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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-27
AFTERNOON.

1.30 p. m.-Grand street parade.
200 p m.-Exhibition, Point Ad-
ans Live-Saving Crew.
2:l5 p. m.-Fish boat sailing race
(working sails), first prize, II pounds
twine; second, $50; third, $40.
2:30 p. m.-Gasoline fish boat race,
4 horsepower and under, first prize,
$40; second, $40.
2:45 p. m.-Yacht race (Class b.,
first prize, SIS; second, SIS; third, SIS.
3:15 .. m.-Gasoline launch race,
handicap. First prize, $40; second,
&3n. third S10
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-27
ASTORIA'S REGATTA
ASST DEVELOPS
What Is Doing, Day By Day. to Make and Mark
It the Best Ever

prior to the opening of the contests.
The program has been so arranged
that every team will pull each night
and warm time can be looked for.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-20

What is the corn crop this year?'.
The preliminary estimate of the
Crop Reporting Board of the Depart
ment is 2.642,6S7 600 bushels of corn.
as compared with 1885,. 100000 bust
els. which compares vita 35.9, the fin
al estimate for 1907. and 25.6, the av
erage for the past ten years Tae
quality is better than ever as well as
the quantity, and is Se.9. compared
with SIS, in 1907, and S4.3 the aver
age of the past ten years.
'All-the principal crops of tae coun-
try for this year are better than they
ever were, and the estimate of the
Crop Reporting Board of the Depart
ment shows that the volume is p-.
cent greater than IN 1907, and "a per
cent greater than the average of the
preceding five years. while values ant
higher in almost every case. The ay-
erage for the past five years in vol
ume is exceeded in everything except
oats. iaxseed, potatoes and tobacco;
and the quality of every crop is bet
ter. except that of tobacco. Here are
some Of the figures:
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-20

who took the money out. and the
trouble began.
The farmhouses in most of the.
prairie states now have all the con-
yeniences that people need, aud they
are getting toward the Injuries. The
farmers are even buying automobiles.
The men who make money on the
farm are those who stock their farms
with domestic animals. They know
how to do it. II is not the fellow who
rents and grows grain and sells grain
it is tde man who has a completely
equipped farm that makes money. 1t
requires just as much ability to run a
farm successfully as a factory. be-
cause the sciences involved are even
more comprehensive. If you give
man a lot OF land, that does not necss-
sarily make a farmer Of him.
This department is trying to help
the poor people. Fer example, our
farmers, both black and white, about
the time the boil weevil came in. We
have been down there ever since try
ing to help them improve their crops.
We are showing them how to farm
better. And the south is making more
progress Just now than any ether part
of the United States. The agriculture
of the south is making great strides.
We are in touch with 100000 south
ern farmers, and are showing them
how TO grow more cotton, how to grow
more grain and now to make a better
living on the farm. When they be
come satisfied that We are not reve-
hue officers, that we don't want any
thing from them and that they get the
results OF the experiments, they make
us welcome"
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-20
PEN PICTURE OF ROOSEVELT
AND LOEB AS EDITORS

land in South Africa, showing why
voters should not take into cOnsidera-
ton any subjects except those men
toned previously. Five columns, with
cut layout. Got it,
Yes, sir
c. o. p. Huntsmen Most Successful.
Three. Letters to be read after
kill my first wild animal, showing the
improvements in the modern meth
eds of annihiliating game as compar
ed to those in vogue during democrat
ic administrations. Got that?'
Yes, sir-but I'm afraid I won't
have space"
Space? Carcass of rhinO | killed
with a camp can-openr, what's news
paper for, anyway? I'll file the 1927
open letters by telegraph, and I want
you to send me marked papers. You
can go to press now"
Thank you, sir
"GOod-by"
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-20
MAN CHARGES THE
DOCTORS WITH GREED
Injured By Fall, WhitComb
Says He Was Treated As
Charity Case,

DENVER, Colo, Nov. 19.-Render-
ed unconscious for weeks by falling
into a mine and then elected from
Denver hospital begore he was fully
recovered, Edward Smith Whitcomb,
scion of wealthy relatives in Troy,
\. Y, and a first cousin 10 James
Whitcomb Riley, the poet, is prepar-
ing vengeance in the shape of filing
suit for damages soon against the Aos-
pital and the physician who had
charge of his case.
Whitconb is a man past so years OF
age. He was a brilliant New York
lawyer and a graduate of Yale and
Harvard law schools. He was forced
to come west to help a severe case of
acute rheumatism. While at Terry
he lost his balance in the mines there
and fell several hundred feet. His
skull was broken and he was other
wise severely injured. 1t was neces-
sary to bring him TO Denver, where
an operation was performed
He knew nothing for weeks. He
was in the garb of workman when
brought in and the supposition was
that he was miner. 1t is charged he
was given poor treatment. He had a
trunkful of clothes and jewelry, ana
tdis, says Whitcomb, was seized by
the physician for payment of the bill.
Whitcomb is too proud to seek char
ity and is waiting for money from the
east to start his suit. In speaking OF
the affair he was quite bitter, and said:
Because a man is friendless in a
strange city and is garbed in the
clothes of a workingman should not
signify that he has no available means
Of support The abuses and conduct
of things that / saw while at that
hospital would startle you, but / will
not give out names until I am ready
with my case"
Mr.. Whitccmb's mother is an au-
t1oress, having written number oi
books for children.
i MIR. Whitcomb was offered $4,000
fer certain rights to coal lands he
owns in the state by David Moffat, buI
has refused the offer.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-20

7 UtSt aI z tIiU NEVI1Sr SslIA s1tt-I Q
tafy Wilson, and probably exceed the
records of every nation
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-20

Copy" whispered Editor Loeb
An Office boy in gum shoes. c@rry-
ing an alarm clock, rolled of cot
and presented a carl on which WAS
printed: What is it, sir?"
'Is there a telegraph Office ia ;his
town." whispered the etItor.
II noticed one when came - work
last year." said the boy. e.: guess KS
still there"
'sTake this telegram GJwl IT, re,
and file it. It's a message to Roose-
welt, and it goes day Tr '.sS Iatcs.
Then come back and wake rp the
foreman an dtell him I'll have s'.n'e
telegraph copy in an hong or so Are
the secret service men on guard in
the ante-room?"
No Admittance to Women
Yes, sir
Are they strong enough to Crap
pie with any women visitors who may
appeaT?'
Il believe so, sir
Then whisper up the tube to the
makeup man that I'm ready to go to
work. And at 10 O'Clock sharp / want
a man to come in here and offer me
a job president of a trust company
will dc Understand? Then along
about , D. N. ] want it positively an
nounced that I can have any cabinet
job / want. Tell one of the reporters
TO write a follow-up rUmOT that | am
to get Shonts' job on the lnter-Metro-
poIitan. Where are all the cuts and
clippings OF myself that | brought
here with me?"
They're in the morgue, where they
belong. Is there anything else, sir?"
Call T. r. on the long distance
phone. Put a man operator on and
I'll talk to him Immediately"
: Yes, sir"
Then you can go back TO bed"
"5uIIy, Bully"
: An hour later the telephone bell
gave a violent start aud the receiver
fell OFF the desk.
Hello" whispered Loeb. Editor
Roosevelt?'
yes. Editor Loeb?"
| YES, Sir"
! Bully! What do you want now:
IN see Taft -
NO. I only want permission to -
7 Il press
Bully What have you got for the
] INST -t1dSts
"A good letter from you on topics
you neglected to cover before the cam
paign closed. ] wrote II last night"
Boz On African Trip.
Bully, Turn with that. leave
! for Africa tonight Box that. Do you
like the letter you wrote for me OF
Taft's religion
Yes. 1t looks like pretty good
stuff"
/ haven't read it yet, but no mat
tier. Lead vita that Want anything
by telegraph"
yes. l could use couple of col
lumns."
Couple of columns? Shades of thu
catamount. strangled with my sus
/ venders-you'Il be asking me TO quer,
next. IN fix six columns I've jus
Just written on the proper way q pla,
dominoes. Want my schedule now?
"Yes, sir
AN right. One. Letter to be rea'
lafier ! depart for South Africa, show
ing how Texas might have gone fc
Taft, thus influencing Alabama an
Georgis-four columns. Got thatT'
Yes. sir"
Two. Letters to be read after
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-20
HARLEY NOT GUILTY.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1S.-Circuit
Judge Hough today ordered the jury
10 return a verdict of not guilty in
the cases of David z. Harley, agent
for the Florida East Coast railroad,
and three employment agents of this
city. who were accused of conspiracy
10 hold Norkmen IN peonage and
slavery while the men were building
the road. The jury returned a YER
dict as ordered
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-20

There is no great call for lawyers
and doctors now.
The average brakeman on a rail-
way train gets better wages than the
average doctor or lawyer; but every
farmer does not succeed and every
body who lives en- land is not a farm
ct. There are different grades OF
farmers. The man who owns his
land and has it well stocked with do
mestic animals is making money right
along. The renter. who rents land
and owns no animals at all, but grows
grain and sells 1t, has also been %
ing well, because grain has beeh
bringing high prices, but he does NOT
make as muca as the man who owns
mis- farm and raises domestic ami
mails. The farmer in the eastern
states, where people have faTmed
poorly and let the lands run down.
has had struggle for life. For thai
reason n good deal of land in the Mex
England states has been abandoned.
The cheapest lands in the United
StStes now are in the eastern states
They can be revived, and when people
ask my opinion as to where they shall
60. | say, Go back east Do not 60
west. Some of the prairie lands ol
, the west are selling for $3.50 per acre
Have the farmers money?
! Yes. that is a most interesting
question. They have so much money
thai they do not know what DO d:
| with It. They don't like to keep j
| in their houses, SO they put it in the
LEGAL banks and the banks send it OF
/ east. Eastern cities, New York fOl
I example. gave them one or two pc
cent interest, and that drew all tht
/ money in the country to NEw Yorl
last year. and the people went &c
sPeculating with il. That is vha
brought on the panic. The banks los
the confidence Of their own depssitors
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-20

William Loeb, secretary to the
president, has been offered the gen
eraI managership OF the ST. Paul Dis
patch. Unless he gets a cabinet posi-
ton 1t is practically certain he will
accept. The president himself has
signed a contract TO become associate
editor of the OutlOok.-News dispatch
from Washington.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-20

records OF every nation.
How many failures OF crops have
We had since the beginning of the Nc
Kinley administration ?'' l asked.
Not one. There has not been
failure of crops in this country for
twelve years, at least. We do not an
ticipate the crop failures nowadays in
taiS county, Every year there is
some locality where some crop is not
as good as usual Corn and grass sur.
fered on account of the drought in a
good many localities this year, but
there will never again be any failure
OF crops. They may be short here or
yonder, but science has taught our
farmers how to defy the weather as
far as crop growing is concerned
How much Of our meats are export
ed?"
q have not the figures for the last
year at hand, . said Secretary Wilson,
but the amount is very large Tnc
meat product does not increase, t;.u
heards of cattle do not grow as fast
as the population. We do not raise
enough meats for ourselves. and YET
a large proportion of the product 4
exported. because wealthy EeOplc il
foreign countries will have our b,eI
no matter what it costs. Taey aEt
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-20
For SALE.

ola papers. 25c per hundred; apply
ct Review office.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-20
CROPS Of. j. s. THIS YEAR
ARE LARGEST ON RECORD

willing TO pay more for it than the
people of this country, and very natur-
ally, II seeks the highest market Our
finest meat and grains go abroad for
that reason"
lis the high price of meat due 10
the packers or the butchers or the
rancamen, or is It due to the natural
laws of trader"
Now when you come to enquire
whether those who deal in meats con
tribute to high prices, l can recall
something that occurred between me
and a city butcher here. | was asked
that question once, and replied that
thought that the retailer added con-
s,derably TO the cost of meat. The
next day a butcher in the city ans
wered me in one of the daily papers
by saving that the retailer added only
40 per cent TO the price Of meats TO
the consumer, and that was all the
profit he got"
rs the prosperity of the farmers
attracting people back to the farm?"
We are now nine years away from
the last census, and when 1t was tax
en- the drift of labor was very strong
i
cisi reasons, the excitement of city
life, amusements and other attractions
but the most intelligent farmers have
remained on the farms, and have been
well repaid for so doing
How about their sons?"
''The education of young men and
young women In the United States
in the past has been away from the
farm. In the past you could study
science along in any line except agri
culture. Nov they are being educat-
ed toward the farm. There is de-
mand for teaching tae elements of ag-
riculture in the common and high
schools, so as to educate the children
toward the farm. In some states, like
Texas, they haye commanded it. Texas
ordered it put into her 1000 common
schools, forgetting that the school
teacher could not teach what she had
never studied herself There is a
movement in all states in the Union
now toward education of That kind.
Georgia and Alabama are prominent
examples among the southern states.
Their legislatures have appropriated
money 10 establish an agricultural
school in each congressional district
Enterprising localities in those statcs
bid for a school, offering TO give lano
and put up buildings Ii makes nice
addition to q smart town. All the
states are giving more or less atten-
ton to agricultural education, and our
people are determined that the young
farmer shall be educated toward the
farm instead of away from it, as here
tDforc.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-20

WASHINGTON. d. c., Nov. 19.--
Secretary OF Agriculture Wilson wss
asked for facts regarding the CROPS
this year. and replied:
''We are at work Just now getting
a the figures, and the total Is prop-
ably far beyond that OF last year,
which was $T,440. .00o, ,000. And thai
is real money" answered the secre-
tary. 1T is not a fictitious, but an
actual value Il has all come out Of
the ground, and is compensation for
the labor OF the year II is wealth
that did not exist before. 1t is ali
claer gain, and consists In tangible
property-cOrn. hay, wheat, cotton and
other things that are needed by every
body, and are counted among the nee
essaries Of life-nearly seven and a
half billions of dollars--probably the
largest sum that was ever added ~
the wealth OF the world by any nation
in a single year."
What is the biggest crop this
year?+
"The greatest crop Of America is
grass. and then corn. Next after corn
is probably cotton; then come wheat
and poultry running neck and neck
The product of the hen coop is now
nearly as valuable as that of the wheat
field"
Then why are eggs 40c dozen %
In the first place tne American
fSeople eat great many eggs, and in
the second place there are not enough
people keeping chickens and produc-
ing eggs. The price is due TO the sup
ply and demand. If twice as many
eggs were produced IN the United
States they would be cheaper in the
market"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1908-10-10
N. D. MERCHANT
RUN OVER BY TRAIN.
ERIcK OLSON OF CLIFFORD DIES
FROM EFFECTS OF INJURY
AT MAYVlLLE HOSPITAL.

Hillsboro, N D.. Oct. 10.--5heriff
osmon and Deputy Wulff, who return
ed from Clifford last night where they
have been testing scales, bring back
the sad news Of a fatal accident that
befell a prominent resident of that
place yesterday 80. M
Erick Olson, hardware merchant,
was accompanying travelling man TO
the station when he was struck by a
train, which ran over him, cutting off
one leg between the knee and hip. The
unfortunate man was taken on the
train to Portland and from there to
the Mayville hospital, where he died
last night
A later report as to the circumstances
attending the accident is to the effect
that Mr.. Olson was in coach giving
an order to travelling man. The train
had backed up and when 1t finally left
the station 1t did not stop at the de-
pot. Olson jumped from the train
ysAen 1t was in motion and was thrown
under the wheels. He was half
brother of Ben Griniley, OF Portland.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1908-10-10
SLEUTH ACCUSES
union LEADERS

Media, Pa, oct. 1O.-Testimony was
offered in the trial OF National Or
ganizer p. j. Shea of the Street Rail-
way Employe union and thirteen strik-
ers OF the Chester Traction Co, charg
ed with destroying property, by Fred
erick g. Wacker, a Pinkerton detec-
tive.
In the guise of an agent buying to-
bacco tags, Wacker went to Chester
before the strike began and became
intimate with the strikers. Wacker
told of being present at a meeting In
which Shea told the men that dyna-
mite was the only thing to use in
fighting the police.
In his testimony Wacker implicat-
ed many of the defendants in the de-
struction of cars by dynamite, break
ing of switches, cutting of wires, start
ing of riots and assaulting of strike
breakers.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1908-10-10
MURDER
OR SUICIDE
New Crime Mystery Confronts
N. Y. Police
TWO BODIES In THE BAY
BOUND TOGETHER WITH WIRE,
BODIES or WELL DRESSED MAN
AND WOMAN FOUND FLOATING
IN JAMAICA BAY 5Y FISHER
MEN-NoT IDENTIFIED.

New York, Oct. TO- - A mystery
which promises to tax the ingenuity
of the police before 1t is unravelled
came to light today when the bodies
of a well dressed man and woman
bound securely together with a wire,
were found floating in Jamacia bay.
The bodies have not yet been identi-
fed, They were found by two fisher
men,
Both victims had their valuabies In
tact; the woman's chattelaine bag was
even wired to her wrist, but there
was nothing on either one to aid the
police In identification. The bodies
had not been in the water more than
six hours.
Description of Victims.
The man was apparently As years
old. He was six feet tall and weighed
about zoo pounds. In his pockets were
gold watch and q chain and s4.38
in cash.
The woman, apparently, was about
35 years Of age and exceptionally good
looking. Her brown hair was tinged
with gray She wore wedding ring
Her long black gloves and $40 in
small bills were in her chattelaine
bag.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1908-10-10
Detroit AT end OF EIGHTH INNINGS
Cubs and Tigers Open Cham
pionShip Series
Vast Concourse Of Fans Wit
ness Battle
Rain Falls as the Game Is
Started

Detroit. Mich, Oct. 1o.--with base
ball interest throughout the country
at an almost unprecedented intensity
as the result OF the remarkably close
races for the pennants in both the
American and National leagues, the
Detroit American and the Chicago Ma
tional league clubs take the field at
Bennett park this afternoon to begin
their second battle for the worlds
championship.
Both teams are In the finest Of con-
dition for the great series, despite the
gruelling battle each has been through
for the preliminary honors. Both
Manager Chance of Chicago, and Man
ager Jennings of Detroit, have declared
that there would be no excuses to Of
Ter when the series is over. The
memory OF the crushing defeat admin
istered to them by Chicago in the
worlds series last year was an added
incentive to the determination of the
local team.
Play in Chicago onorrow.
Opening this afternoon at Bennett
park, the clubs move to Chicago for
the games on Gunday and Monday and
return to Detroit to play on Tuesday
and Wednesday. ..
) Every early indication today was
for an auspicious opening of the great
series before record breaking crowd
and under beautiful weather condi-
tions. Before daylight enthusiasts be-
gan forming in line before the ticker
windows at Bennett park. waiting for
the sale of the general admission tick
ITS to open. --.-ss-.
All OF the reserved seats for today's
game were sold in two hours yester-
day.
shortstop O'Leary. who has been out
OF the game for a number of weeks,
with an injured thumb, will be in the
game this afternoon. Manager Jen-
nings will select between Killian and
Donovan for pitcher.
Immense Crowds Arrive.
The gates to the park were opened
at 10 o'clock and the crowd immediate
ly began pouring in. Every streetcar
which passed the enclosure after that
time brought its quota OF the specta-
tors willing to endure the long walt
for the privilege of the first choice
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1908-10-10
BOY SHOT BY
STRIKE POLICE

New York, Oct. 10.--Drastic action
against the special officers employed
the strike of its chauffuers, is expected
to be taken by the police. The au-
thorities are aroused by the shooting
today of a 14-year- old school boy by
these Specials two OF whom have
been held pending the death of the
boy, Robert Qualey, which is expected
at any moment
City policemen and citizens who saw
the two taxicabs loaded with the COM
pany's strike breakers speed along w.
Fifty seventh street, say their occu-
pants stood UP and fired at random
into the throng. -
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1908-10-10
SAYS BELMONT
HELD him in BOND

&
New York, Oct. 1o.-AAugust Bel
mont, the turfman. has been sued for
100000 by a Jersey city jockey, John
F'reit. A
According TO the papers fled. Freit
was apprenticed to BeImonts stables
when IL years old. He, worked as sta
bic boy for three years. Freit then
connected with the Madden stables.
Later when Belmont re-entered the
racing game, according to Freit, notice
was posted warning all horse owners
against taking the services of Freit,
Belmont claiming that the lad belong
ed to him for a number Of years.
On account ofs the posted notice,
Freit claims he has been unable to
secure work and desires that Belmont
pay him for time lost.