OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY B iS99.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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