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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1893)
TUB DAILY ASTOIUAN, ASTOIllA, PEtUAV MOUN1NU. KAECU 24 1803.' ABOUT THE CITY. Only one mora day . to answer those questions. If the rain doesn't come soon there will be a drought. The cemetery bulkhead Investigation will be held in a few days. Most of the canneries will begin to make their tins next week. The pilot commissioners will probably meet ugnln ' tomorrow. ' The schooner Will be In tonight. Rev. A. O. Dolvln, .of Portland preached to a Norwegian congrega tion at the I. X. L. cannery last night. There will be a special meeting of the board of directors of the T. M. C. A. to night at 7:30. A full meeting is de sired. First-class piano for retjt. of Griffln & Heed. Enquire The genius of the Portland weather observatory predicted that yesterday would be "fair and slightly warmer". If the old adage about the final destl nation of people who tell stories counts for anything he'll be slightly warmer by and by. ' . Do not be deceived with cheRD pictures, but get your work done at Crow's gallery ana you win noi regrei it. There will be a specially interesting meeting of the Forum tonight. The principal Item on the program will be an address by Dr. Walker on "The Power of Knowledge." The doctor Is perfectly at home with his subject, and a masterly lecture as well as a great In tellectual treat Is In store for those who attend. No doubt he will be greeted by a very large audience. Swope & Slater will be pleased to furnish estimates on interior decora tion to alj who call or address 459 Fourth street. The logs that came down from Ol- ney for exhibition at the World's Fair, were yesterday dumped into the bay, having been found to be a parody on Oregon lumber. This morning Mr. Fin- ley will bring In specimens of fir, spruce, and hemlock, that have been chosen with as great care as the time would allow. The fir is eight, the spruce ten and the hemlock six feet in diameter. They will be shipped 1m mediately. Columbia Tender Company No. 3. wllll give a bal April 8th, at Columbia cannery. All invited. Yesterday Postmaster Hare visited Uniontown and decided on locating the streets for the purpose of figuring out a system of numbering to assist him in dispatching letters to' the residents of that part of the city. He has copied the map in the recorder's office and has named the two thoroughfares that traverse Uniontown "Flavel Street" and "Suoml Avenue." The new sys tem will be of great advantage in sort Ing communications See Swope & Slater about your spring work. They are the swiftest, cheapest and best paperhangers and decorators on the coast. The steamer Truckee left yesterday morning for San Francisco, where she will go. Into the dry dock. She was or dered down after the survey was com pleted by the insurance companies. The Truckee Lumber Company ought to consider themselves fortunate In hav ing had Captain Thomas in charge at the time of the late accident. Very few men could have shown the magnificent seamanship he displayed In getting his steamer out over Tillamook bar. E. W. Kuykendall, the undertaker, em balmer and funeral director, has his par lors in the Welch block, No. 718, Water street. Call up telephone No. 7. With the going out of Lent Astoria will have entertainments crowding thick and fast once more, and the ad vent of Easter will be greeted with a long round of amusements. The first of these to be announced, and one that will no doubt prove foremost among the pleasant affairs of the coming sea son, is that to be given on the evening of the forth of April, by several ladles and gentlemen for the benefit of the Rescue Club. It will include short comedies, recitations, and vocal and in strumental music. More definite an nouncements will be made In the near future. Ryan & Co. 537, Third street, have just received a full line of 1893 patterns . in wall paper, and comprising all the latest designs and shades, at the low est prices. Call and see them. A VALUABLE WORK. The Marine History of the North west, for which Mr. E. W. Wright is now In Astoria collecting data, promis es to be one of the most valuable ad ditions yet made to the historical liter ature of the Northwest, and as ABtoria was the point at which the marine in dustry began, the work will be of more than ordinary Interest to Astorlans. No attempt to preserve anything like a perfect record of this most Important factor in the developement of our "western world" in a concise, accurate and reliable form has ever been made heretofore, and Mr. Wright's efforts to rescue from oblivion much lore and data which Is fast being lost through the death of the promotors of the in dustry, should meet with success. The work when completed will con tain a complete record of all marine craft, and of all prominent men con nected with the business from the time Captain Gray entered the Colum bia, down to the present time. It will be profusely Illustrated with steel en gravings, and half tone engravings of all the historic boats, and of the men who operated them. The production of a work of this kind involves the ex penditure of many thousand dollars, a fact which has had much to do with the former neglect of the matter. For tunately in the present case no obsta cles of this kind are to be encountered. The Lewis and Dryden ' Printing Com- JEFF'S, Tu3 Osij Restaurant. pany, of Portland, a firm of unques Honed financial standing, have under. taken the work, and not one dollar will be asked from subscribers until the completed book Is delivered to them. Although a large corps of experienced men are now engaged In collecting data for this work, yet the field Is of such a scope, that It will be fully a year be fore the book will be ready for deliv ery. . Since coming to Astoria' Mr. Wright has secured a number of very interesting pictures of the old time fleet, and of the men who operated the earliest vessels on the river. Engrav ings will be made from all of these pictures, as well as from some of the modern fleet. Mr. Wright would be pleased to have parties possessing any old pictures or data of Interest In a work of this kind, leave the same at the office of Warren & Brown, Third street, next to Olsen's cigar store. The best of care will be taken of pictures, and they will be returned as soon as the engravings are made. Our Exhibit of Native Forestry. . A perfect forest of beautiful trees moved up the river to Portland on the Union Pacific Company's boat last nlghti 'It was' Oregon's display of growing native vegetation for the World's Fair. Early last summer Mr, Johnson, the local florist, was com missioned by the managers of the wo men's building at the falr to make a thorough collectfon Of the native trees of this state, and to ship them to the grounds at Chicago In the early part of April. After this, however, Mr. Johnson also received an order for trees covering the total exhibit of Ore gon, and for several months he trav elled over every portion of the state. taking care to secure none but. vigo rous and handsome specimens. These he has preserved In large tubs filled with loam, and today they look as if they had never been taken from the virgin Soil. The collection includes every kind of evergreen plant that is a native of Oregon, and numbers In all over forty varieties. A pavillion of all the marketable wood In the state Is now being made In Portland, and the majority of the trees will surround this structure in the state building. Some of them are to be planted In the grounds, and the balance will be dis tributed equally among the women's and the forestry buildings. The plants have been taken from every variety of temperature, from 9000 feet above the sea level down to the growths by the water. Johnson says that every precaution will be taken when they get to Chicago to prevent harm being done to them by the change in temperature. He takes with him, in addition to the trees, a collection of native flowers, consisting mostly of lilies and rhodo-' dendrons, and a handsome set of na tive mosses and preserved flowers. These mosses will attract a great deal of attention. They include every speci men for which the state is famous, and will open the eyes of Eastern people to the wonders of nature In this part of the world. Some of the tree moss is six Inches In length, and the whole collection will be kept perfectly fresh and green throughout the exposition. Johnson has also secured for the Ore gon building the two largest elk heads on the Pacific coast, several quails and Chinese and golden pheasants. He has during - the last few days, obtained handsome planks of sawn spruce and fir from the Clatsop Mill Company of; this city,' Alpine lumber from the Brl- ; dal Veil mill cut 4000 feet up In the Cas- , cades by the company's loggers, and a fine lot of Southern Oregon timber from the Grant's Pass mill. He states that the Oregon branch of the commission desire that all the ex hibits from this state shall go to Chi cago In the same train, and that this decision will cause some delay as the mineral collectors will be considerably ' behind with the work, owing to the shortness of time given them and the bad state of the roads. Personal Mention. W. W. Corey is in town. H. A. Shaw, of Cathlamet, Is In town. Peter La Mar and wife are in Port land. Sheriff Smith went up the river last night. P. J. Cherry is reported somewhat better. Colonel John Adair went to Portland last night. - P. W. Parker went up to Portland last evening. G. Wingate left on the Telephone last night for Omaha, Nebraska. Colonel John Adair, G. Wingate, William Gove, H. A. Smith, J. W. Loomis, A. A. Bower, J. W. Hamilton, C. E. Kent, Captain E. S. Edwards, Captain F. McDermot, F. Kernstedt, and Peter La May and wife went up on the Telephone last night. C. E. Kindt, J. D. Hamilton, J. A. Brauer, R. K. Lee, S. L. Lalng, H. O. Wolf, S. J. Gorman, W. W. Corey, H. S. McGowan, E. S. Edwards, Frank McDermott, H. It: W,ilklnson, A. C. Montieth, F. 8. Cottle, J. L. Wetherbee are registered at the Occident. fie The only Pure Cream of Tartar Pr.wltr. Xo Ammonia; No Alum. "Used in Millions of Homes- 40 Years the Standard Patriotic Dog Narrative, "And you say a dog may be endowed with patriotic zeal? That's what . I said, says old Tim. haven't you heerd of dogs follerln ther masters to ther graves, 'nd sturvln 'nd dyin there. Wal that's not sagasity, penetrashun, er afTflecshun, that la xeel. Haven't you heerd of hoeses prancin in the line of battle to marshul music 'nd egur fer the fray, that is marshul zeel. But I hev a dog that kin nock 'em all out In the fust round with patree-otio seal, sum animuls hev it, 'nd sum animuls In human form hain't got it. "Well, tell us about the dog." "Wal you see, sum animuls in human form hoo hain't got a spark of pa-tree-otic, nothin, had the English flag raised over the Westport school 'nd scholars, 'nd on Washington's burthday it was flyln on the flagstaff where our starry banner should hev bin but wasn't. Wen I found twas true, my furst move was to git hold of the durned rag, which I did, and started fer home which is about a mile down theTrlver from West port. Wal, I got home and tied my boat nd my dog cum a waggln his tale 'nd manifestln his affecshun in vareeous ways 'nd bein a very pene- tratln dog, he discovered my dlspleaa ure In my countenance by his sagaslty 'an he watched me closely 'an kept watchln. I hed to decurate 'nd em. belllsh the rag sum after wich I tuck it to the flagpole on wich my starry dandy was flyln "nd threw the great object of Westport's adorashuh'at the foot of it where the dog was. .Con tempt! Wal did you ever see a look of supreme contempt on a dog's flzzyog? No! wal he hed It. He looked proudly up at the starry banner waggln his tale, then down dlsgustfuliy on the mutilated rag, his tale drappin tween his legs fer a signal of distress. That's his signal! Then he grabbed the corner uv the cross uv Saint George in his teeth 'nd scratched with all fours on It fer awhile, then he struck out with It fer a mud puddle a short distance off, and the way he wallered that em blem of Her Brittanlo Majesty's Do minora fust on one side then on tother would, yes, make even a newly adopted holler, he's a reasoning dog too. A little ways off from the mudhole, is a ma- noor pile. And he trailed that emblem of dllapidashun to the manoor pile 'nd drapp'd It; he's a good trailer. He then went to work 'nd scratched out a hole in the dungheap big enuff fer It, "nd scratched It into the hole-'nd klvered it 'nil sat on his country's enemy. That's what I call patree-otlc zeel I was afeered 'twould sour the ma noor 'nd wen the dog went off I raked the durnd thing out. We call the dog Dree, now, that Is short fer Dl-rec-tor. with little more trainln I might git him to run fer school drector at Westport. If he was school drector no English flag would go up, there fer he's a pa tree-otlc dog. " "Do you vouch for this dog story?" po I? you bet I do! tis all as true as preachln. here's my chlrog. T. JAY D. The following dispatch was received at the Hawaiian consulate In this city yesterday: Department of Foreign Affairs, Hono lulu, H. I., Marsh 6, 1893. Sir: I am directed by his excellency. the minister of foreign affairs, to In struct you to refuse to Issue to any for eign Dunt vessels, ships or steamers of any class, a temporary register cer tificate of Hawaiian ownership, sea let ter or any document allowing such craft to fly the Hawaiian flag until fur ther instructions are received from this department. I have the honor to be. sir; your most obedient servant, FRANK P, HASTINGS. Secretary. James G. Swan Esq.. Hawaiian Coo- sul. Port Townsend, Wash. If the Hawaiian Islands are annexed to the United States, 'all vessels under the Hawaiian flag will be admitted as entitled to fly the ensign of the United States. There are hordes of foreign vessels which could never come under the American . flag except by first be coming Hawaiian vessels, and to pre vent this the provisional government of the Hawaiian Islands has wisely Is sued the above instructions to all the Hawaiian consuls. . With this exception the business of the Hawaiian consul ate here will be conducted under the same rules as have been practiced un der the former system of government. Port Townsend Leader. NOTICE All members of Pacific Lodge No. 17, K. of P. are requested to be present at the next convention, Friday evening, February 24th, as some important changes to the by-laws have been sub mitted and will be acted upon. By or der of the C. C. Attest: F. J. CARNEY, K. of R. and 8. EASTER GOODS, Call and see our elegant stock of Easter novelties Just received from Europe, at Colmann's. CM!ilrfiiCrj&rPitclicr'sCas!ori3 1 llll U5i Baking Powder WAxrxn. rVM. FOH OKNERAL liOl'StJWOKK. CALL JT at 773 Main ilreet. w ANTED. A BOY ABOUT lt YEARS OLD, Apply Astohun olllce. ROOMS TO BBMT., TWO DKSIKABI.lt UNFUKNWHfcD ROOMS newly tapered. Moderate rem. KITuird sueei. Q ROOMS Hl'I TAHLK FOB HOUSCKF.KP- Inn, lurtilHlircl it iihlurnl'liecl. Also Jill mslietl rooms for lodgers. W u. 21a V. Bill st. URNltiHHD OR UNFURN1SHRD ROOMS for rani, pleaimily lucnlvd near business, tall at No. Zttl West K glitU Street. HOTEL TltlHK, HTKNItSHKD ROOMS IN suite or sIkkIb at. $2 a week ana upwards, room by the day week or month. 2 UNHUKMSllKD ROOA13. JNtJUlKE AT mix orace. I?10Uli ROOMS NKWI.Y PAI'KKKD, UP 1 stairs in house, No. 1S8 Wnnii. (Street. Apply at house or t'KKU. HHERMAN, NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS BY DAY, week nr mouth terms very reasonable at tne Uriel, 7iu xniru tureet. TOOM FOR OFFJOK-I OH LIGHT HOUSE XV keeping. Call ou F. 11. WILLS at the Ocot dent bar. f-OOMS FOR LIGHT IIOUSKKEBl'ING XV U round floor, good locutlou. Inquire kl mis ouico. rouxit. A PAIR OF GOLD SPKCTAOLrS IN THK XX. Oregon Bakery, owner o.in have same by paying lor mis uoveriiseineni. rOK HAL. TTOUaEHOLO FI'RMTUlt tt. MUST BE XX sold by March atli. turtles removing from Hie oily. Inquire of Mrs. Sclilus.se! 4113 Astor t MISCKLLAXKO US. OBRIKNS HOTKL M7 WEST SIXTH 8'et. Alh. Haider, Proprietor. Kate per nay .... si 8-ni;l nieaU ----- ,2S V ir i, . 1 1 1 1 ' i t-,wt n A (HJU. Anj -.A ,n jiii,i ii nrfj- f4',ru "11" I mill 1 UV our best to 6at sfy everybody who .Ives us a call. c ALL ON P. BAKER. 478 THIRD STKKKT ana nave your clot ties dyed and cleaned. CKO. MCLEAN, CORNF.R OLNEY AND A" T tor streets, does a ireneril business In black. smithing and repairing HEXCOCR'rt MiCOND HAND 8TOR8 015, Third Street buys and sells new and see- oud-h'Uirt furniture, lushest cash price paid. rOUNO & LEWIS, AGENTS AND DEALERS In real estate aud Oreiron Pine Lamln. 616 Second street. Cltv lo's and acremro. Toniriie Point nrnnertv. Flavel property, all on eaxy urnis. 10-acre Irult and chicken tracts close to town. clieap. Best thing on the market. Farragut Post G.A.R. Will give a - C.AJLICO BiLL l'or tie aid of the memorial fund, at Fisher's Hall, April 14th. Two prizes will be given for the neat est dressed Judy. Calico will be the only material used in dresses. Price of admission, 81. Ladies free. CAMPBELL BROS. (Successor to Warren A Campbell), WARKKNTON, OKKUON, , , Dealers in DHT QOOD0, GENTS' FURNISHING OOOD8, Bats, Caps, Boots, Shoes GROCERIES STAPLE FANCY Hardware, Iron nnd Steel, Crockery, Glasiwar nouuenwarp, notions, etc., aj, Grain, Flour and Feed. , I OTTO t "Small ProOU oa Cask Sales." On Meter System. To Consumers: The West Shore Mills Co., at ereat ex pense huve perfected their electric light plant to the latest known apparatna, and are now able to go to the public with a system that will be satisfactory in price and quality, as can be shown by the fol lowing rates on and alter March 1, 14113 : Incandescent, all nfcht. . . . $1.50 " 12 o'clock... 1.00 " 10 ' ... 75 Or by meter, 1 cent per hour. retaliation Free of Charge TVr nnrtifnlfirQ inntlipA nf nnv namlu of the firm or nt the ofliue, foot of Con oomly at. West SnoKg Mills Co., l.V. Irullinger, President. AUG. DMIELSON, SAMPLE ROOMS Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Arrant fer the GUION Steamship Mne and tat THJNtlVAM.A Bieanmhlp Une. direct. . An., anient for "Mvmuka 'Iribunen" and Sveiiska AmerHtanaren." Corner ol Wator and West ninth StteeU Astoria, Oregon. . North Pacific Brewery JOHN KOPP, Proprietor. Bohemian - Lager - Beer And XX Torter. A I! o Urs promptly attended to. . C. P. UP8HUffr SHIPPING and C03IHISSI02J ELECTRIC LIGHTS Astoria, - Oregon. A Cycl one . AT BANKRUPT STORE of 1ST. T. 13INSMORE. All our Sfi.00, 87.50, 8.1.50 and $9.00 Bait must go at. ... . .-.85.00 All our $9.50, 10.50, 11.50 aud f 12.50 Suit must go at. ,..$7.50 All our S13.50, 815.00, f Id 50 and 820.00 SuiU mast go at..,$10.00 All our 822.50, 825.00, $27.50 and 30.00 Suits mnt go Bt... 815.00 . Every detail of Fashion, Fit and Fabrio fully equals what you liave to pay any other bouse in Oregon double (he price we ask. These suits most be sold, and'eveu if you Lave to borrow the money, be sure sad bring it with you wuea you coma. To make it a complete sacrifice we will let you pick . ANY HAT IN THE This is the Jurist but stook in the city, comprising Dunlap, Knox, Youman and Miller Blacks. ( This week we propose to deluge the State of Oregon wilh prices that will forever stifle our competitors. Don't fail to cnll early, at the. Bankrupt Store of N. Ti Dihsmore TO TB E Astoria Rtiblic Schools YOUNG LADIES AND CENTL'-MEN: The Astori an takes pleasure in calling your attention to the fact that it will puhlish regularly every Saturday morning FOUR QUESTIONS About interesting subjects. Wo want you to answer, them. The best scries of answers received by the Friday morning following each announcement) will bo awarded A HANDSOME PR12E. These prizes are beautiful and instructive books Not Cheap or Poorly Bound litoratuie, but the best and most valuable obtainable. The winning answers will be published. You have fio Couoons to Cut, No Papers to Buy. Don't use your encyclopaedia. Just sit down and think over the questions, give the brightest answers you an, send them in, and we will do the rest, A PRIZE EVERY WEEK. Address all communications to "The Editor,"' Astorian. As the Flax Grows, So the Twine Siasts You can't go wrong if you buy MMSHALL'S Tho 1893 make is to customers. It crop of 1800. WHY Because the 1891 and 1892 crops have been inferior. Marshall never uses in ferior flax. That is why his twine IS M BEST ! Solo Agents fer Astoria, In Gloiliiiig 'HE HOUSE FOR "81.50 PLTPIXS OF TUB now being delivered is mado of the flax Twine