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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1887)
CO s JIP JV JiJIW 1 ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER IS, J887. PRICE IVE CENTS. VOL. XXIX, NO. 142. 1887. Cash, and One Price. 1888. JjUUIi Having just completed the opening of our useful as well as our ornamental, our plain as well as our decorated ware, we are now prepared for the trade in all its branches. Buying our goods direct from the manufacturers, and always paying cash for them, we not only get them at regular trade prices, as cheap as San Francisco or Portland dealers can buy, but we also get the cash discount; and if any other dealer thinks he can undersell us. he has only to start in, and we will agree that "the longest pole shall knock down the persimmons1 We guarantee our patrons that for quality and quantity our prices shall be than any other house in town. Our sales of Christmas goods have been large, for which we return thanks to our customers, but we still have a full and varied stock of as unique and beautiful goods as can be found in town, and as we have said relative to other goods, we will not be undersold. The expressions of admiration and satisfaction that have been made by those that have examined or bought from us have been gratifying and assure us that our efforts to please the Astoria public are ap preciated. We shall continue as in the past to try and merit the generous patronage bestowed upon us. Call and see our Dinner Sets, Tea Sets, Toilet Sets, in great variety, Crystal Ware of all lands, Lamps, either hanging, stand, or hall in large stock, and in short, anything you want to buy. Remember also that we are still in the grocery and provision trade and are ready to supply you with anything you want in those lines as cheap as the same quality of goods can be sold by any other dealer. So. remember the place to buy is at BUSINESS CARDS. fOUS II. SMITH, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office, Room 4 and f. over City Book Store. GBO. , XOIaJLSI), ATTORNEY AT LAY. oiiioe lit Kinney's Block, opposite City llaJl, Astoria, Oregon. C, '.V. rULTON. G. C F3r,TOX FLTrOS BROTHERS, ATTORNEYS AT LxVW. ilooins 5 and C, Odd Fellows Building. O. HMISOA. . , , T , ,T , t ii. Attorney at Law and Rotary Pnblic. , Special attention given to practice In the j U. t. Land Office, and the examination of 1 landtltles. Afullsetof Abstract Hooks for Clatsop County in office. Money to loan. l OFFicE-Rooms 4 and 5, oer Citv Bonk I Store. ' I T . A. BOWLBY, Attorney unl Couuxellor tit Inw Office on Chenamus Street, Astoria, Oregon ATTORNEY AT LAW. Rooms No. 11 and 12,rvthian Castle Build ing. c. B. WATSOX, Atty. at Law and Deputy Dist. Atty. All business before the U. S. Lami Office a pecialty, A8TOKIA, - - OllEOOJf. ' T C. UI.VK.IiEY, . I. s. DENTIST. ; Is associated with DR. I,X FOIlCb. Rooms II and 12 Odd Fellows Building, ASTORIA, .... OREGON, rRS. A. J. AXI) J. A. FUE.TOX. Pljyfclciaxts ami Surgeons. Offico on Cass street, three doors south of Odd Follows building. Telephone No. 41. rAYTCTTLE, 31. I. PHYSICIAN AND SUBGEOH Office Rooms C Pythian Building. j Residence On Cedar .Street, back of j St. Mary's HosoltaL j A. K. SET ATT. DENTIST. Rooms In Allen's Building, up stairs, cor ner Cass and Squemoqua -streets. .Astoria. Oregon, - "ft riM. IK. OWESS-ADAHt, Office and resilience. D. K. Wanen's for mer residence, Astoria, Oregon. Diseases of Women and Children, amloi the Eye and Ear, specialties. y 1. CAKKK, 31. I. No. 21, Cass St. Office hours from 9 to 11 a. jr., 2 to 5 r. si. TR.O. . KSTKJ4. PHYSICIAN AND SUKGEON. OrriCK : Gem Building, upstairs, Astoria, Orejron. rK. AliKKKI KI.VSEY, Office at Kinney's Cannery. w;n only attend patients at his office, and may be found there at any hour. . i,.E.,XK ;f O "" "' I'lIVSlfiHV Wl'i sTTijri?riv l lii aiouo -v- " oi M. hO.N , , , tipositeTeIesrr.ph Office, Aston, Oregon. : .KL) 1 rAKKER SURVEYOR OF CLATSOP COUNTY Rc$!deii c : Near CUtopl ill. Robt, Collier, Deputy. P V. IIOLUEX. i Notary Public, Oommissioner of Deeds For Washington Territory. AUCTIONEER. REAL ESTATE AND 3XSURAXCR AXXT. Ofllcc at Unlilen's Auction Rooms. Chena- ntus Street. Astoria. Oregon. EL A S3IITII. DENTIST. Rooms l and 2 1'ytlilau Budding over C. 1L Cooper's Store. ' A Proclamation! Dr. I. Guyinis. rnlKii. . -".., va.: "A year sijro i hail hii;:: fo ; f :! j I'ilis were so highly iwcoiitti.n:.-il ihatlttseil thesis. tcver c!l iiic-fSU-hi have a happier ?3vct. Afters pi-arxiru of a quarter of a centurr, i ;j;flr.::ii litem the best AHM-BIHOU" itiedirlno ever used. I nlv.a; j -scrihu them in isiy prac! ice.' a a a i Cur aK Sll!oi-o Dlsc-i? -. -SOLS EVERY yTJTP-l R. . LONG. Fresh Fruit, Fine Cigars, CONFECTIONERIES. Fresh Milk received dally. A full line of CHOICE GOODS. Opposite Spexarth's Gns Store. i rZk- 1 v3iafW-"S. El 1 I K rH$$ alls cftl J S k r m u m n id r n zm : n NOW THEN OR lull h L. BECK Lumber Enterprises. Fresno, Dec. 17. The San Joaquin Lumber company will start the hmlditHjr of a gijai:t:c milling and lumber plant this month. The company will erect in the mountains three large saw mills, capable of turning out 200, 000 feet ot rough sawed lumber per day. This will be conveyed to a point about twenty miles from this city bjT a flume seventy miles long. Fourteen million feet of luriiber will be required to build the flume. From the end of the flume lumber will be brought into the cit- by a. dummy railroad. In this city there will be erected a large planing mill and sash, door and blind factory, and all the tim ber sawed by the mills will be used up in that manner here. There is standing in the belt of timber in the mountains where the saw mil's will be built fulry one billion two hundred million feet of lumber, 900,000,000 of which is redwood. Fresno county has the largest erove of redwoods in the world, it being 3.G00 acres in extent and the majority of the trees being from 20 to 32 feet in diameter. A branch flume, twenty miles long, wilL be built to tap this and a belt of sugar pine and yellow pine, which is estimated to contain 750, 000,000 feet. Capital to the ex tent of $2,000,000 will be required for the undertakinir. A Disastrous Explosion. WiiSTCiiESTEi:, Pa Dec. 10. An explosion of a twenty-horse pdwer boiler of the Edison Elec tric company works this afternoon caused the death of fivo persons and the injury of three others. Superintendent Walter Embrce was engaged with a force of men close to the stack, unloading a new boiler, and the whole party was buried beneath falling bricks. Em bree and four laborers were killed, and three badly injured. Hettie Joues, aged 10, returning from school, almost a square from the scene, was instantly killed by a flying beam. It is thought that all the bodies have not yet been dis covered. A large force of men to night is digging over the rums by lantern light. THIS ! ! LOWER To Eeduce the Surplus. WA.sniNGTON, Dec. 1G. Sena tor Hoar, of Massachusetts has in troduced a bill to facilitate and develop the resources of Alaska and to open an ove'rland commer cial route between the United States, Asiatic Russia and Japan. The bill directs a survey to be made of a route for the construc tion of a railway b' the most feas ible route from the northern boundary of the United States through British Columbia and Alaska to a desirable harbor on the southern coast of the Alaskan peninsula, on Behring s.'a. Tt is intended to begin at or near Spo kane Falls, on the Northern Pa cific road, and run north on the eastern side of the Rocky moun tains, deflecting westwardly for a branch line to be continued north ami west to a desirable haibor on the Alaskan peninsula. One hun dred thousand dollars is appropn- ' ated for the survey. 'TLs an 111 Wind That brinjTi with It gusts of rain from the north-east. "When the wind Mows from that quarter on a wet day, the rheumatic are apt t suffer, even if seated by their "aln com fortable Ingle"' In a cosy arm chair. A few wineslassfais of Hostettei's Stomach Bit ter s most genial and comforting of specifics-will afford them unspeakable relief. Ther is ample proof on record of Its effica cy in this disease-more particularly It used forks relief at the outsor. Chills and fever, dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint, siuda talk of tone In the kidneys and blad der, should abo be traifp.l rlth tlu ncpfnl family niedklne of botanic origin. Appetite iinimuvd wfrAv-hlnf cti,i.n i.a ,.i. J Us the weary eyelids of the nervous, and the , circulation is enriched and accelerated in , consequence of Its Invigorating and regulat ingaciion. Leitasa protector after get ting wet. A provincial English newspaper, in noticing the recent American board meeting at Springfield, made the ludicrous blunder ofsupposing thai it was a meeting to discuss the propriety of doing away the cen ter-boardinyachts. Suppression of the Menses may be relieved by a dose of Ayer's Pills, which produce the desired effect through sympathetic action. The coast survey asks 559,S85 for the coming fiscal year. Ayer's Sarsaparilla braces up the system; purifies and invigor ates. Invalids need it. JlTTT nJo Onni .-..11 i ...n.l!.tnln 1-wii,uu o jjlid will UUIIimilillClJ' relieve Croup, Whoopim; Cough, and Bronchitis. Sold by W. Dement & Co & SONS. HOTELS AND KESTAUKANTS ARKER HOUSE. WJI. AM.ES, Prop'r. First Glass in Every Respect. Free Coacli to the Souse. cimis. EVENSOX. F. COOK THEI ntral Hotel EVENSON & COOK On the European Plan. LARGE CLEAN ROOMS, A FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT Board by the Day, Week or Month. Private Rooms for Families, Etc. Transient Custom Solicited. Oystew, Fish, Meats, Etc., Cooked to Order. 1VATKK St., Opp. Foard 4t Stokes I FIRST CLASS SALOON I'un in connection with the Premises. The Best of WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. Good ItiUiard Tables and Private Card Rooms. THE Casino Eestauraxit One block from the 0. 11. & N. Dock, Wl. Wl.SERRA, Proprietor. A Good Meal For 25 Cents. Oysters in any Stylo, 23 cents. In connection with this Popular Restau rant is run a 11 st-class Saloon, well stocked with choicest Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Virainia Ciffar anfl Toliacco Store J. W. BOTTOM, Proprietory Water Street, Two Doors East of Olney. Flae Cigars, Tobaccos and Smokers Article, Sold at Lowest Market Kate3. FRUIT3. CANDIES NOTIONS.&C. Furniture and Upholstering, Mattresses Mado and Kepalred, Paper Hanging, Carpets Sewed and Laid. Furniture Sold on Commission. Shop, corner Main and Jefferson Streets MARTIN OLSEN. Ge Christmas. THE HOLIDAYS. Ne ars. Useful Presents for Men and Boys, Fancy Silk Handkerchiefs, Fancy Bordered Japanese Silk Handkerchiefs, Hemstitched and Plain Chinese Silk Handkerchiefs, Hemstitched and Plain Japanese Handkerchiefs, Fancy Bordered Linen Handkerchiefs, Hemstitched Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs. Plain Pnre Linen Handkerchiefs.' Rolled Gold Plated Sleeve Buttons, Scarf Pins, and Collar Buttons. Fancy Colored Cotton Hosiery, Fine Black Cotton Hosiery, Fine Brown Cotton Hosiery, Plain Herino Hosiery, Fancy Merino Hosiery, Fine Wool Hosiery. Heavy "Wool Hosiery. Fancy Silk Scarfs. Ties. Bows, and Neckwear of all Kinds. Fine Far Top (patent spring) Dress Gloves, Fine Mocha (undressed kid) Dress Gloves, Fine Dogskin nnlined Dres3 Gloves, Lined French Coaster Town Gloves, Lined Dogskin (Boys) Town Gloves, Wool Yam Knit Gloves, Wool Yarn Knit Mittens. Fancy Embroidered Night Shirts, Trilled Muslin Night Shirts, Fine Alpaca, Silk and Wool, and Pure Silk Umbrellas, Gum Coats, Wool Knit Jackets, Scarfs, tc., &c. Foil lines in Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps, Trunks, Valises, &o. 2?"SoIe agent for "Conger's Chest Shield Undershirts," and "House's Double Seated Drawers." I. L. OSGOOD, KINNEY'S BRICK BUILDING, ASTOBIA, OREGON. Opposite Rescue BOOTS & SHOES P.J.GOODMAN. Genuine English Porpoise Shoes for Gents. Indies' Flexible Shoes ia FliKXCH. KANGAROO & DONGOLA KID. Boys' and Youths' Shot-s of jill kinds, Misses', Children's and Infants' Heels and Spring Heels We Deal in Boots and Shoes Only Van Oil sen & Co, DEALERS IN Hardware and Ship Chandlery, Pure Oil, Bright Varnish. Binacle Oil, Cotton Canvas, Hemp Sail Twine, Cotton Sail Twine. Lard Oil, Wrought Iron Spikes, Galvanized Cut Nails. Agricultural Implements, Sewing Machines, Paints, Oils, Groceries, 3E3to. Established 1870 I. W. CASE, HOMES BANKER, ODD FEM.QWS' BTJ1XDING. Does a General Banking Business Drafts Drawn Available in any part of the World. Columbia Market; .Northeast corner Water and West 9th Sts. C H. Powell, Propr. I give my patrons Good Meat. In Good Style anu at iteasonaoic .race, fitro mo n rnll nml T will Irv nnil make it suit you to call again. Family trade solicited. J. C. CLINTON DEALER IN CIGARS AND TOBACCO, FRUITS, NUTS, Candies. Smokers' Articles, Etc. New Goods Becelved Daily, Opposite City Boole Store. BOOTS AND SHOES! Of Best Quality, and at LOWEST PRICES, AT THE SIGN OF THEJOLDEN SHOE. JOHN" TTftSST. Strike It Rich -Bor YOUR- Groceries! Provisions oe Foard & Stokes Their largely Increasing trade enables them to self at the very lowest margin ol proflt while giving you goods that are of first class quality. Goods Delivered Al! Over the City. The Highest Price Paid tor Junk. Engine House. I I III. P"WJ' -UCT Wilson & Fishe Ship Chandlers, HEAVY AND SHELF HAEDWARE FARM IMPLEMENTS, Paints, Oils, and Varnish, LOGGERS1 SUPPLIES. PROVISIONS AND MILL FEED AGENTS FOR SALEM PATENT ROLLER MILLS Portland Boiler Mills, FAIRBANKS' SCALES. ASTORIA. OREGON. Cannery For Sale. The Pacific Union Cannory, At Upper town Is offered for sale wirh Flva Lots on which the property Is situated and adjtcent;two of the lota having a water frontace of 100 feet on the ship channel of the Columbia river. The cannery and be longing is In good order throughout. For further psirticuiars inquire of Peter Brown, on the premises. Magnus C. Crosby Dealer in HAMABE, IRON, STEEL; Iron Pipe and Fittings, STOVES, TINWARE AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS SHEET LEAD STRIP LEAD SHEET IRON, TCLn. AND Copper. Wing Lee Co. Importers and Dealers In CHINESE AND JAPANESE FANCY GOODS Curiosities, Lacquered Ware, Ivory Toys, Fine Crocker, Silk and Crape Hand kerchiefs, Shawls, Tea. Ladie3' Underwear, Etc., Tliis is the only place to buy the Cheapest and finest articles for your Christmas and Holiday Presents. For this store which we start here is from "Wlnj; Ding LunR & Co., Yokohama, Japan. You are welcome to call and examine our Immense new stock. 2o trouble to show yoi the prices. J. H. D. GRAY Wholesale and retail dealer In. GROCERIES FLOUR, AKD FEE Hay, Oats, Straw, Wood, Etc. LIME, SAND AND CEMENT General Storage and TVliarfcui n reason able terms. Foot of Benton stmt, Astoria, Oregon. $. A. STINSON & CO.. BLACKSM1THING, it Capt. Rogers old stand, corner or Ca3 and Court Streets. Ship and Cannery work, Horseslioe'.iic Wagons made and repaired. Good work guaranteed. .jsafcag5&