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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-09-06

SELF to our circumstance. made n prop
oAitlon tho terms Of which were prob
ably tho only terms the citizens Of
Astoria could have fulfilled. and the
result N We have the iron horse run
ming trains through our streets today.
and thousand men at work Fastening
Ia consummatc the task Mr.. Hammond
has undertaken. the completion Of
which has been 80 ardcntly desired and
In fraught with such vast Importance
TO every ABtorian.
1T is iueAplicable 10 me how any
manager Of a local journal could. for
IA" sake ~ any petty self interest
financial or otherwise. allow his paper
to be the means Of casting slurs upon
the motives Of the promoters Of an un-
dcrtnking which we all recognize az the
commercial hope Of our city"
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-09-06
w. 4. LAFORCE.

1T is hard To add anything to what
has already been said on the subject Of
Mayor Taylor's letter in last Sunday S
Astorian concerning the unjust criti-
property owners of the city. | never
before lived in a town that run itself
down or permitted its newspapers to
do su. And do not approve of the
efforts which have been made in that
direction"
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-09-06
JOE. HOCH.

Judge Taylor's letter is all right.
We must stop this thing of running
down our own interests. The uncalled
for and untruthful statements which
have recently appeared in certain of
cur newspapers characterizlng the eff
forts made to advance the town both
by the railroad company and some of
cur property owners as scheme to
float wildcat property, is not only a
Ereat mistake, but it cannot fail to
injure every foot of property in the
city l say that it is time to stop all
such attacks, both in public and pri-
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-09-06
DIR. A. l.. FULTON.

Judge Taylor's letter suits me all
right I am decidedly opposed 20 the
methods eof newspaper attack referred
TO by him. / think we ought TO be able
to get along harmoniously and work to-
gether for our own good. There is no
sense in trying to keep things back. so
for as Mr.. Hammond is concerned he
has certainly, up to the present time,
done everything he agreed TO do, and
is the first man We ever had here who
has done 50. 1t Is a great injury TO the
whole town to yilify him and the work
he is doing. We ought rather to uphold
him in every possible manner"
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-09-06
G. WINGATE.

Judge Taylor's letter on the subject
referred to takes a position in the mat
ter which is absolutely correct. Every
body knows my feelings on the sub
ject If We are going to permit such
unjust and uncalled for attacks against
our own interests. what can we expect
outsiders to think? If anyone wants
TO talk about the Chamber of Com
mcrce, or against its efforts, let him
write Il letter on that subject and sign
his own name to it, | will take it up"
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-09-06

promote the good Of Astoria and the
harbor Of the lower Columbia river.
fhey are still working energetically on
the same line. Let some Of the rest Of
US get up documents, compile informa-
tion for the benefit Of investors, and
take the trouble to show people about
and help develop our wonderful natural
resources. and there would be no time
for unfavorable comments and dlsgrun-
tied newspapers will not be permitted
% live"
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-09-06
AN OREGON FAILURE.

Tillamook, September 5.-Mark L. Co
hen & Co., doing business in this city
and Portland, made an assignment to-
day to ~ Goodman. Their assets are
reported to be $4,000; liabilities 5000
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-09-06

vatc. and that we should Join hands
with the railroad company or anyone
else making an effort to further the
interests VI the city"
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-09-06
THE BICYCLE RELAY.

Erie, Pa, Sept. 5.-The transconti-
mental relay passed here at sos central
standard time, seventeen hours late.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-09-06
ANOTHER TRAIN HOLD-UP.
southern Pacific Engineer Too Much
for the Robbers.

Sacramento, Cal, Sept, 5-An at
tempt was made tonight to hold up the
overland express eight miles west of
this city. The engineer killed one of
the robbers and then pulled out the
train and reached the city. Sheriff
johnson and a posse have gone to the
scene in a special train.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-09-06

Meany Is the leading tailor. and pays
the highest cash price for fur skins.
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by a sable one, with high fur collar and 8 lovely collection of tails When the coat is thus modified it will be mo- ticed that the skirt at about the knee shows a circle of narrow black braid ing, which at intervals makes little loop It takes delft fingers just about five minutes to attach by snug hook at each Of these little loops a cunning fur head with tail attached A brown velvet fur-tinished toque and huff con- plete the rig for the street. and a cha mois underWaist is worn for warmth
 At her next move off comes the tails from the skirt, and on go a white taf- feta petticOat and a blue broadcloth coat. This has q front of soft white chiffon, a daring brown velvet stock, and three stunning big bronze buttons. One more change comes with @ demure changeabe gray, blue and brown taf- feta loose front bodice with a brown cloth bolero. braided closely in gold outlined black braid She wears the same skirt each time. but to all ap- pearances has several different rigs each one rich and stylish
 In case of the dress shown herewith there was no chance for such clever planning, though it's novel bodice mark ed it as the work of a skilful hand Made of fancy figured jacquard show ing green, red and black, it's skirt was very full. forming deep godets at the back and being finished at the hem with a band of Persian lamb, The bod ice was composed of under-bodice and iacket-affair The former was of black satin, made plain and tight fitting; the other was somewhat on the bolero or der, with a pointed vest In front and draped sides The sleeves were of sat in, with double epaulets of the figur- ed goods; the collar was slashed here and there and wired, and the edges of vest, jacket, collar and cpaulets were trimmed with fur. FLORETTE.
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automatic lighting and with fog horns that work automatically and that will make noise enough to be heard five or six miles away. Mir. Plass has thought out the whole problem as to how the shlpwrecked sailors can reach shelter on these stations or buoys, how they can be made useful from scientific point of view in determining the Veloc- ity of ocean currents, ocean rainfals, ocean winds, in foretelling approaching storms, etc.
 It will hardly do to laugh at Mir Plass. People who have laughed at strange schemes during the last fifty years have made some bad mistakes. If MT. Plass knows he is right he may find those who will encourage him to go ahead.
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other hand, is paradise for the mice It Is warm, dry and quiet and the ante lopes do ot mind them, and have plen- ty of oats which the mice share, They will run over the elands when lying down, and seem to know that no one can enter the halls to disturb them They all know that animals which would hurt them are unable to get out Six weeks ago a mouse trotted dellb- erately down the center of the small cats house at the Zoo The poor cats, especially the Egyptian wild cats, were wild with excitement and sprang about in their cages. But, the mouse knew he was safe, and strolled down the room and out of the door, stopping at intervals with the utmost assurance and nOnchalance. The writer has neV- CT seen a mouse in the elephant house. and is therefore unable to give an opinion as to the alleged nervousness which elphants are said to feel when a mouse runs over their foot, but all ma- houts affirm the fact.-London Spec tator.
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NR. TL4SS' MOTEL PLAN.

It will be some time before there
 will be railroad across the Atlantic
 ocean, with stations at suitable inter
 vals where passengers can get on or off, but if Reuben H. Plass, an inven-
 tor, of Brooklyn, New York, can do what he wants to there will soon be a
 very interesting addition to the conven-
 fences of travel across the Atlantic. MT. PIass wants to enlist the United
 States government and the govern ments of Europe in plan to establish life-saving stations and buoys at fre- uuent intervals clear across the thou sands of miles of Atlantic waters. His
 plan is to establish these floating sta- tions and securely anchor them by the use of chains to the bottom of the ocean. In the first place, according to his plans, the greatest convenience is to be subserved by them. Should the owner wish to communicate with the captain of one of his steamers en route across the ocean it will be possible to do so by intercepting the steamer at some one of these many stations. It often happens that passenger wishes to turn back by reason of the death of a friend of some change in fortune; the Plass plan will admit of his being landed at some one of the mid-ocean stations and there intercepting the next steamer bound homeward. Let ters and papers could be made to cir culate among ocean travellers through these mid-ocean stations. But MT. Plass contends that the life-saving ad- vantages this plan would afford have been all along his prime motives. Sta tfons would obviate the necessity of shipwrecked sailors spending days without shelter, food and water in open boats, for they are to be provided with
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temperature that they will be burned. thus making 1t impossible for the gases that distill from the coal to escape by the chimney or to become cooled after once having been ignited, The great mistake, he thinks, that many manu" facturers have made In attempts to in vent smolSe-preventlng device by the introduction of air about the fuel, or at the bridge wall, is that the air has not been made hot enough. The introduce ton of cold air is a disadvantage rath- CT than an advantage, so far as pre- venting smoke is concerned, the fact being that it will produce smoke where none existed before
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4 lIOTOR-CIR TRJ4E.

The Automobile club of France is do- ing a good work. It is arranging for @ competition which is likely to be of far more practical utility than the Paris Marseilles motor carriage race. The competition, which is to begin on the 1st of July next year. and will be open to all motor cars, whether French or foreign, is to be organized with view to the creation of regular motor-car services for the conveyance of passen- gers and luggage from railroad stations to outlying localities, and for the de- livery of goods. The motor-cars to be admitted to this competition must be capable of carrying at least ten passen- gers with siXty-fve pounds of luggage each. The motor-cars for the delivery of goods must be able to carry at least one ton. The competition will last six days, during which each motor-car will have to accomplish twice the following programme: A journey of forty kilom- l etres Ca kilometre is about five e-eighths
 of mile), with a stoppage every kill
 ometre, a journey of fifty kilometres,
 with stoppage every five Kilometres and a journey of sixty kilometres, with stoppage every ten kilometres. Some of the stopping places will be purpose
 ly fixed on steep hills and at other in-
 convenient spots.
 This trial will doubtless show great
 progress in the construction and run
 ming of the motor-cars. It will also show what more progress needs to be
 made.
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IT i Rk ED DOWN.

He-Miss Passe is a bargain. She How is that? He--Thirty- eight marked down to twenty four. Tit Bits.
 She--What fine, broad shoulders you have. He-They're necessary for a halfback. She-My! How broad full backs must be.--Judge.
 Two Examples. Gracie-Papa, a monoogue is when people speak to themselves, Is it not? Papa-Yes; or, sometimes, when they talk to their hus- bands.-Puck.
 Old Jimlets-Dearest, before we were married you used to fairly dote on me. Mrs. Jimlets (sourly)-Yes; but you have given me the antidote too often since my dear.-New York Journal.
 Cholly Waffles--I weally cawn't see any weason why I should not be able to earn $10,000 a year. Dolly Warden You always have been terribly near sighted, haven't you, Mr. Waff1es?- New York World.
 Like Other Medicine.-Penelope- hear you are engaged to Miss Dingbatts at last. Reginald-Yes she refused me SIX tllHeS, put pefSeNeFeu. feHelOpe- Then you were well shaken before taken.-Harlem Life.
 Professor-Say, Anna, couldn't we just as well postpone our silver we'd ding and celebrate it at the same time as the golden wedding? I don't like to be interrupted in my work so often -Fliegende Blatter.
 Mrs. W.-JenkinsOn, here's an item in the paper about some town adopting a curfew ordinance. What does curfeW mean? Wit means that there's got to be fewer CUTS. It's a sort of dog law.-Chicago Tribune.
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SEN.4TOR ALLEN BUSY.

Senator Allen (Populist) of Nebraslla is busy man in these days. Monday he lifted up his voice in defence of his {, State against the wicked capitalists who are afraid to lend money there. Yesterday he tackled a great subject. He introduced a resolution for the ap- pointment of committee of nine Sena- tors to inquire into the use of money in elections. The resolution directs that the committee shall thoroughly in vestigate the extent to which money. if any, was used in connection with the recent presidential election, either in promoting the nominations or in in- fluencing in any manner the choice of presidential electors, and shall inquire whether any such expenditures were excessive, illegitimate, corrupt, or un- lawful, and especially to inquire and ascertain to what extent for such pur- poses the owners of silver mines, gold mines, bankers, maNufacturers, rail- road or other corporations and million aires of all classes made contributions and what contributions, if any, were made by persons and corporations re- siding abroad. The resolution empow- CTS the proposed committee to send for persons and papers, and directs a re- port by the first Monday in December of 1897.
 This resolution was very properly re- ferred to the committee on contingent expenses. If it ever emerges therefrom and is adopted it is to be hoped that the committee will not omit to inquire to what extent the Republicans and Gold Democrats were fooled into spending money on Populists who marched and "hollered' for Mckinley but voted for Bryan.
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wonder that they ever succeed in bringing up their families, which, it may be noted, are usually born in nests made of bits of green or red baize taken from the hassocks or pew Things. The most prosperous-the eX- act opposite of the ecclesiastical mouse -is the collegiate mouse, which lives on or near the buttery staircase, In the precincts of the kitchen of Christ church the mice look as fat as oroto- lans; and in the lobby outside "hall' these epicures have been observed to sit and warm themselves by the hot chests holding plates of roast meat, enjoying at once the sense of warmth and that savor of burnt offerings so grateful to Olympian nostrils,
 These sleek and well liking buttery mice are quite distinct from the schol- ar mouse. The scholar mouse, like the scholar, lives plainly but we'll on quiet staircases, and loves late hours, and a lamp, and the company of a studious man with book, Like the scholar he lives long, and becomes an ornament to his college, and looks forward, no doubt, to the days when the under graduate whose rooms he shares will become a fellow and tutor of his col lege, and have larger and better rooms, and share the biscuit which he eats with his glass of port with his old friend who kept him company when reading for the schools. The Mag
 dalen mice are kept in check by one of | the finest cats in the university Ac- l COrding to undergraduate belief this cat is on the foundation, and it's main- | tenance provided for by endowment. It has sense of it's responsibilities, for it keps watch or sleeps outside the l doors of the hall" thus safeguarding 1 the alimentary center of the college. The market mouse, which haunts 1 Leadenhall and the Baltic" the rail- way mouse, a modern variety living in
 Spiers &, Ponds refreshment rooms,
 and occasionally travelling and bring
 ing up its family in well-stuffed car
 riages, the cabmen's shelter mouse. ex- isting mainly on bits of mashed pota-
 to and crushed oats, and the Zoo mouse
 are all well known grades of the town
 mouse. The Zoo mice are the tamest 1 and the least nocturnal of any. If it were desired to write monograph on
 their habits, there could be no better place to do so than at the Zoo. There their parasitisn, or 'cOmmensalism,
 to us the word most in favor for de- scTibing unbidden guests of this kind is not directly dependent on man, but
 on other animals. They absolutely
 disregard the keepers and the public
 and only seek to keep on terms With the animal whose cage they haunt IL
 is him that they reconnoitre to see fl
 he is asleep, his meals they desire tC share, his bed, which they want to steal a little Of, and in the ease of some of the birds, such as the emus his feathers which they want to bite off and take to their nests. They art bold or careful according to the char
 acter of the animal prisoner they live
 with
 In the gulls' and herons' cages, fo1 instance, the Zoo mouse is quick and
 warry. For all that the herons ofter spike one on their bills, and after
 washing it ell, swallow it. Many o1 the monkeys will catch and kill a
 mouse, and so will the storks ant
 cranes, The antelope house. on tht
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-16
FASHION NOTES.
Economy Possible in Fine Feathers.

Although expensive fabrics and uses of them command as much attention as they ever did, the economical woman is in her element, nevertheless, and is able to keep her rich friends guessing. Here is her latest A skirt of silk and wool mixture, brown and cadet blue, the lat
 ter in the silk thread. This is lined with just the right shade of turquoise blue taffeta. Her tan bark brown vel vet Louis coat opens over bright vel low broadcloth waistcoat, braided closely in gold. Its collar is turquoise blue velvet, and it is lined with tur- quoise, The waistcoat can be replaced
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AROIrT MICE.

There are social distinctions among mice. The old division into country mice and town mice is far from eX- haustive. It indicates a difference of habit and habitat, but not of worldly position. Church mice have been long, and justly considered to be the poor est of any. Their food is mainly dead flies, bran from footstools, and in
 country districts the remains of corn samples which the farmers show one another at vestry meetings. It is a
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-16

In considering the important subject of smoke prevention recently the Cleve- land Engineers club listened to a paper by c. H. Benjamin. who stated that number of experiments were made sev- eral years ago on a very black and dense smoke; it was all collected, the amount Of solid matter was determin- ed by weight, ard 1t was found to be in all one-third of one per cent, or one three-hundredth of the weight of coal burned at the time-probably one-half of this solid matter being carbon, show ing the amount of coal actually wasted in soot to be one-six- -hundredth part of the coal In preventing smoke the principal requirements enumerated by MT. Churchill are three, namely. that the coal be evenly heated, that there be a free supply of hot air raised to the temperature of combustion and that the volatile matters distilled from the coal shall pass through gases of such
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-16

The queen regent of Spain, who will soon have a motor carriage, will be the first European sovereign to use one. It will be known as an electric vic- toria."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-16

It is said that Peffers famous irriga- tion ditches, by which it was expected to reclaim many thousands of acres of Kansas land, fill up with sand faster than it can be shoveled out, and the expensive system will probably have to be given up. The sand is brought in by the sweeping sandstorms, and there appears to be no way to control their drift.
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Ehc 9uurmal and GnMrier
ADVERTISING RATES.

ndvertisements One Cent a Word each m' sertion. Five Gents a Word for full week tseven timesl. quo ,c-
 Display Adyertisements-Per inch, e,dn one in' sertion, S1.20 each subsequent 1nSertI93nn. a3n n. 40 cents one week. $3.20; one month' SIo' one year, $40 1-
 Obituary Notices, in prose or, verse verse o,oS 10 cents per line Notices of Births, MarrIaseSi; sSi Deaths and Funerals 50 cents each. Local notices 15 cents per line. ,,,or,,
 Yearly advertisers are limited to theig own Tni Immediate business tall matter to pc 3n in- objectouable), and their contracts do not i"- clude Wants, To Let For Sale, etc ana
 Discounts-On two inches or more, poS piaS month and over. 10 per cent; on TOUT lntAe' or more, one month and over. 10 per eenI
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Openmg Day.
AsRooR,

To-day the ladies of New Haven will have a treat never before given in the city. A call will be rewarded with a flower to each one. Our stock of goods will tell their own story. Noth- ing need be said in regard to the fairness intend conducting our place. One price will be our standard, and hope that our patrons will appreciate it.
 Let it be remembered, any thing not in stock can be had, at short notice, direct from the New York factory.
 748 Chapel Street.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-16

Mme Cotescu, wife of a Roulnanian court councillor at Bucharest, has brought suit for 100, ,000 francs damages against a boarding school mistress of Boulogne sur Seine for the loss of two daughters. Mime Cotescu had placed four daughters in a convent school, where one became converted from the Greek orthodox faith to Roman Cathol- icism and later fled from her home to become a nun. To prevent the conver- sion of the two youngest girls the moth CT put them in the Boulogne school, on the teachers engaging to keep them away from the puns. The girls fled from school, however, and are now be- lieved to be nuns in some convent. The mothers suit for damages is compli- cated by the fact that her daughters have come of age and have intervened in the suit, through their lawyer, with the assertion that they acted of their own free will in what they did.
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A New Jersey woman has killed her husband for being late at breakfast. Wonder if @ sympathetic jury will call that justihable homicide.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-16

The Supreme court of Idaho has de- cided in favor of the woman suffragists. Their amendment to the constitution granting full electoral rights to women cast against it, but not majority of all the votes cast at that election. On this technicality the case was taken up to the Supreme court, which holds that a majority of the votes cast for an amendment is all that is required to carry an amendment.