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West " " leaves " I: a. in. Day trains hare been discontinued. OmCIA-Xi DIBBOTOBT. United States Officials. I'leBirteut Qrover Cleveland Vice-President Adlai Stevenson K...,n..c..rv of kcmIm Walter 0. Gresham cBeoccUtryof Treasury John U. tlarlisle fiei .wavy of lnrerio."r.'......,A...-.lie Smith iitcojciiary of War Daniel H. Jcamont jbeoreinry of Navy Hilary A. Herbert lJorftuuyster-(ieneral Wilson w. liisseii Atl.irnai-Uencral Kiohurd S. Olney Secretary of Atirioulturo J. Hteriing Morton Mtate ot Oregon. (lovernor.... S. Fennoyor Bauretaryof State U. W. Mcllride Treasurer Phil. Metschan bupr,. Public Instruction IS. B. McElroy j J. H. Mitchell aviators jj. N.Dolph j Bmgor Hermann Oonsrasuineti 5 w. R. Ellis Printer. Erank 0. Baker i r. a, luoore Uupreuie Judges. . W.P, Lord (It. 8. Bean . Seventh Judicial District, Circuit Ju.ltje W. L. Bradshaw 1 rosHnnf.ng Attorney W. H. Wilson Morrow County Officials. - .:c :5eimlor... Henry Blackman liepnicwntMive N. 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EXCHANGE BOUGHT .& SOLD HEPPNER. tf OREGON Free Med lcine A Golden Opportunity for Sufferine Humanity. Physicians Give their Remedies to the People DO YOU SUFFER ? Jffjr"M5 will send you FREE OF CHARGE a full course of specially prepared remedies best suited to your case, we warn your reeommenaauon, We can cure the most ag-gravated diseases of both Bex eB. Our treatment tor all diseases and deformities are modern and scientific, acquired by many year's experience, which enables us to guarantee a uure, no not despair. N. B. We have the only positive cure for Ep i'epfiy (fits! and Catarrh, References given, Permanently located. Old established. Dr. Williams Medical and Surgical Insti tute, 719 Market street, San FranciBco, Cal. ARE rOU ANY GOOD AT PUZZLES The genius who invented the "Fifteen" puz zle, "Figs in Clover," and many others, has in vented a brand new one, which is going to be the greatest on record. There Is fun, instruc tion and entertainment in it. The old and learned will find as much myBtery in it as the young and unsophisticated. This great puzzle s the property of the New York Press Club, for whom it was invented by Samuel Loyd, the great puzzleist, to be sold for the benent of the movement to erect a great home for newspaper workers in New York. Generous friends have given $25,000 in prizeB for the successful puzzle solvers. TEN CENTS sent to the "Press Club Huilding aud Chrrity Fund," Temple Court, New 'ork City, will get you the mystery by return mall, : DID YOU TRY "PIGS IN CLOVER" or the "FIFTFEN PUZZLE." Well, the man who invented them has just completed another little playful mystery for young and old, which ft selling for TEN CENTS for the benefit of the fund to" erect a home for newspaper workers in New York. This puzzle Is the property of the New York Press Club and generous friends of the club have donated over $25,000 to provide prizes for lucky people, young or old, who solve the mystery. There Is a tot of entertainment and instruction in it, Send a dime and get the souvenir puzzle by return mail. Address "Press Club Souvenir," xemple Court.New York City. a panels of mail" ran fUR 10 KENT STAMPS (regular price 26c.) your iuf dreaa if received within 3 days will be for 1 year boldly friniea on gummeu ubels. Onlv I)irecU)rv guaranteeing Ilia.OO customers ; irorn pui Itfthera and manufac- HO till' ,rrnl you raueivw II S M probably, thousand!) ol U.UJ'1-f : vn.hin.hi hiinltH. imtn-rm -mrnm samples.magaziiiM.tc. AH ire ana vtum parcei with one of vour printed aridrem Ihbelr posted thereon.. KXTHAI W wll alo print and prepay postage on out oi vour label adtlrsws to you; whlcfc til ick on vour envelope, bOfilw, etc., U ...noaiit fJn.lv. rulnir luflt .1 A VV IKK KJS.dP uniiiMvilitv N. ?'.. write "Krone i y,1-,' 'i3tj my 2i cmU ruidrpsfiln your Mghtnlnt Vfsijt Ift'trr.v 1" e rwjelveo mvfiUO uddre ly?'. i?;- - ' MnU -Mv ad'lrew-en you seatf""' - Jl .linn i ftf WORLD'S FAIR DIRECTORY CO., No. 147 Frankford and tilrara Avei, riiuaaei phia, Pa mm H-sics: COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER ! PRIZES ON PATENTS. How to Get Twenty-five Hundred Dollars for Nothing. The Winner has a clear Gift of a Small Fortune, and the Losers Have Patents that may Bring them in Still More, Would you like to make twenty-five hundred dollars? If you would, read carefully what follows and you may see a way to do It. The Press Claims Company devotes much attention to patents. It has handled thousands of applications for inventions, but It would like to handle thousands more. There is plenty of inventive tallent at large In this country needing nothing but encouragement to produce practical results. That encouragemeutthe Press Claims Company propose to give. NOT SO II Alt U AS IT SKE.11S. A patent strikes most people as an appalling ly formidable thing. The idea is that an in ventor must be a natural genius, like Edison or Bell; that he must devote years to delving in complicated mechanical problems aud that he muBt spend a fortune on delicate experiments before he can get a new device to a patentable degree of perfection. This delusion the com pany desires to dispel. It deBires to get into the head of the public a clear comprehension of the fact that it is not the great, complex, and expensive inventions that bring the best returns to their authors, but the little, simple, and cheap ones the things that seem so absurdly trivial that the average citizen would feel somewhat ashamed of bringing them to the attention of the Patent Office. Edison says that the profits he has received from the pateuls on all his marvelous Inven tions ave not been sufficient to pay tne cost of his experiments. But tho man who con ceived the idea of fastening a bit of rubber cord to a child's ball, bo that it would come back to the hand when thrown, made a fortune out of his scheme. The modern sewing-ma chine Is a miracle of ingenuity the product a hundred and fifty years, but the whole bril liant result rests upon Hie Bimple device of putting the eye of the needle at the point in stead of at the other end. of the toil of hundreds of busy brains through THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VALCABLfi, Comparatively few people regard themselves as inventors, but almost every body has been struck, at one time or another, with IdeaB that seem calculated to reduce some of the little frictions of life. Usually such ideas are dis missed without further thought. Why don t the railroad company make its car windows so that they can be slid up and down without breaking the passengers' back?" ex claims the traveler. "If I were running the road I would make them in such a way." "What was the man who made the saucepan thinking of?" grumbles the cook. "He never had to work over a Btove, or he would have known how it ought to have been fixed," "Hang such a collar button!" growls aman who is late;for breakfast. "If I wore in the business I'd make buttons that wouldn't slin out, or break off, or gouge out the back of my And the various suffe:.'ers forgot about their grievances and began to think of something else. If they would set down the next con venlent opportunity, put their ideas about car windows, saucepans and collar buttons Into practical shape, and then apply for patents tney mignt nnd tbemselves as independently wealthy as the man who invented the Iron umbrella ring, or the one who patented A TEMPTING OFFEIt. To Induce the people to keep trackjof the: Drignt ideas and see what there in them, the Press Claims Company has resolved to offer a ITize. To the person who submits to It the simplest and most promising invention, from a commercial point of view, the company will irlve twenty-five hundred dollar in cash, in addition to refunding the fees for securing; a patent. It will also advertise the inven tion free of charge. This offer is subject to the following condi tions: Every competitor must obtain a patent for his invention through the company. He must firstapply for a preliminary search, the cost of which will be five dollars. Should this seach show his Invention to be unpatentable, he can withdraw without further expense. Otherwise he will be expected to complete his application and take out a patent in the regu lar way. The total expense, Including the Government and Bureau fees, will be seventy dollars. For this, whether he secures a prize or not, the inventor will have a patent that ought to be a valuable property to him. The prize will be awarded by a jury consisting ol three reputable patent attorneys of Washlhg ton. Intended competitors should fill out tne followlng blank, and forward it with their application: , , 1893. "I submit the within described invention in competition for the Twenty-five huudred Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims Company." NO BLANKS IN THIS COiTIPETIOft. This Is a competition of rather an unusal na ture. It Is common to offer prizes for the best story, or picture, or architectural plan, all the competitors risking the loss of their labor and the successful one merely selling his for the amoun of the prize. But the Press Claims Company's offer is something entirely differ ent. Each person Is asked merely to help him self, and the one who helps him self to the best advantage Is to be rewarded bv dolnir It The prize is only a stimulus to do something that would be well worth doing without it. The architect whose competitive plan for a club house on a certain corner Is not occept ed has spent his labor on something of very lttle use to him. But the person who patents a simple aud useful device in the Press Claims Company's competition, need not worry If he fail to secure a prize. He has a substantial result to show lor nis worx-one that wil command its value in the marie at anv lime. - The man who uses any article in his daily work ouKhttoknnw Lmci.t ., .... . than the mechanical expert who studies It Pjy 'rom the theoretical point of view, (let simple to be worth patenting. The ulinplerihe SninXl'cliyaSXw'l'll . w. .c ,VH umv improvement can be too Awarded Highest Honors, World's Fair. DFR ($1 TT J m " Pow3l:r'-No Ammonia; No Alum. Used in Millions of Homes 40 Years the Standard Tt 1 . ... he J" CI.Ima Company's twcnt.--live hun dred dollars. , The responsibility of this compauv :nay bo judged from the fact thai ils stool is' held by about three huudred of the leading newspapers of the United States. Address the Press Cluims Company, Joh noaaerDurn, managing attorney, cis F street a. W., Washington, D. C. . A. K NOTICE. We take tbis opportunity of iuforming our euueoribers tbat the new ootumu eiouer of pensions has been spo iinted He is an old soldier, and we belie? that soldiers and their heirs will re oeive justice at his hands. We do not anticipate that there will be any radioa! obanges in the administration of ponsioe affairs under the new regime. We would advise, however, that V. 8 soldiers, sailors and their heirs, take steps to make application at onoe, if they have not already done so, in order to secure the benefit of the early filing of their claims in case there should be any future pension legislation. Suoh legislation is seldom retroactive. There fore it is of great importance that ap plications be filed in the department at the earliest possible date. If the U. S. soldiers, sailors, or their widows, children or parents desire in formation iu regard to pension matterB, tiiey should write to the Press Claims Company, at Washington, D. 0., and tbey will prepare and send the necessary application, if they find them entitled under the numerous laws enacted for their benefit. Address PBE8S CLAIMS COMPANY. John Wedderhubn, Managing Attor ney, Washington, D. (J., P. O. Box 885 ti If. THE WESTERN PEDAGOWCE. We are in reoeipt of the May number of our state school paper. It exoeed any of the former numbers in valus. The paper this month oontaius many new and valuable features. The illus trated series on the sohools of the state is introduced by a paper on the Friends Polytechnic Institute at Salem, Oregon. These papers oannot fail to be of great value both to the sohools ai 1 to the public. There are also several fine articles by our beet writers and the departments "Current Events,""Saturday Thoughts," "Educational NewB" "The Oracle Answers, Correspondents," etc., eaoh oontain much valuable reading for xeacners or parents. The magazine nun uooiu ou pages oi matter, well printed and arranged. We pronounce the Western Pedagogue the best educa tional monthly on the const. Everyone of our readers should have the paper if they are at all interested iu education. No teaoher school direo tor or student can get along well with out it. We will receive subpoript.onc at this office. Price only $1.00 a year When desired we will send the Westerf Pedagogue aud Gazette one year to one address for $3.00. Call and examine sample copies. Teachers, direotors and parents, now is the time to subscribe, tf Bncklen's Arnica Salve. The best salve iu the ;world for cute bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped bands, obilblaiue oorns and all skin eruptions, and posi tively oures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaotion or money refunded. Pnoe 25 cents per box. For sale by Slooum-Johnson Drug Company, . . Tho 8peclcie:t Cltfar. A Dealer: Tlioro an; smokers whe fish for a cigar that has a speckled wrapper. I have linen asked if that sort of a cigar is any bettor than one that isn't speckled. 1 don't know why it should bo, except tho wrapper. A ; speckled wrappor indicates that the I tobacco is the outaido piece of the plant, and for that reason is bettor curod. The ! outside pioce is next to tho ground, j The rains waah tho sanda against it, and In curing particles of the sand adher to the loaf and make the specks. - - r Willis Barnes, of Charleston, Ind., bas invented a little machine which is Hfulrtni I I,,. r operated by clockwork, and marks, au tomatically, on glass, 50,000 lines on th space of an inch. . l.Ife at Sandringharn. Nothing can be happier and more peace ful than the life at Banclringhani, and whether alone orentertaining their friend the Prince and Princess of Wales are an Ideal host and hostess. They do not, us a ruio, appear at nreamasi; but shortly after eleven o'clock they come down and spend the rest of the day with their guests. In winter luncheon is generally taken at soma cottage near where Bkating is going on, and the Princess and the guests join the sicaiera ana waiK witn tnem arter lunch eon Is over. Tea is always ready In the hall at five o'clock, and every one appears, the men in velvet suit s and knickerbockers, and the ladies in tea-gowns, Dinner is at eight o'clock, and the evening is passed either In dancing or games, and about twelve o'clock the Prince and Princess give the signal for retiring, and thoso who go to bed early can get to rest; but the majority ifi" UU'" Bakin Powder 5 1893. Highest of all in Leavening A LEAK'S IMMIGRATION. ina .Numerous Arrlvnln nn Cn,r Shores in Twelve Month. U the Nations of Earth Contributing- to Our Annual Growth The Coun tries Furnishing; the Frtn eipal Iuorease. A statement recently issued from tb treasury bureau of statistic shows the number of immigrants of different na tionalities arrived in the country during the last Hsenl year. The whole num ber of arrivals was S.-,5.4U. arminat 451,210 during the fiscal year 1890 an increase of 104,277. The number arrived last year was greater than in any previous year since 1833. when th total was 003,833, aud it has been ex ceeded in only two other vears in 1881, when the number of arrivals was 6119,431, aud in 1882, when it was 788, 992. Two things are to be remarked with reference to these comparisons: First, that since 1883 the arrivals from Canada and Mexico have not been included in the othcial reports; and, second, that since 1883 the Chinese have been ex cluded by law, and the government officials have been supposed to know that there were no arrivals from the flowery kingdom. But there has been nothing to prevent immigration from Canada and .Mexico, and as a matter of fact a (rood many Chinese have found their way into the country. How much the tttsl of late years would be swelled if all the immigrants from these countries were included it is impossible, to say. We know that from 1880 to ! buth years inclusive, the arrivals from American countries varied from O3,i!0tl to l'i7.'".:iiiil that since 1885 they have, never much exceeded 5,000 as officially reported. The arrivals .from China fell from an average of perhaps1 15,000 for Rfverul years before 1883 to almost none since that year. It is per haps safe to s:.y that 50,000 should be added to the fjuivs of recent years on these accounts. Hut. that addition would still leave last, year far behind 1881 and 1882 in tiie number of arrivals. The principal increase last year u compared with the year before was from the. following countries: From Italy, 23,,'Hl; from Austria-Hungary, 14,881; from (Icrmriny, 21,122; from Hu's sia, including ! viand, 28,245. The arri vals from Its.!? were 75.143, which was more tbasi frrm any oilier one country except llcrniejiy. jjevr-r until 1880 did the arrivals fn m huh- much exceed 5,000 a yft hum- lin n they have rap idly liierei's.'d eve .pt.m the years 1884, 1885 and J8VI. 'I Ue imtnicrration from Russia never readied 5,000 a year 1 once Deii i-e ifi Last year it wm 47,401, and it exceeded 80,000 in each of the two (i-eeeiiiiig years. Because of the persecution of the Jews it is likely to De greater iicrentter. MILITARY RULE IN EUROPE. War la Contl lcrcil l'oislhla and Kma Prohitl.le ct Any Moment. European civilization to-day is based on the idea thai, war is not onlv an im minent possibility but a probability. and a great class in every country has been trained to look upon blood shed ding as its proper vocation. The great prizes are reserved fur soldiers: honors. fame, position and the monarch's favor go to the sons of Mars. The military budget exceeds many times over does it exceed the appropriations for public instruction. The. sa.ory of a colonel is earned by but few professors, writes W. E. Thayer in Hie, Forum. The cost of the powder an.! shot wasted in Eu rope between any dawn and dusk would probably pay the running ex penses of all i.er public hospitals, la each govermirant, whether it be consti tutional or' autocratic, the army may with truth bo said to direct legislation, for the legislatures wiiliugly or un willingly vote the appropriations demanded by the war department. Even if a legislature, dares to ques tion or protcft it is quickly fright ened into acquiescing by an alarm ing report from the inirjiister for war. Thus the military el has controls government nnd bus laws parsed to suit itself, and fiivvonts all attempts to cut down or to abolish its powers. It in timidates tin; stale not less really, though less openly, than the pretorian guard iiitiiiii.lnied old Home. Kings and ministers tio indeed assure the pub lic that they chiefly endeavor and de sire to preserve peace, hut in the next breath they call for larger funds and more recruits. Kaisers meet and kiss each other on both cheeks; they extol the sweetness of 'motherly love; they attend each other's grand maneuvers, and then they increase the garrisons along their respective frontiers. A strange method this for testifying to their peaceable intentions! A SYRIAN WEDDING. The First That Has lleon America. wTtassssd In A Syrian wedding, the first of the 1 kind ever witnctrl m Una country, wu i country, was celebrated nt St. I.ouis on a recent af ternoon, in accordance with the usages that prevail in Syria. In America it would be called a reception, but It differed from tho ordinary receptions in that it was strictly for Syrians. The groom was Knlel Wasoff und the bride was Adlaid .Mik. n. After being mar ried by a Catholic priest at St. Marv's church, the couple, In company with about seventy-live of their countrymen, v..w, i-uudujiuru, men and women, proceeded to celebrate the event. There were beer, wine and 11 X j&m W ABSOUJffEiaf I WEEKLY WO. 661. i SEMI-WEEKLY NO. U5.j Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report akin bwder PURE eatables in abundance. A part of th programme was the spraying of per fume from a cologne bottle over the crowd, every newcomer getting a sup ply of the odors in the face. The ladies present, of whom there was quite a number, indulged in a doleful chant in the Syrian language, which lasted for a couple of hours. It was explained to a reporter as being a method of con gratulating the bride in her new state. The reception lasted until late in the afternoon. Many of the participants who came from a Syrian colony in the neighborhood were unable to speak the English language. All present seemed to enjoy themselves. GOLD DISCOVERY. Cay Disputed Date Established by Docu- mentary Evidence. ' The various societies of California pioneers are accustomed to celebrate the 19th of January as the date of the discovery of gold by J. W. Marshall at Coloma, but that it is an error is shown by Mr. John S. Hittel in the Century, as follows (a fac-simile of the entry in Bigler's diary being printed in the mag. azine as ocular evidence): lhe tirst record of the discoverv. and the only one made on the day of its oc currence, was in the diary of Henry W. Bigler, one of the Mormon laborers at the mill. He was an American by birth, tnen a yourfg man, and now a respected citizen of St. George, U. T. He was in the habit of keeping a regular record of his notable observations and experi ences, selecting topics for remark with creditable judgment. His journal kept during his service in the Mormon bat talion and his subsequent stay in Cali fornia is one of the valuable historical documents of the State. On the 24th of January, in the evening, Bigler wrote in his diary: "This day some kind of mettle was found in the tail-race that looks like gold." Nothing war, said in public about the date of the discovery until 1858, eight years after the event when Marshall published a letter in which he said that he found gold at Coloma "about the 19th" of Janv.a'-y, 1848. Neither then, nor at any subsequent time, did he claim that his recollection of the day was aided by a writ ten memorandum. In 1857 he published a statement that the discovery was mado on the 18th, 19th or 20th. His bioar-hy, prepared under his dire 'lion, and printed in 1870, fixed the Kith as the precise day. As years chased he became more exact, perhaps under the influence of public opinion, which from 1850 to 1888 accented the 19th as the day. On the 0th of Meptember, 1885, at the annual celebration of the ad mission of the State into the Union, I delivered an address on the gold dis covery to the Pioneer society of San Francisco, and seet a copy of it in print to Mr. Bigler, of whom 1 had heard as one of the survivors of the Coloma party, and requested him to correct my errors, if he found any. Ho replied that according to his oinry fee .-old was found on the 24th. At my u iicitation he copied the entries of liis book from that day to the middle of May; and then I began an iiivestigi.ien v. hic.h made me familiar with the (ii;.vic.-i of Azariah Smith, a survivor of t'je Mormon' battalion and one, of tlv; mill builders at Coloma, and with the di. These three diaries ae-reed lywith one another, end shall's statement that i-mi the discovery he took s;-.e- ;, gold to Sutter's Fort, t ie ; entries on Sunday as a r-.i 80th January he, wrote 1 ! . t ceding week gold had been mill, and that -JlandiMl i New Helvetia to have .t t was probably written in t for Bigler's entry made ie ." ' it' Hutter. ,tli Mar '. tys after s of the i made his I'd on the ci the pre- .rwl at the ui gone to t.-d. This ' morning, tne same day mentions that the te: t v;,s success ful, implying that Marshall had re turned. Sutter's diary reports that on the 38th January Marshall arrived ; t the fort "on important business," without men tioning the gold. The agreement of the three diaries with Marshall's statement that he went to New I lelvot ia four days after the discovery, the superior value of documentary evidence as compared with vague recollections, dimmed by years of intervening events, and the un certainty of Marshall in reference to the date, left no room for doubt that the 24th was the true day, which I gave to me public lor the arst time in January, Fishing in Connecticut. An enthusiastic fisherman in Cnt,. ticut enjoys the sport without saeriflu any of hishome comforts. His resi dence is on the Willimantic river. From oacK window lie has strumr a wire across to the top of a tree. Just over n very good "fishing hole" he has blocked the wire, and with a carrier and a reel he slides his baited hook, sinker and line down the wire to the block. The contact releases the reel, anrt as it un winds the baited hook drops into the water and "fishing" begins. Sitting at home he c.n f,.i .i, M.i.. ' .i anrl nnmb- mnt; and a quick motion secures his prey and pulls it along the wire to the house. No Nentlment There. In nine cases out of ten ships leaving New York, Boston or Philadelphia fof J slant ports ar pr,lvisio,K,(I by their owners that if a ship-wrecked MWfor hD m?W" pi"U"' "P and tcu for three dava It ... body on short. ,1 "TV.1 .' ,1,,., n- .""a. x JOSS 01 IOUr , 7" 0,1 sa"ing time would do the same tmnIT- A 1 ..." El R !'l i mut'ia