VOL. XX, NO. 35. ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1883. PRICE, F1VJS UJBJNTS. A Wheel Within a Wheel. The Lumberman some time since mentioned that a sjudicate, or com pany, had been formed, called the Oregon & Montana Improvement Company,, the apparent object of which was to monopolize the lumber trade of the mountain districts of Montana and Idaho. The Lumber man was the first journal that sur mised and pointed out that the "im proveinent company" was a scheme intimately connected with the North ern Pacific Railway management to control the Eoclcy mountain lumber business along the great northern route, especially in Montana, Idaho and west of the mountains. An item dropped by a Pacific coast newspaper indicates that the Lumberman was right. The statement is made that rates on lumber to private parties have been raised from S1G to $21 from llathdrum to Sprague, "W. T., showing that the Oregon & Montana Improvement Company is geting in its work. ''To private parties" is significant; a corporation like the child of the Northern Pacific, .named an "Improvement Company" can have terms that will eflctually bar out com petition. The nature of this mono poly can best be seen by repeating the conditions by which the Oregon & Montana Improvement Company received its great privilege. The capital of the organization is 32,000,000, and the company isl to control the lumber business for twenty years along the Northern Pa cific road, from Miles City to the Dalles on the Columbia. The com. pany, by the terms of agreement, is required to establish lumber yards, and keep a flock of lumber on hand at eacb of the principal points be tween the places indicated, and as far as possible protect the timber lands of the railroad company from spoliation, The latter is to be paid for the stumpage used, and reserves the right to limit and control the amount to be cut. It also has the option to haul and store at selling points selected, at its own lime and convienience, thus enabling it to uti lize empty cars and light trains with out interfering with regular traffic. It is thus apparent that the Oregon and Montana Improvement Company is la sort of annex to the Northern Pacific railroad to control the manu facture and sale of lumber along its line within the limits designated. The long stretch of country from the mountains to the Dalles includes the vast wheat lands of eastern Washing ton, that will be rapidly settled, now that the eastern outlet by rail has been secured. A monopoly of the lumber trade of this region, by which the forest resources of northern Ida ho and Montana can be developed, is a great accomplishment for any com pany. But the settlers in eastern Washington will be the sufferers for a few years. Some relief may come at length by the opening of railways, and from rival lines that will surely cross the vRockies from the Missouri river. Success in Life. Without unremitting"labor. success in life, whatever our occupation, is impossible. A fortune is not made without toil, and money unearned comes to few. The habitual loiterer never brings anything to pass. The young men whom you see lounging about waiting for the weather to change before thej go to work, break down before they begin get stuck before they start. Ability and will ingness to labor are the two great conditions of success. It is useless to work an electric machine in .1 vac uum; but the air may be full of elec tricity, and still yon can draw no spark until you turn the machine. The beautiful statue may exist in the artist's brain, and it may also be said in a certain sense, to exist in the mar ble block that stands before him, but he must bring both his brain and hands to bear upon the marble, and work hard and long, in order to pro duce any practical result Success also depends in a good measure upon the man's promptness to take advant age of the rise of the tide. A great deal of what we call "luck" is noth ing more nor less than this. It is the man who keeps his eyes open, and his hands out of his pockets, that sue ceeds. "I missed my chance," ex claims the disappointed man, when he sees another catch eagerly at the opportunity. But something more than alertness is needed; we must know how to avail ourselves of the emergency. An elastic temperament which never seems to recognize the fact of defeat, or forgets it at once, and begins the work over again, is very likely to insure success. JManv anerchant loses one fortune only to buildup another and a larger one. Many an inventor fails in his first ef forts, and is at last rewarded with a triumph. Some of the most popular novelists wrote very poor stuff in the beginning. They were learning their hrst trade and could not expect to turnout first-class work until their apprenticeship is over. One great secret of success is not to become dis couraged but always be ready to try againc Jix. It is said that glass is gradually beginning to take the place of wood and iron in the construction of bridges in England. The inventor makes blocks of glass, which he hard ens by a special process. In solidity it is said to leave nothing to be de sired. The experiments already made have given surprising results, and the cost is below that of bridges of wood and iron. Moreover, the glass cannot be injured by insects like wood, nor rusted like iron. An Indianapolis paper thus sums up the divorce market in that locality Brisk competition among our local lawyers has brought down the prices of divorces. We quote: Common sep aration, $15; small alimony, $25; large alimony, 00U to 100, according to cir cumstances. Business good and in creasing. There are at present 120 newspapers in the United States, of which the publishers, editors, and chief contnb ntors are negrroes. A Printer's Dream. A printer sal in his office chair, his boots were patched and his coat threadbare, and his face looked weary and worn with care. While sadly thinking of business debts old Mor pheus slowly aronnd him crept; and sleeping, he dreamed that he was dead, from trouble and toil his spirit had fled, and that not even a cowbell tolled for the peaceful rest of his cow hide sole. As he wandered about among the shades that smoke and scorch in the lower hades, ho slowly observed an iron door, that creaking hung on hinges ajar, but the entrance was closed with a red hot bar, and Satan himself stood peeping out, and watching for travellers thereabout, and thus to the passing printerspoke: "Come in, my dear, it will cost you nothing, and never fear, this is the place where I cook the ones who never pay their subscription sums; for though in life they may escape, they will find when they're dead it is too late; I will show you the place where I melt them in with red hot chains and scraps of tin, and also where I comb their head with broken glass and melted lead, and if of refresh ments they only think, there's boiling water for them to drink, there's the red hot grindstone to grind down his nose, and the red hot rings to wear on his toes, and if they mention they dont like fire, Til sew up their mouths with red hot wire: and then, dear sir, you should sec them squirm, while I roll them over to cook to a mm. With these last words the printer awoke, and thoneht it all a practical joke, but still at times so real did it seem, that lie cannot uciieve it was au a dream, and often he thinks with a chuckle and grin, of the fate of those who save their tin and never pay the printer. The Xorlhwot. Seattle complains of an inefficient mail service. Stnm was raised for the first time in Sibson, Church & Co's new mill on the 7th, at Albma to try the ma chinery. Walla Walla school district is out of debt and has a balance in the treas ury or $1U,3G3,9J, The monthly pay 1 r t Ann- roll 01 teacners now loots up wo). Alaska has a coast line of 23,000 miles, or two and a half times as much as the Atlantic coast Ifne of the remaining portion of the United Stales. The Newcastle coal mines, with the exception of the Bagley vein, have closed down on account of the appear ance of black damp. The Northern Pacific road gives notice that it has decided to allow 150 pounds of first-class baggage with ever first-class ticket, ooth on through and local business. The Un ion Pacific road allows 150 pounds as far as Ogden, but the Central mid Southern roads allow but 100 pounds with each ticket. John C. Davenport, iho Cheney banker, who recently failed, has re turned to that place. Air. JJaven port promises to pay all his debts, dollar for dollar, if only au opportu nity is given him of doing so. William Andrews, au old farmer living in the suburbs of Saco, Me., has in his cellar nearly fifty barrels of wine, He will not drink it, sell it, trive it awaVi or throw it away. As he made it all himself, its sale would not only conflict with the state laws, but with national ones, and the property keeps improving in quality every year, to the exasperation 01 Air. An drews' fellow citizens. Some of it ii already over twenty years old. Chehalis has just been incorporat ed by the legislature now in session, and is now a full fledged city, with A. F. Tnllis as mavor and John Scott, W. H. Long, T. Ilolloway, H. J. Brooks, W. Urquhart and O. E. Har mon as councilmen. ..There are three church organizations - Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist; and there are are also lodges of Masons, Good Templars and United Workmen. I has heard folks say dat da could tell a smart man by lookin' in his eye, but dis is a mistake, De mole ain't got no eye ter speak ob. but dinged if he ain't got more sense den do toad, kvhat ken look at yer ten minutes wilout winlcin'. -A rkamaw Tra teler. On the Coquille this season, Alf. Machado salted 500 barrels of salmon, J. Jensen 325, Peterson & Hilgren 180, and James McCue 153. Absolutely Pure. Tills powder never varies. A marvel o purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary Idnds, and cannot be sold In competition with the rotd- r imf tact eiihrt fvoipht.. alum Or phosphate powders, koldonlyin cans. Kov lu Bakxxo Powdkb Co., 108 TVall-st. . . That Hacking Couch can be so quickly cured by Shiloh's Cure. We guarantee it Sold by W.E. Dement. ft ISPl J ' A. V. Vt!eailtt ana rtsi! dealer In i MILL PEED. Glass and Piatcd Ware, nto'.MOAi. and domestic FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Wines, Liq sorsJobacco.Gigars LOEB & OO. JOBUKRS IS WINES. LIQUOKS, AND CIGAE8. AGENTS FOR TIIK Best San Francisco Houses and Eastern Distilleries. Tumblers Decanters, and All Kinds of Saloon Supplies. 2?A11 Koods sold at San Francisco Trices. MAIN STIIEET, Opiosite rarker nouse, Astoria. Oregon. Wilson & Fisher, SHIP CHANDLERS. DEAT.KKS IN Iron. Steel, Coal, Anchors, Ghains, TAR, PITCH, OAKUM, NAILS AND SPIKES, Shelf Hardware, Paints and Oils STEAM PACKING, PROVISIONS, FI.OUR ASI) aziJX FEED. Agents for Salem Flouring Mills, and Capital Flour. FAIRBANKS STANDARD SCALES. AH sizes, at Portland Trices, in Stock. . Ccranr Cheimmus and Hamilton Streets ASTORIA, O KEG ON. ifOSTETTElfc j CELEBRATED jfefe STOMACH 8lTTERS There has never been an instance in which this sterling invigorant and anti-febril medi cine has failed to ward off the complaint, when taken duly as a protoctinn against malaria. Hundreds of nhrficians have aban doned all the officinal spoci6cs. and norr iirc- renuo mis naroiicBj vegoiaoie ionic lor conu and fever, a well as dmep?ia and nervous affections, ilostettor's Bitters is tho specific yon need. For falo by all Druggists and Dealers generally. J. HESS. A. M. JOHNSON Astoria Sail Loft. MANUFACTURERS OF SAILS, TENTS, AWNINGS, TARPAULINS, And evcrs'thing else pertaining lo our . Diisincss. Lowest Price and BeBfWork For your Money, At the Old Stand. Leave your orders and get your work uone at once. J. II ESS CO. Oregon. Astoria, J. EL D. GRAY. Wholesale and retail dealer In. GROCERIES, FL8UR, AND FEED Hay, Oats, Straw, Wood, Etc. LIME, SAND, AND CEMENT. Generalstorage and Wharfage on reason able le nru. Foot 01 iienion street. Asiona tirecon. FOR SALE. TN LOTS TO SUIT. FROM 5 ACRES TO JL 40 acre- tract in S. Y. corner or Chas, Stevens' D. C Htlo nerfect. For nartlcu- lars Inquire at office of N. D. Raymond, City nail ; or oa me preuusis ui v. xi, .uuu. Astoria, Nor. Sd, isss. BANKING AKDJNSURANCE. 1. w. c&se. BROKER, BANKER AN I INSURANCE AGENT STOKlA, okego:; OFFICE HOUiiS: KKOil 9 O'CLOCK A. M. UNTIL 8 O'CLOCK P. M. Home ffiiteai mm Us, OF CALIFORNIA. J. K. JIoL'Onn: . .fn-Miipu: Chas. It. iVrouv .. scrriRr JKO. U STOY..... .. AKfM for t-?'!' Capital pnli! up in U. S. goldi coin . $ ;am yuu w I. W. CASE. Agent, Clienaniusstrewt, Astoria. Oregon. $67,000,000 CAPITAL. LIVERPOOL AND LOON AND GLOBE, SOUTH BKITISH AND ilKKCAV TILE OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH. OLD CONNECTICUT OF DAKT- FORD, AND COiiilERCIAL OF CALIFORNIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES Representing a capital of SC7.00O.OOO. A. VAN DUSKN. Acent. S. ARNDT & FERCHEN, ASTORIA. - ORKGOX. The Pioneer Machine Shop BLACKSMITH Boiler Shop All kinds of ENGINE, CANNERY, ANB STEAMBOAT WORK Promptly attended V A specialty made of repairing CANNERY DIES, FOOT OF LAFAYETTE hTKliKT. ASTORIA IRON WORKS. IlRNTOX STItKET, NKAU PAKKKK HOUSK. ASTOUIA. - OKF.GON. GENERAL MACHINISTS AND BOILER MAKERS. LANDaifARIEEMES BoilerWork, Steamboat Work and Gannery Work a spe cialty. Of all JJcHcriiitloiiK made to Order at Hhort Xotict. A. D. AVass. President. .1. G. IlL.sTLKit,S:iTetary, I. V. Cask, Treasurer. JOHN Fox.Suiorint'ndcnt. C. H. BAIN & CO. UKAI.fcltS IK Doors, Windows, Blinds, Transoms Turning, Bracket Work. &l3.oj v oris: A specialty, anil all work Ruaranteed. Oak, Ash, Bay, and Walnut lumber ; Ore Ron and Port Orford Cedar. All kinds of boat material ou hand. C. H.KA.IX & CO. Astoria Oil Works. J. II. DkFOKCE, Proprietor. T. O. Box 2M, Astoria, Oregon. 31anufacturer and Dealer 1b FISH OIL and SKID GREASE. Loggers will find my Skid Grease to be good and cheap. TAILOniKTGr, Gleaning Repairing, NEAT, CHEAP AND QUICK. BY GEORGE IOVETT, "Mala Street, opposite N. Loebjs. A. MacBeth, MERCHANT TAIL0E, No. 4. First St, - - Portland, Oregon. Clothing made at reasonable prices, and satisfaction guaranteed. plumbing; Gas and Steam Fitting DONE BY BDDDOCK & WHEELER, AT fair rates. Also a complete stock of goods In our Hue. Estimates given and work guaranteed. Cass street, in rear of I O 0 F building, next to uas go's omc. AND -UUA 3 BUSHTESS CARDS. O K. THOMSOW, Attorney and Counselor at Law. l'com No. c, over "White House. ASTORIA. OREGON. J. XAT. HUDSON, Attorney at Law.aal Netary Public. Odd Fellows Building, Astoria, Oregon, c. w. FUZ.TOX. a. a fultok. FULTOS BROTHERS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Booms 5 and C. Odd Fellows Building. J O..A. BOIVIjBY. . " ATTORNEY AT LAW, Chenaraus twet. - - ASTORIA, OREGON C. K. HcACIIRATV. Attorney at Haw Room -I, White House. Q S. CUitTlS , ATT'Y" AT LAW. Notary rub'.lc. Commissioner of Deeds for California, New York and Washington Ter ritory. Rooms 3 and A, Odd Fellows Building, As toria, Oregon. N.IJ.-Claims at Washington. D. C, and collections aspeclalty. V. AIjIjKX, Astoria Aseat Hamburg-Magdeburg and German-American FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. jg V. IIOLDEX, NOTARY PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, CO.UMISSION AND IN SORANCE AGENT. Q.KLO F. PARKER. SURVEYOR OF ClatMop Comity, and City ef Aeteria OlBce :-Chenamus street, Y. M. C. A. haU Room No. 8. JQR. X. C BO ATM AX, Physician and Surgeon. Rooms 9 and 10. Odd Fellows Building, ASTORIA, OREGON. JAY TUTTIiE. M. D. ' PHYSICIAN AND SUBQEON Okfick Rooms 1, 2, and 8. Pythian Build ing. Rksidknck Over J. E. Thomas' Drug Store. P. KICKS. PENTIST, ASTORIA, OREGON ltoonu In Allen's building up stairs, comer oiuassana ttqemocquestret . JQII. J. C. LaFOnCE, BE.YTIST, Room it. Odd Fellows Building, Astoria, Or. Gas administered for painless' extraction ol teeth. MUSIC. . PROF. T. F. MEYER. Graduate of neidclberg University. Piauo Teacher, GENERAL STEAMSHIP AGENCY. Bills of Exchange on any Part oi Europe. 1 AM AGKNT FOR TIE FOLLOWING JL well known and commodious steamship tuts. STATE LINE. RED STAR, WHITE STAR. HAMBURG-AMERICAN. DOMINION LINE, NATIONAL, and AMERICAN LINE. Prepaid tickets to or from any European port. tor iuu lniormauon as 10 rates 01 lare, sailing days, etc, apply to .L-W.CASE. OEO. I. WHEELS!!. YT. I COBB. Notary Public. WHEELER & ROBB. GENERAL Seal Estate i Insnrance Astents. Ye have very desirable property In As toria and Upper Astoria for sale. Abo, fine farms throughout the county. Accounts carefully adjusted and collec tions made. We represent the Royal, Norwich. Ualem aad JLaBca Mklre lasaraace Ce's., ' With a combined capital of 8S6,00e,00e. THE Travelers I.Ife andAeldeat Insur ance Co , or Hartford, and the Man hattan Life iBBHraace Ce., of New York. We are agents for the Batty and Weekly Xorthxcataetcs, and the Oregon Yidette. All business entrusted to our care Kill re ceive prompt attention. ATTENTION SOLDIERS ! 8101,000,000 Appropriated Ik 1883 for Pensions. AN ACT to relieve soldiers from the charge of desertion and grant all such soldiers their full duea, and to grant soldiers marked as DESERTERS honorable discbarge papers. AN ACT to extend the arrears 01 the pen sion act and continue It in force so far as widows and children are concerned. AN ACT allowing pay for horses and equipments lost In service, etc Nearly every person Is entitled 10 an increase. Pensions, Beaatles, Itaad. Clalau and Patents attenaea to. For particulars call or address C. JT. CUSTIS. Attorney and Counselor at Law, Solicitor of uiaims ana x aienis. Rooms 3 and 4 Odd Fellows building, As toria, Oregon. WH1 you suffer with Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint ? Shiloh's YitaUzer is guaranteed to cure you. Sold by W. E. Dement. I Lead but Never Follow ! CARL ADLER'S Crystal REVOLUTION!! Is herewith declared. From and after the 1st o November all News papers and Periodicals will be sold at the following prices: 5 Cents Each. Fireside Companion, N. Y. "Weekly Ledger, Saturday Night, Arm Chair, Family Story Paper, Boys of New York, "Weeks Doings, Texas Sittings, S. F. Chronicle, Call, Oregonian, News and Astoriait, etc., etc. 8 Cts., 3 for 25 Cts., 13 for $1.00. Police Gazette, Police News, Illustrated Times, Puck, "Wasp, and Judge, Harper's Bazaar and "Weekly, Leslie's "Weekly and Chimney Corner, Argonaut, and many others. I have printed tickets for those papers to make exaot change. Back numbers always on hand. O f cm "0 Leslie's Popular Monthly, 40 UCiiLd. young Ladies Journal, eto. 30 CeiltS. Harper's Monthly, etc. Having made arrangements with all publishers I am enabled to give the public a benefit of the above named reductions 1 have also REDUCED the price for Subscriptions, which will be as follows: Harper's "Weekly, per year $3.75 not $4 00 " Bazaar, " 3.75 " 4.00 " Monthlv " 3.50 " 4.00 All three for...." 10.00 " 12.00 Leslie's "Weekly, per year 3.75 " 4.00 Leslie's Chimney Corner, per year. 3.75 " 4.00 w Popular Monthly " 2.85 " 3.00 Fireside Companion 2.75 " .3.00 New York Ledger 2.75 " 3.00 Saturdav Night 2.75 " 3.00 Familv Story Paper .' 2.75 " 3.00 Arm "Chair 2.75 " 3.00 S. F. Argonant 3.75 " 4.00 Puck 4.50 " 5.00 And all others too numerous to mentidn at the same rates. Now is your time to subscribe for the coming year. Remember Carl Adler's c.u vT t . ABLER STILL HOLDS THE FORT ! Xaools at This. I All the following fine cloth hound Books cilt edce. Red Line edltloa. formerly 81.69 aS 73 cents. POKMH Bulwer Lytton, Campbell, Spencer, Hemans, Tennyson, Hood. Moore, Jean Ineelow. Crabb, Pope, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Chaucer, Coleridge, LucUe, Dryii en, Maeaulay, Scott, Schiller. Milton, Keats, Kirk, White, (iosa. Thompson, Herbert, Ayton, woodworth. Ixmgfellow, Holmes, Bayard Taylor, Shelby, Rodgers. Barns, Cooper, and many, many more. Fine line of Novels and Gift Books, rich! Tom Brown's School Days , Tour of the World. The Fur Country. Five Weeks in a Balloou, Anderson's Fairy Tales, Arabian Kiehts. Young Crusoe, Tales from Shakespeare, Don vjuixoie. iieni, nousenoiu aiqnes, uick itoaney. Aesopsrauies, xast uays 01 rompeu, Robinson Crusoe, Rob Roy. The Midshipman. Daring Deeds. French Fancy Tales, The Prlvateersman, Young Forester, Peter the Whaler, and hundreds more. LOW jF:FLX03E3aL Every article of my new. fine selected stock will be sold at prices that will JDEPY AXiIj COMPETITION. Books, Stationer, and Notions in endless variety. A flue display of Gold and Silver Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. Rodger Bro. Silverware, as Knives, Forks and Spoons, Castors, Cups, Tea Sets, etc., etc., will be sold cheaper than anywhere else. PIANOS AND ORGANS of the best makers yery Low for Cash, or on Easy Installments. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS of every description. Sheet Music and Music Instructors of the latest publications. ICO new Music Books just received from the East. fT!"X7"C l The finest assortment of Toys, Wagons. Velocipedes, Baby Carriages, AUXij I etc., eta, can only be found at Adler's well known Crystal Palace. Enabled by many years of experience I succeeded In selecting a stock of goods which will suit young and old. I mean to do a square, honest business, giving full value for every dime received. Polite clerks win be found in attendance and no trouble to show goods. REMEMBER I WTI1& NOT BE UXDERSOU). The Crystal Palace. Carl Adler, Proprietor. I. "W. CASE, IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE AND RE TAIL DKALER IN GENERAL MEBCHAMSI Corner Chenamus and Cass streets. ASTORIA, - OREGON HANSEN BROS. SASH AND DOOR FACTORY, AND PLASTOG MILL. A full stock of homo manufactured goods constantly on hand. Special Attention given.to Orders. All work guaranteed. Your patronage so licited. ASTORIA, Oregon Palace! v bound, formerly S1.S0 nowonlv75 cents. STOHE & DAVIDSON COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Dealers In' LUMBER, HAY, GRAM, POTATOES, AND COUNTRY PRODUCE. Advances made on Consignmtnts.