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probable that he has never over­ articles, and officials of the govern­ that her engines and her turret
indulged in religion o f any kind. ment, in selling the stamps, gave were made here, New York may
He has a large fam ily to support the proper change in pennies and well rejoice to give an honored
P V B U a H B D I V I f t T SATURDAY BY
and
he is somewhat in debt. His nickels. Purchasers of the stamps place to a statue of the great en­
T H E DES CHUTES H l B U S i l l N U C O M PA N Y.
subjects smoke twelve hourB a day began to find the small coins use­ gineer to whom the city owes this
Rntvre<1 May 81st, 180«, at Bend, Oregon, as and sleep the other twelve.
As a ful in this way and in others, and signal deliverance.
MM-ond class matter, under Act of Congre««
o f March 3rd, 190.1.
result, tax-gathering is not the for several years now the Pacific
“ W ell may Ericsson’s statue
easy game that it is in America, j Coast people have begun to acquire stand here in Battery Park, where
S r U S C K f P T I O N HATES
*1 no I f the Sultan had not committed a habit which they always despis­ it shall ever overlook the waters o f
i v r year
....................
(No mibscrlptloiia iHken for ahorter term.)
matrimony so often and was a free ed in Eastern people. It is a well- the proud harbor which his genius
man,
he would probably trade his known fact that a cent was a rare did so much to develop. The beat
S A T U R D A Y , AU G U ST 29, 1901).
job and his smokers for an acre of thing on the Pacific Coast five of every propeller that lashes the
thistles.
years ago, so far as trade was con­ waters into foain will bring to him
There is to be a war between
cerned, and nothing was sold from its song of praise, and the incom­
Russia and Japan. It is at pres­
Governor Durbin of Indiana, the stores that called for change ing and outgoing tides as they pass
ent in the newspaper stage.
Eastern bargain this spot will shout in turn the
who caused the m ilitia of that in cents. The
the
world-encircling
Sir Thomas Lipton has a g a i n state to fire on a mob attempting counter, with its “ 49 cents” and chant of
oceans
as
they
pay
tribute to the
its
“
$1.98”
placards
and
other
met with defeat in the yacht races, to lynch a colored murderer, has
memory
of
him
whose
mastery the
features
attractive
to
female
Rhop
Better luck to you next time, Sir refused to allow the accused to be
brought back to the scene o the pers, was unknown. Everything waters of the deep recognize to
Thomas.
crime for trial. H e states that was sold in even money and paid earth’s remotest sea.”
Forty-two Swedish-Araerican so­
Portland papers say that rich such a course would be no less for that way. Even the 5 c©nt
gold discoveries have been made than another way of offering up piece was rare. The 10-cent piece cieties of New York and its vicin­
in that city. What will those the man as a sacrifice to appease was practically the smallest piece ity celebrated the unveiling of the
crafty boomers try to flimflam the public wrath. Durbin is right. in circulation. I f an article worth statue.— Scientific American.
public with next?
Every effort should be made to 10 cents was purchased and the
preserve dispassionate justice in purchaser tendered a 25-cent piece
A Good Man Retiree.
Representative
W illiam son’s the courts regardless o f popular the chances were that the mer­
Secretary Root has sent bis
stand in opposition to the forma­ feeling. When the mob rules the chant would hand him 10 cents in
resignation to President Roosevelt
tion of a reserve in Crook, Klamath courts of justice will be in a bad change merely because he did not
and will retire to private life on
have the other 5 cents to make the
and Lake counties is worthy of way.
January 1 at tbe latest. W ith his
change. The Pacific Coast people
commendation. There is no doubt
withdrawal the country will lose
do not now like to carry small
that the sentiment of the people of
Columbia rejected the Panama
one of the most efficient officers
change, and the order that has
this district is voiced in what he
canal treaty by the unanimous
who has ever held a cabinet port­
been received is a comparatively
says.
vote of her senate. This is a bad
folio. Taken as a whole, his ad­
small one, but to treasury officials
blow to the Pacific Coast.
Some
ministration has tôen admirable,
Since February 1 of this year the
it reveals the fact that the habit is
suspicious persons believe that the
and
in a quarter of a century not
criminal fraternity of Portland has
growing and indicates that in a
transcontinental railroads p f the
one of his predecessors has done so
paid in fines the large sum of
few years the nickel and penny
United States hired some of the
much as be to correct department
$18,350. The fraternity must be
will be in general use in a section
expert bribers of the Missouri leg­
mistakes and bring the army up to
in a very prosperous condition in
o f the country heretofore having
islature and had them gather in
a high state of efficiency.
that city, otherwise it could not be
no regard for them. The same
the Columbian Senate. This is at
President
M cKinley was pe­
expected to pay such toll «n its
thing was true of parts of the
least a plausible guess. There is
culiarly
fortunate
in his choico o f
earnings.
South until 8 or 10 years ago, but
scarcely a state in the country that
a successor to Secretary Alger.
the objections to tbe small coins
is not equipped with an active
“ Oh! Wood on» m , np*r« tliiU tros,
hare been almost overcome. They Without going into the merits or
lobby
such as made Missouri,
Tsucli not a uobl* bough,
are still not so generally ussd there demerits of the mçny charges
famous. There is scarcely a state
l a ysuth it sheltereii i a i h
as in the East and portions of the against the latter, it is enough to
And I’ ll protact it nour."
in the union which levies a tax on
say that tbe war department was
Loquitsr Richards, of the Land railroads in proportion to the taxes West, and there are still many
iu disrepute. Favoritism and pet­
places in the South where the
Office ; tree, any in Oregon includ­ paid by
individuals. .Railroad
ty politics had impaired its use­
ing sage brush which is held in magnates hold in high scorn the tiickel is the smallest coin accept­
fulness to some extent, and there
high esteem as a forest tree by the laws which govern the common ed in trade and general use.—
was dissatisfaction, hard feeling
Washington Star.
authorities at Washington.
herd. They are swelled up with
and more or less inefficiency from
the “ pride which goeth before a
the commanding general down.
In years to come such pressure fall.” It takes a long line o f trans­
A S tatu ito Ericsson.
Root came in as a first class law­
will be brought to bear on federal gressions to properly arouse the
keen
incorruptible.
He
The hundredth anniversary of yer,
administrations that much of the American people’s wrath but it is
the birth o f John Ericsson was brought order out o f chaos almost
land now included in forest re­ as thorough-going when aroused
celebrated in New York by tbe un­ immediately, and from the day he
serves will be opened to settlers. ns it was slow to begin. Just now
veiling of a statue in Battery Park. took the oath, his force, decision
The opening of such tracts has al­ the shabby patriots of the railroad
The Btatue is the work of John and good common sense worked a
ways been attended
by gross magnate stripe are having their
Scott Hartley, and was unveiled by remarkable change.
frauds, intimidation and crime, as day. They may some day reap
W ith the elevation of M r. Roose­
his daughter. Aa the flags fell
was tho case in Oklahoma. One- the whirlwind*
away, tbe United States gunboat velt, Secretary Root found him self
fourth of Oregou is said to be in­
“ Dolphin,” which was anchored in under a chief with whom he was in
cluded in forest reserves. W hy
The Treasury Department has the harbor, fired the national sa­ close personal and political sympa­
does not Hitchcock visit his pet
received an order for 5,000 nickels lute of twenty-one guns, and a folk­ thy. The secretary had no am­
abomination upon some other state
and 2,000 1-cent pieces from the song from the birthplace of Erics­ bitions, except to perform his
and give us a rest between ordeals.
Pacific Coast. The order is from son was played by a Swedish band. duties creditably ; he had no axes
the sub-treasury at San Francisco. Mayor Low, of New York, in his to grind, no friends to reward, no
The Sultan of Turkey is a much Five years ago such an order from address of acceptance said :
ulterior objects
to attain. The
abused monarch. His European the sub-treasury would have been
“ It is a singular coincidence most important problem was the
fellow-niouarchs are after him with rega.-ded in the nature of a mistake that one o f my name should have military government of the Ph ilip­
every kind of weapons from dun­ somewhere, and the chances are the privilege, as Mayor of New pines, and he solved that problem
ning letters to gunboats. Ho has, i that an inquiry wonld have been York, of receiving on behalf of the satisfactorily as far as lay in his
after loug practice, got used to the put on foot to ascertain if these city a statue of Ericsson, for the power. He believed he could add
the duns but the gunboats are giv­ I coins were really wanted. But historic ‘ Monitor,’ designed by to the officiency of the army by a
ing him pains. Turkey is inhabit­ times chauge on the Pacific Coast him, which
revolutionized the change in the laws and regula-
ed bv Mohammedans and a few as elsewhere, and the despised navies of the woild, was towed to tion|, and ii is largely because o f
Christiana of the Servian murderer , small coins are coming inti) use Hampton loads for her fight with his efforts that there has been a
■type. When p tl lore
a
lgiotis there iu greater quantiti
every tin* ‘ Mt*rii'.jae’ 1 y x boat called tue reorganization and the creation o f
i’ll », . d bv day. .lust w'u;>t started t
«lobate it is « ways
use of •Seth Low.’ This boat, like my* a general staff.
fonerà Is. The Sultan is a g id Silex© ]» and pennies
A ll through, his work has been
nnies on the coast is self, was named for uy g rap d-
man. He has had manv love af- not definitely
known, but
the father,' and it belonged tp the firm clean cut. intelligent arid effective,
fairs and has n wife to »•hoÁ fhr treasury officials sav that its be­ which for litany years towed all and its results will be noticeable
each affair, ins
instead
tomi of a fbtr ginning was duriup tb-> Spanish-, the clipper 6hips of mv lather's for many vears.— Spokesman R e­
snmp’jpa'bf d fcretH oo 1> rr 1 ti^ir in Vjnutic.ui War, or rather during fleet in and eut o f tho harbor, view.
bis wab'Ti cl
charm as h s common in the existence of tire war taxes ini- When it js recalled tfiat the ‘ Moni-
America, \\ bile tho Sultan is jR'sed at that time. These war tor’ was designed in New York, i
him self a Mohamnu dan, it is tuxes called lor Ptunq* on differentJ that she was built in New
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