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LUE TORCH OF REASON, E JL V E R 'IO N . O REG O N , T H U R SD A Y , AUGUST TS, TM>8.
splendi 1 sucees s : n < i mi ¡nerous
m em bers.
<)n t he ro ad to .John
on Mr. M. H ah V, who
wh
requested
th a t 1 place bis n am e nn tl e sub-
the m ajority oi the tough elei».t ut
profess C hristianity. They can do
'¡ lic e r e , fo r in th eir bible
th ; v e in find j lantv of a u th o rity for
their iinumra 1 ity . For the most j a it,
setiption list of the Tor< h, which I the audience was cold and “ stereo-
gladly did. I ariiv«d in John Day typed” , with only a few o u ts p o k e n
in time for supper, and after seenr- Secularists. T h eM a rtin « ,M r.H u p *
ingone more su b ^ . j ..‘¡er, Mr. W o o d s, p r i c f i a o d M r H- liner are am ong th e
'lo sell property
I turned the wheel up Canyon Secularists we iriet and all are su b -
creek to w ard Can \on City, two seribers for the Torch of Reason.
To buy a liotne
m iles d is ta n t. The land along the it was in Canyou City th at I was
To go into business
creek has been dug up, washed and treated to stale eggs and over ripe
lo exeiiange real or personal property
sifted until all the gold has been re- tom atoes two years ago while s ta n d -
moved, but as one goes up the creek ing on the street conversing with a
lo Work, or to hire w orkers
to the south, be can see the work of C hristian. A volley of eggs and
A N Y TH IN G
the great H um bolt m ineon the right tomatoes cam e from ai alley near
where the gold is being washed out but not one of them touched me,
W R IT E T O U S .
W E C A N H E L P YOU
of the m ountain side by hydraulic while one egg hit my C hristian
process. On the left towers the friend in the hack of the neck, ex
great Caribou m ountain, loaded ploded, and descended, inside his
Addi ess, IN EO RM A TK )N B U R E A U
with gold from peak to base. Right sh irt collar. The poor fellow was
under th e very crest of this moun- excited,uttered an oath,and jum ped
min.
Silverton, < Oregon.
tain, is Canyon ( ity, rightly named into the street,gath* ring some rocks
for it is in an immense canyon, ’ with which to exterm inate the gang
built there on account of the rich of C h i i s t i a n egg-throwers. He did
m ines in the early sixties, and now not turn to let them sm ite him on
the county seat of G ran t County the front side until he had some-
and a well established town. People! thing in bis possession togive them
an d se ttlin g dow n in th e new b uilding which we have prepared
who have lived there for m any years in return. They were trying to an- £•?
especially for o u r
say th at th irty years ago, Canyon swer my argum ent in true C hristian
City had a population of 3,000,with style, and he was taking iny(?)
a saloon
r every hundred of the p art with a true C hiistian spirit. I
has been a big job. Ir has kept
us
in h ab itan ts ud gam bling houses in did not know hut I m ight get a like
proportion, by which the “ sh ark s” reception this year, but I was not
...
sought to euchre the m iners out of afraid, and the eggs did not put in
for a long tim e ..................................
their hard earned diggings. The an appearance. Canyon City has
town has undergone a great change, been C hristianized, now it needs to
but still there is much gold dug and be civilized and Secularized. There
the tough element is not w anting, a re 'm a n y good people there, it is
hut the population is less than five true, but the most of these are not
f
IF
w ith the l»est and largest selec
hundred.
professing C hristians.
tion of F u rn itu re , C arp ets, W aT
We arrived in Canyon a t su n - 1 In my next I will describe my
P aper, etc ., in th e W illam ette
Valley.
down and went directly to the : trip to B urns, my former home,
Please rem em b er th a t we do
home of Z. J. M artin, a Torch of where I am at this w riting, sur-
not allow a n y concern on the
coast to sell a t low er prices th an
Reason subscriber, a member of the rounded by relatives and old-tim e
ourselves.
Oregon State Secular Union, and in friends.
spite of this,treasurer of the county. |
P ea
earl
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P
r l W.
W G eer
W ho says it doesn’t pay to speak
Burns, Ore., Aug. G.
one’s sentim ents?
It never hurts
a person to he honest in all things.
C lub R ates.
Mr. M artin was a form er resident
N e w S t o r e , 2 4 8 C o m m e r c ia l S t r e e t ,
of the W agner country and lie, his
I he W eekly Oregonian is the
SALEM
sister E lla and b rother H om er are best newspaper published in the
OREGON
now living a t the county seat. The I aeific Northwest. The subscrip
other sister, Miss E lva, will soon tion price is S I.50 p er year. We
follow, and altogether they will will give it, together with the Torch
m ake a happy family. At the of Beason, for the exceedingly low Who Does Your
C u t T h is O u t
M artin home, I found the D ePeatt ! Pr ’ce of $1.75.
You will get two
N F O R M A IM O N
BUREAï
^Z
AG
DO
YOU
WANT
G etting out of the old room
im m ense stock of fu rn itu re
on the run
We are now
ready
B U R ’ I A X H A M I IATO N
girls, ready for th e lecture the fo l-1 papers f o r a
little more th an the
lowing evening. Mr. M artin and 1 price of one.
sat out on the east porch until quite
late and watched the full moon rise! I , ia ¡1Ilpossil,ie lh a t , h
.
,
over the great m ountain. The out- ' oue nian can be ;
d
ltn e s o f some n.ajesttc p.ne trees o lh er. I , is a tic,ion not to be
were p latn ly seen a g a in s tth e bright realized by the „ ¡ „ j , h at th(j
faceof th e moon and Mr. M artin tn- ,ra n s fcrence ¡8 to be ma(Ie N or
formed me th a t those were the trees can blool, ot
s01.t
on the noted G reat N orthern mine Sill has to be repeuted t0 an(, ti; n ’
which has given tts discoverer, Mr.- from , and can be got rid of in no
O u te r, such fame and fortune tn so other m a n n e r.-T h o m a a h u n ts, let,
short a tim e.
btrange.
Tuesday was spent in visiting and
m ending punctures in the bike tire
R em em ber if you send us the
and in the evening the people as nam es and addresses of 25 of
sembled at the court house to listen your Liberal friends ami acquaint*
% ¡a” ’'®“ 1 °
to the lecture by Miss Kate D ePeatt. ufr,7 e m 'v n f " , n 'a Te
Canyon is a hard place ill which to
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<lf ,^,ea8? n
work for the Secular cause. T h e | c o s f y o u a few miitutea’ woH,' andl a •
people are m ostly indifferent and ' 2 cent stam p.
P rinting ?
Fill it up, and forw ard with
$1.00 to th e
L ib e r a l U n iv e rs ity C o .,
S ilv e rto n , O re g o n .
'
C a rd s o r C irc u la r s ,
B ill H e a d s ,
N o te o r L e t t e r H e a d s ,
S ta te m e n ts ,
T ic k e ts , P ro g ra m s ,
I n v ita tio n s ,
B o o ks o r P a m p h le ts ,
7b the P u b lish e rs a f th e Torch
o f Reason:
Please send the T orch of R eason to
my address for one year, for which I en
close $1.00.
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E n v e lo p e s ,
r a " y otl’er P ri«“ "g. }o,. will serve
your own interest and help support
P ost office......................................
‘" l ing your orders
U ni ' ere to U y us. by ‘ We
end
( will execute them prom ptly, tastefully. S ta te .