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MR. TONOUE'S REPLY.
In reply to a telegram from friend
in Salem regarding the dispatch from
the Oregonian correspondent at Wash
ington in which the statement was made
that Representative Thomas H. Tongue
was a "dark horse" candidate for United
States Senator, Mr. Tongue Bays:
"Every word ot the dispatch which
you give me, as appearing in the Morn
ing Oregonian regarding my candidacy
for the Senate, is maliciously and aleo
lutely false. There is not one word of
truth n the entire dispatch. I have not
discussed thin, and do not discuss any
subject pertaining to Oregon with the
Oregon ian correspondent. He is too
atupid to report a transaction correctly,
and too dishonest to report it truthfully.
For this reason I have refused to com
municate with hint on any subject."
Assemblyman llubbitrd, of Shasta
and Modoc, appears to have gained j
tome notoriety for a new man in the I
Legislature. A M-year old damsel w ho
resides on "shady" street in the Capi
tal City accuse) the young solon of
criminally assaulting her, but wise peo
ple believe it to be a case of blackmail,
aa the girl is well known to the police
as a wild 'nn. The first thing the army
of female vultures do is Lo swoop down
on the Legislature and pick out the fel
lows witii hay in their iiair, and by their
trade of. tickling the vanity of the cow
county representative- proceed to sepa
rate the rural solon from his money.
Legislator Hubbard is succeptible to the
charms of fair damsels, but w hen they
pick him up for a country "yahoo" they
are liable to get taken in even if his
appearances do indicate that he has
not been long from under the paternal
wing.
May's bill, allowing the people to
choose United Sates Senators, has paes
- ed the Senate. It is lelieved the House
-will accept the bill as it comes from the
Senate, and pass it with little objections.
In the House Harris introduced a reso
lution asking Congress to amend the
Constitution to provide for election of
United States Senators by direct vote of
the people. The resolution passed tlie
House and was concurred in by the Sen
ate. llie national Constitution pro
vides that when two-thirds of the states
shall ask for an amendment to the Con
stitution the same shall be admitted to
a vote of the people for ratification or
rejection. Oregon is on record as favor
ing the plan of choosing Senators by di
rect vote. Now let the band play.
In the new apportionment bill, pre
sented in the Oregon Legislature, it is
propoeeJ to tack Lake county on to
Malheur. Lake county is just as well
satisfied to remain as she is. Our Sen
ator is from Prineville, Crook county,
and can easily know the wants of our
people. Elect a Senator from Malheur
county to represent us, and he might as
well live in Topeka, Kansas. The Ex
aminer hopes that the apportionment
bill proposed by Steiwer will be side
tracked on a line where the enow falls
mountains deep. The Williamson law
is good enough for us.
The Nation woman is coming to the
coast for a crusade in Nevada and Cali
fornia, two states that she pronounces
"very much degraded." Right you are,
Carrie; California and Nevada need
purifying badly.
Ex Senator John II. Mitchell says he
ill he a candidate for the United States
Senate at the proper time. He says he
has 46 votes 28 Republicans and 20
Democrats. So says The Oregonian.
HcBride
Withdraws
Special to The llxamlner:
Salkm, Oroon, IVk 0.
In the Senatorial vote to-tlay
George W. MeHriiU'1 withdrew
from the contest tor Senator
and George 11. Williams of
Portland received 20 votes.
Sixteen were absent and
paired.
MOTCMKISS STRIKES
OIL IN CALIFORNIA.
Laktvlcw flan Organliaa a Company to !
valop the Industry In Culuta County.
A letter received from J. il. Iblrli
kiss of Lakeview, who is now in ('lu-a
county, Cal., announce the fart th.it he
has struck an oil well near Colusa, and
a company lias l'cn organized to de
velop the industry. The Kxnminer
would not le surprised to hear of Mr.
Hotchkiss becoming a great pet mleiim
magnate lefore loiig The oil huMm"
in California is certain v becoming im
portant. Only a lew weeks iio a
"gusher" was tapped in l'olua cunty
from w hirh thouf-andsot gallons oi crude
oil flowed.
The oil cra.e, like the Belgian hare,
though mtii-h more prolitah'e if siicces
ful, has struck Oregon, UilUlsiro U-i.j
the fir ft town t Ismst nf the discovery.
Petroleum was noticed tfoating on the
! top of a f prill,.' on the Triim'si rani'li,
eVen miles from Ilill-lM.ro. The oil
was carefully gathered and taken to a
Portland chemist, who pronounced
good. The ranch has been
development purposes by
men.
Ica-cd (or
lhlll-U.ro I
Regained His Freedom.
The Ashland Record says that Jese
Vertrees came out from the Willamette
last week ami visited AshUud for a brief
time while en route to Oro Finn, Cal., to
visit his folks. He will again take up
his residence in Southeastern Oregon,
and intends living a less turbulent
career. Vertrees will be remembered us
the foolish young man wlio, alsmt three
years ago, tampered with the combi
nation of the sate of the Lake County
Treasury during the administration ol
S. F. Ahlstrom. and was deported f r
three years. He was not a bad young
man at heart, and his downfall at that
time was due, doub'less, to copioii
draughts of bad whisky. It is to be
hoped that the young man has braced
Up, and that his future life will be Mich
as to win back the respect of his fellow
men.
The City Council should pass an ordi
nance to the effect that anyone discov
ered molesting cows standing on the
sidewalks, in the resilience Mrtion of
Lakeview, should lie punished by tine
and imprisonment. The cows have
right-of-way on the sidewalk", a'.il citi
zens should take to the middle of the
the street, where they belong.
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Cheeney returned
from Salem Tuesday morning, having
tamed overtheunfortunate Mrs.C'arlvsle
to the authorities at the Insane Asylum.
On the trip out the patient was con
siderable trouble to the guards, but did
not become violent. Mr. and Mrs.
Cheeney were in the railroad blockade,
caused by a slide, at Cow Creek can on,
and were held six hours. Their train
attempted to go through just after the
track van cleared, when another piece
of the mountain came down, doing con
sideraliie damage and almost wrecking a
portion of the train.
A t - A
T Xatc jforcton Hotea. J
5 v
The Boers and British continue to
skirmish.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports 4,000
cases of smallpox in Utah.
The United States will insist that
Cuba approve the Monroe Doctrine.
The Italian cabinet resigned on Feb
Miles to be Lieutenant-General, Young,
Chaffee and MacArthur to lie Major
Generals are nominations sent to the
Senate by President McKinley.
Two leading business men of Manila,
Theodore Carranza and J). M. Carman,
have been arrested for aiding the insur
gents. They are accused of furnishing
rebels with supplies.
At Baku, Russia, February 7th, ftH)
people perished in a conflagration. Ten
large tenements, 500,000 tons of mazout,
350,000 tons of naphtha and all the
Rothschild reservoirs were burned.
Tamouse Lake burned and the inazout
caused explosions which killed many
spectators.
HO RE
THAN
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STOCK NOTES
HERE THERE
Imis (ierber of Klamath last week
shipped from Montague six carloads of
tine l-ef to Sacramento. He will ship
from the same place this week HOO mut
ton. Ten carloads of line ls-e( cattle, 2')
head, were shiped from Ontario to
Seattle Saturday. They were purchas
ed by II. F. Putnam, representing I'rye,
I'.inhn A Co., from Win. Ilanley and M.
K. Parson. Two thousand head of
choice lecf cattle have been fed for ship
ment near Ontario this winter. Ontario
Argus.
F.mtnitt and Lewis of Klamath last
week sold HI head ol' U-ef cattle to I -oil is
(ierU-r. The cuttle brought utsiut fliil
1st head. X. S. Merrill of Klamath al
so delivered lust week 10O head of lieef
to Swanson of Sacramento, according to
the Republican.
B. A. Bell was in from the (lallatin
ranch Monday. He says the hand of
lUV'iOO head of sheep have so far winter
ed exceedingly well, the entire loss lie
ing only l ti head, which is about the
per cent of loss from natural causes.
Lambing he says will oommcno on the
ran h alsmt the end of this week. Red
Bluff News.
Fred Methane, the well-known cattle
man of Fort Klamath, has 11 M) head of
prime steers w hich are sold to a Rose
burg rancher at 7i, says the Republi
can. They will be driven to Ashland
ulsiut the 20th of this month, and from
there shipel to Portland. We under
stand that this is one of the finest bunds
of cattle that ever left this county.
They are expected to weigh gross about
1350 pounds.
Quite a number of horses were caught
in the severe snow storm of the first
week in January, but we have not heard
of any extensive losses, although a few
have died, says the Yreka Journal.
Horses generally stay in the timber re
gions, and try to browse as Much as
possible on the trees and shrubbery.
They also eat each other's tails, a num
ber having been rescued that had tails
even shorter than the bobtail nags.
Horses have also been left to starve by
some owners, and look like skeletons,
for which neglect there ought to be a
penalty as cruelty to animals.
According to the Reno Gazette, there
was another man in the N. C. (). wre -k,
near Doyle station, a month ago, who,
it has been discovered, was serious'y
injured. Railway Mail Clerk Robert C.
Reigg was considerably bruised in the
accident, but thought it nothing serious
until his condition liecame worse. He
was persuaded to go to San Francisco to
consult with specialists, and when the
X-ray was brought into use it disclosed
the fact that Mr. Reigg's spine was in
jured. The city of Reno will bore twenty-five
wells to obtain water for drinking pur
poses. The enterprise wlil cost $5,000.
TRUTH
POETRY
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Once on a time in the Kineteenlh
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which he conducted for a long time
even into theTwentieth Century. From
time to time the editor man would
tackle something too "heavy" for his
calilrtir and each time he would lie com
pelled to "haul" another man into his
office to do the "heavy" work. When
the editor man would have this great
load on his mind he would call in his
assistant daily to look over "copy" and
mark the errors which the editor man's
loor printer continually made. The
assistant was a fine editor and could
write big words all of which he knew
the meaning of and the editor man
was very happy liecause some of the
toilus would think he wrote the
"heavy" stuff. And then one day in
the Twentieth Century the editor man's
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