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4 OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1893 Oregon City Enterprise. Published ECvery Friday. I.. U PORTER, raoraiaToa. BUBCHIPT!ON RATES, One year $2 00 Bit months 1 00 Trial subscription, two months 2ft A discount ol SO cents on til subscriptions lor on year, 25 cent (or six months, if paid in advance. t Advertising rates given on application. Subscriber will find the dale of expira tion stamped on their papats following ilieir name. If this date is not changed within two weeks arter a payment, kindly notify us and we will look after it. Entered at the postofflee In Oregon City, Or., as second class matter. AQKJTT8 rOR THE ENTERPRISE, Beaver Creek.. Canby Clackamas Milwaukia Cnion Mills... lleadow Brook. Hew Kra Wilsonville .... 1'arkplace Stalfbrd.... ... llulino Cams atolalla atarqnaru ..Dr. T. U. Thomas Ueo. Knight , A. Mather ... Oscar Wissinger ....0. J.Trullinger Oh as. Holman ...V. r. Newberry Henry Miley F. U Russell J.Q. liage C. T. Howard K. M. Cooper Annie Stubbe ... E. M. llartman lintteriiie. .a. Jennings Aurora Henry A. Snyder Orville L. J. Perdue Xagle Uwk .HvAl'??rn Damascus ,-cv,t"10" ...ft F. Oa'lsch irrinilla Geo. J. Currin CJierrvville Mrs. M.J. Hammer AUrmot ; Adolph AschoH C9"Th9 way to build np Oregon City la to cIto Oregon City People yoor ratreaar. COLONUl POLICY. A new epoch is being marked in the history ol the United States. On July 18th, the president issoed a proclama tion directed to the secretary of war for the government of the conquered pro vtnce oi Santiago. The military governor iwiQboonpreme. This is the beginning 'of a government for outside possessions, colonial. If the trend of events can be lorseen, tha United States will come oat - of the present war with several colonies n her hands. The momentous question to this country is what will the relation 'be of these acquisitions to the home gov ernment. On fhe correct solving of this question depends the success of the col onial scheme. It is true that Hawaii is already annexed except some formal cnatters, but the government has put no -scheme of control in motion as yet. Already the political parties are lining np on the subject as to whether we tjbould acquire any foreign territory. The republican party is in control and is bound to try the experiment. The in habitants of these prospective colonies are as different as can be from each other and from Americans. Will a com mon scheme work and what shall it be? Those that heard John Temple Graves at the Chaatauqua last Saturday will have to acknowledge that there are grave difficulties and dangers in putting power in the hands of an ignorant and subser vient race. Spain will lose the colonies and the United States will, in some form, become the dominant power in them. We be lieve that a government akin to that en joyed by the territories is as far as this government can go in the handling of the colonies. The eyes of the nations of the earth are upon ns and momentous to us will be the results of this war. The adjustment with other nations will be a more deli cate matter than with Spain. Thb people of the seaports of Spain are packing their bag and baggage, pre paratory to seeking a place of safety from the threatened attack of Watson's fleet. 6o long long as the war is confined to the colonies, Spanish people will loudly talk of Spanish bravery and seek to pro long the war. They are like Artemus Ward, who, during the civil war, said be was patriotic and to prove it, said he ras willing to sacrifice all bis wife's re lations in the canse. A few 13-inch bells from Watson's fleet will add many advocates to the peace party in Spain. Thb returns from the Klondike are snow fat at $10,000,000. The mines will all soon be in the hands of big compan ies, as it takes too much capital to work them for the poor man to make any iheadwajr. LESSONS Or TIIK WAR Governments like Individuals learn by experience. It Is ' doubtful If Spain, blinded oy her centuries of in grained ignorance, will profit by the oh' joct lessons drilled Into her with shot and shell, tut it is to be hoped that our government will be mote amenable to reason, more progressive in her ideas and will seek to benefit to the utmost from the lessons taught by the present war. ' We have been too self-satisfied, too much puffed up with our fancied secur ity and our reliance on Yankee ingenuity and lankee pluck. e nave been pro- reeding upon the foolich presumption that we were to enjoy i erpetual peace, with an army not Urge enough to gar rison one seaport and a navy, which in esprit de corps was commendable enough in its way, but which in numerical strength was a disgrace to a nation of our pretention. We have learned that we have been pursuing a wrong, not to sar a suicidal policy. It is true our army and our navy have been successful (gainst Spain, but that success has but shown us what would in all probabili ty have been our fate had the trend of events involved ns in a war with a first' class power instead of bankrupt, corrupt and degenerate Spain. Our navy wax recruited at the beginning of hostilities by the purchase of battle ships and cruisers, for which we paid war prices, getting inferior vessels at the very highest price. Our ammunition and army supplies have all been pur chased on hurry-up orders and con sequently at the very highest prices. Of course no American criticises tha government for its outlay in providing the necessary ships, ammunition and supplies for the carrying on of this war, but our congress will be blind indeed and our people lack patriotism as well as common prudence should they fail to back congress in pursuing the maxim laid down by Washington "in times of peace prepare for war," The want of a fair sited army and a navy ranking with the first-class powers ol the world is one of the lessons taught by this war and we trust our country will heed that lesson and remedy the de fect. Another lesson brought to the atten (ion of the country by this war, as it could have been brought np in no other manner, is the pressing need of the early construction of the Nicaragua ca nal. The trip of our gallant Oregon, fortunately successful and timely, has shown the country the necessity of hav tng a route by wtiich vessels may reach our two coasts without the long and peri lous yoyage around the Horn. Tbts lesson is one that will surely bear fruit by the construction of that canal under the control of our government, Another, and perhaps the grandest lesson of all, was to awakea this country to the fact that we, as a nation, are an integral part, a living, active factor in the affairs of the great world. Too long have we been a hermit nation, satisfied to exist between our Crustacean shell, oblivious, apparently to the great theatre of action going on about us in which the other nations of the world were playing the principal parts. Too long bad we remained inactive while the principal strategic positions of the world were be ing armed against us, satisfied to rest upon the theory of non-acquisition of ter ritory held by statesmen one hundred years ago. Governments grow and out grow like individuals, and we have grown and outgrown that spirit and that line of reasoning which inspired the honorable United States senator to exclaim that he wished t j God an impassible barrier were erecte 1 on the summit of the Rocky mountains with the word finis inscribed upon it. We have learned that centuries of civ ilization have not refined the savage in stinct from man, and that the betu tiful dream of universal peace will neei be realized until the coming of the mil lenium. We have learned that to be humane and just, it is sometimes necessary to re sort to war and, that to hold our place with the nations of the world in peaceful commerce or in warfare, we must p wess strategic points in various parts of the world. To this lesson the country will ulti mately be indebted for the possession of the Hawaiian Islands, the Phillipine Islands, Cuba and Porto Bico, and al- though that possession may entail the'""" " , u ; " uuc- 0 application. loss of thousands of lives and millions of treasure, tbey will be worth the price. These lessons bave been learned none too soon. It was time this country awoke to its duty as one of the leading factors in the civilisation of Ihn world and started on its road to pursue its manifoHt destiny as the loading nation of the world Bryas Is off (or the war and The Ore. gonian hopes he will have a chance to show the stuff he is made of. Many a man whom) bump of political Intelligence is wanting, hat has the making of a fighter in him. Our erstwhile actor, lawyer, correspondent, politician and ag itator, hat turned soldier. He has en listed In his country's service and put himself under orders from the man who defeated him for the presidency. The man who puts hinmell between the guns of a foreign foe and the laud he loves disarms criticism and estops Inquiry Into bis motives. Oregonian. Judos. Burnett dissolved the Injunction Issued by County Judge Terrel at the In stance of D'Aroy, restraining the sec re tary of ttite fiom issuing a certificate of election to Judge Boise and dismissed the suit. The election contest will be tried later. Well Is Sahara. Artesian wells sunk m the Suhnra desert appear to liud au abundant sup ply of water without going very deep fur it, and this fact may in timo put a new face oil desert conditions, involving important political, climntio and eco nomical consequcueea. The English have begun sinking them along the Berber- Suakin road, finding water there as abundant as it was in the regions near the Kilo when their first experimental wells were put down. Flowing under the Saburau sands there may be water enough to fertilize oasea all over its sterile expanse and rescue it in a meas ure from its bistorio barrenness and desolatiou. Some years ago a French wgiueer proposed to cut a canal from the Mediterranean to tho lower desert levels, thus creutiug a uew inland sea, or, rather, restoring an old one, but for some reason the project was abandoned. Local irrigation by means of artesian borings is a more judicious expedient, and, the English having pointed the way in this direction, the French are quite likely to follow it Only a narrow desert belt separates their possessions in north and middle Africa, reuchiug from the Mediterranean to the Niger, and it is quite worth their while to fertilise it and plant it with palm groves and data orchards if possible, at any rate to pro vide water enough to supply their pres ent caravans and perhaps their future locomotives. Now York Tribune. French Secret Folic Methods. I once spent an afternoon in a pleasant little villa on the bunks of the river Marne with the former chief of police in the time of Napoleon III np to tho proclamation of the republic, No one would have thonght, to look at the peaceful figure of tho proprietor, a little man in sabots, with gray beard a la Millet, absorbed in cultivating the mag nificent hortcusias thnt covered his ter races, reaching to tho water's edge, that bis bead had been a storehouse for all the machinations and turpitudes of that period of decadence w hich ended in a disastrous war" and revolution. It was on that afternoon that I learned bow the fatal Ollivier ministry was decided upon by M. Thiers and bis political friends one ev uing iu the conservatory of a beautiful Frenchwoman living not far from the opera. Two brothers, well known in the best Paris society, meanwhile distracted the attention of be guests iu the salon by sleight of uaud tricks and gymnastic fcuts on a Persian rug, and when I asked the old man how he knew all this with such precision, "From afenimedochambre," he answered tranquilly. "All person ages of importance at that timo, at their own request, took their servants only from tuy band. " Harper's Weekly. More Than lie Could Stud. "Hold np yer hands!" The citizen thus addressed suddenly jhot out bis right fitt It caught the murderous footpad squarely on the nose and stretched bim motionless on the frozen ground. "Tbut was a nervy thing to do," said tne policeman who happened by some mysterious dispensation to be in the neighborhood and had come running to the scene. "It was a pretty nervy thing for the scoundrel to do, "replied the citizen, scowling at his damaged band. "He didn't know he was tackling a desperate man. I had just paid a gas bilL "Chi cago Tribune. . If norsnce. Two country men went into a batter's to buy a bat. Tbey were delighted with the sample, inside the crown of which was inserted a looking gluss. "What is the glass for?" said one of the men. 'X'he other, impatient at such a dis- piuy of rural ignorance, said: "Wbwt for? Why, for the man who bnys thu bat to see bow it fits." Pick Me Up. THE CLACKAMAS ABSTRACT i TRU8T CO. are the owners of the copy right to the Thorne system of abstract indexes, for Clackamas county, and have the only complete set of abstracts in the County, can furnish information as to ' 1 .... 4 .4 - ,, etc. Office over Bank of Oregon City. Call and investigate. Address box 377, Oregon City Oregon. kxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxs:xx THE N OF THE WEEK Thuisday, July 14. General Toral, the commander of the Spanish garrison at Santiago, Culm, surrendered to General Shatter of (lie United Status army. The surrender In cludes the city of Santiago Its forts and ammunition. The surrender does not in clude the ports of Mansanilla and Holguln. The Spanish soldiers surren dered by Toral will be transported to Spain hy the United States. This war loan of $:tH),000,000, asked for hy the government at three per cent was reHndcd to hy the people by the oiler of $1,300,000,000, or six times the amount asked for. An American spy named Fernando, captain In the Second Texas Rangers, succeeded in deceiving the Spanish au thorities, dined with Admiral Camara, inspected the fleet and the defenses at Cadis, and eacaed before being de tected as a spy. l'reparalions for the invasion of Porto Rico were commenced today. The ex pedition will be commanded by General Miles in erson, seconded by General Brooke. The expedition will consist ol 3,000 uon supplemented by the navy. It is not oxpected that the Spanish will make a very stern resisteuce at Porto Rico. Tho territory surrendered by Toral embraces about 60,000 square miles About half as large aa tha state of Oregon, Mrs. Stanford has voluntarily reduced her monthly allowance from $L'500 per month to $1000 in order that the en dowuient lund for Stanford university may not suffer. "Admiral Cervera and other captured Spanish officers have been taken tu Annapolis. The contract has been signed subject to approval of the United States government for a cable from Sao Diego, Cal., to Honolulu and thence to Japan. Two armed and masked men held up the Central Pacific train, two miles east of Humboldt, Cal. and blew open the express car door and the safe with dyna mite. They took all the valuables and decamped. They hid on the tender and covered the engineer and fireman with rifles, obliging them to stop the train. Senator McBride and Representative Tongue succeed in having passed by congress the following bill : "That all cases, civil and criminal, filled on appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Alaska in the United States circuit court of appeals for the ninth judicial circuit, and (lending on appeal therein on and prior to the 30th day of Decern ber, 1807, of which the supreme court of the United States would have had juris diction under the then existing law, If a proper appeal had been taken thereto at the time said cases were filed on appeal in said circuit ceurt of appeals be, and the same are deemed and treated as regularly filed on apieal In the supreme court of the United Slates as of the date, when filed in said circuit court of appeals. The clerk of said circuit court of appeals is directed to transmit to the supreme court of the United States, as soon practicable, the records of such cases and the clerk of said supreme court is diree'ed to receive and file the same for bearing and determination iu the su preme court of the United States when regularly reached on the docket, subject to any rules made or to be made by said court which may be applicable." Pensions have been granted as follows Oregon Original Jeffrey A, Wlsner, Portland, $0 ; Jesse Carey, PortOrford, 8; Charles H. McCausland, Oregon City, $8. Additional Miles Rowen, Oregon City, $0 to $8; Thomas Wilson, Eckley. Restoration and additional- Jasper N. Iteed, dead, Middleton, $0 to $12. Friday July 15. Ihe people of Barcelona, Hpain, are panic stricken, fearing bombardment by the American fleet. They can stand with fortitude the bombardment of Cu ban towns, but when the horrors of war are about to be brought to their very doors, they awaken to the fact that, as General Sherman puts it, "war is bell." Wealthy families are deserting Cadiz, Seville, Malaga and Barcelona, in antici pation of the arrival of Watson's fleet. It is proposed to garrison Santiago with Cubans. The Americans could not re tain health in that climate, The Chinese on Dewey's ships be haved so. well during the battle at Ma nilla that he recommends thoy be made American citizens as a reward. Two transports, the Puebla and Peru, left San Francisco for Manilla, with 1700 men. Saturday July 10. The Spanish prisoners captured at Santiago will be sent to Spain July 25. American operators are placed In the cable offices at Santiago and Blanco It v-v-v-v-v-v Cl thus cut olf from communication with Spain. Seventeen today from gold. miners arrived at Seattle Klondike with $000,000 Advices from Madrid state thai peace negotiations have been opened. The Frisco (rain was held up by two masked men near Wichita, Kan. and several hundred dollars secured from II express car, Tho ruhlwri escaped, By authority of the Secretary of tli interior sheep are to be excluded from the national forest reserves. Surgen-General Wynian says Ihere not a single case of yellow fever In till country so far as he knows. Two masked and armed men hold up the store of Thatcher Kllng. at Ixpwai, Idaho. They murdered M Charles K. Thatcher, but becoming alarmed left without robbing (he safe. Private Laweon II. Hushes, Calllornl Volunteers and private Thomas llohau First Washington volunteers, were court martialod at Vancouver. They were dlshonably discharged and Imprisoned for misdemeanors. Near Garfield, Washington, Jap Kid well and wife were picking blackberries and their baby was on the round Hearing a growl Mr, Kldwell went to the baby and finding a largo she bear and two cubs about to make a meal from the child he made a rush and tho bear crowd took to the woods. Major T.J. Humes, of Seattle, has announced nimself a candidate for the United mates senate. Sunday July 17. Sixteen new cases of yellow fever do veloped among our troops in Cuba, and one man died. The troo will bo mov ed to higher ground. Major Webb Hares, son of Ex-I'resl dent Hi yes was wounded at the battle of Santiago. Cudahy'o packing house has raised the wages of employees, thus ending strike. Tho steamer St. Paul arrived at San Francisco bringing men and treasures from Klondike. It is estimated that $0,000,000 were brought down by tlil steamer. Monday July 18. Captain Kulato of the Viscaya la offended and refused to sign the parole because Covera was only required to give an oral promise. Camara reached Spain today from their grand stand parade through the Sues canal. Bids have been asked for for Ihe trans portation of 1000 Spanish olllcers and 24,000 men from Santiago to Spain. AU mails from the front will be funnl gated. Oregon Salmon and cherries are at trading a great deal of attention at Omaha. Proffessor Heals, of th University of Washington was killed by falling through an open hatch on the Arizona at Seattle, Tuesday, July 10. General Miles, with four batteries of ar tillery, sailed on the Yale today for Porto Rico, More troops will follow at once. No troops engaged at Santiago will go to Porto Rico. The mines in the Santiago harltor have been exploded and the Marie Teresa and Colon examined. Tbey will probably be saved. A ugustin refuses to surrender at Ma nilla aud is trying to form a compact with Aguinaldo against the Americans Manzanlllo has been shelled by tho re- American warships with unknown suits. 1 tie Uerman gunboat Irene was topped by a shell from tho MuCulloch The president issues a proclamation for the government of Santiago. Bryan's regiment started for the front today from Nebraska. Watson's squadron is making active preparation to leave for the coast of Spain, probably by the end of the week. Transportation facilities are such that a trip can be made to Dawson in 10 days and back in 12 from Portland. Soapy Smith, a notorious character, well-known throughout the northwest, was shot at Skagway by a man named Reed, last week. The torpedo boats building In Port- and will be given a trial in about three weeks. Tl Wednesday, July 20. A ship load of food has been distribu ted by the the government to the starr ing inhabitants of Santiago. Spanish troops in the yiclmty of Cairn- endra to the amount of 6000 have surrendered. Tho A merfcau troops will ho pild in colli with the plan of driving H mulsh money out of circulation. There Is considerable friction ho' ween tho American and Cuban troops, a the latter are considered of Utile ludp. General Garcia refused lo attnn I the raising of tho American flag. Samson's fleet has linen order d to Porto Rico to assist In landing troops, Santiago's sanitary condition was found to bo In a terrible state, Ni cw erage or drainage, with conditions f.ivor ahlo for an epidemic of fever. The German admiral was lor I to aMjoglo lo Dewey at Manilla for Inter fering with mutters at that port. Latest news from tho Yukon le i Is to show that the gold deposits am of i very wide extent. A Chinese murderer blew up th p der works at Oakland to caa .rr--t and killed himself, five deputy s mnils and a woman living In tho vicinity. Captains Heath, Wells, Prescot ami Lieut. Teller are liable to lie cour.-uiar-tialed for overstaying time on a len uf absence at Manilla. Washington troow at Vancouver have been ordered to San Francisco, A hospital ship will be sent tu Ma nils. Thuisday July 21. Major General Wilson with th 2nd and ard Wis. and Kith Pa. and two com- panieo of the illh III. left Charleston i. O. for Porto Rico direct. The whole city saw thuin olfamld great enthusiasm. General Miles has been dulayo I at Santiago In his departure for Porto R c( Dnalneas Is reviving at SantlagM S peclally In relics of the war and souve Irs. fawn shops are doing a great Imsm t as, stores are opened, goods are beint re ceived and American money is rea Illy Uken. Yellow fever is spreading In a mild form. The Spanish Steamship Co. was the lowest bidder for carrying the Spa ilali troops homo captured at Santiago. The Cuban junta ia trying to patch un Ihe trouble between the Cuban and American forces at Santiago. Word has been received that Gonsral Garcia Is dead. 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