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ASTORIA PUBUC LIBRARY ASSOCliTlOH. 1 V i ' 111 if m'mm wm 1 hi EXCLUSIVE TELEGRAPHIC PRESS REPORT. VOL. XLII, NO. 15a. ASTORIA, OR EGO.V, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1894. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. i a. i Osgood pipitniiE co: The The One Price Clothiers, BOG and 50il COMMERCIAL ITS time to think of Fire Works and other things to cele- brato 4th of July with. We've teen thinking them out for weeks. We've got everything that's just right for you too. Right in variety and right in price. Wo ought, in justice to ourselves, to charge moio for them than we do but we won't. We've always lead on Fourth of JuJy goods ami wo lo still. GRIFFIN & REED. CALIFORNIA WINE HOUSE. fine Wines mi Mqaof s. I 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. JL W. UTZIflGEH, - - Str. R P. - (Uill Iteave for Tillamook, Every Four Days as. Hear as the Heather mill permit. riie steamer R. P. Elmore connects with Union Pacific steamers for Portland and through tickets are issued from Portland to r i lamook Bay points by the Union Pacific Company. Ship freight by Union Pacific Steamers. ELHORE, 5ANBORN & CO., - Agents, Astoria. UNION PACIFIC R. R. CO., Agenta, Portland. fij FOR flH $80 ItOTI X ' BY BECOMING A MEMBER OF HILL'S LOT CLUBS von CAN GET A FIRST CLASS LOT IN HILL'S FIRST ADDITION ro ASTORIA. LOTS WILL BE DELIVERED WEEKLY. NOW IS THE TIME TO PROCURE A 1 liot to Build a Home, for tyk Tlie Packers of Choice ;olumbia River Salmon Ttieir Brands LOCATIOX. Anuria Ttt Co- .-.Astoria. Boots A.rk'fCo Astoria ICockUil.... Co!ialHlTrrkltCoj 4R,orI 8nac-l Artoria.. Wbite Aitorl-. Aitorla. j 0 jjeglrftCo ,BrookneU., U?, St- ri.r-J.-irktCo.jA.tri.: scni I f WHO? Who puffs himself up to the skies, , . And by his method dally tries With legal dust to fill up your eyes, Of all, whom do you monk despise? The fakir. Who wrestles with a court's expense, And thinks the public has no sense, . And deals in shams and rank pretense, And "in his mind" Is most Immense? - -. - Tlu. fakir. Who "makes you tired" with receivers' sales, And fills your ears with fairy tales; Who, full of wind has filled his sails, And to disgust you never falls? - The fakir. Who has an. auctioneer to pay, Yet cries "Low Prices!" every day, Who makes you pay for his display; From whom Is It well to' keep away? The fakir. If you want new and reliable goods that havo not lain on the Bhclve3 for years In a warm climate exposed t) dust, moths, and corruption, buy your Clothing, Furnishing Goods, HatB, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Trunks, Valises, etc., at Hatters and Furnishers STREET. ASTORIA, OR. IBaln Street, Astoria, Oregon. ELMORE and Locations ao urn. AT Atoria Plt'gCo.' Kinney'n...- M. J. Kinney Astoria, Job a A. Devllu-j S A-Boolh 30115 chicw ICutUngPltjCo. ' fita Francljco Blur j & Co..-. ..j t ,, J.O.IUntborniiCo J. O. Hinthoro . .Astoria.. Gtorge,J.G. Megler .'lliookOeM Wn I 'lmavfao ; L-t,.,;. j Atori. ithcrmea I " " t li.DPH -RIVER Alon the Coliimbia Rapids in the Track of the Flood. ENORMOUS RAILROAD LOSSES. Desolation Now Eclgns Where Once Stood Smiling Farms, Vineyards and Thriving Settlements Devoted to Fruit Culture. Special correspondence of the Astorlan. The Dalles, Or., July 1, 1894. To reach this little city nestling In the heart of the Columbia river canyons Is the sym bolizatlon of the triumph of man over mud. In fact, to quote Addison, with variations: "Through what variety of untold slush, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass j Before we reach The Dalles." j Leaving Portland on the steamer Dalles City at 6 a. m., we go down the Willamette to Vancouver, and, after a1 short Btay at that waterlogged burg, begin the ascent of the rapid and swollen Columbia, having plenty of op portunity to note on the way the des truction wrought along both banks by the mighty flood that a few weeks ago passed down Wiis splendid stream in a series of swift leaping cataracts. At a point about ten miles above Vancouver, where little farms and vineyards cling to the hillsides and where every mass of boulder is topped by modest residences of Alpine aspect, we begin to see the effects of the late catastrophe, typllied not as in Portland by a gently lapping rise of lakelike quietude, but by a howl ing, seething current, carrying before lb everything moveable, and leaving de vastation everywhere In Its wake. The George Barber farm, named after that sturdy old pioneer who vears and years ago killed many an Indian warrior in the vicinity of this romantic settlement, has been visited by the current and shorn of everything that up to a month ago gave It a reputation as the prettiest and best kept clearing In Oregon. Onj it bhutiful meadow hinds and all over' their Hopes and valleys, there lies a' solid bank of sand three feet thick, and formed at the top In a series of ridgesi that give the place an appearance of a' portion of the ocean held suddenly at aj standstill and- turned Into dry land. The place where a few weeks ago a flourish ing vineyard lay is now marked by a long line of dead stumps. Some dayB r.go the steamers landed passengers and freight in the middle of this grove, though it Is ordinarily- five hundred yards from the river. The remains of all the outhouses are scattered like a de molished pack of cards all over the farm, a few of the barns being hung up in the branches of a big willow tree In company with what was once a fish wheel. Passing McGowan'3 cannery, which building Is still holding its own, though at one time dangerously near total demolition, we came abreast of Hamilton's Island, a long, low stretch of land running lengthwise with the channel. It has been highly cultivated, and has been for many years the home of a large number of fruitralsers whose farmhousa.n, barns, and orchards have all been completely destroyed. Here are more hummocks of sand covering the lower limbs of all the trees that have not been uprooted and swept away. Long stretches of fencing, torn out from their foundation posts, are twined in knots like rope round everything above ground. I saw a couple of men tramping heavily In the deep sand try ing to locate some of their property, a task almost hopeless in the general wreck. Nearly every settled spot along here within three furlongs of the river bed presents the same dismal appear' ance. and how such an amount of dam age could have been done without con sidorable loss of life will always re main a mystery. Instances of narrow escapes in the middle of a dark night are many, and every sufferer has some tale to tell most of them of a quick rush to a boat and a perilous landing out of the reach of the angry waters. Warren's cannery Iras held through all the danger, though two or three times Mr. Frank Warren gave It up for lost, and expected to see it start on a Jour ney to the ocean. However, good and conscientious workmanship in the build ing of the foundations saved all the structures, though thousands of tons of water were racing through every floor for days and eddying around corner poets and piles in a manner that gave very little prospect of their being able to stand the strain. Fish wheels are thrown round in profusion everywhere, but, as I Intend to deal with the whole up-river fishing question, Including the losses of the cannerymen, Uirrorrow, I will go no further In this direction In today's letter. The next stop our steamer make is at Bonneville, the last station to which the Union Taclflc can still run Its trains frcra Portland. Beyond this point, the lallwny trestks, bridges, embankment. rails, Ballasting, and every vestige necessary to the running of trains, has been swept oft the face of the earth. In many places single lines of rail, twisted like corkscrews, hang over dizzy canyons and down the sides of steep hills. Between the Cascades and The Dalles, one of the Union PucllTe con tractors told me yesterday, twelve hun dred piles have bejn completely washed out, and today loggers started to cut new ones which will be driven Into position as quickly as possible. Between The Dalles and Celilo, miles of track have ;been washed to the other side of the river, and the damage on that small stretch alone amounts to $38,000. The total loss It. is impossible to figure, as many thousands of dollars that cannot enter Into any accurate computation will have to be spent In cutting through new country altogether, even the site of the former line in a number of places being completely destroyed. The figures cannot come boloiv 11,850,000, and will probably mount a good deal higher be fore, things are put in shape by the company. The stoppage of the Union Pacific business has been the cause of crowding the D. P. and A. Co.'s steam ers with both freight and passengera, and they are reaping a rich harvest. Renewing our trip fron Bonneville, we come in half an hour to the Lowar Cascades locks the rainiest place in this old wet state.- and, as its two hun dred residents aver with warmth, a locality that can i give Astoria three months-of waterspout a year and then beat -her easily! The rainy season here lasts for 365 days. In 1891, I believe, they had a sunshiny 4th of July, and as Mr. Jennoll, an old-timer In the vicinity, told me In . discussing this miracle: "It was Jest our cussed luck, too; we was all away at The Dalles, and mlssad It." At the western side of the locks, all the passengers have to moke what the company calls a "portage." The freight la taken in wagons, along a mile of bog up a steep hill Into which the wheels sink to the axle at every revolution. And aJong this thoroughfare, two or three shades deeper and filthier than any Irish peat morass,' one has to tramp as beet he can till he reaches a railroad track, with cars and engine a little more crude than those on the Seaside line. TWs contrivance hauls us three mlUs more and lands us at the other side oi he locks where there 1b another though shorter term of agony through a similar mess before we reach the Regulator, which steamer takes the pas-j sengers from there to ine uau, fifty miles beyond. At the west end of j the Cascades, the means of transferring. freight is very crude. It has to be hauled with pulleys up a steep bank, and hundreds of tons .ire piled up on top of the hill waiting In vain for re moval. It is impossible to ship It and every day the pile Is belr-g added to. Bullocks gclng down ta the boat for shipment have to make a clean slide, and the poor frightened beasts slip and fall all the way down the muddy incline, keeping their drivers constantly In fear of a stampede. At the locks themselves tthe damage has been very great. The famous slid ing mountain has begun to run again, and Is falling, fast Into the seething torrent in enormous masses. The con tractors for these works, Messrs. Day & Day, were to complete the Job by March, 1835, but the results of the flood will delay the whole contract for sev eral ysars. The locks are Intended to be 139 feet above sea level, and the river rose 145 fact above sea level, Had tho whole work been flnlshel It would have been swept clean out of the river The v.holo plan of the enterprise will now bo changed, involving an extra expendi ture and loss to the government, Inch-ding the damage done, of over three million dollars. When the river was nt its height four hunderd yards of solid mainland broke away, letting out the lmmtnse body of water behind, which dashed down the locks with a renr like thunder, carrying everything before It. Ii' order to protect the masonry of the ct nal, derricks were used and kept con tlmimiplv dronnlnir eieht and ten ton hnulders in order, If possible, to divert the current. Most of these enormous Ktnr.or. were lifted away down the stream like little pebbles. The canal was flooded to a depth of fifty feet, ana 100 feet of massive protection wall was totally demolished. From the upper end of the Cascades all the way along to The Dalles, dozens of new channels have been cut by the force of the river, but there are very few buildings near the water, so that the loS3 is not large In this direction. But although the flood has not done any Immediate harm to the produce of these places, it has Incidentally caused a loss to the fruitgrowers In the locality little short of 180,000. At Hood river settlement in this Immediate vicinity lying under the brow of the magnificent snow-caiDed Hood, between the lovely hills, is the flnet strawberry producing country In the United States. The whole village to engaged In the culture of this fruit, and the trade is Increasing every year. This season $fi0,0O0 worth of splendid berries have been totally deatr-rve1. br havlnr t stand and rot after being picked their owners finding It impossible to obtain transportation for them. Th harrlshlns wrought by this loss ara very great, as no residents of the district have any other means of 1"f'iei:lnter8U,,p,le9butby the Bale of berries, A few miles above Hcod river and JUBt before sighting the deep canyanB that guard the approach to The Dulles, Is the famous Memalouse Island, where thousands of Indians ore burled, their bones and skulls bleaching on top of the rocks. ' In the center of the Island, which is a high bluff promontory de void of vegetation, Is the largo monu ment erected In memory of Vlck Tre- vitt, tha greatest friend the Indians ever had in Oregon. Trevltt devoted half his life to the amelioration of the condition of "poor Lo," and looked with disgust on white civilization, claiming that the black man stood on a far higher plane of advancement. He died in California twenty years ago, and left word for his friends In The Dalles, begging that he be buried among the Indians there. So they obeyed his re quest and laid him to rest on this Is land, erecting a handsome $1500 monu ment. The shaft, twenty-one feet high, is built of granite, and stands on a 15-foot Block hewn out of the solid rock And the water came to within a few feet of the top of this shaft. This is held to be conclusive proof that for three hundred years at least the length of time the Indians have UBed the place for a buriul ground there hus never been suoh a flood as that of 1894, for the tribes hold as one of their strictest duties that they shall bury their dead "above high water mark." A shrill whistle from our Bteamer calls attention to a little city pictur esquely situated at the base of a series of rugged but beautiful rocks and de files. This is The Dalles, looking slight ly the worse for wear since the river visited it last week, but withal very pleasant and pretty with Its well laid out residences and odd-looking archi tecture, not forgetting the handsome little courthouse with lawns and foun tains surrounding It. A conservative estimate of the losses sustained in this town by flood, including the buildings washed away, sidewalks destroyed, and ofllce fixtures and furniture ruined, will I think, place the figure at $22,000. This is of course outside of any of the rail road losses. Mr. Souvert, of the cannery firm of Souvert Bros., told me that his loss In being unable to Bhlp. the cher ries In his garde l would be considerable,: ani that a great many people In the Immediate vicinity would Buffer big financial loss In the same manner. The peach crop will be ready for market In ten days, and most of it will stand on the wharves and decay for want ol transportation facilities. The village of Celilo, a little further along, ifl a howling wilderness with Its naturally forlorn apptarance heightened by the destruction caused by the flood. The reports of the calamity at Grant, which have already reached you by telegraph, have not been exaggerated In the least. The whisky distillery and flour mill are totally destroyed, and every house in the place has been swept down the Columbia and ' thrown; over the Cascades, each hulldlng smash ing Into tinder In a moment. The In habitants are camped in tents above high water mark waiting for the flood to subside, when they will get lumber and build things up again. This, then, in brief is a record of the general damage done on the Upper Col umbia. But by far the most Important part of the destruction, and the phase of tho flood's ravages that will most Interest Astorlans is the havoc wrought among the flBh wheels and other salmon catching appliances. This subject I will dwell on at length tomorrow. FOOTB VLL TOMORROW. The teams for the football match to morrow will line up as follows: Portlands Forwards, W. Blnghain, J. Gray, J. Latta (captain), J. Gouldley, and T. Plalster. Half Backs, W. Black, A. Bingham, L. C. Watson. Full backs, G. Cameron, W. McMlchacl. Goal keep er, B. Trego. Astoria Forwards, C. R. Hlgglns, R. Gibson, 3. Wilson, C. Connors, II. Bell, half-backs, J. Demmlck, W. Tallant (captain), P. Grant. Full backs, Geo. Smith, A. Bartholomew. Ooal keeper, B. Reed. Mr. MacKlnlcy will referee the game. The directors of the Astoria Football Club will meet tonight at 7 p. m. sharp ad their club rooms. All members of tho A- F. C. ere requested to be at tho gymnasium at J a. m. sharp Wednes day, July 4th. Highest of all in Leavening rpn IITI)y nrOfT 1 ) lliyiJlii IJMlAlilililJ Another Mistrial in the Chinese Smuggling Cases. NINE JURORS FOR ACQUITTAL The Government Asks anlnjunetiou Against Strikers-Situation Not Improved at Portland. Associated Press. Portland, July 2. The Jury In the Chinese conspiracy case was discharged this morning being unable to agree upon a verdict, il is statea me jury sioou J for acquittal and 3 for conviction. The trial of C. J. Mulkey. ex-Bpeclal agent of the treasury department on a charge of smuggling opium was begun. THE BOYCOTT. No Through Trains Left Portland Yes- teraay. Portland, Or., July . N6 through trains arrived or left today. Local trains, on the Northern Pacific and the Southern Pacific are running, and the Northern Paclflo took out a train with Pullmans at 3:30 this afternoon, for Ta- comn, and one arrived at '8:30 tonight from the Sound with a Pullman and diner. NON-UNION MEN AT WORK. Tacoma, July 2. The Northern Pacl- fla began operating trains today with non-union crews, the engineers having refused Individually out of Bympithy to work. Two trains were sent to Seattle and one to Portland, and one arrived from Seattle, all with non-union engin eers end firemen. A train- from Port land arrived at 9 p. in. with union men In the cab. Assistant General Superin tendent Dickinson today ordered all the superintendents to employ new men," guaranteeing them employment under the same rules and regulations as pre viously governed employes and telling them they will receive all the protection the federal courts can give them. Up to 6 p. m. 100 applications had been made. INJUNCTIONS OUT A) NED. Chicago, July 2. Operations against the strikers were begun today with a conference between United States Judges Woods and Gross, and Edwin Walker, special : solleltDr, appointed yBterday. Attorney General Olney and District At torney Gilchrist, lawyers, submitted a bulky bill asking the federal courts to enjoin the strikers from Interfering with the malls. The bill was originally drawn to enjoin strikers from Interfering with the malls, but was modified under orders from Washington to enjoin them from Interfering with any trains. This pro teotlon is besought under the Interstate commerce act, but It is believed at the government building the injunction which ' was issued will soon stop the strike, for when the government can be called upon to enforce It, Judge Woods Btild the mi'THlials would be expected to enforce it, and If they should be unable to do so, troops can be called out. FOR SALE. FOR SALE. 100 acres Improved land In upper Frankfort. Wash., slashed, and partially cleared. Five-story house com pletely furnished, piano, etf. Stuble, chicken house, and yard, workshop 20x40, situated on the river. Just the homa for a fisherman. Will sell on easy terms for $2,500; $)i00 down, $850 one year, and balance two years. Inquire or. premises. DAVID UPTON.' FAIR AND BEAUTIFUL LANDS ACROSS THE SEA. Give promise to the voyager of health and pleasure, but there is a brand ex panse of waters to be paused that rise mountain hlKh In rough weather and grievously disturb the unaccustomed fclomach, more particularly If It is that of on Invalid. Moreover, tho vibration of the vessel's hull caused by the mo (ion of the screw of a steamer, a change of water and latltudo, and abrupt transitions of temperature, can not., without a medicinal safeguard, be encountered with Impunity. For sea sickness, and prejudicial Influences of air and water, Hustetter's Stomach Hitters Is a standard safeguard. Tour. Ists, yachtsmen, mariners, commercial travelers, and people bound on a sea voyage, or Inland Jaunt should always be provided with it, Incomparable for malaria, rheumatism, neuralgia, sleep. lcHsness, loss of appetite, sick headache, biliousness, and constipation. Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report