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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1884)
m i Site gailjj ftetoviiw. ASTOKIA, OllEGOX: FRIDAY ...MAY 23, 188 J FOOD AND GATLING GUNS. EXTRAORDINARY BANKING. Gek. Grant's partner in the bank ing business appears to be an extra ordinary young man. A New York dispatch says: Ferdinand Ward continued bis testimony before the referee yester day; and many times "while speaking almost took away the breath of the lawyers and spectators. Bangs, of nrmiisei for the receiver of Grant & Ward, conducted the examination Ward admitted -that lie never had a contract of any kind, and that he and his business were frauds from begin ning to end. Bangs cross-examined him as follews: Q. How do you draw money, on your own check? A. No sir; I draw money from Grant & Ward by their check, getting the money at banks. Q. How do you do it? A. WolL CoL Grant might give me a check for $50,000, and I would get tho money. Q. Then how wonld you pay Col. Grant? A. T would give him my check. Q. How could you pay it? A. From what he and other people put Q. So the real naturo of the busi ness consisted in discounting a fanciful-prospect of imaginary profits to bo derived from, fictitious contracts founded on manufactured and arti ficial contributions of altogether im aginary money? A. I cannot an swer.it Q. You made a banking business by imagining you were making profits? A. Perhaps so. Q.Ypu credited Mr. Grant -with isu imaginary portion of imaginary profits, and then ho would get it out by means of a check to your order, which j on wonld deposit to your own credit? A. 1 think that was tho way. Q. And then jou would get tho check of tho firm to your order, which you would depost in a bank as cash? A. Yes, sir. Q. Having thus got credit for po many dollars, you would givo tho firm of Grant fc Ward your owu check and deposit it in bank? A. Sometimes. Q. And did you practico all this art and deceive all those people with out the assistance of a single confed erate? A. I did; no one was in with me. Q. How can you find out what you did with tho 8379,000 you had drawn out of tho concern? A. Per- haps by comffnrilp; the ledger account I with my check-book. It is expected that Ward will bo criminally prosecuted find go to state prison for a long term. A stout is going the rounds con cerning a quartermaster at a frontier reservation post who, it is said, after many fruitless applications for ad ditional food for the Indians at the agency, at last put in a requisition for a Gatling gun. The commanding of ficer forwarded the application with this endersement: "In my opinion the Indians at this agency are starv ing to death and I recommend that a Gatling gun be sent to compel them to starve peaceably." The gun was sent, so the story goes, and the In dians are now starving quietly. The whole "Indian policy" of the United States is summed up in this anecdote. It is in the natural and inevitable course of events that the Indian must disappear, but we do not even allow him the miserable privi lege of looking out for himself. We have taken his hunting grounds, de stroyed his game and confined him in reservations where it is impossible for him to find his own living in his own way; in short we compel him to starve and when he rebels against this, we shoot him. If it is necessary to hasten the; in evitable extermination of the Indians it would be much more humane to turn the Gatling guns upon them and kill them off outright and so put them out of their misery. Starvation is the! most cruel mode of death wo could I inflict and it is either that or war that we offer. Left to himself the Indian might get along; but we can not leave him to himself. The white men want the best lands and it has become neoessarj to confine the In dians to reservations where they must either starve or bo fed by the government and it is a disgraceful fact that our machinery of govern ment is uot adequate to supply them with sufficient food. While we are disputing over the best ''policy" for the Indians the poor creatures are starving to death or else making desperate efforts to as sert their right to live at tho expense of tho lives of our own people. The poor Indian is doomed. He can never do us any harm again. At least we might try to make him com fortable in his declining years. Wo have taken from him everything that was his; is it a great matter that he should ask us for food. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Fob "Congress. B1NGER HERMAN, of Douglas Co. Foe Judge op obe Supreme Coubt. Judge L. FLINN", of Linn Co. Fob Presidential Electors. D. P. THOMPSON, of Multnomah. J. C. LEASUKE, of Umatilla, WARREN TRUITT, of Polk. Fob Judge, Fifth Judicial Dist. F. J. TAYLOR, of Clatsop. For Pros. Att'y. Fifth Judicial District. T. A. McBRIDE, of Clackamas. Clatsop Co. Republican Ticket. For Joint Representative, (From Clatsop and Tillamook Counties) J. H. D. GRAY. For Sheriff, GEO. P. WHEELER. Fob County Clerk, J.O.SPENCER. For County- Treasurer, A. W. BERRY. Foe Countt Commmissioners, D. K. WARREN JLB. PARKER. For Assessor, J. F. WARREN. For Surveyor, GELO F. PARKER. For .School Superintendent. H. SLOOP. For Coroner, J. C. ROSS. Astoria Precinct. REMOVAL ' 1 REMOVAL ! 1 I 1 I W 3 1 U J W 1 KB trim wmmm II I 1 IkalJl mm ill 3 E23 BRANCH OF THE" LEADING SUIT, CLOAK Por The Finest Groceries. Por The Presiiest Vegetables, For The Most Comp et ) Assortment, For Absolute Satisfaction, In Fllllnpr and Delivering All Orders. C .11 it A2TD DRESS GOODS HOUSE OF FOS.TIJteTD, Has removed to the store formerly occupied by A. M. Johnsou & Co., second door trom Cooper's. "We have, now, an entire store, with more elbow room. The en couragement we have received from tho Ladies of Astoria so far, war rants us in becoming a PERMANENT FIXTURE. "We will carry a Large and Complete Stock of Ladies1 and Children's ready-made Suits, Dresses, Cloais, Wraps, Dolmans, -Ulsters, Peilises, Etc. FBAHE L. PARKER'S Family Grocery and Provision Store, rmwrrmr-r-r-t t Tnrr- -"MrMM " -. -rTnar rr i Wm Comer Benton and Chenamus Streets, Opposite Custom House Square. g STEAMER SlgliPiP CLARA PARKER TEE apply to the Captain, or to Bben P. Parker,Uaater, For TOWING, FBEIGHT orCHAE II. B. PAMHL im- The Republican presidential can didate will be chosen ou the 3d pros.; the following month tho Dem ocratic candidate will be selected, and these two will, from their nomin ation to election day, bo the two most unfortunate men in fho country. Tho two reservoira of malediction are gradually filling np, gallon above gallon, hogsheadful after hogshead ful, and about midsummer the two reservoirs will be brimming full, and a hose will be attached to each of those two reservoirs, and they will begin to play ou the two nominees, and Ihoy will Lave to stand and take it the falsehood, tho sarcasm, tho caricature, the veuom, the caterwaul ing, tho anathema, the filth; and they will be thrown down into it and roll ed over and choked and submerged and strangled, and at every sign of returning animation barked at by all tho hounds of political party from the St Lawrence to Mobile bay. To win the great privilege a hundred candidates to-day with their thous ands of friends are struggling. And this is " politics." A LITTLE book of political recol lections, just published in Kentucky, contributes a new story of President Lincoln, which is worth quoting. To a political opponent, who had taunted Lincoln with his youth, he replied: "Live long, or die young, I would rather die now than, like tho gentle man, change my politics, and simul taneously with the change receive an office worth three thousand dollars per year, and then have to erect a lightning-rod over my house to pro tect a guilty conscience from an offended God.1 Our Stvles will Lead: our facilities for manufacturinjr and porting- New Stylo Garments being unsurpassed. OUR PRICES we are DETERMINED will be -LOWER than Portland or San Francisco ; our expenses being much lower. We come to ESTABLISH A BUSINESS and retain your confidenc. For Justice of the Peace. " N.E.GOODELL. Fon Constable, J. R. CHRISTIE. Shlrely Precinet. For Justice of the Peace, J. W. WELCH. For Constable, O. NELSON. Ouk enterprising friends at Gray's harbor seem to be the only folks that have an adjacent boom this season, or maybe this is but tho last west ward manifestation of the "own and only North Pacific boom" that took so many off their feet in '83. Wk noto a cbauge in the Northern Pacific mops issued this spring. They, one and all, with cheerful in tent to be truthful, locate the city of Astoria, and the name of K-a-l-a-m-a no longer begins half way to China. James Stephens declares that Ire land shall be an independent repub lic before he dies. He used to make some promises of this kind away back in the "sixties." NEW TO-DAY The country is all right. What if there is a small panic in "Wall street? The wheat fields of tho west are blooming. The juicy salmon are crossing merrily the Columbia bar. The cotton, the rice and the sugar are growing in all the southern states. The peanut vines are covering North Carolina. Tho peach trees are in blossom in the Delaware and on the eastern Maryland shore. The tobacco crop in Virginia and Connecticut promises to be larger than ever. The cranberries look well in New Jersey and Pacific county, and there is not tho most remote prospect of a failure in applejack. The prosperity of the country does not depend upon the rise or the fall of half a dozen AVall I street bulls and bears. There is no occasion whatever to be discouraged. The groat majority of the banks are sound. The whole thing is an April financial shower in May. THE"tlelegates from the southern states will in all probability decide the nomination at Chicago. Mr. Ar thur has a largo number of them at the present time, but tho question is, will they continue loyal to him to tho last? Should tho first ballot show that Mr. Blaine is ahead in the race, will they have the Spartan firmness of the famous S06 and stand by their colors? Or, if Mr. Arthur shonld desire to transfer them to Mr. Ed munds, or any one else Arhom ho may select, will they consent to tho ar-j rangement? Earnest efforts are, it is said, making to induce them to think thatiMr. Edmunds is entirely too 'good a man to remove from the senate. Special Auction Sale Saturday, May 24, 10:30 a. m. EXTRA! "For Goodnew 8kt, Don't Say I Told Ton." Occidental Hall. arGBAND FASHIONABLE EVENT IS 1-0NE NIGHT 0NLY--1 WEDNESDAY, MAY 28 lit. Engagement of the RICE'S SURPRISE PARTY And ihe Charming California Favorite Hiss Kate Castleton! Appearing In the greatest or all successes PzOuP Replete with New Music, Situations and Dialogue. POPULAR PRICES. Reserved Scats - - $1.00 Now on sale at tho New Yonc Novelty Store OPJDEB. DEPARTMENT, In the order department a complete line of samples of OUR EINTIKE STOCK, OF PORTLAND, will be shown, to select trom; in Silks, velvets, Dress Goods, Satins, Cloths, of lae inportation. Orders will be takon and Made to Measure by MRS. PIL6ER. For SUITS, CLOAKS, WRAPS or any GARMENT desired, FIT IN ALL CASES GUARANTEED. Our stock, in Portland, of fine French DRESS GOODS, SILKS, VELVETS, CLOTHS, is nnequalled and unsurpassed. You will have a soloction equal to any leading San Francisco House. Late novelties as they arrive will be immediately added to our stock; and an equal chance given to the LADIES of ASTORIA, to purchase new and FASHIONABLE GOODS at a low and propor price. An Iaspeetlon Solicited., Courteous and Polito Attention. CJsods Cheerfully Shown. 153 First and 28 Morrison Sts , Portland. Next to Empire Store, Astoria, 1st Door Below Rescue Engine House. LEO. I. STOCK, Manager Astoria Branch. Drugs and Chemicals A J. E. THOMAS, DRUGGIST V A2JD Kg Pharmacist, $ Aastoriao' Carpets! Carpets! Carpets! We bes to call the attention of tho public to our latest Importation, direct from Eastern manufacturers, of tho X.ABtGrEST INVOKE OF EMPIRE STORE RE-OPENING 1 Fine Goods ReducedPrices Ladies desirous of procuring Goods uneualed in Style and Finish will take pleasure in examining our Stock of SILKS, SATINS and DRESS GOODS. HT THE GENTS' FTJKNISHING DEPARTMENT, Everything is Complete and of the best PRAEL BROS. Jo2in JL, tgomery, -DZAJLFJt I'- Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Ware. A General Assortment of HOUSEHOLD GOODS. Agents for ilagee Stoves and JRanges -sg Tlio Ueat 1 tho-snarkC " Piumblng goods of nil kinds ou. band. Job work done In a workmanlike manner. 9zsmmB3 i??jr: ..ik ar WORK MllHHlMI CARPETS ! .l. a a ! Prescriptions carefully compounded Day or Night. JLt Holdea'.s Auction Itooiaa. HAVE KECELVED INSTliUCTIONS TO . sell to the highest bidder therefor, One Large Scow, About 100 tons burthen, Co feet long, 40 feet wide, as she now lays on Sand Island. Tor turther particulars apply to E. C. HOLDK.V, Auctioneer. FOR SHERIFF. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF AS AN anil-ring candidate for bbcriff of Clatsop comity, and solicit the support of tho rote is thereof. AXEX; McBETH. ufiplarAiiclioiiSule Saturday, May 24. 10:30 a. m. THE AEW YORK NOVELTY TI Opposite the Parker House. jP THE New York Novelty STORE I r Ever offered for sale in this city, cornprblng all grades, from the FINEST BODY BRUSSELS In the Newest Tints and Shades, To the lowest priced article in this line. TVe are determined to dispose of our stock of Carpets vrlthlu the next four wetks, and to that ond offer special inducements, precluding the possibility of Meiaff UmlernolO. by unyofour Competitor-). ' IN THi: Furniture and House Furnishing Line We can showvou the very BEST GOODS at BOTTOM FIGURES, and shall be plea3cd to receive a call for inspection whether you purchase or not. CHAS. HBILBORN. PLUMBING. GAS FITTING. AND CANNERY Attended to Promptly on Reasonable Terms. Chenamus Street. BToxt to C. Tu. Parker's Store. ASTORIA. - - ORXOQlt, yjt, rwCl"3.'SrS THE NEW MODEL AT HOLDEN'S AUCTION ROOMS. New and Second-hand Furniture, CONSISTING OF 1 Ash Bedroom Set, complete. Bedsteads, Chairs, Spring Mattress es, Uitclien Cupboard, Tables, Crockcrr, stores, Etc. ALSO, 1 Good Second-hand. Fire Proof SAFE, Weight, 1400 pounds. All of which will be sold without reserve to the highest bidder for cash. td E. C. HOLDER. Auctioneer. Headquarters for the Young and the Old. Hooks Musical Instruments. Toys Sta tionery and Novelties of Every Description. All tho teading Publications of fko Bar Ask to be shown the Clariona, the latest novel of mechanical Ingenuity. For Gray's Harbor THE STEAMER A. 6. FIELD, Chartered by the Astoria and Coast Trans portation Co., L Will sail for OKAY'S HABBOE oa SATURDAY, MAY 24, I884. arFor Freight or Passage apply to J. Q. Sutler. I.T. Coleman &Co.'s AGEXCY, Banking Department A General Banking and Exohaugt? Busi ness transacted. Every facility for prompt and satisfactory business. Drafts on tho leading cities of the United States and Europe. Deposits Keeeived. FOR LONDON DIRECT. Tlia Splcadid 100 Al Iron Ship "Aberystwith Castle," 105G Beclstcr, -B. ftAKKIS Master nui iu;iu lur mc aoove uonica pon., una SalmoB "Kill bo tattan in lots to suit shippers ob rttMaabla terac INSURANCE at minimum rales. For particulars apply to 8IBSON, CnUBCH & CO., Portland. Or. or to P. L. CHERRY, Astoria. For Liverpool Direct. The fine British iron ship ESKDALE, 1220 Tons Keglster. 100 Al. Trn above vessel goes on the berth fo LIVERPOOL direct, and will take salmon in lots to suit shippers. For rates of freight and insurance apply to BALFOUB, GUTHKIE & CO.. or PortlandjOr. ALEX'B BAII.tTtB. Astoria, Oregon. WaterJ Water! Water! Wheeler &Kipp PRACTICAL Plnmliers,&as, anfl Steam Fitters ALL WORK Warranted, and Estimates Given. FOLL STOCK Iron and tend Pipe, Batli Tubs Water Closets, and Gas Fixtures. Jobbing Promptly Attended to. RANGE CAN BE HAD IN AS TORIA ONLY OF E. B. BAWB9, AGENT CALL AND EXAMINE IT. YOU WILL BE PLEASED. K. K. HAWES is also ageat lot the Sod paten! Ceolior Stire And other first-class store. Formaoe Work Steam Fit tings, etc. a peeialty A FULI. STOCK ALWAYS ON HAND. Two doors east of Occident Hotel. A8TOBIA, OREGON if. OLSEX. J. OUSTAFSOJT. A. JOHNSON. MARTIN OLSEN & CO. I'EALEES IN Ep FURNITURE Sb BEDDING. Corner Slain and Squcmoqna Streets. Astoria, Oreca WINDOW SHADES AND TRIMMINGS; WALL PAPER ETC A Complete Stock. PRICES AS CHEAP AS QUALITY WILL AFFOBD, ATX KTO'ttS OF FITRKIT5TWR REPAIRED AW1 VAHHISHEI. A SPECIALTY Is made of Tap ping Water Mains and Running Water Pipes, as We have Supe rior Facilities for doing this work Corner 8quoraoqua and Hamilton Strcots, ASTORIA, OREGON. For County Treasurer. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE lYSELF AS AN Independent Candidate for COUNTY TREASURER. MAGNUS C. CBOSBY, Astoria, May 9. 18M. NOTICE. QTATE AND COUNTY TAXES AEENOW O de and payable ating 6 tf Sheriff Clatsop Co. Columbia Transportation Company. FAST TIME! FQR PORTLAND. THE POPULAB STEAMEB FAST TIMI I T5"hlch has been refitted for the comfort of passengers will leave "Wilson & Fisher's Dock every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 A.M. arriving at Portland at 1 PJN. Eeturnlng leaves Portland every Tuesday and Thursday at 6 A. M. arriving at Astoria at 1 P.'M. tSVAn additional trip will ba made on Sunday of Each Week, laavine Foitttt at 9 O'clock SOMtlay Xoralas;. Passengers b this route oobnct t KifMM for 8ound ports. V. S. MOlT, rnHUm ', Z-ustJbr- l-