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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

NoruINo DnrTB
FOR
SCHOOL WEAR
COLUMBIA SHOE COMPANY
ToDAY's WEATHER.
Southwest gales on coast.
AROUND TOWN.
THURSDAY.
We are always cmplain,ng that on
days are few, and acting as II there wer
no end to them
Try schilIinS's Best tea and baking powder
Pure buckwheat flour at star Grocery.
Don't miss the linen sale at Dun
bars.
New Crop-nuts, ngs and -rsisinS, al Sta
Grocery.
Home made mince meat--lOc per pound, a
Star Grocery.
Fta cabbage for kraut at Ross HiE.
gins & Goa
See the prices of stamped linens
at Dunbar's.
VIM. Trle, of Fort Stevens. was IN tn,
city yesterday.
Groceries at the lowest prices at the
Pacific Grocery Co.
Mrs. E. ]. Hunt. of westport, is in the
city visiting friends.
Miss Alice Munsall has returned from
q visit 90 Portland.
Bicycle and repair shop q, lSS Ninth
street Charges reasonable
Our prices are the lowest In the city.
Call and see US. Pacific Grocery Co
For real life-lil1e and artistic photos,
call on snodgrass. the fotografer.
Some of the best local talent has bean
secured for the Ballad concert
Umbrellas covered and repaired by |
practical workman. at iS Ninth street
Ask for sample OF Chase & Saaborns
famous teas. At Ross. Higgins & Co.'S.
You can always find the best cream ~
butter and sweet, fresh cream at the
Parlor.
p. J. Meany. the leading merchant
tailor. 1877 Tenth St. The highest price
PAID Tor fur skins.
Can you do two things at once? Yes.
ATTEND the concert Thursday evening
and swell the church fund.
Dry ir slab wood for sale. Astoria
Land Investment Co., Commercial and
Eighth streets. Telephone se.
There will be a regular meeting OF the As.
toria Progressive Commercial Association at
the Exhibit hall tonight at 7:s1. s
c. @. Palmberg the leading contractor ,
and builder. is prepared to do all kinds d,
of jobblng and building work; 47s Duane
street
o. Freiderburg. Mt Hood: John Tur- ,
pie. John Day; A. II. Klint, Gray's river:
Sam Oliver and wife, Seaside. are reg.
lstered at the Parker house
You'll miss rare treat IL you don't
hear Miss Gladys Jones of Portland In
the Ballad" concert Thursday evening
assisted by some Of Astoria's sweetest =,
singers.
NOTICE: The public should rem=m- ,
Der that there is but one original. air
Eighth. Queen heater in the market. and
that Fisher Bros. are thu exclusive As
toria agents.
Attention, Ladies' Commencing
today and until further notice, all
stamped and embroidered linens
will be sold at a reduction of 25
per cent, at Albert Dunbar's.
II wonder how It is the Eatock oyster
parlors are getting such trader" Well
they get their oysters fresh every day,
give big measure. good service, and that
is the secret of success in business.
The contract for the government work
on the Umpqua and Nestucca rivers has
been completed Messrs. Normile and
Fastabend were the contractors. Mr. ,
Normile left for Portland yesterday
evening to close up tbs contract.
I
Try an oyster stew, for 25 nts, at
the Parlor next door to Hahn's shoe 7
store. Fresh oysters always on hand; 6
In any style, or delivered by the +
pint or quart. at % and 50 cents, re- I
spectively, in any part of the city. ;
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

Fna cabbage for kraut at Ross. Hig-
gins & Goa
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

There will bel regular meeting OF the As
toria Progressive Commercial Association at
the Exhibit hall tonight at 7.Sl.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

o. Freiderburg, Mt. Hood; John Tur-
pie. John Day; A. II. Klint, Gray's river;
Sam Oliver and wife, Seaside. are reg.
istered at the Parker house.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

c. @. Palmberg. the leading contractor
and builder. is prepared to do all kinds
Of jobblng and building work; E7s Duane
street.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

Can you do two things at once? Yes.
ATTEND the concert Thursday evening
and swell the church fund.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

NOTICE: The public should remsm-
Der that there is but one original air
Eighth. Queen heater in the market. and
that Fisher Broe. are the exclusive Az
toria agents.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

You can always find the best creamsry
butter and sweet, fresh cream at the
Parlor.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

Ask for sample OF Chase & saaborn's
famous teas. At Ross. Higgins & Co.'S.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

You'll miss a rare treat If you don't
hear Miss Gladys Jones of Portland In
the Ballad" concert Thursday evening,
assisted by some Of Astorias sweetest
singers
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

Dry fir slab wood for sale Astoria
Land & Investment Co. Commerclal and
Eighth streets. Telephone %.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

Umbrellas covered and repaired BY a
practical workman. at lS Ninth street
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

See the prices of stamped linens
at Dunbar's.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

Some OF the best local talent has bean
secured for the Ballad concert.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

VIM. True, of Fort Stevens was In the
city yesterday.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

For real lfe-lihe and artistic photos,
oail on Snodgrass. the fotografer.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

Groceries at the lowest prices at the
Pacific Grocery Co.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-11

Our prices are the lowest In the city.
Call and see US. Pacific Grocery Co.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Popocrats, Attention!

What We're some of those remarks that
were heralded around from Popocratic
stump to stump last year, to the effect
that our currency was SO limited and con-
tracted that we could not do business,
and that the only hope for return to
prosperity was through the free coinage
Of silver at 16 to 1? 1t is quite evident
to observant men that some of these Pop
ocrats were laboring under a mistake, be-
cause by reference to the election returns
Of 1895 it will be seen that the free coin
age proposition was not adopted, and yet
here we find in the country to-day nearly
a hundred million dollars more in circula-
ton than there was a year ago, and not
a dollar of it free silver. Gold alone has
increased in circulation in the last year
over fifty million dollars.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Exports of Manufacturers.

The excess of merchandise exports for
September reaches the stupenuous fig
ure. of $62, ,187. This is $1,000
600 over the most liberal estimate
and $15, ,0OO,OO more than seemed likely
two weeks ago. Never in our commercial
history have exports been so large from
the lesser ports and this deranges all cal
culations. The excess Of exports is al
most twice the excess in September, 1896,
$34, ,275,10 Last year the cotton crop
was early. This year it is late. It is NOV
ing in October when the excess of mer-
chandise exports was $63 3,049,2 ,267. I'm
ports are this year less than last year for
New York by Salts, 900, and while ex-
ports from New York are about $500, 900
less, they are undoubtedly larger for the
country, as $4,000 more bales of cotton
and 2,600, 600 bushels of wheat are known
to have been exported from all ports. The
heavy excess Of September will therefore
be III ali PROBABILITY eQualled and the two
months will have an excess together Of
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
$4,000 COO or about 50 600 900 a day

S120, ,000, 600, or about 100000 day.
The gold exports which have begun are
therefore small by those which will follow
and they will come at time when the
treasury at Washington holds within $4,-
600, 900 as much gold as the Bank Of
England. Not unnaturally discount rates
are falling here and risking abroad, and
with the rise abroad in discounts has come
a sale Of American securities to this coun-
try. The national mortgage is being paid
and one more step taken toward the fnan-
cial and commercial supremacy of the
world.
Wheat prices turn just now on Argen-
tine supplies, which may be from 10000
900 to 10000, 900 bushels, no one knows
which. Free exports, continue and the
Western farmer is making his sales at
higher profits and less trammeled by arti-
fetal causes than in number of years, to
the national advantage. The Daily Dry
Goods Reporter puts the cotton yield at
9,371 900 bales Of 500 pounds. This would
be, with one exception, the largest crop
on record, and both cotton and print cloths
fell last week. Bessemer pig and steel
billets rose last week and in general iron
and steel look to larger prices. The ship
ments of boots and shoes are now at the
highest figures eported.-Philadelph
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Louisiana Busipess Improved.

The Shreveport jobbers and wholesalers
unite in saying that the business season is
active They are In a position to know. and
we hope and suspect they are correct in this
conclusion. Confidence is gradually increas-
ing In all departments of trade, and 1t really
seems probable that the long expected era
of prosperity is about to dawn upon our fair
and fertile Southland 1t is trusted that the
expectation may meet full realization
Shreveport Qa.) Times.
We are glad to learn Of this business i'm
provement, and trust that it extends
throughout Louisiana. The answering
efforts of United States Senator McEn-
ery to secure protection for, and to pro-
mote the interests of, his State are
promptly bearing good fruit. Whenever
the sugar industry of Louisiana is pros
porous, then all it's wholesale and retail
interests must be in the same happy cendi-
ton.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Railroad Men We're Wise.

The railroad employees Of the country
are not regretting their labors and votes
of last year in favor of Mckinley, sound
money and protection. The gross earn
ings Of the year just ended for the rail-
roads of the country are $75,0OO,0O0
greater than in the year preceding, and
the number of people employed has large
ly increased, with higher scale of wages
in many cases. Railroad shops have start
ed up all over the country on full and
overtime, giving employment to thousands
of old hands who had been thrown out of
employment by the previous depression,
and the difference generally between con-
ditions in railroad circles now and a year
ago shows a remarkable change.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Continues to Sweep. Over the
Land, Placing Prosperity
on a Solid Basis. =. =
Various Sections Vie with One Another in
Proclaiming the Return of
Good Times.

fall of sos, ,0S9 tons. The amount of iron
made now and during three months past
is very closely equal to: the. amount in
1895; but the amount actually consumed
Is considerably greater.
This goes to the root of prosperity be.
cause the consumption of iron is the best
possible measure Of the activity of rail
roads, both in maintenance and in new
construction, of house building and of new
msnufa curing plants. This increased ac-
tiyify also was chiefly in the past month.
From July l to Sept. 1 stocks only fell
136502 tons. In September pig iron
stocks fell 172,5S3 tons. Taking pro-
duction and stocks together, In July and
August, about 172, 100 tons were consum-
ed each week; in September 226, 200 tons
weekly. Here is an increase of SO, 500
tons in the weekly consumption of iron
IN September over the average of July
and August, an increase Of 81 per cent.
Such an advance in the consumption of
iron indicates very large advance IN the
disbursement of wages, because the
amount spent on any enterprise for iron Is
a very small share Of the total expended
for wages in the same enterprise.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
A Wise Action.

The Presidents action in the appoint
ment of special reciprocity commissioner
to arrange our reciprocal trade relations
with the countries entering into our recip-
rocity agreements is spoken Of with gen.
eral satisfaction. Under President Har-
rison's administration these matters were
attended to through the State Depart
ment, whose tedious routine methods occa-
stoned considerable delay, but the SUBJ
ject was an experiment at that time, while
under the last administration the recip-
rocity treaties were all abrogated, leading
to retaliatory measures on the part of
Spain, France, Germany and South Amer
lean republics.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Far from Discouraging.

The free trade organs are fond of compar-
Ing the tariff receipts of the first sixty days
of the Dingley law with the first sixty days
OF the Wilson law-well knowing that spe-
cial conditions operated in favor Of the Will
son bill before Its passage and while the
Dingley law was pending.-Doylestown Pa)
Inteligencer.
Allowing for the disadvantages under
which the Dingley bill suffered, during
the first sixty days of its enactment,
comparison of its results with those Of
the Wilson bill during it's first two months
incuba ton, is far from discouraging to the
friends of protection. 1t will be found
elsewhere
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19

son why the British manufacturers should
not do equally well, and says that ''the
American machinery is Inferior to that of
British make, and cheaper, but; it: sells
well, and that is the principal thing" If
a few English firms were to subscribe to-
gether and send out man to visit the
Islands Of Principe and s. Thome, and
then Loanda, Benguella and Mossam-
medes, so that they might get an insight
into what class of machinery is required
in those parts, their money would not, the
vice-consul STATED, be badly spent, and
they would learn a great deal. They
would probably learn something about the
superiority of the American machinery.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
DIscouRAoING TO BRYANiTES.
Money Circulation Increases a Hun
: dred Million in a Year.

Mr.. Bryan and his free silver colaborers
.would like to blot out the newspaper rec
ords of their speeches year ago:N 1t was
just this time in the campaign of 1896
that they We're asserting that the country
was suffering from lack of currency, and
could only be supplied by the free and un-
limited coinage of silver. The people
of the country did not agree with them,
and free and unlimited coinage has not
been put into operation. Yet the October
statement of the Treasury Department
shows that the money in circulation to-
day is, in round numbers, $40, ,00o, 900 in
excess of that one year ago. Curiously,
more than one-haIf of this increase is in
gold. The following table, issued by the
Urea sury Department on Oct. L. shows
the money in circulation Oct. 1, 1897, com
pared with Oct L 1896:
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
American Bluntness.

1t is Secretary Sherman's blunt way
that is displeasing to Englishmen, and
it certainly does not place Salisbury in
the most favorable light. The American
people will not think any the less of Sec
retary Sherman for the opinions regard
ing him of the English press. He may be
wanting in the useless arts and wiles of
diplomacy, but he knows how to state
facts so that everybody can understand
them and he has shown himself to be a
match in controversy for Salisbury or any
other British diplomat.-Omaha Bee,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
They Are Disappointed.

The Democratic orators who were ex-
pecting to make mince meat of thefeatu
of the Dingley law relating to expectation
of American manufactures have lapsed
into singular silence. Nor are they max
ing comparisons of the expectations un-
der the new law and those Of a year ago
under the Wilson law. For their exclu-
sive information, attention is directed to
the fact that these expectations aggre-
gated during the second month of the
Dingley law S1O3, 1850, 900 as against $685.
756, 900 in The corresponding mozsa Of
last year.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
A Sure Barometer.

The monthly statement of the postal re-
ceipts Of the principal cities OF the. caun-
try; which has just been made. public, is
Of great significance as an indica ton of.
the condition of general business. A
handsome increase In the income of the
'Qostofftces of the leading cities was made
in. September, as compared with the same
month in 1896. In only few places of
$4,000 Inhabitants or over was there any
falling off inlathe month. One of these
wassNew Orleans, where the decline was
probably due to the yellow fever, which
has seriously depressed business in that
town and throughout large part of the
region bordering on the Gulf of Mexico.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Sectionalism.

The spreading of protectionist sentiment
in the South, the impartial and wholly ma
tional spirit which has determined the
provisions of the Dingley law, and the
wise and statesmanlike utterances Of
President Mckinley have gone far to de-
stroy the remnants Of that sectionalism
which, forty years ago, threatened te de
stroy the Union. There are enemies of
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
A Rebuke to Demasogues.

To the demagogues and agitators who
are assailing the corner stone of Amen-
can government, the judiciary, the e1-
ample of Justice Field comes as speak
ing rebuke Field entered upon his duties
just before tie most trying time in Amer
lean history, the period of reconstruction.
During his long career on the Supreme
bench he won the respect even of his
bitterest political opponents. He was
ever true to his convictions.-Cincinn
TimeS-Star
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Good for the DtnaIey Law.

Senator Jones of Arkansas called atten-
tion-in a speech in the Senate-to the
remarkable record Of the Wilson law as
relating to the expectation Of American
manufactures. And yet the expectations
of this class under the second month of
the operations Of the Dingley law were
% per cent in excess of those Of the CORE
spending month Of the Wilson law Of last
wear
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
THE record of mercantile and

,T record of mercantile and
manufacturing activity continues
- to verify the predictions of those
trade optimists who have been contend
ing all along that the upward move
ment- is not spasmodlc or speculative
but actually rests on basis of growing
demand which is destined to be perma-
nent. 1t is now over three months since
the new tariff law was approved by the
President. While the most ultra-pro-
tcetionists will not contend that the
new law could have such a marvellous
effect upon trade conditions in so short
a time, no careful observer will deny
that the revival of business confidence
: has been steady and continuous since
Its enactment. 1t is an illustration. Of
what a settled economic policy on the
part of the Government will do for the
business interests of the country.
The significant features of the phe-
nomenal trade improvement are the
heavy increase in iron production and
consumption, the largest payments
ber, the increase in the employment of
labor and the record breaker in wheat
exports. At every point where actual
production can be tested it appears
greater than before. The increase in
the employment of labor has continued
and there are daily reports of resump-
ton of work in idle factories and sharp
advances IN wages. - Z =: )
The September exports of wheat sur
pass all records, amounting to 25,S6S,-
:s3S bushels, against 17,646-S15 bushels.
last year, the value being over 100 per
cent larger for all breadstuffs. For the
week just closed the total exports Of
wheat ffom both coasts of the United
States aggregated 6,O39,720 bushels,
against 1885, ,641 bushels last week, f.,
156,S17 bushels year ago and 100000
bushels in 1895.
With such. favorable showing in
all departments of business activity
the pessimistic calamity wailAr hasn't
leg left to stand on.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
They Acknowledge the Corn.

The silverites have at last weakened In
the face of the rapid depreciation in the
value of their metal. 1t was matter of
surprise that they should have shouted
silver as long as they did, in view of its
steady depreciation. but they were doubt
less in hope that something-wheat or
something else-would carry it up again
to it's price of last year. Instead of this,
it has gone down like chunk of lead, lit
orally, and finally stands at such q ridicu-
lously low figure that they have been fore
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
American Machinery in Africa.

The British vice-consul at Loanda states
that up to the present no British firm has
sent out a. representative to Angola
There is fair demand for cane-crushing
mills, steam engines and turbines. A
representative of an American firm is out
for the third time within four years, and
has done good business. He sees no rea
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Trade, Price and Iron.

All other facts and conditions in the
business situation are of small conse-
quence by the side of the sudden and
rapid increase in September in the con-
sumption of iron. The production of pig
iron is no greater-in fact, it is a little
less-than two years ago. The weekly
production, Oct. 1, 1895, was POI, ,414 tons
cIron Age" fgures), and on the first of
the current month the total product,
weekly, was 20O,12S tons. This makes
the product practically equal now and
two years ago. The consumption has,
however, greatly increased. In 1895,
when the product rose 10000 tons in three
months, from July 1 to Oct. 1, against
$4,000 tons now, the unsold stocks stead
lily grew. This year the unsold stocks
have fallen in three months from 1,000,
0l2 tons July to COL .527 tons Oct l.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Have Money to spend.

Profits and wages being good in the States
NAV cause such demand all round that the
British trades will feel something of it In
spite of the tarif.-Bradford EnglanO OBJ
server.
We think so. This was the result dur
ing our prosperity under Mckinley pro-
lection. When money is ABUNDANT here,
our people always buy freely of British
luxuries. 1t is from such purchases as
these that we add largely to our customs
revenue under a protective tariff.