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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1889)
C3 ?A JlinU 2vtoratt, ASTOllIA, OREGON: SUNDAY...- NOVEMBER a. 1SX5 The pilot commissioners meet to morrow. We will miss the Telephone, Sun day afternoons. There being no visitors yesterday from "Washington, D. C, "the sun shone out bright and warm. A public library is one of Astoria's present needs. The supply does not meet the demand in tins regard. Morning maih, hewafier on .Sun days, Wednesdays and Fridays: after noon mails after arrival of mail boat from Portland. " That southeastern corner entrance from Third street Jo the post oflice looks nice for acne's especially in muddy weather. Yesterday's Oregonian has a very good description of the visit of the senatorial committee tothe jettv, writ ten by Mr. E. L. Colwell. Sheriff Smith will sell some cattle at Kuappa, to-morrow. A special boat will leave Wilson & Fisher's whaif at 7 to-morrow morning. P. C. Schuyler, an Oregon pioneer, who was buried at Portland last Fri day, crossed the plains, when a strip ling of 17? with W. IT. Gray, of this city, 47 years ago. A private letter from Seattle says that by actual count there are now 3,111 brick buildings being erected ifi Seattle. That is -3,1 10 more than are now being erected in Astoria. Ed. Thompson, president of the con structing company at llillsboro, has put a large gang of men at work be tween Hillsboro and Astoria grading for the Astoria and South Coast rail road. An exchange says: "A folded news paper placed under the coat in the small of the back is an excellent sub stitute tor an overcoat" Prebably: but most newspapers don't make it warm for people in that way. The surplus in the treasury still grojins by reason of its weight, aud the tlag pole on the Astoria custom house groans under the weight of two Hags, the government being too poor or to.) something else to get another one. The committee appointed by the chamber of commerce to have litera ture printed concerning Astoria, Ore gon's only seaport, desire to state that all can get pamphlets of same by applying to O. S. Wright, G. Wingate or ,T. H. D. Gray. 'The poles for the telegraph line from here to Tillamook rock, are up all the way from Ft. Stevens to a point opposite the rock, and the wire is being strung. If the cable reacheJ here before Christmas it will be laid by the Manzanita. What creatures or habit we all are! About 700 Astorians went to the post office yesterday morning to get their morning mail, as usual, and finding none remembered that the change in the schedule of the river boats made a change in that also. Abraham Mustamana, the unfortu nate man who accidentally shot himelf in the abdomen, on Gray's river, last Friday, died in the hospital yesterday afternoon. His death was a foregone conclusion, the nature of his injuries rendering it impossible for him to sur vive. In the justice court yesterday the case of Joe Baker and Larry Sullivan, charged with assault on a sailor, was continued until 10 o clock to-morrow James Marr, arrested, charged with assault with a dangerous weapon on Chas. Juhl, was discharged on mo tion of the prosecuting attorney. The Astokiax acknowledges "with the compliments of the people of Montesano," the receipt of an invi tation to the -celebration of the com pletion of the Puget sound and Gray's harbor railroad, at Montesano on the 16th inst, and congratulates that en terprising city on the successful frui tion of one of their fondest hopes. The tallest and finest Hag pole in western Oregon, was yesterday hoisted aud put in place at the office of the Main street dock, and the flag with forty-two stars on it run up amid the boom of brass cannon. The pole is eight inches through at the butt and 104 feet high, and is a monument to Captain J. G. Hustler's patriotism. Joggles hasn't shown up for a long time, but he came in yesterday after noon, and says Jftggles, says he, "I've been studying up on Christian science, and the mind cure, and the faith cure, and have it down fine. The dif ference between the niind cure and the faith cure is, that in the mind cure you don't require any faith, and in the faith cure you don't require any mind." Queer chapthat Joggles. A man went home the other night very much elated, and informed his wife that at last they were to have some light on their block. The coun cil had decided that a lamp shoidd be located, and through the influence of a friend who was in the council, it was to be -placed exactly in front of their door. Just then he heard a slight groan and a heavy fall, and looking into the back parlor he dis covered that his daughter had fainted. Thus sayeth the Pacific Jeurnal: "The business men and property holders of Astoria are still jubilant over the prospects of their city, and surely they have every reason to do so. The location of Astoria is such -that she should be the queen city of the Columbia river, With good man- agement on .the part of her wealthy real estate owners, she can in a few years make proud old Portland doff her hat and acknowledge in her at least a rivd." The following is furnished as a test of the purity of water for drinking: "Dissolve about a half a teaspoonful of the purest white sugar in a pint bottle completely fidl of the water to be tested, and tightly stopped, ex pose it to daylight and temperature up to 70 degrees Farhenheit. After a day or two examine holding the bottle against something black, for whitish .floating specks, which will betray the presence of organic matter, in consid erable proportion.' C'o'siderabh or the 55.'U.'l c;i-cs Alaska silmon icceivod at San Fr;in ci&co is unlabeled. It is said thai it is not impossible to label some Alaska red fish, the best kuality caught there, Columbia river salmon, and the sec ond quality Alaska salmon, as con siderable care was taken to. separate the king salmon from the other kind, but it isn't likely that anybody would do anything like that in San Fran cisco, though they do say real nice looking labels are very cheap there just now. A San Francisco dispatch says: Large excursion parties are now ar riving daily from the east. Many of them are from the New England states. The majority of the excursion ists are members or families who come to the Pacific coast in search of homes. Wednesday 230 excursionists arrived. Nearly all were family parties. A number of them will proceed to Oregon and Washington within a few days. Sev eral more large excursions are exnected this week. A. J. Johnson, the Astoria "nursery man, is in Seattle. In talking over some ot his ridiculous experiences Jast Tuesday evening he told a Press reporter of an Oregon gentleman who came to him and ordered a very young century plant In fact if pos sible, he wanted a century plant just two days old. He had a baby boy that age, aud he wanted to see which would live the longest John son says it reminded him of the man who heard that crows lived to the age of one hundred years, and then went and bought one to keep it as a test There is no city in the northwest where house rents are so proportion ately cheap, all things considered, as in Astoria, and while it would be and always is a profitable investment to put up houses for tenants paying fif teen or twenty dollars a month, yet higher priced houses are not very profitable. The writer knows of one house, costing 3,000 built on a 3,000 lot, and rented for 830 a month. One wouldn't get rich very fast by receiv ing S3C0 annually on an investment of 0,000, after paying taxes, insurance and repairs. At the municipal election in De cember, 1887, 979 votes were cast, 612 in the first ward and 367 in the second ward: in the first ward, Page, for mavor, received 368 votes, Elmore, for mayor, 233; in the second ward Page got 219, and Elmore, 144: Page s ma jority was 210; he receiving 587 vote3, and Elmore 377: Page got Gl per cent of the vote and Elmore 39 per cent. For chief of police, Barry had 502 votes and Smidt 463; for auditor and police judge, Jewett 574, Boyle 397; for street superintendent, Clinton 529; Gusfafsou, 441; for city assessor, Dick inson 496, Shively, 470; for city tre:is urer, Hustler 523, McGovern 439; for city attorney, Nolaud 473; forcity sur veyor, Parker 515, Raymond 432. The power of the local press is un limited. It attracts wealth from abroad, and makes known the resour ces and capabilities ot the city or town. Every advertisement in a local paper is an advertisement of the town it "is the voice of the merchant to his customer and to those who dwell at a distance. It acts in manv differ ent ways to benefit the town aud in crease its business prosperity. For these and various other reasons, it is patriotism and honesty for men in terested in the growth and prosperity of a town or city to patronize those who patronize them, and to help sup port and build home institutions rather than those abroad. In other words advertise in your home paper and show to distant communities that you can appreciate the efforts made to develope your town or city. To illustrate how the mortgage tax law practically works in this state, and how it retards development by rendering oppressive the use of bor rowed money, may be cited an in stance that came under the writer's observation in this city yesterday. A man who had borrowed 400 and given his note, secured by a mort gage, paid the note and interest, and had the' mortgage released. The rate was 8 per cent, the time, ten months and seven days: hence the interest was 27.29: the borrower, of course, paid the tax on the mortgage, 10.95. Thus the total cost was 38.24, which the man who wanted 400 for ten months had to pay, or a rate of eleven and one-fifth per cent, per annum, paid by the borrower. For a shorter time the taxes would of course have been the same, and the cost, propor tionately higher. In Washington, the total cost to the borrower would not have been over eight per cent Here it is virtually one per cent, per month in such cases as the one cited, which is a fair illustration of how the law works. During the writer's recent visit to Tacoma, he ran across about half a dozen ot a breed that may be desig nated as "the day afters." "Do yon see that lot there?" ho would ask one. "Well, sir I could have bought that lot in '84 for 750. Now it is worth 12,000." "See this corner," another would say, "1 refused to pay 1,000 for that lot in '82, and bought it in '86 for 5,000. Now it is worth 10,000." "I was going to buy this lot," said a third, "for $2,500, but was just a day or so too late. Another man stepped in and took it He sold it three months after for 6,000." And so they went It sounded sort of funny, and just a little bit familiar. The mau who hesitates about buying real estate generally gets left It reminds one a little of fifteen years ago in mining stocks. A man woidd stand hesitat ing about buying Opliir or Mexican or Lady Bryan, at 15 or 17, but when he saw it going up would hold off, and at last get wild and buy at 75 or 78. The difference, however, is that in buying mining stock it was a gamble: but in investing in real es tate it is a sure thing provided the first payment is big enough and the mortgage doesn't bear down too hard. IJr:tl Instate Tr;!ifT. Nov. -. E. W. Taylor to G. S. Taylor SE 4 . VZ T 5 N R 6 W., 1C0 acres: 750. W. L. Robb and wife to W. J. Mon tieth, lots 7 and 8, blk 5, east Astoria. 100. C. R Thomson and wife, Geo. No land and wife, V..Boelling to Peter Brown, lots 9, 10 and 11, blk 6, Skipa non addition, 300. H. C. Thompson and wife to M. Guipon, lot 12, blk 12, Laurel Park addition, 40. J. W. Conn and wife to E. J. Finch, lot 2, blk 3, railroad addition, 250. Mary Ann Adair to Ellen Adair Mendell. lots 8 and 1, blk 94, lot 18, WKlot 17, W lot 10, W lot7f lot 1, W K lot 2 blk 118: lot 18, W Yx lot 17, W " lot 10, W U lot 7, lot 1 WJ lot 2 blk 120, gift H. C. Thompson and wife to J. Erickson, lots 34 and 36, subdivision blk 9, Adair's, 160. G. C. Hall and wife to Jas. Gil breath, lot 9, blk 4, Columbia addi tion, 65. Does It Pay. "No man who is successful in busi ness can get along without advertis ing." said a well dressed man the oth er day who has made his thousands in business. "We started," said he, "my partner and I on 3,500 apiece in Wichita, Kansas. We advertised in the daily papers to the amount of 800 to 1,000 per month, and Ave did this in papers where it cost to adver tise. My partner the first month thought I would bankrupt the firm, but it soon commenced to come bapk. Everybody said we .could not run up our sales to over 35,000 or 36,000 a vear. The hrst year our sales ran over 75,000, and we had strong oppo sition. You can easily count it for yourself. From 800 to 1,000 for ad vertising and our sales increased from 35,000 to 75,000. The great trouble with most business men is that they do not know how to use printer's ink. For," said he, "a man is a fool at this age of the world who does not adver tise when he is in business." The man who made these remarks is to day wearing diamonds, and if any man doubts the above he can ask the gentleman, for his name is John V. Moffit Baker City Democrat. Large Mortgage Steamer Purchased. It is said that the Oregon Improve ment company will soon iloat a fifty year 5 per cent, loan for 15,000,00Q. The proceeds will be used to retire 4,514,000 in first mortgage 6s and 1, 800,000 in 7 per cent, preferred stock, together with 600,000 floating debt, mostly incurred in the recent pur chase of six steamers, and for the purpose of building two new steamers. One of the steamers purchased is the City ofTopeka, 747 tons, now in this port The steamer cost 135,000. She was built to run in connection with the Sonora road, and the Atchison, Topeka aud Santa Fe Railroad com pany owned seven-eighths. She was sold for 86.000. The 6 par cent, bonds will'he retired at 10S and the preferred stock at par. Present charges are 176,000, and the new bonds will effect a saving or ?t to 1 per cent The steamer City of Tope ka will sail for Alaska via Puget sound ports next Saturday. .S'. F. HullHin, 0i. ::o. Milton :i:i;l Dullic Noble ruining Wednes day. November 0 These well known artists and an ex cellent supporting company will make their first appearance in Astoria at Ross' opera house next Wednesday evening, November 6th, when Mr. No bles will have the pleasure or present ing to our theater goers his well known romantic melodrama entitled "From Sire to Son." The coming of this famous attrac tion will be a red letter day in our theatrical record. Sale of seats will open to-morrow, Monday, at 9 Ja. m., at the New York Novelty store. Don't commit suicide! If you have dyspepsia; with headache, heartburn, distress in the stomach, no apnetite, and arc all worn out but take Hood's Sarsaparilla and be cured. It'creates an appetite, and gently regulates the diges tion. Sold by druggists. Ludlow Ladies' -So.00 Fine Shees: also Flexible Hand turned French Kids, 1. .1. Goodman's. at ADVICETO 3IOTIIKUS. MltS. WlXSLOW'S SootiiiAo SYUUP should always be used for children teething. It soothes the child, sottens the gums. allays ail pain, cures wind cholic. and is the best remedy for diar-rhoea.Twentv-five cents a bottle. All the patent medicines advertised in this paper, together with the choicest Eerfumery, and toilet articles, etc., can e bought at the lowest prices, at J. V. Conn's drug store, opposite Occident hotel, Astoria. ilea! Cootieil to Onlcr. Private-rooms for ladies and families: at Central Kestaurant, next to Foard & Stokes'. Wt:iuh:irr IScer. And Fiee Lunch at the Telephone Sa- loon, fi cents. Tel eihonKl..oUiaiic House. Best Beds in town. Rooms per night 50 and 25 cts., per week Sl-50. New and clean. Private entrance. Do You lAliti a Good Cifftir? Call at Charley Olsen's, opposite C. 11. Cooper's. He will suit you. A fine stock of cigars to select trom. The latest style of Gents' Boots and Shoes at P. J. Goodman's. PERSONAL MENTION. Pilot Loi Staples has gone to Seat tle to remain. Mrs. D. K. Warren hasreturned to her city residence for the winter. J. Dnke Murray, agent of the Mil ton Nobles company, arrived in the city last evening. Frank Lord arrived yesterday from New Westminister, B. C, his first visit to .Astoria for ten years. Mrs. John Betts of Port? Townsend, who has been visiting her mother and sister, returns home to-night. Mis. T. S. Jewett leaves for Port land ibis evening to hear Gilmorc's grand concert and military company. Harry Hughes was in receipt of a dispatch last evening informing him that his partner, B. H. Coleman, ol Boise city, Idaho, is quite sick with rheumatism. For that reason Mr. Hughes will leave for Boise City this evening. MAKIXi: NEWS AND NOTES. The A uguUa sailed for Tillamook yesterday. The British steamer Danube ar rived from Victoria yesterday. The steam schooner Kate and An na sailed for Tillamook yesterday. The barkentine Rosalind loaded with lumber sailed for San Francisco yesterday. The steamers Idaho and Michigan arrived in from Seattle yesterday loaded with coal for Portland. The Qen. Canby will do the towing of the barges to Fort Stevens while the Mendell is being repaired. The schooner Norma sailed for San Francisco yesterday loaded with lumber from the West Shore mills. The British ships Grisedale and British Army sailed for the United Kingdom yesterday loaded with grain. A force of carpenters came up on the Canby from Fort Stevens yester day to make repairs on the Geo. H. Mendell. The steam schooner Rosie Olsen arrived from Tillamook yesterday afternoon with 210 cases salmon for Elmore, Sanborn & Co., and two tons butter. A telegram to Capt Brown, of the government steamer Geo. H. Men dell, started that vessel to Portland yesterday afternoon, to have repaired there the damages done by the firo in her engine room last Friday evening. During the present month bisect ors McDermott and Edwards will in spect the Traveler, Louisa Vaughn, Maria, Daisy Andrews, Ocklahama, Augusta, Annie Faxon, Spokane, Uncle Richard, Toledo, Occident, J. B. Stevens; General Canby, As toria and the Restless. The Gen. Wright arrived at Ya quina from Tillamook last Friday. The bar was quite rough so Captain Babbidge used, oil and went in with out shipping one drop of water on his decks. He is now a firm believer in the good effect oil has on rough wa ters. It prevents combing and break ing, no matter how high the sea rnas. Wanted to Know "Who He "Was. Now that the election is over some amusing political incidents, which were hushed during the campaign, can be let out without harm. One of this character grew out over Tom Grifiitts asking, "Who is this man Lyman Elmore?" It was at the Dem ocratic convention held at Ellens burgh, and Gritlitts was working every wire to gain the nomination for congress. Elmore is a Democratic politician from Tacoma. and is reputed to be worth a bushel of monev. It was brought to Griflitt's ear thr.t Elmore offered to bear the expenses of the campaign if Wheelwright, of Tacoma, wa3 nominated, which induced Grifiitts' exclamatory quen . That night there was a caucus and some wine in Elmore's quarters at which Grifiitts was present. The cau cus, "became in time very animated and Grifiitts, name was constantly on the tongue. Finally Elmore got up, and there was blood in his eye. "I hear nothing but Grifiitts, Grifiitts," he said, "and now I want to know who in h is this man Grifiitts?" There mark of the Spokane apostle of De mocracy had been carried to him and he had 'gotten home. -Yakima Her ald. On Her Beam Ends. On Sunday night the surf com menced washing the sand from under the hull of the wrecked steamer Ya quina Bay on the port side and the great iron hull commenced to keel over until Tuesday the hull lay square on its beam ends. The sea now has a fair drive at the decks and interior. If the hull does not turn clear over, keel to the stars, the sea in less than a month will rip the decks out and the shell will collapse and disapear from sight, to the regret of coasting cap tains who have used the wreck for a landmark. Yaquin a Republican. Marye Indicted. Ex-county surveyor W. B. Marye "was held to answer on five charges of larceny by Justice Tuttle yesterday afternoon. Marye furnished 500 bail. The grand jury promptly indicted Marye on three" counts. District at torney McGinn said yesterday that Marye's method of bilking land-seekers was one of the boldest robberies ever committed. He thinks he can convict larye. Oregonian, 2. C. R. F. F. U. Notice. The regular monthly meeting of the C. It F. P. U. in will he held in their readinc room Tuesdav November oth. 1889, at 7:30 im. IvNUT IjAKSKX, President Geo. Johnson, Secretary. Coffee and cake, tpn rnts. at the Central Restaurant Shorthand. Private instruction by practical ver batim reporter. Tears experience. Ciias. E. Runyox, Law Reporter, Astoria, Or. This season our Cloak 3& I feallB gp'Si Than ever shown before. PLUSH GARMENTS Are to be very much worn this season, and we are showing the Latest Styles in all qualities. The "New Directoire" style of Are the latest The Leading Dry AS Because "We 'ro on top and have downed the other bird ! Because We've got the largest stock and the Finest Goods. ' iecause "We knock them all out in prices. Iecause All judicious buyers trade with ns. Because "VVe'v got every reason to expect that you too will eventually realize these facts, AND CALL ON THE Reliable Clothier anil Hatter, Occident Hotel Building. ltjrfMr car peiau. . SMhr j i i T5SK' JL c"-5 . ' I Department is more We are showing a and Higher Novelties ! arkets and and will be very popular this season. Goods and , OREGON. EALAND The terminus of the llwaco and Shoalwater Uav IJailroad. THE GREA.T EST SUMMER RESORT ON THE NORTHWEST COAST. Lies at the head of the Ray, at deep water, and only twelve miles from the har. The coming County ! eat and Commercial Metropolis of Pacific county. Now laid out. Lots j on tht market fiom SoO, and upwards. r or particulars aim niu liuorniaiion, nuiur hi., tvsrujimn ; JLfidUES Astoria Real Estate Co. Office First Door South of the Odd Fellows Building The lest Bargains Yet Offered ! In Blocks 21 , 23 and 28, HUSTLER & AIKEN'S ADDITION. Less than 1 Mile From the Postoflice. SIXTY of these Lots sold within the past 8 days. The price of this Choice Property is going up daily, and may he taken off the market at any time. Price of Lots, SI 15 to SI 60, according to Location. M. M. MERCHANT TAILOR. Foreign and Domestic Goods. Fine Tailoring Astoria, Oregon. I" i 55sbk; i mm ihi.y JMfcii.ife?,JLl''ulll.'Ui5Baje. THE EEAVEYf PATENT CANT DOG Successors to KIRK SIIELDON. HEADQUARTERS FOR LOGGERS' SUPPLIES. Agency for ATKINS' CELEBRATED SAWS. . LANDER'S LOGGING JACKS. GENERAL HARDWARE. 151 Front Street, PORTLAND, OR. I IllllllTII Si attractive than ever. Jackets Clothing House, ran on or auures Il'waco, Wa T. FLYNN f V