SUNDAY, MARCH 28. 1909. Mailing It Easy For You One of Otir fin rinefa Roaslors is sure to be nice Our Splendid line of klfehnn Rive you satisfaction. ROSS, HIGGINS & CO. THE MODEL , ItllWIl! "Night In BohtmU"- Th sale of lean for "A Night In Bohemia" will open up tomorrow. Buyt Saloon Property Martin Franciieovlch hn purchii' ed the "My Home" tatoon property t Sixteenth and Commercial from J. W. and D. II. Welch. Hit Mother Ill Chief of Police Oberg received a menage yesterday from , Portland atatlng that bis mother waa very ill, perhapi dying. He went up to Port land last evening. Infant Child Diet- . The Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John 0. Fitche, died at their residence on Thlrty-eighth atreet yea teday morning, and the funeral waa ,lteltl yesterday afternoon. Would Lease Hotel- It i laid that an effort U being made by a man in the eait to leae the Flavel Hotel, at Flavel, for the purpose of ulng it at a tanitarium. It would make a beautiful place for a unit uriiuii. Funeral Today The funeral of the baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M, R, Pomeroy will be held from the residence at 10:30 o'clock thi morning. The aervlcea will be conducted by the Rev. W. S Short, of Grace church, and inter ment will be In Ocean View. Down From Portland Harrison Allen .former city attor ney of Astoria, and now member of thl law ftrm it fBrw Jt 1fa In ika ..... ...... ... vbh v. IWM ttl metropolis, waa in the city yesterday, having come down on business. Mr, Allen has a host of friends here who are always glad to see him. New Harness Shop Messrs. Moore & Marks, formerly 1.L W. I !. I I -., . av0 gnc ,mu ou.i- ..... . h.t, up..cu a shop for all kinds of harness work and saddlery, at the corner of Four teenth and Duane streets, where they will glad to meet and serve all comers. Woman It Inune Mr i. Ma Honkanon, of Seaside. waa yesterday adjudged Insane and will be taken to the asylum for the Insane at Salem. She was examined by Dr. Forsstrom, and is 43 years of age and a native of Finland. Brood- Ing on religions questions seems to have unsettled her reason. The pro- ceedmgs were instittued by the worn- an' husband. j sum iuj i! !" j ixiij.-j x-a' 1mC .. . I b quite Unpleasant tO go home and learn that the home and learn that the color or patern of your new son doesn't please the worn en folks." Ladies! . f .fff rw0t0' , right, tnd when they come once they XlSlSfl C ;come ,galn ,nd bring their friends. Why not come in with your , husband, or brother, and J" r"1 your ,ch(oi" . , 1 . , Veal, Hogs, Ctttie, Potatoes; In fact, help him pick out his ispnng anythlng you t0 ie that we suit. Others oo it, and why can handle, not you? Reinember,Easter; isn't far off and you'll want! him to look as nice as pos-! sible-and one can't look CHOICE HAMS -,5c "right" m a hand-me-down ' choice bacon I7)c suit. i ' ! j Carl E. Fransecn "Maker ol Good Clothe i for Men" j Agent For .'CORRECT FORrl" Suit Hanger a T?1a.,..tV PIimij, Main 4rrr 'ul" " " A New Vacuum Carpet Cleaner IN ASTORIA We clean your curpeta without removing them from the floor with the new vacuum cleanerIt spares you fr,om household horrors such as having your carpet ruined by beating having your house upset for a week walking 'around on bare floors. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Phone 2145 Black W. H. Fellman Furniture Store rerr.A i ...... .f Cum. and tender. FOOD STORE Want Btla Presented I he I'irat Company asks that all bills entailed In the presentation of the piny 'Mhe Captain and the Spy," be presented at once, by Wednesday ai lite latest, as It la desired to have everything settled without delav. Kills should be sent to Mr. Scbroeder at the Acme Grocery, What Charge Will Ba With the recovery of Peterson, the man who was struck with the ax, practically assured, "Bob" Davis, the man who did the hitting, is felici tating himself on the fact that he won't be prosecuted on i charge of murder. Davis is in the county Jail and it is hardly probable that he will be able to secure any bail even if Peterson constantly does grow bet ter. For the present he Is held with out bail, and the matter will be pre scnted to the next grand jury In June. He then will probably be prosecuted for an assault with a dead ly weapon with intent to kill, for which the penalty is heavy. Strayed From Salem , E. Cooke- Patton, one of Salem's popular young merchants and a lead ing Klk of that range, Is in the city, disponing of a few tons of postal cards.' which constitute a heavy ele ment of his business there, and meet ing up with old Astoria friends. He came in from the northshore towns and was glad to get back Into civitiza lion. His friends here will head him right for home today since he d'e eiarei nis leave ot atiscnce is over expired. All who met him here were glad to see him; he is one of the kind that finds a welcome everywhere and if he misses it, makes one on the spot. Hard On Chinese After April 1 neither opium or any mixture or compound containing opium in any form can legally be brought into the United States ex cept for strictly medicinal purposes, If this law is enforced it will effec " tively stop the use of opium among fhe C,ne( mnny of whnm ,fe a(J. dieted to the habit of smoking it. It has proven a terrible curse to the Chinese nation ,and efforts are being made to prohibit its use in China also. There is bound to be more or lest opium smuggled into the coun try, for those who are In the habit of using It will of course stop at noth ing to secure it. Many of the local Chinese, knowing that the law was 0jng int0 effcct ,oon have taid in j,jg supplies, "Classmates." with Norman Hack- m , ,he ,el(i roIei wi be n,C(, ,he AMoria Th(tt April 24th Jules Murry will present Norman Hackett in "Classmates" at the Ai- ,ria Tlcalcr 0 Saturday, April 24th. l ' .. i 1 . . .. DO YOU KNOW WHY So many people trade with ua? Be cause our thop it clean; our meata are clean, and of the very beat qua!- ity. Cuatomert say our pricea are i PURE LARD 65c . BUTTER 65c, 70c EGGS " SMOKED SMELTS, 2 DOZEN, 25c 684 COMMERCIAL ST. Off On Vacation George Olnen, the popular carrier (No. 3), of the pontoflice aervlce In thla dty, it off on a twoweeki' vaca tion and ii likely to enjoy it 1 what the force at the iquare gray-atone building: ay about certain very pleas- ant arrangement ),e hai made and in winch a particularly pretty young lady i concerned m one of the Drin- Anynow, ne 11 entitled to t jidly pelt of recreation, for he la one of the faithful workeri in that field of public nervice. Mort Quick Retumt Venterday morning the turn of $690 wai paid over Into the grateful handa of Mr. Marie Rehfcld, widow of the late William Rehficld, ai the aum of inmirance claim agalnut the A. O. U. W.; and later in the day J. A. Gil- baugh. acting for Mr. Sophie Fan non, received, and delivered to that lady, a check for the um of $1500, covering the life policy of the late Mini Bertha Pannon, her daughter. Both of these matters were cloaed with commendable celerity and will bring comfort to both ladies. Wat Remarkable Boy- Carl Strnhour, the young boy who died at Raymond last week, and who had a lister attending school, and oth er relative! in this city, was said to have been a remarkable boy, accord ing to a dispatch from Raymond in the Oregonian of yesterday. It said: "Carl Strahour the, 15-year-old Ray mond lad, whose funeral took place today, was a remarkable boy. On hia arrival in Raymond three and a half years ago, he became janitor for the Commercial Club and took various jobs in the stores of the city.' Later, he became carrier for the daily pa pers, lie accumulated $140, which, unknown to his father, fie deposited a first payment on some deposited Later, after his investments had been revealed to his parents, his father aided him in borrowing $1000, with which he buit a five-room cottage. This he rented, applying the income to the payment of the debt, and in the meantime constantly carping more money and paying on hit principal. At the time of his death but a small fraction remained to be paid. The in vestment is now worth fully $3000.'' Alderbrook Presbyterian Dr. Milligan of Portland, head of the missionary department of the Presbyterian church in the State of Oregon, and 20 years ago the pastor of the Astoria church of that denomi nation, came down to this city last night for the 'purpose of aiding in the work at the Alderbrook mission for the next two weeks. The Alderbrook mission is in charge of the Rev. Robert J. Diven, and during thi quite short period since has been here it has prospered finely. It now has about 100 children in the Sunday school and at the preaching services there are usually 75 or more, mostly adults of course. Dr. Milligan has come down to lend his aid in stirring up a greater life and activity in the mission and for the next two weeks he and Mr. Given will conduct serv ices of instruction every night dur- ng the week except Saturday. It will not be a revival in any sense, but merely an effort to strengthen the work. Inasmuch as there is no other church there the work is being well received and much is hoped from it. The Rev. Mr Diven has been a work er in the mission field for a number of years and makes a specialty of that work. Bida For Exchange Street- Bids for the improvement of Eighteenth atreet, from Exchange to Grand, were opened at the city hall yesterday afternoon by the commit tee on streets, Councilmen Fox, Wil son and Belland. Four bids were re ceived, as follows: Birch & Jacobson, $4845; Makula & Wuaplo. $5015-55; J. Talmberg, $4676; L. Lebeck, $46,16. The surveyor's estimate was $4909, and three of the bids were be low the estimate. The lowest bid was that of Mr. Lebeck, and the next lowest that of Mr, Palmberg. But when the items were considered in segregated detail, still lower prices were found. The bid of Birch & Ja cobson for the block from the south line of Exchange to the south line of Franklin was $2666, the lowest for this part of the work, and this waa accepted, as was also the bid of the same firm for the crossing, this being for $532.80. For the block from Frank in to Grand the bid of Makula & Wuapio was the lowest, $1211.66, and this was accepted. The coast of the improvement by taking the segregat ed bids will amount to $4410.55, or $225.55 less thrn the lowest bid tak en as a whole. Mr. Palmberg refused to bid except for the whole. REALTY TRANSFERS William A. Cummins and wife to Faul Wessinger and Henry Wagner, trustees, N 2 of S E 4, of S 15, T 7 N. R 6 W; $625. J W Welch and wife and D H Welch and wife to Martin Francisco- ich, lot beginning at intersection of east line of 16th street with north ne of Commercial street in Astoria; $10. Norman Hackett will be .seen in Classmates" at the AstOna Theater on Saturday, April 24th. THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. DIFFICULTIES GATHER THICK AND FAST THE PORT OP PORTLAND UP AGAINST IT FOR DOCKINO FACILITIES HERE. It dcvclopei now that the Port.of Portland Commission is facing an ac cumulation of Impediments in the es tablishment of ttl affair at this end of the river chief among which is said to be the fact that it cannot, for love nor money, lease nor let, the waterfrontage and dockage that will be needed to berth its bar fleet here; the two ocean tugs it intends to buy, the river tow boat, and the bar pilot schooner Joseph Pulitzer, for all of which it needs 500 feet, exclusively is own, free from all invasion, at all times. The O. R. & N. Company will not give it privileges at the big 1000-foot docks; the Callender Navigation Co. has not the room to spare at its docks for such t lervice, its own fleet oc cupying the most of its inside berth ings, md iti frontage being a regular landing for a long line of coasters; the Lurline, the Fisher, and the A. & C. docks are all appropriated under protracted leases and private engage ments; and the lower docka on the front, are too small for the business, or too old for service without heavy repairing. Thus the Commission is in a serious quandry as to how it will dispose its fleet when the time comes. The story Is current here, also, that the Puget Sound Towing Company is arranging to put one of its biggest and best tugs on the Columbia bar and mix things with the commission a bit; and if this powerful concern does take a hand there will be "some thing," or "nothing," doing for the Port of Portland people. Altogether it does not look very promisinar for the up-river port, but it is presumed it will go ahead and clear things up in a satisfactory fashion, now that it is so deeply committed to the policy of dominating the commerce of the lower river. Astoria Is takinsr but a mighty little interest in it all, one way nor the other. It has a port com mission of Its own, to which it will turn over its interests in this rela tion when the time comes. It may be said, in passing, however, that if the Portland Commission had purchased its boats from the O. R. & N., it would never have lacked an abund ance of berthing quarters at the great piers owned by that concent. PERSONAL MENTION Major Bartlett and Captain Ray mond and, Lieutenants Prentice and Keeler, of Ft. Stevens, with Captain Willis, of Fort Columbia, came uo the bay yesterday afternoon on the Major Guy Howard, for a friendly visit. S. Maybie, of the Nasel country, is in the city on business, and is at the Parker House. P. J. Brix departed yesterday even ing for Taluca, Wyoming, to look in to the newly developed oil interests he owns there. He will be gone for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Hughes of New York City, arrived in Astoria yesterday and are quartered at the Occident- Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Munrow of Portland are in the city, having ar rived yesterday on the noon express. timer Johnson of Deeo River is in the city on a. business trip. M. b. Martin of Tacoma spent the day here yesterday. A. J. Gathcart of Portland was a visitor here yesterday and was domi ciled at the Northern. K. D. Sullivan of Chicago was among the visiting hundreds in this city yesterday. L. T. Emery of San Diego" was among the business tourists noted in this city yesterday. He was stopping at the Merwyn Hoel. M. C. Vreeland of Spokane spent the day here yesterday on matters of business. Captain Ritchie of the Brown-Mc-Cabc Stevedoring Company has re, turned from a business trip to the metropolis, i N. C. Zabrisky of Denver was here yesterday on a business quest, going on to Seaside on the evening rain for an over Sunday stay by ocean. G. F. Dcmarest of Chicago among the business visitors in city yesterday, the was this The Man Who Eats. The man who eats does so with the expectation of being satisfied. To this end he seeks the best possible place to gratify his normal appetite at most rational expense. These things account for the steady stream of people to and from the portals of the Palace Restaurant In this city. The reputation of the Palace is founded immoveably upon the certainty and ampli'ude of the service it renders to every purse, and appetite, big an little. Open day and night. Com mercial streets, opposite the Page building. I XX "A MIGHT tt GIVEN UNDER THE AUSPICES OP Astoria lUESHAY V7EDDESDAY YOU CAN'T LOOK FOOLISH IN A WISE SUIT ANY DAY . .. . . .. . . .. . I 4 DELAY OF 111 'PHONE SERVICE EXPLAINED THE ORIGINAL PLANS WERE MODELLED ON TOO SMALL A SCALE. Announcement was made yesterday t,w n M r)rurrv nf Pftrttanit' riiviv- ion contract agent for the Padnc States Telephone Company, that the! be in operation by May 30, and prob ably by May 15. This will be good news for many in Astoria, for while there has been little or no complaint at the delay, nevertheless many ha." wondered why the change over to the new system had not been made before, and the need of a betterment in the service has grown month by month. I NEW YORK, March 27. Wall According to Mr. Drewery, the delay ! Street and men prominent in railroad of the past couple of months has been ; circles are inclined to accept as a fact unavoidable. The engineers from San, the report from the Pacific Coast Francisco who came here and plan-! that E- H. Harriman will form a ned the service apparently made the ; special consulting board with a view mistake of not providing for a big to reliving himself of some of his enough system, and especially did not vast duties. It is generally accepted provide for the number of individual also that he will soon retire from the phones that have been contracted for. presidency of the Union and South- The truth of the matter probably rn Pacific Railroads. This, however is that the system was modelled four j does not mean that Mr. Harriman or five years ago and that the old plan would take any less interest in the was carried out without taking into activity of the system. J. J. Hill re consideration the fact of the changed signed the presidency of the Great circumstances. j Northern, but comintued to dominate The company will therefore now, the road more than ever. Mr. Harri have to put in an additional section man, it is said, would, as chairman of switchboard, and will have to change around its system to a ma - tcrial extent. The new section of switchboard has been ordered and is presumed to be en route to Astoria now. Mr. Drewery states that there is never any trouble in getting a switchboard on the ground within 30 days from the time it is ordered, and he reiterated his assurances that As- tofia may rest satisfied that by Mayjident Taft and many other men in 15, or by May 30 at the latest, the new service will be in operation. ; given Tuesday evening by the Wash It should be understood that theiington Harvard Club. The occasion present service is already to cut in will be notable for the presence of now at a moment's notice, and has I Charles W. Eliot. President of Har been Teady for quite a time, but it is Jvard University and his appearance thought best not to put the new serv-will be somewhat in the nature of a ice in commission at all until it can farewell by the Harvard Alumni in be placed in operation as a whole, and ! this city, in view of Dr. Eliot's resig- therefor the delay is ensuing. In the new system there will be over 500 individal phones; while there will only about 75 four-party lines, and the remainder, a goodly number, will be the two-party lines. The old BOHEMIA" Lodge B. X T MARCH 30 AND 31 ten-party lines, of course, will be eliminated entirely. It is estimated that the additional section of switch board will cost $2000; while the new cable and necessary outside work will cost upward .of $4500. SIMPLIFYING MATTERS WASHINGTONfTMarch 27.-Sen-ator Nelson has introduced a bill which is intended to do away with technalities in the granting of new trials by federal courts- The meas ure provides for the amendment of section 1011 of the revised statutes by prohibiting courts from granting a new trial or setting aside a judge ment in any case unless in the opinion .the lTen after an examm- 'affirmatively annar that that th error complained of has resulted in a miscarriage of justice-" HARRIMAN'S PLANS New Yorkers Think He May Ease Up On His Work. of the boards of the roads of the 'Union Pacific system, be as actively identified as ever with the control of Ihose properties, but would concern himself with broad questions of , policy, to the exclusion of matters of detail. I I HARVARD DINNER WASHINGTON March 27. Pres- .public life will attend a dinner to be nation next May. Others who will attend are Dr. Harvey Wiley, Senator Root, Dr. Charles W. Needham, Dr. C. D. Walcott, Jerome D. Greene, Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, and Charles Francis Adams. tr n P. O. E. Jules Murry's production of "Clast niates," with Norman Hackett as the star, is booked for the Astoria Thea ter on Saturday, April 24th. Phone Or Write. Phone Main 881 or write F. A. Fisher, Twelfth street, about Ideal Vacuum Cleaners. Earl A. Fisher. BEAT IT OUT BY INVESTIGATING NOW IN THAT NEEDED EASTER SUIT BE THE FIRST TO INVEST. EARLY BUYING MEANS THAT YOU WILL HAVE COMPLETE ASSORTMENTS TO MAKE A SELECTION FROM. YOU WILL BE PLEASED IN FINDING HE$E THAT WE ARE ABLE TO SHOW YOU A LARGE NUMBER OF SUITS YOUR SIZE AND ALL DIFFERENT. AND OF COURSE IN CLASSY SPRING STYLES AND FABRICS- $10-00 TO $35.00. EVERYTHING ELSE A MAN WEARS FROM HEAD TO FOOT. S. Danziger & Co Astoria's Greatest Clothiers 490-500 Commercial Street FOR BEST CANDIES Our sleek ol candies includ ing "Lowneys" &rxi 1 Gunthers" famous Choco lates are the best. ...Home Wade Candies... They sire healthier find better and don't cost any more. ALEX TAGG 433 Commercial St., Astoria, Qc,