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(I) 11 VOL. XX, NO. 45.- ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1883. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. PP.AYEU FOR ADMISSION. Fnll Text of the Caton Tentorial for the Admi&rfon of Washington Terri tory. Adopted by the Legisla ture at Olympla Xor. 4th. Council memorial, No. 4. In the council by Mr, Caton, of AValla Wal la county. HEMOP.IAL. Praying an enabling act for ad mission of the state of "Washington into the Union. To tbe Honorable, tho Senate and House of Representatives of the Uni ted Stales in Congress assembled: The people of tho territory of Washington by their legislative as sembly but urgently protest against the further continuance by congress of the so-called territorial govern ment amere creation of congress un known to the constitution of tho United States tho only -warrant for .such a political anomaly in our insti tutions being basetl upon a custom sanctioned so long that it has grown to be regarded as the necessary method whereby territory of the na tion can be prepared for future states of tho federal -union. Earnestly this people pray that congress will remove their political disabilities, and that they may enjoy the constitutional guarantee of a government, republi can in form, where the government derives all its just powers from the consent of the governed. Tho settlers of this territory have brought hither to establish a slate the necessary intelligence, loyalty and patriotic motive. It is conced ed that they possess the necessary qualifications, but still are they denied the first and most essential element of American citizenship. They dare not participate in the selection of the chief magistrate of tho nation; thoy are denied tho right to elect their own officers; they cannot sue a citi zen of one of the states in the federal courts because they are not recog nized as citizens of a atale; they are denied representation in the congress of the United States; they cannot make their own laws; they aro mere dependents upon your honorable body, who claim to adopt rules for their government under an implied power that you make rules and regu lations as to the disposition of tho territory and other property of the government; In fact every relation of such a government to the congress of the United States exhibits a de pendence as humiliating as that so terribly denounced in the grandest of indictments drafted by the immortal Jefferson arraigning tho crown of Great Britain for withholding popu lar rights from our ancestors. Our people are a commonwealth. We are a state though denied such name. As a state, as a people, as a community, we are entitled to de mand that tho congress of the United States guarantee to us a republican form of government. In urgency of which we respectfully submit First That the people are suffici ent in numbers to successfully main tain a state government; The popu lation of Washington territory large ly exceeds that of many of the states when admitted. It is not less than 125,000 and well informed and ob servant persons place it as high as 150,000. The immigration now and for the past year has been unex ampled in the his ton' of the growth of American states and territories. It is also worthy of remark that transi tion from territorial vassalage to statehood and sovereignity have al ways been followed by renewed growth, and surely the circumstances and present surroundings of this territory assure that increased pros perity, importance and wealth. We beg to refer to the admission of other states. California was admitted with a pop ulation of 93,597. Colorado at the census preceding admission num bered 39,3G1. Florida at the census following admission had a population of 87,445, while at the previous cen sus it numbered 54.477. Kansas came in with 107,200. Iowa at the census before admission, 28,847; in 1860, 122,993. Nevada before admis sion, GS57, subsequent, 42,491, and in 1830 boasted of a population of 62,666. Oregon was admitted in 1859, and at the census of the subsequent year had 52,455. These statistics establish the fact that our population greatly outnum bers that of numerous other success ful appplicants for statehood. By all the precedents concluded upon this proposition, Washington Territory possesses the requisite population. Our people are amply able to main tain a state government This is demonstrated by a comparison of tho -valuation of taxnble property in this territory with that in several other states in the Federal union. Washington Territory (in 18S3). $44,197,567 Colorado (in 1830) 43,072,648 Florida (in 18S0) 29,471,227 Nevada (in 1SS0) 29,564,672 Oregon (in 18S0) 46,422,817 In the support of an insane asylum, a territorial penitentiary and a uni versity the territory expends over $00,000. With the exception of the trifling contribution of the United States for the trying of their causes, and the salaries of tho judges, the district attorney and marshal, tho people pay the expenses of their courts. The expenses of the legisla ture are partially paid by tho United States. The people elect the mem bers, but their laws aro subject to congressional approval Tho governor and secretary aro paid by tho United States, but how cordially would the people pay their salaries for the dem cratic privilege of electing their own rulers. All these expenses are de rived from taxation for territorial purposes, in addition to our county, school, road and municipal taxes. The territory, devoid of sovereign ty, owns no property and cannot hold any from which an income can be de rived, and thus it is the taxpayers are called upon this burden to maintain a government not of their own mak- Third. Our great natural resources, oar future wealth, demand such Tec of&itioB. asd they aro entitled to con gressional representation to secure their development "With the requisite population in numbers, who have demonstrated their ability to maintain a govern ment, we pray that our disabilities be removed and we bo restored to those rights which belong to American birthright and citizenship, tho right to select our own rulers, to make our own laws. We ask for nothing that is not your duty to confer; we pray only to be allowed to consider our selves citizens of the United States of America, and as in right, duty and good conspience we will ever pray. GRAY'S 9ARB0R. We have been shown a letter writ ten to a gentleman here, by Walter Xiaidlaw, proprietor of the Mendo cino lumber establLshmeut in San Francisco, from wliich we are per mitted to extract the following: 3Iy friend and fellow-townsman, Hon. J. R Glasscock, M. C, elect, leaves hero for Washington to-morrow. I inter viewed him yesterday for the purpose of pointing out the necessity of es tablishing a first-class light-house at the entrance of Gray'jj Harbor. Ho has promised to do all he can in furthenmcc of the project, and the purport of the present, is therefore, to request you to bring such influence to bear on your representative in Congress as to cause him to do all ho can in advancing the same object This matter really belongs to your representative, and Mr. Glasscock will not infringe on his prerogative, but the latter will be able to rely on the fullest co-operation of Mr. Glasscock in this matter." Following is tho text of Mr. Good- ell's memorial: 4Your memorialists, the Legislative Assembly of tho Ter ritory of Washington, would respect fully represent that a lighthouse is needed at the entrance of Gray's Har bor, inasmuch as said Gray's Harbor is one of the most important seaports on ojir coast, having an entrance scarcely one mile wide, with low and dangerous sandbanks adjacent, and has recently become the seat of ex tensive commercial and manufactur ing industry which is steadily and rapidly growing in amount It is the only natural outlet to Ihe markets of the world for one of the most exten sive and valuable timber districts in the United Slates, also of a vast area rich in agricultural resources, also coal, metals and other elements of wealth. Already a lino of steamers is established between tho harbor and Portland, the commercial metropolis of Oregon, and a line of sailing ves sels to San Francisco, the commercial center of the Pacific coast Other lines are projected and it is expected that next year a line of standard gauge railroad will connect the harbor with the great commercial emporium of Puget bound. (It & s njpity Mr. Goodell saw lit to ignore Astoria, and omit to mention that the "line of steamers" termin ated at Astoria, as far as direct ship ments are concerned.) Ed. Astobian. We, therefore, respectfully petition your honorable bodies to make an ap propriation for the purpose herein stated, and as in duty bound your memorialists will ever pray. SEA-OTTER HUKTIKO. Last evening in conversation with a gentleman from the west coast, we gathered some interesting facts about the sea-otter industry. Along the ocean beach between Gray's Harbor and the month of the Quilleute, at intervals of about two miles away may be seen high, raised derricks with a seal at the top, which is the outlook of the otter hunter. When the practiced eye of tho pa tient watcher detects from his lofty perch the head of ono' of these am phibians bobbing about tho surface of the water, not beyond the inner breakers, he blazes away at it with his Sharpe's, or Winchester rifle, and generally kills his game. The dead otter floats about in the current for a while and at last is washed up on tho beach by the surf and is secured by the slayer. The sea-otlor skin affords one of the most valuable furs of commerce, but the animals are becoming very scarce. Tho hunter considers him self in luck who captures on an aver ago one a month. It must be a lonely life he leads away on that wild ocean beach, sentineled on his high eyrie, day in and out in vain, like another Saint Simon Stylites on his pillar, or a real impersonation of "Patience on a monument, smiling at grief." One of the most successful and notable of the sea otter hunters is a young Canadian named Wetherill, who has planted a little cabin on a small rock out in the breakers, known as Copolis Bock. This rock stands about 400 yards out in the ocean, and is 50 feet high and less than 100 feet square. When tho sea is loud the swash of tho breakers beats high above and over tho hunter's cabin. To keep himself from drowning or being swept off on such occasions, he has made his cabin taut and tight as a sea boat's dock, and screwed it to its foundation with bolts drilled into the rocks, and ce mented with sulphur. Here he keeps watch and ward for months at a stretch, without leaving the rock. Ho has two Indian assistants station ed on shore, to whom ho signals when he has shot an otter, who watch for the jetsam and secure the fur. Mr. Witherell secured last year 21 furs. He has one, of the silver-tipped variety, now on hand, which ho says is worth $150. When it is prop erly prepared and worked up into articles it will bring in tho stores an aggregate sum cf $700. For ordinary furs ho obtains $75. He sells them to Mr. Emerson, at the Hoquiam mills, who ships them thence by lum ber vessel to San Francisco. When the season's hunt is ovor the hunter brings his catch down to tho trading post It is tho usual course of trade, in such cases, generally. The trapper swaps at the mill store for an6ther season's supplies. Then with the surplus, -usually, a glorious spree, a little bucking at the tiger in some club room until the money is all gone, then off to the coast for an other year's vigil.- Corr. Seattle Herald. . y - D Absolutely Pure. Tliis powder never varies. A marvel o purity, strength and whjlesomeuoss. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot bo sold In competition with the mul titude of low test snort weight, alum or phosphaie powders. Saldonluin cam. Kov Ar. Uakixg Powdkk Co.. 1M Y'all-t. N. Y. King of the Blood Is not a "cure all," it Is a blood-puriflcr and tonic Imnuritv of the hi noil nnivmn thi svs. tern, deranges the circulation, and thus In duces many disorders, known by different names to distinguish them according to ef fects, but being really branches or phases of mat great generic uisoraer, imparity oi Illood. Such are Dyfpejvtia, lMllnusnes, Liver Complaint, Cfmstipatton, Nervous Dis order , Headache, Backache, General Weak ncM. Heart DUcac,DropeUi Kidney Dltease, Piles, Rheumatism, Catarrh, Scrofula, Skin DUordcr, Pimples. Ulcer. Swellings, dec. ic Kins; of the Blood, prevents and cures these by attacking tho cawc. Impurity of the blood. Chemists and physicians acree in calling it "the most genuine and efficient preparation lor tne purpose." sold oy Drug gists, SI per bottle. Sec testimonials, direc tions. &c. In pamphlet, "Treatise on Diseases ol tbft Blood' wranppd around each bottle. D. KANSO.M. SOX & Co., Props Buffalo. N. Y. Wilson & Fisher, SHIP CHANDLERS. DKAXKKS IN Iron, Steel, Coal, Anchors, Chains, TAR, PITCH, OAKUM, NAILS AND SPIKES. Shelf Hardware, Paints and Oils STEAM PACKING, PROVISIONS, FJLOUR AITO 3111,1. FEED. Agents for Salem Flouring Mills, and Capital Flour. FAIRBANKS STANDARD SCALES. All sizes, at Portland Prices, In Stock. Corner Chenamns and Hamilton Streets ASTORIA. OREGON. LOEB & OO. JOBBERS D WINES. LIQUORS. AND CIGARS. AGENTS FOR THE Best San Francisco Houses and Eastorn Distilleries. Tumblers Decanters, and All Kinds of Saloon Supplies. J3AH goods sold at San Francisco Prices. MAIN STREET, Opposite Parker House. Astoria, Oregon. WEI. EDGAR, Dealer In Cigars, Tobacco and Cigarettes Meerschaum and Brier Pipes, GENUINE ENGLISH CUTLERY Revolvers and Cartridges. Leinenweber & Co., O. r.ETXSJfWKHBU. BKOWN K3TABLISHKD tfiSS. ASTORIA. OREGON, TAKERS AD CBMS, Manufacturers and Importers of LL KINDS OF T.TAT'TT E! t-t AND FINDINGS Wholesale Dealers in OIL AND TALLOW. nr-nighest eash price paid for Hides and nuiow. Cleaning Repairing. NEAT, CHEAP AND QUICK. BY GEORGE IjOVETT. Main Street, opposite N. Loeb'c HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. PARKER HOUSE, II, B. PARKKR. Prop., ASTORIA. OREGON. E.P. PACKER. - Manager and Agent. AJ. CROSBY. - - Day Clerk Phil. BOWERS, - - Night Clerk. Jas. DUFFY has Uie flarand Billiard room. First Class in all Respects. FREE COACECTO THE HOUSE. IT IS A PACT THAT JEFF'S CHOP HOUSE ox Concomly Street is the Best in Town. THAT He lias Always on Hand FRESH Shoal Water Bay ami East ern Oysters. THAT "JEFF" IS THE BOSS CATERER. THAT lie ha bees Proprietor of the "Aurora Hotel" la Kuapplon kerrnjear. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. A New Departure. At Frank Fabre's, Is dally set a TABLE D'HOTE from 6 to 7:30 PM At which A FINE FRENCH DINNER, With Half a Bottle Wine Will bo fornlHhed. for 30 cents. Hoard by tho Month, - S5 to 830 Lodgings can be procured by tho day. week or month. My establishment Is fitted newly throughout, and everything main tained in the best style. jb'KAXK FAB 1IC A Good Cup of Coffee AND OYSTERS. MRS. POWELL HAS OPENED AN OYS ter stand and Coffee Houso on Slain street next to the Oregon Bakery. Every attention-paid to patrons. COSMOPOLITAN Chop House and Restaurant. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. 3IoalH 23 cents and upwnrdH, G. BOTLLAItn, - MAW STREET, - - - Proprietor. - ASTORIA. Astoria Restaurant. EDWARD YOUNG Announces to tho public that be has located in the rooms formerly occupied by tho City Book Store, where he will keep a Restaurant and Chop House Furnishing meal to order at all hours. His patrons will find the tables supplied with ten or twelve of the best newspapers. His reputation as former proprietor of the New England Restaurant is a sufficient recommendation for his new house. THE BEST Boarding and Lodging House. Chas. 'Wallnian has opened a boarding and lodging house south of O'Brien's hotel, near the gas works. The table is supplied with the best the market affords : good food and clean beds will be furnished at the regular prices. Give me a call and satlsiy yourselves, CHAS. WALLMAN. CHAS, A. MAY New Store, New Stock, Toys, Fancy Goods; Tobacco and Cigars. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC 2PHTJITS A PINE ASSORTMENT. Squemoquastrect.nextdoor to the Empire Store. nl7-cm S. ARNDT & EERCHEN, ASTORIA. - OREGON. The Pioneer Machine Shop BLACKSMITH SHO AND Boiler Shop All kinds of ENGINE, CANNERY, A2TC STEAMBOAT WOBE! Promptly attended to. A specialty made of repairing CANNERY DIES, fOOT OF LAFAYETTE STREET. Croup, Whooping Cough and Bron chitis immediately relieved by Shiloh'a Cure. SoldbyW.K. Dement BUSINESS CARDS. Q K. THOMSON, Attorney and Counselor at Law. Room No. C, over White House, ASTOErA, OBEGON, .1. VT. HUDSON, Attorney at Law, and 5Totary Public. Odd Fellows Eulldlni;, Astoria, Oregon, C. TT. FUIXO.Y. O. C. TUVTOX. FULTOS B BOTHERS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. HoomsSand G.Odd Fellows Building. J fc.A. UOWIjBY. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Chenaraus treet, - - ASTORIA, OREGON C. E.ncA.CUEA, Attorney at Hair. Room 4. White House. Q J. CUfiTIS, ATT'Y AT LAW. Notary Fublic, Commissioner of Deeds for California, New Yorlc and Washington Ter ritory. Rooms 3 and 4. Odd Fellows Building, As toria. Orecofl. N.B.-CIalms at Washington. D. 0., and collections aspecialty. Astoria Ascot Hamburg-Magdeburg and German-American FIRK INSURANCE COMPANIES. CJ. UOLDEX. JN'OTABT PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COM3HSSION AND IN SURANCE AGENT. Q.EI.O F. PAR KliTl. SURVEYOR OF Clatsop CoBBty.eBd City of Astoria Office :-Chenamus street, Y. 11. C. A. hall itoomo. v. JQC X. C- BOATMAN. Physician and Surgeon. Rooms 9 and 10. Odd Fellows Building, ASTORIA, OREGON. JAY TCTTIiK, 31. I). PHYSICIAN AND SUBGEON Office Rooms 1, 2, and 3. Pythian Build ing. Residence Orer J. E. Thomas' Drug biore. "P F. MICKS, PBNTIST, ASTORIA, - - - OREGON Rooms in Alien's building up stairs, comer ot uass anu sqemocqne sires . JTU. J. II. LaFOItCE, DEXTIST, Room 11. Odd Fellows Building, Astoria, Or. Gas admlniitered for painless extraction of teeth. MUSIC. PROP. T. F. MEYER. Graduate of Heidelberg University. Piano Teacher. GENERAL STEAMSHIP AGEHGY. Bills of Exchange on any Part oi Europe. 1AM AGENT FOR TIE FOLLOWING well known and commodious steamship Ines. STATE ONE, RED STAR, WHITE STAR. HAMBURG-AMERICAN, DOMINION LINK, NATIONAL, and AMERICAN LINE. Prepaid tickets (b or from any European port. For full information as to rates of fare, sailing days, etc, apply to LW.CABE. GEO. P. WHEELEB. TT. L. HOBB. Notary Public WHEELER & EOBB. GENERAL Seal Estate Insurance Agents. We haTe Tery desirable property in As toria and Upper Astoria for safe. Also, fine farms throughout the county. Accounts carefully adjusted and collec tions made. We represent the Jtyal, Norwich. Ualaa aad JLaaca hire Iasaraaeo Ce's With a combined capital of 836,000,000. Travelers .Life aad Accident laaar Bare Co, or Hartford, and the Xaa hattaa llfe Insaraaee Ce., of New Yorlc We are aeents for the Ztafly and TTccMsy All business entrusted to our care will re ceive prompt attention. 0. H. BAIN & CO. DEAXKKS IS Doors, Windows, Blinds, Transoms Turning,. Bracket Work. A specialty, and all work guaranteed. Oak, Asb, Bay, and Walnut lumber ; Ore gon aad Port Orford Cedar. All kinds of boat material oa hand. C.X.BAXX A. CO.. POST YOUR PURCHAS Till I INCREASING BUSIN Ne TILL MY RETURN FROM SAN FRANCISCO The Following Prices Hold Good: 5 Cents Each. Fireside Companion, N. Y. Weekly Ledger, Saturday Nighty Arm Chair, Family Story Paper, Boys of New York, Week3 Doings, Texas Sittings, S. F. Chronicle, Call, Oregonian, News and Astorlln, 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 exact change. Back numbers always on hand. OR r'ckTl'fc Leslie's Popular Monthly, U Wlitb. Young Ladies Journal, etc. 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 $1 00 " Bazaarj " 3.75 " 4.00 " Monthly " 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 " Popular Monthly " 2.85 " 3.G0 Fireside Companion . , 2.75 " 3.00 New York Ledger 2.75 " 3.00 Saturday Night 2.75 ts 3.00 Family Story Paper 2.75 " 3.00 Arm Chair 2.75 " 3.00 S. F. Argonant 3.75 4.00 Puck r 4.50 " 5.00 And all others too numerous to mention at the same rates. Now is your time to subscribe for the coming year. Remember Carl Adler's Subscription News Depot. ADLER STILL HOLDS THE FORT ! Xiools at This I' All the following fine cloth bound Book3 gilt edge, Hed Line edition, formerly 81.50 ut 75 cents. PO EMM Bidwer Lytton, Campbell. Spencer, Hemans, Tennyson, Hood. Moore, Jean Ingelow. Crabb, Pope, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Chaucer. Coleridge, Luclle, Dryfien. Macaulay, Scott, Schiller. Milton, Keats, Kirk, Whlto, Gosa. Thompson, Herbert, Ayton, woodworth, LongfellowIIolinei. Bayard Taylor, Shelby, Rodeers, Barns, Cooper, and many, many more. Fine Hnedf Novels and Gift Books, rlchlv bound, formerly S1J50 now only 75 centa. Tom Brown's School Days , Tour of the World, The Fur Country. Five Weeks in a Balloon, Anderson's Fairy Tales, Arabian Nights. Young Crusoe, Tales from Shakespeare, Don Quixote, Gem?, Household Stories, Dick Rodney. Aesops Fables, Last Days of Pompeii, Robinson Crusoe, Rob Roy, The Midshipman. Daring Deeds. Trench Fancy Talas, The PrlTateersman, Young Forester, Peter the Whaler, and hundreds more. LOW 3EtI03EIS- Every article of ray new, line selected stock -will be sold at prices that will DEFY All Li COMrETll-IOX. Books, Stationery, and Notions In endless variety. A flue display of Gold and Silver "Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, Rodger Bros. Silverware, as Knives, Forks and Spoons, Castors, Cups, Tea Sets, etc., etc., will De sold cheaper than anywhere else. PIANOS AND ORGANS of the best makers very Low far Cash, er h Easy iBStallaeHts. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS of every description. Sheet Music and Music Instructor of the latest publications. 100 new Music Books just received from the East. ffliXTQ l The finest assortment of Toys, Wagons, Velocipedes, Baby Carriage, JL J X O i etc., etc., 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 ola. I mean to do a square, honest business, giving full value for every dime received. Polite clerks will be found in attendance and no trouble to show goods. KEMEMJBEK 1 WIIjIj .VOX BE U.V1ER801,I. ASTORIA IRON WORKS. Bkstox Stkhet, Near Pa&keb Houss, ASTORIA, - OREGON. GENERAL MACHINISTS AND BOILER MAKERS. LAMaiHABMEH&llS BoiierWork, Steamboat Work and Cannery Work a spe cialty. Of all Descriptions made to Order at Shert Kotlce. A. D. Wash. President. J. G. HusTMtE, Secretary, I. W. Case, Treasurer. JH2fFox,8perlntendent. PONE Re DEMAND Goods Crystal Palace. Carl idler, Proprietor. STOI&DAmOH COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Dealers In LUMBER, HAY, GRAIN, POTATOES, AND COUNTRY PRODUCE. Advances made on Consignments.