Courier l 1 1 14 COURIER ESTABLISHED MAY, 18B3 HLHALO ESTABLISHED JULY, W93 INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHED 1898 OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1901 19th YEAR, NO. 1C p r EDWARD HUGHES 182 Madison St., West end of Bridge,-. Portland, Oregon GENERAL AGENT FOR Aultman & Taylors Celebrated Threshing Machinery Steam and Gas Engines, Saw Mills, Etc, CONSOLIDATED IMPLEMENT GOMP'Y SUCCESSOR TO Grebe, Harder & Co. 182, 184, 186 Madison Street, West End of Bridge, DEALERS IN AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND' VEHICLES Remember we have the finest stock of 'the best makes to be found Portland, including Farm and Spring Wagons, Buggies, Carriages and Carts, Mowers, Rakers, Tedders and Hay Tools, Hay Presses, Grain Drills, Plows, Cultivators, Disc and Spring Tooth Harrows, Pumps Harness, Bicycles, Etc. 1 PORTLAND, OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK Friday, July 19. In the preeence of 11,000 English Free Masons, the Duke of Connaught was in stalled as grand master of the united grand lodge at Albert Hall, London. On Thursday, through the sinking of a 2-masted yawl on Long island sound, 3 men and 2 women were drowned. Frof . Triggs, of Rockefeller's Chicago University, pronounces orthodox church hymns doggerel and Sunday school books inferior to dime novels. Most of the Catholic priests have fled from Saragossa, Spain. Russia is making efforts to secure the colleries in Li Chi province, northern China, which supply the Meets of the powers with coal. A diviner has informed the Chinese court that the dragon has left Pekin.ami therefor the court can not return to Pckin. The Britkh have captured correspon dence between Mr.Reitzand Mr. Steyn, in which the former counselled surren der to the British. At Nashville, Tenn.. three negro mur derers wire huug at the same time from the same scaffold. Eight miles south of Leaven worth.the .Vissoun has changed its course and is pouring part of its waters into thePIatte. A hundred divorces in Marion county this year. II. J.'Ottenheimer, of Salem, ho has just returned from an Eastern trip, pre dicts a good price for hops. Near Emooria, Kansas, the wrecking of a work train killed two men and prob ably fatally wounded two others. Saturday, July 20. John C. Leasure, the well known Ore gon lawyer and politician, committed suicide in San Francisco yesterday by swallowing carbolic acid. Poverty drove him to the act. The Duke of Marlborough will give a grand political .party at Blenheim Castle, England, August 10th. Joe Chamberlain and 7000 others will be present. Mongolia has become a Russian prov ence and a railroad will be built across it from the mid Siberian railway to Pekin. Russia is also making advances into Thibet. The United States government will re tain possession of iMoro Castle, the key to the harbor of Havana. The destruction by fire of Cave & Sons shoe factory at Rushden, England caus ed a loss of 100,000. At Danven, England, a girl employed as spinner ia a factory, was driven to suicide by'the furious hurry in which she was obliged to work. The wretches who die by inches under the driving system of English textile factones.num ber many thousands. London Justice says English trade is constantly declining. An electric storm at G-ove Ci'y Pa caused the death of four persons and the serious injury of three others. , On Bum's Island, Bermuda, 519 Boer prisoners have been landed, being the second batch. In Oklahoma,100,000 persons have re gistered for the government hnd naffle. threat heat nrevaila in t-. .. rope. Terrific thunder storms in northern I England. j The summer school opened at New-' port, Ore., Wednesday last, with an at-1 Colorado men have secured the Sav-age-Mohney mining claims in the San tiam district and will develon th At Kiona, Wash., two farmers were killed, one by a team and the other by a harvester passing over his head. Twentv miles from St. Michaels, Alas ka, five men were found frozen to death. The recent "high jinks" near Pendle ton wai attended by 1000 Indians. The cattlemen of Crook county have decided to run the sheepmen out of cer tain parts of thp county. The Suoqualmie Falls Power Co., Wash , will spend $350,000 on improve ments. A mission has arrived in St. Peters burg from Thibet to establish friendly relations with the czar. It marks an other step in the extension of Russian influence in Farther Asia. Russians re gard the establishment of a chain of communications across the rear-of Brit ish India and its permanent isolation from the Yangste Kiang valley, which England covets, as practically assured. Recently four carloads of crazy Amer ican soldiers from the Philippines passed through Cheyenne for the East . Sunday, July 21. Baron Hiaaya Iwasaki.a very wealthy Japanese who passed through New York city yesterday, said that as the result of the introduction of the European indus trial system in his country, the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer. R. M. Newport of St. Paul, Minn., is bankrupt; liabilities $346,000. The United Garment Workers of New York city have begun a fight against the sweatshops by ordering a general strike, which will involve more than 50,000 men and women. In Indiana crude oil has advanced 12 cents in three days, because Rockefeller wants more money. Near Eve, Mo., two young men walk ing a railroad trestle last night were run down by a flyer and killed. The aged wife of ex-Prest. Paul Kru ger died at Pretoria yesterday. Kruger has received a very satisfactory letter from General Bjtha, the information contained in which shows the Boers are as confident aud determined as ever. Near Petrusburg some South African constabulary were ambushed by the Boers and 20 ol their number lost. Of the 4700 Boer prisoners on the island of St. Helena, 83 per cent are not Boers but made up of various nationalities. Riceville, Iowa, having nearly 1000 people, was practically wiped out by fire ; loss $200,000. The 13,000 volumes forming the libra ry of the great Oriental scholar, Mux Muller, have been secured by the Uni versity of Tokio. The American Live Stock Association, in convention assembled at Denver, lias expressed itself in favor of leasing the public domain, because it is the only way in which the grass can be saved from tola', destruction. The prune crop promises to be big in Polk, Linn and Benton counties. The Eug-ne excelsior factory turns out 12 carloads a the stuff a month. The German noith seacoast is rising, and the mouth of the Elbe is 16 to 18 feet shallower thin in 1895. Moudty, July 22. Major Pine-CofBn surprised a Boer commando, which lost 41 men. Because British sailors are "drunken, refractory and unreliable," the mail steamers between Australia and Eng land will employ as sailors only lascars, or blacks. On the Navajo reservation, on the bor der between Colorado and New Mexico, ruins of a large prehistoric city have been found. Three men landed by a steamer last year on Unimak island, Alaska, have mysteriously disappeared, and three men were drowned in a storm near Pen ny river. Near Cape Romanoff.Alaska, the bodies of six men were found, stretched out on the tundra where they had frozen to death. Continued on Page Seven. Much Heading for Little Money. The New York World has got the cost of printing down to a minimum. Its latest offer of its monthly newspaper magazine is interesting if from no other cause than that it shows the acme of "how much for how little." The Monthly World is a 32-page mag azine with colored cover. Its pages are about the size of the pages of the Ladies' Home Journal, and it is copi ously illustrated in half-tone. The il lustrations are the result of the best ar tistic skill, 'aided by all the latest print ing press appliances, . making a maga zine unrivalled in the quality of its con tents and its appearance. Each issue contains stories of romance, love, adventure, travel J stories of fiction and fact; stories of things quaint and curious, gathered together from all over the world ; the results of scieptific re search, and editorial reviewB. It num bers among its contributors the leading literary men and women of the day. A feature each month is a full-page portrait of the moet famed man or woman of the moment in the public eye. In collecting and preparing for publi cation the literary matter and art sub jects for the Monthly World no expense is spared. The New York World will send six numbers of this newspaper-magazine on receipt of 15 cents in stamps. Ad dress The World, Pulitzer Building, New York. The August Smart Set. The Smart Set can never be accused of dullness. In its 100 pages of etories, verses and witticisms there are sur prises and delights for the most blase reader. The August number opens with a novelette of remarkable power and originality, entitled "Miss Sylvester 'a Marriage," written by Cecil Charles. Miss Sylvester, the niece of a eociety leader in New Y org, has some of the wild blood of the South American Span iard in her veins, and she is fascinated, by Count Geraldina, a daring adven turer, who claims to be worth millions as the beneficiary of a pearl fishery con-' ceseioo. The story of their sensational marriage and its strange results is told with great realism and admirable art. 1 Agricultural Implements and Vehicles oin otJS PBOMrn cruDrfn onDrriT wn nornftH fe BUGGIES BUGGIES. Being crowded fsr space in my warehouse, I will sell the buggies and spring wagons now in stock at prices that defy competition. Come early and secure a buggy before the stock has been picked over. NEW MODEL "STEEL BEAUTY." I have a stock of these balers on hand that I will sell at reduced prices Call and investigate-for yourself. ' I CARRY Buffalo Pitts Harrows and Cultivators Owen's "Advance" Fanning Mills Peerless Plows AND MevfKpCiir '-K Belle City I'eed Cutter (ClST 'W-JN Milwaukee Binders mm aiid Mowers Write for. Catalogue aud -Prices The Housefurnisher To Onint W-ifh Pf e to ouf immense new stock of UYV rUllll Willi Lace CurtainsOur stock is com plete, all the designs are new, and all are made graceful and pretty to insure the best effects We will be proud to see the houses of this community decorated with them Our prices are lower than those of Portland houses We invite inspection. A FINE COLLECTION i I V ,"; -1 m We have gathered a splen did collection of handsome Carpets and Mattings in new and stylish patterns at moderate prices. Our mattings, flowered, plain, linen and Japanese figured, are the delight of all who see them. They cost from fifteen cents a yard up to fifty and will outwear carpet. THE BEST KUSIC We offer the best instru ments. Our Busch and Qerts Piano has all the merits of the finest Piano made, and yet costs less than three other famous makes. Price $315.00. THE RIGHT PAPER Your room has limita tions. The right paper will improve it, the wrong paper will mark it. The color and figure are both important. Our variety is great enough to enable us to just suit you and your room. You'll be pleased at the range of de signs and prices. DOES THE WORK i;i f - jS' 4i W ll-MMWIHIII ! i i .-?-a It isn't hard wore to run the Climax Machine The machiDe does the work for you. It is perfect ly adjusted, the wheels work easily, the stitch is even and threading simple. You couldn't have a better friend, and our termj enable you to buy without much, cash. Price $25.00. A SIMPLE PICUTRE, Looks well if it has prop er frame. We'd like tq make the sort of a frame that will give to your picture the best appearance. Oar knowledge and stock will help to ornament the walls of your house. We'd like to talk to you about it anyway. "ARE YOU FIXED FOR SPRINKLING? If not, we can fix you U-r it in a little while for a little money. Tell us where you 4 live and we .1 fienu a man to j give you an estimate. Life ,": J hardly worth living nnles you can (-priijitie your lawn. 50 ft- of 'i ir- ho;e for $3.30 I, 0