The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-11-30
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED.
News Items From all Over the Northwest.

The mud is foot deep in Tacoma.
The contract for Seattle's new court
house has been let for $l63,0O0.
Pasco's artesian well is down over 600
| feet, but no water has been struck yet.
Turkeys sold for so cents q pound in
| Portland for Thanksgiving-25 cents III
Astoria.
The Coast Seamen's Union at Seattle
I IS ordering men not belonging to the TN
| ion off vessels in port.
A block of granite was taken from q
! quarry near Helena, Montana, last week,
that weighed 137 tons. When cut into
slabs for buildings it will bring $500.
The Kalama Bulletin says its delin-
quent subscribers are warned not to let
their daughters wear that paper for a
hustle when there is considerable due on
it as they might take cold.
Chittim or sacred bark, which is OBJ
tanned in large quantities in the vicinity
of Crecent City, is used for medical pur-
poses and is now worth 20 cents pound.
A few months ago it was worth so cents
pound.
The following, from the EllensbuIg
Register, is q tough deal: "A weary and
disgusted Immigrant from Nebraska, was
found yesterday near Pasco sleeping un-
der the soothing effects of triple extract
of rye, and on his breast was a card
which bore the legend: 4 800 miles from
home. 90 miles from wood and one-half
mile from HI. ] kept my eye on
Pasco.'"
The completion of the locks at the
Cascades and of boat railway between
The Dalles and Cello, SAYS the Times
MOHatdinee5', are absolutely necessary for
the developement of this country, and we
hope the Oregon and Washington dele
CATION will work in harmony on this i'm
portant question of the removal of OBJ
structions to the navigation of the great
river of the west.
The following is an extract from real
composition written by small school
boy in Port Townsend. The subject Civ
en- by the teacher was the extensive one
of Man" Here's what the small boy
wrote: Man is q wonderful animal. He
has eyes, ears, mouth. His ears are
mostly for catching cold and having the
earache. The nose Is 10 get sniff1es with.
A mans body is split half way up, and
he walks on the split end
Some of the members of the
Washington legislature being in
favor of jute mill 1T the pen
itentiary, Col. Frank Parker has brought
out the figures of the cost of such mill
obtained when he was ON the commission
to establish such mill. He shows the
cost to be $4,000, and that correspond
ing benefits would not compensate for the
outlay. He is doing the state service
in opposing such wild cat scheme,
which would sink large amounts of
money for the state.
The first shipment of furs this season
from Westminster was made this morn
ing, says the Victoria Times of the 25th,
by w. II. Yianen, who shipped 2S0 fine
skins, principally bear. mink, beaver and
mountain goat. The Indians have
brought lot of furs to market during the
last week, and from them it is learned
that furs are likely to be plentiful and of
extra good quality this winter. The In
dians still adhere to their predictions of
a few months ago, that the coming win
ter will be very severe, and if this is cor
rect the quality of furs is certain TO be
over the average.