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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1887)
ej inttjj fafrnw. ASTORIA, OREGON: SUNDAY. -MAY 1. 1SJ7 . Hunter's Poiat wants a postoffice. What is the state railroad commis sion doing? Thero will ba a meeting of Rescue Hose team at two o'clock this after soon. .Slight earthquake shocks were felt in various parts of Oregon and Wash ington last F.-iday morning. The Alpha is nearly ready for the :far off northern seas. The Venture expect? to get away to-morrow. Some good. crops oould be grown on some of Astoria's streets at pres ent The dirt needs removirg. The line went down yesterday, and The Astobian is without its usual telegraphic new3 report this morning. A bonded warehouse, a street rail way, a pipe lino for fire purposes; what is the matter with Astoria hav ing these? Aspeoial messenger wa3 sent out to the nmayor yesterday lo Iiav8 him sign an ordinance that needed sign ing mighty bad. Herman Wise begins the new month wit'i a now adv't, and invites all who need clothing to examine his tow prices and extensive stock. The County of Flint sailed yeBter day morning; the Ancon, which has been discharging coal at the O. R. & N. dook, leaves for Portland this morning. The Centemeri glove advertised by 0. H. Cooper, is said by the ladies to be all thatis desired in a kid glove. He has an extensive stock from which to choose. John Kopp, the popular proprietor of the North Pacific brewery, has been brewing a special bock beer tor to-day, which is generally recognized as "bock beer day." Bishop Morris will officiate at Grace church this morning and even ing. Holy communion in the morn ing. Service at the Chapel in upper Astoria in the afternoon. The Gen. Miles is off for Gray's harbor this morning -with a large freight list She will go to Shoal water bay about the 20th inst., if there is sufficient business to justify the trip. If you have anything to buy or sell, and ain't afraid everyone in town'li find it out, let people know it in The Astobiak. It is the best me dium for business communication on the Columbia river. -The Btate insane asylum is over flowing with 475 inmates and 60 em ploye3; anew wing is to be huilt to aooommodate those who go early but do not avoid the rush. The arrivals average ten a month. To the sojourner or investor Astoria offers unusual inducement to place capital with a view to certain and speedy return. A present investment of a few thousands will be to many the furnishing of a handsome compe tence. The schooner Vega, Captain Birk- holm, has made the best time on rec ord for a round trip from San ran cisco to Gray's harbor and return Her time was twenty-one days,the best previous time being twenty three days. The public sohool in distriot No. One will close on the '20th inst It is Professor Johnson's intention to have a sohool picnic on that day. Ti o school in district No. 18 will olose June 3rd. The school in district No. 9 will close June 10th. The auction sale by E. O. Holden, qI lots in block 62, yesterday after noon, attracted considerable atten tion. Lots 2 and 3 were bought by Jos. Hume for $2,600 and S2,650, re spectively; lot 5, by Sam'l Elmore for S1.250 and lot 6, bv Gapt. Rogers for $1,200. . George James, first officer of the steamship Walla Walla, was arrested ih San Francisco on the 22nd ult, on a-chargo of smuggling thirty boxes of prepared opium, valued at $180, into that port. He was held to answer by United States Commissioner Saw yr, and bail fixed at $2,000. Political muCtering3 of next De dember's munioipal elections are Heard. Rather early. Better wait. Here we have to catch and pack a couple million dollars worth of salm on, and then comes the November prohibition election and lots other things. Wait till the olouds roll by. Bear in mind the readings in the M. E. church, to-morrow evening' by .Mrs. Nina Larowe, an elocutionist of acknowledged merit, and a lady of .culture. Tickets may be had at any of the bookstores or O. H. Cooper s Miss Katie Flavel has kindly volun teered to singtwo selections during tfie evening. A Seattle justice of the peace has knocked the cubio air ordinance into i. His decision and syllabus, "and Bummings up, and the rest of it is published in f nil and reads like Judge jDeady's. sledge hammers in the Ore 'gohian. The gist of his argument is that no sit ordinance shall say what size a sleeping room shall be. During'April seven vessels cleared foreign from the Columbia river. They carried 167,907 bus. wheat, worth $137,030, and 61,200 bbls flour. , aMrt .199. Two things are no ticeable in the monthly statistics of We pert: the small nnmber ot opht sraoe, snd the preponderance! flour fire shipments, being nearly three-fifths of the total. The brass band tonrnameut will be held at Pendleton on Juno 23, 24 and 25, and promises to be a very success ful affair. Tho premiums to be dis tributed are as follews: First, S400; second, 8200; third, dl00. For boys bauds, first, S309; second, S150; third. $50. Our Astoria band will havo their new uniforms by that time and will be on deck with the rest of the good players. Tho Astoria Gaslight company, a home institution, is about to make a step in the forward line of progress by the expenditure of S30,000" in the enlargement aud improvement of the plant. Tho new works take in the furnishing pf an Edison incandescent electric light system. There will bo a meeting next Saturday, at which time" the details of the purposed 'en largement will be arranged. Tho Frolic, owned by Messrs. Berg man, Christiansen and- Haaven, is fast approaching completion. She will form one of the fleet of little steamers that ply in this" vicinity and that help in building up Astoria's business. It is just such boasts as these that help make, the city grow. The present season sees a good in crease in the tonnage that supplies the country tributary to Astoria. The "British bark Arethusa, 154 days from Liverpool, consigned to Meyer, Wilson & Co.. -arrived in last Friday gvening. Tho British nark County of Merioneth, 1,065, 72 days from Newcastle, also arrived in. The latter vessel left here at 3:45 yes terday morning for Portland on a race for a thousand pounds. If she got there by sundown yesterday she saved a valuable charter; if not, tho ships ownsrs are out-just that much. There is a righteous howl all through the inl'ud empiro about tho suspension of tho long and short haul clause. The good and bad people of that great and growing.section think it is a dodgasted shame to pass a law to protect intermediate points and then knock the stuffing out of it by giving such termini as Astoria and San Francisco a living show. It is rough, but the whole ridioulpus .ef fort to make water run up Kill can have no other-outcome. "Y?e have lost all confidence," wails a Missouri editor, "in the in tegrity of the wild goose. He is an ungodly fraud. Day beforQyestcrday a flock.passed over this office going north. Relying on this indication of warm weather, we let the firo in the office stove go out that night, and. it turned cold, everything froze solid, the ink bottle broke, and when it thawed out yesterday it ran all over the office Bible, and ruined the only Bible in this congressional district." Two of the female soldiers of the salvation army from Portland went over to Vancouver the-other day with the intention of establishing a branch barracks there. The good people of "Vancouver thought the soldiers of the regular army are bad enough, and the Salvationists were notified there was no place they could get to hold meetings. Astoria is more lib eral and takes in saints and sinners alike, not excluding those who would rather be doorkeepers ih the house of the Lord than dwell in the tents of the wicked. The Telegram says tho suspension of section four of the interstate com merce law has been a source of con siderable disappointment to some merchants in Portland. They stocked up very high just before the law went into effect and then quietly shoved up the price to a point which would make a large sized profit even under tue tnree Hundred per cent, increase in the freight rate. Now the long and short haul clause has been sus pended, other merchants can get goods at special freight rates, the prices must come down again and the scheme for getting" suddenly rich falls, to the ground. A good panther story comes from the big bottom on the Cowlitz river. Frank Muldoon occupied a cabin on his claim three miles above Vance. On returning from work recently, he found that something had been in his cabin and strewn thing3 around pro miscuously. -He supposed the in truder to bo a dog, but the next evening on approaching the house a panther ran out of it, taking in its month a side of bacon. That night the animal was heard by Muldoon, but not seen; on the following day Muldoon took his gun with him to his work, leaving the house securely fastened,-but on -returning in the evening a racket inside was evidence that Mr. .Panther was at his evening meal. Investigation showed that he had torn off several boards from the back of the house. Mnldoon shouted to bring him out, and in a moment his head appeared at the hole, when Muldoon shot him in the neck. The wound did not cause death until the panther had spattered blood all over the house and demolished everything in it. Attention No. Onesl Regular meeting at 7:30 to-morrow evening. All members are requested to attends By order D. R. Blount, L. E. Selig, President. Secretary. Just Received. At Grav"s dock, ner schooner Oueen. 40 Tons Hay. For bale at Living Pi ices. Yes Marm those Baby Carriages have come, and they are without saying too much, "the finest assortment every seen here. Every style, color and shape you may want from six to fifty dollars. Adler thinks he can beat Portland styles and prices; and if you doubt it go to the Crystal Palace and he will convince, you. - A fine lot of Ladies Note Paper just received at the Crystal Palace. A Piano to rentcheap at the Crysta Palace. ' A PORTLAND VIEW OF IT. Distinct As the Billow?, the Sea. Yet One As Telegram, 23. We. publish to-day an article from The Astobian whioh presents a very logical view of an issue that within a year or two must become a pressing one with the Union Pacific. This great transcontinental road is now sending trains over an unbroken line from Omaha to Portland. By tho leaso of the O. R. & N. company's property, which is practically a pur chase of the same, it has come into possession, among other things, of a fleet of riv.er steamers that are prac tically worn out. These mu3t either be rebuilt and 'refitted for the. river trade, or some other shift must be made to accommodate the trade be tween thi3 city and the seaboard. The Astobiak's way, out of this di lemma is the building of a railroad branch of the Union Pacific from Hunter's Point, opposite Kalama, a distance of sixty miles, to Astoria. Such a branch would be detached from the main line of-the Union Pa cific, but connected with the same by the rails of the Northern Pacific from this city to Hunter's Point, and the arrangement would give an ocean terminus to the Union, -Pacific that would cause -wheat stiips-fetakejheir entire' cargo at ' Astoria direct 'from tho fields of eastern Oregon and Washington. It is 'assumed that Portland will be hostile to "this prop osition. 'In fact, it is asserted that "the one place that Portland fears is ABtoria." This will doubtless he news to tho business men of this city, since few, if any of them,- have ever viewed the attempts of Astoria to business rivalry with Portland as a matter to occasion concern, much less to inspire fear. Moreover, Portland is not now in a mood to consider itself ir.onaced y the -extension pf rail roads. Tho sun of its own prosperity is'risnig too brightly-for the fear of a rival to overcloud its commercial sky. A railroad as proposed would be a good thing for Astoria, and not nec essarily a bad thing for Portland. The commercial view of Oregon is widening, its trade is advancing upon tho basis that there is room for in dustry, push and legitimate endeavor in every direction. There is room for the lumber aud salmon interests of the lower Columbia, for the stock and wool interests of eastern Oregon, for the fruit and vine interests of the southern counties, and for the di versified interests of tho great Wil lamette valley. Room for Astoria as a shipping point end for an "ocean terminus" if the Un'ou Pacific so wills; and room for Portland to ex pand and grow as a great competing center of transcontinental railway lines. Astoria has muoh to hope for in the advancing wave of prosperity that is setting so strongly in a north westerly direction, and Portland, in the certainty that it is in the direct lino of the oncoming current, does not worry because the spray from the impetus gathered in long .and rapid transit is likely to dash beyond its limit, even to Astoria. She Sobered Ilim. Omaha man (time, 2 a. m.) M'dear, open door (hie), shus from buF-bnsi-nosB, m'dear (hie), ope door. Wife (at up-stairs window) Who are you? Go away or Pll oall tho po lice. "M'dear, Pm your husband, m'dear, ope door" "My husband, indeed!" My hus band came in four hours ago and it fast asleep. You -aro an impostor." "Eh! Wha-m'dear?" "My husband ia hero asleep." "Wha " "Here asleep. Go awav." "What?" "You are an impostor." "What! My gracious.! Oh I This is terrible!" "Well, now that you aro somewhat sober Pll let you in." Omaha World. The Latest and Greatest Disdorerjr. DR.J.DE PRATTS HAMBURG FIGS,A crystalized fruit oathartio. A discover' of the greatest interest to tho Medical Profession. A boon to every household. A most delicious laxative or purgative prepared from fruits and vegetables. So perfectly harmless that they may be adminis tered with entire safety to an infant. So efficacious to adults that a single dose Will prove their value, and so elegant a prcparotion that it needs only to be presented Jto tho public to become a necessity in every household throughout the land. For liver complaints, habitual con stipation, indigestion, dyspepsia and piles, they are a specific To trav elers by sea and land they will be found invaluable; they are positive ly unfailing in their action, and this is tho only medicine over offered to tho public that is acceptable to the taste, and so pleasant that children will eat the figs as eagerly as candy. For sale by every Druggist through out the world. Price, 25 oonts a box. J. J. Mack & Co., Prop's, 9 and 11 Front street, San Francisco, Cal. Telephone Lodging House. Best Beds In town. Rooms per night 50 and 25 cts., per week S1.50. New and clean. Private entrance. Ten cents for a cup of Fabre's coffee. The finest and nicest stejfk to be nice had in town at Fabre's At The Iloldcn House A few more boarders can be accom modated with or without rooms. Try Fabre's celebrated pan roast. What! Do You Think Jeff-of the U. S. gives you a meal for nothing and a glass; of something to drink? Xot much; but he gives the best meal and more of It than any other restaurant in town. 25 T?pnts. Eastern oysters -fresh every steamer at Jeff's restaurant. What is better than a glass of liquor? A cup of delicious coffee at F'abre's. - Gotojefl&fbroystcrfc, Private "Rooms. THE FIRST OF MAY. One Tonrh of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin. The Simpsons were moving! They had rather fallen into the habit;" it was easier to move than to clean house. And as the place they lived in was always owned by some body else, they had no particular in terest in slaying there. It had its advantages, this annual flitting, but there weie alsj numer ous disadvantages, too, if one stopped to reckon them up. Mr. Simpson had no time to do this. He was too busy earning the money to pay rent to grasping landlords. Mrs. Simpson had no inclination. She thought of the places on the walls where the heads of the family were photographed, of the smoky ceiling, the ash heaps in the back yard. She wanted to cut loose from all these disagreeable associations. Mr. Simpson let her have her own way; he merely remarked parenthet ically that the children would soon be like the farmer's hens. Ho had moved so often that whenever they saw a white canvas oovered wagon cross the prairie they laid down and held up their feet to be tied. The disadvantage was in tearing up things that had taken root. The chairs and sofas, tho stove, jind pict ures and piano, had all adjusted themselves, hoping they had come to stay. Like the fabled mandrake of olassio lore, they shrieked with pain when torn up from their native soil. It was rather awkward for Mrs. Simpsou to go around explaining to her friends that she Had moved again. It gave her the feeling of being a sort of peripatetic show. But she expatiated upon the supreme drain ago and advanced school privileges of the new quarters, and so built a new road to her Rome. But thi3 time it. was harder than ever to move, because because well the baby was gone. She had died in that house tue little Ada, the sweet three-year-old-baby and Mrs. Simp son had said that was why she want ed to move. She could not bear to stay where everything reminded her of her darling. But she realized be fore she left the house that she had made a mistake. The very walls were magnetized with the sweet presence. And if the cry of pain still lingered in the silence was it not offset by the merry, -bubbling laughter, the patter, patter of her tiny, musical feet, the -joyous bird-call of the vanished baby? There were her little finger marks on tho doors the track of her small feet on the threshold the very spot on the wall where she had braced her small, defiant head so many times when she would not come at mamma's call. And some one had marked thero with a pencil a date, with the word?, "Ada so high." She had grown higher now. By no earthly measure could they roach her angel stature. ' - Ever since the days when it was recorded iu Holy Writ, "And a little child shall lead them," children have been wise aud sweet adjnsters. Some times they straighten out some en-, tangled skein by living, sometimes by dying. And this bring3 me again to the moving and the reason why the Simpsons will not move this Bpring, nor next spring nor any other spring, please God, until they go into tho house not made with hands. They had moved and were all in heaps in the now house, which was nobody's home. The distracted furniture stood around on one leg, and shrieked whenever it was touched. The stoves were down and refused to go up. The carpets wero misfits aud contracted themselves out of shape. Everything else went and got lost. Mrs. Simpson was nearly distracted. Mr, Simpson had his hat on side ways; his face was red and his voice keyed way up. Then the little army of children came in, sat down on tho carpets and began to cry in unisen: . "We want to go home! We want to go homel" "Home!" echoed Mrs. Simpson; home! why, this is home, children!" "No it aiu't!" they howled, "it's a" house 'tain't a home!" That speech had tho funniest effeot npon Mr. Simpson. He caught up first one child and then another and hngged and squeezed it. "Yon blessed little darlings!" he cried. "You are right; houses are not homes. Out of the whole flock thero is only one who has a home. But you shall have one or your father will know the reason why." That settled it. Terrible Pains. -DR. FLINT'S HEART REMEDY banishes sickUeadache, and will pre vent ttie return of this most terrible of pains, if taken when tho warning symptoms give notice of tho recur rence of an attack. At druggists $1.50. Descriptive treatise with, each bettle: or address J. J. Mack & Co., S; P. JKFF'S United States Restaurant is the best and cheapest in Astoria. The best Fabre's. oysters in any style at Gumbriuus Beer And Free Lunch at the Telephone Sa- loon, 5 cents. Private Itoom. At Frank Fabre's for suppers, par ties, etc. The best cooked to order. Shiloh's Catarrh Keniedy a posi tive ure for Catarrh, Diptheria and Canker Mouth. Sold bv W. E. Dement. A New And Enlnrced toclc of Choice Brands f Clears. Imported Key West and domestic. All tastes can be satisfied and all pockets suited as to price. TansIU'sPunch and Junior's in full supply as usual at D. L. Beck & Sons. Go To Crow's Gallery. The leading photographer. For the finest ohotos m all the latest stylea and I of superior tuiish. I'EBSOXAL. Mrs. Laura Boedefeld, of Tacoma, is in the city. Deputy Sheriff Lounsberry of Port land, who has been standing off the bold bad men on the morning, watch" of the County of Flint, leaves for his inland home this morning. Astonishing Success. It is the duty of every person who has used Boscnee's German Synip to let its wonderful qualities be known to their friends in curing Consump tion, severe Coughs, Croup, Asthma, Pneumonia, and in fact all throat and lung diseases. No person oan use it without immediate relief- Three doses will relieve any case, and we consider it the duty of all Druggists to recommend it to the poor, dying consumptive, at least to try one' bottle, as 80,000 dozen bottles were sold last year, and no one case where it failed wa3 reported. Such a medicine as the German Syrup cannot be too widely known. Ask your druggist about it Sample bottles to try sold at 10 cents. Regular size, 75 cents. Sold by all Druggists- and Dealers, in the United States and Canada. Lijtle People. Teacher (giving directions for standing) Stand with your heels to gether, toes turned out, making an angle of forty degrees. This was followed by a look of bewilderment on one boys face. Teaoher Well, Tim, do you know what I mean? Do yon know what a degree is? Pu pil Yes, sir. Teacher What? Pupilsixty-nine and one-fourth miles. Boston Journal of Education. ' A little one was soon to gaze fix edly at the crescent moon, which she detected in hazy outline early one morning. After looking for a mo ment to satisfy herself that what she saw was not duo to the workings of fancy, she ran shouting with laughter to her mother, and when she could trust herself to speak, broke out with: "Such a joke oh our Heavenly Father! He forgot to take in His moon last night I" We have heard of a child whose mother sang to her nightly the hymn: Hash! my child, lie still and slumber; Holy angels'guard thy bed. The mother finally noticed that the little girl always covered her face for "the night with the sheet. Pressed to explain this, she said she "didn't think it fair for the angels to watch her when she could not see them." Another night she burst out with: "Mother, I cannot bear the angels here any longer! They must go out and stand in tho hall!" An End to Bone Scraping. Edward Shepherd, of Ilarrisburg, 111., says: 'Having received so much bene fit from Electric Bitters, I feel it my duty to let suffering .humanity know it. Havts had a running sore on my leg for fichi years: my doctors told me I would -i have to Jiave the bone scraped or leg amputated, i uea, instead, tnreH Dot tles nf Electric Bitters and seven boxes Buckien's Arnica Salve, and my leg is now sound and well." Electric Bitters are sold at fiftv cents a botti. and Buckien's Arnica.Salvo at 25c. per box by Y. E. Dement & Co. Herman -Wise THE RELIABLE OlotMer and Hatter It is no empty boat to assert, that for the time I have been established, my business expectations. has grown beyond my Any candid observer will admit that .to succeed one must gain and retain the confidence of the Public. It has always bee'n mv aim todeal fair, to sell Goods at a legiiimatc profit, and treat all alike. That it pays to deal honestly, my growiug business will testify. Desiring a eoutinance of the good will of my neighbors promise to always give Musical Instruments AT THE New York Novelty Store Still Leads and i r lends I Full yawe For Your Money. Herman Wise, (Occident Hotel Building.) s - PDCAT Bargains IN 1 1 n'nv niiuuir: AND Glove Department. P w u. n Sole Agent For Astoria For The Sale Of the Celebrated P. Centemeri Received from the Manufacturers direct, upwards of 50 dozen of the above Famous Kid Gloves in Black, Dark colors, Tans, Greys and all the late shades. Plain and Embroidered Stitched backs and in Various Lengths. Also a very large Stock of SILK, TAFFETTA IN ALL THE. LATE COLORS AND MAKES. Lace Mitts for Ladies and Children in every Conceivable Color and in Various Late Styles and Lengths, The Leading Dry Goods and Clothing House OF ASTORIA. Ui Hi YOU NEEDN'T Paste This On Your Looking Glass. . You will be sure to seo it in The Astorian and will remember it, because it is 'for your interest to do so. No premium Cnroraos, Gilt enterprises. Bean guessers, or any other clap trap, is resorted to by D. L. BECK & SONS-to sell their goods. Honest Goods, Honest Weights and Small profits is their motto, the cost of the clap trap being taken ofLtho price of the goods. And the people like it bettei than the chance enterprise, where one out of hundreds gets the prize, for they all get it in the price of - the goods. REMEMBER: If yeu want cannery supplies, go to 2). X. BECK & jSOIPS. If you want Roller flour, Oat, Graham, Rye or Corn Meal, go to D. L.JBECK & SOWS. If vou want Wheat, Shorts, Bran, or Rolled Barley, go to D. L. BECK & 80NS. If vou want Cheese, Best fresh Butter and Eggs, go to D. Z. BECK & SQtfS. If vou want Breakfast Bacon, Hams, Pig's feet or Lard", J . - go to JD. L. BECK& SONS. Ifyou want Sardines, Anchovies,Holland or Smoked Herring - . Boneless Cod or Codfish brick, Stock fishetc, go to B. Z. BECK & SON'S If vou want Sugar, Syrup, N. O. Molasses, Palace Drips, go to B. Z. BECK & SONS If you want Vermont Maple Sugar, pure Maple Syrup or - Fresh Cal. Honey, go to B. Z. BECK & SONS If you want Sauerkraut, Chow Chow, Pickles or Gherkins, in bulk or glass, go to B. Z. BECK & SONS If you want Nuts Seedless or Layer Raisins, Dry Apples or any other dry or Canned Fruit, go to B. Z.JBECK& SONS Tn short, if vou want anv kind of Stapje or Fanoy Groceries go to B.Z. BECK & SONS Do you want tho best Coal Oil in the market, or the best Oil ' Can ever invented, go to B. Z. BECK & S ONS Do vou want Brooms, Tubs, Pails, Washboards,Clothespins, go to B. Z. BECK & SONS Do you want Hall and Parlor Hanging or Parlor, Chamber or Kitchen Stfod Lamps, go to B.'Z. BECK & SONS Do vou want Plain Decorated China or Crockery Ware, 'White; or Fancy Glass Ware, go to J? X BECK & SONS Do you want Vases or other Ornamental articles, Silver plated Knives and Forks, Table or Tea Spoons, go to B X BECK& SONS Do you want any kind of Cigars or Tobacco, from cheap and common to the best to be had, go to B X BECK & SONS In fact, if you want anything in our line, you will go home happy and sleep contentedly if you buy of ' D. L. BECK & SONS.- COOPER Kid Glovesr GLOVES COOPER ,' .41 A .&-1 -iia 1 ?,.