Entered at the Postoffice in McMinnville,
as Second-class matter
VOL. XXIV.
M’MINNVILLE, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1894.
THE
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COMMERCIAL
LIVERY STABLE.
GATES & HENRY, Props.
E Street, north of Third. Everything New and
Firrt-cla-s«». Conveyance of Commercial Travel
ers a specialty. Board and stabling by the day or
month. We ¿blicit a fair share of the local pat
ronage.
Matthies Brothers,
PROPRIETORS
CITY MARKET.
FRESH MEATS OF ALL KINDS
CHOICEST IN THE MARKET.
South side Third St. between B and C.
CITY BATHS
—AND—
TO.WSOK1AL PARLORS,
Logan & Kutch, Prop's.
For a Clean Shave or Fashionable Hair
Cut Give Us a Call.
Baths are new and first-class in every re
spect. Ladies’ Bathsand shampooing a special
ty. Employ none but first-class men. Don’t
forget the place. Three doors west of Hotel
Yamhill.
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ELSIA WRIGHT,
Manufactures and Deals in
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: ærness :
SADDLES, BRIDLES, SPURS,
Brushes and sells them cheaper than
they can be bought anywhere else in
the Willamette Valley. Our ail home
made sets of harness are pronounced
unsurpassable by those who buy them
TI1E Bfc.IllNNVII.I.F.
National Bank
—McMinnville, Oregon.—
Paid up Capital, $50,000
Transact, a General Banking Btuineas.
President,
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Cashier. -
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Anal. Cashier
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LEE LAUGHLIN.
E. C. APPERSON
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J. W. COWLES,
LEE LAUGHLIN,
A. J. APPERSON,
WM. CAMPBELL,
I L ROGERS.
Sell Sight Exchange «nd Telegraphic Trans
fer, on New York, Sau FntnaUeo and Portland.
Deposits received subject to check. Interest paid
on Time Deposits. Loans money on approved
security. Collections made on all accessible
points.
JOHN F. DERBY,
Proprietor of The McMinnville
TILE FACTORY,
Situated at the Southwest corner of the Fair
Qroiuids.
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All sizes of first-class Drain Tile kept constantly
on hand at lowest living prices.
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E. J. Qualey & Co.,
QUINCY, MASS.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
GRANITE
MONUMENTS
AND ALL KINDS OF
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FURNISHINGS
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All work hilly guaranteed to give perfect satis
faction. Refers by permission to Wm Me Chris
man, Mrs. L. E. Bewley. Mrs. E. D. Fellows.
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Goods of all descriptions moved and
careful handling guaranteed. Collections
will be made monthly. Hauling of all
kinds done cheap.
HITE’S^
Third St. I door W.
of Burns A Daniel«
MEALS AT ALL HOURS
Best 25c Meal in City.
Choice Fruits. Confections, Nuts and Cigars.
ICE CREAM!
Lemonade, Soda Pop, Etc.
Board by the Day or Week.
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LOCAL NEWS.
DAYS IN ROHL.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE S2.<>0 PER YEAR.
One Dollar if paid in advance. Single numbers five cents.
interior marbles, which, like the ex
terior ones, have all been carried
away to be used in other buildings,
were taken from Nero’s golden
house, which was near. The Colise
um stands in what was his palace
garden, its center, where was an ar
tificial lake. Its present name, given
in the eighth century, it is supposed,
was given from the colossal statue of
Nero. Before that time, it was
known as the Flavian amphitheater.
It will be remembered that it was
begun by Tespasian in 69 A. D. and
was finished in eleven years. Twen.
ty thousand captive Jews worked
upon it. It is a third of a mile in
circumference, and not round, as
some pictures represent it, but oval,
its longest diameter about 205 yards,
the less 169 yards. The height of
the walls is 165 feet, and this also, I
was told, is the depth of the founda
tion. There are four tiers of seats;
the lowest was for the emperor, the
nobles and vestal virgins; the next
was for the freedmen; the third, for
the soldiers; and the upper row was
set apart for the slaves. From 87,-
000 to 100,000 people could be seated,
and so numerous were the entrances,
and so perfect was the arrangement
of the staircases for the different
tiers of seats, that it is believed that
the great theater could be emptied
in ten minutes. The audience was
protected by a movable awning
which was drawn by sailors from the
imperial fleet, stationed in the sol
dier’s tier. Some of the iron fixtures
used for the awnings, or the grooves
in which they were, are yet to be
seen.
The arena, which measured 98x58
yards, as now seen is at two different
levels. The upper one was made in
the fourth century, the older one has
been excavated only in part. It was
the custom to keep the wild beasts
in dark dens for forty-eight hours
without food, before they were to
fight, and then from thirty gates
they bounded together into the are
na. A sloping bronze wall with' an
ivory coping protected the sitters in
the lower seats from their attacks,
and slaves were stationed behind
gratings, where they could strike an
animal which attempted to cross this
barrier. The arena was three times
flooded for naval contests. After
Constantine’s time, gladiatorial fights
were no longer allowed, but beasts
slill furnished entertainment to
the crowds.
In the eighth century these fights,
too, had ceased, and the huge struc'
ture was used as a hospital; the wide
arches supporting the walls were
shut in with boards, and rows of beds
were placed under them. When, in
the seventeenth century, the French
turned the Coliseum into a fortress,
the horses were kept on the lower
arena. Pope Pius VI. made a chap
el of one of the 26 rooms from which
the gladiators aDd Christians came
upon the arena. The beauty of the
ruin by moonlight has not been ex
aggerated ; but only a poet can de
scribe the scene when to the majesty
of the pile dimness and mystery are
added.— A. D. in Scientific American.
We may smile at the ignorance
Capt. Wyatt Harris has tacked an ad
and
arrogance of the old Romans be
dition to bis dwelling.
cause
they called their golden mile
T. N. Graves of Sheridan was a busi
stone I d the Forum 1‘umbilicus terra
ness caller on Tuesday.
Mrs. A. L. Newgard is reported as re rum” but after we have spent some
days among her ruins, her churches
covering from the typhoid fever.
Few more sewing machines left at a and monuments, have had associa
tions of more than twenty-five cen
bargain at
C. G rissen ’ s .
No better work done in the state than turies recalled, and have noticed the
activity and vigor in the present life
at the McMinnville Steam Laundry.
of
the city, we are almost, if not
C. P. Bishop, a former business man
quite,
ready to say, “Of course,
of
this
place,
now
of
Salem,
spent
Sun
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Rome is the center of the world.”
day in McMinnville.
Is Hatching at
I presume that it is very common
Fresh milch cow wanted. Jersey pre
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for travelers, who come here to-day,
ferred. Inquire of W. L. Warren. 41tf
Deputy Clerk C. H. McKinney moved to wish they could have come a cen
into his new house on north E street on tury, or even a generation, ago, when
old Rome was less obscured by the
Monday.
Rev. Bonham, formerly pastor of the bustling capital of the young king
Baptist church of this city, is now dom of Italy. However, there are
preaching to a congregation in Mayville, compensations. Some of the inter
GROCERY.
N. Y.
esting discoveries are very recent
Cal. Landingham of Sheridan, while ones, and modern Romans are but
returning from the coast last Friday, was repeating the history of their ances
thrown out of the wagon, and broke his tors, in building on old foundations;
arm.
the continuity is being preserved.
Gopher valley is furnishing the supply
It is a curious fact that this city,
of bear meat at present. J. Agee brought
which in the past has had the vicissi
in a fat yearling Monday and sold it to
tudes of war and pestilence and pros
the butchers.
perity, is suffering now from what is
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Prof. Northup’s wife and children in
known in America as a “boom.”
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tend starting east the last of this week
to spend the winter with her folks in There has been over-building, banks
have loaned money on security
New York state.
The North Yamhill schools opened last which did not secure, and unfortu
week with an enrollment of 107, the nate depositors are beggared. In
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largest number of pupils the town has their haste to build, too, they have
had on opening day.
forgotten that they live over enor
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W. M. Manning of Moore’s valley left mous caverns, and some large struc
some very large samples of Oregon apples tures have collapsed after they were
at this office, just to show what monsters finished, in much the same fashion
do grow in his little valley.
that others have in a land that had
Married, on Monday, October 15th, at not been dreamed of when Rome was
Hotel Yamhill, by His Honor, J. E. mistress of the world.
Magers, J. H. Lamson and Miss Lulu
But the general aspect of the city
Are You
Barber, both of Willamina.
is decidedly one of thrift and stabil
An eight day, mantel, striking clock, ity. The new streets are wide, clean
Considering
with alarm for $5, without alarm $4.50,at
and well lighted; so many railway
Wm. F. Dielschneider’s, the leading
The Purchase of a
tracks run into the central station
jeweler of Yamhill county.
that one instinctively says, “All
A new elevated woodshed has been
The new
constructed for the occupants of Union roads lead to Rome I”
block. It is high and dry, and above the churches have a splendor about them
reach of those people who do not buy that the old ones lack, albeit there is
no Michael Angelo to be their archi
their wood.
tect
and no Raphael to paint their
Our prices are lower than Portland or
Salem laundries’ and the work guaran Madonnas. The monument to Vic
teed equally as good, then why not en tor Emanuel, which is being built on
courage your home laundry.
the Capitoline Hill, will doubtless be
All persons indebted to R. Jacobson grander than any other in Europe.
A Large Line of the Best Styles at
will please call and settle as we have It is to include 200 frescoes, 400 stat
waited patiently, and now are obliged to ues, and to cost 12,000,000 francs.
make collections to meet obligations.
The equestrian statue of the king
The shooting contest at the fair will overlook not only the present
grounds Sunday between Martin and city, but those wide outlying lands
Schneider was won by the former, who
which were thickly populated when
killed 23 out of 25 birds, and Schneider
Rome
was half as large as London
killed 21.
now
is.
J. F. Rowland of North Yamhill raised
And it is that Rome and her begin
a 108-pound pumpkin. It makes him
sigh to contemplate the number of pump nings which most interests the
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kin pies it would make, and nobody to stranger. So much and so well have
make them for him.
the best known objects of interest
Lawrence’s shingle mill at Meadow been written about, that I cannot
lake closed for the winter on Wednesday, say anything new about them; the
and Mr. Lawrence and his assistants most that I can hope to do is to re
| have returned to the valley. The year’s fresh the memory of them in some
output of shingles was 670,000.
readers’ minds and suggest to others
About thirty of Mrs. Evenden’s friends that it is worth while to spend a
surprised her at her home Monday eve short time in Rome if one cannot do
ning, and presented a gold ring as a more.
memento of their friendship. She will
With a scholarly guide; who is
leave for California to-morrow.
thorough
master of the history and
LARGE INVOICES JUST IN!
Baz Hibbs brought to town Friday the
geography
of the city, ancient and
head of a buck deer which he killed on
modern,
a
great
deal can be accom
We invite the attention Bald mountain Thursday. He claims it
UNCLE BEX’S POINTED LOGIC.
plished
in
a
week.
Such a guide is
was the finest specimen ever brought to
of all persons contem
this city. The antlers had ten prongs on indispensable to the visitor who
In his speech at Evansville, Ind.,
plating the purchase of each side.
wants to make the most of his time. last week ex-President Harrison ut
The seven hills seem to-day more tered the following hard sense, which
Thad. H. Dupuy will keep the outside
new goods in our line.
world posted in regard to the “doings” of traditional than real. Standing on will be especially appreciated by our
Come and see them.
Lafayette through these columns in the the Capitoline, the Esquiline, the agricultural readers:
future. He is authorized to receive sub Coelian, the Viminal, the Quirinal,
“I said some years ago that the
scriptions for the R eporter and to re the Palatine and the Pincian are
American workingman had the most
ceipt for the same.
pointed out as quarters of the city;
Rev. H. A Denton spent last week in they differ so slightly in elevation favored lot of any workingman in
the world, and that this was evi
the Yakiro. country, attending the
from the valleys between them that denced by the fact that the gates of
Washington ministerial association, and
we drive from oue to another scarce Castle Garden always swung inward
incidentally looking after the interests of
ly
noticing any change in the level. to the working men seeking our
the new Christian View. By the way,
the newspaper be is editing, improves It is hard to believe that once they shore. The workingman knows the
were distinct and each had its own land of promise as well as the swal
with age.
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Died, October 13th, in this city, Lewis wall. The hills were never high, low knows the land of summer.
Ellsworth, son of Rev. and Mrs. Lee and Rome’s masters have not scru could not say that to-day, because
Thompson, at the age of 10 months and pled to level them as they have her the gates of Castle Garden have been
14 days. The funeral was from the M. palaces and temples when they saw swinging outward. Now, how came
E. church Monday at 11 a. m., conducted fit.
the present condition about? It is
by Rev. C. A. Lewis of Portland, an old
The present city is from 16 to 22 important to know, became the par
friend of the family.
feet above the level of the ancient ty or policy that brought it about
Located at Sheridan, Yamhill County, Oregon, ate just now offering
I.
T.
Moore
believes
corn
is
a
good
Forum.
Some of the most interest carries a fearful weight of responsi
bargains in real estate that can’t be duplicated in the Willamette valley.
Lands that have been held in large tracts are now being subdivided into crop right here in Yamhill. The reason ing ruins stand upon the site of oth bility. In August, a year ago, con
tracts to suit purchaser, and at prices that defy competition. People with of bis belief is that he harvested thirty- ers which far antedate them. Em gress assembled, and after dealing
small means and desiring homes on the installment plan, will find it to five bushels, from less than a half acre of
their interest to call upon or address this company. Sheridan is in a fa ground, of sound and well matured perors and popes alike have sought with the Sherman bill, organized the
vored fruit district of Oregon, out of range of the codlin moth and other corn this season. The variety he planted to beautify the city or immortalize committee of ways and means of the
insect pests. We also have some fine business openings and miW properties is known as the “Bloody Butcher.”
themselves at the expense of what house of representatives and charged
for sale or exchange for other property. Trades of all kinds negotiated.
ever they could lay hands upop.
it with the duty of having a tariff
W.
H.
H.
Austin,
a
hardware
dealer
of
Correspondence solicited. Descriptive circular and price list will be for
The Coliseum, for example, was bill ready for action at the regular
North Yamhill, had the misfortune on
warded on demand.
Monday to break both an arm and a leg for 130 years used as a quarry, and session. Instead of getting a bill
Below we give a few farms we are offering for sale:
NO. 1. 488 acres, 400 in cultivation, large two-story house, large barn, two by the giving away of the staging upon because it was so well built that it speedily through, the conditions of
large bearing orchards, nice stream of water running through the pasture, furnish which he was at work constructing bis was more labor to get stone from it uncentainty and distress were pro
ing abundance of water at all times of year, situated on county road and railroad, new store room. W. E. King, a carpenter,
2ZL miles from Amity. This will be sold at a great sacrifice and divided to suit also fell and sustained injuries to his than from the hills near by, the popes longed through a whole year, and
purchaser.
not only robbed it themselves, but August of 1894 came around before
back, which while serious, it is thought
NO. 2. 180 acres. 80 acres in crop, balance easy cleared, situated on county
one of them offered a premium to our democratic friends had passed a
will
not
prove
fatal.
road 3 miles from Sheridan,
mile from school, splendid hop, grain or fruit land';
any one who would take building bill, which, according to the judg
price $15 per acre.
Proprietors of other town laundries do
NO. 3. 200 acres, 50 acres cleared, balance young oak and fir land, nice not spend their money in McMinnville, material from it. And yet it is to ment of Mr. Cleveland, was so un
stream water, a splendid stock ranch, situated 3 miles from Sheridan; price $7 per then why patronize them.
day the most impressive ruin in equal in its provisions, so unlike the
42-3
acre.
democratic promises, so full of party
B. Gabriel, the Dayton warehouseman, Rome. The outer walls are made of
NO. 4. 100 acres all in cultivation, adjoining the city limits of Sheridan, fine
perfidy and dishonor that he would
large
blocks
of
travertine
from
the
was
a
business
caller
Tuesday.
He
says
hop land ; price $35 per acre.
not attach his name to it. If the
Sabine
hills;
they
are
laid
without
NO. 5. 30 acres, 15 acres clear, all lays fine to cultivate when clear, 1J4 about 60,000 bushels of wheat and half
miles from Sheridan; price $12.50 per acre.
as many of oats, have passed through his mortar, but still are closely joined, country could have known what the
warehouse this season. He expects to and age has given them a 6oft, gray democratic party was likely to do, all
SHERIDAN LAND COMPANY. Sheridan, Oregon.
make a fairly good thing out of his pota brown tint. They cover walls of this uncertainty would have been di
to crop, having 6ixty acres from which enormous thickness made of brick minished, but the trouble about it
ISAAC DAUGHERTY, Manager.
he will get about eix thousand bushels. and tufa in alternating layers.
all was that there was no coherence
At present prices they are worth $1500.
How dazzling must it have been of belief among the democrats and
Senator John H. Mitchell will arrive when these walls were covered out nobody could tell what they might
in this city to-day to meet old friends and
side and in with white marble and do. These gentlemen now tell you
to make an inspection of the Yamhill
they want to break down the fences;
river. The senator’s interest in the im ornamented with tiers of marble col
that is what Mr. Wilsoa told his
umns
!
The
lower
columns
were
Do
provement of our water transportation is
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not by any means lukewarm. The at ric, the next Ionic, and the third English friends the other day. Now,
tempt will be made to-day to prevail tier Corinthian. The fourth story, fences are for two purposes. I was
i upon the senator to give the public an built by Titus, had windows sepa raised on a farm and have had some
i address at the opera house this evening. rated by Corinthian pilasters.
The experience. They are to keep things
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Scheme |
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It interests everybody who
desires to buy cheap Groceries.
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You are asked to call and
learn the proposition.
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HEATING STOVE ?
HODSON'S.
1394- PRICES.
CALL EARLY AND MAKE SELECTION.
NEW FURNITURE
Upholstered Novelties.
BURNS & DANIELS
H ome 3 eekers , ATTENTI0N!
The Sheridan Land Company
The Reporter
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
NO. 42.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
Baking
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
out or to keep them in—one or the suits. So far, it is to be observed,
other. Fences around the cornfield the women voters have their own
are to keep stock out; the fence political clubs and confine their cam-,
around the pasture field is to keep paign work mostly to their own sex.
stock in. What does the tearing of When they come to mingle generally
them down imply? That all of the with the men, as they logically must
stock outside will get in with our in the course of events, there will be
cattle and will share the range with another severe test, and we can not
them. I start out with this propo tell how it will turn out. Time and
sition, that there is not enough experience will be required to settle
grass on’the range for the cattle that all of these doubtful points; and
are out there already. I make this meanwhile, it is the part of courtesy,
second proposition. The grass with as well as of wisdom, to hope for the
in our fences must have been better best with regard to an innovation of
and the cattle sleeker and better in so much importance.
bone and richer in condition than
FROM THE COUNTY PRESS.
those on the range. If we equalize
these things and let the horned and
North Yamhill Record.
hungry stock from the range into
Supervisor
T. M. Laughlin is put
our fields, we won’t have as much
ting
in
a
new
bridge between town
grass for our own stock as we had
and
the
depot
in front of the resi
before.
“They talk to us about wanting dence of Mr. Williams.
There has been considerable stir
that foreign market. In the tariff
bill of 1890 we introduced a reciproc about town in connection with the
ity policy of securing markets of Martin hop crop during the past few
enormous profit and value to the days. Hop pickers, mortgagee, one
farmers and manufacturers of this ■ arrest and complaint withdrawn, at
country. The democratic party, in tachment case, hops loaded on car,
its mad desire for tariff reform and seal broken and hops unloaded, one
for what they call increased foreign man struck by another are current
trade, has struck down everyone of reports. The cases have been tried
these reciprocity treaties. What is over and over on the street, and
the result? Spain has done as we various judgments rendered. A6
might have expected—imposed the the courts have not yet had an oppor
old duty on flour to Cuba. When a tunity to pass on the matter, we re
Logansport firm here in Indiana, frain from comment.
sent 16.000 barrels of flour to New
Amity Blade.
York the other day for Cuba, the
J. W. Roth has rented the farm of
commission merchants in New York
J. W. Briedwell, Sr., and moved on
sent back word that they could not
the same, Tuesday.
send it, and that it would have to be
W. H. Harrison has moved to town
sold in New York at a loss. Minne
and
occupies the house lately vacated
apolis millers also sent their flour
by
B.
Lane and family.
with the same result. After years
Jones & Smith, merchants of this
of hard fighting, and great credit is
due to the gallant soldier and states city, have taken a con tract to furnish
man, General Rusk of Wisconsin, to Seattle firms 2o car loads of apples,
who, as secretary of agriculture, pears and potatoes, and have likely
assisted in the work, we succeeded , secured the amount or nearly 60 by
in breaking down the prohibition on ’ this time. Numerous crews of pack
Germany against our hog products. ers are busy throughout thi6 vicinity
Now, all that is gone. I venture to and northern Polk county, rapidly
predict that if we continue our pres preparing the fruit for shipment.
ent policy of discriminating against
Dayton Herald.
German sugar, they will find trichi John Crawford of Newberg, came
nae in American pork in less than up to Dayton Tuesday. He informed
six months and shut it out again. A us that he and Mrs. Crawford ex
great and patriotic effort was made pected to go to California next month
to make markets for our products, and spend the winter.
but all this work is to go for nothing
Grandfather Baxter—James Bax
in this wild crusade for tariff re
ter, father of S. R. Baxter—is quite
form.”
ill. He has said that he has no hopes
of recovering, and bids those of his
THE WOHEX IN POLITICS.
friends who call to see him good bye.
Mr. Baxter has lived out the allotted
The campaign in Colorado is chief
time of humanity. He is over 86
ly interesting by reason of the fact
j years of age.
that the women of the state are to
John Bradley has been granted the
vote this year for the first time at a
privilege by the county court, to
general election. It is impossible to
erect poles from McMinnville to New
predict the result of the introduction
berg,, by way of Lafayette and Day
of this new political force, or to esti
ton
for telephone purposes. Mr.
mate the relative degrees of advan
Bradley
informs us that he will com
tage there will be derived from it by
mence
getting
out poles for that pur
the different parties, each one of
pose
without delay, and also have the
which has nominated a woman for a
I poles and wire up for use as soon as
state office. In Arapahoe county,
which includes the city of Denver, possible. This will be another great
and which casts about one-fourth of convenience to Dayton, to have tele
the total vote of the state, 19,000 phone communication with the out
women have registered and are tak side world, like all enterprising
ing quite an active part in the con towns now have.
test. These women are in large part
Newberg Graphic.
the wives of bankers, merchants and
The county surveyor is expected
professional men—the element that down next week to make a survey of
controls and adjusts social affairs, the David Ramsey farm, preparatory
and conserves and promotes moral to a division of the land between the
interests. Politics is the fashion in five sons. George says ten or fifteen
a sense, and the women find election acres is all he wants to keep and this
eering an interesting way to spend he will set to fruit. J udge Ramsey
their time. This does not imply that contemplates improving his part.
they deal with the matter in a frivo Ode Hatfield and family of Daj’ton
lous manner; on the contrary, they passed through the town the first of
are represented to be very much in the week on their way to Portland to
earnest, and to manifest a due real
make arrangements for their tickets
ization of the importance and the re for passage to Honolulu. B. R.
sponsibility of political service, as Henry of Tualatin, who is making up
well as a surprising familiarity with the colony, thinks they will start
political issues and conditions.
about the first of November.
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It remains to be seen, of course,
if this interest will continue as the
It is said, on good authority, that
novelty of the thing wears off and
the
standard work on tactics in
I
other sources of diversion and ex
China
was written 1,000 years before
citement intervene. Moreover, there
the
Christian
era, and with slight re
is the danger that the intelligent
and reputable women may not re vision is used by Li Hung Chang, the
tain their predominance, but be “Bismark of Asia.” The book actu
crowded into the background or driv ally recommends that in going to
en out of the field by those of a lower battle the men should be well sup
order. In this relation lies one of plied with musical instruments as
the principal tests of woman suf the “voluptuous strains are a very
frage. It is true that the proportion potent factor in gaining victories."
of ignorant and corrupt women is Another article advises the “free ap
not greater than that of ignorant plication of the bamboo to officers as
and corrupt men—in fact, we may well as privates.” With such anti
easily believe it to be much smaller quated tactics and such gigantic dis
—but can as many good women as organization as exists in their army,
bad ones be expected to vote regu there seems to be little chance for
larly from year to year? This is a the Chinese to win honors as a mili
question yet to be decided. An ex tary people.
periment like that which is now be
ing tried in Colorado can not fail to
The Oregon Bar Association is in
be more or less instructive; but a session at Portland, with Judge
series of such experiments will be Burnett of this lis ri t ss pr"Silin/
necessary to furnish conclusive re- <th r.