The Heppner Gazette
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1901.
ST. VALENTINE.
These are the days in which the
comic valentine shines in all its
Klory. Its blatant features rise from
every stationer's window, a daring
flaunt of the fact that children, despite
the culture of the early days of the
twentieth century, are still barbarians
in -something in ore than slight degree.
The only . change noticeable in the
comics of today and those of years ago
. is that the caricatures are more sharp
nd colors more flaring and ensemble
jnueh more impressive. '
The new things have been, noted by
the man who makes the comics, and
the fads and foibles of humanity,
. passing away almost with their birth
and nearly forgotten in a month, are
' revived and thrown upon the world by
the comic valentine man. The new
woman, kissing bug, pure good crank,
bicycle fiend, shirtwaist man and a
dozen others have been made marks for
the roan with brush and pencil at the
' disposal of the public in the comic
valentine.. ,
With the growth of the comic valen
tine system public sentiment toward
those gross misfits in the world of art
. has chanced. Most of them InsDire
( nothing more serious than a smile and
nnA hurt, hv I hull rar'Anr.inn nfltiiillv in
benefited more ' or less Irom the fact
that his weaknesses have been dis-
the first toast at a banquet of comic
valentine celebrities would doubtless
be "The Teacher," and that worthy, as
in years gone by, has not been neg
lected. She appears on the latest
Miyokuio mill n vuuuieiiejb . idnu
Fox curl, warty nose and missing
teeth. Her gown in a marvel in red,
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wibij uinu&puma uuts uhu hub mils hi
her desk holding a copy of "What I
Don't Know" in one hand and a heavy
ruler in the . other. The room is
typical, of the conntrv school. On the
'II 1- . a .7 m t
wan naugs ine motto: we love our
, .teacher nit." , The accompanying
verse reads; ,., ,
Oh, what a shameful farce to put
A numbskull BUch as you
To teach poor kicla I I'm sorry for
The luckUis little crew I.
, Were the vonnBreHt one nut In vnnr nlnon.
And you, big dunce, turned out,
The claaa would learn more in a single day
Than now in a week, no doubt.
The bibulous roomer who stumbles
up four flights of stairs in the wee
mail hours, knocking the hall furni
ture endwise at every landing. uiav ex
pect to receive in his mail on valen
tine morning an alleged photograph of
Mm.if !.i i: a u.. ii.. -
AjiujQoii, lucaiigou uy inv vnimitiuu
artist. He stands in the lower hall
way, feeling vaguely around for a
button by which to ring the elevator
man, who has been off duty for hours.
He carries a load which stretches his
, v.vwu.ug. vvr buo uuiabiug kfUUlb, ailU tUO
valentine man suvs:
- You rednosed rounder, your boozey bats
, Make you the terror of our flats.
The place has cot an awful name,
And if you had a sense of shame
You'd stop your dissipating wayB,
auu get umou 01 yuur liquor ura.e.
' .
' The gripman caricature is a late
importation from Brooklyn, where the
'fiend of the trolley has things his
own way among the baby buggies. It
has enjoyed a run among residents of
f'Mib ui hu uji; nuoio ujubiruieu
ong, easy down grade, such as
that on Pacific avenue or North Mon
roe street, and fail not to take advan
tage of it. The picture represents a
jrrinning gorgon of the grip coming
clown grade with everything thrown
Wide open. The verse says:
That's right, go like mad,
Kill a child and you'll feel glad.
.. Slaughter people all you can,
You ffrinnfnfr mnnnter nf a man
what you're bound for is a cell;
; I hope the Judge will soak you well.
iiie usHBuaii cranK is given a
by a caricature in sporty clothes
the caption "Baseball on
rap
and
the
Brain." The crank is suDDosed to be
sprinting through Natatorium park,
, balancing a huge baseball on his head,
typifying the caption. A large red base
ball t.lplrnr. m in rtna YtattA atA a nn .
in the other. The vilifying verse runs:
: lou've got it bad, poor addie pate!
The thing you call your mind,
With baseball is so taken up
That to nil else you're blind. "
Upon the bleachinsr boards you sit
. The whole long afternoon,
And yell at every play that's made,
Just like a senseless loon; .
If you could only realize
now crazy you appear,
You'd not be seen upon the grounds
Again for half a year.
To the bicycle crank the comic artist
addresses himself with a picture of a
small leg ending in a monstrosity of
a toot, leg clad in a loud stocking and
foot, in a shoe of brightest yellow. To
the rider the following versa is dedi
cated :
Your spindle shank Is quite a joke, -Yon
skinny, awkward pumper,
Youe riiht to chain your hoof up so
,, You will not come a thumper.
' Can you not see the show you are?
Get off the wheel, I beg.
Give that poor loot of yours a rest.
Or get another leg -,
The ice man is not forgotten, and
the payer of exorbitant bills is given
a chance to "get back" with a picture
of a bull-necked individual with an
indescribable face and costume. He
carries the implements of the busi
ness. : and a certain line at the bottom
of the picture tells the recipient that
he is an . ice man, but not a nice man.
Then follows: '
The coldest cheat alive you are
I give it to you straight
There's no one can como near you, sir,
t 1 At swindling by short weight.
; Reform, and give us a sqnarer deal,
Old Man, that's my advice ,
Or. some day, to a place you'll go
' Where you will find no ice.
Darktown belles are given a chance
to warn their newest rival, who is
displayed io the most vociferous garh
possible, in the following manner:
Oh, have you come to town, honey?
Well, you're a slick she coon ;
But doan you get too sassy,
. , . Or you'll be fired out soon.
And this is the way the comics go
for the hired girl who wears her mis
tress clothes. The picture is that of
a petite colored girl with all the
clothes in the ward and winning
smile. Her monstrous hat bears the
ticket: "I Am a Lady Nit." The
verse:
; Youlubly gal with shining skin.
The dress that you go walking in
Looks nice I know, although! me
With others' clothing you make free.
. I'll tell your mistress, I declare,
, The way job steal her things to wear.
THE HUMAN FORM DIVINE.
U Is to Be Foand among the Negresses
, of tho South. ,
.Hospital attendants and physicians
whose duties Dring them into contact
with negroes 'who come . here to have'
injuries treated, marvel ' at the
recuperative power of these people, :
writes a narieston (s. u. ) corres
pondent of the New York Sun. The
negroes often recover almost with ease
from what appear to be mortal wounds
and injuries which would mean certain
death to white patients. This quality
flaWij
ilfiiiiliVi
physician attribute largely to the
mode of life of the negroes. More
especially amoni the women the physi
cians see the effects of what may be
described as a course' of elementary
Dolsarteism, as . thorough for all
practical purposes as it is unconscious.
Much study of late has been given to
this Delsarteism among the net roes of
the south. The absence of all spinal
diseases is attributed to the out door
life of the negroes but this is only one
of the ailments which they escape.
"It may not be commonly known,"
said a physician to the Sun correspon
dent, "but the perfection of the human
form divine is seen best in the
negresses living in this part of the
country. These women conform more
nearly to the Greeks than any other
existing race. A careful examination
of their forms will' prove this to be the
case. Their bodies are not warped by
any of the modern inventions of
society.
JOKES OF STATESMEN.
There Is a fishing club with many
congressional members, that has a club
house on the Potomac. Recently a
new house committee took hold. After
its first meeting these rules were
posted : , .
"1. If any member of this club
drinks more than five cocktails before
breakfast be shall be warned.
"2. If, after being warned, any
member of this club drinks more than
five cocktails before breakfast he shall
be warned again.
"3. If, after being warned for the
second -time, any member of this club
drinks more than five cocktails before
breakfast he shall be warned for the
third and last time. .
"4. It, after being warned for the
third and last time, any member of
this club drinks more than five cock
tails before breakfast he shall be con
sidered hopeless and left to his own
devices,"
"If an empty barrel weighs ten
pounds, what, can you fill it with to
make it weigh seven pounds?" asked
Senator Depew of Senator Sponner.
"Have to give it up," replied Mr.
Spooner.
"Fill it full of holes," answered
Mr. Depew, and they both laughed.
"Crowding in elevators like this
would never occur in' my city," said
"Private" John Allen, as he was
jostled in one of . the house lifts
recently during the rush hour.
"No, I rpekon not," replied Champ
Clark, of Missouri. "As I understand
it, there ain't an elevator in
Tupelo."
Crackers and milk are becoming the
sole luncheon of many members of con
gress. The New York democrats appear
particularly fond of the 'combination.
Chairman Cannon, of the appropria
tions committee likes it and seldom
eals anything else. Senator Fair
banks, candidate for ttie republican
presidential nomination in 1904, eats
it five davs out of six.
"Ah, Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, 1
believe," said Gen. Greene, of the
New York and Bermudez Asphalt com
pany, to a man who was standing in
the lobby of the Arlington. "I be
lieve I have had the pleasure before,"
continued the general, "and I"
"But, btit"-said the man.
"Oh, of coarse, you do. not remem
ber me. Mv name is Greene, 'chief
marshal of the inaugural parade. You
see, there are matters th"
"Oh. sir," exclaimed the individ
ual addressed, "you have made a mis
take. I am not Mr. Hopkins, of whom
you speak, hut Thomas, the porter of
the house. Good day, sir."
"I would have sworn that that was
Hopkins," said Gen. Greene as he
rubbed his eves. "I would have sworn
that it was Hopkins."
In fact, the man at the Arlington
is Mr. Hopkins' double. I hey are
as like as two peas Thomas the porter
and Hopkins ttie statesman. ,
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, was
giving a fairly good imitation of a
Chinese idol in the Marble Room of
the tenate on Saturday He installed
himself on a table in the center of the
room and then folded his feet under
him as a Chinese deity in good repute
is supposed to no. it was auite an
arcobatic feat, and Mr. Beveridge is
about the only man in the senate
capable of performing it. The senator
continued In earnest conversation
with a caller, and attorned the posi
tion unconsciously. He says it is a
comfortable pose and one that he
learned in a country school in Indiana.
Gas Through lea.
A. J. Erwm, an oil expert from Inr
diana, at Palouse City, Eastern Wash
ington, to inspect the discoveries of
gas and oil, has found crude petroleum
running from a crevice in the rocks on
the river bank a mile ast of that
place. The oil burns freely. The dis
covery is to be investigated. Earl
Robards, a 14 year old boy, was
severely burned by natural gas there a
few days ago. A number of boys were
skating on the river above the mill
dam, when they noticed hu boles under
the ice and made a hole. Earl Robards
knelt down and lighted a rnntch,
which he applied to the hole in the
ice. A flame shot up several feet high,
enveloping the boy and igniting his
cl'ithing, burning him severely but not
dangerously. There is great excitement
here in consequence. ,
A Sharp Eyed Boy.
A dispatch from Uvalde, Texas.sayi:
Joel C. Fenlcy, father of Guy Fenlev,
the 14-year-old boy with X-ray eyes,
who sees water, oil or minerals at any
depth in the ground, is receiving
letters from all parts of the United
States from persons who have read the
newspaper accounts of the remarakble
gift of this boy. Many of these letters
aie from oculists and members of
scientitic societies of the north, where
thorough tests may be made of his X
ray sight. Mr. Feniey is also offered
large sums of money from oil and min
ing prospectors to have his son locate
oil and minerals beneath the earth's
surface. The boy has located several
wells of water at depths ranging from
200 to 400 feet on ranches in West
Texas during. the past week.
The Transport Craft.
Senator Hale on Wednesday sub
mitted to the senate a number of com
munications irom the secretary of the
navy concerning naval affair's. One
of these is a lit-t showing ttie names of
vessels purchased for the navy during
the Spanish war, together with the
prices paid, end also a list of such ves
sels which have been sold, together
with the prices received for them. The
latter inclades the following: "Ni
agara, t'JOO.OOO sold for $75,000;
Badger, f.W.OOO, sold for 135,000;
Resolute, 1475,000, sold for $200,000;
Vulcan, 35O,000, sold for $175,0.50;
Cassias, $160,094. sold for purchase
price! Seipio, 85,76!, sold for 8Q,125;
Hector, $200,000. sold for $5,150.
General Passenger Agent Craig, of
the O. R. fc N., is expected to arrive
from St. Paul and assume the duties of
his office about the 18th int.
atti
A MOVEMENT TOWARDS JUSTICE.
The single tax party has nominated
Thomas Khodus for mayor in Chicago
and gives publicity to the following
platform, first, by declaring: The
single tax party stands for the single
tax. Here is its platform.
In order to raise wages, to encourage
industry and provide employment for
all, to abolish poverty, to extirpate
the vice, misery and crime that ac-'
company poverty, and to insure to all
men an equal chance in life, we pro
pose to restore to mankind equal
rights to the use of the earth,, which
is the source of all wealth and the
natural, inalienable and perpetual
heritage and field of employment of
each generation of the human race.
To secure to each his equal portion
of the inexhaustible wealth of nature,
it will not be necsesary to revoke ex
isting land grants, nor to shift their
present boundaries, nor to dispossess
anybody, nor to re-partition the sur
face of the earth. "
To accomplish all this it is only nec
essary to collect by taxation for the
benefit of the whole community the
annual rental value of the land, irres
pective of improvements, and to
abolish other methods of taxation, all
of which discourage building and im
proving, hamper trade and stifle in
dustry, i
The single tax party stands for the
rights of men, and is opposed to the
political organization and governmen
tal supervision of commerce and indus
try as taught by socialism.
Among the most important rights of
men are property rights, and all valid
property rights have their origin in
labor and derive all their moral force
from the right of each laborer to the
product of his own toil and the power
to dispose of it as he sees fit, either by
sale Or exchange or by contract ;
that is, by the wage system. These
the single tax party would uphold
But here is another and spurious
kind of property right, which has its
origin in the fiat of predatory leaisla
tion,' which Thomas Jefferson de
nounced as special Drivilege; this is
the kind of property manufactured at
Springfield and Washington and in the
city council. Special privilege has pow
er to . confiscate and extinguish right
ful property by extortionate charges for
some trivial service for which an ex
elusive iranchise has been granted or
by a denial of access to the sources of
all supply the earth itself, thus, by
reducing the supply and demand to
impartially determine price. But in
addition to all this, not satisfied by
submerging the property rights of the
common people in special privilege,
the dominant party in the nation and
in the states, down to the smallest
taxing body, guided by the lobbyists
of privilege, has sought to devise
methods of taxation to relieve
privilege of its obligations to the state,
implied as a condition of the grant,
and impose the whole burden of gov
ernment upon consumers, thus destroy
ing their purchasing power, contract
ing demand, producing enforced idle
ness of both capital and labor and
generating disorder, vice, misery
poverty and crime. The single tax
party has no quarrel with capital, but
would make war on privilege, even to
its extermination.
t
The program of the single tax cartv
differs from all other third parties, in
asmuch as it aims to secure control of
the. local machinery of government.
it wonid reiuse to grant any extensios
of franchises; it would abolish the
license system imposed upon local
businesses, and it would use all the
sovereign and discretionary power
vested in the assessor's off.ee to relieve
industry and commerce of taxation,
and impose the burden on land value.
If this pqlicy were adopted in Chicago,
none of its commercial rivals could
compete with Chicago, unless they
adopt the single tax: for if one in
dustrial center should adopt the single
tax it would compel its rivals to follow
suit, even against their will. Thus the
economic rights of men may be estab
lished and industrial slavery abolished
throughout the civilized world by es
tablishing justice in Chicago.
As the single tax party steps into the
political arena, the benetfis of the
great principle for which we stand
will at once begin to appear. The
single tax party will be peculiar in
that it will be largely successful in its
object long before it can elect any one.
All that is needed is an increasing
vote for the single tax at each election,
Whenever it is known that the single
tax party has unfurled Its banner to
stay, land values will begin to disap
pear. Land speculators will, one by
one, offer their land for sale, and, one
by one, others will see that real es
tate speculation will no looter be
profitable and they will refuse to pur
chase even at lower figures. Rents
will fall and the wages of labor and
the profits of business will increase, as
a consequence. For the word will
have irrevocably gone forth that the
rent of the land belongs to all the peo
ple and they are about to resume pos
session of their inheritance.
f
The single tax'party in Chicago uses
this argument! When we voted the
national ticket last fall we probably
knew what we were going to vote for;
but what will the local ticket we vote
thia spring stand for? What is the
real difference to you who is elected
mayor this spring? It is only a ques
tion of a different set of faces at the
windows. Why not start the great
fight? Why not vote for the most im
portant thing that any party can ever
offer us? Whynot vote for the single
tax?
Do you want to Understand clearly
and distinctly how to make this great
country a material paradise? Do you;
want to know how to abolish want
and the fear of want, aud how to house
all our people In stately and comforta
ble mansions, where shall dwell the
kindly and majestic men and women
of the republic-the real kings and
queens of the earth? Then attend the
sessions of the Chicago Single Tax
club.
Do you wish to acquire intellectual
power? Do vou wish to train and to
discipline your mind as no university
training can ever discipline it? Then
attend the sessions of the Chicago
Single Tax club. The single taxer is
the master of logic. The single taxer
Is the master in discussion.
We are the masters of economic
science. In this age of confusions and
of insipid mediocrity we are the only
ones who dare to teach with authority
and without immodesty, and to court
the most rigid investigation.
ine Mngie lax club meets every Fri
day night at Schiller hall.sevenlh floor
Schiller building. Everyone is wel
come. Come and join in ths great and
glorious movement.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
One of the interesting features of the
Marshall celebration at "North
Tutuilla" tho other night, was the
reading by one of the orators of the
day of a flowery document purporting
to be a sort of lawyers' creed, confes
sion of faith, or code of ethics, to
which all members of (he learned pro
fession are supposed to subscribe. The
I . ... . -
latitude which the learned profession
allow themselves in interpreting this
remarkabe document is so liberal that
the outside world may be excused tor
never suspecting its existence.
The late Marcus Daly seems to
have found time between his scraps
witn Senator Clark to raise some good
horses, of which 133 head from his
stables were sold by auction the other
day at an average price of $1188 per
head. Two of 'the number bringing
$60,000 and $10,000 respectively. There
does not seem to be any discourage
ment for borseraisers in those figures.
A steamship loaded with wheat the
other day at Puget Sound and started
for Liverpool, by way of the Suez
canal, which is 1800 miles farther than
by way of Cape Horn, but was chosen
as the cheaper route as coal costs much
less in Japan and Port Said than in
the South American seaports. The
voyage will cover 16,000 miles and
occupy 80 days. The distance by the
Niearauga canal, over which the
statesmen are parleying and hair
splitting, is about 7500 miles, a .clearer
illustration of what the last named
route means to this coast has perhaps
never been given than by the sailing
of this ship.
A number of years ago a spendthrift
king, who did not find money coming
in fast enough in the regular way to
meet his expenses, instituted , a tax
which he called ship money, which
John Hampton, one of his subjects, re
fused to pay, on the ground that it was
levied on inland counties, where' no
ship had ever been seen and also that
it was designed not to build ships with
but for the use of a frivolous court. In
the trial which followed the king won,
as he practically owned the judges.
But Mr. Hampton took an appeal to a
higher court, the people, and in the
controversy which followed, the king
not only failed to collect the taxes but
lost his head. This page of history
might form atheme of profitable medi
tation for Senator Hanna and his col
leagues who are also anxious to collect
ship money from a people who think
they are already paying tribute enough
to men of Hanna 's kidney. .
The chances for a man of ordinary
ability and elastic conscience to ac
aumulate wealth in China at the
present time is thus described by a cor
respondent; a civilian, who accom
panied the expeditionary force, had
when he started a borrowed horse and
a few dollars in money. When he re
turned he had two horses, four mules,
one thousand taels in sice, and two
carts loaded ' with a miscellaneous
quantity of loot.
Mr. Dooley thus explains the average
newspaper's idea of what constitutes
news. If a roan, who has been of
some use in the world, dies, after hay
ing lived an orderly lile, he is good for
perhaps half a dozen lines, but if a
drunken ruffian goes gunning for a
policeman and winds up in jail he is
good for a column and a half.
To an industrial commission, which
was in session a short time ago, one
of the witnesses thus defined his idea
of what constitutes robbery. It you
have to be robbed it does not matter
whether you are held up by Dick
Turpin with a pistol or by John Rocke
feller with a railroad, it's robbery just
me same. .
Henry ixorman, a well Known news
paperman, who has recently been
traveling in Asiatic Russia, tell
many interesting things of that far
away country and speaks thus of ohe
of its products. The carpets woven by
Turkoman women in their moving
tents, without any pattern to copy
the design being handed down by in
stinct and memory, was both for
design and workmanship, the finest
thing of the kind in the world. This
carpet is perhaps the one relic now left
of a great bygone civilization, for
assuredly the Turkomans, in their dirt
and squalor, could not have invented
the beautiful designs that their women
made till recently. The different great
irmes ot ine rurKomans are mdis
tinguisbable in thier dress or their
habits, their carpets alone can serve
to distinguish them. These are their
passports, their visiting cards. Per
haps these very patterns were given
them by Nebncadnezzar, but aniline
dyes anil loom competition are killing
these fast, and soon nothing but their
old carpets will bo left to tell of a
mysterious civilization of the far past,
Merv is a town somewhere near the
Afghanistan frontier, also a station on
the trans-Caspian railway, whOBe
absorption by Russia in 1889 caused
Gladstone to ask for and instantly re
ceive irom ine nngnsn parliament a
war grant of $55,000,000 to be ready
for Russia's next step south. But
Merv has long since ceased to be a
Russian boundary, for in the dark
you can see a branch line of railway
stealing eoutnwara across ttie plain,
this is the famous strategical line of
one hundred and ninety miles to the
very frontier of Afghanistan and
eighty miles from Herat. The Rus
sians keep this line absolutely secret,
no permission to travel by it ever
having been given to a foreigner. It
.is interesting as one stands here on
the edge of the platform and looks
down the few yards of this mysteri
ous line visible in the dark, to reflect
that if the future brings war between
England and Russia, its roaring tide
will flow over these very rails for the
invasion of India, and that if ft brings
peace, this will be a station on the
through line between Calais and
Kandahar. Home day surely, though
it may he a long time distant, and
only when tens of thousands of Rus
sian and British soldier ghosts are
wandering through the shades of
Walhalla, the traveler from London
will hear on this very platform the
cry: "Change here for Calcutta."
M.
AN INCREASE OF PENSIONS.
In Certain Cases Under Certain Condi
tions Mora Money Is to Ba Allowed.
The house committee on pensions
has lavoraoiy reported the bill of Kep
resentative uaiaerueaa oi Kansas as
follows: "All persona who are eligi
ble for pensions at the rate of $12 per
month under section Z of the act of
June 27, 18!"0, relating to pensioners,
who are now, or may hereafter become
disabled by total blindness or paralysis
or any total disability for manual
labor, not the result of their own
vicious habits, which disables them
in such a degree as to require the con
stant or frequent and periodical at
tendance of another person, or who are
or may be without an actual net in
come not to exceed $100 per year, ex
clusive of any pension, shall be en
titled to a pension at the rate of $30
per month from the date of application
therefor after the passage of this act."
Monay Wade, charged with an as
sault, being armed with a dangerous
weapon, committed upou Will Evans,
also pleaded not guilty in the circuit
court at Salem, and w,ill be tried
February 19.
GENERAL NEWS.
The English government is preparing
to send to South Africa 30,000 mounted
men.
Senator Hanna was elected a com
rade in Memorial post, G. A. R., in
Cleveland, Ohio.
Kansas City people are fearing a
visit from Mrs. Nation and her small
army of saloon crusaders.
The deadlock over the election of
United States senator continues in the
Nebraska, legislature at Lincoln.;
The house committee on coinage
acted favorably on the bills establish
ing branch mints at Omaha and la
coma. .
General James M. Ruggles, one of
the founders of the republican party,
died at Hipping Sanitarium, Havana,
aged 81 years.
It is reported from Vaucouver, B.
C, that on January 10, (10 fishing boats
near flash ida to were wrecked, and of
410 fishermen only 10 escaped. 1
Smallpox prevails at Glascow, Scot
land, in alarming proportions. A
score of fresh cases are reported daily,
there have been many deaths and there
are 453 cases in the hospitals.
The board of health of New York
city, by a unanimous vote has prohi
bited the future slaughter of horses
and the sale of meat from all such
animals slaughtered elsewhere.
The Confederate Veterans'- associa
tion of Savannah, Georgia, has passed
resolutions against the invitation to
President McKinlev to attend the re
union of ronfederate veterans in
Memphis.
The legislature of Virginia accepted
from Tennessee the cession of one
half of Main street in Bristol as the
boundary line between the two states.
The matter has been in litigation
many years.
The house committee on banking and
currency tabled the bill repeal imi the
10 per cent tax on state bank issues
and the bill requiring national bank
depositories to pay interest lo the gov
ernment on public deposits.
Destructive brush fires throughout
the colony of Victoria, Australia,
have done great damage to property
and stock.. The heat is excessive,
and there ' have been violent dust
storms in and around Melbourne.
Frank Lindmuth died in tho hospi
tal at, Helena, Montana, of idood
poisoning caused by the bite of n horse
above the eye 15 years ago. He neg
lected the wound and it gradually took
away his sight and finally wasted him
away.
The resignation of Congressman
Charles A. Boutelle, as representative
of the Fourth Maine district 'in the
national congress, has been received
by Governor Hill of Maine, The
resignation is to take effect Febru
ary. 28.
For one hour and 17 minutes Ernest
Roeber, the American champion
wrestler and the French champion,
Paul Pons, struggled for supremacy in
a roped ring in New York city Wednes
day night. Inspector Thompson
stopped the bout at midnight.
The senate committee on agriculture
Saturday reported the agricultural
appropriation bill, which carries a
total of $4,503,920, an increase of
$126,700 over (be aggregate appropria
tions made by the bill as it passed the
house. .
It has transpired that a man in jail
in England who was sentenced in
December last to four years imprison
ment for robbing a woman in the
streets of London, is Charles Allen,
one of the postofHce robbers who es
caped from Ludlow street jail, New
York city, in 1895.
Colonel Lew A. Clarke, secretary of
the St, Louis Elks lodge, and formerly
a well known racetrack official , dtad
at St, Louis, from the effects of an
operation, aged 77 years. He was a
survivor of the' Walker N icarauga ex
pedition of 1855, and a national figure
in tho Brotherhood of Elks.
Captain George Francis Faxon Wilde,
recently commander of the battleship
Oregon in Asiatic waters, who has
beeu detached from sea duty, passed
through San Francisco Sunday on bib
way to Washington. The Oregon is
now in I'rst class condition and will
probably start for home about May 1
The Cuban constitutional conven
tion will refuse positively to add i
clause to the constitution expressing
gratitude to the United States. The
delegates say such an expression dues
not belong in the constitution; but
they are willing to adopt an indepen
dent resolution thanking the United
States.
It is now reported that King Edward
is a victim oi cancer of the throat.
There is absolutely no doubt of this
and the beBt specialists in the kingdom
agree that his days are numbered. His
case is exactly similar to that of the
late Emperor Frederick of Germany,
ana also that oi trie uuke of rtdin
burgh.
Frederick Harvey, inanaeer of the
eating bouse system of the Santa Fe
railway, died at Leavenworth, Kansas,
o: cancer, uniy last week: he was
brought borne from California where
he bad been for his health. Mr.
Harvey was horn in London in 1836
and came to America when he was 15
years old.
Crying out that drugs were agents of
the devils a half dozen women follow
era of Downie, the faith cure leader,
adopted the tactics of Mrs. Carrie
Nation In Chicago and wrecked a nura
ber of durg stores on the west side.
In some instances there were hand to
hand fights with the druueists. No
arrests were made.
Mayberry
irvlving g
Prentiss, one of
the oldest surviving generals of vol u n
teers of the civil war, is dead at his
home at Bethany, Mo., sued 81 vcars.
He was known as "The Hero of
Shiloh." He defeated Generals Holmes
and Price at Helena, Ark., on July 4,
jwtiz. tie was tne last survivor of the
Fitzjohn Porter court martial.
Arrangements have been comnleted
by the Press club of Chicago and Mrs,
Nation's representative whereby she
will lecture at the Auditorium next
Tuesday under the auspices of the
Press club. Mrs. Nation's visit, ac
cording to her friends, will be a peace
ful one, as she will not underake to
destroy any saloons in Chicago.
Lieutenant 8. Hooker and Miss Mary
Condit-Smith were married Mon
day at Epiphany church, Washington,
by Bishop Satterlee. Lieutenant
Hooker is stationed at the Brooklyn
navy yard and is the grandson of Sena
tor Stewart. The bride while sojourn
ing in China several months ago bo
came a prisoner during the siege of
Pekin.
It is now accepted as a sure thing
that the New York Central will bo ex
tended ultimately'through the LNorth-
western and Union Pacific lines to the
coast. The Pennsylvania will be
joined with the Atchison, the Erie
with the fit. Paul and Northern
Pacific, the Baltimore & Ohio will
join the Great Northern through some
intermediary at Chicago, and the
Southern railway will form an alli
ance with the Southern Pacific.
Ten cases
the bubonic
of what is supposed to be
piaune nave been isolated
at Cape lown, South Africa. One of
tno victims is a white person.
Miss Maud Gonne, the "Irish Joan
of Arc." arrived in New York Monday
from. Havre. She conies to the United
States to work in the interest of the
Boer cause.
The contest between Billy Smith and
Owon Zeigler, at Erie, Pa., was
stopped atthe end of the: 10th round,
church people demanding the sheriff to
enforce the law.
i Orders were prepared at . the war de
partment for the organization as
sembling and equipment of 10 addi
tional .regiments authorized by the
army reorganization law.
Colonel Ferris Forman, who was in
command of an Illinois regiment dur
ing the Mexican war, of which ho was
the last surviving field officer, died at
Oakland, Calif., Mondav at the ago of
94 years. ,, ,
Maurice Thompson,-: the auhor, is
dying at hi 4 home in Crawfordville,
Indiana. His age is ' 56. Will 11.
Thompson, attorney for the Great
Northern railway, at Seattle, is his
brother. ; .
The followers of General Maximo
Gomes triumphed in the constitutional
convention at Havana. Tho Clause
making liini eligible to the presidency
of ths republic was adopted' by a vote
of 15 to 4. ' . , - ; :
John, better known as Coir Feather
ley, the well known sporting man,
who all his life was referred to as
the' "honest gambler; ". died at
Denvar, Sunday, of locomotor ataxia,
aged 45 years.
The biil providing for a restoratiou
of capital punishment in Kansas was
killed in the senate. The agitation
favoring capital punishment started
over the recent burning of the . negro
Alexander by the Leavenworth mob.
Judge Jacob B. Blair, surveyor gen
eral of Utah, an intimate friend of
Abraham Lincoln and a man widely
known in public life, died suddenly at
Salt Lake City, Wednesday, aged" 80
years. The ; cause of his death' was
heart failure. '
L. M. Trumbull, former ueneral
counsel for the Texas Pacific railway
company, was 1 instantly killed at St.
Louis by a iassenger train at a crossing
in Webster grove,' St. Louis county.
He did not Bee the. train coming and
stepped in the way.
Sorious report? are iii circulation in
St. Petersburg, Russia, regarding the
outbreak , of what was first called
"hunger typhus, but is now officially
admitted to be bubonic plague, on the
Khirgiz steppes of Western Siberia.
Many thousands have died., ........
Representative Albert I). Shaw of
Watertown, N. Y., formerly com
mander in chief of tho Grand Army l
the Republic, was found dead . Sm.uity
morning in his room at the Riuut
house in Washington city. A pliyYi
cian pronounced death due to apoplexy.
Russian officials admit that wide
spread distress exists in largo sections
of the country, owing to the failure of
the cropH. The government already
has sent a million and a half roubles
for tho relief of the sufferers, and con
siders that five and a . half millions
will be necessary
At the Great Northern general offices
it is learned that President J. J. 1 1 1
has acceded to tho demands of labor
unions in the northwestern states and
will disoense with Japanese labor - in
,1. . . i . m,
ine biiops ana on ine roaa. mere were
about 2000 orientals thus employed,
and of these about 1500 have been "dis
placed by white men.
Clarence Gordon and Roy Riley, aged
16 and 15, respectively, were' arrested
in Kansas City, and $80 in gold was
found in a shotbag around Gordon's
waist. The boys say they saw two men
bury tho money and they watched them
and dug it up. It is thought it is part
oi uudunys money which was paid for
ine return oi ni.i son.
It is stated that tho . Savannah,
-,; .. i . . . . . '
luisHouri, inuruor mystery is at an
end and the grand jury now in session
will not indict anyone for the killing
oi Frank Richardson, the millionaire
merchant. Mrs. Richardson moved to
Kansas City.recently after being bound
over to the grand jury on a charge of
having guilty of knowledge of the
murder. .
Rev. C M. Sheldon, author of "In
His bteps, preached a , sermon at
lopeka, Sunday, in which he disa
greed with the methods about to be
undertaken by the citizens to rid the
town of joints. Rev. Sheldon said the
responsibility should be laid oiv the
individual and that the officers should
be forced to do their duty.
The lecture of Mrs. Nation, adver
tised to be given Tuesday . night in
Chicago, under the auspices of the
Chicago Press club, has been declared
off. Believing from the result of
two days' seat sales, which aggregated
less than $12, the lecture would be a
failuro, the directors of the club de
cided to abandon the project.
Typographical union, No. 13, in Bos
ton, will call a strike in every book
and job printing plant in that city in
case master printers refiiHo to sign
the union stale immediately. They
demand that women typesetters shall
bo treated as "journeymen composi
tors" and receive the same wugea as
men for doing the same work.
A meeting of the citizens of Topeka,
Kansas, at which JIOIJO were nresont.
decided that the joints innst go at
once. Friday, February 15. 1h the
time set when the claning of tho city
must be made corouleto. If it is nut
done by that time, an army of 1000
men will immediately move upon the
joints and remove them by force.
Earl Kiser. of Davton. mid Arthur
Stone, of Denver, rode in two motor-
paced heats of a fivc-milo mirsuit race.
at Fresno, Calif., Sunday, Kiser
winning both , the firHt iu 8 iuimit.es
10 1-5 seconds,, and the second in 7
minutes 58 seconds. The last lowered
the world's record for a motor-paced
five-mile race on an eight-lap truck.
Ono of tho most interesting events in
connection with the opening of the
parliament on Thursday ' will be the
formal declaration bvthokintfnf bin
disbelief in the characteristic doctrines
oi the Roman Catholic iniih. Anv
person professina the poplnh religion
is incapable of inheriting or DOsseHsinu
ine crown, ami ttie sovereign is bound
vi wane iwu reiiuireu oeciaration either
on the throne m the house of lords, in
the presence of both houses, at the
nm meeting or the llrnt purliarnent
after the accession or at the coronation;
which ever shall happen first.
The Sale or the Billing. ,
With tho sale of the I'reil. ri,-lr k-
Billings by tho United States marshal
which otxnrrcd at Portland, a few davs
ago, at public auction, the affairs of
the Central Navigation & Construction
company, which have been attended
with so many flrianciH difliculitxa.
finally terminated. The Iwat, or what
was left ot her where she is stranded
on a rock on the upper Columbw a
little below Arlington, was bid in by
Captain E. W. Spencer for $2S00, and
remaining creditors will share in the
division of the money after all costs
have been paid, realizing from 10 to
15 per cent of their claims.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS.
f The La Grande city election will
take place on March 11.
CaptainJIloratio Cooke died at hie
home ; in Portland Sunday, aged 74
years, oiirheomatism.-
Mrs. Mary Bristow.who was stricken
with paralysis about two weeks ago,
at Forest Grove, died Wednesday.
John Perdue, an Oregon pioneer of
1851, died at his home in Perdue,
Douglas county, Oregon, February 7.
aged 83 years.
Henry Emrick, for fortv vears a resi
dent of Benton county, died in Port- ;
land last Monday. He came to Oregon
in 1857 from Ohio. . .
In the Willamette valley it is con
ceded that all wheat is badlv injured
andlthe pasturage is ruined by the
frost. The fruit outlook is good.
Charles P. Bacou, one of tho best
known horsemen in the Pacific North
west, died Sunday from the effects
oi nu attack of grip, at his residence
in Portland.
J. H. Peery died at his home near
Scio, Linn ' county, Wednesday, aged
57 years, of heart disease. He was
found in the field unconscious just be
fore bis death. -
At Caldwell, Idaho, Josep F. Patter
son was arrested on the charge of at
tempting to commit rape on his 14
year old orphan niece, Blanche
Gregory. . He is in jail.
Charles R. Dehm, aged 43 years,
died in Portland Saturday. He was
the son of Floriaiv Dehm, an old timer
of The Dalles, who came to The Dalles
with his son Charles in 1864.
-Clyde Vaughn, the youth who is
charged with striking Lulu Jones, of
Jefferson; ' over the head with an ax
last fall, pleaded not guilty, at Salem,
and will be tried February 15. -
Major E. H. Conger, minister to
China, has cabled to an Iowa friend
that he will accept the republican
nomination for governor of Iowa,
but will not make a fight for it.
' Charles .Tost, of Portland, knocked
out Vic Langley, of Wallace, in the
11th round of what was to be a 20
round bout at Wardner Monday night.
Jost weighed 158 pounds and Langley
175. '.
Thomas Doherty, assistant hydraulic
engineer at the Swan Falls power plant,
on Snake river, was drowned Thurs
day, falling off the dam into the
stream. The body has not been re
covered. Six hundred homeseekers arrived I
Portland from the east Frulav nnl!
.Saturday, over the Oregon Railroad &
JNavigation line, a portion of them
coming via Spokane and the rest via
Huntington.
Representative C. W. Bowne of Spo
kane county returned to the Groat
Northern railway an annual passt
it-Miec" for 1901. With the pass Mr.
Howne sent a letter giving his reasons:
for the return.
The dis-joverv of what has been ad
judged a good quality of coal on the
Grand Rondo river, in the Blue moun
tains, a few miles above La Grande,
stands as a refutation of the theory of
geologists that the coal of this region
had burned out. '
John Nelson, a well known resident
of Mount Tabor, near Portland, died
Sumlay of double pneumonia, after
an illness of several weeks. Mr. Nel
son did not regard his illness aa seri
ous until about three days ago, when
ho called in a phvsician.
Georgo St. Cyr, member of a well
known Canadian family, has been
found guilty at Dawson, Alaska, of
the murder of II. Davis, and has been
sentenced to the gallows. An attempt
will be made to secure a new trial,
St. Cyr killed Davis, in a cabin on the
Hootalinqua river last December dur
ing a quarrel.
Charles P, Olds, better known art
Sandy Olds, the man who killed
Emil Weber, in Portland, in 1889, died
in a lodging house in that city Tues
day night. For the shooting of Weber
ho was tried three times, the first two
triuls resulting in a verdict of murder
in tho first degree, but afterwards he
was acquitted.
Cicero L. Hogun, a wholesale dealer
in harness and saddlery in Portland
until a few years age, died in Chicago
on the first instant. His remains
were brought to Portland for inter
ment. He leaves a wife and three
children. His age was forty yeanr.
lie was working at his trade in
Chicago, having failed several yeara
ago in business in Portland.
CASTE OF TURKISH WOKEN.
Ottoman Fair Ones Pear Contamination
From Social Interiors.
It is not genorally known that there
existH among Turkish ladies of high
clasis a kind of caste feeling similar to
that prevailing among the Hindus,
says the London Telegraph. It takes
the form of a fear of contamination
from the outer world, and in nniv nh.
served, as far aa I know, by those who
cannot afford to keen servants in
sufficient numbers. Before meals ladixa
always wash their hands at a tap from
which the water runs into a marble
basin. They will turn on the tap when
they are just going to wash, but when
they have finished they let the water
run till somebody shuts it off, as to do
it themselves would . make them un
clean, They cannot oneri nr nhnt a
door, as the handle would be unclean,.
so a slave is generally kept handy for
the purpose. '
(hie of those fastidious ladlPJ.
talking to a small niece the otbor day
who hail met received a nrnii f
beautiful doll from Paris. The ehildl
presently laid the doll on the lady's
lap, whe Was horrified anil
.. . . w. u iuc
child to take it away. As the little girj
would not move it, and no servant was
near, and tho lady would U derlW v.
touching a doll that was brought from
abroad, the only thing she could
think of was to Inmn nn nml lot iku
doll fall, which broke to pieces. The
same lady will not open a letter coni
ng ny post, hut a servant opens it and
holds it near ber for her to read. If
her handkerchief falls to the ground it
is immediate! v detrnvixl nr
away, so that she should not use it
again. This curious state of exclusive
noHs or fanaticism exists, I am told,
in many of the large harems. Among
men it is not practiced.
Unhappy Eastern Oregon.
JOnnteni Oregon is unhappy, so its
inoin hers of the legislature say, be
cause it gets few appropriations, sys,
the Portland Oregonian. Yet the say
their section pays one-third ofj the.
state's taxes. Multnomah couafiy pays,
another third, yet gets no appropriat
ions, nor expects any. It follows thai
the remaining one-third goU the total
pudding. This part is less than eg,
third, indeed! for a small mim r
counties- iu the favored section or.
nearly tho whole. The revenues of the
stale are expended mainly in tliree or
four counties. Bnt it is ddaL....
complain of this. If the constitution
were- followed, they would all be ex
pended in one county. I nn tuw.
Salem hog" muenanimoim i k;
esurient fellow grnnters have a few
acorns, when he might take them all?-
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