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THE MOILING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. THURSDAY, MAY A l'fl- Ladies Outfitters J)$ T5hc BEEkrHIVE The Store ForWomen ACCUSED OF STEALING COUNTY COURT HOLDS Sale of MILLINERY AND SUITS still continues ia full blast. STOCK STILL COMPLETE Don't put off buying any longer and have to take the pickings. , , , ,,,' tiiHMIMII'n BEEF AID BUTTER TWO YOUNG MEN ARE BOUND OVER ON A CHARGE Je LARCENY. BUSY SESSION MONTHLY BILLS ALLOWED AND ROAD MATTERS ARE CONSIDERED, CURTAILS OCEAN.5BAR, BAY, DOCK AND RIVER The steamer Sue H. Elmore was among the very earliest of the craft tiling from this port yesterday. She left out for Tillamook Bay points ahortly after 4 o'clock yesterday morning from the O. R. & N- piers, and was toaded to the guards with freight and people, hirst umcer vna. Wkkstrom of the Elmore has resign ed his place and is succeeded by Captain Thomas Latham, well known in these waters as a very competent officer, and Mr. Wickstrom will leave soon for the metropolis where he will engage in the saloon business. The good wishes of many friends in Astoria go with him in his new venture. i The Lurline was down from Port land last evening at 4:20 o'clock, and brought a good grist of local ireigni. She went back at 7 with good bust-, ness on both deck. ! The steamer Argo was another of the early get-aways from this port Tillamook with plenty of people and plenty of gen eral cargo. ! The steamer South Bay arrived down early this morning and docked at the Hammond Lumbering Com pany's piers at Tongue Point, to finish '. loading lumber for the Bay City. The steamer Alliance. Captain Par sons, made fast to the Callender pier at 4:30 o'clock yesterday atternoon. with a big cargo of through freight and 46 people on board. She went on ap the river very shortly afterward and will be back on Sunday as usual. pnrr Krnvne is to be succeeded this trip by a Mr. Edwards, the form er resigning to take another billet ashore.. The steamship Breakwater is due to depart for Coos waters at 4 o'clock this morning from the O- R. .& N piers, and will be on spot time as is customary wkh her and Captain Macgenn. Passengers out on the Breakwater from here were: J. W. Rogers and Mesdames J. Taylor and E. B. Rice, of the Ocean Park life saving station on the Washington coast. The steamer Spencer came down the river on spot time yesterday, with 27 people and a fair budget of freight When she went back she carried with her Hon. J. C. McCue and bride, who were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Charles H- Callender. The steamer Shoshone, lumber la den for San Francisco, arrived down from St. Helen's at 6 o'clock last evening and left out later in the night j The lighthouse tender Heather! went to sea yesterday morning with j a whistling buoy which she will in- i stall at the mouth of the Coquelle j river and then return to this port. The Nehalem steamer Geo. R. Vos-' Trorg went to sea early yesterday morning bound for her home port, with a big lot supplies and mer chandise of various sorts. The steamer Majestic is due to ar rive down at almost any hour, with lumber for San Francisco. THK- j The dandy Manianita made run to .the high seas yesterday, on general and returned later in : the day. The steamer Thomas I, Wand is jdue down from the metropolis this ' morning, lumber laden, and en route to the tioiaen uaie. NEW TO-DAY The Modern. The best and most up-to-date ton sorial parlor in the city is The Modern. Perfect comfort and service guaranteed to alL Excellent baths. a Kelley. The Wood Man. Wm. Keller, the wood and coal dealer, is oreoared to supply the pub lic and all his old customer with the hest alabwood that Astoria has ever seen. He promises not to join any combination to raise the pnee ot wood and he will keep his old title of "the man who keeps the price down. Ring op Main 2191 for particulars. The very best board to be obtained I in the city is at "The Occident Hotel." Rates very reasonable. i- . ...mini, mm named Fred An derson and Ous Larsen were arrested yesterday morning by Othcer Wilson and Constable Sayers on a charge of stealing miantity of bccf nJ v" eral rolls of butter irom tne igm house tender Heather while she was King nt the Ninth-street dock. The theft was committed some time Mon day night " Tuesday morning. Vhea the steward, 'Sir. R. Thurston, went aboard of the ve'&cl yesterday morn ing he found that some one had cut away the screen to the locker and ; about SO pounds of beef and pork and o M nf butter were missing. found fragments of suet on the rail of the vessel and also strung iu"s ,h. railroad track running west. He followed up the trail an4 found the meat in a house occupied by Anucr- son and Larsen on Water street on the south side of the railroad tracic. m. immediately notified Othcer Wil son who accompanied him to the house. One of the men was in oea with his clothes on and the other had apparently just gotten out of oea. They were accused ot stealing m ship's stores, but protested their inno cence. Officer Wilson commanded them to return the meat and butter to the place where they had taken it from, which they did. carrying u u-i to the vessel. Rnrh men were arratitncd on the evidence of the steward and Officer. Wilson admitted of no doubt of their guilt. Gus Larsen was sworn and admitted stealing the but ter, but claimed Anderson stole the beef and pork and handed it up tc him on the wharf. He stated he had come from Coos Sunday and spent Monday in blowing in all of his mon ey with Anderson. He did not dis tinctly remember much about the affair. Anderson refused to mane a statement, although both were in formed by Deputy District Attorney Brownell of their rights and the right to have counsel to represent them, which was declined. Alter hearing the evidence the court held them to await the action of the grand jury fixing their bonds at eacn. in default ot which they were remanded to the county jail to await the action of the grand jury which meets on the third Monday in June. The May terni ot the county court convened yesterday with Judge Tren- chard and Commissioners .Moore aim Frye present. The usual mommy claims against the county were ex amined and approved and warrants ordered drawn for payment of same. In the matter of bids tor construct ing a bridge in road district No. 16 in the victnitv of Blind Slough, the bids were examined and laid over until to day for consideration. tv,. ..i,, ,f Morris l'ark an auur vv .rrninn was presented, ex- amined and approved and ordered placed on record, Ti, M.rfc .i instructed to write and send the minutes of the meeting held in road district No. 10 at nppa to the road supervisor to H.A.Came ron, with instructions for him to fol i ,v,. .uhr nf the taxpayers of that district expressed at the annual meeting. Bids on county road No. 51 for im proving the road between road sec tions 26 to 35. were opened as touows. C. W. Kartell $120; Andrew Olsen, $135. The bids were taken under con sideration and the contract will prob ably be awarded to Mr. Hartell to- day Bids for improving road No 51 be tween sections 81 to 86 were opened, there being only one bid presented. f ni.if OUen for the sum of $475. The matter was laid over until today for further consideration. Several other road matters were considered informally and laid over until today, to which time the court adjourned. 1909 PATTERNS; v 200 New Spring Curtains just received Nottingham, Cable Net, lfUl Net, Irish roint-2 to 3 yards long-white Ecru. Arabian. . 39c to $5.00 : e ). PBR PAIR Ask to see them. Remember we are here to show you. , i ASTORIA MAKES POINT WITH SEATTLE NEDS PROMINENT CITIZEN IN PROTESTING MOOD ASTORIA RESTAURAI IT Try our own mixture of coffee thf J. P. B. Fresh fruit and vegetables Badollet & Co., grocers. Phone Mai" i i A Cleaner That Cleans. I W. H. Fellman, the furniture man, is at the head of the carpet cleaning industry in Astoria, because he pos sesses the best and only Vacuum car pet cleaner in the city. He will scn l lit to any house, on demand at mod ierate rates, and clean your carpets on the floor, without an atom of dust ap pearing anywhere in the process, and 'to the saving of household drudgery j in this line for the women of the homes. It is the e!eaner that cleans, and operates quickly silently, and ad mirably. Drop in and leave your order. GEO. C. FLAVEL TALKS PLAIN LY AGAINST ERECTION OF OIL TANKS IN CITY. The Proper Place. Go to the Occident Barber Shop if " particular and desire first ' '--ion guaranteed. "Astoria, Ore-, April 5, 1909. , "Editor Morning Astorian: "Dear Sir: I desire to enter an in-. terested and unequivocal protest, , through yoru columns, against the i action of the Common Council of this city, in permitting the erection of ' more oil tanks within the limits of thi-. city. "I am certainly surprised at the ; preent council making a concession of this sort alter the long and detailed discussion this matter has received at jthe hands of Astoria citizens first and ;last. and I am entering my formal land sincere protest, simply to be of record in the event of the very prob able event of a bad and costly lire in this city. ! "It is useless to say that such insti tutions as these arc safe. They are a standing menace to any community, from the very nature of the substan- ces housed within them, and should '"" barred from contact with the fixed business establishments of this. The tides that flow ors twice a day arc but the ind easiest agencies for the f a fire originating on the holdinir these danijerous d nothing will ever stay the lion of fire and water should start, tio matter which way may be running at the time, s a living threat in the whole ii that should have been cotin d by the peremptory refusal council to admit them here, ac td by the bolder and equally ; order driving those already to the most remote of the city's bs. "Respectfully yours, "GEORGE C. FLAVEL" MORE VOLIVA ROT. CHICAGO. May 5-With doors and windows barricaded and with a large store of food and water in pre paration to withstand a long siege Captain A. K. Walker. allcRed dc- rh rf nf ponce now posses sion of the City Jail of Zion City. Chief Walker asserts ne was reap n;n.H Marshall bv W. Hunt Clen dinen. the Voliva Mayor. John F Jaap. a former policeman, was ap the Independent Mayor E. N. Richey. Both Mayors claim to t,aV"wn elected at the recent mun icipal election and that the appoint ments made by them are legal. Con s,,rnt1v there are now two Chiefs of Police and two City Jails and two police stations. Ti. Vntiva faction holds posses sion of the City Hall and the City .Jail, while the Independents noiu me administration building where a ; temporary-City Hall has been estab jlished. besides holding the cash of ' the city and all council and other 'records and the votes cast in the re cent election. So far no arrests have i been made by cither Chief of Police. ! Each declares that should his rival 'make an arrest he will demand the prisoner's release. CITY WILL HEREAFTER AP PEAR ON ADVERTISING Uf SOUND METROPOLIS. Thf Mornimi Aitori.m i pleased to publti-li the following letter, is much for the ready and courteous concession it makes in justice to this city and section, as because of the fact that this paper raised the ques tion and urged the juster treatment conceded: "Seattle, May . VAN "The Astorian. Astoria, Ore. "Genltemen: A clipping, which ii herewith enclosed, has been sent me from Astoria, and I desire to thank you for calling the Club's attention through me to the over-unlit n leav ing the City of AMoria from our re cently issued pamphlet. We are get ting out more pamphlet and have ordered the printer to correct the plate and show the City of Astoria on the pamphlet "Trusting that this may oc uue apology for the oversight in the mat ter. I remain. "Very truly yours, G H. REVF.LLF.. "Pres. Seattle Commercial Club." LET US TELL YOU ABOUT Tungsten Electric Lamp Greateat advance In Hghtln! method a since the Invention ot Incandeace.l lam p. EXAMPLE- 33 C. P. Ordinary electric lamp v onsumea HO watta per kotai S2 CP. "Tungsten" electric lamp consumes 40 watta pT bow a...... 70 wewa per ww By ttUni Tungaten" lamps you can get 175 per cent tacreae. to light hr the aam. coat or in other wordi can ave the aama quantity ol UWminatto. for SS per cent of the coat of Ughtln with ordinary electric tampa. The Astoria Blectrlc Co ASTORIA IRON WORKS DESIGNERS AND MANUPiCTUEEIS OF THE LATEST IMPROVED . . . Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS PURNItHtp. Correspondence Solicited. M ! fomrxM a trees. WARRING SUFFRAGETTES. Seattle, May S.-Mrs. E. M. Rin inper. wife of a Seattle physician and an ardent suffragist advocate, has re cini.H frnm ii committee of the Wash ington Equal Suffrage Association which had to do with arrangements for the state convention o be held here during the exposition. She ;. ,. her reason for resigning that th'-rc is too much bickering in the state association. She says that she will do no more work tor tnc cause in conjunction with the state associa tion. Her resignation is the culmin ation of a factional fight among the state suffragists that has been pro gressing for sometime. THE SUGAR FIGHT. mi or ADO SPRINGS. Col., May S.-Organized opposition to any reduction in the duty on sugar is the ! object of the movement started here I yesterday by beet growers, sugar .factory men fcnd (business men of this city and Southern Colorado. A addressed to Senators Gug genheim and Hughes nas ocen pre pared and is being circulated through out the state. It sets forth that beet and the manufacture of sugar is one of the leading industries of the state and "any change in the tariff tending to cripple this industry would very seriously cripple its pros pcrity." MORE SLUGGING. CHICAGO, May S- Official"! of the iiiinnii Attili-tie Club have announc ed that they are trying to match Max I.uttbeg and I'.ugene iremoiay ior me lightweight wrestling title of Ameri ca, I.utthrg is the acknowledged lightweight champion, having won the title at the tournament at the Illinois Athletic Club last month. - Tremblay is the Canadian champion. If the two can be matched the bout will take place in the Illinois Athletic Club gymnasium May 29. GRATUITOUS PRAISE. WW YORK. Mav 5 -Ernest Tlwminson Seton. the naturalist and artist, who returned from Eur,oc on the Kron Pnnz Wilhelm 1 uesriay ...ill, fr Thomas Siton praised the expedition of i heo. Roosevelt in Af rica. He said that passengers on tne ship heard of the former President's sMrrcss in killiniz lions as soon as the people in America "Mr. Roosevelt's expedition," said the writer, should be of great value. He is spiennioiy equipped for the work and has with him two of the best naturalists In America. I hope he will kill many lions, for they are vermin in that part of Africa. Mr. Roosevelt is a splendid shot and should do well" Scow Bay Brass & Iron Works ASTORIA, OREGON., IroA and Brass Founders, Land nnd Marine Engineers Up-To-Date Sawmill Machinery 18th and Franklin Ave. Prompt attention given to all repair work. Tel Main 2461. Notice. otice is hereby given that the un signed will not be responsible for labor or material furnished, nor any liens on account of furnishing e same, on any of the buildings or operty owned by me in the City of storia, unless the same is ordered nd contracted for directly be me, E. M. BAKER. Astoria, Or., May 3, 1909. If you desire a clear complexion ei..,' Orinn Laxative for con- stipation and liver trouble as it will stimulate these organs ami mvruuyn ly cleanse your system, which is what everyone needs in the spring in order to feel well. T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. v i H w fl r?5 a. 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