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OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1899. EQRKQON CITY COURIER OREGON CITY HERALD CONSOLIDATED. IA. W.CHENEY Publish UJaciamas County Mepenflent, Canty ABSORBED MAY, 1899 legal and Official Newspaper Of Clackamas County. ,. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. jttj. 1 1 iu Oregon Citr postofflce as 2nd-class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. -ldln advance, per year 1 c mo n I hi fcree montba'lrial ... 13 JVThe date opposite your address on the a per donoles Ihe time to which you hate paid . jfthia notice is marked your subscription is due. ADVERTISING SATES. 'Standing business advertisements: Per month I inch II, 2 iuchei 11.60, 8 Inches 11.75. 4 inches v.!. 6 inches (column) 12.28, 10 inohes(Kcolnmn) '-(,'20 inches (column) 8, yearly contracts 10 per -ent less. . , , . Transient advertisements: Per week 1 Inch tinciieB 11.50, 10 inches 12.50, 20 luches 15. "Legal advertisements: Per inoh first inser tcton II, each additional insertion 50c. Affllavits t publication will not be furnished until pub lication lees are paid. Local notices; Five cents per line per week yer month 20o, PATRONIZE HOME IWDC8TBT. OREGON CITY, JULyIT, 1899. 11 . , in -Mt American Internal Policy. . t.t- Kt- l n..Klln f.annh am. r:he values created by the community should be ifcoug to the caminnntty. s-Bxoond Destruction of criminal trusts. No tsROiopoHzation of the national resources by law "dess private combinations more powerful than 'Cue Tieonlo's government. Third A graduated Inoorae tax. Every oltlzon Xa contribute to the support of the government ao- . ni hi. mung anil nnt. AnAordlnff to his ne tcessitles. .Fuohth Eleotlon of senators by the people. The senate, now beoomlng the private property -Of corporations and bosses, to be made truly repre sentative, and the state legislatures to be redeemed TJToib loeurrlng scandals. Fifth National, State and munlolpalimprove aneHt ol the public sohool system . As the duties 1 oltiamslitp are both general and local , every -xevernmont, both gjneral and local, should do As share toward flitlng every individual to per form thcin. ( Sixth Currency reform. All the nation's -money to be IsBued by the nation's government. :.od its supply to be regulated by the people and .'Hot by the banks. Direct Lioislation Lawmaking by the voters. Tbb Initiative The proposal of a law by a per mentage of the voters, whloh must then go to the referendum. Tbi Refebknduh The vote at the polls of a law proposed through the initiative, or on any dawpassod by a lawmaking body, whose refer ence It petitioned for by a percentage or me voters. Thb Impehativis Mandate Whenever a publlo offlolal shall be deemed dishonest, inoompetcnt hi mi ri lis futlo the voters shall have itue riglit to retire him and cloct one of their iflshoico. The people alone are sovereign. The way to control monopolies is to own them. The Ohio republican convention went llunnawards. Who does your thinking? Don't grin, '-Lis is no joke. ' X crow, that had been the mascot of '.the volunteer companies in the Spanish war, a few days ago ate some of the can ned beef brought home from Honolulu. Its days of crowing and mascotting are over. .A man, meeting a boy with a big dog, -aaid : "I suppose you love the dog aud the dog loves yon?" The boy aoiwered : ' "You lt tht dost loves n: he knows that if he didn't I wooM ktwrck the rtof fingont of him'." f A prop 6 th Phil ippine arv! the l'rn( rt?te. Spring field Republican. Commander ford, MftUt lJy'i fleet surgeon, vUt h. nmAtfy returned .from Manila, say: "The iple&did - jash, valor Mi l endurance of otir toi lers is the only redeeming feature of this unauthorized, unnecawary, tin- .American and apparently endlcM war of subjugation. ' The United States paid $20,000,000 for tthe Philippines and has since spent $(3, 000,000 in an effort to "quiet title." To say the least, it seems a queer business transaction, and denotes a signal lack of managerial ability or elso a genius that 'Sine passes the common understanding, The Searchlight. .And now we rise to propound the question: W li y is it noce sarv for the ; republican party to put in its 1900 plat form a plank denouncing trusts? The republican party is on deck. Let it utiiatch the ti lists haldheaded before its :ao.xt national convention and the plank will not he nocetsary. See? A train load of ambulances, shipped vlrjm CI icago to Tampa, Fla., more than . year ago, has never been heard of I " Some patriotic cusses have stolen them .aud made some "profit" out of the deal. .."A little matter of $20,000 worth of vehi- cles to care for sick and wounded Boldiers lis nothing in ihese days of Mcllanna . prosperity. It shows how honestly the t siovernmeut is run. STRONGER THAN EVER. The return of Colonel Bryan from his extended tour in the East has been the signal for much enthusiasm among his fr ends. To a group of them, in ex. plaining the political situation as he now finds it, Colonel Bryan said he was the bearer o good news from the east ern country, where nothing stirred so much enthusiasm as reference to the Chicago platform. He said that New York has four times as many Chicago platform democrats as has Nebraska, and so has Pennsylvania. There are many men of great strength and wealth there, but their influence is manifested through the papers rather than with the voters. There are democrats there, too, quite as enthusiastic as those here, and they are entitled to more credit, because they are fighting against much greater odds. He said the democratic party is in better shape now than it was a year before the last national campaign, and the platform is stronger than it was in 1896. "No man can assume to speak for the party, but we can have our ideas of what will be done, said Colonel Bry an. He continued : It is my belief that none of us will live to see a plank taken out of that plat form. New questions will come up and the platform will be added to, but noth ing will be taken away. Nineteen hun dred will see more men drawn out of the republican party than ever before in any one year. Not only that, bat we will bring back many who left us in '90. Those who know why they went out and left us when the battle line was drawn up against plutocracy will not and ought not to come back. We do not want them to come back, for they would be as leprosy in the side of the party. But I believe that the large majority of those who went away did not under stand, while others were induced to go by those to whom they looked for lead ership. They have since studied the matter for themselves and have found that the leaders were wrong and the majority of the party was right. What has there been since the election of 1896 to make those who left us proud of their action in helping elect the present ad ministration? It has been principally disappointment and there are some who say they are still against ue on the mon ey question, but that other things have arisen that demand correction and that they are coming bacs for that reason. I have not insisted that they shall accept every part of the platform, but that they shall accept it as a whole. I do insist that if they come back into the democratic house, it shall not be for the purpose of throwing out those who are in the house, and that they cannot expect the killing of a fatted calf, if that is their purpose. Senator Foraker of Ohio, says : "We seem to have a harder job on our hands in the Philippines than we anticipated I don't believe the newspapers are get ting all the news received at the war de' partment, but I know nothing of it, per sonally. If more men and money are wanted, congress will provide means. The war .s not popular, though." Q. C. Fields has secured a franchise from the county court for a motor line leading south rrom Oregon Citv through Canameh, and projected to run thence to the southern part of the county. It is to be hoped that something may come out of the many railroad projects now talked of, as a railroad built from the county wo ltd be of enistionable value to the city as well as of great convenience to the people living in the country pre cincts. It is a pity that Uncle Sam did not wait until (lie goods were delivered he ll fore he paid the '20,000,01)0 for the Fili pino. It should have been a C. O.l). transaction. Coi'rikr-Hkkald. Hut then, brother Cheney, we should not have hail the blessed privilege of : Cliritiani.ing them. A great Christian t nation like oun can afford to pay the f paltiy um of $20,0i)0,000 for the privi ' t I.. .1.. 1 1 u.., vi i:iicviciiiiy vwiui uct'r anu iui lets; assimilating ten millions of people Ilou't kick about such a Bin all matter, Albany Precs. The millions that went with Anna Gould w hen she married the iio-Connt Castellane are being used to overthrow the republic of Frauce hy inducing the army to revolt and establish a monarchy that Anna may shino in royal robes. Thus tlie profit taken from free(?; A moricans is used to establish kings on thrones. How many millions do you suppose Anna Gould and all her clans would have had if the railroads had been owned and operated hy tlio people as they should have been? How many millionaires do you hear of made by the postal system, badly as it is managed? Not Anna Gould nor her father is at fault. It lies) back of that lies in the stupidity of the people for their belief in private property in the means of produc tion and distribution iu a system of profits instead of service. Each Ameri can who supports this system is using his citizenship to help furnish au Anna Gould with millions out of the masses to help establish kings. And people who know no better are fit only for sub jects of a king and will be so ruled, un less wiser and self-sacrificing men and women shall save them against their will . A Prolific Country. Molalla, Ore., July 3, 1899. Editor Courier-Herald: Oregon is truly a wonderful country. It is one of the most productive coun tries in the world. Even lies are bo pro lific in Oregon that the smallest germ of misunderstanding will blossom into a scandal of amazing proportions. A gentleman passing by a school house meets his neighbor and siys : "They are having high old times at recess ; I saw the teacher and big hoys slugging squir rels." The next neighbor says "I hear the teacher and big boys were hugging the girls 1" And then it grows nicely under the watchful care of those holy people who attend church regularly in the morning and visit their holy good brethren to swap lies in the afternoon. There are evidently many new rules be ing adopted by our saintly fellow mor tals, from what we can learn by casual observation. One of the principles of the new idea is, if you hear anything about your neighbor, go and tell another neighbor, taking great pains to tell it full measure and offer any suggestions that can be thought of that will make it a little worse, and in the meantime cover your tracks well, so that it cannot be traced to the fountain head. Then another good rule is to swear on the roadside, but don't let grandpa hear it, because he has a few dollars we may need some day. If there Is a person you know with a spotless reputation, help him or her to keep it by circulating the stories and falsehoods of Tom, Dick and Harry about that person and try to drag him down to the slimy depths in which your own corrupt minds are existing. Horsemen like to talk horse ; cattle men like to talk cattle; farmers talk of farming, and so it is in all kinds of work ; therefore it is reasonable to con clude that people who imagine other people are performing adulterous acts must be guilty themselves. If I believed that every time I saw my friend speak to a young lady he was trying to take advantage of her innocence and that in hi 8 mind there only existed lecherous thoughts, then I should say to the world it is my mind that is corrupt, my nature that is base. Then, I say, the person who is suspicious of everyone and puts a bad meaning to all their acts must by this proof be guilty ana lecherous in Ins own mind and should guard well his own actions. How wonderfully smooth some people are. but they miss their calling; they are obscured by their surroundings, yet at times their wonderful natural in stincts get a chance to crop out. Here is a man hiding his light wno is a natu ral detective. He traces out the misdo ings of the neighborhood in which he lives with the skui or -uia esieuta ;" ne takes up a cold scent, a slight, ground- lees suspicion, and by the time be gets to Oregon uity ne is on a red not trail He finds out tilings that are false and foolish ; he finds out $300 is the amount paid to fix the matter up; he goes to Portland and finishes up his wonderful discoveries and returns to give them gratis to his neighbors because he loves Ins fellow man. tie win meet- you wiin the right hand of fellowship in the morning and stab you in the back with the noinard of falsehood ere the sun sets. On, he is smootn, ne is buck i And then aaain there are saintly wo men. We have one in mind who a few short years ago was what the boys call a "warm baby." She was gay. People talked about her then. The naughty neoD e But now she is a married lady, and to sav she is "goody goody" would be putting it mild, very mud. one won't even sneak l people she thinks would utter a falsehood ; and yet in her own mind, assisted by the ponderings of a mere child that is giddy on some things, she can circulate some harrow ing tales of faithlessness about people Bhe never had three minutes conversa' Hon with. Well, they are praying for us, we are clad ol it, and when we relorm we win write and tell you about it. C. M. C. Portland's new democratic paper, the Northwest Herald, says: "Our politics is equal rights for all and special privi leges to none, and public ownership of public utilities where practicable." Now, . if the Herald will kindly tell us where they think public ownership practicable, we shall know what it means. We presume Huntington will admit as much (where practicable) but he would find none practicable, is the trouble. Press. By a vote recently taken, the many separate colonies belonging to Britian in Australia confederated inlo the United States of Australia Tlie articles of confederation malting the many in to one great nation stipulated that all rail roads, telegraph, express, mail, ferries and all franchise uaing in lustries be taken over by the new government and operated in the interests of the people, This new nation is about the size of the United Statts with a very similar climate, soil and resources. It will be oneof the great nations of the earth in the coming centnrv. Expansionsts who have been landing Dewey and Otis for their views on the subject can now fiud little consolitation in the following : Dewey is quoted ns saying: "Rather than make a war of c luqtiest on the Filipino people, 1 would take up anchor and sail out of the harbor," Statement attributed to Otis is in part: 'I was ordered to this post from San Francisco. I dirt not' believe In the an anexation of ihese islands when I came here nor do I helive in their annexation now." The CorRiKK-llKKALD ha the largest subscription list of any paper in the county, and still we know of a case where a single copy is read by as many as six different families weekly, another by four different families, and so on. This Bhows that the people like to read the pater that gives thn news, even if they are not able to pay f .r it. Of course this doecn't pay the priut.Vs bi Is, but we will have to stand it. Then and Now. "In my hot youth, When George the Third was king." Byron's Don Juan. Editor Courier-Herald: A dispatch from Wardner, Idaho, the scene of the recent struggle between cap- tal and labor, and now under martial law, dated July 6, says : Yesterday evening a deputy United States marshal went to the Last Chance mine and told the foreman, John Press ley, to get all the men without permits together and require them to apply for permits within five minutes. It was im possible to comply within that time, so Presaley walked out ot the mine, swear ing he would never apply for a permit. Many miners walked out with him, some of them calling for their time." Thomas Jefferson, a gentleman well known in these United States 100 years ago, author of a document which is read aloud to assembled multitudes ot Amer ican citizens every 4th day of July, among other objections to the rule of monarchy, said : He George ill, king ot ingianaj has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislatures. "He has affected to render the mili tary independent of and superior to the civil power. He has combined witn others to sub ject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation. For quartering large Douies 01 armea troops among us ; For depriving ns, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury ; "For taking away our charters, abol ishing our most valuable laws and alter ing fundamentally the torms ot our gov ernment." Now. sir, I can see httle differe in the acts complained of by Mr. Jefferson and those acts which the Associated tress dispatches from the Cceur d'Albnes re cite. The spectacle of an American citi zen in a sovereign state being compelled bv a United States marshal to obtain a permit to work ! Permission to labor, and in the year 1899, the 4th day of July, the 123d anniversary of our declaration of independence 1 In a state where that sacred right of oppressed humanity against tyrants, the writ of habeas cor pus, is suspended tor the benefit ot the capitalist mine owner living in an ad joining state or a toreign country, tnac they may reduce wages, destroy the right of society to organize for mutual benefit, denying the right of free American citi zens to form themselves into associa tions for their elevation as citizens of a fr.Arnnhiii..l flhancrn thn H.t frnm 1776 to 1899, the name of the king and norii,mni fmm fanm ttt H Rni!h to William McKinlev and the Standard Oil Company, and there is very little that is different. How forcibly do the words of the poet plowman, who belonged to the laboring class, strike the mind when reading the about the necessity of obtaining a per mit to work. In the immortal verses of Man Was Made to Mourn," Burns says: "See yonder poor o'erlabored wight, So abject, moan and vile, Who aska a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil." Permission to work to earn enough to sustain life, and the power to grant or denv the request lodged in the person of a soldier, an irresponsible creature hav ing power of life or death over the lives and welfars of American citizens a mil itary machine worked by an autocratic crank in the hands of combined capital, who have so tar stopped at nothing in the way of seizing the property of the people, either by class legislation or military occupancy. The complaints ol the miners era ployed in Idaho should have the eame hearing and the same redress of wrongs that the Americans had in 1776. Hie effort of the Standard Oil Company, the owner oi me mines, 10 unmmaiiy con nect the miners' union with the blowing up of the property and its destruction is as foolish ana abaurd as it would be to try to establish connection and conniv ance of the people of the Southern stales lately in rebellion with the assassination of the great Lincoln, the Northern states with the foolish attempt and fail ure ot John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry and the insane idea of slave liber ation, or holding, as the Oregonian tried to do at the time, the Swiss republic re sponsible for the murder of the late queen of Austria-Hungary by the fanatic anarchist. The miners' union was in no wise responsible for the damage inflict ed, but it suits the purpose of Rockafel ler and his co-workers in monopoly to accuse the union of the crimes commit ted and property destroyed. If your readers will look through and read carefully Jefferson's great work, they will not find one outrage com plained of that was perpetrated by Gen eral Merriam in Idaho. I mean the sup pression or me mirror Decause it nad criticised Merriam's act in proclaiming martial law in a sovereign state. Among the signers of the Declaration of Inde pendence were many who were connect ed, like Benjamin Franklin, with the press of America, but no complaint is made or protest entered that the king of England had gone to quite that length of tyranny in subjugating the colonies. No, it remained for the modern George to do that. And let the people of Ore gon remember that he is but a few hours' transit by rail from the Vancou ver barracks or the Fort Sherman mili tary reservation; that McKinlev, at the instigation of his campaign contributors or representatives of the trusts, banks and plutocratic combines, can suppress freedom of speech and of press, the ris?ht to bear arms, to meet together lawfully and peaceably for pe it ion and redress ol grievances, suspend the writof habeas corpus, arrest and consign to the "bull pen" or stockade like the rebel prison at Andersonville as many as are suspected. Don't think, fellow citizens, hat what has happened and is continuing in an adjoining slate can find no parallel here. If you think there is no cau.e, can-e can easily he found. The modern, like the ancient tyrants, can and will find cause and provocation sufficient. There is no filter time nor place than here in Ore don and now in the summer of 18)9 for the pe -pie to enter their solemn protect against the hrutal niiliUrv despotism taking possession of a free stale and in sulting a free people. 1. D. Stkvkxs. Canby, July 7, IS99. Great Glearance Sale.... Don't fail to get the the month of July. down to actual cost. It's So! The Star Clothing House Strictly One Price House Harding Block, Opposite Commercial Bank. Oregon City, Or. Big Cut in Tan Shoes Ladies Tan 11 Oxfords Gents' Tan c B Boys' and Misses' Tan Shoes cut proportionately. A beautiful Souvenir given with each pair of Shoes purchased . McKITTRICK, "The Shoe Man," Next Door to 0. C. B. An Oregon Cittf Freak . Editor Courier-Herald : Some time ago I wrote some letters to the Oregonian. The paper published three of them and then, after soundly abusing me calling me a copperhead and other vile names announced to the public that no more would be published. Then a cowardly sneak calling him self "An Expansionist," claiming to hail from Oregon City, writes a letter in w" cn "B lue uregoman one miter "ays many uncomplimentary things : 1. 1 .1 11 ; . me, jvh'ch be probably would not lve said if I had been present or if he had ""?!. 1 would have any opportu. nity to taiK uacK. replying to an an onymous correspondent under such cir cumstances may be like kicking at a skunk in the dark but it is hard to resist the temptation. He questions my patriotism because I oppose the war in the Philippines. I never knew before that "killing niggers' constituted patriotism. Nor did I know that McKinley and Alger and the other grafters had the keeping of the people's concience or tue entire direction of their patriotic duty. I always supposed that patriotism was love of country for the country's good, the passion which aims to serve ones country. Service in a wrongful cause and againBt our coun try's true interest is no service at all. Serving William McKinley by defend ing his "thrift and drift" policy and pe culiar notions of "duty and destiny" is no more patriotism than it would be to defend his "to the victors belong the spoils" policy. We have as much right to criticise and oppose his Philippine policy as his Mark Hanna policy. They are both in the cause of oppression and wrong and against the true interests of tlie country and should be defeated. It is our patriotic duty to uree our country in the direction of right and to condemn ! our public servants when thnv seek to steer it wrong, it our country was in danger we might be called upon to sus tain, for the time being, whatever cause our officials might pursue as was the case in 1812. but such U not the case now, our country is in no possible dan ger from the Filipins. No possible harm could come from our withdrawal from the Philippines. It would be right and just towards them, it would be true to our own interests, true to our consti tution, our traditions and the principles upon which our government was' found ed. Hence I urge it. Lincoln opposed the Mexican war and was afterwards elected president. Was he a copper head? F He says my boy must have inherited his patriotism from his mother. That is wen. irairiousm is a good thing no matter vi here it comes from. It is a thing "Expansionist" certainly never inherited from his mother nor from any one, and he has had none to transmit to posterity, as I fail to see the name among the volunteers. Long ears is perhaps all he ;ver inherited. In my estimation a coward is about as con temptible as a traitor. This correspondent, however, is a knowing fellow ; he knows all about the Mlipinoa; he knows more law than the attorney general of the United States add finds that the volunteers are bound to stay two years if Alger so wills it. Perhaps he never saw the law under w hich the enlistments were made. He should be called to Washington at once to instruct the war officials in the pro per discharge of their duties. Tlie war department seems to be laboring under the delusion that the volunteers' time is out and they want to come home. The President and cabinet have been having night sweats over it . Mr. "Expansion ist" has discovered that their time is not out and that thev are very anxious to remain in tlie service. By all me.ins he should bee tiled to Washington. The officials there would not have to apolo gise for keeping the boys over time. He writes as if he thought a lie well told and stuck to is as good as tlie truih. He ought to be very serviceable to the admini tratiou. They might find some way under his instructions to eend Ibe boys back to Manila. The old tories believed in the divine rights of kings to govern, disbelieved in a government of the people, for the peo ple, for tlie pople and by the p-ople, and always had a si rong friendship for EuglanJ. They were the see I of dis loyalty in 1812 and of the modeJn Anglo uiaiiics. It there I: anything in hored ity an I hiredite l pre lisp'witj n of mind I should guess that a nun whoe Great Bargains we offer during All our summer stock marked When you see it in our ad. A.HECHTMAN, Manager ! Balmorals was $3.50 now $2.50 ilmorals 11 ancestors were tories, would now be an imperialist and expansionist. But very few of such people have boys at Manila. A man who permited his boy to go to the war is not a tory nor a copperhead nor traitor, and none but a cowardly sneak who kept his boy at home would apply such on epithet to those whose boys have gone. I suppose "Expansionist" will now call our boys unpatriotic because they did not remain in the Philippines as was their duty under his conatruction of the law and not in the swamps of Lu zon "killing niggers" and carrying on McK-inley's noble campaign of criminal aggression in the "noble and patriotic cause" against the liberty and rights of man. H. B. Nicholas. To Change Tlie Name. Editor Courier-Herald : I arise to sug gest a change in the name our paper, the Courier-Herald. This is entirely for the benefit of those who talk and write a good deal about the paper. I do not care particularly what name the paper wears if it is short and sweet. Brevity in business affairs is the desir able thing. Euphony in sound is also desirable. When we are talking we like to speak words that are easy on the tongue and pleasiut to the ear. Now Courier-Herald is neither. But there is a deeper significance a matter of far greater importance than brevity or eu phony. Circumstances and exigencies of sociology are closely connected with the name of this paper. Socio-political events have made the name of this pa per what it is; the same forces are re forming so as to require another cogno men for our gazette. W. C. A Eugene boy writes home from Ma nilla, on the back of a fruit label : "Ev erything is in bad condition. Rain and heat are the worst of our troubles. Ev erybody is covered with boils, caused by the fat bacon and hardtack. Have not seen fresh bread for twenty days. Am sick now and traveling with the cook outfit ; hope to be well soon. Four hun dred men in the regiment are sick, and 100 wounded. Have lost 20 killed. The officers eat the peaches, and we get the labels to write on." And yet there are some people who insist that the boys would like to remain in this death trap and grow up with the country, com ments the Albany Democrat. A Clerical Fraud. Editor Courier-Herald: Believing as I do that he who knows of the commission of a crime and fails to expose it is a particips criminua, and being informed that a cartiin minister late of Seattle, is holding meetings in this part of the state, I feel it my duty to expose him in the interests of Chris tianity and common decency. In doing so, 1 have no personal grudge to satisfy, and regret the necessity which impels me to the performance of such a duty. For the information and protection of both the church and the public I will say : First That he was sent to the United States penitentiary for smuggling whis ky to Indians. Second He was compelled to with draw from the ministry aud membership of the Methodist Episcopal church in Puget Sound confereuce. He thought it bitter not to atan 1 a trial. Rev. Wil mot WhipBeld, of Seattle district, who lives at Fremont, Wash., will confirm this statement. Third He was court martialed by the Volunteers of Amsric oi charges of immorality and dishou'isty. Captain McClelland, "now of Spokane, and the o'licers at Volunteer headqtwteri in Sau Francheo, will onfimi this state ment. Fourth The details are of such a character ai to be unfit for publication, becau e they would fall into the category of ohseene literature. Fifth He, I am .Informed, c .ntinuea the s line tactics here in Oregon riding with other men's wives and alienating women from their husbands. M. H. Nichjik. " 300 " 2.25 5 " 2.SO " 2.00 " 2.00 1 " I.CO i " 5.00 " 4.00 " 3-50 " 3-00 " 2.50 " 2.00 J