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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1908)
THE MORNING A3TOIUAN, ASTORIA, OUfcGON. i - yu HIM ....I LW-W C3 If u y u lam I'M in jy jy EYSAV V u "J 1 ' j u Ulii Rf v Larson's Mammoth Mid-Winter Sale is n:w on in full swing, The Word BARGAIN has ncvcrv before obtained the significance which it has at this sale only standard goods which were part of our regular stodk arc offered. No importation of cheap trash to pajm off as regular goods Is ever tolerated in this store. Read the marvelous reductions below and convince yourself , v , , Suits $25.00 Suits 22.50 Suits 20.00 Suits 17.50 15.00 12.50 10.00 Suits Suits.. Suits, Suits. $17.50 1 - I4.C3 12.25 1 1.03 8.75 .. 6.C3 Dress Shoes $5.oo Dress Shoes $3.S9 4.50 Dress Shoes 3.25 4.oo Dress Shoes ..... 3.G' 3.50 Dress Shoes . 3.oo Dress Shoes .... ... ,2J 2.75 Dress Shoes..... . 2.0 Young Men's Suits $20.oo Young mens suits... $14.03 17.50 Young mens suits..... 12.25 15.oo Young mens suits .. 10.59 12.50 Young mens suits 8,75 Overcoats $22.50 Overcoats $15.63 20.oo Overcoats $ j 4,03 17.50 Overcoats . 1 225 15.00 Overcoats 10.50 12.50 Overcoats 8.75 TOPCOATS $15.oo Topcoats $10.03 Loggers' Shoes Best $8.oo Logger Shoe made - $8.75 Best 7.oo Logger Shoe made 5.40 Best 6.oo Logger Shoe made ... 4.50 Men who are in need of anything in this line will do well to buy now. Men's best all-wool Pants $4.co Trousers ' $2.75 3.50 Trousers 2.50 3.oo Trousers 2.03 2.50 Trousers r .. ,75 High Top Working Shoes $7.50 High top shoes 7.oo High top shoes L tJ'-L 4 t- ... 4.53 These values in working shoes are posi tively the best obtainable and will not last long at these prices. All-wool Sweaters In sweaters v e are pretty well cleaned out but we have a few in the following sizes 34-30 and SSHo at the following prices: $3.oo Sweaters for $2.03 2.oo Sweaters for ,0Q Dress Shirts $2.50 Dress Shirts $J5 2.25 Dress Shirts j.59 2,oo Dress Shirts ,35 I.50 and. $1.25 Dress Shirts ... j.OQ Boy's School Shoes The kind they can't wear out In sizes from 11 to 2...... $2.03 In sizes from 2 1-2 to 5 1-2 225 Boys High top Waterproof Shoes In sizes from 1 1 to 2 $250 In sizes from 2 1-2 to 5 1-2 2.75 ll-wool Underwear $4.oo all-wool Underwear $3.03 , 2.5o all-wool Underwear... ,75 This underwear is of the best make and guaranteed to be all-wool. All-wool Shirts $35o all-wool shirts.... $2,75 3.oo alLwoo! shirts 2.25 2.75 all-wool shirts 2X3 2Joo all-wool shirts J,50 THE GMANl S STORE "The Bond Street Bargain Store" Next Door to Ro. Hlifrfln. i CHARLES LARSON Prop. I What You Have Been Looking For i ALLEN'S Boston Brown Bread Flour 2 PKG. 20 CENTS . X A T AT T PW Sole Agent for . . . i n.. V. Bauington Hall Steel Cut I COFFEE 40c CAN Phones 711, 3871. Branch U. T. 71 DUO NOTES OF INTEREST WASHINGTON', Dec. 26.-Repub-Iicans in Congress have devised a plan which they believe will result in ad journment of the proposed extra ses sion at the earliest possible day. It is not entirely proper, perhaps, to say the Republicans of the present Con gress devised the plan. It originated in the fertile and massive brain of the fate Thomas B. Reed and was put in to operation at the extra session which passed the Dingley bill imme diately after the inauguration of President McKinley in 1897. If some one other than Joseph G. Cannon is selected Speaker of the 1 st Congress, the plan may be aban doned. It will be put into operation is Cannon is again Speaker. It pro vides that immediately upon the or ganization of the House the Speaker shall appoint a committee on ways ind means, and he also would appoint some of the minor committees neces sary to the operation of the House, such as accounts, enrolled bills, mil tage, etc. Appointment of the other committees will be deferred until the convening of the regular session next December. Thi6 would force Congress to confine itself to consideration and passage of a tariff bill. Members would be at liberty to introduce all the bills they saw fit, but as there would be no committees to which to refer them they would have to lie on the Speaker's table until the commit tees were appointed. Some such method is deemed neces sary because the House organization even should it be able to elect Can non Speaker, does not feel that it would be assured of always being able to control that body. If committees were appointed and the way opened for other legislation, the House might take the bits in its teeth and run awav from control of the organization. If it is not considered desirable by the powers that be that any measures other than the tariff bill shall be con sidered at the extra session; and if members know that the tariff bill is all that stands between them and ad journment they will be inclined to expedite that measure as much as possible. Those volunteer assistants of Mr. Taft's who started in immediately af ter election to construct a cabinet for the President-elett now have an op portunity to reflect on the unwisdom of haste. It now appears that not one of those early lists which were put out with such a show of authority were even approximately correct. The writer did not join the cabinet making crew, but he does modestlv point with pride to the fact that he predicted that when Mr. Taft an onunced his choice for Secretary of State it would be a man who had not been mentioned in connection with the place. The name of Senator Knox did not appear at the head of any of the published cabinet slates and most people had never heard his name men tioned in connection with the premier ship until it was authoritatively an 'nounced that he had been selected. It is true that Frank H. Hitchcock still has the call on being Postmaster General, but no one can claim title as a prophet for predicting that he would get the place. It had been accepted as a foregone conclusion from the day it was announced that he was to take charge of the Taft campaign. James Wilson also figured in most of thi lists as Secretary of Agriculture, but neither did that prove that those who compiled the lists were seers. Mr. Taft or any other Republican elected to succeed Roosevelt would have bee.i gound to keep Mr. Wilson until he had served in the new Cabinet long enough to break Albert Galletin'j record for continuous cabinet service. Mr. Taft is going to retain Mr. Wil son until he has broken that record, which will mean about three months service after March 4, but there is no reason to believe the veteran head of the agricultural department will con tinue longer with the Taft adminis' tration. NORTH SIDE NEW it Mtas L M. WUIUbuoo. ol Ilwco, U tat aecndutd rtprwcol.lirt oi fb a.tori.a tai will takt er of all items of aeva, ard.cn for ubecrlptkxu tad all klmla of priming. Aside from Hitchcock and Wilso:: there isn't a man whose name ap peared on the tirst lists who is now counted a strong cabinet possibility. Everyone was sure James R. Garfield would be continued in the Taft cabi net either as Secretary of the Interior or promoted to a higher portfolio. But Mr. Garfield is now reckoned as out of the running. William Loeb, Jr., Secretary to President Roosevelt, was another whose name was on all the November lists, but Mr. Loeb's cabinet chances appears to be van- shing. No one though of making up a slate without having George von L. Meyer, the present Postmaster-Gen eral, on it, and usually the Treasury portfolio was the one assigned him. His name has now been dropped. Aside from the selection of Knox to head the State Department, the new cabinet predictions may be no more reliable than were those of a month ago, but it certainly is demon strated that those of a month ago were unreliable. All of which gets us back to the proposition that merely because you read in a press dispatch that a certain man is going to be se lected for a certain place in Mr. Taft's cabinet is no reason why you are bound to believe it. A pretty safe rule for you to make would be to wait for the official announcements before accepting as final reports about the men the next President will have for his advisers. BLIND CHILDREN MAY SEE. HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 26. Health. Commissioner Dixon hopes to see prevented fully one-third the num ber of cases of blindness occurring in Pennsylvania. He declares this can be done if an old law that has Iain prac tically dormant on the books of the state for a number of years and the ILWACO C F. Roger and wife were Astoria visitors the first of the week. Marion Smart arrived Tuesday from South Bend to spend the holidays with his parents of this city. The wireless station at North Head, Wash., was in communication with Kahuku Island, Oahu, Hawaiian Isl and, last Monday night, a distance of 2370 miles. The receiving and send ing operator reports the signals very distinct and interchange of signals perfect. Mr. Case was a business visitor to Astoria the first of the week. Mrs. J. B. Bablcr, accompanied by her two children, Ancel and Avis, ar rived a few days ago to spend Xmas and New Year's with relatives here. W. B. Hawkins and wife returned home Wednesday from the Collins Springs where Mr. Hawkins has been spending a couple of weeks for his health. He returned in a much im proved condition. J. W. Seaborg arrived Wednesday to spend some time with his mother and relatives of this city. ' Edgar Rogers and sister, Miss Mabel, accompanied by Miss Mary Dahl, arrived Thursday to spend the Christmas with their parents. Ernest Seaborg and wife of South Bend are guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Hawkins during the holidays. John Kelliher arrived the latter part of the week to spend a week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Kelliher at North Head. Geo. Lee, of Seaview, passed thru Ilwaco the first of the week on his way to Portland. The Misses Erma and Alice Yeaton suggestions that the State Depart ment of Health proposed are carefully carried out. A recent report from the Pennsylvania School for the Blind says that in the last four years more than one-third o'f the persons admit ted to that institution have owed their affliction to opthalmia heonatorma, that is, the affection of the eyes which occurs at the birth of the jnfant. arrived this week to spend the holi days ith their father, Frank Yeaton after which Miss Erma will return to Deep River, where she has charge of a school and Miss Alice to Providence Academy, Vancouver, Wash., where she is attending school. Miss Blanche Herrschner and Miss Irene Scott, left Thursday, to spend Xmas with relatives in Portland. Mrs. C. L. De Long- left the latter part of the week for Vancouver, Wash., to spend a week with her tws children who are attending the Provi dence Academy at that place. She was accompanied by her friend, Mln Minnie Marks. Air. and Mrs. Bert Sprague of Chinook were visitors to Ilwaco the last of the week. The exercises held Thursday even ing in the Methodist and the Presby terian churches were well attended and appreciated. The programs con sisted of songs and recitations and the children who rendered their assist ance are to be highly commended for the interest shown. ' Mr. J. Vaughn and grand-daughter, Miss Edith Vaughn, arrived the lan ot the week to spend the holidays with relatives. Wfflhdtfs JUST OUT The new Everybody's start with a story about things that come up out of the ground that will make even an expert farm, er sit up and take notice. . For those who like fun there's a story by Joseph C. Lincoln with a lot of good laughs. Get a copy and see if you don't like it, L00I FOB TOE PATCBW01I COVE! For sale by 0. W. WHITMAN and SVENSON'S BOOK STORE. OUTCOME NO SURPRISE. ! LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26.-Rtired Champion James J. Jeffries claimed not to be surprised at the outcome of the Burns-Johnson flghf, "I thought h "wouM win- unless they had his legs ami hands , both tied," was hit comment. "Burns hi no right to fight Johnson . for the heavyweight championship. I never looked for any other result-, but I did not expect the fight to go so far," he added. Jeffries Is already stirring things for a match between Johnson, and the winner of the Kaufman-Barry mill, but it is not certain yet whether either one will cosent to meet .the black man. Dr. Roller, "of Seattle, has been anxious to meet the winner and may get the chance. ROADBUILDERS STOPPED. GRANGEVILLE, Idaho, Dec. 26. In Judge Vineyard's court todav James Smith was bound over to ap pear before the Circuit Court on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Richard Sylvester was tried on a like charge and was diKuarged The trouble arose over the construc tion of a wagon road in Elk City. Smith and Sylvester were "worklne, on a bridge and, according to the evi dence, Grunt Litchfield, whose land the road was crossing, ordered them to stop. A quarrel of a serious na ture resulted. Guns were drawn, but no shots were fired. The trouble hat created two factions, one that wans the new road nml another that does not. UNION CITY, Dec. 26-That the prosecution is satisfied with the evi dence already presented in the case against the nightridert, was evidenced today when after a conference be tween the prosecuting attorney anJ friends of the arrested men, the ttate't attorney refused to accept the confes sions of three of the othert under ar rest conditioned on indictment! against them being quashed. Go to Whitman's We carry the largest line of Books and Stationery' in town. All the latest music on hand at all times. Our line of Post Cards and novelties cannot be excelled in Astoria. Whitman's Book Store Great Pre - Inventory Sale Of HEATING STOVES Next Week Only 20 Per-Cent OFF On Heating Stoves Foard & Stokes Hardware Co.