* 4000
pass a
want and
i And wi
Umpqua
o f union
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been exempt from collective
So say we a ll o f us.
wage demands until tikis sea inn,
Y ear
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when harvest hands forded him
to pay as high as ten dollars a
* "*’
day fo r labor. He bitterly • re
old “ Personal L ib erty" a lit t li
sented it, but was helpless. This
*Tku ntU is isspi
tighter. Justice Brandeis de
was the first tim e when the e f
clared last Monday that “ the
fect o f an Iron-ruled organisa
rights o f Cbngres* to suppress
tion really came home, and the
the liquor traffic is not an im-
Display advertissnMaU, 1*
very fact that the State was
9« inch; tow than i lacks« farx to- pKed power, but a power ex
brave enough to meet the condi
pressly granted," "General Wee*
tion and that there were man a-
fa re " looms so large in the jus
plenty to take up the the task
tice's horizon that the pom- sot's
Now “ don’t get excited, don’t and furnish brawn fo r its solu
line; uader Minor Mention, 1« ( * righ t to kill him self with wood be m isled" into thinking the tion awoke pride in Young
alcohol or some other poison is government land in Coos or Cur America. That the work couk
per U m
Wn»t sd .fU s— mte
entirely, k>st eight o f.
w t a w ori No reeding notie
ry offers an abundance o f desir go on throughout the dntire win
o u t «4 inserted for I m that
able homesteads that can be ob ter was unquestioned; it was no
W e have heard a great deal o f
tained almost without cost. As holiday exploit, but sober earn
talk about reducing the expenses
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a m atter o f fact, the public lands eat
o
f
th
e'
state
government
by
CMko Corner Seeaad and T»yior 8U.
Prom inent among the volun
in these counties are so rocky
abolishing useless commissions,
and inaccessible from travelled teers were hundreds o f
but so fa r it has been impossible
roads that they are not worth vice men, carrying the pr
to induce the members o f any
anyone's taking. A ll the desira o f the American Legion into the
commission to agree that it is
ble land fo r cultivation in this need o f the hour. It is indicative
On the other hand
W hat w ith wood alcohol and useless.
county passed into private own o f the publk-spiritednesa We
Gov. Qlcott proposes that we
ership years ago and the cullings may expect to find in our return
shall' have two fish and gam$
__ are not nearly
that remain are unattractive to ed soldiers whenever the cal
insurance risks m they used to commissions— one to look after everybody.
shall come.
They entered on
-j.il..:. r -
be— and they were never any th e interests o f tto commercial
this task w ith the same steadi
Ashing and an o th w to help the
ALCOHOL F A M ILY BIG ONE
thing to brag o f M
id ***** hne.
ness that took them into the A r-
sportsmen. It remains to be seen
Beverage alcohol ia a member gonne and St. M ihieL They look
W e note an occasional in what the legislature w ill do
o f a large group o f alcohols. A t ed upon it aa a duty and accepted
stance o f reduced prices *1
about the proposed duplication least 20 such alcohols are known its hardships with the phuoeo-
Fire Insurance, fo r example, o f commissions. It doesn’t look
loyal Americanism,
to chemists. A ll these alcohols
good to us.
which went up a year
w thisJ’ said one o f the
contain
a
hydro-carbon
radical
T jE fF -toUMW --- BB
count o f a ten
and are known to the druggists soldier boys, garbed in muddy
One o f oar county officials,
on premiums,
as “ narcotic drugs." There are- unionalls and with face sooty
who was named in our last is
old rates this year,
six m ajor alcohols — methyl, with coal dust, “ that when there
sue as being in line fo r a raise
moval of that tai l
ethyl, propyl, butyl, amyl and is something to be done in this
la salary, say« he is opposed to
Each o f these differs country there are the men to do
The station oa the Southern the proposed increase, in fact he hfexyl.
Pacific road between hare and ia considering the refund o f a from the preceding member o f it. I f others won’t do it fo r ns,
the Bay, which has. has a s a lk d portion o f his $60 per month sal the series by one atom o f carbon we can go out and do it our
Delmar fo r some y e a fi, officially ary as he feels that there is not and two o f hydrogen. Ethyl al selves."
To Kansas at least, and doubt
cohol is the alcohol o f intoxicat
had its name changed about
enough business transacted in
in g beverages.
Other alcohols less to a wider field, the work o f
the office to ju stify
are present in small quantities the tw elve hundred volunteer
present wage.— Gold Beach Re
in eth yl o r grain alcohol. In its coal-diggers has pointed the way
mar in the state, which caused porter.
physiological effects, ethyl alco toward the solution o f some vex-
con flsion in the piaila.
Jj
hol resembles chloroform and
problems. They banished the
That Curry county official is
ether, except that it acts more spirit o f impotence and awoke to
In M arahield t h s r il£
certainly a rara avis. I f P. T.
fo r drunkenness and 10 fo r hav Barnum were alive he would Blowly. M ethyl alcohol is obtain the ability that exists every
ed principally from
heating where to do th in g? fo r ourselves
ing liquor In possession last
send some one out to secure this
The lesson w ill
year. The total o f arrests fo r wonder and exhibit him over the wood in air-tigh t retorts. Hence, i f need arises.
the
name frequently , used, not be lost on Kansas.. Its
all causes was 68, and the fact
country as the only officer on
that, w h ils the, average waa over
“ wood alcohol."
Wood alcohol lation end its solution o f indus
earth who thinks his salary is
an active poison and frequents trial problems w ill be influenced
five'and a h a lf par month, there too high.
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1
is used in compounding illicit m aterially by the cheering story
was only one In December make*
toxicating
beverages. Its use o f the young men who, in the
It look as i f the Bay d ty w i*
That life is ju st one unexpect
im proving morally.
ed thing a fte r another, we all often leads to blindness and mud and sleet and freezin g
find to be the case. Two weeks death. Am yl alcohol is the prin winds, founght to a finish the
- B y the dose vote o f 5 to 4 the
threat of a fuel famine.
ago the Sentinel appeared in sol cipal ingredient in fusel oil.
United State Supreme Court de
A
ll
the
aloohols
are
poisons.
id ten point because our lo w «
AUTOS M X TO ONB
cides that the Volsted act,
te V mats had worn out all The higher the alcohol 1« jn the
which declares that all liquor
The report o f passengers and
once like the deacon’s wonder series, the greater its poisbn
thkn h alf o f one
vehides
■ going
H i i over
er the Eastside
fu l one-hoss shay. Last week the power.— Am erican Issue.
per cent o f liquor intoxicating, is
ferry at the Bay last year ai
are tOr
ie thing happened again be
HOW ¿ ¿ N B A S BEAT IT
nniitltntil— r ... Thus another cause the m ail containing our
tereçting. Thè number o f peo-
nail is drivsn in John Bariev-
When a few weeks ago the pie were 69,830. There were 6^
new mats was burned at Red
corn’c coffin and property in li ding. And now tor a third time coal strike threatened to reault 280 automobiles, or an average
quor is brought nearer the van- it is ten-point again because at in freezin g and starving the non- o f nearly 20 a day the year
Ishing point.
.'
Horse drawn vehicles
Linotype headquarters at San combatants in that fight in the round.
amounted to only 1817 or
state
o
f
Kansas,
who
were
the
Francisco
they,
too,
are
short
o
f
I f thoee earthquakes last Sat
those “ e” mats. How much of- pawns in the game the unions than three a day. J h is indicates
urday night in ten
tener
’ thj
that letter is used than any were playing fo r domination and that automobiles are six times
statee and the Canary Islands
other
one ot the 26 every print- really fo r a soviet and Bolshevist as numerous as horse drawn car
had only happened about Decem
When it came to the
early
lcahw. And no news- government in this country, the riages.
ber 17th or even between Christ
number o f people carried, it is
state
o
f
Kansas
took
a
hand
in
per
ever
finds
it
easy
to
get
mas and New Y ear’s, P rof. Por
that game. Gov. Henry J. Allan, safe to say that tw elve or fifteen
without them.
ta m ight have preened himself
whom the w riter has known ev people ride on rubber tires fo r
as a prophet. But nothing that
Should the proposed constitu- er sin$e he was Gov. Stanley’s every one who goes the old way.
happens in 1920 w ill get the pro onal amendment initiated by J.
When the w riter first saw an au
fessor’s account out o f the red. • A lbrigh t o f Oregon City, fix private secretary - twenty-one to vehicle at the W orld’ s F air In
years
ago,
started
things.
He
He is hopelessly bankrupt as a in g the legal rate o f interest in
got the Supreme Court to take Chicago a quarter o f a century
Oregon at 4 per cent, with 6 per possession o f the mines under a ago he had not the faintest idea
cent on contract, become a law, receivership. The banks o f the that the new means o f locomo
M ayor James Couzens, o f De
no bonds cotgd be issued in the state stood ready to furnish all tion he had glimpsed would come
troit, is quoted as saying:
state bearing interest at a rate the funds needed to work the so nearly being the whole show
*T have never been a teetotal
in that time,
greater than 6 per cent.
mines.
er. I have voted w e t But i f
And
don’t
think
fo
r
a
moment
another election were held now
that there was any diffisulty in
Marshfield had 21 fires last
would vote dry. * I believe De
finding
men
to
go
into
the
pits.
year,
causing a property loss o f
troit would.
Prohibition has
gineer Cupper fo r inform ation as The way things moved reminds
16. Eighteen o f them were
been a revelation. It has upset
all the alarm ist predictions o f to the effect the proposed meas one o f Concord and Lexington caused by throw ing away ligh t
ure would have on irrigation and and Bunker H ill— except that no ed cigarettes or by other forms
the wests and more than sus
drainage district bonds, Which one attempted to attack the o f carelessness. About h alf the
tained all the rosiest predictions
are now made to draw interest at state troops which were called loss— $31,970— was covered by
o f the
the rat* o f 6 per cent. Brown’s out to guard the mines.
insurance, but that ia ju st as
W hat happened then is graph much a loss as the part which
The price o f newspaper is opinion holds that in the event
soaring.
The rise during the tne measure is approved by the ically told in an article in the was not covered. It was merely
past six months has been < »eople no bonds, whether issued Outlook by that veteran Kansas spread out a little farth er and
Charles
Moreau didn’t h it any one ao hard.
much as all increases from the >y the state, counties, cities, vil- otm ahst,
beginning o f the war.' Indeed, ages, towns, school districts, ir farmer, from which we quote as
I There’s a laugh every minute
where we bought a little over rigation districts o r» drainage follow s:
in “ The Hoodlum" at tne lib e r
h alf a year ago fo r $6.60 a hun districts, could draw interest at
On the train going into P itts ty, Tuesday and Wednesday,
dred we have to order now at a rate greater than 6 per cent.
burg, (K an sas), was a group o f an. 13th and 14th.
$8.60 in the same quantity to
O f the fourteen referendum young men who were headed fo r
make sure o f gettin g any. A t
the same tim e print is reported states, Ohio is the only one the mines. " I Have given up my
THOROUGH W O RK
aeffing In New York C ity at $10.- where the people have re business, shut the door o f my
versed
the
action
o
f
the
law office,” said one, “ that I may Hew («q u ill* Cltli
00 per cwt. or $200 a ton.
egislature in disapproving the give servicerto the people and
dew F t m K:
Chinese eggs have arrived in dry
amendment.
In
Ore prevent suffering. Y e t here are
If you suffer from beckache-
Portland to compete with the gon, Maine and Arkansas the ten thousand miners quitting
From urinary disorder«—
Any curable disee** of the kidneys,
on product. A carload, con- courts have decied there can be work regardless o f the suffering
Use s tested kidney remedy.
between 400 and 600 no referendum. In Washington, it may entail. F or me, I have
Doan’s Kidney Pills have been teas
o f th irty dozen each, came though the supreme court decid lost my respect fo r the labor un ed by thousands
in Tuesday and were plac ed in favor o f the referendum, ion th at, w ill thus take advan
Grateful people teetify. Ask your
•
ed on sale at onoe. The price the petitions presented to secure tage of~the public at the begin neighbor!
asked w ill be considerably under a vote on ft lacked the necessary ning o f w inter.’’ And this senti f m erit? * * * B,0r* e«»rineiiig «reef
that chasged fo r fresh Oregon number o f names. So fou r will^ ment is often expressed.
The
Mrs. L. H. Stratton, lM64»cari St.,
eggs and may result in forcing not annul their ratification. And labor union has lost public sym Eugene, Ora., says: “ I can eoaeciea-
another break in quotations the entire ten that are le ft must pathy, which had to some extent tmuslr rerommrnd Doan’s Kidney
there. In Seattle Japanese and vote wet, if there is to be any been with I t E very volunteer Pills for I know from experience that
they are all that is claimed for them.
Australian eggs are in abund change. That all or even a ma- worker w ill go home to spread I have taken them oa several occa
, ority o f them w ill do so, Is a the
ance.
doctrine o f the public’s sions when I have felt ia need e f a
oriom hope.
And i f the one rig h t and It w ill have its effect kidney medicine, and they have al
I
It begins to look as I f those state more than a fourth o f the in state affairs. One result al ways given great satisfaction.
couldn't recommend a medicine their
congressmen who failed to pass whole should do so the Supreme ready is a proposal to adopt at eqaaL”
the peace treaty are beginning Court o f the nation would proba- the coming legislature
laws
Price Me at all dealer*.
D eal
to hear from home, and in no un bly declare such action fotfle. To stringently regulating industrial simply aek for a kidney rmmdy est
certain manner, There ia a good invalidate the
I d ry amendment organisations, probably includ Doan’s Kirin*v P ill»— the came that
Mrs. Stratton tod.
Foster Milburn
tiM tr p art {would require the affirm ative in g a requirement that State Co., Mils., B u ffa lo .«. Y .
deal o f
;
S & K S ic n B
The amount o f public lands In
lties b f Oregon
the various count
has been given out by Gw _
al land office at Washington. The
public lands in the counties o f
southwestern Oregon are as fol-
M ws:
Coos county, 17,761 acres.
Curry county, 88,787 acres.
Douglas county, 41,482 acres.
Malheur
county leads all
others in the extent o f public
lands.
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A a d »e y
will
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