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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1884)
C3) 3fe gaUtj itftatfatt. ASTORIA. 0 BEGUN: BATURD VY. .Dr.CEMnEH27.l85t ISSUED EVERY MORNING. (Monday cxciiiIm1) J. K. Hi.LL.CR AN & COMPANY, rui(!.isi(i:ics and ri:oii:iKToi:A. A3T0IUA..V HUILDING. - - UAb sTRLEl Term of.Salncrlption. Perr-tl bv C irrir. per week.......... Sent lv il ill. t in tilth " onee:ir ................. 1 Vroj of piista3e to uh-. ribrrs. 15cts. . ft lets. -S7.00 CST'Ailvcrtlsi'im.Mits uiturtvd by the year at the rate of $2 per square per month. Trin slent advertising fifty cents per square, each Insertion. IVotice T Advertisers. The Artoriax guarantees to its ad vertisers the largest circulation of any newspaper published on the Columbia river. Days are growing longer. It doe3 not rain all the time here. Part of the time it snows. Tho "steam sohooner Emma time" is advertised for sale in Portland. Sic transit gloria mtmdi afternoon. The Columbia sails for San Francisco to-day, tho last southward bound steamer of tho year. The Queen will be here to morrow. Mrs. Eva Wallraan will have a grand New Year's ball next Wednesday evening at the Germauia Hotel. Tickets admit ting gentleman and ladieB, and including supper, 1. The streets wore in a horrible mess yesterday. Snow and rain at intervals, made a plashy, mushy, half thawed, half froze sort of composition into which one had to squash along as best ho could. Tho Portland board of trade met last night to draft a new charter for the city. Wo are talking of mending ours, but tti"e Portland folks are going to throw the whole garment away and get a now one. Ben Worsley will deliver a public ad dress at the Parker house at 10 o'clock this morning. During his remarks he will distribute sundry unclaimed articles of baggage. Forty trunks and fifteen valises, and a speech. Go and hear him. The AsroBiAN desires to thank its friends for their splendid and numerous Christmas remembrances. It is not so much the intrinsic value of gifts as it is the kindly spirit prompting the donors that is so gratefully appreciated by the recipients. The Orcgonian local has tho whole thing figured out. He says this kind of weather that has been going on will keep on going on till tho ICth of March. Well, if so we'll all parade next day, for by that time the fields and hills will be 'Wearing of the Green." The inland railway blockade remains unchanged. Still snowing in eastern Oregon, and in most places a driving wind. The snow has also blockaded all trains on the O. & C. road. The only place where travel is unobstructed is on the lower Columbia. In another column "Citizen" takes up the discussion started yesterday morning in regard to the city charter. If you have ?ny idea on tho subject let us hear from you. "Citizen makes some good points) and while on this topic let it not be forgotten that the water front needs attention. The San Francisco papers are making a big fuss about a Jersey tug boat that came the Horn around lately. Tho pa pers say she is 42 feet beam and "14 feet depth of hold." She must be a beauty if that's the case. They also say she is the only iron tug boat on the coast. That won't do. The Pioneer has been here for two years and is an iron tug boat and a good one. too. In these days of blocked trails and delayed mails snowed up rails and few sails, etceteraw, anyone in a newspaper office has to be like Mark Tapley, and with that good humored individual has a splen did chance to "come out strong." This thing of going to the postofficc and getting two little patent outside papers when you know that there are 037 raoro somowhero in tho brush is what wrings the brow and the heart and the brain and other portions of tho anatomy. The first annual ball of Astoria Divi sion No. One, Uniform ltank, 1L of P., was a success at Occidental hall last evening, The stormy nature of the even ing prevented as full an attendance as there would have been had tho weather been more propitious, but those who wero there had a most enjoyable time. The music was first-class, the Knights pre sented a splendid appearance in their brilliant uniforms, and altogether tho oc casion was one of pleasant remembrance. This is the first uniform rank organized in the state, and the society is a credit to the city. A correspondent of Forest and Stream says that it is not an unusual thing for two men, one rowing and tho other fish ing, to catch twenty black bass in a morning in a couple of hours with a hand line in the Columbia river. These fish are in fine condition when ''running," and are a magnificent table fish cooked in any way. As a food fish they aro sur passed probably only by salmon. Very large numbers are taken during the sea son. The canning of them is a large industry, and their export and sale adds no small sum to tho wealth of the sound. A few years ago, at a point some twenty miles below Seattle, 7,000 of these fish wero taken in one haul of a seine. They are very gamey and fight to the last. The Chcsebrough was towed up to tho O. K. & N. dock yesterday afternoon, where she will probably be unloaded. The steam pump was set to work but at last accounts the pumps hadn't sucked. There were 33 inches of water in her yes terday morning and the presumption is that she is badly strained. A represen tative of Balfour, Guthrie & Co., the consignees, is expected down from Port land this afternoon, when definite dis position will be made of her cargo. The captain entered the usual protest yester day evening. As the vessel is wooden, and she has a wheat cargo, it would seem fiS though much time couldn't be lost in delaying necessary action. Capt. A. W. 2$erry Lloyd's agent for this port, will probably hold a survey to-day. Gold Bar JLacc Piu tost In Presbyterian church, or between there and W. W. Parker's residence, on Wednesday evening. Finder please gave it at this office and be rewarded. Get a Chance. Unfile of the beautiful mirror and ta ble on exhibition at Adler's will take place at the Gem on Now Year's eve only a few chances left. A fine assortment of New Year's call ing cards, all new designs, Just received at Adler's Book Store. Return the compliment and buy a nice New Year's gift at the Crystal Palace. Gray sells Sackett Bros.' Al sawed cedar shingles A full M guaranteed in each bunch. THE PROPOSED AXETnaEXTS TO THE CITI CIUBTEB. Abtosu, Dec. 26, 18SL Esttoe Asxeeuk: Why should the city charter be amend cd? Doe3 it not work well, or is change the order of tho day? If the latter, suppose wo disincorporate tho city and run as a country village awhile. It would save expense. Well, as you siy, abolish tho OlUzq of assessor, then provido that tho county o'erk shall furnish a certified list of the oity property as shown by the county assessment. Ho need not be allowed therefor, however, over ten cents per folio,. Better still let the city certify to the county and the city levy and the county court direct it to be entered and collected as the state taxes are collected. Second, abolish the office of police judge and cause the auditor to act as judge. The auditor has but a little to do and tho police judge sits but an hour or two a day. Formerly it was so done in Astoria, 'but when the town got to be high toned it was thought necessary to have a police judge if it did cost six hundred to nine hundred dollars per year extra. Third, it is proposed to amend in re gard to condemning people's property so as to lay out streets whero none have been laid. Can any one tell what is the matter with the present charter on that point? Tho only place known to the public where the city council desires to lay out a street is from Concomly street to the eastern limits of the town. Of what beneGt would that be if tho road taxes of tho property in the city are to bo kept in the city? There woid be no money to build a road along Col. Taylor's land to Smith's point. Without such a road built and kept up there is not much need of an extonsion of Concomly street. Fourth, Why expend the road taxes in the city? It has been done both ways since Astoria was first incorporated. When it was expanded in tho city it was said the money was squandered and the city received no benefit. When it is used outside it is claimed by some that the county does not reoeive much benefit. This is a matter of great importance, and should be well considered. This town has not much to keen it up except the surrounding county. Especially now that tho salmon business has become greatly reduced and the city proposes to xax every snip mat ancuors m iront ox town, so that what little shipping we have shall be driven away. To encouraco the settlement and trade of the country tcere must be roaus. ibis is a hard country to make roads in. There aro but few settlers and they are not able to do it. Now which is tho best build roads with the road tax or dig street crossings with the money? To improve street crossings is the only thing that tho city couiu uo witu tne money unless tney im prove the whole street atpublic expense. In early times Oregon City was the city of Oregon. People went there to trade. Portland pushed a road up tho ''canyon," and tapped Washington county, and gradually by means of her roads sent out into the country she drew trade to her self. Now and for years tho road tax of the property in Portland has been and is expended in the county. With such money they have run a road down the river nearly to St. Helens. They have pushed three or four roads over the mountains back of the city to Washington county, and in fact in all di rections to the county line on the west side of the river. Astoria should have a good summer wagon road to Nehalem and to Knappa. These are the only two roads that can bo built directly out of town. The road or rather connection with Clatsop should be by .ferry. Tho expense of a bridge, if congress should ever allow its being built, would build a passable wagon road to the Nehalem and Knappa, and would be of far more benefit and service to the county and city. Now, as to improving the streets by general taxation. It does not seem right that one or two streets on tho front from Trullinger's to Johansen's should be kept in repairs by the adjacent property for tho benefit not of adjacent property but for tho whole city and for canneries and business outside the town. On tho other hand if streets wore to be kept up by gen eral taxation, tho tendency would be to improve many streets in advance of any need therefor. Everyone owning a $15 lot on top of the hill would want a planked roadway to it, although the lot might not be occupied for a generation to come. In the McClure portion of town every alternate street at right angles to the river should be vacated and the other alternates bo widened to eighty feet. Streets parallel to the river should be eighty feet. The charter perhaps should be amended so that one-fourth of the block should keep up tho adjacent street. Now the corner lot keepa up 150 feet of stroet and the inside lot fifty feet, which is out of proportion. No one should bo allowed to vote in tho city except a tax-payer and no dis tiction should be made on account of sex. CrrizsK. THE CORRECT IDEA. With the writer who opposes the Nica ragua canal and favors the Panama ca nal, the Oregonian does not agree. First, because the canal at Nicaragua may be finished much more speedily than that at Panama, and our commerce may have earlier relief than the Panamn canal will afford it. Second, because, we can hav moro favorable rate3 through an Ameri can than through a foreign canal. Third, because it is not wise to allow our inter ests, commercial or national, to lie at the disposal of foreigners and rivals. Fourth, because the Nicaragua route is much shorter and haB great advantace over the Panama route, particularly for anil tesaeia, wuicu are iiaoie, in going to Panama, to suffer long detention from calms. Fifth, because we do not wish to see our commerce exposed to the abso lute control ot a foreign nation whose interests are hostile to our own. Sixth, because we object to a policy that will expose our western coasts to hostile fleets, with no power on our part of meet ing or averting tne danger. At Frank Fabre's. Board forS22.50 a month. The best in the city. Dinner from 5 to 7. At I. J. Arvold'H You will find a splendid stock of boots and shoes. Ladies' and children's shoes a specialty: All styles and sires. Hard Iry Weod For sale in quantities to suit at Cnt nahan & Co.'s. If you want to make a nice present to j'our friends go to J. W. Conn's Drug Store and you will find just what you want, of the very best quality, and at the lowest possible prices. A TIME FOR ETEBTTHI5G. My con, it isn't so much the manner in which, as the time at which, you approach a man. Now, this blessed, or rather t'othered morning, I have a cold, nnd a distracting one. I weep at tho nese: my bones ache, the cinders and dust of twelve hundred miles of continuous railway travel fill my eyes and ears and my en t re Bj3tera. I open my mouth to breathe because my noso is utterly usehsi as a breathing thing and consequently I snoro even while I awaken. I am feeling too wretchedly cross and generally miserable for anything. Well, about half an hour ago cometh to my lair ray sister, who places the morning mail upon my desk. Six letters, On such a morning as this. Well, thank heaven, letters are easily disposed of. Visitors I might not be able to evade, let ters ha, hal With savage joy I tore every last ono of them into more fragments than there were words in all six of them and jammed them into tho waste basket. "That's the way to answer letters," Isaid grimly, "why can't people bave some sense about writing letters andnot pester a fellow when he wants to sneeze?" Now, that was all wrong, I am willing to admit, even now. Not that I am al ready penitent, oh, bless you, no. I am glad I did it. I wish there has been more ol them to tear up. I am going to tear up a lot that came yesterday, but there won't be much pleasure in that, because I have read them. But this morning's mail I never opened and will never know anything about it. August 1G is my cross day, and don't yon forget it. But to morrow I will bo sorry for it. Everybody is penitent to-morrow. Every time I get awfully cross I order my hair-Bhirt aired and tho robe of sackcloth hung out in the backyard convenient to the ash heap. I know I will have acres of mourning to do during the ensuing twenty-four hours. 'Twas ever thus: "The good that I would do I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do." Yea, verily, I will sit up at night and go out of my way to do it. Be careful thenmy son, when yon ap proach a man'. Don't worry so much about jour manner, if you aro dead sure that you have struck the right time. Don't depend so much upon your fasci nating ways as upon tho man a receptive mood. Never ask n favor of p man who is on the point of answering his mail with a match. Don't talk your Dakota land scheme to a hungry man. Never try to borrow money of a'man who has just missed the last oar and has to walk home. Don't try to sell tickets for the fair and ice-cream festival to the man who is despondent with some new kind of dyspepsia. Don't read your petition to him while he is being shaved. Don't try to explain the nature of the securi ties you oiler by talking to him through a transom of the bath-room while he is taking a tub. Don't describe your rec ommendations, qualifications and in dorsements for the place while he is running for the ferry and yon aro vainly trying to keep near him. Don't knock at his door after he has gone to bed and tell him not to get up, you'll just talk through the key-hole. Don't appro? ch a man at these times, and "You don't Buppose anybody ever did approach a man on matters of business under such circumstances?', Oh, foolish boy, you have much to learn; all these things are done by vari ous classes of fools every day. Why, worse than that. There are people who write letters to a fellow when they might know be would be in an ill humor by the time they reached him. I wish I knew who those letters were from, anyhow. What, ho, without Iherel If that hair shirt is aired, bring it here. Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle. Moro About the Sbaroa-Hlll Decision. San Feaxcisco, Dec. 25. 'The decision of Judgo Sullivan in the Sharon divorco case was a surprise to most everybody, but it has been received with great satis faction by the people. It fills twelve closely-printed columns, and while It awards the case to plaintiff, brands her as a perjurer and an abandoned woman. Colonel Barnes, Sharon's attorner, is censured severely, and George W. Tyler, attorney for plaintiff, coma in for a tcr riblo scathing. Sharon himself is shown up in a truthful manner. The decision is forcible for its calm dignity, and ad mirable for its literary style. Judge Sullivan does not decide what is commu nity property, but leaves that question for settlement by further proceedings in court, suaron s wealth amounts to at least $30,000,000, largely invested in city property. He owns fifty buildings, among them the Palace and the Grand hotels, besides he holds a'larce block of stock in the bank of California, and large interests in gas, water ana otner stock companies. Colonel Barnes said to-day that while Sharon's wealth was vast, tho community property was small, and would amount, in fact, to only a few thousand dollars. This is the statement of an attorney, and should, of course, be received with tne allowance due a parti san claim. The case will, of course, be appealed. It is estimated that it has al ready cost Sharon $200,000. According to the Oakland Tribune, the head of the largest sturgeon ever 'caught on the Pacific coast is on exhibi tion at the fish stall of Camillioni & Co., in the City Market. The fish in its en tirety weighed 695 pounds, and the head as it lies on the block weighs ninety four pounds. It is a hideous frontpiece, the gapo of its mouth stretching twenty two inches from corner to corner, and the space across the back of the head being twenty-eight inches at its broadest expansion. Were the sturgeon so in clined, being alive and in its native ele ment, it could easily swallow the head of a man, and, if his shoulders wero not too broad, it might po3sibly Btow the greater part of him in its hold, as ho measured ten feet from snout to tail. This sturgeon, which is a genuine Aei penscr Oxyrhyuchua, was captured by Italian fishermen at the mouth of the Sacramento river in tho shoal water, where his efforts to escape "from the net were hampered by the shoal water. As it was, he broke the net as if it had been a fly-catcher and broke three ribs of the boat with a lash of his tail. CROW Does not make any second-class Pic tures at his New Gallery, No. 6l, on the Roadway. Adler will sell you any book of his immense assortment, ten per cent cheaper than any other house in town. This is not idle talk but solid facts. All the patent medicines advertised in this paper, together with the choicest Eerfumery, and toilet articles, etc-can e bought at the lowest prices, at J. W. Conn's drug store, opposite Ociden hctel, Astoria. For a good bath, pleasant shave, or shampoo, go to the City Baths, corner Squemoqua and Olney streets. Joe. Q. Chabtxbs, Prop. TEES0JAL.- C. W. Fulton got 8 to Salem this morn ing. Geo. P. Wheeler was on tho street yca terday nnd is convalescent. Wm. T. Boss, from Gray's Biver, is in the city. I. L Foster. J. F. Kini'nll and Sheriff Albert came over f rum Cithlamet yester day. Cant. M. M. Gllmin, who has bcon ur der tne weather for some time, is consid erably better. CPPEB ASTORIA PJ3LIC SCHOOL. Iteport for the month of Decamber: Number registered, 77. Average number belonging 72.4. Averago daily attend ance, C8.r. Averago daily absence, 3.5. Present number belonging, 70. Number cases tardiness, 5G. Neither absent nor tardy: OB VMSIAB DEPARTMENT. May Leinenweber, Emma Nelson, Em ma J. Bell, Frank Leinenweber, Bohuart Knutsen. raiMAnv depahtmest. John Bell, Alfred Leinenweber, Fritz Larsen, John Laraen, Willie Young, Freddie Leinenweber, George Pike, John Young, Carl Knutsen, Clark Bell, Nellio Taylor, Kate Taylor, Lulu Taylor. Perfect in depertment: Caroline Young, Clara Young, Alma Holmes, Getta Olsen, May Leinenweber, Nora Holmes. Emma Nelson, Emma L. Bell, Lizzie Scott, Willie Young, Frank Leinenweber, Bohnart Knutsen, George Taylor, Annie Amundsen, Lizzie Kopp, Lulu Taylor, Freddie Berrio, Lizzio Hamilton, Ludwig Lawson, Alfred Lein enweber, John Bell, Johan Young, Oli ver Bell, Minnie Amundsen. Neither absent nor tardy for tho term May Leinenweber, Emma J. Bell, Bohnart Knutsen, Alfred Leinenweber, Carl Knutsen, Nellie Taylor, John Bell, Lulu Taylor, Kato Taylor, Freddie Lein enweber. C. C. Bboweb, Principal. Mas. E. M. Davis, Primary. Upper Astoria, Dec. 2Gth, 1851. The Megaphone Is a recent invention designed especial ly for use on ship board. It is a machine for magnifying sound, a sort of telescope for tho car. Tho purpose of it (is to en able a person to hear or carry on a con versation with people at a distance; and it is constructed of two huge cone shaped tubes oight feet long and three in dm meter at the large end, which diminish to an apex in the form of rubber tubes small enough to place in tho ear. Be tween these tubes nro two smaller ones, constructed in the same way, but not more than half tho diameter. By placing the rubber tubes in the ear, and speaking through the smaller cones, tho person can hear and be heard at a long distance. The purpose of tho invention is to aid mariners in listening for tho sound of breakers or carrying on conversation with people on shore or on other vessels at a distance. FreNli Kawteru and Shonlvrater Bay Oyster Constantly on hand, cooked to any style at Frank Fabre's. A Splendid ConfVctioii. "Eating Chocolate" at Frank Elber son's. Call for a packet of ''Eating Chocolate." Every one likes it. WHATJ Io You Think that JciT of The Chop IIott.se Gives you a meal for nothing, and a glass of something to drink? "Not much !" but he gives a better meal and more of it than any place in town for 25 cents, lie buys by the wholesale aud pays cash. "That settles it.'' Syrup of Fi;rs. Nature's own true Laxative. Pleas ant to the palate, acceptable tothcStom ach, harmless in its nature, painless in its action. Cures habitual Constipation, Biliousness, Indigpstion and kindred ills. Cleanses the system, purifies the blood, regulates the Liver and acts on the Bowels. Breaks up Colds, Chills and Fever, etc Strengthens the organs on which it acts. Better than bitter, nauseous Liver medicines, pills, salts and draughts. Sample Dottles free, and large bottles for sale by W. E. Dement & Co., Astoria. Oj'htersX Oyster I Oysters! Mrs. Lovett informs the public that she has reopened an Oyster and Coffee saloon, al the old stand on Main street. Entrance through tailor shop. Renew Your Subscriptions For thecoraingjyear,at Griffin & Reed's City Book Store. Subscriptions re ceived for any periodical published. For a Neat Fitting; Boot Or Shoe, go to P.J. Goodmans, on Che naraus street, next door to 1. W. Case. All goods of the best make and guaran teed qualitj'. A full stock; new goods constantly arriving. Custom work. Fishermen Attention! Before buving twine examine the Dunbar, McMaster & Co.'s extra strong Irish Flax Thread, No. 40. 12 pi v. Jas. O. Hantliorn, of this city, is the sole agent for the Pacific coast. For Dyspepsia andLiver Complaint, you have a printed iruarantee on every bottle of Shiloh's vitalizer. It never fails to cure. Sold by W. E. Dement. The Rev. Geo. 11. Thayer, of Bour bon, Ind., says: 'Both myself and wife owe our lives toSini.oii'8 Consumption1 Cobe." Sold by W. E. Dement, - Koscoe Dixon's new eating house is now open. Everything has been tit 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. The most stylish Neckwear. Lace Handkerchiefs and Worsted knit goods at the Empire Store. Ball's coiled 6pring Corsets continue to be all the rage for Ladies, Misses and Nurses, at the Empire Store. Mrs. Bryce would respectfully an nouce to the ladies of Astoria thatshe Is prepared to do dressmaking in all its branches at her rooms on Cass St, op posite Odd Fellows building. We lead the trade in fine shoes for PbaelJJkos. For Dinner Parties to order, at short aotiee, go to Frank Fabre's. biiir.oifs Cure will immediately relieve Croup, Whooping Cough, and Bronchitis. Sold by W. E. Dement & Co Tesl Tccr Bfflfeg Rigger ftjfrf t::z tect: rrauil.lbvn rrnftvethe c-Trrnnanne.L Adicia-It-i!l pot bo required to ieUti tho prosecc ot DOES EOT C0KTAIN ASHOSIA. lit IlnlUiralMU IUl NEVER Beta Qnntitmd. ln&TnUHonhomesrorftrju&rterof&ceatar? it htu ttootl tixe consumer's rvUable teat, THE TEST OF THE OVEM, Prico Baking Powder Co., JL1KTE3 07 Dr. Price's Special Flavoring Extracts, Ibe strongest, mort delldons and natural flavor known, and ?r. Price's Lupulin Yeast Gims Vvc Llbt, Healthy bread.The Best Dry Hop Ycat lu tbu world. FOR SALE BY GROCERS, CHICACO. - ST. LOUIS- EALTHY BREAD, Wf prx ASIG1S. The beat dry hop yeast In the world. Bread raised by this yeast la llght.whlte ond wholesome like our grandmother's delicious bread. CROCERS SELL THEM. PREPARCD Br TMS Price Baking Powder Co., nanus of Dr. Price's special Flawniiz Extracts, Chicago, III. St. Louis, Mo Fors:i!e by Cuitixo.Meule & Co., Agents Portland, Oregon. :eady,Sir! TEER YOUR PURSE IN THE Right Direction AND M. D. KANT, The Boss, Is closing out his entire stock of Clothing nnd Overcoats, finest nnd best quality, Largest assortment in Men's, Youth's nnd Boys' Clothing. Gents' Furnishing Goods, Boots nnd Shoes, Bubbcr and Oil Clothing, Hnts nnd Caps, etc., at prices that will snit the times. Ho will make np the finest and best fit ting suit of Clothing to Order, for the LOWEST PRICES IN TOWN. Ship CaptniBS Take notice of the fact that I can supply your crew wjth Cheaper and Better goods than any other house in Oregon. M. D.KANT, The Boss. LOOK HERE!! M. STUDZINSKI Has Just received a new stock of Solid Gold Holiday Gifts The best place In the elfy to purchase FINE Jewelry, Watches, And other valuable presents. Orders promptly and satisfactorily 'filled! LISHT H SI PYE MM Saw low "7 jg y SPEGIAE HOI ANNOUNCEMENT ! Z C. H. COOPER'S, During Christmas week we will make a special display of Novelties in every de partment suitable for the Holiday season, and in order to clear them all out we have marked them VERY LOW. Ladies and Gentlemen who are in quest of handsome as woll as useful Christ mas presents would do well to givo us a call before selecting. Fine Black and Colored Gros Grain Silks, Rich Velvets, in plain and brocaded, Fine Inported Dress Goods. The new Combination Dress Goods, in all tho latest Tints and Coloring. SPECIAL! Handkerchiefs ! -Handkerchiefs 1 500 doz. Ladies' Fancy Hemstitched and Embroidered Handkerchiefs, from $1.00 to $9.00 per doz. 150 doz. Colored Silk Handkerchiefs, latest designs, from 50 cts. to 2.25 each. A large assortment of Fancy Hand kerchiefs, put up in handsome boxes, con taining doz., from 50 cts. to S5.00 per box. && Fans ! Fans ! Fans ! 20 doz. Fans, the latest styles, richly got up, Hand Painted, etc., from 1.00 to $12.00 each. XlSf? Satchels, Purses, Imported Fichus, Hand Painted, Crepe Fichus, Fedora Jabots, Gilets, etc. 3& DiyGooils : ClotliiiisHouse C. H. Pythian Building, CITY BOOK STORE. Select Your Holiday Presents. You Will GRIFFUXT & REED'S A Large and Well Selected Stock. Our Holiday Books and Christmas Cards Are the Finest Ever Displayed in Astoria, COME AND SEE US. $67,000,000 Capital ! Liverpool and London and Globe. North British and Mercantile 01 London and Edinburgh. Old Connecticut of Hartford, COMMERCIAL OF CALIFORNIA Fire Insurance Companies, Representing a Capital of $67,000 OOO. B. VAN DUSEN. Acent. D - JiU BIcIliTQSH FALL STOCK OF CLOTHING!- -A LARGE Overcoats, Novelties in Neck Wear, Hats and Furnishing Goods. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO Fine Merino and all Wool Hosiery. , JTThe NEWEST PATTERNS in SUITINGS made up in the LATEST STYLES. " I Xbw Prices ! : .- d. jl. Mcintosh, The Ltadin & Clothier, Hatter and Gents' Furnisher - .83j:? c! AY SQSm Money Bags, Etc. iffi Astoria, Oregon. Find at Wheeler & Kipp, PRACTICAL Plmnta Gas and Steam fitters ALL WORK Warranted, and Estimates Given. FULL STOCK Iron aud iLciul Pipe, Bath Tubs, "Water Closets, aud Gas Fixtures. Chimney Pipe, Cheaper than Brick. JOBBING PROMrTLY ATTENDED TO. Corner Squeiiioqua and Hamilton Streets, Astoria, Oregon, STOCK OF-