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OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY B iS99. NEWS OF THE WEEK 1 STATE. Tone reporis a shortage of silver coin. Potatoes sell at 2 cents 8 pound at lakeview. Tillamook bas put in 10 more fire hy drants. Many newcomers have located at To Ifedo this spring. Theae is talk of building a telephone line from Condon to lone. . Tillamook saloon keepers have agreed to sell no more liquors to minors. Morrow county sheep owners say the lamb increase this year is 75 per cent. The winter losses of horses in Jordan alley, Malheur county, reachei 50 per eent. J. E. Miller has been elected clerk of frtayton school district, vice, W. Y. Richard, who refused to qualify. George S. Dwiiini?, of Salem, former-' ly supcrmlen lent of the penitentiary, is grintf to the Atlin gold district. Lakeview will vote May 15 on the proposition to cre to a bonded indebted ness amounting to $25,0(10 to pay for a stater system Good horses are scarce in Josephine 3unty, nn I desirable work teams are bringing the prices which were paid for them several years ago. The newl organized band at Ashland lias co nuieiicea practicing with a mem bership of 16, under the direction of Professor Charles M. Anderson, an ex perienced bandmaster. Pendleton is to have a new telephone system. Lane county fruit growers are organ izing to light fiuit pests. i. young farmer of Haines, Baiter eounty, loft his young bride April 25 for town, and has not been heard of since. Toul play is feared. The body of Oloutrie, the fourth of the Kehalem timber cruisers, has been found, but what caused the death of the four men has not yet been definitely as eertained. Eeal estate business is brisk in Ore go i City. Tho supreme court is in session at Pendleton. Dewey day was generally celebrated in Oregon towns. The "reform," or Sunday-closing tick et, was elected in Silverton. An encampment of the 0. N. G. will beheld this year, probably about July 1 Waller Hrtant. 4 years out, was d owned Sumluv in a mill race in Marion County. There is a sharp rivalry at Astoria between cannerymen and cold-storage men in securing tlsh. Many Oregon farmers will try to get along without binding twine, as the price fixed by the cordage trust is excess ive- GENERAL. The specie imports at New York for the week were $20,320 gold and 24,257 silver. At Butte, Mont , Luthrop D. Wallace aged 17, died from the effects of being ' struck by a baseball while practicing. At Sturgls, Mich., the Hotel Thornton Sturgis block and Allen k McLaughlin iflock wore destroyed by fire. The loss a f75,000. Seventeen fanners of Temiscott cotin ty, in southern Missouri, have been ar rested on a federal indictment charging them with cutting the levee. No denial is made by the l.irmers. L. M. Pitkin, president of the Variety IronAVoiks Company and one of the best known business men, of Cleveland, Ohio, was struck and instantly killed by a Lake Shore (Iyer at Colts, a suburb. Tho international Sundny-fchool con Tention decided to hold itB next meet ing at Denver in 1902. Hon. John Wan maker, of Philadelphia, was elected ehairman of the executive committee of the international organization. Fred Foster, the horseman, who se cured 115,000 from Millionaire A. How ard and invested it in the horses Yellow Tall and Sara McKeever, was held to answer at San Francisco on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. , Bail was fixed at $20,000. Six Japanese judges, sent by their gov ernment tu study international law in England and Germany, have arrived at San rancisco. Japan expects soon to establish national courts similar to those in America and a code of laws to which all foreigners must submit, instead of being amenable only to consuls. The president spent a busy Sunday in New York and returned to Washington Monday, Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld is dan jcrously ill. A prairie fire that joined forces with i tornado did a great deal of damage in northern Nebraska ou Monday, The Nicaragua commissioners' report will be presented soon. The cost is esti anted at f 125,000,000, possible mini mum, 1100,000,000. Sdcretary Alger says he will not enter icraruble to be elected senator, but in timates that he is willing to be ! honored by his state. It is rumored in Washington that Piatt and Quay have combined to effect the election of Sherman aa speaker and a Pennsylvanian as doorkeeper. The explosion of a shell at the Dupont powder works, which caused the severe injury of W. A. Brussett, occurred while it was being loaded by a new and secret process. , Now it is a peanut trust, to control the whole product of the country. Quay's friends are working hard to influence senators in favor of seating him. A state convention will be called in Georgia to consider the lynching ques tion. The price of gas in New York has been reduced from $1.10 to 65 cents per 1000 feet. Strikers at Cleveland were successful obtaining more wages and shorter hours. The Reading, Pa., Iron Company ad vanced wages Monday for the second time this year. Howel T. Morgan, who returned to South Bend, Ind., from Alaska, where le had lost his mind and money, com mitted suicide. The total of troops employed in the war with Spain was 275,000; the total deaths trom all causes for the year were 6190, or 2H per cent. Congressman Dolliver thinks Sher man will win the speakership, unless Western men all unite against hiir. Dolliver is booming Henderson. The Illinois republican delegation will unan imously support Hopkins. Tiie 10th congress of the Sons of the Revolution was held in Detroit Monday ; also the National Woman'B Suffrage As sociarion at Grand Rapids, Mich.; also. at Buffalo, N. Y., the eighth biennial convention of machinit-ts, representing 16.000 members; also, at St. L uis, the sixth annual convention of street ra l- way employes. WAR. While Americans in Manila expect peace soon, Otis keeps vigorously pre paring to prosecute the war. A large list of soldier passengers and tha families of some arrived in San Fran- t litis Cisco Sunday on the transports Sherman and Grant. One fireman died of small p.'X en route. The leniency with which Captain Coughlan and Admiral Kauti have been treated, with reference to their recent mpolite utterances is causing considera ble comment in Washington. The Filipino general, Arguelles, is dis appointed in his mission, as he hoped the Americans would quit fighting. The immissioners try to show him the ben efits of unconditional surrender. Brigadier General Harrison Gray Otis, lately in high command of the Philip NOTICE. pines, has arrived home in California, fever .ores, ulcers, boils, felons, corns, having voluntarily resumed. ., He will all skin eruptions. ' Best pile cure on at once resume the editorship in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. PACIFIC COAST. Returning Copper river prospectors bring horrible tales of suffering, sickness and disappointment. Cliilcak Indians are reported on the warpath in Alaska and driving whites off the White Pass trail. For Orer Fifty Years An Old and Well-Tried Rkiisot.- Mrs. Winslow's Southing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while teethine. with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens , the gums Some months ago Louis Stump, of aay9 all pain, cures wind collie, and is Chehalis county, Washington, was shot the best remedy for Diarrhoea. Is by a man named McVicker, who was pleasant to the taste, Sold by Drug- quitted on the trial and then left; but gists in every part of the World. he recently returned to his ranch and Twenty-five cents a bottle. Its value is the feud has been revived, McVicker iUCalculable. Pe sure and ask for Mrs. claiming mat ne has oeen snot at sev- y nslow s Soothing Syrup, ana take no al times. Fred Whiteside, ex-senator from Flat head county, has brought suit for $100,- 000 against the Butte Miner for defama tion of character. The suit arises out of the newspaper's charges against White side, which claimed last winter that W. Clark gave him $30,030 to buy votes. The charge was refuted, and Whiteside as expelled from the legislature. WASHINGTON. Oscar Wilson, of Hamilton, has been arrested on a charge of mootishiuing, The new Balmon hatchery, on the Lit tie Spokane will be in operation by August 1. The state road commissioners are sur veying the Sans Poil road. Prepara tions are being made for the immediate construction of the highway from th Columbia river to Republic. Under the appropriation made by the last legislature work has been resumed at the experimental station In Puyallup under the direction of D. A. Brodie, graduate of the state agricultural college at Pullman. The Western Canadian Press Associa tion, 200 strong, is headed West, and will, if the programme is unchanged be in Tacoma about June 7. The mem bers expect to celebrate the queen' birthday in Victoria, take a trip to Alas ka, and later visit Tacoma and Portland In the Washington inter-collegiate oratorical contest al Tacoma Friday night the first prize was awarded to Henry Harrlman, of Tacoma, represent ative of the University of Washington The second prize was given to Miss Agnes MtttleBtadt, of Whitman college, Sumner 'Valla Walla farmers say that the large red squirrels are becoming very numerous, and a scource of great anoy ance ana aamage to them, more es pecially on foothill land. The squirrels have multiplied very rapidly the last year, and being very large are more de structive than smaller squirrels. A savings bank system is to be intro duced in the public schools at Everett The Spokane Retail Grocer's' Associa tion has given its indorsement to the pure food law. Yakima county sheepmen are not sat isfied with the situation at the present time. The winter and spring were un usually productive of loss. The losses in some bands amounted to 5 to 10 per cent. The increase, instead of being 05 per cent and upward, as it is usually rtuis from 75 to 85 per cent. Monday a big deal in electric power and machinery, involving $105,000, and which has been pending since lest win ter, was closed, and the plant of the Se attle Steam and Power Company, at Se attle, passed out of the hands of its own ers and into the control of a new combi nation in power circles, with the Wash iugton.Power Transmission Company as the central factor. Senator Addison G. Foster is working hard to bring a delegation of Eastern senators and congressmen to the coast to visit Washington and Alaska. On their return east the senator would h u e them visit other points of iuterest and growing communities about which little is known in the East. The most influential men of both houses, men who are on the committees which have to deal with affairs of the A est, and particularly of Pugot sound, Alaska and the Pacific islands, are the oues Senator Foster de sires to bring to the West. United States Land Office, Oregon City, Oregon, April 4th, 1899. No'ic is hereby given that the ap proved plats of Township 7 south, range 4 east, and Township 7 south, range 5 east, have been received from the Sur veyor Generil of Oregon, and on MAY 15th. 1899, at 9 o'clock a. m. of said date, said puts will be filed in this office and the land therein embraced will be subject to en try on and after said date. dug. B. Moores, Register. Wm. Galloway, Receiver. GLADSTONE GREENHOUSE CUT FLOWERS, in any design. WILKINSON KROS., PKOFKIETOKS POrTEP PLANTS, ROSBS AND OTHER SHRUBBERY. Funeral pieces mo4 Special attention given Ui arranging floral displays for weddings and parties. P. O. Address, Box 238, Oregon Ciiy, Ore. Greenhouse on East Side Electric Car Line A Frightful Blunder Will often cause a horrible burn, scald, cut or bruise. Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the best in the world, will kill the pain and promptly heal it. Cures old sores, arth. Only 25 cts. a box. Cure guar anteed. Sold by George A. Harding, druggiit. other kind. To Cure Conatlpatlnu Forevei. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic 10c or 2oc. If C. C. C. f Jill tocure. druegists refund money. Weekly Oregon ian and Oregon City CourieivHerald FOR ONE YEAR Two Dollars HARRIS' GROCERY Fresh Stock of Fiist-Class- Dnpot for HAY and FEED THE , LEADER OF LOW PRICES GROCERIES Willamette Block, Oregon City On Top FOREIGN. Brigands have looted a Cuban village. German papers are anxiously advising Parsnip Complexion A majority of the ills afflicting people to-day can be tracad to kidney trouble. It pervades all classes of society, in all climates, regardless of age, sax or con dition . The sallow, colorlesi people you often The top of the Shoe Un't where the most wear comes, but it's important, nevertheless. Tops are made in a great variety of styles now-a-days. All of them are good, but some more beautiful than others We have all the new styles of tops, for you to select from. KRAUSSE BROS. President McKinley to give up the l'hil- meet are afflicted with "ki lney complex- ppines. Jon." Their kidneys are turning a pars- Comparative quiet prevails lately in nip color, so is their complexion. They Samoa, no more serious fighting having may suffer from indigestion, bloating, occurred. sleeplessness, one acid, gravel, dropsy, Cecil Rhodes has failed to secure the rheumatism, catarrh of the bladder, o i i j. xr .1 j aid of the British government in his 'rreguiar nean. iuu may uepena upon Cape-to-Cairo railway scheme. the cauBe ls weak, unhealthy kidneys, Lord Saiishusv exoresses much satis- Women as well as men are made mis. " ' i . , i i i a i i i i i f,.f..linn t the Anelo-Russian agreement. eraDle wlcn a,ul oimqut irouoie .i p,,.i n.;ii ,.r,no..T,t tn it and both need the same remedy. Dr. publication. It is reported that Great Britain has moved toward taking posession of the mouths of the Enphrates and Tigris rivers, in opposition t j Russia. The opinion is expressed in Wash ington that the Anglo-Russian agree ment regarding spheres of innuence in China makes the retention of tho Philip pines by the United States more import ant and imperative than ever. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy will build up and strengthen weak and unhealthy kidneys, purify the diseased, kidney-poisoned blood, clear the complexion and soon help the sufferer to better health. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases, such as weak kidneys, catarrh of the bladder, gravel, rheumatism and Bright's Pis ease, which is the worst form of kidney trouble. At druggists, fifty cent and dollar sizes. You may have a sample MRS. R. BECKER 220 First Street - - - Portland, Oregon Has just returned from San Francisco with a complete assortment of Imported Pattern Hats & Millinery Novelties Hats trimmed to order. Feathers dyed and curled. PRICES MODERATE II BEFORE tug AfT'iH The Art Amateur. The May issue of the Art Amateur is at hand, full of charming suggestions bottle py mail free, also pamphlet telling and information for beautifying the all about it. Address Dr. Kilmer & home. The color plate by E. M. Scott Co., Binghamton, N. Y, shows several beehives in a quaint coun try garden, with a tinv child standing hesitatingly at the half-open gate. The number begins with a charming frontis piece, "Coquetry," by GeorgeB Roussin. This is followed by The Note Book, The Collector, Exhibitions of the Month; an article by George F. Scotson-Olark on Byain Shaw, the noted English painter with numerous illustrations; Drawing for Renroduction and Elementary Draw ing, by Ernest Knaufft; Landscape Painting, by Rhoda Holmes Nicholls; Flower Painting, by Francis Walker ; Grecian Figures for China Decoration, by Fanny Rowell Priestman, with a col. or plate as illustration, together with some exquisite drawings of Lady Ham ilton in classic poses by Frederic Reh- berg; Figure Painting, by Cecilia Ben nett; The Art of Mineral Painting, by E. C. Darby; four charming interiors When writing please mention this paper. The New York World THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION. Practically a Daily at the Weekly. Price of a The striking and important events of the last year have established the over whelming value of the Thrice-aWeek World to every reader. For an almost nominal sum it has kept its subscribers informed of the progresj of all the wars, and, moreover, has reported them as promptly and fully as if it were a daily. With our interests still extending throughout the world, with our troops arawmg room, aining room.uouaoir ana 0,Mratin in the Philinoines. and tha corner of a music room; a talk on Floors great pre8idential campaign, loo, at anu now 10 iveep mem m vraer, oy . han(i it8 vaiue is furtlier icrea8ed. uiernoia, ana regressive wood uarv The motto of the Thrice-a Week World mg, oy Kan von ivyaingsvara. in aa-1 ig imDroveinent Tt strives each vear to pages of ke better than it was the vear before. MANHOOD RESTORERS tion of a famous French physiclun.wlll quickly euro yon of all ner vouh or diseases of toe generative organs, Bucn an Lost Manhood. Insomnuvl'uins In the Buck, Seminal JOmlsslnns, Nervous Debility. Pimples. 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With all the advantages of the city and but a 15 minutes walk to to the business houses, makes this a very desirable place of residence and bound to grow in popularity. Choice Lots ready for the garden from $100 to $150 on easy monthly installments with liberal discount to home build ers. Call on or address. T. L. CIIAUMAN, Trustee, Charman Bros.' Block dition to this there are four working designs for china painting, em broidery and wood carving. Kobued the Grave. A startling incident, of which Mr. John Oliver, of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him as follows : "I was in a most dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue quoted, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite gradually grow ing weaker day by day. Three physi cians had given me up. Fortunately a friend advised trying Electric Bitters, and to my great joy and surprise, the nrsi uome niaae a aecideu improve ment. I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a woll man. 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