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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1909)
THE MORNING ASTORIAH, ASTORIA, OREGON. SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1H)9. A a: F Ladies for Qn Women BEEL:HIVE0utfittcrs SPECIAL! BON DAY AND TUESDAY, MARCH 22 AND 23 ...LADIES' SILK DRESSES... Black, Navy and Brown prices $17.00 to f 25.00 your choice These dresses are all displayed up stairs in the suit room. First come, first served. CATTERY UH Ifl THIS CITY KOW LAUNCHING OF AN IMMENSE AND PROFITABLE BUSINESS. OCEAN, BAR, BAY, DOCK AND RIVER The steamer Eureka arrived in yes' terday from Eureka and Coos Bay points and among her passengers from the latter port was Captain Ar thur Leighton on board. Captain Leighton reports that he made a quick and easy trip hence to Coos Bay with the little 79-footer Reqoa, with which he left here one week ago last Friday, and which he left in that port on Friday last- Captain Leighton had three several stipula tions with the owners, covering her pilotage to the three several ports of Marshfield, Eureka and San Fran cisco, with the option of leaving her at any o the three in the event of adverse weather. He considered the weather conditions at Coos Bay un promising for the continuance of the voyage to Eureka, and chose to re turn to Astoria, and the craft was there when he left, "snug as bug in a rug; out wnat she will do, or when she will sail from there, he could not say. He says she behaved splendidly on her way down, and he sees no reason why, in skilful hands, she should not, with fair weather, make it to her final destination. En gineer Nick Clinton, of this city, is still on board the Requa, being em ployed by the month with her Owners. The steamer Northland is due to arrive in this port this morning. She is laden with 00 barrels of cement, consigned to the Foard & Stokes Hardware Company, of this city, which will be delivered by the North land, to the Western Cement Com pany, who are doing the government work, at Fort Steveng. The handy old dredge, William S. Ladd, which has been working in. the lower harbor for some days past, came back to the city yesterday af ternoon with something, probably a piece of cable, caught in her stern post and interfering badly with the operation of the propeller. She will be cleared of the impediment at once. The steamer Sue H. Elmore arriv ed down yesterday and will leave out for Tillamook Bay points today, with freight and passengers, returning Tuesday if all things are propitious The steamer Olsen & Mahoney was among the getaways from this port yesterday, for the Bay City, go ing over the bar early yesterday morning. The big lighthouse tender Arraeria, Captain Gregory, coaled up yesterday afternoon at the Sanborn bunkers, and then went to the buoy station where she loaded up with a line of sea buoys, and will sail this morning for Yaquina Bay, and plant them in the bar channels off there. The iagsbip Lnrline, of the Kamm fleet, was doing business at the old stand last evening, and when she de parted she had the following people on her register: W. C. Kay. A. G. Wallace. Miss M. D. Miles, B. G. Miller, H. D. Meeker, B. Goldberg and A. M. Wilson. The steamer Daisy Mitchell cross ed in yesterday noon, and went to the Kinney dock, where she unloaded a lot of salt and acids for the Colum bia River Packers' Association, and then proceeded up stream. The oil tank steamer Atlas, of the & Ot line, made it in here yesterday from the coast of California, and passed on up stream at once. The S. F. & P. steamship Senator arrived down yesterday morning early and went to sea, with a big grist of freight and lots of passengers. SHELL BREAKS IN TWO Rowing Squad of California Univer sity Have Narrow Escape. There is money in everything from, junk to jewels! Upon some such hypothesis as this Mr. Carpenter, one of the proprietors of the famous Gray's River dairy that puts out the equally famous "Fern- dale" butter all over this land of criti- al butter-eaters, has undertaken to promote a practical cattery in this city and has stirred up considerable interest in the scheme, especially among the prominent grocers to whom he sells his fine northshore product As the saying has it, "he's ;got em going. Mr. Carpenter has made a deep study of the cat from a commercial standpoint, "fir, claws and tail" and what he don't know of the range of profit in marketable pussies, the mem bers of the Western Cat Company, a newly incorporated concern just bunched in this city, do. He has figured the scheme down to fractions and decimals, and it works out to such a sure and certain ampli tude of sheer gain Jor investors, that it is a positive lure for the man anx' ions to accumulate a little "on the side"; and it is this figuring that has got his grocer friends on the jump to take stock in this extraordinary de parture. It is currently reported that State Senator W. T. Scholficld has accept ed the presidency of the new incor poration: that Thad Tmllinger has been induced to take the secretary ship; which particulars, of them selves, lend warranty to the report that the venture has very stalwart backing. It is also said that Fred Johnson has agreed to take a big block of stock in the business and others are hastening to secure a foothold in one of the most promising business openings offered here in a long time. The final organic status of the new concern will be announced later in these, columns and it is sure to create a furore in business circles all over this section when the scope and personnel is actually known. The first intimation that the busi ness had been decisive and operative steps came yesterday, when a circu lar bearing the following legend was circulated through the city: "Wanted! Black and White Cats; Black Cats SO cents; White or, Other Cats, 25 cents; Western Cat Company, Elev enth Street, Between Bond and Com mercial." This was the signal for swift and eager" inquiry on all sides, the address given was, Mr. Car- '' Mil W - I EI I lift v ;i?fv " li I ! K I til U 1 rL- l7sr5hlvi f f V I LEAN cut, pmart, correct in style of good quality in fabric and tailoring and ac curate in fit. These are the important things that our ii. s. & r.i. clothes and they are ex- thing you want UIT give a man actly the S $18.00 TO $40.00 OVERCOATS $15.00 UP WALK-OVER SHOES 3.SO to $4.00 Home of II, S. &. M. Clothes SAN FRANCISCO, March 20 Nine members of the rowing squad of the University of California had a narrow escape from drowning late 'and though yesterday afternoon when the racing ' presumably, the office of shell which they were rowing broke penter, the promoter of the concern, amidships. The nine athletes were j il sm become known that feline thrown into the cold waters of the j supplies would be received either at Oakland estuary. Coach Dean Wit-1 'he office of the president, at his ter came alongside the struggling ; Twelfth-street grocery, or at the men with the coaching launch and j establishment where the secretary U succeeded in picking them up. but employed, the Badollet grocery on not before some of them had suffered Commercial between Eighth and narrow escapes from drowning. I Ninth; at both of which places, it is Leslie Robinson, a freshman register-! presumed, the quoted prices will be ed from Lakeport, could not swim, 1 Paid for all the cats presented, but he was saved from drowning by'. President Scholfield, of the cattery, the heroic efforts of William Heger. is sa'd to be very sanguine of the The crew had just finished a half abounding success of the enterprise, mile sprint and they were so exhaust- .having given exhaustive study to the ed that they could not have kept up Prb'em while up at Salem this win much longer. . ter, in an effort to find a means for -. the further maintenance of the State . . . . Normal schools; and had figured out Subscribe to the Morning Astonan. , svstem wherebv each of the nor- du cents per montn. mals might attain to an income far I ---- "" ""' " ""'w""""r"rnt II ARE A FEW OF OUR SPECIALS FOR THIS WEEK A fine line of out-of-lhe- ordinary Net Waists $2.75 "P Embroidery Stock Collars 35c Fancy Veiling 50cyd Moree Petticoats 75c Silk Petticoats $5,25 White Lawn Waists 5QC New Line of Tailored Shirt Waists, just in $2,75 & $4.75 Kitchen ware, displayed in our exceeding anything the State was an Astoria grocer. As the business likely to do for them; and had even develops the Astorian will give de- partly drafted a bill providing for the : tails that are necessarily lacking at Have you seen our new line of Enamel Commercial street window, Sauce Pans,Stew Pans.Kettles, etcchoice 1 0c Where Do You Get Satisfaction? at Ninth and Com mercial Streets application of the idea, when the Legislature adjourned and left him with the purely original and highly promising measure on his hands. It was this previous concern and inter est in the cult that made him so ar dent a champion of Mr. Carpenter's proposition when that gentleman sprung it here, on Thursday. The Carpenterian idea of the busi ness is this: The fur of the cat is an excellent and merchantable fur; as good as many of the smaller pelts on the market, and better than some; ranging in value from 10 cents to 75 cents, with an average value, say, of 30 cents each. Given a hundred-acre ranch, properly prepared and fenced and one million cats for a starter, the general and net results are easily as certained, by pursuing the following calculations, which Mr. Carpenter has assiduously wrought in his effort to find a working financial basis: Figuring that 1,000,000 cats would yield an increase of 4,000,000 animals j twice a year, the company will have 8,000,000 pelts for marketing, at an average price of 30 cents per pelt, or $2,400,000 per annum, or $6600 per day, which is a really conservative basis upon which to proceed consid ering the uncertainty of the prolific acy of ..cats in general. This safe estimate leaves the concern with a very generous income, against which there are the minor offsets of feeding, skinning, and marketing. To properly feed the outfit, it is said that another and adjoining 100 acres will be purchased and stocked with rats, probably 4,000,000 to start with, and to be increased if found adequate for the purposes of food supply. These rates are expected to reproduce themselves at least ten times over during the year, and thus the cattery will be furnished with i ample meat, especially when it is un-! derstood that the rats will be main-. taincd upon the meat of the skinned cats and require no other food, save in the first instance. In addition to these expenses, there will be at least 100 men needed for herding and feeding and skinning the cats, and these can be had at $2-00 per day and board. (Note: The company is strangely silent upon the quality of the board to be furnished these peo ple, but it is presumed they have cer tain economic reservations in mind, that will develop later). So the unit of daily cost in this behalf is some where around $300, which leaves a magnificent range of profit after the land is once paid for, say of $6597 per day, which residium is enough to warrant the eager energy displayed by the favored few who are to be let in on the ground floor. All figures quoted in this summary are tentative, of course, and it is not at all unlikely that once the scheme is underway and working smoothly the profit guage will rise to a clean $10,000 a day, amply to satisfy even, this stage of the venture. It is not known at this writing whether there is any of the treasury stock left, so great was the demand for it yester day. FOR NEW "OLD GLORY" WASHINGTON. March 20.-A new "Old Glory" is proposed in a bill recently introduced by Represen tative Ansberry of Ohio to amend the section of the revised statutes which relates to the design of the American flag. A new formation of the stars is suggested. They would be arranged, "In five arcs in combination, the centers of the arcs to be the apices of a regular pentagon, the radius of the arcs to be equal to one side of the pentagon." As to the size of the stars, the bill prescribes that their radius shall be equal to "One fourth the distance of the stars from center to center." Provision for adding new stars for new states might be made by extend ing the arcs. All ELECTRIC LI FOR ILVVACO AND SEAVIEV ENTHUSIASTIC MASS MEETING AT THE FORMER CITY EN DORSES PROPOSITION. The Morning Astorian's Ilwaco cor respondent, says: On Wednesday last a large and en thusiastic mass meeting of represen tative citizens took place, at Seaview to talk over and consider the propos ed right of way of the Ilwaco Ceneral Electric Company's car line. The question being thoroughly discussed and the advantages and disadvantages of the line taken up, a vote was call ed for, and said vote being taken showed that the progressive inhabi tants of the little burg were unani mously in favor of the enterprise. Short talks and speeches were made U L-)!..J.LX.l.UllUl.i. ILiMU-ilJUWi'.JWUW by quite a number of prominent land owners, present; brief addrcte were alio made by Messrs. F., F. Wood, W. A. Graham and Captain Rowe of Ilwaco, who locally repre sent the company. A committee was then appointed to petition the county commissioners to gram said right of way on condition of the company agreeing to conform to street grades, put In permanent and substantial crossings and other wise keep their roadbed neat and passable. Then, after a few con gratulatory remarks from the chair man the meeting adjourned. PASSES ANTI-GAMBLING BILL California Takea a Fall Ont of the Gamblers. SACRAMENTO. Cal March 20 The assembly passed tonight a bill prohibiting nil gambling in California The bill is sweeping in effect and amends the penal code which Miecifies all kinds of gambling games prohibit ed. If it becomes a law it will nro- hibit all games of chances. mm t KB i J1 'I Jii-JLJi . M-f Sim e SALE ..Heatherbloom Petticoats.. BLACK AND COLORS - $1.6 5 ' -i too Genuine Hydegrade Heathefbloom Petticoats, black and colors, placed on sale Monday at this low price Figure it out for yourself 5 yards of Heatherbloom at 40c the yard all nicely made 2 Aff with n inch flounce P M.IJ On Sale MONDAY Spring' Suits at Nearly Half $2B.OO Values for Only $I4.QS y Spring uits at nearly half the regular price to induce early spring buying We have selected from our stock 20 New Spring Suits, well knowing that investigation will convince you of their great bargain value at the special price we have placed upon them for THIS ONE DAVS all 1 A c v - EIXING $25.00 actual values forjonly ijJUft.VO iiig'toii Dry Goods C