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THE LIMIT
-HE ATTEMPT, of the assembly
I machine to parade Its nominee"
I la the state pamphlet aa pre
f erred candidates throws the
' HmeJght on assemblylsm. The prl
taary law says all - candidates shall
have equal opportunity. If law h
law no candidate can he given spe-
. clal advantage. Yet here is the Lock-wood-Cohen
gang Invading the law,
, setting aside the statutes and trying
to bamboozle voters -with a claim
' that assembly candidates are official
and all others Are Intruders. There
is not a man in Oregon butJ knows
it to be an unblushing violation of
the intent and purpose of the pri
mary law., The convention was abolt
fshed and the primary law enacted to
"give candidates "equal opportunity."
Desire to eliminate tbe preferred
candidate was a fundamental in the
movement for a direct primary. If
It was not to give every elector seek
ing public office equal opportunity,
why. was the primary law enacted?
"Equal opportunity" Is , the basic
principle of . the system. . It has no
other function. It serves no other
purpose. It contemplates no other
result. Without It, the open primary
Is a farce, a grotesque and senseless
.-farce.- -K'i'h uy V '.
The spectacle is another warning
to the thinking public of what as
Bemblylsm is." Assemblylsm is out
lawry. It is worse than coventlon
Ism. ; The convention was legal.,'' It
was held by authority of law. . .The
machineized assemblylsm of Beach,
Bowerman, Xockwood and Cohen Is
not lawful. ' The primary flaw does
not, provide for it, but on the con
trary forbids It. . The legislature re
fused to legalize it. But it is here.
It Is here in spite of ; lawy-in spite
, of the legislature and In eplte of the
public will... II; is an act to make
comic oplra of professions of friend
ship by; assembly candidates for the
primary law. It ; is full and com
plete betrayal of every, fair promise
made for the assembly. - The- digni
fied conference that the assembly
was advertised to be has degenerated
into the worst form of nauseating
conventionism. It Is ' a ' dose; that
many a' man who was disposed to
follow' the .assembly, will never
6 wallow. It is a length to which
many a self-respecting Republican
who once looked with possible favor
on the plan will feel that he can not
efford to go. Assemblyism ls.ehamed
and scandalized by its leadership. '
HEROES OP TUB FIItES
NUMBERLESS ARE the , true
stories of real heroism. It has
been exhibited under all sorts
of circumstances, and by peo
ple of all l' classes and conditions,
since tle record of human actions
xtTegan and there was doubtless her
oism, among creatures long before
The recent fires in the forests and
settlements of this region have af
forded .many new examples of her
oism, some of which have been noted,
but more of which, it" may" be, will
never be known. The dispatches told
the other .day of a conspicuous in
stance of heroism, when eight men,
led by Larry Ryson of Wallace, Ida
ho, perished in a tunnel of a mine
In an effort to .rescue other men.
An account of the Incident in a Spo
kane paper U in part aa follows:
Headed by Ryson this irallant band
5 of heroes took refuge from the seeth
ing billows of flame that surrounded
the tame at iz:30 Sunday night 'Fif
teen of tbe party- escaped and elffht
died from suffocation, while standing at
the, mouth of the tunnel holdinit wet
blankets against the opening to keep out
the deadly fumes. Ryson was the last
to enter the mine and first to drop
unconscious and die. One after another
the eight- victims of the horror Wok
- position at the mouth of the mine, and
each' In turn was suffocated. For five
lonsr hours, which must have seemed as
- uays 10 tnose soreiy-tried men, mem
bers of the party burled their faces in
the saving mud on the floor of tho
Then a break for liberty was made. 15
i getting away, Jeavlng ellit dead heroe.
' The bodlr of these eight mefh lie
burled in a trenah, and their present
monuments are eight tin cans, con
taining their small personal effects
and means of identification. Except
for the rescuing miltla, feven this
y much would not have been known;
and done.
' Surely the names of these eight
men are entitled to record ori the
teroll ol heroes. And there have
.", doubtless buen other incidents dur
ing these holocausts, as yet" unre
ported, and Eouie perhaps that never
will be reported, of equal herolam,
, especially on the part of women. The
world's heroes and herolnoa did not
all live long ago. '
; Kaiser William has brokerf out
again after having for a year or so
apparently yielded to the hint ho re-,
calved ' from tbe relchstag that he
roust i not talk too much. He has
again averted that he is a particular
partner or agent of God and the rest
f ThATiPonle have no vwvt evi -
..Mr-m . ,
no no wj ... vuvuuvii
to ri.-c---.rl th, Hi. The kn'scr h ovl-!-ntly
b.-i om'.ug crazier. It is a iity(,
for. he 'is a comparatively, young man
yet, ami lira good points. He should
be invited to think over the present
condition of Abdul Ilamid, who was
olcn o ;-;MP.t of tfrr'Almifir
, , g Almighty,
per Mohammed.
Pit. AVISE ON THE ritESS
D"
It. STEPHEN S. WISE;, now a
notable preacher, of New York,
well known in Portland, where
he preached very successfully
for several years,' said in a recent
address on "The Moral Power of the
Press": v '".':;'
"Meanwhile, see what a pulpit the
editor mounts dally. Sometimes with
a congregation of 60,000, within
reach of his voice, and never to such
as a nodder even among them I ; And
from what a Bible can he choose his
text- a Bible which needs no trans
lation, and wbjch no priestcraft can
shut and. clasp from the laity the
open volume of ( the ; world, upon
which with a pen of Bunshine or de
stroying fire, the inspired present is
even now. writing the annals of
God!"
This is eloquence; and it is so not
principally because of its beautiful,
idiomatic expression, or its ntterance
from the tongue of a born orator, as
Dr. Wise Is, but because of Its truth.
Simple truth about anything import
ent, to the human bouI Is always
eloquent.
The press is and should be a more
and. more powerful moral power. It
should knojw no party, no Beet, io
creed; , should be careful to respect
and honor all that are trying in any
practical way tof do real good, but
should ever be alert to fight what
ever it has aurely discovered to, be
evil. ' ' ' ' '
In thl3 address Dr. wise'alluded
to the reversal of the Dreyfus, case as
an ! instance' of "the real, terrible
power of the press." But while the
press helped, that reversal was chief
ly due to ofl brave man with a pen.
As, always, there was but one right
man for an1 emergency; . in- this case
Emile Zola was the man. He sought
for and discovered the "truth;- he,
above ' all . others of his generation,
was able to declare that particular
tnuth--butVas Dr. Wise suggests, he
found a willing and intelligent and
forceful coadjutor in the pres's. not
only of France, but of the world.
For, after 'all, the world hates In
justice and Iniquity; and the "press
is and must be a mighty voice against
iniquity and injustice. A particular
case ; appeals, becomes interesting,
perhaps spectacular; but. the general
case is not so easy to reach or f era
edy. We have space here for but
a few sentences of Dr. Wise's fine
conception of ijhe duty of the press.
He said
orm,- the public mind and the publle
conscience., The .press 1 the dalty
teaeher of the whole nation, men and
women, young and old. The press is
people's university- that never shuts Its
doors and - never - grants Itself or Its
students a vacation.: The gathering and
distributing of, , new is an important
function irVour civilization, but a press
that -.limits its activity, to such func
tioning is defunct "
Stoutly must the press resist the
spreading notion that the newspaper Is
to be a mere purveyor of news rather
than a brlnger of intelligence, that Its
sole business Is to be collector and dis
seminator of news.
,That the press may greaten Its moral
Dower, the leaders in the world of Jour
nalism must-be adjured to, iree inera
selves from v the enslavements of par
tisanship .and sectionalism.' from the
tyrannies of passion and of prejudice.
Above all, the press must be kept free
from the entnraning power oi money,
lest it become Increasingly true, as said
Lowell,1 that ours is a-time when the
press is more potent, for good or for
evil than ever any numan agency was
before, and yet it is contfolled more
than ever before by its interests as a
business rather than by its , sense, of
duty' as a teacher..:'" ;
Dr. Wise Is a true teacher. . He
sees clearly and he .. speaks coura
geously,' .'Nothing can swerve him
from the expression of what he be
lieves . to be Importantly . true. In
this address he finally quotes these
lines of a poet about the press;
A wondrous and a mighty thing It is,
For . it , Is clothed in liberty and .
light "
Te who sit throned the Joves invisible
Use the mighty weapon well
And ever let its tad Ian t bolt be hurled
Against the giant ills that tlll bestride
the world.
IRRIGATION IN THE WILLAM
ETTE . VALLEY ; , .
T
HE PEOPLE Ot various local!
ties In ,. the Willamette valley
will no doubt, turn their atten
tion to Irrigation more than
ever after this rather unusually dry
summer, although the crops through
out the valley have been on the whole
better than usual;.. But With irriga
tlon they might have been far; bet
ter, and with enough of it-the pro
duction could be doubled or trebled.
The Dallas Itemizer advocates the
storing of , the waters forming the
Rlckreall river for this purpose. A
man who has been looking over that
field with this thought In mind tells
the Itemizer that the project is en
tlrely feasible. That portion of Polk
county is very productive already; It
is not arid land at all; people there
raise grain, grass, hops and fruit in
largo and what used tobe thought
sufficient and satisfactory quanti
ties; but why not raise a good deal
more perhaps twice as much? AU
agricultural product bring : good
prices now; the production of them
is profitable; why not produce much
more , In the . Willamette valley
through irrigation? '
In this particular case it is esti
mated that by the.building of a dam
at a certain : point enough water
could ba sloped "to give each side
of tbe valley a canal holding enough
water to abundantly supply all inter
vening orchards' and truck, gasdens,
raaklng-oftbU .whole-valley blow
L. .. , ,- .
1 "nvi.vu.ui. uaibouiu -
uib, auu -uvaring catauiee, such
as
in. my world famous valleys that pre
via the household stuff for thou
sands of city famine."
Commenting on this prospect, tbe
Itemizer says:
.With tha hotter transportation fa.
retimes we mrwhave and the-trthers that
i re com(nKi such a plcture of our val.
ley is not overdrawn by any moans.
hiktt unto the -valley surrounding Can
on City, Qui., with water to grow every
thing .abundantly that we want to,
every acre of this valley, clear to Koli,
mighf soon be utilized to brlnjr the own
ers thereof an annual revenue, by MM
side of which What they now, get out
of their land In return for the capital
and labor t$vstedv would be terribly in
significant With the .soil and climate
'at our command, such a time In thi
history of this section Is surely coming.
The Journal has been preaching
this gospel for years. ; The people of
many localities should combine to
Irrigate. They can thus double pro
duction, and by selling off portions
of large holdings in small tracts can
more than double the land values.
Of course all such enterprises take a
lot of money, "and need to be han
dled right,;, but what is suggested in
the Dallas paper Is no doubt feasible
and would be very profitable: not
only there but in many other local
ities where it is possible to store wa
ter in dams. j - , ;
Irrigation is needed even in the
fertile Willamette valley, and will nb
doubt come into " vogue more" and
more as" people appreciate its value.
PRESIDENT SCIIURMAN DIS
y TRUSTS DEMOCRACY
P'
RESIDENT SCHURMAN of Cot.
nell University, In a recent ad
dress said:
." The history of the republics of
the ancient world demonstrates con
clusively that government by the peo
ple directly, legislation and administra
tion by the people themselves (and not
by representatives elected! by the peo
ple) Is the Sure way to despotism and
destruction.;; The safety of our coun
try lies in its representative institu
tions. . The reason why the people caa't
take, the place of their own representa
tives in legislation and administration
is that there are far too many people
to act and far too many and too com
plicated affairs for this multitudinous
population to attend to. In America, as
in Borne, the end would be a paralysis
of public business from which the dem
agogue would emerge a dictator or des
pot ,,; The sur way to breed a Caesar
or a Napoleon on American soil its t-j
abrogate the American system of repre
sentative government . . .
President Schurman Is a man of
varied and admirable abilities, and
criticism of his views may seem pre
sumptuous; but we would , like to
have his considerate ; view of; the
manifest failure of representatives
in many cases to represent- that Is,
to represent the many who should
be represented rather than the few
with means of one kind or another
with which to, "work" representa
tives. ' ' 4
This is the cause of the present
uprising of insurgency which is only
democ
racy that representation has been
in too large a measure a failure and
a fraud.-- '
Then, may it not be possible that
the people of Oregon, for instance,
are rather better fitted for. sejf-gov-ernment
than those of Rome, who
got a Caesar, or of France, who got
a Napoleon?
ACTOMOIIILES and wall
V, . STREET
A'
N ESTIMATE manating from
Wall street Is - that approxi
mately $500,00(1,000 will have
been spent this year by Amer
icans for automobiles in their pur
chase, not. counting their subsequent
cost f Of this huge sum about 83
per cent, It Is said, will be for ma
chines of domestic manufacture only
15 per cent being imported. This
statistician of the noted stock mar
ket street estimates farther that half
Of this enormous outlay: woujd , be
used In stock speculations if. it were
not for. this craze "for the big Joy
wagons, hence he blames them for
comparatively quiet times In Wall
street. Many people who otherwise
would" become lambs for- the street's
shearing,' he thinks, are out Joy-r Id
lng or spending their money for' gas
oline and other automobile expenses.
Nowadays, instead of taking a lit
tle flyer In stocks, the average Amer
lean takes one in an automobile.
This Is the principal reason; this oh
Berver ? thinks, Jor the ' shrinkage
within six months of- $150, 000,000
In the market value of securities
mainly dealt In by stockbrokers.
Thej-e Is a dull, depressing time in
Wall street, he maintains, because
of the , craze for automobiles
throughout, the country. . This com
plaint, made in all seriousness, rather
Increases our respect for the auto
mobile. It might better have these
hundreds of millions than give them
to the wolves of Wall street. "
TICK FIRES
A
f FTER ALL the fire losses have
been computed and considered
rand they will be enormous,'
running into millions the
most regrettable losses, , those that
will be the most deeply and properly.
mourned,, are those of human Uvea.
And in this case, as of all others of
general peril on sea or land, some
people who had no special pecuniary
or personal interest in i the matter
sacrificed their lives for others
There were never any better saints
than people who in the face of
deadly peril give up their lives to
protect or preserve others. v There
have been many such, not only never
canonised, but. scarcely reported In
the day's news.
; There1 13 an old militant hymn,'be
ginnlng: VThe saints in all that glor
ious war shall conquer though they
die." These: heroes and heroines of
the holocausts have died apparently
without .Conquering;, the flanYtes
rRgPd 'onrbnt TftMr victory may, bn
i- - rivu. iiiiiy, iih
1 uvyonu luuixai aen. uoa saw them'
There has been great destruction
Ti..'re v. ill h-3 i-sredy t!;oi::.-.h partMi
rehtoration and reeiiperuMuii. 'Inch
lias been burned, but there i3 a hun
dred times as much to proteet and
defend hereafter. How best to do
this is one of the greatest and most
practical problems of the time.
. . That alleged picture of a . "fire
scene in the Bull Run reserve,"" pub
lished yesterday in the Oregonian'3
evening edition, would", have been
much more realistic ... if the arliat,
while painting in the flames, had
painted out the feminine figure
which leans nonchalantly against the
trunk of a blazing tree in the fore
ground. Maybe she belonged to the
Casablanoa family.
Lfttcrs to Tha Journal ihonta be written on
one nia ot tb paiwr only and should ba ccoto.
iianltd by the name aod d(ireB of th writer.
Tbe name will cot. be used If the writer ak
that It be withheld. The Journal la Dot to bt
anderatood a Indorsing tbe vlrws or ettUementi
of correapondnU. letter should be made M
brief as pomlble. Those who wish their letters
rfioruea woen noi mg annum mewn
. (VirroannnriDnta ara notified that - lettera etVl
eeedlng SOtt words In length may,- at the. dU
cretiou ot the editor, be cut down to that limit.
" Cut Weeds Now.
' Portland, Or., Aug. 24.TO the Editor
of The Journal In connection, with tho
Campaign against weeds and brush on
unimproved property? In the city, I wish
to call, the attention of the owners of
such property in , my--part o,f the;clty
Rose City Park to the fact that It is
much" easier and cheaper; td clean these
lots now than Jt will be next year and
for this 'reason: ..When Rose City Park
was put on the market two year ago
brush Was tall cleared and buied.
What is now here has grown since and
im ftiAMfAia Vint tvn vaara nlfl . . ..
A maa with a gooa. btusn scytne can
cut everyWiing clean without . the use
of bill hook or ex, but one cannot, do
it after another year's growth has been
added. " It will cost &t least twice as
much to clear these lots next year. Five
dollars will clean up the worst now $10
will be little enough next season. And
those who have bad their s property
clsaned up this year will find, they can
easily get them mowed over for about
J1.60; next year, Cr-
It is a revelation to me to see now
careless and indifferent owners are out
here. Many have bought for specula
tion merely and seem to care not' for
the appearance of their property, nor
the safety of the property of others
and seem absolutely devoid of any civic
pride or decency so long as some one
only improves adjoining lots. -,
It seems a shame that with all . the
Improvement league is doing to increase
real values here1 owners will not, spend
one dollar or a few hours' time to
clean up their lots when by this, neglect
they not only hold down values, but
are clearly in violation of the law. But
why should they fear the law in, this
regard? ! Has any one;- ever, been -con
victed and fined for letting weeds and
brush grow as, they will? Haa any
shiftless lot owner in Rose City Park
any rear mat an this "gao" ac-oui "or
dinances, "prosecutions, ' UienB," - etc.,
will amount to anything?
This matter Is coming up at the meet
ing of,.the Rose City Park Improvement
league Wednesday, next and steps will
be taken to find out Vf Xhe present city
ordinance will do the work it was Jn-
tended to do or-HOtyery-truly-yottra,
' -; ', BUSHWHACKER.
The Bine Bucket Gold Mine,
IIo6d River, 6r Aug. 28. To the Edl
tor of The Journal Many and conflicting
have been the stories told of the Blue
bucket gold mine;; I shall not vouch
for the truth or falsity of any of them,
but give a few of them for what they
are worth. ' .. ..
'It was common during the cioneer
era for the immigrant to bring with
them a wooden bucket that was painted
blue and was ' known as the "blue-1
bucket" . These buckets, I think, held
three gallons. After the discovery .of
gold ; in California , many Oregonlans
went there to wine. Among them was
one Harry Marlin, late of .The -Dalles,
Or. , Being shown ; some gold dust, he
asked, "Is that . goldr ? vyes, sir."
"Why," : he . exclaimed, "if 1 had only
known what It was I could have rjicked
up a blue bucket full of it out on the
plains where we were lost during the
summer of 1857 our family lived on
the George Steward place, a short dls
tance south of Amity., One day Dr
Johnson called there and was talking
about the Blue Bucket mine. He had
a large hand, and, doubling up and ex
tending m list, ne exclaimed, "It (the
gold was lying around there In chunks
as big as my flstriota of them," "Well,
doetor, let us make up a party and go
out tnere ana see Ji. we .can't rind it'
'I would be afraid to undertake It,' said
the doctor. 'Why? said one. 'Because
it is out in an-Indian -country, and they
might be hostile and scalp us." 'But we
could make up a strong enough party
to insure our safety.' "But I might
not be able to find it and then you
fellows might ' hang me as we . were
about to hang Meek -for getting lost'
No, not one step, would he go on such
art errand. The doctor died in Lewis
ton, Idaho, only a few years ago,, as I
have; been told." ' . '
There lived a family near Amity who
told of picking up a nugget two inches
high, three inches wide and four inches
long, nutting it , in their tool box . and
using It for a weight to hnad their
door open. The head of the hose went
to California to mine arid wrate back
to his wife to take care of that peculiar
looking atone they .used to prop thej
began looking about for it, but it was
nowhere to be found, and n far
am informed it is still missing.
One of the. men took & piece of -this
"peculiar looking rock" and hammered
It out on? a wagon tire, made a -bow
key,outof It and ud it as such, but
me mini, was so sort it wore In two
and. .was Inst before they got through.
No one mmpected it -was gold at the
time. - Most of the stories agreed on
certain points, . There was a butte, or
as some .cauea it, a large ' knoll; a
spring at the north Bide of it a child
wasi burled a short distance north of
the sprlng'on a small knoll rising only
one or two feet high and being only
one or ' two rods across, and a wagon
was abandoned here. Some say that
the gold was found at and near the
spring and others say it was half a
day's drive after leaving tho spring,
and was at a pool of ; water in' a ra
vine. The butte was of considerable
size and stood out on a level plain
Robert Penland, late of The Dalles, is
reported as saying 4hat he was In Bight
of Mt Hood, where the gold was found
I think it was In about 18SS, as the
story runs, that a party went out to
nun i ,,ur mis mine,' piloted : by
juuiib nmn Tvno was a lad of ' 10
years at tho time of the eric-lnni dis
covery, Iio had a distinct recollection
of the butte, spring and grate, and that
me wagon naa been Jeft there; one day
tnis party approached a butte and one
asked the guide If that was the butte
he had ben telling them of. He thought
it might be. but it did not look Just
right Ho was not sure, and said, "Let's
go around on the north hide of it, and
see If there is ajsprlnsr ther1 - Th
J.U1.UUK niiiiHtMi jn nis saddle, the guide
said, Vlf this Is the place, we will find
a grave on that lltt e knoll out there,"
Letters From tlie People
COMMENT AND
small cii.vxai:
Colonel Hnfor, at least, doesn't strad
dle on' prohibition.
If Efiiact Fonts isn't BatisfleA should
the coinniuntty niourn? :. ......
a
Let It rain," snys the Albany Demo
crat ' Vet it doesn't rain. '
"Cut x anif sell off the lartre farms,"
is the Increasing slogan In Oregon. ,.
........... -
The state fair, the prospect Is, will
be better and more successful than
ever. . .
Tbe vice president Is a wise man;
he won't'-say a word. ,Or la he only
foxy 7 '
After tha" fires will come the fairs:
the fairs will b successes as well as
the fires. '
"There are a rood many lawyers who
for one reason or another are not fit to
be a Judge, .
The homeseeJcers mostlr want small
farms; they ought to find thousands of
them to suit in Oregon.
Spite of the 'fires, most of the farm
ers are happy; and so the. rest of us
can. get along somehow.
It seems that rather cloudv days
have come for "Sunny Jim" ' Sherman.
Borne days must be dark and dreary.
... . a a --
"Old man'' Bennett of The Dalles
Optimist ,1s Btlll raging at the fool-peo-pln.
Yet he- is a pnetty nice- old fellow,
when one knows him, He "doesn't mean
so much- as, ho says. , . .' i
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Wofldburn!; 'Independent: The Demo
crats of Oregon have a good- opportunity
but they Will let the chance, suae it
thev do not select Oswald west. This is
a- disinterested opinion. ' West would
do a strong man oerore ine people. ;
Los Angeles Times: It lsannounced
that on September ,8, at Mewtierg, onio,
John D. Rockefeller will answer a Ques
tion UDon whl6h he has ud to this time
preserved a studious silence-the iden-
ny or nis ratner. it is a wise oia man
who knows, his own paternal ancestry,
spraetlmes. .
Medford Sun fRenubllcan): Washing
ton.- is no different from California.
Oregon, Kansas, Iowa or other states.
it has lots or insurgents m every nooK
and corner, ..the east side, n: the west
side and everywhere. Press reports
published in the moet orthodoiO of regu-
r KeDuniican newanaperstne ore-
gonlan, for instance admit, the certain
selection of Poindexter. it looks at
present like he will sweep ths state en-
noth sides or trie mountains ana
probably Seattle and
Tacoma . them-
selves.
August 27 in History
About the middle of the summer of
1776 there was every evidence that
Howe, the British general, had decided
upon the t taking of New York. The
Americans began w concentrating t their
forces In the vicinity Of tho city. "Howe
left Halifax on the 11th of June and
arrived at Sandy Hook on. the 29th. On
the 2d of July he took possession or
Staten Island, where he Was Jolhed by
Sir Henry Clinton, from the south.' and
nis wotner Admiral ira owe, wun a
fleet and a large land force from Eng
land.
' Befor the 1st of August other vea-
elsarrived with a part of the Hessian
troops, ana on mat .aay aimosi ow.uuu
soldiers, many of them tried veterans,
stood ready to fall upon the republican
Srmy of" 17,005 men, mostly7 militia,"
which lay intrenched tn New York and
vicinity, less than a dozen miles dis
tant , The British - made full - prepara
tions to strike a decisive blow.a The
British army was accordingly put in
motion on the 22nd of August and 40
pieces Of cannon and 10,000 effective
men were landed ;on the western part
of Long Island near Fort Hamilton. V
Already a, detachment or Americana
under General Sullivan occupied a forti
fied Camp at Brooklyn, opposite New
York, and guarded seven passes on a
range of hills which extended from the
Narrows to the village .oi Jamaica.
When Intelligence of the invading army
reached Washington t lie sent General
Putnam, With - large reinforcements, to
take the chlet command of Long Island
and to prepare to meet tbe enemy. Tha
American troops on the islands now
numbered B00O. The British moved in
three divisions. ; The left, -under Gen
eral Grant marched along the shore
towards . Gowanu; the right, under
Clinton and Cornwallls, toward the in
terior of the island, and . the center,
composed chiefly of Hessians, under De
Heister, marched up the Flatbush road
south of the hills. - , .-
Clinton moved under cover of night
and before dawn on the morning of the
I7th he had gained the Jamaica Pass
near, the present East New,,, York. -.At
the same time Grant was pressing for
ward along the shore of New York bay,
and at daybreak he encountered Lord
Stirling whdfce the monuments of Green
wood cemetery now dot the hills. - De
Heister advanced from Flatbush at the
same hour and attacked Sujllvan, who.
having no suspicions of the movements
of Clinton, was watching Flatbush
Passs -A 1 bloody confHct "ensued here
on the- is Hh, and While it was progress
ing Clinton descended from the wooded
hills to gain Sullivan's rear. ;,
As soon as Sulllavn perceived his
pointing to a slight elevation about a
hundred yards distant They started for
it and before reaching it ran onto an
old rusted Wagon tr& :?&otiig l& lib
knoll, they ' found the grave. Putting
all tills together, it looked Uk a clinch
er. They had found the place. But
there was no gold there, nor could they
find any sign of gold- anywhere near.
The party turned back in disgust and
pronounced the whole story of the Blue
Bucket mine a huge humbug.
One man told me that he has heard
about the mine at Denver, Colo., had
came out here and hunted all , summer
for it. He. found the butte spring and
grave, prospected all about there and
could not raise a color. :' He spent over
$500 on It. ' ' -
Uncle Casey Officer,, "who for many
years .lived at the mouth of the south
fork of the John Day river, 84 miles be-
low Canyon City (he was still living on
the river, but lower uown when I -last
heard of him),, happened one day to
mention to me that he was one of the
party that Meek piloted through, and I
said:
"Unole Casey, how was it about that
Blue Bucket mine?""
Uncle Casey laughed a little, and
then said: "Well, the fact is. Borne one
told about seeing gold there and the
rest of them didn't want to bo a set of
blank fools standing around there and
not seeing anything, an.', so they saw it,
to6." , - -
1 4 remarked that it seemed strange, in
view of all the hunting that had been
done that 'no one had found the place,
''Well," said t he, I can find the
place. , Anyone can. find the" place..
Just take up this south fork and follow
it up as long as you can find any water,
and you wilt be at that spring they
tell about." . ' 1 -- - - , -
Considering all the circumstances, I
have concluded that Unclr Casey's esti
mate la'tha correct version of the "Blue
Bucket gold mlna." : "'"', '...-; "... v
' . CARSON C. MASIKER.
a-rmei"(("",!iava) "fiWrlwr'
orrices in i ne italics, tne onjoct being
to handle the prain and other products
of the members direct, without their
going through the middlemen's hands.
N
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c:;
Work hs l
rio oil well.
in resumea on the Onta--
Again the annu.nl
call 13 mads for
hop pickers. . ,
Brownsville 'lms also crantod an ln-
terurbun railroad franchise. I
The timber of Wallowa county. Bays
tho Enterprise New a-Reuord, seotns. to
bo attracting the attention of eastern
capitalists, as they have agouts buying
anil contracting for all the timber that
they can find for sale. v
A Eagene man ' has a Spanish coin
dated 1799, a penny with Uie date ISi'O,
a Gorman coin of. the coinage of 1820
and many others including coins from
China,; Japan, Belgium, Turkey, India,
Norway and almost every country.:
A" Hermiston man, tells the Herald,
has two bunches of alfalfa that are
wonders in their line. ' On one the stems
axe more than six feet long, and 'the
other is a curiosity for its number of
stems, there being fully 200 if not
more from the one root. They are not
so short eltner, averaging about two
and a half or three feet. '
Bumper crops are being raised In
Yamhill county this year, but one of
tne best that has so far come to light
is a yield of 165 bushels o Alslke clo
ver seed from a 14 acre patch of bot
tom land, near Amity, says the Mc-Mlnhville'Telephone-Reglster.
The seed
Is worth $8.40 a bushel. An adjoin
ing field of 40 acres farrned by J. L.'
Lood. and also In Alslke clover, gave
a yield a little over 300 bushels and
urougnt Detween ?tuo ana jaouu, or
about $60 an acre for the 1910 crop.- ;
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Taqutna Bay News Reporter; The
clamr bake Sunday afternoon was a
brilliant , success from every standpoint
of ' view.V Over 6000 visitors were fed
with the luscious sea products such as
clams, crabsi salmon, etc. Tables- were
arranged close to the pit where the bake
was, a line of people passed along on
each ide and were served as they
passed with paper plates which were
piled with the delicacies. They then
returned to - the shady -places by ' the
bluff where they sat on drift logs and
ate to their hearts' content - .
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Walker ; Toung has Just finished
threshing a crop of wheat from an 18
acre field on his plaoe north of .Eugene
and the yield was 41 bushels per acre,
relates the Register. Mr. Young plowed
the virgin soil, of that same field In
the fall of 1S52 and harvested the crop
In 1S53 and the field Was excellent.
He says that same piece has borne a
good crop- every year since that time,
except one year when It was not plant
ed. Just think of It. A piece of land
that has borne a crop- for 66 years, and
and . the last crop was 41 bushels of
wheat per acre. ' . -
Battle of Long Island
peril he ordered a retreat to the Ameri
can lines at Brooklyn..' It was too late;
Clinton drove him back upon- the Hes
sian .bayonets aed after fighting des
perately, hand to hand, with foe In front
and rear and losing a greater portion
of, his men Sullivan was compelled to
surrender.- As usual, misfortunes did
not come singly. While these disasters
were occurring on the left CornwalMs
descended the port road tp Gowanus
until Stirling was made prisoner. Many
or his troops were drowned while en
deavoring to escape across the Qowanus
rcreek, as the tide was'Hslng, and a large
J number i.were -captured. About . 600
, Americans jwere Kniea or wounaea ana
1 1100 were iaihade prisoners. These were
soon f suffering s dreadful horrors in
prisons andprison ships at New,. York.
Una British lost in. killed, wounded and
prisoners about 367.
. It was with . . deepeat gloom thai
Washington had viewed from New-York
the : destruction oJE his troops,, yet he
dared not weaken his power in the city
by sending reinforcements to "aid them.
He crossed over on the following morn
ing with Mirrun, who had come down
irom the upper end of York island with
1000 troops, and was gratified to find
the enemy encamped in front of Put
nam's lines, and delayed an attack: Until
the British fleet should cooperate with
him.
-. This delay allowed Washington time
to form and execute a plan for. the sal-
vauun, 91. - vna reiaiiiuer; oi ine jmy,
now too' weak to resist- an assault with
any hope of success. Under cover of a
heavy, fog which felt qpon the hostile
camps, at midnight v on the 29th, and
continued until the morning of the 30th,
he .silently- withdrew from ! the camp,
and, unperceived by the British, crossed
over to New York in 'safety, carrying
everything with them but theto heavy
cannon. Then followed the struggle for
New Torn andthe Hudson.
On August. 27 waa fought the-last
battle of the Revolution on. the Com
tahee near Charleston, S. C, In 1782. It
Is the date of the bombardment of Al
giers in J81. ' August 2t ia the birth""-
day of Joseph Reed, the Revolutionary
patriot and. soldier (1741): Hannibal
Hamlin, vice president under Lincoln
(1809); Wrllliam II. English, vice, presi
dential, candidate .'(1822); and the' date
of the -beheading of Annus Severinus
Boe..dus. the philosopher and theologian
(528); James Thomson, the poet (1748)
Thomas C Ilallburton, the author
"Sam Slick" (1865). and Sir Rowland
Hill, author of the penny postal system
The Summer Capita).' ' '
From the Metropolitan Magasine.
Beverly, Mass., id' tho summer ad
Junct , of. Boston, and especially of
Beacon street, the Somerset club and
the aristocratic environs. Beverly
means something. In 'Beverly the
dwellers in the smallest houses, along.
the shore or the little cottages back
toward the country club are as good
as the very best If they have the
open sesame of a family name, which
includes the ramification of a vast and
extensive couslnshlp,.. they may enter
tain siiropspmily with the aid of
cook,, waitress and a chambermaid, and
they will be asked as frequently to
tne larger nouses as if they could give
fluid pro dUT in the wav of n -return
Yes, ; you may be. plain looking, poor
an even stupid, but, if you have the
qualifications, Beverly , accepts you
Ana ir you haven't, keep away! You
may come from the middle west with
a brass band and a halo of natural
gas or packing-house millions at your
oacK. . rent : tne most expensive ' place
put a sijrn up at the gates of "Wei
come,", bait it with a suggestion Of the
excellence of your chef, and y"ou won't
gt a single caller; that is the first
season, or late, owing to the pres
ence . of the president - of the ? United
t?tates, Beverly has been much in the
paper;, but , so far there has been no
record of any lady giving an entertain
ment for her friend's pet dogs.-wlth in
vitations Fwnt.out for "FIdo's day at
home, ihere have been no live
canaries in the pie or live fish swim
ming in tne renter or the table. They
do at Beverly the thlnirs their fatjiers
and mothers might have done. To put
it snortiy, neveriy. is rather conserva
tive and Quite well satisfied to be so
V-'L'.
Its Good Qualities.
From the Cornell Widow.
Asnlrlnff r-nrnllKi.Prnftmani. An a
IllljlJtllivibe-bJ--do7iT f
I thin, nrlth .vlu ,nn.7 IX'"1
Persfiring teaeher.Well. it mlith
come in handy in case of fire or ship.
wrecs. .
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!!-,. 1 1.,... -., l .
livening. ;.,,,
!'r e.;ttms ana we V""-'
a buia You didn't thirl'.'1 '
that we rowed across n t' "
Wei. nvri,lll... . . 1 ll I'll
mP, 10,,k
.- vvo icucnea iho
us pauscj, a ,a-i'i.
SwSfn,;lntea VausmL.,.';
x-ow, did you ever r 'r:i,: -
Itraveyard? Ever fan
keletou into
vver n ,
me waitin- "
rattlinger one?
(Iran." Urm8 Of
oo erewsomer k... . ' w
finish.-'
luncaea. Saw
,n.A . . J,
whitu
of
nothing. I kind of thinh J m r ,
In- his sleeve. I know h ,he
, UI (i.m
em.
ort of, funny. Then h ",V,7
go over "there" n,, , 'u'a. m ,
which to anchor the boaUTw Vi;
I.; came back. ; ,Ycp, ' I retL-nl"' w
alacrity-and that's all ii""'1
BlHKe. ... .. .. in. t
For what I blckefl ,,n .. -
of the left hind leg of a Z le hf
dropped it, fellow ckenliT; But 1
Then I discovered thV rlJ 0pW I:
of . skulls nd -crossbon,; aDn;
crossed bnnps T r.- . 9 ail(l Hn
yard' turned upside dowa-wiih rf(
; And as -I said, I fled tli'-.
fled the scene, as J. Undo? IS: !
I never went back not none I dsay
And that's telling -only half f !
rest is, I ain't going hack L J ' TK
lieve me. -,. 0: - ' ",m:
It Cost me 15.90 to ririrt,.. ".
eyed Imitation of a tv ln
,v. v.,; -""ry ;
take me back to th
. v... nuu.u novo coat tn is v
.90 was all I had. . ,
So keep away from that '"iLt -
yard, fellows, unless you want to
fwU.uu.Tv. uiw ; uiactOBing your in
deeds.", I found nineteen gray hai
my Sunday wig this morning anil'
dark brown ones on my left shov,'
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i ' DIFFICULT VERSE, VERT.
'Cafn't eat vour cake ami km u". .
Sounds odd-to me; how 1s t witK Z
It may be true with angel food
tut i can ten the multitude
That 'tain't that way with waternipW1
For it's the .'fruit tW has "h?'c:
And .while the heart great Dralai n.
serves, . ': .-' -'.
What d'ye know 'bout rind preserrw
1 - Show Us, Mr, d-anel
From Harper's Weekly,
From more, than one highly rem..
able source have come prediotloni tha:
if ; Aidrica - is i to have a successof S
the leadership i of the senate-tW u
to say. ir the Aidrlch kind of leader
ship is to continue in that kit-.!
Senator Crana of Massachusetts ii tt-1
man who will succeed to the placa, Ku
uraliy, one looks about for sone of a
speeches tf the . Junior senator Iwk
Massachusetts,; to i find : what sort a!
views he holds, but enlightenment nor
that : source . is not forthcoming, r.
paraphrase Mr. Dooley,, Senator Craw
speeches are very interesting; there aw
none. ' Senator Aidrlch speaks freaueB-
ly, though, seldom at much length;
nobody fancies he leads by oratory, Ser'
ator Crane - does not make speeches if
;enerally conceiiwl tfe-
next'-; to Aidrlch he accomplish moil
than anyother;'sonator .la tliijnatt i
of1 geeting votes together ami gettiii
things done-tlso in the ciatto otkee
ing things from being done, uu i
rich he 'got his training lh busb
afid lacks . entirely - the' eqalpmer!
scholarahip and , eloquence which t
long thought essential to pavliamcr,';
eminence. He has, Instead, a pleas
personality,' a gift for getting on i
all sorts of men, a gift lor compromli-.
a gift for combinations. The trrover
call him "pussy-footed," Uie admit;
make it tactful.- Quite possibly h
a patriot and a statesman who, if -i
shall ' really becomA, leader of the 'j
ate, - will ' promote good measures; t ,
iasmnch as this Is a democracy, It
desirable that public -servants should
better known to the public, .prefpt
by publlo speech, than Senator u..,
t nr is tkvar llkelv to be.' The lllsso ;
motto applies. It may be all right, I
show us. .
t- The Tariff Humbug.
nil. -Mtuk- nirainst the Payne-AHM
bill -is grave arid complicated. - It V
petuates duties laid 45 years g f.
Civil war taxes; that is, it compel" V
neonle at Hie country W COnfl'JCt a
number of their Industrie. o
tax basls.- Many of its s.i
amaalnr caricatures of the doctxin
protection, made so oy opei
cal . violation of the protective
pie,',; tricks and swindles uh'l3(ie? '".f
technical Jargon that nobodr bui ,
expert can understand and twri
escaping th conclusion. tiiat W " ,
cases this obscurity has been ,n m ,
devised -that nobody else should w
stand it . ... .... vm '
."The method, by wmcn " H
made was tha worst possibly
. traced in onenly, le hors?.!J
were traded in openly,
or s
country iair. iif. $
duties affect chiefly the datfy .
that great bulk or our v, j
counts,' they were fte4.., v'
had relation to notn tig nu.
yet while acting with -this :
mercialism, congress as a sow .
as if carrying out con.clentiousir
principles of protection. ji?ifori9F-i
was a- greater humbug. 'ftJ,nW
ency, sincerity, all were irlfM
making of the 1?$
haps the worst of the many WP
which characterlSedvthek operation
making labot.puU tha chest"uU o
the fire. It is ;t' tfTi
that we have hlft.du,I'fn ,odar
is clearer In tariff making today t
the utterly inadequate share ,t
ties laid in labor's name whim
labor,
YTlie.Humonsts
the fammia Kanaas i pojt. H pro i j,
regular teatur. of tbi colnms ,
JourDal.) j , . - j
Much I admire the jaunty,.
brilliant paragrapniuis ), cH
the daily Journals ehlno j,
voscen' as of wine an t
with their - ferraeeful , fun-"nlftffl , :
chance to dot you o"6;. nncf ;
some brilliant thing a ml ;
stlrjg; too oft is throwa sW"
that makes some C-with ,
prance, as -though h. ,pr. & :
hot, had soaked him In 4
Too often something. W ai
filled va; wit S.
queered, some vKlXJ
bowM some woman S heaa , ,
hold It ' good to rf : ;hnJ4
gaily flay the human
is coarse And purpos .vllP But when
slay them with a w"", so,';
just to make a jest, br.ng ,
t rtMcrrim's breast, or u . t, j
.est he can, oi v.T 8iiaiH-, t
words some hearv, ii j