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MARINE NEWS AND NOTES.
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ASTOHIA, OREGON:
THURSDAY.. .IloCTOBEU 10. 1&9.
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(Monday excepted.)
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Free or j'.t:ge to subscribers.
ThiE Astokia.v guarantees to Its adver
tisers the larked circulation or any iifwpa
per published on the Columbia rh er
No council meeting last night no
quorum.
The fifth annual convention cf the
Columbia Waterway association meets
in Portland to-day.
Three and three-quarter pounds is
the -weight of the largest potato
shown in this office this season so far.
N. J. Bergman will begin making
fresh candy at his factory to-day,
which is well fitted up for'that pur
pose. Saddle mountain addition may be
on the market before long. There is
reported to be some little dilhculty re
garding the grade.
The county court will meet, as a
board of equalization at ten o'clock
on Monday the 14th inst, to equalize
the assessment roll of the county.
Sheriff Smith has the delinquent tax
list for school district No. 23 in his
possession. Parties owning land in
that district should look the matter up
and save costs.
Capt. Lamb informs the Tillamook
Watchtower that the high water dur
ing the late storm carried away sixty
feet of the unfinished government
works on Dry Stocking bar.
That nuisance known and hailed as
John Cyr, was before a commission in
lunacy yesterday afternoon. He was
put in jail to sober up, when his case
will leceive furthei consideration.
The latest medical pronouncia
mento is that smoking after meals is
injurious. Since it is already estab
lished that smoking before meals is
injurious, the only lefnge is to stop
eating.
Satisfactory arrangement has been
made with the W. U. telegraph com
pany by the Astoria and South Coast
Railway company and a lino of tele
graph will shortly be b;igun along the
route of the road.
Peter Peterson w:is ancited yester
day for using abusive language, and
brought before Justice May, found
guilty aud fined 520 or ten days in
jail. He went to jail in default of the
money to pay his fine.
Sweet peas and strawberries are
still procurable. Fresh salmon, tooth
some trout, clams and oysters are
served, and mallard ducks are not
scarce. The apple crop is a good one
and grapes are fatill plentiful.
A first class newspaper, a large and
finely appointed hotel aud a commo
dious and comfortable theater are the
three requsites of a city that wants to
grow. In this case the law of supply
aud demand finds striking illustra
tion. J. H. Mansell yesterday sold to
Ralston Cox, a real estate broker of
Corvallis, a block of twelve lots in
Riverside, for S4S0. H. T. Pindlay
also bought lots 5 and 6, block 5, E. J.
Reilly, lot 4, block 5, and D. Hansen,
lot 7, block 2. in the same -addition.
Over 700 extra copies of The Daily
Astorian were sold yesterday con
tianing the railroad reports, to be
sent to various parties east The ar
ticles, coming fiom an official source
make good reading for those inter
ested in the advancement of the
town. The reports will appear in
The "WkkkiiY next Saturday.
-An Olympia dispatch says: "The
Olympia & ChehaUs railroad company,
which connects this city with the
Northern Pacific at Tenino, has been
sold, but all efforts have failed in as
certaining the purchaser, although it
is thought by some to be the South
ern Pacific." That road was sold last
Monday to an eastern syndicate.
State fish commissioner E. P.
Thompson says that the commission
is emphatically opposed to the in
troduction of cat-fish in any of the
waters of Oregon for two good rea rea
eons: They are an enemy to our salni
an and other food fishes. Second,
our fish are superior to catfish in
every respectj while the catfish has
no commercial value. He says, "A
great many persons have applied to
us for catfish to introduce into lakes
and streams, but for the foregoing
reasons we have declined to furnish
them."
Wallace & Wharton says the St
Helens Mist, who have been engaged
at Columbia City in packing sturgeon
for shipment to the eastern market
for the past year, moved their estab
lishment to Kalama this week, where
they will commence packing as soon
as the season opens. The change was
made necessary by the new method
they will use to preserve their.fish
while in transit Instead of barreling
them and using preservaline, they will
freeze their fish and ship them in -refrigerator
cars, which will necessitate
quick handling, for if. the fish after be
ing frozen thaw the least particle be
fore put in the refrigerator they will
goon spoil.
1
ShorthancJ.
Private instruction by practical verr
batlra reporter. Years experience.
Chas.E.Rttston
Law Reporter, Astoria, Or.
He Substitutes Assumptions Por Pacts.
And Sides With The Obstructionists.
The following is received from
Washingten:
Poetland, Oregon, Aug: 26, 1889.
Professor T. C. Mendenhall, Super
intendent U. S. Coast ami Ueo
dctic Survey, Washington, D. C.
Sir: In conformity with the in
structions of your predecessor, Mr. F.
M. Thorn, dated April 27, 1889, 1 have
the honor to make the following re
port upon the crossing of. jfomig's bay
by a proposed R. R. bridge and trestle.
Tiii ; bridge is to be coi,l meted by
the Astoria and South . o.is! li il
road Co., a line of load commeiicing
at Astoria running along the Colum
bia to Smith's Point crossing the 'bay
by the most direct course and run
ning along the tide lands to Ciatsop
plains. The projected route is thence
by a pass? near -the head of Lewis aud
Clarkes river to the Nehalem, Tilla
mook bays, etc, The road is of stand
ard gauge. I append a clipping of a
Portland paper to show that the com
pany have filed an acceptance to the
terms of the act regulating the bridg
ing of navigable waters, etc. I have
obtained from the chief engineer Xhe
following details of constructien:
Total length of trestle and bridge
8,400 ft Bents of 4 piles each to be
15 ft G inches between centres. Piles
16 to 20 inches, diameter at large end.
The draw-span across the channel
will be 254 feet over all.
The opening or clear span will be
110 feet. The pivot pier will be 26 ft
wide, and the abutment piers will be
each 6 ft. wide.
In considering the effect this bridge
will, have upon the navigation of the
Columbia and Young's and Lewis and
Clarke's rivers, the future interests
and importance of the port of Astoria
demand recognition and protection
far more than the present While for
the present the great transconti
nental railroads have made such com
bination thatPuget sound, as an ocean
outlet and terminus, is their objective
point, it does not seem probable that
the Columbia river will long remain
unnoticed. The completion of the
stone jetty will probably greatly im
prove the entrance to the-river so that
in the near future vessels of the larg
est class may enter and nnd"seoure
harbor within ten or twelve miles only,
from the sea. A large city maj, there
fore be reasonably expected to be lo
cated at or near Astoria. Young's bay
in that event would afford the best fa
cilities for wharf room and mooring
of vessels. Wharves and piers could
readily bo built out over the flats to
the channel through the bay. This
channel, already very fair could be
improved and maintained by dredg
ing, affording abundant room for ship
ping, and for manufacturing estab
lishments. Young's river is mainly a
tidal estuary, extending six or seven
miles to the head of tide water, and a
short distance above that point the
river falls from a hight of CO or 70
feet, affording a good water power.
At present the commerce of Young's
river is small, a mill for the manufac
ture of wood pulp is the only manu
facture established. The river is nav
igable to nearly the head of tide-water.
The tide lands along the shores are
partly reclaimed by diking, and being
very productive, are valuable.
Lewis and Clarke's river is naviga
ble to about the same distance as
Young's "river. The-, fall just abovel
the head of tide water is not quite so
high as that in the former stream.
Valuable deposits of fire and pottery
clays are located on this stream and
the" material is loaded on, barges and
towed to the works at Portland. The
bottom in Young's bay is generally
very soft and though the sonnding
lead indicates hard bottom in places
it is probable that boring or driving
piles would develop a soft silt bottom.
There is no doubt that the obstruction
presented by this long trestle would
have the effect to shoal the
water in the bay to a verv
considerable extent, and the pivot and
abutment piers would also have a sim
ilar effect in the channel. The sec
tion opposed to the flow of the cur
rents would be represented by 542
bents, or say 200 piles 16 to 20 inches
diamoter besides the section the pier
and abutments. Ih my opinion in the
the advanced practice in building
bridges with long spans, 110 feet is an
inadequate width of span. The draw
siiouia oo at least lou ieetm the clear.
I append a section of the C. and
G. survey chart showing the location
of the crossing. I am unable to
give the present depth of water in the
channel, as developed by the survey
I have just completed, for lack of
time to make the soundings. The
Astoria aud South Coast railroad
could easily be built around the hoad
of Young's bay, and would then be
able to cross both the rivers by a very
moderate draw span in each bridge.
In connection with the obstruction
of Young's bay by this bridge, I would
call attention to the obstructions
caused by the numerous weirs or
traps (as they are called here) for the
catching of salmon. These are built
of small piles or stilkes driven in the
bottom in about two" fathoms of wa
ter near the edge of a shoal; to the
piles a net of small meshes is sus
pended, which acts as a fence, to lead
the fish into a pound or purse. They
resemble very closely the shad nets
in the Hudson river, New York har
bor. Tnougu nqt a permanent ob
struction, while down they have a
large tendency to retard the now of
the currents and leave deposits of
sand which is always drifting along
the bottom. In some localities they
doubtless do much injury to the chan
nels. One of these traps located on
the upper sands opposite upper As
toria will undoubtedly 'increase the
height and area of that shoal.
I am, Sir:'
Very respectfully yours,
(Signed) Cleveland Rockwell,
Assistant
3lealM Coobert to order.
Private rooms for ladles and families:
at Central Kestaurant, next to Foard &
Stokes'.
The latest style of Gents' Boots and
Shoes at P. J. Goodmas's.
The British ship Ennerdale left
up for Portland yesterday.
The British barklCooringa moved
alongside the O. R. & N. Co.'s wharf
yesterday, to commence lightering
coal.
The schooner Era, five days from
Eureka, to load lumber, . arrived last
evening. : ..
The schooner C rentier arrived from
San Francisco yesterday; to load lum
ber at the Skamokawa mills.
The steamer Wilmington sailed for
Pugot sound ports yesterday.
The Idaho arrived from Seattle yes
terday with 2,000 cases salmon for As
toria and 700 tons coal for Portland.
The steamer Michigan arrived from
the Sound yesterday with 1,800 cases
salmon for Astoria.
The new fire boat which New York
will have next spring will be one of
the nautical wonders of that port
She is to throw four solid four-inch
streams of water, and the range of
these streams will be from 350 to 450
feet solid water, not spray. It is
asserted that the firemen can bore
through the brick and stone walls
along shore with ease with these
streams just as miners in the moun
tains bore into and wash down the
faces of solid cliffs with streams car
ried down the mountain sides. To
fully comprehend the power of a four
inch stream it should be remembered
that it is from eight-to twelve times
as large in cross section as the streams
from the ordinary fire engines, while
the nozzle velocity of the water is
several times greater. The efficiency
of such a stream is probably twenty
five times a3 great as the stream from
an 'ordinary engine. The new boat
will flood out a fire as with a deluge
anywhere within 2,000 feet of the
water front
PERSONAL MENTION.
Mrs. D. Kennedy returned from
Portland yesterday.
Steam boat inspectors Edwards and
McDermott left for Portland last
evening.
Jas. A. Davidson and wife came
down on the Telephone yesterday
from Bay View.
W. C. Logan left last evening for
Philadelphia to take a course of study
in the dental college.
G. W. Hegardt, superintendent of
the government works at Fort Ste
vens, was in the city yesterday on bus
iness, John Michell, editor of The Dalles
Times-Mountaineer, and a party of
friends went on a visit to the jetty at
the mouth of the river yesterday after
noon. Among the Astorians going to Port
land last evening were P. W. Weeks
and wife, J. O. Hanthorn and wife,
H. B. Parker, Ed. Hughes and B. H.
Coleman.
Mrs. C. W. Fox received a dispatch
last evening from the Cutting Pack
ing company, at San Francisco, saying
that Mr. Fox and W. E. Tallant will
arrive on the bark Margaret, now due
at San Francisco at any time.
The following gentlemen left last
evening for Portland as delegates to
the Columbia waterway convention
which meets in that city this merning:
H. A. Shorey, J. O. Hanthorn, E. C.
Holden, M. C. Crosby and J. F. Hal
loran. Grand Lodge K. of P.
The ninth annual convention Grand
Lodge of Oregon, K. of P., met in
business session this morning, Grand
Chancellor W. T. Hume in the chair.
Hours of session -were set from nine
a. sr., to noon, from 1 to 5 and from
730 to 10 p. ir. Officers' reports and
committees' reports were read and the
usual legislative business transacted.
It was decided that the next annual
convention shall be held at The Dalles
on the second Tuesday in October,
1890.
Last evening Astor and Pacific
lodges tendered the visitors a clam
supper at the Occident, which was
thoroughly enjoyed by all present
The confidence ot people who hae
tried Iloocys Sarsaparjlla. In this jirepa.
ration, is remarkable. It has cured
many who haw failed, to derive any
good whatever froin other articles. For
diseases caused by impure blood or low
state of the system it fs unsurpassed.
Eeal Estate Transfers, Oct. 9th.
W. B. Adair and wife to M. A. Pope,
lot 3, blk 6Q, Adair's; $85.
W. B. Adair and wife to Ella Pope,
lot 4, blk 60, Adair's; $85,
W.B. Adair and wife to Alice 0.
Parker. I6t5. blk 60s 885.
W,B, Adair and wife-fa Mary J.
Ryrie, lot J blk 60, AdaiY-s; $85;
W. B. Adair and wife to Jno. O'Leur'y
lots 14 and 19, blk 60; $230.
19 .earmere srau lierseuieu. q
Galbraith Bros., of JJanesville, Wis.a
change, corner Fourth and Ash streets,
Portland, Oregon, a choice selection of
their celebrated? dydesdale, English
Shire, Hackney; and Cleveland Bay
Stallions, at moderate prices, and on
terms to subpurchasers. .
These horses are all of tho. hlgjiest in
dividual merit -and most -v fashionable
strains Qf breeding. Every animal sat
isfactorily guaranteed. Call and see thel
nest urait Horses over brought to Ore
gon. QAxnnAiTH Bkos.
TelepheneliOdartRg House.
Best Beds In town. Rooms per night
50 and 25 cts., per week 81.50. New and
clean. Prwate entrance.
Ludlow's Ladles' 83.00 Fine Shoes;
also Flexible Hand turned French Kids,
at P. J. Goodman's.
Try the Chase & Sanborn Seal Brand
coffee best in the market at Thomp
son &Ross.
Dr. Jay Tuttle and family are living
temporarily in the residence of Rev.
Air. snort, near tne .Episcopal church,
during his absence in the east, probably
about six weeks. Auyone desiring the
professional services of Dr. Tuttle at
night or out of his office hours will
please call for hlra at Mr. Short's house,
until further notice.
Tender, Juicy Steak at Jeff's.
C'ali-
The effects of southern California's
collapsed boom are coming out with
humorous clearness at the sessions of
the state board of equalization now
holding there. The boom is a relic of
the past. The most accomplished
real estate manipulator cannot keep
up inflation prices, and with humble
unanimity boomers have prayed the
state authorities for a reduction of 20
per cent, in the Los Angeles county
assessment roll. The figures pre
sented are interesting to eastern men
who have backed the county up with
their coin, and now hold deeds to re
mote sand lots where cactus would
blush to grow. A list compiled un
der the direction of state controller
Dunn during his recent trip to Los
Angeles, cites particular instances of
decline in values of which he knew
personally. There was found one
piece that sold in 1887 for $15,885
which has since been returned to the
owner for $6,000, the face of the mort
gage upon it. In Redondo Beach
some sand dunes designed for a town
site are assessed for S7,000, and now
the owner offers them for 6,000, with
no takers. At Oak Knoll lots sold
two years ago at $1,500, which can
not be sold at $100. The sales given
in this list aggregated $404,980, and
the assessment of the same property
$90,590, which, it is asserted, is more
than the properties could be sold for
now.
One of the most curious things that
came out was offered by Mr. Davis of
Los Angeles. It was a document giv
ing the history and present condition
of 60 paper towns projected in all por
tions of the country, two of which
were actually on the desert. None of
the local sharps, however, bit at these
two.. Lots were unloaded upon the
unsuspecting public. The 60 town
sites, Mr. Davis said, comprise 79,350
town lots now listed by the assessors,
and at present the whole 60 had but
2,851 inhabitants. Among the towns
were Borden City, having 1,920 lots
platted, and not a single inhabitant;
Chicago Park, 2,286 lots and one in
habitant, the watchman who takes
care of the leading hotel; Carlton,
4,060 lots and no inhabitants; Man
chester, 'J,otl lots with not u soul in
it; West Glendale, 8,128 lots and no
inhabitants; Sunset, 2,030 lots and
one inhabitant, ho being as in the
other case, watchman of an expensive
hotel.
It roust bo remembered that these
town'sitesare not merely tracts of land
with a stubble of surveyors' stakes.
The mass of them are laid out in
streets, some with sewers leading no
where, cement sidewalks, on which
jack rabbits scamper up and down,
and an occasional electric light stand
ard from which now and than a lonely
wandering owl hoots at the skeleton
of a half finished house. Such places
dot the prairie, and here and there aro
the beginnings of paper railroads,
talked of, but never completed. The
real estate dealer in southern Cali
fornia is not a happy man to-day. He
had his term a year ago, and now the
deluded lot buyers are making him
pay taxes at oity rates on acre prop
el ty by holding on to worthless town
lots, which compels the assessment of
adjoining property at equal rates.
Hence the howl from property own
ers, and their cry will probably be
heeded. For the present taxes based
on boom prices are working hardships
among the poorer classes,
i ...
A Unlqqe Will.
A man's right to make a will, and
in his own way is oue of the un
disputed facts in this country, until
the lawyers get hold of it after death.
This is the way a right was exercised
in a will shown us yesterday:
Aberdeen, W. T., Sept. 12, 1889.
I, Tom Reilly, do hereby swear
when I die I'll give Bill Rice my Bull
Team of 6 yoke of Bulls. And Ed
Kenly can have my two lots to new
town, and all other stiffs that dont
come before election is liable to get
left.
(Signed.) Tom Reilly.
(Signed and sealed in the presence of)
Ch as, Salmqx,
R. J. Cobdek,
J. L. WxxroRD.
Aberdeen Herald, 'J.
A Staunrh Ves.se!.
Victoria, B. C, Oct. 2nd, 1889.
J. H. Butter : I am happy to in
form you of our safe arrival in "Vic
toria. The Bessie Rutter is a credit
to her designer and builder, She is
everything that can be desired. She
is a fast sailer and one of the most re
markable seagoing vessels that I have
ever seen. We had severe weather off
Shumagin islands, that broke up sev
eral vessels three times her size. We
don't know what it is to get water on
board. Yours respectfully,
Henry Olsson.
SYRUP OF FHiS,
Produced from tho laxative and nutri
tious juice of California figs, combined
with tho medicinal virtues of plants
known to be most beneficial to the
human system, acts gently, on the kid
neys, liver and bowels, effectually
cleansiug the system, dispelling colds
and headaches, aud curing habitual
constipation.
All the patent medicines adveitised
in this paper, together with tho choicest
perf umery, and toilet ai tides, etc., can
be bought at the lowest prici s, at J. W.
Conn's drug store, opposite Occident
hotel, Astoria.
CouVu and akf,
CiMilral KestauiauL
llll PHllt.-. Ht Ihc
Stirntogn Chips
Are clean, convenient and palatable.
Ask your grocer lor them. For sale
everywhere. Get a sample and try them.
AUVICETO -HOTIIKStS.
Mas. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
should always be used for children
teething. It soothes the child, sottens
the gums, allays all pain, cures wind
cholic, and is the best remedy for diar-rhcea.Twenty-five
cents a bottle.
Town Sites Go Besgins in Southern
fornla Now.
I J1 '
This season our Cloak
Larger
PLUSH GARMENTS
Are to be very much worn this season, and we are showing
the Latest Styles in all qualities.
The "New Directoire" style of
New Markets and
Are the latest
G.
The Leading Dry Goods and Clothing House,
ASTORIA, OREGON.
AUOTIOKT
AND COMMISSION HOUSE.
MARTIN OLSEN,
Successor to K. C .Holden.
Iho omcr established Commission House
In Oregon Goods of all kinds sold on com
mission. Auction Sales Every Saturday.
ieueral Repairing. Jobbing and Uphol
stering done. ,
Fine stock of Furniture on hand.
When you want Bargains in Household
Goods go to
MAKTIiS OI..SK.IV
On Thursdays Only.
MltS. DK. OWENS-ADAIR MAY BE.
consulted by those desiring medical
aid, at her rooms at Mrs. Rucker's, in the
Hume building on Thursdays, from 11 a.
m. to 3 p. M.
mJkJLlsl
Astoria Real Estate Co.
Office First Door South of the Odd Fellovs Building
The Best Bargains Yet Offered:
4 Lots
HUSTLER & AIKEN'S ADDITION. Less than 1 Mile
From the Postofflce. '
These Lots are cleared, and are situated on the slope towards Young's Bay,
and a line drive to them.
Prices for tho Corner
Inside
Ml ML
MERCHANT TAILOR.
Foreign and Domestic Goods. Fine Tailoring
Astoria, Oregon.
THE BEAVEY PATENT CANT DOG
Successors to KIRK SHELDON.
HEADQTTABTEBS FOB LOGGERS' SUPPLIES.
Agency for
ATKINS' CELEBRATED SAWS. LANDER'S LOGGING JACKS.
GENERAL HARDWARE.
151 Front Street, ' PORTLAND, OR.
$
Department is more
We are showing a
Stock and Higher Novelties !
Than ever shown before.
and will be very popular this season.
H. COOPER
To Ganners.
Jensen's Patented Can Capping
Machine.
"Will Cap and Crimp 95 CANS per MIXUTE.
It has proved to Reduce the Leakage more
than 50 per cent. less than hand capped.
Price, 600. Orders compiled with by
The Jensen Oan-Iilling Machine 0o.
DEALER IN
Wall Paper and Oil Paintings
SPECIALTY,
Sign Writer,' Grainer and-
Ornamental Painter.
Cor. Cas3 andJefferson Sts.. Astoria, Or.
25x1 OO Feet,
In Block 21,
Lots.
"
$IOO.
$125.
FLYNN
3
mi mi ji i i raPfHggiBBgigMaingi fc
lllim
attractive than over.
Jackets
;
A Rare Bargain.
Eighty Acres of Land.
One and one-half miles from Steamboat
Landing at Skamokawa, W. T., on
"Wilson Creek, eighteen miles
from Astoria,
Forty acres in Hay and Pasture, and forty
In brush and timber.
A good House of seven rooms, one and
one-naif stories; a woodshed, milk room,
and store, room; one large, and two small
bams. A fine young Orchard.
The place Is well watered by a never-falling
stream.
Schoolhouse and church In less than one
half mile.
One half of the place beaver-dam land.
Price moderate and terms easy.
For particulars enquire of
JOHNENBERG,
Upper Astoria, Oregon
The Str. Telephone
Fast Time Between Portland
and Astoria.
LEAVE PORTLAND :
Foot of Alder Street
Dally, except Tuesday, at. .7 :00 a. jr.
LEAVE ASTORIA :
Wilson & Fisher's Dock.
Daily, except Tuesday, at. 7 :00 p. m,
The Lurline.
FAST TIME BETWEEN
Portland and Astoria!
LEAVE ASTORIA,
Main St. Wharf.
Daily, omitting Monday, at 7 a.bi.
ON SUNDAY, at. .. 7 p.m.
LEAVE PORTLAND.
Every Night at...,.,.... . ......... 8 p. m.
EXCEPT SUNDAY NIGHT.
- PATRONIZE
The Astoria Building and Loan
Association
Has only been organized 30 months, and
it now has mortgages, upon the best real es
tate security to the amount of SS5.0O0.OO
drawing Interesj at the rate of 9 per cent,
per annum.
Before taking stock In those eastern com-
Eanies examine Into the workings of your
ome institution and see if it is not the best
and safest.
We claim that our company has done
more for the advancement of Astoria, and
helping people to secure homes for them
selves, than anything ever organized here.
The 6th series of stock will be opened
October 1st, thosewishing to subscribe will
please call on the secretary, on or before
that date. W L.BOBB.
Secretary
Home InstiMoDS.