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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1887)
WEST SIDE TELEPHONE. JOTES AND NEWS. Ross, the man w hom they cannot keep in the county jail at Portland, is still at large. CONGRESSIONAL MISDOINGS. One o' the inalienable rights of every free American citizen is the right to grumble. While grumbling may not be considered an agreeable occupation or one productive of milch good, it is a lesser vice than using "cuss words” and occasionally it yields nearly equal satis faction to that more grave violation of decorum. This prelude is intended as an apology for Raying tliat wo aie not entiiely pleased with his excellency tlie presi dent, or of that august body called the congress of tlie United States. While it is coneeded that the forty-ninthcongress passed a number of important and needed measures, it is probable tliat it will be remembered longer, among thoughtful and patriotic men, for w bat it did not do than for wliat it did. One tiling is very certain, tliat with a surplus income of one hundred of millions of dollars annu ally, it was the dutv of congress to either reduce such surplus by reducing taxation or by expending it ior Hie public welfare. With practically no navy, with a de fenceless coast, with no modern cannon it does not seem us though it should have been difficult to know what to de. It should have been esneciully clear to a body of men who had just passed a bill winch in the halls of congress, had beeii declared to mean war. Too milch time is spent and too many bills are passed in order to secure politi cal advantage by landeiitig to clas- prejitdices. Too many important meas ures are put off to the last of the ses sion when they are rushed through without sufficient consideration, or only to be killed by a "pocket veto.” Many, alas, too many of the meritorious meas ures never pass at all. The improvement of the mouth ol the Columbia, the locks and ship railway at the Cascades and The Dalles, the im- provemant of Yaquina and other bays and harbors are matters of the deepest interest to citizens of Oregon. To se cure from the government aid in these woiks has been tlie chief effort of our representatives for many years, appro priations have been made and work commenced at various points, and all that I isb been done will be lost to the public if such works are nol speedily completed. In view of these facts the failure ot the president to sign the river and haibor bill is peculiarly aggrevia- ting. The president is a strange mixture of man and mule, Daring the past con- gress lie vetoed 21 more bills tlian all of his predecessor'!; 150 bills became laws without his signature, and 50 were kill ed by “pocket vttoes.” His veto of the dependent pension bill was worthy of a man whose only service to the country during the war was to fuinisb u substi tute when drafted. To neither approve or veto the Mormon bill was to be ex pected of a man whose past life liad all of the vices of a Mormon but who, without repentance, is now trying to pose as a decent citizen. His pocke' veto of the Mormon surplus lesolut on was the proper thing fiom a democrat demagogue elected on a “reduce the surplus” platform, but whoso idea of finance are imported from Wall stieet. The treaty of alliance between Ger many, Austria and Italy was signed March 4. Walla Walla was visited by a $125,000 fire Monday night, ¡supposed to be the work of incendiary. The steam launch New York, plying between Portland and Albina capsized Wednesday. One man was drowned. A wide-spread nihilist plot has been discovered in Finland. Numerous stu dents and artisans have been arrested in Uleaborg in connection with the con spiracy. Oregon Democrats arc unanimously of the opinion that G. Cleveland is too greatly interested in domestic affairs to substitute the offensive partisans in office in this stato with good democrats. The redemption of trade dollars began Tuesday, in New York. Over $300,000 were offered, of which only $116,000 could be accepted. They will be malted into bars and stored in the assay office. Los Angeles is having a boom tn small pox all to itself. In fact, it has a corner on the loathsome disease, and there is not a real estate man in the place but w< uld sell it short and charge nothing for climate. In Chic tgo, T' e day it is cl lime I the wheat shortage was the greatest ever known there.- The statement is made that operators there and for outside cus tomers sold fully forty million bushels additional in expectation of a big de cline. The German newspapers unite in the suggestion that Del.esseps be given a welcome due the great Frenchman, who has worked, not for France alone, but for the whole human race; a man whose worth and glory Germany can appreci ate without jelousy. A sensation has been caused in Chat ham England, by the suspension of the foreman employed in the government works there. It is alleged that the man has been guilty of revealing important secret naval designs to the United States and Russian governments. In the county seat feud in Wallace county, Kansas, five or six men have been killed, and tlie state militia bad to be called out to prevent further violence by the contending factions. We, in the far west, do things in a more peaceable way and have no bloodshed. The national convention of superin tendents of schools will assemble for a three days’ session at the National Museum, Washington, on the 15th of the present month. Superintendents of schools and prominent educators in all parts of the country are expected to be present. Wm. M. Turner died at Jacksonville this afternoon, of cancer of the bowels. Mr. Turner was formerly editor of the Oregon Sentinel, and was well and fa vorably known tlirongliout the state. His death cast a deep gloom over the community. The funeral will take place to-day at 2 o’clock. The steamer Citv of Chicago, of the Inman line, ran aground opposite West 1 Hampton, island, Monday, ami was floated off, arriving in poit Tuesday Captain W. Atkinson informed the are engage.! in 'lie struggle agents tliat the vessel sustained no dam age. lie said tliat he had thrown over board about 3(X) bags of salt, 5'K) bags of soda ash and a few boxes of tin be Steel and Chilled PI0W5, Sulky, Gang Thimble and Steel Skein Farm WaKon, fore he released the vessel. The cabin and Walking Plows, Harrows and Spring Wagons, Buggies and *■ everything on wheels. passengers »ere brought on the steamer Cultivators of all ............ kinds. and landed earlier in the day. After getting it the next thing is fo A horrible accident occurred on the elevated railroad in New Yoik City, Tuesday. The large tailor establishment of “Nicol, the Tailor,” in the Bowery, M c M innville , M c M innville crossing and carltcn , O regon , was destroyed bv fire. The fire caused a blockade on the Third avenue elevated ---- IF YOU WANT----- railroad, which runs far up above Four Splendid warehouses, complete with latest improved machinery. Thorough and In teenth street. The conductor for the experience in handling grain. Highest cash price paid for all kinds of Grain ------- Also, dealers in------- train which »'as blockaded a few hundred Anything to be found in a first class Drug blore feet from the Fourteenth street station notified tlie passengers tliat they could CALL UPON leave Hie train and walk over a narrow plank alongside of the station. A num ber availed themselves of tl.e dangerous Wagons,’Buggies tand Carriages. Binder Twine, Belting, Oils, 1RI| privilege, and an awful accident was the Machine Supplies of all kinds. result. In some manner a panic was started on the narrow walk far above the Prescription Druggist, street, and a number of persons were tinown to the pavement below. It is And he will give you as much val stated tliat seven were killed and many ue for your hard earned dollar as injured. All Mankind Almighty Dollar. Expend it Judiciously. Barnekoff, Thomason X- Swanson, Warehousemen and Grain Buyers. Farm, Dairy and Mill Geo. W. I3UIÏT, AIACIIFSTFIIAL Call and See TTs. any man in Oregon. TSTew To-Day notice to taxpayers . DISSOLUTION NOTICE. -J\7J"0TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAI Lx the '-o-p.-irtnersnip heretofore existha between W T Baxter and J F. Martin, under the linn name of Baxter <t Marlin, has been this day dissolved by mutual con sent, J F Martin retiring Old accounts due said firm will be paid to W. T. Baxter, at the old stand W T. BAXTER, J F MARTIN McMinnville. Or March 4. 1877 78t!) W T BAXTER J O ROGERS. —At the new «tore of - XT OTICE * IS HEREBY GIVEN 1-^i that the tax books of Yamhil: ounty for the yaar 1836. are now in n»\ uands for collection, ami that myself or de puty will visit the various precincts of said Acme Harrow,Cloa UrusneranO Leveler Hoosier Force Feed Seedersand Drills county as follows, between the hours of 19 Most effective and serviceable furrn with truss axle and wide tiles o’clock a. m. aud 4 o'clock p. nt. : implement in use. HOOSIER RUNNER PRESS DRILL January 2> Dundee Monday Latest improved and best seeder in use 2-l-m6 East Chehalem Tuesday ( Newberg) West I hehalem Wednesday Carter’s store) North Yamhill Thursday -OF- ( Runnels’) Carlton Friday North McMinnville Saturday ..—At tlie— South McMinnville Monday Tuesday Bellevue Pioneer Boot and Shoe Siori. Wednesday Willamina Sheridan Thursday Ill order to make room for Spring »nd Amity Friday Summer Goods, which will soon (Simpson’s) begin to arrive, and wishing Wheatland 8aturday to reduce stock, I will Monday Dayton sell at actual Tuesday Lafayette All persons are requested to be present at said appointments and settle tneir taxes, Zita: or pay the same to me at my office by the Until April 1 This is a bona-fide SLAUGHTER SALE ANNOUNCEMENT. Call first of April, as required by* law. if not and goods and prices and you will be convinced of the fact that this is no hum then paid we will be necessitated to follow bug examine Sign of the Big Boot. the constructions of the law. T. J. HARRIS, 62tl Sheriff and Tax Collector. CLOSING OUT SALE Doots & Shoes, "Wholesale Cost Opposite the Grran^e Store. (Successors to Baxter A Martin) P. F. BROWNE. OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA VIA Oregon & California R. R. third st ., M c M innville , or . And Connections. Fare to San Francisco, $32; Sacramento $30. Fresh Family Groceries. Close connections made at Ashland with stages of the California, Oregon and Idaho Stage Company. (DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAYS.) Fast Side Division. BETWEEN PORTLAND and ASHLAND. Mall Train. A new, neat and dead stock Every ar ticle A No 1 Fruit Jars, Butter Crocks, Colored Glassware. Cutlery, Cased Goods, Tobacco, Pipes and Cigars. Fresh Fruit and Vegetables in season. We have put our prices <Iown low. Give us a call, inspect our stock, and we will guar antee prices to suit you ARRIVE. LEAVE. Portland 8:00 A. M.¡Ashland Ashland. .8:45 P. M ¡Portland 4:00 A. M. 3.45 P. M. Albany Express Train. Portland 4:00 P. M.I Lebanon 9:20 P. M. Lebanon. .4:45 A. M. I Portland 10:05 A. M. Pullman Palace Sleeping Droadhead Dress Goods. An Assortment of these Popular Goods ARRIVE. LEAVE. ---- Sole Agent for the Celebrated---- Cars In all the Latest Novelties, New and Desirable Colorings, Just Received. PLEASE CALL EXAMINE. AND Daily between Portland and Ashland. What we Guarantee for the Dres3 Gootis of our Manufacture: The O. A' C. R. R. Ferry makes connection with u 11 the regular trains on the East Side To be made from the very best material, by skillful workmen, with the latest and mwt Division from fool of F Street. approved machinery, and to be the cheapest goods in the market when service if considered. West Side Division. BETWEEN PORTLANDS CORVALLIS. Are so thoroughly finished that they can be worn in damp weather or a shower, with Mail Train. out fear of being ruined by curling or shrinking. LEAVE. ARRIVE. Portland 7:30 A. M. ¡Corvallis 12:25 P.M. The manufacturing, dyeing and finishing is done in such a manner, that the goods Corvallis 1:30 P. M.I Portland 6:15 P. M. can be wushetl if desired, without the least injury to the fabric. At Corvallis connect with trains of Oregon Our goods are wool dyed, and the colors are as fast as the purest dyes and greatest ------- Agents for the Pacific R. R. for Yaquina Bay. Express Train. care and skill can make them. LEAVE. ARRIVE. Goods show just what they are and will be until worn out, as there is no weighting, Portland 4:50 P. M ¡McMinnville# :00P.M. McMin’ville5:45A.M. I Portland 9:00 A. M. stiffening, or artificial lustre used to increase the weight or finish; as is the case with a Local tickets for sale and baggage checked large class of goods in the market, but which disappears after a few days’ service. at company’s up-town office, corner Pine As manufacturers we have taken great pains to supply an article in every way re and Second streets. Tickets for principal points in California can only be procured at liable, and unsurpassed by similar goods, either foreign or domestic, and would respect company’s office. fully ask an examination of the various styles and shades to be found on sale by Corner F and Front Sts., Portland, Or. chants who are agents for the goods. Freight will not be received for shipment Keep oiv hand a complete stock of these after five P. M. on either the East or West All goods of onr manufacture should bear the name and trade mark of goods. Also a large and well as Side Divisions. sorted line of R. KOEHLER, E. P. ROGERS. Broadhead Worsted Mills. Jamestown. N. Y. M anager. G. F. A Pass. Agt. Invitations have been issued for the wedding of John A. Logan, Jr., and Mias Edith II. Andrews, which is announced to take place at the home of the bride’s naients at Youngsville, Ohio, on March The completion of the Pacific Postal 22. The father of the bride, Chauncy Telegraph line between New Westmin II. Andrews, is one of the wealthiest ster and San Francisco by the way of iron and coal men in Ohio. Portland, and ha connection by way of Stockton, California, which has been the Canadian Pacific with the Maekav- isleep for a number of years past, has Bennett cables, is the occasion of rejoic recently aroused from its slumbers and ing on the part of the enterprising men is investing $120,000 in the way of ad who conceived and carried to comple vertising its advantages. The news- tion so gigantic an enterprise ill so short papers of the place are crowded witli a time. No formal opening has yet real estate advertisements, and every been announced between the Atlantic man in the town is on the jump. and Pacific, yet considerable business At Scio Monday afternoon Frank Har has been done over the new line, anil ris, aged 18 years, shot John Craft, 20 there is no doubt but it will lie crowded ---- Ladies' and Gents'----- to the full capacity of its wires to carry vears old, during a quarrel. They had lieen partners in the cattle business and the offerings of the merchants and busi ness men of the Pacific coast when the Harris accused the Craft brothers of stealing a calf. A fight ensued and Har announcement is made. ris shot Craft in the back of the neck, ------- AND FINE------- At 8:45 Tuesday morning, in the city the hall ranging forward through the of Brooklyn, Henry Ward Beecher de fleshy part and being visible beneath parted hence to the other world, after the cuticle in front. The wound is not an illness oi but three days. Henry fatal. Harris was arrested. Waid Beecher was the son of I)r. I.yman Strange as it may seem in this ago a In all the latest Styles and Patterns, which for tit and quality cannot he beat. Beecher, and was born in Litchfield, man was recently sold in Kentucky. Call and see our spring Connecticut, on June 24, 1813, con What renders the matter more remarka goods before pur chasing else sequent)? he was in his seventy-fourth ble is that the selling was done at his where. year. In 1834 he graduated at Amherst own request, and a still more interesting college, afterward studying theology feature is that the man is white. He Corner Third and C Streets. under his father at Lane seminary, In took advantage of an old law, now al 1847 he was chosen pastor oi Plymouth most a dead letter in tlie statute book, church, Brooklyn, whero he achieved hv which a man, if he so electa, may be his fame and became known as one of sold tor a term of service rather than go the greatest pulpit orators of the day. to the work-house to serve out a term AMITY, OREGON. for vagrancy. The Minnesota legislature has passed Dispatches state, there has not SAM LIKENS, Proprietor. a new libel law, which provides that no person can bring suit against a publica been much change in the aspect of Blacksmithing an.l carriage ironing of tion without tluee days notice, rinring aflTtirs between the Americans and every description. which time a retraction must Ire received the Mexicans. Yesterday the local in evidence when the suit is tiled. The court had the case of Colonel Arvizu Horse Shoeing law also provides that plant iff can only before them, the bench being occupied And plow work a specialty. recover such damages as he proves he by «11 the judges of the district. Repor has actually suffered. Editor Wheelock ters were excluded from the court room. - - o ■ of the Pioneer Press, is ths author of the Some of the Mexican officials, however, Also manufacture the bill and to Iris influence is due its pass stated they would give them all the proceedings. The case of Arvixu is very Celebrated Oregon Iron Harrow, age by the legislature. serious and not only entails dismissal GIVE ME A CALL. 50H Young Billy English, the brilliant Ron from lire service, but sentence for a long of old Rilly English, statesman and term in the penitentiary, or being shot. capitalist, ha* added aeveraI grey hai>s Dispatches have been received, also, the Children. They are es- to bin father's griir.lv thatch by bia stating that Secretary of State Bayard r’Wv v pccially liable to sudden recent ex|w*rien<*e with a designing bin I demanded fiom the Mexican gov Colds, Coughs, Croup, Whooping Cough, We guarantee Acker's English widow. The family disgrace is not what ernment the immediate surrender of the etc. Remedy a positive cure. It saves hurts the old man, but the expense, you lieutenant and soldiery engaged in the hours of anxious watching. Sold by fight the other evening. know—that ¡p something frightful. Geo. W. Burt, Druggist. Bishop&Kay Brownsville Woolen MILLS Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Worsted Clothing New Blacksmith Shop! A. A. KENYON. M c M innville MANFORD RAY. City Market, F urniture S tore , W. H. BINGHAM. KENYON & RAY, Proprietors, (Successors to W. F. Bangasser.) Prop., FRESH MEAT Of all kinds ami of the best < kept constantly on ham All Kimis of Camo in Season. —Dealers in all kinds of— —Carries a Complete Stock of— Furniture and Undertakers’Goods. HORSEMEN I Flour and Feed W hen you want horse bills printed, remem ber that the T elephone office is unsurpassed —Goods sold at— in facilities for doing this and all other kinds The Lowest Cash Price of Job Printing. Good work. Low prices. —And— Delivered Free! fehltf To any part of the city. MILLINERY I I McMinnville Baths’- C. H. FLEMING, Prop. Milling Doi le! I would most respectfully announce that I have leased the Chris Newby Flouring Mill in Happy Valley, have thoroughly overhauled and repaired it. and ani now readv to do grinding for toll orcasli. Come and see uie. tSm.t J. A. VKRSTtM. —A Full Line of Fancy Millinery! Sliming, Hair fut I ¡ng and- - - - - - - - - Shampoing rarbn. Ladies' and Children's Work — A SPECIALTY.— Blood Elixir is the only ■* Blood Remedy guaran teed. It Is a positive care for Ulcere, Erup- tionsor Syphilitic Poisoning. It purifies the whole system, and banishes all Rheumatic and Neuralgic pains. Wo guarantee it. Gw. W. Burt. Dmggist. —At the Millinery Parlors of— NIissF. F. Rut HATS AT HALF PRICE. Hot and Cold Baths, 25 Cts. —Have Just Added— The Finest Line of Cigar8 In the City. Try Them.