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About Liberal Republican. (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1??? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1873)
"REP ! A A J 0 VOL. 3, DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEB. 15. 1873; NO 4 8. m i l-if V PA PR FOR POLK COUNTY. Is Issued Ever Saturday Morning, at Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. P. Cr SULLIVAN PROPRIETOR. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. SIN. 10PTES One Year, $2 00. Six Months, $1 25 Three Months, $100 For Clubs of ten or more $1 75 per annum. Subscription mutt he pnid ttrictly in ttdvnnce ADVERTISING RATES. One square (12 lines or less), first inscrt'n, $ 2 50 Each subsequent insertion 1 00 A liberal deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly advertisers. Professional cards will be inserted at $12 00 per annum. Transient advertisements must be pnid for In adrtnce to insure publication. All other advertising bills must be paid quarterly. Lezal tenders taken at their current value. Blanks and Job Work of every description mr nisbed at low rates on short notice. THE ILLUSTRATED PIlREXOLOOrrAL JOURNAL, is in every respect a Firt Class Magazine. Tts articles are of the highest interest to all. It touches what we are and how te make the inoiv of ourselves. The i n forma -tien it contains on the Laws of Life and Health is well worth the price of the Magazineto every Family. It is publi-hed at 00 a year. Py a special arrangement we are enabled to offer the Phresologip.il Jqiiivai. as a Premium tor a new rubscribers to the Orko ltKcrnr lew. r will furnish the , Phresologic ai Jor-RVAi. and Oregon Repitbmcan together for $1 DO We commend the Journal to all who want a good magazine PROFESSIONAL CARDS, iC ' R P Roi sb PL Willis JB Ol S E & T. 1 L LI Sr Attorneys al Law 9 alum, oh lcon. Will practice in all the courts in the State F15 73 It JOn J. DALY, Att'y & CoiiNclIcr-al-Law. DALLAS, OKUCJOX. Will practice in the Courts of Record and In eiior Courts. Collections attended to promptly. OFFICE In the Court House. 41-tf P. C. S5Jff,MVA3 Attorney & Counsellor-At-Law, Dallas, Oregon, Till practice in all the Courts of the State. 1 J. C. BELT, physician nnd S ix r g- e o n, OFFERS HIS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES to the citizens of Dalla and vicinity, llnv had ten years experience in hospital nnd pri- Tate practice, feels competent to treat all ciises ' that may come under his enre. Utiice adj.in img l)r, Rubell's deniatrj office. JR. SITES, M.I) . Thysician and Surgeon Dallas Oregon OFFICE ' Residence 24-tf D E NT I ST . Office one door North of the Poet Office' A LI, AS OGN. 0t P'articpjiir attention given to the regulation children's toeth, All. work w irmted. Jaall73i-tr L31WLS.J J. C. GRU3D3, tt. DM PIIYSIIAX AXD BURGEON, Offers his Services to the Citizens Dallas "and Vicinity. j OFFICE at NICHOLS' Drug Store. I 34 tt B R. II OD SO N L M. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. OFFICE. Over Souther's Store, Cor Commercial A State Sts., Salem, Ogn, i with Dr. Richardson. I Nov tf c. s. si a. v e;s:, No. 130, First Street,; PORTLAND, - - ori:c:ox Who esulo and Retail Dealer in '111 lltUIf.). I li ill 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 LADIES' DltKSS (I ODDS, hoots and iiof.s, hats tt caps GROCERIES 6 PROVISIOXS, Higlvst'CmVPricepaM for all kin U of Comitivy , Frodnoe. FARMERS READ. f ? Polk County, for wl price will be paid rhth the hirhe.yt cati AT TIIK I 1 AVINft PITTICHASKD A LVhOR AND II cinl-t Sto.-k ofNKV.' CiOOMS, ,r.- reofivin; freh .'in;.!ies every week I can ply every body with 5ry f.'oods, ; rttreric'' Cwla, IJneeiisware, Tobacco, C'igarM And nil nrtinle? found in a UENKRAL VARU KTV STORR, I would respectfully call the J attention of the Public to my E.tabii!htncnt. Highest Cash prico pai 1 for i una a i PHiriir. R. A. RAY, j Eola, Pulk Co., Ogn. 16-if DALLAS LIVERY. FEED & SALE Cor. Main and Court Street, i TIios G. Richmond, Proprietor. TJAVINO PURCHASED TTITj arovi: Stand of Mr. A. II. Whitley, we have rc fitted and ro stocked it in siifh a tnanncr op will satisfactorily meet every want of the com munity. Buggies single or double. Harks, Con cord Wagons, etc., etc.. Furnished at all hour?, day or night, on short notice. Superior Saddle Horses, let by tue Day or Week. TERMS, REASONS RLE. 4 T. O. RICHMOND CHEAPPAJ I T I H' 11. imo?tofmy work this fall. I propopn to ART k M IVinW TITPnTTnTT WTTTT TITP paint H:ii, nnd lllli Cil US t $10, 5)0 aphice. Now i.' the time to hr'm on ymir old Hacks and Wagons as you will never get them painted chenper.! i Shop on the corner, over O. R. Styles store II, P, SIIIUVI1R. "GEMW SALO'ON PEIVWEIVCE. I The best of wines, liquors, ales, porters and TEMPERANCE CORDIALS jalwuys on hand, fine Havana cigars, Free reading rooms attached to the saloon. R. M. Bean Pr. f 27 tf sr iji;i:e r a. iai iv. The Career of Edward Si ilea Stokes His Rcl alive ami Victims. A Sad Tule of Domestic Shame and Sorrow. The other Jay, there sat by our elbow in the Tribune e iitorial"room a young man stained with a deliberate crime, whose consequences, if .pursued, would land him in the Penitentiary. He hid no defense for his guilt. Bat the case was one surrounded with circumstances which made it the interest ot other parties to stv? rather than prosecute him, and ho was anxious to close all the news channels against exposure, lln made a touching appeal in behalf of his farther and mother,his wife and children. " Think how you will plunge all my relatives in grief? This same appeal is often made by those overtaken in wrong-doing. Wh it is more irresist ible j than the direct counter-appeal: Young man, irh did yon not think of them yourself? Why ask strangers to be more merciful to these lr cd ones linn lie, the only on- who couul nave save I tl em Thy saddest of all features in all the ca.ses of the calender of wrong doing is t!ie undeserved suff"ring of the inno cent ones who set grief-stricken in the penumbra of a great crimo. The offen der caculated his chances, took thf ri-'s,an l s iw t!ie cloud above his he id. They, on the contrary, in many cases, receive the bolt out of the clear k y. no small p irt of the aeeumul ited guilt of most criminals in this antecedent titter disregard of th' ?end-r household 'ietlnt should hold them in the way of right, in-teal of which they are kept coiled on board as a ia-t resort in cae of sbtpwreek. Without further moralizing tre have thought that, though the ti-k is no greit ful one the career of K S. Skes, now under sentence of deith for the. u;urder of Jame-i J'Uk, m iy be fully given as illiHtritifig how deeply a grcnt crini" strike? among the in loeent victitin, and that. Wt-alth, culture, an! stanl- ii:g are n s.ifgu 1 1 against the saddest viciitu loi of human experience. It is rare th it reference of this kind in- elude .u(Terer! of likediigh prominence, for there are no better names iu New York or Philadelphia than those born by persons in thin catastrophe. In the year JS:H, . II. Stoke a succcsful cloth merchant of Xcw York, and nearly connected with .some of the most prominent representatives of the wealth and beneficence of that city, re tired from buinss with a handsome competency Kight years previously he had married a Miss Stiles, a daughter of leading Philadelphia and seeking a home of ease and elegance, Mr. Stokes chose Philadelphia as his future u-si-dence. Thorc Wis eldest son was born in 18.')0, an (framed I'M ward Stiles after a maternal relative. The lad was a boy of unusual beauty and promise, a quick active mind, a generous and loving disposition these traits being remem bered well after the lapse of years by those who know him at that time. T. .1,w.l.tni.g .....1 . ,.1,. t.., ..,-.. .AWU o o o bora 'in the the penou between lolU and 1850. The family is recalled as j being rarely endowed with all that " seemed needed to insure the happiness of a household. The home was one of wealth and luxury, the culture ol the best. Edward was educated at the Univer sity, and took high rank as a scholar, lie went to New York at the age of seventeen, to enter into the store of Samuel Perry, on South Water Street an extensive cheese dealer. Perry failed three years lator, and young Stokes made a new partnership with a junior of the collapsed house, undthey as Stokes and IJudlong,opened a cheese store ou Vescy street. They had cx ocllcat success, their foreign shipping SgH!g;.';T,ri - a -wa ll.ii, ' ' ' trailc'teing verv lare, calling Stokes to vist Kurope several times within the next fewpeasons. About this time the Senior Stokes was induced to remove to New York, where he made his office with his .son, though not oriignally jo tending to become entangled in bus iness. Such wa9 the result however, andjnot only were the father but other prominent wealthy relatives gradually but j heavily involved in the extended vrnturt of Stokes & Dudlong. The failure of the firm followed, and father and son were thrown into bankruptcy. With the wreck of his fortunes young Stokes embarked next in the enterprise of establishing an oil "refin ery at IIunter,s point Three hundred thousand dollars wen expended in the works, which were to be of the best class, when the company fell into uilhulties, and that at this juncturo the baleful light of Jim Fik's couutenance comes into the story. Jim was in the th j full tide of his operations with Krie. Ho held the ad v.antage(we wish it were less Employed by even m ire scrupulous railv;ay managers than he)supplied by his corporation, in transrorta'ion and control of market, a the Kno was the j grcMt th roughfirj to the oil regions. A compact was struck. Fisk entered th finery company, reinforced its capital, and with a change of name heavy " drawbacks" on the Krie freight bills,; the Hunter's Point refinery sailed strongly in succefful competion. Stokes was Secretary as well a partner At otic time his profrs of the fcfinery gave! $1,000 wr week. Inj 1 SO t, Stokes married the daughter .f J. W. Southwick, a prominent furnjture dealer in New York fcone of the oldest in his line in that city. A short time fdnco one of onr oldest rcti. dents showed us a set of furniture, a wadding outfit brought to Chicago in ; j oa.,j it of Mr. Southwick. who is j MuW man of imtnense wcahh. and still : :., '.:,.. i.,tJ:aa : --nf ltrrtn,l-v ttab;lihrent. The wedding of Stoke withi Mi..s Southwick seemed to lack nothing that wealth, position and so- ci-tl tiiirriiimdinrra rniilil hrinT til haTtfil j ric,J T,Cy made their sumptuous home j , t, Hoffman House.and wiovc4 among Lju, m(t brilliant life of the metropolis, Tlie neat scene in the drama brings ...... ., - i i the Mifamotn woman Mansfield into the tdot. ! Solomon described her tr.any manv centuries ago, and we fear Solo mon knew what he was writing about 15ut liis painting has never been sur p:ised, and if wmicboay couM have slipped into Stokes fmind tis little protrait made two thousand year airo, of Josephine ,MansG:ld and her infamous fistcr, it might have spared community theruits of the acquaintance Herc are some of the wise man's color ings of his subject. j She licth in wait as for a p rcy, and incrcascth the transgressions among men. ! Her feet go down to death ; her steps take hold on Hell. Her house incHncth into death, and her paths into the dead. None that go unto her return again. i He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter. Sh; has cast down many wounded, yea many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to tho chambers of death. The dead are there. Her guests are in the depths of hell. And just precisely that happened which the Son of David predicted j from the house of the Harlot the path turned downward. A quarrel be tween Fisk and Stokes followed. It was carried into affairs of business. Fisk refused to allow the Hunter's Point concern to make a dividend, and thus cut off Stokes supplies. The.disgraceful relation with Mansfield became more shameless, and tho father ui.Mi.in ,iiy , tuvvfi.v'3ewiymjmajeu'a!i in-law Southwick, sent his daughter and her child to Europe early in 1871, to remove her from the scene of scan dal. Stokes, enraged at Fisk, used his position as Secretary to collect 830,000 from Devee, au oil merchant, which sum he held openly and defiantly as his share of the profits. Fisk caused his arrest on a criminal charge. Stokes turned to wealthy relatives. No one of them would bail him, and he was forced to make terras and submit, and refund the money His relations with Fisk were bitter, and out of the in tensity of the evil passions and crimin alities with Mansfield grew murder. Turn to Solomon again, and there is no mystery in the ehaiu of sequences I It if said that the same steamer that took out to Europo the murder of Fik by Stokes carried a divorce procured by her family for his wife, who still remains -abrcad. The story of family grief and reverses is wot all told. The t-etjior Stokes, af ter thirty years of retirement and en joyment of a luxurious home, i bank rupt and homeless in his old age. One of the daughters died two week after marriage. The daughter, the wife of a Mr. Sutton, attached herself so strongly to the fortunes of her brother that her husband discarded her. and f he is in refuge withjher age and renilcss parent. The second son, a young man of great promise died two months r.L'o, of grief and at the family revcrj-es, :;nd tin whole tale of the innocent and stiff -ring victims by this complication of crime and shame is not to be told without including some of the best and esteemed of New York families. If young men in our communities could only ride on express trains to the devil, and take no one with them, there would be less to be said, since as'de from these considerations, it is every man's individual right to barter away his life and fortunes and sacred honor at his own price. Satan buys a great many of these poor fellows very cheap and at sdiort option for seller. Put every car is part of family train. The shock and cru-h of shame and disgrace must fall on innoc nt as well as guilty. In behalf of the fathers and mothers of communities and sisters ot commu nity, let general warning be made of the case of Edward Stokes. Where has romance woven anything so sad ? Where, in modern communities, have been given more abrupt and startling variations of light and and shade, from the brightest point of promise and as sured happiness to the fcpth of dark ness and misery, thau those on which the curtains fat's ? vixnincATiox or nnuniox. Gladstone's Warning Voice Airalnsi the ilticroachment f Rankest IMsbeliof His Noble Cliantpioitsliip of Chris tlanlty. From the Address of the liritish Premier to the Pupi's of Liverpool College we copy this interesting por tion : On an occasion like this! should not have, desired even before those of you my younger friends, who are on the threshold of active and responsible manhood, to dwell in a marked manner on the trials you will have to encounter. But the incidents ot tho time are no common incidents and there is one among them so obtrusive that you can not long enjoy its natural privilege of unacquaintance with the mischief, but at the same time so formidable that youth really requires to be forewarned against the danger. I refer to the extraordinary manifestation in this world of ours, and especially in the year about to close, of the extrcmest j forms of nnbelief. Applause I am not about to touch upon tho differences which distinguish or par!ly sever the Church of England from those commu nious by which it is surrounded; wheth er they be of Protestant Nonconformists or of those who have recently iucorpo- rated into the Christian faith what wo must suppose they think a bulwark and not a danger to religion, the doc trine of Papal infallibility. For hand ling controversies of such a class thi is not a time, I am not the person, and my office is not the proper office. And it is not now only the Christian Church ' or only the Holy Scriptures, or only Christianity which is attacked. Tho disposition is boldly proclaimed to deal alike with root and branch, and to snap the ties which under the still venerable j;'une of rvl'gfum unite man wiih the , unseen world, und lighten the strug gles and woes of life by the hope of a better land. Applause. I will not detain and weary you with a multitude of details. I will only refer by name to one who is not a IJritish writer to the learned German Dr. Strauss. He is a man of far wider fame than any IJritish writer who marches under the sr.me banner. He has spent a long life ia what he doubtless thinks a good cause and I mention him with the respect which is justly due not only to his ability but to bis stiaigh forward eara e-tne-s and to the fairness and mildness toward antagonists in argument with which so far an I have seen, he pur? u s his ill starred and bopele-s enter prise. Applause. J He has published during he present yeat i volume entitled 4,'Ihe Old lelief aud I theXew." In his introduction he frank ly raises the question whether, con sidering the progress which culture has now made there :s any longer occasion In maintain religious worthip in any form whatever. Wh', he asks on be half not only of himself, but of & pady in Germany for which he claims that it answers the state of modern thought Why should there be a sep arate religious society at all, when wo have already provision made for all men in the State ; the school, science, and fine art V In his first chapter he puts the question, "Are we still Christians?" "And after a detailed -xamination he includes, always speak ing on behalf of modern thought, that Kit if we wish our yea to be yea, and our nay, nay if we are to thiuk and speak our thoughts as honorable up tight men, we must reply we are Christains no longer, This question and answer, however, he observes, are insufficient. The essential and funda i mental inquiry witii him is, whether we are, or are not, et ill to have a relig ion 'I To this inquiry he devotes his second chapter, Iu this seca nd chapt er he finds that there is uo personal tlod ; there is no further state; the dead live in the recollection of survivors This is cm tigh for them. After this he had little difficulty in answering the question he has put. All rcligi- ous worship ooght to be abolished. The very name of Divine Service is indignity to man. Therefore, in the sense in which religion has 'be en here tofore understood, his answer is that we ought to have no religion any more. But proceeding, as he always does with commendable frankness, ho admits that be ought to fi'l with mie thing the void which he has made. This he accordingly proceeds to do. lustead of God. he offers to us what he calls the All or Universum. This All or Univcrsjm has, he- tells us, neither couciousness nor reason But it has order and law. lie thinks it fi ted, therefore, to the objict of a ntvf , and true piety, which ho claims for his Universuin, as the devout of the old stylo did for their God. If auy one repudiates this doctr'.nc,to Dr. Strauss, reason repudiation is absurdity, and to his feeling is blasphemy. These ai: noc the ravings of a maniac ; nor are tteso mere dreams of an imaginative high wrought enthusiast such as Comte appears to be; they are grave couclu sions, after elaborate reasoning, of a . learned, a calm, and so far as form is concerned, a sober minded man, who' iu this very year has been commended Continued to fourth page.