Image provided by: Yamhill County Historical Society; McMinnville, OR
About The Yamhill County reporter. (McMinnville, Or.) 1886-1904 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1900)
Yamhill County Reporter Subscription $1 OO Per Year. ADVERTISING K XTE8. Reading notice’- i n local column» 10 cent»* per line for first week and » cent« p« r line thereafter. Display advertisements. annual rates, one inch I»er month fl ; each a hliliunal inch .A) cents per month. Obituary and marriage notices not exceeding 10 lines published free, If furnished in time to be current new s. Additional'matter 10cent*l»er dne. Candidates’ “Cards of Announcement’’ from now until the Ciinvention, <2.59. spend the whole amount in this country, for battleships. Any na tion that likes Uncle Sam s goods can get the money from him to buy them with on depositing the neces sary collateral. S trange things are done in the name of charity, and thus charity covers a multitude of sins. A Mich igan parson leans toward sparring and prize fighting, and inorder to popularize his disreputable jieiicliaiit lie announces a spurring match for “‘charity. A C hicago company has discovered a process by which bricks can be made without burning. This illus FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 193«). trates the tremendous advance we are making in all of our industrial FII<*T DIMHHT COM tiVIÌORL pursuits. It is perhaps the most valuable discovery in the building A republican convention for the First con trades line since the Egyptians dis gressional district of Oregon is hereby called to covered that bricks could be made meet in the city of McMinnville, Tuesday, April 10th, 1900, without straw. at the hour of 10 a. in., for the purpose of nomi nating a candidate for congr« >* for the First congressional district of Oregon, to «elect two delegates to the republican national convention and to transact such other business as may properly come before said convention. The con vention will consist of hi : delegates, apportioned among the several counties of the district as fol low«: X Lane 11 Benton......... Clackamas . 1ft Lincoln.............. ... 1 7 Linn 11 Coos ... ... 22 3 Marion Curry......... 9 Douglas 12 Polk. ft .19 Tillamook Jackson Washington....... .13 Josephine... 12 Klamath 1 Yamhill 4 Lake............. The same being one delegate at large for each county and one delegate for each 1 > • vote« ami fraction thereof of 2.» or over, as cast for Hou. T. T. Geer at the -late «•lection of I«*1'' K. A. BOOTH, K. J. HENDRUKS, Secretary. Chairman. Ax Ohio girl who was married to a man after an acquaintance of three days complains now because he turns out to be a convict and not the n ival captain lie represented him self to be While she undoubtedly lias cause to mourn, it is hardly right that she should receive all the sympathy. The man, on his part, ran some risk. M c M innville grange & farmers compaña Began March ist to reduce the price on every article in the store, closed out for Cash or Produce, during the next few months, making it a Grand Cash Removal Sale! We propose to sell our entire stock of Dry Goods, Furnishings, Hats and Caps, Notions, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, completely out so as to have nothing to move. We will remove to the Burns corner as soon as the building is completed. Bring yonr Cash or Produce and get the best bargains ever offered. The McMinnville Grange & Farmers Co., CHAS. P. NELSON, Manager. Closing > Out Sale! Wagons, Buggies, Surreys,Plows Or the 82 votes necessary to nom inate in the first congressional dis trict, it is reasonably certain that Mr. Tongue will have at least Gt) on the first ballot This is considered a Now is your chance to buy a good Buggy, Surrey, Road Wag STATI-; HIM EVliOY very conservative estimate of his ons or Spring Wagon—Also Garden City Plows. My Stock will be But should it not be ex A republican convention for the stale of Orc- strength. sold at gon is hereby called to meet in the city of ceeded, the support sure to develop Portland, Thursday, April 12th, in subsequent ballots will insure his at 10 o’clock a. m., for the purpose of nominating nomination. «■andiflateM lor presidential electors, «tate ami district officers, except eongressmen, and of 1 electing four delegates at larg«“ to the republican P ortland democrats will arrange national convention, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the con- for the reception of St. Bryan by the As I contemplate a change in my business. vention. The convention will consist oí 33ft labor of a committee of 100. Failing delegates, chosen by the several counties as fol- to secure the necessary funds the lows: 4 committee on finance agreed to as Baker. . 9 Lincoln . Linn . 11 Benton . (lackainas 1 » Malheur........... 1 sess each member of the committee <' lat sop 12 Marion. 22 #1, and to levy an assessment of #2 ........... ft Columbia. 6 Morrow (,’OOb......... 7 Multnomah............... 79 on each of the 125 delegates to the Polk (,'rook coming democratic convention. As ... 4 Curry................... 3 Sherman this ranks Douglas 12 Tillamook . . ft a financial expedient, 13 high, since the men with the dinner majority to be destroyed and the tralfie to vote for this principal until the Gilhani......... 1 Umatilla ... Wire cloth for fanning mills, at the send a tracer out after it, and he received Grant.......... 7 Inion............... 12 word yesterday that the freight was Wallowa ......... ■» pail do not eoine rushing to the re legislation to be dictated by the I nation is safe from its blighting curse, Fence Works. Harney.. after which we pledge ourselves to aid in Jackson Ki W asco ............... io lief of the committee. democrats. We are going to Nome and must have speeding westward over the Great Nor Josephine.. »• Washington......... .13 the settlement of the other great issues ---------- ---------------- . 1 Klamath 1 W heeler . money. Please call and settle your ac thern. It is quite likely that the lights that may be before the people. 1 itkt- 1 Yamhill................. 12 PROHIS I E U> OFF, R epresentative B erry of Ken in the city will be turned off next Mon Lane ................... 11 W arren & S on . On motion of Wiley the report was ac counts. The same being one delegate-at-large from each tucky wants the government to coin day, as this will be necessary in order to cepted. Water People Mill HatlliiiR county, ami one delegate for every I »9 votes ami 3-cent pieces with a round hole in colli Mrs. M. V. Jones and her son, Walter prepare the foundation for the new ma one for every fraction over ,■>, cast for Governor For Principle on n One Pluitk Mr. Wolfley, from the committee on the center one quarter of an inch in Jones and wife of Crescent City, Calif., Geer at the last «tale « lection. Platform. chinery. If the dynamo arrives on time nomiuationp, reported as follows: G. A. STEEL, Chairman. diameter. The Kentucky congress mother and brother of Mrs T. D. Hen GRAHAM GLASS, Jr., Secretary. the city council hopes to have the new 1 The prohibitionists met in county con- Joint Senator,-------- man has probably had a 3-cent coin derson, are here on a visit with relatives arc light system installed by the time Representative, J. C. Lucas, Newberg. put off upon him at some time for a : vention on Friday with a representation and friends. the convention meets, April io. dime and is taking precaution against of 31 delegates. Joint representative, A. J. Hunsaker. I). A. Snyder of Day The high school ball team gave an en the recurrence of the act. Possibly, ton was chosen chairman and Moses Commissioner, Martin Johnson, Carl Hon. H. M. Daniel received the sad tertainment at the opera house Friday intelligence last Monday of the death of A republican county convention is culled to also, lie may have borrowed the idea 1 Votaw of Newberg secretary. Commit ton. meet at the court house in McMinnville, Ore from Chinese coins, in which the evening, but the audience was small. A gon, on tees were appointed in the forenoon, but Sheriff, H. M. Williams, Newberg. his son Samuel, at Baker City, of small Thu rntin > , April I1MM), hole is so large and the value of the very interesting program was rendered the principal work of the convention was Clerk, M. 8. Adams, Dayton. pox. He learned this through the me at ten o'clock a in., for the purpose of « let ting metal so small that a man would by the Hobbs-Patty quartet, Mts. Even- dium of a letter written from Eastern 12 delegates to th«* republican stat«? convention E. 0. Mil Recorder, H. V. Mills, McMinnville. himself down with performed in the afternoon. to be held at Portland, < »logon on the 12th day of have to load April, P.MMI, and also to elect 12 delegates to th«“ strings of cash in order to pay for a ler of Portland, field secretary, was pres Aseessor, Richard Baird, North Yam den,Miss Jennie Snyder, George Sny Oregon to a friend in this city, and was republican congressional convention for the der and Joe Neal, with an exhibition of ent in the interest of the New Voice, the hill. feeling about as bad as a parent could F ir«t District, to be held in McMinnville, Ore glass of Kentucky lunch. cartoon work by Fred Cooper. gon, on th«- loth «lay of April, 1900. Said conven prohibition paper His proposition was Treasurer, John Parrott, Dundee. under such circumstances, when he hap tion will be composed of lli.'» delegates, being the securing of one hundred new sub one delegate lor every ten vote« and iraetion ot Superintendent, J. B. Dodson, Me The new dynamo for this city will ar pened to discover the date of the letter. A EAHHIox note says that, belts, five or over cast for Hon. T I'. Geer lot governor This, in turn, would secure to Minnvi lie. rive in Portland next Tuesday, and it is It was written some two weeks before, at the June election in lx9x, and apportioned gloves and neckties of rattlesnake scribers. among the various precincts ns follows, tow it: McMinnville a speech from their great expected to reach here the follow ing day. rfhd the family had received a letter Surveyor, T. K. Cone, Lafayette. skin will be worn a great deal by Amity.......................... .. I South McMinnville.11 .. ~ Coroner, C. II. Christenson, McMinn Councilman McDonald had the shippers from Samuel since he had been reported North Newberg..........13 women. A t last the poor rattlesnake apostle and orator, Hon. John G. Wool- Baker (.'reek I South Newberg.......... X has come to it. Bellevue.................... He was about the ley of Chicago, who will reach Oregon ville. dead. Doubtless through some misun Carlton......................... . 7 North Yamhill ......... 7 X North Sheridan........ 9 only c creature feat i. that women didn't May 5th and leave the state June 3d. Chi-eowen.......... For delegatee to the stale convention derstanding the report originated. . I Hoiilh Sheridan.......... ft utilize to art ray herself. Dundee The lowly The securing of the list wan left in the to meet April 9th and 10th in Portland, tt II West Chvhalem....... . X East Dayton X Willamina................... 13 silkworm, the sportive seal, the os- hands of local adherents. Went Dayton all were entitled to go who would volun TO LOOK I OK I IMFUAHKN. Willamette.................. 0 Ealrlawn................ 9 Whiteson..................... I trich, the goat, the creeping tor- Cards were distributed about the con teer. The following volunteered: J C. I.atuyette.................. toise, the horst hide and dog-skin, North McMinnville 9 vention bearing the following: "I de Lucas, N. L. Wiley, A J. Hunsaker, J. Would be sure of a welcome in almost lirvl W ■ 11 umet le l< ■ v er Trip Alter The primaries Io elect sai.l ilelegales will lie the camel, the mink, the innocent I ori j .Sa-v.-ii Tear«. liehi In the several precinels of the eoniiii .... till sire that you should euroll my name as F. Day, Capt. Simpson and wife, N. C. any home. But what a welcome he would have in a home where the hope Saturday, the 31si .lay of Match. Iiam, >11 the hour bird, the clam and the alligator—ail Jacob Wortman, a pioneer river man, in favor of the annihilation of the salouu Christenson, Amos Graves, D. A. Snv of children had been extinguished. of one o eluck p. in. All persons who believe in contribute to lovely woman's appar 1 pioneer banker of Yamhill county, now tile midntenaueeol a sound «nd -table r urreney business and therefore as a mentlier of derand J. M. Rittenhouse. What a welcome this particular ” bright I president ol the First National bank at and a wise and economical nuinageineiit ot el. and now little sympathy wilt be little bov ” did have in such a home, attain, national and state, are invited to attend wasted on the ptoud rattlesnake, the prohibition parly.” I McMinnville, will leave tins morning on A county central committee consisting said primary meellngs. m order of tile repub may lie judged by the closing paragraph the steamer Kuth for Corvallis. since fashionable woman lias designs Mr. Mr. Amos addressed the convention iu of the following members was chosen : of liean oounty central e.inuniti. . his mother’s Wortman is making the trip at the invi- .1. W. HOURS. See. .1. E. M AGEItS, Ch’ni on him. the afternoon. He is the state chairman D. A. Snyder, W. H. Lewis, N. C. Chris letter, given be tat on of the owners of the Kuth. and is of the party. He referred to the "ex tenson, M. Votaw, C. F. Mills, J. Arnie low. There is no looking for old landmarks, as this is his room for the I t is estimated that 50.0110 men tremely vexatious” course democrats and j first river trip oil the Willamette in thir T iie Boers began to lose courage and R. Baird. whole letter, will go to Cape Nome this year, at ty-five years. Mr. Wortman began run republicans were taking to entice protii-1 about the same time that their stock which recounts a an expense of #500 each. The ex ning boats on the "upper river" from of ammunition ran low. bitionists away from their duty. The story of fifteen penditure of #25,000,000 on an Arctic Willamette Falls to Corvallis and Eu years of suffering putting of Rev. Kay Palmer on the Bry gene in 1853, and continued on the river sea beach is one of the curiosities of and a perfect cure an reception committee at Portland was A1.T oei . ii , who some time since modern life until 1865. He took tiie first boat to Eu Perhaps one tenth of by the use of gene that made that point. This was the lost his reputation as a prophet, de lhe men who undertake this journey a case in point. He had called Mr. Pal Mrs. E. C. Dallas is quite ill. " three bottles of | Janies Clinton. Mr Wortman's first elutes that “Bryan wilt lie elected will make some money, and the re mer out of bed by telephone to secure his Miss Hattie I’ope is on a visit to friends 1 Dr. Pierce's Favor . boat was the Oregon, which run from beyond the faintest doubt Pet maining -15.000 will be glad to return announcement us a prohibitionist and ite Prescription, in Sheridan. Oregon City tc Corvallis and Eugene. haps this is the old ghost of (lie joke to a comfortable home and delve iu iris refusal to servé. He thought Mr. two bottles of This boat was wrecked in 1854 below Wire cloth for fanning mills, at the ‘ Golden Medical of four years ago rehabilitated. the soil of the old “home acres for l’almer should not have consented to Salem. He then run the Franklin, then and Discovery,’ | Fence Works. I lhe slower, but surer reward for la even occupy a «eat on the platform. The the Clinton and afterwards the Elk, the some of the • Pel- Onwanl and the Surprise. The fare at Call and settle yonr accounts with lets.’” B oth democrats and republicans ! bor. But, since it is an assured fact republicans, too, put the young Christian that time was fo to Corvallis from Ore are saying that the gold standard that gold can be had nt Nome for the In many in men of Portland 011 as delegates to their Warren & Son. gon City. stances childless- uet which has just gone on the stat digging, each one believes himself to Judge Boise’s court will convene on _ness is the result "Steamboats in those days,” said Mr. ute books takes the silver .inestinti be the lucky prospector who will conventions in order to place them in Wortman, ‘ were very poor, and the ma Monday, April 16th. of conditions out of politics for good. And yet stake the “bonanza claim,’' little line, knowing full well that if left to chinery crude. There was no canal Delos Underwood, who has been ill for which are curable. Brvan, for the sake of the section of realizing the weight of the modern themselves they would go with the pro- around' the falls, and the Willamette It has often hap 'axiom, "few are called, hut many hibitiouisls. He thought it wastlieduty some time, is improving. the populist party which still dings was divided into the ‘upper and lower pened that when river.' About the time 1 quit the river, to him, will be forced to make a pre respond. of their party to raise the democrat and Store fixtures for sale. Enquire of "Favorite Pre some good boats began to be built here. scription ” has tense that silver is still a vital issue republican up to a higher position, Warren & Son, McMinnville, Or. There was no canal around the falls in cured a woman of I t is quite evident that President though lie realized it would lie a hard i those days, and the passengers and Chas. Grissen returned Wednesday female weakness N ational democracy is not w hist McKinley lias been misquoted and I job to convert them. He was astonished freight were transferred." and the nervous from a business trip to The Dalles. ling to anv great volume now be | misunderstood in regard to the Por at the prohibition vote of 15t>,Ü0ü to 175,- condition attending it, her return to I Mr. Wortman said while many things to Rican measure recently before H. B. Reed of tlie Fence Works re health is signalized cause it is about as deep ill the wild B______ _______ by the ____ birth __ of ____ her along the river would be new to him, he 000, coming out from you know not Favorite Prescription” makes believes lie can take the wheel and guide erness as it would have the republi ( congress, lie has been accused by ceived this week a carload of pickets to first child. " f where They were the “ Lord's own, ” a boat up the river, at least as far as Sa weak women strong, sick women well. cans in the mire. The Nebraska tin- democrats of changing his mind and they did not have to give a reason be made into his superior fencing. «f cannot tell half that Dr Pierce's medicine lem.—Oregonian, 27th. democratic platform displeases south on the tariff question, when it is be done for me.'' writes Mrs. T. A. Ragan, ot A number of Oddfellows from this has ern and eastern members of the ginning to appear that those who for the faith that is in them; the other Norris Watauga Co . N. C. "It will do all that is claimed for it—prevent miscarriage and ren- Curry county has made the highest tax party, and many of Hie leaders like , oppose the president are busy chang lellow should l>e required to do thia. city paid a fraternal visit to their breth ' der childbirth easy. It has civen me a hricht A recent instance He said he would speak at Carlton, at ren at Amity last Saturday evening. Tillman of South Carolina, Bacon of ing it for him, tittle boy, and t would not have had him had it l;vy for this year of any county in the not been for your wonderful medicine. I can state. 37 1*20 mills being the burden of Georgia and Campbell of Ohio are will help to explain how these mis the county Sunday school convention, Dr. Barton of Portland, w ho is inter not say too much in praise of it ■ I think it is her taxpayers. Baker is next highest, representations come about. A re when he would give them pronounced against it. some ni ore ested in some valuable mining property . worth its weight iu gold. I thank God for my with a 35 3-to levy. Umatilla, with 18 publican leader in congress,of na life, and Dr. Pierce for my health." -------- • • • — straight prohibition doctrine. on Greenhorn mountain, beyond Sump tional repute, came out of the White "Pleasant Pellets” clear the com- mills, is the lowest, while Yamhill is next, with an 18 4-10 mills levy. A OOVEHNMENT subsidy of •I'U.tlOO house ami. with his conversation Rev. A. J. Hunsaker, from the com ter, is in the city. I plexion. a year is to be paid by «¡rent Britain still fixed in mind, said that the mittee on platform, reported as lollowr: R Jacobson & Co. bad a lovely win to a line of steamers to carry banan president had used to him this pre Believing the liquor traffic to lie a foe as (rein Jamaica to British ports.and cise language regarding the measure to nv lilial ion, the aren enemy of popu dow display at their opening Saturday. the manner in whit h the money is to 'll would be a disgrace not to pass lar government. and a public nuisance, Mr. Creasy is one of the best window be raised is interesting. An export the Puerto Rico tariff bill. ' The the citadel of forces ll al corrupt polities, decorators ever seen. tax is placed on bananas and also on words were written down ami shown promote poverty and crime, degrade the Mrs. Myrtle Barnhart is here from ; fruit lands, one-third of which are to the president, who at once denied tiation's home life, thwart the will of the Salem, on account of the illness of het ¡ owned by an American company the correct.«!«“** of the quotation |«ople and deliver our country into lhe hands ot rapacious class interests, we de mother, Mrs. J. H. Henderson, and her i The export tax will come chiefly out “What I ttid say, explained the clare for the entire suppression of the aunt. Mrs. Wm. Campbell. is Unsurpassed. of the pockets of this American president, "was, it would lx* a dis inaniifai'ture, sale, exportation, importa Sydney Bovingdon and family de- company in Jamaica and on exports grace for the republican party in lion and transportation of alcoholic of bananas to the United States congress not to get together on liquors as a t>ever*ge, the manufacture parted for Santa Clara, California, yes- The British government applies the Puerto Rican legislation. The and sale of such liquors for medicinal, terday, many friends regretting to see principle of protection freely in ma president has never expressed him , siieiiiitie and sacramental purposes to them leave this community. rine commerce, which is ita largest self as of the opinion that his recom-, tw* conducted without profit and under Examine the BOTTLED ENERGY of his A six-year-old son of Chas. Martin, strict regulations. Reeognuing and de field of operations. mendation of freedom of trade for ; claring the suppreesion of the liquor the junk dealer, died of pneumonia, at Puerto Rico was a mistake, but he traffic to la* Hie dominant issue in na Rt'SSlA has tx>rrow<>vi #25, ggo (kki has insisted that it was better to tional, state au l municipal polities, we thetr home near the waterworks Tuesday of American capital and the best pax the bill carrying the small tar most earnestly plead with all who are in night, and was buried at Dundee yester part of the transaction is that it willj iff than to permit the republican favor of tiie suppression of the liquor day. Reduced Prices for 30 Days, C. D. JOHNSON. A BPiljhI Lillie Boy LOCAL NEWS. ♦ Hodson’s Line of Wall Paper ♦ ♦ ♦ His Paints are High Quality ♦ BICYCLES f f f ♦