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WEST SHORE.
Those who mourn the decadence of the " Oregon
style" of journalism that kept things warm in the
days of Bush and Dreyer, should read the mutually
complimentary screeds of such social, literary and po
litical lights as Theodore Roosevelt, in the New York
itr 1 1 ).!
,SVn, and Frank Ilatton, in the wasnmgum im
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PORTLAND'S COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS.
RESIDENT Harrison has appointed Hon. R. p,
Earhart, of Portland, to the position of collector
of customs for this port. In doing this he has
selected one of the most popular, able and ex-
Sun. and Frank nation, in we """uu6"u xl , , ,
I ' ' . , ...... x... i(,MM,si. ner enced gentlemen among the leaders of the renub.
True, these X3 degenerate unius, uui rc - r - , .
lly ncouragcl by lb, like toe of the old vigor lican party m Oaf. Mr. Earhar has served M,
, . v party and state faithfully in several capacities, and
of journalism. F . , L e n V i. .1
J enjoys the respect of all honorable men of both par-
A mistake must have been made by the Washing- ties. Mr. Earhart is a native of Franklin Ohio,
ton club which refused to entertain Pugilist Sullivan where he was born June 23, 1837, and came to Oregon
on the ground that he is not a gentleman. We now in 1855. From 18G6 to 1889 he has been continuously
o rvn
capacity, the most import-,
ant of which were special
U. S. Indian agent at the
Warm Springs reservation,
in 1866-7; representative of
Marion county in the legis
lature, in 1870; in the U.
S. surveying service from
1874 to 1878 ; secretary of
state of Oregon eight years;
adjutant general from 1885
to 1887; and representative
from Multnomah county in
the legislature of 1889. Mr.
Earhart is at present man
ager of the Northwest Fire
& Marine Insuranco Co.
havo Mr. Sullivan's own
word for it that he is a gen
tleman, and this is a state
ment from the highest au
thority, though not couched
in diplomatic language. He
has paid his lino in Miss
issippi, refuses to light the
" nigger," and says he is
going on the stage. Just
what he will do there is
not perfectly clear, since
mechanical appliances have
rendered tho scenery easily
handled by smaller men.
Portland has a custom
sanctioned by long neglect
to enforce the ordinance pro
hibiting it, that ought to be
relegated to tho place where
her other village peculiari
ties have gone. It is ab
surd to say it is impracti
cable to hitch horses when
they arc left unattended in
tho streets. Other cities of
ten times tho sizo of Port
land enforce this ordinance,
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HON. K, 1. BARIUKT.
The purchase of the Fair
haven & Southern by the
Great Northern company,
settles a matter ' that has
been in perplexing doubt.
The excellence of Belling
ham bay as a harbor, and
the lowness of the pass
across the mountains have
long been deemed as cer-
and it can he done here just as easily. In those pla- tain to induce some mt transcontinental line to bc-
ccs the police drive every unsecured horse to the sta- lect that harbor for a terminal point, which this great
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nun, nuciv wiu uwiii-i iiuiHi gu aim pay ior ns redemp
tion. It would take but a few weeks of this kind of
treatment to create a change of opinion as to the com
parative practicability of tying a horse or paying five
dollars for not doing so. When Portland was a little
village, horses could run down the streets and do but
little damage, save to frighten chickens and furnish a
sadly-needed item for the local paper; but now that
sho is no longer a village she should put village cus
toms behind her and emulate the example of some uf
the larger and more progressive communities,
Manitoba system has now done. The crowth and do
- tj
velopment of Bellingham bay will now be much more
rapid than it has ever been.
Wanamaker & Brown's new government guernseys
did not suit the a-sthetic taste of the life-saving crew
at Cleveland, Ohio, and they refused to wear them.
This disrespect to the clothing and postal department
of the government was promptly punished by the dis
missal of the offenders, and the administration has
again been vindicated.