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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-13
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

Notice is hereby given that the as
sessment made for the construction
of sewer on Irving avenue from
manhole at the crossing of Irving
avenue and 18th street to a point $50
feet east of the east line Of 1lth street,
as per assessment roll number lS7,
was made by an order of the com
mon council of the city of Astoria,
due and payable on the 18th day Of
February, A d. 1909, by ordinance
number $3.50, confirming said assess
ment roll. That the following are
the names of the persons against
whom the assessment is made, and
the amount owing by each to-wit:
Basel, Rudolph ..........$ $500
Douglas Land & Trust Co... $3.50
Fulton, G, C,,......,....... $3.50
Hamilton, John F..,.."..... 1177o
Montgomery, Emma T........ $3.50
Short, Emily C.,..."o...... $3.50
By order of the common council,
oLoF ANDERSON,
Auditor and Police Judge Of
the City Of Astoria.
Dated February 2, 1909. sru
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-13
Fruits and Vegetable,

fresh Fruits--Oranges. 200027S;
gerines Sl7s box; lemons, $500
i grapes, Spanish Malagas, $6@
per crate; pears. $l7s92.00 per
cranberries, $500 per barrel;
anas, sGsae per pound.
Epples-Best 0regons, 200027s;
amon, $l2s@l.7s per box,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-13
osTEoPATHS
SWEDISH MAssAGINc.
MATTRESSES MAKER.


HAVE YOUR OLD MATTRESSES
made over new for the spring by
Bob Davis, 50 Ninth street, ,ns
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-13
THE MORNING ASTORIAN
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
Are Read Every Morning by 10000 People.

The Want Columns Of THE MORNING AsToRIAN are con-
every morning hundreds Of persons
bargains Articles Of aale lost found people looking
poyment Rates. Twenty words less three hme rs cens six
times so cents rnnth, $500.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-13

Oysters, CLANS and Fish.
Shoalwater Bay per gal
$2.2s; per sack $3.50; Toke Point,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-13

egetables - Turnips. $3.50 per
/; beets, SI.so; parsnips, $3.50;
Ibage, $2,sO@27s; head lettuce, 90c
4 per dozen; cueumbers, $i.7s@
a5 per dozen; celery, 90c@$l.00 per
ssn; artichokes, $l,40 per dozen;
sps, zoe per pound; peas, lsc per
ind; tomatoes, $l,s0@2,2s per
te; squash, &c per pound peppers,
IS per box; eauliAoweT, 500
dozen.
2otatoeS-Buying prices, $l.l0@
Is,
Buying prices; 500 per
idred,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-13
DRESSMAKING.

CHILDREN'S SCHOOL DRESSES,
aprons, ladies' waists, etc, done in
the neatest and latest design; will go
out in the country if desired; very
reasonable rates. Address 461 Duane
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-13
VETERINARY COLLEGES.

BULLETIN SAN FRANCISCO
Veterinary College now ready;
mailed free. DR.. c. Keane, 1878
Market street. 80
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-13
COUNTRY REAL ESTATE.

FOR SALE-RANCH AT SVEN.
sen, Is acres; S-room house; good
barn and out buildings and orchard; /;
partially improved; $4,000. Apply J.
F. Nowlen. un
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-13

FOR SALE-ls7s ACRES LAND,
section 4. township S, range 6, on
Nehalem River, two and one-half
million feet of timber, IS acres cul-
,ivated; price 5000. ], r. Nowlen,
H3 Commercial street. l0-4-tf
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-02

The LATEST boy In the class, the
toughest and most mischieyous one,
worked for her because they all felt
sorry that SO nice a little girl had to
come thousand miles from her home
to teach dead language to band of
young ruflans. She generally wore
something blue with white flowers
scattered about; seems as If 1t must
have been silk or satin. Winter days,
real sweater, white, under her long
blue coat. and red knit Tam
O'Shanter. Where on earth do these
artists for the illustrated weeklies get
their ideas Of school teachers?
Then there was-but what's the
use? Anybody who will, without pref
udice think over his school teachers
will testify that the proportion Of pull
chritude, personal beauty per capita,
charm and all that, is higher far
among them than in any other class OF
women. Leave 1t to your own boy.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-02
THE GENERAL DELIVERY.

Postoffice officials in Chicago have
hit those parties who have been in the
habit of conducting clandestine cor.
respondence through the medium of
the general delivery. An order has
been issued which requires every per.
son who receives mail at the general
delivery to give his or her real name,
business and street address. From
this information an identification card
is made out which must be presented
in calling for mail at the general de-
livery window
In Chicago, as in all the other large
cities the general delivery accomoda-
lions are frequently abused. There
are many legitimate patrons of this
department. But there are a great
many others who have their mail ad.
dressed to the general delivery through
Interior motives. Young girls and
boys carry on clandestine cor.
respondence through means of the gen
eral delivery, receiving mail that they
do not wish their parents to see. A
great amount of light has been thrown
on the spread of the general delivery
habit through the medium of the di.
vorce court and juvenile court.
The Chicago plan is an experiment
that will be watched in other cities
where the general delivery evil has
grown to proportions.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-02
THE CASE OF NELL TAYLOR.

Des Moines Capital.-Judging from
the comment we have heard. the pub
lie is not very favorably impressed
with the so-called race between the
grand jury and the insanity commits
sion to see which body shall first Sc
cure jurisdiction over Mrs. Nellie
Taylor, who is charged with infanti-
eide.
There is little question in the minds
of most people, judging from the pub
lished evidence, that the woman is in
sane. This does not in any way miti-
gate the horror of her crime, but it
does reveal a case which ought to
make some demand upon Christian
charity as well as stern visaged JUS
tice.
The woman sinned undoubtedly and
the fortaste of hell she already knows,
but it would be a calloused heart
which was not touched by the story
of her spending her last dollar for
hack hire in going from one orphanage
to another to find a home, only to be
turned away.
With such disposition as the courts
may make of this unfortunate case,
probably little fault will be found, but
let it not be forgotten that there was
a man connected Herewith and Wig
lance should not be relaxed until that
moral leper has been found and given
such penalty as the law making power
may have thought to provide.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-02
HERE'S A NEW TONIC.

A medical specialist writing in the
London Outfitter advances the view
that many people now seeking aid
from the doctor might get better re.
suits by visiting the tailor or the
clothier. He says:
Clothing, particularly new clothing,
is powerful mental and moral tonic
Shabby or ill-ftting clothes are a
source Of constant worry, which tends
to take the keener edge off the wits
Of the average man. The mere fact
of being smartly dressed, is strong
mental stimulant, and the man who is
shabby, and knows it, is often less
capable than his well-dressed mental
Inferior
There is no doubt lot of truth in
what the London doctor says. Who
does not feel an added girth of chest
when he dons his new suit and sallies
forth? And who does not feel de
pressed and dumpy in those melan.
choly days at the seasons close be.
fore it is time to lay in some of the
new seasons toys?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-02

citation which meets in that Texas city
october Fl. Later Mr. Fox, who has
Travelled nearly 10000 miles in the in
terest of his organization, will join the
waterways delegates to the Lakes-to-
the Gulf convention at ST. Louis and
accompany President Taft and the
Congressional delegation down the
Mississippi to New Orleans where the
convention will be held October GOTH
November l and End.
There are now possible of definite
and systematic improvements nearly
10000 miles of navigable waterways
which can be made serviceable at all
seasons of the year at cost Of about
3t,000,00o,000. Whel. thus improved the
system would save more than s238.
100000 annually if only one mill per
ton per mile was saved said Mr.. Fox.
This great organization which T
represent, has been for the past five
years. carrying on campaign Of edu-
cation for the purpose Of arousing the
people to the necessity of improved
water transportation and has spent
nearly $4,000 annually, with the re-
suit that the greatest convention the
cause of waterways has ever brought
about will meet in the National Capital
/ next December to demand the adop-
ton of comprehensive policy on the
part of the Federal government, TO-
wards the rivers. harbors and canals
LOT continental United States"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-02
An Experts Wews on Water Ways

Washington, D. c., Sept. 30.-(Spec-
ial)-"The United States will have to
loosen UP a bit in the way of appropri-
ations for waterways, If it expects to
keep pace with foreign nations is the
way John A. Fox, special director Of the
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
talked today.
Because of the lack of adequate
funds waterways in America have de-
Perforated during the past century as
compared with the work done by for
eign countries" declared Mr.. Fox.
germany has spent something like
two billion dollars upon it's system of
waterways and France has expended
about s750,0O0,00o since 1914. Yet our
whole country has spent only $587, 000,-
600 upon all of the waterway projects
| that 1t has undertaken both inland and
| on it's coasts
| Mr.. Fox who will be in the middle
west shortly in the interest of the Ma
| tional Rivers and EIarbors Congress,
which holds it's sixth annual conven-
ltion in this city December 8, 0 and 10,
I next will address the Omaha CONNER
c1al club on October list. He will be the
special guest of the business organiza-
ltions of Atchison, Kansas, on October
La. going from there to ST Joseph, Mo-,
on October II and Kansas City Oct
ober IA. From Kansas City Mr.. Fox
goes to Corpus Christi where he will
Iaddress the Intercostal Canal Asso-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-02
Washington Bureau of
The Ottumwa Courier,
washington ID. c.. Sent. 8

Washington, d. c., Sept. 80
The United States Steel corporation
is getting ready to make strong bid
for control of the coal, iron and steel
business of China.
Travellers who have recently re.
turned from that part of the world, to-
gether with some data which consular
agents have presented. have made ii
apparent that the great American
corporation is much further alongsthe
road to control of a vast business IN
the orient than is generally known
Only rather vague information has
been obtainable as to the holdings OF
iron and coal which have been gath
cred up for the steel corporation in
China; but it is very positively de
clared that vast deposits in the prov.
ince of Shan ST, believed by many
people to be the richest in the world,
have come into the control OF the cor
poration.
For many years this province OF
Shan ST have been regarded by experts
familiar with it's conditions, as the
ideal region, of all the world, for iron
and steel manufacture. If the iron ore
deposits Of the upper lake region were
right alongside great coal mines; and
if the very best grade Of limestone
were Immediately adjacent--then the
condition would be fairly comparable
to that existing in Shan ST. Every
thing needed for the most econom.
ical production of the best iron and
steel is at hand; even the transporta.
ton facilities will be of the best, be.
cause of the possibility of developing
at small cost the best water transit.
The American steel trust, it is now
explained, number of years ago con,
ceived the idea that soon or late there
must be tremendous demand for iron
and steel in China. Whenever the bust.
ness of building railroads fairly gets
started in China, there will he such a
demand as has never been known in
the world. The steel corporations far.
sighted managers anticipated this con
dition. They investigated the possible
ity of making steel rails and other
heavy iron products in China. They
found that the country has everything
necessary, including an unlimited
supply of the cheapest labor in the
world.
Efforts were inaugurated to secure
control of necessary deposits Of coal
iron and limestone; and these have
been gathered in. There is declared to
be enough of these materials now I'M
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-02
RUSSELL CHAPEL.


Russell Chapel-Mrs. Nellie Van
Buskirk and Mrs. frankie Cobbler
spent Tuesday afternoon at E. E.
Gilyeart's.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. T. Funk and daugh-
ter Maud spent Wednesday evening at
E. Z. Gilyeart's.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ross Whitmer was buried Saturday
morning in the Fremont cemetery.
ottumwa visitors Saturday were e.
e. Gilyeart. G. w. Crawford, J. r. Ell
lott and Mrs. III. H. Wolfe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stintson Clark and son
Dale, Miss Nora Baker, Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Citizens. Lige Russell and son
Roy, Miss Crystal Gilyeart. Mrs. Cal
Humphrey and daughter Bertha and
John Darner. were in Fremont Satur-
day.
Miss Bertha Tharp and Mr.. and
Mrs. George Reeves c. Ottumwa visit
ed over Sunday at the a. F. Harter
home
Invitations are out announcing a
house party to be given by Johnnie
and Bertha Harter next Wednesday
evening.
Mrs. H. N. McElroy expects to leave
Tuesday for Greenfield, Ohio to visit
her childhood home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Deselms and Mr..
and Mrs. HI. n. McElroy and son Ar
thus spent Sunday at e. e. Gilyeart's.
Mrs. George Joesting and Mrs. CLAIR
ence Mcdonald spent Tuesday after
noon with Mrs. e. E. Gilyeart.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Philippe spent
Sunday at the home of Webb Philippe
on Court street in Ottumwa.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hobart and
children of Fremont spent Sunday al
D. Il. Evans.
Mrs. Charlie Crawford returned on
Monday from Spokane and Seattle
where she has been visiting relatives
end attending the exposition.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-02
Steel Corporation Will Make Bid
For Control of ChiRa's Resources

der the domination of the steel trust
in Shan ST to make steel for all the
railroads China will need in hundreds
most unexpected development.
A number of years ago a plant was
erected in this province, for expert
mental purposes by the trust agen-
cies, there. 1t has demonstrated
that the coal and ores are capable of
the best that was hoped for them, and
that. Chinese labor can be trained
very shortly to do the work just as
well as the white workmen of the oc-
cident do in the iron districts of West
phalia, Pittsburg or the west Of Eng
land.
People who have studied this ex-
detrimental work in China express the
opinion that generation hence the
United States Steel corporation will
be dominating the steel business of
the far east quite as completely as it
now does that of the United States.
1t is explained that good deal Of the
mystery surrounds the whole cam
paign in China. Little has been made
public by the steel corporation people
about it, either here or in the east,
But enough has drifted back to Wash
ington, through both official and unoffi-
cial channels to make = very apparent
that huge speculation in oriental de-
velopment is being planned by the
ironmasters OF the United States.
There Gomez also from the Alabama
iron district an interesting narrative
of projects of the steel corporation
plans for the further development of
the industry in that region. The big
American steel concerns control the
great ore deposits of the province of
Santiago, Cuba. This is said to be the
richest large deposit in the world be-
cause it contains an admixture of
nickel in the proportion necessary to
make the finest steel. This Cuban ore,
it is explained, is to be brought to a
great plant which is being established
on the Warrior river in Alabama, and
there smelted. The reduction of the
duty on ore gave the assurance that
this project would be entirely success
full. The transportation will be as
cheap or cheaper than bringing the
Lake Superior ores to the Pennsylva.
mia furnaces, while the Cuban ores
are declared much better than those
of the Superior region. Vast changes
in the whole iron and steel industry
are predicted as result of this de.
yelopment Of the Cuban ores, and the
south is in line for immense benefits.
J. G. Welliyer.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-02
THRONE.


'
Tyrone-Mrs. P. Walsh of George
day.
Roy #. Miller has purchased the r.
Kelley farm south of town.
Or. Riordan of Melrose made pro-
tessional visit here this week
The gang of Greek laborers wha
nave been working on the tracks here
are to be transferred to Russell in
few days.
Mrs. Dan Oneill of Georgetown i.
visiting her daughter Mrs John Moran
at Creston
Mrs Jake Moffat and daughter Mrs,
Charles Reynolds were Abba passen-
gers one day this week.
John Ennis made a business trip ia
Abba, recently.
Miss Nellie Argo of Iconium was
Abba.
Ray Derby of near Iconium has been
very sick the past week with the
measles but is better at present.
p Clifford was in Melrose this
week on business
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Jones Of Moline. Ill.
who were called to Abba on account
Of the death of Mr.. Jones' nephew, Wis
tied with Mrs. Jones parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Dan Oneill of Georgetown.
Mrs. Peter Connors and daughter. p,
F. Rankin and wife and Matt Walsh
were Abba passengers on No. 178 on
Tuesday.
Two train loads of soldiers and
equipment passed through here over
the Burlington enroute from Del
Moines to Omaha. They go to Omaha
to take part in the Ak sar-ben festivi-
ties.
Mrs. J. P. Clifford is very Ill at pres
ent.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-02

this matter right. This was the refer
ence made to Mr.. Pinchots work:
The wonderful progress made by
Mr.. Pinchot with the earnest support
of Mr.. Roosevelt and Secretary Viii
son. at times has met the denunciation
of persons in this western country on
the ground that property was being
taken which congress intended for
individuals and was being withheld
from them. But think opposition to
Mr.. Pinchot's plans has disappeared,
and that the great body of the Ameri-
can people recognizes the benefit of
the reform in reference to forestry,
and greatly regrets that it was not be-
gun years before. Congress has come
fully to recognize the necessity of pur-
suing forestry reform by making lib
eral appropriations for the purpose.
The forest lands of the United States
ought to be surveyed and carefully
preserved. and it's jurisdiction in re-
spect to them clearly Defined
And here was the reference made to
Secretary Ballinger:
Secretary Ballinger of the interior
department, upon whom will fall the
NAss VI SACSutlhS5 lAS IiSW pIOSlSlOuS
OF the law, is in entire accord with me
as to the necessity for promoting in
every legitimate way the conservation
of the resources which l have named,
and he can be counted upon to use the
great influence which he must have as
secretary of the interior to this proper
end. Indeed, it will be found that in
his reports as commissioner of the
general land office he brought these
matters to the attention of congress
and urged the adoption of federal
policy along the lines I have indi-
Gated"
The president took occasion also to
refer briefly to the criticism of I'M
friendly newspapers. He said:
There has been a good deal of dis
cussion in the newspapers as to the
attitude of the present administration
toward the general policy of the con-
seryatton of resources, and some un-
fair and altogether unfounded infer
ences have been drawn. The truth is
that my administration is pledged to
follow out the policies of Mr.. Roosevelt
In this regard, and while that pledge
does not involve me in any obligation
to carry them out unless l am given
by congress the full authority to do
SO, it does require that take every
step and exert every legitimate in
fiuence upon congress to enact legisla-
ton which shall best subserve the pur-
poses indicated
The Iowa newspaper paragrapher
who intimated that President
Taft's means of carrying out
the Roosevelt policies will be
to carry them out on stretcher" is
given a sufficient answer in the presi-
dents reiteration Of his pledge to con-
tlnue the Roosevelt conservation
policies.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-02
Observation-Disclosures

President Taft in his speech at
Spokane yesterday paid his respects
to the so-called "Pinchot-Ballinger
row" by making it very clear that
such row was largely the child OF
the over-heated imagination of some
of the newspaper correspondents. The
papers have been full of speculations
as to whether Ballinger would get Pin
chot's scalp or whether Pinchot would
be sustained and Ballinger lose his
official head. The president took occa-
sion to remark that he was in perfect
accord with both Secretary Ballinger
and Forester Pinchot and that both
we're carrying out the administration
conservation policies. Two paragraphs
in the presidents speech serve to set
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-02
"TEACHER!"

Kansas City Journal-An ironclad
law, created by custom, provides that
all illustrated weellies, comic and
comical, shall publish a drawing and
joke with reference to the opening OF
school, Custom, also requires that
where the eacher appears in the pic
ture she shall be portrayed as the
model of the parchment covered spin.
ster of the once popular and always
brutal comic valentine. Never will the
Opening Of school" illustrators permit
trace of attractiveness to appear in
the school teacher. And it is all Sian.
der.
Do you remember that golden-haired
girl who tried to teach you fractions
in the third grade? Always there was
that band of black velvet-or was it
satin or silk or something-always
that ribbon, which, you. know now
accumulated the roundness of the
throat and brought out new gold in
the hair. Women nowadays don't seem
to have tresses of that color and quail
ity; when they do have it they are not
given full and unquestioned credit for
it. Then there was her voice; it went
perfectly with the hair, the eyes, and
now that you think of it, the teeth
Did any eyes ever flash like hers when
she caught you two paragraphs away
from the climax of one of Mr.. Beadle's
Justly popular works of fiction? AnG
yet these artists put whitening fright.
at the teachers place. Yes, she mar
ried cattle man, went to New Mexico
and has children far beyond the thirt
grade and it's fractions and is still
| beautiful.
| And that little black haired cir
with gray eyes, who came out from
Smith or Wellesley and taught frs
year Latin; about half the size of tn,
average boy in her class. Were she t,
live to be thousand years old sh,
could never even resemble the school
lmarm as the illustrators conceive her
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-02
MT. ZION.

Mt Zion-A. c. Barker visited at
Bloomfield last week.
Some Of the young people of this
vicinity attended the Helsel sale near
Pittsburg Monday.
Mrs. Lehman Workman and daugh.
ter Blanch were Fairfield shoppers on
Tuesday.
Mrs Arnold Baker visited Tuesday
afternoon with Miss Mary E. Hoot-
man.
Charley Campbell and Gus Crane
shipped $50 barrels of apples to st.
Louis Monday.
Mr.. Finney of keosauqua was bus
mess caller in this vicinity the latter
part of last week. He shipped car of
hogs from here Tuesday