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. SATURDAY. . . . .JANUARY 25, 1895
OFFICERS' SALARIES-
- jTom every nooic ana corner oi ib
state comes a demand for a reduction
; of public- expenses, state, county and
. ; municipal. The people are thoroughly
- aroused to the fact that they are un
justly burdened, and are receiving bus
siignt compensauon lur we utcs tucj
v pay in. They are beginning to in
quire where the money goes to, and to
.' whom it is paid, and thetr inquiries
' have convinced them that no small
portion of their taxes go to pay salar
Aanlnr'aef1 VnAra til an DfA Itlflfi
tenths of the taxpayers themselves,
- and more than the officers could pos-
. sibly earn if employed as private indi
viduals. They find -by the estimates
made by the state board of the ex-
V. Is paid a salary of 81,500 a year, and is
' salarv. besides $1,630 for additional
clerical aid. ' The secretary of state
gets 81,500 a year, his chlei ciem si.ew,
," and $6,780 are set aside for additional
- treasurer gebe uuxjr vow jrcaij uu um
' clerk gets 82,000, which evens up mat-
ters in that office. Besides these fixed
1 salaries, 84,003 are allowed the gover
- . l aonn .. V,,-, . vta
nor, secretary of state and state treas-
, urer lor "extraordinary iaoors in ine
, supervision and control of public build-
dings, publis works, etc." This little
". additional pay raises the salary of the
- J -
governor ana w;vrewrjr ui biaw w
8 2,833 a year and the state treasurer
to $2,133, to say nothing of the per
) quisltes'. These three state officials,
with their clerks, cost the people of
the state 821,780 a year. Is it not too
much? Whenjcompetent accountants
and trustworthy clerks all over the
' state are willing to work at salaries of
'' frnm $75 to 8100 a month, what iustice
" is there in allowing more to the func
tionaries about the state house?
uties, chief clerks, etc., are not the
- onlv nfflnnra that are overnaid. Take
the county clerks and sheriffs all over
rVBM thaw KanaitnitiT on nnoa
out of proportion to the labor they per
' '. form, when compared with what pri
vate individuals are making, either in
, business! for themselves or In the em-
rj "x -
are entitled to fair wages for the ser
' vices they perform and" a reasonable
and just compensation for the responsi
bility they assume as custodonians of
-; in endangering his life in arresting
and keening in custody desperate crimi
' - nals, but nothing more. Let us con
sider the salaries fixed by the session
. laws 01 icao, wmcn Borne 01 tne cierss
and sheriffs of Eastern Oregon are re
VClTtUI EUIA BCD AA I Alt? OIUUUUH OA V AaUU
'; ' unreasonable. In Baker county the
rlnrlr fa allowed &1.500 and S900 for a
' deputy, and the recorder of conveyan
ces 81.000, making 83.900 a year for the
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office.
, Grant pays her clerk 32,400 a year
and allows 81,200 for a deputy. Har
ney, clerk 82,400: deDUty 81,000. Mai-
' heur. clerk 81,800; deputy 8900. Wasco,
. clerk 82,000. . No specified allowance
salary, however two are allowed by the
countv cniirt. -
The salaries of sheriffs fixed by the
same statute In these counties are
Baker, sheriff 82,000: first deputy, 81,
200; second deputy 8900. Grant, sher
iff 82,400; one deputy 81,200. Harney,
aVn!(T 90 Ann nnA an.,.n ai nnn Mal
heur, sheriff 82,000. one deputy 81.000.
Wasco, sheriff 820,00, with the matter
of deputy left at the option of the
county court.
Is is reasonable to suppose that the
actual work in these offices cannot be
performed for less money? And Is it a
fact that any of the taxpayers In any
of these counties, off of their Indi
vidual labor, exclusive of any capital
Invested in business, are making any
thing like the amounts these officers
are receiving?. Can the people afford
to pay such salaries? Fosslbly such
counties as Wasco and Baker can,
though they should not, but the people
of Grant. Harnev and Malheur cannot.
Take the latter county; it has a pop
"Elation of only 2,638, according to the
census of this year, and its total tax
able property amounts toouly (986,123.
it pays its snerin ana ciern, together
with their deputies $5, 700, or over 82.30
a piece for every man, woman and
child in the county, or 86.00 a piece for
each of the 950 voters with which the
county is credited. ,
. Such burdens' as these are outra
geous. t There is little wonder that the
people who are paying for sucl lux
uries as high-priced officials are be
ginning to complain of the load, and
are demanding a reform. While they
thus feel the burden, the time is ripe
for starting a reform movement and
xnakiDg a demand upon the candidates
who aspire to be members of the next
legislature that they pledge themselves
to make a reduction In the salaries of
-49
BENEFITS OF A LOW TAEIF
It is conceeded by all that there are
some industries which have been in"
jured by the reduction of tariff duties,
but there are many others that have
been correspondingly benefited, and
the consumer generally has had the
benefit of reduced prices of nearly
every article he consumes, hence, there
are many who are beginning to real
ize that high protection was a snare
and a delusion. Some of the benefits
of low tariffs are very plainly shown
by a correspondent in the Oregonian
who says:
"I agree with the Oregonian that
tinplate furnishes an instructive object
lesson. The Wilson bill made a heavy
reduction in the tax upon coal, iron
and steel. These are the principal
raw materials of tin manufacture. Al
though that bill reduced the tax upon
manufactured tin about 50 per cent,
tuhs cheapening it to the copsumer,
its reduction of the tax upon the raw
material stimulated and increased the
manufacture of tin in the United
States, and made probable; the fact
that with wholly free raw material our
manufacturers of tin can O9oet with ,
the worlJ. You will remember that a
few months since, when a combination
of steel and Iron manufacturers carried
their productions to greatly increased
rates, our producers of tin declared
they were crowded to the wall by the
rise in iron and steel, and expressed
fear of being thu3 compelled to close
their works. They were saved by the
operation of the Wilson bill. That
had reduced the tax on ste9l, iron and
coal, and when the greed of the manu
facturer bad carried prices of these
above the limit that bill intended to
fix, they fouod foreign manufacturers
underselling them in our markets
and forcing down their demands to a
rate that enabled the makers of tin to
continue their business. If the tax
was wholly taken off of coal, iron and
steel, and it ought to be, it is believed
that they could be produced in the
United States with sufficient profit and
that other industries of which they fur
nish raw material, including shipbuild
ing, would flourish as never before, and
the great army of consumers profit
from the reduction in prices that would
follow. ,
"Hides furnish another object le93on.
When they were taken from the taxed
and placed upon the free- list, tanner
ies sprung up as if by magic, all over
the country, and the manufacture of
leather and leather goods increased
enormously, and the price of them de
creased. Speedily the production
doubled, trebled, and quadrupled, and
for years no man dared to raise his
voice for a restoration of hides to the
taxed list, until the birth of the Mc
Kinley bill, in which the Armours and
Swifts had ingrafted a tax upon hides.
Upon its introduction, Mr. Blaine de
nounced It In the severest terms, and
it was stricken out with scarcely a nay.
If the reader will consider and com
pare the prices of general articles of
consumption, of living, during the
high taxation of the McKinley bill
with the present prices of like articles
he will have before him aa object les
son not difficult to understand.'
INCAPABLE OF LEGISLATING
When the fifty-fourth congress was
convened it was expected that some
thing would be done to improve the
present financial system and put it on
a more business like basis, but from
what has been accomplished so far it
is safe to predict that little, if anything
will be accomplished, and it now looks
as though the government would be
still forced to continue in the banking
business which has proven so hazard
ous in past years, that too with some
thing like $800,000,000 of credit cur
rency afloat, and with a reserve that
fluctuates at the will of the holders of
this currency. '
President Cleveland very succinctly j
showed in his message to congress the
defects in our financial system and
pointed out the remedy. He asked
congress to provide for the permanent
retiL-ement of the greenbacks that the
national treasury may no longer be
the prey of gold gamblers. But this
is refused for the reason no doubt that
congressmen know that this favorite
money of Wall street is still regarded
by many deluded people as the "poor
man's money" and they fear that it
will not be good politics to abolish the
greenback.
Bv a law passed in 1878, when the
greenback craze was at its height, the
amount of greenbacks in circulation
shall never be less than $346,500,000
and it is provided that when presented
for redemption in gold these green
backs shall be immediately reissued.
The gold speculators of Wall Btreet
have reaped millions of profit out of
the operation of this law, enacted os
tensibly in the interest of the plain
common people. There was great ex
ultation among the friends of the
greenback when this law was passed.
They little dreamed that in tne pass
age of this much lauded act they were
playing into the hands of the much
denounced gold sharks.
Still, in the face of these facts, con
grass refuses to act. The senators, or
at least a large number of them, pro
pose the free coinage of silver as a
remedy, while in the house the collec
tion of more taxes through increased
duties, is suggested as the country
only salvation.
The truth ia. the two houses of con
gress, though under the control of one
political party, are widely divided on
the financial question, and each, rather
than recede from ;ts idea, would let
the money sharks continue drawing
gold out of the treasury, and forcing
the government to issue bonds without
limit. And surely this will continue
until some of the leaders in both
houses lose some of their pig-headed.-
ness, and consent to 'some, rational
provision for retiring the credit cur
rency when it is redeemed. This, we
fear, the present congress Is incapable
of doing; in fact it seems to belike the
last Oregon legislature, incapable of
legislating at all except on appropria
tion bills.
LOVE OR FEAB, WHICm
The London Globe publishes a severe
article on the invitation of the United
States Venezuela commission to the
governments of Great Britain and
Venezuela to submit to the commission
all evidence in their possession which
is likely to further the work of the in
vestigation, and inviting the two gov
ernments to be represented before it
by attorneys without prejudice to
either claims, and then says:
"Great Britain will not allow this
monstrous claim to determine the
territory of a British colony within its
jurisdiction. No power would admit
it except at the close of a long and dis
astrous war. were such a demand to
be made by any other power, our only
reply would be to band its ambassador
his passports and mobilize. the fleet"
It is that the British government
has such great affection for the United
States that it is so considerate? Are
the ties of friendship so strong that
this is the only government on
sarth from which it would tolerate
such impudence? Or do the haughty
Britishers remember the events of
1776 and 1812, and fear that the events
of those times may be re-enacted if the
American ambassador were given his
pasport? Whichever it is, it is pleas
ing to note that England does not care
to resort to any overt acts that would
terminate in n open rupture between
the two nations, and is willing that
the differences be settled by peaceable
means. -
The Oregonian spoke advisedly
when it said: "Of course, there will
ba no extra session. The governor
and secretary of state are unwilling to
part with any portion of their large
unconstitutional emoluments. Be-
sides,through the near approach of the
election, the legislature would be un
der duress. It would be forced to
make the reduction ha fieosla 4a-
mand, or ao repuftlicaas would be re
tumad to the legislature,"
EDUCATE THE MASSES.
The stability of any republic rests
in the intelligence of its citizens,
their ability to intelligently Interpret
its laws and understand the rights and
privileges of citizenship. A classical
education, a knowledge of all the
sciences and arts, is not necsssary to
this, but the ability to read and write
the predominant language Is absolutely
necessary. In short, the first require
ment of a capable citizen is that he
should have a common school educa
cation. Popular education, the educa
tion of the masses in the rudimentary
branches, is the safeguard upon which
is founded the principles of a govern
ment by the people. On the subject
of popular education Dr. Chapln pub
lished an able article in a recent num
ber of the North American Review, In
which he said: '
"The underlying principle of state
education is state preservation. The
moment wo leave the principle of nec
essity, we are on uncertain and debat
able ground. It does not require
much discussion to determine the
simple and fundamental branches of
education that the state should teach
in order to protect itself against gross
ignorance and efficiency. Reading,
writing, figuring and a knowledge of
the country's history should be most
thoroughly taught. To this could be
combined an education of the hand as
well as of the head, the first rudiments
of training have been started in the
kindergarten. All appliances for
teaching these fundamentals of educa
tion should be most modern and com
olete. and carried on under the best
hygienic surroundings. The absence
of any attempt to cope with the higher
and more ornamental branches ' would
leave sufficient time and money - to lay
a proper groundwork in every child's
case, even the most backward and un
promising one. The importance of
primary education ia now universally
recognized, as it la directly or in
directly, made compulsory In all civil
ized countries. When, however, the
state attempts to carry education along
higher lines, the temptation to neglect
the humble primary branches in the
Interest of the npper and more 'showy
grades becomes apparently impossible
to resist." .
The temptation to neglect the prim
ary, In the interest of the more showy
grades is, aa Doctor Chapln say, Im
possible to resist, especially when in
stitutions in which the higher and un
necessary branches are taught are
maintained at public expense as they
are in this state. In Oregon we sup
port a state university at an expense
to the state of $30,000 a year, besides a
number of so-called normal schools
and a state agricultural college, In all
costing over 850,000 annually; ahdLthls
at the expense of our public schools,
It Is to the interest of every state to
place within the reach of every child
an opportunity to obtain -a knowledge
of the common school branches, but
when it has done this it has performed
its office. When, however, it under
takes to maintain colleges and uni
versities at public expense it exceedes
its duty, and also workB an Injustice
upon those from whom it obtains the
money with which to support such in
stitutions. ' " .; '
CUBAN INDEPENDENCE.
All reports from the war in Cuba
indicate that success must crown the
efforts of the Insurgents who -are o
gallantly battling for freedom.' They
have driven General Campos from one
point to another over the island, and
finally forced him into his stronghold
in Havana, have cut him off from com
munication with the interior, and bis
only means of obtaining supplies is
by water. With the Spanish army
thus penned no, it seems that the
Spanish forces must either hazard a
decisive battle at a disadvantage or
ultimately surrender. ,
No one who has observed the trend
of affairs in this confliot between op
pressive despotism and freedom can
doubt that to Spain the latest results
in the war are a crushing blow. In
order to recover even a foothold on
the Island she must make a complete
fresh equipment of forces, outiing
down her home reserve beyond a point
compatible with safety and, scraping
the last corners of her depleted treas
ury for the necessary funds. The ex
tent of her discouragement was shown
soms weeks ago when 3panish minis
ters made a tentative offer to grant
Cuba autonomy under the Spanish flag.
If the Cubans now have completely
mastered the situation Spain may well
consider the effort to retain Cuba a a
hopeless task. ' I
. With Havana at their mercy, also,
the Cuban insurgents will be In a
position to establish a provinolai .gov
ernment and demand recognition from
the other powers. If at the end of
years of oppression, enormous taxes,
misrule and insult Cuba has skaken
off her yoke, every free country inlha
world should be quick to recognize
her claims and give her . the hand.of
welcome. And no people will be more
glad to do so than those of the United
States. Already congress la consider
ing ways and means of giving this
sentiment expression, and while the
question should not be made the sub
ject of hasty legislation, no time should
be lost In making a full investigation
with a view to recognizing the Cubans
as soon as the just principles of - inter
national law will permit. J .
WASTED SEJSTIMENT. :
Governor Lord is being deluged with
letters from overly sympathetic women.
both in this state and California, beg
ging him to interfere and save the life
of Lloyd Montgomery, under sentence
of death for killing both his parents
and -a neighbor. Such sentiment is
not only wasted, but when elicited in
behalf of such a brute as Montgomery
It is disgusting.' He committed one of
the most unnatural crimes on record.
Either in a fit of anger, or for the pur
pose of robbery, he slew his father and
mother and McKercher, who unfortu
nately was visiting at the Montgomery
home. He exhibited no sympathy for
his victims. He forfeited all rights to
life and liberty. No penalty but death
would be sufficient punishment for bis
crime. But In the eyes of some senti
mental women he Is a hero a martyr
and they would cheat the gallows by
their Interventions If possible. They
waste their sentiment when bestowing
it upon one so depraved as is the young
man whose life they seek to save, and
at the same time subject themselves to
ridicule. '
SHOULD OEQANIZE
It is evident from the moves that are
being made by the Republicans
throughout the state that that party
will exert every effort to gain control
ofthAnAZt legislature. Should this
Tie aooosapUabed, the shameful work of
last seesloa may be- rs-enaoted. The
senatorial contest will Again predomi-1
nate over all legislation, and the Inter
eats of the people will be a secondary
consideration. Through the organiza
tion of clubs it is expected to harmon
ize the different factions of the party
before the election is held, but this re
sult will not be accomplished. Should
there be a Republican majority in the
next legislature, there will be Dolph
men and Mitchell men. This will
mean a bitter senatorial fight that will
last through the session, needed legis
lation for the relief of the taxpayers
will be neglected, and the session of
1897 will simply be a repetition of that
of 1895.
Such a calamity can be averted only
by wresting the control of the legis
lature from the hands of that party.
But with the Democratic party dis
organized, this cannot be expected.
Hence It ia that Democratic clubs
should be organized throughout the
state. The party should be brought to
gether on the lines of retrenchment,
with an unmistakable demand for the
cutting down of public expenses, and
an assurance that this will follow In
case of Democratic supremacy In the
legislature. Let the Democrats organ
ize clubs throughout the state, and
thereby consolidate the party of the
people, the party that will relieve the
taxpayers of their present burdens.
A SIXTEEN'TQ-ONE SENATOR.
Arthur Brown, one of the newly
elected senators from the new state of
Utah, says one of his greatest alms in
the senate will be to hoist the cause of
silver at the needed ratio of sixteen-to
one. The sixteen-to-one idea has not
been confined to silver alone by a ma
jority of the citizens of Utah for a num
ber of years. A good many of the male
population of that blooming com
monweaitn nave clamored lor years
for the privilege of one man having
sixteen wives, or more If he could get
them, and this idea seems still to linger
in Mr. Brown's mind so distinctly that
he wants to apply it to all questions.
Whether it Is slxtnen wives or sixteen
grains of silver it is all the same to
Brown. He received all but sixteen of
the votes In the house of representa
tives, possibly may have had sixteen
wives in tht days of Mormon suprem
inacy, and now wants free coinage at
the ratio of slxteen-to-one. He ap
pears to be an all-round "sixteen"
senator. It will be well for the rest of
tiie senate to keep aa eye on Brown,
EDITORIAL NOTES.
What have the people of Ohio gained
in retiring Calvin S. Brice from the
senate and seating Joseph B. Foraker?
The former is an unscrupulous politi
cal trixter, who bought his way into
the senate, but what claim to decency
and honesty has the latter? The stigma
of the ballot-box forgery of 1889 Is still
upon him. Brice is a rascal and s
traitor, but Foraker la a greater one,
"To the victors (especially when
they are relatives) belong the spoils,"
evidently is a motto which hangs over
Secretary of State Kincaid's door, at
least it Is one that governs his actions.
Two of his nephews. Messrs. Lock wood
and Martin, feed at the public crib in
the secretary's office at salaries of
$125 a month each, and it is stated that
equally competent assistants could be
secured at $50 per month ; but these
young taxeaters are in the family.
The mileage allowed to the members
Of the last legislature was $5,924.40,
This of course included the junkating
trips of various committees. It is
doubtful if an extra session would
effect a saving of this amount to the
state, however it is claimed that all
the senators and representatives can,
at four "cents a mile, be conveyed to
the capital, which would cost only
$1,579.84. But, it Is not safe to figure
On that basis when contemplating an
extra session.
Senator Sherman says that the pre
sent financial depression is due to the
repeal of the Mckinley tariff, and that
what the treasury needs is more rev
enue. This position is. untenable in
view of the fact that -the government
has a large cash balance on hand and
the Wilson bill Is producing more rev
enue than the McKinley bllL All the
tariffs that could be made would not
add one cent to the gold reserve as
long as duties were . paid as now in
paper and silver.
The Democratic national convention
will be held In Chicago on July 7th.
the national committee, at a meeting
held in Washington Thursday, having
selected that time and place. This
will give us a campaign of only four
months, .though that is longer than
necessary. . The business of the coun
try is always more or leu disturbed
during a national campaign. It would
be better for all concerned if neither
of the national conventions were held
before August 1st.
The Chicago Times-Herald states
there-were on exhibition at the cycle
show in Chicago 1060 wheels, repre-
sentiog 400- different firms. ' It is es
timated that the display brought to
these manufacturers an amount of
business equal to $15,000,000 in retail
value. As an instance of the wonder
ful consumption of steel products
caused by the sudden and growing
popularity of wheeling, it may be
stated that one well known firm dur
ing 1895 used 280 miles of tubing, or
enough to reach from New York to
Washington, and 625 miles of wire for
spokes, enough . to reach from New
York to Cleveland.
The Australian prime minister said
at a banquet speech a few days ago:
"I fear there are thousands of Ameri
cans who are willing to plunge the
whole Anglo-Saxon race Into what
would be the most wanton and disas
trous war of the century over a few
miles of fever-breeding jungle, where
not one sane citizen of the United
States would send a dog." If indeed
those few miles of territory, which
cover an area nearly aa great as the
state of Montana, are so undesirable,
why does England so persistently insist
on having them? Is the British gov
ernment really so greedy that It would
squabble over the possession of a frog
pond?
The house journal of the last legisla
tive assembly, on which a committee
of five labored assiduously for weeks
after the adjournment of the session
to insure accuracy, is now out. It con
tains 1061 pages, besides a 17-page ad
dendum.- .The journal abounds in con
undrums. It shows members roted on
the aye and no side of the same ques
tion. It records members as absent
and voting at the same time. One
thing it does not show, which, to say
the least, Is a dangerous omission;
that is. that the house concurred in
the senate amendments to house bill
No. 382. This was the general appro
priation bill. . And in the face of such
bungleaome transactions as this, some
are - demanding tuae tnese same
legislators be again convened to trans- i
act business for the state.
TELEGRAPHIC.
MAXTFACTCBEBS' aiEETlXG-
Some of the Objects It Will Work For.
at it Meeting. -
Chicago, Jan. 21. Ex-United States
Senator Warner Miller arrived in this
city last night to attend the meeting
of the National Association of Manu
facturers of the United Srates, of
which organization he Is president. In
an interview, he said:
"The object of the association is to
get the manufacturers of the country
in touch with each other and the in
dustrial life of the nation, and to create
a public Bentiment to induce congress
to establish the policy of - recipro :ity
and to foster fast mail and communi
cation with the South American points
whose trade ought to be ours. We
must have mail and rapid communica
tion with these countries or we can
never have their business.
"The Manufacturers' Association is
also Interested in great international
waterways and communications, and
in the building of tbe-Nicaragua canal,
which Is a necessity for modern com
mercial intercourse between the At
lantic and Pacific coasts, a well as be
tween China, Japan, South America
and the Sandwich islands. It Is also
a necessity for our national defense.
When the canal Is built It will practi
cally obviate the necessity for a double
navy to guard our Atlantic and Pacific
coasts, for It will. not only connect
both, but decrease, the space between
them 10,000 miles'." '.
"The association will take the
ground that the' Nicaragua canal
should be owned and operated by the
United States. As to the completion
of that enterprise there can be no
doubt. I know that the canal will be
built, and if the United States doeB
not build it, Europe will,' and
there will be another prominent
cause of .war when national troubles
and jealousies arise. The present
Venezuela trouble emphasized the ne
cessity for this canal. Money for its
construction could have been secured
long ago from Europe if our national
legislature had not been talking and
passing resolutions about its owner
ship. If congress does not do any
thing this session we will feel per
fectly free to look elsewhere for the
means. to complete the link between
the oceans. If the report of the com
mission sent to examine it is 3uch as
has been given out in the papers, we
are prepared to prove its falsity. We
can prove by the best engineers in
this country and abroad that our work
is feasible."
VrVLLXSQ IO GO HALF WAY.
Tin Motion to Be Made In the Canadian
Parliament Boon.
Ottawa, Jan. 21. Mr. McMillan
on Wednesday will move that where
as the United States government offers
to admit free of duty plows, barrows
and certain other agricultural imple
ments from any country which admits
free of duty like articles imported from
the United States, it will be greatly
in the interest of both the Canadian
agriculturalist and Canadian manufac
turers that Canada should accept that
offer by admitting those articles into
Canada free of duty, and at the same
time so relieving the Canadian manu
facturers of the taxation on the raw
material as to enable them to take ad
vantage of the markets of the United
States. , f ' , ; y ; .
. . Silver Men In Conference. .
r Washington. Jan. 21. A meeting
of prominent silver men from all parts
of the country Will be held here begin
ning tomorrow.- A preliminary con
ference of the members of the execu
tive committee of the American bime
tallic league was held today at the
White House., Steps were taken look
ing to a consolidation of silver organi
zation into one body, with headquar
ters at Washington, Chicago, San
Francisco and some point South.
One purpose of tomorrow's meeting
will be to fix upon the time and place
of holding a national silver conference,
when the national silver ticket will be
nominated.. This action, however, de
pends upon the failure of both old par
ties to recognize silver by nominating
candidates unequivocally pledged to
its rehabilitation-on a basis of sixteen
to one. It Is not necessary that adher
ents of the proposed new party should
already have severed all connections
with the old parties, but it is essential
that they be willing to do so should
the old parties fall to nominate candi
dates pledged to the silver cause.
.i Opposed ty Secretary Smith.
Washington, Jan. 21. The house
committee on public lands has received
from Secretary Smith a strong adverse
report against the free homestead bill
The bill absolves all persons complet
ing a five years' residence on lands,
taken and occupied under the home
stead laws, from making furthur pay
ment to secure their titles other than
fees Incident to filing and obtaining
proof. The measure Is a sweeping one
and land .officials, estimate, that the
passage would involve at least $30,000-
000 costs to the government and $18,000
000 to Oklahoma alone, this being the
amount paid for the rellnqlshment of
their lands. :
- Three American Citizens Arrested.
Washington, Jan. . 21. Senator
Call in the senate today read the fol
lowing telegram from Key West: "Mar
quis Boderidguez was taken from the
steamer Olivette last Wednesday.
Louis Samalllen and his son were also
taken at Havana. - All are American
citizens. , Get them out of the grasp
of the Spanish authorities."
Call ottered a resolution reciting the
arrests and directing the executive
authorities to ascertain if any just
cause for the arrests existed, and If not
to demand immediate release of the
prisoners.
The Free Homestead Bill.
Washington, Jan. 21. The house
committee on public lands has decided
to favorably report to free homestead
bill proposed by Congressman Lacey,
which is practically a revival of the
old homestead laws. Under this law
all settlers on Indian lands that are
opened to settlers may acquire title to
thesland without paying for it by a
residence of five years. If they desire
to secure their titles before the expira
tion of five years they will be able to
do so by paying the rates fixed by the
government. I
To Trail Criminals. '"
CHICAGO; Jan. 21. Advices from
Crown Point, Ind., state that blood
hounds are to be used to trail crimi
nals hiding in the Kankakee swamps.
Sheriff Hayes, of Lake county, has
purchased two full-blood dogs from
the Van Raub kennels, at Van Baub,
Texas. . The desperrte characters that
the sheriff so much -desires to get rid
of camp in squads around the town in
the summer and make nightly visit9 to
hen roosts and dwellings. When pur
sued they retreat to the Kankakee
swamps.
Held as tlostaees.
LONDON, Jan. 21. A dispatch from
Cuomassie, says King Prempeh of
Ashantee; the queen mother, the two
envoys recently in England, and sev
eral chiefs, have started under escort
for Cape Coast Castle, where they will
be held prisoners pending the settle
ment of the indemnity to be paid
Great Britain by Ashantee.
ALARUECLAIJI.
Government ' Will be AakedtoPay 8300,
000,000 to Dnrkee's Uelr9.
Chicago, Jan. 22. A special from
Champaign, 111., says:
A conference was held here between
L. C. Blaisdell and twenty other- citi
zens of ChamDaign. on the one side
and A. J. Kuykendall, of Springfield
Captain J. I. Abel, and JohnT. Fergu
son, of Decatur, on the other, on meas
ures for pressing a huge claim against
the government. The gentlemen
named, after conferring with citizens
of Indianapolis, will proceed to Wash
Ington. The claim referred to is based
on the alleged assignment, thirty years
or more ago. to Charles Durkee, then
governor of Utah, of over 660,000,000
worth of Union Pacific bonds. L. C.
Blaisdell is the trustee of the heirs of
Durkee, and has spent much time and
money in the investigation of their
claims. C He says the late Secretary
Folger, admitted the existence of the
assignment upon these bonds and Bla
isdell says he has the best of legal ad
vices that the principal and Interest,
now amounting to nearly $200,000,000,
is recoverable for the benefit of Dur
kes's heirs.
MAT AND DECEMBER.
A Schoolgirl of IS Marries a Man
11
Tears Old.
Chicago, Jan. 22. A dispatch from
Pomona, Cal., says: The children and
grandchildren of James Rogers have
been amazed by the information that
he married, on Sunday last, Miss Ida
Nelson, at the home of the biide's
parents, near Prescott, Arizona. The
groom is 77 years old, and the bride
will be 15 next May.
Mr. Rogers has been twice married,
his second wife dying three years ago.
He has six children,' many grandchil
dren, and several great grandchildren.
He is well preserved, genial and level
headed, and has a fortune of 8100,000,
invested ia farm lands and bank
stocks in Iowa, and aoout 8100,000 in
property in Los Angeles. He has been
an active business man and v as a mem
ber of the Iowa legislature for several
years He came to visit his children
in Los Angeles last summer.
The first sign that the marriage was
soom to take place was last week,
when all of Rogers' Los Angles pro
perty was transferred to Ida Nelson.
Mrs Rogers left school only a few
weeks ago. She is a pretty girl, of
brunette type.
TBBEE DESPERADOES LYNCHED.
Overtaken and Banged After Committing
a Crime In Oklahoma.' - '
Oklahoma City, 0 T., Jan. 22.
Near Jacques' store, south of Fort Hc'
znes, fifty miles southeast of this cl' ,
a vigilance committee composed of
farmers, and ranchmen captured and
hanged - three , desperadoes Thomas
Foley, a man known as Wild Horse,
and a half-breed Choctaw named Mar
ina. The night before a gang of six
men, of which these three were mem
bers, robbed Jacques' store, assaulted
his wife and stole four horses. The
alarm was given and a posse of farmers
followed the gang, all night, coming
upon them at Crisy" Crossing, and in
the fight Foley was wounded and one
of the pursuing ' party killed. Three
oftbegang made their escape, .but
Foley and his two companions took re
fuge in a deserted hut, where they-were
dislodged with dynamite and banged
without judge or jury. Before dying
Foley stated that two of the men who
escaped were Bob and Bill Christian.
The vigilance committee is still in pur
suit of the others.
Will Exhume the Bodies. '
Union, Or., Jan. 22. -r-Coroner Lang,
a deputy district attorney, a deputy
sheriff and a number of other persons
left Union for Pi oe Valley this after
noou for the purpose of exhuming the
bodies of the three Maches who were
killed by Kelsay ' Porter on New
Year's day. Porter is the only, wit
ness to the shooting. The- bodies, ex
cept the woman's, were buried without
Deing aressea, and mere was no coro
ner's inquest held. The object of the ex
amination is to enable the state to bet
ter prosecute the case. It is expected
that the examination will show the
direction and distance from which the
shots were fired, and other material
facts.
Two Hundred Tourists Disappointed.
New Yobk, Jan. 22. Two hundred
tourists, who had booked to visit Tur
key and the east on a special excur
sion aboard the French liner La Tour-
aine, scheduled to sail from New York,
February 4, were notified today that
the trip was off:
The acute condition of affairs in
Turkey and the uncertainty, of afford
ing adequate protection to travelers in
the domain of the sultan, caused the
abandonment of the tour. The pleas
ure trip of the steamship Friesland,
which was scheduled to sail for the
same territory on January 29, was
given up for the same reasons.
The Starving; Armenians.
New Britain, Conn., Jan. 22. B.
Argos, an Armenian resident, of this
city, is in receipt of a letter from a
friend in Armenia, which states that
upwards of 100,000 Armenians are starv
ing. The snow is several feet deep.
Some Armenians have taken to eating
grain. Of 300 villages, 54 have been
sacked and burned by the Turks and
Kurds. The remaining are occupied
by butchering soldiers. Twelve Amer
ican missions in the district have been
burned. The Iive3 of the Americans
have been spared, but they are in
great want and some are starying.
Toothful Footpads.
San Francisco, Jan. 22. Two boys,
Edward Farnsworth and "Babe" Mar
tin, neither of whom is 15 years old,
have branched out as full-fledged high'
waymen. Not only are they charged
with several burglaries in the Mission
district, but today young Ernest Gar-
riock swore out a warrant charging
them with holding him up a few even
ings ago. The youthful footpads held
Garriock up with a revolver, went
through his pockets and took a silver
watch and some sliver.
Bsxaralon Declared off.
Chicago, Jan. 22. Maurice . Eos-
manskl, .western passenger . agent of
the Compagnle Reale Trans-Atlantl-
que, has received a cablegram from
A h it' '4 s J . a
Jj' Tor shoTter.irj; rover nse more
than tv.-o-tbird3 as much Cotto- 0
v; lene as yea would of lard. When j
i'i ftyiag with Ccttolsse always put
c.-
j it in a eoH pan, heating it 'with jjs,
i the pan. Cottoleae produces the g
Kj best result3 wticn very not, uui as
sooner tlun lird, eire should be a
,t taken not to let it bum when hot i
I enough, it will delicately brown
f a bit of breed in half a minute. $
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Cottolcne and lard will never
ii again be permitted ;n your ititcu-
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(4 &i A
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1 Genuine Cottolcne is sold every- j
$ where in tins with trade-marks
'A "Cottolcne" and steer's head m :4
& cotton-plant wreatn on every tin. ;.i
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t 'HE N. K. FAIKBANK COMPANY. St. touls. fn
the president of the company at Paris
instructing him to cancel all engage
ments tor the Mediterranean trip for
the steamer La Touraine leaving New
York, February 4. The liability of
the excursionists to insult or attack by
the Turks determined the company to
abandon the proposed trip.
Wheat Going; ap.
Tacoma, Wah., Jan. 22. The
price of No. 1 club wheat jumped from
66s to 5Sia today. It was 62c a few
days ago. Flour advanced 25c per bar
rel, and bran, shorts, oats and barley
show $1.00 a ton increase. The de
mand for wheat for export Is stronger.
BCSS1A AND TCBEET.
An Alliance Offensive and Pefecslre Con
eluded.
London, Jan. 23. A dispatch to the
Pall Mall Gazette from Constantino
ple, dated yesterday, says an offensive
and defensive alliance had been con
cluded between Russia and Turkey.
The dispatch adds the treaty was
signed at Constantinople and ratifica
tions were exchanged at St. Peters
burg between AareJ Pasha and the
czar. The basis of the treaty is de
clared to be on the lines of the Un
kiarskelessi agreement of 1833, by
which Turkey agreed in the event of
Russia going to war, to close the
Dardanelles to the warship of all na
tions. The Pall Mall Gazette corres
pondent says this treaty was soon
abandoned owing to the refusal of the
powers to recognize it. He also Bays
the French ambassador, M. Cambou,
conferred with the sultan yesterday,
and it is probable that France will be
included in the new alliance.
Commenting on the dispatch from
Constantinople announcing the sign
ing of the treaty between Russia and
Turkey for offensive and defensive
purposes, the Pall Mall Gazette says:
, "We regard the news as true, and
the result of the treaty is the Darda
nelles is the southern outpost of Rus
sia, and Turkey is Russia's vassal.
We presume the British government
will protest against the treaty for all
it Is worth.
"The information is plainly of the
very gravest importance. The first
intimation reached us four days ago,
but we withheld it until the arrival of
the confirmation' we . received this
mornlug. This brings Russia Into the
Mediterranean with a vengeance, and
may necessitate strengthening our
fleet in those waters. The political
effect will be far greater. The treaty
means that Turkey has realized her
own impotence against disorders both
from within and without, and has de
cided to throw herself for safety into
the arms of Russia. She is, now Rus
sia's vassal, and Russia is entitled to
dispatch troops to any part of the sul
tan's dominions.",
i Death of Judge Upton.
Washington, Jan. 23. William W.
Upton, appointed justice of the su
preme court of Oregon in 1867 and sub
sequently chief justice, died today, aged
79. In 1865 he moved to Portland,
Oregon, and held several public offices.
He was appointed second comptroller
of the treasury in 1887 and had lived
here ever since that time. He was a
Scottish Rite Mason. He leaves a
widow and five sons, three of whom
are prominent in Oregon politics.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Utah will be represented for the first
time in the United States senate by
Frank J. Cannon and Arthur Brown.
Both are Republicans, free silver men
and Mormons.
No wonder Spain wants to sell Cuba.
She cannot subdue the patriotic Cu
bans, hence the easiest way is to re
lieve herself of the burden la to sell
the Island to England. But the title
she will deliver . will be extremely
cloudy.
The war cloud has not entirely
blewn over. The dispatches announce
that England Is bartering with Spain
for the purchase of Cuba, in which
event war between the United States
and Great Britain is almost in
evitable.
Possibly the wool growers and some
of the woolen manufacturers have lost
through the workings of the present
tariff, but 70,000,000 of American citi
zens have been enabled to buy their
woolen clothing at a reduction of 60
per cent from former prioes.
The dispatches announce that Gen
eral Campos and his lieutenant Gen
eral Ardereus are to be relieved from
the command of the Spanish armies in
Cuba. If, with these generals, the Span
Ish government would also recall all
its troops from Cuba it would do a ?ra-
clous deed, and also save itself much
needless expense and worry.
Judge Grosscup, of the United States
district court la Illinois, is reported as
having decided that a shipper could
not be held for violation of the inter
state law by accepting a rebate. This
is the first interpretation by a court of
the clause in the interstas9 commerce
law making shippers equally liable
ith carriers in cases of discrimina
tion.
Dr. Price's Cream Baking; Powdei
worm's fair Mlgnest Award.
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KBCGER'8 BEPLT
Be Says Americans Are In no Dancer In
the Transvaal.
San Francisco, Jan. 23. The Exam
iner has received the following tele
gram from President Kruger In reply
to a message requesting Information
as to the status of the American min
ing men now Imprisoned at Pretoria
for alleged participation In the upris
ing of the Uitlanders:
"Everything is quiet at present, the
Americans are in no danger whatever.
.They enjoy the full protection of the
law like any other foreigners; therefore
there is no need of protection from the
outside against any Illegal or revolu
tionary movements. Even if such pro-
recuon against revolutionists were
necessary, which is not so, the Amerl
cans are capable of taking care of
themselves. The government regrets
deepy that, while almost all of the
Americans took the side of law and
order, a few of them have joined the
revolutionary, so-called reform com
mittee. These together with a major
ity, mostly British, will be tried ac
cording to law, and justice will be done
to all concerned without respect to
nationality."
CleTeland to Crespo.
Chicago, Jan. 23. A Washington
special says:
President Crespo, of Venezuela, has
been advised by President Cleveland
to make an effort to re-establish diplo
matic relations with Great Britain,
and the president of the Venezuela re
public now has the subject under con
sideration. The suggestion was made by Secre
tary Olney to Venezuela's minister
here, Senor Andrade, and by him
communicated to his government by
cable. There is a strong belief that
diplomatic relations between Great
Britain and Venezuela will be re-established,
and the exchange of ministers
will be agreed to upon a basis which
includes also an agreement to submit
the boundary question to arbitration.
The first intimation, that .such a
course would be satisfactory to the
British government was given by Sir
Julian Pauncefote, of the British em
bassy, to Secretary Olney, who con
sulted with the president, who prompt
ly acted upon It. Diplomatic relations
between Great Britain and Venezuela
have been suspended since 1887.
In spite of a Democratic administra
tion wheat is fifty cents a bushel once
again. It does not look possible that
thiscould occur with the Wilson bill
still in force. East Oregonian.
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