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T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV E R T O N , OREGON, A P R IL 6, 1899.
L adies’ Bazar!
was no danger from sm all guns, Do you tak e th e
but they were shelling us heavily,
.A Fin© Line of.
E ditor T orch of R eason :
the shells bursting in the trenches -Torch of Reason?
It IP
IV
is V
only
JIIIV Vllv
One D ollar 4
a * Y ear, M
and
il'i
1-hould have w ritten to th e Torch q u ite near to us. Two hurst so near
contains reading m a tte r th a t you can M i l l i n e r y , L a d ie s ’ a n d C h il d r e n ’s
uitr ago, but I have neglected to me as to throw sparks over my
not get elsew here for th ree tim es the
m oney. I t comes every week, too.
G oods, N o tio n s o f A ll K in d s .
, ,
I sincerely hope th a t you arm s. I begun to think my lime
will accept this poorly w ritten and had come, although I do not remem-
yO U t a k e t h e
incorrectly composed letter as an ber calling on the Lord to save me,
ten em en t.
Notice
the
word or offering up any kind of prayer. W e e k I y O r e g o n i a n , Dressmaking, Tailoring, Dyeing, Cleaning
I t is published a t P o rtla n d , ore.,
and Repairing.
-atonem ent’’— this is w hat a good
On August 13th we m arched in
and contains m ore and l>etter infor
Christian would say.
As the dis- and captured the city of M anila,
m ation in regañí to th e Pacific
N orthw est th a n any o th e r pa per,an d
rance traveled since leaving the from th a t date to the 5th of T ebru-
is th e best news p ap er in Oregon.
OLD H A TS M A D E N EW .
Siates is so great, the tim e so long ary things ran on quite sm oothly,
You get sixteen pages of good rea d
ing m a tte r each week, including all
,nd the objects of interest so var- although we looked for an outbreak
th e news of th e n atio n and th e
ied, I will not attem p t to give a of the insurgents most any day. ‘
w orld, for only $1.50 a year.
Produce Taken in Exchange.
On
Feb.
5th
we
fought
them
all
the
full account of all.
I will begin
from the time we landed on the forenoon behind their trenches, hut W ill you a c c e p t
finding th a t we could not rout them
Phillippine Islands.
A Good O ffer?
C hilders &. S m ith
We arrived in M anila Bay on in this wav, our com m ander con-
For the n ex t six ty days, you can
Water Street,
June 30th, 1898, and on Ju ly 2nd eluded to m ake a charge in the af-
get T he Torch of Reason and The
Under Photo Gallery,
W eekly Oregonian both one y ear for
landed at Cavite A rsenal, where ternoon. The charge was made as
only $1.50, th e price of th e Oregon SILVERTON
-
OREGON.
ian alone. This is only a lim ited
we remained ju st one m onth. Ma directed and proved a com plete su c
offer. You should tak e advantage
nila Bay is considered one of the cess, as we routed the Filipinos in
of it at once.
finest harbors in the world. I can tw enty m inutes. The charge that
Send all orders for su b scrip tio n s and for
assure you th at it is a pretty place. we m ade is considered a great one,
sam pl copies to
as
we
were
against
big
odds.
It
the
It is twenty five miles from the city
T H E TOUCH OF R E A S O N ,
of Manila to the ocean. Cavite A r Filipinos were good shots or had
S ilv e r to n , Oregon.
senal is the place th a t A dm iral any pluck at all, there would not
IS IN V A L I)A BE TO
have
been
enough
of
us
left
to
tell
Dewey cap tu red , with all of its m a
C a rp e n te rs a n d J o in e r s , for m o rtisin g ,
chine shops and appertauences, and the tale. The F ourteenth Infantry
such as le ttin g in locks, as it tak es th e
place of chisel an d gouge; to
it certainly is a valuable piece of | lost in the d a y ’s engagem ent, 1
AND
C a b in e t M a k e rs , for in laid w ork, dow-
jroperty. R ight in front of Cavite ! officer and 13 enlisted men killed,
elling, p a tch in g , rem oving splits and
is where the great b attle took place and 36 enlisted men wounded —
k n o ts. In fact, no
between the Am erican and Spanish the greatest c a s u a ltie s of any or Main S treet
Silverton, Ore W a g o n o r P a t t e r n M a k e r m a n u fa c tu r
er of pianos, organs, sew ing m achines,
ganization
engaged.
fleets, the result of which is too
ag ricu ltu ral im p lem en ts, sash., blinds,
We have extended our lines so
CARRY A C OM PLETE STOCK OF
well known to you already to re
fu rn itu re , nor
th
a
t
the
distance
covered
by
us
is
quire a description, hut t will say
! A n y O th er W o o d w o rk e r, should be
w ith o u t it.
that the American people do not th irtv miles. All we can do now is
School
realize and can not im agine the de to hold w hat we have until re-en-
AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS UNEQUALED.
struction done by our ships. It forcernents arriv e from the States,
Suppl ies,
It ’8 th e only ronnd b it in th e »vorld
which
should
be
soon.
The
Tw
en
must he seen to he appreciated.
th a t will Ixire a SQ U A R E H O L E
Books
and
and do all tl.a t any o th e r
While lying at Cavite we became tieth In fa n try has arrived already,
b it will do.
acquainted w ith the Spanish mode and we a rt anxious th at enough
S ta tio n e ry .
PRICES.
Set of five,different sizes,postpaid .. $2.60
of warfare, an d soon realized th at should arrive in time to settle the
Single b it, p o s tp a id ..................................60
if they pursued the same tactics m atter before the hot and wet seas
with us we would have t.o trouble on comes on.
D ealers in F ru its, Vegetables
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A ddress, LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO.
If
the
people
in
the
States
think
in whipping them . 1'he S paniards
S il v e r t o n , O r e g o n .
and Insurgents would have a fight th a t a soldier’s life in the P hillip-
and C onfectionery.
at night and sleep in the day time. pir.es is a picnic, they are sadly
We have been in the
It was am using to see the natives m istaken.
leaving Cavite in the evening, then field now tw enty-one days without
returning in the m orning, after a change of clothing, and have to
ighting all night, ju s t as workm en keep our clothing on all the time,
One thing is in our favor just now,
would return from a factory.
In the latter p art of Ju ly we es however— the w eather could not he
O ur Spring Goods are^Arriving Daily.
tablished troops at Cam p D ew ey,; finer.
just across the bay from Cavite. To ; The Filipinos are generally a low
BIG L IN E OF*
this cam p most of the Am erican and m iserable class ot people. They
troops rendezvoused in a short are so treacherous th a t you cannot
time. The organization to which I tru st any of them .
I hose who
CORSETS AT 50c.
belong, the F o u rteen th In fa n try , claim to he our friends and have
GINGHAMS AT 5c.
landed here on August 3d. From white flags Hying from their houses
O U TIN G FL A N N E L AT 5c.
that date to the present tim e we will shoot us whenever an op-
have had a h ard tim e of it.
p o rtu n ity arises. They are even _ _ p s e b a TCI a i FIS SO O FI p a S S S W a y ,
The P ennsylvania regim ent en- burning their own houses, thinking
»
h u t b iO C tC F O flG S f o l l w !
"aged the S p an iard s on Ju ly 31st, th a t in this way they are injuring
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us, when the poor devils are only
, , rp
F tpa
>ur first b attle with them after cu
ttin g Off th eir noses to spite their M a i l O r d e r s P r o m p t l y A t t e n d e d T o . S a m p l e s b e n t F r e e
anding. On A ugust 5 th , it fell to
faces. W hen the trouble with them
OR A p p l i c a t i o n .
he lot of the F ourteeuth In fa n try
;o engage them again. I can as- m ay end no one can predict, but I
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SILVERTON. OREGON.
ture you «• th
honestly
believe we will have trou-
* aa * a * t v the xz engagem
w ~ ent was
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uite interesting for about forty-five hie with them as long as we hold
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ninutes. Our loss was two killed the islands, i hese islands are the
Luant
tnd four wounded.
This was my g r e a te s t‘‘white e le p h a n t” th e Unit- O l I T J O D U G p a r t m O n V
ALW A YS G IV E S
irst tim e under fire, and I m ust ed States has ever had on its
lay th a t for a short tim e I was hands.
nuch frightened, but after the fir-
\\ h at can you expect of these
ug had progressed awhile I was all poor, priest-ridden fools?
I he
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ight and became as cool as possi- C atholic church has nad full sway
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