, In Ilia iiiii rof I.OOAl NKWH N Ilia ENXKIII'IIIHK alwuya niilvntor to bo rr.OKfT ui aOCUIatl. Iml inrra aeunracy f iHtiiuiuiit to MuiMlt'rtnf AaacfmaU. A all - Advonlalnu Maxttutn ilia KNTKHI'lllxM iaeawuhd to noun I" I"! futility, flONTABLI BMULW alaaya nilluw iarful artvei lining In aui'lt la"r. Eternal Vigilance 1$ the Price of Liberty. Jeff 'erton. 1NDKPJ2NDENCK, FOLK COUNTY, OREGON. TllUKSDAY, DECEMBER. 27 1891. t r.n irri w 1 1 a bioib f ; VOI, 2 NO. 4 I uonika !U CuiiiiuviimhI llumwH March 4, 1HW. TK First tfatioqal Bonk of IiiilPjmloiiWiOrfiioiW Capital Btook, flurplui, 160,000.00 114,00000 J.a.COOI'Ift. L. W, RrillUHIwi!, 1 m. m. iiwi.T, Caalilrr. rr.am.ni, Vlw Pr.alii.ni ;f DIKKCTOKR. wla lieimit'B, ."." I Ufa III) a.l. ..f .lln t'ullwlium mail. UIR a.arai la. m. lo- ai. THE INDEPENDENCE Rational Bank! Capital Stock, ."(),(KX).(K). H.llIRSCIIBKHO, I'rt'uMcnt AiutAM NKI.KON, Vie iWdent i i-nWAWAY. Caiililer . A go nemt lmkhK ami cclmnu inM tranaaeU! J loana imule, lM li aVWite.1, coromervlal ciwlita grant.! JI-...-U. rmvlvod on current aeeotin aal.jeet to check, Interest paid on time dr)0lt. DIHKCTOBS. n. F. Smith, A. NVIoon, I. A. Allen II. II. Jaarioit, A. J. tiixxlnian, l. W Saara. H. lllratlib g. FRUIT PARLOR j Oh 1( wont of ixmtofllt. iT.C.8HOEMAKEB,lP Tropical and domestic fruits, nuts, I etc., lit wholesale ana retail. ft Fruits of.IlKiodsCooslaDjyiland Our 1'rktHi nre tlto LowmUP Sperling Bros., Meat Market DKAI.KK IN Choice Meats. OI'EN 8UNIMYH KUOM 8 to 0 a.m. Free Delivery to all parts of the city. Main Straot. - - Iiulei-jiulencc. BOOr-uSHOESHOP P. H. Murphy, Prop. lttalrliK oT all kimlH will f receive prompt munition The lu'Ht of work turned out ou aliort notice, U sliare of your patronage V I !g solicited. Mainstrert, - Independence 31. T. CROF Sash Manufacturer of Doors I t.i i in . . -a. i -m iveryooay. rricrs reaMDable wnd work guftrnntetJll, BLACKSMITHING Promptly and neatly done by 1. A. ' The Cash Blacksmith. ;3!orBeslioeiiig A Specialty. 0 STREET, - INDEPENDENCE. O. WISTTIIl-D. Q-V OATS, " HAY, HAMS, A BACON, SHOUL- J Sw DERS, LARD, i POULTRY and CASH. 3 a 5 a- the sgf-a ILf,:;-.stab., fir rr I l GROCERY. , Ql : I B u oojii a8 t' B '... -S3AYI 'ti pub wwoii - jk ' . B .'ai."pia)i(5 '8UITIJI 'SUB) A ff p:to ei.)liB 1 'J-l utdnit. O-v 0 3Ioo;s in doo OAV r ill 1 : 0ELtUOlD NOVELTIES. Dressing Dolls! We have a Baargairi Ooiariteir. GliSDfChfER: BR2S. SC 'Wo lmvo a few novelties left in the you want any, come quick. ; and Toilet Cases. Finished hi Celluloid, arc very stylish presorts this year, and we have some beauties which are also going fast. . . k ? We have a very large stock of Dolls going clieapreheap,' cheap! Photo Albums, , Christmas Cards, Xmas Books, Bibles, Wagons, Toys. srFS!S? . Celluloid Goods, and if i : i NEWS OF THE WEEK. The OarllHle Kill Amctiited mid Will I'robably I'saa Cungreg. '$.) IV, ' ' 'J AC THE JAPS WIN ANOTHER BATTLE Thi.Lezow Committee at Work Chrlitmai at the White Uoaie Bryan Ceoonseti Oirllale'i Bill (From tUeOivfonlun, Hun, and Htulrmnun, Thurndiiy Deccmlr J20. - , Bihar ifain to tkaFroot. Wabhi.noton. The Carli!e Lill is losing ground and the fellver fiieHtioii is ngain coming to the front. Every day there U nn in crease ,in the reluctance of the leaders of the house and the com mittee on rules to report an order to limit debate and fix the time for taking the final vote. The fact is recognized that the paSHagu of a free coinage till over the veto of the president is imp nible, but t'ie chances of the substitution of a free coinage hill for tho Carlisle bill are increasing every day. A Urw Praiiiantial Palisa. Washington. A bill wa in troduced into the senate today by Senator Quay authorizing thg secretary of the treasury to pur chase the land contained in block 29, Columbia Heights, a suburb of Washington, as a site for a resident for the president. The bill limits the price to 13 per foot, with a total appropriation of 1,000,000. Barasri of Peaos. Lo.vdon. Dispatches received here tonight from Tokio indicates clearly , that tho war between China and Japan is practically ended. Tho assurance giveu in quarters known to bo thoroughly cognizant of diplomatic affairs is that the empire ot China has been pfevadeJ upon to hasten the com missioners to Japan, and that these envoys will have such power of concession as will without a doubt enable them to bring about an im mediate and thorough end to hostilities. Booming tadiUa. Denver. The recent gold strikes in the Leadville district are causing wild excitement. Rail roads are doing a large passenger traffic, and the short liue from Denver to the camn, is preparing to run extra trains to accommodate the travel. - Friday, December 31. The Carliala BUI. Washington. Chairman Spring er's amendments today to the Car lisle bill practically admits the weakness of the bill as it was originally introduced. It is not thought that the amendments will materially strengthen the bill. Nioinuruan Canal 8took. London. Chairman Bartlett, of the stockholders reorganization committee of the Nicaragua Canal, in an interview today said the whole of the Nicaraguan shares at his dicposal had been taken in England. Bradstreet'a Report Nkw York. Bradstreet's Review says: "An improvement in prices is recorded in only a few leading lines, wheat, copper and the lower grades of-shoes which have long sold at depressed figures. The out look for trade after the holidays, is fair, although flie larger Chicago dealers report stocks on hand larger than was expected, except among the jewelers, who have had an unexpectedly heavy trade. The values of foreign trade in October is nearly two xer cent more this: year than last, owing to largely j increased importations. Tba laxow Committea at Work. New York. Captain Schmitt berger in his closing testimony be fore the Lexow committee tonight said: I consider the whole police department rotten to the core. I acknowledge the part I have played and have made a clean breast of it" If one-half the story is true it is bad enough. About tho only police officer not impli cated was Byrnes, whom the cap tain considers is honestly trying to do the right, but has been handicapped by money used in politics. Commissioners Martin and Sheehan, and Inspectors Wil liams and McAvoy are involved. - ' Highest of all b Leavening Adolgjteilv puke Ie.-4 SandoIh CharchiU ill. London. The Ft. James Gazette learns that Lord Randolph Church ill has returned homo by way of Egypt and Marseilles. , The con dition of his health is such that his friends believe he cannot re cover. Bvntmccd to ba Hocgsd. RosKorKO, Or Judge Fullerton today sentenced .Samuel G. Brown to be hanged February 15, 180o, for the killing of Albert Kincaid, at Oakland, Or., on tho 13th of August last. Brown received his sentence in a stolid and don't-care manner. Ilia attorneys will ap peal the case to the supreme court. Saturday, December 22. Sryaa Denounce tba Carliala Bill Washington. Representative Bryan addressed the house for two hours today in opposition to the Carlisle bill. He attacked the administration for dumping into the committee on banking and cur rency of the house a hastily con sidered bill like the one pending, i ts weakness was - d-jmoustrated when, after four days of verbal bombardment, it had been' practi cally withdrawn and another measure substituted. Bryan said that, stripped of its verbiage, the bill wa a simple proposition to authorize the government to loan banks money at a low rate of in terest, or at no rate, to be in turn loaned by them at whatever rate they could secure, ; Springer's aai Bland'a Opinio i. Washington. Chairman Spring er is of the opinion that the Car lisle bill will; be passed by the house. "The measure" in its pre sent form," he says, "commands the support of all who are desirous of securing a sound currency, with the single exception, perhaps, of the radical silver element, which has no faith in any - kind of cur rencyissuing banks, and i will ac cept nothing but government is sues of fiat money." Bland, of Missouri, said: "I w ill urge the substitution . I have already pre sented, notwithstanding the changeB made in the original Car lisle bill. These changes are evi dently designed to overcome objections, but they do not over come the one vital objection 'jf putting the currency of the country in the hands of the national banks." , Hiavy Storm ia the Siakiyons. Asiii.and, Or. The heavy snow storms of the past week have com pletely blocked' traffic on the Southern Pacific on the south side of the Siskiyous to Dunsmuir, and three overland passenger trains, one northbound and two south bound.are blockaded in that section Snow is said to have fallen at the rate of a foot an hour. The rail road people expect that the road will be opened for the passage of trains before morning. To Test tits Inooma-Tax law. Washington. The first case to test the constitutionality of the in come tax law has been brought in the supreme court of the District of Columbia. The petitioner is J. Gf. Moore, of the firm of Moore 'Ar Schley, of New York. The com plainant is a prominent diretor of the Manhattan Railway Company, etc ' The case will be " fought through the supreme court of the United States. Sunday, December 23. Tha Japa Win Another Battle. London. Aftrr five Lours of fierce fighting the Japanese division nnder General Katsura defeated a Chinese army 10,000 strong under the command of General Sung at Kung Waiea." The Japanese made three bayonet charges before driv ing the Chinese from the field. The Chinese soldiers fought with un-; usual stubbornness and bravery. Power Latest U.S. Gov't Report Mate 5 f prlnsrr will bo Provided or. Washington. - Representative Springer, who will retire at the close of this session of congress and has served 22 years in the house, ia reported to he slated for a judge fhip of the court of claims. Outlaw fill! Cook Dying. Miskogee. Bill Cook is said to be lying at the point of death" in a fastness of the Indian country, be--tween this place and Fort Gibson. His noted sigter, Lou, has reached there and is nursing him. He i suffering from two wounds. A IXupcrado Bona Amm k Acgi'sta, Ga. -Jabez Wiggins, colored, in resisting arrest today killed one civilian and probably fatally wounded two officers of the law. lie was finally captured and lodged in jil. There are load threats of lynching. Sheriff O'Con ner is authorized by Governor At kinson to call out the militia if necessary. . Monday, December 24. Jif&aei Siat ia Setaiaa.. London. A Tokio dispatch says the Japanese diet was opened today. In a speech from the throne, which was read by the premier, the em peror said: "Our forces have been victorious and are steadily pressing forward. The neutral powers are more friendly than ever. Oar long cherished aspiration for a revision of our treaties have already been fulfilled with several countries, and with others negotiations are pro- ' gressing favorably." The speech. ; in conclusion, mentioned the prog ress Japan has made in civiliza tion, the glorious record its armiea, are making in tho present war, that the throne wishes more than ever the civilization of the country and enjoins parliament to tako notice of the state of affairs at borne and abroad, and by securing harmony between this government and the people to assist in the furtherance of the imperial wishes. . ; . , , Tualatin Saw Mill Burned. Tcalatin, Or. The saw mill at this place was totally destroyed by fire last Saturday. The loss to the Tualatin Lumbering Company is about 18,000. There was no in surance". , . Becley Isinteuced. New Yobk. Seeley, the default- . idg book keeper of the, National Shoe it Leather Bank, was sen tenced by Judge Benedict today to serve a term of eight years in the ivins cuuulv ueimeiiLiorv. a . Gone Home for tUo Holidays. . Washington, a great numoer of congressmen have gone home to celebrate Christmas. The capital appears almost to le . dosertedt nnlu tha lnmYilwri urifl thn anna- - tors from the far West and those whose families are in Washington remained here. .. Tuesday, December 35. , Christmas at the n bite House. Washington. The president aiuf the members of the cabinet spent' the day at their respective home's At the White House it was chil dren's day. Mrs. Perrine, Mrs.' Cleveland's mother, was the enly guest at the family dinner. , ' Staufords Were Badly Beaten.' : San Fbancisco The . Chicago University foot ball team mopped the earth with the Stanford? to day. It was a go-as-you-pleai-e for the Chicagoaus. The score' was 24 to 4. ' ' ' " ' ' " ' " Enjineer Reedy Killed. The Dali.es, Or. A' collision between the east bound freight atid west beund passengor trains "oo-' curred at the pummit, six miles east of here, t'JSs morning.' En gineer Joe Reedy was instantly killed, and both engines, two freight cars and the mail cars were badly mashed. , . - . 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