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THE MORNING AST01UAN. ASTORIA. OREGON.
SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1908.
Books for Astoria's School
.Cherry
The Store Ladies
FOR ...
Libraries
ime.
Women BEEliIVB Outfitters
Is here and if you want the best the mar
ket affords, at the right price, leave your
order with us and you'll get satisfaction.
Superintendent Clark Places Order for Ex
ceptionally Fine Lot of Children's
Reading Matter
MILLINERY
Last Call of
Summer Millinery
Every hat reduced many hats sold less than cost
All Ladies' SILK SUITS reduced to cost
Cheaper than you can make them
MARINE MEMORANDA
OF A DAY
ODDS AND ENDS OF SEA AND
RIVER CHAT GATHERED ON
THE ASTORIA WATERFRONT
YESTERDAY.
The steamer Charles R. Spencer
came down on schedule time yester
day with 36 passengers for Astoria.
Speaking of his arrest in Portland,
along with Captain McCully of the
Lurline, on. Thursday last, for ex
ceeding the speed-limit in the Wil
lamette river, Captain Spencer is
concerned over only one feature of
the case and that is that the port offi
cers who were watching his steamer
and the Lurline for this delinquency,
failed to see the Bailey Gatzert, which
was leading them both on the run.
Portland's poor, restricted, tender
little harbor -cannot stand many
steamers of any kind, and no steamer
speed whatever. It's too bad, for it
is a pretty little estuary for boating!.
When the Ronoke stopped at the
Callender pier in the early hours of
yesterday morning the first thing she
did was to throw a heavying line
through the office window and as she
went out she took a fender pile along
with her; much to the disgust of Mr.
Crosby, the wharfinger, but it will
probably be safe for her to come back.
She had a big passenger list and lots
of freight for her three ports of call.
The tug Geo. R. Vosburg arrived
in from Nehalem yesterday morning,
having in tow the barge of the same
name (Nehalem) recently built by
the Wheeler Lumber Company for
sea despatch. This trip the barge was
loaded with 10,000 feet of lumber, and
150,000 feet of spruce saw logs, which
will be reduced by the mills at St.
Johns. The initial venture was quite
a success.
The bar tug Wallula took the
schooner James A. Garfield to an an
chorage off Brookfield yesterday
morning, and the first O. R. & N.
steamer down, will take her on to
Portland-
The steamer Yosemite departed
from Knappton yesterday afternoon,
for the open sea and San Francisco,
with an immense cargo of Oregon
and Washington lumber.
The Wallula will probably go to
Portland early next week for a gen
eral overhauling, and the Tatoosh
will take her place on the bar.
The steamship Rose City is due
down at 3 o'clock this afternoon, for
San Francisco and will leave the O.
R. & N. docks at 4, if all goes right.
The steamer Sue H. Elmore went
to sea on the early flood yesterday
morning, bound for Tillamook City
and bay points.
The steamer Homer was an arrival
from Portland yesterday morning and
her departure was but little later.
IS THERE COAL UND
ER ASTORIA?
and
New Business Venture.
Mr. E. G. Gunall has opened a boot
shoe repairing establishment in
the building at the corner of Eighth
and Commercial streets, formerly oc
cupied by N. Akerman. Your patron
age is respectfully solicited. 7-lS-tf
TEA
Buy tea by the ounce
until you get Schilling's
Best ; it makes no differ
ence then.
Tonr crccer return year Mtq K fM tat
Bk it; we pa? bia
FINE SPECIMEN OF LIGNITE
DUG FROM HIGH MUNICIPAL
GROUND BY CONTRACTOR
E. A. GERDING, YESTERDAY.
A prominent and interested citizen
came to this office yesterday morning
and deposited a piece of good lignite
coal on the editor's desk. The editor
was glad to see both the man and the
coal, because he knew the man would
not have brought the coal along if
there were not a story connected with
it. Said this good citizen, in response to
the mute appeal in the editorial eye:
"This is a sample of coal just found,
in the cut on Irving avenue, by Con
tractor E. A. Gerding. It is not
enough to fire a steamboat, but it is
an indication of what may be beyond,
and below it or in lands adjacent
thereto.
"I hope the Clatsop Fuel Company
may be encouraged, by this find, to
prosecute its explorations at an early
day and feel that it will be amply
repaid, either in natural gas, oil or
coal as good as this; for the finding
of any of these things, would give an
impetus, to Astoria and her industries,
greater than many of us imagine."
The "pay streak" has not been fol
lowed up that anyone knows of; the
development may be merely a far out
cropping of the true vein; so far as
it has gone it is but a momentary
showing, with a hint of possibilities
behind it; yet, that it was found in
heretofore undisturbed earth, and
bears the record of good lignite on
its black and rugged face, may be a
hint to the wiser of us, to get in
and search out the exact conditions
attaching to the disovery. If there
is a lead in this to paying veins of
coal, then it were idiotic to sleep on
it, and over it, for another hundred
years.
LUMBER SUPPLY
To supply California, the southern
half of which has been badly denuded
of its original forestration, with an
abundance of timber; to aid in the in
crease of rainfall over a dry area
which is destined in the near future
y be called on to support an immense
population; to supply more than 12,-
000,000 ties yearly to the railroads of
the United States, and, last, but not
least, to furnish a perpetual bee pastu
rage for hunderds of apiaries these,
all these, are the things which are
beginning to be written in the history
of one tree in southern California.
That tree is the eucalyptus, of many
species ,and the lumber from which
has but lately been discovered to
possess qualifications for use in cer
tain industries possessed by no other
tree, wild or dometic, known to man.
As ' a mere beginning of this plan
the Santa Fe Railway company has
bought 10,000 acres of land in San
Diego county, California, and is plant
ing it as fast as possible to young
eucalyptus trees six or eight inches
tall. Several hundred acres of this
vast tract have been set out already,
and fully ninety-five per cent, of the
trees have taken hold In good shape
and shown signs of growth.
One of the most interesting things
about the Eucalyptus is its varities,
of which there are at least ISO good
species, with probably a third as
many sub-species which are not com
monly listed in the catalogues.
They grow to be of great size; in
Australia individuals of some varie
ties have been known to attain a
heigth of 300 feet. In California,
where trees were planted about some
of, the old haciendas forty years ago,
they are still growing and their ulti
mate size is entirely problematical.
Superintendent Clark of the Astoria Schools yesterday completed the com
pilation of a list of books for use in the public schools. They are for the
school libraries and of course are not text books, but are of a general nature,
The order for the books, numbering several hundred, will be sent to the
State library board, which forwards' the order on to the company from which
the ..purchases are made. The new list will be here in rime for the opening of
the school year, it is expected, and it will be worth the while of the school
children and teachers to read the list below to see what an cxcclcitt lot of new
reading matter they will have to select from next year. The complete list
is given below, and one book will go to each school library if not already
contained therein: l
List of Books.
Classics, Old and New First Reader.
Classic Old and New-Second Reader.
Stepping Stones to Literature First Reader.
Stepping Stones to Literature Second Reader.
The Fairy Reader
The Story of Little Black Sambo.
The Brownie Primer.
The First Year Nature Reader.
Child Life First Reader.
Child Life in Tale and Fable Second Reader.
Brooks's" Second Reader.
The Jingle Primer.
Goops and How to Be Them. '
More Goops and How to be Them.
Diverting History of John Gilpin Etc. i
The House That Jack Built Etc.
Rhymes and Jingles.
Lullaby Land Songs of Childhood.
Twilight Stories.
The Indian Primer. I
Fairy Life Third Reader.'
Rhymes and Fables First Reader.
Songs and Stories Second Reader.
Oncc-Upon-a-Time Stories.
The Sandman F'arm Stories.
Household Stories for Little Readers.
Stories for Children.
Nonsense Songs and Laughable Lyrics.
Book if Nursery Rhymes.
The Robin Reader First Reader.
From September to June, ,
Choice Literature for Primary Grades. Book 1.
Choice Literature for Primary Grades. Book2. ,
Boston Collection of Kindergarten Stories.
How to Tell Stories to Children.
Stories to Tell.
A Kindergaren Story Book.
Ethics for Young People.
Self Help.
Old Stories of the East.
The Golden Fleece.
In Mythland. Vol. 2.
Hellenic Tales.
Nature Myths and Stories for Little Ones. .
Four Old Greeks.
Stories of Greek Gods, Heroes and Men.
Tanglewood Tales.
Wonder Book.
Book of Nature Myths.
Round the Year in Myth and Song.
The Heroes; or Greek Fairy Tales.
Story of Ulyssess. ,
Adventures of Ulyssess.
Myths of Northern Lands. '
Norse Stories.
Among the Law Makers.
How the People Rule.
Fables; Selected, Told Anew.
Folk Tales of the Russian.
The Wonderful Chair.
Household Stories.
Pretty Goldilocks and Other Stories.
Undine. .
Trusty John and Other Stories. i
Little Red Riding Hood.
. Reynard.The Fox.
King of the Golden River. ' '
Animal Fables from the Dark Continent.
The Rose and the Ring.
Wonder Tales From Wagner.
Famous Legends Adapted for Children.
Ballads and Tales.
Legends That Every Child Should Know.
. Stories of King Arthur's Knights.
Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. -Book
of Legends Told Over Again.
Stories of My Four Friends.
Earth and Sky.
The Stars in Song and Legend.
Things a Boy Should Know About Electricity,
Electricity Toymaking for Amateurs. '
Wireless Telegraphy.
The Later Cave Men.
The Story of Ab.
Lodrix, The Little Lake Dweller.
First Studies in Plant Life. . i
The Story, of the Birds.
Curious Homes and Their Tenants.
Birds Every Child Should Know,
Short Stories of Our Shy Neighbors.
Bee People.
Spinner Family.
Rab and His Friends. , '
Lion and Tiger Stories. ,.
'Friends and Helpers.
Jungle Book.
Second Jungle Book.
Story of a Donkey.
Biography of a Grizzly.
Krag and Johnny Bear,
Black Beauty. ' 1
Boys Book of Inventions.
Boys Second Book of tlnvenfions. ,
Triumphs of Science. ;
Acme Grocery Co.
HIGH GRADE GROCERIES
521 COMMERCIAL STREET PHONE 681
Town iJnd City.
Augsburg's Drawing Book 1.
Auu'burg'i Drawing Ilook2.
Augsburg' Drawing Book 3.
Art Studies for School.
Songs of the Child World.
Child Voice in Singing,
Songs of All Lands.
Motion Song for Public School.
Games, Scat work and Sense Training. ...
Three Hundred Things a Bright Girl Can Do.
Home Games and Parties.
Robinson Crusoe.
Talis from the Travel of Baron Munchausen.
Uncle Tom' Cabin.
Gulliver' Travel
Swiss Family Robinson.
For the Honor of the School.
Little Mi Phoebe Cay.
John Halifax, Gentlemen.
Southern Soldier Storic.
Man Without a Country.
Hope Bcnhuni.
Midshipman Paulding.
Reading-How to Teach It.
Teaching of English in Elementary and Secondary School.
Teaching of English.
Literature and Life in School.
Stepping Stones to Literature. Vol. IV.
Stepping Stones to Literatnre. Vol. V.
Stepping Stone to Literature. Vol. VI.
Stepping Stone to Literature. Vol.VIk
II. W. Longfellow's Complete Poetical Work.
Special Method in Geography.
Girl's Book of Famous Queens. ..
Fifty Famous Storic Retold.
Thirty More Famous Storie Retold.
Blue True Story Book.
Siege of Lcydcn.
Stories of Indian Chieftains. . ,
Stories of Indian Children. '
Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas.
Old Indian Legend Retold.
American Leaders and Heroes.
. 9
THE TRIPLETS DIE
NEW YORK, July 17-Out in the
Lutheran Cemetery in Newtown,
QueeiisborHKh, Addph Licnpold'
companions are digging three tiny
graves ami this afternoon that num
ber of white coffins will be lowered
into the graves side by side. The cof
fin will contain the bodies of Licp
old's three children, triplets who died,
one after the other within a period of
three' day. Then three little granite
slabs will be set up. The father of
the three dead children is a gardener
in the cemetery, with his wife, Eliza
beth, he lives at Newton. The child
ren were born Jan 10,
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Steamer Nahcotta leaves O. R. &
N. docks at 6:45 a. m. daily. Round
trip fare to any point on North
(Long) Beach, $1.00, Sunday's only.
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NEW TO-DAY
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Sunday Excursions to Long Beach.
Steamer Nahcotta leaves O. R. &
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trip fare to any point on North
(Long) Beach, $1.00, Sunday's only.
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by whom '& it manufactured, printed on the
front of every package.
SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISU
one size only, regular price 50 j-bottle.
One of the coiieit and most popu
lar retorts In the city it the Commer
cial. A new billiard room, a pleasant
sitting room and handsome fixtures
all go to make an agreeable meeting
place for gentlemen, there to discuss
the topics of the day, play t game of
billiards and enjoy the fine refresh
ments served there. The best of
goods'are only handled, and thit fact
being so well known, a large business
is done at the Commercial, on Com
mercial street, near Eleventh.
GOOD WOOD.
If you want a good load of fir wood
or box wood ring up KELLY the
WOOD DEALER,
The man who keeps the
PRICES DOWN.
Phone Main 2191 Barn, Cor, 12th
and Duane.
LADY MANICURIST ENGAGED.
"The Modern," A. E. Petersen's
beautiful tonsorial establishment, has
been further modernized by the per
manent engagement of a highly train
ed young lady manicurist, who will
alto serve the house as cashier.
The very best board to be obtained
in the city is at "The Occident
Hotel." Rates very reasonable.
New Grocery Store.
Try our own mixture of coffee the
J. P. B. 'Fresh fruit and vegetables.
Badollet & Co., grocers. Phone Main
1281.
The Palace Restaurant
An phaae of hunger can be daintily
gratified at any hour of the day or
night at the Palace Restaurant. The
kitchen and dining room service are
of the positive best. Private dining
looms for ladies. One call inspires
regular custom. Try it. Commercial
street, opposite Page building.
The Clean Man.
The man who delights in personal
cleanliness, and enjoys his shave,
shampoo, haircut, and bath, in As
toria, always goes to the Occident
barber shop for these things and
gets them at their best.
Shine Them Up.
Ladies' shoes called for, shined and
returned. Phone Main 3741. '
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