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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1909)
THE MORNING ASTORIAH, ASTORIA, OREGON. TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1909. MONMOUTH MAKES FINE This is the season oi th year to improve your place by putting- around it one of our celebrated AMERICAN WIRE FENCE i . SL yx r Ladies FOR Cijl Women BEELMi-HlVEQutfitters SPECIAL SALE PlEA FDR JUSTICE nr OPEN LETTER FROM STUDENT BODY TELLING OF SCHOOL'S HARD STRUGGLE. ' Monday, Tuesday and .Wednesday 4 OF LADIES TAILOR MADE SUITS Any Suit in the Window $13.90 OCEAN, BAR, BAY, News comes down from Portland that the dredger William S, Ladd has gone into' the government boneyard at St John's, for good and all; this confirms the conviction held here lately that the busy old craft has done about all the work she was built for, and she has a fine record behind, her. There will be nothing doing on the river now until the arrival of the sew and powerful ocean dredger Clatsop which is due in this port early in the coming month, to replace the Ladd on bar and river work. When the Kamm liner Lnrline went op at 7 o'clock last evening, she had on her register, the following named people: W. R. . Mackenzie, treasurer, of the Vancouver Trans portation Company; Miss Dolph, J. R. Coulter, Mrs. Rrankin, Mrs. Wes sels, Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Story, Mrs. Rumley, Mrs. Oxman. Mrs. Piett, J. B. Walker, G. Elling, W. E- Alger, B. F. Shipman. j The three-masted schooner Com peer, from San Francisco, 18 days oat came in over the Columbia bar yesterday morning, on the hawser of the Wallula. She is billed to load out from Rainier, and will go op there as soon as she can get a tow op river. The steamship Buckman, from Sao Francisco to Seattle, was picked up by Operator Ferland, of the United Wireless here, yesterday morning, off Cape Fool weather, making good time and expecting to reach Seattle at 1 o'clock today. The four-masted schooner R. W. Bartlett, from San Francisco, crossed in yesterday afternoon, and is an chored in the city channel The steamer H. B. Kennedy made it into Seattle all right at 11:20 yes terday morning, in fine condition, and received a great welcome at her dock there, The flagship of the lighthouse ten der fleet, Armeria, is busy just now at bar-work, and on the 5th of April' will go on another cruise to Alaska with stores and supplies for the northern stations. The steamer Sue H. Elmore left Portland last evening and is due to sail from the O. R. & X. piers this morning at 9 o'clock, for Tillamook. The steamer Argo came in from Tillamook yesterday morning early, and left up from the Callerider dock at 9 o'clock. She will return down on Wednesday evening, and leave out again on Thursday 'morning. The steamer Jim Butler crossed in at 1:20 p. m. yesterday and after a short stay in this port, went on up the river. ....Easter Post Cards.... 3 for 5 cents, 2 for 5 cents, and 5 cents each Our New Line of Plmbroideries, just in from New York to sell from 5 cents a yd. up to 50 cents a yd. See Our Fine line of Stock Collars ladies' Men's We sell the famous Hunter &i.w a pair Watch our window for Glass ware, just received and the newest designs for the table and parlor. Don't forget that we sell candy W A TERM AN' S jt a r r The New Store, The Store vwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa J DOCK AND RIVER The Sound steamer H. B. Kennedy left the Callender dock at at 11 o'clock on Saturday night, and went to the lower harbor and at 7 o'clock on Sunday morning, crossed out en route to Seattle. The steamship Breakwater made her regular appearance in these wat ers from Coos Bay on Sunday morn ing, and went on up the river after a brief stay at the O. R. & N. docks. The steamer Alliance went to sea and Coos Bay points on Sunday; a very quick piece of getting-away, con sidering that she only came in on Friday last. The steamer Asuncion, of the Standard oil fleet, went over the bar, for California, on Sunday morning last The American-Hawaiian steamship Riverside entered port on Sunday and kept on her way up river, laden with merchandise from the East The British steamship Agapanthus arrived down stream on Sunday and went to sea almost at once. She was laden with 2.886,373 feet of lumber, valued at $35,504, and is bound for Sydney, New South Wales. The fine launch Hulda L, is off the ways, newly painted, and with all her bunting flying; she went back on her Ilwaco, Chinook, McGowan's Astoria run and had plenty to do as usual. The schooner Mabel Cale, from Molendo, Peru, entered port last evening and is at anchor in the lower harbor, and will go o Knappton, at i nee to load out foreign again. The steamer Cascades came in yesterday at noon, from San Fran- Cisco, with a number of passengers , , . . ir, : on board, and later left up for the, metropolis. ilars in order that the school should arc 11S"'1 ,0 ''ve harmony with their The British bark Carmanian is still j be closed. Practically all of us are ricihhors and respect each others re lying off the Tongue and it is ex-1 self-supporting and yet we gladly ' ''K'ous feelings, so that Bosnia was pected she will leave out today on :Put UP our hard-earned money both j for a lonK lrle a Prey to insurrec her voyage to Europe. because we want Normal training and j ti,n an'J 'ocal warfare until the The steamship Senator entered port yesterday evening, with excel lent business and docked at the O. R. & N. at 5 o'clock, leaving up stream at 7. The C. R. P. A. ship St. Nicholas was hauled out from the boneyard yesterday morning, on the hawsers of the Callender tug Melville,' and berthed at the Elmore coal dock. The steamship Geo. W. Elder is due in port at any hour this morning, from the coast of California. Morning Astorian, 60 cents month, delivered by carrier. per 25 cents and 50 cents 50 cents Overalls Brand Men's of the Right Prices. I j Editor Astorian, j Dear Sir:-The Student Body of the ;Oregn State Normal School at Monmouth requests the courtesy of 'a hearing through your columns, in j regard to the Normal School con troversy. We feel that our school jand its faculty and students have been grossly wronged not only in the fail jure of the LfRislature to provide sup port but in the unjust and untrue statements published in many papers. The Monmouth school has been operated since January 1. 1907 with out state fund. In addition, great publicity was given the fact that the Board of Regents had closed the in stitution in July 1907 for lack of funds and little notice taken of the fact that the same Board accepted large donations from friends of the Normal and re-opened it in August 1907. These facts, coupled with the natural, fear of students and their parents that the school might be un able to complete the year, combined to shake confidence and make a hand icap almost insuperable. In spite of all these adverse, the old "Monmouth Spirit rose to the occasion and alumni and friends raised and paid into the State treas ury six thousand dollars to enable the regents to carry on the school during the year 1907 a The local school district doubled its special tax and added five thousand dollars. Tuition receipts amounted to more than three thousand dollars. The faculty do nated in salary reductions five thous and dollars, making a total provision of nineteen thousand dollars for the year's budget, not one cent of which was supplied by the state. A similar plan was followed for the present year, 1908 9, only of necessity the resources were more limited. The local school district paid the salaries of the Principal of the Training De partment and of the four critics, and other expenses to the amount of five thousand dollars. Seven additional instructors were employed, five ac cepting the mere pittance of fifty dollars a month and two. President Ressler and Mr. Bntler, donating their services. The teachers' salary sacrifice this year amounts to nearly six thousand dollars. Tuition re ceipts will be above twenty-five hundred dollars. The cash donations will amount to over three thousand dollars, making a total for the year of about seventeen thousand dollars, with not a penny from the state. Last year, Monmouth students paid twenty-five dollars tuition, double the charges made at the other State Nor- mats and at the Mate University and! Agricultural College. This year, the j students have cheerfully paid the same fee and when the regular ses- sion of the Legislature adjourned differences, far more than racial dif without making an annronriation. a i tVrenr imA tn mni. th nmnl,. 'intent mam mtln on. lt.,! B where one hundred and ten students subscribed over fourteen hundred Hnl. because we mean to stand by our s'r"ng arm ot Austria put a stop to dear old school to the very last. 'he proceedings and gradually over- We are also self-respecting and re-; came the strife if not the prejudices sent bitterly the unfair and untrue j f ''s people and thirty years of Aus charges against our school. We know I trian occupation has healed the ahd every fair-minded person may ' wounds and worked wonders in the know by the least investigation thatiKcneral advancement of the country. .fonmouth is and has been a bona- j All this was done at a great sacrifice fide Normal School. Under the ad- on the part of the Austrian in men verse conditions, forty-eight gradu- and money and of the latter article ates were sent out last year and there I Austria has not an over plentiful sup-1 will be over forty the cominir Tune, j Of last year's Senior class, fo,rty-five are now teaching, two are students in college and one is married. Ninety three of last years ne hundred sev- tnty-iour students are known to be I to 1,500,000, sheep from 839,000 to teaching. Most of the remaining j 3,250,0(X), goats from 522,000 to 1,450, have returned to school this year. UKii) 9, Xinety-one and eight tenths per cent of the graduates during the past five years arc still teaching and the per centage for the whole twenty-seven years is over sixty. These and other reliable and au thentic statistics have been published trom year to year and are available to all. Our school and its good name and reputation are the capital of grad uates and students, and the loss of that capital through abuse and mis representation means bankruptcy. Monmouth cannot be crushed. Like Truth, "though crushed to earth, she will rise again; the eternal years of God are hers," Gentlemen of the press, give us a "square deal." Very truly yours, The Student Body, By P. M. Stroud, Pres. Mary Whitney Sec. How can any person risk taking some unknown cough remedy when Foley's Honey and Tar costs them no more? It is a safe remrdv. con. tains no harmful drugs, and cures the most obstinate couehs and colds. Why experiment with your health? Insist upon having the genuine Foley's Honey and Tar. T. F. Lau nn, Owl Drug Store. N . ' :!. . ., ..A- .. K II : I ! : t" , : -,- .y .., . . I , . J ) i ; 1 ' i .'1, 1 ,f It j 7 - ' I , ; Let us Give you an estimate. It will pay you. V FOARD & STOKES HARDWARE CO SERE AS AN ASTOR- W. C A. POHL WRITES INTER ESTINGLY OP KEY-KINGDOM AND HER FUTURE. King Peter Karegeorgevich of Ser via, who connived at the murder of his predecessor and has either been unable, or unwilling, to shake off the bad company into which he has plac ed himself, is about to plunge his country into a war, the end of which cannot be even guessed at .at present in order to perpetuate his dynasty, h: is willing to risk the lives of his peo ple and the very existance of his country. Bosnia before the Russo Turkish war was by an agreement of Austria and Russia promised to Aus tria as a recompense for her moral support to Russia and the confer-jServia lay down at the final summons ence of the powers in the treaty of' Austria now but a few days off? Eerlui agreed to he occupation ( that question may determine whether that country by the Austrian. The j people of Bosnia are mostly Servians by nationality but differ in religion, being 43 per cent Greek Oriental, 35 per cent Mohammedan and 21 per cent Roman Catholics. Religious ! .t ... .... , ,j, lnoic cnunirirs aim inc mutual ! hatred existing amongst thrm ran hardlv he conceived, hv neonle that lIy. During the thirty years the popu lation has increased from 1,158,000 to 1,7500)0. Horses and mules from 161,000 to 230.000: cattle from 762.000 One half of Bosina is still covered with forests, and 88 per cent of its population follows agricultural pur suits. Railroads were unknown in Bosnia until after the occupation, now the country has about 800 miles; passable roads there were hardly any, now, there are 2600 miles of macadamized roads. 'Schools have been established, manufacturing encouraged and the country generally is progressing as it has never progressed before. Now the Berlin trcatv nominally left the country under the sovereign ty of the Sultan; this was taken ad vantage of by the Servians who plot ted among the Oriental portion of the population for a union with Ser vi.t the ramifications of this plot ex tended also to the people of the Ser vian nationality in the adjoining provinces of Austria. This did not long escape the atten tion of the Austrian, but the excuse was generally, that the saltation was directed against Turkey not Austria; of course the Austrian could not see it that way but in order to avoid even . - i' , f a Aemblcncc of an excuse the formal annexation of Bosnia was decreed, thU rimLi th lrf.nw tf Itflin t.t Turkey was the aggrieved party not j e i.. . . ... ... ... on via. Aiuma nai ciuc(l wnn i tir-, key by way of a monetary indemnity i and the matter is closed there, but what of the Servian rxpantiunt. whati of the standing of King I'cter in the eyes of his people after o much ag-1 itation and bombastic promises; there, is not much choice left for him. If ! the matter is dropped he may at well pack up and leave the country, I the only other alternative is war, a j hopeless struggle, unless by compli- j cations among the great powers j something might he saved- j The Servians have met with some' encauraement by the protest of j France and England against the breaking of the Berlin Treaty but it is to Russia they look for active sup port, yet Russia's hands are tied as she agreed to let Austria have the country previous to the Turkish war. However, it is generally understood that Russia has been secretly supply ing Serbia with money to buy muni tions of war and put her army in shape for the coming truggle. Will the map Hf Europe is to be revised in the very near future WM. C. A. POHL. STOOD THE SHOCK Daniel Sully Receives Bad Newt On Stage But Plays On. SAN FRANCISCO. March 29. Daniel Sully the actor, while giving a performance of "The Matchmaker," at the American Theater last night, was handed a telegram supposed to be from his wife at Woodstock, N. y., in answer to a message he had sent to her on the 25th anniversary of their marriage. It proved to be an announcement of the death of his ncu niuuicr at Newport, n. l. it is I .1 - . ' . I r . , customary to withhold telegrams for actors until after the performance, because of the fact that death mes sages often affect them'so that they are unable to proceed with the play but in this case the stage manager was so ccrtairKit was a loving greet ing from .Mr, Sully s wife that he sent the sorrowful tidings iii at once, The actor was deeply grieved and continued the performance with dif ficulty. 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