The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-08-08

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ASTORIA, OREGON:
THURSDAY. ... ............. ........AUGUST 6. 1889
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risers the largest circulation of any newspa-
per published on the Columbia river.
Sup't J. W. Welch has force of 13
men employed on the Columbia Water
Co.'s pipes.
Margaret Mather and her company
will be here on the 18th in Romeo
and Juliet"
The Y's will have a pleasant even
ing for their excursion to Knappa.
Have you a ticket?
Reserved seats to see 1.-The Widow
O'Brien" at the New York Novelty
Store this morning.
A good many Columbia river fishing
boats are going away this month:
some as far south as the Sacramento
river.
Tomorrow night Fun on the Bris-
tol," 'The Widow O'Brien." Reserved
seats for sale at the New York Novel
ty Store.
The steam schooner Mischief is
loading shocks to make 10000 cases,
and will sail for the Siuslaw next
Saturday.
The Seattle Times says it is rum
ored that by paying $2,5O0 to the rev.
enue officers any one can catch seals
in the Behring sea.
At meeting of the Astoria Build
ing and Loan association held last
evening $1,000 was loaned out at Sc
months interest.
Astoria No. Ones will hold a spe-
cial meeting this evening to nominate
an assistant chief engineer for next
Mondays election.
Next Tuesday the ladies of Grace
Episcopal church will have a picnic
on the Klaskanine. Tickets, fifty
cents; children, half-price.
The way that beastly bugle sounded
in the salvation army last night made
many regret that it had ever been got
out of pawn in the justice court.
The Pasco HeGdlsght gravely in
forms listening world that peaches
have been successfully grated on
the sagebrush of that region, a likely
story.
In the justice court yesterday All
Sam and All See, charged with smok-
ing opium. forfeited $40 each. The
case of Charles Bernstedt, charged
with embeZzlement, was continued
until Saturday.
Just TO illustrate what advertising
some men do, is mentioned the fact
that one real estate agent in Tacoma
paid Mr. l., Samuels, of the West
Shore $4,000 for advertisements in
1888. He made 100000 by it,
For the first time in the history oI
the city, a street grade notice estab
fishes the grade at the wharf line
See Genevieve street notice. Now i
some one will establish "the whar
line" the matter will be given a start
Five years ago there was an effor
made to ring politics into fire matters
or fire matters into politics, in thu
city. 1t was a failure then, and any
thing like that should be a failure now
It isn't business, and should b,
stopped, at once.
At a meeting last night of fisher
men intending to fish in outside rivers
this fall it was decided to ask, fo
Chinook" or the largest salmon, six
ty cents apiece: for silver sides, 3311:
cents apiece, private nets, being tn,
same price as prevailed on Gray
harbor last year.
Says The Dalles Times Mountain
eer: A daily paper gives a more com
prehensive idea of the enterprise of
community than anything else. TIL,
first inquiry of a stranger is have yol
daily paper, and then the next thinl
is to know whether it is literally pa
tronized. Every dollar spent in thi
way gives a return of ten-fold.