THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTOKIA, OREGON.
FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1909.
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THE WEATHER
Oregon and Washington Fair with
light frost in early morning.
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THE KNOCKERS' CLUB.
The Morning Astorian, in justice
to itself and the city it represents,
feels called upon to make a plain and
direct statement of its attitude toward
the new civic association in process
of formation here, for the alleged
good of the city, the "Businessmen's
Protective Union." or the "Knockers'
Gub," or whatever it is to be called,
provided it is ever named at all.
Primarily, we believe its sole and
signal purpose to be the "opening up
of Astoria to the old license in
gambling, dance-halls and other ele
mental evils, that prevailed here three
years ago, and more or less, (mostly
more) through all the history of the
city. We believe it, because the in
ception of Jhis movement was had in
secret; its first meeting was held in
surreptitious fashion; everything, even
its authors and guests and arguments,
were smothered in a veil of silence
and mystery and only a chosen few,
known to be wholly committed to
"open town" policies invited; the ab
sence of all spontaneity, publicity,
and candor that herald straight and
genuine movements of the sort, was
conclusive of some ulterior idea, and
the known predilections of the men
who were there, gave color to this
assumption. With this justifiable con
ception of the plan the Astorian pro
ceeded to say what it thought; and
One of the consequences of its
frankness was that at the second
meeting, on Wednesday evening last,
an attempt was made to gloss over
the original propaganda, and set
speeches were made. tending to show
that this "club" has only the high
and holy good of Astoria at heart;
save in three instances when the more
canma speakers turned tneir minas in-... ..... ,.onfirm it ;
side out and told exactly what they ,y and the Standard w5U d0
what it can to use the concession as
it uses everything else, to its own
ends.
There is a chance that the com
pany may refuse to accept the re
sponsibility and the expense incident
to it; but we can do no more than try
it out, just to see where we stand in
the estimation of this supreme agency
in human affairs. Its contempt for
such minor things as government is
so pronounced that it may resent, and
refuse, the act of abegation on our
part; but at least we can show our
real disposition to be completely ser
vile and our perfect realization of the
power that transcends our own in
the United States of America and our
utter subjection to its least behest.
hopeless desire of a group of men
who would stultify her progress by
leveling every battier she has raised
against the curse that has kept her
down for generations.
When we are convinced that we are
wrong in this premise, we will gladly
get behind it and do what we may to
make good for our misconceptions
(if they are proven).
LEASE THE GOVERNMENT.
On the eve of the extra session of
the Congress, and in view of the
hopelessness of the United States to
prevail in law and fact against the
the greater powers of the Standard
Oil trust we beg to suggest that aj
resolution providing for a constitu-1
tional amendment be framed, present
ed and passed, chartering the national
goverment to this concern, and tuni
ng the people over, bag and baggage,
to the octopus. Lease the ofhees. de
partments, rights and possessions of
the public, direct to the impregnable,
invincible, autocratic combine and
cease these idle and costly conten
tions with a power that is greater
than any known in the land.
We feel that we are wasting the
substance of the people in this long
drawn conflict with the Standard and
making the government ridiculous in
its repeated knock-outs at the bidding
of the big business concern that out
ranks it in court and out of it, and
whose money and mandates over
shadow every organic phase of nation
al life. The demonstration is complete;
The adoption of the electric fur
nace in large steel operations is ex
pected to meet the demand for a
steel rail tough enough to bear the
strain of high speed in the largest
freight engines. Great possibilities
are still hidden in all forms of applied
electricity.
CHEAP SWINDLE
A Los Angeles Fool And His Coin
Very Easily separated.
LOS ANGELES, Cal March 11.
The police of this city have arrested
two men known as J. D, Ward and
Bud Clayborn, and they say they will
charge them with working a fake
horse race game on W. G. Mitchell, a
cattle raiser of Sprague. Wash., by
which Mitchell is said to be out of
pocket about $10,000,
The alleged fake horse race took
place yesterday on a vacant lot be
tween Arcadia and Monrovia and it
was so cleverly worked detectives al
lege that Mitchell believed even after
his money was gone, that he had been
the victim of chance rather than of a
bunco game and refused to give in
formation that would lead to the ar
rest of the men until after he had
himself been arrested and sweated by
the police.
The men represented to Mitchell
that he was betting on a' sure thing,
and got his money before the race
came off. The money has not been
recovered but the police say they
have the men who have it under surveillance.
PLANNING FOR A PEACE
CONGRESS
ARRANGEMENTS BEING MADE
IS-CHICAGO FOR A NOTA
BLE SESSION.
daughter of Mrs. Thomas Marshall of
Jersey City, N. J., and Edward T,
Newell of Kenosha, Wis. The
couple have been sweetheart since
childhood. The bridegroom to-be, is
widely known throughout the country
as a student of rare coins. He it
secretary of the American Society of
Numismatics and a member of the
London, Paris and Cairo, Ugypt. So
ciety. His personal fortune is cli
mated at from $,00l).000 to SJ.000.0110.
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CHICAGO. March ll.-Plans for
a national Peace Congress in Chic
ago May 3-5 have been launched by
the Chicago Association of Com
merce. This conference will be known
as the Second National Congress, the
first having been held in New York
in April, 1907.
The attendance at the sessions was
40,000 and fully that number are ex
pected here. Sentiment for interna
tional arbitration and universal peace
will be fostered and subjects to be
submitted at the third Hague con
ference in 1915, the year of the ex
peeted opening of the Panama canal
will be considered.
LA FOLLETTE SPEAKS
NEW YORK, March ll.-"Direct
primary nominations," will be the
subject of an address by Senator
Robert M. LaKolJktte of Wisconsin,
at a meeting to be held by the Civic
Forum at Carnegie Halt tomorrow
evening. He will be introduced by
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, who
owes his seat in the Senate to the
primary law in that state, having been
elected by a Republican Legislature
bound by their primary law pledges.
although Mr. Chamberlain is himself
a Democrat- '
NEED'NT GET SCARED
Little Danger That Earth Will Col
lide With Anything.
PAID IN KIND.
CINCINNATI, March ll.-An in
teresting story is related here in con
nection wish the announcement of the
appointment of Attorney John W.
Warrington as the late Judge J. K
Richards' successor in the United
States Circuit Bench. According to
this story when General Harrison wai
chosen president he offered Warring
ton a place on the federal bench.
Warrington declined the honor and
asked Presidet Harrison why he did
not appoint "Will" Taft. President
Harrison did so and from the date
of that appointment Taft has been in
the government service- Warrington
D. ... .
we are the lesser thing; the Standard received a ie.e8rdm .run. .
is the whole thing, and that is 11 Taft yesterday informing him of h.s
there is to it; so, to avoid something appointment as Judge Richards sue
infinitely worse than voluntary sla- ressor.
very to this gigantic, elemental power, .
we desire to see this step taken. Of
course we may not give it everything;
it must be done on the principle of a
lease, say for a thousand years, or so;
it can be done, alright; any lawyer in
the service of the master corporation
will tell us how to do it; any judge in
CAMBRIDGE. Mass March 11.-
Commenting on the assertion made
recently by Dr. Percival Lowell that
the earth was in danger of colliding
with some large 'astral body and thus
be destroyed, Professor William H.
Pickering of the Harvard Astronomi
cal observatory says that the chance
of such an event is about "One in
one hundred million, raised to the one
hundred millionth power."
.A more possible danger, he added
bnt nevertheless a highly improbable
one, is that the solar system, in its
journey through space may come
close enough to some such dark
body as to canse a disturbance in the
orbital motion of planets and per
haps carry some of them, the earth
included., into space. The entire
danger is so remote, however, that
there need be no popular apprehen
sion about it."
DOWN WITH IT
Chicago Fighting The New High
Duties On Tea And Coffee.
thought and wanted,
Secondarily: If it had been started
tinder proper auspices, with the real
safety and success of the city as its
vital keynote of existance and action,
it would have been called openly and
. honestly and all citizens made wel
come in the name of the community's
good; and there would have been
hundreds present instead of the doz
en, the score, that have so far been
lured to the sessions.
This paper has the courage of its
convictions and promptly marked the
extraordinary character of thT as
semblage as a move, and bid, for the
"lifting of the lid," and did it for the
good of the place and people it stands
for. If this be "knocking," then the
Jtnockers Club may make the most
of it.
The tone of the speeches made by
Messrs. Bergman, Verschuren and
Kaboth, on Wednesday night last
were apt expressions of the real
issues upon which this "club" is seek
ing to organize and they deserve
credit for their candor and honesty.
It pays to be straightforward and do
things in the open; the people do not
like to be deceived and invariably
recent it-
With hundreds of business men in
this city, the Morning Astorian is yet
unsatisfied with the qualty of the in-
The final estimate of dollars neces
sary to complete the Panama Canal
has been fixed at 360,000,000, which
shows that all of the scoring was
done in the first 'two innings. After
that the opposing team seems to have
settled down.
Peace hath its xictories no less re
nowned than war. The illustration, of
this fact at Hampton Roads, amid the
music of bands, the boom of cannon
and cheering of multitudes, was one
of the most remarkable in the history
of nations.
spiration behind this organization and
proposes to say what it thinks about I
it, if all the rest of Astoria keeps j Pennsylvania pays a tribute to the
silent. There is no need for any such memory of a hen that laid 3650 eggs,
movement in Astoria. It is a lelib- As that is an egg every day for ten
erate effort to paralyze the Chamber consecutive years, it will be inquired
of Commerce, which might have been
used by these men, if they had the
warrant and nerve to carry their
schemes into that agency and urge
them there. This they were told in
plain terms at the last meeting, by a
newspaper man.
As to the estimates held in the Club
as to the Morning Astorian, this
paper can but say it wants the good
will of every man acting with the
"Knockers," but it does not propose
to abandon its fixed principles of civic
advantage, to secure it; that an order-
if the man who kept tally had been a
bookkeeper in furnishing the Harris
burg CapitoL
The head of the government Weath
er Bureau declares in a lecture that
the great variety of atmospheric
changes in this country is invigorat
ing and accounts for the backbone of
the American people. This is good
news if true, for the supply is inexhaustible.
Next summer Mr. Taft expects to
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NEWS AND NOTES IN THE
SPORTING FRATERNITY
Hugh Duffy is erecting a new steel ;
grandstand at his Providence plant, j
umpire Itigier ui mc ..a.....
League is the presiding official at all
the ball games in Hot Springs. .
The National Commission has
awarded Forest More, the crack
Springfield. 111., pitcher, to the St.
Louis Nationals.
Patsy Kline, the Newark feather
weight, is making quite a reputation
for himself as a knocker"-out.
Memphis is to have a negro pro
fessional baseball team this summer.
Games with colored teams in the
North are now being arranged.
All that is needed is a few playing
and scoring rules and baseball will
make skat look like a game of "par
cheesy." Pitcher Pete Hunting, who used'
to curve 'em for the majors, will sling
a few for the Fond du Lac team the
coming summer.
The grave of George Dixon in Mt.
Hope Cemetery will be marked next
month by a headstone that is now be-i
ing cut by a Quincy, Mass-, firm.
In case a few more major teams
are purchased by politicians will the
minor leaguers be able to get under
the big top without a pull?
An anti-smoke crusade has been
started in Connecticut. Several Con
necticut League magnates declare that
no Cubans will play in their organiza
tion in future.
Stomach trouble is given as the
couse of Johnny Evers' failure to join
the Chicago champions. Johnny says
his heart is with the Cubs but he has
to keep his stomach at home until
June 1.
Jimmy Johnson, manager of Jem
Driscoll, and Al Lippe, who looks af
ter Abe Attel, are engaged in a type
writer quarrel. Jimmy says that if
bull-con was music Al would be lead
er of the band.
If Mike Donlin gets $8000 from
New York this year he will have to
equip himself with a drill and fuse and
perform a new sketch entitled "A Safe
Play." Time, 4 a. m.; place, office of
John T. Brush.
Pointing to Dineen, Ferris, Stone
and Criger, St. Louis fans exclaim,
"THIS DATE IN HISTORY"
March 12.
1612 Third patent for Virginia J
granted.
1640 Newport and Portsmouth, R.
I., united.
16S4 George Berkeley, Irish pre
late and philosopher, born. Died Jan.
14, 1733.
1747 Samuel Ok'o became pro
prietary governor of Maryland-
1817 John L. Worden, who com
manded the Monitor in her battle
with the Merrimac, born.
1861 Confederate commissioners
arrived in Washington.
1877 William M. Evarts 'of New
York appointed Secretary of State
1886 Anti-Chinese convention met
in San Francisco.
1894 Lake navigation at Chicago
was opened, being the earliest on rec
ord.
1902-Governor John P. Altgeld of
Illinois died suddenly at Joliet, Born
in Prussia in 1848.
1908 The American battleship fleet
arrived at Magdalena Bay, Mexico.
CHICAGO, March U.A protest
against the proposed new import tax
on tea and coffee has been made by
the Chicago branch of the Natioulal
Coffee and Tea Aoeiation. Resolu
tions adopted will be sent to the ways
and mentis committee of the House of
Representatives. The resolution rep
resents 700 members who deal solely
in tea and coffee and more than 50000
other merchants who sell these com
modities in connection with others.
"The imposition of a tax on coffee
and tea would result in an extraordi
nary hardhip upon the vendors and
the consumers of these products,"
says the association in the resolutions,
'The fact that the proposed tax will
not be the measure of the difference
between the present cot and the fu
ture cost under the proposed amend
ment must not be lost sight of. The
jobber and retailer would expect to
get an extra profit on the higher
value and larger investment and the
consumer would have to pay for his
coffee probably ten cents per pound
more than he is charged today."
Fishor Brothers Company
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Hardware, Groceries,;, Ship
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HIS BODY FOUND
HONOLULU, March 11 The
body of L R. Raderniachcr, the Los
Angeles man who mysteriously dis
appeared in April, 1907, was found
last night on the slopes of Diamond
Head Mountain, near this city. From
evidences on the body it was ap
parent that the man had committed
suicide.
'"THIS IS MY 75th BIRTHDAY"
Hilary A. Herbert, who was Secre
tary of the Navy in the second ad
ministration of President Cleveland,
was born March 12, 1834, in Lauren
ville, S. C His education was re
ceived in the Universities of Virginia
and Alabama. In the civil war he
served as colonel of the Eight Ala-,
bama Confederate Volunteers and
was disabled at the Battle of the
Wilderness. Following the close of
the war Mr. Herbert began the prac
tice of law at Greenville, Ala., later
removing to Montgomery. In 1877
he was elected a Representative in
Congress and continued to serve for
sixteen years, until his oppointment
to a cabinet position . by President
Cleveland. After his retirement from
the cabinet he remained in Washing
ton and engaged in the practice of
law. Mr. Herbert is the author of
several , very successful historical
works dealing with the civil war and
the period of "Reconstruction" in the
South.
MAN OF COINS WEDS
CHICAGO, March 11. Announce
ment is made of the marriage on
April 22, of Miss Adra Marshall,
one over on Mr, McAlcer. They gave
Cy Young to Cleveland.
Cy Young needs to win only 22
games this year to bring his total of
major victories up to 500. Also he
has but to win his first game in Bos
ton to make the Hub fan roar "An
other good one sent on his way. I
GOOD SCHEME
CHICAGO, March 11 A camp
aign of publicity and education per
taining to the preparation and sale
of all canned goods has been decided
by the Western Packers Canned
Goods Association. It is the unani
mous opinion of the eighty-five mem
bers that the public should be educat
ed in the manufacture of canned
goods in order that certain prejud
ices prevailing may be done away
with.
ASTHMA VANISHES.
So Does Catarrh, Croup, Hay Fever
and Bronchitis.
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powerful yet soothing, antiseptic air,
you will know that it has marvelous
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very pleasant and prompt remedy for
catarrh, colds, aBthma, croup, Bron
chitis, etc.
If your head is so stuffed with
mucous that you cannot breathe a
particle of air through your nostrils,
Hyomei will open them up and give
relief in five minutes.
Why will sensible people suffer
longer, why will they wheeze and
hawk and spit and smother, when
T. F. Laurin will guarantee Hyomei
to cure or money back. $1.00 is all
T. F. Laurin asks for a complete
outfit.
"I have used Hyomei for hay fever,
and can pronounce it the best relief
for this trouble that I ever tried or
heard of. I have had this malady for
years, and have doctored and used
many remedies, but Hyomei is far
ahead of any of the others, and has
my hearty endorsement." Mrs. M,
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TIDE TABLE FOR MARCH
MARCH 1909.
MARCH 1909.
High Water.
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