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Red
From Murderous
Highbinders
; Even in Portland the Poor Celestial
Was Afraid of Harm-His
Strength Gone.
1 Tettcied and torn and shaking like one
. afflicts with the palsy. Leon? Jim Tun
arrived in Portland yesterday afternoon
from San Francisco. He Bad walked ev
ery step of the way, and was aa cx-
haunted Irom bla long-. tramp that he
1 could scarcely walk another block. He
aat down on the- pavement near the police
station,. and an officer seeing him, sent
' blm to the station in the funny wag-on.
From there, on account of poor Yun's
. thin, baceard features, he wan hurried
- to-tiw-cownty court house, where he was
-.--brought before the-secretary-of the poor
farm commission. Yuri did not want to
go to iho poorhouse, so he was turned
loose.' .
As ?un came down the steps of the
'court house, bearing- across bla shoul
ders lit Chinese style two largo cits
suspended from tho end of a tons pole,
be atracted the attention of a number
, of people, who stared after him as be
wolibled down Fifth street toward the
. cfty's busy streets.. No one had been able
to ascertain the name of the strange llt
tls brown-skinned man as yet, but when
a Journal reporter stopped blm. Yun
: . thought he was confronting a police of
ficer, so he said, and readily told tho re
porter his name.
, Then Tun, when he -was assured no
'" barm 'would befall him, told one of the
strangest stories of his wanderings that
1 -was vr related In this city, Tho poor
, . bWthn ,ChUi. bAd.i.ltti; San Francisco
s two months ago because' of fear for his
life. The Highbinders were seeking- him
to kill him, and having no money, he In
despair stole out of town one night, de
termined to escape his deadly enemies.
WALKED MX HUNDRED MILES.
Walking br day and cariiplng in mys
terious places at night, poor Yun walked
: the 'long, - dreary distance between Son
'.-Francisco and Portland.
'As Tun looked about him cautiously,
- the least noise would cause him to start
with fear. Probably he Imagined that
; at most any minute ha was apt to be at-
tacked by some member of the dreaded
gang of murderous Chinese from whom
he had fled,
"Yunv how were you able to And your
way to Portland?" was asked. Poor Yun
' could scarcely understand the reporter's
language, but caught the drift of the
question, and replied that farmers and
Uy people guided him along his way,
"How did you cook your meals?" wu
asked. ' "1 - - - - '
VMe clookee mlenls ty Aire; mo.got'e.
v, nur.-pauB... seex" anu -poor, run. onpwta
the reporter bis cooking outnt.
' Poor Yun tried to break away, for he
did not want to answer questions, but the
reporteir was curious to know what the
Hichbtnders were after Tun for. ... Hw
ever, j, Yun; boWivelyi: would not answer
that question, and Went on his way with
hi secret locked In Ills breast That was
one thlrur that Tun would shut out from
kttie,-wertd, i.H -would -tall no living- man
what he ' Jhsd.ttoue to arouse 4h, wrath
of his terrible enemies. ... t
Down Fourth street trudged , Door Tun.
with his sacks swung over his trembling
form, and the foreign devils who passed
him Would all stop and survey him from'
neau to toot,. He was the strangest mor
tal wno has walked into Portland for
years, ana every one wondered who he
was and what caused him to totter and
tremble So, as he walked.
roor stun has a mend Jipre who will
give him food and shelter ...In, his laun
dry, but he did not know where to go
go 19 nun mm.
INDEPENDENT
- ' OF COLOMBO
A-Carieci Esamplc of Oriental
, . Journalism.
The Ceylon Independent of December
t, muz, wntcn is published at Colombo,
is me name or a newspaper, -copies of
which have found their way to Portland
wrougn tne hands of the Hon. John Bar
reiu jtjy n me ract is very apparent
that Mr. Barrett is very, much in evi
dence as a boomer for the St Louis Ex
position. He is also doing much good for
the Lewis and Clark Fair.
The names of some of the people who
resiue in uuiomoo would make editors,
compositors and proof readers on an
American paper ready to throw up their
Jobs. At a certain Church Missionary
Basaar, the names of some of the women
in cnarge or oootba were: Mrs. Oydaatje
Mrs. Wijeyesekera, Mrs. Wickremlsinghe!
Miss Dissanayake and Miss Sirimanne
me style of "makeup" of the paper
een oroii to American newspaper men.
Local items, personals and telegraphic
news are thrown In together on the first
page, each being separated by an "ad
vertising rule." Through Router's "ox
tended service," there is a 25-line dis
patch from London on President Roose
velt's message. There alfo appears the
Interesting item' to the effect that "the
South African Chartered Company has
decided to spend 2.000,000 sterling on
railways in Rhodesia."
There are so many quaint things in the
-paper that a full enumeration of them
all is impossible, and no a few must
suffice. In one advertisement Mr. Car
imjee Jafferjee announces; "Kerosene
Oil! Kerosene Oil!! American Daylight,
the best, the moft economic and perfect
ly smokeless."
A local item states that -Mr. W v
Wljekoon presided at a meeting of ' the
Lorenz Literary Association. There was
a question debated, and Among those
taking part were Mr. A. O. Kkanavaka
and Mr. T. C Jayanettl. In another
Item tho name of a native rector or an
Episcopalian Church bearing the euphon
ious name of Rev. IL, B. Goonatilieke
Is given.
. There are many other Interesting and
curious matters in connection with the
paper from the far-away Orient
Zf yon wish the Dally Journal dellv
red to roar home or office by oanrier at
10 emta week, send ia yoar order by
Oreros phone Mala 800, or Columbia
phone T05. v -"
Preferred Stock Canned Goods
Taste Just right Try them. .
WOMAN'S LOVE
AND DEVOTION
Mrs Bmbcrler Tells The Jotxmal
Her Husband Is Innocent.
Sheriff E. P. Lawrence of Grant
County is expected here tonight or to
morrow morning to take back Emmett
KJmberley, who la now Incarcerated in
the Multnomah County jail on a charge
of stealing a horse one year ago In
Grant County, and later breaking Jail.
'tile Journal's - appeal on behalf of
Mrs. Klraberley and her two little chil
dren yesterday has brought quick re
sponse in the. way of aid from neigh
bors who read the story of their poverty.
Touched by the magic wand of human
sympathy, many kind women rushed to
me assistance or the family, bo that
now the wolf has been driven from the
door, and hunger and want have been
averted.
HUSBAND NOT OulLTY.
"My husband is not guwty," said
Mrs. Klmberley to a Journal reporter
this morning. "His arrest and convic
tion on the charge of stealing a horse
was the result of spite work of one of
our neighbors, and I, knowing all of the
circumstances, will stand by my hus-
banu through thick and thin. Any con
resslon he made to the Sheriff was
simply to tell him the curcumstances
of the trouble at home.
"The man -who-caused as all the
trouble." . continued Mm Klmberley,
"staked a claim near Prairie City, and
then lett It, which . made It Jumpable.
Wo jumped It and some time later the
man wanted it back. We refused to give
it up, and he held a grudge against
my husband, A little later this man
lost a horse. It wss branded KB and
he hunted for it awhile, then gave it up.
One month later he saw a horse in my
husband's pasture branded BB, and he
thought that a good chance to get re
venge. -He had my husband arrested.
and all of this trouble has resulted.
There were two trtale, and because we
had not much money and he had plenty,
my husband was found guilty both
times.
"X snail go nome ftriong with my
husband. This 4s an awful trial and I
ant glad I know all of the circumstances
connected with it. Otherwise, I would
notf probably, believe my husband In
nocent."
WOODHEN
OF THE WORLD
Will Build a $20,000 Hall on
Eleventh Street.
The local West 81de lodges of Woodmen
Of tho World have purchased from the
real estate Arm of Maxwell & Knapp lot
6, block 258, fronting on Eleventh street
between Alder and Washington streets.
- The purchase price was $7,000.
xne lodge contemplates the erection
of a lodge building wbioh Will cost about
120,000.
Th building is to baa strictly mod-I
ern' structure, and will consist of two T
full "stories and a high baaehiehl.
The basement will extend about four
feet above the ground, and will be well
lighted. It will be in one large room,
extending the entire length of the build
ing, and will be used as an armory by
the uniform rank of the lodge, and will
also be used aa a banquet "hall.
On the first floor there will be a hall
50x41 feet, and the balance of the floor
will be divided into committee rooms
and parlors.
Across the second floor of the building
wlu extend an ante-room and the rest
of the floor will be taken up by a hall
47185 feet. Thla will be the largest hall
In the city.
The erection of the building will not
be commenced until next fall.
The stock of the building is being rap
idly subscribed for by members of the
organization. Shares will only be held
by members.
BEEBE'S LAST OFFICIAL ACT
Charles F. Beebe, Brigade" Commander
of the Third Regiment, Oregon National
Uuard, will review the militia for the
last time in his official capacity tonight
The companies to be reviewed are A, B.
C, D, E. F and O, and hospital detach
ment. The men will report at the Ar-
mory In fatigue, uniform, with the addi
tion of .collars, whits, gloves and legglns.
letal!s for the . guard are announced
as follows: Offloer of the Guard, First
Lieut. K. Btruplere, Company B, three
privates; Company C, threo privates;
Company D, one. corporal and two pri
vates; Company E, three privates; Com
pany F, one sergeant and two privates;
Company u, three privates.
On Monday weekly drills by Companies
(except Company A) will be suspended
and battalion work taken up as follows:
First Battalion, Companies C, F, and D.
on Thursdays, January IS, 22, 29 and Feb
ruary 5. 12 and 19.
Second Battalion', Companies B, F and
(i, on Wednesdays, January 14, 21, 28
and February 4, 11 and IS. Assembly at
K-.la o'ciock p. m. Recall from drill will
be sounded at 10 o'clock p. m. Musician
Olafke, Company D, will be In charge
of the comoanv musicians on Thnrarlnv
evenings, and Musician Blackwood, Com
pany F, will be in charse of the com
pany musicians on Weiesday evenings.
MID-WINDER CAMPMEETING.
Very large crowds have bees attending
the mid-winter camn belnir held at th
eaivauon Army jrian, us First street.
Several times during the past few days
the nail lias neen too small to accommo
date the crowd who desired to attend the
meetings. Quite a number of penitents
have been forwarded. The singing, ren
dered by Ensign-and Mrs. Hill and the
forceful aadresses- given by! Mr. Stran-
berg, have been -special features of the
camp,. The ensign will have charge of
the service tonight.
VALUABLE MIKES. ,
T. R. Sheridan, president of the Rose-
burg Bank, has returned to his home
after spending several days In Portland.
Mr. Sheridan has . charge of some
splendid mining- property recently dis
covered in that section and during his
stay here exhibited several vry' valuable
nuggets and specimens. "Ills mining
business, -however, la of a private nature
and he would not discuss It for publica
tion.
GEORGE GOULD'S NEW YACHT Road- and Prided r the early com
ui.vivib mww hi. if 1V,U1 pietion of that portion ot the. Company's
GLASGOW, Jan. 8. George Gould has
chartered for a year the turbine -yacht
Enteral, , Which Is now being built by
Furness, the noted .yacht designer. The
Emerald will be the largest turbine ves.
el afloat, and la expected to be the fast
est '
MITCHELL MADE: SPIRITED
REPLY TO
(Continued from First Fags.)
gress elapsed after' the passage of tho
bill through the Senate, ,nd although)
the friends of the Northern Pacific were
striving to secure its passage. So much.
Mr. Scott, for my record on thla subject
In the Forty-fourth Congress.
Now for my record in the Forty-fifth
Congress. At the first session of this
Congress several bills looking to the
extension of time and renewal of the
land grant to the Northern Pacific
Company were introduotd in both Sen
ate and House. Some of these pro
vided simply for an extension of the
grant (some eight, some ten, another
twelve years), without any restrictions
whatever as to the sale of lands. In
this connection I think it ia safe to
say there were not ten then in the two
houses of Congress that would have
been willing during this session or any
other during my term to have voted a
renewal of the land grant -to the com
pany without some provision looking
to the protection of the settlers, pre-
emptors and homesteaders, as also pur
chasers of odd sections. Subsequently
to tho passage of the first bill through
the Senate (rebruary, 187), the Legls-
ature of the State of Oregon had mem
orialized Congress on the subject, in
structing its Senators and calling upon
them and its Representative- to provide
in any bill extending" the grant, for the
better protection of settlers: besides,
there was a general demand for this
all along the line of the road, within
the limits of the grant, snd the Justice
of which was almost universally recog
nised in Congress. Not only so, year
after year the Legislature of Oregon
had memorialized Congress to grant
lands in aid of a railroad from Port
land, through Eastern Oregon, to, Salt
Lake. As one of Oregon's Senators, I
determined to give heed, so far ss In
my power, to these reasonable ' and just
demands of the people I In part repre
sented. Orant to Bailroad.
Furthermore, the acts and resolutions
making and modifying the grant to the
Northern' Pacific authorised it to lo
cate and construct Its main line to some
point on Puget Sound via the Valley of
the Columbia River, wun we right to
locate and construct its branch from
some convenient point on Its trunk line
across the Cascade Mountains to Puget
Sound, thus providing a forked or dou
ble great of lands for a distance of
some 300 miles on the western end, but
contained no prevision whatever that
any. portion of the road, either main
track or' branch, should come either to
Portland. Oregon, or to any other point
whatever within the limits of the State
of Oregon.
While, therefore. I was earnestly and
enthusiastically in favor of granting an
extension to the Northern Pacific, and
doing everything necessary and proper
to be done to aid that enterprise, I was
of the opinion that, in view of our
condition at -that time, wnten has now
happily been changed, common justice
to the people of the State I in part
represented demanded that in granting
such extension the company should be
compelled to "come to Portland via the
south side 6f the Columbia River. That
in lieu of the grant for a branch road
across., the . mau.E.tatn9 .. to Puget Sound.
aa eavml -numb of WI efesttld be
granted in aid of the construction ef a
rond from ttie Columbia River at Urna-
tllla to Salt Lake. That the road
down the Columbia River should be for
the. common use of the trains of both
companies, and that the settlers within
the limit of the grant Should be pro
tected in getting title to their lands,
Hence at the beginning of the first ses'
sion of the Forty-fifth Congress (De
cember, 1877) I introduced a bill pro
viding tot an extension of eight years'
time to the Northern Pacific .Company
(Senate Bill 238), which Incorporated
fully these provisions. It removed all
unjust restrictions on settlers; it en
abled the settler to obtain a title to. hi:
lands; it enabled the homesteader to
acquire title to 160 acres instead, of
80 acres, as the law then stood; . it cut
off all speculation in lands by the offl
cers of the company at the expense of
the settlers, by providing that all lands
should be sold to actual settlers, in
quantities not exceeding 160 acres, and
at a rate not to exceed ?2.u0 per acre.
Was there anything wrong in this, Mr.
Scott? Could the company reasonably
complain of such provisions? My bill
further provided that In lieu of the 7.
000,000 acres of land for a branch road
across the Cascade Mountains to Puget
Sound, an equal number of acres should
be granted in aid of a railroad , from
Umatilla to Salt Lake, and that the
road from Umatilla to Portland shoukl
be a common road for the trains of
both -companies.
After full consideration in tho com
mittee on railroads, my bill was adopt
ed, eight Senators on the committee
voting in Its favor, every one of them
being earnest advocates of an extension
to the Northern Pacific, and three voting
against iu
The Senate BilL
This bHl wan by me reported to the
Senate, with the 'recommendation of the
committee that it pass, April 1, 1878.
The minority of the committee (three
in number) submitted a minority re
port. This minority represented the
fTife wishes of the railroad .comoanv.
anirlgnpred the demands of our Legis
lature and people, and a new bill was In
troduced and referred to the committee
on public lands, providing for a general
extension of the land grant for 10 years.
without-any provisions whatever either
giving protection to the settlers or re
quiring the road to come within the
limits of the State of Oregon. Finding
that unless these conflicting views were
in some manner harmonized. It would
endanger the measure, and earnestly de
siring to grve an extension of the grant.
1 conferred with the representatives of
kuv". K. tihihi,
I and its attorney, Mr. Gray, and with
the minority of the railroad committee.
I had frequently done before, with
the view of recommending in some man
ner, by mutual concessions, these con
dieting views. In this I was successful.
Concessions were made on both sides.
and It ' Was finally agreed that all the
bills should be recommitted to the, Sen
ate 'comrhlttee oh railroads, of which I
was chairman, which was done. April
if, lsis, ana on me xouowinr aate,
April 18. 1878, after full conference be
tween the representatives of he North
ern Jfacinc Kaiiroad company, Mr.
Wright, its president, and Mr. Gray,
Its counsel, and the full committee1 on
railroads, a bill was by the railroad
committee unanimously agreed upon.
and to which the Northern Pacific Rail
road company, through Its officere. gave
their unqualified assent In the commit
tee. On the 18th day of Anrlli 1878. I.
as chairman of the committee, under
instructions rrom the full committee,
'reported that bill to the Senate. The
principal difference between it and the
bill as at first reported was that the
latter .omitted the aid to the Salt Lake
road around the portages at the Cas
cades and The Dalles, but reserved, aa
did the-former bill, a stipulation requir
ing the road to come to Portland, on
the south side of the Columbia River,
and also proper provisions guarding
the interests of settlers. When I re
ported this bill from the committee, I
"SCOTT'S ATTACK
submitted with It a report written br
my sell, and- which received the approval
of every one of the 11 Senators then
composing the committee on railroads.
which was ordered printed by the Sen'
ate, It is Heport No. 244, second see
so Forty-fifth Congress, and If you
will gat it. Mr." Scott, and publish tt In
full, yon wllL provided you are not
wholly -bereft -of all feeling of shame
blush at the .moral turpitude of your
own act. .In. asserting that I defeated
action in favor of extending the land
grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad-
Company. . In the concluding part of
that report I used the fAllowlng word
TOui ' committee rerard the North
ern Pacific Railroad as a great national
enterprise, and the early construction
ii wuiua w oi Tiuu importance not oniy
iu me people or the Pacino mope, tu
to tho beat Interests of the people o:
the whole -country. The value to the
commercial and Industrial interests of
me nation of connecting transconti
nental railroad on- the proposed Una of
the Northern Pacific cannot be overesti
mated, and there should be no hesita
tion on the part of Congress In encour
aging its speedy construction by an ex-
teiiBivu vi taeir grant, rnis enterprise,
In common with many others, felt the
shock of ths financial crash of 1878.
They have completed and put In opera
tion about Ave hundred.and thirty miles
of their-road, one hundred and six of
which la on tho Pacific Coast, in Wash
Inttun Territory, between Tacoma and
Kalaraa, Ths road is now completed
iy tne saissouri Kiver rrom tne isasi.
The reverses with which the company
met leoV to a foreclosure and sale -of
their mortgage, and a reorganisation
of the company. Your committee does
not deem It necessary or Important to
fu into a tun nistory or its proceedings,
t is sufficient to sav that vour commit
tee are clearly of the opinion that the
grants and franchises should be contin
ued to said company as reorganised on
the terms -and conditions specified In
me out now reported.
l hey therefore report the accom
panying- substitute, and earnestly reo
ommerkt its passage."
Uuestloa Asked.
Does this, Mr. Scott, look like opposi
tion to an extension of the benefits "of
the grant to the Northern Pacific -Raft
roao company T . Does this look like J
wss "attached to rival interests else
where" tn opposition to the Northern
racincT But what followed? Aa chair
man of the committee, and as the mem
ber of tho committee who reported this
bill, I had, by virtue of the rulei of the
Senate, charge1 of the bill on the floor
of the Senate, and on the 22d day of
Aprn, a. 1A -1S7, on my motion, the
Senate proceeded to its consideration.
(See senate Journal. 2d Bess. 45th
Cong., p. 41T.) I opened the debate of
that day In a speech of over an hour In
length, earnestly advocating the pass
age of the bill. , The opening: remarks
or that speech were in the following
woras: ' -
"Mr. President, I shall not detairtsthe
Senate at any great length tn explana
tion of the provisions of, or in advert
ing to tr6 importance of, the pending
bill. -
On the Bthr''dav of Jul v. Iftsa nn
nearly nine yearn ago. in an address I
had the honor .of delivering on that day
on tho Paciflo Coast, I used this lan
guage; ..
" 'I reaard the comnletlnn nt ym
Northern Pacific Railroad aa one of the
. iiautusiues oi taia age in the reduction,
in -a commercial jpofnt of viewy of tfrrte
and space, I believe it will nrnvn tho
great Ilferartery of the continent, along
wiuL.il anau eventually now witn irre
sistible power toot only the trade of a
hemisphere but of the world; and,
while the present i great overland road
is a work among the grandest of the
age. both in magnitude and Influence,
I believe the Northern Pacific, when
completed, will be .Infinitely grander in
the influence It shall exert on the Internal-
commerce of our continent and
the carrying trade' of the world."
"I hold. Mr.- President, to the same
opinion today, and repeat now and here
what I said then and there, without the
slightest modification In either letter
or spirit."
I "Was followed fy Senator Windom,
of Minnesota, long a director of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, snd one of
Its most ardent supporters in the Sen
ate, in an hour's speech In advocacy of
the passage of the bill, concurring fully
In my views, and concluding in the fol
lowing words:
The Bill aa ateported.
"If Senators will investigate this
measure, there will not be a single vote
against the proposed .extension.
The proposed extension was the bill
reported by me- '
"Believing that ttiere Is not a vote
against it, I should like to have unani
mous consent to pat it on Its passage."
On the 23d of April. 178. the debate
was continued, my colleague. Senator
Orover, making an hour's speech in fa
vor of the "passage of the bill; and. af
ter a full discussion, occupying the
greater'' portion of two days, and the
adoption , of a few unimportant amend
ments, over which there was no real
controversy, the bllL as reported by me
and as agreed to by the representatives
of the Northern Pacific Company,
passed the United States Senate with
out a dissenting vote, my vote being
cast in its favor (see Senate Journal,
second session Forty-fifth Congress, p.
424), and was sent to the House for Its
concurrence. Thus twice, during my
term in the Senate, did I earnestly ad
vocate, vote for and, to the extent of
ray ability and power, aid in passing a
bill through the Senate extending the
land grant to the Northern Pacific Rail- I
road Company, and neither of which I
ever passed the House of Representa
tives; nor did any bill of any charac
ter, in aid of the Northern Pacific Rail
road Company, paaa the House of Rep
resentatives during the six years I was
In the Senate, or since, although bills
were Introduced in the House every ses
slon in tne interest of the company.
and ther passage urged. Yet I am to
be told, sir. and the readers of your
paper are, through your malignant pen,
to be told that I defeated legislation in
favor of thla enterprise, t could read
ily understand how you could thus
prostitute the columns of your paper
two years ago, when for many months
you received a regular monthly stipend
from parties interested in the old Ore
gon Steam Navigation Company and in
tne success of the Democratic . party.
and by reason of which you felt called
upon not only to -' misrepresent and
-abuse-me through the columns of the
Oregonlan. but to aid to the extent of
your power, through the same agency,
as your files will verify, the effort then
unsuccessfully made to defeat the reg
ular Republican Legislative ticket tn
Multnomah County. - You had received
your douceur and en revanche you were
performing your part; besides, aside
from the. actual cash In hand, you were
then receiving for youf perfidy to the
Republican party (I now refer to your
fight on the Republican nominees for
the Legislature, not to your misrepre
senting me), you then felt a personal
interest In my defeat for re-election to
the 8enate. So, in view of these two
considerations. I can readily find omnia
inducement for one of your venal andl
maievoient disposition. 'to Justify you.
In your own mind. In the course j, you
then pursued; but why should yon now.
when there is no Senator to elect not
even a member of the Legislature; now,
when I am quietly devoting myself to
the practice of my professions, now.
when so far as I am aware no part
of the services expected ; of you from
your present retainers consists In mis
representing my official record, persist
In youar Journalistic 5 degrdatfon,1n
something I ' cannot quite understand.
unless aj am to attribute, it to your nat
ural propensity to Indulge .in misrepre
sents Mn; or, perhaps,, it is the Affect ,
or yoar chagrin because- of the fact that.
taeriewa 1 advocated while IrT the
ate,vjn reference to railroad questions;
are now being adopted. I contended
for two roads from tho TJnoer Colum
bia eastward one via the Northern Pa- ,
cine, the other via Eastern Oregon and
Idaho to Salt Lake and one road down
tho Columbia River, on the" south aide.
to Pprtland; and. thanks, to capital and
men or enterprise, who understand the
necessities of commerce, the day is
near at hand when they will be com
pleted. I' hare always contended our
first connection east from Portland
would be-vis Eastern Oregon to Salt
Lake. I am still of the same opinion.
toougo me nonnera nciiui be conv
pietea within three years.
m luuua bi j&Tunor.
No. Mr. Scott, your boasted noaltlon
as editor of tho "only newspaper In the
Paelfia Northwest." even were -vour
aughty assumption In that regard
true, would scarcely Justify you In a
willful misrepresentation of the official
acta of a public servant, even thoueh
he bo the object of your personal hate.
ir your Highest conception. Mr. Bcott.
of honorable Journalism leads you in
thla direction, then you are worthy, I
am quite sure, to wear the crown of su
premo contempt whloh an intelligent,
reading, discriminating public will ac
cord yon. And In this connection allow
me to suggest that hereafter, when you
contemplate the publication of a cal
umny, yon boar in mind the old adage:
Xiest men suspect yonr tale untrue
Keep probability in view."
In this Instanoe. throng rota rauv
fabrication, unsupported fey either vrob-
abillty or evldcnoe, and bearing1 upon
Its faoe the visible indicia of a gross
mma, your moot iatooigent readers
will see at the and of tho pan that wrote
it a hypocritical Journalist, a willful
perverter of truth, and a wanton falaU
e of offlolal records and recorded
facts. Bo not lmaglae, any dear air,
that you are so firmly Intxeaobad be
hind "the only newspaper" la the State
10 xorever secure you indemnity
from pnblio 00a tempt, no natter .to
what base purpose you prostitute its
eolumna. 'Tho time may not be so far
distant aa you. in your simplicity, may
Imagine when your paper can be held as
a monopolised elub over ths heads of
individual XepubUoana, much leas over
tho head of the BepubUoan party, or
nsea wiu impunity as an engine of mis
representation of offlolal acts. Ton may
yet. as lorurnaust, be in the near fu-
tura compelled to come ia contact with
an editorial pea hacked, by the nec.s
sary ability, ananeiai and otherwise,
to cause you and your Oregonlan to re
alise the loroe or Tounfs eoupieti
Tho blood will flow where the knife
Is driven.
The flesh will quiver where the pin
cers tear.
A Parting Shot.
A newspaper, whatever may be Its
professions, however strong the monop
oiy or its press dispatches, whose col
umna, from day to day and year to
year, bitterly assail one of the great
fundamental doctrines of the Republl
can party the principle of protection
0 American industries and American
labor and whose support of Republl-
can nominee! ran nnlv hA Vi nrwl fur
when the personnel of the ticket is not
distasteful to its editor is, I can as
sure yqu, not very well calculated to
win the Indorsement of the Republican
party Of Oregon as its party organ,
But when ta all tKls you make lis, pages
ins venreie or sianaerous accusations.
you may not hope to command the re
spect of honest men of either political
party. Honest, and fair-minded men of
all part lea and 'the great majority of
men or all parties are honest and fair-
minded despise the charlatan, whether
in Journalism, or politics. They do not
regard with favor Journalistic mounte
banks or political weathercocks: be
sides, a dissembler in these respects is
no less despicable in character than a
hypocrite in religion. The people de
sire ana it is their right to see the acts
of their public servants laid bare to the
public gase. This is the highest dut
of a public Journal. They have no faul
to find with any fair criticism of their
acts. But a gross misrepresentation of
uch acts is another and outte a dlf
ferent thing, and the Inevitable result
Is to bring the author into contumely.
Ana now. In conclusion, permit me to
say I have no apologies to offer for
thus consuming so much of your time,
except to remark, to have submitted
tamely to your insulting, article would
have been to abase myself to the level
of moral cowardice occupied by your
self when you stabbed me in the back
with your envenomed shaft. In view
of the well-known fact that through my
friendly aid and co-operation, covering
period of years before I knew you to
be the curmudgeon you are, you were
enabled to amass from the public crib
much of the fortune you possess, I had
some right toexpect different treat
ment at your hands. But I do not com
plain of this, for in a certain sense and
to some extent
The thorns which I have reaped are
01 me tree
planted. They have torn me and I
bleed;
should have known what fruit would
soring
From such a seed.'
Furthermore, I have no resentments
to gratify, nor would I in any manner
knowingly misrepresent you in any par
ticular, ana nence nave carefully avoid
ed doing so In this epistle. No would
have you construe anything in this
letter of a nature cohiplimentary to
yourself as evincing anjf desire on my
part to conciliate you in the future, as
I have no favor to ask at your hands
and, as to the constant ebullitions of
hate, they will fall paralyzed, poisoned
by the malice by which they are in
spired, and be crushed to powder be
neath "the inaudible and noiseless foot
of time."
In parting with you, . then, and in
erecting this true standard of yourself
for the benefit of the living; as well as
those who may come after, I can say
in all sincerity, as did Junius to the
Duke of Grafton:
"I do not give you to posterity as a
pattern to Imitate, but an an example
to deter."
Respectfully,
JOHN H. MITCHELL.
BAILEY WILL
NOT PROSECUTE
Says That Cheese Company WiI
Pay Fine Letter From Mitchell.
State Food and Dairy Commissioner
Bailey will not prosecute the Fair-view
Cheese Co.. for selling unbranded
cheese. The reason given for this la
that tho company in question will nav
the fine voluntarily. This is in connec
tion with the 20 cheeses seized by
Deputy Food and Dairy Commissioner
Cutllp, last Tuesday at the Portland Pro
duce Exchange Co. These cheeses were
unbranded. Mr, Cutllp has received a
letter from Senator Mitchell thin morn
ing stating that the Hepburn pure food
bill will be held In the Senate until the
National Association of Food and Dairy j
mmmissioners wouia . no . neara from.
This letter Is in answer to one from Cut
llp, requesting the above.
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THERE'S CONSIDERA
BUE STI5PA0T IO N-.
In knowing that you get thd best of
; eyetything, particularly so it it i
'doesn't, cost any more than the
Other kind. , .
SHIELD BRAND HAMS AND
BREAKFAST BACON
Are considered by Experts to be the Best. -Every
piece Is passed by Government Inspect-,
ors before belag placed on the market :: vJ
HAMS AND BACON OF THIS BRAND ARE FROM THBY
THE OREGON WHEAT-FED HOOS
Insist upon your grocer supplying you.
j UNION MEAT CO.
Drink the Old
;'-- ; j - L . ..
Gambrinus Lager Beer
Send orders for Bottled Beer to
OFFICE, 793 WASHINGTON STREET
Telephone No. Main 49-
PHIL METSC HAM, Pres.
e IMPERIAL HOTEL
PORTLAND, OREGON
EUROPEAN PLAN ONLY. CMraneK W..KieMM C.
Rates from $1 to $2.50 per
day. vj
INSTALLATION
OF OFFICERS
Vanrnttvr T nAoe ArfprHacf Ntartr
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-Other Item .
VANCOUVEIt, - Jan. 8. Vancouver
TJAiWC No- 7. Order of Washington, held
a meeting last nlghta.t Sohn't Hall, and
installed the following oflicers: Past
president. Q. I,. Moore; president, Mrs.
Agnes Sofa; vice-president, Mrs, Louisa
Ilarbean ; ehaplaln, George Houach ; , sec
retary, J. W. Pitran; treasurer,-fcYank H.
II1I1; escort, Ella Nolan; assistant escort,
Alice MeKce; guard, Eli Bora; sentinel,
1.. E. Mc-Clrtie; musician, Mrs. Burch;
captalu of tfeam, J. C. Ernst; trustees,
M. H. Avery, Al. Thornton and X C.
McAvIt; medloal examiner, P. L. West.
BKOOKSHIR1S DISCHARGED.
Dr. William Brookshire, a druggist of
Rldgcfitid, who was arrested and brought
to this city yesterday charged with sell
ing liquor without a license, was given
a hearing before Judge Haine yesterday
afternoon. He was discharged for want
of evidence.
PERSONAL MENTION.
J. L. Mitchell, Supreme Secretary of
the Order of Washington, was in the city
yesterday. He was. accompanied by his
wife.
Herman Han-is, the popular tonsorial
artist, has taken cbargo of the barber
shop of the Officers' Club.
Dennis Foley, accompanied by his wife,
and child, are visitors In the city from
Seattle.
J. A. Mclntire of Hammond Is a visitor
in the city today. .
Ed Sheridan of Portland wag a visitor
in the -dty-yesterday. -
m. L. Hart is registered at the Colum
bia from 8L Louis.
COUNTIES MUST
REPORT SHORTLY
oecrerary j antes M. Moore, of tne
Oregon Irrigation Association, Is In re
ceipt of several letters from the-Various
. ...
county committees that have been ap
pointed by the convention held in Port
land a month ago, to look into the Irri
gation interests of their respective coun
ties.
It is the intention of the association
to publish its proceedings as well as
those of the committee, in book form.
and to send a copy of this report to the
Lnlted States Engineers at Washington,
so that they may prepare to come to
Oregon and commence operations.
A letter has been received by Mr.
Moore from C, J. Smith, secretary, of
the committee at Pendleton, inquiring
whether it is too late td include the
proceedings of their committee.
Mr. Moore skid to a Journal represen
tative this morning that there are sev
eral counties that have as yet not been
heard from. They were to send full
reports of Irrigation matters and this
delays their publication.
MRS. MEAD DEAD.
--Late-lastl evening Mra l-BrydonH
Nicoll received from Brooklyn, N. T., a.
telegram announcing the death, , in. that
eity, of Mrs. George N. Mead, mother of
the late "Billy" Mead.. for more than 20
years agent for the Northwestern Rail
road in this city. Mrs. Mead, was well
known In Portland .and news of her
death caused grief to her. many friends."
William Mead, one of the most promi
nent railroad men the Northwest has
ever known, died in thla city last June. -'
SUGAR GOING DOWN. .
News has been received by Allen &
Lewis that sugar has gone: down 20
cents in Oregon and Washington and SO
cents in Alaska and Idaho, ; r"-" 1 '
Xt a Portlander should desire to Send
an Inexpensive "sonxoo of Information''
of Oregon to an Eastern friend, The
Journal would fill the -bill,. Daily S4 a
rear by mail; Semi-Weekly, ti.SOi
w eeaiy, ox. tarn sews, arsons
BOOj uolumbla, 700.
Hi
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and Renowned
-Both Phones
C. W. KNOWLE3. Mgr.
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v. T ouw f 1 asiuuivij tfu.
C. GEE WO
THE GREAT
CHINESE DOCTOR
Can it be wondered
that he is called
great, when his won
derful remedies curs
and help so many
sick and suffering
people, not only here,
but throughout the
.X'nlted States!. Many,
Ire given up to die;
others told that an
operation was the
' only help for them,
yet their lives wera
saved, without the
great suffering of an
operation. Cured by
these powerful Chi
nese neros, roots,
buds, barks and vegetables, that are en
tirely, unknown to medical science in hli
country. Through the use of these harm
less remedies he treats any and all dis
eases ot men, women and children. Thli
famous doctor knows the action ot over
600 different remedies that he has suc
cessfully used In different diseases. Ha
guarantees to cure catarrh, asthma,' lung
troubles, rheumatism, nervousness, stom
ach, liver, kidney, female troubles, lost
manhood and all private diseases.
Charges moderate. Call and see him.
Consultation free. Patients out of the
city write for blank and circular. Inclose
stamp. Address The C. Gee Wo Chlneso
Medicine Company, 132 Third street,
Portland. Or. Mention this paper:
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A. F. ELLIS, Printer
BROMZIMG and EMBOSSIXG
410 STABX ST. Phone Hood 444,
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Marriage licenses have been Issued to
J. Bulllwante and Ethel Cecelia Rupert,
Leonard M. Meyers and Grace Ella Ag
new, Thomas A. Robertson and Ella
Johnson, Edward J. Thompson and Mar
garet Mehlgan, James Orvllle Smith and
Llllle May Ford, Percy A. Pearson and
Mrs.' Clara E. Doag.
To John and Ethel Williams, 509 East
Couch street, a boy.
To Ulrica and Augusta, Jossie, 420 East
Davis street, a boy.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
John Swanson, of Buena Vista, re,
St. Vincent's Hospital; typhoid fever.
Mrs. S. E. Allen, 571 Hood street; diph
theria, malignant.
John Conrad, 121 Seventh street; vari
ola, mild.
DEATHS. !
John W. Stewart, Seattle, Wash.; pneu
monia. Remains brought here and taken
to the Crematorium. Aged 64 years : 8
months and 1 days.
"Edwtnr Aylworth, 21 PettygTove street;
mental exhaustion. Aged 80 years 7
days. Interred at Lone Fir Cemetery, ,
Vnlols A. Hudson. 101 East .Thirty
fourth street; cancer of stomach. Aged
46 years 4 months and 21 days. Interred
at Riverviow Cemetery.
' The E a ward Holraan Undertaking- Co
funeral directors and embalmsrs. 864
TanxhUl.. Vaone 607.
J. p. Tinlsy Con, funeral directors
and embalmers, have removed to their
new establishment, corner Third 'and
Madison streets.. Both phones So. ft.
Crematorlnta, oa Orerono City eat
line, near Sell wood; modern, voientino,
complete. Ohcrges Adnltn, $35; child
res. 825. Tisitors. ttoIs.ni. Portland
Cremation Assoolatioa, Portland, Oct
Clarke Bros, tot flowers. a3 Morrison
street, v - . ,
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The best Accident and Health Insur- ';'
a nee sold at 209 Marquam Bldg. Agents
wanted In Oregon and Washington. '
ALD2UCH as WfiTZXX