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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07

COMMON COUNCIL Regular meet
ings first and third Tuesday evenings
of each month at o'clock In city hall.
Persons desiring to have matters acted
upon by the council at any regular
meeting must present the same to the
which the council holds its regular
meeting. *. OSBURN,
Auditor and Police Judge.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07

a marriage license was issued yes
terday to Axel A. Carlson and Ida a.
Peterson.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07
/. r. & N. co.'s
Steamer IIwaco.

TO SUBSCRIBERS. Those who do
not receive their papers regularly and
on time should notify this Office. II
the papers delivered by carriers ere
wet or in bad condition, don't fail to
make complaint AZ the business Office.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07
ABOUT THE CITY.

Piles are being driven at Booths can
merry for new net-racks.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07

Olsen has 20 brands of clear Havana
cigars and he viii give you a better ci-
gar for 10 cents than you can get for
IS cents at any other place. 52l Third
street.
AT the Columbia Cigar Store CIV. T..
Beyeridge's) lovers of a good cigar can
get all the finest brands, including Flor
de Madrid, NordIca, La Palmos and
Belmont
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07

Anything in the line Of gents furn-
ishing goods, In the newest styles, can
be had from p. A. Stokes & Co. during
the present month. at prices never be-
fore equalled.
Ladies' writing desks. rocking cnalfs,
and dining chairs, suitable for Christ
mas presents, at G. v. Porters, Second
street. Handsome crayon portraits
with $25 purchases.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07
LOST.

LOST-A city warrant for $15. The
number is 6,64S, and the warrant was
indorsed on November ?. Finder will
please return to Fred. Sherman
LOST-A black clasp purse, contain
ing a sum of money. Finder will please
leave at this office.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07

Hilps First addition is located in the
centre of the city. Lots are now selling
in 1t for 81.
There is no risk taken by Joining
Hill's lot clubs. Everybody gets the
full value of their money.
st-e-e-dman's Soothing Powders sue
cessfully used for children, during the
teething period, for over fifty years
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07

NOTICE-The regular meetings Of
the Astoria Building and Loan Associa-
ton are held at p. m. on the first
Wednesday Of each month. Office on
Genevieve street, south of Chenamus.
w. l.. ROBB, Secretary.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07

For So, lot is delivered every week
to the buyer in Hills First addition.
Lovers of good cigar can always
find mild, fresh Belmonts at Chas. Oh
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07
sMoKEl sMoKEl SMOKE SMOKE

II you want any thing good to smoke
Key West, imported, or domestic, yol
must go TO Chas. Olsen.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07
Portland and Astoria

STEAMER TELEPHONE.
Leaves Astoria every evening except
Sunday at p. m.
Arrives at Astoria every day except
Sunday at 4 p. m
Leaves Portland every dav excepf
Sunday at a. m.
g. ". STONE, Agt. Astoria.
E. A. Seeley. general agent, Portland.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07
SOCIETY," MERTlNGs.

PILOT COMMISSIONERS The reg
ular meetings Of this board Will be held
on the first Monday Of each month at
10 a. M, at the office OF Robb g. Par
ker. w. l.. Robb. Sec
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07

If you want first class photograph,
call on Grow, the Photographer, 6SS
Third street
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07

WINES AND BRANDIES.-Use zin-
fandel wine instead Of coffee or tea.
Fifty cents per gallon. Don't forget
peach and apricot brandy. Also French
Cognac and wine at Alex Gilbert's.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07

ONLY THE PuREST Wines and
liquors are sold at Alex Campbells
Gem.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07

A DELICIOUS DRINK. There Is
no place In Astoria where John Kopp's
famous beer is kept in such good con-
dition as at Utzinger's popular resort.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07
WANTED.

AGENTS-Makes $500 a day. Great
est kitchen utensil ever invented. lle-
tails S5cts. 2 to sold In every house.
Samp e, postage paid, five cents. For
shee s. McMakin, Cincinnatti, o.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-07
BEVERAGES.

FINE WINES AND LIQUORS Call
at August Danielson's Sample Rooms.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-05-04
Against the House of Lords.

The parliamentary committee of the
trade unions congress, which is the cab
met of the British Liberal party, has
been holding several secret sittings in
London, making preliminary arrange
ments for the great demonstration in
Hyde park against the house of lords.
The announcement of the subject will
be publicly made as soon as the peers
have finally finished with the employ
ers' liability bill, and the killing of
that labor measure will be made the pre-
text for the promised display, the di-
mensio.s of which will probably exceed
anything Of the kind in recent years.
The London trades council is prepared
to march 900, 600 men into the park,
and there will be imposing delegations
from the provinces. -London Cable.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-05-04
TAKE PART OF THE TIPS.
Grievance of the Paris Walters Which
Copcidored .TuSt Grounds For a Strike.

Grievance of the Paris Walters Which Is
There is much dissatisfaction among
Partisan walters, and a general strike
among them has been spoken of. 1t is
estimated by their trade society that
there are 40, 900 of them out of work,
and the men contend that the masters
take advantage of this to cut down
their earnings. Practically, fixed wages
are unknown. The men pay SO much to
the masters in proportion to the bust
ness they do. Thus in great cafes on
the boulevards they have to pay at the
cash desk the full selling price of what
ever they serve plus 5 per cent. In some
cases, it is said, the rate has been in
creased of late to 81 and even ~ per
cent. Of course this percentage repre-
sents a portion Of their gratuities, which
they have to give up.
In Paris the general rule is for
toners to give tips" at the rate of a
halfpenny for every 10 pence expended.
This is at the rate of 5 per cent, which
would show a loss to the waiter of ~
per cent on the larger percentage. In
practice, however, the tips are higher,
as no one gives less than a penny, how
ever small the purchase, and some Gus
toners, of course, give more than the
recognized Northumberland News.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-05-04

Professor Dolbear has been expert
menting as to the physiological effects of
magnetism. It appears that what is
commonly called a magnetic field-that
is, space through which magnetic sub
stances ~pass-does not affect the nerv-
Gus system in any way. On the other
hand, however, when a portion Of the
human body is placed within the al
ternating magnetic feld-that is, a field
in which the polarity is reversed many
times a second by alternating magnetic
currents-then complete insensibility of
the part of the body subjected to this &C
ton is produced, and surgical operations
may be performed on that spot without
any feeling on the part Of the patient.
This is a great discovery. Patients need
now no longer upset their digestion by
chloroform and ether if Professor Dol
bears conclusion is applied to active sur
gerry.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-05-04

Amid the lost splendors of oriental ma.
tons of which scarcely more than the
name now remains to us was the science
of irrigation, and it was brought to a
perfection never since equaled. Here
and there are traces of vast bitches show
ing knowledge of mechanical engineer.
ing that is unsurpassed in our age. It is
altogether probable that the nineteenth
century will open on irrigating enter
prises quite equaling those of ancien:
Asia and inducing a fertility never ex-
celled in the land of olives, spices and
pOmegranates.
California has already tracts of land
that demonstrate what a be done with
irrigation in what seemed a desert.
Other states are following rapidly in TIE
same line. In the middle portion of south.
ern California is one farm that originally
comprised 400, 900 acres. It was owned
partly by ]. B. Haggin, although it was
too big for any one man to possess all
himself. The idea of the owners of this
vast body Of land has been to divide it
up into. small fruit farms of from 90 to
40 acres each. The success in growing
temperate zone fruits warrants the state
ment that 90 acres will support a family
comfortably. Here will be one way of
preventing the overcrowding of cities.
The method of irrigating the 4OO, 0OO
acre tract is the most interesting matter
connected with it at present. From
Mount Whitney, the highest peak Of the
Sierra Nevada, flows the Kern river,
through Kern county. 1t is formed from
the melting of the SHOWS on the noun.
tain. This river has been tapped by
sanals-14 on n side, Is on the other.
These are the main canals. From them
flow lateral canals to every farm, 1,10C
miles Of them. Leading from the large
laterals are still smaller ones, lying along
the line of the farmers fields. The wa.
ter is introduced into the fields by fur
rows that lie at close intervals. For
ordinary field crops three irrigations a
season are necessary. One man can man
age one irrigation ditch, and eight men
and eight bitches a irrigate 1000 acres
a day. For all the water you need, the
cost is $1.50 to the acre a year.
This is the real way of praying for rain,
and it will probably be brought into
requisition more and more in the east as
well as west. The Almighty gave man
hands and brains to get all the water he
needs for himself.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-05-04
A LONG CHASE.
A Detective Followed a Man Seven Thou
sand Miles For Stealing SIS.

A Detective Followed a Man Seven Thou
sand Miles For Stealing S..
Seven thousand miles for a prisoner
was the record made by Postoffice In
spector G. II. Waterbury, and his story
told in United States Marshal Haskell's
office rivaled in interest the tales Of
some of the great French detectives.
The national government never forgives
a crime, no matter what the circum-
stances, and cold blooded justice is al
ways demanded. In Haskell's private
office was seated W. Y. Dressler. a
young man belonging to one of the best
and weaIthiest families in Hanoverton,
o. Last summer Dressler was travelling
with T. r. Howard of Kansas City and
George Harrison IN New Mexico, and
Howard confided to his friend that his
mother was to send him a money order
for SIS. They were in Albuquerque at
the time, and DRESSER got the letter.
opened it. forged Towards name and
stole the money.
The p~ostoffice authorities were noti-
fed, and on Oct. 10 Dressler fed from
lOdIuC.du WILL July olO vi
the shrewdest detectives in the secret
service, on his trail.
Il chased him to Los Angeles" said
Waterbury, land there | lost him, but
I got trace of him in Santiago, where he
led a merry life. 1 reached San Fran
cisco nearly as soon as he did, but he
was away like a deer, and l entered
Yuma just as he was leaving. From
there | followed him to Tucson, but he
lodged me, and l next found his tracks
in Ell Paso, Tex. From there he jumped
to Texarkana and then disappeared to-
ward Ohio. I communicated with Mar
shall Haskell. He detailed a man, and
together we %journeyed to Dressler's
home, arresting the young man in his
fathers house." Dressler will be taken
to Denver for trial.-Cleveland Leader.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-05-04
GREATEST IN THE WORLD.
Kiralfy's Projected London Amusement
Park Will Cost a Million.

Kiralfy's Projected London Amusement
Park Will Cost a Million.
Imre Kiralfy is at the head of a COM
pany of English capitalists which pro-
poses to take a long lease of Earl's
court, in the west end Of London, and
build mi of the greatest amusement
parks in the world. The plan for the
enterprise is outlined by Charles B. At
wood, the Chicago architect who de-
signed the Art building and other struc-
lures of the fair. He has just returned
from London, where he has been as
sisting Mr.. Kiralfy. 1t is proposed to
produce a replica of the Court of Honor
as it appeared at the Worlds fair. The
reproduction is to be exact and on a
scale Of one-third. The lagoon, the Mac
Monies and electrical fountains, the
peristyle and the facades Of all the
buildings bounding the court will ap-
pear.
Arrangements will be made to re-
produce all the grand electric light eff
fects on fete nights. Other features Of
the amusement park will be a Ferris
wheel, 90 feet larger in diameter than
the one at Jackson park; a theater ca
pable of seating 10, 900 people, in which
will be produced America" and a
large hippodrome, such as are conduct
ed in Paris. Over 81, 900, 900 will be
expended in the work of construction.
Chicago Journal.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-05-04
Curiosity of Easter Dav This Year,

Easter day falls on Lady day this
year for the first time in the history Of
the United States. The last time these
two days fell together was in 1742, and
they will not clash again until 1851.
Lady day has somewhat lost its signifi-
canoe and Importance of late years, and
it has never been such a special day in
this country as in some others where the
leasing and renting system is more gen.
eral.
1t is still, however, the first quarter
day of the year, and although for con-
v%enience rents and premiums are gen.
orally made payable on March 81 the
law in some states still recognizes March
% as quarter day. Easter has to fall
exceptionally early to come into contact
with Lady day, and the coincidence
will cause inconvenience in countries
where a legal holiday and a legal pay
day will be simultaneous.-S Louis
Globe Democrat.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-05-04
THE INSOMNIA RECORD.
An Indiana Farmer Sets the Mark High and
Puzzles the Physicians.

An Indiana Farmer Sets the Mark High and
Puzzles the Physicians.
Since the case of George Woodruff,
the Rossville Qnd.) farmer, has been
made public through newspaper ac-
counts of his strange affection numer-
u inquiries are being received from
medical men in all parts of the country.
Mr.. Woodruff is a substantial farmer,
well known in his and adjoining u
ties.
Some two months ago upon retiring
as usual at night he found himself I'M
able to sleep. Woo it as he would, sleep
would not come. The next night he
was also unable to sleep, but felt no
worse for his wakefulness. For two
months he has gone with less than an
hours sleep. On the third night a ply
stefan was called, but even under the
influence of opiates Woodruff refused to
close his eyes. The only thing which
conquered his ailment was a quart Of
whisky, taken in rapid doses, and that
only produced a half hours sleep. Then
his attending physician gave up the Job,
confessing his inability to fathom the
mysterious ailment. He had heard of
people sleeping indefinitely, but here
was a case of a man who couldn't sleep
at all, and who was apparently none
the worse off because of it. Several
other medical men took a hand at Wood
ruff, but each was in turn bafHed.
Woodruff complains only of a slight
distress in his stomach, but his appetite
is unimpaired, and he attends to his
duties as he did previous to breaking
the record as a mar who defied ordl-
nary rules of nature and to whom it
was all the same whether it was night
or day. About three years ago he had
a similar attack, but it lasted only a
week.
Reports of his strange disease became
current several days ago, but they were
disc1edited. To satisfy all doubters
Woodruff has made a statement Of the
truth of the reports. His physician and
family declare that ne has slept less
than an hour in two months, and that
all his faculties are unimpaired. His
physician will make extensive com
ments on the case for several medical
journals. st. Louis Republic
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-05-04
PAPA ELEuTELor. MIsER.
A French millionaire who Begged In the
Streets and Died In Filth.


A miser of the story book type died
about two weeks ago in Auxerre. France.
Although ne never had wife or children,
be was known to all persons in the city
as Papa Fleutelot. He had been a pub
lie figure for n generation and could be
seen daily in storm or sunshine totter-
ing in his rags through the streets to
gather odd bits of coal and wood and
cigar stumps. Papa Fleutelot died in
his eighty-fifth year and was buried in
the potter's field. The French police,
who suspect everything, still suspected
the old mans pretenses of poverty, de-
spite the recent shifting of public opin-
ion, and they searched the hut in which
he had lived and died. Filth was ankle
deep up stairs and knee deep in the Gel
lar. The first search was rewarded only
with the discovery of 400 bottles of
Bordeaux, vintage of 1890. The second
search, however, revealed a hole in the
cellar wall. behind a pile of indescriba-
BILE dirt. From this hole the police
dragged a chest, and in the chest they
found the Treasure. From top to bot
tom it was stuffed full with mortgages,
government bonds, shares in stock COM
panies and title deeds. All showed the
keenness of Papa Fleutelot in investing
his savings, for without exception the
securities were of the highest class.
Their face value was 1000, 600 francs,
bu' IS many of the bonds and stocks are
ah.ve par they can be sold for a much
larger sum.
For more than II years the old man
had neglected to clip his coupons. He
had let them accumulate until they rep
resented a market value Of 40. 900
francs.
Among the many pieces of real estate
whose ownership was revealed by the
contents of the chest is a large tract of
land near Villeneuve-sur- Yonne. On
this land there are 400 acres Of fine for
est and several buildings of the ancient
i~ndestructible make. 1t had been more
than 40 years since anybody at Vile
neuve knew who owned the estate.
When Papa Fleutelot died in his howell,
but 90 confines, or less than 5 cents,
was his total cash capital. AS was ex-
pected, the usual number of heirs have
appeared since the old mans body was
buried in the pOtter's field. They affect
to believe that still more treasure is
concealed in his hut, and they are taxi
ing it down piece by piece in the hope
of enriching themselves.-Paris EX-
change.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-05-04
Bepinning Over Again.

From time to time in history a num-
Der of people break out and try to ILL
augurate a new social order where all
shall be equal in respect to having plenty
to eat and wear, and where there shall
be no criminals nor paupers. Many colo
MES have been formed on this basis, all
more or less cooperative or socialistic.
All have failed thus far, but still the
dream of better things for the human
race persists. Best of all, it will be real
lied one of these days. Never a great
change for the better vas made in a day.
Ideas that keep pegging away fix them
selves in the social order at last.
Two more schemes of the perfectionis.
dreamers have lately been started. One
of them is in Paraguay and was inau-
gurated by William Lane Of Australia.
He got from the Paraguay government
a grant of 500, 900 acres on condition
that he would settle 1000 people on
it within four years. There will be
no lack of settlers to join Lane, and the
colony is already started. He chose
the wilderness because he wished to sep
arate his colonists entirely from old sys-
TENS and ideas. The settlement will be
on the community plan. Colonists give
up all their private means to the general
fund, which is controlled by directors.
The community superintends all the
production and distribution. Surplus
gains are to be divided among the adult
colonists without regard to sex. The
equal rights of the sexe are fully recog-
nized. No person is allowed to join the
colony who cannot bring at least $500 to
the common fund.
In the heart of Africa another scheme
is brewing. Its founder is the famous
lamy Of Berlin, who wrote a book called
"Freeland," in which he sets forth his
notions of the ideal state of society. His
new state will be along the Tana river.
in east Africa. 1t is chartered, rather
oddly. under the auspices of the British
government, and the language used fol
commercial purposes will be English. In
Hertzka's scheme all the people of his
colony will be workers; all will be well
to do. Personal property can be acquired
and bequeathed to children, but real es
tate belongs always to the state.
IF either Lane or Hertzka can help the
condition of the race, then Heaven speed
him
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-05-04
In Government Service.

General o. o. Howard, the Christian
soldier, declares in a recent newspaper
letter that if he were young again he
would not go into government service.
He says, 81 would seek the more fearless
freedom Of civil pursuits rather than the
monotonous, sitting restraints of any
government service"
General Howard has spoken out here
what every thoughtful person knows is
true. In a table accompanying his let
ter we find that there are altogether 217,-
1876 men in government service in all it's
branches-civil, military and naval and
including congressman, the United States
court judges and the president and his
cabinet. But the majority of this great
army are humble clerks who get no more
than 800 a month at the outside, few of
them so much. And of the number
ISL, 1896 are young men between the ages
of 81 and IS.
Of two young men equally well edu-
Gated and capable one seeks a govern
ment appointment, because it is a ''sure
thing" as General Howard expresses it.
He gets perhaps $7Ga month to start.
The other goes into a business house
at 81 a week. In 10 years both men
have families. The government clerk
follows his round like a harness horse
for a compensation Of, say, 800 a month.
It is the most he will ever get. The
other has either a salary of $1,000 or is
a partner in a commercial or manufac-
turing house and is a well to do man
still full of hope and ambition.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-05-04
Horrible Abuse of Children.

A horrible disclosure has been made
in. Biskipitz, Austria, by the arrest Of a
gang of men who for some time have
been engaged in Gripping children for
the begging trade. Several unfortunate
children were found in the house with
their legs and arms broken and bound
in positions of deformity. One little
girl had both eyes gouged out. Instru-
ments which had been used in produc-
ing physical deformities were discov-
cred in the cellar. After the children,
who had been stolen, were sufficiently
deformed they were sold to other persons
for begging purposes. -Vienna Letter.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-05-04
THE WIND.

Sea sands that lie
Lonely and bare beneath the wintry sky,
what mighty symphony, what vast emotion,
sweeps DER thee from the ocean,
Meier have I known,
Not when the blu eyed spring
BY stillest mountain pools was wandering,
when palest lilies on the sleeps were blown,
And the dim wood with madrigals resounded
A rapture 30 unbounded.
The rainclouds gather darkly in the west
I'll all the world Is rpbed in somber gray.
The swift gull wheels above her rocky nest;
The breakers moan Away.
But through the rising storm my heart re-
joiccs,
Moved by the wild wind voices!
Martha T. Tyler in Lippincott's.