The West. (Florence, Lane County, Or.) 1890-1921, August 04, 1899, Image 2

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    MANILA IS NOW CLEAN,
A n Lxcii.hii ;• in Domingan predicts j
(lint the United Slates will eventually |
Faon ouu ueoulab CoituEbuoNDENT.
he compelled to iuterferu aud establish
Sanitary Condition* are Improved | ri. F. Chronicle
— PUBLISHED KVEUY FttlDAY XO&X1KG.—
The Alaskan bo indary affair hasd rawn
order
in tliat island as it did in Cuba.
by American Methods.
an argument from the United States
If
such
a contingency should arise, it
— AT—
Lieutenant Elierly, (lag lieutenant of
Washington, July 21, 1899.
| government wliicli exposes a weak
the Oregon u nder Captain Barker, hue
It is not difficult to understand why would he safe to predict tliat a business­
F lobkncx ,
L ank C ounty ,
O kküon
just arrived in Washington from the point in the general theory of arbitra- tiie President chose Mr. Elihu Root, ofI like understanding will he had before
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New York, an emfiient lawyer, to snej ’ tlie United States interferes in San Do­
Philippines and Irjngs some interesting
tn- eed Secretary Alger, at the h ei I of the mingo or elsewhere. The experience
details of * the situ itfon in Muiila i *88UB Ctt,1,,ut bu eaiely referred to an
Lieutenant Eberiy says ttie social aud ternationai court, our Government points war department. While this adminis- , with ’he Cubans since tlie Spaniards
sanitary conditions in Manila are bettor j out that when a claimant with a good tration. as a resnlt of tlie war with were driven out is not encouraging for
Editor aud Proprietor.
case goes before such a controversy with
than is generally believed in the United
Spain, lias had more legal questions, any repetitions.—Tacoma Ledger.
States and better titan would naturally onV " bo8L e* 50 *8 ba<f> the tendency of and more difficult ones to deal with
Florence, Ore. Aug. 4, 1899.
be supposed after such a short American the juJ«us is ,10t 10 flnd ior tbe “ an tiian usually falls to the !ot of a single
T he B boadaxe of last week contained
occupation
wlio
*° **u but t0 compromise administration, the present cabinet has an interesting description of places along
-
F lorence has a bucket brigade. ' The city’ has been cleaned on a.t i anJ give boib di8PuUnt8 «b-ething. less legal talent than almost any Pres­
the stage road between Eugene and
Nearly all summer persons who were American plan, the military authorities Mo8t urbilratio,,s
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ident’s cabinet has ever iiad. As it now Mapleton. The writer however errs on
out early liuve seen men on their way to
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aud iu cases like the present one, w here stand, Secretary Long and Attorney
engineering the work with a large force
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some points, one of them being that lie
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1 urnve isHiica are a t stake, ra n k in im
work each carrying in one hand a bucket
of Ciiiuameu ti))d friendly Filipinos gruve issues arc nt stake, rank injustice General Griggs are tiie only lawyers in gives the impression tliat there is scarc­
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containg his noonday meal. It is con­
may he done.
tho cabinet. Secretary Hay and Post­ ity of suitable material for road making.
The Cuinamen are relied on for the hea­
sidered one of the host evidences of the vy manual labor.
This kind of arbitration means that master General Smith are newspaper
While gravel is not easy to get at
prosperity of a town when it has a large
any one may invent a claim, however men; Secretary Guge and Hitchcock, are
In thia connection ho says it is a
all places there is other material to be
number of laboring men who have
favorable sign that the temper of tho j preposterious and fuel a certain degree business men, Secretary Wilson is a obtained from which good roads can be
steady employment.
i of confidence that an international practical farmer and agricultural expert.
native population has changed consider­
made. Of course it will cost something
hoard of judges will give him something Another good lawyer was needed in tlie
ably
toward
American
occupation.
to place it on the road hut by a liberal
Fon a Loxu time nd'w Oregon news­
for tlie sake of harmony. The scheme cabinet, aud President McKinley in
When
the
Oregon
arrived
in
March
the
use of tlie material to be had tlie road
papers have boon careful to inform in­
is prolific in a kind of international common with nearly everybody else,
native
population
was
dissatisfied
aud
could
be put in a much better condition
tending immigrants Unit Oregon offers
blackmail. To permit it. and especially
thinks
that
Mr.
Root
will
fill
the
bill.
in
an
ugly
humor,
even
in
the
city
itself
for
travel
in the winter than it ever lias
po inducements to immigrants without
to graft it on tlie body of international
If
public
commendation
counted
for
Cab
drivers,
hotel
keepers
and
other
been.
money. At tlie present time, however,
law, as is proposed ut tlie Hague, might
the man without means hut willing to semi-public seryantp rendered service make every nation insecure in what it anything it would he certain that Secre­
O ne good thing about tiie business
work is very uiueii in demand in this under protest and even turned down believes to he inalienable rights. In tiie tary Root would become a very popular
enterprises
recently undertaken on tlie
official,
hut
it
will
really
depend
largely
state. Farmers especially liud it almost Americana in some instances. Now, present instance who knows but that tlie
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I
river
is
that
they mean a steady and
upou
what
occurs
in
the
Philippines.
however,
they
have
found
oat
that
they
impossible to secure as many hands as
United States would have to divido sov­
permanent
addition
tlie prosperity of
If
we
win
in
ail
tlie
fighting
and
no
are
paid,
a
tliinc
they
did
not
seem
to
he
they need.—Oregon Agriculturiit.
ereignity ovei Lynn canal, despite the
scandals develop in connection with the this part of the state. In this they are
used to, and finding American official
fact that Canada lias no more claim to
Sciatica, despondency, locomotor Htax- promises carried out they accept the the place than she lias to tlie free use of army over there, everybody will sing different from a boom in whicli business
Secretary Root’s praises. But if things is pushed to an unnatural degree and
ja, paralysis, lludyan cures. All drug­ new sovereignty cheerfully.
tlie Columbia river.
go wrong in any way when there is above the ability of tlie country to sus­
The “ tin clads” patrol boats have
gists, BO cents.
The present method of determining
fighting on hand, the American people tain. It is often questioned whether n
been doing business with smugglers re­
international rigtits is crude and some­
have a habit, as old as the government, boom is of any real benefit to a place, as
T he exclusion of American fisher. cently, one patrol boat rouuding up thir­
times barbarous, hut it is at least prac­
of
holding the secretary of war respon- after it is over frequently many years
men from the Fraser river fisheries this teen “hunkers” in a siugle trip. It is
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ticable. The proposod one is pleasing
aiole,
and the new secretary will have elapse before the place recovers from its
year will heap untold losses on the can thought in a short time Aguiualdo will
to tlie poetic fancy, and is a millennial
to
take
his chances. In any event, lie is disastrous effects. Tlie most prosperous
lierymen on that stream. The run is he reduced to a supply of purely home­
refinement of the law of nations, but it
not likely to find tlie war department plates are those that have a steady
the largest ever seen there but the scare- made ammunition.
will not work in actual, every-day poii-
growth, and wiien tlie business enter­
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a bed of roses.
tty of men is bringing soirow to the
The ruins hud not started in earnest tics. That
is in a large sense the reason
Tiie President and Mrs. McKinley prises are undertaken, not for a short
dealers. Usually there aro thousands when Captain Barker and Lieutenant
y h y tiie congress of tlie Hague will not
will go to Lake Champlain this week for time hut as permanent investments.
of fishermen out, hut at present there Eberiy sailed for home, it was well un­
sanction it. Possibly the time may
an indefinite stay, depending upon Mrs. Witli one sawmill running steadily, an­
FOR A SHORT TIME
are only about 300 boats out. Of these derstood then thut the rains would cut
come when it will he adopted by common
McKinley's health, which lias been in a other to he ready for operation this fall,
only two are manned by white men; oli all trunspoytutiou except by railway,
consent, with all its imperfections tliick
very unsatisfactory condition since her tlie cannery to start up again soon, and
FOR CASH ONLY.
Italians, Japs, Chinamen, and Indians and that is given as the reason lor Law-
upon it, but we confesB to tiie fear thut
return
ftom Massachusetts,
several a contract for jetty building already let
have the rest.—Milting Uazctte.
ton abandoning Sn.i Isidro there being a
tiie process must conform to tho slowest
and work to he commenced in a few
weeks ago.
hiit swamp between it and tlie railroad
pace of evolution.
weeks, id seems as if anybody who is
Gossip
lias
it
that
tlie
President,
with
T iie mustebino out of tho Oregon Vol­ that is impassable during the rainy sea­
able
and willing to work should have no
tlie
assistance
of
Gen.
Miles
snd
Gen.
unteers at San Francisco is progressing son.
IM P R O V E D TR A IN S E R V IC E .
difficulty
to find steady .employment at
Corbin,
is
going
to
personally
direct
rapidly. Tho mustering officer lias
Tlie only animal available for trans­
military matters in tlie Philippines, good wages for some time to come.
found the record woll kept and com­ portation during tlie wet weather is tlie
EfTectiyo Feb. 12th, tiie Northern
plete The absence of fines and charges water buffalo, but the army has utilized Pacific will inaugurate double train ser­ leaving Secretary ltcot a free hand to
CARO INER NEVyS.
of court martial were commented upon this docile beast for other purposes, buy­ vice between Portland and all points handle tlie important semi-legal matters
by the mustering officer, who said the ing established a thriving vaccine farm east. Trains will leave Portland at 11:30 which are constantly coming up in con­
B y a S ubscriber .
rolls woro tho cleanest lie had ever seen. on tlie outskirts of Manila, and are reap­ a m , and U p in daily. These trains sequence of our military government of
will hotli he first clasgand fully equipped Cuba and Porto Rico. This may or may
Company after company was exam ¡nod ing a fine quality of virus from the buf­
in every respect, heated by steam
July 31, 1899.
without a fino to ho deducted irony the falo calves.
vestihuled, standard Pullman and not be true, but any plan depending
Tlie new cannery is ready for work.
upou
tlie
harmonous
workiug
together
pay of a single man. Tide shows the
tourist sleepers, dining cars and colonist
O B Hinsdale lias just returned from
nigh standing and excellent character
KIDNEY Is a deceptive disease— sleeping ears, witli through sleeping of Gen. Miles and Corbin, whose hatred Portland.
of tho regimout, which lias nt ajl times
thousands have it aud cars to Missouri River points via Bill for each oilier was one of tlie principal
Miss Maud Cornwall leaves next week
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and places won n reputation for perfect TROUBLE don’t know it. If you ings, which renders the service now factors in all of Miles’ trouble with tlie for the California State University.
discipline and faithful performance of wnnt quick results you can make no offered by the Northern Pacific un­ war department, starts witli failure
Tlie Gardiner Mill Co. tins put in a
equalled by any other transcontinental
duties.
mistake by using Ur Kilmer’s Swamp- line. The only line to the Buffalo staring it iu tlie face. Adjutant Gen. butcher shop in the rear of tlie store
building.
Root, tlie great kiduoy remedy. All Hump territory. See tliat your tickets Corbin has had tiie ear of Secretary Al­
Warren Johnson son of Chas Johnson
Louisana receives more money from druggists in fifty cent and dqiiaf $izos. read via tho Northern Pacific to all ger and of the President, aver since tlie
the federal treasury to cover tho deficit Sample hottie by mail free, also pam­ points east or south. For further Infor­ war began, and lias been oiicnly charged is in town for medical treatment having
a very had aheess on liis left leg.
in her postal revenues than she pays in
mation cull on address,
with missing no opportunity to poison
phlet telling you how to find out if you
The steamer Umpqua Is having her
R M c M uhphv ,
federal taxes or duties on imports con­
tlie minds of both of them against Gen­ new machinery placed and promises to
liavo kidney trouble. Address, Dr Kil­
General
Agent,
Eugene,
Or.
sumed by her people. She ip, therefore
eral Miles. Of course if tlie President he the smartest boat on the river.
mer & Do., Uinglinmton, N Y .
a burden on tho progressive states of the
orders Gen. Miles to join Gen. Corbin
Rev I B Ford was in town for a few
T he stock of gold in the United States
Union and enjoys advantages and con­
in conference witli him, lie will have to days last week. He held communion
I n the utterly hopeless and despairing now exceeds that of any other nrtion,
veniences from her relations to the
do it, but the spirit with which lie would service nt tlie Baptist church the 30th.
manner in which the family of tiie late tlie amount, according to a statement of
Rev Buckner who has been repre­
federal government which she does not
enter such conference might be easily
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll cling to liis the treasurer, being $975,454,000. Wlicn
senting Sunset Lodge A O U W at the
pay for. IJcr ignorant aud lawless in­
guessed.
grand lodge returned home on last Fri­
habitant* have once before onibroiled lifeless body as all that there is of lii.n tho Ixmdon Statist contemplates these
Admiral Dewey having cabled liis ap­ day’s boat.
they produce unwittingly a stronger figures it may be inclinod to revise its
the government with Italy and caused
proval of tlie plans submitted Io him,
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Quite a number of people are sojourn­
argumont in favor of tlie immortality of opinion of four years ago to tlie effect
us to pay a heavy indemnity to that
through the courtesy of Secretary Long, ing on tlie beach tliis summer as usual
the human soul than ho ever made tliat unless tlie greenbacks were prompt­
country for a brutal outrage on Italian
of Washington committee of 100 for liis among whom we see our old friend Dr
against it. This passionate clinging to ly retired nil our stock of gold would dis­
subjects. That crime lias never been
reception to Washington and tlie pre­ Kuykeadall.
the corruptible in' man disclosos a need appear. We still have the greenbacks,
Mr and Mrs E B Smith and daughter
punished. If we again have to pay tiie
sentation to him of the sword voted bjin
in humanity that logic is almost power­ aud month after month we ure adding to
Clara of San Francisco are visiting’ Mia
same foreign powor for tlie sumo species
by congress, tlie committeemen aro
less to reason away. It voices the cry our supply of tho yellow metal. Tho
Dr Patterson (nee Smith). They will
of outrage, steps must he taken by con­
of nature which no stoicism can, in the trouble with the Statist editor was his working to make tlie event a notable return on the Areata about August 8th.
gress to force tho state of I«ouianna to
one, and everybody seems disposed to
Tiie steam schooner Harrison of As­
stress of great bereavement, stifle, and iuability to foresee tlie effects of tlie res­
foot the hill and to hereafter guarantee
Help them. No exact date can be set for toria arrived with supplies for the Reed
mocks at tho cold decrees of intellect toration of protection. UaA he dreamed
protection to tho balance of the country
tlie reception yet, but inasmuch as this cannery last week. She retnrnoj to As­
liicli return an unsympathetic “ No" of tlie possibility of n favorable trade
from similar liuhilty.—.lsfuriuu.
reception is to ho a semi-official affair, toria after discharging for other su pplies
to the old question, "If a man die eligll Balance amounting to $1,530,030,000 be­
Capt A M Simpson formerly mill
participated in by tlio President and liis
lie live again?" Tlie unchristian spirit ing piled up in three years he would
owner of thjs pjacu, spent a few days in
T here is a class of |>eoplu who never
cabinet, and all the prominuut public
of Christianity is jubilant besides thia not have ventured to predict tliat Eu-
Grrdiner last week. During his stay
will admit that prosperity is present
men who happen to be in Washington, hero he was inspecting tjmber in our vi­
hopeless bier, but the widely prevalent ropo could draw gold from ns without
anywhere.. These people live iu a
emotion tliat respects honest belief oven paying dearly for the privilege.—Herald at the time, a strong effort will be made cinity : — for what purpose we aro a t '
chronic stato of “hard times,” and
to get tho admiral to come direct to present unable to say.
J. w . C A R M A N
though it does not conform to tha creeds V i n e nt inator.
P R O P R I F T fM »
their usual complaint is tliat they are
A petition is being circulated headed '
Washington, without sttopping in New
of religion, and sympathises with sor­
by
our
postmaster
Joseph
Batler
to
have
always gutting worse instead of bettor.
York, and let tlie Washington reception
row unquestioning!)-, is fain to pity this
lludyaii is now sold nt 50 cents per
Frank Rogers appointed postmaster of
According to these people, called "ca­
be tlio first he receives in the country,
heart-broken wife, mid these devoted package by all druggists. Get Hudyau.
Gardiuer.
We are sorry to ace Mr But­
lamity howlers,” iu the slang of tho day
and tlie chances favor success, as bolli ler incapatinted by ill health but feel
daughters, of a loving, just and generous
the world is going backwards. Tlie
W hat is to tie done at the salmon Hie President and secretary of the navy that he will h a .ea worthy successor in
man in their hopelvsB sorrow for his
present time is tho worst the country
personally favor that idea. Ilowover, the person of Mr Frank Rogers »ho is a
loss, in tlie spirit which prompted Whit hatchery at Mapleton thia year? It is
ever saw, hut better than it will be later
about
time
for
us
to
hear
something
in
lhu
"m
<J«cidod by the admir- young man of sturdy integrity and well
tier to exclaim:
fitted for the position lie is seeking.
on. Now this kind of whining never
al
alone,
as
no
orders
will he issued to
regard to it if Hie listclierjr is to de oper­
Alas, for him who never seea
accomplished any good. It only makes
The .«tan Rhine through his cypress trees;
ated this season and it certainly ought influence him.
•
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away
tho whiner miserable, and if kept up
A great many agree with "Corporal”
to he every year.
Nor looks to see the breaking day
8 The Thorn Comes Forth
will convert him into a common scold,
Tanner's summing up of tiie forcing of
AcDttS-lhc mournful marbles play!
Who hath not learned In hours of faith
who is always regarded as a nuisance iu
Secretary Alger, whoso
resignation
W ith Point F orw ard.”
FARM NOTES.
truth to flesh and ssttse unknown
any community. Of course, no matter The
takes effect August 1, out of tho cabinet
That Life is ever lord of Death
I kiw prosperous (lie times generally are
And Love can never lose IU own.
T h e thorn point o f disease
— "Alger passes, hut tlio trouble contin­
Mistissippl Valle» Democrat.
Oregonian,
there will always he souio peraons and
«Si a
B u t the
Ona of tlio best ways of destroying ues. Other mistakes will come iu tlio is an ache or pain.
eonte communities who arc not prosper­
Canada thistles is to |>our a gill of sul- conduct of the war department. Mood is the feeder o f the !
T he cane of Frank Gerard for desert­
ous. The people who lived at tlie town
phuric acid in the crown of eacli plant; : Reflective uiinds will see tiien that lie •whole body.
Purify it w ith
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of New Richmond, Wis., recentlv de­ ing from liis regiment to visit liis sick Hie acid destroys tlie plant clear down WM not 10 blame. Tlie fact is, tlie trou-
stroyed by a cyclone, if interviewed mother is one where the letter rather to the roots, and there are but few plants ble *• >mbodJod in Hie system, which is 1 H ood’s Sarsaparilla.
would doubtless testify (lint times were than tho spirit of tlie law was violated. that will survive the treatment. The ,raveiing in tlie ruts of antiquity. Until I Kidneys, liver and stomach will nt
once respond ? No thorn in tliis point.
n ot prosperous. The man who ,l!li loat He had been promised a furlough hut it cost is but little, hut in using toe acid tbe system changes, the trouble will go j Blood Poloonfns - •• The surKveti said
his houso and ham by fire, without in­ hod not lieen granted when lie left. one must be careful it should be applied on-” th a t Hicre is Until in tliis state-J wiien tie took out the braaJ shell rcixdved in
surance, would doubtless declare that Gerard returned to his regiment and it from a bottle or «onto oilier glass vessel. lnc,lt oI tbe casc *• known to every man ! wound at San Juan B ill two weeks before,
th at It would fcav* poisoned me If it had
hard times were present, though his I is probable that under the circumstances
The use of slakes to prop a tree that familiar with tlie war department, and ! not been for m y pure blood. I told bint It
Was Hood's Sarsaparilla that rr„ is it pure ”
neighbors around were ever so happy. he will not he punished. A severe sen­ is overloaded with fruit is universal, but U‘*‘ nmy 66 o,le roMOU wliy nono oi
lOkoaok P. IXtorxa, Co. H, 25th V. S. I aj
Waahiniton Barracks, Washington. D. C. ”
other
blembers
of
tlie
cabinet
were
will­
'flieee remarks are preliminary to a tence would not be justified at this time progressive fruit growers no longer
R h e u m a t is m
" M y s e lf anti a friend
ing to become secretary of war. Tlie both
in
view
of
Hie
facts
of
tlie
ease.
» tie r e d from severe hits as of rheu­
Statement that tho west is in the main
believe in propping trees, preferring to only thing surprising about Secretary j m atism
. Hood's Sarsaparilla cured both
for sale or EXCHANGE.
prosperous; tliat there lias been a great
tliin out tlie fruit at an early stage and Alger's resignation Was that he stood W e would not be without it." W u h '
T O O UR P A T R O N *.
. AGENTS W A N TK II-P O R "TH E U F K AND
LkSTitR, 65 Leonard S t , Fail River, Mass.
over the conditions
fq u irovsuicnt
ji
- - pre- ; iu-hi, v«inciii- »( AUmimi m-w«v," u«> worm - ' thus lessen the work of trees. It should the pressure ns long as lie' did before |
Mural Ital-lvaU, tho i
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A house and i„t ; ¡„. G,enadll T].e
▼IT! in if n few years asjo and that the pco- I lifr-lotts frleml rimi mìh niw-r ol the uallou't l»e the object to grow choice quality handing it to the President. Those who ;
have ma«ie arrangement* bp
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anti lutai
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a whole, are looking forward ««io luca«»: nearly is* !«>«•■ bainone illu>tn> instead of quantity, so as to get better _ .
pia,
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on pre ' 1 " V Al’ ’ " r *°d ’ro’*b !'e'' i °«T»nian with the W is t for ona
tdiccrfully to the future.—Koiehurg ; iw > h i i i i I m I<„ i «. b ru c i free, t'hanee ol ■ lire price* and avoid shipping tliat which is months that he would bo bound to r e - ;
te vu»«
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i limo. Writ.»quirk.* Ttt«« Ihrmlnluti l o tm *u j.
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J‘laiiidr<ilrr.
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I sign eventually.
«Mily cMhartte to fkw îtHIt Hood'-. ■
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
W. H. WEATIIERSON
HATS
CAPS
TO BEDÜCE STOCK REGARDLESS OF
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