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A
QUEER
give all possible su p p o rt to such a c raft.
MANEUVER.
TiiKf State Senate meets a t Salem next
Monday, Jan u a ry 9th.
uprising.
As Ax indication «1 the exodus from
Canada to the C nited States, it i«t re
tw enty-seven days out from San Fran-
A correspondent of th e Oregon « ta ti
«¡»co to th is „ u c e . «bowed up in th e Jo u r|m ,
,,s (ollow9:
!
>*«‘ * •' ported that 1000 persons have left K ing's
offing Saturday m orning. She stood off«
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WO,000 in wages, and thirty-five deaths county, Nova Scotia, for the
A great deal can be said on th e subject :
to th e northw ard t foi several hours of cou„ ty division both pro and con. «!■ have been indirectly due to the move- States this fall, ami th a t the exu.hrs still
ment.
goes on. The same condition oft affairs
aw aiting the arrival of tug L illian, but, J .g mon) thftn Hke|y tb a t our senators aud i
th e boat not coming, she concluded
| representafives> or Rt least a m ajority 9Ì I S;;yi;ijAi, m atters of im portance to the is observable in Quebec ami O ntario.
sail in w ithout her assistance, which she th em , would not be in favor of such ja ! Hnslaw will Come before th is session of At this rate it is surprising thn^ so m any
1 are still left in tb a t eountrv who favor
ventured to do after the tide had ebbed division as proposed by th e C ottage th « legislature, among which are the!*
The
sailing
schooner
Free
Trade,
COUNTY DIVISION.
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I t xo ' v transpires th a t the strikers a t
for two and one-half hours. A fair ¡ Grove coillinim>e. I t would leave Lane
breeze brought the vessel inside the first
.
,
. e.,,:n pvtpnd-
countv in a long, n a rro w s t u n , e x ie u u
line of breakers, when it suddenly died :
thp
|(> lhtf 81„ u in it of
out, and the vessel helplessly drifted i
niountain8< l t ¡8 ap p aren t
p ast the m outh of th e channel and ’ Umt ¡f th e re ¡H any ¡„convenience in
j bil1« incorporating Florence,establishing
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l,atchery at th e 1 lead of 'fide, uml
u-«
the county division tow nsite speculative
| annexation.
a ,,'“ ' x‘ir,on- There
‘ «»» '*' » are enough Cana*
i diana ,n the 1 ntted sta te s to give th e
1 annexation party a large m ajority were
fsjhemes of property owners in Cottage they still living in the land of th eir
birth. The best blood aud sinew of th e
Grove and Junction City.
Dominion lias been coming across th e
struck on th e ocean beach, w here she j reaching th e eounty 's eat it is to th e re s - ,
AV iiat a pity it is th a t the W etmore line for years a u d it would be only in
had to stay till the tide flooded, and j(je n j s of ^he eagj a n d west ends of t h e j 4 j(j j,ot strike on the beach near the
thc natural order of events to have this
th e re she was when the Lillian w ent for county and no t to th e residents of C ot- Great Siuslaw instead of a t Coos hay.
absorption of C an ad a's population fol
h e r a t 1- o < lock Satuiday n ig h t. (
blge Grove. A b etter plan, and one th a t Had sbe bee„ fortunate enough to
lowed bv annexation.
course C aptain Johnson could not go to
beneflt a nH)ch lat.ger nninbei>t
, by
A mi i to e s ta b lis h t h e m itio iia f floral
h er where she lay, so he returned to th e 1 wonh, b(j tQ take th c w estcm p art of
example of th e F iv e Trade, all she would
emblem of the U nited S tates of Am erica
.lock a t Florence. N ext m orning, when , , a „ 0 ant, Dougla8 an4 forin iV new
have had to do woukl have been to w ait
was introduced in the house of represen
th e tug returned to th e m outh of the county on ttie coast. This would be till the tide was in and get. off again.
i
tatives a few .lavs ago by Mr. B utler of
river, th e Free trade lay a t a n ch o r a b etter for all th e people west of the
X w u . i - ajiette valley farm er, w riting Iowa. The bill nam es th e “ pansy, called
little below the governm ent works on Coast m ountains, be more accessible,
he Oregonian, says: “ The gran g er also th e garden violet, h eartsease,” etc
th e opposite side of th e river, o u t of all and nearer, and a t th e sam e tim e would
possible danger of th e worst storm s. leave Lane and Douglas counties in bet itjf611 verted to the ‘d o x y ’ th a t tax atio n as th is em blem , and nam es as th e senti
At the point w here th e south channel te r shape th a n a t present. So far as ojpredits and deduction of indebtedness m ents expressed in connection therew ith
crosses the bar it runs a little east of taxes are concerned, they are b u t a drop is«^ut good for h im .’’ Since the granger “ justice, lib erty , union, cu ltu re and
n o rth , makes nearly a square tu rn to in th e bucket com pared w ith w hat they in® come to this conclusion, th ere ought peace,” th e last three words to co n stitu te
th e east and comes in to th e south again, would»bc in th e proposed county of ^Min tol>e no difficulty in getting a ratio n al the m otto. It is provided th a t th e In
,• L. 1 < m .: through th e leghdater^. auguration of this . mbluHi a h ^ ^frw fV-
bringing th e point in th.e river which eral with th e ir share of th e county d
t a im
b lin d i. I c c l e b i a t v 1
X«13 in
h e 4'-«, Trade « ra ip ie d
« Béant»«.,.'!:
e ast of th e position in which she l»y ' an),
.„ „ ¡„ t.in in g a c un.. - fifeT aim oÎacïSai boodle w.*. ■
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ited in th e U nited States. Its effect! fair There can he no serious objection
on the ocean beach. The in terv en in g
governm ent and erection of county
to this legislation, since th e llower chos
space being occupied by a long stretch
In respect to tax atio n , they was a p p aren t at the tim e. All the sup-
buildings
of sand, and there being no w ind, there arc much b etter off now th an if they uji l'UI’t th e «'■»‘m«' got in this country en is a general, if not a universal favor
ite, and the sen tim en t expressed in con
is considerable conjecture as to how the dertook to run a county them selves.
was paid for.
It is cer.ain th a t a
nection with it as a national em blem is
fortunate vessel arrived so safely in the
* ¿ood m any men of supposed inilu-
A REMONSTRANCE.
h arbor from the ocean beach w ithout
eue. w ere u.
" e n g a g e d ,' ’ and possibly worthy of thc republic. W hile the m a t
ter is not one of any g re a t im portance, it
A kemoxstkaxck p etition, which will Some n e w s p a p e rs .
th e assistance of a tug.
is one th a t touches th e ideal life of the
W hile this accident resulted in n o th be found mi our local page, has been cir
Tin: w orld’s fair com m ittee of the n a
people pleasantly, aud in th is view is
ing serious to the vessel in question, culated th ro u g h o u t th e county th is w«*ek
tional house of representatives will give
worthy oi encouragem ent.—O regonian.
and also proved th a t we have one of the and generally signed, asking th e legisla
hearings upon th e question of opening
safest harbors on the coast (for w here is tu re to discountenance th e efforts of a
I r has been dem onstrated in regard to
i the fair on Sundays from Jan u a ry 10 to
th e re an o th er bar where such a feat num ber of tow nsite boomers to have
’ 13 inclusive, after which the m atter will the nondescript t craft know n as th e
as thc above can he perform ed w ithout two new counties created from p arts of
be subm itted to the house lor linnl set “ w h alfb ack s,” th a t they are th e ,m o s t
resulting disastrously), it em phatically Lane and the adjoining counties of Linn,
tlem ent. Unless th e S ab b atarian s can difficult vessels to wreck th a t have ever
suggests th e im perative dem ands of th e , Benton and Douglas.
Should these
again make the worst* ap p ear th e better been devised. The p o pularity of these
G reat Siuslaw river tor a tug of suf- people succeed in th e ir efforts, old Lane:
reason to the satisfaction of a m ajority vessels on th e G reat Lakes, th a t are
ticieut capacity to bring in vessels a t would be a narrow strip of te rrito ry 140,
, ,
, ,
. | of th e members of th a t body, common wont to h andle shipping w ith exceeding
any tim e safely. Such a boat would be , miles long by about 26 or 30 miles in I
.
.
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1 sense, justice and national courtesy may roughness a t tim es, is dem onstrated by
of heneiif to the river in more ways th an w idth. T he already over-burdened tax-
yet prevail and the grounds of th e great the fact th a t of th e tw enty-seven now
th is. It would enable our m erchants to ; pavers, of course, would hear th e ex- expo»itiun 1« throw n open In vi.ito ra i u " " a t » >'"U'>SV »"> «"k«g«d in l»k«
secure a reasonable rate of insiianrce on penses, for every property ow ner in the ................. ..
d ie week in w in d ,
A w bulol,.ek «14000 to n . i. now
m erchandise shipped to th is point. Sail-1 county would have his tuxes increased lln ,nra.nl» ,,f people , nn enjoy 11» m lv n n -!
,o r
c<Mrt
1
ing schooners for tiiis place are unable heavily in order to support the e x tra ex-
compiiny being in no wise discouraged
t.o secure any insurance a t all, which is pense which would be throw n upon
by th e rough-and-tum ble career of tlm
T
he
Chicago
Herald
says:
N
ewspajsT
a co n stan t menace to those receiving _ them by th e w ithdraw ing of such por-
W etmore in th is service. Several whale-
rum ors of the im m ense crowds of people i
m erchaudise by this means. It would lions of th e heavy tax-paying districts
hacks are also in course of construction
already
coming
to
Chicago,
as
th
e
a
d
-'
increase our lum bering trade by causing . from Lane county. I«et every one who
for th e C hina und South American
vance
guutd
of
th
e
w
orld's
fair
visitors,
cap italists to settle here and develop has the best in terests of the county and
trade, it )s*ing estim ated th a t in all
th a t im p o r'a n t industry. It would he them selves a t h eart sign th is |>etitioii a t , seem to have incited all th e .•hisses of th irty of these vessels will l»e added t<»
an inducem ent to congress to give us « 'o n c e . It can be found a t the store ol crim inals who ply th. ir so tatio n in j
|nyrc,lgf,j „m riim d u rin g the coming
tnges.
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much larger appropriation for th e im- M eyer A K yle, Florence. If th ere is no cro1 Is to come here and make this city
\v |lut|,e r th e whaleback is tho
pr .veinent of th e bar than it otherw ise ! imtition Iwing circulated in your h* aH -, th e ir headquarters and th e * <me of th eir | ^ m in g - j|jp ()( co|nm erce o r not( ¡t ¡H
r ty,
i nan,*
iiihh I i.n
nr lfipfil
tf(*. PXII
lot t S. The
ItlC tl'alll
ls III .* I . , pro|w
a b,(, 1|lJlt . . tb I e itim
., e is not far d istan t
copy II,,»
the nun
one I found
on n our
local l»M
page,
exploits.
tram p P . Illllllia
........-.n
# modification ot th e type of vw -
But w hat is the use of enum erating have every one interested to sign it, and | tu rn in g to th e ir w inter cam paign o f ,
t j iat |ulV(, Cttt r jel| t j,„ world’s c o in -
th e m any m atters of im,»ortance con forward as s »011 as possible to th e legia-’ crim e. There arc a g reater num ber
laturc,
iu
care
of
some
one
interested
in
j
stre
et
crim
es
and
o
th
e
r
crim
es
th
a
n
1,1
,
tI1(!rfie
frolll t j me im m em orial may bo
nected with such an enterprise.’ Ml
who know an y th in g of the case will defeating this flagrant tow n-site boom- I ordinary q u iet periods ol m unicipal bis- expected.—< irogonian.______
readily agree with th e above facts, and ing schem e, or to th e postoffice at ilo r - tory. M idi causes as th e s e und others
we lielieve m ost of them would w¡Kingly ' ence, Oregon.
®re at the source of th e present crim inal 1^- Send T he W est to your friend«.
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