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Weekly Corvallis Gazette. FRIDAY MOKNING, NOV. 13. 1885. OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COuNTY Entered at the Postottiee at Corvallis Oregon, as second-class matter. THIS PAPEfi will (w found on file at thefollowing named places, where advertUiiUf uiav be contracted for at ur regular rates: C, W. LOililti Cj., Advertising Agents, Portland, Oregon. L. P. FISHKlt, Advertising Ajfert, San Francisco, California. GEO. P. ROW ELL ,t Co,. Advertising Age&ts, Mo 10 Spruce Street, New ori City. J. H. BATES, Advertising Aent, 41 Park Kow, New York Citv. N. W. AYER & SON, Advertising Agents, Philadelphia, Pa. Work was resumed in Roach's slii yard last Monday wonting on the un completed cruisers, Boston and Chica go. About three months will he re quired to complete the former and ten months the latter. The grand jury at Seattle last week indicted Uat. Finlayson of the baik Hattie E. Tapley, for obstructing a United States officer in the discharge of his duty. The crew of the bark libeled the vessel for wages, and the captain refused a United States offi-- r accommodations in the cabin, telling him to go to the forecastle or quarter deck. The British officer was very in solent, and has been put under 200 bonds for libel, and $1000 for obstruct ing a United States officer. friinee calling attention a few weeks ago to the propriety of electing Gee. H. Williams t the United States Sen ate, we have received several letters from various parts cf the State, stating that the republicans in those different localities are mostly in favor of the election of Williams. This shows that the rank and file of the party want to see his election. Railroad corporations and their lackies, and those desiring to use a United States Senator for their own special favors do not want him be cause they know they can not use him. A letter now before me from one of the most prominent republicans of Clackamas county after discussing the situation says the "sentiment here is niwstly for Williams. Every repul li can who studies the situation of affaiis both Xational and State, readily reefg nizes the fact that Williams who was the United States Senator during the time when the rebels were endeavoring to break up this government and through the trying times of reconstruc tion, gained a valuable experience which qualifies him to be the more servicable than any other person, now at a time when those who, twenty years ago, were trying to shoot the government to pieces, are now in the foremost positions, endeavoring to ad minister, what before they were trying to tear down. Of the Nesv York election the Her ald says: "The president holds his own state." The Tribune says: "The dem ocrats retain New York. Hill has been elected by a figure so handsome as to make the beggarly plurality which the sUite gave President Cleveland al most invisible. The return of the voters whom Mr. Blaine's candidacy alienated did not make good to the re publican party the loss this year of voters whom that, candidacy attracted. who loan through agents and charge a Tn f:,nt. r.hf Mn ds net. annm kn K. I bonus often times larger than the rate From an exchange was copied with out comment into the editorial columns of the Gazette last week the follow ing: "If the legislature would reduce legal interest to 8 per cent., peihaps some of the capital now loaned out would find its way into new manufac turing enterprises." The Gazette is not in accord with the sentiment of the abova quotation, because the experi ence of time proves that such is not the fact, for legal interest is already re duced to 8 percent., and has been so reduced for eight years. When that reduction was made, money was plenty in Oregon and large quantities thereof, was seeking loans for eight per cent, and any one who had anything like reasonably good security could borrow all the money they wanted from eight WASHINGTON LETTEK. (from our special correspondent.) Washington, Oct. 26, 18S5. . Another official head has fallen, ami one of the most conspicuous opportun ities to show friendship for Civil Ser vice reform has been thrown away. The victim, in this instance, is Assistant-Secretary Coon. He has b en recognized as the active, working chief of the Treasury department under sev eral heads, and no man has ever held the position who has evinced more fi dclity in the discharge of his duties. When the change of administration occurred, Mr. Coon went to Secretary Manning frankly, and proposed to re sign his place, saying that he had al- more difficult to obtain, until borrow ers cannot be accommodated at all, and those who do secure loans, are only able to get them after much delay and great expense, and still manufactories have not increased by reason of such reduction in interest, and the reduction of interest will not increase anything, but will simply have the tendency as it always has done, to drive the money to more favorable localities. The fact of the matter is, Oregon people are not skilled in manufacturing, and to expect to drive their money into manufactur ing or any other investments about which the owners of the money are not versed, is a mistaken idea; for men do not accummulate capital by investing it in something about which they know nothing, but they do accomplish finan cial results by putting their money in to investments vhich they know and understand. In order for Oregon to advance in m mufacturing interests she must first have come among us people skilled in different manufacturing in dustries with sufficient capital to par tially carry the respective industries in which they areskilled. People thus skill ed if found worthy can no doubt find Oregon capital to join them. It is a mistaken idea that is occasionally found that an act of the legislature by reduc ing the standard of legal interest can regulate money and thus force inen in to other investments. You might as well try to make a man by legislative unactment ell his horse worth two hundred dollars for fifty. If you thus li.ni the value of a man's horse below its prst value, in an Oregon market, he will take it to Washington Territory or to Idaho, where he can get its full value, and go it is with the man who desires to loan his money; if Oregon people do not want to borrov it at its full value, and they through the legis lature attempt to put its value down below its worth, the man can not be prevented from taking his money where he pleases, and hence he takes it to Washington Territory and Idaho and other localities where people are willing to pay the value thereof and this is what makes in a great measure the scarcity of money in Oregon and which is causing man? a good man to equalled one-third or one-fourth the loss. Tho stay-at-home voters decided the matter. The vote was light, but the republicans who did not take the trouble to vote outnumbered the demo crats. Avery much smaller vote than was cast for Mr. Blaine would have sufficed to bury Mr. Hill, but the re publicans were not around to cast such a vote. But the republican phalanx is neither routed nor broken. A signifi cant gain in Oneida shows it is more heartily united than it has been at any other time for many years, and, though beaten on the state ticket, it holds both branches of the state legislature by strong majorities. A severe storm , in the interior, which made the vote slighter, did not cost the republicans any seats in the legislature. The. plain truth seems to be that republican vot ers did not expect to succeed this year against the concentration of power bv the administration to save itself, and therefore did not make the efforts nec essarv to success. Canvassers. Two or three ladies and a like number of gentlemen who are experts in canvassing and who desire work of that kind and who can furnish reliable reference as to their ways been a Republican and always to ten per cent. Since that reduction expected to be one. The inexperienced coupled with the mortgage tax law, M'"- Manning especially requested Mr. money has gradually become scarce and U!,ou to remain, assuring him that he would be ol the greatest service, ami that his remaining would be considered in the light of a favor. Mr. Coon's retention in office has been one great source of the confidence the Civil Service Reformers continue to profess in the sincerity of the Cleveland administration. They pointed to his case as resembling that of the Under Secretaries in the English Government who remain through all changes of Cab inet, heads. Thus the party abandons its Civil Service hypocrisy. Mr. Coon goes, not from any dissatisfaction with any official act, but because Mr. Cleveland wants Democrats around him, and be cause Mr. Coon's services are not quite as indispensable now as they were to the raw men who took charge of the government eight mouths ago. The ideal Democratic Presideut is a dispenser of public plunder as the per sonal perquisites ol politicians, It Would be impossible to educate the average Democrat up to ttiU. iefi rin theory whch the D.smocKttic party professed last year in order to get the i'ew hundred bolting Republican votes, which saved ir. from defeat. They hunger for the flesh pots, and have pro touud contempt for any theory of re form that does not hinge on spoils. Genera! Rosecrans, the registrar oi the Treasury, has succeeded in getting his office into a miserable tangle. Work cm scarcely go on there by reason of the removal of efficient Republican subordinates, and the appointment of incompetent Democrats to their places. ! Again, history repeats itself. As a military commander in Tennessee, it will lie remembered, Ci n. Rosecrans got his army into a similar fix, and hail to be displaced. Senator Sherman stopped in Wash ington on his way to Virginia, where he is going to add a few last touches to the campaign. He was serenaded at the Ebbitt House by some of his many friends in Washington. Tae Postmaster-General has gone to Wisconsin to attend the funeral of his sister. .Secretary Whitney his gone to New York to register. Secretary Bay ard has been acting host to Dr. Curry luring the week, and the latteris mak be sold out under the hammer, when if' ing arrangements to sail for Spain on he was permitted to boi row money for I his recent I v appointed mission. Secre tary Mantling is studying hard in or der that he may, w hen Congress meets, be able to answer some of the questions which will be propounded by the astute financial students, wdio compose the Senate Finance Committee. The way he carries himself before the committee a time, and pay its value, he could af ter awhile work out and save his prop, erty. The usury law is in favor of a few local men throughout the country, of interest, but it never operates in fa vor of the poor man, who borrows and pays for the money. If you do not believe it, ask the needy borrowers and see if he can not point you to some brokers office where he paid a bonus amounting to morethan the legal inter est. That inevitable law of nature, that of supply and demand regulates will have much to do with his future standing. The duties of the Secretary of the Treasury are probably mote ex acting than those of any other Cabinet position, and the interest to see how Mr. Manning will deport himself this w inter is not surprising. The Capitol is already being put in the market value of commodities, and I readiness for Cougress, which meets in you might as well try to legislate the value of w heat or cabbage, as to legis late the value ot money. One will succeed as well as the other. The mortgage tax law was passed for the purpose of n quiring those loaning money on landed security to pay taxes thereon, the interest of which seems to have been for a good purpose, for there is no just reason why loan companies should not pay their just proportion of taxation, in the localities where they are doing business and where their cap ital is receiving the protection of the laws; but the operation and effect of the law has been to drive mo.iey out of the country, to break down the bus iness of the country, to make money scarce and to give .the bonus men a chance to charge still higher and high- six week?. The comfort of those who serve their country in both ends of the building is to be more closely attended to at the next session than heretofore. Both the Senate and the House will have new carpets. The cloak rooms, those indispensable accessories to legis lation, where Congressmen gather, smoke, joke, and otherwise entertain each other, are being newdy frescoed and furnished. An additional softness and sans sonci touch, as it were, is be ing given to the lounges that lurk in pleasant corners. The House is envious of the Sen ate's luxuries, and given to imitating them. Last year the Senate removed the little strips of card board with names printed on them, showing to which 'Senator each desk belonged, and substituted for them little silver er, and but little tax has been collect . . ... T 1 . . 1 . 1 capability and reliability to attend carfully ' M on mortgages m snort, cue iuort- . TJ .g y Row be done in the arm iionoramy to worn entrusted to mem Kw 7- v "v"-'w 1 T , . M1 1 can perhaps rind some thing of interest to grant and irreparable damage to the House, and rt Will take three hundred, them by calling at this office. , people of Oregon. I and thirty-three silver plates. R. I BURNETT & JOHNSON, Proprietors of the WHIST ID BiLLiARD ROOMS, Constantly on hand the be' brniKis of Tobaccos and Cigars in the market. Fruit, Nuts Confectionery fee Cold Drinks, Etc. -GIVE US A CALL. Main St. Corvallis, Oregon. OCCIDENTAL HOTEL. CorvaHis, Oregon. CANAH & GIBLiN. PROPRIETORS. THE OCCIDENTAL is a new building, newly furnished, ami is first class ill all its appointments. RATES LIBERAL. Stupes lijave the hotel for Albany and Yaquina Ba.i Monday si, Wednesdays and Friday;. Large Sanij!e Room on First Floor for CouiRHTciai .icii. 19-35 ly .1 H. Lewis, E. E. Rabf.r. !.! X. 5la!(ei.:Piiiii'trs SST Do a general Praying Business. Orders Solicited.. C. B, STAER'S LIW FEB and m STABLE. (South end Main Street.) Charges Reasonable, Satisfact ion Guaranteed, Corrallis, - - Oregon. W. C. Crawford JEW-, LE R . SEEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND A LARGE assortment of Watches, docks, Jevefay, etc. U kinds of repairing done ou short notice, and aK .v irk warranted. iS::2J-yl J. C. Lek, M. U. G. IL Faeka, M. D. I j Lj j & Alii! 9 IPiivsicians, Surgeons And Accouchers. Corvallis, - - Oregon. 20-31t( y INCENT HOUSE. The best dollar a day House 11 tlie ji ty. r" ft' 0 11 u 1 o r UJifuidOj IJ.jJuiUj Oiii liufibluUj ViA Oregon Pacific E- R. and EAMSHiP LINE. TraiitS us and after Sept. 14lh, Leave Corvallis laesdty Thursday and Saturday, S3 a, a, Leave Yaquina Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 8 a, a, KATES Bshvean CorvaHis g San Francisco Krst-class and Cabin passage i?14 00 " Steerage " 7 00 drain per ton 2000 lbs 4 50 Tims saving to the fanners and merchants of the valley Thousands of Dollars. Willamette river boats will hereafter con nect with trains at Corvallis. This new line is prepared to transport all the freight and passengers offering. WALLIS NASH, Vice Pres. CHAS. C. HOUUE, A. G. P. & F. Agt. Corvallis, Oaegon. AUGUST OllrHT, CABINET MAKER, V..,- "H." UNDERTAKER. Cor. Second and Monroe Sts. , (;OKVALS,8S, : OBCSO., Keeps constantly on hand all kinds of FURNITURE Coffins ar d Caskets. Work done to ordjr on short notice and at reasonable rates. Corvallis July 1, 18S1. 19:27yl. THE MUTUAL SELF-EN DO WEVBENT .A STD BENEVOLEN T ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, Crand Central Office, Fcrt Wcrth, Texas. SAM CUNDIFF, President. E. M. MACY, Secretary B. VV. BUOWN, Vice-Presilent. A. W. MOIUUSON, Treas. Chartered under the laws of the State of Texas. June llth, 1881. Convriul f v. au . 1881, in the office of the librarian of Cons!4" i, c g " Jn' U PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT. OFFICE: No. 7 Powell St. Corner Market. San Francisco OFFiCER HON. SAMUEL G. II1LBORN, President, A. W. KELSEY, of Sacramento Vice-President W. H. WARD. Secretary, J N. RUSSKL, sr., Super ii Pendent PROF W, E. TAYLOR, M. D., Medicfl Director, PACIFIC BANK, Treasurer CAPT. J, N. LEONARD, State Snp't., Portland, Or. The object of this Association is to provide encowretn's for Bring n tn bers as well as benefits for ;:'Mttc li" a8 The plan embraces two forms, lite and death. One pays at the death of a member and the other pays n five equal installments ctunnir life. The association is operated on the mutual plan. It has no stock holders to absorb its earnings, and no trustees among' whom to oivide its surplus The total membership r.f the association now amounts to nearly 14,(K0 with a steadv increase each month . The association has disbursed to daU f7l),0:;.-:.02 in benefits to the legatees of Scsased Hum i.era, and on maturing coupons. Is loaning from fiftec to twenty thousand per month to li-ing members' REVIEW SlftCE ORGANIZATION. Receipts since organization, - . 5570 23fi OR Disbursements since organization, - . 570 03s' 02 I balance on hand, - . '201 06 Coupons paid, - - . J . 80,600 Agents Wanted in every county of the Pacific Coast. F. W3. Johnson, Resident Agent, 4 - - Corvallis, Oregon. City Stables Daily Stage LinE FR a ALBANY TO C0RVALLJP. THOS. EGLIN, - - Proprietor. On the Corner West of the Engine House CO It V ALL IS, - - OREGON. B A. VINO COMPLETED MY oew iinti commodious BARK. I am better than ever prepared to keep the Having secured the contract to carrying th United StateN M FROM Corvallis tr Albany For the ensuing four year ill leave Corrnlliv ead f n T"An,'0 D P'irP PiDPCICCO nrniBg at 8 o clock, ,.mg in Albany about JtOI UP iLfiliO UJJJIi-O, UnnruMICO o clock, and wSl startficn Allan at 1 o'clock intbe afternoon, returning to Corvallis about 8 o'clrck t ; n and tare- ASD SADDLE HOUSES TO HIKE. At Reasonable Rates. i&tF Particular attention given to Boarding Horse Horses Bought ami Suld or Exchanged. PLEASE GIVE UK A CALL. This line will be prepared with reed ui unvers ana nice cunnortable and EASY RIDINC VEHICLES For tlie accommodation of the 1BAVGLING I LJ'.LIC. Wheat and other Grain Stored on the best of Terms by -AT 1TALLIS SACKS FDilXISnED TO PATRONS Farmers will do well to cull on rne before making arrangements elscwlure 18-27-vl TEE EEKTON COUNTY REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION Office; Corvallis, Orego M, S. WOODCOCK. MaBUger. rp Yl TO ASSOCIATION will buy art! sell ali classes of lieal Estate cn rea .onable terms and wi.Jthor X IX-iO OBghly advertise by describing: each piece of property entrastedto it fur sale. The follow ; pieces of property will be nod on .tran(linarily reaeonabie terms: SAW BULL Undivided i intereFt in a Ui;II run water, a good planer and seven atres of laid riser in connection with the mill. Power si: ff t i i t tv ra: Jill .if the year, situated handy to n avkt-t ai.r within about 7 miles of Corvallis with an excellent good ruad to and rom it. Terms eaay FARM--Farm all under fenc obly 2f miles from L'nrallis of ir0 acres, 80 acres now iv. enllivation, the balance Of it can be cultivated; aiw.nt 20 of it now in' wheat with a fair hou.se good barn and grantry. will be sold at a han-ain. Tenns easy. FARM -Farm of 478 acres for less than SIS pel acre, being one of the cheapest and best farms in liuntot. county, situated 4 miles west of Monroe, i of a mile from a good school, in one of the best neigh-, borhoods in the state with church privileges bandy. ADOUv-ido acres m cultivation, una over -i'ju can o eultivtaed. All under fence, with good two story frame house, large barn and orchard; has running water the rear around, and is well suited tor stock and dairy purposes. Tins is one of Die cheapest farms in the Willamette Valley Terms o;.sy STOt'K FARM 320 acreB, about 50 in cultivation 1 160 acres can le cultivuud, i acre .f ed fir ei.d oak timber, the la); net c; Lias lai d. in til tin -tortable bouse ni Larn. jt ii adsinii j. it. iiitx haustible ou range, n.akii g one ot tht btt etock: ranges in Lei; ton Cbttbty. bitHStfd aloi.t It n ilts bentbwest of Corvallis. 1 rice HttO. FAKM A farm of 186 aciet of laud eitvaUd I. mHefiom Corvafli. in Linn County, Or. AH under fence; acres ci rub b tt n. h t d in lultiwitkn 60 acres of good fir, as, aid u le tintir: 2 eod houtes, t d orchards ai d two ct d wellt itb t na ps. Terms: (SO per acre, half cab dewn t d bausee payable in one and two vcara, secuit-d by mortgage u on the iaini. i LOTS Two unimproved lots ir. Corvallis. One o toe choicest building places in the city for Bale eas onable. ALSO Four uninniroved lots except fenc ed in Corvallis, Or. The choicest buiidmy place in. the city for sale reasonable. THOMAS GRAHAM, druggist and Apothecary, AND DEALER IN ms, oils, mmm mm glass, ram trusses. SHOULDER BRACES, TOILET ARTICLES AC. A full line of I' oks, Stallone-y and Wall Parer. O r drugs are treeli atn3 well selected. Prescriptions compcunded at all hourr. 19-27yl YApiNfl)(JoyRISTSi) The New Steam Yacht 'TRESSA IVEAY' Is at your disposal for the season Of 188ft. Being manned by careful and competent officers ?nd crew who will exert themselves at all times to oblige vis itors. Chaiters a Specialty. Rates reasonable. For terms appiv to CAPT. F. E. DODGE, Manager. Newport, Oregon 222S3m Real Estate Agency! CORVALLIS OREGON Real Estate Agents, will buy, sell, or lease farms or farm property on commission. Having made arrangements for co-operation with agents in Portland, and being ful ly acquainted with real property in Benton county, we feel assured of giving entire sat isfaction to all who may favor us with their patronage. G. A. Wasuoner. 20-6 vl T. J. Bcforu, LUMBER FOR SALE! Well seasoned and in the Ware house, a fine lot of dressed FLOORING, RUSTIC, OASXCTGt- Got. Any party purchasing 5,000 feet or over, may have the same at $24.00 per M. Enquire of T. J. BLAIR. GREAT NORTHWESTERN REMEDY. Those who work early and late need a wholesome reliaHe Medicine like Pfumler's Oregon BlooA Purifier. As a remedy and preventative of disease t can not he beat. It checks Kheumatism and Mala ria, relieves Constipation. Dyspepsia and Billiousness and puts fresh eneiyy into the system Vy making NEW, RICH BLOOD. All DrusfgtBts and dialers keep it. S1.00 bottles, 6 for 35.00. 22143m