I THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1900. COUNCIL MEETS IN REGULAR SESSION CITY TAX LEVY PLACED AT 11 MILLS, THE COUNCIL DECID INQ NOT TO LEVY ANY SPECIAL TAX THIS YEAR. The common council met In regular session Inst evening, the mayor and all councilman being present A pe tition from Chaa. A. Johnson for per mission to build a sidewalk In front of his property on Eighth street was granted, petitions from C. H. M GreenwaM and Laxell A Co. for li quor licenses were granted. Communication from the Retail Grocers' Association, requesting the council to so arrange the Improvement of streets by building or repairing them In sections, so as to avoid In convenience for delivery wagons, was read and referred to the committee on streets and public ways. Communication from C. S. Gunder son, presenting a statement relatlv to damage done to bis property from the breaking of a water main, wash Ing out the bulkhead on his property and asking the council to reimburse him In the sum of $400, was read liebeck stated that the damage could not possibly equal that amount, as he put the bulkhead In 12 years ago and It did not cost one-half of the amount asked. Logan stated that he had visited the property the morning It was washed out and believed Mr. Gunderson had suffered damage, but did not know whether the city was liable for It or not. Belland stat ed that the charter provided that all uch claims should be referred to the committee on "Ways and Means, and on his motion the petition was re ferred to that committee and the city attorney. The various committees reported on a number of claims which were ordered paid. The committee on streets and pub lic ways to whom was referred the petition of Alex Tagg and others for a street light at the Intersection of 11th and Commercial streets, report ed, recommending that the petition be granted. A remonstrance against the accept ance of the Bond street improvement was filed. Hansen stated that all but one property" owner had signed an acceptance of the improvement. A building permit was granted to A. V. Allen. The report of the sur veyor, recommending certain grades on Commercial street and Grand ave nue was laid over until the next meet ing. The city surveyor reported plans and specifications for a sewer on 37th street, which was filed. An ordinance accepting the Im provement of Alameda avenue was passed. An ordinance authorizing the com mittee on ways and means to adver tise for the city printing for one and two years, also to furnish the city with blank books, was read the first and second times and laid over. An ordinance levying the taxes for the year 1906 at 10 mills, general tax, and one-half mill each for the park and public library, was passed. An ordinance accepting the Im provement of Duane between 6th and 10th streets, was passed. An ordinance accepting the Im provement of Bond street from 61 h street to the McClure line, wns passed. Ordinances appropriating J1.747.7S and J4.3S5.77 to pay Birch & Jacob, son for the Improvement of Bond street, was passed. An ordinance appropriating the sum of 32.960 to R A. Cording for the improvement or Mngnra avenue, was passed. An ordinance approprlatlnf the sum of $6,055.00 to Dill & Young, for the Improvement of Duane street from 6th to 10th, was passed. An ordinance appropriating the sum of 35,125 less 31.200 already paid and less applications for installments. was passed. An ordinance extending the time for the completion of the Improvement of Irving and Grand avenues to June 1, ISO, was passed. Resolutions providing for the lm provenwnt of Columbia avenue was adopted. Resolutions providing for the board of assessors to meet and equalise the assessments on Commercial from 9th to 14th: Niagara avenue; Grand ave nue, from 7th to 12th; Exchange from 8th to 9th; crossing at Intersection of Bond and Sixth; and Kensington avenue, were adopted. Councilman Belland withdrew his motion to levy a special assessment of one and one-half mills for build Ing the proposed new engine house and no special levy will be made this year. Mr. Belland stated that he thought the city could get along with out making any special levy. Hansen called up the matter of building a house to store the old and new street rollers, and stated that it would cost about 32oo, was dis- Columbia Left Out for San Fran cussed and laid over. THINK WELL before you select your suit for fall. There arc many things to take into consideration chiefly ainoug them are fit and fabric, Do you know that before we buy our stock to place BEFORE you we have spent long hours of study and have carefully compared one with another until we know that our clothes are the best that it is pos sible to produce? Theu why should YOU LEAP at any thing that is offered you? You can be well dressed and well satisfied if you trade with us. "Lest you forget" we say again'Think well before you leap." P. A. STOKES, UNCOMMON CLOTHES. Ills Cloth., bouflht her, premd free. Copyright too6 by Hart Schaftncr y Marx SHIPS AND SAILORS It was stated that the council had decided not to accept the offer of 50 for the old street roller, and the city would keep It On motion the council adjourned. cisco Yesterday. COSTARICA DUE HERE TODAY This Is Worth Remembering. As no one Is Immune, every person should remember that Foley's Kidney Cure will cure any case of kidney or bladder trouble that Is not beyond the reach of medicine. T. F. Lauren, Owl Drug Store. Samson Off With Schooner Louit- Menelik Still Has 4,000 Barrels to Unload Schooner it Dis tress Reported, Some tt the nicest people In the city five in furnished rooms; people are moving at frequent integrals. Tell them in a small ad. bow attractive jour rooms are. If your rooms are really O. K , youH have no trouble in get- i btg them rented through one of cor want ads. Try it. 4 The cheap Imitations of Foley's Honey and Tar cost you the same as the genuine in the yellow package. Why then risk your health, perhaps you life, taking them when Foley's Honey and Tar will cure your cold and prevent serious results? It Is guai- anteed. T. F. Lauren, Owl Drug Store. Pneumonia Follows a Cold, but never follows the use of Foley's Honey and Tar. It stops the cough, heals and strengthens the lungs and affords perfect security from an at tack of pneumonia. Refuse substl tutes. T. F. Lauren, Owl Drug Store. Not Cheap Goods But Good Goods Cheap Simington Dry Goods Co. VALUE QUALITY COURTESY THIS IS THE DAY THE LAST DAY THE BEST DAY Of our special Suits and Furs. sale of 200 Ladies Coats, The prices being cut lit erally in two. Miss this and you miss the season's greatest bargains. A visit today means assurance, and a purchase absolute conviction and perfect satisfaction. What more can you ask for the money? . Dont delay an hour, look at our, win dow and then come inside! The observer at North-head report ed yesterday that he saw a schooner standing off the bar with signal fly ing, which he Interpreted to read, "Send tug Immediately." but ho could not be sure. The fog-bank settled down over the vessel and he saw her no more. She was a three-master and showed no signs of being crippled in any way, and has not been since ac counted for. The steamHhlp Columbia arrived down from Portland on Sunday late, and laid here until yesterday morning at 10 o'clock when she went down the bay and out to sea, wllh a big list of passenger and plenty of freight. She took from thin city W. CS. West and E. O'Brien, as saloon j passengers, and Kensey Matheny, W. R. Williams, I. Mearns. A. H. Pettln glll and G. Bechtel In the steerage. The Lurllne came lown In good sea son yesterday afternoon and Captain Larkln reports the river growing much clearer of the debris from the Cowlitz river flood. She went up at 7 o'clock last evening with a good lot of freight and a number of pas sengers. The steamship Geo. W. Elder is due down frdm Portland today! on hcjr first sea voyage since she was raised fro mthe bottom of the Columbia, and rebuilt. She Is running opposite the Koinoke, cx?ept Miat she may be con fined to the San Francisco run and not go further south. Captain Buchanan arrived down from Portland on Sunday afternoon with the Arago, which has been under repair there for the past three weeks. She has been re-palnted andi fully caulked, and her machinery thorough ly overhauled and Is In prime order from stem to stern. The Hrltlnh ship Ualgnte came down yesterday from Portland, on the haw sers of me Harvest Queen and wont to the lower harbor. She i bound to Europe with grain. Captain Sullivan also reports the Columbia lienrlng up from the late rush of drift of ul kinds and says he had hut little trouble In bringing down the Galgate yesterday. The French bark Sully came down the rlvor on Sunday last and Is now In the lower harbor retulv tn tiukl.v the hlh seas as soon as the bar permits. The Ralboa was another Sunday departure for the Bay City. She was laden with lumber from the old Or egon mills and sailed from the Havel pier. The steamer Robert Dollar t Icitrcil from the custom house yesterday, for San Francisco, with 800.000 feet of good lumber from the Old Oregon mills. The steamer Tiverton was nnother arrlvel here yesterday from the Bay City. Hhe will also go to the Tongue Point mills for her outward cargo. The steamer Sue II. Elmore arrived In from Tillamook bny milnts on Sunday evening, with a good manifest of freight and several passengers. There Is still o.ulle a fleet In the lower harbor awaiting a chance to slide out Into the broad Pacific on various and fundry errands. The steamer Yosemlte, from Ranter mr nan r rnnrisco, with nearly a million feet of lumber, cleared at the custom house yesterday. The steamer Thomas I,, Warn! en tered port yesterday morning and will load lumber outward from the Tongue Point mills. The steamer Northland was among the arrivals from San Francisco yes terday morning. She went on to the metropolis at once. The government steamer George Mendel! came up from the forts yes terday and filled her bunkers with coal at the Sanborn dock. The Empereur Menellk, the French bark unloading at the O. R. & N. pier, has yet 4,000 barrels of cement to put on the dock. j Inspectors of Hulls and Boilers Edwards and Fuller of Portland spent the day here yesterday. They came down to Inspect the steamer Epner, which Is being built here. The schooner Irene and the ship Slntram went up the river on Sun day last on the tow lines of the Ok lahoma, the former for Linton and the latter for Portland. The Columbine went out over the bar at noon yesterday, laden with a lot of new buoys for northern wa ters, and will place them at once at various points. The ocean tug Samson, Captain Jones, left out on Sunday afternoon with the five-masted schooner Louis, from Knappton to San Francisco. The schooner Compeer made It to sea on Sunday, lumber laden from the McGregor mills, bound for the Bay City. The steamer Costa Rica Is due In from San Francisco today with pas- ' sengers and freight for this port and Portland. I The. steamers F. A, Kllburn, Alll- ! ance and Asuncion were among the getaways from this harbor on Sun day last. The German ship Nereldn was for tunate enough to get away on Sun day on her way to Europe with grain. The bark C. F. Kinney was towed to sea yesterday afternoon, en route I to San Francisco. Had a Close Call. "A dangerous surgical operation, ln olving the removal of a malignant ul cer, as large as my hand, from my daughter's hip, was prevented by the application of Bucklen's Arnica Salve," says A. C. Stlckel, of Miletus, W. Va. "Persistent use of the Salve completely cured it." Cures Cuts, Burns, and Injuries. 25c at Chaa. Rogers', druggist. ASTORIA GROCERY P10NE, MAIN Mi. 513 COMMERCIAL STREET. 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