;T' THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1908. 8 THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON, Barrinsftoa Cflall B6 Is just pure Mocha and Java prepared in a new way. The cof fee berry is cut up (not ground) by knives of almost razor sharp ness into small uniform particles. Thus it is not crushed, as by the old method of grinding, and the little oil cells remain unbroken. The essential oil (food product) cannot evaporate and is preserved indefinitely. This is one reason why a pound of Barrington Hall will make IS to 20 cups more of full strength coffee than will any coffee ground the old way; why it excels all other coffee in flavor and why it. will keep perfectly until used. ' But the main thing about Barr ington Hall Coffee is that it can be used without ill effect by those who find ordinary coffee injures them, because the yellow tannin bearing skin and dust (the only injurious properties of coffee) are removed by the "steel-cut" pro cess. A delicious coffee sot a tasteless substitute. Wee, per pound, 40c POUND A. V. ALLEN Sole Agents WATER COMMISSION SPECIAL MEETING FOUR MEMBERS PRESENT THREE ABSENT ENGAGED A HYDRAULIC ENGINEER TO GO OVER RECENT SURVEY OF FAT BUCK CREEK. The water commission held a spec ial meeting yesterday afternoon with Chairman Wright in the chair, and Messrs. Bowlby, Fisher and Brix and Messrs. Elmore, Van Dusen and Trenchard absent. The commission decided to employ Mr. J. G. Kelley, a hydraulic engineer of Portland to go over the prelimi nary survey recently made by Gelo Parker to look into the best way of connecting the waters of pat Buck Creek with Bear Creek with a view to increasing the water supply of the city. An ordinance was made to employ James Hanson to give Reservoir No. 2 a coat of asphalt as soon as the weather and other conditions are favorable. DESPERATE ACCIDENT (Continued from page 1) clear of the line of the rock emplace ment. It is conceded that with time and apparatus the valuable device can be raised to the jetty level and put to work again after minor repairs have been made. . In all the 20 years that have been devoted to this big project this is the gravest accident that has been recorded; but two lives having been sacrificed there before in that' time; an engineer who went over the jetty side with his engine some 10 years ago; and the drowning of another man since then. This is a remarkable record for an enterprise whose every phase of action and line of duty, presents a danger constantly. And sad as this chronicle is, might, consid ering the desperate nature of the mis hap, have been infinitely worse. The Morning Astorian joins with the en tire community of Clatsop in the deep sense of sorrow felt everywhere for the sufferers in mind and body from the untoward disaster. OUTSIDE TALENT (Continued from page 1) those received by members of Con gress. There are many other expen ses attached to such organizations and they are usually larger than the cost of preparing legislation in the ordinary channels. It was pointed out today that little has been accomplish ed by the large number of commis sions created to suggest legislation although one notable exception was that which prepared the preliminary draft of the gold standard law. MISSOURI SOCIETY Bryan Speaks to the Society , a Late Hour ; at EXTOLS THE SIMPLE LIFE He Said "God Made Man and it is Not to be Disregarded in the Man Made Giant, the Corporation Man Made Corporation to Make Money. NEW YORK, April 22. It was half past 1 this morning when Wil liam J. Bryan reached the Grand Hotel where he was scheduled to speak to the Missouri Society. In opening his speech he said he was glad so many Missourians had come to New York, as he knew they had carried with them the ideals of the Western state. Continuing he said: 'The strength of the nation is in the Missouri life, the simple life .of the country more than the complex life of the city. The strength of our life must not be lost in refinement of life. I am one who believes that the vested interests are safe in the hands of the people of the country and that no honest industry need be alarmed over a law that may be pass ed. The patience the people of this country have shown under extortion and unjust laws ought to be sufficient to show that they can be trusted We have a lesson to learn in this country and an important one that God made man and it is not to be disregarded in the worship of the man-made giant, the corporation. Man made the corporation to make money. God in making man made the tallest man a little taller than the shortest, the strongest man but little strongest than the weakest, and God put a limit on his age so that a bad man could not be bad long. Man made the corporations a thousand times greater, an,d raised a limit on the age, so thai soirie would make them perpetual. This man made giant has lobbyists in every capital of the country. Its favorites have de bauched society, demoralizing its oossessors while it robbed its victims "The panic which recently spread over this country, I think, is almost entirely due to the fact that we have had a riot for the past 10 years Gigantic corporations with fictitious capital demoralized the business of the nation, and when investigations came the cry was raised 'Stop or all business will be ruined.' A theatre party attended by many members of the Society .preceded the supper. Col. Henry Watterson also spoke. LICENSE CATS. Advocating Licensing Cats in Jersey City. NEW YORK; April 22 Alderman Wm. C. Herbert is advocating an or dinance before the Jersey City board of aldermen providing that a license fee of 1 a year be charged for cats, that they be tagged and that unlK censed cats be collected the same as dogs. The ordinance was laid over for 90 days, when it will come up for final reading.' "I present tlfis ordinance in all sin cerity," said Mr. Herbert- "I think it is a wise provision for the city and the cats. Moving time is drawing near when people change their homes and leave their cats behind to starve and suffer." Alderman Herbert received the fol lowing note: "You have very little to do it seems, if you cannot get busy on anything else besides cats. Move if you don't like the noise." UNDER THE HAMMER. NEW YORK, April 22. Mrs Car ter's kitchen utensils fetched $100 at auction yesterday. Antiques and wearing apparel belonging to the act ress were on exhibition and will be sold by order of her receiver in bank ruptcy, Ezra P. Prentiss, every after noon this week. The household goods went quickly and at low prices. A crowd of women many of them professional colleagues of Mrs.. Carter, 'passed through the exhibition room, commenting upon her possessions. Only the least val uable of Mrs. Carter's things were put up yesterday. Her wash wringer brought $1.25 although, its working days are over. The buyer says she will keep it in a cabinet as a memento the actress. A lot marke "two bot tles" brought five cents - , STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Is Once Again in the Limelight of Publicity. STANFORD UNIVERISTY, Apr. 22. Considerable mystery surrounds the exhuming by unknown persons of a steel casket containing the body of a woman, buried, apparently, for many years in a little grave yard on the Stanford campus. The reason for the desecration of the grave and the identity of the de ceased remains a mystery. Before Stanford University was found an ce centrick Frenchman, Peter Coutts, made his home on the Stanford es tate. This man was a political exile from his native land. He apparently had plenty of money and he used strange and unusual means of getting rid of it. The name iof the romantic Frenchman has been connected with the strange woman in the steel coffin, although it is said there is hardly any tangible reason. The old inhabitants of Falo Alto furnish another explanation: the orig inal owner of the San Francisco ranch is reported to have buried his wealth on the burial ground on the Stanford campus., and they believe the boif) is that of a woman named Mr. Hcagh. TO CLEAR HERSELF. Wants New Trial of Man Who Mur dered Her Family. CHICAGO, April 22. Mrs. Emma Vozal Niemann today will appeal to Governor Deneen to grant a pardon to Hermann Bileek that he may be tried , again. She will ask' that the convicted murderer of her family be spared from the gallows so that the alleged new evidence connecting her with the case may be thoroughly sifted and her innocence fully estab lished. Insinuations against her mad? by the fighting 'fo- Bileck's life have aroused her to the fighting pitch. She believes "ilcik killed her father and mother and four sisters and de nounces him as the!r murderer hut if he is hanged now and no opportunity is given to weigh. the charges involv ing her she may have no other chance to clear herself. IMPORTERS INTERESTED. WASHINGTON, April 22.-A bill amendatory to the Administrative customs act and of much importance to importers was passed by the house yesterday. In effect the bill practical ly constitutes the board , of general appraisers at New York, trial court in the matter of classification of duti able goods and compels the importer or the government to make its case before the entire board. The bill sub stitutes the circuit court of appeals for the circuit court for the purpose of appeal from the board and also fixes the tenure of office of the gen eral appraisers by providing for re moval only for cause and after due inquiry. WANTS ALASKA TRADE. SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.-In discussing the plan for securing and retaining a fair share of the Alaskan trade for San Francisco it -lias been decided that at a Weting of the cham ber of commerce that the merchants send agents to Alaska to secure or ders and making sure before the close of tire present season of sufficient freight for the direct steamship lines from San Francisco to Alaskan ports for the next season. WARM ELECTION. MANCHESTER. England, April 22-The furious election fight that as been waging here has brought forth two weighty pledges from the Liberal ministers. The first of these was Winston Spencer Churchill's Home Rule pronouncement and to night David Lloyd George offered to bet his opponents that the old age pension scheme would be established in a year. ' . TESTIMONY OF ROSS. PORTLAND, April 22.-J. Thor burn Ross, the President of the de funct Title, Guarantee & Trust Co., of Portland, testified in his own be half today and was the last witness offered by the defense in the trial of the charge against Ross and his fel low officials of conversiom of the state funds.' Ross maintained that the state money was not in the nature of a loan, but was placed in his bank as a deposit. On cross examination Ross denied that he had personally received any of the state's money. The arguments will be made tomorrow and it is the expectation now that the case will go to the jury in the after noon. I SCHOONER BLOWS UP Gasoline Boat With Eleven Men Catches Fire HAD BARELY TIME TO ESCAPE The Shipwrecked Men Had to Row 50 Miles For Food and Shelter to Scarlet Lighthouse Next Day They Were Picked up by Schooner. i VANCOUVER, B. C, April 22. The gasoline fishing schooner Clara C, of Tacoma, blew up off Cape Scott on Sunday and the crew of 11 men had barely time to escape. The schooner took fire in ' an unknown manner at 9 o'clock in the evening and for a short time the men fought unavailingly like demons. They took to the boats and when but a short distance away the tanks explod ed ami the craft went down. The shipwrecked men had to row to Scar let Point Lighthouse, 50 miles distant for food and shelter. They arrived late on Monday night. The next day they were picked up by the halibut schooner Celestial Empire and re turned to Vancouver. VETO THREATENED. President Very Much in Earnest About Navy Appropriation Bill. WASHINGTON, April 21-Presi-dent Roosevelt will veto the appro priation bill, should the senate, as did the House, fail to make in appropria tion for the two battleships which arc authorized in the measure. The prompt announcement of this fact to the senate leader's today is regarded as responsible for the announcement by Hale that he would propose an amendment appropriation $7,000,000 toward the construction of these ships. The President stated his posi tion on this point with unusual em phasis and suddenness today, upon learning that the bill as passed by the house was simply a "paper" provision for the naval increase. The authoriza tion of the ships was made but no money appropriation was carried to make the provision effective. Such legislation as this, the President made known to his numerous con gressional callers, was a travesty as to its effectiveness as well as bearing all the earmarks of legislative leger demain intended to make ridiculous his campaign for a greater navy. That the President's quick and vig orous action is to be effective is evidenced by the action of Hale. As to his threat to veto this bill the President made it plain should the wisdom of Congress result in the pas sage of a bill providing for no naval increase whatever, he would have no ground upon which to veto the measure. Any attempt at which he regards as a travesty on legislation by authorization and not appropriat ing for ships he declares he will de feat by the cxcrcUc of his constitu tional power to veto. There is not the slightest indication that the Presi dent has ceased to fight for four new battleships, according to the evidence of the Senators who talked with him today. The Senators who arc with the President in his fight on this prop osition admit that a careful survey of the strength in the senate gives but one vote of 20 in that body in favor of the President's program for the naval increase. Significance is attached to this poll of the senate in that it is said to show a loss to the President of-some of his heretofore staunchest supporters in that body. Lodge is understood to have quit the fight for a full naval program advocated by the President ancK to have given his reasons per sonally to the President for so do ing. The loss of the influence of the Massachusetts Senator is regarded as responsible for the weakness shown by the poll as it is believed that had the President's senatorial supporters en tered the fight with the vigor he had evidenced it by his desirehis wishes in this direction mght have been real ized. LIBLE SUIT. MUNICH, April 22.-A libel suit which was a sequel to the notorious ITardcn-Von Eulenburg-Von Moltke case resulted yesterday in the con viction of Herr Sta(Jcl, editor of the Neue Freie Volks Zeitung. A fine of $25 and costs was imposed upon him for, stating that Maximilen Harden, editor of Die Zukunft of Berlin, had received $250,000 from Court Von Eulcnberg to suppress evidence, STEEL & EWART Electrical Contractors Phone Main 3881 . . TRANSPORTATION. THE ROAD OF WONDERS Shasta Route and Coast Lino of the ; Southern Pacific Company Through Oregon and California Over 1300 miles of scenic beauty and interest attractive and Instruc tive. 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