A SHAMEFUL RECORD
Warrants Out for Henry Blunk
on Grave Charges.
A SAD STORY OF DEPRAVITY
The Law Invoked to It Limit of
Punishment for Dual Crime Against
Respectable FamilyArrested at
' Portland Yesterday.
G. I Millard, a Clatsop couuty
farmer, dwelling 21 miles south of
the city of Seaside, yesterday alter
noon, swore to two separate com
plaints against one Henry Blunk, a
young timber-faller, working up the
Deep River country; one, charging
him with seduction; the other accus
ing him of the crime of "taking away
a female under the age of 16 years,
without the consent of her parents."
These impeachments were pleaded,
and sworn to, before Justice P. J.
Goodman, of this city, Assistant Dis
trict Attorney John C. McCue prepar
ing the documents in the case, and
the warrants were immediately placed
in the hands of Sheriff M. R. Pome
roy, who left on the evening express
for Portland, where, the alleged crim
inal is being held by the authorities
at .the instance of the outraged father,
who succeeded in having the despoil
er of his home and children captured
on Monday night
According to the simple and
striaghtforward story of the unhappy
father, this man Blunk began to pay
attention to his second daughter,
Miss Ethel Millard, something over a
year ago, and as those attentions were
of a surreptitious character and not
to the father's and mother's liking,
the girl who was but 18, was fre
quently and seriously apprised of the
danger she was running in accepting
such overtures; but, as has happened
since the days of old, the wise and
loving counsel was ignored, and the
companionship drifted and deepened,
untli the sum of evil wherewith such
intimacies are charged, developed in
the ruin of the girl and an enforced
agreement to save the unhappy situa
tion by a marriage that was to have
transpired yesterday; and which was
obviated by the further, and fouler,
crime, on the part of the same young
. man, in enticing from home and
damning to deeper , shame, the baby
daughter of this farmer's humble
home, the 14-year-old sister of his
earlier victim, Clara, the youngest of
Mr. and Mrs. Millard's three girls.
It seems that immediately after
the sad contretemps in the earlier
case, some three weeks ago, and after
he had sworn by all that love and
duty could prompt a man to do, in
the remedying of a dreadful . situa
tion for which he was, primarily, re
sponsible, this man Blunk went de
liberately and sneakingly to work, to
engage the innocent regard of the
younger sister, who was not aware of
the grave crisis overhanging her
sister; in this he succeeded so well
that the foolish child gave him her
simple faith and permitted him to en
trap her into a runaway marriage (?),
. the same to be consummated up the
Willamette Valley somewhere; and
on Monday afternoon last, this child
was beguiled from her school-books
and school, in her simple home-garb,
and persuaded to board the afternoon
train out fo Seaside and join her lover
at Clatsop; for he had laid his plans
well and footed it to the little way
station this side of the terminus, and
climbed aboard the train he, himself,
flagged. On boarding the train, he
sauntered through the coaches and
when he saw his victim, dropped into
the seat with her, with all manner of
surprised ejaculations at her presence,
with the evident intention of bluff
ing anyone who might have noted
the meeting. But he overdid it The
conductor and another of the train-
. crew noted the little game, and when
it was found that the couple were
going to Portland on the train out of
this city, the word was passed among
the "boys," and Conductor Lowe, of
the evening train, got next and near
est to the whole thing without the
need of the anxious telegram that
overtook him en route from the dis
tracted father, who had discovered
the combination when the school-girl
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Thousands of American women
in our homes are daily sacrificing
their lives to duty.
In order to keep the home neat
and pretty, the children well dressed
and tidy, women overdo. A female
weakness or displacement is often
brought on and they Buffer in silence,
drifting along from bad to worse,
knowing well that they ought to
have help to overcome the pains and
aches which daily make life a burden.
It is to these faithful women that
LYDIAE.PINKHAr.rS
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
comes as a boon and a blessing,
as it did to Mrs. F. Ellsworth, of
Mayville, N. Y, and to Mrs. W. P.
Boyd, of Beaver Falls, Pawho say:
" I was not able to do my own work,
owing to the female trouble from which
I suffered. Lydia E. Plnkham's Vege
UbleCompound helped me wonderfully,
and I am so well that I can do as big a
day's work as I ever did. I wish every
sick woman would try it
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down
feeling, flatulency, indiges
tion,dizziness,ornervou8 prostratioa
Why don't you try it ?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
did not come home at the usual hour
in the afternoon.
Conductor Lowe did his whole duty
in the premise, and on the arrival of
the train at Portland, the girl was
taken over by the Young Women's
Christian Association, and the brutish
cha'p that had lured her from home,
found himself in the uncompromising
hands of the police, who had been put
in touch with the escapade.
Catherine E. Barnum, of the Y. W.
C. A. depot squad, to whose safe and
capable custody Clara Millard was
turned over, at once got the child's
story in all its bearings and lost no
time in wiring the unhappy parents.
And, in obedience to instructions
from the Millard home, Clara was
sent back to Seaside on the noon ex
press of yesterday, and is now safely
lodged against the stupid wiles of
such as Blunk.
Blunk will be brought to this city
today by Sheriff Pomeroy, and the
case will take its due course at the
bar of justice. Assistant District At
torney McCue will see to it that he
is rigorously prosecuted on both
charges; and if the victims of his lust
and folly will but stand by the true
tales of their experiences at his hands
he will not know much of freedom
for many a year to come.
Mr. Millard, the father of the
family, is a man of unusual intelli
gence and nice address, and feels
deeply the burden of disgrace that
has fallen to his lot and that of his
patient wife; but he is one of those
men, whose citizenship is of a sort
to bear still more in such a cause, in
order that society may be purged of
the presence of such beasts of prey as
this man Blunk has shown himself
to be; and, with the aid of his un
happy children, will prosecute him to
the farthest limit of the law. He is
a quiet, unassuming man of about 50;
a hard working, laV-abiding, Chris
tian man, who, with his wife, enjoys
the respect of all who know and deal
with them, down i nthe coast country;
and when he started up here yester
day, to pursue the legal steps re
quisite in the case, he was repeatedly
offered unstinted help from, leading
citizens there who sympathized with
him in the extraordinary dual load of
bitterness, that has been thrust upon
him, but he declined all such over
tures, until, as he said, his "last re
source should be exhausted and he
had to turn to his friends."
It is an exceedingly sad case and
one that should be plummed to the
last depth of rigid investigation and
to which the concurrent rigor of re
prisal should be applied.
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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA. OREGON.
MARINE MATTERS IN
AN ECLIPSE
WENONA STARTS TOMORROW
UNDER NEW AUSPICES -ASUNCION
DOWN AND OUT
FOR CALIFORNIA H AN ALEI
DUE IN.
Yesterday was one of the real dull
days that infrequently fall at this
seaport. There was practically no
marine movement on the bay aside
from the regular local packets which
made their customary rounds of the
bay and river points; and little, if
any, activity on the upper river and
none on the bar.
Tomorrow morning at 5:30 o'clock
the steamer Wenona, of the Gray's
River Transportation Company, will
make her initial trip hence to that
river and territory, under the new
ownership to which she has fallen on
her purchase from the Callender Na
vigation Company. Captain W. E.
Hull had her enrolled yesterday at
the Custom House, as the law re
quires when a vessel changes owners,
and filed the bill of sale indicating
that possession had duly passed to
himself and John Johnson and Oscar
Oleson, for the sum of $9000. She
will berth at the Callender dock as
usual and her schedule wil be given
out later.
The oil tank steamer Asuncion ar
rived down from Portland yesterday,
and went to sea and the coast of
California in her usual sturdy fashion,
and independence of bar conditions.
The steamer Hanalei is due in from
San Francisco today and will berth
at the Callender pier on her arrival
The steamship Roanoke will return I
down on Friday morning next, out- j
ward bound for her California itiner
ary; and the Rose City will follow ;
her down on practically the same
quest, 24 hours later.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH II, 1908.,
ORIENTAL RUGS.
Why Those That Are Mads by Hand4
Work Cost So Much.
The simple apparatus Is still In use '
m outlying districtshome dye tubs j
filled with colors extracted from
sheep's blood, larkspur, Indigo, tumer
ic, saffron, mulberry, walnut husks,
brass combs for carding and distaffs
whirled by hand. Between two sticks
held horizontally by supports at tbe
ends are strung threads drawn taut,
harp fashion. Then worsted yarn ts
passed over and under tbe strings
twice. Songs are sung-songs trans
mitted from old to young, so ancient
some of them, that they are In a tost
language and these songs tell the
weaver what colors to tie In as she
progresses with the pattern. Each
district has its own patterns and
songs. After each knot tbe ends of
the yarn are scissored off to form the
pile.
In a close woven piece like Kir
man, measuring a mere 5 by 8 feet,
there are 400 knots to the square
Inch. As tbe weaver's speed is about
three knots a minute, four years of
continuous labor would be required on
sucb a rug. Within that time some
fingers would stop weaving forever;
others would go on with It Was It
any wonder, the rug hunter asked me.
that no two old rugs, even from tbe
same village and the same household,
were ever Just alike? A bereavement
would Induce a greater unconscious
nse of white; a bridal would turn the
weaver's thoughts to scarlet and vic
tories' of war to yellow. Local environ
ment family happenings, removals
from town to desert and desert to
mountain, would enrh hnve effect Goh
slp of harems, the tinkle of silver
anklets, the alarms of brigands, the
elations of religious, nil would go Into
tbe rug.
Then," I Interrupted the hunter, "If
they still dye and. weave as of old,
rugs are being made now that eventu
ally will be beautiful and valuable?"
If the west were willing to say to
tho east, "We will give you five or ten
years to make a rug," If it would say
that, then age nntUgentle wear would
do the rest. But the west won't. It has
mansions In Increasing numbers to fit
out at once. So It has Introduced ani
line dyes and machine carders and
spinning Jennies and collective weav
ing and Is otherwise bustling produc-tlon.-Franklln
Clarkin In Everybody's
Magazine.
The Commercial
One of the coziest and most popular
resorts in the city is the Commercial
A new billiard room, a pleasant sitting
room and handsome fixtures all go to
make an agreeable meeting place for
gentlemen, there to discuss the topics
of the day, play a game of billiards
and enjoy the fine refreshments serv
ed there. The best of goods are only
handled, and this fact being so well
known, a large business is done at the
Commercial, on Commercial street,
near Eleventh.
A very swell line of very
nice and tasty designs, some
thing you will like. Prices
range from $1 to $1.50.
Jk
Our Spring showing in Hats is,
we be! lie ve, the best that has ever
been shown in Astorio $3 to
$3.50. See window.
To the Ladies IjSrSSfS
common phrase, "simply immense." Your boy will
always iook nice in our ooys ciomes. rricea aic
reasonable -$2.50 up.
Hart
chaffner
& Marz Clothes
This year's styles have not changed very much.
H. S. & M. Clothes never go to extremes, yet they
are always in the lead. $18 to $35
LEADER IN NOBBY CLOTHES
DRIHD
Cares Biliousness, Sick
Headache, Sour Stom-
pVi TnmM TJvit and
chronic Constioation. T mtmI!tta CmU Crwtfi pimples and blotches.
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Cleanses the system
thoroughly and clears
sallow complexions of
Pleasant
guaranteed
P. T. LAURIN. OWL DRUO STORE.
NEW TO-DAY
OO-CARTS THAT CO.
A mother's pride in her dainty baby
finds expression in the folding go
cart in which the infant traverses its
limited way in the world. The per
fect thing in this line, at rational cost,
is to be found at the Zapf Furniture
& Hardware Company. They are
prettily upholstered, rubber-tired and
fold compactly. And best of all,
they are selling like hot-cakes, at
$7.50. Look them up at once.
The Clean Man.
The man who delights in personal
cleanliness, and enjoys his shave,
shampoo, haircut, and bath, in As
toria, always goes to the Occident
barber shop for these things and
gets them at their best.
To The Peopje.
In submitting my name to the elec
tors of the Fifth Judicial District for
their consideration for the office of
District Attorney of said District, I
desire to say that if I am nominated
and elected, I will, during my term
of office, honestly, vigorously and
impartialy perform all the official
duties pertaining to said office, with
out fear or favor, endeavoring always
to accord to every individual, irre
spective of party, politics or person
alities, a square deal under the law,
keeping always uppermost in my mind
the interests of the tax payers of said
District and State.
E. B. TONGUE.
; For Good Wood
From the Tongue Point Lumber
Company, 16-inch stove length. Call
up Prael-Eigner Transfer Co., Phone
221
When You Travel
Be sure that your ticket reads vl"
the O. R. & N. and connections, it
THE VERDICT OF
OUR PATRONS
i
Wj It
No one has ever complained either di
rectly or indirectly against the quality
of our food products, and once you are
acquainted with our quality you will
have no complaint on the prices! either
Acme Grocer y Co.
THE UP-TO-DATE GROCERS
521 COMMERCIAL STREET
PHONE 681
costs no more than via other lines.
Through tickets to and from all prin
cipal points in the United States,
Canada and Europe. G. W. Roberts,
Agent, O. R. & N Dock, Astoria,,
"Modern" Delights.
When a man l asses under the hands
of a barber he wants the best skilled
treatment to be had In that line. In
Astoria, the man in search of such
manipulation, goes direct to Petersen's
"Modern" shop, at 572 Commercial,
and gets it in any of the six chairs
maintained.
New Grocery Store.
Try our own mixture ot coffee the
J. P. B. Fresh fruit and vegetables.
Badollet & Co,, grocers. Phone Main
1281.
Just received a new line of umbrella
covers. See C. H. Orkwitz, 137 Tenth
street ,' '
Kodak Supplies.
A full line of films, papers, cameras,
kodaks, etc., just received at Hart's
Drug Store. (
The Palace Restaurant
The ever-increasing popularity of
the Palace Restaurant is evidence of
the good management, and the serv
ice, at this popular dining room. ForV
a long time the reputation ' of the
house has been of the best and it
does not wane as time progresses.
The system used, that of furnishing
the finest the market affords, and all
san be obtained, in season, is t plan
that will always win, coupled as it Is
with the best of cooking and prompt
service. A common saying nowadays,
is "Get the Palace habit" i
Will lady who bought the cream
cake at the St. Agnes' Guild sale two
weeks ago please return the plate to
Miss Crang's Art Store.' -
The very best board to be obtained
In the city la at "The Occident Hotel
Rates very reasonable. .'