The spelling of “tranquillity” await the old man in our jails,
with one “1” on the new one dollar j “A case has been cited in which I
silver certificates is being widely a man had been strangled. The,
criticized,
but not of the critics has person to whom the crime, by his j
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up to the hour of going to press re- own confession, was brought home:
Editor fused to accept the new notes at was a feeble old fellow who *1:ld
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their face value.
| been paralyzed in both arms for
twenty years, and could not have)
Watson’s nomination for vice
38 1)18
president bv the populists will not! The proposition to shoot down ; committed the crime.
complicate things tMhe extent that' non union workmen w ho refuse to family all said he did it, and he
himself said he did, and as there
join the unions, which was recently
tome people are hoping for.
were plenty of ‘eye witnesses,’ the
made by John McLuckie, ex-bur­
old man went cheerfully to the jail, |
Mark Hanna’s control of the sec­ gess, of Homestead, Pa , would, if and lies there still ”—The London
ond convention at St Louis was not adopted, soon result in the exter­ Mail
as absolute as at the first; not by a mination of unions.
jug fall-
I Wall ftreet is afraid to try the
Senator Sherman is said to be panic m< th xl. anxious as it is to
anxious to make gold sptechts in defeat Bryan and Sewall.
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HUNTINGTON.
OREGON,
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other House in Eastern Oregon!
They Carry the Coods and
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Willi Mak® the Prices-
More Goods for a Dollar Than Ever Before-
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All goods lower in Price.—Send or call on them.
Strictly one Price
Get Their Prices
the west. He couldn’ldoanything|
that would give more pleasure tot C. A. Snow <fc Co , of ’Vashington.
the silver men of that section.
D. C., patent lawyers, whose ad. is
in another column, procure patents
\Vh> n the big insurance compan­ for inventions in the United States,
ies enter the field against Bryan Canada, and Europe. They will
and Sewall, as some of them have (send printed advice about procur­
already done, thev merely op-n a ing patents free to any address
way for some of their smaller rivals
Inundated by a Cloudburst.
to get a big increase of business.
rim*'«
J ohn R ohrman , B rewer
OF THE FAMOUS
S teubenville , O., July 30—Aj
It is true tiiat Bryan is a very
severe storm, like a cloudburst, oc-J
yourg man to be elected I resident,
curred west of t his city this after-
but there are plenty ef older men1
i noon about 4 o’clock, and within a1
in the democratic party up n whom
J period of 30 minutes a mighty tor
he can rely for wise advice.
Tent of water had spread desolation
i ilong both Parmer’s and Fisher’s
6ov. Evans, of 8. C., sized up the runs, in the lower part of this city, i
situaii >n correctly when he said: No lives were lost, as there were1
"It makes no difference how i manv
------ pergOn8 a|ollg the creeks who saw
tickets are in the field, the issue is the water come dfiwn the valley i
silver or gold, and the democratic and ran from house to house warn­
ami republican platforms make the 1: ing the people. Everybody tied,' /
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fight open and square.”
i many wading knee deep in water
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to the hills which line both sides, i
An indication of the general in Two bund-ed people are homeless |
terest in the financial question is tonight as a result of the Hood.
the daily average of about 1200 The damage will aggregate $200,
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letters, askine for all sorts of finan­ 000. The water came down the 4
cial inf. irmatmn, which arereceiced creeks 20 feet high, sweeping before I
at the U. 8. Treasury department it the barns, houses, bridges, trees
The people are studying this ques- and outbuildings. Nine dwellings
Hou harder than they eyer did be-|an^ I one store were washed away
fore.
. ! and completely wrecked. Twenty-I
five other dwellings were wrecked
or damaeed by the water and mud
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The populists mav not notify
Bryan that they have nominated ’th“t 8ettl'‘d„oreir everything. All
Pulitzer B .¡¿'ng. •, ,v
him fo- president, but be’ II find itlrai!wi,y traffic through here is sue j
Isn't Ou V, itlioiit I'. »"kl i
I pended tonight
ou! jjst the same.
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OREGON
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Wines Liquors, and Cigars.
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Good Billiard tables, Pleasant;Card Roomi, ete., ate.
Saloon is first class in every particular. Experienced bartender
Mixed drinks to please the most fastidious.
. Vicarious Punishment In India.
Maik Hanna isn t finding tt.easy
tobe everything and to boss the,
A student of life and manners in
whole lepubliean party. Ben Har i | the Punjab has been struck by the
rison isn’t till only m u that has
| large proportion of very old men in
snubbed Hanna.
; the Indian jails. In the prison at'
Mooltan there were last year seven-j
Even McKinley must by this | teen life prisoners, whose total ages'
time tie entertaining doubts about were found to amount to more thai 1
that cinch he thought he had on 1,100 jyears, two of them being
the piesidency.
patriarchs of upward of eighty
years.
William Jennings Bryan is the
iiiis remarkable fact is attributed
only man ever nominated by three . partly to the great improvement in
nilional conventlo i8 fur president., the economy of the Indian jails
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since tiie exposure of their mis­
management some yrars ago, but
una h is been convin'ed that more directly to the prevalent
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prevalent
it isn t going to l»e a tariff campaign. I practice, when a crime has been
He will be convinced of tom thing coll,mitU(jt of handing
over the
»lee next Noveml>er.
( least useful member of the family
as a sort of vicarious off ring to
justice.
Bishop Newman, who owes
j On this point the InspictorG n
pro<q»erity more to the friendship
eral of Indian Prisons observed that
of Gen. Grant thin to his own abil-1
the confinement which conviction
ity, hts*b---n at his old trick of
entails i», of course, less irksome to
preaching republican politics from
the aged than to the young.
the pulpit.
“More»y»t.
.»I ireiyir.” he continues, “(he
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peoph know that a specially com
if..rtable place jn »he shape of goo I
John Sherman confe->aea that he
f>od, ample clothing, a special-
is alarmed, and we think lie has
dietary, the lightest of work, and a
excellent ¿round for his fcnn*.
a -ci« ty nut entire |y uncongenial
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PLANTING]
well tiegun 1. half done. Begin
well by getting Ferry’• Seed*
Don’t let chance determine
your crop, but plant Ferry’.
Heeds. Known and «old
everywhere.
Before you plant, get
Ferry's Seed Annual
for 1896. Contain,
Con tai na more pru»-
prao
tical information for farinera
farmer.
Ileal
a and _
gardener.
rueuer. than many higi
lilgh-
I nr
Iced text
text book* Mailed
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priced
free,
n. a. rtKKv a co., arraoir, iicil
mhns p LO uh & S aw mill
JOHN SAYER
Situated on SiW. riw , mil, Ewt
Customers wil receive GOOD FLOUR
Good Wheat
J° J?1 E ditor :—I have an absolute
♦T™* A 'Consumption. By its timely use
thousands of hopeless cases have been already
permanently cured. So proof-positive am f
of
1 Cons«er «t my duty to
two battle frtt to those of your readers
who have Consumption,Throat, Bronchial or
Lung Trouble, if they will wrtere thei
address.
Sincerely,
Oneroo. PronoeiUo*.
blacksmith a wagon shop
SHELLEY A KING.
F. STCÁTTOX
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BURNS
■*W YOU.
Shop opposite the Brewery
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All work in our line done i
guaranteed.
Given, .call.
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