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: VOL. XL1V, NO. 10. ASTORIA. OREGON, SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY 12.-1895. Jr1-2
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The One Price Clothiers,
606 and 508 COMMERCIAL
20 per cent OFF.
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We Wish
A Happy
And will start the ball rolling by giving you a
discount of 20 per cent, for 10 dags op all mis
cellaneous books in our store.
Pacific Coast Almanacs and Tide-tables.
20 per cent OFF.
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" KinBALL"
PIANOS and ORGANS.
WHOLESALE and RETAIL.
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TERRITORY
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Factory
26 & Rockwell SL
Chicago, III.
Pacific Coast Office
335 Morrison, cor 7th St.
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The Packers of Choice
lolumbia River Salmon
Their Brand and Locations.
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HOW TO SAVE MONEY.
Buy vonr GROCERIES and PROVISIONS of ns, and we will Me you money.
We ban! the best goods and deliver free to trains or boat. We boy and Mil for
pot easu, anJ sell eoods cheaper than any ether firm in the conntry. Send ns
roar name and address, and will mail you oor new price list, which will be out
aoon. Vve ouat todar: Climax tobacco.
California irranulaled' suar in 100-lb
sack $500
Fest brands of fl inr per bsrrei . . . . 2 15
Rnral Riff Powder 5-ll eao 2.00
Send us a list of what you need,
nARK L. COHN & CO.t
of the Tariff
Is the cause of the great re
duction we have made in
Clothing of all kinds now on
hiind to make room for new
goods for the spring and sum
mer of 1 895. Price our lines
of Men's and Boys'
Suits, Overcoats,' Mack
intoshes, etc, before buy
ing elsewhere and you will
save from 16 to 33 per cent,
and $1.50 to $5.00 saved on a
Suit or Overcoat is quite an
item 1o save in times of econ
omy. Hatters and Furnishers
STREET, ASTORIA, OR.
20 per cent OFF.
20 per cent OFF.
20 per cent OFF.
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20 per cent OFF.
jMew Year.
20 per cent OFF.
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SO rwr rnt f?F.
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Wholesale Prices Quoted
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RESPONSIBLE DEALERS AND HERCHANT5.
Correspondence Solicited.
: Catalogues Moiled Free on Application.
W. W. KIMBALL CO.
Manufacturers.
Main Office and warerooma,
343-253 Wabash Ave.,
Chicago, III.
and Warerooms,
Portland, Oregon.
L. V. MOORE, manager.
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40 cents pound.
P.mt iml oil ner ease. 1 .81.80
Arbnckle's Coffee per poaml.... 22
California tyrup 5 gal ki-s.... LUO
bapolio per dozen bars 85c
and we -will make you speck price
146 Front SL Portland.
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One Steamer Tows Another
Past Point Arena.
BLIZZARDS IN THE EAST.
Tacoma Man Buncoed in San Fran
cisco Various. Other Inter
esting: Topics.
Associated Press.
Elk, Cal., Jan. 11. The lookout re
ports a large steamer having In tow
another large steamer passed Point
Arena lig'ht at 10 this morning, going
south. Possilaly the steamers may be
the Columbia and Walla Walla, due
today.
EASTERN BLIZZARD.
Chicago, Jan. 11. A blizzard prevails
here and throughout Towa and Nebras.
ka.
HANS WAS BUNCOED.
San Francisco, Jan. 11. Hans Nlson,
of Tacoma, was buncoed out of $160 ar
he was prepared to embark tor the
North. A man representing himself as
a Portland contractor, appointed Hanb
his foreman, and then (borrowed all
the Swede's money which he secured by
a worthless check.
FLOODS IN WEST VIRGINIA.
Parkersburg, W. Va., Jan. 11. The
situation here today Is more alarming
than at any time during the flood. The
Ohio Is 37 feet above low water mark,
and at neon is rising rapidliy. All the
mills and factories on the south side
are sulbmerged. Lockport, Newport,
and Riverside, suburbs, are flooded and
many families 'have been driven to
higher ground. Lumber men estimate
their losses at WBO.OOO.
PROTEST AGAINST GUNST.
San Francisco, Jan. 11. The civic fed
eration organized toy clergymen to pur
tfy"T6caroJltl(!S, and Improve munici
pal government, has issued a call for
another mass meeting to toe 'held Sun
day afternoon to protest against and
denounce the appointment of M. A.
Gunst as police commissioner, and to
take steps to secure a pure govern
ment. A FRENCH BOMBARDMENT.
Tematatlve, Jan. 11. The French have
bombarded Fara Fatra, four miles in
land from'Tamatative. Hovas answered
with seven guns, but the French were
successful and Hovas retired with a
heavy loss.
THREE MEN SUFFOCATED.
New York, Jan. ll.-Jacdb Rosenberg,
Abraham Bersan, and Joseph Jacobsen
were suffocated this morning by the
overturning of a gaa stove.
WHAT DUN SATS.
New York, Jan. 11. R. G. Dun & Co.
say: The fatlures tnis ween are i in
the United States against 474 last year,
and 64 in Canada against 67 last year.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
San Francisco, Jan. 11. Cleared Bark
Rufus K. Wood, for Nanaimo.
Departed-hip Elwell, for Nanaimo;
schooner Chas. Hanson, for Gray's Har
bor; schooner Ivy, for Willapa Har-
bor; schooner Daisy Rowe, for Coosjtem o ln8pcction now enforced, is the
nay; sonooner viuiim r juru, iur urn d
Harbor; schooner Orient, for Coos bay;
I Ta fnf TX' i 1 1 Q PI O Vl (1 V"
United States steamer Mohican, for Pu
get Sound; schooner San Buena Ventu
ra, for Gray's Harbor.
Freights and charters American ship
B. P. Cheney, coal from Seattle to San
Francisco; American snip t-iweu, coal.
from Nanaimo to San Francisco; Amer-
lean ship occluentai, now at uepariure ,
Bay, coat thence to San Francisco.
DIVING DOWN DEEP.
The following extract is from an
teresthig paper recently read before the '
Cardiff Institute of Marine Engineers:
The greatest depth known to which a
diver has descended is 201 feet. Sev-tof
eral descents have been made to depths in the machinery employed to r.ln then
exceeding 150 feet, but the pressure Is and the men who man them. In re
so great even there that few men would ' gard to the latter, no less than 38 appll-
care to risk their lives it the attempt. ' canU for master's and pilot's license
The extreme depth of 201 feet Is said to ' were rejected during the year becauw
have been reached by a diver named of color blindness, although 1544 passed
Hooper, working on the wreck of the the tests. All of which goes to show
Cape Horn, on the west coast of Af-; that the travelling public and the steam
rtca. It requires a large stock of faith vessel fraternity as well, have every
to believe that toe stopped down at reason to repose confidence In the In
ht rleoth for three-quarters of an spection system as at present, man-
hour on one occasion. The pressue per
square Inch was about 85 pounds.
Roughly speaking, the pressure may be
taken as 2 1-2 pounds per square inch
for every fathom In depth. In 60 feet somewnere Detween tnw city ana fort
of water dlvere can work to advantage, land. AU the telegraph that appears
and even 80 feet can be managed fairly In this mornlng'e Astorlan came In be
well. But at greater depths It is not fore that time, which account for Its
possible to remain under water long briefness. Borne day, perhaps when the
enough to accomplish much. One of j railway Is compe .ed Into Astoria, the
the best things of this kind on record ; Western Union will have a line con
Hi savin of nine boxes of gold ! necting this city with the metropolis-
coin from the steamer Alfonso XII. She
sank near Grand Canary in depth of
nearly 1M feet, and few believed that
the ten boxe ol specie In her hold
would ever see daylight again. Each
box was worth 10,000, and a reward of
500 ( for each of them resulted In an
attempt Ibelng made to regain the spe
cie. A diver named Lambert got up
seven boxes, and two others were re
covered 'by Tessier at the rUk of ex
istence, tout the tenth box could not be
recovered. Subsequent expecitlons
have failed to reach, the missing box,
and the divers employed met with ser
ious accidents.
ARGENTINE'S WHEAT EXPORTS.
The Irregularity of the Argentine Re
public in the matter of exporting wheat
of lato years, coupled with reports of
its now rapltily increasing ability to
ship wheat abroad In competition with
the United States and Russia, lends
particular Interest to a recent letter
from the American consul at Buenos
Ayr.-s to the state department at Wash
ington. 4
The Argentine Republic, as shown in
the report of the secretary of agricul
ture, can now place 35,000,000 bushels
of wheat annually on the European
market. The Argentine wheat flalds are
less than 100 miles from deep water
harbors, and, therefore, wheat Intended
for shipment pays no appreciable Inland
freight, while United States wheat Is
subjected to a heavy charge for inland
transportation. For these reasons Sec
retary 'Morton telleves that wheat will
not hereafter be our staple cereal, and
advises our farmers to Increase their
acreage of corn, for whloh there Is a
constantly growing demand, the result
of new uses to which corn Is being ap
propriated. '
Consul Baker explains that there Is
no statistical office charged with the
collection of Information of growing
crops an harvests, and the only way
by which reliable data can be obtained
is to take the exports and add to them
the estimated quantity required for
home consumption. As to the areas in
wheat or the yields per ac-e, there is
no official Information obtainable. Tak
ing men estimates, however, the con
sul gives tine area In hectares for the
yean named, a ''hectare being the equiv
alent of 2.71 acres. - Ten years ago the
wheat fields of Arirentine covered 243,
500 hectares. In 1892 they extended over
1,322,000 hectares and in 1893 over 1.9S3,
000 hectres. Estimates of the area of
the present year vary, one authority
placing It at 2,181,300 hectares, and an
other at,1' 2,974,000 hectares, the latter
figures being equivalent to about 7.43C,
25 acn..,: Those" furnishing the lower
figure exrfaln that In consequenco of
the low price of wheat last year, many
farmers are putting their lands in flax
as a more promising crop. Ten years
ago the quantity of wheat exported by
Argentine was about 60,000 tons, and
during the years of the last decade the
exportation did not reach an average
of 100,000 tons. In 1890 It reached 380,000
tons, and 'has steadily advanced since
then, reaching in 1893 1,000,137 tons of
wheat and 37,521 tons of flour. The re
turns for the first six months of the
present calendar year show that the
exportation of wheat was 1,029,546 tons,
and of flour, 20.62S tons. It will be thus
seen that the Shipments for the first
six months of 1894 have been larger
than for any preceding twelve months.
Nearly 700,000,000 people carried on
American steamers during the last fiscal
year and only 255 lives lost, of whom
but 96 were passengers, is the promi
nent feature of the new annual report
of Supervising Inspector General Du
mont of the steam vessels inspection
service. This Is a smaller mortality
among the same number of epople, we
have no doubt, than If they had all
stald Bt ihome ttnd went regularly to
b t0 Bav nothlng of travelling by
ral, Jt proveg Asan What we have
often remarked, that travel by Amerl
can steamships under the present sys-
. fest tnat couid De devised. Thirty.
flve o( the passengers above referred
to loBt their lives in one disaster the
sinking of the tuig boat James D.
Cicol off Sandy Hook on a Sunday in
last June, and General Dumont states
that this disaster was solely due tc
the fact that the tug was being navl-
, . b person wholly inexperienced.
u ,g further gtated in the report that
the nearly 11.000 boilers inspected,
accldents causing the loss of life have
occurred in but 15 of them, defects In
upward of 700 being detected and reme
In-'died. anJ that of 100,270 new life pre
servers examined, only 64 were found
deficient This statement shows that
'as great care is taken In the inspection
equipments to prevent disaster ai
' aswd Marine Journal.
Shortly after 9 o'clock last night the
Western Union line went down again
j one that will not go down every time it
j rains. Until then well, the puM'c
j might Just as well saw wood and say
j nothing. , iJuJJj; LUtj'I.i;
mo liinuu uiiunnim,
ri n i it m n u i i iuirnun uiuicu ui.in.co t.w i i i in i u imii in i 1
Bradstreet's Report Gives But
Slight Encouragement.
A HAWAIIAN CABLE PROPOSED
Various Doings at the Country's
Capital Yesterday Ways and
Meant Committee Meets.
Associated Press.
New York, Jan. 11. (Bradstreet's to
morrow will say: The second week of
the new year brings few reports of in
creasing volume of orders for season
able goods. Weather conditions In
the East have 'been unfavorable, and
In the West and South, the reverse.
Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and Phil
adelphia report relatively the greatest
Improvement with Increased orders for
dry goods, clothing, rubbers, shoes,
hardware and woolen dress goods. At
some centers It Is too early to Judge
of the outlook for trade. Travellers in
many instances have not all gone out.
Mercantile collection! South and In the
Central West are reported fairly satis
factory or improving to a greater ex
tent than for thirty dayB previously.
Confidence of wholesale dealers in sta
ple lines that the near future business
promises Increased activity with an up
ward tendency in quotations, is pro
nounced In some cities.
On the Pacific coast, trade at most of
the larger cities Is quiet as quotations
for hides have been working higher,
while for wheat, Indian corn, pork, lard,
coffee, cotton, and plate glass have all
been marked up to the (best available
data with respect to size of domestic
wheat crops in 1893 and 1894, together
with supplies in sight at various dates,
quantities planted and exported and
consumed by animals In 1894, together
with (BradBtreet's report of stocks out
of the farmers' hands, make it plain
that the total wheat Bupply In the
United States in January 1, 1895, was
18,000,000 bushels smarter than one year
previously, and) that stocks back of
available supplies were fully 34,000,000
bushels Bmaller.
THE HAWAIIAN CABLE.
Washington, Jan. ll.dleprcsentatlve
Hltt, who is recognized as the Republi
can leader of the house in foreign af
fairs, said today that he fully agreed
with the president that the Hawaiian '
Islands should have the benefits of tel-
fgraphlo communication with the world
at large, but was strongly opposed to
putting their cable facilities under the
control of any government but the
United States. He favored a subsidy
for a Hawaiian cable.
A CONFERENCE WAS HELD.
Washington, Jan. 11. General A. J.
Warner, president of the Bl-metallio
League, admitted today that a confer
ence of the leading bl-metallists from
all partsof the country had 'been held
In this city recently. It was the de
cision of the conference ho said, that
a strong ana growing ei-uumaui w
manifesting Itself In favor of uniting
the friends of bl-metalllsm in the bi
metallic party, and to appeal directly
to the people on the money Issues
alone, the consideration of which Beems
to be leading to this result. There Is
r,: ;: ;:; ;;: .n
a
hope of restoring a bl-metalllc
standard through either of the three
parties.
PASSED A PENSION BILL.
Washington, Jan. 11. (Attendance was
ilim In the house today. On motion of
Slckels, Democrat, of New York, by
the unanimous consent of the senate,
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tation for rations and accrued back
pay during volunteer service.
WAYS AiN'D MEANS COMMITTEE.
They Met Yesterday the First Time in
Months.
Washington, aJn. ll.-The ways and
means committee of the house met to
day for the first time in months. It
was expected the meeting might bring
Important developments In view of the
government's need of increased reve
nue. No positive conclusions ' were,
reaohed, however, beyond the reference
of several questions to Bub-committees.
The action of the ocmmlttee Is looked
upon as significant that no tariff legis
lation will be pushed this season. Wil
son stated Informally that the revenues
had shown a promising Increase since
the woolen schedule went Into effect,
on the first of January. The resolution
of Pence, of Colorado, asking the sec
retary of the treasury to Inform con
gress as to the advisability of increas
ing the beer tax, was voted down with
out division, and an unfavorable re
port made.-
THE EXTRA SESSION.
Waehlngton, Jan. 11. Emphatic Je.
nlal is made by all Democratic mem
bers of the house committee on rules
of the reports that President Cleveland
and authorized one of them to make It.
known that an extra session of con
gress will be called if the currency
legislation was not efteeted by the pres
ent congress.
THE URGENT DEFICIENCY BILL.
Washington, Jan. 11. The senate took
up the urgent deficiency bill, and Hilt,
of New York, spoke In Ibehalf of his
amendment,- to allow an opportunity to
lest its constitutionality.
WORDS FOR BUSINESS MEN.
The newspaper Is not exactly what
the editor Is, says the Salinas Repub
lican, but What the (business men of
the community where it is published
make It. The brightest and most wide
awake editor on the Paclflo coast can
not publish a first-class paper In Rocky
Gulch or Poker Flat if those places
are dead dull and the business men
t e no interest in the same. The lo
' .. paper is as much an Index of the
town as of the editor. If the business
men Pf the town give a paper a liberal
support, that paper will be a credit to
tho place, will be bright and newsy,
and wilt enhance the value of every
man's property In the place. On the
other hand, if the business men do not
assist, then the editor ran do but little.
He Is doing his best at all times, Is
rtralnlng every nerve to make hU paper
as good as possible. The more strongly
he Is supported the better becomes bis
paper the better Us articles, the more
complete its news, and the finer its
press work and paper. The editor Is
helped or hindered by the (business men
of the town, and it rests with them
whether the paper is doing Its best for
the community or not. The paper 1
their servant In a certain sense, and
the editor their mouthpiece. In this
way It represents the town more than
the editor.
Honolulu papers mention the fact that
among the native Hawaiian there Is a
marked increase in the use of Japanese
liquors and a illke decrease In the use
of California wines. The natives have
taken very klnd'ly to tho use of Japan
ese sakl and drink large quantities of
It, probably on account of It being sold
very cheaply, In 18!)3 the Importation
of California wines Into the Hawaiian
Islands amounted to 116,112 gallons. In
1894 these figures drowed to 90,684 gal-
1 Ions, a decrease of 25,458 gallons. Dur-
there were Mw gaium. ot MM
72,958 gallons. This gives a net Increase
in favor of the sakl of 37,611 gallons.
The Lower Callfornlan says; A party
of Americans have purchased a 45,000-
acre tract at Chlnamcea, not far from
Coatzacoallcos, the gulf terminus of
the Tehauntepec Railway. The land
is to 'be put Into coffee, rubber and
rugm.
Made from the most
highly refined and ex
pensive ingredients,
and leaves neither acid
nor alkali in the food.
BAKING POWDE CO., 10 WAU. 6T., HEW-YlWIC
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It Was Introduced in the Sen
ate .Yesterday.
SOME OF ITS FEATUAES SHOWN.
Provides Treasury Notes and Gold
and Silvor Certilioates lie
Destroyed.
Assoolalted, Press.
Washington, Jan. 11. Senator Vest
today introduced hia financial bill. The
bill provides that treasury notea unJ
gold and silver certificates shall be de
stroyed, and an eiiual amount of notes
payable in standard gold and sliver
coin be Issued and paid Instead of the
notes. No coin notes of larger denomi
nation than $1,000 or smaller than $10
shall Ibe lRsued, and denominations
higher than J50 shall not exceed one
fourth of the total amount of coin notes
outstanding at tho time.
Coin notes are to be legal tender for
all debts. The Becond section repeals
all laws which authorize owners of
gold or silver bullion to make depohits
receiving gold or silver certificates.
Section four makes It unlawful fur
any national bank to Issue bank notes
and all acts authorizing such tfsuen
are repealed. Section five requires the
secretary of the treasury to have coin
ed as fast as possible the stiver bullion
held In the treasury purchased under
the Shprman act of 1800, including the
gain or selgnorage. Section six provides
If the gold In the treasury Rt tho time,
the act shall take effect do:"? not
amount to $100,000,000 exclusive oi that
held to red2m gold ceitlllcatea, tn&
secretary Is directed to sd! United
States bonds at not less tlmn par ir
gold coin, bearing not to exceed throe
per cent interest, redeemable after ilvo
years, but no greater amount of such
bonds to be sold than may be necessary
to procure for the treasury the full
amount of $100,000,000 in gold. Section
seven provides that silver bullion be
brought to any mint In tho United
States for colnnge, shall be received and
coined Into standard dollars of 412 1-2
grains.
LATH LITERARY NEWS.
' An old-fashioned sea Btory, full of
Interest and adventure, with a strong
love motive, Is begun by W. Clark Rus
sell in the January Cosmopolitan.
"Ouldtt" succeeds Froude, GoKHe, Luiik,
and other dlstlnifulhed writers with
an Installment of the "Great Passions
of History" series, which has been ap
pearing in the Cosmopolitan. A dis
cussion 1b aroused by Mr. Edwin
Bok's article on "The Young Man and
tho Church," which will consume tuns
f ink before It Is settled. Just before
the famous Charcot's death he prepared
an article for the Cosmopolitan on Pas
teur, to toe published after Pasteur's
death. But Charcot has died firt,
and so with the consent of Charcot
executors, the article is given now. The
present "Theatrical Season in New
York," Is critically considered by Mr.
James 8. 'Metcalf, editor of Life, and
there aM stories by Tourgee, Howells,
end the famous French writer, Crancols
Coppee.
Thomas (Mulkey, an old pioneer, who
has resided at Seaside off and on for
the paBt 80 years, will at last find a
home In the state asylum for the In.
sane. (He has been living of lato a
few miles north of Eupene, and on
Wednesday last was examined before
Medical Examiners T. W, Harris and
W. M. Kuykendmll, and adjudged In
sane. This is his first attack, and the
cause Is given by the doctors as being
cerebral HnbollBm.
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