The morning Astorian., January 08, 1909, Page 4, Image 4

THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1909.
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Women
BEBtfflVE
Outfitters
I Great Reductions in DressGoods i
You will find these specials on first coun-
,. , . , . . ter the Dress Goods Counter !.'."
Reduction of lO pet-teat
on Outing Ginghams and Domestics
uv lO per-cent Off
1 on Notions, Corsets, ; Hosiery and Underwear
OCEAN, BAR,
BAY, DOCK
AND RIVER
Specials For January
30 per-cent Off
on Cut Glass and Hand Painted China ' '
20 per-cent . Off
on Decorated Harviland China
lO per-cent Off
on all other goods in the Crockery Department
! A. V. ALLEN
Barrineton Hall Steel Cut
COFFEE 40c CAN
Phones 731, 3871. Branch Uniontown
PERSONAL MENTION
Jack Allen was a . passenger for
Portland on the evening train yester
day. "
E. B. Stanton, of Spokane, was a
business visitor is this city yesterday.
C J. Markham of Portland spent
the day here yesterday going back
to the metropolis on the evening ex
press. J. R. Gunderson of Centralia was
among the interested tourists in As
toria yesterday. He was quartered at
the Northern. , .
H. E. Scanlon of Tacoma was a
visitor yesterday and will leave oat
this morning for Tillamook.
J. B. Antruther of Medford spent
the day in Astoria , yesterday, and
win leave for his home on this morn
ing's express. He was domiciled af
the Merwyn.
K. D. Carrington of Baltimore was
in the city yesterday and was regis
tered at the Hotel Occident
Representative J. C McCue, of this
city, went to Portland yesterday, to
he present at today's conference of
the house members interested in the
speakership candidacies.
. The friends of Mr. and Mrs. George
Morton will be glad to learn that that
lady is gradually and surely recover
ing from her recent attack of pneu
monia, Swepson Morton, of Knappa, was
in the city yesterday on business, re
turning during the afternoon to his
north shore home. i. ' ..
Capt R. E. Howesj of the bar pilot
service is out again and recovering
rapidly from a recent indisposition.
Charles S. Coleman, of San Fran
cisco, was in the city yesterday a
guest at the Occident HoteL
Miss Muretta Tagg will leave this
evening for Portland where she will
be for the next fortnight, the guest
of friends and relatives.
C C Williams, of Seaside, spent
the day in this city yesterday, a guest
at the Occident
W. H, Ormsby, traveling freight
agent for the Northern 'Pacific, and
J. E. Springer, traveling freight and
passenger agent for the Great North
ern, were business visitors in this city
yesterday. '
The Pure Food Law.
Secretary Wilson says, "One of the
objects of the law is to inform the
consumer of the prescence of certain
harmful draw in medicines." The
law requires that the amount of chlo
roform, opium, morphine, and other
habit forming droga be stated on the
! label of each bottle, lbe manufac
turers of Chamberlains cough remedy
have always claimed that their reme
dv did not contain any of these drugs,
and the truth of this claim is now
fully proven,' as no mention of them
is made on the label This remedy is
not only one of the safest, but one of
the best in use for coughs and colds.
Its value has been proven beyond
question during !ie many years it has
been in general use. For sale by
Frank Hart and leading druggists.
Operator "Fuuy" Ferlaml, of the
United Wireless station on Smith's
Point picked up the steamer Queen,
yesterday morning at 4:40 o'clock,
when she was 14 miles west of De
struction Island. She then reported
that the wind was blowing S. S, E.
and at 25 miles an hour; that the
barometer read at 29:70, the ther
mometer at 25 degrees above, and
that it was cloudy, with a light snow
falling. At the same hour p. m. she
reported to him that she was 32 miles
S. VV. of Cape Lookout, with the
wind from the westward and blowing
at the rate of 25 miles an hour; over
cast and cloudy, the barometer read
ing at 29:80, and the temperature 43
degrees, and a moderate sea running.
The pith of the reports being found
in the sharp rise in temperature be
tween the points named.
While the situation on the river is
considered threatening among the
men who operate on it for a, living
and business, the trend of opinion
along the water front yesterday even
ing was in favor of an early abate
ment of the severe told weather and
a sharp resumption of rainy condi
tions and the subsequent disappear
ance of all snow and ice. Apropos 0
this matter, Uncle Charlie Wright, of
the Hotel Occident, yesterday mark
ed up or his big office calendar a
pencil record of the fact that 41 years
ago the Columbia river was froten
Great Enamel Ware Sale
Saturday will be Enamel ware day in
our store. If you are in need of any
thing in the line of Pudding Pans,
Dippers, Pie Plates, etc., regular
f 15c Articles at 5 cents i
, this is the time o make your purchases .
but remember this extraordinary offer
will hold good for Saturday only
REMEMBER
Don't overlook the fact that we have re
duced our regular stock throughout
the store
lO PER-CENT OFF
Watch Whose Vindows for Bargains?
aterman's
over completely between Astoria and
Portland, barring alt boat and steam
er traffic, not a keel moving anywhere
for the three days of January 6th, 7th
and 8th.
The steamer Lurline did not leave
Portland until 9:30 o'clock yesterday
morning and therefor failed to reach
this port until well on to 11 o'clock
last night. She had plenty of busi
ness awaiting her ami a number of
people went up on her. She left up
at the first possible moment after
she berthed here.
The steamship Geo. W. Elder is
due down from the metropolis at in
early hour this morning, and will de
part for Eureka, San Francisco and
Port Los Angeles, at, or shortly af
ter, daybreak, this morning, from the
Callendcr dock.
The steamer South Bay cleared
from this port for San Francisco yes
terday afternoon, but will not go out
ward until this morning.
The steamship Senator is due to ar
rive down tonight at midnight and
will depart for the Golden Gate at an
early hour Jomorrow morning.
The steamer Xorthland is due here
from San Francisco tomorrow morn
ins.
FROZEN WATER PIPES
CAUSE TROUBLE
PEOPLE LET THE WATER RUN
AND RESERVOIR IS GET
TING EXCEEDINGLY LOW
Superintendent Johnson of the
water department states that so many
people are letting the water run in
the pipes in their homes that the
water in the reservoir is becoming
lowered to a dangerously low point,
and it was further intimated by one
of the water commissioners yesterday
that if this is not stopped it may be
necessary to shut off the water at
night
All over the city there are reports
of water pipes being frozen, and the
plumbers are reaping a harvest. In
many of the stores and other places
of business the same complaint is
heard. None of the water mains
have heen 'affectedj but only the sur
face' pies on private property. So un
usual is frosty weather in Astoria
that few ever think of the possibility
of their water pipes freezing and
little effort l as consequently been
made to protect them.
Many householders have been let
ting the water run so that the pipes
would not freeze, and the result is
that the reservoir is being drained.
Of course this sort.of work brings its
own punishment, for if continued the
water will have to be shut off entirely,
at rlight at least.
What with the present cold snap
and the breaking of the- water mains
in the eastern part of the city as a re
sult of the sliding ground the water
lepartment employees have all they
want in worriment and work.
Big Shoe Sale.
You can find some wonderful bar
gains at the odd and end sale now
going on at the, Charles V. Brown
Shoe Store. Prices are being cut to
the very limit
Pa rkerilouse Under Hew Management
On January 1st the Parker House will be re-opened under
Management of Durham Q. Dibble J
As a first class hotel
We invite your patronage. Dining room guaranteed tojbe
the best conducted in the city. Call and get our rates.
Bar in Connection. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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Cash Prices
Soup Meat 3c to Sc lb.
Pot Roasts. 7c, 8c, 10c
Round Steak i.'........,:.'.V.-10c, 12Jc
Sirloin . . ... .12ic to 15c
Rib .Roast Beef . . . ..... . .10e, 12c, 15c
Shoulder Roast Pork .-. 10c, 12c
Loin Roast Pork.. -..15c
Pickled Pork ..12c
Salt Pork 12Jc'
Pigs' Feet 5c
Bologna Sausage 10c
Liver Sausage ....10c
Blood Sausage 10c
Head Cheese 10c, 3 lbs. for 25
Spare Ribs '.. 12Jc
Eggs 35c
Butter 65c, 70c, 75c
Bacon 16c to 17Jc
Hams 12Jc to 16c
Live Chickens always on hand, dress'
ed to order.
Oil
iDiilii
685 Commercial St.
invalidate a whole election various in
stances can be cited. Suppose a city
clerk or city auditor to have been
opposed to the three amendments be
fore the people at the last election.
He could have failed to tile the re
quisite notices until one minute af
ter the stated tune, and thus invali
date the whole election and defeat the
wishes of a whole community. Or,
suppose he did tile them on the last
day, and a fire in the newspaper oftice
precluded the possibility of their pub
lication that day.
In the present instance the charter
amendment also provides that the
voters shall be each supplied with a
copy in pamphlet form of the amend
ments. This was done in due form
and in due time. In every sense of
the word the voters had the fullest
notice, weeks in advane of (he elec
tion, and the only possible ground of
contention is that one little matter of
instruction to the city .auditor was
not . literally lived up to. The one
whose duty it was to see that the no
tice was made, was in reality at the
time trying to do three men's work.
and in addition probably had never
had his attention called to the pro
vision, , . .
Some have rather humorously hint
ed that Mayor Smith is far more in
terested in the seawall project than
in the Port of Astoria commission,
which Is given full powers to con
struct a seawall, without the mayor
having a hand in it at all. At all
events the new commission is going
to proceed just as if the mayor had
not called attention to the suspicion
of its possible invalidity.
The Great Clearance Sale
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IS PORT OF ASTORIA
BILL LEGAL ?
GROUNDS OF PRESUMED IN
VALIDITY SEEM TO BE
SOMEWHAT TRIVIAL.
At the request of one or more of
the officials of the new Port of As
toria commission a representative of
The Astorian yesterday endeavored
to ascertain definitely the facts upon
which the presumed invalidity of the
amendment are based. The conclu
sion of the investigation made would
tend to show that the suspicion of
invalidity has not a very strong foun
dation. .
The initiative and referendum char
ter amendment that was adopted by
the people of Astoria provides, in re
lation to the publication of all pro
posed amendments before being vot
ed upon, that i . . "it shall be suf
ficient if the first publication of such
notice shall have been made within
one week front the date of filing of
such petition."
The notice pertaining to the Port
of Astoria bill was not published in
the official city paper within "one
week" from the time of the filing of
the petition. Following are the var
ious dates:
Petition filed on October 27.
But as the charter permitted un
til the 2nd day of November for the
filing of such petitions that date may
perhaps safely be taken as the one to
reckon from.
The first publication of the notice
in the official city paper was on No
vember 13, which is several days be
yond the "one week of the last pos
sible date of November 7. It would
have been necessary to have filed by
November 9 at the latest to have
been within the "one week" tailed
for
Therefore, because the notice was
not filed within the time stipulated by
the charter amendment, some have
then assumed the Port of Astoria bill
to have been born with the taint of
invalidity Upon if. '"'
Of course it would require a skilled
legal opinion, after careful study, to
express an opinion of value upon the
subject. But upon the face of the
question the trouble seems more
technical than real.
It seems to be the usual rule of
courts to construe such provisions ai
being directory to city clerks, or oth-.
crs having the matter in charge;
mandatory, also, to the extent that
n choice is permitted tfiem if the
question of an option arises, but that
the whole matter pertains to the
official whose duty it is to make such
notice and not to the public at large.
In this case there was failure to
file the notice within the stipulated
time. If this mere failure which
did harm to no one, as perfect and
complete notice was given by another
means provided in the same charter
amendment then it would mean that
any slight neglect on the part of the
one whose duty it was to prepare the
election, would invalidate the whole
expressed will of a city, or of a state.
Properly the courts usually . hold
that wherein such failures to perform
some such clerical or other perfunc
tory duty have wrought no harm to
the voters, then the whole matter can
safely be disregarded.4 Merely as an
illustration of how dangerous it would
be to permit such a trivial matter to
At The Grand
See and hear the marvelous Syn
chroscope, moving pictures that talk,
sing and whistle. The wonder of the
age. The craze of all Europe and
America. Will be at the Grand
Theatre for one week, commencing
Monday, January 11. A complete
change of program, Monday, Thurs
day and Saturday. Six new reels di
rect from the Manufacturers and six
illustrated songs of the latest are
shown at the Grand each week. For
pleasure and comfort do not fail to
visit the Grand. Admission, 10c; chil
dreri, 5c. i"
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Csnatareof
NEW TO-DAY
Picture Machine.'
For sale Edison exhibition moving
picture machine, 1908 model, with
table legs, six reels of film, nine sets
of aong slides, all packed in special
trunk, and guaranteed to be in first
class condition; bargain. Apply As
torian office.
The very best board to be obtained
i the city is at "The Occident
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nates very rcasonaoic.
In
Hotel
Piles Cored in 6 to 14 Days
PAZO OINTMENT it guaranteed
to cure any case of Itching, Blind,
Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to
14 days or money refunded. 50 cents.
The Clean Man.
The man who delights in personal
cleanliness, and enjoys bis shave,
shampoo, haircut and bath, in As
toria, always goes to the Occident
barber shop for these things and
gets them at their beat
Stomach Trouble Cured.
If you have any trouble with your
stomach you should take Chamber
Iain's stomach and liver tablets. Mr.
I. P. KJote of Edina, Mo., says: "I
have used a great many different med
icines for stomach trouble, but find
Chamberlain's stomach and liver tab;
lets more beneficial than any Other
remedy I ever used." For sale by
Frank Hart and, leading druggists.
CONTAINED BABY PIG.
CHICAGO, Jan. 7. A basket
carefully covered, from which emana
ted a faint noise, was found during
n early morning visit by Dr. O. V.
Schroeder The physician was indig
nant at the apparent heartlessness
of some mother and carefully car
ried the basket to his residence. The
covering was removed and the sup
posed baby was found to be a two
weeks' ' old piar. Dr. Schrocdcr's
daughter has adopted the little animal
as a pet.
Dont Take the Risk.
When you have a bad cough or cold
do not let it drag along until it be
comes chronic bronchitis or develops
into an attack of pneumonia, but give
it the attention it deserves and get
rid of it. Take Chamberlain's cough
remedy and you are sure of prompt
relief. From a small beginning the
sale and use of it has extended to all
parts of the United States and to
many foreign countries. Its many
remarkable cures of coughs and colds
have won for it this wide reputation
and extensive use. Sold by Frank
Hart and leading druggists.
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20 PER-GEHT TO 50 PER-CETIT OFF
Something New, Something Good
if
"Meads Flailed Rye"
' The breakfast'' food you never tire of
Lare Plig. 20 cents
Acn&Grocbry Co.
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521 COMMERCIAL STREET
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HEATING STOVES
Next (Week Only'
20 Per-Cent OFF
On Heating . Stoves
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We carry' the largest line of Books
and Stationery in town. All the latest
music on hand at all tiroes. Our line
of Post Cards and novelties cannot be
excelled in Astoria. . .
r Whitman's! Book Store!
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Fast Freight Service
'.. Daily Service Via
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Through merchandise Cars from, Portland to Astoria
leave Portland, at p. jn. JLvery ,Dft5J except Sun
day. All less than carload shipments delivered at
Freight House before 4 p. m. will arrive in Astoria at
0:5op. m. For further information . call on -
Q. B. JOHNSON, OenM AgenrA. & C RslR.
12th St, near Commercial 8t
ASTORIA, OE2G0M."
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LET US TELL YOU ABOUT
iungsten mecmc JUamp
Greatest advance in lighting method sine the invention of incandescent
lamps. -
example t H f " ':: . :zj ! r7r
32 C P. Ordinary electric lamp eonsumea 110 watu per hour
32 C. P. "Tungsten" electric lamp consume! ' 40 watts per hour
Saving f . .
70 watta per hoof
By nsing "Tungsten" lamps you can get 275 per cent Increase in light for
the same cost or in other words' can have the tame quantity of illumination
for 33 per cent of the cost of lighting with ordinary electric lamps.
The Astoria Electric Co.
Shefmaa Traaster Co.
KENR7 IHERMAH. Manager.'.
Hacks, Carriages Baggage Checked and Transferred Tracks and Fursitar
Wsffmt Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped.
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