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A DEEP SEA HARBOR FOR OREGON.
The arrival of the government's
greatest cruiser off Yaquina bay
theChsrleston, August 21 from
Honolulu calls attention to the fact
that Oregon has the nearest har
bor for vessels from the great
Asiatic parts. To the surprise of
all, this war ship, supposed to be
then thousands of miles away,
drops down at Oregon's nearest
deep sea harbor, and after taking
sapplies, departs for Alaskan
waters.
The harbor of San Francisco is
nearly a thousand miles to the
south. The Puget Sound ports
are all too far inland to be ex
peditiously touched in emergency
or in case of a forced voyage.
The dredging of Yaquina bay will
give the government, ics most val
uable, because most available,
deep sea harbor on the Pacific.
It is the nearest from any of the
greatest Asiatic ports. In time of
war it would be most easily foiti
fied of any, as it is a small harbor,
perfectly land-locked, and open at
all seasons of the year.
No other point on the coast
above San Francisco offers a har
bor, at once so safe, easily improv
ed, and naturally fortified. At the
same time Yaquina bay is most
desirable as a rendezvous for
Asiatic and Alaskan operations.
The attention ot the government
should be directed to the advan
tages to be derived from an early
deepening and fortification of Ya
quina bay. Salem Journal.
The people of the United Slates
uaa- 1,500,000 postal-cards every
day.
Recent very trustworthy circu
lations of the population of the
Chinese empire by Russian author
ities reckon it at 3S2,000,000 and
the annual increase at 4.000,000.
Not one in 10,00ft ever heard oj
the religion of Jesus Christ.
Should Chauncey Depew return
home, send Vice-President Webb
to the rear, and take hold of the
New York Central side of the
great strike and settle it satisfac
torily to the employes and every
one else, wouldn't it give him
quite a little boom for the presi
dency in 1892?
It looks as though the Pacific
Coast hop growers would get
pretty nearly their own price
within a few months. Dear wheat,
the eastern fruit famine, and
short European hop crop promise
our farmers a profitable year in
spite of last winter's deluge1 and a
small wheat harvest. S. F. Bulle
tin.
What is wanted is to treat this
tariff question as a business ques
tion, is to apply to these schedules
precisely the rule we apply to all
other legislation. Whoever de
mands taxas to be levied for his
benefit, let him show conclusively
that what he wants for his interest
is equally for the public interest.
Senator Plumb.
The expectation that the spread
of electric lighting would seriously
diminish the consumption of gas
is aot being realized, says Brad
streets. On the contrary, the use
of gas is steadily increasing, even
where electricity is gaining the
most popularity. Output figures
from forty different points for the
first five months' of the year show
an average increase in tho con
sumption of gas over that for the
first five months of 1889 of 13.2
per cent., and it is expected that
the gain for the year will be even
larger, owing to the increase in the
use of gas stoves. Thi3 tells
most, of course." in the summer
months.
CHOLERA WARNINGS.
In view of the prevalence of
cholera in Europe and also in
Japan, the state board of health
of California has issued a warning
to the people of that state. While
we all hope for the best there is a
possibility of the disease being
brought over to the Pacific coast,
by means of some of the steamers
that ply between this country and
the Orient. In no country where
it is prevalent does it show any
signs of abatement, but on the
contrary, is spreading, and, not
withstanding the most careful pre
cautions on the part of sanitary
officers, the disease, it is reported,
has got into London.
It has been nearly forty years
since cholera appeared on this
coast, but it may come upon us at
any time, and its ravages would
be terrible, deciinating our popu-
ation to such an extent that it
would require a decade to recover.
The boards of health of every
city should be prepared for such a
visitation. Every city should un
dergo a thorough cleaning. This
certainly could do no harm even if
the cholera did not reach us. A
city where no vegetable or animal
matter is permitted to decay and
pollute the air; where all areas and
spaces on low ground, beneath
walks and floors, are cleaned out
and every sewer and drain flushed
and disinfected, would be pretty
well armed against cholera or any
other infectious disease. The
property owners should do this
and if they refuse they should re
ceive a visit from the health offi
cers. There is no telling what
might be the result of neglect in
such a matter. Telegram.
The present method of contract
prison labor now in vogue in this
state is a disgrace to the common
wealth. A Portland firm has a I
arge number of convicts employ
ed in the manufacture of stoves.
They secure this prison labor at a
merely nominal sum, and besides
throwing hundreds of honest
laborers out of employment, man
ufacturers doing a legitimate busi
ness are unable to compete with
them. Some of the southern
states have an admirable p'an by
which the convicts are taken into
the various counties and made to
work on the state roads. As a
consequence, they have splendid
roads, and the farmers, the pro
ducers of the country, save thous
ands of dollars each year in the
wear and tear of. vehicles. This
plan could be adopted in Oregon
with the most favorable results.
Nothing adds more to the wealth
of a state than good substantial
roads; besides the labor of peni
tentiary convicts belongs to the
state, and it is a violation of the
fundamental principles of our
government to let out prison labor
for a mere pittance to corporations
and trusts. Enterprise.
The Salem Statesman voices the
sentiments of the people of the
entire Willamette valley in saying
that a good dredger should be
built at once for the work of keep
ing the channel of the upper Wil
lamette river clear. While the
railroads will carry the great bulk
of freight hereafter, an open river
is the farmer's safeguard against
transportation monopolies. The
freight record on each year shows
that many shippers find it con
venient as well as economical to
patronize the steamboat trade,
while no doubt the river tonnage
would be largely increased by
such attention to the channel as
is required to keep it in good con
dition throughout the boating sea
son. If the government does not
see fit to provide a dredger for this
purpose the suggestion of the
Statesman that the towns along
the river should contribute to the
construction of one, is worthy 'of
favorable consideration. Orego
nian. All" the bank-note currency of
the Italian Government is engraved-
and printed in the- United
States.. "
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Royal Library of. Berlin
contains 797,974 bound books.
Yonkers Statesman Kansas has
a town named Atoms, and that is
where the cyclone blows things to.
Burlington Free Press Mar
riage is a lottery in which all draw
something usually a baby car
riage. The New York Journal knows a
Brooklyn deacon who refuses to
play croquet because it is a wicket
game.
People who complain that the
census is too small will perhaps
find the tax large enough to satisfy
them.
It would be something of a job
to enumerate the kicks against
the census. Ex. Yes in Oregon
especially.
The champion load of logs was
hauled at Marshfield last week by
E. A. Pollard. Nine logs scaled
18,578 feet.
When southern cities brag that
their population is doubled up, it
only means that the watermelon
season is on.
Governor Hill is frequently a
spectator at the New York thea
ters. He has an especial fondness
for uCastles in the Air."
The St. Louis Globe Democrat
says: "Mr. Mills is not making
any votes for the democratic party
in Missouri, but he is showing how
badly it needs them."
Three locomotives have been
shipped from this country to Pal
estine for the new railroad between
Jaffa and Jerusalem. They are
named Jaffa, Jerusalem and Eam
leh. An exchange thinks it is rather
odd that of the SO or more Irish
members of parliament over one
half are bachelors who don't
know anything at all about Home
Rule.
American tourists in Paris have
been having a hard time of it.
They have been drenched with
cold rains and icy winds have
chilled their blood. But then,
after all, it is "Paree."
Down in South America, when
the warring factions run out of
amunition they change their tac
tics and fight with manifestoes.
The pen is not only mightier than
the sword, but it's also safer.
Senator Stanford of California,
now owns three horses, the like ot
which no other man ever owned:
Sunol, with a trotting record of
2.10; Palo Alto, with a trotting
record of 2.1 2, and Racine, with
a running record of 1.39-J- for one
mile.
Dr. Talmage receives $15,000 a
year from his Brooklyn congrega
tion, $12,500 from a firm for the
advance publication of his ser
mons, $G,500 for his contributions
to a religious journal, besides what
he earns on the lecture platform
and from general literary work.
The California idea of Groyer
Cleveland is thus presented in the
Los Angeles Tribune: "Cleve
land was never west of Buffalo
until after he became President,
and he never got any farther west
than Buffalo during his adminis
tration either in his favors or
policy."
Nineteen years ago, a Gratiot
county (Mich.) farmer refused to
let his daughter go to a candy pull.
She went, though, and remained
away. Last week, she drove up
to her father's door, lifted out her
eleven children, coolly took off her
wraps, and astonished her father
by declaring that she had conclud
ed to return and stay home, and
hereafter to be an obedient daugh
ter. The United States exports one
fourth: ot its wheat, one fifth of it3
cheese, one-half ot its tobacco and
two-thirds of its cotton.
i According to dispatches from
Santa Fe, New Mexico, it would
seem that the long looked for
murderer, William B. Tascott, has
been captured. If 60, the lucky
detective will receive a reward of
$60,000. .
THE INDIAN WHEAT CROP.
Hon. J. R. Dodge, Statistician of
the Department of Agriculture, in
his August report says that the
Government of India has just is
sued its final report upon the
wheat crop of 1889-90: From this
it appears that the acreage amount
ed to 24.9S3.100 acres, and the
product 6,303,900 tons, or 235,
345,600 bushels of 60 pounds.
The acreage was smaller than for
several years, and the crop the
smallest reported since statistics
of production have been regularly
collected. Pacific Rural Press.
Seven years ago S3 per cent, of
British vessels were iron. Now 92
per cent are steel.
The government printing office,
in Washington, now employs six
hundred compositors and ninety
pressmen. It is the largest print
ing office in the world, its annual
outturn being valued at about
$3,000,000. A better grade of
work is done there than formerly
and this includes some very fine
illustrations.
The settlers of Oklahoma have
appealed to the national govern
ment for relief. It is stated that
fully one-rhird of the people of
that territory need aid and two
thirds of the farmers need seed
wheat. Food is scarce and many
are suffering from hunger. Those
eastern people who were forced
out of Oklahoma during the great
boom, by not being able to secure
homes there, and came west, can
congratulate themselves upon their
good fortune.
The New York legislature prob
ably didn't mean it, but the' made
April fools of the prohibitionists.
The last New York legislature did
just as our Oregon legislature did
in 1S87 yielded to the prohibi
tionists so far as to provide for a
special confirmation or rejection
of a prohibitory amendment to
the state constitution. The vote
is set for April 1, 1891. But the
expenses of this special vote is
figured at $600,000. The joke is
that the legislature forgot to pro
vide lor this expense of $600,000.
So, unless the brethren and sistern
raise that amount by special sub
scription, there will be no vote in
the state of New York on the 1st
of next April. Those things come
high, and if they want them they
must pay for them. Ex.
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Running Sores Covered His Body
and Head. Bones Affected. Cur
ed by Cuticura Ramedies.
When six months old, the left hand of
our little grandchild began to swell, and had
every appearance of a larg boil. We poul
ticed it, bat all to no purpose. About five
months afterward it became a rnnuiiisj sore.
Soon other sores formed. He then had two
of them on each hand, and
as his blood became more
and more impure, it took
less time for them to break
out. A sore came ou the
chin, beneath the under
lip, which was very oflen
sive. His head was one
5?s solid scab, discharging a
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condition at twenty-two
montns old, wnen l un
dertook the care of him, his mother having
died w hen he was a little more than a year
old, of consumption (scrofula, of course).
He could walk a little, but could not get up
if he fell down, and could not move when in
bed, having no use of his bands. I imme
diately commenced the use of the Coticura
Remedies, using all freely. One sore after
another healed, a bony matter forming in
each one of these five ileep ones just before
healing, which would finally grow loose and
were taken out; then they would heal rap
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preserved. After taking a dozen and a half
bottles be was completely cured, and is now,
at the age of six years, a strong and healthy
child. Mrs. E. S. RUIGGS.
612, E. Clay St., Bloomington, 111.
May 9, 1885.
My grandson remains perfectly well no
signs of scrofula and no spores.
Mrs. E. S. DRIGGS.
Feb. 7, 1800. BIoemiugton, 111.
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