, which is being adopted by other WASHINGTON LETTER. ..iliotis, ia another long step in the direction, which will do much to F ko M or I’ KUaLLAIt CvKttK.Sl’ONDKNT. use tho faithful neat! and content of employee of that great carp-oration, euro periiii-.iiEncy of employment, and Washington, I’. G., Dec. go, 1899. rill prove aa good an investment in Washington ia one of the best places,' every way aa that company lias ever ! and during a Christmas congressional made. I recess ' - one of tho . beat times to see the I REGISTRATION. or statesmen as they really are when they | w'uiç.- ; ' are off duty. In other places they al- •id The b lo w in g nanred parties will have , w ay8geemto bc but Wash-! D e necessi- charge of tho work of registering voteru Ington posing would only gut tlieili ' inj. his most 1,1 their respective precincts. laughed a t; consequently they are seen ! Ifeceta—B E Smith. now he should for just what they are, and that js just Florence—0 11 Holden. i hungry and ragged about w hat the same number of (lien ia . Mapleton—Fred Bean, unie better anym ore reason- any cr.Jliug are. As usual, a consider­ l ’est door to 0 W Hurd’s. W alton—J L Atkinson, ...ought na to «lie relations of him­ able number of senators and representa­ Lake Greek—G A Cptterf. tives are spending their holidays in! self nr,d his employer, and ho Bees that .e are only forty-six all told, Lane—W W Post. , they are m utual; that when Ids employ­ Washington. As a rule they are doing i ile a falling off.— l'rxltiiig (iazètte. H erm ann—A A Gibson. er, ia prosperous lie will slmro in the no work, hut Speaker Henderson is one The law which went into effect Tues­ of the exceptions; lie remained in Wash­ of our army at Manila, vhen they did T iik B ohemia Nugget last week issued i prosperity, and that theicfore -t Is for day provides that the inhabitants of all ington to do sonic work th at ho could ‘ not. a special minili; edition devoted for the ' his own Interests to work for the pros- The president has Intimated to Gen county seats m ust register with tho not get time to do while congress is In m ost part to gtvin a history of p ro s-' perity pi his employer. This, always a county clerk. Citizens from all over session, Tho members of a sub-corn-^ Wheeler, who is said to he dissatisfied i . peeling and mining in the Bohemia ] self-evident truth, tyas not generally ac- 1,1 . with the command given him in the the county can also register at the clerk’s mittee of the Roberts committee are country and giving a description of some copied or appreciated, especially by thy Philippines, that ho will not undertake oflice if they so desire. Registrations of the best known mines there. J t is I workingman, nnd In many instances em ­ prepared to take some additional testi­ tho task of advising him either to re­ it very handsome number and shows ! ployors were equally oblivious of it. In on the general roll will close on May mony in the Roberts ease, but Off I turn to Washington and try to resume 15, 1900, at 5 p m. ? iter this date until witnesses have arrived. enterprise on the p art of the publisher, too many cases ihe employing individual his seat in cçngyesg, sr.d tho in.ovum.ent election a person enn register by signing — ’--------------------- ' or corporation, no m atter how extensive The fund for tho widqw npd children T iik a ; ¡J, u - vhun of a resident of Ouba the improvement in his business and a blank witnessed by six householders of Gen Lawton has reached $11,009 and to get Gen Wheeler appointed a briga­ dier general in the regular army, and at • Mission to send a shipload of j net protits, was only willing to share the that ho is a voter of the precinct. is still growing. t, . once retired, seems not to progress. The law further provides th at all ammunition from th a t Island improvement with Ijip employes by ad­ Prof Richard G Ely, of tho University read a paper on tru8t8> al The opinion is growing that there will da unwittingly discloses th e ' vancing wages after being forced to justices of the peace and notaries can jnanUties ol war munitions such a course'by an expensive strike or take registrations in their precincts, a meeting of the Washington economic be strong opposition to tho seating of provided they make application to the society, which Iias.uttracted more than Gen W h a le r should he return to aba without tho know ledge’of lockout. Washington and ask to he sworn In as a county clerk. iritics. Are other arms con- passing attention. After telling how Fortunately these conditions belong, member of the house. There is no expense to the voter for trusts were formed and operated, and .lu-ro for illegal purposes? except in a few instances, to the past. registering. A fee of ten. cents is paid r.n im portant question— Clyde Both employers and laboring men ap­ pointing out that tho consumers always hv tho county to the officers for each have it in their power to rngko the H A V IN G A G R E A T R UN O N C H A M preciate more than over the mutual in­ B E R L A IN '3 C O U G H R E M E D Y - trusts charge fair prices by retusing to terests ot each, and the results have name registered by them, A Snow A Go, Patent Lawyers, op- been seen dcring the past year. Tlie I t has been demonstrated repeatedly buy their goods, he said of remedies for I Manager M artin, of tho Pierson drug .aite the United States P atent office, Industries of this country have been in eveiy state in tlie Union and in many trusts: “ The so-called apti-trust legis-1 store, informs us that he is having a Yashington, D G, who have actual pushed to their utmost with profitable foreign countries th at Chamberlain's latjon, in my opinion, lias produced ! great run on Chamberlain's Cough nts in every city and town of tho business. Labor lias been In goqd Goiigh Remedy is a certain preventive harm ,and can produce nothing but Remedy. Ho sell five bottles of that 'ted Status and Canada, report that and cure fur croup. It lias become tlie hard, ¡so far from lessoning tlie con- medicine to one of any ether kind, and demar.d at remunerative wages, rnd it gives great satisfaction. In these days universal remedy for that disease. M V er before in their 25 years pracllco both employer and employed have been Fisher of Liberty, W. VaM only repeats centration of production, it inis rai-hof ; of la grippe there is nothing likeChnin- he work of the office been so well prosperous. But best of all lias been what has been said around the globe increased it. Looser forms of comhina ! berlain’s Cough Remedy to stop tlie ato. They claim th a t patents the change of policy of employers, who when lie w rites: “ I have used Cham- j tion in tho face of anti-trust legislation ! cough, heal tip tho sore throat and lungs v bo procured in less than half have been willing to share their pros- berlgin’s Cough Remedy in my family | bft9 mado way for cjoa3r an(j Illore u(rec. j and give relief within a very short time. The sales are growing, nnd all who try it lot several years and always witli per­ • the time formerly required. tivo unions. Among remedies, first of perity with their employes. During the are pleased witli its prompt action.— fect success. We believe that it is not past year there has been but one nota- only the best cough remedy, but that it all, I would mention education, I Suutli Chicago Daily Calumet. Fur T ub annual edition of the Oregonian hlu strike in the country—th at of the is a sure cure lor croup. It has saved would liavo general education so devel­ sale by all druggists. issued New years day, is on our table. employes of the Cleveland street rail­ the lives of oui children a number ol oped as to prepare every boy and girl |. O . O F. IN S T A L L A T IO N - It contains thirty-six pages devoted to way system—yet the wages of a largo tim es.” This remedy is for aide by al! fur life. Another class of remedies is i ending m atter and twelve pages of druggists. found in tlie regulation of tl;p trans­ proportion of the workingmen have At the regular meeting of Heceta photographs of various scenes in dilh-r- been advanced, in some cases two or M uch diksknsion and trouble would mission of property from generation to lodge, No 111, ! O O F held Wednesday Z s' \s of the state, its products, and ICO • • " more times. Thu wages of nearly two disappear from a neighborhood, if peo­ generation, and thia must be brought evening, W H Wealherson district v men. Considerable space is hundred thousand workers in the facto­ ple would ho more careful in listening about in part by taxation, in part by ! deputy grand },Ulster, assisted by J 1 to a separate description of each ries of New England have recently been while exchanging nows with each other. laws which aim otherwise to secure a Furnish as grand marshal installed tlie | following oflicers, County, «.(itt-n by some prominent advance 1 ten pur cent or more, and We meet a neighbor, pass the time- of wide diffusion of wealth. I have no F II Alexander, N G ; E A Evans, citlxen. T hat of I.lino county Is from this not in compliance with demands or dny, and then begin to exchange news. sympathy witli any proposal to abolish Sec; Win Kyle, Treas; R I. Evans, F S; the pen of II R Kincaid, ex-sficvelacy tbrcpts of strikes, but voluntarily by tho While one is talking tho other is per­ or limit private corporations. I would, .1 I Butterfield, M ar; Win Clininberlin, of ¿fate, while the description of employers, who ara willing to share haps, thinking what he or she will tell however, bring them under effective Con; Fred Hewitt, K S N G ; Joseph Fell man, L S X G ; J A Yates, R S S; Douglas county is given by Hon l> S K their prosperity with tlielr employs», wli'efi his or her chance comes to talk. public control, the sole purpose of which W II Weatlierson, L S S; J L Furnish, ltiiick of Koselmig. A change has taken place in the view'« This is frequently true of both parties, should bo honesty and individual re­ Chaplain. and policy of the laboring men. The ami it would apparently make hut small sponsibility.” After tlie business of tlie evening was F o il sKvkiiAL weeks past there has old time policy of violence and the fol­ difference were it not for tlifl fact that 'T heannouncem ent of Gdiairman Bur- concluded the members of the lodge lx-en considerbly shooting going on in ­ lowing of the advice of labor dema­ Adam and Eve’s sons and daughters toil, of the bouse committee on ïjivei'jl nidi a number of visiting brethren, side the corporation limits of Florence gogues like Dubs and Sovereign liavo betffbk theniaeivns to the .Morris Hotel love to disseminate news. Then after and Harbors, that no river and barberi whore a hoantfiul repast had been pre­ and close In the business part of the been abandoned, mid better counsels ! tb(J partie8 have separated they probably bill would he reported at this session of pared. town. Much of it has bcon done by prevail. At tho last meeting of the gjvo but little attention to what they congress, lias caused some grumbling, Odd Fellotvs’iire proverbial for tlieir hoys who perhaps are not aware that, Federation of Labor, which continued a really did hear, but when tlie n e st but as tlie announcement was made 1 good appetites and it looked as if Land- shooting within tho city limits is for­ week and nt which were considered party is met mid a rehearsal takes place, itndcr instructions from tlie leaders of lord Stihhens fully understood their bidden, and who are none to careful nt wants, for after all bad eaten heartily nearly all- the questions of interest to then the news begins to grow ; the party the majority, it is likely to liold good. mid a number had been threatened by best in the use of fire arms. Only a few working peoplo, thero was a notable and Somo of the friends of the Nicaragua their brethren with being choked off as todays ago, while one of our citizens wnB gratifying absence of tho old-time in­ does not aim nor desire to exaggerate, Canal in both house and senate, are the only means of preserving tlieir but instead of repeating w hat lie or atie up in a tree a short distance from home flammatory harangues, with which heard, the speaker repeats what lie or determined to try to push a bill pro­ lives, there still remained on die tahlsa he was seen by it hoy of some fifteen demagogic leaders formerly attempted site iliinkl the other party said. viding for die constructioa of tlie canal more than enough of everything to years, who, having a gun with him, to show Hint employers were tlie worst Another source of misunderstanding through at this session of congress, furnish a fine supper for as many more even witli Odd Fellows’ appetites. came near taking a shot a t the man enemies of labor. Tlie ppneipul address frequently arises from children and without waiting for the roport of the thinking lie was a hear. The hoy wau of President Gompers was a calm and | y0Qj |18 w|,0 gain wrong impression from canal commission, which will not he S H IP P IN G A N D M A R IN E . prevented from tiring only by tho four unimpassioned review of the 8'I ual*on. i ¡n,jjer (ect understanding of words, and made for at lea6t a year. It is perfectly th a t if lie wounded Ihe bear it would Even die subject of trusts and industrial - v.|,en telling what tlioy liavo heard they , well understood, ns it was nt tlie time, The Maggie sailed today {or Till?,- nt'aek him. Many a man lias been comhinations was treated from a com­ ! merely describe tlio impressions that that the sole object in view when die mook. {lied by a hunter shooting at somc- mon-sense business standpoint far re-1 Tho steamer Roharts went to Con« were made upon tlieir minds, Any canal commission was legislated for by '■ A ■ hing t'" ‘\ he saw through the brush moved from the assertions of P°Rt*cftl person can verify what wc have stated congress, was to delay legislation for a 'n’5 • Y eii iesi_.ii wit.i a cargo u, c.mnt I , , , , , i , . , . , 1 1 . saiinon. Mie will call at Gardiner and ' but did " '" t *° so® " h a t it was. , leaders who have falsely claiuied to bo , sbovu within a week or two if tlie projier canal. Il is also believed that a majori- tske the Gli'minien to Astoria. There People s 'l0\ l he very eareful in the use the only lricnds of labor. ! ty in both house and senate would vote she will loan with finer fur Gardiner and effort is made.— Bandon llecordtir. ol ftrearius\a shot firod carelessly may This belter feeling between capital for a bill to construct a canal, if given 1 will tow W P Reed's new river steamer 'Í* n'" ’ 1 |C ' -111" “ 11 snii j-ibor promises beneficai results to au opportunity to do so, hut, owing j0 . from tlie Gulir.uliia to the I mpqua. SUNDAY SERVICES. • jfC iOi,g rcgrÜN. l’arfflits should re- i each. Largo employers of jabor have ' tlie approacli of tlie presidential cam-1 T1,e »elmoner Del Norte is on tlie way member, too, th a t if they allow tlieir i learned that it is more profitable to have . here From San Francisco after lumber, paign, and the fact th at large approprta-' „ . , yO A M Sunday school. 1 *- i -Tins will mak? five schooners engaged boys u> linndlu Ibe arms without due in tlieir oni|doy men who are satisfied PROPRI F TA B 11 A M and 7 P M preaching. lions for other purposes, wii! bo c.h-, ¡n carlyi,1g lumber from the ¡Siuslaw to caution, if any accident results from i with tlieir wages and treatm ent; that ' solutely necessary, it is very doubtful ! g:Ui Francisco, 2:SU P M Endeavor. tlieir carelessness, a l“r«ü l’Rrt ot lllf! i t|>vy Mo worth .nor. to Ihuir employers, I G K notts , whetlier tho leaders will adpw a canal jchooner Bella, Captain Smith, - usual 1)' laid at the p aren ts even though paid much better »..v-.«—, j 1 m « iu PastAr. bill to he voted oil at this session; they arrived here Tuesday from San Fiaucis- | than man "h o urs discontented and I as W ell as Men *?ulJ likol° vo,e^'’- 8be 1S0“?° br 0Qr, have a grievance. This is the secret of VVomen vv UU IU I , -„. a .U m J * ' mercliatits and will take out a cargo of Itm ts lllluff »BS jo, Alark llnnna’a success with his ein-j Are Made Miserable by tiuic wil1 b‘' loat by y o,uug “ A f i,e »enwmam. Acme mill. ur*»k iirTfor --xlBntvQi. * * A lt Iioouv J next 8e8iion, when the report of Hie cis-o was towed in by the Kown..-«»_^ ••in®’’*’ ployes, never having had a strike ot his Alio nanties €!»• blurtd, day and is loading with lumber at tho Kidney Trouble. j canal commission w ill he ready. JCrii mgiS.'.'.l- - men. lie knows a contents 1 and joú «troDg The recommendation of Inspector Spruce Point m id . liappv man is most profitable fur him , Kidney trouble preys upon tlie mind, dis­ General Breckenridge, in ids anuual re­ G E N E R A L N E W 3. and will work for Ida lii t c r e s l s , nnd he courages and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor port, for tlie creation of a joint army and cheerfulness soon can well afford to givu tlie employes of disappear when the kfd- ftnJ ngTy ^ „ d , for the onrposp «ri ar- A‘l’° Kentucky législature has re- neys are cut Ids street riphyay V’-000 ,or * Christmas ranging for a mors thorough eo-ojmra- eie(.teq Senntcr Rlackbnrn to represent ‘ or diseased. ,X ts coitTisi'B to come in a b o u t. present; they remained faithfully at Kidney trouble has between tlie two branches of His . t |,at 8;;lt0 ¡n tlie U S senate accommodations la-tween woik w hile the men of tho other line in * becotr.s so prevalent t'*” ' 1 that It Is not uncommon 8ervieo, , h highly e nujntnded as a (Step Congressman 11 nitolle of Maino is said in d A irdiner. it takes about the same eilv, by their strike lasting » for a child to be born 1 tlio right direction. Tliore were ,0 be i|1?;lne and lias been taken to a , letter to th a t pise* nm, ikld- , afflicted with weak several months, cost tlie owners q( t-liat n srsek to rend i-h-» fron eeverol times during the war with Spain asylum nt Wavcreiy seven miles n«y»- H the child 1 urin- t get a reply. 'Aids frequently caiir -s a lino many times mors than ^>,000, nnd the Boston. great deal of y-.eonvenieuec when a n y -1 no doubt m ncli iiioro tlinn it would have ur[nC scalds the fiesh or If. when the child when the lack of iniclli,ci.t u o| ‘ ra l‘L 1 A I'o-e in Chicago last eutnnlay morn- ! n sufficient reaches an ape when it should be abte to u ^ c e , , the army r.nd navy, notably the . z ^ ’tn n ih b ’. thing occurs • fa k in g it necr« nry to send cost to liavo paid tlie men " Sl control tho passage, it Is yet afflicted with in Guha, ,r ng caused a loss of $l,OOt),CCp. Nine t-ed-wettlng. depend upon it. the cause of landing of Gen .J ia ..tr . ..rt-men were injure I by falling walls a mssriige fr . one place to the other wages to secure tlici.* zealou s services. \ ôhorîbaj»u» eft the difflcvity Is kidney trouble, and the first would liavo - led • to serious • — ' and * disastrous bt)l nQne (aU,iy ¡, tl.ought. iiy{ l ’aper» printed at and get a it is another notable fact th at bene­ Step should be towards th* treatment of n mn n-'h i p > Tho first movoment of h general snntb- Oaos Bay ar ,-om hair to six days old | fits voluntarily conferred are worth more these Important organs. This unpleasant eomcquonecs had we boAn opposed by a is due to a diseased condition of the more * alerf and vigorous enemy than the crn advance of the American taoops in when v-ey ■e* received at iiorenc»-. nnd are more highly appreciated by the trouble kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as Recently tl.e two tranche» Maniln was begun January 1st by two Spanish, Tlie ro>"p I' ■ uictor who rwom niended ( recipients than twice the benefits wrung most people suppose. .. . n.-wLii.r battalions lauding nnd occupying Wom«n as well as men are made mis­ U t / i * 0”4 l-3 , ... ' p ah„yao. Two Americans were killed ieo departm ent to diseon- unwillingly by persistent demand* «* erable with kidney and bladder trouble, of tho service have workei *ho I « V eti m/tH route la-tween and both need the same great remedy. in the Philippines, hut it is known that and two wounded, Twsnly.fonr of tlie strikes or threats of strikes. The mild and the Immediate effect of there were times, just after tho arrival enemy were found dead in one honM TH E GENTI.E-MT-MAN is a monti. -'ip lin c r, and to extend Tlie P«iicy of the Pennsylvania Rail­ Swam p-Root la soon realised. It is sold and one hundred and fifty prisoners and n,au, , line devoted to sul jeets of inter- ’ -uts to tdenaila, way company, pensioning faRhtul cm- by druggLsts. In fifty lured. six guns car I est to the ladies. The regular snbscrip-! arrwnp anfs cent and one dollar) !ed hut two we wil fnm i.h t ay t.otlly ! tion price ia one doll^e hut we have made WTBii nf . vi : ral ¡ru fo x s fop . W» rkiu't T* Nsero -i-l SeeiS» Y*«r î-tr» Awsf» sample bottle by ma-l Iin r . M -.l-l. - 5 "er it for a Oregonian set'/ the W«ar frog® a~««iwHi»a .1' . , eu t t . intinti r ani » un-; free, also pamphlet teih a m To quit u-bocco easily sad d forever, l> be mas- arrangement b r V their e n il «nd yu»r-'«i»lt»g i i. . v"* rtle. MU of life, aer.eau* ' Í --ftTo- m i all about it, including many ot the n-Pn»,-tii .. .i waxi. iwyahle ^ s ’’ anJ , anr «ddr»yfor the sum t|,0 a . short time io ¿ S T . Sfe-* • lari pavableraah in adv»p -c a s a m t/ Kew Scat Market I ha ve opened a shop in Florence where I .shall keep a irood stock ot Always on Hand. Give m e a Calk C, BRACEY. W a t c h , b ilis s e s t e e rx esct w e e k , O. W. HURD. C A R M A N ’S CI1 KAP CASH STOKEr 1 Drv Goods , ★ Groceries * and * Notiais. FLORENCE MEAT M A R K E T .____ _ J u s t O oened. * ’• ....... .T Goods as Reoresented, J. W. CARMAN > r-. S O T O C T ZI A D« , -pF^GTiyiE * ■■‘O w l w