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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1890)
Trv" o & gaity gtftoratt. ASTORIA. OEEGON: SATGCDAY... TEBRUAltY 1. 1690 City and CoiiHty Official Paper. It has taken nine years under a prohibition law in loiva to close the first saloon in Dubuque. The state Republican ticket is be ing talked of for next 0 uue. "Western Oregon never has any representation on lhec state tickets. Astoria, the second city in the state, may have a candidate this-time for an important state office. How would the name of I. "Y. Case look on the Republican ticket for state treasurer next June? Tin: niggardliness of the govern ment is unpleasantly exemplified at present. Just to gave a few paltry dollars the whole mail system of the northwest is disorganized, and every business interest suffers. Detention of the mails has occasioned a loss to many of our business men in this city, and exceeding annoyance lias resulted. Meanwhile the surplus sacks of coin are bulging out the Avails of the treas ury at the national capital. Tun Astoiuan has one suggestion to make to the directors of the Astoria and South Coast Railway Co. In our judgement it is an important one. Wc believe it is one that the eople of Astoria will endorse and commend. It is this. In all your negotiations and deliberations and so on, don't for get one essential peint: don't fail to arrange that the road shall be com pleted forthwith from this city to the Seaside. That is what we all started to do to build a road from Astoria to the Seaside. See that it is dona De "Spise not the day of small things. That road to the Seaside should be completed, and in trim for next sum mers business. S759,3G9 are the amount of real estate transfers in the growing city of Astoria for the month of January. 1S93. Tills is remarkable, surpassing all expectations. No other city in Ore gon outside of Portland can approach it. There are in the stale good towns but llicy can't keep in the current with Oregon's true seaport. The tide has turned to the Gate City of the Columbia and it will never ebb. Jaunary has been a wet menth: every thing has combined to make business dull, bat confidence iu the future of Astoria has caused real estate to go on selling as if the snu had shone brightly all the time, and no mail blockades and delays in railroad pro ceedings had acted as a check on trade. Progress under such condi iions proves that the city is solid, and that no inflated Ikkhu is hovering over ns to burst when wc least expect An average of $2o,000 per day, so far for 1S90, is a record which cannot fail to advertise the town. D-O-W-X W-K-X-T Jl-C-M-X-T-Y. How 5.000 Slnvwd Operators Caught On. Five thousand of the shrewdest young men in the "United States were made the victims of a joke yesterday, says the Seattle Press, of Jauuarv 2iMh. They were telegraph operators, and. as a general thing, ierators are among the keenest men afloat for bright new gags, but this lime, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, ami from the lakes to the gulf, thev were all caught on what has long .since been dubbed a chestnut namely, the up and dows of poor old Dan McGintv A bright tamer of the lightning in 2vew lork rushed out or his pen at noon, grabbed a bowl of milk, or some thing like that, and then devoted the net of his lunch hour to the manufac ture of the following telegram: IS Collect. kw Youic. Jauuarv 2S. J. F. A rnuhl d- Co. Dave O'Con nor went north with Esistem. not Thompson. .Morris Catlin'.s gang in New Town estorday. J. H. Moonn. xo any one but an operator that tel egram would seem nothing more than a cipher dispatch from one detective to another, but the rules of the pro fession require thai when a telegram is sent the check mark must precede it. Hence the New York man sent the dispatch out preceded by the check mark 1S collect." meaning there were IS words in the message and it must be collected at the office of delivery. Rut there is also another rule requiring the receiving operator to ccunl t'n words of each message and tally them with the sending oierator. So when the above message was received the operator sent lack immediately the usual cor rection. In this case there are but 13 words iu the message, so his reply was check la.' The custom when a mes sage is thus corrected is for the send ing operator to send back the first let ter of each word in the message so the receiving operator can see if he caaght each word. So back came the initials: D-o-w-n w e-u-t M-c-G-i-n-t-y. And quick as a flash each operator would catch the joke and send back sa abbreviated telegraphic "hi hL" The message wjis started from New York, and was sent to every operator tit could be readied. "When it ar rived in Sealtle it was handed to the Paget Sound Telegraph company, and all the operators on that line were made to receive it and send back the laHgli, and then it was sent across Paget Sound on the cable and started o its mission of fun across the conti nent again over the Canadian Pacific Ime. "Wkt the Show Costs the S. P. It. R. Co. A Sun Francisco paper gives a table oT losses sustained by the Southern Pacific company, based upon what are thought to be reliable estimates: December washouts in Soledad ouvoB S 50.000 To rebaild, next spring, road be&iR9Rme canvon 500,000 "Leas of traffic on Ceatr.il Pa- oifec .. 250,000 Leasef traffic on the Oregon fee 50,000 xira labor for past sixteen 4avs on Oregon and Central &m&c....7. 1C0.O0O Dssrewe in load traffic 100,000 Tetal $1,110,000 Tm JLikc aGMa Clear? OaH at Charley Olsen's, east of C. II. QmbbtVw lie will suit you. A fine riMC 9t oifcars to select iroin. CLIPPED AND CONDENSED, News Items from All Oyer ttoMi- west Coast. 11 TllYlj:iiTZS'JZXIlA ItAGltAVllS 23 ffamblers XCOrn nrrAcfwl in SnnHIn last Tuesday. The Dallas i tn imw n sifinnnn public building. Palouse county, Wash., has two feet of snow on the level. Seattle is now n "Northern Pnnif'p. town as well as Tacoma. The Pacific Journal 1ms Iwif re moved from Oysterville to Sealand. TllPT-A nrr frnm ftfl fWl in IrtOfWl acres of oysters in cultivation on Shoal- water Uay. L. T. Barin, has called the Republi can state central committee to meet on the 5th of March. The upholstering works of the rail road company have been removed from The Dalles to Albina. They take with them 200 working men. The stage of water and fall of mow and rain is now such that there will be no suspension of navigation on the "Willamette river this year. The "Washington Slate company has incorioraled at Colville with a capital of 38,000, for the purpose of working and developing slate quarries. All the engines and cars of the O. It. & N. company are being re numbered and re-lettered. Soon ev ery vestige of the old O. It. fc N., will be wiped out. The "Washington state senate has passed a resolution instructing the Washington congressional delegation to vote for Chicago as the site for the "World's fair in 1SJ2. The adjustment of a general aver age of loss on the steamer Ya&nina JJaj has just been made and figures about Jo per cent. The steamer was wrecked over a year ago. Thfi fiiinorior Pnnrt, nf tliia flisf riff judge Rloomfield, will open a regular term at uatniamet on v euruary 15, at Kalama on February 10, and at Oys terville on the first Monday in March. The Guide Pnlilisliiurr mmnanv of Seattle, Tacoma and Port" Townsend will soon bo incorporated with a capi tal stock of S23.000. It is the nurnose of the incorporation to publish a marine guide. Port Townsend has granted a fran chise to T. J. Nolton and John Lyle, for the construction of gas works, to begin within four months, and to be completed in one year. The company will begin work immediately and put in a $50,000 plant Representative- Megler has intro duced a bill in the "Washington legis lature to protect the lobsters which the United States fish commission planted in the waters of the state. It prohibits fishing for lobsters for three years from April 1, 1890. "W. J. Ilnian, of Boston, has entered into a contract with the citizens of Seattle, bv which lift is to ermsrrnp.f, n shoe manufactory on the shore of Lake Union, to cost 100,000 and to pemioy rfuu people. Tlie lactory will be in operation by August 1. There is a renorfc irninf ilir -rmmfiR of the "Washington state press that Patrick Henry "Winston, of Spokane A'.uis, recently nppomreu uy me presi dent to be United States district at torney for tins state, was a confeder ate army officer in North Carolina. N. . lrnzor nml Clmrlns "VVillrroia left Pendleton Monday on a hunting expenuition. Tuesday morning they left the camp at "Wilbur, together with a telegraph operator, in chase of a deer. About noon they became sepa rated, and Prazer has been lost over since. Governor Porrv nslimntp.q tlmt tlio stale of "Washington will receive about 10,000 this year from notary public tees. Hie notary bill which recently became a law provides that a notary shall pay 10 into the state treasury when his commission is issued. Thoe fees go to the stite library. Colville has a brewery, seven sa loons and no church. An Evangelist recently found the jail the only avail able place in which to preach, remark ing when he selected it that it would be "the easiest place in town from which lo escape in case of a fire." It seems he was afraid of being burned out During 1S80 there were received at Tacoma over the Northern Pacific railroad the following amounts of farm preducts: 1,47(5,075 bushels of wheat, 101,033 sacks of flour, 41,129 sacks of feed, 2,011,300 pounds or oats, 12,372.000 pounds of hay and 2,101,000 pounds of flax seed. Reed, the limber land swindler who was put in the lSuffcne iail Inst, uvelr. considered himseir alove the rest of tho prisoners at first and refused to eat with them or have anything to do with them. They soon made it too warm for him and made him come to time and eat with the rest of them. Rev. Sheldon Jackson, for many years missionary in Alaska, and who lias charge of the government selmnls I there, has left "Washington for the pur- iji; ui jM-uiujny ii mrgcr appropria tion to maintain the schools. The ap propriation is S50.000 nml .Tnnlrcnn will endeavor to have it increased to 100,000. The salarv of thn lienrMi.inf. rmv. ernorof T:isliiii?rlnii is liher.il H?a only duty is that of presiding officer of me senate. Alter tins legislature the sessions are limited to sixty da3's, and Hie legislature meets once in two years. The lieutenant governor there fore Is paid 2.000 forsixtv (lavs' work, or 33.33 a day. " " A mortgage filed in Pendleton to the Farmer's Loan and Trust com pany, secures bonds to be issued for an extension of the Hunt railway sys tem from Pendleton southwestward to Heppner. It is the general belief that the real object is to continue the line southwesterly through the state to California connections. Lake Chelan is the largest body of fresh water in the state of "Washing ton. It covers an area of sixty-five square miles, and its average width is a mile and a lialf. A townsite over looking the lake has just been located at a point on the Chelan river, near its outlet Lake Chelan is becoming a rendezvous for tourists. Says the Cathlamet Gazelle the whiter of 18S9-90 has been a good season for "Wahkiaum county farmers. With hay at 20 a ton, potatoes from 2 to 2.50 a sack, apples from 1 to 1.23 a box, butter at 60 lo 70 cents a roll, and eggs from llurty-five to forty cents a dozen they are all proportion ately happyjand prosperous. An exchange says: Only once be fore since the Caucasians commenced to settle in eastern Washington can they remember when the snow was drifted so high, and that is said to have been ten years ago. On the prairie south of Rockford the drifts were from six to ten feet deep and blown hard enough to bear a horse. The Indians on the Siletz reserva tion in the southern end of Tillamook The Oregon Land Co. HAS AN ASTORIA OFFICE S. W. COR. THIRD AND 0LNEY STREETS, Buy and Sell Property on Commission. We Deal in Real Estate and are Successful in Our Business. Now is Your Lots TONGUE PoiNTflDDITION Finely Situated Back of Tongue Point and Within TWO MILES of the Centre of Astoria. Lots Will be sold for a Limited Time at Mtowsui Real Estate and Brokerage. THIRD STREET, THE PEAVEY PATENT CANT DOG HABIGHOHST fi COITJLXTT, Successors to KIUlv SIIKLDOX. HEADQUARTERS FOR LOGGERS' SUPPLIES. Agency for ATKINS' CELEBRATED SAWS. LANDER'S LOGGING JACKS. GENERAL HARDWARE. 151 Front Street, PORTLAND, OR. cennty are doome.il to slow bnt euro extinction. As a tribe, they are very unhealthy aud many or them have died lately. They are decreasing so fast that it is only a matter at a very short time, when the reservation will be opened to white settlers. In 18S9 tho assessed valuation of Tacoma was a little over $2G,000,000. Some of the largest taxpayers are: Garrettson,AVoodrnfT&Co., S502,000: Grigg & Hewitt $510,000; Grigg, Hewitt fc .Tones syndicate, 700,000; Northern Pacific railroad company, S31G,000: Tacoma, Lund company, 4,430,000. Over twenty-five individ uals pay on 100,000 and" more. In this state the following property is exempt from executien: Musical instruments, books and pictures 75; household oflects, 300; clothing, 100; and clothing to each member of the family, 50; team, tools, instru ments or library, or whatever Is need ed in tho trade or profession of the debtor. S100: ten sheen, two cows, five hogs, three months provender. No exemption is good against a claim for purchase money. Yejye known of the great area'-TiWHro. ie Oregon that is yet to be settled, and can Ie made available for immigration. It may amaze many to know that eastern Oregon to-day offers a greater area for settlement than eastern "Washington docs, llail roads have penetrated all parLs of east ern Washington, and population has IKMired in there, but middle and south ern Oregon aro little developed and less understood. Tho laud ollices in Oregon have all been doing a large business during the past year. The business of the La Grande oflico for thej'ear averaged in ronnd numbers 3,000 per month. This is for ten months, for during the months of November aud December, since tho vacancy in the receiver's of fice, business has been at a stand still. In the new office at Burns, Capt Kel ley, the receiver, took in 13,000 dur ing the first three months. Stole From a IloxCar Dave Merrill and Frank Hayes vero tried and convicted this morning in Judge Stearns' court, of stealing a lot of underclothing, etc, from the store of H. Wolf & Bro., and were sentenced to three years each in the penitentiary, After being sentenced, Merrill aud Hayes said that they stole the stuff they were convicted of steahug, but not from Wolfs store, but instead, on December 18th, stole the underwear out of a car numbered 4,042. Merrill says he took the number because while at work he was f lightened away for a little while, and he noted the number of the car to knowwhich one to return to and finish tho job of stealing from. The boys were carrying tho stolen property along the street when arrested, and Wolf came in and identified it as his, after their arrest and its publica tion. '-Why,', said one of them, "he ought never to have those shirts, drawers and stockings, that's receiv ing stolen goods, we don't mind going up. but we want to go up for what we done. If we got off light we wasn't gomg to say a word, but they give us a big three years. Portlaud Exam iner. 30. The way to make mouev is to save it. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the most econom ical medicine to buy, as it is the only medicine of which can truly be said. -juu uoses one uonar." jjo not take an other preparation if you have decided to buy iiootrs sarsaparilla. . All tho patent medicines advertised in thisj)aper, together with the choicest Derfumerv. and toilet artlelps pti ran be bought at tho lowest prices at J. W. Conn's drug store, opposite Occident ncnei, Astoria. Time to Buy in and $GO A Iraiil EAST OF 0LNEY. He Stoic a Salmon. C. Andrews was tried before Justice Curry yesterday for stealing a salmon from T. Booth," a fishdealer. He was found guilty and lined 25 and costs. This was a rather expensive salmon, for Andrews at least. Spokane Falls Jteview, Jan. 20. An Irwin, Pa., paper tells of a Sewickley township man, who says he has corn growing on his place six inches high. TeIeihoiul.otfKi"ir House. Host Beds in town. Ivooms per night CO and 2.1 cts., per week S1JJ0. New and clean. Private entrance. The latest style of Gents' Hoots and Shoes at 1. J. Goodman's. NEW TO-DAY. Steam Engine and Boiler for Sale. 17XGINK 8X12 INCH. IJOILKK 310; 3 JU inch Hues, set in brick, 'J steam pumps with connections.: about 1G0J feet as&ortcd .steam pipe with couplings, main, etc. ; also water lanKS. nouuiiK iroin io to wi barrels water each. Above n ill be sold for :i bar- K.Un If applied Tor at once, as proiwrty has ueen icam-u icir uiuer purposes, impure oi Heorpe T. Mcr, Ninth and 1) streets, Port land, Oregon. Genevieve Street Improvement Notice. Notick is hereby given that the eom iiion council of the city of Astoria, Clatsop county, Oregon, propose to or der the improvement of Geneviee street, in the city of Astoria, Clatsop county, Oregon, as laid out and reeorded by John MeCluro and extcmleM by Cy rus Olney. from the north end of the wharf line of said city to the southern city limits, to the established grade or said street, by piling, capping and planking that portion between the north side of the wharf line to the south side of Astor .street, to a width of thirty-four feet through tho center thereof, with new and sound lir plank four inches iu thickness, and by building .side walks on both sides thereof, and by grading and filling that portion between the south side of Astor street and the south ern limits of the city of Astoria to its established grade and to the full width of the street, and by planking the same to a width of eighteen feet through the ci'iiter thereof, with new and sound fir planks four inches iu thickness, and by building side walks nu both sides there there of: And unless a remonstrance, signcd'by the owners of two-thirds of the prop erty fronting on said portion or said street, be tiled with the auditor and io Iice judge within ten days of the final pubiica ion or this notice, to-wit: on or berore .Monday, February 24th, 1890, the t-ommon council "will order said im provements to be made. By order of the common council, A ttest : T. rJ. .I: wktt, Auditor and Police Judge. Astori.i, Febi nary, 1st, 1890. milE REGULAKMKISriNG OF THECO X lumbla Itlver Fishermen's Protective Union will be held on Tucsdav, February 4, 1890, at" -JSQ p. m., at Liberty Hall. FKANK McGKKGOIt, GEO. JOHNSON, President. Secretary. 0 TO LARSON & HILLBACK -FOK- GROCERIES AUD FRESn FRUITS. Orders Delivered Free of Charge. Country Orders Solicited. Third street, next to Pioneer otHce. JP&rxxx for X-Lom't With forty-five head of cattle for half the increase, uauorwnieio O.P.JOIIANSON. Vesper, Clatsop Couaty, Or. iMmmmatmaaauaamcmmaaeJKammmmmKimmaao X J. H. MANSELL, - REAL ESTATE BROKER, NOTARY PDBLIC FOR STATE OF OREGON. City Lots and Acre Property, Ranches, Timber Lands, and Water Frontage for Sale. Investments made for Outside Parties. Established, 18S3. Correspondence Solicited. Nest V. U. Telegraph Ollice. . Third St. Astoria, Oregon. P. O. BOX 863. THE ASTORIA Real Estate andTrust Co. (INCORPORATED.) CAPITA1 $50,000. President. L. P. W. QUIMBY. Vice-President, C. W. WILLIAMS. Secretary. W. H. EDWARDS. Tho abovo Company Placed tho RAILWAY TO ASTORIA, on the market December iStli, 1SS0. A clean sweep of all the lots in above addition was made by January ISth, lSflO. AN EXTENSION TO THE RAILWAY ADDITION Will be placed on the market February 3d. Get in now while the price is low. General Ollice, Rooms 10 and FfiilK SPITTLE, Apt Warren Real Estate Dealers, ManselP.s Rnilding, Water Slreot. ASTORIA, - - OREGON. City Property, Seaside Property, Yide Lands, Timber Lands, Farms, Etc., Bonght and Sold. .STOIFL AIIITIOWT Astoria's most delightful suburb. Lots 520 lo S.T5 cash or installment. Loans negotiated and a general comniisMon business transacted. Invest ments for non-residents a specialty. COICKES1-OXDKXCK SOLICITED. Flp, the Tailor KEK?S IN Finest Woolen Goods for Suitings. ALL THE LATEbT STYLES. He buys for Cash, at E.itern Prices. He ("uanuitt-ct the IJest Workmanship on all garments. Call and sec for yourselves. Barth's Block, Astoria City Book Store. THE LARGEST STOCK IN THE CITY! OF Blank Books, Office Supplies, School Books and Fine Stationery. The Best Goods for All Goods Guaranteed as Represented. illlfll tibiej Astoria Real 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 tho Postoffice. SIXTY of these Lois sold within the past R days. The price of this Choice Property is going up daily, and may be taken off the market at any time. Price of Lots, $125 to $200, according to Location. ADDITION ! s 17, N. K. Cor. First ami Alder Astoria , Orep. & Wright, f STOCK THE the Lowest Prices! m BHBB Wholesale Wine House. Fine Wines, Choice Brands. I havo completed arrangements for supplying any brand of Wine iu any quantity at lowest cash figures. The Trade Supplied, Families Supplied. AIiL ORDEHS DELIVERED FREE IN ASTORIA. Your patronage in City or Country solicited. A. W. UTZINGER, Cosmopolitan Saloon. Yonr MufluMortu IS WII.VT YOU GET AT Foard & Stokes IN' . Groceries and Provisions. Everything In a First-class Storo and at Extremely Low Figures. Goods Delivered all over Town. Tho Highest Price l'ahl for Junk. FOARD & STOKES Prospect Park Addition! One and Two Acre Tracts. On l'ropoed MOTOU ONE to SEASIDE. Call at once at tho Office of THE CLATSOP LAND COMPANY, Anil secure some of this property before the advance. Stockton AND EMPLOYMENT OFFICE. City, Snlmrban anil Acreage Property Fop Sale. MAIN ST., ASTORIA, OK., I. 0. Box 511. No curbstone brokers employed here F.H.SURPRENANT&C0., SIJCCESSOItS TO J. O. H. O t S County Coroner. First Glass Undertaking ESTABLISHMENT. New Styles, Caskets and funeral material Next to Astoriax office. Magnus C. Crosby Dealer iu HAMABE, IRON, STEEL. Iron Pipe and Fittings, STOVES. TINWARE AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS SHEET LEAD STRIP LEAD SHEET IRON, TlaJL AND Copper. 'jSt UL J J - t- '-T J&-, tff I Mill I " The New Model Range CAN RE HAD IN ASTOKIA, ONLY OF IS. R. HAWES, Agent. Call and. Examine It; You "Will be Pleased. E.R.Hawes Is also Agent for tbe Buck Patent Cooking Stove, AND OTHER FIRST CLASS STOVES. Furnace Work, Steam Fittings, Etc., a Specialty. A Full Stock on Hand. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Groceries, Provisions and Mill Feed. Crockery, Glass Plated Ware. Ch Tho Largest and finest assortment of Fresh, Fruits and Vegetables. Received fresh every Steamer. mpmmgggiigmigamgmgpsiy These SEINES aro mndo true taper and from an actual scale, and will hang true and draw when hang in to lines, and from the Gold Medal 1-2 Patent Twine. ' RIGHT AND LEFT HAND LAID PATENT ROPE, 9 thread and larger, soft and free from kinking. SALMON TRAP NETS knit from the Gold Medal 1-2 Patent Twine, superior to the medium laid, stronger, more durable and Holds Tar Longer. Letters or Telegraph shall have our Prompt and Careful Attention American Net & Twine Co Estafallsked 1842. Boston, X&m. Cs1U1, tMi. N. B. We have the largest Netting and Twine plant. New and costly snchuMty has lately been added for knitting heavy Traps for the Colombia river, and Seines for the Alaska Salmon Fisheries, and the most skillful help employed. Highest awards at Boston, 18C9, Philadelphia, 18TC London Fisheries Exposition, 1883, OKr.O K. IMKUKR. CAUUA. HAN30K Parker & Hanson SUCCESSORS TO C. L. PARKER, DEALEKS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE New Goods Arriving Every Steame THIS WEEK. f The Old Stand - Astoria Oregon. & Welch. John C. Dement. DRUGGIST. Successor to W. E. Dement & Ce. Carries Complete Stocks ol Drugs and Druggists' Sundries. rrcMcrlptloHH Careftalljr Cwpaade4. Agent lor Mexican Salve and Norwegian Pile Curs E. F. N00NAN k CO., (Successors to) J. P. HYNES, -DEALERS IN- Groceries Produce. "Water Street. Astoria, Oregon. TELEPHONE NO. 7. P. O. BOX 899. LIDDICOAT & CEIBB. Carpenters and Ballders. Holt & McCurtrie's old stand, have over 300 plates and drawings of all kinds and styles of dwolUng-liouses, ranging from 9900 to $1,200. Call and see them. Ms ram .- JV. .. -