The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-11-04

circle OF friends and their departure
will be regretted by ALL No rector will
be called to fill the vacancy in Salem
for the present.
The Coffee House, 522 Third street
best place for chops and steaks: oys
ters by the quart; received daily and
always fresh.
choice assortment of cigars, tobaccos
playing cards, cutlery, stationery, pipes
amber goods, ETC.
Those desirous Of furnishing houses
can find as good bargains at G. "
Porter's as at any other store in the
Northwest. Give him a trial and prove
1t.
| With the wet weather comes an in
creaSing demand for seasonable shoes
and the best place to get a fine pain
r;ade to order at Fred Olsen's Olney
street
The annual association of the teachers
of Oregon will be held this year in the
city of Portland, on Dec. 26th, 9th,
2Sth. The state college association and
the department of superintendent will
be held at the same time and cooper
ative with the above convention. A
cordial invitation from the city super
| intendent and the teachers of the Port
land public schools has been extended
to the state superintendent and to the
teachers of the state in general to meet
in Portland, which has been accepted
as above indicated. Many of the
teachers in all parts of the state have
already signified their intention to at
tend The state superintendent has
sent a special invitation to the COM
missioner of education at Washington
d. c., who 1t expected to be present
Don't go to Portland to buy your
| tickets for the "Old Country" and the
East when you can get them for the
| same price at the Union Pacific office
in this city, and thereby save your To-
cal fare to Portland.
All the patent medicines advertised
in this paper, together with the choic-.
est perfumery, and toilet articles, etc.,
can be bought at the lowest prices at
j. w. Conn's drug store, opposite Oc-
cident Hotel, Astoria.
Sportsman intending to purchase
their winters supply of ammunition
should communicate with Foard &
Stokes before purchasing elsewhere.
Owners Of horses can purchase Camp
bells Hoof Remedy, and all the Col
umbia Veterinary Remedies at Fred.
Saiz' Saddlery establishment.
w. E. Newson, the owner of the
steamer Iralda, which collided with the
lone in the Willamette river October
27, 1892, libelled the latter for such an
amount of damages as the court may
decree in the United States circuit
court this afternoon, says the Oregon
ian. In reciting the circum5tanH
the collision, which occorred during
dense fog, the libellist Newsom,
alleges carelessness, negligence and in
competency on the part of the pilot
and captain of the lone, and states
tn 1t as result of the collision he was
compelled to pay $1OO to the widow of
Otto Peters, deckhand on the Iralda,
who was killed in the collision, $400 in
repairs, and also that his vessel was
laid up Is days for repairs, ut cos
of $15.S3 ltr day The collision between
the Iralda and lone occurred short
distance from Linnton, which is eight
miles down the river. The Iralda was
coming up when the lone struck her
at the forward end of the pilothouse.
All groceries sold at bottom prices
fo,. oh OF JnWa1I O. Wardbd
For Sale-Three good lots at Smiths
Point. A bargain. Address A. B., this
Office.
Thor Fredrickson, piano tuner, has
removed to 1868 Third street, Adair's |
Astoria, near Eagle cannery. Leave |
orders at Griffin & Reeds book store. |
Superintendent Baxter of the Union
Pacific, has received the following let
ter from Waightman, Pedder & Co., |
secretaries of the Liverpool Ship-Own-
ers Association:
I'VE duly received your letter of
September 8, in accordance with which |
we are about, by authority of our com
mittee, to issue circular to the MEM
bers fthis association, copy of which
we will send you. The circular will,
we trust, be satisfactory to you. Our
committee regard with great pleasure
the reduction which has been made by
your company in the towage charges
at Portland The pilotage charges,
however, still remain very excessive.
We are in communication with our
friends, Messrs. Balfour, Guthrie &
Co, on this subject and we trust that
some reduction in the pilotage charges
will soon be effected. We need hardly
point out to you that Portland is one
of the most expensive ports In the
world and that the present pilotage
charges constitute an additional bur-
den beyond those which shipowners
have felt for a considerable time. The
pilotage charges cost far more to the
ships than is necessary for the main
tenance Of the pilots, and a substan-
tial reduction in them Is called Tor IN
the interests of Portland itself. Under