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About Lafayette courier. (Lafayette, Or.) 1866-1??? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1873)
■ FRIDAY, FEB. 21, 1873 LAFAYETTE, Lafayette Courier Pubiiah©4 «very Friday by j_ u. uPToyr. ire buildings than you can con- lfently occupy yourselves. If rafaould accidentally have an pty dwelling, and any one should 1 6M I 1ÏB. pFwTBüö 45O| • 50 f t 001 18 | «1 500 rT’OO ] * O0T1O I 28 7001’9 00 12” | 20 | 30 J It I 15 18 ( » j 5O |32 00 ( 3100 [ 50 00 ftooO unc valuable lesson, varied. ■ He bought When, he found that w ... , ............................ -' - - xL BasineM notices in the Local Column?», 25 cent?» f»er line, each irv^ertion. r egal and transient advertisements $2.- 50 per aquara of 12 lines, for the first inser ti«n, Md $1.00 per ¿(juarr toreach subsequent marti ou. v ;;-.p;, •] ii |gmty|i>7p Legal AdDPi'lhemenljt i tojxf ' Paid for up- •n making Proof by the PMieher.' g^.Peraonal Adv*. 50 Ct*. Line. “5 a [t. wrap yourselves up ym Ilves and cover yourselves ¡h a coat of impervious self- k There is no moire effectual Suberiptians Sent East, $2 00 a Year. *???■■■■■11 ■,... THE CONGRESSIONAL DIS r GRACE* J* «______ _ Mobilier 1« Exam- t pie« f«r Ik« S«nA«jr*Sekool Book«. • (Washington Cor. Cincinnati Commercial.] There were lively times when the proposition was made to Congress to open the doors of the Credit Mo biKer committee committee. Those, or ax least a majority of those, who did not desire the doors thrown open, did not dare to vote against the resolution for fear their action would be misinterpreted. Fori to tell the truth, I honestly believe that a few mtn were tiere who knew at the outstart just how Vir tuous they were. Being accus tomed to a mild glow of the arti cle at all times, they were not overcome as were many others, ap parently, by a sudden outflow and overflow of it, all at once, as it werq^ Those of the mild glow were’somewhat surprised at the tremendous vehemence of the un expected reinforcement, and in their bewilderment, they allowed themselves to be swept along with the surge of the crowd. in dividuals present most concerned in all t|ie hubbub, seemed general ly aware of the fact. Dawes was absent, ° setting of ’eiOp’’for the Massachusetts Senatorship in Bos ton. Bingham didn’t look at all yell He sat curled up,his chair, to all appearances revolving some diaagreeable fitter in his • mind^T Brooks looked even yel lower than usual, and downcast and dispii •irited and gloomy. ».Ever since the i , first connection of his name with the matter, and more especially since bis speech denying such just connection, he has seemed to lose more and more every day his vitality and energy. He e ‘ is not the same Brooks that used gca walking 1 about ' laughing . and talking With his friends_what time he wa* not busy in watching and debating upon matters before the House, ^fhe expose, or the charges, the feet of being suspected, or else the fact of having been caught, one or the other, has bad a terrible effect on him; You have observed square peijury in his case- Some how somebody has lied. And McComb, in his orpss-examinatiou of Alley, has made that frisky little YinkW sharper blunder and halt ib his efforts to .... _ ... . Commend to your youth, t my frien^, .Colfax and Scofield. ® you wSnT^rmVtoemin your Sun- day:school books, you may at least put them down commendingly in your secular text-books, where the boys who will be business men one tion of it in the primaries, [ «nd state amounts to $9,323,863, bejng a portion elsewher^. The enor- | oae_ha]f n /»nr».. gross personal proper mous freights have been neces ty and one-fourth the total taxable sarily kept up in order to meet property of the State, to-wit: $37,- the interest on the bonds. This 174,168. Do we as a peoplq -owe money is all carried out of the coun one fourth of all we own? is try. Those who hope to see better this indebtedness in great port a times will wait for the realization fiction for the purpose df eluding of their hopes till something can be taxation? ] done to obviate the necessity of There are no means of ascertain sending g away annually seven hun ing toe rate qt whioh personal dred thousand dollars to pay in property in die whole State. jjrlaa- terest on borrowed capital This sessed, only three counties^Cfeck- end may be reached by the encour amas, Douglas and Lane—giving agement and support of competing the details, from which it appears transportation. Any considerable that the average horse of Ulacka- competition in the carrying busi ?as worth tlatofiDougiAS, ness will bring freights down to $32 52; and of Lan£, 46 73^ lit the minimum paying rates, and tle in Douglas average $16 in that will relieve tho pressure by the other two counties, some edits- keeping in the hands of the farm over p in Douglas ers a large portion of the money are worth $2 57,againat$2antfie now paid to the railway company other two counties. A1J three coun and transferred to Europe. This ties agree that an avarago.hog is may reduce the income on the worth $2. ?: A 1 road to such an extent as * to dis- On.this point of avteragc value, able it from paying its interest, there seems to b* in future, bSfoe but that is not for the producers need of equalization, for probably to lopk at at. They had no part in there is as much, or more, inequal contracting these obligations, nor ity in the counties not exhibiting in the inisre ^presentations that en- the rates of horses, cattle etc., on abled Mr. l Holladay to contract their assesment rolls as is appar them, and their honor is therefore ent in these three.. The nnifoyin I not involved in the question of blank assessment roll established their liquidation. liquidation. The interests by the Board appears to us a step- of the producers is to act in * har in the right direction toward cur mony and take care of themselves, ing this defect. s T leaving the men who have brought Of the value per acre of land in about this state of things to work the respective counties, the infor out there side of the problem as mation extracted from the assess best they can. ment rolls is more complete. «. JSx- eluding town property, agrjciiitur- It appears from the Washing land is worth ini-Benton $4 ¿8 dispatches of the 25 th ult., that per, acre; Clackamas, $3 40; the effect of the Credit Mobilier in Clatsop, $3 54; Columbia,' $3r vestigations is already manifested Coos, $2 72; Doughs, 80; in the desertion of the railway Jackson,$3 27; Josephine, <4 50; companies by many of their Con Lane, $4 77; Linn, $6 14 3-4: Ma- gressional friends. Tpe exposure rion, $4 53; Multnomah, $10 80; of the rascalities by which these Polk,$4 7<fW^ amook, corporations have worked tfieir Umatiir», $5 87; Washington* jobs throrgh Congress, producing $5 04; Yamhill,' <3 87 ; Wasco, among Representatives and Sena 57 1-2 cents. The appa irent aver- tors, a wholesome fear of the con age value of land asco is re- sequences of remaining longer in the same boat with them. The duced by including in the total' 60,000 acres of wagon-road land1 Goat Island grab is reported es losing friends and the measures at 20 cents—otherwise it would, introduced to compel the compa stand at $6 49 1-2.? Baker, Car- ry, Grant and Union counft»ido< nies to meet their liabilities to the government are gaining ground. not give data from which the av erage value per acre of toeirtonda can be ascertained. A study of the above table will probably in duce wany of our readara to . One of the most interesting re cluda that in adjusting these»vahmr . -for j ea sults of the labors of the State there will be work; hereafter ualizatkwr. ‘ Board of Equalization recently in the Sta.te Board of session at Salem is the tabulation Oregon Herald. of statistics of assesment in the va >— ■SB lud V1Î rious counties of the State for the year last passed, which was very A clerk, in Dubuque, thoroughly made by ordèr ofthe 'M- Board, and which discloses some tered into a contract wi nal sal facts important enough to call for plover for $500 00 add comment at our hands. ary, to%carrywaj|dJ deppi ta) the The aggregate of taxed acreage Mississippi river one (Single is shown to be 3,298,039 acres, an shot, doubling the number eaqh amount much ; smaller than is known to have passed from the W pek during the year (i Theyow United States into the possession man thought he had an easy job of of ipdividals under the operation it and commenced ope ution* Up of the donation, pre-emption and to the eighteenth wed his burddn entry laws, and into the possession had simply arose to 48 nmmdA of corporations by grants in fur therance of works of public utility. Here he stopped to make a lUtfe The inevitable conclusion is that calculation. Imagine^ m M u M- mueh of the real estate of Oregon ment at the dmcovWT* that he escapes taxation under present would have to carry kind deptait, igodes of assessment. And if land on the last week of hit contiiK, —the most easily assessed species of property—escapes - thus, i what /bur hundred and twa may we conclude is the case with hundred tmd fevent^ thdasand^1 dA personal property ? Is it wonder hundred and eighfyfrut tons ! Bib fa* sfeiKMHrtril full that the personal property of i b i ?.< tH the whole State appears by the as oinOdQ sessment rolls to bô.but $18,147/ , T he Boston Globt 073 a most recficulous showing, itor of the Ma CtiUfo since it would not be difficult to se sick headache for, lect one hundred of pur rich men hours after reading in whp» together should be < worth Exchange 'that wills more than this sum. horn of plenty, and it The indebtedness of the whole you copiously. peradventure he ul consideration ------------- -<♦»- -. Iroad Deiputtm ai Wimes. .. e« * t He even brought Henry oto his toils—Wilson, the n eventually. One feels to In? this single instance^ at I’ Certainly we have more of But men will; make mistakes which and don is lb ’1- ’t ■ mean much. • _ . I r A. Gloomy View i L V. J a' I ■ I ; —— - - r V I The Hon. Robert Brown Elliott, colored member of Congress from South Carolina’ who was candid ate for theiUnited States Senate in the hie contest, takes a sombre »<*,(. ■.'.I..;.. ow, understand me. I am not ig this out of personal feeling, a a candidate before the Leg- ire and was defeated. I can Thejpeople of this State, espec f ¡ally tlfcsc of the Willamette valley, have f&t the hand of tho Vai I way despotism for the last two years in mhny #ays. They have paid such enormdus charges for transporta tion ori all the produce they have sent away, and all the mcrehandise they have brought to their homes, as to idive thetaselves no ^recom pense f£r their own toil, nor for the mpjey they have invested in their fajrms and shops. The ex igencies of the railway company have bqen such as to demand that every ton of freight should be forced to contribute the last cent it woujd bear in order to enable the company to pay the interest on its bonds. The stress of this exigency made it necessary for the railway company to be freed from the competition of the line of the river boats that were plying on the Wallamct and its tributaries when the railway was commenced. The priqe of this purchase was not equal to ihe profits of carrying the crop of $ single year; and then, the ability of the railway company to procure the loans necessary to qarry on its further enterprises, de- de pended ] ¡argely upon its present trade. 1 phis, could bo greatly swollen r Jy purchasing the boats on the rivqr { and immediately inaug- urating bcii a system of disbrim- ¡nations | m favor pf the railway apd ag; ;ainst the river, as would give the | ralk of the trade to the former. •. ’ The purchase was made theiariff - f freight charges went up, and' fe discriminations inflat- ed the i 11 way ; traffic and the credit of he company, so that it was possi le to effect negotiations abroad w icb would have been im- possible i^der any honest adminis- trhtiop ofe/ the krt railway company’s affaire he burdens of this fraud were and are borne by the produc ers;-:!" the benefits enjoyed by Mr. Holladai ¿„y jmd his band of retainers. T^e profi Ht^oU f the construction of r the . road, ff course, west into the hands of I little Credit Mobilier, of, which r Holladay was under- stood to: the master, and a doz- ed or so the re- What thé instru This money was 1 • it A