**ti i 1 I i H i y Í II of ■»Mi t *r * * I I i. ; » -» I i- M »/i ' Í • * « .1.. i I » • I àH| / 1 A 1H J "i r- x. 5 I !; i r 57 F I ✓A 4^1 Jfc** * F p’l it * X VOL. 8. ■Í -'nA*-!- * ‘ r it ---------------- * r ■ it«/.« ’ •» ■I 1 - I 1 1 Í "i. 3 > li / -à1 ¡I ) ♦ «Ï I C.j V* • -t- ”3 » .* * — • "’J II WO. 4. Ài’,- 4 - --------- —.M», * 1 ■w LAFAYETTE, OH EGOX. MARCH «K 1ST3. Ütkr t; I — Ji r t — zz > < i ¿4 r I « f 1 » * » ■ je *' 4 rrM* * * r- * V 4* 1H . 1 s’ ■> I Ur ♦ ¿ : MM I £■ J i 11* I ■■ it b r * I 1 _ I V IS < Ì-Ì.F : • ft ji I — j f i » i J 4, t¡ ’ ■ --------------------------------------- ; . ■ H». The railroad companies finally suc- Report. Lafayette Cc Jourier on the public, which begun with- and not the proceeds of dividends t The IA mm • Cteimty I .r.OOJLiIt . • i i T h ■! i jl oeeded *n bribing their way through . - The more carefülly the report Published «very Friday by eporl the original denials of any interest from the stock, which thev denied 4 the Iowa ' Legislature, on the defen i The meeting of the Farmers of in the Credit Mobilier, has been of the Poland coramittee studied, ittee is studied ar. jpiL. ever having held. Now the com Linn county, held at .Albany last sive The Des Moines Iie}nibluxm for the more flagran rite conclusions, pursued throughout, while peijuiy I mittee find unanimously that they I insinuating that wholesale bribery TERM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Saturday, elected officers as fol Las been superadded in the desper omissions, and i pirtiality appear, each held ten chares, and received had been resorted to to control the «3 OO Q jm CeNr^Xkao Year,. Its practical al efl( et thus far has ate effort to enlist public sympa the dividends thereon, the sum of lows: For President, Judge Baber; Six MMtka, 1 T5 acf *0Ii oi the Senate, hud its editor cast been to excite syn pathy for Antes thy and confidence. $329 being paid in money as the , ! Oss Ce»v- ««•___ It has been proved by the rec net result, in addition to the stock. Vice President, James Finlayson; 1 00 into prison. The next session in that and Brookâ, who are condemned r “4a* y 1 ■ W State, composed of members fresh ’by the hopest judgment of both ords that Ames made his contracts | I In plain terms; they morally ccn- Secretary, A. W. Stanard; Corres from the people, will do the work for parties. And tba reaction is so with all the members at the very rvict Garfield and Kelley of perju- ponding Secretary, J. H. Smith. I RATES .or ADYEKTISINQ 0 The Committee on Resolutions \ •W the monopolists. The p* ople are fully strong against tli^ manifest injus time when Washburn first demon | ry, and yet find them to be so in mi puriiçhingjtwo men for the strated, or within a few weeks nocent as to be undeserving of reported as follows: ai oused on the subject of the heartless tice of punishing 1 Inch, I 75 11 2ö j TTBTs <Ä i 9 œ |d5 (í) j j wliiçh others equally afterward; that is to say, in De punishment I So Dawt^, Schofield, - Resolved, That we cordially in IS (>0 exactions and ruinous extortions prac very crime of wlf fehl dorse the propostion as contained that thero, is cember, 1867, and January and and Bingham, who pocketed the 22 00 ticed upon them by a combination of guilty are acquitted, acquit ¿Incites, 30Ö0 «Inches, - roads against them. Their day of danger of a stillt greater wrong February 1868. No argument is fabulous dividends, are only criti in the call for a State Convention 3200 1 of Farmers, to be held at Salem needed to show- the connection of being perpetrated)'by the failurè cised to the extent that they— i li S ho » reckoning is near at hand. on April 10th, 1873. the two events. They speak for to visit any of tliQ..conjricted with poor innocents I — “ were not suffi 30 30 50 00 Resolved, That we hail with un themselves. dividend AT The Rev. County Sahool Superin the penalty they deserve. 30 90 0Ò ftO _ 4 • TV • A ■ •»-% • eu • of « 6G . 1 • per —2 ciently carefUl lu ascertaining bounded pleasure tne news tnai« It is true the rases of Ames cent, in Union Pacific bonds and what they were getting 1 ” tendent of Multnomah county is em Bnsinea« notice* in the Local Columns, 25 reaches us from different quarters Censurable as is the failure of of the State of the organization of phatically in favor of compulsory ed and Brooks stand out as some 60 e:r cent, in stock was declared cents per line, each insertion. I I For legal and transicqtadvertisements $2.« and another of the report to condemn the crimi- what exceptional/, butrather iu on ec. 12,1867, Farmers ’ Clubs for their mutual 50 per square of 12 lines, for the first inser ucation. After this would come a de V 1/XM Z< « - O guili 20 per centén bonds on Jan;. 3, nals'whom it seeks to shelter, it is protection, k tion, and SI XX) per MJuare tor each subsequent mand for compulsory church attend notoriety than in moral i I * r' nsertion. The public gaze h|p been rivétq 1868—only 80 in bonds and 60 in simply infamous in th< case of ance ; and this is not all. The right Rpsolved, That we implore our Legal Advertisements to be Paid for up stock in three weeks ! In the fol Colfax. He stands before the on making Proof by pte Publisher. to force the parents of the country to hpon them frpm fifcecial causes-^- brethren throughout the. State to • J Personal Adv«. Sfi Cis. S ld«e.-g| send their children to school would Ames as the great contractor èf lowing June there was a cash aiv- country covered with corruption proceed at once to organize Farm I idend-of 60 per cent., and a stock and false swearing. That he was Suberiptions Sent East; 00 a Year. ers’ Clubs imtho8e portions of the carry with it tho right to fix the sala the Pacific road ahd one1 of tie dividend of 40. bribed by Nesbit is now evident State where such organizations do ries of teachers and pass upon their chief managers of |ie Credit Mo —- Ames When paid id off his Con from his own showing, and that he not exist. sr qualifications. Then we would have bilier, and Brook||a8 a Govern gressional stockholders in June, he j 11 wilfully falsified about the $1,000 ment Director, aiid member of Resolved, That it is manifestly each school house occupied by some Congress, who appropriated the furnished to each one a statement Aau i/uwwrj» lidl Directory. Í bill is no longer in dispute. He is to the interest of the farmers to “Rev.” with sufficient intelligence.at ................... —T.,.,. .4 influence of both positions for pti r- showing the result of the so-called not a member of the Senate, and build their own warehouses and to Arrives from the north daily at 12 m. least to draw his pay. at 10:30, 1U:3O? a. * ‘ m. Departs both ways St sonal profit. There is no differ investment up to that time, by his proposition for investigation in hold their produce in their own nia Taylor Tavlo ’s bridge and from Portland via ence of opinion abciut their crim which Garfield, Kelley and others, that body while another was pend possession until sold. Newberg, Newberg» weekly. Arrives at 6 p. in., on The Bulletin publishes a statement 1 ¡Saturday. Departs atf a. m., on Friday. yho never paid a dime, got their ing was one of his small tricks inality. ’ Î 9 Resolved, That we as farmers do r Dayton _ 6 ■ r times a week"; ■ Arrives at • - 3 p. m. signed “ Democrat” exculpating Col stock and a large consideraton in which deceived nobody. But if Ames is gjiilty of having Departs at 4. not propose to make war upon or fax from perjury and bribery. We » I , i 1 r, it: I ■ . ,j;........ Ì- - bribed or improperly influenced money, while Colfax, who paid Mr. Colfax is amenable to im interfere with the interests of any suppose the question is now settled the implicated • members of Con $543 72 on account of twenty peachment by the House of Repre business man or men, i>ut simply that it was neither bribery nor perju gress by his dealiigs with them shares, was credited with his stock, sentatives. The House has origi to protect ourselves. Yamhill Cönnty Directory. ry that Colfax was guilty of. He at least . fu,vvv,auu $8,000, and was in Credit M o OT hcim in what light worth . , “ wuo nal jurisdiction over Colfax under Mobilier Resolved, That we tender our .Mj'M, Ramsey had a right to take stock as a gift County Judge • è do they stand whof accepted uis jP® 1 ^ $1,200 in greenbacks. To the Constitution by the power to .R. H. lxniBOB Clerk v........... !" sincere thanks to the editors of I . i J who » receive® _ •_1 L. ciirxnnico a. P. Bird and then vote to swap a first for a Sheriff.............. suppose tlxnt that tliean these mnn men, Venn who nnn. con ini peach «him. The Senate has those papers who have given us ___ id its stock enormous ..,.J. M. Kelty second mortgage on the Union Pacific Treasurer..... H j Dawson who concealed trolled the legislation of the coun pone except in the capacity of aid and comfort by publishing let dividends, and w Co. ^auunieaioners.. J ’ Hulery to make that stock immensely val .IL* Âmes as “ trus try and were familiar with its vast High Court to try the often co. ters, notices and other matter that themselves behind, ÍC.J Handley Surveyor.... uable. / I. Davis Aaeessor.... tee ” until the scand tai became pub- ramifying interests, were ignorant Why was his flagrant case omitted have tended to the furthering of H. II. ... He wit School Bup’t of the sources of these fabulous Tft the report.? Was it to shield our intere8terand we consider it Coroner. A .. . ,.j..jDr. Johnson A nd M ore T rouble .—Imagine the lie? To aj ppprecipte the exact dividends, is to beleive that the him, or to avoid the scandal of an our duty to give them our patron . . ... J! t LEGISLATURE. mortification of he of the Rqxrrter to position of tl hesc m£n it must be foremost legislators of the country f impeachment of »'the Republican age and support. L ___ .*,' .. borne in mind tliit the hostile . . .*LíJ. W. COWIS find duly printed on his “ patent out State Senator. lie Pacific Rail Rail- xvere imbeciles. Such profits could Vice-President? The candor of The resolutions were unanimous movement against the uJ T. R; Harrison Bep’s •' side ” of last week an article which • ’ ’ !( A. R. Bkrbank road was begun by the Hon. C. C. not come from the road itself, for the country, which resents this ly adopted, speeches were made by had appeared on his inside but three Washburn of Wisconsin, on the the interest was in arrears. The shameful discrimination, h'xs al ies3rs. oonn John Jttenry Henry omito, Smith, Jame James H — T y "i weeks before! Of course the “patent” 9tli of December IS 67 by 1 a bill to suggestion of ignorance is an in- ready answered with a stern and Messrs. «4 inlayson, Phillip Low, of Linn ------ . ‘ printer cannot know what has already reduce the rates of |transiK)rtation. suit to public intelligence. indignant voices It demands equal county, and Capt. J. H. D. Gray,' > ’ h •V OBEOON ’ OFFICIAL DBECTOBT. appeared in any of the papers he sup Hence, while it ma| be technically In the face of these disclosures, justice, and nothing short of that of Clatsop. The Register says: j; ¡lili i'i ¡1 vi plies. Con ’ t blame him. k EXECUTIVE DErvBTMENT.': true that the road 'was not then the report says that “ it does not will satisfy an* aroused public “ The meeting was largely attend ...,L U F. Grovel t.rover Governor................... seeking legislation from Congress, appear that any of them knew that opinion. ed, and great harmony and much .8. F. Chadwick Secreta^r of State. ti Corporal O’Casey,” Grant’s broth the profit and dividends were to The fears that were expressed ....£ ISeiisblàfeP as has been urged to extenuate the Treasurer of State. enthusiasm prevailed. The tangi er-in-law, has been reappointed Col venality of the incriminated mem be in the stock and bonds of that when this committee was appoint • • • • .Eugene Bemplé State Printer............ S. A Simpson ble result? are yet to be seeh. State librarian........ Uagiatar of State Landa... Ki Jl 11 nUIR .Itii' ■ ;. : ( lector of Customs for New Orleans. bers, still it is nonalthe less true company.” Of course it does not ed have all been verified. The two United action is now the need.” Next to Murphy, this man Casey has that it was striving to prevent appear ! technically, because the Democratic members, Niblack and i'-i' .s COMURZSRIO.SAL. I u, Lj ¡it! 11 hit been the most corrupt villain in the this and other advi^se legislation, guilty parties were not very likely Merrick, were chosen for the serv One of the most remarkable default James K. Kelley U. 8. Senator of this decade is Samuel E. Rankin, «4 which would have Seriously dam to tell on themselves; but {he ice because they were aggressive, er« > " Mi Customs service. ., 4. H.. Mitxihi State Treasurer of Iowa, and Treasur /Jof. O.nW Congressman . aged its interests apd to thwart whole train of proof of their per and were held in check by . social er of the Agricultural College. This V I' Thu Salem Mercury very properly any inquiry by which the corrupt fect knowledge from first to last apd other influences. They have gentleman -.vas elected Treasurer of I FEDERAL OFFICERS. A J - A 1 LZ CTC7 ’ .rh2„.lZ.g. ±21 tZZ 22 “ denounces the “patent” newspaper contracts of the Credit Mobilier isoverwhelming. And the com- weakly yielded and sacrificed the ; the College in 1868, giving a bond of . .. M. P. Deady U. 8. District Judge *44-- •_ ----- 3--!- ? . mittee in 4E_.^T_4. their extreme desire 4- to respect and confidence of their $75,000. He was re-elected in 1869, but Tho s G. Yonng plan. The system will probably not concern would be exposed. U. 8. Marshal.'. ... Wilcox Clerk U. 8. Court.... • • V Garfield, *_ Ejellpy, political friends, while they have ! I I no bond was required. In 1870, he Indeed, the circurjstances of this whitewash f. Sarveyor General.... • • • « • á . L . . “J W. H. Odel; be very extensively resorted to in this was again elected, this time giving a .;T. B Odeneal State. For the credit of journalism movement made by lir. Washburn Dawes, Schofield, and Bingham, invited the harshest judgment , of Sup’t Ind. Affairs... bond just before his term expired. In . .Thoa. Ftàzer U. 8. Assessor.......... 1 are less important a? affording ev furnish the evidence in their *• d^n the country. Poland has pursued 1871 he was re-elected, ana no bond ...W. Bowl by, we hope it will stop where it is. U. 8. Collector........ sharp partisan tactics, according was required on his fourth term. In ? ‘ t it 1 VMHKH9BHHBBWS5 idence of the corruption of Ames’ report. Il II LAMD OFFICKRS, rj Stone & Burnett, of Seattle, have purchased members than those of After having acquitted ¿hem of to his habit McCrary was tied 1870 his defalcations were first discov * Roseburg. failed for a large amount, on account 4 W. tt. Wfllfe. Register.. In 1871 the “cupboard was the legal attack upop .the Vnion all knowledge on this point; the up ,by the three cases of Grimes, ered. B. Herman, Receiver------ K. re ’ ’ to tune of *37,000- He was ■ and Wilson of Icwa. i , elected for the . .Oregon City;' of Stone taking a large sum of Pacific by Janies Fisk, Jr., ia 1869. committee, in seeking to extenu- Allison, Owen Wade, Register........ the last time upon giving Henry Warren, Receiver. ate*the concealment of the stock Banks was in no condition to in the ’ company funds and, somebody ’ s Fisk, claiming an interest in the a bond to co> er his past defalcations, « .. La Grande J. H. Stephens, Register, >» in th®name of Ames, contradict vestigate, and he was selected for wife and leaving for parts unknown. D. Chaplin, Receiver.... railroad company, h^d begun pro and to furnish security for the future. 3 • í — — — themselves flatly by showing that tnat reason. Mr. Rankin’s method of filling this ceedings in the Supreme Court of SUPREME COURT these members must hare known The Committee is now on trial obligation was orignal as well as I The question of the removal pf the New York, and wq$ dose upon P. P. l’rim, Chief Justice .Jacksonville effective. The State treasury cancell . .Corvallis Capitol of Kentucky from Frankfort the track of all the fascallity that how the immense profits were ob with open doors, and before a free ed the College fund defalcation. A. J. Thayer L ....... ... .Salem Salem to Louisville is being agitated in the has now been developed. Raising tained. Hear the report on this people and preSB. It has reported About this time the 7 Legislature appro- ............... .u ... roruand Portland j I I !• -î. . JI /• n • I I some untruth®,’endeavored to ex-, priated $38,000 to the tfie cry of persecution, and dwelling point: L. L. McArthur. • • • • • q. .Jlaker City Legislature of that State. he College. Mr. R. X ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 4 ‘ The profits of ¿building the credited the College cuse guilt, and sought to protect 1 "m ; with __ , this - _ amount, vociferously upon the audacity and JUDICIAL EISTTICTS. The Supreme Court of Massachu judicial usurpation 'attributed to road, under the Junes contract, men who arc both . corrupt; and but placed the money in the State I «rat District: Jackson and Josephine. I Treasury. And so he gyrated between 1 District: Benton, Coos, Curry, Douglas setts has decided that medical societies Barnard, the allies of Ames were only to be divided among criminal. Every member of. it de I the College and the State vaults, until ■ and Lane. 3d District: Linn, Marion, in that State have a right to expell brought extraordinifry bills into such holders of the Credit Mobi- serves to be branded with scorn fiction of the trus by rhe imprudent action, Polk, Tillamook and Yamhill. 4th District: Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah, and Homeoepothista for medical heresy. Congress, and > carried , them lier stock as should come in and and opprobrium, so that a stem tees, he gyrated gy rated out of offioe with an Washington. Sth District; Grant, Umatil 7 through both Housed by the power become parties to certain condi* example may be made of those indebtedness of $38,401 46. la, Union and Wasco. — - ■ . tions set out in. the contract } * iof who prostitute the highest trusts A few idlers about South Beud/met of men who had Credit Mobilier TERMS OP CIBCU1T COURTS. James Brown a notorious char transfer to the trustees, so that a to the basest ends.—N. Y. Sun. together on the occasion o ‘ f Colfax ’ s stock in their pockety or were paid Frst District—In the county of Josephine, acter in Philadelphia, says an ex on the fourth Monday in October; Jackson arrival at home. He made them a as counsel by, one or .the other Pa transfer from Ames to the ndw second Monday in February, June and No change, was tried before the Fed cific corporations. corporations One of these holders would cut off the rights to Credit Mobiliar speech. A Perpetual Motion. vember. eral Court in that city for the t took Fisk suittmt bills too„ __ ’s _... __ of the Su dividends from -the trustees unl< i i-ri Second Distirct—Douglas third Monday W preme Court of New; Ncxy York, where they also became parties to 1 e in October, and eeconed Monday in May; The ¡^niUetin publishes the reso prpme L correspondent, Mr. H. R. crime of “ repeating ” and peijnry, Coes, fourtk Monday in May, and second lutions o^ the Linn county Farmers’ the defendants could; be brought agreement; and this the commit •dsall, ot Green, New York, of which he was convicted, and Monday in September ; Curry, flrat Monday in Jane ; Lane, third Monday in April, and Club introducingthe ___ _ ___ o__ i same with a up and examined, into the United beleive to be the true reason why ds us a description of a perpet- sentenced to the State Prison for and first Monday in November ; Benton, sec sneer. .’.i U.j p-where they no transfers were made.” States Court, and jbwhere_ motion, constructed by an ad eighteen months. After he had ond Monday in April, and third Monday in 0 three weeks in confinement. were safe against such examina November. Shallow, as is this miserable pre venturer, which worked so well lent Grant, pardoned him, Col. Mosby was offered by Grant a tion. The; other authorized the tence abstractly, it at least serves that he succeeded in ; obtaining Third District—Linn, fourth Monday in March, and second Monday in October; very lucrative appointment but de Union Pacific Comply to remove to expose the falsity of the report, sums of money ($2500, $1,800 and the good people of the Qua Marion, second Monday in March June and November ; Polk, second Monday in May. clined the doubtful honor. their office .and books out of the by demonstrating that the Con and others) from various simple ker City] are hugely disgusted and fourth Monday in November; Yamhill, —■■■' 1 juri^Hictiod of New |York. And gressional stockholders must have tons, and then left “ to secure his thereat,' Brown was serviceable jBeoond Monday ib April, and fourth Monday Hartranfth, Cameron and Sheep husbandry on this coast is it is an interesting fjict that the had the knowledge, which the re European patents.” He has not re to in October; Tillamook, second Monday in Joly. becoming one of our leading indus names of Ames, Banl;s, Bingham, port previously denies. The motives turned, and a visit to hiB deserted Grant, apd of course that was a tries. Brooks, Dawes, Garfield, Kelley, of the concealment are brought appartment has revealed a hole in 8tand-off again8t his outrage on . _j ’ McCrary, ; Niblack, ¿Poland and out more vividly by the attempt thé wall and certain surreptitious the ballot. I..J. g5g , second Monday in February, June and Oc < 7- 'I tober ; Columbia, second Monday in April; There is a paper published at Pa Schofield are all recorded in favor to cover it up with a fictitious rea mi danism by ^which the perpetual Science is studied by the obser ? Clataop. second Monday in August, and LV ducah, Kentucky, called the Tobacco of this legislation. | , son. m tion was driven. The beatiful vation yation of facte« facte* But observation fourth Tuesday in January; Washington, fourth Monday in May, and first Monday in Plant. i These facts have ajl been studi rice which elicted the sub- is not easjr. It requires more There are some cases which the October. ously kept out of} view, while the committee have varnished with a sepption of the inhabitants Jof memory and a further perspective Fifth District—Wasco, third Monday in The eight wealthiest men i changes have been rung by Col thin coating of sophistry that also Chenago enago county was a self-moving than most men possess. Experi June, and second Monday in November; Grant, first Monday in June, and third Mon Orleans are retired butchers. fax and his corrupt ^confederates deserve notice. bp, and actuated by some con- ment, too, is necessary, which is a For example, day la September; Baker, third Monday in on the allegation that the “?road Garfield and Kelley swore posi „Jed clock springs, it was the series of questions put to. Nature, May a'fid first Monday in October;. .Unioa, first Monday in May, and third Monday in asked for no leglsjhtion.” The tively that the payments by Ames delight and wonder of the vicinity. and no witness can be found more a bad Gen. Butter uayu th» year October; Umatilla, last Monday in April, same system of lying and fraud up- were in the nature of “ a loan,” J for the righteous. difficult to examine. \ific American. and fourth Monday in Ootober. < \ I I I Ì f • T- :- The Scanda J. . . I ■ i ‘ < • i ■ il. H 4 ¡ m *“ n «K m . > ■ a .— > F — IK * i Í i»r I 1 ’ in • ». *: "* i • '!tl • t 4 ■x 4' I » ■*’ I » • ■ -I]- ♦ ; 1 Ì " ! 1 u - ------------- ' « i1 "F"" fr T.............- ■- ■ Î ^ m | ; K £ 1 r 1 ! I I •i M ií t f If 4 Í y Ì 1 .F i • t ; J- ’S i ». < i t y J- I ■ 4- i ' cw '- - «4 * ! Ä B * * I * •u ■ ■ 8 b I I y 1 1 -• X