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THE LA8T STBAW.
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"CBUEIi AND UNUSUAL."
- THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, . PORTLAND,. THURSDAY . EVENING, JANUARY . 11, 1912..
1 KB HJ A CENT. ' Am
Mlf HUrts 0h. I'm so gld to ses you. I wt ta
know what breakfast food 70a Ctve baby. I was Just
coming oyer to your home to k you."
Mrs. Carter "WhyT Ar tsers ahtldren at your
k01J8T"
Brt"OS, noi but poor old Nero here ! los
ing Ms appetite and I alwaya thought he resembled
baby, ao much, yon knoir.'
Howall "Here's a (jieer atate of af
falra." Powell "I don't know what !t Is. but
I can beat It; I heard of a man to-day
who mortgaged Ma automobile to buy a
house."
The Sociologist "Did the fear of
further Imprisonment cause you to re-
form?"
The ex-Yegg "It wasn't so much dat
but dey got a lot o' women on de pris
on board an' 1 heard dey was goln' U
design de prison uniforms."
The Traveler "When does the last
train leave for PottersfleldT"
The Accurate Station Agent "Can't
say. We got a fifty year franohlse and
expect to keep trains running that long
at least." ,
The Girl "Everybody aald yon apent
your last cent for an auto."
Percy Ladd "If you'll tell me where
I can get an suto for my last cent I'll
have you out riding to-morrow."
Willie "Papa, Fldo wu Just Ut by
a taxi." . .
Papa "All right, Willie, telephone
for a taxidermist."
THE LOST BONE.
HOLDUM.
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Hampton "X
Said 2.9 ft
less uspendera."
Rhode "A, pal
ef suspenders at
that prlo is a
holdup."
News Not Recorded on. Wednesday
Brief Paragraphs of World Happenings From 3 o'clock Yesterday
Afternoon Until 3 o'clock This Morning.
Congressional.
In the house Wednesday only routine
business was considered. Andrew Car
negie testified before the steel Investi
gating committee; the ways and means
committee listened to testimony on dan
gers of manufacture of whJUe phosphor
us matches, and beet sugar farmers ap
peared before the sugar Investigating
committee, denying stories of hardships
in beet fields.
The senate was not In Ression. Sen
ator Lorlmer talked of Illinois politics
In Ms defense before the investigating
commlttfe, and the foreign relations
committee referred the arbitration bill
to a sub-committee.
Rerpesentattve Berger of Wisconsin
introduced a bill to appropriate J 1.000. -000
for the establishment of govern
ment owned department stores In Wash
ington for the benefit of government
clerks.
Henatof Chamberlain la preparing and
will introduce a bill for the relief of
homesteaders, providing that any home
steader, after six months' continuous
residence on his land, may be entitled
to leave of atsence for six months of
each year; that Is to say, homesteaders
will be required to reside upon their
land only half of each year until final
proof is made.
The Hay bill, providing for reorgan
ization ot the army, was attacked in a
statement sent to the house by Major
General Wood, chief of staff. General
Wood declared the measure contained
changes that would impair army effi
ciency and demoralize the service with
out resulting in real economies.
Representative Warburton has Intro
duced a bill appropriating 120.000 to
establish a weather bureau station on
Mount Rainier, Wash.
twren President Tffft and Colonel Roose
velt. Friends of Rooisevelt claim that
the colonel will, under no conditions,
stand in the way of the president's
boom. The statement is brought out
by a report that Taft had offered to
step out of Roosevelt's way, providing
the latter wlsued another term.
William J. Bryan is quoted as saying
that he has not as yet decided on a
candidate, but of all the condldates at
present In the field, Woodrow Wilson
seems the most progressive. He says
he is bpposed to any third party movement.
Political.
A statement comes from Oyster Bay
that a fair and well understood work
, ins; . agreement has been arranged be-
Where's the Best Place?
piano? At Eilers Music Houso. Every
make of piano Is rented according to its
value. Cheaper grades of used pianos
$1.60 to $2.00 and $3.00 monthly, best
makes $4.00. $6.00 and $8.00 monthly.
No cartage charged where piano Is kept
Six months. Cartage one way Is
charged where piano Is kept only three
months. At Ellers Music House you
will invariably find everything exactly
as advertised. Alder street, at Seventh.
. Eastern,
In the Soldiers' home at Leavenworth.
Kan., 150 veterans are seriously 111 of
ptomaine poisoning-, resulting from eat
ing hash served to them at a regular
meal.
Master plumbers in session at St.
Louis resent the reputation given the
plumber that he is a "bunko man" and
"grafter." They declare a plumber is a
gentleman In every sense of the word,
with morals and a conscience the same
as a preacher.
Organized action ty Congregational
ministers of Connecticut has been taken
agtlnst the marrying of divorced per
sons.
Mrs. T. L. Oatka, s noted artist of
Chicago, fought her way through flames
and smoke to an upper story, rescued
her Infant daughter, rolled with her
down a stairway and crawled out of
the door Just as the roof and upper story
ur&Bimu 10 Demna ner.
A statement cornea from Chicago that
iiirouKR. cars rrom Chicago to Los An
geles and San Francisco over the Bur
ungion, ttoctc island, Denver & Rio
uranae, southern Pacific, Western Pa
cific and Salt Lake lines will be re
sumed by Februaiy.
With a slab of bone four Inches lone.
an Inch and a half wide and an inch
deep taken from his wife's left log and
grafted upon his own left leg, Fred
Bottonhaff Is recovering at St. Louis
irom the ellects of an unusual opera.
tion.
Water at St, Louis has been declared
unfit for use and orders have been
issued to shut off all drlnkine foun
tains at city schools except for emer.
gency use. Warnings have been Issued
rrom the health office against the drink
lng of water without boiling.
Pacific Coast.
H. E. Wadsworth will succeed Edwin
OUST DREAMS.
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Eddie Office Boy-'Last night X
dreamed I owned this place."
Joey Office Boy ''Was I still workla'
here?"
Eddie Office Boy "Naw. The first
thing I did was to fire you."
"BETTER TOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN THAN CASTOR OIL,
- . SALTS, OR PILLS, A3 IT SWEETENS AND CLEANSES THE SYSTEM MORE EFFICIENTLY AND
IS FAR MORE PLEASANT TO TAKE.
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AND PERFECTLY SAFE AT ALL TIMES.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
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011 even Package of tfio Genuine.
.
ALL RELIABLE DRUGGISTS SELL THE ORIGINAL AND
GENUINE WHEN CALLED FOR, ALTHOUGH THEY COULD
MAKE A LARGER PROFIT BY SELLING INFERIOR PREPARA
TIONS, YET THEY PREFER TO SELL THE GENUINE, BECAUSE
rr IS RIGHT TO DO SO AND FOR THE COOD OF THEIR
CUSTOMERS. , WHEN IN NEED OF MEDICINES, SUCH
DRUGGISTS ARE THE ONES TO DEAL WITH, AS YOUR
1IFE OR HEALTH MAY AT SOME TIME DEPEND UPON
.THEIR SKILL AND RELIABILITY
, WHEN BUYING
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GENUINE. ONE SUE ONLY. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING
DRUGGISTS. REGULAR PRICE SOe PER BOTTLE.,
SYRUP OP FtCS AND EUXIR OF SENNA IS THE ONLY PERFECT FAMILY LAXATIVE,
BECAUSE IT IS THE ONE REMEDY WHICH ACTS IN A NATURAL, STRENGTHENING WAY
- AND CLEANSES THE SYSTEM, WITHOUT UNPLEASANT AFTER-EFFECTS AND WITHOUT
, IRRITATING, DEBILITATING OR GRIPING, AND THEREFORE; DOES NOT INTERFERE IN ANY
WAY WITH BUSINESS OR PLEASURE. IT. IS RECOMMENDED BY MILLIONS OP WELL.
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L. Chal craft as superintendent of the
Indian school at Chemawa. Chalcraft
will be given a position In the service
elsewhere. Wadsworth comes from the
Shoshone agency, where he has taught
for 10 years.
The relief party sent December 80
by the government agent at Telegraph
Creek, B. C, to rescue Edward Ehrlich,
a 60-year-old Bohemian who had ben
reported dying from scurvy In his cabin
on Canyon Creek, has returned and re
ported finding Ehrlich dead.
Final arrangements have been made
for the construction of a large flour
mill at Springfield, Or., by Frank and
D. C. Thomas.
Freshman "rushing" and pledging by
both sororities end fraternities has
been abolished at Washington university
by the Btrlngent ni'w examination rules:
The Bully Creek irrigation project,
comprising about 30,000 acres of fine
fruit and alfalfa lands located west and
northwest of Vale, Or., has been fi
nanced at a cost of SSO0.00O.
Effects of the "silver thaw" are now
In plain evidence all over the eastern
part of Multnomah county. The dam
age has been Immense and is as yet
unmeasurable. Of 00 miles of tele
phone lines radiating from Oresham a
faw da,ys ago, not a circuit Is now In
use.
The dead body of Dr. Edwin W. Ben
nett, 65 years old, a prominent Ban
Francisco physician, was found In a
nlukelodlon by a Janitor. The body was
discovered while the police were search
ing the city for him. Heart failure Is
ascribed as the cause of death.
Jack Orvlllo, a miner at Oreano mine
In the Burke, Idaho, district, and John
Hanson, camp cook, were caught In a
bunkhouse which wad carried off its
foundation by a snowsllde and buried
many feet deep. The cook dug himself
out, but Orvllle's body was found with
the head crushed.
Foreign.
Official returns of the census taken
In France show that the population now
numbers 89,601,609, as compared with
84, 2B2, 245 In 1906. Paris now has 2,
888,110 inhabitants. In the past 40
years the population of France has In
creased only 3,600,000.
Peace In China may be secured by
the abdication of the Manchu dynasty.
This move Is said to have been decided
upon. Secret negotiations are now on,
and republicans agree to meet Yuan
Shi Kal half way.
Unless the permanent committee of
congress acts adversely upon the peti
tion of President Madere and his cabi
net, Emlltano Zapata, revolutionary
leader, and his followers, will be shot
after being given a trial on the spot
where, they were captured.
Miscellaneous.
The committee in charge of arrange
ments for the Inaugural ceremonies at
Santa Fe, New Mexico, announce that no
intoxicants will be served at any of the
festivities.
An avalanche near Java, Montana,
carried a rotary snow plow down the
mountain 200 feet. Traveling Engineer
C. B. Allen and W. F. Brullport, en
gineer on the-Ttrtary, were burlcdun
der many feet of snow and their bodies
are not yet recovered.
Charles B. Kountze, former president
of the Colorado National bank of Den
ver, left no unpaid accounts when he
died and no one has any claim against
the estate, valued at $12,000,000.
Detective V. J. Burns is named as one
of the defendants in a suit filed at
Sacramento by Ingraham Hughes ask
ing $26,000 damages for alleged Im
prisonment and defamation of character
therefrom.
In a fire which destroyed the five
story building of the McCarthy Supply
company at Reglna, Bask.', entailing a
loss of $250,000, a score of women and
children were rescued In tholr night
clothes by firemen.
The secretary of the Interior has no
tified Senator Chamberlain that he has
rejected the application of the Montana
Water Power & Electrto company for
a right of way for a reservoir, pipeline
and power service on the Fend d Oreille
river.
In spite of the movement for unlver
sal peace, the United States probably
will find Itself engaged In another war
about 19S0, aooordlng to Professor Bran-
dor Matthews, head of the department
of dramatic literature at Columbia uni
versity. Temperature records are being broken
in Montana, 20 to 80 degrees below
sere-being reported at Havre, Butte and
Helena. At Minneapolis the metscmry
registers 2$ below.
President Taft la suffering fpom a
oold and all his immediate engagements
are canceled.
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