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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-20
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his a most desirable point for th,

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his most desirable point for the
nufactuer OF lumber, The advant-
.ses offered by this city as a milling
point are beginning TO attract the at.
tsntIon OF millmen who desire TO op-
ate economically. and before long
astoria will rank as the largest lum-
erlng producing port on the Pacific
cast.
The growth OF the salmon industr,
viii likewise prove OF great benefit tC
Astoria. BY means of artificial propa-
CATION. this magnificent business has
come to stay. II will be built up. with
In few years, to four times its present
magnitude, and will then mean more
than $1O,GOooOO annually to the city.
Several Alaskan salmon cannerles are
owned and operated here and each
year bring large sums TO their homt
office. The possibilities OF Astoria as a
fishing port or center In other lines OF
fishing industries are also OF great
Importance, and the attention OF capt
talIsts is called TO this city as a deep
sea fishing center; also to the great
runs OF genuine French sadrlnes which
come into the river by the hundreds of
billions every year.
The lower Columbia river district
with Its mild climate. offers unsur-
passed inducements to dairymen, farm
ers and small-frult growers. While
small fruit growing has not been ex.
tenslvely engaged In, those who have
followed It have been most successful
and one enterprlsing grower is now
harvesting two strawberry crops
year--the only instance of the kind
known in this section of the country,
Settlement OF the productive lands of
the county will work wonders for the
city and assist materially in its up
building.
There are many other resources
which will combine TO bring about the
future greatness Of Astoria. Here are
to be found opportunities for men In
every walk of lIfe--capltalists, small
investors. farmer, dairymen, fruit
grower and laborer. This new country
where fortunes await the energetic,
offers to those seeking location the
best advantages OF any section Of the
west.
In every respect Astoria is metro'
politan. 1t enjoys splendid facilities
OF all kinds is a pleasure-lovlng city
ana thoroughly up-to-date. Thou
sands OF strangers visit Astoria every
month. and during the summer season
It is the Mecca Of those who live In
the interior. 1t has Its different quar-
ters. like the larger cities, and, best of
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-20
FACTS ABOUT ASTORIA AND ITS INDUSTRIES

lall. Il is the healthiest spot on earth.
Astoria wants more people. Its ma
tural resources will easily support
from 25oO0O to 100000 population, vel
there are only $4,000 people here &c
reap the benefits that nature has SC
generously placed at their disposal
The homeseeker will find no better
place 10 locate, and few equal places
Labor is always in demand, at the
highest wages, and there is mucn en-
Encouragement for the man who wishes
TO engage In business. Strangers often
remark the uniform courtesy OF tht
people and the general effort on the
part OF Astorians to make matters
pleasant for visitors. The home-seek-
er or investor who fails to visit Astoria
will make a great mistake, for no other
community In the Pacific northwest
offers such opportunities as the lower
Columbia river district.
Astoria has a 100000 gravity water
system, a paid fire department first.
class street ear service, gas and elec-
trio lighting systems. free public IL
brary. unexcelled transportation faclli-
ties, complete school system, 40 civic
societies. three daily and six weekly
newspapers, excellent telegraph anS
telephone service, three banks carry.
ing deposits of about s2,OOOOOO. two ex>
press offices. flrst-class theaters, IA
Ichurches, labor unions representing
every branch OF trade, two energetic
commercial organizations, two social
clubs, admirably conducted hospital,
miles of manufacturing sites, plenty OF
fine residence and business property;
is the only fresh water seaport on the
Pacific coast; is situated at the mouth
of river that drains an empire; has a
hafbor large enough to accommodate
the combined shipping of the Pacific
coast; has a trunk-line railroad con.
Meeting II with four transcontinental
railroads; is the uttermost railroad ex.
tension point on the American conti-
nent; is 200 miles nearer Yokahoma
and other oriental ports than any other
Pacific coast port; is 100 miles nearer
the Cape Nome mining country than
any other port on the Pacific coast; is
the salmon shipping center Of the
world; is the center OF one of the
greatest possible dairy industries that
the country today possesses.
1t is the only place where the royal
chinook salmon is packed; has sub
stantial public and business buildings,
factories and handsome residences.
Astoria's School System.
Astoria's schol system is not sur
passed by that OF any other city Of
the size in the west, At present there
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-20

ierful natural advantages Astoria
bases ita expectations OF future great
ness. Situated on the only freHh-watel
la,ion represents almost every nation
allty on earth. IN consequence OF which
polltan city of $1,000 people. It's popu'
It's wharves. II enjoys marked advnnt'
Il lsa lively center OF business activity
It's advantageous location at the n.JuIi'
of The grent Columbia river makes Il
the trade mart Of the vast productive
region OF northwestern oregon and
southwestern washington. and II is the
supply point for fully $4,000 people
The estimate OF population here
given ls conservative. The 1900 gov
ernment census accredited the city
with about 5000 eople, but the launch
ing Of new enterprises, together with
the natural growth, has added many
hundreds to the population In the past
five. years. Failure to develop local re-
sources has resulted In slow growth,
but new era OF commercial activity
Is dawning and the prospects for the
city's future are very bright,
on its magnificent location and Won
harbor of Importance in the world,
with the broad ocean but 10 miles from
ages as n shipping center The gravity
route OF the Columbia river is natures
highway for the great inland empire,
the immense product of which must be
exported from the ocean port. At As
toria the largest ships may find safe
moorings, and It's harbor Will accom-
modate all the shipping that may ever
come to the northwest coast. 1t is
pre-eminently the Pacific slope port
as New York is the Atlantic port, and
must soon receive from the transcon'
tlnental railroads the recognition which
its advantages justify, as has New
York on the Atlantic coast.
Development OF the numbering in
dustry win alone make Astoria great.
There are $4,000 100000 feet Of tibmer
standing In the. forests near the city.
This vast timber supply is great
enough to keep in steady operation for
20 years 100 large mills and TO AFFORD
employment during that period to l5,-
900 persons in the manufacturing
plants, to say nothing OF the army OF
worlmen that would be employed In
the forests. The first steps towards the
development OF lumpering have now
been taken, and four mills, with a daily
output exceeding 100000 feet, are In
operation. The forests are only a short
distance from the city, and the cost of
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-20

mountains. but little near Astoria. The
spruce, of the tideland species, is found
only on the west slopes Of the coast
mountains. II attains a diameter vary.
mig from about an average of six feet
to l6 or II; and specimens 81 and 63
feet each in girth have been measured
I--ls to 2l feet in diameter. Hemlock
occurs as a mixed or smaller growth
with fir and spruce. trees seldom being
Of great height, although often very
large. Yet cedar is found mixed with
the other timbers. the trees seldom be-
ing Of greater height, although often
very large. Yet cedar is not plentiful
in this section. In general estimates OF
timber production 10000 feet to the
acre are ollowed. Single acres have
been known to produce ten times this
amount. Quarter sections of timber
land on the market are usually esti-
mated at 100000 to 100000 feet each
board measure.
Mills and Manufacturing.
Although manufacturing is as yet in
its infancy in Astoria, more than 1900
persons are employed in the institu-
tions now doing business here. The
salmon industry employs by far the
greatest number of persons, but the
seasons extend over a period Of only
about six months, and at other times
those engaging in 1t follow other lines
of pursuit. The numbering industry,
including box factories, barrel factor
les. etc, is rapidly assuming proper.
tions, and will, within few years, out
~ank the fishing interests.
Astoria wants more manufacturing
concerns, and offers the very best in
ducements to capitalists. Here are to
be found unexeelled sites, with the ad.
vantage of both rail and water connec.
tions, and the intending investor in
western properties should look over the
Astoria situation. Sites can be secured
at very low prices.
More than ss,OOO,OOO is invested in
manufacturing plants here. while the
value Of the yearly product exceeds
s6.5OOOOO. In all, 4s41 persons are en-
ployed, receiving annual wages that
aggregate s2,O5s,sOO.
Salmon Industry.
Astoria owes its existence largely to
the great salmon industry Of which It
is the center, Year after year the Co.
lumbia river has given up its wealth
of fish, and in the past 25 years haA
yielded s75,OOOOOO, nearly all of which
has been placed in circulation in this
city. Where other crops have failed,
the salmon supply has maintained its
average Of production, and in this re-
spect can be classed as one Of oregons
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-20

are six large school buildings here
The schools are conveniently located il
all sections OF the city. and In every
respect are modern in their appoint.
ments. well-appointed schools are tc
be found throughout the county, anC
children living on farms and in vii.
lagos enjoy educational advantages al.
most equal to thcsA afforded city chill.
dren.
Astoria's Water System.
Astoria possesses 100000 gravity
water system, which is not equalled
in equipment by any other system in
the Pacific northwest. The water
works are operated by the municipal
government as represented by the
water commission, and constitute toe
clty's most valuable asset. The water
is brought from Bear creek, about 10
miles distant, which has It's source In
the mountains.
The reservoir is situated on the pla
teau back OF the city. where the sup.
ply is regulated. The water system OF
Astoria is extensive enough to supply
the needs of 100000 people, besides af-
fording fire protection to all parts OF
the city.
The LAUNDERING Industry.
The mouth OF the Columbia river
has the greatest body OF timber tribu,
tary and available of any point in the
world.
The numbering business Is the larg-
est In the Pacific northwest; it out
ranks In value of product any other
line. Production OF wheat is a - Va
second, being worth sl7.00O.OO0 r,
while the value of the lumber output
is $lSO0O.O00. Coal, gold and silver,
fruit, cattle and sheep. wool and fish,
all Of which are produced in great
fall far below. nor hardly
equal in the aggregate, the wealth de,
rived from the forests. The town,
therefore. that commands the greatest
resources available OF fine timber must
have a great outlook, Demand for
timber win not decrease, but become
greater with every year.
The timber trees of the forests tribu-
tary to Astoria are, in order Of quail
ity; Douglas fir, commercially known
as oregon pine; hemlock, spruce and
cedar There are also soft. or birds,
eye, maple. vine maple. alder wild
cherry willow, etc,
The fir is both red and yellow. 1t
grows Ave to IA feet in diameter, and
15O to 800 feet tall; S5l feet is said to
have been measured on one fallen tree
in the coast mountains Considerable
noble fir, or larch, and some white pine
are found on the highest of the coast
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-20
A Surprise Party.

A pleasant surprise party may be CIV
en- to your stomach and liver, by taking
medicine which viii relieve their pain
and discomfort, viz: DR.. Kings New
Life Pills. They are a most wonderful
remedy, affording sure relief and cure,
for headache, dizziness and constipation.
25c at Chas, Rogers drug store.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-20
He Knew.

Farmer Geehaw--What's your gal do.
in in the eitys
Farmer Giddap-Studyin' typography.
Farmer Geehaw-Well, I'm glad she's
laIaiin' suthin' useful. Kin she make a
fust class pie yet!--Louisyille Courier
Journal.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-20

II you can not eat- sleep or work, feel
mean, cross and ugly, take HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea this month.
tonic for the sick. There is no remedy
equal to it. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets
at Frank Harts drug store.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-20
nniIi. pnx.Ied.

Dollle-DIdn't you tell me to contin
ually watch my tongue. mamma?
Mamma-Yes, my child.
"And didn't you tell me not to look
In the looking glass 80 often, man.
mar
"Yes, dear"
"Well, mamma, how am to watch
my tongue II don't look In the
glass T"--Y Yonkers Statesman.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-20
More Than He Could stand.

What's the trouble between you
and Miss Nlbley?"
''Oh. her ways since she was present.
ed at court have got on my nerves.
When spoke about asking her father
for her she said she would endeavor to
arrange 1t % that he would grant me
an audience | thought it would be
best TO quit right there "-Chicago Rec.
0rd-Herald
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-20
Surely A Hero.

"Why was the big crowd staring at
that tall, sour faced man! Had he done
anythingi"
Done anything! l should say he had.
That mans hero"
''Who is het"
Hes the man that said right out loud
that he did not understand 'Parsifal.' +"
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-20

If taken this spring, keeps you well
summer. 1t makes the little ones eat,
sleep and grow. A tonic for the whole
family. HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets at Frank
Hart's drug store.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-20
Inter Mountain Electric Road.

The meeting at the Columbia theater
last Monday night was one Of the best
attended gatherings Of people interested
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-20

Enlcker~Did you ever find a burglar
In your cellar;
Bocker-Yes; our gas meter.-wash-
ingt0n Star.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-04-28

Senior Quesda, Cuban Minister tt the United States, is ar orator born. In an
article Elm The Outlook for July, 1895, by George KEENAN, who heard Queada speak
at the Esteban Theatre, Eatanzas Cuba, he said: Il have seen many audiences under
the spell of eloquent speech and in the grip of strong emotional excitement; but l
have rarely witnessed such a scene as at the close of Quesadas euoy upon. the
dead patriot, Marh" In a letter to The Peruna Medicine Company, writer from
Washington d C. Senior Ou@ada SAYS:
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-04-28

A curious individual has recently
taken trouble to dissect the works of
an author of sensational dramas, and
he finds that it requires the co-opera-
ton of eighteen widows, sixteen sons
and two daughters of persons executed.
eighty orphans of the male and 112
of the female sex, sixty blind persons
and ten feigning blindness, twenty-five
fraticides, eight paricides, 145 found
lings, 1852 lost and 116 kidnapped chill
dren, 124 children exchanged or foisted.
212 false wills, PIG stolen pocketbooks.
1913 duels with swords, 1853 with pistols.
two with sabres, eight with knives
and ten with axes; forty-three fires. 1913
murders with weapons and 1856 with
poison, forty-five drownings, twenty-six
guilty and sixty-two innocent galley
convicts, eighty freed and thirty-six
escaped prisoners, lis burglaries, 2O6
~distraints, seventy-nine ~lunatics, TWEEN.
ty-eight feigning lunatics, 113 false
marriages and forty-one bigamies.
Who will say after this that the drama
is observation-disclosures Mail and
Empire.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-04-28
LEGISLATOR SHOT
John M. Pinckney and Two Others
Killed in Street Riot.
Prohibitionists and Their OppOsers Clash
After Recent Elections al Hemp
stead, Texas,

Hampstead, TeXas.-At a mass meet
ing called to petition the Governor to
send Rangers to enforce the local op-
ton law, J.. n. Brown, a leading law
yer and stanch nti-Prohibitionist, be-
gan shooting. Many other persons fol-
lowed suit, and three men were killed.
n mar was fatally injured and two
others were severely wounded. The
dead are: J. n. Brown. Congressman
John NJ. Pinckney and Tom P%inckney,
brother of the Congressman.
John Mills, a leading Prohibitionist,
was also shot. doc" Tompkins, pri-
vate secretary to Congressman Pinck-
ney, and Rolling Brown, sol of j. N.
Brown, were severely wounded.
There were many armed men in the
streets at night, but it was not believed
there would be any more trouble.
The Governor sent Rangers and a
special train from Houston with sur
geons to attended the wounded. There
has been bitter feeling here for several
years over the Prohibition question,
and the recent election, when the "an-
tbs" failed to gain the victory they had
expected, added to it. The whole coun-
try has been divided into factions as a
result.
Houston, Texas.-The Adjutant-Gen-
eral left Austin shortly before mid
night for Hampstead on a special train
with half a dozen Rangers. At Manor
the local military company was picked
up. Troops arrived at Hampstead
early in the morning. The town was
quiet, but the feeling was tense.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-04-28

Il believe that rural mail delivery is
going to be one of the strongest agents
in bringing about better country
roads," said the man from Ankeny.
THE heavy SHOWS and the deep drifts
have demonstrated that. The rule is,
you know, that the rural carrier must
deliver mail as long as the roads are
open and passable. AS a result of that
the farmers turned out last winter
when the roads drifted full of snow
and shovelled them out so that the
mail wagons could get through. You
could find many places along the coun.
try roads where drifts twelve feet high
were cut through. Through these drifts
one could drive with snow twelve feet
high on either side of him. In many
places the main road was abandoned
and fields were entered through open
gates to avoid some of the deeper drifts
on the main highway.
Il look for considerable work during
the spring and summer months each
year along the roads to prevent them
getting so muddy that traffic is i'm
peded, more especially so that the rural
mail carrier can get through. The
farmer has become accustomed to re-
ceiving his mail, and now he wants it
every day and is going to do what he
can to get it."-Des Moines Register
and Leader.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-04-28
Illegal Retention Aueeed!e

Recent events, however, have shown
clearly that the huge surplus accumu-
lated by the society is not legally re-
tanned from the policy holders, nor
lawfully used by it. The affairs of the
society are in considerable confusion,
and the vast fund collected together
by the methods which the society has
employed is now claimed as the prop
erty of the society and it's %stockhold-
ers. The old charter of the society pro-
viding that the company shall be a mu-
tual company and that all of the profits
shall be- apportioned equitably among
The policy holders, except a dividend of
seven per cent. to the stockholders, is
now attempted to be swept aside by
the present claims of the stockholders
of the society.
I'VE have therefore advised Mr..
Brown, i'll the light of these facts, that
he and all other policy holders have a
just and clear right to this fund. The
continued s~ubtractions from their equi-
table shares in the surplus have been
withdrawn from that share, not for
legitimate insurance business, but for
an Interior purpose. This purpose
plainly now appears to have been to
build up a great fund, beyond any pos
sible needs of the society, to which the
society and its stockholders could sub
sequently lay claim. The claim has
how been made. This claim has taken
the present case out of all past prece-
dents in which the company has figured
as honestly accommodating its surplus
for the purpose of conducting a legiti-
mate insurance business.
FThe present situation S further diff
ferentiated from past suits by the fact
that there appears to have been a
further object of this accumulation in
the holding of this great fund by the
stockholders and officers elected by
them as free assets for speculation
schemes in which they were personally
interested. 1t has been publicly
claimed by n Of the officers of the
society that immemorial precedent has
established his right to have an interest
both as seller and buyer in securities
sold to the society. \ challenge Of this
sort has never been proposed to several
hundred thousand people in the United
States without finding some one to take
it up. 1t is the intention of this suit,
among other things, brought on behalf
OF one, and all others wishing to Join
him, to test this immemorial precedent
and ascertain whether + is in accord
with the precedents which govern
courts of equity and Grand Juries."
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-04-28
MILWAUKEE, BANKER SHORT
Frank G. BigeIow, President Of First
National, Confessed DefauIter.
LOSES $1,000, 900 SPECUlATlNG

Arrested at His Home on Charge of
Embezz1ement and Later Released
on Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars
Bail Henry G.. Coll, Assistant
Cashier, His Tool.
Milwaukee, Wis.-Frank G. Bigelow.
President of the First National Bank.
and last year President of the Amer
lean Bankers Association, is a con-
fessed defaulter to the extent of about
$1,3OO,OOO.
He was arrested charged with the
embezzlement of over $500, 900 of the
banks funds and released in $25,OOO
bail to appear before the next Federal
Grand Jury. A warrant was also to
have been issued. for Henry G. Coll,
one of the assistant cashiers.
The First National Bank will weather
the storm. Leading business men
signed and issued a statement announc-
ing that they would subscribe a total
of $1,635,000 to make good the short
age.
In anticipation of a run, Chicago
came to the aid of local institutions
with 100000 in currency, one of
which was in the First National Bank
before the news of the defalcation be-
came known.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-04-28
OUR CEMENT PRODUCTION.
Statement Issued by the Government
Geological Survey.

Washington, D. C.-The United
States Geological Survey has recently
issued q detailed statement in regard
to the production of hydraulic cement
in this country for the calendar year
1904. 1t is preliminary to the annual
report on the production of that article
now in preparation. There are three
varieties of this cement, known as
Portland, natural rock and Puzzolan
or Stag cement. The total of all kinds
was 31,653,257 barrels, valued at $780,
O31,92O. These figures show a decided
falling off in price as compared with
prices for 1908. The production for the
latter year amounted to 2 1899, 40 bar
rels, valued at $31, 931, 341. In the
production of 1904 there is a gain of
Light barrels, but a reduction in the
value OF the cement produced of So
S99,421. This is accounted for by the
improved methods of its manufacture
and increased competition. OF the to-
tai amount of cement produced in the
United States in 1904 26,505,887 bar
relS were Portland cement, valued at
So, 1885, 19; 1856, 331 barrels were nat
ural cement, worth $2,450, $50, and 305,-
Dab barrels were Stag or Puzzolan ce-
ment, valued at $226,650. The produc-
ton of Portland cement is a recent in
dustry in this country, nearly all used
here a decade ago being of foreign i'm
p%ortation.