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ATTENTION, MR.. MITCHELL.

The 1MEs-MoUNTA1NEER appre.
ciates the services you haYe rendered
Oregon during the many years you
have been in the United States senate,
and at the same time recognized your
ability to still render additional and
beneficial services, nor does it at this
time desire to appear as attempting to
threaten your defeat at the legislature
next January. But condition exists
in Eastern Oregon that rises above,
every other question of politics, and to
this your attention is called. The i'm
mediate and future prosperity of this
section depends upon the speedy re-
moval of distractions to the free navi-
CATION of the Columbia. By reason of
your official position and your inau.
ence with the departments at Wash
ington, it Ia within your power to facil-
itate the work already begun and that
under contemplation, and also to ma
terially aid in effecting an agreement
between the engineers corps and the
state authorities whereby the portage
road at the Cascades may be operated.
You expect to go before the next
Oregon legislature for reelection, and
to secure your election you must have
at least portion OF the votes from
Eastern Oregon. Can you expect 10
get those, even of your own party, SO
long as their interests are not receiv-
ing your immediate attention. Can
you expect them to return you to the
United States senate when you are not
yourself In matter that Is
Of greatest importance to them and
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Resolutions of Coincidence.

WHEREAS, 1t has pleased the Su-
preme Master Workman of the uni.
verse to remove from our midst the
dearly beloved OF brother and sister
Kreft, and We their brothers and sisters
in the Degree of Honor being desir.
GUS of expressing our earnest and af.
fectionate sympathy with the honse.
hold thus deeply bereaved, therefore
be it,
Resolved, That we tenderly condole
with the family of the deceased in their
hour of trial and afliction, and de.
voutly bid them find consolation In
the belief that all Is well with her for
whom we mourn.
Resolved, That while we deeply
sympathize with those who were bound
to our departed friend by the nearest
and dearest ties, We share with them
the hope of a reunion in that better
world, where there are no partings, NO
heartaches, no tears.
Resolved, That these resolutions be
transmitted to the family of the de.
ceased, as token of respect for the
Christian character of the dear girl
gone to her rest, and the interest felt
by the lodge in those she loyed and
cherished.
Resolved, That these resolutions be
spread upon the records of this lodge
and copy thereof be transmitted to
each of the daily papers.
MARGARET C. HERRIN,
MATILDA RoRpEN,
E.'JANE.RussELL,
Committee.
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AN ARMLEss NIMRop.

4Ags Nsrs Game Than Any Oths1 Huntas
IN the Same County.
An armless Nimrod Is the wonder ID
the people and the envy Of the sports-
men Of Bucks county, says the phila-
,delphia Record. he Is john Simon, Of
Zion Hill, and his prowess Is some--
thing marvellous. Simon's arnas were
ground OF above the elbows In ma
chinery few years aga bat his love
Of hunting spurred his ingenuity, and
he overcame his seeming insurmounta-
.ble obstacle. He straps his single-bar.
rel, breech-loading hammerless gun to
his right arm, and when he sights
game he swings the. piece over the
stump of his left arm, takes quick aim
and fires, generally with telling effect
His mode Of loading Is as uniqe as his
shooting. He carries the shells in his
hat, and when he wants one bows low,
drops his hat on the ground, pulls out
the empty shell with his teeth and in
similar manner loads, then pushing
his head INTO his hat to recover his
head. Despite his af1iction, Simon
has done some Of the best shooting In
Bucks county the past year, his record
standing: Sixteen opossums, fivs
pheasants, five dozen blackbirds, thirty.
seven rabbits and twenty-one quail
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IT is NO PHANTOM.


Nothing so moves the demo-populist
silver agi.ator and fanatic TO frantic
fury as the object lesson of the Mexican
collar. 1t is absolutely unanswerable.
It paralyzes all his sophistical argu-
nents, and leaves him nothing but his
sputter and frothy rage.-Oregonian.
Really, we had not heard of any
'demo-populist silver agitators" view
ng-the deprecated Mexican dollar as
a phantom or ghost to disturb their
tranquility and cause them 70 feel any
uneasiness concerning the final result
in case the mints of the United States
are opened to the unlimited coinage of
silver. The "silver agitator" if he
knows anything at all, knows without
telling that the silver dollai- of Mexico
goes at its bullion value, which is, at
present prices of the two metals, about
"a cents; and he knows too that the
Immediate result of free coinage would
be to bring our silver coins down very
nearly. to their bullion value for a
time. But when he takes into con-
'sideration the supply of the two metals
in the world. he has abundant and
reasonable foundation for the belief
that the bullion value of both gold and
silver will rapidly adjust themselves
to prices that will bring them very
nearly to the ratio of sixteen ounces of
silver to one of gold whenever this
nation adopts free silver.
We're the United States weak gov.
ernment, both in population and
wealth, as Mexico is, any action it,
might take with reference to the stand.
ard of money would have little or no
effect upon the condition of fnaaces
in other nations. But when it is con-
sidered that the United States has one
twentieth the population and one-sixIh
the money metal of the entire world,
it.cannot be denied that whatever
action she may take with reference to
money will have an influence in de-
termining the value of money metals
throughout the universe. OF the
81, ,s33, 100000 OF metallic money dis.
tributed among the civilized nations,
the stock held in the United States is
81, ,2s5, 100000. According to the re.
port of the director of the United
States mint, based on a ratio of about
l5a TO l, the money metals were
distributed among the different
countries as follows year ago:
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upper lake region, just as an open
river at The Dalles and Cascades of
the Colum bia will help the farmers OF
the Inland Empire.
With such results having been ac-
complished by the opening Of the 500
canal, is it any wonder that the people
of the Inland Empire want the OBJ
structions to navigation of the Colum.
bia removed? With millions of pounds
of wool and millions of bushels of
wheat to ship, Is it unreasonable for
US to demand of our senators and re.
representatives. that they urge the hasty
completion Of the locks and the boat
railway? Let Senators Mitchell and
McBride and Congressman Ellis con.
slider what their constituents in East.
ern Oreson are losing every year by
being forced to pay railroad to carry
their products to market, and what
they would save by being permitted to
use the great water way which nature
has given them, and our honorable
senators and representative will -be
ashamed that they have not labored
more necessarily for the opening of
tho riv
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

All our public obligations are pay
able in "coin." They do not read
payable In ''gold" or payable in "sil
ver." Then why Wilt be Reputation
to pay them in the commodity specified
in the contract?
Mckinley stands today as the candi.
date of the corporations, the trusts and
brokers; Bryan stands as the candi.
date of the masses. Our interests are
with the masses. therefore we take our
stand on the side of the candidate Of
the people.
The advocates of Mckinley who SO
vigorously denounce all opposition as
anarchists, socialists and traitors
might do we'll to bear in mind the fact
tAat no man ever vindicated himself
or his cause by splitting in the face OF
his opponent.
The Denver Times states that "visi.
tors from the interior of the state re.
port that the American flag floats over
nearly every country home and mining
camp" Noone would surmise that a
lot of "anarchists," and "crazy free
silverites" would make such use of
old glory'' as this.
The republican managers say that
the public must be educated on the
money question, and they propose to
give them free tuition during the next
few months. The people are willing
to be educated, but they claim the
right to construe the text books &C.
cording to their own ideas.
The Irish World will not Support
Mckinley, though 1t has been ultra
protection for years. 1t has wide
circulation and wields big influence.
Boss Hanna's organs have made no
mention OF this, although they are
quick to record the flop of even the
sorriest democratic newspaper.
Congressman Ellis will be in The
DalIes today, and while he Is here
let every citizens of the place who has
an interest in the opening of the Cas-.
cade Locks wait upon him, and urge
his immediate action. A congressman
is the servant of all the people and
they have right to insist that he
serve their interests.
1t is safe proposition that ridicule
Is never resorted to so long as logical
argument is available. Hence the
amount OF ridicule indulged in by
the Oregonian in its efforts to
bolster up the cause OF Mckinley.
Having exhausted its stock upon Mr..
Bryan it now turns on Mrs. Bryan and
calls her an s'unsophisticated country
bred woman"
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Total...... SO 901 Soc, 900 s. 9Sl, 100000
The fact that Mexico, with a poou.
lation of little over 1,500, 900,
three.fourths of whom are an inferior
type of humanity, and with only $685.
COZ, 900 of metal money In stock, has
not been able to affect the money
values OF the world by allowing the
free coinage of silver at her mints the
past nineteen years, and that her sill
yer dollars are rated at their bullion
value. is no assurance the United
States, with a population of 1000, 900
and a stock of 81, ,2s5, 600, 900 in metal
money could not. Hence the "a cent
Mexican dollar Is no scare crow to the
silver agitator.
Suppose the argument of the gold
standard people is true, that the open
ing of the United States mints to the
unlimited coinage of silver would
drive our gold into other gold-standard
countries, what effect would it have
upon the value of gold? Would not
the dumping of 1851, ,oOO, 900 of gold in.
to Great Britain, France and Germany,
where it would naturally go, have
the tendency to increase the
supply and diminish the demand?
Those three countries combined have
s1,95S, 100000 in gold. Add to this the
1851, 600, 600 gold held in this country
and the supply would be increased one
third, and, according to the natural
lave CT supply and demand the price of
gold would at once fall one-third.
Besides to get our gold they would be
forced to give something in return,
and that something would be silver.
Since they have only 1927 ,00O, 900 of
silver their stock would be almost ex.
hausted. and again applying the laws
OF supply and demand, and the price of
silver would rise, for even those gold.
standard countries, like our own, must |
havesilver for.subsidiary coins. With
these circumstances existing: the de.
hberate reasoner, who lays aside
prejudice to the extent that he is able
to take in the questions of supply and |
demand as governing the value of |
money as 1t does the prices of other
commodities, his reasoning leads him
TO this inevitable result: The remone-
tization of silver by this nation alone,
will, within q very short time, bring
it to parity with gold at a ratio which
the relative amounts of the two metals
in the world would dictate, which is
very nearly sixteen ounces of silver to
one fgold, hence the Mexican dollar
does not hang as phantom to frighten
away his reason:
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A CRUSADE UF BLOOD.
Japanese troops Against Natives Of For

Japanese troops Against Natives of For
VICTORIA, Aug, 1l.-From far For.
mosa, where for upwards of a year
Japanese troops have been vainly
striving to crush out the seeds of post
bellum opposition to japanese iunova.
tions, comes a story which. for bar
barous cruelty, and defiant violation of
all ethics Of civilization, has fortunate
ly few parallels in history.
The terrible tale of rapine, murder
and wanton cruelty reached here by
the steamer Empress of Japan. and
fully bears out The statement on the
situation In Formosa given publicity
by the Rev. DR.. Mackay on his return
to that Island six months ago.
. Other equally credible correspond.
ents are now the witnesses against
Japan, and the burden OF their arraign-
ment ls that, seeing neither fame nor
profit to be gained in the subjugation
of the Formosans by the arts of modern
warfare, recognized as legitimate By
civilized nations, the Japanese troops
sent to the island have embarked in q
crusade of blood, their object being to
crush out all signs Of discomfort by as
far as possible exterminating the ma.
tive population.
In this campaign there were no for.
eign, powers to make protest, no foreign
press representatives to herald to the.
world the atrocities, the telling OF
which would bring upon Japan the
contempt of all enlig htened people.
Says the Tainanfu representative OF
the China Mail:
"As result, the policy OF exter.
has been zealously pursued
from the beginning Of the campaign,
and what, with the destruction Of their
crops, the burning of their villages,
the dissertation OF the graves of their
loved ones, the violation OF their wives
and daughters, and the butchery Of
their innocent children, the people are
driven to the last expedients OF desper-
atiou.n
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WHAT WE ARE LOSING

The people of Eastern Oregon are
sometimes criticised fer being 30 clam
orous in their demands for the OPEN
ing of the Columbia river to free nav
igation, but when its taken into con.
sideration that they are losing thou.
sands of dollars every year through
not being able to utilize. this great
water way to transport their products
to market, they-would be- justified in
becoming fanatical on the subject of
an open river.-.&-taint idea of what
would be saved to Eastern Oregon in
freight rates were the Columbia river
opened to free navigation can be
gained from the conditions that existed
prior TO the establishing OF the D. P.
& A. N. Co. line and now. Then freight
charges on wheat from The Dalles to
Portland were l09 cents Il bushel, now
they are 6.6 cents; the rate on wool
was so cents hundred, now 1t is 25.
But better idea Of what benefits
will accrue from the opening of the
river can be gained from what has
been accomplished in reducing freight
rates by the opening Of the 500 canal
u Sault Ste. Marie.
This new lock has br en- about nine
Years in bnildiug, and cost the gov
ernment about S5,000,000. 1t has
length of 500 feet between gatee, and a
width of 100 feet, accommodating ves-
sells that draw 81 feet of water. This
outlet of Lake Superior passed last
year 1855 vessels, having tonage OF
6,s08, 78l. Commerce apparently JUS
tifes the outlay. And SO does the
saving of freights; for 1t is computed
that, whereas Ia 1887 the average
charge for the transportation OF freight |
between the ports of Lake Superior
and the lower lakes was 2.3 mills per
ton per mile, last year. it was only
so of mill per ton per mile. In 1859
it cost l5s cents to carry bushel OF
corn from Chicago to Buffalo. In
1895 it was carried for of a cent. In
1887 1t cost 81 25 to carry ton OF iron
ore from the mines of Lake Superior
TO the ports of Lake Erie. Now it
costs so cents per ton. Low freights
have undoubtedly helped to stimulate
the wonderful iron production OF tho
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The oresonian never loses an oppor.

The Oregonian never loses an oppor.
tunity to hit the farmer rap, SEEM
ingly having an utter contempt for the
horny-fsted sons of toll. In an editor.
ial yesterday it said: Farmers think
the silver standard will not hurt them,
because they do not work for wages
and because they own few securities to
shrink in value. They think they oc-
cupy happy position between the
laboring man and the capitalist, where
they profit at the cost of both, paying
both the farm laborers and the mort
gage creditor in money of half value
and selling their products for twice as
much nominal and the same real value
as now." What have the farmers of
Oregon ever done to justify the lead
ing paper of the state thus accusing
them OF dishonesty? The farmers do
not want to repudiate their debts, but
they want money that will bring the
price of their products to what it was
twenty years ago
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effects of more than week ofextreme-
ly hot weather are shown in the uur-
ber of fatalities reported. There is ii
breeze today, but the temperature at
II o'clock was 81 on the streets and
the humidity 65 per cent.
In the interior of the state the heat
is uuabated. Troy reports four deaths
in the last % hours. The thermome-
ter hung in the portico of the city hall
in this city within reach of the heat
radiated from the asphalt walk bur
still in the shade, indicated ll2 above
zero.
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Povc.. at Variance.

LONDON, Aug. 12--It is semi. officially
stated that there Is no truth in the re.
port published by the Daily Chronicle.
that Great Britain aud Russia are on
the point Of reaching an agreement
TO save both Armenia and Crete from
Turkish oppression without disturbing
the peace Of Europe" which agree
ment, it was added, would involve the
presence Of the Russian army in Ar
monia and the British feet at Crete
ITO guarantee Turkish compliance
with the terms of agreement" II ia
stated on the other hand that there is
great discord among the powers as to
the measures that should be adopted
regarding Crete. Russia, it IL further
asserted, is showing marked disiu-
clination to allow great pressure To be
brought to bear upon the sultan.
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If reports are true, the contractors
at Cascade Locks will within a few
days again begin dredging at the upper
end of the canal. Would itnot be bet
ter if the government engineers would
postpone this work until the inner
walls are completed? The channel
leading to the canal can be OF no use
until the locks can be operated; then
why not do the more important work
drst2
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Phiiadelphia Leads.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. l3.-According
to the weather bureau Philadelphia
suffers the unenviable distinction to-
day of being the hottest city In the
United States. At 8 A. M. the ther-
mometer registered 81 degrees aud at
noon, 95. A light breeze tempered
the air slightly, but the suffering was
as great as on any day since the torrId
spell began. Between 2 and II A. M.
five deaths, due to heat and exhaustion
had been reported.
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Fusion In washington.

. ELLENsBURe, Aug 14.--A partial
agreement has been arrived at by the
conference committee. The populists
get the governor and all the state
officers except supreme judge, state
printer, superintendent Of puplic In
struction and attorney-general, The
democrats are given one congressman
and there is fight on the other con-
gresham. The democratic get two
electors and the populists two. Thus
the apportionment is subject to the
ratification Of the convention.
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That DR.. oward who was reported
to have attempted to commit suici le
by dropping into the river at Astoria
recently, has just the kind of wife to
admire, and he would be fool to want
TO leave her and seek pluckier COM
panton in heaven. The little woman's
ire has been raised by the reports cir
culated regarding her "worser halls"
escapade, and invites those who are
circulating reports about the doctor to
call at her residence where she will
convince them that they are econom-
ical with the truth.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 12-Liberals and free.
thinkers from all parts of the world
are preparing for congress of liberals
in Chicago, November l3, "A and 10.
r. G. Ingersoll and all the prominent
American liberals are expected. Mrs.
Besant will come II possible. G. W.
Foote and Charles Watts, OF England,
have already promised to be on hand.
The intention is to have reunion
and jollifcation of all free-thinkers,
and every country on earth has been
sent an invitation to be present.
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their constituents? At the present

their constituents? At the present
time you are in a position to serve the
people of Eastern oregon we'll and
faithfully, and earn their commenda.
tion, or you are il a position to thwart
their every hope, and merit their ever
lasting displeasure. The opportunity
Is open for you 10 take the side of the
people, or, by your silence, to furthur
the interests of corporation that
profits by the Columbia river remain
ing closed. On which side will you be
found? Whose votes do you want in
the next legislature?
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General Harri.on's Speeches.


INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. l3. General
Benjamin Harrison will be at the dis
posal Of the republican state commit
tee during the campaign, and the latter
will attend to arranging his dates for
speeches. Practically, so much infor-
nation is conveyed In letter written
by the general to his old friend, Daniel
Ransdell. Mr.. Ransdell said yester.
day that the general had written him
that his understanding was that the
committee would want his services
about the beginning OF September,
but Ransdell added that he personally
had peen informed that Mr.. Harrison
would be wanted during the latter
part of this month.
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low the little sickness to grow into the
big sickness. They allow constipation to
grow into indigestion, heartburn, dizzi:
ness, headache, insomnia, and lunelret
other distressing conditions. They dc,
this frequently because they do not know
the cause OF their trouble. 1t is pretty
safe rule to look for the source of o-Ioths
of human sickness in this one simple and
appallingly prevalent trouble. Another
foolish thing that smart people do is to
take some alleged remedy for constipa
ton and keep on taking it, day after day.
month after month and year after year.
Perhaps it is better to take the medicine
than not to take it at all, but Of course il
they stop taking it, their trouble will
come back. This last statement is true
of every other medicine prepared for this
purpose except DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pei
lets. One Pellet" is a gentle laxative,
and two mild catharic. They are gentle
and efficient in their action, permanent
in their results. You don't become q
slave to their use, as with other pills.
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THE E-"PA1RIe7IC" BANKS.

The banks In the money centers Of
America are coming to the relief of the
treasury, putting up their gold for
legal tender notes, and thereby keep
ing the gold reserve intact and avoid
ing the necessity OF another bond issue.
This is kind Of them; indeed it is patri.
otic just at this time, on the eve of a
presidential election. But what they
are doing now is suggestive OF what
they might have done years ago, and
naturally brings up some remines.
cences Of the past.
Take eleven years prior to the pas
saee Of tho Sherman Act In 1880, says