The Heppner Gazette
thuicnday, jiji-y :;-, iimi.
ANKNT TO 11 JOHNSON.
At the close of the civil war a ilin
charged confederate soldier, with his
wild uml family, trudged wearily over
tlit) foothills of Kentucky from their
liUlo homestead in the village of
Oeorgetown to Staunton, Va.. for pro
tectum, writes Hubert Maekay. Tim
family coiihihUhI of two Iovh bright
cheerful fellows. One was tirtvl am
sore from the continued tramp over
the hard roadways, hut the other wait
helping him an bent he could and 11 ru
in H him on to the place where rent
awaited them, At the same time lie
wan encouraging his downhearted falh
er and mother with kind words.
"Don't mind, ra," he said: "I kin
sell paperH an' will give you all
make."
today that hoy 18 mentioned as a
candidate for president of the United
States. He in Tom L. JohriHon, mayor
of Cleveland, O. When lorn Johnson
told his father that he would Hell pa
pers to help him along he wh just 11
yearg old. In tho live weeks imme
diately following Lee's surrender lie
proved that he Iwd the head of a li Man
ner. In that period lie earned $HH.
There wan groat t It i rst lor news in
Ktaunton. hut once a day only was it
in communication with the outside
world, and then it wan by railroad
Tom Haw his chance for a monopoly in
paperH and straightway cornered the
market, lie made the friend-hip of
the conductor of Staunton's daily train,
who turned over to him all the paperH,
For five week he held this monopoly,
Belling daily papers for lo rents each.
Three years later Tom went to work
in a ru iniz; null in Louisville, at a
email salary. In the same ollire witl
him was another boy, Arthur J. Mux
ham, who later became hlrt business
partner. For eeoiiomnal reasons the
managers decided that one of the boys
had to go. When it came to a choice
Moxhsm was retained, and Johnson
was turned out to ben in over again.
Louisville had a ramshackle, broken
down street railroad, the cars of which
were drawn by mules, when Tom John
ion applied there for work. Uceetitiy
lie Hold his interest in that railroad at
a handsome profit, after being, for 13
years, its largest stockholder, and
rhielly instrumental in changing it
from "mule to electric power.
After young Johnson had heen Con
ner led with the railway a few weeks
its president, Piderman dui'ont, no
ticed him picking up some pieces of
scrap iron anil depositing them in a
barrel that stood near the entrance to
the rnr shops.
"What are you doing that for'"
asked Mr. dui'ont, rat her sternly.
"Why, sir," said Tom, a little em
barrassed, "there is no use wasting
these pieces of iron. Tint company
may want to have them melted over,
Home dav."
Mr. dui'ont went into hi ollire and
thought. He sent for Tom, and said:
"I Just think I have some work for a
vming man like you. How would you
like to stay in the cilice and have
your salary raisixl $"i a week'.'" Then
Tom L. Johnson went up like a rocket
but, unlike many rockets, he stayed
tip. He quickly rose from position to
position f rom office boy to chief cash
ier; and, on bis seventeenth birthday
he was made superintendent of the
road. Then he began a system that
improved the road and put it on a pay
ing basis, lie improved the passenger
accommodations and reduced the ex-iM-nses.
Three years as superintendent
of this road made him long for wider
fields of action. He told his employers
that his scope was too limited. Mr.
dui'ont bad every confidence in his
protege. He knew that the ambition"
young man would try to succeed honestly.
One morning toe ollire boy t"ld Mr.
Johnson that Mr. dui'ont wanted
to see him. Johnson enter! the pres
ident 's private oilier, little dreaming
of a! I that was in store for him. With
out rising from his chair Mr. duPm.t
handed fiis youthful superintendent a
certified check for $ ;o,00o, with the in
formation that he was honorably dis
charged, and could try Inn fortune in
the open mart.
"Hut the security'."' queried
Job nson.
"Your word is enough fur me,
Mr. dui'ont, "if you live I
vou'll day it back; if you die,
I'll be out int so much. I'.ut
live of his action :h uncertain, but the
museum authorities will not trouble
themselves about ttie motives of the
benefactor if they secure the cash.
This, the disgruntled heirs say, the
museum will not be permitted to do,
They are preparing to show fight and
threaten to leave very little ot the $8,
0(H), 000 for the museum if they cannot
get it themselves. Jiut Mr. Rogers
was a shrewd business man and ia said
to have drawn the will no carefully
that little chance oi breaking it exists.
Tho Metropolitan Museum of Art
hail, up to the time of the Rogers be
quest, received about $1, 61X1,000 in
special gifts and bequests of art treas
ures and money, and out of this an en
dowment fund of $700,000 has , been
formed. Until the Rogers bequest
there had been not a cent left to the
corporation specially for an endow
ment. Jt is estimated that when the
bequest is realized it will net an income
of $.100,000 a year, which will enable
the authorities to employ a larger
force of curators and make generous
art purchases. It costs the corporation
and the city at present $139,000 a year
to run the museum, the trustees
furnishing $44,000 of this and the city,
through the park department, $1)5,000.
lieyond this the trustees pay for addi
tions to the collection.
The museum authorities are hopeful
now that other windfalls from unex
pected sources will in time swell the
endowment fund to equal that of the
Itritish museum, which is $212,000,000.
Hut that is looking a long way ahead.
HELPFUL DISEASES.
It'appears, from the latest medical
discovery, that several diseases pro
long, instead of shorten life.
Rheumatic people, for instance,
rarely die young. How this disease
wards off death is not known. It is
Tom
1 ' sa id
know
w 1 1 v ,
vou '1 1
livo, Tom; and now, go in and win.
Later Tom Johnson had the pleasure
of associating two of Mr. dul'oiit's sons
in some of his many tuiness ventures.
With the generous loan the young
financier organized a triumvirate for
the purchase of the street railways
in Indianapolis, making the tir-t step
in the course that enable I him to ab
sorb the streetcar I i nes. of Cleveland,
Detroit, st. Louis and other rities.
Mr. Johnson low no business in
terests today. He is many times a
millionaire.
MILLIONS FOR ART.
Tin late Jacob S. Roger of New
York has sprung anot her surprise on
bis acquaintances and the public. Not
very long ago be announced bis inten
tion of retiring from business and
closing down permanent I y t fie Rogers
I.HViniotive works, which had been in
successful operation for a long time,
unless it was purchased by a given
djptc. This would throw a large iiom
tier .if people out of employment and
he was importuned to keep the works
running, as it was prosperous. Hut
the more those interested pleaded the
more determined be became to rinse
the works permanently on the date
stated unless bought at his figure in
the meantime.
probable, however, that the blood ac
quires some property which is fatal to
the germs of other diseases.
(ioiit is a malady which also
lengthens one's days. Sometimes it
goes to the heart and proves fatal, iiut
if it can he kept to the big toe the
patient may feel pretty confident that
he will live till his ninetieth birth
day, or perhaps his hundredth birth
day. The explanation of this fact, put
forward by a medical scientist, is that
the gout frees the blood from poison
ous matter.
It appears that by banishing small
pox we have lost a splendid life pre
server, in a census oi ageu people
taken many years ago it was found that
a very large number were pockmarked.
This led a doctor to make a calcula
tion, which prove that there were
twice as many pockmarked people over
80 years old as there would have been
unless the smallpox exercised a pre
servative on life. He accounted for
this curious fact by concluding that
the smallpox microbe frightened away
all other microbes, just as rats frighten
away mice from a bouse.
It would scarcely be supposed that
bronchitis would add to one's days.
ry often it shortens them consider
ably, but in other cases it has quite
the opposite effect. A very large num
ber of the old people you meet cough
all the vtar round with chronic
bronchitis. You would think, when
isiening 10 mem, mai iney must
very quickly eougli themselves to
death. 1 fiat is not so at . all. The
coughing helps the heart to circulate
the blood, anJ, in fact, gives exercise
to all the organs. Rut for this daily
exercise many old people's bodily
mechanism would get fatally clogged.
Hesides, a man with bronchitis is
very careful of himself. He will not sit
in draughts, he will avoid setting
drenched, he will not be out late at
night and lose a good part of his sleep.
And thus be more than compensates
for the injury done by his ailment.
"
A weak heart does not often
I lie. hut there are cases on
where it has done so. A weak heart is
certainly more conducive to length of
lays than an exceedingly strong one,
for the latter throws too much work
on the other organs and wears them
out before their time. It is the same
with the stomach. Dyspepsia, provided
it is of a mild form, serve to keep
death away. Most centenarians have
been very .moderate eaters.
Deafness is another ailment which
has this curious property of adding
years to the victim's life. Now and
again a deaf man is run over in the
streets of cities. Rut when deaf people
prudently pitch their tent in the coun
try th
age.
this fact is that deafness saves us from
lot of worry. The shrill noises to
which most people are insensible, be
cause they have got used to them, are
really very injurious. Harking dogs,
crow ing cocks, shouting paper sellers,
whistling boys, rattling carts, etc.,
exert a seriously injurious influence on
one's health. The ear nerve is very
large one, ami every time it is over
stimulated the brain receives an in
jurious shock. Deaf people escape all
these life shorteners and henre they
live long.
prolong
record
lev live, as a rule, to a very old
'rohablv the true explanation of
WORK OF THE CHEMIST.
In the manufacture of cane sugar
the molasses is about as valuable as
the amount of sugar contained in it
would he. so there is no use for the
nrocesH adonted in beet sugar making;
but there is less weight of sugar in the
mnlAHsn than there was formerly
This fact, and the fact that the
molasses is now made in vacuum pans
and cannot be burned or thickened as
it was in the old-fashioned open pans,
accounts for the fact that there is no
more black molasses and no more
black Gingerbread such as mother used
to make.
The glucose manufacturers tiave
called in chemists, and found a new
source of profit. The corn grain has,
in addition to its starch product, a
tinv eerm in which lies its fife princi
pie. This germ was formerly crushed
with the starch, separated and thrown
aside as waste. Very lately it has been
shown that this germ is neb in on
which can be utilized. Ibe germ is
now separated from the starch and
crushed. The oil gathered finds a
ready market, and within the last five
years millions of dollars' worth of this
oil has been exported to Europe, where
all corn products are in great demand.
After the oil is taken from the gerrn
the gluten left in the cake is used for
varnish, and the residue is used for
cattle food.
The corn stalk is also ground and
used for cattle feed, but first the pith
of the stalk is extracted and used for
the lining of vessels, the theory being
that if a fissure occurs in the frame
work of the vessel the pith lining, be
coming wet will swell and to some ex
tent close the fissure.
The cottonseed oil industry has
eliminated its waste almost entirely,
although twenty years ago every part
of the cottonseed save the oil was
waste product. In the cottonseed oil
factory now the seed is collected after
coming through the cotton gin, and is
first stripped of its lint, which is used
in the manulacture of certain kinds of
paper, felts, etc. Next the shell of the
seed is removed and either ground for
cattle food or used for fuel. In the
latter case the ashes are collected for
potash.
The kernal of the seed is ground and
pressed to extract the oil, and the
residue is used for cattle food. The oil
in process of refining gives off a waste
which enters into soap making and the
making of oleomargarine,
Glycerine, used in such great quan
tities at present, was for years a waste
product. All waste from fatty oils
contains compounds of an acid with
glycerine. The acid will combine with
an alkali, leaving the glycerine in a
watery solution, from which it is col
lected by evaporation and distillation.
Immense quantities of this reclaimed
waste product are used in the making
of explosives.
When steel is melted in a Bessemer
converter the phosphorus, which used
to be nuisance, is separated from
the steel by the introduction of lime,
with which the phosphorus combines
readily. This phosphorus is then used
as a fertilizer.
The slagg from iron furnaces is con
verted into cement.
The tin is taken from old tin cans by
chemical process and is used over and
over again.
Even the acids used for chemical
purposes are not allowed to outlive
their usefulness with the accomplish
ment of their purpose. The Standard
Oil Co. formerly wasted great quanti
ties of sulphuric acid after it had tieen
used to remove the impurities from
the oil. The acid wag drained off into
the river. Now it is used in a fertilizer
particularly adapted to soil where
phosphate rock must be dissolved.
Then agaio in certain great galvaniz
ing works the iron was cleaned with
sulphuric acid, which was then run
into the nearest river. This method
of disposing of the waste was for
bidden. Chemists were consulted.
The solution was made stronger so that
it could be clarified and used re
peatedly. Finally, when it could no
longer be used for washing, it was
evaporated and the sulphate ot iron ex
tracted from it. This bi-product
proved so valuable that it is now the
chief product of the works.
THE ORIGIN OF KISSINO.
Then Mr. Rogers gave another sur
prise by unexpected! y dying and leav
ing an estate larger than be bad been
supposed f possess, for be bad made
no display of bis woalt b.
When bis will was opened last week
be gave the greatest surprise of all.
His relatives, who bad gathered at
Ibw reading of (be will in oxooliition
of dividing bis fortune, w heftier treat
or small, between them, found that the
locomotive builder bad played a grim
joke iln them. Ill- will d 1st ri bnted
among the heirs expectant ju-t enough
t.i show that lie ha I led forgotten
their existence, and then gave the
bulk of his estate, ati'Oit $s,Ot, i.OnO,
t the rorirat inn of the Metropolitan
Museum d Art. The relatives were
surprised and di-gule., and lid not
hesitate to make their feel I ngs elvdent .
The authorities of the Mel ro! it ian
Mnsjeiiin of Art were -ton i-lied and
muld scarcely believe their g.si.l for
tune. Mr. Kngers bad never evinced
any interest in art. lb was an auiiuni
subscriber to Ibe lii'l-entn to the
amount of $l, like a nuiiitier of other
NfW York ritien, but aid very little
attention ti the in-t itut ion U'vnnd
draw ing bis snioi il Tiniest thetk.
Whether a d it-ire .i be-n-lit i worthy
institution or to disappoint his rxs-r-Lant
relatives was the inspiring i
H i' editor of the Oregon Republican,
an excellent daily publication ot Raker
City, is contemplating embarking upon
the sea of matrimony and has already
selected his crew. He is an authority,
therefore, on kissing and all associate
subjects. He discusses the osculatory
science in a recent editorial , as follows:
A (iermantown man who claims to
have ma le a study of the kiss in that
spirit of scientific analysis which is
now so ipnlar, says that it really hag
a most interesting history.
Its origin was in prehistoric times,
possibly when the rave man was bat
tling for his life against all sorts of
fiM's, but ethnologists differ as to just
how it was discovered.
One learned school holds that it arose
through cannibal ism ; that one person
would rub bis lips over the flesh of
another to see if the flesh was suf
ficiently sweet and tender for eating
purposes, ami, on a memorable day,
a vonng warrior brushed with his
i the mouth of a girl of the tribe,
I w ith that soft shock, electrical
i sweet, the kiss was born.
lips
and
and
This has an attractive sound, but a
second theory claims that tl.e primi
tive mother originated the k as.
Drinking vessels bad no! yvt leen dis
covered, and t be mother, to give her
thirsty little children water, wool J
pass it from her own mouth into theirs;
whence in due iniirne, came kissing.
1 lie third school, which is misan
thropical an I t winch the tierman
lti man beltings, bold the kisa to
Is' an evil, cn evil in its birth with
that other evil, wine.
According to this theory, at anon a
men ls-gan to store tip w ine in their
. aves or bouses, they grew suspicion
of their wives, and on each return
from abroad would eel their mouths
to their aires' mouths to see if any
drinking bad gone on during their
absence.
Awards for exhibits at the Tan
American eixil mn at ItnfTalo will tsj
announced in September.
From the waste product of the wine
industry chemists now obtain a crude
rream of tartar which refined to a high
degree constitutes the acid principle of
the best forms of baking powder.
The list might be protracted in
definitely and there seems to le in the
industrial world today no product so
utterly worthless that it may not at
least find profitable incarnation in
cattle food, fertilizer or glue.
KILLING OFF TOM JOHNSON.
It is suspected that the Ohio demo
cratic convention aimed to kill two
birds with one stone. Ostensibly only
one of these birds was shot at, but it
can hardly le doubted that, since both
were hit, both were intended to lie hit.
The convention was completely
under the control of the McLean Stan
dard Oil gold bug railway trust crowd,
and it begins to le reasonably clear
that the victory fur Tota L. Johnson's
platform was one which was srored
with the consent of the reactionaries.
At first it seemed that Mr. Johnson
won in spite of the Mcl-ean influence
and that he had upset all McLean's
plans. Rut the unqualified joy which
is betrayed throughout the whole cir
cle of Standard" Oil ism and by all de
lenders of monopoly indicates that the
results were not a surprise to the con
trolling faction and that Mr. Johnson
was permitted to score a triumph the
better to give point to the main issue.
The brutal treatment which Mr.
Bryan received at the hands of the
convention could not fail to arouse the
Rryau men, not only in Ohio, but
throughout the country. Had the
indignity to the Nehra-kan come only '
from the Standard Oil crowd, that
would have been accepted as a matter
of course and no particular atteut i m
would have Iven given the circnm- I
stance. Rut the J on h son as well as the 1
McLean element were made to appear :
to Im concerned in the effort to hu
miliate tne democratic leader and the
fact that the ltryan people in Ohio
are already talking of a bolt gives
proof that they have accepted the Col
umbus incident as an expression not
oily of McLean but of Mayor Johnson
as well.
In other words Mayor JohiiM'ti has
been prejudiced in the eyes of the
Bryan siple throughout the whole
country. We d- not believe that Mr.
Johnson was in any sense or in any
degree a partr to the scandal. 'in effort
id the Colut'ibus fathering to belittle
I Mr. ltryan and todix-redit bis leader
ship. It is true that Mr. John-n
was never in full sympathy with Mr.
i ltryan and be never prelendisl to le.
Hut it in also true that Mr. Johnson
; was never in sympathy with the gold
i bog conspiracy and that be never gave
! aid or comfort to the u-e agair-t
i which Mr. Rrvan s, gallantly strug
gled. Mr. Johnson all the way through
hat Ixst-n a radical I Vimsrat, and as
such he has'work"! lousi-tenllv for
the advancement i f dein icratic princi
ples. And while he did not etand as a
champion of free silver in WM'i, be did
stand against monopoly in nil jt,.
phases, just as he -'uu I- p day.
At the moment ,' the CnlumbuHCon-
ventlon Mr. Johnson was the mo-t con-
HpicuoilH democrat in the l.'r.itedl
Htates after Mr. liryan. It was r-cog-'
ni.ed that with Mr. liryan out of the!
way, as Mr. Rryan had put hiu.seif;
out of the way, Mr, Johns m was nl-'
most, if not quite, the logic!.,' man for'
the democratic nomination in 1W4. '
Popular attention w;ih centering more
and more upon him and more and i
more definitely hi.i views were
challenging discussion and finding ad
vocates. The paper.- were full of him
and it was an open secret that the;
democratic leaders throughout the
country were beginning to In ik to him
as the man of tin- hour.
Iiut if the liionopoly forces have
feared Rrvan, how much greater rea
son bad they to t"ar Tom L. Johnson,
for Bryan is in fact a cons' rvative of !
conservatives in comparison with the
mayor of Cleveland, Mr. Hrvan has.;
never proposed to go beyond' what are j
clearly the traditional lines of demo- ;
eracy. Fven concerning the tariff he!
was infinitely less radical than Mr.
Johnson. Mr. Rryau nevt r s -eiiied to i
have a notion that Iree trade was!
natural trade and that men are entitled :
to enjoy it as they are entitled to enjoy '
other phases of liberty. He seems: to
have felt that the tariff was a revenue!
necessity and while he opposed a '
tariff for protection he never once !
questioned the legitimacy of a tariff!
laid for the purpose of providing j
funds for the treasury. j
It is true that the Kansas City plat-
form declared against all monopoly in j
private hands and it is true also that 1
this delaration covered the monopoly :
of land as well as the monopoly of '
lines of communication, hut there is i
nothing whatever to indicate in any- ,
thing that Mr. liryan ever said on the
stump or in anv of his writings before I
or since the election that he have so ;
wide an application to that deliver-
ance. iur. urvan apparently nas ac-,
cepted the nrexent tax system as be- j
ing on the whole good, and he ii a J gone
no farther than to advocate an income (
tax and to condemn the perversion of j
existing laws for private benefit i
On the otfier band .Mr. Johnson has
stood and now stand" for ail the Kan- ;
sas City platform said and implied and i
he stands for a method under wind. ;
mononolv in orivate hauls would in-;
fallibly be destroyed. The mere
denunciation of monopoly does not
scare the iimm pi.ilit. In fact the
monopolist himself does not hesitate to
denounce monopoly ' when such a
denunciation will serve his purpose.
But when monopoly is attacked in a
practical, way on practical lines, then j
the monopolist takes alarm and he,
looks far ahead for the means of safe- ;
guarding his privileges. !
It is recognized that Mr. Johnson's1
plans will work. They are simple
and definite. They are easy to un- i
demand and easy to apply. No social i
revolution is necessary to their in
auguration. Largely they involve a re
peal of some notoriously bad laws and
the enforcement of eoine admittedly
good lawis. It is not to be believed j
that the predatory class is blind to!
these facts. The beneficiaries of !
privilege understand very clearlv just
what Tom Johnson means and they
understand perfectly that if he is not !
headed off his plans will be put into
effect and that then their power w ill !
be gene. j
Hence the anxiety on their part to I
destroy Mr. Johnson as a political
factor. They have not succeeded very !
well in their efforts to discredit him j
by direct attack, in spite of their i
sneers at bim and in spite of their
studied efforts to saddle him with the
charge ol inconsistency and insincerity
Mr. Johnson has steadily grown in
c it i ,... i : made a mistake in including i
Held passed away at h reBollJtion a complimentary refe
ghkeepfcle, V 1 . ills jr ,;rvau. Mr. Bryan is not a
i buried in the military . . .. .r. ,i ..,:
popular favor and, as we have said, at
the moment of the Columbus conven
tion he was the mjst striking figure in
the democratic horizon.
GENERAL NEWS.
father Cordelia, the famous Jesuit,
! is dead.
t rrench chamber of deputies voted to
'abolish the embassy to the Vatican.
I Supremo council of the Maccabees
I elected D. M. Mar key of i'orl Huron,
j M ich. , commander.
'ibe Olympic club of Butte has
offered a purse of f.'d.ODO for the
I Kiihlin-Jeliries: fight.
; Ohio populists and those who favor
i amalgamation oi independent reform
: forces, meet at Columbus, July HO.
Two killed, H injured and engine
lemolished is the result of a head end
collision on the Santa Fe near Oower,
Mo.
England, Scotland and Ireland are
suffering from heat, and reports from
the, country are to the e fleet that the
sun is burning up crops
ien. Butterfield
home, near Ron
remains will be buried in the military
cemetery of West J'oint.
i ieor Tfcltzen, a prominent farmer
ol Troy, Kan., committed suicide by
shooting himself this morning. He had
just spent f I'XiO in dissipation
Oovernor Hill 'f Main has de
signated .Mi-s Mary i i-oo Anderson
of l'ortland to christen the new
L'nited States battleship Main.
J. J. Hill, E. II. Harrirnan, Wil
liatn Kockefeiler, Sam Rea and H
McK. Twoinhley are the five directors
of the Northern Pacific announced by
J. i'lerpont .Morgan. -
Mis. Fred Hodge, a farmer's wife,
residing ntar Oxford, Wis., was
criminally assaulted by two masked
men while returning from the field. It
is feared she will die.
Tfie Baldw in-Zeiler arctic expedi
tion weighed anchor, and with the
Stars and Stripes and Norweigan flags
at their ma-U ste.-uie 1 off tu the nrtu
from Troiiisoe, . jr.vay
Epworth Leaguers over the country
! will be appealed to to furnish enough
cuticle lor grafting the burns of two
i victims of the recent Chicago &. -Alton
wreck near Kansas City.
Adolph Strecker, a San Francisco
barber, is the new king of rille shots.
At tha bundesfest he made points
out ol a possible 200, which has never
been equaled in the United States on a
King target.
The joint commission of the Protes
tant Episcopal church has completed a
revision of marginal readings of the
Bible and will present ttie report to
the triennial convention of the church
at San Francisco in October.
Provincial form of government in the
islands of Cebu and Bahol and the
province of BataiuaH, Luzon, having
proved a failure, nave again been
placed under military authority, owing
to their incomplete pacification.
J. H. Nash, a wealthy rancher,
whose ranges are near Cimarron, New
Mexico, was killed by being dragged
by a broncho over the rocks up the
mountain side. He bad roped the ani
mal and became entangled in the rope.
ir Thomas Upton has refused the
demands of 15 of the sailors of the
Shamrock I engaged by him to sail
Shamrock II in American waters for a
bonus of 1" instead of the offered
bonus of S, and is hiring fresh hands.
A mother, while defending herself
from assault by Indians, near
Maricopa, Ariz. , accidentally shot her
babe. A posse is in pursuit of the In
dians, who have lied to the mountains.
There are 10JJ Indians on the
Maricopa reservation.
Former Senator Wolcott of Colorado
has arrived in London from Carlsbad,
in excellent health ami spirits. He
was perfectly well, he remarked when
he went, and is a good deal better
now. lie will probably remain in Eng
land several months.
Theopolis Srhreiner, brother of Olive
Scbreiner, has sent a letter to the
South African association contradicting
the statements made by "Ouida"
.Mile. Louise De Larauiee,, to the
effect that Olive Scbreiner was held a
who wrote the platform failed, either;
intentionally or unintentionally, to;
mention government by injunction,
the black list and arbitration. Are
affirmation of the Kansas City plat-;
form would have covered these points I
also, but having failed to reaffirm, the!
convention should have been careful
to touch on all the important ques-;
tions.
The convention not only failed, but :
refused to endorse or reaffirm the Kan
sas City platform, and, from the
manner in which the gold element has j
rejoiced over this feature of the con - !
vention, one would supposse that the :
main object of the convention was not
to write a new platform, but to repti- ,
diate the one upon which the last;
national campaign was fought, j
PACIFIC NuarHWaSr NtfWS.
Cen. Finley was right in insisting
upon a vote on his resolution endors
ing the Kansas City platform, but he
made a mistake in including in his
erence
a can
didate for any office, and a mention of
him might have been construed by
some a an endorsement of him for
! office. The vote ehould have been upon
the naked proposition to endorse the
platform of last year, and then no one
could have excused his abandonment
of democratic principles by pleading
his dislike for Mr. Bryan. The cause
ought not to be made to bear the sins
of an individual. Mr, Bryan will en
dure without complaint any punish
ment which the democracy of Ohio
may see fit to administer to him, but
he does not want his name used to the
injury of a good platform.
The gold papers assume that the con
vention refused to adopt the Kansas
City platform because it contained a
silver plank. If so, it would have
been more courageous to have declared
openly for the gold standard. If the
gold standard is good, it ought to have
been endorsed if bad, it ought to have
been denounced. To ignore the subject
entirely was inexcusable.
The money question is not yet out of
politics. Every session of congress will
have to deal with it. Republicans de I
tlare that it is dead, but they keep j
working at it. At the last session of)
congress they tried to make the silver!
dollar redeemable in gold, and when!
that is accomplished they will trv to;
Altornes for Mrs. Rot kin have
started her case on the way to the sil
1 prenie court of the l'nited States.
Ten Aleut girls arrived at Port
Townsend 'rom Analaska and will he
j sent t i the Indian school at Carlisle,
; Fen ii.
; Saloon men of Walla Walla refused
! to pay tines for violating Sunday clos
ing law. They will carry the rases to
the supreme roiirt.
j Leigh S. .1. Hunt, the Korean
millionaire, is very ill at Nagasaki,
and has been compelled to give un
his project of starting an opposition
'paper to the Post-Intelligencer of
i Seattle.
I Mrs. Ann Eli.-tls-th Mann, mother
of C. R. Mann, died in Oiympia, aged
j SI years. Deceased was the wife of
' Rev. S. H. Mann, a pioneer Methodist
! minister well known in both Wasting
ton and Oregon.
Frank Denison has been returned to
the Walla Walla penitentiary after
three years liberation. He scaled the
walls in ls!)sj. He was recaptured in
Rutte Mountain, Nevada. His crime
was assault with intent to kill.
The government navy van! at Bremer
too. Was!.'., has laid off ld) men,
principally machinists, and will
shortly redu;e wages so as to be more
nearly equal to the scale paid in the
iotal shops of the cities on Puget
Sound.
H. G. Burpee and C. D. Mann of
Portland have decided to establish a
claim cannery at South Bend, Wash.
Ttie citizens of South Rend will donate
50, OX) feet of lumber for the building,
furnish the piling and drive them for
the wharf.
At The Dalles, a committee ap
pointed to inquire into the feasibility
ot holding a street fair and carnival
some time in the early fall has met
with sufficient encouragement to begin
raising funds and making preliminary
arrangeaients.
State Treasurer C. S. Moore filed
in the otfice of the secretary of state
his semi-annual account, showing
cash on hand to the amount of $1,094,
d.lH.Tl. This is $14,0x1 more than was
in the treasury at the same time last
year. The reoort covers the six months
limit the legal tender qualities of the j ending June 30.
dollar. The gold standard will not bi Astoria Council, Federation of Latstr,
complete until gold is the only legal j nas received a communication from
tender money and bank notes the only ; ttj6 rjjt.rjean Federation of Labor,
paper money. Then our supply of ! gtatint; that a c-nt per capita assess
primary money will be controlled by i nient had been placed on the members
foreign financiers, and our supply of;, the local unions for the benefit of
lachinists throughout
'iO miles from North
credit money by domestic financiers.
This plan has been develoied gradu
ally and every step has been taken
secretly and stealthily. The republi
can leaders have been in this move
ment for years; as soon as the demo
cratic partv found that some of us
leaders had joined the conspiracy those
leaders were deposed. It looks now as
if the reactionary intiueuces were once
more trving to secure control. If they
succeed in Ohio or elsewhere it simply
means another gigantic struggle such; " . ,
tf a a u'tnua4.,f in I S'lf I hu i arnn. i
cratic partv cannot be made a
plutocratic party, even if there was
room in this country for two such
parties. There was a time, under the
Cleveland regime, when the partv
aders used general and ambiguous
phrases to deceive the voters, but that
scheme can not be worked again. We
an not expect the voters to have con-
fi lence in the partv unless the party
has confidence in the voters, and if the
party has confidence in the voters it
will state its position on all the im
portant questions belore the country
and invite judgment.
What could not be done directly
the monopolists have sought to do by
indirection. They have permitted Mr.
Johnson to gain apparent control i t a
convention that overwhelmingly dis
credits Mr. Bryan and that conspicu
ously heaps upon him the most brutal
indignity. It was bound to react or at
least to rellect upon the man who
seemed to be in control of the situation
and it is discovered that already the
friends of Mr. Rrvan are in arms and
that there is sedulous effort making on
the part of the anti-Rryan interests to
accentuate the trouble which has
arisen.
We fancy that Mr. liryan himself
will understand the whole matter
and that he will not readily accept the
notion that Mr. Johnson was responsi
ble for all that took place at Colum
bus. He will probably see, what ap
pears clear to us, that the McLean
convention gave Tom Johnson an ap
parent victory for the purpose of
placing the Cleveland man in t:u light
of having been primarily res;. msiM.
for humiliating and discrediting tl e
leader who bad borne the demicratic
banner with gallantry and honorable
distinction through two bitter cam
paigns. John stow n Democrat .
prisoner by the British
A frica.
James Howard.
Ky. , jail i barged
the murder of
killing of (ieorgt
justification, as l!ak
I low ard 's fattier and
in
south
in the Frankfort,
with complicity in
ioebel, admits the
Raker, but claims
not only killed
brother, but at
tempted to a-a
to their funeral.
The M i-.mri river
at a j- : i.t eight m lie:
w i rth and is j. ,,:ring
into the l',atte river.
inate him on the wav
has cut its banks
south of Leaven
part of its water
The bed of the
Piatte
there
te.v d.
fcrred
Platte.
At the
an i Krai,
a-saultm,
I 'avis on
were ii.tr
no a ee:n
mitte i i'V
llollan
w i-h b
Dunn:
date I r.
) poii a; t
I ,1s
ca.-es a. !
i . e 1 ! i : ' t
; ,r 1 .lied
is gradually being widened, and
s danger that within the next
.- the Missouri will be trans
completely to the bed of the
hearing of ,lo-eph Robertson
II li'.an !. negroes accused of
: ern n Newton and (irace
night i i July 10. witnesses
i-inced to prove an alibi. It
is likely tiie a-s.init wa- eom-
w bite He'll. Kobi ' "M ;'" '
are the men whon. 1.
I vi
his too al
iidellt Mi Kin
1 :,'.!!
f. 11.
d i:
s. i
'lis tor
a i
w: I
ONLY A HbN TRIAL
,nd
Ute.
n ,n ist i .i.i on- ;.
!e has acted
ard, 'lis in bank
number of
ital acts of
a- l uii'd 'Jl ; '
;l rights six ; j
to civil rights
tir-
Blddy" Becomes a Witness ar.d
rles ths Day tor Her Own.
Tlie ordinary legally condm te l trial
fur justice is a grave matter and
should, and usually d i s. rnciv.' . r
ii us attention from ail part ic con
cerned, even to the lookers-on. rut
the trial conducted over s une aih g. i
stolen hens Friday afternoon in .lust :ie
O'D.mald's court was without a pr
ions feature, exrert t the plaint:"
and defendant, the t. rnii r being Mr-.
Jennie Harding and the latter Mr-
AMin. says the Salem Journal. Mr-.
Allin conducted her own cae and tl.e
state was represented bv lohn lim-e.
several neighbors w ere cal led a wit
nesses and some ron'iictii.g facts i:i
the testimony heard. 1 he pedigree of
ttie liens was given and a,: present
diiubtedly learned sever.C things ;4'
poultry and the capabilities : . r
rtink that mav prove , f a!uc It
alleged that four lieit were si oeii.
since that tune. .l,;!i ' . two , t t!,.
bae disappeared and of the two r
inaining ones, a p.-t caiiei "Lildi
i. 1
n' i:
a le
! a g'
;'!Ute
ke 1 t
-ten:
Mr. C
a I l ib
ot L
o I , I ' 1 1 1
,: a
:. I
mi bis way to
inaugurate an
f missionary
irc'nl! is an
of the Massa
hll'logy. He
a svstein of
Ahmcdragcr.
rom Rombav.
The present campaign in Ohio in
volves a senator, as well as a state
ticket, and as the convention dealt
w ith other national questioiis.it should
have dealt candidly and honestly with
the money question. Mr. McLean is
supposed to be a candidate for the
L'nited States senate, and is also sup
posed to have dictated that portion of
the platform which has to do with
national issues. The senator elected
by the next Ohio legislature will have
to vote on the money question. The
democratic party of the nation is op
posed to making the silver dollar a
promise to pay gold, and is also op
posed to substituting national bank
notes for government paper, but the
democratic party in Ohio was silent
upon these important subjects. Why?
did the leaders ignore the money ques
tion in order to please those who
bolted.1 Or does Mr. McLean want M
be left free to athliate w ith the re
publicans on financial questions in
cae of his election?
Mr. Kilhourne, the nominee for gov
ernor, is an excellent man, a life-long
democrat and an active supporter of
the national ticket in both LMto and
1900. He is better than his platform.
He deserves and should receive the
vote of every democrat in Ouio.
If any of the Ohio democrats feel
aggrieved because the reorganising ele-
nient of the party triii!U lied at the
i convention let them not visit their dis
.ppointm. nt upon the state ticket, but
.at her s,.t. to tl nomination of sena
tors ami repre-entatives who will select
j a trustworthy senator. Let them see to
it also that the state platform is ma le
I at tiie primaries next time rattier
I than at ttie convention. If the v icrs
1 at the pritnaires ha 1 instructed their
delegates to insist upon the reathrma
tion of the Kansis Citv platform ti e
resuit would have '''eon different.
SNAKE AND CHICKEN.
i They FlRht a Draw Bailie in Which
I Both Show Skill.
"One of the most amusing contests I
;ever saw in my life happened at niv
! place tiie other dav." sa i i a White
i Salni.it. rancher t- fbe Dalles Chror.i-
the striking
the country.
At Kiona.
Yakima, two well known farmers were
accidentally killed. K. N. Ordway
was trampled to death by a runaway
team. Later Pverett Roberts fell under
a harvester, the large wheel of the ma
chine passing over his bead and kill
ing him instantly.
Linn county's, Ore.) largest crop
this year is hay. It is the largest in
the tiistorv of the countv, and the
e been taxed to secure
sufficient help to save it. The immense
crop has lowered the price, and the
best quality is selling for from $d to
$:5.50 loose delivered.
The commission appointed by the
last legislature to revise the Portland
charter, decided by a vote of 19 to 5 to
reserve to the city the right to own,
acquire, construct and maintain wa
ter, gas, electric light works, steam,
water or electric power plants, tele
phone lines and street railways.
Joe Felix, an Indian in the Wena
tchee jail charged with attempting to
murder Carmilt, another Siwash,
hanged himself with a woolen scarf.
He evidently tied both ends of the
scarf to the grating of the cage, placed
his head in the loop, then rested his
weight until strangulation ended his
life.
Judge Pellinger, in the federal court
made an order for the sale of the fran
chises, rights of way and other prop
erty of the Norw hest Railway company
to satisfy judgments and debts that
have accumulated. The Northwest
railway company was one of the big
schemes floated nianv years ago by
Promoter Blake, are) the whole of
Eastern Washington, Oregon and Idaho
were concerned in tiie outcome. The
proposed railway was to extend from
Huntington, where it tapped the Ore
gon Short Line, north along the Snake
river on the Oregon side, into tho
copper mining distict.
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS.
United States Trade With Belgium
Imports and Exports.
The bureau of foreign commerce of
the state department has made pfiblic
a chapter of the Volume entitled 'Com
mercial Relations for H00'' which is
now in press. This extract is dealing
with the L'nited states trade with Bel
gium. Consul Winslow at Liege says that
Beligcm is a tuau fa. taring country,
having imnorted last jear some $ 'VI,
iHiO.oui worth and exported over $lm.
lA'iO.iVKl worth. The l'nited states
contributed "vi, mm iKki worth an 1 re
ceived some $ l.i.w t,imO. Consul Lin
coln at Antwerp sav- the trade between
year was marked
rt ; corn from
the two i'
i
d
un'
ga;
a lurg.
the I'nit,
portat: n ..
States and a
ti. n into Re
petroleum. !
or s;noto
Our ir
ing t i i
l'.eigi.lln
to all o.
in pn.e
riei
ti i
tru
'r.i
sir igg
i e . r i ; i a n v .
I "A St!
w ort ti
i;t ire w
n I v rt
w l
t t:
s at
riie uggle
i the
orld.
j oi ce
trust
ce man.
snake, a
and a ha'
ere I. Mi
"It was bit ween a blue racer
bout eleven inches !"iig,
(grown Plymouth U k c rk
atteiition was ,-a; to the
toe
u n-
'ollt
air.
a as
but
tl.it
coirjuerors ot
been reminded
ttiev also are
contest bv
tics ,d tl.e c
lav -tretctie 1
and fie next
racer unw :nd
body from t!
while tiie nth
ot its month
and hi tore th
limit. irai n
ickerel. In a
on the g-oiiu I
moment
about a
nock
r two-t't
In loss
snake
FRY AN ON OHIO DEMJl'RALY.
W. I.
ol lntl lochin variety was , !
interest to the witnesses, and 1
fed from the baud
prove her ownership, a
was watched as be
across the room when
the wheat out of ti e
ijriieral enj 'vment . f ttie a-n i- :i.
mucinous Climaxes and situ. it
vailed, and the court wa- e,
conisdle,l t. tall ior orier.
cas,., fortunately, . , .
trial. The vrrdiit was not g
in f
iT.C
:io;.r , f
the Ohio
M rs
ii . i
. It :i.
. an
sl.e w a
A I : n !
ilt.l'l: ;
.1 . ke
! .ll'e.l .it.
-' l.aii I
a-i,
t'
! mil
! f.o
k.l
lis
a ' t , :
1 t;
S 'lolnnii Scetus n.t- -.hot a: 1
bv Charles K. Hal! tu ar the
s. ta line in South Dy. ta H i 1 w
rsniMsl on land which ! i g- t t
Indians. w it!i ,-i!ii-r loin
ordered Hall to m. io o.i. H t w r
ensinsl and a goner! tight resulted.
t ".
I v
M
elltl.Hl Was
V.ek. I he
: g preset! -
but tailed
pl.it form .
and sta-e
t Mavor
in t'o
'aratioii of
far as thev
i.o, o tv
an e.-geut one,
!! r.irv in the
the tss-pb- W
te on
tu g . r extend-
I in of tho w.iv, the
I his tV,.t and, grasping t!:e
t ho ta: I . again swallowed :
thirds of :'s length, w h,.n
wink tho MiaiiH w.aind
tho chicken's ne,k. and shut
wind agi n rompcilisi it t
earth as i; stone d, a i , .
tci.ei nit
u-e an i a-:
Ill.'Illent !
as it dead
I cm 1 I t:
thir I ,-f -is ti.n
"t tho c! i, k.o.
ir is craw led ,"i
t l.a-i a in i n ute
had time t . g,
. kere was ,.
lllilt.lt. oi
far s;;,,rt .
A "i ie r I c:
w Older : i
ma i ug
man v i t
in.il.' ! y
gt-eat re : i
i.i-t
nop
- ates, t 1 .
ire arms
ihvrea-e
tinni i f A
CVCll'S, h
d iiu-ats.
"ii w rki ng m i
tisul Win-;
r. anrf.i. tu
it-r kin is i
m r ti e !:
' and Their .
' a !:::.
: ,1 -
III -
the I'nit-d
:.e i m p, rta
van retin
and salt
d
ers
ell .1
a, b i
w n.
t '
an
'. it
. d
in
1 nerv, in cur 1
is sought !'.
in pre lereno
'. an a ivano
lerv of . t.her
1 t.o i o r
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than
craw It
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trues
in a t
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appat-i
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t io siias.
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l-en'orm-i'ii .
when fe
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