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TURKEY AND
AS WE WILL HAVE A TON OF
FINE TURKEYS WHICH WE WILL
SELL AS CHEAP AS ANY MAR
KET IN TOWN, GIVE US A CALL.
BUSINESS CARDS.
T r. 1TA31II.TOX,
ATTORNEY T
Astoria, -1'fnee.
three doors east
LAW,
Oregon.
Court House,
Third street.
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lttermfj-t-Law: oUry faille
Commissioner or Deeds Tor Washington
.rtntutj- Office In Fund's new brick
HwJWrtx. Cor. second and Cass streets.
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ATTORNEY Al LAW.
n(!lceo Cans street, 2 doors back ot (!
rVou. jiuilduiK. Astoria, Oregon.
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q. A. BOWI.BY,
Vttarncy eb CeMwellor at Uw
U3k-cu Chenanms Street, Astoria, Oregou
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R. KANAGA,
ATTORNEY AT l.iV.
OffWro over White House Oor.. Astoria, Or.
J.
II. HaXEfiL,
Kl. KSTATi: UllflKKU
notary runi.u-
KstabtUhed 1833.
TWtU Street, next to W. U. Tl-granh Or
aee, Astoria. Or.
Vir W. PARKER,
Kea! Estate and Insurance Agent,
ConTcjancer and Notary Public.
U2 Beaton ctre X. oppostto tho Postofflce.
nrtweeu Clicnamui & Squemwiuc Sts .
Astoria. Oregon.
VCI.KVF.MMI,
ATTOKNUY Al' LAW.
, Flvcl- nevf brick building, eomei
-xvud auid Cas streets , u,. sta rs.
;C . - IVtl J. A. KI'l.TOft
Ca street, between 3rd and 4th.
SprW attention to Diseases or Women
aid Children, by Dr. A, L. Ful ton.
iieetsl altentten to Surgery, by Dr. J. A.
Pel too.
OSce hours rrom to toJ2 a. mm andlto4
r.ac
rvK. K. "W. STRICKLEB,
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PHYSICIAN, SURG EON AND DHOGC.IST
InsiHipJc cases, charges only for medl-
"r rostoce,CtieBaraus Street. Astoria,
Onoa.
TMta Later & Aitaii,
CIVIL ENGINEERS, '
Surveyors and Architects.
Orncs, Room 9, Flavel's Bi.d'o
BBCOKD STREET
P. O. x SIS. ASTOllI A, OR.
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LOO. C02 Third St., Cor- Wot Ninth
FOR
LOOK OUT FOR THE
FI3SE DISPLAY
FITZGERALD & CO.'S
MARKET.
GAME!
I AY TUTTLE. M. D.
Thysician, Surgeon and Accoucheur.
Offlcc, ltoimi C, rjltil.ui Building
Office hours : 10 to 12 and 'I to 5.
Kesldence, 639 Cedar Street.
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k.o. a. i:stk.
I'll YblClAN AND SUKUKON.
Special attention to Diseases of Women
mil Surgery.
OKi'ii'K: Opposite Telegraph Office, np
Stairs. Aitoria, .-oii.
T) K. 3IILLRK. M. I).
Graduate of Cleveland IXomoeopatliic IIos
pltal College, and Post-Oraduate of New
Vork City Polyclinic School ot Medicine
and Surgery.
First and Alain streets, Tortland.
DineaHes of Women a Specialty.
Tll I. A. ItKS W,
DENTTIST
Hooms3 and 4. Flavel's new Brick Hulld
lag. V. T. BOUXirr. I- T. liARTK
J. TV. DBArKR.
Burney, Barin & Draper,
Attorneys
at-Iaw.
.Oregon City, Oregon.
Twelve jears experience as Register of
.he U. S. Land Office here, recommends us
in our specialty or Mining and all other bus
iness before the Land Office or the Court,
uid hnolvlng the practice in the General
I And offlce.
H. EKSTROM,
Practical : Watchmaker,
ASTORIA, OR.
A fine lino of fJold and Silver Watches,
t.olld Gold and Plated Jewelry, (Hocks, etc.,
at rcsonablc prices. Itenilrlni; F0mptl
Sone. Next to Mirgin &Sherm?n.
John 0. Dement.
DRUGGIST.
Successor to W. E. Dement & Co.
Carries Complete Stocks of
Orugs and Druggists' Sundries.
rirserlptloiis VarrtuU ConpoHBtled.
Agent lor
Mexican Salve and
Noiweeian Pile Cor
Thompson & Ross
Carry a Full Line of
Choice Staple and Fancy
Groceries.
Give Us a Call and Be Convinced.
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WM. EDAE.
Cigars, Tobacco and Snuff,
MEEKSCIIAUM BKIEIt TIPES.
Pocket Cutler, Marine Glasses,
'.TATIQ.VcRY AND t.OTIONS.
Corner Mai ami S ot d s; jlstu I.u or.
C. B. Smith
Has bought the Mil ado Cindv Factory and
wi'l keep a fine assortment of
Candies, C gars, and Fruits
In season. GIemeacal
B. F ALLEN & CO.
ilKAI.EUS IN
al! Paper and Oi! Paintings
ntACTICAL:
PAINTERS AND DECORATORS.
All Work Guaranteed.
-THE
DIAMOND PALACE
KUSTAY HANSEN, Pi'up'r.
A Larcand Well Selected Stock of Flue
Diaionte Jewelry
At Extreinelj Lou ivlces.
All Goods nought at Thin KsUMlibment
Warranted Genuine
Wixtrh amf Vlnvli Repairing
a sn:rii.TY
..till IHMIUIM -llt-8
l4tllltt i'.t"
r. "W. CASK
Insurance Assent.
KCPKESEN"llN.
California Marine Ir.s. Co
S. F.
Columbia Fir
r, I Marine Ins. Co.,
Tor!) inl.
Home Mutual insmance Co . S. F.
Phoenix of London.
Imperial of London.
Oregon Fir and Marine of Port
land, Or-
I. W. Case,
BANKER.
Transacts a General Banking Business.
Prat: drawn .ivatl.itile in aiij pnit the
U. N mid liurope, and on I'ohjj Ko"j;, China
Okmpr Houirs:-H a. m. tns r. y.
!, ' ki t.u- lttMi ki.mi. AMon.i. Oregon.
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Astoria National Bank
IS NOW Ol'EN FOR
GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
Accounts of Firms and Individuals So'lc
lted on Va orable Terms.
Interest naid on 'lime Deposits. Mone
Loaned on Personal security.
Foreign and Donicslie lixchange bought
and sold.
C. T. Edcc, President.
John Ilobkon, Vice Pres.
A. B. Edcc, Caviller.
D. K. Warren. I Tii-o-.n-j
C. S. WriRlit. l DIrecl0-
Maverick National
BAMC, BOSTON, 31ASS.
CAPITAL...
SUUPLU&..
,.$400,000
.. 800.000
Accounts of Banks, Bankers and Corpora
tions solicited.
Our facilities Tor COLLECTIONS are excel
lent, and xic rc-dlscount for Banks when
balances warrant it.
Boston la a Keserve City, and balances
with us from Banks (not located in other
Jteservc Ci'les) count as a resenc.
We draw our own exchange on London
aud the Continent. and make cable transfers
and place money by telegraph throughout
tne uuitea states anu tauauo.
We lun o a market for prime, first-class
Investment Securities, and Invite proposals
from States, Counties and Cities when is
suing bonds.
We do a general Banking Business, and in
vite cnrrcspondecce.
ASA P. rOTTEK, President.
JOS. V.'. WORK, Cashier.
THE PORTLAND S&YINGS BANE
OF PORTLAND, OIIEGOX.
Paid up capital
Surplus and prollte.....
.S2CO.0O0
.. co.ooo
Interest allowed on sawngs deposits
as
IOIIOWS-
On-ordlnary savings books, 4 per cent per
annum.
On term sain?s books, 0 rcr cut per
annum.
On certificates of deposit :
For three mouths, 4 per cent per annum.
For six months, S per cent per annum.
i or ice inonms, c prr cent per annum.
FRANK DEKUM. President.
1). P. THOMPSON. Vice President.
II. C. -si It 4.ITON. Ciluer.
ConcomlyM.. Foot of Jackson, Astoria. Or
rijprq
Madiflists 3i Boiler Men.
Land and Marino Engines
ttOlI.KR WORK,
Steamboat Work and Cannery Work
A SPKCTALTV,
Castings of all Descriptions Made
to Order at Short Notice.
John Fox .. - .President, and Sunt
A. L. Fox,, .....-... Vico President
J. O. IIusTLKB...... Sea and Treas
Never Travel "Without a Box of
Astoria Iron forks.
ASTOKTA, OKEGOIY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1890.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. !
A fire at Canton, China, destroyed over
100 houses.
The trotting stallion " Wilkes" was sold
for $20,000.
Good feeling prevailed in the. London
stock market yesterday.
Late dispatches indicate that there
will be an outbreak of the Sioux.
A man coufined in jail in Boston
claims to be the lost Charlie Bos3.
S. S. B. Gonjb, of Meridan, Miss., -was
robbed pnd murdered by negroes.
It is hinted in Chicago police circles
that Cashier Clarke robbed himself.
John G. Morse, a piano agent in St.
Louis, is wanted for embezzlement.
It is reported at Fort Sully that the
hostile Sioux are massing for battle.
C. P. Huntington thinks the Gould deal J
will beneO t Western railroad affairs.
The ship Sudburne was sunk in col cel col
liseon: eleven of the crew are missing.
The property of the Oregon Improve
ment Company in Sin "Franoisco has
been attached.
The banking house of Bell & EiaUr, at
Minneapolis, failed; liabilities, $715,000:
assets, $1,200,000.
The British yacht Nyanza was wrecked
on an island in tho Caroline group; all
hands were saved.
Congressman McMillan, at Tonne woe,
says the republicans will stand firm on
t'ae McKinley bill.
Tho coming short session of congress
will, it is thought, have more business
than it cm attend to.
News received at Washington is to tho
effect that tho Cheyenne Indians have
abandoned tho war dance.
Tho department at Washington has
ordered tho discharge of tho assistant
postmaster at Austin, Tex.
Tho Oregon Improvement Company
has given notico that default will be
midein thepiymontof inforest on tho
first mortgage
The steamship WesUiourlc was wrecked
in the Black sea and six of tho crow woro
drowned; twelve of the survivors died
from exposure.
Manager Howard, of tho Oregon Im
provement Company, tells the old story,
and lays tho blamo for the company's
troubles on the stringency of the money
market.
Atldlliimal Telegraph m Fourtn Page.
M&JPfunden'jrr.
7n HEALTH RESTORER.
IT IS THE IDE AIi IffEPICTJflB.
It rouses the Liver and Kidneys and Stomach,
Cures Headache, Dyspepsia, creates an Appe
tite, Purifies the Impure Blood, and
Makes The "Weak Btxong.
?imuniiuil?
PFUNDER'S
tlTij:itut
Used everywhere. 91aboitl6sixfor$&
J. B. Wyatt,
DEALER. IN
Hardware and Ship Chandlery,
Pure Oil, Bright Varnish. Btnaclo Oil,
Cotton Canva?, Hemp Sail Twine,
Lard Oil. Wi ought Iron Spike,
Galvanized Cut Nail.
Agricultural Implement?, Sewing
Machines, Paints, Oils,
Groceries, lETto.
J. C. BELL
Has Opened a
Produce and Commission
STORE AT
400 Third Street. Avtorla, Or.
Wholesale and Retill buslnes in Flour.
Mill Feed, Oats, Potatoes. .Apples, Etc
Solicits a General Commission Business.
LIDDICOAT & CEIBB.
Carpenter and Builders.
Holt & McOurtrie'a old stand. ha e over 200
plates and drawings of all kinds and styles
ot dwelling-houses, ranging from 900 to
112.000 Call and see them.
FOR SALE
Cheap For Cash.
Inquire at
Standard Saloon
JACOBS & plum;
Contractors and Bniliers,
Estim ite . Given on. Stone, JBrick or
Wood Work.
Cancrcte
and. Cement
. Specialty
'Work
OFFICE,
118 Genevieve St.
Contractor and Stone Mason
All kinds of Slonc Work done in a neat
and substantial roauner.
Address all Orders or Correspondence
Box 213. Astoria, Or.
W. F. Scheibe,
OIGAK MANUFACTUItEB.
Smokers' Articles in Stock.
THE TRADE SUPPLIED.
Special Brands Manufactured to Order.
MAIN STREET. - - Astoria, Or
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THE RAILBOAD GRLB.
Dillon Succeed President Atas
in Tie Union Pacific.
A PE0PHE0Y BY HUUTTNGT0N.
The Oregon Improvement Company's
Troubles What tfanager How
ard Says About Them.
Special by The Ukited Pkfs3 1
Boston, Nov. 26. At a meeting of
the Union Paciflc Company to-day,
President Adams delivered an address
of resignation and Sydney Dillon was
elected to the office of president of the
company.
MANAGER HOWARD TALKS.
II e Tells the Old Story of a
Cleso Money- market.
Special toTiiK AstorianJ
San Fkaxcxsco, Nov. 26. John L.
Howard, the local agent of the Oregon
Improvement Company, asserts that
it time can be given, tho whole of tho
indebtedness will be paid. He Jays
tho blamo of the whole matter to the
stringency of the New York money
market.
In November, 18S9, the company
mortgaged the wholo of its plant for
315,000,000. Sinco that date the
I steamships Pomona and the City of
Puebla havo been purchased from
the Pacific Coa3t Steamship Company
for a sum aggregating about S800.000.
Tho whole of this sum, save $100,000,
has been paid, and it was for this
amount that the First National Bank
attached tho Puebla. This was done
in view of the fact that a petition was
before the courts sn Portland to have
a receiver appointed.
As the Puebla and the Pomona
were bought after tho mortgage was
given in San Francisco, creditors
think they can .plead these two ves
sels to secure themselves.
Tho Pomona will be due hero in a
few days.
HUNTINGTON TALKS.
He Predicts ITluch Good From
The Gould Deal.
Special to TnK Astori k.1
Ne7 York, Nov. 26. Kiernan'a
News Agency says: "O. P. Hunting
ton is quoted as follews: 'I think tho
chances that have been brought about
in the administration of western rail
road affairs "will havo a good effect
Gould is a very strong man and where
ever ho goes he carries great influence
along. I am in sympathy with any
measure that will bring about an
improvement in the railroad situation
which has not been as black, however,
as Wall street has painted it "
AV1LL DEFAULT IN PAYMENT.
The Oregon Improvement Com
pany Gives Notice.
Special to Tue ASTOBIAX.I
New York, Nov. 26.- -The Oregon
Improvement Company to-day iasned
an official statement that it would
default on the interest on its first
mortgage, due Dec 1st, and would be
unable to comply with the sinking
provisions of the floating debt amount
ing to $2,000,000 in demand loans,
witntnenew consolidated Donas as
security.
San Fbaxgisco, Nov. 26. Attach
ments have been levied on the prop
erty of the Oregon Improvement
Company by the South Prairie -Coal
Company to cover a claim of $4,120,
and by A. V. Sellansbee, to cover a
claim of $28,900.
Advices received from New York
by the manager of the company are
more encouraging, and it is now
thought that arrangements will be
made to meet December interest on
bonds of the company.
Astoria Engine Co. No. One's Ball.
Last evening Astoria Engine Com.
pany No. One, gave a grand invita
tion ball at Boss' opera house and it
proved to be one of the most pleasant
events of the season. The musioby
TJtzinger'a orchestra was first olass
and the large number of young peo
ple present thoroughly enjoyed them
selves and at a late hour the ball came
to an end, many expressing a hope
that the company would give another
ball in the near future. Great credit
is due the committee of arrangement
for their earnest efforts to make the
affair a suceess. The following com
prised the different cemmittees:
Arrangements Jas. A, iiinney, Jb.
H. Surprenant and M. F. Hardesty
Eeception G. O. Fulton and F. H.
Surprenant
Floor O. J. Trenchard, O. J. Curtis
and M. F. Hardesty.
Among those present were Gapt
Thos. Parker and wife, L. G. Carpen
ter and wife, C. J. Curtis and wife, J.
F. Ferchen and wife, M. Skibbe and
wife, P. "W. '"Weeks and wife, P. J.
Goodman and wife, Balph Hall and
wife, E. B. Stoner and wife, Grewell
and wife, T. S. Jewett and wife, Mes
dames E. A. Weed, Boyce, Buffington.
The Misses Alice and Aggie Stockton,
Mary and Jennie Monteith, Bertha
Stoner, Saddie Seannell, Emma Carl
son, Haggle and Katie Grant, Stacia
Carney, Maggie Bnrns, Winnie and
Eva Goodman, Mamie Morrison of
San Francisco, Kate Logan, Delia
Hansen, Edith and Babe Bishop, Josey
and Maggio Dealy. Messrs. A. J3.
Edee, O. H. Stockton, H. Cribb, P.
Grant, F. H. Surprenant, T. Linville,
B. "Whitaker, M. F. Hardesty, Watson
Binder, B. S. Worsley, John J.
Kinney, Wm. Binder, Jas. A. Kinney,
J.B. Clinton, L. E. Gillefe, H. E.
Brown, Paul Badollet, AL McGillis,
CapL Thos. Crang.F.L. Parker, S.
B. Crow. Frank Holt, L. Hansen, Ed.
Reed, Wm. Fitzgerald, J. Hansen, N.
J. Bergman, Wm. Kelly, A. Graf g, M.
Feeley, T. Corbett, S. Freeman and
others.
A NASAL INJECTOR free with
each bottlo of Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy
Price 50 cents.
THE REV. GEO. II. THAYER, of
Bourbon, Intl., says?- "Both myself
and Wife owo our lives to SHILOH'S
CONSUMPTION CURE,
A BANK FAILS.
Going- en. Beadi for Contractors
Causes Its Downfall.
Special to The Astokian-.I
Mikkzapolis, Nov. 26. A dispatch
from Dnluth says: The banking
house of Bell & Eister ha3 failed,
liabilities, S715.000; assets $1,200,000.
The bank was on the bonds of For
estal Bros, of St. Paul, contractors,
who failed a short time ago. This led
to distrust and the weakening ot the
credit of thebankandmadeit impossi
ble for it to secure cash to meet ac
cruing obligations.
The following notice was posted on
the bank door this merning:
"Owing to the great stringency ot
the money market we find ourselves
wholly unable to meet our obligations,
and are forced to suspend payment.
All creditors will be paid in full."
A full statement of the condition of
the affairs of the bank will be fur
nished within a short time.
The notice was signed by H. H.
Bell, the manager.
IS IT FATALITY.
Wade Hampton Loses an
JEyc
Where Ho Lest a Leg;.
Special toTnEAsToitiA.N.I
Columbia, S. C, Nov. 26. A tele
gram received here to-night states
that Senator "Wade Hampton, while
gunning on his favorite hunting
ground, in Wasington county, was ac
cidentally shot by his son.
The son, it seems, fired towards his
father and wounded him on tho head,
one of the shots taking effect in .his
eye. His injuries, however, aro not
believed to bo serious, as it is not
thought likely he will lose liis eye
sight. The accident happened in the
same locaUty where the senator lost
one of his legs.
ORDERED HIS DISCHARGE.
The Anti-Lottery Law Gets a
Postal Official In Trouble.
Special to The AstokiaxJ
"Washington, Nov. 26. By direc
tion of Postmaster-General "Wana
maker, Chief Postal Inspector Eath
bono to-day directed the postmaster at
Austin, Texas, by telegraph, to dismiss
immediately H. JB. Kinney, an assist
ant postmaster at that place.
Kinney destroyed certain evidence
in his posession after it had been de
manded of him by the post office in
spector, who wanted to use it in pros
eoufang a caso arising under the anti
lottery law.
COMING SESSION OF CONGRESS
Tlere 111 1b More Business Than
Can lie Dispel of.
THE rJiESIDJSXTS VOSITIOX.
Spocial by The TJnitkd Peess.1
New York, Nov. 26. A "Washington
special says: "It is believed that
congress, during the coming short
session, will have its hands full to pass
the appropriation bill and attend to
even a part of the legislation awaiting
its action.
The president has discouraged a
recommendation from "Windom, for
financial measures, such, as ah inter
convertible bond plan and an increase
of circulation.
The president will handle the sub
ject in his own way, which will, it is
expected, be non-committal.
CAPITAL UOSSIP.
The Republicans Will Stand. By
Mr. McKinley.
Special to The AsroBiAif.l
Washington, Nov. 26. Speaker
Seed was at the capitol for a short
time to-day. He dropped in on the
members of the appropriation com
mittee and asked some questions,
incidentally, of Chairman Cannon
about the order for the disposal of
Beveral appropriation bills.
McMillan, of Tennesee, who is a
candidate for the speakership in the
next house, arrived in this city to-day
and was at the capitol for a short
time. He told a United Press reporter
that he thought the republicans would
not modify the McKinley tariff law in
any degree.
"The sole motives that actuated them
in passing the bill are alive and at
work," said McMillan, "and the senti
ment among the republicans, in favor
of the law is too Btrong to be over
come." McMillan said he had not made any
preparations for beginning his fight
for the speakership.
Passengers to Portland.
The following is tho list of passen
gers having rooms who went up the
river last night on the steamer R. R
Thompson.
Major Cowan, E. O. Stewart, J. Con
ley, Carl Gunderson, S.Meyer, F.
Turk, T. S. JewettH. Rogers, B. L
Shepard, M. Marcusi, J. A. Brown,
Mrs. Harry, Miss Arnold, Miss Parker,
M. Tollman and wife, Sister Superior,
A. R. Cyrus, S. S. Gordon, H. B. Par
ker, L. Emphat, L. H. Peterson and
wife,H.L- Chases, H. G. Lee, J.
Grant, M. L. Pratt, O. H. Brodley, A.
E. King, F. Krosel, W. B. McLinn, N.
F. White, A. Keegan, MissJHolstead,
F. R. Pleasance, K. Anderson, P. J.
Mann, J. Lennox.
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The Child of an Evil Parent
Malvollo says In Shakespeare's Comedy ot
i. wen in iMiRHt. -some aro uorn great, some
acBIeve greatness and others have great
ness thrust upon them." So it is with nerv
ousness. Some aro born nervous, some
achieve neivousness by their own impru
dence and neglect, and some have nervous
ness thrust upon them by disease. The
basic starting point of this ailment, which
grows rapidly aud assumes alarming propor
tions when Itrcacbps the stage of hypochon
dria and chronic sleeplessness. Is weakness,
the child of indigestion, parent of many
evils. For the incapacity of. the stomach to
digest food, and of the system to assimilate
It after digestion. Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters has ever proved a sovereign remedy.
Sleep becomes tranquil, appetite improves,
abnormal sensltlvenes or the nerves is suc
ceeded by steadiness and vigor in those
delicate tissues, bodily substance Increases
when that signal restorative of digestion u
systematically used. Conquer also with it
malaria, rneumausm, Kiuney inactivity,
liver complaint and constipation.
ARE YOU MADE miserable by Indi
gestion, Constipation, Dizziness, Loss
of Appetite, Yellow Skin? Shiloh's
Yitalizer is a positive cure.
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.
A Newspaper Man Mates tie Toy
m in a Canoe.
POSSIBILITIES OP NAYIGATI0IT.
Elbert Bappleye's Perilous Trip Across
The Oontinent in a Small
Paper Boat.
The canoeist has arrived at last, the
voyage of 6,250 miles by water from
New York city to Astoria having been
made in 230 days. The paper boat is
a sad-looking wreck after eight months
in the water, and bears testimony of
the hardships and accidents which
havo befallen her navigator. Elbert
Rappleye, the reporter of the New
York Mail and Express, who pad
dled and sailed the little craft, is an
unassuming young fellow of 22, a na
tive of Texas, and is none the worse
for hi3 long and perilous trip.
Starting from the statue of Liberty
in New York harbor April 10th, he as
cended the Hudson to Troy, thence by
Erie canal to Buffalo, across Lake
Erie to Westfield, where a two-mile
portage was made to reach the head
waters of the Alleghany river. Down
the Alleghany to Pittsburg, then over
the whole length of the Ohio to Cairo,
up the Mississippi to St. Louis. He
then ascended the Missouri to the
mountains, crossed the divide to the
Clarke's Fork, and descended through
Pend d'Orielle lake to the Columbia.
From Pittsburg to the Rooky moun
tains the route lay over the same
waters traversed by the Lewis and
Clarke expedition. "It was while read
ing a copy of their diary," said the
canoeist, "the idea suggested itself to
me of a canoe voyage and a write-up
of the country to-day in contrast to
what it was some eighty years ago.
In a week I had started, taking only a
rifle, fish line, photograph outfit and
blankets.
"It was smooth sailing all the way
to the Rocky mountains. Through
the Erie canal the strange life and
manners of tho boatmen and their
families gave me many interesting ex
periences. The isolated towns in
Western Pennsylvania, where oil is all
the people think about, made the voy
age down the Alleghany much like a
trip through a mining region out here.
I saw them Bhooting wells, and it was
some time before I could make a hill
look natural without imagining its
surface covered with a confusion of
dilapidated oil derricks. One day I
was cooking my dinner on shore, and
went to pick up some wood, when I
found a shanty a few rods away stored
full of mtro-glycenne. There was a
sign on it which convinced me that
safety lay some five mQes duo south;
so I loft that distance between myself
and the cabin in short order without
waiting to finish my dinner. Along
the Ohio there are little villages, re
mote from any railroad. People are
always asleep, I guess, except when a
steamboat whistles, and a traveler can
enjoy the romantic scenes to-day
which one reads of in the stories of
life before the war. There the negro
is born, and grows and dies in peace,
happy in spite of an ignorance and
wretchedness simply astounding. I
saw them working in the tobacco
fields, heard their quaint songs' and
watched their dances on the levee at
night At Louisville I ran the falls of
the Ohio. The shores were crowded
with people. All I knew of it was a
terrible rush of and roar of water, and
a large excursion steamer from New
Albany, which was waiting below,
pioked me up while the people cheered.
"While ascending the Mississippi
the weather was so intollerably hot
I travelled most of the time at night.
At all the towns where I stopped the
people wanted souvenirs and I prom
ised an old lady who was more per
sistent than any one else I ever met,
that I would send her my frypan,
which with a coffee pot and plate
completed my list of cooking utensils,
at the end of the voyage. She imme
diately insisted on my accepting ten
dollars for it I immediately had an
other offer so muohJiigher that I dare
not tell it Well, down the Ohio I
made sixty to ninety miles a day, but
up the Mississippi seldom more than
twenty until I reached St Louis on
July 1st and rested until after the
4th.
It may seem strange, but I passed
up by the mouth of the Missouri
without noticing it, and never discov
ered my mistake until four miles
above. A fisherman set me right and
I went back.
There are generous people in the
world, but in some localities they are
especially so. In ascending the Mis
souri I met with so much kindness
from everyone that it seems to me
now that the pleasantest part of the
whole voyage was up that river. At
the cities the canoe was exhibited, and
donations of fruit, cake and flowers
came in constantly. In a little while
I had rings, bracelets, pins and all
sorts oe queer notions wmca peopiu
wanted me to carry with me across
the country so that they could tell
their friends, when they see the little
boat at the World's fair, that they
owned something which had been
carried in it to the Pacific I bought
about ten yards of necktie a week for
distribution.
When in South Dakota I onco got
out of provisions and had a hard time.
There were some towns on my map,
but unfortunately that was their only
existence. For two days I had to get
along on nothing but coffee and the
last night dreamed of getting stuck in
quicksand and drowning. I woke up
nearly frightened to death and taking
my rifle went out to wait for sunrise.
I had gotten away a mile perhaps,
when T discovered a fire back at my
camp and returned as quickly as I
could but too late to save my tent and
many valuable things in shape of
papers and extra clothing. Next day
I reached a ranch completely played
out There I was treated royally.
Thav could not think of enough to do
for mo when I left, and even offered
me money."
"There was lots ot fun when com-
ing
though the Sioux country. I
PRICE FIVE CENTS
wrote some shorthand to interest Sit
ting Bull one day I spent in his camp,
and after he had tested my ((medidne
writing" to his satisfaction gave me a
name, "Man With the Big Memory."
Even then the Indians were talking
of the trouble they are having there
now."
"There was much country, hard to
pass through, such as the Bad Lands,
and the woodless tracts in Montana
and North Dakota, but my chapter of
accidents commenced after crossing
the mountains. In descending the
Missoula river and Hell Gate river I
had to pass through one hundred
miles of river never before navigated.
It was terrible; canons, rapids and
falls, portages and "let downs" all day
long. The boat was seriously injured
twice the latter time I narrowly
escaped drowning and lost over a
hundred photograph plates of scenery.
But finally I got through on the
Clarke river, followed that to the
Pend d' OrieUe, and there had to grre
the paper boat a rest. So I bought
a large Indian canoe and with that
crossed the lake and down the Pend
d' Orielle river. When within forty
miles of the Columbia I spent a day
nshmgand Hunting. Caught about
twenty pounds of trout and shot a
deer. Much of the country there is
yet unexplored. There is no way of
reaching it but by a small boat and
then it requires a hard journey of
four days from the lake. The scenery
is simply grand. The lower Colum
bia cannot be compared to it. A little
further on I came to the canon at the
Pend d' OrieUe. For many miles
above the river is half to three-quarters
of a mile wide, but here it narrows
to twenty feet, with walls 200 to 600
feet vertical. It rushes. , with
tremendous force, boiling and
throwing ur waves forty feet high.
Two hundred, feet above the river a
log is lodged endways between the
walls, showing" where the water had
been lately. There was no chance to
go through here so I bought pack
horses and with a companion set off
across the mountains on an old Indian
trail to find the Columbia. It was
about fifty miles. Some prospectors
there warned us not to proceed if
there were any indications of snow.
The second day out it snowed hard
but we did not turn back. That
night we lost the trail and then for
five days wandered, I shall never
know where, but climbed several high
peaks. Our clothes were wet and
frozen stiff. Often we had to cut logs
away to pass on, and our only food
was the flour we had left after the
third day, from which we made bread
by melting snow. The horses would
paw and grub whenever we stopped
and they appeared as forlorn as we
did, The wind was sharp and bitter
cold. One night we made a camp and.
shortly a crash in the bushes near by
startled us both, and a mountain lion
mado the hours hideous till daylight
We were too scared to do anything
but lie in suspense, butin the morn
ing the horses were all tangled up in
their picket ropes and trembling a3 if
they wero more or less in sympathy
with us.
Finally we reached old Fort Col
ville and next day struck the Colum
bia at Kettle Falls. Most of the next
hundred mileswe made afoot trying
to purchase a boat fit to descend tho
river and from there to Pasco, the
recital of the voyage would be only a,
list of efforts to navigate wretched
crafts some of which broke to pieces;
others were worthless after a short
trial, and not knowing Chinook or
any other language to dicker with,
our bargains would look ludicrous in
print
"Well, the last chapter began in my
attempting to round Cape Horn. I
was caught in a squall, attempted to
beat to windward but failed and was
driven on the rocks about a half mile
above the cape and the bottom of the
boat was torn open. That was last
Saturday. Sunday I made repairs
and set out again before daylight on
Monday, but before proceeding more
than three miles the boat gave out
again and I had to signal a steamer to
pick me up. It was the Lurline and
she carried me into Vancouver where
I did some mors patching and started
again. This tune I reached at Helena
but had to be helped ashore again
when a mile or so out, by a govern
ment tug. I forgot to say that the
paper boat when I left her at the
Pend d'Orefllo lake was forwarded to
Bonneville so that even if I had to
resort to Indian canoes alone I could
complete the voyage in the boat in
which I made the first 5,200 miles.
At St Helens I waited for the steamer
to bring me here and to-morrow will
carry the little bottle of water from
the Atlantic over to Fort Canby and
when I have broken it on the shore of
the ocean, shall start back to New
York.
"It is possible to cross the continent
by water with the exception of a
twelve mile portage across the main
divide of the Bocky mountains, but I
could not take advantage of this
'carry' as the small streams on this
side of the mountains were frozen.' "
"The boat in which this voyage, the
longest ever made in a small boat,
was undertaken, is on exhibition at the
Occident hotel. It is made of paper,
fifteen feet long, modelled after the
Esquimaux kayak.
"The longest voyage heretofore, was
Bishop's cruise from Montreal to New
L Orleans, 2,600, The Rob Roy on the
Bhine' and 'Mcliregor on tne Jordan,
were famous among the adventures in
small boats but none of them can com
pare with th3 record of the little
paper craft which has just entered her
final harbor at Astoria. Her name is
Alice.'"'
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