The Heppner Gazette
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1900.
AS TO HUMAN ATTBIBUTBS.
To begin , with today, we present to
you a selection of human attributes,
and ask you to discuss and urge their
respective merits,
rv. tv,a Hut. tn h nrAsnnted we travel
far as far as China. '
The sinful heathen Chinese have a
way of surprising you, once you begin
to investigate their brand of heathen
ism. The more you read of Confucius,
the less yo think of many "great
men" of your own country.
The Chinese, living by rule in
crowded conditions through long cen
l, oua milnced everything to
VUl UHW - - - - ,
mt,hnd. Thev have decided that
the
TAnllv imnortant virtues are
five in
number. ' , , ' . ,,
Their view is most heathenish,
strictly considered, for their list in
cludes not one of the cardinal Chris
tian virtues. ...
Faith, love and hope, on which our
religion is based, do not interest the
Chinese gentleman ot tnougin.
Here is his list of virtues, and after
vnn TBdfl it vou will admit that it is
rather a dignified collection of virtueB
for a heathen to select,
viral, nf th Chinese virtues comes
vtmnthv. and then in the order
ij 1 -
named :
Justice.
Politeness.
-" Knowledge.
"'" Uprightness. '
We ask you to discuss these ques'
tions: ' .
Which of the five virtues named is
most important? Which is of greatest
va1ii to thn human race? Which is
most admirable?
The most important need not neceB'
Iv h most worthv of admiration,
You might think politeness most ad
mirnhln. and iustice moBt important.
A good plan, perhaps, is to make
out a list, putting at the head of it
vnnr fnvont.H virtue, and the four
others in their order of importance.
In the office of this newspaper the
question has been discussed.
Thin writer suggested that on the
whole svmnatbv might be called
mnat important of the Chinese five,
It unites society, makes human
relationships possible, and by building
up the weaK makes society progress as
a whole and prevents permanent
formation of dosnotic classes.
Immfidifltelv a listener ono whom
you all know by name and a very able
man obiected to Hiving first place to
flvmnnthv.
"Svmnathv." said he. "is all right,
but if a man has a broken leg. what he
wants is not sympathy, but a man who
knows how to set a broken leg. The
important ' quality is not sympathy,
It is knowledge."
This sounds plausiblo, as most pra&
tii'al Americans will admit.
! But the beautv of argument is this:
' There is no necessary end to jt.
One man says knowledge is the inv
' portant thing because without know
lodge you cannot mend a broken leg.
That sounds convincing. But sym
pathy first prompted men to seek the
knowledge that heals.
Among wolvea there is no sympathy.
If a wolt breaks his leg, the other
wolves eat him, eat him up and paHS
on. If a buttalo iB badly hurt, the
other buffalOH gore him to death.
Man, possessing sympathy, seeks to
Improve the condition of others and of
himself, and knowledge, instead of be
' ing more important than sympathy, is
really born of sympathy.
Yon perceive that in this question of
the Chinese five there is much oppor
tunity for discussion. We feel sure
that fathers will find this a profitable
discussion to present to their sons and
daughters, to replace the usual talk
about trivialities. We think that much
cood. wholesome thought will come
from the debate suggested. ,
We shall be greatly interested to hear
from our readers on this subject. , Of
courHe, many letters will not be
printed. Our object in this matter is
to promote discussion.
In time we hope to organize regular
roports of debates and to carry on the
work of discussion systematically,
getting suggOHtiona from our readers
and presenting the most important
views submitted to us.
Manv able minds prefer iustice to
all other of the five qualitieg,and much
is to be said for that choice. A world
devoid of justice would be a miserable
world. It would perhaps be more
miserable than a world free from
knowledge, or sympathy, or politeness,
or uprightness. ' But that is a matter
for our debates to discuss.
We shall bore you with only one
more suggestion, and this is it:
Are not the five qualities so closely
related that it is impossible to
separate them? Are they not in the
intellectual world like light, heat and
motion in the world of material forces,
practically interchangeable termer
Knowledge comes from sympathy.
Politeness is horn of knowledge. A
sympathetic mind ia instinctively up
right. Justice is an admirable combi
nation of the other four all equally
balanced. Hearsts' Chicago American.
A NAM WHO TAUGHT A LESSON.
Willis J. Abbott writeB in Hearst's
Chicago American as follows:
It was Wendell Phillips, I think,
who once said that be could advise no
course so favorable for the development
of strong character as for a young man
to identify himself with au unpopular
cause, of the righteousness of which
he was fully convinced, and press it
incessantly, fearlessly, untiringly,
through the poverty and contumely it
would bring until victory was won or
his days of earthly struggle ended.
Henry George set himself 1 such a
task and faithfully bore its burdans
until the very hour of his death. The
cause lie espoused was that of the poor,
his end the abolishment of poverty.
Strange that such a cause, sucli a mis
sion, could be called unpopular, hut
so it was and long will be, for the
poor are slow to reoognira him who
cornea forward in their service, while
the rich are only too quick to discover
the man who attacks their unjust
privileges and to pursue him with
ridicule, invective and persecution.
, In the biography of Henry George
written and most ably written by
his eldest son, Henry George, jr., one
may trace the unfolding of a mind
which has become possessed of a single
purpose, the development of a charac
ter which has consecrated itself to
the furtherance of a single great cause.
The struggle neverjhardened him. , He
has bo lately left us that there, are
thousands wno remember that, strong
and forceful though hia character was.
he retained to the last the sweet and
sunny nature of a boy.
Henry George was thirty-two 'years
old before he began to enjoy such
earnings as the newest reporter on the
New York press expects sor bis first
week's pay and his work was in Ban
Francisco, too, where wages then were
high and living expenses correspond
ingly so. He was forty when "Pro
gress and Poverty" was finished ; forty
two when the first sure indications of
its success became apparent. He died,
in the harness, at fifty-eight. At no
time was he wholly free from financial
embarrassments little as he cared for
monev with his rule of plain living
i i i iii.n i ttiiiiv.ninB snow a similar uiaie ui miairo. iiveo
tl8m at distant. Russia came the an-
bo far from having accumulated any
thing, he was $450 in debt; two years
later be was distressed lest creditors
garnishee the proceeds of La lecture,
and at fortv-four, when his name was
known to the statesmen and thinkers
of both English speaking nations, (and
his master work had been translated
into at least three foreign tongues, ne
wrote, commenting upon an unexpected
windfall. "What a curious lile is
mine. Literally from hand to mouth;
and yet always a way seems open."
Five times he was a canoiuaie lor
electoral office; four times was he de
feated, dying before his last candidacy
was submitted to tne aroitramenioi iuo
ballot. He lived to see the wonderlul
growth of the single tax movement
which he startea, out no uveu mug
enough as well to see its imptus
checked and it sutler ty trie reaction
I hope only temporary which in the
last five years among an peupieu u
tended to block progress along radical
lines to substitute gross materialism
for tire idealism of the social reformer
and to make the pocketbook ot
privilege the one standard by which
all public measures are to be tested.
Is this a record of success? From the
Fifth avenue view point, no. for my
own part X would rather a son of mine
uhrmfrl Tiara lei it than to eaual the
nredatorv prosperity oi a MOCKeieuer
. ... Tl. L..1T
or the Fosnappan statesmanship of a
Cleveland. For this, man was honest
with himself and with the world; he
flinched from no struggle; he never
wavered in his purpose; he influenced
more active and intelligent minds than
has perhaps any man of our generation
and he lighted a fire which-through
it flicker at times will grow until
it shall consume utterly the most
monstrous of all monopolies the
monopoly of the land on which men
must Jive. . ,
. In hiatorv Henrv George will be
ranked with the French encycloped
ints with ThornaB Jefferson, with Wil
liam Lloyd Garrison. They attacked
nrivilece noli tidal and economic with
purely intellectual weapons. Hp did he.
Without a formal education, with
mind trained only by omnivorous read
ing and disciplined by work at the
printer's case he formed for himself a
literary stv e at once lucid and
nioturesaue.
Without the aid of formal training
in logic be became as clear and cogent
a reationer as a wonu-wiue controversy
ever produced. Of slight frame and
stature and naturally weak , voice, he
made himself a moving platform
orator. .,
Born to poverty and never seeking
much to overcome it, he was able to
carrv his message to the ends of the
world : to meet in debate or in social
discussion the greatest luminaries of
England's political and scientific
world men like Professor Max Mullor,
John Bright. Herbert Spencer, the
Duke of Argyll and Joseph Chamber
lain; tp number his followers by the
hundreds of thousands, knowing that
thov yielded not merely intellectual
fealtv to his doctrines but were pas
sinniite in their devotion to himself.
iHe had the suoteone pleasure of
knowing that another philosopher, an
other man working in the cause of hu
manity amid the gloom and monotony
of the Kussian steppes, had heard ana
understood his message. "In thirty
years private property in land will be
as much a thing of the past as now is
serfdom." wrote Tolstoi. "England,
America and Russia will bo the first
to solve the problem. Henry
George has formulated the next
article in the program of the pro
gressive liberals of the world."
Is this a record oi lanurer ay
rather, of marvelous achievement.
Thomas Jefferson was twice elected
president of the United States, but the
estimate he put upon merely political
honors may be judged from the fact
that his epitaph written by himself
sets forth as his deeds worthy of re
mombranco only the founding of the
University of Virginia and the writing
of the Declaration of Independence.
Loving hands chiseled on the atone
that marks the resting place of Henry
Goorge by the sea an eloquent passage
from his greatest book, a passage that
gives to the most timid of his follower!
some share of the courage tnat ani
mated him. But had this not been
done it would have been a sufficiently
glonoiiB memorial to have said :
"lie wrote 'ProgreBs and Poverty
and gave his life for its principles."
T write biography is no easy task
To write the life of a dearly loved and
honored father tests at once the liter
ally ability, the discretion and the
good taste of the writer. Henry
Goorge, jr., has admirably performed
the task he undertook. He has written
precisely the biography his father
would havo had him write. For. he
who reads this book will not only
know Henry tieorge, but he will un
derstand the single tax and will con
tract something of the fervor which
animated its first apostle.
Entertaining Gueits Until! the Family,
Among influences that mould am!
refine the young persons of the house
hold is the entertaining of 'welcome
guests, ' Those accustomed to the
presence of visitors usually have more
pleasing manners, are more at their
ease and are consequently more grace
ful and tik'tful than those who have
not this advantage. Entertaining visi
tors unifies a family, all being pledged
to the same end the gratification
the guest. December Ladiea' Home
Journal.
Captain Johnston'! Condition.
The condition of Captain W.
Johnstone, of the steamer Dalles City
who wai assaulted on the dock at Port
land last Monday morning, is still
quite serious, lie u at St. Vincent's
hospital in Portland and la Buffering
from concussion of the brain, lie ttom
plains of pains in his back and arms,
and it is stated his mind is under
partial paralysis at times. His hearing
is also slightly impaired. Tracy Is the
name of the man who made the ns
Fault. He is in the city prison await
ing tlio results of his victim's injuries.
Bavarian Hops.,
To demonstrate the practicability of
growing Bavarian hopa and barley mi
this country will be the object of cer
tain experiments to be conducted at
the 0. it. tic N, agricultural experi
ment station! the coming season. The
United States imports Bavarian beer
to the value of about $1,000,000 annu
ally, and if the hop and barley can be
produced aud the . beer manufactured
lit Oregon, it means a new industry
for this country and keeping more
money at homo.
TYPHOID FBVEB PERIOD.
Dr. James J. Walsh, , in Hearst's
Chicago American, says: i
Just before cool , weather seta in
every year there comes in most of the
large cities of the world an outbreak
of typhoid fever. This year has been
no exception to the rule. New York
has suffered and is suffering from more
cases of the disease than at any other
time this year, or even during any time
last year. THe reports of the boards
of health of various American cities
i : l i i tt tri
nouhcement that the czar Is
sunermg
from the disease, and in so severe a
form that a for a time his life was de
spaired of.
it is a common remans oi meaicai
man that a normally neauny young
person has a reasonably good chance
of reaching a fair old age if he can
nly avoid typhoid pneumonia and
accidents. It is not usually realized,
but contagions are really accidents,
quite as much, for instance, as being
struck bv an engine or a trolley car.
What every one wants to know is how
to avoid the pesky things. Now,
typhoid fever ia not bard to avoid if
one knows something of how the di
sease is spread.
ihe question oi tne power oi water
to produce disease has been revolu
tionized by recent advances in the
bacteriological analysis of water. How
often have we not heard of men com
pelled to drink the vilest water, yet
without disease resulting. The reason
is plain. There is dirt and dirt. Di
sease dirt that is, material containing
the specific germs of disease may to
all outward appearances seem cleanly.
It may not offend the eye or the nose,
vet it will produce disease. On the
other hand, offensive decaying ma
terial. however unaestnetic in ap
pearance may prove perfectly harmless,
or at most create buttaslight indisposi
tion, because it contains no specinc
germs of disease.
Some years ago when tne chemical
analysis of water was supposed to give
much more denmte and accurate in
formation as to the suitability of water
for drinking purposes, a distinguished
English bacteriologist sent a specimen
of good, wholesome water for analysis.
He added the request that an opinion
with regard to us potability Da ren
dered. stating that the water was bus
pec ted. Before sending the sample
it was deliberately " inoculated with
tvphold bacilli. The. answer returned
was tnat the water was periectiy taie,
as it was, of course, according to
chemical standards, though at the
same time it contained virulent typhoid
bacilli.
The incident serves to show the in
sidiousness of the danger as regards
typhoid lever. The bacilli may exist
in unpleasant water, but they may
also be present in water that accord
ing to all ordinary criteria is perfectly
healthy, cool, fresh, clear, pleasant
tasting and without color and odor.
The same thing ia true of any other
substances that may become infected
with typhoid bacilli, injs it is that
facilitates the spread of the disease.
Many other food products besides water
may become contaminated, and so
prove sources of infection. Medical at
tention has of late years been fixed es
pecially on two foodstuffs that can and
undoubtedly do convey the disease.
They are milk and oysters.
Milk, it has been known lor a long
time, might convey the disease.
Oysters have come under the ban of
serious suspicion only in very recent
years. If milk becomes contaminated
with typhoid germs it not oniy . jceeps
them alive, but it encourages their
growth. Where only a few bacilli ex
isted originally, they may increase to
large numbers. The slightest contact
with infected typhoid material sutnees
to make milk dangorous. If the milk
pans are washed in water from an in
fected stream, if the hands of the
dairymen have been in contact with
any material from typhoid sources;
finally, it even tne cow nas been
wading in an infected creek or
river, there are many possibilities of
at least a few typhoid bacilli finding
their way in the milk and then
multiplying until millions are present
at the end of twenty-four to thirty-six
hours, when the milk ia delivered in
the city. .
Oysters are always infected by wa
ter. Some years ago in New Haven,
when the first epidemic of tphoid fever
due to oysters was traced, it was found
that the oysters had been placed in a
stream of fresh water before being
served, because this caused them to
swell up, and gave them the plump,
inviting appearance so pleasing to cer
tain oyster amateurs. This fresh water
stream proved on . examination by a
bacteriologist to contain typhoid
bacilli, and tha oysters had become
infected. A number of epidemics of
typhoid have since been traced to oys
ters, and the typhoid bacillus has been
successfully grown on the oyster.
The danger of the contamination of
food materials and wator with typhoid
bacilli Is greater during the fall, because
after the dry in miner season there are,
as a rule, unusually heavy rainfalls.
Organic material, sometimes contain
ing typhoid bacilli, has often collected
in the neighborhood of running water,
and in the overflow which follows the
first heavy shower it is washed into
the stream. This may not be used for
drinking purposes, yet may prove a
source of contagion because used for
cleansing vessels that aro to contain
food or drink.
The important rules to be observed
so as to guard against typhoid fever at
this seadon of the year are, then, first,
to take only cooked food, being especi
ally cpreful of raw milk and oysters,
at least until very cold weather has
set in, and, second to avoid, as far as
possible, personal contact with patients
suffering from the disease, or thooe in
immediate charge of them. Where
contact is inevitable, then scrupulous
cleansing renders the danger minimal.
THE IRRIGATION MOVEMENT.
The holding of the National Irriga
tion Congress in the east, as it turned
out, was wise move. The people of
that half of the country have had the
subject of national irrigation brought
home to them in a manner not other
wise . possible. The far-reaching im
portance of the problem has been pre
sented to them and genuine interest
has been awakened. Instead of finding
opposition in the east, the congress
found that eastern men of prominence
were more than interest in a proposi
tion which promised an increased west
ern population ol millions of people.
As the "enemy's country" has been
invaded, the myth of eastern opposi
tion has faded away and its people are
found to be anxioua to inaugurated
a national policy of western arid land
reclamation. 1
The western delegates went home
with the feeling that they have the
hear'.y support of eastern interests in
securing action which will open to
settlement a half a continent capable
of : supporting fifty million people.
luey cannot but feel that Una support
is growing; that it is developing into a
great movement ; that many people are
realizing that national action would
meet such western development as
would increase the national wealth be
yond measure.
'-'
The time seems fully ripe for the
west, to take a decided stand on ' the
question of national irrigation, and
something great may be accomplished
at once. Why not? It is as right that
congress should appropriate money for
storage reservoirs as tor river and har
bor improvements. The building of
storage reservoirs would obviate the
necessity for much river expenditure
and would help navigation, and the
home building area of the United
States would be vastly increased. And
now if the west makes this demand the
east will back it up, for the benefit
would not be local.
Every western paper is interested
in seeing tms development, accom
plished. What would be the result of
an appropriation of eight or ten mil
lion dollars spent annually ln.tne west
for irrigation construction? The im
mediate stimulation would be en
ormous and the future benefit greater.
This policy should be inaugurated
and the western press should urge it
with one voice. It is a national matter;
it can be productive only of great
good; the east is responsive; will the
west oe aggressive; it is uuu iu wuia.
It is the opinion at Washington tnat
$40,000,000 will be appropriated by
this congress for river ana narDor im
provements. Of this the western half
of the United States will get, judging
by previous records, a couple oi
million or so. Whatever are her possi
bilities, it is not contended that the
west is as important or influential as
the east. She has not yet the dense
population; but why should she not get
at least a fair share of this great appro
priation? Why should she not get a
fourth ol it, to be applied to the build;
ing of great storage reservoirs to be
filled with flood waters for use in irri
gation, under a system of internal im
provements? The government is spending large
sums in aiding in the development of
foreign trade and the opening of foreign
markets for American manufacturers.
It is believed that we should push our
(roods into every market of the world
and Bell them. The belief is also
gaining ground that the government
should also develop its home market
for American products and manufacture
ers. This it could do by reclaiming
the 75,000,000 acres of western arid
land and settling them' with thousands
of industrious home builders. Eastern
merchants are more than willing to see
such an undertaking. The west should
take the initiative.
THE WAR TAX REDUCTION.
The Changes in th Tax Which the Bill
Provide! for.
The bill to reduce the war tax will
take effect 30 days after its passage
and will be passed some time before
March 4 next. It has already passed
the house. Probably it will be pushed
through soon alter the Christmas noli
days. In that event, the relief would
take effect in February, following is
a complete summary of the proposed
changes I
Commercial brokers Tax of $20
revoked.
Custom house brokers Tax of 110
rescinded.
Theaters, etc. Tax of $100 removed,
Circuses, etc. Tax of $100 cancelled,
Exhibitions, etc. Tax of $10 re-
pealed.
.Bank checks, dralts, deposit cettih-
cates. etc. lax revoKeu.
Bills - of exchange, inland and
foreign. Tax annulled.
Bifis of lading, etc. Tax of 10 Cents
repealed,
Telephone messages rfax rescinded
Bonus Tax 50 cents, repealed.
Certificates for marine purposes Tax
25 cents, revoked,
Certificates of legal nature lax lu
cents, cancelled.
Charter contracts for shipping lax
removed. ,
Contracts for brokerage Tax 10
cents, repealed.
Conveyances,, deeds, etc. lax
annulled.
Dispatches, telegraphic Tax 1 cent.
rescinded.
Insurance, life policies Tax re
voked. '
Insurance, marine Tax cancelled
Leases, agreement for rent, etc. Tax
removed.
Manifests for custom house entry or
clearance lax cancelled.
Mortgages, pledges of realty or per
sonalty Tax rescinded.
Passage tickets by vessels to foreign
ports lax removed.
Power cf attorney, proxies, etc. Tax
IA 1J ' 1
Protest for notes, checks, drafts,
etc. fax 25 cents, rescinded.
Warehouse receipts for storage, etc.
Tax 25 cents, annulled,
lieer Tax reduced from $1 a barrel,
less 7 1-2 per cent, to 20 per cent, mak
ing a net reduction of 25 cents a barrel
Cigars Tax $:1.00 per 1000, reduced
to is per luou.
Proprietary articles, patent medicines
etc. lax rescinded.
"NECROSIS OF THE BONES."
Ths Japan! In British Columbl
Vlotlms of th Dliai.
A most peculiar and dreadful disease
is attacking the Japanese of British
Columbia. The doctors call it
"necrosis of the bones," and it is said
to be verv rare. It is perhaps of the
same family as leprosy, but while
leprosy attacks the flesh, this new diB'
ease attacks the bones. First the
marrow decomposes, then the hard part
of the bone. Nature makes a brave
effort to make up for the rotting tissue
by building a bone casing around the
decomposing leg, but luck of food, and
consumption of decomposed food, com
pels nature to give away, and the
casing snaps and the leg is broken.
This happens first to one leg; then
to the other. Then the arms, when
the disease finally eats its way into
the bones of the neck or the spinal
column and the Jap is no more. The
destitute Jans who did not smuggl
themselves into the Untied States, are
indeed in a desperate condition
Manv of them are starving, and have
been" rescued in the nick of time by
vmnathetic , whites, but there is
legion of them living on scarcely
enough to keep a canary alive, and
decomposed food at that; thus this
horrible new disease "necrosis of the
bones. "
Th Mlr Cas Again.
Ihe case of Pharlea F. W. JTeeley
the embeMler of Cuban postal fundi
is before tie V'V ptaes supreme
court. The argument developed in
teresting and important questions of
law with reference oj the right Of the
United States to extradite a fugitive
criminal la the absence ot an extradi
tion treaty. John D. Lindsay, of ljew
York, speaking for Kepley.plaimfd that
before the war between the United
States and Sua in there existed Cuban
republic, and that the maintenance of
military government there after the
close of th war is without authority
under international law and a flagrant
contravention of the constitution, of
the United States.
GENERAL NEWS.
A membership in the New York
stock exchange sold Wednesday for
$47,000 to John H. McCullogh.
Representative Hitt. of Illinois, has
made formal announcement of his
candidacy for the United States senate.
The Illinois Staats Zeituns was sold
at auction in Chicago for $200,000.
The company will be reorganized at
once. -
Senator Clark, of Montana, has pur
chased a mine in Mexico, owned by
parties in Fort Worth, Texas, con
sideration $800,000.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany reports that for the quarter end
ing December 31, the net earnings will
be about $1,500,000. " '
At its 631 stated meeting the Balti
more Presbytery has gone on record as
iavonng a revision ol the confession
of faith bv a vote of 47 to 24.
A rumor is in circulation in the Aus
trian capital that former King Milan
is about to become engaged . to Miss
Atzel, an American heiress.
Vermont continues to be a rural
state. It is the only state in the north
that does not contain a city with a
population of 25,000 or more.
Edward Rvan. a millionaire mer
chant, died at his residence in. Han
cock, Michigan. He was at Tone time
considered the wealthiest Irishman in
America.
The brother of Professor Andree, the'
missing Arctic explorer, hoping for
Andree's return from the polar regions,
has deferred opening the letter's testa
ment for 12 months.
The official vote in Texas
was as
follows
Democratic, 267,432; republi-
can, 130,664 ;
populist, 20,961; prohi-
ton, 2,664;
social democratic, 846;
socialist labor, 162
Emperor Nicholas, for the first time
since his illness began, went into the
open air Saturday sitting on a veranda.
subsequently he received one of the
ministers in audience.
Benjamin R. Crocker, the first pur
chasing agent of the Central Pacifio
railroad, is dead at his home In Sacra
mento. He disposed of his railroad
interests several years ago,
According to the North China Daily
News, Prince Tuan escaped from Tung
Kuan pass under tne disguise ot the
Buddhist Bonz with- shaven head,
bound for Western Mongolia,
Manv huncrv men In Paris are re
sorting to holdups to relieve their dis
tress. Une nlgbt this week a street
car was held up by masked men right
in the heart of the city anujthe paasen
gers robbed.
The will of the late Senator Davis
who died November 27, was filed for
probate at St. Paul. The will leaves
all his estate to Mrs. Davis. The
estate is value at $25,000 in personal
and $40,000 in real property.
During the performance of "Shore
Acres" in the Grand opera house in
Sioux City. Iowa, two masked men
entered the box office, assaulted, beat
and shot the treasurer, Gariey S.
Rounds, and escaped without getting
any cash.
Cornelius Alvord, ir., the defaulting
note teller of the first National bank,
was arrested and arraigned before Judge
Thomas in the criminal part of the
United States circuit court in New
York, and pleaded not guilty. The
trial was set for December 26.
With perfect weather and in the
presence of a vast throng ot people,
Uovernor J. V. W. Beckham as inaugu
rated governor Kentucky, Tuesday,
for the three 4ars remaining of the
term for which, William Goebel and
William S. Taylor contesed last year.
It is the general belief of well-in
formed officers that General MacArthur
and General A. E, Bates will return
to the United States within a few
months and Major General Chaffee',
now in command at Pekin, will be or-;
dered to Manila as General Mao
Arthur's sueegsor,
Attorney General Tavlor, on behalf
of the state of Indiana, has filed
petition asking the appointment of
receiver for the Order of Chosen
Friends, one of the' largest fraternal
insurance associations in the United
States. The filing of the suit will
affect 30 states of the Union.
Max Lenzmann, the 10-year-old son
of a Berlin lawyer, has been dismissed
from his gymnasium and forbidden to
enter any other in Prussia for com
mitting lese majeste when the princi
pal of the gymnasium mentioned to the
pupils the recent attempt at BreBlau
upon the life of Emperor William.
Paul Antoine vice-consul of France
and acting consul, in San Francisco,
shot himself through the head last
night and will probably die, The
shooting was witnessed by a woman
known as Bell Uhappell, with whom
be had kept company for three years.
She refuses to state the cause for the
deed.
The circuit court in Illinois has de
cided that the anti-trust statutes ot
Illinois, though blemished with un
constitutional provisions, are valid and
in force, as a result corporations in
the state must continue to make
affidavit to the secretary of state that
they are in no way connected with any
i i r .r i .l. i - . i '
irusi or comumawuu tor mo uuinauoii
or restraint of trade,
Capt. F. W. Dickens, U. 8. N..
sailed from Man Francisco for the
Asiatic station on the steamer Rio de
Janeiro, to take command of the Ore
gon, lie expects to soon bring the
battleship to San Francisco for perm
anent repairs to her hull, which was
seriously injured when she struck a
submerged rock 1 In Chinese waters.
The Kentucky will replace the Oregon
in the Orient
Jerome B. Fisher, grand exalted
ruler of the Elks; J. T. Fanning and
J. D. Oshea, grand trustees, and
George P. Cronk, past exalted ruler.
are at Colorado Springs to select a site
for the contemplated home for aged
and decripit members of the order.
William S. Stratton, of Cripple Creek,
has offered free a plot with a magnifi
cent new building and everything in
tact at Colorado Springs.
At the convocation exercise at the
University of Chicago President
Harper announced that John D. Rocke
feller had made another gift of $1,-
S00.UU0 to the institution. Uf this sum
$1,000,000 is to be used as an endow
ment fund, and the university is to
derive the benefit of the income from
it from year to year. It is also etipu
lated tnat the ii.uuu.uou is to be in
the university's name and to be con
sidered its absolute property for all
time.
isefore nearly ju.wj people, in
Madison Square Garden, New York
Harry Elkee. of Glen Falls, N. Y.,
and Floyd McFarland of San Jose,
Calif., the American team, won the
six-day international bicvele race by
a wheels length, iroro tsurns fierce,
of Boston, and Archie McEachern, of
Toronto, Ont., the Canadian team.
Caesar Simar pf Paris and Jean
Gougolti ot Monte Carlo, the French
team were third, one lap away. The dis
tance covered by the winners was 2623
miles and seven laps, this being 104
and seven lap behind the former
record.
At 1 o'clock Sunday morning in New
York the thermometer stood at 15 de
grees below zero.
There are over 200,000 people out of
work and walking the streets of Paris
since the close of the exposition.
Five cases of what is believed to be
bubonic plagno have developed in
Tucuman, in the Argentine Republic.
The ship subsidy bill will undoubt
edly fail to pass at this session of con
gress, in spite of the organized effort
in iavor oi it.
The prohibition vote in the nation
in the late election will not exceed
200,000. In 1896 the two prohibition
tickets polled about 136,000 votes. ,
Rev. James L. Johnson is missing
from . his home in New York. He
appeared several davs ago and it is
feared he is suffering from a deranged
mind.
In replv to a dispatch from Grand
Rapids, Mich., inviting him to the
United States, Mr. Kruger has wired
he has noU arrived at any decision
with regard to visiting America.
The Iowa university football
team
play
has ' accepted propositions to
games with the University of
forma Christmas day, and with
land Stanford university New Year's
day.
A year ago General Kitchener de
clared it would take a year and 150,
000 men to conquer the Boers. The
year is up and nearly 200,000 men have
been in the field, and still Kitchener
is not through with the job.
C. C. Black has filed a petition in
bankruptcy, at Goschen, Indiana. His
schedule shows $719,000 liabilities, and
$220 assets. Mr. Black was formerly
president of the Fort Woith &
Albuquerque Railroad company.
Major General John G. Parke, re
tired as colonel, died at his residence
in Washington of a complication of
diseases incident to old age. He
served in the civil war and gamed a
fine reputation in the engineer . corps.
Owing to the success of the .United
States in pressing claims for compensa
tion in connection with the Armenian
disorders, Great Britain is now urging
the Ottoman government to pay
similar claims put forth by their sub
jects. It was announced that the Union
Pacific had joined the Rock Island and
the Burlington in quoting a 1-cent rate
for the national Grand Army encamp
ment to be held in Denver "next sum
mer. This is regardless of the action
of other roads.
Mrs. Catherine Olivia Brice, widow
of Calvin S. Brice, died in New York
at her reHidence, of Bright's disease,
aged 60,. . Mrs. Brice's death occurred
on the 'second anniversary of the death
of her husband, and shortly before she
died she had repeatedly alluded to this.
Helen Keller, the deaf, blind and
heretofore dumb student at RadcUffe
College, recently astonished and de-
lighted the freshman class of which
she is a vice-president bv making a
short address. By study she has
learned to make herself understood by
speech-
Presidont Scott of the Union Iron
works at San Franciso, the builders of
the new battleship Ohio,, saw the
president and bad his assurance that
if nothing occurred to prevent he
would go to San Francisco some time
next May to w itness the launching of
the big vessel.
The people of the town of Sing Sing,
New York, will make an effort to have
the name changed to Ossining, which
'is the i name of the township and an
Indian name, on the ground that the
present name inlures the town be
cause the penitentiary there bears the
same name. '
Discussing the attitude of the United
States senate relative to. the Hay
Fauncefote treaty the Westminster
Gazette savs that it is perfectly natural
tne United States ehoald desire to
exact guarantees against the use of the
Nicaragua canal by an enemy in the
event of a war.
A very remarkable case is that of
Soldier Frank Ricenburg who was ar
rested in Oakland, Cal., on a charge of
burglary, tried and acquitted for the
reason that it was found that for years
he had not been in his right mind be
cause of the pressure of a piece of bone
on his brain.
The London Post publishes an article
by Major-Gen. Elwell S. Otis, former
ly military governor of the Philip
pines, on "The Philippines Future,'
In which he points out the "impor
tance for the destiny of the archipelago
of a repudiation of the anti-imperial
istic doctrine by the American people.
According to the figures revised by
the director of the mint, the world's
production of gold for 1899 amounted
to $306,584,900, of which Australasia
yielded $79,821,600; Africa,$73,227,100,
and the United States, $71,053,400.
The production of silver amounted to
S1UU,321,1U0, of which Mexico produced
$33,367,300 and the United States $32,-
858,700.
Keep th Looal Paper Informed.
If the people who seek courtesies
from the county newspapers would only
think to return them, much good
would come of it, says an exchange.
Manv people think they are neglected
in print because some news item ot
interest to them does not, - through thn
newspapers, find its way to the general
public, and yet they seem to forget
entirely that reporters are, most un
fortunately, not mind readers, ' and if
they would but call up the office by
'phone the paper would only too gladly
give the item space. There isn't a
paper in the land that does not want
the news, and every paper could and
would be full of news if each person
knowing something along that line
would but give the office the slightest
tip.
A Serious Runaway. ,
A serious accident occurred on the
Prineville stage line Saturday near
Cleeks, the first station north of Prine
ville, in which three passengers were
injured and the stage wrecked, owing
to the reckless driving of an intoxi
uated driver. As the . stage neared
Cleeks, the driver attempted an ex
hibition of horsemanship, smashing
one wheel of the Btage and landing
the passengers and baggage on the
grade. A. Fenton, of Hillsboro, W.
J. Calvin of Salem, and A. B. Niles.of
Walla Walla, were all thrown from
the stage, badly bruised and shaken
up, Mr. Fenton having one hip dislo
cated.
The Sun and Mount Hood.
The sun now rises almost squarely
behind Mount Hood, says the Port
land Telegram. When the sky is clear
enough people witnessing its appear
a nee see a rare sight. It is only in the
winter time that the sun gets far
enongh south to rise behind the moon-
tain. During that time there is gen
erally a curtain of cloud that shuts off
its view. This morning, however, was
one of the few times that the curtain of
clouds was rolled up so that the rising
act coma be seen, and it was assuredly
a brilliant spectacle. The rim of the
sky was a fire with gold, and against
mis mazing nacgrgrounu were cniseieti
the clear, cold, white lines
statelv mountain.
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PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS.
Portland poultry show, January 7-12.
Oregon State Dairymen's association,
Hillsboro, January 3-4.
Oregon State Teachers' . association.
Albany, December 26-28.
L. W. Updegraff, a Salem Prairie
farmer, died at his home Thursday
aged 70 years.
Seventy homestead entries have been
filed in the Walla Walla land office
since the first of the month.
The city of Spokane paid in salaries
for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1900, the sum of $189,017.53.
There are a number of cases of
measles at Eugene. The schools have a
small attendance there on account of it.
The first annual exhibit of the
Douglas County Poultry and Pet Stock
association opened at Roseburg Thurs
day. It is announced that the total taxa
ble property in the city of Salem will
be approximately, $230,000 less than
Jast year.
Phillip Wolf, aged 73, was found
dead in bed at Shubel, Clackamas
countv, having died some time during
the night. , ,
M. S. Barnes, proprietor of the
Baker City Cornucipia Stage Line has
made an assignment to P. Basche, the
Baker City hardware dealer.
There is found to be a 15,000 bushel
shortage of wheat in the Baker ware
house, at'Junction City, Lane county.
An investigation is being njade.
J. B. Taylor, of Roseburg, telegraph
operator, filed a petition in bankruptcy
at Portland. His liabilities amount
to $2962.25; assets, principally
exempt, $329.
George Dixon, the forger, was sen
tenced in Portland by Judge George to
ten years in the penitentiary.' Dixon
forged and swindled in several real
estate deals.
T. Horn fell from a chair in a
Seattle saloon Saturday, and splashed
a strong solution of lye which was in
a bucket, over his face. He will be
permanently disfigured, and may lose
his sight. .
William Lane, a pioneer of La
Grande attempted to commit suicide
Sunday by cutting his throat, but was
prevented by a member of the family.
It is believed that he was temporarily
deranged.
County Judge Rood, of Washington
county, after consultation with Com
missioner Ward, of Gatin, has decided
to offer a reward of $500 for the arrest
and conviction of the murderer of
Andrew Dahlberg.
"All of Marion county's delegation
will support Hon. H. W. Corbett tor
United States senator, with possibly
one exception," declared Henry
Keene. of Stayton, a member of the
lower house in Portland.
A violent wind and rain storm oc
curred at Astoria Saturday night and
isunciay. ihe wind at the mouth of
the river at one time attained a velocity
of 65 miles per hour. As far as learned
there was no damage to shipping.
The three masted schooner Pioneer,
Captain. Michaelson, sent ashore at 4
a. m. Monday on tlje Nestucca beach,
opposite Ocean Park. She was lumber
laden from the Khappton mills, on the
Columbia river, and bound for San
Francisco.
Kidnappers stole 5-year-old John
Ditchburn, son of Lawyer John Ditch
burn, Monday in Portland, and after
an exciting time, in which both rela
tives and police participated, the little
boy was located in a farmhouse near
Linnton, about 10 miles y below that
city. r
There is no doubt that Andrew
Dahlberg, the Swede farmer residing
near Reedville, Washington county,
who was found dead in his cabin Mon
day, was foully murdered Sunday even
ing, and that the motive was robbery.
The dead man has a brother at Mullan,
luano.
A quit-claim deed was filed at Spo
kane by which the Amsterdamsch
trustees, Kantoor, a Holland company,
translers all its holding in Spokane
county to the Washington Water Power
company for $300,000. It gives the
water company practically control of
the falls of Spokane.
The cash receipts of the Portland
water company, which is operated by
a commission composed of men serving
wituoui pay, were ior tne year iuu,
actual for 11 months and estimated for
the month of December, will amount to
about $285,891.05. or $21,621.40 more
than for the year 1899:
Samuel Chaimov. of Portland, me
chanic, has filed a petition in bank
ruptcy in the United States court. His
liabilities amount to $2390.80, assets,
$150, exempt. W. E. Wood, of Port
land, mechanic, filed a similar peti
tion. His liabilities amount to
$5850.21, assets $800.
It is feared that the supply of mis
tletoe available tor the Christmas
market will fall far short of supplying
the demand. Parties have been out
through Yamhill and adjacent counties
in search of tins plant, and can find
but little which has berries on it,
which is the kind most in demand.
The board of naval construction
recommended that the contracts for
the new battleships and cruisers be
awarded as announced Tuesday, except
that the battleship awarded Moran &
eons, of SeAttle, which shall be given
to the Fore River Engine Co. of
Bingham, Mass., on the gound that its
bid was the lowest of any received.
N. P. Telegraphers Stirred Up.
The Northern Pacific's action in in
troducing the system of telephones be
tween St. Paul and the coast for the
transmission of train orders may cause
a decided upheaval among the tele
graphers of the company, this scheme
will necessarily displace a large num
ber of the men, they maintain, and al
ready complaint is beginning to be
heard from the aggrieved operators. A
report comes from St. Paul that al
ready a committee of operators has
held a conference with the Northern
Pacific officials, in which the matter of
the present wage scale and the tele
phone project wert discnsBod. There
has been no decided action shaped as
yet by the operators and it is probable
that the reported action will amount to
very little.
First Book About Oregon.
Librarian D. P. Leach has just
secured for the Portland Library Asso
ciation a copy of what is believed to bp
the first book about Oregon ever
printed, for whiph he has been adver
tising for three years. It is entilted:
A Geographical Sketch pf That Part pf
North America Called Oregon, Con
taining an Account pf the Indian Title,
the Nature of a Right of Sovereignty,
the First Discoveries, Climate and
Seasons, Face of the Country and
Mountains, Natural Pivisipps, Physi
cal Appearance and Soil of Each;
Forests and Vegetable Productions ;
Rivers, Bays, etc-. ; Islands, etc. s Ani
mals, the Disposition of the Indians
and the Number and Situation of
Their Tribe. Tnmthr With an
Essay
I on the Advantage Resulting from
Settlement of the Territory." .
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