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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1908)
THE MORNING ASTORIAN, AST011I A. OREGON. j bound for the point of departure on I NEW TELEPHONE BUILDING Good Bread and Paltry the tar tide of the Mississippi river.1 Traffic Excellent R. M. VVataon, of the Seaside Sig nal, accompanied by Mn. Watson. Is not a matter of chance, but certaintywhen you use "LOG CABIN" FLOUR , iwai in Astoria yesterday to spend the day; He report the traffic of the sea son to be growing distinctly better .1 !. .... . ... ROSS, HIGGINS & CO. man u was a icw weeks ago and if the summer "holds out to burn" lonir LEADINO GROCERS. enough and hot enough there will be; no complaint sent tin from that w itiful resort. TUESDAY, AUGUST 4 w mi or i special duty, and will leave for his ! No Bidl Fi,ed Yet dittant transcontinental post this) Trustec-in-Bnnkriiptcy mor;iing on the 8:20 express. Money Taken In Order Bills Patd- Thc city treasurer s ofl.ee yesterday Jn he nMtf ((( ,he (f R j tuck in m for two liquor licenses Abbotr ,he probaU C0Uft yMtcrday and $4i)0 from other sources. orJercd )e atrnjnjtr8tor i0 f,ay M against the estate amounting to County Court- $1050.96 and approving the first semi- The county court will meet in rcgu- annua 8CCOtinting. The order was lar eion tomorrow. The question ,mijc 0rl tct it im of the administra te the county roads will be consld- tor( R A Atbott. erect uiiiy. Moen, in charge of the Ifcilborn furniture' Mock, reports that up to yesterday! morning no bids had been filed for the outright purchase of the goods, though there is no telling when such proffers will begin to come in. In the iiicaiumic individual purcnascs may be made by whomsoever may want any especial thing in stock. Police Fundi Capt Planck Back Capt. A. M. Panck returned to As toria on the Spencer on Sunday. lie visited several towns between here and Portland in the interest of the tug of war tournament to be held here during the regatta. He sue ceeded in settling several matters which will not only be of advantage to the tournament but to the regatta as well. He found many of the Port land people enthusiastic over As toria's annual event. From The North Coast Editor F. A. Hazfltine, of the South Bend, Wash., Journal, was a business visitor in this city yester day. Mr. Hardline avers that there is a pronounced political sentiment developing over the Evergreen State in favor of S. G. Cosgrove, of Pome roy, for Governor, and thinks he will easily capture the vote of the Add Another Name- A Noted Philanthropist . ' noi aivwea oetween t n . t . . . L it. . . 1 nullum may be far more than enough m w visissi.s v'iumiv v m j - - Vi istviiuti " isn jivi v is ii! i'iifiv v i ' 0 elect him teday to the list of men appointed as Saturday and Sunday last, is a grand- j the committee to attend the Good sou of the man who founded the Sib- gtm unfoun(j. Pfi.trU Convention in Portland on Uv Institute for Technical Training.! Am,. 11 at ri.i.ht.rtr. and ncrnfttiates the! I. B. Elbon, manager of the Colum .n,n.li.t rMahlUhment from his own!,,ia mil,s at Knappton, was in the city From Ketchikan- ! private fortune, and intends to endow c"day morning on business. " 'After Two Months . i r .1.. i ti.i The police department recorus lor ,'native o( Korway( came out t0 thia the month ol July snoweo a www coufltry an(, fity t0 miU hi cw m Cl t.. I. .m in i Anna ami (iirfpi- . . ... '' " " nome nere, out alter uying to hkc tures, it for that period, in every way he -"" " could, he yields to the stress of home- Ta Moneys , ickncs and leaves overland this The sheriff's office yesterday turn- morning for New York, whence he ed over" the sum of $.'47.04 to the wij take ship for distant Bergen, county treasurer yesterday, rcpre-; . senting the tax moneys of the prev- pour Bands Engaged lous week. Harry Hocfler, of the music com- mittee of the regatta, announces that Final Accounting Approved- thcre wiJ, be four fm hamU dis. The final accounting of John Niemi pCI,)ing music continuously, Pc as administrator of the estate of Matt Caprio of Portland, furnishing 31 Lukkarila was .approved by the pro- pieces, which will be divided on their bate court yesterday and the admin- arrival here into two bands, and the itrator discharged from further de- Kateva and Alderbrook organize lay. tions. " ;,-, ' yj..-w.,i.ir.' in ' I,. rr'."r;3" "s j ; ,v 1 . ... ' jl'.'j''1, rjf y-W L -Jr-" Fr " B---J I,!,.. I . ,J I . f ,! . . ' . cjysssry yi"j --l, i ..'11 , " - " i ill He been p. to .t,. ...Ui.n) it .o it hat!never cease to exist and . ' 8 w"u no ,racc nas ever keeper of the Mary Island light, at 'do the work designed for it by hisi is son who wa, drowned Ketchikan liwhthouse.' Alaska, will ancestor. This same grandfather o rom an open boat hi. .nnual o..tinr in and around the man who erected the first tele- y eieen mis cry Astoria and her endless suburban iRraph wires across the continent of sources of enjoyment and attraction. 'America, and who also built the first ...i t. . ! r c tcirgrapn yicin in jubbi, iiviii m. Petersburg to the Amoor river in the Watermelon Social The Christian Endeavor of the ''outheastern part of that empire. Mr. Second Presbyterian Church will give a watermelon lawn social at the home of Mrs. J. A. Rannells in East As toria, Thursday evening, August 6, in stead of August Sth, as first announc ed, All arc invited. t C!l1if nd im narlv 0niftvmA ttlir visit to Astoria exceedingly, and even returned from Seaside on the 9 o'clock train Sunday morning, in or der to finish the day in this city. They left for. Portland on Sunday evening, i and his home. He is certain that the body has be,cn caught in some debris, and that it has been slowly covered by the drifting sands of the June Tise, and that after the water subsides to normal flow these accretions will gradually wash away and the body be released and recovered Chinaman Dies Lum Dock Yit, a Chinaman, age 29 years, died yesterday afternoon, after being a long sufferer of pneumonia. The arrangements, for his funeral have not yet been completed., He will probably be sent to Portland for burial. Crosses The Continent- Sergeant Ernest Crouch, a soldier- electrician, who has been stationed at Fort Stevens for a year or two, has "been ordered to Portland, Maine, for Chocolates the best in the world 50c a Pound, Fruit and Fryit Canning Materials Clatsop County's Famous Loganberries Fancy Bing and Royal Ann Cherries Mason, Economy and Everlasting Jars, Tops and Rubbers Jelly Glasses, Covered and Uncovered Scholfield, Mattson & Co. PHONE 1181 GOOD G06D3H0NEM1 120 TO 124 TWELFTH STREET. OH His Formal Credentials A rite of impressive solemnity was held in the office of Mayor Wise in the city hall yesterday afternoon. when the mayor, as chairman of the regatta committee, formally presened Mr. Frank J. Carney with his formal credentials as chairman of the Baby Show committee. In the presence of half a dozen members of the Baby Show committee, and of Judge An derson and a representative of The Astorian, with Chief of Police Gam mal at the outer door, Mr. Carney was given a large silk banner, tri angular in shape, handsomely em bossed, with a certificate thereon stating that, reposing great and unusual confidence in Mr. Carney he was invested with full authority to adjudge the. babies, to kiss all the babies, and to please theif mothers as best he could. Mayor Wise made the "presentation in a speech that was brilliant with wit and happy in its personal allusions. Mr. Carney re plied in kind. The silken banner also contained beautiful ribbons of baby blue, nd a number of safety pins. At the suggestion of Dr. Henderson, who is one of the associates of Mr. Carney on the committee, it was de cided to add new members to the committee and yesterday A. M. Smith was appointed .attorney; Q. P, Zieg ler, secretary; Asmus Brix, treas urer; James Tatton, general solicitor, and R. C. Lee and N. J. Judah as press representatives. The Astorian herewith presents a cut of the building about to be efected by the Pacific States Telegraph Si Telephone Company for its own uses The structure is to be of brick. widi concrete foundation, and will present a handsome appearance. It will be situated on Exchange street between Eleventh and Twelfth streets, on the south side. Announcement Is made that work will be commenced on the structure within eight or ten days, and the contract will call for its com pletion by January 1. On that date the company , will also have its new switchboard and all its new apparatus installed in the new building. Mr. Brunold, the local manager, says that the work of installing new instfli- FOLLOW THE LINE OF WATER LEVEL DROWSED ON SUNDAY AT KNAPP10N GAMP OF RAILWAY BUNCO CHARLIE PETERSEN FALLS I THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON PAP VF IDC TIMP TUP TJPrt I PLE WERE LET IN. The barrier formed near the west coast of the United States by the Cascade and Sierra Nevada mountains is pierced in but one place, and that is on the line between Oregon and Washington, where the Columbia has force.! its way through, thereby form ing a water level grade from the "In- nd Empire," as the country lying between the Rocky mountains on the east and the Cascade -mountains on the west is known to the mouth of the Coumhia. We are told that one engine can bring 75 to 80 cars from eas,t of the mountains to the mouth of the Columbia as easily as two engines can ske ten or twelve cars over the mountains to the Pnget Sound coun-j try. li this is true it should be of BETWEEN TWO LOGS WHICH CLOSE OVER HIS HEAD WITH FATAL RESULTS. At high noon on Sunday last, Charlie, the 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Petersen, of Knapp ton, lost his life in the river there, j while playing over some logs. The little fpltftu' n-i C Eninn .UI. foot on each of two logs, when they' separated and let him down into the water, swinging back together and forming a barrier over his head when he sought to come up. His ' boyish companions, in their great freight made no attempt to rescue him but' rushed away for assistance, which when it came was too late to revive the lad, though every effort was made in that direction. One man dove twice and searched for the body, and it was found a few moments later by a neighbor with a ments and of otherwise thoroughly rehabilitating the old system will be advanced with all speed. The work of placing the wires into the cables is going on day by day under the skil ful hands of the workmen.. The mea building will be substantial as well aa handsome in appearance, and will be fitted out in a . thoroughly modera manner. yesterday, on luuir-ess and pleasure but mostly business. The doctor is the .busks; woman in Clatsop, whick is saying mere than some people hink. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Sherman have returned to Astoria after spending a week at Tikelir.'f over where .he oysters grow.' Mr. Sherman return ed to hi office :oterdtv i.n t'M county court house. He says the trip to Tokeland was enjoyable. Mrs. . Charles Wirkkala returned last evening from Raymond, Wash Thomas Dealey, city treasurer, re turned Sunday evening from his jour ney to California, where he had gone to see Mrs. Dealey, who had been taken ill while there visiting her daughter. Mrs. Dealey also returned, considerably improved in health. The California weather was exceedinelr warm. Mr. Dealey says. oreat aitvantnorA tr tliA rnnntrir tr!K. utary to the roads along the Colum- i fk' nd brought to the sur lia. But is it? The 0. R. & N. Company has a face, and, after repeated attempts at resuscitation, the remains were I t. . t..' ; t r A a road down the Columbia for many1". T" , l" " . . . i Finrli mpt flip hnat af thu rinrte init the Inland Emoire to Portland dur-Smade addltlonal efforts .to br,n back ing those years, but has made the same charges that have been charged j the spark of life, but, of course, with' out avail, and was taken to the tin- For a VICTOR OR AN EDISON PHONOGRAPH . goto MnsonPhonograph Parlon Second Floor Over Scholfield ft Mattson Co. Subscribe to the Morning Astoria, Co., ALEX TAGG CONFECTIONERY' 'Fresh Chocolates Candies, JetC) Made fresh every daypn oni own factory. 843 Commercial1 Street : i.. r f n a ti.i by other roads making longer hauls . .. 0 , . . and there prepared for burial. Later across the Cascade mountains, over . , , , . . , . . . . . . ., . in the day the body was sent across high mountain grades, to the sound ..... j. . , . I iiiv ...... .v .iiv fnuu.uvu iiv.v u I It will be seen Knappton, and the funeral will take place there this afternoon. PERSONAL MENTION that the great ad-1 vantages which nature has given to the country east of the mountains byj creating this pass through the moun- tains has not benefitted that country, I as yet, but has benefitted only the Miss Floretta Elmore will depart O. R. & N. Company. It seems as if , today for a summer visit to Milwau- these natural advantages should be kee, Wis., where she will spend sev- shared by both railroad and inhabi- j eral weeks with friends. tants, and if they were we should not 1 Mr. and Mrs. John H. Whyte were have cause 'to listen to so much homing passengers from Portland, lamentation about discriminations on the evening express of Sunday, against the ports on the Columbia. If Miss Lenora Benoit was an over the producers were permitted to Sunday visitor at Long Beach, return slnre in those advantages the bene- ing yesterday morning, fits de'iived by them therefrom would ! -W. S. Rockhill, of Portland repre- more than offset any disadvantages senting the house of Blake-McFall which they now suffer from any other Company, arrived in Astoria yester source. If they could once get their day on his initial trip in this territory eyes opened, and get the dust which as the successor of Kenneth O'Loane. has been thrown into them blown out, ' Miss C'ara Munson came up from they would discover that the bunco Warrenton yesterday for a day's vis steerer has not yet abandoned his it with 'Artoria friends. She says that occupation, but 'they would avoid Warrenton steadily refuses to stand Otoe & riijct Special Offer This Month EDISON PHONOGRAPH TEJf DATS TREK TRIAI, WH PAT THE FRUGHT EIGHT MONTHS' CREDIT SO INTKB KST. 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