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m t ftattt gsfwtatt. ASTORIA. OREGON: SATUKDAY. OCTOBEK 12. 18S9. The Mormons got into the Cana dian northwest on a monogamous basis. It was then predicted, tliat be fore long they would snow their true colors. It is now reported that tliey are bringing in their plural wives as sisters, cousins and aunts. No de pendence can bo placed upon a people which acknowledges a power in the conduct of temporal affairs superior to the government and law of the land. Commander Goodbich, chairman of the trial board, reports that the test of the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius has been successful to a degree not antici pated. The guns were fired five times in seventeen minutes, instead of thirty minlite3, which had been estimated as the necessary time to fire that num ber of shots. The speed of the vessel was up to the requirements, and even bevond. It is said that postmaster general Wanamater will recommend, in his annual report that the free delivery system bo extended to cities of eight thousand inhabitants. This recom mendation is warranted by the fact that the revenues of the free delivery offices for the year will be from a million and a half to two million dol lars in excess of expenses. In 1886 there were about 181 free delivery offices hi the country. During Cleve land's administration the necessary population for a free delivery city was cut down, from twenty to ten thou sand, and the number of these offices has increased at this time to 433. The further extension proposed by "Wana maker will increase the number of free delivery offices very largely and add greatly to the completeness of the postal system. Tite Railway Age notes that during the nine months of the year that have now passed the work of railway build ing has been going on upon several hundred new roads, branches and ex tensions in various parts of the coun try, and yet so vast is our country and so little attention does the work of railway development in one locality attract iu any other that the general public has very little idea how much has been done, and seems to be still laboring under the conviction that the year 1889 is to be marked in history by an insignificant amount of rail way construction. It will, therefore, be of general interest to learn that already over 3,000 miles of main line track have been laid since the year began, and that the probabilities are that fully G,000 miles, and perhaps more, will have been completed before the end of the year. The greatest activity in construction has been wit nessed in the south. In eleven south ern states, jcounting Texas as such the track laid this year already aggre gates 1,478 miles, or nearly 45 per cent of the total. Georgia leads the country thus far with an addition of 238 miles on twelve different lines, fol lowed by Texas with 179 miles, Vir ginia with 176 miles, Tenessee with 170 miles, North Carolina with 147 miles, Mississippi with 140, Kentucky with 137, and so on. 'Aside from the southern states, Washington territory thus far makes the largest showing, 214 miles having been laid on twelve lines, and this will be very considera bly increased before the end of the year. AUNTIE FBRPJLEXKD. "For heaven's sake what does your another do to you children that makes you bo hun trT" "Please, auntie, sho gives us Joy's Yegeta Lie Sarsaparilla and its awful good." T. S. Hilton, of 511Post street, San Francisco, writes: "I had been ailing for weeks with a disorder of the liver and kidneys. Finally ray wife becoming frightened, procured a bottle of 'The California Kemedy' Joy's Vegetable barsajiarina. jx curcamongnt up. in Jnct did so much for me that I sent for a nalf-dozeu ind pave it to my children, with the most pat tafuctory results." Ludlow's Ladies' S3.00 Fine Shoes; aJso Flexible Hand turned French Kids, at r. .1. GOODMAN'S. All the patent medicines advertised in this paper, together with the choicest Serf umery, and toilet articles, etc., can e bought at the lowest prices, at J. W. Conn's drug store, opposite Occident noiei, .astoria. Coffee and eake, ten cents. Central Restaurant at the TelepheneliodjciBs House. Best Beds in town. Rooms per night 50 ana vo cts., per ween 51.00. .New anu clean, rrivate entrance. Shorthand. rrivate instruction by practical ver batim reporter. Tears experience. Cha?. E. Ritnyon. Law Reporter, Astoria, Or. do to Jeff's lor Oysters. TELEGRAM. Specials to The Astorian. An "Unlucky Lineman's Horrible Pate He Tails, a Smoking, Sizzling Corpse On an Incandescent Gridiron of Tangled Overhead Electric Light and Other "Wires The Helpless and Horrified Orowd Are Paralyzed By The Pyrotic Cadaver. The Columbia "Waterway Association. Fobtlaxd, Oct, ll.-3eo. C. Cas well robbed hi3 father of ninety thousand dollars in government bonds some time ago and was living high till he was caught and forced to return S80,000. The father took back his prodigal son and killed the fatted calf. THE WATERWAY ASSOCIATION. The fifth session of the Columbia waterway association met again tins afternoon. The committee on memorial reso lutions made a report memoralizing congress in a strong appeal for ade quate appropriations for the improve ment of the mouth of the river, work at the cascades and the dalles. SAFE IN HIS PRESENT LOCATION. To-morrow is the time set for the second trial of Jas. Turk. Turk says he feels certain that shipping mer chants here do not feel 'disposed to prosecute him now that he has taken a new departure. Jim says he- has a very warm corner in ins neart tor Astoria. SUPPOSED MURDERERS. Portland, Oct 1L Two men are held in jail here who are supposed to be the murderers of Enos Crosby at Tacoma. taken to the hospital This morning George Bowman who jumped from a second story window on Stark and Sixth streets, yesterday, while delirious from typhoid fever, was removed from the county jail to St. Yincent's hospital, whero he will be well cared for. THE MARITIME CONFERENCE. Washington, Oct. 11. Delegates to the international maritime confer ence are beginning to arrive. The first to report was A. M. Bisbee, the delegate from China. BLAINE WANTS HIM TO EXPLAIN. Washtnoton, Oct. 11. Secretary Blaine has cabled William Baird Lewis, United States consul at Tan giers, to appear at the state depart ment in Washington andfmeet charges of corruption made against him by Benezulli, a Morocco merchant. Ben- ezulli came all the way from Tangiers to prefer the charges. Simon Wolf and Solomon, American members of the Alliance -Israelite Universal, ac companied Benezuli before secretary Blaine, when Benezuli yesterday en tered complaint. FATAL AND HORRIBLE CONTACT. New York, Oct. -11. An electric light man met with death at the corner of Center and Chamber's; streets, from coming in contact with an electric light wire. He was em ployed by the Western Union com pany. The unfortunate victim pre sented a terrible sight. He died on a network of wires in mid-air, while the deadly fluid actually made his body sizzle. His blood poured out on the sidewalk, and over the clothes of tho hornned spectators. The acci dent occuring in the middle of the day and in the busiest part of the city was witnessed by a large crowd of people. The man's body lay limp and motionless over a mass of wires at tached to the cross trees of the poles. Firemen brought down a ladder and went up with a pair of shears and cut the wires, The lineman was found dead, his face horribly burned. In fifteen minutes tho electricity had burned off one half of the face of the victim. The left arm was also seen to be burning. Every few seconds blue flames spurted out from various parts of his body. Hundreds of peo ple stood shivering as they looked at the awful sight overhead. No one dared go near to render assistance. Even firemens' faces blanched with horror. Lineman Benson, the dead man's companion, was asked why he did not go up: he said, "It's no use; he is dead. I don't know the electric wires, and I can't help" him. I was on the other pole and don't know anything about it." All this was said in a catching, halting voice as of a man completely overcome with horror and emotion. Immediately after the accident Mayor Grant was notified. .The may or gave orders to have the wires, which caused the accident, cut at once. Hi3 secretary said the mayor would act promptly in the matter. It is possible he may order the cut ting of the electric light wires above ground to-night, the consequence of which would be a large part of the city in darkness. STILL AGROUND. Sandy Hook, Oot 11, The tugs, have ceased pulling on the steamer City of New Yor.k, which is still stuck on the mud. She is being lightered. Another attempt will be made to pull her off at high tide to-night The opinion of expert engineers is that the strain on the vessel by the fearful haulling she has received has caused her severe injuries which it will take time and considerable money to- repair. THE CZAR IN BERLIN. Berlin, Oct 11. The czar arrived at Berlin this morning accompanied by emperor William. They were received by the empress and embraced repeatedly. Afterwards the czar turned to Bismarck and shook hands with him, and also had a brief conver sation with the chancellor. Subse quently entering & carriage they drove to the Russian embassy at a fast trot the entire distance. Salutes were fired and the streets were plentifully decorated but the crowd did not cheer as the czar passed along. The emperor took his departure from the embassy after a few minutes. Bis marck, however, remained and had a conversation with the czar lasting twenty minutes. DANGEROUS INFORMATION. City of Mexico, Oct 11. Gen. Cervantes, commanding the govern ment forces in the Yaqui country, arrived here Saturday on a leave of absence. He returned to his post yesterday by order of the government No exact account of the fighting there can be obtained as General Cervantes assured the correspondent that it was dangerous to give or jmbjish the news of the campaign. - ABOUT GAME FISH. It is well known that Alaska has greater nshing resources than any other part of the country. Bnt very- little has been said or written about any other than salmon and cedfish: A "recent number of the Alaskan, published in Sitka, raises the question as to what particular fish gives Alaska its fame? It is admitted that salmon has given Alaska more reputation abroad than other fish. "But is salm on our best fish?" enquires that paper. "We are tired of salmon." The can neries of the territory, as well as.else where, take these fish in nets. Occa sionally, in the spring and early sum mer, these fish are taken by sports men with the hook and line iu the smaller streams ot California and Or egon. The related species of salmon trout are within the limits of what are called game'fish. Probably if no salmon were, taken except with the hook and line, there would be no question that this is actually a game fish. But when they are taken in seines" in such numbers as to furnish, when packed in cans, cargoes for ships, the sportsman who catches half a dozen with hook and line where a thousand may be taken with a seine, has little to say about the salmon as-a game fish. The Alaskan has some thing to say about a fish that is at the head of the list of game fish: Why is it that so little has been said of our very best of fish a fish of which we never tire black bass? Though not caught in sufficient quan tities to export, the fish is plentiful enough to supply all the tables of Al aska, even with an increased popula tion. Black bass, not only furnishes our tables with a wholesome food, but affords excellent sport. Those who have not had the pleasure of an after noon among our surrounding islands, with a good Biipply of hooks, lines and bate, have missed something which they are not aware of. Black bass being our most "gamey" fish af ford a pleasure not known until ex perienced. The black bass, for some reason, does not seem to be abundant along the shores of California. At least, one never hears much about them. Ob servations made in the markets from time to time confirm the impression that this game fish is very scarce, in this latitude. Occasionally one is seen, ana tne nsnermen sometimes bring in half a dozen with liundreds of other fish. A writer in the Alaskan describes black bass fishing in the adjacent waters: Our bait consisted of needle-fish, to be obtained only at low tide aud dug from the sand. The hooks had barely sunk beneath the surface when both poles were suddenly pulled into the water by some unseen thing of apparent great weight and strength. How they pulled plunging down, then drawing -the line beneath the boat, then darting directly from us. Fighting for life' and' using their ut most strength to free, themselves from the hooks which were pulling them to their death, brought forth from us no expression of pity. It oaly tended to increase the pleasure and excitement Gradually our victims weakened we were drawing them near the surfce. Our lines had be come entangled, a most disagreeable occurrence it seemed a revenge; we at l$st conquered, and with the two lines twisted together we pulled into the boat two large and beautiful black bass. Qur luck continued until late in the evening, when we cast the boat loose and pulled for home. The catch amounted to some thing over ninety fish, ranging from one to six pounds. In the Atlantic states the black bass ranks at the head of game and edible hsh. They range in weight from one or two pounds up to ten or twelve pounds. They do not ascend rivers very far, but feed along the shore line of bays and roadsteads. On that side of the country thg salmon is even more esteemed than tne black bass. But that is probably because the for mer is seldom caught or the same reason, perhaps the black bass is rated higher by this Alaskan authority It may interest the "gentle craft" to know that in Alaska the black bass abounds, and even there is placed at the liead of the list of game fish. Tt is a long" way to go for the mild sport of fishing with, a hook and line. But as some thousands iu all are now making annual excursions to Alaska, and thousands more are contem plating such excursions, not the least attraction in those waters may be these tempting game fish. If the rivers of northern" Cdhfornia and Or egon were not' swarming with trout, the best of all tho game fish that ever ascended a fresh water stream, Alaska would very soon become the chosen place for real sportsmen who care nothing for the commercial side of fishing. S. F. Bulletin. A Sure Inyejjtmc.il 1. Is one which is guaranteed to bring you satisfactory results, pr in case ot failure a return of purchase price- On this safe plan you can buy from our ad vertisod Druggist a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. It is Guaranteed to bring relief in every case when used for any affection of Throat, Lungs or Chest sucli as Consumption, in flammation of Lungs, Bronchitis, Asth ma, Whooping Cough, Croup, etc., etc. It is pleasant and agreeable to taste, perfectly safe, and can always be de pended upon. Trial bottles free at ,I."W. Conn's Drug Store. J.H. MANSELL, REAL ESTAT NOTARY PUBLIC FOR STATE OF OREGON. City Lots and Acre Property, Ranches, Timber Lands, and Water Frontage for Sale. Investments made for Outside Parties. Established, 18S3. Correspondence Solicited. Next W. TJ. Telegraph Office Third St. Astoria, Oregon. P. O. BOX 863. !"-! 1 ' W ' 1 JL fm gsas-1 " "BS! fNNTTAAT m Stokes EXCHANGED AT 111: ADDITIOI $5.00 Per Month. QoOjClfop One Week onty. it SIOBB & T&'BJSEL, Agents. - II Will Pay You to Buy a Lot TO The City of Astoria. This pioperty is now on tho market, and is being sold by ey , On tho Installment Plan for $30.00 and $4-0.00 per Lot. 10.00 Cash and $5.00 per Month. Don't raiss this opportunity. Tho terminus of a trauscontinental road will bo located within 15 minutes walk from thi3 beautiful, tract. S30 to-day. 250 in ono year. Savo tho dollars and buy real estate and wealth is yours. Call at onco upon WORSLEY & CAKliUTHERS. Corner 3d and Olney Streets. YERSIDE ! This addition to" Astoria is beautifully situated on a gentle slope toward the John Day river, lying on the County road and only 200 yards from steamboat land ing, mid within easy walking distance of street car line. The railroad survey from Sound and Gray's Ilarbor and from Day regipn." Tho most certain and best paying investments in any country are those made in good towns when prices aro low and prior to the full growth of such towns. No timber or ravines. All good level lots 50x100. Avenues 60 feet wide. Price, S40.00; S10.00 down, balance 55.00 per vamXh. Title, U. S. patent. See plats at J. H. MANSELL'S or FRANK SPITTLE, Real-Estate Agents, Astoria, Oregon. J- P. HYNES, DEALER IN- GrroceriesJ Produce. Water Street, Astfiria, Oregon. TELEPHONE NO. 7. - P. 0. BOX S22. oettoub I!i!rtlParker& Hanson St'CV.F.SSORS TO t FOR A LOT -IX TO EAST ASTOBIA. IN ition - Garruihers pet Portland to Astoria, penetrating the John H. W. Strickler, BX. D. DEALER IN Pure Drugs, Toilet Articles, .Etc. Prescription Clerk speaks Four different Languages. General practice o Medicine attended to by the Doctor. Second Street, near Postofflce. ALt THE LATEST NOVELTIES m S sttM-Jm & i thST Groceries and Provisions. Everything m a First-class Store and at Extremely Low Figures. , Goods Delivered all over Tow n. The Highest Price Paid for Junk, FOARD & STOKES 3 1 Wholeaa U fj a 5 a H a Fine Wines, Choice Brands. I have completed arrangements for supplying any brand of Wino in any quantity at lowest cash figures. The Trade Supplied, Families Supplied. ALL OllDEUS DELIVERED FEEE IN ASTORIA. Your patronage in City or Country solicited. A. W. UTZ1NGER, Cosmopolitan Saloon. WHOIiESAIiE'ANDRETAIL DEALER IN Groceries, Provisions and Mill Feed. o Crockery, Glass Plated Ware. - o The Largest and finest assortment of FresSa. Fruits and TTeget&bles. Received fresh everv Stoamer. The New Model Range CAN BE HAD IN ASTOKIA, ONLY OK H Atll tfbdDadBidta SB BB WW Agent. Call and Examine It ; You Wlil be Pleased. E.U. Hawes Is also Ageut for the Buck Patent Cooking Stove, AND OTHER 1 I Kb V CLAbS Sl'O VKS. Furnace Work, Steam Fittings, Etc.. a Specialty. A Full Stock on Hand. WAX la FAFBR CEILING DELATIONS! 5000 double roll of Wall Paper and Decorations of tho latest styles and shades just received direct from Eastern factories. Also n large assortment of Of all grados in beautiful new designs New Smyrna Rugs, Portiere Curtains. China Matting, Etc., Etc. Call and examine. CHAS. HEILBORN. h FIRE 8RICK UKALKKJK Hay, Oats, ant Straw, Lime, Brick, Cement, Sand ani Plaster Wood Delivered to Order. 'Dnjlng, Teaming jinil Express Business. TER apply to the Captain, or to NORTH PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION ! Opens at P0RTL.VhD,.OK., Sept. 20 and Closes Oct. 2C, 1880. The Building Contains Six and One-half Acres of Floor Room, Which will bo covered with interesting displays of every description from every section ol the Northwest. $250,000 EXPENDED IN GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS. Largest and best exhibit of FINE LIVE STOCK ever brought together on the I'aclflc coast will be made In the spacious grounds adjacent to the Exposition Building from October 14 to 19. - - L!BERAT1,.THE FAMOUS CORNETIST, With fltty of the best musician of New York, has been engaged at an enormous expense to furnish music during the entire exposition. There has been nothing left undonp to nuke this the grandest exposition on the Pacific coast. Reduced rates of tare have been secured on all-transportation lines. Fortland extends an invitation to every resident of the north west to attend this magnificent exposition and enjoy her hospitalities. Hotel accommoda tions ample. For further Information address ...,. w..-.... V NORTH PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION PORTLAND, OR. v a s t. u i3 t C. L. PARKER, DEALKRS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE New Goods Arriving Every Steamer THIS WEEK. Me CloMnff. rhf Old Stand - Astoria Oregon r.i: 1. -i.. 11:11111111 YMt'i-iiMn',J- . , FIRE CLAY &TJBAiflf3IS liUR'i PARKER Eben P, Parker, Master. For TOWING, FREIGHT orCHAK M. B. VAKXSUt. a Ji ' "