ALBANY
NOVJ IS THE TIME TO INVEST.
Real Estate purchased now vrill double in price when the extensive public
improvements are in progress next summer. Don't he a clam, and let these
opportunities slip by. There is not an instance on record where purchasers ot
Albany real estate have not made money on their investment.
Choice suburban Property in Woodle's Riverside Addition. You can buy laige lots, 55X100 feet, for $150, which will
within six months double in price. . This addition, recently platted, lies right in the line of improvements. It adjoins Hackle
man's 4th addition on the East, and is a beautiful tract, desirably located, is high and dry, is already cleared and planted
out in fruit trees. Parties desiring a choice location should call at once.
Albany, Oregon
WASHINGTON NEWS
Wears Home Made Goods of His
Own Factory.
TWO C1V1I. 8EKYHE (KAXKg.
Secretary Ko'ole lini the Cherokee Oatlet
Col.red Men Call on HaniML-The
Speakership Contest.
Washington, Noy. 4. Senator
Fettigrew, of South Dakota, who
passed through Washington a few
day 3 ago, is a good representative of
the material interests of that state.
lie wear3 clothes manufactured at
111s own mill, at Sioux Falls, from
wool grown on Dakota sheep, There
is no doubt about where he stands on
the tariff question.
The number of Government em
ployes that have gone to their homes
in the several states to vote is un
usuallyllarge for an "off year" election.
There is much newspaper talk about
the Civil Seryice Commission's prose
cuting members of a Virginia republi
aan club in this oity for sending circu
lars to Government clerks asking con
tributions, to the campaign fund, but
there are few people that think any
thing will come out f it, for the very
good reason that the club violated no
law in teu ing out these circulars.
The only thing so far made apparent
by ihis cyclone in a tea-kettle, is that
at least two of the Civil Service Com
missi' ners should padlock their jaws
if they hepe to escape the ridicule of
the country.
Secretary Noble is receiving com
mendation from all quarters for his
bold attack upon the cattle ring of
the Cherokee outlet, and he deserves
them all, for it was a courageous
rtand for him to take, and it was
taken against a pressure that few
people outside of the Secretary's
office have any conception of.
Representative Perkins, of Kansas,
who has been stumping Virginia for
the republisans, has had anexperience
that he says he is not anxious to re
peat. He has been continually
abused and) misrepresented by the
press of the state, and to cap the
climax, the proprietor of a hotel at
Orange Court House compelled him to
leave the house, after he had made a
speech, and he had to go sjnie miles
before he could get a meal.
A committee of colored men from
the late Baptist convention held at
Indianapolis called on the President,
while here, and presented the resolu
tions adopted by the convention ask
ing Congress to appropriate $50,000,
000 to assist the negroes of the South
to go west. They also called on the
Attorney Geueral in relation to recent
outrages perpetrated upon colored
men ui the South fi r attempting to
exercise the elective franchise.
Owing to the various state elections,
the canvass for the Speakership of the
House has been extremely quiet dur
ing the past week. But after this
week things will begin to get lively.
The Postmaster Geueral has defi
nitely settled the question of rates to
be paid by the Government to the
telegraph companies for transmitting
official messages, which h:is been m
dispute for several mouths. The
rates named by Mr. Waii.-.ma'r.er .ire
Substantially tlw s:u'll as,
timore'.and the Ohio telegraph company
a, the ui1'"' 't i
Western Union.
its aOioriu.i-11 u'j u.e
1HE
Commissioner Raum says his new
rule requiring all applications for pen
sions involving any considerable
amount of money to be submitted to
him for examination and approval be
fore the certificate is issued, works
smmoothly and does not delay the
business of the office at all,
Secretary Blaine accompanied a
j arty to the White House the other
day that attracted the attention of all
the passer-by on account of the
gorgeousness of their uniforms. Ic
was a party of French naval oriieers,
3 who had come oier from Baltimore,
where their ship is Ijing at anchor,
for the express purpose f paying
their respects t the President. Mr.
Blaine presented them.
oii anu intfi:kstin;.
New York expends $100,000 a
month in street cleaning.
Nevada City is said t) be so q-iict
that flocks ot quail are sen ca the
main streets every day.
Over l,t)00,COO miles of Ule i.iph
wire are in operation in tin: I'uited
states enough to encircle the globe
forty times.
The most widely separated points
between which it is possible to send
a telegram are British Columbia and
New Zealand, via America and
K'irope.
A Bdfaat, Me., merchant recently
hired a new clerk, who immediately
distiughished himself by trying to get
those queer chiinueys i ff the incau
desceiit electric lamp!) su as to light
them with a match.
Suicide as a risk to 1 i f - decreases
rapidly after the thirty-fifth vrar,
and ' he vsry old take their iirn lives
as rarely as the -ery young. Under
ten and over seventy years of age
suici.le is extremely rare and takes an
insignificant place in the statistical
tables.
Cremation is coming mere and more
into vogne in Germiny in spite of the
expense and certain legal d faculties
which render its pcrformancp in some
parts almost an impossibility. At
Gotha no fewer than 100 bodies have
been cremated during the present
year,
Quite an excitement existed at a
boarding house in Glcnwood Springs,
Col., the ether evening. Just as the
men were eating their supper a large
black bear walked in. The men all
flew out of a back entrance but the
cook, who picked up a cleaver and
killed the bear.
A poplar tree of unusual size was
felled on the farm of Dr. D. U.
Combs, in Utica Township, Clark Ce.,
Ind. , and as it struck the ground a
large Hmb broke off, in the heart of
whicli was found the antlers of a deer,
a cow's horn and a number of curious
shells. The mystery is how they got
thtre.
Swimming baths are becoming
popular additions to English schools.
The School Board contends that it is
quite as important for a boy to learn
to swim as for a girl to learn the art
of cookery, and claims that the swim
ming bath adds to the comfort of the
scholars and assists in the work of
education.
If von want a clean and fine snii'ke
;:l.i'or J. Joseph's home made white
aixir . i-iirars. For side ly most ciisr
ilenler i:nd at J. Jo.-cph's factory,
l'lc-ci') tioiiS y.r.d mips cara
i'uliv ci-n: pounded at the City Piu-Store.
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J"criDioiO"crsiL"sr
IS BETTER THAN MONEY
i
YAQUINA BAY.
SplHC
Extensive Improvements
to Be Made There.
FACTS AI'.OIT THK ilAItr.OK.
A Motor Line, A Big Hotel aud Otliir
Enterprises oa Foot The Orceoa
Pacific Purchased.
The filet tluit good harbors are
few and far between along the
roast line of the Pacific ocean, en
hances the importance tocominerre
of every hay that by nature or artifi
cial means win he made safe for
vessels to enter and depart from.
On the coast cf California there
are only two good harbors where
large, ships can enter and depart
with cargoes, they are San liego
and San rrancisco. On the coast
of Oregon there are also two har
bors where large ships can enter
ami .secure outlet to the Fast by
rail, they are the Columbia river
ami Yaquina Hay.
Miips entering the Columbia
river are at theexjtenseof towage to
Portland, over a hundred miles to
react! railroad transportation. Ships
that can go to Portland and load to
their full capacity, ran enter Ya
quina May and reach transcontinen
tal railway connections m twenty
minutes after crossing the bar.
Pilot and towage cost from $(X)0
to $1000 for vessels going to Port
land. At Yaquina the cost of such
service would not exceed $50 for
the largest vessel. A vessel of any
size can lie at sea in less than
thirty minutes after she easts off
her lines at the railroad docks in
laquina. It takes from one to
three days for a vessel to get to sea
from Portland. Frequently a ves
sel can make the trip from Yaquina
Bay to San Francisco in the time
it would take to get her over the
Columbia river bar.
Yaquina Bay is situated in lati
tude 44 deg., 40 min., 30 see.,
longitude 124 deg., 150 min., west,
and lOo miles south of the Colum
bia river and about 450 miles
north of San Francisco.
The United States government
has recognized the importance of
Yaquina Bay to the shipping and
commercial interest of this coast,
and is making very extensive im
provements in order to deepen the
water over the bar. Under the di
rection of the U. S. engineer de
partment, nearly $300,000 has al
ready been exiended in building
jetties. The government will prob
ably expend $2,000,000 on the en
trance before the work is finished.
The jetty on the south side is al
ready constructed toward the bar
a distance of over 2000 feet. Work
is now being pushed on the north
jetty and it is expected to run this
jetty out some 000 feet this season.
At average high tides there is now
from 2 to 24 feet of water on the
bar. The deepest water on theCo-
Iumbia river bar
only
M0 feet,
ot thirty
I he engineers expect to
leet on the auuiini i!av ii:;r when
the jetties are completed. The
distance across the bar is i.:;!y (HH
feet and the main channel run.-', al
most straight from the mouth oj
SUNDAY, JsOVEAiBEll JlgS-
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the harl)or to sea.
On the west end of Yaquina
Hi lean tne government owns be
tween thirty and forty acres of
TJid. A short time ago it was pro
jnWd to sell this land but the sec
retory of war refused to approve
the sale, on the ground that Ya
quina Bay would soon be of such
importance as a seaport that the
government would be obliged to
build permanent fortifications and 1
would need all the land it owned
for military purposes.
The bay is, inside, one and one
half miles wide and about six miles
long and perfectly land-locked. All
the vessels on the Pacific coast
could ride safely at anchor in this
bay at the same time. Inside of
the bar there is fmm thirty to
forty-live feet of water.
Yaquina river takes its rise at
the summit of the Coast Range
and empties into "ths bay six or
seven miles from the mouth of the
harbor. This river is navigable
for vessels of ten feet draft for
about twenty miles.
IlECKXT IMPORTANT IMPKOVKMENTK.
The Oregon Pacilic Railroad
Company has recently purchased a
large tract of land on South Beach,
and a great advance has been
made in projierty at Yaquina, re
sulting lrom the announcement
that tin; Oregon Pacific. Company
proposes next summer to build a
large hotel on South Beach, ami
make the place the Saratoga of the
Northwest coast. A motor line is
to be built from Yaquina City
across the upper end ot the bay to
South Beach and some extensive
improvements made there. A num
ber of Albany men who recently
invested in real estate there have
refused double what they paid.
ItAII.KOAI) FACILITIES.
Yaquina Bay enjoys the great
advantage of being the most ac
cessible point on the Oregon coast.
There are several places in the
Coast Range through which rail
roads can be constructed to this
bay with easy grades and a small
cost. At present the Oregon Pa
cific is the only road built to the
bay. 1 his road has now been in
operation about live years. It is of
the standard gauge, and construct
ed in tne most pertect manner.
The grades are easy and the road
is never obstructed by snow. It is
now built to a point near the sum
mit of the Cascade range, that di
vides Oregon about the center.
About 150 miles of the road is in
operation. It crosses the great
Willamette Valley in the center
and taps the very heart of the agri
cultural region of thiB state. It
connects and crosses the entire
coast system of railroads of Oregon.
The road is being pushed to the
east as fast as men and money can
do the work. By the coming fall
it will reach the great plain coun
try in Oregon east of the Cascade
range, and inside ot two years it
will connect and cross the Union
Pacific railroad near the mouth of
the Malheur river and connect with
a through eastern line. When
completed to that point it will be
the shortest line oi railroad built
from Chicago to the Pacific ocean.
The road crosses the main line of
the Southern Pacific at Albany,
eighty miles east oi Yaquina Bay.
liTEAMSUII LINKS, ETC.
!'h..: Oregon Development Com
IN THE
CHOICE INSIDE BUSINESS PROPERTY
We mkae a specialty of city residences and inside business property, and
men with means, who mean business, and want a good loeationither improved
or otherwise, will find it to their advantage to call upon us. We have some
fine brick buildings on our list for sale at reasonable figures.
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
pany runs a regular line of steam
ers between Yaquina P.ay ami San
Francisco. Their vessels are com
modious, well fitted and make the
trip in about forty-eight hours, It
is a very pleasant voyage to take
and varies the monotony of land
travel. Several steam schooners
make this bay their starting point
in the coasting trade. Inside the
bay there is a regular steamship
line between Newport and Yauuina
City that makes a regular trip
each way.
California al-!t-iire.
The enly guaranteed cure for c.itarili
cold in the head, hay fevar, rose cold,
catarrhal deufr.ess and t-ore eyes. Re
store the sense of taste and unpleasant
breath, resulting fi om catarrh. Kasy
and pleasant to ue. Follew directions
and a cure is warranted, by all drug
trists. Send fer circular to Atiictine
Medical Company, Oroyille, Oil. Six
i months' treatment for tl; sent fcy
' mail. 1 10, For talc 'by Foshay tc
! Mason.
Money to Lean.
Money to loan at a low rate of
interest, on improved farm and
city prcjK?rty, in sums of $200 to
$10,000. For particulars call on
Burkhart & Malin, Real Estate
Agents.
Come and I,ok.
Thos. Brink has just received a
fine lot of wicker chairs, wood
baskets, music stands, and some
fine parlor suites, etc , which will
be sold at the very lowest price.
The greater part of the wreck of
the Ancen will be allowed to rust and
rot in Alaskan waters where the acci
dent occurred, her machinery being
old and out of date and not worth the
cost of bringing it back.
Dan Morris Sullivan's Mirror of
Ireland Co., which will play here
on Monday and Tuesday nights
next, passed through the city yes
terday on their way to Corva'llis,
where they played last nig'it.
Packet Callery.
The largest and finest display
every brought to this valley just
received at Stewart & Sox's. Call
and examine.
FA I II DALE ADDITION.
Burkhart 'i Malin offer lor sale
108 city lots in this beautif i addi
tion, which has just been platted.
This addition is situate;! on the
east of the city, and adjoining Abe
Hacklenian's" land, and is the
closest addition to the city that is
now offered for sale. These lots
will now bv sold for $75 and corner
lots $100 each until 'January 1st,
after which time all lots remain
ing will be raised to $150 each.
These lots wih be sold on easy
terms, and the first that call to see
them will get the choice ot all.
Th Latest Novelty I'nntalooas.
Zqehes Bros., merchant tailors
and drapers, opposite the postotlice,
are prepared to place before the
Albany people their own invention
of cutting and making pantaloons
without an outside seam. The
novelty is not only without a seam,
but in brigtit stripes ana cnecKS.
riio f. renarts are hound to coincide
with the same of the backparts.
We guarantee a perfect fit in every
pair or money refunded.
INVES
BANK!
cusicz:
Grand Holiday Opening.
Gruiss
Are now opening lor Holiday,
flush Goods and Art Supplies
Ever brought to Albany. Call and inspect thtir immense stock.
When fully opened it will be the Mast Dazzling of Elegant Holiday
Displays.
54First Street, Next to Revere House.
FOR THE
-NOTHING IS NICER THAN THE FINE-
Gold Headed Cane and novelties in Jewelry at
WILL STARK'S
r NEXT DOOR TO LINN COUNTY BANK te
SPRINGFIELD SAWMILL
A. WHEELER, SPRINGFIELD, PROPRIETOR.
SP I IX(tFTELjD GREG ON
. :.?rA,!':l,1-. yard .and olhYe on l'.u-li-oyi!, tntween 4ih and Mh street
A. heeler, Aibnny Manager. -
.hiving hinibi-r not exci-licd in .-pialitr, i.-nu facilities not furrnsscd fortifl
',r'',!'t '-atfiu-tory fdlin,- cr . ii!n--. i rt Mi-i-'.fii-lv fi.U-t a fhure. of ths
tra(U"- a. WifEELEK
ESTATE
& Son
trade one of the largttt lints of
HOLIDAYS
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