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About The West. (Florence, Lane County, Or.) 1890-1921 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1892)
J, V()l. 3. tloreuec, Lane County, Oregon, KHday. N„ranber 2- No. 32. 1CCOBDIXG to th e new B ritish postal ane and a thickly settled part of the state , , ,f’ tlu> te" n *8» a gone into the business of landlord. It regulations a foreign le tte r m ay be of from W ashington to Idaho. Im agine, if » asnre oon.plnnentary. The homely | will let ea.up sites af five acres each in v weight but m ust n o t exceed two you can, the “ cussin’ ” Spokane people jeet in length or one foot in b read th or will do should this thing come about. X 1 is the one endowed with all domt es- the Adriondacks for from $25 to $150 a tic virtues. She is the one that a in an year. They don t like Idaho nohow, but to depth. _ _ _______ ._______ would desire for a wife. A quiet little Twenty-four west-hound freight H ere is a little te x t th a t is applicable have their pet city pushed over the line creature, delighting in the control of /1 trains, loaded with wheat, passed thro in almost any co m m u n ity : If th e tim e and made a part of the Pan H andle will vants tho 'ants, the intricacies of household m a r-! vi n n • . . used in gossip were tu rn e d to kind deeds, „ be the last straw, and the . falls of Spok- feting, and the mild dissipations belong ■ 1 he Dalles in one dnv last week. Every etlort. is being made to get this season's loam, yea verily, oven more big to a quiet neighborhood. verv few people would com plain about She is a crops to tide water. than they did when Jim Hill threatened borne body in overy sense of the w on!; ,he doings of th eir neighbors. to pass them by several miles to th e S ir \\ ii . ham | | cn ran, an authority om one of those cozy little women, with soft, EcRorE, with h er g re a t m o rtality , north with the Great Northern railroad. plump cheeks, smooth hair, and rounded Indian statistics, says that if the Chris knows no such trem endous loss of life tians continue to increase in India at H ere is a man a few of which th e outlines, that a man always imagines us among railroad men as th is country to l | the ratio ut which they have increased erates. So frightful h as been th e m or L nited States ought to have to count on sitting opposite him at the table or in the past, C hristianity will in one tality in this country—a w ar killing a n in m aking up the grand total of our law «bending over a bit of sewing in the mel hundred years’ time he the doiuinunt nually so many m en w ould be regarded m akers: John Burns, member of th e low lamplight. If we want to tell a religion there. as a great calam ity—th a t public senti British Parliam ent, is bound to out a Biiton that a girl is not good-looking, E at men are in demand in lxmdoii as ment finally dem ands th a t th e slaughter great figure in Parliam ent, to which be we must not say that she is homely, hut advertising mediums. They wear cloth has been elected as a representative of plain or ugly. cease. ing on which spaces me arranged for labor. He is living within the lim it of O n the .'¡Olli of November a national A n attempt is being m ade by some various advertisem ents, and thus arrayed $500 a year, and he will not take a penny Nicaragua canal convention will assem they parade tiie streets. On their caps fashionable jewellers in th e east to pop more. This income of his is made up ble in New Orleans, and Governor Fos they liear the inscription: “ Spaces to la» ularize the “ h u sb an d ’s rin g ,” a golden from individual subscriptions of two ter, of Louisiana, has invited the gov let on sixty m en .” circlet of a peculiar p a tte rn , w hich de cents, willingly contributed by those on ernor of each state to appoint delegates notes that the w earer has entered into O n O ctober 13 at St. Andrews fur the behalf of whom he toils. He fixed th e tQ the convention. There is no question the bonds of holy m a trim o n y . I t wont lu st time in the history of the oldest of am ount himself, it being the equivalent now before the American |H*oplu of more the Scottish U niversities, lady students work. We d o n ’t know ju s t w hy, but of his yearly earnings before he became interest to the citiaena of Oregon than took part with tiie male students in the men as a class are n o t prone to th u s ad an agitator. that of the construction of the Nicaragua opening exam inations. There was a vertise themselves. T he gypsy moth furnishes an instance canal under the auspices of the national much larger num ber of entrants than T wenty years ago, F ive P o in ts, New of the necessity th at some ivg.il reE+r;*» vernment. The benefit of such a any previous year, and it is uuUvipated York, was notorious as being th e most e • iOltil :>.«!»■ I' tions should be placed upon the impoi "tO ?.. i . wicked and uncontrollable .of hum ani •tw- ¿ « m i* »art > w v u,. <«. <J le purpose»/of scieiv’* nr U r re i .■fwmper freight« mi wliai we f*«-H fionaries and schoolm asters it is now’ An etomologist brought a few of these buy, reducing the cost of living and in one of the brightest an d m ost peaceable m eths from Germany to test their value By order of tiie hoard of trustees of quarters of the U n ited S tates. A few for making silk. He permitted some to creasing the price received by producers the city of Roseburg guards are now missionaries could be used to advantage escape, and it has cost the state of Mass for what they ship ahroud. We are so stationed at the eitv lim its on roads at various different points we can th in k achusetts over a hundred thousand dol- situated that we pay the freight both leading into th e city from the Coquille ways, and any reduction in the rates of of along the Pacific coast. lars already to keep tbe destructive country, with instructions to prevent transportation would lie directly to our parties coming from the smallpox in S ocialism gives evidence of increasing pests w ithin their present boundary of udvantage. The canal, also, would open fested district entering tiie city. An [ in France as well as in G erm any. The 200 square miles, over which they have up new markets for our products and ounce of prevention is worth a pound of I Socialists have recen tly carried five large spread and damaged fruit ami shade stim ulate the development of our re cure, and it is a wise policy to keep out cities and propose w herever th e y can, to trees and threatened the entire destruc sources. These are our special advaut- all persons liable to introduce th a t put in force th e ir program , “ first the tion of them . And now it is a question ages, but as citz.ens of the United States dread disease. | Commune and th e n th e S ta te .” They if the moth may not spread all over the we should also share in the benefits the T iikek is little trouble in finding a ’ant free medical tre a tm e n t, free legal country and become a permanent pest, canal would bestow upon the whole advice, free food for laborers in search of costing the farmers many millions of “ color” up in Alaska when seventy country, and the national prestige and thousand dollars’ worth of gold dust work and an eight h o u r d ay w ith m ini- dollars. commanding position it would give us was brought out over one pMss this last nmni wages fixed by law . W hen tbe I t is proven th a t it does not pay to lie commercially. The governor should not tax-payer conies to d o n a tin g for all these rich. This argum ent is fortified with fail to see th at Oregon is represented, season, and tiie diggings are so rich th a t purposes, he too w ill be strongly in- the confessions and opinions of Chimney but if lie should fail, either through neg the am ount could I ni increased tenfold i "lined to insist on h av in g a place upon M . Depew, Cyrus W. Field and Russell lect or design, either the state board of were there b etter means of truns|>nrta- tion. Every pound of provision has to the free list. Sage, and the experience of Elizabeth trade or the Portland chamber of com be carried over tiie pass on the l>acks of " hilk it may be tru e th a t our saloon Thompson, Peter Cooper, W. H. Van merce should send accredited represen Indians, who charge fifteen dollars a lepers may have stepped aside from derbilt and others. It does not pay. tatives. It would lie a mistake and a hundred for tiie carry. le path laid out for th em to follow by The thing is demonstrated and of course sail failure to look closely after our own A large num ber of the citiaeni of Ore ky, and sold un to th e noble red Indian th e average American will now look in te ie s s , to have the state unrepre sented in a convention whose object is gon have made small fortunes through at which in au g u rates in him a ghost about for something else to do beside« purchasing lands from the state at the getting rich. We have often wondered of so much importance.—Ortgonian. ‘‘ance and a desire to shoot boles in fixed price, $1.25 per sen», and sidling f'ore fronts, it m u st be allowed to why we could not make being rich a pay The Whiteson hradtr has donned a tiieni a t tiie m arket VMlue. In some ing investm ent. We have discovered '’'dually as tru e th a t all th e drunks "„’ „ k e y n o te . All tbe above, »1«« »brou.1 an,I labl i . - l . « - X «-» In cases they have received an high as $50 "i'ielj some of these people have been the well-stocked graveyard of Oregon per acre for tim ber and farming lands. ‘^olgiug in lately are n o t directly lowing in tiie lap of luxury for years, W ashington on becoming a state adopted have made th e discovery, and through journalism . ' argeable to th e saloon keeper. For A YOi'NO lady in the eastern part of the wise business plan of having ail the them we have learned why, through all 'e Promise of a d rin k , it is an easy these long years of newspaper pilgrimage,I Klam atli county made tiie shrewdest state lauds appraised ami sold only by lnatter for an In d ia n to get w hite men bet recorded thus far. Khe auction. No bid less than $10 per acre have not had just as much happtness «lection , , , , procure for him all tb e red liquor his wc ---- na wagered her hand in marriage against is received at such sales. Il is proposed Nf* can pay for. | as our gentle disposition was ac .mg all th e property owned by a certain gen- by several of our incoming legislators I t is .,;. ~ --------------, . , cultivate—wc were to» rich that Harrison would win. In 1 to enact th e W ashington law in Oregon 18 given out th a t tiie proper bound tleman a - to M J I insure IIR U ID to the state « m the u profits w on ss m the «» *rv line betw een Id ah o and W ash- W hen we s ay a girl ¡8 homely we ei th er event the young a< y i »»uu > ,afl(,g noj taken up, and from ail she is the reverse of beautiful ' is about th ir ty m iles fu rth e r west i mean th a t ,„„.times have the best of it. iudications such an act will be presented has been supposed. Should th is be , unm istakably plain, d ate of New York lias finally and become a law in January next. T he rect it would rem ove th e city of Spok- painfully so. In Englai k t bv h