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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1889)
C33 Tfef JtoUtj gistorhm. ASTORIA, OREOOX: SUNDAY. .fEBKUAUY 10. 1559. ISSUED EVEKY MORNING. (Monday excepted.); J. F. HALLORAN & COMPANY, Publishers and Proprietors, 81.50 a sight nnil a doughnut, bat it's dollars to dimes that he'll give a nioro entertaining show than some of the fakirs who'vo got cash for scolding and maligning onr community. AaroBixy Build txo. Cass Street. Terms of .Subscription. IS ct3 coon Served bv Carrier, per weclc .. spnr hv M,iil nrr month ono jear si-"' Free of postage to subscribers. The Asteria: guarantees to It? adver tisers the largest circulation of any newspa per published on the Columbia river Portland's smallpox experience cost it 810,153 Bev. Dr. Garner will officiate in the Congregational church this evening. At the Baptist church tonight, Eev. A. LeRov. Subject, "The Wines of the Biole." The Dolphin, Ariadne, Polar Bear xind five masted schooner Louis crdsse out yesterday. Stale senator F. A. Moore, of Co lumbia county, hs introduced a bill fixing a bounty on sea lions. Al. Reed, of Gardiner, is the latest canner who is said to bo contem plating tho establishment of a can nery ct Alaska. At the Presbyterian church this merning: Subject "The Anchor of Hope;" subject of evening discourse, "A Queenly Woman." Services at the Methodist church to-day. Subject, 11 a. si., "Praise;" 730 P. M., "Tnrning Points in Life." Song service, 7 p. m. E. Lund & Co., have finished their contract with the Astoria & South Coast Railroad Co., near Skipanon. They cleared eight acres for 173 per acre. Tho examination of Ned Herrison. C. Dahl, nnd J. Melin, charged with robbery from Peter Ecklund comes up berore justice May at 10 o'clock to-morrow. Members of Co. H." O. N. G.. are J requested to meet nt their armory nt 1:JU, this nftorrjeon: it la tho inten tion to havo the photograph of all the mcmuer3 tasen; the three years' term ot a largo number of the mombers of tho company expired yesterday, and oetore mey get tnoir discharge, and aro mustered ortt, it is desired that thero shall bo a photograph of tho company n.3 it exists, so far ns pos sible. In the Circuit court yesterday the uireciors oi mo Astoria and south Coast Railway Company brought suit against Mary Eodnev" Adair. Sam'l D. Adair, B. A. Owens-Adair and Jno. Adair, alleging that compensation had been offered and refused for right of way mrougii property or defendants and asking that tho Dronertv be con demned and right of way granted by tue court or parties duly appointed tuereoy. The usual charges of maltreatment of the crew by the officers whenever au American ship comes into port have been made. This time it is in Portliind by Chas. Jewell, of the C.S. uuioert, against the first mate. He and two others brought charges there and then cam'tj down here. Deputy marshal wait came down yesterday evening to brius bav John Dint?, one of the men whom sheriff Smith ap- preuendeu nere. Passengers up on the Reed last night: E. B. Cushman and wife, Miss Josie Bryce. Mrs. Stroble, L W. Case, Frank Patton. Mrs. Parish, Misses Gilbert, sisters of Mrs. A. V. Allen. Mel. A. Warren, Alex. McDonald, E, H. Merrill. S. A. Salveson died yesterday at St. Mary's hospital of consumption, in the 32nd year of his age. The fun eral will be from coroner Surpre- nant s undertaking rooms to-morrow. under the auspices of tho C. R. F. P. U." at 9 a. si. The choir of Grace church, assisted by the best local talent ot Astoria and Mrs. D. Gocdsell of Portland will give a concert at Liberty hall Tuesday evening. Feb. 12tu. Doors open at 730; concert at 8 o'clock P. M.; tickets for sale at Griffin & Reed's. To our newspaper exchanges: over haul your mailing lists and see that The Astorian is there; some, nota bly from southern and eastern Oregon, don't show up only semi-oc- casionally; send regularly, or we'll have to cnt looso from this end of the line. SKXSE AND NONSENSE. Written Last Ntent to Till np This Space. Well, next Thursday will be the 14th, and on that day the state of Oregon will be thirty years of age, having been admitted February 14th, 1859. Our commonwealth has at tained a man's growth, age and posi tion, and is destined to be the peer in woalth and population of any state in tho union. On next Thursday also comes that anniversary custom of sending around anonymous insults under tho head of "Valentines." Theoriginal sentiment was a pretty one; a young man send ing his best girl an honest expression of loving sentiment and she recipro cating, but of late the 14th of Febru ary affords opportunity for cowardly curs to vent their Bpjte in sending decent people miserable caricatures, and insulting rhymes. Henry Villard U3ed to be as merry as a cricket when ho was a newspaper scribbler. Ho grew grave ns an owl when he was president of the Northern Pacific railroad. He became mum as an oyster when fortune turned her back on him. Now, when he again sees the sunshine, he has undergone, another change and is impressive as a Turk. But he says that his happiest days since ho left tho Alps were those in which he scooped his contemporary on a midnight arrest ot thievM, or sich. The Evening Telegram often idiotic in its local column?, is more than usually asinine of late. Talking about the detention of tho Oregon it heads a foolish articlo "Astoria's Smallpox." Being fully acquainted with the facta in the case that paper's evident effort to malign this commu nity is manifest, and is deserving ot contempt. What was done here was what the law demanded. Had that not been done, had the health officer allowed the steamer to go on, what a howl there would have been, and how the Telegram would have joined the chorus 1 Tho heaviest salmon caught in the English fisheries last year was m the Tay. It was four feet five inches long, twenty-eight inches in girth, and weighed fifty-two pounds. A fitty-pound fish has been taken in the Hants Vvon at Christ church, New Zealand. F. E. Eldridge, of French Prairie, owns n farm that was selected in 1817 by an agent of the Hudson Bay company. The first crop ot wheat was harvested in 1816, and since then the laud has rested only five years. It now produces thirty-fivo bushels to the, acre. At its last business meeting the As toria Building & Loau association loaned S9.800, at Gl and 5S months. Owing to their departure for Alaska, Mes,sri. F. It. Stokes and J. R. Gil strap resigned from tho board of di rectors; Messrs. Lyman O. Kinney and Thomas Dealey were elected to fill the vacancies. The first printing olfic.i on the Pa cific coast was built by the two mis sionaries, Whitman and Spaulding, who settled on Lapwai creek, a branch of the Clearwater, and twelve miles nbovo Lewiston, Idaho. The bouse still staudiug, was originally a two-story building, though only the ground floor remains, and was made of logs and shakes. It is now used by the Indians for a stable. In this building the first printing office west of tho mountains on the Pacific coast wa3 established. The material was originally sent by the American board of foreign missions in Boston, in 1809, to the Sandwich Islands, and in 1840 was presented by the first na tive church of Hawaii to tho Lapwai mission. . U. Hall came along with it to set tho type. Tho press is now in tho state library at Salem. Only twelve days more of the legis lature", and then peace for a while. The legislature is going to pass a good many "laws,'' protective, op pressive, prohibitory and interfering. The popular idea of "law" is some thing fine; but "law" doesn't execute itself and is lifeless, simply as a stat ate. "Law" is only a collection of memoranda, wise and otherwise. The real "law" is public opinion, custom and habit. Tho newspapers of Ore gon can make more "law" in this state, that is "law" that will be ob served, th3n thirty-nino legislatures in ns manv sessions. Our legislature is making a record for itself in appropriating more money than any legislature for a number of years; some oi tue appropriations are and will be declared unconstitutional Wish some clever talented lecturer like Nourso would come along this winter and give Astorians a pleasant lecture, something interesting and in structive. We havo no fault to find with these itinerants who come here with scornfully tilted noses sniffling and scolding and telling what ought to be done, for so much a night, That's their way of living and they must live, of course, like the rest of us. but all the same we prefer listen ing to a genial, jovial, broad brained man or woman ou the lecture plat form who will give us some new ideas and send us away feeling better and glad that we'd been thero. It may be selfish or weak, or wrong, but the most of us poor miserable sinners like a little consolation and cheer in stead of being scolded nnd scoffed and roared at, as though we were bad children and deserved correction. Watson, formerly of Astoria, now of ABhland. cot oil a cood thine yes terday. Talking of a certain man and his career, Bays Watson, says he, "well, lm more interested in my k-front, than I nm in my k-rear." meaning of course, that his future was of moro importance to him than tne past, and with a nappy play on words besides. That's bo, too. Wliat's tne use of you or 1 going through life with our heads turned looking backl Better look ahead and make the best of what we have. You can have what you like simply by liking what you have. How Men Die. it we know all tho methods or. ap proach adopted by an enemy we are tho better enabled to ward off the danger and pospono theinoment when surrender becomes inevitable. In many instances the inherent strength of the body suffices to enable it to op pose tue tendency toward death. Many however have lost tlies'b forces to snch an extent that there is little or no help. Iu other cases a little aid to the wc-'ikened Lungs will make all the difference between sudden death and many years of useful life. Upon the fit6t symptoms of a Cough, Cold or any trouble of tho Throat or Lungs, give that old and wellknown remedy Bosehee-'s German Syrup, a earful trial. It will prove what thousands say of it to be, tho "bene factor of any home." i i Little Johnny Had Seen Those Picture. how hard it has been for him all through his days, is it to be wondered at that ho declines or is loth to part witn wuai was so aeany won, so hard ly earned. In tho strictest confidence the writer was told last week that tho O. R. &N. Co., had four 6hin3nowon the way, loaded with rails to build a railroad from Portland to Astoria. So now The Astoman confidentially tells its readers. Thero i3 just as mnoh reality in this as thero is in a good many other railroad enterprises wo hear so much of now-a-duys. There's one way, nnd only ono way to build a railroad put up the money, or get some ono else to put it up and then build the road and before the money gives out, bond the road for more. "There is death in the pot," say3 Solomon. It certainly looks like it if Oalifornfa cabbago is cooked therein. Only last Friday, over at Shelton, Mason Co., W. T., a man and his wife and child died from eating California cabbage. This may discourage tho importation of that succulent vegeta ble from our sister state and give the resident Chinese gardners at Smith's point a monopoly. DOES TUE CITY OF PORTLAND Own The Legislature of This State? Every body is getting along nicely on the Dixie Thompson and are well pleased with their change. The kick ers npologized to Dr. Estes yesterday morning. At the pest house both patients are doing well;, the last case is lighter than the first. Dr. Estes thinks, that ho-cau, with safety, strike his flag on the Dixie next Tuesday. One day last week, while nn old man named Harbour and another man by the name ot Foster, living on the little Nestucca were sawing with a cross cut iu the timber the top ot a tree that had been hanging on an other tree broke and fell instantly killing Mr. Harbour and seriously in juring Mr. Foster. It is not known whether he will survive. A teacher last week announced that she wished the pupils to write a short essay on "The Cigarette Habit." And little Johnny, after much patient la bor, handed iu this: "The habits which is worn by the cigarette girls is much to lite for winter, this is Al i know about The "Cigarette Habit." The Georgia Minstrels last night gave a very good performance, every member of the company doing well. They introduce some new songs, fresh gags, excellent music and many taking features and pleasing special ties. Tho dancing was good, and tho fun genuine, healthy fun. "Min strel" business is wearing; those iu the business are forever trying to think up somethingnew. but are ignor ing the fact that good voices are and must be the main attraction in a show of this kind. The minstrels last night brought iu some good vo cal music nnd some that was not so good, but taken all round tho troupe is way above the average. Strauss & Selig deserve credit for their efforts to make a comfortable theater ot that opera house. Maybe if they bnd full control of it they would and could do more. A little change would make it a nice, cozy theater. At present it is a veritable cave of winds, and the boy who is forever going up and down stairs or capering over the seats in the gallery sends the wild echoes echo answers dying, dying, dying, greatly to the discomfort of the dying heroine ou tho stage. At present our Astoria theater is tho only one in the United States that has two drop cur tains; the nicest one being at the entrance. PIA1109 and Organs. Qriffln & Reed are agents for the cele brated Lyon & Healy Organs. These instruments are beautifully finished in ola-k walnut, unsurpassed Iu variety and qaality if tone, nnd fully warranted for five years. Our S85 Organ cannot be equaled. A splendid small upright Piano for sale or rent on ypry reason- auie ierm. v;aii ana examine. Griffin & Reed. The above is a very plain question. It is asked in ail seriousness. Tiie AsToniAN was told several weeks ago that Mr. Holcomb told certain bar pilots that if they agreed to a certain proposition that he made them, that he would guarantee that no legisla tion prejudicial to them would be passed at Salem. The Astobiam only gives this from hearsay, though concurrent circum stances givo it tho appearance of truth. It was further informed yesterday that a prominent shipping merchant of Portland made a proposition to two Astoria sailor boarding house proprietors in his office in Portland that if they would move their busi ness from "that place'1 (Astoria) "up here,") (Portland) that he would "see that the sailor boarding honio bill was killed in thojegislature." Now, if this be so, tho question arises, Do these gentlemen own the goods that they are said to promise to deliver? Are the Oregon legislators the property of Portland men to be swapped or sold or withheld at Port land's pleasure? The AsroniAsbelieves not. But it believer that such alleged promises indicate just what the whole thing nmounts to an effort on the part of Portland to cinch Astoria. Every day from six to twenty Port land residents go to Salem to influ ence committees and legislation. That is nil right. But if one or two go from hero they are pirates, robbers, unblushing scoundrels, and soon. It seems it is all in tho location. If a sailor boarding houso keeper is in Portland and dijvies with thoso who can worry him it he doesn't, he is all right; it he lives in Astoria, he is a hard case. If a man goes from Portland to talk to a member of the legislature he is a high toned christian gentle man. If a man goes from Astoria to do just the same thing he is a low black guard, n corrupt creature, and the Oregontan has to look through Web ster's unabridged to find new epithets of opprobrium. In the meantime it is for tho legis lators of this commonwealth to dem onstrate by their actions it they aro or not owned by the men who claim to be able to make them vote just as they say they shall. i Their IJiisiness Boomi.i;;. Probably no one tiling has caused sw-h a general revival of trade at J. W. Conn's Drug Storo as his giving aa to their customers' f so many free tiinl bottles of Dr. Kins's New Discovery 4or Consumption. Their tiaJV is simply enormous in this cry valuab article from the fact that It always cutis and never disappoints. Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Ciouji. and all throat and lung diseases quickly cured. You can test It before buying by getting a trial bottle free, large size SI. Every flying nnd bottle warranted. om mb a i to -ma nmMm iiiimii M. Herrick who is at the head of a hundred thousand dollar cannery out fit, arrived yesterday afternoon. His steamer the Jeannie, will arrive to day, and about Thursday he sails for Alaskan waters. To tell just where he is. going would be to give the business away. He will be heard from next fall. He has Hiney Brown on the steamer and will take him with him to Alaska. Furnished IIooids to .Let. t irst Class, ana wi-u located : apply to T. M. Dwyer. next door to W. W. Par ker s residence. PERSONAL MENTION. If vou want a suit of clothes, under wear, hat, cap, boots or oes, good as the best, cheap as the cheapest, go to Parker's Empire Store, corner ot Sec ond and Renton streets, next door to the postomce. advice to motueks. Mrs. Wixslow's Soothixo Sykup should always be used for children teething. It soothes the child, sottens the gums, allays all rain, cures wind cholie, and Is the best remedy for diar-rhoea.Twcnty-five cents a bottle. They say that after the reformed drunkards and reformed gamblers .snd reformed everything else are through with scolding us for 23 a night and grub, an eastern reformed "journalist" is coming; he'll work for; lectins Notice. a nipptincr of tho Astoria Real Estate Association is to be held on Monday, February llth. 1839, at the Occident Hotel, at 8 p. m. Stockholdebe. Go to Jeff's lor oytcr. We live in deeds not iu years. Death is but the honorable discharge, to the true soldier, after the battles ot life are over and the victories won. Our friend3 will die and our graves may grow up with weeds we may build tombs of granite, with solemn sphinxes to watch the sacred spot; but wealth nor rank nor office can perpetuate memory immortality may be predicted of deeds only. There' fore ladies and gentlemen, let ns look ont fer our deeds, after our cood humored county clerk Tren chard has recorded them, go and cet them and take care ot your deed6. You'll need them when the boom comes and you are selling your cor ner lots for lots of money. Talking of corner lots and booms; do you know that it is hardly fair sometimes for newspapers to go after what is usuall known as tho "moss back." Because very often tho man who is called a "mossback" and sneered at for being a little slow, and nnprogressive, is really deserving of a more kindly feeling. Many a man has been cut to the quick by unfeel ing sarcasm that way. Many n one has come to this coast with light heart and high hopes, worked and toiled and built castles in the air but was unable to put substantial founda tion nnder them, and at last by dint of economy and effort succeeded in accumulating a little to keep gaunt Want from the door and now, when old age steals on and his manhood's prime lies in shadow as he goes toward lift's setting sun, knowing All odd lengths of goods accumulated in the various departments will toe placed on our counters this week and ! ! RUdimBEalSSS F COST THE I...,..,,. ,, ,,,-,,, Ml I MBlimilllll-Mll '""L1IL TtJttgrtn.wfr-MWTfoit i Timi --'''' ' aaajpmBnywiwMiBs'" ... l- .. ..;.. , -ttt . -. - r Jno. Hunter was in town yesterday. Mrs. Clara Johnson is ill with pneu monia. J. D. Higgin3 ha3 returned from Weston. Judge S. C. Hastings is registered at the Occident. P. W. Weeks returned from Salem yesterday morning. John A. Montgomery, who has been quite ill, is reported better. Al. Stream came over from tho other side of the Columbia yesterday. Hon. C. Loinenweber arrives to-day from a two months trip through Eu rope. Hon. J. H. D. Gray has our thanks for copies of legislative bills and enactments. O. W. Knowles. the millionaire "ho tel proprietor of Portland, was in tho city yesterday. A. H. Stone, P. C. Havird, and Jas. Cnsick, of Knappa, were in the city ytsterdav. Col. Dow came up from San Fran cisco on tho State yesterday. He was the first man to start a newspa per at what was then called Umatilla Junction in ibb-l. To Gray's Harbor. AND SH0ALWATER BAY. The Steamer GEN. MILES. fiZ? W. P. WniTCOMli, SItater, Will leave lor Gray's Harbor Evory Tuesday Will sail for Slioalwater Bay once a month, U freight Justitles. I met Dick the other day, and he I seemed sort'er puzzled: 1 asked him what's the matter? and sez he, I to get myself it new suit, and my hat looks as though it needed a rest; and sez he, jouknow, Jim, my oldest boy he's going Want TILLAMOOK, Shoalwater Bay and Gray's Harbor The V. & C S. S. Co.'s Steamer "ALLIANCE." Will sail from l'OUTLAXD as follews: GRAY'S IIAHBOR-Tliursda. October L it, 18 and 25. November l, 8. 15,22 anil 29, December 6, 13, 20 anil 27. SllOALWATKK BAY Octo'ier 4 ami IS. N. vembcr l . 15 ami 29. Dice mber 13 ana 27. TILLAMOOK Monday-October 1. 15 and 29. November i2 and 2G. December 10 and 21. " Steamer leaves Portland, from foot of O itieet at 8 P. M. on above dates. Astoria 6 A M, the following mominR. , The Company reserves lho right to change time and place of sailing. if. tt. aTltONG, President. C. P. UPsllUK. Agent Astoria. The Str. Telephone ifESSt GEO. M'LEA!C SAM. IT.EEMAN. McLean & Freeman. BLACKSMITHS. Special Attention paid to all Ship and Steam buat Repairing HORSESHOEING. Logins Cainn Work a SpecUlty. All kinds uf Uiacksmltnlng done to order. Shop, corner Jefferson and Olney streets, Astoria, Oregon. For Rent. The store room formerly occupied oy tne .Empire store. An eligible loca tion .Mid a good business stand. Apply to ClIA.3. S. GUXDERSOX. The latest style of Gents Boots and Shoes at P. J. Goodman's. CMlOrcn Cry forPitclier's Castoria T college to get edicated, and he I 0 must, have a new riff, hut my poket book Is Renins siri'er hungry, and 1 don't know what to do ! Q g g here, sez I ter Dick ! y.. don't know anything if you lUU ain't aware of the fact that HERMAN WISE is sellinc his stock ofTat greatly reduced prices, in grder to make room for his immense bl'RlNCt stock. II i II n I nict ick Ja5 3 Iater' US! lid! and sez he, as he laffed nni .fivn mn the Lodca wink ! 't do beat anytliing how HERMAN WISE, that little feller In the Occident Hotel build ing, slaughters doming. A Fine and Well Sclcctct Stock OF Watches, Jewelry,Clocks, etc. -AT- Fast Time Between Portland and Astoria. Leaving Astoria Monday 6 a. m, Tuesday.. .....4 M P. M. " ' Wednesday 7 SO r. si. Friday .7 :S0 p. st ' " Saturday i :U0 p. m. Closo connections at Kahuna to the Sound ; at Astoria with the Gen. Mild lor llwaco, OvstervllleandGrajs Harbor; at Portland with tne o. o. ic. it., anu wesi siao trains. I. w. V. It. it : Vancouver and Orouon City boats, and Eastern bound trains. Morgan & Sherman. GROCERS I And Dealers In Cannery Sop Special Attention Clvon to Filling Of Orders. A FULL LINE CARRIED And Supplies furnished at Satis- , factory Terms. Purchases delivered in any part ot the city. Office and "Warehouse In flume's New Eulldlng on Water Street. P. O. Box 153. Telephon e No. 57. ASTORIA, OREGOS. For Sale Seaside Lots. CHOICE LOTS IN SIHLKEY'S ADDI tiou to Ocean Grove for salo upon rea sonable terms. Now Is tho time to buy be fore tho boom. Apply to OEO. NOLAND. Or C. It. Thomson. H. EKSTROM'S Jewelry Establishment. All goods warranted, as guaranteed. Opposite Crow's gallery, Astoria, Oregon, BOOTS AND SROES! Of Best Quality, and at LOWEST PRICES, HORTHERH GROWH PLANTS AND bbtUb Aro acknowledged the best, being hsrdler, more productive and yield better crops. FINE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE Conulol&f oaljtbifcMtTirietlair&iAnedrrc ca ftppU' ciueo. njui.fwftiii 3u- X TrA.-5T & CO, iFionirra and Seedsmen, Sr. Paul, Minn, IE I . s EgwFlORUTS AND SEEDSMEN, Sr. PAUL, MlNNB -AT THE- SIGH OF THEJOLDEM SHOE. p yEwwnci3 rou ttte rwcz or t r Ta Imttu an m lad "' novel- I tst,w m,tsS) ixjl cafr. &. VMiA th ilBMk at ftCTBBKLlPEUrilM OtJTTTT tad U 8w no Oooc nT lUCIILftJUe. IM Prtaulnz OotSt ta aosrpleu witfe 4 il Tn TTftUUf k ta ttulnvatwn. iatel tad fttaakBt ding In a nok Gini ujwucn. uuf bK aa ft vlalowtBiknr, ct ut 103a AcS1Uy (ipifcriU HKSJprui K&ootb mfhe.. Miktt rm aukn: iit-boo ioo, bti3,u soo..rcn. . rivuau yf-invrotfrU, ivvirr''.. vil'W il:5tH in J3. OttStSOa. 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