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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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Established 1873.
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Entered as cecond-class matter July 30, 1906, a the postoffice at As
toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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TELEPHONE MAIN 661.
TH EC WEATHER
Oregon and Washington Fair and
warmer except near the coast.
COMBINATION CARLOAD.
The latest order of the Interstate
Commerce Commission giving the
right to any group of shippers to
combine in the making of a coarload
of merchandise and compelling its
shipment by the railway companies
upon the car rate is a welcome and
sensible ruling. It will be fought to
a frazzle by the big lines, of course,
but its equity will prevail in the end
and to the benefit of the whole coun
try, as all just and rational things
benefit us. ;
The railway tariffs of the country
are all guaged to the utter limit of
commercial strain and have been for!
years. The earnings of the great lines
everwhere indicate the huge percent
ages that are nursed and garnered, to
the accumulation of gigantic fortunes
and it is becoming common knowl
edge where a few years ago it was
not suspected. The people have been
made to detest the modern business
methods of the railways and steam
ship lines, and the only way to miti
gate the growing reproach, is that
some power be invoked to successful
interference, just as in this case,
t The people are getting in intimate
touch with the secrets of transporta
tion manipulation, and are studying
the situation, as they never did before
and ' are reading avidly everything
that comes to them in shape and au
thority that commends itself; and
will be able to meet the plausible and
theoretical pleadings of the carriers
with facts and figures that silence, if
they do not shame, them.
They are learning also that the
transportation people have burdens
of their own, great and almost insu
perable burdens; but they are going
to refuse the eternal pose of scape
goat for the making good of the tre
mendous costs of these burdens. That
is what has driven the people to the
verge of rebellion; the deliberate
shifting of the corporate financial
losses to the shoulders of the ship
ping and traveling hosts of the land.
The policy has about run its course
and the order alluded to is in
with the scheme of reform.
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DUAL TELEPHONES.
Whatever may be the outcome of
the telephone rumpus now besetting
this city, may the fates forfend a
dual system!. We have many sins to
answer for. but we have never done
enough to 'invoke that nerve-racking I
penalty. The old and abominable
service were a perennial joy and a
blessing compared to the maddening
exactions of maintaining and manip
ulating two different 'phones.
One concern is all we want if it
will but do its best to give modern
and equable service. Two constitute
an outrage too formidable for con
templation in the light of what Port
land and other cities have borne and
are bearing.
PORT OF ASTORIA.
At last the Chamber of Commerce
has evolved a good bill for the estab
lishment of the Port of Astoria. It
is time, and the work that has been
presented is carefully done and if
used to its measure of efficacy, will
some day be of astonishing benefit to
the city and port. We would like to
see the good work go on, whether it
shall be applied at once or not. It
is a good thing to have up our sleeve
when the time comes for us to as
sert ourselves in a commercial way;
beside being an insuperable obstacle
in the way of Portland's aggressive
policy at this end of the river.
We do not know that the metrop
olis intends to butt in to our com
mercial bailiwick, but we are not put
ting it past her if it becomes conven-
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ient and possible, and to set up our
own port and province is to hedge
against such possibilities. It may
lay dormant until we are in position
to formulate its provisions and use
its powers, but it is an excellent thing
to fall back on when its use shall
operate to enhance our own prestige
or thwart the undue encroachment of
others.
SNAKE TO PACIFIC.
No city in all Oregon would be
gladder to see the Columbia wide
open for traffic from the Snake river
to the Pacific Ocean, than this little
old Astoria. We are not a bit hide
bound about the head of navigation
when it comes to place or distance.
Every vessel, steamer, ship, schoon
er, barge, or what not, in the great
waterway trade would stop at our
doors and there would be dealing and
trade and interchange without end.
We would be no losers by the open
river, and we are just loyal enough
to Oregon to want to see other
towns and cities beside Portland
flourishing. There might be an im
mense ratio of that trade thpt would
never enter the Willamette at all, but
come on down and do business at the
real point of sea despatch; which,
while it might offend the Portland
shippers a whole lot, would save
money to the up-river consignor and
give some other place in the valley a
chance to catch its commercial
breath.
;We are rather of the opinion that
the open river would be an aid, not a
rival, to the Hill lines from up that
way, because he is of the sort that
would use both lines of traffic and
swell his own command of the busi
ness and territory. Mr. Hill is no
stickler at paltry phases of compe-!
tition; he is just big and broad
enough to merge them on his own
account and give the people the bene
fit of the merger. He has done it
before.
Anyway, we want to see the up
river people stick to their text and
do business by water, and we stand
ready to expedite the work with
every atom of influence at our com
mand, when they get to a pass where
the word of a friend is needed.
All that Scientists have said lately
concerning the conveyance of disease
by flies gives the idea that the spiders
and their flytraps are among the
most beneficient things in nature.
'Japan's new premier says: ''My
policy will be peaceful, the prime ob
ject being to maintain peace through
out the world." As Uncle Sam will
labor to the same end, all is .quiet
on the Pacific with the exception of
Mr. Hobson's typhoon.
Mr. Hearst says Mr. Gompers no
tified him that a separate Hearst tick
et would elect Taft. Mr. Gompers
foresees defeat at an early stage, but
did not intend that Hearst should
resort to publicity in the negotiations.
Taft clubs are reported to be mul
tipying in the western part of Ten
nessee, where Republicans have hith
erto been scarce. Instead of getting
the Middle West Mr. Bryan is likely
to lose a slice in the Middle South.
A man in Chicago claims to have
been dead 69 hours and describes
what he saw in Hades. This is the
first instancef in which the individual
concerned in an incident of this kind
failed to gain admission any place
but heaven.
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and tea; Schilling's Best,
is sold by about 9000
grocers west of the Rocky
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ELKS IN BIG TIME
Simply Owned Centralia Last
Friday and Saturday
DEDICATE NEW ELKS' HALL
Twenty Candidates For Initiation
Were in Procession in a Big Steel
Cage and Tall Hats and Dusters
Were in Evidence.
Portland Telegram: Centralia,
Wash., July 28 This town was given
over to the Elks Friday and Satur
day. The weather .was ideal. Tall
hats and linen dusters were much in
evidence, each wearer carrying the
orthodox cane gaily decorated with
the purple and white colors. The oc
casion of all this gaiety was the for
mal dedication of the new Elks' quar
ters on the third floor of the new
Union Loan & Trust Company's
building. These quarters, with lodge
and clubrooms, have been furnished
at great expense, and the surprise
that Centralia should have competed
successfully with the larger cities in
the size and elegance of the furnish
ing of the Elks' lodge was great
among the visitors. Friday was giv
en up to the residents of Centralia.
The rooms were thrown open to all
and the guests were entertained dur
ing the afternoon by the girls' or
chestra from the Industrial School at
Chehalis. In the evening a program
was presented and the rooms were
crowded with Elks, their relatives
and friends. The program consisted
of orchestral selections, instrumental
and vocal solos, recitations and an
address by D. S. Cohen, of Portland.
Mr. Cohen gave an interesting ac
count of the aims and objects of the
order and his remarks were repeated
ly interrupted by cheers. The streets
of the city were gaily- decorated.
Arches spanned the main street and
countless colored electric lights form
ed' a canopy along Tower ayenue.
Every store window had an original
design symbolical of Elkdom, and
Leaf
We manufacture them right here in Astoria
at Lowest Prices.
LOOSE LEAF LEDGERS
LEDGER SHEETS
TRANSFER BINDERS
INDEXES
DUPLICATE BILLING SYSTEMS
MONTHLY ACCOUNT SHEETS
ETC.
We have all the latest improved machinery
for turning out this class of work. Give us
your next order.
flags waved from the business houses
And public buildings, Saturday the
Elks had their inning, both hosts and
guests. Each train brought in dele
gates from outside lodges, all appro
priately attired and eager for the fray
of jollification. The resident , Elks
constituted themselves a committee
of the whole on reception, and every
train was met and the visitors wel
comed and escorted to the clubrooms
or to places of interest in the town.
Among the visitors are Judge had
wick, of Colfax; Lieutenant-Governor
Coons, of Port Townsend; Sam Nich
ols, secretary of state; C. G. Austin,
candidate for lieutenant-governor and
J. H. Schively, state insurance com
missioner. In the' evening there was
a grand parade of automobiles, water
wagons and Elks, all escorted by sev
eral bands, among which ws a mili
tary band from a cavalry regiment
camped about a mile from town.
Twenty candidates who were about
to be initiated were in the procession
in a big steel cage.
Women's
Ailments
are many and peculiar. At
times they so disorganize the
system that the general health
is impaired and weakened.
When women feel nervous
and debilitated, or suffer with
sick headache and depression,
will promptly relieve these
unpleasant symptoms, and do
much toward restoring healthy
conditions to the various organs.
For backache, dizzy spells,
feeble blood, stomach weak
ness, constipation and other
distressing ailments, Beech
am's Pills are a reliable
preventive and
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JAPS ARE FRIENDLY
Tokio Will Welcome Fleet in Fine
Shape
WILL GIYE GARDEN PARTY
Nipponese Capital Will Spend 20,000
Yen In Entertaining Naval Offi
cers, And All Plans Are On An El
aborate And Costly Scale.
TOKIO, July 9. In anticipation of
the visit of the American fleet to J.ii
panese waters the municipal bodies of
more than one port have already ta
ken initial steps to extend to ofiiccrs
and men a hearty and characteristical
ly Japanese welcome. On July 7 the
Yokohama Municipality held a con
ference at which the members discus
sed the proposed reception in honor
of the fleet which is expected to ar
rive at Yohohama during October.
Mr. N. Mitsubishi, the mayor, pro
posed that a garden party should be
held on the cricket ground to which
should be invited about 2.S00 Ameri
can ofiiccrs, the American ambassa
dor and his staff, and that about
twenty thousand yen should be spent
by the city on this entertainment. The
proposal was unanimously carried. A
bill providing for the expenditure will
shortly be submitted to the city as
sembly. Leading citizens will also
give a banquet at a foreign hotel in
honor of the American officers. In ad
dition to the above entertainments
the Yokohama chamber of commerce
intends to give a Japanese dinner to
the American visitors at a tea house.
It is expected that .the preparations
for the occasion at the capital will be
upon a proportionately elaborate
scale, following the precedent created
on the occasions of the last visit of
the British fleet.
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TRANSPORTATION.
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Steamer Lurline
Night Boat for Portland and
Way Landings.
Leaves Astoria dally eacept Sunday
at 7 p. m.
Laavaa Portland DaDy etcept Sanaa?
at 7 a. m.
Quirk Service Eiccllant Ileal
Good Bartha
Landing Astoria Flavel Wharf.
Landing Portland Foot Taylor It
J. J. DAY, Agent
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DAIRIES.
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All milk aerated befora bottling.
Specialty made of one cow'a milk for
infants. Satisfaction guaranteed.
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WINES AND LIQUORS.
Eagle Concert Hall:
(320 Astor Street)
Rooms for rent by the day, week, or
month. Bes .rate in town.
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