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THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1908.
Ifyouarenot quite satisfied with the FLOUR.
you are using, try our
CUPID Brand
IT is sure to give satisfaction. $1.40 sack; $5.25 bbl.
A. V. ALLEN
SOLE AGENT FOR BAKER'S BARRINGTON HALL STEEL
CUT COFFEE, 40c PER CAN.
PHONES-711 AND 3871 BRANCH PHONE-713
NEW VALUE RECQKDIINCREASING SALES
May be Set in the Export Grain Telephone Supplies' Out Strip-
Trade ping Foreign Competition
INCREASE IS SIGNIFICANT MEXICO IS A GOOD CUSTOMER
Government Officials Have Watched The United States Has Nearly Seven
the Almost Sensational Climb of I
the Export Figures in View of the
Discussion of Crop Marketing Ways
Millions Miles of Wire Which
Would be Impossible to Destroy in
Detail or Reproduce as a Whole.
ivy
RAY t. GOLLINGS
With Dora Thome" at the Astoria Theatre, Sunday Evening, May 10.
PILED UP IN THE CREEK
VISIBLY PERTURBED
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to
rain.
No
WASHINGTON, May S.-A new WASHINGTON, May S.-Accord-
value record in the export gram mg to the Bureau of Manufactures
trade of the United States may be this country is increasing sales of
set this year if that of the current telephone apparatus abroad, meeting
three months ending June 30 shows and beating the Swedish competition.
up as large as expected. The latest I Nothing is more remarkable in the
figures issued by the Department of) growing of the telephone industry,
Commerce and Labor shrfw that dur-1 which, as shown in President Theo-
ing the nine months ending March 31, 1 dore N. Vail's recent report to the
more breadstuffs, from a value stand- stockholders of the American Tele
point, were exported from this coun- phone & Telegraph Company has now
try than during the entire 12 months reached a magnitude of nearly four
of the preceding year, and the grain I million Bell telephones in this coun
exports for the full fiscal year promise I try alone, than the extent to which
to break, all records since 1901. This other countries arc now demanding
big increase in grain exports is sig- the standard Bell apparatus, manufac
nihcant as showing where the United tured by the Western Electric Corn
States got part of its cash during the pany at its factories in New York and
panic last fall and the following per- Chicago, which under Mr. Vail's new
iod of business depression. Govern- policy is now sold outright. A very
ment officials here have watched the large shipment of underground cabl
almost sensational climb of the export has just been shipped from this coun
figures with unusual interest, in view try and is due to arrive in the City of
of the discussion of crop marketing Mexico early this month, where
methods which has recently engaged will be immediately installed in com.
the attention of Congress. It is point-Jpleting the new underground tele
ed out that the insurance of exporters phone system of that Spanish-Ameri
from risk bv "hedgine," or selling can metropolis, where a new central
their shipments for future delivery energy switchboard has been' install
abroad, played an important part in ed. The whole republic of Mexico is
the process whereby this country was becoming a remarkably good custom
enabled to turn it grain into cash in er of late for American telephone ap
such short order, and by which the paratus. 'The principal railroads, for
producer could get within a few cents example, such as the .National Lines
of the export's price at the seaboard. M Mexico and the Mexican Central
less the freight. As yet no substitute have had installed in their offices in
has been proposed for this system of the leading cities switchboards of the
selling for future delivery, certainly Hame type are used by big busincs
concerns m tiie United Mates, en
aiding them to connect all the differ
ent departments as well as facilitat
ing connection with all the sub
scribers of the Mexican Telephone &
none which will not place the farm
er and consumers at the mercy of
fluctuations of price according to the
seasons and their- difference in
supply and demand, which would be
there were no future delivery sales to
give some stability to prices.
AGRICULTURAL BILL
reflected as wide price fluctuations if Telegraph Company. Inasmuch as
there is traffic connection between
the lines of the Mexican Company
and those of the Bell system, the
rapidly growing network of wires in
the republic to our southward may
properly be accounted a part of the
comprehensive system of the North
American continent which, in the
United States alone, -has nearly 7,
uw.uuw miles ot wire, the whole as
Mr. Vail says, "inter-dependent and
inter-communicating, an aggregation
to destroy in
detail, and impossible to reproduce
is a whole.
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it was declared that certain sections
would be shorn of its forests in 20,
30 or 40 years. They forgot, he said,
that timber grows, and he declared
that the timber supply is as great or llnio impossible
today as ever in the world's history.
There is, he said, no danger of a tim
ber famine. Senator Smoot took ex
ception to the , statement that the
world's timber supply was as great
as ever, Heyburn retorting that Seiir
ator from Utah might consult the map
on the senate wall as a guide, he
NORRIS' SERIOUS CHARGES.
WASHINGTON, May S.-John
Norris of New York, representative
of the Newspaper Publishers' Asso
possessing spirit of prophecy which ciation today repeated his statement
he (Heyburn) did not possess. Smoot before the special house committee
said he could prove, not by prophecy, that the American Paper Manufac
but by figures, that the timber of this turers bought large tracts of wood
country was being rapidly destroyed, land in Canada and charges that in-
and that there was not anything like stead of cutting timber on this land,
the amount of timber in the country which they have bought with almost
that there was 20 or 30 years ago. recklessness, they have gone into tfie
market and artificially marked prices
themselves. He protested that the
American consumers should not be
saddled with penalties of such specu
lation. Norris produced figures show-
session were taken up almost entire- ing that there had been a reduction in
ly by discussion of the roll calls the price of pulp wood exported from
caused by the refusal of the house to Canada. He expressed the opinion
take recess at 5 o'clock as a result that paper can be made for $20 a
of a joke on the part of some of the ton.
Republicans to held the Democrats in
the House until the time when the " SAILS. FOR FRISCO.
Republican caucaus was scheduled to
be held. In this they were successful, SANTA CRUZ, Cal., May 5. The
the house finally, at 7:45, recessing battleship fleet and torpedo flotilla
until tomorrow. ; ' sailed this afternoon ft San Fran-
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
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alarms in the driving
casualties are reported.
The bodies of Engineer Carl Ward,
of Evansville, Ind., and Fireman V
Chasm, of Howell, Ind., not Conduc
tor Smith, who escaped, were recov
ered from the freight wreck during
the morning.
The thud trainman, believed to
have been diowned, has not yet been
found. Two men composing the crew
of a dredge boat at Edgemont, 111.,
are musing, and are believed to have
lost. Five dwelling and a saloon were
swept from their foundations by the
flood that inundated French Village.
The long trestle of an electric line
near French Village was a haven for
refugees.
Many thrilling rescues of persons
from flooded homes have been re
ported. Arthur Baxter was swept
away with his house, wnicn was
brought up against the electric line
trestle, and Baxter was saved by
rope thrown to him from the bridge.
Belleville was left without electric
lights or power by the inundation of
the Belleville Gas & Electric Com
pany's plant.
Citizens of Zelleville estimate the
montetary loss at $100,000. The flood
began to recede at noon.
Wealthy Senators Scored by the
Recent Nossage
SPORTING GOODS.
THAT MAKE GOOD
Whitman s Book Store
A HUMOROUS STANDP0IN
The President Referred to Multi
Millionaire as "a Man Whose Son
Was a Fool and His Daughter
Foreign Princess,"
BASEBALL SCORES.
At Portland San Francisco ' 7,
Portland 1.
At Seattle Seattle 1, Tacoma 3
At Vancouver Vancouver 4, Spo
kane 0.
At Aberdeen Butte 1, Aberdeen 7.
Cisco under command of Admiral
Evans. The farewell accorded the
vessels was as demonstrative as their
welcome. Early this morning the
Connecticut sailed to Monterey to
meet Admiral Evans, who came to
that place on a special train. As soon
as Admiral uvans got on Doani tnc
Connecticut started on her return to
Monterey.
PROTESTS INNOCENCE
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not, and if he thought she suspected
him he would jump into the river.
WASHINGTON, May S.-From
humorous standpoint, Mr, Roosevelt's
latest message has made a hit in the
Senate. Not a few of the solons of
the upper house are possessed of
enough worldly good to rate them as
millionaires, and they were visibly
perturbed over his references to the
"crafty rich." The President referred
to "a particular kind of multi-million
aire, a man of whom it has been well
said that his face has grown hard and
cruel, while his body hs grown soft;
whose son is a fool and his
daughter a foreign princess." Those
senators whose incomes are moderate
much enjoyed the discomfiture of
their 'colleagues who have the coin,
and indulged in many a hearty laitgli
when these latter gentlemen were
seen peering into the big mirrors in
ihc lobbies, trying to discover if their
faces have "grown hard and cruel."
A number also were thoughtful
enough to direct Senator Elkins' at
tention to the matter of the interna
tional matrimonial alliances, for, be
ides being very rich, the Wist Vir
ginian s daughter is popularly sup
posed to be engaged to the Duke of
Abruzzi, a member of Italy's royal
family.
Fans In the Eighteenth Century.
A letter In the London Spectator
dated. May. 1711, given a most Interest
ing description of nn Academy where
ladles 'could be drilled In the proper
ue of their fans and Inltluted Into fiic
mysteries of "the angry nutter, the
modest flutter, tile timorous flutter, the
onftined flutter, the merry flutter and
the amorous flutter.' In the eighteenth
eentnry nt dancing ossemblles In Lon
don, Hath and other places of fnshlon-
Later in the day the subject wal able, resort gentlemen chose their part-
again brought up, she says, and then ueru by "lottery of the fan." The fans
she begged him to leave her and not , r 811 tue ladl('s PKcnt were placed In
n nnr wnorirn earn iwntiomnn hnii th
privilege of fleeting one, the lady to
bring further disgrace upon her.
Mrs. Martin declared her husband
told her in order to allay her sus
picions he would go to the saloon
and get the missing coat and vest.
She said he left the house and did not
return.
Martin used both morphine and co
caine, according to his wife s state
ment, and though they had done ev
erything to wean him from drugs,
their efforts had been unavailing. She
says one reason of her suspecting
Martin was the statement that the axe
or hatchet had been used and Wolff's
slayer had been a drug fiend. She
ays her husband had a hatched con
cealed and at night would, on differ-
nt occasions, leave their bed, and
taking his hatchet, would stand be
fore the window and brandish it at
imaginary foes.
Martin was a graduate of West
Point in the class of 1898. He passed
his examinations with honor. He was
ishonorably discharged from the
army at Sandy Hook, a year later for
conduct unbecoming an officer. Mar
tin is said tp have used drugs at that
time. Martin's father is said to be a'
New York real estate broker and we'll I
to do., Martin has had no steady em
ployment since coming to Portland.
whom It belonged becoming his allotted
partner for the evening. Of course
such a custom entnlled a great study
of fans on the part of the gentlemen.
Boswell, Steele and Pope found sonde
thing to say about the fan, and Guy,
enlarging upon the efforts of hi prede
cessor!, wrote a long poem In praise of
the fan, attracting Its Invention to
Venus.
Sporting Goods
Just received a complete line of the
Reach Base Ball Goods. In
eluding MITTS, BALLS and BATS.
Your choice of FISHING POLKS from
$12.50 and down.
The Foard & Stokes Hardware Co
Imorpornfrd
Successors to Fo-.rd & Stokes Co.
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Had Showed Him the Right Way.
The colored boy was up in the chil
dren's c.rir: lor the fifth time on
charges of chicken' stealing.' This time
the magistrate decided to appeal to the
boy's father,
"Now. we here! Abe." wild he to the
old durky. "this boy of yours has been
tip In court ko ninny times for stealing
chickens that I'm sick of seeing him
here."
"Ah don' blame yon, ,sh1i." returned
the father. "Ah's Hide oh seoln' Mm
hyah too."
"Then why don't you tench him bow
to net? Show hlin the right way. and
lie won't be coming here."
"Ah has showed 'Ira de right way,
nuh," -declared the old man earnestly.
"Ah has siittcnly showed Mm de right
way. but he somehow keep glttln'
caught eomln' 'way wld dose chick
ing. "Woman's Home Companion.
PRACTICAL POINTS
ON BANKING NO. 4.
Diligent Saving.
It is a very good plan to establish reg
ular dates for depositing your money.
You will, find that this wilt soon be
come a verv valuable habit, and you
will be much pleased to see how soon
your funds will accumulate at com
pound inteaest. Interest paid on Sav
ings Accounts and Time Certificates
of deposit.
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