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ASTORIA, OREGON:
SUNDAY , OCTOBER 'J7. 18S9.
The senatorial party are expected
here to visit the jetty next Thursday.
Potatoes are worth SI a bushel at
Itosebur, while apples only sell for
ft) cents a bushel.
The high school district of Port
land, has 18,000 in its. treasury, and
the people want a big clock put in the
tower.
The fish traps at "NVillapa, Wash.,
report good business, Messrs. Koetou
t jMessengr ehaviug taken 1,U0) fish
from two traps in two day.
"Joe the Turk" is still confined in
the East Portland jail, Zimmeimnn
still makes night hideous with his
horn on the streets of this city.
Two flags on that one custom house
pole is a terrible strain on the
one pole. There is room on that ga
zabo on top of the roor for twa poles.
The Seattle iVess has found a
plague spot in that city where eigh
teen cases of typhoid fever are raging.
It is called "Shinty town" and r00
people live there.
Thriftily states the Polk county
Itemizer: "A little saved here and
a little saved there will, by and by,
amount to enough to buy a sow, a
cow, and a brood mare, which might
be the foundation of a fortune."
Hume's cannery on the Coquille
closed for the season last week, and a
number of the fishermen left for As
toria overland. The catch is reported
by the Coos Bay Neim to have been
the largest ever put tip by a cannery
on the river.
Muskrats are building their houses
very high this year along the Assina
bone river. Higher than for ten
years, they are twice as high and big
as last year. The' sign is said never
to fail. The Northwestern Canadian
says this will be a hard winter.
Nathan Fry has been bound over
before justice Andrews at Lebanon in
the sum of S590 to answer before the
grand jury to the charge of arson for
attempting to burn the saw-mill of
Jennings & McPherson above Le
banon. He owns a saw-mill in the
same vicinity.
Last Sunday's San Francisco Ex
aminer contained forty pages of
seven columns each. They now have
two mammoth new presses capable of
turning off 36,000 eight-page papers
per hour. They have a daily circula
tion of 56,000, aud it now requires a
half-million dollars a year to run the
paper.
Horse thieving is being carried on
extensively in the Snake river region
according to the following from the
"Wallowa Ch ieftain : A. W. Caldwell,
who resides on Snake river, has had
130 head of horses stolen from him.
He offers 500 reward for the horses
and 250 for the arrest and conviction
of the thieves.
A sneak thief yesterday evening
stole a three-dollar gold-tipped um
brella from the' rack in front of C. II.
Cooper's store. Mr. Cooper saw him
take the umbrella, tear the price ticket
off, and walk away with it He over
hauled the fellow, and made him put
the umbrella back. He should be ar
rested and made an example of.
At St. Michaels, Alaska ilour ia 15
per 100 pounds, beans 25 cents a
pound, sugar 35 cents, tobacco 1.40
per pound, molasses 2 a gallon, dried
apples and pears 30 cents a pound,
condensed milk 75 cents a can, coffee
CO cents a pound, cheese 1.25 a pound,
shirts 1 each and boots 15 a pair.
Gold is reckoned at 16 an ounce.
This has been the warmest October
experienced in these parts for many
years. Berry bushes are blossoming
again, and green peas, cauliflowers,
eta, are ripening as in the early sum
mer. The" bees don't know whether
to go out of business, or not, and still
delight to bark and bite, they gather
ing honey all the day to eat it all at
night.
The price of lumber in California
markets is lower now than three years
ago, yet mill logs on the Sound are
dearer now than at that time. Logs
for plain lumber bring there from 6
to 7.50 per thousand, and extra
choice long timber is worth 10 per
thousand feet at the logging camps,
not including the towage to the mills.
The principal "loggers of the Sound
have formed a trust and raised the
price.
A letter from "Will Logan says that
he had arrived at Philadelphia all
right and successfully passed the re
quired examination aud entered the
Philadelphia Dental College. 18th and
Cherry streets. The dean of the col
lege told him had he been one day
later he would have been barred from
entering as the "time specified closed.
that day. When Will heard that he
was glad he hadn't stopped over a day
at Madison, "Wisconsin, to see Fred
Prael as had been his original inten
tion. The Walla Walla Journal thinks
there is a whole lot in a name. Speak
ing of the Seattle Pd&t-Inteiligencer,
he says: "It's a splendid paper, but
the long handle to its name will for
ever mitigate against it. It always
does. Let a paper have a long name,
and its exchanges will hardly ever
give it credit for anything cuiled from
it. They Bay: "Life is too short,"
and let it go uncredited. Let a man,
with a long outlandish name, run for
office, and if nothing else could beat
him, his name will."
T picked up a bit of information
the other day." said a city hotel clerk,
"rtiat.T hadn't thouffht of before. A
couplo of men were talking in the of
fice, when one asked on what day of
saeaaasssiaista
the week Christmas will bo this year.
'Let's see,' replied the other, Iwas
married on the 1st day of May. That
was Wednesday. Christmas will come
on Wednesday.' That struck me for
cibly, and when I got a little leisure I
gathered up a lot of old calendars and
investigated it. I found that it is true
that the 1st day of May and Christ
mas of the same year occur on the
same day of the week."
The Ellensburg Register says that
"Keen your eve on Pasco" is evi
dently not as easy a matter as the
land company's advertisements would
lead a stranger to suppose. A gentle
man who keeps hotel his name is
not Reiley, had a cellar dug last week
eight feel deep and twelve.in width.
But al.s-.. of all things terrestrial,
Pac ival estate is the niot shifting,
for when the h. k. started out to put
the masons to work there was no cel
lar, or hole iu the ground no anything
to even indicate where the place was.
The wind had raised the 50 per foot
lots and deposited them m the excava
tion. John C. Fremont, the first Repub
lican candidate for President, is now
about sixty-five years of age. His
hair is snow-white and he seems to
have paid great attention to the care
of his. locks and whiskers. The latter
are cut in the French style and his
hair is paited in the middle. General
Fremont's adventuresome life has left
but little impression upon him, and by
his present appearance no one would
be prompted to pick him out as the
Pathfinder of the Rock Mountains.
His career is marked with many inter
esting historic reminiscences, but his
name is seldom mentioned iu public
circles.
Scows and barges loaded with green
masses of branches, etc., bound to
gether, are lying about the O. R. & N.
dock. From a distance they look like
small square green islands. They are
for the jetty, aud the green foliage
that composes these mattrasses is cut
at St. Johns at the mouth of the Will
amette, and at Colnmbia City. It
costs 2.25 a cord and the poles bring
twenty-five cents apiece, It looks
like a long ways to haul brush, when
there is so much of the Eame kind of
growth in profusion here, but experi
ence goes to show that the lack of
suitable roads to haul it on makes
it cheaper to import it from the in
terior.
On the 9th of last June, six men,
Dick Richards, John Wiren, Lars Lar
sen, H. Dewery, Gilbert Johnson and
John Olafsou, started on the steamer
Marie O. llaaven from the site of
the Cape Lees Packing company's
canuery in Alaska, on a deer hunt.
The party separated, and after an
hour's hunt Richards and Wiren came
to a shore where mussels were plenly.
Wiren ate four and Richards ate ten of
them. Soon after they both were
taken sick, and ' lay on the steamer
as the steamer started for Yes bay.
Wiren recovered, but Richards died
that afternoon. His comrades have
now returned from Alaska, and tell
the story of his sad death.
A copy of the Idaho Tri-Weekly
Statesman, of August 2, 1864, more
than twenty-five years ago, tells us
that beef was retailing at that time
at 16 and 25 cents per pound; mutton,
20 and 25; chickens, 2 and 2.50
each; butter, 1 per pound; eggs,
1.50 per dozen; potatoes, new, 15
cents per pound; oats, 12; hay, 35
and 40 per ton; onions, 25 and 30
cents per onnd; cabbage, 15, and so
on. The following winter, however,
the foregoing articles commanded
double the price, and many of them
could not be had at that, and green
cottonwood was scarce at 20 per
cord. In the same number of
the Statesman the editor, Jas. S.
Reynolds, acknowledges from John
iucUlellan the receipt of specimens or
yellow flint com, followed by n col
umn setting forth the productiveness
of Boise valley soil. The law cards of
Judge M. Kelley and Eugene Semple,
ex-governor of Washington territory,
also appear among the advertisements.
Semple had then just got in from the
plains, a sprig of a lawyer, full of al
kali, enssedness, devilment and De
mocracy; and after taking an active
part in the political campaign of that
fall, came to Oregon, where he became
one of the leaders of the party.
British Columbia Caunetl Salmon.
The J. H. Huste.de has cleared from
Victoria for London with a full cargo
of British Columbia canned salmon.
This is the largest vessel ever loaded
m that trade, and of course carries
tho largest cargo, consisting of 56,684
cases, valued at 330,908. This is the
most valuable cargo which has ever
left Yiotoria for any port The rivers
of British Columbia have yielded well
this year. Three cargoes of salmon
have been cleared already and there
are three more vessels to follow. The
fleet is as follews:
Sailed. Vessels. Cases. Yalno
Sept. 13. . .D. Brodeisne. .23.000 $158,200
Sept. 29...Titania 33,721 194,GG9
Oct. 23 .... J. H. Hnstede..5G,C84 330,998
Total 118,405. 683,867
The Lchu is also loaded, but not
cleared. Sho -has about 30,000 cases.
The Norcross is loading. Jjastvear
the Norcross carried ovej 40,000 cases.
The Boolira, just arrived at Victoria
form London, will load baok with
salmon, and will he the last of the
fleet She can carry 50,000 cases.
This would make about 233,800 cases
for the year. Last year there were
only three vessels from Victoria for
London with salmon and they carried
105,300 cases. S, F. Bulletin, 23.
Do You I.I he a Good Ciffiir?
Call at Charley Olsen's, opposite C. H.
Cooper's. He will suit you. A fine
stock of cigars to select from.
Remember the" Austin house at the
Seaside is. open the year 'round.
Ludlow's ladies' .J.OO Fine Shoes;
also Flexible Hand turned French Kids,
at P. J. G odd man's.
Coffee and cake, un pflnts. at tho
Central Restaurant
Go to Jeff's lor Oysters.
CAN VOTE NEXT ELECTION.
Twenty-First Anniversary A. 0. U. AV.
The handsome hall where Seaside
Lodge No. 12, A O. TJ. W., hold their
weekly meetings, was richly decorated
last evening. Wreaths and banners
covered the wall: in front was a taste
fully arragued dais, .flanked with
roses and evergreens; in front was a
stand on which were displayed the
jewels of the order and above hung a
picture of J. J. TJpchurch, the founder
of the order, and the charter of Sea
side Lodge, the bauner lodge of the
northwest
The occasion was the celebration of
the twenty-first anniversary of the
founding of the lodge by Father Up
church and associates at Meadville,
Pennsylvania.
The hall was filled to its utmost ca
pacity with the members of the lodge,
their wives, sisters, sweethearts, aunts,
daughters and cousins, and- a large
number of others not members of the
order.
The entertainment opened with a
beautiful tableau, Misses Stockton.
Mclvean, Belcher, representing the
principles of the order. Charity, Hope
and Protection. A solo by Mr. J. T.
Ross preceded an address by C. W.
Fulton, which was followed by a solo
by Miss Katie Flavel. P. G. M. W.
Prof. H. A. Shorey then delivered an
address, followed by a duet by Miss
Edith Conn and Prof. Millard; a solo
by Miss Katie Flavel followed, after
which, on behalf of the lodge C. W.
Fulton presented M. W., G. W. Ruck
er a magnificent jewel, the recipient
returning thanks. A solo by Mis3
Gussie Gray closed the entertainment,
after which the lodge sung the part
ing ode, Miss Nellie Flavel accom
panist throughout, and the large au
dience dispersed, ending one of the
pleasantest entertainments ever given
in this city and one that redounds to
the lasting credit of Seaside Lodge No.
12, A O. U. W.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Miss Daisy Goodell is visiting
friends in Forest Grove.
F. H. Poiudexter goes to San Fran
cisco to-day on the Oregon.
Hon, J. H. D. Gray and wife re
turned yesterday from Portland,
Wm. Bock returned vesterdav from
Shoalwater bay, where he shot 36 fine
ducks.
I?upcpy.
This is what you ought to have, in
fact, yon must have it, to fully enjoy
life. Thousands are searching for it
daily, and mourning because they find
it not. Thousands upon thousands of
dollars are spent annually by our peo
ple in the hope that they may attain
this boon. And yet it may be had hy
all. We guarantee that Electric Bitters,
if uspd according to directions and the
use persisted iu, will bring you Good
Digestion and oust the demon dyspep
sia and instead Eupepsy. We recom
mend Electric Bitters for Dyspepsia
and all diseases of Liver, Stomach and
Kidneys. Sold at 50c. and S1.00 per bot
tls by ,J. W. Conn, Druggist.
MARINE NEWS AND NOTES.
The revenue cutter Corwin is ex
pected here this week.
The A. Br Field and Q en. Miles
arrived in yesterday. The Danube
crossed out.
Last Wednescay the steamers Oeo.
IP. Elder aud Oregon had a little
race all to themselves which djd not
leak out till this morning, when the
freight clerk of the former vessel told
about it The steamers left the
steamer dock at Astoria at 11 o'clock
in the morning, and as they pulled out
at the same time, it was evident that
a race was on the tapis. As they
pulled up alongside of each other the
Oregon dipped her flag to pass, but it
was not to be that way, The Elder's
propeller flew from eighty-five revolu
tions to 105, aud she shot out like a
bullet from a guu, leaving tho big
steamship considerably to the rear.
The Telegram says that the Elder
reached the big iron railroad bridge at
5:10 p. m., having made about fifteen
miles an hour on her way up. The
Oregon got in some forty minutes
later. This is said to be the best
time that has ever been made between
tho two cities bv an ocean steamer.
A. Scrap of .Paper Saycs Her I4fc
It was just an ordinary scrap of wrap
ping paper, but it saved hor life. She
was In the last stages of consumption,
told by physicians that she was incura
ble and could live only a short time;
she weighed les than seventy pounds.
On a piece of wrapping paper she read
of Dr. King's New Discovery, and got a
sample bettle: it helped her, she bought
a larger bottle, it helped her more,
bought another and grew better fast,
continued its use and is now strong,
healthy, rosy, plump, weighing 140
pounds. For fuller particulars send
stamp to V. II. Cole, Druggist, Fort
Smith. Trial Bottles of this wonderful
Discovery Free at J. W. Conn's Drug
store, All the patent medicines advertised
in this paper, together with the choicest
perfumery, and toilet articles, etc., can
be bought at the lowest prices, at J. W.
Conn's drug store, opposite Occident
hoh?l, Astoria.
Wciuliarrt's Beer.
And Free Lunch at the Telephone Sa
loon, 5 cents.
Toiitler. Juicy Steak at Jeff's.
Saratoga Chips
Are clean, convenient and palatable.
Ask your grocor for them. For sale
everywhere. Get a sample and try them.
Shorthand.
Private instruction by practical ver
batim reporter. Years experience
Ciia. E. JlUNYON,
Law Reporter, Astoria, Or.
3Ica(8 Cooltca to Order.
Private rooms for ladies aud families:
at Central Restaurant, next to Foard &
Stokes'.
The latest style of Gents' Boots and
Shoes at P. J. Goodman's.
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AN ASTORIAN ABROAD.
Studzinski ami the French Restaurants.!
Pans, France, Oct. 8th, 1SS9.
Editor Astekiax:
Since Sept. 7th I have been traveling
with but ten days' rest at Chicago,
one at Salt Lake City, one at Denver,
one at Colorado Springs and three at
New York; also a few hours at Niag
ara Falls."
I embarked on the French steamer
Gascogne on September 28th and ar
rived at Havre October Gth, after a
very pleasant voyage. This steamer
is not a fast one, but is excellent in all
other respects, with good care for every
passenger, and a splendid table. The
list of passengers showed names of all
nationalities, a Colonel Bonaparte be
ing among them. Soon the English
speaking people from all parts of the
United States gathered together and
loud were the cheers that went up for
the red, wliite and blue. Many felt
the distance from home keenly, a kind
of home-sickness, together with sea
sickness, rendering them uncomfort
able; but this feeling did not last
long.
Havre is a city of 50,000 inhabitants
and has a fortified harbor which shows
remarkable skill in engineering. The
many water fronts have stone quays,
and are lined with old and stately four
story stone buildings. The streets in
side are wide and lined with shade
trees. Trade is lively on account of
the many travelers passing through,
but shipping is stagnant. From Havre
I took the train for Paris and soon
found myself boxed in a narrow space.
The entrance was from the side,
and a seat for two persons was scarce
ly large enough for one. There was
no platform, no vestibule, and no
toilet room merely a-gartitioned seat
with cushions, but T" soon forgot the
uncomfortable features of this mode
of railroading, being lost in admira
tion of the beautiful and changing
scenery of the country traversed. Soon
I arrived at Bouen, the capital of Nor
mandie, a place of 150.000 inhabitants,
and much spread and branched out
with a number of factories. Near this
city the train went over a viaduct some
250 feet high, and through fivo tun
nels several thousand feet long. In
the evening I arrived at Paris. This
city is at present booming. Hotels
are costly, that is, 18 francs a day for
a room only, with no elevator to go
up to the fourth and fifth stories. I
considered this too steep, so I went to
another but with ao better results. At
length I found pno which suited me,
being in the centre of the city, and al
though I occupy rooms on the fourth
story, I pay 16 francs a day for lodg
ing, 5 francs for each meal and serv
ice, the service meaning the garcon's
extra, and yet these hotels are not one
half so comfortable as those of Amer
ica. The exposition, no doubt, causes
hotel keepers at present to increase
their rates. Thalraffic in the streets
is done by 'busses and cabs in thou
sands which literally cover the boule
vards, so that it is dangerous to cross
a street Besides, there is an ocean of
human beings on the sidewalks hur-
ryiug to and fro-all gaiety ajad life as
far as one can see. Street cars run in
the suburbs only, and this fact ac
counts for the high rents, for the peo
ple are compelled to live near their
places of business, aud hence this
place is packed, and comfort cannot
well be expected by strangers. The
eating salons of Paris throughout are
good, and no matter where I demand
something for the inner man it is
wholesome and deliciously prepared.
The only trouble at the restaurants
with me is that the French bill of fare
gets away with me, or, rather, with my
knowledge of the names' of the differ
ent dishes a la bo and so.
I groatly wonder that in suoh a
large city as Paris not oue among
5,000 of them has any idea of tho Eng
lish language, although it is much fre
quented by English speaking people.
At some show-windows I read "Eng
lish spoken," but when I entered Jean
or Pierre was gone somewhere and no
body else could do it, so I had to work
my tongue the other way.
"With best regards for you and my
f rie nds,
M. STUDZrXSKI.
Catai rh is caust'ti by scrofulous taint
in the I) ood, and is cured by Hood's
Sarsaparilla, which purifies and em idl
es the blood and givt's the whole system
health and strongth. Try this "peculiar
medicine.' J t is prepared by C. I. Hood
&Co., Lowell, Mass.
Try the Chase & Sanborn Seal Brand
coffee best in thcnuiket at Thomp
son & llObS.
Combines the juice of the Blue Figs of
California, so laxative and nutritious,
with the medicinal virtues of plants
known to be most beneficial to the
human system, forming the ONLY PER
FECT REMEDY to act gently yet
promptly on the
KIDNEYS, LIVER AHD BOWELS
'I
AND TO
Cleanse the System Effectually,
SO THAT
PURE BLOOD.
REFRESHING SLEEP,
HEALTH and STRENGTH
"Natiirallv follow. Every one is usine it
nd all are delighted with it. Ask your
Jruggistlor bYKUf ur iuus. Manu
factured only by the
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.,
San Francisco, Cal.
Locisvillk, Ky. N,r York, N. Y
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Cloak Department
I I1 '
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This season our Cloak
Larger Stock
Than ever shown before.
PLUSH GARMENTS
Are to be very much worn this season, and we are showing
the Latest Styies in all qualities.
The "New Directoire" style of
New Markets and
Are the latest
The Leading Dry Goods and
YAflUE
OF TIME.
You may doubt it, but in
course of time you will ap
prove the popular verdict by
going yourself where the
commercial tide sweeps the
trade to; you may trade else
where because habit makes
it natural; you may dismiss
this from your mind because,
well, perhaps, because you
don't think it worthwhile to
remember it; but in course
of time the cold truth will
force itselt upon you, that
while you sweat and save in
one way, you are extrava
gant in another, and as .soon
as you realize this fact you
will turn a new leaf and in
vestigate before you spend
your coin, and that is all I
ask of you. Investigate ! !
Give me a chance to prove
to you that you can get fresh
er goods where goods are
sold quick, and that yon can
buy goods cheaper where
the enormous quantities sold
justify a comparatively
small profit and consequent
ly low prices. Perhaps it is
unnecessary to state here
what place I refer to, be
cause the great majority of
Astorians do say that
Wi
Is The Place
IL
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Department is more
We are showing a
and
and will be very popular this season.
. H. COOPER
ASTORIA, OREGON.
EALAND
The terminus of the Ilwaco and Shoalwater Bav Kailroad. THE GREAT
EST SUMMER RESORT ON THE NORTHWEST COAST. Lies at the head
of the Bay, at deep water, and only twelve miles from the bar. The coming
County Seat and Commercial Metropolis of Pacific county. Now laid out. Lots
on the market from $30, and upwards.
Kor particulars and full information, call on or address
B.
TJdLJbiS
Astoria Eeal Estate Co.
Office First Door South of the Odd Fellows Building
The Best Bargains Yet Offered !
In Blocks 21, 23 and 28,
HUSTLER & AIKEN'S ADDITION. Less than 1 Mile
From the PostofQce.
SIXTY of these Lots sold within the past 8 days. The price of this Choice
Property is going up daily, and may be taken off the market at any time.
Price of Lots, $1(5 to $160, according to Location.
M. M.
MERCHANT TAILOR.
Foreign and Domestic Goods. Fine Tailoring
Astoria, Oregon.
THE EEAVEY" PATENT CANTQOG.
I&SXCHORST & C02TANT,
Successors to KIRK .SHELDON.
HEADQUARTERS FOE LOGGERS' SUPPLIES.
Agency for
ATKINS' CELEBRATED SAWS. LANDER'S LOGGING JACKS.
GENERAL HARDWARE.
151 Front Street PORTLAND, OR.
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attractive than ever.
Higher Novelties!
P
Clothing House,
A. SEABORG,
FLYNN
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