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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1890)
k""f """J""' ""B' 0) VJI'JWfllf vol.. XXXV, NO.715. ASTORTA. OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER IS. 181)0. PRICE FIVE CENTS -'?- SSfLA, gtJj rl m Wm 41 I (fulfil 1 HI-sPS-i mPF ics.iirB&s&igi?s: :-e.rf-:f Ml S3a e III BysLiBIl ''I- III I I 1 Wf8Bii&33 VtllJI IL lU TIIC WIRES ARK DOWN. Last evening at 1:30 Ilia wira went dovni between Knappa and Oak Point, and could not be reached by the linemen m lima to 1)2 repaired last night, consequently no part of our ires report was received, and The Astokian this morning appears with out any telegraphic despatches. Hound to Sre the Elephant. Some j cars ago a New England vil lage was thrown into great commotion by the news that an elephant was to be exhibited in a neighboring town. The village was not large enough to induce the exhibitor to make any stay there, but his road lay through it The exhibition had been advertised for Monday, and Saturday night had come, with no tidings of tho elephant. Sunday moruiug. The "sound of the church-going bell' summoned the people. Pardon Adams had begun the "long prayer," and the con gregation stood, devoutly atten tive to all appearance. But Dr. Dobson's iew, near an open window, commanded a view of tho highway, and Dr. Dobson's eyes were fixed up on the prospect. A cloud of dust arose then -slowly above tho hill op posite the window tho head of tho huge beast came in sight. Tho eager doctor forgot the time and place, and bhoutiug, "The elephant's coming!" went out like n dart, followed by tho rest ot the congregation. What Par son Adams did is not told. Wide Awake. The Great Man's Last Ila'tle. Webster's last da s were given up to a fight of his powerful constitution ;igaiust the inevitable. The last time he walked from his bed to his window he called out to his servaut, "I want juu to moor my little yacht down there where I can see it from my win dow." "Yes, sir." "Then I want jou to hoist the flag at the masthead, and even night I want you to hang tho old lamp up in the rigging. When I go down I want to go down with my colors ll ing and my lamp burning." That was one of Webstcr'p last utterances. Jiev. Dr. Cuyler. X Plausible Explanation. Wire -This is a stupid blunder tho printer makes in the account of our silver wedding. Husband -What is it, my dear? It reads that wo had spent together ttventy-fivo j ears of "marred" happi hoks, instead or "married" happiness. How do you explain such a stupid error? Tho only way I am explain it is by taking it for granted that the printer who M't it up i- a married man him-R-ir. Mrs. Theodore Til Ion is a sad and lonely woman with silver-streaked hair, u care-worn faco and stooped figure, who frequents Lincoln park in Chicago with her grandchildren. Evry pleasant morning in the year she goes Jo tho pleasure ground, but is seldom recognized and is never seen speaking to anyone. She lives with hor married daughter, who contributes to tho family income by water-color paintings, many ot which are lovely in conception nud treatment. scoooooooooooooooodoo C o- New Two BEING OPENED BIG CLOTHING STORE JAILED IN A CASTLE A Yantee SHpjer's Fate in tie Land of lie MitnigM Snn. FED ON HIS OWK HAED TAOK. The Trouble Which Grew Out of the Seizure of the "Mattie T. Djer" By a Uustoms Oolloo or. Advice3 were received yesterday from Captain Mockler, who for the first time since tho seizure of his ves sel, tho Mattie T. Dyer, tells his own story of tho affair. Captain Mockler and his vessel are well known in this city. None of his friends believe that he was ever engaged in illegal sealing and his arrest was a surprise to them. From Captain Mockler's statement it appears that tho Mattie T. Dyer put into Oonalaska voluntarily, and was not run down by the revenue cutters or by tho customs officers. She arrived at Oonalaska on June 17th. On tho following day she was seized by a cus toms collector named Lick Emmons. Captain Mockler states that ho was asked no questions concerning tho vessel and 1ub protests wero utterly disregarded. Tho officers discovered seventy-seven sealskins in tho schoon or, and they claimed that they had been captured in tho Behrinjr sea. Captain Mockler denied tho charge and offered to prove that the skins from their condition and kind could not have been taken in the closed sea. Tho customs officer refused to take his testimony in tho case. Tho Mattie T. Dyer was taken to Sitka. Thero sho was beached in such a manner that her timbers wero badly sprung and sho was otberwiao damaged. The fato which befel Captain Mock ler, his officers and crew was novel. They wero taken from the ship, man acled and escortod to iianinda castle, a neglected remnant of the Russian possessions, about whoso gloomy walls the natives have a score of ghostly legends. Into this old prison tho prosaic Yankee skipper was taken with bis crow. They remained thore for ovor two weekB without onco soo iug tho light of day. The customs collector devised a novel means of feeding his prisoners. Before the ship was taken to Sitka all her stores of hardtack wero removed, including tho sovenly-sovou skins and a half-bottlo of claret, which tho bibulous inspector seized in the name of the United States in trust for himself. On these provisions tho crow of tho Mat tic T. Dyer wore fod. In llm way tho collector was saved tho expense of furnishing propor food to his prisoners. After remaining in confinement for two weeks, tho United States revenue cutter Hear, whicb liad 'arrived at Ounalaskn, was asked by tho enstoms collector to take charge of the prison ers and ship. Tho cutter officers re fused to do so, aud intimatod that the seiznro had been premature. The inspector commenced to feel o""o"oko"o"ob"o"oddomoo"o oaojo oeooootoopioioiio OVER Hundred Boxes I Two Hundred Boxes I Two O F Goods .-.NOW .-. : JLT : Herman Wile's In Occident Hotel Building. that he had been unduly hasty in his action. He sought Captain Mockler and offered to allow him his liberty OTr?"hi ahin Tvrnvii?v1 ill nt lift "WOnld not hold either the government or the inspector responsible tor tue aeten- tion ot tno vessel ana men. uapmm Mockler refused this offer. The cus toms officer then sent his prisoner to Sitka. There a preliminary hearing was held. Captain Mockler proved that the skins on the Mattie T. Dyer had not been captured in the Behring sea but in the Pacific The preliminary hearing resulted in his being discharged from custody. When he tried to get his schooner out ho discovered that in running her ashore tho customs inspector had damaged her badly. He was forced to lay out a considerable sum of money in repairing her. Of the seventy-seven skins which ho originally had only seventy-three were returned to him. Ho finally put to sea, and within tho past few days arrived at Port Townsend. Ho declares his in tention of commencing a suit against the government to recover damages for the false detention of his vessel and injury done to it, tho f also impris onment of himself and crew, and the theft or loss of four sealskins. Tho collector, Dick Emmona, has beeu ousted from his position, pre sumably for his action in the case. San Francisco Chronicle. Tartey Lmjt. There died last week in San Fran cisco, says tho New York World, an old man who a generation ago was known in New York as "Turkey Levy." His name was Aaron Levy, and in anti-bellum times he kept a saloon on Chatham street near Bax ter. Tho great attraction of Levy's place was a big cago on a raised plat form, in which were confined three solemn turkeys. An" old chap with a cracked violin would begin to play a tuno and tho turkeys would dance, beginning with slow and stately measure, gradually becoming more animated as tho fiddler fiddled faster, and eventually ending with a ludicrously wild and frenziod motion, which created intense surprise and amusement Old Levy kept his se cret until one night a party of inquisi tive toughs upset the cage and found underneath a charcoal furnace. The bottom of tho cago was of metal, and when the old man fiddled he kept time with his foot. This put a bellows in operation, the firo burned bright, tho metal began to got hot, and tho tur ko) s began to dance. "Taricoy Lovy" has"nover had a successor. Grover Cleveland's next-door neigh bors at Marion havo felt it uoccssary to put ont a placard on which aro in scribed tho werds: "Next door is tho place." Safety Prom a I'eiUIentUl Scourge. Protection from tho illsisic, not a iwli- lusl ae nt which merely checks tho iurox vms, U tho crand desideratum wherever tho endemic icounje of malaria prevails. Quinine doe nbt .iffonl i Ills pro tec ion. The chief reason uhv Hostetter'a Stomach (tit ters lia won such Immense -popularity Is, tnu It prepares tho ys:em to resist iho malarial pest. This it does by br.irlni' and toning tho physical orsaulsm; reRuLitiiiK aud prometlui: an equal flow and dlstnlm tion or tho animal tlulds, and establishing d gestlon ou n sound basis. No. only is fever and ajpio prevented, but tho worst types of tho disease are conquered by It. Such Is llm only conclulon to be drawn from the overwhelming evidence In Its favor. It is equally efficacious in dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint, ueneral do bllity and rheumatic complaint, and U a reliable diuretic and nervine. - -0-0 .8 : ., v . 1 U Hi i : AN ELECTIUC RAILROAD. A Bold Russian Scheme of Great Jlng uitnde. London Iron gives the following particulars of a project tho succe33 of which would doubtless he followed by similar enterprise?. "The boldest electrical project 3 et suggested is one which is under consideration in Eus Bia for a lino from St. Petersburg northeast to Archangel, on tho "White sea, a distance of over 300 miles. It is proposed "to furnish the electric current from a scries of generating stations distributed along the line, and the cost of the uudertnking, in cluding rolling stock, is estimited nt only about 3,000 per mile. Arch angel, tho proposed northern ter minus, lies in 61 degrees north latitude, closo to tho Arctic circle. It is far above the latitude of the northern shoro of Hudson bay, and almost as far north as the narrowest part of Behring's straits, the sugges tion of crossing which by a railway has been assumed by many to bo im practicable. It may be that electricity will furnish tho solution of the diffi culty of operating railways in ex tremely cold regions which attends tho use of steam. Evidently an elec tric railway can be bnilt of any desired length if power-generating stations are supplied at proper intervals, and hence it becomes only a question of obtaining sufficient traffic to warrant tho cost of construction and opera tion. Tho electric locomotive has no steam or water pipes to freeze and burst in the intenso and long contin ued cold of a far northern winter, nud electricity, by which trains can be lighted, will doubtless ere long be sue cessfully applied to the purposes of heatiug also. Should tho remarkable enterpriso of an electric railway to tho "White sea bo actually carried into ex ecution, it will not be hard to believe that a similar line may bo pushed through Alaska to meet at Behring's straits an extension of the Russian railway system through Siberia, aud complete "a continuous railway lino unitiug AmericvAsia aud Europe." Porrnattuo Hrel. "All run down nt tho heel" tells a pitiful talo generally. It calls to mind a person who has had money, friends and position one who has seen all these disappear and with the loss of the three, ha3 also been forsaken by prido and ambition. And in the shiftless rambling through life tho heel that was formerly brought down fair and square has learned to topple to one side nntil ambition, brain and h,eel aro nil about a the same angle. A throb of pity goes out to this one "run down at tho heel." "When an elegantly dressed woman steps into her carriage and displays a heel run down to one Bide and several buttons gone from tho shoe, ono wonders how her shoes would look if prosperity shonld take wing3with her. If, with plenty of monoy and magnificent toilet?, prido gots "run down at the heel," what cau be orpected of the poor unfortunate to whom tho term is generally applied ? Orchid jewels arc the adornment of tho gilded children of fashion. Ono cannot get a perfect spray ot the fan tastic blossoms under $90, and the per fect flowers aro worth double -that sum for tho enamel alone, every jeni adding its vnlno U) tho price of the jowoL OVER- O .-. NOW .-. BEING BIG CLOTHING STORES, jIti Occident Hotel Building. BICYCLES FOR BUSINESS. A Club orXewark Men Who Use the Wheel Not For Pleasure Alone. There is probably no city ot its size in tho United States where tho bicycle is used as much around town for practical business purposes as in Newark. The city is not so big and crowded as Brooklyn or New York, and it is quite convenient for mer chant drummers, law clerks, brokers and other folks who have to cover a deal ot pavements in the course of a day's business to stride their steel and rubber horses and roll swiftly from office to office or from end to end of tho town at no expense of cab or car fare, and with much saving of timo and effort. On any of the busi ness streets there, dozens of business men can bo seen any day speeding by on low safety wheels. The highways leading to Boseville and the Oranges aro much frequented by bicyclers, many of whom do not wear the flannel shirts and knickerbockers of the rider for pleasure, and carry small sample cases strapped to their machines or slung from their shoulders. Newark's city ordinances governing the use of bicycles in the streeta were until lately quite as liberal as those of other large Ncvr Jersey towns. The metropolitan character of Newark naturally mado the uso of the bicycle proportionately greater thau else where under tho same laws, and the same reasons made tho bicycle more of a nuisance in the streets. That is why the police of Newark have beeu very active recently in keeping bi cycles strictly within the letter of the law, and from this has arisen a novel association of bicyclers in that town, the first of tho kind in the country. It isn't a club, it has no club house and its members wear no badge or uni form. It is purely a business organi zation, chiefly of business men, and its chief object is to look out for the interest of all bicyclers in Newark, to keep the city authorities stirred up in the matter of maintaining the streets and roads in good repair and to in fluence city legislation in the interest ot bicyclers. Tho association calls itself the Busi ness Men's Cycle club and accepts any reputable bicycler or tricycler as a member, but is particularly anxious to enroll business men. The idea is to collect a great lot of names of men of business, prominence and influence, so that when the club asks tho city law makers to grant somo new privilego to wheelers, or abolish somo ordinance restricting bicyclers, or to mend somo bad piece of pavement, or to open a now street, or to grade a road,' the reqnest will have the backing of a lot of men whose names will carry weight with tho city government, Business men who use bicycles there are joining tho movement in consider able numbers, and the members have already begun a campaign upon all tho business men ot their acquaint ance, dilating upon the health and pleasure to bo had in bicycling, and urging them to buy wheels and learn to ride, and then to join the associa tion. Tho clnb proposes to wago a heavy war upon bad roads for a radius of ten miles sironnd Newark. Nero York 81111. Ail I!n- li.tii-nt niiM.ruii-. :i.lTrtisou in this imjm r, tugetliiTWitliiliu i-hoiceut m-rfiinii'ry, ami toilet artichs etc can lie bought at I hi- Urn vt pi ices r.t .1. V. Conn's drug ston npposiU Occident liiiti-i, Astoria. F- GOODS OPENED A SHREWD EDITOB. He Found a War to Get Ont of a Jail in the West. Unfortunately tho names in this story have to be suppressed, but the absolute correctness of tho statements can be relied upon. A Chicago man, who is engaged in several things, hold3 a patent on a system of jail construction, which is now pretty generally used. It is that arrangement in wliich a complete structure of boilor-iron is built within the brick walls of tho jail building proper a house within a house. An other Chicago man figures in the story. This later went "West somo years ago, and in a newspaper which ho estab lished ho assailed tho commissioners of tho county in which he was editor, intimating that they were" following in the footsteps of tho old boodler crowd of Cook county. The honest granger commissioners did not like this intimation, and the progressive young editor from Chicago "was put behind tho bars on the charge of criminal libel. Is it any wonder that a man bent upon reforming the offi cials of his country, meeting with such a reward, should yearn for re venge? Now, he happened to know that tho identical jail in which he pined had been erected on the plan patented by his Chicago friend. The sheriff showed up as a soft mark. Tho young editor by quizzing him ascertained that the commissioners had constructed the bastile on their own account, and that the patentee was receiving no royalty. Tho pat entee was informed of "the state of tilings, and in a few dajs the attorney of the patentee was on the ground. The county officials were overwhelmed with legal documents giving notice of suits for infringements of patent, non-payment of royalty and other uncomfortable proceedings. The offi cials settled quickly. The incarcerated editor "was editing all tho time," and called attention again to the low moral tone of tho county commission ers in using patented articles with out payinp for them. The libel suits were dismissed. The officials did'nt know, after this sort of surprise, what the editor would spring on them next, and they let him go free. Chicago Tribune. Swift Torpedo Boats. Tho French sea-going torpedo boat Coureur is credited with a speed of 2G.2 knots in Lloyd's register of the warships of tho world. Sho was launched in 18S8, is li7 feet long. 14.6 feet beam and 0 feet draught. Her engines indicated 1,550 horso power. Tho torpedo boat Adler, of the Rus sian navy, is credited with the greatest speed, 2G.55 knots, while the two sister ships have only a speed of 21 knots. Tho Spanish torpedo boat Ariete has a speed of 26 knots. Kotice. GOD'S BLESSING TO HUMANITY So Says an Oregon Pioneer Ninety Years 01:!. Fokkst Guovk. Or., March 19. 1 have used the OREGON KIDNEY TEA and obtained immediato relief. It is God's blessing to humanity. I take pleasure in recommending it to the afllicted. I am now nearly ninety years o'd, eamc to Oregon in 1842 in the em ploy of tho Hudson's Bay Company, and since 1 began using the OREGON KIDNEY TEA I enjoy good health. DAVID MUNROE. 2-?- .-J? 0 - 0-0- BIG THE TEST NEARLY FATAL. Johnstone, lie MM-Reaier, Nar rowly Escajes Bishop's Fate. PE0STEATED AND DELIRIOUS. Saved by the Most Careful Attention Theory of the Cause of the Attack. According to Manager Gooding, Wednesday night's exhibition in Chi cago camo very near proving fatal to Johnstone, the mind-reader. "After it was over we should have taken a room nt the hotel," ho said, "but instsad wo drove out to Calumet avenue, whero we aro stopping. "When nearly there Johnstone com plained of awful pains around the heart and urged mo to drive faster. Shortly after getting him to his room he fell over in a dead faint, and for two hours and a half neither the doc tor nor myself could detect any signs of life, except that his lips were red instead of white. "Finally wo brought him around, and he relapsed into a frightful de lirium, going over again and again the experiences of tho day." "What causes this prostration?" "During the test his brain is con centrated to its fullest extent, and his pnlso gets up so high that it cannot be counted. Then a reaction sets in, all tho blood rushes back to the heart and literally stifles him. "From tho moment he was taken down last night until ho revived I never for a moment stopped rubbing nts limus ana Kneauing tno uesn over his breast, otherwise the blood would havo stagnated and death would havo followed "as certainly as it did in the case of Bishop. " Speaking of Bishop, I will tell you a little incident that I think is not generally known. Bishop, as you remember, was endeavoring to pick out a name from the register in the Lamb's clnb, New York, and after four hours' continuous work, fell over to the lloor and remained apparently lifeless. The club members did what they "could to restore him, but, of course, their ignorant aid was of little avail, and one after tho other they departed, finally leaving Uishop and tne steward alone together. The lat ter notified the police shortly after ward. "This is the story told me by Mack, Bishop's father-in-law. I am certain from what I have seen in Johnstone's caso that if that man had been intelligently treated from tho first ho could havo been brought around all right. His death was dne to igno ranco aided by neglect' ADVICE TO JIOTIIEItS. Mns. Wixsi.ow's Soothino Synui' should always be used tor children teething. It hoothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind chohcandis the best remedy fordiar-rhcea.Twenty-fivn cents a bottle. .0JiJ:iJ:L9J?J - L0SJ?.P SJ?JiJiJ3JsfL?J?SJ30..(J? J!JOlSLP' "0L?LJ OVER Hundred O F New Goods .NOW BEING OPENED T CLOTHING STORE, In Occident Hotel A Patent Boom B&ft. Tho arrival of tha steamer "N"nvn with a raft of logs that will cut 2,000, 000 feet of timber, and without losing a stick on the way, is an event that causes considerable interest in the method of constructing the raft. It is a recent natent owned bv tlm Vnrt Bragg Kedwood Co., and tho Noyo jjumoer uo., ana tins, its first trial, proves it to be a success. The boom is made of a number of sections linked together. Each section is composed of four boom sticks, each thirty-two feet long. These sticks are united by four timbers twelve inches sannrn nnd four feet long, one at each end, and tne otner two near the center of the lonpr sticks. The two end timbers project beyond the boom sticks suffi ciently to allow a two-inch chain to pass through them, thus connecting the sections. Thn lone RKnfca nr bolted to the timbar with two ineh steel bolts, and each section is thus very strong. The sections have two-and-one-half feet draft, and about an equal amount of freeboard if such ex- pie&Muu may uo uppnea. zne sections being united, they form an aquatic corral, somewhat in the shape of a pear, wiui tne nawser for towing attached to the end where the stem ef: tho near is to be found. Tho lnrra in Via towed are dumped inside this pen and wnue not in any otner way secured, ,the experiment ha3 shown they are safely held in this novel mnnncr. The Noyo had 2,000 feet of tow line. unaer tne smiitni guidance or Cap tain Drisko, the immense raft was broncrht down Rnfelv in fnnr rlnvafrnm Noyo, the tow having material enough to load tour good size steam schooners. S. F. News. A Singular Incident. Capt. John Smith, of Swampscott, of the pleasure schooner Gertie Smith, relates that when he was ono of the crew of the old Swampscott Dart, somo twenty-five years ago, that ves sel lost her anchor off Leeds Ledge, owing to the absence of one of its connecting bolts. About a month since, while out with a fishing party at the same grounds, in " heaving up" the captain caught on to something pretty heavy and pulled in an extra anchor, a close examination of which showed it to be the one with the missing bolt, lost from the Dart E3 above stated. Lynn Item. A planter at Alpharetta, Ga., has an acre of cotton, every stalk, of which is of a deep red color, leaf, bool and bloom. This novel crop is the pro duct of seed derived three years ago from two stocks of red cotton found in. a cotton field. Cubes Peomptlt asd Pebmahzstlt JliTJlVtBA.G-05 Rftpumatlsm, Headache, Toothache, SPRAINS, Kouraigla, Swellings, Yost-fclte, B 12, TJ I SE S . THE CHARLES A. V0QELER CO.. IlUJwort. H4 -0-0 .-. 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