WEEKLY CORVAillS GAZETTE-
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE STATE
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COUNTY
Corvallis, Aug. 1, 1879.
W. B. CARTER,
EDITORIAL BOTES.
Gen. Ewirig leads a forlorn hope in
Ohio.
The Zulu war is costing the En
glish nation abonl $2,5000,000 a day.
The amount of deposit in the sav
ings banks of the United States is
estimated at $1,500,000,000.
It is estimated that turbine water
wheel's have, since their invention,
saved the country over $300,000,000
in the one single item of fuel.
Georee Francis Train savs that
Kearney shot at a jack-rabbit and
killed a grisley meaning that he
aimed at the Chinese and hit the
corporation a death blow.
The Cotholic journals ot Paris are
publishing a letter from the Arch
bishop of that city, to a member of
the Senate protesting, in the name of
liberty, against educational bills.
The Illinois Railroad Commission
ers have ascertained that the average
life of locomotive engines is 154-
years; passenger cars, lof- years;
freight cars, 10 years; railroad bridges
from 5 to 20 years.
Texas is so anxious to secure emi
gration that she is virtually giving
away her public lands. The head of
a family can get 1C0 acres for the
expense of the survey and patent,
which is altogether about $15.
When you reflect that at pic iiics
a hundred years ago it was the cus
torn for the girls to stand up in a row
and let the men kiss them all good
bye, all this enthusiasm about na
tional progress seems to be a grave
mistake.
The champion coroner's jury sat
at Yonkers, New York, the other
day. It brought in a verdict that
one "Ellen Kirby came to her death
from postmortem hemorrhage." The
The jury inadvertently forgot to state
bow she died the first time.
Down in the Sacramento Valley,
when they read that the duty had
been removed from quinine, they
gazed smilingly into each others
eyes through tears of gladness, cor
dtally extended their trembling digits
and exclaimed, "shake!'.'
Yellow fever has again made its
appearance the South. In Nashville,
Tennessee, a number of deaths have
occurred, but it appears to be in
much less violent foim than last sum
mer, and we hope soon to hear of its
entire disappearance.
The elevated road is becoming so
contagious as.to suggest that in the
not remote future all our rapid nights
may be serial. Uhicago has tne lap-
ids transit" fever, and several peti
tion for charters for their establish
ment have been introduced into its
Common Council.
All of the bones of the mastodon
recently exhumed near New York
have been found except the pelvis
and a few belonging to the feet. The
bones are in a wonderful state of
preservation, except the teeth, and
the skeleton, when completed and
set up, will be one of the finest in
the world.
Floods and low temperature have
ruined the crops in Great Britian.
A stedy rise in American breadstuff's
may be expected. It is is a radical
change in the industrial relations of
nations when the American farmer
supports his brother in M old Eng
land." Senator Lamar says that Missis
sippi is badly infected with inflation
heresies, and he believes the entire
South will be eoiid for ofi-money
legislation next winter. This with
the State Rights revival will make
lively times for the Democratic party.
The South seems providentially de
signed for the ruin of the Democracy.
Hard times in Great Britain have
not reached the liquor interest, judg
ing from the report for 1878 ot the
excise commissioners. During the
year $711,000,000 was expended for
wine, spirits and beer, an increase of
little less than a million dollars over
the outlay in 1877. The increase is
traced to working classes and to beer
the sale ot wine and spirits, supposed
to be used chiefly by the wealthier
classes fell off about $10,000,000.
Enough beer was sold to make up
the deficiency and increase the total
outlay, as seen above. It ia further
shown that while the population of
the country has increased only 15 per
cent, in the last seven years, the con
sumption of liquors has increased 55
per cent.
IMPORTANCE OF JfflMMON SCHOOLS
Self government is still an experi
ment. It is not so much an experi
ment now as it was a hundred years
ago. Wa have come to understand
better what are the elements that
must combine to make liberty per
petual. We are attempting to pro
duce and cherish the elements essen
tial to maintain a free government.
Among the essentialities of a free
people, is the universal education of
the masses. The shool that admits
the children of all the people alike,
to the enjoyment of its privileges
free of charge, is the great Jconserva
tor of freedom. If the common
school was abolished the majority of
the peopleTs children would receive
no education at all. They would
arrow up in ignorance, and become
ready to be pliant tools of every de
signing demagogue who eight take
a notion to delude them, for his own
selfish ends. Bat with an educated
people, the demagogue has very little
chance. Education prepares peoole
to think and reason. In this view of
the matter, the common school, the
people's college, cannot be over
estimated. It is an institution that
stands at the very fountain head of
constitutional liberty. Without it
religion itself would degenerate into
fanaticism. Remove the school
houses from the land and we would
relapse into a despotism long before
anothet centennial sun would brin
its changing seasons. We should
ever keep steadily in view the better-
ins of the common schools. Let the
tax collected from the people be ex
pended, first of all, for the building
of better school bouses, and furnish
ing them with better seating, and
apparatus for teaching. Let the
schools run longer, and be system
atized so that all the braches will be
taught thoroughly in them, to all
the children.
BAY NEWS.
Ed. Gazette : The steamer Alex.
Duncan will be here, on her trip
south, about August 8th. Consider
able freight has been ordered by the
merchants of Newport and Oneatta.
Pleasure seekers are numerous
every house and camping place full.
Wallis Nash, Esq., with his family,
and many English friends, are here
using the Ocean House as a resi
dence, and dividing time in hunting,
fishing and examining the country.
We are looking for the U. S. Eneri
neers every day, and, of course, feel
a little anxious about our several cas
ties ; should they fall, we will gather
comfort from the wide-spread inquiry
concerning this portion of Oregon.
By the way, you will remember
that just before the last election
your correspondent regretted that
the time of our legislature was likely
to be used by a gentleman (if elect
ed) from this county, in advocacy of
a bill to prevent the use of Chinese
on public works. I said then that
the question had been settled by ad
verse decisions of the courts of Cali
fornia and Nevada, and that a meas
ure of this character would only con
same time, obtain a few compliment
ary resolutions from Kearneyites, and
fall a dead letter. Judge Deady has
just written the epitaph of al! such
foolish legislation. - How long will it
take the people to learn the difference
between statesmanship and demagog
ery. Our state printer is worrying the
hotel keepers fearfully, and I wider
stand, having eat up everything on
the Newport side, will undertake
south beach soon. I heard a man
say that one more editor would leave
the coast in the condition of Kansas
after the grasshopper raid.
Newport, July 28, 1879. Rialto.
RAILROADS.
The Gazette has been the friend
ot railroads, or any improvements
calculated to develope the resources
of our glowing State, ever since it
has had an existence, and so frequent
ly and constantly have we advocat
ed railroads for the last few years
that it has become a remark among
our friends and readers that on this
subject the Gazette was over zeal
ous, but we have, at last, whether
our efforts have been of any avail or
not, arrived in sight of the prom
ised land. The West Side road
is graded to within a few miles of
town, and the first ten miles of the
Yaqrtina road is graded, and a por
tion of its iron landed in Corvallis,
ready to be put down. But, now
comes one, last opportunity for the
skeptical minded persons, who have,
by their negative conduct, been a
draw back to the efforts of the ener
getic people of our county in all
their efforts to encourage internal
improvements. The contractor of
the West Side road has become in
volved in financial difficulties, and
work on that rod is temporarily sus
pended, and the Willamette has be
come so low that only one or two of
the boats can run this far up the
rivet, and they only with small loads,
thus delaying the Yaquina Bay rail
road, and a number of our " croakers''
are now busy proclaiming the fact,
that the low water and Ward's failure
are the result of combination, and
that our railroads will remain "in
statu quo" for perhaps all time to
talk is more than insipid. Neither
ot the roads above mentioned can
afford to abandon, or even delay, for
any length of time, their completion;
and, after so long a time, Corvallis
has, at last secured railroad connec
tion with the rest of the world.
THE CCLFAXMAJCRITY.
Under our statutes,, the candidates
for the mayorality, Capt. Ewart and
Gov. James, who received a tie vote
last Monday, wHl have to settle the
matter by lot. Both have raked their
brains for some feasible plan, and
several schemes have been tried, but
without a satisfactory result. The
governor proposed a little game of
ten beau draw and nine dollars on
the side ; Capt. objected to this ana
offered to spit at a mark, but as he
chews tobacco and the Gov. don't
the latter wouldn't have it. They
finally agreed to go out of town and
shoot at a -hat, distance, ten steps;
weapons, double barreled shotguns.
Having made all the necessary ai
rangements, they repaired to Rebel
F hit, hung the hat up against Holt's
barn and commenced firing. After
shooting away a can of powder and
ten pounds of shoty discovering that
the Gov. was cross eyed and Cap.
near-sighted, failing to hit the barn
at ail, killing, accidentally, a valuable
heifer, calf and a Percheron colt and
settling with the owner for the same,
thoy returned to town and will leave
the mattei in the bands of the coun
cil, who will require them to pull
straws, the longest pole knocking off
the persimmons. Palouse Gazette of
the 18th hist..
LANE COUNTY.
Junction City, Oo'n, )
July 24, 1879. f
Editor Corvallis Gazette : As
the heated season has actually made
its appearance once more, and the
clouds and fogs that have overhung
our valley for six long months, have
entirely disappeared, thereby giv
ing life and energy to the various
enterprises now under way. The
ring of the blacksmiths' hammer, the
hum and rattle of machinery ; the
sound of tfi3 mechanic's saw and
haumer, interspersed every now and
then with the shrill whistle of the
Junction mills, makes the stranger
stop and think what a change has
come over our country in the last
few years. Seven years ago, the
the place where our village now
stands, was nothing but a wild jum
ble of the thickest of brush, where
the deer and cayota were hunted by
our pioneer settlers. Then was heard
the scream of the night hawk, now
is heard the chase notes of the school
and church bells. Then was heard
the crack of the ox whin. Now the
neigh of the iron horse Yes, Junc
tion is keeping pace with the rapid
strides made by our beautiful Oregon.
R. V. Howard is building a large
warehouse with cleaning apparatus
and elevators with a capacity of one
hundred thousand bushels. The June
tion mills are being enlarged, and
four fine residencesunder way; mark
the improvements of our sprightly
village.
The crops, especially wheat, look
better than I have seen in twenty
six years; if no misfortune overtakes
come. To the thinking person, such it, we will have the largest crop ever
raised in Oregon. This with a good
price, as indicated now, thsre will be
an era of prospent" in Oregon, such
as has not been known for severaf
years.
J. E. Houston, J. W. Brasfield,
B. Williams, have loaded in the ac
cumulations of several years of busy
married life, and with several others.
started on a splurg, to the Bay, to be
gone two weeks. Jslinton
The belief gains groRnd in London
that the tierman Government, is at
last heartily sick of the attempt to
exclude silver from its currency and
to maintain the single gold standard.
A decided change in the policy of
that Government in this regard is
looked tor, and the remonetization ot
silver is among the probabilities of
the near future. J be determination
of Germany not to sell any more sil
ver has resulted in a rise in the Lon
don market value of bullion, and it is
expected that the suspension of sales
will continue for some time with
probability of their total diseontnu-
ance.
Georgia has still- on her statute
books a reward of $5,00 for the
"head ofWm. Loyd Garrison, dead
or alive" the particular offense of the
said Garrison thus outlawed being
that he had the courage to express
his belief that a great wrong teat a
great wrong still, though a whole na
tion joined in it, and though much
money was apparently made by it.
Most people would hasten at the first
opportunity to expunge such a law
from the books, but the Georgians
are singular in many things. Auder
sonville was in Georgia.
THE REAL ISSUES OF THE DAY.
Mb. Editor. The agitation of the Silver
question in congress, which was thrown in
to the Democratic issue hudget as Green
back bait, has accidently uncovered" the
cloven foot of the Money Power, heretofore
concealed by the loyal robes of Republican
ism. It has forced to the surface the real
issue, which neither of the old parties be
fore seemed inclined to raise, notwithstand
ing the Greenback party had charged it for
months.
That issue is: "Shall the government
avail itself of its silver resources in pay
ment of its coin obligations, or shall gold,
or its equivalent, alone, be issued ? ! : Nine
tenths of the voters of the country honestly
entertain the idea that silver has been re-
monetized, that the standard dollar is a full
legal tender in payment of all moneyed obli
crations both miblic and private. That un-
o - -
der resumption act greenbacks are redeema
ble in silver as well as gold. It is true it is
so legally, 1 ut not practically. The law is
a dead letter, killed by the fiat of John
Sherman ; and he policy of the Money
Power is to denv its resurrection. Silver
dollars, bv the act of Mav. 1878, are full
legal tender in payment of any and all debts,
public and private, without limitation, and
having been such at the time the coin obli
gations of the government were contracted,
a very large majority of the voters of all
parties honestly believe the bondholder, as
the private creditor, is obliged to accept
them in payment when tendered, or receive
nothing, at the debtor's option.
Put the question to a thousand men, and
without being influenced by partisan consid
erations, nine hundred and ninety-nine
would declare that he who refused to accept
silver coin or legal tender certificates, which
would bring the coin on demand, should be
entitled to nothing, and that interest from
that day should cease, until the creditor
should conclude to accept such payment, or
the government could as conveniently pay
gold as silver.
But Mr. Chittenden, "the Wall and
Lombard Street gold champion," in congress
says, " should the government insist upon
paying its coin obligations in silver, it would
be the damnedest scoundrel on earth."
The New York Times, the leading Re
publican paper in America, and "the organ
of the foreign and domestic bondholders,
says : " It is a very significant indication
that one of the most important, if not the
sole controlling issue in onr politics in the
immediate future is to be the financial one
However much we may desire " rest" on
this point, it if plain that tee are not to have
it. Nor is there any complete assarance
that the Republican party can be held per
fectly firm on the right side of this vexed
question. We have had occasion repeatedly
to point out that the silver law, which con
tinually piles up at least $24,000,000 a year
of depreciated silver dollars in the treasury,
is a standing menace, always becoming more
formidable, to the maintainance of the pres
ent scheme of redemption.
Against this danger, it is only too clear
that the Republicans in congress cannot be
absolutely relied on to protect the country.
Proof of this is found in yesterday's pro
ceedings in the house. Mr. Weaver, of
Iowa, introduced an amendment to the
Warner silver bill, directing the secretary
of the treasury to canse to be paid out,
without discrimination, standard silver coin
belonging to the government that may be in
the treasury, the same as gold coin, in liqui
dation of all kinds of coin obligations
against the government. This would com
pel the secretary of the treasury to redeem
the legal tenders, when presented, partly in
depreciated silver, and to pay the interest
of the bonds, also partly in silver. And
though it may be argued that the bill will
not become a law, it is obvious that this
particular provision commanded very nearly
a two-thirds vote in the house. As the sil
ver reserve must go on increasing ' under
existing law, it is only too likely that the
sentiment in favor of its use in the discharge
of public indebtedness will strengthen.
There is no logical and consistent defense to
be made for the permanent disregard of the
silver law at the discretion of the secretary
of the treasury. Sooner or later, the law.
if it remains, must be applied, and the
money which is coined under it and made a
full legal tender must be paid out by the
government. That is what the vote of yes
terday means, and it is a plain indication
that the issue involved in the silver move
ment must yet be fairly and fully met at
the polls the only place where it can be
finally settled ? ? In a later issue, "The
Times," in commenting upon the Warner
silver bill and the free coinage of silver,
says : " But as a political measure it drew
all its force from the fact that it was intend
ed to enable debtors, by the aid of the gov
eminent, to "scale their debts to per
cent., precisly as depreciated greenbacks
would favor the same operation to the ex
tent of the difference between the green
back and gold. So far, also, as the bill re
lated to payments by the government, it
was one precisely of the same kind and de
gree of repudiation that inheres in the prop
osition to pay the bonds, principal and inter
est, in legal tenders." The Times says the
' question must be met at the polls the only
place where it can be settled. " This journal
admits that the secretary is guilty of disre
garding the plain, simple spirit of the law
which be is bound by his oath to execute.
It says, " There is no logical and consistent
defense' to be made for the permanent dis
regard of the silver law at the discretion of
the secretary of the treasury. Sooner or
later, the law, if it remains, must be ap
plied, and the money which is coined under
it and made a full legal tender must be paid
out by the government. The effects of this
" disregard" of law, by the secretary of the
treasury is to give the bondholder fifteen
per cent, more of interest and principal than
he is entitled to by law or equity. It is
wholly an assumption of authority and an
usurpation of power.
Every thirty days during his vast fund
ing operations, John Sherman has boasted
of the amount of interest he has saved to
the people by converting six percent green
back bonds into four per cent com bonds,
but omitted to state that his violations and
"disregard of law," which he desires and
and expects to have sanctioned and confirm
ed at the ballot-box, have lost to the people
15 per cent, and added that much to the
value of the bondholder's 4 per cent, interest.
The single gold standard for all debts and
moneyed obligations is the main issue the
corner stone of the Republican party. Ev
ery man who casts a vote for the nominees
ot that party virtually justifies John Sher
man in his "disregard of law," a started
by the New York Times. He virtually de
clares for the single sold standard. He vir
tually repudiates silver, both in the redemp'
tion of greenbacks and in payment of any
part of the public debt. He virtually con
sents to pay the bondholder 15 per cent.
more than he is entitled to under the law,
the contract, or by" any rule of justice or
equity. He votes to place 15 per cent,
extra hardship upon the already overbur
dened tax-payers. He votes to perpetuate
hard times, and to depreciate still lower,
wages and property, as gold continues to
grow scarce, and its purchasing power to
increase. It is high time that the public
mind was waking up to the dangers with
which this one man-power is threatening us,
ere the last vestige of constitutional gov
ernment and civil liberty has flown.
What is it to be a Republican to-day ?
What is it to be a Democrat to-day ? No
man can possibly answer these questions,
because there are no vital and general differ
ence now involved in these names. Party
spirit has been particularly injurious to the
laboring classes of this country, because they
have ranged themselves pretty evenly in
both of the two political parties, and the
two parts have thus completely neutralized
each other. The interests of the laboring
class have had no weight in either of the
political parties, simply because the
working men themselves stood over against
each other in two opposing camps. Thus
the working men, as such, lost all weight
and influence in political affairs, and had
just as well remained neutral and silent,
considering their opposition to each other.
But thank God, there exists a different feel
ing to-day. The laboring class are to be
congratulated and applauded that the mass
of them have made their minds up to act
no longer with the old political parties.
Let them adhere to this determination ;
the country will be all the better for it.
Let them avoid all "entangling alliances,'
and snap their fingers at coalition. . Let
them act as a unit in accordance with their
own deliberate conviction of their own in
terests ; for their true interests are also the
true interests of the whole country. Let
them hold this attitude steadily for two
years, and there is not a single point of pub
lic policy favorable to themselves that they
cannot triumphantly carry.
" Call the people together ;
The young men and the sires.
The reaper from the harvest, field,
Hireling-, and him that hire-"
W. A. Wells,
Corvallis, July 24, 1879.
A WARNING T0Y0UNG MEN.
One of our exchanges says : Young
man, beware of the demon tobacco !
It has sent many a young man to an
untimely grave, and cut short the
lives of some of our best men. It
saps the juices of life and bankrupts
your pockets." True, true ! Look
ing back over our acquaintances we
can remember many young men who
began smoking at an early age, and
still persist in the habit, who present
a great contrast to those who refused
to touch the weed. There was Wil
Warner. He smoked incessantly,
and never got a higher position than
bank cashier, while Bill Bloobs, who
never smoked, as soon as he became
cashier, stole a million dollars, and is
now living in luxurious ease in Eu
rope, then there was Dick Jones,
who never touched the weed, and
his brother Bill, who was alway
smoking, .uick has now a perma
nent position for life, while Bill wan
ders about the street in rags. Bill
is a tramp and Dick is in State's
prison. Then there was Mollie S.
Her father smoked, and she eloped
with a tin peddler, who has since
struck a Bity-barrel well, tier school
mate, Jennie, came from a family
that abhorred the weed, and she has
been married three times, got two
divorces, and a third is pending in
court. When we remember these
fearful examples of a devotion to the
weed, we shudder at the curse which
is on the country. Young man, you
are spending twenty-nve cents a day
on tobacco. If you save that up, in
a million ot years from now you can
pocket the magmncent sum of $91,
250,000, and even in a few years, by
saving what yon pay for tobacco,
you might be able to buy a nice house
and lot with a mortgage on it.
From the Oil Derrick.
OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF
Benton countv. State of Orecon. for
tiie year ending July 1, 1879.
STATE FUND.
From taxes.................. $12,329 52
DISBURSED.
Paid state taxes
COUNTY FUND.
From taxes.. $12,035 81
LAWS PASSED BY CONGRESS.
During the session of Congress
which terminated June ROih, 727 bills
and 46 joint resolutions were intro
duced in the Senate, and 2,395 bills
and 119 joint resolutions were intro
duced in the House of Rerresenta
tives making a total of 3,122 bills
and 165 joint resolutions. Among the
principal laws passedare the follow
ing:
The approbation bills ; the bill to make
subsidiary silver coins legal tender in all
sums not exceeding $10 ; to prevent the in
troduction of contagious or infectious dis
eases into the United States ; to exempt
from registry, enrollment or license vessels'
not propelled by sail or internal motive
power ot their own ; to proywle for tne ap
pointment of a Mississippi river commission;
to give the pension of Gen. James Shields
to his widow and children, and trrantine a
special pension to the widow of Col. Fletch
er Webster ; to provide lor erecting a mon
ument to mark the birthplace of George
Washington, and the bill to place quinine
on the free list. Congress adjourned with
out providing for the pay of United States
marshals. During the session there have
been presented in the House of Representa
tives 2,019 petitions, which are classified by
Petition Clerk Francis as follows : Relat
ing to claims, 555 f commerce, 253 ; curren
cy, 56 ; liquor traffic, 36 i naval affairs, 25 ;
military affairs, 104 ; education and labor,
30 ; patents, 78 ; tariff and taxation, 134 ;
pensions, 351 ; polygamy, 35 ; postal affaiirs,
69 ; miscellaneous, 293.
EXHIBIT
$12,32$ 52
" Licenses...
" Rents and
other services . .
' ' Trial fees . .
" On hand from
hat year
280 00
338,98
235 50
2,346 79
$15,237 08
DISBURSED.
County orders redeemed.. $14,83142
Interest on co. orders........ 149 99
Cash on hand 255 61
EXPENDITURES
Roads and bridges
Jurors
State cases -.
Clerk -.-
Treasurer.
School superintendent
District attorney...
Bailitts
Assessor., ......
Printing
Sheriff
Insurance
Stationary and books
Wood ?.
Court house.
Coroners inquest
Paupers
Insane
Commissioners
Fire proof vault (part)
Election ...
On acct. common school
Jail
County judge. -.-
Interest . . . . . . . .
Miscellaneous
Cr.
By transferred school fund
ii ii i . .
v-asn on hand
10 00
20 10
BILLS RECEIVABLE.
To Marion county order 129 50
" ' Orders on City
of Corvallis... ' a no
$30 10"
HECAPITTTLATION.
Dr.
To cash county fund
at beginning of the'
year. .. 2,346 79'
" " School.... 427 97
" Estray.... 10 00
" From all
other sources 32,285 11
$170 50
Cr.
$35,069 87
fund
$15,237 08
$5,045 41
1,145 80
1.413 60
1,345 56
560 00
400 00
327 50
144 00
637 50
88 00
1,332 06
242 40
270 48
. 160 00
290 14
75 50
946 82
86 00
238 00
893 25
378 00
58 92
25 00
547 77
149 99
202 64
By county orders paid 14,831 42
" Interest paid on
county orders 149 99
" School orders
paid. ........... ... . . . 5,821 04
" State tax paid. 12,329 52
asli in county
fund..... ass R7
" " School.... 1,662 13
" " Estray 20 10
County orders, outstanding
last year .
$16,942 94
1,030 18
$17,973 12
CONTRA.
County orders redeemed $14,831 42
Interest paid on county orders 149 99
County orders outstanding 2,991 71
$17,973 12
SCHOOL WiiD.
On hand from last year $427 97
From estray fund 10 00
" Taxes 4,350 00
" School commissioners. . . . . 2,095 20
' Fines 600 00
$7,483 17
DISBURSED-
School superintendent orders paid $5,821 04
" Cash on hand 1,662 13
ESTRAY FUND.
Cash on hand from last year.
" From sale estrays , . .
$7,483 17
$10 00
20 10
$30 10
DISBURSED.
Transferred to school fund $10 00
" Cash on hand 20 10
$30 10
RECAPITULATION.
On hand from last year $ 2,784 76
Received from all other sources. 32,285 11
$35,069 87
Paid state taxes $12,329 52
County orders .
Interest
" School supta' orders.
On hand in county fund . . .
" In school fund
" Estray
14,831 42
149 99
5,821 04
255 67
1,662 13
20 10
$35,069 87
Respectfully submitted,
July 1st, 1879. B. W. WILSON,
County Clerk.
THOMAS GRAHAM,
County Treasurer
In account with Benton county for the
year ending June 30, 1879.
GENERAL ACCOUNT.
iB.
To state warrant paid,
(Indigent fund) $ 226 63
" Cash from board
of school commission
ers for distribution of
July, 1878 2,095 26
" Cash from li
quor licenses 250 00
" Reduction of
land 41 60
" City of Corval
lis order paid 32 00
" Interest on
Cityorde 2 75
" Trial fees.... 235 50
r Fmes 600 00
" Woodcock ft
Kelsay, office rent 36 60
" Pedler license 5 00
" Ferry 25 00
" Sheriff on tax
es of 1878 27,977 8
" Poll and prop
erty tax collected
by assessor. 737 50
By amount trans
ferred to co fund
" " School...
Dr,
$32,262 01
231219 81
7,046 20
To cash on hand at
beg'ing ot the year
" From' general
COUNTY rUWD.-
Cb.
$32,265 01
2,346 79
25,219 81
Cr.
$27,566 60
By coufity orders
redeemed
" Interest paid
on county orders
" State tax
paid. . . .-
" Cash on hand
14,831 42
149 99
12,329 52
255 67
$27,566 60
SCHOOL F05.
Dr.
To cash on hand at
beginning of the
year
' From estray
Fund....
" General ac
count. . .
By school supt's
orders redeemed
" Cash on
hand.
4B7 97
10 00
7,045 20
Cr.
$7,483 17
5,821 04
1,662 13
$7,483 17
E8TBA7 TVTfD.
To cash on hand at
the beginning of
the year.
" From Coun
ty Clerk.
10 00
20 10
$30 10
it , . $35,069 87
Respectfully submitted.
THOMAS GRAHAM,
County Treasurer.
Gorvallm, Oregon. Julv 1. 1879.
To'the County Court of Benton county.
Oregon.
Sol. King, Sheriff,
In account with Benton county.
T)R,
1878-July To delin
quent tax list of 1875 $ 501 61
" " 107b 443 50
" ' 1877..... ... t.45.1 9S
Oot. To assessment
roll 1878. ... . . 31.704 51
" " Poll. 18-78. . 538 00
1879 Amt assessed
and collected by sheriff 338 77
AdHI Delinauent
assessment list
1878.. 1,930 83
$36,911 20
CONTRA CR.
1879 June 30 By
amount unpaid on
delinquent list 1875 . . 50 1 61
1876 443 50
1877 1,253 98
1878 1,436 57
By amount over paid
June 30, 1879. . . . 45 60
" Paid treasurer
as per receipts 27,978 39
By poll and property
tax collected by as
sessor. .- 737 50'
By double assess
ment. . 18 00
" Delinquent
list 1878.... ...... L.930 83
July 14 By am'fe
paid treasurer as
per receipt . . . . 615 00
fiyam'tto balance 1,950 22
$36,911 2d
Respectfully submitted.
SOL KING, Sheriff.
Ame's Process
KEEPS MEATS,- FISH. BUTTER,
Eggs, Vegetables, and Fruits aweei
and good without salting, cooking, drying,
or sealing up. It also stops fermentation in
Cider or Wines, cures the scab on sheep,
and is excellent for other purposes. It is
not injurious to the health, and costs but a
trifle. Family rights $10. County and
District rights on reasonable terms. Writ
ten guarantee given. Money refunded in
case the Process cannot be made a success.
Genuine testimonials from prominent men'
testifying to its health fulness and success.
For further particulars inquire of
G0LDS0N & MATTOON,
Corvallis, Benton county, or Albany, Linn;
county, Oregon, general Agents for the'
Pacific coast.
Corvallis, July 25, 1879; 16:30tf
IN OTICE.
Land Office atRoseburg, Ogn.,
July 9, 1879. j
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
the following-named settler has filed
notice of his intention to make final proof
in support of his claim, and secure final en
try thereof at the expiration of thirty days
from the date of this notice, viz : William'
A. States Homestead Application No 2199
for the Lots 4, 5 and 6 and S 4 of S E i sec.
2, T 14 S R 8 W., and names the following
as his witnesses, viz: James Spencer of
Benton county, and Thomas Phillips of Ben
ton county, Oregon.
WM. F. BENJAMIN,
16:29w5 Register.
SOUTH END
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