The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-19


c. NJ. Celler returned from a business
trip to 1lwaco yesterday
A. W. Duncan, of Hil.sboro. is regis
registered at the Parker.
George Campbell. was yesterday fined
s. for being drunk and disorderly.
o. T.. Celsner, of South Bend, wn.,
is in town, stopping at tse Parker
House.
Sumner F. Lockwood, county treasurer
of Pacific county, South Bend, is at the
Parker.
James Crawford, of Vancouver Wn.,
Was in the city yesterday, stopping at
the Occident
The steamer Gilmore arrived in from
Tlllamook last night with six tons OF
dairy produce.
Yesterday afternoon the county Clerk
issued marriage license to Chas. Haw-
baker and Lou Cough.
Robert Finlayson, the book keeper at
Meglers Cannery, Brookfleld, was in the
city yesterday visiting his parents.
James Walsh, Fred Helm and ]. p.
Mortified yesterday proved up on their
homesteads in the county clerks office.
C. C. VanEtten, of the Astoria Land
and Investment Company, leaves tonight
on the Telephone to b-I Ig his family
from olympia, Wash.
parasol vas left at Chas. Rogers
drug store sometime ago. owner can
recover same by calling at this office and
paying for this advertisement.
1t is desired that an members of the
w. C. II. U. be present at the meeting
today at o'clock at the Presbyterian
church to attend to special business.
In the matter of the estate of Robert
W. Morrison, deceased, the county court
yesterday made all order for the final
settlement of the distribution of the
estate
Snodgrass yesterday completed the
large photograph of the fifteen members
of the Astoria hose team. The work is
wen done and the boys are proud OF
the group.
The X. p. Grand Lodge of Oregon will
meet at Salem on the Sth of October. Pa
citic Lodge delegates are VIM. Pohl, and
w. f. McCroskey, and Astor Lodge, No.
g. Otto Johnson and Herman Wise.
Five sacks of potatoes belonging to
Charles Metcalf of Grays River, were
stolen off the Dixon dock a few nights
ago. and several smaller thefts commit
ted. There seems to be gang of wharf
thieves about
The ligihtering from the Indiana will
begin at o'clock this morning. Several
hundred tons of coal will have to be
taken out of her before she can get up
to Portland, although with all her cargo
in her she Is only drawing % feet 4
inches.
BY request of quite a numoer of AS
torjans, who wish to spend their Sundays
in Portland, the o. r. and NJ Co., always
alert to comply with the wishes OF their
patrons, has arranged for boat to
leave Astoria Saturday night and leave
Portland Sunday night.
Nj. E. Church, of America, will preside
over the Norwegian and Danish confer
ence which meets in Astoria today in
the Norwegian church in Uppertown. A
reception win be rendered the bishop at
the residence of Rev. II. o. Nordvig at
O'Clock this evening,
Sam Harris yesterday received a te.e-
gram from Boise, which stated that the
live frogs, of the mammoth variety,
shipped from Arkansas for Mr.. Harris
frog pond, mad arrived in Boise and
would be forwarded to Astoria at once.
Mr.. Harris intends to propagate these
animals, for their fine hams, at his ranch
o Young's river.
The British bark G,enafton arrived yes
terday from Bombay in ballast. She is
under charter and will proceed up the
river to Portland tomorrow to load wheat
fer Falmouth Captain Bailey reports
quick and pleasant trip with the excep-
tion of "a severe storm in the Indian
ocean ten days after leaving Bombay
The school board has secured d room
in the building on 1lth and Exchange
streets in which Miss Warren VIII hold
school as an auxiliary to the High
School This will considerably relieve
the crowded condition of the schools.
The four principals are also to meet and
consult as to ways and means of re-
,leving the pressure.
l., Il. Seeley, J. E. Smith, of Portland,
I. A. Macrum. Forest Grove. and James
II, Bddy, state railroad commissioners.
a. b. Hammond, and c. w. Knowles,
formed a party who went out to the
jetty yesterday morning. Commissioner
Macrum ana Eddy are here to investi-
gate and inspect the condition and affairs
OF the Seashore Railroad
The Astoria Land and Investment Co.
Is In receipt of number of letters from
farmers In Nebraska and Kansas in
quirlng as to the resources and facilities
fere for dairy farming and poultry rails
ing. Printed matter and copies of the
local papers were sent to the parties
with specific replies to their various
questions
Marrled-IJast evening at the Baptist
parsonage, Rev, l., j. Trumbu,l ofIlciat-
ing, Mr. Charles Hawbaler late OF Port
land, to Miss Lou Cough, of this city
The bridegroom is well known in this vi
entity as the efficient representative OF
the music firm of Wiley b. Allen & Co,
of Portland The bride is also one OF
the business young ladies of this city.
May true prosperity attend the new
firm.
The American ship George Curtis, 167
days from New York, arrived in port last
night. aliaying the fears of great
many people who had begun to get
alarmed about her long trip. She left
New York the day after the Indiana left
philadelphia, and arrived In this city
"a hours after her The Indiana reporter
bSd weather all the way, while Captain
Sproule, OF the Curtis, reports fine
weatAer. with very light winds this side
OF the Horn. and no event OF special in
terest on the trip, The Curtis has ? 600
tons Of miscellaneous cargo, including
a urge quantity Of railroad iron consiEn-
ei TO Sutton \ Beebe. OF Portland. She
wiz probably SO up the river tomorrow
When her anchor was dropped last even
ing she had a little too much headway,
and souaed the chains in the tiuke at the
bows The tango was a bad one and