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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
' WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10.
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NATION TURNS TO MEMORY.
,:THE WEATHER i
Oregon, Washington and Idaho
Occasional rain.
COMPULSORY WIRELESS.
The idea of compelling all ocean
going steamers, carrying notable
numbers of passengers, to outfit with
wireless telegraphy, is one of the
real sensible things that has arisen in
Congress this session. The whole
country knows that the awful collis
ion between the steamships Republic
and Florida on the Atlantic a couple
of weeks ago, is at the bottom of the
movement, and no better plea could
have been supplied or used; it was, at
once, the best practical demonstration
of the extraordinary utility of the
system, of record to date, and a les
son in safety and relief that could
not be overlooked by the people at
large, by the Congress nor by the
steamship companies.
We hope the measure will pass,
with ample and rigid provisions; that
the day will soon be here when every
passenger that boards a sea-going
vessel will know that he has this
wonderful expedient at hand in any
and every event of danger and trouble
on the main. It is not only a ques
tion of saving human life and prop
erty, but minimizes the actual loss of
the navigation companies at every j
torn and enhances their records of
security and comfort, making them
more popular withal.
We have two steamships from this
port, doing a good coastwise busi
nes, that are equipped with wireless,
but who- dispense with it and the
services of an operator, because of
the expense. A poor and unbusiness
like proposition, which lacks but a
single disaster to prove it's barren
ness and stupidity; and such a law
as is now talked of would solve at
once and for all time all such ques
tions of cheap economy. The dam
ages likely to be awarded for the
loss of a single human life, would pay J
for a dozen installations of this effec
tive agency; but the transportation
companies will take this risk a thou
sand times over rather than volun
tarily put in the device until they
have to; the sooner it is made an im
perative provision of high-sea traffic,
the better for the traveling public
and the concerns that carry them.
of the relation they bear, or do not
bear, to these establishments, to en
courage and foster them liberally, by
comment and dollar and all means
of helpfulness.
' ATHLETICS IN ASTORIA.
The younger set of Astoria is going
in for genuine athletics this year in
commendable fashion and it is an ex
cellent thing in more ways than one.
Chief among its advantages is the
fact that it gives the boy and young
man something to tie to for amuse
ment and recreation and interest be
side the questionable lures of cards
and cigarettes and alround loafing.
The ordinary clean-minded boy does
not take naturally to these latter in
dulgences, and turns to them only in
default of something better. The
athletic line-up affords him' the bet
ter and who!esmer alternative, and
he is making splendid use of it.
The new organizations, the Astoria
Amateur Athletic Association, the'
First Company Coast Artillery Corps,
the Motor
have very
THE CLIFTON MURDERER.
Sheriff M. R. Pomer oy gave direc
tions that none of the details obtained
by the officers who went to Clifton to
attend to their part in the fearful
murder there on Friday night last,
were to be given to the press; as
consequence 48 hours of precious time
have been wasted and the dissemina
tion of the accurate and startling de
scription of the murderer, has been
kept from the public of the territory
through which the miserable fugitive
is making his Might to safety and
temporary oblivioa
The fiend is a plain and palpable
mark for the most casual detection;
he iii 4 Greek, a foreigner speaking
excellent English; of stocky build,
low, thick-set, alert and strong;
with a peculiarly red face, accentu
ated by a gray moustache. This de
scription alone would make him a
distinct personalty in any crowd, any
where, or alone on a remote highway
or in the depths of a wood; and it
should have been placed before the
eye of every citizen in the river
country, especially in the Nchalem,
whither it is said he is heading- The
sheriff has blundered again. The
murderer will probably escape; or if
captured through the Clatsop shriev
alty, it will be done by one of the ca
pable deputies working on his own in
itiative. ,
We have no desire to invade the
plans or processes by which the
sheriffs office attains to any of its
ends in the pursuit of criminals; bnt
in this case it was his duty to make
public every scintilla of advice and
data by which the citizens of the out
lying district could have detected the
scoundrel and apprised the law offi
cers or taken the matter in their
own hands and effected his capture.
He chose to forbid the infomation
which would gladly have been put
forth, so far as our routes extend,
and they extend quite far enough to
have been serviceable in this instance.
PORTLAND, Feb. 9. That flour
prices will go up before the end of
this week is a practically certain
thing. With wheat values already at
record levels here and in the East,
the demand decidedly strong and the
available supply in the Northwest
limited, it is inevitable that ftou values
should tend upward.
WHOLESALE PRICES.
Grain, Flour, Hay, Etc
Wheat Track prices: Club, 97c;
blue stem, $105(21-10: turkey red, $1
red Russian, 94c; Valley, $1.
Flour Patents, $125; straights,
$4-20; exports, 190; Valley. $5.00;
1 1-4 sack graham, $4.40; whole wheat,
$4.65; rye, $5.50. j
Barley-Feed. $28.00; rolled, $28.50
29.50; brewing, $27.50.
Oats No. I white $34.50; gray, $33.
Hay Track prices: Timothy Wil
lamette Valley, ancy, $1416; ordi
nary, $13; Eastern Oregon mixed
$1740; do, fancy $20; alfalfa $1415;
clover, $13t4.
Millstuffs Bran, $26.50; middlings,
$33; shorts, country, $31; shorts, city,
$30; chop, $22.
Meat and Provision,
Hams-10-12 lbs., 141c; 14-16 lbs.,
14c; 18-20 lbs, 131c.
Dressed Meats Hog, fancy 838ic,
ordinary 7c7c large 6c; veal, extra
9t10c, ordinary 7g8c, heavy, 6c;
mutton, fancy 67.
Bacon Breakfast 1721c, picnics
91c; cottage roll, 11c; regular short
clears, smoked 13c, do nnsmoked 12c;
clear backs nnsmoked 12c, do smoked
13c; shoulders, 11c
Lard Kettle leaf, 10s, 141c; do, 5j,
15c; do 50-lb. tins, 14c; steam ren
dered, 10s, 131c; do 5s, 14c; com
pound, 10s, 9 l-4c.
Batter, Eggs and Poultry.
Butter Extracts, 3435c; fancy,
32334c; store, 1820c.
Cheese Full cream twins, 151
16c;; full cream triplets, 15)16c;
Young America, 17c; cream brick, 18
20c; Swiss Hock, 18320c; Lim-
Eggs Select Oregon, 371(g;40c;i
Eastern, 30((5:35c.
Poultry Mixed chickens, 131
WOMEN AND CHILDREN BRAV
EST IN EARTHQUAKE.
Women, particularly mothers, and
children made a much better showing
than men during the great catastro
phe that laid waste the garden of
Italy.
The mothers seemed to have nc
thought but the safety of their chil
dren. Hundreds of women, nay thou
sands, were crushed to death shield
ing their children's bodies with their
own. In a great many cases the lit
tle ones survived, living witnesses of
their parents' bravery and unequal
ed generosity! These mothers re
ceived on their own backs, their heads
and shoulders the pieces of masonry
andbeams about to kill those they
loved best in the world. And, dying,
they had the happiness of clasping
them to their bosom.
At last rations were distributed a
piece of bread no larger than the
palm of one's hand for each starvinc
Boating Association, all j adult. Then we saw mothers of ba
distinct and admirable , bies chewing their own oortion and
tendencies to the up-lift that is de- stuff it in the mouths of babies for
sired and each and all of them have ! nourishment without retaining a sin
the entire good will of the commun-lgle crumb for themselves. '
ity for permanence and progress, as A seventeen-year-old girl, who had
do all the school clubs that stand for I been imnrisoncl in thP ,; w ton
hours, worked heroically on an empty
stomach and with a parched throat
until she had succeeded in rescuing
lier family, eight persons.
Little children withstood sleepless
ness, hunger, thirst, pain- and the un
usual cold far better than grownups,
showing, as a rule, more endurance
throughout the ordeal than their eld
ers. This was probably due to the phy
siological nonsensitiveness of chil
dren and because they did not under
stand the dangers surrounding and
yet in store for them. If those weak
children, a great many of them un
derfed since birth, had had the small-1
lie- hnrv hen. I4ff l4l-- rooster, ! Hides-Dry hides, No. 1, 15i(g!l6c
old, 10c; broilers, fryers. 206i21c; ,lb- dr ""P. No. 1, 14ic lb; dry salted,
physical and social development. It
is the duty of the elders, irrespective
Five Minutes
saved at meal time may mean
a bad case of indigestion before
bed timo. Cure it quickly with
a dose or two of
8.Y Z..-rv b-rs, In boxet 10c. and 25c
est inkling of the horrors they were
passing through, it would have killed
them.
We asked a four-year-old girl who
had been buried in a cellar without
food or light for four days and nights
how she passed the time. "Sleeping
and waiting for papa," she answered.
Three children, seven, five and
three years old respectively, had been !
entombed for seven days in a small
basement room. Happily the room
contained a larder with oranges, su
gar and a small amount of bread.
"We were quite sure that auntie or
some one would come and take U3
away, they said.
What about the men? We are sor
ry to say the great majority behaved
like brutes, but there is also a case of
real antique heroism to be recorded.
A father, after rescuing his wife and
three children, found that the fourth
and last one could not be extricated
alive. He assured the dying little
girl that he would keep her company
on the road to heaven, and putting
his arms around her, stabbed himself
to death.
One cannot bestow praise enough
upon the needlewomen of Italy. In
the course of a single week they
stitched together garments for a hun
dred thousand, while in every city
and town numerous working girls
gave up their only holiday in the week
to devote the wages earned to the
cause of the sick and suffering.
And there was at least one touch
ing bit of generosity on the part of
males. The inmates of an old man's
home sent two hundred francs ($40
their tobacco money for a year.
S. F. Examiner.
Of. Great. President By .Thought,
Word And Deed.
CHICAGO. Feb. 9.-Lincoln week
celebration is bringing to light anec
dotes and glimpses of the great eman
cipator's character which are said ne
ver before to have been made public.
Attorney Charles 0. Neely tells a
story which he says was given to him
by O. W. Wall of Mulberry Grove,
111.
"Wall," says Mr. Neely, "enlisted
in the war early and while at the
front wrote letters to his sweetheart,
Elizabeth Jones, who also lived In
Mulberry Grove. There was another
Elizabeth Joneg in this town, and. ac
cording to Mr. Wall, the Elisabeth
Jones to whom he was not engaaed.
got all the other Elizabeth Jones' let
ters.
"This was rather embarrassing to
the soldier boy and he tried by every
means to get the letters to the pro
per girl. He even put her father's
name on the girl's letters but still the'
wrong Elizabeth read the right Eliza-
beth s letters.
Finally the exasperated boy resol
ved to complain. He sat on a bullet
riddled log near the battle line and
write to the President himself, ex
plaining the difficulty.
By the next mail the President's
reply came, couched in terms some
what a follows:
i am very sorry. Who tlo you
want for your postmaster at Mulber
ry Grove, Bond County, Illinois?
"(Signed), A. LINCOLN'."
"To this,, the soldier lover respond
ed. recommending a crippled cobbler.
Within a few days the change took
place, the mail was delivered to the
fight Elizabeth Jones, and by his
warm hearted action Abraham Lin
coin played a great factor in the
Jones-Wall wedding, which took
place soon after the war."
The tailor who made Lincoln's in
augural suit of clothes the garments
in which he took the oath of office-
has been found in Chicago. He is
Daniel Roth.
"In 1861 I had charge of the es
tablishment of A. T. TiUworth." said
Mr. Roth. "One day in February 1861,
the whole force was Miprised to ace
man of almost gigantic stature en
ter the shop. Mr. Titsworth rushed
forward to meet him, saying: "Well,
have you come to be measured, Mr.
Lincoln?" and then we all knew that
the futuce President was among us.
one-third less; dry calf, 15iffiltfc lb: 1 WM ,ot of flourish in that
salted steers, 89c lb; salted cows, 8c ,hop for n't ,hree 1uarters of an ,
dressed poultry Ic perpound higher
ducks, live, ISfiJOc; geese, live, Ilk
turkeys, live, l&3l9e; dressed, 20$
23c.
Fruits and Vegetable.
Fresh Fruits Oranges, $2.002.75
tangerines $1.75 box; lemons, SiSOdi
4.00; grapes, Spanish Malsgss, S6Q
7.00 per crate; pears. $1.75(2.00 per
box, cranberries, $15.00 per barrel;
bananas, 551c per pound.
Apples Best Oregons. $2.00($3.00;
common, $.l.251.75 per box.
vegeiaoies iurnips, ji.su per
sack; beets, $1.50; parsnips, $1.50;
cabbage, $2.50(SJ2,75; head lettuce, 90c
($1 per dosen; cucumbers, $1.75(3)
$2.25 per dosen; celery, 90c$1.00 per
dozen; artichokes, $1.40 per dosen;
beans, 20c per pound; peas, 15c per
pound; .tomatoes, $l.502.25 per
crate; squash, 2c per pound; peppers,
$1.75 per box; cauliflower, $1(21.25
per dosen.
Potatoes Buying prices, $1,10
$U5.
unions Buying prices: $Z.UU per
Hundred.
Oysters, Clams and Fish.
Oysters Shoalwater Bay, per gal
lon $2.25;. per sack $4.50; Toke Point,
$1.60 per 100; Olytnpias (120 lbs.),
$6; Olytnpias, per gallon. $125.
Fish-Halibut, He lb; black cod, 7
g8c; black bass. 20c; striped bass.
18c; herring, 51c; flounders, 6c;
catfish, 9c; shrimp, 121c; perch, 6c;
sturgeon. 121c; sea trout. 15c; torn
cod, 8c; salmon, frozen, 7c; smelt, 2c.
Canned Salmon Columbia river,
1-lb. tails, $2; 2-lb. tals. $3, fancy,
Mb. flats, $2.15; 1-lb. flats, $1.25;
fancy. 1-lb. ovals, $2.75; Alaska talis,
pink 95c, red $1.40; nominal, 2s, tails,
$2.10.
Clams Little neck, per box, $2.50:
razor clams, $2 per box; crabs, $1
$1.50 dozen.
Hops, Wool, Hides, Etc
Hops 1908, choice 771c, prime 6
7c, medium 56c; 1907, 23c lb.
Wool Valley, medium. 1465151c:
lb.; coarse, 1213c; Eastern Oregon,
8(3 16c, as to khrinkage.
AMUSEMENTS.
ASTORIA
THEATRE
Wednesday, Feb. IT
Engagement of the Eminent
Actor
CHARLES B. HANFORD
ACCOMPANIED BY '
MISS MARIE DROFNAH
In a Brilliant Production of
Tb Greatest of All Comedies
THE TAMING OF
THE SHREW
Preceded by the One Act Napo-
leattic 1 lay , ,
"THE OLD GUARD"
An Event of Exceptional
Interest
40 People In the Cast 40
Seats on Sale
Prices: $1.50. $100, 75c. 50c
mn nrc ra
v
mm
lb; stags and bulls, 5c lb; kip, 7c lb;
calf, 121c lb; green stock, lc less;
sheepskins, shearlings, 1025c; short
wool, 3040c; medium and long wool,
according to quality, 5O(g;90c; dry
horses, 50c$1.50; dry colt, 2Sc; an
gora, 80c$l ;' goat, common, 10
20c.
Mohair Choice, 1819c lb.
Oregon Graperoot Per 100
$35.
Cascara Sagrada (chittim bark)
56c per lb.
lbs.,
JOBBERS' QUOTATIONS.
. A MAP OF WOOD.
CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-J. W. Dennis,
cabinet and pattern maker, will take
to his shops in Harvey this week, 46
blocks, which arc a loot square and
an inch thick, have been sent by the
governors of the respective states to
form a large map of the nation, which
will be placed in the cabin of the new
steel steamboat United States, to be
launched at Manitowoc on Washing
tons birthday.
Indiana sent cherry; California,
redwood; Massachusetts, chestnut
and elm; Montana, pine; larchwood
and pine and larch formed in one sam
ple; Mississippi, red gum; Missouri,
and Arkansas, oak; Oklahoma, wal
nut, and the District of Columbia,
historic wood from the navy yard at
Washington.
I
Sugar, Coffee, Etc
Sugar (sack basis) D. G., $5.95;
beet, $5.75; Golden C, $5.35; extra C,
$545; powdered, $6.05; fruit or berry
sugar, $5.95; boxes, 55c cwt. advance
over sack basis (less l-4c if paid for
in 15 days).
Turpentine In eases, 63c; in wood
barrels, 611c; in iron barrels, 591c; in
10-case lots, 62c
Lead-Strictly pure white lead, in
ton lots, 71c; 500-lb. lots. 8c less; less
than 500c lbs., 81c; red lead and lith
arge, lc higher than white. ,
Rice Imperial Japan, No. 1, $6.35;
Southern Japan, $5.756; broken, 41c
head; fancy, $77.7S
Coffee Mocha, 2428c; Java, fancy
2528c; Java, good. 2024c; Java,
ordinary, 1720c; Costs Rica, fancy,
1820c; Costs Rica, good, 1618c;
Arbiickle, $1J0 cwt; Lion, $15.75
cwt; Colombia coffee, 14c lb.; Sal
vador, manic.
Salt-Bale o.' 75-2s, bale, $2.25;
rJes-of 60-3 1, bale, $225; bales of
40-4. bale, $225; bales of 1510s,
bale, $225; bags, 50s, 6ns, ton; $15;
bags 50c; ge-nine Liverpool ton, $17;
bags, 50c. 1 ground $13.50; 100s, ton,
$13.00; R. S. V. P., 20 5-lb. cartons,
$2.25; R. S. V. P., 3-lb. cartons, $1.75;
Liverpool, lump, per ton, $20.
Raisins Loose muscatels, 3-crown,
7 cents; 4-crown, 7k; bleached,
seedless Sultanas, 9k12c; un
bleached seedless Sultanas, 61 cents;
London layers, 3-crown, whole boxes
of 20 j-ounds, $2.00; 2-crown, $1.75.
Nuts Walnuts, 14k per pound;
filberts, 16c; Brazils, 16c; pecans, 14
20c; hickory, 10c; Virginia row pea
nuts, 8 cents; chestnuts, Ital
ian 10c, Ohio 25c; cocoanuts, dozen,
90c$l; pine nuts, 1012c pound,
Dried Fruits Applies, 81c per lb;
peaches, 1012c; pears, lll14c;
Italian prunes, 56c; California figs,
white, in sacks, Tic per pound; black.
67c; bricks, 75c2.25 per box;
Smyrna, 1617k per pound; dates,
Persian, 67c pound.
hour, although Lincoln took no part
in it. He had come to neeotiatc for a
suit, one of those swallowtailed gar
ments which all citizens then wore
under high hats when on parade. The
goods were finally chosen from a
bolt of black broadcloth, the price
to be about $75 or $80.
"All the time he was there he kept
up a running fire of conversation. He
impressed on Mr. Titsworth the im
portance of having the suit ready in
time, wished us a pleasant good-bye,
and passed out."
Firemen's Ball.
The Warrenton Volunteer Fire
Department will give a firemen's ball
in Warren Hall, Warrenton, on Fri
day evening, February 12th. Gents
$1 50, ladies 50c, spectators 25c. Free
boat will leave Fisher's dock at 7:45.
Music by Pacific Orchestra.
WE DON'T HAVE TO DEMON
STRATE the value of our Taints, be
cause all who have ever used them
sre familiar with their merits. They
are grounds In the purest White Lead
snd the colors are of the very best.
Only the finest Linseed Oil is used
snd they are so carefully packed as to
be kept entirely free from any forelun
substance. Prices are low. too.
Allen Wall Paper
and Paint Co.
Nature provides
bit one
CALIFORNIA
It Is the nstursl winter
home of many thou
sands of ths world's
best people. Under the
gentle Influence of it
snlld winter, climate,
every amusement snd
recreation bounds,
bathing, boating, fish
ing, driving; such pic
nics, parties snd "Jollifications."
:C0 T0
Loi Angeles, Paso
Robles Hot Springs,
' Hotel del Monte, San
ta Barbara, Ssn Diego,
Santa Monica, Venice,
Long Beach, Ssnta
Cms, , or . a score of
similar resorts and you
will find health, con-
genial surroundings,
hospitable aasoclst,
faultiest . accommoda
tions and numberless
attractions and con
veniences. TheO.R.(aN.Co.
CON.NKCTINO WITH
The Southern Pacific Co.
Makes Inexpensive round
trip excursion rates to Cal
ifornia. A six months stopover
ticket Portland to
Los Angeles and return
is $55.00
Corresponding rates sre la
effect to other points.
W have some very distinc
tive literature covering Cali
fornia's winter resorts, and
will take pleasure In giving
you all of the information
and assistance at our command.
For tickets, sleeping csr reser
vations, ttc, cad on, tele-"
graph, or write
WM. McMURRAY, Gen. Passj
Agt Portland, Oregon.
FINANCIAL,
WHEEZER OR SNEEZER?
Have You Heard of Hyomel For Ca
tarrh, Asthma and Hay Fever?
If you wheeze or sneeze, hawk or
spit, snuffle or blow, something is the
matter with the membrane of your
respiratory tract, and you , need
Hyomei.
And you need Hyomei because it
will cure you of any catarrhal or in
flammatory condition that exists.
It. isn't a stomach medicine, or
spray, or douche, but a very pleasant
healing, antiseptic balsam, from the
eucalyptus forests of Australia. You
breathe this balsamic air through a
small, hard rubber inhaler, and it
reaches every nook,, corner and crev
ice of the membrane, and promptly
kills the catarrh germs. T. F. Laurin
will sell you a complete Hyomei
(pronounced High-o-me) outfit for
$1.00, on the money back plan.
The use of Hyomei cured Mr.
Cutler of catarrh, in 1904. He has
strongly endorsed the use of Hyomei
in many instances, and we arc clad
to go on record regarding this mar
velous catarrh cure, and endorse it."
Mrs. A. Cutler, 201 Post Ave., Battle
Creek, Mich.
First National Bank pf Astoria
DIRECTORS
Jacob Kamm W. F. McGregor G. C. Flavel
J. W. Ladd S. S. Gordon
SaP v ....$100,000
Surplus , t 25000
Stockholders' Liability "!." !.'!."!! . IOo'oOO
'o, fs-vssa. ss'si"-
ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS . $232.03
Transscta a General Banking Business Interest Paid oa Tims Depot
Four Per Cent. Per Annum
ElaventbandDuanaStf. ..... AatorU, Orajoa
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ASTORIA, OREGON
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