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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
P. P. PRIM,
-ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
Jacksonville, Ogn.,
Will practice in all the Courts of the
State. Ofllce in Sirs. McCully's build
ing, corner of California and Fifth streets.
DR. GEO. KAHLER,
paiSICIAN AND SURGEOS,
-JACKSOXVILLE, OREGON,
In citr Dru: Stadamsidence In
S.SC.
DttYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
-fACKSONVlLLB, OREGON.
eSeTOSUe oppoalte P. J. It jau'i More.
MARTIN VR07MAN, M. D.
DHTSICIAN AND SURGEON,
JACKSONVILLE, 0RKG0N.
Offlec tip-stairs in Orth's brick. Rcsi.
donoc on California street.
P. JACK, M. D.,
pnYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
(Fonncrly of Glasgow, Scotland.)
APPLEGATE, OREGON.
Ofllce and Drug Store at the Drake farm
ja Applcgate eight miles Weil of Jack
sonville. Letters can be addressed cither
to Jacksonville or Applegate.
E. H. AUI'KNKIKTH,
A TTORNEY-AT-LAW-
JACKSONVILLE, OREGON.
Till Practice in nil tho Conrtu of the Stuff. Prompl
attrition siren to all lraslneM left In ml car..
jajy-Offlce In Ortli'e brick bullilin;.
ii
.B. P. DOWKLL,
ft TTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Jacksonville, orugox.
U llm!ne. pliee.lU my ..andiwlll receive prompt
attention. SViptcM attention given to Collec
tion.. "
WILL. JACKSON,
r E N T I S T,
JACKSOXVILLK, OKUUON.
f-pEmi EXUACTP.D AT AM.
I h"ur. Luiigulnc rai ad-
mlnlttrfl.lf J'slrrJ.fDr which extra
' thar-M will be made.
OJflee nil reildeuce uu corner uf California anil
l7inh itreeti.
Jk. C. fllDBS. L. B. STKARNI,
GIBBS & STEARNS,
A TTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS.
iRiiomi 2 and 4 Strowbritige Building,
rORTLAND, OtlKGON.
-Vlll practice Jn all Of nrtr Recnr.l In tlie State of
Orejon ana watuUlnirlon rerrnorj: ami pnj pr
ticalar attenflon tobn.lnm in Federal Conrti.
JKra. P. P. Prim.
ItU Ella Prim
Clearance Sale.
AT
f RIM'S MILLINERY STORE
A large stock of FaH and 'Winter goods
it offered for sale at our store at cost.
GFwie u a call before purchasing else
where.
United States Hotel
Announcement.
Madame Holt, -proprietress of the U. S.
'Jlotcl. Jacksonville, respectfully invites
yublic attention in general to the fact that
he keeps a No. t house in every particu
lar first-class tables and bed-rooms and all
accommodations to make, the hotel the
most superior one in Southern Oregon.
Madame Holt has adopted the lowest
cale of prices, so as to enable her num.
crous friends on the Pacific Coast to share
her comforts and pleasure.
'The following price-list has been adopt
ed: First-class bed room, with first-class
table (or single person) $2 00 per day;
Single bed room, with excellent table, (for
single person) $1 00 per day; one cood
meal, superior to any that can be had in
-town, 50a; finest lunch, at any time, (day
.or night) 25c.; a cup of coffee, with ex.
.cellcnt bread and butter, al anv time. Way
,or night) 12ViC MADAME ROLT,
Jacksonville, ay 14, 1881.
SETTLE UP.
AH, persons knowing themselves In
debted to the undersigned in any macrcr
Are hereby notified to call and settle et
.once. This Is positively the last call, for I
-tncan business. An immediate reponse
will save costs. JOS. SOLOMON.
Jacksonville, June 30, 1881.
THE U. 8. HOTEL,
, Cor. 3d and California Sta.,
Jacksonville - - Ogn,
JANE HOLT, Proprietress.
FIRST-CLASS
ACCOMMODATIONS-
MEALS AT ALL. HOURS.
ROOMS TO LET BY THE DAY;
WEEK OR MONTH.
(
.Very Moderate.
OUR NEW HOTEL BUILDING BE
ing completed lor occupancy, the un
dersigned takes pleasure in announcing
that wo arc prepared to entertain the trav
eling public. No pains will be spared to
provide for the comfort of our guests and
to make them feel at home with us. The
most modem improvements have been in
troduced, and the accommodations of the
United Stales will not lag behind the best
appointed inland hotel on this coast. Our
tables will always ba supplied with the
best the market affords and served in the
best style by a corps ot obliging .waiters.
The beds and bedding are all new and
fitted up in the mo-t comfortable style,
suited to the Accommodation or single oc
cupants or families. JANE HOLT.
Jacksonville, March 5, 18S1.
ASHLAND
Livery, Sale & Feed Stable
Main St., Ashland.
PHE UNDERSIGNI-D TAKES pk'.is
I ure in announcing that he has pur
chased these stables and will keep con
stantly on hand the very best
SADDLE IIDIISE. UUGGIRS AND
CAKltliGlCS,
And can furnish my customers with a tip
lop turnout at any time.
IIOKSl-S I!0lKl:I
On reasonable terms, and given tlio bssi
attention. Horses bought and sold and
.satisfaction guaranteed in all my trans
actions. HENRY NORTON.
L. THE ASHLAND
Woolen Manufacturing Co.
Pakr pie
have 0
rr in announcing that t..ey nun
and, a full and Ruled itock til
Made of the Ttry best
NATIVE WOOL
Vml ofnhtcu thev will dipose at very rea-
fouablc ratc-f.
OrilTR from a dif lanc will rneeive prompi
itlenlion. Stni ttietn in and give our gim.ls
a trial.
Asm.AN'n Wo-'i.fjj M'f'ii Cn
LUMBER, LUMBER
THOMAS' SAW LULL
AT THE MEADOWS.
TS NOW FULLY PREPARED TO Fl R
A nish the market with every description
ot lumber of a superiorqualiu. Tliisinill
is new throughout and lumished with the
latest and moslimprovcd machinery, there
by ensuring the speedy fulllllraent of all
orders -at most reasonable prices. Bills
sawed to order with dispatch.
C2TGive me a trial and I will prove
what I say, for satisfaction is guaranteed
in every case. JESSE B. THOMAS.
Table Rock, September 3d, 1870.
Mm AMD LiNKVlLLE
II. V. Phillips : : : : Proprietor.
T AM NOW RUNNING A DAILY LINK
I tie wen th( above point, leaving Aflilaixi
with coach on Mond.y. Wei'iiet-days and
r-ridiyH.retuin'ng next day. On Tuesday,
Tburalii.v and Saturday of each week aback
board 'ill ttart Irom Ublaud leturuing on
the following day..
FA UK, (each way) $S.UO.
ConnMcli.in made at Liokville with hack
for I.akrview.
Criterion Billiard Saloon!
CALIFORNIA ST.,
James P. McDanicl, Frop.
'PHIS popular resort, under new man
I agement, is furnishing the best brands
ot liquors, wines and cigars. The reading
table is supplied with Eastern periodicals
and leading papers of the Coast. Give rats
a call.
CITY BREWERY,
VEIT SCHUTZ, - P'oorietor.
T WOULD MOST RESPRCTFUM.T IN.
form the cltlKnuof Jack.inr;i!e and
the tr.rld at Urge, that they can find, at
anr time, at mr Brewerv. tha bet laser
beer. In any quantity the pnrehaaet rcay fealre
M J honse Ii conreni'ntl jtitnated and my rosDS are
tvayi in order. AtUII TUIpte j'n,
T. O. EKAJiES..
. .E. R. KKAMES.
REAMESBKOS.,
California st.,
Jacksonville), ... Oregon,
''AHEAD AS USUAL ! !
BY ADOPTING
A CASH BASI.SJX
THE GREATEST REDUCTION
IN PRICE3
-AND THE
LARGEST STOCK
-OF-
GEXERAL MERCILUMSE !
THE
GREATEST VARIETY
TO SELECT FRC1U IN
&uy On Store in Southern
Oregon or SiVarthern
California.
ALL FOR CASH !!
OUR STOCK C INSISTS OF
-r Jfc
FALL & mm ER DRY-GOODS,
FANCY GOODS,
I.AIHES' l)i:F--S GOODS OAfHMERE-5
AND DlAGMNxLS. SILKS. AND
S1IN. IIOOT.S A oflOES.
CLOTHING. ETC,,
LIMES' CAL, HADE CLOAKS
YTE GALL THE ATTENTION OF THr.
V t u rl t e n to tlie Tact that we havi now
n hand li lnrgt ami tmt ralrctcd anrl-
iipiit . r L DIK' DttKSS GOODS and F N
"Y flOOlH ol every dreiiptinn In South.
rn Oregon, and we will lirnct-furlh iriaki-
hi line of goodi onr rp-ciality aud Fell
Vm at
Cheaper than the Cheapest.
To the u.-nlti mun we will i-ay, if um want
V Ni.. 1 SUIT OF tr.OTHESynu mni p.
to Ktatn- Urn. to bnv them a wo cluiui In
h.ive ihe bc-l hTOCK OF CLOTHING in
UckKon county and wiil allow none to un-Ji-rncll
111!.
Tbcft gnid were all fiurcha-eil by a win
Iht ol our firm from FJltnT CI.AS.S lloie
t'an FMncbco and New York, anil wr will
vairunt ever; article and sill tbt-mas cheap
fur rab ao aty linus't in tbr county.
We also keep on hand a lull stock uf
GROCERIES.
Hacdwaek, Cutlery, Glassware,
CROCKERY.
A FULL LIKKOF ASHLAND GOODS
FA'Iil AND FUCIGUT WAGONS
Ploffs, Gang Plows Sulky Plaws
In fuet everything from the finest nefdle
to a tliresliini!-machine. Give ns a call
m! judge for vnurt-elveK as to onr capacity
i! fnrnifhins guodii as above.
Tlif way lo makp money is to tare it.
To s-ave it buy cheap. To bny cheap pay
CASH for jour good and bny or
RKAMKS BROS.
DAVID LINN,
AND DEALER IK
corrxax trxxX3xxivgs.
COFFINS FURNISHED ON THE
shortest notice and cheaper than at any
other establishment in Southern Oregon.
Furnjuirc of all kinds kepi on hand or
made io order.
lu ,rrr?JW
ASHLHO COLLEGE
AND
NOW AL SCHOOL.
o
"I
0EA.OTTIjT?-S-.
r
REV. L L. ROGERS, A. M., President,
Piofessorof Ancient and Modern Lan
guages, Mental aid Voral Philosophy.
REV. LaDRU ROYAL, A. M..-Vicc
President and 'Professor of Higher
Mathematics andNatural Science.
MRS. a. A. Rogers; Preceptress. Teacher
of Klocution, wpcipai or rteparatory
ticpariment.
M isa a. WKCrTkwir-HTr or mtru.
mental .Musid
1II-S KTR THORNTON.-AsslsUnt
Teacher.
TUITIOX $C a month, $13 a quarter
$40 a year, One scholar three years, or
tltree, in sime family, one year $100. In
strumental music or voice culture, $5 a
month. Vocal music in class, $3 a quar
ter. Board, $3.50 a week. Rooms or cot
tajrog for elf.boordinjr, $2 to $3 a month.
Tuition In all cases piyitblc In advance in
cash or acceptable note.
Courses of Study.
Course in English Language and Litera
ture. Reading, Elocution. English Gram
mar, English Analysis and Parsing, Eng
lish Composition, English Literature,
Rhetoric, Ancient History, xlcdiaeval His
tory Jlodern History.
Business College. -Arithmetic, Book
keeping, Banking, Uivil Govcrnment,Com
mcrcisl Lhw, International Liw, Poliliail
Economy, Algebra, Geometry, English
Grammar and Rhetoric.
Course of Latin. Latin Grammar, Latin
Reading, j aesar's Commentaries, Virgil,
Cicero's Oratious, Livy, Tacitus, Licert) de
Ofliciis.
Course in Greek. Greek Grammar,
Greek Reader, Anabasis, Greek Testament,
Memorabilia, Homer, Hcroditus, Dctnoj
thenes' Onitious.
ourse in Mathematics. Arithmetic, Al
gebra, Geometray, Trigonometry, Survey
ing, Mechanics, Acoustics and optics, s
Inmomy. C-oure in Modern Lnngnagcs. French
Grammar, French Reader, Corrine, Ra
(cine, German Grammar, German Reader.
Goethe, Schiller.'
Course in Natural Science. Geography,
Physical Geography, Botany, Zoology,
Natural Philosophy.-Astronomy, Chemis
try, Minerology, Geology.
'ourse in Mental and Moral Pbilosophv.
-Ethics, Psycliology, Logic, Es
.... .-. .. r . ..-.-
tneiicy.
Morr.1 PJjHosopiir, J'iiojsm, Butler's A:
igv hrlstlan Ev'ldencos.
Normal Course English Gramr
Xnal-
Normal Course English Grammar.
AritlinH'tlc, 0cographjPlivical Geogra-Uyj-PliyAiolai.
Alj"mu. I ij.jiGlij.iIi
etry, uticionc, aaiunu riitiosopnv. uot-inj-.
Ancient HKtory. Modern History
ClicmUtry. Alronomy. Vental Philosophy,
ivil Government. Book-keeping, EnglUh
Literature, Eviden.scs of Christlauity, Pcd
agogics.
UaUAL Coli.E'jk Dconr.ns Conferred.
Collogo Onlondar.
Tlte Fall Term begins Thursday, Sep
tember 1, 18S1.
Winter Term commences Thursday,
November 21, 1S31.
Spring Term begins Thursday, March 2,
1882.
EiEADY FOR BUSINESi.
THE JlffiOPlLLS STEAM
FLOURING MILL
Commenced Manufacturing tha best ol
flour on
JIOXOAY, aKrT. IS, 1830.
We are prepared to do all kinds of Cui
lorn rtork, in the way of exchange of flour
for wheat, chopping feed and grinding
corn, n c linve superior machinery lor
tnanuiactunng Hour auu we leci sale m
saying that wo can do better work than
auy mill in Rogue River Valley.
In exchange, we will give for good,
clean wheat, 'M lbs. of flour and 9 lbs. of
mixed feed lor each bushel.
McKENZIE & FOUDRAY,
Proprietors.
NEW STATE HOTEL!
Jacksonville, On.
Mrs O. W.,Savage, Prop.
"T-
HAVING re-opened this house, and se
cured more rooms. I am now better
prepared than ever to offer to the public
the best of accommodations. Good beds
and well ventilated rooms. Hoard most
reasonable.
The C. and O. S. Co.'s SUiges leaves the
house daily for Redding and Roscburg.
P. S. There is a fir&t.clas3 Bar and
Billiard room in connection with the
house. The best cigars and liquors always
on nand.
LIMillLU: HOTEL,
LAKE C-iUNTY, OGN.,
W. C Greenman, Proprietor.
'piIE undersigned takes pleasure in an
I nouncing that he has taken charge
of this house and that the management
will be first-class in every particular. The
tabic will always be supplied with the
best the markct'affords.
Terms reasonable and satisfaction guar
anteed. No pains spared to meet -the
wants of the travelinc public.
W. C. GRERNMAN.
Ten yards muslin for ?1.00 at the
New Y'ork Store.
Ladies dress goods at the. New York
Store for 12-P-cta a yard.
at. jVaIl's CiiCkch.
New York, July 21, 1881.
Why I commence this letter with
the following ballad will appear fur
ther on:
"At St- Paul's by the Astor, down in
Broadway,
There arc shrouds for the dead and flow
ers for the gay
A jolly old place lor beggars and poets,
A place to shine boots, a place to buy bil
lets." I had just returned from visiting old
St. Paul's in London, when pissing its
namesake in New York, was sttuck
with the sinuliar surroundings of each
structure. The former is 511 feet in
length and 202 feet in width; in one of
its towers at the heigth of 225 feet is
the famous bell ten feet in diameter,
and in its crypts are preserved a mu
f,euin of English history. Each of
these historic buildings is located in
the eld and crowded thoroughfares of
their ieective cities, Both are sur
rounded by high iron fences, ujion
which indigdit venders hang boot and
lace, cheap jewelry, bouquets of pret
ty flowers, and an untold num'jer of
sheets of popular poetry, among which
was the verse above quoted. One of
the Use things which I had purchased
from off the London St. Paul Church
yard fence was a ballad commencing:
"A good woman is Victoria,
Children nine had Custom," &c.
I had never doubted that Queen
Victoria was a good house-keeper and
11 wise mother but was not at the tiniu
overwhelmed with this complement to
her maternal affection. Investing, by
way of coninarision, in some of tliebul
lails from the fence surrounding the
junior Apostle in New York, I read:
"If a man who turnips cries,
Cries not when his father dies,
It is proof that he would rather
Have a turnip than a father."
Judge of my surprise ou leading No.
1 headed:
liable of llanmee.
'Potatoes they grew small,
And they ate them tops and all
In luauvnLt,,
. ..a . . . a -- 2 r
'jmi
'Ihe babies klcKcil ana squaiieur " 1
And the mothers spauked them all'
In Maumcc;
Caatoria's cured them all,
No babies now that bawl
In Mauntce.
There were more of tho same sort,
and in the innocent manner known
only to correspondents, I enquired
what this thing meant. My attention
iieing directed across the street, I there
beheld in immense letters covering the
entire front of a fivo tstory brown
stone warehouse the letters CAS
i'OIUA announcing that here, under
the very shadow of holy St. Paul's
otreple, and by the tide of its sepultur
rd dead, is the mother's paradise and
the headquarters of the energetic pro
pi ietorx, whose "baby medicine" is said
10 have cured the gtipes of half the
children on two continents. I felt as
if I hud the colic or was cutting my
wisdom teeth, tor laughing in spile of
myself, I still read:
"It is a fact, there is no 'may be,'
A mother's milk can't save the baby,
While sweet Casloria digests their food,
Gives them health and makes them good.
The great bridge across the East
River to Brooklyn is now finished
that is, nearly finished I metti is ex
pected to bo titiished in live or teti
years more, if the money holds out.
Tubal Tattler.
Natural cranberry marsh lands,
stretching from Columbia river to
Shoalwaicr bay and ou to Gray's har
bor on the teacoast of Washington ter
ntorj a fit place for a New Jersey
cranberry raiser to invest in for future
profits. A canal for inland navi.ation
is projected from the Columbia river
into the navigable waters of Shoalwater
bay, aud on into the deep soundings of
Gmy'a haroor can be constructed with
but little outlay along the line of
which are oyster and clam flats, numer
ous fisheries, seaside resorts in profus
ion a perfect lovely land, enough to
do the eye good to behold.
The Oregon Railway and Naviga
tion Company have now 2,700 men at
work on the grade between the Cascades
and The Dalles. The track has been
laid niue miles up the river from the
lower Cascades, and grading will be
done to Hood river, twenty-six miles,
within ten days. Bridge and trestle
work ana track-laying will follow the
grade closely. The track of the Ore
gon Railway and Navigation Com
pany's line from Walla Walla to Day
ton," W. T., was finished the 20th. The
road will b open for travel thia!week.
OMETUl.VQ ABOCT I.MJIA.M.
Father Wilbur, agent on the Simcoe
reservation since 1865, testifies thus
concerning his Indians: "We have
now 17,000 acres or near that under
fence; the Indians are Hying in nice
comfortable houses painted insido and
out and in all the work of their own
hands. They have tables,chairs and cook
stoves, and pictures hang on the walls.
We have three churches well built,
neatly finished, painted, and a bell in
the largest church. The church will
seat about seven hundred persons.
The Indians have thrown away their
blanket dresses and drcsa like whites.
The membership of the church is not
far from 700. We do all our black
smithing; we make all our lumber and
shingles, and wo have a steam saw
mill capable of cutting 10,000 feet,
planing 5,000 feet and cutting 13,000
shingles per day. This mill is run to
its full power and only one white man
at the works. Indians log, saw, plane,
and run the engine as well as hite
men could do. Only one white man is
employed to take measurements of log
and lumber.
A Third of a century ago we crossed
to the Pacific coast when all the In
dians were savages. Since then the
policy of our government has wrought
ij great change. Theso roving marau
ders are gathered on reservations under
different religious aupices, which have
Christianized and civilized thein and
to-day they are on the way soon to be
ome new, prosperous and a happy peo
ple. Says the Washington Reform, we
ire personally acquainted with many
agents on both sides of the Rocky
mountain, and better men are rarely
ver found. Among them Ftithtr Wil
Lur, of tho Yaki.na ngency, Washing
ton territory was in Washington last
winter, aud we had tho pleasure of see
ing him quito frequently. II is Indian
policy is accepted as a good one by the
government,, the 'schafap.silf preferred,
lie htanus inuiupuant. auu clear neiorc
the country.
Unslnru Before ricamre.
There is a sagacious Newfoundland
doj in Norwich. He will take the
basket, in which is a note, and go to
market, get meat, vegetables, or what
ever tho note calls for, and carry it
safely home. But he has a daily task
assigned him which he performs, rain
or shine, and that is to carry his mis
tress her dinner. She keeps a milli
nery establishment and does not go
home to her noonday meal. Regular
ly as the day cimes around the dog
may be seen trotting along Main street
at about 11:30 with a basket in his
mouth lookiug neither to the right nor
left, but going straight to the store,
where he sets it down and watches it
until his mistress conies for it. And
he is so well known, ton, among the
Norwich dogs that he is never molested.
But ou Monday a strange dog under
took to have a little racket with him
while he was loaded down with his
commissary stores. He hung to the
basket, but stopped long enough to get
a good lock at the cowardly cur that
had interfered with him, and then
started off on a run to the store, where
he dropped the basket and immediately
returned to the street and began to
search for his assailant. He found
him on Franklin avenue and proceeded
to chastise him in true canino style.
In about half a minute he sat down
and watched that cur put in his best
jumps for the hill-tops of Voluntown,
giving a ki hi at every leap. Hart
ford (Oonn.) Couratit.
Oreson War Debt.
The commission appointed to audit
the Oregon and Washington war debt
repcrtrd about six millions due. After
' ward Congress appropriated 2,800,000
to pay a little lest than fifty cents on
the dollar. About two-thirds of the
owners were readily found, and their
money paid to them. But the remain
ing third were scattered from British
America to Mexico and from China to
Western Europe, many of whom de
spaired of ever receiving their pay,
(the government being so very slow),
and have not up to this day. Their
whereabouts is desired. Several bills
have been introduced to pay the re
mainder of the amouut rewarded, and
other amounts growing ont of said war
which are just claims.
The result will be communicated to
all interested as the bills progress in
Congress.
otic MUTt1..t POSSESSIONS.
An emigration measure can be car.
ried through, we believe, to aid the
exodus westward from the overcrowded
Eastern cities, and from Europe, to
settle up our vast domain to improver
and adorn it to even send industrious'
families to Alaska, rich in nines, im
furs, in' fish and in forests; where the
poor and downtrodden of this and
other lands can find homes where- the
warm Japan stream, nearly a thousand
miles wide (of warm water), sweeps
along the Alaska coast, tempering the
air, giving out a balmy atmosphere
throughout the ast coast country, an.
extensive archipelago of hundietls of
islands. It is a wonder land the
terra incognita for futuro adventurous
explorers to seek.
Various -schemes have been spoken
of and devised to utilize our splendid
possessions extending to the North.
But none quite up to what we with
to open it up to the anxious millions
of all lands. It is a remarkable fact
lhat the climate of Alaska is as
mild as that of Scotland aud the
north of Europe, owing to the oceanic
currents. Far back in the distant
pavt these currents warmed the north
ern portions of the world, and without
them people could not exist there.
They modify the extremes of different
climates, tempering the excessive heat
of the equatorial regions, and soften
ing the vigorous climate of the higher
latitudes. Away up north and wet,
'ho extremes of Alaska, the Alcution
islands are wrapped in dense fo3
and mists like those which prevail off
the banks of Newfoundland. Fruits,
grains and vegetables are grown ia
Alaska, as in Northern Europe the
ame as in Norway, Syeden, Denmark,
Scotland and the North of England.
Once we succeed in establithiug a
Territorial government there tha
bill to do so is pending it will be
more interesting. ' Since the acquit.-
'iioTof.that'Jom.try:,(theHcenter.oftliit
moved from 'east to west ".(measuring
from the western extreme of tho
Aleutian islands) to the west coast of
Oregon and California.
These islands belong to our purcha.
and nearly form a connection betweon
our continent and that of Asia. Thoy
reach within a few miles of Kaiut
schatka, thus forming the most prac
tical routo for a futuro telegraph line
across the Pacific, connecting America
with Asia. These innumerable islands
are swept by the warm oceanic or equa
torial Japan stream, and hence render
ed habitable, and will become of great
value to our government in future.
Once wc are thoroughly established in
Alaska, it will be to our interest to
purchase British Columbia. We need
it, and must have it. It is to the in
terest of that province to be attached to
the United States, and to the interest
of England to sell. Our railroad sys
tem must be so extended as to connect
us with our northern possessions across
Britioh Columbia. Then Tuget Sound
the Mediterranean of America
will be on the great highway of nations.
The now proposed railroad will i-tart
from the deep sea soundings of Belling
ham bay, and proceed northward, mak
ing a large commercial point ou that
bay. This increased enterprise, will
augment emigration to that and to the
North, and advance tho value jf lands,
and all commercial, agricultural and
manufacturing inrertsts will go for
ward uucqualed in the Northwest.
The most extreme northwest navigable
waters of the United States is Belling
ham bay, and a commercial place on
the peninsula between that and tha
Gulf or Georgia will supply the com
merce of the gulf aud Vs.i.couver'a
island, and will be the points of de
parture for our possessions northward.
National Reform.
The Boers are at last reaping the
reward for their sturdy resistance to
the British. The latest news from
London declares that they are to ba
fciven control of all tho Transvaal.
They certainly deserve this, for they
have made the country what it is, and
pioneer work in South Africa is no
little labor.
There will be three daj s racing over
the Northwestern District Association
at East Portland, commencing on tho
26th, for purses aggregating ?5,700.
Most of the fast horses of tho State
will be there to compete.
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