The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-08-07
ALONG THE WATER FRONT.

The Ida Hazel was busy running be-
tween Hanthorns cannery and the can
factory yesterday afternoon.
The steamer Ocean Wave came dowa
from Portland yesterday afternoon with
a fair crowd Of passengers aboard for
Long Beach.
The British ship Sierra PARMA has
loaded, UP to date, 1886 cases of salmon.
She has still 1900 casss ito put aboard
before her cargo is completed.
The high wind yesterday morning
effected a crossing of the telephone and
telegraph wires to Cape Hancock, with
the result that the weather report SER
vice was shut off for tine day.
The Chilcat, j. w. McAllop, captain,
and l.. Jenson pilot, came into this port
| Thursday last, bringing news of the cap
| ture of the Indians that murdered
couple of whisky smugglers a few weeks
ago. The prisoners will arrive on tine
| Topeka and the Pinta will return a few
days after.-Alaskan.
BIN board advertisers are great students
of human nature. Right alongside the
o. r. & N. dock where passengers are
apt to tread With fear and trembling
the gangway that leads them aboard to
the California steamers is a fla1dng litho-
graph advertisement of wen known
brand of chewing gum, with legend
in large letters round the top "sure cure
for seasicknes5."
During the first portion of THE week in
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weather report the temperature was
cooler than the average. From Wednes-
day the weather became gradually warm
er. The sunshine approached the normal,
but on several days it was cloudy. At
timss the smoke became dense in por-
tions of the Willamette and Columbia
valleys. There was an absence of pre-
cipltation.
The condition of the French navy is
causing that country good deal of un-
easiness. Experts examining into the
question lately gave it as their opinion
that many of the battle ships and new
cruisers were unseaworthy and would re-
qure very little in the way of hard
knocks to send them to the bottom. The
cause, 1T is said, of this ruinous disas-
ter is the constant alterations ito which
they have been subjected.
When w. p. Mills and Mr. Burns re-
turned from Hoonah harbor, states the
Alaskan, they reported the loss of
smuggling sloop in F'reshwater bay. The
sloop is supposed to belong to smugglers,
as their book, now in possession of Mrs.
Mcfarland of. Hoonalh, show them in
debted to several hundred dollars worth
of liquor to Sound parties. Possibly this
a1A f,sv, h.. rlN...
reported killed by Kake Indians.
Mr.. r. r. Winter of Hapgood & Co.
writes as follows: "In the issue of the
Asrorian of the Srd inst. 1 notice that
j. M. Garrettson of Forest Grove asks for
the weight of the largest salmon ever
caught in the Columbia. 1t may interest
you to know that the Astorian's answer,
we think, is absolutely correct. On Dec
oration day, May 80, 1898, we find that one
Henry FrisdhSon, of Cathlamet, Wash,
sent in a salmon a night old THAT weighed
when it reached US 771a pounds. Hon.
Geo. T. Myers, the Oregon worlds fair
commissioner, got one of the same weight
at Oregon City. The Spanish Infanta"
dined off 1T, so Myers always claimed.
From the returns complied by Lloyd's |
Register of Shipping it appears that, ex-
Guiding warships, there were 9S9 vessels,
of 707,09 tons gross, under construction
in the United Kingdom at the close of the |
quarter ended June so, 1895. OF these |
there were 2S9 steamers, of a gross ton
mage of 667,14. There were also sixty |
sailing vessels of gross tonnage of 34,- |
2Si Including S2 built of steel, of a gross |
tonnage of 1880. The returns of ves-
sells preparing q, e. ordered but not |
commenced) Show an increase as COM
pared with last quarter and are about |
equal to the figures reported twelve |
months ago. On the 9Oth June, 1895, there |
was total of 70 vessels preparing, the
gross tonnage being 163,6SO.
A shark ten feet long was caught
on a hook by a young lady while fish,
ing for halibut from the deck of the
steamship Queen at Killisnoo banks be-
tween Fort Wrangel and Sitka, on a
recent Alaska trip. The Queen lay there
at anchor for three hours to allow the
passengers an opportunity to engage in
the exciting sport of halibut fishing, and
a number of highly elated fishermen with
large hook and lines were landing oae
and two large fish at a haul when a
young lady, Miss F. A. Sprague, of San
Francisco, discovered that upon her line
WAS the strongest and largest fish Of the
season, with the help of a gentleman
the ugly monster was pulled to the sur
face of the water. L was 400 pound
shark.
Paul Loney though but one-handed
man, says the Tacoma Ledger, has built
In his leisure time during the last few
months, a fine sail boat, which was taken
down to the SQUAD last evening from
Mentzer Bros mill in the west end. Mr..
Loney, a carpenter by trade, Is foreman
of the logging operations in the woods
beyond the mill. Four or five years ago,
when the mill was located at Fifth
avenue and JuneBt street. Mr.. Loney
caught his right hand in the lath saw
and had all the fingers of the hand taken
off. He has learned to use his left hand
and can now handle carpenter tools with
utmost as deXterously as he formerly
could with his right. The boat which
he has built, practically unaided, has
2O-foot keel, is "a feet long over all and
has a 6-fodt BEAM 1t Is to be fitted with
sails and used as a pleasure boat by.
Mr.. Loney and other employees Of the
mill.
As the government work at the Cas-.
csdes nears completion there are several
railroad projects receiving attention.
These may o. may not mature; but the
fact win remain that The Dalles viii
be the head OF navigation for MANY years
to come, and this means considerable,
says the Times-Mountaineer 1t makes
little difference to our blldness men how
many lines are constructed. This fur
nishe5 an outlet to the sea by means Of
the Columbia river, and no railroad can
compete with cheap water transportation.
II our capitalists had the proper enter
prise this city would be the terminus OF
several branches of railroad to the in
terror-ths more the better-and the gate