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THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA. OREGON.
SUNDAY, JULY 2G, 1908.
The M$P$& Ladies
for T A "A ' -Women
BEEiHIVB Outfitters
MILLINERY
liOPEN THE COLUMBIA
CLEAR THROUGH
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Great Bargains in Every Dept.
at the BEE HIVE
SUITS CUT TO COST
WASH SUITS White Duck Coats and Skirts, $3.00
No Alterations allowed
Ladies' Silk Jumper Suits, $9; no alterations
Summer Coats, 20 Per Cent. Off
Underwear, 10 Per Cent. Off
Odds and Ends in Shoes at 58c, 78c and 98c
Great Bargains in Men's Shirts and Underwear
TIMELY AND PERTINENT LET
TER FROM A THOUGHTFUL
CITIZEN UPON A THEME
WORTHY OF THOUGHT.
SPAR.DECK AND BUOY
' ABOUT ASTORIA
ARMERIA AND COLUMBINE
REACH PORT-FORMER OUT
FOR ALASKA ON WEDNESDAY-CEMENT
SHIP ARRIVES
, Captain John C Reed, of the bar
tug WalluJa has returned from Port
land, whither he took his vessel the
first of the week for a general over
hauling. He says it is suffocatingly
ORDERS ARE PLACED
FOR BIG CHANGE
PACIFIC STATES TELEPHONE
COMPANY TO PUT IN FULL
MODERN EQUIPMENT AT
ASTORIA BY JAN. 1, 1909.
Manager J. Andrew Brunold, of the
Astoria branch ot the Pacific States
Telephone Company is, peihaps, the
happiest man in the city;- for, after
weeks of annoyance and turmoil in
cident to the recent campaign for a
hot at the metropolis and that Astor-new and distinctive deal in telephone
ia is a paradise in comparison. Cap
tain Reed intimates that the Portand
influence is all for the placing of the
government dredge Chinook on the
Columbia bar to expedite the work
of the jetty, and he believes that
pressure enough may be brought to
bear to have Major Mclndoe, of the
federal engineering department heart
ily second Colonel Roessler's rec
ommendation in this behalf. The
captain will remain here until the
Wallula is again ready for bar duty.
The Armeria, flagship of the light
house fleet of tenders, arrived in this
her home port, at 6 o'clock yestec
day morning, with Captain William
F. Gregory on, the bridge. She has
been over in the Sound country un
dergoing repair and it now in fine
"fix." She is under orders to sail on
Wednesday next for Nome, and all
the Alaskan stations, with supplies
and will probably be gone a couple
of months. She looks very handsome,
but Astoria would like to see her a
bit oftener than she has, of late.
The dandy Columbine, Captain
Charles Richardson of the same fleet,
crossed in at noon yesterday, after
an absence of 60 days on the Sound,
under repair, and she is as spick and
span as a new yacht. She stopped
outside long enough to coal the Co
lumbia bar light ship: This "brings
the entire squadron back to home
waters, the Heather having arrived
some days ago.
Ed Donnelly, wharfinger for the
Kamm line, left up on the Lurline
last evening, presumably for Claska-
nine, but those who know say he ha
gone on to Portland where a certain
very attractive person dwells and in
whom Ed has a decidedly "fatherly"
interest. Mr. Donnelly's bluffs don't
work as smoothly as they used to!.
The State of California came down
the river at 4 o'clock yesterday af
ternoon and docked at the O. R. & N.
for an hour, with over 200 passengers
on board. She took on 40 tons of
case goods here and left down and
out at S o'clock.
Captain Tom Latham left out at 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon in com
mand of the motor launch Lady
Marie, bound for Yaquina Bay and
hoped to enter that port this evening
sometime. He will return home by
ail.
service, in which he has manfully
supported his company in the face of
a deliberate, yet justifiable, series of
reproachful and arbitrary attacks
upon its ancient system and archaic
service, he has received a wire from
Division Superintendent J. W. Gilky
son, of Oregon, now in California
conferring with his superiors, saying,
that he (Gilkyson) will start north
immediately, and that he brings with
him, full plans and specifications for
the new office building of his company
to be erected on its Exchange street
she at once; that he is under orders
to perfect the work of re-wiring al
ready commenced and largely com
pleted; that all subscribers' phones
are to be changed for up-to-date in
struments, and finally, that a new,
modern, common-battery switchboard
will be installed Here and tne entire
scheme of renovation and re-equipment
will be completed and ready for
use and service by the first day of
January, 1909; and that ample author
ity has been given for the prosecution
of these improvements, within that
time.
I his is excellent news; the news
that Astoria should have had two
years ag'o. But, all the same, it is
good, and every eye in this city will
be on the lookout for the initial signs
of the new departure, and will hail
each succeeding step of the work
gladly and give due credit for it as
it transpires. But every gap, all
laches and delay, will be noted, as
well; and the Astorians will not put
up with any too mucn ot it, eitner.
They will be only too glad to see the
company make good, and it is strictly
up to the P. S. T. people.
,The news is worth a great deal to
all concerned, not the least of whom
is the Pacific States Telephone Com
pany. -
The French bark Eugenie Fautrel,
Captain Lehue, 79 days out from
Hobart, with cement, for Kerr, Gif-
ford & Co., at Portland, crossed in
yesterday and is now in the lower
bay. All well, and the voyage en
tirely uneventful.
Another of the huge Benson sea
rafts came down the river yesterday
and is moored to dolphins in the
lower bay, awaiting the arrival of the
tug Dauntless, which will tow the
Theo. Kruse Catering Co. to,L. G.
Pfunder, lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, block 2,
second addition to Gearhart Park;
$1000.
Theo. Kruse Catering Co. to Isa
bella Hewett Warrens, lot 8, block
monster to the Benson mills at San -3, Kruse s First Addition to Gearhart
Diego. It contained 5,000,000 feet. Park; $300.
The Spencer came down on spot
schedule yesterday and among her
passengers were the Messis Elmore,
and Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Prael, of this
city.
The steamer Alliance is due down
early this morning bound for Coos
Bay. She will leave the Callender
dock at 4 o'clock.
The steamer F. S. Loop finished
loading lumber at Knappton yester
day and went to the lower harbor,
bound out for San Francisco.
The steamer Sue H. Elmore got
away for Tillamook at dawn "yester
day, with a big freight manifest and
a fair list of passengers.
The motor schooner Condor went
over the bar at 6 a. m. yesterday,
bound for the down Oregon coast.
The following communication con
tains some "meaty suggestions ami
is written, m a broad spirit. It con
tains the essential points of real
j State-wide development so far as the
treatment of the Columbia river and
its great valley is concerned and is
from the pen of one of Astoria's best
informed (though somewhat modest)
citizens:
July 25, 1908.
Editor Astorian:
i he ueneral government has, we
are informed by reliable authority, ex
pended $1,800,000.00 on the channel
of the Columbia and Willamette riv
ers below Portland. The expenditure
has not put one dollar into the pock
ets of the producers of the northwest.
The same authority informs us that
the United States engineer recently
in charge of this district has recom
mended . that Congress appropriate
$200,000 annually, to be used in dredg
ing the river channel below Portland.
Of course this $200,000 per annum,
if appropriated, will be charged up
to the opening of the Columbia, and
will reduce other appropriations by
just that amonnt. Supposing this
$200,000 were to be used in removing
obstructions at Celilo and The Dal
les would not the producers of the
interior receive greater benefit there
from than if it is used in dredging
out a river already navigable? Sup'
posing the $1,800,000 already expend
ed by the government in dredging
the lower river had been used in op
ening the upper river to navigation;
would not all Oregon, as well as the
entire Inland Empire, have profited
to a greater extent thereby than they j
have profited by its expenditure on i
the lower river, which has been navi
gable at all times?
Owing to the fact that the Colum
bia at The Dalles has been unnavi
gable, the railroads have had the fix
ing of rates on products from east of
the Cascade Mountains, and have
made the rates, as usual in such cases,
all the products would bear. The O.
R. & N. Company has charged as
much for hauling products down the
Columbia pass, on a water grade, to
Portland, as has been charged by
other roads for hauling across the Cas
cade mountains, over high grades,
greater distances, to Puget Sound.
If the Columbia river was opened to
navigation there would be a change
in this respect, and the producers
would get some of the benefits to
which they are entitled by virtue of
living in a country that nature has
favored. This they have never enjoy
ed, and it is time that they should.
There are two things of prime im
portance to the northwest country:
1, Deep water at the mouth of the
Columbia, and, 2, opening of the Co
lumbia to inland navigation, through
out its entire length. When these are
accomplished, and not until then, will
the producers of the country reap the
reward to which they are entitled.
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ASHTON COMPANY TO
CiOSE DOWN
SUMMER STOCK HAS NOT
PROVEN A DECIDED SUC-
CESS -MANAGER HACAR TO
PRESENT MOVING PICTURES
THE HAGER THEATRE'S NEW
POLICY.
The Hager Theatre which has
been playing stock for the past five
weeks will change ' its policy com
mencing next Monday. Manager Ha
ger announces that he will present
the latest moving pictures and il
lustrated songs. Moving pictures
have become the favorite amuse
ment and Manager Hager has con
cluded to follow suit of many other
theatres throughout the country, he
being the exclusive member of the
International Film Service Associa
tion for Astoria and Clatsop county.
Manager Hager will show pictures
which no one else can get until
after they have been shown at The
Hager Theatre, as they will be ship
ped direct from the manufacturers to
him, which will enable him to show
them before anyone else in the city.
There will be a matinee every day at
2:30, and from 7:30 to 10:30 o'clock
Any seat in the house will -be 10c,
at which price the house should be
filled at all times.
If you will make inquiry it will be
a revelation to you how many suc
cumb to kidney or bladder troubles
in one form or another. If the patient
is not beyond medical aid, Foley's
Kidney Cure will cure. It never dis
appoints. T F. Laurin, Owl Drug
Store.
After fiv weeks of a more or less
successful venture at the Hagar
Theatre the Ashton Stock Company
will close down after the drop of the
curtain on the play tonight. The
company has done excellent work
and the players have made many
friends among the theatre goers of
Astoria, but the season seems to have
demonstrated pretty -wqjl that sum
mer stock plays will hardly pay in
Astoria, especially when there are
two companies here at the same time.
Mr. Ashton, it is understood, Will go
to the beach for a well earned rest, as
he has hardly had a day's vacation in
a year or more, and other of the com-
pny will also pass a short time listen
ing to the tales that the sea waves
tell.
Mr. Hager, proprietor of the play
house, will not close it down, how
ever, but will start in at once with a
moving picture show of a first class
kind. He avers that he will be .able
to show pictures of the very highest
kind and to present them while they
are yet new in the state, having the
exclusive agency for his series of pic
tures in this community. v
Meantime the Astoria theatre,
where the Georgia Harper company
has the boards, still remains open
and that excellent company is pre
senting some good plays. It is prob
able now with but one company pre
senting stock that the Harper Com
pany may be able to secure houses
more in keeping with the size of the
town and the character of the com
pany. Both the Ashton and Harper
aggregations have been worthy of far
more worthy support than they have
been receiving, it would appear.
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t 20C the Dozen
ROYAL ANNE CHERRIES
$1.25 per Boxof 25 lbs.
Acme Grocer y Co.
HIGH GRADE GROCERIES
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TEA
There's plenty of hum
bug in tea; not one ounce
in a ton Schilling's Best.
Tour grocer returai jeui boi U tt 4a1
Wt it; w pa; hiut
NEW TO-DAY
sitting room and handsome fixture
all go to make an agreeable meeting
; place for gentlemen, there to discuss
, the topics of the day, play a game of
billiards and enjoy the fine refresh
, ments served there. The best of
1 goods are only handled, and this fact
being 10 well known, a large business
, is done at the Commercial, on Com-
mercial street, near Eleventh.
GOOD WOOD.
The Palace Restaurant
A'n phase of nunger can be daintily
WOOD DEALER 1,0 1 kitchen and dining room service are
The man who keeps the ' ' of the Positive Private dining
PRICES DOWN. ,ooms for ,adies- One call inspires
Phone Main 2191 Barn, Cor, 12th 1 "KuI" custom. Try it. Commercial
and Duane.
. street, opposite Page building.
The very best board to be obtained
in the city is at "The Occident
Hotel." Rates very reasonable.
Shine Them Up.
Ladies' shoes called for, shined and
returned. Phone Main 3741.
New Grocery Store.
Try our own mixture of coffee the
J. P. B. Fresh fruit and vegetables.
Badollet & Co., grocers. Phone Main
1281.
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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
also serve the house as cashier.
The Commercial.
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One of the coziest and most popu
lar resorts in the city is the Commer
cial. A new billiard room, a pleasant
Five months' interest paid January 1
1909, on deposits made in our Savings
Department before August, 1, 1908.
Scandinavian-American Savings Bank.
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 thinns and
gets them at their best.
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