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THE WEATHER
Oregon, Washington, and Idaho
Showers.
PARTY CALLS, AND PRIMARIES
It is a question in Oregon, just
now, as to whether the law, or party,
is the governing force in the adjust
ment of political issues.
Acting, primarily, upon the best
instinct of citizenship, we shall obey
the law first, and then adhere as close
ly as that law permits, and our con
science behooves, to the demands of
the Republican party; and having ful
filled the statute, shall, get squarely
behind that party's candidates and
stay with them to the end.
"If thy hand offend thee, cut it
off!" Obey the law, or repeal it!
The primary law is fairly and
squarely on the statute books and was
placed there by, and with, the con
sent of the people, in party and out of
it With some few essential amend
ments, which in time will be made, it
is likely to stay there forever. Popu
lar laws are not easily abrogated, for
all attempts of the kind are construed
as retroactive and dangerous. And
yet, if such edicts shall prove to be
hurtful, confusing, inadequate, or
palpably bad, the people may exercise
their original prerogative and recall
them.
The people must speak first upon
the men and measures pending; after
that we shall have our say on candi
dates, policies and premises for which
the Republicans of Oregon, Clatsop
county, and the City of Astoria, stand
sponsor. We are moved to this
statement, again, by the repeated and
insistent demands as to why we are
silent on all pro-primary matters.
LOWER COLUMBIA COAL.
Thirty-five well known citizens of
this city have just returned from a
visit to the coal mines at Cardiff, up
the Cowlitz River, in Washington,
whither they went as the guests of
the company controlling the prop
erty. These men are a unit, practi
cally, in the statement that there are
almost inexhaustible quantities of lig
nite coal in plain sight and workable
lay, at the mines; and that the owners
are actually at a point where the only
thing left to do is to market it.
It is freely admitted by the repre
sentatives of the company that the
coal is not of the highest grade. They
assert, however (and so far, without
successful contradiction), that it is as
good as the ordinary output sent to
this market from Australia; and that
for all domestic purposes is an excel
lent and satisfactory article.
It is to be placed on the Astoria
market at a delivery cost not to ex
ceed $6,000 per ton, and in such quan
tities as will give the last man a full
opportunity of testing it for every
merit it possesses. Bunkers are to
be erected at a central and accessible
point and the business is to be handed
with a view of establishing the staple,
at once, and for all time, as among
the chief of the commoner supplies
on this market It is well worth the
interest of every man and family in
the city, and the try-out will probably
fix the commodity as one of perma
nent features of local commerce here.
The coal is to be exploited as a
factor in the steamship circles of this
port, and is liable to cut considerable
figure in that end of the commerce,
since, while it is not quite so good a
steam producer as the foreign article,
the difference in cost at the bunkers,
will far more than balance the physi
cal demerit alluded to. Hence, the
next door product is likely to cut
quite a swathe in its particular realm
of industry and commerce as Astoria
stands for those elements.
MR. McCUE'S STATEMENT.
The statement, published over the
signature of Assistant District Attor-
Wellnvlte Your Attention to the
SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN SAY. BAM
506 COMMERCIAL STREET.
COMPLETE FACILITIES FOR DOING ALL KINDS OF BUSI
NESS INCIDENTAL TO CONSERVATIVE BANKING. Ml
ney John C McCue, in this issue, cov
ering the strictures recently laid at
his official door by the councilmanic-committee-of-five,
as to the neglect of
duty in the prosecution of certain
public evils alleged to exist here, etc ,
etc., etc., speak for itself, as defensive
matter ,in very direct and comprehen
sible terms. It goes to the root of
the question of official responsibility
for the non-prosecution of these vio
lations of law, and puts the police of
the city equally on the defensive as to
their share in that failure to do this
simplest duty; and at the same time
illustrates the exact cause and influ
ence that has deterred Chief Gammal
and his men, towit, the over-wecning
ascendancy of the police commission
and its inspired inertia along these
lines; and emphasizes the need of the
earliest possible abrogation of this
useless and impeding department of
Astoria's civic organism.
Before the People
Cards of Candidates in tha Coming
Campaign.
DAILY WAR-SCARES.
Hardly a day passes that some new
and dismal prophecy is not uttered in
high places, by men of supposed
standing, as to the absolute unpre
paredness of the United States to en
gage in war. And we doubt not there
are many essential things to do, yet,
to nut us in first-class fighting trim,
and that an instant call of the sort,;
might stagger us a bit, at least, until
we got over the "daze." But we
deorecate the eternal foisting of the
question on the public and the world.
No other nation on earth would per
mit such indiscriminate discussion of
its vital affairs; and the claim, that
broadcast criticism is conducive to ad
ministrative remedial action, is not
as true as it would seem to be. Great
departments of government in this
country are not amenable to popular
strictrue so much as they are to lim
ited appropriations by Congress; this
is the "milk in the cocoanut ; ana
when the people learn just how fast
thev are crowing, how immensely
their soecific agencies are expanding,
and realize the need for larger equip
ment and more generous contribution,
the matter will easily rectify itself.
We have yet to make history that
tells of defeat and spoliation at the
hands of an enemy, at home, or
abroad, and the day is still remote
when that shame shall fall. Until it
does, our best influences were better
turned to other and silenter means of
achieving that which is needed.
For Congress,
T. T. CEER
Candidate for Republican Congres
sional Nomination in the Second Dis
trict. Liberal Appropriations fo
Waterways, Equal Opportunities an
Privileges for Labor and Capital, an
Governmental Control of Corpora
tions.
To Tha People.
In submitting my name to the elec
tors of the Fifth Judicial District for
their consideration for tha 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.
"What Women Will Do."
Is the title of Harry Jackson's lat
est and greatest play presented by the
Holden Bros. & Edwards Company.
In sneakine of the play the critics
throughout the country acknowledge
that Mr. Jackson has succeeded in
getting much of the color of Charles
Dickens' great story, David Copper-
field. UDon the stage. The play is not
a direct dramatization of that novel,
but founded on some of the principal
incidents. The action being placed
about James Steerforth, Rora Dottle,
Emily, Micawber, Peggotty, Uriah
Heen and Hammond Peggotty, the
rough young fisherman in love with
Emily, the innocent young woman
who forsakes him for the promises of
Steerforth. later to be cast aside. The
punishment of Steerforth, when he is
drowned during a hand-to-hand fight
with Hammond Peggoty, with a tew
other scenes in which Mr. Jackson
has deserted Dickens, gives the play
a melo-dramatic flavor. The comedy
element as supplied by the Micawber
family. The scenic effects are excel
lent, the oarts are well played, and
the success of the play is demon
strated by the applause and hearty
lancrhter at each performance. "What
Women Will Do" will be seen at the
Astoria Theatre, Sunday, March 2V.
WILD BEASTS.
From time immemorial man has
trained and utilized domestic animals
to help him hunt and capture other
animals, but you have to go to the
far east to see wild and savage beasts
of prey broken in to such purpose.
So writes Captain Francis Thatcher
in the Technical World Magazine for
April. It must be remembered that,
however much you "tame" a wild
beast, he always remains wild and his
savasre instincts are likely to break
through the thin veneer of training
and bringing-up, by which they are
kept in subjection.
Some years ago, when traveling
through the independent state of Guz
erat, in India, I visited Barda, the
capital, where the Maharajah keeps
quite a menagerie of wild beasts in
various stages of subjection. On
special occasions sports are held in a
vast arena, where they have elephants
and buffaloes, and all manner of wild
beasts fight with one another. I at
tended one of these festivals, and it
was there that I noticed a pair of
panthers being led on chains like dogs
Now, of all animals of the feline tribe,
none are so dangerous or treacherous
as the panther. He is very much
more formidable than the tiger, for
he has the cunning fox added to the
ferocity of the tiger, and I was not a
litle surprised on being told that these
brutes were trained to hunt deer out
on the vast plains which surround the
city.
A description of hunts with pan
ther and hawks, follows- exciting and
interesting.
KILLS CATARRH GERMS.
Sufferers Will be Interested in Special
Offer of T. A. Laurin.
The unusual offer made by T. F.
Laurin, shows the confidence they
The unusual offer made by T. F. Laur
in. shows the confidence they have
in Hyomei, and should dispel all
doubt as to its curative properties, for
they advertise to refund the price to
any person whom it fails to benefit.
You do not risk a cent in testing
the healing virtues of Hyomei, for
T. A. Laurin takes all the risk of its
giving satisfaction and leave you to
be the judge.
If you suffer from offensive breath,
raising of mucous, frequent sneezing,
husky voice, discharge from the nose,
droppings into the throat, loss of
strength, spasmodic coughing, gen
eral weakness and debility, or any
other catarrhal symptom, begin the
use of Hyomei at once. It will de
stroy all disease germs in the nose,
throat and lungs, soothe the irritated
mucous membrane, and make a thor
ough and lasting cure of catarrh.
There is no dangerous stomach
drugging when Hyomei is used.
Breathed through a neat pocket in
haler that comes with every dollar
outfit, its healing balsams destroy all
catarrhal germs, even in the most re
mote air cells, and quick recovery
follows.
COFFEE
The world is full of
anonymous coffee: "Java
and Mocha."
Who returns your
money if you' don't like
'em?
Your tracer returni roar montr '! roa dort
Mm Ichllllns'i frit; w par Ua.
SPAR.DEDK AND BUOY
Rose City In From Bay City With
J! 1 f 'Urge .Crowd.
N0MIA IN FROM T0C0PILLA
Hanalei Leaves Out For San Fran
cisco Breakwater Back From Coos
Bay Transport Saturn Calls For
Coal Alaskan Ships Getting in Line
The steamship Rose City arrived in
at the O. R. St N. Piers yesterday at
1:40 o'clock with 19S passengers on
board, the larger per centage being
in the second cabin and steerage. She
made good time up, considering the
fact she was bucking a north-wester
all the way from the Golden Gate to
North Head. She was just 49 hours
between heads. She went to the me
tropolis after a stay here of two hours,
unloading local freight.
Te fine steamshio Roanoke, from
the California coast, docked at the
Callender pier at 8:30 o'clock last
eveninc. with 119 passengers, and
plenty of freight. Captain Dunham
reports the nor wester as stiff all the
wav ud the coast, but otherwise the
run was a pleasant one. She left up
for the metropolis at 10 o'clock and
will be down again early on Friday
morning.
The Federal transport Saturn, from
San Francisco to the Bremerton navy
yard, called in here on Saturday night
last, at a late hour, for coal, having
exhausted the supply she left with in
contending with the nor'wester that
prevailed all the way up the coast.
She took on 50 tons at the Elmore
dock and left out Sunday afternoon,
to continue her voyage.
The steamer Lurline, which was ex
pected back on the lower river run
yesterday, is going on the Portland
Vancouver run for a day or two to
warm up her new engine-work, and
smooth things down for the more ex
tensive route.
The German bark Nomia, Captain
Himm, commanding, arrived in yes
terday noon, 49 days from Tocopilla,
under charter to the Portland Flour
ing Mills Company, to carry wheat
hence to the United Kingdom.
The steamship Breakwater was
among the arrivals, coming in from
Coos Bay, with plenty of business,
early in the day. She passed on up
the river, and will be back on Thurs
day morning.
The ship Henry Villard is now
coaling at Portland, and will be down
here on the 25th inst., tomorrow, to
make ready for her" trip to Nushagak
in the interest of the Alaska Fisher
men's' Packing Company, of this city.
Jacob Kamm, Jr., is serving his
grand-father's line as purser on the
steamer Undine and will pass from
her to the Lurline when that vessel
resumes her place on the Astoria
Portland run.
The ship Berlin tows up to Port
land today, from Goble, to be put in
readiness to serve the Warren Pack
ing Company on its Alaska fishing
grounds.
The steamer Hanalei came down
from Portland on Sunday morning
last with good business above and be
low stairs, and left out for San Fran
cisco. , The sea tug Samson went to Gray's
Harbor yesterday with the barge Wal
lacut which was loaded with locomo
tives and flat-cars for the Govern
ment jetty service at that point.
The steamship Argyle arrived down
from Portland at noon yesterday from
Portland, en route to San Francisco,
after more oil.
The steamer F. S. Loop crossed in
yesterday afternoon from the Bay
City, and will load lumber out of this
port for the return trip.
4CCCC
Constipation, or irregularity, Is very
often the cause of sick-headache, Lane's
Family Medicine is tha great preventive
and cure of headache. Druggists sell it
for 25 eenta.
Fisher Brothers Company
BOLE AOENT8 ;i'
Barboor and Flnlayion Salmon Twini and Netting
McCormick Harvesting Machinal ''
' Oliver Chilled Floughi
Malthoid Roofing
Sharpies Cream Separator!
Raecolith Flooring Storrett's Tools
Hardware, Groceries, Ship
Chandlery
Tan Bark, Blua Stona, Muriatic Acid, Welch Coal, Tar,
1 Ash Oars, Oak Lumber, Plpa and Fittings, Brass
n Goods, Paints, Oils and Class
Fishermen's Pure Manilla Rope, Cotton Twins and Salna Web
Wo ivotit Yotir Trod
FISHER BROS.
BOND STREET " :
J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President,
O. I. PETERSON, VIea-PresIdent
FRANK PATTON, Cashier
J. W. GARNER, Assistant Caihitr
.Astoria Savings Bank
Capital Paid In $100,000. Surplus and Undivided Profits, $30,000.
Transacts General Banking Business 1 " Interest Paid on Tlma Deposits
FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM.
Eleventh and Duana 8ta. Astoria, Oregon,
s
First National Bank of .Astoria, Ore.
KNTAliMMIKI) 18MO.
Capital $100,000
John Fox, Pres. P. L. Bishop, See. Astoria Savings Bank, Trass.
Nelson Troyer, Vice-Pres. and Supt
ASTORIA IRON WORKS
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Correspondence Solicited. . Foot ol Fourth Stmt
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11th & BondSole Agts.
March Official Tide Tables
Compiled by the U. S. Government for
a : j tr: .
High Water.
Data.
SUNDAY
SUNDAY
Monday
Tuesday
MARCH. 1908.
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
SUNDAY 8
Monday 9
Tuesday ....,,,.10
Wednesday .....11
Thursday 12
Friday II
Saturday 14
SUNDAY 15
Monday IS
Tuesday ..17
Wednesday is
Thursday 19
JYldav 20
I
Saturday .......21
SUNDAY ZZ
Monday ..' is
Tuesday ........ 24
Wednesday zb
Thursday 2t
Friday 27
Saturday zs
SUNDAY 29
Monday .........10
Tuesday 81
A. M.
h.m.
11:44
0:60
1:28
2:05
2:45
8:25
4:06
4:48
5:28
8:20
7:40
8:60
9:60
10:40
11:22
0:20
0:47
1:18
1:45
2:14
2:44
8:20
4:00
4:45
5:48
7:08
8:25
9:42
10:40
11:26
0:20
ft
7.9
8.9
8.4
8.81
9.0
9.1
8.9
8.6
8.8
T.9
7.6
7.2
7.2
7.3
7.6
7.7
7.9
8.2
8.4
8.5
8.5
8.6
8.6
8.2
8.0
7.6
7.4
7.4
7.7
8.1
8.6
8.71
P. M.
hjn.
18:86'
1:11
2:10
2:00
8:60
4:42
6:44
7:00
8:24
9:40
9:40
11:15
11:60
12:06
12:42
1:20
8:00
1:88
1:22
4:10
5:06
6.18
7:48
9:14
10:12
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SUNDAY
Monday
Tuesday
Low Water.
Data.
MARCH, 1908.
M.
1
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8
4
5
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7
8
9
..10
Wednesday 11
Thursday u
Friday is
Saturday ,. 14
SUNDAY 16
Monday , is
TuMldav 17
Wednesday jg
mursaay ig
Friday to
Saturday . ei
(SUNDAY . i. i. .22
Monday is
Tuesday 4
Wednesday 25
rnurnaay ...... .6
Friday 27
Haturnav to
SUNDAY 29
Monday ..,..,,,.20
Tuesday 81
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h.m.
'6:00
8:60
7:87
8:17
9:00
9:60
10:40
11:86
1
0:10
1:46
8:10
4:20
6:14
6:65
6:80
7:00
7:26
7:55
8:80
9:08
9:55
10:45
11:46
1:04
2:40
4:00
5:02
6:60
6:84
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1.9
1.8
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0.6
0.5
0.6
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8.8!
8.8
1.8
1.8
1.8
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0.5
0.4
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0.6
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8.4
8.6
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h.m. I ft
6:80
7:14
7:64
8:84
9:10
9:66
10:40
11:10
12:40
1:46
1:65
1:66
4:46
6:80
6:05
8:86
7:06
7:84
8:05
8:88
9:14
9:60
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine
Tablets.' Druggists refund money if
it talis to cure. E. W. GROVE'S
signature is on each box. 25c.
When you need a couch curs you noed
one that will cure your cough. Kemp's
Balsam, the best cough euro, will do It
All druggists sell it for 20 cents.
Lane's Family MWliclna .111 -L.
m g.vv j vw
a digestion that will nnnmll VMt tit
guoo. tilings instead of "health foods" of
various sorts that are as nalatahi.
hay. . .: .'; ;:.
There is nothing also "Just as gsiT
as Kemp's Balsam, the best cough eureS
and tha other kind cost lust as muds
as this famous remedy.