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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1908)
TUESDAY, SEPT. 1 PREPARE TO BUILD TEN NEW DESTROYERS 3 Riorum Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. -AT TIIE- UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IS ASKINQ FOR BIDS SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year By carrie-, per month .$7.00 .60 1TA J.JL j WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance ..$1.50 WILL BE THE FASTEST AFLOAT, Egl 13 THE MORNING A5TORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. TO-DAY Bale 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 bypostal .card or through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately reported to the office of publicatioa TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THE WEATHER Oregon Fair and warm near coast; northwest winds. except POLITICS NEXT. home, perfectly satisfied with all we did to make them happy. Our own people did well and had as much fun as anybody, and there is a general sense of pleasurable relief at the act ual outcome; for the weather, and the death of High-Diver Sullivan, at the initial hours of the Regatta, befogged the whole m situation with distinct gloom. The Committee in charge are enti tied to plenty of credit for the way things were dispatched and is getting it on all sides. What mistakes were made are forgotten, and what succes ses were achieved will be long re membered. Mayor Wise may pat him self on the back for the faith that in spired him to go ahead with the re gatta after it had been negatived at headquarters, for that we had one, and a good one, is due in great measure to his cheerful and persistant determination. Each Torpedo Boat Destroyer Is to Cost $800,000 and Each Must Have i Maximum Speed of Over 30 Miles Per Hour Guaranteed. Astoria may take a welcome and necessary breathing spell for the next two months. The fishing season has closed with a very fair record catch; the Regatta has come and gone, and left good humor behind it; business is quiet, but not desperately so; there is plenty of money going the rounds, as usual, and the city and country is in its customary easy-going condition. We are to take up our political bur dens and assignments next and dipose them to the best of our ability, a fac ulty that is becoming, happily, more and more safely and sanely dispatched year by year, thanks, to the sharp and wholesome drilling the people have had at the hands of th? President dur in the past six or seven years, and the thinking he has forced them to do along these lines. The press of the country seems to be doing most of the commenting on the leaders ?nd their policies, while the people are saying little and saving their faces for the hour that is their own; at which grave moment they will line-up and say the say from which no man may appeal We be lieve, with all sincerity, all hopeful ness, they will call for Mr. Taft in terms that will forever lay the ambi tions of his opponent and put the seal of righteous popular discrimination beyond cavil; they want the certain continuance of the Roosevelt theory of government, with all its rugged and frilless simplicity and directness of purpose and action, and they are go ing to get it if it be but the near Rooseveltian doctrine they know the great Ohioan will give them. There is not much to disturb the common people in this general election; they have the popular mind pretty well made up, and William Jennings Bry an, with his threadbare prestige, may not disturb a fore-gone and universal conclusion as, well founded as theirs. The local field has much more to offer. The December elections here,! are to be charged to the hilt with Some pretty large Issues and people, .and there are changes to make that are very essential. What was satis- jt js sometimes remarked that the factory, or relatively so, a couple of . panama Canal will chiefly benefit for years ago, in several instances, has j ei-gn ships. Uncle Sam is pubiic-spir-proven barren and inert and either so i jte(i enough to take this risk, and con- WHOLLY COMMITTED. While the ordinary citizen is think ing out the telephone situation as it now figures in Astoria, it were well to remember that the Pacific States Tel ephone Company is finally, and whol ly, committed to a radical and ample, line of improvements here. They have been unconscionably long in getting to the issue and on the record, but there they are, and what they shall fail in now, will be used against them dis astrously. They have contracted for their new headquarter home, and have done a great share of the cabling pro mised and their men are still at work on the latter scheme of improvement; by the first day of January they should, and will, have a complete and modernized service in this city, and if this can be done without the addition al burden and cost of a double and conflicting service, all the better for Astoria. The city is fortunate in the present status of telephonic affairs, and will do well to let things go as they are, for lie moment, and abide by the changes and betterments now in line and guar ateed as nearly as the P. S. people can guarantee them. The policy of "let ting well enough alone" is, it strikes us, applicable just as this juncture. NEW YORK, Aug. 31. Bids for the construction of ten torpedo des troyers, everyone of which must be at least four knots, faster. than the Lu sitnnia and equipped with apparatus for burning oil as well as coal and which are to be the largest ever built for the American navy, will be opened tomorrow. These vessels are to cost $800,000 each and for every knot that ! the vessels lose on any of their trial i trips under the contract speed the! builders will have to forfeit $15,000 of the contract price to the government. The plans and specifications for the j vessel are being kept secret by the N'avy Department and they were sub-! mitted in confidence to the bidders. It' is knoyvn, however, that the vessels may have a trial displacement of at least 742 tons and that they must at tain on those trial tests a maximum, speed of 29 1-2 knots an hour, a speed that will make them among the fast est war craft ever constructed in this j or any other country. SILK AND KNIT UNDERWEAR harmful, or harmless, as to invite the changes that will be surely made in those various directions. It is held, for instance that a deter mined effort is to be made to retain the police commission as a seggment of municipal autonomy by those next fident enough concerning his destiny to believe that he will be able to hold his own in the world's commerce. Mr. Bryan pledges himself to keep inside the Democratic platform. But this is understood to include the plat- and nearest that particular push, and form of the Nebraska Populists. The if possible, the question is to- be with held from popular consideration as a charter amendment; this attitude is to be met by a direct petition that will be uttered in time to forestal all man ipulation or attempts at chicane, and the matter will be tried out to the last limit of public consideration and ex pression. These and several other po tent and patent matters are to be threshed out and several people re lieved of places and charges they have not taken the best care of. So it were well to do a bit of good hard think ing along these lines, in no partisan sense, with a view to giving the city the best service possible in all ways, and relieve her of a few of raw and reckless (and costly) burdens she is carrying. CUT ANOTHER NOTCH. Astoria has cut another notch on the fame-stick she started when she inauguarated her annual regattas. The fourteenth nick was cut just as deeply and plainily as any of the preceeding records, even if two out of the three days of the pleasure season were giv en over to rain and renigging. It was a prime success, the most of the suc cess being. crammed into the last 24 hours of the 72; but we got there all the same, and those who honored us by coming from a distance, have gone Populists are the big end of the Bry an party in Nebraska, and they are fused with Democrats on the state el ectoral ticket. Mr. Bryan continues to ignore the existence of a statute, passed by the last Congress, prohibiting corporation campaign contributions. Mr. Bryan must have heard of the law by this time, but his notification speech con tains an argument that treats the sta tute with silence. Democratic editors are to be spe cial agents in collecting campaign con tributions for Mr. Bryan's fund. It will be tough when a farmer whose subscription is in arrears hands in a $100 bill for the matchless one with the silvery voice. Candidate Engene W. Chafin ought to take out a policy of insurance agai'i't-drowning, asphyxiation, hur ricanes, falling meteors, misguided bricks, banana peelings, open switch es, sunstrdke and the frosts of No vember. . . Of Interest To Many. Foley's Bladder Cure will cure any case of kidney or bladder trouble that is not beyond the reach of medicine. No medicine can do more, T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. ASTORIA THEATRE. . . Manager Hanlin begs to announce to his patrons that for Sunday he has ! secured an extraordinary attraction, the Cameron Opera Company, includ- i ing Grace Cameron in the great musi cal success, "Little Dollie Dimples," now in its second year, and which will be presented with all its wealth of electrical and scenic splendor. The company is a large and notable one, including such names as Harry Benley, the celebrated mimic, who has lately been the hit of the "Sam Houston" production and also with Thomas Ross in "Checkers"; Musical Four, a quartette of real musicians, rendering classical selections on xylophone, brass quartette, string and many novel instrument form one of the added features. A big electrical dancing specialty, employing the services of the entire chorus and the pony ballet, and a terpsichorean expert, the national dancer, Emma King, one of the unique and novel features of the per formance. The Elm City male quar tette, will also render a pleasing specialty. Miss Cameron is well known to our theatre-goers who have witnessed her performance with the Bostonians, "Foxy Quiller," "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," "The Ten derfoot," the "Normandy Wedding," "Piff Paff Pouff," and other notable successes. It's hardly worth while to tell how great the bargains will be. Like our other reductions, Tuesday will be ano ther surprise party for bargains, and you should not miss it. We have practically been giving away goods at this Fire Sale, and the bargains yet to come will prove marvelous. 566 Commercial Street 0m Telephone 1331 DOING THEIR DUTY. Scores of Astoria Readers Are. Learn ing the Duty of the Kidneys. REPORTER OR THIEF. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. 31.-Ed-ward Ferris, 61 years old, as arrested yesterday on suspicion that he was connected in the recent riot, which culminated in the lynching of negroes. The police found in Ferris' room silver ware on which were engraved the name of H. T. Loper, whose restaur ant was attacked by a mob, Ferris says he is from Mexico, 111., that he is a journalist, that he came here to write stories of the riot and of its re sults, and that he found the silver ware and kept it as a souvenir. Grand jury investigations of the riot will be resumed Monday. How to Avoid Appendicitis. 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This trouble bothered me a great deal while working and being desirous to rid myself of it, I decided to give Doan's Kidney Pills a trial; procuring a supply I found quick re lief from their use and finally a com plete cure. Although this was over three years ago there has never been a return of the trouble Since, clearly showing that when Doan's Kidney Pills cure, they cure permanently." Plenty more proof like this from Astoria people. Call at Charles Rogers' drug store and ask what cus tomers report. For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. STEEL & EWART Electrical Contractors Phone Main 3881 . . . . 426 Bond Street We have just received a new line of The Malleable Eange See the difference between it aad others in our HARD WARE WINDOW. The Foard & Stokes Hardware Co. How To Get Strong. P. J. Daly, of 1247 W. Congress St., Chicago, tells of a way to become strong. He says: "My mother, who is old and was very feeble, is deriving so much benefit from Electric Bitters, that I feel it's my duty to tell those who need a tonic and strengthening medicine about it. In my mother's case, a marked gain in flesh has re sulted, insomnia has been overcome, and she is steady growing stronger." Electric Bitters quickly remedy stom ach, liver and kidney complaints. Sold under guarantee at Charles Rogers & Son's drug store. 50c. They Take The Kinks Out "I have used Dr. King's New Life Pills for many years, with increasing satisfaction. They take the kinks out of stomach, liver and bowels, without fuss or friction," says N. II. Brown, of Pittsfield, Vt. Guaranteed satisfac tory at Charles Rogers & Son's drug store. 25c. Sherman Transier Co. HENRY f HERMAN, Muu. Hack, Ctrrisges-Bsfgige Checked and Transferred-Trick aid Firaitwv . - Wagons-Pianoi Moved, Boxed and Shipped. 4J3 Commercial Strwt . ifaJa Phtat in Sept. Official Tide Tables Compiled by the U. S. Government for Astoria and Vicinity. 8EPTEMBER, 1908. High Wbter. Date. TuesdayT Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday SUNDAY Monday ; Tuesday Wednesday Thursday ....... 10 Friday 11 Saturday . . t. . . .12 SUNDAY 13 Monday ,.....,,.14 Tuesday ..15 Wednesday 16 Thursday 17 Friday ....18 Saturday 19 SUNDAY 20 Monday 21 Tuesday 22 Wednesday 23 WedneMav 23 Thursday ..24 fTiaay 25 eturaay ., 26 SUNDAY 27 Monday ....28 Tuesday ,..,,.,.29 Wednesday .... .10 A. M. I PTm. 11758 6.9" 4f08 8.0 4:50 6.6 4:48 7.0 5:52 6.0 6:39 7.9 7:13 6.7 6:44 7.7 8:45 6.8 7:58 7.8 9:67 6.4 9:12 8.0 10:62 7.0 10:17 8.4 11:38 7.7 11:15 8.8 12:21 8.2 0:09 9.1 12:69 8.7 0:69 9.1 1:38 9.0 1:48 8.9 2:17 9.1 2:87 8.6 2:57 9.0 8:28 8.0 3:88 8.8 4:23 7.2 4:22 8.5 6:26 6.6 6:12 8.0 :40 8.8 6:10 7.7 8:04 6.2 7:17 7.4 9:18 6.6 8:28 7.8 10:15 6.9 9:33 7.3 10:58 7.3 10:27 7.6 11:83 7.6 11:13 7.8 12:05 8.0 11:53 7.9 12:32 8.8 0:30 8.0 12:68 8.8; 1:07 8.0 1:26 8.8 1:43 8.0 1:62 8.4 2:22 7.7 2:21 8.4 3:03 7.4 2:53 8.4 8:48 7.0 8:29 8.8 8EPTEMBER, 1908. Low Water. Date. Tuesday Wednesday Thursday ....... Friday Saturday SUNDAY Monday Tuesday Wednesday ..... Thursday Friday .. n Saturday 12 SUNDAY ......13 Monday 14 Tuesday ...... ,.15! Wednesday 10 Thursday ....... 17 Friday 18 Saturday 19 SUNDAY ......20 Monday 21 Tuesday 22 Wednesday 23 Thursday 24 Saturday ., SUNDAY . Monday .... Tuesday ... Wednesday ...26 ...27 ...28 ...291 ...80 A. M. I P. M. h.m. 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