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Ill f& I ,!SJ Jr JP Jv Jy WJllr Astoria, Oregon, Saturday Morning, April 23, 1881. No. 96. Vol. xiv. I vim i k. H EL J &J yv si SAX Fit A CISCO. The Principles of Gravitation About to Alter the Course of Tilings. Future Kvcnts Casting ShadowH Before. Oregonian 2lst. Either upon a common instinct or concerted plan, or by accident which talces the form ol a very strange coincidence, all or nearly all the journals of San Fiancisco are discussing simultaneously the "future" of their city. Is this fact significant of their own doubts? San Francisco is quite a large city. By comparison with other cities upon the Pacific coast it may be called a great city- It has no rival. No city, in fact, has been able to pretend to a competition with it. And it will maintain this preeminence for ma ivy years to come. But San Francisco will not much longer maintain the relative importance over all other places on the Pacific slope which it has hitherto possessed. The Fortune or Opportunity Will, in the near future, be less distinctly on her s?ide. Hitherto there has been little business in the Pacific states and territories which did not pay tribute to her. The simple principle of gravitation has drawn every tiling that way. But changes will soon take place which will create local trade centers quite independent of San Francis co. Doubtless it is because the press of that city sees this to be so that it begins to argue so earnestly that San Francisco never can have any rival on this coast. It is prob able, indeed, that San Francisco will remain for many years the greatest city on the Pacific slope, and it is not improbable that she ma' always be the greatest. Her position and her present pre-eminence give her an advantge that can not be easily overrated. Nevertheless she can not much longer control the business of the Pacific slope so entirely as she has done. North of her and south of her the KuilyajH Mill Create Conditions Vastly different from those which have hitherto existed. It is not a perception of this fact that leads the journals of that city to start in concert an argument that San Franciseos supremacy can not in any contingency possibly be shaken. No one place on the coast is likely, indeed, to become a rival to San Francisco that is, her equal in population, wealth and commercial resources, but sev y eral places will rise to the promin ence of commercial centers, and be quite independent of her. Her actual importance will not be diminished, but her relative im portance for the whole Pacific ceast will be. The press of "San Francisco falls into error in its argument from not duly consider ing this fact. Here is the Journal of Commerce, published in that city, saying: "Some of our busi ness men, as well as those of other places, speak of possible livals to San Francisco for The Trailc or This Coast. And for the trade of places now supplied by San Francisco, or which San Francisco looks to sup ply. Can San Francisco have a rival on this coast, and if so where? We take the ground that she cannot.- There is no aspirant for her position that can sell the goods that she distributes as cheap ly as she can. Portland cannot do it; San Diego cannot do it; Guaymas cannot do it; and if they could, they have no population of importance to supply. The trade of Oregon is great and growing, but it is only one-fourteenth of that of the coast, and even if Port land supplied all this trade and imported and exported directly Stic Could not Dex-Jon anj 31 ore Than she has done. Portland con trols this trade now, but, as a rule, she obtains her supplies from San Francisco, and probably will al ways continue to do so." What reason is there for this pleasing assurance of opinion? Why should Portland continue to buy of San Francisco? So soon as the rail way system now in course of development is well established Portland will buy in first markets as San Francisco does, and not go to a second market, as San Fran cisco is. That "ity can not take our products. We .must find a market for them elsewhere. Nor does she manufacture what we want. Hence the time is coming when we shall do very little busi ness with San Francisco. Direct railway communication with the east will change the course of trade. Hitherto even our eastern trade has been carried on through San Francisco. This will nor con tinue much longer. .San Francisco Cnn Kiiy .tolhirt;: We have to sell, and can cfier us little that we can not buy else where on as good terms as she can, and no better terms than she can sell to us. When the imagination seeks a field to expand in it may usually find success, though often its achievements, after they take form, are absurd enough. The journal from which we have al ready quoted pursues its theory through imaginary census tables, and finds as a result that in the year 1930, say fifty years hence, San Francisco will have 1,970,000, and Portland 134,000 inhabitants. This it gives as the result of a cal culation of growth based on cen sus returns heretofore mp.de. The absurdity of such calculation is ap parent. No city can boast the growth which these figures claim for San Francisco. Even New York during fifty years past has not made progress which approach es this picture of San Francisco Imuuluution. In 1S30 the population of New York was just about what the popu lation ot ban l'rancisco is. now. Yet New York has not now a popu lation equal by fully three quarters of a million to what is claimed for San Francisco fiftyjyears hence, ltis needless to say that no city on this side of the continent is likely to have a growth comparable in con tinuous vigor and rapidity to that of New York. A city with half a million inhabitants is a large city. San Francisco has not yet one half that number. In all probability she will not have even hall a mil lion at the end of fifty years from this time. On the other hand, I'ortlnml :mc! Other I'laecs May be expected to grow rela tively faster, up to a certain point, than heretofore. There are sev eral small cities on the Pacific slope which will be transformed, through development of the coun try,into important business centers. Heretofore all have been tributary to San Francisco. Hereafter they will have independent growth. No one of them will overtake San Francisco for many years, if ever; but San Franciseos importance will become relatively less, in com parison with them. It ib curious to see the San Francisco press discussing this subject as if it had A Sort r E'rophcf ic Instinct That the hitherto unchallenged supremacy of their city was soon to be shaken. This, however, is not what will happen. But she will not much longer maintain the complete overwhelming domina tion which the fortune of oppor tunity has hitherto assured her. The time is at hand when the peo ple of the Pacific slope can go and come without passing through San Francisco, and when the trade of the great distant regions north and south of her will take other directions and fall into other channels. The Struggle for Africa. Where From Premature IiOss of Hair Nowadays may be entirely prevented by the Use of Burnett's Coconinc. It has been used in thousands of cases where the hair was coining ont in hand fuls, and has ne or failed to arrest its decay: it promotes a health ami vigor ous growth, and it is at the same time unrivalled as a soft and glos3 dressing for the hair. Burnett's flavoring extracts are the best, strongest and most healthful. Sold everywhere. A cough, cold or sore throat should be stormed. Neglect frequently results in an mcurablelung disease or COnSUmp- tlOH. JMUVWl.S xLUiicuwiiiuum's UV I1UI disorder the stomach like cough syruus and balsams, but act directly on the in flamed parts, allaying irritation, give relief in asthma, bronchitis, coughs, catarrh, and the throat troubles winch singers and public speakers are subject to. For thiity years Rrowiia bronchial troches have been recommended by physicians, and always give perfect satisfaction. Having been tested by wide and constant use for nearly an en tire generation, they have attained well merited rank among the few staple remedies of the age. Sold at 23 ceuts a box everywhere. an Frandsco Chronicle. Lord Beaconsfield devoted a chapter of Endymion to a lecture on race, in which he demonstrates that there is not and cannot be such a thing as the Latin race, because the Latins have been mixed everywhere with branches of all other races that ever inhab ited Europe". He divides Europe into four distinct and well-defined races the Teutonic, the Celtic, Sclavic and Semitic; and he ven tures to predict (at that time, 1S39), a "Teat outcome for the latter, bv a union under some such chief as MehemetAli was. Mehemet AH's son is the present Khedive of Egypt. He has extendetl his em pire to the sources of the Nile, and is likely soon to absorb Abysinia and create a great empire in regions watered by the Nile. The French, on their part, are reaching out from their base in Algiers to ward a like rescue of the Soudan and Niger country five times as great as France in extent from barbarism. The latest project looking in this direction is a line of railway over -1,000 miles long, from the mouth of the Niijer in land and eastward. It is to be assisted b3 the government, and to be completed in six years. The survey is now in progress, and the government pays 300,000 toward it. The vast alluvial region drained by the Niger produces the finest crops of corn, wheat, barley, rice, indigo, cotton, coffee, sugar-cane, ginger, spices and all the tropical fruits. The inhabitants are mainly fetish people, and their subjuga tion to the habits of civilization presents no insuperable difficulties. France has already paved the way to it by a number of treaties with the chiefs and kings of tribes along the route of the proposed railway. If she secures this new colon', she will rule over all the country from Egypt to the British possessions on the Guinea coast, and the Semites and the Celts will be in possession of nearly all of Africa from the equator to the extreme north. The English branch of the Teutonic race prob ably the most successful of all modern colonists have struggled from the Cape of Good Hope northward to Natal, the Transvaal, and are now engaged in a war, the immediate purpose of which is to reduce the Boers to subjection, while its ultimate outlook ex tends northward from ocean to ocean to the great river Zambezi, whose waters arc separated from those of the Congo by an imper ceptible "divide."' There is no prospect that the three races in their respective struggles lor the conquest of the natives and the civilization of Africa will clash with each other until they reach the equator. For years to come a wide neutral zone, stretching from Zanzibar to the lake region at the sources of the Congo and Nile, and. theuce to the Atlantic, will sep arate them by 500 miles, and leave each to contend exclusively with the native chiefs and the slave traders. But when the English from the south shall have reached the "divide" between the Zambezi and the Congo, and the French and Egyptians from the north the waters of the Congo, each with their steamboats, locomotives, tele graphs, lines of forts and improved arms, then will soon be seen another great conflict of races ior the possession and wealth of a con tinent, such as occurred in America between English, French and Spaniards, but on a larger scale. The struggle is not so far off as soma people think, either. The surplus population of both Europe and Asia must soon find an outlet into Africa. It is closer than America, and America will not al ways be capable of taking new population at the rate of 5,000,000 to the decade. i Anton Becht. Vienna? In 1849,onc Anton Becht, until then a grocer, at Vienna, and at that time aged 32 years, of medium stature, dark brown hair, and irojKrt innate features', disappeared front Vienna, Austria, having previously intimated an intontion of going to North Ameri ca. In the meanwhile he has fallen SAN FRANCISCO CLOTHING STORE. hoir to an estate of no trifling amount, which is being controlled by the authorities. On January 11th, 1852. he wrote a letter from Spearsville, Wells Township, Fulton county, Pen sylvanm, to his father and brother at Vienna, addressed: "Joliaun Becht. in Wien, N. Ulrich, am Platzl, No. 54, Hantllung zuni Matrosen." The following (translation) is quoted from that letter: "On June 13, 1850, I arrived at New Orleans, having been G5 davs on the sea: seven persons died during the voyage. At New Orleans I remained until December 14, wait ing for Johann Buchfelder, who, how ever, did not come. I have already traveled all orer America, without finding any rest. Now, I am in east ern Pennsylvania, iith a German farmer, whose family, however, is English, who oxmis 400 acres of land and a sawmill. 1 have learned board cutting and agriculture. Here I am living in a valley in the mountains. healthy and content with no other friend except merciful God, in whom I place my trust. I met two country men, a Catholic clergyman, and an other one from Gundendorf from Bosel's house; I believe his name is Bauman." Then follows a hearty farewell to his father, with an aj peal for fonnveness, and as an ending to this letter, he indulges in the exclamation, cnaractenstic to his excited, flighty conditien: "Long live the republic." All infor mation thus far elicited confirms the fact of the wayward character of the individual in question. According to this information, Becht, in 1852, was with one Jacob Clippinger, and later with James Doyles, both in Fulton county, Pennsylvania. Further clues to his whereabouts are unreliable, some leading to Europe, whilst the majority, and the most probable lead to the battle fields of the late rebellion. Endeavors to ascertain where and in what regiment he enlisted have thus far been unsuccessful. The missing man represented himself as a baker by trade, and as having deserted fron. the Austrian army. If still alive, he would now be sixty-four years of age and the inheritance due him would undoiibtly prove a boon in his old age. In case of his death, his next kin, wife or children, if any exist, are en titled to the inheritance. All human itarians, officials and authorities, par ticularly the press of the United States and soldiers of the late v.ar, are earnestly n quested to assist in ascer taining tne me or ticaui oi me saiu Anton Becht. Information addressed to The Astouiax will be promptly forwarded. EE2si:i!sss:aaiuiss3siaittziiEiiiiiEixiiti3icaii!iisiisuiiiuiaiaisiiiiuiiiii I THE NEWS! I niri3nu:s2Ecs:iais:cis;:a:au3iiataaiaiaaaaaiaauaaaauiiaisasiiiaitiaiaitHUjlia m a n "WELCOME TO ALL ! THE FISHING SEASON HAS OPENED AND SO HAS THE POPULAR SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS CARDS. I Q. A. BOWLBY. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Chenanius Street. - ASTOKIA. OBEGOh ri W. FUIiTOX. ATTORNEY AT LAW, ASTORIA - OREGON Office o er Page & Allen's store, Cass street T IV. ROBB, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ASTORIA ... - OREGON Office over "Warren & Eaton's Astoria Mar ket, opposite the Occident Hotel. E. j CLOTHING STORE j ; Opened the largest ami best i .selected stock of : E O J H II pp IlOLDEX.l NOTARY PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AND IN SURANCE AGENT. A. VAN DUSEN. NOTARY PUBLIC. Chenamus Street, near Occident Hotel, ASTORIA, OREGON. Agent Wells, Fargo & Co. "El P. HICKS, DENTIST, ASTORTA, - - OREGON. Rooms In Alien's building up stairs, cornr of Cass and Sqeraocqhe streets. -AND- enis Furnishing Goods, BOOTS AND SHOES, TRUNKS AND VALISES, HATS AND CAPS, -AND THE BEST- CARTER'S CAPE AjSTN TVK. 3f. D. JEXXIXttS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Graduate University of Virginia. 1868 Physician to Bay View hospital. Baltimore City,lS69-T0. office in rage Alien's uuiiuing, up stairs. Astoria. JAY TUTTIiE, M. I. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office Over the "White House Store, Residence Net door to Mrs. Munson's boarding house, Chenamus street, A?tri Oregon. A Merciful Man is Merciful to Ins lleaM. o.viiY s: ci;xts. 650,000 ALREADY SOLD ! ! A treatise on the RUBBER BOOTS, ETC., WHICH WILL HE SOLD AT SAN FRANCISCO WHOLESALE PRICES. REMEMBER THIS IS NO HUMBUG. HAVING MADE ARRANGEMENTS IN NEW YORK AND SAN FRAN CISCO FOR THE PURCHASE OF ALL MY GOODS, MY FACILITIES FOR BUYING ARE SUCH AS TO ENABLE ME TO Undersell all Others. I Defy Competition. T C. OllCIIAJlD, DENTIST, Dental ItoooiH. SHUSTKK'S Photograph Huildln; T A. McIXTOSn. MERCHANT TAILOR, Occident Hotel Building. ASTORIA - - - OREGON c. II. BAIN & CO., DEALER in Doors, Windows, .Blinds, Tran Horns. liHmbor, Etc. All kinds of Oak Lumber, Glass, Boat Ma terial, etc. Steam Mill near Weston hotel. Cor. Gen evive and Astor streets. 1 G. FAIKFOWL & SON, STEVEDORES AND RIGGERS Portland and Astoria, Oregon. Refer by permission to Rojrers.Meyers&Co. Allen & Lewis, Corbitt&Macleay, Portland. Oregon. Facts and Figures ! & 1H9-WI irMb L5' iksr; Anil his I)iM":ue. h B.J. RE.YDALL, M.J). Full or Valuable ami Practical In formation, and Centaining: an IXDKfv OF DISKASKS. Which sues the NvniiitoniH. cause and tiie Hot Treatment of each : a table sUinu all the iirincijial drugs used for the Horse, with the ordinary iloc. effects, and antidote when aiMiisen: a" table r.ilh an enraviu of the Horse's teeth at different apes, with rules Tor telling the aner thellerMr: fciengra inps showing the iiiiiortant ikhiiLs in the structure of the horse. aLso illustrating Hsi tions assumed b sick horses in different dis eases, a alunlle collection of n'CclpLs. many o which would cost, a horse-owner three to fie dollars cacti EVERY FARMER SHOULD OWN THIS BOOK. Thousands who lmesceii It commend it and many good horsemen have extolled tt In the nignest terms, even Mating that they prefer Tt to books which cost ?" of) to $10 tt) l)o not throw awav vour money in the pur chase of costly lHwk-s on the Horse, which GREAT SURPRISE AT THE San Erancisco Store ! I yyui. UIULEXIIART. Occident Hotel Hair Dressing Saloon ASTORIA - OKEGON. Hot, Cold, Shower, Steam and Sulphur BATHS. Es?""SpeciaI attention given to ladies' and luldren's hair cutting. Private Entrance for Ladies. WELIXOl FRY, PRACTICAL BOOT AIfI SHOE . MAKER. Chenamcs Stkekt. opposite Adlert Book Store, - ASTOKIA, OKKGOX. E&" Perfect fits guaranteed. All work warranted. Ghe me a trial. All orders promptly filled. HERE ARE PRICES OF GOODS THAT WILL SUBPRISE ALL. CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. 3IENS AND BOYS are .so full of tat in phnie Have Wistars balsam of wild cherry always at hand. Jt cures coughs, colds, bronchitis, whooping cough, croup, in lluciiza, consumption, and all throat and lun;; complaints. 50 cents andSl a bot tle, 3evcr go shopping without con suiting the aavertislnx columns of The Astokian. They will tell you where the best bamains arc to be had, and just what merchants are alive and doing business. and technical terms as to be unintelligible to the awrage reader but, BUY 3CENDALIS TREATISE, A book or joo pages, in paper covers, giving ou more practical information than is con tained In Mime large oltmies at far higher cost. Having examined this book thoroughly w e are .satisfied no HORSE-OWNER "Would hesitate a moment about in eMhig i cents in iLs purchase, if he did but know the value of its contents. Recognizing the de sirability of hat ing such practical informa tion as our fanning friends daily need hi their business, pro Idcd at reasonable cost instead of being obliged to pay the enormous profits demanded bj tne rtiuUMicrs ot most Agricultural Hooks, we hae secured Several Hundred Copies Of this valuable little Treatise on the Horse. single copies of which we shall be pleased to mail to any reader of this paper, Htage pre paid by us, on receipt of as ojEsostt's. Remittances may be made In currency, sil ver or stamps. Send all orders to I. V. IKEIjAXO. Astoria, Oregor CASIMERE SUITS EROM EXTRA BEST SUITS " .'......: FINE BLACK SUITS ' DIAGONAL SUITS " CASIMERE PANTS " EXTRA BEST PANTS " . - 4 00 BOYS SUITS. ALL SORTS, FROM 6 00 S 3 00 12 00 18 00 15 00 2 50 TOJ5 00 " 20 00 " 25 00 " 22 00 " 4 00 "5 50 M 12 00 Wkm. w. lmVaeb, Astoria. J. A. BROWN Tortland. BEOW.V & McCAJJE, STEVEDORES AND RIGGERS. Astoria officeAt E. C. Holden's Auction store. Portland office--24 B street. 13-tI FURNISHING GOODS. OVERALLS FROM JUMPERS " - CO ALL WOOL SOCKS 20 CHECKER SOCKS. SIX PAIR FOR COTTON SOCKS, THREE PAIR FOR - WHITE SHIRTS FROM 90 COLORED il 75 CASDIERE " S 1 50 FLANNEL 1 00 BLUE NAVY 2 00 FLANNEL UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS FROM 1 25 COTTON FLANNEL SHIRTS AND DRAWERS 60 MYRINO SHIRTS AND DRAWERS 50 60 CTS. TO SI 00 " 1 00 5 1 00 25 1 75 I 50 3 00 1 75 250 2 25 OIL CLOTHING. WAIl IS IKCIiAKEI WITHOUT FUKTIIEK XOTXC'K And no terms of icace until new ? vs, - djiir? every man in Astoria basai suit of clothes 3IAIK CY .IIHAXY. Look at the prices : Pants to order Irora - - - S8 Co Pants, Genuine French Cassunere - 12 M Suits from - -- -- -25C0 The finest line of samples on the coast to select from. P.J.MEAXY, Merchsnt Tailor, Parker House, Astona. LONG OIL COATS FKOM OIL JUMPERS S3 50 . 2 75 TO 4 50 300 BOOTS AND SHOES. MENS CALF BOOTS FROM S3 CO MENS KIP BOOTS - 2 75 ELASTIC GAITERS - 175 BUCKLE SHOES - 2 25 MENS SLIPPERS - 50 BOYSBOOTS - 125 TO 4 50 4 00 2 50 3 5 1 00 1 75 Music Lessons. T. F. CULLEN and C E. BARNES TEACHERS OF VIOLIN, PIANO, GUITAR, COR NET AND BANJO, Would like a few pupils on either of the above instruments. Terms Eight lessons for five dollars. J2rOrders left at Stevens & Sons book store will be promptly attended to- To-Xiglit. To-Night. GRAND BALL, AT MUSIC HALL, THIS EVENING. IE2. uflL- qtjuntin-. dealer in FAMILY GROCERIES, NAItS, IIIXT, FEED AXD HAY Cash paid for country produce. Small profits ou can sales. Astona, Oregon, cor ner of Main and Suuemocqhe streets. OPILES. The undersigned is prepared to furnish a large number of Spiles and Spars at his place on short notice, at reasonable rates. Apply to C. G. CABLES, Columbia City I HAVE Tins SPRING STRAINED EVERY NERVE AND USED JAY ENTIRE ENERGY AND BEST JUDGMENT IN PLACING IN OUR AS TORIA HOUSE TIIE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF THE ABOVE LINE OF GOODS. CALL AND INSPECT FOR YOURSELF. YOU ARE WELCOME. I WILL GLADLY SHOW MY GOODS, NO MATTER WHETHER YOU BUY' OR NOT. NEW GOODS BY EVERY STEAMER. S. DANZIGER. San Francisco Store. Squemocqhe street, nsxt door to Page jt Allen's stort, north of "Walla-walla Kestaurant, Astona Oregon. I. W. CASE, IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE AND TAIL DEALEIt IN GENERAL MERCHAMS Corner Chenanius aud Cass streets. ASTORIA - OREGON. Wm. Houseman of Portland BEGS LEAVE TO NOTIFY HIS friends and customers that he has opened A FISHERMAN'S CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS STOEE Next to G. "W. Hume's grocery store. F.HOU3EHAN,Agat