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VOL. XXI.
CORVALLIS, OREGON, MAY 2, 1884.
NO. 19.
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REPUBLICAN NOMINEES.
The Benton County Republican Con
vention met at the court house in this
place 1 1st Saturday and did its work
well. A full ticket was nominated
composed of good and able material.
John A. Henkle, of Philomath, W. P.
Keady, of Alsea Bay, and M. J. Con
nor, King's Valley, long residents
of the county and well identified with
its interests, were nominated as can
didates for the legislature. They are
all men of ability and well qualified
for the positions.
E. H. Hawkins, of Monroe precinct
and G. G. Newton of Philomath pre
cinct, were nominated for county com
missioners. These gentlemen have
both been residents of the county for
30 years or more, and are both in the
prime of life. They are both able
financiers and understand well the
interests, wants and needs of the
county. There are no men in Benton
county who are better fitted to look
after the interests of the county than
Messrs. Hawkins and Newton.
Sol King, who has served the
county for the last three or four terms,
was again re-nominated for re-election.
Mr. King has made a good officer and
is a kind, obliging gentleman and has
always been working steadfast in the
interests of the county. His heart
and purse has always been open to the
wants of the poor and needy, who al
ways find in him a steadfast friend.
He is a good man and efficient officer
and it is needless to say that he is
just as good as elected now by a ma
jority over his opponent of three or
four hundied.
Benton county has had B. W.
"Wilson as her County Clerk for about
18 years in order to give him a fair
trial in omce, ana tne people Having
become convinced that he is one of the
most able and efficient clerks, the con
vention therefore re-nominated him in
order that the people may now keep
him in office for a while. Bush faas
been one of the best clerks in the State
and the people would suffer much in
convenience to lose his services in that
capacity. It is needless to say that he
will be re-elf.cted.
T. J. Blair is one of the oldest resi
dents of the county, having resided on
his farm near Corvallis until a few
years ago when he bought the ware
houses in Corvallis, where he has since
resided. Mr. Blair is a kind, agree
able gentleman and will make an effi
cient treasurer. His long residence,
experience and acquaintance with the
people of the county affords him
vantages in making them a good officer.
Mr. Edgar Grimm was nominated by
acclamation as the candidate, for Super
intendent of Common Schools. Mr.
Grimm is a young man about 30 years
of age, having a fine education and is a
man of much ability. He is a son of
Judge Grimm of Marion County and a
genuine Oregon pioneer, born and
raised in Oregon. He graduated with
high honors at the Corvallis State
Agricultural College a few years ago
and afterwards went back to the State
University of Michigan where he
again graduated with much credit to
himself and honor to our State. While
attending the University of Michigan
he gave special attention to the depart
ment of agriculture and after his re
turn to this State his services was pro
cured by the board of resents of the
Agricultural College here to give his
whole time and special attention to
teach the chair on agriculture in the
school. He is a zealous and hard
student, a man of unswerving integ
rity, possessed of a high sense of honor
and in every walk of life maintains a
high moral and social standard, and
last but not least he is a man in whose
hands every person can with safety
and the utmost confidence place the ed-
ucatiqnal management of their children.
When elected Superintendent of the
public schools of this county those
bulwarks of American liberty and
free government will be under a good,
faithful and efficient supervision.
Geo. Mercer, who has only lived in
Benton county about 30 years or more
and with whom nearly every person
in the county, old or young, is well
acquainted, was nominated by accla
mation for County Surveyor. Mr.
Mercer has served the county as sur
veyor for perhaps 15 or 20 years be
fore, and seams destined to be re-elected
from time to time for the remainder
of his life. He is a practical surveyor
and has made a good, efficient officer
ani will doubtless bs reelected.
Perry Eddy, who has served the
county as Assessor for the last two
years, was re nominated for another
term. Mr. Eddy has made a gooiL
A GOOD BILL IT SHOULD BECOME A LAW.
efficient otneer and has come nearer!
than any Assessor before him in ful
filling the law governing assessments,
although it is commonly said that an
Assessor cannot be re-elected to a sec
ond, term yet it now remains to see
whether the people will sustain and
re-elect an Assessor for doing his duty.
or whether they will defeat his election
because he did do his duty in assessing
them as the law required him to do
Dr. T. V. B. Embree, amid great
applause and in opposition to his ear
nest protest, was unanimously nomina
ted as the candidate for coroner.
On last Thursday M. C. George, of
Oregon, obtained unanimous consent
in the lower house of Congress to take
from the speaker's table the bill which
passed the senate in January, author
izing the secretary of the treasury to
pay $6000 to F. G. Schwatka and
wife of fealem, Oregon, for property
taken from them by the United States
military authorities. This property
upon which Fort Stevens, at the mouth
of the Columbia river, now stands.
was appropriated by the government
in 1854, and ever since Schwatka, has
been trying to obtain payment. At
the request of Holman, George to-day
made a short statement of the case, in
which he said Schwatka and wife were
now old and dependent, and the
passage oftheill was an act of mercy.
No objection being made, the bill was
passed, and this afternoon was sent to
President Arthur for signature. It
has been pending in congress for many
years. y '
The bill to protect American labor
ers, reported favorably from the senate
committee of the United States, on
education and labor by George, pro
vides that the importation or immi
gration from any foreign country into
any place within the jurisdiction of the
United States of any alien, under any
agreement, expressed or implied, that
such alien shall work or labor for, or
in any wise serve in said jurisdiction
any person or corporation, shall here
after be prohibited; that every such
agreement shall be considered null and
void; that any advance of the cost of
transportation, or any part thereof, or
any agreement to pay or secure such
transportation of any alien to any
place within the jurisdiction of the
United States, made by any person en
gaged in mining, manufacturing, build
ing or transportation, or by any cor
poration whatever, shall hereafter be
prohibited.
It provides a penalty of $500 for
each and every violation of these pro
visions, and that it shall be a misde
meanor, punishable by a fine of $1000
and disqualification from holding office
under, the United States, for any per
son, while in the official service ot the
United States, to violate any of the
provisions of the act, or knowingly
aid and encourage such violations.
It also provides that it shall be a
misdemeanor for a master or other
officer of a vessel of American registry
knowingly to bring from any foreign
country into the United States any
alien who is under thg agreement pro
hibited by this act, and that such mis
demeanor shall be punishable by a fine
of not more than $1000 for each and
every alien so transported on the
vessel.
The act shall not be so constructed
as to prevent any citizens of a foreign
country from coming into the United
States, or from bringing with him ser
vants for personal service or conven
ience to his family, nor from prevent
ing any such foreigner, while tem
porarily residing in the United States,
from bringing such servants, and it
shall not be construed to apply to the
employment of sailors and seamen on
vessels engaged ia foreign commerce.
If any person or corporation shall
plain to the president of the Uni-
States that he or it is engaged in,
or is about to start a business requiring
skilled labor of a particular kind, and
that a sufficient quantity of such skilled
labor cannot be obtained in the Uni
ted States, the president may, on being
satisfied of the truth thereof, issue
license to such person or corporation
being unaffected by this act, to import
such skilled labor, specifying the kind
of skilled iabpr and the number of
artisans permitted to be brought into
the United States.
I
ted J
The house committee in Congress on
postoffices and post roads has directed
a sub committee, consisting of Rogers,
Ward, J. M. Taylor, Bingham and
Wakefield, to prepare a bill providing
for a contract system of postal tele
graph. The sub-committee met last
Saturday.
A report of the secretary of state
was laid before the senate last week
giving information concerning the
average production, consumption, ex
portation and importation of wheat,
rye, corn -and cotton of foreign
countries. According to the report
calculations and estimates submitted
prove, as far as statistics can prove
under the circumstances, that the
stock of wheat on hand in Europe,
at the close of 1883, did not materially
differ from the stock on hand at the
close of the previous year; that the
wants of Europe are imperative and
great as in 1883, and the demands
upon the United States should natur
ally be as great as they were in 1883.
How long Europe may or can draw
upon her reserve stock, or what the
exact considerations which control the
several countries, especially the United
Kingdom, which may be said to regu
late the wheat markets of the world,
time alone can develop. The report
also states that the most liberal allow-
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aace for the wheat output necessary
to the world's consumption the United
States should be drawn upon the pres
ent year for 177,000,000 bushels, in
round numbers, against 198,000,000
bushels from all other wheat growing
countries. It thus appears that the
lhere can be no doubt that a
measure in the tariff proposition now
before congress is prompted by the
Central Pacific railroad company, and
is solely in their interest. The measure
for taking off the duty from foreign
coal, which now pays the small tax of
75 cents per ton, will seriously affect
the interest of Oregon and Washington,
from the fact that by the terms of
settlement recently, arranged between
the dominion government and the
province of British Columbia a grant
of $750,000 and 3,000,000 acres of
land was made to a company upon the
condition of building a line of railroad
between Esquimalt and Nanaimo, a
distance of 68 miles. The Central
Pacific railroad company and Robert
Dunsmuir, of "Victoria, have received
this grant, which lies on the eastern
side of Vancouver's island, and in
cludes nearly all the coal deposits near
the coast of the province. The effect
of thn is Jto give this company the
monopoly of the coal product of British
Columbia. It is evident that the item
in the tariff bill allowing the free im
portation of coal is made in the inter
est of this company, and is part of a
scheme to bring British Columbia coal
into competition with domestic coals in
the markets of the Pacific coast. The
British Columbia coal is in unlimited
quantity, is quite accessible, and is of
better quality than that produced in
any mine in Washington remtory,
Oregon or California, It is easy to see
that if Morrison's bill is passed, and
the tariff removed trom coal, it will
practically drive our coal out of the
market.
At the New York State convention
there seemed to have occurred almost a
booni in favor of Blaine for our next
president, which was only prevented
by a combination of other candidates
against him.
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Fisher's Block,
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
-Land Office at Oregon City, Or., )
January 10th, 1884. )
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE FOL
lowing named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support of his claim
and that said proof will be made before the County
Clerk of Benton County, at Corvallis, Oregon, on
Monday May 26, 1884, viz: Alden S. Hulburt. Home
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8. B. J. W.
He names tfee following witnesses to prove his con
tinuous residence upon and cultivation of said land
viz: Y. L. Crain, Horace Underhilland Abraham Un
derbill of Summit, Benton County, and Austin Hul
bert of Albany, Linn Cmnty, all of Oregon.
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