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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1889)
w n?? gatttj Jlsfotfatu ASTORIA, OREGON: ERIDAY... .NOVEMBER 20, 1SS9. The salvation army had a halle luja time at their barraclcs last even ing. Flags were fluttering in every direc tion yesterday, and the shipping in the stream were handsomely decorated. Griffin & Reed have rented the store lately occupied by M. C. Cro3by and will open it with a stock of Christmas goods. A big lire broke out in Boston, Mass., ypterday morning, and at last accounts was raging with undimin ished fury. The Y. M. L gave a piea-a:s ball iast night at Kueyemeyr s liall, and everyone present had a most enjov able lime. Tut- sun vt on tha river yesterday was grand, and deserved the ppn of a poet and the pencil of an artist to ef fectually portr.n if. No courts, no public offices open; and little going on beyond the usual holiday uutings estrday. As a na tion we hardly have holidays enough. The Chinese had some celebration of their own yesterday. It wasn't a Thanksgiving day withthem, but they had jnst as much fun out of it as though it had been. The latest circular of the Union Pacific drops the name of Oregon Short Line and ignores the Utah con solidation. Everything is now Union Pacific pure and simple. There were several real estate tran-s.ieli.ju- est erday. Astoria realty is in such active demand that even auation al holiday isn't allowed to interfere with translers ai good figures. 1) : and .lo-ie Mot lis Sullivan, with their company will appear at Bos3' opens house Monday and Tuesday evenings, December nth and 10th, in two of thir celebrated Irish plays. John Mattson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mattson, died of spine disease, last Wednesday night, aged two years and six months. The fuueral will be from the residence at one o'clock to-morrow afternnou. Seattle having raised 20,000 to have Sullivan and Jackson fight there. Victoria raises Seattle $10,000 and makes up a purse of $30,000 for the two bruisers. If Astoria makes it $ jt),000 she can have it. Charles Larson, Audrew Ilillback and Jacob Moore, incorporators of the Larson Ar Ilillback company, a mercantile incorporation of this city, with a capital stock of $2,000, in $25 shares, have filed articles of incorpora tion with secretary McBride. There was a Republican caucus last Wednesday night to select possible and probable nominees for the several offices in to-morrow's convention, the result, without being definite, showing the comparative strength of the sev eral aspirautsforthe various positions. The Western Amateur baud was out in force yesterday afternoon, and played some of its sweetest mnsic. The Astorian acknowledges the com pliment of a serenade, which was ap preciated and enjoyed. This was their last public appearance under the pres ent organization. Last Monday Peyton Wilkes, aged about 100 years, died at his residence near Greenville. He was one of the early pioneers of Oregon, having crossed the plains from one of the southern states in 1813. The deceased leaves a large family of children, grand and great grandchildren. The Evening Telegram is now printing the largest advertisement un der a single contract ever published in any newspaper in the northwest. It is authorized by the city of Port land and is a list of the assesements made upon property which will be benefitted by a sewer in that city. No lovelier day ever shone over Oregon than yesterday. The air was warm, and the sky was as blue as in May. The day was generally observed and there was a cessation of. nearly all business; a fine union service at the Congregational church, and every body seemed to be making the most of a general -holiday. Don't buy of peddlers. Buy of home merchants. They are here and help make the town, and before you send away for anything see first if yon can't get it from some store here. In a majority of cases you can. This constant drain hurts any town, and if Astoria wasn't so well fixed, financi ally, it would feel the outgo even more than it does. An English scientist says that if we were to visit the moon we should find the days and nights a fortnight in length, and if we survived the "scorch ing during the day we should cer tainly be frozen to death during the night" That's eneugh: Clatsop coun ty is good enough for us. But a Da kota or Minnesota man would evi dently feel at home on Luna. The annual report of the general superintendent of the life saving serv ice shows that at the close of the fiscal year the establishment embraced 225 stations. The work of the service during the year is as follews: Num ber of disasters, 528; value of prop erty involved, $6,416,775; value of property saved, $5,054,440; number of persons involved, 3,426; number of persons lost, 42; number of persons succored, 737. PERSONAL MENTION. Fish commissioners Thompson and Campbell are in the city. Mack Monteith and E. M. Phile baum, were in the city yesterday. L, Hartwig came over from Seattle to spend Thanksgiving with his fam ily. Mrs. Allan Noyes, of Portland, spent Thanksgiving with her folks in this city. Eugene Peeples goes to South Bend, Wash., to-day, to take charge of the mill at that point. Miss Blanche Kahn of Portland came down yesterday morning to spend Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. I Bergman. Remember-the Austin 'house, at the Seaside is open the year 'round. A SPECTER OF THE SEA. The Bark Which Sails By The Shores Of The Unshapen Land. Canrat Set, But So One At The Heliu. Stout John Hansen, wrapped all in lurs, stood at the wheel or the bark Reindeer, a whaler of the Arctic seas. It was the night of July 16th and the vessel was working along the ice pack with Cape Smythe just looming in tne distance. Tlie biung wind twirled aboutHansen's feet,catching up the light snow and sending it swirling across the darkling water. There was a brisk breeze and the night was too cold for comfort -by reason of the proximity of the floe; but Hansen cared little and cheerily whistled the tune of a folk lore song he learned while a child sporting on the shore of a Norwegian fjord, lie seemed as strong and fearless as one of his Vik ing ancestors when they faced the un known Atlantio until "cloudlike they saw the American shore stretching to leeward." Suddenly, right out of the pack, came another bark, Ixnv on. Her mizzen was gone and she veered and yawed strangely; but her sails were set and she was making fair headway. Hansen could hear the swish of the wind in her shrouds and the swash as she mnnched the bone in her mouth. In an instant she tacked and bore away. Then, before going a hundred yards, she came about and made straight for the Reindeer again. Hansen hailed - her. There was no answering hail. His voice rang hollow and strange as the wind took it up and seemed to make of it a mocking echo. Then he hailed again. No re turn. Hansen's lips grew white. His knees shook. He put his helm hard over and made for the open sea. Then he muttered a prayer, which had not come to him since a ship burned un der his feet in the southern ocean way back in the Ws. He had seen the spectral ship, the Flying Dutchman of the frozen ocean. The phantom came so near that he could see the glisten of the salt spume frozen on her rigging, and Ihei icicles which hung from her spars. There was ice upon her deck, and up on her wheel, and upon her battered hntchs ice, and nothing more. Her decks gave back no echo of foot ' steps. Her sailing lights were out. She was so low in the water that she seemed almost awash but she kept on into the darkness, reeling, stag gering, unsteady, but on and on and out of sight. Last week John Hansen came into port. Death sat watching by his bedside. He chattered and gibbered, and stared with-straining eyeballs. For no man may look upon the phan tom ship and live. But what John Hansen saw in the depths of that July night was not a specter of the seas; nor was it the grim vision of a fever-stricken brain. It was something far more dangerous than an airy phantom a derelict of the deep, it was the wreck of the Young Phoenix, which since the 5th of August, 1888, has been sailing through ice and gale, breasting the crushing pack, dodging the toppling bergs, guided by an unseen hand, and sailing for no known port. No one may say she has not touched the northern pole. No man . may tell where she may be seen again. On August 3rd, of last year, the whaling lleet was riding between Point Barrow and Cape Smythe, wait ing for the ice pack to clear, when down came the southwest gale, beat ing the sea into ridges aud tossii-g the stout ships like the paper argosies of children. Down went the bark Flett wing that had outlived many an Arc tic storm. The Mary and Susan stiained, plunged. and foundered. The sea's great maw took'in the schooners Ino and Jane Gray. Things were lively on tha Y'onng PJuvnix then. Both anchors were let go and the men were ordered to the pumps. She was leaking badly and the heavy seas swept clear over her. With the night the wind shifted to the west and came in stronger gusts. One after the other the cables parted and the bark drif ted. Then an effort was made to get to sea, but the vessel fouled the Triton when trying to get over the bar. Her rudder, stern-post and jibboom carried away and the leaks were started freer. The crew of thirty-seven men stuck by the bark until August 6th. By that time the water was at her lower deck. Her mizzenmast had been cut awaj It was not thought that she could float more than an hour or two longer. The sails on the fore aud main masts were set or partially furled when Captain Millard ordered the men to the boats and the Young Phccnix sailed away, rudderless and undirected, to meet whatever fate might come. She was not seen again last year, aud it was supposed she had foundered or been squeezed between the floes. But she kept on ner erratic course, affected by the winds, caught by tho currents, lonely and forlorn. On May 5th of this year she was seen and boarded by Mr. Leavitt, manager of a whaling station on Cape Smythe. She was then close in shore, some sixty miles from where she had been abandoned. A few relics were taken from her, and the next morning she was gone again. She was little changed, and though water-logged made good headway. This abandoned craft is probably the phantom whose ice-sheathed shrouds and silent decks loomed upon the startled vision of big John Hansen that chilly night in July, and gave nun that shock from which lie may never recover. For uearlv a year she had roamed the chartless sea, touch ing at no port, piloted by no hand, answering no hail, purposeless, silent and alone. Skating Every afternoon at the rink. New autt wonderful Embroidery and Tufting machine work and machine can be seen at Mrs. Rappleyea's milinery store.- The Ma chine is so simple that a child can op erate it Wanted, a good, local age;:t. Will only he here a few days. J. II. SQUIKK3, Sole Agt. for the Pacific coast. Hloncy Found. A purse with considerable money in it awaits an owner at this office. It was found in the road ahout 12 miles from here. C. R. F. r, U. Notice. The regular monthly meeting of the C. ft F. P. Union will bo held in their reading room Tuesday, December 3rd, 1839, at 7 :30 p. m. Kxut Larsen. President Geo. Johnson, Secretary. The latest style ol Gents' Hoots and Shoes at P. J. Goodman's. THE ARIZONA KICKER. He Was Correct. There was con siderable astonishment exhibited by our people the other day when the governor of Arizona shook hands with us in front of the postolhce, and we have noticed a considerable change in the demeanor of certain people to ward us ever since. The governor was correct We are no clam-shell hidden in the drifts, and he appre ciates the fact He knows and re spects the power of the press. He knows that a great paper like the Kicker, having behind it, but under one and the same roof, a grocery, feed store, butcher shop, harness shop, crockery store and gents' furnishing, must wield a mighty - influence of good... The people in this burgh who have been looking upon us as a one-mule power had better get their eyes open Came to Grief. The suit of the widow Gibbs against us for breach of promise, damages $15,000, came up in court last Friday. This suit was instituted six months ago by the court house ring, which has sought our downfall ever since the first issue of this paper. That is, they put the widow up to sue us, and have ad vanced the money as it was needed. When the widow was put on the stand she testified that on the night of February 21, 1887, we asked her to marry us. She insisted that the dale was correct, and that nothing could change her mind about it We then exhibited the records of the jail to prove that on that day and night we were a prisoner, having, as some of our readers may remember, departed from the line of virtue and gone on a bender. This exhibit knocked the widow "out in the first round, and confounded her supporters, and we don't believe they will tackle us again after that fashion. As for the widow, she was only a cat's-paw, and we have sent to her house a basket of groceries, a clothes line, a set of cups and saucers and a sack of flour to prove that we have no malice. It Wiiiii Be Very Octet. -Our city election, which takes place next Tuesday, will be a very quiet one, and thesingular spectacle of two tickets al most without candidates, will be pre sented. As both tickets were made up of ring candidates, we felt it our dnty to publish, as far as we could se cure it, a history of each. Our biog rapines included thirteen out of the sixteen candidates, and the publication was only three days old when most of them wero hunting other localities. They averaged all the way from mur derers down to barn burners, and we are not likely to be troubled with them again. What is left of the two tickets is fairly clean and honest We are sorry we had to interfere and thus place the parties in a queer fix, but we felt it a duty we owed to the public. A waste of money. Some person who has a grievance against The Kicker left an infernal machine on our doorstep one night last week. It was a starch box filled with giant pow der and two pounds of bullets, and was so arranged as to explode when the cover was lifted. We took it in and started to open it, supposing some modest admirer bad loft us a box of fruit or confectionery, but on second thought concluded to soak it for a while. This action saved our life. Not only that, but it prevented the destruction of our institution and probably of much surrounding prop erty. We have made even' effort to t race the liend who put up this job, but so far without success. We realize that there are many men in this com munity who hanker for our life, but we hone to disappoint them. If they feel that they must have it, why not lire buckshot into our bed-room window, ambush us at night or pick a quarrel in the street? This plotting to scatter our bloody fragments over our large and excellent stock of gro ceries is both unkind and unreasonable.- -. 1 rizo n a Kickei : There is more experience, time, and brain work represented in the prepara tion of Hood's Sarsaparilla than in any other ii'cilicin-1. It is this which makes Mor.fl's Sarsaparilla peculiar in its cura tive power, and in the remarkable cures it elTeoU. (live il a trial. The price paid for seal skins in Vic toria is from $5 to $7. They have to be sent to London to be prepared, as there is only one house in the world where the work can be done. The peculiar art is in coloring so that tho color wfll be fast The art was dis covered by a chemist many years ago, and the secret is transmitted to the oldest son as an hereditament The skin goes through several processes by different hands who are not allowed to know any process other than that they are employed'in, and the finish ing touches are put on by the owner of the secret. A large sum of money has frequently been offered by per sons for the secret, but without suc cess, and many chemists have at tempted to discover it by analysis and failed. Others have also attempt ed to invent a substitute, but they have failed, and othera still are experi menting. There is only one place in this city where seal skins are prepared, but they are not finished as good as the imported article. It is therefore certain that seal kin3 will always be high, unless some one breaks the seal of silence .on the lips of the owner of the secret The .Latest Out. A Daily Through Car Service has been established by tho Chicago, Un ion Pacific & North-Western Line be tween Portland and Chicago via" Coun cil Bluffs, thus offering to the public facilities not given by any other line. "The Limited Fast Mail." which runs daily between the "above points, carries the Overland Fast Mail a limited num ber of first-class passengers without ex tra charge, and is composed of Pullman Vestibuled Sleepers and Pullman Din ing Cars, Portland to Chicago via Council Bluffs. This is an other indication that the Union -Pacific is desirous of meeting the requirements of the people. For information in regard to this and other trains on this line, apply to E. A. Noyes, Or M. B. Bozorth, Agent O. R. & N. Co. Or to" A. L. Maxwell, G.T. & T. A. Portland, Or. Heels CooKcd to Order. Private rooms for ladies and families: at Central Restaurant, next to Foard & Stokes. .Ludlow's Ladies' 3.00 Fine Shoes; also'Flcxible Hand turned French Kids, at P. J. Goodman's. CliltoCryf8rPitcler'sCastori3 MARINE NEWS AND NOTES. The steamer Volga arrived from Bay Center yesterday. The pilot schooner Gov. Moody came in from the offing yesterday to restore. The Gen. Miles arrived from Shoal water bay yesterday with 1,900 cases salmon. The Oregon arrived from San Fran cisco yesterday with 40 tons freight for the port. No body has yet been recovered of the crew" that was lost on the tug Fearless at the mouth of the TJmpqnn river. The Alliance arrived from Gray's harbor with 4.500 cases salmon of the Aberdeen packing company brand for shipment east. The Columbia sailed for San Fran cisco yesterday with the -following freight from here: 775 sks ovsters, 400 bdls shooks, 394 bdls pulp'and 5 tons assorted freight. The Merchant 3Iarine. The largest wooden vessel built was the Ocean King, of Kennebunk, Me., of 2,516 tons, which was lost about two years ago, since which time the Hillings, of 2,497 tons, has stood at the head, although Arthur Sewell, of Bath, is about to build a wooden ship still larger. There are six Maine ships now afloat, however, nearly as large as the Billings, to wit: Henry B. Hyde, of Bath, 2,463 tons; Willie Hostnfeld. of Bath, 2,353 tons; A. G. Ropes, of Thomaston, 2,042 tons; Com. T. . Allen, of Richmond, 2,371 tons; John R. Kelley, of Bath, 2,255 tons; aud Robert L. Belknap,ol Bockport, 2,251 tons. There are seven iron sailing vessels now afloat, whose tonnage is more than that of the Frederick Billings, the largest being the Pal grave of Glasgow, 8,087 tons; and five steel sailing vessels all British of more than 2,200 tons each. Tho whole nnmber of sailing vessels of over 1,800 tons now afloat is 177, of which 65 are wooden all but ten of them being American, 94 irou (threeof them Am erican) and 8 steel. All of the great American sailing vessels now afloat were built in Maine shipyards, most of them at Bath. It should be borne in mind that it is only within a com paratively few years that ships of over 1,200 tons were built The flagship of ' Columbus was only 300 tons. The great American clipper ships which won. suck fame thirty-livo years ago were only about 4,200 Ions. At that time a schooner of 300 tons was a bigone. Now schooners are be ing built of 1,200 and even 1,800 tons, and are being used in the foreign trade and on voyages where only square-rigged vessels were employed until within ten or fifteen years the advantage being that a schooner rigged vessel cau be worked with one half the men that a ship, bark or brig or other square-rigged vessel can be sailed. The Verdict Unanimous. V D. Suit, Druggist Bippus, Ind., testifies: "1 can recommend Electric Bitters as the very best remedy. Every bottle sold has given relief in every case. One man took hix bottles, and was cured of Rheumatism of 10 years' standing." Abraham Uare, druggist, Bellviile, Ohio, affirms: 'The best selling medi cine I have ever handled in my '20 i'hi.s' experience, is Electric Hitlers I'liou saiuh of otliers liave added iheir le-.li-nion,so thai the erdict is unanimous that Electric Bitters do cure diseases of the Liver, Kidneys or Blood. Only a half dollar a bottle at J. V. Conn's Drug Store. U. S. Fish Commission. At Great Brook station, Ellsworth, Maine. 140,000 esrss of the landlocked salmon have been taken up to date. The siecies was not known to occur here in large numbers and the take of eggs is a complete, though agreeable surprise. The effort to gather eggs here was merely an tx periment, but it will be a very profit able one. Fifteen thousand "yearling landlocked salmon, reared at" Craicr's Point, were planted in Green Lake. At Sandusky 21,000,000 whitefish eggs have already been secured. If this rate continues, the stations will all be stocked soon. The present capacity of the stations is about 300,000,000 eggs. At Gloucester 12.000,000 eggs of the pollock have been placed in the hatching nouse. Cape Ann Breeze, 11. X Woman's TiscoTrj". Another wonderful discoverv has been made and that too by a ladv in this county. Disease fastened its clutch es upon her and for seven years she withstood it severest tests, but her vi tal organs were undermined and death seemed imminent. For three months she coughed incessantly and could not sleep. She bought of us a bottle of Dr, King's New Discovery for Consump tion and was so much relieved on tak ing first dose that she slept all night and with one bottle has been miracu lously cured. Her name is Mrs. Luther Lutz." Thus write W. C. Ilerricl: & Co., of Shelby ville,N. C., Get a free trial bottle at .I. W. Conn's Drug Store. Combines the juice of the Blue Figs of California, so laxative and nutritious, with the medicinal virtues of plants known to be most beneficial to the human system, forming the ONLY PER FECT REMEDY to act gently yet promptly on the KIDNEYS, LIVER AP BOWELS '1 AND TO Cteansethe System Effectually, SO THAT PURE BLOOD, REFRESHING SLEEP, . HEALTH and STRENGTH Naturally follow. Every one is usiag.it nd all are delighted with it. Ask your oruggist for SYRUP OF FIGS. Manu factured only by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO, San- Fsancisco; Cau Louisville, Ky. NtV York, N. Y Cjp0fnqs . o cs J bbh gRBHMi t j ii i i in cs .: v0 J2 rj 3 .52 fe ,1- 2 5 c d J -S CH i D ri en s fc"ai .-nS . it Hi S & .s H -j I'"' u CSS L P e9 & S Jl Q3 & mmJtmm pi, I ca. a PR AW Because "We 're on lop nnd have downed the other bird ! Because We'vo got tho Iargeststoclc nnd the Finest Goods. Because "Wo knock-thorn nil ont in prices. Because All judicion3 buyers trade with ns. ecause - ?.-. "We'v pot every reason to ezpect that yon too will eventnally realize those facts, AND CALL ON HERMAN WISE THE Reliable Clothier. an! Hatter, Occident Hotel-Building. J. P. HYNES, -DEALER IN- Groceries Produce. Water Street, Astoria, Oregon. TELEPHONE NO. 7. - . P. 0. BOX 82-2. A AAw JL 9. The Finest Tract yet Offered in this Addition. FRONTS ON MAIN STREET, The . first, street to be extended through to 'Young's Bay. For a short time we will sell lots in this Splendid Tract at the low price of for Inside Lots. KEEN Flynn, 111 KEEPS IN Finest Woolen Goods for Suitings. ALL THE LATEbT STYLES. He buys for Cash, at Eastern Prices. He Guarantees the 13esfc Workmanship on all garments. Call and see for yourselves. ' Earth's Block, Astoria ffiWBC I II llll II Mg B53Er,? T,1 ', "t. 'rdJlkgr THE BUAVETT PATENT CANT DOG Successors to KIRK SnELDON. HEADQTJARTEKS TOR LOGGERS' SUPPLIES. Agency for ATKINS' CELEBRATED SAWS. LANDER'S LOGGING JACKS. . - GENERAL HARDWARE. 161 Front Street, PORTLAND, OR. Astoria Real Estate Co, Office First Door South of the Odd Fellows Building The B est Bargains Yel In Blocks 21 HUSTLER & AIKEN'S ADDITION. Less than 1 Mile From the Postofflce. . 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 $160, according to Location. for Corner Lois. & STOCK THE f 23 and 289 0OO I llua f Offered !