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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1901.
UNO EDWARD'S OPPORTUNITY.
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As King Edward VII. looks back
over what ' conventionality calls hisj
"illustrious line" ho must be inspired
with an ambition to make his own
place on that roll one of some distinc
tion, says Hearsts' Chicago American.
And it ought not to bo a hard thing
(.to do. The standard to be' reached is
by no means appallingly high. In
deed even flattery would hardly pre
tend that the kings of England, on the
average, had been a 'very admirable
lot.
William the Conqueror was simply
.. a biahwavman on a iarge Bcale. Ho
invaded England because he saw a good
chance, and enriched himself and his
followers with the plunder of the con
quered. He was not without states
manlike qualities, but in the pursuit
of his ends he was utterly without
scrunle.
William Rufus was a tyrant so odious
that the usually dispassionate Bishop
Stubbs is moved to call him "a fou
incarnation of selfishness; in its most
. abhorrent form, the enemy of God and
man." .
Henry I. was a just, strong and able
king, who kept the baronial bear gar-
den of his time in order, hut his suc
, cesser, Stephen, was a niero shadow of
royalty, under whom trio kingdom tell
into paralysis of government, anarchy
. and utter ruin.
Henry II. was another able ruler,
whose talent for administration
helped along the growth of the English
constitution, but his wisdom did not
, save him from a blunder in hit quarrel
with llecket that brought disaster to
himself and the country.
. .
Richard I. "of the',Lion Heart," waB
cut out for a aero of romantic novels,
and if lie could have been reserved ex
clusively for that function he would
have been an admirable character.
Unfortunately, before (Sir Walter
Scott and Mr. Hewlett could get at him
he was making trouble for the English
people, to whom his reign meant
nothing but grinding taxation for use
less foreign adventures.
' In John England had another falec,
' fickle, ' remorseless tyrant, whose
talents, such as they were, were ex
erted entirely for evil, who left his
country a legacy of trouble that
tormented it for three-quarters of a
century, and whose only merit was that
hii oppression forced his subjects to
revolt and wrest the Great Charter
from his reluctant hands.
Henry : II. weak, bigoted, treacher
ous, was little improvement on John.
.
Edward I. was a great ruler almost
the only great one among the legiti
mate kings of England. But even' he
would not have measured up to the
. stature of any one of half a dozen
presidents of the United States, or any
ono of half a dozen prime ministers of
t England within the past century.
Edward II. was another failure,
whose imbecilities finally cost him
hit throne and his foolish life,
i Edward III. restored tho reputation
of his house by the display of a char
acter that was not below the average,
and of abilities that wero perhaps, u
, .. little above. He did so well for a king
that he became famous, but if he hsd
been born In a private station his gifts
would never have raised hi in into
notice.
Richard II. was able, but ill-
balanced, and lost his throne because
he did not know how to keep it.
Henry IV., not being a legitimate
- monarch, had brains a neeesity for
usurpers. They did not rise to the
poiut of brilliancy, however,
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Henry V. showed such ability in his
short life of thirty-fivo years that if he
had lived ho might have become
' really great. Among other things he
might readily have conquered France,
' and left it so securely to his descen
dants Miat the tings would havobeeu at
half mast today in Paris as well as in
; London.
I'oor Henry VI., the feeble phuntom
of a king, had not strength enough to
keep the crown his father's death put
on his babv head.
' Edward IV., Richard II. and Ilonry
VII. were all usurpers, with usurpers
iihiiuI merits and defects. The pathetic
figure of tho murdered child, Edward
V,, thrown into this den of tigers,
hardly counts in the history of Kng
lish rovaltv.
' Honfy VIII.-' bluff King Hal"
' was' a ruffianly despot whoso tiroat
mistake in life consisted is not having
been horn in a, seraglio at Constan
tinople insteud' of in an English
palace.
Edward VI. promised well, but his
'death at sixteen made it impossible to
ell whether the promise was well
founded.
James I. wag a fussy, ridiculous old
Jmtiecilo.
, Charles I. had every private virtue
and very public vice. He was every
thing that a king ought not to ho.
Charles II. had not even character
enough to bo a tyrant. He was de
praved as a man and worthless us n
king.
James II. was narrow minded,
despotic and stupid, and lost the
throne becausu he lacked the brains
to hold it.
... William III. was a foreigner; and,
, from the legitimist point of view, a
usurper. Hence he mado a much better
ruler than the average.
.. The four Georges varied in character,
from the domestic virtue of Georgolll.
to the vietous blackguard ism of George
IV. i hut they were all united in un
varying incompetence.
,. William IV. was an entirely nn
admirahle nonentity
On. the whole, not counting the
neutral tints, the English people have
received from their kings since the
conquest about 170 years of distinctly
good government anil about 400 year's
of distinctly bad. .
Looking lack over the list,; Edward
VII. can see no name that need dis
courage emulation. Thero is no Wash
ington in it, no Lincoln.no Gladstone,
no Napoleon, or Frederick or
Charlemagne or Caesar or Hannibal.
To be sure the opportunities of a
king now are not what thev once were.
Edward VII. cannot mold the English
constitution ss Edward I. did. He can
not change the religion of the nation,
as Henry VIII. did. He cannot got
his head cut off, as Charles I. did.
But he can still exert the influence
due to character and ability.
'' He can make it unfashionable to
squander the nation's wealth on sel
fish amusements; he rau encourage a
feeling of brotherhood, and a recogni
tion of the duties the favored members
of society owe to those less fortunate.
' He can promote good feeling toward
other nations, and especially toward
the great English-speaking nation on
this side of the Atlantic.
ft wis said to have been the in
fluence of Queen Victoria that pre
vented war over the Trent affair in
1801. Perhaps tho influence of Ed-
VII. may be equally potent in
g English statesmen to take a
reasonable view of the .Nicaragua
question
In these ways even a king without
actual power may make himself a his
torical figure not to he dwarfed by any
ot tiis predecessors who governed as
well as reigned.
POWER OF AN OCEAN LINER.
What It Would Take to Run On
If
Propellod by Human Labor.
In,tho problem o' the application of
motive power to transportation as a
form of production, in the sense that
it increases the value or utility of a
product, the significance of the develop
ment of motive power transcends al
most any other consideration, writes
Professor F. R. Ilutton in the En
gineering magazine. A somewhat im
pressive example can be derived from
the rough calculation of tho meaning
that would attach to a transatlantic
liner with a 20,000 horse power eneine
were that engine to be replaced by 20,
000 horse power of human muscles. To
run'night and day there would have
to bo three relays of men at the tread
milt or other appliance whicli would
be used. Each eight-hour shift at each
10,000 horse power engine would be
100,000 mon.or 200,000 men for the two
engines. Three shifts of 200,000 men
would give below decks a population
of a city of second grade.
If the problem, moreover, were put;
in the form of high-speed transporta
tion, such as is represented by the
locomotive condition, it disappears
practically in the field of the unthink
able. It needs, therefore, but a
moment's consideration of the wide
spread significance which the railroad
bears to the modern economic method
to bring out the debt which the modern
community owes to the motive power
problem.
PIN IN HIS MOUTH ALWAYS.
And When
Tweod Died
the Pin Was
Still There
Tobias Tweed, of Vailsburg, N. J.,
dropped dead one day last week in
Dover and in his mouth they found
a pin where all his days he had
carried uiie.
This strange habit of his was the
marvel ot all who knew him. Ho was
sixty years old, but nobody can tell
of a time except in battle in the war
that he had not a pin in his mouth.
Night and day, sleeping and walking,
eating and drinking, he had one there.
Often times bets were made that he
was without one. but Tweed, opening
his mouth, would show the pin under
his tongue, in his cheek or somewhere.
A comrade who fought with him in
the civil war said Tweed never went
into battle without a pin in bis
mouth. Once or twico in tho heat of
tho tight he lost the pin and was in
torment until he procured another.
Ho had swallowed several pins and it
is thought that possibly this caused his
death.
IMPORTANT TO LABORING MEN.
An Eight Hour Day tor Minors and
Foundrymen.
The bill intordnced in tho Oregon
legislature, by Grace, and passed
Thursday, is one of importance to
laboring men. It provides:
' That underground mining, wet min
ing, 'dredging, smeltinir. foundry work
and nil underground work and all
works for tho redemption of otcb, shall
bo deemed extra hazardous undertak
ings and injurious to the life and
health of persons employed tboroin.
That hereafter it shall be unlawful
for any person, firm, corporation, asso
ciation, or combination of persons,
firms, corporations or associations em
ploying labor in any of the extra
hazardous undertakings mentioned in
section 1 of this act, to solicit or re
quire any person or persons so employed
to do or perform more than eight
hours' labor for one uav's work.
Violators of the act are to he deemed
guilty of misdemeanor and fined or im
prisoned. MARY AGAINST JOHN.
He Slandered Her and She Propoiei to
Got Even.
Several weeks ago Miss Mary Baker
secured a judgment of $1800 for slander
in the circuit court, at Bay City,
Mich. ,n'?ainst John Allard. Since that
time tlie defendant has shown no dis
position to pay. As a result a body
warrant was issued for his arrest, and
he is now boarding with Sheriff Kin
ney nt the countv jail, his board being
paid by Miss Baker, who is deter
mined to get the money or punish her
alleged defamer. Allard occupies a
room on tho third floor of the jail,
and declare ho will remnin where ho
is until tho time expires, which will
be six months. Miss Baker and
Allard worked on a sugar beet farm,
and she alleged that Allard told
stories reflecting on her to some of the
other men, and sho sued him for $5000
damages.
Rats Like Sweet Potatoes.
A veteran provision dealer is au
thority for the statement that nothing
will draw rats like sweet potatoes.
Thev seem to bo able to smell this
toothsome vegetable fr-ni afar and
will come in droves wherever sweet
potatoes are stored. In proof of his as
sertion this dealer said that he never
kept potatoes in his cellar with other
vegetables, but placed tlioni up in a
dry loft. Having a largo cold storage
chest in his cellar ho had previously
tried tho experiment of placing a
basket of sweet potatoes inside, and al
though the rats could not puncture the
walls they did gnaw tho woodwork of
the chest, trying to get at the tubers.
Wheat In Bad Condition.
The wheat crop in tho River Plata
provinces of both Argentina and
Uruguay is reported as being in a very
bad condition by Consul Swalm of
Montevideo. On the Argentina side in
numerous instances a yield of not over
111.5 bushels to tho hectare (2. 471
acres) is expected, while in Urmtuav
it is doubtful whether there will be
sullieieiit wheat raised for home con
sumption alone. Tho River Plata
exwrta of wheat will fall at last 50 per
cent below, those of last year.
Insuraaee Against Strikes.
In Austria there is a system of In
surance against strikes. A" company has
been formed which indemnifies its
stockholder or patrons for all losses
sustained by them from strikes in
their establishment, whether volun
tary, sympathetic or forced. The
premium is equal to 3 or 4 per cent of
the payroll, and the indemnity is 50
per cent of the wages paid for the week
preceding tho suspension of work.
The Preelous Metals.
Wells, Fargo & Co. ' annual report
of the production of precious metals
in the states and territories west cf the
Missouri river for the year 1900 credits
Oregon with the following amounts.
Gold dust and bullion by express, $1,.
246,564; gold dust and bullion bv
other conveyances, $1,051,050; silver
nullum by express, $131,420; ores and
base bullion by freight, $5000; total,
$2,43(1,34.
KING EDWARD IN HISTORY.
England's new sovereign takes the
title of King Edward VII. It has been
nearly 350 years since an Edward was
on the English throne and 629 years
have passed since the first Edward was
firoclaimed sovereign of "toe right
ittle, tight little island."
With exception of the first great Ed
ward there is little in the lives, the
characters and the fates of his name
sakes to inspire Albert Edward or to
serve as a cheerful omen.
Edward I. was a son of Henry III.
.
and achieved fame as a Crusader. At
the request of the pope he led an army
to the Holy Land, captured JNazareth
and massacred all the Turks within its
walls. He was in tho Holy Land
when his father died and he was pro'
claimed king, but journeyed home by
easy stages, passing through Italy and
France, and engaging in joust and
tourney. Arriving in London he waa
crowned in 1274 and promptly insti
tuted important reforms of the feudal
system, curbing tho barons and extend
ing many liberties to the common peo
ple. Mis long reign 01 35 vears was
marked, by subjugation of; Wales and
numerous fierce wars with Scotland
He died in 1307, from the hardships
and privations of army life, while
leading his seventh invasion of Scot
land, Of this king it is said "he com
bined in a rare degree both the physi
cal and mental qualities of a great
general; and he is one of the few Eng
lish kings, and perhaps the first, who
can lay claim to the higher qualities
of statesmanship. He has been called
the "founder of English constitutional
freedom."
His son, King Edward II., who came
to the throne in 1308, inherited none
of the father's great qualities. During
his reign Robert Bruce restored
the liberties of Scotland. Edward
raised an army of 100,000 men and
tried to conquer the Scotch, but
suffered crushing defeat at the famous
battle of Bannockburn. His own queen
turned against him, the nation flocked
to her standard, and in 1327 the king
was formally deposed by parliament
and his son elected in his stead. In tho
same year a plot was formed against
the deposed king and he was cruelly
murdered at Berkeley castle.
The reign of Edward ill. was
marked in its earlier stages by a bril
Hunt record, but ended in lamentable
weakness.. Ho received the crown in
1327, put the Scotch under tribute and
laid claim to the crown of trance. In
enforcing this claim he won the bril
liant victory of Crecy, fought on
French soil against tremendous odds.
Under this king the national spirit
rose to great height, but eventually the
country was impoverished by the long
wars with franco, in these wars his
son, "the black prince," won the
battle of .Poitiers. Upon tho hard
times came the terrible scourge of the
"black death," which swept away the
greater part of the English people and
loft the country in grief and desola
tion. Edward's empire in France was
overthrown, his people were in dire
distress and the decay of his mental
faculties left him the pitiable tool of
mistress and designing ministers. He
died in 1337.
.
It was 124 years before another Ed
ward came to the throne of England.
The land was scourged by the distress
ing Wars of the Roses, between the
rival houses of York and Lancaster,
when the fourth Edward received the
throne in 1461. He died in 1483, after
a most tempestuous and checkered
career. Of him'the historian has said :
"The beauty of his person and free
dom of his manners rendered Edward
a great favorite with the lower and
middle classes, but there appears to
have been little in his character to
awaken real esteem. His memory is
connected with no act conferring any
benefit of importance on his country."
In his declining years he gave himself
up to debasing excesses.
Edward V., son of tho formor, was
but 13 years of age at his father's
death. His cruel and designing uncle,
the duke of Gloucester, later King
Richard III., secured possession of his
person and imprisoned him and his
younger brother in the tower of Lon
don. Their deaths followed and 20
years later it was learned that their
murderous uncle caused two paid
assassins to smother them under
pillows.
The last King Edward, son of Henry
VlII., succeeded to the throne when 10
years of ago, F'or plotting against him
his brother was- executed on Tower
hill, the young king signing the fatal
decree. A few years later his protector
was also led out to execution on a de
cree signed by the vacillating child
monarch. He died at the youthful age
of 17, under circumstances giving rise
to a suspicion that he had been
poisoned, but it is thought this sus
picion was unfounded, and his death
really resulted from consumption,
hastened perhaps by overdosing by his
physicians with mineral remedies.
Though bright and precocious, thero is
no evidence to warrant a boliof that if
ho had lived his character would have
developed strength or greatness.
It would be manifestly unfair to
measure English character of the
present day by the follios, excesses
and cruelties of this line of English
kings und the advisers around tiiein.
They belonged to the dark and
middle ages, when superstition nnd
ignorance chained all classes and gov
ernment rested on "the simple plan
that they should take who hav the
power and thev should keep who can."'
-Spokesman-Review.
FIVE GREAT ENGLISHMEN.
For England the great ended division
of time is almost universally pro
nounced magnificent, says Collier's
Weekly. That is doubtless the fitting
epithet with which to describe it. No
other hundred years in all her history
has even faintly resembled it for su
premacy of conquest and assertion of
national power. Judged by the show
ings of other countries long perished,
her greatness has reached its apogee.
She is now, beyoud nil question, the
superior of France and Germany.
Alone in Europe Russia may be called
her equal. But Russia is of yesterday,
and England has had many a yester
day since Boadicea crouched bleeding
below the Roman rods. The nineteenth
century is surely the most wonderful
within the memory of mankind, and
for this reason its human activities
have been the most heterogeneous.
Iverywhere in journalistic Great
Britain we find it asked: "Who was
the greatest Englishman of the nine
teenth century?'' This can only strike
the sensible as an idle question. Some
are affirming Darwin to have been its
greatest man. But this is quite as
wrong as to declare that he was not its
greatest scientist. The latter he so in
contestably was that his name and
fame tower above those of all rivals in
the same field. But as a philosopher
he diminishes to nothinir besirfa ho
collossal personality of Mr. Herbert
Spencer; for, indeed, Darwin was in
no ethical, spiritual or sociological
sense a philosopher at all. He simply
"spoke right on." like Mark Antony in
the play. He did not build either
worse or better than he knew; he
builded for the pleasure of building,
and his - structure now teems to us
immortal because of its peerless ma
terial and splendid harmony. Ho and
Herbert Spencer will both have their
niches in the invisible yet palpable
cathedral of earthly renown. These will
not be far apart," yet they will bo
equally lofty, perhaps, and yet clearly
differentiated. One thing must always
1 : 1... '
I appeal uo tuuuuo, uy me wuy, 10 any
tnougntiui oDserver ot the inconsistent
and the inconsequent: ; Darwin is
buried, of all places, in Westminster
Abbey. His work struck the hardest
blow at "inspirational" teaching
which it had ever received. Voltaire's
anathemas were almost baby-play be
side it. And yet he sleeps among pre
lates and zealots and saints. A proof,
surely, of English liberal-mindedness;
and a proof, as well, of his own
calm, unbiassed, unaggressive, 'un
polemic yet gigantic mind.
Then the name of Gladstone has been
put fervently forward by 1 host of ad
mirers. Granted that Gladstone was
the foremost English statesman of the
century. As truly has been said, his
career almost spanned tho arbitrary
period of a hundred years, for he was
born in 1809 and died in 1898. He
remembered the rejoicings over Water
loo, and twice be was a member of the
same cabinet in which sat the Iron
Duke. It was relatively late in' life
that Gladstone became the unexampled
reformer which chronicle cannot fail
to affirm him. He was first attracted
toward liberalism by a desire to study
economic science. Placed by Sir
Robert Peel on the board of trade, he
there Btudied the tariff. How astonish
ing is the reduction that when he
ceased, in 1806, to be chancellor of
the exchequer, he had so capably
simplified financp as to free almost
seventeen bunded commodities from
customs dues. Volumes might be
written, and will be written (Mr
Henry Morley, his dear friend, is now
concerned with one, upon the stupen
dous force and blameless purity of his
statesmanship. . . But, on the other
hand, he lacked many qualities of in
tellectual greatness. George Eliot once
said ot him, it is reported, that he
was one of the most uninteresting con
vorsationalits whom she had over met.
No special subject had special apparent
ennrm lor mm; he knew everything
and seemed to care for everyhing
alike. As a writer he had the most
ponderous and involved style; as a
ontroversialist ho was literally no'
where; and only the prejudiced will
deny that our own brilliant Ingersoll.
in the famous "North American Re
view" contest, defeated him with an
easy and signal success.
Lovers of Tennyson declare that his
light will burn, after all, the steadiest
through future time. There is no doubt
that iennvson is the one lordly Eng
lish poetic representative. He made
himaelt, in a sense, tho great poet
that he afterward became. He was the
heir-presumptive, as one might sav
of Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats and even
Byron, whose work in his youth he
loved. What was best in all these
predecessors ho studiously cultivated
and strove to improve upon. Very
often he was highly successful in such
efforts. The slow years lapsed along.
The age, that did not care for poetry,
nevertheless began to care for his.
With infinite zeal and industry,
wedded to great natural capacity,
Tennyson achieved the monumental
place which he now holds. . . But
who would presume to call him the
greatest man of the nineteenth century?
homebody once dignified a good Doet
as a person who could do nothing woll
except write verses. This is untrue,
but 111 the case of Tennvson it is not
entirely false. The gonius who reigned
so long and so deservedly poet laureate
of England was a man of exceedingly
bad manners, ouite unuresentahle in
ordinary cultured society, and one who
drew his inpiration from solitude
alone. To call him a great poet is
like calling the sky blue or the grass
green. 10 call him a great man is
conspicuously to err.
Macaulay, too. has been montioned.
and there are all round reasons why
ne snouiu Dear on toe paim. He was
horn in isoo, and he died in 1856. He
died, also, a bachelor, though with a
character of unblemished repute. This
tact ot his bachelorhood tells somewhat
against Macaulay on the , emotional
side, for in a great man we want the
heart and brain to have fulfilled their
functions with correspondence if not
parity of effort. In the life of Macau
lay, so admirably writton bv his
nephew, Sir George Trevelyan, we re
ceive certain hints, no more, of an
early attachment. But there, as it
seems to me, every chance for cavil
ends. He loved his sisters (who were
probably very lovable women) with an
enauring tenuernees. lie was a man
who shrank from the acquirement ot
largo wealth, and thonch his salafv of
ten thousand uounds a vear, while he
served in India with such noted poli
tical distinction, might easilv have
been retained for many seasons, he
voyaged back to England, if I mistake
not, after it had only been paid him
twice. Ho was a scholar of the most
prodigious equipment; ho could not
merelv read Tacitus and Thucvdides at
sight, nut he would tuck Homer. Vir
gil, Lucretius under his arm during an
atternoon wain and treat them as ordi.
nary readers would treat English or
French novels. He was transcendent
in conversation, and shone so radiantly
whilo exercising this gift that some of
the listeners whom be fascinated bv it
accused him of being a monoloeist.
Never a professional pol itician.be still
made two or three of the most able
speeches ever heard in the house of
commons; ami whenever he spoke
mere me laziest meniDers, Bearing be
forehand of this event, would flock to
hear him. He has enriched English
literature bv some of the most stirrini;
and eloquent ballads ever written,
ballards which even the perfunctory
monthings of schoolboys have been un
able to spoil, and on whose solidity of
merit the ill-advised sneers of that ex
cellent and scholarly critic, Matthew
Arnold, have fallen harmless. Here
is but the rough sketch of Maeaulay's
noble record. Amplified, detailed,
filled in, it makes an important, if not
an undeniable, "bid" for its subject.
But, then, what about his powers as
a historian? Well, one can only add
that ono does not envy the reader who
has failed to secure immense pleasure
from the "History of England," or
failed to place it among the few
thoroughly entrancing books of its
class which fate has ever permitted
him to peruse.
The democratic senators and their
eo-orkors. in the senate at Washington
who are opposed to the ship subsidy
bill have reached a decision to con
tinue debate upon the bill at present
with the hope of being able to keep it
going until it will become necessary
for the republican majority to take up
the appropriation bills and other
measures which should pass before the
4th of March.
,, GENERAL NEWS. .
California wines aro higher and the
prices of them have been advanced by
dealers from 5 to 8 cents a gallon.
There is a shortage.
Governor Nash has telegraphed the
directors of the Saengerest Athletic
Association at Cincinnati that the
Ruhlin-Jefferies. fight cannot be held
in Ohio.
It is reported that Lord Kitchener
wishes to send 10,000 Boer prisoners to
India. He proposes to locate them in
the state of Milgira, Province of
Orissa, Bengal.
The war department was informed
by cable that Lieutenant Colonel
Charles B. Schofield, of the Second
cavalry, died at Matanzas, Cuba, Fri
day night of heart disease.
William Gibson, the alleged child
murderer, is on trial at Catletteburg,
Ky. The jury was quickly im
paneled. Tho people are waiting the
result without excitement.
According to tho Berliner Post eight
new German warships will be placed
in commission this year, including
the battleship Wilhelra der Grosse,
with a displacement of 11,152 tons.
After a spirited debate tho Arkansas
house, by a vote of 46 to 37, refused to
expunge from its records a resolution
previously passed expressing sym
pathy with the Filipinos and Boers.
International Masonic machinery was
set in motion at Wichita, Kansas, to
get President Diaz to attend the
Twentieth century Scottish Rites
jubilee of the Southern jurisdiction in
April.
Connie Sullivan, who 10 years ago
was the bantam weight champion, is
dead at his home in New York of
pneumonia. Sullivan was a pupil of
Jack Dempsy, and trained with many
cnampions.
At Vaveriy, Kan., a whisky sales
man representing the Merchants'
Supply company, of Kansas City, was
arrested for taking orders for whisky.
He was convicted and fined $200 and
60 days in jail.
Adjutant General Corbin has Been
informed by General MacArthur that
the transport Meadfe sailed from Ma
nila F'riday with the Eleventh United
States cavalry, consisting of 24 officers
and 546 enlisted men.
By a practically unanimous vote the
municipal assembly in tst. Louis
passed a bill providing for the issuance
of $5,000,000 bonds, beaiing 83 per
cent interest, for a world's fair to be
held in St. Louis in 1903.
Judge Brown, of the United States
district court, New York, has granted
a discharge of bankruptcy to F.
Tennsyon Neely, book publisher, who
filed a petition in bankruptcy on Octo
ber 2, 1899, with liaiblites of $359,531.
The city of Galveston, through com
mittees, is about to ask the legislature
of the state of Texas to pass certain
laws repealing the charter of that city
and providing for its future govern
ment and the refunding of its indebted
ness. Many of tho republican members of
both houses of congress are trying to
avoid the necessity for an extra session
of congress, but the president proposes
to call one if certain legislation is not
acted favorably upon before the closo
of F'ebruary.
A lively war is in progress against
the slot machines in Kansas City.
The grand jury has considered the
cases and District Attornoy Hadley is
proceeding vigorously in the matter.
He is determined to drive every slot
machine out of the city.
John Ishan, known as Young Botus,
an Indian, while intoxicated, kicked
and beat his wife to death at Truckee,
Calif. He was captured with his boots
covered with blood. Crowds are on tho
streets discussing tho affair and a
lynching may be attempted.
Mrs. Mary Green, who seemed
familiar with tho methods of Mrs.
Carrie Nation of Kansas, wrecked a
Boston barroom and was sentenced to
serve a term in the house of correction.
She not only laid the bartender low
with a plate, but also broke the bar
ware.
Lady Racbael Charlotte Fiztgerald,
eldest daughter of the Earl of Dun-
raven and Monnt Earl, died at Adare
Manor, the Earl's seat, . in Adare,
county Limerick, Ireland, bho gave
birth to a son January 20, and was
supposed to be doing well. Her death
was unexpected.
Paddy Donovan, the Philadelphia
pugilist who has been on trial at
Belvidere. N. J., on the charge of
manslaughter in causing the death of
frank Welch, another Philadelphia
pugilist, during an exhibition light at
Philippsburg, N. J., on New 'ear's
eve, was acquitted.
Saturday night a young white girl
between 13 and 14 vears old, Rosaline
Fenllan, was raped by a negro,' Warren
Matthews, near Ocean Springs, Miss.
Matthews was arrested. At 9:05 that
night a mob took Matthews from the
jail. Ho was carried about a mile back
of town and hanged.
Right Rev. Henry Y. Saterlee,
formerly of New York, and now
Episcopal bishop of the District of
Columbia, is planning to establish in
Washington a home where poor girts
of good character may be trained' by
experienced housewives into competent
servants, housemaids, cooks and
nurses.
The United States transport Mc
Pberson ran about half her length on
a reef eight miles west of Matanzas in
a fog Monday, while on her way from
New York to Matanzas. All tho pas
sengers were transferred in the ship's
boats, and the freight was unloaded.
The vessel will he a total loss.
General Christian Dewet, that
greatest cavalry leader of modern
times, in one week captured $925,000
in gold and 130,000 khaki uniforms
enough to last the army four years. ' He
has also captured over 100,000 horses
and 6000 prisoners. Ho and his forces
alono have inflicted on the British
losses over $25,000,000.
Owing to the fact that the senate and
the house will meet jointly the 13th to
canvass the presidential vote, a number
of members of both houses are cancell
ing engagements to make speeches on
the 12th. Several such engagements
bad been made for speeches in honor
of Lincoln's birthday without taking
into account the important function
for the 13th.
The successes of the I Smith African!
General Dewet in his enponntprs with I
the British commanders has led Ger
man sympathisers with the Boer cause
to look un the perioral' fnmilv tno
In this their investigations have not
borne much fruit. All that thev have
been able to learn is that the name
Dewet is neither German nor French,
but it is often met with in Belgium.
At the weeklv meetino of the Motrin.
dist preachers of Philadelphia a
petition to President McK
adopted offerine succestions as' to tho
government to be established in the
I bilippmes by congress. It declares 111
favor of "absolute civil and mluinna
liberty, with a the Ipl'I and mriNtitn.
tional protection which such liberty
enjoys in this republic, and "a free
ami unaectamn school system."
The purchaso of the .Southern Pacifte
by Union Pacific intereBts required
$70,000,000 in cash.
Mrs. Samuel Wolcott, 79 years ".of
age, mother of Senator E. O. Wolcott,
of Colorado, died iu Long Meadow,
Mass,, Monday.
- Belgian capital has acquired a con
trolling interest in the American un
dertaking to construct the railroad
from Canton to Hankow, in China.
Henry Arthur and Clifford Chris
tian, two young men who had been ar
rested for interfering with a dance,
were burned to death in the jail at
Columbia, Mo. . .
, Typographical Union No. 6 has de
cided by formal vote to withdraw the
boycott against the New York Sun and
to take no further hostile steps against
that newspaper. -
The trial of Frank H. Hamilton, the
newspaper reporter, for tho murder of
Leonard K. Day, the young million
aire, was begun In tho district court at
Minneapolis, Monday.
Twelve of the 1G Chinamen recently
arrested at North Burke on a charge of
unlawfully entering the, United States
have been discharged. No government
othcial appeared at the hearing.
Tho United States government has
adhered formally to tho Brussels
convention for the prevention and
restriction of the sale of spiritous
liquors in certain regions of Africa.
Tho announcement that Senator Hill
is not a candidate for the presidential
nomination 01 his party in f 1904
mado by the Albany correspondent of
Leslio's Weekly in the current issue.
It is said that the matter of reduced
rates for tho Epworth league national
convention to be held at San Francisco
next July has been placed in the hands
of the presidents of the' western' lines
Vice-President-elect and Mrs. ..Theo
dore Roosevelt will go to . Washington
March 2, and during their stay there
will be the . guests of Mrs. Roosevelt's
brother-in-law and sister, .Commander
and Mrs. Cowles. .
Bernett Riplev, of Henry countv,
Kentucky, was indicted as an accessory
to the murder of William Goebol and
was arrested at his home and corried
to Fronkfort. He is of a distinguished
lamily and - is a larmer.
Dr. Frank W. Guneaulus severed his
official, connection with the Armour In
stitute, Chicago, when his resignation
as president went into effect. His suc
cessor has not been selected. Ho resigns
so he can devote all his energies to nis
church. . ' t ; 4
Terry McGovern hns been matched
to fight Tim Haggerty, of Australia,
who, it is claimed, is the champion of
his class in that country. Tho fight
will take place April 30, at 126
pounds, for a purse of $5000, at a place
not decided upon.
The consolidation of the largest
furniture companies in Grand Rapids,
Mich,, is now practically assured. The
combination will, include 14 of tho
leading case-goods plants, representing
assets of $5,000,000, with a total out
put of $6,000,000 annually.
The cut nail pool hns nnnuunced an
increased prices of five cents a keg, to
go into effect at once. Cut or all style
iron nails have been sell ma: tor oix
months at $1,95 a keg in carload lots to
jobbers, the net once advanced the
quotation to $2 per keg.
In the Utah legislature the senate
adopted a resolution naemorialiaing
congress to ' call a convention . for the
purpose of amending the constitution
of the United States, to provide for the
election of United States senators by
tne direct vote 01 tho people
By : an explosion ; of 700 quarts of
nitro glycerjne at the magazine of the
James Belt Torpedo company, four
miles northeast of Alexandria, Indiana,
Percy Fort, a carrier, with his team of
horses, were blown to atoms, not a
vestigo having since been found. '
' Two hundred and fifty saloonkeepers
were arrseted in Chicago Monday,
charged with r keeping ' their places
open on Sunday, it is said this
action is but the forerunner of what
is in store for every saloonkeeper in
Chicago Who sells liquor oh; Sunday.
uuring uer stay in uiiicago, JMme.
Sarah Bernhardt took out a life in
surance policy for $100,000, naming
her son-- Maurice Bernhardt as the
beneficiary,- The annual premium will
be $7800, Notwithstanding the
madame's 57 years, the examining
physician reported her to be in excel
lent physical condition.
Rev. Jospeh Kellar, secretary to Rt.
Rev. Bishop Starkey, pastor of Trinity
Episcopal mission in Arlington, N. J.,
and chaplain of the First New Jersey
regiment, was shot and seriously
wounded by Thomas B. Barker in
Arlington Sunday. The shooting, it is
said, was the result of a disclosure
made by Barker's wife, although Kollar
denies the accusation.
The military government at Havana,
will demand a cash bond from C. F.
W. Neely, the alleged defaulter. What
the amount will be has not been
stated, as Neely's lawyer absolutely re
fuses to deposit cash, fearing it will
be seized. The charges will aggregate
an embezzlement of over $100,000,
with the possibility of the amount be
ing materially increased.
John G. Woolley candidate for presi
dent the United States on the pro
hibition ticket in 1900 while com
mending the course of Mrs. Nation in
Kansas deprecntes her proposed visit
to Chicago.. Mr. Woolley takes the
position that the saloons of Chicago
are licensed by the law and that no one
has the light to interfere with them
except the state legislature.
Eugene I. Gowell visited police
headquarters in Chicago a few davs ago'
and announced that he was the" long
sought for Charlie Ross. He says- he
was brought un in Los Angeles, Calif.,
bv Carrie Robbins, who ho believed to
be his mother. She married ono John
or William Gowell, and Roei took her
husband's name. The fact that ho was
only an adopted child was told him by
his half-brother Clarence. Some years
ago ho left home, and has since
traveled about the country. Mr. and
Mrs. Gowell still live in Los Angeles
Some time ago he told his story, in
Logaasport, Ind., and was adjudged
insane for his pains.
Saved His Brother's Llfs. .
Grant Hinkel callmitlv
feet into tho Willamette river, nenr
the eastern end of the steel biidge at
Portland, Sunday morning early, and
8ved his brother. Jnsnnh Minimal
from drowning. Grant is 34 years old',
and Josenh 43. The hrnthnm ifw
walking across a trestle railroad bridge
to reach Joseph Hinkei's scow, where
they proposed to sleep, when Joseph,
who was intoxicated, full into the
water 40 feet below Ihem. "Murder,"
he yelled, and without waiting to
divest himself of his clothing, , Grant
dived, and supported his brother until
assistance arrived. At tho police
station where tho men were taken
Grant Hinkel suffered from hysteria,
and he wept and cried for his brother
who said: "Don't worry about me,
Grant I'm not drunk. It's anuther
fellow." The brothers own a ranch;
near Nehalem, and Joseph Hinkel was
formerly a fireman on the Albina
ferryboat. . j
PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS.
Mrs. L. D. Small died at the family
home in Salem Tuesday.
Joseph Holman, a cook, died Sunday
at St. Mary's hospital, Walla Walla.,
There is a i growing' sentiment in
Walla , Walla -and ' throughout ' that
county in favor of removing the, state
capital from Olympia to Tacoma.
Receipts of the Portland postofEce for
January, 1901, wero $21,405.79. The
receipts for the samo month last year
were $20,014.48, an increase this ' year
of $1391.31.
Charles M. Thompson won out on
all three counts in tho divorce Suit
against his wife, Erminio Thompson,
by tho decision handed down by Judge
Clelland in Portland. - '
J. A. Long has been found guilty at
Portland of robbing the safe of the
Blue Mountain Ice company in that
city several weeks ago. His wife re
fused to testify in the case.
Mrs. Ellen Hubbard, a prominent
Clackamas county pioneer, residing at
Carlton, died Saturday. She left nine
children. Her husband, the late
Charles O, Hubbard, died about a year
ago.
Multnomah county's tax levy this
year for county purposes will be 5a
mills, 4 for general expenses and
for roads, which on the valuation of
$32,630,987 will produce a revenue of
$179,519.,
Mrs. Eliza Geer, the wife of Her
man Geer, died at her home at The
Cove, Union county, Tuesday. Sho
leaves a husband and two sons, Judd
Geer, 'deputy fruit inspector, and
Blaine Geer. ''
A rally of strength by Frank and
MacGinnis in the senatorial contest in
Montana resulted in a tie vote, the
ballot being: Mantle 31, MacGinnis
IS, Frank IS, Cooper 8, Coburu 5,
ecatterinH, 8.
The members of the Idaho legislature
have canvassed the proposition to visit
the Oregon legislature, and it is almost
certain the trip will be mado. Lead
ing members of both houses eay they
favor the plan.
Eleven prominent citizens of Centra
lia were arrested, charged with incit
ing riot. In the effort to prevent liquor
selling ou Sunday, it is charged, they
endeavored to get evidence by peeping
over a transom.
Jacob L. Myers, a Mexican war
veteran, died at the Soldiers' Home at
Pvoseburg, aged 79 years. He was one
of thy oldest members of the home,
having entered the institution soon
after its opening.
It is reported that a syndicate of
Eastern captalists have opened nego
tiations for the purchase of the Cougar
mine, located about three miles north
of Granite and owned by J. W. Larkin
and D. R. livans.
' Tho seventh annual Carnot medal
debate between Stanford university
and tho University of California was
won by W. A. Morris, of Stanford,
who ia a senior in history, and regis
ters from Salem, Or.
In a qnarrol between Floyd Vaughan
and W. A. White at Eugene, Vaughan
stabbed White three times in the
shoulder, but tho wounds are not seri
ous. ..White spoke of Mrs. Vaughan iu
an objectionable way.
David Monnastes, a resident of Port
land since 1852, died at his home, in
that city, Sunday, at the age of 81.
Ho had been in his usual good health
until about tiirea.weeks ago, when he
as attacked with la grippe.
The United States transport Sheri
dan arrived at San Francisco, Wed
nesday, 27 days from Manila. She re
turned in haj last and bason board
27 officers and 640 men of the Thirty
seventh volunteer regiment.
E. B. IJanley, formerly of Harney
county, where for many years he was
engaged in tho cattle business, has re
turned from the Klondike country
where he went several years ago, being
associated there with the famous Jack
Dalton.
The Astoria citv council Mnnrlau mm.
ning passed an ordinance granting to
luaiuu rouru, r. n. Bioices ana U. tl.
VsmQ a 75-Ve.ir Rtrent. T.lilumw fravw.l.iaa
011 certain named streets, being a con
tiuous route lrom the eastern to the
western limits of th city.
The Corner Stone of the r.rnmatnriiim
of the Portland Cremation Association
was laid Tuesday at the grounds of the
OrCL'OIl CitV milwnv Him, Sullan
by the Masonic grand lodge of Oregon'
in uie presence 01 a large gathering of
residents from Portland and t.h nr.
roundinge. . , ,
TWO fimnlovUfl ft a rinnffllntnv Vf fli.,
1 .' " " v. " .."n.ui.iui yj x ,m
Northerh Pacific Tnm H arriaAii and
Shorty Taylor, were burned to death
in a cabin four miles above Kendrick,
Idaho, Monday., The men had been in
iveiiunuK ior some days on a pro
tracted spree and were drunk when
they returned to their cabin.
Philemon Vawtai-
the neat known mnnPAmnf thin 01
- I w-.jvi 111110 bvjvijuu,
died at tho home of his Bon, E. J.
Crawford, in Eugene a few days ago,
aged 86 years. He camo to Oregon in
isai lrom Madison, Ind., where he waa
born and -raised. H maHo v,a -
across the plains with an ox team, in
company with 22 wagons.
Mrs. Martha TCerna a
1852, died at her home at Woodstock
near Portland. Thnro,
i . iiuUj j wauuttijr u9
after an illness of four weeks. She was
norn in marion county, Ohio, in 1828.
Afterwards she mnvoH
to Indiana, where she was married to
J. A. Kerns. In 1852. in a wagon
draw'n by oxen, they journeyed west-
waru, ana arrived in Oregon the latter
part of that same vear.
RELIEF FOR VOLUNTEERS.
The Men of Second Oregon Volunteer
May Be Reimbursed.
The bill introduced in the Oregon
legislature by Poorman. and passed in
tho house Thursday as reported that
day in the East Oregonian, to reim
burse the enlisted men of the Second
Oregon volunteers and Battery A for
clothing issued to them by the state of
Oregon and compelled to. pay for the
same, is as follows:
"Section 1. That the sum of $12,
000, or so much thereof as is necessary,
be, and the same is, hereby appro
priated from any money in the state
treasury not otherwise appropriated to
reimburse the enlisted men of tho
above commands.
"Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the
adjutant-general of the state of 'Oregon,
without extra compensation, to pay to
each and every enlisted man of the
above commands, or his legal repesen
tatives, the amount paid for state
clothing by him, as shown . by tho
muster-out rolls of those commands
now on file in the adjutant general's
office, not to exceed the sum of $11 to
any one man."
Mrs. Mary Crow, aged 90 years,
died at her home at Lorane, 12 miles
from Cottage Grove, Thursday night.
Wits her husband, John Crow, she
came to Oregon in 1S52. She was born
in Kentucky, moved to Missouri, from
there . to low, . thence journeying
across the plains to this state. For 48
years she had resided at the scene of
her death. Her husband, John Crow,
died in 18fi9. .