Issued Every Friday Morning by Th3 Gazette Publishing Co. CORVALLIS, OREGON, OCT. 20, 1S04. A CHANGE IMPROBABLE. Various at'jorueys have various meth ods of workiiicr up the cause of their clients. Some prefer to practice in a legitimate, straightforward way, while others seek lo accomplish their ends through ways that are dark. Of the lat ter class, T. N. Strong, the alleged attor ney of Ginn & Co., and other publishing firms interested in a change of school text books, has adopted a style of prac tice altogether new and original he pleads his case through the columns of the Oregonian. Law briefs are usually paid for, but Mr. Strong seems to have a faculty of sesuring the publication of his as a communicatiod. After heaping insult after insult upon the school teachers and superintendents of Oregon; accusing them of being a ver itable school machine, run in the sole interest of the American Book Company, and insinuating that the superintend ents and board of examiners have been bribed by it in the past, and that they will be again, the Committee of One Hundred, through Attorney Strong, at tempts to intimidate them into voting for a change in text books by threaten ing them with exposure. He is making a desperate oflbrt to force a vote that will be favorable to his alleged clients. Al though the people's welfare should be considered first, he attempts to make the interests of those publishers who want a change, paramount to all other interests. In this he will never succeed, and if he has undertaken the task on a contingent fee he had better- make a new contract, and require a good sized retainer. During the coming two months, books for use during the next six'years will be selected. These publications will be chosen by ballot in which forty-one votes may be cast thirty-two by county super intendents, and nine by members of the state board of examiners. This vote" is to be canvassed by the Committee of One Hundred, and the result of their findings will be published in the Oregonian. Those who vote for the books now in use will be regarded with suspicion as having been unduly influenced by the American Book Company, while those who vote for the publications of rival firms, which will cost the school patrons a quarter of a million of dollars, will be considered above reproach. Of the forty-one votes, two will be cast- by citizens of Benton county. They are both regarded as men of sound judgment; friendly to the inter ests of the school patrons of Oregon, and have no axes to grind. They are gentle men of integrity and can not be purchas ed, an the Committee of One iIundred would have it appear. Threats of expo sure and malicious insinuations of dis honesty will not swerve them from doing their duty for duty's sake; and, when they have done so, it will be an honor to have their names placed on record as having served the interests of one hun dred thousand school children rather than a half dozen school book publishers, whose books Attorney Strong is work ing so assiduously to have adopted. Should a change be voted, its evil effects will not ba felt until next fall, when par ents will be compelled to expend from 2.50 to $5.00 for new books for each of their children. Although books pur chased this year may be in good condi tion they will be discarded when the change takes place. These circum stances, coupled with the hard times, especially when the books now in use are giving satisfaction, makes the move both unwise and unpopular. Under these con ditions it is altogether improbable that men of sense and good business judg ment will favor a change. PORTLAND'S FAIR. There was a time when Portland was . up to date. Until this year, she has giv en an industrial exposition annually. These displays have always been looked forward to with pleasure by those in a position to attend. Each year, the expo sition has been a credit to Portland, and to the state. Now they want to bring the fag end of the world's fair to Portland aftar it has been exhibited in San Fran cisco and Tacoma. The everlasting wail of "economy," "retrenchment," "hard times," and the like, which has gone up from Portland's Committee of One Hun- dren, and been given vent to through the columns of the Oregonian, has led every one living in the cow counties to believe that the metropolis is about bankrupt. People residing outside of Portland see that there is no end of bickerings among the business men there, and that there is no disposition evidenced to pull together for the general advancement of their mutual interests. Such lack of harmony can never build up a city or a state, nor will it make the tail end of a two-year-old show either interesting or a financial success. Prom the depressing statements sent broadcast by the Committee of One Hundred, no one in. Benton county can believe that there is enough money left in Portland to buy even a meal ticket. How, then, can we expect an exhibition gotten up under such circumstances to be worth the seeing? Whenever Portland getirid of her moss-back committee she will resume her wonted air of prosperity, and not before. Then the exposition will be reopened for the display of Ore gon wares, Oregon fruits, Oregon grains, Oregon minerals, and other products of the state. Then the people of Portland will find that every citizen of the state will take a personal pride in making the enterprise a success. For the present, however, the Gazette will say to its readers what the Oregonian said, during the progress of the world's fair, "stay at home and save your mony." Cadjenf Column Edited by K. T. HOM. All communications intended for this depart ment should be handed to the editor on Monday morning. The Polk County Teacher's Associa- I tion will be organized nt "Dallas Ratnrdav --o J , October 27th. Let Benton county teach ers look well to their laurels. In spite of the stormy weather, the fol lowing rural teachers attended the B. T. A. on Saturday; Mrs. Nelms, Miss Car rie Woods, Messrs George Denman, W. T. Lee, and Frank Watkins. This should speak volumes in their lavor to the pa trons and officers of the schools they teach. Miss Eunice Alexander began the win ter term of school in district No. 36, near Summit, on Monday. On Saturday evening of last week Miss Carrie Woods organized a local reading circle in district No. 8. We have not learned what books will be read, but feel sure that, under an earnest teacher's guidance and the hearty support which the parents of this district are giving Miss Woods, the circle will be a decided suc cess. Who'll be the next? W. T. Lee, of Bell Fountaine school, has two very interesting literary socie ties in progress in his school, one of which is under control of the pupils, and the other is conducted in the interests of patrons and "old folks" generally. This is something to be commended, and we trust that other teachers will take up the good work. The Benton County Teacher's Associa tion was m session on Saturday last. The forenoon session was devoted to queries and discussions on White's School Management to page 43- the work of the afternoon was devoted to scanning the coming month's reading in Cathcart's Literary Reader, a study of methods in percentage, and a general discussion of topics of interest to teachers, and of importance to our schools. Quite an interest was manifested in the subject of grading the country schools, and the sentiments expressed were favor able to the adoption of a course of study. Owing to inclement weather, the attend ance was light; but the few who were pres ent manifested an interest in the proceed ing that augurs well for the success of the association. The next meeting of the association will be held in philomath, on Saturday, November 17th, for which an interesting program has been prepared. Next month's reading circle work is from pages 48 to 86, inclusive, in White's School Management, and in Cathcart's Literary Reader, from the beginning to page 136. This will be reviewed at the Philomath meeting, and we trust that every teacher in the community will take up the work. For information, corres pond with Prof. S. I. Pratt, or the county superintendent. The following, which we clip from the Oregon School Journal, received today, is in line with the remarks in this column last week: "California has a law provid ing that teachers shall be dismissed only for violations of the rules of the school board, for incompetency, for unprofes sional or immoral conduct. Districts may, however, employ teache rs for a definite term, thus making tlje law virtu ally optional. This is a move toward greater permanency, and shows that teaching isjbeing more and more regarded as a profession. When teachers are em ployed nine months in the year, and it is generally understood that they are to re tain their positions so long as they ren der faithful service, the ranks will be kept full of ambitious and better educa ted young men and women." OREGON PACIFIC SAXE. Will the Oregon Pacific sell, and will the sale be confirmed, are the questions uppermost in the minds of those inter ested in the future welfare and develop ment of this section of the state. Last Saturday an adjourned sitting of the cir cuit court was had; at which time the court fixed the date of sale between the 15th and 22nd of December. A notica ble feature of this session was the absence of the usual large array of legal talent, which has always been present to offer suggestions and objections to every move ment during the three years of continu ous litigation. There was some little sparring between Lawyers Bryson, Nash and Weatherford as to the wording of the order involving the question of whether the taxes should be paid by the purchaser, or out of the proceeds of the sale. Besides wanting the taxes paid by the purchaser, Mr. Weatherfojd was anx ious for an order of reference to deter mine the relative priority of all claims against the receivership, so that a dis bursement of the proceeds could be had immediately after the sale was confirmed. During the discussion, it developed that about $ 60,000 was due for taxes, and that no deduction for indebtedness had been claimed. Had this offset been demanded at the time the assessment was made, it would probably have been sufficient to relieve the company from taxation alto gether. Prior to the operation of the present assessment law deductions for indebtedness were allowed if demanded before the roll came into the hands of the sheriff. This was not attended to for the reason that the company believed it was exempt altogether by reason of a statute enacted to that effect several years ago. This law, however, was held to be un constitutional and therefore all taxes le gally assessed against the property are due and collectable. It is not at all im probable from expressions of several at torneys that a portion of these taxes, at least, will be found to have been ilWallv assessed and consequently worthless. Besides fixing the date, the order of sale requires a deposit of $ 100,000, the road is to go to the highest bidder for cash. provides for the payment of taxes from the proceeds of the sale and provides further that the unpaid balance between the deposit of ioo.ooo and the amount bid shall be paid within 30 days after a confirmation of the sale. NEWSY COIXBGE NOTES. Work in the horticultural department- is progressing rapidly day by day. A new windmill is being erected so as to enable the water supply to be independent of the main pump. Work on cats will oocupy the second year classes in physiology next week. There is some doubt about sufficient cats being ob tained, as the claaa numbers about sixty. If enough cats are not gathered up, the class will fill np with rats. Prof. Craig is busily employed in getting out a bulletin on the Oregon thistles, and the best way to exterminate them. He will discourse in this bulletin five different vari eties of thistles. This bulletin will be il lustrated with Prof. Pernot's half-tone en gravings. Early next spring a bulletin will also be printed on the native clovers of Oregon. Over forty different varieties will be men tioned and illustrated. This bulletin wil' be the first of its kind on the Pacific coast, Person desiring bulletins can obtain them by simply sendiag their names and addresses to the director of the experiment station. The chrysanthemum season is just com mencing and a large and beautiful collection will soon be in full bloom, both in the greenhouses and on the grounds. The green ami forcing houses have ' been newly painted and fitted up and now pre sent a most neat and stylish appearance. The new heater has also been put in its place and works to a charm, the houses be ing as well heated now as any in the coun try. The tobacco experiment recently carried on in the horticultural department has proven quite successful, as the growth was very prolific, and the leaves seem to be of good quality, so far as can be judged at this early date. The same experiment will be performed on a much larger scale next year Another interesting experiment is the trial of a few roots of Carnegrie, a bulbous plant now coining into great, favor on ac count of its tanning properties. The plant looks like an antiquated sweet potato and has a very penetrating odor. It is a native of Arizona, where it grows wild on the plains. It is very productive Od sells at $o0 a ton. Prof. Shaw is also interested in this experiment and has written for more bulbs. When they arrive they will be dis tributed to places in Eastern and Southern Oregon, so that next year it will be known where Carnegrie flourishes best. BTyODGETT VAT,I,EY. -Mrs. Win. Galaway is again very with but little hope of her recovery. low, A "bust-up" of the Gellatly baler has laid off the losal tramps for a few days. Uncle Hi Wood says "It is astonishing what a man will eat while working in the timber and still call it good." Harvey Miller is moving his effects to the ' mountain ranch formerly owned by Linke Thornton, The sympathies of many are with Harvey. Strange to say, war was declared to be a greater evil than intemperance, by our literary judges last Saturday night. Truly, the day of miracles is not passed. It is rumored that a party has jumped the old soldier, Impson's claim. If this be true, there should be a hell more terrible than that pictured by old-fashioned ortho doxy. If the compositor on the Gazette wishes this correspondent to escape a libel suit and a head big enough to eat hay with, he will refrain from again printing Dan Colton's name as "Cotton." The democrats in this vicinity are getting anxious concerning the sanity of Irvine sines reading his leader on free wool in last week's Times. Take your medicine, Frank, and no grimaces. N. Norton is having a close pull with inflammatory rheumatism. The physician thinks if the vitals can be protected till the disease abates, Bub will come out all right. At present he is more helpless than an infant. Homo, Life or Death. It is of vital importance that it should be understood by persons whose kidneys are in active, that this condition of things is finally inductive of a state of the organs where life hangs in the balance. Bright's disease, dia betes, albuminuria are all diseases of a very obstinate character in their maturo stage and all have a fatal tendency. They often baffle the most practiced medical skill, and the most approved remedies of materia medica But opposed at the outset that is to say, when the kidneys begin to discharge their functions inactively with Hastetter's Stom acn uiiiers, me oangerous tendency is checked. Very useful, also, is this house hold medicine for those ailments of common occurrence constipation, biliousness, dys pepsia and nervousness. It is a safeguard against maiana ana averts rneumatism. To the Traveling Public. Mr. C. S. Smith has been appointed local ticket agent for the Great Northern R. R. at Corvallis. His office will be at the Occi dental hotel, where he can be found at all times, and will be glad to name rates and give ail information desired regarding this new trans-continental line. Tickets on sale to all points in the United States, Canada, ana Europe, xue lireat IN or t Hern is anew trans-continental line, and is the short line to all eastern points. Trains ran hrough from Portland to St Paul and Minneapolis without change, over the O. R. & Nt, and Great Northern Ry, making direct connec tion at these points for Chicago and all east ern cities. Passengers from Corvallis can make di rect connections at Portland, with the through overland train for the east. The Great Northern owns and manages its en tire equipment of palace sleeping and dining cars, Buffer library cars, family tourist sleep ers, coaches, etc., and is well prepared to give its patrons the very best accommoda tions. For rates and full information call on, or address C. S. Smith, agent G. N. Ry. Occidental hotel, Corvallis, Ore. C. C. Donavas. General Agent C N. Ry. Portland, Ore. See Nolan's men's all-wool heavy suits, at $7.50, $9, $10 and $12.00 They are world-beaters. TWO FAVOBABLE EEPLIES. Representatives Hofer of Ma rion, and Daly of Lincoln-Benton, Favor the Gazette's Wagon Road Plan. From Hon. E. Hofer, editor of the Cap ital Journal, who is now on a six-weeks campaigu tour in North Dakota and Iowa, the Gazette has the following interesting letter which is self-explanatory: B. W. Johnson, Editor Gazette, Corvallis, Oregon: Dear Sik: In reply to yours of Sep. 25th, will say that both as a member of the legislature, and with our newspaper, to the full extent of our limited abilities, L shall heartily support your plan of extending by wagon road the Oregon Pacific railroad through Miuto's Pass, er any other availa ble route, into Eastern Oregon. A well built thoroughfare, connected by rail across the Willamette valley, would pour out through Yaquma Bay thousands of tons of prodncts and take back countless tons of merchandise and products of this valley. There are many reasons why a wagon road extension is the only practical means of forming a connection between Eastern and Western Oregon at present. By their corrupt mismanagement, railroad managers have made it impossible to enlist capital, either American or foreign, in railroad extensions, and if there were no other rea sons we need not look fur a dollar to be invested in railroads in Oregon or any other state for years to come. But the pool of foreign corporations entering Oregon has undoubtedly since years enforced a decree that no extensions nor new lines shall be built in Oregon, and any line that was built would be at their mercy for traffic arrange ments. A wagon-road extension is peculiarly ap propriate in view of the fact that it is only by wagon roads that people living off the Oregon Pacific are now able to take advan tage of its low sea-going and local freight rates, and are hauling heavy freight to and from it between Eugene, Independence and Corvallis, and many other, points. The local rates put in force by our railroad com mission to throttle traffic over the Oregon Pacific and to prevent shipments into this valley in aoy other manner than ever the Southern Pacific railroad, undoubtedly re flects the attitude of the millionaire mana gers In California and their satraps in Ore gon who have no more interest in Oregon than though they were European landlords taxing a tenantry. The $20,000 appropriation now spent on our worse than worthless railroad commis sion could be far better invested opening a wagon road to Eastern Oregon. If the people had the full service of the rervants they pay so well to look after their interests, but who look after other interests with a devotion that is appalling when we consider the theory of our government, perhaps they might hope to have the use of the railways as common carriers to help them render their industry profitable and the develop ment of the state possible. With the co-operation of the railroad commission, the state government, the courts, and the enter prise of the people, there is no reason why the proposed extension of the Oregon Pacific is not feasible. Of course, there would be all sorts of propositions to build other wagon roads in other parts, of the state to connect with other railroads. These propositions would be encouraged by the corporations of the state to kill this laudable scheme. If the Oregon Pacific is not sold for a good price at the next sale, it should be bid in by the state for the taxes that are past due and delinquent, just as any other citizan's prop erty would ba under similar circumstances. Not until the state acquired possession of the property, or through its courts and state government assumed full control ot it, which it is its duty to do under the laws at present in force, could it properly spend a dollar on it. There will be many objections to your proposed plan. Little minds will ridicule it and many technicalities will be raised in opposition. We have come to that pass in our state government where it seems as though our constitution afforded no protec tion against spoliation of the taxpayer and no obstacle to the schemes of the boodler ; at the same time it is a bulwark from behind. which the corporation lawyers are able to throttle almost any effort of the people to relieve themselves of burdens that are crush ing the life out of them. Do not be fright ened from your course by this latter class of constitutionalists. The people have come to a point where they must shut down on all propositions involving partnerships with corporations controlling the transportation of their persons and products. Mr. Receiver Clark's success in managing the Oregon Pacific as a business enterprise and upon business principles, under orders of the state court, shows what can be done witn a rail road when there is honest application of its receipts to the actual expenses of operation. With the wagon-road connection you pro- nose and such management of - the railroad continues as it has had under Mr. Clark, the Oregon Pacific would soon be made to pay dividends on the capital invested, and become a profitable, valuable and desirable piece of property. Very truly yours, E. Hofer. Many excellent reasons for the appropri ation are advanced by John ' Daly m the following interesting communication: Yon ask me if I would favor an appropri ation by the' next state legislature to build a wagon road across the Cascade Range to connect Eastern Oregon with the Oregon Pacific railroad. Yes, I will favor such an appropriation, and in voting lor it 1 win consider that I have voted for a measure that will benefit more people, in more places, than any other appropriation ever voted for by any legislature the state hat ever had. I notice that some ot your cor respondents doubt its constitutionality on account of its "local" character. I don't understand what they mean by locality. If a measure that directly benefits one-third of the population and two -thirds of the area of the state is local in its character, or would be held to be so by any lawyer or court in Oregon, it would very much sur prise me. The O. P. leaves Linn county and enters Marion at Mill City, and from this point for over forty miles its survey runs east between the two counties, settled all the way by a thrifty, long-suffering people, whose faith, if it could be utilized to remove mountains, would have leveled them all long ago. But years of waiting and disap -pointment have worn them out, and the spectacle of these people packing in their stores on their back beyond the end of the track, . which is sixteen miles from Mill City and only seventy-five miles from the great metropolis of the state, is not a very flattering one to a people who are constantly screaming for more population. Then cross over the mountains and you have forty miles square of country, the finest in the world, abandoned, mostly by people who had settled on it yeais ago in hopes of a railroad outlet. I can show you an unexplored region ot country, where the foot of white man has never trod, less than ninety miles, in a straight line, from the city of Portland, and yet it will produce anything that grows in Eastern Oregon, and its altitude- is not greater than that of Baker City or LaGrande. To say that this country does not need an outlet would be an evidence of a want of intelligence. To say that any one or two counties ought to build the necessary roads is unjust, for all the counties in the Willam ette valley and most of those in Eastern Oregon will be directly benefited by the proposed road. I think your estimate of the cost is above the mark, but that is a matter to be deter mined hereafter. By all means let us have the wagon road, and an Eastern Oregon connection of some kind before the winter of 1895 6 rolls around. Yours respectfully, Jno. D. Daly. WANTS A DIVORCB. Fannie Sharp, by her attorney John Bur nett, has begun suit against her 'husband, Sharp, for divorce. 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