THE MOlMtfC ASTOllIANi ASTORIA OREGON.
tvttDNESDAYV APRIL 13, 1908.
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THE WEATHER
Western Oregon Showers, cooler
except near coast. ; '
1 Western Washington Possibly
showers.
Eastern Oregon and Washington
Showers east portion, threatening ia.
west portion.
Idaho Showers and cooler.
' " A NATION'S SYMPATHY. ( 1
' Almost two years to -a day, the
country is called upon to turn its ever
ready sympathies to a famous and
stricken district, Chelsea, in the old
Bay State, just 'as it did to the Golden
Gate city, iif April, 1906; and it does
this with instant and generous
volumne. '
America leads the world in these
splendid manifestations and it is Im
mensely to the credit of the people
that they can and will respond quick
ly and cordially; it merges and welds
the widely separated millions in a
vast cohesive intimacy that cannot
but be good for the founding of im
perishable unity and appreciative
confidence, factors of no small pro
portions when one measures distances
on this glorious continent. We are
brothers and chums, from the St.
Croix to the Columbia; from Boston
to Astoria, and from the takes to
the Keys of Florida. So 'may it be
for all time to come!
A RIGHTEOUS VETO.
Once again Theodore Roosevelt,.
President of the United States has
done the right thing at the right
moment, in vetoing the omnibus irri
gation bill which involves immense
and popular rights of the people. He
holds that the water rights of the
nation are to be conserved and used
for the people and not given away to
every applicant that shall ask for the
purpose of turning a free and un
hampered inheritance into a source of
corporate greed and exploitation; he
is standing by the waters and water
nowes of the country just as he stood
by the lands of the people, and doing
it boldly and honestly and without
temporizing or -shilly-shallying. . ',
From one end of the United States
to the other his action in this matter
will be endorsed by the whole people
and the hold he has upon the people
of America will be the deeper, firmer
and more justifiable, for it. This is
the sort of thing that this country
has needed all these years; the
faculty of doing the right thing at
the right moment.
ASTORIA IS READY.
The oolicy now developing as be
tween the Government and the
States for the creation of a broader
National Guard service
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meets with general approbation in
this section of Oregon, and .Astoria
is nnitp readv. with plenty of fine
sniriteH vounz fellows and trained
officers; to meet the new issue, and
figure as practically as may be de
sired of her.
Aside from the urgency of advanc
ing the military forces of the country
which lie at the base of the move
ment, it is an excellent thing for the
toward whom it is di
j " o i- - - x m
rected, in the opportunity.it affords
for the disciphnging, guiding, ana
advancing of our youths along lines
of patriotic public service, as well as
extending a valuable arm of the pub
lie defense, at a time when such im-
nrovement is essential.
We have no doubt the proposition
' to establish and station a company
here will go with a im when the
toAeml and state officers chareed with
IVUVt
the work shall have rounded out their
nlans.' and all hands, the Astorian in
u,Ati will cheerfully render what
"MADE IN ASTORIAl"
It has1 been demonstrated by Mr.
Lew Ogan, the expert in clays and its
products, such as brick, tiles, piping,
terra cotta, etc., etc., that Clatsop
county is unequivocally a favored
center for supply of the hnest and
readiest sorts, both in quality and
quantity; and with such assurances as
he has given with such example of the
manufactured article as has put forth,
it becomes the bounden duty of As-
torians and Clatsopians to take a
positive and open hand in launching
this new industry; else they will be
i;-,KU tn s rlinrco of communal indif-
uuv.v vv v ' " C
ference that may be hard to bear. If
we cannot assume to sponsor our
own advantages, to exploit them and
assist in their material development,
we need not look for that commercial
appreciation beyond our borders, that
goes to make for thirtfy progress and
business confidence. Mr. Ogan has
made a detailed and special effort in
our interests as well as his own, and
is entitled to full consideration at the
hands of our investors.
i If he can produce from a factory
basis, in commercial quantities,, the'
goods he has evolved from local
clays, he has swung it up to this
community to reward him honestly
and promptly by frank and ample
support; and the better and quicker
thai Support, the wider and sooner
the range of the new business may be
determined. And this is not said m
the peculiar interest of that gentle
man; it is declared for the common
good of this whole section. The mere
fact that the shrewd and careful
trustees of such an institution as the
Weinhard Estate say, with perfect
candor, that if this quality of build
ing material shall be put out here,
they Stand ready to buy the half mil
ion brick heeded for the beautiful
"Weinhard-Astoria," "the people here:
have an assurance they cannot attord
to disparage nor disregard fn a pure
ly business sense; and this coupled
with the fact that there are other
equally important, tentative orders
for the product, when he shall manu
facture it, but emphasizes the unes-
capable duty of this city and county
to champion the venture and bring
it to its paramount conclusion of suc
cess. SALMON SEASON OF 1908.
The 1908 salmon fishing season
opens this day and the good 'will of
Astoria is squarely behind her fisher
men, her canners, packers, and stor
axemen. We hope it will be a ban
ner vear for all concerned; that tne
nets will net handsomely in fish and
finance, and that the generally out
come will be such to cause all men
to. he oroud of Astoria and her great
inHnstrv: and above all else, we nope
...
fW th marcrin of human sacrince
may be nil in this year of grace and
plenty. Go to it!
VAST WEALTH IN WATER.
Rv adorning a constructive policy
with regard to tthe waterways of the
state. Illinois has made a tardy but
still timely admission of the fact that
its water highways are assets as vaiu
ble as its land highways.
The oeoole of the state, keenly
alive to tthe worth of their public
franchises in general, have been con
tent that their officials should ignore
the wealth-producing water, proper
ties which must be regarded as essen
tiallv and inherently the properties
nf the whole oeoole and, as sucn? lm
,,..i,r nncsPsspH hv a few to the
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dispossession of the many.
As carriers of commerce and as
the streams of
Illinois have a value which even now
,v hut vazuelv comprehended. As
producers of power on turbine wheels
the rivers, thus far considered by en
eineers as available, are rated, by
rough estimates, as representing an
investment of $176,500,000.
In the project of river reclamation
upon .which the state has entered,
dealing with only two of the streams
potential values representing, by a
conservative estimate an investment
of $69,200,000, or by a not unreason
able estimate, an investment of$86,
500,000 are involved they being cap
able of returning to the state from
$3,4000,000 to $4,000,000 -annually.
An important article by Gov.
Charles S. Deneen, of the State of
Illinois, opens thus, as the leading
feature of the Technical World Ma
gazine for Apriil. Governor Deneen
deals N with Illinois' great water
wealth in a wax to open the eyes, not
only of Illinoisans, but of citizens of
other states, to possibilities that are
nothing less than astounding. The
article' is well illustrated and should
be read by every citizen of this half
developed country.
A QUEER SNOW FACT.
It is an inexplicable fact that men
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Before the People
Cards of Candidates in the Coming
Campaign.
WM. C. A. POHL,'
(The Present Incumbent)
Candidate at the Primaries, April 17.
For the Nomination on the Repub
lican Ticket for
COUNTY CORONER.
Faithful service and long exper
ience are his best recommendations.
riatform; "Impartial Justice To All.
To The People.
In submitting my name to the elec
tor 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
imnartialy perform all the official
duties pertaining to said office, with
out fear or favor, endeavoring always
to accord to every individual, irre-
snective tif oartv. politics or person-
-
aliti) a square deal under the law,
keeping always uppermost in my mind
the interests of the tax payers of saw
District and State.
E. B. TONGUE.
VOTE FOR
C. A, Leinenweber
For Republican nominee for Repre
sentative to the Legislature.
Primary election April 17, 1908.
Vote for
SO
Candidate for Repub
lican Nomination for
Railroad Commission
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HIGGINS & WARREN
FIRE INSURANCE
ELEVEN STRONG COMPANIES
Savings Bank Bldg.
' ! h Ground Floor
buried in an avalanche of snow hear
distinctly every word uttered by those
who are seeking for them, while their
most strenuous shouts fail to pene
trate even a few feet of the snow.
' COFFEE -is
perishable, it ought to
be kept in tight packages,
n6t exposed to air.
Tour trocar returm your money li yon 4onl
Ilka Schllling'f Beat; w. pty him
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Hill
VOTE FOR
,
Geo. S. Shepard
Republican Candidate For Represon
tative in Congress.
A Champion of the Columbia River
Bar Improvhment, and in Favor ot
Postal Saving Bank. N
Primary Election, April 17th.
Jas. 17. Welch
Republican Candidate
for Representative.
Primaries April 17,
1908.
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JOHN C. McCUE
Republican Candidate for
Re-election For Representative.
Primary Election, April 17th,
VOTE FOR
J. A. GILBAUGH
At Primary Election April 17, for
Republican Nomination for
COUNTY CORONER
r .
Vote for
Republican Candidate for
Representative to the Legislature.
Primary Election April 17, 1908
1 For Congress,
T. T. GEER
Candidate for Republican Congres
slonal Nomination in the Second Dis
trict. Liberal Appropriations fo
Waterways, Equal Opportunities an
Privileges for Labor and Capital, an
Governmental Control of Corpora
tiona.
For Infants and Children,
The JClnd You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
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Judge W.E. Burke
Reoublican Candidate for Repre-
sentative, Primaries April 17, 1908.
JUDGE WILLIAM E. BURKE
SEASIDE, OREGON
Candidate for Representative at the
Republican Primaries, April 17th.
PLATFORM.
1 favor the retention of C. W. Ful
ton in the United States Senate, but
will obey the instructions given by
the people of Oregon next June, on
the following bill:
'That we. the people of the State
of Oregon, hereby instruct our Rep
resentatives and Senators In our
to vote Assembly as such officers,
to vols for and elect the candidates
for United States Senator from Ihis
State who receive the highest num
ber of votes at our general elections.
In addition will favor the enact
ment of the folfrtwing measures:
1 Four-year term for. county offi
cers.
2 Collection of taxes by the
County Treasurer.
3-Divide Fifth Judicial District by
joining the Counties of Clatsop and
Columbia.
4 A prosecuting attorney for each
county.
5 Safeguard deposits in banks.
6 Pure food law, and regulation of
weights and measures.
7 Preserve natural resources of
State including water powers and
limit franchises to twenty-five years.
8 Better protection for salmon.
9 Voter not to be required to
re register except as he changes his
place of residence.
10 Continuation of Roosevelt roi-
itics. Tort of Astoria, Jea wan anu
Deepening of Columbia River Bar.
A MILESTONE IN HISTORY."
"Tu. oil,, iin.niimntis rntifica-
tion by the Legislature of ,the popular
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Sherman Transfer Co.
HENRY SHERMAN, Manager,
ti.-l.. carriages Baggage Checked and TransferredTrucks and Furniture
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433 Commercial Street
First National Bank of Astoria, Ore.
USTABLlMllKn 18N.
Capital
J Q. A..BOWL,B, rresiueni.
6. 1. PETERSON, Vice-President.
Astoria Savings Bank
r,;flt Paid in $100,000. Surplus
Transacts a General Banking Business
wntiR PER CENT PER ANNUM. "
Eleventh and DuaneSta.
Tohn Fox, Pres. F. I Bishop, sec.
J Nelson Troyer, Vice-Pres. and Supt
ASTORIA IRON WORKS
DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
OF THE LATEST IMPROVED . . . '
Canning Machinery, , Marine Engines and Boilers
xnw TPTir. CANNERY
Correspondence Solicited.. -
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C. F.WISE, Prop.
Choice Wines. Llauori
and Cigars
Hot Lunch at All Hours. V
Corner Eleventh
ASTORIA -
choice Of Mr-'MuIkey and Mr. Bourn
(of United State Senators marks art
epoch In the political history of Ore
iron. It is not likely that the prece
dent thus firmly established will be
broken hereafter. The time of the
Lesflslnture will henceforth be devot
ed to the business of the state; its on
ly concern with the election of sena
tors will be to fulfill tthe constitu
tional form by ratification of an an
tecedent popular choice, ij
"Seldom has a body of public mtftl
given a finer demonstration of loy
alty to American principle than the
Oregon Legislature gave in ratifying
roinptly and (lecMivcly the papular
election of Senators Mulkey and
llournc, Hv doina this they have
acknowledged the fundamental truth
upon which our institution rest,
namely: that oil power ultimately
resides in the people and that when
ever the people choose to exercise
this power directly it is their right
to do so. Our legislators have also
acknowledged with noble fidelity to
fact and reason, that, hish as the r
duties may be, they are but the ser
vants or agents of the people, and
e I ft ft t t tilt 1ft t MHnf'tll w mAta,t
mill tiiv 't'i'uiHi imiiMiiivff lAiiicPvta
under the forms of law arc of bind
ing obligation upon all public officials.
We may therefore say without undue
insistence on its Importance, that the
ratification by the Oregon Legisla
ture of the popular choice of our sen
ators marks an epoch In the develop
ment of free institutions." Oregon
ian, January 23, 1907.
W. C. BURKE.
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AN OPEN LETTER.
Judge W. E. Burke, of Seaside, Pre
sents Predicate In Support of His
Candidacy. ,
To the Clatsop County Electors. ,
I respectfully submit for your con
sideration the basic principles upon
which I have offend my name in be
half of the nomination and election
as Representative in the Oregon Leg
islature, at the forthcoming polls:
Senator Fulton's Corvallia Pledge.
"It mav be thought by some that
mv nosition on this subject (the sen-
atorship), is the result of a desire on
my part to pave the way for an ap
peal to the legislature for reelection
should I fail to secure approval of
mv candidacy by the voters. I as
sure you that I have no such thought
or purpose. If it shall happen that
some other candidate receives a
larger vote for United States senator
than I do at the election to be held
next June, I promise you now that I
will retire from the field and will not
permit my name to be presented to
the legislature for that or any other
office'From Fulton's Speech of An
nouncement at Corvallis, August 30,
1907:
Main Phone 121
$100,000
FRANK PATTON, Cashier
J. W. GARNER, Assistant Cashier
and
Undivided Profits, $80,000.
-Interest Paid on Time Deposit
j ,; tj Aatorta, Oregoa.
OUTFITS FURNISHED.
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Merchanta Lunch Frem
11:301. auto U30 p. V
- 93 Cent!
and Commercial.
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aid may be timely and appropriate.