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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14

had produced nothing but the provere-
ial mortgage for the former owner. II
was oyerrun with evergreen" black
berries gone wild, and these he market
ed while his own planting was matur-
ing, Although II was predicted that
his experiment would be failure, he
is now marketing about ten tons of
fruit a year,
Mr. worsley considers the blackberry
a good feature TO tie 10. finding for II
wide market in Astoria and Portland,
and when shipped in cold storage 10
the east an unlimited sale, Blackber-
ries take TO water like ducks, and the
rains with which we are favored pro-
duce in any Clatsop soil. rich or poor.
upland or tideland. prolific crop of
them. The evergreen he regards as an
excellent berry. susceptible OF much
improvement by careful cultivation.
Although considered by many as being
inferior TO the wild blackberry he
says it has no superior for jelly making.
1t blossoms from June to August,
forming a fine honey flower. and ripens
from August to November. Another
berry well adapted to this locality is
the Logan, the well known new hybrid.
These fruits have the advantage Of be-
ing prolific producers, of never failing
crop and being hardy and not affected
by disease. Other fruits grow In
abundance and are easily marketed by
raj. or water.
Probably the raising of fruit alone
would not be a wise plan for settlers.
but in connection with dairying and
poultry, 1t furnishes sure and COM
paratively easy means of making
money. The development Of this
branch of industry is particularly de-
sirable since it is prominently q fam
lily business adapted to being carried
on by the members of growing family
and conducive to family life. Fruit
farms add largely to the improved APP
Of the cuntry and make II at
to settlers. The possibilities
here limited at are as yet hardly
by the husbandman and un-
known even to old residents
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14
A FALLEN GIANT

The largest log ever tloated on Puget
Sound was towed into Tacoma July sth
from Skagway river by the tug Elf.
This monster timber Is nine feet
through at the small end, fourteen feet
through ut the large end, forty feet
long, and win scale about 1000 feet.
1t is 50 large that there is no mill in
Washington, and probably none in the
world that can saw 1t as 1t now lies.
1t win be blasted with dynamite into
pieces and then sawed up into lumber
by the mills connected with local box
factory. 1t is part Of a mammoth
spruce tree that grew on the banks Of
the Skagway river.-Commercial News.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14

Tha Y, T., dlspensatory says: "opl.
um lessons the psristallc motion of the
bowels, IT'S local effect twhen applied
TO the lower boweD 10 the same ~ It's
general operation, conium PARALYz-
ES the motor nerves. aeonlte reduces
muscular, strength: belladona produces
PARALYTTc symptoms; hyoacyafrus
and stramonium are same a. bellado-
ma. THEY DO NOT EXERCISE ANY
CURATIVE INFLUENCES. Every
pile medicine prescribed or on the
market contains some of the above pots
"a viz; For sale by CONN DRUG co
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14
SEWING MACHINES.
SUPERIOR QUALITIES AND Low.
Err PRICES At FoARp
& STOKES co.

Why pay exhorhitant prices for a
sewing machine when you can get q
strictly high class machine that will do
the work OF any on the market, runs
easy, and delight In every household.
for less than half what you pay for 9th
ers.
Three drawer machine at $i7.s0.
Five drawer machine at 5000.
Seven drawer machine at ss2.oo.
II win pay you to call and see this
machine. It's the best ofrer you viii
lind In the machine line, Nothing to
equal it anywhere. We viii be pleas
I'd to explain It's merits II you will call
at the store and give US anopportunity
to do so.
Foard 4 Stokes Co.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14
A VERY CLOSE CALL.

JOINT ached. and every nerve was rack
ed with pain" writes c. W. BeIlamy
Il locomotive fireman, OF Burlington
Iowa Il was weak and pale, without
any appetite and all run down. As !
was about to give up got bottle OF
Electric Bitters, and after taking II
felt as well as ever did In my life. -
Weak, sickly, run down people always
gain new life, strength and vlgor from
their use. Try them. Satisfaction
guaranteed by Charles Rogers. Price
50 cents.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14

ona. EXCEPT E-Ru-sA PILE CURE,
K "GsRu-sA doubtless h the only pile
medicine ON tho market which does not
contain narcotic poisona or mercury
ECONOMICAL DRUG CO., Chicago.
III. Per C. II. Mcconnell. president.
we guarantee no mercury or opiates
In E-Ru-sA pile cure. ."--woodard
Clarke a Co.. Portland. Or.
E.Ru-sA cures piles. or $50 paid
Worst cases cured with one box, E.ru
sa contains no mercury. no opiates. All
reliable up.to.date drugsists sell E.ru.
EAGLE puRa Co. cnAs ROGERS.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14
PERSONAL MENTION.

Albert Johnson, who has been in the
city for some days receiving treatment
for poisoned hand, returned to his
Seaside home last evening.
Major Cassell left last evening for
Grants Pass after being in the city for
a few days.
Prof. w. Belfrige and mother have
returned to their home in San Francis
co. They have been visiting with Mrs.
Belfringe's son, f.. Hammerstrom.
Mrs. Hammerstrom, who accompanied
them to Portland, returned home last
night.
Mrs. Richard e. Lee returned home
last night from a shart Portland visit.
Miss Robena Coffman returned last
night from two weeks visit on the
sound.
Prof. Mel Stupp returned last night
from a three days visit in Portland.
Capt. c. C. calkins, light house in-
spector, came down from Portland last
night on an official visit.
Charles Campbell and Mrs. Campbell
have gone to eastern Oregon to visit
some Of the mineral springs.
Miss Alice Smith returned Sunday
evening from Long Beach where she
was the guest of Mrs. James Warner
Of Portland
c. Il. Roadarmel will arrive today
from CIackamas en- route for Tillamook
where he will take charge Of hatch
cry.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14
PUBLICITY THAT HELPS.

The Portland Oregonian devotes al
most third of a column in yesterdays
issue to an article detailing rapid de-
yelopement OF the Astoria & Column
bia railroad as offering good iilustra-
tion Of the development which follows
the construction of railroad through
country possessed of rich natural re-
sources.
The fact that such an influential fac
tor in the newspaper world as the Ore
gonian undertakes to pay tribute TO the
city of Astoria and the county of Clat-
sop, cannot help but rebound to the
credit of the community in general and
for that reason the publicity given is of
the kind that helps. because Ii brings
before the people the county at its best.
The oregonian says: Since the con-
struction of this road. Rainier, westport
Seaside and number of other towns
along the line have doubled and trebled
in population. Half dozen large saw
mills and shingle mills have sprung up
along the line. At Astoria two new
mills nave been constructed and the ca
pacity of others enlarged. The big cold
storage plants that have added so much
to the value of the Columbia river SAL
mon have nearly all come into exist
ence since completion Of the railroad
offered direct and easy outlet for the
product, and there are half dozen
other industries directly traceable to
the advent Of the railroad. The nor
NAL population of Seaside has more
than trebled, and the summer popula-
ton is ten times as great as 1t was in
the old stage journey days.
The business of the railroad has treb-
led SINCE ii began operations. and the /
steam boats which formerly handled all |
the traffic are still handling as much |
as they ever did. These are some of
the features of new territory which
should not escape Mr.. Harriman's at
tention when he has under consldera-
ton the project of road through CEN
tral Oregon. There are thousands of
people in the overcrowded cities, farm
ing districts and depleted forest re-
gions of the east, middle west and
northwest who are looking for new
country. They do not care to push
their way in and fight for division of
a trade already worked up. or to pay
the high price for lands that have al
ready been reclaimed from the wider
ness and cultivated. They wish to Gre
ate new wealth instead of slowly ad
ding to that already created.
Even in the new west the immi-
grants have followed the railroads so
rapidly that the opportunities are daily
oNNDhiih9 AlOiC iNoAlflE1 ntAu liit We
sire to penetrate farther into undevel-
oped field and forest is greater than
ever. The value Of the trade in CEN
trail Oregon five years after the compile
ton Of railroad into that rich timber
and agricultural district can no more
be accurately gauged at this time than
could that of the isolated lower Colum-
bia before the completion of the AS
toria & Columbia River Rsilroad. The
rate at which immigration is coming
into the state gives ls positive assur-
ance that development in all directions
will be much more rapid in the next
five years than it has been in the cor
period just passed.
What has been actually demonstrated
along the Lower Columbia and what is
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14
WONDERFUL NERVE.

Is displayed by many man during
pains OF accidental cuts. wounds. Bruis
es burns scalds, sore feet or stiff
joints. But there Is no need for II.
Bucklin's Arnica Salve will kin the
pain and cure the trouble. It's the
the best salve on earth for piles, too.
% cents at Charles Rogers, druggist,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14
SAVED FROM A TERRIBLE DEATH

SAVED FROM A TERRIBLE DEATH
The family OF Mrs. NJ. l.. Bobbltt Of
Bargeton. Tenn, saw her dying and
were powerless to save her. The most
skillful physicians and every remedy
used failed, while consumption was
slowly but surely taking her life. In
this terrible hour DR.. Kings new dis
covery for consumption turned despair
into joy. The first bottle brought inn
mediate relief and its continued use
completely cured here. It's the MOST
certain cure in the world for all throat
and lung troubles. Guaranteed bot
ties so cents and sl,O0 Trial bottles
free at Chas. Rogers drug store.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14
SORE HANDS
Itching, Burning Palms,
Painful Finger Ends,
With Brittle, ShapeIess.
DiscoIored Nails,
As Well as R0ughness and
Redness,
ONE NIGHT TREATMENT
ONE NIGHT TREATMENT

Soak the hands on retiring in a strong,
hot, creamy lather Of Cuticura Soap.
Dry and anoint freely with Cuticura
Ointment, the great skin cure and purest
OF emollients. Wear, during the night,
old, loose kid gloves, or bandage lightly
in old, soft cotton or linen. For red,
rough and chapped hands, dry, fissured,
itching, feyerish palms, with brittle,
shapeless nails and painful finger ends,
this treatments is simply wonderful, fire.
quently curing in single application.
In no other way have Cuticura Soap
and mentdemonstrated their aston
ishing curative properties more effec-
tually than in the treatment of the
hands, especially when tortured with
itching, burning and scaly eczema.
Complete local and constitutional
treatment for every humour of the
skin, scalp and blood, with loss of hair,
may now be had for one dollar. Bathe
freely with hot water and Cuticura
Soap. to cleanse the surface of crusts
snd scales, and soften the thickened
cutlcle. Dry, without hard rubbing,
and apply Cutieura Ointment freely,
to allay itching, irritation and infiam-
nation, and soothe and heal, and,
lastly, take the Cuticura Resolyent
Pills, to cool and cleanse the blood.
This treatment affords instant relief,
permits rest and sleep in the severest
forms of eczema and other itching,
burning and scaly humours, and points
to speedy, permanent and economical
cure Of torturing, disfguring humours
from infancy to age, when all other
remedies and the best physicians fail.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14
DOMESTIC TROUBLES

II Is exceptional 20 find a family
where there are no domestic troubles
occaslonly. but these can be iessened by
having DIR, Kings New I.ife pills
around, Much trouble they save by
their great work In stomach and liver
troubles, They not only relieve you
hut cure you. % cents at Charles Rog.
er's drug store,
To thoughtful pupils mistakes are
great teachers.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14

The iishhooks used today are of pre-
cisely the same form rs those of 1000
years ago, The only difference is In
the material. Then they were made of
bronze, now they are made OF steel.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14

ltohines pf the skin. horrible plague
Most everybody afflicted In one way or
another, only one safe. never failing
cure, Deans Ointment, At any drug
store, so sents.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14

\ student of ancient history at our
elbow whispers to us, that the first
game of base bawl was played in the
Adam family when Mother Eve made II
warm for young Cain for swiplng jam
from the pantry shelf.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14

Builds UP the system, puts pure rich
blood into the veins, makes men and
women strong and healthy, Burdock
Blood Bitters.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14

one OF natures remedies: cannot
harm the weakest constitutions; never
fails to cure summer complaints Of
young or old. d. Fowler's Extract OF
Strawberry,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14

Il suffered for months from sore
throat, Electric oil cured me IN twen,
ty-four hours !. N, =, Gls,, nawes-
vile, Ky.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14

\ pittshNrg doctor has received u fec
OF $4,000 for treating man who died
He with never need take anything for
his nerve
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14

Find man who has accomplished
anything IN life and YOU win have dis
covered one who attends strictly to
his own business,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14

whea the white man first reached
the city OF Mexico Il had 5000 inhab-
itants, probably more than the entire
population OF ,he North American con-
tinent.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14

The sadlest words OF tongue or pen;
IF had only known
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RATE 81.
sEMT-wEEKLY.

Sent by mail, per year, in advance 81 0
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14

family blood faint.
Scrofula is bred in the
bone, is transmitted
from parent to child,
the seeds are planted in
infancy and unless the
blood is purged and pu-
ri6ed and every atom of
the faint removed Scrof-
ula is sure to develop at
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14

THE AsroRIAN PUBLISHING CO.,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-07-14
ASTORIA AND COLUMBIA
RIVER RAILROAD.
ASTORIA

T;45 am. For Portland and 80 am
$40 pm. way points. 1880 pm.
1850 pm.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-02-21

do this, and have not the slightest
doubt, if matters are not delayed at
your end, of running trains into
your city in less than a year from
today.
As to the exact line, l gave it to
you in sufficiently general way
for all practical understanding
necessary for signing the print
ed blanks left you. When we
survey a line on the ground to
Brownsville, it will be a complete
location upon which contracts will
be let to build, but we shall not
locate the line unless we have first
called for your city in our charter
as Rio Grande terminus, and we
shall not do this unless we have
substantial assurance that the do
nations of lands are in such condi-
ton as to be absolutely irrevocable.
We want to build to your city, but
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-02-21

we want your committees to protec
our interests in such wav that we
get what We earn on completion of
our road. and not lose by death or
sale by present owner.
l am conscious of the fact that
my proposition was eminently fair
to your people and much less ex-
acting than any you have hereto
fore had. 1t is because we mean
business that we want this matter
in the best of business shape. and
your committee will l trust revise
your views and strive to conform
to my original plan, which was
fairly devised for the protection of
all parties. With renewed assur-
ances of my appreciation of your
efforts so far, and of my desire only
to state facts and actual conditions
| am
Very respectfully
URIAH LOTT.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-02-21
MORRIS SHEPARD. the Tie:

MORRIS SHEPARD, the Texas
goungster in congress, is credited
yxith an ambition to be president
IN about fifteen OF twenty years
ECom now. II Morris ability keeps
El9ce with his aspirations he may
EAnd in the White House. Texas
vriIl be a political power twenty
years from now, owing to her rapid
growth in population and wealth,
and her large vote in the electoral
college may aid materially in
advancing this bright young mans
prospects of success. However, it is
little early yet to place any bets on
h5s chances OF election.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-02-21
TH55maIl1HERALD.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY d, 1903.

TUESDAY night of this week was
zzUcb colder at nearly all points in
the state, than it was on Monday
sE4rht, except at Brownsville and
perhaps other points in the lower
Zee Grande valley. The temperature
lid fall below freezing, going to 26
degrees, at this place Monday night,
gsz4 the following night, when it
V7snt lower even at Corpus Christi
=lzd Laredo than on Monday, the
zqRest temperature here was only
~ degrees, which speaks very favor
zEhiy for the Brownsville climate.
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Mr.. LOFTS REPLY.
Santa Gertrudis, Tex.
Feb. Il. 1903.

Santa Gertrudis, Tex.
Feb. IA, 1903.
Messss. F. Yturria, A. A. Browne
E. e. Forto and Others.
Brownsville, Texas.
Gentlemen: Your valued favor of
the End. inst, has been received and
referred to my principals in New
York.
In formulating your conditions,
you have, it seems to me, entirely
lost sight of those | stated to your
meeting, and that was that the
landowners and those interested
along the line, were to see what
amount of land and cash donations
they could secure to be given to a
railroad company to be hereafter
chartered, under the promise of
Others that they would furnish the
money to build the road. Such
promise had been made by parties
connected with one of the trunk
lines, lif the amounts named by me in
money and lands were what con-
sidered as Brownsville's share of a
grand total which would be accept
able. If there were any other way
to manage the matter, Fshould have
been glad to have had the suggestion
from your committee while l was
still on the ground.
In the present condition of land
matters in your county, where they
are now rapidly changing owners,
there can be no way in which the
ultimate acquisition of the lands
can be secured to the railway when
completed than the plan l suggest.
While the present owner may
promise now, he might sell, and the
vendee ignore the present owners
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-02-21
PURELY PERSONAL
o. l. Hicks came in today from

O. l. Hicks came in today from
The ranch.
Inspector General Adams arrived
this afternoon via MatamOros, to
EAspect Fort Brown.
Henry Martin left on the stage
Chs morning for his home at Til
lien. He was down here as wit
ness in a horse theft case.
C. p. Withers of Denton, Texas,
xFer spending 4 week here looking
al the country, left on the stage
z-kIs morning en- route home.
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FOR SALE.

At Point Isabel, house and lot,
.s..acluding all outhouses. House in
seed order and situated on the
E5gh biuff east of lighthouse, best
0=sidsaee location.
For particulars apply to
Mrs. NJ. BAKER.
Point Isabel, Texas.
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no depreciation in value of any OF
your lands by reason of a legal
promise of giving small percentage
of it to railway If built through
or near it. The very fact of such
prospects enhances its value at once.
You have not heen asked to part
with title to your land except upon
demand of legally organized and
chartered railway company, and
then such title only passes to a
trustee for yourself and the COM
pany, who is only authorized to
part with it when the road is finally
built.
No charter has yet been filed, and
so the places from and to which the
road shall be built still remain to
be fixed, and strong influences are.
at work to have the road touch and
cross the river at point other than
Brownsville, and they have good
business reasons for backing their
proposal. For many years Browns
vile has sought the building of
railway from the North in order
that they might have connection
with the outside world. Such
road has not been built because the
traffic centering at Brownsville
would not pay. Your total traffic
reduced to cash basis by we'll
known principles was not sufficient
to warrant so large an investment. |
Lately there sprang up in your
midst the unexpected rice industry,
which tonnage figured upon basis
of fair rates, added to the business
you already had, made some induce
ment for a railway to come to
Brownsville, but my principals
write me they understand that your
leading merchants and those most
largely engaged in the rice industry
have formed already combination
to deprive any road reaching your
town from the north of taking any
part in the new traffic. Now, while
no railway fears competition, they
don't want to build with their mon
ey into a place where fight for
traffic is already organized and
nothing but absolute loss to all
parties engaged in such traffic must
result.
| myself place less importance
upon the matter because | believe
that the owners of existing Ry. pro-
pertieS in your section will see it to
their interest to surrender such ton
mage a. is now under consideration
to us, which we can prOfitablyj
handle ut much less than it now
costs, and seek by cooperation with
us to develop All entirely new and
nom-competitive traffic that will
Weld much more satisfactory re-
turns to its owners. With these
things in view, it is not strange that
1ur friends Should look with favor
to development of new traffic further
~ the valley, removed from the
Influence of such condition.
My people will not be willing to
make any change in the conditions
Is to the time named by me, that
5, q years from April 1, next.
They have already agreed with the
parties at this end of the line as to
ime of completion, in order to earn
heir donation, and would not be
Wiling to have the Brownsville end
lictate the terms for such compile
ion here, bscause we might earn
'ur subsidy at Brownsville and
ose it here. You can see yourself
-es that it would be much easier to
,btain an extension of time from
lrs. King, Messrs. Driscoll and
Remedy than from so diverse a