01 VOL. XXVII, NO. 04. ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, MA&CH 17, J 887. PRICE IVE CENTS. BUSINESS CABDS. G KO. .VOLAXD, ATTORNEY at law. Mrtlce In Kinney's Block, opposite 'City Hall. Astoria. Oregon. i W. FULTON. G. C. FULTON I FUE.TOX BROTHERS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Kooms 5 and C.Odd Fellows Building. C. It. TIIOMSOX, Attorney at Law and Notary Public. Special attention Riven to practice in the U. t. Land Office, ami the examination of land titles. A full set oi Abstract Books for Clatsop County In oillce. Money to loan. Office Booms 4 and 5, over City Book Mote. If fc. A. BOW LB Y. Atlot-noy ami Counsellor at Law office ou Clienainus Street. Astoria. Oregon P. O. WIXTON ATTORNEY AT LAW. Rooms No. it and 12, Pythian Castle Build mg. r B. WATS ox, Atty.at Law and Deputy Dist. Atty. All business before tho IT. S. fcuul OfQco a specialty, Astoria, - - Oiikc.ov. TVE, LA FOKCE, t DENTIST. Booms 11 and 12 Odd Fellows Building. ASTORIA, ---- OREGON. tSu. a. l. fultox. Physician and Surgeon. Office on Cass street, throe doors south of Odd Fellow's building. Telephone No. 41. FAY TUTTIiE, 31." I. PHYSICIAN AND SUKGEON Office Rooms 0 Pythian Building. TIkstdkjjce On Cedar Street, back of St. Mary's Hosoital. rR.O.B.ESTK8. PliYSIClAN AXD SURGEON. Offick : Gem Building, up stairs, Astoria, Oiegon. FAR. FRAXK pa(;e, 111 YSIC1 AN AND SURGEON, Oppqslte Telegraph Oflice, Astoria, Oregon. ri RLO F. PARKER, SURVEYOR OF CLATSOP COUNTY AND Bx-CIty Surveyor of Astoria Office : N.E? corner Cass and A stor streets, Boom No. 8 Up Stairs. Robt, Collier, Deputy, D R. ALFKBD KI.VNKV, Office at Kinney's Cannery. Will only attend patients at his oflice," and may be fouiyl there at any hour. E.0- IIOLDEX, Notary Public, Commissioner of Deeds For Washington Territory, Auctioneer, Be&l Estate and Insurance Agent. c Office, at Holden's Auction Booms. Chena inus street, Astoria. Oregon. IS. SHAW. DENTIST. f Booms in Allen's Building, up Main, cor ner Cass and Squeinoqua .treets. Astoria Oregon. DENTIST. Rooms l audi! l'ytliian Bmld-ing over C. 1L Cooper's Store. Carnahan & Co. SUCCESSORS TO I. -W"! CASE, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE AND ItETAIL DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Corner Chenanms and Cass streets. ASTClttA OREGON THOS. fflAIRS, 8 A Good Fit Guaranteed. CHARGES MODERATE Agent for the Celebrated Household Sewing JIacmne. Shop opposite C. H. Cooper's. - rr A. 831 ITH, FasMflMBl Tailor EDOTAR tradeVmark. 0UGH1URE ZlbsoluteltT i'rec from Opiates, Emetics unit 1'oison 1'oison Cts. SAFE. SURE. PROMPT. AT DUCOCISTS AXD DKALERC. THE CUABLES A. UGELTK CO.. IULTiaOHK. Mil. TJXCOBS 0 9 ffttfE uERManreME 0 9 Cures Etreatta, Kssrsleis, U ft I MBaekithf, Hesdtrhf, Toothache, 1 I O I B 1 PRtCK. FU'TV CENTS. THE CUAKLES A.T0GKLLU CU..IULTI21011K, MD. Jarss Female Complaints. A Great Kidney ismedy. SOLD BY ALL DEUSQISTS, Boat Building. MANY YEARS EXPERIENCE IN building boats on the Columbia iher and hundreds of fine -boats of my build make my guarantee! forgood work. Head quarters at the old Astoria Jron Works building. Will build boats at any point on the Columbia river where my services may be required. WM. HOWE. AGENCY flM.Cotaan&Co. OF SAN FRANCISCO. Flayers Wharf and Warehouse, Astoria. Oregon . Cannery Supplies at Lowes! Prices. Htoragt and Insurance at Cut rent Bates. Banking Department Diafts on the leading Cities of the World JOHN F. McGOVERN, Agent. It. II. Coleman, Accountant. WilsonJ Fisher Ship Chandlers, HEAVY AND SHELF HARDWARE Paints, Oils, and Varnish. LOGGERS' SUPPLIES. PEG VISIONS mx-lxTfeeb AGENTS FOR SALEM PATENT ROLLER MILLS. Portland. Roller Mills, Capitol Flour and FAIRBANKS' SCALES. ASTORIA. OREGON. -THE- DIAMOND PALACE! GUSTAY HANSEN, Prop'r. A Large and Well Selected Stock of Fine At Extremely Low Prices. All Goods Bought at This Establishment Warranted Genuine. Wnlclt and Cloclt Repairing A SPECIALTY. Comer Cass and Squemoqua Streets. Elmore, Sanborn & Co. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Fire Insurance AGENTS. Representing the Largest and Most Relia ble Fire Insurance Companies. All Business promptlyjand accurately tran acted. FJavelsWliarJ, - Astoria Oregon. 25 r TB "Jim mm DiaioMs Jewelry AN IMFOETANT LETTER. From the Oommiasioner of the Gen- eral Land Office. ' Through the courtesy of Mr. C. J. Trenchard, county clerk, the following letter, important to many in this section, is furnished for publicatien: Department of the Intebiok, OR, 387.) Gekeraii Lakd Office, Washixgtox, D. a, Jnn'y 28, 1887 Dourlas ir. Taylor, Esq., U. S. Sur veyor General, Portland, Oregon. Sin: I am in receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, transmitting cop ies.of communications from differ ent parts of the state asking what steps are necessary to secure a survey in order to throw certain lands open to settlement under the homestead and pre-emption laws. In reply you are informed that the present policy of this oJTice is to confine the surveys of the pub lic lands to agricultural, and agri cultural and grazing land, com bined, which embrace existing settlement, and are actually occu pied and improved by bona fide res idents or similar land in the pro gress of the public survoys adja cent to said settlements. All ap plicants for surveys should there fore transmit" to you swoxh state ments as to the number of settlers within the specified township and the nature, extent and approximate value of the iinptovcments, also a description of the class and char acter of the lands for which sur veys are desired. On receipt of said applications 3ou should forward the same to this office together with your report and recommendation as to the advisability and practicability for the suiveying the land in ques tion. Existing surve3'inginstructions provide "that survey of a town ship must bq. completed in the entirety, unless natural obstacles ren'der such completion impossi ble.' It is also required that your first attention should be given "to clos ing up the fractional surveys," which have hitherto been-Nomitted by reason of presumed difficulty in executing the work. Fragmentary surveys of such character -should of necessity embrace settlements, or be contiguous thereto. The surveys of the lands coining within the foregoing requirements can only be executed at the legal rates now allowed by the appro priation act approved August 4th, 1SSG, namely: $9, S7 and 5 per mile for standard, exterior and subdivisional lines, respectively. . Referring to your suggestion as to the advisability of increasing the rate per mile in Oregon, owing to the rough character of the coun try and the dense undergrowth, you are advised that such increase can only be made by authority of congress, and until the same shall have been authorized, this oflice can take no further action as to augmented rates. Parties desiring surveys will not be benefited in anyway by apply ing for Jhe same under the pro visions of sections. 2-iOl-o, revised statutes L). S. special deposits, for thr reason that existing laws gov erning the rates of mileage under surveys payable from the annual appropriation also apply to those payable from special deposits. When applications for surve3Ts shall have been received, and the same are found to comply with official requirements as stated, you will be authorized to invite pro posals for tho execution of tho surveys at rates not to exceed those allowed by law. Very It espcot fully, (Signed,) Wm. A.I. Sparks, Commissioner The Wonderful Healing Properties of Dar bys Prophylactic Fluid. Wherever a preventing, healing, cleansing and (leoUorizinjj injection or wash is required use Darbys Prophylac tic Fluid, Any inflamed surface, ex ternal or internal, treated with the Fluid will he quickly relieved. It has effected cures that had resisted the best medical skill. The Indian still holds 134,000, 000 acres in this country. yt vfv oum enjoy your tliu- ncr and are prevented by Dyspepsia, uso Ackorjs Dyspepsia ramets. xney aro a positive cure lor Dyspepsia, Indige'sbon, Flatulency and Constipation. We guarantee them., 25 and 50 cents. J. W. Conn. CAUGHT BY A BIG CLAM. A Thrilling Story Told by a Navy Lieutenant Dangerous Situation. The following swimming story is told by a lieutenant in the navy: "I kept my eyes fixed on my com panion, Brown, who was acting in a Gingular manner. After every few seconds his head would disap pear beneath the water in which he stood, then it would appear again. He seemed to be strug gling violently. As I approached him he threw up his hands and cried out, in accents that haunt me still, 'For heaven's sake, Lieu tenant, quick, and help me!5 I dashed out to him through water'up to my waist. 'What is it? What has hold of you?' 'It's a big oys ter or a big clam,' he groaned. 'I was wading here and stepped into it, I expect. Its shell closed, gripped my ankle, and to save m life, I can't move; and the tide will soon be over our heads hero,' ho added, ond with something al most like a sob. He had been struggling here for 15 or 20 min utes. I had heard of the tridac nigagas, or monster clam, ot this coast, and instantly realized the danger of his situation. 'Cour age, old fellow,' I said, 'I'll stick by you. Here, hold this paddle and the hatchet.' I then ducked down under the water and with my hands felt about his foot." "The huge mollusk had what might be termed a death grip on him. The creature's shell was several feet long and of pro portionate breadth, and the weight of the shell fish must have been at least 300 pounds. The creature was attached to the coral rock by a grisly bysus as thick as my arm. Raising myself, I got breath, then, seizing the paddle, thrust the shaft of it between the converging edges of the two valvefi-of the shell, and using it as a lever attempted to pry the shell apart. .But I could not open it. Brown, too, ducking down, seized hold with his hands and pulled with all his strength, but exerting all our power, we could not release the monster's hold. Again and again T threw my whole "weight on the shaft of the paddle, and ?it length broke it. By this time the "water was up to my shoulders when T stood up. Ful ly realizing that whatever I did must be done in a few minutes more, else the poor fellow would drown, I snatched the "hatchet from Brown's hand, and, diving, tried to cut under the shell to break the creature's anchorage on the rock. With might and main I cut and hacked then rose an instant for breath then down and at it again. But it seemed as though I could not cut through the tousrii muscle. Four times I dived, and with frantic haste cut at those tough byssi. "It stirs!" at length Brown cried, bracing his weight jipon his free foot and lifting at it. Then, with a final blow, the byssus was severed, and, the buoyancy of the water aiding us, we dragged the great mollusk still fast to Brown's ankle back to higher ground on the reef. Here the water was waist deep, however, and I looked anxiously around for Mac, in the lakatoi. To my inexpressible 303' he was close at hand, and between us we lifted Brown, with his now captured captor, into the canoe. Even then we could not both of us together piy the valves of the shell apart enough to release Brown's foot, until with a knife we had reached in and complete" divided the tridacna sawing asun der the huge muscles at tho base of the bivalve. It was trul3' a gi gantic clam, and as a poetic retri bution upon it for the attempt on the life of one of our party, we ate a portion of its flesh forour supper, but found it rather tough. Brown's ankle was severe bruised and wrenched, and he suffered for many a day from the vice-like grip of the huge mollusk. BELIEF FROM INDIGESTION. 221 Second Avenue, New ) York, Jan. 9, 1886. f I deem it my pleasure to testify to the phenomenal effects of Brand reth's Pills, upon myself in eradi cating from my system the most ag gravated form of indigestion, the at tacks of which, were nearly as severe as spasms. After a costly medical treatment two boxes of Brandreth's Pills have put me in a better con dition than I have been for many years." Frank: "W. Gillett. "Jake SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR For all Diseases of the Liver, Sidneys, Stomach and Spleen. This purely vegetable pre paration,.now so celebrated as a Family Medicine, originated in the South in 1828. It act Bently op the Bowels and Kidneys and corrects the action of the Liver, and is, there- lore, tne Dest preparatory medicine, whatever the sick ness may prove to be. In all common diseases it will, un assisted by any other medi cine, effect a speedy euro. The Regulator is safe to administer in any condition of the system, and under no circum stances can it do harm. It will invigorate like a glass of wine, but is no intoxicating bever age to lead to intemperance; will promote dl gestion, dissipate headache, and gener aUy tone up the system. The dose is small, not unpleasant, and its virtues undoubted. No loss of tlmo,-no inter ruption or stoppage of business while taking the Regulator. Children complaining of Colic, Headache, or Sick Stomach, a teaspoonful or more will give relief. If .taken occasionally by pa tients exposed to MALARIA, will expel the poison and protect them from attack. a piitsiol'LX's opinion. I have been practicine medicine for twentv ver. and have never been able to put up a vegetable compound that would, like Simmons Liver Regu lator, prompdy and effectively move the Liver to action, and at the same time aid (instead of weak ening) the digestive ancTassimilative powers of the system. L. M. IIinton, M. D. .Washington, Ark. SEE THAT YOU GET TnE GKXUIXK. rRBPARBD BY H. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia', Pa. Price SI .00. Look Here Boys. It you want a noat fitting Suit of Clothes, .Koto JT, E3. H.OSS, Merchant Tailor. Having Just received a complete assort ment of Foreign and Domestic Suitings. Something Entirely New. I am prepared to make up Suits cheaper thau the cheapest. Give me a call and he convinced that I mean what I say. J. E ROSS. Corner Squpinoqua and Hamilton streets, east of C. 11. Cooper's. Virginia Cicar anfl Tobacco Store J. W. BOTTOM, Proprietor, Water Stieet, Two Doors Eastot Olney. Finn CigarR, Tobaccos and Smoker Articles, Sold at lowest Market Rates. FRUITS. CANDIES. NOTIONS.&C. PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY There Is no occasion for the most fastidi ous of our citizens to send to Portland or San Francisco for Custom Made Clothes As they can pet Better Fits. Better Work manship, sum for Less Money By Leavlns their Orders with MEANY. He has Just received a large stockof Goods from tne East.- miw liusiness suits irom :i5. Call and See Him and Satisfy Yourself. P. J. MEANY, MERCHANT? TAILOR. Every Body Knows THAT TnE ffiagee Furnace Go. Or Boston Make The t BEST STOVES AND RANGES In The World ; THE BE8T ARE THE CHEAPEST J. A. MONTGOMERY, Sole Agent for Astoria W. E. DEMENT & CO. ASTORIA, - - - OREGON Carry in Stock, DRUGS, CHEMICALS, TOILET and FANCY ARTICLES. Prescriptions carefully Compounded WILL Cut Faster AND EASIER Than any oth er axe made. Hundreds ot woodmen tes tify to Its supe riority. It goes Deep and Sever Sticks. OARNAHAN & CO., Agents Astoria, Price, $1,50. AXEi J exranxnABttiMn!.' J.C.Trullinger Just Received. ,500 Rolls Wallpaper aM Decorations Of- the Latest Designs and THIS 50 Leather, Plush and Carpet Rockers, In Elegant New Style: Just the thins for -&. jHColc3.fy Present. Call and See Us. CHAS. HEiLBQRN. Astoria tafofts.!&A,SL.si,Ks Concomly St.. Foot of Jackson, Astoria. M General MacMnisls anil Boiler lata. Land and Marine Engines BOirF.R TTORK. Steamboat Work and Cannciy Work X SfKCIALTV. Castings of all Descriptions Made to Order at Short Notice. A. I). YVass President. .1. G. IIusTLKlt Secretary. I. W. Cask Treasurer. Jonx Fox Superintendent. F. Armbruster Practical 2y,v WATCIIJUKKU K yggk And gj J- 33 "W" DES Xi 3E3 2L. WATCHES, Clocks, Jewelry and Musical INSTRUMENTS -ltepaired on the Shortest Notice at .Rea sonable Kates. Chenamus St., next to Spexarth's Gun store. B. 5 ALLEN JPKACTICAT. GRATNER and PAINTER. SIGNFAINTING, AND GLASS SHOW CARDS. PLAIN AXI IECORATIVJ5 Paper- Hanging, Frescoing, Etc. Shop on Cass St., next to Stinson's Black smith bliop, Astoria, Oregon, Strike It Rich! BUVYOUK Groceries! Provisions OF Foard & Stokes Their largely increasing trade enables them to sell at tho very lowest margin of profit while giving you goods aiat are of first class quality. Goods Delivered All Over the City. The Highest Price Paid for Junk. w xrv sfS PH m The New Model Range CAN Bl 16 It ; Y( CAN BK IIAD IN Agent. Ca and Examine It; You Will be Buck Patent Cooking Stove, AND OTHER. FIRST CLASS STOVES. Furnace Work, Steam Fittings, Etc., a Specialty. A Full Stock on Hand. Colna Transnor FOE PORTLAND! Through Freight on Fast Time! THE NEW STEAMER TELEPHONE Which has been specially built lor the comfort of passengers will leave "Wilson & Fisher's Dock every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 A.M. arriving at Portland at 1 P.M. Returning leaves Totland every. Tuesday and Thursday at 6 A. M. arriving at Astoria at 1 P. M. EfT"An additional trip will be made on Snndav of Eacii Wooti ipnirin vnrtia,A at 9 O'clock Sunday Mornlne:. for Sound porta, Also to Arrive "WEEK. The Pioneer -Machine Shop BLACKSMITH -3 SHOP Boiler Shop All kinds of ENGINE, CANNEEY, AND STEAMBOAT WOEK Promptly attended to. Aiiecialty made of repairing CANNERY DIES. FOOT OF LAFAYETTE STREETl Established 1870 I. W. CASE, PIOHEER BANKER. ODD FELLOWS' BUILDING . Does a General Banking Business- Drafts Drawn tho World. Available in any pait of Boat Building. JOE LEATHERS Is on deck and prepared to build boats that ho will guarantee as to work and dur ability. Uefers to all who have used boats or his construction. All work guaranteed Cannerymen NOTICE. If jou want to contract for your summers wood now Is your chance. Apply to FRANK L. PARKER Or to the Astoria Wood Yard. Just received at the Astoria Wood Yard 150 cords extra choice Bed Fir Wood. ANo 50 cords fine Vine Maple Limbs. Leave orders with F. X. PARKER. Telephone 36. ASTORLA., ONLY OF Fleased. E. 1C Hawes Is also Agent fi tin Passengers b this route connpot It Koiimn Shades. gigaggs - (. - g-Li. -iBnv ail Coip? U.B.SCOTT, President