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Yamhill County Reporter »'N I »I POR TANT SIHJECT. DIVEHtE ANO HEAITIEI L OBE CON. the city of A'hland. the end of a di vision of the Southern Pacific, and tin- gateway to California. The Pa cific cceau is distant in a direct line 84 miles, andon the south the bound ary between Oregon and California is only 20 miles away. Even now the wailing blast of the whistle pro claims the near approai it to the sta tion, and thus my first of the series of letters must c.ose. An important question for Ameri ■ - - ’ > cans to consider, and one treated al Editorial Correspondence. together too lightly, is the need of Ashland, Or.. Feb. 18, 1900. reclaiming the arid lands. Expan Sometimes the dairy of a wander sion is all right in its place, but it is a serious question whether the first ing citizen is of interest to the peo [duty of America is not to render ple of his own home, and especially habitable her waste places. \\ li.v is this true when the citizen starts ADVERTISING I. \TE8. do not political parties make this out firm in the faith that his own Beading noticebin l--eal columns 10 cent* per A subject of internal improvements a home cannot be outdone in point of 1110 for first week inc! » cent- per line thereafter. Display advertisements, annual latex, one inch chief plank in their party platforms, excellence by any other section of per month #1; each additional inch 50 cents per rather than the threadbare and ex earth. TI iom * IBicy ci<* Put I bm . month. Leaving Portland on the Southern Oiiituary and marriage notices not exceeding ploded issue of free silver, and like Lafayette, Ore., Feb. 21, nw>. 10 linen published free, if furnished in time to Pacific train yesterday evening, we be current news. Additional matter 10 cent* per matters that have proved to be va E ditor R eporter :—I see in your tine. garies by laws already in operation? have had a most delightful journey last issue that you mention the arrest Candidate*’ “(’«rd- of Announcement” from There are very few who realize what to the “Granite City," whose gates and tilling of our neighbors for traveling now until the convention, $2.50. a marvelous increase in population we will enter by the time this letter on the bicycle path. Were they not on and prosperity throughout the whole is finished. A jaunt through the Willamette the county road? western half of the United States Over 50 different articles in the would follow the adoption of the valley over the Southern Pacific There is no such a thing as a bicycle Dry Goods line which we wish to H on . R. M. V eatcii , who was national irrigation policy. Stop and always has its attendant pleasures path on record, and we do have records beaten for representative in congress think of it! France has a popula at any season of the year, and now, that show us that the men arrested were dispose of at cost. by Hon. Thomas H. Tongue, is now tion of 3*,343,192. Montana and when the season that we call winter on the public highway, and that it has mentioned its the probable demo Idaho would, if irrigated, sustain I is here, the exhilarating ozone cratic nominee for county judge of them all. Together these two states I abounds at every turn of the broad, certain widths, beginning at some fixed point and ending or connecting with Lane county. These goods will all be placed are larger than France. Belgium I expansive valley that has given to other roads; while this road you speak has a population of six millions and : Oregon much of its name and fame, of commences in imagination and ends on our Bargain Counter Saturday T he board of regents of the state the Gila and Salt river valleys in , and a trip can be made with as much ' comfort now as when the roses of in a mudhole; having no fixed width, Morning. Our sale will last 20 university has abolished the chair of Arizona are as large as Belgium, Days. Come early and get first logic, held by Prof. McElroy, the and if irrigated would sustain at. June are blooming. The ubiquitous no regular place, and crosses and re porter alone feels the dis- crosses the wagon track, having all the same to take effect at the end of the large a population. California has j colored choice. university year. This will neces over 58 million acres of government comforts attending a winter's trip. appearance of a cowpath in the grubs, You know the ways of the colored dodging the grubs and bad places, using sarily remove Prof. McElroy from land, more than half the area of the porters, and how they always make state, and 17 million acres of it can the university. the wagon track when it comes to cut, McMinnville Grange & Farmers tie reclaimed by irrigation Today you feel that if you don’t give them hill or bridge, the worst of all places to a pretty big tip, you are a good deal the city of Chicago has a larger pop Company. I t is proposed in Chicago to label than the big state of Cali worse than a slave driver. In the meet scorchers. every tree on the streets anti in the ulation winter they are more particularly in I am with Mr Waddel, by all means Chas. P. Nelson; Manager. parks with its name. There is some fornia. Population makes prosper need of a generous fee than at any have bicycle paths, but have them re wisdom in this. The high schools ity, makes markets and makes prop other time, for they must look after corded, protected and built well, so far and colleges turn out graduates in el ty values. Oregon has much land the ventilation anil heat of the car, botany every year who can t tell a that could be redeemed in this way. and when you ask for more cover on as practical, and when the means to Strike a line through the United build gives out, or the road has but little sycamore from an oak. States on the meridian of 98 deg., the bed they know you are making travel, let all respect the right of the which cleaves Kansas and Texas them a lot of trouble unless your re wheel and give it room. Let man power about midway, and the United States quest is accompanied by the sound have the preferred track over beast as well, and you have west of this of silver. However, the porters are power. But when we have a path, have line a population of 4,404,000. East kept busy, for the recent inaugura of the line you have 58,218,000. tion of a double daily train service it continuous from eml to end, giving What makes the difference? Chiefly to SanFrancisco is a notable addition the wheel no right to the wagon track. humidity. The magic touch of to the facilities of the traveling pub Then the path cannot conflict with our water. Reclaim as far as possible lic, and has made it possible to reach, road supervisors, and can be placed un Mammoth Bronze Turkey Eggs from by irrigation the arid side, and it in two days time, the many resorts der their control or taken from them. will sustain a greater population of Southern California, so attractive First prize Bird- 25c each, or 13 for $3. Yours truly, than the whole United States con at this season. Yours Truly, F. J. C anfield . The only unplesant feature of the tains today. The opportunities for MRS. C. D. NAIRN, Shadeland Farm, millions of workers and home build night train out of Portland is the J. F. Taylor, the tile man, returned ers, and the increase of markets for fact that much of the scenery of the from a business trip to Salem on Monday. Ballston, Or. merchants and manufacturers would great Willamette is shut out. From Assessor J, M. Yocom attended a state exceed the scope of imagination. the hop-pole dales of Clackamas to Then would this truly be America the swine-clad hills of LTmpqua, the meeting of assessors in Portland this for Americans, and there would be darkness of night shuts out the view. week. But when the morning dawned the The Imperial saloon building was sold slight need to migrate to the islands è» of the sea or invade the torrid re- beautiful and picturesque scenery of on Tuesday by C. R. Cook to Daniel Gaby 4» Rogue river valley, and the superb gions of the half-civilized. Is Your Canned Fruit Getting Low? for a consideration of $2700. The sale è» and awe-inspiring sight of the rugged è» Siskiyou mountains repays one for was affected through J. M. Pugh. The liti: A Ol A I AN1MIIATE? è» the hours of waiting. No descrip building is leased by T, A. McCourt for Save it bj’ buying some of our è» If a candidate for a county offic« tion of these delightful sights has four years. It brings $30 per month è> really and sincerely desires to serve been set out in the circulars of the rent, which pays all expenses and 10 per i» the people in such capacity, why railway company, for no pen can do cent interest on the investment. shouldn’t he announce the fact and them justice. The famous Cow creek Mrs. Helen D. Harford was with the » come before the people candidly and canyon is a hair-lifting piece of road. local W.C. T. U. on Saturday afternoon. We have a good variety—Clean, Choice and Cheap. It ¡9 to trainmen what the Black sea flat-footed? And as the newspaper Her talk was replete with helpful sug is the legitimate medium for getting is to sailors-they do not like to gestions and encouragement. In the The fine product of our Bakery is the comment of » before the people, why shouldn't it tackle it. When the railroad was evening a very pleasant social was held our customers each day. We are scrupulously clean i be paid a reasonable sum for the new, and until the scenery got set in the Uniou rooms. The meeting for » the children at the M. E. church, at 3 and neat in the production of all our baked goods. tled, loosened rocks used to roll announcement? Merchants pay for lb o’clock, Sunday was very interesting. down on the track, and many an en telling the people they want them to » The memorial service in honor of Miss buy their goods. That community gineer has stopped his machine just Frances Willard was well attended, and Meet Competition on Groceries. ; is rare in this country that hasn’t a in time to prevent great destruction Mrs. Harford paid a glowing tribute to ■ standing candidate or two each cam- of lifp. A few years ago the side of that noble woman, whom all lovers of » • paign for almost every office. The a mountoii) slid down into the can truth, purity and temperance delight to è» . standing candidate generally gets yon, carrying away a portion of the honor. Don't forget that all ladies are left when the nominations are made, track and making a deep lake of the cordially invited to the meeting next Saturday at 2:30. “Christian Citizen and often justly so, because lie has portion of country up-stream from ship be the subject for considera poor abilities for the place he seeks. where it found a resting place. But tion. ” will Cotne and help. * • It were well if ’his were all. But now the conditions in the wild Cow A basket social with invited guests was the candidacy of such men has a creek canyon are tamed down, and Seasonable Merchandise deterrent effect on men of ability the locomotive with its long train of held at the Christian chnrch Friday and worth, which operates to keep cars rounds the curves gracefully, evening. Receipts were well up into the them out of the race through sheer looking back now and then as if to 20’s from sale of baskets. A large satin disgust of this misdirected ambition see that everything wqs all right, bowed basket made by Misses Grace The effort oil the part of the Tele in the scramble for public favor. and then, satisfied, about face, anti phone-Register and the North Yam Let the candidate who sincerely be- with a snort plunges into the long 1 Sutherland and Vinuie Gilbert excited fierce competition between Sam Laughlin AH Kinds, Sizes hill Record to make political capital j lieves that he could serve the public lane of steel ahead. out of the fact of the publication of acceptably and well, announce the and Prices Emerging from this rough bit of, and David Nayberger, and no telling the delinquent tax list in two news fact, and with the assistance of the country into the Rogue river valley, what it would have sold for if the latter's Best of Ammunition papers, falls very Hat when the facts editors, let voters know that he be with its farms, gardens, and orch immediately available cash hadn't run ure known. The Reporter explained lieves the qualities are sb blended in ards, its many streams and undulat short. As it was, the auctioneer’s ham for Everybody briefly what these facts were last him as to make a satisfactory public ing hills, is a relief. We roll along mer fell at f 2 50 and the basket went to week. That people may not lie mis ■servant. It is the correct and dig- passing countless churches and the returned Klondiker Everybody ad O. O. HODSON led we reiterate The sheriff first ■ nitied way of coming to the front. school houses, towns and villages, mired Mr. Nayberger ’ s nerve in bidding proposed to divide the list between (Hliee no longer seeks the man, so habilitated in all degrees of sanitary the two papers. The Reporter edi 1 let good men seek office, and do it in preferment and decorative art. In : against a man who had struck it rich in Moral: When you hold a tors thought this a very unsatisfae ■ an open and above-board manner. I some of the villages the railroad, un Klondike. social be sure you invite these tory way of publishing sin-h a docu ' Then voter» have time to consider intentionally or otherwise, passes ! basket two gentlemen. ment, as many people did not take ! merits, and to go into conventions through the back streets. What the both papers, and would desire to see prepared to vote intelligently That traveler sees there is calculated to the whole list. So they agreed for newspaper thut announces iu a lump I make .... ................ ............ of ................ him fee) r proud the munici- i the good of their readers to eontrib sum ilie names of all the candidates [ pal government of ali of the villages Ute the space for the other half, am) that come to its ears, and winds up tn his home country—especial!V if charge a low rate for half the space, the notice by saying that each and his 1 ' home 1 country - is ’ governed ’ to ' the - as originally intended For the truth every one of these gentlemen would prohibition of tin cans and rubbish of this statement we ask every doubt make a good and acceptable officer, in the village streets as in er to examine the bill for the work can be safely put down as asserting lying Farmers Yamhill. These Southern Oregon when it is paid, and if von can make that which it cannot prove, and for municipal fathers are not so partic and political thunder out of it then, we. i the purpose of an all round stand-in. ular. Or, it may be that the decor say all right. The attempt is made Dignity does not approve such a ative value of tin cans is not gener Furrows now. because the matter on the face course, nor do facts warrant it. ally recognized in the more staid and A farmer is known by his furrow as of it. and without this explana "the carpenter is known by his chips.” It prim communities. It is no doubt tion, is calculated to mislead people Tlii-re's h Niros« of Truth In This. highly appreciated bv the people takes a firm hand and a true eye to turn who take little trouble to invest! i straight furrow. No wonder the farmer The contest in .lune for the suc whose homes are in this section. wears but, spite of exercise and fresh air. gate. It is hardly honest politics, They surely believe that a tin can is cessor of Hon. Thos Tongue to rep One day's work on the fdrm would tire either. resent Oregon in congress promises a beautiful thing. It is so round, so many a trained athlete. And the farmer to be very warm. Brother Brownell smooth and shiny, with its bright works hardest of all. The first up and Mr. H. C. Burn* signs a call for a last to bed, feeding his team before Newberg was again visited by burglars of Oregon City lias his picture in the label in eager colors, and suggestive the “One Minute Congh Curéis the best meeting of the democratic cnuntv eentrnl legends printed thereon in delicate he feeds himself, his work is practically Tuesday evening. Under cover of the remedy 1 ever usea for coughs anil colds. Oregonian as a prominent candidate committee Marell 3d It is understood never done. Wliv does not tlie farmer darkness and a heavy falling rain, which There have been and artistic designs, setting forth treat his own body as he treats the land tended to deaden am ¡uspicious sounds, It is unequaled for whooping congh. that Mr. Burna is anti-fusion. anti that if for the position. any fusion racket is put up on him, he less complimentary things in tlie the intense delectability and enor he cultivates? lie puts hack in phos- unknown parties made two bold attempts Children »11 l:ke it," writes IL N. Will will not travel with them. < tregouian concerning Brother Brow mous nutritive qualities of the former filiate what he takes out in crops, or the at robbery, and succeeded in neither. iams, Gentryville, Ind. Never fails, nell before now, and yet it will not contents of the can. They recog and would grow poor. The farmer They first entered the general merchan nize the decorative value of tin cans should put back into his body the vital dise store of ,i. C. Porter by breaking It is the only harmless remedy that lie new or strange to see the paper Here in a fact that iUiistrnles a some to the extent that they pave their elements exhausted by labor. If he does in at a rear window and proceeded to gives immediate results, Cures coughs, what general truth in McMinnville, named call a man a horse thief, a From the ear not, he will soon complain of "poor bore a hole through the safe door to the colds, hoarsene«», croup, pneumonia, though some |>e<iple seem very slow to liar, and other pet names and then streets with them health." The great value of Dr. Pierce's combination The charge of powder bronchitis and all throat and lung realise it. Fish dealers in Portland are support him for a public office.— window one can see the representa Golden Medical Discovery is in its vital | | did the work, completely demolishing troubles, tive of the meek oyster, the sad eyed izing power. It gives strength to the selling "almon at Joe a pmmd. Mr Pal Portland Chronicle. Its early use prevents con- sardine, the disintegrated shote, the stomach, life to the lungs, purity to the the door. Nothing wa« secured however, sum ption. Kogvrs Bros. mer, the local dealer, sells at V>- Both ----- — except a few of Mr. Porter's insurance claim thev make no protit Mr. Palmer bright tomato and the gentle prune, blood. It supplies Nature with the sub papers, which were found next morning \ traveling artist named Englehart,^ Cure a <olU In onr Day. is certainly nearest (lie truth lie has all arranged in reckless profusion, stances by which she builds up the body, in who paints a fine landscape in 35 min an adjoining woodshed. The strange Take laxative Bromo Quinine tablets for the people are not stingy in the just as the farmer supplies Nature with to s< ll at very near cost in order to sell thing is that the burglars used some utes lis- l>een entertaining people with at all. Portland dealers, «ith more peo All druggists refund money if it fails to matter. the substances that build up the crops. But. looking up from the i foils of calico taken from the shelves to his skill. and selling a good many pic ple to boy, amt consequently more de- cure. The genuine has L. B. Q on each "I write to tell yon of the irrrst benefit I re ■ leaden the sound, and directlv under tures. village streets we can see. far to the ceived m ind, can tlx their price ami get it from the use of Dr. I'iercr'« Golden Med Cascade ical Discovery.“ write- Mr G. B. Bird, of Byrn- the calico was hidden some #6 or <- 47-1' eastward the frowning The same will hold true with a suit of tablet For »ale by Rogers Bros. tbitsam Co . W Va "It cured me of a very , which was not discovered The other mountains, adorned with snowy side, ' l»’ll N l«TH VrilH'K NOTICE. ? clothes, and probably furniture, earpets, bad caae of indigestion associated with torpi-l summits and fragments of evergreen liver Before I betran the use of 'Golden Med business house entered wa» Miller's jew hardware, etc. \ go.-d many men have CASTORTA elry store. The entrance was effected k-.il Discovery ' I ho-1 no appetite . could not sleep told ua at different time that thev have forest, relieved by ridges, canyons nor work but very little. The little that I ate by removing the panel of a rear door. \ ’ 1 hen by y ven that the iinder-tcned Bear« the signature of C has . II FinrcRBU gone to Portland and 1«.light a suit of and pinnacled cliffs, among which did not afrer witn nte bowel« constipated, and They proceeded as before to blow open ' tb< ..-i.,-- < <>nrt of Yamhill Ju use for more then thirty years, and <■ in,\ Oregon dn’i appoint..I adn.inbtmfor life wu a misery to me I wrote to Dr rieroe clothes, and thought thev had a bargain, spots of sunshinp and cloud shadow fixing the sate, and succeeded in breaking the 7*1/ >*aa /Any the «vmptonne and asked for advice " l «li-i>fW»l»on - | - till they came home and pri ed ths same chase each other in and out, pictur le advi-ed me to try the Golden Medical Dis combination, but the lolts held and the ,.w therefore- all person« having <laima suit with some of our principal dealers covery ' so I began the use of it and after taking **tatn*t «Hid estate are hereby notified and re- and found the price a -hade the lowest Wayland Hunsaker. B. E. Coulter and ing alternately with light and shade, four outlies I felt so wvH that I went to work attempt failed. This would have made M'lireu to present the same duly verified to the In but soon got worse, so I again began the u«e of it a rich haul as the safe contained a good V. ' rdnird. at hi« re«idence in Isfayette, and that, too, not counting railroad fare P H Messìi« r will leave next Monday these billowy types of eternity and used it about eight weeks lunger when t stock of jewelrv. besides some money lamhill county. Creron, within six months One Mede to lie mighty shrewd in the l'or Sumpter. The latter gentleman has front of us rise by tetrace and cliff was permanently cured " from the date hereof. No clue has been secured to the burglars' bated February 20th. ltxw the immovable Siskiyous—the gran knowledge of materials and prices to I Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets invigor .1 II. OI.DS. * strike a liargain in Portland over Mc mining interests there, and the others ite range—to a height of eight thou ate stomach, liver and bowels. t'su The R xcoriir and Wrek’v Oregonian Administrator of the estate of W at-am 8. Baa- I hope to acquire some. Minnville. sand feet, and at tbeir feet nestles them when you require a pill. ley dxsased 105 one rear for |2, strictly in advance ■k ■ ■> V I. a.inr A Mronr. SPECIAL SALI FOR SALE L. E. Walker Air-Tight Heating Stoves K. L. CONNER. Attorney for said Estate. S Is w i