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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1908)
tt- r.v?rww$ma THE MORNING ASTORI AN. ASTORIA. OREGON PERSONAL MENTION .a . OPENING I We wish to announce to our clientelle our Spring Millinery Opening commencing Wednesday, March 18th. continuing three days. We will show the most complete and up-to-date line of millinery ever shown in Astoria. Our stock is the most select. Our styles are the very latest We guarantee our prices to be lower than any other store in town. Big line from $2.00 to $6.00. GEORGLV PENNINGTON 483 Bond Street THE GOAL MINES OF CARDIFF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GIVES SOME INFORMATION REGARDING THE CARDIFF COAL MINES NEAR KELSO, KNOWN AS THE CONSUMERS' MINE. The coal business of the City of Astoria wilL probably be entirely revolutionized within thev course of a very short time. One of-the prime movers in this enterprise is Mr. C. H. Callender of this city, well known in the steamship and transportation business through out the Northwest The coal mine which will be open ed and operated is located at Kelso, Washington, on the Cowlitz river, generally known as the Consumers' Coal Company. Mr. Callender will have charge of the transportation of this proposition which promises to immediately assume extraordinarily dimension. He will have a "supply of this coal on hand for sale within a very short time and a sample has been placed on exhibition in the Chamber of Com merce. There are 600,000 tons of this coal already blocked out in the Consum ers' Mines and five miles of tunnels have been timbered and laid out Three tunnels have been put in cross cutting with connecting hills dug be tween. In this manner $150,000 have already been spent on the Consumers' Mine. Machine shops have been erected for the purpose of making the mine's own equipment including the " coal cars. The company already owns 800 cars. An excursion will be run from As toria to the mines on Sunday, March 22nd, when interested parties will be given an opportunity to see for them selves. The party will leave Astoria on the morning train and go to Rain ier where they will then take the boat This mine will put oji the market 100 tons of coal daily without' interruption. Some of the largest coal contracts in the Northwest will be filled by this company and the entire merchants fleet of vessels that do business in the Columbia River will be coaled from this mine. While it is not yet definitely known what the selling price of the Con sumers' Mine coal will be, it is ex pected that the price will not be more than $5.00 per ton. This coaling arrangement which Mr. Callender is perfecting for As toria means a great deal for the com' mercial development of the City as during the past winter on account of the high prices of coal transportation, it was practically impossible to Jbuy coal for less than $10 or $11 per ton. Thus the price of coal will literally be cut in two. This proposition is in no sense of the word a speculative proposition but a plain .matter of fact business proposition, the only condition re maining to be carried out is the marketing of the coal which has al ready been opened up. . One of the needs of this port has long been ample coaling facilities and supplies at inviting prices for the ac commodation of all vessels that en ter the Columbia River. It now appears that this crying need is to be amply and sufficiently satis fied. An invitation has been extended to all of the officers of the Chamber of Comjmerce to make the trip to tbe mines on the excursion as the guests of the coal company. Satan Terrified. There Is as great genius displayed In advertising as in the higher branches of literature. No problem dannta the modern advertising man. In tbe window of a little book store in Eighth avenue, New York, was re cently heaped a great, pile of Bibles marked very low'. Never before were Bibles offered at such a bargain, and above them all In big letters was the inscription: Satan trembles when he sees Bibles sold as low as these. Well Grounded. "Is my son getting well grounded in the classics" asked tbe anxious mil lionaire. "I would put it even stronger than that," replied the private tutor. "I may say that he is actually stranded on them." Chicago Record-Herald. Certainly Would. City Man (to villager) Wouldn't it open your eyes if you were to look across at that lot there and see one of ur city skyscrapers covering it? Vil lage Man Waal, I guess I would, see In' as I've got twenty head o" eattle grazin' there. Bohemian. Millinery Opening Mrs. R. Ingleton will have a Grand Opening Wednesday and Thursday, March 18th and 19th. Be sure to a.tend MRS. R. INGLETON Commercial St. Welch Blk. 0pp. Budget Office SPRING AND SUMMER Millinery Opening AT THE BEE HIVE Beginning Wednesday, MarcH 18, and Contin uing to March 2Jst. Greatest Line of Trimmed Hats we Have Ever Shown J ' Mrs. D, E. Pearse, of Warrenton, was an Astoria visitor yesterday. G. C Magee, of Chicago, is in the city and looking for business and is Ending it. W. W. McKenzie, of Seattle, is in the city domiciled at the Occident. A. L Lutig, of Portland, is in town on a business quest ' W. D. Moore, o Portland, was an Astoria visitor yesterday. Joe Brown, of Knnppa, was in the city yesterday. R. WPhair has departed for his home at "York, Nebraska, where he will remain for sometime to come. 1 lis son, Earle, and daughter, Ruby, will do the house-keeping act by them selves in this city. Dr. W. T. Ward, of Forest Grove, a well known physician f that sec tion, was in the city yesterday, having come down to treat an old-time pa tient of his at Knappton, on the north shore. The doctor returned to the Williamette Valley last evening on the Portland express. J. N. Townsend, of Warrenton, un derwent an attack of heart trouble yesterday, but recovered from it hap pily and quickly. Postmaster Eva A. Denver, of War renton is ill with la grippe, but with promise of speedy recovery. Dr. B. Owens Adair was in from her country home yesterday on a business trip, returning to Warren ton late in the afternoon. . H. H. Zapf and Mortimer Nelson were passengers for Portland yester day on matters of business. H. B. Parker, the venerable globe trotter, has started for Astoria from San Francisco, and is due home at any hour. WATERFRONT ITEMS Doings Along the Waterfront Here Yesterday. WOMAN MORE THAN A HELP. Why is it that so few men make mental comrades of their wives? Is it because of man's consummate self ishness and egotism, his conviction that he is a lord of creation, that, in spite of all his vaporings and flattery to the contrary, he is a little better than his wifeis mentally, as well a physically, her superior. The selfish husband thinks that he should have a clear track for his am bition, and that his wife should be content, even grateful, to be allowed to tag on behind and assist him in every possible way in what, he con siders the grand life-work of both of them to make him the biggest man possible. It is very difficult for the average man to think of a woman s career, except in terms of his own interest. In other words, he has the idea that woman was made to be man's help meet, that she was made to help him do what he wants to do. He cannot conceive of his being made as a help meet for her, to help her carry out her ambition, unless it is that of a housekeeper. It does not even occur to him that she could have an ambi tion welling up within her heart, a longing to answer the call which runs in her own blood, and a yearning to express it in some vocation as well as he. I do not believe that the Creator has limited one-half of the human race practically to one occupation, while the other half has the choice of a thounsand. "But," many of our men readers will -say, "is there any grander pro fession in the world than that of home-making and the rearing of children? How can such a vocation be narrowing, monotonous?" My only answer would be: Let these men try this kind of life them selves." Of course it is grand. There is nothing grander in the universe than the work of a true wife, noble mother. But it would require the constitution of a Hercules, an infinit ely greater patience than that of a Job, to endure such work with almost no chance or outside variety, year in and year out, as multitudes of wives and mothers do. The average man does not apprec iate how almost devoid of incentives to broadmindedness, to many-sidedness, to liberal growth, the home life of many women is Success Maga Just received a new line of umbrella covers. See C. H. Orkwitz, 137 Tenth street TEA You can have it good if you want to. Or bad if you don't take care. Tew troer rttorni rww most? U ytl iet'l tt Schilliaf'i Bull w pr bla NUMANTIA OFF FOR CHINA Schooners McDonald and Jewett De parts for California Capistrano OS on Her Maiden Voyage Launch John L. C. Sails for Alaska Today. The 70-foot Carlson launch "John L. C." cleared from tbe custom house yesterday for Juneau, Alaska, via Seattle. Captain Eric Johnson, will take her through. B. Bae will act as her engineer; Frank Aklund goes out as cook and John Anderson as deck hand. She will outfit at the Sound port, and take the inside channels thence to Taku Bay. She sails this morning, all things being favorable. f The Portland-Astoria-Asiatic steam ship Numantia left out for Hong Kong yesterday at noon. Chief En gineer Haydn, who lately fell down the engine-room steps and hurt his head badly, went with her, but the second officer, who fell on the iron deck and injured his spine the same night, is still confuted at St Mary's hospital in this city and will join his ship as soon as possible. The Callender steamer Melville has arrived down from Portland with one of the company's huge barges loaded with 40 tons of coal, two iron railway watering tanks, two fine pile-driving engines, and sundry other and kin dred supplies for the I. R. & N. ex tension on the north shore. She will cross the bay with the heavy con signment today. The American ship Henry Villard now under charter to the Alaska Fishermen's Packing Company, of this city, has been ordered from Lin ton to Portland, to take on coal, and then to come to this port and begin loading supplies for the northern voyage. She will be here in the course of 10 days. The steamship Geo. VV. Elder is due down from Portland tomorrow morning, bound out for Eureka, San Francisco and Port Los Angeles. She will depart from the Callender pier at an early hour. She willbe followed on Saturday morning, equal ly early, by the steamship Senator, from the O. R. & N. pier. The schooner Alice McDonald, Cap tain Benson, cleared at the custom house yesterday afternoon, as from Stella, and bound for Rcdondo, Cali fornia, with 600,000 feet of lumber. She will sail this morning as soon as possible, The steamer Hanalci came in from San Francisco yesterday and docked at the Callender pier. She had about 600 tons of freight on board, 20 of which were left here. ' Her passenger list aggregated 54. She went on to Portland as soon as she finished dis charging here. The O. r! & N. tow boat Oklahama arrived down yesterday with the schooner Alice McDonald, lumber laden from Stella, on her hawsers, and went back at once with the schooner Albert Myers, which she will drop at Ranier for an outward cargo of lumber. The fine new steam schooner Capis trano arrived down from Portland yesterday on her maiden voyage, and left out almost immediately for the Golden Gate, with a big load of lum ber. , It is now conceded that the steam ship Senator has been re-chartered by the San Francisco-Portland Steam ship Company for another year from the 15th of May next, " The steamship Breakwater, Captain Macgenn, is due down from Portland this morning at an early hour, bound for Coos Bay points, Sam Ness will sail on her for the lower coast. The Johan Poulsen, with partial cargo of lumber arrived down from Portland yesterday and went to the Columbia mill dock at Knappton, to finish, The steamship George W, Elder is having a new Massie wireless outfit installed on board and will toon be in touch with the, best of them In this connection. The schooner W. F. Jewett, with her windless all fixed up and in prime shape, left down and out yesterday, and is now winging her flight to the California coast. Rumor has it the steamer Lurtine will come out tomorrow on her old Astoria-Portland run, and the Undine will go back to her own route. t The schooner John Wcarherwax hast hauled into the Tongue Point mills dock and will load lumber out for San Francisco. The oil steamer . Catania arrived down last evening on her way to the California coast THOUSANDS CURED. Wonderful Success of Hyomel Curing Catarrh, Even in Chronic Stages. in Hyomel is the most unusual remedy ever known for the curse of catarrh. It follows nature in her methods of treating diseases of the respiratory organs, as its healing balsams are taken in with the air you breathe, thus reaching the most remote air cells In the nose, throat and lungs, killing all catarrhal germs. Relief comes with almost the first breathe of Hyomel, while lasting and complete cure follows its faithful use. There is hardly a town or village In the whole country where there are not many who have been cured of catarrh by this natural treatment In Astoria T. F. Laurin can tell you of customers who have been cured oi catarrh by Hyomei, many of them after they had given up all hope of even relief. Be wise in time and use Hyomei at the first symptoms of catarrh. Do not allow the disease to extend along the delicate mucous membrane, grad ually going from tbe nose to the bronchial tubes, and then onward and downward until the lungs art reach ed. Hyomei will cure all curable forms and stages of catarrh. T. F. Laurin takes all tbe risk of trial and offers to refund the money for a $1.00 outfit if it fails to cure. 4CCCC Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup is new remedy, an improvement on the laxatives of former years, as it does THURSDAY. MARCH 19.MW8. Tuif miDAr-iMAATirD rnuiwrv rf At last Astoria la to be treated to a real genuine comic opera, in the shape of that clever musical mas terpiece, "The Burgomaster." II. P. Hill, business representative, is In the city and completed all arrangements for the date, Saturday, March 28th, at the Astoria Theatre. "The Burgo master" is without doubt the best of the many Plxley and Ludera' sue cesses which Include "Prince of Pit sen," "Woodland," "King Dodo," "Grand Mogul," and others. Oui Weinbiirg and Ruth White head the present presenting company, both having appeared In the original "Burgomaster" organisation, and along with over half a hundred others, including the famously original Kan garoo girls and the original New York and Chicago production will be brought to Astoria. 4CCCC NEW TO-DAY wneo too ttiw y Be sure that your ticket reads toe u. K. in. ana connections, is 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. "Modem" Delight. ' When a man l asses under tbe hands of barber he wants the best skilled treatment to be had in that line, la Astoria, the man in search of such manipulation, goes direct to Petersen's "Modern" shop, at 572 Commercial, and gets it la any of the six chairs maintained. Tno 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 For Good Wood From tba Tongue Point Lumber Company, 16-inch stove length. Call up Prael-Eigner Transfer Co., Phone. 22L The Palaca Restaurant The ever-increasing popularity of; the Palace Restaurant is evidence of, the good management and the serv Ice. at this popular dining room. For not gripe or nauseate and is ple.ant lon time the reputation of the ..i.- t !. .... i m 'house has been of the best and It, . to take. It is guaranteed. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. Spring Announcement .. The Ross Millinery will hold their spring opening on March 18th and 19th, which brief announcement is quite enough for those who know what this means. Given up to Die. B. Spiegel, 1204 N. Virginia street, Evansville, Ind., writes:, "For over five years I was troubled with kidney and bladder affections which caused me much pain and worry. I lost flesh and was all run down, and a year ago had to abandon work entirely. I had three of the best physicians who did me no good and I was practically given up to die. Foley's Kidney Cure was recommended and the first bottle gave me great relief, and after taking the second bottle I was entirely cured." Why not let it help you? T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. 4 C C CC Irritation of the throat and hoarse ness are relieved immediately by two or three little swallows of Kemp's Balsam, the best cough cure. Grip patients should make a note of this. 4 C C C C does not wane as time progresses.!! M.. . ...J .1 ff 1 L 1 I ine system usea, tnai oi lurnitami the finest the market affords, and all ean be obtained, in season, is a plan that will always win, coupled as It Is with the best of cooking and prompt, service. A common saying nowaosyi is "Get the Palace habit" New Grocery Store. Try our own mixture ot coffee the J. P. B. Fresh fruit and vegetable) Badollet & Co., grocers. Phone Mair 1281. $7.50. Look them up at once. Kodak Supplies, , A full line of films, papers, cameraf kodaks, etc., just received at Hart! Drug Store. f The Commercial One of the coziest and most popula rcinrtt In th rltv U th Commercial A new billiard room, a pleasant sittin room and handsome fixtures all go make an agreeable meeting place f gentlemen, there to discuss the topi of the day, play a game of miliar and enjoy the fine refreshments se ed there. The best of goods are on! handled, and this faei being so w known, a large business is done at t! Commercial, on Commercial stre near Eleventh. A FRESH SUPPLY OF Finnan Haddie, Cromarty Bloaters and Lenten Spe cialties. AciVieGroceryCo. THE UP-TO-DATE GROCERS j 521 COMMERCIAL STREET PHONE 681 f