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
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, 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
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*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
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