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TO THE TRAITOR QUITEAU.
BT VIRGINIA VIOLET.
What name it it, whoee ntterance brings
Thoughts to the mind of vilest things,
That creep upon this earth below ?
It is the cursed name, Guiteau.
What wretch is it, whose deadly blow
Brought Columbia's brave leader low;
And filled the land with deepest woe?
The rascal's name is Charles Guiteau.
Who filled a mother's heart with grief
For her dear boy her baby chief ?
Her dearest treasure here below,
Snatched from her arms by Charles Guiteaul
And who was such a precious fool,
As to become the Stalwart's tool?
In "hopes that Arthur might bestow
A sinecure on Charles Guiteau."
Those eighty days of poignant pain,
Will leave on Justice's robes a Btain;
Unless to vengeance she forego
That vile miscreant, Charles Guiteau 1
A nation's curses on the knave, (
Who "stole the 'ight that Heaven gave."
If people reap whate'er they sow,
Ohl what a. harvest waits Guiteau)
May all the tears he caused to fall,
Be changed to serpents great and Bmall;
And "when he'gains his horhebelow,
Ohl may they lash and sting Guiteau!
Wheat and the Outlook No. 4.
Forest Grove; Or., Oct. 4 1881.
Editor'Willametto' Farmer:
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The wheat growers of this coast, and more
especially of California, have become, for once
thoroughly, aroused at tlie gigautie swindling
goinc cm atheir- expense. It is evident that
farmen must take some new departure, as
this era of plenty of money renders it easy for
capitalists to unite and form an amount of
dollars almost without limit, and with the
power that that gives, with the additional
aid of continental and international tele
graphy they are enabled to manipulate the
markets of the world in a way and before
which the steady going farmer can but stand
dumb-founded and abashed.
Now what is to be done ? To meet them
on their own ground is out of the question,
and were they headed at one point they would
escape to another. For behind money is al
ways to be found brains. Brains that are
fertile in all manner of devices and schemes
to circumvent their plans in energy, push,
daring, go ahead and take the fort, and then
tnrn around and snap their fingers and ask,
" What are you going to do about it ?"
This is really what's the matter capital.
And not simply the question of mere tonnage.
Look at the game that has been going on in
New York and Chicago for the past twenty
years. In New York it has been the forma
tion of "Corners" of which the bulls and the
bears have been the prime factors. In Chica
go it has been in the elevator vilUiny and in
the grading sw indling and formation of pofds.
And now as coon as the amount of wheat pro-1
duced on this coast is sufficient for their uses
they are here, or those of the same ilk, to see
what can be done, and lay hold of the ton
nage as the most feasible thing that now
offers for their purposes. Drive them from
this and before you know it they will fleece
you in somo other direction. It seem doubt
ful if this robbery can be arrested by entering
Into the tonnage remedy. The farmer can
not "go down to sea in ships." Neither does
it seem practicable for hjm to graft the carry
ng trade on to the agricultural tree. There
no similarity or consanguinity in the two
lines of trade or business. It is quite enough
for the farmer to raise his crops and fit his
products for the market without being com
pelled to put them upon his shoulders and
bear them there. The resort to tonnage is
not for the legitimate profits that might ac
crue therefrom, but rather to extricate the
wheat grower from an unbearable robbtry
now goinii on to swindle him on this coast,
and only for that purpose could the, thought
be reasonably entertained. If it can be man
aged to afford any relief let it be carried out
by all means. But the question of the carry
ing trade seems to great too undertake lr
permanent relief. To make it a permanent
success h ould not its demands unfold uutil
the home and foreign markets Mere under its
control ? So far as relates to this coast would
it not be iudispensible to control tbem beiej
Else what would hinder a continuance of this
same evil ? The small farmer must, of neces
sity, sell as so n as he can get Ins wheat to
the first man that will buy, to meet his neces
sities. Thu class might produce a majority
of all the wheat raised and if none else o uld
lu they would hare to sell to the sharks,
for when a farmer's wheat ij ready for mar
ket he has earned bis crop a year .(ready,
aud i. he not tb ery man that should Iks
protected from tho mouey cormorants ? But
thd ditliculties th.ckeu as ou anal) ze the sub
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ject and I cannot, now, and here, stop to no
tice them. What this coast needs is some
permanent remedy so far as it may be possible
to obtain, that will reach all classes ot pro
ducers and be a permanent and standing de
fence against such high handed robbery and
swindling as is now going on. It is evident
that the surplus wheat produced on this coast
will in the near future reach one hundred mil
lions of bushels of wheat alone, and go on
from that, increasing indefinitely. Under
these exigencies should wo not look beyond
present demands and needs to some remedy
adequate not only for the present but also for
the future, to which the present whispers
point with ominous significancy and emphasis?
Make a homo market for the farmer if possi
ble. If not then bring it as near as may be.
Were Portland as near London as is New
York, a few farmers could unite and buy a
ship and put their wheat on board and send
it to London and sell the wheat and have the
ship return by New Years day ready for
another load. A ship canal across the
Isthmus of Darien would enable us to bid de
fiance to any such game as is now going on in
the grain trade. Is it wite to longer ignore
its benefits ? W, L. Curtis.
Store Wheat In Tour Own Granaries.
Siiedd, Oct. 10, 1881.
Editor Willamette Farmer:
I see by the Faruek that wheat growers in
ditTeaent parts of the State are anxious to hold
meetings to sco if they can't hold their wheat
and forco speculators to pay them what their
wheat is worth. I can say to Mr. Darnell,
and all the rest of the farmers that seem so
anxious to hold their wheat, that as long as
th,eyput.tu9wh.eat inwarhousjsjid jnilU.
tbey can not hold. Whenever- a shipper ill
Portland wants wheat all he has to do is to
call on warehousemen and say I want so much
wheat to load a vessel, and he gets the wheat
whether it is bought or not. Now let the
farmers call on warehousemen and notify them
that if they ship any more wheat before it is
bought, that we miebt be forced to do as we
used to do in California, when we caught
thieves robbing our sluice boxes, leave them
dangling at the end of a rope. And putting
our wheat in the mills is no better; the millers
grind tho wheat as soon as it is in the mill
and ship the flour to Europe, get the money
and pay you for your wheat; and what they
get one dollar and quarter for they, often
having the use of the money for a whole year,
and pay Beventy-five cents. Now I think it
w nld be) more honorable to rob a railroad
train or Wells. Fargo than to rob tho farmers
by taking their wheat before it is bought.
No wonder the farmers hate Portland; we
will give one-fourth of our farms to have tho
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ished to that placo so we can avoid Portland.
Now, farmers, look well to the warehouses
and seo that no more grain is shipped before
it is sold, and all will bo well ; and next year
put your wheat in your own barns and I will
insure you one dollar a bushel.
A '49er.
Mohawk Fair.
The Mohawk Farmer's Club will hold their
second annual fair at the Stafford school house
in Mohawk, on Saturday, Ootober loth. Ex
hibits received the evening before and until
10 o'clock Saturday morning. If weather
permits we will have a large attendance and
a good time. Everything is free, and our
premiums are blue and red ribbons only. It
if is really and simply an exhibition of pro
ducts not for gain, but as a sort of compar
ison, and fot social commingling of ourselves
and neighbors, and to encourage a good na
tnred rivalry in raising good vegetables,
grains, fruits, stock, etc. As also to advance
and enlighten our members by an exchange of
views and opinions. No whiskey, gaming or
hoodlumism permitted. J. S. Ciidrciull.
GENERAL NOTES.
The first load of flax seed was shipped from
Cheney on the 30th of September, and con
signed to a firm in Portland.
Paloute Gazette: W. J. Thompson, on his
ranch near town, raited, on six rods of land,
10 bushels of onions, which brought about one
dollar and twenty cents per bushel.
Eugeno Guard: Mr. Charles McFarland, of
Dexter, raited the present season from a patch
of ground 24x00 feet, 20 bushels of onions,
some of them weighing twenty-six ounces.
Any one who can beat that will please step to
the front.
Salem Statttman: Capt. D. B. Srith, who
formerly resided near Mthama, kill id seven
teen bears from the 1st to the 16tl i Septem
ber in the mountains, near Kestuuka By,
This is the largest btar story wo Lave beard
for somo time. Who on beat it ?
Eugene Guard: Bujers wero paying 81
cuts er bushel f r wheit Friday. This gites
Ti cents clear of sacks acd warehouse charges.
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PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER
A great deal is being sold, but should it ad
vance so that 75 cents clear could be obtained
the bulk of the wheat in this vicinity would
be closed out.
The narrow guape division of tho O. R. &
N. Co. has completed its road 0 Fullquartz
Landing, to which point daily trsdns are be
in? run from Airlie, in Polk county. At
Fullquartz Landing connection is made with
boats to Portland and intermediate points.
Dayton (W. T.) Newt: The last census re
port gave the population of Dayton at 990.
We see these figures extensively quoted
throughout the Territory. Wo h:ve no doubt
that the census as taken was correct. But
since that time the town has increased one
third in population, which is now over 1,200.
Dayton (W. T.) Chronicle: T. R. -Rosier
has sold the right to make and sell bis patent
fanning mill in Washington Territory to W.
J. Dyer, of the firm of Dyer, Bowles & Co., ot
Walla Walla, for the sum of $1,500. Mr.
Dyer is expecting soon to commence the man
ufacture of this premium mill at Dayton, quite
extensively.
State Journal: Two Kansas farmers who
arrived here a short time since on a trip of in
spection with a view of making this their fu
ture home, are exceedingly well pleased with
the country, climate, etc. They will return to
Kansas at once, and as soon as they can dis
pose of their property there, in company with
three other families, will start for Lane county.
Salem Statestnan The many friends of
Lieut. Fred. Schwatka, the talented Arctic
explorer, will be pleased to learn that he will
remain in Oregon. He yesterday received nX;
dispatch from headquart
that Is, hibd. !,..
Brigadier General
Department of the Columbia, with headquar
ters at Vancouver.
Klickitat Sentinel: The grain is all gather
ed, and tho farmers are nearly through with
their threshing. The average yield of wheat
has been about 22 bushels to the acre. A
number are plowing and sowing their Winter
wheat. A. J. Pitman, ot High Prairie, in
forms us that on the 9th of last May ho sowed
one acre of bunch grass land, from which he
harvested 39 bushels of wheat.
Dayton (W. T.) Chronicle: About 4,000
tons of wheat and flour are await'ng shipment
at this point. Last Thursday 118 tons of
wheat and hides were shipped from Dayton.
The piles of grain at the warehouses and plat
forms are simply astonishing to the most san
guine believers in our immense resources.
Take a strnle to the depot and behold the sil
ver lining to the hard times cloud.
Baker City Jlevielle: The mountains envi
roning Baker City and Powder River Valley
are covered with a light coat of snow. Tho
grass ou the hills and in the valley has turned
gray; many of the leaves on the trees have bo
come "sere and yellow" and are dropping ofl';
the atmosphere is cool, bracing and invigorat
ing and sometimes dream-like all infallible
signs that Autumn is here and that Winter,
from his home in the icy regions of the North
Pole, is fast approaching.
Pataha Spirit; Mrs. N. C. Williams, of Pa
taha Prairie, has placed on our table some
very line specimens of different fruits, raised
in their orchard this year. The samples are:
Red Astrican and Red June (seedling), ap
ples, apricots, Yellow and Green Gages and
two varieties of plums. All are of excellent
flavor, and good sizo and prove that this cli
mate is well adapted to fruit culture. Mr.
W. deserves credit for his enterprise in setting
out au extensive an orchard as he has and be
ing the first to demonstrate the fact that this
is a fruit growing country.
Union County llecord: Wo have of'en read
and heard of big potatoes, and have always
considered such stories a "littlo bit fishy;"
but now we are convinced that potatoes grow
to an enormous sizo and that Grande Hondo
Valley is the place for tbem to grow. While
in Union tho other day we were shown a spud
of the peerless variety grown by J, E. Davis,
which measured 27 inches in circumference
and weighed 4J pounds. We were told by
this gentlemin that he has a large crop of
them weighing all the way from 3 to 4 pounds,
and that each hill produces at least half a
bushel. Who can beat them?
The Dalles Titnet: There can be no real
anttgonism between the commercial interests
of the Willamette valley and Eastern Oregon
on the locks question. The opening of this
impediment to navigatiou would givo us
cheaper transit to market at tho metropolis,
while, in a few years, without the reuiovd of
this obstruction, we may have direct means "t
transportation to soma Eastern city, Etery
cent which is spent to improve rtre romniui.
cation is so much given to build up a great
mart of trade in Oregon for Eastern Washing
ton, as well as Eastern Oregon produce, Aud,
, r' ' !"- . JHTeSmtW. or'ection of a large'gnst mill as soon
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as a matter of course, if our wheat and wool
are shipped to Portland, our merchants will
naturally draw their supplies from the same
place. There should be harmony between all
sections of Oregon on this point.
Cove Cor. Union Co. llecord: Threshing is
about done with this year and the farmers are
truly happy, for the yield has been beyond
their expectations. Timothy seed has been
the principle crop in the Cove, tho amount
raised in this neighborhood this season being
about 85,000 pounds. The average price paid
is 7 cts. per pound. Most of tho crop is being
sent to the Boise Basin. S. G. French has
finished drying his immense crop ot plums,
which is being freighted off to the vanous
mining camps of Oregon and Idaho. The
cheese factory has shut down for the season,
with tome 25,000 lbs of choice cheese a reward
for their summer's work.
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Pendleton Tribune: Wo rode out on tho
reservation on Sunday last and dropped in at
Chiof Wenap-snoot's house, where religious
service was being held. We were surprised
tosce the number of worshippers that attend
these meetings. There was no preacher pres
ent, the meeting seeming more like a class-
meeting women as well as the men taking
part in the speaking. Old and young joined
in singing old familiar Methodist tunes, the
words being in their own tongue. On Sunday,
the 17th. inst., a revival meeting w ill be start
ed when the Rev. Mr. Daflcnbaugb, from
Lapwai, who speaks the Nez Perco language,
will preach to them.
Dayton (V. T.) Newt: Messrs. Sargent,
Morris and Kinney have purchased grounds at
as plans and specifications are received from
below. W. S. Kinney, who is an old and ex
perienced mill man, and a son of Mr. Kinney,
who was so successful in that business at Ure
gon City, and at Salem, Oregon, has gone bo
low to procure a mill wright, and to have tho
plans drawn, as well as to buy the necessary
machinery. Four run of stones will bo put in,
and an extra chop stone. This enterprise will
add very materially to tho wealth of our
growing city. Messrs. Sargent and Morris aro
well known to the pcoplo of this county and
have the confidence of all. Their energy and
honesty coupled with tho skill of Mr. Kiunoy
insures success.
Port Orferd Poll: Threshing is in full
blast here ; the grain being gathered in lively,
and in very good shape, if nothing happens
this week to prevent a good run with Mr.
Bailey's thresher, by Saturday evening bar-
vestinor will bo over in this valley. The lato
Bowed grain is turning out splendidly,
The dairy business is proving a success
this season owing to tho great demand for
butter, which is worth 30 cents per pound in
San Francisco fresh roll commanding a still
liicher nrico. Wo need a railroad from
Frisco hero very much. Not only to ship
the butter whilo fresh, but to give us a mar-
ket for the thousands of acres of fine timber
which would amply pay for every mile of
road built along the Coast, tapping the
streams at tho mouth, and it would require
not a great deal of labor to bring tho timber
down hill and down stream to the road. Wo
are sanguine that the connecting link of Ore
gon and California will bo along this route,
as it will pay.
In reference to the effort of making to raise
funds among farmers to carry on the improve
ment of Yaquina harbor, tho Corvallis Gazette
says: The ovidenco to tho candid mind that
the Oregon Pacilio will be ready to carry
wheat from tho valley to the ocean at Yaquina
Bay in the near future i overwhelming. It
appears to bo as suro and certain as any other
of the more usual and ordinary business
undertakings of life. Tho contribution sug-
gested will insure a much earlier completion
of tho improvement of tho harbor than can
be done without it. If the people ot the val
ley generally contribute, it will also exhibit
to Congress the great need of an early comple
tion of the work, and will thus no doubt in
sure a much larger appropriation from the
next Congress than can bo obtained without
it. As we have often said before three or four
dollars given by each person of tho valley who
is directly interested in this improvement
ill insure money enough to keep the work in
progress until after tho meeting of next Con
gress.
Hopa.
Eugeno Qwirdi Mr. M. Wolf, of Ban
Francisco, was here buying hops this week.
Mr. l'rtslev Cheshire sold 20,000 pounds;
Walker Young, 12,000; Mr. Bonnett, 6.000;
itodncy 8sott, 3,000, The price piid was 15
c.-iiU per pouud (
Eugene (lutird; Hops aro pouring into tho
uaikct quits freely. Mr. Beruheim, aeut
er.. notifying h."-" "t'Z "jr. .T7,.
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for Koshland Bros., Portland, has bought over
100,000 pounds, paying therefor an average
of 15 cents per pound. Several car loads will
be sent below this morning.
Salem Statesman'. R, C. Geer, of Fruit
Farm, Marion county, Oregon, raised 9,350
pounds of English Golden Cluster hops on 31
acres of red land, with 000 hills to the acre,
and ono pole to the hill, which is 2,550 pounds
to the acre. If any one can beat that, let him
come to the front.
Eugeno Journal: Dr. Patterson, of Eugene
City, has gathered from a fourteen aero field
this season 20,000 pounds of hops. These at
15 cents a pound, the rate at which the Puy-
allup ciop is being sold, will givo him a gross
receipt of $3,900 as the product of his hop
farming on tho fourteen aero patch. In view
of theso figures it is a wonder tiat more wheat
fields up the valley aro not set to hop vines.
The entire area of the hop fields of tho Puy-
allup valley is about 700 acres, an incroaso of
150 acreB over last yenr's area. It requires
4,000 cedar stakes, 18 feet long, to each acre
of hops. All the hop houses, dry houses aud
baling houses are built on each principal farm.
Indians do most of tho hop picking. Men,
women and children pick hops. Each dili
gent picker earns about $1 50 per day. Tho
hop fields aro divided among about forty own
ers, though Messrs. Meeker, Yon Oglo &
Thompson aro the principal growers.
Our hop growers are enjoying a remarkably
productive season, and which will put a neat
sum of clear money into their pockets even
at llio present price, which is not unusually
high. ke Yokum, who has a yard of nine
acres on tho McKenzie, bos finished harvest
ing his crop and finds tho total weight of the
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forms us that 15. cents per pound has been
offered for the lot. If over $2,500 worth of
ready marketable produce can bo raised from
nine acres of bottom land, of which there are
thousands of acres in this country, tho river
bottoms will some day compiro favorably in
value for tilling purposes with the broad
prairies.
Yaquina Railroad.
Wo have been repeatedly asked of Into
what work was being dono on tho Yaquina
railroad, and theso parties aro always a littlo
surpiised at tho answer. We will, therefore,
s til to for the benefit of enquirers that there
are between eight and nino hundred men on
tho pay roll of tho company, all of whom will
bo paid in full for tho past month's services
to-day, and all of whom aro satisued with
their wages. In addition to this force, which
is all the company can conveniently uso in
grading otprcseut, there will be three hun
dred moro commence work at tho other end
of tho routo next week. Tho company also
have four sawmills moving and ono moro in
coarse of construction that will bo ready fur
work next week.
Tho above statement docs not includo tho
large forces now at work on tho tunnel aud
on tho bridges and trestle work which aro
separato and individual contract! and entirely
outsido of tho company's pay rolls, neitlier
does it includo tho contiacts for ties to bu
furnished, or four largo contracts for hewn
timbers now being gotten out in the timber
along thu line. The above Btatumcnt, which
is mado uuderstandingly, ought to tatiBfy tho
most skeptical that tho Oregon Pacific Rail
road means business, and that their road will
bo built as soon as men and money can accom
plish tho work CoriiMbi Gazette.
Our Army Representatives.
Of the West Point graduates from Orrgm,
Lieut. Fred Schwatka is the fourth in num
ber. A son of the lato Joseph Lauo was the
first, and he fought in tho rebel army, aud
now lives an oUcuru life in Oregon; the second
was young Adair, who left for Victoria on the
breaking out of tho rebellion and bought a
commission in thu English army. Ho is now
in tho lulling business in British Columbia.
The third was Lieut. M. Crawford, oldest son
of Capt. Medorum Crawfoid of Oregon. Ho
is at present Professor of Militar) T.iUica in
ono of tho eastern State Military Academies;
and the fourth and last i Ljv-ut. Schwatka,
Third Cavalry. Of tho commissioned repre
sentatives of Washington Territory in the
Regular Army, Lieut. W. 1. Sanborn, 25th
Infantry, is now on rjcruitmif detail at Cleve
land, his family Iwing in this city f r tho
presoiit. Lieut. Louis P. Ilrant, 1st Infantry,
tho only West Point graduate from thu Ter
ri'ory, is now statloued in Texas. Vanuruver
Indtixndent,
Wheat.
It is diffbult in the mescut day to realize
flu fact tint wheat was at ono timu unknown
i i America; yet prior to the discovery of thi
Ointment by Columbus tin to was in cere. 1
ii America apii'oachiiig in nature to the
I wheat plant. It was nut until 1530 that
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the wheat crop found its way into Mexico,
and then only by chance. A slave of Cortez
found a few grains of wheat in a parcel of rice
and then showed them to bis master, who
ordered them to be planted. The result
showed that wheat would thrive on Mexican
soil, and to day one of the finest wheat fields
in the world is near tho Mexican capital.
From Mexico the cereal found its way to
Peru. Marie D'Escobar wife of Don Diego
de Chuaves, carried a few grains to Lima,
which were planted, the entiro product being
used for seed for several successive crops.
At Quito, Ecuador, a monk of tho order of
St. Francis, by tho namo of Fray Judos Bixi,
introduced a new cereal, and it is said that
tho jar that contained tho seed is still pre
served by tho monks of Quito. Wheat was
introduced into the present limit of tho Uni
ted States contemporaneously with tho settle
ment of the country by tho English and
Dutch.
The Gorman Empire's Crops.
Under dato of Bremen, September 1, 1881,
Consul Grinnell reports olEoial statistics show
ing tho production of cereals in tho German
empiro from August 1, 1880, to August 1, '81.
Ho says he thinks tho figures aro of value,
showing as they do the growing ncod in Ger
many of articles we can best Bupply, and es
pecially as to corn; that, as Germans become
more familiar with its oxccllcuco na food for
man and animals, and its rclativo cheapness,
their domand will only be supplied by the
amount wo can spare The condition of crops
in Europo at the close of August, 1881, ac
cording to the reports reoeived at the Depart'
ment of State, from Consul Byr, oi Zuriok, '
was estimated as follows: Wheat crop in
Xiuaviin, uw uuui up,CA KUU luwur HWMrtM
average; in Afoldvia, Roumaniaand Peodalin,
Cherson aud Saratow, in Russia, Denmark,
Silesia, Saxony, Switzerland, tho Netherlands,
and Great Britain and Ireland, below averago;
in Hungary, Scrvia, Courland mid Estland in
Russia, Sweden, Norway, Mocklenbug, Prus
sia, Hanover, Rhcin provinces, Falz iu Bava
ria, Italy, France, and Danubo district, in
Wallachia, it ouly promises hall of last year's
crop; and crops in tho Wallachian district of
Roiimania, and in Bessarabia and Schlcswig
Holstciu is much below. There is a perfect
failure of wheat in PorJotova and Courlin,
and only 40 per cent, in Littio Wnllachia,
Middlo Russia gives promise of a wheat crop
much abovo tho average In most of tho
above named provinces rye and barley will bo
slightly abovo average.
Another Railroad.
A party of viewers and survoyors passed
through tho valley this wook fn the interest
of the recently projected railway lino from
Wadsworth on the Central Pacific to Tho
Dalles ou tho Columbia. This lino is to bo a
feeder for tho Central Pacific, and thu manner
in which this powerful company is going
about the work convinces us that it is deter
mined to sccuro a portion of the patronage
for which tho Northern Pacific has been so
assiduously working. A great and sonstantly
growing prio it to bo won, aud thu contest
for it is growing warm and iutoiustiiig. Of
course thcio will bono idle tarrying by thu
wayside. Speed tho day when thu prize shall
bo wonl State Line Herald.
Investment of tho Oarfleld Fund.
Tho United States Trust Company holds
$J'J5,000 in U. S. four per cent bonds, aud
thu uninvested balance in cash as trustee
for thu gift of tho American pcoplo. Not a
cent has been taken 'from the fund for ex
pense incurred iu raising it, Ou the first of
this mouth a check for quirtcrly interest ou
U. S. bonds held in trust was sent to Mrs,
Gal field by tho United States Trust Company.
A check for nearly $1,0C0 has also been sent
to the latu president's mother, covering tho
gifts made up especially for her benefit.
Yaquina Ilarbor and Railroad.
On Saturday, October 8th, Linn County
II itiness Council met at thu Grange hall,
Tangent, and tho following preamble mid reso
lution" was unanimously passed:
Wiikiikas, Wo believo tho pooplo of tho
Willamettu valley aru a unit in favor of thu
openii g of tie harbor of Yaquina bay, and
tnu uuiuiiiig oi inu railroad iioin mat naruor
East; therefore,
Jlcsolvetl, That wo stand ready at all times
to givu said enterprise our cordial support.
II, C. Powell, Secretary.
Damaged Ctois.
Wo are informed that tho lite raius did
considerable damage to thu wheat and flax
not ct cared for in Lano ci. uty. Thu har
vest was through with nearly every placo ex
cept iu the northern part, Hear Junction,
wberu theru was grain still standing. Soma
flax has been entirely ruined. The hops yet
unpicked liavo also suffered from tho stoimy
v vathcr.
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