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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-01-10

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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-01-10
SEASIDE SAWMILL.

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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-01-10

CONTINUED on Fourth Page.)
The herald., 1897-07-16
A BIASED CRITIC

Senator White deservedly enjoys the
reputation of being an able man, a
hard worker, and one who is very apt
to succeed in what he undertakes. 1t
looks, however, as though he had en-
tered upon a hopeless task when he at
tempts to coerce the secretary Of war
into performing the impossible-con-
structing a $5,O00.000 harbor with less
than $1,000, 900. Nor is it quite appar-
emit just how the senator proposes to
apply the coercion SO that it shall CO.
erce.-San Diego Union.
There is no coercion about the San
Pedro harbor matter, SO far as Senator
White, the Democratic party and the
people of Southern California generally
are concerned. If there has been coer-
cion, or if any is to be applied, it comes
from the Republicans as a matter of
political expediency. Senator Perkins
who may be looked upon as the spokes-
man of the Republican party in the
matter, has told Secretary Alger that it
would be ruinous to the party to longer
delay carrying out the act of congress
Nobody has set Secretary Alger the
task of constructing $5,000,000 harbo1
with less than $4,000 That is not the
question. The secretary has raised such
The herald., 1897-07-16
AN ERROR CORRECTED

In discussing the history of poor old
"Roundhouse George" yesterday The
Herald was led into error in attributing
the donation of Central park to the city
by him. Such has been a popular ira
dition in Los Angeles for the past fifteen
or twenty years, but a gentleman who
once, in his capacity Of searcher of rec
ords, ran the matter down in the archives
informs us that there is no truth in
the report. The park in question is prob
ably part of the original Spanish grant
with which the city never parted title.
An old-timer who knew George Lehman
we'll says the old man took very active
interest in the park, planting the, first
trees there with his own hands and
hauling water In barrels to irrigate
them. 1t is probably from this circum-
stance that the report gained circulation
of his donation Of the land.
The herald., 1897-07-16
FRIDAY, JULY IS, 1907
SPANISH JAPANESE ALLIANCE

While the source of the reported Of
fensive alliance of Spain and Japan
against he United States is so round
about as to seem untrustworthy, 1t is
of sufficient moment to cause thoughtful
people some anxiety. The terms Of the
understanding between Spain and Japan
are said to be for the mutual ''protec-
ton" of Cuba and Hawaii, and provide
that in the event of any active interior
ence on the part Of the United States.
both countries shall simultaneously de-
clare war against Uncle Sam.
The vacillating policy Of the past and
present administration towards Cuba
and the rash and immature scheme to
annex Hawaii have possibly-if this re-
port has any foundation-led the Span
ish and Japanese governments to believe
that a bluff Of this sort would prove
ef17cacious.
The general public will, however, re-
quire more accurate confirmation of this
Partisan boulevard story before the
gravity Of the situation need be seriously
considered.
The herald., 1897-07-16
A BOOM PLATFORM

The National League of Republican
clubs is i'm session at Detroit. This is an
ingurgitation organization whose chief
end and aim is to swallow, assimilate
and laud every measure that emanates
from the recognized partisan chiefs, ir-
respective of it's tendency, merit or eff
feet. It is said to have adopted ring
ing platform. That is true. 1t has
adopted platform, and the thing may
be said TO ring-to ring in the false ring
out the true-if we may take the liberty
to paraphrase the poet so as to fit the
case.
This curious instrument makes some
remarkable Endorsements, yet its COM
mendations are strictly within the char
ter of its organic existence. 1t conn
J mends the president and congress for
sending a monetary commission to Eu-
rope" Now, this is excellent Fully
conscious of the fact that the monetary
commission has accomplished nothing
/. and that it never can or will accomplish
anything. except as 1t may furnish some
amusement for European financiers. the
The herald., 1897-07-16
Flush the Streets

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her
aid: AS this is our sixth summer in your
beautiful city, and as this is the first
complaint we have had good grounds to
make, will you kindly give place to the
following statement relative to the man.
ner Of cleaning your streets in the bust
ness center of Los Angeles? During the
past ten days the stencil that assails the
nostrils of residents who have rooms ad-
jacent to the Herald office and in the
very heart of the city. particularly about
the hours of midnight when the sweep
ers are making their nightly rounds, is
simply abominable; and we would re-
spectfully suggest to- the "city fathers"
that more water judiciously applied to
the mentioned section would be a
God-send to the people who live in this
quarter and who are unable to breathe
the pure air outside this district. The
old adage Cleanliness is next to Godli-
ness" would surely be a capital thing
for this municipality to adopt during
the heated season and to that end we,
respectfully suggest that the present
parsimonious use of water as cleansing
factor is worse than no water at all, and
we would have less stencil than we now
have if there was none used as now ap-
piled for that purpose. Flush the streets!
TWO VISITORS.
Los Angeles .Jrly IL
The herald., 1897-07-16

an issue as man of straw, for the pur.
pose, apparently, of serving the Hunt
ington interests. What the people want
Is to have that false issue eliminated.
They want the secretary of war to go
ahead and carry out the plain provisions
Of the act of congress-to proceed with
advertising for bids for the construc-
ton of breakwater, and then to con-
struct the breakwater. That is all there
Is to it.
The injustice and fallacy of Secretary
Ayers position was clearly shown by
the unanimous vote of the senate last
Tuesday. directing Mr.. Alger to proceed
in the harbor matter. Senator White
introduced the resolution, but he did
not "coerce" the senate. That body
simply did its duty in the matter. The
house will take the same course if it is
actuated by the desire to do right and
see that justice is done.
The herald., 1897-07-16
THE PACTOLIAN NORTH

If the reports brought by the Asso-
Alaska is to furnish the field for the
worlds next great mining excitement.
H. A. Stanley, of the Binghamton, N Y.
Herald, writing from st. MichaeTs is
land, reports the arrival there of the
steamer Portus B. Weare, which had
wintered at Dawson, $3.50 miles further
up the coast. The Weare brought as
passengers forty-fve miners, each with
a bag Of gold dust and nuggets ranging
in value from $4,000 to 100000, the ag-
gregate treasure being more than 81 000,-
900 in value.
Another party which arrived at St.
MichaePs Junes 18th brought fifteen
miners and half a million dollars in
treasure. The report goes on to say that
the richest gold strike the world has ever
known was made in the Kloudyke re-
gion last August and September OF two
hundred claims staked out and worked
on Bonanza and Ell Dorado creeks not
one has found a blank. Pockets are
reported which turn out from $500 to SITS
to the pan, and individual nuggets run as
high as $257.
JIG. Clements of Los Angeles is re-
ported among the lucky one, his clean
up being about $175,000.
1t begins to look as though the long
sought mother of all lodes must lie some
where near the north pole and that a
fruitful spur of 1T runs down into Alaska.
If the reports thus far received are con-
flrmed there Will soon be tremendous
ton Is just opened in the northern
waters the story comes in time to draw
in an army Of fortune hunters this sum-
mer
The herald., 1897-07-16
AS VIEWED IN KENTUCKY

The Kentucky Gold Democratic con-
vention was between the devil and the
deep sea when it sought to uphold the
single gold standard on the one hand
and condemn the Republican tariff bill
on the other. For had they not hlped
that moderate" tariff bill should be
enacted In return for their support?
The Hon. John G. Carlisle, ex-secre-
tary of, the treasury, the same who in
1878 declared that the demonstration
of silver was a terrible calamity, and
who helped indirectly to elect Mckinley,
devoted great deal of his speech at the
Kentucky convention to denunciation
of the pending tariff bill. 1.-THE tariff
taxes upon nearly everything the people
eat, drink or wear or use in production, %
he said, ARE about to be largely in
creased, and the public expenditures, in
stead of being diminished to meet the
exigencies of the occasion, are being
extended to new and unworthy objects ="
1IOW Sod. Ddl Nli. S1l iiSiC SiiOuld nav c
considered, last November.
Neither does the currency outlook sat-
isfy the ex-secretary even though a
Sound money" administration is at the
helm. 'In defiance of the obvious re-
quirements of the public interest, the
integrity of our currency is still threat
ened." Again how sad!
Then there was Henry Watterson, who
used to be for free silver until the banker
owners of the Courier-Journal whipped
him and that once influential journal in
to line for the single gold standard Mr..
Watterson was so hysterical in his re-
marks on the silver issue that he found
no time to commend the moderate"
Republican tariff bill.
The resolutions of the Kentucky con-
vention read by the Burr-like Brecken-
ridge denounced free silver as in duty
bound, but alas, it had no word of COM
mendation for the moderate" Republi-
can tariff bill.
How shall the awful chasm be bridged?
The herald., 1897-07-16

platform does not commit it's trainers to
a recognition of any act of usefulness
on the part Of the official tourists, but
just lauds the bare, intellectual
achievement of filling a sinecure. On
the same principle, If the president
in obedience to the command of
Mr.. Hanna, had sent man and mon
key and parachute UP in a balloon, the
act would have been religiously Endorsed
by the letter of this platform.
Then comes the recommendation for
having taken the necessary measures to
annex Hawaii and for checking the
Spanish atrocities in Cuba-and it might
have been added with equal propriety-
for having concluded a treaty of COM
merce with the inhabitants of Mars.
Up to this time the attempt to annex
Hawaii has been most humiliating fiz-
zle. in which Japan has elected to die
tate our policy; and as to checking
the assassin hand of Weyler. the news
from the island is to the effect that the
butchery Of women and children goes
merrily on.
These are fair samples of the indorse-
ments and recommen dations of this doc
ument. But it is honest after manner,
inasmuch as it faithfully proclaims the
mission of its originators. The primary
use that the league is intended to sub
serve is to draw the attention of the un-
informed, or the unthinking multitudes,
away from the political obliqutty that
has characterized the career of the pres
emit administration ever since it took
office on the fourth of March.
Take for example, the opinion of an
honest Republican senator upon the
browning work of the new regime-the
tariff bill. Hear Senator Teller: "In my
opinion it is the worst tariff bill that
ever passed. The rates are exceedingly
high. 1t takes care of all the trusts in
the country and to say it without Of
fense the trusts and combinations and
syndicates have had too much to do with
this bill"
There is something more energetic
than a mere hush society needed to cover
up the sins of public officers of whom it
can be said by one so well qualified to
Judge that they have been too intimate
with the representatives of trusts and
syndicates for the public good.
This league, if we may judge from the
sample of it's work that has been sub
mitted, seems to be organized on plan
sufficiently liberal to enable it to pro-
claim the apotheosis of an average peni-
tertiary, before taking up the regular
business of the day, if only the demands
of political expediency should require
such a ceremony.
The herald., 1897-07-16
LOVE AND REPLEVIN

1t has always been moot point In the
gagement presents in cases where the
engagement is broken off. Generally the
fair maiden is the arbiter and the dicta-
tor of their destiny. She may send them
them. In the latter case she regards
them as mementoes of happier days, as
trophies of Cupid's conquests in her IA
vor or as the spoils of war. She may
even brazenly calculate that she is so
much ahead by her amorous venture.
Human nature governs, and it all de-
ponds upon the girl.
From the court of love to the court Of
law is not a far cry in these degenerate
modern days. Usually the transposi-
ton takes place after marriage, but it
not infrequently occurs before that i'm
portant step is taken.
A novel variation is illustrated in the
case of a Tilted lover at Lincoln, Neb.,
who declares that he must repossess ev-
cry one of the costly presents he gave
during a two years engagement to the
young woman who finally threw him
over. The girl will not give them up,
and she is especially firm and outspoken
in her determination to retain several
pairs of jeweled garters The young
man declares, that he will swear out a
writ of replevin if necessary in ordersto
recover them. Those who are familiar
with the mode of operation in replevin
cases will understand that the young
woman could, If she is SO disposed, make
The herald., 1897-07-16
Why, Senator Stewart, why?
THE COWBOYS sERENADE

Awake from your dreaming, my sagehen
awake,
The stars from the heavens are peeping,
The moon sprinkles light DER the alkali
lake,
The birds in the mesquite are sleeping
The coyote howls in the sage-studded hills,
The night hawks above me are soaring,
The lightning bugs flee from the swift
whip-poor-wills,
While you in your blankets are snoring.
My broncho sped swift as the eagle in flight
In bearing me near to my fairy;
His tran seemed a streak on the breast of
the night
AS sharply his hoofs beat the prairie.
My heart was as light as the feathery
kiss
OF the breeze on the lips Of the daisy,
My soul was afame with the lightning of
bliss,
Till thought it would sure set me crazy!
Awake from your dreaming. you angel of
light,
For one who adores you here fingers;
Appear at your window in robing of white
And toss me kiss from your fingers.
Then once again into the saddle I'll spring.
And in music soul-born and sonorous
OF my love for the pride of the ranges I'll
sing
While the bowling wolves. join in the
chorus.
Denver Post,
The herald., 1897-07-16
Los Angeles, July Is.
Hilda STAFFORD

To the Editor Of the Los Angeles Her
aid: A criticism of Miss Harraden's
California story may seem rather late
in the day at this time; but Mrs. STRAIT
ford impressed me as being such a pc
culiarly disagreeable person that I feel
impelled to express my opinion.
There are certain morbid mortals who
cannot be happy or satisfied under any
circumstances. Such people can find
plenty to be dissatisfied with wherever
they are. 1 sincerely hope that Miss
Harraden isn't one of those much to- be-
pitied beings; but her character, Hilda
Stafford, was certainly just such one.
l was very sorry to read of Mrs STRAIT
ford's trials and suffering; especially as
there was no possibility of her condition
becoming bettered.
Miss Harraden doesn't tell us of the
disagreeable time Mrs. Stanford had, af-
ter returning to England, but I can
imagine it. If she was unhappy here
what must she have been there!
CLOUDESLEY JOHNS.
Harold, Cal, July Is, 1897
The herald., 1897-07-16
Americas Vanished Merchant Marine

Not a single vessel flying the United
States flag passed through the Suez
canal in an entire year. The greatest
producing and consuming country on
the face of lie earth, the country that
furnishes more material for commerce
than any other, did not have single
vessel to pass through that great inter-
oceanic highway in a twelvemonth.-
New Orleans Picayune
The herald., 1897-07-16
Good Chance for Reciprocity

If the Republican party be really en-
amored of the policy of reciprocity
forced upon it in 1890 by Secretary
Blaine, there is now an excellent oppor-
tunity to put it into practice. The Jap
anese fairly insist upon trading with us
upon terms of reciprocal advantage, and
all the other countries of this continent
hold out both hands to us in prayerful
ntreaty.-Philadelp Record
The herald., 1897-07-16

1t has been truly said that in its sum-
mer climate the mountain region has
resources second to none of the manynat-
ural elements of wealth it contains, and
as the pleasures and benefits of our eli
mate become better known it will prove
an increasing attraction to myriads of
eastern eople.-Riverside Enterprise.
The herald., 1897-07-16
CALIFORNIA OPINION
An UNPLEASANT Predicament

The advocates of the annexation
treaty with Hawaii must be pleased with
the hostile and arrogant attitude as
sumed by Japan toward the United
States government and the Hawaiian
republic over the questions of annexa-
ton and of indemnity for Hawaiis re-
fusal to permit more Japanese laborers'
to land.-San Jose Mercury.
The herald., 1897-07-16
The Republican Panacea

The tariff that was imposed to meet
the fearful expenses of the war aver
aged 32 per cent The average McKin-
ley duty was about 40 per cent. The
Dingley house bill averaged IS per cent.
and the senate bill averages nearly 81.
And that is what they call panacea for
hard times Rochester On W Herald.
The herald., 1897-07-16
Good Country to Be in

First we had strawberries and cream
then cherries and cream, and now comes
peaches and cream. The market is now
well supplied with peaches and little
later on other and better varieties will
be quite plentiful. This is pretty good
country to be in, anyway.-Long Beach
Eve
The herald., 1897-07-16
The Good Old DAVIS

"Ah, I wonder if we shall ever see
renaissance of the good old times, when
men ran for office on their merits"
And couldn't get elected unless they
wore hickory shirts and chewed plug
tobacco. "-Indianapo Journal.
The herald., 1897-07-16
Patriots Still After Pensions

The nation is thirty-three years from
the end of the war and has a pension
list of $3.50 900 per annum to satisfy
claims which General Grant and Cen
eral Garfield declared the opinion could
be justly met by an annual outlay of
SAC, 900, 900. Yet the applications to con-
gress are pouring in. besides the APP
peals to the pension office, which at last
accounts reached the number of 1900 a
day-BoStOn Herald
The herald., 1897-07-16
Difficult to See

A lame excuse is better than none at
ALL but just what need there is of any
action of congress in the matter Is diff
cult to see, that is if Mr.. Alger intends
to do his duty in the premises.-San
Pedro American.
The herald., 1897-07-16
Enforce the Game Laws

1t is plain that unless the existing
game laws are more vigorously enforced
than heretofore, it will be only a few
years before large game of all kinds will
become very scarce.-San Diego Union.
The herald., 1897-07-16

The conferees on the tariff bill are
said to be further apart than they were
when they began comforting. The pros
pective date of July /, 1898, as the time
ing nearer and nearer.
The herald., 1897-07-16

the recovery of the-er-supporters a
The outcome of the case will be
watched with interest. 1t is likely to es-
tablish an important precedent.
The herald., 1897-07-16

John M. Quinn, newspaper man from
Montana, carried off the oratorical hon.
ors at the Tammany Fourth of July cell
ebration. Quinn is a natural orator, a
jolly good fellow and capable journal
list. He has been the editor of the Butte
Miner for number of years.
The herald., 1897-07-16
THE PUBLIC PULSE

(The Herald under this heading prints
communications, but does not assume re-
sponsibility for the sentiments expressed
Correspondents are requested to cultivate
brevity as far as is consistent with the
proper expression of their views.)
The herald., 1897-07-16
A Peculiar Patriotism

IT'S kind O. worried" said Uncle Eben,
," bout de kind O. patriotism dat pays
cash fob it's fireworks an lodges its
taxes. "-Washington Evening Star.
The herald., 1897-07-16
Will Take a Long Time

Down in San Bernardno county the
fruit growers are figuring how long it
will take them to pay off the mortgage
on their land, while they are receiving
$4 ton for their apricots under the gold
standard.-Visalia Times,
The herald., 1897-07-16
A HOPELESS Failure

The Republican who can feel proud of
his once great and honored party in its
present abject vassalage to the money
power is a hopeless political fanatic
Fresno Exposition.
The herald., 1897-07-16
A Pertinent Question

| What can Populists gain by indirectly
electing Mckinley or another man Of the
same stamp, or what by electing another
Republican congress in 1S9S?-San Fran
| cisco Star
The herald., 1897-07-16

The girl who committed suicide on the
beach at San Francisco last Wednesday
wrote her dying message on the sand,
and few hours later the tide came up
and washed the words away. Time
quickly obliterates the protests of heart
sick humanity against unkind fate.
The herald., 1897-07-16
By the Seaside

"What are the wild waves saying?"
Then the breeze brought back this sound
1--WE can't get a word in edgewise,
With SO many women arounud.
Chicago Record
The herald., 1897-07-16

The anarchists held mass meeting al
Chicago last Sunday. The American
people will never look to anarchy for
remedy, no matter how desperate their
condition may be. The anarchists make
opposition to existing evils as an invita-
ton to anarchy.
The herald., 1897-07-16

The Fresno Expositor says that here
in California a suit for divorce is gen.
orally regarded as the same thing as
publishing the banns" for another
marriage. The Expositor forgets that
in response to public sentiment in the
state a law has been passed forbiddirg
Divorces to remarry within one year
after their legal separation. California is
ahead of great many other states in
this phase of divorce reform and ought
to have credit for her advanced position
The herald., 1897-07-16
A FINE SPECIAL NUMBER

The Rural Californian, combining
the June and July issues in one, presents
a number of unusual scope and interest,
especially designed to represent South
ern California at the transmississippi
congress. Besides the usual agricultur-
al, horticultural, stock, poultry and
household departments there are many
general articles of value, as we'll as notes
on the banks and bankers Of Los An
geles, the mercantile and manufacture
ing interests the fourth estate the
press) and other leading features Of city
and country. The number, which COM
prises more than go pages, is elegantly
printed on plate paper and illustrated
with half-tone engravings.
1t forms altogether a most creditable
immigration magazine, and Editor
Heintz and his staff are entitled to the
congratulations and thanks of the COM
munity on their successful effort.
The herald., 1897-07-16

summer was very late all through the
east and the middle west, really cold
weather being experienced up to the
first of July. There came two weeks of
blistering, nagging, persistent hot
weather that dropped thousands of per-
SONS in their tracks and killed hundreds.
These extremes do not come every year
Of course, but they come often enough
to make living in the east real menace
to health and life. A more equable eli
mate, such as that of California, affords
the only sure means of escape.