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3J 1 ?hc gaitjj Syrian. ASTORIA, OREGON: SUNDAY- -JANUAUY 29. 18E8 ISSUED EVERY MORNING. (Monday excepted.) J. P. HALLORAN & COMPANY, Publishers and l'roprictors, ASTORIAX BCILDI.VO, - - CASS STREET. Terms of Subscription. Sen ed h v Carrier, per w eek Sent bv Mail, per month 15cts Wets r.ou one year.. Free of postage to subscribers. The Astoriak guarantees to its ad er asers the largest circulation of any newspa per published on the Columbia ri er. About 600 cs. salmon remain at tbe Long Island cannery. The ice in tbe Willapa was fifteen inches thick last -week. Court will be held in Oysterville on the last Monday in March and Au gust Yesterday's moon eclipse was invis ible. The snn was eclipsed a part of the time. The Columbia, Oregon and Walla Walla are here. The State will be down to-day. Reports from Shoalwater bay are to the effect that serious damage has been done to the oyster beds by the late freeze. In the Washington territory last Friday an actto create a fish commis sion and provide for the propagation of food fish, offered by Warman, was indefinitely postponed. The li. R. Thompson arrived down from Portland yesterday and starts to-day to tow a vessel up. It will be some days before she resumes her night ronte. The Bonita leaves at six to-morrow morning. Eev. E. Hove will hold divine ses vice at 230 p. m., to-day, in the Swedish church, upper Astoria. As he is an eloquent speaker, it is inter esting to hear him for those who un derstand the language Norwegian. The Oregon & California road, which had a debt of S10,000,000 when bought lately byStandford, Hunting ton and Crocker, will shortly be tak en out of the hands of the receiver. The bondholders will receive n new issue of long time bonds at a reduced rate of interest There was another handsome addi tion yesterday afternoon to the fund for purchasing a team of horses to pull the engine of Kescue No. 2, by Brenham VanDusen, who subscribed 855. The team has been bought, a handsome span of iron greys, which will weigh 1,400 pounds each, and has been named "Nick" and "Char ley." The steamer City of New York, from China and Japan, entered San Francisco harbor last Friday flying a yellow flag. Three cases of smallpox were found on board. The purser contracted the disease before the steamer started and was left in Hong Kong, and a lady cabin passenger died on the passage. The steamer has been placed in quarantine. The News learns that Gov. Pen noyer's sawmill had lost 2,000,000 feet of logs during the recent break-up of the ice in the river. These logs were valued at 12,000. Two steam boats are busily engaged in recover ing the logs, and it is thought quite a number will be saved, but it will cost from one-third to one-half what they are worth to recover them. J. H. Jones fc Co. lost between 200.000 and 300,000 feet of logs, valued at 86 per M feet, but expect to recover a major portion of them. An extensive raft of this firm's logs was caught in the Willamette river near the mouth. The raft had hung together well, and was caught by a steamer and tied to the bank. Some time since Edward Parry, a seaman on the American ship Merom, which was in the river last Septem ber, dissappeared and was supposed to have deserted or to have been drowned, and wages amounting to S1L10, due him for services on ship board, were left by the ship's captain with collector of customs Abrahams. Afterward Parry's body was discov ered floating in the Columbia at Asto ria, and was buried by the coroner of Clatsop county. Yesterday, says the News of the 28th, in the United States court, Judge Deady, in re sponse to an application, ruled that the money duo Parry should be used to help defray the funeral expenses of the deceased, and ordered that it be paid into the treasury of Clatsop county. Frcsli Taffy Every Dnj" At Johnson Brothers' Bakery. Gauibrlnus Beer And Free Lunch at the Telephone Sa loon, 5 cents. A Sunny Boom With the comforts of a home, library, etc. Apply at Ilolden House. Are you made miserable by Indiges tion, Constipation, Dizziness, Loss of Appetite, Yellow Skin? Shioh's Vital izer is a positive euro. For sale by w. E. Dement & Co. A fine cup of coffee, at Whitcomb & McGillas's. Private Kooins. At Whitcomb & McGillas's restaurant, for suppers, parties, etc The best cooked to order. Fine Dwelling Douse to Bent. Good termstosuitable tenant Inquire at this office. Nautical Almanacs, And Pacific Coast Tide Tables, for sale at the New York Novelty Store. mrtr"T"tfvmm THEEE PASSENGEES DE0WNED. The Loss of the Steamer "Gleaner." Capsized Near Tousue Point at Koon Yesterday. Upon tho arrival of the steamer Im provement from across tho river shortly before seven o'clock yesterday cveuiun, " was learned mat a dread ful accident had befallen the steamer tr leaner and her passengers about noon, near Tongue Point. Considerable excitement was acca sioned by conflicting rumors regard ing the calamity, and several contra dictory stories were in circulation. Capt. Peter Jordan, the master of the unfortunate little craft, was in terviewed about nine o'clock, and the following is his acconnt of the occur eccur ence: "We left Wilson & Fisher's dock for Deep Kiver at 1030 this morning. The steamer Lillian had left for Knappton about twenty minntes be fore, and the Improvement for Gray's river about three-quarters of an hour before. There were seventeen pas sengers aboard and we had between three and four tons of freicht. some of wnicn was forward and some ait. "'The wind was blowing strom? from thosonthwest WhenwegottoTongue i pint mere was a heavy swell run ning, and when about a mile nortli and east of the point the vessel broached to, the freight listed and she capsized, going on her beam ends. She couldn't right herself and imme diately began settling. When I felt her sinking I climbed out of the pilot house window, jumped into the river and swam to a fishing boat that we have in tow. Several who could swim also jumped off and made for the boat, climbing in, and as soon as pos sible a lino was thrown from the fish ing boat, she was hauled alongside and those wno were hanging on were taken into the boat. 'I do not remember ihe name? of all the passengers. I had not col lected the fares and cannot recall the names of all aboard. There were H. A. Shaw, Jr., Ellsworth Shaw, Peter Waeken, Erik Mannala, O. Nelson, Malcolm McFarland, and a friend of his, Isaac Melin, Cole, Jacob Rennell, Mrs. Olson, Mis3 Mary Holt, Mrs. Lewis, and Miss Hilda Wilma. 'Three of those, Miss Holt, Miss Wilma and Jacob Renuell, were in the cabin or some other part of the boat and didn't get out quick enough, and were drowned. It wasn't more than two minutes from the time the boat upset till she had sunk in about thirty feet of water, about four feet of the pilot house sticking up. "Cole was in the stern of the boat, and jumped in as soon as ho felt the boat going over, lie threw out the net that was in the boat and after wards we flung overboard tho pig iron ballast We staid around about fifteen minutes and seeing no sign of the bodies nor any chance of saving them we started for Stark's Point, at the mouth of Deep River, two men row ing. We got to Stark's Point short ly after noon. Myself, the engineer, Chris, and Erik Manuala, who was badly hurt, came over on the Im provement, .Thick I had sent a mes senger after and which came over from Gray s river as soon as possible. The remainder of those who were in tho boat went on to Deep Eivcr. "The Gleaner was 40 feet keel, 12 foot beam, about 8 tons burthen, and was worth 83,000." "About twenty minute3 after we took to the boat I saw a stern wheeler coming down the ship chan nel. It was so misty I couldn't make out what her name was. That was all the boat I saw.'' Jacob Renell, one of the victims of the disaster, was a Russian, aged 40 years, a hard-working man, a resident of Salmon creek. What adds to the terrible surroundings is the fact that he leaves a wife and six children, tbe eldest of whom i3 12years of age. Miss Mary Holl, another of those drowned, was a daughter of W. W. Holt, of this city. She was in the 26th year of her age. She canio here from Keokuk, Iowa, in April 1886, with her father and uncles. Henry A. Shaw, Jr., mado n gallant effort to save her. She was in his arms at one time and he was trving to get her to tho boat, when nhe was suddenly struck apparently lifeless. It has since transpired that she was subject to fainting fits, which some times were of an hour's duration, and doubtless in the terror of the moment the unfortunate young lady was seized with a spasm that was the means of her losing her life. Miss Hilda Wilma, the third of tho drowned passengers, was aged fifteen years. Her father and mother live at Deep River. Erik Manulna had a narrow escape. He was below, and when tho boat tipped over, was under the water line. He extricated himself, got out through a window, terribly cutting and bruising himself, and was flung against thefishing boat by a friendly wave in time for strong hands to seize and drag him in as he swept by. When he recovered consciousness he found himself lying in the bottom of the boat When the Improvement arrived last evening he was so weak from cold, loss of blood and exposure that he had to bo carried to the sur geon's office. Three pieces of bone were extracted from his noso and his wounds dressed. When tho Improvement was re turning she cruised up and down for sometime in the vicinity of the dis aster, but neither the boat nor any trace of the drowned passengers could be discerned. Bad as it is and sorrowful though the result, it appears evident that had it not been for the fortunate accident of having the fishing boat in tow the list of the drowned would have been terribly increased. It is not perhaps saying too much to say that that fishing boat was the means of saving the lives or ail who landed-at Stark's Point The Gleaner had a small boat and a life raft, but no attention was paid to either, which were allowed to float away, everyone recognizing that their safety lay in tbe large fishing boat fTO-l- ..mT-Wl-WCTg5 that, properly handled, could ride the stormiest water. Tho Gleaner was not a fortunate craft. Sometime ago she was snagged, and since then was damaged some what by fire while lying at her wharf, each time requiring extensive re pairs. It is stated with a considerable de gree of positiveness that when the boat left Wilson & Fisher's wharf she bad thirty-one people aboard, and when the fishing boat put off from the wreck there were twenty-eight in it. Captain Jordan asserts, positively, that there were seventeen on board when he left Wilson & Fisher's dock, and he certainly ought to know if anybody does. The loss of the Gleaner, with the dark accompaniment of the sadder loss of life, is believed to bo the first instance of the kind in this vicinityJ .Boats nave suuk ana people nave been drowned from boats here, but the capsizing of a steamboat and the drowning of a portion of her passen gers is something that we do not rec ollect ever having chronicled here be fore. Capt. Jordan, who has bad a hard ran. of luck lately, and lost all ho bad in that boat, will go out on the Improvement this morning and look for any possiblo trace of his boat. She had but about a cord and a half of wood on board, and would hardly float. There is a possibility, if found, of saving something from the wreck. Communicated. Portland, Not. 26, 1887. Mr Deab Mr. Wisdem: You have reason to feel proud of the success of Bobertine. I have used it constantly for a whole year and find it beautiful and beneficial for the complexion. It possesses all the qual ities you claim for it, and I have much pleasure in recommending it. The "Kobertino Powder," your latest addition to the Artistic toilet, makes a charming finish and is worthy of its companion, Eobertine, Yours truly, Jeannie Winston. Refers to Messrs. W. E. Dement & Co., Astoria, Or. A Cold Night at Polar River. The other day there was in this city quite a distinguished youngman. His celebrity consists of his having recorded the lowest temperature ever observed within the bouuds of civiliz ation. His name is George A. Garden, and he was on his way from Lamar, Mo., to Chicago, where he will act as assistant observer in the signal office. It was on New Year's morning, 18S5, that Mr. Carden, then the signal ob server at Poplar river, M. T., sent on the solitary telegraphic wire that con nected him with the world outside this brief bntstartlingannenncemcnt: "Temperature, 62.1 degrees below zero." "I tossed about all night trying to keep warm," said Mr. Carden. "The big stove I kept nearly red hot, but still the little room would not get warm. It seemed as cold as the outer air. Upon me I had piled covering equivalent to twenty thicknesses of blankets. Army blankets, buffalo robes, buffalo coats, cloth coats, everything in the sbapo of protection was heaped upon my little bed, yet still I shivered under it all. No one can form an idea of tho cold tbat night. I had to wear the heaviest mittens, and my sealskin cap was polled down over my ears. Odpg I reached my bare hand out of the bed to throw another stick of wood on tho fire, and before I could get the wood in, my hand was so benumbed tbat I had to drop the stick. Mind you, all this timo the firo was roaring and crackling." .S'i. Louis Post Dis patcli. Notice to Mariners. Office Light House Inspector, i TimvTEEOTn District, Portland, Or., Jan. 27, 18SS. ) Notice is hereby given that tho four-pilo beacon (with the red lens lautcrn light) on the port side of Swan Island channel, Willamette river, also the Five-pile beacon (with the white lens-lantern light) on the starboard side of the same channel are carried away. Both beacons and lights will be re established as early as practicable. By order of tho lighthouse board. U. Sebree, Inspector Thirteenth Lighthouse District. Prophylactic Fluid. (Jives prompt and permanent relief in burns, scalds, chilblains, venomous stings or bites, cuts or wounds of every description. It is invaluable in scarlet fever, iliph- incna, smaii-pox, cnoiera, yellow, ly piioiu aim outer levers. For sick-rooms, to prevent the spread of contagion, it is the best disinf cctaiit known. Hon. Alex. II, Stephens, of Ga. Darbys Prophylactic Fluid is article of little cost, but great value. Its do mestic as well as medicinal uses are numerous while its specialities are. most wonderful. No head of a familv should ever be without it Meals Cooked to Order. Private rooms for ladies and families: at Central Uestauraiit, next to Foard & Stokes'. Any case of Croup can be easily treat ed and cured by using "The 'Child's Cougli Syrup." Full directions with eacli package, which can only be pur chased at Dement's drug store. Choice Table Butter At Carnahan & Co.'s. "llackmetack," a lasting and fra grant perturae. Price 25 and 60 cents. sold Dy w. js. uement. X,olgiu House to Rent, Anil furniture for sale. For particulars inquire at this office. irni.oii's Cuke will immediately relievo Croup, Whooping CourIi, and Bronchitis, hold by W.E. Dement & Co The finest and juciest steak at Whit comb & McGillas's. PERSONAL MENTION. John Fussell is in San Francisco. Thos. Boelling returned from Port land yesterday. Sheriff Ross returned from Gray's River last evening. p.ntTpno Rrnck is stendilv imnrrnr ing but is not jet strong enough to sit up. G. O. Moen returned yesterday from San Francisco. There was just enough variety about bis trip over land to make it interesting. Does It Pay? Three-fourths of our people are troubled with Dyspepsia and liver Complaint in some form or other, which by nature of the disease has a depressing influence on the mind or body, preventing them from thinking or acting clearly in any matter of im portance. Indigestion, coming up of food after eating, 'dyspepsia, sick head-ache, acidity of the stomach or any derangement of the stomach or liver (upon which the whole action of our system depends) are speedily and effectually overcome by the use of Green's Auqust Flower. The most stubborn cases have yielded to its in fluence, as thousands of letters re ceived will testify. The immense sale of this medicine is another guarantee of its merits, (over a million and a half bottles sold last year.) So wo ask, will it pay you to suffer from any of the above diseases when you can nave immuuiuiu reiiei in ino AUfUSl Flower. Three doses will prove its worth. It is sold by all druggists and general dealers in all parts of the world. How to Avoid Unprofitable Detention. Ocean steamers and sailing craft have no business at Portland and the day of dragging vessels up into the interior should be in the past. Asto ria is n seaport, and with connection inland by rail this unprofitable de tention, sucb as wo have just endured, would end. Pacific Journal. Their Uiisiiicsf Booming. Probably no one thing lias caused such a general revival of 'trade at W. E. Dement & Co.'s Drug Store as their giv ing away to their customers of so many free trial bottles of Dr. King's New Dis covery for Consumption. Their trade is simply enormous in this very valu able article fiom the fact that it always cures and never disappoints. Couglis. Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Croup, and all throat and liinc diseases ouicklv cured. You can test it before buying by getting a trial bottle free, large size SI. Every bottle warranted. OyMerji In Krery Style At. tllf (Vntrnl l?(stnnrniit iipvr. to Foard &. Stokes'. . ....... ...... ..u.. Vnr (lift vprv hpit rnrtnr rt tn TI S Sinister. Solid". Pennant's Nautical Almanac. Pacific Coast Diaries, and Tide Tables for 1888, M UKIFFIX CC HEED S. Coffee and cake, ten cents, at Whit comb & McGillas's. Every mother is interested in know iii!i that a special preparation for chil dren, called "The Child's Cougli Syrup" is now for sale only at Dement's drug store. The best Ovsters in any style, at Whitcomb & McGillas's. All the patent medicines advertised i' .his paper, together with the choicest .erfumerj". and toilet articles, etc-can ie bought at the lowest prices, at .1. W. Conn's drug store, opposite Occident betel, Astoria. A Nasal Injector tree with each bottle of Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy ?rice 30 cents. Sold by W. E. Dement Telephone J.o-tsinff House. Best Beds in town. Rooms per night 50 and 25 cts., per week Si JO. New and clean. Private entrance. "ROSCOE CONKLINC," No. 354. P. C. J.C.I. II. It., Tf INNER or the Tno-jear-old Sweepstake at State Fair, 1SS7 I offer to public patronage, the serving of tliis magnificent registered Jersey Bull : D.im. Annie Looncy 3rd. No.GSJ, Mime reg ister ; liutter record. 17 lbs. 12 oz. ot unsalted butter in 7 days. Those who wish Milk Rich In Cream, will find it profitable to mate their cows to this butter-bred bull. Service fee reasonable. J. A. KOWAN, one block west of M.un street, (on the county road) near Young's river. -THE- STEAMER WALLUSKI, JOHN (!. BLAKE. Master, Is ready for business, and will do Towing or BUSINESS OF ANY KIND On the lllver. at reasonable rates. Head- luartcrsat (ir.iy's Wharf. J. II. I. GKAY, . Agent. Over 6,000,000 PEOPLE USE RRT e C J & J 0.M.FERRY&C0. K. B- mo admitted to bo tho Largest Seedsmen in ino wufiu D.H.FE.HBTA CO'S IUutntM, Dftcrlp. SEED ANNUAL For 1888 wiD be mailed FREE TO ALL applicants, ana to last season's customers with out ordering it. Invaluable to all. Every perron using Carden,Floldo'Flower ff rr"rOli0tt!d send for SEtUb is. AadrtM D. M. FERRY&CO.,Potrolt,M.ch. TEE PINGEE & COKgBB CO'S UEAUInu arcw.'fawi aLlvarieties, sizes and PRICES FIVE ErEH-BLUumiau rt.nrc.iuni-, ' CLIMBING AND uoss ROSES. MP W AND RARE FLOWER SEEDS . . " JK m ht c . Kew Moon Hower. Olenitis, rts-J!JAMl LILIES. KewCirrMnth.. VNDERKULORNAMENTAL :.i,tr-.to.l. describes over 1330 NEW EST and iMCPST Varieties Of ROSCS.StbD!, iMTS and BULBS, and teEa how to grow -1-4 Free If yoato plant anything, send iT3 Vparo Established. ocereSmv. ,7.l?i .THE DINCEE &. CONARD CO. W aWTCS.Wt Grove. Cheater Co.. Pa. s!m8Si jfifcttz&xnz MaUSSL,Xay ECON The Owing to the continued rush at this estab lishment we are compelled to engage extra help, along with the improved Lamson's Gash Hall way system, thereby saving our patrons the trouble of waiting. Our store is crammed with goods from floor to ceiling. Novelties arriving daily per Ex press from the East. P. S. Wholesale buyers and patrons from the Country will please call in the morning, thereby saving the usual afternoon rush. -TIIE- DIAMOND PALACE! GUSTAY HANSEN, Trop'r. A Large and Well Selected Stock of Fine Diamoniis s Jewelry At Extremely Low Prices. All floods lloaght at This Establishment Warranted Genuine. Yl'ulcli unci Clock Repairing A SPECIALTY. Corner Cass and Squemoqua Streets. Carnahan & Co. SUCCESSORS TO T. "W. CASE, IMI'OKTEItS AND WHOLESALE AND KETAIL DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Corner Cltenamus andJCass stre els. ASTCUIA OKEGON BOOTS AND SHOES! Of Best Quality, and at LOWEST PRICES, AT THE SIGN OF THEJOLDEH SHOE. TOHCKT TTAEEKT. fflURKAY & CO., GEOCERS And Dealers la nTx n, Special Attention Given to Filling Of Orders. A FULL LINE CARRIED And Supplies furnished at Satis factory Terms. Purchases delivered In any part ot the city. Office and "Warehouse In Hume's New Building on Water Street. P. O. Box 153. Telephone No. 37. ASTORIA. OREGON. VirginlaCigar anft Tobacco Store J. W. B0TT0XI, Proprietor, Water Street, Two Doors East ol Olney. Fine CIgarj, Tobacco and Smokers Articles, Sold at Lowest Market Kates. FRUITS. CANDIES NOTIONS.&o 1 B iitiyiIi nn I biuiMj mm- COMBINED WITH place Where to -IS AT THE- FEE H MERIES AID PROfl II Promptly Delivered AT LOWEST PRICES IN ANY PART OF THE CITY. Fruits and Vegetables In Season. Everything Warranted as Represented. Corner Cheiiamus and Benton Streets. FIRE- BRICK dealer ix FIRE CLAY Hay, Oats, an! Straw, Lime, Brick, Cement, Sanfl anfl Plaster Wood Dclliered to Order. rajing,Tf -trains and Impress Business. XEU apply to the Captain, or to The New Model Range CAN BE HAD IN ASTORIA, ONLY OF Agent. Call and Examine It ; You Wlil be Buck Patent Cooking Stove, AND OTHER FIRST CLASS STOVES. Furnace Work, Steam Fittings, Etc., a Specialty. A Full Stock on Hand. BAZAR. Co to Nora Rappleyea's, FOR Tablescarf', Embroideries, Underwear uress uoous, uuuons. ituenmg, German Knitting Yarn, Spanish Yarn Worsteds, Aprons, Handkerchiefs, Knitting Silk, Embroidery Silk, Collars and Cuffs, Pins and Needles, Etc., Etc. Ladies invited to call. Stamping done to order. One door south of AsToniAJf office, Cass St. . Fashionable Dressmaking. MRS. JOHNSON. A First-class Dressmaker, lately from the East, is associated with Miss M. L. Richardson, On Cass Street. 3 doors south of The Asto kiait office, where they are pre pared to do Dressmaking In All Its Branches. Ladles, give them a call and be convinced. A perfect Fit Guaranteed. buy STCAMEB S1M1U PARKER Eben P. Parher,Master. For TOWING, FREIGHT orCIIAU- il. It. PARKKJt. H WSkBiSfiitS. AHCfcxJTD Pleased. E. K. Hawes Is also Agent fur the ESTABLISHED - - 1870. Transacts a General Banking Business. Drafts drawn available In any part or the U. S. and Europe, and on HongKong, China Odd Fellows Buildixc, Astoi 1 1. Oregon. Furniture and Upholstering, Mattresses Made and Repaired, Paper Hanging, Carpets Sewed and Laid. Furniture Sola on Commission. Shop, corner Main and Jefferson Strep's MARTIN 0LSEN. .