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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1901)
fiahc Qlouuttf (Examitu-v PublUhfd Every Thursday BEACH & M'GARREY Masonic Building TERMS (One Year, $2.00 : Six Months, 1.00 (Thre Months, 50 LAkMIKW. MKt.hOV, JA, 3. 10I. LAKE'S INCREASE. Lake county chows an increase in it taxable property for 1!XX) over 1800 in the amount of fsi,tv$. In the year just passed the valuation of taxable property was $l,W'.-. against $l,4t5, 617 in IS;.'. I-ake is one among the few counties in the elate whose tax valua tion has not decreased. In total the d rrease in the state from the tas of 1SW, is nearly two million?. According to the assess' ir's report for l'.KX) Lake has livestock as follows : Horses and mules, 5,841, valued at ..l,07ti; cattle, l,8t7, valued at :34,3o3 ; sheep an I goats 112, 40$, valued at $224,81t; swine, 7.V, valued at $1,500. As a matter of course, aa is always the case, a great many cattle, sheep and horses escape taxation. No douht Lake county has 5,000 more horses and mules. 5,000 more cattle, and 25,000 more sheep than the assessor'? returns show. The sheep in the United States are worth twice as much money today as they were in lS'.fci. Thentheir value was $i7 ,000,000, now it is over f 122.000, 000. What is the reason of this remark able change? In 1S12, under the M Kinley protective tariff, the imports of wool amounted to only 14S,000,000 pounds, and the home production was 94,000,000 pounds, while the average price for washed Ohio fleece w as 29cents pound. In the fiscal year of 1807, the closing year of the Wilson tariff, which admitted wool free of duty, imports were 350,000,000 ounds and the produc tion only 259,000,000 pounds, while the average price in 181(6 was lS'i cents. In 1899 under the Ihngley tariff, which thoroughly prote ted the wool growers cf the United States, the imports fell to 76,000,000 pound, the production in creased to 272,000,000 pounds and the price ineresed to 28 cents. It is not sur prising, then, that the value of sheep on American farms fell from $110,000,000 in January, 1892, to $.7,000,UH1 in Jan. 1397, and that it increased under the restoration of the protective tariff to $122,000,000 on January 1, 1900. Oar Vast Mr. Mulhall has undertaken to cal rulate the energy or working power of the people of t hi country since 1S40. rrodavtlaa. jIe rcduera these thinus to foot-tons, a foot-ton being a power sufficient to raise one ton our toot in a day, and in this calculation he finds that lu 1S4 the energy of the people of the United States wan repre sented by 1748.000 foot-tons dally, cr 1,020 foot-tons per Inhabitant; In liid 3i,iwJ,000 foot-tons, or 1.240 foot-tons per Inhabitant, and in U's.Tuc.HOO foot-tous, I.S30 foot-tons per inhabit ant. This show, tnys Hon. ( a i rid I IV Wright, in Gunton's Magaine, that the oollectiTe power of our population has more than trebledsinee m0. ttrnni power having multiplied five-fohl in the. 3S years of hi calculation; the strength being shown approximately in horse power of steam, In I Mis, in eluding fixed engines, locomotives and engines used on steamboats, at 1.IM0. 300, or 240 horse- power per t.lHit) of the population. Two hundred and forty horse power represents the energy of 1,452 nn-n supplemental to each l.ooo. According to Mr. Mulhall. this energy la more than double the Kuropeim average, so that it may be said that 70.000,000 of Americans represent as much working power a 150,000,000 of European. An Ohio telegraph operator, age 3." years, has tired of his occupation and decided to go into domestic service for a change. To that end he has inserted an advertisement in a Chicago paper for a position as a domestic for one jear. LOOKS OLOOMY FOR ENGLAND. A di-patch to the World from London says that the general outlook in South Africa is regarded as blacker than at any time la'foro since the Boer war lagan. Persistent reports are circulated in the political clubs of a w idespread rebellion in Cae Colony. This is believed to !e the caure of Lord Salisbury's gloomy speech in parliament on lecemlcr 18th. The situation is regarded with deep alarm, and it is said that Lord Kitchen er's supplies are in danger of l-ing cut off. Ird Kitchener is said to have sent a dispatch demanding 110,000 more mounted men additional to the present force in South Africa. The practicable scheme tor providing ttiese reinforce ments has not yet la-en framed by the F.nglish War ollice. HAPPY NEW YEAR! That all our patrons may lo happy ami prosperous tlur inr the year 11)01 is our earn est wish. With the hepm it i of the Twentieth Cen tury we are better prepared than ever to aeeommoilate the public with the Largest ami IJest Stock in Southeast ern Oregon. I 4 5 i ' H i Ci ROTH E & CD ii THE LEADNG merchants of lake COUNTY. .if ' ' ,v'- The Inhuman Turk. Additional reports of the Turkish massacres of Christians show that the instigator is a Mohammedan fanatic, who boasts of having slaughtered 200 Christians with his own hands. The Turkish authorities have r-hown an utter indifference to the mas-acres, ami the outrages perpetrated on Christians aie beyond description. At IJitueh men were crucified on trees with stakes driven through their hands and feet. Women were attacked and then mutilated. 'Children were mur dered by mutilation beiore their parents' eyes. Women were maltreated at ijrumina liefore the eyes of their husband-', fathers am) brothers and then carried into the bondage of lia.eins. Men were done to death slowly by va- Capt. IL-ygate of the British army is purchasing 50,000 cavalry horses and mules for the army in South Africa. He Went to Kansas City a year ago to buy horse and mules for this purjtose, and had agents out canvassing the 1'acifie Coast Mates. A short time ago he was ordered home because it was tl lought riijus mean-, their limbs cut off suc-csh that the 15oer war was over, b:'t the j ively and children were throw n into the j unexpected renewal of hostilities has river. 1'ii'ii'is tortured t hristians at Kinaniz by slic-ing the flesh fruin all parts of j tlu-ir Isidie before killing them. A 1 the animals are inspected and ls)iiglit (;n.,.k ort,odox priest wai tied in a sack and pitched into the river at fiono- vit.a. The Servian Consul at Mitro- niade the purvhase of more horses and mules absolutely necessary. As fat as they will be seat to New Orleans and shipped to Cape Town, I 'urban and New London in I!riti-li transports, some of which are now on their way to the United States, A j'try has decided that liaron Von Sch roder, w ho sued the Call for libel and demanded damages in the sum of 2-"0,000, was not libeled in the least when the paper said he was a libertine, ami a leach on society. And the jury was right, for it would be impossible to lilel that cad unless it were asserted that he was a decent man. Its sickening to notice the gush anl rot published in the San Francisco papers about the little sport Tod Sloan. One would think that really the little fellow was a great hero. I5ut Sloan prob ably pays well for the advertising he receives. There is every indication of an im pending scrap over the reward money for the apprehension of the local mail roblier and this, too, before unfortu nate Oglesby has been convicted. .This Li hasty hastiness in the extreme. The saying that corn is king is shown by the November statement of export. frmn this country American Cora to be something for All. more t,inI) R m(,r. rhetorical figure. The figure of ths report attest the fact that this whole some and nutritious product of Amer ican soil holds a truly royal plmv among the food products of the world. It shows that a larger (juant ity of corn was exported in the 11 months ending with November 30, 1S'J9, and at a high er rate per bushel, than in the corr ponding mopths of any preceding year since 1'j5. 'I he total export for the period named was l"5.H.'!2,fi.' lush els, valued ut $74,74-,,127. In the tir-k II mouths of the year 1-'J4 the total export of corn was only :i7, 91(1.212, or only about one-lifth as much as dur ing the 11 months of this year. Then figures of export relate to shelled corn To this must be added the export of rornmeal, which amounted during tin first 11 months of lH'jy to 7'Jlll bar rels. Most of the corn exported goes In Europe., where it appears to be grow ing rapidly- in popular favor. The 1'rit ish islands received nearly one-third of all sent across the seas, and tier many came next. Thus is coming to pass the prophecy of Joel Harlow, tin friend and contemporary of Washing ton, whose famous poem on Indian corn, published nearly a century ago, lias never been excelled in gustatory literature. He predicted that the time would come when liusty-puililing ami "johnny-cake" would be the favorit" and universal food of mankind. It is certain that a more palatable und healthful article of diet could hardly be hupplicd. vitza estimates that 1,100 crsonH have been killed and 400 women attacked and placed in harem. Modoc county has a new court resirt- t-r from Stockton. Cal. Csually when a i person i reported to have come from Stockton the impression is that there in something wrong with him or her. I5nt we understand the new court reporter is all right in every way. "Col. Mazuma" has not l-cn heard from in a long time, but he is expected to bob up again during the coming ses sion of the Oregon legislature. A Unit ed States Senator is to be elected. The servant girls of Minnesota have formed a trust they are not going to trust themselves alone with the man of the house. It happens that in place of the Lug lish subdiieing the Iloers in South Africa the shoe is on the other foot. In the senate a bill has been introduc ed by McBride to pay the Oregon civil war claims. The San Francisco liulletin's Christ mas number was an art model. A Strang" result of revival is given by the New York Olsscrver: "A few ... .months ago a Guod Itrsulls of ., , ,. , franklin, V ., a Revival. ijIJSi,.HS man in advertently fave a customer a ten dollar gold piece for 50 cents change. The customer who received the ten dollar gold piece observ.-d to another party a few hours after that it was the funniest 50-cent piece he hud ever seen. 'Yes,' replied the new arrival, 'but I'll give you two quarters for it.' The fool and the knave. dosed the bar gain; the fool walked olf with two silver quarters and the knave with the yellow piece. The Ioks of the ten-dollar gold piece worried the Franklin merchant, bruise he could not ac count for its disappearance. During the recent revival in Franklin, con ducted by ilev. H. W. Pope, superin tendent of the North field extension, the man with the ten-dollar gold piece was converted and finally re turned the gold Jwee to the merchant. J .....ce was thus rendered on all sides. The merchant got back Ida gold, the converted man got back the half dollar he paid the rustic, and the lat ter by this time probably has traded his two silver quarters for a jack-kuife." mm 1 Happy New 'n ; vf.r-. i u ' v - v, ''. 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