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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29 1904 Panama Political Storm Zubsiding It. os'.s $5000 to Bury a Dead Con gressman and We Can't Burry Any Other Sort. Wgphington D. C January 21,1004. The political storm blew half a gale in ('untiresu concerning Ponaraa and the post cilice frauds has subsided somewhat and iue re is a tendency on the part of representatives of both parties to slow u;- U will lie some weeks before the PsDKma treaty can be sent to the ii-tb. muB and returned with any new amend ments ratified, even after it is adopted by the Sen te. This will afl'ord ample ti..iO for Senators to exhanut internation al law hunt down precedents, and an nciince new departures. The general drat tongreBbioiialleuis-ation is along thu line of conserving and promoting coiiitiiericial interests, without disturb ing i lie great questions of tariff or cur rency. Politically both Republicans and Di'Uiiiciats are sanguine and hopeful, a. Uie apparition of Perry Heath no Jongt-r causes consternation. The shadow of "increasing cloudiness with variable winds" in th Hanna forecast ha iMrtsed aw iy, and the great Ohio Piwrnitiut maker will support whomso ever is nominated at Chicago. V. J. Bryan has made many speeches since hi reJurn from Europe and said many thi'iiis which have set men to thinking, but he,too,agrees to support the tit Louie noiifiee. Ttip future is big with events whi' Ii no prevision can discern. The people are quietly looking over the ground and lining up on either side. The funeral ot the Illinois Congress man on Thursday was another example of extravagant expenditure. Its exact co-1 ;! not yet been adde t np, but as Illinois is hot very near at hand, it was pioiiahly at least $5000. Whenever a Cci.kK saman dies it is deemed "ccrurt e; " to vote public money foranos'enta tionH leave taking. A committee of ten to twenty member iB appointed by the Spi-a erto accompany the dead man trmn Washington to his former home. Thev i h.ir'era Pullman car and buffet, sii.tiR ii. with provisions, every necess ity ..1 luxury then fill up the rest wi'b r -porters, and others who wish to talf a ree ride Champagne and whis ky n e nlways on band in great abund ance, ind as they are free to all, they ar-1 panaken of with avidity. On many oc ; "the committee has arrived at its d -filiation in a dismantled and de mor lized condition, with several of the members so intoxicated th'it thev could not pir icipate inthe funeral. Some tirnen the committee is equipped throughout witn new silk hats at the expn e I the government and on rare occasions waterproof coats have been add. il, to ensure comfort. A senator gave your correspondent one of the cigars freely handed out on one of these aolr-imi picnics. It was, very appropri ately, the color of gold, and it was en closed in a little cut glass vial like a vial of at ar of rose, with a dainty eilk ril box around its neck. Hundreds of thee cigars are smoked on one of these jtiiikeiH. Sometimes, (15,000 or $20,000 or even more is spent on one of these oc casimis, and ou returning, the coin tnit'ce has frequently left their dead cc:.. . '.i'- family behind in a staU of dent, union. Col Dick iiriiiht, Sergeant at-ariiis, o'the Senate under Cleveland an M Ivinley, made enemies in both par'iiw because he refused to furish chamnagiie and whisky free. M my petitions have come to Congress from ill parts of the country for an ap prop union to improve harbors and riv. ' -, but as au election is at haii'l both pAities are proclaiming economy and it is very doubtful if a river and harbor bill will get through this -ehtoon. Notwithstanding the proc lami hit n of frugality, however, Senator Lla"n i is holding up his platter, as UBUi'.l, lor a subsidy for ships. He aak) what good the Paii'ina canal will do witimiit more ehipB. Till in the coldest January that Wash ington Iihs seen for tweuty three years. Oec;o oi, ally laiidehon8, forsythia, and tuhp uie in bloom at this date. An it the pension list of the United Sttilis Here tot already large enough, inte e led parties are trying to induce Coin ret to create u civil pension list. To ! ' ou t the Civil Service liiireau has bei n t king a do hum ot all goveinment cmpl u m and is preparing a report. It is pi co ed to give a pension of $50 a moi'iii to all clerks who have been in the i '.oi loy of the government for thirty yea i ml havereacned the age of seventy. It i d Heem that a clerk on a good roil'1 alary for thirty years ought to l,ff.'W"jJ,.:liiy''''V'w ' r -in y -r'-rir.friTi'-'-Hiftiitii - 4 mm Do not take chances on it wearing away or experiment with some which will only half cure it at best, and leave the bronchial tubes and susceptible to attack from the germs of Consumption. N mm not only stops the cough but heals and strengthens the lungs and pre vents serious results from a cold. It Saved His Life After the Doctor Said Ho Had Consumption. W. R. Dayis, Vissalia, California, writes :"There is no doubt but what FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR saved my life. I had an awful cough on my lungs and the doctor told me I had consumption. I commenced taking FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR and found relief from the first and three bottles cured me completely. . REFUSE SUBSTITUTES THREE SIZES, 25c, 50o and $1.00 4 save enough to keep him above want for the rest of his life. Scientific wonders will never cease. Dr. Merril of the National Museum has explored a petrified forest in Montana and reports his opinion that it has turned to opal instead of agate. Mrs. Roosevelt, having abandoned afternoon teas, it is thought tta y will now go out of fashion. A new wrinkle for cotillions this year is to invite twen ty extra young men to be present so that wail-flowers may not blush uueeen and waste their sighs on the ball room air. The papers of James K. Polk, and Martin Van Buren have been added to the collection iu the Library of Congress of manuocripts of distinguished men. They cover two exciting periods of American history, and include thous ands of letters written by the leailiiig men of the couutry at that time.and nu merous manuscripts and speeches. The Library has now collections of papers by Washington, Adarae, Jefferson, Madi son, Monroe and Jackson. The tremendous enterprises of the Pennsylvania K, Ii. are making havoc of our seaboard ci'ies. Washington is torn up about as badly as New York. A larue part of it looks like a wrecked mine, or as if a cyclone had struck it after being prospected for oil. Where the new Union station is to stand more than 500 buildings have been torn down and cutting, filling, carting, blasting are going on seven days in the week and almost all hours of the, day and night. On these ruins a $7,000,000 transporta tion palace is at once to be erected. A Suggustion Please Observe. Editor Courier : Iu the calm that pre cedes the storm, a few words of caution may be of vital importance to fellow democrats who choose to view the field of battle before the victory is won or lost. We all admire dauntless courage in time of action, yet prudence should characterize our every sten from this day forward. One very essential item to understand is--not to underestimate the enemy. Now, let us do the right thing at the right time. Not long hence am there will be a fall for a Democratic State convention to elect delegates to a National convention, to bo held iu St Louis on the 6th of July . B e to it that good, honest capable men are selected to fid these places f trust. Do not let state pride dominate the convention by instructing for any particular favorite. No matter if we have a favorite son ; other states have favorites too. In short, do not hamper the St Louib delegation by tying their hands. This small mat ter accomplished, every man is expect to do his duty at the polls, on the first Monday in June. Straws indicate which way the wind bl ws. The verdict of our Jane election will show the trend of the pudllc mind. If we succeed in spiking Republican guns in this state, the November battle is half won. Then by the selection of a prudent Btateman for our National standard bearera man of brains, rather than muscle, we shall have a good lighting chance to ledeem the state and cation from the stench and stigma of Republican rnle. Cjunt on your uncle ts assist in the change. Respectfully, ! N. F. Nelson. BramowATia. On the 23rd. inst, the young people of Sprinwater Grange gave an entertain ment and play entitled out on the street which was a grand success The ame will Oe given at Logan Grange hall Sat urday evening on January 30th. Every body invited. Died, 'at Dodge Jan. 19th, 1904, Mrs. Alma Popper Boudish, age 35 years, 8 months and 17 days. Her remains were laid to rest in Springwater cemetery. She leaves a husband and live children to mourn her loss. She died as she lived, a constant Christian. The New Fire Box. A new fire box in that old cook stove will cost you but a few dollars. The old stove is worthless without it. Our nuw fire box will make it good as new. Remember how that old stove used to bake. Why buy a new stove which will have to be repaired anyway in a few years, when o -r fire box will make the old one new? If you do not believe these statements, give Mr. II, K. Luse a chance and be convinced. He will do the work at your bonip satisfactorily or no pay. He is sole agent in Oregon City and Clackamas county for the fire box. Addieps Oregon City, Or. .l."i"wytw.' '-nhii -mimiun a 11 trl : SOLD AND RECOMMENDED BY HUM UY BROTHERS, DruggWU Jin 6tye Witness Oils of Tire 31 Graphic Description of the Iro quois theatre Tire, bp ttlrs. Chtttt L. Cheney, O. A. Cheney, one of the old citizens of Oregon City, at one time a prosper ous newpaper publisher in the central west, has a son, Chette L. Cheney, who resides in Chicago, and is an expect operator on a linotype and works for the Drovers' Journal. His wife, Leonora, was in the Iroquois theatre lire and he has j ist receivoii a letter from her giving her personal experiences. She says, ''i was in that awful hell of fir', the burn ing of the Iioquois theatre. How 1 ever hppen?dto get out is almost, as much of a'myst.ery to myself as to the people whom I tell of it . ' 1 had a seat in the forth row from the front of the gallery, jammed up next to the box. s with eight or r ine people between me and the aisles. The fire started on the opposite side of the etaae and I saw the first little tongue o( flame. I arose, as d d nearly everybody, but when the actors screamed 'sit dow ,' I did so. In fact about oue third of the Deople on the first ti nr sat down, while the others continued neeiugin an awlul panic. I waited until the tiatnes era shooting into the audience 10 feet right opposite me and I knew that tl e theatre waa doomed. I jumped up on my seat and the entire way out I jumped from one seat to the other over their backs, aa die aisles were packed. Toe flames were not 10 feet back of me the whole way out and it was stifling with the smoke and the terrible odor of burning flesh. Had I sat on the other side of the theatre in the corresponding seat to where I sat I wou'd have lost my life. A dozen persona were found there burn ed to death were the flames first shot out. When I got to the end of the theatre, having passed two exits that were locked, I saw an exit that was open. It w s kicked open by two baseball players, as I learned afterw irds. About 200 werevtrying to get out and we all fought like mad jogs My flesh was a i.ass of black and blue sp jts nexi day My knees are so yet. I was knocked out of the exit and fell ou my hands and knees. Had I failed straight out I would have been crushed to death but I was ' knocked a little sidewavs and then c:awled across the alley ou my hands and knees. A man jumped on my hack out I was flat, on the ground at tlio time and was only (badly bruised. My hands were walked on until they were all black and skinned. I fought my way across the alley and a man in overalls pulled me to my feet. I think he was an en gineer or fireman from a building back of the theatre. I was standing in this big doorway after I waa pulled to my feet and saw the poor souls fall like hail from the windows and fire escapes. The flames were shooting out 10 feet beyond them so you can imagine what they were suffering. A flame would climb up a woman or child's dress and hair and that living pillar of fire would drop about three stories to the ground, eiihar being pushed out or jumping out them selves. The screams both here and in the theatre will ring in my ears always it seems. Such agnozing shouts I have never beard in all of my life. I ran up to State street and aekd about a dozen where State street was. They were all hurring to the fire and would't answer, so I grabbed a lady and asken her and she told me I was on State. Icould'nt believe it, but she pui her arms around me and led me to Marshall, Field & Co where my sister works. When I reached there I did not know my sister's name nor what department she worked in for about 15 minutes. At last it came to me and went up to her. She had been busy selling a big bill of oods and didn't even know the Iroquois was burning, blie was frantic when she found it out and was not able to work for 10 days afterward. She came near haviDg brain lever. In the meantime Chette got out of work at 2 '30 as usual and killed time, talking to the machinist until 3:30 and then he started down town on a Halt ted car. He heard there was a lire clown town but did not happen to hear where it was. When he was almost to the Iroquois theater, he inquired, "Where is the fire?" The front of the theater was not touched bo he only saw the fire en tities and hose affairs, Some one told him the Iroquois was burning and said, "My God ! My wife isiin there". I guess the r- T h.v wn foin'jn r for two nin caught him. They told him that all the bodies so far recovered were in Vaughan's seed store and took him there. He and Boorksellerf, Oregon City, Oregon m a mm looked at about 35 or 40 charred bodies but I was not there so he went out and just then he heard Fome one say that al most all of the first floor escaped. Well, he knew I was on Jllie first floor, for he had strictly forbidden me ever going an where else, so he Bays theihouaht oc curred to him that Lenoie is safe and will go to Marshall, Tieldo & Co. to sis ter The fire si ar ted at 3:30 and at 3:4o oniy a quarter of an hour later, every thing was over, thoBe out wno got at all and the rest 600 piled up dead in piles 10 feet deep. Dead bodies wore piled in Randolph St. five deep along on thy side walk and big vans loaded so with dead that two horeea couldn't pull them until police men puc their weight against the wheel. I am positive that had Chette rome straight down town when he quit work at 2:30 and had been waiting in the foyer at the alarm of fire ha would have fought his way into that awful place ti help me and would lime been killed and me saved. A Calf's Peculiar Death. A seeminidy healthy, fat heifer calf, two months old, suddenly died last weeK on the place ol Morris Reilly, Mount Pleasant, under peculiar c.icumstance?. It was loose in a roomy stall in the sta ble. Reilly observed that, sumo time after its morning's meal of milk, it workel its jaws in sn 'unusual way. He turned it out. It ran up and down the yaid, finally ran in a ciicle,bel!od, the while incessantly opeuing and shutting its mouth, fell down and expired. He opened the calf and found a wad of cheese, the shape and size of a man's hand, in the first Btomach. A. Matthews, f-e veterinary doctor, Bays that ttie acid from the liver flowed too copiously and quickly into the stomach. This abnor. mality curdled the mint ana souring tne teeth also, made the calf work its jaws. A liberal dose of raw linseed oil would have dissolved the cheese in the calf'B stomach and saved it, the doctor says. Orange fleeting. Central Grange No. 276 met last Sat urday January 16'h at their hall at Eagle Creek and installed their officers for the ensuing year. State depniy C. O. Borland of Oswego Grange No 175 in stalled the new oliieers. Resolutions were adopted iufavor of Parcels Poat and postal currency by a unanimous vote. The Beaver Creek Grange always has an excellent time at their meetings and visitors are always welcome. ONE WAY OUT. Residents of Oregon City are Shown the Way. Only one way to cure a bad back Liniment and plasters may relieve it. They won't cure it. Backache meaus sick kidneys. Loan's Kiuney Pills cure all kidney ills. Read a case of it. Mrs. J. D.Kennedy, who resides at 780 Corbett St., Portland says: "I have been afflicted with kidney trouble for thirty years, and for the past twenty years I have uitbeen entirely free from it in some form or other. I suffered ter ribly from backache and could hardly stoop over and get np again. Trouble from the kidneyi secretions existed. At times I was greatly blofted, my feet 'welled to twice their natural size and f Was seldom without a plaster on my Pack to ease the pain. I doctored a great deal and used more medicines than any one person could carry. I had read so much about Doan's Kidney Pills that I c Deluded to give them a trial and got a box. I was a good subject with a case of such long standing, and I thought if they he'ped me I could safely recom mend them to others. I used them faithful.y and the results were satisfact ory in every way. Doan'b Kidney Pills are a wonder. They did me more good than any other remedy I ever used." Plenty more proof like this from Ore gon City people. Call at C. G. Hunt ley's drug store and ask what his cus tomers report. For sale by all dealers. Price 50c Foster-ililburn Co. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. Beautiful Clear Weather. Ilerbttie eierta a dirct, Influence ou Uie boweU, liver and kidney, purifjiui? and atreugtheninz lltcAe organs, and maintaining them in a uotmal condition of hiltii; rhui remofing commoa ususe of yellow, mothy, grtsy &kin. and more or ohi of pimple, blotchen and bluckueadB, 60o at Churmao & Co Poey's Honey and Tar h-tiiiiMrtiV-'i'iiiiiii unknown preparation lungs weakened and Surprises Gveryhodp Eiiers Piano House Club Prices Creating a Sensation 1 Everywhere Best. Advantages Piano Buyers Ever Had Customers From AH Over the Country, and Clubs Filling Rapidly. Until people investigate l is difficult to make them believe that the instruments e are now selling to members of the co operative clubs can really be purchased at the prices club members are getting them, and on the exceedingly easy erms of pay ment. Pianos possessi i g most exquisite tone, beautifully designed and finely finished are to be had now for ;is litte as Sn8. This price sounds small, and it is s'nall. exceedingly small considering the worth of the piano. Every price quoted and every instrument sold to club members rep resents as great a bargain. If you buy a Chickering, a Weber or a Kimball piano, grand upright, you are go ing to make a proportionate saving if you join a piano club. EVERYTHING AT WHOLESALE To c'ub members ever; thing in our store 3o makes in all is going at whole sale prices. It is only possible for us to favor retail buyers in this way, by sell ing in as large quantities to clubs as we do to the wholesale dealer. So by joining a club you are helping go other people to get as fine e bargain as yourself. There are five piano clubs, each limited to ioo members. PRICES AND PAYMENTS Members joining Club "A" will obtain a fine new piano upon payment of $ 5 down and vieekiy payments of $1 25. (Pay more it you like, but this is all that is re quired.! AlemSers of Club "B" pay $6 upon de livery of piano and then at the rate of $1.60 a week. Club "C" members pay $12.00 down and the balance in payments of 2.00 weekly. Members of Club "D" will be asked to pay ?2o.oo down and $2.50 a week. Those toining "E" pay $25 00 down and the balance as suits them best, pro vided it is paid within two years. Payments in all clubs may be made by the month instead of weekly as preferred. JOIN NOW It will pay you to join without any de lay. Clubs are filling at such a rapid rate that it will not take long to nil them all. Orders and enquires by mail receive prompt and careful aetention. THE PIANO In these ciubs are pianos of such well known excellence as the Weber of New York, the Chickering of Boston, the Kim ball of Chicago, tlobart M. Cable, Bush & Gerts, Vose, Lester, Pease, Schumann, Bailey, and in fact our entire line com prising thirty makes of fine pianos. Prices. All regular $225 styles are now $137.00 ; $275 pianos $165, $3oo pianos 187.00, etc. etc. Every instrument sold has our full un conditional guarantee of money back if not entirely satisfactory, in addition to the factory guarantee. Deliveries invariably made immediately upon purchase if de sired. EILER'S PIANO HOUSE, No. 351 Washington St., Cor. Park Write us for further particulars' etc. Out of town inquiries promptly attend ed to. T.W.COLE, iVpv All goods bought in bond. Purity and quality guaranteed Some famous OU brands 09 V1MNWAWU1T 1VC v t Cor. Railrad Ave. and bltin i :Thc 14li Street (Rrocery I Is now opened with a goods at prices that will Goods delivered to any N). 1. Rev. Carlisle P. L. 0. B. Martin L. Of Waverly, Texas, writes: "Of a morn ing, when first orisiug, I o'ten find a troublesome collection of phlegm, which prouuees a cnugn ana is very hard to dislodge; but a small quantity of Bal lard's Horehound Syrup will at once dislodge it, and the trouble is over. I know (H no medicine that is equal to it, and it is so pleasant to take, lean most cotdially recommend it to all persons needing n medicine for throat or lung trouble." 25c, 50c and $1. Charman & Co. For the lctest novelties in all kinds of laces and dress trimmings there is no store in Oregon City like the Fair. They sell men's underwear at the Fair at Rediculously ;low prices considering the values An investigation ; will prove the truth of both ; the above statements. The Fair Store TYTKIT DAnixTdMiT t- . f t w m. ixwiJiiN o win , rrop r. s r ,r 1 1 1 : it Tiiiiitelfwlira The Finest Fruit " The very finest fruits of the shoe complete ourstock. The swellest styles in all the varieties of lasts, tops, toes ana trimmings, fcvery pair a beauty, wi h solid, substantial uiMr In hurl thr m and make them sensible bargains win De rouna at KRAUSE BROS. Oregon Gty Shoe House GANBY PACKING -- COMPANY-- CANBY, OREGON. Headquarters for Fresh Meats. Highest prices paid for butcher tock. R.P.Blazier & Co., Props I Bown & Welch Propribtobs op thb eat arket 7t$t A. O. U. W. Building ORFOOV CITY OREGON saci whiskus, and Cigars OS t James E. Pepper, Kentucky Bourbon Old Sam Harris Kentucky Bourbon complete stock of fresh satisfy the closest buyer. part of the city free. M. HARRIS, Prop.