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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-23

retired ar an early hour % . sfats-room
on The Mountain Queer. and listened
all night long to the ire n. % OF busy men.
'ne rumble of hurry ug trucks. ti.-
skurrying Of cattle's fee, and ,ne cistter
OF horses' hoofs. The work of The o. S.
y. Company in MOVING the freiehts
from the Upper Columbia to Portland is
simply marvellous. There are many
thousands Of tons OF wheat vet to he
transported before the river closes, and
much more that the company will not
engage To- move ga. Spring Arrange
ments are being made 10 construct @
large number of new boats aud Dc viii
not be long till ten tia- the present
carrying capacity of the company will
be kept busy day and night.
-Four P N, and hOme-thank Heaven (!
When next you hear from Us, health
permitting, We shall be ia Eastern O-e-
gon. A.S.D.
Portland, October Is, 1879.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-23
WHITNEY IN TROUBLE.

Prosecuting Attorney Whitney, Of the
Third Judicial District, created SEN
sation recently by refusing to prosecute
the dishonest officials Of the Grover ad-
ministration, when directed to DO so by
Governor Tbayer. The offenders are
his personal and political friends. The
young mau will doubtless comprehend
the full meaning Of the step taken when
he has had time enough to study aud
understand the following, which was
telegraphed from Salem to the Oregon
ian on the 2lst instant:
Judge Harding to-day called in the Grand
Jury and read 10 them the Governors appoint
ment Of Thompson 10 prosecute the cases
against the late Stale officials, including the
portion citing Prosecuting Attorney Whitney's
refusal 10 act He then appointed George II.
Burnett as Prosecuting Attorney 20 investigate
the charges, and, II necessary, 10 prepare an
indictment against Whitney Tor violation OF
MS oath Of Office. a sensation was created in
Judicial circles.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-23
nTHB UTEs MUST CO."

The people of Colorado have deter
mined that the troublesome Utes "must
go" They are tired Of allowing the
lazy, iusolent forest children 5000 or
4. 600 acres Of fertile land each. of which
no use is made. Inspector w. ]. Pol
lock telegraphs to the Com missioner Of
Indian Affairs from Denver, Colorado,
as follows: "The Governor and leading
citizens here unanimously affirm that
the Indians must he removed from the
State or exterminated by the State if
not by Federal forces. Confidence, they
say, can never be restored, and it is
only question Of whether the result be
attained at once or by slow and te-
dious warfare"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-23
AN ORAOLE's OPINION.

Francis Parkman is another oracle Of
the superior sex who has spoken the
sentiments Of other weak minded men
upon the woman question. With
care" and patience" that would do
honor to Judge Prim when trying to
prove that women have no legal rights
which men cannot set aside with impu-
nifty, this autOcrat Of an aristocracy Of
sex outdOes himself in uttering mean
ingless sophistries in the North Ameri-
can ReCietU for October, in which the
Oreg0Rtt.s says he 'sexposes the shall
lowness Of the claims Of the strong
minded sis,erhood by showing that no
political right is absolute, OF of univer-
sal application" This is a bomb that
should forever silence the advocates Of
equal rights. IL is a complete extin-
guisher 10 the Declaration Of Independ-
euce, and, Of course, should be an effect
ual gag in the mouths Of all women
henceforth and it doubtless woulI be,
only that they have never claimed :hat
any political right Of any sex is abso-
lutte. Indeed, they have invariably
claimed the contrary, aud that is why
they object so strongly to the "unwar-
rantable Jurisdiction over them" which
is held by an absolute, man made gov
ernment.
After laboring through a herculean
effort to prove that the right Of absolute
political power is vested in men, by
showing that no such absolute power
is vested in women, Mr.. Parkman
sums up the whole array Of his untena-
ble objections, and establishes his entire
ignorance Of the subject he attempts to
treat so exhaustively by saying, "If the
voting Of women conduces 10 the great
est good Of the community, they ought
TO vote, but otherwise they ought not"
This oracle ought to pay the Territory
Of Wyoming a visit, aud learn some
thing OF the practical workings OF Wom-
al Suffrage thers, before he attempts
another essay upon the subject. II has
long been q conceded fact that many
persons can talk most learnedly upon
the topics they know least about, aud
our oracle has proved cOnclusively that
he is one Of these. II he knows that
Woman Suffrage has long been a practi-
cal fact in Wyoming, aud that it has
ceased to be "a matter Of defamation"
there, and that il has "conduced to the
general god9 Of the community" wher-
ever good women are sufficiently num-
erous to make their influence felt at the
ballot box, then he is laboring earnestly
TO make the worse appear the better
reason" Aud IL he does not know that
Wyoming's women vote, aud that the
highest authorities in the Territory have
given official testimony to the fact that
their voting has been conducive Of
general good 10 the community then
we modestly suggest that it would be
well for him to investigate the matter
before he writes again. II is more than
probable that a little practical knowl-
edge would somewhat abridge his flow
Of rhetoric, seeing that all Of bis preju.
dices are already in array against the
facts but then he might console him
self with the reflection that the differ
ence between a man and a donkey is.
that man can change his opinion and
a donkey can't.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-23

y striking feature Of the Mechanics
Fair, aud one which attracts crowds of
amused spectators, is a group Of three
remarkable pictures by Mrs. Doud,
sister Of Governor Thayer, which repre-
sents the Governor, first as a babe in
his bath, next as a gubernatorial officer,
and last as what a starved out speci-
men Of limp humanity he might have
been deuied the elective franchise.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-23

From the Bee Of Tuesday afternoon
''The women exhibitors In the Mecban-
les Pavilion were grossly iusulted by
the OregOnioH's report this morning,
stating that scores Of women had ran
sacked garrets aud closets for out-of-
date gimcracks, and brought them in
for exhibition simply TO get ticket OF
admission In point Of fact there is
not an article on exhibition that is not
a credit to the fair, and to thus assail
the psinstaking labor Of the women who
have done so much toward beautifying
and diversifying the display, is beyond
all precedent in meaDness."
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-23

The Mechanics Fair is not disgraced
by saloon, after all. Rev. T. L. Eliot,
with characteristic unostentatiousness
went quietly to work aud succeeded Ia
getting money enough subscribed TO
buy out the right of the saloon kseper.
Some persons have praised the society
for this result, but the credit is due to
Mr.. Eliot aud those who subscribed the
funds.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-23

.,'l. a'ie A Kemp, Swarthmore's val
49, t,,o.o'iAn . oil 1873, has had three posi-
, ions rendered to her, one Of which sha
Ia accepted, to teach the Iangnoras
,i 1uu nigher mathematics in an Fo,soo9
,@aaI.l' t',,,l'u s'nDoi 10 Lancaster, Penn. L.,
'eAOners , take courage. There is plen,r
Of room higher up. p'ehty
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-26
The Extremes Of Uifense and Defense.

Speaking of the English 100. ton iron
gun. and the German Seton steel gun,
the Chicago Times saws:
The difference between the Krupp
and the Fraser is that the one is the
largest steel gan as the other is the
largest wrought-iron gun now made.
The former, while in every respect the
more powerful, is considerably lighter
than the other, is more easily moved
into and out of position, and much
more rapidly loaded. The construc-
ton of this gun may be regarded as set
ting definitely, at least for the present,
the contest between projectiles and
armor. This has gone on for many
years until the thickness of armor has
become such that a further increase
would n,auart ;+s ha;no aoated Evan
AZ -.
the oV-loh gun may NC given 'ne circuit
of having won the victory, for the rea-
son that no c~uirassed ship can be built
and Aoatad whose armor can Withstand
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-26
FAIR spECIMEN.

7 had been entirely bald for several years, con-
sstutioual. I suppose. I used a few bottles OF
Kathairon, and. to my great surprise 1 have a 'h'ek
growth Of young hair.
COZ. JOHN L. DoRRANoE, U. s. A.
In every important respect the KathAiron i'soe'
,utely incompatible. It IL unsquai'd
l. To Cure badness.
,. To Restore Gray Hair.
). To Remove Dandrua.
To Dress and Bsautify the Hair.
REAR IN aHND.-The Ksthairon h no
saoiy paste of sulphur and :usar-0flsad; to pain.
ana daab tho hair and p~araiyse tho brain. Il"
Z pure and iimpid vegetable lotion, intended tore
s.orc tho hair by natural growth and reinvisoration;
II Is splendidly perfumsd, and tho most deiishtis'
toilet dressing known. No lady's or gsn.s'
toilet outfit Is complete without Lyons
aoLp xyxaywzzas.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-26

VANDERBILT.
HIS Entry Into the Stock Buslness-A
Giant Monopoly.

The Chicago Times, in speaking of
VIM. H. Vanderbilt's new venture,
says: AS with his trunk lines he alb
serbs the earnings of the subsidi-
airy and connecting lines, rendering
them tributary to him, as with his
Merchants Dispatch line he absorbs
earnings which else might go to the
stockholders, so now, by these enor-
NOUS ranch purchases in Colorado, he
has reached out to ~monopolize, not only
the cattle transportation traffic of that
state, but the cattle traffic itself. With
the superior advantages which his con-
troll of transportation lines gives him in
the way of reaching market at the
least cost, he enters into direct COM
petition with the cattle-growers of Col
orado. With the odds in his favor of
being able to control the freight rates,
that competition can hardly be styled
competition. 1t is a competition in
which Mr.. Vanderbilt enjoys exclusive
advantages and exclusive powers to
place competitors at a disadvantage.
His land purchases, which embrace
territory sufficient for a dukedom. or
pr~incipality, are but the initial invest
msnt. What is to hinder his adding
10 1t, until to his transportation o n
poly and a monopoly of the cattle trade
he has added a monopoly of the finest
grazing lands in the, state? When that
is done, will not Vanderbilt's ascend
ency over the cattle grazers and dealers
and shippers of Colorado be as complete
as it is over the small lines subsidiary
to his system of trunk roads? And a it
be supposed lie will WELD that ascend
ency any the less relentlessly over the
people of Colorado than he does over
the stockholders in the tributary lines?
The Vanderbilt extension of the
Vanderbilt schemes and policy in this
direction is only suggestive of the ex-
tent to which, without impairment of
his capital and with every assurance of
increased profit, those schemes and that
policy may be extended almost indie
The fields are numerous in
which he may enter into competition
with private and corporate enterprise
with such enormous odds in capital and
control on his side that he can
destroy all competition. The power of
one hundred millions so surely invested,
and of six millions a year income is
1t is so tremendous that
William Fl. Vanderbilt himself, with
power at his command, and vested
with vast corporate franchises, is one
of the gravest problems of the Ameri-
can commercial and political situation
1t is a serious question what
power in the country is equal to one
hundred millions before congress. What
a be equal to it before any
state legislaturep Who in the courts
the courts of justice-can defeat one
hundred millions? Who in the halls
of congress or the legislatures car sue
cessfully oppose one hundred millions
the lobbyp And, with the hundred
millions, and the income of six millions
a year going On increasing where will
the limits of this tremendous power,
welded by one man, cease? The ques-
ton already is beginningto concern
whole states. That is the problem,
which is William H. Vanderbilt.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-26
LYONS
KATHAIR0N

Discovered thirty five years ago by Prof. Lyon .,
Vale. h, the most perfect preparation in the world
for preserving and identifying the hair.
u..ides being the best hair dressing
ever produced, Lyons Kathairon will
positively prevent grnyness, N wiiife-
20, new hair to bald heads, If tha roota
and ~follieles are not destroyed.
It actually performs these seeming mfsGi'' T."
vhich the following IL
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-26
Stock of Cattle,
Ranch, and Beef Canning
Works for Sale.

Located on a navigable stream, about forty
miles from Indianola, Texas.
works sold separate If desired.
There are about 10000 cattle in The stock.
with saddle horses, teams, buildings. pastures,
pens, lands, etc., to handle the same to the
best advantage.
the entire year. A large number Of TN cattle
origlna ly In that section having been driven
to Kansas the grazing is now better than IL
has been Tor years before.
The beer canning works have all the ma
chinery Tor putting up canned beef, together
with boiler. engiu es; tanks and tools complete
for slaughtering and canning beeves,
Ii preferred, would sell the cattle in lots 10
suit purchasers, delivered in Kansas the com
Ing season.
For particulars. address
VIM. b. GRIMES,s
l22l Locust street,
mchlitf Kansas City, Mo.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-26

It's main line runs from Chicago 20 Council piurs
Sale. Geneseo, Moline, Rock Island. Davenport,
TTsst Liberty, loya 1o, City ~ MaF ran BT996iyn;
With branches from, bureau Junction 70 Peoria;
neid, Eldon, Beiknap, Centreviile, Princeton, Trcn-
ton, Gnllatin, Cameron, L~eayenwoTth and Atchisnn;
Washington to Sigourncy, oskaloosf and Knoxyillei
Keokuk 10 Pennington, Bonnparte,, Dentonsport
Indepeneent Eldon. o,tnmya; Eddyyille Sska-
70 Indianola and winterset; Atlantic TO Audubon
and Avoca 10 Harlan. This Is. p~ooitiyely the only
Railroad which owns. controls, and operates g
through line between Chicago and Kansas
This Company own and control their Sleeping Cars,
berth between Chicago and Council Blufsj Lenyen-
worth, or Atchison for Two Dollars and Fifty Cents;
and n section for Five Dollars, while all other lines
charge between the same points, Three Dollars for
What will please you most will be the pleasure of
enjoying your meals. while passing over the beauti-
fuf prnirfes of Illinois and Iowa, In one of our mag
plhcent Dining and nur ant Cars that accompany
all through Express Trains You get an ent.leI meal.
scventy-nve cents ; or you can order what you like,
Apprccinting the fact TINT n majority OF the people
prefer separate apartments for different purposes,
land the enormous passenger business OF this line
Company runs its PALACE sL.EEPlNs. CARS for
Neeping purposes, aud its PALACE, DINING CARS
for Eating purposes. ono other great feature OF
ATCFIIsOS md WORTH
TIckets via this Line. known rs the 90
Ticket Agents In the United 1ta.ea md "a
For information not oS:=.aabls at your
A. k1MBALL,
Gep1 Supcytntendont
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-12-23

A despatch from our special Washington
correspondent, printed elsewhere, gives
some interesting statements concerning the
middle into which the republicans are
falling about the Grant movement. Our
correspondent, it will be seen, states posi-
lively that neither Mr.. Sherman nor Mr..
Blaine will adhere to the Grant movement;
but both will remain in the field as candi-
dates to contest for the nomination, and
that there is among republicans in WASH
ington growing belief that General Grant
would be weak candidate and that it would
be hazardous to nominate him for a third
term. Various other matters of fact and
opinion are stated in this despatch, oil
bearing upon the question of General
Grants, denomination; and it would seem
from the contradictory accounts put for
ward! from different quarters that the re-
publican politicians are having as difficult
a time with General Grant Us the democrats
with Mr.. Tilden.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-12-23
Two of the twelve (whalen and MadilD

Two Of the twelve (whalen and Madill)
were unwilling to converse upon the sub
Ject and their privacy was scrupulously re-
spected. One (Balbo) is SO overcome with
dread Of death that all the various means
OF 1t are Indifferent to him. There is di-
versity OF views among the other nine, but
with two exceptions they disapprove
OF hanging as the method of capital
punishment. Two (Acceta and McCormack)
would prefer to be drowned one (Smith)
to be shot, and one (Bello) to be stabbed to
death. Three Burke. Condor and Poole)
have preference for suffocation by the
fumes OF charcoal or Of ordinary illuminat-
ing gas, though to one of them (Burke)
drowning would be equally acceptable.
LIE Font, Poole's accomplish, emphatically
commends hanging, and would be better
satisfied if the ancient penalty of quartering
were restored in addition. Chastine Cox
favors hanging all murderers who are more
than fifty years old and shooting or bleed
ing to death those younger. For himself
he would like to be shot. Electricity is
not acceptable as mode of death to any
of the number. Neither is the guillotine
nor the garrote.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-12-23

The London Times believes that with the
capture Of Secocoeni the finishing strokes
have been given to native disturbances in
ever, apparently Growing before England is
well out of South African woods, unless we
are to understand that the Boer troubles in
the Transvaal do not come within the
category Of "native disturbances" The
disaffection that prevails in the Trans
vaal has by no means subsided; in
deed, during the month OF October the Cape
papers have contained reports from all
parts of the late Republic, showing that
public meetings were being held tor the
purpose OF. demanding from England the
restoration of republican Independence
and institutions An English correspond
cnt writing from Lyndenburg two months
ago, gave us some idea of tho relations
existing between the English and tho
Dutch Beers. 1T is" he said, scarcely
possible to hear one of the roughcr sort of
English residents speak of q Dutchman
without the use of prefix which in
dicates the lost spiritual status of the
latter, and the compliment is re-
turned by the Beers, who never mention
the abstract Engander without putting the
Dutch equivalent for lost without salvation
before the substantive" No Boer of any
standing am ong his fellows has yet given
welcome to Sir Garnet wolseley, and those
whose signatures we're attached to the adj
dress to the new Governor of the Trans
vaal were mostly of names mot indicating
pure Dutch blood. The Transvaal Beers
have been annexed against their will, and
though it Is too late for them now to
hope for success in the field they
will, doubtless, persist in protesting
and annoying the British until something
like independence is again restored to
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-12-23

Among the allowances which the Board
of Health asks Of the Board of Apportion-
ment over last years appropriation there
is nm item for three additional inspectors
OF milk, at salaries each Of twelve hundred
dollars a year. This ought to be granted.
There are hundred and thirty thousand
children in the city less than five years old
whose diet consists of milk in larger pro-
portion than their elders. For I'LL these
aud the million other inhabitants only
one milk inspector now is provided
Tho Board OF Health estimates that
the citizens are defrauded ut rate
OF ten thousand dollars day by the
sale OF skinned and watercd milk. But
that is not the worst. It omits to estimate
the quantity of rotten milk which is served
daily to the hundred and thirty thousand
children. Year by year sanitarians in other
countries are becoming more firmly con-
WINGED that next to defective drainage un-
wholesome milk is the most fertile agency
of zymotic diseases. If the Board OF
Health will penetrate to the sources of this
corruption and cleanse them, by NIL means
give it the necessary inspectors for the pur-
pose and hold 1t rigidly responsible for the
execution of the duty.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-12-23

will scarcely consent to pay the piper for
the personal glorifcation of agitators who
cannot show how cent can be spent to
better the condition of the Irish people,
unless it is to be spent in buying
food for them. But that sort of ex-
penditure is apparently beneath the
attention of the gentlemen who merely
want to play at the game of making Ireland
thorn in the side of England. and to lift
themselves thereby into that sort of personal
notoriety and consideration which seems to
be far dearer to the heart of the average
Irish patriot the world over than the well
fare of his countrymen or thu liberty of his
country. But we believe the Irish in this
country, and the Americans too, will give
literally to help the Irish people who are
in want. Do the agtators want that done?
We doubt it. We believe they would rather
trade upon the hunger OF the people as an
element in the agitation than to see that
hunger fed.
If people in bad year have made only
half the money they usually make, and can,
consequently, only pay their rent or buy
food, but not do both, it is pitiful that hard
laws and heartless landowners should ex-
tort what is due for rent, though the people
starve, and it is an occasion, if ever there
was one, when the charity of the world at
large, and especially OF friendly and SYM
pathetic nations, should come to the help
of the wretched. But how this can practi-
cally be done otherwise than by buying
food for these hungry ones is not
nationally perceptible. Yet this is not
what the agitators want. They will
deprecate every cent that is spent
otherwise than in agitation. TO give the
people money with which to buy bread
would take the ground from under the feet
Of those who see no other fact in the misery
of u starving people than the opportunity
to make political use OF their despair. To
give the Irish food would end the dilemma
between starvation and rent, which is the
ground of the Parnell clamor But we
urge the Irish or all others prepared to
give to reserve their funds for that better
purpose. That this advice is likely to get
us into hot water with so-called Irish patri-
OTIS is point of little moment to us. The
HERALD has always been in hot water. It
was baptized in hot water It is the duty
of journal which means to tell the simple
truth plainly to the people to take all the
chances Of that sort Of regimen, and we
take them.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-12-23
spseche. ut Christina. Festivals.

1t is customary to precede the eating
Of charitable Christmas dinners and the
awarding of charitable Christmas gifts with
speeches. A great many pious men imagine
that they have special qualifications for
such oratory. Most of them ore mistaken.
Generally they are too prolix and too seri-
ous. An address at any Christmas festival
should be brief and cheerful, and espe-
cinlly so If the occasion is one Of charity.
It should not delay the hearers till the
turkey gets cold. 1t should not provoke
them to impotence for the distribution Of
the other good things Christmas is glad
some anniversary, and the JOY should not
be talked out Of it. The art of making an
appropriate Christmas speech is very diff
cult one, particularly speech to children.
II they are poor children the orator some
times reminds them Of their poverty In
order to enhance their gratitude for the
bounty of which they are about to partske.
This is grievous blunder. II DESCENDANTS