The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-12-06

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Special Agents Colonel Linck. OF Ia.
coma and Crowley, " Chicago, were
IN the oity yesterday, making the reg
ular annual inspection Of the local GUS
toms office.
The reserved seat sale FOR Under
sealGd ORDERS" which appears nj
Fishers Dpern boufe tomorrow night,
opens at Grifln a. Reeds this morning
at 0 o'clock.
OF Interest % Ladles--Send your adj
dress 20 saffam0re Co. box $780, Port
land. Ore, ana we will mail you hes-
crlptlon Of an article every woman
should possess.
The funerals 0f the late A. l.. Friend
and Daniel Gray were held at half past
o'clock yesterday morning from Pohfs
undertaking parl0re. The lntermen Mt
was In Greenwood cemetery.
Robert Dollar and the r.. X. Wood
Lumber Company at San Francisco
have contracted with a shipbulldinR
Arm there 20 build two lumber steam
ers for the coast trade.
Owing 20 an error In the telegraphic
report Of the sailing date OF the steam
ship A0nmouthHbre, she n not due 10
arrive IN NJ this port until today. She
was reported 10 have sailed on the nth
" November but later adyiceH give her
actual sailing date as the 10Th.
The womans Relief Corps win give
a grand ball on Friday evening. Dec. Z.
at FOard q Stokes hall Tickets 20
cents per couple. Ladies' without es-
cort q cents. Best Of music by the
Columbia orchestra. Refreshments VIII
be served during the entire evening.
The annual sale and dinner Of the La
dies Aid Society viii open this after
noon nt 80. A large assortment Of
fancy work dolls. etc. will be shown
ana an excellent menu has been pro-
vided for the table At Republican
headquarters building on Bond street.
The closlng performance on Satur-
day evening at Fishers opera house
by the Under Sealed Orders COM
pany VIII he the splitting farce come
dy "The Strange Adventures Of Miss
Brown The advance sale Of ssats
opens this morning al Griffin q Reeds.
Contractor Paimberg. who was
awarded the contract for the c0nstruc-
tiou OF the building 10 be erected on
Commercial street west OF the Rucker
house. on Tuesday. says that the work
VIII be commenced very soon a. the
contract calls for the completion Of the
building by February 20
The new dredge Seattle" was COM
pleted and thoroughly tested on Mon
day nj Seattle The dredge is equipped
throughout with the most modern ma
chlnery and cost In the neighborhood
OF 100000 The test was an able DEM
Of the dredger's general ef-
fectiyeness and was In every way sue
cessful
The tug Samson was taken on the
ways below the can factory at high
tide yesterday, after undergoing a
thorough oyerhauilnR In regard TO her
propeller and rear bearings. She took
on coal at Sanhorn'a yesterday pre-
paratory TO leaving out with the barge
washougal loaded with lumber for San
Francisco.
The British ship Lakewood. that was
lying In the harbor for two months, un-
chartered on account OF her owners re-
fuaing 10 accept the offer OF the high
est rate for the year and finally being
compelled 10 accept much lower rate,
was towed 10 sea yesterday with
cargo OF wheat for Europe. She has
been In port nearly three months.
From present indication the fish
Of Washington viii turn out
90 100000 salmon spawn this year.
Should the government hatchery at
Baker lake turn out l5,000.000. as esti-
mated. II Will make q total OF 75,000,000
as the output for the state from twelve
hatcherles. These are the Skokomsh
Nooksack Kalama. Chinook. Chehaiis.
snohomish. Nlsqually. White River,
Wind River. Little Spokane, Samish and
hatcheries.
A civil case was tried yesterday af-
ternoon before Judge Brewer In which
f. $. Llndley sued ]. II. DeForce for
The sum OF $574S. which he alleges TO
be due him as balance OF wages for
work performed for the defendant at
his oil factory. The defendant admit
ted Si435 TO be due the plaintiff but
this left large discrepancy hence the
appeal TO the court. The court took
the case under consideration and will
give his decision today.
A dispatch from Port Townsend says
somewhere outside Cape Flattery in the
dense fog bank that has prevailed there
for several days In the British ship Ger
trud. leaking badly and endeavoring to
reach the Sound, where drydock assist
ance can be secured. The tug Tatoosh
looked for the Gertrud or the cape
for several days, and was forced back
to replenlsh her coal supply last night
The search for the leaky vessel will be
prosecuted by the different vessels OF
the towing fleet until she Is found and
brought here to safe harbor,
Articles OF Incorporation OF the Wash
ngton S Oregon Railway Company
were fled in the auditors office at
Olympia on Monday by Allen c. Ma
son, OF Tacoma; Edmund Rice, of
Olympia. and Il. II. Guile, OF Seattle.
The object of the corporation is to con-
struct line OF railway from Portland
10 Seattle, the road to cross the Column
bla river at Vancouver, thence running
through Clark, Cowlitz, Lewis. Thurs
ton and Pierce counties. and thence to
Seattle. The capital stock is $4,000.
md the principal place Of business is
olympia. II is generally thought that
sither the Union Pacific or the Port
Angeles Eastern Railway Company Is
behind the washington * Oregon COM
pany.
Yesterdays oregonian states that
Fish Commissioner f. c. Reed, who
went down to the coast Monday to Sc
ect q site for a hatchery on the Me-
or 0hana, has found site
On Thompson creek tributary Of the
ohana, where a hatchery can be es-
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