TJllIHHDAY, JULY 9, 1008.
THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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LEADING GROCERS.
HI TELES 01 III
Deeds Filed
Cm Schocnbaechlcr to Nettie
Schocnbacchler, lot I, block 30, Mc
Clurc's Atoria; $5.
Signs Warrants
The Mayor ha signed all war
rant ordered drawn In payment of
claim and street work and all ordi
nance paed at the last meeting of
the common council.
Another Chinookian
At 4 o'clock estcrday morning an
other fine little Chinookian went on
the roster of citizenship of that live
northshore town, Mr. and Mrs. hmil
vwrisiin uciiik me nvvy imivnio
the case, Dr. O. D. Estes serving a
prime minister on the occasion.
Born Last Evening
At the hour of 8 lat evening a
little daughter was born to Mr. and
Mr. John Tyberg, of Gearhart, at
the home of friend in this city, at
512 Seventh street, Dr. O. B, Ktes
reports mother and babe getting along
admirably.
Called Away
Lieutenant Keclcr of I'ort Steven
has received word of the death of his
father, and has left for the family
home in Missouri. He will be away
fur 20 days and in his absence, Lieu
tenant Canficld will act as quarter
master at the post until the return of
Lieutenant Keeler.
In Command of District
Captain Charles F. Pond, U. S. N.,
who has been doing duty on the
Great Lake, with headquarters at
Buffalo, will take over the command
of the Thirteenth Lighthouse district,
at Portland, thi morning, vice Cap
tain J. P. Werlich, detached and or
dered East.
In The City
Dr. Thomas Ros, of Tillamook, i
in the city and reports everything
down hi way in a very prosperous
romlitinti. the new electric line is go
ing to do wonderful things for Til
lamook county he says and when it
is finished and the county is tapped
it will prove to be one of the richest
in the state,
Looking Up Regatta
E. J. Arnold, the genial entertainer
of the Northwestern public, arrived
down from Portland on last night's
express. He conies with the avowed
purpose of trying to do something
pleasant for Astoria during the Re
gatta season, and has some strong
ovclties under contract to present
hVre if successful in closing a con-tlact,
Fruits for CANNING
FANCY CALIFORNIA APRICOTS
Per Basket ' - 30c
Per Crate $115
Ripe Hawaiian Pineapples, each, 50c
Scholfield, Mattson & Co.
phone U8i GOOD GOODSPH0NEM1
120 TO 124 TWELFTH STREET.
For a
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Demented Man Escapes
j The county authorities were not
ified yeMcrdiiy that Patrick J. Farrcll,
j who was sent to the tatc insane
'asylum at Salem from Clatsop
I county in May of last year, had
1 escaped from the Institution. Farrcll
got away from the asylum July 3, and
it i expected that he will make his
way here unlcs apprehended on the
way. He i well known hereabout
and has a farm near Olney.,
Stricken With Paralysis
The many friend of Mr. F. C.
Reed were pained to hear yesterday
that she had been subjected to a
stroke of paralysis at her Aldcrbrook
home during Tuesday night, or very
early yesterday morning. Dr, Jay
Tuttle was called in on the case and
he did all possible to mitigate the
trouble, and at last accounts yester
day, Mrs. Reed wa resting quite
comfortably considering the nature of
the trouble.
Many New Citliens
The business of making new citi -mis
out of the foreigners who come
to Astoria continues to be a thriving
one at the county court house. Yes
terday the following four filed decla
ration of intention to take out citi
zenship papers: Otto Oberg, a Finn;
Olaf Jansscn, a Swede; August Kul
lama, a Russian; and Waino Stefan
Kantoncn, a Finn, Erick Person, a
Swede, applied for his full papers, as
did Nils Magnus Magnusscn, also a
Swede.
Baseball Again
Announcing is made that the West
Astoria nine will play a game in thi
city next Sunday with the Maroons
of Portland a good, strong team of
the metropolis. The West Astorians
have been lacking a pitcher during
the early part of the season, but it is
said that both Pettus and lirakke will
be available now. A good game is
looked for and the local fans will be
glad to know that there is to be
"something doing" in the baseball
line.
Are Knockers There
Says the Pendleton Tribune: "It is
a bright prospect confronts Pendleton
in the incipient efforts now being
made to secure the right of way In
Chocolates
the best in the world
50c a Pound,
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Scholfield & Mattson Co.
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the city for the construction of clec-
. trie linen through it amUnto different
part of the county, liut the knocker
!m here, not it is hoped, in very large
number, but he in numerous enough
to express hid opinion that it in all
'hot air,' and that 'it will be many a
I long year before Pendleton will see
an electric line or will nect one',"
Home From The North
After one month' absence in the
waters of Alaska, lingering longest
at Sitka, the dandy lighthouse tender
Heather, Captain Byrne command
ing, arrived in home water yesterday
at high noon, Her officer report all
well and the trip one of the pleasant
cut. She looks as trim as a yacht and
i ready' for any amount of duty. Her
sister-ships, the Armerla and the. Co
lumbine are still in Puget Sound un
dergoing repair, the Armcria having
a new shaft installed, and the Colum
bine having a double bottom fitted.
Out of Quarantine
Joseph Van Zandt, the soldier from
the transport Sherman who has been
in quarantine for the smallpox on the
north side of the river, ha been re
leased and yesterday came over to
this city. Private Van Zandt has the
distinction of being the man who tied
up the transport and about 1200 peo
ple, soldier and civilians, just be
cause he had the misfortune of having
a mild case of the disease. In a few
dav Van Zandt' five-year term of
enlistinment will have expired. He
then expects to go to his former home
in Texa.
Mist Bayard Will Recover
Mis Anna Bayard, who was in
jured by the discharge of a toy can
non on the Fourth of July, has been
in a serious condition ever since and
it was not until yesterday that the
attending physician, Dr. Vernon,
pronounced her out of danger. For a
time it was feared that she could
hardly survive the injury to the back
of her head and the resultant ner
vous shock. From now on it is ex
pected that she will slowly but sure
ly grow better. Dr. H. E. Bayard of
South Bend, Miss Bayard's brother,
arrived yesterday and his presence
has done much to quiet and comfort
her.
; Off For Newport, R. I.
I Lieut-Col. W. S. Rocsslcr, who for
two years past has been in charge of
ithe engineering district of the Colum-
'bit and embracing the government
work at the jetties at the mouth of
the river, has relinquished his com
mand and charge to Major Mclndee,
who arrived yesterday from New Or
leans. Colonel Roessler will leave
for Newport, Rhode Island, on Sun
day next, to take up his new assign
ment to duty, and he takes with him
the utmost good will of every citizen
with whom he ever came in contact
while out in this country. Major Mc
lndee will be cordially welcomed to
the field and it is hoped he may carry
on the work of his predecessor as
thoroughly and happily as the Colonel
has done.
Temporary Injunction-
Judge Hanaford, of the United
States district court for Washington,
sitting at Tacoma, has, upon the
presentation of the property petition
and affidavits by G. C. Fulton, of this
city, as attorney for the Columbia
River Packers' Association, granted a
temporary injunction against H. S.
McGowan et. al., in the matter of
the seining grounds Nos. 2 and 3, on
Sand Island in the lower harbor at
this port, over which there has been
a controversy and some pretty plain
demonstrations, lately. The United
States marshal arrived on the scene
yesterday and made full service of
the papers; and the merits of the
case will go into court and be
threshed out there', once for all.
President Samuel Elmore, of the C
R. P. Association, and Mr. Fulton,
returned from the "City of Destiny"
yesterday.
About County Schools
In the office of the county superin
tendent of schools there are some in
teresting facts and figures pertaining
to the attendance of the children at
the district schools during the past
year. Upon the whole the shoeing is
considered remarkably good. In the
j city of Astoria, the percentage was
98.3: while in the country schools,
where the attendance might natural
ly be expected to be somewhat less,
the average attendance was over 90
oer cent. One district showed the
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nne recuru w ii:i wni
lowest was only 85 per cent. Ten of
the country districts showed 94 per
cent. When the rains and the bad
roads of the winter months are con
sidered the showing is deemed to be
really excellent, and speaks well for
the teachers and for the parents of
the children of Clatsop's country
schools.
Happily Wedded
Miss Edtih L, Kimball, of this city,
and Mr, Dclbcrt L. Moore, the well
known bookkeeper for the Prael
Eigner Transfer Company, were
quietly and happily married at 2:30
o'clock yesterday afternon at the
Kimball home, No. 1(385 Duane
street, Rev. W. Seymour Short, rec
tor of Grace Episcopal church, offic
iating; a few intimate friends of the
high-contracting parties and their
kinsmen being present. Miss Kimball,
that was, is one of the most popular
young ladies in Astoria and numbered
her friends by scores, while the for
tunate groom is very popular with a
multitude of the younger Astorians,
and both have the best wishes of
their friends for all the good things
of life. They left on the 6:10 express
for Portland and the Sound cities and
had a "riccy" despatch. On their re
turn they will be at home to their
friends at No. 345 Fifth street.
Stalled For Coal
The government dredger William
S. Ladd has had the bad luck to take
on a lot of coal that would not make
steam, and it became necessary to
discharge it all yesterday (about 25
tons), under conditions that were any
thing but pleasant; for it is one thing
to load coal into a ship and quite an
other to disembark it. Ships are so
constructed that coal is swiftly
passed into their bunkers, and it
usually goes out again via the
funnels and the ash-shoot; but when
it comes to getting it out in bulk,
there is no provision that is useable,
and so the officers of the Ladd found
yesterday. They had to pass the
stuff up through small deck-plates in
three-gallon buckets and then wheel
it onto the dock. The company that
furnished the coal will see that she
gets a good equipment of Australian
coal in return, at once. No one is to
blame for the mischance, since it is
not possible always to know the
exact quality of the coal handled and
sold, even by the oldest dealers.
Fine Military Company
All concerned in the organization
of the new Astoria military company
arc congratulating themselves on the
outcome of the applications and the
examinations in this behalf, up to last
evening. Seventy-five stalwart young
Astorians had passed the critical
hands of Dr. Marcellus and Lieuten
ant Holman, and there are several
more to be passed upon today. To
night the company will be formally
mustered in under the official over
sight of Lieutenant R. W. Holman,
and the company will be especially
honored by the presence of Adjutant
General W. E. Finzer, of the Oregon
National Guard, who will arrive down
on the noon express, in order to be
in at the mustering of this fine group
of men. The election of the captain
commanding will be held and that
officer when chosen ajid . sworn in,
will, probably, name the lieutenants
who are to officer the company with
him, subject to examination and of
ficial approval. There was a vast
amount of work done yesterday in
closing up the roster of the company,
and everybody is pleased that it is
now an assured fact and the boys start
in with the earnest wishes for abound
ing success on the part of every fellow-citizen
they possess.
Somebody Got "Stung"
Several days ago "Old Booze," the
magnificent old brindle bull dog own
ed by F. L. Evans, the promotor of
the projected Astoria, seaside &
Tillamook electric line, was up on the
heights back of the city and in his
wanderings ran into a hornets nest.
"Old Booze" doesn't like bumble
bees and hornets, for he recalls other
experiences with them in his puppy
days. This particular nest of hornets
was of the fighting kind and they took
after the brindle bull dog in the hot-
l-Jnl rf n ffifliltlpr Thft doff
fought back valtantly and refused to
leave the field, though the winged
pests were hurting him cruelly. Fi-
naly "Old Booze, disdaining to run,
walked slowly away. Then his head
began to swell, and for the past two
days he has been a sight to behold.
Yesterday, while the dog was taking a
stroll without his master, a kindly
disposed man saw the dog and his
swollen head. "How horrible, he
said: "How the poor dog must be
suffering." He prevailed upon the
brindle to follow him, and the man
and dog sought out a well known vet
erinary. The veterinary looked "Old
Booze" over and diagnosed his case
as an ulcerated tooth. The old dog
is so used to kindness from humans
that he never objected to the atten
tions of the veterinary, who got out a
scalpel and scraped and cut into the
dog's jaw, inside, as treatment for an
ulcerated tooth. . When Mr. Evans
learned last night what had happened
to his old dog there were pyrotechnics.
If HAT'S IN A NAME?
Novel Proposition (Submitted by
Secretary Whyte
CHANGING NAME OF ASTORIA
Devised as an Advertising: Scheme-
Opens Up Opportunity for Many
and Peculiar Opinions Hardly
Likely to Prevail Here.
Answering the famous old query,
"What's in a Name?" the Morning
Astorian is inclined to the belief that
there is far too much of tradition, his
tory, and folk-lore associated with the
name "Astoria," garnered in its 108
years of existance, to permit any dal
liance with it in the hope of changing
it; and the following matter is pub
lished more, with the idea of present
ing the novelty of the suggestion than
of commending it to serious consider
ation. It presents an extermity to
which even old Astoria has not ar
rived and which is yet too remote for
even monetary and momentous re
flection: Now that there is quite apparent
reason for believing that there will be
some lively doings in Astoria within
a very short time and assuredly with
in the coming 12 months, it has been
suggested by Manager Whyte of the
Chamber of Commerce, in all ser
iousness, that Astoria and Warren
ton be consolidated and that the
name of the consolidated city be
changed to 'Greater New York.'
"'Greater New York of the Pa
cific' has come to be the very ABC
of Astoria's advertising literature. It
is only a step further from the sug
gestion to take the initiative and
actually change the name. There is
only one New York in the country
that is generally known and a postal
guide would show but very few cities
of that name in the entire United
States. 'Greater New York' would
be, as a name for a city, absolutely
unique and in a class of Us own.
"Suggestion is the most powerful
influence of this or any other age.
The story is a very old one about
how the German students scared the
criminal to death by sticking a pin
into him and allowing him to hear the
noise of trickling water, thes con
demned man expiring under the im
pression that he was bleeding to
death.
"Now. that we have the electric
railway proposition on a sound basis
and it is as sure as anything well can
be that the road will be built; now
that the seawall proposition is well
enough along to insure that the peo
ple will have an opportunity of dis
posing of that question; now that
the general opinion which has been
expressed for many years to the effect
that Astoria has greater potentiali
ties for a big city than any other
spot in the world, with both Hill and
Harriman apparently getting into
readiness to accelerate the develop
ment of these potentialities; now that
a brick plant is about ready to turn
out the highest class press brick; now
that there is about to be begun
thorough test drilling for oil on both
sides of the river; now that we ex
pect to hear every day that the Hill
terminals will be begun between War
rcnton and Hammond, not to mention
a number of other 'nows,' it seems
not entirely out of place to suggest
the actual change of the name to
Greater New York.'
"Of course, the Portland newspa
pers would have plenty of fun for a
while, but whatever they would have
to say would be republished all over
the country, and whatever there is of
value in the best of advertising, would
accrue to this city as a result.
"I feel very sanguine," said Mr.
Whyte, "that the long, looked-for be
ginning of a rapid move forward in
this old town is not only due but has
begun. The Chamber of Commerce
is succeeding in lining the people uo
and getting them to work as they
have never worked before. There was
actually enough enthusiasm at the
election of directors of the electric
railroad company this morning to be
in evidence. I think the committee
which has had that matter in charge
will find that they will have easy sail
ing from this time on. I expect that
it will be possible to begin drilling
for oil on this side of the river prob
ably yet this month and the further
we go with our work the easier it
becomes. It was pretty hard getting
the brick plant financed and it was a
long job to get the oil company in
shape, and in fact all of the details
are 'a t yet completed with regard tm
the oil company, but they will be anl
satisfactorily within a few days. The
electric railway company, according
to the statement of Mr. Evans, when
we were organizing the board of
directors for the electric railway yea-
terday morning, may be able to fee-
able to throw dirt within 40 days.
"Now if we can have a little more
of this fcood hard work for about x
mon:!,. it will really be time to chance
the rai. c of Astoria to 'Greater New
York.' 1 know one very prominent
real estate man -who formerly workei
for Walter C. Smith, whe has now
come to Astoria to work a him
own h)ok, believing that within a
year things will be boiling over here
at the mouth of the river. It look
like he ought to know a thing or two,
and his past record bears out this
contention.
"While hot air will not make a
'Greater New York' it is a very useWI
article and a good substitute for the
natur;I gas which we hope to have a
few months later.
"Now how about changing onr
city's name to 'Greater New YorkT"
Notice.
Today and tomorrow wil be the last
days on which to pay water rates tat
avoid the penalty of 25 cents that it
charged against every delinquent
NOTICE.
XVThe members Beaver Lodge
No. 35, I. O. O. F, are re
quested to attend a regu
lar meeting to be held this (Thurs
day) evening at 8 o'clock. Initiation.
Visitors welcome.
OLOF ANDERSON, Secretary.
Notice.
Oregonian agency hereafter will be
located at the Zapf Furniture Co., 630
Commercial street. Phone Main 263L
7-9Jt
Picnic -Picnic
Given by the United Swedish-
American Brotherhood, Sunday, July
12, 1908, at William Larson s Farm
on the Lewis and Clark, steamer Julia
B. leaves at 8:30 a. m., from Lurbne
dock. Tickets, 50 cents.
Notice.
Notice is hereby given to the public
that no bills will be paid by the Four
teenh Annual Regatta Committee un
less such bill is accompanied by a
voucher duly signed by the Chairmaa
and Secretary of the Regatta Com
mittee. HERMAN WISE, Chairman,
JOHN H. WHYTE, Secretary,
PERSONAL MENTION
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stillrigbt
and family left last night for Seattle,
where they expect to make their
home. , Mr. Stillright has been em
ployed at the Astoria Iron Works for
several years past and will take u
the same line of work in the northera
city.
Mr. and Mrs. George Kaboth will
leave, today for Woodburn where the
family will spend their summer out
ing, with the exception of Mr. Kaboth
who returns at once to attend to his
fishing interests.
Robert Wakefield of Portland is ia
the city stopping at the hotel Occi
dent.
C. E. Griffith, a resident of Port
land is in the city.
L. H. Borton was among the ar
rivals in Astoria yesterday.
W. J. Shutter of Seattle is in the
city registered at the Occident.
J. H. Parker arrived in Astoria yes
terday from Maine, Ga.
Ralph W. Carson from Vancouver,
Wash., is in town stopping at the
Occident.
S. A. Allen, a representative of the
Portland Telegram was in the city
yesterday, leaving on the evening
train for Portland.
H. H. Kilsey, a resident of Port
land, spent yesterday in Astoria.
E. J. Amald arrived down from
Portland on last night's train.
Sunday Excursions to Long Beach.
Steamer Nahcotta leaves O. R. &
N. dock at 6:45 a. m. daily. Round
trip fare to any point on North
(Long) Beach, $1.00, Sunday s only
ALEX TAGG
CONFECTIONERY
Fresh Chocolates.
Candies, etc2
Made fresh every day In otic
own factory.
843 Commercial Street