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JOSEPHINE COUNTY
GRANTS PASS
. XVI
OFFICIAL IHRECTOSY.
“Meet Us on the Midway.”
| Q local toappenings
]
Ol'R
PARIS
EXPOSITION
LETTER
OREGON - THURSDAY
AUGUST jo, 1900.
Five PU^cr Creeks.
Tlie following article appeared in tbe
VM1TKD MTATKS.
Oregonian of August 22, and is a very
The Event of the Tunes
Osservai Popularity of ProukiU LoubU. good deecription of one of our au rife roue
lent..................... William McKinley )
president................... ............................. I
Dignity and FairncM of Brttuh
diatricts. The locality deecribed is only
.M.
Clemens,
l
’
reseription
Druxitut.
.. John Hay ;
ttry of State ..........
oue among many similar Cúes in South
Newspapers.
Mtry *of Treasury .. .Lyman J Gage
Bicycle hospital lor all repairing «t
ern Oregon iu point of undeveloped re-
bu y of Interior... . ........ C N Bitta
Cramer Bros.
tary of War............ ... Eiibn Root
jfDU've sad capacity for improvement.
Call
at
the
Cot
ai««
office
.nJ
«.
the
R(i([uU
'
Carre
.
lX3a
j
ent)
tary of Navy ........
John 1) Long I
“Between Rogue river and one of its
panoramic views of Grants I ass and
fary of Agriculture Jamee A Wilson
tributaries, the Illinois river, five good-
^„laster-Gencral ........ James A (»ary
. vicinity.
P axis , August 6, 1900.
sized streams bead on one mountain
AMori.t-y-General.. . Joseph McKenna
The firm of Weber A Cbeaamore, pub-
yt Lou bet. the president of France,
ridge—(iahee, Taylor, Pickett, Briggs
STATE OF okegon .
lisbers of the Medford Fruit and Poultry makes frequent visits to the exposition and Silver creeks—and rnn in as many
(Geo W McBride
World, has dissolved. A. H. Chessmore and ia as far as possible impartial in the
Ü. 8. Senato» a...
Occupying many solid blocks,
directions, all of them good gold produc
’ ^.Joseph *simon
continues tbe business.
distribution of his distinguished pres ers. From lhe l»ed and hanks of each
taking in an entire street from
)Thos H Tongue
Congressmen........
curb
to
curb
(MA Moody
A large number of people in Grant!* ence. ile has made two or three visits excepting, perhaps, Taylor), many
Attorn • »-General
. 1) R N Blackburn
Pass and vicinity are preparing to visit to the American pavilion. Of course it fortunes have lieen wrested, and few
.................. T T Geer
Gov* r
Portland and the Elks’ Carnival during is always known when be is to arrive, tai I dies known. To be sure, many a
............ Fl Dunbar
Secretary of State
Carnival week.
The extremely low but, unfortunately, on one occasion the hard-working miner has become di»-
State Treasurer.......... .... Ch as 8 Moore ,
Sept Pub Instruction .... J H Ackcrmaa
exetireior. rale offered ia a very attractive United Stales commissioner failed to be courage*! and abandoned diggings where
State Printer................ ....... W H Lee-!»
present to receive him, and arrived nulv an adequate investment of capital would
j inducement.
iC E Wolverton
Lixblninc »truck a pine tree Tue. lay
4'r«>Je»«
h» >
have made a good-paying mine, and
Saprt-uie Judges........ .¿RS Bean
Under the auspice. of the Port
evening of last week, on lhe farm of *J
President Loabet to no teller than again men imbued with tbe idea that
(FA Moore
land Elks. STKPASSING in
Clerk BoardSchoolLandCum. W HO’dell
MAGNITUDE and OKANU
Buller and rhouipeon, «outbeust of 'President McKinley and «ill tall eotistd- 'where the money is laid down, there
EUR ANYTHING OF THE
Dairy and Food Com ... .J. W. Bailey
Ashland and 70 ton« of timothy h.y «•'•‘»ly below him in avoirdupois. He must the mine be.* have sold their hold
K1NI> EVER ATTEMPTED
VIBHT JUDICIAL DISTBXCT.
stacked against the tree look fire and h»s «fi’’1’'*1' wrinkled lace, white hair ings for a song because of their exalted
ON THE PACIFIC COAST.
Western Division........ Judge H K Hanna
»as totally destroyed.
¡and beard. There to nothing distingue notions of dividends — armchairs and
The
Streets
of
Cairo
Kasten. Division. . Judge H L Benson
,, . .
f
in his Hpiiearance or manner, but he is ease wbic& the mine could not atTord.
Tlie “complete novel’______ ________
The Oriental Theatre
Prose< uling Attorney
..A. E Kearnes
doubtless a good man and bids to be as Several hundred men are today making
Member lioard of Equalizat . KA Emrnitt
The German Village
“New Lippincott” magazine ia apparent
popular as his predecessors Carnot and their living and a majoritv of them more,
ly being developed w ith great consider
*
1 he Dancing Girls
K V. S. LAND OFFICE BOaXBUBG.
Faure. He is industrious and scrupu from tlie quartz and placer mines on
ation
for
the
tastes
ot
home
readers.
An
Arabian
Pageant
Receiver .................................. Henry Booth
lous iu performing his duties, official thusH creeks and the adjacent hills.
Register....................................... J T Bridges
Recent novels like “The Heart of the
Crowning the Queen
and social, is ever ready to sign his
“Galice, the moat important, richest
Ancient Wood,” by Charlee G. D. Rob
Rex, King of the Carnival Attended
JObKPlKN'K COUNTY
name, make a s(>eech, grave a function, ami busiest of the creeks, was discovered
by His Magnificent Court
erta,
and
“
April
bhowera,
”
by
Alice
.......... KA Booth
Joint Senator.. . .
' pin a medal of lhe Legion of Honor on a
in 1851 by a Frenchman named Galice,
Brown, nerve as lhe standard of taste;
.......... Abe Axtell
The great paratie of the Elks and
County Juuge . ..
soldier’s breast and embrace that soldier who later was followed by kindred
ether orders. The Italian Park and
........ John Wells
Commissioner.
and novels to come are promised from
with the same French fatherly cordial spirits, crossing the mountains from
... Roy Bartlett Fountain. The magnificent triumphal
County Clerk........
Margaret Deland, Mrs. Amelia Barr.
an h anti grand Midway filled with
ity, whether he be a private in the Jacksonville or Crescent City, with their
............ Ed Lister
Hhenti
wonderful attractions. Mining, Mercan
Mrs«
Schuyler
Crowniushield,
Cliuton
........ G W Uolvig
Representative ..
ranks or an officer whose family is a« blankets and a scant supply of provisions
tile, Agriculture, Horticulture and other
Scollard, and Cyrus Townsend Brady
............ J T Taylor
Treasiir.‘r..............
industrial exhibit». The Women’s
old as the history of France. He was on their backs, to make a stake and get
School Superintendent. Lincoln Savage
which
are
said
to
maintain
the
high
Pavilion, designed by women, built by
! not popular when first elected, and lhe out before being starved or murdered by
women and decorateti by women for the
Jkeeee»' i*....................................... Tom Smith
level of the others.
1 storm of approbrium with which he was the Indians.
Surveyor.........................
.. H C Perkins exhibit of women s industrial work.
Now there is a wagon
The
grain
palace
built
of
Oregon
and
Coro I >> I........................................... j A ood ,
Prevented a Tragedy.
tece.ved oil entering Paris and the road from Merlin, on the Southern Pa
Washington grains and graces. Music
M;; k
Timley
information
given
Mrs.
George
and
Fun.
Night
turned
into
FBKCINCT OrriCBBB.
cowardly assault upon him in Bois de cific, a daily stage and mail service, and
la ty
day.
Long, of New Straiteville, Ohio, saved Boulgne a few days thereafter would a justice of tbe peace, who has little to
Justice .................................. James llolman
two lives. A frightful cough had long ' have driven a weaker man to despond do with crime or bloodshed,
Constable........................ ME stock bridge
Thou«and«
Lowest rail and water rates ever given
kept her awake every night. She had i ency or resignation, lie has held on,
-do Portland iron) all parts of
CITY OF GRANTS FASH.
of dollars in gold dust was taken from
the Pacific Northwest
' tried many remedies and doctors but and his caliuness, firmnsM, simplicity,
the bed of thio creek in early days, be-
. . H C Kinney
Mayor
steadily grew worse until urged to try i and sincere devotion to duty have won
. . J IV Barker
Audit
fore ground sluicing commenced on the
! Dr. King’s New Discovery. One buttle ovei the fickle, tioisteroue element in
.. Col Johnson
Treasurer. ..
Lars and in tiibutaJy gulches.
. . . L V Stewart
City Attorney
wholly cured her; and she writes, this Paris that has too often intluenced
K. CLIVE MAJOR
“Running parallel with the creek and
.......... II E Bell
Marshal
marvelous medicine also cured Mr. Long French history and policy.
about 700 feet up the side of the moun
__
____
Thao. Mott
Day
Police ...
of a nervous attack of Pneumonia. Such
Police statistics relating to the Paris tain, is a great bench, at one time the
Street Commissioner............ John Patrick 1
ceres are positive proof of its power to exposition of 1SN9 show that in that
bed of a large river. This old channel
( Tom Smith
cure all throat, chest and lung troubles. year, in May, June, July, August, Sep
I E W Kuykendall
has beeu traced clear through Josephine
Only
50c.
and
$1,00.
Guaranteed.
Trial
fc E Dunbar
tember and October the people stopping county into Ca’ifornia, with a general
Office in Williame Block
T A Hood
bottlea free at Dr. Kremer’s drug store. at the Paris hotels numbered 1,525,571.
Coumilinen . .
direction ol southwest and northeast.
N E McGrew
The largest numbers were from the fol Altogether in this section there is about
I J A Rehkopf
Forty Millions of Children.
P.
DODGE,
lowing
nationalities:
Eugland,
380,000;
| Frank Fetsi h
1000 acres of rich auriferous deposit ou
Among tbe seventy-odd millions in United States, 115,000; Belgians, 223,*
[ W A Haskins
this bench, cut right in two by the right
INSURANCE and
this country of ours there are possibly 400; Germans, 160,000; Swiss, 52,000;
Regular meetings of tlie city council of
hand fork of Gahce, and breaks off into
REAL ESTATE
thirty or forty million children, says Italians, 38,000.
Gram a Pass are held in the council
There were only Rogue river at the lower end. Tbe low
Henry S. Pancoast in tbe September ' 7,000 Russians. This yeai it is expected
rooms in the city ball on the first and
Life, Fire and Accident Insurance.
er section of this old channel has been
third Thursday evenings of each month
“New Lippincott.” These are, by prom I that 500,OK) will uotne from Germany
G rants P ass ,
•
O regon .
worked ou a large scale for 10 years by
ise, a nation within a nation, a power . alone, and if the United States sent 115,-
C1BCVIT COUKT.
different parties and companies, acres of
,
within
a
power;
the
great
Republic
of
Meets on the third Monday in April
00) people here in 1880, it is fair to es ground have been dumped into the
j tomorrow, put to school to learn the timate an attendance of perhaps 150,000
and Uie fourth Monday in September.
A C. HOUGH,
creek and Rogue river, which isestituat
! high art of living from tbe Republic of from America to tbe llM)0 exposition.
COUMTT COUBT.
ed to have yielded about $10,000 per
ATTORNEY Al LAW,
: today.
The number of exhibitors in ISSO wan acre.
Probate court meets first Monday ol Practices in all State ami Federal Courts
Twenty miles of diteli«*. and
How
and
what
sbal'
we
teach
them
?
January, April, July and September.
60,000, to whom 33,139 prizes and
the water of creek and
Office over First National Bank.
Of all our great national questions not awards were distributed. In ISSU 25,- 11 umes conduct
County commissioners court meets first
gulches to this property, giving at the
•
•
O regon . one is more momentous; of all the trusts
Wedneh lay after the meeting of tbe G rants P ash ,
398,609 persons passed the turnstiles, of mine a pressure of 430 feet, from 10 to
county court.
committed to a peoule not one is more which number 2,723.366 entered with
25 men are constantly employed at this
sacred
or
more
vital,
for
in
moulding,
ao
I^R. J. JENNINGS
exhibitors' cards and free admittance.
lai as we may, the gene.aliou» that shall The average daily attendance in 1889 one mine.
‘The question naturally urises, Where
RESIDENT DENTIST.
take our place, the future is plastic to
was 152,158. The average daily attend does all the gold coins from to supply
our
hand.
30 Years Expeiience.
ance at the present exposition is run
It is not the gevermnent or the school ning over 20;),i)00. The greatest attend these placer mines? It. certainly came
Office inOpera House block; see the sign
from above, for gold does not lose the
— OF —
teachers who are to do thje, it is prim
of The Big Tooth.
ance in 1889 was the closing day, Octo slightest
op|Kirtunity
for settling.
arily
we.
the
people.
It
is
not
empty
SOUTHERN OREGON.
O regon .
ber 3rd, when 385,377 people passed in. Whether from a solid ledge washed
G rants P ahs ,
rhetoric to speak of this duty as an obli
The smallest attendance was May 10th, away ages ago—rotten porphyry streaks
gation laid directly upon us, but plain
1889, with 36,922.
—or from chimneys, prospectors have
fact. Many matters of public policy we
J J C. PERKINS,
While in Paris, we get our American been unsuccessfully endeavoring to de
determine only indirectly or, in many
news as best wo can. The French pa termine.
Receive deposits subject to check or on
| vases, not at all. Many of our respon-
certificat ♦ payable on demand.
pers have a column of foreign news
“(•igantic quartz ledges run through
MINERAL SURVEYOR, sibiiities we hand over to a government Sowdla dt I’tlranger and when there is a
Sell» sight drafts on New York, 8aa Fran
which sometimes carries out and some big fire in the United States or a presi the country above and below this chan
cisco. an<l PufUand.
nel, and the creek bars, from which en
Osano«. times ignore our will; but this power to
Telegraphic transfers sold on all pointe in ««BANTS P a »«,
dential election, we find the incident couraging assays have been made.
the United States.
create a new America out of our children
stated in a few lines in the Paris papers, Near the a;»ex of the mountain, 2000 feet
Spec ia! Attention given to lx>lle< tien» and
| we have not delegated; it is exercised
(JOSHO W & SHERI DA N,
but when times are dull in the Western above tbecreek, two men have a hydrau
genera! * usines« of our customers.
by us directly in thousands of homes;
Hemisphere, we look in vain for men lic mine, where they have taken out
Odle. ions ma<le throughout Southern
MINING ATTORNEYS,
we bold it—to use or abuse as we will.
tion of /rs Ettalt ('nu, as our country is well-washed nuggets weighing $10 to
Oregon nd on all accessible pointe.
1
Tbe
sheer
wonder
of
this
thing
too
often
Special attention
given to Mining
«ailed in French. The New York Her $40.
Below them, at the I xjsi Flat
J. 1). FRY, President.
and Lami Laws, and Land Office practice. escapes us because of its obviousness; ald publishes a small daily in Pat is, but
J. T.TUFFS, Vice President.
quartz n ine, rich pockets have been un
liecauee, like other elementary and
it bus not much American m*ws except covered, rotten porphyry oratued with
R oseburg .
-
-
O regon .
R. A. B ooth , Cashier.
vital truths it is so ordinary and so
of a sporting, automobile, racing, yacht* gold, and all along the ridge dividing
familiar that we have come to accept it
ing character, 'lhe New York Time«, these creeks ledges crop out bearing
QEORGE II. BINNS.
lightly.
______
Pans exposition edition, is a very good gold in greater or lesser quantities, but
paper and the American exile will find the mother lode remains undiscovered.
Flag
for
Your
Schoolhouse.
A
ASSAVER,
' more home, sweet home, matter in it
Nearly the same conditions exist on
Every school house in the couniy
in —
any other paper, but the ..
rime»
, Biiouiu
» nag.
mi than ...
—«.* Silver creek, where the gold is even of a
If you wniiv
want uiic
one tor
should nave
have a
H»g. 11
Office op|M«ile Hotel JoM*|>hine,
i your district write to the C ourier about ¡a, 1 believe, a temporal} enterprise and coarser nature.
Bars abandoned for
(«HANT« I“AB«,
-
-
O k EOOX. it.
will not be published after lf>e close of years have lately yielded nuggets
GRANTS PAS". OREGON.
I the fair. The London daily pajiera |
weighing $200, and at present energetic
reach Paris in al>out twelve hours after men are actively engaged in drifling,
I they are published. They give the news gronnd-sluicing and piping on thè plac
{of the world in general, and the British era, and running tunnels ami «inking
empire in particular, and are edited in shafts on the quarts. At one place a
an admirably temperate and dignified man bard to discourage has lor two
spirit. When there is anything iinpor* years been vainly trying to reach bed
tant going on in llie United State*, you rock, and has n|N-nt $2OK) iu money,
| will find a reliable account of it, and h prospecting a basin that will make a
I »ry Goode, Shoes, Etdies (’ape*, and Jack
day of judgment cditorial.about it in the grand mine if the proapecta justify open-
TllE Hol MKFl KN1BHEK
et*, Ladies' and (venta' Fumihhing
London papers.
iqg it up.
< ìood", 11 ate, Miners' < food*,
EVERYTHING for the
From an exhibit here, a building near
On Briggs creek there are acres and
Trunk» ami Valise».
y
Hi
HOUSE
h an r FROM
».V
A
1 the Eiffel tower, I got the impreaeion acres of gravel bars awaiting capital to
MER
to
A
, TACK HANI
i that glaNN will play an iii)|»orlant part In I develop thrill, A magnificent canyon
Grant« P«si Greatest Store.
SIDEBOARD.
I the architecture of the future. It can be of pla< era and quartz mines, fartna and
1 used in place of wood, metal or tilirg in ; stock ranges. Both Silver and Brigg»
many pla e« and haq a high decorative creeks empty into tlie Illinois river.
' value. For both rooiiif, mantel piece»,
Pickett creek empties into Rogue river
DKALFB IN
stair cMW, it has been long need by the Ux mile* below the month of Applegate,
GROCERIES, FLOUR, FEED
FRESH and SALT
French. Whole hides of a email room At the mouth and along Rogue river
With Every $20 Cash Purchase of
are often covered by large mirror«, tbue , are several fine farms, and peach and
ME ATS. X,
‘
Grew cries You Are Given a
relieving the cramped vffect by reflee* prune orchard*. Here some of the fin-
Han home. iJfe Bias Crayon
tion. lilaes is or ought to be cheap, es I eat (Hachea in Oregon are rawed. Gold
or Water Color Portrait
Tim 21
I-RONT and FOURTH gl’S
pecially in America, and I think the in dust form and nugget« have been and
’P honic No. 85
multiplication of mirrors will improve J are being taken out of lhe bars along
the artistic and aesthetic taste of our both Big and Little Pickett. Coarse,
people I may lie mistaken, but it L bm heavy gold is washed out way up the
S taple and F ancy G hockrie ;
I occurred to rne more than once that one gulches near the Taylor creek divide.
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING
cause of France’s preeminence in fash Several hydranlic mines are in operation
HARDWARE
THE REMT OF KMB . THING
‘ ion, style and art wu th« multiplicity and more are projected.
BICYCLES
L adies ' and G ents ’ SHOES
AT ALL TIMES ..
of her looking-gloases, largì*, fine arci | ‘Tayl or creek never had mnch of a
SEWING MACHINES
E'rarrnixG im S tilb
everywhere.
boom, aitho lgh nuggets weighing s«vi r
'P
uork
131
Tiioxa 11
•'The mold of faehion
al dollars were mined out, and a few
form” Shakespeare •
rnea are ground sluicing at the forks
May it nut be that these French men with indifferent success. High benches
WATCHMAKER and
and F rench women who constantly see of fine-looking gravel axial here, as well,
STAPLE GROCERIES
JEWELER
HARDWARE
themselves as others see them, pbysi al but somehow Taylor creek seemed to
CANNED GOODS
|y at least, have by centuries of self-crit have been slighted by tbe power that ao
Full awMWtment of Watches, Clocks, Sil*
COLUMBIA and
icism (call it »elf admiration if you will)
versrar arvl Jewelry, A < mmm I
á
HARTFORD WHEELS
FLOUR and FEED
and p*Hnng evolv»d that seperflciallv generously sprinkled ths other creeks
Aseunn»**nt of Bnuwfet* anil
GIANT POW i’DER, E tc .
exquisite thing in style which we rail, ailb tbe metal for which men have
Heart Bangfas,
Kuru st , orr. Crrr H au .
no matter when or where we see it. ¡ fouglit, st ar veo ami died.
Clemens Dreg Store
'P iioxb H3
“Tba cimiate in this section is all that
French'* By the way, I was talking
with one of the largest dress goods buy , could lie desired. Miners work every
ers in New York who cornea hers twice day in the year, if they want to. Where
a year, not to buy O f ? the American no wagon roads exist, pack trains supply
¡»rater ia
trade, as be told me, but simply to get the needed tran*»pstation of provisions
T ub PorvL.B G rocbb *
ideas and import a few samples for and mining machinery. On almoat any
ICE CREAM
GROCERIES.
American manufacturnra to adopt and claim a man can raise a bounteous gar
imitate. *‘We no longer import in any den, eet mil fruit trees and live like a
FRESH VEGETABLES
DRIED FRUITS.
ICE CREAM SODA
Magnificent firs and stately
‘quantity from Faris,’’ he said. MWe na'K'b.
AMD FRUITS* >
FLOUR AND FEED.
CANDIES~ g =£“
can mate the articles belter and ti»eap- sugar pine tr*-*e cover th** hills and val
er at borne, but we are still dependent leys. timber tnst wil aome day be rafted
Front 8tr««t.
’PaoxB 1*
X bxt I«K.a to C ob ’ s
in a degree on Paris for suggewhon»*, I down Rogue river or hauled out by rail-
r .4 I
ideas and stylet.”
Great Street
Fair and
Carnival
PORTLAND, OREGON.
Sept. 4 to 15.1900
D
I
FIRST NATIONAL
E AN K
Capital Stock,
$50,000.
N. E. McGrew
Representative Grants Pass Business Firms
R. THOMAS
N. Del. A MILTER
J.M.CH1LES
R. O. McCrobkey,
GROCERIES
HARDWARE
TABLEW A RE
SWEETLANI) & CO
Eine Butter a Specialty
Hair-Riddle
Hardware G>.
White House Grocery
i:. c. DIXON...
:
CRAMER BROS
CL ACS SCHMIDT
II. II. BARTON,
1
Calhoun Grocery Co
I. W. BLAKE’S
T. 1. CROXTON,
No, 42
Washington Lotter.
(From Our Regular Uorrwponfient).
kYA.HisuTu», Aug. 20, 1(00.
Americans have no reason to com
plain of the ending »1 the first chap
ter iu the Cbine«x< atory, »hatever
turn may be taken in the subee-
quent chapters. Our governmeut ha«
taken a leading part in the move
ments both diplomatic and military,
which have led up to tbe rescue at
the foreigners, including out Minis
ters eud a number of other American«,
who occupied such a perilous position
in Pekin for a period of nearly two
monthe, and our prestige has been
added to thereby. But io rejoicing over
the safety of those who were in such
grave danger in Pekin, it is uot forgot
ten that the immediate future is full of
perilous possibilities. We shall n«wd
all the prestige we have gained by our
disinterested policy to deal successfully
with the schemes, known but unavowed,
of our allies who are not diiinlerested.
We have great commercial interesto at
stake iu China, the markets of which
are believed by many of our statesmen
and business men to be absolutely
necessary to (be continued prosperity of
the United States, and we have Europ
ean rivals (or these markets which will
lake them away from us if they can
make an opportunity which they deem
plausible and safe to do eo. It ie the
business of this government to see that
no such opportunity is made.
While tlie administration is on re
cord as opposing the dismemberment
ol Chins, it is considered certaiu in
Washington that it will not carry it.
opposition furtiisr than to submit a
strong diplomatic protest against it,
should the other powers agree to it, and
to demand ths same trade rigliia ar oui
treaty with China gives us.
A number of the' Cabinet is responsi
ble for the statement that this govern
ment will probably include in its de
mands upoa China oue providing that
all Christian native« shall be allowed to
leave China, if they wish to do so. The
same authority says that no details have
been discussed as to wlial provision
shall be made for theCbnstiau Chinese,
said to number several thousand, and
adds that they may be settled iu tlie
Philippines. They could not be brought
to this country without an act of con-
gretui, owing to the anti-Chinese law.
Consequently, 11 this government ie to
look out for them, they must bo taken
to the Pbilippinee, to Porto Rico or to
Hawaii, although the exteneion of tlie
alien contract labor law to Hawaii
makes it doubtful whether they could
be taken there. Already attention io
lieing called to tlie fact that American
missionaries were only a small per
centage ol those working in China, and
the question ol why we should assume
sole guardianship over tbe so-called
Christian Cbinoeo being a.ked. That,
however, was probably not the idea the
member of the cabinet intended to
convey, it is presumed that the allied
governments will each make tlie same
demands upon China, and that freedom
*ri<i proUx tion for the native ( liristians
will he one of them.
Mr. H. F. Coggewell, of Chicago, who
Ims excellent o.iportuniti«s to (eel tlie
public pulse during his travels, dropped
a few remarks in Waslti ngton that
might be studied with interest if not
with profit by tlie professional politician.
Be said : "The »mople everywhere are
busy, much too busy to bother their
hea.ls about political questions that do
not directly affect them. The spell-
bindeis will have a lot of trouble stir
ring up any enthusiasm this year, and,
despite the increase In population, I
predict that the vote will be much
lighter than it was four years ago. Men
hail nothing to do tliooe days but talk
|>olltlcs, end everyboy got escltud
over the issue mid went to the polls and
votad.”
Mr. R. O. Merriman, of Springfield,
Illinois, who is now in Washington,
alien asked for his opinion of political
conditions in the Middle West, about
which eo much is lieing said in the
partisan press, replied: “All predic
tion« alKiut how Indiana and Itllnoi«
will vote thia year are guesses. No man
can tell anything about tbe political
sentiment in those two Htaies at this
time. They can’t tell Ixwense people
are not talking politic«, and until th.
people begin to talk there 1« no way ol
gauging public «enlimont. Ale.'ll tin-
only thing I see is an apparent utter
indifference to tbe contentions of both
partis«.’’
Two pariie« of Cutjan« were at the
White Hou«e Hatnrday, on widely <lif
fereut errand«. The first, which «•>
sell invited, consisted of an ex president
ol the Cuban republic of *95, a general
ol the "liberating army.” and a prie.t.
They presented a p'ea for the Immedi
ate withdrawal of United Htales troops
from Cube and the establishment of an
absolutely independesil Coban govern
ment, to the president, and lalet.al
tbe war department, to He -retary Rixit.
The other party, which WB« inviteli,
coosieted of tlie 1337 Cuban «chimi
teachers who have been taking a «um-
raer conrae at Harvard Vnivvraity
The president, Mrs. McKinley and Mrs
<>age, held a special reception in their
honor, and a committee of officials and
eitissna «bowed them a« rnsny of the
sights of tbe National Capitol
they
coul'l get around U> ia their two days
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A large number of steel ballot boxes
a«e living iiianulactnre.1 in tbie city for
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Idaho. Montana, Utah, Wyoming and
Nevada. A great many countries in
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bold 200 ballots. A bar with hooka at
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pivot in the center. Through one end
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passed in voting, and when the |>oll«
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the hasp« placed over the staples and a
Yale lock ia attached on each aide, the
keys d which are not interchangeable,
and with a key in the hands of each
judge neither can epen the box with
out the other is present and aa«isto.
Tina box.it 1« alleged, cannot be stuffed.
So lar Multnomah County lias managed
to conduct 15 elections with the old*
fathioned wooden ballot box, but there
lieen suspicion« In several case« some of
them have )>een stuffed.—Oregonian.
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