 6:06 0.6 6:80 2.8 6:86 0.7 7:00 1.8 7:06 0.8 7:25 1.3 7:34 1.0 7:56 1.0 8:05 1.8 8:80 0.7 8:38 1.7 9:08 0.5 9:14 2.3 I 9:65 0.4 9:60 1.9 10:45 0.4 10:86 8.4 11:45 0.511:88 8.9 12:66 0.6 1:04 4.2 2:15 0.7 2:40 4.0 8:80 0.6 4:00 8.4 4:80 0.8 5:02 8.6 6:20 0.2 6:60 1.7 6:06 0.8 6:84 0.9 6:48 0.6 v. s . Latest Quotations In the Portland Complete Mirk, Reports, Corrected Each Day Oiving hs Wholesale Prices of i Commodities, Farm Produce, and. Vegetables. PORTLAND, March 7. -There have been two advances of 10 cents hundred each in sugar in the East within the past two weeks, and local Jobbers say that higher quotations here within a short time may be ex pected. No changes were announced today. An Eastern trade paper gives the following figures on the world's visible sugar suply: "Total stock of Europe and America, 5,577,777 tons, against 3,747,719 tons last year at the same uneven dates. The decrease of stock is 169,942 tons, against a de crease of 157,984 tons last week. Total decrease of 157,984 tons last week. Total stocks and afloats to gether show a visible supply of 3,- 677,777 tons, against 3,837,719 tons last year, or a decrease of ,159,942 tons, Grain, Flour, Feed. Wheat-Club, 82c; Valley, 82c; bluestem, 84c; red Russian, 80c Oats Producers' prices: White, $28; gray, $26Q27. Flour Hard wheat, patent, $4.80; straight, $4.00; graham, $4.50; rye, $5; whole wheat flour, $4.45; Dakota, $6.402tf.60; Eastern rye, $6.60; Pillsburg, $7; Corvallis, $4.40. Rye $1.40 per cwt Corn-Whole, $32.50; cracked, $33.50 per ton. Hay-Wholesale selling prices; Valley timothy, $1718; Eastern Oregon, $20(3221; clover, $14015; alfalfa, $12(313. Crain bags Domestic, 81c; Cat cutta, 9c Millfeed-City bran, $24.50; coun try bran, $25.50; city shorts, $26; country shorts, $27; chop, $22; mid dlingt, $30.50. Barley Producers' prices: Brewing $2a50; feed, $27; rolled, $2829, Buckwheat $36 per ton. Cereal Foods Rolled oats, cream, 90-tb. sacks, $7; lower grade, $6.50; oatmeal, steel cut, 45-lb. sacks, $8; 9-lb. sacks, $4.25 per bale; oatmeal (ground), 45-lb. sacks, $7.50 per bar rel; 9-lb. sacks, $4.00 per bale; split peas, $4.50 per 100-lb. sacks; 25-lb. boxes, $1.25 per box jpastry flour, 10-Ib. sacks, $2.75 per bale. Fresh Meats and Fish. Oysters Shoalwater Bay, per gal lon, $2.25; per sack, $4.50; Toke Point, $1.60 per 100; Olympias (120 lbs.), $6; Olympias, per gallon, $125. Fresh Meats-Veal, fancy, 100 lbs., averag, 99ic; 100 to 150 lbs., 8 Sic lb.; large and coarse, 5?c; hogs, fancy block, 77ic; heavies, 67c; beef, bulls, , 314c; cows, 4Sc; steers, 5ic(;6c; muttons, medium size, 10llc; large and coarse, 89c. Clams Little neck, per box, $2.50; razor clams, $2.00 per box. Fish Halibut, 6c; black cod, 8c; black bass, per lb., 20c; striped bass, 13c; smelt, 7c; herring, 51c; flounders, 6c; catfish, 11c; shrimp, 10c; perch, 7c; sturgeon, 121c; sea trout, 18c; torn cod, 10c; salmon, silversides, 9c; steelheads, 11c; chinooks, 12c lb.; lobsters, 25c lb. Fruit Domestic Fruits Apples, fancy, $1.75(5!2.50 box; common to good, $1 1.50 box; pears, $1.7S2.00 box; cranberries, $7.009 per barrel. Dried Fruits Apples, 910c per pound; apricots, 2729c; peaches, 11 13c; pears, lll14c; Italian prunes, 5a;6c; California igs, white, in sacks, 7k per pound; black, 67c; bricks, 75c$2.25 per box; Smyrna, 16171c per pound; dates, Persian, 617c per pound. Tropical Fruits Lemons, $2.00 3.50 box; limes, 75c per 100; oranges, new navels, $1.752.50 box; grape fruit, $3.504.00 box; bananas, 5c lb.; crated, 51c lb.; tangerines, $1.40 1.50 box; pineapples, $45 dozen. Groceries, Provisions, Etc Sugar (sack basis) D. G., $5.65; XX, $5.45; beets, $5.45; Golden C, $3.50; extra C, $5.15; powdered, $5.80; boxes, 55c cwt advance over sack jasis; fruit or berry sugar, $5.65; boxes, 55c cwt. advance over sack basis (less 1c if pal dfor in 15 days). Coffee Mocha, 2428c; Java, fancy, 2528c; Java, good, 2024c; Java, ordinary, 1720c; Costa Rica, fancy, 1820c; Costa Rica, good, 16 18c; Arbuckle, $16.63 cwt.; Lion, $15.88 cwt.; Colombia coffee, 14c lb.; Salvador, Ul141c. Rice Imperial Japan, No. 1, $6.25; Southern Japan, $5.255.75; broken, 5c; head, fancy, $66.75. Sago and Tapioca 61c. i ' Provisions Hams, large, 13c; small, 13c; picnic, 91c; boiled hams, 22cj, 'boiled pfenic, 28c ii breakfast, bacon, fancy ,22c; English, 15k; dry salted short clears, 10c; backs, 10c ; Dates Golden, 60-lb boxes, 66!c; . 1-lb packages, 8c; Fard, 15-lb boxes, $1.40 box. Lard Kettle-rendered tierces, life; tubs, 12c; 50s,' 12c; ZOs, 12k; 10s, 12k; Ss, 121c Standard pure: Tierces, lc less; compound, tierces, 8c; leaf, 13c Raisins Loose muscatels, 3-crown, 77k; 4-crown, 7i8c; bleached seedless Sultanas, 9112c; unbleach-' ed seedless Sultanas, 88k; London layers, 3-crown, whole boxes of 20 pounds, $2.00; 2-crown, $1.75. Canned salmon Columbia River, l-tl talis, $2.10; 2-lb tails, $3.00; fancy, 1-tb flats, $2.25; i-tt flats, $1.40; fancy, 1-lb, ovals, $2.75; Alaska tails, pinks, 95c; red, $1.40; nominal, 2s, tails, $2.25. Spices Cloves, 25c lb; chillies, 13k lb. Salt-Bales of 75-2s, bale, $2.15; bales of 60-3s, $2.15; bales of 40-4s, bale, $2.15; bales of 15-10s, bale, $2.15; bags, 50s, ne, ton, $16.50; bags, 50c; genuine Liverpool, ton, $18; bags, 50s, l-ground, $13.50; 100s, ton, $13; R. S. V. P., 20 5-lb cartons, $2.25; R. S. V. PM 3-lb cartons, $175; Liv erpool, lump, per ton, $20.50. Nuts Walnuts, 15i20c per tb; filberts, 16c; Brazils, 20c; pecans, 14 20c; hickory, 8c; Vlrgina peanuts, 6lc; Jumbo Virginia peanuts, 7c; Jap anese peanuts, 6k; chestnuts, Italian, 10c; Ohio, 25c; cocoanuts, dozen, 90c $1.00; pine nuts, 17k tb. Produce. Butter Country creamery, 32k 38k; city creamery, 37k; store, 15 16c; butter fat, 33136c Eggs Ranch, candled, 18 19c Cheese Young America, 17c; Ore gon full cream, flats, 1515L Honey Dark, U12c; amber, 12 13; fancy white, 14115. Poultry Old roosters, 910c tb; hens, 12 13c tb; dressed stock, 1 lie higher than live; ducks, 1415c tb; turkeys, live, 11 12c lb.; dressed, 15c lb; geese, live, 9 10c tb; pigeons, old, $1 per dozen; squabs, $23 per dozen. Vegetables. Cabbage $1125 cwt; cauliflower, $1.85 crate; celery, $4.005.00 crate; parsley, $1.25; hothouse lettuce, $1.00 1J25 box; head, 75c dozen; spinach, box, $1.25; Brussels sprouts. 8c; arti chokes, 90c$l.00 dozen; tomatoes, $4.505.50 crate; peppers, 22k tb; beans, green and wax, 20c tb; peas, 10c tb; egg plant, 20c lb; beets, $1.00 per cwt; turnips, 75c$l per cwt; carrots, 50c$l per cwt; cucumbers, $22.50 dozen; green onions, 40c dozen. jam Potatoes Buying price, 4050c per cwt; sweets, $3.50 per cwt Onions Buying, price, $2225 per cwt Hops, Wool, Hides, Etc Hops-1907 crop, 45k tb. ; Wool Valley, 1618c; Eastern Oregon, 12 18c, as to shrinkage Cascara Sagrada (chittira bark) 4 5k per lb. Beeswax Good, clean and pure, 22 25c per tb. Tallow Prime, 5c; No. 2 and grease, 26c per tb. Oregon Graperoot Per 100 pounds, $35. Hides-Dry hides, No. 1, 12k tb; dry, No. 1, 12c tb; dry salted, one third less; dry calf, 14c lb; salted steers, 5c pound; salted cows, 4c tb; stags and bulls, 3c lb; kip, 5c tb; calf, 9c tb; green stock, lc less; sheepskins, shearlings, 1025c; short wool, 3040c; medium and long wool, according to quality, 50tb9Cc; dry horses, 50c$l ; dry colt, 25c; an gora, 80c$l; goat, oemmon, 10 Oils, Lead, Etc Coal Oil Union and pearl and as tral oil, cases, 18k per gallon; water white, iron barrels, 11c; eocene and extra star, cases, 21k; headlight oil, cases, 191c; iron barrels, 121c; elaine, cases, 28c. ' Turpentine In cases, 72c; in wood barrels, 691c; in iron barrels, 65c; in 10-case lots, 71c Benzine V. M. and P. and Union Naphtha, cases, 191c; iron barrels, 121c . J Linseed Oil Raw, 5-barrel lots, 51c; 1-barrel Jots, 52c; in cases, 58c; boiled, .i 5-barrel lots, 53c; 1-barrel lots, 54c; in cases, 60c. Gasoline Union and Red Crown, bbls., 171c; cases, 241c Motor, bbls., 17k; cases, 241c. . 86 degrees, bbls., 30c; cases, 371c. Engine Distillate, bbls., 10c; cases, 17k. Lead Strictly pure white lead, in ton lots, 71c; 500-tb lots, 8c less; less than 500 lbs., 81c; red lead and lith arge, lc higher than white Blank books Up ; to th highest standards bookb t1 " inaing After strictly modern methods Prihtin Our g; Of every description Facilities Are the Best And we promptly execute all orders Hi-id ' ' 1 ' ,. f hlkliuA I M AlkrQtM4 39 t f Ml w ilrigun. MENANDWOMEt Cm Big it for nnnttaral dlichfiM,lnSiumliuo(. rrlltioDt or uktratiou, A muooui nivmbrftDei Pftlnl.Mi. And not tulriD' KYHtEWSSCffiMIOAlOS. ' f rat or foi-onoul. ,NH0Mwn,ax; s a oi urimniiu, v. S. A. V 4 or hm in pioin wmppm, "euM UirottUt M.-it an ium J. S. Dellinger Co. Astoria, Oregon I I' i- , ,S Have Yoii Seen The WasK In Our Hardware Window I The Foarcl & Stokes Hardware Go Incorporated ' X tLt:Am. Successors to Fo & Stokes Ca J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President FRANK PATTON, Cashier O. L PETERSON, Vice-President : j. W. GARNER, Assistant Cashier aAstoria Savings Bank Capital Paid in $100,000. Surplus and Undivided Profits, $80,000. Transacts a General Banking Business i Interest Paid on Time Deposits FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM. Eleventh and DuaneSta. Astoria, Oregon. First National Bank of Astoria, Ore. ESTA It LI 811 EJ IStHt. Capital $100,000 IRON IIS SCOW BAY BRASS & IASTOKIA, OREGON m AND BRASS FOUNDERS ' LAND AND MARINE ENGINEERS Up-to-Date Sawmill Machinery. Prompt attention given to all repair work 18th and Franklin Ave. . Tel Main 2461 Sherman Transier Co. HENRY SHERMAN, Manager. Hacka, Carriages-Baggage Checked and Transferred-Tracks and Furniture ! . Wagons-Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped. ,: 433 Commercial Street . . . r, , Miun Phona 111 V 1 1 ttttmti tttttt run i tttttt in liiiminiiii I THE TRENTON '1 . I. I 1 First-Class Liquors and Cigan 602 Commercial Street. I Corner Commercial and 14th. ?i V ASTORIA, OREGON ''! iiiiinnii Mmi THE GEM C. F. WISE, Prop. Choice Wines, lljnon Merchant! Lundi tam and Cigars '11:30 a. m. to 1:30 . a. , " . ; 5 Hot Lunch at AH Honrs. ,.:, . ' as Cents ' "V''.'. .j Corner Eleventh and ContmerdaL ASTORIA ... ... . . C3XSO,