Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1893-09-07

values were the remarks OF cooper, OF
Florida, during the debate, when he said
eff am to vote for bill to give an arti-
fetal value to things; if l am to vote for
this measure, want an amendment
added by which my people shall receive
dollar for 81 cents worth of their cotton
and tobacco and oranges and pineapples
and vegetables and logs and lumber and
turpentine."
The first application for permission to
engage in hydraulic mining, under the
new California law, has been made. By
the terms of the Caminetti act itcan be en-
gagged in so long as it infficts no material
injury upon public or private property.
If this can be done without too great ex
pense it will have tendency to equalize
the values of gold and silver by lessening
the cost of producing the former.
A writer not long ago predicted that the
time would come when horse could trot
in less than two minutes, and when
Nancy Hanks lowered the record three
seconds at clip last Thursday, it begins
to look as though that time was not far
distant. Driven by Doble she made
mile in 2: 06A. She is owned by J.
Malcolm Forbes.
The mayor and board of public works
of Tacoma were arrested last week, on
account Of their raid on the gas works to
secure the material claimed to be with
held by the water company, in transfer
ring the water and electric light plants to
the city. Some lively legal scrimaging
was INDUCED in, and more is expected to
follow.
Much ado has been made over the
Presidents liberated jaw-bone which
was operated upon in July. and which
has just become public. Had it been
necessary. to satisfy morbid curiosity to
do so, the sensationalist press would no
doubt have written" him dead ere this.
If the present administration wants to
make lasting record, let it take hold OF
the Nicaragua canal, after the financial
question is settled. 1t would be lasting
disgrace to allow any other nation to get
their fingers into that pie.
Are you out of work? If so, and have
not your winters wood cut, join the crew
on the hillsides and lay in supply. 1t
does not cost anything, and will make
you feel more cheerful, and aid your di-
gestion.
Flcquet, formerly president of the
French Chamber of Deputies, was de-
feated for reelection by Socialist. His
connection with the panama scandal was
the cause.
The House committee on Ways and
Means has begun conducting the series OF
hearings it purposes holding before begin
ming on the tariff bill
There will be no trouble with Mexico
over the boundary, on account OF slight
change in the channel of the Rio Grande.
O. NJ Moore, of the Hoquiam Wash
ingtonian, has received letters patent for
chromatic ink fountain.
PETER has introduced another Ethiopian
financial measure, in the form OF amend
ments to the Constitution.
DR.. Thatcher T. Graves confessed his
guilt by suiciding in his cell, at Denver,
last Saturday.
Bradstreet's report for last week shows
a very slight improvement in trade.
"A receiver has been appointed for the
Nicaragua Canal Company.
President and Mrs. Cleveland have re-
turned to Washington.
Monday was labor day, and generally
observed in the cities.
The Overland Monthly for September
opens with several illustrated poems,
descriptive OF various parts of the state,
which are veritable tributes OF song to
the attractiveness Of the places described.
Painting Yosemite Panorama, by the
artist. G. D, Robinson. is an attractive