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-
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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
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$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
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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
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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.
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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
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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