The Heppner Gazette
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1901.'.
AN IDEA, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
The Oregon Historical society pro
a commemorative celebration at
ortland, in 1905, of the centennial
anniversary of the Lewis and Clarke
expedition to the Pacific coast. Invi
tation will be extended to the governors ;
of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon
tana and Wyoming to share in the
interesting historical festival.
The reflection is fascinating that every
notable and great achievement in the
world's history sprang from an idea
born in the mind of one person. The
fact is interesting that the thought
which led up to the Lewis and Clarice
expedition, and to which are trace
able the history and growth and
romance of tbePaciflc northwest, came
into the fertile mind of Jefferson when,
that eminent statesman was serving as
United States minister to France..
"Thomas Jefferson," says one his
torian, "was the father of United
States explorations. While lesser minds
were absorbed in proximate events,
his profound ' sagacity penetrated
forests, and sought to reveal the extent
and resources of the new nation. And
chief among the incidents which
aroused in him a more than ordinary
interest in the subject was the ap
pearance, in 1786, at the United States
legation in Paris, while Jefferson was
minister to France, of that most re
markable man, John Ledyard of
Connecticut." ' , .
Ledyard was with Captain Cook in
his vovage to the Pacific, and had
been the first in Europe or America to
propose a trading veyage to the north
west coast, "and was now in Paris,
panting for fresh adventure." ;
A constant guest of Jefferson, he in
spired in that great American the
noble dream of exploration that was to
add an empire to the young republic;
Returning in 1789 to the United
StatfiH. th thought crew uuon Jeffer-
Ann and (n 1792. while secretary of
state, he proposed to the American
Philonnnhical societv that some com-
Setent person be engaged to ascend the
lissouri river, cross the Stony moun
tains, and follow a western river to
the sea. The plan was attempted, but
was not carried to consummation.
Jefferson, however, never lost sight of
his favorite project, and when he en
tered the White House in 1801, the Idea
developed into the stupendous di
plomacy which gave us Louisiana, and
put our western border in contact with
the distant Pacific northwest, the mys
terious No Man's Land of the Oregon.
But Jefferson was resolved that it
should not long continue as No Man's
Land, and in a confidential message of
January 18, 1803, he urged congress to
authorize a military expedition across
the continent. The measure was
sanctioned bv congress, and the Lewis
and Clarke expedition followed.
Besides 14 United States soldiers,
the party included nine young Ken
tuckians, two French voyageurs, a
hunter, an interpreter, and a negro
servant of Captain Clarke. It passed
the winter of 1803-4 at the mouth of
' the Missouri. In the spring of 1804,
it was reinforced by a detail of six sol
diers under a corporal, with nine boat
men, and proceeded by leisurely stages
up the Missouri river. It went into
winter Quarters in October, in the
country of the Mandans.
In the spring of 1805, the party
pushed its toilsome way up the
Missouri, crossed the Rocky moun
tains, and after enduring severe hard
ships and encountering innumerable
perils, followed a tributary of the
Clearwater, and after that the larger
stream to its confluence with tho
Snake; passed down the Snake river
to the Columbia, and thence down the
great river of the west, until, on
November 7, 1805, "They beheld to
their great joy the horizon line of the
Paciflo ocean."
Space will not permit a detailed ac
count of the party's explorations. It
passed the winter of 1805-6 near the
Columbia's mouth, the spot selected
for the fort being about 200 yards
from the bank of Lewis river, near its
entrance into tho bay, on the Clatsop
or Oregon shore.
The winter was passed in hunting
for food, in making treaties with the
surrounding tribes, and distributing
medals and certificates of kindness to
the leading chiefs. Before starting on
the long return journey, Lewis and
Clarke posted this notice in the fort
"The object of this is, that
through the medium of somo civilized
person, who may see the same, it may
lie made known to the world, that the
, party consisting of the persons who
names are hereunto annoxed, and who
were sent out by the government of the
United States to explore the interior
of the continent of North America,
did penetrate the same by the way of
the Missouri and , Columbia rivers, to
the discharge of the latter into tho
Pacifio ocean, where they arrived oil
the 14th day of November, 1K05, and
departed the l'3d day of March, 1806,
by the same route by which they had
come out."
The assertion is occasionally heard
that Lewis and Clarke claimed the
Pacifio northwest as territory' of the
United States, but is not well founded
me time was not yet opportune lor so
bold and sweeping a claim, and its ad
vancement then would have alarmed
tho powers of Kurope, and might have
lost us the great empire which is now
our noble heritage. ,
There Is strange fascination in re-
fleeting on what might have been. We
won the Oregon country by a narrow
margin, with nothing to spare in
statecraft and diplomacy. If Jefferson
had not conceived the great idea,
nurtured it in his fertile mind, and
advanced it to the point of daring ac
tion, history might record a very
different story. If Ledyard hail not
met our ambassador at Paris, nor
poured into his ready ear the ambiti
ous plan of northwestern civilization
and conquest, a different purpose might
have controlled the lofty spirit of
Jefferson. The red ensign of Britain
might wave where now floats to the
free breezes the beauteous banner of
our glorious Union. Spokesman-Review.
TBI QUESTION OF BXBRCISE.
Dr. Albert H. Hoy, who lias pub
lished a book on "Eating and Drink
ing" discussed the much mooted sub-
Joct of exorcise and its effects on the
lealth, to newspaper man.
"I am speaking," he said, "about
exercise for the business man, not
about exercise for the young or for
laborers. Every action, whether of the
brain or of the muscles, destroy! oella,
uses up tissue and creates so miuh
waste matter to be taken up by the
blood and to be eliminated from the
system. . ..
"Now, unless such waste is elim
inated it beeonws bo much poison in
the system. The great eliminating
machine of the human body is the kid
neys. Unless the kidneys do their
work the system is saturated with
poisons. '
"For instance, there is the sad case
of Senator Davis. His toe was
poisoned by his stocking and refused
to heal. Kidney complaint developed,
or rather the kidneys for a long time
bad not done their full -work, and the
system was so poisoned that the toe
became gangrened. '
The kidneys work easily during
youth up, say, to 35 years of age. But
alter u they Decome sngnny atropniea ;
they shrink a little. This is not
disease, but a simple effect of age.
Conseauentlv. as a man advances in
years he should ask his kidneys to per
form a little less work, instead oi a
little more. . , .
'But suppose a man of business not
only uses his brain during business
hours, but : also puts a strain on his
muscles afterward. There is waste
then to be carried off.mental waste and
physical waste, the broken down brain
cells and those of the muscles like
wise. Thus the kidneys are forced to
do double duty to eliminate poisons
resulting from ;two sets of action.
"A business man should get au the
exercise he needs from the require
ments his business. A long walk only
further calls upon his reserve. , Vio
lent golf or tennis only puts a greater
strain upon his system.. If he says he
needs fresh air, oxygen, he can get it
in his office, if the latter be . properly
ventilated. Or he doesn't need to ex
ercise to breathe fresh air. John D
Rockefeller drives a fast horse. .That
gives him air, but it doesn't .give him
exercise except , what he gets from
stepping from -h is office to bis carriage.
tt r ; i- .1 ..... iiTJil
tie IS' never sick, nenaior . vriiiiam
M. Evsrts is a very old man. He never
exercised. That is his boast.
"But business men say . 'I need
exercise. I do not led well unless 1
have it. ' That means generally that
they eat too much. You can poison
your system by ; eating , too much,
putting into yourself more than the
kidneys can eliminate. Now Chamber
lain, who takes no exerciso, I have no
doubt is a light eater. , " : :
( "The thing to be attained is a proper
balance, a norm, so to speak. One
should eat sufficiently, but no more.
He should not put into himself what
cannot be easily eliminated, nor should
he indulge in both mental and physical
exercise, thereby causing a excess of
waste, which the kidneys are unable to
deal with. . ,
"When a business man takes a vaca
tion he can afford much more physical
exercise. I went over to Michigan laBt
summer and cut the connecting links
behind me. I didn't think at all and
played golf five hours a day. Even
then I was careful to rest afterward.
Where there was little brain waste I
could afford more physical.'
"The athlete is not the best pre
pared man to resist disease. 1 have
known a blacksmith to oppose no, re
sistance to pneumonia and the
strongest athlete to die quickly of
typhoid. . .
"I have not been speaking of exer
cise for the young, but the grown man.
Youth neods exercise to build up
muscles and ' growing tissues. But
while you see puppies and colts scam
Dering around, the old dog knows
better andfso does the horse. Thev rest
when thev can. Athletes who come
out of college and go to desk work
often have greiyt difficulty. Excessive
exercise enlarges ' the heart, so thaj it
may do its work. The heart is a
muscle, mid you can't lessen a muscle.
When the football player becomes a
desk worker he has no need for his
great heart. It is too big and it be
comes flabby." , ,
At the tenth annual meeting of the
New York Vegetarian Society Prof. D.
Perky talked on- "Eating," from
which the following paragraph is
taken :
"When I quit eating beet about eight
years ago I began to receive that nor
mal condition which a man should en
joy before he can become a successful
nsinoss man. 1 nave not eaten beet
since then. About nine years ago I
read a newspaper paragraph about the
rapid increase of cancer in England.
It was thou discovered that cancer was
most prevalent among well-to-do men
and women, the beef eaters, whereas
it was scarcely known among the com
mon people, .who . get little beef to
eat." .. . ,
He comparod the human being to the
bucksaw, which worked badly when
not properly sharpened and set or was
rusty.
"The country is full of drunkards, '
he said, "the jails full of criminals,
and the asylums full of insane, all be
cause they have not been prooerly edu
cated in the way they should live or
care for their stomachs. Their head
are filled with book ' knowledge, but
they havo very little intelligence.'
A SEMICOLON DID IT.,
Punctuation Hark Has Power to Close
Boston Saloons.
- A punctuation mark has caused the
citizens of Boston trouble. Many have
actually wopt. Others, no doubt, have
rejoiced for here is a case where a
little mark has done much to aid the
cause of temperance, at least it aided
by the eailv closing of all places where
liquors are sold. A semicolon did the
whole thing. , In changing the law on
this subject, a short time ago,
semicolon was placed whore formerly
a comma was doing business, and, as
a consequence, even howls and restau
rants are not permitted to sell liquor
of any kind after 11 o'oclock at 'night.
Bob ton, the center of culture has uianv
people who actually indulge in siitfb
things, and after theater parties have
been common. Of course they can sill
have the after theater parties, but with
the hot bird there is no cold hot. As
a consequence a great howl has gone
up, hut the court says the semicolon is
there, and there it will remain until
the law is changed; and until that
time the little punctuation mark,
which is supposed to hold the half
way station between the comma ami
the' period, will keep all places where
liquors are sold closed after It at
night. Walla Walla Statesman.
' ,, 'it imi ii "
An Epoch, of Poaee and Industry.
With the vast resources of the
United States relieved from the
menace of involvementjin business up
heaval and freed for the service of
peaceful industrial development
throughout tho world j with the forces
of Europe and America no longer en
grossed in the jealousy of international
struggle for extended political bound
aries, but, by iIm great precedent of
the Chinese settlement, united in
keeping peace ' and order and main
taining, instead of remaking, the
map of the East; with the marvellous
increase in productive capacity of the
last fifty years to build upon the
twentieth century opens with match
less promise for the productive forces
of the earth and for those who "d inert
theiu for the use and benefit of man."
live Engineering Magasine, Decem
ber, Um, ' ,
Blockland Bros., tJL Union county,
have received tine Wooded turkey
that cost them $13.00. .
SOMB TIMELY. TOPICS.
Educational theory and practice are
just now in a chaotic state of transi
tion, l One question upon wind the
subject hinges is that of "Freedom
and Free Will." Much of tho Uncer
tainty of direction distinguishing
present teaching is due to indecision
in this matter. Shall the chile have
freedom to follow his impulsis, or
shall the child be regarded m i free
agent to control those impulses lation
ally and to regulate his conduct toward
Others? - s
Professor Fullerton discusses 'Free
dom and Free Will" in an interesting
manner in the current Popular Science
Monthly. As an introduction o his
argument he imagines two men before
a jury on me accusation oi hudiciuu.
Each admits that he has occasioned the
death of a man, but each has life own
account of how it came about. In the
first instance the accused had been
forced by a stronger person to hdd the
gun. He was unwilling, but ai iron
hand compelled him to preis the
trigger, and the victim fell. lie- was
the instrument of a bloody deei, and
does not account himself the responsi
ble cause; he slew because he
"couldn't help it."
The evidence of the seconl man
differs in many respects. He was alone
when the shooting occurred. Ie was
shooting at a mark, taking pleaiure in
hitting a target near the btll-eye,
when the rubicund lace of a rustic
appears above the hedge across the
field. The open mouth of the ountry
man fs an irresistible target, aid one
altogether too delightful to be passed
by. "I had not the faintest inention,
a moment before, of shootiig any
man." he explains; ' out, rany, it
was too good a shot to miss and I
simply couldn't help it." '
What would be the action ot petit
lurv who heard these cases in succes
sion is uncertain, but there can be
little doubt, says the writer, tlat even
a iurv would detect an important dis
tinction between the two , "wouldn't
helps."
''The
world seems to be ful'l of
'couldn't helps' of the two sffts; the
man' who stumbled on tm stairs
couldn't help falling to the bottom;
the man who was thrown Irom a
window couldn't help descending to
the street; the man who was sdzed by
the police couldn't help faling to
meet his engagement; the gresdy boy
couldn't help taking the largei muffin;
the devoted mother couldi't help
spoiling her only child; the enotional
ihilanthropist couldn't help Iieiing in
lis pocket on hearing the ilausible
tale of the wilv tramp." i
While many lurvmen wouk regard
the excuse of the second 'couldn't
help" as worthless, there miglt bo one
among them who was somethng of a
philosopher and reflected hat the
guilty man really couldn't hep - doing
what he did. nature nao miae mm
what he was. "The target wsh attrac
tive; the result followed. He was free
from external compulsion ; hi was not
and could not free himself irom his
own impulses." The man thui reason
ing is called "determinist, one who
accepts in its widest sense the assump
tion of scienco that all the phenomena
of nature are subject to law, aid that
nothing can happen withost some
adequate cause why it should happen
thus and not otherwise, frofeshor
Fullerton 's argument weighs lie two
theories that of detorminismlind its
opposite, indeterminism, oj "free
will," Quotation is made film Pro
feasor James' "Talks to Teaclirs" to
illustrate the confusion of tlielo ques
tions that exists in many min s.
i , i : J ..i.i.
An unequivocal and conci
ment of the writer's positio)
closes
the paper ;
J. believe most heartily in
reodom.
I am neither fatalist nor
maerlalist.
hold man to be a irae agi
t, and
believe that there is such a
ung as
man.
justice in man's treatment f
I view with horror
the doc-
trine that the teacher's desk
md ' the
puloit. tho force of public opl
liion and
the sanction of law, are of nohvnil. I
am unwilling to assume witrut evi
dence that each man's bread
is the
seat of uncaused and inexpli
ible ex-
plosions, which no man can
predict,
lich no
which
auaiiiBt the consequences of
man can make provision an
set at defiance 1 all the fords
which
make for civilization.
Flavor rather than nutritiy quality
constitutes the chief value f cheese
as a food. At the same timewhemista
say that cheese is ono of he most
nutritious and cheapest of tods.. Its
nutritive value is greater thh meat,
while it costs less. jnow, ticese is
eaten ' not because of its nutritive
value, but always for its liav. Flavor
s as necessary as nutrimeii writes
Professor H. W. Conn of pesleyan
university for tho Populas Scienco
Monthly. -i
flavor gives tout to lood, detains the
palate sndfcnd stimulates the lands to
secrete, so that the foods majbe prop
erly digested and aHlmilated
Different peoples have dilferlt tastes
in thisreBpect; the Italians le garlic,
Mexicans, red popper, the itives of
India curry. Well llavorej cheeses
add relish to the humblest leals and
gave pleasure to the lives of housands
of poor people whose food I of the
coarsest character. . Yet thl chemist
does not include the llavol in hi
analysis of cheese, nor lous the
physiologist find that flavor las a do
finite fowl value, though h loes say
that the human body could : t survive
on food stuff 8 without flavor
If flavors are so impo int. tho
sources of flavor become a gnificant
questiun. All cheeses are ado from
milk, but dinerent methods ( ripen
ing bring out the flavors, w eh have
been traced directly to tho g wth upon
and within the cheese ot a iriety of
plants. Here is whore tho encflcent
microbe plays an interemg part.
In milking Roquefort che special
ly prepared bread is lowed to
mold, After thoroughly i regnnted
with mold it is grated to a f powder
and mixed with the cur as it is
placed in a form for slui) -' Hard
cheeses are flavored bv Inn ria, and
molds are active in the ri ling and
flavor process. Particular i thods are
adopted to flavor and hastei ie growth
of molds. Sometimes tin1 heese js
placed on special straw oats, or
wrapped in straw in a I, damp
cellar with the best coi tions Jor
growing mold, which sooi ivers the
ntire surface of the e lies so. flie awii
mon blue mold is most usi, hut eon
rally several kinds unite i ripeniuit.
In soft cheeses plant f is called
molds play little or no pari i th pro
cess. Their growth is pr nted by
salting, oiling and riihhlug e surface,
Unless a dairy is supplic. with the
proper bacteria and micro! . the re
sults in cheese making wi! lie want
ing. Dairies can be stock with the
right kind of microbes ami acteria.
Science is accumulatii
against the mosquito. Kat.s
carriers of the bubonic pi
have been emissaries of
evidence
re guilty
e. ri les
during
cholera visitations. The ii
lliito has
been heard from freqnentl;
past season, and the Decen"
Science Monthly states th
now good evidence that yel
well as malaria is caused j
tion by mosquitoes, which
nnng the
Popular
there is
fever as
iuocula-
ve as the
intermediate hosts of the parasites.
During the experiments which led to
this conclusion mosquitoes which had
bitten fever patients were allowed to
bite eleven persons. Two, one of whom
was Dr. Carroll, had regular attacks of
yellow fever. Among 1400 non-immune
Americans in Uuba there were threo
cases of yellow fever; 'two of these
bad been bitten within live days of the
attack. The sad case of Dr. Lazear in
creases the positive evidence. While
working with a yellow fever patient he
permitted a mosquito to bite him. He
became ill after the fourth day and
died of yellow fever. .
ELECTRIC LIGHT A REMEDY.
Used by Physicians in Certain Diseases
With Great Success.
Recently Dr. W. Freulenthal, of
New York, read an interesting paper
before .the American Electro-Therapeu
tic Association on tho subject of the
value of electric light in the treatment
of tuberculosis of the throat and lungs.
Sunlight and electric light, he said,
have the same effect upon the system,
and it has been proved by thousands of
cases already treated that the beneficial
result of treatment by electric' light
is due to the action of those rays
which approximate most closely to
sunlight the blue and the ultra
violet rays of the arc light.
The lamp which Dr. Freudenthal
used in this treatment consists of an
Edison incandescent high-power lamp,
in front of which is a disk of colored
gelatine or glass, through which the
light penetrates, giving only a blue
light. This concentrates the rays by
acting as a bi-eonvex lens, and also
protects the exterior of the neck from
too intense heat., The lamp is applied
to the throat, and as the Adam's apple
in some throats is so large that many
of the rays of light are lost in trying to
penetrate it' the front of the apparatus
is hollowed out so that it adapts itself
to the external contour of the neck.
The lamp is applied to one or both
sides of tho larnytf or in front, and ap
plication is kept' up from 30 to 00
minutes.
In treating tuberculosis of the lungs
.by this method, the arc light is sub
stituted for the incandescent light. ',.
One of the cases which Dr. Freuden
thal, treated with the incandescent
lamp was that of a woman 30 years
old, who had incipient phthisis of
both lungs, which affected her throat,
Causing pain on swallowing that felt
as if oil were boiling in her throat.
He treated the case with this method
for four months, and relieved the
throat trouble, but the patient died
from a violent pulmonary hemorrhage.
In a similar case relief was ex
perienced, but the patient died even
tually of tuberculoids of the lungs. In
other cases the cure was permanent. -
MRS. M'KINLEY'S MOTHER.
A Record of Interest to the Mistress of
the White House.
Mrs. McKinley received an interest
ing letter lato last Saturday night. It
came from the principal of the Mora
vian Seminary for Young Ladies in
Pennsylvania, and was sent by special
delivery.
' The letter stated that in going over
the old records of the school it was dis
covered that in 1840 a Mr. Isaac Harter
placed a young lady by the name of
Catherine D. Wault at that school. He
specified that she was to bo taught
all the useiul arts during the same
time that she was receiving her
literary education.
Air. Harter also informed the school
authorities that he left the sum of 50
cents to be given to the young lady for
pocket money during the year.
The school principal then relates
that some years later he finds it re
corded in the annals of the school that
this same young lady married George
Saxton, of Stark county, O. This
school, therefore, educated the mother
of Mrs. McKinley.
The letter detailed little incidents
of the girlish life of Mrs. Saxton and
placod Mrs. McKinley in possession
of a great deal of information concern
ing her mother. The president does
not permit Mrs. McKinley to be
bothered by letters during the evening,
but this was made an exception and
tho president placed it in her hands
within a very few moments af tor its
receipt.
An Indian's Logic. ; .
The Dial quotes the following story
from BiHhop Whipple's "Lights and
Shadows of a Long Episcopate." The
bishop once undertook to '. reprove
Wabasha for having a scalp dance in
front of the mission house.
"The chief was smoking, but when
I had finished - he took his pipe from
his mouth, and slowly blowing a cloud
of smoke into tho air, said: 'White
man go to war with his own brother;
kills more men than Wabasha can
count all his life. Great Spirit look
down and say: 'Good white man; he
has My Book ; I have good home for
hiin by and by.' Dakota has no Great
Spirit's book; iie goes to war, kills one
man, has a foolish scalp-dancp. Great
Spirit very angry. Wabasha doesn't
believe it!' "
Working the City.
The issue of street improvement
bonds undor the Bancroft act in Port
land, now amounts to t-l",H33, on
which the city is paying 0 per cent
interest, or f 13,000 per year. There
will be about 135,000 more of these
bonds sold by the first of tho year, as
there has of late been a rush of street
improvement work by people who
realize that it is a good thing to obtain
10 years' timo to pay for tho improve
ment and huvo tho city liquidate the
interest, says the Oregonian. These
$35,000 new " bonds will bring the in
terest account up to a total of about
$15,000 a year. Tho present rush of
street work is duo to the fact that the
legislature is soon to meet, when an
effort will be mado to repeal the law:
Wise property-owners , are therefor
making sure of a sott snap while the
opportunity lasts.
Don't Wear Elk Teeth,
The lodge of the Benevolent Protec
tive Order of Elks, ot Denver, has ap
pointed a committee to draft resolutions
against tho wearing of elk teeth as
emblems of the order. Reported
wholesale slaughter of elk in the west
for the teeth influenced ' this action,
and copies of the resolution will be
sent to the different lodges throughout
the country with tho idea of effecting
tho abolishment of the traffic of elk
teeth.
Hotod Soout Shot.
Baptisto Gamier, known all over the
went, and especially among armv men
as "Little Bat," the fearless Indian
scout, who first came into prominence
for services rendered General McCook
and later service in the big Indian
wars, was shot and probably fatally
wounded in a saloon at Crawford,
Neb., by J. I). Haguewood, the saloon
manager. The trouble between the
two is not known. Haguewood sur
rendered. Jacob Werten, at Great Falls, Mon
ana, shot and fatally wounded his son
John. Werten had treated his wife
badly, and the son interferred to pro
tect nis mother.
GENERAL NBWS.
A bill introducing the
liiry syBtem
in Porto Rico has pamsed both houses
at San Juan.
The population of Berlin, including
the suburbs, is 2,460,676, as compared
with 2,076.940 in 1895.
Harry Elkes defeated Jimmy Michael
in a 15 mile bicycle race, motor paced,
in New York Saturday night.
Frank Carr died at Philadelphia, fol
lowing a boxing contest. He was
knocked down and his skull fractured.
An Austrian engineer. William
Kress, has invented an airship which
is pronounced to be better than
Zeppelin's.
Oscar Aarson. a bicvele rider, died
Saturday in New York, from injuries
resulting from a fall during the six
day bicycle race.
About 200 negroes have left for San
Francisco, whence they sail for Hono
lulu. The negroes are going to work
on sugar plantations.
Discussing the Nicaragua canal, the
Novoe Vremya says Russia is not in
terested in the matter, but naturally
sides with America. , .
Captain Montgomery D. Parker, of
the Eighth infantry, died in the mili
tary hospital at Mauifa the night of
the 17th inst., of dysentery and liver
trouble.
Grave fears are felt regarding the
health of Li Hung Chung, owing to a
severe cold that he caught on the day
he visited General Chaffee.
There is a persistent rumor that ex
Governor Merriam of Minnesota, now
director of the census, will be given
a place in the cabinet, some time after
March 4.
August Belmont, who has been ill
at Hempstead, New York, with
typhoid fever, has successfully passed
the crisis of the disease, and is now
rapidly improving.
Clyde shipbuilders recently placed
orders for 150,000 tons of plates in the
United States at a saving of 50,000.
The depression in Scotch steel and
malleable iron trades is acute.
Roanoke, Virginia, Elks Christmas
day fed 500 of tho poor of that place.
Several long tables were in the middle
of tho building and 500 visitors looked
on. The dinner cost over $500.
Colonel Henry B. Harsha-, ex-slate
treasurer of Wisconsin, died Tuesday
at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, of cancer of
the tongue. He served in the "Iron
Brigade" during the civil war.
The libel suit 'of Baron Von
Schroeder against John D. Spreckels,
of the San Franisco Call, for $250,000
was ended Saturday, the jury bringing
in a verdict in favor of Spreckels.
Almost $17,000 has been contributed
for tho Admiral Philip memorial fund,
named in memory of the famous com
mander of the Texas and later com
mandant of the Brooklyn navy yard.
To shield his mother from abuse and
save himself a beating witti a poker,
Albert Albertson shot and killed his
father at their home in Chicago.
Albert who is 17 years old, was ar
rested. Secretary Hitchcock has granted the
inaugural committee a commission to
hold the bail and entertainments in
cident to the coming inauguration of
President McKinley in the pension
building.
John Tiger, tin Indian, while drunk
at Eufala, Indian Territory shot Jesse
Beck ' and killed him, killed Dave
Porter am) a man named Johnson be.T
fore he came to hjs senses, when he
gave himself up. .
Receiver Clark, of the Chosen
Friends, says creditors have little
prospect of realizing much of anything
from their claims. The utmost that
they cai( hope .for js the realization of
10 cents qu the dollar.
Otto Cribb, an Australian welter
weight, knocked out Frank McConnell
of San Francisco in the fourth round
Wednesday night before the Columbia
Athletic club, of 'Frisco, The fight
was a fast one, ,
, Tod Sloan and Tommy Burns, the
jockeys, have arrived in San iancisco.
Sloan says he has come purely for
pleasure and wilt not accept any
mounts. Burns will ride here after
the first of the year.
General Fitzhugh Lee, commander
of the department of Missouri, was
the guest of honor at the banquet at
the Commercial club at Kansas City,
given in commemoration of the sign
ing of the John Jay treaty. .
John J. English and 12 others have
filed a suit in the United States dis
trict court in San Francisco against the
Pacifio Mail Steamship company to
secure $00,500 damages for alleged
breach of passenger contract.
Webb Jay, ot Indianapolis, broke the
world's bowling record bv bowling :-99
out of the possible 300 points. Strike
after strike was made in his game
with three comrades, until the last
ball, which missed the eighth pin.
Rev. Charles Reuben Hall, bishop
coadutbr of the Springfield diocese of
the Episcopal church, died at Cairo,
Ohio, Christmas dav of valvular dU
sease of the heart, aged 63 years, lie
had held' his present position since
1892.
Bills were introduced in the second
chamber at The Hague approving of
the marriage of Queen Wilhelmlna to
Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin,
regulating the procedure of the cele
bration and the contingencies arising
therefrom,
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago", has re
voked all permits for prizefights issued
prior to the passage of the anti-fight
ordinance by the city council. The
mayor's action puts an end to the
stories that ho would pot approve the
new law,
Secretary of th Navy Long has pur
chased a site for a residence which he
will immediately erect in Colorado
Springs. Mr. Long's daughters, who
have been there for the past year for
their health, will make it their perm
anent home.
Thirty cars forming a part of the
United States government exhibit at
the recent Paris exposition were laid
under em brago at Havre, the railroad
company declining to surrender them
pending the payment of a claim for
1710 francs.
IL F. Stevens, traveling salesman
for Robeling & Co. of Chicago, made
twp'desperate attempts at suicide in
Wichita, Kansas. Finding no other
weapon he broke a pewter' spoon and
with the rongh end tried to dig a hole
into his jugular vein.
Seventy thousand dollars in gold is
to be distributed by the American Ex
press company among its employes as
Christmas remembrances. Eyery man
who has been in the employ of the
company for one year will receive a
$5 gold piece on Christmas eve.
The inauguration of William McKinr
ley on the 4th day of March, 1901, for
a second terra will eclipse not only
"any" but "all" other efforts com
bined in the way of inauguration cere
monies. Much government money
will be wasted on the ceremony.
Chairman J. K. Jones, according to
reports in democratic circles, will call
a meeting of the democrats national
committee in Washington for the pur
pose of resigning as chairman. Jt is
said that J. U. Johnson, who was
chairman of the executive committee,
will probably succeed him.
Dr. Hawkins is dead at Ralston,
Oklahoma, the result of Cowboy Hamui
knocking him down and dancing on
his stomach. The doctor was over 60
vears of age, and recently saved the
life of Hatnm, over the settlement for
which services the fatal dispute arose.
Mexican troops in Sonora, Mexico,
were recenlty attacked by a band of
Yaqui Inidans. Four officers and
I about 30 men were killed outright,
and Colonel Francisco Peinado, one of
the leading officers of the army; was
shot through the stomach and seriously
wounded.
Edward V. Higgins, who' resides
near Los Angeles, has confessed that on
December 4th he murdered his mother
and William Sbeehan, a sheep herder,
with an axe. A ' body has been found
in a grave on the hillside where
Higgins says he buried his victims.
Tho last obstacle having been re
moved, the joint note was signed at
Pekin Saturday by all the foreign
ministers. The note will be delivered
to Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching
as soon as the former shall have
sufficiently recovered from his indispo
sition. Orders have been sent out through
out the territory of the western central
and trunk line traffic associations to
the effect that hereafter no passes,
either annual or trip, Bhall be issued
on account of independent car lines.
Small railroads are. also to be cut off
from such privileges. ,
Judgo Stockbridge at Baltimore ap
pointed Daniel L. Branton receiver for
the Economy Savings bank which
closed its doors Saturday. Two banks
have closed their doors in ' Baltimore
within the last ten days. There., has
not been a bank failure in Baltimore
before these for twenty years.
Jessie Morrison was released at
Eldorado, Kansas, Monday on $5000
bonds, Sheriff Turner having approved
the bond. Judge Morrison, father of
the imprisoned girl, accompanied him
to the jail where they released her
from custody. The party then quietly
went to the Morrison home.
The comptroller of the currency has
appointed J. Frank Alrich temporary
receiver of the American National
bank of Baltimore. This bank has
suffered ajarge shrinkage in deposits
snd has sustained ome heavy losses,
which have involved its capital and
surplus, and reduced greatly its re
sources. Two hundred mi lion dollars is the
maximum sum the administration
wants the powers to demand of China
as indemnity, yet the figures are likely
to be many times that amount. The
United States army has a deficiency of
$14,000,000 for transportation of army
supplies, and most of that is charged
against China.
PUSHING THE WORK OF IRRIGATION.
The telegram sent by the National
Irrigation Congress at Chicago urging
upon President McKinley the impor
tance of the irrigation and foresty
problem and requesting him to in turn
urge upon congress the admisability
of some definite action has done more
to direct public attention to these im
portant national questions than any
other one thing. The telegram was as
follows;
To the president: The ninth annual
session of the National Irrigation Con
gress now in session in the city of
Chicago respectfully urge that In your
message to congress you call attention
to the national importance of the
preservation of our forests and of the
extension and conservative use of the
forest preserve and further that you
ernphaize the need of national action
to store the flood water that now' go to
waste.
"Save the Forests and Store the
Floods" proved a popular motto at the
Chicago Irrigation Congress. Its ses
sions bore a marked atmosphere of
thoughtful consideration ot how these
great objects could be accomplished
and a general spirit of harmony and
co-operation pervaded the atmosphere.
Much satisfaction was expressed at the
growth of the national irrigation senti
ment in the east and the interest and
active co-operation afforded by eastern
business men, . . '
Great as is Chicago with her people
equaling in numbers a third of the
entire population of the western half of
the United States yet the National Irri
gation Congress was recognized as the
exponent ot a national movement and
caused no little local and general com
ment. Chicago- newspapers devoted
their columns to its meetings and
Chicago's largest business men at
tended them. Tho great problem of
the reclamation of the millions of
arid acres was recognized at its true
value and the incalculable benefits to
result, appreciated. The national stand
ing of the national irrigation question
is an assured fact.
The following resolutions were
adopted by the National Irrigation
Congress, November 24, 1900;
"We hail with satisfaction the fact
that both of the great political parties
of the nation in the last campaign de
clared in favor of the reclamation of
arid America in order that settlers
might build homes on the public
domain, and to that end we urge upon
congress that national appropriations
commensurate with the magnitude of
the problem should be made for the
preservation of the forests and the
re forest ization of denuded areas as
natural storage reservoirs and for the
construction by the national govern
ment as part of its policy of internal
improvement of storage reservoirs and
other works for flood protection and to
save for use in aid of navigation and
irrigation the waters which now run to
waste and for the development of
artesian and subterranean sources of
water supply.
"The waters of all streams should
forever remain subject to public con
trol and the right of the use of water
for irrigation should inhere in the
land irrigated, and beneficial use be
the basis of measure and the limit of
the right. ,
"The work of building the reservoirs
necessary to store the floods should be
done directly by the government under
existing statues relating to the employ
ment of labor and hours of work and
under laws that will give to all Ameri
can citizens a free and equal oppor
tunity to gej first employment, and
then a home on the land.
"We commend the efficient work of
the various bureaus of the national
government in the investigation qf the
physical and legal problems and of her
conditions relating to irrigation and in
promoting the adoption of more effec
tive laws, customs and methods of irri
gated agriculture, and urge upon con
gress the necessity of providing liberal
appropriations for this important work.
James Sheehan shot and seriously
wounded his daughter at a mining
claim in Porcupine district, Idaho.
His sluice boxes had been robbed of
gold dust several times. He kept a
watcb and shot the thief. It proved to
be his daughter, dressed in man's
lothes. The girl was trying to get
money to elope with a young man to
whom her father objected. Her wound
is not fatal.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS.
The E. E. Seeley residence in Salem
was burned Monday. The family were
away from home.
The Oregon farmers' congress will (
convene at Salem, January 7, instead'
of January 8, as first announced.
Mrs. R. K. Lien, aged 42 years, died
at her home on Howell Prairie.,
Marion county, Monday. ' :
Mrs. Costina Madison died at her
home near Salem on Monday, aged 47
years, of inflammation of the blood.
Samuel B. Newkirk, aged 62 years,
died at the state asylum for the in
sane, at Salem, Sunday of appolexy.
Mrs. Elizabeth Farmer is suing the
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opuKaiiu b i reel, rmiwwaj lur fuu,uw
damages, alleged to have been incurred
by being thrown from a street-car a
year ago. - f - 1
The gross earnings of the Oregon
Short Line for the second week in
December showed a decrease over the
same week last year. Thia is acounted '
for by a general falling off of traffic in
Idaho.
Granite has refused to allow a liquor
license to a dealer who persists in
keeping his saloon on the street. He
claims the right to remain because he
was there before the town was incor
porated. Mrs. O. C. Thornburgh died at her
home at Forest Grove, aged 88 years.
She had been in failing health for
some time, and , death was not unex
pected. A husband and three children
survive her.
Judge Eakin, as judge of the Eighth
judicial district, has appointed a com
mittee from the Union county bar to
arrange for a proper observance of John
Marshall day on February 4, at the
court house in Union.
Peter Roth, an old and well-known
resident of Columbia slough, near Port
land,' died December 27. He was 74
years old, and had made his home in
that neighborhood for a long term of
years, engaging in dairying.
The new wing at the Oregon state
penitentiary, has been completed, and
will be occupied as soon as the steam
cooking apparatus can be placed in
position. The bathroom and eteanr
heating plant aro already in use.
A man named Reeve, and Al Doug
las, were hunting ducks near Tangent,
Linn county, when Douglas' dog ran
against his master's ; gun, discharging
it. ' The shot took .effect in Reeve's
face. The wound is not dangerous.
Harry Moffatt, of Oregon City, was
frozen to death something over two
weeks ago near Dawson City. He had
gone alone to Eureka Creek for a hunt,
and was caught in a snow storm and
wandered aimlessly about for two
days. -
J. M. Patterson, who was appointed
postmaster of The Dalles.December 17,
took charge of the office Thursday, as
suming the position as acting poet
master for the sureties of H. H. Rid
del 1, which position Forrest S. Fisher
has filled since Riddell's removal last
summer.
Pearl Gordon and Charles Beck be
came involved in a quarrel at Wallace,
Idaho, and both the woman and the
man used pistols on the other, with
the result that both are in a hospital.
The woman may die and the man will
probably recover.
J. B. Smith, of Jamestown, North
Dakota, is in Heppner with the view
of buying several thousand sheen. It
is estimated that 100,000 sheep will be
sold In Morrow county between now
and shearing time.
Pete Schimmels and Charles Benne
were killed in the Tiger-Poorman mine,
at Wallace, Idaho, Christmas day.
They drilled into a missed hole when
the blast exploded, horribly mutilat
iug both bodies. Both were unmarried
and were new comers.
Patrolman Jole Hindman, of Spo
kane, distinguished himself Friday
night by dashing into a burning build
ing and carrying out three babies
sately. The fire was in a frame build
ing occupied by "Aunty" Rogers, an
old colored woman, as a Baby Home.
Owners of orchards along the
Deschutes and creeks near The Dalles
say that since the coyotes have been
killed off, rabbits have become so
numerous that they make raids - on
young trees and eat off the bark, in
many places doing serious injury.
Use of acetylene gas tor illumination
of the Christian church at Corvallis
will be abandoned. A gas plant was
put in the church a veor or more agtf
Though the light was satisfactory, too
machine in order. Electric light will
be used.
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i .iiTii i,t, n i n n i, ni,.n.i. ,1: . i. n
vvu..uvuu.uk ou.uij au, luo Ore
gon & Oriental company will place the
Bieuuiura luunmoumsnire ana (Jarmar
thanshire on the direct run between
Portland and Manila. This is the re
sult of the efforts of the Portland,
jobbing trade to baye eucb a steamahip
line established,.
Grenville Reed, who was a few days
ago appointed postmaster at Astoria,
is One of the httet.Vnnwn mlnti nn tko
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Columbia and Willamette Rivers. He
was born in Maine m 1839, and came
to Oregon in 1859. Since that time he
has been engaged in steamboating and
piloting between Astoria and Portland.
There have hnn 909 miniiYu ,l,..
ing the vear lv00, up to the present
timejin Walla Walla county. Divorces
w iuo uuiuuer oi iz nave been granted.
Thirteen divorces have been applied
for which have not yet been ordered or
ore still pending. The per centsge of
divorces to the number marriul in in
per cent.
Railroad men at Pocatello. Idaho,
went on a'strikn nna iaa Uot nook
j .mov
The cause was the running in of a
road engine to do switching. The
switchmen would not stand this, and
nuit forthwith. rlAmnnHino tUa l
' , tuoicUJUIftl
of the locomotive, which demand was
speedily granted. The strike lasted
two hours.
Four members of the Sisemo're
family on one side and Henrv Rimtt
and W. H. Young on the other, en
gaged in a desperate fieht at a distill
near London, Kentucky, Monday.
Young and one of the Sisemore's were
killed and two of the 8isemores fatally
wounded. An old fued was the cause
cf the trouble. '
Nicholas Darnell, a pioneer of East
ern Oregon, died at Vale, aired 63
years. He came to Canyon City from
Palifornia in 1861. From there be
went to the Southern States arid did
not return to Orpurm until .Lnt ia7(V
He then came to what is now Malheur
copnty, and had spent the time since
as miper and cowboy, .','"
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The !nin appropriation Bin.
The Indian appropriation bill as
completed by the bouse committee on
i!?7n "'fr' carries something like
$ ,000,000, the exact aggregate not yet
being determined. The number of In
dian agencies is reduced from 62 to
44. those omitted beina the Lemhi,
Idaho; Neah Bar, Washington ; Nevada,
Nevada; Quapaw, Indian Territory;
Sac and Fox, Iowa; Siletx, Oregon:
Sisseton, South Dakota j-Tulalip,
Washington. The estimate for the vari
ous tribes are closely followed, but
$5000 additional is given to the
Klobeber and Shebeta of Utah .
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