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l’he Chautauqua management are glad
to anuw that your people are interested
in this year's assembly and that so
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many are planning to attend. To those
M. Clemens. Prescription Druggist.
who have uot yet become acquainted
The latest in Bicycles at T. A. Hood I with Chautauqua, a list of this season's
Jk Co’a.
• speakers and a brief outline of our
Where du you gel your hair cut? Try schools will no doubt determine for
Will Mallory.
them this summer’s outing.
Bicycle hospital for all repairing at j Chautauqua has combined pleasure
Cramer Bros.
' with instruction. Each year brings
Mias Krtie Yoat was visaing in town more people to camp in our beautiful
Chautauqua park. The park is a natur
from Placer last week.
al grove through which flows Keuland
Prof. T. H. B. Taylor of Woodville,
creek. During assembly time, the
visited Grants Parson Saturday.
grove is electric lighted. Tents will be
H. M. Gorham, the Winona pusliuua- rented, so long as the supply lasts, al
Ur, visited Grants Pass on Thursday.
11.50 for the assembly, Camping privi-
David F. Fox of Ashland, deputy rev leges, with city water, are free
all
enue uol lector. visited Grants i’atm last holding membership or season tickets.
week in hia otficial capacity.
Perhaps our most attractive feature
Quick delivery—The Weekly Oregonian. this year is the music. The manage
The old railroad depot at Medferd han ment have completed arrangements
been moved Io Talnnt. If wan lifted with Prof. Wilburforce Whiteman 0«
bodily, placed on two flat cars and Denver, Colo., to direct the music. Be
sides the usual chorus das*, this season
hauled to its destination.
The Ashland ball team has benn se initiates the children's chorus class.
cured fur the Fourth of July game with Mrs. Whitvnnn wil. give us two recitals
tbe Grants Paes nine. If these teams and assist in the concerts. The follow-
live up to the g'K'd «bowing made last ing is from the Mu Meal Courier of New
York City. ‘Mrs Whiteman, who it*
year, the game will be thrilling.
new
to the N«-w York public, sang with
Ben Haymond, the Rock Point mer
chant, was attacked Uy a stroke of much taste and charm. The words set
paralysis. Thursday night, in Gold Hill. to Rubinstein’s E flat romance, she de
livered witb ex press .vents« and flnisLi.
H h was removed to hi» home at Rock
Point on Friday. Mr. Haymond waa Iler voice is even, musical and under
tbe pioneer merchant of Grants Pass, great control. She made a pleasing epi
formerly being associated with Magruder sode in the recital.”
The Musical Journal of Oakland, Cal.,
in a etore at old Grants Pass stage
station before the railroad days. He is says of Mrs. Whiteman: * I ho finest
one of the best known citizens of contralto voice heard was from the West-
Mrs. Whiteman, wtio»e ful’,
southern Oregon and bis speedy re Denver
covery i9 earnestly boj»ed for by his rich voice filled the vast hall, and who
many friends in Josephine and Jackson sang wi'L a breath, warmth and aban
don, captuied the hjuse.”
counties
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Those who attended the Assembly two
India Famine Ktlief,
years ago will remember with pleasure
Four weeks ago, a “Committee of One Dr. Thomas McClary. lor those who
Hundred on India Famine Relief'' was have not heard him we append the fol
formed in New York, Since its forma- lowing testimonial from the Central Ly
lion the committee baa received from ceum Bureau : “There are very few men
many parts of the country earnest re- upon the platfoim who have made so
quests that it pla?e itself at the service great a success as Thomas McCiary. He
of all those who might desire its has the humor of an Artemus Ward coin
facilities, Such offer, accordingly, tne bmed with the rare oratory and learning
committee has mad«, and now renews, of a Wendall Phillips. He has done as
with no wish to do otherwise than pro much to make the lecture popular and
mote interest in the famine relief and at the same time instructive a* any man
to aid, if possible, the success oi all in the Lyceum field.”
famine relief agencies.
Mr. Alton Packard, who has fur many
The express companies have con years been a newspaper illustrator, and
sented to make all their oilices agencies whose pictures und cartoons have
for the receipt and free transmission of brought laughter to newspaper readers
relief funds for the press and for any throughout the land, has been secured
and all relief committees in lhe United for three illustrated lectures.
States, They also forward free of
The management has succeeded in
charge th« committee’s publications to securing the Metropolitan Jubilee sing-
any part of the country.
eis for two concerts. This is a colored
The Links of New York have united musical combination ol hign grade
in offering themselves as agencies for They will represent then people in free
the receipt contribution«. and like dom, and the new and popular melodies
action is expected from about 16,000 and jingles w ill be sung by them.
other banks and banking house*.
Mrs. Ahagai I Scott Dunaway, the beat
The telegraph companies also have known woman in Oregon, will delight
rechly agreed to transmit the com her friends, old and new, with her new
mittee's oflic’al snd business messages lecture,“Eminent Women 1 Have Mel”.
free of payment.
Chaplain Gilbert, who was with the
In the committee's choice for the Second Oregon Regiment throughout the
actual distritution of such funds as campaign in the Philippines, and who
luxe come to its treasury, ail expressed was a personal friend ol every soldier in
wishes of donors are fully complied the regiment, will give us two entertain
with, w hile tbe committee, uf its own ing and interesting lectures.
motion, constantly seeks the best means
Our Round Table thia year will be di
o applying undusignated fun.is.
rected by I’rof. W. M. Clayton of the
The “(’ommitlee of One Hundred” Southern Oiegon State Normal.
will constantly study the conditions of
We replace the cookery class this vrar
the famine itself, and will constantly try with a course of domestic science, where
to choose the best agencies ef relief.
instruction is given iu all branches of
home keening. The course is directed
Colestin Tickets.
The S. I', station agent* at Grants by Miss Grace E. Morey of Oakland,
Pass, Medford and Ashland have re Calif.
Th« elocutionary and physical culture
ceived authority to sail special tickets
to Colestin and return, from June 13 till departments are under lhe direction of
October 20 The rate from Giants Par-s Miss lx)ttie J. Grueber of San Francisco,
(’al., who comes with the highest reco-
to those going on Saturday and return
mendations as a lead e of e c it ion ar d
ing Monday is |2,fl0 for the round trip
Tiie rate for roun I trip tickets with 30 voice culture.
Those who find it impossible to at
day limit is 13.50. The special rate will
tend
during the whole Heason should at
be a great con ven e ice to the many wl o
will visit this popular resort during the least take advantage of lhe low railroad
rates and attend two or more of the lec
coming summer.
tures, both concert« and the jubilees.
For further information, address the
secretary or president at Ashland, Ore.
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ChiotK and Lnf.m.h«) Cond.Oon o( Buikbnji
Slowness of French Authorities
and Uurknua.
Ol’R
PARIS
< From Our Regular Correspondent)
P aris , May 2«, 1900.
I have been in Paris but two days
after seven days tossing on the Atlantic
and have had lime only for a glance
at tiie exposition. This glance has im
pressed me with nothing wo much as its
utter un preparedness Masonry, car
pentry, painting, digging, carting,
sweeping, dusting, sprinkling every
where, with only here and there an
exhibit complete and ready for business.
The shops, restaurants and midway
plaisanee like shows are of course ready
and are doing a more or less thriving
business, and the same old features of
Frenchmen, Dutchmen, Englishmen
ami Yankees masquerading in Oriental
garb and selling useless oriental giin-
cracks for twice th»» amount they can be
Lad for in any city in the United Stales,
are very prominent.
The exposition is daub:less, as the
late Mr. Barnum would say, ”a mons
trous aggregation’’ etc. etc. It will,
when completed, surpass all previous
expositions in bigness and richness and
will be an admirable epitome of the past
ceiilurv’s transcendent progress. Why
should it not excel all others? The
world, a' least in material things, is
moving fast, and what was evolution
made lor, if each succeeding exposition
shall not o itdo its predeceaaor.
Moreover Pans, and I regret to say it,
seems to be but a poor fourth in the
export trade of the world, with England,
our own country and Get many ahead of
her. But sl.e gets hack M us every ten
years or so bv making a great expo
sition ami, with the prestige of her only
Pari« levying tribute on all the wealth
of the world. The amount of money we
spend in Paris in one way and another
is ivgretable. Hundreds of rich Ameri
can families live here in winter and in
the south of France) during the summer.
So far as I know the only advantage
gained is in better household service.
Servants in France are doubtless more
efficient, intelligent and cheaper than in
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dation. The president has dnelded to dication of a growing appreciation of the
Washington Letter.
reserve lhe ten appointments which are value of technical education to Cha far
(From Our Regular Correspondent).
given to him under the increase for the ' mer. Tlie time was w hen ne man waa
W ashington , June 11, 1VO0.
sons of oflicers, who gained distinction euppoaed to need apeeial education un-
A popular conundrum in Washington in the war with Spain or in the Philip ««• ho w aa to engage in one of the very
just now is, “Will Secretary Long bluff pines, which has dissapointed some of few occupation« which came uudor the
the armor-plate trust, or be bluffed by the politicians. The Anna|K)liM academv head of learned proleasioua. lb« Twen
it? Under authority conferred by lhe also gels 100 additional cadets under a tieth Ceutury fanner will alao be by vir
naval appropriation act, over which new law, but it has not been fully deter tue of Ilia calling a member of a learned
there was such a hut fight jut I before mined how and when they shall be ap profeaaion —Oregon Igrieulturiat.
congress adjourned. Secretary Long pointed. The navsl authorities du not
Iiu»la han pruoii««! to behave her-
has advertised for bids for furnishing ar wish them all ap|>ointed at once, because
mor plates for battleships. The two that would throw them ail into one ««If in the Chin««« criiia and not make
an attempt at land-grabbing, but the
companies forming the trust have the class.
Secretary Hay and the British ambass world will attribute her eicellant diapo-
only armor making plants in the coun
try, and will, therefore, necessarily be ador have arranged to give lhe senate aitina to the fact that «lie ha« not com
the only bidders. There price is always another chance to ratify the reciprocity pleted the Siberian railroad and ia not
the same. Under the law, Secretary treaty witb Barbadoes, which was not ready yet to take a little bit off the top.
Long lias authority to buy the armor at acted upon at the session which sndad —H. F. Call.
the price submitted, if he considers it last weak, by signing for their respective
The Boston Globe, a democratic paper,
reasonable, or to reject the bids and governments a protocol extending the
remark* that what is needed in Bt Ixxiia
spend $4,000,000 for the establishment time within which lhe treaty may be
ia a “Toddy Roosevelt and hia square
of a government armor making plant. ratified, to March 4,1901.
chin”. Perhaps the Globe 1« not aware
Gen.
Joseph
Wheeler
has
received
his
How much of a reduction in their pre
that the strong point in Missouri’« gov
vious prices will lhe trust make, and commission hr brigadier general in the
I ernor i« hia chin, and that he continue«
how much will Secretary Long consider regular army, but it ia doubtful whether
to work it overtime instead of taking the
necessary to bring it within the “reason he will be assigned to r.ny active com
proper steps to stop the reign of vio
mand,
as
hd
will
lie
retired
under
the
able” class, are interesting side ques
lence.—-Globe Democrat.
tions of the conundrum. The general age limit early in the fall.
Nome.
impression is that the trusts will howto
The Hclsaora.
circumstances and mate a price thut
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little
new«
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received lately from
It is evident that the campaign is on
will be accepted by Secretary Ixmg.
Nome verifies the > prediction frequently
in
Kansas.
A
railway
train
has
just
Gen. E. S. Olis is being treated with
made by ene that anybody could have
marked consideration by the president bean derailed by the wind in that slate. made—that weiie » i lew have seeured
«ad other prominent officials in Wash —Oregon Statesman.
paving claim«, there ia not a very good
ington. If. thanked the president for
An Omaha editor wavs that finer sum chance for most of the thousand« who
promoting him and was told by the pres mer resort« than th« Highlands of Ne have left Pacific Coast (torts for tus
ident that no thanks were due. as he braska do not exist. Evidently the ig Nome Coast thi« spring. Next Fall Ibe
had only been given what he bail fully norant man has never been out of Ne Government will he callad upon to aid
earned while in command of our army braska and has never heard of the Pacific in bringing back thousands of ’‘broke”
in lhe Philippines, lie will leave Wash
propl« who are not prepared to weather
Coast.—Telegram.
mgtoti in time to participate in the re
the long and «eyere Artic Winter. Yet,
ception that will lie held in bis honor by
Don’t get mad when the census enum even if Ibis ahould be the case, it will
the citiaena of Rochester, N. Y., his erator asks you what color you are. If not prove that there i« not a great deal
home, next Friday evening.
you are white say so. You will have of gold in the Nome «and«. One trouble
l he critical situation in China, owing the satisfaction of going on record as lin m that favored transportation companies
to the insurrection by the anti-foreign ing a white man whether or not your and syndicate« have “gobbled up” large
M<x iety known as the “boxera”, is being neighbor thinks you are Eugene Reg- tracts of the best diggings, apparently
watched with more or less anxiety inof later.
with the approval of the autbortitie« at
ficial circles, where it is well known that
Washington—Telegram.
Th« proportion ol th« graduata» ol Ag
Europe in powers only wait a favorable
ricultural
achoola
and
collega«
who
en
( hat. Nickell of Jackanaville, waaia
opportunity to take charge of all of Chi
na. According to Secretary Hay, the gage in agricultural pumita ia «t««<lily <Irani« Fa«» Friday, on hi« return from
I|nited States minister to China, and incrraaing. Thia I« an encouraging in- a viaitto Fortlau.K
Rear Admiral Keinpff, who is in com
mand of the United States naval forces
hi Cbineae waters, have plain and posi
tive instructions to act with the Euro
l»ean forces only to the extent of protect
ing life and profierty and to do nothing
<>r lake any part in anything done by
other» that can be construed into offen
sivu interference with the control of its
own affairs by the government of China.
Ttie anxiety is caused by the knowledge
of how easy a movement of the combined
marines of the foreign nations, including
those of the United States, started for
the defenae of foreigners in China ami
their property, might, either by uncon
trollable circumstances, or by the design
of several of the powers represented, lie
turned into one that would result in lhe
overthrow of Chinese authority. Mem
bers of the administration know that if
anything of that sort happens, th« op-
ponentsof the administration w ill charge
it with having been a party Io the
s* In tne, and with desiring to piiaie with
F}urui>e4n jmwers in the acquisition of
Chinese territory, ami with the presiden
tial campaign on hand, s'ich a charge
would not be a welcome or e to meet, bet -
retary Hay »ays that all this country
wants with China is the right to trade
un the same terms with other nations.
A New York business man who was
No other aid so great to the housewife,
discussing the political light that both
parties are preparing to make on the
no other agent so useful and certain in
trasui in the coming campaign, said
making delicious, pure and wholesome
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“Both parti«« will claim tobeem-nie-
of lhe trusts, ami both will la» bl < j th ng to
foods, has ever been devised.
an extent. The rich democrats are in
Hie trusts, just the same as the rich re-
publican*. Therefore they cannot go in
an<l smash things.
I have no idea th«'
either party will do much toward*
smashing »rusts, although bulb aide»
are now putting up huge bluffs.”
The KM) new cadets to West Point, pro
sided for by congress, will be appointed
at once, ami ««nators, earl* of whom Las
There arc im.’ it ion l»akinp powders, sold cheap, by
the privilege of naming wue < a-let, have
many gr«»c» rs. They are made from alum, a potsun*
been not.fied to make the selections in
uusuruc, which renders the food injurious to health.
time for th« summer examinations tnd
J they fan to do so, the president will
appoint without seuatotial recummen
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the United States. But in every other
comfort of living we surpass the French,
At least this 1« my impression after a
The ‘‘Boxer» "
fourth visit to Paris and a residence off
Tha Chinese “Boxert',” who are start
and on of several months.
ling the world with atrocities inflicted
The reports that liav** beeii so eiten-
on missionaries and other foreigners,
•dvely
spread about the crowded con
saye lhe San F ranci.-uo l’o«t. have a
membership running into the millions. dition of the ' ity, an'! the high rout of
living, are misleading. I do not find
Tne recent outrages were jwrpe’rated in
the maritime province of Shan Tung, the price* at hotels or pennons (board
ing homte*; much higher than usual.
which lies south of Peking. This
i rhey are I think a little lower than at
province, though smaller than the State
I the exposition of IH78. Any one accord-
of Washington, having an area of but
i mg to his ta*te, puree and endurance,
50,000 «quare miles, has a |K>pulation
| an get b mrd and lodging from one
closely estimated at 33,00),000.
1 dollar up. I am lodged at No. 45 Rue
As in the ca»*« of the vigilantes orga
de Clichy, ahull two miles from lhe
nized in the Iswle«» da’s of placer min
of
“
Boxen
”
wa».
ing, the society
i exposition, in a pen-ion with steam heat,
orgmally formed with a commendable ••ievator and electric lighta, at a coat of
purpose. It was organized to d«*«! with 15 francs ($3.» per day. Tbs same
bands of native robber«, but later 1 accommijdationw would cost as much in
became an iriwtrument of private re- I fwcait American cities. Before I selected
venge. ami later still for venting the this place I ••n«| nred lhe rates am! look
Chinese hatred against “b reign dsvils.” ••<1 at rooms in many other localities.
Originally, the “Boxer«” were the Some were hi/lier. Some lower, ami 1
Rro'herhxei of lhe Strung bword (in s[e*ak from penemal observation when
here and
Chinese Ta Too Why ami accompli shed ( say there is abundant room
g'K>d work in the interest of law and at reasonable rates.
here di*
order. Its membership is largely com
To sav that the Americans
exhibit«
puted of ignorant Chinese and intrigu* rectly in charge of American
In spite of
ing men, who desire the checking I are angry is to draw It mild.
of foreign irifiuen
w ho work upon the the u most effort they cannot gel the
ignorant masse« with assertions that French authorities to complete the
the missionar es are opposed to Ibe ! buildings for their exbibius. There are
veneration of ancestors, and murder lime, dust, mor ar ami rubbish every
| Chi nene children to obtain certain or > a here, and oidv two or three Frenr.b
■
« •- h< raft
i workmen where there should ins twenty.
Meanwhile lhe Fr»*n<h authorities are
So Sit r Coptic on Entertainnntnt.
i urging the Amcriv-ans to open up their
. The Btereopticon exhibition of T sari
I displays. Tbe Anp-ricann say “No, not
isrnouw paintings. ‘‘The Life off bri«t. ’
until th»w buildm/A are completed and
i| r»o< t« given here on June 25th a*
leaned. We will fiot subject our fine
ertiaed last week, on account of lhe
4^4l/diiy of the exhibitor to be here at ■ wares ami delicate heel staffs to deter-
oration from oust ami mod snd lime.”
the^iuis and on the con in • i»w pr<*v i-míe
liter much prayer and imprecation th»
ly arranged The entertainment may
\m* rksn commissioner« finally retorted
he given at »r>me fatine time
to law with tbe rreull of great S< <'elera*
•um
the part of the Frenfeb. The
Ksrwh and Placer
ted, will now b*-
Ranch and placer mine for «ale or to | raildingt, it is
esrhaiigs lor town i*rof»erty. Apply at I conipletrd in two weeks.
this office.
I
'• * siutnler report that Ute
Í
American national building is insecure.
un«af. and that If Housa’s baud should
play »b«r«. il will be with peril to lhe
.«■eiu binge.
Tbe American national building i«
eclipsed by that oi Italy, Roumanta and
by other eonntrie« that h.re not one
tithe our wealth. It ana vanity and
folly to build a national bedding here
anyhow. It dor. no good, teach«« noth
ing, btinga nothing. It, cannot till the
wandering American with pride when
he «eea it, lor be in alvayi oversowing
with that «tuff and ready to tell you
that white we Lave no volcano like
Veauviu«, we have a Niagara fall*
that can pnt it out in tive minute«
Ju«t at prent-nt tl.e American corn
propaganda aeema to afford our French
friend. Rome amnaetnent. A kitchen
hat been e«labli«hed to prepare corn
bread, corn fritter«, etc. a« a free luneb,
and thin recommend the nieofcorn ad
increase the demand for it. At tbe
exhibit« ol all the conatriei there ia a
guard or aoldier «landing or walking in
tba uniform ol hi« couutry. The nation«
br.va not forgotten to «elect aoldier« of
good appearenee for this service. Mr.
Hugo Krause, of Milwaukee, a veritable
iferculea, six feet Ave inch«« tall in hia
uniform, ruddy and handsome, is on
guard at the American corn bread
kitchen, and if any foreigner i« skeptical
as to the effect of corn as a diet he i«
pointed to this corn led American, and
Mr. Krau«« can tell them in good
French what corn baa done tor him.
No. 33.
1
gßSOLUIHY PH^