EX. STAR EDITORIALS.
allowed to escape, Governor I ennoyer
wouldn’t have to stand the llm ie of
C ottage (¡rove Echo-Leader: Lane daip ning so many.
county farm landa would double in val
ue in tw enty-four m onths with a good
HIS CA SE WAS SE TT LED .
system of roads.
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Tillam ook Adcocate: It is now the
opinion of the press generally th a t there
SVARVERUD & Co.
W HO LESALE A N D R E T A IL D E A L E R S IN
It T ook a Oood Many Year». B u t In th e
End H e Was N o t l u r e w arded.
I never knew w hen th e accident hap-
i t w as on the books of th e rail-
„ in be no ex.ru « - i o n . Theden.oe-r...
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are not anxious for it and repiWdicans
Well, let th a t go over an o th er
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year
” were his in stru ctio n s to me
are decidedly against it.
w henever I would re fe r to th e m a tte r
Hie M ontesano Vidette contains the
to h o b b ^ 'i n th e office
MPLEMENTS.
following: A V erm ont editor has com
menced w riting obituary notices of some
of its delin q u en ts—not having been able
to hear from them . They liaife come to
about once in six m onths and ask about
the case. He had lost his leg in a
smash-up. and had been promised,
again and again, a fte r th e fashion of
corporations, th a t his case wou.d be
I settled.
life wonderfully qujck.
■ “ In a little w hile now," would be
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the law y er’s words, “ we will be g ettin g
Corvallis Gazette: If the next legisia-
legis a- | y OUr“ease; you m ust be p atient,
atien t you
tu re does not rqpcal the mortgage tax know; th ere are so m any ahead of 3 on
Y ear a fte r y ear every six m onths
law Isfore another two years roll around,
the old fellow used to come dow n to
the taxes of this state will he paid by the city to see if we w ere ready to
the sm all property holders.
'1 he settle.
“ We are no* liable; h u t we w ill do
w ealthy men and heavy property hol som ething for you,” would be his g re e t
ders will practically pay no taxes.
ing from tlie astu te railroad attorney.
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One day lie hobbled into the g eneral
Regarding the division of Lam- county oflleoa, and declared th a t lie would not
, leave un less he was atten d ed to.
the H arrisburg Courier states: '1 he peo-
«.Your claim is for tw o h u n d red th o u -
plo of Ju n ctio n are endeavoring to form sand d o llars?” asked the law yer,
a new county out of a slice of Lane, to
u . every decislon of the
which they propose adding a piece of courts has been agiu you; it is now nine
Linn am i a corner from Renton. The y ears since you told me you would se t
tle. My wife has died.
Poor soul, 1
Jieople from H arrisburg, however, do t |loUk,ilt some of the m oney would do
All the old neighbors I had
not favor the plans proposed by the lu-r good.
are dead and gone. T he boys has
gentlem en from across the river.
groived up. L ig b tn in ’ stru ck tlifi barn.
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Fire sw ept aw ay all I had. Jim , my
From the Brownsville Timen:
favorite son, w ent dow n w ith liq u o r.”
eeutly D. W. Langdon, of A lbany, 1 “ We will settle," said th e law yer,
shipped ten Mongolian pheasants to kindly, “ but you m ust be p atien t. ”
And the y ears sw ept by; and th e
some gentlem an in New \ o r k c i t y , who iaWy,.r him self w en t to his rew ard ,
owns large tracts of land in th e Em pire The rand changed h a n d -, w as sold un-
. . . u . in r o c ,p
. i . o . l . , l.-tl.T w 1 in :1 d , d N()w
er u m ortgage, and
as reo , rg
d.
lie
t | ,(. w ph|e,.s
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states that they are doing well, and th a t ones. A n ew er life and a n ew er gener-
u hill will he introduced in the state ation held sw ay.
They said the claim w as to he settled.
legislature protecting them for a num-
Yes'
her of years.
Well, th a t fn nernl you ju s t saw pass-
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ing th e door from th e county |x>or mrin
was th e la s t of e a rth for old Abner
R egarding a llsh ladder at Oregon ( ity, Cok.s wh(> Hv(,tl and (lie(, w ith o u t jn s.
the HVsf Side sa y s . The dem and for a tice betw een m an and m ail.—N. Y. Re
lish ladder, properly constructed, to si- cor‘'c r-
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low the llsh to pass the falls of th e W ill
P E R S O N A L M EN TION .
amette at Oregon City is as great as ever,
1 . 1 and 1 . S ilas
and iN'titmns are being circulated
, M at . . i . . ock recently
.. unexpected-
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ly r e tu r n e d to lu s m o th e r a .(»m e in
largely signed, asking the coming legis- Philadelphia, a fte r an absence of thirty
lature to appropriate money for its con- Years,
I ttoMAs N elson P age , th e editor of
structiou. There are hundreds of miles
of tin- very finest of spaw ning grounds in
. ia r p e r 'a M o n th ly , c a n te ll fro m a m an ’s
peecli w h a t p a r t of the country he hails
the many stream a em ptying into th e from.
S ;cm rvttv E ostku is th e thirty-first
W illam ett that should Is- made easy of .«• re t.irv o f : '.ate, a n d six of his thirty
access to tin* thousands of salmon e n te r »redecc «»rs became p resid en t—JelTer-
ing the Columbia river. A tisli ladder ■ >.i. Mailis >n, Monro«*. Jo h n Quincy
would do it.
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Discussing the question of convict la
bor on highw ays, th e Rogue River
< >>ion-r s a y s : Various pa|»ers in Oregon
are favoring the working of th e roads by
|tcuitttiiliary prisoners. It is tru e th a t
Oregon has lots to do in tin* wav of road
m aking, hut her forests are thick and
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woiild
atlord line opportunities
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e-w ti|s< of crim inals. If it would take as
niany guards as it iloea prisoners it
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Urottoi: (’. (¡nr.N,,whose death <x‘-
•urre,’. at C h a rle s to n . S. ( ’., a few days
er<>. w: s the engineer of th e Monitor
' hen she had h er famous light w ith the
M err'in ac, nnd w as o n e o f th e six teen
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urvivors who were rescued by the
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T H E P E O P L E ’S T R A D E ?
•citli c en tu ry .” T h is is the inserip-
i, 11 noon a s ilv e r tro w e l used in laying
he «orner to n e o f a c h u rc h a t W ayne,
p e n ite n tiary is g ettin g crew.led to its
A woman is ,,n exhibition in \\>w
full capacity, alll ougii the last legisia- ' ” ’"E ' '
’’'R'ht feet six inches high,
tu re had c e ll, built lot two hundred and h e r,
' £ ¿lil and w c U t ^ n ^
c mid be brought out ou Ihv toads and I
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EU G EN E.
\d a m a , \ an B uren a n d B u c h a n a n .
UpoitoK W. ( ini.os has been called
¡he “ AI miu Ben Adhcm of the nine-
would la* b etter to pay th e guards to
VI •¡■•’KITi a foot In diam eter fell
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work th e road» ami keep th e convict?
1 ingston
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inside th e “ dead lin e” of the penitcn-
Tut; new Mormon tem ple at Salt
tiary . There is however an o th er alarm- ' “ ke t ity w ill In« ejx-mxl April (I, ist>:{.
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H has l«cen in course of erection
ing phase in thia prison question. The forly y c a tx nm, hju o>st
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lifty more hourtlera.
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