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About The Columbian. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 1880-1886 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1882)
THE COLUMBIAN. Ot. Helen, ColnmbiaNCoM Or. SuXSCBIPTIOir BATES. 1 wir, ! a4nce J 2J 6 months . -y, S nootki . 1 00 ADVEKTISlNO BATES: Oat aqr 00 tastrtlon IJJJ Each abaquai iawrtlon 1 w EjCADAMSkJto A Proprietor. The State has gone Republican. The selection of nominees seems to have been rood, though there were many excel!. ; men on the opposite ticket. M C. George has been reelected and ran away ahead of his party ticket He has served the country faithfully, irrespective of party, and will undoubtedly do so in the future. The counties, in many cases, owing'to ring iufluenceshave kicked the rti a T -11 . traces, oiacjcamms, nvruug xvt-yuvm-can County ,has gone on the State ticket Republican, on the uounty ticket, dem ocratic. ' Tha legislature, it U thought fwill b Republican on joint ballot, and a Republican U. 8. Senator is undoubt edly booked for Washington. Columbia County gave the following parties an ex cess of the Regular Republican majority ( which was 105.) M. C. George, M. C. 4; Edward Hirsch, State Treasurer, 2; J. F. Oaples, Prosecuting Attorney, 31; F. C. Reed, Joint Senator,. 4; F. A. Moore, Co. Judge, 18; N. C. Dale, Sher iff, 7; M. E. llazen, Assessor, 24; H. West, Coronor, 4; The lowest majority on the Republican ticket ( 52 ) was for W. H. Con vers. Clerk. Owing to the free use of money and whiskey the ring shored their candidates through. The hundreds and fifties that promised us their support, like Hessiaua, lied and went back on us, and now if the ring oppresses and skins them, they need not come to us with their com plaints, they must grin and bear it as best they can. We shall not be their champion, bat let them suffer the conse quences of their perfidy. They have shown the sincerity of their friendship, and when they come to us to help or loost them, we shall quietly let them boost themselves. It will relieve us from many a thankless job. We have done more to help the County aud the people in it than any one else, and for every favor we have received a kick or sneer. But we should not complain, the ancient Jews treated Christ after the same style, and in 9 cases out of 10 everyone that helps to rescue the op pressed from the clutches of the oppres sor is met with the rebuff of those he would assist. We have this philosophi cal deduction that the majority of peo- . , J iL.l -i. pie like to be numouggea, ana turn. iw ia hard work to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Envy seems to be their motive power as far as we are concerned ; but we are content to let them have their paltry offices, if they will let us enjoy our pri vate rights, but that they will not do, they pursue us with their rancor in ev ery private business even to the matter of our washing. But God is making it all right, he is finishing up the job we left incomplete, and we have nothing to say only to stand, and look on.. Man pro poses, but God disposes. Tom Watts threatened us with ar rest for perjury because we corrected an error in a Land Office Ad. How good people are getting to be ! He is like the ancient Pharisees,' he can "strain at a gnat and swallow a saw-milL Some body is very much interested to perse cute us and our family. We shall de fend ourselves by law as far as we can, and if that fails us by the corruption of its agents, take the pistol and shotgun, we have but one life to surrender, and are willing to .die for our rights as our ancestors were at Iiexington. It seems M if after passing through such battles as Williamsburg and Gettysburg, we had a right to a peaceful habitation on land we preempted, but & set of unprin cipled hounds want to root us out, beg gar our family, disgrace us, and all through, greed of gain and fiendish envy jusf; because God Almighty gave us a ittle more brains than they have. We jiave used our brains to build up the country and everybody in it, we offered our life and yet they are not satisfied with tlia.t, hey are tired of hearing us called M JustH hey have got the pa, try offices, let hem be content, a,n. eave us alone, even, if like Mordecai, we will not 1kw the knee to their mush room greatness. he West Share should be patronized y every one, It is a prime necessity of Oregon, not merely an ornament. Dr. Stewart loses very few patients. Our New York Letter Special Correspondence of the Colombian, - Nsw.Yorx, May 27, 1882. What is thk uss or it. There is very little stirring in, the city except the rain .that is falling and the bright green leaves in the.newrf, decked trees and the noisy narrows. Only four murders since tlat execution, six days ago; jjtnree attempts, one of which Trove a success, bo you see , papers are dull for what is a daily paper now without a its regular plethora of horrors t It has $ng been ja subject oTromark," that immediately after the hanging of an assassin the very air seem to fill with the mysterious force that impels the criminal classes to deeds of atrocity; and that before the week is closed the columns of the papers teems with new stories of bloodshed. The question in the minds of a great many good men who use their bruins to think with, is to whether the brutal strangling of a murderer does or does not deter the thugs from the bloody work that so many of them have learned to look upon as the crowning glory of their lives. Hor ace Greeley was wont to say, that the worst possible use to which you could put a man was to hang him. His death is the result of a judicial murder, and aided by the quick and graphic pen of the ever ready reporter, it serves not to intimidate! the vicious but to encourage them. Nine out of ten murderers 44 die game" aud I say it with no irreverent feeling nearly all, according to the sol emn asservations of their spiritual ad visers, go right straight to Heaven. But what of their victims. Moses Taylor. Moses Taylor is added to the list of the distinguished dead of the year. He -was one of the typical business men of New York. When he was only twenty six years old he had a capital earned by his own speculations, of $15,000 and at that time such an amount was a fortune. Of course in the present age of large things, bonanzas and Black Fridays this would not be considered much for a young man of twenty six, but the big fortunes that have been accumulating in the metropolis have leen in the first place, earned by honest endeav or and have multiplied through careful supervision. The Astors, the Lenoxes, the DeRhams, the Goelets and the few others of what are recognized as the 44 blue blood" of New YorkVicbty, accu milated their wealth by degrees. In the good old times our staid ancestors would have looked with mortal horror upon a Jay Gould and regarded a Vanderbilt or a Cyrus W. Field as a special creation of the evil one. But times change and we change with them. The death of Moses Taylor comes as a reminder of how a man may carve his way to honor and fortune and die honored and respect ed. His father, Jacob B. Taylor was a cabinet maker and was a member of the Board of Aldermen from 1817 to 1826, long before the time when Aldermen were selected from the keepers of rum mills, but Moses Taylor himself never entered actively into politics, although during the civil war he was lavish in his expenditures for the 'preservation of the Union. He was one of the oldest ship ping merchants in the city, doing an enormous business with the West Indi an and Central American ports. Un like some of his predecessors, however, he seems to have taken no special interest in the city of his birth so far, at leat, as donations go and while we have an As tor Library, a Lenox Library, and a Roosevelt Hospital, there is no public institution bearing the name of Taylor. Cigarettes and Pool for Drinks" There are two evils now operating in this and other cities which are hardly less powerful in their damning influence over the young than rum in its most devilish forms. I don't refer to the so called boys' and girls' weeklies that scat ter poison broadcast over the land; but they are bad enough and their publish ers should all be doing the State some service in the stone breaking department of the prisons, I don't count even the variety shows, which are only pest holes, even the best of them. The two I wish to point out particularly, are cheap cigjyr. etter arid " pool t r. prinks." Nearly every boy. beyond ihe. watchful eye of the mother, smokes cigarettes, the nasti est apologies for cigars that were ever, devised. Made of refuse tobaooq gath ered by Italian lazzaroni in the. gutters they poison the breath an rit the health and excite the morhi appetite of ma,ny a bright lad intended as an or nament and an honor to his community, J To purchase them iwo for 52F many a little fellow has beconSeTa thief And yet no effort i "'de to pat a stop to the traffic. " Pool for drinks" is a &ign to be teen ou nearly every busy thoroughfare iri the city. In most places where the game is played the chief customers are hoys, the " majority of whom it were folly to mince matters must steal the money which the game costs them. The largest of these places is on the Bowery. Opeu day and night all the year round it is crowded constantly. Policemen pass by the doors and hear the click of the balls on the tweH or fifteen tables in the two large rooms, see loys going in and coming out, often tipsy, yet never attempt to close the place. The Society for the Suppression of Crime is busy in a hundred different directions,! its agents tempting men to the commission of crime with a view to the punishment, but I have never heard of an effort on the part of the Society or its agents to bring the proprietor of this 44 Pool for drinks" place to justice. It is a don of thieves. It is a school for thieves. Every day and every night it is opened in violation of the law. Fights take placejhere every night, and a fight ing man is kept here to look after the interests of the house. Men have their pockets picked hre every night, boys get drunk here, day after day and night after night: and yet the place is never entered by an officer of the law except when he comes to get his cockcail A few nights ago I visited this place for the purpose of inducing one of its new customers, a loy of seventeen, to go home jto his mother, an estimable lady living in 34th Street, who had not seeu her son in three days. It was 2 o'clock in j the morning when I entered. The rooms were crowded and every ta- I Me. was busy. On the seats at the sides I of the rooms were alnjut fifty loungers, a fair proportion of whom were asleep, the young man I was looking for was not in si "lit, so I took a seat and wai e I knowing that sooner or later he would make his 'appearance. Just opposite to me a 44 casual was slumbering peacefully. Nearly in front of him stood one of those diameters so well known and so easily distinguished now a days in New York -a well dressed but thoroughly bad look ing young fellow, whose business m life is to live without work, to prey upon the cup-shotten fools and the simple rustics always to !e found on the busy thoroughfares of the great city. To the right of this man who was evidently serving us a screen for his comrade, was another of similar aspect, who was busi ly engaged in probing the sleepers pock ets. His1 work was done with the utter matter-of-fact coolness of a man measur- i ing a fence rail, and he d'splayed no more nervousness nor fear than though under the eye of the passing world. I quietly1 called the attention of two young men sitting near me. 44 Do you see thatj fellow over there picking a sleeping man's pockets T said I. 44 Now look a-here young feller," said one of the two, vour photograph would look a heap better if you'd enly keep your mouth shut. 44 Can't you let that man make a quiet dollar"? In a moment af terward ;the fighting man of the estab lishment was on the spot, and the pick pocket was so thoroughly battered that 1 doubt whether his mother would rec ognize him. Our wilting Obelisk. New York is begining to be disconso late and cast down with grief, some Graphic 'reporter went prowling around Central Park the other day and took it into his wise head that the obelisk was crumbling away. JSow JNew xorlc is oeculiarlv Droud of iti obelisk. It has reason to be, and so had Mr. Vander bihV He paid over $100,000 for its transportation to this country and it would not be pleasant for him to see this expensive toy crumble away under the inclemancy of a New York writer. There is no doubt, however, that the American climate is producing a had effect on the dear old monolith. It has been accustomed to balmier airs and the the wind, rain and snow of a full grown New York winter do not it j There. ifjjftQ qubfc tha.t inscriptions are be.croing somewhat indistinct and that the form of the. oonolith is becom ing goraewhat ohanged. The Qraphia suggests, that special accommodations he. made, for it in one of the museum in. Farfc, and the ldea no.t a tjact Vhe.n it is remembered that, pflt- aiifo o EgypJ; Parjfy Tdon and ISfew. York am the. only, throe cities that can boast aj Cleopatra's Needle there cer tainly should be good care taken of the American article, Blind Tom's New Song.: Blind Tom is back again. He has been playing all the week to crowded houses; His weight is now about 275 pounds, Tom has 44 dropped into poetry, ' and last night I had the pleasure of hear ing him , sing the following, his own composition to music of his own make. He calls it 44 The man who mashed his thumb." - I know very hoet miA, Who live quite fr y, lie u beluyod by every cue The man who mashed hi thumb. I stood one day near by the hall. To watch the folk no by And in the distance far away. Was the man who nuuhed his thumtk This is all of Tom's song. You no tice that it is entirely devoid of thyme; but that does not detract from its merit One of Robbie Burns prettiest songs, 44 For the sake of soiueliody," contains not a sign of a rhyme; yet who would think of criticising it on that account T Jumbo and Talmaqe. The great Ecclesiastic of Brooklyn, lec tured the other day on 44 Amusements," and took the high ground that although the preachers had always discouraged at tendance at theatres and other places under Satan's rule, the circus was not a harmful thing. Whether like the once celebrated Giu and Milk Smith of Black Crook notoriety, Mr. Talmage is on Barnum's pay-rol!, I know" not, but that he succeeded in advertising Bar num's circus, there can le no doubt, for at his next lecture there were but few people, and those were all bald-headed. It is said that Talmage will not allow JumU's name to be used in his presence again Two Sights for the Sksselkss. A week from to-day, Professor Bib bers whose name is Johnson, will swim across the East River, along the line of the Brooklyn Bridge, with his feet shackled and his arms pinioned behind his back. His mode of locomotion in the water is like that of an eel. At the same time Professor Donaldson who coins fame and fortune uuder his own name, will leap from the East River Bridge that is, if the Bridge authori tie permit the fool to act according to his folly. Two other fools have engaged $500, on and against the performance of this feat It is a subject of regret, especially among coroners and the un dertakers that the trio of fools could not lie ewn up in a bag and thrown from the bridge in company. The wekk is Nbw York.. The first drunken Chinaman ever brought before the courts, made his ap pearance at the Tombs Police Court on Monday. Verily John is becoming civ ilized. Th condition of the Menagerie in Central Park is simply disgraceful. Mr. Bergh is giving the matter his attention. At no time in the history of New York has there been so much building as now. In addition to thousands of dwelling houses, there are eleven church es in the course of construction. The recommendation of the Post Mas ter General, to abolish the postage on Newspapers, and Magazines, meets with the approval of all classes. The Chamber ot Commerce reports adversely, on the question of the sales of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The price of fruits and vegetables, is extremely high owing to the lateness of the season. The Steamship Alaska has made the quickest western trips on record. It being seven days, four hour and ten minutes. Another murder at Greenpoint, who shall say that Capital punishment checks homicides ? ' The tide of Emigration has reached its height, upwards of 25,000 landed herelast week. , Rents in this city are fast getting be yond the means of all but the wealthy. It is stated that the evictions here du ring the past year exceed those in Ire land, ' . The report of the Life aaynjg Service is highly oreditable to that rncji of the RGYeiiue Aiarine, . Major Grace has, sent a memorial Congress, asking for the immediate sale of the o,ld Post Offioe. building, in, prefer that it may be. ayalabl as taxable, nrpn A female apny. SexnTof fagg Co. j i i Mrs. A- T. Stewart has nrasnnted Bishop Iittlejohn with the use of a fur nished house at (garden City for the sea- son. The steamship City of Limoln from South Wule at one time Ightsd twenty seven iceburgs. (At the sale of Jersey and Guernsey cattle yeaterday good prices were real- j ized. ' Alout sixty female detectives find emplcyment in this city, mostly in th divorce business. The characteristic generosity of Mr. Bennett is providing for the families of the unfortunates who perished on the Jeannette expedition. The parents of Lieut Danenhower will le in this city on Sunday to welcome their son, who is expected on that day, ou the Celtic. Mr. Bennett and party will meet the steamer in the lower bay. Ar- angementn will probably be made, to give the survivers a reception in Chick- ering Hall, or the rooms of the New York Historical 8ociety. , , m Correspondence. May 30th., 188?. Mr. Editok t)wr Sir; As I have seen no Pekin items in your valuable paper for some time, I thought I would inform you of the prosperous conui ion of Lewis River country. . - ! ... . i Farmers of this vicinity are in gooa cheer, lecause of their fine-looking crops and gardens; they look splendidly, but would do better after the fall of rain which is badly needed. I School in the Bratton district ter mi- liated last week, having been conducted by Miss Lilla Lewis, a very able teacher and a daughter of T. Lee Lewis Esq. of Pekin. Mrs. Hart, formerly of St. Helen is teaching near Kalaina. Prof. Steers opens school May 29th in the new district on North Fork of Lewis River. Judge Beall of Kalama has leen quite sick, but is convelesqing ; a rapid recov ery is hoped for by his many friends. Mrs. Sophia Kenyon, daughter of the Rev. D. W. Gardner of Hayes, is very ill; most hopes of her recovery hae vanished. Miss Leila Bozirth of Lewis River had the misfotune to sprain her auklo last week and has been unable to be around since without the assistance of crutches. ; Anew Post Office, called-Woodland has been established at C. C. Bozarth's new store. James Copeland is erecting a fine barn on his farm George Buchanan is teaching singing school in the Gardiner settlement. More anon. . . - To Our Readers. The W?et Shre Oregon';? Illustrated Magazine, is now one of the institutions of the country. It in just entering its eighth successful year of publication, and starts out with brighter ami better prospects than ever. Its circulation is large and widespread, reaching in to ev ery State and Territory in the Union, and the amount of good it is doing for the Pacific Northwest cannot b"i calcula ted in dollars and cents. It is handsome ly illustrated, ably conducted, moral in tone, costs only $2.00 per annum, and, therefore, deserves the most liberal sup port It is the most reliable exponent of the resources of the Pacific North west, and every resident of this section may well feel proud of it. The original founder of the publication, Mr. I Sam uel, is still at the helm, and judging by his past effortsf we can look to The West Shore being better than ever, during 1 882. For the especial accommodation of of our subscribers, and to assist in swell ing the list of this most deserving publi cation, we will, for the next two weeks receive subscriptions for The West Short at this office at publisher's rates, or they can be forwarded direct to the publisher, L. Samuel, Portland, Oregon., The VerUct of The Jury, We have just received a copy of the most popular piece of rausio ever pub lished in this country, called the 4 Ver dict March," composed by Eugene "h, Blake, It U written, in an, eay styje, so that it can, he. pjayed on, either piano, or nrgan,. he title page. very hand some, ooAtain.ing correct, pprtra,. of Hon. Geo, B, Corkhili, Hon. J, Por ter, an4 J do y, a Co ; also, cor rect picr of tb,e twelve jurymen, who, convicted the assassin, pjf op$ late let loved President, hjs pi of WPfa sh.oflhj be found uy every household throu the entire' country. Price, 40 owtfft per copy, or 3 copies fojr $1. Pos tage sta,mjas taken as currency. Ad, dress all orders to F, W, Helmick, Mu sic Publisher, 180 Elm Street, Cincin nati, Ohio. CMoney to loan on real estate security by F. A. Moore Esq. St, Helen, Oregon. nr.1vev ,.d.iCSJ wiut to Van couver on the Voll" lori tioi, J)ny, and the swiimhoat didn't burst up .r t . t i upet notwithstanding "; -Vii report ein ulated. No m e that fifty cents to xjK-nd t mm red ,ff, only those that ere little short, got fright- ,ued, nd staid t Iioin" wvv tj. Kr'wo not wife, yuu know." The Www orations were tlrst-cla and the poem, 4 The Loyal UeaU, anil in reuimiion ny - I ' - I... .1 4.. 1- . Mrs J. V. UClUail imru mi ueai. Wh liked Genl. Morrow's sjeeeh the best, but all were god, and there wai tintluncf to mar the pleasure of the or- caution. The GavlU bounded like a beautiful snow-white gazelle over Dako- tian plains back to St. Helen. Iloro Room, The Ntore-room at the Taylor House, has lwen leased by G. W. McBride.for a ware-house and is leing fitted up .with groceries, provisions and crockery. TIim demand from local merchants for more room is a sign of the increasing prosper itv of St. Helens. . Wilkes and Brand, we have heard cir culated all kinds of malicious xtories in Kehaleui alout us. All the business w ever had with the Nehalemites, we hired them to chop wood for us, fed them on the best grub in the Portland market, and paid them to the full. THE BEST IS TFIE CIIEArEKT A large and well-aortnd utock of men's lioots, men's women', and child ren's bhoes of all kinds carefully selected by Mr. Giltner in San Francisco now ar riving and to arrive at Mc Bride's store. Especial care has been t iken to grt the very lest goods in th market. In the rntit-Asil of the ETection oh! two precincts had ierfectly correct re turns. It in wonderful when the Conn ty is so full of li.nart men. this should le so. Even the great Nelson Colo didn't know enough to make out cur rect returns. The work on th N. P. R. R. con necting Portland and Knl-i'nt will oiu. mence at Portland soon, anil tiie jo'ind of the railroad wi'l be h ard instead rf the turtle in our land." The depot will be a quarter of a mile from our door. Hon. Jackson Teacher will go around with S. A. Miles' fine stallion during thi' .hj season. Those desiring fine hor.es( should improve this chance, as th stallion is one of the lest in the whohi countrv. There is talk of building an Episcojwil church on a lot near th Rchool-house, Bishop Morris when here said thu Church had funds reserved for that pur pose as soon as a suitable lot was select ed. ' ' -- The water keeps rising work in tnd mill has stopped, and St Helen is at a standstill. The Mucklea have raised up their store on blocks. " It is thought th freshet will be away beyond that of '76. m The new postal route between St Helen and La Centre will le soon estab lished. It will be a great convenience. The Litlotia will carry the mail. It will be three times a week. GenL Grant tried once in his life tq get the appointment of County Surveyor; but the powers that were didnl consider him competent, was r0 in Columbia County We have received th History of tha Lihby Family, a magnificent volume pre-, pared by Charles T. Libby, ShatV speak more fully of it next week. The outskirts, of the County were filled with infamous bitters about us, we have understood. When -w.0 jjetf M them we shall publish. IHjTf you want a deed, mortgage or power of attorney executed propwjx .call on F. A. Moore, Notary Public, St. Helen, Oregon. We hnYo introduced a neT feature in the paper. We shall have a regular correspondence from New York City ancl Washington. A Russian-Finn by the name of Mat sou is supposed to have been drowned near Deer Island. . The Jfnnzanillo will make her trip? to the Clatskanie, down o Wednesday back on Thursday. Capt. Lemont has some of those ui- l njficent Cowlitz hara.
