THE COR VALLIS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, JAN. 30, 1691
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Jay GoifJ" says he is perfectly
satisfied with the western railroad
agreement. Sliouiil think he
ought to be when it was all his
ewii work all the way through.
The democrats do not appear to
have been as successful in controll
ing Farmers' Alliance legislatures
in other sections as they have been
fn the South. There is a reason-.
Do yoir know il?
Theue is considerable stir ii?
Marion county over a number of
discoveries of what are supposed
to be oil wells. The northern part
of the county is most affected.
The indications aTe that that sec
tion of Oregon is a vast oil reser
voir, and it is hoped that subse
quent development will prove
more satisfactory than Benton
ounty's experiments in "boring
for oil."
TiiE' Boston Transcript calls at
tention to a little-known fact, viz:
That the quantity of coin neces
sary in any country is proved to
have no connection either with
population or volume of trade.
That nation of Europe which
transacts the largest! amount of
business, Great Britain, uses the
least 5untFty of coin, while the
st, the most debt-ridden country
of Europe, Spain, has the largest
amount of metallic money com
pared to commerce, the coin ratio
to commerce being 20 in Great
Bmtain, and I0& in Spain, Tlie
ratio in this country is twice that
of Great Britain.
The Eugene board of trade at a
meeting, held recently discussed
the question of establishing a fruit
and vegetable cannery. It will
require a capital stock of between
$12,000 and $15,0001 The estab
lishment of canneries is yet re
garded in some localities as an ex
periment and capital appears tardy
in taking hold of the industry,
ne of the great obstacles to the
stablisrknent of canneries and
tlier manufacturing enterprises at
this time is the high rate of inter
est which money commands.
There is good reason to expect
that within a short time the strin
gency of the money market will be
relaxed;that the demand for money
will be diminished and will become
available for " enterprises which
offer reasonable returns-. In the
meantime we may as well discuss
muanufacturing enterprises and,
when possible, establish them.
The Gbrvailis cannery project ap
pears te be drifting. Don't let
this project drop but keep the ball
rolling ad we will have a cannery
here in the near future.
A bill lias been introduced into
the senate for the improvement of
tfte "White House. Mrs. Harrison
has been consulted in its prepara
tion, it is said, which certainly was
aproper thing to do; for no one can
so well understand the defects and
needs of a building as those who
occupy it. The house is too small
to- use both as a private residence
and as a public office, as it is now.
It is proposed to use the present
Building as the-president's private
residence, and to erect a new wing
r the executive offices on the west,
another for a gallery of pictures,
historic relics ami art treasurers
on the east, both counterparts of
the original structure in design,
and connected with it by colon
nades and hallways, and on the
Bouth by a connecting range of
iron and glass structures of sym
metrical design, forming. executive
conservatories and winter gardens,
at a cost not to exceed $950,00a
The improvement is one which
Ras long been needed, and it is to
Be hoped the bill will pass. Tol
edo Blade.
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
In his annual report to the gov
ernor the president of the board
of regents of the state agricultural
college says;
As tle present attendance of
students has outgrown the present
buildings, both for teaching, ex
perimental and lodging purposes,
the regents are at a loss to know
how any increased numbers can be
accommodated. Congress only
attaches one condition to its mu
nificent grant of $15,000i which is
that no part of it shall be spent on
buildings such expense the sev
eral states must bear.
The pressing need of this insti
tution is for an appropriation to
build an experiment station labor
atory. In this new building the
chemical, botanical, agricultural.
horticultural and zoological and
entomological laboratories must be
placed, in order to give the college
building the rooms at present oc
cupied for the purposes; and also
to give the station workers the
benefit of (he larger space and
greater conveniences imperatively
needed. And there must be a
building constructed to accommo
date not less than 150 male stu
dents. And the board are also
most anxious to build and to be
gin at once to operate the dairy,
which was proposed in 1S89, but
the erection of which had to be
left over for want of funds.
The welfare of the state de
mands certain expenditures now
in order that this growing and use
ful institution may fulfill its benefi
cent purpose.
As congress has dealt liberally
with this institution in the appro
priation of funds to carry on the
work, it is hoped that the state
legislature will make ample ap
propriations to erect the buildings
necessary for the present demands
of the institution.
It speaks volumes for the sta
bility of our present system of
finance that the alarming speeches
recently made in the Senate have
not precipitated a panic. Not
only has the country escaped the
panic which was threatened a few
weeks ago, but its finances are
rapidly assuming their normal con
dition, and confidence, the primal
requisite of commercial prosper
ity, is returning in business circles.
And, do not forget, when consider
ing this matter that the credit for
our present financial system be
longs exclusively to the republican
party.
BEF3EE. the democrats decide
upon the next republican national
ticket they should turn their eyes
toward the cut-throat vendetta
now raging in the ranks of their
own party, between the friends of
'I am a democrat" Hill, and those
of "I am your only leader" and if
that doesn't convince them that
harmony is not the controlling sen
timent of the democratic party,
they might put in a few minutes
on the twenty cornered fight for
the speakership of the next House.
That will settle it.
Johnny Bull, having been com
pletely knocked out in the diplo
matic ring 'by Mr. Blaine, has
Jumped into the judicial ring in
hopes of better luck. The at
tempt to have the supreme court
render a decision upon one of the
questions at issue between this
country and Great Britain was in
tended by the Brittishers to be a
great surprise to Mr. Blaine, but it
did not surprise him; in the least;
he had been expecting just that
very move. Come again Johnny.
Tiie Santiam people are agitat
ing the division of Linn county
and the location of Scio as the
county seat. The idea is said to
meet with some favor in Albany,
but it is not probable that the di
vision, will carry. -
Will some democratic editor
kindly inform us wliat are the
opinions of Messrs. Cleveland and
Hill on the free and unlimited
coinage of silver?
IMPROVE THE WILLAMETTE..
The attention of the state legis
lature and congress is constantly
claimed by either Portland or
:Eastern Oregon on the subject of
improving the Columbia river.
Much has been done for the Co
lumbia river. A great deal of
"appropriation" has already been
poured into its capacious maw,
and it is not less ravenous than
before. What it has . received j
seems on ly to give it rereeweu j
power to directly convert the "ap- j
propriation" which is due its trib- j
utaries, seeming to forget that its
own ultimate importance depends
in some degree, upon their vitality. (
A few representatives of the in
terests of the Willamette river
and the people of the Willamette J
valley have been endeavoring to
authorities which dispense appro-
priations, and their efforts have j
not been altogether fruitless.
The have obtained the floor, so to !
speak, and should be and will be ;
seconded by a large delegation
whose modesty has heretofore al- ;
lowed them to defer the claims of
the Willamette to give precedence j
to those of the Columbia. There
is no valid reason why the Willam
ette river should be kept in the
back ground in the matter of state !
and national appropriations, and '
it is time that the population of j
Willamette valley were making !
its influence felt. Its demand in '
. i
regard to river appropriations is
modest, and the small amount
which it would require to make
the river navigable, as far as Cor
vallis at least, the year round,
ought, injustice, to have been ap
propriated long ago. This valley ;
has a larger population, in propor- j
tion to area, than any other por- j
tion of Oregon, and to allow a few
sandbars, which a little activity
and statesmanship would dredge,
to obstruct navigation on its prin
cipal waterway, is a severe re
proach to the economic ideas of
our people. Let it be understood
that the best portion of Oregon
has claims which our legislative
bodies must listen to and act upon
favorably.
It is not the purpose to oppose
just demands of the Columbia i
river but it is not too much to ask j
that it go hand in hand with the 1
Willamette. j
Senator Quay may novv expect
a fusilade of abuse from the entire :
democratic line. He has intro- i
duced a bill entitled "an act to
prevent force and fraud in Federal
elections and to insure the lawful
and peaceful conduct thereof"
which goes futher than the Lodge
Election bill, by empowering the j
President to suspend the writ of j
habeas corpus in any locality and ;
to employ the United States army j
and navy to enforce the law, when
ever, in his judgment it may be
come necessary to do so. The
democrats seem to have made a
slight mistake in claiming that Mr. i
Quay was opposed to a Federal
election law.
The Oregonian says the com-
mittee on judiciary of the house j
have instructed its oldest and at i
.... . . !
the same time its most democratic
member, Mr. Butler, of Polk, to
draw up a bill for an act to provide
for the holding of a constitutional
convention. Oregon's antiquated
constitution is the laughing-stock ;
of other states which have been
more progressive, and the expres
sion of opinion among the mem
bers is very general that this ses
sion should take necessary steps
to provide for a convention for its
revision.
, There has been quite an im
provement in the commercial situ
ation on the Pacific coast during
the past week. Only sixteen fail
ures are reported, against thirty
for the week previous.
Few people realize the size of ;
Harvard University; the present '
number of teachers is 242, aHd
there are 2274 students a fair
size town within the college walls. I
THE "DON'T CARE" IDEA.
A reporter for the New York
Herald asked an- ex-official to name
his choice for Senator from New
York, whereupon the gentleman
said as he was out of politics now,
he did not know or particularly
care. In this- answer is tire text
for a rebuke to many citizens who
pay too little attention to politics
and government, leaving it all to
the professional politician and
wire-puller. Every citizen owes it
to himself, his state and his nation
to take an interest in the choice of
representatives who have a voice
in shaping laws or executing them.
The purification of practical pol
itics will never come until the
man who is not in "politics" takes
an interest in elections and cau
cuses. The men who prate about an
unstable government and the
growing wickedness of officials are
frequently those who always have
an excuse for taking no time to
vote or see that honorable men
are chosen to fill positions of trust.
They leave it to the heeler and the
professional political striker to say
who shall do the governing.
Greater interest is needed and by
men not "in politics."
Representative Hermann has
secured from the department an
order for new railway mail service
from Albany to Green Basin, in
Linn county, Oregon, and the
seeond assistant postmaster gen
eral has communicated with the
railwajr company stating the basis
upon which it would be proper to
establish the service.
The Salem Statesman says: the
Australian ballot law will not
amount to much without a regis
tration law. A registration law
cannot be passed and enforced
without a constitutional amend
ment. The amendmendment can
not be voted on until a year from
next June.
The president has signed Repre
sentative Hermann's bill pension
ing Hosea Brown, of LVain, in
Southern Oregon, at the rate of
$40 per month. This old veteran
served and fought in the war of
1812 against the British, and he is
now nearing his 99th year in age.
Rider Haggard and Rudyard
Kippling are both in this country.
It is to be hoped that they will be
kept apart, for should they form a
conjunction and both continue to
be as prolific as they have been,
the American syndicate writer,
whose name is legirSI, is doomed.
Dispatches from Pendleton tell
of the persecution of Chinese in
Eastern Oregon by the whites. If
the authorities refuse to protect
the Chinese residents of this state,
they would be perfectly justified
in arming themselves for their
own safety.
Twenty cents a day is what the
Brittish government is allowing
the women who are toiling at road
building in Ireland. This may ac
count for the good roads in that
country; but rather than have such
pauper wages, we will cling to
mud. '
It is said that Governor Pen
noyer will not sign the Bull Run
water bill, but will allow it to be
come a law without his signature.
He might as well sign it. By al
lowing it to become a law he ex
presses his approv al of it.
How Severe Colds are Broken Up in
Montana.
Virginia City, Montana, Madisonian.
When we fiuil a medicine we know to
posseBS genuine merit, we consider it a duty,
and we take pleasure in telling tbe public
what it is. Such a medicine we found
Chamberlain' Cough Ilemedy, last winter,
when la grippe was prevailing. We are sat
isfied that we warded off several attacks
that were threatening by the use of this
svrup, and we have since relieved, in a few
hours, seveie colds, and in the course of two
or three days, entirely broken them up by
its user as have several of our friends to
'whom, we have recommended it. It is all
that it is represented to be by the mantr
facturers. If you have a cough and want to
stop it Chamberlain's Cough Remedy will do
the work. Sold By T. Graham.
IO XJ 3ES.
WE WILL CLOSE OUT OUR ENTIRE
" Stock of Men's Winter Clothing, Overcoats, FurnMiBg
Goods and Rubber Goods, at
Greatly
Reduced
In order to make room for
iiier Stock, of which wo will
assortment.
iill of Fare" at the "New Era.'
The Old Credit System Must Go.
The old credit system: must go. The people are awafie to the faclt
that credit and long lime means Long Prices. At the end of the year
the merchant that sells on time runs over his books and draws off alt
worthless accounts, loots them up and adds them to .the loss account
Now, those accounts must be paid for, and those that pay for their
own must help patfor those worthless accounts. Again, if a merchant
sells on time lie must buy on time thus making him pay big prices for
his goods; then he adds his enormous profits to cover the losses
of those worthless accounts. Now,
the "i&ri-Tmr esjFU"
Neither sells on crelit nor buys on time, so are able to offer Match
less Bargains m all classes of goods they carry. The following are at
few of their sledge-hammer prices:
Ladies' and Misses' Gossamers, $1.00, $1.17, $1.50, and $2.25, worth
25 per cent more.
Rubber Overcoats, $3.70, worth $5.00
Ladies' Overshoes, 8Se, 42c. 4Sc. and 55c. worth 25 per cent more.
Men's Overshoes, 57c. worth 75; 07c, worlh 85. etc., fce.
Overalls, 45, 50, 53, 03 and 75c, worlh 20 per cent more any other
place in town.
Men's Hats. 30. 80, 85. and 90c. $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, &c.
Towels, 5, S. 10, 12, 18, 23, 25. 35, and 42o.
Ladies' Shawls, from 25 to 50 per cent below regular prices:
Ribbons, Laces, Embroideries 50 to 100 pr ct. below regular prices.
Corsets, 2G 48, 85 and 8Sc eueh.
Gents' collars and cuffs at 100 per cent, below regular prices.
Mouldings. Must close out this stock to make room for Largo Stock
of other goods to arrive from the East in February..
Come and get prices we can't enumerate them in this space. No
trouble to show good. AH goods purchased at the '-New Era," war
ranted. Give us a call. WILKINS, BOND & CO.
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WW C O Zs JL
Furniture Store.
This is the great Emporium for Modern Furniture at reasonable pri
ces. His stock is large, and selected with special care with an eye to
Comfort, Beauty, Style and Durability. A glance at his elegant wick
er, plush and fancy chairs, convenient folding wardrobe beds, stylish
center tables of antique oak and walnut, will convince those in quesfe
of Furniture that his store is tlie place for bargains in anything of the
hsusehold furniture line.
GkESO
Corvallis,
Charter : Oak : Ranges
With.
Fire-Backs Warranted for 15 Years.
Argund Stoves and Ranges,
"Ventilated Ovens.
PLTJMBIN3, ROOFING, REPAIRING,
F. L. 20SS02T & BOIL
We carry a full
.Beat SEEDS,
FERTILIZERS, ETC., BEE
KEEPERS' SUPPLIES. Give us a
trtnl order.
L. P0SS0U & SOU. 209
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on r New Spring and Snm
have a large and elegant
Oregon.
Oregon.
Wire-Gauze Doors.
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