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. : - j ( a rAAAAAAAAAAn Tt ASTORIAN hat the largest LOCAL fr y circulation! the largest GF.NERALdrcula- tlon, and the largest TOTAL circulation of J all papen published In Astoria. t & TODAY'S WEATHER. - j Farecast for Oregon ind Washington, Jp t fair weather & VVTVVVVVV EXCLUSIVE TELEGRAPHIC PRESS REPORT. VOL. XLIV. ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY; MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1895. NO. 2G2. Three Important Things I I. L. OSGOOD, The One Price Clothier, Hatter and Furnisher. 60S and 508 COMMERCIAL STREET, ASTORIA, OB. kSTOlp PUBLIC LIBIMYI HEADING ROOM F1IKE TO ALL. Open every day from 3 o'clook to 6 :30 and 6:30 to 930 p. m. Subscription rates $3 per aDtinm. Southwest cor. Eleventh aud Duane Sta. School Books! School Supplies ! At Greatly Reduced Prices. A FULL LINE OF - Oregon Books Slates Pencils Tablets Pens Erasers Sponges Everything Necessary for School Use. Griffin & Reed. THRKR LOTS. In a desirable location, 2 blocks from High School.' A BARGAIN. CHOICE LOTS IN HILLS FIRST ADDITION. On the new Pipe Line Boulevard Just the place for a cheap home. A Block IN ALDERBROOK. STREET CAR LINK will be extended this summer to within 5 minutes walk of this property Will fell at decided bargain. , ACREAGE .-' ' ; ; In 5 or 10 acre tracts inniJa the oity limit, also adjoining Flavel GEORGE HILL. -471 BondSt., Occident Block, HILL'S REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE. . AUCTION SALE OP DRY Friday Afternoon, Nov. 22, at 2 p. m. SPECIAL, SALE -f FOR -f LADIES Any and all lines of Dry Goods will be sold, including DRESS GOODS, SILKS, LACES AND EMBROIDERIES, HACKINTOSCHES, CLOAKS AND JACKETS, RIBBONS, SKIRTS, SHAWLS, etc., etc. OREGON -.TRADING CO. 600 Commercial Street. KVEHT ON'E NEEDS A BtTflTTTES EDUCATION. Many yonag mtm aa4 ramen eaa spend bnt one or two years at school why net take a eaorae that ssa ft completed In that time? Th college leehides a short ENGLISH COURSB be ldss a BrHINESS and SHORTHAND COURSE. Tor eatslcoss address. C14 TAX 3111 sr. - - HOLKES BUSINESS COLLEGE. - - TVkTLkXtf 0. Is the Fit, Quality and Style in Men's or Boy's Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Eats, Caps, Boots, Shoes,, and all kinds of wearing apparel for the male sex. These three essentials I guarantee, as well as the lowest prices. They Lack Life There are twines Bold to fishermen on the Columbia river that stand In the same relationship to Marshall's Twine as a wooden Image does to the human being they lack strength life evenness and lasting qualities. Don't fool yourself Into the belief that other twines besides Marshall's will do "just as well." They won't They cannot GOODS. Re H Contractor Jacobsen Here Yes terday to Start Work. MONDAY MORNING THE DATE SET Cedar Piles, Tools, etc., Will Arrive Then-20 Dump Cars Ordered by Contractor Cor j. It is hardly possible to keep pace with the progress of affairs on the railroad. One change and hneprovement, or addition, follows another 1m quick succession, and before Aetorlana realise It, the railroad Mill be half built. YeSterviay Contractor Jacobsen, of Port land, iwtro la to drive the piles end do The dredging or foundations for Che draw of the Young's Bay bridge, arrived in Astoria to make the preliminary ar rangements for hrfa work. The first barge load of cedar piles la at Gobi a all ready to move down the river on Saturday, an will tal&o the itiwo pile drivers and ne cessary tools. The dredger will be sent down later when needed. Mr. Jacobean returned to Portland last night to give fin ail orders at that end and will arrive here again on Monday morning, when active work on the bridge will be com menced. A large force of men all who cam be worked to advantage; vlll be em ployed and .construction pushed to a finish. ' . ' Contractor Cory yesterday dispatched line eteaimer O. K. with a lot of supplies and 20 more men for the camps above Tongue Point. More men will be needed In the near future ami as rapidly as those are released from the water works and street contracts they will be added to the railroad force. In fact. Mr. Cory stated yesterday to an Aetjortan representative, that he expected to be able to take care -o all those who (ire here 'and who want wont, s well 'as uwriuj mlgMt come from abroad, If they dldfnot come In droves. ABtorians have the preference, but of Astarlas proper there are few who are not engaged in steady work and be fore the railroad work is completed no doubt many hundreds of men will have to be brought (Tom elsewhere. Mr. Cory is also arranging for the im mediate construction of twenty dump Cars to be used' on the tramway in the grade work. Those who do not believe that Improve- iments are in progress In and around As toria need only take a boat and go up and down the water front Tor ten miles, omd a drive through the city, to be con vinced. BENTSON DISCOVERED. Sent Back to Portland Last Nitfit on the Telephone. Harry J. Bentson, of the Tuifklsh Bath aepbrtment of tihe Multnomah Athletic Club, of Portland, wfho suddenly d'sap- peared from that oity Friday morning, was discovered in Astoria yesterday af ternoon wlhlle seekiins; employment as a pallor on the Fair launch', Lucero, Which is soon to go to San Francisco. Bentson lias been in Astoria serverul dbys, and In asking for work yeetetMay of Mr. JChn Bumke, the contractor, that gentle man directed Jiim to the Lucero, staitins; that he nmderstood she needed another sailor. Another gentleman from Port land, pfeesingat the timet recognised the man and the authorities were notified. Deputy United States Marshal Stuart wired the Multnomah club for Instruc tions, stating that he believed Bentson was Insane. The emower came to return him 'to Portlands and last nltfnt Chief Loughery eent him up on the Telephone In charge of an officer. POSSIBLE CANDIDATE. Dr. W. D. Baker Mentioned as Bu:cespor to Ellis. Yesterday's Oregonlan says that "tber Is little, if anything new, In ttve second district. It Is by no means certain that Mr. Charles W. Fulton will altow the uee of his name aa a congressional can didate to succeed Mr. Ellis; but Clatsop county has another possible candidate In the person of Dr. William D. Baker. He Is a Republican of the stalwart school, a sound money man, and possessed of ability to properly represent Oregon In the hn!!a of eongreas. Not only Republi can friends, but Democrats opposed to free conage of silver, are outspoken in his behalf, hut the greatest trouble He in the fact that Eastern Oregon wLl de mand .'m rtgf-t to name tih successor to Mr. Ellin. The Republicans of that section of the second district will not In etst that Mr. Ellis be re-oomtaiated, hut will clakm the nomination as their dua, and concentrate upon some one whose view upon the money question are In accordance with the platform of the na tional Republican convention and also one who will have the courage to stand by them." The Antwerp correspondent of the Liv erpool Journal of Commerce, writing un der the date of October 18 Jh, sent 4he following items wIMcb cannot fall to be Interesting to owners and (nastens of dhips. Alt the meeting of the Antwerp dhamber of commerce, held on the 14th Inst., the president informed the mem bers that it was very possible V.wt they might all look fonwaird to the abolition of the harbor light duties snd to the reduction of ..taxes on navigation on the 1st of January, 1894. The most energetic efforts are being made toy the chamber of commerce to bring about this much needed reform, as well as a reduction In the pilot charges. One member proposed hat the tax On navigation be reduced to 3( centimes per ion, and suggested a general assembly -for the discussion of Mis proposition.-' Although favorable ' to as great a reduction tea possible, the meeting constdered the sfhove propraltioa as premature, and resolved to srrtte t 1 tde city authorities to obtain a definite reply to when the changes already voted by Ve common council would be enforced. Tbia (Darning's Matin an nounces that yesterday the committee of commerce, navigation and finance met 1 at the Hotel de Vllle, where they re solved o propose to the common council, which twill assemble before the end of the month, a reduction of the dock dHargew from M to 60 oen times per ton. Thus tine oity will crake a sacrifice of 36,000 per annum in order to encourage and facilitate navigation t this- port, It 1s now hoped that the government will definitely abolish, the In arbor duties which I referred to. Thanks to the efforts of our leading grain merchants, Antwerp can now boast of ft magnificent grain warehouse whldh will be opened to com. merce on Monday next; This new ware house is situated at No. 49. the Letebre dock, and covers an area of 8,600 square metres. The capacity of Its reservoirs is 850,000 hectolitres. Under quays 49, 60 and 61 have been . constructed under ground galleries for ai distance of 600 metres. In which the endless bands which convey the grain from, the ship s side to the warehouse, where 1t Is raised to the top by elevators ond then sent into (he cone-ehaped reservoirs. .. Special reaer voire are also constructed With ven tlla'tors. Thr building Is fitted through out with' electric light, even to the gal lends, where pass the endless bands. An engine of 150-horse power and a gas motor of 60-honse power fumr.sti1 the motive power. Four hundred tons of grain can be warehoused In a day, and 600 tons can be reshlpped; 16,000,000 bricks were used for the building, which cost 1.200,000. Ifrancs, or 48,000. Trials have been made of the machinery and all working pants and! accessories, and everythndg Is ready to begin Operations on Monday next. Nearly all the share holders of the company are Antwerp grain -merchants. The work was com menced In 1893, and the expectations of 'those who originated the plan are now real led. It Is certain that 'the new ware- j bouse will gireatly facilitate the grain : business of the port, and In so doing will benefit 'the port of 'Antwerp generally. MAIRKET REPORTS. Ban 'Francisco, Nov. 19. Hops, 68c London, Nov. 19. Hops, Pacific coast, ids. New York, 'Nov. 19. Hops, steady. Liverpool Nov. 19. Wheat, spot, quiet! demand, poor. No. 2 red winter, 6s 2d; No. 3 red spring and No,-1 hard Manlto- "ha, stocks exhausted ; No. 1 California, Zd. Portland, Nov. 19. Wheat Valley, 53c; Walla, Walla, 4Sc. THE POET SCOUT ' Captain Jack Crawford With an Astoria Audience. A Curious bat Charming: Entertain' ment Given by a Yeteran Indian Fighter and Public Character. A curious figure stepped out en to the stage of Fisher's Opera. House on Mon day night. An abundant mass of flowing hair, half hidden under a slouch felt hat, blue homespun shirt, buckskin pants, and tighit-flttlng leggings the latter adorned with the stars and stripes worked in silk colors, a long, loose coat trkmmed with brown fur and gaudily set off with tassels down the arms and round the edges, an old leaither belt in which was carelessly stuck a bright nix tfrooter; this was the attire of a famous United btates clilaf of scouts Captain Jack Crawford He was billed for a "lecture," but his entertainment was anything but that. It was a mixture of pathos, poetry, humor and pletol play In about equal parts, with a good deal of gen I in shining out througih. all the performance. Captain Jack doesn't Introduce himself to his audience. He simply throws himself at Its head buckskin, revolver and all, and taikes the chances about falling In a soft place. To do him Justice he certainly -nows hcw to Interest people before he .ic't been In front of them a minute, and tw captured his audience Ul.e a: whlrl wln The entertainment might be term- I a "pa.no noma of surprtace," for no- 'iy, probably not even the speaker hhn can tell what is coming uexU It may be an original poem or a topical eor.., or again a pathetic etory of fron tier life told in a simple, manly way that sets one to wondering what he could have been laughing at the moment before. Then before you have had time to swallow the gulp in your throat he jumps along to a broad anecdote of an adventure in New Mexico, chips In with a charming story of a meeting with -London or Bos ton celebrities m a fathlonablo Regents' Park or Beacon street clubhouse, and rounds every thing off with a perfect fusil ads from hH six shooter. "" There is Instruction as well as amuse ment In Captain Jack's talks. The best of it is that he doesn't pose as a "bad" man or a deadly "Injun killer." but some how one knows that he Is listening to a brave man who can use bid gun In a tight place juat ss well as he doe on the stage, and who has faced danger more than once in his checkered career. Hie ontertainment Is well worth listen. Ing to. It Is ss original a hlmslf, and domes as a refreshing change from hack neyed melodrama, even to people In this benighted west who are all supposed to be scouts on a small scale, and to rave theme Irvee scalped several dozen abor igines apiece. BTCADT CUILTT. Maryevllle, Cal., Nov. , 1. The train robber, Brady, on trial fqr the murd'r of Bherift BoeMnJ, of Tehama county, when the Oregon Exprem was robbed, svaa this evening found gushy by the jury, and the penalty wais fixed at life hnprlaon- USNlt. His HWmftej, the RaJah-t-RaJgan. who visited she Werid's faitr at Onlcago, has lost DObllshsd in English the stories of hCa travels In Busops and Amertcsw Ifs in tewn. Ps the best; Won't born twr roughen the skin; Won't "yellow your clothes." Tou wit be agreeably surprised. Sorry you didn't know tt sooner. Tomeon'S Boep Foam, largs package. For our great Coats. Capes and FOR I FIRM Settlers in the Nez Perces Res ervation Orderly. THE EXPERIENCE OF AN EDITOR Lewiston Fall of Strangers Who are Filing- on Lands bnt All Is Harmony. Spokane, Nov. I9.r-A Spokesman-Review special from Lewiston, Idaho, says: The first man to make a legal filing of reseuwiatlon lands alt this office yesterday, waa D'tephlen Haeuair. He presented pow ers of attorney from three old soldiers. Captain Taimbtlnv Colonel iHam'mell, and W. C. Human. These are the promoters of the towns! te of Net Pence. Jacob Plpplnger, of Iceland, .was the tw Inner In an exciting race wltln a valuable farm for the stake. He iwonked upon the land one minute sifter 12 o'clock. He had re lays of caddie honses and rode more than 40 miles over a rugged mountain trail in two ihoura and twenty tnllmutes. He pass ed envious neighbors and1 excited stran gers in his mad ride and ftted without a hitch. A party who staked off mineral claims on Clearwater tried to rcoich Lewiston in a scow with oars to propel It. The craft grounded 19 sttllee from here and the men were compelled to wade out through the ice waiter waist deep anu walk to town. A party from lths city with Editor Alvord, of the Tribune, at the head, re ceived a pointer of some twenty Indian allotments that had been concealed In a body near Sweetwater. Utile company re paired to the scene In a body and met at the rendezvous to distribu te (the fine quar ter sec won aimong Uiemeervea. Before the preliminaries were completed a horseman appanaed from beJhilnd a knoll with rifle aim! revolver .ready for uee, The stramgor looked imavcfh tike the Ideal desperado and winen he oaune up he waved hie hand and said: "TThte land le claimed. If one of you d d sets foot upon ft I will puma you full of hOteB." The Indians did not take kindly to the Idea of being outnumbered by whites upon the domain they have owned so long. It never before dammed upon them wlhat It irroeant to dispose of their posses sions unaer prewaujing conditions'. Many of thielmi are fololhvlng the whites around and the presence of 'the natives has oc casioned uneasiness on the part of stnan gens. There is mo reason, however, for OMtrudung the Nes Perces. TThe city is full of strangers who haive come In to file on claims, but the best of order pre vails. There was much excitement over the selection of the townelte of Nes Perces. A public meeting was held by 200 men wfho desired to make entries of town lots. TWey refused to accede to the demands of tthe orttftnial promoters of the scheme, and formed In line and marched Six mllles west to another location. This Willi perhaps result tn a rival town and consequent strife. FATE OF THE 'BROM CARLO. Palftictfars Just Received of the Collision. San Francisco, Nov. 39. Particulars of the loss of the Italian bark llrom Carlo, oft Cape Horn, have reached this city. The 'bark collided iwithi the British ship Oondor, land It 1s now known that not only was the Brom Carlo sent to th bottom, but only, four of her nineteen men were raved. Three men were res etted from the sinking bark Brom Carlo twhen the actdent occurred, and the fourtn was picked up by a pamtng ship and brought to ValparaUo. The oftlcero and fifteen sailors sank with, their chip. THE) STATE CAPITOL. Bida Opened for Waishiington's New State House. Olympla, Nov. 19. The bids for the erection of the eupemtructure of th Washington million dollar Capitol were opened Itoday and a decision from the capftol commission Is expected tomorrow. The bidders were D. W. fltarrett. Port Townsend, John Keenan, Spo kane, 1944,000; Oscar Huber, Spokane, 1986, 645, with an alternative bid of ISG6.M5; Heustls & 'Barrett, Olympta, $916,000, and an alternative bid of $878,300, which give Huber the advantage by 11,000. Starrett's bid was thrown out because not accom panied by a bond, and Keenan's as well as all the other straight bids, count foe nothing because they exceed the $930,000 available for caipltol punpostS, a $70,000 has been expended heretofore on the foun dation. NIOAireAOaJA CANAL. Ex-Mln1ster Bmttliv Says It Will Mjike 'is aw yonc the 'Emporium, of Com merce. New Yoric, Nov. lD.-The following Is a synorsis of the speech, of Charles Emery Smittn, lex -minister to Russia, at th OlMumbelp of Commerce tonight. "In a tvundred years a marvelous growtn has advanced our country from a. most nothing until today It possesses more than one fifth of all the wealth of the 'World. "In two deoxdeo, from 1870 to 1890. the three mighty power of Ore at Britain France and Germany, all combined, with tfhelr 125,000 of peopJe, gamed In wealth 137,000.000. while 'the United States alone, wn'ti its so.ouo.oijo people, gdfned $338,000.00. 'His United States ams two-thirls ss much a all the other three out together. Their debts are piling up; burs are melt ing away. Their taxes are rising; ours are Vailing. Their productive force are stripped for arms and armaments; ours st the p.'ow, tire for, the loom and th xfhange. . Kngiasd's. taxes, ar 10 per cent of 'her-ernirHcs;., France's 13 per resit; Germany's 1014 fr cent, while ours are on'.y $ pw om, lw are only st th "weshold of our development. The Nice. iiria canal, lonstructed by American onltsl, and owing allegiance only to ATf-rtcan control, will open through the con.--en t a highway of th sea, of which New York, wresting tW first s?eptri sale of Ladies, riisses and Children's Jackets. Sale now. on, from London, will stand tike another Venice of earlier and narrower days, as the focus and emporlutn of the world's wide commence between the Orient and the Occident." ... EVERYBODY TRAVELS. . , Thotrsainds Going to California on- Cheap 'Rates.' . Portland, Nov. 19.-Ae the result of the low fare between Portland and San Fran cisco, brought about by the rate war be tween the Southern Pacific and the O. R. and N. Co., about 600 people teft this city tonight for San Francisco. - TVw Shlaste. speolai over the Southern Pacific, was sent out 1n two sections, car rying SIS first class and second cias pas sengers. The first section was made up df three 'Pullmans, one baggage, and on day ooaohv the second section of thirteen tourist sleepers, one day coach and one baggae car, that being the longest pas senger train ever sent out of tfhds c.ty. line met section tort at 10 p. rth and the second Af teen minutes later. The regular I'araroroia Express was eimost deserted. The steamship State of California left at 8 p. m with IIS first-clans, 126 second chlss ana nay reservations at Aatorta. Oots were spread in every available spot on board, and more than fifty persons were rerusedi passage. . .. .:. j TRrPLB MURDER, " Horrible Tiiagedy Near Brownsville, Or egon, Bnowmevltte, Or.. Nov. 19. This after noon about 4 o'clock, at the farm of 8. T. Tempi ton, three miles east of Browns ville, John Montgomery, (Ms wife and D. B. McKercher were found murdered by unknown paroles. Montgomery was found lying on hta book In the front yard near picket fence, about 20 feet from th Mouse, with) the top of his head blown off. McKercher was found in the sitting room lying on his iface, shot In this left side of the head, a part of the skull gone, and Montgomery' rifle lying across his legs, evidently placed there by the murderer. Mrs.- Montgomery was found In the din ing roam lying on her face. Shot in the back. All were evidently fleeing from the murderer. - -. The cause of the murder it unknown. The excitement Is Intense. NO one but the murdered people know who had been on the premises at the time the tragedy was committed - Tive coroner was not! fled, but no evidence Jhlas been taken yet. Jl Abdul Hamid, the Dread Ruler of Turkey, Is no More Dispatches Only State , the Bare Fact Without Giving- Particulars. Special to the Aatorlan. BerMnv. Nov. 19.-A dispatch, received tiler from, Soflai, DuJgaria, says: The sultan of Turicey, Abdul Hamid, has been, poisoned. -No particulars have been' received; . THE) FIGHT WIDENS.,., Northern Pacific and Pacific Coast 8. S. " Co. Are In. ' San Francisco, Nov. 19. The ' Pacific Coast Stieamship Co. has been forced into the rate wur now being wiotged between the Southern Pacific and the O. R. and N. It was found that pasengers who would ordinarily have gone to Seattle, Tacoma and pther Sound points on the Pacific coast steamers were buying tickets on 0. R. and N. vessels to Portland and going tftienos by rail to the Bound. , Today ithe Pacific Coast Steamship Co. made a rate of $8 first-class and $6 second class to all Puget Bound points. Like wise the Northern Pac4fk has been forced to give the Southern Podlflc a rat of $5 on 41 passengers (Prom Puget Sound points to Portlands so that Southern Pa cific rate to the Sound from San Fran cls3o is $15 as compared with the steamv ahiVp rate of $8, ' J :.i " NEW FLYER.' First ..Train on the New Schedule from Chicago to San Francisco. Ohkjago, Nov. 19. The reports from the overland limited which left Chicago In Its Inaugural trip via the Union Paclflo and NortHwestern line Sunday show that a much dhorter sdhedule Is capable cf be ing mid a. Trie train reached Ogden three minutes ahead ttt time itoday and if the train arrives at fian Francisco on time, the passenger from New York will have cover! the dwance aoross the continent In four days and four hours. KILLED BY A STREET CAR. Portland, Nov. 19.-4W1Ille Ooldremer. sged four years, worn run over and killed by an eloctrlc car at the corner of Third and 'Market streets, this evening. , The cftilld atempted to cross Ithe track in front of the car, whidhi was going down Trade, and the motorman waa unable -to stop until the life had been crushed out of the boy. The late M. Stambufoff, tA.e Bulgarian mlmtr who was muroVrred, was a great onllecteor of postage Mamr. He had a coKection of about 10,000 stamps, many of them of fneat valus. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Govt Report OA .csciurcav pyrin SHANAHAN BROS. Delivered Before the National Conservative Union. READS A MES8AQE FROM TURKEY He Says That England la Not Alone Responsible but All Nations Must ' Bear a Share of the Burden. Brlgti'ton, England, Nov. lO.-iLord Salis bury, prime minister, addressed the an nual conference of the National Union of Conservative asodaitions here today and said, among other things: "Allow me to say a word in answer to 'th. very J distinguished ' distant cones pendent, if I may term him so, who re quested me to make a statement In a epeeahi to the country. This correspond ent Is no less a personage than the Sultan of Turkey. Nothing would have Induced me to read this august tnessa bars ex cept the distinct commands of the sender. In that speech at the Guild Hall on the occasion of the Lord ACaiyorAi dinner, I fx pressed the opinion that I had little con fidence that the reforms promised for the Turkish mplre would be carried into ex ecution. The Bui'tan sends ins a message saying that this statement has pained him very much, as the carrying out of these reforms Is a matter already de- elded utn bv him. and fimhr ifmt h is desirous of executing them as soon as posible." f .4 r -. ,(.-, . Lord Salisbury then continued: "These last iwOrds will acquit me of any Impro priety In what I acknowledge to be a very unprecedented course the reading of a message of this kind at at nubile meeting. 1 Oould not abstain from doing; what 1 have done without discourtesy to the po tentate frcmK whom this trieesiaige 1s Is sued. Orealt Britain fonrns fart o( con' carted Europe, whtdh, toe resolved, far" as it acts, to act iwitn unanimity. Soma. persons seem to imagine that , the people of Great Britain, can dlepose of all decisions of all 'European powers. This is crediting us wttthi more Influence than we possess. Whatever Is done must be done iwlth unanimity, and I can only speak In behalf of one of th powers whikrit will concur tf the powers do con cur, hi any action wCiidh may be taken, I will not atlmit that the responsibility for any decisions taken rests entirely or mainly on 'this country. The responsibil ity rests upon us and upon all powers in common." ' ' Al NATCR'AIi ICE SOX. Remarkable Discovery In a Hillside Near Bte. Genevieve. (Red Bud Special to St. Louis Republic.) About fifteen rnUe west of here, and the same same distance north- of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., on the banks of the Mis sissippi" river, Is a natural curiosity, be- no. less -tlwun a refrigerator formed by some unexplained law of nature. A short time ago Parmer Wallace, on whose land this was seen, dug a cellar. or grotto, In the ehaley hillside, wi.iers the rocks are thin and brittle, In order to get a storage place Cor imlR and ether edibles. After digging back a fsw feet he was surprised to find layers of ice between the layers of rocks, and as it was cool inside and promised to be more than he expected in the way of a re frigerator, he tVriished It up by putting In a doer, 'He finds by trial that every, thing placed UnSMe, such as meat, milk, fimHts or other perllhjable articles, keep perfectly for any length of tibne. Dur ing the hottest weather vast summer milk stored In this cellar would make the teeth ache to drink It. Mr. O. V. Kettler, of this cMy, says It Is ai wonder. and , not at an like a common cellar, but a veritable dee box, made so by ths natural See forming Inside, now 1t Is not known. Miss 'Paries the greait . authority . on cooking, says the Royal is as good as any baking powder can be. Desiring beet results, tt follows thlat She uses It. ASTORIAN MENU FOR TODAY. Braakfast. Fruit. Hominy Grits, Cream. Calves' Liver, Fried with Bacon. Fried Sweet Potatoes. Raised Gt-lddle Cakes. Honey. Luncheon. Clam Fritter. White and Brown Bread, Butter. Hot Molasses Cake. Cocoa. Dinner. Oyster Bisque. . Filets of Bole, Normandy Sauce. Baked Beana , , Beef au CI rail n. Rice Fritters, Snow Sauce. . Coffee. The American tWp SusqueiiiMvna, wluVh arrived from New York last Wednesday night, has 1.600 tons of raH for ths Val ley road aboard. - Next 'Monday th lighters nrlll b alongside, and as quickly as they are loaded the steamers of the California Navigation and Improvement Company will tow them," to Stockton. Ihe Susquehanna made a good average trip, but -em got in none toe soon for the rallfesvi people, a rails are now in demand. -Chronicle. N h TTTv 1-J J-L-l H ft 3