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. s<piaw and papoo.-isin tin*
entii «* band, that is besides f«*e«l and
cloth«*«! by th«* goverment. It seems
that it is about time for the «piestion
of lauds in severalty to I»«* submitted
toother Indians besides those of Uma
tilla.
Every paragraphist in th«* country
has within a few weeks refer«*«! to th«*
story of the “fatal throat disease, simi
lar to that which affected (tenoral
(»rant, with which Col. Bob Ingersoll
is suffering,” with the comment that
“Col. Bob will now prepare to die.”
Always ready to give struggling gen
ius a chance. Col. Bob comes to the
front denial, saying that his throat is
perfectly sound, his general health ex
cellent, and that whatever similarity
may exist between himself ami Gen
eral Grant it does not consist in the
peculiar malady named.
rn th"*0 piping times of horrid
butcheries in Oregon, it is a little re-
f- «king, and out of the usual order of
thing* < Have a ruau drive up to
vutir ,ffic. dc< r ami voluntarily stir-
Sufferers from kidney troubles will
find Simmons Liver Regulator a true
remedy for such complaints. “1 have
been troubled with liver complaint,
kidney disease ami bad blood for a
longtime. I have us«*d Simmons Liver
Regulator, ami it bus done me more
go«xi than all th«* medicin«* lever took.
I would not be without it.” Geo. IL
Pratt, U. S. Deputy (’«»Hector, 2d Dis
trict, Gn.
I Icvriiletl I .eg.
.About August 1st, 1885, an eruption
appeared on my arms ami legs, which
pained mt* very much and seemed to
affect my physical condition generally
Under treatment of a physician the
sores disappeared except on my left
leg. There it seemed to conc«*ntrate,
and two thirds of the limb from the
knee to the unklt* s«x»n b«*cain<* a solid
running sort* that discharged bk»ody
matter continually. I was treated by
physicians at various times, but obtain
ed no permanent relief. On advice of a
physician at this place, I finally com-
menced using Hwift's Specific. I am
glad to say that after using three large
bottles the sores have all healed except
one, and that is when* the stirrup
leather rubs when I am riding, and
will soon l»e gone. G. N. Frixsell,
Farmville, Texas, Hept. 18, 1886.
For sale by Rogers A Tod«!. Treatise
on blood and skin discas«*s milled
free The Hwift Hj»eciflc Co., drawer
3, Atlanta, Georgia, 157 W 23d street,
HulstcrU*« for t hs Hap*>rt«r.