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V ID LB EXCUSES. 1
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RAILROAD officials intimate
that they mar not comply
. with Governor Chamberlain's
demand for an annual report of the
business of; the roads; operating in
' this state. Various objections are
put forward, particularly the argu
merit that the law of 1885 is too vague
in its requirements and that it would
be impossible for the railroads . to
, know just wht sort of a report they
are expected to make. ,' , . . .,
; To all auch objection It seems
enough to reply that for more than
a dozen years the, railroads, in Oregon
did comply-with the law and did file
annaaPreports of their business. Not
until 1898, when" the railroad commis
sion was abolished, did the railroads
discontinue these reports. If they
could comply with the law ten years
- ago it is idle to pretend that they
. carjnot do so now. f y,u ' -
l In demanding of the railroads that
they resume the observance of the
law of .1885, 1 Governor Chamberlain
has taken a step of fast importance
to the people of the state.' For, years
. Oregdn has suffered from the lack
' of adequate transportation facilities'.
The progress of the state has been
retarded and its people have groaned
under burdensome and excessive
chargesA-Year -afterTyear-therr has
. been -a shortage of cars and the evil
has grown worse with each succeed
, ing year. . Vast areaa of the state
have been undeveloped because the
railroads refused to build branch lines
to meet the needa of growing popula
tion and traffic
Experience has ' shown that it is
hopeless to expect ' voluntary relief
from the railroads. The people must
help themselves.' And the first step
toward self help is to ascertain just
what the railroads are doing in Ore
gon, their earnings, their expenses,
.their profits, their rates and all the
other details enumerated in the law
of 1885. - When this information has
' been obtained, the people will be in
a position to acTjnteHigently. ' : ."
THE STATE FAIR.
T
N18607tbe pioneers of . the Ore
gon country came from distant
v Helena on the east, Astoria on
the we it, from northerly Puget sound
, and from Jacksonville on the south
to make a success of the first state
i fair at Salem. Many of these hardy
, . state-builders have traveled a long
road since that far-off day,, but the
, enterprise : dedicated then has lived
- j and . progressed and has grown
! greater and better every year: in the
''time that has stretched to nearly a
J half century of the fair's history there
has been but one interruption; that
' was last fall, when the directors de
cided to give their aid to the' Lewis
v andlClark exposition. . f
' .The state fair 46 years sgo was an
exposition of the productivity of the
' whole Oregon country; its Icope hss
not diminished nor has ' its . 'purpose
'contracted. It belongs to all the
Oregon people and merits their sup.
port. , . ; , , . ,
- It ia not too mucjj to ssy that the
state , fair has done more for the
tockrafsing, agricultural and horticul
tural interests of Oregon than has
any other single influence. The fine
' 'effect of a healthy competition has
reached every range and farm and
orchard in the atate; has given us
better cattle, more cereals and world
beating fruit" ' What our producers
have learned at the fair at Salem hai
won for tjjirnv universal encomiums
in intern atrcm w CTJWJiU Km ; the merit
; that gained prizes in world-open com-
i petition at Chicago and Buffalo and
I St Louis and Portland had its first
.'and best encouragement at Salem.
. The director of the, atate board of
agriculture promise a better fair this
year than has ever bee held lit the
northwest; they say the displays will
be better than were seen atjthe Lewi
and Clark exposition. We can judge
of the future by the pait, and put our
trutt in the .promise. They .ftttt
t Urge sum of money in im-.
proving the grounds; they havj made
better arrangements than ever Tor the
comfort and pleasure of the people;
there Is more, room for1he exhibits
of all sort, .and they tay.th list of
entries" is better and greater than
ever -before.--.. ;. . ' . - t
The Journal believes in the state
fair believes in all fairs and expos!
tions of this sort, because it believes
that healthy competition -brings out
the best there is in one and urges
its readera to join the procession that
will start ior Salem on September 10.
STORIA'S-WEEK.-
HIS IS Astoria week, and the
' people of all the state should
aid in making it the success
it deserves to be. The people of the
fair city' at the mouth ofjfthe Colum
bia; hive prepared a fine 'program of
aquatic , and land sports, and enter
tainments for the pleasure of their
guests, and all who find delight in
yachting, who, love dogs, and have
joy in healthy outdoor amusements,
will be on hand( to swell the crowd
and show pur neighbors by the sea
that their .efforts to drive dull care
away are appreciated. ,
Astoria a regatta is one of ths an
nual events to which the people of
two great states look forward with
growing interest Portland's hearty
support has gone out to the spo
3
each year, and ouryachtsmen an
rowers and their friends hare found
pleasure and profit in the trip to
farored Astoria, whose location has
made the growing city the ideal place
for .the. regatta. .
Thia rear the committee in charge
of the arrangements promise a pro
gram that will surpass any . of the
past; many of the big cities of the
coast , will be represented, and The
Journal hopes the affair that begins
tomorrow will be jrouccess, that the
best yachtsmen and rowers will win
and that they will be Portland's.
PENALTY MAY BE HEAVY.
NE CHICAGO grand jury has
, found ten indictments, in
eluding 6,428 counts, against
the Standard Oil company, and if it
should be conricted on al) of them
and the maximum penalty imposed
the fines would amount to. J 128,560,
000. And only a beginning has been
made. Another grand jury is at work
in Chicago, and prosecutions are be
ing carried on ,in Cleveland, James
town, New York, and elsewhere, so
that if trial juries can be found that
will convict and if judges will impose
stiff penalties, and appellate courts
will sustain the judgments, the people
may come somewhere near getting
even with' the Standard Oil octopus
yet But there are a good many "ifs"
in the way, and it is rather , unlikely
that this great devil-fish of corpora
tions will Buffer enough to hurt it
very much. A beginning in this work
of clipping its tentacles has -been
made, howevea, and there la at least
some slight prospect that juries and
courts will mete out someejrneasure
ui puniannicpi iur in jong ana in
solent violation and defiance. 'of law
and ita audacioua plundering of the
peopK.l '..
DIFFERENT DETECTIVES ARE
NEEDED:' -yy
HEJLTBLIC will generally ap
prove the action of the mayor
' in dismissing , the detective
force of the city,' and ha no doubt
that the reason he assign for hi
action is well-founded. That the ale
tective squad a a whole has been
incompetent and practically worthies
for many month the record of crime
and of detection and arrest therefor
abundantly (how. And there, is, to
say the least, a strong suspicion that
some of the detectives, whether in
competent or not, were not doing
honest work, were , in fact to a cer
tain extent in league .with crook
and criminal. .:? ".- . . ;
To be a good detective a man must
in the first place be especially" adapt
ed to the required work. He must
have an aptitude for. it, and this is
not possessed by one man in a thou
sand. And even for. such, a enan it
ia no easy job, if he doe hi work
well and i able to show satisfactory
results. But it had got so that al
most any patrolman and a lot of other
people imagined they were 'cut out
for detectives; it seemed to them that
it was an easy Job, with "little to do
and plenty to get; and indeed it ap
pears that such had really, become
the case. The sifting process ought!
to go ojpjuntil the city finally secures
a genuiBMenmArtent, honest and har-
The city has simply been wasting
a los of money in employing detec
tives, and a new deal was needed.
' ainiiaesBissasBMBnanasaasaaiBSBmB '
Some of our esteemed contempo
raries profess to feel surprise at the
announcement that Mr, Bryan will
not accept the use of a private car
on hil journey to Nebraska, but will
pay hi are a other citizen are ex
pected to do. Our friend have been
'Portland'
0 commissioner o
v to JnLawan r
Affable W. A. Mean earne a new
people of the Peaceful lalea, and bull
metropoua ot the nortbweat . v ,
A Little Out
THIN03 PRINTED TO READ WHILE YOU WAIT.
'Over the Hula and Far Away.
Slnoa those we love and thole w hate,
With ajl thlnee mean end all thlnga
Pasa In a deapirate dlaarrar i '
Over the hills and far away;
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It must ae, dear, that late or sooiC
Out of the kn of the watching moon,
We shall abscond with Teaterday
Over the bills and far away. ,
What does it matterT Aa I deem.
We sball but follow as brave a dream
A ever smiles a wanton May
Over the hills and far a war. - '
We-ehall remambar, and, -In pride, ,
Fare forth fulfilled and aatlaflad, ' . i
Into the land of Evar-and-Aye,
Over the hills and' far away.
v .,.'.. '' W. B. Henley. ,
' Odd Notes.
",Klng Edward has never followed the
example of Quen Victoria by writing
books, but a biographer who ia about
to publish an account of bia earlr life
hae euceeedod In finding a drawing
which the king made more than SO
yaare aao, as wall e some of Queen
Victoria's infantile effort.
- lira. Mabl U1U of Raymond, Kew
Hampshire, haa two plaoae of old money
a II bill laauad bjr the Meehanloe
Trader' bank of Portsmouth In 1SS1,
and a l bill of the Smlthfleld, Rhode
Island, bank. The Imlthfleld, Rhode
Island, bill is an eapeolaly Interesting
curloalty. The faoe of the bill etated
that "the preetdant and director df the
Bmithflald Union bank promisee to pay
V. -Ana-ell or bearer on demand five dol
lars." Then cornea the date. August II,
ISO, and the algna-turee of Ev Wilkin
eon, cashier, and Peleg Arnold, presi
dent. .
' The first coins were struck in braae
about 114 B. C and in gold and silver
by Pheldon, tryrant ot Argoa, about Ml
B. C '.-.v , '
'. ; ' Roman. Numeralsvi
There is the beet , of authority for
both methods of writing 10 in Roman
numerals. The ancient Roman would
invariably, have written MDCCCCYLUie
M standing for 1,000, the D for 100, each
C for 10 and VI for . When the other
way of writing 10 In Roman numerals
as JICM came Into ase is not known,
but was -doubtless some time in the
feasting so freely and so long at the
political pie counter'that the sugges
tion that any one , is willing to pay
for what he can get for nothing comes
in the way of a shock. " ,
There must be something wrong
with the tariff on wheat, since 'that
cereal is so much lower than last
year. Shouldn't the farmers demand
that the duty be increased. : . Of course
we export wheat and import none,
except a little for aeed, but if, a the
protectionists claim, the tariff pro
tect the farmer, surely higher duties
ought to protect them : more. . We
wonder that the Salem. Statesman has
not been demanding a higher duty on
wheat .. ' ':''',y7''' ' ' ' ' V
Before very long there will be a
choice of three railroad route,' part
of .the way, to San Francisco by
way of Klamath Falls, by .way of
Coo bay and by th.e old rout over
the Siskiyous. And we . doubt not
that before many years we can go to
the Bay City via Seaside. Tillamook,
Newport and o along the Pacific4
shore nearly all the way. '
President Palma i right; he must
maintain - his government, without
outside help and without making con
cession, beyond amnesty, -to the in
surgents, if Cuba is to haVe a gov
ernment that the rest of the world
will respect And It look a if he
will be able to -do ao.
Probably when Teddy goe down
to Panama ' everybody will wake up
and assume an attitude , of industry.
They'd better. ',' ' .1
Alabama will . keep . Morgan ? and
Pettus, both considerably over. 80
iC
ommcrcc
title, wina the confidence of the
da up trade between them aiyl the
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of tKe Common
middle ages. The explanation . of it la
as follows: An old rule In the writing
oi nomu numerals was that when
letter was placed before another of
greater value the first waa to be aub
traoted from the eeoond. - Hence. In
mcm for 100. we hare If equals 1.000:
C subtracted from M equals 00, and the
wnoie is equivalent to 1100. v
A She ! Wrote. '
a. Japanese - laundrrmah eotnnosed
this advertisement: -"Contrary to - our
cpposite company, we wui most clean
ly t and earefuly wash our customera
with possible cheap prices as follows
Ladlee two dollars per hundred! gentle
men one ana a halt , dollars per hua-
aiea. - . ,
An earnest dtt sen was making an Im
passioned attack on his eltr council.
He said: "Let e go to the ol'.v coun
cil not line a iamb, but like he wolf,
and take the bull br the horns."
, "Cremation la good." wrote the little
t ,n , ... .i
am in. vuouiHiuon, ovoeuae ilia
person mla-ht only be In a ewoon, end if
ne is ourneo, ne cannot recover."
- Hoga Fortell. Weather. .
, From the New Tork Praaa.
In the ceuntry you hare ne need of
a natter weatner bureau than a drove
of hoes. . By their actlona It is easy
va ieu uw approaen or a storm, a cold
ware or a not spell. - When roa m
sow going to her quarters to put her bed
in oraer, picsung up straw and learea
with which to render It comfortable,
mark It down that a northeaster le
coming and will continue for three or
zour aayav . -, , ; .
Sport Note.
"' From the Chios Xawa. ''-)
It all the battora in the National A
American leaguea were combined In one
oaiier, ana ir tnie natter, at one stroke.
mi u am.il u xar as mil tne Mtttera in
kAtk t... LI. I. M
bmw ... . t. uunnaj am season,
he would drive the ball 1,11 miles, 111
yards, or far enough to drive the ball
from the home plate at Belma, Alabama,
IV A NIUI, ArJWMk ...... .
v ' ' Want a Job? ', '
Danish attthartUe-haro been adrer-
tlalng for "a reliable and stun)
cutloneer." The Ute practitioner has
retired because he can .no longer wield
the heary ax. Good' wagee were of?
-www ,v, .... mm, i
yeari old,' in the senate till they die,
out tne people of that state at the
primariesv Monday picked out their
successor. .The . legislature merely
uiiiciauy ceruiiea to tne people
choice. . - i. :;y:
A young woman who received 49
proposal of marriage frankly con-
tesses that she i not beautifuL ' She
ay the magnet i her unfailing good
nature. 41 ere i a noteworthy hint
for the girla-who are drifting into
old maidshlp, . - ' ,.
The Issue in New' York' guber
natorial -campaignr tt plainly an
nounced. . Mr. Hearst wants to be
governor to drive out Jerome; Mr.
Jerome want the place to drire out
Hearsf,- and Tammany-need it ff
the patronage.; ;'''.,'.' i; . -
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It i to be hbped that the detec
tive 'whom , MaVor Lane . discharged
for incompetency will hare mjwe aue
cess in their new undertaking than
they had in the old. They are look-
ing for work. , . '
Though a rather novel and surpris
ing notion, Mayor Lane's idea that
all city, employe -houldfairlylern
their (alaries ia really a good one.
The "tariff, dismissed in a' paren
thesis," ha aome of the characteris
tics of the cat, apparently., It has
come back. ' .,-,. ,
What i the matter with Russia?
The sun went down yesterday and
did not , see the assassination of s
general. 'V ....
The Chileans can't lay It to Secretary
Root, aa they might If It had happened
later, .... ir..'..--. i-.. ....--r-.
A Little Nonsense
: It Wat the Second Cat
From the Buffalo Times. T
- Mike and Pat worked for a - wealthy
farmer.- - They planned to turn burglars
snd steal the money whlab the farmer
had hid la . one of - the roome -or- his
house. They waited until midnight.
then started to do the lob.
In order to set the 'money they had
to pasa the farmer's bedroom. Mike
says: Til go first, and if it's all Mint
you can xoliow and do Just the same
aa I.
Mike started to pass the room. Just
as he got opposite the door the floor
creaked. This awoke the. farmer.wha
eejMcroutr "Who'e therer
Mike answered with a "meow (Imi
tating a oat). The farroer'e wife being
awake, too, eald: . "Oh. John, It's ths
eat." Ann au was quiet.
Now Pat started te pass the door.
and aa he got opposite it the . floor
oreaked again. The farmer called out
aa-aln, louder than before: ."Who's
therer '
Pat answered: "Another oat'
' Ha Needed the Money.
- ' From ErerybodVe. .J
There le a story told about a famous
New zerk surceon. . It rune that when
the doctor waa young In practice he
nan aa a patient a certain Mr. uarue
of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, whom he
treated successfully for a painful tumor
on tne neck. - one nay the aootor eaiiea
on Mr. Darlte after a .long Interval,
and despite the . patient' assurance
that his aeneral health was greauy lm
proved, the eurgeon ed vised aa Imme
diate operation.
"But dlnna ye tell me youreer an
operation waana necessary V demanded
the patient "I'm feellna better than I
ha'e two year gone, end whs dye want
to out me up noo forr'
"Wen." confessed the rounar auraeon
with some embarrassment, "you see I
aeea ine money.-
"Oh." said Mr. Darlla, much relieved,
"If it'e the. sUler ye're after, a rlehtl
I . waa af card ye waa. everanxloae for
the experience."
The old man on the ipostoffloe etepe
waa ehewlng his straw and frowning In
hi ah dudseon.
'Tou aeera In a bad humor, unoier
ventured the starch drummer.
"Teas. and. by heck, I ought te be.'
gsowled the old man.. Thia here town
le going to the bow-wowe."
"What, la the-cause ef thatr
"Why, Bill Blnks. our congressman.
We eent him to congress to make the
town better, . and It waa better while
he was away. But ae soon aa he came
home with all the things he learned In
Washington the aewtng aociala turned
to brldce whist parties, the checker
elube turned te ' poker clube and, -heroin,
the spruce beer drinkers turned
to : cocktail - drinkers. He'e put , the
town to the bad, ppd the next time he
aroea away we . are going to pay him
extra to spend his loafing months away
rrora Bacon Ridge.'
Let It Go at Tiat'
Fornfer Senator-John M. Thurston of
Nebraska. . who . waa representinc the
defense in a recent trial In one of the
state oourta, arose the other day to
reply to argument of counsel f dr the
rovernment on a point of law. in de
liberate and ImDreaarve manner thav at
torney began a forceful presentation to
the court. Before he had fairly launched
his counter attack, however, he waa
interrupted br the presiding Justice.
who said that he waa about te decide
the uueatlou la faror of Senator Thurs
ton. . "inv that . case," remarked Mr.
Thurston, resuming hla aeat at once.
"I will make no speech to the court for
fear of changing your honor's" opinion."
. Did Not Observe.
Theodore Billroth. ' the eminent Vien
nese surgeon, lecturing to hip class in
meaicai aonooi. said that a doctor
needed two glfta he must be free from
any tendency - toward nausea and he
must be a good observer.
He then poured a nauseous fluid into
a glass, dipped one "Of his flnaers Into
it and licked It off, whereupon he In
vited the students to follow . his ex.
ample. Without flinching, they did aa
With a broad grin the surgeon looked
at them and said; 'Tou have stood the
first test brilliantly. Not so the sec
ond, for "none of you observed that -1
dipped my first flnser Into the glasa.
but licked tne secona-
LcttCrS
V 'fAa She ZB aTpett.
Portland. Auir? II. Tu the Editor of
The Journal If Dhe Journal wishes tu
comment f M,l dhe president's . recent
order concerning fonetlo apellnsr, per
mit me tu offer a form that la really
fonetlo aa far as our veri defectlv
redundant . alfabet wll permit: "Mr.
Rosvelt seems anxious tu become non
aa a reformer in ether things besides
politics. Hla vtus on spellng wtl hav
dhe hearty support of all hla followers
ha sign tjielr names with sn X." Dhls
form Is consistent and . logical. ' j Dhe
mere mls-spellng of a word does not of
neoessitl reprecent its fonetlo elements.
It is easy tu adapt- alleid Joes of dhe
Silurian Ave and hurl dhem.aaenst him
hu wud Introdlus - some order Inter
Ingllah spellng ia place ot dhe present
anarchy. .Tura trull. fonetlealll.
V W. B. VARNtTM.
' Effect of Gulf Stream.
From the Boston Transcript
If the gulf etream is what makes
England so warm and moist and green
and the gulf stream is moving up to
ward our New England coast a hundred
miles nearer than it hae been, or only
IS miles off Nantucket why may we
not become even more Enellsh than we
have elready been accused of being by
members of less homogeneous commu
nities of the United States? If - the
moist weather, both fair and foul that
haa made this summer peculiar and
memorable, is dus - to the approach of
the gulf stream, then sure enoush we
are in for that change of climate which
eome people are always on the lookout
for, finding its symptoms in every phe
nomenal spell of cold or hot weather.
We-ehall soon be turning up our trous
ers without waiting to heart It la rain
ing in London, for.lt will be ramlne
every day here, and a tight-rolled silk
umbrella will tie part of our regular
apparel whene'er "we take our walks
abroad. But we couldn't well be more
loyallyfond than we are already of
King Edward unless perhaps he forth
with persuades the esar to abdicate, ae
not knowing one elde ef the king busi
ness; ll he does that we shall fairly
dote on him, end" be almost ready to
change "America" to "God Save the
King,' and give It back to him ae fairly
won. . .- ,
A Coos bay man nicked uW a lead alu
that had evidently been used in- the
battle between whte men and Indians
ear Port Orford In IIH.' ' i '--.
Demoralising.
BIRDSEYE VIEWS
. cf TIMELY 'TOPICS
SMALL CHAN03.
There's a bint f autumn la the even.
Ing air.. '.-., ,,. .
Literally, Bryan m at aea, but not
metaphorically. , . v. j, .
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It'S'S wonder Croker didn't oome over
to attend that reoeguoa, . ' . . ,
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I New le tho--ttacr-whone-anwno
applies for an efie la entitled te recogni
tion. ,
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The etandpattere earft make the lesuee
for 1101 Just what they.- would hare
them. ,
1 Not a day should ' pasa ' without the
diaoorery of Stensland In some new
place. . . '. -
-Three hundred words aQ at enoel No,
we don't want any job In the public
prtntere office, ..
The poor tired vacationers re coming
home numerously. ' They'll get rested
up in a few aaya, . .y
For our Part If every one of those
monotonous eriokete could be extermi
nated, we'd help dO ft..,.
If Teddy can't aee any monopollatlo
trusts fostered by the tariff, he needs
to consult an economic oecuusc
a e ... ..
It would be strange If In beetowtng
every other good thing on Oregon na
ture had omitted ell. Somebody!! strike
it yeuv : ' , v ...... ,
Some ef those armies down In Cuba
are aald to oonalat of 110 or 1 00 men,
but this la probably a groee exaggera
tion., -v - ,. i.
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But will there be any room for news
and advertisements In the Pendleton
Tribune after Brother Oeer becomes ed
itor? .,' ., -k . ,
Going, going the summer time; ' '
Later comes the dawn;
' Sooner the ere, with hint of rime; ;
doing ere longi gone!
Where'er yen gaae, the August base
Fills all the atmosphere
It dime the hllla, the dome It fills,
Ana in it. learee turn sere.
, -.'- e e .;
Aa exchange p raises. Reckaf eller for
never having given up his American d!t
lsenshlp te live abroad. Why should he
when the Americana are ao "dead easy
. ' e e . -. ; .
When one baa to tura out into the
middle of the street wverr few yards
nearly all Over town, he doesn't have to
strain bis eyes to watch Portland grow.
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A man claiming to be Adam le en the
way to the coast with a band of follow,
ere. In search of the garden of Eden. He
Is headed In the right direction, yet he
may run up against the police. -
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We believe that a man who dice after
having willed hla property to hie wife
on condition that abe shall not marry
again la not fit to go to any sort of
heaven m zor a decent man to exist in.
Nools and Corners, of History
NSW YORK'S
I By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory. .
Tnt tha vaar last the Dutch anvarnor
of v Tork was William Kief t as
hot-headed. Impulsive and brutal a man
as everheld office on thia eontinent
Midst his other resolutions Kleft de
termined to lay a tribute of furs and
wamnum ion the Indiana "for protect
ing them from their enemies." j
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the eontemftt and Indignation of the red
men. who kAew very well that they re
ceived no protection from Tort Amster
dam, and to povernor Kleft they eent
the following reply:
The- -eaohemV must im a pretty-mean
fellow. He eamd to live among us with
out being. InvUecf. and now he wante us
.to supply hint WTltfc corn for nothing!"
While Kleft wtas enanng orer
fair and sensible Answer to his attempt
at laying tribute pon the red men, a
party of raacally Wutchmea landed on
gUten Island and atlpU eome hogs from
De Vrles, and, to addX to their rascality,
laid ths blams of theVthlevery upon the
Indians.
Old Kleft at once twl upon the inno
cent aatlvee with Tirel and sword and
the natives, being humkn, retaliated by
burning barns and kllllAg White men.
The ' bloodthirsty gov jernor wss for
Instant war, but before B"ulng his or
der for the bloody business hs rail erf a
meeting of the leading cltlsens. The
council met In the fort AuWuat IS. 1141.
being the first public asVmnbly ever
convened on- the Island of Manhattan.
The vote of the assembly t was against
war, but war the stubborn oud governor
would have, and did have. : I
His bloody resolution we -suddenly
matured by the following incident: - A
Dutch trader made an Indln drunk
and a tele from htm a dress ?f bearer
aklna. When the Indlea got (sober hs
shot a couple of white men to
with the paleface who had
him
Kleft immediately . eent forth his
Dutohmen with orders to burn arbd Slay
regardless of age. sen or condlUoln, and
the orders were earnea out to tne-iev
ter.
Two of the most disgraceful
The Prise Medford Garden.
. From the Medford Mall
If you want to see what water
ill
do, ' oven on land considered to.
sufficient .moisture for the grow
of ordinary crops,, just stroll aor
ng
the bridge eome day and take a 1.
at T. P. Kahlers garden. Tou wo
have ' any trouble rinding It T
can't miss It because your attentl
will immediately be drawn te the
tremely rank- growth of everything"
it
The secret la water on good soil, a
thia, water cornea from a little tw
inch centrifugal pump, operated 1
a one-horse power eleotrlo moto
The area Irrigated le about one ac
and this patch of ground will prod
tnis year enougn garden truck of
ous kinds to pay for that motor
pump, and then eome.
Mr. Kahler baa really the finest
den we have ever seen. Hs hss t
to vines that are small trees, m
)n
rt
:'e
rines that ars so heavy thst no
of the ground ie risible. Pact la.
only Once In a while you ean eef tn
ground anywhere, ao rank is ths
fowtn
and there Isn't a weed to be I "
One might suppose that with so
great
4 ylne growth, there .would be j 1
little
lOREOON SIDELIGHTS.
Another big aawmtU Is to .be buUI
at Brownsville.'. r
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Now the dirt la flying ea the Umatilla
reclamation reservoir. . -
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- Trout salmon and several varieties
of sea flab at Marshfisld.,
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Last Sunday Tygh wad biassed with '
three sermons by three preachers. And
It wasn't a very wicked settlement,
either. v ; , , . .. - - ... -...
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' A aaleaa "man advertises that, be will
pay none of hla wlfe'e debte because
she deserted blm whan be had a broken
leg. Don't blame hint. - -
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The dry counties will cause the Port- -lead
postoffice recelpte - to be greatly
increased. The wholesale whiskey '
bouses must keep the dry people posted
thinka the Brownsville Times. '
e.;e -,'. ' '
A Free Orore woman aent out an',
alarm that her baby was loot and after '
a lot of searchers had hunted for It
aa hour or two It was found on a bed ,
at borne, aeleep, "
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Hawthorne oocrespondsnee ef Oakland
Owl: A tramp passing through here
eaye the Norrle boys hired him to work
in the mill, but be did not like the looke
of- the engineer, Bam Knight, who he
christened Ed Norrts wife. JTor this
reason alone be quit work. . , V':
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' A Corrallie farmer says that bis band
ot ewes sheared an average of eight
pounds of wool which went at It cents, '
making It per bead. The band averaged
also a lamb to ths ewe, and the lambs
were sold at H., a total of ll.es per
head, making hla band of aheap by far .
the beat Investment on bia farm.
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The big Spanlding log drive from the
McKenale, several miles long, now
Hearing the lower Willamette, ia eald
to-oomprise 11,000,900 feet being the
biggest drive that ever - peaaed down
the river. . Thirty-five men .and' a
dosen horses are In the outfit together
with floating barns, bunk and oooklng .
houses, tools and appliances. - , ,
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Oakland Owl: The SkeHer Xiumber
company win build a apur from Brain
to the mill, which la six miles, with ether ,
spurs reaching out into its immense
body of timber. Later on the oompany
may 'reach Coos bay through a out In
the mountains, making the distance only
CO mllee from Drain to Marahfleld. Now
a railroad should be built from Oakland
to the timber bolt on the upper Cala-
pooia, - ... . , . ',"
Hood River la the banner telephone
city of He else on the coast says the
Glacier. The local exchange baa 160
subscribers, with nearly 100 new appli
cations, while The Dalles . hae only
about 100. The new Mount Hood line
has a mala line working and le put
ting In phonee as fast as possible. A '
new exchange le being put In at Moeler, , .
which starts off with 40 subscribers, ;
There are also several private Unee 1st ..
the vallsy. - , .';
INDIAN WAR.'.
eras la American history followed, one
at Paronla, the other at Coriears Hook.
Hundrede of red men with their wlree
and little onee were ruthlessly butoh
a red, the villa gea burned and the corn
fields devastated.
- Justly enraged at thia Inhuman treat
ment of their brethren, the Long Island
Indiana Joined with the river tribes and
declared epen war against tne whites. r
la a little while it looked bad for
New 'Amsterdam. The retribution waa -quick
and terrible. Wherever a white -man
Showed himself outside the atock-
ado he waa shot and scalped. Cattle
were driven off. Houses were burned. -Women,
and .children were captured and
killed or carried into captivity.
New Amsterdam waa In despair, and
it looked one time aa though they '
would be obliged to quit the fort and
go back to the old country. .
. Kleft begged for peace. The Indians
scorned bis stipulations and the havoo
continued. ...
But the white man la tough, full of
courage and abundant In reeouroee, and .
the red man was sure to get the worst .
of It . , ,
Availing themeelres of the assistance
of aome English colonists who had set
tled near by them, the New Amsterdam
burghers were able to turn the tide In -their
faror.
Under the command of Cook and TJn
drhll, the Englishmen snd Dutohmen
so completely turned the tablee that In
a abort time orer 1,000 Indiana were
slain. At Maspeth, at Hempstead, at
Strickland's Plain, near Greenwich, the .
natives were massacred in windrows, . -the
women end children being driven.
Into the huts and burned alive.
The "victory" at Strlckland'a Plain, .
where over.00 of the children of the -.
forest perished by - fire and a word, ,
practically ended the war,, and on a .
beautiful April day of the year 144 -the
surviving chiefs of. ths Long Island '
and river tribes appeared at the fort
and ened "lor peace.
A little later all the sechsms of the
hostile tribes sssembled on the Bow
ling Green and, after smoking the pip "
of - peace, ewore thst they would never -'
again make war against the palefaces, .
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else, but the? tomato rlnee are -hanging
full ot the-tthSgtet klpd pf fruit Np
melons are risible, but ft you part the '
rlnee you will see melone lying aa thick - ..
aa they can on the ground and great,
big fellows, too. He has the old-fash- J
toned, yellow Yankee pumpkin ae big a
a buahsl basket and Hubbard and other
squashes that - would -taks a prise et , '
any agricultural show; The list of the "
products of that sore patoh la too long .
for adequate description, but this Item
weuid-be- Incomplete-without mention
of the-flowers about " the- bouse. The '
flower beds are simply a riotous mass or
kaleidoscopic color and the air Is heary .
with the perfume of the many varie
ties.' There eeeme to be everything Im
aginable in that flower bed.
The pomp 'also serves as a private
fire department - Should the house catch
Are all that la necessary la to start the
?ump, pick .up the, hose, already at
aohed to the pipe, end a powerful
etream - ean be played on any portion
ltt the dwelling, or two streams, if need l
fbe. v i - -"..-,...
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In the recent fire in Santiam hm
horses could not be led or driven away.
pbut rushed Into the flsmes and were
destroyed, while cows waded late the
water, and P out pi nana g wa
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