WEST SIDE TELEPHONE. TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS. As a special inducement to new sub­ scribers, we make the following offer: Every person sending ns $2 cash will be given the W est 8 ii > e T ei . ei 'II onh for the bulanee of the present year free. This Is equivalent to 13 months for $2. We are ambitious to make our subscription list greater than all other papers of Yamhill county combined. It is rapid­ ly approaching the point. The Portland News is authority for the following: “It is said the condition of the men working at the big mills at Port Blakely on the sound is but little better than that of the slaves of the south before the war. There is need of a little wholesome American legislation (or that foreign principality.” The general council of the brother­ hood have issued an explanation of Rossn’s deposition from the headship. They say he never paid his dues; that he was untruthful and deceitful and that he used funds foi his own heneflt under the the pretense of using them for “skir­ mishing. That is no reason why they should bounce him. He was only fol­ lowing the teachings of their creed. WASHINGTON’S OUTLOOK McMinnville Baths W ashington , Dec. 15.—The surprise of the day has been the action of the house committee to territories, in order­ ing a favorable report on the bill for ad­ mission of Washington and Montana in­ to the Union, after so many methods have been resorted to to prevent action. The pending question was Hermann’s motion to order the chairman to make a favorable rejMirt, but this was opposed by Springer, who proposed as a substi­ tute the bill introduced by him Monday, providing an enabling act for Dakota, Washington, Montana and New Mexico. Hermann made a long appeal in favor of his motion, and was followed in the same strain by linker of New York, Symes of Colorado, am] Struble of Iowa. A vote being taken, all the republicans and two ¿emocrats voted aye. The re­ maining democrats refrained from voting so that they might not be committed to admission on the floor of the house. As passed by the senate, the bill to admit Washington provides thatafter the adoption of a consitution, as provided by law, the president shall issue a pro­ clamation declaring the territory admit­ ted into the Union. Springer moved to make the senate bill the basis of the report, bill to amend the above as fol­ lops : “That the constitution to be fram­ ed in each territory shall be submitted to congress for its final action.” Alter considerable debate the amendm mt was adopted. C. H. FLEMING, Prop HOLIDAY GOODS! Have Just Added The Leader in Millinery. HAIR WEAVING AND STAMPING. Opposite Grange Store, McMinnville. 42tf McMinnville, Oregon Has been thoroughly renovated and is now ready to receive grain. Storage and Cleaning, 3 cents. Calcutta racks constantly on hand and sold at the low est rates. A gentleman named Saunders, who acquired some distinction a while ago by killing a man at Albany, is to have a new trial, on the ground tnat when on trial before he was subjected to an im­ proper cross-examination by the attor­ ney for the state. Another instance going to b I iow that the methods of the law are not for enforcement of justice, but for the protection of the criminal. It would seem, says the Oregonian, as if the state presently would be under the necessity of apologizing to Mr. Saunders as an abused and persecuted man. Be­ sides, it is said that the man whom he ilew wasn’t of much account. WM. GALLOWAY Prop [Corner Third und C Streets] An ugly rumor has been sent out by sensational correspondents to the effect that Mr. Cleveland recently applied for u large life policy, $100,000, in a well known New York insurance company, which was refused. The medical ex­ perts after a careful examination, ad­ vised the company that the risk was too great, as the president was liable at any moment to die of apoplexy. The probability is that the report is without A cable message says the queen of foundation. England has decorated Prince Alexan­ der with the order of the Bath. No Speculation is rife as to the prospects doubt he needed it badly, and the old for the river and harbor bill for the en­ lady should be highly commended for suing year. McMillan, chairman of the her motherly forethought in her old age. senate commerce committee, states he It is a pity that Lord Colin Campbell thinks one will be passed, but not so had not bail some good old woman to large as the one last session. Two mem­ look after him and decorate him with a bers of the house committee on rivers bath when he needed it. Probably then and harbors said they thought a bill he would not have been guilty of such woul I be passed, appropriating from nastiness as has been developed against seven to ten millions. Many members, him in the divorce case between himself however, say that no bill will be passed. and wife, reports of which are now fill­ The opposition conies from the usual ing the public prints, and shocking the source. people of both Englund and America. The Cincinnati coopers are on a strike now, Eleven hundred of them struck the other day and stopped work because their employers refused to sign the scale of prices prepared by the work­ men. The scale is very full, fixing the prices of all classes of work, and de­ mands that a day’s work shall not ex­ ceed ten houra« including a lunch hour off Saturdays without loss ot pay. That’s right. Whoop her up, and keep her a going until we get that surplus distribut­ ed amongst us—the democrats are to distribute it as soon as they get into power, von know,—and then we won’t iiave to woA any more. The war prophets will continue to get the European nations into the battering of each others brains out. Late London papers say a "European war is now defi­ nitely looked for. The commencement of hostilities is expected February next, at the latest, if the weather at that time oliould permit military operations bn the •enormous scale necessary to carry out ■the plan of campaign sufipoaed to have been decided on. It is generally be­ lieved that Russia will he first to move, spiinging upon Austria without warning. Travelers returning here from Russia re- y>ort extraordinary secrecy in military ■■quarters and ceaseless movement of troops toward the German and Austrian frontiers. Work on ironclads is being [•pushed with feverish haste. Arsenals Land navy yards are reported to be work- ling night and day. It is believed here khat the situation is the deliberated cre­ ation of Biemsrck.” OVER YAMHILL COUNTY BANK Is Now Open. Attention is respectfully invited to this BUSINESS SCHOOL. Its facilities for tnorough practical in­ struction; actual business department a specialty where currency, bank checks, drafts, etc., are used. (.'lass or private instruction day or even­ ing. Crayon and Portrait work a Specialty. College Journal sent free on application. G. R. HIGGINS, Prin. 1*. O. Box 101. iWtf REMEMBER! It is generally believed that diploma­ tic questions of grave importance will soon arise between the United States and Mexico, growing out of the position taken by President Cleveland against the right of Mexico to try Americans committing offences against Mexican law while on American soil. The news­ papers of all shades of opinion stand by the government in this matter, on the ground that the principle is a sound one and approved by some of the most high­ ly civilized nations in the world. The maddest woman in the United States, |>erhaps, is Mrs. Geo. Sermon, ot Charlotte, Michigan. After much te- 'dious litigation she secured a divorce Saturday from her husband on the aground of. non-support, Sermon being •poor and not thrifty, while his wife be­ lieved she could make a better living if she had only herself to look after. The next day, however, Sermon received no­ tice that an aunt had recently died in France leaving him $39,000. He declares that a state of single blessedness is good enough for him, and will have nothing to do with his ex-wife. AUTOGRAPH & PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS J. H. HENDERSON (Successor to L Root) Carries a full and complete stock of The Druggist Groceries, Crockery, Glassware, Wooden and Willowware, Counsel for Goldenson, the brute who shot an innocent little school girl dead in San Francisco, have obtained a con­ tinuance of his case until evidence can lie obtained from Russia, by commis­ sion, as to insanity in Goldenson’s fami­ ly in some period in the past. Thus do courts become instruments of defeating instead of administering justice. The man who is crazy enough to do such an act is just crazy enough to be promptly hanged, and the judge who panders to such rank injustice morally deserves scarcely less. Tobacco Cisrars, Goods delivered promptly to any part of the city. Goods Exchanged for Produce. 35tf COLLARD The Groat Transcontinental Route, Dealer in T’.ie extraordinary statement is made Guns, Pistols, Ammunition, The Direct Route I No Delays I on the authority of a cabinet officer that Fast Trains I the democratic leaders in the house Cutlery’, Fine Fishing Tackle, Cigars, Etc. have been notified by the administration THE LOWEST RATES that unless there shall be action on the TO CHICAGO AND ALL POINTS tariff and silver question this session, Repair Broken Machinery there will be a called session of the East. Tickets sold to nil prominent points throughout the East and Southeast. fiftieth congress. The leaders have of nil kinds—Farm Machinery, Traction endeavored to call a caucus, but are Engines, Etc. threatened with a row if they do. TO EAST-BOUND PASSENGERS ! Locksmithing a Specialty, Be careful and do not make a mistake. But be sure to take the N orthern P acific R ailroad And see that your ticket reads via ST. PAUL OR MINNEAPOLIS, To avoid chan 704 and serious delays occa­ sioned by other routes. Furnitur Through Emigrant Sleeping Cars are Run on Regular Express Trains Full Length of the Line. Berths Free. (renerai Office of the Coni pan; No. 2 Washington St., Portland, Or A. D. CHARLTON, General Western Passenger Agent. good things of this life are sorrowfully let alone on account of Dyspepsia. Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets will cure Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Constipation; sold on a positive guarantee at 25 and fiO cents, by G. W. Burt, Druggist o\rnv>^ u, Blood Elixir is the only r» Blood guir