The Corvallis gazette., March 14, 1879, Page 2, Image 2

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OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE STATE
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COUNTY
ComMs, Marcli 14, 1879,
W. B. CARTER,
CONDEMNED TO Dl--ACQUiTTg.
"Troth is stranger than Fiction."
On the 9tli of Septnber last, Oliver
Hebert, a farmer living uuar-Silverton,
Marion county, was waylaid and
murdered. Suspicion circumstances
led to the an est of Mrs. Hebert, wife
of deceased, and one John D. Wiit'
ney. In the Circuit Court for Mar
ion cstJuttty, Whitney was tried, found
guilty of murder in ti:e first decree,
and sentenced to be hung. The wo
man, though generally believed to be
equally sruilty, was cleared. Whit
ney's case was taken to the Supreme
Court, and a new trial granted,
which terminated last Friday even
ing, when the case was given to a
jury of twelve mer.. We happened
to be in Salem at the time, and heard
the closiBg pleading of the District At
torney. The jury remained out all
night, and at 8 o'clock next morning
came into court for instructions
upon the law relating to the gun with
which the horrid murder was com
mitted. Up to that time it was un
derstood the jury stood nine for con
viction, and three for acquittal. Judge
Harding gave instructions, the jury
retired, and in a few moments return
ed a verdict of " Xot guilty," and
John D. Whitney, to the astonish
ment of nearly everybody, was dis
charged from custody. Intense ex
citement followed, and groups of ex
cited and enraged people were to be
seen on almost every street corner.
As an indication of popular feeling
we take the following extract from
the Salem Statesman of Sunday morn
ing :
The jury in the Whitney case came into
court yesterday morning shortly after ei!it
o'clock and asked for further instructions in
regard to the construction of the evidence
concerning the connection of Whitney with
the gun produced in court ; after receiving a
further charge they retired and, in a few
momenta, returned with a verdict of "not
guilty." Thus ended one of the most outra
" geous criminal farces that was ever practiced
Upon any community.
The air is full of bitter denunciations, and
a general disgust with the tricks of law dis
pensers seized upon the minds of all right
thinking people. We have heard insinua
tions of low, cunning tricks and questiona
ble practices, which it is to be hopM for the
honor of the parties implicated, may be sat
isfactorily explained.
We can truly say that' the people of Sa
lem share largely in the views expressed by
our Silverton correspondent, Fielding Mc
Glane. Following is the commuui:;.ition
referred to above, written by Fielding
McClane, a wealthy farmer, and one
of the leading, and most influential
citizens of Silverton, immediately
after the release of the prisoner:
The second trial of John D. Whitney for
the murder of Oliver Hebert last September,
is over and the murderer, with his paramour,
Sarah A. Hebert, are turned loose to re-enact,
should an opportunity occur, a like hid
eous crime.
Before leaving for my home in Silverton,
I wish to state a few facts, that startling a3
they are, are none the less true.
'the jury last night, after receiving Judge
Harding's charge, retired and were polled ;
nine of the jury on the first ballot were for
conviction, two of the jury were wavering
and one of them stated that he would stay
there two weeks before he would consent to
a verdict of guilt'.
Thus the jury stood with but one change
all night, when they came in and asked for
instructions, relative to connecting tb,e pris
oner with the weapon that did the fatal deed.
The testimony had not shown that anybody
had ever se?n the gun in Whitney's posses
sion. The judge, and a wise judge, told the
jury that "the g:;n must be connected jwith
Whitney before they could bring in a ver
dict of guilty."
That charge, with the persistency of the
"one" turned ten men against their own
honest convictions as to the guilt of Whit
ney. Whitney wa3 discharged and left on the
freight train at 11:30 o'clock for Portland.
The community in which 1 live are justly
indignant and believe that unscrupulous
means have been used to thwart justice.
There are certain facts connected with the
selection of that jury that need explanation.
A- certain man was recommended to the
prosecution as a good juryman, the reasons
therefor should be explained at once. In
the meantime let lawyers chuckle that they
have defeated justice and set a brace of mur
derers free ; let Whitney and Mrs. Hebert
enjoy themselves in the metropolis where
they can gloat over the success of their
crime, but an avenging Nemesis in the shape
of their own guilty consciences will sooner
or later overtake the perpetrators of this
fiendish crime, and the day of reckoning
will come to all who aided or abetted in this
outrage upon the peace of society.
The Condemned Men. As the day set
for the execution of Archie Brown and Jas.
Johnson draws near, says the Telegram, ex
tra precaution is being taken by Sheriff Nor
den to prevent any occurence that would in
tercept the carrying out the sentence impos
ed by the court. Yesterday morning both
of the condemned men Were thoroughly
searched and their cells and' bedding over
hauled. This was done to see if either of
the prisoners had any poisonous dm" or
weapon concealed about their person or cells.
None was found, and hereafter those who
may be allowed to visit the men will not be
allowed beyond a certain distance. A rope
has been stretohed in front of both cells,
and no person iw allowed to enter within its
bounds. As a further precaution a guard is
kept over them night and day. Both of the
men still cling to the hope that they will
yet be spared the ignominious death that
awaits them. Brown feels considerably de
prcssd since hearing that his mother would
be unable to come and see him before be
dies. Johnson disclaims all intention of
harboring even the thought of killing or
having in any way participated in it, and
reasoning this way feels as though the ef
forts made for him to have his sentence com-;
muted will be at- last successful.
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Salem, March 11, 1879.
Editor Gazette: Clouds, rain,
snow, hail, sunshine, mist and wind,
is what has ailed us for the past week,
and more especially the latter. Old
Boreas, in fact, has been upon his pe
riodical spree and has amused himself
at our expense to his most complete
satisfaction. He has cut up pranks
sufficient to last him for a twelve
month and ushered March in like a
lion, leaving his victims in doubt as
to whether it will verify the t ruth of
the old adage that when such is the
case it will go out like a lamb The
average farm fence has been fearfully
tested and old Boreas aforesaid has
wrenched and twisted around it,
doing his level best to upset its equil
ibrium and cause the horny-handed
grander additional trouble and ex
pense in setting things to right. He
has carried signs from one business
house to another, until a stranger, be
in" guided by them, would be as apt
to enter a gin mill in search of a new
bonnet as he would a milliner's shop
in quet of his morning cocktail.
Matters have become woefully mixed
up ami it's hard telling which one of
the boys we are. The storm has
placed a quietus on business and
when business is stagnated news chan
nels are likewise clogged and items of
an interesting nature areas scarce as
hen's teeth and we will be called upon
to scratch gravel pretty lively in order
to find anything worthy of the name
to communicate. We visited Port
land, as intimated in our last, and done
the city to as great an extent as time
and circumstances would permit and
have again resumed our daily avoca
tion, fully cognizant of the fact that
in the matter of bustle and business
life Portland is the chief, and is
destined to remain so. Her every
advantage, is prominent, and xstoria,
j Salem and Scio, may just as well
j stop " kicking" first as last, and mag
nanimously consent to stand next to
the head, which in itself is quite an
honor, provided of course there are
i more than two in the class, mere
I is more business done there in a day
j than we would dare dream of in a
month and what is still better the
volume of business is each day in
creasing, and business firms are ex
! panding in order to keep up with the
I demands of trade. The wholesale
I trade is assuming immense propor
tions and we are pleased to note a
mire persistent desire to keep the
money at home. When San Francis
co fims have such men as Fleischner,
Meyer & Co., whose stock of dry
goods and domestics is simply stu
pendous, and whose shipments each
day are up into the thousands and
aggregate annually nearly a million
of dollars, and whose close attention
to the fluctuations of the Eastern
markets enable them to buy at equal -
ly advantageous rates with their Cal
ifornia neighbors; and when, as is
j their constant aim, they strive first
and foremost to merit the confidence
land esteem of their patrons and en
deavor by fair dealing- to treat all
alike ; when, we say, such thorough
business men as these enter the arena,
they are very apt to make it tropical
for outside firms whose investments
go to add to the improvements under
way elsewhere. This firm is second
ed by many others in Portland such
as Coibitt & McCleay, Wadhams,
Elliot & Co., John McCraken & Co.,
! and dozens more, whose names we
; might mention, did time and space
I permit. It behooves Oregonians to
keep their money at home just as
much as possible, and interior mer
j chants should make it a point to pur-
I chase their troods within the limits of
of our own State ami thus add to our
local interest, permitting Californians
to look out for No. 1 as we are com
pelled to do. Matters are moving
along.au quietly a3 one conld wish in
Portland newspaper circles, and as
one would naturally expect the Ore
gonian is taking the lead. Possess
ins, as the publishers do, every facili
ty for making a first class newspaper
theynever fail to take advantage of
it and six mornings every week they
supply their thousands of readers
with the latest and most interesting
news from home and abroad, dished
up in a style suited to the taste of its
patrons, who by their continuous pat
ronage year after year, show their ap
preciation of, and pay the highest
compliment in their power to its ex
cellence and worth. The publishers
have just moved into their new and
elegant brick structure on the corner
of Front and Stark streets, where ed
itors, reporters, compositors, press
men, mailing clerks and news boys
alike are provided with comforts and
conveniences equaled by none pro
vided by any office on the Northwest
Coast. The old building will be oc
enpied by a stereotyping firm, and it
will be but the question of a short
time, no doubt, ere the forms of the
Oregonian will be- daily stereotyped
as are those of many of the California
and Eastern Journals. While many
do not particularly admire the Orego
ttumV politics they nevertheless ap
preciate the fact that they can there
find the news, a specialty iu which
the Oregonian stands first and fore
most. The Standard, Bee, and Tele
gram, are each filling their allotted
sphere with satisfaction to their nu
merous readers; the Standard being
an excellant local journal and meeting
with very liberal support among its
party friends.
The most important event of the
week here in Salem has been the sec
ond trial of John D. Whitney, in
dicted for the murder of Oliver He
bert, near Silverton in this count', in
September last. Most of your read
ers recollect the details of the crime
and how tiie murderer was convicted
and sentenced to death. An appeal
was taken to the Supreme Court and,
by a mere technicality in the judge's
charge, a new trial was granted him,
Judge Boise dissenting. A jury, se
lected upon no little trouble, has just
acquitted him and together with He
bert's wife he has left the country.
The trial was the butt and ridicule of
all good citizens and the result has
aroused their virtuous indignation.
The jury, when it went out, and for
hours afterward, stood ten to two for
conviction and after being out all
night they asked the judge for further
instructions on certain points involv
ing the possession of the gun with
which the fatal shot was fired.- This
being given them, changed the whole
aspect of the case and in less than
ten minutes the nine jurymen had
come around to the three and a vei
dict was agreed upon. A large crowd
residing in the neighborhood of the
spot where the murder was commit
ted were in attendance at the trial
and were so outraged as lo the result
as to seriously consider the feasibility
of taking the law into their own
hands, and the man, who, by his at
torneys, was willing and anxious to
plead guilty to manslaughter, was
only too glad, to avail himself of the
first freight train and slink out of
town like a coward that he was. The
jury was satisfied that he killed He
bert but permitted him to escape
through a technicality of law, detect
ed by his zealous attorneys.
His Excellency the Governor has
issued the folio wing commissionssince
I wrote you last: Notaries Public
G. W. Dimick, Hubbard ; W. S. Cald
well, Jno. U. Crites, II. B. Nichols of
Portland; Hon. John Burnett, Cor
vallis; K. S. Bean, Eugene ; G. E.
Clark, Canyon City ; E. A. Thatcher,
Salem; J. W. Graham, Butteville;
James Riley, Harrisburg; A.J. Ham
ilton, Beaverton ; and C. .W. Fitch,
Eugene City. Military W.H. Gates,
Captain; N. Piano, 1st. Lieu!.; Garrett
Maupin, 2d. Lieut. Co. A. 1st Regi
ment 3d. Brigade, and Ben McAtee,
Cap?.; Wm. Lewis, 1st. Lieut ; A
Savage, 2d. Lieut. Co. B 1st Regi
ment 3d. Brigade Oregon State Mi
litia, with headquarters in Wasco
county.
Articles of incorporations have
been filed as follows: Coos Bay and
Kosehurg Railroad Company with
principal office at Eugence City. In
corporators W. A. Luse, J. B. Dully,
J. S. Kilev, J. M. Siglin, J. W. Ham
ilton, J. W. Bennett, Jno. Flanagan,
and W. Hall. Capital stock $150,000.
Also the Umpqua and Coos Bay R.
R. Co., with main office at Roseburg
and a capital stock of 1,000,000. In
corporators, A. A. Fink, S. S. Mann,
A. Nasburg, G. Winegate, II. P.
Whitney, S.S. Bailey, C.H. Merchant,
L. F. Mosher, A. Marks, T. It. Sheri
dan, Aaron Rose, and S. L. Bayless.
A telegram was received on Sun
day last announcing the death, the
day previous, in San Francisco, of
Mrs E. C. Alexander nee Miss Dell
Dunbar of this city. She was a lady
well and favorably known and a host
of friends will mourn her loss most
sincerely. Her remains will be
brought to this city for burial, leaving
San Francisco on tiie 12th inst.
Ned.
Off for Wasiiixgto.v. The
"king's business demands great
haste;" and so it is with the new
Democratic congress, and they find it
necessary to count every "chick."
In speaking of the great iolitical
emergency of the Democratic leaders,
the Oregonian says:
Hon. John Whiteaker, Congrcasman elect
of thi3 State has received a telegram from
Washington summoning him to start imme
diately for that city, in order to be present
at the organization of the House at the com
ing extra session which convenes on the 18th
inst. A special train was dispatched yester
day morning to Eugene City for his accom
modation, and the gentleman will arrive in
time to leave on the steamer Elder this morn
ing. The Democratic members at Washing
ton are considerably concerned as to their
gaining control of the House, should the
greenback element combine against them.
The anxiety displayed to have the Oregon
Representative on hand, betrays considerable
nervousness on the part of the Democrats
as to their ability to control the organization.
The Yamhill county teachers' institute
will hold a three days' session at McMinn
ville, commencing on the 27 th inst.
FROM JHE BAY.
Editor Gazette : We have had violent
storms, for the last week, and no' doubt
many vessels would have sought a harbor
offering safety. Gentlemen who were at
Foulweather during the recent heavy gales
say, that when the south side of the Cape
was lashed into fury, the north side present
ed an area of fifty acres smooth as a mill
pond and covered with innumerable sea
fowls, which had instinctively gathered in
this place of refuge. As the Board are in
structed to take into account, "general and
local interests of commerce," it is to be
hoped every paper in Oregon will urge the
commercial advantage likely to accrue to the
Stats by the construction of this liarbor.
Now that the bill has passed authorizing
the commencement of . work on a harbor of
refuge, somewhere, it must be a matter of
satisfaction to you, Mr. Editor, to know that
from Capt. J. J. AVinant's maps of Foul
weather, (south) published in the Gazette,
about two years ago, the interest sprang that
has finalty culminated in the certainty of a
harbor of refuge for the coast. "Tall oaks
from little acorns grow." And Alsea, so
long neglected, so patient in waiting, is to
be surveyed. Recently, Senator Mitchell
had this appropriation added to the House
bill, and in after years he may realize the
importance of this me;.3ure. Alsea will
prove a point of no small commercial value
to Oregon.
President Hayes, in vetoing the Res
tion Bui, may have oecu lustihed by eon
tutional law and precedent, but it will be
hard for the people to endure another year's
Chinese immigration. The next Congress
will, cert duly, pass a bill consistent With
tiie law. and shut out a people who bear so
little of State burdens, and debase hi nest
labor. ElhVy-burning and violence are to
be deplored ; sltch conduct works against
Eastern sympathy and influence.
A few days since an Indian found a boot,
south of Cape Toulwjpather, containing the
stocking and bones oi a person's leg and foot,
badly decomposed the remains, no doubt, of
some poor mariner, who might have been
saved by a harbor of refuge.
'flic attention of the Honorable County
Court should be called to the necessity of
bridging Lees and McLano creeks, on the
road to Newport. These streams have been
swimming, several times this winter, the
mail carriei risking his life and the safety of
the mail, in crossing them. A few hundred
dollars expended in this matter would be of
great benefit.
A good, experienced teacher is needed in
this district. Apply to Ed. C. Phelps.
Newport, March 8, 1879. lilALTO.
From the Daily Standard of the CV.i in:.t.
THE VETO fvlEESAGE AT THE HEART OF
THEVALLEY.
Corvallis, March 4, 1ST!).
Editor Standard : The action of the
President in vetoing the bill restricting Chi
nese immigration creates a feeling of indig
nation and contempt without any regard to
party. It has but two points in it first, a
reflection on the intelligence and patriotism
of the people of the Pacific Coast, end sec
ond, a feeble effort to apologize for the vio
lation of treaty stipulations on the part of
China.- He makes no effort to meet the facts
stated that China had violated the Burlin
game treaty from the time of it3 formation,
and admits that a treaty violated by one
party ceases to be of any binding effect on
the other, and refers to the action of Con
gress abrogating the treaty with France in
1798, thus conclusively showing that Con
gress has the power either to annul a treaty
or pass laws in conflict with a portion of it,
which would have the effect to annul that
portion, and he says in his veto message
that such "Legislation has by its conflict with
the same treaty obligations of the govern
ment toward a foreign power taken effect as
an infraction of the treaty and been judi
cially declared to be operative to that re
sult." Oregon spoke through her last Legislature
upon this subject of Chinese immigration
and declared "That the Burlintrame treaty
had never been maintained on the part of
China in accordance with its intent and
meaning. The right of free migration and
immigration which it recognizes was to be
entirely voluntary and to be exercised in
view of expatriation,
"The Chinese have no right to be admitted
under the circumstances in which they come
here. They are usually brought in hordes
in a condition of semi-slavery and obliged to
perform a term of servitude. The privi
lege accorded to the contracting parties was
npon condition that the immigration to ei
ther country by the citizens or subjects of
the other, should be a voluntary individual
act. China has wholly failed to have this
condition observed and the United States
ought to revoke the privilege."
These facts were alleged and urged in the
United States Senate by such men as Thnr
man, Blaine and other champions of the
bill and their denial challenged, but the op
ponents of the measure slunk away from
these facts they could not deny and dared
not meet, and the'President in his veto mes
sage has done the same thing and tiijs to
shield himself under a multitude of words
about the "treaty committing to China,
action necessary to suppress this coolie
trade" and a lot of sentimental twaddle
that would disgrace a writer of fourth-rate
dime novels. The President seems to lay
great stress cm the preamble to the act of
Conaress abrogating the treaty with France
in 17&8 (which is no part of the law.) Now
suppose that Congress had adopted a pre
amble to the act vetoed as follows, "That
the treaty concluded between the United
States and China, known as the Burlingame
treaty, has been deliberately and willfully
violated from its very inception by China in
letter and -spirit ; that they have taken ad
vantage of it to send into this country
thousands of slaves and prostitutes who
were bound to their masters to work for
starvation prices ; that they degraded labor
in everv form and drove hundreds of honest
laborintr men and women out of honest labor
and forced them to the dire alternative of
starvation or crime ; that they had polluted
the atmosphere of our cities and towns with
their dens of slave prostitution, and had
draggid down to miserable graves by filthy
disease hundreds of the young men in this
country ; that by their miserable traffic in
the flesh and blood of their own people in
this countrv thev were destroying the very
jounaatlons or our social raonc, and wibi il
the very government itself." This would
be far short of the facts, and yet it is an in
dictment a thousand time3 stronger than the
one presented against France in 1798. If
China had sent her war vessels to this coast
in violation of that treaty and overrun us
with thousands of mongolian soldiery, and
burned to ashes San Francisco, Portland and
every city on the Pacific Coast, she would
not have done us half the injury that has
been inflicted on the body politic by their
present violations, for we could have driven
out their soldiers, rebuilt our cities, gather
ed up our property and replenished our bus
iness, but you destroy the social fabric, the
free homes of the American laborer, the
joys of the hearthstones around which gath
er the family of the poor man, sustained,
supported and made happy by daily toil, and
your government is gone ; its certain de
struction is only a question of time.
" What constitutes a State ?
Not high raised battlements nor labored mound,
Thick walls nor moated pate,
Nor cities proud with spires and turrets crowned,
Nor starred and spangled courts,
Where low born baseness wafts perfume to pride,
But men, high minded men, who their.duties know,
But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain
them. "
John- Burnett,
PACIFIC COAST.
Oregon.
Two schooners visited Tillamook Bay last
week.
Most of the reads through the valley are
"belly" deep. 4
Eight panthers have been killed on the
Siuslaw during the past month.
Two new school houses have been built
recently iu the Long Tom country.
Eastern Oregon sends 225 head df fat cat
tle each week by boat for the market of
Portland.
D. T. Craig, at one time sheriff of Linn
county, died recently in Whitman county,
W. T.
A number of families have recently gone
into Tillamook. There is much good land
still open to settlement.
There is no more diphtheria in Astorir.
The health officer informs us that no further
trouble Deed be expected. Astorian.
The Umatilla House at The Dalles will
be moved from its present site to make
room for a new and handsomer structure.
The McGibeny family was in Jacksonville,
Michigan, at last accounts, and on one occa
sion more than 1,200 people attended the
"song service."
Diphtheria still rages at Baker City,
though not so widely as heretofore. One
death last week, a little daughter of the
Hon. Mr. Yantis of Idaho.
The county court of Clackamas county
offers a reward of SvjOO for the apprehension
and conviction of the person who murdered
Mrs. Hager on the 21st day of February,
1879.
Cattle look well in Tillamook, and there
a sufficiency of hay to carry them through
to good grass, for the latter is growing, and
flowers are blooming, notwithstanding the
blustering March weather.
A man fell overboard from the schooner
Kate Uerron in Tillamook Bay the other day.
He swam round to the boat and got on board
without giving an alarm, or allowing his pipe
to go out, which he was smoking at the time.
A party of Indians attempted last week
to drive off a band of horses from the vicin
ity of Pilot Rock, in Umatilla county. The
owner, with his men, gave chase, and firing
upon the si washes compelled them to abon
don the animals.
Last week Mr. D. T. Phillips, atf Hills
boro, lost a valuable workhorse, which died
from ulceration of the throat. The horse
died iu eight days from the first apperancc
of the disease, and was apparently affected
just as persons are from sore throat.
Portland Bee says : Last Sunday new
members were received into the Baptist,
Presbyterian, and Congregational churches
of this ei'.y as follows : Baptist, seventeen;
Congregational, thirteen; Presbyterian,
seventeen ; total, forty-seven.
The Oregonian says : A few days ago a
little three-year-old child belonging to Dan
iel McCoy, who resides near St. Helens,
went into a water closet and falling in, mis
erably perished. The child was soon miss
ed and several hours' search revealed its
horrible fate.
A little child of Mr. Joseph Lehnherr,
living near Jenkins' station in Southern Ore
gon, was burned to death on the 3d inst.
lis clothes caught from an open fire place,
and though the mother risked her life in an
attempt to save its life, it received injuries
which soon caused its death.
imss .mma lnne, an estimable youn
lady, residing near Myrtle creek, 14 miles
souih of Kosebnrg, died or cousuption on
the evening of the 2d inst.. The deeased
was a grand daughter of Gen. Joseph Lane,
and. was highly esteemed for her goodness
ot heart and tor her line social qualities.
Dallas Itemizer : "We have been credibly
informed chat Mr. I. DeClark, construction
superintendent of the west side railroad,
v. ill commence work on the road from St.
Joe to CorvaUis on tiie 12th inst. The work
is to be pushed forward rapidly, as a large
force will be put on. This augurs increased
prosperity for our county the coming season.
The spring term of the district school's in
Albany commenced last Monday with an
enrolliiierit ot 29.'5 pupils. Some changes
have occurred in the location of teachers ;
Miss Howard now teaches the lower school ;
Misu Hunsaker the upper school, and Mrs.
Bilyeu now has charge of the room of the
centra! school which has been vacated by
Miss. Hunsaker.
His excellency Gov. Thayer has just made
the following executive appointments : No
taries public, John Burnett, Corvallis ; Robt.
S. Bean, Eugene City ; Granville E. Clarke,
Canyon City; J. W. Graham, Butteville ;
E. A. Thatcher, Salem ; John R. Crites,
Portland, and G. W. Dimick, Hubbard.
Thos. G. Reams, of Jacksonville, has been
appointed brigadier general first brigade
Oregon state militia.
Albany Democrat : The big drive of saw
logs belonging to Allen, Robinson & Co. ,
commenced driving last Saturday', and the
tad end of it got iu on Monday. Lumber
men give it as their opinion that there is a
little over 3,000,000 feet in this drive
enough to keep the sawmill runningforabout
one year. The sawmill will start up as soon
as the river falls sufficient to allow it, and
in a very short time will run night and day.
These logs come out ot the mountains on
the Calapooia.
Salem Town Talk : The state central
Greenback committee were in session yes
terday at the Chemeketa Hotel. They have
about made up their mind to have an "or
gan," but the committee are divided a3 to
whether at this juncture it is better to start
a daily or weekly. Paine, one of the "doc
tors," is in favor of a daily with himself as
editor, but wants somebody else to foot the
bills. The bills are what pinch, it takes
coin to pay them, and they can't find
' prints" every day that can be duped.
At a school district meeting in Washing
ton county the chairman ruled that women
are not citizens of the United States ! Sci-
ence does not seem to have decided fully
just what kind of animal woman is. Some
think she is an incipient species that may
" differentiate" to something after a while;
but it is evident she can never be a "citizen"
till she can sit about the stove in the village
store, expectorate profusely, tell lying
stories, swagger about on election day and
otherwise behave as a citizen should.
A most sorrowful accident occurred on
Monday last near Porter's Prairie, on White
river, a short distance from Tacoma by
which three men lost thei lives. The men
George Porter, Frank Lechky and John
Newell desiring to cross the stream jumped
into a small boat and pushed out. They
hail almost reached the opposite bank when
one of the oars was accidentally dropped
into the current. The man who wa3 rowing
in order to regain the lost blade used the
other one with which to reach for it. While
so doing, the skiff struck a snag and cap
sized like a flash, throwing the men and two
dogs into the angry current. Nobly did they
swim for dear life, but the power of the
current was too strong and they were car
ried beneath a mighty drift and seen no
more. A brother of Mr .Newell stood upon
the bank poweiless to give any aid, and
what hi3 feelings were can beetter be imag
ined than described. The bodies have not
yet and may never be recovered on account
of the rapid and swollen stream. One of
the dogs managed to reach the bank almost
exhausted. A sack of mail matter which
was in the boat was also lost. Portland
Standard.
Whitewash eor Trees. The late Dr. J.
C. Grnbbs, gave us the following recipe as
an antidote against insects that destroy fruit
and ornamental trees, which we give for the
benefit of our readers :
Lime 4 parts ; Sulphur, 1 part. Mix in
an iron or wooden vessel, with boiling water.
Apply in spring or fall.-
TELEGRAPHIC.
COMPILED FROM THE DAILY OREGONIAN.
Washington, March 3. The river and
harbor bill as passed by the senate provides
for .the following increase in the amounts
granted by the house for the Pacific coast
improvements: Sacramento river, increased
from 8,000 to the full amount of the de
partment estimate. Canal and locks at the
Cascades of the Columbia from 50,000 to
100,000. For improving Coos Bay en
trance and harbor increased from 40,000 to
SS0.O0O. The following sums were inserted
by the senate : For the commencement of a
breakwater and harbor of refuge at such
point between San Francisco, Cal., and the
Straits of Fuca as a majority of the board
of engineers for the Pacific coast may deter
mine, the general and local interest of com
merce being considered, 150,000 ; to con
tinue the survey and tidal observations at
the bar of the Columbia river, 5,000. The
senate also reported new items providing for
accurate surveys of Alsea harbor and bar
and the Umpqua river. Other Pacilic coast
items in the house bill remained unchanged,
except that on motion of Sargent, the senate
inserted the requirement that the 6.000
granted for the continued improvement of
Oakland harbor should be returned to the
U. S. treasury on the 1st day of next July,
unless the right of the United States to the
bed of the estuary and training walls be se
cured at that time free of expense to the
government, by making the date September
1st instead of July 1st. The items which
have been agreed to by both houses, without
change are the following : Wilmington har
bor, 12,000 ; lower Willamette and Colum
bia rivers from Portland to the sea, 45,000;
Upper Willamette, 2,000; Upper Columbia
ami Snake rivers, 20,000, and also provides
for a survey of Petaluma creek and foj a
survey of the Columbia river at the Dalles,
including plans and specifications for locks
ami a canal around said obstruction.
New York, March 3. The municipal
elections held throughont Maine to-day
show the usual general Republican victories
except in Portland, where the Democratic
greenback combination candidate for mayor
squeezed in by forty-six majority.
NORTH Troy, Vt, March 4. During ad
journment of court at Mansoville yesterday
a crowd collected on the postofe veranda,
when the roof gave way under the weight of
snow, burying several persons. Leonard
Walker was killed. Custom Officer Gunn fa
tally injured, and a number o: persons seri
ously wounded.
Washington, Mar. 4. Ex-Senator Mitch
ell goes to Pennsylvania in a few days to
give attention to private business there for
some time, and will return to Oregon in
about a month.
Notwithstanding the partisan feeling
which possessed both sides of the house dur
ing the night session, there was remarkable
absence of personal passion. There was
less tumult and uproar than at any other
time, and there was not the least sign of hi
lariousness. The attendance of members all
through the 22 hours of sitting was large,
and when a vote indicated the absence of a
quorum, it was generally because members
refrained from voting. Some of the oldest
members showed the least igns of fatigue,
and after the recess of oneail three quarter
hours, they were among the earliest in at
tendance. The speaker was seldom out of
his chair.
All the annual appropriation bills except
the legislative, executive and judicial bill
and army bill were signed oy the president
and have become laws, together with the
bill making the. requisite appropriation to
pay arrears of pensions. It is understood
that a message vetoing the river and harbor
appropriation bills was prepared, but under
great pressure the executive signature was
affixed.
PESTH, March 4. The river Thtiss has
oyerflowed its banks and inundated an im
mense tract of land. Szegedin and many
other towns are greatly damaged. Troops
with pontoons have started to save life.
St. Petersburg, March 4. An official
messenger says that the police have discov
erered a secret printing press at Kieff. On
entering the apartment they were met by a
storm of bullets. One officer of the gen-de-armes
and two privates were killed. Eleven
men and live women were arrested. Four
of the former were dangerously wounded.
Panama, Feb. 25. A famine is raging in
the most fertile part of Bolivia, district of
Cochakambl, in different localities iu the
department. From one to 10 persons die
daily of starvation. In a small town 208
persons died from want of food in 20 days.
Chicago, March 5. At tho Greenback
Club Convention to-day a platform was
adopted affirming the heretofore expressed
creed of the Greenback party, and declar
ing that postmasters should be elected ; that
a labor bureau be established ; favors a law
disfranchising persons who offer to purchase
otcs, and calliug for other innovations in
government. The resolutionWtrongly favor
labor reforms of various kinds. The follow
ing was adopted on theJhinese question;
" That the government prohibit the impor
tation of all Chinese or other servile labor."
Isew York, March G. The Times thus
summarizes the work of congress : Of near
ly 200 laws enacted, 4 were financial acts, 7
appropriation bills, 7 relate to the army and
navy, 13 to public lands, 8 to judiciary and
35 may be classed as miscellaneous. The
rest are acts for the relief of somebody or
to put somebody on the pension rolls or give
sombody relief from political disabilities. 0
Rochester, March (. The Union, edited
by the chairman of the Democratic .commit
tee, condemns the president's veto of the
anti-Chinese bill, ami says that it does not
settle but only postpones the settlement of
the question at issue. That the question
will have to be the main presidential and
congressional contest in 1880, and the Dem
ocrats should be careful not to be led to the
wrong side by alleged Democratic newspa
pers which overflow with a gush of obstruc
tions, but are dry at the source of common
sense.
Cincinnati, March 1. The creditors of
Archbishop Purcell began suit against him
to-day. It is thought he will make an as
signment. The Germans are very indig
nant, complaining that the money invested
by them with the bishop has been loaned to
Catholics of other nationalities almost exclu
sively, and their nation thus conspicuously
defrauded. The amount of deficit is now
stated to be over 6,000,000, although at
first claimed to be only 500,000.
Lansing, Mich., Feb. 2S. A conference
of Democratic and greenback conventions,
after a prolonged discussion, agreed to sup
port a union ticket. The highest official to
tie elected is a judge of the supreme court.
The Democratic convention also adopted a
greenback platforin with the exception of
one clause.
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Agency for Oregon and W. Terrritory with
HAWLEY, DODD & CO., Portland.
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Have been tested by the most disatrous con
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Their superiority is beyond question.
Although about 150,000 of these safes are
now in use, and hundreds have been tested
by some of the most disastrous conflagrations 4
in the country, there is not a single instance "
on record wherein one of them ever failed
to preserve its contents perfectly.
HALL'S PATENT DOVETAILED, .
TENON AND GROOVE
BURGLAR-PROOF
Have never been broken open and robbed by
burglars or robbers.
Hall's burglar work is protected by letters,
patent, and his work cannot be equaled law
fully. His patent bolt work is superior to any in
use.
His patent locks cannot be picked by the
most skillful experts or burglars.
By one of the greatest improvements
known, the Gioss Automatic Movement, our
locks are operated without any arbor or spin
dle passing through the door and into the
Lock.
Our Locks cannot be picked or opened by
burglars dr. experts, (as in case of other
Locks,) and we will put from 1,000 toSlO,
000 behind them at any time against an
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The most skillful workmen only are em
ployed. Their work cannot be excelled.
Hall's Safes and Locks can be relied at all
times.
They are carefully and thoroughly con
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Made in America, or any other country.
GKE THOUSAND DOLLARS
To any person who can prove that one of
Hall's patent burglar-proof safes has ever
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up to the present time.
R. N. WILLIAMS,
Agent for Oregon and W. T.
Office with Hawley, Dodd & Co., Portland.
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SUMMONS.
In the Circuit Court of the State of Ore-
rrrtn fnr KATitin iniiTitv T'lininna fin Mali
Plaintiff, vs. Catharine 1 brasher, Defendant.
Suit in equity for a divorce.
rpo CATHARINE THRASHER, THE
JL above named defendant, in the name of
the State of Oregon, you are hereby sum
moned and required to appear and answer
the complaint ot said plaintiff, in the above
entitled suit, now on tile in the office of the
Clerk of said Court at, or before the next
term of said Circuit Court, to be holdcn at
Corvallis in said county, on the second
Monday in April, 1S79. And you are here
by notified that if you fail to answer said
complaint, as herein required, the plaintiff
will take judgment against you for the want
thereof and will apply to the Court for the
relief demanded in the complaint, to-wit : A
decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of
matrimony now existing between you and
the plaintiff, and for costs and disbursements
of this suit. This summons is published by
order of Hon. J. P. Wat son, Judge of said
Court, bearing date Feb. 28, 1879.
JOHN BURNETT,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Date! Feb. 28, 1879. 16:9wG
Summons.
I
N THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
State of Oregon for Benton County.
Luesa A. Johnson, ) Plaintiff,
vs. V
Newton C. Johnson, ) Defendant.
To Newton C. Johnson, the above named
Defendant : In the name of the State of
Oregon, you are hereby summoned and re
quired to appear and answer the complaint
of said Plaintiff in the above entitled suit
now on file in the office of the Clerk of said
Court, on or before the next term of said
Circuit Court to be holden at Corvallis, in
said county, 011 the second Monday of April,
A. D. 1879. And you are heieby notified
that if you fail to answer said Complaint as
herein required, the Plaintiff will apply to
said court for the relief demanded in the
complaint. The object of said suit is a di
vorce from the bonds of matrimony now ex
isting betwceriplaintiff and defendant. Pub
lished by order of Hon. J. F. Watson, Judge,
at chambers, on the 8th day of October, 1878.
Dated this 6th day of February, A. D.
1879. F. A. CHENOWETH,
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Kees IIamlik. Emmktt F. Wbenn.
DKAYAUE ! DRAY AGE :! !
Timbers for bridges on the line of the
proposed extension of the O. C. R. R- are
being prepared at the St. Joe station.
MA.EEIBD:
At the residence of Mr. John Keesee, in
this city, on the 6th inst, by Rev. J. .
York, Mr. John Sylvester aid Mrs. Ann
McTimmons all of Benton county. Com
pliments of the parties recieved.
We hear it rumored that united ages of
this young couple is not far from 130 years.
The Second Brigade Band, O. S. M., gave
them a handsome serenade on the evening
of their marriage.
DIED.
In Dallas, March 6, 1879, of congestion
of the brain and lungs, Cary James, young
est son of Dr. T. V. B. and Annie E. Em
bree, aged 16 months and 20 days.
Hamlin & Wrenn, Propr's.
HAVING .KJST RETURNED FROM SALEM WITH
a new Thick, and having leased the barn for
merly oeeiqriid by Mr. James Eglin. I am now pre
pared to do all kinds of
RAYING AND HAULING,
either in the city or country, at the lowest living
rates. Can be found at the old Truck stand. A
share of the public patronage respectfully solicited!
Corvallis, Dec. 27, 187S. 15-.52M.
HOUSE
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up your barns, and Buildings of any kind,
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TERJV1S REASONABLE.
ALPHIN & LORD.
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