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k ASTOMA PUBLIC LIBRARY -far-'-' v -V S.-r ; 'i..' EXCLUSIVE TELEGRAPHIC PRESS REPORT. VOL. XLII, NO. 145. ASTORIA, OREGOX, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1894. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. jissocum HA IA A ii II 111 jkjf I Aa; SAVE MENDING. Caps, Boots and Shoes, Trunk3, Valises, etc., etc ? UfSingle oats, xeits, or long or knee pants or single Osgood jHEfpjiTM Go. The One Price Clothiers, 50(5 ami 501! COMMERCIAL WON ON T AY THOSE TWO FISHING OUTK J ..SIDE. You needn't keep them I more than a Inlf hour. We've examined several outfits in different stores, and we to want go to another. We saw to go and see it. Thus said two customers to whom we ' Further said they We like your goods, value for our money. We'll be back and let you see what we ve bought if we like the other outfits better. In less than half an hour back they come and say We don't see anytning that pleases us as well as yours. We'll take them. GRIFFIN & REED. CALIFORNIA WINE HOUSE. fine Wines and Liquors. 1 have made arrangements for supplying any brand of wines In quantities to suit at the lowest cash figures. The trade and families supplied. All orders delivered free in Astoria. A. W. UTZItfGER, - . - Str. R. P. (flill heave for Tillamook Every m Days as flear as the uieather mill permit. Hit steamer R. P. Elmore connects with Union Pacific steamers for Portland and through tickets are issued from Portland to Tillamook Bay points by the Union Pacific Company." Ship freight by Union Pacific Steamers. ELflORE, SANBORN & CO., - Agents, Astoria. UNION PACIFIC R. R. CO., Agents, Portland. $2 FOR AH $80 LOT! BY BECOMING A YOU CAN GET A FIRST CLASS TO ASTORIA. LOTS WILL BE NOW IS THE TIME TO PROCURE liot to Build a ome, for The Packers of Choice olumbia - River Salmon Their Brands LOCATIOJf. Astoria Booth A. Pk',C0 ; Astoria ; ColumMaRiTcrPkgCo Astoria Elmore Samuel - Astoria.. barker to,!... gffioS!!!!Z Bsrker Astorta. fieorge 1. 0. IUnthoro Co ' Vttoria.. J.O.IIan'horniCo J. O. Hantborn . Astoria -... J.G MeglerSCo Y.rookflcU , tS.St. Fi he nr. n' r:ti'tnviiLll TUheraen'i Pkg C. , lorla Your wife will have pre cious little of it to do if .you buy your clothes of us. Ev ery .article that leaves us is made by the best workmen money can buy and exper ience select; consequently, they wear and hold together, and look well ns Ion? as a vestige remains. Isn't that the right sort of economy when buyng Mens' and Boys' Clothing, Hats, pants can bo had of us; also coats for boys. Hatters and Furnishers STREET, ASTORIA, OR. MERIT. an outfit in a wiiiuW i i ojth of us want had shown our fishing ackle. but want to be sure of getting the best pin Street, Astoria, Oregon. ELMORE MEMBER OF HILL'S LOT CLUBS LOT IN HILL'S FIRST ADDITION DELIVERED WEEKLY. A $2 and Locations. Pk'gCo. I Booth & Son, -.Chicago-..- Cocktail Cutting Pig Co....'3(in FfancUeo t Magnolia Elmore, Sanborn '.,,. - Wiilte our & Co Aitorl. ., I OeorKe. J.O. Meglcr... . Biookfield Wn F.sh'nnena PkgCo Antorla Desire for Better Sanitation Becoming Greater. FEARS OF BIG FEVER Condition of Sonic Third Street Houses With Figures of Losses Given by Owners. Special Correspondence of The Astorlnn. Portland, Or., 20th June, 1894. The river has been just about stationary all day, and Weather Obsei-ver Paguc's pre diction that the water would be oft Front, street surface? by this evening hns failed to materialize. The ragged edge of the Willamette still hangs around the centre of First with great persistency, while the floods In all the uptown cellars are diminished to scarce ly an appreciable extent. The pumps, though there are many of them at- work, can of course make only slow progress, nnd In the larger buildings It takes from 48 to 56 hours to clear the basements. Notwithstanding the optimistic pre dictions of Dr. Wheeler, the city phy slcian, of smallpox fame, there Is a general sentiment in the community that Portland, with the approach of warm weather that is now very nearly due, will soon become a breeding ground for the dissemination of various epi demic diseases, and it is indeed hard, after making a careful survey of the northern end of the city, to agree with that gentleman's deductions that no danger is to be feared. Three medical men that I visited today were all very Arm in their opinion about one phase of this subject. It Is that the accumu lations of filth which have been gath ered in the cellars of hundreds of old buildings for 1G or 20 years will, under the Influence of heat, be many times more menacing to the public safety than the more recently deposited gar bage. The poisonous gases that will be generated from the former will far out weigh in their effects those of any other kind of offal. Let the readers of The Astorlan imagine an area of ten blocks by about eight (we will leave out all that part of tha flooded district lying up town) filled with structures that have been the home of Chinamen, the poor est classes of white people, and the low est forms of humanity generally, for the past 20 yeare, and let them realize, If they can, the result of a sudden and powerful stirring up of these places by the entrance of a large body of water, that dlssemenates everything over the sidewalks, leaving It to rot and to fes ter In the warm noonday sun. THE U. P. CAR SHOPS. Lower Alblna, In everything except the amount of loss sustained, rivals Portland In the havoc caused by the flood. Hundreds of shacks Btand jum bled together In great confusion, and all the Bldewalks attacked by the water have been lifted bodily and gone visit ing several blocks away from the orln- inal location. In the vicinity of the ferry landing, lie hundreds of logs and big )les of driftwood that are raised many feet out of the water, and so tan gled up (like huge jackstraws) that it Is the hardest thing in the world for men out In search of lumber to wrench anything away from the compact and tightly interlaced masa. But it is in the large and completely fitted up Union Pacific car shops that the flood has done Its most dismal work, and every build ing In the big premises shows the same scene of disaster. The machine shop, car building shop, blacksmiths' shop, molding shop and roundhouse have all been four feet under water, with ma chinery of all descriptions, hundreds of odd wheels, and ties, several locomo tives, and thousands of Bmaller pieces cf mechanism almost completely sub merged. Six ears were In the paint shop being given the last touches by the painters, who had transformed them from plain wood concerns Into dainty and beautiful works of art. The water came up and fell again in fc:-n days, leiv- ing behind it a peculiar mixture of fantastic daubing and ruin. Elegant scroll work, JuBt completed on the sides of the cars In brilliant colors, has run all over the borders In every kind of fantastic shape. The lined engravings and mountain views on the roof of the interiors are all washed together, mak ing the ceiling of each car look like a painter's palate, with the colors Jum bled up In. confusion Impossible to de scribe. All the belting In the shops has been cut down, and It will take months to' repair the damage that has been effected in the pits under the rails, where are erected several very large and costly machines of different pat terns and capacity. The connection rods on several of the locomotives are twisted and smashed, while all over the engines themselves lie coats of rust many Inches thick in parts, and crusted like a hard shell on all the boiler. The four new pilot wheels for the locomo tive on the Seashore railroad were Just about to be shipped when the flood ram?, damaging them to a considerable extent and delaying the transfer for several weeks. Planks have been lifted bodily from the floors of all the shops. Locomotive No. 1367, that was used on the Seashore road last year, Is standing Fcveral feet deep In the water. Hun dreds of cog wheels, both attached and separate, lie round thick with red rust, and every chest of toolB that was caught by the water has been ruined. Already a very large foree of men has been set to work to clear up the debris and to thoroughly renovate and clean the cars, locomotives aAd machinery that have been bo badly demolished. It Is Impossi ble yet to figure up anything like a cor rect estimate of the actual loss entailed In these buildings, but when the cost of additional labor Is added. It will be very large indeed. THIRD STREET. Miles of streets Inundated 21-4 Number establishments flooded.. 289 Estimated damage $198,000 Third street, the "Grand Canal," as It was facetiously termed during the high est point of the flood, can boast of more handsome buildings than any thorough fare In the city, and the list Includes the Dekum, Worcester block, chamber of commerce, new Grand Central hotel and Eggert'8 block five of the most Im posing structures In Portland. Being fitted up in keeping with their outside appearance, these places were specially noteworthy during the water's highest stages, revealing scenes of destruction that will long linger In the minds of thousands of people. We will start on our tour of Inspec tion of Third street from. Gllsan, In which locality all the sidewalks are on the jump, sending water up at every step wo take, and plunging about like clumsy luggers In a storm. Here are several small stores completely washed away, without a vestige of any contents left. The big Washington hotel, on the corner of Flanders, is damaged to the extent of $1,000, and the proprietor tells ma that this is a conservative estimate. Then, In their order, come the following places, pandwiched between which are small Btorea of every description, that have suffered more or less damage. New Grand Central hotel, ground floor with one of finest corridors in the city, a complete - wreok. Proprietor, W. II. Edwards, estimates the loss at $2,500. Toledo lodging house, complete wreck. All furniture thrown out on Bldewalks, where it Is now rotting in heaps. Loss, $1,350. Mosberg's Theatre Coinique. Seven hundred chairs and considerable stago furniture destroyed. Loss, $900. International hotel and billiard parlors, badly damaged. Loss, $2,800. Merchants' hotel; loss, $1,000. Cosmopolitan lodg ing house, contains on ground floor two drug Btores, one clothing store, two fruit stores, one Jeweler's and one hard ware store. Total loss, $5,200. Pacific Tiieatre Uullding is practically demol ished. Brunswi'.-k pool room, $1,200; Nrp- plct house, $050; T. T. Murphy, saloon, $800; Cosmopolitan Club hotel, $1,250; F. Batefuhr, wholesale liquors, $900; Golden Gate saloon, $600; Douglas hotel, $50; Worcester block, estimated damage to cellars and corridors of building and following stores on Us ground floor: Chas. Kohn & Co., Webb Safe and Lock Co., Pfunder's pharmacy, $4,100. Hardman stores, very badly demolish ed; thousands of articles not unpacked since flood subsided, bo It is impossible to get a correct computation. As far as is known the loss Is $4,250. Ainsworth National bank building (before describ ed), $1,600; S. A. Arata & Co. (cigars), P. C. Brlgham'& Co. (dry goods) and N. P. Express Co., $1,680. Sherlock building and ground floor occupants (two clothing stores), $1,800. Chamber of commerce building, including all offices previously mentioned, cost of removing, and final Joh of breaking the seal. Loss (estimated), $0,000. In addition to the above enumerated stores there are over 150, all more or less destroyed, both inside and out. There waa a rumor late tonight that, the water had again begun to rise, but it proved to be untrue. A good many people believe that If any serious damage has been done to the foundations of old buildings the ef fect will be felt when the river sub sides a little more, and when the water Inside the lower walls of such t.tructures has had time to thoroughly drain Itself off, leaving the walls and foundations of the buildings supposed to be in a precarious condition without any ul terior support at all. Hundreds of boats of all shapes and sizes are stranded In the culverts all over the lately submerged district and several of these little craft have bian smashed to pieces by the wheels of heavy wagons that have passed over them from time to time since locomo tion with horses became possible. The price of these "high water boats" Is go ing down every day, and a fairly useful and well built punt can now be pur chased for $2.50. Their owr.ers are prin cipally laboring men, who, as soon as the waters rose to an extreme height, went down to Pennoyer's mill and ex changed free silver for lumber owned (Continued on Third Page.) He Will Not Follow a Spurious Democracy. A BATCH OF NOMINATIONS Proposed Advance in Freight Rates. A. 0. U. W. Grand Lodge at Portland. Arsoclated Press. . ' Washington. June 21. Thore was a fairly good attendance in the galleries In anticipation of the opening or the income tax debate when Vice President Stevenson called the senate to order to day. Bills were passed as follows: To authorize a commission to draft a code of laws for the district of Alaska; to promote efficiency in the navy and to define the boundaries of the three Judicial districts in Alaska and to regu late the jurisdiction of the United States court therein. As soon as the clerk read the first section of the income tax pro visions of the tariff bill. Hill, who as sumed the leadership of the opposition to those provisions, delivered a care fully prepared argument. He contended that it would have been good polities to have avoided this un necessary issue. The most disastrous defeat ever experienced by the Demo cratic party in Oregon was the result of the effort to substitute new-fangled Populist principles for the good old principles of true Democracy. If this Is the best leadership we can present in this ereat crisis." said he, "I. for one, must decline to follow it. I repudiate the spurious Democracy of the modern apostles and prophets of the party, who are part Mugwumps and part Popu lists." The imposition of the Income tax, Hill sold, would drive New York, New Jer sey and Connecticut into the Repub lican column, there to remain. At 3:40 the senate began voting on the drat amendment to the income tax, fix ing the date when it shall cense. The data was fixed aa proposed In the amendments,' retaining "the Income tax until January 1. 1900. by a vote of 39 to 21. Teller, Dubois and Mitchell, of Ore gon, Republicans, voting with the Dem ocrats. A BATCH OF NOMINATIONS. Washington, June 21. The president today sent the following nominations to the senate: Patrick F. Walsh, pension agent at San Francisco; Perry Bartho- lo, Missouri, consul at Mayence, Ger many. Postmasters S. T. Owlngs, Mos cow, Idaho; Thomas J. Craig, Eugene, Or.; B. F. Bonham, Salem, Or.; James B. Crossen, The Dalles; Stephen 11. Green, Oregon City. HIGHER FREIGHT RATES. Kansas City, June 21. It has Just leaked out. here that westbound mer chandise rates from Chicago westward are to be advanced alt along the line July 1. THE ORDER OF WORKMEN. The Portland Temple at Portland Dedi cated and Officers Elected. Portland, June 21. The supreme grand lodge, A. O. U. W this afternoon for mally dedicated Workmen's Temple, in this city, and the grand lodge elected the following officers: Orand Master Workman, W. W. Brannon, of Pendle ton; Orand oreman, H. D. Ramsdell, of Portland; Grand Overneer, Wm. Colvlg, of Jacksonville; Grand Recorder, New ton Clark, Hood River; Orand Receiver, R, L. Durham, Portland; Grand Trus tee, Wm. Armstrong, Salem. Supreme Representatives, J. J. Daley, Dallas; T. C. Mackay, and D. Bolls Cohen, X'ort land. GLADSTONE'S SUCCESSOR. Edinburgh, June 21. The Liberals of Midlothian have selected Sir Thomas David Olbson-Carmlchael, Bart., as their candidate for the seat in parlia ment which Gladstone has held slnw April, 1880. NAT BLUM A WITNESS. Portland, Or., June 21. Nat Blum, of emuggllng fame, returned from the na tional eapltol today to testify in the coming smuggling trials In behalf of the government. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report Ptfvkf ABSOLUTELY F0H5 THE FORT CAN BY MATCH. The Steamer Dwyer Engaged and a Large Party Expected. The steamer E. L. Dwyer will leave for Fort Canby on Saturday at 4 p. m nnd will return to this city about 9, tame evening. The Football club had to secure a larger steamer than the Iris, aa so many of their friends' wished to go and see our boys and the soldiers play together, and they will also have a chance to see the fort. The tickets for the round trip being 60 cents, to be had from the secretary. Only 50 tickets will be sold, so those who are fortunate enough to secure tickets will V.ave an enjoyable outing? WILL CELEBRATE. Good Committees Selected and a Fine Time Assured. A meeting of citizens was held last evening, pursuant to call, to make ar rangements to celebrate the Fourth ol July. It was decided to have a parade of sjhool chlldren,civlc Bocletlesand the fire department In the forenoon.wlth an ora tion, and the afternoon to be devoted to such BiKrts as the commltteo may de vise. The following committees were, ap pointed: Finance H. A. Smith, R. A. Gibson and Alfred Tee. Amusements Frank Gunn, W. E. Tal lent and Edward Hallock. Parade C. H. Stockton, Alex. Camp bell and E, C. Foster. Music J. G. Stuttz, Prof, Schwabe and A. W. Utzinger. Reception C. J. CurtlsJohn H. Smith and S. Elmore. Hon. T. J. Taylor waa selected as or ator and Frank Bewley as reader. THE MARRIED VS. SINGLE. The football match to be played this evening between the married and slnglo men will bo represented by the follow ing respective teams: Married Men Forwards, Duncan Stewart, W. RidehaJgh, J. Meecham, W. Robb and W. Trulllnger; half-hacks, It. N. Wright, J. Rathom and P. Orant; full-backs, A. Bartholomew and J. Fln- layson (captain); goal keeper, Fred. Newell. Single Men Forwards, C. R. Hlpglns, R. Gibson, J. Johnson, C. Ilellborn and 13. Hanson; half-backs, C. T. Crosby, W. Tallant (captain) and Arthur Young; full-backs, George Smtlh and D. Mc Lean; goal keeper, Fred. Newell. Motor will leave at 6:30 and 7 p. m. No admission fee will be charged. "EXCLUSIVE" FOR "INCLUSIVE." Officials of the navy department have found a curious typographical error in the Behrlng sea law recently passed by congress, and aro now wondering what Its effect may bo. It Is feared that It may invalidate the whole law. The award of the Paris tribunal prohibited the capture of seals at all times within a zone of 60 miles around the Prlbyloff Islands, "Inclusive" of the territorial waters. The bill, as introduced by Mr. Morgan, chairman of the senate com mittee on foreign relations, contained the correct phraseology, but when it was printed the types mode the word "ex clusive," and the bill was so passed. What the legal effeot of the error mny be still remains to be seen, but soma people think that the senate will have to reconsider Its work and pass the bill again formally before, It will be properly operative. There Is a good deal of red tape about legal matters. PERSONAL. Clark Carnahan, of Clatsop, was In the city Wednesday. N. Nelson, a well known rancher on the Lewis and Clarke, Is In towm M. Ft. Bozorth and wife are taking an outing, and will spend a week or so at Woodland, Or. D. B. Gray, of Portland, who wn years ago pastor of the Congregational church here, Is In the city. Mecsrs. McDermott and Edwards, gov ernment Inspectors, came up on the El more yesterday frwn Tillamook, where they have been Insitectlng the steamers Garfield and Louise. ST. JOHN'S DAY OBSERVANCE. Temple lodge, No. 7, will celebrate Bt. John's Day with appropriate cere monies at Grace Eplscopul church Sat urday evening. Rev. W. 8. Short will conduct the services and deliver the ad dress, and some very fine music will be rendered by the church, choir.