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The Portland daily press., 1893-04-12
Municipal Lighting.

| To the Editor of the Press:
Your recent editorial concerning the
cost of lighting in Portland brings before
the public matter of great importance
both for the present and the future, the
same that is engaging the attention of all
urban communities. The fundamental
question is whether or not the munich
pality should establish plants, and thus
furnish at prime cost at least lights for
streets and public buildings. Already
more than 125 cities have established
electric plants at a saving in public ex-
pense of at least Is per cent. of the
amount paid to private corporations, as
shown in a recent paper by Mr.. Finlay in
the Review Of Reviews.
Portland is well adapted for economi-
cal street lighting: it is compact, with no
tortuous ways or long stretches of out
lying streets; its density of population is
exceeded by very few.
In the Popular Science Monthly, Hon.
Carroll D. Wright has published tabula-
lions from the last census showing in so
cities the average cost for ten years of
street lighting, their density of popula-
ton, &c. There is meat in it. and some
thing that will go far to demonstrate
whether or not some change is desirable
in Portland, The 80 cities comprise
about one-sixth the entire population of
the United States, and are these: New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Brooklyn,
St. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, San Fran
cisco, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Buffalo,
New Orleans, Detroit, Milwaukee, Wash
ington, Newark, Minneapolis. Omaha,
Rochester. ST. Paul, Denver, Indianapo-
lis, Worcester, Toledo, New Haven, Low
ell, Nashville, Fall River, Cambridge,
Camden, Trenton, Lynn, Hartford,
Evansville, Los Angeles, Lawr ence, Ho-
boken, Dallas, Sioux City, Portland,
Maine, Holyoke, Binghampton, Duluth,
Elmira, Davenport, Canton, Ohio, Taun-
ton,ss La Crosse, Newport, KY, Rockford,
Ill. The average cost of street lighting
in these combined was "a cents per an
mum per capita, men, women ana chill
dren. In Portland it was "a cents. The
population per square acre for the whole
averaged 1880, while Portland showed
22.e7. In this list we find nine cities
where the per capita cost was greater
than Portland, namely, Boston $1.24,
San Frapcisco, "a, Minneapolis $1.01,
Rochester S1.O6 St. Paul S1.06, Denver,
.95, Worcester "a, Hartford, .96, Los
Angeles, S115 All these except San
Francisco had fewer inhabitants to the
acre than Portland San Francisco had
1922, Boston 1896: the other seven run
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-12

Mr.. Baxter has addressed the follow
ing letter to the Republican convention
that nominated him for Mayor:
Messrs. Hiram Kno,vlton, John Cousens
and John Dugan, Committee of the Re-
publican Convention held at Reception
Hall, AprI 9th, 1898, to nominate can
didate for the Mayoralty of Portland,
Gentlemen:
I take this occasion to acknowledge
the reception of your notice of my re-
nomination as candidate of the Repub-
lican party for the Office of Mayor of the
City of Portland, to which I believe I
was elected on March 9th, and to assure
you that accept it with due apprecia-
ton of the honor conferred upon me by
so many of my fellow citizens, and of the
responsibilities which election to the
Office involves.
1t is needless for me to say to my
friends; indeed, it should go without
saying to any thinking man, that if re-
elected to the Office of chief magistrate
of the city where all my interests are
conferred. domestic, social and pecuniary,
I shall administer the public affairs,
which may devolve upon me, by such
methods as may seem best calculated to
promote the welfare of the community,
whose prosperity is inseparable from my
own.
Very truly yours,
JAMES P. BAXTER.
Portland Me- April TO- 1895
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-12

The Argus and the Democrats are
continually asserting that the sales at
the Agency under Mayor Ingraham have
not been larger than under Republi-
can mayors. The figures, however,
show that the contrary is very much
the case. Never in the history
of the city has there been such a
Wholesale and reckless dispensing of
liquors at the Agency rs last year. In
deed Mr.. Ingraham in speech to the
first Democratic convention that put him
in nomination this year, boosted of the
big business done at the Agency, point
ed to it with pride as one of the great
successes of his administration, and
within short time he has made spec
ial appeal to the voters of Portland to
re-elect him in order that the same poll
cy of reckless and indiscriminate sales to
everybody who applies may be contin-
ued,
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-12
Unjust Taxation.

It is unjust to tax the stomach with burthens
that it cannot bear. Many silly people thus
tyrannize that faithful servitor until it rebels
and Furnishes them as they deserve Dyspepsia
usually the child of gastronomic folly, but
whether this or the natural associate of inherent
feebleness from childhood, it is surely and
pleasantly remediablc with Hostetters Stom-
ach Bitters, the finest and most lighlyssanction-
ed gastric tonic in existence. AS result of
the tone Impaired to the stomach, and the in
creased activity of its digestive and assimiatiye
action, insured by the persistent use of this
benign invigorant, general stamina is augment
ed the nerves strengthened and tranquilized
and q tendency to insomnia and hypochon-
driasis defeated. Biliousness, chills and fever,
rheumatism and kidney troubles are conquer
ed by this admirable medicine,
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-12

Mr.. Baxter's belief that he was chosen
Mayor at the first election is shared by
everybody, not excepting Democrats,
who are familiar with the revelation
made by the examination of the ballots
left in the box by Warden Harper.
Mayor Ingraham certainly shared that
belief at one time, so evidently did the
} noerats with whom he conferred, for
is on record as publicly expressing
opinion that the Democrats might
;8acede Mr.. Baxter's election by not put
Jag any candidate in the field. Certain
no such suggestion would have come
rom his lips unless he saw at that time
good reason for believing that Mr.. Bax-
ter had been fairly elected and had been
counted out by fraudulent manipulation
of the ballots. OF course at the present
time Mr.. Ingraham is Officially of a
different opinion.
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-12
WEST END STREET RAILROAD
9 q MI I'D "a NJ ".
Boston, NJ ass.
ANNUAL SALE OF HORSES.

The last Grand Annual Sale of Car Horses
by the West End Street Railway Company will
take place at its Roxbury Crossing Stable, be
ginning March goth, 1898, and continuing
until May End. During that time two thousand
10000 Horses, together with Harnesses, Col
lars, Blankets, Street Car Poles and Lead Bars
will be on private sale, including a three days
sale of horses by public auction; namely on
April 4th, April 18th, and closing out sale on
May and of all horses then unsold.
The special attention of the public is called
not only horses OF the class usually disposed of
in the spring. but also a large number of horses
of q better class Which are being displaced by
the intro duction OF electric cars. aE tsser
The special attention of Superintendents of
horse railroads is called to the fact that this
Company has on sale almost everything per-
tanning to the operation of a horse railway
horse cars at very low prices, and all the
equipment necessary for stable use as above
stated.
We feel it our duty to inform our many
patrons and the public that horses advertised
for sale at West End Railroad Stables. at
East Lenox Street. or Newcomb Street, Boston,
are not the horses of the West End. Such sales
are not and never have been sales by this Com
pany. Our horses are sold atno other stable
than Roxbury Crossing.
Persons attending the sale should take Ire
mont Street electric cars, marked Jamaica
Plain, Roxbury Crossing, or Old Heath Street,
all Of which pass the Stable door. This sale
West End Street Railway Stables, Roxbury
Crossing, Boston, and all communications
should be SO addressed.
c. S. SERGEANT,
General Manager.
mar18 S&W12t
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-12
Mr.. Jordan's Wonderful Sentence.

To the Editor Of the Press:
admit that twenty-seven line SEN
tence is an infection on the public, and !
realize that it may be especially offensive
to the skillful and experienced writers on
the PRESS, but certainly do not expect
OF you the injustice of holding me addi-
tionally responsible for compositor's
error IN leaving out the necessary con-
trasting word, which if you will please
insert as per copy will then warrant
that the sentence will 9'parse'' fairly
well. E. G. T.
am quite content that they should expect of
than they have been wont to practice, but when,
with PeckSniffian hypocrisy they seek at a time
when am free to say am Inundated by the
miserable, but IRRESPONSIBLE action about the
vote OF Ward one to parade before me their
holy horror at such methods, and when know
that they are not clear in proper code of eth
les of actions performed under the rule that
their desired partisan ends justify the means if
the nerve is sufficient to pursue ways that defy
and escape detection-actionss that mean more
against the sacredness of the ballot than the
to the transparent Stiffness of the Harper cpl
sOde, when know that all this is true of the
party that is NOW adding additional injustice
to their hypocrisy, my notions for independents
voting are decidedly abridged and | return to
support, not necessarily my ideal in certain
municipal details, but to what l am led to be-
leVe o1fers the better promise for the welfare of
Portland and lesser abridgement of the peo-
piles will
I'VE cheerfully make the correction,
partly on Mr.. Jordan's account, but
more especially on account of the High
School scholars whose efforts to untan-
gle the snarled skein must inevitably
precipitate an attack of nervous prostra-
ton. AS corrected the sentence presents
quite difficulties enough, too many in
deed, for the pupils to struggle with un-
til the heating and ventilating apparatus
of the school is greatly improved
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-12

The election of Mr.. Ingraham as May
or will enure to the advantage chiefly
of City Marshal SWEET. If Mr.. Ingraham
is chosen, Mr.. SWEET will undoubtedly
remain to boss Democratic politics and
solidify the ''boys" in support of his
boom for the post Office. A vote for In
graham means vote for SWEET for Mar
shall and indirectly capital for his post
Office campaign.
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-12

There has been falling out among the
Office brokerage commission, on account
of "Charley'' Morton's vaulting ambi-
ton to be the grand head boss of the es-
adjustment. Some of Morton's recon-
mendations have been promptly and an
grily sat down upon by the other members
of the commission and Morton given to
understand that his head is growing
too rapidly.
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-12
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MArNE STATE PREss
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Half square advertisements S1.00 per week,
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Special Notices. on first page. one third adj
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Reading Notices in nonpariel type and classed
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The Portland daily press., 1893-04-12

The worlds fair workmen selected a
very opportune time for their strike. De-
lay at this time would be fatal to the fair
and of course the employers had to yield
irrespective of the justice of the work
mems claims, the merits of which we
know little about.
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-12
Fasting and Prayer.

Lieut-Gov Sheehan of New York,
who represents the Democratic machine
of that state, evidently got the cold
shoulder from President Cleveland. MI.
Sheehan can be trusted to retaliate with
interest when the time comes.
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-12

The Argus was so pleased with what
it calls Mr.. Jordan's 'unanswerable
arraignment' of the Republican party
that it published it again yesterday. On
Saturday it will probably be used to fill
out the puzzle column, where it will GER
tainly find an appropriate resting place.
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-12
MISCELLANEOUS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
NERVOUS PROSTITUTION And
ERYSIPELAS CURED.
RESTORED 70 PERFECT HEALTH.

SKoDA DISCOVERY Co.;
GENTLEMEN - For a number OF
years I have been severely afflicted
with Erysipelas, Bilious Trouble, and
Nervous Prostration. I lost flesh and
became much run down in strength.
Less than course of SKODA'S DIS
COVERY, with the LITTLE TAB
LETS, has completely cured me. l
have gained 20 lbs. in flesh, and never
was in more perfect health in my life.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-07
SALE OF COLLATERAL.


Notice is hereby given that 1 will sell
at my Auction Rooms, Monday, the
10th day of October, 1898, at o'clock
p. M, to the highest bidder, for cash, a
note given by John Howard of Cath
lamet, Wash, for $1,000, on which is
due, including unpaid interest, the sum
of $1,4OS.S9 at this date; also mort
gage collateral thereto conveying the
following described real estate: The
southeast quarter of Section twenty
three in Township No. Nine North, of
Range No. Six West, WahlSiakum
County, Wash. Also a note given by
the aforesaid John Howard for $1,000,
on which is due including unpaid inter-
est, the sum of $1,40S.S9 at this date; all
so q mortgage collateral thereto con-
veying the following described real es-
tate: The north half of the northwest
quarter the southwest quarter of the
northwest ana the northwest quarter
of the southwest quarter of Section No.
Seventeen, in Township eight north, of
Range five west, Wahkiakum County,
Wash.
The aforesaid notes and mortgages
being collateral to a note given by w.
p McIntire of Cathlamet, Wash, to
the First National Bank of Astoria,
for S1,995, which is now past due and
unpaid.
Astoria, Or, October 4, 1893.
MARTIN OLSEN,
AuctiOneer
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-07
CIRCUIT COURT PROCEEDINGS.

The following bushes was done in the
circuit court yesterday:
C. e. Runyon VS.. Ellen Adair Men
dell ct ais; ordered that c. r. Thomson
be appointed guardian ad litem and w
B. Adair in place of B. Van Dusen.
Jurors excused for the present unit
specially notified by the clerk, for the
term or other order Of the court.
C. e. Runyon VS.. Ellen Adair Men
dell ct al; default and decree for plain.
tiff.
State of Oregon VS.. John Hansen; or
dered that the court reporter furnish
defendants attorney with copy of testi-
mony at county's expense.
August Kynzie VS.. j. E. Saari ct al.
plaintiff entitled to S5 per cent, and
his costs and disbursements of this ac-
tion.
L. Lebeck VS.. City of Astoria; on
trial.
Foard & Stokes VS.. John CHASER ct
al; allowed to amend sheriff's return.
Default and decree in favor of plaint-
iffs.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-07
PERSONAL MENTION.

Mrs. Frank j. Taylor with her moth
er and brother went down to San Fran
cisco yesterday.
J. M. Rogers will in future make
Portland his home, having severed his
connection with Van Dusen G. Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Macomber went
UP to Portland last night.
Mark Warren came down from Salem
yesterday.
G. w. Bursch of Brooklyn, N. Y, and
d. F. w. Bursch of Portland, came
down the river yesterday. They are
staying at the Occident.
]. w. Seaborg of Hwaco, is in town.
Hugh Jory and wife of Salem are in
the city.
II. Tuggy came up on the San Fran
cisco steamer yesterday.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-07
ALONG THE wHARvEs.

The Earlscourt came down the river
at noon yesterday.
The steamer Gilmore left out for Till
amook at 1880 yesterday morning with
cargo and passengers for that port. D
The Columbia came down the river
at o'clock this morning and left out
three hours afterward for San Fran
cisco with 1000 cases of salmon and a
miscellaneous cargo.
The bark Allonby left for the United
Kingdom yesterday morning.
The Detrick line of steamer Noyo,
reached here yesterday from Sna Fran
cisco with AZ tons of miscellaneous
freight for Astoria.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-07
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that l have
been appointed administrator of the es-
tate of James p. Metz, deceased. All
persons indebted to said estate, are no
titled to pay the same to me, at Astoria,
Oregon, forthwith; and all persons hav-
ing claims against said estate, are
hereby notified to present the same to
me, at the above place, within six
months from the date hereof.
JAMES w. HARE.
Administrator OF the above estate.
Dated at Astoria, Oregon, this 7th,
day of July. 1899.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-07
spEcIMEN cAsEs,

S. II. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis, was
troubled with neuralgia and rheumat-
ism, his stomach was disordered, his
liver was affected to an alarming de-
gree. appetite fell away, and he was
terribly reduced in flesh and strength.
Three bottles Of Electric Bitters cured
N. Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg.
Ill. had a running sore on his leg OF
eight years standing Used three bot
Ties Of Electric Bitters and seven boxes
of Bucklens Arnica Salve, and his leg
is sound and well. John Speaker, Ca
tawba, o., had five large fever sores
on his leg Doctors said he was in
durable. One bottle of Electric Bitters
and one box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve
cured him entirely. Sold by Chas.
Rogers, druggist
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-07
RECEIVERS NOTICE.

The undersigned having been appoint
ed by the circuit court, receiver for I
w. Case, banker, hereby gives notice tc
all persons owing said bank, either by
note or overdraft, that payment OF
same must be made without further
delay. The office of the receiver, al
Cases bank, is open, daily from 10 to
IL O'Clock a. m, and from to O'Clock
p. M, and all debtors are advised to
call and settle at once.
GEO. II. GEORGE,
Receiver.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-07

OilIao, nIoSg naIurnI IN Inc way they act
faction, or money returned. We all have
t0edk spots Generally it's the liver. An
active liver prevents impurities and poisons
from entering the blood. Pleasant Pellets y
have tonic effect upon the liver and the
general system. They cure Indigestion, Dys.
pepsia, Dizzy Spells, Sick or Bilious Head.
aches, and all arrangements of the liver,
stomach and bowels. Q
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-07

Once again it becomes the Astorians
pleasing duty to call attention to the
grand entertainment to be given by
the Rescue Club on Saturday, the 18th
inst. This affair has been got up for
the purpose of paying off the debt on
the hall and to raise money enough to
purchase extra seating accommodation.
Last week ii may be mentioned, fifty
extra chairs were placed in the build
ing and on Saturday night the number
of people standing up was as great as
ever. To say that the Rescue Club rich
ly deserves that its big entertainment
next Saturday should be financial
success, is putting it very mildly. The
admission has been placed at fifty cents
for adults and twenty-five cents for
children. Everybody should take tick
ct, and show even in this slight man
ner, his appreciation for the institution
that does so much good for the city,
and that has assisted to such a great
degree in elevating the minds of Asto-
ria's young people.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-07

The entertainment given last night at
the Methodist church by Miss Marie
Park, under the auspices of the Young
Peoples Society of the Presbyterian
Church, was a very great success. The
building was comfortably filed, not
withstanding the inclemency of the
weather Miss Park was accompanied
in all her vocal selections by Mrs. Otto
Heilborn, and was assisted by Mrs. j..
T. Ross, whose sweet rendition Of "The
Merman," was loudly encored. Miss
Park herself came fully up to eXpecta-
tions. Her songs were all beautifully
rendered particularly in the low notes.
Her elocution, too, was of a high or
der and "Pot Pourri," ridiculous jum-
BILE of favorite recitations, brought
down the house. Her first piano solo,
"Petit Bolero," was one of the best
things of the evening and was loudly
applauded. The gem of her vocal Sc
lections was undoubtedly de Koven's
"Oh, Promise Me-" The large audience
was liberal in appreciation Of the tai
ented young lady who almost unaided,
held them amused and interested for
nearly two hours.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-07

C. II. Jones, Carey Bros. bookkeeper,
with his wife and relatives left here on
the Columbia yesterday for San Fran
cisco. Mr.. W. II. Watts accompanied
them. They will remain away till the
spring.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-07
ANOTHER CUT IN PASSENGER
RATES.

Five dollars less over the Union Pa
ciflc to Missouri river and intermedi-
ate points, effective Sunday, August
Goth. Rates to all Eastern points corre-
spondingly reduced. For full informa-
tion, call at Ticket Office, Union Pa
cific dock.
G. w. LOIINSRERRY. Aren't
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-07

Only the purest wines and liquors
are sold at Alex. CampbelPs Gem.
For so, lot is delivered every week
to the buyer in Hills First addition.
Meany is the leading tailor and pays
the highest cash price for fur skins.
For all kinds of job printing, go to
Del. Ferguson, upstairs, Astorian build
ing
For Sale-Three good lots at Smiths
Point. A bargain. Address A. b., this
Office.
Lovers of a good cigar can always
find mild, fresh Belmonts at Chas. Oh
sens
Sewing machine and general repair
ing, lock-fitting, etc. c. A May, 1872
Main.
Hills First addition is located in the
centre of the city. Lots are now selling
in it for 81.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-07

The police are looking for Mr.. Frank
Foster, a gentleman who is missing
under peculiar circumstances from the
Occident Hotel. He registered at the
hotel from Cleveland, Ohio, and on
Wednesday night disappeared, He has
not been seen since, and it is feared
that he has met with a fatal accident.