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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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