The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1883-12-11
Around the City.


Election tomorrow.
Regular council meeting tonight.
Skating at the rink tonight Gas usual.
The cider crop is short In Oregon this
wear.
Have YOU an invitation to the we'd
ding?
Capt Al. Harris was up from the cape
Yesterday.
The American eagle can't sing worth a
cent, but that noble bird can shrek.
The city was lively yesterday and the
streets We're full of people.
The Geo. S. Homer is still to take ON
ll09 cases of salmon before finishing.
The KHIochan finished with 4. 800 cases
salmon yesterday, and will probably clear
to-day.
The dragging anchor of ship tempo
rarily disarranged the cable telegraph
yesterday.
The Rotcload HM cleared for Queens
town yesterday with 1854 bushels wheat,
worth SOL, 200.
There are few cases of typhoid fever
reported in the city. The disease has not
assumed n virulent FORM.
At eleven o'clock next Thursday morn
ing L. C. Holden will sell at his auction
rooms eleven lots in Olney's Astoria.
Capt. Tom Crang came down yesterday
with the Edith. He starts up the Wallus-
XII tomorrow to get raft of logs for
q. w. Fonner.
The stockholders of the Seaside Pack
ing Company will hold an adjourned
meeting at Z. j. Taylor's Office at half
past next Saturday evening.
On Thursday. the 20th inst. j. w. Gear
hart will sell that valuable Clatsop prop
erty known as the p. Gearhart farm. Z.
c. Holden will act as auctioneer.
i. L. Selig has acquired citizenship at
Bugby's Hole, and says he has some
choice lots in that town site. They are a
good buy at the prices he names.
The Columbia arrived in yesterday; the
.BOlirid and Lizzie Bell came down; the
Scottish Bard went up stream; the Clan
Ferguson went to sea last Sunday.
Jos. Hume, agent of the Knappton
Packing company. arrived on yesterdays
steamer He will, after January lst.
have an interest in the business hereto
fore conducted by Geo. w. Hume.
Ben Worsley got a telegram from II. 5.
Cooley of Independence, yesterday, ask
ing that his new purchase, the Astoria
hand fire engine be shipped at once. 1t
goes up tomorrow, sic transit gloria
Mundi-aftemoon.
In Judge Fox's court yesterday APP
peared All Jim, second cook at the Astor
House, who charged Sam Miller with
having put a head on him last Sunday.
An inquiry into the charge resulted In
filming Miller so.
There will be a special meeting of the
Astoria Social club at the rooms of the
II. d. l.. Co., No. l, at half-past seven this
evening, principally committee work.
The first social party will be held next
Thursday evening at Pythian Castle.
The Garibaldi Packing Company have
filed articles of incorporation in the Of
fee of the secretary of state, with Chas.
Wickstrom, b. A. Bayley, and Claude
Thayer as incorporators. Capital stock,
5000. Principal Office at Garibaldi, Til
amook county.
Edward Ryan, deck hand employed
on the Wonder, while going aboard at
Portland, last Saturday night, fell into
the river and was drowned before assist
ance could reach him. His brother went
up from here yesterday to make proyis-
ion for the funeral.
Cloninger, who shot and killed young
Pierce at St. Helens last week, is reported
TO be still at large. Where is the sheriff
of Columbia county? The murderer
should be apprehended forthwith. No
community can afford TO permit such
wanton violation of justice.
II was stated in The AsToRIAN some
time ago that the Queen was about to be
withdrawn from the present route and
ply between San Francisco and the
Sound. 1t is now the opinion that the
change will take place about New Years.
This will put the Columbia traffic on the
old footing.
The new school house. in district No. /,
is expected to be ready for occupancy
next Monday. The seats are all in place,
the blackboards, etc, prepared, and the
eight rooms about ready for the recep-
tion of the little folks. The building, ex-
elusive of the basement, has a seating
capacity of about 400. 1t is probable that
an additional teacher will be employed
after New Years.
Ii is reported that the recent selling
out of the British Columbia Packing
Company's establishment at New West
minister, b. c., to English d Co, was oc-
casioned primarily by trouble in regard
TO reclamations. 1t will soon be in order
for salmon packers to combine and send
an agent TO England there to reside and
keep his employers posted in regard to
this matter of reclamation. 1t will be
money in their pockets.
Mention was made last week of the
probable sailing of the schooner Martha
~. Tufts for this port from San Fran
cisco TO engage in the Gray's Harbol
trade. At the last moment the parties
refused to sign the charter, and the new
schooner Cen. Banning was chartered
instead. She is a new vessel, larger than
the one which was originally proposed tc
bring up, and sails from San Francisco
to-day in command of Capt. Babbidge.