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'"SAVE TIME 4 CT O J wM A $ ttl&Astora An M' rK&jA.flJa IsfxjJ I L 1 I VSM'Sffe 11' J&kP JjtV' L wtl iLA aiu tha th,. tMn , ICXCLUSIVIC ITICIvICGHAPIIIC PRKSSCREPOfiT. VOL. XLVI. AST0K1A, (RK(;().N: SUNDAY MOUNINO, MAKCH 28, 18!7. , NO. 6'J GRIFFIN St REED City Book Store Stationers & Booksellers All the Leading Newspapers and Periodicals Kept on Hand LEGAL BLANKS AND WHY DO WE KGEP--w- RoW. Stewart & Sons' Irish Flax Salmon Twine BBCAUSB It Is the Best, the Strongest and Longest-Lasting Twine Made . . . FOARD & STOKES CO. Dm tor In Cork and Led Line, Hanging Twine, Load; .Im, 0r, Oarlock, Boat Cooking Utenalla. Sail Drill. Paint. Boat Nail. Etc., Etc. SELF STARTING HERCULES ll-HIrtlhK 60 Hone Power Murine Kgli. roil i'AICTICt I.AH AIMIHBM HcrculcH Goh Bngltic Works OS aOMR T.,N fHANC'lat'O UNION MEAT COMPANY Shield Brand Hams, Bacon, Strictly Pure Lard ALL KINDS OF CANNED MEATS UusraatM lb HmI la th Market CORNER FOURTH AND (1LISAN STREETS - TORTLANP. OREOON The Columbia Iron Works .... ROUNDRYMEN .... Blacksmiths, lYIaehinists, and Boiler-makers Comer Klahlvanth Ml. and franklin. At. Ross, Higgins & Company GROCERS and BUTCHERS AMTUHIA AND ISAMT AMTOHIA CHOICE KHKSH AND SALT M BATS R. L. Boyle & Co. Real Estate, Loans and Investments H23 Commercial Htroet, Antorln The Palace Cafe... 4 Is the Place for a Good Meal-Eastern Oysters W. W. WHIPPLE, Proprietor Astoria Roofing & Cornice Co. ' " 34 ' Gravel. Tin nd Slate Fooflnf nintu ctrfct Asphalt Pavln for Basements, Sidewalks and Streets niniH fclKtLl Asphalt Coatlni on Tin and Shlnile Roofs 34 Repairing of all kinds of Roofs Clarkson & yclrvin LONG FIR PILING Promptly Furnished Astoria Aspnaii & Koonng to. zxzzzr AU Work Roof Painting .d Repairing L.-wr "' J. A. PASTABBND General Contractor House. Bridge and Wharf Builder OFFICE SUPPLIES GASOLINE ENGINES Vain gasoline or cheap dtatlllat oil. Knainva oonneot4 dlrsct with pro Poller ihafl. and no nolay, really broken lovl gear uaed In rrr motion. New tpwk device: no Internal prtng rlit-trixWa t" burn out Kn4 fur testimonial. We are building Ihme nw yle, ilf star.lng marina engine In all alaia up to ?oo ru.r powar. Evrry engine fully guaranteed. Boom Company 216 and 217 Chamber of Commerce Portland. Oregon Guaranteed - N. JENSEN and R. 0. HANSEN - House Moving Tools for Rent THE SMITH'S POINT ROAD YET EXISTS Wns Scut l.i(iilly YaiiiUd IJy the Court anil IsStlll n County Komi. cirv can now i.Mi'itovi: n Voik da C't.aiaicaitd tadcr tkc Dircctioa id tke Committee ua Street' and rabile Way. i 1ty workmen, un.l-r th jdlrm tl-.n f tlu o muni it i.f tln t'ounrli on tr-i ami uMI' way are .repairing thr wtr-t. or county r-.! t Hmliirii Point. Ttw new ahlpyar.1 of tin- A Prl. Iron Work, now being i.tith llnhol at the olil rouiul hoiiw, .will tw nmi'-iuhlr by t'xun. l th. milk man ami formtmi from that aw'tion ran I Un In iMy. Ttv wlirl luil for th nmt.-ttuJ. r- fi-rr1 to In th- civaMioilw.' folli.w Ilia. cvrrl tiukt.-iiaj f'.r ihr work. mt it.ut 100 planlca l tha Hinlth'a 1'iilnt fa1. 1'ndrr thr lm.r.-a"..ri that It aa all f'.r that rwl. anl that It a a r-m oHntinj.-tM o-pr prtvatr prK1y. t)u waya ami iiM-aui fum. inllt,. pinm ttw aJlonaiii'.-, aiid th. pro.rrty uwrwra atopim tha work that hiul Iran rmmnotl a fw dayaalmr. It awiu that tlx opinion 'of thr cy atioray, on hl-Jt Uiat iimiiiitt aixl. waj, a wtiii.U niicaUw n-ply to thr quratPm hthi-r in rlty ulil k-irally 1ntn.ve & private nuJ. but did nt att wlarttu thr road In (juiwtkm priat r public. Tht full trxi of Ui" Ivttrra 3nd opinion brtow rt tha matur at rmf Mr. F L. Tarkw. Chairman on Sttveta and Tubllc Va,- City of Atorla rnr (fir: Trt rulltlofi icrantlnir you ovtr 30,000 fwt of lumlwr for th Krmrh'a fwnt Itdnay la Hltcal and without authority of the cluu-tr. and will be rwbIAl by nip; and la not In th InKTtwt if miinny i" Jiwlrv to tho taJtpiiym. I huw a wrluon ojilubm of thi lt y aitonmy In whl. h hv aay th. linpriv-m.nt Ik without authority f tho cluuinr anil rltiu-ly illfiml. ( It wtll m--iltatr tlx- rxfi tliuirv of aJKiut J.vm). Youra rti-wiMitfully. JAS. W. VKU"U. MrmU-r of tl City Council. AKt.lii, March ts'.'T. OPINION OF CITY ATTOIINKY. AataiK Or.. March 24. 1S7. H'n. F. I.. I'urkor, Chairman Com mitter m Ptreeta and rublli- Way: In rrtly to your rtueat an to whether there la a lefrol county tiil amund Pmlth'a Point, on iroMrty owned by the rondnaula Iml A Trust Company. I bea: k1)! to atihmtt the followlnit rvixrt : I have exnmln.il the rooortlii In the offloa of the County Ckrk. ami tlnd that In 1SSS a county roiul wax laid out and located around Smith' Point. The Mutwiuent proceeding lire Im matcrlnl. aji the owner of the prop erty romliel IrunJ oounty road, a In lSS.t they petitioned the county court to vacate the county nd. The order of th county court recite th fiu-ta aet f.M-th In the etltlon. and far aa thrt re'onl ahowa. the county road wa duly and legally vawted. S.e protxyvlInK" County Court, book S, paw It la CMiteiull tlwit the petition wan Inaufllclent. but a the petition and all the palter fllel In the county court ha.vo dUw.Mrit, I Vun unable to baae an opinion thereon. Fulton Rroa. hv prepared an oplnlnn for the As toria Jron WiwkM, which acts f.nth tho pmrmllnira, and In In effect that tho procewllnirs viu-l.ln the county Pind were null and void, and that the county road irtlll exlata. The petitions and papera nt belna: on file In the office of the County Cl.Tk, I am un able to pan upon that queotlon, but If. aa stated In the opinion of Fulton rtroa., the proceedings were lllt'gaj, then there wan no k'gal va cation of the county road and It still exlHta an a oounty rond. Without these pnpera I ant unable to give an opinion aa to th legality of the proceedings, or ail to whith-r thr I In fact a ooutvty road around Smith's Point. So far aa the nitird of the County Court ahowa In the journal entry. If It states facta the oounty rood ha Imvii vacat ed. Put an the original papers are not on file, I have no data from which to form an opinion. Respectfully submitted. C. J. Cl'RTIS, City Att.n-ney. F. L. Parker. Chairman, Astoria, Oregon: You requ.vte.1 an opln lun aa to whether or not a county road exkiU over What is srenerally known and colled the Smith Point rood, loading from the northooat cor ner of the 8. C. Smith donation land claim around, .to Huatler A Aiken' Aatoria, alona; the Columbia river and Young'e bay. I have examined the record and find that on September !9th, 1881, pur suant to a peoltk-n oid olh.-r necee aitry pmceedlnica, the County Court laid I bin road out and b-'lHid It In In a county r'nd, A pctltlim was 111. 1 asking Che tounly to open It up. Viewer werv apxHntl Mid tlw rd wa proHrly aurveyed and the r")"rt t the vlewr was proiwrly ni.-d. As to wh.'fh.T "r not ttw, statute was atrirtly followixl n that proceed ings la rerwlcni'd umircejumry by the sut.iHiu.tit prwllng. . On the H!h day of January, 1M. Jiitn- Taylor and Bther Taylor. hl wife, executed a rtred to Clataop coun ty cnveylnf and de.Uca.tlng to the county for rid puri""' a srlp of land 40 feet ld running frm th n.n'thenirt corner of the donation land claim of 8. C. Hmlth. Tlie d"M-riti'rn of this dedication Is I'b-ntlcol , with the aurvey of the Hmlth'a Point road b-adlng from the nrthea( corner of the S. C. Smith f I.. C. tn th lUth day of Feliruary, lM. tlie County Court accepted thla dedi cation and the deed waa recaded on that dau In toiik 12. page 247. rec ord of dl. Iter on the some parties appeared bef.aie the court and executed another deed, but It did not affect th deed ex ecuted In January. ISM. above referred to. ao for aa the legality of thla road la concerned: It only mode aome alight change In the location of It. This road boa been used continuous ly since It waa laid nut In 181. On December 4. 1S9J. I 'And In book . pare W2. County Court Journal, that fhe County Court made an at tempt to vacate thla road. The record shows that the matter came on for hearing on the pelhlon of twelve houw-holdera who resided in the vicin ity of the above named road, and also upon the pet Ml on of the Penlntular Iand A Trust Co. The record also howa that notice that a. petition would be filed on that day .had been publl'brd four we.ka. as by law re quired. I am of the opinion that thla pro ceeding at tempting to vacate the road In controversy la null and void. It l the unlyersal holding of our curt tl-at Jn tb matter of laying out. vocittlnir ami otahllehluff county roads, the county courts are of In ferior and limited jurisdiction, and their rworda must affllrmatlvely show; 1. That Jurisdiction was ol.tained over th subject matter. The statute requires. bef'.re any county road can be vacated, there must first be filed a -tltm slgn-d by twelve house holilnrn residing In the vicinity of the road to be vacated. 2. Accompanying that petition must I legal proof that notice has been given by advertisement posted at the place of holding County Court, and also In three public ploeea In the vicin ity of Mild road, thirty days previous to the presentation of such petition, notifying all persons concerned, etc., that npicatlon will be 'made to the ald court at Its next aeiwion for va cation of eokl road. I'pon presentation of auch petition and proof that notice has been given, the county court 1s then required to appoint three disinterested house holder a viewers, who are required to vfw the roivd and make their re port at the next term of the court thereafter. At the next term of the court all persons Interested have a right to re iinstrnte. The record In this case wholly falls to show that the petition for the va cation of the road was signed by twelve householder. It fails to show that notice was Riven thirty days pre vious to the presentation of said peti tion. No viewers were appointed; no report was mode by them; the repwt was not publicly read on two different days of the court. There are a number of other objec tions equally fatal, but the 'above, rn my Judgment. Is entirely sufficient to render the proceedings vacating said road null and void, and the same Is still a county road. Very Respectfully Submitted, O. C. FCLTON. There are other streets which need repairing, to save the city damage suits, such as Itoiul street, between Sixth and Twelfth and Commercial between Sixth and Eleventh, and It is understood that 'us a mere matter of safety neossary reixilra will be undertaken at once. WATER FALLS AT MR.MPHIS. M.imphis, March 27. The gauge here tonight register) 36.4 feet, a fall of two-tenth of a foot. The condition is all the more favorable because the river Is falling aove. The serious phase of the situation has been trans ferred to Greenville, Helena and points couth, aa the river Is slowly rising at thewe place and great' alarm la manifested. Address with 21 cents In one-cent stamps, to cover cost of mailing only. World's Dispensary Medical Associa tion, Buffalo, X. Y., and get a free .-opy of the "Medical Adviser." Walt for the "Huaoby," the beat blcyole on earth for the least money. 40 and 150. F. L. Parker, aeent. "WHO PAID THE TAX ON JIN PLATE" Lively Exchange of Personalities Be tween Grow and Vamlier in House. VERY LITTLE I'ROCREStf MADE Tarill Dill Will Have to tt Coanidercd I Niijht Stsii. Raaktag lad Cirrcacy Other Capital St Waemlngton, March 27. The progTtMi of tlx- house on the tariff Mil today was vn slower than ytTday. Only live nwwe page of the U2 pages of the bill were disposed of, making 14 page In all. In two out of the five days allowed for consideration under the flve-mlnute rule. At thla rate only 31 pages of the Mil will be dla pt.d of before the bill comes to a final vote. Only a few amendments were adopted today, each being an arrx'ndrrwnt of the way and mean ounamlttee. All qumtiona Involved on the tariff, with occasional excursions Into the reaima of financial theories, furnished fruitful topVsi for the mem bers. Fully two hours were, spent In the dicusskm of whether the for eigrmr or lite consumer paid the tax. This quest l.m bids fair to consume much more time before the debate clowns. Italley. leader of the opposition, was absent almost all day, and Richardson and McMillan bore the brunt of the hard fighting. The democratic policy, o far as it has been disclosed, seems to be to attack at every point, making trusts the especial object of assault. Republican are trying to advance the consideration by refraining from de bate, but they are forced by the ot tocka of the opposition to defend their mr,nrw. If more progress Is not made night session may be held next week. Pnring the dlscussl.m concerning the duty on hide Hopkins said there waa no demand for such a duty. Walker explained that there wore few hides Imported except those used for sole leather, also that the duty on hides would be itt little benefit to the farm ers. If the duty on hides would in crease their prxiuctlon In this coun try, he said, the republican eide would be unanimously in favor of such a duty. There was a sharp exchange of personalities between Grow and Vandlver. The former was explain ing how duty on tlnplate had estab lished that Industry In this country, and he and Vandlver became Involved In a personal controversy over th question of who paid the tax arising from an Increased tlnplato duty. Simpson, after remarking the con spicuous port played by Crow during the stirring days of the. wtit. said that " It was sod to see him now defending trusts and combines whose purpose was to enslave the American people' Simpson, referring to the questkm of free hides, said that the duty on hlh would be of more im portance to the farmer than all other duties In the agricultural schedule. It would mean on Increase of $1 apiece on every one of 5.442.000 hides taken from the cattle Slaughtered lost year. Paine insisted that Simpson entirely misunderstood the question. The hide Imported did not come ,lnto competi tion with American hides. The former were used almost exclusively for sole leather. The debate then branched off to the Iron schedule. Wheeler and Cox as serted, that tlv southern Iron industry did not wont any protection. Dalzell asserted that Iron ore was being made and coal was boing mined In Tennes se by convict labor. The store sys tem prevailed also In Tennessee. Mc Millan denkxl that the scrip system prevailed In Tenner. All the protec tion Pennsylvania couli pile up. he sold, would not save the Pennsylvania Industry. It was the South which was driving Pennsylvania out of the market. ' "We have only Just begun," ho said. "We propose to make it hot for you, not only in dron, but in cotton man ufacture, and we wxm't ask the gov ernment's aid. either." .(Democratic applause.) Newlands, after delivering aome remarks 1n favor of increases on several articles, warned the "allied forces" of silver, as he termed them, that they must allow the widest diver gence of views on the tariff and other questions If they were to live In har mony. "Once we can organize the friends of silver." he soiil, "nlne tentha of the people of the United States will be with us." DANKINC. AND CURRENCY. Washington. March 27. Representa tive Walker, of Massachusetts, today introduced two bills relating to bank ing and curency. The first bill pro vides that hereafter no national bank shall be required to deposit bonds to secure circulation, and the circulating notes ore to be issued up to the amount of the unimpaired capital of the bank. The same reserve 1 re quired for circulating note aa for Individual deposit. The cash reserve shall be In specie and at least nne holf of It In gold. The other bill pro vldc for the laue of I75O.0O0.OOO of bond under the act of January 19. 175, running from two to ten year and drawing two and a half per cent Interest. The proceeds ore to be used In redeeming and cancelling outstand ing United States legal tender notes, treasury not- and allver certificates. The bill further authorise the sale of silver bullion and silver dollars In the treasury at the market value when ever) such silver dollars cannot be kept In circulation as money. The proceeds of the sale of the silver shall reduce the Issue of bond to that extent. BLAYDEN TALKS. Washington. March 27. Representa tive Hlayd-n, the Texas democrat who will vote for the tariff bill, sold today: "The district convention, upon the platform of which I made my race for congress, demanded a tariff upon Imported cattle, bide and wool. I promised the people of the district that If they elected me I would vote for free silver and against free wool and hides, and I shall cast both votes when the opportunity presents Itself." APPLICANTS FOR OFFICES. Washington. March 27. Sine the change of administration over 80.000 applications for postofflcee have been filed In the postofflce department The number is said to be somewhat smaller than four yean ago. Up to the dose 'of buslnes today the appointment division of the Interior department has recorded l.OOf. appli cations for presidential positiors un der the Interior department. LEVEES BREAK. Helena, Ark., March 27. Water la rushing through a large crevasse a mile and a half north of Modoc, with tremendous force, tearing up trees and hurling them as if but small sticks. The river here has risen two inches today, and tonight stands at SO feet, Ave feet above danger line. ......... . CHEERFUL NEWS FROM ASTORIA Salem Statesman. , "It is most satisfactory to the on looker, a well as to the citizens and property owners of Astoria, to see the promptness with Which the city coun cil Is meeting the railroad company in the movement for the development and establishment of future business in thl9 comunlty. The Introduction In the council Friday night of an ordinance providing for the improvement of Twentieth street from Exchange to CVnunercial. and the approval of the engineer's plans for the extension of Commercial street from Seventeenth, means that as soon as the railroad has finished the depot and depot grounds, and the track la laid In to It from the present terminus at the O. R. & X. dock, ample facilities will be afforded the public for reaching the de.Hit. Not only this, but on every hand, both in Astoria proper and the outlying suburbs, new building are either In course of construction or under contract; numerous exchanges of property have taken place, and oth. era are In prospect; manufacturing enterprises of various kinds are under consideration: the new shipyards of the Astoria Iron Works are well un der way; transcontinental railroad con nections have already been made by the new road, and if ,'the people of the city push the good work along and work together In harmony.through rain and shine, heat amdi cold, for the one great object to make Astoria a port nothing short of a cyclone can prevent a good start being made this season and the ultimate, accom plishment of every old resident' life long desire." It give us much pleasure to copy the above from the Astorlan of last Sunday. We are glad, indeed, to hear of the helpful outlook for that cdty. It Is gratifying to learn of the dispo sition of the people of the Gateway City to unite and pull together for their common good, and thus to work 1 out the great destiny their situation and surroundings make possible. The people of Salem expect to hear from the porjectors of the Astoria rail road, Messrs. Bonner and Hammond, as soon as the transcontinental con. nectlon is completed. We bespeak for them a) splendid welcome and substantial help In the work of conectlng their Oregon Cen tral property with their Astoria-Sea-side-Goble line, and securing their share of the rade of the Wllamette principal towns. Salem will surely valley through branch roods to the get a branch, and porbably the main line. THE HOTELS. Parker House E. E. Rothrick, W. L, Montgomery. Mrs... Benham, Tom Kerrick. Portland; Jos. Slater, Taco ma; Thos. McFarland, Hoqutam; Geo, J.. McDowell, San Francisco; Cthaa. Howard. Ilwaco: Capt. Chaa. Bharp, Walluskl; A. L. Parker, John Day's. Occident A. Kenvslndter. Chicago; Martin White, New York; W. H. Low den, San Francisco; J. I Gorman, Portland. WAR IN CRETE STILUMINUES But the Prospects of Sohlng the Dif ficulty By the Towers Are Good. SALISBURY AND 1IANOTAUX Coafer ia fari till Hue Import! Br lag Oa Easter Situtio and Rclitioaa Deuce Esylatd and Traace. Athens, March 27. By order of the government the Greek onnmrnandef at the Piraeus, port of Athens, today pro hibited the departure of the steamer Heraklla and confiscated ber cargo, whioh cone ft ed of provisions Intended for the Mussulman on the island of Crete. The commanders In Thessaly have adopted stringent measure to prevent the spread of smallpox, which la raging among a portion of the ' troops. A dispatch from Canes say that since morning cannon firing has been proceeding near AlUclanon, wher Colonel Vassoa, commander of th Greek army In Crete, is encamped. Advices from the interior of Crete Indicate that the Inhabitants are al ready feeling the pinch of famine. ENGLAND AND FRANCE CONFER. London, March 27. A conference wihch the Marquis of Salisbury bad in Pari yesterday with M. Hanotaux. Frenoh minister of foreign .affair, la regarded a most important, not only with reference to the Eastern question, but as bearing upon the general re lations between Great Britain and France. What actually passed I not known, but the Figaro believe that Lord Salisbury suggested that the Isl and of Crete be occupied by two pow ers, one of them being Great Britain and the other France or Russia. In spite of the warlike preparation the prospects in the Levant have cer tainly not become darker during the past week, and there are indications that the difficulty may be solved by the powers Inducing the sultan tea withdraw the "Turkish trop from Crete. The reason fcr Cretan resist ance to the decision of the power ap pears to be the vagueness of the so called aijtonomy scheme. The am bassador, at Constantinople have tel egraphed their respective government urging that the details be now de termined upon and that a practical scheme of government be presented to the Cretans. It Is stated from Kissamo that the Cretan leader there want annexation to Greece, under the impression that autonomy will not re pay thorn for the loeees of their prop erty, wihlle Greece would pay them an Indemnity In full. This Idea ahowa that the money question lies at the root of the whole complication. THE FIGHT IN KENTUCKY. Frankfort, Ky.. March 27. The rea son why no ballot was taken for sen ator today was because of the rumor which gained currency shortly before the hour for the joint session to the effect that the Hunter men were des perate over the failure to elect their man, and had deliberately entered Into pairs with a number of democrats with the avowed Intention of breaking them when the ballot was taken. To prevent any such action the opposition declined to answer. There were a number of Hunter ;men present who were paired. It was rumored that Mark Hanna'a man here. Secretary of State Taylor of Ohio, has advised the withdrawal of Hunter and the nomi nation of the attorney general, W. 8. Taylor, who t a staunch guporter of the present nominee. One minute Is all the time necessary to decide from personal experlenoe that One Minute Cough Cure doe what Its name Implies. Chaa. Roger. j Celebrated for Its great lesTeo4j strength and healthfulnes. Assure th food against alum and all forma of adulteration common to the cheap brand. ROY AX. BAKING POWDEB I CO, NEW YORK. ill Absolutely Pure s