The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-11-07

has sold her portion OF the Kindred
tract at Fort Stevens consisting Of
278 acres to E. J. Ford for $25,000.
At a meeting of the Astoria Build
ing and Loan association held last
evening 5000. was loaned at an aver
age rate of 66 months, interest in ad-
vance.
One man who got timber claim"
recently finds upon subsequent and
careful investigation that the actual
quarter section that he owns has six
trees on 1t.
Experienced railroad men who have
been over the road bed of the Astoria
and South Coast railway as far as the
locomotive runs, say that it is an ex-
cellent one.
Frank Silva, better known as"Dago
Frank" and well remembered in As
toria, was shot in Spokane Falls last
night and sang to the music as he
joined the choir invisible.
A large quantity of iron arrived at
Portland Yesterday for the Astoria
and South Coast railway company,
and will he sent forward TO its des-
tination as soon as possible.
Papa" said he, after he had had
some sense knocked into him, will L
ever again be as pretty as | was?"
No, my son." said the financial par
ent, but you'll know id sight
more"
Z. S. Loomis, brother of l.. A.
LOOmis, died III Portland yesterday.
His body was brought down on the
Telephone yesterday and taken over
to IlwacO To be buried.
On returning from dinner yester-
day the editor of this paper found on
his desk, a hundred dollar Hammond
type writer, complete, with a compli-
mentary letter accompanying it. the
gift of an old and valued friend
City clerk Jewett was busy yester-
day making up, for transmission to
Washington certified claims of the
city against the federal government,
for expenses incurred in repairing and
raising Third street and Benton street.
Astoria is now in instant cOmmuni-
cation with the surrounding points
of Alderbrook, Fort Stevens, llwaco
and Chinook. A cable will soon con-
meet it with Tillamook Rock And
now a telephone line is talked of to
TillamOok.
Yesterday morning while Parker
and Hanson's delivery wagon was
driving along Second street near their
store it ran over Theo Bracker's dog
SnooZer, the poor dog died without a
struggle. SnooZer was between
fifteen and twenty years old and he
will be missed around the cigar store.
Engineer Granger goes right along
with the corps of assistants laying ont
the preliminary line for the railway
from Kinney's cannery, the proposed
terminus, westward to the point. The
Astoria and South Coast railroad
company have not yet bought that
property for a terminus. but there is
an option on it for that purpose.
When the land offices notices were
being sent into the Pioneer Office in
big wads, and they had to send after
extra nonpariel and minion to set
them in, THE AsToRIAN getting soup,
it had no kick coming, and never said
a word. 1t was a Democratic admin
istration, and the Pioneer was a Dem
ocratic paper. That was all right.
The Postscript trying to let Curtis
down easy says that he has 'been as
good a Republican in national politics
as the editor of The Historian" This
is the biggest lie yet In city, county,
state and national politics Curtis was
a Democrat and did his best or worst
to help elect the Democratic ticket
But this is something everybody knows
and is ancient history.
A few days since at one of the city
schools, while a class was in recitation
a little boy kept half reclining in the
corner of his seat. Miss -,the
teacher, had several times asked hin
to sit up, and finally reprimanded him
very sharply. Then the little fellow
breaking into tears, said plantively
"Well, 1 guess if you had a boil where
I've got one, you wouldn't set NJ
straight"
The latest invention in cheap moutl
instruments comes from Austria, anC
is generally called the ''sweet potato,
though its right name is the ocarina
It is made of clay, and exactly resem
bles sweet potato in shape. 1t is
kind of combination of the flute ant
clarinet, but is Of course very mucl
shorter. The ocarina is made in ever.
key and can be played without diff
Guilty, being probably the easies
learned musical instrument ever in
vented.
The official records in the post offic
show that during a certain perio'
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