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If -iff 10 ill 1 .iAUrliIavi i ifi r if ' i, i ,7 ,:'t HItLSBOUO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE, 24, 1875. , ,, SO- VOT. TIT. I 1 f. I V f J, i THE INDEPENDENT. PCBLI3HED AT Hillsbor Oregon Editor and Proprietor. I CRMS OF SUBSCItirTIOX(Coin) : One y.ar,.. 8ix incuths,. Three months, Single oopies.- $2 50 1 50 1 00 10 RATES OF ADVERTISING (Coin): Repulr Advertisers. timk 1 8Q. 1 WEEK. 1 50 2 sq. J: col col 2 00 3 50 6 00 2 50 4 50 8 50 3 00 5 00 12 00 6 00 9 00 20 00 10 00 16 00 30 00 lcol 10 00 15 00 20 00 SO 00 50 00 90 00 2 WEEKS. 2 00 1 MONTH 3 MOS. ft MOS. 2 50 4 50 6 00 1 TEAR. 10 00 15 00 30 00 50 00 Trntialent n (1 vrt Iapmpnts. 2 00 1st in sertion; each additional insertion, $1 00. Loo t Notices, 20 cents per line for each insertion. No notice less than $1 00. Summons, Sheriff's Sales, and aUJJother legal notices, 8 1 50 per square, 1st inser tion; each additional insertion, 75 cents. A Sqttare is one inch np or down these columns. AGFA TAT TOTtTLAND, OJ?EGON L. Samuels. AGENT AT SAN FRANCISCO I. P.Fish- e:, rooms 20 Sc 21,Merchant'sExchange California street. AGENTS AT NEW YORK CITY-S. M. T KTTENOii.ii fe Co., 37 Park Row, cor. 1 Veil man st.-Gso. P. Eowexi. & Co., 41 Park Row. AGENTS AT ST. LOUIS Itowrxixtr ChsSmav, Cor. Third and Chestnut Sts. TO CORRESPONDENTS. All commum- r itions intended for insertion in TnK , 1 dependent mttst be authenticated by he name and address of the writer Tjt nec essarily for publication, but as a guaranty of good faith. OFFICE In Hillsboro in the - old Court 'Hottse building on the Public Square. LR)FESSIONAL CARDS. JAME5 WITHYC0MBE, V c terin a r y Surgeon, HILLSBORO, - - - - OREGON. ' ? Sr Wfll be at the Oregon Livery stables. Corner of Morrison and First Streets, Port nnd, -every Friday. npr8tf JOHN VITK, 31. O . Pliysicia -i and Surgeon IIILLSBORO,' - - - OREIJ.X. ''j-p-fiperhil rrt'entlm n'vm tt DEF01LUI 3 IKS', also VIIKOXW ULCEUS. OFFICF Main street Hillsborrs. Orr';on. F. A. BAILEY, M. D. Physician, Surgaoaand Acsouc'ieur HIILSB0R0. - - ' OREGON OFFICE-at the Drue: Store. RESIDENCE Three Blocks South of Dm-; Store. 1:vl WII,SON BOWLHY, M. D. rhjsicinn and Surgeon, FOREST GROVE, - - - CREUON. OFFICE--At his Residence, West of Johnson's Planing Mills. n40: y W. H. SAYLOR, iil. IXi . Physician and 8nrgeon. FOREST GROVE. - - - - 0BEG0N OFFICE At the Drug Store. R i:SIDENCE Corner Second Block south of tUc Druse Store. mIHj " T. B. IIANDL.EY, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. OFFICE In the Court House, nnisboro, Oregon. myl3-tf C. A. BALL. BALEIGH STOTI. BALL & STOTT, A rTOBNEYS-AT-LAW, PATENTS OBTAINED. J&fp. 6 Deknm's Block, PORTLAND, CREGON. n8 ly ,b.HrUTU.'t , B.MLUV " Cailin U Killin, :4frOB$JnrS ANV COUNSELOR AT LAW. ......... lekum's Building, First Street, PORTLAND, OREGON.. T " r THOMAS II. TOHGUE. " fciTlsboro, Waahington County. Oregon. - ' "- - - , THOS: D. HUMPHREYS: NOV ART PUBLIC and CONVEYANCER LEG AI papers . drawn and collections made. - Business errtrnsted to his caro at ended to promptly. 0FFJCE New Court House a' U SOME SCRALo OF HISTORY. Ben Holladay's Railroad Operations in Oregon. The following "wbicb ire find in the San Francisco Bulletin of the 3d inststant, though not in all main de tails accurate, is pretty nearly a fair statement of the facts connected with' the building of railways in Or egon : In September lart Martin White brought an action in the twelfth dis trict court against S. G. Elliott to obtain an injunction restraining the the defendant from conveying cer tain interests in the Oregon Central Railroad Company. A teropoarary injunction was granted, but the prayer of White was " denied by Judge Sharpstein on the ground that Elliott bad previously, when entering into a certain agreement, conveyed all his interest in trust to an assignee to be held for the benefit and security of White, and that therefore there was no necessity for an injunction. Elliott filed a cross bill, claiming damages. These is sues have been on trial before the twelfth district court most ofthe past week. When the case was submit ted Judge Sharppteien intimated that he would give judgment against plaintiff and in favor of defendant, by dissolving the injunction, aud' in favor of plaintiff and against the de fendant on his cross bill for dama ges. The Oregon Central Railroad Company. The above case is a side issue growing out of the noted Elliott-Hol-laday suits conceruiusr the Oregon Central Railroad Company and the Oregon and California Railroad Company. The contest has been raging in the Oregon courts for sev eral years. The history 6f the origin of the Oregon Central Railroad Company is as follows: It wns incorporated in 18G7 or 1868, for the purpose of con-, structing a road from Portland to the southern line of Oregon and to connect with the Oregon a-ul Cali fornia road, extending to Marvs ville. The contract for the construction of the Oregon Central road was let out as usual in cases when the road bases its capital on Government sub sidy, to A. J. Moore & Co., in 18G8. The principal owner of this Con struction Company was Elliott. Un der this contract surveys were made of the entire route of the proposed road, and a force was placed in the field for its construction. The grant required that the road bhould be built a distance of twenty miles with in a specified time.to secure the sub sidies in the way of lands and bonds. The contract was forced with con siderable ability, and it attracted the attention of Ben Ilolladay as a good investment. , - Holladay Becomes Interested. In 1868, Ben Holladay visited Or egon and made n proposition of co partnership to Elliott and after per sistent efforts he succeeded in induc ing Elliott to make a new firm. Elliottbrought to Holladay & ; Co. all the bonds, stock and r securities which he had received .from Moore Sc Co., aggregating some $3,000,000. For the first six months of thVjnew copartnership the affairs of the-torn-pany prospered under the superin tendence of Elliott. When t'e new arrangement was formed, Holladay agreed to furnish all the money nec essary for, the construction of the road. In the summer of 1869 the first twenty milles of the rdad ' being nearly completed, Holladay quar le'ed with Elliott, having previously got all his securities itto, his own handp. The difficulty resulted in an j order from Holladay discharging Elliott as superintendent of .con struction. Holladay then brought an action against Elliott in the State circuit . co-art claiming damages on the ground of inability to ; perform service , and misrepresentation of facts at the lime the' copartneiship was formed. At ''this, time Holladay had in his possession and was using over ?500,000 he ob tained from the French SavingBank of this city on the securities placed in his hands by Elliott. This suit has been vigorously carried on the past year. The testimony taken be fore the referee shows that after ex hausting the money procured on the assetts of Elliott, Holladay found it necessary to raise more means, and for this purpose he made a pretend ed conveyance of all the rights, franchises, bonds and lsnds belong ing to the Oregon Central Company to a -new corporation, of which he was tbe figrirehead, - callrd the Ore gon" and ' California Company, east side. Germans Let in For a Share. Bonds to the amount of $11,000, 000 were issued, by the new compa ny and ingeniously placed (sold) in Germany, by a banker of this city. The bonds (seven per cent..) are stated in the testimony of the bank er to have netted 55 to 60 cents to the railroad company, and they were placed at from 76 to 81 cents in Ger many, eaving a lhandsome margin of some millions for the banking ring. Of the seven or eight millions of dollars realized from the sale of these bonds not more than three millions were expended in the con struction of the road, and the differ ence was divided between the mem bers of the syndicate. The evidence ttken on the trial of the case of the case of Holladay et al vs Elliott et al, substanciates these facts. The evidence is all in and the matter has gone before the court for adjudica tion and an early decision is expect ed. In 1870 some of the stockholders of the Oregon Central company com menced suit in the United Stales circuit court for Oregon against the Oregon and California coraj any to recover possession of the road , f ran chise, lnndd, bonds, etc., in the hands of tne new company. The pleadings in the case are settled, and the Court awaits the introduction cf testimony. Counsel for plaintiff are awaiting a decision of the State court before pressing this action to trial. The Sequel. The result of these brilliant finan cial summersaults is a poorly con s'tructed road, kept in bad order, which is not paying interest on the $11,000,000 invested by the earnings of $3,000,000. Three semi-annual installments of interest ' only have been paid, and there is now due over $1,500,000 interest on the orig inal loan to the German bondhold ers. Dickens, in Nickleby, sums up a stock exchange gamble in London, when he says, 'Four hundred no bodies were ruined, four stockhold ers took villas in Florence. " So in this case, a thousand or two nobod ies in Germany are ruined; one or two somebodies built up collosssl fortunes. The name A. J. Moore Sc Co.' mentioned by the San Francisco pa per is evidently a mistake' It is the "A. J. Cook & Co." swindle that is referred to. From all parts of Walla Walla val ley there come the most favorable reports with regard to the prospects for abundant crops. The weather has been just the thing for pushing grain ahead, and the harvest will come earlier than usual. But owing to the weather having been quits cool for a good portion of the time, and so much rain having fallen, vege tables and coi n have not come oh so rapidly as other crops.althougb tVey look well and will probably yield better than . common even if they should be a little late in maturing. It nerer pays to fret and growl - "When fortune aemn our foe; The better bred -rill push ahead . And strike the brarer blow. For lack is work ' T And thoea who shirk Should not lament their dootn, Bot yield U play, - And clear the way. Thai better men have room. - The does from the) Stat to National Grange is five cento at year on each member, payable quarterly. Last veax the dues were ten cents. OVER SIX KILES HIGH. The llichsst Contain in tnt Wcrld Kz Li Acb, Oct tn Mizr.i Wonder. From the New York Jan. For many years past Mount' Ever est, in that portion of the greatHim alaya range which occupies the west ern pert of the strange kingdom of Nepaul immediately north of India, has been regarded as the highest mountain in the world. It if known to tne' Kepalese as Gaurisankar) but the English named it Everest, in honor of a distinguished officer of the British Indian topographical survey. Its snow-capped summit is 29,002 feet or nearly five miles and a half above the level of the sea. Of course no one has ever ascended it to this height, but its altitude, like that of the other lofty peaks of the Himalaya, was ascertained by trian gulation, and until the prescnt.tinie it has not been supposed that any higher land existed on the earth. If the news be true, however, which hus lately come to us from the more distant east, there is a loftier peak than Mount Everest in the great island of Papua of New Guinea. This vast region, extensive enough to form six States as large as New loric, is as yet almost wnoiiy unex- vlstlaA.l ATAAn nlsrv ita s-t .1 r I T . injj close to the equator, where the Indian ocean and the Pacific meet, it is the home of the cassowary and the bird of paradise, a country grand in scenery, rich in its vegetation and, abounding in curious and beautiful forms of animal life the veritable wonderland ot the globe. An at tempt to explore the unknown inte rior of the island was made from Torres Strait, which separates it from Australia, by Capt. J.'A. Lawson.in the year 1872, and if we may believe his published narrative of the jour ney, which has just appeared in Lon don, he advanced several hundred miles inland, ond about midway be tween the north and south coasts discovered a mountain 35,783 feet high, which he named Mount Her cules. The height of the mountain over six miles is not the only remark able thing about it. Its apparent el evation is but little less than its act ual elevntion; for, instead of rising from av lofty table land like the pla teau of Central Asia, it stands - ip a comparatively low plain only about two thousand feet above the ocean, and this gives a clear rise of more than 30,000 feet above the surround ing country. The traveler standing at its base could look up and see its snowy peak towering 33,000 feet skyward from where he stood. Un der such circumstances tho altitude of a mountain is appreciated. Captain Lawson tells us that he undertook the ascent, formidable as it appeared. He did not reach the top; but we believe the achievement which he relates is unparalleled in the records of mountaineering. Ac companied by one servant, be set oat from the foe tat four"o 'clock in the morning. They passed through dense forests in the first two thou sand feet of perpendicular progress, found the limit of tree growth ate eleven thousand feet, and bv nine o'clock had reached a point fourteen thousand feet above tho sea level almost as high as the famous Matter horn. A thousand feet higher was the snow Hine, -and "they ' began to soet from the ' cold. As they pressed on, drowsiness began 'to overcome them. ' 'Nothing was vis ible bt snow of the roost dazzling w-bitenese. Every peak and crag was ewvexed; with it, Snd ttbuogover the edges bt the cliffe m long fleecy masses." Their eye's were" 'affected by the glare, and they felt' thenv selves growing more and more leth argic. 'At length . blood began to flow from onr&dsWfr &TS," says Captain Xprvson, and oy htad ashed in a distracted manner. I saw that our only chance of preserving lite was to retreat without delay, for we were in a pitiful plight. Our lips and gums and the skin of our hands and faces were - badly cracked and bleeding, and our eves were blood shot and swollen to an alarming ex tent. The thermometer had sunk to twenty-two degrees below f resid ing point, and the air was so rarified that we were gasping, rather than breathing. Our staves fell from our grasp, and we could not pick them up again, so benumbed were our arms and bands. It was now one o'clock, and the greatest elevation we had attained was 25,314 feet. Then, they t?rnsd bach, descended to the limit or the snow in three hours, and arrived at their camp at the base of the mountain about half past seven in the evening. Thus, in fifteen hours and a : half, tbey had ascended an absolute height of 23, 000 feet, to an elevation which we believe is greater than any ever be fore attained by man upon the sur face of the earth, although balloon ists have occasionallygone higher. TELEGRAPHIC Utah. Salt Lake, June 15. The weath er is warm, and the crops throughout the Territory are in splendid condi tion. The damage doim'bv crickets in the southern part of the Territory is reported as very trifling. California. . Sax Fbaxcisco, June 15. Advices from Mendocino, Sonoma, , Napa, Sacramento, San Jouaquin, Sauta Cruz and Santa CUra counties, this evening, report heavy rains with strong southerly winds. No definite information yet received an to the effect on the crops, but it is feared it may prove disastrous in many locali ties. ' Mexican Raiders Come to Grief. Galvestojt, June 15. A Browns special says the Mexican raiders have come to grief in a recent fight Their casualties sum up twelve killed and wounded. Thoy lost besides twelve horses and saddles, repeating rifles, pistols, etc. Mexican papers say the raiders were assassinated while asleep. Cortina swears he will have revenge, is arming, and has been for more than a week. Ho received a peremptory order to, re port at Mexico, and in the event of disobedience of the order, to be ar rested. General Fuero left Monte rey this morning on a march to Mat amoras. He has 300 men. It is understood he comes to attend Cor tina. It is not known what the brigand chief will do. He will fight Fuero if he thinks he can whip him. He may cross to this side and place himself at the head of the Mexican squatters and desolate, the country and cross back to the Mexican side and get pardoned by the Supreme Government. Troops ore on the alert. The citizens of Brownsville are adopting defensive measures. Ignorant Voters. Womr n suffrage has sustained a severe eet-back, and calm considera tion is bringing many facts to light not calculated to help it with think men. For example, examination of the census reports show that the per centage of illiterate women is much greater than the percentage of illit erate men. In New York; for in stance, the latter - figure at 77,160, while if the women voted there they would add 121,667 to the list of ig norant voters.. .Of course ignorant female voters would be as potent a source of miscl ief as ignorant male voters. And-beyond this lies the fact that even among the women who are not ignorant the moat, dense lap of information, , exists in regard to political matters. But : ; since at the present time ,th? ignorant male voter promises to find occupation for all the statesmanship in the country, it would be mere midsummer,; mad ness to supplement it . with, , several millions of ; equally etopid and; in tractable electors. Education mnst be the word for some time to come. We hrve had d together too much of unintelligent suffrage. Sac. Record. PATS CRITICISM H There's a story that's old, But good if twice told. , Of a doctor of limited skill , r ' Who cored beaut and man On tea -cold-water plan." Without the small help of a pUl! On his portal of pine Hung an elegant sign Depicting s beautiful rill, And a lake, where a sprite, :i With apparent delight. Was sporting in sweet deshabfjie. P it McCarty one day, ' ' ' As he sauntered that way, Stood aad gaaed at the portal of pine, , n When the doctor with pride Stepped up to his aide, ' 4 Saying, "Pat, bow is that for a sign?" ? "There one thing," says Pat, ? "Ye've lift out o' that, Which, be jabbers, is quite H mistake,' ' It's trim and its nate, v Hut to make it coinplata . Ye shud have a foine burd on the lake." "Ah! Indeed! Pray, then.teli; To make it look well, ! ' n What bird do you think it may lack?" . Hays Pat, "Ofthe sanio I't forgotten the name, . . But the songthat he sing i 'quack ! quack," " . -1 . " ' HUMOROUS. l.i. 'Hi. "Dear roe, how fluidly ho talks' said Mrs. Partington recently, at a temperance meeting. "I am always rejoiced when he mounts the nostrils, for his eloquence w,rms every, cart ridge in my body." A littJo girl and boy, three or four years old, were playing on I ho ice when sis fell down , and commenced to cry. Bub ran up and soothingly lisped: "Don't cwy J ThwearJThwear! Thaydamn!" Dartmouth. ' J An old lady, hearing ' fiotuo one reading about a Congressman : at largo, rushed into tho kitchen door shouting, "Sarah Jane I Sarah Jane! don't you leave the clothes out all night, mind I tell you, for there's a Congressman at Targe." Ex. An aristocratic'. New Yorker, on; being requested by a rich and vulgar young fellow for permission to mar ry "one of his girls," pave this rath er crushing reply: "Certainly; which would you prefer, the housemaid of tho cook?" ' '' "Well, doctor, its no' use, I'm go ing to dio!" "Nonsense'' ' said the doctor, "you're not ' going to die at all. No roan ever died with feet ' '' as warm as yours P "Ah, yes they diil', doctor." "I should lik'e to. know who, then?" said the doctor." John Rogers' did," said the patient. , A rustic 3'oungster, being asked" out to take tea with a friend, was ad4 mouisbed to praise the eatabteM. Presently the butter was passed to him, when he remarked, "Very nice butter- what there isyof it,' and ou serving a smile, he added, "and plenty of it such as it is." 'My son ' said a father to his lVf, tie boy at the breakfast table, "ifr you had the choice to be burned at the stake, like John John Rogers, or' to have your head chopped : off like King Charles the First, which would you choose?" "John Rogers," said" the boy. "And why?' "Because replied the boy, "I should prefer a hot steak to a cold chop." ' 'r Two colored men took reftige tin- der a tree in a violent thunder stornrV " Julius, can you pray?" peid one "No Sam," was the reply; nebber prayed in my ' life." "Well cafl't you sing a hymn?" Just then the lightning struck a tree near by'; shiV ering it, when the first speaker ex claimed : ''See heath,' honey, surafin' ngious has got to be done, mtr datf mighty suddin' too.- S'pose you paW around de hath 1 ' ': j A compositor on a New York daily in setting up a Frenchword, inserted1 fk w, When .tbfproef-mder seas out his proof the compositor reaittttM St rated, saying be lollqwcd oopyw, The proof-reader informed- the gen tlemen that sviwas riot nit in the French v language whereupon?' tne compositor inquired of the 'frarnVtf artiBL "how ha would spell ttfW1 row without a to." The rniir ' lausliter from his fellow ' can-bj ittrafeecrV V