The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1902-10-01

One hundred boxes fancy four tier
Belle-Aowcr Apples. the finest Of the
scason. We offer them nj u remarkably
low figure, ROSS HIGGINS 4 co.
WANTED Two or three rooms for
housekeeping. Furnished or unfurn-
inhed. Must be clesn and neat. VII
ling 10 pay good price for desirable
rooms, o. H. Buclncr, care Morning
AstorIan.
Some beautiful new style Iron bed
slends are among the late displays at
the furniture store OF chhs. Heilborn
& Son. They possess many points OF
advantage over the old wooden beds,
being more durable. cleanly. and hand
somer.
Tho United States Commissioners
court took up the German deserter
case yesterday. Capt. Walsen Of the
ship Peter Rickmers was prosecuting
a desertIng sailor. The defense put
In was that the man was an American
citizen. and could not be sent aboard
under the articles, After some rather
doubtful evidence In which the man
chained being druggcd and uncon-
sclous. Mr. Thomson committed him
to the ship.
y. r. Gerdes has received n wire
from Leon Grcenbaum. secretary OF
the st. Louis Lecture Bureau. notify
Ing him that the address OF John G..
! Chase 20 have been made here In Oc-
i0ber. has been cancelled. Mr, Chase.
who is an cx-mayor OF Haverhlll, Mas
aachuaptts was nominated for COVER
nor OF his state by his party at re-
cent convention and his duties at home
during the coming campaign VIII pre-
vent him coming West to nll his lec-
turc engagements. He was TO have
spoken here on Organized Capital
Against Organized Labor"
Fishers opera house was packed to
l,s utmost capacity last night and be-
fore the curtain went up the 3. II. o.
algn was taken in, II was just such
a house as Ferguson and Mack de-
serve. and II was IA fashionable audi
once, too The Elks were out In force,
0rcupving several rows of seats. "Mc-
Carthy's mlshaps' Is the title OF the
play presented. but the sketch is al
most lost in the side-splstting special
ties that follow each other with snap
that ts peculiar 70 Ferguson and Mack's
combination. The crowd began laugh
Ing a few minutes after the curtain
went up and stopped n few minutes
after It fell. A consensus Of opinion
after the performance was that IL was
the best Of It's kind that has been put
on the local boards.
Master Fish Warden Van Dusen has
returned from inspecting the ontario
hatchery and states that everything
there Is running satisfactorily. The
entire board Of state fish commission
FRS was present excpNng the eovrnor.
Formerly operations were conducted
at Swan Falls, which Is situated In
Idaho, but this year the board thought
II advisable to transfer the equipment
into this state at ontario, so the
change was effected, and so far things
have gone we'll and the indications are
that the move was a wise one. Racks
have been contructed about fifteen hum
dred feet apart In such manner
that the salmon are driven from
the main stream into the smaller
stream through traps built In the
rocks and they are ultimately coral-
ed In rock that at the present time
s estimated to hold about 10000 fish.
The estimate Ii deducted on the bas-
Ia Of drifts that have been made,
The series Of rocks were put In at o
cost Of $500, The spawn from the
catehcrle Is placed In receptables made
for the purpose and the output of this
win be way up In the millions, though
Of course the estimate can only be ap-
proximated, The superintendent Of
the ontario catcherle is F. c. Brown,
who formerly held that position when
the works were conducted at Swan
Falls,