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About Grant County news. (Canyon City, Or.) 1879-1908 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1890)
TUC PDJIUT PnilUTV UCUiO NIL UIIHI1I UUUIl I I I1LIIO, Thursday, .-lit if. I , LOCAL BREVITIES. One is reminded of Indian Mimiiicr, hy the nuioky atmosphere now prevn lent, Frank MebMilmn is agent for the mle of Hugh Smith' ice in Canyon City. Totu MoKwnn w in town thin weak trnusnctin? nouie stage linn bus- illt. Harney valley Ims Uan to adver tise her fall rue.w. A grand time is c.poeted. Iiwyer Denning has Ix-on on the sick list ever aince he attended Tom Smith' lire Maker City is in the field aspiring for the firemen' tournament which in to take place thin fall. Ll-innwt .Stun sell is the only one in this couimunity at pnwent t tin t is uf llictod with the measles. It. S. Ilimtim;toii a prominent law yer of The Dalles, has Uimi in this vi cinity for several day on busiiiOM.. The court house, was hardly largo enough lint .Monday to accommodate, the different trials that wen; in prog rites. .Mr. .A (dairy stnrtnl Friday morning for Portland, when) he will attend the Prrwts Association, commencing there to day. Hev. K. Hayes will preach at tho M. . church at l'rairie City next Sunday at 1 1 a. m. and 8 p. m. All am invited. Mr. (iroth, Mrs. ThomHon and Mrs. Sired returned from thv Springs Friday, whore they have Ut-n rustica ting for some time. Uncle John Harrison took a laid of fruit to Harney last week of which he nispoK-u ot vory rapidly. rruit is a se.iroo nt tide in that country. It it. said that a new comet has I fen seen in tho heavens monkeying around the dipxr. We don't wonder at the thing wanting a diink this kind of weather. The Kasturn Oregon Republican upon entering it.s third volume says: We aro three years old to-day old enough to wear pants. How do you like our new suit) .Mr. Duncan of John Day passed through town last week with his threshing machine on his road to Har ney, where he will oiler his service in that Hue- of work. ISill Kads who has Imiii absent from town for several months, and in the meantime turned out a Fox valley i rancher, madu himself agreeable on our streets the other da v. Vm in. K. Ashford, and her two child ren of linker City, who has leen the guest of Mrs. II. It. Sels, left Monday morning for Hums where she will join her huslmud, Dr. Ashford. Jo. Keeney of Long Creek came to Canyon Monday to see alsnit doing the proper thing with the paitie.s who entered his saloon Sunday night and tried to carry oil' his safe. Miss Mollie Lehman, of Harney valley, says a Del Norte corrcsiwmdent to the Items, ii considered a splendid i shot with a nlle, having killed hfty two ducks UtsidtM other game this sea son. (Jhirley Jones of Harney was iu town a few days during the week. He says the hay crop over there will average three times the amount of hay to what it has iu former years but they havn't tie stock to fond it to. The Sumpter Valley Hnilro.ul Com pany and the Irrigating Canal Compa ny have been having a little dispute. The latter holding their claim on a certain dam site, while the former duo not projioso losing their title by a "dam site," .Messrs. W. M. l'e.irnain and H. 1 Hlakouey of Caleb, called on the Nkws Tuiwduy, each suUcribing , for o.xtra copitiM to send east. Mr. Peaiuaiu who i an olil'I'J-er will take a trip iu a few weeks usitiug relative iu .Missouri ami Illinois. Momlny last Nauti'o Fields, known to everyone as "Sis" Field, was, by Dm. Orr and Ilorsley, adjudged insane and iu a few tiny will ho receiving proper care at Salem. Her insanity was utilised by her imagination telling her that people wero trying to swindle her out of her property. It haing developed only recently, is not of a violent type, though it keeps two men 1 1 " The repoit came down from Prairie City Friday morning that ! l-"r- monkey combination of which the j 4 . . .1x1 1 f t tanked near that place by four of the' r.ii-iiiw in n niiiiiiiiir limit xlioekili''. ' citizens in a manner most shock ur The Italians lost 110 time iu making their way lick to Canyon anil Satur day evening swore out the neeossury papers to cause their arrest, claiming that they abused their women and children ami of shooting tho grizzly , our representatives in congress. It file with clerk of ucliool board, will Sullivan through three times, the is probable that Oregon will have a bo received by said chirk at the of tHect from which lie will probibly . new count on account of the blotch- flee of count V clerk. Bids to bo die. Prly Sunilay morning Shurilf fJresup anil Constable Todhuiiter. arm '! with two set of papers, arrived in I'ralnV, and after learning that two of the gang had skipped, served thu doses on the remaining two und 011 Monday evening were arraigned liefore Justice Huluon, who not tinilingsulllcient evi dence to bint) thinn overucijuttetl tlit-in. ." '''ho insane asylum at .Salem now ront ontains (12(1 inmates. (Jet n chunk of Smith' ice and kestp cool l'rnnk Metschnu, agent. 'lint thermometer registers nil the wny from 00 to 100 degrees, nml (till limy will nsk, "is it warm enough for youf" .John Fink atarted out yesterday morning over the county to summon the jury which ha ln-eu drawn for the Septemlier term of circuit court. Judge Dwiily considered the cra7.y liiilhui from llarni'y county nutate charge, rathur than of tin; United Statm and ordered him aent to Salem. Mi mi Celesta Kime, of Jacksonville, the unfortunate young lady who was adjudged insane and being cotninitttsl to the asylum last w'eok, died at Hose lain;. Horace Dillard who established thu Items six years ago, and afterwards sold his lilmit mid leimiveil (it Prim. ville, has again returned to Mums nml take.ii charge of that ipcr. iDeputy SheritV Curl came over from ... . ' " I Iong Creek yesterday mortiing having in charge Dan Morrow, who is sus- ecteil as bing one of the party who entered Jo' Keeney' saloon Sunday ni'.-liL It is said that only one white man has ever crmsed the island of New foundland from east to wiwt, a dis tance of three or four hundred mile, and this journey was accomplished more than sixty years ago. The town of Wallace, in the Couer d'Alene mineral district, was entirely destroyed hy lire lust week. Kvcry business house was burned without exception. Fifteen hundred jieople are left homeless. The loss is estimated at a half a million dol lars. John Parker, living at Shoal creek, Klamath county, committed suicide last week by taking laudanum. He left no word of the cause of his net. We will state now that this wim not tho John Parker who took a cra.v man from Harney county to the nsyhim two yews ago. Tom Williams passed through this week on his way to Hums with his race horse Jordan, where he will enter him iu the races to come oil' theie soon. Jordan is enpnble of holding his ow 11 any place, and Tom is one who is not nfrnld to match him against the U'st of them. i Fred Mosier was pretty Imdly bruis eti up last Sunday evening by a horse falling and rolling over him. He hail just got iu the saddle and started to John Day, and the horse, lieing term ed a "nMiiled animal," started to buck, and liml only gone it short distance when lie stumbled mid fell, resulting in Fred being severely injured. Mr. Hayes culled on the Nkws this week after just returning from the uoithern part of the county, llegixes Mattering reports of crops in that sec tion, and in sjieakiu of the town of Long Creek, says that the carpenters are an ousy erecung ooui nusine.s ami 1 ill .r 1.1. t dwelling houses. He also say that . , ,. ' . ' the Uii but; take an uctive part to- 1 ward making that burg lively. ' , " I A vigilance committee has been 1 organised in Lincoln county, Wash- ! ington, for the purpose of capturing j and hanging horse thieves. A reg- ' ular organized band of horse thieves 1 are now oeratitig in that county, j ami nearly every day reorts are iu circulation of farmers who have lost valuable animals by this L'ig. Fiidit ion S.U.K. To those wishing "owxm History ol Louisiana: to buy fruit and vegetables, I will say "Ceded to Spam in lTli'J, ceded that I am si-lling apple nt .'i0 cent back to Franco in I70!l, sold to per U).x, or 75 cents per lx when the the Cnitetl States iu 1 SOU, admit box is furnished ut the orchard. All ted to the I'liion in 1S12, pur kinds of grain taken iu exchange foi chased by the Louisiana Lottery fruit. Also a giHl asHoitment of veg- company ili 1SJI0." etaliles for sale. Hesidence two 11011 Mow John Day, on The Dalles road. , A convict named Win. Hoy t, con- Wi. Ltu't, Prop. I fiuetl for murder, attempted to es- , . , . ,, ' , , l caiK. from the Walla Walla iwii heshenll trial last Monday for ,(18t H.L.(,. ,,y (.onc,lainK hiiiiHnlf in rigl.U of property a Uml of sheep , j , , v , , . ., wherein I ,vm Collt'tto wiiH cliiiiiiiiiit j and Win. Pcurmnin contestant, the j 1 jury agieed upon a crdirt for contest- , ant. It stinted in thn circuit court j wherein Win. Pearmain was plaintill' j and I. H. Wooden tlelendunt. Penr ' main had the sheep attached und Col- lette, the thinl paity claimed them, 1 hence the suit. The sheep are now j held under attachment. j I Crook county has 11 smart citi- ! .on 100 year old. The Ochoco jKoview hays: "In most eatus men become feeble ant! averse to ' work when they grow old, but I with Frank Xicfiol it ib ililTerent. 1'rank is so old that ho never ha I anniversaries any more, though ! last week with the assistance of one man, ho built a quarter of a n;u 0f w;ri. fL,I1L.0 (,r t10 .W6l l,olos, sot tho posU and stretched Ilu wJru j,, 0I1C day. Can any country boast of a centunarian who . Jtt-.v, t - '"" ") Democrat: J. II. Parker yester day received a telegram from Port land, reuuestim: him to secure all tho names ossible of ersons not 1 enumerated ant! wire tho same to yd up joli last time. Ah this is of the L'ravest importance to the Oucen City, wo trust that our citizens will exort themselves nnd secure the lar- , gost possible numlier ns retpiosted. All K)nsonn who have not Ix-on , counted nre earnestly rcouuBtetl to call at thu Firbt National Hank and register their nurucH. PRAIRIE CITY ITEMS. Auk. ISOO. Not having scon any items from Prairie for soino time, thought I would send n few hoping thuy will prove acceptable. II. Cohoo 1ms returned from I Monument, where ho has lieen in attendance on llnrry Hice, who lias been very ill with typhoid fever. , Joe Dixon nml Will Hoehincr , took their departure between two t davs for mirts unknown. Cause. alettors in the riot against tho Hyp wies. Mr. Donaldson i.s laying the new floor in the (Irange hall. Jim' liodfon of Mt. Vernon, and his father of Western Oregon are in town. Mrs. Dr. TIioImmIo nfter her ill ness has gone to the warm springs, hoping the mineral water ami pure I i. i ..!.. i i . i . ..i.i. ""V "l "cneiiciai iu ner iieaiin. Mr. Sliuinau hns lieen quite fee- I l,le ',wo rL'l"r" fro"1 Malheur. Dr. J. K. Scott took his departure Inst Wednesday for Portland, or near there, where he will locate. I. Haer and S, Durkheimer re turned from Hums yesterday. Mr. Ilaer and (!. A. Smith left for Ma ker to-dnv. The grangers will give a grand ball when the improvements on the hall are completed. A iinrty of young eople went hucklehorrying last Saturday. They lost their horses and found no huck leberries. Joky. See Frank .MeUchun nntl buy Rome ice cheap, "Is there any thing sweeter than a lKMich?" "Ves; a pair a bridal pair." A counterfeiter arrestetl in Little Uock, Ark., used his wooden leg in which to store both gmxl anil had money. ! The first arrest for violation of I the statute prohibiting the sale of L i, "'n '! " tobacco to Iiovh, has been made 111 ' -'"n. I There are It'J.'f convicts iu the penitentiary at Salem. The great est nitiiil ;" ever iu the institution was XU. A country subscriber wants to know "if there id any money in buns." He might ascertain by cut ting them ohmi. The Linn county paint mine is now eiiiiped with ample machine ry for turning out lifty barrels of .'!:!() jKiunds each of paint per day. Scrofulous eruptions, such a Pimples, Discoloration of the Skin, cscdally on face, are caused by impure blood and will disappear rapidly by using Pfunder's Oregon lllood Purilier. Tho demand for Chinese rail road hands is causing excitement ...,. .. Mommliinit. in the Chi .... .0 i neso t nailers at San craueisco. , 1 , ... . 1 ,,,!lr ,,l""'1,uri '"il.lhc.eilt to meet the demands. 1,11,11 '' 't'tl to past re a large baud iu the Fort Kllis reservation, .Montana, recently, but the grass was doctored with salt peter one night, ami 100 dead sheep wero found next morning. An exchange gives the following ! Jmjom of tin wuon when tin other ,,1 ,.M.ai.utI j loading the brick, had covered him with boards Usm which they piled the brick. He was discovered during the pro cess of unloading. Nineteen years ago a (! rat rot county, Michigan, farmer refused to let his daughter go to a candy pull. She went though, and remained away. Laht week she drove up to her father's door, lifted out her eleven children, coolly took oil' her wraps and astonished her father by declaring that hint bad concluded tt) return and stay home, and here after he an obedient daughter. Kor Sale Cheap-.. 100. One Hodge Header iu running ortler with new draper ami three header beds. Will take wheat or barley after threshing at market price. duo. (ii'.vpi.Arii. 'JO-tf - w - Notice! Sealed proKsal for the building of a stone wall at the west end of school house lot in Canyon City, iu accordance with siccificatitnH on oH)iiod at one o'clock p. in., Aug. 2.'l, 1M0. No bids will be received after that time. Hy ortler of Hoard of Directors of School Diet. No. 1, (Irant cotiuty Oregon. Attest. J. I). Sutiikiila.nd. .'lurk. THE GREENHORN MINES. Kill Urrgwiltn. Mr. M. tiagnon. of Walla Walla, who lias nnnssayer'soHieoiiKircen horn City, n tented mining camp in the (Jreenhorn district, is in town to day. He recently returned from Pkau Nkws: When mi editor tho mines and came over from Wal- j goes away from home the world ex la Walla to fix uji the paern in a , veets to keep xstcd in regard to his mining deal, Inning purchased the travels nml his conduct. In this smuggler ledge from (J. T. Frankuin rosect jieople expect more of an anil Win. Turner. editor than they do of any one else. Mr. (Jagnoii, who hns been an as- The transition,' however," from mv . 'ayer for thirty years or more, has unlimited faith in the future of the (jreenhorn district, and thinks Cireenhom City will soon U'come a Infilling oami). Prosectors are daily coming in, a party of ten ar- ; thoughts and tender emotion in ii riving lately from 1'tah and Aruo- , fellow after jolting over fifty miles ua , of rough mountain road, "in lan- Some fine prosects have been de- guage of John Weslev, "The iron vcloped. Mr. Frankum, although pierced my soul." but a newcomer in the country, has ' Crops along the route from Can found the Morris extension ami yon City to Monument are general made another rich discovery, both 1 good, and the ranchers have an assaying away up into the hundreds abundance of bay prepared against and is on tho high road to fortune. ! the times of cold' and snow. Turner has some good mines. j Fox valley, which has been con- Desolation lake now oilers unsur- sidered too 'frosty for anything, is passed inducement for camix-rn. surprising tho nn'tives this vear by Along its shores may lie found deer, its productiveness. Fields of grain elk, bear and feathered game, while j from 2J to I feet high and remark its wnters are literally alive with 1 ably well heailed aro to be seen, and tbe linest trout. nearly every rancher hnH a garden Several families, are camtiim: out ' where crows eablmee nml other v..i. I there in a unimie manner. A big raft is constructed, a railing built around it, the tent put up, a camp- I re built, and tho riistientors imiv eat anil sleep, if (hev wish, on tin1 , ' ' broad bosom of the lake throwing a line over the sitle at any time when they wish to increase the supply of fish. " ' im "i i"i . I he Pacific llrewcrys Celebrated Hcer, the best in Lastem Oregon, is now kept constant v on tan at the Hed Front Milliard' Hall. .... . .. I A man in (icoigia has lately lieen pardoned after serving six teen years of a life sentence for a murder of which he was innocent. Tho best authorities estimate the wheat crop of the present Reason in the Dakota ami .Minnesota at one hundred million biisheU. The value of thin crop to the northwest is estimated at $110,000,0110. A rejKirt from Ohio tells of the shortest courtship on record. Tho groom was a guesi at a 1 anion no-1 tel. Ho liecame infatuated with the cook on the day of his arrival, pro iKisctl and, being accepted, married her at once. At a small village iu William son county, Texas, unknown par- ue.s went 10 ine nouse 01 a .lei can im 11 tot I Milcua and shot anil 1' ii 1 f ! 1.MI...1 1.:... 1 :t 1 if 1 .1 1 hiui-ii 111111, ins who ami iiveeiniii run. It is thought revenge was the cause. A colored dentist iu Macon uses no instruments except his lingers iu extracting teeth. Hy means of long practice his lii gers have be come as strong as forceps, and he claims he can pull teeth faster anil with less pain than any dentist with instruments. William Cray, the baggage-mas- 1 ter, who disappeared from Hurley. 1 I Wis , a short tunc ago, with a t.'iOtKi . j package adtlresKCtl to the Mer- , chants' National hank, Hhinelan-j I tier, Wis., is supixtscd to he hiding ) j in Oregon or Washington. The, I 1 niteil Mates express I omnanv 1 has oll'eretl a reward of f.'iOtl fur 1 I will soon slock up Ihe Canyon City A family living within the pre- ! Monument route, although McCoy cinet of Medfurd. all of whom from : u "'I" bus the mail eon- the head of the family to the young- I est chihl, a I'-yenr old, smoke and chew tobacco. The house has in it an old-fashioned fireplace, and here, iu the winter time alter a meal, Ihe family congregate, and for a while the husband, wife anil children en joy themselves iu silent chewing and smoking ami spitting iu Ihe ashes. Our new "ail." from the enterpris ing firm of Collin A McFarlaml, Heppuer, sjieakH for itself, ami it is worth your while to read the same. In order to gain new tratle they in tend presenting a line large book, which retails at t l.00 each, to every retail purchaser of dry goods, cloth ing, botits and shoes, hats etc., to tho amount of r'.'.I.IX), allowing until Jan. 1st to make out the amount, (iive them a trial ortler, when you I send away for goods. Teachers' Examination. Notice is hereby giwn that for the I purjiosii of making all examination of all persons who amy oll'er theiuseUes as candidate for teachers of the school of this county, the county school superintendent thereof will hold a public examination at Long Creek, commencing at one o'clock p. m. , Wednesday Aug. '-'7, 1HU0. Dated this 11th day of Aug. 1890. M. N. llONIIAU, Co. School Supt. of (irant Co. Or. Orant Co. Teacher Institute. The (irant Co. Annual Institute will 1st held at the M. 1). church in Img Creek, commencing Aug. 'J.'i, and continuing three days. All teach ers lieariug ceitiliuatos, or expecting to tistch, art, according to See. '! of the Oregon school law, compelled to lie present. All friends of education are cordial ly invited to attend and take part in the exercises, M. N. Honiiam, County School Supt THE EDITOR LOOSE. HtlKJtt of Things In General Crop Notes and Eat Cattle. KHOM CANYON CITY TO IIKITNUH. 1 three-cornered cushioned editorial j stool to a last year's nail keg on the I deck of McCoy's buckboard, which took place Friday morning, was not a circumstance" to insniro hole ' utables iu ereat profusion. Fox will be amoiiL' (irant countv's most ' i.rtKluctive vallevs in the w'avof ae- ! rienltnr.. i ;.. I... I...- ..!...?.. , ....V. ..Illl., ,-V, IIIIT IIP llllll V nli in tlie corner of hox, and several locations of ipinrtz claims as well as placer ground have been located on its borders. While I was iu the ad of walking up a hill going out of the valley I stumbled into the quart , mrv, 8tlu.k t() rt (ri.0it, , ,,itcli was a notice of location of a ..,...i . 1...1 i.:..i. .1 1. .. . .111.11.. 11111. tl llll'll. LllllllL'll I1UI III strict accordance with Copp, ought to hold down any claim. I ttiok time to copy it, "and here it is ex cept tho signature: "We chime tlhe lege from dhe law of tie Ameri can Congress and tie Tinted States begin at this notice F. 1 1 miles north of black Hut and run 1X) feet to tbe first day of January j (,it.v t)f" Creek is having il ff"lnl11 hil'(1 li.d some build- ' IVtf '"'."''"K V0"' ll"'H ""Vr- MrH I'.lla elch has a new hotel almost finished, and Mr. Silvertooth is j erecting a saloon building, and a new sclunil liouse is contemplated Long Creel; em and Hamilton folkt j have a line country, and ought to , feel happy. ! Cattle are all picking up consiil i erable fat, and carry more good beef on their ribs than was noticable last Tb V " " " " I I Ins is due to the good March. range Passengers sleep all night at Mr. Caris' place, which is Monument. Next morning if they are alive they jump into a wagon ami are hauleil to lleppner over the new state road. This road has wide anil easy grades, but slock has been driven over ami above the roatl so often that stones interfere with comfortable locomo tion. KsK'cially is this the case on Ihe Morrow county end, and thoe ollicers whose duty it is to look al ter the public hiehwnv niiiu-nr t,. have other business to occupy their attention just now, and ir: time to devote to the improvement of roads Morrow county ranchers claim gmid crop this year, and will ship uway considerable wheat. J." It. Keenev the mail contractor between llennner and M.uiium.nt has good stock on this route, ami The Nkws will be apprised con cerning my tleMirtmellt next week. In the meantime 1 must go to Port laud and meet the Oregon editors, when Harvey Scott anil others will open a can of salmon and we'll have a banquet. D. I. A. Take Notice. As I intend to remove shortly from ( 1 rant county. I ask all per sons indebted to me. to make inime- tliatc settlement of their indebtness. ! During my temiKirarv absence Mr J. D. Sutherland is authorized to receive amounts due me, ami re ceipt for same. I'iiii.. M ktsciian. Pacific llrewcry Heer. Notice is hereby given that I have this day established an agen cy for the sale of the Heor manufac- tu ret I at the Pacific Hrowerv, linker ( ity, Or., within the county of irant in Canyon City, and that Mr. II. StHnsoll is' the authorized mana ger of said Depot. All orders from (irant county for this celebrated beer, either iii bottles or kegs, will be fillet by Mr. .Stam.cll. Hknicy Hi st. Proprietor Pacific llrewcry, linker City, Or. . la lie Cure I Tlicro In PnnKrr In a:iuwlnc liiiutOlljriif llm Uluoj to nrow tliroujli nejicct. H10 i!ajr ihuals 0 JlrWa'i OIh-.oo Mill ilulx-ici will wreck tlio Koouly Utrk ol licallli ir It It nitowcJ to urlft ruiUiilc.i uiHJM tti m. Urn holder, too, If Inactive, and Juihcum inulirjttuti do-s not spw.lily itlreet llio lirlni tuwunl the ort of lafelv. will Ik Mli'lmiM lijrllio iUlrk4tnl f.l illae, 1 11 x'lri-tiwu a itliu . 1 ii, Ir ( uur clinic 0 l.tlluMHi lliiitviti r aiuiiuili Inner, when minuUtn tlie renal niKaiM hiiIiuiu Iriitallnir ninl eicltltic tlicni. ti.orll.i l. tu 1m neprr. lll-lliIfHl (nun III Ullliiv-llcalril 1111111111 lalL'rlr riirlii tu. Ilirw 11. ne it teiHli iiP. to react 'irrjuillcialhr. id,. Uuirrs luvljci r.tta the M.I Hi'), .ili.l Iit. ill OiiiiiiiI'iii'hIIIi His mrvrl mill tlie illiinUve nrvanv ami .i nlluril l.n.lntf ilia. It ai.iail.irilclu:il aimlaiico In iirevrnt Ine aii'l curliiit liiliTinlllrtit slut reinlttrut Inter. Ililiw.nrn, conitliuUoa und rhcuiua Utm it slw utij-ali. WASHINGTON LETTER. Wa.iIUXOTO.V, Aug. S), 'DO. F.i. CIiiant Co. Nnvs: Another illaine mitigation wan ."lining on an iiiolll'iisivu public this week when the .statement was K)st lively made that Speaker Heed, Mr. Harrison ant! other prominent re- puoitcans nail entered into a con spiracy to force the public life. Mr. Illaine out It mav bo said on auinorilv tnat .Mr. limine win cer tainlv not renien until the llohrine- Sea "eontroversv with Kngland is settled; anil it mav be stated fur thcr also on authority that Mr. Harrison was consitlernidy worried about this publication fearing that Mr. Illaine might believe it to be true. As to Stieaker Keetl, lie dis likes Mr. lUaine iH-rsoiially, but lie is too shrewed and too amliitious to want a light with him, although it is certain that he will move Heaven and earth to defeat the reciprocity amendment to the tarih" bill iu the house, should the senate adopt it, as now seems probable. I The .senate began veslertlav morning to meet at 10 o'clock. This means that some of the sena tors will thunder away in tarill'talk at empty chairs for two hours every morning. Talking is contagions. The re publican senators could hold in no longer, so this week they began to ' a"Hv,T l"Z ,H"" P''hes recently i "'""e '' tlie deniocralH. lite ear lest date yet set for the tlisjmsal of the tarill bill is the first of Septem ber. Vice-President Morton stood it for a few days, but he has gone again ami it is not thought that he will return until it is over with. There are lots of others who would like to follow his example. The republicans are playing "pos sum" on the democrats "about the Fetleral Election bill: they grew tired of the clamor which the talk over the bill was causing, so thov determined to keep it quiet until the time comes to pass it, anil that it will be passed, in modified form, is now almost certain. Four out of the six republican senators who were supposed to be opposed to the qill have intimated their willingness to vote for the bill as amended hy the committee. Truly the Senate is a long ways removed from the people. A hill providing a system of Postal tele graph has been favorably rejHirtetl, while nothing is heard of that real boon to the people me cent letter postage. If abuse could kill, Speaker Heed would not live live minutes. lie "'.. tip his m ,,r mllli, j,,,,,, mind that no oth- or private bill which carries an appropriation shall pass the house at this session and he refuses to "recognize" uwmher who wish to call up these bills. This is rough on the members, for nothing so allects the status of a member in his district as his abili ty to gel appropriations for public buildings The most of the repub lican Uiembeis content themselves with abusing Mr. Heed in private, and in letters to their constituents; but Hepresentative Struble, of Iowa, tlnl it in a speeeh 011 the lloor of the house. He will not be likely to get good coininltlee assignments ni the next house should he be re-elected thereto and Mr. Heed be again speaker. The working mens organ izations too are abusing Mr. Heed because he will not give the Labor committee a day The republican senator, do not seem to have much fearof Mr. Har rison's threat, recently made, of ve toing the Hivcr and Harbor bill, if it passed with the senate amend ments, for they have decided in caucus that the bill shall pass, ami it has been decided that to-day week, to lay aside the tariff hill un til the Hivcr and Harbor hill is passed. Mr. Harrison, before leaving for a weeks visit to ins family, sent a special message to congress favoring the bill, prohibiting the sending ()f anything pertuining to a lottery, and also of newspapers containing lol,.r' "dycrtiscineiits through tin mails, which has been favorably re porteil to tlir liouhe. I lie message lias stirred up the lottery lobby which will make a great effort to strangle this bill as they have oth ers of similar character. '-'J I towns of .1,000 population will have free mail delivery if a bill which has been retried to the sen ate shall become a law. It will cost, according to the figures ol the K)stofllce department, f I!7'.I,'J'J1I to put thu new system into ti oration. A bill to icgulate the manufac ture and sale of compound lard has been favorably leportctl to the house. The njijNisition to this bill has been long and stubborn, and it is certain to be rci.owed upon the lloor of the house when it is called up. Some of the labor organizations do not like the National bankrupt law recently paused by the Iioiihc am) several memorials from then denouncing it have been presented to the Semite. Speaker Heed has appointed the following special committee to in vestigate the charges against Com missioner of PcusioiiB Knum; ILip rescntativcH Morrill, Sawyer, Smy ser, (ioodnight, and Martin of Indi ana. . . l or Sale, Good outing ant! cooking apples ut fifty centri a biuhul at Mrs. Phil lip' orchard iu Cunyun City. THE MOTIVE POWER OF THE FUTURE. Fleet rieieiiu nf Vine York reennl- I ly fount! much food for upwulatitm in me remarK saiti io nave oooii made by Henry Villiird just before lie sailetl for Kurojie, that it would 1h well to go cautiously in respect to certain expenditures for locomo- of "ves, hecause it wan pronnulo tlini 1 within a few years the motive pow er of everv railroad in the tinted ! States would be changed Another , version of the story is Unit, being - ! approached hy a man interested in the development of a new electrical discovery. Mr. Villard tleclaratl, af ter having examined the same, that this country is on the eve of a great mechanical and industrial revolu tion, so great, in fact, as to tin away with steam as a manufacturing ant! motive jwwer. Oregonian, .Inly J.'I. The application of electricity to the treatment of disease is fast be ing revolutionized, as demonstrated daily by Drs. Darrin at their rooms comer U'asningtoii am! Fourth St. Portland, as the following jiersonal endorsements show beyond any doubt. These curcH were made four years ago, ami show conclusive ly that cures by electricity aro per manent: t MDitK I'Knpi.r mini in s kiia.v- CISCO. Mrs. (i. Cotter, J Scotl S. l' Deafness; cured. Place, t Mrs. H. Conneil. 1012 l-'ilmore St., S. l' Deafness; cured. S. Harman's daughter, Santa Crux Deafness; cured in t w o months. Thamas Silk, li'HI I-'ilb-rt St., H. F. Deafness two years; restored. J. Carr, .r2.l llow'inl St.. S. I Hhenniatic. neuralgia, ami tlyspup sia; restorctl. Silas (iates, (iO'i Pine St. Deaf ness two years; cured in ten min utes. Miss Mary I Ciishman, Chico, Hutte Co , C.il -D -afness fo iryearj; cured. Henry ('hint. I F.irgn Place, S. F. Deafness thirty-seven years; cured. James Anderson, I'rankliu, Sac ramento Co.. C11L Deal'iiets of long standing; cured. A. I). Cameron, I .VI Third St., S, F. Hheuniatisin and neuralgia for weeks; cured in two weeks. V. V. Travallion, llakcr (5ity, Or., ex-sherill'of linker Co, Or.f Deafuess; cured in three day. 5 Thomas Meliraw, ;iti Day tit., S. F. Deafness six months, 'cured instantly. Miss " Nettie Rosenthal. HiOI. Stockton St., S. F. Weakness of the optic nerve, and catarrh, ten vears; cured. ' H; (i Harris, II I William St., S- F. Deafies and all sorts of ringing noi-es in the ear, live years; cured in si weeks Drs. Darrin can bo consulted free at Ihe Washington building, corner of Washington and Fourth streets, Portland, and Hotel (iandolnf, Tit coma. Hours 10 to .V, evenings, 7 to S; Sundays 10 to 12. All chron ic diseases, blood taints, lies of vi tal power and early iiidi-eretioiiH permanently cured, though no refer ences are ever made in the press concerning such cases, owing to the delicacy of the patients. Kxainina tions free to all, and circulars will be sent to any address. Charges for treatment according In patients ability to pay. The nor treated free of charge' from 10 to II daily. All private diseases confidentially treated and cures guaranl I. Pa tients at a distance can he cured hy home treatment Medicines ami letters sent without the doctors' mime appearing. (!o to the Hetl Front ISilliard Hall, Canyon City, for fine wines, liquors nntl cigars. " s HollllCN IfllHlllI SM COIIl'gO Ol Portland will open Sept. 1st. .1. A. Wi hco, the lending peiimmi of tho coast, has beuouie a piutnei iu tluH school and will make it the loading HnsinesH College. Send fur ci.talogmi ii 111 Be Sure It you hate tn.nto up jour inlmt In lmjr lliMsl't ,S.im.'i..uill.i 1I0 nut l'f In.!.:- i d 10 take any ntlicr. M'mmI Batsipatlll i U a eciill.ir iiu-dlrlnr, wliit' I jr Irti). M II-. im-ullar roiubliiatlon, (irojiortP'O, nml .iaratlou, curative Kii r iiK'ri(ir to ui otlier article. A Iloitun laily wlm kni w wl. 1 -.I..' wantril, nil wlioie eiaiiijili. I wudliy lmiLilluii, tcllt her eii'vilcnrc hclnwi Get To "In one tturo where. I weuttuliuy IIixhI'i Bartaparllla tlio clerk lili'J toliuluro 1110 tuy thi'lrownliiiteailiif IIihsI'sj lieloMimilliclr's wuuhl lilt Ioiirit; Uiat I lnljM Like II on It'll dayt' trial; that l( 1 ilM nut llkn It 1 lu'cd nut (ay anytiilnir, ele. Hut I10 eoulil nut I'trvall 011 me to cluuin. I told Mm I knnr what llood'a HariaiailUa wai. I lad lukvu It, wa aatUOcd with It, and did not want auy other. Hood's When I lcan taking lloisl's Han.trarllU I w-aa (eelliif roal inltcraMe, autterliiK a treat deal with djuiieiwlai and to weak that at tlmea I could hardly slan t. 1 looked, and had (or toino time, liku a pi i"ii In con uroi'tlon. Hoed'i Naraurllla did mo wi much good that I wonder at mytcUiomctlmes, andmyirlrndifri'iiiicntlytjc.ik ot It." Miw. Ktxx A. Coi r, CI Tctraco Street, Holloa. SarsapariHa Hold by all draifiitt. lili(orl. 1'rktojwl ool j by a I. HOOK A CO , AiMlluKnci, IwTll. Mail. 100 Doso Ono Dollar ivi T 7 ' s 6 1 ,1 .. . k- " 3