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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1895)
mm turn library association ''0liwxwsjpw 3 The ASTORIAN hu the largeit LOCAL & - circulation! the largest GF.Nf.RM. clrcula- 1 tlon. and the lareest TOTAL circulation of f TODAY'S WEATHER. Forecast for Oregon and Wihlngton, ihow-l! aj trt, followed by fair weather, cooler El I j - A all papen published In Astoria. EXCLUSIVE TELEGRAPHIC PRESS REPORT. ASTORIA, OREGON THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1895. NO. 238. VOL. XLLV. A Caps, Boots, Shoes, Trunks, Valises, Umbrellas, etc., at the very lowest prices. . I. L. OSGOOD, The One Price Clothier, Hatter and Furnisher. 506 and 508 COHKEBCUL STEEET, ASTORIA, OB. School Books! School At Greatly Reduced Prices. A FUI.T, LINE OF Oregon Books Slates Pencils Tablets Pens Erasers Sponges Everything Necessary ion School Use. Griffin & Reed. THREE LOTS. In a desirable location, CHOICE LOTS IN HILLS FIRST ADDITION. On the new Pipe Line Boulevard J iwt the plnce for a cheap home. A Block IN ALDERBROOK. STREET OA.R LINE will he eitendei this hammer to within 5 minutes walk of this property Will pel! at decided bargain. ACREAGE. In 5 or 10 aore traots inaide the nity liniiti, also adjoining Flavel. GEORGE HILL. 471 BondSt, Occident Block, HILL'S REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE. OUR AUCTION Draws the crowd because our customers can get any and every kind of merchandise that we carry in stock at their own price. We are not selling odds and ends, but new and clean goods the best in the market is put up and sold un der the hammer. THIS SALE WILL CON T1NUB V Until the required amount is raised to ifVlfcJ present liabilities. Therefore, take advantage of the present opportunity anl purchase your DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, SHOES, HATS, BLANKETS, UMBRELLAS, etc., AT OUR AUCTION -f Sales, afternoons at s p. m. Evening!, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday and trriday afternoons reserved for ladies, and every other time for every body. 1 OREGON TRADING 600 Commercial Street. ROSS HIGGINS & CO. Grocers, : and : Butchers ' Ajtorla and Upper Aftoria hi Teas nd Coffee. Table Delicacies. DasesUc ad Tropical Fruits. Vegetables, Sugar Cured Hans. Bacon. Etc. Choice - Fresh - and - Salt Meats. VERT ONE NKEBB A BUSINGS 8 EDUCATION. Many young men and wooes can spend but one er two years at school why not tnke a course that can fee completed In that tlraeT The college Include ehort ENGLISH COURSB bs aldea BUSINESS and SHORTHAND COURSE For catalogues address, (14 TAXSuX SI. - - HOLMES BUSINESS COLLEGE, - - P01TLA5D, OJ. The long round and square cut frock, and the one-button and three-button medium long ' Dove Tail" frock suits, the fly button and the long ulster overcoats, the long cape and the box coat mackintoshes with velvet collars are now in, as well as all lines of Men's and Boys' Clothing, Fur nishing Goods, Hats, 2 blocks from High School. A BARGAIN. hSTosm public mw READING ROOM FKEri To ALL. Open every day from 3 o'clock to 5 :30 and 6:30 to 930 p. m. Subscription rates $3 per annuin. Southwest cor. Eleventh and Duane St. Supplies! CO.. Talks Well and Intelligently of the Topics of the Day. AMERICA FOR AMERICANS Nicaragua Canal and American Shipbuilding: Eestoration of Republican Tariff Polity the Prime Issue. Senator George W. MeBrfde, who was among Astoria's visitors yestenday, la too well known to Wttifl community to need. an Introduction. Hts Iheslltih now be ter thlatn It has been iflor some time past and he iwfJ enter upon Wis new dirties lnvfeor&'ted and strengthened! from hto sumlmer'B vacation. Prtor to Wis departure nex't month far Washington, together wltlhi Senator MttcflieB, (he tvaa been call- ins lupon his friends In different parts of the state tW3lt Ihe ntflfiMt oearn 01 any spedl'al ntoCtertai wiKidh Ohey Heeflred Wlra to took lamer for ifflncm ln itthe capltoi, and alUo to post Wm&oOf iricve fuldy in tihe business of the dlfJenenlt piarltla of the state. AD wlhio know ifflie seniator fcnlow Mm to be a man of the peopCe, ifor he people and for Oregon every Itttme and a"J Uhe lime. To ain A'sltortm irepreserttlaltlve wlho asked htm for Ihiia tdeas on tire qurafUons of iha Iay, he aalld: "In Ithe dlsaiisaion of pulbHio ffnattera by a. meimlber of conigrems rwlHo hlaa not yelt taken hla eeut, lie shouCd rflmrtber that passage of Bcripfture iwthJch reads Botne tWnff Olke thlla: 'Let not Dilirn tthaJt put tetih Ma armw on bOat Hike Mm that ttukettllv tt off,' Ibiit 1 elhiaa ibe glad to gtlve you anytthlngr thlait I can cay tflialt win be of InltereBt Vo your readers. "What are your vleiwb, Bona'tor, on the money quoSUon?' "So 'fair as my own vllewls mre comcerned, I can only reipelalt 'wtilait I ihlave before puiMlcJy tlalted, Shalt I am an favor of the largest passrUje ooltmge of both goCd and silver wnslstenlt with tine maintenance or Uhe equality of valiuea af bll the dollars Issued by 'Uhe gtovernmmlt, iwhetiher goZd, s'slvex or plalper. On tlhiis question i aim Un fuTJi anoord wltih tfh-e mittonal Re- piMcian ryialtPonrti of 1602, lamd I aim con' fldent tlhlait iReipuibllciain lEltaltasTntanshlp WM devilse leg-ltf.ialMoai for tine enlarged use dt Sliver taia imioney wlth'oult Impatrtng the equlali purohMlnr and dlblt-paylng power of ithe doCU&rt of either metal. believe Who reeoonaolon of ithe Republican pndtedQve tonlff potttcy iwKi largely In preawe the balarare of lrtterna'Bontal trade In flavor of itthe UriSted etaltee, thereby to a great extent preventing tlhe expomtaitlon of gold land makiing praWtlaalK an en larged ue of silver In our dornosiWc ex- chti'nges. "Wlhait, dn your opinion, to the bearing of the Nitfanaguan canal on bur niaitlonai alralrO?" "I consider -tlhlait Ithe condbrutlon of the Nwaralgiulin oarnaa Us tihe imoBt Important PUbJiic Imiprovamertt to tlhe Pacific eCope, a-3 weil a Vo tlhe enlttre nation, that has ?ver been proposed in congress. This 1 believe to ba true, not only because of its importance Drom a comimenaJal point of view, bJt because of its use as a. meons of defense. "The opening of Who oanal, Iby giving iUoroer Untu oif tna.nBportaJUon between the principal slhliiprilng (portB of DWe Palclflc and Atfiintilc Beabdards iwoulid materially reduce th rate of freJgihlt on the prin cipal exports of 'the Fiacltlc eoope, would open and extend the irrfarktltis Ifor eCD mwi uradturea of iwdod and lumber, and by reason of iwaiter competlelon iwoulki reduce tha naltes of iflreHgihlt on tlhie tiunisontlnen tal rUiUwiaya affl tnuning to the benefit of our producers and eWlppers. 1 WMnk the opening of ithe cairiilj rwtoulld tie of imme dtalte and speciiaC benefit to Oregon and Walslhlinglton In opertlng up to ub the mar kets of Ithe AWaint'lc lor alii Mhe products oif our foresitB. "Tnere Is andtiher artaltltetr liVLImaitely re lated to and connected TvUtih. fOhie proposed opening of the Nicaragua oanal, wMdh i regard aa of great Imporltance to the UnltedS''aitea, viz: Thalt of Vhe rehablu'l taitlon of the Almertcan imeroreant mar ine. We BhouTJd not only secure the conStruClilon aind opening of Itihe carta by Uhe govemmer.lt, but we 9hKu1d b a 'wise and generous policy, errcourage Uhe buCdlng of American etbllps and the car rying of our Imporits and our exports lr American ibomurns. It is estiimalted bj competent authority tlhlait ithe people ol the United States have paid to the owners of foreign ships an average ot $150,000,000 per year Ifor freight durirg the ;aat 30 years, making a total of KMO.000, 000, a sum greater than our entire In debtedness to foreign nations. Am this freigi'mt must toe paid in gold, or in pro ducts wtioBi value Is measured In gold,' it Is a very great drain upon the coun try, 'WhAdh miiglhit be avoided by policy of adequate protodtlon to American ship building." "Wihst 1j ynu Uink, eeru'tor, would be the effedt on uliile voCume of buslntas done over our toraraavritlrienieaCi raf. roads In the event of the wmptetton of the cannl ?" "Wlhffle I do molt pretena to We atole to forecast the effedt of the opening of the rarrai; noon the vtalume of business done by the trUnBcorttrnertttal' railways, lam In clined to the belief that ft iwa. increase transcontinental trafflc, and that sue lnareaae rwttt result from lairger produc tion and tlhe increased carnlmerce that wM natunaly foQlaw from the tmpetur given to the development of our resourceo by the orjenlng of tine canal. "You thhik, Hhen, thalt on the principle of oormpetltton developed aOong (1113 Mis- siaalool river by twe building of paraiie: lines of (taiUroad on bdth banks and the consequent development of lncreaaea traffic for bdtlt the boalts end ithe roadr by the natural Increase In poput'ation and business, that tlhe competScfton of the Nlc- ara?un canwD aalrnJt Ithe tranfontln' errliiil roads "Woutld make new buMness Rir boiih the oanat and tibe radOrdadli by the devopmemit of a new population and new inaiBvtrtea to be nerved?" "That Is 'It m a nutdbeUMtlrie Canat will bring a greatly Increased popuCuidon on the Pacific coast, open new andua'trfe and make new traffic for the roods a weC a'j for the ea.nl ttsof ." "Wbalt do you thtnk trl be the en I of issue in Che neat national cnimralignr hi any way ignoring or un- derenamartlng other great and trrmortian (nitic quesUons. I regard the reo; or ation or wne HepuWScan poVicy of a vro- 1 .win wiri recx-oaiy as Uie poiMi-4 cat luiue of partunount irrsnoitance to the) people of tihe Unfiled' etaltes, uind I believe that title next oaimpalgn between the itwo gireait parluies of thee ountry wO ibe fouist.t out upon that ttne." "Under the existing lUariff lalw tlhere is not only a targe deficit in tevenues, need ed for Ithe currant expenses of the gov ernment and for the neceesary puMc Im pTOverrrortta, but a dlredt encounag-eiment tt itho Increased iinpontlait)lon of foreign Droducts and foreign manufactures ccHrtptftlng iwJtlhl American producta and Airaortican , irianutacturea or the fiuume kind. The etmtkrilcs of foreign Imparts and erporttB for 'the Ittdt fiscal! year tihow an Increase of ilmparts from abroad of over $58,000,000 and a decrease In the Vattue of our foreign exports of more than $72,000,000, a net reduction in the balance of tirade In our favor over the WaOance of tnade for the preceding fiscal year Of more ithiam J180,000,000. "This 3aiw, prtduding insufflctlenlt rev enue, inareaslnsr our 4mnort3 of foreign goods, dtaprtvlng our Oalborers of employ ment, cannot stand, and I believe 'that it will be voted out of existence by tlhe people of' UhiiB country at Ithe next na tional erection." The senator Walked long and pleasantly on varlious topics of the day, his plans of action and twtwvt Ihe Ihoped to accoin ptEteCi.tr IMs ivealltlh, permlltted. He left on the eventing boat for Portland, after exprel&lng bis apprecdaiflon of the beau tiful day provided by AHtorlans for his vlstt. TH'EJ OOULEGE YEAR. New York Tribune. The colleges are beginning work again for another year. Most of them. Indeed, have already done so, and the next week or two will see the latest of them swing ing into line. The great seats of learning in this city are entering upon the new year with especially favorable prospects. Cojum'bla will open the doors of its old home a week' hence; but with hopes and expectations fixed upon the new ha'.le which) are taking form on Morningslde Heights. The University is already at work in the new home In which it has for a year been settled; It has celebrated the iformal opening of the stately new pile on the historicaJ' Washington Square Bite, and will presently have a house warming and foundation laying on University Heights, on an Imposing scale. From other colleges, great and small, In all parts of the country, come tidings of doors opening to larger classes than ever before, of increased requirements for admission, of big'her standards and more extended ranges of scholarship, and, ot general progress and prosperity. It cannot be said that there is any marked recovery in the coKeges from the bJard times of the Hast two years, because none Was needed. That Is true, at least as far as attendance Is con cerned, and it Is a fact of more than common credit to the American people. College trustees no doubt felt the hard times Boref.y, and so .did many of tho Btudents and their fmallies. Yet the at tendance rolls were kept up at most in stitutions, so that Instead of showing a decline In years of panic ana depression they continued to show almost if not quite their normal increase. Nor was that because college students are as a rule so wealthy aa to be above the ef fects of hari times. They are not. The vast majority of them come from families of. moderate or even slender mea'ns. The keeping up ot coltege attendance In hard times, therefore, means that Americans do not propose to begin economies and re trenchments at the head. They may, In an emergency, wear plainer clothes, eat plainer food, and forego many things, but they will not starve the mind. What ever else may be or may not be done, the boys and glrtis must be kept in col lege. So the growth of the college army continued unchecked through the lean years, and this year's Increase Is ac cordingly only about normal. But It Is very general, and the now reerulta are reported to be of excellent quaOlty. The whoCe outlook is for a prosperous nad profitable college year. There Is something highly Impressive to the .thoughtful mind in the spectacle of so many thousands of young .men and women a'H over the 'land simultaneously beginning the work of acquiring liberal culture, and still more In the thought of the entire undergraduate bost. The col lege boys and girls form a considerable proportion of the whole population. They come from aCI places and all classes, and spend four years together in fraternity and equality, and In a goodly degree of liberty, too. A greater leveller of arti ficial distinctions of social rank a greater republiicanlzlng or democratizing force, and a greater power for harmony and union throughout the nation than our present college system Is scarcely to be imagined. Each new college year means a new campaign for manhood and wom anhood, for greater efficiency in business and higher IdiaCs In politics for the leav ening of the whole Hump of the nation vlth that spirit of culture and progress which has Its chosen home within the colilege wall's. There Is no date in ah the calendar more richly adorned with 'he rubric of excellence than that which marks the opening ot the college year. FACTS AND WINDERS. In an eastern matrimonial paper, an Oklahoma farmer advertises for a blonde under 20 years who does not "object to cutting corn." A hat worn by .Daniel Stein, the pro prietor of the American Artesan, in Chicago, saved that gentleman - from serious Injury and possible death. Mr. Stein was passing under the Lake street elevated structure when a heavy Iron bolt In the bands of a workman fell and struck him on the head, glancing ctff from the hat. In Australia the rabbits climb walls built at enormous expense, under the de lusion that they were "rabbit proof" and run up and hide In the numerous hollow trees as If they were oposaoms. Tender of wet feet here, In Australia they have overcome the prejudice, and take to the water and swim across rivers like water rats. A great glacier northeast of Avalanche lake, 'Mont., and perhaps the only one In the United States south ot Alaska, has been discovered, partially explored and photographed. A road will at once be laid out, so that such a curiosity as a real glacier can be visited by all who desire to look upon another one ot the wonders of Flathead county, Mont. E. F. Goff. the Chicago evangelist, says his faith in human nature has been badly shaken. Mr. Goff and family travel all over the country In a special car called the Good News, which, was placed at his disposal by Charles M. Crittenden, the New York philanthropist. The car was stripped of its silverware and fine China by a man who- had been converted and given a place as watchman. It's In town. It's the best; Won't burn nor roughen tho skin; Won't "yellow your clothes." You WW be wrwuWr surprised. Sorry you didn't know tt sooner. "' Tomson's 60a p Foam, largs packages. IT "My Boy Used to be a Good Boy." HUNDREDS OF WEAK ONE8 Burning Words However Were Spoken Against the Closing of Sew York Dives. Now York Tribune. "My boy used to be a good boy until he began to drink." It was poor old Bridget Murphy, of No. 604 East Fourteenth street, who was talking. She was saying it to a nurso In the Charity hospital on Blackwell's Island lust Sunday. The film was slowly closing over poor old Bridget's eyes. She couldn't have been sorry to die; tor she had little to live for. Her lines had fallen for many years In hard and cruel places; made Infinitely harder by the thought that she had nursed and tendeS and loved the boy who in one ot his drunken outbursts of passion had pound ed and kicked and beaten her until she was a pitiful spectacle ot wounds and bruises, and was taken off to the hos pital to dla. And now that it was all ending a tragedy Just as sorrowful and suggestive es if Bridget Murphy had been born In the purple and nad lived In lux urythe grim fate that had followed her softened for a moment and let In upon her fading sight the light of a tender memory. "He was a good boy," she said, "until he began tp drink." It' was after he began to drink that Martin Murphy ceased to be "ai good boy." First he became a burden to his mother, compelling her to furnish html money for drink out of her smalt earnings as a laun dress. Then he began abusing her In drunken fits until, as the poor old woman moaned there In the hospital, "he became a perfect devil." So when good old Brid get Murphy, on the night of September 2, In the kindness of her heart tho kind ness and gentleness which as national characteristics outshine even the pro verbial eloquence and persuasiveness of the Irish! people offered ahelter In her own home to some dispossessed neighbors, this boy Martin, utterly worthless through the Idleness that attends drunken habits, made vicious by the associations Which they entail, and bristling with the brutality engendered by fiery potations, rose up and demanded' that they should be ejected. Upon his mother's refusal to comply with' the order of the drunken brute, he turned upon her, beat her and kicked her and so maltreated her that when found later she was covered with wounds, with one of her ribs broken, and unconscious. And he used to be "a good boy," the poor old woman moaned as she lay dying of his brutality, "until he began to drink." So Bridget Murphy Is dead, and Mar tin Murphy, the "good boy until he began to drink," is in prison waiting to be tried for killing his mother. In Eaist Fourteenth street, in the neigh borhood of Avenue A where Bridget Mur phy lived, and by hard days' works made a home for Martin Murphy, her son, and furnished out, of her earnings monec for Martin to epend In the purchase of drink, which made a brute of him and took all pity out of him and sent him home at night ready to knock down and kick Into a shapeless jelly the best and probably the only friend he had on earth there are from three to four places In the block where the "poor man" can get the drink that was tho necessity of Martin Murphy's life. "The poor man" can get it at every hour of tho day or night and, until Commissioner Roosevelt began his high-handed Interference with the liberties of citizens by directing the enforcement of a law which the same citizens bad enacted,, could get It at all hours for seven days in the week an tne year round. The 1'aw closed them on Sundays in order that good boys like Martin Murphy might have a few hours rest from drunkenness and brutality, and that- good, hard working mothers like Bridget Murphy might have a little rest from the cruelty and hard blows inflicted on them by their own good boys who had learned to drink. But when the law was enforced Martin MurphyT personal liberty was infringed. "The poor man's clubs three or four of them to a' block- where Martin Murphy was accustomed to spend his waking hours diligently train ing hlmse?f to a mental and physical con dition in which he could go home and beat his mother Into Insensibility, were Chut up to him. Martin Murphy was doubtlem angry. So also was the distiller Into whose coffers Martin Murphy's mother's money fell. And a great political party Is holding a convention at Byracuse today, at which burning words will be pronounced Perry Belmont poured out some of them yester dayagainst the unspeakable outrage which has been perpetrated upon Martin Murphy and other "poor men" by the enforcement of a law which closes the "poor men's clubs" In East Fourteenth street, for a few hours In each week. And the convention will pass resolutions about It just as though there was nothing at stake except In the interests ot the men Into whose coffers Martin Murphy poured the little rill of his mother's hard earn ipgs for seven days in the week all the year round, well, Bridget Murphy deer, charitable, kindly old soul Is dead. It won't disturb her any more whether they keep the "poor men's clubs" open all the year round or not. And Martin Mur phy, who used to be "a good boy until be began to drink" It won't disturb him much, either he Is In prison waiting to be tried for killing his mother under the Inspiration of the motve power of the "poor men's clubs." Hut, after all Is said and done at Syracuse, It may be that a great many of the common people ot this state will conclude that, on the whole. If some small step can be taken toward hindering tho Martin Murphys from turning a constant and unceasing stream of Bridget Murphys' earnings Into the dlstl.lers coffers, and the Martin Murphys are thereby allowed a little time to think before they go home and beat their mothers to death, the damage to personal liberty will not be overpower ing. There Is, perCwpa, no pace In Ihe coun ty where the soil is more fertile than In the Lower NVhatcm country. It 4s sur prising to the traveler sifter wending his y ftvir tlw rii'Mi'Jmiri from li cry of O .'.'skanle, tnrougbt the Immense bodies of timber, to emerge from the thicket to the ibeauUlful valVy m the vicinity ot Miiit aind FUihhaWk. By bard toll and pers'lstent error tlhe eedtlera over there naive opened up nice vfamaj, orchards, and Irv every way touUded comfortable homes Ifor the future., There Is One draw back, (however. Their present means ot transportation prohibit ttie degree ot prosperity such' sturdy yoemen are en trfcXl to. If Ithe time ever comes when the NcihWetrl Valley Is traversed by a irtaltUroadi tlhlose people iwQH possess tlhe garden spot ot the county. Oregon Mist, ANOTHER (BREAK. TeHegraph, Lttne Again Grounvled Nigiht. About 7:30 clock ladt night the Wires of 'the Western Union TeCegraph Company were grounded todtween Westport and Oak Point, making Ithe second break In about ten Jay. Up ttt the time of going to press tHre'CUne Max ndt been repaired, hence 110 Associated! (Press news appears in t'hlij oiuornlng's Iteue. Ttieee breaks are beodmlrrff a CUttQe nonotonous, but prob ably cannldt be avoided until after the railroad Is completed, wthen, a cCear right of wlay wiia be Had to GotCe, ' STATE NEWS. Interesting Itemg Culled From Oregon's reading Newspapers. A carload of sbeen was ehlDDed from Corvial.'lUs Hast Tuesday to Victoria, 03. C, oy James juewls. The Klamath Star has again changed hands, CP. S. Conolly retiring and J. K. Haynes assuming control, J. ICIer Hardle (might Wave fired the so cialistic spirit of PorKand to greaeter en thusiasm Ut ihe had omitted tnialt "Admis sion, 25 cents," Ciime from h(a advance announcements, says the Telegram. The people of this country can get from home talant all tlhe calamity senmons hhey want wlJhout paying a cent for Wvein. and Jn these itlmeu of 'Ananjoildll' stringency two-Mta is too Qairge a pnice to demand for the. privilege of bearing an Imported agitator preach a dodtrine wttVlehi be neg lects to practice. The flrlst bale of hops arrived in Qer vars Saturday aftennoon, says the Star. ami a tlhe week they have been coming in at a lively rate. We regrelt not being attle to vmake a quotation, tout buyers claton that tlhey have no orders, conse quently rio offers to make at any price, There promises to Ibe mure hops than was anltlctpaltedi three weeks ago, as silmost every yard has been saved In this vicin ity. The same condition existB all over the New York market showing up no better than our own. Thb MkrcW term of the supreme court wil adjourn slno die today and on Mon day the October termn will be convened under the new law regutaltlng the terms of this Judicial body. The first case to bo beard Is that of Conn vs. McLauglin, Tuesday tHie court wil sit to conduct the examination Of the Caiw students and Wednesday Who appeal of the Portland Hibernian Society vs. Nenumbra Kelly is ito be argued. Yesterday Ralph Piatt, of iPorltlamd, wan penmanently admitted to the bar on motion, of E. N. Deady. Statesman. 1 . ; 1 ! ' 1 , Bettween the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock Wednesday imbrnlng, some Individual en tered the basement of tbe borne of County Judge Hubbard, who Uves in the vicinity of Park school. The noise made by ef fecting an entrance awoke tihe members of the housuhold and an investigation was instituted to ascertain the cause. By the time the judsre reaJdhod the scene of en trance, the fell low wios gone, talking with trim a flve-ga'.lon jar of peach preserves. The party who lis so Interested In tbe Judge's preserves is not positively known, but strong suspicion rests on a certain person anVi he Man soon be talon In by the poOlce. Statesman. Tho Statesman oif Saturday says: "The Columbia Rllver Jetty to new almost com- p.cted. 'About all there is now left for the government to do s Ito keep It in re pair. It as four and! a! Ihauf mites long, and Unas cost Hess (than t'wo irnmlon dol lars, though tthie original estimate was nearly 'three mEtones. It itjos enlili'cly done miiy wl3th the Columbia River bar, giving thirty ifcet of . waiter at low tide, and a safe entrance alt all seanones for any vessel tlhalt rides tlhe seas. The Jocks at the Cascades of the Columbia are nllso nearly ootmpT-ielteld. They may be ready for the pacwHge df boats by the first of the year. Work bus been palogm-slnir fa vorably at all the important Oregon Har bors. With! thleae gigantic projects out of the way, we may hope to see the Upper Willamette kept clear and the minor Im provements made Do the .waterways throughout the eftato."' The pebrCo of Salem are interested In the coneJtrniJciUbn of the proposed Astorla Goble railroad more than those ot any other oKy excepting only the people ot Ailtdtrla. Residents of the Capital City know that the success of tblalt enterprise meanls a railroad from Salem to the sea- It not two of them. Tth owners of the proposed Mne, when completed, who will be mibstantlalCy the same as the owners of the Oregon Central and Beaebtde lines, will not leaive these properties uncocr nested and undeveloped. They cannot at ford to do so. They wB get together by way of the TUUunook and Nehalem coun tries, and through Salem and the Bantlam country. Tihlls will probably compel the Southern Pacific to buVd from Sheridan to Astoria.. They rtiour.d do so without compulsion. Then SaXem, by securing a line from the west end of the big bridge to Derrv. nine mdles. will have a second ratroad to the sea. In view ot this in terest af our peoptb, the following latest railroad item from tihe Astotlan to print' cd: "Mr. Hulmmlankl experts to leave Sat urday rWnt (for PortfUind and Ylaquina and from there go to San Francisco. It Is understood that Mr. Huron wilt return before Mr. Hammond leaves and that ad the contracts for conruct!on of the t'n miles and Mis bridge across Young's bay will be then completed. It can also Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report be stated on good authority thalt Mr. Hu son will agree In biis coritraiot to have the bridge completed by January 1st, lSOd. It Woutd seem from this thalt lively times are In the near future." The lAlbany Hena'ld says: "Mr. A. B. Hammond and Manager Edwin Stone, of the Oregon Contra! and Eaatern railroad, ere In this city yesterday. Mr. Ham mond took the overland train for San Francisco. It is learned that his trip there is for the purpose of engaging more steamships for the Yaqulna-an Francis co route, which is rendered necessary by the increasing freight traffic over this popular route. It ks evident that while Mr. Hammond is looking after the As toria railroad, he In no wise Intends to neglect the O. C. and E. It Is likely that the service of river steamboats will be re sumed soon, which, will be an Important factor In extending their cheap rates to a larger territory. Mr. (Hammond stated to a Herald reporter that there Is more trafflc over the roadi than the two steam ships now running can handle, and that his trip to San Franctsco Is to strengthen this service. His company will' continue the work of Improvement on the road until it is In good condition, after which will come the work of extension. He saia that the steamers Hoag and Bentley are now being repaired preparatory to being placed on the Willamette. It Is evident that Mr. Hammond has abundant faith in Oregon, and will carry out bis plans both In regard to the O. C. and E. road and the road at Astotrla. The work on the O. C. and E. railroad drawbridge at this place is being pushed forward as rap idly as possible. The false work Is in place, and the chords for one span are framed at Mll'i City and wiM be placed position in a few Uays. The good weather is ueing taken advantage of, and the work pushed ahead as rapidly as nosslble. Over BOO men are at work on the road at va rious .plaices now." THE MAJESTY OF SERVICE. (Jrand Simplicity of the Episcopal Ser vice ExampWIled, Tho Aslojttui ihhls received from, a cor respondent tne following deta-'rlptlon ot tne beautiful service ait Uethsemane oiru.-cli, Minneapolis, iwlJh which the Pru- lestainlt Eipiicoi.ull national convention was opened Oct. 3rd. Ult is bellieved to be uie beat aocount of ithalt grand oocuu'lon nuloh. hau yet been puUilsllied: Sihon..'y alitor 11 o'dloek Prof. NbrorJing- ton, onuuuvist of Ge'thisemiane oliurcn, be gan to peali toe opening tjoiuJins of the prwestiionul Qvyima. and, the audience sub sided into U Uu'4.1 df expec'Cancy. Fnally in the doornlay appeareid tltve. procettional oflcku, u.owly aidivanictuig and pluming ais the people rose iwHiUi one accord to rever ence the uymi'odl. AgUiln tihle cross ad vanced, and tine voiced of the tlholr boys broke orilh into the prdcteelonaC tuptmn; "FonAiard, be lour wialtcJaword, Steps andi voices. Joined. ' Seek the things before us, ' Not a look boalnd." As the procession BJdvUinceil the melody swelled with tlhe deep voices of the men. The dhblr Ailed slowly Into their seats witiiln the dhlaincel, foUJawed by Ithe long line of bMrops. They were preceded by Itev, J. J. Faude, rector of Getheemane cburcih, by Dr. HultdhUns, socreitary of the house of deputies, Bind. Dr. Mart, secre tary of the house of blilhap3. As Uiey. reached the lal'tar rail tlhey Stood uo.de, and the Junior bishops, who dame next, a'jso hatted and glaive iway to the lr elders who nuiK'hed between two tinea up the dtvanoel tltallrs. KlrtU, tne majestic, stooping form of the apostdJlo Bisllixjp Whipple, celebrant of the communion, then tlhe fia frame ot ArchlbMibp Mlaiohray, primate of Canada, then BUeihop Coxe, the preacher, and. Bltalrop iNeely, ot 'Mlalne, to whom it f U 'to reiad ithe epistle. 60, two by two, the venerulblie iUIUhers ot Ithe church swept along in their ridh) symbolic vest menlia, Cong gdwns of 'wtMte, on mihkii ground hung the sombre IbUaJck, the regal scarlet awdi tihe Imperial purple, hoods and stoles of Varied dhairuicter and sig nificance, andi on every breast tbe (sym bol oif the cross. All 'filed to their seats, 12 ot the older onets remaining out&ide the dhanbea, sealtedi in line before the rail. Wlit'hi bowed heads they listened while Bkihop WlhtppCe repeated Ihe Lord's prayer, foCCoiwed by Itbe solemn collect, for the communion service: 'Ufinifchlty God, unit jo whom sill heailts are open, alH de sires known, and iflromi wham no secrets are held; cteainse tlhe Itihougthts of our heairits by the tafclptraitkm of thy boiy spirit, thiait iwe maiy perfectly love thee and worli'Wlly magnllTy Ithy thdly naime, through Jewus Christ, our lord," end from aid partis of tlhe bJoue resoupnded a fervent "Amen." Then foCtawed the Ten Oominiaindmenitis, recited by Bishop Whip ple, the people responding to eadh of liheim, "Lord have mercy uin us and In cline our hearts to keep thills low." The KviCe Blelson andi Gloria. Tib! were ren dered In miuisllct' numbers Iby the choir. The Nlcene creed, wWlehi b sometimes sung retsponslvely, was repeated by the entire congiregatlon. , , TH'E COUNTY COURTHOUSE., One of the principally Interested' par ties In the talked of scllreme ot removing the oourtlnouee to Flavefl, In speaking of the report in yUterd!a'y s issue of the action taken by the county commissioners in refusing to Cevy an alas es me nit for a new courthouse, yedtarduy eaild to an As torlan reipresentaltlive: "Wt41, I see you got ttiblll Of our ecfteme be(Vre we were reiady to have ft published. Did give K away to you while In a congenial motod, or Haw did you get it?" "You see it Is like tlhs, we have al ready gdt land donations raised to about $140,000, wl'tCs which to build a new coue'i houee on tihe other Wide df the bay, and of counse, we fefJ.'ciws, who owe property on bothi sides of the 'bay wouM naturally protcidt emillnst expending money on a new cauiltihouse on tWl side iwhon a much liner otructiure and one triors to the ad vantage of the county can be secured on the other side." , orncurr court. Gee Me Hansen w. Ohm's. Ail vis; verdict of $30 for plaintiff . TWis was a suit of toOO tftB" dlunui5( resuC'Wng from a dog Foard & Stokes Vs. B. Rasrmuaen; judgment by default for pfcuWtlff. State of Oregon vs. TimdtHiy Ccrbett; on trial. FT) lUHr- rr 1 1 - ,w