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About Bedrock democrat. (Baker City, Baker County, Or.) 1870-188? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1873)
i g u it a r r a !. B A K E R C IT Y . It has been tome time since we have had anything to say about the j . M. S H E P H E R D , E d it o r . M future prospects of Baker City; and M * we think that a short article at this B A K E R C I T Y , A C G . G, 187 3 . P a ir a r time will not come amiss. We write i New C THE BEDROCK DEM OCRAT of things as we know them (o be and B n tlie L a r g e it C ir c u la tio n o f a n y not from hearsay or supposition. Baker City is situated at the south P a p e r P u b lis h e d in E a ste r n O re g o n . east, or upper end of Powder River .mi* -Valley, and is the farthest point east OFFICIAL PAPER the or southeast that a town can be built For the Counties o f c n in Oregon. It is fifty miles from of I B a k e r a n d G r a n t . this point to Snake River—the boun ar ol dary line between this State and the sa1 C orrespondence from all portions of | Territorv of Idaho. Powder River aij\ Eastern Oregon is solicited for the D emocrat . | Valley is a large and beautiful body id All communications, to receive attention, I • * * of agricultural and growing land, XU must be accompanied by a responsible name. Personal communications will bo charged and is susceptible of being densely as special advertisements. populated, and the whole of the val ley is necessarily tributary to Baker M E M B E R ÖP CONGRESS. City, as it is the most and only eligi To day the delegates from the dif ble locality where a town or city can th ferent precincts of the county meet be built. The country for sixty or at this city to choose delegates to the seventy miles around is interspersed iii )I); State Convention, to nominate a can with beautiful valleys which are all didate for Congress. We are satis valuable as agricultural lands, and fied delegates will be chosen who the hills and mountains constitute will faithfully represent the wishes the best grazing lands in Oregon or ho of the convention in the advocacy of on the Pacific Coast. The whole of the country is well ed / the claims of an Eastern Oregon man pr< watered, and the mountains abound as the candidate for Congress; this he > is right and proper, and in accord with an abundance of the finest tim in' ance with the wishes of the whole ber. The mines are both placer and ai ni people of this section of the State. quartz, and are rich; the placer min er But while our preferences may be in es are still being worked with profit 0 favor of a man from this section, his to the miners—but work upon h 1 defeat in convention will not cause the quartz ledges has only just been ti anyjfalling off in the Democratic vote commenced. The quartz ledges, as .t of Eastern Oregon. The Democrats far as they have been developed,— > A of Baker, Grant, “Union, Umatilla have proved themselves to be as rich et and Wasco counties are Democrats and inexhaustable as any on the At 18 . from principle and not for the spoils, Coast—and are as easily worked— » i '' and are satisfied that the Democratic our great need is capital to properly ar State Convention will do, as it in work them. s '1 , The climate of this section of Ore its judgment, that which may seem >U gon is healthy and invigorating—it best, and if we do not get our man, l, lo we will adopt whoever is nominated, ■makes no difference how hot and sul el and work for his success as faithfully try the day may be, the evenings, el as though Judge McArthur or Hon. nights and mornings arebracingand is ai J. H. Slater had received the nomina invigorating. We first came to Pow der River Valley in the summer of ai tion. lO Eastern Oregon has interests at 1862, and do not remember to have lis stake that make our people anxious experienced but a few nights that a lí • ni that the Congressman should reside person did not covet the friendly aid Fi east of the Cascades, as then they of at least one pair of blankets to re feel satisfied ho would speak and make them sleep comfortable. Ba nò work for our pet measures from ac ker City is the entrepot of Eastern TI ? tual experience, and might thereby Oregon, and, by nature, is the depot di be able to accomplish more towards from which supplies for all this sec b the advancement of the interests of tion of country must be drawn. It XI this portion of the State than a man is situated on the west bank of Pow j could who only understands our ac der River, about seven miles from X X tual necessities from hearsay. The where the River breaks from its t Democrats of Eastern Oregon make mountain fastness. From all parts war upon no good Democrat, and of our city snow is to be seen the will give any one who is nominated whole year round, and from this the same majority that would be giv cause the water coursing in plenti ful and varied directions through en to their favorite candidate. We are permitted to make an ex eur Valley is always pure, cool and tract from a letter from Hon. J. W. healthy, and filled xvith the finest of Nesmith, from which it will be seen fish, and as you approach the moun that he is only anxious for the success tains the trout fishing becomes ex and prosperity of Democratic princi cellent. Baker City contains from 1000 to ples and party, and that he will do all in his power for the success of 1200 inhabitants. The town site is the nominee of the Democratic State susceptioie of being thoroughly irri Convention. The letter is as follows: gated, and can be treed and beauti fied so as to make it a perfect bower D ix ie , P olk Co. O gn ., July 25, 1873. of beautiinl shade trees, and the M y D e a r S i r :— Your favor of the 18th inst., reached me last night. In Garden City of Eastern Oregon. relation to the matter of running for Congress, I have no anxiety upon tho subject. Friends have asked me if I would permit the use of my name by the Convention. I have replied that if the party thought it best to give mo the nomination I would accept, and do the best in my power to carry the State, but in the event that the Convention saxv proper to confer that honor upon some other Democrat, I should have no complaints to make, and would do all in my power to so- cure his election. I have no war to make upon any aspirant for the posi tion, and shall be quite as well satis fied if some other man receives the nomination as though it was confer red upon myself. The times are pro pitious for the success of the Dem ocracy in this State; we shall require harmony apd union among ourselves to defeat the common enemy, and I hope that all our friends will bend their energies in that direction rath er than weaken our strength by stir ring up animosities among ourselves. While I am not .insensible or in different to the kindness of Demo cratic xriends who have expressed a preference for myself, I am quite in different as.to the result of the action of the Convention so far as it may affect my peronal promotion or in terest. * * * Very truly yours, J. W. NESMITH. The resources of the Chicago Uni versity are between §600,000 to §700 000, chiefly in real estate, donated by Stephen A. Douglas, its founder. The New Hampshire State Prison yielded a net profit of $20,000 last yeag. W a s h i n g t o n ’ , July 21st, A N a t io n a l N eed. 1873. If there is any oue tiling needed | now more than another by the peo ple of the United States it is a news- ' paper at the National Capital that will keep them fully informed on the administration of their affairs by the principal officers of the several de partments of the public service.— There is a good deal of prating all over the country about the power of the press, the pen being mightier than the sword, Ac., &c., but it can* not be that many of those who talk in that way are in earnest, or tlit-y would not allow the seat of govern ment to be xvithout such a paper as I have just described. When the in tegrity of the Union xvas threatened by the sword, the might of that wea pon was recognized,the danger from it xvas at once comprehended, and millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of men were hurried to Washington to avert the decaded ca lamity; but now, when the encroach ments by the administration upon the rights of the States and the lib erties of the people ai-e steadily sub verting the fundamental principles of self government, when men are appointed to important offices, and public affairs are administered, xvith pi’imal reference to securing a life lease of the presidency to the pres ent incumbent; when xvealthy corpo rations, dishonest officers in the ex ecutive departments and a corrupt majority in the federal legislature systematically and successfully com bine to oppress the people by over taxation, and unscrupulously trans fer the proceeds to their own pock ets—now, xvhen only traitors to Am ericanism, who must also be zealous third term men, can secure the ear and influence of the executive, there there is not a single paper at the capital to give to the people of the United States a faithful daily record of the official deeds and misdeeds of their agents. The three daily papers here are simply mouth pieces of Grant and his followers, and do not evén endeavor to ascertain the truth on any matter which involves the ability or imputation of the president or any public officer with whom he is knoxvn to have close personal rela tions, but only what statements said officials chose to bave put forth. I would not be understood to hold the capacity and energy of the editors of these sheets at a low estimate. Ma ny of them xvould be considered val* uable acquisitions by the best nexvs- papers in the country, but they baxre little or no opportunity here to show what they can do, because the proprietors have chosen to pursue a course which places the very exis tence of their papers from day to day at the mercy of the administration. This is not the case with the Star,— which could live comfortably with out government patronage,but whose proprietors cannot resist the tempta tion to enrich themselves by intell ectual prostitution. Neither the Chronicle nor the Republican, how G r e a t F ire in P o r tla n d . ever, could pay expenses for a single week, deprived of official advertise By telegraph on Monday morning ments. It is a matter of astonish we received the news of the total de ment to me, sometimes how. with all struction, by fire, of twenty one these drawbacks, the staffs of these blocks in the city of Portland, on papers contrix’e to make them so the morning of the 2nd of August.— readable. It is. indeed, a misfort The fire extended on First, Second une to the country that they are so and Third Streets, from Jefferson to interesting, for, besides their local Yamhill, including twenty one circulation, they go, every day, lit blocks, xvithout leaving one bouse erally crammed xvith plausible false standing. The loss is estimated at hoods, to the four quarters of tho §1,500,000. Two thousand five hun Union, to thousands of exchanges dred people are left without a roof and subscribers, and after having over their heads. The St. Charles been read by government clerks ire Hotel on Jefferson Street was consid mailed home by them to their re erably damaged by fire, but the buil spective States by hundreds. I re ding was saved. The fire commenc ally do not see how any intelligent ed at 2 o’clock in the morning and opponent of the administration, who was not entirely under control and really believes in the might of the subdued until six o’clock in the af pen and the power of the press, can ternoon. This is the second large fail to see that the best interests of fire in Portland within the past nine the country require that there should months, and is a heavy drawback to be a “ square" paper established the prospects of that city. This lat here to ferret out and expose cor ter fire was not in the main business ruption, and to counteract the bane portion of the city, or the loss in ful influence of Grant’s mendacious property would have been a great sheets, and that the sooner such a pa deal larger than it is. per is started the better. The third T he D ome of the C apitol . —The term men are working now, and so most ambitious structure in America sLould we be. It won’t do for us to is the dome of the Capitol at Wash commence raising troops after they ington. It is a hollow sphere of iron shall have a trained and well equip of eight million, pounds weight, and ped army in the field. is one hundred and eight feet higher T lie P a tr o n * o f H u s b a n d r y — R e m o v a l than the Washington Monument in o f its H e a d q u a r te r s to W a s h i n g t o n . The busings of the National Baltimore. Sixty eight feet higher Grange has assumed such vast pro than Bunker Hill Monument, and twenty three feet higher than the portions that it can no longer be con Trinity Church steeple at New Yrork. veniently transacted at the residence in Georgetown, of Mr. O. H. Kelly, California claims an Indian popu the Secretary; and Past Master Wm. lation of 20,000, of whom about one Saunders, Chairman of the Execu h*lf know bow to play “ seren up." tive Committee, bas, therefore, leas ed a large building on Louisiana av enue, in Washington, which will be the future headquarters of the order. Dispensations for new granges are being received at the rate of fioin twenty to seventy five per day. About fifty packages, containing dis pensations, manuals, 4c., are for warded by express, daily, and this does not include hundreds of comm unications sent out in the mails. Since the 1st instant about 350 sub ordinate granges have been organiz ed, making the total number of gran ges in operation, up to date, over 4,700, with an aggregate member ship of about 350,000. Ihe order seems to be growing most rapidly in the State of Iowa, which noxv has 1,750 granges, against 1,690 two weeks since, and iu Missouri, Indi ana. Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin. In response to re quests from different States, sexeral additional general deputies have re cently been sent out by the Nation al Grange to organize subordinate granges. There are at present State granges in Arkansas, California, I ll inois, Georgia. Indiana, Iowa, Kan sas, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississip pi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Caro lina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennes see, Vermont and Wisconsin. JAS. W. VIRTUE, ity of writing letters, perhaps, to the dear ones at home. Their destina b \ k ER CITT, OREGON, tion is Forts Walla Walla and Ste vens. On yesterday four companies broker and assay of Cavalry passed through toxvn en- dealer route for Fort Walla Walla. I see yon have had a meeting of I x i G r O ld . the Democratic Committee of Baker —AND— Co. I t is time for us to do some thing. Slater for ConSr^ !RRY> ER GOLD AND SILVER B. —ALSO— Some Utah papers assert, as a rea son why Salt Lake city does not im prove in size and population, that the Mormons who originally lieid the real estate, and still hold a grea Office— First door north Odd Fellow's Bs ■ jn49v2tfj ter portion of it, refuse to dispose of >•————— ———— — —— lots at any price to persons not be lievers in the Mormon faith. A sea serpent has appeared in Lake The 8team Washer, or Ontario, near the month of the Twen ty Mile Creek. The fishermen in W o m a n ’ s F rien d . that neighborhood are mnch exercis ed about. They describe it as about O t e a m lia s lo n g b e e n known S|.. ^ most powerful agent in renioviu» * fiftv feet long, with a head like a grease and stams from clothing and cleacL dog. Whatever the monster may be, m g them white. Paper maker, have furm, ’ ny years used steam in cleaning aud bleach there seems to be no doubt about its ing them rags, and they succeed in n ^ .1' visit, as several responsible persons bv its agency, the filthiest pickings from - gutter perfectly pure and white, {jut j? vouch for it. invention of the “* Eighteen Norwegians, belonging to the German Arctic Navigation although often attempted, no method W Company’s service, who were Jeff on been discovered of applying steam diJj to the clotliihg, whien could be ustc one of the Spitzbergen group of is profitable manner for domestic H as th e n e w O r d e r a p o lItlc a l F e a tu r e i lands. were found dead by the party The W oman’s Friend xvashes without kW It will do the washing of au ordinary in thirty minutes to an hour. The The Patrons of Husbandry is not xvhicli xvent to their relief. Washer is superior to all other device's? a political organization, in the pop the following reasons: 1st. It does its own work, therebvsr-. ular acceptation of those xx'ords. a large portion of the time usually'.!:.: The members of the order are not a family. ' .... 2d. It uses much less soap than is rerv professional office seekers, but be by any other method. long, for the most part, to that class *3d. It requires no attention whin* of our population who have labored r n h e F a l l T e r m o f tlie B a k e s C ity xvhile the piocess ot cleaning ¡8going• A lady can do her washing while sheik 1 Academy xvill begin on the 1st day of ing her breakfast aud doing up tho breakiw hard all their lives, alike during the September, 1873, under the supervision of dishes. long days of July and August, on the 4th. Clothing wears double the time, « 1 . shadeless prairie, under a burning S. P. BARRETT, A. M., ed in this Washer, tiiat it will washed hi machine, or by hand labor, or a wash hoik. sun, and in the cutting winds and re P r in c ip a l; a s s is te ! by 5th. Lace curtains, and all fine fabrics, in lentless snow storms of the blood M rs .' B arrett , as Preceptress. washed in a superior manner. For flamm this W asher is most desirable, as it will not freezing northern mid winter, not The Directors feel xvarranted in saying that full them as machine or hand-rubbing do« our School xvill fully maintain its present only for themselves and their fami All fabrics, from the finest lace to a bed bln high reputation under its present manage lies, but to support in idleness and ment, and every effort will be made to ren ket, ean be washed perfectly, and with ease, without the rubbing-board.* dissipation at Long Branch, Saratogo der full satisfaction to our patrons. It is truly a labor & Clothe! and a thousand other places, and on T e r m s * : Saving Invention. European tours, the wives and fam Primary Department, per Quarter, $10 00 For further particulars address, ilies of credit mobilier swindlers,— Preparatory and Academic, “ 15 0U M ANNING A MITCHELL, 3 50 salary grabbers, middlemen, profes Latin. Extra, n l2 tf Baker City, Oregon. French, Extra, 6 00 sional politicians and other drones Other Higher Branches in droportiou. S ta te m e n t and sharpers xvhose labors do not add Tuition Invariably in AD VA N CE . O f t k e F in a n c ia l Condition o f Baker A. H . B R O W N , President. an iota to either the material or intel C ounty, O regon , for the Year 1872, W m . F. M c C rary , Sec’y. n l3 tf lectual wealth of the nation, but who Com m encing July W i Y. I>, 1872, a n il e n d in g July l*t, 1S73, fatten on the labor of tho producer. 2 5 , 0 0 0 ! ! Amount of property assessed lot No, the order is not a political one. the year 1872,..............^5,271 oo But if legislatures, State or Federal, A m ’t of County tax levied 18T2, 13,905 42 Ain’ t of Scfiool tax levied 1872.. 1,390 54 shall enact or fail to x’epeal laws un A m ’t of Con tigen t tax levied 1871 1,390 54 And $5,000 In Am ’t o f State tax levied 1 8 7 2 .... \YU fil just to the farmei-s, and shall side Amount of tax collected fromY® \t., xvith their oppressors, and if un 187Z, to July 1st, 1873, on above u&mmw County tax'levied.......................... $13,903(1 righteous judges shall continue to rrxO BE D IS T R IB U T E D a t th e Amount of County tax collected, 11,36 00 render decisions that unjustly dis Citv of Lewiston, Idaho Territory, by Grand oift Enterprise. Tlie Beal Estate is Delinquent.............................. S2,3oiii criminate against the farmers—deci composed of part of the Southwest quarter ot sions not based upon the right as Section No. 29, Township No. 7. North ol Amount of School tax levied ----- $1,350 it 36 iiicist, adjoining tiic lioui isiiing city Amount of School tax collected. 1,125 !0 God gives honest seekers to see it in ItHiigo of Walla W ai la, W ashing ton Territory. The this 19th century, but upon palpable Distribution .o take place at Lewiston on the $26ó K Delinquent. and self evident wrongs, called by First day of November, 1873. Amount of Contingenttax levied S1.39C5t the lawyers “ precedents"—why then “ tax collected 1,121 Ï Five Thousand l5,0C0) Tickets will be sold Amount of it is reasonable to suppose that the at Five Dollars each. Five Hundred and Delinquent,. Filty-niuo (559) Prizes in Leal Estate aud men and women of.this large, intell Gold (Join: ONE chance in every N IN E to Amount of State tax levied, 1872 $4,171 8 a price. igent and poxverful order will look get The 3,310 D t apital Prize is a large, new and well Amount of State tax collected. .. after their interests precisely as oth finished two-story dwelling liouse, containing Delinquent. rooms, with lire places and marble er people do; and as this is a coun fourteen mantles, wood shed, cellar and out houses Amount of expenditures from July 1,1872, try of law, it is difficult to see how complete, aud twenty acresuf land fenced and improved, xvith plenty of water and ox-er 4,000 to July 1, 1873: they can get their grievances redres f e .t o f water pipe for irrigating; over txvo County Clerk’s account.............. $1-3” * sed in any other xvay than by send hundred hearing fruit trees, consisting of Criminal account.......................... 21a t; apples, pears, peaches, plums and cherries, Sup’ t Common Schools account ing to all the legislative bodies in the of 800O O the finest varieties; also a large variety of County Judge’s account.............. 21ln country, men who xvill do them jus bearing grape vines; about one acre o f land Cotin'y Commissioners account is planted xv,tii tlie ,.nest variety of strawber Jail account..................................... I™ ? tice, aud by securing the appoint ries, all bearing; aud several hundred ot tlie Miscellaneous account.................. ment of judges who will be grateful choicest blackberries, currants and gooseber Assessor’s account........................ ries; and a large and varied selection or or account...................... “-i1: to God for the Light of To day, and namental tries, tioweiing shrubs and vines. Treasurer’s Pauper’s account.......................... be guided by it rather than by the This property cost the proprietor about Niue Sheriff’s account............................. v™? Thousand Five Hundred Dollars. Coroner’s account........................ j’ ’. Darkness of tho Past. b T ills V a lu a b le 1’ rojie.rty Is th e F ir s t Circuit Court account.................. A. F. B. » 1‘ r iz e , O ttered a t 37,500 Justices of tlie Peace account— EXCHANGE GREENBACKS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Steam Washer, or Woman’s Fria. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. BAKER CITY ACADEMY. m ill COLD ,O U R W E S T O N L E T T E R . 11 ESTATE. COIN, 1 l* v iz e 31,000 G o ld C o in 1* 1 Prize $500 gold coin is 1 Prize $250 gold Coin is 1 Pnze $100 gold coin is 2 Prizes $50 gold cuin is 250 down Lois m Elmer’s Addition to Ualia Walla, YV. T ., $ 5 0 each, 2 Prizes $ .5 gold coin is 300 Prizes $lu gold coin is 51,000 500 250 100 100 Road account................................... Election account......................... LJ" . lSl' Total expenditures for the year $ lU ^ W eston , O gn . Aug 1st, 1873. Amount of County receipts from M r . E ditor : —There is but little all sources for tne year ending . July 1 ,1 8 7 3 ................................... uexvs from a town like Weston, at 12,500 50 Leaving a total o t .......................... pi-esent. The xveather has been in 3,000 of receipts in excess of the expend11' tensely hot for the last few days,— l i n k i n g a G r a n d T o ta l o f $25 ,0 0 0 . of the County fund. «a but is more moderate to day. The . A list of the drawn numbers xvill be sent to Amount of contingent tax levied Amount contingent tax collected D;;’ each person who has remitted to us, im m edi farmers are all very busy and conse ately after the drawing. (Join Prizes will be Amount contingent tax expended quently but few people are to bo sent by express to persons xvmniug them. lor Leal Estate will be sent to the win Expenses of the County for the year? seen in town, save those who have Deeds J uly 1, 1873 ............... ................. ners by mail, registered, free of charge. The .drawing will take place under the Amount of interest paid on Co. pressing business, and then their Orders from September. 7, management of a Committee to be appointed stay is very short. There is a very by 1870,_to July 1, 1873 the ticket holders. Am ouutof Couutv indebtedness, large amount of grain fo take care 13.0! 5,000 Tickets; $5 Each. July 1, 1 8 7 2 ..:.......................... of and harvesting is in full blast.— P L A N OF D R A W I N G : Total of expenditures, interest There i3 at present, within a radius paid and outstanding indebt The numbers from 1 to 5.000. correspond of six miles of Weston, five headers ing xvitli the number of Tickets, will be plac edness. ......................................... $29,15 Amount of receipts and orders ed in oue wheel, and 659 numbers, corres besides the reapers and mowers,— ponding with the number of Prizes will be cancelled irom July 1, 1872, ¡sp^ which are kept constantly running, in a second wheel. The wheels are then re to July 1. 1873.......................... volved and a number drawn from the wheel ana I xvas told by a farmer to day $13, W6 91 of numbers, and at the same time a number that it would require three xveeks is drawn from th6 other wheel; the number Cash in hands of County Treas 1,183 1° urer, County fund.................. and prize drawn out are exhibited to the au yet to cut our great crops of 1873. dience and register ed by the Secretaries, the TlS311 On the 28th of July two lxundred Prize being placed against the number drawn. This operation is repeated until all the Prize Cash in hands of County Treas 375 9« and fifty U. S. Infantry, under the numbers are drawn out. urer, contingent fund.............. command of Col. Mason, arrived Reference is made by permission to the Amount County indebtedness, t following: General James McAuliff, late here and encamped near the School Sheriff of Walla July 1, 1873................................ Walla county; Hon. F. P. House. They xvere weary and foot Dugan, Thomas Quinn, Esq*., and Hon. B. State of Oregon, , « . . bharpstein, Attornev-at Law; ail of Walla sore after their long march from the L County of Baker, j * ricrk o* Walla, W . T , Clerk’ I, Luther B Ison, County Cler ^ Persons residing at a distance can rest as lava beds. They rested here from ker County, Countv. Oregon, Oresron do hereby here 1 Baker sured their interests are as well protected that the foregoing Statement of or*- 1 o’clock in the afternoon until about as though they wore present and personally HitnmA RfiOfilutS of Baker C C°. }0f f tb fill ditures anrl and Receipts « four next morning. It being vaca superintended the management. gon. is correct, and is a true lx ^ th* tion, they were, by the kindness of G o o d a m i R e s p o n s ib le A g e n t s W a n t Financial Affairs of said Cou Year commencing July L A- e d E v e r y « H ere! the Directors, allowed the use of the hereupH Meney can be sent in Registered Letters, ending July 1. 1873. Iu testimony whereof, I b v0h ¡^loj school room, for tne purpose of writ Postoflice money orders, Drafts or by Express. . . set mv hand, and uie Address, JOHN BBEAKLEY, j L . S. [ said County, this 2lst ing; and it wa3 pleasing to see so Banker and Assayer, Lewiston, Idaho Territory. many of these hardy Sons of Mars Agent for sale of Tickets at Baker City, nl2nl5 embracing so favorable an opportun • ni2td J- B- GARDNER. i