The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-04-06

bor IN the rough were dragged through
the streets from the Borthwlck Lumber
Company's dock and created no httle
comment. The pieces were some sixty
or scventy-avc feet long and about two
feet square and wec without "a haw'
They win be made into spar buoys 10y I'm
Gle sam.
Several changes have been made IN the
o. r. & n. river captains. Captain Ed
Sullivan. the popular skipper of the
steamer Potter, has been promoted To
the chief clcrkship in the office ot Cap
tain Conway. superintendent ot water
lines headquarters az Portland Captain
Turner has succeeded Captain sullivan on
the Potter,
one of the scenes which attracted con-
siderable attention sunday morning was
the Mlslley Hail weighing anchor as she
was about 60 proceed up the river. The
Jolly song of the Jack tars as they
worked half an hour at the wIndlass
aoatcd over the waters and mingled with
the sounds % church bells On the shore I
Jack works best when he Is singing as
an other work Is better performed by
those who are happy than by the srum'
blers.
At the MINISTRIES in Portland the other
night 50 said a travelling man yesterday, F.
the end-man asked the interlocutor 10 ,
change him a SO hill After receiving I
his change in good. hard money. he
laughed. and pointing 20 the boss, said; I
Dat man am badly fooled; he got a CON T.
fe,ierate bin" The interlocutor graVcly T.
replied; Not SO. jim; We arr going to
Astoria tomorrow and I will pass Il ou
there without any trouble. They don't
know down there the war is over"
Il Is thought that az the next meeting
ot the county court. the Wright children
will be finally disposed Of An eftort will
be made to place four Of them In some
charitable institution tn Portland and the
two older ones. who are In the ncighhor-
hood Of thirteen years. viii support them
selves They are now being cared Tor In
this city by charltably disposed families
and St Marys hospital Their father.
who is doing well In Alaska and knowing
their condition. has 50 iar not given them
any assistance
Charles r. Thompson. Maurice Winter.
F. $. Bennett. Frank {. Baker. r. Hoch.
A. II. ballard. A. W Gibson. Portland.
James {. Murray D. {. Heger r. J.
Walker. \. r. Callen. Charles NJ. Hougn.
]. l.. Clark. W. +. Clark. san Francisco;
A. Brown. Hammond J. =, whtcomb,
uwaco; Lieutenant William II. ConnOr.
U. S. A.: ]. A. Matthews. Cleveland, O
William J. Sibley. Jacksonville: Il. 5.
wadsworth. Lisbon. o.: F. Norman. Chi
cago: J. O. Spencer. Clifton; william J.
Wood. Tacoma. are guests az the Occi-
dent.
d. II. welch yesterday filed two pho
tographic views in the auditors Office OF
portions OF the Improvement Of CONNER
cial street showing defects In the lumber
and in the construction of the work. one
low the railroad depot where defective
stringer was In place II appears 10 have
a dry rot running through the center OF
Il. and is marked on the photograph In
red ink with the words Look al this
strinEer" The other Is view OF the
work done at the lower side OF the old
Devlin cannery and shows crooked piling,
defective underpinning etc. They are eN-
cellent views OF Commercial street. but
the work is not copyrighted nor is the ar
lists name signed on them.
Captain Logan's log-book Of the Brit
ish ship Mistley Han shows really re-
markable voyage for vessel ~ her age
and style. She left Philadelphia last Sep
tember. sailed across the Atlantic. round
ed the Cape OF Good Hope. made a re-
markable passage across the treacherous
Indian ocean where she averaged over 20
miles a day, passed south OF Cape Tas-
mania. reached the equator In the Pa
ciic in l4 days sailed through the caro-
line and Ladrone isldnds-a voyage sell
dom undertaken-through Van Schoten
straits and into Nagaslka. where a stop
Of % days was made and from there 20
Astoria In "a days. completing a voyage
OF fve-siNths around the globe In 2ll days.
Many hurricanes and typhoons were en-
countered, In one Of which the bow Of the
ship was smashed In, in another the Sec
ond mates leg was broken az the hip. ana
from Nagasaka across the vessel was
driven all the way by a terrific hurricane
which snatched the foretopsan and fore
topsail staysail from out the bolt-ropes
and for four hours kept the lee-rail I'M
der water. every man clinging to the rig
ging and expecting every moment to go
TO the bottom.
The Elder arrived in from Skagway
yesterday after a fine passage Of seven
days. She had 3Jl tons Of coal taken on
al NanaimO. which she takes back TO the
Alaska and Treadwell Mining Company.
There was no freight on board outside OF
her stores. Eighteen passengers were
brought down from the north. including
one woman and two children She brought
down the body OF Sergeant John Kelly.
who dleu OF spinal meningitis In Skag-
way Sergeant Kelly was a young man
and was well known and very popular
in Vancouver. where he resided a number
Of years. He Joined the army before the
relief expedition left for the north and
accompanied them when orders came 10
start, and was promoted sergeant He
leaves a young wife in Vancouver who
telegraphed Tor Information % this city
yesterday after the arrival Of the Elder.
The report that the Elder was on the
rocks on her up trip was Incorrect. cap
tain Hinckle states that he was caught
on a mud fiat for a few hours while at
tempting 70 land some passengers. but no
damage was done. There were also two
Cinnamon on board for Portland who
boarded her at Nanalmo The Elder left
up at O'Clock yesterday evening