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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1895. culiarly his own, and were full of fascina- tion. He appeared to brandish in his own “strong right band” the ‘‘laming sword red with insufferable light”’; and his au- dience, tossed on the mountain waves of his eloquence, seemed to see him standing, | unconquerable, the especial champion of freedom. He tells also that a youth in the assemblage, who was none other than Bret Harte, then unknown to fame, leaped upon the stage, and cheered as he waved the an ecstasy of enthusiasni. From this triumph of his genius Colonel Baker went on to Washington to take that place in the United States Senate which was the realized ambition of his life. He came opportunely to bis seat, for the im- periled Union needed such a defender. He entered upon his dutles as Senator while Flag of Freedom before the audience in | COLONEX E There rises before me frequently a mem- ory of my childhood which does not lose its distinctness as the years go by. The picture which presents itself is that of a small group of earnest men, framed in flickering shadows, about the open fire- place of my father’s house, and listening eagerly to the voice of one who sat in the midst of them, holding a little child upon his knee which he played with as he talked. He was a large man, of striking presence, finely formed features, gray hair and splendid eyes, which flashed and brightened as he uttered sentences having in them the words “liberty,” *‘country,” “duty,” “glory.”” There was that in his grand bearing, graceful gestures and musi- cal voice which charmed the child who | did not understand his words, and not less | go the men, his listeners, who did. Who | was this man and what was the occasion | which called to his lips those words of profound and sacred meaning to the patriots of every age? It was Colonel Ed- ward Dickinson Baker during his memor- | able campaign as a Republican candidate | for Congress in 1859. | That was perhaps the most brilliant cam- paign which has ever been made in Cali- fornia by any public man. From San Diego to Yreka went Colonel Baker speak- ing in public halls, in open air meetings, at country hearthstones, and everywhere chanting the splendia hymn of liberty and Union which was so familiar to his heart and tongue. Hear one of its cadences which was wafted out among the pines of the Sierrasas the opening sentence of his famous orest Hill” speech: “I am speaking,” he said, “in the mountains, always in all lands favorable to the great idea of rea! liberty; always an inspiration to its defenders; always a fortress for its warriors.” In vain, however, was expended Colonel Baker’s efforts and eloguence. The time was not yet ripe for Republican victory in California. Defeated in his aspiration, yet resolved to represent the Pacific Coast at the Nation’s Capitol in its time of troutle and to utter there a voice for iree- | dom from the farthest west, Colonel Baker went to Oregon and within a year was chosen the first Senator of the new State. Before another year had passed he had stood upon the floor of the United States Senate, and with splendid courage and matchless eloquence had hurled defiance | in the teeth of secession, and the treason to country of which it was but another name. And again before the year had faded he had gone forth at the head of his ““Califor- nia Regiment” to his death upon that bloody battle field near Leesburg, Virginia. Thus passed and closed the last two years of the Iife of him who was not only the greatest orator, but also the most dramatic character in the history of California. The career of Colonel Baker prior to his coming to California in 18 recited. He was born in England on the 24th day of February, 1811. His parents brought him to America when he was 4 years of age and located in Philadelphia, where the next ten years of his boyhood were spent. The family then moved west to Illinois and in 1825 settled in St. Clair County. It was there that the forming character of the young man first began to artract attention. His devotion to books, his quickness of apprehension, his wonderful memory, and, more than all, his restless and fiery - ambition, before he was 17 years of age, had marked him for a distinguished career. Naturally he was led to the study of law, although for a while he was an ardent member and ‘“‘exhorter’ in the Chris- tian Church. The young Baker was, however, of too militant a nature for a churchman, and when the Black Hawk war broke out in 1832 he was among the first to volunteer and the last to leave the service at the close of the war. In 1835 he returned to the practice of the law, locating at Springfield, Ill. He was then in the twenty-fifth year of his age, and was thrown into the society of a notavle company of young men, like himself look- ing for distinction. Among his friends ot that period were Lincoln, Douglass, Mc- Dougall, Shields, Logan, Trumbull and others who have made the State of II- linois notable as a producer of great men. ‘With these young giants in the games of law and politics the ardent and ambitious Baker began to shine, especially. as an orator, before juries and upon the stump. Within two years he was eiected to the State Legislature, where he served in the lower house until 1840, when he went up to the Stare Senate, there to represent the peo ple of Illinois for four years more. From the Senate Baker was sent to Congress as ten to his cry and find a tongue to speak in his defense, though around his head all the fury of puolic opinion should gather, and rage and roar and roll as the ocean rolls around the rock. And if I ever forget, if I ever deny that | in com'merce she sits superior. may be briefly | i /// y’,/// ) / / D.BAKER. | service had trained him thoroughly for the wider forum and he began at once to display his powers in brilliant speeches, which. devoted as they were to great sub- jects, attracted the attention of the whole country. He took advanced ground upon | question of the Oregon boundary h was just then threatening compli ations with Great Britain, and was known the ) as one of the ‘‘Fifty-four-forty-or-fight”’ | highest duty to my this arm and hush this voice fore ver. rofession, m ay God palsy The power of Colonel Baker over the minds of a jury was very great, as may be well illustrated by an incident which I had from the lips of a juryman who sat be- neath his spell in a cause involving valu- able water rights in Sierra County. The court sat in Downieville, and from the windows of the courtroom might be seen the ditch in controversy. After Colonel Baker had proceeded with his speech some distance he soared away in one of his lofty flights of oratory, during which he apos- trophized the particular stream involved in the case and walked away from the jury to the window, as though entranced in his own apostrophe. The jury to a man unconsciously arose and followed him, and stood a breathless group behind him until the chhmax was reached and passed, when they came to their senses and stum- bled back sheepishly to their seats. The political career of Colonel Baker in California was as remarkable as his legal career, but it was productive of no vic- tories for him. Soon after his arrival he identified himself with the free - soii movement, and became, in 1855, the candidate of the party of that name for the State Senate. He made a brilliant canvass, but Democracy proved too strong even for him. In 1856 he was among the first to ally himself with the Republican_party, whose National candi- dates were Fremont and Dayton, and he gallantly led a foriorn hope through that campaign. Later he was a candidate for Congress, and again met defeat. These political reyerses did not, however, dim bis Joyalty to California nor lessen his de- votion to the great party of freedom, whose cause he had espoused. It was at the close of his campaign for Congress that the tragic incident in our State history occurred, which called forth from Baker’s lips one of the grandest of | his orations. This was the death of David C. Broderick, who had been his devoted friend. By common consent Colonel Baker became his eulogist, and his speech in its completeness is preserved. In it occurs that passionate protest against dueling, which may serve asa sample of the speech: One year ago to-day I performed a duty, such as I perform to-day, over the remains of Sena- tor Berguson, who died as Broderick died, | tangled in the meshes of the code of honor. COLONEL E. D. BAKER, AS HE APPEARED AT 35 YEARS OF AGE [Copied by “The Call's” Art Department from a daguerreotype in the possession of E. B. Jerome Esq. of this Caty.] was just, and that Carthage should be di with”in terms ot mercy? What would have been thought if aftér the battle of Canne a Senator had then risen in his place and de- nounced every levy of the Roman Jneople. every expenditure of its treasure, and every appeal to old recollections and old glories? At this point Senator Fessenden, who sat by Baker's side, half arose and ejacu- lated, “He would have been hurled from the Tarpeian rock.” Baker then continued: Sir, a Senator, himself far more learned in such lore, tells me in a voice I am glad is aud- ible, that he would have been hurled from the Tarpeian rock. It isa grand commentary on the American Constitution that we permit such words 10 be uttered in this place. It was only a few days after this remark- able speech that Senator Baker went forth with his regiment to die at Balls Bluff. To-day there is another and more eminent sac- rifice.” To-day I renew my protest; to-day I | e L | utter yours. The code of honor is a delusion | the —guns which were _fired upon and 4 snare. It palters with the hope of ort Sumter were echoing in the | true courage, and binds itat the feet of craity | ears of men, and while Breckinridge | and cruel 'skill. It surrounds its victim | and Benjamin and Jefferson Davis were with the pomp and grace of the pro- | argning speciously in the Senate against cession, but Jeaves him bieeding on | the power of the Union to preserve itself the altar. It substitutes cold and deliberate | Congressmen. During his speech de- livered upon that is ue he took occasion to pay a tribute to the power and greatness of | England, which is a masterpiece of dic- | tion. He said: Mr. Chairman: Tadmit the power of Eng- land. Itisa moral as well as & physical su- premac not merely her fleets and her not merely her colonies ana her is more than these. There 1s a in her history which compels our ad- miration and excites our wonder. us the field of Agincourt, the glory of Blen- heim, the f It reminds us how she ruled the empire of the wave, from the de- struction of the Armada to the glories of Tra- falgar. Nor is her glory confined to arms alone. In arts, in setence, in literature, in_credit and Hers are the princes of the mind. She gives laws to learn- ing and limits to taste. The watch-fires of her battlefields yet flash warning and defiance to her enem Her dead heroes and statesmen | stand as sentinels upon immortal hei; i guard the glory of the living. | It was while Baker was thus engaged in | widening his reputation as an oraior and | statesman, that the Mexican war came on; | | and, as fourteen years earlier he has cast | aside the neckcloth of the exhorter for the | musket of a volunteer, so also he threw off | the toga of a lawmaker for the uniform of | a colonel of an lllinois regiment in the ican war. In fact, he was one of the orthern Whigs who favored war with | Mexico, and those of his biographers who knew him most intimately say,that be did so because it was war, and “afforded him | the opportunity to slake the burning | thirst of his_heart.” After the battle of Cerro Gordo, Baker returned home to prac- tice law for a brief season 1 Iilinois, and by the people of which he was soon again sent to Congress. the volcanic fires of disunion were already ceething upward toward their overflow a decade later, and no one realized this bet- ter than Baker. In powerful speeches he inveiglied against the whole thought and theory of secession. In one of his ad- dresses of that period he uttered the fol- lowing words, which seem so prophetic | of his career and fate: T have only to say that, if the time should come when disunion_rules the hour and dis- cord reigns supreme, I shall again be ready to est_blood of my veins to my coun- . 1 shall be prepared to meet all an- h lance in rest, to do battle in in defense of the constitution of the ry which I have sworn to support to the remity against all its enemies, whether North or South—to meet them everywhere, at all times, with spesch or hand, with word or blow, until thought and being shall be mine no longer. In the year 1851 the restless, adventurous nature of Baker seized upon an enterprise which has been described as “wild asit was engaging.” This was nothing less | than the construction of a railroad across | the Isthmus of Panama. He made a con- | tract with the Panama Railroad Company | for the construction of the road, and with about 400 laborers which he collected, he | sailed away for the istbmus. Itwas avain | quest for wealth and glory. Baker soon | fell sick from the fever which breeds its contagion along the slimy banks of the | Chagres River, and was brought home, it was thought, to die. The pure air of Illi- nois soon restored him to health, however, and he turned his fancy toward Cali- | fornia as a proper field for his energies and | ambition. | _In the vear 1852 he arrived in 8an Fran- | cisco with his family and resumed the practice of the law. He came with an al- | ready established reputation asa lawyer | and orator, and very speedily rose to the | head of the profession. He seemed at last | to have found a congenial atmosphere for the expansion of the wings of his genius. During the succeeding eight years he | reached the zenith of his powers and the summit of his fame. His law practice ex- tended over the entire State and involved him in the trial of many of the greatest causes of that epoch in California history. Among these was the defense of Cora, who killed United States Marshal Richardson during the aays of the Vigilance Committee of 1856. When Cora retained Colonel Baker to defend him, public_opinion demanded that he should leave his client to his fate, and for a time he was socially ostracized because he refused to do so. His speech in defense of bis position and of the right and duty of & lawyer to defend a client charged with no matter how heinous a crime was declared by those who heard it to be the most brilliant effort of his foren- sic experience. He said: The legal profession is, above all others, fearless of public opinion, candid and sympa- thetic. It gn ever stood agninst the tyranny of monarchs on the one hand and the tyranny of public opinion on the other. And if, as the humblest a"m"f them, it becomes me to instance myself, I may say it with a bold heart—and I do say it with a bold heart—that there is mnot in all this world & wretch so humble, so guilty, so despairing, so torn with avenging furies, so ursued with the vengeance of the law,so Eumed to cities of refuge, so fearful of life, by preventing the withdrawal of its States. Baker’s genius arose upon sustaining wings to the level of the occasion, and he de- livered speech after speech of surpassing power and brilliancy. In one of these he paid the following tribute to the “Liberty preparation for courageousand manly impulse, | | and arms the one to disarm the other. It may | prevent frand between practical duelists, who | should be forever without its pale, but it | makes the mere trick of the weapon superior | | to the noblest cause and the truest courage. | It presents | tude of “Fatal Fontenoy” and | | the fortunes of Waterloo. | Tts pretense of equality 1s a lie. Itis equal in | all ‘the form, it is unjust in all the substance— | | the habitude of arms, the early treining, the | frontier life, the border war, the sectional cus- | | tom, the life of leisure; all these are ad- | ventages which no negotiation can neutralize, | and which no courage can overcome. I And this was his last farewell to Broder- ] | ick: But the last word must be spoken and the | imperions mandate of death must be fulfilled. | Thus, oh brave heart, we bear thee to thy rest. | Thus, surrounded by tens of thousands, we | leave thee to an equal grave. Asin lifeno | | other voice so rung its trumpet blast upon the ear of fieedom, so in death its echoes will reverberate amid our mountains and valleys | distil their sweetest drops of the Press,” which has been seldom equaled and never excelled by any orator of any age: : The liberty of the press 1s the highest safe- guard to all free government. Ours could not exist withoutit. Itis with us, nay, with all men, like a great, exulting and atounding river. Itis fed by the dews of heaven which to form it It ushes from the rill as it breaks from the eep caverns of the esrth. It is fed by a thousand affiuents that dash from the mountain top to separate again into a thousand _bounteous and irrigating rills around. On iis broad bosom it bears a thou- sand barks. There genius spreads its purpling sail. There poetry dipsits silver oar. There art, ghtsto | There | until truth and valor cease to appeal to the human heart. | After the death of Broderick and the de- | | livery of this splendid eulogy, the tide of Baker’s fate hurried him away to Oregon and plunged him into the heart of a politi- | fruit of truth. | cal campaign there, the prize of which was | Among the several speeches which Col- | a seat in the United States Senate, toreach | onel Baker made during the brief period of which was the height of his ambi- | his Senatorial service perhaps the most | tion. There are but meager details pre- | powerful as well as most dramatic was his | served of that Oregon campaign, but in it | reply to Breckinridge. While Baker had | Baker gained a sobriquet which was his | been attending to his duties as Senator he | during the few remaining days of his| had also been engaged in organizing a reg- ( eventful life. He became known as “The | iment in anticipation of the impending | Old Gray Eagle of Mount Hood,” and re- | conflict. It was known as the California turned_to California in 1860 with this title | Regiment, and the soldiers- were as | and with the wreath of Senator upon his | proud of their commander as he *was of them. One day upcn his return to brow. His arrival in San Francisco was made the occasion of a monster celebra- | Washington from drill, word was brought tion, and he then delivered one of the | to him that Breckinridge was making a most wonderful speeches of his life. In | great speech upon the “Insurrection and | gedition.Bill." which the Kentucky Sena- it occurred that exordium to *‘Freedom’ which has become a classic in our litera- | tor opposed, but which Baker strongly ad- ture. He said: vocated. Without waiting to remove his Here, then, long years ago, I took my stand | Uniform, Baker hurried to the Senate by freedom, and where in youth my feet were | chamber, and heard enough of the speech planted there my manhood and age shall | to fire his blood for a reply. The speech was impromptu, of course, but is declared by those who heard it to have Leen the hapgiest effort of his life. In rebuking the Senator from Kentucky, he uttered the following words: These speeches of his, thrown broadeast over the land, what clear, distinct meaning have they? Are they not intended to animate our enemies? Sir, are they not words of brilliant, invention, discovery, science, morality, re- ligion may safely and securely float. It wan- ders through every land. It is A genial, cordial source of thought and 1nspiration wherever it | touches, whatever it surrounds. Sir, upon its borders grow every flower of grace and every march. And, for one, 1 am not ashamed of ireedom. 1 know her power; I rejoice in her | majesty; Iwalk beneath her banzaer; I glory | in her strength. Ihaveseen ber struck down npon a hundred chosen fields of battle. I have seen her friends fly from her. I have seen her | foes gather around her. I lave seen them bind her to the stake. I have seen them give her ashes to the winds and regather them again | that they might scatter them still more widely. But when they turned to exult I have seen her | : 3 olished treason even in the capital of our again meet them face to face, clad m,cnm{nlele Ronfedcmc_\'? What would have bppen thought steel and brandishing in her strong right hand | f in another capital, in another republic, and a flaming sword, red with insufferuble light. | jn g yet more martial age, a Senator as In speakinlg of this oration and of its ef- l:"l;fl\‘e, lgm ,morf el?qucul l(or! g!xnlfled " T, § c, i o 180 e Senator from entucky, yet fect Oscar L. Shuck, in his ‘Bench and | (i e “Joman purple Mowing. from Bar,” says that the natural grace, the manly animation of the speaker, the way | he suited the action to the word, were pe- e —— his shoulders, had risen from his place sur- rounded by all the illustrations of Roman glory, and “declared that advancing Hannibal | & AN R | N\ -QRAVE =DV Png\KIfl/"fi BAK BRODRICKE { ® ! 8o afraid of death—there is no wretch so deeply the only Whig representative from his Btate. His eight preceding years of public | in all the agonies of vice and misery :fgr;llmc that I wouldnothave the heart to lis- I | The melancholy news of that disastrous engagement was wired to Washington, and thence was flashed over the North and West, causing everywhere feelings of the profoundest sorrow. It was felt!| that a great light out in the land, and when the body of Baker was received at Washington | his fellow-Senators vied in eulogy to do him honor. His life-long friend, James A. McDougall, one of the Senators from Cali- | fornia, Yaid an especially touching and ul_tribute to his genius. The body of the gifted man was then sent home to California and buried upon Lone Moun- tain with all the honors which a loving people could bestow. His funeral oration was pronounced by Thomas Starr King, and was itseli a masterpiece of eloquent eulogy. There his body rests to this day— beneath a neglected and moss-grown mar- ble, which bears the inscription: EDWARD DICKINSON BAKER. Born in London, Feb. 2, 1811. Killed while leading the forlorn hope at the Battle of Balls Bluff, Va., Oct. 21, 1861. At the time of his death he was & Senator of the United States from the State of Oregon, ana, though holding an appointment as MAJOR-GENERAL, Was acting as Colonel, commanding a brigade of TU. 8. Forces enlisted and organized by himself. The grave of Colonel Baker is not a well- kept grave, such as the visitor to our *‘silent cities’”’ may see entombing grosser clay. The condition of the plat where the body of this illustrious orator, senator and soldier lies is one of sad neglect. The granite walls have decayed with age, and time has withered the unwatered grass, while the dews and cold fogs rolling in from the ocean have marred and almost blackened what was once a snow-white memorial table, giving sustenance to the unsightly moss which threatens in time to completely obliterate the chiseied in- seription. The shapely but crumbling marble urns are filled with pebbles and broken glass, while the table supports are far from solid, making it possible for a passing wind to sway the siab from its foundation and dash it into fragments against the un- steady stone coping around it. *‘And now when the landward breezes had gone beautif TO SHUT OUT BAD MEAT, The Board of Health and the Butchers Meet in Joint Council. STRICT REGULATIONS URGED. The Butchers’ Board of Trade Co- operating With the Health Authorities. The activity of the butchers and health authorities has quite alarmed the small venders of unwholesome beef and bone- less horse. The arrest of Florentine and Malarkey, on whose premises in South San Francisco the carcasses of dead horses were found, and the apprehension of a Chinese butcher for selling diseased meat, indicate the plan of campaign which has been outlined. More arrests will probably follow. Mean- while the members of the Butchers’ Board of Trade and the market inspectors are scouring Chinatown for additional evi- dence against the ring that traffics in un- clean meat. Malarkey and Florentine have been charged with slaughtering within the prescribed limits of the City. This is the only charge that can be placed against them, since there is no law against the destruction of horses that have worn out their usefulness. The Chinaman, whose name is Tuck Hirg, and who conducts a retail butcher business at 746 Washington street, has been charged with selling diseased meat. Two sides of decayed beef were found in his cellar. All will be arraigned in Judge Low’s court Monday. There was an informal meeting of the Board of Health, market inspectors and leading butchers at Dr. Hart’s office on Powell street yesterday afternoon. The meeting was called to discuss the un- wholesome-meat question, but as there was not a quorum of the board present no actjon was taken in regard to the forming of more stringent laws. It was the desire of the legitimate butchers of the City, headed by the Butchers’ Board of Trade, to have formed such laws as would at once protect the community and the trade from the dealers who handled an unclean article. Another s;ecml meeting of the board will be called for Wednesday even- ing to hear the suggestions of the butchers. *‘We are anxious to aid the health au- thorities in_every possible way,” said President Hammond of the Butchers’ Board of Trade, after the meeting yester- day, “as it is to the interests of the trade that unwholesome meat should not find its way to this market. I feel that the Board of Health has not done justice to itself, the public or the butchers in the appointing of market inspectors. There are only four of them, when there shonld not be less than eight. Of the four there are three that have absolutely no knowledge whatever of meats—not sufficient to determine the sex of an animal, to say nothing of its whole- | someness, so it leaves this whole City prac- tically in the hands of one man—Ben Davis. There should be more competent inspectors. At present prices of beef a steer four years old brings from $35 to $50, according to size and quality. These cattle are raised and fed for beef cattle and in no case are they raised for dairy purposes. The butchers of this City are probably more anxious than even the consumers of meat that the traffic in unwholesome meat of all kinds be stopped, not only because of the pride which any reputable business man would have in handling only first- class goods and the danger that might be incurred both to himself or to his trade by | the use of other than wholesome meats, but a still stronger reason exists. explain it. There is not a slaughter-house in Butch- ertown, whether it be of cattle, sheep or hogs, that does not have from one to six or more people continually buying and shipping to them stock of various kinds from shipping and feeding stations. The majority of the firms own or have large interests in immense ranches where cattle and sheep are fed for this market. There been an abundant supply of this stock, as the low prices now ruling show, and the quality is equal to any meat in the world. To produce this meat the costs are high. Freight alone from some points costs $8 a head. ““In the vicinity of the City and in the counties bordering on the bay are numer- ous dairies that must, of course, keep a great many cows. As these cows become old and unprofitable or diseased they are replaced by younger and fresher stock from the country by regular dealers, who take in part payment the old cows. ‘“These dealers in no case sell them in Butchertown, but kill them or have them killed and disposed of as they can, and from this source comes the principal part Let me come in from the boundless ocean to grieve and sob ameng the splendid monu- ments erected over the ashesof lesser men, the spirit of that freedom which he wor- shiped with all the fervor of a great soul droops beside a grave almost unmarked, points reproachfully at the people of Cali- fornia, and seems to utter the pathetic in- terrogatory of the dying warrior of the Alleghanies, ‘Who is there to mourn for Logan? ” Will the Xeople of California continue to endure and merit this reproach and leave the ashes of their most gifted orator to lie beneath a moss-eaten tablet in a neglected grave? JouN E. RICHARDS. of what unwholesome meat 1s brought to the City. In case some of these cows are unable to walk they are slaughtered at home and the meat” is brought here and sold, principally to the Chinese butchers, who, in turn, sell to the poorer white peo- ple and to cheap restaurants. “‘As the Butchers’ Board of Trade re- fused to sell any more to the Chinese some six months ago, and does not allow any of its members to puichase from them, the Chinese butchers have difficulty in getting anything exceptinferior meat.” —_— REV. “RABBI” SCHWEITZ. Definite Information Received That He ‘Was the Man Who Swindled the Railroads in the East. Four charges of forgery are now regis- tered against Ph. Schweitz, the clerical impostor, and the police say that several more warrants will be sworn out against him to-morrow. His preliminary examina- tion on the four charges has been set for Friday next. The railroad people are taking quite an interest in Schweitz, from the fact that ke has been able to pull the wool over the eyes of so many of them, both here and in the East. Captain Lees was yesterday handed a dispatch from Secretary Caldwell of the Western Lines Passenger Association, giving a description of the clergvman who swindled all the Western lines by getting orders under numerous aliases” at half rates and selling them to ticket-scalpers, and it tallies exactly with Schweitz, so that the railroad people are congratulating themselves that such a clever confidence operator has been run to earth. —————————— DEER HIDES SEIZED. A Local Furrier's Firm Placed in a , Peculiar Position. Deputy Fish and Game Commissioner Davis yesterday seized four bundles of deer and elk hides that arrived on the steamer Homer from Coos Bay, Or. These hides were sent to a local fur and hide firm, which will be put to considerable trouble to recover the property. Many hides are sent to this City in violation of the law, which prohibits the buying, sell- ing or offering this class of hides for sale. Most of these goods are shipped in kegs or closed packages, which prevents their being discovered by the officials. Under the old law the possession of deer hides was illegal, but the Supreme Court, in the Humboldt County deer cases, de- clared the law illegal, and the last Legis- lature amended it so as to prohibit the buying, selling or offering for sale any deer hides, except the same be imported from Alaska or some foreign country. Oregon cannot be rated as a foreign conn- try. For a time men who hunted for hides in the northern part of the State smuggled the hides into this City by the railroad, but this became dangerous. A short time ago the Game Warden of Del Norte County astonished the people by arresting a man for selling deer hides. As a result of the risk of shipping by rail and the watchfulness of the northern Game Warden, the hide-hunters have been taking their hides to Oregon and shipping them from the towns on Cocs Bay and the Coquille River. For a time they were suc- cessful, but now the Oregon boats as well as trains are being watched. The owners of the hides seized yester- day are in a peculiar position. In order to recover their hides they will have to begin legal proceedings which will establish the ownership, and this will show, no donbt, that the hides were purchased, which of itself is a violation of the law. ——— His Son Was Injured. William Sawyer filed asunitin the Justices’ Court yesterday against the firm of C. A Hooper for $299. The complaint alleges the infani son of the plaintiff was passing the lum- ber-yards of the defendant on October 25, when through the negligence of the employes of the firm & load of lumber was deposited on the sidewalk in such a manner asto fall upon the child, breaking his thigh and otherwise in- juring him, and no damages are demanded, ut the firm is asked to pay the docter’s bill of $250, $25 for medicines and $24 for extra at- tendance and care. - = e Hippocrates prescribed the oil of roses as a medicine for several kinds of disease. ———— NEW TO-DAY. $5 A MONTH It Is the Coly Charge Hade by the Copeland Medical Institute. Medicines and All Else Are Fur- nished at This Charge of $5, and This Is the Season for Curing Diseases of Any Nature. Read the Evidence Below. The system of practicing medicine as inau- gurated by the Copeland Medical Institute was not intended to be,a money-making scheme, but for the purnose of enabling people of small means to obtain the same treatment that rich people pay large sums of money for. These physicians know that they can cure diseases that, strike at nine-tenths of our people, and they know that by advertising this fact and treating patients on a grand scale they can afford to charge a low fee to cover cost of serv- ices and medicines—§5 a month—to all. In these hard times such & fee commends itself to every one needing medical treatment, and when the ability of the physicians is vouched for every week by citizens of high standing and unimpeachable veracity, who desire others should know what can be done for them, it would seem that the man or woman who seeks medical attention is wasting time and money in not going to the Copeland Medical Institute at once. READ THIS. If These Symptoms Fit Your Case, Then You Have Catarrh. Are your eyes weak and watery? Do you see floating spots before them at times? Do you have a pain over your eyes or a sense of fullness across the front of the head? 1s your hearing dull and defective? Do you have a roaring, ringing or buzzing sound in your ears at times? 3 Does your mnose stop upat times, one sids or the other? Does it discharge a thin, watery substance almost constantly? When you go to bed at night have you diffi- cuity in going to sleep ? Affer you are asleep do you have unpleasent dreams? On awaken- ing do you feel refreshed? T the morning do you have difficulty in clearing your throat? Does your throat feel dry and parched? Do you have a sense of full- ness in your throat? Do you have a dry, hacking cough? Do you have & cough that prevents your going to sieep atnight? Do you have a cough that causes you to wake up at night and thus disturb your Tepose? 0 you have a feeling at times as though you were about to faint, and feel as though you must grasp something for support? Does your vision become disturbed and everything grow dark before your eyes at such times? Do you have night sweats or hemorrhages, or hot and cold flashes over your body, or chills or creepy feelings running up your back? Do you have a weakness as though you had been working very hard and wanted to rest and cannot get rested? Do you have a depressed feeling after eating, or a bloated-up feeling in the stomach? Do Kou belch up 2 sour taste in your mouth, or avea very sick feeling at the stomach,or a heartburn? Do you feel as though what you have eaten was lying like lead in your stomach ? Do you have a feeling of oppression around the heart? Do you have a shortness of breath on going upsiairs quickly? Do you have smothering attacks? Do you have at times feelings as though your heart was encompassed by something and it could not move, and then suddenly find it palpitating furiously? If so, then you have catarrh in one of its many forms. These are but a few of the many sgmpmms that denote to the skillful ph{s!ciun that you are suffering from catarrh. If they are your symptoms do not delay longer, but place yourself under the care of a physician and be cured before it has taken such a hold on you that it will be too late to secure relief. THE NEW TREATMENT. A cordial invitation is extended by Drs. Copeland, Neal and Winn to all their friends and patients, old as well as new, to call and test the new treatment. It has passed thestage of experiment and has been demonstrated a complete success, particularly in those cases which have withstood the other and older methods of treatment. They have added 1o their already complete offices the new appli- ances, and are ready to treat all those more stubborn _cases which in the past have been thought incurable. It is to their financial in- terest, as well as_their medical fame, to cure, for one cured patient is worth many dollars of advertising. They have the best treatment and the new and direct meansof using it. TREATMENT BY MAIL. For those desiring the treatment by mail_the first step is to drop aline to Drs. Copeland, Neal and Winn for & question list or symptom blank. Return same with answers filled out and treat- ment may be commenced at once. Every mail brings additional proof of the success of the mail treatment. $5 A MONTH. No fee larger than $5 a month asked for “E disease. Our motto 1s: “A Low Fee. Quic! Cure. Mild and Painless Treatment.” The Copeland Medical Tastitns PERMANENTLY LOCATED IN THE COLUMBIAN BUILDING, SECOND FLOOR, 916 Market St, Next to Baldwin Hotel, Over Beamish's, W. H. COPELAND, M.D. J. G. NEAL, D. ACw M.D. SPECIALTIES—Catarrh and all diseases ot the Eye, Ear, Throat and Lungs, Nervous Dis- eases, Skin Diseases, Chronic Diseases. = 1, Office hours-9 A. M. to 1 P. M.,2t05P. M, 7 t08:30 P. M. Sunday—10 A. . 102 P. M. Catarrh troubles and kindred diseases treated successfully by mail. Send 4 cents in stamps [TCHING PILES P ILE SWAYNE'S snsororeex ovsss, OINTMENT [PTOMS—Molsture; intcuse itchl: L ey worse by ot ptehfog IF allosed tn con ore forns and protrade, ehich ofien blecd sad ulcerate becoming vory sore. SWAYNE'SOINTMENT the 1fching 2%d bleoding, heals ulcerstion, and in most Gasce. Temoves the tumors. ask Jour or it é\ 4 r ‘The most and safe Pain Romfig water cures Summer Complaints, Diarraea, ulence, Colic, Ni durg, Souz Stomach, In eart Buseds