The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-09-03
YOURS TRULY" SAD AND GLAD
AND MAD.

AND MAD.
Mrs. D., Yours Truly's been crying
and laughing for the last hour. Only
think of it. The governor brought home
stray copy of the Walla Walla States
man around curiously-shaped black
black bottle the other day-he's tenn
perance man, and the contents must
have been Hostetter's Bitters, though
they did give him a suspicious breath
and unsteady gait-and in the paper
aforementioned Yours Truly found this
item:
Colonel Otis has returned from Canyon City,
where he was called to meet the charge of hav-
ing assaulted a woman employed as a laundress
at Camp Harney. A hearing was had in the
case, when it appeared that the woman was
called to Colonel Otis office in order that he
might talk to her and induce her to deport her
self better in camp. The woman, instead OF
taking what was meant to be good advice in
the same spirit, became uproarious and used
insulting language, until in a moment of for
getfulness, Colonel Otis slapped her across the
face with his open hand. No injury was in
tended, and the woman never suffered from the
slap, but on this slender basis the charge OF
Outrageous abuse" miscarriage" etc, was
trumped up, and Colonel Otis put to the incon-
venience and expense of a journey TO Canyon
| City. The court, after hearing the evidence in
the case, held Colonel Otis to answer the
charge of assault and battery. "Only this and
nothing more"
Now, Mrs. D., you have solution of
Yours Truly's present pleasant, yet
sympathetic state of mind. She always
knew that women were protected by
men, and has always been indignant
over anybody's and everybody's asser-
tions to the contrary, Notwithstanding
she sometimes indulges in the same
nonsense herself. But let any one who
has any doubts about the matter read
the above extract and then yield the
point without further controversy.
The protected and supported woman
in question was sent for by Colonel Otis
to get ''good advice" We are left in
blissful ignorance as to why she needed
it. Perhaps her husband was drunk;
certain it was that her health was deli
cate, and doubtless she was desperate,
as wives and mothers of men who wash
for lazy officers sometimes are. The
woman, it seems, couldn't realize that
the Coloneps "good advice' helped hel
any, so she used Insulting language
What the language, or what provoked
it, Yours Truly cannot learn from the
extract under consideration, but she
lutin', Mrs. D.?-when she reflects upor
the depravity of drudging laundress, s
prospective mother at that, who so fal
forgets her condition as to injure the
feelings of her gentle protector! But
and here's where the laugh comes in
the Colonel got even! 'In moment o
forgetfulness, he slapped her across
the face with his open hand" Ha! ha
ha! Ha ha! ha-a-a-ha! There's NJ
nonsense about that Colonel. Just le
any woman dare-ha! ha! ha-a-a-a-a
haI ha! She might have knOton better
"But upon this slender basis the charg
of outrageous abuse miscarriage etc.
was trumped up, and Colonel Otis pu
to the inconvenience and expense of I
journey to''-and here's where the crI
comes into Canyon Citym Boo
hoo! hoo! Boo-oo-oo-hoo-oo-boo-oo
hoo! Only think of it! A mana SOW
ereign born and bred-to be put to sucl
trouble over such trifie! And thel
that court-to go and hold the Colonel
after hearing the eVidence-to answer t.
the charge of assault and battery!
What is to become of the men, at thi
rate, Mrs. D. If it comes to that, tina
when, "in a moment of forgetfulness,
i they merely "slap' protected woman
''across the face" causing "miscar
riage," etc, come the Inconvenience ant
expense of making q journey to Canyon