SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, ioofl.
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WANT MONEY BACK
NIGHT INSPECTOR
Customs Authorities to Be Asked
For One Here.
htH LAUNCH ON THE RIVER
Steamer Alluact Gets Away for Eurekt
Toled -Sails for Seattle and Al
askaBee Leares Out for
Shoalwater Bay.
Yesterday's Oregonian contains the
following, which is of decided inter
est to many here, and should prevail,
if it is possible to secure the conces
sion: "Pilots and shipmasters plying out of
tiis port are taking steps further to fa
cilitate the handling of coastwise traf
fic by asking for the appointment of a
night custom house, official at Astoria.
A communication trill' be addressed to
Collector of Customs W. L. Robb, at
Astoria, requesting him to use his in
fluence for the appointment of a depu
ty to remain on watch during the night
ao that teasel arriving or departing
after office hours can be entered or
cleared without the captain or pilot
iaving to run about the city looking
p one of the collectors, which system
is now in vogue at the eity-by-tbe-aea.
"Coastwise shipping is being caused
considerable detention, the customs col
lectors, of Astoria are being annoyed,
ud shipmasters and pilots are put to
a great deal of unpleasant work by rt-as-00
of there being no night man to
receive or i-uc the necessary pa pets
for the. craft that makes Astoria a
port of call.
uWe should have had a night man at
A-toria long ago." said one of the pi
lot yesterday, in speaking of the pe
tition which is now being circulated
among the interests concerned. ' "Coast
wise shipping i leing detained a great
deal by r-ason of there being no depu
ty on duty after the closing of the
office at night or U-fore it opens at 9
in the morning. A large majority of
the steamers plying between Portland
nd Calfornia port reach Astoria at
Bight, both going and coming, and then
either the captain or the pilot has to
hustle around for one -of 'the collectors
to have the papers passed upon. Some
times vessels get in late, and it is not
at all pleasant to have to drag the col
lector out of bed for the sake of accom
modating the steamship people.
'The collectors never complain, but
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ready for business
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Paper Hanging
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we feci that they aie tieiug imposed
upon inasmuch as they get no pay fop
night work. Not seldom doe it hap
pen that the skipper of one vessel will
disturb the peaceful slumber of a col
lector, and no sooner has he returned
to led lief ore another navigator will
drop around and tear down the houe
to ecure a permit to proceed.
"N'eariy all of the vessels running
out of Portland stop at Astoria to pick
up pasengers anjd freight and this
make it necessary for them to clear
there, notwithstanding the. fact that
they have paper from the office in
Portland."'
"The petition to Collector Robb reads
ai follows:
"The masters and pilots plying be
tween Atoria and Portland beg of you
to ue your influence in securing a night
custom house mau at Astoria to clear
in and out bound vessel now plying
out of the Colunihia River. We deem
it an absolute necessity that there be a
custom house man on duty at night in
order to more facilitate the handling
of the shipping."
"Many signatures have already been
affixed to the petition."
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
The Revenue cutter Perry returned
yesterday afternoon from a week's so
journ in Portland waters.
The handsome tug Tatoosh arrived
home from her sea tow to Flattery with
the French Jean Baptiste.
The steamer Redondo, from San Fran
cisco, arrived here at 8 o'clock la-t
evening, and left up for Portland at
once. j
The steamer Sue H. Elmore went to
the bar again yesterday but had toj
return to port and will probably make
it out this morning.
The steamer Pee made it out for!
Shohvater Bay ye-terday, after a delay
of twenty-four hours in this port, alter
taking on a cargo of lumber at that
point, she will proceed to San Fian-ci-cA
The steamer Toledo, Alaska bound
from Portland, is at the Sanborn dock
in this city awaiting high-sea dispatch
for the north. She is loaded with can
nery supplies for the upper plants.
The steamer Alliance came down from
Portland ye-terday morning, with thirty-six
people in her cabin and seven
in her steerage, and a good manifest of
freight. She has just come off the dry
dock where she. was scraped and painted
and has undergone the full limit of her
annual drills and inMicjtioin at the
hands of the federal officers, and is in
prime shape for business. She left out
of here atl0:3") o'clock a. rn. yesterday,
j Capt. Durment of the Salvation Army,
I and E. Mellex, as passengers for Marsh-
! field.
! The handsome launch "Lexington,"
the property of Senator J. fl. Megler, of
Brook field, and built by R. M. Leathers
o this city, was slipped into the Co-
I liimbia from the ways at Leathers'
vards yesterday afternoon, and being
fully equipped with her motors and
with plenty of oil fuel, she was gotten
under way at once and left up for
i Urookficld nt once, with the Senator
and Mi. Megler as passengers. She
I was named the! "Lexington" by "net'
owner, in memory, and honor, of the
famous old war-ship of that name, on
I which he served during the great civil
war. She will be used in the fishing
; industries with which Senator Megler
is connected, and is evidently a fast and
; serviceable boat.
Miners Begin Suit For Money
Paid for Goldless Mine.
MINE NEVER PAID ANYTHING
Purchaseis Wotked the Piopeity for
Five Years and Sank Four Milium
Dollars in it Company Final
ly Goes Into Bankiuptcy.
Many men give lavishly of gold,
To build bridges and castles and towers
of old;
If you want everlasting fame, a bene
factor be, .
Give the poor and needy Rocky Moun
tain Tea.
Frank Hart, druggist.
The Morning Astorian, B3c. a month
NEW tKK. Feb. '-. "The suit of
Edward Klcuitt and Frederick W, and
Junto M. Wilmens to recover flSH.TH
from Colgate Hoyt, the hunker, and
Ui"h Hunt, was placed on trial yes
terday before Supreme Court Justice
llett and a jury. The suit originated
in the purchase bv Hvt and some
sociates of a gold mine in the Monte
Cristo tract in Washington.
The mine belonged originally to
Hiram O. Bond of California, who
stoned his claims, to Hoyt, U-igh Hunt
and CharlesColby. A bond for 173,XH)
was given by the purchasers guaranteed
bv the net earnings of the mine .and
bond assigned this guarantee to the
plaintiffs, Blewits and tlie two t-men.
A cah navment of $175,000 was alo
made by the purchaser. The plaintiff
are suing on the bond and allege that
the mine was never prowrly worked
and no accounting of the net earning
rendered. Judge Bond is here a a
witness. Hoyt and Hunt, the defend
ant', Colby being dead, assert that the
mine was worked for five year and
turned out to be goldless. They sank
$4,fu0,OO" it is alleged, in mining oier
ations there until in 1S98 work had to
be stopped because of a washout. The
company organized to mine the district
went into bankruptcy and the claims
were sold by credits.
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
(Continued from psge 1)
homesteader. Some advocate of leas
ing believe that the homestead entry-
man should have the right to enter up
on land during the term of eien an
unnual lease, after proving his bona
fide home purpose. Others are inclin
ed to think that settlement of the
country will be amply safeguarded by
providing that the home-tead entry-
man shall lie given access to the lami
only after expiration of a range leas-.
Champions of the small stockman will
also in-ist that an enfryumn taking
range land, shall be insured a good
range acreage about his homestead,
which others cannot Ica-e. The range
home-tead has been suggested as a
law that would encourage the cattle
industry at least, if not the sheep, and
recognize the semi-arid condition of the
country. This suggestion is to let a
man take a large range acreage as a
single home-tead, the limit being such
probable yield of forage as the average
agricultural homestead yields.
All of the solutions proposed could
not be enumerated in a limited space,
put enough have been advanced to
prove that when the que-tion must
finally be decided, there will be a wide
diversity of courses offered. We-tern
states should begin a careful study of
the situation. They will be most vital
ly affected, and unless their rights, as
states and industrial commonwealths
are ably championed in the formative
hour of law-making, theories that are
utterly impracticable may be forced
upon them.
There has been such a stir through
out the East in regard to the public do
main, that radical action might lie
expected if the true status of the West
is not made the subject of constant
education. Many Eastern people re
gard the acquisition of more than ICO
acres of public land by one person or
company as "land grabbing." They do
not rualize the necessities of a range
country. When informed on the tim
ber acreage required by a large lum
ber concern before erecting a mill, they
are inclined to style the business pre
caution a public outrage. To meet such
views as these, and have whatever legis
lation is enacted kept upon a plane per
mitting the most rapid and permanent
Western development, many Western
people are already anticipating the dis
cussion by gathering data.
If you have lost your boyhood spirits,
courage and confidence of youth, we
offer you new life, fresh courage and
freedom from ill health in Jlollister's
Rocky, Mountain Tea.. 35 cents, Tea or
Tablets. Frank Hart, druggist.
PERSONAL MENTION.
J, W. Johnson, of Melville, i in the
city on business.
Archil McCluin returned htt night
from a nip to Chitsknliie,
,1, Stiau ivlurnod hist night from
a business trip to Portland.
IX N. Stcuuis of the Capital City, is
a business xlsitnf in Astoria,
K. M. Hart, a well known business
uutn ol si. i.ouis, i in the city.
t'. C. Mastou and wife ivinriicd last
nielii I'ioiii rt hoi I isit in I'oitland,
.1. Vkeimaii. of V'rw Yoik city U In
the city, a giie-.( at the ll"tc! Occident.
ll ('. Hansel of Warrctit.-n w.i a
lm-iiii si iitor in the city yesterday.
lovi'.'i' Warren returned yesterday
criiiiit troiu Portland ujtrr a brief
-lay.
t.ciiige Cue Jr., 1 prosperous logger
of Su-ii-cn, i in the city for a few
da.
A. V. Allen Jr. was n homing pn
sctiger yesterday fening from the metropolis.
(i. C. PalniU'ig spent yesterday in
the metropolis, returning on the even
ing train.
(Irorge llelte. of San Francisco, was
n paengep to this city on the nixin
train vesterdav.
W, C. Parsons of Arizona, arrived in
the city on the noon express yesterday
and i Iran-acting business her.
T. S. Nrwgnrd, traveling passenger
agent of the Cunsrd Steamship Com
pany, is in the city on hiiinc-.
E. C. Hegglund of the Portland Flour
ing Mill, was a passenger to Eureka,
un the steamer Alliance, yesterday.
C. E. White, representing the Wake-
Mc Fall Company, returned on last
evening' truin from a business trip
to Chehali.
Flint Rowen. of Diner, Colo, is a
husines visitor in Astoria, tuning come
in on the 11:33 train y.-t.rduy morn
ing.
Collector Robb and hi sun Lime re
turned on the I'.edondo from San Fran
cisco yest.rday evening after a two
weeks' stay. They rr.rt a pleasant
trip.
Mr. James O'Connell of this city re
turned yesterday evening on the late
train from Portland, after a brief visit.
W. J. Barry wu a. passenger last
night to this city from Portland, where
he went on busines.
W. If. Bell, inspector for the Mer
genthaler l.inetoype Company, arrived
in the city last night, to tke charge
of the machine of the. late News Herald.
Captain Thoma Crwng arried down
la-t night from Portland for a short
luisineHk trip.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Carlton of Port
land, cousins of Mrs. C. B. Mor-f, of
this city, arrived here from tin- metro
polis on the noon express yesterday, nnd
will be guests at the Moi-e home for
seeral days.
C. C. Light foot, formerly with the
Clatsop Mill Company, but now travel
ing representative for Wadham A
Company, returned to this city last
night from his maiden trip through the
Willamette Valley. He report busi
ness good in the valley towns.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ferguson return
ed last evening, from an extended trip
through California, having visiied the
many different point of interest in the
land of siin-hine ami flowers. While
gone they visited Mr. Ferguson's broth
er Dell located at Santa Barbara, Mr.
Ferguson says that his brother is re
covering from a spell of sickness, not
withstanding that they had a delightful
trip, both while they were with the
Oregon excursionists, and after leaving
them, Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson say that
they are glad to return to Astoria once
more.
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