TTFTTH "W E S T . ' 0UR SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY. WASHINGTON LETTER. SOM tlninu should have control of the transport. “ No, indeed,” was his prompt and emphatic reply. “Theu you think the , llrra ld P lM e m ln *» " There is an old established saying that army should have control of them?” j blood will tell, which lias considerable asked Col Denhy. “Absolutely," was the thoughts of the people. the answer. “ While they are acting ; a ll0‘1' 0,1 On the line of an argument on that sub- together 7” queried Col Denby. “They ' I, e-Demo. rut very «puy aptly " sacs , „ , r- ' icct tho Glolie-Bemot ■».* won t act togetner, answered Gen i J ' 11 . . 11 lin t th e I, lea that the material ami mo. I.awlon; “ that is where I make iny t,iat t,le . . . . . . | ul condition of the people is largely u> point; two men cannot command the , . . Gen U w ton’s declaration I ">*>" ethnology ethnology .. gaining same affair.” that the army and navy won’t act | ^ouud throughout the world, It .-o h - won’t a ct, - army .... served that Spain, Italy, Portugal * ’ ■ together may he a little too sweeping, p 1” “ , , ,, • i i . .1 . l i i Frame are in trouble of various sorts, but there is little doubt that they did j r 11 / i , . . ,i i ,i o while a large measure of prosper.!)' pre­ fall to act together during the Santiago * • vails in England, Germany nml the campaign. ' United S'ates. as well ns in Holland. The four countries first mentioned lx - • long to the Latin family, while the others are, in general, of the Teutonic (stock. The fact thnt England, Germany, (ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.) Fault oca keijuu a G o «>£ s ."02> dest . We have the pleasure ci chronicling another triumph of the shipbuilders art l by the launching of another fine veeeel W ash . D 0 , Nov. 7th 1898 To break off the ja-aee negotiations is F iorxsj - s , I . k x t . C iU 'K T T , O regon in the waters of the great Siuslaw. This vessel, the fifth that has been built the very thing Spain does not desire to - • - BV • ci) this river and designed for ocean do. Tlist was made fully apparent in commerce was christened tlie Lucila the answer of the Spanish commission­ mid she is the largest and by far tlie ers, declining to consent to our demand lx*st vessel among tlie nmnlier. fur the whole of the Philipines. Spain E d ito r mid Prop rieto r. The first vessel built here was con­ wishes to get ns much money ns it pos­ structed at Acme in 1888 by Captain sibly ■ an from us, for the Philippines, Florence, Or, N ov. 18, 1898. Jorgensen of San Francisco ami was and if the negotiations are broken off, With Seasonable Goods, and as usual of I chlistened tlie Acme, After a career of it would not gut a cent, while we would OUR MAIL SERVICE AGAIN. two or throe years on the ocean the get the Philippines just ns surely as we first class quality. “OUR AIM:“ to Sell Acme was w recked on the coast of north­ would if the treaty was regularly conclu­ We are informed that a temporary ern California. A year or two after­ ded. There are good reasons for the be­ First Class Articles at Most Reasonable Í arrangement lias been made with Eli ward a schooner was built at Hose Hill lief that Spain would object most decid­ Bangs by which three round trips PRICES. l, t r ; by Hkog A Ifanscn and named the edly if our commissioners should with­ week will be niado with the mail be­ * Moonlight, Thu builders sold this draw their demand for tlie Philippines, tween Eugne mid Mapleton, As far ns ! j Holland and the United States are in vessel in a short lime and since then which they are not likely to do, and we can ascertain the Kentucky party hut little is known by us ot her history. When I'm a man is the poetry of ' advance of France, Italy, Spain and substitute a proposition that the islands who has the contract for this route haa There was a rehooner called the Moon­ should be returned to Spanish control. youth. When I was young is tlie poetry Portugal in most of the elements which of old age. alone nothing to get another carrier constitutes the greatness of peoples is so light wrecked on thu coast of Alaska One of tlium is thnt n , eturn to Spanish since Potter L llfe was « refutation of the notion that (inished site will he loaded with lumlier Nov. 22ml, he cabled to the war depart­ n> v;i > c t . . I I rance was a poor colonizer. But the w I t covi.ua ' t have been done licttcr” and taken to San Francisco, there to ment, setting forth the danger there is the opinion of everyone who whs J ,« o v .r ,o l,„ klJ„ y .............. .. ci « '.l-H«, he fitted up with machinery from the would be if U S troops were not on hand present and saw the launching of the to occupy lioth plates the minute tlie bladder speenhst, and is easy to net at ,i , 1 as one ot Fulton Iron Works. The total cost . , ™ / . ........... g e tl,t, «he greatest figures in me early history I.uella Monday. All the arrangements Spaniards leave, unil asking that steps any drug store for fifty when completed will be about *33,000. cents or one of tbe American continent. He was a •were perfect and there was not the Captain Higgins who hns been in lie taken to avoid trouble by sending U dollar. good soldier, an intrepid and successful .smallest obstacle in the way to mar the To prove its wonderful merits vou can ¿ n . , ......... , , 8™ iU' Florence for several months past will S troops at once. The war department .success of tho undertaking. have a sample bottle and book' telling . a" ^ “‘»"«‘rator, but Inis issued the necessary orders, and our take command of her as soon us sitéis ready to load. She was designed espee boys will be there ready to take charge n ..il. Kindly T„ . W’„ t J , ‘ T im c tT V coHucil of Grams Pass -w hen the Spaniards march out. Al­ ially for the lumber trade and will be is considering nu ordinance wlu'ro- ............. .... “ though not given out officially, the - n d your . I d , , . . „ Dr Kihur, A Co. ™ ’? “‘ “ | * * ? T tl,08e “»• «’«Prem- ,t»y the different occupations are to able to carry many million feet to danger feareti by General Wade, is Binghamton, N Y. _______ I ac’' ,n Njrth America there were only! tbe taxed a given rum of .money annually market in tho course of a year. that the towns might lie occupied by Every stick of timber used in building about 80,000 white men in the French in order to do business. Tuc object of Cuban insurgents who might make GOV. THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION . of the tax is to raise n revenue for the tlie I.uella is of the best quality and put region oi the continent, while in tlie much trouble, unless our troops are .city. All occwjtstions are to he taxed i together by first class workmen. Sup­ there to forestall them. Following ia the full text of Governor Thistren en l"1^ JlCr° Wt‘rc 1’a00’000* (in amounts from *2.50 Io *25 per year erintendent Peterson who has been a There is very little doubt that ex- f ^ ’s Thanksgiving Proclamation for ,and is what g a ^ h e ^ r , ' : for permanent ruoulcnts, while opticians ship builder for thirty years or more Secretary John Sherm,in's mind is be­ are taaed *2.50jind travelling physicians says that he never worked on a vessel ^ - - ‘¡-D epartm ent, Sa.em, Ore., e x itin ' M l ' ° coming a little Highly. The old gentle­ which was constructed of better lumber , and traveling deutaiW*IO ]>er day. - - nutubeii. Nov. 7th.—In recognition of tlie many man got lost the other day in tho state, throughout than wng used for the -g a g. iaw'_». j , . —» war and navy department building, blessings vouchsafed to Ltlella. T hk arfCNT granting of a concession J. w . CARM AN with which lie ought to be as familiar the giver of all good, I, An examination of the Ltlella will ^ .r u o r o n ,.. « . . . orryuu. ! F r .n r X X •by Nicaragua to private -parties may as witli his own residence, and had to be cqnvi-ice anyone that the claim that further oomphcsle the huilRug of the with established usage, do still He is as poor a colonizer as ho has been made for years past that piloted to one of the entrances by a accordance 1 1 * . ° inn’« » colonizer an lin , canal, and prompt action ly congress hereby messenger. shy designate Thursday the 24th wa" Cl,amPlain’s day, ns is shown b as good timber for ship-Luilding grows d*jr of November, 1898, to lie observed the records of the French colonies in ^aeaiue imperative. Tliyre can fee no in tlie -Siuslaw valley as can he found Lieut Hobson, who is in Washington, this i, 0„,y onc o( doubt that the demand for tbe conekuc- any whet« on this coast, is true. — - But ........omy one of could scarcely restrain his tears when ns a day of thnnksgiving. On that day Asia and Africa. which the Latinrnce is tioa of t|*e interoueefiie copal lae received tlie news of tlio I recommend that tho people abstain tlle pHrli,;l,,ar8 ln which the Latinrnce is Building this vessel has furnished he government ia voiced by .almost ouc en­ employment .to a large crew of men sinking during a storm, of the Ma­ from secular employments, and devote in‘erior to the "orld-conquering Anglo- tire population, ,wlw have seen in tho during the summer and fall and caused rin Teresa, the Spanish cruiser he raised it to religious ob-ervancts, to charitable Saxton people, past year stpocgvr proofs of its meed .iiltrn y thousand dollara to he expended while on its way to New York. Many acts, and sympathy with the sorrowing, than ever liefore. President McKinley berg. Already tlitre ia considerable regrets have been expressed by others, to the pleasures and hospitality and S trong, steady nerves in his furtltcomuig message will strongly lalKiP building another vessel here next especially naval officers. social recreation, to tho cultivation of A re needed for success urge iipnudkate action to the premises, There is a pointer in a portion of the patriotic sentiments, and profound year and a e hope the time is not far E veryw here. Nerves .which it is to lie Imped, wiU lie taken testimony of General Lawton that resjwct for law and order, and to the distant whin shipbuilding will become D epend simply, solely, -The canal is a aiettyr of national inyxir- should not 1» overlooked by those who remembrance of our bravo soldiers, •^VHUAlWUt industry in Florence and tance. and tl>e,question of parly politics who * »r*.«™ upheld >*w the uonori honor - and ...... dead, —i — U pon the blood seek for reasonable explanations of nu­ . living . should cut.no figure in pnom ng U m * nec- afford steady employment to a large merous things connected with the cam of our ling and maintained the prestige E u re , rich, nourishing .esaarv legislation . which will start tho numlier «Í ytsp. paign against Santiago. It will be re­ of American arms. Blood feeds th e nerves jprojecl in.* kupi»cM-lilte nisuiKr, under “ Witnesa my hand and the seal of membered that it had already been stat­ A n d m akes them strong. — s g v s a ti SKI ..rv->MTHY raa m ia . in contrd of tlie general government.— • M W j- i la s T l« ie 1.1 o f -------- tlie v . naval officer the state of Oregon at the capitol in ni^nsp in th e ir own ed in the testimony ------. ........ ............111 l l i v i v;. r O r W Lv.iee»» II ' a .v w .1 n tk-1 i o * . r l i v I li . . . i . ... T h e g reat nerve tonic is Tacoma Ledger. who bad charge of the debarkation of 8 dem, this 7th day of November, A D TT 1898. fiu*. k . «il.,/, Wgi,ii|1hK, '»;j " 'la'icn-iice*.""vS ’ Brm.v» >I>*1 the troop« never H o o d ’s Sarsaparilla, '?l«w l*lL\’.<>liilu* i —_1 1 . . . . a a • . . "l.iM* antt a i liw u i j hruiim .1 ,1 eiuviuiM- A-jUG GUARANTEE. "W illiam P Loan, uvrtx ti i would nave been landed from tho trans­ because it m akes ■ k . 11 m , I ' t . - . t , , u i L Governor.” ports had the navy not gone to the T h e blood rich and ¡JSzcbauxe I »yxivx aMicHwa. iviarwHsax assistance of tlie army officer« in com­ "H R K incaid , P ure, giving it pow er A P o rtla n d » * |>.jwr ~ks « « U M » H K Ä S S t W Ä Ä S ’Ä Secretary of state.” mand. Nearly every naval officer who aurani*« W y * a r ’sd ay. Tlær« w I.Kle «la»U but be under Lbe navy, as they are under tuition in the Holmes BurineM College C ures nervousness, »»hat tiw amount will be rai^.l, large iw ¿ît" „ thëisüm Manila MMinii' h ",»* I—.. ------ . . . ,Mdiiig - the British «ystem. Gol Denby, of the ° f D-rtland. This is one of the I------------ _ _ . . . I t r l l i a f i i ) .a f i o * l « t o a l a . ) D yspepsia, rheum atism , B r lm tu l .«? iir ix l« » ) p jc iii» * . l u . k ' r i i x by - A house and lot jn r i ____ — _____ - h ._____ U ^ l t l » b.™ fi"ie nL*u.*xr»pl»«- in, il„. ..H,, laie» lank . ™ , . . , . « .. , bl,,inM» college, on the coast, having The C atarrh, scrofula. " p have made arramremei English, Commercial, 8borthand unlike Id««, a. to ti e true raine of Ä Ä vd thu exanain|f in height. Also which we will furnish the ' A n d all forms of offer on rem ises r " R00d woo avaav ratnar MoaxtKoe W. ÍT. WEATIIERSON IS NOW FILLED Literarv. * ............. * We carry no shop-worn, oi Auction Goods of any kind, Some of the latest arrivals are Hats and C ap s, Boots and Shoes, Oiled C lothing and Rubber Goods, Hardware, Crockery and Glassware, Dry Goods, and Fancy Articles, which must be seen to be appreciated. In fact, if there is anything you requi that a merchant can supply, call on Y o u r s T ru ily 0. W. HURD. C A R M A N ’S CHEAP CASH STOKE! Drv Goods, * Croceries * and ★ Notior . FLORENCE , MEAT MARKET. 'Just O pened. Goods as Reoresentei PROPRE 1 hp^C T IG 9