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B A T E S OP A D V E R T IS IN G i
B ED R O C K D EM O CRAT,
P U B L IS H E D E V E R Y
W E D N E SD A Y ,
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BY
J.
M. S H E P H E R D .
OFFICE IN THE
B E D R O C K D EM O C RA T B I T L W S G .
T erm s of S ubscriptio n :
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VOL. 5.
One year,................. .................................. 4 00
Six Months,...................................... '
2 50
C orrespon den ce from all portions of
/ Eastern Oregon is solicited for the D em ocrat .
Ali communications, to receive attention,
must be accompanied by a responsible name.
Personal communications will be charged
as special advertisements.
l Idirceli
w . M o srMHsmir,
Corner of Main Street and Valley Avenue,
C IT Y , O R EG O N ,
Would respectfully inform the public that
he has recently received a well se­
lected and fresh Stock of
D ru gs,
Chem icals,
Paints, Oils,
Perfum eries,
P aten t Medicines,
Soaps,
W ines,
We are now prepared to do all kinds of
Brandies,
JO B WOllK on short notice and at reasona­
ble rates.
Whiskies and
N. B .—All Job Work MUST BE PAID
Cordials,
FOR ON DELIVERY.
P R O F E S S I O N A L CARDS.
L. O. STERN S,
T. C. HYDE,
N o t a r y P u b l ic .
S te r n s
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MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS
AT THE
A tto r n e y s a m i C o u n selo rs A t-Law ,
B A K E R CITY, OREGON.
L. O. S terns will attend the Courts of the
Fifth Judicial District, and of Idaho and
Washington Territories.
Water Rights and Mining Litigation a
S p e c ia l t y .
IST E W
STORE,
First door above the Express Office.
a d i e s F a n c y a n ti M i ll in e r y
Goods in Store, and Latest Styles receiv.
L
eir by Express every Month, and for sale at
A n d rew j , ia w b e s c e T ”
B A K E R C IT Y , OREGON.
IS AGENT FOR
of the State.
Baker City, Sept. 1, 1873. n!7y.
Grover & Baler’s Sewing M in e s .
Baker City, Dec. 1, 1872.n30tf
J. M. S H E P H E R D ,
"W e ste rn H o t e l.
A tto rn e y a t-L a w ,
MAIN STREET,.........................................BAKER CITY.
B A K E R CITY, OREGON.
R E ID & E L E T C H E R , P rop 'r.
s. V. KNOX,
Attorney at Law,
(And Notary Public,)
W E S T O N, O R E G O N .
Will practice in the Courts of this State and
Washington Territory.
PECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO LAND
Business, and Collections.
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J O S E P H H. S H I N N ,
Notary Lubjic
AND
C o n v e y a n c e r ,
Will attend to Conveyancing and making
ABSTRACTS OF T IT L E .
Baker City, Sept. 11,1872.
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E. W. REYNOLDS,
P U B L I C
AND
D E P U T Y U . S. M A R SH A L.
Iffice with John Brat tain, Three Doors
South of B edrock D em crat office,
on side of the Street.
Baker C ity, Sept. 3, 1873.n l7m t
A. J. TIMORI), li, A. M. D.
M. A. Queen’s University, \Canada,
M. D. Trinity University,/
1351.
DRUGS,
MEDICINES,
PAINTS and OILS,
WINDOW GLASS,
VARNISHES,
BRU SH ES, and
W IM M
& M KM KDM
For Medicinal Purposes.
TOILET ARTICLES
Of Every Description.
Prescriptions prepared at all Hours. City
and Country Trade Solicited.
Best Brands, of F a m ily G i
ic s, T o ­
b a cco s, Cig-fcrs, V«., constantly on
Hand, at the Lowest Prices.
Baker City, Oct. 7, lS74.n221y
J. B. G A R D N E R ,
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Liquors, Wines and Cigars of the best
quality. Phelan’s Improved Billiard Tables
ail in good order.
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N. B .—Those indebted to either the Hotel
or Saloon are requested to appear at the
Captain’s office and settle.
noSvStf.
RAIL ROAD HOUSE.”
rms cash, or no patronage solicited,
ce one door north oi City Drug Store.
BAKER CITY, OREGON.
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S J M’CORMICK,
Importer and Dealer In
Boots, Stationary, Toys, lusic, AM
NEWSPAPERS,
FRANKLIN BOOK-STORE AND SANTA CLAUS’
H eadquarters, Eire-proof
Brick -Building, 105 Front street, Portland,
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TJ nder tak er.
J. W. C L E A V E R
Informs the Public that he is prepared to do
ffil land of work in the Undertaking Business
oq short notice and at rasonable prices.
Baker City, Oct. 1 , 1873.n21tf
S e w in g M a c h i n e s —-A G r o v e r
& Baker, and a Florence, both new and
tha very best—for sale. For particulars, en­
quire at thte office,
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AND
Manufacturers of B ra ts & f apns.
E A RE G ETTIN G OUR T IM B E R
direct from St. Louis, MoV. and none
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but the very best is Purchased, we are there­
fore prepared to Warrant all our work.
We are now fully prepared to complete any
Buggies or Wagons
B l a c k s m i th in g
AND
W A G O N M A IL IN G ,
n A ll t l i e V a r i o u s B T a n c lie s
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F R A N C E ,
B A K E R CITY, OREGON.
T
LIVERY S T A B L E
II
L iv e ry Stable
Designs and Specifications Furnished.
Estimates Made. Terms Liberal.
Baker City,- Nov. 17, 1874.
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B la c k s m ith s
I
X Y j izens of Baker Gity and County, and
the Public generally, that they have pur­
chased the
B A K E R CITY, OREGON.
WATCHES. CLOCKS I JEWELRY ■J
carried on by the Undersigned, at their
Shop, at the
I ) c s p e c t f u l l y I n f o r m t h e C it-
J o h n F . C h o rd ,
Carpenter and J oiner,
ESTABLISHED IN BAKEK CITY IN 1867,
Keeps constantly on hand a well assorted
Stock of
Give us a call, and then you can judge of
our ability and capacity to please our custo­
mers.
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CLEMENT & SICORD.
H E P R O P R IE T O R H A S B o u g h t
the Hotel Restaurant, next door to
the Post Office, formerly kept by Sicord &
Whitcomb, and has fitted the same up in
the best style as a Hotel, on Jlie French
Restaurant Style. He is prepared to ac­
commodate the Public, and is determined
to give entire satisfaction.
The House is open from five o’clock in
the morning until twelve at night, during
which time customers will be supplied
with the best of everything to be had in
Ute
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Bilker City, Ju ly 4 ,187k-u9tf
[Y SIC IA N AND S U R G EO N ,
WATCHMAKER AND JL WELLE,
On short notice, and we can say we have the
Very Best of Workmen in our employ.
Baker City, Oregon.
Every one wanting a Buggy or Wagon will
save
time and money by giving us a call and
r r t l i e P r o p r i e t o r s r e s p e c t f u l l y examining
our work for themselves.
1 inform tue Public that they have pur­
chased the Baker City Hotel, and have fitted
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"“ slioeing.
itup as aFirstL lass Hotel, where they will be Z
found at all times ready to attend to the
Special-attention is paid to Horse Shoeing,
wants of the
All repair work done on short notice. We
H u n g ry an d W eary ,
are thankful for past Patronage, and still
solicit a continuance.
In a manner that will give satisfaction.
GAINES & BOWMAN.
Baker City, March 11, 1874.-n44tf
The Table will be supplied with the best the
MARKET WILL AFFORD.
B A K E R CITY, OREGON.
O f f i c e — In the new Building immediate­
ly South of the Western Hotel.
2 P - ^ w t:'Y 7 i7 C 3 > O C 3 -5 M. 1).
Luate of the College of Physicians and
ions New York aim ot the Medical De­
tent oi the Willamette University,)
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C L E M E N T & SICO RD , Proprietors,
T . JNT. S n o w » M . E>.
Physician and Surgeon,
MEDICAL EX A M IN ER
For the New York Life Insurance Co-
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S A L O O N !
JOSEPH MAMI MS, Proprietor,
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kinds of
and is prepared to do all kinds of work in
his line of business.
m i n s HOUSE has been enlarged and re-
X fitted, and is now the best Hotel on the Waltham and Elgin Watches at Factory
Umatilla and Idaho stage route.
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Prices
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Stages leave this House for above and be­
low, and also lor Clark’s Creek Eldorado,
S. A. GAINES.
GEO. J. BOWMAN.
Gem City and Sparta.
Connected with the Hotel will he found a
GAINES & BOWMAN,
first class
P l i y s i c i a a , S u r g e o n , <Ae.
O ffice and Residence, at A. H. Brown s
former residence, nearly opposite the Bed­
rock Democrat Office.
Baker City, Oregon, Nov. 1 0 ,1874.-y
Oregon.
e e p s c o n st a n t e y on h a n k
a Full Assortment of all
K
Goods, consisting in part of
Done to Order, and at Short Notice by
MRS. L. J . HUSTON.
Baker City, April 18,1874.-n51in6
Mrs. R. C. Shepherd
IL.E P R A C T IC E IN A EE COURTS
xD7
J. f , WISDOM, Proprieloï
Corner Main Street and Valley Avenue
Southwest Side,
B A K E R C IT Y , OREGON,
most reasonable Prices.
Attorney-at-Law,
N O T A R Y
C o rn e r D r a ^ S to re ,
D r e s s M a k in g
Collections promptly attended to.
June 18, 1873.nöy
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For Medicinal purposes. Fam ily Medi­
cines carefully prepared. Prescrip­
tions accurately compounded,
at at 1 hours of the day or
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night. Give us a call.
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BAKER CITY, BAKER COUNTY, OREGON, FEBRUARY 10, 1875.
HSI e w D r a g S t o r e .
BAKER
S. M. B E T T E N G IE E A CO., 10 S ta te
Btreet, Boston, 37 Park Row, New York,
and ,01 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, are
®ur Agents for procuring advertisements
for the B e d r o c k D e m o c r a t , in the above
cities, and are authorized to contract for
advertising t our lowest rates.
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One square or less, o'ffe insertion,........$2 5$
Each additional i n s e r t i o n , ....................1 CO
One square three months,................
0 00
Business Advertisements by the month—
Formerly kept by Jolm Eppinger, and that
they are prepared to furnish customers with
the best of
Single or Double Turn-outs,
Either night or day, with or without drivers,
at the very lowest rates. First class Saddle
Horses on hand. Horses boarded and the
best of care bestowed. We keep nothing but
the best of Stock and Buggies.
Our stable is at the upper end of Main
Street, Baker City, Oregon.
Come and see us, Everybody, and we will
do our best to please you.
KILBURN & PERKINS.
February 10, 1874.-n40tf
LIV ER Y S T A B L E
G EIER & KELLO GG
H aving com pleted their New Stable,
have now the* finest and best regulated
Livery Stable
Head of Main Street,
B A K E R
STOCK BO U G H T AND SO LD .
Baker City, Nov. 13, 1872. n!3tf
OREGON.
He will do as good work, at as reasonable
Prices, as any other Shop in the Country.
B l o w s
Manufactured to order.
S. B. McCORD.
Baker City, Feb. 10, 1874.n40tf
Buy Your Lumber at the
Old, Reliable
E b e l l ’s O ld M i l l .
E H A V E R E F IT T E D T H E
W
Mill and make the best Lumber in
the county, at prices to suit the times.
Any hills left at our Mill receive as prompt
attention in the future as in .the past. We
saw everything from a Lath to the Heaviest
Timbers.
Clear and seasoned Lumber always on
hand.
Bills left with J. W. Wisdom tvill receive
immediate attention. By strict attention to
business, we hope to receive our share of
public patronage.
An unlimited amount of Grain taken in
exchange for Lumber.
ELLIO TT & VAN PATTEN.
March 1 1874.-u34tf.
Lumber— New Saw Mill.
c C O R D
BRO TH ERS HAVE
M their New Saw Mill in complete run­
ning order, and it is doing the best of work.
It is located at
P o c a h o n ta s ,
Where they are prepared to fill all bills for
Lumber at short notice, and at as
R e a s o n a b le B r ic e s
As any other Mill in the county- Orders or
Bills 'for Lumber can be left at the Black­
smith Shop of S. B. McCord, in Baker
City, and they will he promptly filled.
r
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8. B. McCORD,
R. D. McCORD,
J . P. McCORD.
P. S.—All business in connection with the
Mill will he atended to by
R. D. McCORD.
November 11, 1873.-n27ti
In E a s t e r n Oregon,
Where they will carry on the Livery Busi­
ness in-all its branches.
CITY,
*W anted,
O A
A n n
Pounds o f W heat
O U « U U U at the B edrock D emo ­
crat Office immediately, for which the high­
est Cash priec willbe allowed.
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IM P O R T A N T « E C Ï 8 I O S .
T h e S ta te ï ' . ra s iire ii’s C ase B ech lafl.
in the Supreme Court of the State of Ore­
gon. December Term ; 1874. Joseph Si­
mon, respondent, vs. A. II. Brown, as
State Treasurer, appellant; appeal from
Marion County. W. H. Efdnger for ap­
pellant E . C. Broncngh for respondent.
M c A r t h u r ,J .
The petition alleges that on November
7,1872, the Secretary of State drew a war­
rant on the State Treasurer in the follow­
ing form:
S t a t e o f O r : e
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Nov.
7,
1872.)
S a l e m
$504.
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State Treasurer will pay out of the Gen
eral Fund to the order of A. J . Dnfur, the
sum of live hundred and four dollars.
(Signed)
S. F. C h a d w i c k ,
No. 393.
Secretary of State.
“ Centennial Commission Substitute.”
That on said date the same was present­
ed for payment, and for want of funds was
not paid, and the then Treasurer endorsed
the same as follows:
“ Presented and not m id for want of
funds , Nov. 7, 1872.
‘ (Signed)
L . F l e i s c h n e r , Treasurer.
That, afterwards, Dufur endorsed the
same for value, arid the plaintiff is now the
owner and holder.
That the Legislative Assembly, at its
Eighth Biennial Session, passed an act
entitled “An Act to provide for the ordi­
nary expenses of the State Government,
and other general and specific appropria­
tions,” by which the said Legislative As­
sembly did appropriate the sum of $332,-
157,66, or so much thereof as might be nec­
essary for the several objects in said act
mentioned for two years, commencing
from September 11,1874, to be paid out of
any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, besides tlie sum of $7,2-5(/ap­
propriated out of specific funds for specific
purposes.
That by Section 19 of said act it is pro­
vided that “No money shall be paid out
under this Act except upon warrants drawn
by the Secretary of State upon the Treas­
urer shall be paid by said Treasurer in the
order in which they have been presented
endorsed: ‘Presented and not paid' for
want of funds,’ whether the same have
been issued before or after the passage of
this Act.”
That by Section 20 of said act it is pro­
vided that “Owing to the necessity of
maintaining the public credit, this act
shall take effect and be in force from and
after its approval by tde' Governor,” and
that it was approved Oct. 24,1374.
That there are outstanding warrants
drawn by said Secretary of State upon said
Treasurer and presented prior to Nov. 7,
1872, and endorsed: “ Presented and not
paid for want of funds,” to the amount
and for the sum of twenty-two hundred
dollars (2,200) and not to exceed that sum,
and that there is now in the General Fund
the sum of seven thousand or more dollars
(7.000) in U. S. currency, which was receiv­
ed otherwise than for taxes, the requisite
portion of which is applicable to and
should be paid out by the Treasurer to­
wards the satisfaction of tiie warrant afore­
said with interest from the date of its en­
dorsement by tlie Treasurer.
That on Nov. 30th, 1874, ihe plaintiff
caused the warrant aforesaid to be duly
presented and demand made for payment
which was refused by the present 'Treas­
urer, A. H. Brown, the defendant.
Then follows a prryer for a writ of man­
damus commanding the Treasurer to re­
duce said currency in the général fund to
coin and to pay said warrant with the in­
terest due thereon.
The defendant answers and says:
1. That he refuses to pay said warrant
because the same belongs to and is a part
oi the deficient warrants drawn upon the
State Treasury for which no appropriation
was made by the Legislative Assembly,
and that he has no authority to pay any
warrants presented to him unless author­
ized by Act of said Assembly and that said
warrant is part of an indebtedness for
which there has been no appropriation.
2. That the entire amount of outstand­
ing warrants presented and endorsed “ not
paid for want of of funds” aggregate about
$287,459 .17 and that warrant No. 393 is of
said number and that none of said war­
rants are included in , or provided for in
the appropriation bill passed October 24th,
1874, and therefore he refuses to pay the
same.
3. That the warrants upon tlie various
funds appropriated to by the said act and
accruing since Sept. 14, 1874 aggregate at
this time $78,957,51 and that the same are
property, collectible, from the Treasurer
under and by virtue of said section 19, and
that if he should be required to pay One de­
ficient-warrants he would not have any
funds whatever wherewith to pay the cur­
rent expenses ofthe State Government or
any general or special expenses during the
two years succeeding. Then follows a
prayer for dismissal, etc.
A demurrer was interposed and sustain­
ed to the 2d and 3d portions of the answer.
Thereupon t.ie plaintiff filed his reply
denying the first allegation in the answer
and averring that the Legislative Assem­
bly did by an act approved Oct. 24,1872,. en­
titled “An Act to provide for paying the
expenses ofthe Commissioner and Com­
missioner substitute for the Stale of Ore­
gon in attending tlie sittings of the U. S.
Centennial Commission,” appropriate tlie
sum of four thousand dollars out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise ap­
propriated to be used for the purposes ex­
pressed in the title of the act during the
years 1872 and 1876 inclusive upon which
fund said warrant was drawn.
After trial the Court below adjudged the
writ, properly issued and ordered that the
said warrant be paid by the Treasurer.—
From the findings ofthe Court it is appar­
ent that the effect ofthe order was to cause
payment to be made out of the $7,000, the
general fund mentioned in the plaintiff’s
comniaint. Tnere is no question made
here’ upon ruling of the Court below on
the demurer to the defendant’s answer
and we pass tha't matter as unimportant.
It will be observed that the said answer
nowhere puts in issue the following alle­
gations ot the complaint. (1) That there
are outstanding warrants drawn by the
Secretary of State upon the Treasurer and
presented prior to Nov. 7,1872, and indors­
ed: “ Presented and not paid for want of
funds,” to the amount of twenty-two hun­
dred dollars (2,200) and not to exceed that
amount. And, (2) That there are now in
the General Fund of the Treasury of the
State the sum of seven thousand dollars
(7.000) or more in currency of the United
States which was received by the Treasur­
er otherwise than for taxes from which
fund warrant No. 393 and accumulated in­
terest is payable.
The first section of the act to provide for
the payment of the Centennial Commiss­
ion declares that “ there shall be and is
hereby set apart from any money in the
State Treasury not otherwise appropriated
the sum of tour thousand dollars ($4,000).to
be used in defraying the expenses of-the
Commissioner,” etc., and in the second
section it is provided after the bills of the
Commissioner are audited the Secretary of
State shall draw his -War.raXt for the
amounts audited aixt that the Treasurer
shall nay the same from the fund to be set
apart in virtue of the first section: “Pro­
vided, That' the aggregate amount paid in
any one year shall not exeeed $1,000 (Law
1872, p.103.)
,
Thus it will be seen that the warrant in
suit is to be paid out of a fund to be set
apart by the Treasurer from any moneys
not otherwise appropriated. Assuming
that there are in the treasury the seven
thousand and odd dollars belonging to the
general fund as alleged in the complaint
and not denied in the answer, and assum­
ing further that there are warrants upon
the general fund registered prior to this
one aggregating in amount $2,200 it follows
that there must be some $4,800 in said gen-
NO. 40.
eral fund which it does not appear have
been “otherwise appropriated” and from
Which ihe fund may be created out of
which the law authorizes the Centennial
warrants to be paid.
We are of opinion that this warrant can­
not legally bo paid out of any of the funds
provided for by the. Act of Oct. 24,1874. The
very terms used in the first section of said
act shows that the Legislative Assembly
specifically appropriated i'or the objects enu­
merated ia subsequent sections certain défi­
nit sums of money to be paid out of any
money not otherwise appropriated during
the two years succeeding September 14,1874.
Section nineteen provides that “no money
shall be paid out under this act except upon
warrants drawn by the Secretary of State
upon the State Treasurer. And all warrants
drawn by the Secretary of State from the
treasury shall be paid by said Treasurer in
the order in which they have been present­
ed and endorsed ‘Presented and not paid tor
want of funds,’ whether the same have been
issued before or after the passage of this
Act.”
It is contended that this action should be
so constiüed as to authorize the State Treas­
urer to pay wrrran ts which have bean issued
long prior to the second Monday in Septem­
ber, 1874, under the other acts of the Legis­
lative Assembly and for other purposes than
those mentioned in the other sections of
that Act. The question therefore is, can
such an enlarged construction 4be given to
Section Nineteen ? - I f so, the entire charact­
er of the Act L changed, and irom an act
providing for the ordinary expenses of the
State Government accruing during the two
years succeeding the second Monday of Sep­
tember, 1874, and the other and general and
specific appropriations enumerated therein,
it will become an act to provide for certain
extra-ordinary expenses incurred prior to
that date, for which payment is neither gen­
erally nor specifically 'provided by the Act.
In construing this Act it is the duly of the
Court to ascertain if possible the intention
of the Legislature, and in so doing the pre­
amble and the general purview or body of
the Act are to be taken into consideration,
and it is the duty of the Court to put a rea­
sonable construction upon all its -sections
and clauses, in order to accomplish its obvi­
ous purposes and in order that ail its provi­
sions may if possible stand. W henever the
intention of the makers of a statue can be
discovered, it ought to he followed with rea­
son and discretion in the construction of
the statue, although such construction seems
contrary to the letter of the statue. “A
thing which is within the letter of a statue
is not within the statue unless it be within
the intention of the makers.” Griswold vs.
National Insurance Co. 3 Cowen 96. The
obyious purpose of the act under considera­
tion is to provide the necessary funds to de­
fray the expenses of the State Government
for two years succeeding September 14,1874,
for it does not appear that it was passed in
pursuance of Art. 9, Sec. 6 ofthe State Con­
stitution, but on the contrary it was passed
in virtue of Art; 9, Sec 3 of the Constitution
and of Sec. 58, p. 760. of the General Laws.
If we look to the mere words of section
nineteen there is an apparent inconsistency
between it and the other sections of tiro act,
but when viewed in the light of the pream­
ble and the other sections that inconsistency
disappears, and the section may with much
reason be taken to mean that no money shall
be paid out under tlie act except upon war­
rants diawn by the Secretary of State upon
the State Treasurer and all warrants drawn
by the Secretary upon the Treasurer in vir­
tue of this act shall be paid by said Treasur­
er in the order in which they have been pre­
sented and endorsed: “ Presented and not
paid for want of funds” whether the same
have been issued before or after tho passage
of the Act. I f must be borne in mind that
this Act was approved October 24, 1874. Al­
so that Sections Five and Nine provide,
among other things, for the payment of cer­
tain deficiencies in the Mute School Fund
and Penitentiary Fund. Therefore the
words, “ whether the same have issued be­
fore the passage of this Act” are intended to
embrace such warrants as represent the défi­
ciences in the fund just mentioned. There
is no relerenee whatever in the Act to the
Centennial Commission Fund, and hence
the Act and no Section thereof can properly
be held to govern the payment of the war­
rants drawn thereon.
We therefore are ol the opinion ’’ that the
warrant for the recovery of which this ..pro­
ceeding was instituted shodld be paid out ot
the fund first alluded to ( the $7,000 ), and
the Treasurer should set apart the fund in
accordance with the provisions of the Act
approved October 24, 1872, commonly called
the Centennial Commission Act.
Judgment affirmed.
S T R A W B ID S .
Tire Postmaster-General has taken hold of
the straw bid question in connection with
some of the principal router in the Western
States and Territories with great earnest­
ness, and his action to-day in regard to
routes in Oregon may he taken as indicat­
ing his course with all the rest. On inves­
tigation he found that Ben Holladay, Barlow,
Sanderson & Co., have been able to control
immense contracts at high rates, through a
system of straw bids, and he has informed
them that while their bids for the next year
are the lowest responsible ones, he c onsid-
ers the price to high, and will not pay it;
that he will not allow his department to be
hampered by what he knows full well is a
ring. Thinking they had the department
at their mercy the contractors coolly inform­
ed him that it he did not accept" their terms
they would not continue the service. He
replied that he should re-advertise the
route and see that responsible bidders got
an opportunity to make honorable competi­
tion.
To-day Senator Mitchell called upon Mr.
Jewell to remonstrate with him respecting
his proposed action to-again advertise for the
performance of service. The senator stated
that such a course, would consume valuable
time, and in the mean time Holladay might
refuse to carry mails at all and the people of
Oregon, especially in the eastern part of
that route now being served by Holladay,
would suffer for want ofmails facilities, Mr.
Jewell replied that ho thought S600 a day
was too much to pay for seven hundred and
fifty miles of stage coach service, that it
could be done for less, and that he was deter,
mined to have it done at much less.
But, said the senator, how can it be done ?
These men have stock, coaches and other fa­
cilities to go ahead, and none else will.
I suppose I should send mail by another
route, was the answer.
Well, then, said the senator, the people
would not get their mail in seasonable time.
Then, assuming an air non-patronizing, he
said: Mr. Jewell, I am not interested in
these men. I appeal for the people of Ore­
gon, that you will Hot cause them trouble by
readvertising the routes.
JJr. Jewell, in reply, stated that he knew
the service was in the hands >i a ring, and
he would break it up if he had to let the
mails of Oregon rot for months.
As a result, it is believed .hat Holladay &
Barlow and Sanderson & Co., will carry the
mails at a sum greatly reduced in figures
represented in the bid. I f they do not,
some one else will have to do the work,
$6 00
10 00
.15 0Q>
Ten per cent, additional on advertisements
to which a »DQeial posit»» is guaranteed.
OS^Tlie space ot ^
Inch, up and down
the'Column, cons titutes & -nuare.
N. B.—All debts due this office are payable
in Coin, unless otherwise eapressly agreed-.
O I K W IL L O W C R E E K i E t T E B .
W i l l o w C r e e k , Feb. 5th. 1875-
E d it o r D e m o c r a t :— Winter hangs dfo
yet, although it has been very pleasant ex­
cept a few cold nights. Our cattle and
j horses arc all doing well, as the snow 1»
not deep enough to cover the grass. We
had no snow at all until the 30th of Decem­
ber.
A new post-office has been located on
Willow Creek at Mr. A. B. Roberts’ place.
The name ofthe office Is Stone, and Mrs,
Roberts is Post-Mistress.
I hope you will not freeze these 25 below
zero .imes. It has not been so cold here­
by 20 degrees.
Yours &c.,
# 4 «
Twelve hundred local miners have been
shut out from employment In South
Wales.
Garibaldi disclaims political intention»
in accepting a seat-in the Italian Parlia­
ment.
Over 400 Chinese were last by the burn­
ing of the steamship Japan.
Many Republicans in the house oppose
Butler’s plan to enable a bare m ajorliy to
take up a bill at any time.
It is the opinion that the full Louisiana
investigating committee will concur in the
report of Phelps, Potter and Foster, of the
sub-Commiltee, throwing the blame on
tlie Kellogg faction and the Returning
Board.
The Senate Committee on elections is a
tie on the admission o f Pinchbeck. W h e n
Cameron returns ho will vote against
him.
I f Pinchbeck fails then Grant’s brother-
in-law, Casey, will be elected to the Son-
ate.
On last Saturday the Dead Letter Office
at Washington received a package sent by
mail, containing six snakes, four of them
alive, and one of them a .copperhead. It
was addressed to Germany, but atoppei at
Washington.
Senator Ramsey abandons the contest
for re-election in Minnesota.
Thurlow Weed congratulates Andy John,
son on his election to the Senate.
A Republican Senatorial caucus on Sat­
urday resolved to support the President in
all he has done or proposes to do in Louis­
iana affairs. Eight Republican Senators
dissented.
The Modoe Indian war cost the quarter­
masters of Subsistence Departments $411,-
000.
The appropriation for Inland Mail service
next year is fixed by the Committee at $17,-
548,000.
Maine rejects the Woman Sufiraffge prop­
osition as a constitutional amendment.
Capt. Edward Higgins, late agent for the
P. M. S. S. Co., died Jan. 31st at the Grand
Hotel in San Francisco.
Yasquez has given up all hope of having
his sentence commuted,
Chavez publishes a card threatening to
avenge the death of Yasquez, if he is hang­
ed.
To-day begins the fifth week of the Beech­
es case, and much public interest is felt in
tho decision of Judge Neilson on the admissi­
bility of Tilton’s evidence, which was ren­
dered today.
A dispatch from Washington this morning
says that the increase of the public debt in
January was $1,837,870.27.
A New Orleans special this morning says
that the Republican members of tho Inves­
tigating Committee are attempting to ar­
range a compromise between the contending
parties.
B. C. Cahfield, successor to J . J . Rico
from Illinois, was sworn in as member of
the House to-day.
Mr. Pratt presented in the Senate to-day
a joint resolution from the Legislature of
Maryland in favor of granting pensions to
Mexican War survivors.
C r u e l t y t o A n i m a l s -.— The Owyhee Ava­
lanche says there are said to be droves of
cattle along Snake river famishing with
thirst as well as hunger. The river being
frozen over they can get no drink, and many
of them venture out to the air holes, break
through the ice, under which they are car­
ried down by the current and are seen ho
more. I t seems to us that owners of starv­
ing cattle should at least see that they got all
the water they want to drink, and notadd the
pangs of thirst to those of hunger.
Never trust with a secret a married man
who ’oves his wife,- for he will tell her, and
she will tell her sister, and her sister will
tell everybody.
A Michigan man with a large family has
been an emigrant fifty four times, and has
just sent to Texas for a pamphlet about tho
resources of that State.
A good little girl writes to the N. Y.
Tribune: “Papa has given us three cents a
day for not sucking our thumbs. We send
$1. for a child in Kansas.”
Anna Eliza says that thirteen of Brigham’s
daughters sat in the front seats and madfl
faces at her the first time she lectured.
A man may be properly said to have been
drinking life a fish when he finds that ha
has taken enough to make his head swim.
Notv we know what makes it so cold. E l­
der Lutz, of Now Haven, is preaching on
“ Hell Closed for repairs.”
Men who travel barefooted around a new-
ly carpeted bed room often find themselves
on the wrong track.
,
David Kalakaua has a great lik!ng for chil­
dren. He says he never saw one that didn’t
look good enough to eat.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel compares that
town to “ the dimple on beauty’s cheek.”
More cheek than dimple, probably.
There is nothing more hazardous than to
be bothering an irritable woman with fool­
ish questions on wash day.
‘•Too thin” has become obsolete. ‘“Not
sufficiently materialized” is the latest form
in which this idea is clothed.
“You are too pert entirely, Miss,” said a
teacher to a pupil. “Your whole domeanot
is a continuous misdemeanor.’
I t is vety cold weather, and yet plovers dft
cot see the sense of hugging a store,