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i 3 citrorh U é m o m it . J. M. SHEPHERD, E d it o r . B a k e r C ity, J u ly 8 , 1874. THE BEDROCK DEMOCRAT a s th e L a r g e s t C ir c u la tio n of any •Paper P u b lis h e d in E a ste rn O re g o n . C irc u la tio n 1 ,0 5 0 cop ies. O F F I C I A L P A P E R For tne Counties o f "Baker and G r a n t. TO D E L IN Q U E N 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. We are in earnest. We hate to dun our cus tomers, but necessity compels us to do so. Pay up and save cost. D u ty o f tlie Press to w a r d s <ho D e m a g o g u e s. The Sacramento Union says “ the Forty third Congress—that is, the Demagogue element in it—adopted the idea presented in this State by George C. Gorham, a year or two ago. George said, or is credited with having said, these words: “ The war from this out is between the pol iticians on the one side, and the newspapers on the other. It will not • end till the politicians crush the pa pers, or the papers crush the politi cians.” We did not hear Gorham say this, but it is common report that he did say it, or substantially the same words; and we credit the report. Gorham has his own griev ances to avenge on the Independent press. It was that power which clipped the wings of his ambition ■when he sold himself to the Central Pacific Railway Company for the gubernatorial nomination in 1867, and again defeated him when he wanted to go to the U. S. Senate.— By the aid of his railway masters and allies, he has managed to get into a good, fat office, from which he can present and enforce his own views with much effect in Congress, and as . he has more political trick sense than ;half the Senate together, we give him the credit of initiating all the measures with which this Seuate has ¡.attempted to cripple and destroy the press of the country, including the amendment to the postal bill, which Sherman cf Ohio was soft enough to . advocate, by which the postage on newspapers was increased 33% per ■ cent, and prepayment required. The ■Carpenter gag bill failed, but it will ■be tried again at the next session,un less the press takes up the gage of •battle which the politicians and dem ■agogues have thrown at them. This is what we see they are generally do ing, and it is the best way to conduct the fight. We hope no independent, honest journal in the country will fail to do all it can to defeat the re election of any Senator or Represen tative to office who has given his vote or his voice, in favor of either of these measures. Their names should be carefully hunted up, and a war of political extermination be waged against them from the least to the greatest. This is their spirit toward the press, and the press cannot af ford to tolerate such an enemy, or to fight him under any other terms than war to the Knije and the knife to the hilfc The American politician who aims to'deestroy the liberty of the press, or to crush and ruin indepen dent journalism by insidious legisla jtion, is a worse enemy of the people than .the late Emperor Napoleon, who essayed the same thing in France by the clumsier and less effective weap on of brute force. The press is about the only friend now left standing be tween the people and the oligarchy. And if the pliant demagogues whom the latter have put and keep in office can manage to impair or destroy this Jast friend- the people will have no protector, and soon fall into abject servility to the most cruel, avarici ous and autocratic master that ever cursed our country.” A German friend oi ours wants to know “ liow it vos dat Independunt Day comes mit te July Fourt, aDd G-Tistopher Golambus and Shorge Washington dond baf been porn till de winter sot in at Walley Forge?”-— 'Well, aeknowlc&g# the parts, T h e L e g is la tu r e . O reg o n P ig Iro n in tire M a rk e t, We see that the papers in Web- foot place Judge Reynolds, the Rep resentative elect from Grant County, as an Independent. The Judge is a true Democrat, and was elected as a regular Democrat. The papers gen erally classify the next Legislature as follows: Democrats in the Sen ate 12, in the House 19; Republicans in the Senate 12, in the House 17; Independents Senate 6, House 24.— This gives Van Cleve of Multnomah to the Independents in the Senate, and Judge Reynolds, of Grant, in the House to them. This is not right, both these gentlemen are Democrats. Mr. Van Cleve was the President of the late Democratic State Convention, and is an unwaver ing Democrat. These corrections made and the Legislature Will stand as follows: Senate—Democrats 13, Republicans 12, Independents 5; House—Democrats 2U, Republicans 17, Independents 23. On joint bal lot the Legislature will stand Demo crats 33, Republicans 29, Independ ents 28. Most of the Independents were formerly Democrats, and, on political measures, will, most ce r tainly act with the Democratic par ty. The Mining and Scientific Press, of San Francisco says: “ It is with sincere pleasure that we note the ap pearance in our markets again cf Pig Iron manufactured on the Pa cific Coast. While we had to bring the raw material seventeen thousaud miles over the ocean, we could have lsttle hope of doing anything beyond satisfying our own wants in the way of Machinery, etc. Now however Oregon steps in with iron of a su perior quality and that sells for a higher price in the market than any English or American that we know of. The last importation of a hun dred tons sold for $45, $4 higher than the average qualities of the lat ter. This is not the first time that Oregon has entered the market as a producer of i’ig Iron, but owing to adverse circumstances the industry had for a while to be abandoned.— It is now resumed again, and there is a company represented in this city by General Allen, and will be able to produce about one third of the quantity that is needed to supply the San Francisco market yearly.— No doubt, in due course of time, other companies both in Oregon and California, will enter the market, the cost of production will be de creased, and our iron founders will be able to beat all other competitors in tho machinery and agricultural implement tiade on the shores of the Pacific. An opportunity will also be afforded for the manufacture of hardware, and in fact the impetus given by it to the manufacturing in dustries of the coast can at this mo ment be hardly realized. When we can command iron and coal of good quality, and in abundance, u-e shall start in the race of progress as high ly favored by nature as Pennsylva nia, or Great Britain, and much more so than New York or New Eng land.” The Portland News says “ we have heard so much about the great as sistance that the Independent move ment gave in this State to the Dem ocratic party and how impossible it would have been for the Democrats to have carried the State without it, that we feel very much encouraged to find in the columns of the Port land Bulletin such frank admissions as those which we here copy from that paper of Friday. Speaking of the curious and interesting facts presented by the election returns the paper says: “ lb shows that the Dem ocracy lost quite or fully as many votes by defection in their ranks and desertion to the Independent move ment as the Republicans. * * The returns reveal, however, that the Democratic party is, all things considered, the heaviestloser by that movement, and that it suffered» practically, a worse depletion by reason of disaffection within itself than the Republican has sustained.” We suppose that now, for a time at least, we shall see nothing more in the Bulletin going to show that the Independent party was a diversion simply gotten up to elect tho Demo cratic ticket and having that result.” S enatorial L ikes and D islikes .— The Sacramento Union says, at the instance of Sherman, Chairman of the Finance Committee, the Senate made haste to vote an increase of the tax on newspaper publishers, by ad ding thirty-ohree and a third per cent to the charge of carryiug pa pers in the mails and compelling re payment. But when they came to the item of a tax of one twe-ntietu of one per cent ou sAles of gold, stock, bonds’ etc ., by the Wall street money oligarcs, Senator Sher man suddenly recollected that the amendment was crudely drawn would provoke discussion, and all that, and therefore he suggested that the Sen ate defer to the money kings and stock rings, aud let the amendment go over to another session. Tue Sen ate made haste to act on the sug gestion. The money kings probbaly furnished the oil to grease the wheets of legislation in this particular case. U niontown . —This pleasant town is situated at the head of Grande Ronde Valley, on the east side, on a beautiful mountain stream, Cather ine Creek, anu the site is as pretty a location for a town as can be found in Eastern Oregon, It is centrable for the population of the co :nty,and at the election last June, according to law, the people of Uuion County, by a large majority of their votes,de cided upon this point as the future County Beal for Union County.— There are three good stocks of goods — one fine mill, Blacksmith shops, Livery ¡¿table, one ¡Saloon, together with other necessary business hous es hère, all doing a good, thriving business. Union is on the direct thoroughfare from Idaho, Baker City, &c., to Walla Walla aud the Columbia River, and is destined to become one of the most important points in Eastern Gregory It is surrounded by a fine body of agri cultural lands, which are well im proved by good, industrious and en ergetic farmers.. The Cove, seven miles from Union, is the 6'arden ¡Spot of Eastern Oregon,, The Portland News says “ the an nouncement made early in the late canvass that Mr. La Dow, the Dem ocratic candidate for Congress, was “ wretchedly ill” was considered at the time a splendid joke by the re publican and opposition press, so they started the laugh and it went round. It even crossed to the At lantic side of the Continent and con vulsed those gentlemen of the press, whose spmpathies were with either Mr. Williams or Mr. Davenport.— Since tho election, however, Mr. Williams and Mr. Davenport have become ill—“ wretchedly ill,” and singularly enough the fact does not seem to have a mirth provoking ef fect, or anything approaching it up on those very individuals who were so uncontrollably hilarious over Mr. La Dow’s iimess.” The following are the majorities received by the State officers elected at the June election in this Stats.— Gov. Grover beats Tollman 558 votes; La Dow beats Williams 302 votes; Chadwick. beats Foster 2,394 votes; A. H. brown beats Clark 1,185 votes; Rowland beats Dawne 40 votes; Brown, for State Printer, beats Wait 1,244 votes, with no report from Til lamook, which may reduce his ma jority some 40 votes. The officers elect are all Democrats except Row The Albany Democrat says “ Sam land, Superintendent of Public in B. Evans, of the Ottumwa Democrat struction. —the rushingest Democratic editor in Iowa—is much tickled over the W hat is U p . — We see by the La election of “ his friend, Mart. V- Grande Sentinel of last Saturday, Brown, as State Priuter of Oregon!” that J. B. Hulsey, Chairman of the- Well, Samuel, old boy, youn’s can’t Union County Democratic Central be any more tickled than we’uns Committee, in quite a lengthy earn, are.” disbands the Central Committee of that County. In relation to this A S t u n n i n g A l l e g a t i o n . - The matter we will have something to Grant-Jones memorandum ou finance say at some future time. We think proves to be a chapter out of a pam the move is ill advised and untime phlet entitled “ How to Resume,” published a few weeks since by ex ly- _________ J udge Pascal. The German immigration to this country has fallen off very much W ebster ’ s dictionary contains since last year. over filly thousand words. Jones Estimates are made that 30,000 says, when he came home late the tons of barmy will be shipped liom other night, in the space of fifteen California this year. minutes uis wife applied them uli to The Pope is growing weaker in him, iuc.uding some extra ones and the fire-shovel- strength daily. LATE NEWS. President Grant and family go to Long Branch on Friday. We clip the following items from the Walla Walla Union; “ On last Saturday night three prisoners confined in the county jail made their escape by outting out of their cell. It seems that four prisoners were confined in one cell. Three of them,two half-breeds under sentence for selling whiskey to In dians, and one white man convic ted of horse stealing, made up their minds that they ha d better make room for new-comers, and so they went. The fourth.man A. J. Cut- berth was just commencing his time of five years’ aud could not think of defrauding the county out of so much time, so he remained, but took good care not to give Sheriff Griffin any alarm—he slept overhead. As a good share of the cutting out pro cess was effected with a jack-knife it is possible that that knife of Cut- berth’s with which he made the im itation sawmill, was called into re quisition. The Sheriff knew noth ing about tbe departure of his board ers until next morning, when be started in pursuit. It is to be hoped that as they have made their escape they will leave the country and nev er again return. Professor Huson, who has been absent for two or three months with the Fulford Troupe, returned on Wednesday. He has been for some t’ me in Southern Idaho, and reports times as very lively in that country especially in the Owyhee mines, and at Rocky Bar and Wiunmucca. * * Charley R >se is fittiug up a drink ing fountain on the summit of the mountain between Fairview and Independence, while Bert Jessee is engaged in the wood business. Mr. Huson is so captivated with the country that he intends to return in a short time. He says the Fnlford’s have made money and saved it, and that they may be here again before long. A correspondent at Lewiston writes us. under date of June 30th: “ The official news of the reappoint ment of Ju d ge, W. C. Whitson arrived last evening, and was re ceived with universal approbation. A salute was fired by the oitizens in token of their approval, after which the Judge was introduced by S. S. Slater. In the course of his brief address he thanked the people warm ly for their manifestations of pleasure, expressed himself in the fullest sympathy with them in their popular interests, declared his allegiance and pledged himself to the vindications of tbe law in the fulfillment of the trust he has undertaken. Judge W7liitson enters upon the duties of his second term under the most auspicious circum stances, having by his impartiality and high sense of honor in his official capacity, as well as his uprightness and gentlemanly bearing as a citizen, won the respect and es teem of all.” JAS. W. VIRTUE, W a s h i n g t o n , July 1.—Ex Post B A K E R C IT Y , OR EGON, master General Cresswell stated, on leaving the Cabinet meetiug, that he BROKER AND ASSAY £}{ would act as Postmaster General un til his successor should beappointed d e a l e r —but he intended to insist upon leaving the Department as soon as I n C S t-Q lc l D u s t possible. — AND— N e w Y o r k , July 1.—All prominent Western railroads today concluded an arrangement cutting down thro’ passenger and freight rates about 50 — ALSO— per cent. The revised tariff will go into operation immediately. W a s h i n g t o n , July 3 . —Mr. Jewell, Minister at St. .Petersburg, has accepted by cable the Postmaster- Office—First door north Odd Fellow'» Hal] Generalship tendered this morning. ¡n49v2tfj Marshall, first Assistant Postmaster General’ will i e appointed to serve until the arrival of Jewell. T H E B E D R O C K D EM O CR AT W a s h i n g t o n , July 1st.—General The Old, Affiliable and Well Established Ketehman called on the President DEMOCRATIC PAPER at noon and formally accepted the OF appointment of District Cammission- er. He was selected after the Eastern Oregon, President had had a consultation Can and will furnish more good reading with Denison and Blow, who said matter and reliable Local and Foreign new» the appointment would be very than any other paper in Oregon, ’ agreeable to them. Now is iDe Time lo Subscribe. The following news items are from You are certain to get your paper and ma"-a- the Sacramento Union of June 30th: zmes, and need have no lour» of either of them giving out or dying before the end of Report states that General Concha, the vear. the head of the Republican army of Tne BEDROCK DEMOCRAT now has a the North of Spain, was killed in an larger paying subscription list than any other two papers publWieu in engagement on Sunday last. Sea bnia, War Minister, takes his place EASTERN OREGON, at the head of the army. and is constantly and rapidly increasing jn Orders from Madrid have sent the circulation, anti is the bust Spanish army eight miles back of its late position before Estella. Advertising Medium The definitive republic of France East of the Cascade Mountains. It is t\lei was defeated yesterday, so far as the Live, Peoples’ Paper—It is owned by no Ring or Clique------and works lor the mter. Committee of Thirty could defeat it, e&ts o f the People, the Democratic Party, and its action was favorable to the and ot Eastern Oregon. monarchial party. Carlist reports say the Republi' cans lost 4,000 men in their late at tack on Estella, and were totally AT THE routed. The Madrid accounts put the loss at 1,500. N E W STORE, General Concha was distrusted by First door above the Express Office. the Madrid Government, and it was L a d ie s F a n c y a n d M illinery Goous in ¡More, and Latest otyiesreceiv. suspected that he was fighting for eu uy Express every Month, ana lor sale at Alfonsia, son of Isabella. most reasonable Prices. President McMahon refuses to be anything more than the President of IDress Making the Republic, which displeases the Done to Order, aud at Short Notice by monarchists. MRS. L. J. HUSTON. Complications in Central Asia Baker City, April IB, 1874.-n51m6 threaten to set Russia, China and Great Britain by the ears. It is the KIE^KJNKY’S oid story. Russia is pursuing her natural and necessary course of sub FLU ID EXTRACT jugation and annexation at the ex pense of China and England, who are naturally jealous of Russia’s The only known remedy for growing power. Dennison has formally accepted the post of the District of Columbia. ¿And a positive remedy tor Blow will accept. GOUT, GRAVEL, STRICTURES, DIABE War is to be actively waged against the Fort Sill Indians—Kiowas and TES, DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS DE Comaucbes. BILlTY, DROPSY, The Supreme Court of Massachu Non-retention or Inconvenience of Unine, setts, by a late decision, rule women Irritation, inhumation or Ulceration of the out of the School Boards They say BLADDER and KIDNEYS, P r o m o t e d . —Lieut. Charles Began the Board is supreme judge of its .SPERMATORRHOEA, owrn membership. of California, who was wounded se Supervising Architect Mullett is riously in the Modoc war, has been Leucoxrhcea or Whites, Disease of the Pros ha wr Gland, Stone m ihe Bladder, again mixed up in a lat coutract, by appointed Captain in the Subsistence Colculus Gravel or Bricadust Deposites and which oue of his pets is to realize Mucus or Milky Discharges, Department of the army. some thousands at no risk at »11. K E A R N E Y ’S J. S. Sloss, an Alabama Congress Hal'ahan, who killed Hannan, at man, has just distinguished himself Placerville, a few days ago, has not E x tra ct B u ch u by shooting a man who wanted to yet been arrested. become his son in law, couldn’t, and Permanently Cures all Diseases of the got even by slandering his daugh Biadder, Kidneys and Dropsical ter. Swellings, Existing in Men, Col. Whitely, the chief of the thieving detective force, demands in H omen and (Jinidren, vestigation—after Congress has ad NO MATTER WHAT THE AGE! journed. He probably wants it from c3L o Shepherd’s packed Police Court. ^ Prof. Steele says: “ One boHle of Kearney’s Fluid Lxiract m ch u is worth more than all Two men on Sunday night gagged F R A N C K , other Ruchus combined.” aud bound the Collector of the port JOSEPH MAN All DAS, Proprietor, of San Diego, and robbed the Cus Price, One Dollar per Bottle, or Six Bottles B A K E R CITY, OREGON. fur h ive Lohars. tom house safe of $3,000. Both es caped. lie p e t , 104 ih ia n e St., X c w Y o r k . i E P K O I (R n ? T O K M A S B o u g h « Gibbons, who recently killed a po f J t B n L a the A Physician in attendance to answer cor Hotel uestaurunt, next door to liceman at Portland, has been sen (tie Post Office, formerly kept by Si cord & respondence and give advice gratis. W hitcom b, and has fitted the same up in tenced to 99 years in the State pris the Send stamp for Pamphlets, free. best style as a Hotel, on the French on. Restaurant Style. He is prepared to ac C ra n e «& B r ig b a in , t he Public, and is determined From the Sacramento Union of commodate to give entire satisfaction. Wholesale Agents, San Francisco, Cal. The House is open from five o ’clock in July 1st: the morning until twelve at night, during On the 20th of March the Dutch which time customers will be supplied To The the best o f everything to be had in met with a severe misfortune in Su with the matra. The Acbenese overpowered M A R H L E T , the garrison in a fort and killed 1000 OF BOTH SEXES. Baker City, July 4, 1874.-n9tf and wounded anil captured 4,500 No Charge for Advice and Consultation. D utch—most of them non combat ants. The complete annihilation of D e . J. B. D yott , graduate of Jefferson FOR the Dutch expedition is reported at Medical College, Philadelphia, author of several valuable works, can be consulted on Singapore. all diseases of the Sexual or Urinary Organs, Paris rumors say papers have been (which he has made an especial stuuy) eitbeer found compromising M. Iiouher in male or female, no matter from what cause originating or liow long standing. A FIFTH AND LAST GIFT CONCERT criminally. practice ol 50 years enables him to treat dis IN A I D O F T H E The Irish scheme for a separate eases with success. Cures guaranteed.— Parliament and home rule for Ire Charges reasonable. T h o s e at .a distance can forward letter describing symptoms ana en land was discussed in the British closing stamp to prepay postage. House of Commons yesterday. The Send for the Guido to Health. Price, 10c. Attorney General for' Ireland made J U L Y 3 1 st, 1 8 7 4 . J. B. DYOTT, M. D., an elaborate argument against it.— Physician and Surgeon, 10 & Duane St., N. Y. January 21, 1874-iy • L IS T O F G IF T S : No vote was reached, and the House of Commons adjourned till Thurs One Grand Gash Gift.................. $250,000 One Grand Gash Gift.................. 300,000 day. is ìo t t l o ìt . One Grand Cash Gift.................. 75.0UO Serrano has decided.to take com One Grand Cash G ift.................. 50,000 F I, PERSO N S ARIE H E R E B 25,000 mand of the Republican Army of the One Grand Gash Gift.................. io, bioueii lo credit or narbur m y wi 5 Gash Gifts. $20,000 each.. 100,000 A n u id a Parker on m y accou n t, as 1 w North of Spam immediately. 10 Gash Gifts 14.000 each.. 140,0U0 , ot be responsible for uebts or her co Turkey is sending an army of ob 15 Cash G ift; 10.000 each.. 150,000 true ting, as she has leit m y oed and boa 20 Gash Gifts, 5,000 each.. 10u,000 without just cause or p rovocation servation to tire Persian frontier,and Baker City, J ime .,u, 1874. 25 Gash Gifts, 4,000 each.. 100,000 war is espected. n8Rl W E S LEY" P A R K E R . 30 Cash Gifts, 3,000 each.. 90,000 Report from the City of Mexico 50 Cash Gifts, 2,000 each.. 100,000 100 Cash Gifts, 1,000 each.. 100.000 speaks of some terrible epidemic of S h e e p T iaisers!! 240 Cash Gifts, 500 each.. 120,000 T o some unheard of character, that is 500 Cash Gifts, 100 each.. 5UOIO now afflicting some parts of Mexico. 19,000 Cash Gifts, 50 each.. 950^000 News from Wisconsin shows that Grand Total, 20,000 Gifts, all cash, $2,500,000 ' * - ht.Vnkrai A A U J FIFTE E N the refractory railway corporations P R I C E O F T IC K E T S : Head Thorough bred Cotswold Sheep are already as gopd as beaten, and Kuny Imported Rom the best herds in Can Whole Tickets............................... that they will have to succumb to Halves.................................. ^ ,00 ada. The above Sheep are Full Blooded and as hue as any on tne Coast. the law of the State before the Su Tenth, or each Coupon .............. There are Forty Bucks in the’ lot 500,00 preme Court of the United States 1J. Whole Tickets for..................... 22^ Tickets for.............................. 1,000,00 The wuole wiir be sold in lots to suit pur reaches their case on appeal. chasers, aud at r jJFor T ic k e t* or In fo rm a tio n , Report says a demand lias been A n/TT’Oöfi REASONABLE PRICES. made by the United States on Spain, For particulars, enquire of THOS. E. BRAMLETTE, for the prompt payment of indemni n9n!2 Agent and Manager, R EID & FLETCHER, Public Library Building, Louisville, Ky. ty for the Virginias affair. Baker City, Ogn, GOLD AID SHYER BARS, EXCHANGE S GREENBACKS. MILLINERY AND F A N C f¥ o D S , B y G H U I BRIGHT’S . DISEASE, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. HOTEL RESTADBAXT N e r v o u s ani D e b i l i t a t e d LAST CHANGE AN EASY FiihTQE! 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