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S jy » tò r ffiK g r n r a t n l 3» M . SHEPHERD, E d it o r . B a lte r C ity, J u ly 1, 1874. THE BEDROCK DEM OCRAT a s th e L a r g e s t C ir c u la tio n of any P a p e r P u b lis h e d in E a ste rn O re g o n . C ircu la tio n 1 ,0 5 0 cop ies. O F F IC IA L PAPER For tue Counties o f B a k e r an d G ra n t. TO D E L I X Q I E X T S ! We have a large number of sub scribers names on our books who have not paid one cent for their pa per for the past two years. To all such we will here say that if they do not call and settle their accounts within thirty days that they will find them in the hands of an attorney for collection. We must have money to meet our engagements, and those who owe us must settle up. in earnest. We are We hate to dun our cus T E tE O K A P IL Our readers will remember that a week or two since we published an article from the Owyhee Avalanche wherein it was stated that arrange ments were perfected by which a telegraph line would be built to Sil ver City. Since then we see that the citizens of Boise City are taking the necessary steps to have the line con tinued to that city This brings us within one hundred and thirty miles of the end of the line. This portion of Oregon needs a telegraph to con nect us with the outside world. It would be a great means of bringing our mines into notice and would be a great aid to us in procuring favor able action on our railroad bill. The people of Baker City, by taking pro per action, can procure the expan sion of this telegraph line to our city. Will they do it? Let us help our selves, and thereby encourage oth ers to assist ns. The more and quick er communication we can have with others portions of the world the bet ter it will be for us and for our fu ture prosperity. S h e p h e r d . —The Sacramento Un ion of June 24th says: “ In accord tomers, but necessity compels us to ance with general expectation and do so. Pay up and save cost. report the President has surely enough nominated Alexander Shep TH E L IT IG A F r L A W . herd, the king of the District plun der ring, to be one of the Commission We this week publish the L iti ers under the new District govern gant Law in full so that the people ment. This is an insult to Congress may read and understand its various and the nation, and if the Senate provisions. It will be seen that does not resent it by the prompt re there is no provision in it by which jection of the nominee, it will merit the people are taxed one cent, and the execrations of the country. One that it only provides for the pay of the means resorted to by the ring ment of the paper designated as the which this man Shepherd represents “ Litigant Organ” by the parties to to save itself from the damning a suit, or those having the advertis proofs of conviction, was to em ing done, of a just compensation for ploy some of the villiains of the the labor performed, and in many Treasury detactive service, by false cases the price is less than those hood and subordination, in an at charged as the regular advertising tempt to break down the testimony rates for like advertisements, by most of one of the District witnesses and of the papers in the State. By a ref memorialists. This has been care erence to the published advertising fully ferreted out by the committee rates of the very papers which have whose report stared the President in made the loudest outcry against this the face when he made this nomina law, we find that the most of them tion. It is insulting, insolent and charge for the same advertisements dictatorial. Since the above was put more than the law allows the “ L iti in type, the Senate considered and gant Organs” for the same kind of defeated the nomination by 36 to 6, advertisements" If the law should and ex Senator Cattell of New Jersey be repealed Litigants would be at was nominated and confirmed in the mercy of the publishers of the place of Shepherd.” He is no rela papers in which their advertisements tion to us. would be published. If the law should be repealed it would leave all S n a k e R i v e r . —1 The Idaho World parties at random as to where to Says: “ W. K. Stark, Esq , of Snake look for legal advertisements, and in river valley, called on us yesterday this manner great and irreparable morning. He says that crops and wrong might be done to innocent grass look fully as well there as any parties. As it is now all parties and former season, and will be good; be persons know where to look for legal is of the opinion, also, that the crops or judicial advertisements, and the on the Payette valley will be good. publisher of the official paper is com The La Grande Sentinel Says: The pelled by this very law to furnish question is being discussed whether the County Clerks of the Counts or or not, Union County has had u Counties for which he is the legal County Court held in pursuance of printer with two copies, every week, law since January, a year ago. The free, and also one copy to the Secre question is agitated whether the Sher tary of State, one to the Clerk of the iff, Clerk and Treasurer will not at Supreme Court, and one to the State tempt to hold over in consequence Library. People outside of the of the illegality of the election of State, as well as those in it, now Messrs. Curtis, Cates and Hopper know in what papers to look for the for the want of such court. It is legal advertisements that are to he taken for granted that the county- published in any county in the seat question is closely allied to the State. We think the law a good one, question of holding over. We and one that is of advantage to all might say much on this subject, but parties in the State, except a few the foregoing is sufficient. newspapers who do not receive the T h e P o r t l a n d B u l l e t i n .— The Litigant patronage under the provis ions of the law. The law embodies Walla Walla Spirit of the West, in the same principles that are author speaking o f the Portland Bulletin ized by tlie laws of the United States says, “ the charges of the Portland in relation to all official printing Bulletin that fraud was used in the done in any State or Territory of the election by the Judges in Umatilla Union by the official of the Govern county, so far appear to be unsus ment. We do not believe, if the L e g tained. Such charges deliberately islature looks to the interest of the made are serious, and sjaould be the people, that they will repeal this result of calm examination and bas law. By the law, publishers are ed on something like a sure founda compelled to set the advertisements tion. Hasty charges of fraud and in a certain kind of type, and that dishonesty are apt to fly wide of the twelve lines shall constitute a square, mark, and recoiling injure only those this leaves no opportunity for the that make them. As far as we can printer to extend an advertisement see, as yet there appears no just to an unwarrantable length. The ground for the Bulletin’s attacks. printer is required to give bonds for W a s h in g t o n , June 24.—Luttrell the faithful performance of his duty, argued for prompt adjustment and and i f he fails to do so he is liable to payment of the remainder of the Cal the parties who are injured by his ifornia Modoc war claims. Checks on neglect. Take the law as it stands San Francisco will be forwarded to and it guards the interests of all par claimants within a fortnight. Postmaster General Cresswell has ties interested, and works a hard tendered his resignation to the Presi- ship upon none, it creates no tax up dent. on the people, and amply protects It is believed that Eugene Hale, of the rights of all parties interested. Maine, will receive the appointment We hope every paper in the State of Postmaster General. will publish the law, and let the peo Representative Hale, who is ten dered the office of Postmaster Gen ple see what its provisions are. eral„ returned this, morning from Al- Gila Indians are supplying some tooqa and had a long interview with of the mills in Arizona with largd Cresswell. Male, in conversation with quantities of wheat raised by them friends, says that before he left Wash selves. ington yesterday, neither he nor his Carson Mint gets an appropriation friends had any intimation of his ap of $10,000 for wages of employees pointment, and if was a matter of great surprise. and other expenses. O l d N e w s p a p e r s . —The Owyhee Avalanche says: “ We are under obligations to our friend, George Young, of Fairview, for copies of three newspapeis published away back in the 18th century, as follows: The New England Weekly Journ al. published in Boston, and bearing date of April 8th, 1728. It is printed on two sides of a half sheet, foolscap size, and has two columns to the page. It contains European news to the 16th of November, 1727, and has eight advertisements, two of which are negro women for sale. It also states that five whites and one black were buried in the town of Boston during the past week. The other two papers are the Bos4- ton Gazette and Country Journal, dated March 12th, 1770, and the New York Morning Post, dated Nov. 7th, 1783, each of four pages considerable larger than the Avalanche. The for mer gives an account of the fight which took place in Boston, March 5th, 1770, between British troops and the citizens, in which four of the latter were killed, viz: Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Cald well and Crispus Attucks; the latter publishes Washington’s farewell or ders to the Army of the U. S., issued Nov. 2, 1783. These old ne wspapers were re garded as masterpieces of ability and enterprise in those dayss, but how- insignificant are they when compar ed with the public prints of the pres ent age.” We also have in our office the In dependent Chronicle, priuted at Bos ton, March 7th, 1812. It is a five column paper, and contains the pro ceedings of Congress, and war news together with other general news.— We are under obligations to Robert Kitchen for a perusal of this old pa per. It was printed twice a week by Adams & Rhodes, publishers of the Laws of the United States. Sacramento Union says it was the Independent press of the country that killed Car penter of Wisconsin and Butler of Massachusetts. Carpenter can never go back to the Senate, and Butler can never become Governor of Mas sachusetts. It is natural that these two political dead men should end their career by a desperate attempt to get even iu a bill to kill the Inde pendent papers. The Senate, in the spirit of the true aristocracy it is, came promptly up and seconded the attempt at newspaper homicide by its presiding officer, but the House Judieury Committee can’t see it in that light, and refuses to back up the malice of its sorehead Chairman. The bill to take newspaper proprie tors two thousand miles from home and have them tried before a packed United States Circuit or district Po lice Court, under the thumb of some Boss Shepherd or Boss Tweed, or Secretary Richardson, or Attorney General Williams, is a failure. It will not at this session get out of the committee and before the House. T it for T a t . —The The Boise Statesman says, having re ceived many inquiries as to wheth er Mr. Hailey would be a candidate for réélection to Congress, we took tlie liberty to write him on the sub ject, at the same time expressing our approval of i is course and our belief that the people would return him if he chose to be a candidate, and re ceived the following reply, which we are authorized to publish ; W a sh in g to n , June 16, ’74. M il t o n K e l l y —Dear S ir :-- lu answer to your inquiry as to whether I will be a candidate for re election or not, I will state to you as I have ofteu said before, that I have no desire to be a candidate for anVr office, nor never had in my life, and coming to Congress compels me to be away from my family and busi ness a great portion of my time,both of which require my attention; with these objections, coupled with a dis gust I have of polities and politici ans, I must respectfully decline to be a candidate for reelection to Con gress. Very respectfully yours &c., J ohn H a i l e y . L ogging C a m p . —The Lewistown Signal of June 20th says: “ Thomas Wright, Esq., of Union, accompani ed by our townsman C. C. Bunneil, made a trip to the logging camp on Grande Rende River last Saturday and. returned on Monday. They found thirteen men there who were in a state of doubt whether to go on with the drive or not, the contractor, Mr. Colwell, having absconded from the country; but fao soon as Mr. Wright put in an appearance the men were satisfied to immediately continue operations. They have done considerable work and have a large drive yet to make before the water recedes. Upon the return of Mr. Wright he procured a number of men here to go up and work on the drive so as to push things ahead somewhat faster while the water per mits.” Small-pox has -disappeared from Elko. LATE YEWS. We take the following news items from the Sacramento Union of June 19th: The cholera has appeared in some parts ot India. The famine is nearly ended. The Right Center renew their p ro posal for a Republican alliance with the Left Center of the French As sembly. Tope Pius IX says proposals have been made to him, by exalted politi cal persons,” for a compromise; but he declares he will yield nothing. This he said to the Cardinals yester day at a reception of that eminent body. Bill granting right of way to the Nevada and Colfax narrow-gague railway passed the House yesterday. Carpenter’s bill to gag and destroy the independent newspapers of the country, by forcing their conductors into packed courts on libel charges, will be killed in the House Judici ary Committee, Butler to the con trary notwithstanding. It is said the President will ap point Shepherd, the head of the late District ring, as one of the Commis sioners until the next session of Congress. President will sign the new bank ruptcy law, Howe, of Wisconsin, introduced a biil in the Senate yesterday to make the Government pay the cost of sur veying the Jands granted to the Pa cific Railway. Sargent offered some amendments to the District of Columbia bill in the Seriate yesterday, all of which were overwhelmingly voted down, and one of which only obtained his own vote. Governor Dingley has been re nominated by the Republican Con vention of Maine. Blaine is renominated by his dis trict in Maine for Congress. The Supreme Court of Illinois de cided yesterday that the suits against railway companies under the State law must be tried in the State Corts. The leading German paper Chica go ridicules the platform of the R e publican Convention of Illinois. Packages for the great Chilean In ternational Exhibition of this year will be carried by the Pacific Mail Company's steamers, from New York and all Pacific Ports to Panama, at $1 per ton in gold. From Panama, all packages are carried free to Val paraiso by the South American Steamship Company. De Long is canvassing Nevada for United States Senator to succeed Stewart. Some 1.600 Chinese were landed at San Francisco yesterday by the steamers Vancouver and Lord of the Isles, from China. We take the following news items from the Sacramento Union of June 24th: At six o’clock last evening the Speaker adjourned the National House o f Representatives s in e d i e . The last act of the House was to pass a hill removing the disabilities of Jas. L. Pugh, of Alabama. The Senate about tlie same hour, and af ter passing a bill to relieve John Forsythe of political disabilities,was adjourned sin e d i e by its President pro t e m , Carpenter. Thirteen persons were killed and some 200 injured instantly by the falling of the floor of a Baptist Church in Syracuse, N. Y., last night. At the time it was crowded with men, women and children, at tending a strawberry festival. President has nominated Shep herd, King of the ring, H. T. Blow ot' St. Louis, and ex Governor Den nison of Ohio, as the District of Co lumbia Commissioners. The Senate in. executive session last evening just before its final ad journment, after a lull discussion, by a vote of 36 to 6, tabled the nomi nation of Shepherd to be one of the District of Columbia Commissioners. They confirmed ail the other nomi nations. Cattell, ex Senator from New Jersey, was then nominated in place of Shepherd, and confirmed.— All the Commissioners are non resi dents of the District. The House bill to prevent the chronic frauds on the Postal De partment by means of straw bids for carrying the mails was so changed by the Senate that it amounts to nothing. President has nominated Hezekiah Wells, Martin Rynerson, Kenneth Raynor, Geo. H. Wood ward of Penn, and Caleb Baldwin of Ohio, as the Commissioners to compose the Ge neva Award Distribution Court.— The name of W. A. Porter of Penn., was s u b s e q u e n t ly substituted for that of Wood ward, and the Senate confirmed all the nominations. Colorado ad mission bill was killed in the Senate yesterday. Also the New Mexico bill. Senate amended and passed the Utah anti Mormon bill yesterday, and the House concurred in the amendmerns. Goldsmith Maid beat Judge Ful lerton at Fleetwood .course yester day three straight heats flora' $30,000 purse; best time, 2:23. The Prohibition Convention of New York, at Auburn yesterday, nominated Myron S. Clark for Gov ernor of New York and a full State ticket. II. O'. Jewett has accepted the presidency of the Erie Railway, vice \V atson. resigned. Three thousand, Gormans compose the Cleveland, Ohip, Sangerfest now iu session. Pope Pius is grqvyjng very sweet on the Americans since the over whelming showey of flattering thrust upon bun by the “ piigrimS” —and other things more substantial titan flatteries. A C ommon E r r o r . —From some cause tlie assertion has been fre quently made, and is received by B A K E R C I T Y , OKEGON, the thoughtless, that the 4th of March never comes on Sunday, and was on that acconnt selected as the B RO K ER AN D ASSAY g] day for innaugurating our chief DEALER magistrates. Next innauguration day will fall on Sunday, and as the I n Q - o l d B terms of the President and Vice -A N D — President expire at 12 o’clock Satur day night, the speaker of the House o f Representatives will be President of the United States till the Presi — ALSO— dent elect is sworn in on Monday.— This will be the third occurrence of this kind in the history of our coun try—Monroe commencing his sec ond term on Monday, March 5, 1821 and Zachary Taylor his term on Mon Office—First door north Odd Fellow’s R \ 1 n49v2tfj day March 5, 1849. J A S W . V IR T U ^ GOLD M D SILVER EXCHANGE 5 GREENBACK? ^ " advertisements . T H E B E D R O C K DEM ©CR^ The Old, Reliable and Well Established DEMOCRATIC PAPER G RAN D BALL, OF TO B E G IV E N B Y T H E IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN, OF C I T Y , E a stern Oregon, Can and will furnish more good m<uV J matter and reliable Local ana Foreign n 1 1 than any other paper iu Oregon, b ’11 Now is tlie Time to On the Evening of the 3» OF J U L Y ’74- C o m m it t e e * o f R e c e p t i o n * J. P. A tw o o d , L. O. t teen s , A. S icobd . F lo o r M a n a g e r s : D . H . J ackson , R. H . C abdw ell , T. C. ‘H y d e , E. S. M o C omas , W . W . W ebber . Suitable Music will be at the service of the guests. , A superb Supper will be served, that the hungry may dine and be happy All are cordially invited to attend. T ic k e t s , I n c l u d i n g S u p p e r , $ 5 OO. N O T IC E . 4 I,L PERSONS ARE HEREBY ¿JL forbidden to credit or harbor m y wile Matilda Parker on m y account, as I will not. be responsible for debts o f her con tracting, as she has left my bed and board without just cause or provocation. Baker City, June .SO, 1874. n8i.ll W ESLEY PA R K E R . Subscribe. You are certain to get your paper and map. zines, and need have no tears of eitherb them giving out or dying before the end “ the year. L ie BEDROCK DEMOCRAT now ha larger paying subscription list tlun any 0th two papers published in 1 EASTERN OREGON, and is constantly and rapidly increasing circulation, and is the best “ ll1 Advertising Medium East of tin Cascade Mountains. ltisti Live, Peoples’ Paper—It is owned by n Ring or Clique----- and works tor the ¿ J ests o f the People, the Democratic ham" and ot Eastern Oregon. ■' MILLINER! AND FANCY AT THE N E W STORE, First door above the Express Office, a d ie s F a n c y a n d Milliner L Goods in b tore, and Latest ¡styles rectii. eu by Express every Month, and lor sale at most reasonable Prices. Dress Making Done to Order, and at Short Notice by MRS. L. J. HUSTON. Baker City, April 18,1874.-n51m6 K E A R N E Y ’S FLU ID EXTRACT W l i a t w i l l i t d o i is the first inquiry the B sick make concerning a medicine. Suppose TA R R A N T ’S SELTZER APERIENT is the subject of the interrogatory, what then? Simply this reply: It will lelieve and cure headache, nausea, flatulence, nervous ness, costiveness, debility, biliousness and indigestion. Sold by druggists everywhere. U C H U ! The only known remedy for BRIGHT'S DISEASE, .And a positive remedy for GOUT, GRAVEL, ¡STRICTURES, DIABE- ¡“ heriff’s Sale. y v ir t u e o f an TE s, DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS DJJ e x e c u t io n B issued our. of the Circuit Court, o f the .Slate o f Oregon, for Grant County, and to me directed and delive ed, for a judgm ent rendered in said Court, on the Sixth day o f June. A. D. 1873, in favor o f W. V. R ine hart, and Frank H ackney, and against A. E. Starr, for the sum o f Six Hundred and Eighty Dollars and nine cents, Damages, togeth er w i t h -----------------------------D o l l a r s , T a x costs, and all accruing casts, I have levied on the following Property1 to-wit: Tlie undivided one third interest in that certain Water Ditch and Water Right, sit uated and lying in John Day Valley, Grant County, Oregon, commencing at a point on the north side o f John Day River, near the upper end o f Anderson’s Farm, and thence running in a westerly direction along the Foot Hills, on the north side o f John Day River to Dixie Creek, and known as the Starr, Webster & Co.’s Water Ditch and Water Right, together with the ap purtenances thereto belonging. N o tic e is hereby given, that on the Thirtieth day of July, A. D. 1874, at 2 o ’clock, P. M., I will sell all the right, title and interest of said A. E. Starr in and to the above described prop erty, at the Court House Door, in Canyon City, Grant, County, Oregon, at Public Auction, for cash in hand, to the highest and best bidder, to satisfy said execution and all costs. W it. P. GRAY , Sheriff n8nl2 o f Grant County, Oregon. Dissolution Notice. BIL1TY, DROPSY, Non-retention or Inconvenience o f Uniat, Irritation, Inhumation or Ulceration of the BLADDER and KIDNEYS, SPERMATORRHOEA, Leucorrlicea or Whites, Disease of the Pro trate Giaud, Stone in me Bladder, Colculus Gravel or iincadust Deposites and' Mucus or Milky Discharges; K E A R N E Y ’S Extract Buchu Permanently Cures all Diseases of the Bladder, and Dropsical Swellings, Existing in Men, Women and thiidren, NO MATTER WHAT THE A G E ! I Prof. Steele says: “ One bottle of Kearney's I Fluid Extract Jbuchu is worth more than all | otner Buchus combined.” Price, One Dollar per Bottle, or Six Bottles for Five Dollars. D ep o t, 104 D u a n e S t., N ew York. A Physician iu attendance to answer cor respondence and give advice gratis. Send stamp for Pamphlets, free. C ran e A rraiHIS IS T O G IV E N O T IC E T H A T JL the Partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned, is this day dis solved by mutual consent. Mormon Basin, Baker county, Oregon, June loth, 1874. 6 ’ ALFRED GREEN. _ JOSEPH COPELAND. JOSEPH COPELAND will con.inue to cairy on the business, and will collect all ..ebts due said Firm, and pay all debts con tracted by them. n7n!0 Kidneys B r ig h a m , Wholesale Agents, San Francisco, Cab To The Remits and Debilitate! OF BOTH SEXES. No Charge for Advice and Consultation. D e . J. B. D yott , graduate of Jefferson K. It. & Medical College, Phiiauelphia, author of C . RAIG, J several valuable works, can be consul ted on PATENTEES, MANUFACTURERS, A N D W H O L E S A L E D E A L E B S IN all diseases of tue Sexual or Urinary Organs, (which he has made an especial study) eitheer in male or female, uo matter from what cause originating or how long standing. A practice ot 30 years enables him to treat dis eases with success. Cures guaranteed— Charges reasonable. Those at a distance can forward letter describing symptoms and en closing stamp to prepay postage. Send for the Guide to Health. Price, 10c. J. B. DYOi'T, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, 104 Duane St., N. Y. January 21, 1874-ly HYDRAULIC M IN M NOZZLES, > 2 4 0 M on tgom ery S treet, R o o m 9» Between Pine and Bush. S A N F R A N C IS C O . Mines carefully examined, and accurate written reports furnished. R. R. & J. CRAIG. San Francisco, April 14, 1874.n49n9 s3 ce i J O 0 a > Q j T o Sheep Raisers!! Importefl Cotswoli ieeTfor Sale, NE O V HUNDRED AND F IF T E E N Head Thorough bred Cotswold Sheep, lately Imported irom the best herds in Can ada. The above Sheep are Full Blooded and as fine as any on the Coast. There are Forty Bucks in the lot. The -whole will be sold in lots to suit pur chasers, and at REASONABLE PRICES. For particulars, enquire of R EID & FLETCHER, nSitf Baker City, O jn, W O m S.S S » œ < -i M ?§ K N otice .—Hereafter no certificate of publication for Legal Notices will be issued from this office until the Printer’s Fee is paid.