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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1879)
March, 187$. THE WEST SHORE. THE BURTON HOUSE. This is one of the very best second class hotels in this city, and especially will immigrants find it to their advant age to give this house their patronage. The proprietors, Messrs. Lewiston & Frctland, have been in the hotel busi ness here for a number of years, are enterprising and honest business men and know the wants of the traveling public. The house is a substantial brick structure, has all the modern improve ments, and contains sixty sleeping apartments, all neatly furnished. Its location at once recommends it to trav elers as it is but two blocks from the steamship landing and railroad depots. Soon as the weather is sufficiently set tled an addition will be made to the house which will add fifty rooms to it. WHAT SHOULD HE DONE WITH Til KM. 1bV is not onlv tn minl) .... I "...j v fiM.i.aii, uui 4 an ex ample, and for its deterrent effect upon the criminal classes. The effect, how ever, is in a great measure lost by such demonstrations as those instituted the day subsequent to the execution of Brown and Johnson. The bodies of these noted malefactors were taken by their friends and exposed to the gn.e of numerous sympathizers; hot-houses were culled of their choicest flowers, at great expense, to furnish chaplets, bouquets, and wreaths to decorate the caskets. Many apparently respectable people joined the funeral cortege, and lent by their presence encouragement to the thieves, ruffians and highway robbers who gloated over the exhibition. Ac cording to their idea, a respectable citi zen could not have been interred with greater honors, and the demonstration gave color to the sentiment that the condemned had been the victims of a During the last session of the legis lature a bill was introduced giving to the State the bodies of executed criminals, with the authority to dispose of them for the advancement of sci ence. The measure, though wise and judicious, hod no money either present or pros pective to urge its passage, con sequently it failed to receive the necessary support. Its defeat is to be regretted, as in the light of recent events much injury might have been avoided, and the public benefited, had the bill become a law. The trag edy which culminated in the TE ,ijKroN HOUSE, 1'OKTI.AND, OKHiON execution of Hrown and b Vin son on the 14th instant, is still fresh ruci law, instead of a just one. By tn the minds of the people and the de- Mich processions people lotc their .re tails of the just punishment awarded "P-t for courts of justice ..ml the decis their atrocious crime have been widely of judges. Criminals arc glorified published by the daily press. That "d n'l, lcd follow .ui.. tki. ...r,i.i f,. stem of those whose punishment was on the scaffold, no good citizen will at- intruded to have a totally different ef fect. Would it licit lie much lictter if tempt to deny. Brown's exultation thc )aw WM constituted that the and braggadocio and his coarse ribaldry ttiKnia of thc gallows lotted even to on the verge of thc grave were dis- thc grave, ond beyond, so far as the gusting and obliterated the last spark g"ggtf the State retojn and use them Tor thc of sympathy from thc breasts or those q( Kienctt give ,hem private who were at first inclined to manifest wtt am Void, by all means, such that feel as great prove, was more ing. Johnson, though equally disgraceful and harm-working cxhibi- .!.., ..,!... ,t. tions. Bv trivine thc bodies of men M hi i i, mn ......... n A I U .1 ' ilKl I III " HUM w lim in iiiim iivmi ikii politic but cables. " 1. without their category- and Since the Legislature of California passed a law prohibiting persons from practicing medicine in that State who had not graduated at some known med ical college, our city has been afflicted with a score or more of quacks uud charlatans, who, in (laming hand-bills and glaring advertisements, claim id most stqieinatural powers for them selves. They are likewise thoroughly sensible of the advantages to lie derived from making themselves conspicuous ut political gatherings, church festivals, and temper, nee meetings. Their at tendance upon these occasions and the apparent interest they manifest in them proceeds neither from politic al princi pies, religious convictions, nor a desire to promote the cause of trmjM-rancc, for ever) praiseworthy senti ment, weir tliey cwr SnllTU ted by such ut any pciiod ol then existence, must ha e been deadened by their deceptive uud fraudulent career. Then principal motives in participa ting in the various dtmoniiri- tions meut i 'd is to avail themselves of these collateral aids in their designs umhi the public. If in looking uvernur morning p.ipei it should be found that Docter (iullcatcher had led a prayer meeting in a most ac ceptable manner, or had deliv ered an eloquent and effective ttmptraiMt address, thc local readers, who arc furnished with almost daily evi dences of his irreverence and drunken nest, arc not deceived, but many of the country tubscrilieis, judging from the environment in which thc to-called doc tor has, for the time being, placed him self, very naturally conclude that hr it a H-ron of rctpcclability, and when occation requires expect to find in the quondam cxhorter a caahlc phytlcian, whose representations arc truitworthy. Only when afflicted with tome malady for which these mountchankt claim a tpccific and what " ill that fleth it heir for posthumous notoriety. Both crim- cnntmn ,rc mwc , confer more ben- not till after having fallen an easy prey inalt were law and their punishment equally guilty before thc cf,t upon thc public than they did dur- to their machinations does thc victim eir minishment was a just ine the whole of their shamclcs and: ascertain their true character. reward for their sin. The intent of the wicked lives. To further the objects of ttietc em-