The Heppner Gazette
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1901.
NATIONAL CAPITAL STORIES.
Capt. Evan Howell, of Georgia, was
talking to Senator Piatt, of Connecti
cut, about insomnia.
"Now, suh," he said, "I have a
sure cure for insomnia and it is as
simple as it is sure. When you go to
bed and can't sleep get up and take a
drink. Go back to bed and wait half
an hour. If you do not go to sleep
get up and take another drink. Re
peat this, suh, at intervals of half an
hour. If you do not go to sleep for
four times," making four driaks, then,
suh, if you are not sleep you will not
care whether you sleep or not."
A young man who came to Washing
ton in search of a political office was
importuning Representative Chanm
Clark, of Missouri, to aid him. The
applicant was exceptionally steadfast
in his efforts and developed into a
bore.
"Look here, young man," said Con
gressman ,;Chauip," "you were born
in Texas. Texas is a great state, just
full of opportunities. You have a
legal education and you are enamored
of politics. Take my advice, go there,
mix in politics, practice law, and
perhaps you may come bore to con
gress." "Good Lord, Mr. Clark," exclaimed
the Texan, "do you know anything
about Texas?"
"Not much except that it is a bij
place with plenty of pasture land."
"Well," said the aspiring youth,
"there are 3,000,000 people in Texas;
two million of these are men; 1,999,999
are statesmen and 1,999,999 are law
yers, and every solitary one has hung
out this sort of shingle:
: JOHN SMITH, :
: Attorney-at-Law :
and :
: CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS. :
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, was
making an eloquent address opposing
a certain provision of the army bilL
He had spoken at considerable length
aid was denouncing the objectionable
feature of the bill, when President
Frye interposed:
"If the gentleman will permit me I
win inform him that the item to
which he objects has been stricken
out."
There were many retorts discourte
ous during the discussion of the river
and harbor bill in the house. On one
occasion Representative Fitzgerald, of
Massachusetts, asked whether Mr.
Hepburn would answer a question.
"I will not," retorted Hepburn;
"the gentleman from Massachusetts
is too willing to interject his bland,
simple and lisping brogue into his
speech."
Manitoba railroad, or the Great North
ern, as it later came to be known.
Mr. Hill's rise in the railroad
world could not be termed
"meteoric." It was a long, hard
struggle. For 28 years he has been
plodding away at his life work. But
he stands now the conceded chief of
the American railway world. He is
the master mind over a consolidated
system of more than 20,000 miles,
bonded and capitalized for about one
billion dollars. The figures are start
ling: Great Northern (miles) 5,441.42
Norrtarn Pacific (miles) 5,20!' .03
St. Paul system (m'les) (i,C".7.l
Giand total 16,981 .S9
Capital stock Great Northern f S0,05O,0CO
Bonds subsidiary companies 2i,9 16,030
Capiial stock Northern Pacific 16i,COO,0'0
Bonds UK),8s7,0C3
Capital stock Si. Paul K2,51!l,C I
Bonds 36,L'26,.;o
But all this carries the system onlv
from Seattle to Chicago. The Erie
railroad, practically owned bv the
same combination, has 2,271.03 "miles
of system. Its capial stock is $171,
140,800, its funded debt $140,418,100.
::
This double combination carried the
transcontinental line to the Atlantic
seaboard. The final trump was played
when the Reading and Jersey Central
deal put the combination in direct
possession of the desired New York
and Jersey City terminals.
It would bo unwise. to told out to
the American youth the extravagant
suggestion that there is a fair prospect
of his repeating the extraordinary
achievements of this extraordinary
man. Such stupendous fortune falls
only to one man in millions, and may
not be repeated at all to the rising
generation. But the true lesson of
Mr. Hill's life may fairly be held out
to every American boy. It is this:
That success, in pome degree or other,
is the reward of the qualities which
Mr. Hill has applied to his life work.
He started by doing small things exceed
ingly well. He has been industrious.
energetic, careful, honest. Ho has used
one success a stepping stone to an
other. And over all we behold the
man's marvelous patience. Spokes-
man-jKeviow.
CONDITION AVERAGE AMERICAN.
"Boy," called Senator Hale, of
Maine, addressing the attendant of the
cloak-room, "have you seen mv rub
bers?" "Yes, sir," responded the boy with
a grin.
"Well, where are they?"
"You have them on, sir."
Gov. Jones, of Alabama, is in town.
He was born at Manchester, Va., and
while here thought he would emulate
the Chinese and pay his respects o the
graves of his ancestors. He hired a
team and was driven out to a burying
ground. The governor meditatively
purred at nis cigar, thought of the
heroic deeds of the departed Joneses
and was soliloquizing generally upon
the glory of the Jones family.
"There rests the dust of "my great-great-grandfather,"
said the governor,
pointing out an ancient mound to his
driver.
" 'Deed it ain't, boss." said an old
darky standing near by. "Dis ain't
the white folks' buryin' ground'; dis
is whar dey buried de niggers."
The hurried and whispered con
ference between Senators Clay and
Bacon, during which the senate passed
the reapportionment bill without
either of them being aware of the fact,
although the purpose of the consulta
tion was to determine whether Mr.
Clay should oppose it, recalls a similar
expeditious piece of legislation which
occurred in the Fifty-first congress,
when Speaker Reed was earning his
title ol "Czar."
A contested election case was up and
the resolution expelling the sitting
member was ready for a vote. All the
democrats with one exception left the
hall to prevent Mr. Reed from counting
a quorum. The one remaining on guard
duty at the proper time raised the
point of no quorum and then left to
pave a talk with his associates outside.
As the objecting member disappeared
through the door a republican ad
dressed the chair and said that as the
point of no quorum had been with
drawn, the vote could proceed. The
speaker put the question and the mem
ber was unseated. Another vote and
the contestant was given the seat.
When the democrats returned to the
ball the member whoee seat had been
taken from him was amazed to receive
a note from the speaker requesting
him to vacate his desk so that it
might be occupied by his successor.
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
Senator T. H. Johnston .has intro
duced a bill constituting the governor.
secretary of state and state treasurer a
commission to build a portage rai
way between The Dalles and Celilo
and making an appropriation therefor.
Adjutant General Gantenbein, of the
Oregon National Guard, has prepared
a bill for the reorganization the state
militia and providing for annual
camp, held and cruise encampments
every year.
Representative Miller, of Arlington,
representing urant, uiiliam, Sher
man, Wasco and Wheeler counties,
proposes, in a Din mat lie nas lntro-
duced, to re-establish a state board of
r.iilvoad commissioners. The board is
to consist of three members and tin ir
salaries are fixed at $2500 per annum
Reapportionment of the state has be
come a live topic and may cause a big
fight before the legislature. Senator
Steiver has introduced a bill making
rauicai cnanges in trie present cum
bersome scheme of apportionment. It
does not look so much like a gerr
manner as me present act.
Dr. Andrew C. Smith, one of the
senators from Multnomah county, has
introduced a Dill to authorize the nort
of Portland commission to issue 4 per
cent bonds in the sum of $400,000, the
proceeds to be used in the construction
of a dry-dock. It is said ot Portland
to ttie discredit of that city that it is
the only port of any consequence in the
wnoie country that is without such a
valuable adjunct to its shipping
iacuities.
If we wish an accurate measure of
the century's progress we must answer
these two questions :
What was the condition of the
average American one hundred years
ago?
What is the condition of the average
American today? i
To get at the truth of progress we
must put great lortuues, great isolated
mental achievements, great depths of
poverty, great isolated crimes, in
their proper perspective. We must
hunt out the middle American, the
average American, and compare him
wnn tne average American ot the year
i8ui, slaves excluded.
ine average American ot lw years
ago lived in a miserable and squalid
hamlet of about five hundred inhabi
tants, a collection of log huts, isolated
from the rest of the world by incon
ceivably bad roads, completely shut
in all winter long. He was a com
bination of farm-hand and artisan, do
ing the coarsest work, toiling at least
thirteen hours a day.
The average American of today is a
citizen or a town ot about Jour thous
and inhabitants, situated near a city
ana connected with it by a railroad.
He is a skilled laborer, owning
small piece of cultivated ground upon
w new stands a comfortable cottage,
r e works not more than eight hours
a day, and tools enable him to work
not only infinitely better but also
greatly more easily than did his pre
decesaor of the year 1801.
Let us take up these two Americans
under the several heads that describe
conditions:
ine average American ot luu years
ago uvea upon a diet ot coarse bread,
coarser than any we now have know
ledge of; a few of the coarsest vegeta
hies, salt meat several times a week,
iresn meat not so oiten as once a week
1 1 I ... i
ins meais, cooueo in grease, were
served upon pewter dishes. He had
neither glass nor china.
The average American of todav has
good bread in abundance, a great
variety of vegetables, the most of them
unknown a century ago; a great
variety ot rruits, the most oi them nn
known a century ago; fresh meat three
times a day, and that in great variety
desserts of various kinds an abun
dance of food fairly well cooked and
served upon many kinds of dishes.
heavily plated spoons, knives and
forks, glass blown into elaborate
designs, china of an excellent quality
ana attractive to the eye.
The average American of 1801 was
drseed in a pair of leather breeches.
usually inherited from his grandfather;
a coarse check shirt, a red flannel
jacket, an old felt hat. a leather aDron
dripping with greasy dirt, a pair of
darned yarn Btockings, heavy patched
snoes oi tne stinest leather, this wag
his habitual attire.
The average American of todav has
at least two suits of clothes, one for
occasions," made of excellent ma
terial, fitting him fairly well and worn
lor about a year as "first best;" the
second suit, the slightly damaged
'first-best" suit of the year before.
He wears a white smrt, changing it
twice a week, and cl anging the collar
and cuffs three times a week. He has
several neckties, two pairs of shoes,
frequently changed; several suits of
underwear, at least two hats and two
overcoats. His wardrobe is about
equal in extent and far superior in
uaiiiy to me wardrobe or a prosper-
I ous smaii mercrjam or luu years ago,
and it is renewed about five times as
often.
"My son iedeadj-I know he'sdead,"
wailed a woman in General Corbin's
office yesterday.
"And how do you know, madam?"
inauired the general.
"I saw him killed!"
"You saw him killed? I thought you
said he was in tho Philippines."
"But I saw it in a dream. There
was a crowd. He was in the center
and the black men were beating him
to death. He's dead! I saw it with
nay own eyes."
"I guess you are slightly mistaken,"
said Mr. Corbin, "this list savs your
son has just arrived at Ran Francisco
0n..T.tra?8port itf half his regiment."
It that is so," said the distressed
woman, "I'll never believe in another
dieam."
''Nor would I," remarked General
Corbin. "You'd be surprised," he
continued, 'how many people see their
relatives in the Philippines killed in
dreams. Just to satisfy some of them
we have cabled out to ascertain, and
in no one instance bas the dream come
true."
JAMES J. BILL'S GENIUS.
Twentv-eight years ago James J.
Hill entered on his extraordinary rail
way career. It was just after the severe
panic of 1873. A little bankrupt road
ran out of M. Paul to St. Cloud, a I
distance of 50 or 60 miles. It had
been started by the aid of state bonds,
and some Holland capitalists were
beck of the venture. Mr. Hill be
lieved that these Holland bondholders
eoald be induced to scale down their
bonds to the real value of the line,
and events proved that he was right.
He got the ear of Canadian capitalists,
among them the present Sir William
Van Home, and there was the Itfgin
tngofthe St. Paul. Minneapolis &
Oregon's Pan-American commission.
consisting ot resident A. r. Tint
Treasurer H. B. Thielsen, Secretary J
H. Burgard, Assistant secretary George
jl. feaeiee, ana A. J. Johnson, Is
L. Smith tnd Mrs. E, T. Weatherred
i i. . i ft . .... .
uhm Buurnmeu a arait or a Din lor an
appropriation of $30,000 for Oregon's
exhibit at the Buffalo exposition. The
bill has been put in the hands of Sena
tor llowe, of Yamhill county, for in
troduction in tho senate, and in the
hands of Representative Stewart.
Representative Schumann, of Mult
nomah. has prepared a bill that will.
if enacted into law, tend to discourage
the loaning of public moneys. The
bill makes the borrowing of public
money from tho state, or any town or
other public corporation, grand
larceny, punishable by a fine equal to
the amount borrowed, or imprisonent
in the penitentiary for from one to 15
years. Exceptions are made of funds
for the loaning of which provision is
already made by law.
MARK TWAIN AND BISHOP POTTER.
The Humorist Glad He Did Not Vote for
McKlnley at the Last Election.
Mark Twain declared at the City
uiuo umner, new lorit, last week,
that the war in the Philippines had
polluted the American flag, and that
he is glad that he did not vote for the
uuio man at the last election.
Mr. Clemens referred to national
politics, saying: "I said to myself
that it would not do for me to vote for
Bryan, and l rather thought I know
now that McKinley wasn't just right
on uns rnnippine question, and so I
just didn't vote for anybody.
i ve gui mat vote yet, and I've
kept it clem, ready to deposit at
some other e'ection.
"Itwati't cast for any wild cat
financial theories, and it wasn't cast to
support the man who sends our boys
as volunteers out to the f hilippines,
to get shot down under a polluted
flag." v
Mark Twain and Bishop Potter were
t' a guests of the City club at the
d' u ci; and, speaking after Bishop
Po:: , Mr. Clemens said:
"T'.ie bishop has just spoken of the
widespread lust for gain, the lust that
does not stop short of the jail. We
know that this country could not exist
if this lust were universal. In business
life, out of fifty men, forty-nine are
clean. Then why is it that these fortv
nine men cannot have their will? "It
Is because the fiftieth man, the dis
honest one, is thoroughly organized
and the forty-nine men are" not.
"Gentlemen, you must organize,
organize, organize. Now, if there is
some way to bring your force to bear
the force of the forty-nine then this
condition must vanish."
The average American of 1801 lived
in a shanty with four rooms at moRt.
It was furnished with a verv few
coarse articles, the bare necessities a
rough table, a few forms called beds,
upon which were spread straw, often
with no covering; a few forms called
chairs, with no covering at all. Th
rough floor was strewn with sand
There was no glass at the windows
There were no facilities for bathint?
and the only facilities for washing the
hands and face were buckets, used at
tho well or on a bench behind the
bouse when used at all. There were
no stoves, no coal, no matches.
The average American of todav lives
in a neat cottage, painted outBide and
in. with glass windows and outside
blinds. Carpets are on all the floors
except the kitchen floor, which is of
smooth boards. The kitchen furniture
is better than the best furniture of
man many aegrees a Dove the average
American of J801. There is elaborately
upuoisterea rurniture in the parlor,
very ccmionabie rurniture in the Iiv
ing rooms, including good beds with
mattresses, sheets and blankets.
IPL. . . .
me average American ot 1UU vears
ago was barely aoie to read and write
He rarely saw and never read either
book or newspaper. He knew a little
theology and some politics, but he
followed blindly his preacher and his
betters." His soeech was lunornnt,
his expression dull and lifeless, his
mind torpid, groping in a thick foz of
ignorsnce and superstition.
The average American of todav reads
the newspapers and reads honks. Ha
does some thinkimr. is informp1 nn
only about what is going on in his
town but also about his country, and
even to a certain extent about foreign
anairs. His expression is aleit. His
mind is awake and active. While his
speech is ungrammatical, his vocabu
lary is large and he knows the meaning
of a multitude of words and forms
opinions based upon a multitude of
ideas. In information he is ahead of
all but a few thousand of the Ameri
cans of 100 years ago. In intelligence
ne is aneaa of all but the most en it
ened class of the year 1801.
from and are springing from the
average American. And he himself is
an independent citizen, voting, with
the secret ballot, courted by the politi
cians, respecting himself and respected
by others. All the machinery of our
civilization is for him for he is also
the average consumer whom every
purveyor of commodities seeks to reach
and to please.
If we go to other countries we find
the difference bewteen these two
average men still more startling. But
we need not look bevond onr own
shores. What could be more significant;
man mis contrast Detween ignorant,
ragged, poverty-stricken, down-trodden
average American of 1801 and intelli
gent, well-informed, well-clothed,
well-fed, well-housed, property-possessing,
self-respecting and respected
average American of today?
And the work of uplifting began
less than a century ago. What astound
ing results! What unimaginable prospects.
CENTRALIZATION OF POWER
Extract From a Recant Address of Bishop
Potter.
Bishop Potter, of New York, in a
recent address, said:
."Nobody who has followed the his
tory of this republic can be insensible
to me enormous change in the relation
of the population of this land to its
great business centers. Two leading
cities of inferior she in the state in
which I live during the last decade
have actually lost in population, and
the community surrounding them have
lost still more largely. The growth,
on the other hand, of two or more
large centers of population of America
is enormous. There are startling facts
in our history. In other words, tlu
drift of the most active men and of the
youth of the land for educational or
other purposes is increasing to those
g.-eat centers. More than ever they
b'. kethe note, more than ever they
ti"i tLe pace.
"I want to speak to you about the
relations of such a factor as this to
communities in our municipal and
national life, which ought to be re
membered. One of these I believe to
be the curious decay in that life,
whether it is national or municipal, of
the influence and power of the indivi
dual. That great political revolution
which began in France, which had for
its actors Rousseau and the reBt, stood
for the emancipation of that older
world, tor the freedom of the individ
ual life and mind.
"There bas been at work during the
1 j. ner . "w . -
last to years in tne united IStates
prominently, 1 think, certain great
tendencies toward centralization of
power. You see it in the domination
Receiver Clark, of the Chosen
Friends, says the total liabilities of
which the receiver has accurate
knowledge at present are $774,749. In
addition to all these claims there are
protested checks for large amounts,
which will bring the total indebted
ness far In excess of $800,000. To
meet this heavy Indebtedness the re-
?JJr.hM !" Ill trery t present
l-WO in cash. The society may be able
to pay three cents on the dollar.
Magazines, books, carpets, curtains
pictures, wall naner. a niano. lamrw
and gas. coal, heated rooms, hathino
appliances, water in the house, toilet
articles, changes of clothing these
are a few, only a few, of the luxuries
indoors for the average American now.
adays. And a century ago he had only
a very few of what we now call the ab
solute necessities. The people of the
slums are in JuiJ in comnflriiinn
with the average AufVic.n of lfiOl.
Then there are n.r.jd and lighted
streets, fairly good roads, street cars,
parks, libraries, reading rooms, en-
tertainment? and a score of other
putlie utilities that dive a variety and
ease to the life of the poorest which
were not within reach of the richest a
century ago.
So far as geli-esteem and th putpum
of others are concerned, the contrast
is the most impressive of all. In nit
of the Declaration of Independence, at
the beginning of the nineteenth cen
tury, the average American was in bis
own opinion and in the universal
opinion a low fellow, with whom def
erence bordering on servi'ity was a
duty.
Poverty and ignorance and lack of
opportunities prevented him from
claiming and exercising the rights that
were theoretically his.
Today our greatest men are sprang October IV
of capital, in honest aggregations of
money, which makes it possible for
three or tour individuals in the back
office of some bank to create in half an
hour a convulsion in the financia
markets of the world
"You see it in the concentration and
organization of the great industrial en
terprises which have startled the
world, not alone with their enter
prises, but with their renins nml
ability. Tho difficulty in modern lifn
is with the organized forces that touch
the individual life. Thov are so creat
and so rich, and so many handed, that
for the individual to stand up against
u.riu is something more than ordinary
iniiage win aare to attempt. That n
the whole tendency of our modern life
As the result of it, a conviction has
come to pass, which exists widely
not only in such communities as yours
and mine, but all over this land, that
mere uoes not exist a man who is nn
a puichasable man.
About a year ago thero came into
my study in .New York some one whom
I had never seen, a stranger, whose
name upon his card I did not recog
nize, and whose errand I could not
vine. 'Sir ' said he. 'I am from
such and such a part of the country
in that part of the country a fiercA
political campaign is now in progress.
One of your clergy (it was in a trri.
tory and not in a city) is attacking from
the pulpit the moral character and
moral standards as a gentleman,
candidate there for a very high office,
whom 1 represent.
"I said: 'I have not any clergymen
out in mat part of the world. I have
no more jurisdiction there than you
have. He said: 'Perhaps noj, in the
sense you mean, but it is one of your
men.'
" 'What do you want me to do,
saw 1. ! want you to stop it,' said
ne, -and 1 am authorized by the dis
tinguished gentleman whom I repre
sent to Bay that if you will stop it, he
win make it worth your while.'
liT !.. 1H . ,r. ...
x ieii nice saying: -it will come
high.' I got UD and walltml in tho
aoor. i opened it and stood thnrn
He looked towards it a moment in
some perplexity, i said, 'Does it not
occur to you, sir. that this intrvfw
is at an end' He went out
"1 mention that incident, as a nrW
oi me statement l have mnria
Here was a person in a distant, nar't
of the country, a candidate for a very
th position, who had not. Ua
smallest hesitation in sending an
emissary to me with an intimation
that if I were prepared to silence a
speaker who was saying disagreeable
things, that money would be put up to
make it worth while.
The appalling fact is that from the
top to the bottom of our social struc
turethe judge upon tho bench, the
legislator in the halls of leiislatioii
the magistrate in the law courts and
the policeman on his beat, are all be
lieved by the great majority of tho
people to be purchasable men. That
uch suspicion should exist is itar.lf a
disuonor so deep and damning that no
community ought to be willing to rest
in it lor an hour. "
GENERAL NEWS.
A $200,000,000 steel and wire trust
is in process of organization in New
York.
Fire in the McBean dry goods store
in Phoenix, Arizona, did a damage of
T.)U,uuu inursaay morning.
Secretary Root is a victim of the la
grippe. There are thousands of cases
of the uisease in Washington.
Samuel H. Warwick, the inventor of
Root beer, at one time a millionaire,
died penniless at the alms house in
Philadelphia a few days ago.
The officiating ministers in the late
Vanderbilt-French wedding at Newport
received $5003, one of them $3000 and
the other $2000, for the marriage fee.
Dun's reivew for last week shows
the failures for the week were 32 in
the United States against 242 last year
and 43 in Canada, against 40 last year.
John W. Griggs, attorney general of
the united States,was elected a director
of the Trust Company of America in
New York to fill a vacancy on the
board.
President Kruger is undecided
whether to visit America. He wiil do
so if assured that President McKinley
will receive him officially as president
of the Transvaal.
Marvin Kuhns, the desperado, who
has terrorized northern Indiana for two
weeks and defied the officers of two
states, was captured at Greenhill and
is now in Logansport jail.
The American Association of Gen
eral Baggage Agents adoumed at St.
Augustine, Florida. Portland, Ore.,
was selected as the place for the next
annual meeting in Juno 1902.
The railroads failing to make a
satisfactory rate the G. A. R. annual
convention will not be held at Denver
this year as has been announced, but
instead, at Cleveland, September 9.
The board of supervisors oi San
Francisco county are considering nn
ordinance which will probably be
passed, requiring street railways to
carry school children at half-fare rates.
Union Pacific flyer No. 1 was
wrecked at Aspen Hill, Wyoming,
Wednesday, and 13 persons were
hurt, none seriously. The chair car
and diner were thrown down an em
bankment. General Andrew Jackson McKay, a
distinguished veteran of tho civil war,
died in New York. Ho was quarter
master general on the staff of General
George W. Thomas in the nrniv of the
Cumberland.
It is understood in London that Tom
L. Johnson, the American street rail
road capitalist, lias bought the linker
street end Waterloo underground rail
road from the London St Globe Finance
Corporation, Ltd.
James A. Mount, who retired Mon
day at noon from the office of governor
of Indiana, died very suddenly Wed
nesday night in his apartments at the
Denmson hotel in Indiannpolis. The
rouble was heart disease.
The republican members of the
Minnesota legislature at their caucus
unanimously nominated M. E. Clapp
of St. Paul for senator to succeed Sena
tar Davis, deceased. Moses E. Clapp
H 49 years old and was bom in Delphi,
i mi.
OUR RACE FOR MONK Y.
Europeans Are Wis Enough to Rest
Prom Business Cares Aftsp Reaching
Middle Lire.
"II it is not true that we Americans
regard money-making as the work for
which lifo was given to us, why, when
we have millions, do we go on strug
gling to make more millions and
more?" writes "An American
Mother," in the January Ladies'
Home Journal. "It is not so with
the older races. The London tradesman
at middle age shuts his shoo, buvs an
e. in the suburbs and lives on a small
i-1 j ne or snends the rest of his lifn n
lor'ng it in poultry or fancy garden
ing. The German or Frenhman seldom
works when nast sixty. Hn ph his
last years to some study o hobby-
music, a microscope, or it may be
ominoes. you meet him and h is
wife, jolly, shrewd, Intelligent, jog
ging all over Europe, Baedeker in
hand. They tell you they 'have a
curiosity to see this flno world before
they go out of it.' "
The lone higwhayman who held up
and robbed two Pullman sleepers on
the Northern Pacific between Sand
Point and Athol on the morning of
September 22, was James McLain,
alias Tom Stratton, alias James Wat
son, one of the five men convicted at
North Yakima and sentenced to five
years in the Walla Walla penitentiary
for robbing a freight car at Kiona
It is stated that articles of agreement
lor a tight between Kid McCoy and
Tom Sharkey will probably be sianed
in San Francisco and the forfeit money
win be placed in the hands of Al
oiiuui, siaaenoiuer. February za is
the date.
William II. Crocker of San Fran
cisco, has offered to defray the expense
vi u ouiar euupso expeuiuon to be Sent
by the university ot Calaifonna, from
the Lick Observatory, to Sumatra, to
observe the total eclipse of the sun
May 17.
The Call says that back of a steam
ship company organized in this city
with a capital of $12,500,000 is a plan
to colonize Mexico with Oriental
laborers. The promoters propose to em
ploy 1,000,000 Chinese in all kinds of
industry.
In joint convention Wednesday the
Michigan legislature verified the vote
taken in the senate and house, m:-'
Senator James McMillian was form-
ally declared ejected United States
senator for the term of six years from
March 4 next.
The coal mineis' strike in Colorado
is rapidly producing a serious condi
tion of affairs in Denver and other por
tions of the state. Three hundred men
were added Wednesday to the number
ou svriKB in ine state, raising the ag
gregate to 1000.
Juan Lopez, la workman at the
topper (jueen smelter, at TucHon,
Arizona, was burned to death hv
moiten copper wnicti lei; lrom a swing
ing pot under which he stood. His
clothes, were set on fire and us hodv
l M.I.. J' .11 1 I .1 . .
uurriujy uiHiigureu ny mo metal.
Xf -I o .
.more man nu.uuu pension c aims n
the office of Milo B. Stevens A Co,
were destroyed by fire in Washington
city. Many of the papers were to he
used as evidence in attempting to secure
favorable action by tho nens'uri ofico
on claims and can not ho replaced.
Rev. Dr. Loren Laertes Knn. nun
oi tne oldest preachers of the Met ho
dist Episcopal church, and the author
oi several books relating to that
denomination, is dead of bronchial
pneumonia at Evanstori. III. Dr.
ir.it was born in Nelson. N. Y. in
S'.i.
Lord Roberts, who was entertained
orivatelv at a dinner in London Iiv
united Service club, the guests in
cluding the Prince of Wales, the Duke
of York, the Duke of Cambridge and
some 300 officers, his issued from ttie
warolllco a stirring appeal to tho coun
try for a prompt response to tho call
for 5000 yeomanry.
C. F. W. Neely.who is charged with
the embezzlement of public funds in
Cuba while acting as financal agent of
the department of posts of that island,
will be taken to Cuba in a few davs.
John D. Lindsay, counsel for Neely,
who made the legal fight against the
extradition of the prisoner, says that no
further steps will be taken in Neely's
behalf.
The congressional investigation of
Vie West Point military academy has
i...lght fruit ratther unexpected! v.
.uurnay nigru wnen tne congessmen
weie hurrying their inquiries to a
termination, cadets of all four class..
I eld a meeting and unanimously de
cided to abolish hazing of every" form
as well as the practice of "calling out"
fourth classmen.
Andrew Campbell, one of tho con
victed murderers of Jenniu llosschietter,
is slowly breaking down in the county
jail at Patterson, N. J., his face
showing unmistakable s' is of
collapse since the verdict of l.'.o jury
was delivered, adjudging him guilty
of murder in the second degree, with
McAlister and Death.
John Wiser and John .Marsh of
Niagara Falls. N. Y.. attempted to
crohs Niagara river above the falls.
They lost control of their boat and
we e carried into the rapids. Wiser,
who was unable to swim, was swept
over the falls and drowned. Marsh,
after a desperate struggle in the icy
water, was rescued by persons along
the shore.
Warren Leland, jr, died at the Hotel
Greoble, New York, Monday, of which
ho was the proprietor, ot Bright't
disease
James P. Sterrett, former justice of
the supreme court of Pennsylvania, ia
dead at his homo in Philadelphia
from the effects of a carhunph? 11a
was 78 years old.
With her face disfigured beyond
recognition and her flesh on hands and
feet eaten by rats, Mrs. Norah
Hannigan was found dead at her home,
in Chicago. She had been dead sev
eral days.
The Washington correspondent of
the Daily Mail says he understands it
is practically certain that Great
Britain will accept the amendments of
the United States senate to the Hav
Pauncefote treaty.
ery cold weather is being ex
perienced at this time in Cuba. Even
snow in reported on the tall mountain,
aomeming mat very seldom happens.
A temperature as low as sixty degrees
is unusual in Cuba.
According to tho Petit Blue, a Brus
sels newspaper, bubonic plague is
raging among the British troops in
Cape Colony, and many deaths that are
attributed to enteric fever and dysen
tery are due to the plague.
Jt is true that when the president
signs the law which passed the senate
and is now before the house the stand
ing army of the United States will be
raised to 100,000 men a fixed charge
upon the nation of at least $100,000,
0IJ0 a year.
Congressman Bailey of Texas is or
ganizing a syndicnte at Jacksonville,
Fla., to control tho cattle trade in
Cuba. It is stated by those interested
in the plan that the recent visit of
the Texas statesman to Havana was for
that purpose.
Acceptance of 40 cents on the dollar
by the creditors of W. L. Strong &
Co., of New York, is recommended by
the advisory committee appointed to
inquire into the affairs of the linn of
which the former mayor was the
principal member.
The liuenos Ay res correspondent of
the Times says: Official statistics esti
mate the exportable surplus of wheat
flour at 1,700,000 tons. Trade circles re
gard this as an exaggerated estimate,
believing that tho surplus will be
about 1,200,000 tons.
Culiforn in's orango crop (his season
promises to break the previous animal
record. There will be bewteen 19,000
and 21,000 carloads sor Eastern ship
ment. The great bulk of the product is
credited to the citrus belt, which has
Los Angeles as its shipping center.
Martin Wright, late social candidate
for governor oi Utah, who was en route
to Los Angeles wilh his two sons, was
instantly killed by the accidental dis
charge of a revolver which fell from his
pocket while lie was preparing dinner
at their camp noar St. George, Utah.
Charges have been filed witii Gov
ernor Nash against Colonel Zimmer
man of the Fifth regular Ohio National
Guard, by Major Dodge, and it is
expected that a court martial will be
the result. The charges include false
entries on tho muBter rolls and failing
to account for public funds.
Judge Henry of tho circuit court
naiidud down a case of national impor
tance at Kansas Citv when, in a writ
ten opinion, ho decid'ed that the state of
Missouri, represented by the state
board of equalization, bad no right to
tax the franchise of the Western
Union Telegraph company.
President McKinley, in the case of
George II. Shiffter clerk and, teller of
the First national bank of Lebanon,
Pa., sentenced May 18, 1899, to five
v-ain jii mo puiinumiury tor misappli
cation of funds, granted a coinmnf iit.inn
of sentenco to two years. Tho amount
of tho defalcation was very small.
The American Window Glass com
pany and tho Independent Manufactur
ers association have agreed to close
their plants until April 1. insthml F
June 1. Eighty factories and about
30,000 workmen will be nlWtnil.
Tho object of the shut down is to cur
tail production and maintain prices.
After victimizing Mavor Tlarrir.rin
and several hotels in Chicago and other
largo cuies, as me ponce assert, 11. F.
Allen, alias W. (). Perry, railroad
man, lawyer, politician and alleged
representative in the Texas state legis
lature, hns been arrested on charges of
obtaining money under false pretenses.
J. W. Thompson, a consumptive who
arrived in San Francisco from British
uoiumbia on the steamer City of Cali-
lurina, was not allowed to land, on ttie
ground that he was afilictod with a
contagions disease. This is the first in
stance where a person alllicted with
consumption has been denied a land
ing at that port.
Tho McCoy-Sharkey fight, which was
scheduled for next month in San
Francisco, has been declared off,
owing to tho refusal of tho board of
supervisors to grant a license to tho
Twentieth Century Club for a light in
which McCoy was to bo a principal.
The club is now trying to match Root
and Molfatt.
Marcus Saner, the man alllicted with
dropsy at Hamilton, Ohio, who was
revived after apparent dissolution by
the infection of a solution of sodium
chorido on January II, is still alivo.
Since his resuscitation Saner has
steadily gained in vigor nnd the acute
symptoms of his dropsical affliction
are disappearing.
A warrant was issued by JiiHtico
Kinney for the arrest of Albert M (trt
of Clifton Citv. M
with kidnapping tho
of Mrs. Ella Bunch. Tho motive I'nr
tho alleged kidnapping is not apparent.
Mrs. Bunch is in verv moderate cir
cumstances. Mooro is ii stock buyer
and lives at Clifton Citv.
Frank Jannseii. a barber of Hi
ton, Pa., went homo drunk from a
ball, and in a iniarrel with his witV
threw a lighted lamp at her. Tho bed
was ignited, and the ir 7veHr.nh! Itnu
burned to death, iMrs. Jannseii was
probably fatally burned. Her sister,
Maggie McDonalJ, was seriously
burned. The house was destroyed.
The agitation in Chicago against tho I
billboard nuisance has resulted in the
passage by tho city council of an ordi
nance providing that all slLMihoards
and billboards more than three feet
square now within 200 feet of any
park, park boulevard or driveway bo
declared a public nuisance and torn
down, and that such boards bo pro
hibited in tho future.
pacific northwest news.
H. W. Scott, editor of the Portland
Oregonian, has returned from an ex
tended trip east and south.
The steamer Dolphin.in Seattle from
Alaska, reports that the Daily News
plant at Dawson was destroyed by lire
January 10. J
C. L. Reeves, the leading barber of
Sumpter has filed a petition in bank
ruptcy. Reeves in his petition says he
has no assets, but $1000 in liabilities.
Monsignor Martinelli. who visited
in l ortland last spring, will soon be
made a cardinal, so says the Washing
ton correspondent of the New York
lb lit.
50
at
John Ferry, of Seaside, a man
years of age, is under arrest
'uiwiiu. vtiai rii n ii ii nn nonnn it-
Josephine Ringville, a girl 14 years of
age.
Mary Miller, aged 13 years, died in
Portland of typhoid fever1. She was
the only child of George,. M. and
Liechen M. Mi.ler, formerly of Eugene.
Lane county. "
The $5000 subscriptions required to
assure the location of the new Western
Oregon college of the Methodist Epis
copal church, south, at Roseburg have
been subscribed.
John Allison an, O. R. & N. Co. en
gineer, who was taken ill at The
Dalles some days ago, has the small
pox. Mr. Allison cannot account for
his contraction of the disease.
The remaining assets of the Portland
Savings bank are to be sold at public
auction. The bank went into the
hands of a receiver in 1893. Its credi
tors have realized very little.
What is supposed to be hog cholera
or swine plague has made its appear
ance in the vicinity of Moscow, Idaho,
and a ready a number of hogs are re
ported to have died from the disease.
The promoters of the Northwest in-'
emational industiial exposition, to
have been held in Spokane in the
summer of 1902, have altered their
plans so as to postpone the affair one
year.
. A young woman named Burgess died
in Walla Walla Wednesday from an
operation for cancer. She recently
came from Illinois. She leaves two
bro hers, living at Clyde, near Walla
Walla.
W. A. Lewis, for years a well known
attorney in Spokane, and whose family
move in the highest social circles, is
wanted for alleged embezzlement of
$144 lrom a client. The lawyer is
missing.
Miss Jessie May Clark, aged 17 years,
stepdaughter of Walter Newell, died
in Baker City Tuesday. The deceased
was a victim of typhoid fever and her
illness covered a period of several
months.
Peter Miller, a Southern Pacific sec
tion boss at Canby, was killed near
there, Wednesday, by an extra engine.
Miller was riding over hia hpoU
a irieycio wnen he was run down
me engine
by
Charter bills for the following mt.iH
wero passed by the senate at Salem :
bummervillo, Union county; Silver
ton, Marion county; Baker City,
linker county; Canyonville, Douglas
county, and Roseburg, Douglas county.
Mrs. Ann Crocker, 77 years old, who
was aken to the county poor farm, at
lortland, a few weeks ago from a
,,0UH5 out 011 tlle Macadam road, died
Monday night at the farm. She had
heen paralyzed, and was entirely help
less. '
The trial of William E. Spicer, on a
charge of disposing of grain valued at
j.."-", jui wniuii no nau issued ware
house receipts to the Spokane & East
em Investment company, is on trial in
the criminal department of the state
circuit court in Portland.
Three armed man entered Shadow's
saloon at North Yakima early Wednes
day morning, holdup the bartender,
llamfer, and robbed the drawer of a
hundred dollars. Thev also secured
seven hundred from Pydurn and Mabry,
who wero running gambling games.
Neal White, a pioneer settler in the
lalouso valley, and a resident of Col-
iA, eastern Washington, for nearly
30 years, died Sunday, aged 76 years.
1 nor to his coming here for permanent
residence, Mr. White passed a few
years in the Willamette valley.
Governor Hunt of Idaho sent a mes
fago to the legislature urging that
body to memoralize the United States
senate to adopt the resolution sub
mitting a constitutional amendment
providing for election of United Statei
senators by direct vote of the people.
Mrs. Eliza E. Paquet, wife of
laquet, the Portland boat builder.died
at Los Angeles, a few days ago. Her
remains will bo brought to Portland
for burial. She was born in Clacka
mas county in 1858, her father being
Coleman Buckner, a well" known
pioneer.
P, P. Callahan, a railroad man and
highwayman, lies dying in the hospital
at Spokane. Callahan entered the
Alois saloon, robbed tho till, then ran
down the street. In the darkness ho
plunged over the Great Northern re.
taming wall, falling feet. Both
jaws wero broken and base of brain
badly injured.
Charles Tracey, tho man who struck
Captain Johnson, mate of the steamer
rtio Dallas City, of tho Regulator line,
because the latter refused him work,
plead guilty in Portland before Judge
George to a charge of simple assault.
When Johnson was struck by Tracey
he was knocked down utrftrir,,, k;
, ., ft
ii-mi mm iruciuring ins skull,
has fully recovered.
He
On the 1st of each December of tho
decennial year and tho intermediate
fifth year a census of the population
is taken in Germany. A striking
presentment made in the enumeration
just completed is that of the marked
increase of population in the manufac
turing cities of tho empire in the last
five years. Whilo Berlin and Hamburg
show an increase of but 12 per cent,
ureuipurg s population increased GO
1'osen 8M, and Mannheim 43.1
cent.
A CHOICE . SET OF CHESSMEN.
Representative Taylor- Receives a Girt
From the Orient.
Representative Tavler of Ohio will
henceforth devote himself to the study
of chess, because he has just received
a present of a set of chessmen, prob
ably among tho finest in the world,
says the Washington correspondent of
the Pittsburg Dispatch. The pieces
are made of ivory carved in the finest
stylo of tho part, the king and queen
being pieces about six inches high.
I hey aro of Chineie manufacture, and
the donor is an officer on duty in the
Philippines. There is a vagus sort of
notion among those who have seen
them that they came from the imperial
ialaco in Pekin, but of course the idea
is erroneous, because America
did not participate in tho looting of
Chinese palaces.
per
It is reiortedj that Dr. W. J.
Grivons will soon bo suspended as
superintendent of the Idaho state asy
lum for the insane, Dr. William F.
Smith, of Mountain Horn, supplanting
him.
A Chinese Legond.
Tho following Chinese legend ac
counts tor tho invention of the fan in
a rather ingenious fashion. The
beautiful Kan-Si, daughter of a power
ful mandarin, was assisting at the fast
al lanterns, when overpowered by the
'n; " " compelled to take oil her
mask. As it was against all rule and
custom to expose her face, she held
her mask before it and gontly fluttered
it to cool herself. Tho court ladies
present notice1 the movement, and in
an instant 100 of them were waving
their masks. F'rom this incident, it is
said, came the birth of the fan, and
today it takes tho place of the mask in
that country.