The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-08-06
T. ssems to be a Philippine on us.

The way to gey up an excursion is to
b gin at the right end of the line.
General cussedness and unparalleled
stlnginess is ali that keeps Roseburg
from progressing in the eyes OF the
Review of that burg.
The European residents OF the
Philippines petition the United States
for annexation of the islands. They
are tired of Spanish misrule.
The Oregonian seems to be in favor
of the annexation of the Philippines
"without waiting for the ala or con-
sent of any other nation
E. DR.. Hoaglapd, the president of the
Cleveland Baking Powder Co. recent
ly deceased left an estate valued at
$4,000, 900 all due to judicious ad'
yertising.
Conditions are so near normal at
Santiago that the inhabitants are be-
ginning to resume their afternoon
maps on the same basis that existed in
ante-Shafter days.
Business men and capitalists of The
Dalles might with profit go to the
warehouses and view the tons OF wool
stored there and then ask themselves
if we don't need wooleE mill.
The Ripans Chemical Co. claims to
be making a profit of $50, 900 to S75,0 900
per annum, the result of the most in
iudicious and idiotic advertising ever
done on the American continent.
Those Mitchell federal appointments
of McKinley's in Oregon makes his
course in regard to the settlement OF
the war. weak, cowardly and unsatis-
factory in the eyes of the Oregenian.
Mckinley, like the man who was
willing to teach the earth was round
or fat, is anxious to know what the
people want done with the Philippines.
A strong man like Cleveland or Blaine
would 60 ahead, hit or miss.
So far we are ahead one ship as the
result of the war. The lnfanta Maria
Teresa will be saved, and Lieutenant
Hobson will put her in fighting trim.
The Crystobal Colon will probably be
saved also.
Burglars are more numerous in Port
land than eyer before, and still the
associated dailies of the Metropolis
have nothing to say of the incom-
potency of the Mason police.
The rumored disagreement between
Joe Simon and Mayo Mason may be
taken with grain of salt. The little
boss never puts man in office with
out having pledges in black and white.
The people of the United States an
nually pay to foreign ship owners the
enormous sum of $500. 900, COO for trans
portation charges. This should be
remedied by more liberal shipping
laws on the part of our government.
Reports from the war department.
are sufficiently assuring to justify the
removal of the mines from Long
Island Sound. There are not enough
Spanish ships afloat to get up re-
spectacle scare.
A bicycle stolen June 9Th In Port
land has been recovered which gives
the Telegram an opportunity to score
the Pennoyer police and laud Mason's
inexperienced detectives" How
about the constant burglaries and no
arrests of the past few months?
Lea & Perrins, the manufacturers of
the world-famous Worcestershire sauce
sought to economize by cutting off
their advertising expenditures mat
ter of $4,000 per year. One would
have thought that if any one could
rest upon the merit and celebrity oil
their product surely Lea & Perrins
could. After four years of abstaining
from advertising, their sales fell of so