Tftje;' Heppner X Gazette
THURSDAY, JANUARY. 17, 1901.
THE KISSING HABIT. '
Dr. Anna Hatfield, the cbief factor
in the anti-kissing v movement started
by the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, has studied the kiss from botli
the medical and the human stand
point, and knows whereof she speaks.
"It is vicious habit, and if vice
crusaders really want to purify society
they should commence by tutoring
children from their earliest infancy
that kissing is an evil."
"But what of the kisses of a mother
for her child?"
"They should be fewer. Mothers
have kissed their children to death."
"Then there is no condition which
justifies a kiss? Don't you ever"
"I am married."
Dr. Hatfield uttered the oaly
exception with great dignity.
"Then there are no bacteria lurking
in married people's lips?"
,
"There are, at least, no moral
bacteria lurking there, but from a
medical standpoint no person should
kiss another unless an antiseptic wash
is need in the month daily.
"If you will take a microscope - and
examine the teeth you will realize
Dow limitless are the dangers of ki Be
ing."
"And the moral bacteria?''
"You wont require a microscope for
that. Kissing has come to be a greater
plague than drink. It Js more insidi
ous. . It is more deadly. Girls are not
taught to view a kiss with awe, as
they were in the days when I was
young. Uirig then consiaerea a kiss a
betrothal."
"Then engaged people may kiss and
"No," said Dr. Hatfield, positively;
"engaged people should not kiss. A
betrothal kiss is a different thing.
It is simply a token of respectthe
sealing of a pledge.
"Now, to most people," Dr. Hatfield
continued, seriously, "these ideas may
seem very extreme; but they are not.
Almost all my dealings have been with
women. A large part of my practice
consists of young girls, because for
some reason I win the love and confi
dence of young people.
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"These girls confide in me; they
tell me their little hopes and aims
and plans and secrets. And nine out
of ten of them confess they kiss the
men they know. When I warn them
against such a course they say 'Why,
what's the harm in it' To think that
mothers should neglect to answer this
auestion! Mothers who rear their
daughters with a view to perfect cul
ture and endeavor to provide them
with an. ethical education!
"The mothers of today," contained
Dr. Hatfield, "are to blame for nine
tenths uf the evil that exists. They
don't know how , to train children.
When their sons and duuuhters are
babies they are kissed incessantly.
Every one who comes in is allowed to
torment the infant in the same
fashion. By the time the infant be
comes a child of several j ears it has
become used to the kissing,. and you
will find that most children before
they are five have cultivated tho kiss
ing habit. It is like uny other vice,
which, to be dreuded but needs to be
seen; but, seen too oft, familiar with
its face, we first endure, then pity,
then embrace."
"Of course the crusaders know the
habit is a very doep-seated one and
will be hard to break up?
"Certainly; but they must begin
with the mothers. Girls are left alone
too much. When a young girl and a
young man are left night after night
down in (he parlor their conversation
becomes exehansted, and they resort
to billing and cooing
"The trouble is with modern
mothers, that they are too liheral, and
their daughters do not receive the
protection that is their due. If some
of the hours spent in rolitary associa
tion, with young men were given up to
teaching them how to become good
wives and mothers girls would realize
that the way to win n husband is not
through the mud in in of spooning,
"Kissing between women is quite
as unwholesome a practice as could
Iiossibly exist. I have seen women
Ail each other nut once or twico,
hut hundreds of times who bate each
other, who tulle behind each other's
hacks, who would kill each other
through the medium of their kisses if
it were ponsihle. Yet it is excepted
of them,, and so they are hypocrites.
"The kiss has gono too far. It
usually does, and that's one of its great
setbacks. It's time somebody made
war upon the kiss. I'm willing to go
down as tiring the first kim.
It is doubtful, however, whether Dr.
Hatfield will raise a lame army, for
among the disqualified will be not
only those who ' justify her hatred ot
the kiss, but that great majority who
regard it as a possible good and whole
some expression, dependent wholly
upon the heart nd mind that actuate
the kisser and the kisseo.
DISFRANCHISEMENT AND ITS PENALTY.
Striking figures have recently beon
published and commented upon as
showing the effect of the southern
negro disfranchisement , laws, They
relate to the state of Mississippi,
which was tne nrst American common
wealth to adopt the oolicv of whole
sale deprivation of colored citlxens of
the right to vote guaranteed them by
tne itKierai constitution, the new
policy has been in operation exactly
ten years. How has It affected the
suffrage of the state?
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The answer it furnished bv late and
authentic statistics. From 1880 to 1890
the increase in the population of
Misaissipi was 150,000. From 1890 to
1900 the increase has been about 20
ner cent, or from 1.20.000 to 1.651.000
In 20 years the increase has been 420,-
000. i It is plain that under normal
political conditions and fair suffrage
laws there would have been a corres
ponding proportionate increase in the
number of voting citizens. But what
are the facts? In 1876, prior to the era
of discrimination, Mississippi cast
104.000 votes In the presidential elee
tion. By 1884 through various tricks
the vote bad been reduced to 100,000
Four years later a slight increase was
registered, but that tendency was
arrested for good by the new constitu
tion of 1800. The first general election
under the new franchise law was in
1802 and the total vote in that year
was only 52,000. This year the second
McKinley-Bryan campaign brought to
the polla only 69,103 votera. ,
Thus the decrease since 1870 is equal
to 105,075, and this has occurred not
withstanding a considerable increase
in population ! Of course, not all
those who fail to vote are debarred by
the disfranchisement laws. About 100,
000 citizens are entitled to vote even
under the existing restrictions. But
the elimination of the negro has ren
dered evn the qualified white voter
utterly indifferent to his political
privilege or duty, and scores of
I tnousanus reiuse to pay uiu jjuu
I which is a Drereauisite to voting, ana
thus disfranchise themselves. The
exclusion ot the colored element has
destroyed all incentive, all interest in
nolitics. In a moral and educational
sense this situation is disastrous to the
Ktflt. and it cannot avert the ma
tnrial losses that, attend neglect of
schools and other agencies of progress.
So far as the negro is concerned the
discrimination against mm in not in
the law itself but in the way it is en
forced. A would-be votei must be able
to read an intelligent interpretation
thereof when it is read to him. A
provision of this kind is not unconsti
tutional, but the chance for fraud and
evasion is cbivous. Mississippi will
not be interfered with, but her ex
perience should be a Jesson and warn
ing to other states. Chicago Evoning
Post.
CONSUMPTIVES EXCLUDED.
One ot the significant signs of the
times, says the San Francisco Call, is
the appearance in the advertisements
of what are known as "resort" hotels
in the Eastern and Southern states of
the phrase, "Consumptives excluded."
It shows how far back the pendulum
has swung from the days not long ago
when such hotels made a special enort
to attract people of weak lungs i by
describing their localities as well fitted
for the cure of persons atflicted with
consupmtion. '
In one of these advertisements now
before us it is announced that the hotel
is in "the highest and dryest section
of the long leaf pine region of North
Carolina, an ideal place for health,
rest and recreation." That is exactly
the sort of advertisement which in
former years would have added that
the location is a "natural sanitarium"
for consumptives, but now it notes in
big letters "Consumptives excluded."
Humanity hi its action and reaction
invariably goes too far in each direc
tion. Undoubtedly considerable evil
resulted to healthful communities by
the persistent efforts of tourist hotels
to obtain the patronage ' of consump
tives. Germs of the disease were in
that way brought into districts whoso
people would otherwise have been in
no danger of that scourge. On the
other hand, the policy of exclusion
which is now threatened is likely to
result in evils fully as great. The con
sumptive should not be treated like a
pariah nor shut away from the com
fortable hotels that have been estab
lished in the healthful sections of the
country. Advertising for consumptives
was a folly, nut tne exclusion oi them
would he something like an outrage on
humanity.
Should .the exclusion policy be
carried far, it will be necessary for
states to provide sanitariums for those
afllicted with consumption. Some
states, in fact, have already done so.
These institutions have even in the
short time of their existence effected
much good. A recent report of one es
tablished in Massachusetts was so en
couraging in its nature that New York
set about following the example. A
similar movement has been started to
establish a sanitarium in this state,
and it is probable that like enterprises
are under way elsewhere.
While these movements are good,
there is the objection that the cam
paign of education in 1 their favor is
often conducted in an exaggerated way
so as to occasion something like a
panic on the subject. Consumption is
not now any more dangerous than it
was ten years ago when every Southern
winter resort was advertising for con
sumptives. As a matter of fact it is
not so dangerous, for the world has
learned much in late years concerning!
tne disease, and care is now exercised
to prevent its spread. There i conse
quently less reason for exclusion now
than ever before, and it is hardly like
ly the intense reaction from the policy
of former years can be maintained very
long.
The one good feature of the scare
manifest by these advertisements is
that it will help along the education
of the public mind in regard to the
disease and thus help to check it in
every part ot the union. At present It
is one of the greatest scourges of
American life. Consumption destroys
more lives in New England than
yellow fever in the Southland yetnntil
very recently little or nothing was
done to deal with it in a scientific way.
JNow there is good promise that the
ravage will be greatly diminished
within a few years, and it is to he
hoped the phrase "Consumptives ex
cluded" will not long be seen in the
advertisements of any American' hotel.
PRODUCTION GOLD AND SILVER.
N arly 980,000,000 or Gold for ill Year
1000.
George E. Roberts, director of the
mint, today made public his prelim
inary estimate of the production of
gold and silver in the United States
during tho calendar year 1000. The
aggregate of gold is given as $79,322,
281, and of silver 13,062,481.
The Nome gold and silver production
for 11)00 is given as $5,000,000 and that
of the Klondike which includes both
the American and Canadian tields, at
$22,287,566. The product of Canadian
owned mines is not included in the
figures given.
The following is the production by
states and territories in gold value and
in silver, in ounces!
California, gold, $14,377,200; silver,
1912,800.
Colorado, gold, 129.500,000; silver,
120,292,200.
Idaho, gold, $2,007,173; silver, $4,
500,000. Montana, gold, 15,120,315; silver,
$16,750,000.
Oregon, gold, $1,175,62; silver $150,.
000.
Washington, gold, $820,830; silver,
$300,000.
Clreulatlon or Monty.
The monthly circulation statement of
the comptroller of the currency shows
that on December 81, 1900, the total
circulation of national bank notes was
$340,061,410, an increase for the year
of $93,865,887 and an increase for the
month of $7,843,005. The circulation
naseu upon united Mates ootids was
$308,294,678, an increase for the year
of $8,564,088, and an increase for the
month of ld.47tt.044. The cireu at on
secured by lawful money amounted to
3l,70,7il7 a decrease for the year of
$4,068,801, and a decrease for the
month of $629,040. The amount of
United States secured bonds on deposit
to secure circulating notes amounted
to $312,832,830. and to secure public
deposits $99,994,670.
Tha Growth of Japantio Cities.
There are at present 28 cities in the
mikado's empire with a nonuUtimi
ceeding 85,000 souls. During the last
12 years the population of Osuka in-
nrnuueil liv 370 fXHl. wlulat !.
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Tokio, the capital, Increased during
the same period by 260,000, and Kobe
by 110,000. In 1887 the total pomila
tion of Japan amounted to 39,0t;ti,flul
souls, whilst in 1899 it amounted to
46,120,200. ,
A REMARKABLE CASE. .
One of the most remarkable invalids
in the world lies in a little room at
No. 160 Gates avenue, Brooklyn.
For thirty-live vearS she has 'lain
there, blind and helplesss. In all that
time she has never left her bed. Yet
she claims to have seen everything
that was going on in the .world.
Only her mind is alive. It sees what
ber eyes can never see; it travels while
her body lies motionless.
Bed-ridden and living in eternal
darkness, she has seen every wonder
that bas come to pass in Aew York
since the war. She watched the spin
ning of the marvellous web on which
Brooklyn bridge hangs; she saw its
completion. Minutely she described
every detail of the structure.
She saw the Statue of Liberty tin-
veiled and left looking out over the
harbor. The great skyscrapers, the
colleges, churches, parks all that
makes Greater New lork notable
have been pictured in the mind of this
wonderful woman.
When the long triumphal procession
last year passed under thi Dewey arch
Molfie Fancber, in ber darkened room,
said she saw it go by. She heard the
shouts of the people, the music of the
bands. With ber mind she looked at
Dewey and described him.
It is the strangest ease that ever
puzzled scientists. It has baffled the
medical profession. It is vouched for,
in its main facts, not by one or two
people, but by a large number of un
impeacablo witnesses. Chief among
theso is Judge Abram H. Dailey,
whoso "Life of Mollie Fancher" is a
curious and interesting contribution
to literature.
It is now twenty-five years since
Mollie Fancher 's strange condition
was made public. It was the sensa
tion of the day. For nine years then
sho had been in a trance and, accord
ing to those who nad cared for her,
had eaten nqtbing. Physicians who
knew nothing of the case pronounced
it a fraud. They were answered by Dr.
R. Fleet Speir, Dr. Robert Ormiston,
II. Vf, .11 Tlr 1 n Hiitnhinenn
Judge Dailey, Prof. Charles E. West
and others who examined her and
tested her occult powers.
Barnum ottered her a taouious sum
if she would let him exhibit her, and
agreed to fit up a luxurious private car
for her to travel in and to surround
her with every luxury and convenience.
She refused.
"I don't believe I know how to die,"
she says wearily. "I have tried so
long and vainly. Death always passes
by."
In 1863 a slender, beautiful girl,
ambitious and brilliant, was graduated
from the Brooklyn Heights seminary.
She was like other girls in her class.
except in being especially favored by
nature.
Prof. West, the president of the
seminary, said of her:
'She was a sweet girl, oi delicate
organization and nervous temperament,
and was highly esteemed for her pleas
ing manners and gentle disposition.
She was an excellent scholar, excell
ing in belles-lettres."
Un May I. laoi. miss fnncner was
thrown from a horse and severely in
jured. She grew better. With return
ing health came love into her life.
She became engaged, to Mr. John H.
Taylor, of Brooklyn. For a few months
she tasted happiness. Then the in
toxicating draught was hurled from
her lips forever.
On Juno 8, 1865,-came the tragedy
that ruined her life. While downtown
on a shopping errand she felt from a
street car while trying to alight and
was dragged some distance on the
rough pavement.
For nine years, day and night, she
was subject to trances, spasms and
catalepsy. She lay in one position, on
her right Bide. She could swallow,
but take no food. Water, the iuices
of fruits . and other liquids were put
Into her mouth, but her stomach would
not retain anything. Tho doctors per
formed tracheotomy, hut it was use
less. Her body performed none of the
ordinary functions.
Gradually tho sense of touch, speech
and hearing came back to poor Mollie
Fancher.- But she remained blind and
paralyzed, subject to trances and to
t : .1 t i 1 1 i . . .
visions uiruiu ui ii erne 1 1 biiu out OI
tune with the world.
Dr. S. Fleet Speir. for many years
ner pnysiciuu, ohvo ui ner;
"It is a wonderful and very interest
ing case. 1 have been abused by the
fraternity for asserting my belief in
Miss Fancher 's power. It exists; that
is all I know and it is all anv one
knows. I am satisfied that for vears
Miss Fancher took no solid food, and I
know that she takes nothing at this
time of Bny account. Her lips are
moistened occasionally with water or
fruit juice, and it is only at rare in
tervals that anything more substantial
passes her lips."
It was in 1875 that Mollie Fancher's
clairvoyant sight . reached its fullest
development. She began to describe
the appearance and clothing of her
callers. . She would tell that one had
a spot on her skirt, another a bit of
hasting left in her waist. Frequently
sno wouia say:
"I see a friend, Miss , coming
along Washington street. She has
started to see me and will be here in
a few minutes."
Frequently a letter, the contents of
which were unknown to those making
toe experiment, was torn In nieces.
put in a sealed envelope and handed to
Miss fancher. She would write a copy
oi tne leuer on ner Biare.
At another time the page of a book
was torn out and cut into pieces and
placed in an envelope, some fragments
neing purposely leit out. She wrote
out what was on the page, showing
wnat worus were missing.
"Tell nie bow much is in my pocket
book and it's yours," a friend laugh
ingly said to her one day,
"Sixty-seven cents," was the correct
answer.
She never sleeps. Often she keeps
dilligently at fancy work all the night
long. When morning comes the
amount she has done tells for itself of
the sleepless vigil. Unconsciously she
communes with her friends, telling of
absent ones, just where they are and
what they are doing.
Several efforts have been made to
secure tho appointment of a medical
hoard to investigate her case, but
Miss Fancber refuses to be made the
subject of inquiry. - .
"It matters not whether the truth
Is established by the commission, she
says. "I would rather have mv health
and strength or he gathered to my
heavenlv home than to continue the
object of criticism and doubt. I do not
ask the public to believe anything, I
regret my condition is a matter of
notoriety.
Although she has now passed her
flfty-wcond milestone Miss Fancher is
a handsome woman, with exquisitely
moulded neck and arms and skin that
is white as alabaster and soft as
velvet. Her face is angelic in its re
pose. Her black hair falls in loose
cnrls over ber brow, making a fitting
frame for her sad, pretty face.
She say of herself: "I was and
still am an enigma to myself. If any
body ran tell who I am and what : I
am when they have heard the experi
ences of my life, 1 would be glad to
have them do so. 1 am told that there
are five other Mollie, Fanchers who
together make the whole of thu one
Mollie Fancher known to this world.
Who they are or what they are I can
not explain; I can only conjecture. It
seems to me that at times I go into
various parts ot tne country or city and
see persons and places and know what
is happening, and whenever this
happens I take pains to find out after
ward from the persons whom I visit
npon these occasions whether ' they
were at tne places at which 1 saw
them, and were doing the things which
I saw them doing. If they are able to
recaii tne circumstances they 'always
satisfy me that iu some manner inex
plicable to myself I was either absent
from the body and with them, or was
able to make my observations without
obstruction from" material objects, un
affected by distance. I have often been
as far away as Michigan. Can the
mind penetrate like an X-ray?"
The five other Mollie Fancbers
whom she mentions are named Sun
beam, Idol, Rosebud, Pearl and Ruby.
She knows their history and carries on
conversations with them. Her friends
have through her had talks with them.
and tell queer stories of these inter
views. '
Mollie Fancher has a normal.
healthy, intelligent mind. She is a
delightful conversationalist and a de
vout Christian. She suffers intensely,
but never complains. She lingers
year after year, smiling, cheerful and
brave. "Only a patient woman could
be so unconauerable." said Prof. West
of her.
Will Carleton wrote of her: "As a
neighbor Mollie Fancher is valuable
and charming. A friendly half-hour
chat with her is a tonic. She knows
all the news and much history; she
can converse about the greatest events
of the- world the only gossip that is
not belittling. She is sagacious and
sparkling; her remarks are entertain
ing enough for the most exacting
salon. She is ssnd of judgment in
business matters; her mind is stayed
by the vertebrae of common sense."
This is Mollie Fancher, truly called
an enigma.
is she one in whom the earthy part
is so refined away that she sees the
things that are, unhindered by the
walls of flesh? '
What ia the explanation of the
marvel?
YOUNG KRUGER A HERO.
Grandnepbew of the Boer Ex-President
Saved a Starving Sheep.
An English clergyman had the ex
treme haidibood of relating an anec
dote in a Dublin paper that reflects
great credit upon a near relative, a
grand nephew, of England's arch
enemy. Paul Kruger. He was Btaying
at Glohdalough with two friends, and
while boating' on the upper lake, under
Camaderry mountain, noticed a sheep
pitifully bleating on a ledge about 1000
feet up the ' sheer cliff. The animal
had been there for days and was in a
state of semi-starvation. The peasants
about had resolved to shoot it and thus
end its misery. Young Kruger, how
ever, essayed to rescue it. He tied a
piece ot tarred twine around the soles
of his boots and climbed up the face of
the precipice, much to the anxiety of
his friends, The operation took him
quite two hours, during which the
slightest unsteadiness or wavering
would have cost him his life. Half
way up he shouted down that he could
not move further. With a final effort,
however, he gradually worked his way
up, reached the animal and lowered
it cautiously until he regained the
boat. His intrepid act excited intense
admiration among the spectators. His
task seemed utterly impossible and in
any event was attended with terrible
danger. Young Kruger was at the
time a medical student at Edinhurg
university, and on the declaration of
war sailed for South Africa.
Rural Delivery In Oregon.
The first rural mail delivery in Ore
gon, was established by the government,
as an experiment, at Turner two years
ago. Three routes were formed, each
leading out of the town for a distance
of 23 miles. The experiment has
proved to be an entire success and on
the strength of it several routes have
been established at Salem, and it is
likely that the system will come into
quite general use before long.. Turner
is a small place six miles south of
Salem, situated in Little valley ,on the
Southern Pacific. The country around
is devoted purely to wheat growing
and dairying. Land values ate about
$20 an acre, but some of the settlers
are moving out, as they can not stand
the incessant rain.
Massachusetts' Industries.
The Massachusetts labor statistician
reports 192,597 persons, out of a total
population of 2,805,340, to be engaged
in manufactures, as many as 82,624
being engaged in tho making leather
and shoes, 77,092 in building, 45,488
in clothing, 9045 in food preparations,
58,467 in machinery and metallic
goods, 9887 in paper and paper goods,
127,117 in textiles, 21,374 in wooden
goods and 61.413 in "other industries."
In the "learned professions" of
religion, law and medicine there are
some 13,000 persons. For every 644
persons there is one engaged in religi
ous work ; for every 899 one engaged
in law ; for every 431 one engaged in
meuicine.
The Debt of the United States.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of business
December 31. 1900. the national debt.
less cash in the treasury, amounted to
ii,uo,ii,3iia decrease for the month
of $1,935,565. The debt is recanitu
lated as follows: Interest bearing
debt. $1,001,499,770; debt on which in-
terest has ce&sed since maturity $2,-
w4,wu; debt, Bearing no interest,
$385,144,806; total, $1,319,293,646.
i ins amount, however, da not in
clude $754,012,379 in certificates and
treasury notes outstanding, which are
offset by an eqnal amount of cash on
band.
Brakeman Killed.
The body of Robert F. Jones. ' the
Northern Pacific brakeman who was
killed at Pasco Wednesday has been
sent to ins home at Auburn, Wash
Jones, who was a single man, was
going to the roar end of the train when
in some unaccountable manner he fell,
and after the train had passed over a
distance of 100 yards his body was
found. He had fallen across the track
and had boon cut in two just bolow the
stomacn.
. Another Railroad on Paper
Articles were filed at Salem by the
Union Railroad A Transportation Co.
for the expressed purpose of building
and operating a railroad from Union
to Snake river, also to do a general
development business. The capital
stock is $000,000, in shares ot $25; the
principal office is at Union, and
the incorporators are E. W Davis,
W. H. Ewing, L, J. Davis, K. E.
Foster and G. F. Hall.
ff i ; GENERAL. NEWS, i v,
' ' i i . i -. i ' :. ' i : , I ',
United States Senator Frye was
unanimously renominated by the joint
repuoucan . caucus held t in "Augusta,
Maine., ; S li 4 m '. -,'r
It is understood ' that at the con
clusion of operations. in South Africa
Lord Kitchener will become commander-in-chief
in India.' ' 4 M
Senator Ransome has introduced a
bill in the - Nebraska senate making
kidnaping under certain conditions
punishable by death. y,f
The railroad mileage of the United
States to December 31, 1900, is placed
by the Railway Age at 195,155 miles.
For the year 4322 miles were built.
A train on thn Nnvnda ' Pulifnmia &
Oregon railway north of Reno, was
blown from ; the track on Wednesday.
Several nAKsemerH urn rpnnrlpd in.
. o c
j ii red.
Shoe manufacturer!) nr nlminincr thn
establishment of a national shoe com
pany to dominate the distriubtion of
shoes to retailers and eliminate the
middlemen's profit.
The body of the late Lieut. George
H. Barber, paymaster in the navy and
a nephew of President McKinley, has
San Francicso and sent east for burial.
Thirteen colored women, whose ages
ange from 35 td 75, are attending
light school in .Ternev Citv. and takim?
their first lessons in reading. Several
the older women were born in
slavery.
Dan Stuart, the prize fight promoter,
as authorized a statement that he
rill null of A hifr fioht in dHrsnn Citv.
Nevada, between May 25 and June 10,
the fight to be for the heavyweight
championship.
General Miles and General Corbin
are in favor of a colonial' army
modelled after England's Indian army
whftrA tha nativpa it fnrtia am pnlialrt
and made- to do excellent police and
campaign work.
The state legislature of Missouri is
i session, the democrats bave: 56
ioritv of thn Wislatorii nrn lnwvrs
there being 20 of them in the senate
ana txs in tue nouse.
The Toronto Manufacturers, Ltd.,
with a capital stock of $3,000,000. has
been formed by the amalgamation of
the Toronto furniture dealers, controll
ing about 75 per cent of tiie lurniture
trade of Canada.
The yearly coinage statement of the
director of the mint shoa's the total
coinage of the mints of tho " United
States was $137,599,401 as follows:
Gold, $99,272,942; silver, $36,295,321;
minor coins, $2,031,138.
Fire underwriters suffered terribly
during 1900. The aggregate fire loss of
the United States and Uanada durinu
the year just closed,- as compiled from
carefully kept records, was $163,362,
250 an increase over the loss of 1899. .
Prof. Edward A. Ross, recently of
Stanford university, has been engaged
by the regents ot the University of
Nebraska. He will begin work next
month at a salary of $2000 a year. The
position was created for him. .
Frank James, brother of Jesse
James, the noted bandit, lost his fight
for the doorkeepership of the Missouri
house of representatives. On the first
ballot James received but 15 votes.
On the second ballot he withdrew.
Some delegates to the constitutional
convention at Havana say that if the
American congress does not approve the
Cuban constitution before next year
the country will remain in a state of
unrest, and perhapas worse things may
happen. ' . ' '
More than 100 men have been con
fined to the hospital at the Brooklyn
navy yard during the last week suffer
ing from the grip. Col. It. Meade, com
manding the barracks, and Capt. A. T.
Marix and Lieut. L. Pickering are
among the sufferers.
James II. Eckles, president of the
Illinois forestry exposition, has invited
Governor Rogers to direct the state
department of forestry, fish and game
to make an exhibition of Washington
products at the first annual exhibition,
to be held in Chicago, 'February 9 to
21, 1901.
It if announced that the Great
Northern railroad has secured the great
coal fields in the vicinity of the
Crow's Nest pass, in the Canadian
Pacific territory, at an alleged expen
diture of over $5,000,000. A branch
line will be built from Montana to
tap these fields.
Ex-Governor William J. Stone ot
Missouri was the Jackson day speaker
before the Jackson county democratic
club in Kansas City. The speech,
which was enthusiastically received,
was in the nature of a defense of the
policies of the democratic party in the
recent campaign. 1
The navy department has called ur-on
the superintendent of the naval academy
for a report on charges submitted by
Representative Roach, of Virginia, to
the effect that a marine named Hohart
Green, a cadet from Ohio, had died
from pneumonia, and that the decks
were washed beneath him while he
lay in his. hammock ou the San tee.
Christian Dewet, nephew of the Boer
genoral, is making speeches in South
Germany in behalf of the Boer cause,
and arousing great sympathy. The
meetings wnich he addresses adopt
resolutions protesting vigorously
against the overthrow of the two re
publics, the resolutions being tele
graphed to Count von Bulow and Mr.
Kruger. :
Governor Joseph K. Toole, and the
new state officers, were induoted into
office at Helena, Montana. The cere
mony of administering the oath to
Governor Toole, who succeeds Gov
ernor R. B. Smith, took place in the
exective office, and was simple in its
every detail. The oath was adminis
tered by Associate Justice Milburn,
himself a newly elected officer.
During the absence of William
Chidester and his wife from their
home near Marietta, Ohio, Thomas,
a 9-year-old son, shot and killed his
sister Florence, aged 14. No reason is
known. lie apparently does not realize
the enormity of his crime, and fought
for possession of the gun when a neigh
bor arrived. The parents are pros
trated, and the mother may die., ; ;
The tenth annual banquet of the
, Jacksonian club of Nebraska was held
at the Milard hotel, Monday night,
in Omaha. 350 persons sitting at the
tables. The occasion was one of in
terest on account of the presence of
Hon. W. .1. Bryan, who rcsimnded to
thetonst "democracy," and Senatoi B.
R. Tillman, whose address was on the
"Democratic Party, Its Duty and
Destiny." '
The latest development in the wo
man suffrago fight, begun over a quar
ter ot a century ago, when Susan B.
Anthony, and her sister, Mary B.
Anthony were . arrested and fined, is
the stand taken by Mary S. Anthony
in the matter of taxation ot her prop
erty. Sho sends notice to County
Treasurer Hamilton, of Rochester, N.
Y., that sho will not in the future pay
taxes except under protest nntil she
it allowed the right of suffrage. The
action will likely result in a test case
Ibeing brought in court.
' Five bags of registered letters have
been stolen on tho road between Turin
and Rome. Three of the bags came
fioin New York. '
Former United States Senator J. A.
Bradbury died at his home in Augusta,
Maine, Sunday, of bronchitis, aged
nearly 98 years.
Theodore Roosevelt, vice president,
elect, with'a number of friends, is in
Colorado on a hunting trip. lie will
remaiii there six weeks. '- ' ':
t ' William J. Bryan was the guest of
honor at the annual banquet of the
Chicago Bryan league, which was held
in Chicago at the Sherman house.
The interstate railway commission
has rendered a decision giving Denver
the benefit of the same freight rates oo
railroads as are enjoyed by coast
points. : " . '
The democratic legislators' caucus at
Nashville, Tena., '.nominated by
acclamation, Congressman E. W Car
mack to succeed United Stutoa Senator
Turley. : ;
The Northern Pacific has sold all of
its lands in North Dakota amounting
to 1,400,000 acres to a syndicate of New
York capitalists. Ranches will - be
established. i
Daniel J. Davis, father of Webster
Daviw, the former assistant secretary
ot'the interior, died at Kansas City,
aged 64. He was a veteran of the
union army.
The Vienna correspondent, of tho
London Chronicle asserts that Russia
in her agreement with .China under
takes to defend the latter against an
attacks cn her forts. ' ; . . , , ,'
Nikola Tesla, the -wizard of eloo
tricity, is competely satisfied .that
attempts are being made by the in
habitants of some other planet to com
municate with the people of this earth.
The talk of the possibility bf another
British war loan to meet the expenses
of the protracted campaign in South
Africa, was hold Monday in New York
banking circles.-
In spite of the official denials, Queon
Marie Henrietta of Belgium, is in an
extremely critical condition. She is
suffering from the after results of her
recent attack of pneumonia.
A picturesque contest for office in
the legislature that met at Jefferson
City, Mo., Monday is that of Frank
James, the once noted bandit, for
doorkeeper in tho house of representa
tives.
General O. O. Howard has announced
that President McKinley will be due
of the speakers at the celebration of
the birth of Abreham Lincoln, to be
held at Uarnegie hall. New York, the
evening of February 11.
Samuel Hubbard, a young man of 19
years, died at his home at Stevens
Point, Wis., from the excessive use of
dgarettes. Ho waa taken with cramcs
and spasms the day before and suffered
terribly for several hours..
A distinctive feature of the inaugura
tion of President McKinley, if plans
under way fulfill their early , promise,
will be a large representation of the
colleges and universities of the United
States in the Jine of parade.
It is a foregone conclusion -that the
National Livestock Association, at its
convention in Salt Lake City, January
15, will ask congress to enact such
laws as will be necessary for au
annual classified census of livestock. .;
Dr. Robert Lawrence, a young deu-1
tist, 6hot himself in the head at Den
ver while lying on a couch beside his
wife. Death resulted instantly The
doctor's suicide is attributed to de
spondency over the condition : of his
wife. , "
Representative Kahn of California,
has introduced a bill in congress con
tinuing in operation for twenty years
all laws prohibiting and regulating the
coming of Chinese persons "and persons
of Chinese descent into the United
States., . , , ....
. Mrs. Mary E. LeaFe has decided not
to sue her husband, Charles Lease, for
divorce. The conciliation was brought
about by their children. Mrs. Leaee
will shortly return to Wichita, Kan.,
quit politics and settle down to private
domestic life. , , .. "
It is asserted by the Cape Town cor
respondent that unless the forces in
Cape Colony are increased , a most un
desirable state of affairs may result, as
tha success in arms of the. .invaders,
however slight, might be tho signal
for a Dutch uprising. ' , ,
It is estimated that there are 250,-.
000 oases of grip, bronchitis and pneu
monia in New York city Not only
the city hospitals but , private institu-;
tions are full , to overflowing, and
physicians in many instances are find
ing it difficult to make their rounds.
Philip Danforth Armour, financier
and multi-millionaire, head of the vast
commercial establishment that bears
bis name, died at his home in Chicago
Sunday evening, aged 6b years, of an
affection of the heart. He leaves a
fortune estimated at $40,000,000 to $00.
000,000. He was , born in' Oneida
county, New York. 1 '.
The coroner's jury in the case of
Frank L. Richardson, the wealthy
merchant who was murdered in the
doorway ' of his residence Christmas
eve, in Savannah, Missouri, returned
a verdict, charging that "Richardson
came to his death from a pistol shot
fired by his wife, or by some person
known to her and unknown , to "(lie
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NOW ELECTRIC HEADLIGHTS.
Both the 0. R. & N and Southern
. Paclfle Will Use Them.
Electric headlights are now being
need by the O. R. & N. and Southern
Pacific on their engines. Through these
the danger of accidents is lesssened 50
per cent. With the broad path of elec
tric light traveling before the . engine
the track is as plain to the vision of
the engineer as in midday.
As may be imagined the effect of the
brilliantly lighted illuminators flooding
the darkness of night ar dazzling. As
the engines go roaring along their way
the lights dancing in frunt gild every
thing they touch with a spectral radi
ance. Old tumble-down farm houses
appear like gilded palaces of fairyland,
and every object alongside the" road
touched by the halo of light is trans
formed into a thing of beauty.
The O. R. & N. Co.' began experi
menting with electric headlights last
May. Engine 86 was used ' for that
purpose. Since then all the engines
have been equipped with the new ap
paratus. The whole machinery-is so
nearly automatic that its .control by
the engiueer is cqmplete and instan
taneous. By merely touching a button
he. sets the light into play. Each light
is of 2000-candle power. It lights the
track half a mile ahead of the engine,
while the old oil light only threw a
light a hundred feet in front of ' the
cowcatchor. Anything n the trsck
can be seen 18 telegraph poles ahead of
tha engine, far enough away so that
the train could be'bronght to a halt
before it reached the object, even if
under full speed.
Montana is the chief wool producing
state in the union, and has more ebeeo
! than any other state except one. The
'state's clip this year exceeded 24,000,
, 000 pounds.
PACIFIC. NORTHWEST NEWS.
I-
' Henry Hahn was elected president of
the Portland chamber of , commerce
Wednesday. . V y . . .. . ....
' Mrs. ; Sarah Addison, sister of A. F.
Jessun, died in Walla , Walla: after a
short 'illnesst -"- : .i.; . ;. ? -,.- . !
: Portland spent for government in
1900, $88,000 more , than her receipts
from ail sources. i f . . , - . 7 : . ;
The debt of Albany 'is $95,000 in
bonds and $15,042.37" warrants, both
forms bearing interest. .
aja-oeiihuji l'uuuib waa noaiiuuieu
by joint caucus for United States sena
tor at Boise City Monday morning.
John James is. missing from his
cabin near jJeKolanon Lake, and has
not boen heard of for three weekB.
The Multnomafl delegation to the
legislature will introduce a bill to re
duce the salary of the sheriff from
$4500 to $2500.
Mrs. W. K. , Beans, wife of the
former, pastor of the Vincent Mehodist
church at Spokane, died Saturday at
Los Angeles, Cal.
T. A. Russell, a pioneer farmer of
Walla Walla county, died at his home
at Valley Chapel, . nine miles west of
Walla Walla, aged 68 vears.
. ....
iiic hucihusi puny 01 ine state oi
Washington was organized at Colfax,
Wash., by F, J. Spring, state organ
izer, assisted by several socialist lead
ers of Whitman county.
State Treasurer Charles S. Mooro of
Oregon reports the receipts for the past 1
ui tr mrtrttliu n,M.nnnfn 67ur: 07rt no .1
the disbursements, $921,599.69 balance
on hand January 1, 1901, $944,623.40.
Tho (). R. & N. Co. has quoted a
rate of a single fare for tha round trip
from its territory to tho convention of
the National . WoolgrowerB' and
National Livestock Associations in
Salt Lake City January 15-18.
From a .motive that is so "far un
known, John Wesley Karstetter, 42
years old, of Hillsboro, committed
suici.io at the Belvedere hotel,, in
rorwanu, Dy swallowing carbolic acid.
He was a man of property and was in
good circumstances. .
The Sherman County Poultry Asso
ciation has organized with the follow
ing officer: J. B. Mcwry, president;
E. G. Tozier, vice-president; W, B.
Johnston, secretary and treasurer; A.
O. Thompson, 8. Huff, H. A. Page,
executivo committee.
J. A. Rotnn. , nf A limn v aTinaf-
- , ' -J...., , , II 1 1 1 V, .
maker and . undertaker, has filed a
petition in bankruptcy in the United
States court, His liabilities amount"
to about $800. .His assets amount to
$376, the greater part of which is
exempt.
Thunn.s n,0,M .... 1 1 i J.I.-
.iiwmvib uuiffCIl, CUIJJluyeU Ub LlltJ
smelter at Tacoma, was terriblv
burned Monday about tho face, hands,
arms and neck by falling into a pot of
boiling slag while at work. Although
badly burned, it is thought Col well
will recover. , ;
The sum of $9125 Was paid into the
federal court at Tacoma, by the Pre
ferred Accident Insurance company of
New York on a judgment in favor of
Sarah McMillan, whose husband, John
McMillan, was killed by tho accidental
discharge 'of a revolver" in Spokane in
February, 1".)00. , . .
1 Some time ago n prominent capitalist
offered to build and operate a - smelter
in Portland if he should be guaranteed
100 tons of ore daily. Traffic Manager
Campbell of the O. R. & N. today an
nounced' that the guaranty had boen
filled by mining companies operating
nlnn.r ilia lirtn ei ilr. I lr.n4
Tho sheriff of King county brought
"una uauu ptHnteiJiiury it lew
days ago a full carload of prisoners
sentenced to terms in prison by the
courts in Seattle. - It is the first case
011 record where a car load of prisoners
were taken to prison at once,, but
Seattle never does anything by halves.
The people of Seattle have completed
th rm'sinir nf a $100 fW lin.M,u tn ho
paid Moran Bros, company of Seattle
upon .the launching . of" the fine
sheethud battleship which they have
been awarded by the navy department.
Morans' bid of $3,837,900 must be
scaled $!00,d00 to bring it within the
limit fixed by congress.
II. (5-. Donald, a well known mining
man of Spokane, who a few years ago
held a prominent position in Spo
kane's mining world as the local
1. . 1 . t r. 1 ....
ugciiL iur u iiumuer oi .uriusn mining
corporations, committed suicide in his
building Borne time Wednesday night.
riis uouy was iouna late inursoay.
i Lloyd B. Egbert was killed in the
Northern Pacific yards in Portland,
while coupling two vestibule cars. He
gave the signal that caused his death
while being unconscious of his danger-,
ous position for the time being, as he
was an experienced switchman and
brakeman; . .-,
An order confirming the sale of tha
East Side Railway company's property
was made by, Judge Bellinger in the
United States court in Portland, Mon
day, 'and the property passed into the
bands of the purchaser, F. S. Morris,
of Morris & Whitehead, bankers. The
road runs between Portland and Oregon
City.
L. Oldenburg's fruitdryer and fruit
house, north of La Grande, was totally
destroyed by fire early Saturday morn
ing. Practically nothing was saved.
The loss includes the dryer and fruit
house, 42,000 pounds of dried prunes,
18,000 pounds of dried apples, 3500
pounds of dried pears, and 1500 boxes
of apples.1 Insurance $4000. ' .
The receipts of tho Baker City .' post
office for the past , year amounted to
$13,247 57. This represents an increase
over 1899 of about $1200 and an in
crease in three vears of over $5000
The Baker City '"office is now the third
poetotfice in the" state in point of
receipts, Portland and Salem making
a greater showing. Astoria, while
showing a larger population, fell $1000
or more short in postoftice receipts.
Tho bonded indebtedness of Idaho
is $340,500 and the warrant indebted
ness $92,R10.11, making a total of
ioo,giv.h. n ia siatea in the report
that when the administration came in
to power, in January, 1898, the warrant
indebtedness was $204,469.64 and the
bonded indebtedness was $393,000,
making a total of $597,469.64. The re-'
duction during the last two years has
been $164,159.50. i . i ,
' A Remarkable Case.
A remarkable caaso of a' father giv
ing his child as a hostage to secure the
payment of debt came to light at
Spokane, when James Grant, a stone
mason was given a writ of habeas
corpus in the superior court for bis 3-year-old
child;' The child has been for
a year in the custody of C, Johnson. .
It was delivered to Johnson to secure,
a debt contracted by Grant during a
long illness preceding the death of its
mother. Grant, also agreed to pay an
additional anion n t for the child's
maintenance. Johnson has disposed of
all his interests here preparatory to re
moval to Sweden, bis native land. He
refused to give Grant his child, and
threatened to take it to Sweden with
hitn on It- s the debt was paid. Grant
consulted the authorities here, and tha
habeas corpng proceedings resulted.