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Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-28
OREGON NOTES.

Railroad rumors have started bust
ness boom at Prairie City.
This seasons regatta. at Astoria is
regarded as the most successful event
ever held there.
Oregon postmasters have been ap-
pointed as follows: Alene, W. T. Carl;
Box, Thomas Taylor.
William Kleeman of Portland was
drowned recently while surf bathing
on the ocean beach at Nye creek. in
full view Of a thousand spectators.
Recently burglar entered the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. o. Gertz Of Port
land, chloroformed the entire family,
robbed the house of silver watch and
$3.50 in cash and escaped.
Roy Peters of Coburg now rests in
the Salem insane asylum as result
of reading too many cheap novels. He
imagines himself detective. He was
a voracious reader.
oliver L. Curtis has been appointed
regular, and William Dunsmore SUBJ
stitute rural carrier at Forest Grove.
The trades council of Baker City
Ore, has voted to offer $500 in cash
prizes on Labor day.
Two large warehouses belinging to
Kerr, Clifford & Co. and the Interior
Warehouse company Of the Balfour-
Guthrie company at Thorn Hollow sta
ton, along with 10000 sacks, but no
grain, were completely destroyed by
fire recently.
Some of the tallest oats that have
been grown in the La Grande section
of the country have been raised on A.
]. Webb's ranch, who resides near the
mountain above Perry. Some OF his
oats have measured over seven and a
half feet.
A cattle deal, in which 1000 head OF
COWS and steers were sold at an av-
erage cost of SO per hundred pounds
live weight was closed between the
lee stockmen, and Robert Stanfeld,
the Butter Creek feeder. The stock
average about three years Of age. The
stock will be taken to lee September
is, from which point they will be driv-
en- to Ukiah.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-28
End Of the Richmond Strike.

Richmond, Va, Aug. 26.-The strike
of street railway employees here has
been officially declared of. 1t had
lasted Just So days, and is estimated
to have cost the streetcar company
$125,oO0; the strikers in loss of
wages, $4,000; the states for troops
to maintain order, $4,000. and the
city for special police, etc.. $4,000. One
man was killed by the soldiers, one
motorman was fatally stabbed by an
other and scores Of persons were more
or less seriously injured.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-28
spokane's Big Fair.

Spokane promises to show its visi'
tors in October the biggest carnival
and street fair ever put together on the
North Pacific coast. George Jabour,
who has been giving big carnivals in
Minneapolis, St. Paul and other east
ern cities, is organizing an entirely
new show with more people and more
sensational acts than he has ever had
before, The carnival is given in con
nection with the Interstate Fair from
October to 10.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-28
LOU BROKE TROTT|NG RECORD.
ALE WENT THE MILE IN TWO
MINUTES FLAT.
. New Worlds Record Made-She
Want Without a Skip the Whole
Mile-priven by Willard Sanders
Mara Was Bred In California-Was
offered once for $3.50.

Readyille, Mass, Aug. 26.-Before
n great crowd of spectators and with
The track conditions perfect, Lou Dill
Inn trotted mile in two minutes, a
now worlds record. So that no breeze
MIGHT interfere, Willard Sanders,
driver of the great mare, brought out
the daughter of Sidney Dillon for the
first attempt early in the day.
For pacemakers there were two run
ners hitched to road carts. The first
score was fruitless, Lou Dillon making
a break just before reaching the wire
I'm the second attempt, however, the
word was given. Starting Judge WAX
ar rang his bell, but Tanner nodded
for him to say Co." and, turning to
sanders, called him to come along.
Tauner kept Peggy From Paris di,
rectly in front Of the peerless chest
mt trotter, while Mccoy lay at her
Wheel. In this way the trio went to
the quarter pole in 80 IA seconds.
with never a skip Lou Dillon went
an smooth gated down the back
stretch as to lead those not timing
the mile to think that her speed was
not alarmingly fast. The half was
clicked of in 100 "a. Around the
turn to the three quarters being 80 IA
seconds, making that mark Of her jour.
ney in 1881. Faster and faster came
Tanner with the runner, and right
with him trotted the handsome Cali
fornia bred mare. Sanders was sit
ting perfectly still, but Mccoy was
CRYING aloud to his runner to cheer
on Lou Dillon.
To the amazement Of all, the quarter
was driven in 20 seconds, thus max.
ing the mile in the wonderful time OF
two minutes. When Sanders logged
the mare back to the wire, those who
had witnessed the performance leap.
ed to their feet and sent forth cheer
after cheer.
Lou Dillon apparently was as fresh
as though she had only been out for
Jogging exercise. Sanders said he
fully believed that before the season
closes he will drive the mare in 1853
or better.
1t was announced that on Friday
Major Delmar will go against the
gelding record for trotters, 1908 IA
held by The Abbott.
Bred on Santa Rosa Farm.
Santa Rosa, Cal, Aug. 26.-Lou Dill
Ion was bred and raised on the Santa
Rosa stock farm. 1t is said that when
colt Lou Dillon was offered for sale
for $780, with no takers. She Is by
Sidney Dillon out Of Lou Milton, both
local animals.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-28
Body Found Near kirkland.

Seattle, Wash, Aug. 26.-The badly
decomposed body of a middle aged
man was found just of the county
road near Kirkland. Near by lay a
40 caliber revolver with one chamber
empty. In the side Of the head was a
gaping wound, which told the cause of
death. From the appearance Of the re,
mains, they have been at the place
where found about four months, and
are beyond any possibility Of recogni.
ton,
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-28
Bred on Santa Rosa Farm.
LORD SALISBURY IS DEAD.
The Famous English Statesman Was
q Years Of AGE.


London.-Lord Salisbury died peace.
fully at 9:05 p. m. During the past
As hours the end was seen to be in
evitable, the life Of England's EXPIRE
mier being sustained only by the con.
slant use of oxygen. Even the use
OF oxygen failed to effect as the even.
ing advanced and soon after the shad-
ows had crept up from the valley and
mshrouded the dull red walls of Hart
field House, the distinguished states.
man, making the last enort Of his life,
turned slightly toward his favorite
daughter, Lady Gwendolin Cecil, who
was kneeling beside him, and then qui-
city breathed his last.
Family Was Near.
All members of his lordships fam.
ny had gathered at the bedside.
Viscount Cranborne, who now as
sumes the title of Marquis of Sails
oury, Immediately notified King Ed
ward and others, including Lord Ed
Sard Cecil, the soldier son of Lord
salisbury, who is now in Egypt and
VINO was the only son of the marquis
absent from the bedside.
soon messages of coincidence began
20 arrive, and the little telegraph Of
uce was swamped with unprecedented
BUSINESS. The death of Lord Sails
oury occurred on the 5Oth anniversary
o. bis entry into public life, as a mem.
Stanford.
me ex-premier, though retired from
po'ltlcal life. was an important figure
~ many public ways. He was q war.
~ Ven OF the Cirque ports, high steward
" westminster and chancellor of Ok.
,uaa university. His death places an
S,uer OF knight of the garter at the
disposal of King Edward.
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Whatcom a Terminus.

IT, "natcom, Wash, Aug. 21.-The
, Wnion Pacific is planning to make Bel
aenam bay its northwestern ter
linus This statement has been sup.
, ho''ea by the fact that the survey
w s party working in the interest of
~, b. b. & B. G. railway is using
0nion Pacific vouchers.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-28

Victoria, B. c., Aug. 26.-The Wash
ington State Press association, to the
number of $50, has arrived here from
Seattle to enjoy themselves and in
cidentally hold the annual convention
during the next three days.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-28

A man usually has to work doubly
hard for two weeks after a vacation to
get rested up.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-28

Clean politics will come when clean
men get into 1t and stay in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06

trian German miner bound for the anthra-
cite coal fields of Pennsylvania.
Maybe my sons. when they are through
school. viii become storekeepers like my
brother" he said and live IN fne house
like Americans. but my woman and are
used to q hut"
What the Unmarried Mem Said.
OF the single men every one answered
ito work" when asked why he came; blu.
pressed were the men of families, many
ampiified their brief replies.
ITO work at many things and to get up
and be somebody" said a northern Italian.
ITO work for a home for my sweetheart
and have her here as my wife. Why7 NV
brother in Minnesota says this Is fine
country to raise family in." said a Scan
dfnavian.
ITO work and do as / damn please. so
long as 1 don't break a law" was the re-
Joinder of a bristling Irfshman.
ITO be left alone at your work and in
your home. and not have your property
and liberty taken away by the soldiers.
was a Firms answer.
OF the hundred or more immigrants who
were interviewed. 50 to- speak, this Finn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06

the street fronting the water. He even had
hard work rousing particularly ragged
specimen of negro to carry his bag. he
drew out of this individual. in lingering
dialect the fact that Laguerre was nomf-
nally in control of the town and coast.
Are the ships really in the harbor?' ask
ed Barrows.
The darkey looked little frightened and
shook his head vigorously. Oh, no! There
was nothing of the kind. Only none of the
captains cared to take their vessels out
at present Barrows looked across at Ell
Moro, with its guns frowning from every
port, and something like shiver traversed
his spine.
Now, Barrows had come down here with
no more real idea of what it meant to be
up against Central American revolution
than he had of the tenets of the Talmud
There can't be really anything serious the
matter if our man is still here he told
himself.
1.-The senior must send in his card" said a
naughty little yellow boy with pen behind
his ear, who occupied the lower room in the
consurs office
you tell the consul-whats his name?"
"Senor Jennings
"All right. You tell Mr.. Jennings l want
to speak to him. He passed over his card
fortunately a plain visiting card. He
could thank his luck afterward that one of
the companys pasteboards had not come to
light first.
'Meester Ballows-ve-ree WELL, said the
yellow kid. proud to f1aunt his knowledge
of English.
He trotted up stairs. He trotted down
again. "Meester Ballows will tell hees
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06

three lake cities where Poles are numerous
Chicago, Buffalo and Cleyelapd-is rep
resentative of this class
why have you come over here, Jan
Jablonski?" asked the interpreter.
For work." was the answer.
''And isn't there any work to be done In
Poland?' went On the interpreter
Yes"
Then why have you come here to work.?
Because there is more work to be done
here
How do you know"
The Pole searched through pocket of a
heavy coat and pulled out a bundle of
soiled and much worn letters He searched
through the pile for a moment. then pulled
out one.
my brother" he said. as he unfolded the
paper, lives in Chicago. He wrote me that
there is much to do there. You are not
tied down to one kind of labor, he said
You can do many things and make money
at ALL You can get up in the world II you
want to, and you can surely educate your
children.
And you came TO do all these things?
asked the interpreter.
Yes was the reply.
And which do you want to do the most?
ITO work hard to take care of my three
sons and two daughters and educate them,
was the answer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06
Liberty in Opportunity.
Revival in Clocks in England.
From the London Telegraph.

Signs are beginning to be manifest that
the clock is to be an item of much greater
decorative Importance than it has been
during the past generation or so, when its
unitarian purpose rather than its decora-
tive possibilities have been first considered
This has not always been the case as may
be seen in the state apartments at Windsor
Castle or in the Wallace collection, and in
many other directions where artistic taste
and rich and beautiful substances have
been united to render the timepieces of by
gone days among the most covetable of coll
lectors treasures. There is no lack or
good models to follow as soon as public
taste demands the same improvements in
its clocks as it has done in it's silverware
or furniture of the past decade or So and
in view of o4Rping developments the Gold
smiths and Sf1Versmiths Company H. Re-
gent street, have added to their already
extensive premises a spacious gallery i'm
which to display side by side examples from
all schools of clockmaking. The typical
English clock is set in wood, and may
range from the daintiest framing after
Sheraton or Chippendaie, with delicate in
laying for boudoir or drawing room to the
handsome tmepiece for the hail in sub
stantial carved oak or mahogany with
mountings of brass, or the massive tai
grandfather" variety. of which the dial
plate is often beautifully ornamented
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06
The Dictionary.

From the New York Evening Post N-
The average person seems somehow to
think of dictionaries as the invention Of
DR.. Johnson. and an altogether modern
product. DR.. Murray corrected that idea
They We're not the work of one or of sew
eral men, he told his audience, but growth
developed through the ages. They began
with the glosses-that is. the explana tons
in easy Latin or English--of hard Latin
words, written by the monks between the
lines of the manuscripts. The CLOSES grew
into TRANSACTIONS. and collections of glossas
by this monk or that from all the sources
available to him made glossaries or die
tionaries. Little by little English sup
planted the easy Latin explanations ard
the words were arranged in rudimentary
alphabetical order, thus forming. so long
ago as 1000 A. d., Latin-Engiish dictfonar-
les. The ureducated Normans overthrow
English learning; and it was not till the
fifteenth century that the revival came.
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General Alpheus Compton swore steadily
all the way from the gate to the terraced
approach to the broad piazza. Then the
sight OF his daughter and Barrows smooth
cred the audible sounds of his wrath: but
his face was like a thundercloud when he
halted before them.
My! how hot you must be. general
said Barrows, as though his own appear
ance of GOODNESS in clean linen and a straw
hat was not enough to madden any ordln-
Rrily warm man.
IT am" said the old gentleman. con-
vincingly.
Something must have happened. papa,
said Mary. wonderlngly
I've made discovery" calculated the
general. vigorously I've found out that
fou might as well try to make a seven-holed
fute out of pigs tail as to depend upon
COMPOUNDED whippersnapper of a college
graduate to possess any common sense"
"Oh. papa" exclaimed Mary. springing
up and looking from her wrathful parent
to Barrows.
The latter did not change color. I'D not
expect 1t. then. general he drawled most
exasperatingly.
At that the old man almost suffocated.
"Go-go into the house, Mary, he stam-
mered Mr.. Barrows and l have some
business to discuss
The girl turned pleading eyes Bar
rows. And as that young man was red
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DIAMOND SYNDICATE.
Precious Stones Cornered and Will
Never Become Common

NSNCI DSSoiuC SOII11uOA
From the Saturday Evening Post.
The best diamonds come from South At
RIGA, and the mines there are all in COM
bine," called the De Beers Consolidated
Mines. No one, except the few of the lin
side ring" knows how great is the annual
production of diamonds. But all the world
knows that, just before the combine was
effected by the Rhodes Barnato crowd
there was prospect of diamonds becoming
as common as amethysts--and as cheap.
This would have meant a complete col
lapse of the demand for diamonds OF
course, we know that the reason the fine
lady longs for diamonds is not at all be-
cause of their great cost-perish the vulgar
thought-but solely because of their great
beauty. But the South African diamond
crowd, being vulgarians went upon the
vulgar assumption that if diamonds were
cheap nobody would want them. The out
put was restricted and the De Beers con-
tinueS to pay 40 per cent dividends and to
put by a reserve from which it could pay 80
per cent more, and the diamond has not be-
come Semi-precious stone.
This explains how 1t happens that the
supply of diamonds manages to keep just
a forty percent dividend pace behind de-
mand. But how explain the similar phe-
nomena in the supply of rubies. pearls.
sapphires and the rest of the precious
stones? If the jewellers know they do not
tell.
Our jewelers. go oftenest to Paris and stay
longest there. Into that market flow most
of the Notwithstanding gems of the world,
nearly all of them, except the diamonds;
coming from the gorgeous east" And
though in these times of plethoric pros
perity they have to pay higher prices than
they did few years ago. still they always
get what they seek. Can it be that the
gorgeous east is also the crafty east, and
has, without making fuss about it, its
combines that rule ruby and sapphire
mines and pearl fisheries?
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1t is, however when these totals are ana
lyzed in their relation to metropolitan CEN
ters that the dominance of the female vote
acquires prominence. In the Sydney metro
politan area there will be 122. I20 female
voters and 102, 42i male voters-a majority
OF over 10000 for the women. In the Mel
bourne metropolitan district there will be
14S,e2S women electors and 1913 males
a majority of over $1,000 for the gentler
sex. In South Australia there has, as yet
been no division of the state into federal
celebrates, but If the four principal state
metropolitan constituencies in Adelaide be
taken as a fair guide it is clear that the
women are in a majority in 1.-The city of
churches, quite much as in the mar
velous' Melbourne and the city on the
shores of ''our harbor
What effect this outnumbering of the men
voters in the cities will have upon the first
federal elections in 1904. on the new fran
cIilSe. 1t is not easy to say. The situation
has no parallel in Australian history. In
Victoria 1t means complete revolution in
electoral power, for there the women have
never exercised the franchise before and
have not even now been given the vote In
state elections. Quite nine out of ten of
those who will exercise their new privi-
lege in Melbourne will be women who have
to earn their own living. They will vote for
the radical and protectioniSt candidate. for
the government which gave them the fran
chise, and secured that every federal gov
eminent employe should have a minimum
wage of f110 a year. In New South Wales
the women will be more equally divided
between the free traders and the protec-
tionists the balance of probabilities being
that the free traders with liberal and So
cialiStic leanings will capture the bulk of
the female vote. Strangely enough. the
compilers of the federal electors roll in
Sydney experiencing considerable trou-
BILE in inducing suburban ladies to accept
enlistment in the army of responsible citi-
zens. Some have frivolously refused to ad-
NIT that they were over twenty-one years
of age! Others, including the entire in
mates of one Roman Catholic convent have
point plank declined to be enrolled. In one
electorate only third of the women cheer
fully assisted the electoral officers The
apathy and unreasoning opposition ex-
hibited will. however be soon overcome
when the elections draw near. I am afraid
that the women will be largely influenced
by the sectarian cries which now compli-
cate political issues in Australia and that
the new power for righteousness in politics
will be weakened thereby. Nevertheless,
everything indicates that when the woman
hood of united Australia is put to the test
of the ballot box in 1904 in will throw its
influence mainly the side of those who
favor advanced social legislation and the
cultivation of a sane Australian nationalism
The woman who will go to the polling
booth in Melbourne may follow European
fashions in her dress. but politically she
is heart and soul Australian every time
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color in the dark green Of the forest It II
beautiful

beautiful.
The Sails Trotted, Too.
We found the road very good. with fins
stone bridges over the breaks IN It caused
by the numerous mountain streams, ana
we trotted most OF the way. The road was
divided up into. stages Of about four miles
each. and went to nearly the end of the
third stage before could persuade myself
to turn back. Every rock was covered with
moss, and where the streams drpped down
their sides the rocks were a mass of tiny
maidenhatr fern, most delicate and. grace
full to look at. After bidding goodbye to
KIND Mr. G.. I started OF on a trot. my
cheerful. hat-faced sails following at a
smart pace. cltnging to the tail of the pony.
l never can get accustomed to seeing a
man following the trot of horse, and
always fear to see him drop with heart
disease, so l made my -homeward way a
slow one. and very gladly At one small
busti, or native village, the whole popula-
ton was assembled to watch the terrifying
antics OF a wild bull. which was rushing
around, stamping. goring everything 1t
came across, and in the end getting its
horns fastened into tree and had to re-
main there. believing horribly and paving
deep holes in the ground. When came in
sight OF the bustt the inhabitants greeted
me with yells and bowls. which the sails
instantly Interpreted by leading my pony up
into an open shed on the hillside, from
which steep bluff fell to the road There.
IN company with the excited villagers fifty
OF them, more or less). watched the poor
animal until it was safe to start off again
And so on home we went to pack for the
start next day for Kashmir The vale of
hashmir has always an enchanting sound.
ana we were eager to get there, but at the
same time sorrowful at leaving a place
which seemed to US, as to natural scenery
and situation, unequaled in the world
MARGARET STIRLING.
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The Fear Of Laughter.
From the Atlantic.

FROM the Atlantic.
Men who fear nothing else shrink from a
joke upon themselves. Soldiers who do not
finch before opposing guns dread to be
made ridiculous Woe to the ma
tional hero who makes one trif1ing mistake
which may subject him to clever caricaturei
His meritorious career Is henceforth shad-
owed by one colored illustration. A comic
paper will tip the scales of justice, snatch
the victors prize from his extended palm
and rob the orator of his choicest laurels.
A brilliant satire will mar the fortunes OF
the greatest statesman; laugh will turn
the tide of a political convention Indeed,
the joke is fast becoming mightier than the
pen. The orator has learned its value and
even the clergyman resorts to it when he
desires to stir the tagging interest In his
flock. 1t furnishes sufficient excuse for
the impertinence Of children and ia it's
name the daily papers deride the highest
national dignitaries What is the meaning
of its steady growth in power and what
results may we predict from its humorous
tyranny? Is there q chance that our keen
relish for fun may finally produce a kind
Of humorous dyspepsia resulting from over
indulgence. unless with epicurean discrim-
ination we demand quality, not quantity.
and stubborniy refuse to swallow other
than that which should appease whole
some. nay cultivated appetite in Jokes: