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ASTORIA, OREGON:
SUNDAY, .,
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ISSUED PJVERY MORNING.
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F. HA1A.ORAN & COMPANY.
iTBUsuhits and ri:oi'Kii-ini:.
A8TORIAN lmir.DING.
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Term arSabscrijiiIon.
Served by C irriur, per weefc. lets.
eiit by M-ill. per mouth .. Wcts.
" " one year ........ .7.00
Free of postage Xo MibvmbTs.
ET Advertisements inserted b thevcaral
the rate of S2 per square per month. " Tran
sient advertising fifty cents per square, each
insertion.
ABOUND THE CITY.
Dr. Cabaniss is about to establish a
drug store at Upper Astoria.
E. S. Livermore, editor and proprietor
of the Gray's Harbor News, is in the
city.
Business c-ds with the tide table for
April on the back in lots to order nt The
As toman office.
C. "W. Leick, architect, will receive
bids till next Saturday for the erection of
Mr. C. Boel ling's new residence.
The Idaho fired her sun yesterday and
anchored on. her downward voyage from
our northern Ar-tic possessions.
There will be a meeting of the. stack
holders of the Point Adams Packing
company, at their office next Saturday.
Bev. Wm. Boberts, pastor of the M. E.
church, will orate at the meeting of
the Pioneer and Historical Society on the
12th of May.
Mrs. M. C. Leavitt, superintendent of
the W. U. r. U., for this coast will nere
on Tuesday next and will lecture at the
M. E. church on that evening.
Chaplain Scott preaches at the Baptist
church at eleven this morning and at
half past 86ven this evening, lectures on
"Model man and some men who are not
models."
Carl Adler is having his street clock
improved so that when in working trim
again it will be run with electricity as
the motive power, and will strike louder
than heretofore.
Meeting at the Y. M. C. A. room at
2:55 v. M. to-day. Chaplain Scott, U. S.
A., will conduct the service. Cordial in
vitation is extended to all, and especially
to' the young men of Astoria.
In the police cjurt yesterday Dan Mo
ran was fined $10 on the charge of resist
ing an officer. John Bosh paid a 5 line
for drunkenness and a J.ip named
Charles Henry was acquitted on the
charge of paddling without a license.
Attention is directed to Carl Adler's
advertisement. He has made arrange
ments concerning freight from the East
that enables him to furnish everything
in his line at the lowest cash prices; his
shelves and stands are filled with the
latest and most popular goods in every
conceivable style and finish, and anyone
wishing to purchase or desirous of seeing
a fine store should pay the Crystal Pal
ace a visit.
Telephone Slstloas and Numbers.
Following are the names and numbers
of the subscribers to the telephone. Cut
this out and paste it by your telephone.
Carl Adler, 16, Astgjria Iron "Works, 14;
Astor House, 10; Astosiax, 25; Astoria
Packing Co., 27; Badoilet & Co., 3; Beck
& Son., 7: L W. Case, 20; City hack, 37;
Bozorth fc John3, 2Q; W. T. Coleman, L;
M. C. Crosby, 19; Clatsop Mill Co., 31;
Sam Elmore, 15;.Foard & Stokes, 9; Jk
Foster, ; J. H. D. Gray, 24; J. O. tfau
thorn & Co , 23; J. W. Hume, 13; Inde
pendent, 17; Northern Pacific Express Co.,
15; OccidentThbtel, 23; Parker House, 5;
Fiank L. Parker, 3 J; B. F. Stevens fc Co.,
37; Dr. Tattle, j 6; J. C. Trullinger. 18,
Van Dusen & Co:, 4; Wyattfc Thompson,
35; Western Union Telegraph Co., 38;
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express, 4.
Pretention for Baldnett.
"Step right in here and I'll tell you all
about the new process for the prevention
of baldness."
'This process is entirely new. I found
it out in this way: A friend of mine
went to Paris a short time ago, and at
the time of his departure his hair was
very thin and continually falling out.
On his return the ajjpearance of his head
was entirely changed, being covered with
a growth of hair ever so much more
luxurious and thick than previous to his
departure. On inquiring the reason for
this change I was informed that ho had
his hair singed. Here was a practical
illustration of the good effects followinp
this new method, so I made up my mind
to adopt it, and have doneo very suc
cessfully. "How is it done? "Well. I just take a
lighted taper and pass the flame over
the tips of a man's hair which is at all
thin or has a tendency to fall out that
is all. You see, every hair is hollow, and
more or less of the fluid necessary for its
growth escapes. "When the top of the
air is singed the aperture is closed and
the strencthenine fluid retained."
I " "Will not the same means be employed
to encourage the growth of hair on the
bald upper lip3 of some of our youth?"
was asked. "Exactly. You see my mus
tache? It is thicker on one side than the
other. That is caused by smoking my
cigars just a little to short and they singe
my mustache on one side and mcko it
thick there. This goes to prove that
sin peine is beneficial. I have no doubt
that before long you will see in front of
all the barber shops of this city signs
.marked 'Singeing done here.' "
Wanted to Kent.
A hotiRe with 5 to 10 mom. Must bp
in a respectable neighborhood. Good
I tenant. Address Box 29G, Astoria, Ogu.
Xfetire tt I lie lublic.
After leaving your watch with most
all the jewdiTS of the town, and till
site don't kwp good tlw, please cull
and gi'ye me a trial; all work guaran
teed. Having 15 year- of ex"erience in the
watch making tade and uvinjrsupplied
with a full set or the. latest improved
and fine t watch making tools, the same
ai the Waltham aim liigin watcn lac
tnriPB usp. I am enabled to do any re
pairing in the watch making line.
Ittll anu see me tij ,ii y in.
. F. Armbruster.
"Practical watchmaker and jeweler, at
Can Aadler 8 crystal ran ce.
One Hundred Dolhira.
will he forfeited by JEFF if he has
not got-everything named in the follow
ing bill of tare irom u to a v. u.
OUUI.
, English Split Pea.
FISH.-
Boiled Spring Salmon, Egg Sauce.
BOILED.
Hani. Corned Beef.
COLD MEATS.
Pics' Feet, Sheep's Tongues, Ham,
Corned Beef.
ESTREES
riad of Veal. Tripe Spanish. Lamb
Popple. Liver Madera Sauce. Pigs'
Head aim uauuafie, oieweu
Beef and Onions. Macaroni
Italian Style.
VEGETABLES.
-Mashed Potatoes, Lima Beans, Pars-
Hip"S anu vinuuujjc.
RKL18HKS.
Jbeeseylted Pick es, Cabbage, Celery.
Kice Meringue.
PXS
rfustkrd.TAple-i,eae'h -Plum.
V eaTcoffee and Milk.
Mals, 25cts.
TOl'ICS OF THE TIMES.
Taxr Municipal Action, Etc
Papers throughout the state are dis-
cassinC taction. The several assessors,
municipal, state, countj, school district,
j and bo on, aro distributing blanks, and
' the usual hubbub goes on regarding what
i is assessable and what isn't. That ridic-
ulous law that a man's indebtedness h1ik1I
C an to "e taen "ut his taxable
property is conveniently used, and the
cheerful sttomeut s volunteered that
the more a man owes the bettor off he id
when the assessors' reports are to be
made out. The mortgage tax law is an
other fruitful Hource of discussion, and
the whole business of taxation in Oregon
seems to be inextricably mixed. And
yet it does not seem to be such a dread
ful problem. There is so much money to
be raised; there is so much property on
which to raise that money. How to do it
is the consideration, and there are as
many different suggestions as there are
minds to formulate ideas. It may be
stated as an axiom that low valuation
involves high taxation. If we own $20,
000 worth of property and aro taxed on
$5,000, it looks all right on the face of it
as far as we are individually concerned,
but if the rate be twice what it should be,
there is not so muoh saved after ail
That is the great fault all through Ore
gon. Heal estate is assessed at a valua
tion away below what it is worth, in some
instances at one fourth what the owner
tasks for it. There is where the most
opposition comes regarding the taxation
or mortgages. A man says: "My neigh
bor owns a "farm that he refused to sen
to me last week for $12,000; the assessor
puts it down at $4,000. I hold a mort
gage that calls for $j,000,.but I have to
pay taxes on the fuii value" of that mort
gage. Where's the fairness?" Of course
that is confusing cause and effect, but it
ib results that most people look at, and
the manifest unfairness of putting the
valuation or real estate away down and
taxing mortgages at their face is bound
to work dissatisfaction.
Personal property, as a rule, avoids
taxation. It hides and lies, Heal estate
is not more honest or more moral. As it
cannot hide, it has not the courage to
lie. The cold, solemn fact is that nobody
pays taxes if he can help it. Everybody
wuo lives, or has ever lived, whether in
modern America, medieval England and
France, or ancient Greece or Koine, has
avoided taxes if possible. AH have
shirked them in every possible manner.
There are one or two poetical incidents
recorded in history wuere women have
roiuntarily brought forth their jewels
and offered to sacrifice them in aid ot
their country, but no single instance
where they were willingly exposed for tax
ation. Men olfer their lives, and volun
toer in defense of their native land, and,
for patriotic love of country, dare the
dreadful hazard of war; but no one ever
heard of any man offering to expose
property for taxation that had been over
looked by the law, unless he was endeav
oring to cure defective title by tax sale.
There is rarely a financial exigency so
great, or insolvency so imminent, or a
threatened repudiation so dishonorable,
that the community will voluntarily sub
mit to be taxed, even for the payment of
the just debts of a municipal or state
government.
A man that would no more think of
violating a business obligation than he
would think of setting his own uninsured
property on fire, will "kick" if the as
sessor values his property at more than
one-third what it would fetch at forced
sale, and will keep out all moneys and
itoms of portable value that he can, and
consider nimself perfectly justified. He
sttje5.With his conscience by saying,
"Everyone else does it; why should I be
so pauctillious." Of course to those
who dispute this and think we are too
sweeping in our assertion, we say you are
an exception; it wasn't you that was
meant, it was your neighbor. The result
is that the assessment rolls make us out
to be a state full of bankrupts, and a
commonwealth full of indigent people.
Our tax levies are high, necessarily high,
because of low valuation, and anyone
who wants to cheat is actually invited if
not compelled by the conditions as well
as the laws that regulate and surround
this whole matter, and after all, who is
swindled but the people themselves?
There is only one way of raising money
to support state and county governments,
courts of justice, public schools, etc.,
and it is something that the state popu
lation cannot dodge without injury to
themselves. Sometime ago one of our
Portland exchanges published a list of
taxpayers in Multnomah county which
would point a moral mid adorn a tale.
Men who were known to bo millionaires
were assessed at thirty thousand dollars,
and from the assessor's tax roll it would
appear that there was no bank, corpora
tion, society or individual in the metrop
olisof the Northwest that was worth
$100,000 in hard cash. But the man that
owned a little lot or was trying to pat up
a house to live in was not forgotten. If
his little place was worth $2.50J it was
assessed at 2,000, and thus things were
"equalized." It is just such equalizing
as that that creates trouble, and the man
ifest injustice of such favoritism cannot
fail to result badly. A man that has
$2,500 of property shouldn't grumble at
paying taxes on $2,0D0, provided all are
treated alike, but when he sees his neigh
bor who is worth a quarter of a million
taxed on $"9,00i), be can't help feeling
that that is wrjng, and when a man or
set of men get to feeling that and have
it rubbed into them every year the out
come is plain.
It is the same way in every line. The
San Francisco Bulletin would be cheap at
3150,000; Pickering and Fich pay $7,0W);
h t Alta is well worth $liO,O0Jit is as
sessed at less than $1.0 JO; Mike De Young
wouldn't take $203,000 for the Chrenicle:
it is assessed at $15,000. We take up
San Francisco to instance that it is not
solely in Oregon that the game goes on.
John Kosenfeld, the grain king, pays
$174.00 annual tax; Horace uavis. the
great flour merchant, pays $297; Wm,
Sharon, the bonanza senator, is assessed
on only $79,153; Peter Donahoo on $7,130.
In this way the big fish swallow up the
little ones.' The facts in the case are not
very complimentary to the honesty of
the men that dodge the assessor and
successfully elude the payment of the'r
just portion of publio expense.
That was a singularly inconsistent piece
of municipal legislation that our city
council performed laBt Tuesday night.
Sjmetime ago an ordinance was pas3ed
making it mandatory on any who
wanted a saloon license in Astoria to
give n jtice of his intention to make ap
plication, and pressribing certain forms
and modes of procedure, and that upon
proper compliance with all -that, the
council could in its discretion grant a
license. At the last meeting of the coun
cil the petition of Chas. Gratke was
read, his affidavit was submitted, his
bond duly executed and properly ap
proved accompanied the petition and
an ordinance was passed grant
ing him license to sell wine, malt and
spirituous liquors, etc for one year. Im
mediately after, in the regular order of
business, came a petition, bond, affidavit
and all that from Geo. Hill, all the pa
pers, and everything in the case being
exactly similar to Gratke's. By a vote
of three to two the council refused him a
license.
The Astobian always has been opposed
to Hill, and it is verv orobable always
will be, but it seems to us that such ac
tion on the part of the city council was
inconsistent, unreasonable and wholly
unjust. H Gratke or Smith or Brown or
Jones or anyone else who complied with
the conditions imposed naa a ngm to a
license, Hill certainly had. If on the
payment of $200 ayearthe city council
assumes the conceded right to give a man
permission to retail liquor, to be drank
on the premises, it cannot in justice" dis
criminate between persons. Hill's $200is
just as good as anybody else's. Such dis
crimination is not admissible. Presump
tion concerning what Hill might do or
? I'olltks-
J might not do, should bo no part of the
argument. If Hill violate the law let
him be puhisbeo; it ne nave women aooui
his place, or if he run a disorderly house
make him feel that the law shall be en
forced, but such action as that of the city
council last Tuesday night is unworthy
the dignity of a municipal body. It is at
once a concession and a confession. It
is a concession to personal feeling and a
confession of weakness.
"Whv does The Astobian say this con
cerning the man that tried to injure it?"
agoodui3uy will ask. Just because we
consider it is the only correct view
to take of the matter. By allowing
this thing to piss unnoticed, The Ab
tobian would njure itself more than the
enorts of a hundred such as Hill. There
ar6 times that a publio journal cannot
afford to be silent. It is our opinion that
the c;tv council cannot maintain the'po
sition it has assumed; that it cannot dis
criminate as between individuals; that it
has no option in the matter and that it
can in law no more refuse Hill's $230
than it can any other man's. This is the
point we make. The Astobiak would be
sorry to see Geo. Hill get a license, be
cause, judging by the past, his aim and
effort seem to be" against the best inter
ests of our city. Bat this is a question
that shuts out tho moral, economic or
ethical view of the matler. It is purely
a question of p2f30n.il right, and for
that precise reason personal feeling
should have nothing to da with the mat
ter, we must as a community taxe
thincs iust as thev are. The municipal
law allows a man that pays $200 a year
privilege to sell liquor, ilill asned that
lie be given the privilege; ho offered a
bond and surety that he would comply
with the law; the ordinance is powerful
enouch to compel" compliance with its
provisions; he was refused, and in re-
1 using mm me council raaue a njisiaxe,
and dodged a question that admits of no
shirking and that must be met. The
council can restrain; it cannot prohibit.
And, "talking of bunions, how's your
mother-in-law? ' Politics now comes to
the front, and a great deal that is done
and a great deal that isn't done is com
mitted or omitted with a view to political
effect. In a few days politics will "bile"
all over the state; the stewpans already
begin, to simmer. In our own county and
elsewhere the biennial saving of the
cjuutry and preventian of the offices gj
n begging lor applicants have already
began.
It is the fashion now and thon to sneer
at "politics,' and yet it sedins to us th?t
it is more tue lack of ability than a lack
of inclination tuat keeps a good many
men out of politics. Tnay won't became
they can't.
In a government like this it is the duty
of every intelligent man to interest hun
dblf in practical politics. It is the privi
lege of every vagabond and idler, every
Worthless adventurer, who, as native
born and twenty-one years of age, or
who, foreign born, has been five years
upon the soil, to go to the ballot box and
cast his vote for those who make, Inter
pol and execute our laws. It is the duty
of every intelligent, patriotic, and hon
est man to perform all the duties inci
dent to citizenship, to the end that only
good laws may be enacted, only- honor
able men may reach judicial position,
where they can interpet the law, and that
only honest, fearlesj, and sensible men
may reach executive position to admin
ister the law. It is a cowardly and scan
dalous thing for the press, the pulpit, or
the individual to endeavor to make it
appear that politics is anything other
than a duty demanded of the highest
patriotism, and alike honorable to the
most pious, the most learned, and the
most ambitions of oitizens. There are
only two kinds of p3litics: honest and
dishonest; honorab.e and dishonorable;
patriotic and selfish; politics for one's
country, and politics for one's self. There
should be no other standard for political
than fur personal onduet. The man in
professional, commercial or other em
ployment should have no higher or purer
code than the man who engages in poli
tics. It is just as Cowardly and wrong to
lie in the pulp.t or in the newspaper
office, to betray professional confidence,
or to steal in business, as it is to lie or
steal in politics, or steal in office, and no
more so. The man wuo will misrepre
sent, overreach, defraud, and lie in the
lowest political position will defraud, in
trigue, lie, and cheat in the highest posi
tion to which he may attain, and betray
the most sacred trust that may be im
posed upon him. It is to the honest politi
cian that the country is indebted for its
progress. Of this class were our early
fathers, who formed for us our constitu
tion, who moulded our organic laws, and
who shaped the institutions of our coun
try. Of this class were the men who
conducted our national affairs with suc
cess down to a period verging upon the
civil war. Of this class were the states
men and soldiers wh j carried us success
fully through that war, with Abraham
Lincoln at their head. There are no idi
ots in po'.itioa. There is no place in po
litical life for the man of dull
intellect. So, instead of classifying
politicians a3 honest men, knaves and
fools, they can be writtan as honest and
honorable men, knavish and selfish men.
There is a class who make. of politics a
bread-getting industry, who belong to
parties not for the purpose of doing oat
tlo for great principles, or who fight
under party banners for the advance
ment of human rights; camp-followers
who accompany the army, and when the
battlo rageswatch the conflict at a safe
distance, but who, when it is over, and
the danger is passed, are soon upon the
field like theoamp-folIowersatBonnock-ourn,
to lout tue dead and gather the
spoils of a victory they did not aid to
win. For the ditc:eet and prudent poli
tician; the conservative, non-committal
man, who follows, but never leads; wno
does party duty in obedience to partv
uiscip.ine, and never thinks; who, thin."
ing, never speaks; or who, speaking,
never acts; who has no opinions, no con
victions that make him dura assert bis
manhood, there can be little respect. For
the plausible, oily, popular man, who has
no enemies, and who is always available
as a candidate Tor office because he has
aroused no resentments, there must
bo a certain degree of contempt.
The man who has no ene-
mips deserves no friends. The
man who has never made a mistake, or
done wrong, is a man who never had the
courage to attempt to assert the right.
The man who has never slopped over is
like the empty bucket that has no con
tents to Bpill, and the man who can truly
say that he has changed no opinion,
makes the broad admission that he has
had no opinions to change. It is better
to be right to-day than of a mind with
yesterday. The man who has the cour
age to think is necessarily progressive.
He keeps pace with events. He keep3
abreast with the time. He changes with
conditions. He keeps on the level of his
surroundings. Wuen the Augean stab.es
were cleansed of their acoimulated filth
by the labor of Hercules, the dung of
oxen floated with the current of the
stream, It is the empty bottles and the
rotten apples that, drifting with the tide,
proudiy exclaim: "See how we swim,"
The bad effect of mercury will be ef
fectually eradicated from the system
by using several bottles of Pfunder's
Oregon Blood Purifier, already a staple
article.
Extra Quality or Coal Oil
By the gallon, five gallon can or case,
to be found at the Crockery store of
Jordan & Bozorth.
For a Kcat Fitting; Boot
Jr Shoe, go to P. J. Goodmans, on Che
namus street, next door to I. W. Case
All goods of the best make and guaran
teed quality. A full stock; new goods
constantly arriving. Custom work.
Corsets and Uudrrwear.
All the latest makes and styles of cor
sets and ladies underwear at Prael
Bros.' Empire store.
Ice for Sale
In any quantity from one pound to one
ton, at Ed. Jackson's Coffee and Ice
Cream- parlors.
FIVE MLMJTES WITH THE W OKLD'S SETTS.
The government will appoint a com
mission to investigate the question of
Chinese immigration, now agitating Brit
ish Columbia.
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany.foarth
and youngest son of Queen Victoria,
died at Cannes. France, last Friday of
internal hemorrhage. '
The Manchester Guardian asserts that
negotiations are pendine between V.nn.
land and America with a view of addin"
to the extradition treaty a clause whicB
shall cover the authors of dynamite out
rages.
The London Standard's correspondent
at Cairo telegraphs that rumors are prev
alent there that Khartoum has fallen. It
is impossible to confirm or contradiot the
wild rumors current. Officials, both
civil and military, are awaiting in anx
ious suspense for news from Gordon.
Charles Stewart Pamell has purchased
his grandfather's estate. The deed was
recorded March 6th. but no publicity
given to the fact. The estate contains
about 200 acres, near Bordentown, N. J.,
on the banks of the Delaware, nd the
place is worth probably $50,C0J.
Last Friday Francisco Peres was
hanged at Plpcerville, Cal., for the mux
derof Wm. and Jacob Wirges; W. IL
McDowell, at San Bernardino, Cal., for
wuo muuci w iuiisS.o ""iiku, sua das.
Howard, O. W. Sample, Don Dowd, Wm.
Delaney and Dan Kelly, in Tombatona.
Arizona, for the murder of the Bisbee
family.
At Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 23th, a mob
infuriated at the light sentence riven
Wm. Beruer, 0 convicted murderer, gath
ered, ten inousonu strong, overpowered
the officials, entered the jail and found
that he had escaped on the Columbus
train. It was afterward reported that he
had been taken from the tr lin by anot jer
mob at Lovelands and lynched.
The first through party from the City
of Mexico over the recently completed
Mexican Central rai r aad arrived from
Kansas City Friday morning on a special
train. The party is made up jointly of
Americans who had been visiting tae
Mexican capital, thirty students und a
few Mexican merchants. Tne run from
the City of Mexico was made in live
days.
The bill to extend the bonded period on
whisky was killed n the houe of repre
sentatives Friday afternoon by the over
whelming vote of 185 to fc3. Sanator
elect Blackburn and ex-Speaker liandall
spoke to a full house and crowded gal
leries. Blackburn's speech was an elo
quent presentation of the misfortunes of
the whisky manufacturers, and Bandall's
was a brief exposition of the principles
that would bo violated in o ise the bill
passed. The enacting clause was then
struck from the bill. The vote is not
considered as in any way a test on the
tariff question, as many high t iriff men,
notably Eaton, of Connecticut, voted for
the bill, while many tariff reformers
voted against it. It is said that the de
feat results from a combination of two
classes, those who favor abolishing the
internal tax on whisky, and think if this
is done no necessity exists for extending
the bonded period, and those who objfet
to legislating at all for the whisky in
terest. The skeleton of the forthcoming river
and harbor appropriation bill has at last
been completed, and aggregates in the
neighborhood of $ll,00y,0C0, ti be di
vided among the Mississippi, Missouri
and Ohio rivers, and Atl.intin. P.mifin
and gulf harbors. Hearings havo been
Kireu iu iuusb iii mii miercai 01 various
ocalities needing or caiming improve
ment, and others will appear. The cam
mittee is exercising its judgment in mak
ing allowances. It is expected that the
bill will be reported about the 20th of
April, np to which time additions, modi
fications or changes may be made. The
estimate submitted by the chief of en
gineers for the next nscal year was up
wards of S.11.C00 0 tl. S-rtiTX7 T.itifnJn
made a sep irate est'mat?, cutting the
amount aown to nooui :o,uj I,UUJ. iue
California and Oregon d negations have
been invited to appear before the com
mittee in helinir of jinnr.-inrintintia nalreri
for bv the Pacifio cbast, and they will be
ueara mis weex.
HOTEL Alt RIVALS.
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r-AEKBH HOUSE.
E L Livermore, Hoq P A Mahoffy, La G
J D Manning, Cedr T Maddernj do
W H Protsman, do WJMaddern, do
Waj-ne Thurston. N C Kofeod,wf, Port
J T Stoessinger,Seat G W Stone, wf, do
C A Hellegren, do Mrs Taylor, do
W E Showars, Sesid N Johnson.wf , Clf 'n
D C Ryckman,Knar John Quiglev, Wpt
J T Moody, do W Wherry, Clats
Mr. Henry J. Noble, of Gouverneur,
New York, suffered for twenty-five
years with rheumatism in the "right
hip, he applied St. Jacobs Oil, the
conqueror of pain, and experienced
great relief. By its continued use he
was completely cured.
Gold Bracelet Lost.
On March 26th, between Charters'
bar r shop and Mrs. T. 3. Jewett's mil
linery store, or between the last named
place aud CaMi's to-e Finder wil
oe iuitably rewarded by leaving it at
J. G.-Charters'.
Fine l)r:.vs CSimmIm.
A splendid 1 ne of ladles dress goods is
being displayed at the Euiiire.store.
Special rVolice.
Mr. N. Loeb has instructed me to dis
pose or his entire Mock of Clothing,
Furnishing aoidn, Boots and S.ioes, etc..
at cost, without re.-erve.
C. P. Moffit.
Aolii'c
Dinner at-J Ehr'a'CIlOP HOUSE
every day from 4 SJ0 to 8 n'c.ock.- Tin
oest 25-ceiit meal 111 tewn: muiji, fish,
seven kinds of meats, vegetables, pie,
pudding, etc. Tea or coffee included.
All who have tried 'him say Jeffis the
"BOSS."
Use Diinmitt's Cough Balsam for
Chest. Throat, and Lungs, at W. E. De
ment & Co.'s.
ASK FOR
"THE BOS TON"
RUBBER BOOT.
Made of Fine
Will tot Crack.
FOB SALE EVERYWHERE.
Thi Gutta Pcrcha & Rubber Mf'g Co
STATE AND TERRITORIAL SEWS.
The Cceur d'AIene Nugget is the name
of a publication at Eagle City, L T.. the
firstnumber of which hps been received.
Business in Oregon, and throughout the
Northwest generally, is picking up. The
severe loss occasioned by Villard's fail
ure Ls being gradually overcome by the
development of local resources.
It is generally understood that the
building of the railroad from Boseburg
iu kjoos oay, anu iue oeuing 01 me
mines and establishing of saw mills will
be commenced early next month and
pushed vigorously.
The prospect for lively times on this
river were never better that at the pres
ent time, says the Coqnille, Oregon, Her
ald. The fishing industry is no more an
experiment, and great preparations ore
being made to greatly enlarge the hith
erto important work in this line. The
cannery and fisheries will be run to their
utmost capacity, with a much larger force
of hands.
An intelligent Indian tells the Wasco
Sun that 'Walla Walla" means '-'little
water;" that "Wallula" was simplv a by
word; "Umatilla" signifies a junction or
coming together; "Tuta Wila" is the
name of a small stream running through
Umatilla reservation, and the term means
"thorn creek." A tradition is handed
down amons? the Indiana thut-Mt. Hnnd
and Hainier us6d to get mad at each
other and shoot fire and smoke and rocks
at each other. Doubtless those were
interesting battles:
Writing of the-prairie mounds in that
region, the Olympia Transcript says:
The highest and one of the largest heaps
that stood by the old Indian trail leading
from Nisqually to the Cowlitz tr iirie,and
now within the enclosure of the large
stock farm of Mr. Colvin, is there, bear
ing a slight deprtS3ion on the top, just
as natural as when mother nature fin
ished the job of its erection. This
mound became somewhat famous about
forty years since, by the circumstance
that Lieutenant Wilkes, of the U. S. ex
ploring expedition that viuted Puget
sound about taat time, with a party of
men equipped with picks and shovels to
determine tUfi oriain or nhiPft nf fcVin
erection of said heaps or moudds, and
an excavation was actually made for that
purpose in the large mound referred to.
It is rather remarkable that an intelli
gent officer of the U. S. Navy in 1SU,
ceuld have attributed to human agency
the formation of so many heaps covering
taousandsof acres in the vicinity of the
sound.
Steamer Dati for March.
From San Fran. From Astoria.
State, Mar 5Columbia, Mar... 2
Columbia 10
Oiegon. 7
State 12
Oregon 1."
State 20
Columbia 17
Columbia 25Oregon 22
Oregon 3JState 27
State April , 4lColumbia April... 1
A New Departure.
Ed Jackson the popular confectioner
has opened a coffee, and ice cream par
Inrathis estnlilUhmMiif on nitunnmiw
street. Every attention paid to custom
ers.
At Hie Empire Store
You ;Ull find the finest laces nd em
broideries, of richest quality.
Nomctliiu New.
TIih latest In Ladies' fashionable
Wraps L the. Newport scarf. It Is de
signed to take the place of shawls or
dolmans, and Is the most elegant wrap
for the price 111 exigence. They can
only be obtained at pre-ient of .Mrs. A
B.Jewett, who has introduced them in
this market. It is worth your while lo
see them.
Stp Tim I Cough
By going to J. E. Thomas'-? and getting
a bottle of Leroy'.s Cough Balsam.
It will cuke you.
ICooms to Kent
iA-Mrs,
Curran's. near the Congrega-
t.onul church
Ju.st Received.
A large stock of soft and stiff Hats In
all the latest styles, at .Mcintosh's Fur
iiMting store.
iVolice.
Mow is your opportunity to buy goods
at extreme low figure-'. Call and see me.
C. P. Moffit.
Boats Tor Sale.
Joe Leathers has two fine boats for
Sale, at the boat hop, one block west of
Hansen Bros.' mill.
WHAT! do you think that
JKFF OF THE CHOP IIOUSK
gives you a meal for noihiugand a glass
of hoiiiethiug to drink? 'Not nntcliP
but he gives a better meal anil more of
It than any pi ice in town for 25 cent-,
lie buys bv the wholesale aud paj
cash. "That settles it."
Brace up the who.e system with King
of tltt? Blood. See Advepi-ement,
Dimmitt's Cough B.ihum never fails.
Try it, at W. E. Uemeiit & Co.s.
The Peruvian syrup nas cured thou
siml who were Pilfering from dyspei
sia. debility, liver complaint, boils, hu
nit us, temale complaints, etc. Pamph
Iet free to any address. Seth V. Fowl
&Sonr Boston.
.Jeff says he gives two meals to anj
other restaurant man's one and can
prove it.
Roscoe Dixon's new eating house
is now open. Everything has been fit
ted up in first-cla-s style, aud hi well
known reputation as a caterer assure
all who like go.d things to eat. that a
his place they can be accommodated.
Shimhi's Cure will immediate!
relieve Croup, whooping cough and
ilruiirliUls. So d bv V. E. Dementi
Catarrh cured, health and sweei
breath secured by Sluloh's Catarrh Rem
edy. Priee 50 eent. Maal Injector free.
Fur sale by W. E. Dement.
Shiloh's Cough ana Consumption
Cure is sold by us on guarantee. L
cures consumption. Sold by W. E. De
ment. That Hacking Cougn can be so
quickly cured by Shiloh's Cure. W
guarantee it. Sold by V. E. Dement.
Boston Baked Beans and Brown Bread
every Sunday a Jeffs from 5 a. m. to
2 p. ii.
Children all like Diuimitt's Cough
Balaam.
Dimmitt's Cough Balsam cures Croup
All the patent medicines advertised
in this paper, together with the choicest
Derfumerv. p.nd toilet articles, etc- can
be bought al the lowest prices, at J. W.
uonn's arug store, opposite uciaen
hctel. Astoria.
"Use Dimmitt's Cough Balsam, at W.E
Dement & Co.'s.
A Good Chance.
I OFFER FOR SALE THK OREGON MAH
Kr t and Sau-ogr Fnctory, us mv health
will n.-t allow me to carry it on. 1 his Is a
good chance to buy a paying business.
OEO.GANSZ.
TAX NOTICE.
RESIDENTS OF Sf 'HOi )L DISTRICT NO.
9 are hereby notified that the taxes for
the year 1883 In said dbtmt are now due
and payaMe K the office of Badoilet s Co.,
Upper Astoxla. .....
J K. HIGOINS.
Acting School Cirlc
- AsUria, February 6, 18W.
1884.
New Spring
Eiroins
Wer hxve-raetYed from" New .York, per express, upward- at 6,086 jsrto C
Embroideries In
Cambric, Swiss,
Lawn and Nainsook,
Of the Latest Designs and from 15 to 25 per cent
cheaper than ever before.
1 760 yards of Embroideries from
2137 " " '
1275 u u u
THE I XL THE I XL
C.H.COOPER.
The Leading Dry Goods and Clothing House
or ASTORIA.
lit
Books and
Having made SPECIvL ARANGEMKNTS with the manaeement of the N. P. X. aad
Eastern Houses, I am 1.0 w getting mv STOi'K. especla'ly BoOKS-and STATION!,
from the East. This enables neiu give the Pub Ic a alio a to buy at-
LOW KiSTRK PKU'Es.
I have J list received Fiue Stock of STAT.ONEHY : FuU aud Half bound LedfMt,
Day anil Cash Bonks Journals, 1 ew Letter Copy Books, all sizes ; II md'j StylosrayBie
Copy Books. All kinds Bill .nd Letter Piles, Bank Files of all descriptions ; Copy rn se3,
Iiiroii-t Books, Tn:il llalaut-es. l'cketLfitCeis. lournaK and ( ash Hixikj. All k.ncb of
orders, Uraf s ami Note.ana Receipts ; also :t fall line of Bill Holders and P. O. Boles
Tne Latest NoVELTIE in mall stationery, useil In every onVe-
Belug no 1 is business connection with one ot the largest E istern PAPER FACTO E
IES, I can sell any and all Kinds ot PAPEK cheaper than any other house north t&JS. F.
I li.we now a L-irge stock of Legal Foolscap Paper, all weights ; Bill Paper, all ikt ;
50 differe l kinds of I ttrr and Note Paper,
S) ne very Due Writing Paper for the Ladles, in Liuen and all Colors, with Earekfts
to match.
5O.O0O RuiarsH Envelopes, Just Received.
My Awrtm-nt of BOOKS," NOVELS, and HEADING MATTER Is well knows to tat
Public and my store Is the ONl.V ONE wher-
People Can Find What They Wait.
Watches, Clocks, and Jewelry.
SOLID GOLD HPIES and GENTLEMEN'S WATCHES In all Styles and Qsalh)lw.
The Celebrated Duber, Newuort. ami Kcvstone. Waltham, and Elgin Silver Wateats,
from 812.50 840 OO.
The Latent Stvles or Gentl-m n's solid Gold and Quartz Chains from 818. upwarL
Also a Full AsstirtmentefLADIEV.lEWELKY: Diamond Finger Kings. KarriMS &a
Breastpins. Solid Gold U iard Chains, Neck Chalu, Earilngs and Breastpins, la. reta or
Mngle. Lar.:e AssnrtmentoIPl.dll moIUI Gold Kings Kings with' Sts, suck as Ante
thyst", Topaz. Cameo, inyx. Garnctx, Fmenuds, Kulilei. anaotb r precious stouts.
Sol d Gold Sleeve Buttons Collar Buttons, Muus, scaif Pins, Locke. s and Chalai, Xm
blera Pins ami Ch ums for all Orders.
Also Cm..lete. Assnrimeut of tin Finest KOLL PLATE JEWELEY.
Solid Mirer aad Plated lare. '
Remember The Crystal Palace.
The Leading Book Store. - - Carl Adler. Proprietor.
NEW
HATS
RECF1TED AT
McIITTOSH'S
ClotMng and Gent's
ASTOBX&,
-st- .'"jy-"6"!. s.jidj
BHIipy
oomjaa
Fo PlmplM, llQtmei, Chroalc Sores and
Disuses. Loss of Knergva d Habitu.l Con
stipation unequale. belief GaaraHteed.
Sold everywhere. 31. C bottles for 85.00.
LOEB & CO.
JOBBERS IN
WINES.
LIQIJOKS,
AND
CIGARS.
AGENTS FOE THE
Best San Francisco Houses and
Eastern Distilleries,
Tumblers Decanters, and All
Kinds of Saloon Supplies.
A11 goods sold at San Francisco Prle.
MAIN8TKEET.
0tt fstkef wm. AjiMte. Omm.
f
Importations !
3c to 12frttryirt
15c to 40cif j
50c U $1.00 pif jirt
Stationery.
STOCK
OF-
1
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Furnishing Stor,
OREGOXT.
'Pi'RiiviAiy
BITTERS l .
Wilmcrding Ic C.,Stn Fnmisse.
Loeb t Co,, Agtiits, Attirit,
Eiroins
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