THE MORNING ASTORIAIJ, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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Filed Declarations-
Declaration ff, intention to become
citizen were filed yesterday by Wal
ter1 Felix Leopold Bonders, native of
Germany, and by Swan August Per-
son, native oi sweuen.
Arrived Safely There-, 8
Mf Gertrude ' 'Upshur, who left
Antorla last Tuesday tin a Journey to'
Richmond, V.. arrived safely there
Sunday morning. .In a telegram to
Mr. Upshur oho stated that she had
arrived lafcly and. that the trip was a
delightful one. $ ' '' 1 '
Off For Enterprise "
Rev. Conrad. L Owen, pastor of
the Firt Baptist Church of this city,
left yesterday morning,,' for Enter
prise, in Eastern Oregon, where he
ill assist at a protracted revival
meeting, and will not be at home for
the better part of a month.
Caught Many Trout I
Captain Abercrombio and Lieuten
ant Karl Knoblock made a trip to
(Niicv over on the Washington aide,
Saturday evening mid remained until
yesterday.' They went to fish and
were lucky in having good sport.
Between them' they caught 67 sal
mon trout. t' " ' '
Trouble With Wiret--' " '
The heavy wind ; last night , that
accompanied, the rain cau&cd more or
less trouble with - the wires , about
town. The electric light circuit in
Uppcriowij was shut off as a mult
of the trouble with the connections,
and other minor troubles were' re
ported in ,9thcr parts of the city.
Jack KinkclH("Doc") left' Astoria
on the Columbine, the lighthouse
tender, on Sunday morning last," in
order to be with his father, the chef
of that fine steamer, who has been in
disposed for sometime and who was
in need of practical help during the
two months' voyage that will ensue.
Fire Alarm Disturbed
The fire alarm system of the city
is .temporarily; disturbed, and for the
past two or three days has been "off
its feed," some boxes coming in' all
right while others are not to be
heard from under any circumstances.
Fire' Chief Foster is bending every
energy to locate the, failure and will
do it before long, but it is bothering
all hands considerably. "
Dies at Hospital .'
John Ncrvig, a well known citiwii
who has resided in the eastern part
of the city for many years, died Sun
day evening after a lingering illness.
He was 51 years of age, aud his
wife had died several years ago.
About IS months ago , an operation
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was performed on him in the hope of
bettering his condition, but since
that time he had suffered much and
had gradually grown worse. He was
affected with kidney trouble,
Will Call Warrants '
Mr. Dcaley, the city treasurer, has
received the sum of $2000 on the
Irving ; avenue improvement, from
Eleventh to Fifteenth streets, ; this
sum having been paid, in by adjacent
property holders. Today the, city
treasurer will call in the outstanding
warrants to this' amount, and while
those who hold the warrants enume
rated in the call are not absolutely
required to present them to the city
treasurer for payment at once, it
seems the part of wisdom to do so
as interest stops after the call is
made."''""' :.v;vl!'.,":;' ' "
The jubilee Singers :
For two long hours next Saturday
evening Watkin's Tennessee Jnbilec
Singers will delight an Astoria au
dience at the Astoria opera house.
The eight clever singers are the very
cream of their end of th world-entertainers,
and he or she, who has
never card them will lose distinctly
unless present; and those who have
heard them are sure to be out again;
it is no sort of hardship to lisren to
their beautiful solo and chorus work
in the genuine Southern melodies of
the old time, done in character and
costume. ' ' '; . . '.
Preparing For The Rains :
Superintendent of Streets Kearney
has a force of men at work cleaning
out the gutters and drains all over
the city, 'In preparation for the rainy
season. During the summer the
drains and gutters naturally become
more or less stuffed up with leaves,
papers, and f other refuse material,
and as a result when the first heavy
rains come there is apt to be trouble.
Yesterday Mr. Kearney was hopeful
that the rain that had set in would
not prove heavy enough to cause any
bad trouble. It will take about a week
to get all the gutters and drains
properly, cleaned .out. !t
Has Resumed Work
Accident will sometimes interfere
with a man's work, while at other
times pure carelessness is to blame.
In one of these classes might be
named one L. C. Nelson, who while
handling a Winchester rifle last Sun
day, it was discharged by either acci
dent or carelessness, the bullet cut
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ling a furrow nbout four inches Umg
across the front part of his upper
left arm. lie was brought to' St.
Mary's Hospital and the wound was
dressed by Dr. Richardson, and the
patient was able to resume his work
of "blacksmith's helper" a day or
two ago, A gun is a dangerous toy.
Will Meet Thursday
The special meeting of the, Stock
holders and members of the Athletic
Club called for at the Circuit Court
room last night, adjourned without
having taken any formal action. The
attendance was comparatively light,
both because of the inclement weath
er and because of an erroneous an
nouncement that the gathering was
not to be until tonight Thursday
night the meeting will again be 'held,
and, it is urged that on that night
every stockholder and members, be
present. It is hoped to have the
building ready for 'occupancy soon,
and a meeting is first necessary to
pass upon several important matters.
These matters' will be acted upon
Thursday night without fail.
Girls' Basketball Team
While the boys of the Astoria
high school are interesting them
selves in football, and have an excel
lent team in the field under the man
agement of Lawrence Rogers, . the
high school girls are also preparing
to take up athletics. Last evening
Principal line! said that he has been
notified that 24 of the high school
girls have agreed to take up basket
ball Teams will be formed, and a
place to play has already been secur
ed. Principal Imcl will : coach the
girls until they get well started, and
they have already sent off for the
baskets and basket balls, Uaskct ba',3
has proven a favorite game for both
boys and girls all over the country,
and it is a sport that requires much
skill as well as "wind" and physical
strength; Still it is not too strenu
ous for girls, many of whom become
highly proficient players. Later, af
ter the football season is over, it is
expected the boys will also take up
basket ball. ,
Striving To Get Home '
After nearly 24 days of illness,
from which he has suffered intense
ly, Edward F. Coopcrfi of Dubuque,
Iowa, reached this city yesterday by
team from the Nehalcm, where for
three weeks hes has lain at the hos
pitable home of Mr. Rierson, the well
known rancher, prostrated with
hemorrhages of the stomach, from
which he ' suffered all a man could
well bear. , His condition became
steadily worse, and trained nurses
were dispatched to bring him to As
toria and place him in the hospital,
or if he were well enough to send
him on to Portland where he has
friends and kinsmen. The trip was a
great trial to him, and the ladies
took faithful care of htm en route;
but they all made it successfully at
high noon yesterday, and everything
was done for him that skill and good
will could suggest until the evening
train left up when he was made very
comfortable and went on to his
friends. Mr. Cooper was one of the
party of elk hunters that were d6wn
in the Nehalem some weeks ago.
Always At Home Here . , "
Hon. John Minto, of Salem, and
Astoria, and Portland, and all Ore
gon, is in the city for a few days; and
as always he comes not only to greet
the host of old time friends he pos
sesses down this way, but to gather'
definite and valuable information
touching the resources and develop
ment of the State and to add to his
far-reaching information of its natur
al histry. He is now engaged in com
puting the flow of the Columbia river
at its contact with the Pacific and, its
relation to the expansion and, effect
of the irrigation projects afoot with
in its basin. The maximum flow he
has ascertained Ho be 1,600,000 horse
uowef per second, and he want? to
know the minimum flow and will be
glad to have expert figures from any
source whatever. He may be ad
dressed at Salem. ; :
Uncle John Minto, who was in As
toria when it was Fort George, cele
brated his 86th birthday on Sunday,
and he is one of the youngest "kids"
iri Oregon who can vote.
The New Wards-
Astoria is now. divided into four
wards instead of three as heretofore,
and at the municipal election in De
cember two councilmen will be elect
ed, from each of the four wards and
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witness the greatest theatrical sensation tht city his ever
knownv. :.;-Baker . Stock"" Company r at-tKr-handsome -new
BUNGALOW THEATRE, Porrispn and J 2th Sts.,
is presenting for the third and last week thV magnificent Be
lasco play ;
The1 Girl of the
Golden
Positively the greatest sensation Portland theatre goers have
ever known. Playing to; standing room only at every per
formance. Don't delay. Send in your order for seats by
mail, wire or long distance; Address everything to
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' Always the same. Matinees Sunday and Saturday
Next Week "Brown of Harvard"
one at large, thus making nine coun
cilmen in all. The first ward is made
up of that portion of the city lying
west' of the center line of Fifth
street; the Second ward lies between
the center lines of Fifth street and
Fourteenth street; the Third ward
between the center lines of Four
teenth and Thirty-fifth streets, and
the Fourth ward is made up of all
that portion of the city lying east of
Thirty-fifth street. Judge Anderson
is preparing for the election by send
ing out; the proper notices, and yes
terday he sent out notices to each of
the judges and clerks rnamed iitthe
ordinance providing for the election.
There are to be seven voting precincts
and two clerks-and three judges for
each precinct, thus making a (total of
thirty-five men who will have super
vision of 4he Toting. Many enquiries
are daily made, in relation to the new
wards, and it may be a good plan for
those interested to make a note of
the boundaries as herein given. ;
Signed the Ordinance , - ?
, Mayor Wise yesterday signed, the
ordinance granting a final payment
to Contractor Goodin for the work
performed on the Irving avenue im
provement. Mr. Goodin's contract
was in the neighborhood of $18,000
and he has received all of that sum
less approximately $1936. At a meet
ing of the streets committee, the
Mayor and the city engineer, the
whole matter of the Irving slide was
talked over, and it seemed to be the
opinion that the slide could be bridg
ed over and the improvement thus
completed at a cost not greatly ex
ceeding this sum of $1936. However
the question must first be definitely
ascertained as to the advisability of
trying to complete the improvement
by constructing a bridge over the
bad place; the proceedings, as re
gards the1 taxpayers who are to pay
for the whole cost, might possibly
be invalidated by thus changing the
plans and specifications of the con
tract, it is thought, and hence this
matter has been turned over to the
city attorney for an opinion. Appar
ently, however, a change as material
as this proposed one, and not dissi
milar, was made in the West Com
mercial street improvement where a
new bulkhead is to be put in against
Mr. Hahn's property, and a new as
sessment made. Between a new bulk
head and a new bridge there seems
little or ntf difference in principle.
Meantime the Irving 'avenue slide
matter will be permitted to await the
action of the winter rains.
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Important Meeting. j
A special meeting of the stockhold- j
ers and members of the Astoria j
Amateur Athletic Association, is call-1
ed to meet at the Clatsop County
Court House, Circuit Court rooms,
on Thursday, October 15th, at 7:30 he will be a veteran operator long be
p. m., for purposes of reorganization, fore he shall wear a moustache or
The presence of each stockholder
and member is necessary in order to
transact business of vital importance,
s. G..C. FULTON, (to make the most of his every suc-, Ocean. Circle No. 145, Women of
President. -j cess, and he has plenty of friends in j Woodcraft, will give a tea and sa!r
H. F. PRAEL, . and about Astoria to wish him end- of useful and fancy articles on the
.Vice-President less achievement in his chosen pro- afternoon and evening of Wedaes-10-13-3t
fessidn; because it is one of the last day, October 14th, at the resides
. ,and best developments of modern of Mrs. Pauline Zeigler. A program
Subscribe to the Morning Astorian science and destined to cut an im-0f vocal and "instrumental mur v,
60c per manth by mail or carrier. .
to go to Portland this
SLIITH'S POIIJT REAG
E8 WIRELESS O
FUZZY" FERLAND HEARS HIS
COMPANY'S AGENT AT
HILO, H. I., DISTINCTLY.
, J. O. Ferland ' ("Fuzzy) the
sponsible . young . operator for
United Wireless Company, at
re
the its
Smith's Point Station in this city, -re
ports, what is deemed sto be the ut-
ter limit of sound movement as at-
tained to in his interesting business,
in having overheard, at 1:30 o'clock
on Sunday morning last, the mes
sages passing between the San Fran
cisco station of his company and Mr.
Isobel, the company's representative
at Hilo, Hawaiian Islands. Feralnd
not only caught the outgoing mes
sage from the California coast, but
distinctly heard and registered the
responses of the Hawaiian agent. Mr.
Isobel , said in the course , of his
communication, . "I am using the
small aerial to send on but the larger
one to receive with," and this came
strong to the Smith Point station.
Isobel continued, "I am employing
only 'half juice,' and I wart you to
look out for me ev;ry night about
this time." Fernald also heard the
Hilo man, tell San Francisco that he
('at Hilo) had once heard "the steam
ship Victoria, bound - from Seattle
for Nome, Alaska, calling the U. S.
battleship, Colorado than in Bering
Sea."
These "2400-mile and longer calls,
Mr. Ferland believes to be the mod
ern limit of the service, to date, at
least, though nothing in the way of
distance will ever surprise him in the
way of more extraordinary reaches, land however and no one considers a
He says that during the "take" was visit tothe metroplis complete wi:i
making on the Island message, the ut seeing this great stock organiaa-
Farrallone Island station, off San
Francisco, butted in with the cheery
message, 'Good work, old man, keep
it up!"
The United Wireless people are
perfecting the service of this station
and now Smith's Point s is connected
with this city and the sou.rrpundi.ng
country by local and long distance
telephones, and has " established ; a
downtown office at the cigar store,, of
Fred Brown at the corner of twelfth
and Commercial, all of which : will
greatiy expedite the 'expansion, of the
company's business.. The Wireless
station 'phone is number Main 2741.
Ferland is making a genuine sue-
cess of his work and takfs,, huge
delight in its every phase;-"if he
keeps up the pace he has set so far,
any ot tne other appenages of a
grown man. He is just young
enough to be happily ambitious and!
measurable figure in the chronicles of
wee!:, do zo,
Vest
the" days to come.
At present the day service of tie
United Wireless covers the following
coast points: Westport, Aberdeen,
Friday Harbor, Tacoma, Seattle, Ctl
ljngham, Washington and Vancouver
and Victoria, B. C and night potols
at Eureka, San Francisco and Port
land Beside the3e he, of courss,
reaches all passing ships and Ibooe
approaching the coast from almost
all radii.
SENSATION' IN PORTLAND.
Baker Stock Company Enjoying
Startling Run to Sec Great Play
. Everybody who attends theatres m
Portland is just now talking a"bortt
! te , Baker Stock Company and Boa
j galow Theatres in that city. For tie
past two' weeks that popular play
house has been the scene of what is
something of a sensation.. This is ffce
production of the famous Belasr.
play "The Girl of the Golden West,"
and so great is the interest excileJ
among play goers there that there
has not been a -single vacant seat
during the entire ' run so far. Tb
present week howevr, Manager Ceo.
L Baker, who was so fortunate a
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will be positively the last week clos
ing Saturday, October 17. Hundreds
from the surrounding iities have seal
in orders and witnessed the play 323
in fact it has now become a fail t
go to Portland whenever there is
anything unusual going on. "Xlse
Girl of the Golden West" is a nagr
nificent Western play with scenes
laid in California, and it is as in
above the ordinary play of like char
acter as the sun is above the moom.
It takes a good deal t excite Portkni
amusement , seekers, but "The Girl
must have accooiplished it most thor
oughly as nothing before has ever
run longer than a single ten days at
the most. The Baker Stock Com
pany is one of the .features of Pott-
tion. Manager Baker has staml iiux
unusual care will be given to all or
ders sent from out of town.
-I.- NOTICE.
notice is nereDy given that the nw
dersigned has purchased the business
known as the Tacoma Resfcuira-irt at
323 Astor street. All claims -against
this place existing prior to fins date;
must be presented today as the un
dersigned will not be responsible for
Same unless presented today.
(Signed, GEORGE KIAVIS.
Out For Superintendent.
H. E. Steffens herebv makes fiw-
tnal announcement of his candHacj
for the nomination fox ilie Rice of"
street superintendent of the City oF '
Astoria, before the Republican
primaries of said city, to be held'on
t the 9th nv nf vv,u tor
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' ' Tea and
been prepared. . All are invited.