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Oregon City Enterprise. OL. 31. NO-'10- OHEUON CITY, OltKQON, FRIDAY, SK1TEMIJER 29, 1899. ESTABLISHED 1866 TfOUVKY AT LAW, U K Mlrl k' MIhhi HUtr. hear .... . . . Osaios, p, d.c, uTui'nnm, '-WISKYH AND 71 OH'NHKMMtH AT LAW (ltHT OMUO I ITV, OBBOOk V. b,.mi '""I u.u.i.l Yj Su.la.sa. CbTHICKl.ASD, M. !. iHufpllal ami r.I-fltltf J VM lli Pi""' -. - - - -- - - r- I . ..... rii anil tirliillV. H14M-IM JMVT" V J . .i.fit m In wintt.tu Alrt (trtlc limits I tO fj 17. It., " 4 to II p. ni. pin CI FY UUKuo.v Lcimmu. . e.caaraau. Lfxiu cabniiu. ATTOUNKYM AT LAW, UrfCITV. ' ' ' . w,rtU la.it !' at las aiai. 01- 'it u.l'U ! din. ' iriiEx. aH"Iixky at law. lo.ll lluUllrf Jlfll Hlif. ULLNCKKXH, DKXTIST. at ).lriat. All pralions (iuamilfrxl. UyHuilI ni Orrijon Ciif, Or. fiavo yquDecidod WSBiYwJVould Like For Your Now flnif. J J"' n..l It hrw. Udi. Ullonng tu atly done. 'LDERT, The Portland Tailor. Main Ml.ul ,. ... TUB TJIANSVAAL. Watery of Trouble J With Africa. JEKKY MHPHOI HOOTED. Tli Malm Tbat the inlanders Make Against the Transvaal Fram-lilae and Oilier (irlevanres. Wiiat tejMj Says It Be So ( tiiry ill Mr UlSl HARRIS' GROCERY jsm U-J,-!. h, II.,, U,,, ,;,. " C'"' imui.it. -.I'KNrisr- LaUoT kh. IJ rroM, all klndafef kti to. war ilic i ffon City, or. tuun ATT'illNKY AT LAW. J itUMlun (ln in ("wunty Court iihI l'ruii buiitiM i run: and accident g INSURANCE tj Railroai Tickotn to all ointa Eunt at low rates. 3 F. E. DONALDSON ICE. IIDKYE. ....DKNTIST.... ftvA WiMf ork PfwrUlijr. All v( rdi.lxl aim MUtlaclloa uaramKl. Omra In rauflalJ HI. or oaitdoji citt. . 1100.000 ELEGTIUC HOTEL.... I'nJcrnew management The Electric Hotel hanlxon tliorouKly rvfltted and in future will lo conduct on a strictly firBt clasu Un. First-clans table service at as reaaon able rati'i a ran be had in the city. Prompt and nrxtcial attention given to banquets. My tunny friend and the general public are cordially invited to stop and see me. JACOD CASSELL, Manager, Oregon City, Oregon. .urn i iiiiiLiiiiiitiriiiM k ut4. HUH d I .com 14. Mala rot- Milt airbaaga on ail (nlnu rvu4uiM. inniM aa4 llw ".: IWW..4 ubjaci ( cbark auk ii i mi r. m. UTulBtTTK. rrMiilanV 1. 1. MKYKM Caakiaf. i. DRKfHKK, ATToltSKYAT-I.AW. kMir MiKUirtrk'iHho Hlort, nr wiKiiikolUraicunntx. iutn Citt, . . . Oaiooa. Xroma. ATTORN KY AT LAW Mnurrior ranriRTV rcamiaio. f IU)0ihob0II KnbrpriM. FRANCIH fkkeman, -DKNTIST r jU of the North weafern Unlve iiIH-nial Sch(M..ChU ai0. American t'olUuaol U.ntal Suriterv. ill4mtt lllork, Otfgon Cliy. 1 5 0 OkKOCN CtTT. m mm mil u t cnr. JMprar.itl,fAooo. Ulblu,. ljj.iliL "IC1IIT, . . ,i0. A, HAa i a. i, ur CJ11,11''! btiilnaia tr.ni.ola4. ,W' "'I'lant 10 check. L,B?" HutaaitlMMiiiiil4. N U.",r ""' bomhl. KlI?:VP'J'.m..t'r. t'iBhi 1 . any pan ni ina wnriu ia i-I,,nl,n W"" Portland, Ban bLT10 'i'1 ""Tor. f L.H0LMAN UNDERTAKER ...AND.... EMBALMER keti'iv,".,? con,",,,,, "' of Tas. Imperial Wheels. ' ' iiiiiiiwkwymfr 1599 MODEL FOR $25.00. We have a few 1899 Model High Grade Imperial Wheels we will close out at $25.00 rather than carry thera over. Come and Examine Them. Cor. 4th and Main Sta. OJlIODSf crJT. on. For Perfection In Baking Use Patent Flour Manu factured by the Portland Flouring Mills Company, Oregon City. Or. All our Flour is Ground From Old Wheat. IT IS WARRANTED THE BEST. a a a a VtUtn the climax of a prolonged In ternational diaputo ia reached, as at pitMUit between I'retoria and London, it it well to recall the fundamental anpects of the controversy. The heads of the grievances of the Ulllanders, as set f -rth in a petition four years ago to the raad, may be thus reaUted: Ural Exclusion Iroin the franchi though the proortlon of Boer and Out- lander taxes was aa 1 77,876 to 3,705, CHI. The Transvaal is the in out heavily taxed country In the world, its per capita helng $H0. New York, with the moat extravagant and vlcloas city gov eminent ou earth, can show a per capita of only t,'J0 municipal, $7 national and 2 state. In March, WJH, a uVhate in the yolkaraad brought out the fact that the Kroger government had In 15 years "advanced" out of these tas-t2.30'i,600 10a 8 J ($12,000,000) to ita own members, ail of which was unac counted (or. - Hecond Exrfuiion of the Knglinb language from the schools, for the sup port of which English-speaking people pay 1. 0OO.OU0 annually. Thlrd-l'ractical withdrawal of the rlgbt of trial by jury, the panel lor the trial of Oullandcra being invariably com posed of liocre. Huppreaers being in variably compoeed of i'.oera, Suppres sion of right of aaaemhlage, and aocb in equality ol the aduiiniatration of justice aa the holding of an Outlander in X1000 bail for orgamxing a public meeting, and a Boer in PXK) for murder. Fourth Extortions, of which the dy namite monoply was the worst, but w hich extended to nearly every branch of trade, the beneficiaries being mainly Dutch capitalists. There was a score of minor grievances In the petition, all of which were re jected by the raad. All the right with drawn, as above, had argually belonged to all residents of the Transvaal, settlers other than Dutch being confirmed in them by the original aeieement between Sir Evelyn Wood and Mr. Kroger in 1881. All Dad been taken from the new comers when the discoyery of gold at tracted great numbers to the country. These gold-seekers were, by the way, officially Invited to "develop the mineral resource of the country" by the Trans vaal agent in London, whatever may have been the private Boer aversion to their coming, The country was bank rupt, the Boers having set up a semi-independent state without having means to carry it on. Sovereignty as to the external affairs of the South African republic was con ceded by the Dutch to Great Britain in 18M ; and this is on a basis for British In terposition to tliiQ remedy for the gross InjiiHtice with which British subjects are treated by the Boers. A sovereign that can't protect Ita own subjects against In justice so extreme, is but a poor thing. The entanglement is, in some of its feat urea, perhaps w ithout a precedent in his tory. The English demand citixenship as a means of protecting themselves, and some two yeara ago they addressed a pe tition to the British crown, which was forwarded to the home government by Sir Alfred Milner, British high commis sioner for South Africa, on March 28, 181)8, w ith this comment in the course of a long dispatch : The true remedy is to strike at the root of all these injuries the political impotence of the injured. What diplo matic protests will never accomplish, a (air measure of Uitlander representation would gradually but surely bring about. It seems a paradox, but it in true, that the only eflective way of protecting our subjects, At bottom the difficulty is conflict of systems and racial contention. The Boers,lt is said .are struggling for liberty, and that is true ; but the liberty they are struggling for is the liberty to main tain a mediaeval oligarchy at the ex pen He of three times their number. One may sympathise with them in their hopeless struggle against the modern world that is closing upon them, even while maintaining that the time has come for thorn to bow or be bent to its will. They stand and have stood for many years in the path of justice and progress, and must now be rolled out of the way. . The racial contest, this conflict of the old with the new, explains why the Orange Free State joins fortunes with the TranBvaal. This is why the Afrik ander bund, of Cape Colony, did the same until the Boers showed that they preferred, war to Outlauder equality. The risk to British supremacy, in the subjugation of the Outlanders has not been better expressed than by Hir Alfred Milner In this ssme dispatch : The spectacle of thouaandt of British nhJacU kept permanently In the post tlon of helots, constantly chafing under undoubted grievances, and calling vainly to her majesty's government for redress, does steadily undermine the Influence and reputation of Great Britain, and the respect for the British government with in the qo win's dominions. A certain section of the press, not In the Trsnsvaal onlv, preaches openly and constantly the doctrine of a republic embracing all South Africa, and supports It by menac ing referencea to the armaments of the Transvaal, i'a alliance with the Orange Free Htate and the active sympathy which In cae of war it wou'd receive from a section of Iter majesty's subjects. I regret to say that tbia doctrine, sup ported ss it Is by a ceaaeluaa stream of malignant lies about the intentions of the British government, is producing a great effect upon a large number of our Dutch fellow-colonists. Language ia frequently used which seems to imply tbst the Dutch have some superior right even in this colony (the cape) to their fellow-citixens of British birth. Thou sands of men, peaceably disposed, and, if left alone, perfectly satisfied with their position as British subjects, are be ing drawn Into disaffection, and there is a corresponding exasperation on the side of the British. I can see nothing which will put a stnp to this mischievous pro paganda, but some striking proof of the intention of her majeety's government not to be ousted fiom its position in Sooth Africa. And the beat proof alike Is that as late as the first of lat June tl Transvaal could have avoided not merely the threat of war, but farther diplo matic pressure, by according to the ma jority In wealth, Intelligence and even number of its residents the same right which the United States freely grants to every forlorn waif of alieo humanity that misfortune casts npon Its shores. Greet Britain has waited for the Boera to reform with a patience and sell-con trol that should be a final answer to those wbosappoM that her Transvaal policy Is only another Instance of "land- grabbing." It Is only now, when their persistent obstinacy In the neighboring; colonies, that she baa resolved to nas force if the final preseare of diplomacy proves on-availing. The task ia not on to be lightly undertaken. A war with the Transvaal, even if it spread no further, will be the moat diffi cult business Great Britain has bad on hand since the dsys ol the Crimea, II extends to Cape Colony and th Orange Free State, aa it easily might, it will mean such a contest as England has not been engaged in since the Napoleonic wars. Nothing bat an unwilling con sciousness of its imperial necessity could, force her into it. HOOTED OFF THE FLATFOBX. Imrrj Slupsoa'a Praia ct A(olDaI4 Waa Tao Math for His Haarars. Kaksas City, Sept., 22 A dispatch to the Journal from Wichita, Kan., says: Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson waa hooted off the Dlatform bera this eveninv of its power and its Justice would be to wbiIe ddresinga local G. A. R. re- obtain for the Litlanders in theTians. vaal a fair share in the government of the country, which owes everything to their exertions. In brief, Britain has to secure justl e lor the Outlanders or see the slow de velopment of a predominantly Dutch and Geiman Kruger and Schreiner both being of the latter extraction United States of South Africa. She has to show whether she is really an empire or a big trading company, with a home ofhV-e in Downing street end branches 'n commercial settlements in all quarters of the world, which take the law fiom whatever potentate, Boer or barbarian, onder whoee away they chance to falL For over a year President Kroger kept the commissioners atarms'a length, the condition of the Outlanders, meantime growing worse through such persecutions as the bieakiug op of their authorised meetings by mobs led by Boer police officers. At length, on Jnne 1 of this year President Steyn, of the Orange Free State, and Mr. Hofmeyr, of the Afrikan der bund, who dreaded the results of further postponement of a settlement, persuaded Mr. Kruger to meet Sir Alfred Milner at the capital of the Orange Free State. There the British proposals on tli Outlanders' behalf were formulated as follows: j That the full franchise should be given to every foreigner who (s) had been resi dent for five years In the republic ; (b) declared bis intention to reside perma nently ;(c) took an oath to obey the laws undertake ail obligations of citixenship, and defend Independence of country ; j franchise to be confined to persons of good character, possessing a certain amount of property or income; finally, some increase ot seats in districts where the Outlanders principally reside; the number of these was a matter tor discus sion, but it was essential that they should not be so few aa to leave the rep resentatives of the new constituencies in a contemptible minority. If these terms, which are practically the American requirements for citixen ship, are accepted, the British represen tative pledged his government not to press for the redress of specific griev ances, lie was follow ins his policy. previously announced in his dispatch of the year before, to strike at the root of the grievances by giving the Outlanders power to redress them. President Kruger rejected the proposals as tanta mount to handing his country over to foreigners." Thereby, it iB to be noted, he lett the way open for those British demands for specific redresses which Mr. Chamberlain has since touched upon. The conference broke up after three days of haggling, and the exchange of notes containing new proposals began and has continued to the present time. Through it all the purpose of President Krnger has been avowedly to redress the griev ances of the Outlanders only on condi tion the renunciation of suseruinty by the British government. It was on this point that the Afrikander bund left hint. The latest complication in the case has resulted from the fact tbat. dropping for the nonce the suzerainty question, President Kruger, who had consented to a fiye-year franchise, sud denly elongated the requirement by two years. These are the main facts of the case, derived from the official records. Juilir ment is to be pronounced from them more safely than from the mangled fragments of diplomatic correspondence which the cable brings daily. The most striking conclusion which they compel union. Mr. Simpson said: "I glory in the spank of Aguinald's men. They are simply fighting to re gain thf land the Catholics took from them. A local paper bas asked: 'Who is John Brown's soul marching with Otis or Aguinaldo? I believe John Brown's soul Is marching with Aguin aldo." Mr. Simpeoo said in snhs'anre that ba would rather be with Aguinaldo than with General Otis. An old soldier in that audience rose and said tbat the speech waa uniting into pontics. This waa ap plauded and greeted with cries of "throw biraout" and "Kick Simpson off the platform 1 Men and women arose and hissed, and the men kept crying, "Pnt bimoutr Simpson appealed to the crowd to ait down. "I am coming to my peroration," he aaid, although be had been speaking only 15 minutes. Cries came, 'Take yon r peroration to Aguinaldo!" Simpson attempted to go on, bnt so one could hear him lu feet away. The band struck np the "Star Spaneled Ban ner," and Mr. Simpson left the platform. Ilia retirement waa greeted with pro longed cheers. U. S. Department of Agriculture. The following data, covering a period of 27 years, nave been compiled from the Weather Bureau records at Portland, Oregon for the month of October, for 27 yeara. TXMPXBATCSI. Mean or normal temperature, 53 der. The warmest month waa that of 1875, with an average ot 50 deg. The coldeet month waa that of 1803, wtih an average of 50 deg. The highest temperature was 83 deg. on the 7th, 1891. The lowest tempera tare was 31 deg. on the 31. 1877 and 1895. Average date on which first "killing" frost occurred in autum, Nov. 26th. Average date on which last "killing" froet occurred in spring, April 11. ; PB8CIPITATOK (rain and melted snow) Average for the month, 4.06 inches. Average number of days with .01 of an inch or more, 12. The greatest monthly precipitation was 11.53 inches in 1882. The least monthly precipitation was a trace inches in 1895. The greatest amount of precipitation recorded in any 24 consecutive hours was 2.93 inches on the 10th, 1882. CLOUDS AND WIATUBR. Average number of clear days 7; partly cloudy days 10 ; cloudy days 14. WIND. i The prevailing winds were from the south. The highest velocity of the wind waa 42 miles southeast on the 23d, 1897. Station at Portland, Oregon; date of issue, September, 25, 1899. B. 8. Paqui, Forecast official. For Young Men and Yonng rfomen. There is nothing that will aronse the ire of a young man or .woman so quick aa to have inferior laundry work put off on them. They may dress ever so well, but if their shirt front or shirt waist ia muBsy their neat appearance is spoiled. The Troy laundry makes a specialty of ladies' and gentlemen's fine work. There can be no better work than is done at the Trov. Leave your orders at JohnBon's barber shop.