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f'1 v -v 'V VOL.XXX1J NO HI ASTORTA OREGON THURSDAY OCTOBER 4. 1888. PRICE JblVE CENTS BUSINESS OAEDS. I OilS . H3I1TII. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on Cass street, 2 doors back of Odd fellows Building, Astoria, Oregon. "OEEJI KAXAGA, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Kojiu9, Pythian Building. Astoria, Oregon, Q.KO. OLA.'I, ATTORNEY AT LAW. 'hrt In Kinney's Block, opposite City ll.i'.l. Astoria. Oregon. n K111.TOX. G. C. FULTON rill.TOM BKOTHKRS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. 's.kiiih 5 and 6. Odd Fellows Building. C R. TIIOJISOM , Attorney at Law and Notary Public. Special attention Riven to practice in the U. m. Land Olllce, and tlio examination of land titles. A full set of Abstract Books for Cl.ilsop County in olllce. office Up stairs, opposite Telegraph onice. J q. A. K01VI.UY, Miorury "tirt Counsellor nt Law oirlco on Chenamus Street, Astoria. Oregon I U. WATSOJf, Atty.at Law and Deputy Dist. Atty. Ail business before the U. H. Land Offlco a prclalty, ASTOItIA, - - OltKfiON. l. J. K. IiAFOKCb, DENTIST. Rooms 11 ana 12 Odd Fellows Building, ASTORIA, - - - OREGON, g)KS. A. lu AXU J. A. Fll ITON. IMiysU-Inus and Surgeons. Office on Cass street, three doors south of Odd Fellow's bunding. Telephone No. 41. JAY TITTTLi:, 31. J. ".'. :S(CIAN AND SURGEOW Oki'icf Rooms C Pythian Building. Residknck : SK corner Wall and West Sth streets, opposite I. W. Case's. DENTIST. Rooms la Alien's Building, up stairs, cor ner Cass and bquemoqua streets. Astoria Oregon. M its. DIE. ohi:h-ai)aii:. Offlco and residence. D.K. Warren's for mer residence, Astoria, Oregon. Diseases of Women and Children, and of the 12 jo and Ejr, specialties. !T)".. B.12STKK. I'll YSIC1AN AND SURGEON. OKi'icre : (Jem Building, up stairs, Astoria, Oregon. ru. aijFicku kioey, Office at Kinney's Cannery. Will only attend patients at his office, and may be found there at any hour. J-VK. flllXK PAr, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Opposite Telegraph Olllce. Astoria. Oregon. A. SMITH, DENTIST. Rooms 1 and 2 Tythlan Building over C. H. Cooper's Store. PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY There Is no occasion for the most fastidi ous of our citizens to send to Portland or San Francisco for Custom Made Clothes As they can pet Better Fits. Better Work manship, and for less Money. By Leaving their Orders with MEANY. New Goods by Every Steamer. Call and See film and Satisfy Tonrseir. P. J. Meany. Merchant Tailor. AND COMMISSION HOUSE. MABTIM OLSEN, Successor to E. C JTolden. The omest established Commission House iu Oregon, floods of all kinds sold on com mission. Auction Sales Every Saturday. Oeneral Repairing. Jobbing and Uphol stering done. Fine stock of Furniture on hand. When you want Bargains in Household Goods go to MA ItTlN QliHK.jr For Sale Seaside Lots. CHOICE LOTS IN MULKEY'S ADDI tlon to Ocean Grove for sale upon rea sonable terms. Now is the time to buy be fore the boom. Apply to GEO. NOLAND. Or C. K. Thomson. H. WftjarSg? SABLE ISLAND. A Wreckers' And Pirates' Paradise A Menace to Navigation. St. Johns, Newfoundland, Sept. 14, 1888. On your maps, in about latitude 44? and longitude 60, 100 miles southeast of the peninsula of Nova Scotia, you will seo a tiny dot sur rounded by the geographer's wavy lines. This spot is Sable Island. The date of its discovery is not clear, though it is said that Norse tradition ascribes it to Heriofson in the ninth century. It was stocked with swine 335 years ago by the Portuguese; and it must have been well known to the colo nists of old Arcadia, for it was made a French penal colony in 1598. The priceless black fo and the huge walrus in those days made the island their home. Dur ing the last quarter of the last cen tury and the early part of this, Sable island was the resort of wreckers and pirates more heart less and cruel than ever swept the Carribean or gathered under the bloody leadership of "Black Beard" of the Bahamas; but in 1S02, after the wreck of the Princess Amelia, containing a goodly lot of the be longings of prince Edward, the father of queen Victoria, the Nova Scotian government drove the pirates from the island, and estab lished in a small way look-outs and a life saving force, which, in 1820, was effectively augmented by an nual provision by the British gov ernment. About fifty years ago the buildings now found here were constructed, the look-out stations increased; and in lS7o the govern ment erected the two immense lighthouses, one at the western and one at the eastern end of the island. HOW AN ISLAND WAS FORMED. The entire region round for a great distance is a hideous hurt to ocean navigation. Lying almost directly in the path of the great transatlantic highways of the sea; set squarely in the way of the en tire coasting trade between all American and Canadian ports; a constant menace to whalers, cod and mackerel fishers; no other known island or coast has equal dangers, or possesses so startling a record for death and destruction. For perhaps fifty miles in every direction the sea is filled with shift ing shoals, over which, in storms which almost constantly rage, the ocean tosses and howls with incon ceivable fury. Sunken bars ex tend to the northeast, end the northwest; fully thirty miles, and between their extreme points, for twenty-five miles off shore, the sea lashes and thunders terribly, the outreaching bars hidden like mon strous tentacles grasping for prey. Old captain" Ballast's theory re garding the formation of this ocean vampire is that, "Jess so many sea fairin' folks has to suffer somehow; n' Providence sot the cussed thing here, to get even with anybody mean 'nuff to stick to sailorin'l" But for vears I have made some thing of a study of this northeast coast, with the action of the sea beside it, and I modestly offer an additional theory to that of my bluff yankee skipper. I believe the entire formation of the Grand banks, and this knob of deadly sand set out of water upon another vast bank, or series of shoals, to be due wholly to the action of the opposing forces off the Gulf stream and the immeasurably icy currents that sweep around Labrador and Newfoundland from Polar seas. Together, through the ages, they have hero ceaselessly deposited alluvium and sand, until vast sub marine mountains have been piled along these waters, which, within the memory of man, have played, and forever will break, in Titanic convulsions, above and around the table-lauds and peaks of these measureless ocean accretions. So, too, the almost endless fogs of Newfoundland, the Urand banks, and of Sable island waters, -are simply the visible atmospheric phenomena of the meeting of the warm and icy airs above this meet ing of the waters; the vast fog' dust and humid smoke, as it were, of these elemental struggles. EYER CHANGING. The narrow island is much the form of a bow, is about twenty-five miles long and is nowhere over two miles in width. Mounting the old look-out and crow's-nest, picturesquely hanging in its peak, the entire reach of land is visible, with the turbulent sea ever lash ing its changing shores of sand. The most singular freak of the whole island is the narrow lake, set like a bent ribbon of silver in its center, perhaps half a mile wide and twelve miles long; nowhere over fifteen feet deep and only tenanted by flounders and mon strous clams, with which its bottom is fairly paved. The ravings of the sea are compelling constant changes. Many years ago five miles of the western extremity of the island were torn away and sub merged. One storm will build an arm here or there a mile into the ocean. Another will in a night rear a new island in sight, and the next night sweep it from existence. Again the roused tempest will cut a swath through the sand-dunes, opening the lake with an arm of the sea, .shortly this will be closed and a mountain of packed sand, almost as hard as flint, will appear as if by magic instead. THE INHABITANTS. Where there is such an awful record of death, fascination luiks in whatever of rugged life may have existed or still exists. In the dim days, walrus, whose huge skulls are yet bleaching in the sand, were here in vast numbers. Then the black foxes, which may have driften here on fields of ice, alone inhabited the dolorous desert wilderness. Again the Portu guese stocked it with swine. Then wild cattle roamed here the sole possessors. Pirates and wreckers followed these as the dreaded shores came to be more and more the burying place of richly-laden wrecks; for these arc counted by thousands since the settlement of America, and to-day true records have it that more thau one old hulk lies buried in these changing sands, hiding vast stores of unhurt wares and precious coins and metals. But lest the cupidity of men in service here shall be aroused, the Canadian government persist ently refuses quest for such treas ure; and the danng visitor or sodden inhabitant when pacing the shores, may only dream of the buried wealth beneath his feet. In some mysterious way wild rab bits came, and, for the area, the pest is as keen as Australia's. bnowy owls, cannuy learning this' came in great numbers, and these arc lords of high living, dining daily on rabbit pie. Brown rats, fat and aggressive as ever assailed Hamlaine-town, swarm here, often the only dread salvage from ocean wrecks. Hundreds of seals, the oceans flocks of bulls, cows and calves, bark and flounder upon the beaches. These, the gulls shriek ing and circling grewsomely, the half-hundred or so souls who lead this desolate life to save life for pay, inclusive of the few families attached to the needs of the serv ice, are all that live in the sandy ocean grave, save famous little wierd ponies of the island, all hoof ana neaa ana nair, wnose origin here is variously attributed, but practically unknown. Perhaps there are COO or 700 of these shag gy beasts. No ono knows. They refuse protection from shed or stable; fatten in summer upon the luxurious grasses in which they are all butburiedfrom sight; starve among the sand-dunes in winter; are furious and aggressive if dis turbed in their picturesques herds when running at will; but, on the annual "roundups" those which aro captured, tied and tossed into the government cutter like bags of merchandise, are so completely tamed by their helplessness and thorough sea-trip, that on their arrival at Halifax the veriest child can fondle and control them. A MARINE GRAVE-YARD. To fully appreciate the intense dolor of Sable Island to the eyes and mind of its visitor, and to the consciousness of every seafaring soul who ever conned his mental record of the ocean's peril, it must be remembered that, save the gov ernment cutter which every few months brings supplies, an occa sional adventurous craft like my own, or a few hardy fisher-folk that daringly make its eastern ex tremity a brief summer headquar ters, no vessel or human beings ever touch its shores that are not beaten upon them in helpless, hopeless wreck. And yet such hapless arrivals are at times so fre quent that the life-saving record here exceeds that of any other place on the globe, and the wreck age is also greatest. No pen can give an adequate idea of the sense of death and destruction at sea here evidenced by every object the eye can look upon. Every building at headquarters is con structed from the timbers of wrecked ships. The houses of refuge, at either end of the island; the lookouts; the outpost stations; the domiciles and cabins; every fisher's hut; are each all mute monuments of terrific destruction. The chairs, tables, bunks, lamps, lockers, rude ornamentations are all dark salvage of as many differ ent craft from as many different ports. You cannot walk the beach a rod without stum bling upon relics of wreck or dead men's bones. Away out for miles npon the awful bars the hulks of wrecks bristle through the spume of surf like hideous tusks through the foam of maddened Titan's jaws. Un any snore spot where you can stand you can pick from the sands with your cane memen toes telling of countless ocean tragedies from Norsemen's times to horrors of a year ago, in every namable thing or trinket that can be put into or upon a ship and carried and lost at sea. To see it and know it all, and let the fancy run riot through the awful out reachings of loss, woo and death, Sable island reveals ever' instant one's eyes rest upon any portion of its hideous, ever-disclosed con cealings, is to invite utter mad ness. One sentence will tell it all. It is the immeasurable festering junk-shop, theindescribable loathe- some graveyard ot the deep. I never left spot so quickly; never longed for solid ground behind rock-butressed shores; and never so freely forgave unpitying scorn as that which, as we made sail northward through a now un friendly sea, shone through the stubby beard of captain Ballast's chubby face. Edgar W. Wake man, in S. F. Bulletin. We Tell Yon Positively That Simmons Liver Regulator will rid you of dyspepsia, purify your system, enable you to sleep well, prevent mala rial diseases and give you a brisk and vigorous feeling. It acts directly on the liver and kidneys, cleansing, purify ing, invigorating and fortifying the system against disease. It will break up chills and fever and prevent their return yet entirely free from calomel or quinine. Tramp (at Union Square) Couldn't you spare me a dime, sir? I've walked all the way from Cal ifornia. Actor (sympathetically) What company did you go with? The Cartoon. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria When Baby was sick, wo gave her Castoria. fVhen she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, iVhen she became M iS3, she clung to Castoria, iVhen she had Children, she gave them Castorfc "What you want, bredren," said a colored preacher, waving his arms wildly to emphasize his words, "what you want is sanctm gumption! Get sanctifigumption, if you don't get nothing else!" -ftfU. WEIGHT PUKB. Its superior excellence proven In millions of homes ior rooro man a quaner or a cent' nrv. It is used bv the United States Gov. ornment. Endorsed bv the heads of th Great Universities as the Strongest. Purest, and most Healthful. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder does not contain Am monia, Lame, or Aium. ooin oniy in uans, PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., NEW TORE, CniCAGO. ST, LOUIS, m m m m " p?PMCE CREAM Baking 0WDEB House of Eepresentatives, Washington, Oct. 2. The sen ate bill to allow persons who have abandoned or relinquished home stead' entries, to make other en tries, was taken up. An amend ment was adopted providing that wherever it appears to a register of the land office that any settler on the public domain is unable, by reason of drought or other una voidable casualty, to secure sup port for himself, the register may grant such settler leave of absence from the claim, not exceeding one year. On motion of Hermann, of Ore gon, an amendment was adopted providing that public lands desig nated as double minimum pre-emption lands be reduced to a uniform rate of 1.25 per acre. An amendment was also adopt ed providing that any homestead settler who has entered less than a quarter section, may enter addi tional land contiguous to the orig inal entry which, with such entry, shall not exceed 160 acres. The bill as amended was passed. A conference report on the -joint resolution appropriating 1100,000 to aid in the suppression of yellow fever was adopted; adjourned. ixiJii; iiuc iv tui: eins. We hold D03itivo uroof that Acker's English Blood Elixir cures all blood poisons where cheap sarsaparillas and so-caljcd purifiers fail. Knowing this, we will sell it to all who call at our store on a positive guarantee. j. w. uonrj, Druggist. Immigration Into France. Paris, Oct. 2. Owing to the increase in immigration into France,president Carnot has signed a decree regulating the residence of foreigners in France. llYSPEPSIA, DE8PA1U, DEATH. These are the actual steps which fol pepsia Tablets wili both check and cure low muisestion. 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W C I nz T 513 2. co o L ? 3 : dMsrtwTi h Sir z r ess '''fTTil'1 WALL PAPER AND CEILING DECORATIONS! 5000 double roll of Wall Paper and Decorations of tho latest styles and shades just received direct from Eastern factories. Also a large assortment of CARPETS, Of all grades in beantifnl now designs New Smyrna Rugs, Portiere Curtains, China Matting, Etc., Etc. Call and examine. CHAS.'HEILBORN. The New Model Range CAN BE HAD IN ASTOItIA, ONLY OF ES. R. HA WES. Agent. Call and Examine It ; Yoo Will be Pleased. E. K. Hawes Is also Agent for the Buck Patent Cooking Stove, AND OTHEE FIKST CLASS STOVES. Furnace Work, Steam Fittings, Etc., a Specialty. A Full Stock on Hand. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS CUBIS. ETESSON. F.COOK THE Central Hotel EVENS0N & COOE. On tho European Plant LARGE CLEAN ROOMS, A FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT Board by the Day, Week or Month. Private Rooms for Families, Etc. Transient Custom Solicited. Oysters, Fish, Meats, Etc., Cooked to Order. AVATEK St., Opp. Foard A Stokes A FIRST CLASS SALOON Hun In connection with the Premises. The Best of WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. Good Billiard Tables and Private Card Rooms. The Astor House, J.G.ROSS, - PROPRIETOR. Newly Repainted. Repaired, Befitted, Re furnished and Thoroughly Renovated, A Large, Clean,- WelRejt House. RATES: From a Dollar a Day Upwards. First-class In all Its appointments, clean, neat, sunny rooms, well furnished and well kept. YOU ABE INVITED TO CALL. y-Free Coach to and from the House. PARKER HOUSE. n. b. parked, prop'. First Class In Every Respect. Thoroughly renovated and repaired through- TWO DINING ROOMS. Tables supplied with everything; the market Elegant Bar and Billiard Booms. Finest Wines Liquors and Cigars. FBEE COACH TO THE HOUSE. a - o z CO CD rn INSURANCE. CAPITAL STOCK, $500,000 COLUMBIA FM AID MAHE INSURANCE CO. FRANK DEKUM President W. II. SMITH Vice-President JOHN A. CHILD Secretary No. 160 Second St, Portland, Or. I. W. Case, Agent, Astoria, Or. $67,000,000 Capital Liverpool & London & Globe. North British and Mercantile ot London and Edinburgh. Hartford of Connecticut, Commercial of California Agricultural, of watertown. New York, London & Lancashire of Liverpool, Eng.. Fire Insurance Companies, Represent in a capital of 567,000,000. B. VAS miSEX, Agent. Ship and Commission Agency FIRE INSURANCE lT FIltST CLASS C03IPANIKS Representing 813,000,000 PH(ENIX, Hartford, Conn. HOME, New York, AGENCY PACIFIC EXPRESS CO C. P. UPSHUR, Main Street Wharf - Astoria, Oregon. I. W, Case, BANKER. ESTABLISHED - - 1870. Transacts a General Banking Business. Drafts drawn available in any part of tho 0. S. and Europe, and on Hong Kong, China Office nouns : to a. m. to 3 p. m. Odd Fkixowb BuiLDiyQ, Astoria, Oregon. Robb & Parker, " AGENCY OK Fire and Marine Insurance, 7lth an Aggregate Capital of S10.000.0o0. ISIPERIAL, of London. CALIFORNIA, of California. CONNECTICUT, of Hartford. OAKLAND IIOME, of Oakland. LION, of London. FIBEMAN'S FUND, of California. Agents also for TRaVELLEBS', of Hartf ord . , . .. . t Lire and Accident Tickets sold for the ALLAN Line of Steamships, from Old Country to Astoria. BOBB & PABKEB. At old office of J. O. Bozorth. ?..' -A- 3fefrA$aftSdAa i iz&z,r, sssaitl'