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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1909)
TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1909. THE MOIINJnG A5TOI11AN, ASTOUI A.. OREGON. 5 FRESH STRAWBERRIES ! i1 " ' ' are out of season but our preferred stock strawberries are a treat 25c can Chman's Ripe Olives Just In ROSS, HIGGINS & CO. THE MODEL FOOD STORE Ml I1LES Cf It! fill Leaves Tha Hospital E. Svenson, who Uvea In Upper town, i boy who was operated upon for appendlcltui it St Mary'i hospl ttl about al weeks ago, left there yesterday for hit home, Able To Walk About- Knud Hendrlckson, who wti oper ted upon it Stk Mary'i hospital tev- cnl diyi ago (or an affliction to hi htp, waa up and walking around at tha hotpltal yesterday. Entertained Mr i. Nctaon Troyer entertained the membera of the D. M. C. D. Club last night, in honor of Mlia Marie Utxin ger, who la going to Seattle today to apend a aeaion with her brother there. McCure Made Chairman ' J. C McCua waa given the chair manihlp of the revision of lawa com mittee in tha lower houia at Salem yeaterday, a committee of consider able prominence. County Court The county court will meet Wed nesday for a brief aeiaion. Judge I Trenchard laid yeaterday that he haa heard of no particular damage bav in; been done by the recent atorma to the county roads or bridges. Tha Bum-Check Man Landlord Durham, of the Tarker House lins been up against the "bum check" man, though he hat but just opened up the house under hit new contract, The man registered under one name on a given night and under another the next night, and on the third day sought to have Mr. Dur ham cash a f25 check on the Astoria National Bank, which proved to have no money behind it. The man has paid hit score daily, and the check waa held for a couple of dollars he owed at the bar, and the police In formed of the party'a tendency to ward "high-finance." Chinese New Year Representative! of Astoria's China town called at the police station yes terday to aecure permission to ahoot off fire crackera for their celebration of the Chinese New Year'a, which oc eura Wednesday. The Chinese aak for permission to ahoot off crackers over a period of ten days, and to oth erwise carry on their celebration. The required permission waa granted. As a token of courtesy a box of clgart and a box of delicate Chinese nuta were left at the police atation. At 4 o'clock on Wednesday the New Year'a celebration will commence. Word From Andrew Asp Eugene Bussing, of the fire depart ment, yesterday received an interest ing letter from 'Astoria's well known ex-citizen, Andrew Asp, now dwelling up at Roswell, Idaho, where he and his family are enjoying excellent health and prospering fairly. Mr. Atp has built a comfortable home on his farm and has cleared ten acres of it The recent bliward interfered with this work but it has been re Mimed with abundant good will, and he hopes to get in a good crop in due time. The ground there froze ex actly one foot down during the storm, and there is yet a good fix inches of the "beautiful" around them. He struck fairly good water at 145 feet, though it is a shade too hard for all domestic purposes. He desires to be remembered to all Astoria friends. Debate Postponed The debate of the Astoria High School with the Tillamook High, which was to have been held tomof row night, haa been postponed until next week, probably about tha 27th Neither aide was quite prepared The list of judges haa not yet been completed. Sou'eaat Gala Pravalla , Weather signals portending a sou'- east gale were sent in, last evening at 6:30 o'clock, and the signals went up at the weather station under the management of Mr. Arrlgoni. It ia devoutly hoped the Jilast will atay on the southerly range and not "mon key" with its eastern latitude too far nor too much. Crowing Just a Little " The A. & C. people here and in Portland arc crowding just a little, and with apparent justification, over the fact that during the late climatic unpleasantness, the 0. R. & N. pas aengera, west bound, forsook the snow-bound trains on the aouth side of the Columbia at The Dallea and erossed the river on the ice, by hun dred, to take the "North Bank" line into the metropolis, which brand new road proved itself so well built and managed that there was no practical delay upon It through the billiard. One More Week. Danztger & Company's big clearing sale is extended one more week. This will give those who were kept away an account of the weather a chance to attend this week and share in the bargains, ' "': ' "r , mi Boy Wanted. A good boy to work in printing office. Apply Astorlan office. ' Hot Drinks Coffee and Chocolate, For Emergency Fund At the meeting of the common council last night a communication waa read from the board of police commissioners asking that the coun cil provide for them an emergency fund of $200, to be used at the discre tion of the police ehief or the com missioners. Such an emergency fund has not been granted the police de partment for several years, but it would seem that the plan is an ex cellent one. The communication also asked that the office floor of the poliee department be - covered with tineoleum, and that four or five cots be purchased for use in the cells. Ordinance Still Stands An allusion In the Astorlan of Sun day morning to an old ordinance which provides that roofs of buildings in the city must be painted red has brought out the Information that this ordinance still stands, though in slightly modified form. A few years ago a general building ordinance was passed, and in this it is provided that all buildings in the fire limits, unless covered with some form of metal' roofing, must be painted with red mineral paint. Why this paint pro vision is required may be a matter of mere conjecture, unless for the well known fact that red paint will burn with as much avidity as any other kind that contains oils. But the fact remains that this red paint ordinance, like scores of others that encumber the ordinance books, are not enforc ed. Another council, with aesthetic tastes better developed, or less de veloped, might demand that roofs be painted a pretty robin's egg blue, or a beautiful cerise wouldn't go bad in the eyes of some. It really would prove amusing, as well as probably highly 'profitable, if at least a third of the ordinances were lived up to. CAPTAIN R. E.II0IS BREATHES HIS LAST NOTED MARINER OF THE NORTHWEST SUCCUMBS TO . ORGANIC MALADY. Waan't Inaana A man who gives his name . as John Aldridge, and who says that he recently came down the ' river from Pasco to Swenson, waa taken into custody Saturday upon complaint that he waa insane. He was examined yesterday by Judge Trenchard and Dr. Estea, and they arrived at the conclusion that Aldridge ia alt right mentally, though perhaps I little queer. While at Swenson he was ob served to frequently talk out loud. 'My conscience bothers me," explain ed Aldridge yestecday, "and I talk to it, and some times swear at it." Judge Trenchard and Dr. Estes evi dently thought that the fact that the irun's conscience bothered him was not sufficient evidence of insanity. At nil events Aldridge appeared to be quite harmless. Ont Mora Week, Danziger & Company's big sale ia extended one more wee, This will give those who were kept away an account of the weather a chance to attend this week and share in the bargains. . .LUMP COAL,,, $5.00 Per Ton Imported Coal $7.50 per ton BLMORB tS CO A pple Cider ! Delicious Fresh Apple Cider 35c Per Gallon Scholfield, Mattson Co. phone im GOOD GOODS 120 TO 124 TWELFTH STREET Inviets The Children- Mr. Whyte of the Chamber of Commerce, has written a letter to II. A. Wheeler, chairman of the ways and means committee of the Chicago Association of Commerce, cordially inviting the ISO school chil dren which are to make a trip through the Northwest this spring, to include Aston's in their itinerary. This let ter was written at the suggestion of Tom Richardson of the PortlanS Commercial Club and it is suggested that business houses in Astoria write to their business connections in Chi cago urging that these children visit Astoria. At this time 95 per cent of the travel from Chicago, 1 city of 2,000,000 people, is towards the East and Europe. Mr. Richardson believes that it is one of the best advertising plans ever prepared for Oregon to have hese school children visit the different sections of the State. There will be three representatives chosen from each of the SO best schools of the eighth and ninth grade and they will journey for two months through all the counties of the State of Ore gon if the plans are perfected. In the Chamber of Commerce letter to Mr. Wheeler appear these statements: Astoria should be visited by these children for the reason of the extra ordinarily large amount of historic and fiction lore clustering about the place where Lewis and Clark came for the winter after completing their journey across the continent; the place established by the founder of the Astor family in America; the place made famous by Washington Irving in his literature; and aside from all of the dead past, of the keen est interest because of its being at the mouth of the greatest river that flows from the United States into the Pacific Ocean. The jetty construc tion at the mouth of this river, the most important of its kind in the world today should be seen by the schoo children who desire to most fully inform themselves upon current topics. Every school child should know about the royal Chinook salmon which is the most famous food fish j:i the world today and Astoria en.i"j'3 a peculiar monoply onf this salmon. The largest standing fir spruce and hemlock trees in the world are in Clatsop county near Astoria." FOR BEST CANDIES Our stock of candies includ ing "Lowneys" and ; "Gunthers" famous Choco lates are the best. ...Home Hade Candies... They are healthier and better and don't cost any more. ALEX TAGG 183 Commercial St., Astoria, Or. . At 8 o clock last evening, at his beautiful home, 3G9 Exchange street, in this city, Captain Richard E. Howes, the well known mariner and Columbia river bar pilot, breathed his last, after an illness of about two weeks' duration, the malady which overcame him being congestion of the liver, from which, in greater or less degree he had suffered for years. Yesterday morning he was appar ently very much better, but it proved but the mortal rally that is wont to expresa itself just before the grim crisis. His death must come as a shock to the host of good friends he has in thi city and section, for up to his last illness he was, to all casual appearances, in the best of health. He fought indomitably against the encroachment of the disease and con stantly avowed his intention to mas ter the trouble, even white he was the sickest. Captain Howes has one of the fin est of sea records on the Northwest coast and his friends, ashore and afloat, are legion. He was a man of great force of character and of lively and cheerful habit, urbane and kindly and gracious in all his habits with men, women and children and an ideal man in his home, which was to him the center of all things in this life. He leaves a widow, and one son, Lemuel E. 'Howes, to mourn his sad and sudden death, and both have the profound sympathy of a wide circle of friends and of people who knew and respected the captaisi ' in every walk of life at this end of the Co lombia. .: i Man and boy, for SO years. Captain Howes haa been a sailor. He was born at Cape Cod, Mass., in 1846 the would have been 63 years of age today), and went out upon the high seas when he , was 12 years of age, following the Atlantic coast trade for some time, and bringing up in the port of San Francisco in 1861 on the good ship "Flying Scud." He return ed to New York, via Iquiqui and Liv erpool, and then took service in the West India and Mediterranean trade, which he followed for six years. He then made a voyage to Greenland; and in 1868 became master of the bark Lemuel, afterward commanding the Hornet After severing his connection with the latter vessel he sailed for the Australias. China and the Orient, in the bark Midas, which was lost on a reef, while en route from Hong Kong to Manila. He made the home trip to New York, and sailed thence to the Columbia river and Portland, as mate of the ship Freeman Clark, leaving her at this port to take a similar position on the Jane A. Fal fcenberg. Captain Howes then took a year'a vacation ashore, at Portland, and when he went to sea again, it was as pilot on board the Mary Taylor, and from her he went to the bar pilot schooner J. C. Cousins. He next appears as pilot on the San Francisco Portland liner Mississippi, serving on her until she was burned, then he passed to the steamship Oregon, and served- on her as pilot for a period of 10 years. When the pilots were no longer employed on these liners, he was given charge of the tug Donald, and operated her successfully until she was replaced. Probably the greatest and most thrilling experience this able sailor ever went through was when, as master of the sidewheel steamship Alaskan, he saw 30 of his crew and people perish in the awful gale that wrecked her on the . open seas" off Cape Blanco on the 10th of May, 1883, when he and 10 others, including Cap tain George Wood, of the bar ffrvi.ee, escaped after the most desperate risks and exposure, Captain Howes floating abroad on the sea for 33 hours, alone, on a small piece of decking, being finally picked up by a passing steamer. Alter tins ne be came master of th"e tug Escort No. 2, and staid with her for another num ber cf years, and when he left her, went on the Columbia river bar as a pilot" and member of the Columbia River Bar Pilots' Association about four years ago. Here he has served faithfully and ably ever since, and was an honored member of that association at the hour of his death; and no where will he be missed more deeply than among the men who knew and loved him for the manly qualities of sea men and shipmate. Notice of the funsral of Captain Howes will be given later. Much Water Wasted Complaint is made that people are permitting their water faucets to run, even though there is no longer the slightest danger of the pipes freezing at night. That this is true was proven last Friday night, when the water went down faster than it had in the day time even. In the day time, with the whole city using water, the faucets would be shut off at times, but that night there must have been scores and even hundreds left to run all night. It is said that in some homes in the city it is a practice to let the water run all the time, though for no particular reason, and it is said at the office of the water commission that if this can be proven against these householders" their water will be shut off entirely. As the city grows it will be necessary to install meters to emasure the water used. Got Through In Fine Shape The Astoriait's Warrenton corres pondent advises this paper that while the ravage of the recent storm was very severe down on the west side, it has been peculiarly free from loss and damage, save that the private telephone interests have suffered a good deal by prostrated poles and wires and the system is yet out of order and it will be several days be fore all things are normal again. The good old rains are more than ever welcome there, as here. Wedded At Montesanc The pleasant news reached this of fice yesterday, via Warrenton friends of the pretty bride, that on Saturday afternoon last, Mis Inez Deane, of this county, was married in Monte sano, Wash., to Captain John Wiley, of the steamer "Harbor Queen." Mr. Deane accompanied his daughter to her destination and "gave her away" in this, the happiest crisis of her life, which every one of her numerous Clatsop friends earnestly hope may grow happier day in and year out It was necessary for Miss Deane to make the trip because her affianced could not leave his vessel to come over here, important and delightful as the errand would have been. I A Funny Propositioa v There is a gentleman in this city who owns a fine, blooded bull-pup with strong strain of fighting pro pensity in her. The other day she was passing the Rogers pharmacy on Commercial street near Tenth when she happened to spy in the big show window, the famous plaster-of-Paris bulldog, Used at intervals by that class of animals, and she became obsessed with the notion that the fe rocious looking, but innocuous, beast was there to taunt her. She made furious dash at the glass and the more her failure to get at tne oig dog was borne in on her, the madder she got; and now, she never gets by the house without a strenuous effort to get in the store. Yesterday she made it, and when she found the ugly and unresponsive beast on the floor, right at her very jaw, she made bound at it snarling vicinity, until she went up against it, and now there isn t a sillier looking dog in the city. This is the second instance of the kind. A well known citizen had a dotr of the same breed here some time ago and it followed him into Mr. Rogers' place of business one day; it saw the imitation pup at once, and turning its hair on end be gan to growl and side up to and around the image; but finding it im pervious to all dares and fight signs, began an investigation that resulted in its complete chagrin, and it, too, left the store with its tail down and its scrapping spirit 'wholly subdued. Rebekah Roster, IMS- Gateway Rebekah Lodge No. 77, of this city, has chosen the following clever people to take care of its offices and interests for the ensuins term and they have been duly install ed: Betsy Engberg, N. G.; Lilly Lewis, V. G; Alma Lawson, Rec Sec; Rose Nordstrom, Fin. Sec: T Kline, R. S. N, G.; Clara P. Hobeson, L. S. N. G.; A. Lewis, warden; M Laurdson, Conductor; Annie Wooden, Chaplain; Ruth Sloop, Inside Guar dian; Rachel Sloop, Outside Guar dian; Fanny Wilson, R. S. V. G.; Maggie Younce, L. S. V. G. In The Marine Interests British Vice Consul Edward M. Lflerry, aside from representing Lloyds' in this port, has also been in vested with the agencies for the fol lowing marine doncerns of Europe? The Verin Hamburger Assecuradeure Havarie-Bureau of Hamburg, Ger many; the Badische Assecuranz- Cesellschaft Akt, Ges., of Mannheim, Germany; and the San Francisco Board of Marine Underwriters and the Verein Bremer Sec-Versicherings- Gesellschatten, of Bremen. PERSONAL MENTION J. I. Springer, traveling agent for the Great Northern, was doing busi ness in this city yesterday. W. Nelson, of San Francisco, was a business visitor in Astoria over Sunday, and was a guest at the Occident. One More Week. Danziger & Company's big clearing sale is extended one more week. This will give those who were kept away an account of the weather a chance to attend this week and share in the bargains. . The Man Who Eats. The man who eats does so with the expectation of being satisfied. To this end he seeks the b'est possible place to gratify his normal appetite at the most rational expense. These ac counts for the steady stream of peo ple to and from the portals of the Palace Restaurant in this city. -The reputation of the Palace is founded immoveably upon the certainty and amplitude of the service it renders to every purse, and appetite, big and little. Open day and night Com mercfal streets, opposite the Page building. Telephone Tie-up . . The fierce spell of weather which swept over this country lately has fallen with disquieting effect upon the enterprise of the Pacific States Tele phone Company in this city, hamper ing and hindering the work in various ways and putting ; it back several weeks, more particularly in the matter of the delivery of essential supplies, much of which have been held up by delayed trains, let alone the impedi ment offered to the outside work of the men sent here. These same men are wanted on other work, elsewhere, and are now under orders to rush everything here in order to meet new engagements of the company, and no minute will be lost in expediting the balance of the work in Astoria. It was well forward when the storm set in but there is yet much to do. In anticipation of its early completion, the company is ready to make its new contracts for service and has estab lished a desk at the office here for closing this end of the business up and will be glad to have" all patrons call and sign up for the new 'phones at once so as to be prepared for the inauguration of the new business This is as much needed for the busi ness as for the company, since many of them will want to use the new tele phone number on their business sta tionery and in other ways and it is well for them to know what they are going to use. The whole system of numbers and 'phones must be chang ed and a new telephone directory got ten up and issued to meet the com plete change in the business. One More Week. Danziger & Company's big clearing sale is extended one more week. This will give those who were kept away an account of the weather a chance to attend this week and share in the bargains. 1 La AT CO 7 By laying in a sup ply of shoes for th children or yourself NOW! whether you need them at present or not; you can save big money by attending our Annu dd and M e...,. STA HOMY AT Unheard of Prices Astoria, Oregon," heavily embossed in gold on fine Persian linen; 50;, Special 34c " Gold Seal, cream finish, ruled, good value at 25c. Special, 12c No. 772 Fine linen, 50c regular. Spec ial, 32c box. Comet," white ruled, 15c here, 20c at some dealers. ?tecial, Be Famous Parisian Papier, linen finish aest style, 35c to 40c. Special, 26c box. . , Princess Louise linen (the latest nov elty in paper regular 60c. Spec ial 27c Marlborough Pound Paper, regular 15c for 24 sheets; special 102 sheets and 25 envelopes, 39c. One-third to onf-half off on all other box paper. See prices in window. WHITMAN'S BOOK STORE Sale! Every year we have a general Cleaning Up of broken sizes and lots, and the publiu cf Astoria know by past experience that these annual events' are gen uine and just as represent them. we When we say Shoes At Cos We and mean just that, a visit to our store duringfthis sale will convince vou of truthfulness cf ads. he our Osls IS Th