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SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1908, 5 lira . M ' , .V-.' Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. Our Motto Has Been, Is, and Always Will Be: "The Same for Less SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Money, and Better for the Same Money.' By mail, per year .... By carrier, per month .$7.00 .60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance THE FAMOUS ..$1.50 THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. A J0 mm mm ram Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, at the postoffke at As toria, Oregon, under the act o! Congress of March 3, 1879. Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence or place of business may be made by postal .card or ' through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THE WEATHER Oregon, Washington Clearing, warmer. and Idaho UNCLE SAM SAYS IT. Your "Uncle Samuel" says, through his trained and expert agents, that there is a channel across the Colum bia river bar 6000 feet wide and 25.S feet deep at mean low water. This means that at high water on that barrier, there will be from 311 feet to 34J feet, according to the make of the tide, over a mile in width, for the reception and despatch of the fleets of tht world. There are men in the Columbia River Bar Pilots' Association, who affirm that they cannot find that water, nor anything approaching it; some go so far as to say flatly "there is no such water on the bar." And there you are. It is the same old story, told and re-told, year by year; but the progress of the jetty, and the word of the Government must hold, because the are the guages of popular desire and authority and mean too much to be disbelieved; therefore, with all the world-marine, we will cling to the mathematical fact Uncle Sam has given out, and trust to luck and the skilled pilots of the bar to find the mile-wide channel and the new commercial depths. It is essen tial that they be fonud and used, for the good of the Columbia valley and especially this end of it Every addi tional foot of channel-way-water across that bar has a wonderful sig nificance for Astoria, whatever it may ipean to the hardy and well-informed men who cannot find it We cannot tell either the govern ment nor the pilots their business in this grave relation, but we can tell them both and all, that the truth .is what the people want; and the old, old divergency between these two authorities simple MUST be settled, wherever the discredit shall fall. the contemptuous talk on the train. and left no sort of doubt in the minds ot the disappoined drummers as to why their orders went to San Fran cisco instead of up the river. This goes to show how even the adroit and up-to-date drummer will, at times, make grave blunders. These men had no figures from their houses to. placate these Astoria merchants; they simply lost out, and the home coming tradesmen did a distinct serv ice to the city when they refused to give the business to the "long tongues." Happily all drummers are not so unwise, and we inclined to the belief the men in question have learn ed a lesson they will not soon for get, nor repeat Astoria is no place to cast aspers ions upon, in a commercial sense; she trades heavily with the wholesalers and pays her bills; this is the limit of comment and conjecture, from a busi ness standpoint; outside that issue, her short-comings and long-goings are purely local concerns and not amenable to reckless and semipublic gossip at the hands of those who profit by her trade. This is a good town, a busy town, and progresses with the exact ratio of her oppor: tunity; she has a welcome for every body, even those who are foolish enough to disparage her; she is sound financially and making distinct and creditable headway, year by year, along all avenues of development, and has fewer commercial failures than any city on the coast. M0T A THE COAST ELECTRIC The Morning Astorian insists that it must not be charged with any dis position to "knock" the Astoria, Til lamook & Seacoast Electric Railway, or any other laudable project, the oil-and-gas proposition, the seawall, good roads, "common-point" rates, a 35 footbar, nor anything else that means success and prosperity. Each and every one of these things are vital to the real and early development of the city and county and the entire section around the mouth of the Columbia. But Astoria has had her fill of failures, and she wants her new pro jects to be launched upon safe and equitable lines. She has given up good money, from time immemorial, only to see it transmuted into assets that innured to Portland or some other place, and the story is too old for any re-telling. This is the reason the Morning Astorian is becoming hyper-critical, and the attitude is taken at the behest of genuine PUB LIC SENTIMENT. We want the electric line to the coast and Tillamook as much as those who are in the lead, the promoters, want it, and we will do all in our power to secure it, urge it, commend it and prize it; but the experience of the past, along this same route, is warrant for our insistance that the matter shall be prosecuted on the best and safest basis; given that, there will be no carping nor question ing, but only good-will and all the aid we can render. It is too good a venture to be lost for the want of a word of caution. THEY LOST OUT. A group of Portland drummers boarded the evening express at that city for Astoria the other day, and on the way down two or three of them indulged in some pretty free comment on Astoria and its relation to Portland, alL of which was, to say the least of it, uncomplimentary to Astoria. Two local merchants hap pened to be in the chair-car and took it all in, one of them expressing him self, then and there, in unqualified terms of rebuke. . ELECTRICAL FLASHES j Peru is to have a wireless system, j A new type of metallic mirror has ! ben invented for electrical search lights. A new hydro-electric power plant of 4,000 horse-power is to be erected on the Trinity River near Big Flat, California. Walter J. Willenborg, of Virginia, a 14 yea old school boy, has con structed a wireless plant at his home and invented a small portable wire less aparatus which he carries about with him in his pocket. One manufacturing plant turns out 5,000 telephones every day. ' American engineers have construct ed a trolley road to the pyramids. Albert Wrensch, of Pleasantdale, N. J., hatches chicks in an electric in cubator. He says a greater percent age of eggs hatch under electric heat than by any other means. Professor Albert C. Geyser, of the Cornell Medical College, has produc ed a device called the Cornell Tube which will absolutely eliminate all danger connected with the use of the X-ray. On the first day of the opening of the tunnel under the East River from New York to Brooklyn 140,000 pas sengers rode through the tube, Even this enormous amount failed to make any perceptible difference in the crush at Brooklyn bridge. j Denver has adopted the plan of lighting every dark alley in the city with arc lights. Since the municipal-! ity adopted this scheme law breaking after dark has practically ceased. Fewer policemen are needed and the residents claim their homes and prop erty are safer. The city streets are as light as day, almost, on the darkest night and there are no dark corners for toughs to hide in. ' Electrical exports have fallen off considerable from last year's report. The total of electrical machinery and instruments for the eight months, in cluding February is $10,946,814, while th ecorresponding period of 1906-7 gave $1 1,169,989. This might well be explained by the drop in copper, but as an actual fact, the loss occurs not in heavy machinery, but in the minor apparatus where copper does not cut much figure. The export of electrical machinery for the month (March) rose from $561,672 to $844,047, but the export of apparatus fell from $579, 855 to $479,779. An investigation of the figures shows that in apparatus the demand from the United King dom fell off from $1,237,363 for the eight months to $467,830. The turbine steamship Mauretania, of the Cunard Line, has the distinc tion of being equipped with the larg est electrical plant afloat. 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IJg The WorRing'men's Store Chas. Larson Prop. gjg Bond These merchants had the oppor tunity the next day of turning down with a normal rating of 375 Kw. This the men who had done the most oi ooat is me largest ana lastest ocean steamer in the world. The new instantaneous electric water heater removes all danger or possibility of fatal effects from suffo cation in small bath rooms. During the summer months when gas heat ers are commonly used to heat the water for the bath there is always danger of suffocation if the room bej M small and closed tightly, as the flame lyOrtlhl exnausts tne oxygen in the air. A number of deaths occur anuually in' this way. But the electric heater does not vitiate the air and is not at all dangerous. The annual report of the General Electric Company showed a gross business of over $70,000,000. This gives some idea of the extent of the electrical business in this country. The length of all the trolley lines in Germany is 2332.3 miles. The total number of cars for 1907 was 51,52 which will seat 160,427 people. There are 47,667 permanent employees. The Italian government is to under take the enormous task of draining the Pontine marshes at a cost of $2, 000,000. A certain amount of hydro electric power will be available. Dispatches from London state that M. Hans Knudsen has perfected a wireless device will set tvne nn 5 linotype machine in Paris by wire less waves sent from London. He al so claim.s to be able to send photo graphs by wireless. Two new wireless stations have been established in Vancouver, Can ada. It is reported that over five million horse-power await development in the rivers of Italy. Rome has recent ly utilized 25,000 electrical horse power and Naples 16,000 horsepower.! The electric railways of Pennsyl vania are capitalized for more than $300,000,000. The business depression is not re flected in the electric light and power development. The McGraw electrical directory shows a total of 220 new plants for last year up to September and 265 from that time to April 1908. This makes a gain of 485 new electric light and power plants in this coun try for the past year and a total of 5, 498 up to the present time. It is evi dent that the gain during the past year of business inactivity is greater than during the year of strenuous prosperity of the year before. The Bixirsf'enna acts Oently yet prompt- e bowels, cleanses A. (( L the system ejjeciuauy, assisfs one in overcoming habitual constipation permanently. To get its beneficial effects buy tke genuine. Manufactured by the California JflG Syrup Co. SOLD BY IZUJ1N0 DRUCdSTS-504 pr BOTOX A man who is in perfect health, so he can do an honest day's work when necessary, has much for which he should be thankful. Mr. L.. C. Rodg- ers, of Branchton, Pa., writes that he was not only unable to work, but he couldn't stoop over to tie his own shoes. 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Your grocer return! your money H rot don't Ukt ftibllliag's Beet; piy din ASTORIA & COLUMBIA RIVER RAILROAD TWO TRAINS DAILY Steamship Tickets via all Ocean Lines at Lowest Rates. Tickets on Sale... For Rates, Steamship and Sleeping-car tions, call on or address Through Reserve- G. B. JOHNSON, GeneralfAgent 12th St., near Commercial St ASTORIA, OREGON. THE O M C. F. WISE. Prop. Choice Wines, Liquors Merchants Lunch Item 11:30 a. m. to 1:30 f. m. and Cigars not Lunca at AU Honrs. s Cents Corner Eleventh and Commercial ASTORIA, . . OREGON Sherman Transler Co. HENRY SHERMAN, Manager. Hacks, Carriages Baggage Checked and Transferred-Trucks and Furniture Wagonsr-Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped. 433 Commercial Street . - Main Phone 121