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About Oregon union. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1897)
OREGON UNION. Published eveey Friday at CORVALLIS, - - - - - - OREGON. JOHN D. DALY, Editor and Pub. Subscription Rates. One Year ?1.50 L' 5 Mui . 8 : 75 V.raeMoLths .50 v If paid in advance, One Dollar per year. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1897. For a Beet Sus:ar Plant. The people of the United States import four-fifths of the sugar they consume, and over one hundred millions of dollars are sent to for eign countries every year to supply the deficiency. Oregon pays out about one milliofi dollars a year for sugar, and her part in this general Droblem is to determine whether x she can produce her own sugar aud keep this money at home. .- There is no state in the Union in which sugar beets can be raised as successfully as in Oregon. Our soil and our climate are peculiarly adap ted to their cultivation and every analysis that has been made shows that beets raised here make as large an average to the acre, with a great er percentage of purity and sugar in the juice than those raised else where. Organized effort is necessary. In Lincoln and Benton counties there are thousands of acres now unculti vated that are well adapted to sugar beet raising, and they will be grown when there is any certainty of dis posing of them. There was strong talk and some promises made to establish a sugar plant on Yaquina bay some years ago but the free sugar tariff knocked the enterprise in the head. Now that the condi tions have changed let us renew this beet root sugar question and see if a sugar plant can be established in Benton or Lincoln county. We are welL situated to have one, as'trans ' portation to the 'refinery at San Francisco is both easy and cheap. There ought to be a move made in the matter. Who will make it? EDITORIAL COMMENT. Governor Rogers, the populist governor of the state of Washington says that mortgages on farms will not be paid off, and that when a ' mortgage is once placed on a farm it sticks there until it takes the farm. - Now, with due respect to the intel ligence that the governor , should have, we want to say for our county that they are being paid off here rapidly; so fast that money loanfcrs don't know what to d with the money that is now accumulating on their hands. It is significant, when two such widely separated agencies as the Orange Judd syndicate of American """-agricultural papers andthe Hun garian ministry of agriculture agree in reporting European deficits, not only in wheat, but in r3'e, barley, and oats, greater than have been known before since the famine year of 1891. If these reports shall prove true, this is likely to be the most profitable season American agricul ture has ever known. The wheat crop is not so large as in 1891, but - it probably is lar ge enough to sup ply all the demand for wheatea bread at the high prices that will rule this year. Oregonian. To serve one's country in any ca pacity is unquestionably an honor able thing; but to be a persistent and everlasting office hunter is not an honorable thing, nor are their methods usually honorable. In this state, as in every other state in the Union, there are hundreds of men who have no other occupation but office hunting. In the selection of men who have the distribution of state or federal patronage, fitness is entirely lost sight of. A man must be elected with whom the office hunters have a pull. More than once in this stat a good man has been defeated and an inferior one elected because the latter could be counted on to stand in with the boys. The scramble which has been going on in Portland for 'couple of weeks past, is, we believe, without precedent in this state, and for the credit of the republican par ty it is hoped that it may be unique in the party history. The best men to fill these offices and, with few ex ceptions, the most deserving, are never heard of, but the persistent pusher is always on hand, and the rule is that the best men are not always nor often appointed. It is utterly useless and foolish to talk about it though, for there is only one means to get rid of the chronic office seeker, it is provided by na turcar!d ?s caired death. .Let us . hope that -baiolr a new crop ma tares civil service or nwaie other ef fective procedure may kill tile dustry for good. What a Fate! A prominent man who followed John II. Mitchell out of the repub lican party last year on the silver question, but, unlike him, was con sistent enough to stay out, related his silver experience to us the other day. Said he: "I was always a staunch republican, and I had un bounded faith in the judgment of Senator Mitchell. So without seek ing very deeply for reasons, I fol lowed what he said in his speeches, and felt confident he knew what he was about. I became a free silver 16 to 1, and believed I was right. In the state election in June '96 we talked it freely as good enough re publicanism, because all of our del egation in congress were republi cans, and all of them but one wre pronounced free silver men. When the national convention met, adopt ed the gold standard and repudi ated silver, I thoguht of course they were wrong and that Wall street had controlled the convention, but I firmly believed that our free silver delegation in congress with Mitchell at their head, would stick to their text and that Oregon would be thus carried for free sHver. You can im agine how bitterly I felt towards them when they went square back on this record and left me in the populist camp. Now I am out of politics forever. I see that free sil ver is a humbug and I seem' to have lost faith in everybody." It Will Last. It is amusing to see the Iugubri-' ous face a populist puts on now days when you ask him his opinion of the situation. His old stock of arguments are entirely exploded and useless, and the laity of the party are incapable of manufactur ing new ones. So the best he can do now is to shake his head and say, "Yes, times are better, but Mc- Kinley didn't do itv and it won't last." But the election of McKinley prevented you from having to take a silver dollar worth only 40 cents, for a bushel of your dollar wheat, for which you are now, or have been and will be again, getting about $1 in gold, worth 100 cents. You say it wont last, and you don't want it to, for you are politically dead if it does. But it will last, for prosperi ty has come to other sections of the country where they ,don t jaise wheat, and it has come to stay. The East is a manufacturing district, every spindle is turning, and every furnace is heated. Men are getting better wages and employment is easier to get, and McKinley 's elec tion did do that. In the South it is the same. Old manufactories are ail starting up, and new ones- are building. The iron business never was as active, and cotton is being mainly used in manufactures at home. So, that although the elec tion of McKinley did not make the crop, nor bring about the price for it, it did secure the conditions un der which we are ' enabled to take advantage of the favorable circum stances. They have good crops in Mexico and yet they are seriously threatened with bankruptcy, and Bryan's unholy scheme to pauper ize our money would have placed us in the verv same situation. Our big crops would not have saved us. The Cloud ke. Late news from Alaska is not cheerful, nor encouraging for those wr?b want to rush there v at once, and the outlook for those who have gone there late is not very hopeful. Miners and others who are ac quainted with the situation in the int3rior, are earning down to the coast before the streams and lakes are frozen over, when it will be next to impossible to get provisions in there. The stock ot provisions now on hand there they fear will not be sufficient to feed those already there, and starvation seems staring them in the face. There seems to be no doubt but that misery, hard ship, and even death is in store for many of those who ventured over the trail to the Clondyke so late in the season. And still vessels are taking up hundreds of passengers every trip. Warnings are useless to the man who has once acquired the craze for gold; his judgment is paralyzed, and they will continue to go even though they walk over the corpses, of those who have gone before. While the gamblers and specula tors on the boards of trade in New York and Chicago are giving us the bull and bear act alternately on the wheat market, the farmers are go ing ahead harvesting . their cropp, and will get what they ask for it when the time comes to sell. Farm ers need not lose any sleep over-the wheat irrcket this year. LATEST TELEGRAPHIC, A Summary of News From Thursday's Oregonian. TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES. The Latest Occurrences and Present Phases of Engrossing Questions, Gloomy Outlook for Cloudykers. San rancisco, Sept. 1 The Bul letin has a letter from Charles Haines, dated Dawson City, July 16. Mr. Haines is a well-known newspaper wrft.er, and his letter is the first written by a trained news paper man to come out of the Klon dike gold regions' He sajs: "The rich diggings have been comparatively idle during the sum mer, although the output from El dorado and Bonanza creeks was enormous, and there is plenty "of gold in sight. There is every pros pect of an immense output of gold from the district next spring. The total output this season as near as Icau judge is, about $7,000,000, but very little ground has been worked and the dumps will, like some of the tailings of old California placers, pan out thousands of dol lars when worked with improved machinery. The placers are the most puzzling and deceiving I have ever seen. Imagine a man working on good 'color' and finding the ground worth only a few" dollars per day, and then turning to a waste of mud and moss, with no surface in dications, and unearthing a bonan za. That is the situation here and all over Alaska. :Dawson is merely a collection of log huts, saloons, and , a mass of tents, about 600 in number. When the long nights come and the glass goes down to 65 degrees below zero, there will be intense suffering here, and I shudder to think of the re sults. Provisions are going to. be very scarce, and there isvery little doubt thai the entire town will have to go on short rations during the winter, and that scurvy will be rampant. The man who. comes here to mine does so at the expense of health and happiness, and it is with him a -question of making a fortune quickly or taking "chances with death." Silver's Jfew Record. New York Sept. 1. Bar silver made a new record in this market today. The quoted price was 5l cents an ounce, one quarter of a cent below the previous low record. At today V price of silver bullion the value of the silver in the stand ard silver dollar is 39-62 cents. The secretary of the department of agriculture estimates that th. farmers of this-country will receive for their surplus products this year about $500,000,000. Some Oregon members of the A. O. U. W. do not believe in the classified assessment plan adopted at the last meeting of the grand lodge, and an opposition movement has been organized to test the ques tion in the courts. The outlook for Oregon products continues brilliant.. Wheat is stead ily moving up, and the demand for it is sharp. Wool, hides, leather, hops, hay, beans, 'potatoes, provis ions, dried fruit, live-stock, and, in fact, almost all the products of the farm, are selling well at living prices. This has led to an improved feeling in country real estate. Ru ral Spirit. Farmers need not be alarmed be cause wheat goes up, one day and down the next in the Eastern boards of trade. They don't see wheat there; it is nothing but gam bling in wheat for future delivery, and has little to do with present prices. The actual condition of the wheat market is, that the world's crop is short, and this country is the only place on earth where they will have a surplus. The democrats of Pennsj'lvania" had a hot time at their convention lately. The free silver wing carried everything their way. They ousted Mr. Harrity as member of the national committee and endorsed free silver and the Chicago platform, and congratulated "W. J. Bryan for his glorious championship of a righteous cause.'' There is no use in talking otherwise, the democratic name will stick to the Chicago platform, and popfllism will finally flounder in there to stay. PURE CIDER vinegar in any tity, for sale only at Corvallis Factory. quan-Cider The Portland's Gold. The following is a list of the min ers returning from the Yukon on the steamer Portland, and the amount of their clean-ups: J. Rowan $50,000 Jim Bell. 45,000 Joe Goldsmith 35,000 N. W. Powers 35,000 W. W. Caldwell 30,000 Win Oler 30,000 C. K. Zillv 25.000 F.W.Cobb : 25.000 W. Zahn 15,000 G. S Lansine 15.000 A. Buckley 10,000 B. Farnham 10,000 M. R, Govvler 5,000 It has been stated that the North American Trading and Transporta tion Company brought $750,000 from their various stores and trad ing posts along the Yukon, but this cannot be verified. It was gener ally understood that the company would not bring out its money until the next trip of the Portland, and then she would be convoved by a United States revenue cutter de tailed by the treasury department. Meeting of Regents. Messrs. Hughes, Apperson, Yates, and Hilleary, the executive committee of the board of regents, met at the O. A. C. yesterday, and transacted the following business : T. H. Crawford, of Portland, was elected clerk, at a salary of $1,000 a year ; Henry H. Veach, librarian ; Geo. Crondike, mail carrier; Clyde Phillips, blacksmith; Ellsworth Irvine, janitor; Mr. Smith, farm foreman, had his wages raised from $40 to $45 a month ; Mr. Hamilton, assistant horticulturist, wages raised from $40 to $45 a month ; Bertha Ellis was" placed in charge of the vocal department. .The president of the college was authorized'' to make an ex hibit at the state fair. . Oregon Conference. " Following is. the program of the Oregon Conference of the M.. 15. Church to be .held in Corvallis September 8th to; 14th : Wednesday, Sept. 8. Evening; Sermon. Thursday, 9th. 9 a. m : Opening of the 45th annual ses sion by Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, D, D,, 1L. D. 2 p. m : Statistical Session. 3:30 p. m: Semi-Centennial Sermon, by N. Doane, D. D. - . 7 :30 p. m : Missionary Anniversary Ad- dress, by W. T. Smith, D. D., Mis. ' sionary Secretary. Friday, 10th. . 8.:30 a. m : Devotional Service. 9 a. m : Conference, . 2:30 p. m : Anniversary of W. F. M. 8. 7:30 p. m: Epworth Rally, Addresses by C. E. Ljacke, D. D., W.. K. Beans, D. D., F. L. Moore. - ' v. Saturday, 11th. . 8:30 a. m : Devotional Service. , 9 a. m: Conference. . 2:39 p. m:. Anniversary of W. H. M. S. .7:30 p. m: Educational Bally.: Ad dresses by Bishop Foss, G. M: Irwin, 1). D. " . . Sunday, 12th. ': ' - : ' 930 a. m : Conference Love-Feast,' con- "ducted by W J. Gardner. '10:30 a. m: Preaching by the Bishop. 3 p. m: Ordination Service. -7:30 p. m: Missionary Sermon, by H. Rasmus, D. D. Monday, 13th. . 8 :30 a. in : Devotional Service. 9 a. m : Conference. Adjournment. To Farmers. During the coming year we will exchange 40 pounds of liour for one bushel of wheat. This applies only. to farmers who sell to or store their grain with us.- We are also buying oats, or we will ship them forfarm ers and no commission will be charged. BENTON FLOURING MILLS CO. " Kotice to Creditors. VfOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN tlie undersigned has been duly appoint ed Administratrix of the Estate of James L. Eglin, deceased, by the County Court of the State ot Oregon tor uenion county. All persons having claims against the said Estate are hereby notified to present the same to me a. the office of W. S. McFadden in the City of Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, within six months from this date, verified as by law required. Dated September 1st, 1897. EFPA EGLTN, Administratrix of the Estate of James L. Eglin, Deceased. Administrator's Kotice. Notice is hereby given that W. A Jolly has been appointed by the County Court of Benton County, Oregon, Administrator of the estate of George M. Porter, deceased. All persons having claims against said es tate are hereby required to present the same, duly verified as Dy law required, at the office of Yates & Yates, Corvallis, Ore gon, within six months from this date. W. A. Jolly, Administrator. Dated, August 26, 1897. C. B. Cauthokn. I E. H. Taylor. CAUTHORN & TAYLOR DENTISTS. 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M&- tnena general agents. Portland. Uree.ra. Any information desired in regard to the same will be lurnished bv John L. JJalv. editor and publisher of the Oregon Union, uorvams, uregon. caivaiiis loape Biiestoru. CIORVALLIS LODGE, No 14, A F & A JM, meets first and third Wednesday of each month, in Masonic hall. Fisher brick. FERGUSON CHAPTER, No 5, R A M, meets second Wednesday in each month, Masonic, hall. o REGON COUNCIL. No 2, R & S M, meets fourth Wednesday in each month ST MARY'S CHAPTER, No 9, O E S, meets every Friday before fuU moon. Masonic hall. . - BARNUM LODGE, No 7, 1 O O F, meets every Tuesday evening in I O. O F hall, Farra & Allen bnck. QUI VIVE ENCAMPMENT, ;No 26, meets first and third Fridays of each month in I O O F. hall. ALPHA REBEKA LODGE, No 34, neets second and fourth Fridays of each moutji in I O O F Hall. -FRIENDSHIP LODGE, No 14. A O U JL W, meets tirst and third Thursday of eacn month, miuu nail. NAOMI LODGE, No 26, D of H, meets second and fourth Thursday of each month in I O O F hall. CORVALLIS TENT, No 11, K O T M, meets second and fourth Wednesday of each month in I O O F hall. CORVALLIS HIVE. No 3, L O T M, meets the first and third Wednesdays of each month in I O O F hall. VALLEY LODGE, No 1, K of P, meefs every Mouday night in Burnett's hall, over J H Harris' store. Burnett block. MARTS PEAK CAMP, No 126, W O W, meets second and fourth Fridays of each month in Burnett's hall. MARYS PEAK CIRCLE. No 14, meets first and third Fridays of each month in Burnett's hall. TT'LlS WORTH POST, No 19. G A R JjJ meets first and third Saturdays of eacn montn, in .Burnett s nail. ELLSWORTH RELIEF CORPS, No 7, meets first and third Friday afternoon, in Burnett's hall. "TTNITED ARTISANS, No 23, meets iJ second and fourth Thursdays of each month, in Burnett's hall. "W. E. Taes. J. Fred Yates. YATES & YATES, Atorneys-at-Law, Corvallis, - . - - Oregon. S. 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