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Is-uc.l Kv.-ry Fri.lay Jlnniin i.y The Gazatts Publishing B. W. JOHNSON, - ZXu Go. t. i o:, '7''- SUCCCRIPTIQ HATES: Per Yr, fcix Months... Three Month, Sinjfle Opi'--- For Yar, (wiiua not wi-l :fi watiix),.. CORVALLL4, OliKCON, NOV. 0, 1004 PROBABLE BIDDERS. Prospects for a sale of the Oregon Pa cific properties wore never better than now. Already r.ur.crs are current to the effect that several buyers will be on hand at the coming sale in December. Of the probable bidders, Marcus Daly, general manager of the Anaconda Mining Co., is likely to be the successful one. His busi ness associates are J. B. Hagan and Lloyd Tevis of the Anaconda company. They have ample means with which to pur chase the property. These gentlemen are interested in the Butte, Anaconda and Tacific railroad recently bruit be twepn Rntte'and the reduction works at Anaconda. This road was originally constructed with the intention of extend ing it westward. The Railroad Gazette says the company is making prepara tions to begin work early in the spring on a line iuto the Bitter Root valley This line will probably follow the North ern Pacific survey across the Bitter Root range, and strike the Snake river in the vicinity of Lewiston; thus saving the long circuitous route through the Koote nai country. Should their line be ex tended at all, it will probably be to a sea board connection. From Lewiston, the most feasible route would be via the Oregon Pacific pass; and Mr. Daly and his associates will find the Oregon Paci fic a valuable piece of property. Under the management of Receiver Clark the fact has been conclusively demonstrated that the traffic receipts will pay operating expenses, and keep the road in repair. At present the earn ings of the road average about ro,oco a month, and are increasing ngat along. By extending the line a few miles, the traffic would be doubled with no increase in operating expenses. Then the road would net 5120,000 annually; or 6ix per cent interest pa an investment of $2,000, 000. The average cost of building and equipping a road per mile is $30,000. At this rate the 142 miles of Oregon Pacific track is worth 4,260,000. To any traus poration line seeking a western or sea board connection, this route has innumer able advantages, and to such ought to b e a good investment at four or five million dollars. If purchased without a view toward extending itt it is worth two mil lion as it will pay interest o;t such an investment. . At the present time ' here are four or five trans-continental lines seeking a Pa cific coast terminus. Of these, the Chi cago 81 Northwestern, Chicago, Rock Is land & Pacific, Chicago. Burlington & Quincy and Union Pacific might be men tioned. All of these lmea are con structed to the P.ocky mountains while the Union Pacific is built almost to Ore gon's eastern boundary line. All of them "want to reach the coast, aud if some of these will purchase the Oregon Pacific, and connect the gap between the two ter mini it will have tho cheapest, shortest and best line to the Pacific coast, with a terminus at one of the best harbors in the Northwest. INOPERATIVE ADULTERY LAWS. The adultery case tried last week in Lane county brought to public notice one of the hardest criminal combina tions ever known of in the stale. From the evidence it seems that a man named Horn and his wife were engaged in run. ning a matrimonial bureau, and had in duced a young girl to marry au old man named Babb, about 80 years of age. Be fore the ceremony was performed, the old man wa9 induced by Horn to deed one-half of his property to the girl, anI had also secured considerable money from him. Soon ofter the marriage, the girl was induced by Horn and a fellow by the name of Scott, to leave her hus band. According to the girl's testimony, both of them had had sexual intercourse with her on the same day. Finding that no more cash could be gotten from Babb, Horn turned his attention toward Scott, and threatened him with exposure unless he dug up some money. Scott refused to be blackmailed, and on returning to Eugene was arrested on a charge of adul tery, preferred by Babb. Horn was also bound over on the same charge, but the court instructed the grand jury not to find a bill against him unless upon the complaint of his wife. It appears that the Oregon statute is framed upon that of Iowa, with the ex ception of the omission of the article "the" before "husband and wife;" and that, according to the interpretation of the law in said state, the charge of adul tery must be preferred by the husband against his own wife, or the wife against her husband. As the charge was brought by husband against husband, it was held that the proceedings failed to come with in the technical scope of the act, and hence, so far as the circuit court is cou cerned, all such cases have been dis missed, and for some reason or other no such case has been appealed, and conse quently a construction or interpretation of the section has never been recorded by our supreme court. It is evident that the statute of Oregon relative to. the crime of adultery is not sufficiently broad and expicit, for the reason, that it leaves the punishment of the offense in the hands of the wife or the punishment of the crime is depend ent on the caprice of the husband or wife of the culprit, and the husband or wife of the injured party has no remedy or protection against the violator of the sanctity of the home. It is high time that a law so manifestly inoperative as this should be so amended that the strong arm of the state can lay hold of j both the guilty ones upon the complaint o enaei 01 uie injured parties. As it is now, the state can do nothing. Vice, secure in the weakness or love of a forgiving wife or husband, can ruthlessly invade the sanctity of married life, and taen laugh at these very laws of the stite which were framed as a guardian tor the purity of our homes. When the crime of adultery is com mitted, two persons are equally guilty, and they should be indicted and tried jointly upon the information or com plaint of either of the injured parties. In the Lane county case, the woman and two men were guilty. The woman es capes punishment, because the hushand lias re-installed her in his affections, and would not prosecute her; the wife of the guilty married man wa9 his nccomplice in the disgraceful proceedings, and, of course, would not prefer charges against him. But Scott, who unfortunately was unmarried, and the most innocent one in the gang, gets a year in the penitentiary. This law should be so amended by the next legislature so that, on the complaint of either of the injured parties, all the guilty ones may be brought to justice. In the case at issue, however, it seems as though the whole blooming outfit ought to be in prison garb for the bal ance of their natural lives in order to rid decent society of their lecherous, indecent presence. OBJECTIONS TO A CHANGE. For the edification of the GazSTTES readers, who are unfamiliar with the workings of the American Book Compa ny, and who may have become poisoned against it by reason of the recent sensa tional and libelous statements made against it, we have published eleswhere in' this issue the Company's reply. It is a plain statement of facts.. There is no attempt to conceal anything. Each aud every one of the defamatory charges are met frankly, and are satisfactorily ex plained. No ono can read it without feeling that the company has been lied about from start to finish, aud without just cause or provocation The vital question, however, so far as the school patrons of Oregon are con cerned, is not the American Book Com pany or its defutners, but simply: Do they want a change in text books that will cost a quarter of a million of dollars? Six years ago, the several firms now constituting what is known as the Amer ican Book Company secured a contract for furnishing the state with school books at certain agreed prices. At the time these negotiations were entered into there was no uniformity in prices, and fabulous profits were being made by both jobbers and local dealers. By means of the contract now existing, the prices of books were reduced to what was then considered a reasonable cost. Besides reducing prices from 10 to 50 per cent, uniform series of text books were pro vided throughout the state at a uniform cost. Two years after this contract was made the publishing concerns who had entered the agreement, organized them selves into what is now know as the American Book Company. As these publishing firms were furnishing books all over the United States, and were each compelled to maintain supply depots throughout their vast territory at a great expense to each, they concluded to con solidate their interests and thereby re duce the expense of doing business to a minimun. The good effects of this al liance has been felt throughout the coun try. Those familiar with the circum stances know that in Oregon a voluntary reduction of from 15 to 30 per cent has been made in the cost of all publications furnished in the state. In this connec. tion, it should not be forgotten that this reduction occurred after "the abomina ble trust" had been formed. Although the books in use during the past six years have given general satis faction, there is just now a great hue and cry raised to the effect that the American Book Company's publications are no good, and that a sweeping change should be made. Many ask why this is so, and naturally enough, because prior to the first of September no complaints had been heard against the business methods of the company or the books it was fur nishing. This is the question which the public is unable to understand. It, how ever, is easily explained: Rival publish ing houses have formed an unholy al liance to down the American Book Com pany in order that they may secure the contract without opposition or fair com petition. Should this take effect, the pupil of our public schools will be com pelled to lose the books now on hand, and purchase new ones with no credit for the old ones, because the old ones are not to be taken in exchange. If a change is voted for it will go into effect next October, and will cost the school patrons from $2.50 to I5.00 for new books for each and every one of their children. Under such circumstances no county su perintendent or member of the board of examiners having the welfare of the peo ple at heart, will vote for a change. These gentlemen recognize the fact that the public is opposed to a change "and .if they violate the trust reposed in them by voting for a new series of text books, the favors now enjoyed by them at the hands of the public will be withdrawn when ever the opportunity presents itself. The younger element of the republi can party of Oregon is entitled to some recognition i.t the distribution of patron age, but wit;: . olph in the senate, it will he needless for any but "old wheel THE SILENT MINES. The silent mines like the silent mills will be an important factor in the next election, and will command the same at tention. It is not possible to aid by pro tection one industry and destroy by the theory of free trade an equally impor tant one, and expect success and pros perity to louow. Protection tor the si lent mills and milling industries must be also protection for the silent mines and mining industries. Free trade is a theory and the fact is now presented to us as the result of that theory. The single gold standard is also a theory, and the fact is now being pre sented to us in the closed and silent mines, aud the deplorable condition of all the Interests dependent upon that in dustry, which includes, also, the farmer. The awful picture of the dreadful conse quences attending free coinage, is all based upon theories; just as much so as is free trade. In the minds of most men, even those who write upon the subject, the silver question is associated with the idea of free coinage, without any knowl edge cf the term, or the real meaning of it, and, if friendly, they are met by an array of figures, borrowed from English views and the class of financiers that are in harmony with England. These views are as much a matter of theory as are the views and figures of free trade theorists. The friends of silver, and those who understand the question, know that free coinage means simply to give silver the same protection as our other industries. He knows that both are identical and necessary to national prosperity; and that parity of gold and silver means, not the debasing of one for the benefit of the other. He knows that it was not be cause silver was the less precious metal it declined in value, but that it was by leg islation, and to restore it by legislation to its former position which it maintained for eighty years prior to 1S73, is but an act of justice. It was in the interest of England that it was debased, and it is for the interest of the United States that it must be restored. England has forced the financial policy of theories upon us, and also of commerce. These have im poverished their own country, aud now are impoverishing curs. What was our condition before either of England's theories was accepted by us? We will take an English view of ourselves upon that. Mr. Munhall, the statistician of the Royal Society of England, in his "Bal ance Sheet of the World," says: "It would be impossible to find a parallel to the progress of the United States in the last ten years. Every day the sun rises upon the American people it sees an ad: dition of $2,500,000 to the accumulation of wealth in the republic, which is equal to one third of the daily accumulation of al 1 mankind outsideofthe Uni ted States. ' ' Thus one third of the world in daily pro ductive power is here represented, and will it be argusd that such a power can not sustain its ancient, its much needed money? All England wants, is our pro duce cheap, and has killed silver in or der to get it cheap. The Royal British Commission in a report to parliament upon the subject S'iys: "It must be remembered, too, that this country is largely a creditor of debts payable in gold, and any change which entailed a rise in commodities generally that is to say, a "diminution of the purchasing power of gold would be to our disadvantage. And the interests of Australia and other gold producing col onies must be considered." Sir Rivers Wilson, an English delegate to' the silver conference at Brussells, said in a speech before that commission: "Our faith is of the school of monomet alism in pure and simple." And what is the result? These theories have been forced upon us like the theories of free trade, and with the silent mills of indus try, stands the silent mines, whose ma chinery rusts in mines of wealth, with millions of investment that is lost by the accursed fall in prices, and the standing army of miners who do not know any thing else but mining, and have never been trained in any other lines of trade, are standing idly by the ruined shafts that are being filled with water and rot ting in mould, with millions beneath their feet, of precious wealth, while their starving families waiting, ask that they may be given honest toil. Can we afford to follow a theory longer, when the fact remains that protection means of all our industries, and that our financial system shall accord the same justice to the mining industries that our commercial system gives to our manu facturing industries, and the farmer? Chas. H. Gleim. Even the most sanguine republican were startled by the result of Tuesday's elections. Tammany is overthrown in New York; Wilson, of West Virginia, will stay at home; the soiled South is broken, and democracy has nothing to stand upon. A more thorough reversal of public opinion of 1892, could not have been asked for. Protection means some thing. Platforms and promises of the democracy have been repudiatad. Those who voted for Cleveland' and have since been looking for a job, voted with the republicans Tuesday. The country will now enter upon a new era of prosperity and hith the overwhelming majorities of Tuesday the grand old party of protec takes a new lease of life, and begins an other triumphant reign of thirty years. Mdst Oregon continue to be represent ed in the United States senate by a cor poration lawyer? Why not elect a man of the people, who will interest himself in behalf of the state rather than corpor ations and gold bugs? W. Lord is the sort ofnian that three-fourths of the vo ters of Oregon want to represent them, and if he will accept the honor, he can be elected. " . . SHOULD BE ENDORSED. What B. F. Jones Says of the Wagon Road Project. Ed. Gazette: Your efforts in the inter est of getting an appropriation at the com ing legislature, to construct a wagon road eonuectin? Eastern Oregon with the Oregon Pacific railroad, are indeed commendable, and should be indorsed by almost all the eastern counties as well as those iu the middle western portion o the state, and by reasonable and unsoliish people all ovtr th state. A matter in which half the people of the great state of Oregon is interested, ia not a "local" one. We claim that the building cf this wae;on road will not only benefit the people living in the sections mentioned, but tho new industries that will spring iuto life and the homes that it will open up. will cause many to come into our state that would not reach U3 through any other me dium. The increase in the taxable property alone, resulting from the building of this road, would more than repay the state the amount asked for in less than two years after the road is opened for freight and travel. If an Oregon legislature never makes a greater mistake than lending to her people the paltry sum of $20,000 to help open up her wonderful resources that a kind providence has so richly scattered over and under her evergreea hills and fertile valleys, the state will be extremely fortunate. ' We say "lending" the money, for we claim that tho state of Oregon will get both tho prin cipal and interest back into l.er treasury before the hand of time marks the 0th century. Tho wool and wheat from our inland empire, the millions of feet of low timber in tho Cascade mountains, will aid in swelling the commerce that must find its way into tho markets of the world, through the coming harbor of the Pacific coast. We have often wondered why our sister states, Washington and California, gathered and located within their boundaries, nine tenths of all the immigration that comes west of the Rocky Mountaius, and we have noticed by close observatiou that there is more people, after thsy arrive at Portland, who locate in Washington than who remain in our own grer.t state, A person landing in Portland, while he sees a rich and grow ing city, cannot comprehend the great Wil lamette valley, or form any better idea of its soil or agricultural resources than he could were he in the old homo iu Kansas or Nebraska, amid the grasshoppers aud cy clone, but as a matter of fact, wcro the O. P. II. R. connected with an eastern lini, the emigrant would be landed in the very heart of the great Willamette valley, and if he went to Port-laud he would have to travel through one of the richest valleys in the United States, and if he want south, he will puly see broader valleys that have done service for years, responding to the farmer's touch, though he, a3 a rule, never gives his laud a test. Yea, give us the road that will land peo ple lu the heait of the old Willamette and vre are satisfied that the result? will be felt more than locally. Wo will wager a 51c Kinley hat that we ex pet to win on New York, that lion. John 1). la!y will never bs sorry that he pledged himself to -work for au appropriation that will tend to unite the east with tho west. Give us" the roaJ, and the north and the south will also come to us. We are g.'ad to See this proposition discussed through the newspapers. Thij is a measure which every democrat should support, who believes iu free trade, and every republican who believes in protection must support it, for it protects the farmer and wool-grower audsjivea hiui lower freight rates aud higher prices far his products. All populists will vote for it, for thoy advocate appropriations for good roads, and the mug wumps always go with the crowd. Soma people are great sticklers for tho constitu tion and any measure that does not ccmi in touch with their idca3 i3 declared unconsti tutional. Govern it Pennoyor in 1S91 vetoed a poor little wagon-road appropria tion that would have let many a poor raucher out of the hills. It i3 true that this wagon-road bill was of a local charac ter, but we could call to mind many extor tionate bills which were allowed to become laws even at our last legislature, that were both local, aud I might say, unconstitution al. Every parent owes it to his children and good society that they are given a good education and taught the importance of our own great country. The state of Oregon owes it to her people that they should be assisted finaucially to open up and develop now portions of the state. It is not good doctrine for a farmer living in the Willam ette valley to say that because an Oregou legislature never appropriated any money to build roads for him, there should never be any aid given to other portions of the state. Circumstances are vastly ' different now to what they were when the Willamette valley was first settled. There was no tax resour ces, and but little to ship, aud again it is quite different from building a road in the valley over a level plain, and buildiug one through the mountains. But whether it be constitutional or not to lend money to the people for building wagou roads, we are not prepared to say, but wo do know that to build up and develop any country is to checker it over with good roads. While we are building $100,000 jute factories for the poor farmer, let us also give the poor raucher and wool-grower a lift who are unfortunately located rnaoy miles from the center of trade. A number of writers in the Oregcnian have estimated that during the year 1895 Oregon will get 100,000 immigrants a conservative estimate. We hope she may get 200,000, but if Oregon holds them after they come she will expect to have to settle a portion of them in the mountains or hills, as all iinmigranto are not able to buy farms in the valley. Lin coln county has spent $5,000' in roads and bridges daring the past 18 months, and we can already see the effects. We notice that leading citizens of Multnomah county have held a meeting under the auspices of the rod aud gun club, to formulate better laws for their interests, or iu the interest of the game bird, as it were. Why not hold a meeting in the interest of good wagon roads all over the state. Cut the brush down and make roads and we will soon have no pot hunters. People living in the mountains will not be compelled to live on stewed venison and potatoes. . B, F. Jones. 1 Haunted. A haunted house in these practical and unromantic days is something of a rarity, but an individual haunted with the idea that his ailment is incurable is a personage fre quently met with. Disbelief in the ability of medicine to cure is only a mild form of monomania, although in some cases repeated failures to obtain relief from many different sources would almost seem to justify the doubt. Ilostetter's Stomach Bieters has demonstrated its ability to overcome dys pepsia, constipation, liver and kidney trou ble, malarial complaints and nervousness, and its recorded achievements in the cura tive line ought at least to warrant its trial by any one troubled with either of the "above ailments, even although his previous efforts to obtain remedial aid have been fruitless. Used with persistence, the Bitters will con quer the most obstinate cases. CASH PAID FOR AFFIXES. M. Schmidt, Occidental hotel, buys choice winter apples for cash. Fruit must i he free from worms and carefully picked. Apple growers should call aud obtain prices before disposing of their crop to other par ties. SPECIAL NOTICES. . Finley Spring mineral water for sale at T. Whitehorn'a. Ladies' and misses' spring-heel storm rub bers at City Shoe Store. Take your old silver cftses to U. B. Vog'c aud get a new one in exchange. Wanted, bushels potatoes and 100 bushels apples at P. M. Zierolf's. Vogle cau fit your eye3 with a beautiful pair of lenses and choice of frames fiom 25 ceuis to 7.50. Try them. A limited supply of winter vetches for sale. Price, $1.50 per bushel. Address Prof. II. T. French, Agricultural Collego. Wanted, an experienced woman to do general house work. Good pay and a per manent situation to the right party. Ad dress X, care of the Gazette. Call at Cecil, the Tailor's, See his now stock and get a good fitting suit of clothes made to order. "Gold and Silaer" dress shirts are the best. Full line at Nolan's clothing store, from 1.00 to 2 00. Tuesday evening a surprise party was t mdered Mrs. Geo. B. Iiovcndon at the residence of V. 'Wilson, on College Hill. The gathering was informal and those pres ent were the intimate acquaintances aud old friends of Mrs. Hovendou. . It was a com plete surprise and the evening wag very pleasautly spent with conveisatiou and cha rades. Mrs. llovendon ba3 been visiting her sister, Mr3. Humphrey, near Eugene, and returned to her home in Marion county Wednesday. O ie cent a aone. Z33lZZsJl 1 1 111 1 11 niii isi 1 f ii'iflif I'll ml"" iiy jJ is erxd on & enprantce by ail drug imd is the beat CougU tied Ci oup -Cure, ; OVERCOATS m ULSTERS. Our Overcoats and Ulsters for Men and Boys are immense, not only in quality but also in quan tity. They are just the proper article to wear in cold, stormy weather regular life-preservers, and the low prices at which we are selling these cold-weather garments bring them within the reach of everybody. Keep Warm. It would be hard to find such another assort ment of Men's and Boys' Under wear, Overshirts, Gloves, Mitts," and Wool Socks as we have just now everything to keep warm with. Headanarters for Clothing, Corrallis, Oregon. W. TAYLOR, House-Cleaner, Gardener, and . General Jobber, . t 1. t a i : . f. Centinrr. Whitewaahinsr. and Window- I Sl.l Cleaning a Specialty. J nst Received from the factor a C9rIe Stoel of Shop-Made, Septs' Fine Shoes, And in Order to Get Rid of them at Once We have Concluded to Add Just HE PROFIT on shoes. This shoe sale will not last always, so come at once and get a bargain. While looking at Shoes take a squint at Clothing Hats, Caps, Shirts, Ties, and Samples for Tailor-made Garments. COKVALLIS, OREGrOISJ". Albany Nurseries. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Large Stock. Careful Grading and Packing. Low Prices, Prompt Shipment, Always Reliable. end Jour ist of ants fop us to rice. DROWN ELL 6r M0RR150N, - flLMNT, OR. gazette gfofe ot onpltf2 Iarjt orj f Ic cf &!T$. A large quantity of new material has recently been added and the best styles of all kinds of Job Printing is done at rates to correspond with the present business depression. Patrons may rely upon receiving better satisfaction here than can be obtained elsewhere in this part of the State. Gh ristmas FOR THE .A-oSTD -A- EAEE fo? AmJ ctive tynflem&n or L&diJ To Make a Good Salary. Is Now iberal To Local and 1 Very I Any person can. obtain a few subscribers in each neighborhood in the county, and to such as feel disposed to solicit for us we will make it an object well worth the time. The Gazette has taken front rank among the Oregon weeklies, and a subscription to the paper will prove a profitable investment. Send to us for terms, agent's authority, blank receipts, etc. USUALLY MADE i CL6THM STORE S S S 3fapfjncrjf 1 oney M RLS e BENTON, Offering, Qash Percentage General Agents. Gazette Publishing Uo. iusband of the culprit. As it now stands, I horses" to apj 'y.