EDR 0 CX DEMO CSAT, R A T E S OF A D V E R T I S I N G i One square .or less, one insertion,....... s>2 50 Each additional insertion,....................... 1 50 One square throe m o n t h s , . ......... 6 00 Business Advertisements by tho month— PUBLISH KD EVJERY WEDNESDAY, BY J. M. S H E P H E R D . Quarter column............ ............ OFFICE IN THE I p E D R O C K D E M O C R A T B C I E D IN G . T ebms of S u b sc riptio n : ! 3ne year,................................................... 4 00 | Six Months.................................................2 50 VOL. 5. BAKER CITY, BAKER COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 7, 1874. NO. 22. _______ from all portions of Eastorn Oregon is solicited for the D em ocrat . All communications, to receive attention, must be accompanied by a responsible natne! Personal communications will be charged I as special advertisements. C orrespondence 8 . M . P E T T E K G I I L «t CO., XO State Street, Boston, 37 Park Row, New Y o rk , •md 701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, are our Agents for procuring advertisements | for the B e d r o c k D e m o c r a t , in t he above I cities, and are authorized to contract for | advertising t our lowest rates. n3t f J O B W O B .K L - We are now prepared to do all kinds of JOB WORK on short notice and at reasona­ ble rates. N. B.—All Job Work MUST BE PAID FOR ON DELIVERY. is* GOVERNORS’ M ESSAGE. [Concluded from last week.] R e p re se n ta tiv e fro m C latsop C o u n ty . The'people of-Clatsop County have elected a Represen tatiue to the pres­ ent Assembly without authority of the last General Apportionment law. It is claimed, in this case, that the County was districted with * Tilla­ mook County in the election of a Representative, while she was enti­ tled. under the rates established in the late apportionment law, to a Bepreaentative. Justic should be done in the premises. P e n ite n tia r y . "I I call your special attention to the interesting and lucid report of the Superintendent of the Penitentiary. All the detailed workings of this in­ stitution are set forth with care and faithfulness. Our State Prison, during the past four years, has been brought up to a much higher standard of discipline and productive judustry thau was at first anticipated. Four years ago the State was without a tenautable prison. The prison grounds were unimproved and undrained. P o r- tions of the premises, having been subject to overflow, and remaining at seasons wet’ were unhealthy. The prison farm, consisting of one hun­ dred and fifty seven acres, has been drained, cleared of brush and worth­ less trees, fenced and reduced to cultivation. A new prison has been built, complete in all appointments, and so substantially constructed that it will stand for centuries. | A water power of immense capaci tv has been created almost wholly by the employment of pr'son labor, the value of which in the future em­ ployment of mechanical prison in­ dustry can hardly be estimated. This waterpower can hardly be estimated. This power has been so thoroughly and scientifically constructed thut it is not liable to future damage by flood or time; The canal is of earth* work of uniform grade through a clay subsoil. It crosses but one depress ion requiring a culver, which is pas­ sed upon an arch of masonry, the uniform earth embankments being kept up. The old wooden prison buildings.havebeen utilized as work­ shops. The efficient management of the Su­ perintendent, Wm. H. Wajkiuds, Esq., is worthy of high commenda­ tion. The care of the health and morals of the prisoners, the success shown in securing to the State cheer­ ful and productive labor, the evident progress made in reformatory dis­ cipline all prove the competent and faithful public officer. I The subject of reform has a broad­ er bearing and a wider interest than is generally supposed. Many b e ­ come interested in its progress and look upon the result with the single view ot its- effects upon the unfortu­ nate prisoner alone. But the welfare of the State is affected in several as pects of the cash. Society must re­ ceive to its bosom all disharged con­ victs. Do they come as person capa­ ble of beginning new lives and of be- becoming industrious citizens? Or do they come as hardened criminals to return again to a life of crime? If the former, the State gainsa produc­ tive member of i ts body, not to be »p u b lic expense, but to assist in bearing the common burden. I f the latter, the released convict again be- cijDnses a prey upon society and his road leads back to prison, there to be a tax upon the State.^ ‘S in leading prisons, m the older Stairs where special measures of re­ form have net yet been adopted, the proportion of discharged convicts, who return to prison life, is stated to be from seventy to ninety per cent, during the last four years in our Penitentiary the proportion of rex turns has not reached four per cent. The exact number of discharged prisoners, during that period, has been one hundred and seventy nine, and the number who after discharge have been convicted of crime and re- Bentenced, have been but six. Tho Superintendent reports but one convict now at large, by escape Bince his superintendency, and that no escapes have takon place within tho last two years. This is remark' able in view of the fact that convict labor has often been employed out- aide of prison bounds. To the credit of the women of Ore­ gon I take occasion to remark that during the Executive term of four I y e a « , just elapsed, there has been but one female inmate of onr State Prison, and that of the one hundred and thirteen convicts now in our Penitentiary, not one is a woman. I join in the reccomendation of the Superintendent’s report, and desire to call attention to that portion of the report which refers to leasing convict labor. The time has arrived when actioD must had npon this sub­ ject. After years of trial in the older States the system now adopted in the best regulated prisons is that of leasing to contractors the labor of the prisoners, in numbers to suit the classes of business in which they are to be employed, at a certain per diem rate, the State furnishing shops for mechanical labor with the power, and the main line of shafting connec­ ted with the p iwer, the State reserv­ ing its control of the prisoners and their support and discipline. No important manufacturing in terest can be established at the Pen, itentiarv by contract for labor unless there is a special authority of law for long time contracts. Many other branches of manufac­ tures mentioned in the Superinten­ dent’s report can at once be introdu­ ced in case continued leases of labor be authorized. The compensation of the Superin­ tendent is without doubt low, when taken into consideration the valuable and responsible services performed by him. The reports of the Penitentiary Building Commissioners, showing the accounts of the final completion of the buildings and^the expenditure o f the appropriation, accompanies the Superintendent’s report; also the report of the Prison Chaplain, Dr. C. H. Hall, and of the Prison Libra rian, Dr. E. It. Fiske. These gen tlemen have labored for the good of the prisoners devotedly and without compensation, in the true missionary spirit. The suggestions in their re* ports are worthy of consideration ,by the Assembly. Under the care of the Prison Phy, siciau, Dr. A. M. Beit, whose report also accompanies that of the Super­ intendent, the health of the prison has been remarkably good. The Physician says: “ The prisoners have been nearly exempt from the evil effects of solitary vices that are so common in prisons. This is due largely to the excellent rules of the institution, seenriug wholesome diet and regularity of labor, exercise and rest.” It is befitting here that I pay trib­ ute to the memory of one who, from the establishment of the Penitentiary at the seat of Government to the time of his death (which occurred since your last meeting), was its voluntary chaplain. The Kev. A1 van F. Waller, one of the earliest missionaries of the Methodist Episs copal Church in Oregon, for more than thirty years witnessed the pro gross of this new eommuntty— first colony; then the Provisional G ov­ ernment; then tho organization of the Territorial form under the Uni­ ted States; and. afterward the State. Through all the stages of successive development he has left the impress a strong mind and a ceaseless energy upon the landmarks of our progress. He took the greatest interest in and gave most %'aluable assistance to the later efforts at prison reform. In the words of the Superintendent’s report, “ He visited the prison through sunshine and storm alike— the prisoners during health and sick­ ness, and followed their remains to their last resting plac«, giving them the benefits of Christian sepulture without pay or expected earthly re­ ward. He rests well whoso work is well done.” SfG GO Hail column, .......... ........................... .10 0ft One column, ............................... 16 00 Ton por cent, additional on advertisements to which a special position is guaranteed. Q5s*'The space of ono Inch, up and down the column, constitutes a square. N. B.—All debts due this office are payable in Coin, unless otherwise expressly agreed. _ ¿*51 ed and unsuspecting settlements on assessment and taxation and shall pre ! same. The Private Secretary of the incident upon tho performance of Lost River, and had, on the 29th and scribe such regulations as shall se Governor, Hon. Henry H. Gilfry, the many duties always liable to be # 30th of November, ruthlessly mur­ cure a just valuation for taxation of has, during the last two years, de­ devolved upon the Executive, with dered 18 unoffending citizens, pilla- all property, both real and personal, i voted much personal attention to out special allowance to meet them. ged their property, and committed This undoubtedly cont mplates a sya the general interests of the schools, In this State there is no such fund, • their dwellings to flames. ^&he're tem of general equalization. There 1 and has made all the purchases of while the Governor is constantly were no available troops within suc­ is positive public wrong, as well as i supplies and disbursed all the mon­ called upon to perform Ex°cutive coring distance of the scattered and unfaithfulness to the Constitution, | eys in detail for their current sup­ duties connected with the adminis­ dismayed neighborhoods of the Lake , in allowing a leading class of proper- port, free of charge, in addition to tration of the laws, the expense of Basin. By telegram the Governor ty like cattle to be assessed in the the full performance of his own off!« which he pays out of his _own pri­ vate funds. I need only one instance was petitioned for immediate relief different counties at widely different cial duties. of this class of expenses: The G ov­ and protection. The duty of the rates, varying from $8 to 821 per , Com m on Schools. ernor is the Inspector of the Innate moment seemed imperative, and or* head average, and railroad lines of The Board of School Land Com- ders were at once given for the mua- equal value from $3,000 to $8000 per m issi^ers should be enabled, with Asylum; at each visit he travels fifty tering of a company of mounted vol­ mile as appeared by the tax roll of more .certainty, to collect the inter­ miles and sometimes necessarily unteers in Jackson County, and J. last year. est on the Irreducible School Fund, spends two days at Portland. at hia E. Boss was commissioned as Briga- j Thejwork of the Board of eqalization to bo used in the current support of own personal expense performing this duty. dier General of the First Brigade of \ organized under the Equalization Act schools. The Corresponding Clerk of the the Oregon Militia, and directed to i of two years ago, having been effect­ Im m ig r a tio n . Board of School Land Commission­ move at once to the scene of distress | ed by a judicial decision, was not en­ I have been in receipt of valuable to report what force was required, forced. The members of the Board communications and papers touch ers specially in charge of the East­ and to do what hmanity and the d u ­ have resigned. ing the subject of immigration. Sev­ ern Oregon land records and corres­ To secure equality and justice in eral plans are proposed for the as­ pondence can be dispensed with, not ty of the State demanded. This force reached the field of the., massa­ the assessment and collection of tax­ sistance of emigrants who desire to because such clerical aid has not been necessary, but beoause the cre eight days before any other mili­ es has been a troublesome matter in become citizens of Oregon. tary assistance arrived, and engaged all the States. A satisfactory system The state of our public finances double duty cast upon the Board of itself in burying the dead and in offi­ is difficult to arrive at. Our present wiil not admit of the expenditure of doing their own work and of bring ces of mercy to the survivors. tax laws lack system and should be a large sum of money in this inter­ ing forward the undone work of the This was the initiation of the Ore­ reformed. The defects in former est, however desirable. We need former Board has now been accom­ gon Volunteer Strvice in the Modoc Acts, pointed out in toy last bienni­ population, but it will be certainly plished, and the Chief Clerk of the Indian war of 1872 and 1873, which, al message, were not remedied by wise to act within our resources of Board can now now take charge of that duty in duty in addition to. hia during the checkered fortunes of Inx the legislation of two years ago. revenue. A Commission of Emigra­ I herewith lay before you the rex tion, consisting of prominent citi­ own work. dian hostilities in Southern Oregon The rate3 of pay to subordinates during those years, employed five ports of tho Board of Equalization zens who would serve without com­ companies in all. which discuss the whole subject ably pensation, authorized to correspond and g u a rd s at tho P e n ite n tia ry m ig h t At the last session of Congress our and fully. with appointed voluntary Commis­ bo fixed by law, th o u g h I believe g en era l e c o n o m y has been there delegation there procured the pass State C apital. sioners abroad, and to advise and p r a c tic e d in th is re sp e ct. age of an Act virtually assuming the In tho construction of the State direct emigrants arriving here, and As to the reduction of fees in expenses of the State incurred in Capitol, of the appropriation of $100, to publish authentic information County offices and in effecting gen­ this service; and during the month 000, there has been expended the concerning the resources of the of July last, Inspector General J. A, sum of $99,000. This suru has been State at limited expeuse, might be eral county reforms, being specially familiar with the subjects, the mem­ Hardie, of the United States Army, paid in cash, as the work progressed, advisable. under instructions of the Secretary from mon-eys set aside for that pur­ The strongest inducements which bers of the Assembly will be the of War, visited Oregon to examine pose from the moneys set aside, from we can offer for emigration of the proper judges of what the people de­ and report upon the accounts engem the Military Fund. There are, in best classes will be freedom from sire to be done. I will take great dered in the support of these volun­ the Commissioners’ hands, materials debt and low taxes. The communi­ pleasure in joining you in all the teer troops. (chiefly < iron, tools and necessrcy cations and papers referred to are proper measurer of, retrenchment and reform. There are good grounds for expect­ articles), paid for, the amount of herewith respectfully submitted. Ito sistry I,a*T. ing that a favorable report will be $12.298 49. A d ju ta n t G en eral. made. The whole amount of the Something should,be done to re - There have been applied also, in Previously to 1870 tho Adjutant strain frauds and corruption at elec­ first and second services, as reported construction of the building, convict to General Scliofield, is $130,728 00. labor, brick and other materials from General was allowed a salary of $800 tions. If a Registry Act is passed it I thinkit but just that those who the Penitentiary, the amount of $22, per annum. The salary w-as repeal­ should not be too cumbersome or have mustered into military service 603 80. The cost of the work now ed at the Legislative session of that expensive, and should l 6 confined to year. No pay or allowance for ac­ precincts connected, with the cities at a time of emergency, and have in place is $110,802 60. tual expenses are now provided by furnished property for such service The Commissioners will lay before law for that officer. Col. A. P. Den­ and railroad stations, whence com ­ plaints of abuses of the suffrage should have guarantee of the State you, with their report, au estimate nison, who has lately resigned tho for their compensation. prepared by the architects, showing office of Adjutant General, perform­ arise. F r e e P a sses. I desire especially to present the the cost of inclosing the building and Tho New Constitution of the State ease of the volunteers who were so much of it as will furnish conveni­ ed important services, at his own promised by their officers and by the ent room for public occupauey, leav- personal expense, during the late of Pennsylvania prohibits railroad Executive the exertion of their influ­ ing the rrain tower, the south wing Modoc Indian hostilities. He peti­ corporations from issuing free pass­ ence to secure to them the pay of and the basement story to be com tions for reimbursement of these ex­ es to any public officer. Laws have two dollars per day for their services plated at a future day, when the penses. I lay the petition before lately been enacted in several other Tlie.rate of pay has been entered up­ State is older and our population you with the recommendation that States to like effect. I think a pro­ vision of thiB character in. the laws on the muster rolls. It is extremely larger. The architects have given these expenses be paid. G en eral F isca l M a n a g em e n t. of this State would meet with pub* doubtful whether this rate will be special attention to this work, and . The general fiscal management of lie approbation- allowed by Congress, though rqost the structure is sufficient, evidence R eg u la tio n o f R a ilro a d s. doubtful whether this rate will be of their architectural accomplish­ all departments of public affairs has been good. The public work has allowed by Congress, though most ments. The preservation of the State and been aecompmplished with general the people from the assaults of mo« just uuder the circumstances. The (le o lo g y . faithfulness aDd success, and in State should make good the full pay The preliminary report of the nearly all eases the expenses have nopolies is one of the first dntiea of of these volunteers- legislation, and clearly within yonr State Geologist, Professor Thomas It is befitting that I take this o c­ Condon-, is respectfully submitted to been kept within the appropriations. constitutional power o f action. You There is a deficiency in the appro casion thus publicly to acknowledge 3'our consideration. An outline of priation for the support of the Peni­ create corporations;: you can appoint on behalf of the State of Oregon, the the remarkable features of tiie ge and regulate their functions. Thro’ distinguished services oi Brevet Ma­ ologv of Oregon is here presented, tentiary. This is caused by the fact out Europe, where railways are not jor General Jefferson 0. Davis, of showing our State to be a field not that the appropriation was less than conducted directly by the govern­ the army of the United States, for only of the deepest interest to gen­ ever before in proportion to the num­ ment, thero are the most minute and his brilliant and decisive conduct in eral geological science, but one ber of prisoners, while the entire stringent rules enforced; by public closing the Modoc Indian War. To which will probably develop great proceeds of prison labor were turn­ authority for their management and General Frank Wheaton, and the wealth in gold, silver, iron, lead, ed over to the Capitol Building Com­ limitation. In several of the other officers who served under him, our coal and lime. It is already be* mission. and a large outlay from the States of this Union,, where such acknowledgements are due for their coming apparent that the southeast appropriation was required for the public control has not before been gallant and soldierly services from quarter of Oregon, bordering on purchase of wood and sand consum established, thero is now going on a the first and for their generous con Nevada, which is yet unsettled may ed in the manufacture of brick for struggle between the people and duct towaxd the Oregon Volunteers. prove to be as rich in mines of sil­ the construction of the Capitol.— these corporations, testing the very A resolution of thanks .would not be' ver and gold as our sister State. I There has been also an exceptional elements of the right of sovereignty inappropriate in the premises, as the commen.. the suggestions made in increase of inmates in our Peniten and of the law making power. In Oregon we have transferred to peace of our entire eastern frontier this report to your favorable notice. tiary during the last two years. Bo public moneys have been used private corporations, in trust for the was involved in the success of the A g r ic u ltu r a l C ollege. unless previously appropriated by people’s benefit, magnificent grants Modoc campaigns. The Agricultural College has been the Legislature for the specific pur­ of public land made by Congress to As to the Modoc outlaws wliokom- evidently conducted with great effort rnitted the massaees of the 29th and to reach the objects of its organiza- pose to which they have been devot­ the State for tho construction of ed. railroads, reserving no direction of 30th of November, 1872 and who tion. There has not been a default, or the expenditure o f their proceeds, now stand indicted for murder in The corps of instructors is com* the negligent use of the public mon­ making no conditions and prescrib­ Jackson County, they were taken out posed of gentlemen of high attain« eys to the amount of one dollar, by ing no limits to their operations.— of the jurisdiction of this State by ments in science and of successful any public officer or employe of the This State is probably the only o » a — force, under the direct order of tho experience a3 educators. I hope .State, during the four years, that I ; ^ J T — r-a il w eaVeninsr afla'pttiiiiw 'V President of the United States. They ¿A wm u’mon having a total want of H o a p ita l for the In sa n e the Assembly will provide means am in fo rm e d of are now fugitives Horn the justice of The report of the Superintendent this State, as soon as the unlawful for sustaining this valuable institue ' i. oelieve you wiil find their ac­ railroad regulations prescribed by­ of the Hospital for the Insane is here­ detention ceases they are liable to be tion until.the lands granted«^j \Joro counts, on examination, to be full, law In such a condition is it remarka­ with submitted Dr. J. C. Hawthorne returned on the requisition of the gress f o r . ^ s^ p 0rt can pe complete and satisfactory. Through­ ble that, feeling the impulse of new the Superintendent, has been con­ available for that purpose. The reo out the counties, as far as connect­ Governor of Oregon, a n d ja 4 ^ "su b - nected with the care of the insane in. ports of the President and Prcfess1 ions with the State has been con­ grown power, and incited by the punishment ac­ this State ever since the first estab­ mitted toTrial ors of theColIege arc herewith laid cerned, there has been general re­ keen energy of private interest, the cording to law. railroad corporations should be lia­ lishment of a State Asylum, twelve sponsibility. In the construction of ble to trample upon the people’s The claims of our citizens in before you. years ago. State U n iv ersity . all public buildings the contracts rights and to forget their obligations Southestern Oregon, whose proper­ The institution during the 4iast Pursuant to the act of last session have been b o n a f i d e , and as much to the State. ty was destroyed by the savages at two years has been conducted with the time of the massacre are most of the Legislative Assembly, local* of the work as possible has been di As all corporations jn this Stats the same care and humane treatment just. These settlers had no part in ing the State University at Eugene rectly applied by labor upon the exist under provisions of general and with equal snccess in the recov the cause of tho hostilities and were City, a building destined for the o c ­ structure. law, and special enactments confer­ ery of unfortunate sufferers from in­ R cti-eucbnieut. all innocent of offense toward tho cupancy of this institution has been ring special privileges are forbidden sanity. The whole number of pa The power of retrenchment i» by the Constitution, those general Modocs. A memorial of the Assem­ erected and inclosed, but not finish* tients now in the hospital is 193 pub­ bly setting forth in a clear light pub­ ed inside. The structure is a sub­ solely with the Legislative Assern. corporation laws are subject to lic and two private. Of these 104 lic opinion here on this subject, stantial.brick building, three stories bly. No tax can be levied and no amendment as other general laws, are males and 55 are females. The might assist our Representatives in high, and well calculated for the public money can be used without and all incorporation under them is report is full and instructive, aed is Congress in their efforts an approprir purpose designed. an Act of the Legislature first hav­ made with reference to that power of worthy of careful consideration. It ation to cover these claims. The University endowment accu­ ing specifically authorized the same. amendment. is but justice to the Superintendent mulating from the Congressional No public officer can increase his State P r in tin g . The plenary power of the State to to say that his management ot this Land grant will reach $100,000 with­ own pay, nor create perquisites not regulate common carriers and to The Constitution has the following institution is a high credit.to Oregon, provision concerning the State Prin­ in a few years, and I am informed authorized by the law making pow­ protect the rights and interests of The con tra ctor last year has expired ter: “ He shall perform all the pub- that there is also a donation of prop­ er. To you the people look for such the people whenever iniringtd, I and it will be the duty of the Legis­ lio printing for the State which may erty to the value of $25,000 more action as may lessen the expenses of think is undoubted. lature to make further provision for be provided by law. The rates to be from a private citizen, contingent government. That railways are of great benefit keeping our insane. In the transportation of oonvicts to the public, and are indispensable paid to him for such printing shall only upon a successful and perma­ In making new engagements it will be fixed by law, and shall neither be nent organization of this institution to the Penitentiary, and insane pa­ handmaids to the multiplied indus­ hardly be necessary to suggest that increased nor diminished during the at Eugi ne City. I recommend that tients to the Asylum, and in return­ tries and growing commerce of OrQ- a spitit cf enlightened humanity term for which he shall have been reasonable further time be given to ing fugitives from justice, a very gon, is no objection to the pnrpoae should assist in the disposal of the elected.” You will perceive by this complete the building, in full com ­ great saving can be made if the aud­ of regulation, but eonsiitules the iting of accounts be based upon ac­ reason of the demand for legislation suject. that you cannot legislate upon the pliance with tho terms of the Act. The report of the Visiting Physici­ rates of printing to be done by the In s titu tio n for Mutca a n d tlic B lin d . tual expenditure in performing the upon this subject. Ail property an, Dr. Andrew D. Ellis, replete present State Printer during his term The schools established for mutes service, and a reasonable per diem rights and ail classes of bhsineea with interesting details, is also sub­ but a Garefully considered printing and the blind have been successfully pay for the officer. No guards should must exist under law, and where mitted. Act ior the future might be matured conducted. I lay before you full be allowed, except by special order the management of any class 0f reports of the Superintendents and from thb proper Court. T b o M o d o c I n d ia n W a r. property or business is liable to af­ and passed. teachers oi institutions; also, reports Equalization No retrenobaient can properly be fect the property or business of oth* On the 1st of Decemlier, 1872, the It is a Constitutional pro-vision of the Board of School Land Corn- made in the Executive Department. erB in an unusual or deleieriottft country was startled by the news that Ihe M odoc Indians belonging to tho (4?tiole 9, Section 1) that “ the Leg* , mjEsioners and the Board of JBduca- In other States a contingent Execu­ manner, regulation by law is not oy* Klamath Indian Agency had risen in islative Assembly shall provide, by I tion, giving full details, of the mam tive Fund is customary to be pro* ly proper but imperative, This * to defray necessary e x cu se s tas lav oi public p olicy, arms and fallen npop the unprotect­ law, for a uniform and equal rate of agencent and fiscal accounts of the