The morning Astorian., April 11, 1908, Page 8, Image 8

SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1908.
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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, AST01UA, OllEGON.
This Week
"WALNUTS",
15c Per Pound
A. V. ALLEN
SOLE AGENT FOR BAKER'S BARRINGTON HALL STEEL
CUT COFFEE.
PHONES 711 AND 3871 BRANCH PHONE 713
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
From statistics recently prepared it
appears that the great city of Lon
don uses annually 213,174,279 kilo
watts of electricity at an average cost
of about 10 cents a kilowatt.
Heavy electric traction of the fu
ture, such as involves the equipment
of large trunk line railroads, will use
the new alternating current electric
motors. The motors are capable of
complete and efficient control and are
able ni descending grades to return
to the trolley line the energy stoned
in the train instead of wasting in
heat and wearing out the brake shoes.
In other words the motors will be
turned into generators when going
down hill and the current made in
this way will be returned to the line.
The speed of submarine telegraphy
is illustrated by tthe fact that five
minutes are, usually sufficient to
cover a complete buying and selling
operation between the London Stock
Exchange ami Wall Street. The dis
tance between these two points is
about 4,000 miles and it takes the
message less than a minute fir the
journey.
Chili is thinking of substituting
electricity for steam on a number of
important railroads.; An American
engineer is figuring on the project
There are 815 miles of electric rail
way in Canada with a capitalization
of $75,195,476. The province of On
tario has 402 miles of track;Quebec
has 198 miles; themaritime provin
ces 71 miles and the far west 104
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ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT.
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Slmi!atin$ tfie Footfantf Rpufa
ting tJie S tomactis at UBowcis cf
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Worms .Convulsions! even
ness andLoss OF SLEEP.
Facsimile Signature of
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NEW YOHK.
Exact Copy of Wrapper.
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Grand Ball
Tonight, April 11, 1908
To be given by the NATIONAL ASSO
CIATION in their hall in upper town
Music by the PACIFIC ORCHESTRA
miles. In 1907 the gross earnings
were $12,635,905 and the operating
expenses $7,737,252.
Portland, Maine, is to be supplied
with electricity obtained from the
tides. Land has been secured on eith
er side of Black and it is estimated
that 25,000 electrical horsepower will
be generated, enough to light the
entire city, furnish power for the
street railway and supply a number of
manufacturing plants. '
One of the geniuses employed by
the General Electric Companyjhas in
vented a device which will put an end
to the nefarious work of the incan
descent light bulb thief. It is the
custom, in larger cities, to steal the
new light bulbs from the hotels and
public places and resell or exchange
them for drinks in the cheap saloons.
The new device consists of a socket
and a key. After the new lamp has
been screwed without the key. The
bulb will turn around but will not
come out.
An English electrician gets the
credit for devising a way to ripen
bananas by electricity. The fruit is
hung in an airtight glass case in
which there are a number of electric
lights. The artificial light and heat
hastens the ripening process in pro
portion to the number of lights turn
ed on.
. Kemp's Balaam U a safe cough cure,
for it contains nothing that can barm
you. It is the best cough cure, but
costs no more than any other kind. All
druggists sell it.
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
Bears
Signature
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Use
For Over
Thirty Years
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Rosenebrg said that Mr. Elmore had
(assured him it was because the C. R.
R A. had taken legal advice upon the
elheacy of the bill sent up by the
1 Columbia River rishernien's Protec
tive Association, and that it was deem
ed to be impracticable and could not
be enforced. To this statement Mr.
Rosenberg added, pithily, that if the
gill-nctters.' bill was as flimsy as all
that, he could not see why Scufcrt,
Warren et .al. were spending $40,(KW
or $5l,000 to defeat it at the polls,
wh-'t; rny lawyer might have yielded
up such an opinion for far fewer
hundreds. '
I II. G. Van Dusen, Fish Commis
sioner for Oregon, followed Mr. Ros
enberg, continuing and accentuating
the arguments presented. He ha 1
verified the history so given to its
uttermost detail and it was true as th;
Gospels themselves.
Mr. Van Dusen expressed his per
feet confidence in the justice and
good sense of the people in disposing
of the two bills in question, and said
that he knew of plenty of people in
the up-river field itself, who would
not tolerate the continuance of thi
fish-wheels if they had a chance to
drive them out by the silent, sensible
and secret ballot. The people were
honest in the main, and would ex
emplify their sense of justice when
this question was fairly in their
hands; to get it there, he made a
strong plea for the best aid the house
could give the committee, and retired
with a very friendly expression from
the audience.
Dr. II. L. Henderson was then
called upon and made the only nega
tive talk 'of the evening; he was
dubious about the success of the bill,
though he vouched for the righteous
ness of the cause, and felt that it
would be lost because it would not
get fairly before the people; he was
heart and soul for the measure, and
urged that lecturers be sent out to
meet the people at the great centers
of the State and lay the whole matter
before them by word of mouth. He
condemned the wheel in unmeasured
terms and urged the . best faith of
Astoria and all Oregon in their fight
to eliminate them forever.
Frank Kankkonen, the general man
ager of the Union Fishermen's Co
Operative Packing Company, one of
the nestors of the salmon industry on
the Columbia, made a brief, but de
liberate and cogent talk on the matter
in hand, urging that aside from what
the citizens may contribute here in
the way of funds to expedite the work
of the committee in informing the
citizenry of Oregon on this issue, by
pamphlet and otherwise, each and
every man with friends anywhere in
Oregon write immediate and personal
letters in the same behalf and take all
other individual means to spread the
propaganda of safety and sense. He
said the question affected far more
than the 5000 fishermen engaged down
here; that that number must be mul
tiplied by the membership of th':
families behind the fishermen; and
the work of repressing the -fish-wheel
must be kept up relentlessly until the
business was saved to hc State
for all time; and that if it were not
possible to defeat the fish-wheel,
there was nothing left but the woods.
Hon. John II. Smith then took the
floor and made a ringing speech in
derogation of the fish-wheel and its
sponsors. He mixed no terms nor
names, but dealt out smashing truths
with snap and telling force that were
not misunderstood by his hearers; he
could not feel quite so sanguine as
Fish Commissioner Van Dusen had
declared himself to be; he knew the
ugly chance of an inexperienced vote
being cast as between the pending
fish bills, - and urged specific and
swift action toward the general en-
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i Another Inter-
esting Number
50c for r 3 Montfis
lightenmrnt of the people at large; the
salmon fisher of this end of the river
had everything needed nt the moment,
truth, right, judgment itnd he full
best of the argument but it was im
peratively necessary that nil this be
passed up to the general voter quickly
and concisely for the salvation of the
prime interest nt stake. Mr. Smith
did not talk long but everything be
said was to the point and wns thor
oughly well received.
John C. McCue, deputy district at
torney, took the floor and pleaded the
case of the bread-winners versus the
grafters, in the fishing business, with
splendid effect. He contended that
enthusiastic and generous contribu
tion to the propaganda of the com
niittee was the sole essential and
urged that there be no loss of time nor
niggardliness of dollars. The gill-
nctters of the lower Columbia fished
honestly, ns to time and method; the
fish-wheel fished eternally and took
everything from a blind baby-salmon
to the egg-laden fish hunting its na
tural lair.
At this point Mr. F.linore was asked
to take the floor and he did so, making
a clever and friendly talk along the
lines of the prevalent argument of the
hour. He said he had been forced
into the wheel business through the
sheer exigencies of business; and had
associated himself with the men who
stood for that system merely as, a
matter of securing a price for fish
that commended itself to his busi
ness judgment; he said he stood ready
to give Mr, Rosenberg $1000 if the
bill, sent to the people by the gill
netters at this end of the river, should
stand the test of legal enforcement.
He said the Scufcrt bill will fall to
the ground, and this on the positive
declaration of the best lawyers in the
State; he spoke kindly of the business
and the friends he had in it, and had
had for many years, and said the
movement was rightly directed
though he was compelled to question
the efficacy of the means employed
for its achievement. His remarks
were received with distinct appre
ciation all over the house.
At this point there was introduced
by Mr. Rosenberg, a set of full and
explicit resolutions covering the range
of the arguments maintained by the
fishermen here, which will appear at
length in the next issue of this paper.
They were adopted by the house with
ringing unanimity.
John E. Gratke then took the stage
and made a resonant appeal for
money to spread the literature of the
campaign to the uttermost ends of
Oregon, and he was immensely suc
cessful, for in less than 25 minutes,
the audience had responded with sub
scriptions aggregating $1220, with
Samuel F.lmore leading instantly on
the demand of the moment; the list
running as follows; Samuel F.lmore,
To Advertise Astoria
fir' ' 1 1. "iii'i
Nothing else appeals to the visitor in a strange town
so much as the neat appearance of its homes.
Beautify your home and its surroundiugs by rais--itig
beautiful flowers and shrubs. We have the seeds
Scholfield, Mattson & Co.
phone ii8i GOOD GOODSpH0NBw
120 TO 124 TWELFTH STREET.
$100; O. C. Fulton, $50; Herman
Wise, $50; Frank Fatton, $50; Astoria
Savings Hank. $50; I,. O. Holland,
$50; unknown, $50, with $50 more if
necessary; J. H. and A. M. Smith,
$50; Callcnder Navigation Co., $50;
Martin Franciscovitch, $25; Andrew
Young $25; Thomas Dealey, $25;
Charles Larsen, $25; Aug. Daniclson,
$25; L. Larson, $25; E. Gustation.
$25; Jns.HV. Welch, $25; Chas. V.
Rrown, $25; Erick Mannula, $25;
Judge O. Anderson, $20; W. C. A.
I'ohl. $20; D. Hannula, $20; Andrew
Rurkc. $10; North Pacific Brewery, by
Mr. Schamberger, $100; Harry Jones,
$10; Jason .Edison, $10; Paul Slang
land, $10; J. J. Robinson, $10; I. Berg
man, $10; J. E. Johnson, $10; Chris
Christiansen, $10; II. M. Lorntsen,
$10; Emil Hcdman, $10; John Sven
sen, $10; S. Danziger & Co., $25; Fred
Mikklescn, $10; A. E. Coe, $5; L. W.
Glaser, $5; Jack Sayrcs, $5; H. Eck
strom, $5; Adolf Johnson, $5; Scandinavian-American
Bank. $10; Jos.
Annet, $5; Oscar Johansen, $5; V.
Seeberg, $5; Andrew Olsen. $5; Os
wald Gustafson, $5; Mr, Lcinenwcbcr,
$5; and the First National Bank of
Astoria, $100.
When this splendid list had been
formulated amid the intense and
pleasant moments that approached
adjournment, a motion was made and
passed directing Chairman Wise to
name a special committee of ten citi
zens to canass the city in this behalf,
and with a sense of the thorough suc
cess of this genuine effort to tnlist
the great center, Astoria, in the right
eous campaign against the existance
of the greatest and foulest evil it
knows, the meeting adjourned.
Women with good complexion are
never homely. Good blood make god
complexion!. Lane's Fimll.v Medicine
make good blood. AH drujrgUU sell it
for 25 cents.
BASEBALL SCORE:
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At San Francisco San Francisco
7, Portland 3.
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There's this difference between
the cocoa habit and the coffee
habiti Cocoa maKes you healthier,
stronger, steadier, better able to
do your share. Does coffee?
LESS WAN A CENT A CUP
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is made with scrupulous, con
scientious care and old-fashioned
attention to cleanliness, purity,
goodness and quality. No cocoa
at any price can be better or more
delicious. Tour grocer sells and
recommends it..
D. Ghirardelli Company
San Francisco
COLLEGE AND SCHOOL.
Michigan hat upcnt $12,244,11179
for its school ii ixty-elght years.
Dean Hill of the College of Arti
and Sciences of Cornell University
has notified President Schurman that
he has accepted the presidency of the
University of Missouri at Columbus,
to take effect Sept. 1.
The Central High ichoul of Phil
udclphiu holds the unique position of
being the only public high school in
the United States invested with the
legal power to confer dcgreci upon
its graduates. In the annals of the
national department of education it
ii classified with the colleges and uni
versities, ' 1
J. Scott Hartley, the artist, hai
completed a bust of Otis Skinner in
the character of Lieutenant Colonel
Rridau in "The Honor of the family"
The bust is of heroic size and is con
sidered the finest piece of modelling
done by Mr. Hartley, wlfo is famous
for his busts of Lawrence Barret,
John McCullough, Edwin Booth and
Dion Boticicault.
John Drew availed himself of hit
recent Washington engagement to
make a flying trip to New York for
his last sight of the city until the end
of June, but more particularly to
"catch" his nephew, John Barrymore,
in the act of playing "Toodlei," In the
farce of that name now running at the
Garrick Theater. Ethel Barrymore,
Mrs, John Drew, and Louise Drew
also sat in the box at the matinee
Mr. Drew attended. The presence of
the whole family simply added to the
gaycty, not at all to tfie nervousness,
of the occasion for young Barrymore
despite the fact that "Toddles" it
only the fourth stage part he has
ever played.
When you need a cough ure you m&
one that will, cure your oough. Kemp's
Balsam, the best cough cure,' will do It
All drugglti sell It for 25 cents.