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3 : M. S H E P H E R D , E d i t o r .
B a k e r C ity, J u n e 10, 1874.
THE BEDROCK DEM OCRAT
aa th e
L a r g e s t C irc 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 .
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OFFICIAL PAPER
For tue Counties o f
B a k e r
a n d G ra n t.
D E M O C R A T IC
V IC T O R Y .
We have received reported majori
ties from almost the entire State
•which is of the most glorious charac
ter. The people, at the ballot box,
have endorsed the Administration of
Gov. Grover by reelecting him by a
majority of not less than one thous
and over the Republican candidate,
Judge Tollman, and the rest of the
Democratic State ticket is elected by
from one thousand to fifteen hund
red majority. This result is truly
gratifying to all true friends of re
form and good government. The ef
forts made to defeat Gov. Grover
were of the most desperate charac
ter. Every act of his Administra
tion that could possibly be distorted
into a false light was seized hold of
and misrepresented, distorted and
magnified into all the various shapes
that malicious, designing and cor
rupt demagogues and falsifiers could
possibly think of to accomplish his
defeat.
The corruptionists have
been defeated, and the honor and in
tegrity of the Democratic Adminis
tration of our State affairs for the
past four years have been triumph
antly endorsed by the people of our
young and prosperous State.
The
Walla Walla Statesman, in speaking
of the result of the election in this
State, says, “ the reader who has
v never lived ia a city or State con-
ntrolled by a corrupt republican ring
c composed of office holders and poiit
i ical tricksters, can form no adequate
i idea of the crimes that are committed
against self government, or the man-
. ner in which the people are robbed,
i Oregon has made a most fortunate
escape. For the next four years she
’ is assured an honest administration
of her public affairs. The most sig
nal triumph was the election of the
. independent county ticket in Mult-
. nomah, the Gibraltar of the Custom
, house ring. The day of ring rule in
«Oregon has passed away, and the
. corruptionists might as well make
.up their minds that in the future
they must take a back seat, and with
their downfall the power of ‘ coin’ in
.controlling elections will no longer
Ibe felt.”
The Mountaineer, in speaking of
the result of the election, says, “ the
election returns so far received indi
cate that the entire Democratic State
ticket is elected by between five hun
dred and one thousand majority.—
This is certainly a great victory for
that party when it is considered the
amount of opposition that was bro’t
to bear against Grrover’s administra
tion. However, the battle was fair
ly won, and all that remains for us
to do is to “ accept the situation”
quietly and gracefully, While we
congratulate those who have been
elected, we can also sympathize with
those who have been defeated. We
.acknowledge that we were disappoin
ted in not getting elected State Prin
ter; but console ourself with the fact
that we now can remain at home and
not be obliged to live for four or five
months in the Willamette Valley. ‘A
poor excuse is better than none.’—
Ain’t it?”
In our county the contest was one
of the warmest which has ever taken
place. Some of the opposition de
scended to the lowest degree of falsi
fying fo defeat certain men on our
ticket, but after all the dirty work
that could be done the opposition
■were only able to defeat one of our
candidates, James H. Shinn, for
Sheriff, by .some forty votes. To do
this tpen had to stoop to the low and
degrading act of misrepresenting his
charitable acts, and said they were
authorized and instructed to do so
by members of the Church—men
who profess to be good and consci
entious Christians. To accomplish
the defeat of this one man, men who
claim to be Democrats stultified and
belied their professions.
Mr. James H. Shinn comes out of
the canvass with a clear ana honora
ble record—we wish we could say
the same for some of his opponents,
and tell the truth. All things will
work for the best, and the people
will look with scorn and contempt
upon the traitors and falsifiers of the
late campaign in this county, and if
they ever have the opportunity will
place their seal of condemnation up
on them in such bold and broad let
ters that all can read their sad fate.
The Owyhee Avalanche says a
company was incorjiorated last week
in San Francisco for the purpose of
constructing a telegraph from W in-
nemucca to Boise City via Silver
City.
Two hundred and seventy
five miles is the estimated length of
the line. President, A. P. Minear;
Treasurer, G. S. Dodge; Secretary,
Martin Jones; Vice Presidents, Coll
Deane and L. M. McDonald. Capital
stock, $100,000, in 1,000 shares. The
certificates states that $30,000 of the
stock has been actually subscribed.
The line will most likely follow
the present stage road the greater
portion of the distance. Our enter
prising townsman, John Catalow,
has contracted to deliver the poles
along the line from Silver City to
Winnemucca, and has already com
menced to do so. He will bring the
poles from the railroad this way as
far as Summit Springs (which is
about half the distance from here, to
Winnemucca) and take the remain
der from this direction to that point,
working simultaneously from both
ends of the line.
It is confidently expected that the
line will be completed to Silver City
by the first of August, and perhaps
sooner. Mr. Catalow knows no such
word as fail, and what he has under
taken to do, is, by far, the biggest
portion of the job. After the poles
are delivered the line can be put in
operation in a very, short period of
time.
We rejoice over the prospect for
telegraphic communication with the
outside world. It will infuse new
life into our camp, and be the fore
runner of a bright future for the en
tire Territory.
The Nevada Territorial Enterprise
corrects a few errors in an article in
a Washington newspaper relative to
the Indians Ring, and proved that
the aborigines were increasing in
numbers under the fatherly care of
the revenged agents. It stated the
number of Indians at the Pyramid
Lake agency at 6,000 and at the Wal
ker river reservation 3,000. Accor
ding to the enterprise these figures
were originally coi'rect, but and be-
ome transposed, the present num
ber of Indians at the Pyramid Lake
agency being 000,6 and at the W al
ker river reservation 000,3.
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C h a r i t y . —It is a bad thing for
our citizens to give anything for
charitable purposes—tome sanctimo
nious hypocrites who are interested
in getting the thing up may, as was
done in the late election, use the
contribution of our citizens for elec
tioneering purposes. A Christian lie
well stuck to is *a good thing for
some knaves and rascals.
A man
who will try to secure his election by
wilful, deliberate and malicious ly
ing is not fit to be trusted iu any po
sition.
W e find the following dispatch in
the Sacramento Union ofthe2dinst:
Senate bill extending the time of
representation of quartz claims un
til January 1st, passed the House to
day. The entire delegation from
the Pacific Coast and Territories o p
posed the extension, on the ground
that Congress should stand by the
mineral law or repeal it; but mem
bers east of the Missippi, having
constituents who own works, voted
against the Pacific Coast delegation
almost solidly.
D e m o c r a t ic C h i c k e n s . —The R oos
ters in the B e d r o c k D e m o c r a t office
do not crow over Republican victor
ies. They are Democratic chickens
as is the paper as well as the editor.
Payton is elected aud our
will crow and nobody can stop him.
Hurrah for Payton!
Of the thousands of mines owned
in Utah, but ono is owned and con»
trolled exclusively by Mormons, and
of all the smelters and mills in the
Territory, only one is owned by Mor
mons.
OUR. G R A N T C O U N T Y L E T T E R .
C anyon C it y , June 3rd, 1874.
E ditor D em ocrat : —The election
just past was the most exciting of
any we have had for many years.—
The returns are not all received yet,
and I am unable to tell the exact re
sult, but the vote so far is about as
follows:
La Dow, 162, Williams, 200, Da
venport, 206; Grover, 177, Tollman,
180, Campbell, 204; Chadwick, 180,
Foster, 180, Douthitt, 202; Brown,
186, Clark, 178, Beach, 197. The
rest of the ticket is about the same,
except that Rowland is considerably
ahead. Wm. H. Clark is elected
Senator by 30 or 40 votes, and Gr.
Reynolds Representative by a small
vote; both Democrats. William P.
Gray, Rep., is elected Sheriff.
M.
Dustin, Ind., fo rju d g e ; James R ob
inson, Dem., for Clerk,and A. Hack-
eny, Ind.. for Treasurer.
Further
returns will change the vote some
but not the result. At least nine
tenths of the votes cast were badly
scratched.
Yours &c.,
W.
C o r n e r e d A g a I n . —The
Sacramen
to Union of a late date says it was a
settled policy of the District of Co
lumbia ring of plunderers to keep
on good terms with all the influen
tial officials and the prominent men
in Congress.
Senator Stewart is
thought to have had many sly favors
from them, in the way of hints to
enable him to make advantageous
purchases of real estate. And now
it comes to light that Attorney Gen
eral Williams was also in their con
fidence and favor. It was charged
that the Board of Works—another
name for the ring—had paid out of
the District treasury for work done
iu the improvement of the Attorney
General’s lots. The Investigating
Committee called him as a witness.
Williams denied the charge, “ but,”
says the telegram, “ documents were
produced showing that the Board
paid for a portion of the work; and
that the contractor who did it testi
fied that the Board paid him $2,100,
and that $1,800 are yet Hue, which
Williams aud the Board both refuse
to pay.” Now, here is something
more than a bribe proved, unless the
evidence of this contractor and of
those damning “ documents” cun be
overcome. The Attorney General
is so far not only proven guilty of
accepting this bribe of stolen money
from a ring of thieves, but of having
denied it under oath.
Commonly
this is called perjury. In the case
of a Cabinet officer it may be toned
down to an “ erroneous statement,”
or a “ question of veracity.” But in
spite of all the toning down, there
are the stubborn “ documents,” sho
wing that theBoard did pay for work
which Williams swears they did not.
It was documents that killed off poor
Colfax, and he had ten times the vi
tality of Williams. If this don’t
kill the Attorney General and drive
him out of office, the people will
soon want to know the reason why
and what doctor is powerful enough
to save him.
The Owyhee Avalanche says it is
an indisputable fact that there has
been more sickness in this camp dur
ing the past three months than alto
gether before or since its first occu
pation by the whites. First, the
scarlet fever made its appearance
with fatal effect among the children,
and now, the pneumonia is attacking
both young and old. Last week we
had a small pox scare, and the con
sternation in relation thereto is not
yet at an end. A meeting cf our
citizens was held in the Court House
last Saturday afternoon, and a com
mittee appointed to confer with our
physicians and obtain their opinion
in relation to the reported case of
small pox at Fairview. The doctors
are about equally divided in their
opinion—some pronounce it small
pox; others say it is no such a thing
—and thus the matter stands. No
one else has yet been taken down
with it, but this fact alone is not
proof positive that the case was not
small pox. WTe have known a case
where a man died of that contagien
in a populous town, and no one else
took it.
R e a p p o i n t e d . —The Sacramento
Union says Chief Justice James B.
McKean, the most inefficient and at
the same time the most obstiuate U.
S. Judge ever sent to Utah, after
serviug out a term of four years, has
been reappointed by the President.
The situation called for one of the
ablest, judicial minds in the country,
and instead of that the President re
appoints the most incompetent man
he could have found iD a year’s hunt
aftaj: incompetepse.
A Washington special to the New
York Post says Vice President W il
son expresses the belief that the R e
publicans will lose the Autumn elec
tions unless the. present policy is
changed. Several weeks ago he
wrote to the President concerning
the growing indifference in the par
ty, and recommending the appoint
ment of Judge Hoar to the Cabinet
in Richardson’s place, and also in
Attorney General, Secretary of the
Interior, and Department of State.-
Wilson would transfer Fish to Lon
don, and place E. D. Morgan in the
State Department. Bristow, of Ky.,
has been appointed and confirmed as
Secretary of the Treasury.
According to a late cable dispatch,
Europe is on the eve of mighty events,
growing out of the recent Anglo Rus
sian marriage. The following is the
dispatch: “ Another horrible scene
in the British Royal family! The
Dutchess of Edinburgh had borrow
ed the Princess of Wales’ crimping
irons. In returning them she pre
sented the hot ends to Her Royal
Highness, who thoughlessly took
hold of them, and waltzed around
with one hand between her knees for
several jminutes before she could
speak. Eye witnesses of the occur
rence express their belief that the
days of the Russian Empire aee num
bered.”
There are eleven woolen mills on
the Pacific Coast—eight in California
and three in Oregon. They have in
the aggregate 28,840 spindles and
232 broad looms.
W h y R i c h a r d s o n is p r o t e c t e d b y t h e
P r e s id e n t .
The Sacramento Union in speaking
of the corruptions at Washington,
says:
A 'Washington dispatch to the New
York Tribune reports that he heard
a cabinet officer say that while it was
true that Richardson intended to re
sign at no distant day. it was also true
that he would not resign, and that
the President would not consent to
his resignation as long as the news
papers ia the country continued
their assaults on the Secretary. A
Chicago paper interprets this, if true
as an attempt on tbe part of the
President to establish a sort of si
lent censorship over the press, and
it says truly enough, “ the press of
the country will not pay much heed
to such an intimation.” We have
never believed the President capable
of such an abuse of the most sacred
tradition or this Government, as
that of standing for a third term
We have always thought the talk
about Grant and a third term the
mere wind from the stomachs of otii
cial snobs and monarchial flunkeys;
but if he has authorised such a
statement as we have above quoted,
we are ready to believe him capable
of running for a third term, and of
almost any other innovation in the
interest of personal government.
There is as the Chicago paper ob
serves, evidence enough to convince
any one not wilfully blind to the
truth, that Richardson’s retirement
from the Treasury Department is
demanded by every interest of the
country. The press has had noth
ing to do with the investigation
that explains him either wholly in
competent or wholly dishonest.
Nothing more than to publish the
evidence so that the people who pay
the taxes may see and know what
manner of man the President has ap
pointed to, take care-of their money.
This is no offense against honor,
Jedcacy, or an enlightened executive.
It, is precisely what the people main
tain a free press for. And when the
President undertakes to sa.y that the
papers shall not do the duty assign
ed to them by the public, he is bran
ded as a tyrant, unfit to hold the
high office he does or any other o f
fice in the gift of the people. The
evidence against Richardson, that
he is either incompetent or venal, is
so conclusive that no one can rea
sonably doubt it, unless it is tiie
President himself, who must doubt
it, since he, by common report,
shows a wish to place this man in so
high and responsible a position as
Judge of Court of Claims. No class
of newspapers but the venal plead
the cause of Richardson. His remo
val is demanded by Republican,
Democratic and Independent jour
nals, and not objected to by any par
ty in tbe House; nor anywhere else,
unless it be at the White House.
And we now venture the wish and
hope that if he does retire from the
treasury and the President has the
audacity to nominate him for a seat
in the Court of Claims,, the Senate
may ret use to confirm the nomina
tion. We venture to say still further
(such, in our opinion, from the evi
deuce taken before the Committee of
Ways and and Means, is the unfitness
of this man for any office), that if he
is nominated and confirmed by the
Senate, Congress should take the
very first opportunity that is pre
sented by an honest majority in both
houses to thoroughly remodel or
abolish the Courtof Claims, and Cro
ats a new court to perform its func
tions.
The Union, in another article, says:
The Secretary of the Treasury is
by the Constitution the officer of the
House of Representatives. It is the
•apodal duty of the Committee of
Ways and Means to look closely into
his official conduct,, and to proceed
against him for malfeasance or mis
B A K E R C IT Y , O R E G O N ,
feasance. If the President, by word
or act, interferes to obstruct investi
gation or punishment, then it is the BROKER a n d ASSAY El!
plain duty of the Committee to re
DEADER
port that’ fact to the House, and of
tbe House to act upon it. The neglect X i o . C 2- o l d . 3 3
of this duty by either the House or
—AND—
its Committee is a crime against the
Republic.
If President Grant has
tried to shield and protect this man
Richardson, or to conceal his o f
— AUSO—
fenses, then President Grant should
himself be impeached, and that, too,
without consulting the Senate as to
the chances of conviction.
The
House owes a duty to the country
separate from the Senate; and it is Office— First door north Odd Fellow’s Hall
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to be, above all things, just to tbe
country. If it be true, as report says,
that, in spite cf the proven crimes
which make it necessary for Richard
son to get out of the Treasury De
partment, the President intends to
nominate him to the vacant seat in
ai
the Court of Claims, we have no hes
AT TH E
itation in denouncing it as a shame
less and disgraceful insult to the
N E W STORE,
country, and the act of a tyrant in
First door above the Express Office.
whose character insolence and stu
atlies F an cy and Millinery
pidity must be about evenly balanced.
Goods in «tore, and Latest btyles receiv.
eu oy Express every Month, and for sale at
I want to know whether we are most reasonable Prices.
going to keep house or board before
D re ss jVIaking
going into this tiling,” said a young
Done to Order, and at Short Notice by
lady at the altar iu San Francisco.—
MRS. L . J. HUSTON.
Commendable foresight.
Baker City, April 1 8 ,1874.-n51m6
JAS. W. VIRTUE,
IMO AND SILVER BARS,
EXCHANGE 5 GREENBACKS.
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A D ram m sT ~~
NOTICE
To sch ool Teachers.
T lie Second P u b lic Q u a r te rly
Examination of Teachers for the year
1874,'will be held at Baker City, on Saturday,
June 27, at 9 o’clock. A. M. All persons in
tending to teach in Baker county the ensu
ing quarter, are cordially invited to attend.
C. L . MEANS,
Superintendent of Schools,
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Baker county, Oregon.
85,000,000
ENDOWMENT Still&IE!
FIFTH AND LAST CONCERT
IN AID OF THE
M i a Library of Keiituety.
JU L Y
31, 1874.
In announcing the Fifth and last of the
series of Gift Concerts, given for the benefit
of the Public Library of Kentucky, the Trus
tees and manager refer with pride and pleas
ure to tbe four which have been already giv
en: The first, December 16,1871; the second,
December 2, 1872; the third, July 8, 1S73:
and the fourth, March 31st, 1874.
Under their charter, granted by a special
act of the Kentucky Legisleture, March 16,
18 ?1, the Trustees are authorized to give
O n e M o r e and O n l y O n e M o r e Gift
Concert. With the money arising from this
Fifth and LAST Concert, the Library, Mu
seum, and other departments are to bo en
larged and endowed with a fixed and certain
annual income. Such an endowment fund
is desired, as will secure beyond peradveu-
ture, not only the maintenance of this mag
nificent establishment, but its constant
growth.
Til FIFTH GIFT »IT
for the purposes mentioned, and which is
positively aud unequivocally announced as
T H E LAST W H IC H W IL L EVER BE GIV
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At this final Concert everything will be (which lie has mau'e' an especial study) eittieer
upon a scale corresponding with its increased in male or female, no matter from wiiat
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L IS T O F G IF T S :
January 21, 187±-ly
One Grand Cash G ift.
............... 5250,000
One Grand Gash
Gilt....................
100,0110
One Grand Cash
G ift....................
75,0u0
One Grand Cash G ift....................
50,000
One Grand Cash Gift....................
25,000
V [ O T IC E IS H E R E B Y GIVEN,
5 Cash Gifts, 520,000 each .. - 100,000
A n to ail tnose who are in arrears vvitu tin»
10 Cash Gifts,
14,000 each.. 140,UOd Academy Company for tuition, to call on
15 Cash Gift j
10.000 each.. 150,000 Mr. VV. F . Aicurary, at the Post Office, and.
20 Cash Gifts,
5,000 each.. 10u,0t)0 settle their accounts, and save COST.
25 Cash Gifts,
4,000 each.. 100,000
Baker City, April 9, lö74.
30 Cash Gifts,
3,000 each.. 90,000
A. H . BROWN,
50 Cash Gifts,
2,000 e a ch .. 100,000
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President, i
100 Cash Gifts,
1,000 each.. 100,000
240 Cash Gifts,
500 each.. 120,000 T H E B E D R O C K D EM O C R AT,.
5.00 Cash Gifts,
100 each. .
50,000
The Old, Reliable and Well Established.
19,000 Cash Gifts,
50 each.. 950,000
.Friday, July 31, 1874.
©2,500,000
N otice.
Grand Total, 20,000 Gifts, all cash, 52,500,000
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Tenth, or each Coupon .................
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11 Whole Tickets for.........................
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22 H Tickets for...................................
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circulation, anu is ihe best
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East of the Cascade Mountains.' It is the
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ests of tue People, me Democratic Party,
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