TUJiSDAY, JULY 14, 1008.
THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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Economy Fruit Jars
Simplest and best; wide mouth; easy to
seal; sure to seal; easy to open; air tight; 1
sanitary. ,,. ' ,
Sj. () o'clock $15,000 more -was raised.!
The promoters will have no difficulty
in raisins; twice the amount asked.
I Surveying will begin at once. In less
I than six months grading it expected
to begin and the road Is to be com
pleted to Mist in two years and to
Jewell In three years,
ROSS, H IGG I NS & CO.
LEADING GROCERS.
TO MHf lit II
Turned Money Over
The slicriffs office turned, oyer the
sum of $71.44 yesterday to the county i
treasurer, the amount of tax money
collected the previous week.
Finest In Clatsop
The great, three-door barn on the
K. A. Taylor ranch has been com
pleted and fairly ranks as the finest
structure of its kind in thi, and many
other, counties. ? '
To San Diego
I at lour log rn ui
Logging Co., will be towed-la San.
Diego, Cal. The first of the four Is
now on the way, and the others will
follow in a short time.
Pilot Commission
The Oregon tate Hoard of Pilots
will , convene this afternoon at the
office , of Pilot Commissioner F. J.
Taylor, all commissioners being in
the city for the July term.
For Full Papers
Emanuel Lofgrcn made application
in the office of the county clerk yes
terday for his final papers entitling
him to citizenship. The date of his
hearing was set for February 16,
1909.
drill. Wednesday will be the regular
drill night and for the present at
Ic-at Foard & Stokes' hall will be the
place of meeting. , ,
Chamber of Commerce Takes
Drastic Action
Was Hard Blow
Pleasure craft out pn the river Sun
day afternoon had a bad time of it In
the sudden squalls that came in from
the mouth of the river, There were
.... ,.n n (;ir 111 IfnOWM. but
several of the little launches had to j Sunday, and over" the coast division,
put in for safety, and one or two that j looking into the status of the new
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were up the river with outing parties luiatauqua interests wmcn nave m
With the "First Company"
There will be held, this evening, a
"non-commissioned officers' school"
at which time three sergeants and six
corporals will be chosen to serve the
new "First Company", Coast Artil
lery, 0. K. G.j' and a month later, a
competitive examination will be held
preparatory to the appointment of
two sergeants and four more cor
porals, Tomorrow night, at Logan's
hall, the company wil hold its first
assembly and drill and the good work
will be thus fully underway.
Looking Over Ground
StiDerintendent John McGuire, of
the A. & C. has been in the city since
WOULD REVOKE FRANCHISE
tcriallv developed here in the past
few days, and which invite his cordial
attention and that of his superiors, in
the matter of making the new grounds
near Morrison, accessible from the
rail line; and he will make all the es
sential recommendations in the
premises.
Completed In August
Alec Duncan, of Seaside, has secur
ed the contract for completing the
road from that city to Elk Creek and
if the rocking follows up closely, this
one piece of work will be done and
thrown open to the public during the
latter part of August.
Fixing Sidewalks
The sidewalks all around the block
bounded by Tenth and Eleventh
streets and Bond and Commercial are
being repaired by the Flavel estate,
owners of the property. In other
parts of the city some of the side
walks seem to require a little repair
ing.
Fish Getting By
It i claimed that the salmon are
running pretty heavily, but for the
past day or two the high and swift
tides have made it difficult to net
them and most of them are getting by
the Tongue. Still there have been
ome good catches from Sunday and
Monday drifts reported from the
capes.
Artillerymen To Meet
A meeting of the men designated
for the non-commission
X the First Company, Coast Artillery,
"Will he held in the office of Captain
Wrcrombie tonidit. Tomorrow night
the company will meet in Foard &
Stokes' hall for their first regular
had to wait for the winds and waves
to subside before venturing on the
homeward trip.
Will Start Today
The engineering crew, 12 strong, of
the Astoria, , Seaside" & Tillamook
Electric line, headed by Chief Engi
neer L. C Rogers and General Man
ager F. L. Evans, will start out on the
preliminary surveys this morning,
from the corner of Twelfth and Duane
streets; and the active work of, the
project takes its initial start at that
time and place. Success to them and
the enterprise!.
An Official VUit-
Major Mclndee, the new command
ing officer of the Engineers' Depart
ment of the Columbia, who has suc
ceeded Colonel Roesitler, arrived in
the ctiy on the noon train from Port
land yesterday, and went direct to the
jetty work on the Engineers' steamer
Arago, Captain Buchanan. He spent
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Hie BMCrilUUII Ull lliv i - .
in the offices and shop, and returned swarms of mosquitoes that descended
to the city on the Arago in time to
take the 6:10 express back to the
metropolis.
Bartenden Banquet
The Bartenders Union gave a
pleasurable banquet in Redmen'a hall
Sunday night. The attendance was
about 150 and included many friends
of the men who work behind the bars,
and the dinner itself was exception
ally good. A literary and nsical pro
gram cave additional interest to the
evening, while a talk on "Organized
Labor" by C. J. Curtis proved one of
ill hest narts of the program. Man-
ley Thompson was elected president
of the Bartenders' Union and Charles
Martin, vice-president.
Few Mosquitoei Here
in Portland complaint is made of
HITS 'PHONES HMD
Local Company it to be Told by
Business Men That if Better Sys
tem is Not Forthcoming Soon
There'll be Decisive Action Taken.
The regular Chamber of Commerce
meeting last night was well attended
and a number of propositions .were
taken up and discussed which were
not down on the set program.
The telephone company came m for
a good round-up and it was the sense
of the meeting, after the discussion
was all over, that the local manager
be communicated with and informed
that unless this city should have at
once a central energy system of ex
change with the modern instruments,
that the Chamber would do all it
could to have its franchise revoked.
The city council, through the May
or, was communicated with and asked
that stcos be taken to revoke this
franchise unless this proposed modern
svstem was granted immediately
The secretary of the Chamber was
instructed to write to any and all
telephone companies and explain local
conditoins and say that a new com
oanv would be favored should it
annv lncallv for a franchise. It was
Mi rv
stated the local telephone company
has for many months adopted a sys
tem of procrastination" and it seems
now that this will no longer oe toler
ated under any circumstances if it can
be avoided.
The renort of the manager, Mr
Whvte. was read and discussed, show-
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ng what work had been accompusnea
CUtskanie Election ,
There was a big meeting of the
business men of Clatskanie and farm
ers of the Nehalem Valley at Clat
skanie Saturday afternoon. D. R.
Kelson, of Portland, came down to
talk at the meeting and explained that
if an 'electric line could be built from
Clatskanie to Jewell, a distance of 33
miles ,for not more than f25,OUU per
mile, his neonle would build the road.
Mr. Nelson wanted the local people
to subscribe $25,000 for stock and pay
10 per cent of it in cash in order to
make a preliminary survey. In iu
minutes $5000 was subscribed, and at
in the office during the past two
I weeks. Interest was manifested in the
upon the city within the past few
s if.. k.KU in
days. Uie is naro.y uc...v ru.; R,rr f the snec-
i.arts of that city t s said and there is'tv- . . " - . 7
imris 01 iui v .7 i-i ,nmm ttee on dairying It is alto-
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A few days later we may not be able to
guarantee delivery.
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120 TO 124 TWELFTH STREET. '
pests have come from. During the
final days of the past week there were
mosquitoes in Astoria, too, though not
very many. They apparently came
from the interior on the wings of the
eat wind that blew for one day. They
ii-miM bite without any preliminary
buzzing, being business like all over.
Astorians Win-
In a rattling good game of baseball
Sunday between the West Astonas
and Maroons of Portland the nome
nin won hv the score of S to 4. 5ome
declared it to have been one of the
best games seen in Astoria in a good
many moons, and yet excellent as we
game was, the crowd was miseraoiy
small, and unless there is a little more
mnnpv taken in ai me gaic "
hardly be possible for the games to
continue. Pettus pitched tor the nome
nine and played a fine game from
start to finish.
He Rooted Some-
Jack Day, the genial Kamm agent,
win., a baseball enthusiast, went over
to Long Beacn on aunuuy iai,
-!fn the came betwen the beaview-
crs and the Long Beachers. He want
ed to play himself and tried to break
into the game, but neither side would
have him because of his delicate
physique and dainty proportions and
the place he came from, but, nothing
daunted, he got in and rooted himself
hoarse for the L. B.'s, and after a
four-hour contest he pulled them
through on a score of 14 to 13, and in
a happy and forgiving mooa wenueu
his way back to Astoria.
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VICTOR OR AN EDISON
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Parlori Second Floor Over Scholfield & Mtton Co.
graph Co.,
Broke His Left Arm
Vnnnix Edwin Launn, who was
with his father, T. F. Laurin at the
recent pleasurable session of the Ore
gon druggists, at Long Beach, had
the misfortune, while playing .in a
tennis court, to break his left fore
arm. by a fall, white passing through
Tokeland on their way home, via
Portland. His father gave him his
best and instant care ana rne
was then properly re-set when they
got to Aberdeen after a 30-mile drive,
which the little chap stood very
iptuckity. They arrived home yester
day on the Spencer and the boy is
getting along finely.
1 c,..m TJnhrotta leaves O. R. &
! xt .i-i,. . a. m. dailv. Round
' .; tar to anv roint on isortn
$100. Sunday's, only
gcther likely that there will be estab
lished a' laree condensory here in
Astoria within the next few months.
One of the leading local business men
last nteht stated that he would put a
considerable sum of money into the
condensory company, and although
no effort has yet been made to
finance the enterorise. Dr. Barr is al
ready assured of more than half of
the necessary money.
Samuel Elmore made a donation ot
$50 for the purposes of the National
Rivers and Harbors Congress wnue
present at its session. He explained
the detail of the steamer Nebraskan's
visit to this city and stated he would
do all in his power to assist the Cham
ber to bring that ship here again,
ennn. and resrularly. and thought that
with the help of the organization he
would have no trouble in doing so,
and because of this important state
ment he was roundly cheered.
There were a number of general
rlUrnssions and a committee com
posed of J. M. Stuart of the Astoria
Abstract Title & Trust Co.; H. G.
Van Dusen of Van Dusen & Co.; Ben
Ward of Ward & Finlayson and ur.
Barr, chairman of the Dairy Commit-
xvre annointcd a special commit
tee to secure the largest possible
amount of good dairying land for Jhe
of the colonization plan
hirh will be developed by the Ger
man ranitalist who is to arrive here
within a few weeks and take charge
the entire dairying proposition
The Chamber has about 50,000 acres
President Staoles of the ASiona
Clav Product Company stated that
the machinery tor tnat emcii.
would arrive here within a few days,
WW been shipped on the 7th and
will immediately be put hi operation.
vf,o,r,r Whvte's report ot tne
work transacted since the last meet
ing was read, and the following ex
cerpts are from it:
Notice.
Wherity Ralston & Co. have se-...-.,1
services of a ' first-class
shoemaker. Repairing neatly done.
c....tg,v T V Morrison of the
a .tnria r.rocers' Association has writ
ten the. following letter to the Cham
"At a meeting of the Astoria Ketan
r.meer's Association of this city,
Captain Babbjdge reported that he
had lost money on the up river run
this last month. The grocers all
agreed to patronize him as far as pos
sible and instructed the secretary of
this association to write the Chamber
of Commerce and ask them to do like
wise. Trusting you will do what you
can in this matter, we remain, etc."
As the Chamber of Commerce was
instrumental in causing Capt. Bab-
bidge to establish this line, and as he
renreaenu an imnortant home en
deavor, 1 suggest the following res
olution for adoption and that a copy
of it be tent to each member of the
Chamber. j ; . : .. :;
"Resolved that the members of the
Chamber of Commerce be urged to
give to Captain Babbidge the largest
possible amount of business within
their power, especially as his is a
home enterprise backed by home cap-
ital and it is the sense of this orgam-!
zation that home industry should al
ways receive the , loyal, unanimous
support of home people," , , ,
THE DAIRY PROJECT.
The dairy project will materialize
it now seems most likely in a manner
that m altogether gratifying.
The German specialist with whom
w have been in correspondence for
nearly a year and who has already
made a visit to Astoria and looked
over the k round and been in confer
ence with Dr. C. W.'Barr, chairman
of our dairy committee, will arrive in
Astoria to make his permanent home
here within a few weeks. At the pres
ent time he is making reports for the
German Government.
Dr. Barr's committee has given the
matter consideration and Dr. Barr
will speak for that committee in per
son. : -.'
'The plan of this German specialist
includes colonization of our best
dairy lands here by dairy farmers di
rect from Germany that he will bring
here through methods that will be
personally conducted at his own ex
oense. He desires to have 50,000
acres of this dairy land for coloniza
tion purposes and with our electric
railroad enterprise and with the other
methods that we are now developing,
we will .have no trouble in getting
this land, although of course it will
not be in one body and it is better
perhaps that it should not be . Mr.
K, Scherne'ckau has handled this Ger
man correspondence for us and has
the greatest confidence in this gentle
man and I think perhaps it is the
opinion of all those who have met
him that he will prove one of the
greatest booms to Clatsop county
that the dairy business has ever had.
THE ELECTRIC RAILROAD
Since the last meeting the incor
porators , of the Oregon-beacoast
Electric Railway Co. have met and
elected directors with $6,930 of the
capital stock at that time subscribed
and the surveying of the road will
begin at once. This enterprise is
movina alone very successfully and
rapidly thanks to the enterprising and
energetic work of E. Z. Ferguson, ti.
Van Dusen and W. E. Buffura.
The direco'rs of this road are E. Z.
Feriruson. President. Norris Staples,
Vice President, E.' L. Warren, treas
urer, Dr. T. L. Ball, H. G. Van Dusen,
Alex Gilbert. C. S. Brown, J. M.
Anderson, P. J. Brix, W. E. Buffum
and Geo. H. George.
Several of the officers and directors
of this new corporation are here to
night and they can speak for them
selves. '
CHAUTAUQUA PROPOSITION
The Chautauqua enterprise for
Clatsop Beach is now assurred as the
work of financing the same has been
comoleted by the Columbia Trust
Company under the personal super
vision of O. L. Ferris, secretary and
Treasurer.
This is one of the propositions, the
workinz out of which shows that it
takes lime and money to acomplish
any given purpose, especially m the
promotion line. The work 011 this
oronositibn has been under way
practically all of this year and now
that the necessary money has Deen
secured, as I understand it, all outside
capital, it will take most of the time
from now until next July to get the
building and grounds in readiness to
hold the first Clatsop Beach Chau
tauqua. ' . .
STUMP CLEARING
I seems,' Mr. Whvte's report stated,
that we have cot in touch with a pro
cess for clearing stumps off of cut-
over land that is much more valuable
than any other yet tried for this lo
cality. It consists in attaching a
steam engine to a blower and totne
blower a set of rubber hose, say from
12 to 20 reaching out in all directions.
Fire may be built up at the side ot
ihe stump and one of these hose turn
ed on it so that within a short time,
nerhaos within seven to ten hours
the lamest stump can be easily
burned up including the roots two
feet or more below the surface. This
process has been most satisfactorily
tried on the farm ot a Mr. weaa
south of Tacoma, Washington, and
we are now in correspondence with
him. He says that he has no diffi
culty in clearing off an acre of land
tM men within ten davs, He
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pays these two men $2.00 a day each.
PORTLAND; BUSINESS M&w
The PhamW of Commerce has
some corresDOwlence with the Com
mercial Club of Portland, relative to
the visit to this) city by a large delega
ih1:,ik1 business men. the
object being to create closer busiaeas
relations, the initiative coming from
Portland. There will be no expense
connected with the visit or practically
none, in case that the matter can be
arranged satisfactorily, as now seemt
likely, r As . some more correspond
ence will be necessary this will be at
tended to and the matter will prov
obly be ripe ly the next meeting.
KALAMA DOCKS.
it seems of enough importance t
mention the Kalama docks that, arc!
being built by, ibft,, Northern Pacific
Railroad Company, Work is al
ready under way according to the re
ports i-ubliiihed in the newspaper
ami the bunding of these dock and
wharve probably means that wheat
for evnnrt hinment will be sent
from Kalama instead' of from Port
land! understand that it is the policy
of the North Bank Railroad Company
not ot haul any wheat across tbe
Columbia River for export shipment
this season. This information how
ever is not authoritive as in the very
nature of such information it could
not be. It might be that the rail
road prefers to avoid the problem of
granting a rate into Portland whick
would allow Seattle an opening to ask
tor the same rate and if Seattle should
secure the same rate as Portland
over the North Bank Road, then the
proposition would be open very wide
ly for other towns below Portland o
the Columbia river to ask for the
same rate.
SEAWALL PROPOSITION '
Mr. Whyte reported that the spec
ial committee on amendments to the
city charter with respect to voting
bonds for the financing of the sea
wall proposition is making splendid
progress and had it not been that the '
committee meetings take place on the
same night as the Chamber of Com-'
merce, some of the members of that
committee' could probably have been
present before this time for the pur
pose of explaining the details of the '
work. ':'
"Old Timers" Banquet
The members of the Astoria hose
team the "Old Timers" held a ban
quet and jollification last night ia -
commemoration of the race they raa
on the Fourth of July. The event last
night was a very pleasant one. The
dinner was held in the Palace restaur
ant, and was given by Captain Fred
Brown, who takes great pleasure ra
honoring the men of his team. The
banquet was really excellent from the '
standpoint of the cuisine, and after
it was over the "boys" sat at the table
and smoked cigars for an hour or
more. The men who ran in the race 1
on the Fourth, and of whom -all were .
present last night except Mr. Still-
right, were: Capt Fred Brown, Joint ;
Corno, E. L. Carlson, Henry Duff,
William Painter, William Johnson,
John C. Kinkela, H. Ackerman,
Charles Stillright, Fred Hedges, Tony
Huss, P. Quaday, Joe Phillips. Judge
Trenchard, C. J. Curtis and others
dropped in to see the "boys" for a few
moments last night. The "Old
Timers" will not run any more races
until the Seattle fair in 1909, when
Captain Brown and "Jack" King, ol
Portland, will take the team to the
exposition. That it will win the hon
ors at Seattle then is almost a fore
srone conclusion, for Captain Brown
has never had any but winning teams.
The Nehalem Road ,
Dr. W. C. Logan and August HU
debrand drove out on the Nehalem
road Sunday and found that the work
on the extension of this county thor
oughfare is progressing in most ex-
cellent shape. From Camp's farm on
the road is good. Both Mr. Hilde
brand and Dr. Logan are enthusiastic
in the cause of good roads, and they
are well pleased with the efforts of
Judge Tre.nchard and the two com
missioners to push the good wo?k
ahead. These gentlemen remarked
vesterday that if a road had bee
built into the Nehalem district years
ago there would be 20 settlers there
now for every one that is actually on
the ground.
Sunday Excursions to Long Beach.
Steamer Nahcotta leaves O. R. A
N. dock at 6:45 a. m. daily. Rouni
trip fare to any point on North
(Long) Beach, $1.00, Sunday's only.
ALEX TAGG
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Candies etc.
Made fresb every day b out
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843 Commercial Street