Th© Daily Reporter, D. c. IRELAND A CO. PVBI.I8HERS. z* IT .1 SPECIE* <>E BLACKMAIL. t pon various occasions within the I past year we have received a sort of By Carrier per week........................... 10 cents literary nondescript from Salem, dart- (Payable on Saturday.) Single Copy................. • •.... • • . . 2 u | ing under the noni de plume of the Py Mail 40 cents per Month (In Advance.) I Lance. Not considering it of inipo; Rated for Advertising Will be made satisfactory to all applicants. I lance sufficient to justify an exchange | it generally found its way into the McMinnville, Or. - Nov. 25, 1886 waste basket without comment. Per­ haps we should have omitted s•> much attention as we here bestow upon it. PRESIDENT ARTHUR DEAD. Ex-President Chester A. Arthur but from the fact that some more ob­ died at his home in New York city at servant cotempories than we have 5 o’clock Thusday morning. The unearthed the true inwardness of the news of his sudden death came as a Lance. Now of all things we admire great surprise. Notwithstanding the Consistency, and a state pride. The alarming rumors to his health during Albany Bulletin takes the rind off’this the summer months it was supposed so-called periodical, and so plainly lays at least one of its purposes open an improvement in his condition was noted during his stay in New London. to public criticism, that with our in Conn,, and the apparent confidence born characteristic to’see fair play, we cannot resist the temptation to pub­ expressed by friends who remained lish the article in full, remarking at close to him created the impression the same time that the State Insur­ that his health had been radically im­ ance Company does not now advertise proved, giving him promise of a re­ with us ; nor do we expect that they newed lease of life. His disease was will do so ; but we recognize it as one one affecting his kidneys, and those of legal institutions of Oregon, man­ near him had no faith in his recovery ; aged by honorable citizens among us, but his sudden demise was not spoken including Mr. Mulkey, local agent in of. He began to sink shortly after this county, and we stand by them as midnight, and at 3 o’clock it was we would any other enterprise estab­ known that death was approaching. lished for the good of the people. He passed away without apparent The Bulletin says : “The persistent at­ pain. The funeral will take place on tack of the Lance, upon the State In­ Monday. surance company, of Salem, has awak­ THE COMING WINTER. ened a suspicion in the minds of the The Future, devoted to predicting people that so much anxiety to expose weather ahead of the times, says that fraud, has overdone itself, and that the from December 20th 1886, to April IS purpose of the Lance is to injure and break down the business of the com­ '87, the Pacific Northwest, which in­ pany. Whether this is the intention cludes us, will be snowed under, so to or not. its conduct in arraigning the »peak. The following from the States­ man yesterday is to the point : “In State Insurance company in every is­ sue since its advent, and the persis­ 1862 we had no rains, or at least not tency and severity of its charges, sat­ enough to start the mountain streams isfies the public mind that there is running, before Christmas, and 1 be­ something rotten in Denmark, and lieve this will be another winter like that the effluvia arising from the that—the sky and air are so similar Lance comes wholly from the office to .he condition of the atmosphere at where said pamphlet is weakly pub­ that time.” This came from the lished. This is the verdict of the peo­ mouth of one of the old timers in this ple who do not often fail to locate the city, yesterday, and certainly, if the seat of a disease, after reading both next two or four weeks are to be sides of a question that has been so judged by the past, the aforesaid old broadly ventilated. The manly re­ timer’s prediction may be fulfilled. buttal by the state Insurance com­ That the weather recently experienced pany of all the charges made against has a very wintry appearance for Ore­ it by the Lance, the explanation of its gon, is fact; and it does not please the business to the public, the character average webfoot, either. However, social standing of its officers. the the approach of winter has been her strict principles upon which it con­ aided in many ways, to those who ducts its business, the perfect order have given attention to such things. and the confidence the business pule The leaves falling from the trees, the lic repose in it where it is locate«!, absence of song birds, and passage of places the Lance in no enviable posi- wild fowl to the south, the presence of i tion but rather leaves that little pam- the tiny snow bird, and the general I phlet under the espionage of the pub- air of barrenness that pervades all na­ I lie eye, as an instrument born out of ture, all these point toward the ap­ due season, and in the service of de­ proach of winter. In the inland em­ signing men for mercenary purposes. pire, the eastern part of this state and The jealousy of foreign insurance Washington territory, the peculiar companies and the activity of their point registered by the mercury in a agents in disseminating stories dero- Fahrenheit thermometer, if nothing I gatorv to the good standing of the ilse, would indicate the seasons. On I State Insurance company, the refusal Monday the following condition of the of the company to advertise in the Quicksilver was reported iron» there : Lance, the threats of the Lance by Riparia 23 degrees. Pomeroy 25, Dav- reason of this refusal, are all pointers *>n 30, Walla Walla 23. Wallula 21, ** Grande 20, Baker Citv 30, Willows j that indicate a foul conspiracy to JJ.Celilo 29, The Dalles 27, Hood- wrong the com, s-iy * ■ bring it into River 28 The prevailing weather is ¡odium before . * .*'»••• of the north­ cloudy, and foggy. Here the west coast, ttui J • methods as toercury has varied, ranging from 24 those al way' i 1 he people col- *0 4.) degrees foi the past week. subscription Kates. lectively admire honesty and despise render his sack, as 8. M. Roas did to hypocrisy, they honor candor and us last Wednesday. He is in pork condemn conceit. The vicious and business this fall, has killed thirty-five persistent attack of the Lance has be­ ami expects to kill a hundred head. trayed itself, and its intense eagerness The sack left with us was fille«i with toinjure the State Insurance company, splendid sausage meat, ami we rvc- without one word from the company ommemi it to all who want something in defense, has become soapparent to tin«* for th«* holidays. the public mind as to conteract all; That terrible blizzard which passed that has been said by the Lance, and over the northwestern states, extend­ raise a strong feeling among the peo­ ing to tin* territories, last Wednesday, ple against harboring such an instru­ was a paralyzer. From Tuesday morn­ ment in their midst. Such petty per­ ing till riiursday night it showed no secution, coming from so obscure and I signs of abatement, during which questionable a source, cannot injur«* time, in many places more snow fell anybody much less injure a company than all last winter put together. composed of honorable men. whom Won't Bro. Hodson ami Uncle Jim tin* people all know, and who are «fil­ Fletcher have lots to talk about when ing a large and lucrative business, they get home? But they art* not founded upon safe »ml legitimate busi­ home yet, ar«* they ; besides, the weath­ ness principles. The best thing the er is a little wintry like her«* this morn­ Lance can do, is to crawl back into ing. the hide of obscurity from whence it Th«* assassins league of Chicago at- came, and inform its coadjutors in ini­ tempted to poison tin* family of P. D. quity, who date not bare their ill-aba- Armour last Momlay A sample pen visages to the light of public packagt* of buckwheat flour was sent scrutiny, that its mission is a failure ; to Armour’s cook, who «lid not use it, that the people of the northwest coast a.- there was suspicion as to its con­ are not to be influenced by unseen tents. It was analyzed by a chemist agents who burrow in secret, and and found to contain strychnine suffi- hatch out midnight plots, to rob hon­ sient to Kill at least twolve families. est citizens of their good name ami The package was deliver«'«! to the destroy their business interests. Imus«* by a boy who said he was sent by two men. In conversation over- .VEH'S AND NOTES heard between two men not far from Powderly's order, though met with Amour’s residence it was shown that resentment and threatened rebellion theirs was a conspiracy to poison Ar­ at first, has operated like oil upon the mour ami other packers who had been prominent in resisting th«* demand of troubled waters in Chicago. The temperance people ar«* begin­ the striekers at the stock yards. Vil­ ning to agitate the constitutional lains who would do such an act are amendment for prohibition, and the none too good to poison th«* pack of circulation of petitions to the assem­ the establishment, and semi death stalking abroad over the land. bly. J Really the Mrs. Cleveland and Miss Davis issue is getting so pressing that there seems no other way of settling to head tin* rival tickets for 1888 with the respective names of the esteemed young women, in which cast* tin* solid south would probably be arrayed against New Yolk, with Indiana doubtful. Lands set apart for Indians in Idaho aggregate 2.818,781 acres. Th«* In­ dian population is about 3800. Near­ ly a square mil«* of land npiec«* to each buck. srt«r.