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PAQESIX. THE MORNING ASTORIA, EMbAY, KHKUAHY 19, 1904. DELAYS AND THEIR CAUSE Transport Dix Affords Striking Example of Great Losses to Shipping. THIRTY HOURS ON THE TRIP Will Probnbly Be Weather Bound Because of Long , Passage Down the River From Portland. The government transport Dlx ar rived down the river yesterdayc She left Portland at 10 a. jn.. the day pre viously and reached Astoria at 4 yes terday afternoon, having made the trip in the exceptionally good time of SO hours. Pilot Patterson, the gold medal Portland navigator, was In charge of the ship, and "worked the tides" 90 uecessfully thae the Dlx never once hit fcn'tcm. She proceeded on to the lower harbor. The case of the Dix affords a strik . ins instance of the delay occasioned because of the Inland trip made by ships. Had the transport arrived down -he river yesterday morning or some time during the previous night. she could have left the Columbia yes terday, when the bar was smooth. Her trip down the river delayed her so long that she did not get down in time to take advantage of the favorable weath er conditions yesterday, and the indi cations last night were that the weath er would be bad for a SDell. If this proves to be the case the Dlx will be wather bound for some .days, and the delay will be attributed by the Ore gonlan to the poor depth at the mouth of the river, when, as a matter of fact, It will be due purely to" the great length of time required for vessels of large draft to make the passage down from Portland on the top of the tides. The Dix has on board a Quantity of oats. She goes from Astoria to San Francisco, there to take on 450 head of horses. The cargo is for the govern ment and goes to Manila. , THE DEPTH ON THE BAR. The government expects to use 500.000 tons of stone thto season. , It Is to be Inferred from the Oregon lan's statement thaf the results, of the soundings made by the tug Mendell have been unsatisfactory. However, in the absence of any definite state ment us to the depth found by the tug the bar pilots decline to' admit' that they have been smoking hop, and still maintain that there Is now more water on th bar than was the case last fall. One of the pilots said yesterday -to an Astorlan representative: "You may put It down as certain that the Chinook will do as much tor, the bar as the Jetty has done. If U doesn't, there'll be no Improvement there. I do not rr.ean to say the Jetty will not help the bar, but I do maintain that It has not thus far given greater depth. It seems to roe, after past failures, the engineers would manifest a disposition to give the Chinook a square deal." B U S I N E S S L O Q AIj S LET YOUR WANTS BE KNOWN. Somcbody'his what you want, or vmti wht you have to sell. Here is where want ami wanted come together. ADVERTISE. , : ' , ' Mm. Dupont'e akin food hat world wide reputation. Sold only at Owl and Eagle drug stores. 25 cents a box. The Morning Astorlan will be found tor sale at Griffin's book store and at Scully's cigar store, corner Eleventh and Commercial streets. Marina Notes. The French bark Armen was towed up the river yesterday. The steamer Charles Nelson arrived yesterday from San Francisco and pro ceeded up the river. , The four-masted schooner Virginia,! with S60.000 feet of lumber for San Francisco, put to sea yesterday. The steamer Alliance arrived down the river yesterday and departed for San Francisco. She takes lumber and grain. ' The schooner Viking arrived Wed nesday night. She will load lumber at the Hume mill, where there are now four schooners loading. Captain Parry, of the Thistlebank, reports having spoken, in 36 north, 127 west, the ship William Tillie, bound for Sydney. The vessel reported all well. PREPARED FOR LONG WAR. Wood. Wood. Wood. Cord wood, mill wood, box wood, any kind of wood at lowest prices. Kelly, the transfer man. 'Phone 2211 Bl Barn on Twelfth, opposite opera house. C0AL1 COAU COAU If you want your money's worth Ring 'Phone Mil. GEO. W. SANBORN, Agt. Something Good. Toke Point and Shoalwater bay oysters at the Imperial chop house. Try our coffee. It Is unexcelled. S. M. GALLAGHER. Manager. ly cash salary of 124 and all traveling expenses and hotel bill advanced In cash each week. Experience not essen tial. Mention reference and enclose self-addressed envelope. National, Caxton Bldg., Chicago. Upper Astoria has a praee where you can get a fine glass of beer, at good wlnee and liquors aa you can And any place In the city. ' HARRY JONES, tf Opposite Kopp'a Brewery. JAPANKSa GOODS. New stock of fancy goods Just arriv ed at Yokohama Baiaar. Call and tee the latest novelties from Japan. see Pisno Tuner. For s-ooJ. reliable piano work your local tuner, Th. Fredrlck&on. 2071 Bond street. 'Phone Red 2074 First-class meal tor 15c; nice cake, coffe pie or doughnuts, 6c. XI. S. res taurant, 4S4 Bond street. Enoineere Say, Local Pilots Recently Experienced Pipe Dream. The Columbia river Par is only 20 to J! feet deep at low water. This" somewhat startling announcement is "just made In the Oregonlan, the article evidently being the substance of an in terview with some gentleman connect ed with the engineer department. In it the department official says the bar pilots have had a recent pipe dream. The article, which will prove of espe cial Interest at this time, is reproduced herewith: i "Government engineers find no im provement in the bar channel at the mouth of the Columbia river. Bar pilots were entirely mistaken In alleg ing that the channel had deepened two or three feet and that the dredge Chi nook had already demonstrated her ef fectiveness. "Lant June the engineers made their annual survey and found the minimum depth at low tide to be between 20?and 22 feet. The announcement of the pilots sounded to Uncle Sam's men like a pipe dream; still, they set about to ascertain whether it were true. . "The Chinook has done little or noth ing for the bar as yet, and probably cannot get to work before the latter part of April, owing to the severity of the weather until that time. Major Langfitt hopes to put the dredge to good service this summer. Although the Chinook needs new boilers, the old can be made to last for this season. What the dredge can accomplish is still a matter of speculation. At most Its benefits can be only temporary. The Jetty, however, will bring permanent . results and upon the jetty most ship ping men place their reliance. "Unfortunately there is not enough money available to extend the Jetty ac cording to plans . The money on hand will add less than one mile to the Jetty, whereas the extension as planned would be two and a half miles. Last year the old Jetty was lengthened only about 500 feet. Should congress fail to appropriate money for the jetty at this session, next years work will cer tainly be curtailed and perhaps noth ing will be done at all. "On January 1, 1904, the fund for the bar amounted to some $900,000. Of that sum J100.000 will be expended this vear for oDeratin the dredge, and J 200,000 will be reserved for , contin gencies. The remainder, $600,000 will be iised for extending the Jetty. But aa It cosU about $170 a foot to build the breakwater, the $600,000 will lengthen the Jetty less than a mile. "Building of the Jetty will be re sumed about the middle part of April. Japan Is Finely Equipped With Sup plies to Fight Russia. San Francisco, Feb. IS. William McC. Osborne, collector of customs at Fusan, Corea, is here on a vacation trip. Mr. Osborne was In the Chinese customs service for many years prior to the Japanese-Chinese wfcr, and since that time has been in the Corean ser vice at Fusan. Speaking of Japan and her ability to maintain a long war, Mr. Osborne says she has laid in large quantities of supplies for her army, has plenty of coal, ample construction and repaJrj facilities for the needs of her formidable navy and In other respects is on a war footing never before at tained by any other nation in such a short space of time. SLIGHT CUT CAUSES DEATH. Tearing Transfer Slip Resultt in Fatal Lockjaw Attack. caused by a cut on the hand from a transfer slip, has caused the death of George Powers, a street car conductor here. The cut was sustained two weeks ago while Powers was tearing the slip from his book for a passenger. In this connection the board of health has issued a mandate forbidding con ductors to moisten their fingers with saliva in order to separate the trans fers before delivering them to passen gers. Fears of disseminating disease germs caused the board's action. Monarch over pain. Burns, sprains, stings. Instant relief. Thomas' Electric Oil. At any store. tf. cuts Dr drug BEST 16-CENT MEAL. You will always find the best lie meal In the city at the Rising Sun res taurant, No. 618 Commercial street Wanted. Men to learn barber trade. Only eight weeks required; constant prac tice and expert Instruction; positions secured when competent. Catalogue mailed free. Moler System College, San Francisco Calif. Wanted Several industrious persons in each state to travel for house estab lished eleven years and with a large capital, to call upon merchants and agents for successful and profitable line. Permanent engagement. Week- Welcome at Sunshine after a long storm la a feeling of relief when an Obstinate, pitiless cold has been driven away by Allen't Lung Balsam. Only people who have been cured of throat-ache and tore lungs by 1 this remedy can quite realise what the feeling Is, There la no opium In the Balsam; Ita good t fleet U ra Ileal and lasting. Take a bottle home today. Busintts rropotltlon. If you are going east a earful select- Ion of your route la essentia) to the en joyment of your trip. It It it a butt ness trip time Is the main consider alon; If a pleasure trip, scenery and the conveniences and comforts of a modern railroad. Why not combine all by using the Illinois Central, the up-to-date road, running two trains dally from St. Paul and Minneapolis, and trom Omaha, to ChU ugo. Free reclining chair cars, the famous buffet llbnry smoking cars, all train vestlbal-d. In short thoroughly modern throughout. All tickets read ing via the Illinois Central will be hon- ore-l on these trains and no extra fare charged. Our rates are the tame as those ot Inteitor roads why not get your money's worth? Write for full particulars. B. H. TRUMBULL. Commercial Agt, Portland, Ore. J. C. LINDSEY, T. F. & P. A., Portland, Ore. PAUL T). THOMPSON, F. A. P. A.. Seattle, Wash. Tha Lee eleotrle Inteles, which are aold by tha Owl drug store exclusive ly and under guarantee for cure, are not previously charged with electricity, but accomplish their wonderful cures by the natural current generated by the acid fluids of the body, acting on the positive and negative polea of the battery formed by the alno plate In one heel and the copper plate In the other. See them In the window, Ask for a descriptive booklet telling ot the marvelous cures ot rheumatism. Office constructing quartermaster, Astoria, Ore.. Feb. I, lQl. -Sealed proposal. In triplicate, will be received at this oftlce until 10 o'clock a. m, March 7, 1904, and then opened, tor the construction, plumbing, heating and electric wiring of one tingle set officers' quarters, and the construction, plumb tug and electric wiring of one double set N. C. O. quarters at Fort Columbia. Wah. United States reserves the right to reject any or all proposals. Plana can be seen and specifications obtained at this oftlce and at the office of Dis bursing Quartermaster at Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash. Envelopes should be marked "Proposals for con struction buildings at Fort Columbia" and addretsed Captain Goodale, Quar termaster, Astoria, Ore. U. & Engineer Office, Portland, Ore Feb. 10, 1904. Sealed proposals will be received here for $40,000 tone, mora or atone for extension of jetty at mouth of Columbia river, Oregon and Washington, until 11 a. March 1L 1904, and then publicly opened, Ja formation on application, W. C Lang fitt, Major, Engineer. Union made heating stows, home manufacture and every atove perfect, at Montgomery'! tin and olumblng store, 425 Bond street Phone 10 J 1. Office constructing quartermaster, Astoria, Ore., Feb. . 1M4. Sealed proposals. In triplicate, will be received at this office until 10 o'clock a. m. March 7, 1904, and then opened, for tht construction, plumbing, heating and electric wiring of one field officers' and one double set of Ueuteants' quarters, and tor the construction, plumbing and electro wiring ot one set ot hospital steward's quartert at Fort Stevens, Ore. United States reserves the right to reject any or all proposals. Plans can be seen and specifications obtained at this office and at the office of Dis bursing Quartermaster at Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash. Envelopes should be marked "Proposals for con structlon bulldlngt at Fort Stevent" and addressed to Captain Ooodale, Quartermaster, Astoria, Ore. Every Woman i It imm4 t twld ktm It MARVtL MhlrUM Sarev Atk M inukl SM It MA Ilk ft. I., an ' -l .. lull iHtMimtUrak ttml tlirt nut in I I'ttra lit e , eJ4lf Vtor eo r coujm iu hji mni (.ring WHI.nl I WILL MAKfc A -y Musi! 1 raitnui? toMno hi- ran itV t Iiiihhii DaVK Till. VtMITM. i. II, (HKiIJl. mrrl rrHIl. U-tn nit. 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