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.
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jl'.'j''1, rjf y-W L -Jr-" Fr
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' . 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.
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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-
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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. . ,
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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
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