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OREGON CITY KN'Tf KHIM KHITiAY, .H'l.Y in, 1893, OiegonCity Enterprise. lubliHed Every Friday. L. - PORTER, 1'RorRIRToa. 8UBHCHIPTION HATK8, One voir i- 0,1 tix iibiiii I lis 1 Trml ulcription, two months A discount ot SO cents on all subscriptions fcir on year, 25 cents (or six months, i! ai,l in advance. Advertising rales given on tiiliont Ion. Suhscrihers will find the date of expira tion stamped on their papers following their name. U lliin date is not changed wimiii two fH'is after a pavment, kindly notify us and we will look after it. Entered at tl'.e postotlic in Oregon City, Or., as second class matter. I.1EST8 FOR THE ENTERPRISE. Beaver Creek ... .TT. lr. T. B. Thomas Canny Ji"'fht Cla.Vamas Mather Milwaukie Oscar isMiiiser I'm, m Mills. Meadow Brook New Kra Wilsonrille .... Park place Ptaitord 11 nino Cams Molalla llariiiani ttuiteviile . Aurora.. Orville Eagle Creek.... Damascus bandy 'urrinsville Oierryville EACH 1KSKUVKS IMSOMOTIOX. True greatness does not consist in de traction of rivals nor is eminence suc cessfully attained by rimming others down. Just estimates of Sampson and Schley can Vie formed without invidious comparisons, especially so as their p cu liar fields of achievement lie in different directions Announcnient of the pn si dent's intention to reward both Sam pi on and Schley for promotion is a sure si. lial or popular discussion of tho merit of two commanders, in which, it must be expected, detraction of one by friet ds of the other will be in dinger ofelb,w- ing discerning judgment olF the stage. Santiago is Schley's victory. But it is also in a sense fully as essential and creditable, Sampson's. Without the work of either it could not have been ac hieve!. The discerning will notice tl at naval battles nowadays are not won by brayery or dash alone. Orvera was brave and decisive enough, but his slrps went to pieces because they had no ...J.Q. lae C. T. Howard ,' R. M. Cooper Annie Stubbs E. M. Hartman B. Jennings .... Henrv A. Snyder t, J. Perdue ..H. Wilbern ".'.'..'....J. C. Elliott " K. Oietsch .. ." ....Geo. J. Currin Mrs. M. J. Hammer atarruot..." Adolpli Ascbofl (5. J. Trulltiiger ...Chas. Holman ,V. S. Newberry Henrv Milev F. l. Russell i Sampson to plan for them and keep tie m Tie way to build up Oregon City f to fire Oregon City .People jour Patrnaage. And now Dixon Las his deputy paid for bv the county. How different things look before and after an electhn Next! "Sunday seemed to be the choice day in this war especially with the navy. Then Shaftar started to make the final advance on Santiago on the same day. A dispatch received at Portland states that Santiago surrendered uncondition ally to the American forces under Gen oral Shatter, at 11:30 a. m., Thursday. Th Bennington will go to the La drones and bold possession of those islands while the cruiser Philadelphia will go to Honolulu and raise the Ameri can flag. It is probable that three of the gun boats in the fight at Santiago may be aayed, the Viicaya, Maria Te'esa and Cristobal Colon. These vessels may yet flv the American flag. Camaba bas concluded that be likes to cruise in the Suez canal. No sooner does he get through the canal than he turns around and comes back, but it re quires high toll to do this canal act and Spain can hardly afford to do It again soon. There is no doubt Camara has the same curiosity to see an American admiral that Cervera had. Bkpr!Sbntativ Tongue who was chosen orator by the Sons of the Ameri can Revolution gave an address at the base of Washington Monument on the Fourth at Washington D. C. Mr. Tongue's address is spoken of very highly. He predicted the loss of all her colonies to Spain and their coming under the American flag. A Grbat deal is being said by the populietic press about the appointment of the sons of prominent people to po sitions In tbe army. In most of these cases the appointee has had considera ble training and is better qualified than a man whose training is not on the mil itary lines. All of the people forget to put Colonel Bryan on tbe list. Where did he get hw ability to be a colonel? in condition. Cervera's men were brave j enough, but the training in care of gnns and use of them which distinguished the American squadron had in their rise been neglected. Condition of tools at d skill In their use have made the diffir- ence between the American and Span iah squadrons in every engagement of tbe war. Sampson has been laying the founda tion of the Santiago victory for maiy years. Himself a poor workingman in youth, and the son of a day laborer, I e is the mechanical ingenuity and applica tion which puts America at the head i f naval as well as industrial achievement , and which Spain has scorned to her con fusion. The armament of the new navy the perfect condition of its guns, the con stant state of preparedness in which ou fleet was kept, are Sampson's work Nobody knows quite so much aix.ni' ordnance as Sampson, Hard study ami constant effort have given him for man years authoritative eminence on modem armor and armament, and on the use and comparative value of exploiivee. As long ago as the establishment ol the naval war college at Newport, Sampson was the instructor on torpedoes. As in spector of ordnance at the Washington navy-yard, he assisted in the installment of tbe present magnificent gun factory, and as chief of the bureau ot naval ordnance he did the foundation work without which Santiago would have been impossible. No better evidence of his naval fitness could be given than the fact that the squadron at Santiago was all in readiness for the escaping fleet. And it was Schley's victory. All this preparation would have gone for nothing if the engines, ready, had not been turned ; if the guns and rangefinden, clean as a watch and adjusted as ac curately as a chronometer had not been quickly brought into service. In the keystone of the victory's arch, the Brooklyn did tbe vital work by over hauling the Cristobal Colon and making tbe capture of the enemy complete This is an act consistent with the whole career of Schley, which is an embodi ment of the bravery, decision and dash of the American navy, shown when he took the Union ride in 1801, at the Cbincha islands and San Salvador in 1865, on Salee river in 1871, in his res cue of a shipwrecked crew on Tristan d Acunha a few years later, in his rescue of Greely in 1884, and in the Valparaiso troubles in 1891. It is just and fitting, therefore, that both commanders should be promoted. Each won the victory. Each represents a type of naval excellence as indispen sable for our future as it has been effec tive in these triumphs of Manila and Santiago, which, for their overwhelming successes, are, and must continue to he, the wonder of the world. Oregonian. Evans Story of Tho Mnttlo. (Continued from First Page.) Raktinq lumber to San Francisco from Portland is considered a success. The big raft of Inman Poulaen & Co. has arrived ia San Francisco with a loss of about 500,000 feet. This was caused by the raft parting in the middle but it was so constructed that the two parts vers taken up and towed in. The trip was yerjr rough. The projectors will immediately proceed to get another raft ot. It will probably be news to the people of this county that the Union forces have control of tbe county government in this county. But it must be so as Brother Hofer of the Salem Journal says so. Spanish prisoners of war including Cervera have been Rent to Portsmouth N. H. This gives them a good summer outing. Tbe officers will loiter behind to Annapolis where they will be held until hostilities are over. Highest cash price paid for second hand household goods at Bellomy & Buscb. Hood's Sarsaprilla only 64 cents at Cbarman's, the Cut Rate Druggists. cases, dead men were lying in the blood. Five poor chas died on the way to tho ship. They were afterward buried with military honors from the Iowa. "Some examples of heroism or, more properly, devotion to discipline and duty, could never be surpassed, Cue mau on the lost Viicaya had his left arm almost shot off just below the shoulder, The fragments were hanging by a small piece of skin. But he climbed over the Bide and saluted as if on a visit ot ceremony. Immediately after him came a strong hearted sailor, whose left leg had been shot off above the knee, lie was hoisted on board the Iowa with a tackle, but never a whimper came from him, "Gradually the mangled bodies and naked accumulated until it would have been almost difficult to recognise the Iowa as a United States battle-ship. Blood was all over her usually white quarterdeck, and 272 naked men were being.supplied with water and food, "Finally came the boats with Captain Eulate, commander of the Vixcaya, for whom a chair was lowered over the side, as he was evidently wounded. The captain's guard of marines was swung up on tbe quarterdeck to salute him, and I stood waiting to welcome him. As the chair was placed on the deck, the ma rines presented arms. Captain Eulate raised himself from the chair, saluted me with grave dignity, unbuckled his belt, and, holding the hilt of tbe sword before him, kissed it reverently, with tears in his eyes, and then surrendered. Of course I declined to receive his sword, and as the crew of tbe Iowa saw this, they cheered like wild men. "In the meantime, 30 officers of the Vizcaya had been picked up with 372 of her crew. Our wardroom and steerage officers gave up their staterooms and furnished food, clothing and tobacco to the naked sailors, and each was given all the corned beef, coffee and hardtack he could eat. Tbe war has assumed an other aspect." Wlijr "i.rry" II, mud? Up t3 fcbuut JUKI years ago "prr bounds" Wire the t-haugy. gray colon i dogs used in tho cUumi of largo game After that tho iinnio was transferred. Eufiicieutly n!un!ly, to tho black white, blue : yellow, but generally ppotted or Li i..;. rul uud uevirgmy, duf: that is now to popular fur coursing bares. It is very (aid that uo ouo, writ ing about tbe dog, thnuld have insisted upon so obvious au absurdity. (Ju tbu contrary, a great liuiuy writers who have written very wisely about the word "grey" have tried tocxpluiu away its t-iiDpkst meaning by nfcrring to Celtic, Gaelic and Saxou roots, but con Bideriiig these two animals were called indifferently "grey dogs" or "grey bouudb" iu two words when our lan guage first came to be writti u. and that iu those days "dog" and "hound'.' were absolutely synonymous, it seems to me as great a waste of wisdom to try to prove that "gruie, " "j;ray" or "grey," when it is joined with dig or hound, meant auytbing tlte but grey as to suy .that grey-fly means a fly of priuccly ex traction cr gray-beard a champion beard. If I wcro quarrelsome, 1 cliould like to pretend that greyhound really means "badger dog." At any rate I Irt have scnae ot language on my r r I gray, grey, grain and grei are uh j i for the t;ray badger), and 1 wou. uot i be more absurd than the rust Good ! Words. A Rat Catcher's Htorr. There are tricks in all trades, and ' probably as many in that of the profes-, sinnal rat catcher as in any other line. According to the story of a man who bas made a barrel of money in that business, out who has sinco drifted in to other pursuits, it was once easier to 1 make a living catching rats than by ' running a shell game at a country fair. : "I used to nee ferrets for tbe extermi nation cf the rodents," be said, "and wbeu I received au order to clear a warehouse of tbe pests I always insisted that the pay should be gauged by the number of rats killed at so much per bead. I carried the ferrets in a big wooden box, with a false bottom. In a secret drawer underneath I would place four or five dozen live rats before start ing out, let tbem run loose upon reucb ing the place to be rid of rodents, and then r-e the ferrets. Of course, with 60 or 60 rats running around loose, there was always a great slaughter, and some times tbe ferrets would kill nearly all the rats I turned free. 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