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nn c TY G AR ft1 X K - 0 ESTABLISHED FOR THE DISSOIMIOX OF OEMRATIC PRISCirLES. AJiD TO KARJ IN HONEST LIVING BV TUB SWEAT OF OIR BROW. VOL. 17. EUGENE CITY, OR, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 188.-). ,NO. 45. : 6!&t (City Guard. I. L. CAMPBELL, -'PMii'ur avl Proprietor. )??l'3 ? -') i t'n Ki't l U of Willamette Streethjiarj-ia djveaij unl Ii'.itli Street. Ts:tuoFs jm-3:ttpri').v. ' Ann n. .V. . . 82.T.0 it Months 1.M Thro M mtlu 75 ' ' 1 - ocn olt IUTBH OH -YDVKUTISIJSTQ, Advertisement Insert) to follow, t Oa, sqii-tr. H lite"" or I-, one insertion 83 j l aubtmitsnt "nnoir.un i. -imn reoinreu in dvaaas. 1 'I'iini alvertiser will be charged at the fol- riu ritjs: One square three months. . . .'. $0 00 ' " fix months 00 " " one year 12 00 Transient notices in local column, 20oeuU per 1 lie for each insertion. Advertising bill, will be rendered quarterly. All ob work must be P.vin kor oh dklivert. SOCIETIES. ,Mwta flrst and third We Inewlay. In each montu. V"" HpKKma Brrrr, 1iooc No. 9 I. O. 'frj'-r Wll AWRAI.A ENCAMPMENT No. 6. Nil ob the U aail 4th Wednemly. in each month. Euuexc Loous. No. 15. A. O. U. W. Meet, it Masonic Hall the second and fourth Fridays in each month. ' J. M. Sloan, M. W. K(Lf atrick Post, No. 40, O. A. R. Meets t Masonic Hull, the tint and third Fridays of oh month. By order, Commander. iIrdkr of Chossx FRigyrw. Meets the rt and third Saturday tveninirs at Masonic Hall, ily order of . J. M. Sloan, O C. Borrit Lamia No. 3 17. I. O. G. T.-M?t ery SjtunUy nia'ht in ( 1 1 Fellows' Hall. JS. U. roTTEK, w. u I. Liiviixi Star B vnd ok Hops -Meets t the P. Churoh every Sand iv afternoon at 3:30. E. Huston. Snot.: Miss ll.-rtha Cook, As't upL; Chas. Hill, iW.Vi Mitt Hattie Smith, Chaplain. Visitors made welcome. U BILYKl'. C. M. COLLI Ell. BILYEtJ & COLLIER, -Nttorrnys nd Counsellors at Law,- -: EtKJUVE CtTV, OKKGOX. PIVfiriMK IX ALL TUB CHUM'S OF thlt Statj. Will ti'xva 8;ii.il attoution to 9Uecttiu an 1 pmliat luutt'ira, Offirr. -0er lluinlriuc & Kakln's bnnk. CEO. 3. DilMiS, Attorney an I Gotinsellor-al-Law, pitvcrr!"!? tvtui; imikts W of fin S,;fi:id Jit liiiialOUtriut and in k. S'lpra.uj Oii'irt of thit ;itat. .S,i;iU vttiuti.i l giveu to colUcttons and s-ttterii ill nnliate Ce3. y. Washburne Attorncy-at-Law, CU JKX! CITV, - ORKOON Office formerly occupied by 'lliompson i Bean. GEO. M. MILLER, Aittornsy and C5uasalloat-Law, and ' Real Estate Agent, EUGENE CITV, - OKKOON. OFFICK Twn iloorn north of Post Otfico. J. E. EENTON, Attorjiry-atI.ur. UGEXB CITV OREGON'. Sonohlatteutim iv.t ti Raid, Ktt.ite l'rac Ice And Abstracts of Tit. Of Flee Over Granjjo Store. T.W.HAR1US,M.D. Pfiysician and Surgeon. office Wilkin's Drug Store. Residence on Fifth street, where Ur Shelton formerly resided. Dr. Wm Osborne, Offica AJjoini.ig St-. Charles Hotel, - OR AT THE W DaOi:8T03S HATE3 arl L0CKI. DR. JOSEPH F. GILL, CAN BE FOUND AT HIS OFFICE or res idence when not professionally euyaed. Office at the POST OFFICE DRUG STORE. Residence on Eighth street, opposite Treaty rian Church. WALTON & NOFFSiNCER, Attor lie yg-at-Lsi v EUGENE CITY, OREGON. -TfI17L PRACTICE IN ALL THE T Court of the Stat.- Special attention given to Real Kstat. Col- tin?; Pmhat matters. Cil-tiu all kinds of claimr against the Vaited Sutn Government OfCoia-WaUuu'.brkk, rouiu: wdo. NEW B '" Z" A GENERAL jgj 11 I A large assortment of La dies and Childrens Hose at W 1-2 cts. Good Dress (foods at 12c- Best Corset in town foroOr, An immense stock of New and Seasonable Good. Fine Cashmere in evert shade. New and Nobby styles in CLOIHING. Liberal Discount for CASH. New Departure ! ! TWO 2?2E13:C3E33 J LATHON"IZK THE MEN WHO HELP T liUILI) YOUIl IWIDGES, ROAM AND SCHOOL HOl'SES, whoKe intrt'nti are your intnrestN I Are oeruiauentlv looated and i)fiid their proiitu at lioior. 'J ake notice tli.il- A. V. PETERS, Will sell goods for CASH at ijteatly reduced prices, as low as any other CASH STOKE. ISext Print 1 band 18y.irJ $1 00 Best Hrown and Lljached Muslins, 7, 8, 9, and 10 eta. Clarks an 1 Brooks sjkm.i1 cotton 7 cts er Doz. Plain and Milled Flrnnels, 25, 3.": 4.". and 50 cts. Watur Proo , cents Fino White ShirtH, 73 cts and 81, And all Other Coods Also the Celebrated WmTK SK yiNG MACHINE ! V..n butter for rren''th. klze. and dnrabilitvl. At irreatlv reduced rates. ejTTomy oi l Custoine's, who have stood 'by t rins as iicretotore on tmin, mt U at any time nicy wish id zu:;c vmu jmrcimnen, i win give all am. m others, the full credit on my reduction A. V. PETERS Goods sold as low as any House in Oregon, for Cash Or Credit Highest Price paid for all kinds of Country Produce. Call and See S. II. Friendly. Harness Shop. HAVING OPENED A NEW SADDLE AND HARNESS SHOr ON' 8th STRE west of Craiu Urns'., I am now prepared to furninh everything in that line at the LQWIIST SA.T?E.g5, Competent Workmen ; I Are employed, and I will enJfJVor to ' mQ with a Call; amors i i III. Trimming silk and Sat ins in a ll shades. Moircanlique Silks Velvets in Colors. The finest stock of French KID SHOES ever brought to this place- BOOTS and SHOES in all grades- GROCERIES of all descriptions. Fine Cheviot Shirts. 5P, 75 cts and VI. New Assortment Dress Goods (No Tranh) 15, 20 and 2fi cU Metis' Uudcrweiir, Sliirts and Drawers, 50 ct Meus'Ovcnihirts, 75 cts. and $1. Mens' Overalls, 50, (if), 75 cts and SI. Embroideries ami Edwins at Fabulous I.o Trices. at Proportionate Rates. tue so 1 mx, I will continue tt soli on same . give satisfaction to all wluma favcr u ' I T I? IP I a o tUIkliJlI. i Bi; urnl Chrrknl. ConsidpritMo coin mu t. hits Lwt oc canionHd over tint announcement that nn annual r00,000 stfal had Livn stopped ly Ooiv.uiissionor Sparku, who hns iffuwd to approve Kiirvcying con tractu that lav been 8nt up ly thn Survoyor Gennral Ninon liin term of oltico began. It appean-d that boiu years aao Congress rntalilitihed what is known oh t h indiviilnal doposit nya tcm, Ly which w'ttlers in niisurveyiul townslnps could R-curii mirveys by de positing iIih estimated cost. Thn do posuors received .certiliiatoH,' which cvuld bn used as money in payment of their lands in the townships for survey of which thn deposits were made. In 1879 an act was passed making certili cates of deposit negotiable, and allow ing them to he used Ly anyliody in any land district. Then a Loom arose in surveying contracts. Huge rings were organized, 'with headquarters in several surveying djutricts. The general liead center was located first in San Fran cisco, hut afterward removed to Den ver, Colorado. Deposits sprang from a nominal amount to 82,000,000. l'.y collusion, surveying contracts wore always let to rings, and at the highest rate. Fictitious application for sur veys would bo presented, and money to make the required deposit was fur nished by the ring brokers, and profits on the contracts, which were usually about 50 per cent, of the contract price, were shared among the operators. Commissioner Sparks, with the ap proval of Secretary Lamar, has issued orders to nil surveyors general and reg isters and receivers of land cilices re voking former instruction and reform ing ollicial pi act ices under tint survey deposit system, Ex. Qui rr Things Burklmul Air. One of (ho most curious traits about Buckland was hi com pit tn indiir.Venee. to tho disgusting side of his experi ments in the uses of animal life. Thus, when tho panther in the Surrey Zoo logical Curdens died, h insisted on having it disinterred, that he might cook a panther chop and taste it, w.'iich he did, with the dry remark that "it was not very j-ood." And he wMou lost on opportunity of trying c niw food, however disgusting some might have thought it. A f; lend who found him eating a piece of dead kelt (salmon) at the time of year when salmon are unlit to be eaten, asked him lio-v he could taste inylhing so abominably nasty; to which he replied: "It is nasty enough, but how can I say so unless I have tried it?" Again and again he records how much the worse ho felt for some of these experiments; how the lump-fish soup, which was "something like turtle," made him "rather seedy" the next day; how the horse flesh ban quet resulted in a fit of bad digestion; how he boiled elephant trunk for many days without producing any particular result on tho hardness of tho texture; and so forth. With ono exception, that of an oyster the size of a cheese plate, he was no more discouraged from making experiments on his own stom ach by any sense of disgjst than he was discouraged by his disiike of cold and physical illness from venturing into freezing water in search of salmon eggs a pursuit which seems to have cost him his life. London Spectator. Bridget Gallagher, reported in vari ous papers as insane, wd who was con fined in the asylum in Montana, has been liberated and is now in this city. She does not look or act like a woman bereft of her senses, and since her re turn to Portland talks freely of the Montana a Hair, which she says was all a put up job, and that liefore she gets through she intends making it very warm for tho persons who had a hand in it. Those who know Mrs. Gallagher are cf the opinion that she will keep her word. She says she is not insane, never was, and has brains to loan some of her persecutors. Standard. The Prime Warden of the Fishmor q;ers' Company, London, told the So:io ty of Arts in a recent address that the daily supply received at r.illinsgate, the great London li-b in irk"t, amount ed to 500 tons. A ton of fish is eoual to tho weight of 2H average sheep, so that 500 tons equals a consumption of 14,000 sherp. Fixing Tlilnss. A Boston man who was stopping for a few days in a Wisconsin villajje, was waited upon one evsming by an indi vidual who explained that he lived on a farm two or three miles away, and had a favor to ask. When told to state his case, he said: "There's going to be a Rpelling rchool over here about three miles, and if you will take my gal Mary over there and bring her back I'll have the old woman pray for you for the next tif ieen years." "15ut I don't know Mary." . ' "That's all right she won't kick."" "But I'm married." "No one hero knows it." "Yes, but you must have some object in viow," continued tho P.ostonian. "Well, of course I have, I've bon bound over to tho circuit court on charge of stealing $2,000 from the county. List week I had a man from Now York out to the farm to dinner. Day beforo yesterday I had a chap from Philadelphia in my church pew. Now if I can only get a Bostonian to play sweet on my best looking gal for a couple of hours, yon can't find a jury in this country that will decide that I ever stole a cent of the county money, !t alono a $2,000 grub. Wall Street News. Kindly, but Firimy. A merchant who had repeatedly dunned a man, sent lum a bill of the amount due. In addition to the neces sary rule and figure work, tho merchant added the following: "I am becoming tired of tho 'indif ference with which you treat this mat ter, and I desire to hear from this bill at once," Ssveral days afterward thn merchant received the following, written on a postal card: "Accept my thanks for the bill which you were kind enough to send. I have never tronbled you aUut the matter. When I owe a man it in my disposition to treat him kindly but firmly. Well, whenever you haven't anything else to do, send nie ano'her bill." The Pull Mull Ga.etto has been ex posing the social vices of thn English, capital in very plain language, and great excitement has been created in aristocratic circles. If tho exposure of these social sore spots will havo the cU'ect to work a reformation, the Ga ze'.te should merit tho approbation of tho better portion of society; but Lon don is not the only capital where, if sunlight was let to shino upon tho hid den acts of leaders of society, Rome very dark and forbidden scenes would lie opened to the public gaze, and the Gazette is not tho only newspaper which has exposed to view these sowers of society, Tho reputation of tho English journal heretofore make's the fact more noticeable, as, generally speaking, scandal-mongers have been confined to the lowest class of public prints. If thn press of this or any other country should consider it their duty to exhibit the skeletons hidden in social closets, the readers would be regaled daily with a very filthy diet. One-seventh part of thn land sorvice of the earth and one-twenty-cighth part of its whole area constitute the dominion of thn Czar of all the Rus sia. More than 100,000,000 of peo pie call him father and are under his absolute government. In Russii a child is born every eight seconds throughout the year, and a death oc curs every eleven seconds At the present rale of increase tho population will double in about sixty years. But Russia is very far behind most civilized nations in the care of children and in the preservation of life. . Statistics show that GO per cent, of all the chil dren dio under the age of 5 years. Tho average duration of life in Russia is only 20 years, which is much below the average in tho western countries of Europe and in the United States. When the Jloulb railway bill, mak ing maximum charges for passenger travel 4 cents a mile went into effect, the Oregon and California railroal withdrew the privilege to clergymen of riding at half rate. Since then this has been reconsidered, and hereafter ..'iii. . t ti i in i ii ihi era w grinmu me 0114 con- ct-felon, Oregon nnJ Iowa. In future numbers of tho Advertiser we shall tell our'readers of the wealth of that country developed and unde veloped. We shall tell of mighty for ests, that have not felt the woodman's ax; of grain fields that the. world can not excel; fisheries, mineSj hospitable people, etc., etc. We have given some attention to the labor question, and will publUh some facts concerning the same, but here will say briefly that the Chinese have supplemented the Ameri can in all places where unskilled labor is employed. We' have also had an excellent opportunity to note the work ings of the license laws of Oregon and the territories and compar the same with prohibition (?) in our Own State. Twice we have traversed the Sta'.e of Oregon from north to south and east to west. Wherever wo went it was practically a "circus day," the people coming in great numbers to meet us. As we traversed nearly all the thickly nettled patts of the State, v.e probably saw onehalf of its population. We spent a full week there, and during that time did not eve a drunken Ore fjonittn. Should any of our readers doubt our statement, will they be kind enough to call at this ollice and we will give them the names of several prohibition editors who were of tho party, and ask that a copy of this paper be sent them with a request that they refuto misstatements, if any, stating where such drunkenness did occur. On our return homo on Saturday night we witnessed more drunks pit off at Cedar Rapids in "prohibition Iowa" than we saw among the residents of Nebraska, Wyoming Territory, Idaho Territory, Oregon and Washington Territory during our three weeks' stay there. Our opinion as to the causes of this will appear in future' numWs of tho Advertiser. Lyons (Iowa) Advertiser, June 30th. . The question of branding cattle i being seriously considered by stockmen. A hide which has been branded is worth from a dollar to a dollar and a half less than a clear one; and in a band of 30,000 cattle this means a lost of at least $ k,O00. Under our system of ranges ineffaceable and clearly dis tinctive marks of some kind are abso lutely necessary, and the question isr what can be used as a substitute for the burning iron? A chemist has dis covered a compound which will tunv the hair of dark-colored cattle perma nently white wherever it is applied, without injury to the kin whatever. This makes a sufficiently distinct brand for dark cattle, but tho prolem of turn ing the hair of white cattlo to a darker' hue remains yet unsolved. A great deal of ingenuity has lieem displayed by newspaper publisheis in endeavoring to create a demand for their publications. The most original plan that has fallen under our notice i embodied in the following novel propo sition made by the Evening Telegram, a one cent afternoon paper published in Cincinnati: "To any regular suli- scriber of the Evening Telegram whey is disabled by any accident, or to any bona fide purchaser having a copy of the current issue of the Evening Tele- gram upon his or her person at tho time of such accident, the Evening Tel egram will pay, upon proper proof, $10 a week during such disability, not ex ceeding live weeks, and hhould such ac cident renult in death withi one week we will gbe to the heirs er next of kin two hundred dollars," The Klines of Corvallis who attacked' Ed Rosenthal, tho young suicide, were arrested for assault and battery, thn daughter lieiug fined $15 and costs and L. G. Kline, who pleaded guilty, $50 and costs. Mrv Kline was not arrested at the time on' account of sickness. On Monday L' G. Kline, Mrs. Kline, Paulino Kline' and Moseg Klin were placed under' 500 bonds each on the charge of riot. A child was born in Napa county, Cal.j which weighed but two pounds. It is a lioy, perfectly formed nil or- ' ginized. An ordinary finger ring could be slipped over his hand and clrir up i. . t, i . to the eioow. His total length was not over eleven inchew.