The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-05-08

left on visit to San Francisco to Mrs
! Hubbard. another sister. who Is In III
{ health
The thousand barrels Of cement dis
7 charged from the ship Fernhank arS 10
( be used In the construction OF kopp's
I brewery,
The following Portlanders wero NJ the
( Astoria yesterday; Robert Yost. F c,
/ Harnock. X, Fleckenstein. /. winters
l and ]. NJ. Power.
: II. C. Woods, who has been superin-
{ tending the altering and remodelmg OF
/ the street cars, yesterday returned TO his
/ home in warrenton.
/ The plat OF warrenton Center. as laid
out by Francis Hin. f NJ, Warren, ct al.
+ was filed for record in the county record
er's office yesterday.
3 Agent Finlayson. OF the Canadian Pa
cifc. has just received several large pho
4 tOgrAphs, handsomely framed. Of the
steamer Empress OF India.
II the fishing question Is soon settled,
and with the railroad under construc-
fion. the chances for big regatta this
summer are most excellent.
There will be. regular sivil service eX-
animation at the postofiice for clerks and
carriers next month; applications mus.
be In by the middle OF this month.
| Mr.. Robert W. Wakefield. one OF the
| contractors on the Young's Bay bridge,
| came down from Portland yesterday, He
says thsre is nothing new under oie
sun
Miss Dell Butler. stenographer to Mayor
/ TAYLOR, left on the Potter last evening
for brief visit to relatives at 81.
| Helens.
E. A. Seeley, OF the White Collar Line,
returned to Portland last evening. He
says he is confident that the Alderbrook
people will have passenger station this
| season,
II IS runored that Messrs. Larson 4
! Greenough. OF Montana, will bid on the
piling and timber work for the railroad.
and that Corey Brothers will bid on the
dirt work.
Mr. NJ. D. Kant, who has been on a
| visit in this city for several days past.
after an absence Of eleven years, leaves
this morning on the steamer for San
Francisco.
Circuit court adjourned yesterday,
hearing OF the Osgood divorce case not
having been completed This case will
be resumed on May Q, when court con-
yenes again.
A telegram to Secretary Jensen from
Portland yesterday. announced that Sow
ereign, tho labor leader. will be In Asto-
ria tod ay and that he desired to meet
the fishermen.
A man may be considered altogether
lovely, IT is said, but he sinks consldera-
bly, in feminine estimation when every
five cent piece he spends Is carefully Sc
lected from a purse.
II Is said that the AlderbroOk depot
will be fitted out with handsome waiting
rooms, ticket offices. baggage room, train
sheds and all the other paraphernalia
belonging to firct-class station.
The case OF Thomas Freshet, charged
with adultery, was not heard in the JUS
tlce's court yesterday. owing to the Gb'
sence OF the defendant II has been SET
for hearing at 10 o'clock this morning.
Quite a large number OF contractors. II
is understood, are figuring on the work
called for in the advertisement OF the
railroad company, and It is anticipated
that large number OF bids will be put
in.
Lars Olsen, Puget Island; Charles
Moore, Clifton: ]. W Minaker, Knappa
Sam Gowan, Warrenton; F. F.. Oliver
Clatsop, and Thomas Smith, Skamckawa
we're among the visitors in the city
yesterday.
The seaIion that destroyed some OF th'
traps in Bakers Bay Wednesday, ap
peared to different eyes to be Of dlfferen
sizes. According to some reports HI
weighed ton, or more, and according q
others less than half that amount.
Mr.. G. b. Hegardt was over from For
Stevens yesterday and said that mat
ters were very quiet In his nelghborhood
but that everyone was looking forward
to the building Of the railroad and thu
securing Of railroad connection with As
toria.
Mr.. F. o. Drury, the Band Box barber
leaves with his family on the steamer to
morrow morning for an extended visit t.
. friends in New York state and Canada
Mr.. Drury is undecided as to whether
his future location will be Astoria, Or.
or Santa Cruz, Cal
II was rumored yesterday on the wa
terfront that the fve-masted schooner
Louis, which has just completed lOadlnf
> lumber at Skamokawa for Shanghai, haC
been attached Nothing definite coult
be learned as to the cause for the actor
or the parties Interested.
The driver OF an express wagon or
Commercial street yesterday afternoon
was seen using a long piece Of larg'
wire with which he numerically thrash
ed his horse The animals back ant
sides. were covered with large welts rails
, ed BY the blows. A humane society
, might be in order
Fisher Brothers yesterday paid Off th'
men of the schooner Kate and Ann, tht
bills amounting, all told, to about $500
: The vessel had aboard about six hun.
dred skins, and shipment is made from
this port because better rates can be
secured than from San Francisco. Wher
the railroad is completed, Astoria ought
TO have monopoly Of this business
1t is reported that one Of the Young 4
River milk men Is in the habit Of carry
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