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v: r - - ' "" - -. " r ""V -& '"I'l Vol. xviii. Astoria, Oregon, Saturday Morning;, November 25, 1881 No. 48. he mmlo tstorfott .V u : A VISIT TO DEATH VAUJBY. On the 17th of July last, with a train of five mules and two com panions, one of whom was partially familiar with the country, I climbed the summit of Cerro Gordo- At last we stood upon the lofty ridge of the Telescopes, and beheld below us the fateful valley, which lies 280 feet below the level of the sea, and extends for a hundred miles northeast and southwest, with a width of from thirty to forty miles from east to west. Upon no landscape can one look so deeply into the interior of the earth, for it occupies the lowest point of dry land upon the continent, and, so far as I am in formed, of the earth itself. Be fore us it lies, a long, deep, wide vast basin, its shining patches dis closing through the distance, its beds of soda, salt and borax, which cover thousands of acres and blaze and shimmer and burn in the steady blaze ol lhrht and heat which pours upon them from a cloudless sky. The valley's deep declension grows upon the senses and becomes more marked as the eye is held steadily upon it, and it is emphasized by the swift decliv ity of the enclosing mountains. Drear and desolate, it stretches its full length along iir a frame of painted mountains which define, in strong and mighty lines, its aspects of terror. - Though leaving the summit at three o'clock in the afternoon, and riding steadily down descerrding trails, night settled upon us before we escaped from the canyon and reached the borders of the valley. By the brilliant moonlight we were enabled to trace the trail along the rocky washes as we rode out into the night. At last, worn and weary with hours of riding, we reached the center of the valleys, known as the "Big Hole," the point of greatest de pression. Though time and exploration have drawn from out the ancient story most of its fearful threads, this is still Death's valley, and is still and will remain a region of dread. Indians familiar with its face from infancy know its treach ery and cannot be prevailed upon to go into it beyond their time worn trails. To the lost emigrant it was "the valley of the shadow of death." The daring prospector enters it without fear. lie knows its terrors, the bleaching bones of many a skeleton warn him to be ware. Once lost in its embrace a man's doom is written. "Without water to cool his fevered lips, the sweltering air drives him to agony and bewilderment. Confused, he wanders without aim. Reason, un seated by fantasy, gives imagina tion rein to play tricks with his judgment. Beholding heaven at last in the mocking waters of the mirage, he sinks to die in the flame of the desert. Letter to San JPrancisco Chronicle. "Where the Sun Rises Early. The brightest of Wrangel days are not what would be called bright. The sunshine is always tempered in sifting down through the moist atmosphere, allowing no dazzling brilliancy no dry, white glare. The town, like the wild landscape, rests beneath this hushing spell. On the longest day the sun rises about three o'clock, but it is daybreak at mid night. The cocks crow when they wake, without much reference to the daws, for it is never dark. Cock-crowing is the one certain, invariable sound peculiar to civili zation, but there are only a few, ludf a dozen or so, all told, of full growth rosters in Wrangel, to awaken the town to give it a Christian character. After sun rise a few smoke columns may be Men rising languidly to tell the firit stir of the people. Then an Indian or two may be noticed here and there at their big barn like cabins, and a merchant getting ready for trade; but scarcely a sound is heard, only a muffled stir gradually deepening. There are only two white babies irr the sown as far as I have seen, and as .or the ladian babies they wake and feed, and make no crying sign. Later you may hear the strokes of an ax on firewood, and the croaking of a raven. About eight or nine o'clock the town is awake and on its legs and in its boats. Indians, mostly women and children, begin to gather in scores on the front platforms of the half-dozen stores, sitting carelessly on their blankets, every other face blackened hideously, a naked circle around the eyes, and per haps a spot over each cheek-bone and on tho very tip of the nose where the smut has been weathered off. Some of the little children are also blackened and none over clad, their light airy costume con sisting of. a calico shirt reaching to their waist, as even this flimsy material were sorely scanty, the whole weighing when dry, about as much as a paper collar. Boys eight or ten years old often have an additional garment a pair of castaway miner's overalls. These also are wide enough and ragged enough for extravagant ventilation. The larger girls and young women are brightly, extensively calicoed, and wear jaunty straw hats, gorgeously ribboned, which glow among the blackened blanketed old crones like scarlet tanagcrs in a fleck of blackbirds. The Assessment Law. The Jacksonville Sentinel, in speaking of the new assessment law, says: "What is this ter rible law with which the people have have been afflicted? It is that any person loaning money on real estate in any county in this state shall pay a tax upon such loan in the county where the land is situated and not elsewhere. There, is the whole law in a single sentence. Under the old law the person making such loan paid tax upon the mortgage in the county where he resided instead of the county where the land securing the loan was situated. That is, provided he was in possession of a sufficient amount of honor to impel him to pay tax on it any whero and not swindle the state, by some cleverly-designed fraud, out of the entire tax. Now the tax is paid in that county where the land is. If we go no deeper than the very surface of the ques tion, the law is eminently just and proper. The tax should be paid on that part of the debt which gives it value. This is the mort gage, rather than the note which it is executed to secure. If it is not, why insist upon a mortgage at all? The legal principle that a mort gage is only an incident to tue debt which it secures is not dis turbed because,practically,it is that which gives value to the debt. It is not the borrower, but the value of the security which concerns the lender. It makes no difference what sort of a man receives the money so long as the title is per fect, the mortgage legal and the property sufficient. This lament of the lenders has been listened to with a sort of painful interest by the people. It is interesting be cause it confirms suspicion of long standing which partially accounts for the strange shrinkage in value which affects tho property of lend ers about tax time and painful be cause it betrays a trick of the lender's trade, which, though sus pected, has never yet been so clearly seen, whereby he beats the state and saves himself a few sheckels. If these gentlemen who are now complaining have, hereto fore, honestly paid taxes under the old law why do the' now com plain? If they were honest they then paid taxes once each year and that is all the new law re quires of them. It should be re membered, too, that most of the men who have honored this law with their opposition reside in counties where the per cent of taxation is much higher than it is in the counties where the money is loaned. Under the circumstances, it would seem that if they could suppress their anxiety for the poor people to permit them to take care of themselves, and could develop enough honesty to pay their taxes they would have no further occa- son to complain of the new tax law. Our Army. Genkkal Sheridan, in a pain-' phlet of 120 pages, gives a record j of "enijaprements with hostile I n- dians within the military division of tho Missouri from 1SG8 to 18S2, j compiled from official rrcords.", General Sheridan's command in- j eludes the territory from the Brit-. ish territory to the Rio Grande, t and from Chicago on the east to the western boundaries of New j Mexico. Utah and Montana. At this time the force at his disposal is eight regiments of cavalry, twenty of infantry, one battery of artille ry, aggregating 15,940 officers and men. In this region are thrrtv- one wild and three civilized tribes. The number of Indians is estimat ed at 17o,000. They don't come up to be counted by the census enumerators but this guess is sup posed to be nearly accurate. The range is 1,000,000 square miles. General Sheridan concludes this valuable report with the statement that at the cost of "a loss to the troops of more than a thousand officers and men killed and wound ed, and partly as the result of more than 400 skirmishes, combats and battles not including many pursuits and surrenders of Indians ' when no actual fighting occurred the majority of the wasteful and hostile occupants of millions of acres of valuable agricultural pas ture and mineral lands have been forced upon reservations under the supervision of the government." All this shows that our little army has not been idle nor useless, and there is encouragement in the fact that "the vast section through which the wild and irresponsible tribes once wandered, redeemed from idle waste will become a home for millions of progressive people." Charles Dickens had a very good story about the early days of a renowned mourning establish ment. He went there one day about some mourning and was ushered into a room where sat a shopman with an attendant in woe-stricken habiliments, who groaned eut: "A father, a motlrcr, perhaps a wife?" "Oh, no," said Dickens, "only a distant relative." "Oh, sir," said the tuneral one, 'you have made a mistake; this is the chamber of agonizing woe. John toll the bell and show tho gentleman, into the light affliction department." "A neighbor of mine," said J. C. Horton, of the Toledo Blade, was severely afflicted with rheumatism for years. He used St. Jacobs Oil, which relieved him immediately, and permanently cured him. A CARD. To all who arc suffering from the errors and indiscretions of youth, nerv ous weakness, early decay, loss of man hood, etc- 1 will send a recipe that will cure you FKEE OF CIIAKGE. This great remedy was discovered by a mis Monary in South America. Send a self addressed envelope to the Rev. Joseph T. Ixmax, Station 1), New York City. "Words of "Wisdom. No doctor will fail to impress his pa tients "that the mouth and teeth should bo healthy because it receives the food and prepare it for its digestive work.' UscSOZODONT, gratify your family physician, and enjoy life comfortably. Mothers should Know It. Fretful babies cannot help disturb ing everybody, and mothera should know how soothing Parker's Ginger Tonic is. It stops babies pains, makes them healthy, relieves their own anxi ety and is safe to use. Journal. A Wise Plan. lvvcryone wishing to try the new tem edy for biliousness and constipation Syrup of Figs can obtain a trial bottle free of charge at W. E. Dement's Drug Store. Knowing Syrup of Figs to be better in its effect and more pleasant to the taste than any other remedy, the California Fig Syrup Company has ad opted a wise plan to make its merits known to the people. Hodge Davis & Co.. Wholesale Agents, Portland Oregon. Sihloii's Cuisk will immediately relieve Croup, whooping cough and Bronchitis. Sold by AV. E. Dement. "llackmetack." a lasting and fra grant perfume. Price 2.1 and 50 cents. Sold by W.E. Dement. Why will you cough when Shiloh's Cure will give immediate relief. Price luctsSOctsandSl. Sold by W.E. De ment. -A Nasal lniector tree with each bottle of Shiloh's Catarrh. .Remedy. Price 50 cent Sold by W, E. Dement. Arcvou made miserable by Indi gestion, Constipation, Dizziness, Loss of appetite, Yellow Skin? Shiloh's YitAl izer is a positive cure. For sale by W. . Dement. sapisaj MlMEOY FOB . RHEUMATISM. , Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Son Throat, Swell ings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. No Preparation on earth equals St. J cots Oil. u a safe, ure, simple and cheap External Bemedjr. A trial entails bat the comparatively trifling outlay of G0 Ceitf, and every one suffer ing with pain can baro cheap and porjtiva proof of ita claims. Directions In Eleven Languages. 80LD BY ALLDETJGGISTS AND DEALBBS IN MEDICINE. A. VOGEU2R fc CO., Baltimore, 3X0., XT. 8. A. A Detroit saloon keeper adver tises jhat lie has paid $300 for a year's license to sell liquors, but that he means to voluntarily re strict his business within certain moral bounds. "To the wife who has a drunkard for a husband,'" he says, in an advertisement, "or a friend who is dissipated,! say, em phatically, give me notice of such cases, and all such shall be ex cluded from my place. Let fath ers, mothers, sisters do likewise, and their requests shall be regard ed. I pa' a heavy tax for the privilege of selling whisky and other liquors, and I want it dis tinctly understood that I have no desire to sell to drunkards or minors or to the poor or destitute. I much prefer that they save their money and put it where it will do the most good to their fami lies." SYMPTOMS OF WORMS. The etiuuteiiani'c is mle anil leaden, colored, with occasional Hushes of :i cir cumscribed s;:ot on one or loth cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pupils dilute; an nzure semicircle inns along the lower eye-lid; the misu is irritated, h wells, and sometimes bleeds ;n swelling of the upper Up; occasional headache, with humming or throbbing or the cars; nn unusual se cretion of saliva; slimy or furred tongue; breath vcryfoul, particularly In the morn ing; appetite variable, sometimes vora cious with a. gnawing sensation of the stomach ; at otlicrs,entiiely gone; llecting pains in the stomach ; occasional nausea and vomiting; violent pains throughout the abdomen; bowels Irregular, at times costive; stools slimv, not unfrequcntly tinged itli blood ; belly .swollen and hard ; urine turbid ; respiration occasionally dilli cult and accompanied by hiccough ; cough sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy and disturbed sleep, with grinding of the teeth; temper variable, hut generally irritable. Whenever the above symptoms arc found to exist, DIE. C. McL AXE'S YEKMIFCtiE will certainly effect a cure. In buving Vermifuge be sure you :..'. the genuine 1K. C. McLANE'S VKICtll KUli:, manufactured by rieming I!r-., '21 "Wood Street. Pittsburgh, Ii. The nnrkct is full of counterfeit--. You will be rlaht if It has the signature of Flem ing IlroK. and C McLane. If your storekeejier docs not lia'.c tl.e genuine, please rejKirt to us. Semi us a three cent stamp for I hand some advertising cards. FLEMING 1H10S., Pittsburgh, Pa. King of the Blood Is not a "cure all." It is :v blood-mirificr and tonic Impurity of the blood poisons tliesj s tem, deranges the circulation, and tints in duces manv disorders, known by different names to distinguish them according to ef fects, but being really branches or phases of that great generic disorder. Impurity of Bleed. Such arc Dypcpta, liMtnuxnc, Liver Complaint, Constipation, JVerrwtw Dis order. Hcadaclie, Backache, General Wealc new. Heart DUeatt, I)mpi, Kidney Dlncase, Pilcn, RheumatUm, Catarrh, Scrofula, Shin DlKorter, Pimple. Ulcer. SwclUnus, Ae Ac. Kins er the Bleed, prevents and cures these by attacking the caiwc. Imparity of the blood. Chemists and ph j slcians agree in calling it "the most genuine and efficient preparation for the purpose." Sold by Drug gists, SI per bottle. See testimonials, direc tions, &c., in pamphlet, "Treatise on Diseases ot tlip Blood." wrapped around each bottle. D. HANSOM, SOX & Co.. Props Buffalo, N. Y. Notice. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Stockholders of the rythian Land and Buildiug Association will lc held at the as sociation hall on Wednesday, December (itli, at 8 -JO r. M- for the purpose of electing a board of Directors Tor tho ensuing year aad for the consideration of such other busi ness as may legally come before it. tf JS.A.NOYES.Sae'y. pjKT ROSCOE'S FIRST CLASS Oyster Saloon. ciikna.mcs sruEET. astoma. mm-: iniei:sionki is pleased to A announce to the public that lie ha op ened a FIRST CLASS !SlsLtris Souse , Anil niniiolu, in firt-rt.ws stxle OYSTER. HOT COFFEE TEA. ETC. AT TUE Ladies' and Gent's Oyster Saloon, CHENAMITS STREET. Please gie me a call. i:o.sCOC:MXOX, Proprietor A. 3SL JOHNSON & Co., ISopcs and Cordage of all IiiudN. Hloclts. falcii ntid Itlt Inline of nil seizes. The Genuine F.eeson's Seoteh Salmon net Twines. Iilermaid Twines: Canvas, all XoS s Copper Tipped Oars. TIji le-t assortment or G ROCERIES In Town. The Best COFEEES and TEAS. Try our Melrose Baliing Powder PoMth ely the best c er made. GAISnNTEI GOODS or all kinds put up by best PacKers. Richardson's and Rnbbm's Canned Good. Terms CrhIi. Profits Small. e-IVi: US A CALL-5W WILLIAM EDGAR, Corner Main and Chenamas Streets, ASTORIA OREGON DEALER IS CIGARS AND TOBACCO. -The Celebrated JOSEPH RODCERS & SONS GENUINE ENGLISH CUTLERY AND THE GENUINE WOSTENHOLM and othor English Cutlery. STATIONERY! FAIRCHILD'S GOLD PENS Genuine Meershaum Pipes, etc. A fine stock of lVatrlics ami Jewelry, 3Inzxle am ISreech Goatling Shot Gnns anil Kilter, Re-nlvcrs, PIstolH. and Ammunition MAltlXE CLASSES ALSO A KINK Assortment or fine SPECTACLES and EYE GLASSES. B. B. FRANKLIN, UNDERTAKER, Corner Cass and Siiuenuiqlip streets, ASTORIA, - - OREGON DRAr.KK IX WALL PAPER AM) WINDOW SHADES AM) UNDERTAKERS GOODS. MAGND8 G. 0R0SBT, Dealer in HAOTABE, IRON, STEEL, Iron Pipe and Fittings, PLUMBERS AND STEAM FITTERS Goods and Tools, SHEET LEAD STRIP 'LEAD SHEET IRON TIH AND COPPER, Stoves, Tin Ware and House Furnishing Goods. JOBBING IN SHEET IRON, TIN, COP PER PLUMBING and STEAM FITTING Done with neatness and dispatch. None tmt !lrt claxs workmen emplojed. A larfje assortment or; SCALES Constantly on Land. Delinquent City Taxes. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEX THAT I, the undersigned. Chief of Volice. have been furnished with a warrant from the city council requirine; me to collect the taxes as sessed for the enr 1SSI. and now delinquent upon the list. :iud make .return of the same within sixty days. All parties m indebted will therefore please take notice and gocm themseh es accordingly. C.W.LAUGHEilY, Cb'cl of rolice. Astoria, Oregon, September 19, !&. SMVA. w w m i s 5 Sri? loS?Swl 2 -n rrl a Z emF-is 3 ko as i r a m m S 5 p i r V r- " . o kl - P P ejfee I WILLIAM HOWE, deam:k rx Boors, Windows, Blinds, Transoms, Lumber. All Kinds of OAK LUMBER, J GLASS, Boat Material. Etc. -MflBt iSHPHS 1 Boats of all Zinds Made to Order. : t-Orders from a distance promptly attended lnSCELLANEOU?. ASTORIA IRON WORKS. Bentox Stkket, Neak Tarkeh Hoc.sk, ASTOWA. - OREGON. GENERAL MACHINISTS AND BOILER MAKERS. LANDiMARIHGH Boiler Work, Steamboat Work, and Cannery Work a specialty. CASTINGS. Or all Descriptions made to Order at Short Xoticc. A. D. "Wass, President. J. G. Hustlkr, Secretary. I. TV. Cask, Treasurer. Joux Fox, Superintendent S. AENDT & EERCf 1EN, ASTORIA. - OltEGON. - The Pioneer Machine Shop BIACKSMITII J SHOP Boiler, Shop All kinds of ENGINE, CANNERY, AND STEAMBOAT WORK Promptly attended to. A specialty made of repairing CANNERY DD3S, FOOT OF LAFAYETTE STREET. Wilson & Fisher, SHIP CHANDLERS. DKAI.KUS IX Iron, Steel, Coal, Anchors. Chains, TAR, PITCH, OAKUM, AYROCGHT AND CUT GALYAMZED ffail.s. Copper Nails and Burrs. Shelf Hardware, Faints and Oils Rubber and Hemp Packinq of all Kinds. PROVISIONS. FLOUR AND 3IITX FEED. Agents for Salem Flouring 31111s. Corner Chenamus and Hamilton Street" ASTORIA, OREGON. Cedar Street Grade. NOTICE is hereby piven that the Common Council of the City of Astoria, Oregon, propose to establish the grade along the line of Cedar street from the west eud of Cedar street to the west side of west-fith street in Shively's As toria, as follews: at the intersection of west-ninth and Cedar streets. .3 feet above the base of grades; at the inter section or west-8tn ana ueciar streets, 53 feet above the base of grades; at the intersection of "Wcst-Tth and Cedar streets, 42 feet above the base of grades, j and at the intersection of west-sixth and Cedar streets, 3" feet above the base of grades. Uv order of the Common Council. F.C.NORRIS, Auditor and Clerk. Nov. 22, 1882. 10td Notice. mHERE WILL BE A MEETING OF THE j Sany at the Company's ofllce in Astoria, on londay, Nov. 2Tth, 1882 ; business of impor tance will be transacted. JOHN WUK, Secretary. ?viyjjrf ' --kx2Fr AND Bracket Work xV SPECL.OTY. to, and satisfaction guaranteed in all cases. BUSINESS CARDS. T? V. HOIiDEN,. NOTARY PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AND SURANCE AGENT. TK. J. C. SHATTER, IMIYSU'IAX ami SEKCK. (nKUTSCHEIt AKZT.) Diseases orthoTluat a Specialty. Oillce over Conn's Drug Store. T O. BOZOKTH, V. S. I'omiHLisioHcr, Xatary Pablic, a4 lasanuiee Agotf. Agent lor the IlamburK-Bremen Fire Ins. Co. of Hamburg, Germany, and of the Trav elers' Life and Accident Ins. Co., of Hart ford. Conn. jwonice over Wells, Fargo & Co's Express OlMce. pELO F. PAltKEK. SURVEYOR OF ClatHop CoHnty,aafl City ef Astaria Oillce:-Chenamus street, Y. JI.C. A. hull Room No. S. Xjl I. 1VIXTOBT, Attorney and Counselor at Law. srOnlee in rthian Building. Rooms 11, 12. ASTORIA, --- - OREGON. JAY TUTTIiE, M. . PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Rooms 1,2, and S.PYthianliuild ing. Kesidexck Over Elbcrsou's Bakery, op posite Barth & Mers' Saloon. A li. FITLTOX. M. . Physician aaA Barseaa. OFFICE 0er A. V.Allen's grocery store. Rooms, at the Parker House. TO P. HICKS, DENTIST, ASTORIA, - - - OREGON Rooms in Allen's building up stairs, corner of Cass and Sqemocqhe streets. J K. LaFORCE, DENTIST Dental Koobm over Cam'k Store, Chenamus Street, - - Astoria, Oregon. I Q. A. BOWLBY. ATTORNEYAT LAW. Chenamus Street, - ASTORIA. OREGO G. A. STINSON & CO., BLACKSMITHING, At Capt. Rogers old stand, corner of Cas and Court Streets. Ship and Cannery work. Horseshoeing. Wagons made and repaired. Good work guaranteed. TFAXXaOXtXXrGr. Cleaning Repairing. NEAT, CHEAP AND QUICK, BY GEORGE JLOVETT. Main Street, opposite N. Ijieb'a. MAX. WAGNER'S BOWLING ALLEY. MAX. WAGNER'S Agency for the Natitnal Beer. Beer delivered m any part of the city. FOR SAI.E. TUEIKILLANDHOUSEOFTHESteam er KATATA. Will make a Irst-clMs Coasting schooner. For particulars laqalr of A. McKENZLK. si S. I, viV ir CJ s. i. -i - j - IFW K -S j iA