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Public Utility vs Pr.vate Eut rpr.se.
At the ma-- tin etii.g call d to imr
ileum the water (• mpany, la**. I-'r.d.
night, which under its prti-ent latel..-
a<'quin I ownership is as rapidly licing
placi d .11 a stat- i f efficiency a- tlmr
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actual cu int !';'tv three persons | rt
rut, wbicli I- stated by the /.'■ • ■■ j .
ban (.in "fully a hundred nr mm"
li | ri-t nl.itivc (.1. en-." nil il 1 1' 1 1' 111 ■- 0
regi.-UTid to int. , but many who wmil 1
not have a cent in pay on the proposi
tion ti. bond the city for acquiring the
wtiter service by condemnation.
l'u -how ju-t buw llimsy, irreli vant
and untruthful was the report of the
evening paper of tho proceedings of
the meeting, we note the fact that l»r
J. H. Cook, of California, was called
upon »s an expert (.all medicos are ex
perts in analyses, you know) who stat
ed that tie had been many times, (lur
ing his periodical visits to this city,
horribly impressed with the sewerage I
that pa-scd into the city water from 1
I.um Jo s garden patch. He then mi
nutely described the animal and vcgc-j
table life that was carried through the j
Hume from I.um Jo's garden to the
intake of tho water company. lie de- j
scribed the effects of parasitic life and .
vegetable decomposition on human !
life, all of which was based upon the '
swill, slops and filth flowing from j
bum Jo's sewer. At the conclusion of
the exhaustive speech, introduced as a
cog in the wheel around which a new
political machine is to revolve, the
writer, who has lived here long enough
to have some knowledge of local topog
raphy, ventured to enquire whether
the learned doctor knew the precise
location of hum Jo's garden, and
whether it was not on very nearly a
sea level, while the altitude of the
water intake was at quite an elevation,
so much so as to make it necessary for
water to literally flow up hill to make
his statement bear the semblance of
truth. The doctor, in explanation,
said that Lum Jo's garden was contig
uous to the Cullen property, which is
news to people who know quite as well
as to those who do not, and then
brapched off on the necessity of reach
ing out for California visitors who
would come here like himself, if people
would only keep their water pure and
backyards clean. It was quite evident
that he was thinking of contamination
of the mud-llats, instead of the water
system, another hobby he is said to
ride.
To show how fair and truthful the
report of the Recorder is, we quote its
version:
"When he had finished John Miller
Murphy expressed abelief that the flume
did not How through Lum Jo's garden,
but was promptly set right on the ge
ography of the water system."
It will be seen that the object of the
inquiry was to confine tbe doctor to
his oft-reiterated statement that it was
Lum Jo's slops that were contaminat
ing the water supply and show that it
could-not have been possible without a
suspension of one of the first laws of
Nature—gravitation. It was simply a
topographical mistake that completely
upset the argument he was making.
Would not a fair report have been
better, if indeed, the claim of the Re
corder be true, that the objector was
tbe only person present that favored
more time for the water campany to
perfect their plans for a better water
supply and cheaper rates? Further on
it admits that Mr. H. W. Smith was
another objector, or as it puts it, was
• " representative of Mr. Heermans,
the head of the new company." There
were, however, many others who took
no part in the controversy, who have
since assured tbe writer that they were
utterly opposed to making tbe water
supply a partisan issue, or in other
words " a plank to slide into office on."
Tbe meeting Friday night bore
many evidences of having been " cut
and dried." It was stated on tbe floor
that resolutions of the " rut-and dry"
stamp were in Somebody's pocket,
ready to be sprung, and Mr. A. J.
Falknor said tbe City Attorney was
ready to render an opinion that con
demnation proceeding! would be sus
tained by tbe courts and that he
(.Falknor) was ready, then and there,
to discuss its propriety. Mr. Ailing
was, however, to sly a coon to be
caught with any degree of precipi
tance in plain view while launching a
public-utility boom. Booms often
collapse under such conditions, and
some show of fairness must be made,
for is it not written that
"The be«t laid fchemee o' mice au' men,
Uan« aft acley,
Au' leave us noueht but gricran' paiu
For promised joy""
That Seattle hag made a success (so
called) of municipal ownership of wa
ter proves nothing. That city may
make a success of anything while it
can successfully maintain its high
pressure policy. But its municipal
lovy this year is 48 mills and with
addition of county and State levies
amounts to an eight per cent, levy,
probably the largest of any common
wealth in the country.
Jhe 3:1 per cent, reduction in water
rates, promised by Mr. Ailing, will be
reduced by the tax on water bonds,
with the city already indebted $227,000,
and increased costs of operation, just
as in all other public affairs, where
short hours and liberal salaries take
the place of honest work and faithful
service. There is little hope that
Olympia water-rates, under private or
public management, can be reduced to
corresponding rates with less favorably
situated communities, when an inex
haustible flow may not be obtained by
anybody tapping the subterranean
depths, unless some scheme may be
concocted for plugging up tho huu-
fired Hi more artesian wells supplying
their (itinera and their owner's neigh
bor!-, w.< bout costing a C( nt of outlay
af'e : l !.■ y are driven.
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Predicts a Panic.
It si ms that Rockefeller, despite
his wealth and ail the joy it is sup
pi•-(•■! to bring, is a decided pessimist,
at tin.-.- at least, and he fort casts a pan
ic in I'.'d? and T'OS that will surpass
any financial crush ever experienced
in this or any other country. In lS'Jd.
h SHY-, there were H.fNNt.itOU men out
of Work, and during the malign period
si • n by his prophetic eye, there will
e from to 10,»KM>,(M10 in
idleness.
It is 110 more than fair to state that
the money king bases his prediction
on over-production in nil lines. It
has, at least, a theoretical basis for
support fr. in the brain, although the
dismal ou'look may emanate in a
large degree from a disordered stom
ach. The opinions of a multi-million
aire are accepted by many people,
however, without question, although
his wealth may he wholly the result of
fortuitous circumstances controlled by
chance. It is unfortunate that it is
so, for like faith cure, the trend of
popular sentiment, is just as likely to
produce results that are foreboded as
thoee that arc joyfully anticipated.
Any forecast that disturbs confidence
and hordes capital is destructive of
prosperity and productive of all the
ills which Mr. Rockefeller declares
should be provided for by the parental
hand of the general government. He
does not take note of the fact that
tho government revenue is already in
adequate to meet current expenses,
providing for a million or more de
pendants, and that the new policy of
expansion has increased the civil ser
vice expenditures to a cost that rivals
the burden of war-times so nearly that
the suggestion lias been made to re
vive the stamp revenue to meet annual
deficiencies.
This prophecy was made to Col.
Moore, President of the National Good
Roads Association, and tho good and
kind coal-oil king very naturally sug
gested that, to avert the calamity, laws
be enacted whereby idle men could be
put to work building roads. So it
may, aftc- all, be but a " boost" for
labor, during one of those lulls in in
dividuality when the man of millions
lapses into one of his Sunday-school
moods.
EXPLOSION OK EIGHTY TONS OF DY
NAMITIC.—The people of Port Said, a
town on tho Suez Canal, near the
Mediterranean, are intensely excited
over the determination to explode SO
tons of dynamite, in the wrecked
steamer Chatham, which was sunk in
the canal some weeks ago. While the
town is twelve miles distant, it is
feared that great damage may result.
This is the greatest amount of the
explosive ever set off at one time.
Thirty tons were exploded in 1893, on
board a ship at Santander, a seaport of
Spain, on an inlet of the Bay of Biscay,
and that killed COO people and injured
over 2,000 more, out of a population of
about 30,000. It is feared that it may
likewise damage the canal, but as the
channel is cut through the open desert,
on quite a level area, it is unlikely;
still the railroad company has loaded
on cars a thousand bags of sand and
many workmen in reyrve to make re
pairs. Canal traffic Was to have ceased
Wednesday evening, and the dynamite
to have been exploded yesterday, by
wire from Kantara, which is fourteen
miles distant.
Later.—The explosion took place
yesterday, and the effect was tremen
dous although no serious injury was
done the canal, but it will take several
days to clear tho debris from the chan
nel. -
MANILA was swept by a dreadful
typhoon, Tuesday afternoon. Ten
thousand of tbe inhabitants are home
less. Hundreds of buildings were
prostrated. Over two hundred persons
were injured by falling debris and
live wires and six are known to have
perished from the latter cause. It is
thought that many victims will be
found in the ruins of the buildings.
The U. S. gunboat Lyte was sunk, and
tbe military post at Malahi, 31 miles
from Manila, was entirely destroyed.
ASSESSMENT OF FRANCHISES.— The
Supreme Court of Minnesota has de
cided that the State has a right to col
lect taxes on a valuation of $1,000,000
of the Western Union Telegraph com
pany's property and assessment of its
franchise. The company resisted the
latter valuation, claiming that the
State constitution did cot confer the
right. The court holds that franchises
of all kinds, although intangible prop
erty, are taxable under the constitu
tion. .
PRESIDENT Roosevelt when accused by
the W. 0. T. U. of receiving a case of
beer at the White House, replied he had
returned the case. But was the case
empty 7— Ledger.
If it wasn't empty, most people will
say he is a crank, and if it is admitted
it was empty it will be taken as a plea
of guilty—so there you are. Probably,
however, exalted position will mitigate
the oflense, if it does not wholly par
don the transgression.
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DK. Morrison, Rector of Trinity
church, Portland, was " held up" by
two highwaymen in Portland, Monday
night, and robbed of his watch and
purse. They surely did not know that
he was a parson, or they would have
passed him on at least half-fare, as the
railroads did " Dr." Haines' friends
when coming from Chicago to pas
; tures green on Elliot Bay.
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IT is now believed in Japan that the
flagship of Admiral Togo, the Mikasa,
was blown up by design from the
shore, like the Maine was destroyed at
Havana.
Will It Be Peace?
The J»ll ti peace party in Japan seems
tn have lost none of its vitality from
lapse of time. Scores of petitions
have broil addressed to the Mikado
asking that ratification of the Ports
mouth treaty be refused. Six profes
sors of the imperial university have
addressed a strongly-worded appeal,
whose only effect, so far, has been to
place one of them, its author, on the
retired list. It.states very plainly the
duty of annulling the peace stipula
tions, as subversive of the objects for
winch the war had been prosecuted to
a successful termination; that they
are humiliating and attended by im
minent danger to the interests of tho
nation. They hdd that the agree
ment in the treaty, by which Japan is
pledged not to fortify the Straits of
Soya, involves the greatest humilia
tion tho country has yet suffered,
of the newspapers go so far as to
say that the indignity is unbearable,
and the constitutionalists are grad
ually assuming an attitude of unyield
ing opposition to the government.
Conditions are reported to be not
much better in .Russia. While Witte
was elated over the result of his diplo
matic management which secured tho
surprising result, he was filled with
apprehension as to the effect upon his
people who were unprepared for grasp
ing opportunities presented by condi
tions, with a despot still nominally at
the head of the government. It was
almost with tears, immediately after
the agreement, he enjoined the report
ers to state: "Do not say I am
pleased with the result. I have doue
my best. 13ut I fear most terribly the
ending."
His words were prophetic. That
part of Russia represented by the
voiceful class, who control by popular
clamor and overt acts, are not pleased
with the prospect of peace. Their
mental turpitude is represented by the
fool who tighte on never knowing
when ho is beaten to a finish. The
motives for disapproval are as varied
as the dispositions of mankind without
a settled purposo and definite pro
gramme. Some wanted the war to
continuo till the Czar was dethroned
and a constitutional government pre
sented as the only natural sequence;
others base their opposition on Witte,
personally. These embrace the peas
ant farmers who accuse him of effort
to build tip cities at the expense of
the country; others wanted no peace
until the humiliation of»dcfeat had
been wiped out by a change in the
tide of warfare—it might be long in
coming, but their faith in ultimate
victory amounts to a zeal that is un
bounded by reason.
The conditions arc such that nobody
can tell what the future will bring
forth. It looks as if either nation
would welcome some overt act by the
other to end the patched-up truce and
again loosen the dogs of waf. There
is no doubt many in either nation
have had enough of war, and are sin
cere in their hope for a permanent
peace, but their strength is of a nega
tive nature which seldom finds ex
pression in the acts by which nations,
as individuals, are judged or controlled.
COSTS GOVERNMENT $16,000 TO IM
POSE $25,000 FINE.— Four officers of
the packing firm of Schwartzchild &
Sulzberger, of Chicago, with connec
tions in New York and other large
cities, last week pleaded guilty of con
spiracy to obtain railroad rebates, and
were fined a total of $25,000. The
plea was made with the understanding
that the imprisonment feature of the
penalty would not be invoked, and
they were set at liberty. A remark
able feature of the transaction is that
it has cost the government $16,000 to
collect the evidence against these four
men.
ALL talk is off regarding llaron
Kamura. lie has neither committed
suicide, nor has he died from typhoid,
notwithstanding both probabilities
were announced by the " big-bend"
papers. Whether he will be assassi
nated on arrival home, is a prediction
that requires lime to verify or " go
glimmering" as have about all the
sensational trash that has been pub
lished about the suffering envoy.
PLENIPOTENTIARY Witte said, just be
fore sailing, that the representative and
typical American city will not he New
York, and, though in the West, not
Chicago. Why couldn't he say St.
Louis without all that circumlocution? —
St. Louis Republic.
Oh, pshaw! His eyes were at an
elevation that saw much farther than
" Sang Lowie." It was probably Spo
kane, Seattle or Olympia, that was
within range.
TIIERK seems to be little doubt but
that Warden Kees, of the State Peni
tentiary, will have to " walk the plank"
very soon, and T. N. Beal, the Gov.
ernor's brother-in-law will likely get
the place, and it is said that Mr. Beal
will receive a place on the Board of
Control in place of J. H. Davis, should
the latter be selected for Warden.
A KAFT containing a woman and
four men was seen from the shore, one
day last week, near Marslifield, Ogn.,
about fourteen miles off, and it was
several hours before information could
be given to the Banden life-saving
station, and by that time it had drifted
out of sight, and the search by boat
was without result.
Now that the woman burglar is re
ported to have put in an appearance in
this city, it will be the proper thing for
the timid old bachelors to take a look
under their beds before retiring for the
night.— Spokane Chronicle.
That's all right; but now tell us just
what to do if a woman who burgles is
found there.
THE Government report issued from
Washington Tuesday forecasts an in
ferior crop in apples and that the
prospect for corn is good.
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Facts, Unwelcome Though They Ba.
Olympia's methods of dealing witli
husiness enterprise has ever been in
strong contrast with the famous Seat
tle style, which has resulted in such
phenomenal growth. It is over forty
years ago that the " moss-backs" de
feated a project planned by David
Phillips, a wealthy Olympia merchant,
to erect a woolen mill at Tumwater.
it was about half that numbc-r of years
ago that tho same methods defeated a
plan of Samuel Coulter, another wide
awake citizen, to buy and operate the
Olympia-Tenino railroad, on a "blind"
project, a proposition, which, when
made by lleury Yillard to even phleg
matic German capitalists, resulted in
immediate acceptance and the forming
of a pool of many millions to back his
judgment and led to completion of the
Northern l'acific Railway.
Itut Mr. Coulter was not so fortun
ate. Local capitalists insisted that
Sam had a "card up his sleeve," and
advised stockholders to "pass out."
The result was Mr. Coulter invested
his money in the Esmond Hotel in
Portland. Others bought the "jerk
water," as it was then called, and by
adopting substantially tho plan of Mr.
Coulter, derived a SIOO day revenue
from the road, clear of all expenses, by
bauliug in logs front a distance that
had not at that time been deemed
possible as a paying investment. Later
on the owner of the best brew of beer
011 the Coast was nearly driven to
other fields, by conservatism (or rather
selfishness') of leading partisans. When
the first brick building was erected in
Olympia, predictions of bystanders
were as plentiful as tho squirts of to
bacco juice they ejected while looking
on, that the investor was placing his
money wheie he would never seo it
again. When tho theater was built
and the bank advanced interest on a
$5,000 note from 10 to 12 per cent.,
payable and paid promply quarterly,
and a reduction was asked, a director
more forcibly than elegantly eaid,
"Ho got himself into the hole; let
him get out of it; ho can't tako the
theater away," and tho usurious rate
was not placed at oven tho former
exorbitant rate.
This list might be extended to col
umns, b®t space just now forbids. It
is sufficient, however, to show that a
different policy must be pursued to
interest capital. It is not so much
the high tax levy that keeps people
away, as the general disposition to
knife all enterprises of our own people,
and tho capitalist seeking investment,
when he discovers that fact, does not
hasten to become one of us.
The Order of Odd Fellows.
At tbo late Odd Fellows conclave, in
Philadelphia, every jurisdiction was
represented. This was the 81st annual
communication of the Sovereign Gtand
Lodge.
The report of Grand Sire Wright
shows the total Subordinate Lodge
membership to be 1,217,145, encamp
mont 177,839; Rebekah membership
474,059, number of Suborbinate Lodges
14,315, expenditures for relief $4,633,-
649, total revenue $13,638,791, total
resources $37,645,017. Continuing, the
report states:
"The increase in membership of
our Subordinate Lodges was 65,724, in
the Encampment branch 9,900, in the
Rebekah branch 20,391, making a total
increase of 102,105.
" The militant branch alone in this
organization fails to show substantial
progress. There has been a loss in
membership during the year of a little
over 300.
The statistical information for the
year in the report of Grand Secretary
John B. Goodwin included the follow
ing: 124,210 candidates initiated, 54,-
235 members suspended and 13,035
died.
Since 1830, the ordeFhas initiated
2,927,263 candidates; 292,541 members
have died. The report upon the var
ious homes for the care of its orphans
and aged brethren shows thirty-eight
institutions.
A FIRE at Butte, Montana, last Sun
day, dostroyed $600,000 worth of prop
ty. Five entire blocks, with valuable
stocks of goods and furnishings, were
licked up by the hungry flames. The
alarm was turned in at 8 :40 A. M., and
it was four hours before the flames
were under control. Fire departments
from half a dozen mining towns went
to the relief of the apparently doomed
city, and it was no doubt largely ow
ing to their efforts that a general con
flagration was prevented.
THE Kansas City Bank of Kansas
City, Mo., has gone into voluntary
liquidation, on account of poor busi
ness and finding it difficult to con
tinue in competitive business with
larger institutions. It started busi
ness in 1888 with $200,000 capital.
The last statement showed loans of
$4,000,000; deposits, $4,750,000, and
surplus, $14,000. The Fidelity Trust
Company, of the samo city, paid all
drafts of the retiring bank on presen
tation.
THE Olympian says that newspaper
reporters were excluded from the meet
ing of the Citizens' Committee, held to
formulate plans for condemnation of
the water company's plant. It is cer
tainly a bad start to bpgin with star
chamber proceedings. Will not the
methods suggested bear the light of
reason?
ENULAND and Japan have signed a
treaty for co-operation, either to as
assist the other in Eastern war. It is
an alliance for mutual protection that
will go far in maintaining peace in the
Orient.
IN addition to the heavy State levy
this year, the county is called upon to
pay $3,150.73 back taxes, and this will
necessitate the imposition of another
half'mill to tlitf levy. ,
'm tiatlioriiisrs !>v tin* Wayside *
; <s * * u 1
* "I Know Not What the Truth May Be — jjj
| * 111 Tell It as 'twas Told to Me." Mr
| The name of the Russian diplomat,
I now so prominent in the popular eye,
is pronounced as if spilled Vit-te.
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Indian Territory is now becoming
better known as Segroyab, which will
probably be the name adopted by
Statehood.
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The oldest tree in tho world, is said
(o be h cypress in Cliapultepco, Mex
ico, which according to the recognized
signs of longevity, is fi,2fio years old.
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Now York has under contemplation
a hotel forty stories high. Tho top
story cannot fail to be an ideal place
for those who would really dwell In
(Toudland.
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A heavy full of rain in Missouri,
last week, of five and four-tenth inches
in four days, injured considerable corn,
which has rotted in the fields,.as much
of it was down or partly down. The
storm-center was Holden, whence the
report is sent out.
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In several provinces of Russia the
sale of wives is a rapidly growing traffic
and frequently it is at the wife's own
desire. The cause is extreme poverty,
sometimes accompanied by cruelty
and drunkenness, which makes any
change acceptable to the weaker part
ner. The price paid is from $lO to
$75 —never higher—and the woman
must he a good field-worker as well as
a capable housewife.
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The experiments in tho shops of the
Chicago typolhetae since the printers'
strike, began promise a new field of
industry for girl stenographers. From
the typewriter keyboard to that of a
big type setting machine, the employ
ers say, is only a short remove. So
successful have the young women
proved as " operators" in the large
printing shops that the proprietors are
seeking for more of them.
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The Postal lJepartmeut has ordered
tho numbering of rural delivery boxes.
Each rural box, that under the regu
lations is entitled to service, will be
numbered by the carrier beginning at
number 1, which will be the first' box
on bis route reached by him after
leaving from the starting point. The
carrier will be required to keep a rec
ord of the location of the boxes and
notify tlie owner of his number.
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Two miles above Hellevue, Neb., the
other day the wreck of the old steamer
City of New Orleans was uncovered by
a change in the waters of the Missouri.
She was wrecked in 1852, when carry
ing a cargo of 100 barrels of whiskey
from St. Louis to Sioux City. Tho
barrels were found intact. The whisky
was worth $75,000 fifty-three years
ago, estimated. It would tako a con
noissur to estimate its value now.
WWW
In Jackson township, Indiana, the
construction of a turnpike road has
has been slopped on a narrow strip of
jand between two lakes. It was found
that a subterranean connection existed
between the two bodies of water, with
a covering so thin and frail that it
would uot bear the weight of the
gravel. A sounding through the
crust failed to find bottom at the
depth of sixty feet, and the route had
to be abandoned.
WWW
At Dunkirk, N. Y., a hairpin was
found in a chunk of soft coal, solidly
imbedded, on breaking it up for com
bustion. The theory of scientists that
coal requires countless centuries for
formation carries with it a wonderful
antiquity for the hairpin. Tho un
usual place where it was found, how
ever, precludes any thought of un
pleasant pecadillos, had not the lapso
of ages given assurance that parties
interested had gone to their reward,
whether good or bad.
WWW
Tho conditions among the poorer
classes of London this year aro said to
be appalling. An American tourist,
just returned, says " I never saw so
many beggars anywhere, except in
Italy. Several thoroughfares literally
swarm with those who are in the last
stages of poverty and misery. From
all over Great Britain como reports
of thousands of unemployed organized
to demand relief. The situation is
worst in London, and in the police
courts evidence of tho desperate char
acter of the situation is furni.hcd each
day.
WWW
The difference between Thoory and (
Practice is illustrated by comparison
of the W. C. T. U. work, in the
line of persistent temperance reform,
with that from the edicts of railroad
and other corporations, that none but
strictly temperate men be employed,
and that the bare fact of taking a
" bracer," whilo on or off dutv, is suf
ficient justification for a discharge.
It works like a charm. Some corpor-!
ations have excluded cigaretto-smok- j
ing and chewing, which wo think'
should head the list, when barely pro
prieties are considered.
. W W W
The State tlowcr of Arkansas and
Michigan is the apple-blossom, the
former established by act of the Legis
lature and the latter by vote of the
school children. By the latter means,
the m'agnolia has been made the flower
of Mississippi, the wild rose of Ipwa,
the golden rod of Kentucky and Ne
braska, and corn of Indiana. By leg
islative act, or common consent,
Texas has adopted the buffalo clover,
or blue bonnet, Florida the magnolia,
Kansas the sunflower, California the
eschscholtzia, Oregon the wild grape
and Washington the rhododendron.
WW*
Some of the honored veterans have
attained the ripe age of centenarians.
Daniel F. Bakeman, the last survivor
of the Revolutionary War, died in
Freedom, Cattaraugus County, N. Y.,
on April 5, 1869, aged 109 years.
Hiram Cronk of Ava, N. Y., who died
a few months ago at tho age of 105
years, was tho last survivor of tho War
of 1812. Esther S. Damon, widow of
Noah Damon, who served with Massa
chusetts troops in the Revolutionary
War, is the surviving widow of a Rev
olutionary soldier. She is now 91
years old. She lives in Plymouth
Union, Vt.
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Blanche Buxton, an Oakland belle,
lately did the unusual thing of falling
in love with a glass-eater, in a San
Francisco vaudeville company, as she
gazed with undisguised admiration
upon bis "stunt" of lunching upon
broken tumblers, beer-bottles and
window-panes. Weeks—that was the
name of the glass artist—did not fail
to observe the pretty girl, and their
acquaintance rapidly approached the
climax, the marriage rite. At tho
wedding feast his part of the desert
was embellished with a Wee fruit-'
stand hlbd with a beautiful cullec-'
timi of broken lamp-chimneys
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Luther Burbank will | lavo t() , ook
to bu laurels, if a report from Great
halls, Montana, may be believed '
which is that a man named llarst' i
has succeeded in growing potatoes i
I without vines. What merit there may
1 be in the discovery, we fail to grasp, l
unless it be in the claim thai he can 1
have new potatoes in any climate at!
any time of the year. That is eome- j
thing, but no claim is made to either
superiority of product or cheapness of
• growth. They are grown in a large!
box, in layers, in a special preparation
discovered by himself, but these de
tails are not sufficient to establish a
permanent reputation for the crop as
! curios.
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A peculiar custom is observed in
the English House of Commons which
is quite dillerent from the usual pro
cedure in Congress, which is for a "call
] of the house" on important measures
: previous to a vote being taken. As
soon as the question for a vote is
; stated by the chair, a clerk at the
table sets in motion a huge sand glass,
familiarly known to members as the
| " egg boiler," probably because it takes
three minutes to run out. As the last
sand runs through tho glass the !Ber
i geant-at-Arms instantly locks the
massive oak doors of the chamber, and
only those members who have suc
ceeded in getting through tho doors
can vote.
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The staid old Omjoniun has not
! yet persisted in talking about the in
: congruities of Fashion's imperious
| edicts regarding women's clothing,
i but when it does, it shows a wonderful
j discrimination as well as familiarity
with its subject. For instance, it says:
"Only think of making purple the
predominating color in the costume of
a faded, jaded woman of fashion! Or
of condemning a bright young woman
to a dowager hue! Or of putting a
short woman in ciinolino, or a tall,
slender woman in clinging skirts, or a
wasp waist into long, tight corsets, or
squeezing a plump waist above well
proportioned hips into a vise." There,
now, the oracle has spoken. Selah!
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The Hall of Fame at Washington
will contain 150 panels, each bearing
tho name of Americans deemed to have
been " the greatest in their respective
fields." The names selocted so far are
as follows: Georgo Washington, Abra
' bam Lincoln, Daniel Webster, Benja
\ min Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, John
! Marshall, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph
j Waldo Emerson, Henry W. LoDgfel
low, Robert Fulton, Washington Irv
ing, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel F. B.
Morse, David G. Farragut, Henry Clay,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Pea
body, Robert E. Lee, Peter Cooper,
Eli Whitney, John J. Audubon, Hor
ace Mann, Henry Ward Beeclier,
James Kent, Joseph Story, John
Adams, William E. Channing, Gilbert
Stuart and Asa Gray. Of tho fifty
names to bo inscribed nt first, the re
mainder will bo selected eome time
this year. Five additional names will
bo selected every five years until 2000,
when the 159 inscriptions will be com
pleted.
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R. L. MeCormick, a well-known
timberman, just returned from the
East, brings a story of unprecedented
prosperity from farms and factories,
and briskness in the lumber trade.
He says that " Going through Dakota
I. watched the lumber yards and in
every instance I saw front two to five
farmers' teams loading lumber. Here
tofore I have seen the lumber piled
up. This time the lumber was com
ing down for the purchasers," and
that " notwithstanding the heavy cut
of tho mills in Minnesota and Wiscon
sin, the output for the year will be
reduced about one billion feet com
pared to last year, owing to the fact
that many mills are out of logs and
timber and have had to retire from
business. Owing to the unfavorable
conditions for logging in the South
the product of that section has been
much curtailed and this has opened
a wider market for the Northern mills.
Lumber can be profitably shipped now
from the State of Washington into
Dakota."
CITY OWNERSHIP AT WALLA WALLA.
—Judge Anders, wo nre informed, does
not favor municipal ownership for the
means of water supply, from the re
suit in Walla Walla, where it has ma
terially increased the ratio of taxation.
We merely mention the fact now, to
show there will not be such fair sailing
for the " boosters" of the project here
when they have finally hedged their
way to the deep sea and flung their
defiant banner to the breeze. There
are many people ready to call a halt
when it is deliberately proposed to add
to an indebtedness already beyond the
limit,and after the State has just given
another turn to the screw to meet the
I extravagant use of the public money
in payment of per diem and salaries of
big and little office-holders.
THE OREGON LAND GRAFTERS CON
VICTED. —The Federal jury in the
cases of Williamson, Van Gesner and
Biggs, rendered a verdict of guilty in
all three cases, at 11 o'clock yesterday
morning, after being out six hours.
This conviction is had under section
5440 of the Revised Statutes, known
as the conspiracy clause of the Fed
oral law. It defines what shall con
stitute conspiracy and provides a pen
alty of hoth fine and imprisonment,
the former to be from $5,000 to $lO,-
000 and the latter a term of not more
than two years. It is a matter of
congratulation that Oregon juries can
be depended upon for rendering a true
and just verdict, " nnawed by influence
and unbribed by gain."
Gov. Mead, of this Stato, in a speech
at the Portland Fair, Wednesday, sug
gested that it ho continued over an
other year, and when it closes October
15tb, it be to reopen on June 1, 190f>.
The suggestion met with considerable
applause, and President Goode seemed
much pleased with the remark, but
did not give verbal endorsement or
rejection of the idea. Probably Uncle
Satn will have something to say in the
matter, as his exhibit is the best at the
Fair. He has got in the cheerful habit
of aiding in these enterprises and to
be impartial has to keep it up, but it
is hardly probable that he will respond
to au encore.
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Men's Glottiina!
Boys' Glottiina!
youtns' Giotiiinat
This coming week we will
place on sale:
50 Men's all-wool Worsted Suits, worth $17.50
at $12.50.
50 Men's all-wool Worsted Suits, worth $25.00
at $17.50.
50 Boys' worth" $5.00 at $3.25.
50 Young Men's Suits, worth $15.00 at SIO.OO.
Nlouman Mere. Go.
OLYMPIA, WASH.
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uj Victor, Zonophone and Columbia j
| PHONOGRAPHS I
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sls. $lB, S2O, $25, S3O, $35, $45. Cash or installments, jji
its = **
Us I need a few second-hand wheels for rent purposes and will IS
■e take them in exchange *Oll any of above machines or any niusi- f§\
cal instrument in store. Anybody can have a talking machine or
u< other musical instrument 011 the easy weekly or monthly payment »Jl
plan. /yi
«■? A largo stock of «ew Victor, American and /onophone i
\h( Disc Records and Columhia Cylinder Records now in stock. Sfl
Records exchanged. Exchange your old Standard, or other talking H\
machine, for a new, up-to-date machine. i
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y Phone Red 11.V2. 204 K. Fourth Street. fj\
1 MEIIES 1 MARKET §
(• R. G. CAMERON, PROP. (•
1 Fresh % Cured Meats I
01 Poultry and Game of All iVscnptions 01
when in season.
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