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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1884)
3 lw guilt gitarfau ASTORIA, OREGON: WEDNESDAY JZTZZZIuGUSr C, 1881 ISSUED EVERY MORNING. (Monday excepted) -3. P. HA1.LORAN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS A'D TOOl'llIETOItS, A8TORIAN BUILDING, - - CASShTRBKT Terms of Subscription. Served by Carrier, per week 15cts. Sent by Mjiil, pr month GOcts. " " one year.... . .S7.03 Free or postage to subscribers. "Advertisements Inserted by the vear at the rate of 2 per square per month. Tran sient advertising fifty cents per square, each insertion. Notice To Advertisers. The Astoriax guarantees to its ad vertisers the largest circulation of any newspaper published on the Columbia river. ASTORIA AXU VICIXITY. Note Holden's auction sale this morn ing. The A. B. Field left for Tillamook yes terday morning. An account book and a letter in an oil skin sack awaits an owner at this office. TheJfites and a7H had full loads yes terday on the arrival of the Wide YVest and Fleetwood. Two weeks to the fire tournmeut at Al bany. The Astoria department will try to beat the record this year. Frank Frisbee. exchange teller in the Portland First National bank is gone; so is $5,0D0 of the bank's money. Chipped and mutilated coin is again be ing put in circulation. The best way to prevent its spread is to steadily refuse to receive k. After some delay near Kaluma the Ore yon arrived down at six o'clock last eve ning, and sails for San Francisco at elev en o'clock this morning. The masts and machiuerv of the As toria and Coast Transportation Co.'s new steamer are in, and the calculation is to launch the vessel next Saturda-, Henry Kaup, from Cathlamet. reports considerable good hay being cut over that way this season. The late rains in jured it some, but the yield is above the average. A fire broke out in Logan &, Irving's drug storo in East Portland yesterday morning. A strong wind fanned the flames which destroyed $r0,000 worth of property before being subdued. The Oregonian, so it is said, is to ap pear in a new eight paged form, modeled after the Chicago Tribune, and will bo fully equal to any San Francisco paper in size as it now is in enterprise. Coroner Ross has opened an under taking establishment in Montgomery's building next to Holt's carpenter shop on Main street and advertises that he is now fully prepared to do all work in his line. This season affords a splendid oppor tunity to those who intend to build new residences or business houses. Material of all kinds is to be had at more favor able prices than heretofore, and labor is by no means scarce. "Oregonian isms, and other things" is the title of a little book received from P. O. Chilstrom, of Portland. It appears to be an effort to hold apo3t-mortem exami nation on the late effort to establish wo man suffrage in this state. "Cacistocracy" is the latest addition to the English language. The new word has been coined by a New York news paper man, who found the language too poor to express his ideas, and had to in vent a new word to order. He says it is the opposite of "aristocracy," and means "the rule of the worst." well, may bo it does. But if we can all start in in venting new words every time our several brain bulbs feel that way, it will be tough on the dictionary men. The Aeolus left yesterday with the first consignment of lumber from the Colum bia river to the isthmus. The lumber is mostly dressed, and will be used in build ing company quarters for the employes. From the captain it is learned that the vessel gets $15 a thousand for carrying the lumber, which will make it cost the canal company but 10 a thousand on the ground. It is understood that they have been obliged to pay $00 and even $80 a thousand for lumber very much in ferior to that which the Aeolui carries to them. The August term of the circuit court for the county of Clatsop began yester day. The court house has been neatly cleaned and fitted up and looks more like civilization than of late. The officials were all new to the business but took hold in an easy methodical way that gives token of efficiency. The day was spent mostly in preliminary work, clear ing the decks for action, so to speak. The grand jury went to work, the docket was arranged, and the first thing on the pro gramme this morning is a jury trial in the case of Borchers vs. Lundborg. THE SKEEXACII OF THE COLUMBIA. A prominent resident of Clatsop who has often favored Thc Astomax, in forms us that the hake which was noticed some time ago is not a new fish in these waters. He says: "In 1848 the fish that you describe came in in enormous quantities. They were and are a very voracious fish; they followed the smelt and were such gluttons that I have seen them lying on the beach in front of Jno. Hobson's place a foot thick, and smelt sticking out of their mouths. The Indi ans oalled them 'skeenach,' and used to catch them by the boat load. Every year they came in increasing numbers till about 18T9 when they suddenly disap peared. In 1800 1 do not remember see ing a single specimen of the fish and I have often wondered would they ever j$how again. Finally, in 1881 1 observed a stray one or tro, and again in 1882, and l&st year. This year your attention has been directed to them and it may be that they will again come in great numbers. You are right in calling it a hake, and it is a very valuable food fish." The gentleman whose remarks are briefly quoted is an old resident of the county, and a man whoso habits of ob servation and careful research are such as to make his remarks of value. A Portland Tournament. Arrangements are being made, says the Portland Sunday Welcome, to havo a firemen's tournament in this city, for handsome prizes, under the auspices of the Mechanics' Pavilion association. Contests will bo held between steam firo engines, hose carts, etc., which will doubtless be the feature of the coming fair. As there is considerable rivalry in Portland among the agents of different fire engines, hose carts and hose, this will be a splendid opportunity to give them all a fair test, and at the same time afford the different municipalities a chance of positively knowing which is really the best manufactory to patronize. Companies that will not take part in such a tournament will virtually admit their inferiority, and as a consequence will not be considered worthy of patron otp. Snoh a contest is a splendid idea, practical and full of good fruit, and has our nearaesE support. Just Received I At Carl Adler's: a largo stock of new music, vocal aid instrumental. New music received weekly at Carl Adler's leading music and book store. Just received a new lot of Parasols, at thejimpir Store. SHALL BUS OF SACBAMENTX) SALMON. lint One Jllstalen Hypothesis as to Canst. The fish commissioners, says the San Francisco Bulletin, are becoming greatly concerned about the small number of salmon that are running in the Sacra mento river this season. Never before has the run been so light. Commissioner J. D. Redding who has surveyed the field says that canneries have not been able to do anything like an average business, and some have been forced to shut down Fishermen have had hard work to make a living, and because of the light earn ings during the regular season prepara tions are being made to fish during tho close season. A band of Greeks have written a letter to the commissioners, setting forth the hardships they have expGrienced this season on account of the lack of fish, and informing the board thev will fish during the close season. "We shall starve if we don't," they said, "and we might as well be shot as to starve.' The commissioners have for some time been taking testimony whenever it could be obtained, in the hope of ascertaining the cause of the alanning falling off in the number of salmon. Fishermen all along tho river have been called upon to give their ideas, and the commissioners have found that there are many causes that act adversely to tho great fish indus try of the state. The first of these causes is the 2,000 soa lions at the Golden Gate. All parties claim that they create alarming slaugh ter among the fish that enter the bay. At an average of forty pounds of fish per day, the sea-lion colony will kill 5,300 fifteen pound fish. But the number may safely bo put at 15,000, as fish under fifteen pounds in weight would naturally be at tacked. Another cause is tho practice of canneries to throw into tho stream the heads and entrials of th6 fish caught, wnicu noai away anu are lounu every where along the river. .The salmon has somo natural affection for his fellows, say the old fishermen, and do not like to inhabit tho samo waters with tho heads, tails and other parts of members of their family. Old fishermen assert that most salmon turn up their nose when they come near a cannery, and tret bv it as fast as possible. Many fishermen think that this pollution of the river is having a serions influence over the run of fish. Another cause which has long been well known, is tho debris deposit, which covers the bottom of the streams, ruining feeding grounds and covering spawning beds. In Eastern states where, years ago, salmon used to abound in every stream, the sawdust from the saw mills that sprang up thick ly along thc banks actod in tho samo w;iy as does our mining debris, and tho con sequence is that the salmon has deserted them. Another and surprising cause of the diminution in tho number of the Sacramento salmon is the catfish that were imported from tho East a few years ago. These fish have thriven wonderful ly and have developed to a surprising degree the naturo of the animal whose name they bear. They are voracious and cruel and haunt tho feeding ground of young salmon in the sloughs along the river, where they lie in wait for tho ten der fish and make hearty meals on his tender flesh. The destruction caused by these ravenous fish is increasing and is already alarming the fishermen. Another cause of the diminuation in the number of salmon is also due to debris. Tho bed of the river has been filled so high that the water overflows the banks, and spreads over miles of adjacent coun try. Young fish find their way into this shallow lake and have a very quiet feast among tho bulrushes and tules until some fine night the water falls a foot or two and leaves several hundred thousand high and dry, to bo carted off by the thrifty farmer and used ns dressing for his land. From the overflowed land op posite Sacramento hundreds of cart loads of fish havo been hauled away after a sudden fall in the water. Such wholesale destruction cannot fail to have a disas trous effect upon the fish that make the Sacramento their spawning place. Another cause is the discontinuance of tho government hatchery at theMcCloud river. The state commisioners have al ways relied upon it for the yearly supply of eggs and young fish with which to stock the streams. But Prof. Baird has found that California salmon will not live in eastern waters, and the object for which the hatchery was established hav ing failed, it has been discontinued. The state commissioners have been accus tomed to secure 4,000,000 young fish yearly for the small sum of $2,000, the only charge exacted being the ex pense of hatching the fish. These aro caught with a seine in the McCIoud river, where the hatchery is situated. When tho fish begin to run up to the headwaters, they ascend in myriads. It is usually about dusk that they accom plish another stage of their journey up stream, and at that time the water is fairly alive with them. To obtain the eggs a net is carried up stream, one end being fastened to tho shore, and brought around by the opposite shore to the point of departure. A horse is then hitched to each end of tho net, and it and its con tents are hauled high and dry. As many as 900 fifteen-pound salmon have been captured in one haul more than two horses could draw to land. "When landed the milt and eggs are pressed by Indians into pans, and the fish cast into the wa ter, not much worse for their visit to dry land. Tho eggs, fertilized by the milt, which has been mixed with them, are then placed in shallow troughs over which a thin sheet of pure water con stantly runs. Millions upon millions of young fish are thus easily hatched and can be turned loose into any stream that may be desired. But this great hatch ery, where there are facilities for keep ing up tho stock of salmon in tho river to its highest figure, has been abandon ed. Its cost to the "government has been from $8,000 to $10,000 per year; but as tho state appropriation for fish is only $5,000, the commissioners find them selves utterly without power to mako use of it. An effort, however, will be made to impress the legislature with the neces sity for taking somo steps in tho matter. The fish commission wishes power and money to accomplish the purpose for which it was formed, and will ask the legislature for both at the next session. In contrast with the lack of salmon in the Sacramento is therein of fish at Vic toria and Astoria. The run has been enormous, and many canneries have long ago used all their cans. More fish were caught than could possibly bo canned, and fishermen were limited to the num ber that they must catch. Tho waste was, nevertheless, very great. Canners will prepare next year for the increasinn run. It may bo that this is merely an off year for the Sacramento, and that our California salmon have merely made a summer visit to the Uolumbia and .Facet sound, and will be back with us next year. ut nsnermen are nevertheless! alarmed at the scarcity of salmon in the Sacramento this year. (The supposition that tho "California salmon have merely mado a summer visit to the Columbia" is unworthy of such a paper as tho Bulletin. The salmon that come into the Columbia are dis tinctively superior to those entering the Sacramento and tho implication in the the phrase quoted, viz: that all the Pa cific coast salmon aro alike in quality, is an unwarrantable supposition. Ed.) Bridge rost. A gold badge, Rescue No. 2. Finder will be rewarded by leaving it at this oince. Popnlar Beading: No. 8. Just received at Adler's Bookstore. Pianos To Benf. On favorable terms; at Carl Adler's Music Store. TIIK CAUSE OF OVER-PRODUCTION. There are many people who do not see why there should be such a thing as over production of salable commodities. They say that all useful articles should find purchasers at some price. Tho fa vorite theory of such people is that un der consumption is the real cause of any alleged over-production or surplus of goods. This under-consumption, they aver, is caused by underpaid or unem ployed labor, or excessive taxation that impoverishes tho people, so that they cannot buy goods. It is true that un- prosperous people purchase less than those whose incomes are ample and con tinuous. It is likewise true that there are periods in which tho purchasing power of a .community is crippled by denrpsgion in business and industry. But often this very depression has been caused by over-production. The modern facilities for production aro so perfect that it is easy to produce most things that are needed on a stu pendous scale. It was maintained by tho older political economists that over production was impossible. At some price or other everything would find a buyer and consumer. Bat the error of this doctrine in clearly seen and admit ted. No person needs more than a cer tain amount of food and clothing. No person can comfortably eat two dinners on tho same day. If, therefore, a sec ond dinner is cooked for him, either it is not eaten, or if it be, ho is the worse for it. Consumption therefore is limited. Production must bo governed by this limit or exceedod at an ever increasing loss. That is to say, modern machinery, when driven at its highest speed, can turn out usable commodities faster than they can be consumed. We see this illustrated in the case of lumber, iron and cotton. All that is needed to cause over production Is the stimulus of general prosperity to a pitch that modern phrase tant has that in it capable of turning out product in excess of consumptive uemanu in a very unet y.-nuu. aum is all there is of the existing de pression. Production has been carried to excess under the im pulse of the boom of 1879-81. It is easy to say that there was an oxcess of rail road building and too much locking up oi capital m unproductive ranroaua. But the companies were induced to over build for tho samo reason that tho saw mills and rolling and cotton mills were induced to overproduce, because prosper ity had made capital abundant and cheap. It all runs around in a circle, one causo chasing another. But liko boys running in a circling row, when the head boy suddenly stops thoso behind tumble in a heap; or, like n train of cars, when a forward ono jumps tho track, those in tho rear pile up in wreck and confusion; so when rapid production causes a block ade of goods, industry and trade are balked and confused. James Andrew Dell. Uppeu Astobia, Aug. 5, 1SS4. Ed. AsieniAN: The funeral services of the lato James Andrew Bell were held at the Swedish church at ten o'clock a. m. A large num ber of the friends of tho deceased fol lowed the remains from his homo to the church whore the servico of the Metho dist church was read. The society of Good Templars attended the funeral in a body, and members of this society acted as pall bearers. The Rev. Mr. Roberts made a short address. His words were full of sympathy for the stricken family, and the solemn warning to all, to be ware of danger, both to soul and body. At the conclusion of tho service the re mains were borne to Badollet's wharf, and thenco by steamer to tho Clatsop cemetery for interment. Tho death of this estimable young man has cast a gloom over this community which will long be felt. Tho sudden cut ting down of youth gives an additional pang to tho sorrow which death evor brings. But how deep Is the grief for one where young life gives a promise of a most useful manhood! Andrew Bell was known among his associates as nn in dustrious, sober Christian man. In whatever business he engaged, ho was faithful to its requirements. Such an example cannot be lost Ho will be sore ly missed; but most of all by his bereaved family to whom he was a devoted son and brother. They havo the sympathy of many friends in their deep affliction. NEionnoo. A Fact. Messrs. Abell & Son, the Loading Pho topmnhers. Iiaya Inrrrocf. TnrBf mmnlnfn and the handsomest furnished photo- grapnio cnuery on tne memo coast. Work as fine, prices less than San Fran cisco. 29 Washington St., Portland. Stop That Cough By going to J. E. Thomas's and getting a bottle of Leroy's Cough Balsam. It will cure YOU. Furnished Rooms to Rent. Inquire at Mrs. Campbell's, oyer Gem Saloon. Hit Success Financially and socially are largelydue to his excellent health. If his system were clogged and feverish, no doubt he would fail as so many others do. But why not enjoy good health when one can please the palate at the same time ? Syrup of Figs is not only pleasant to the taste, it also cleanses the system thoroughly, yet painlessly; it is harm less in its nature, and strengthens the organs on which it acts so that regular habits may be formed, and the sufferer permanently restored to health and happiness. Sample bottles free and large bottles for sale by W. E. Dement &Co. Roscoe Dixon's new eating house is now open. Everything has been fit ted up in first-class style, and his well known reputation as a caterer assures all who like good things to eat, that at his place they can be accommodated. Don't pay 50 cents elsewhere when you can get the best dinner in town at JEFF'S for 23 cents. The latest patterns and styles of Ginghams and Calicoes, at the Empire Store. Buy your Lime of Grav at Portland prices. A full lino of ladies' and children's Shoes, latest styles, to bo found cheap at Arvold's, sign of the Golden Shoo. "Hackmetack" a lasting and fra- frranfc ,np.rfii!Tif Prlp s nnlf m nnf Sold by W.E. Dement Arvold will sell a large stock of Boots and Shoes at cost, at the Leading boot and shoe store. A full line of Ladies' Lace Mitts of all descriptions, to bo found at the Empire Store. All tho patent medicines advertised in this paper, together with the choicest Ecrf umery, nnd toilet articles, etccan e bought at the lowest prices, at J. V. uonn's arug store, opposite widen hctel, Astoria. Arvold sells Boots and Shoos cheaper than any one else in town, because wo buy for cash. Tho Rev. Geo. H. Thayer, of Bour bon, Ind., says: "Both myself and wife owe our lives to Shiloh's Consumption Cube." Sold by W. E. Dement. That Hacking Cough can be so quickly cured by Shiloh's Cure. We guarantee It. Sold by W.E. Dement. CORRECT-ETERT WORD OF IT. Of all tho contributions of the east to the west tho newspaper correspondent traveling for a subsidy is most to bo de spised. While once in a whilo a journal ist and a gentleman comes along for the purpose of "writing up" the conntay as ho finds it, the greater part of these itin erant scribes are boomers who boom for pay, and nine times out of ten they in jure instead of helping tho town or local ity they write of. For big pay they writo articles which, from over praiso and wrong conclusions through ignorance of the subjects tney nanuie, do more tlamago than would the defamatory article they are sure to dictate should tho cash con tribution. be small. It is seldom, how ever, that they fail to catch the gulls. People who could not be induced to in vest a nickel in home papers which, with never ceasing and intelligent toil, labor to build up the region, freely give to ev ery wandering tramp who can produce the card of somo eastern journal. When the pay is good these itinerants write of each town and locality alike.lauding each to the skies, and drawing no lino of dif ference between the points of advantage. Thus, as a rule, their letters are worse than rubbish. The " average edition of any home daily would give a fairer idea of tho country to an eastern reader than forty of these letters. If the citizens of any of the Pacific coast towns have any money to spend in advertising let them send out copies of their home papers and let the paid boomers severely alone. Tacoma Ledger. How Seattleltes Look at It. "Why is it," said a Front street prop eriy holder yesterday, "that with all the expense the city has been to in order to successfully combat fires, the insurance, instead of decreasing, continues to in crease? When there were no inclines to salt water, when we had but one steam engine, and before the mains of the Spring Hill Water Company were laid, I could and did insure my property in a good company for six per cent., while now, with so many facilities for hand ling fire, a well organized fire depart ment, three steam lire engines, a good hook and ladder company well equipped, and an abundanco of both fresh and salt water at hand, this same company de mands eight per cent, to insure tho samo property?" Tho reporter informed that gentleman that ho had frequently been askod tho samo question by other prop erty holders, but as yet had been unable to find any reason for such acton on the part of tho insurance companies. The gentleman above referred to, whose given name is John Sullivan, centinued: "I cannot afford to insure my property at such ruinously high rates, and have con cluded to take tho risk myself, rather than to accede to such high rates." Somo united action should be taken by our citizens to properly represent the true status of affairs to tho various board companies doing business here, and no doubt the rates could be materi ally reduced. Whilo we think of it, would this not be a proper matter for our ohamber of commerce to consider, and, if deemed advisable, make the necessary showing to the insurance companies? Post-Intelligencer All aches and pains are cured by St Jncobs Oil, the Great Gorman Kemedy. For iVeut Fitting Boot Or Shoe, go to P. J. Goodmans, on Chv 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. Notice. Dinner at" JEFF'S'' CHOP HOUSE every day from 4:30 to 8 o'clock. The best 25-fcnt meal in town; soup, fish, seven kinds of meats, vegetables, pie, pudding, etc. Tea or coffee included. All who have tried him say Jeff is tho "BOSS." Boston Baked Beans and Brown Bread every Sunday at Jeff's from 5 a. m. to 2 P. M. Gray sells Sackett Bros.' Al sawed cedar shingles. Catarrh curod, health and sweet breath secured by Shiloh's Catarrh Rem edy. Price 50 cents, Masai Injector free. For sale by W. E. Dement WEI. EDGAR, Dealer in Cigars, Tobacco and Cigarettes Meerschaum and Brier Pipes, GENUINE ENGLISH CUTLERY Revolvers and Cartridges. COllXEU MAIN AND CHEXAMUS SIS. NOTICE The splendid A l British Iron snip, KIRKWOOD Will bo on bsrlh shortly to load SALMON For Liverpool Direct. For Freight and Insurance apply to UAI.FOUR. GUTHRIE & CO., Portland. Or. or AI.EX'R BAILLIE. Astoria, Oiegou. GREAT REDUCTION! IN AT MRS. A. MAIXOM'S. I WILL SELL FOR THE NEXT THIR TY DAYS all Trimmed Hats and SUAIiIEK GOODS at co, to close out my Summer Stock and make room for a Large Invoice or FALL GOODS. SOW is the time for Come and See and Be Convinced. Fishermen's Headquarters. THE GENUINE GAPE ANN OILED CLOTHING, OVERALLS, COATS. HATS. SHIRTS, GUM BOOTS, Etc. And a complete outfit, of Best Quality, and Et the LOWEST PRICE of any Estab lishment in the cit7. P. A. STOKES & CO. Have opened a New Stock of Al goods In the store next door to Foard & Stokes, and GUARANTEE SATISFACTION To all Customers. At The Bureau, Anhcuser Bnsch Brewing AssVn of 5U juonis, M.O, Celebrated AnheuserBeer on Draught at Pinckney's Sample Room, ooS, wator street, (or Boadway). This Beer Is far superior to any lmDorted from the East. Call and sample It. ILLMSI GOOD STATE A5D TERRITORIAL JfKWS. A twenty thousand, dollar fire at Seat tle last Monday, destroyed tho Clayton block. David Hume, a fisherman at Tacoma, caught a salmon on Thursday, weighing seventy fivo pounds. John Dagmar, of North Beach, the other morning, captured a stray calf of an elk in his pasture. He has adopted the orphan, and. placed it in care of one of his cows, which takes good caro of it. A prominent Washington county farm er informs tho Welcome that a man who has 150 acres and raises thirty bushels of wheat to the acre and has to soil his product at fifty cents a bushel, is cloar- mj; uuij a aouar a cay ior his labor. THE WAY Goods are Slaughtered AT THE XOW IX PROGRESS AT PILGER'S Suit anfl Gloat House. LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S SUITS, CLOAKS, WRAPS, ULSTERS, HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR, ACTUALLY; AT Your Own Prices ! Garments (Made 'to Order AND Goods Sold by the Yard. 5" Remember this will only last a few days. FIRST DOOR Below Rescue Engine House. ASTORIA, OREGON. LEO. . STOCK, Manager. The Leading House. THE LARGEST STOCK. The Finest anil Choicest Ms. AT Carl Adler's Crystal Palace. Books, Stationery, Faaoy Goods, Toys, Baby Carriages. Solid Gold and Silver Jewelry "Watches and Clocks, Pictures, Albums, And the largest and finest assortment of miscellaneous goods north ot San Francisco. Pianos ani Musical Instruments. B7-A11 my goods are guaranteed to be as represented, and U not satisfactory you will find me here six months or a year from now to make everything right. A FIRST-CLASS watch-maker In attend anco. All work guaranteed. You are cordially Invited to call aud in spect the handsome new goods Just received. CARL ADLER'S CRYSTAL PALACE. P. Blankholm. Cigars, Tobacco and Notions, FRUITS Cor. Squemoqua and Olney streets, Astoria. Wood Yard. Another Reduction to Suit Hard Times. TTNTIL FURTHER NOTICE THE ASTO U riaWood Yard. Gray's Dock, foot of Benton street, will sell wood at the follow ing prices and deliver wherever the streets aro planked, between Trulllnger's Mall and O'Brien's Hotel, back to Astor street : Green Alder. 2-cut $1 25 per cord, long S3 50 Dry do do 4 50 do uo 3 75 GrtiHemio'K ao uo u ow Drv do do 4 50 do do 3 75 Green Fir do 4 50 do do 3 75 Dry Fir do 4 7-j do do 4 00 lixtraMapie . . and S. limbs do 5 50 do do 5 00 Vine Maple , . , mK Wood of All Kinds By the Scow load at REDUCED RATES. J. II. I. Git AY' Astoria, Juno 1st, 18SL Stockholders' Meeting. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT there will bea meeting of the stock- . . .r J m .. rtJ A T?n11no Find OTld Ttllllfl- noiaers oi uw uuuiumnj .u. ing Association, in the lodge room of Beaver M,llll.at2P,M. A fun. attendance Is re quested. A.J.MEGLEB. Secretary. SoiefcStartlii! Great Clearance Sale G. H. COOPER! nKsBSBsSsssBsPI RssssHb HkBSSSbVbbssbSssbbbbbm !sSBBBBBBSSIBSBm9ffSlSnBBlfllBSBSBBBBBSSaB THE Leading Dry Goods OP k3TORZA. Silks ! Silks ! Silks ! We are now showing the largest and choicest assort ment of BLACK and COLORED SILKS ever shown in Astoria at REMARKABLY LOW FIGURES. Ladies in need of such goods and want to get the genuine article would do well to give us a call. Bonnet's famous Black Silks in all numbers. Rich Brocaded Silks, Rhadames, Moires and Cet Colored Grot Grain Silks. Latest Shades. Fancy Brocaded Silks, New Designs. Evening Silks, in all the latest tints. Summer Silks in checks and stripes. OL H OOOPEB, Pythian Building, - Astoria, Oregon. ASTORIA Best BREAD in the City. Best CANDIES. Best CAKES and PASTRY. Best ICE CREAM. Finest Ornamental Work to Order. ED. JACKSON. G. A. STINSON & CO., BLACKSMITHING, At Capt. Rogers old stand, corner of Cass and Court Streets. Ship and Cannery work. Horseshoeing. Wagons made aud repaired. Good work guaranteed. H. D. KEWBUBY. I. STEVENS. & CITY BOOK STORE, Have Just received a mammoth stock ot Books. The young and old, nch and poor can all be accommodated. AGE2TTS FOR THE Kranlcli 4k Back aadMaadsfeldt & Xotnl Planes and Western Cottage Organs. Orders for all kinds of Music orlnttru ments will be promptly filled. Slew MM D. A. MtlNTO Fine ClotMS, Straw Hats, Fine Merwear, Choice Summer Suitings Made to Reduced and Clothing House ASTORIA LIQUOR STORE, AUG. DANIELSON, - Proprietor. KobnIItand Befitted Throughout The Best of WINES. XilQTJORS, AXI CIGAHS. For a Good Cigar, call for one or "Danielson's Best." Comer "West 9th and Water Streets, Astorlu. na-Cm J. EL D. GRAY. Wholesale and retail dealer In. GROCERIES, FLOUR, AND FEEO Hay, Oats, Straw, Wood, Etc. LIME, SAND AND CEMENT. General Storage and Wharfage on reason able terms. Foot of Benton street, Astoria, Oregon. THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST ! Royal Brand Flour Manufactured by the OREGON MILLING COMPANY Ts of Superior Quality, and Li Endorsed by all who use It. THE HOUSEKEEPER'S FAVORITE Of Superior Itlsing Quality. Guaranteed to Give Satisfaction. WYATT & THOMPSON Solo Ascents for Astoria. Extra Large Sizes. I GS Ml order at