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THE MORNING ASTQHIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY 23, '03 SdlsS Permit Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year .... By carrier, per month WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance . ( LiO Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, a the postoffice at As toria, Oregon, under the act of 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 publicatioa TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THE WEATHER Oregon Fair west, showers and thunderstorms east portion; cooler except near coast. A COMPENSATORY POLICY. It has become a settled and proven conviction in the minds of the patrons of the insurance trust of the Pacific Coast, that the companies are com mitted to the compensatory policy of raising the rates whenever it has suf fered a distinct (ire loss in any given district; and with such a conclusion once unanimous there is little to won der at in the rebellion of the great clientelle against the very doctrine of insurance. There is a case in point, here at home, in which a great industrial con cern, after having met the demands of the insurance people for the instant rehabilitation of its electric wiring . plant within the buildings occupied, had to face a 10 per cent raise in the rates, and which is even now being sharply cotnested before the board of underwriters. Such action is directly in line with the policy mentioned above, and is going to do more to bring the insurance business into dis repute and negation than anything heretofore tried, i - There is a general awakening all along the line of business life to the evils of trust methods that will end in the obliteration of the "combine" pol icy. The people are no longer amen able to the imposition and are look ing for it everywhere; public suspic ion is agog and inquiry is the rule , of action on all sides; risk is cheaper than outrage; and popular rebellion against deliberate robbery on "busi ness principles" is afoot. Especially in insurance matters. And it is high time.', f' : - ' IT WILL NOT DOWN. The civic " authorities of Astoria may as well make up their minds to tackle and dispose, finally, of the question of grades in this city, and meet a live issue once and for all time; as to continue the present policy of indifference and inertia will but add incalculably to the problem and its solution in the days to come. There is held in abeyance at this hour an investment of $150,000 for the eretcion of a huge department store building in this city, because of the turmoil and confusion incident to the establishment of the proper grades in the business heart of the city. That they must be raised goes without denial here. It is freely ad mitted on all sides; and the longer the issue is allowed to pend, the greater will become the public and private burden of meeting it. We suggest the calling, under the authority of the common council, of a mass meeting of the property own ers certain to be effected by the im perative policy of raising the grades of the commercial district, to the end that the matter may be fully and in telligently aired and understood, and that a basis may be reached and the largest civic conundrum of Astoria's day be solved upon a basis of equity and perpetuity. RECLAIMING TIDE LANDS. The reclamation of 5000 acres of Young's River tide-lands now under way at the hands of F. K. Johnson, as contractor, is a very much more significant matter than is generally allowed hereabout. It is a initial stroke of enterprise in its way and will prove the basis for a wide range of such improvement by the time it is finished. These acres are immeas ureably valuable in a productive sense, and as commerce is the logical issue of all industry, we1 may expect to see developments of no mean sort from this beginning. The enhance ment of values on the land itself in the early future is no small desidera- THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. .$7.00 .60 turn; and the trade, the improvements, the homes, the faculty of supply, all are contingent and certain in the course of the enterprise. No word nor obstacle should ever be laid in the way of such schemes as this, and we are hoping this good work will lend impetus to scores of just such sensible and practical movements all along the water frontages possessed by old Clatsop. BISHOP POTTER. The death of Henry Codman Pot ter, Epjscopal bishop of New York, while anticipated for some weeks, falls with unabated significance upon the great diocese as well as upon the American public at large. This man and priest has, for long years, been a notable figure in the social and schol arly life of the nation and its metrop olis, as well in the church of which he was an honored and exalted lead er. He has done a noble duty by the poor of New York and has done it as became a prince of the church with princely resources, ever putting his duty above place, prerogative and other precedent. He has cut his own peculiar niche in the halls of fame and a grateful church and grateful people will see to it that the memory of a good man is made imperishable. An American in Panama who vig orously objected to washing windows with' an American flag was chased across the border by a lieutenant gen eral in full uniform and several po licement. It may be that our marines at Panama will be needed to prevent the natives from getting too gay. Mr. Carmack, who was defeated for the Democratic nomination for gover nor in Tennessee, says "the war has just begun." The Tennessee Repub licans have a good chance, but it is a singular fact that they always run a dead heat with the Democrats in fac tional quarrels. The Democratic newspapers that opposed Bryan in 1896 are still against him and many of those that support him are evidently not hope ful. As to the future he has simply said that he expects to be good for four or five more campaigns. The lot of a Democratic newspaper since 1896 has not been a happy one. Mr. Kern married an Ohio woman and belongs to the same church as President Roosevelt. But as a politi cal understudy he appears to be hope lessly handicapped. Oregon furnished the first political straw of .the year by giving a large Republican majority. Vermont and Maine will come next, but the Demo crats insist that they don't count. So many foreign diplomatic repre sentatives have left Venezuela that Castro begins to feel lonesome for somebody to worry. A chronic tor mentor feels that he is living in vain when reduced to a state of isolation. It seems that the latest Canadian transcontinental Pacific Railroad will cost $200,000,000, or $80,000,000 more than the estimate. London bankers of late have advised Canada to slow up in its zeal for new transportation facilities. During the summer kidney irregu larities are often caused by excessive drinking or being overheated. Attend to the kidneys at once by using Foley's Kidney Coure. T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. COFFEE Poor coffee has to be sold in bulk, it isn't worth packing. Your kpk it .ftrw: rnnr mnnry If you dcw'l Ilk Srhilliinf fi.t . i :.v New York NEW YORK, July r.-Water of any kind for every use is to-day coin ing seriously near the famine point in the heart as well as on the outskirts of this city. Six long rainless week under a torrid sun have parched ev ery iuch of ground for miles around and pinched to far below normal the great water sources upon which a half a dozen millions of souls depend. Day by day each square foot of dy ing lawn and sun-baked pavement has been lavishly deluged from every drain and hydrant in town, and foot by foot the big reservoirs have sunk under the strain. To meet the force of the sun in this record hot spell enough water has been tapped to fill the en tire bay. If days of steady rain do not soon set in, it is expected that the authorities .will call a halt to the threatening drain on their treasured water resources. Already water fa mine has touched Statcn Island and the pressure in the pipes at other spots has lowered alarmingly. St. Switliin's Day has just passed clear; but no one likes to think what a forty-day drought must mean. AFTER ATHLETICS. , The news of Uncle Sam's winnings in the course of the Olympic Games across the Atlantic has to-day roused athletic interest to fever heat through out town. In ordinary times the talk of the track is left largely to the regulars of the big athletic clubs, who are alweys intent oij developing a crew of record performers. Since the American team has gone into the heart of Britain to wrest athletic hon ors from all the world, however, ev ery man, woman and child here has appeared to pick up the furor of the sport. Day and night every foot of space in all the enormous club houses of the athletic associations has been jammed with eager rooters, hanging on every word of cable news from the Stadium in London. No champion ship baseball series, no college con test, has ever called .forth an enthusi asm greater or more general. Every branch of athletic sport has for sev eral years boomed steadily here, and (his meet of the nations will do much to advance track athletics with the public. PLATT'S PLACE. For the first time in the memory of the old guard, Tom Flatt has failed to pass'hjs birthday on the piazza of his favorite hotel at Manhattan Beach surrounded by a retinue of old-time friends.. This week the retired vet Laws Will Save Redbreasts in Louisiana MILLIONS WERE KILLED Persistent Efforts on the Part of the National Audubon Societies Finally Brings a Victory for the Friends of the Winged Songsters. NEW YORK, July, 22.-After four years of desperate lighting the first battle for Robin Red Breast has to day been won in Louisiana, the heart of the section where this favorite American song bird is butchered by the million for the market. That the robin has at last been removed from the list of game birds by the legisla ture of the Creole State was announc ed to-day at the headquarters of the National Association of Audubon So cieties. As the first fruits of a per sistent campaign of education in the south, the officers of 'the association declare, their victory will mean the saving of dollars worth of crops for each tiny carcass spared is a tid-bit for the gourmand. By a close vote the law makers of Louisiana have repealed the old game bird law in which the robin was class ed as game and have decreed no open season for the wholesale destruction of the sightly species a million mem bers of which were butchered for their mouthfuls of meat last year alone. Only Texas and Alabama of all the southern states now possess similar statutes, though it is declared that sentiment in the South is becom ing generally aroused against the slaughter of these favorite birds of the country while they winter in low er latitudes. That successful agriculture in this country would become inpossible and vegetation soon be destroyed if the PROTECT THE ROBIN News Letter eran of the political ring was discov ered in a secluded Long Island cot tage on the eve of his seventy-fifth anniversary. If any of the hundreds of public men who always (locked to pay their respects on these occasions came down to shake the trembling hand of the dethroned boss they were not seen. Time was when these ve ry men begged to have their names printed as delighting to honor the "easy boss" at these birthday celebra tions. To-day no one of all of them apparently cares to be quoted ns re membering the once-memorable date. As a lesson in the bitterness of poli tics a look at Tom Piatt's birthday solitude, last Wednesday would have been well worth while to any of the younger brood of aspiring politicians. CHORUS CLOISTER. As the sensation of the silly svason about Broadway the rumor that a regular hotel is to be bought and op ened exclusively for ladies of the the atre chorus is to-day startling all ac- tordom. Stripped of the many em bellishments of half a dozen theatri cal press agents, the basis of the sto ry appears unusually near fact. A real firm appears to be backing with $100,000 real money the purchase of this "Hotel Mary Anderson" where three hundred rooms will always be at the sole disposal of members of the "merry-merry." That just such ac comodation is needed by hundreds of theatre working girls is undisputed, but whether or not the subjects them selves will see the need is as yet much in doubt. The promoters assert that the bachelor girls who require such surroundings are numbered on the stage by the hundred. Everyone is anxious to watch the scheme work out. REAL RELICS. Half a dozen burros are today plodding the pavement of the East Side under the direction of thousands of the 'children of the Tammany henchmen for whom they were brought from Denver. While the alkali-stained leaders have by this time settled back to the simple life once more, these living democratic em blems bid fair to form a perpetual rel ic of the strenuous days of the con vention by Pike's Peak. A donkey is a rarity in the Bowery districts and crowds follow every step of the am bling little brutes. Tammany has been much taken by the West and the little burros find equal favor with the younger generation. robin and his brother birds were exter minated has just been 'asserted by Professor Henshaw of the Biological Survey, ami the Audubon authorities declare that his warning may come too late if this victory for the robin is not' followed by a general campaign to preserve and even increase every such race of birds. Scientific exami nation of hundreds of robins has shown that almost half of their diet is composed of the insects that bean sure destruction to the treet and crops of the land. These very in sects, it has been proven, damage the country's crops to the extent of $5(KI, 0IX),(X)0 annually, while their added ra vages of woods and stored crops, it is calculated, rob the land of nearly a billion dollars each year. Though insect pests are known to be increas ing, their natural destroyers, the birds are being gradually exterminate d at an alarming rate, it is declared. To open the eyes of the public to this crucial situation the National As sociation of Audubon Societies has been exerting its utmost resources for years in a general educational cam paign. Encouraged by the results of this work for the robins in Louisiana, the officers of the association declared to-day that every means at their com mand would be used throughout the country, to rouse the people to the value of the dying birds. "This is a time of great emergency an dthe people must act at once by preserving their bird resources, be fore it is too late," said William Dutchan, president of the association, at its offices, 141 Broadway, to-day. ' "I know that some few people real ize the gravity of the situation, for I am receiving contributions with let ters asserting that this work is second only in economic importance to for est preservation. We are trying to reach every man, woman and child in this broad land with the story of our commo ndanger, and we want every bird lover, farmer merchant and citi zen of any walk in life to help us push lite enormous task we have un dertaken for the economic good of every American," Pains In the back and side may come from the kidneys or liver. Lane's Family Medicine, the tonic-laxative, and great kidney and liver remedy, will give relief. 10 Cent Novels 1500 new novels 10 cents and 15 cents each. Bertha Clay, Mrs. South worth, Medal, Eagle and Magnet li braries. Read two and returnl them and get one in exchange. Send for FREE catalogue of titles SEE SHOW WINDOW Wh itman's For THIS WEEK ONLY 10 Per Cent REDUCTION 10 Per Cent Off on all COTTON HOSE Now is the time to supply your needs. The Foard & Stokes Hardware Co. REMORSE KILLS HIM New York Police Officer Had - Killed a Young Man JEERED BY THE PUBLIC The Shooting Wat Greatly Miiunder- stood And The Officer Wat Con stantly Tormented And Hounded By People Passing By. NEW YORK, July 22.-Policeman Alfred Shuttelworth of Brooklyn is dead. Although the physicians cer tificate will give paralysis as the cause of Shuttclworth's death, all who know the facts tell a different story. They say Shuttelworth died of remorse and of a broken heart. Ten months ago he shot and killed a boy who was resisting arrest. It was an accidental killing, Shuttel worth insisted, but he was indicted by the grand jury, suspended from du ty, shunned by his old friends and os tracized by bis neighbors. Vindication came last May when Assistant District Attorney Elder af ter a thorough investigation of the This woman Hays she wan saved from an operation by Lydla 13. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Lena V. 1 lenry, of Norristown, Ga., writes to M ra. 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Address, Lynn, Mass. Book Store facts moved for a .dismissal of the in dictment. Restored to duty Shuttelworth took fresh heart but by strange, ill luck or bad judgement, Shuttelworth was as signed to the very post on which the tragedy had ocenrred, Isaac Jeffcy, the 19 year old son of a wealthy man ufacturer, was the boy whom Shut tleworth shot. , The shooting occur red at the entrance of Saratoga Tiirlc and at. the time eye witnesses, insisted that Jcffey's only offense was walking m the grass. But later evidence put a very different light on the tragedy. Shuttleworth had heard a girl's shriek for help and nulling to the spot found himself surrounded by a crowd of jeering rowdies who bad been tor menting a young girt with insults, Shuttleworth scattered the crowd. but only managed to make one cap ture. His prisoner was young Jef fcy. Railing to his rescue the crowd attacked Shuttleworth, tore his club from his hand and beat him mctciless (y, Jeffcy broke from him and fled. Then Shuttleworth drew his revolver and fired. lie meant to fire in the air but the bullet passed through JefTey's head, The boy fell dead. To go back to the post haunted with bitter memories of this tragedy was hard but Shuttleworth did it with out a word of protest. He never told ,f what really happened. Day ifier day as lie walked his post men .tnd women would point him out as "the cop who killed a boy." Every body had heard the original version. I'cw knew the true facts. So day after day Shuttleworth was tortured by pointing lingers, muttered curses and the jeering of boys. On June 12 he reported hick and never left his home again. Physicians were called but could give no aid. Shuttleworth, broken hearted was be- , yond reach of medicinal skill! One stroke of paralysis was followed by another, and death. Shuttleworth leaves a wife and six children. 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