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TinilSSDAY. AUGUST 20, 181)1.
AN OTII V.K IT.NSION SOIIHMIJ.
The Washington clerks of depart
ments have u plan to make a largo in
creaK; in the pension business of tho
government. According to reports
from there an organized movement is
afoot to bring congress to retire on
three-fourths pay all clerks who havo
served thirty years und all who havo
readied sixty-five years of age. From
tho figures prosonted by tho advocates
of the scheme the cxpoiif-c would bo
moderato to begin with, though they
prudently ignore tho question of future
results.
There is no likelihood that tho com
ing congress will look with favor on
any such scheme. Tho ponsion roll
that tho last congress has saddled on
tho country will tax tho best efforts of
several future congresses to provide
far paying its charges. But if tho
army pension roll was a mere triflo
there would bo strong reasons for op
posing a civil ponsion list. Why
should tho employees of tho govern
ment bo any more fuvored in tho
mutter of their pay than tho employees
of private partiesT Tho latter havo to
lay up out of tho earnings of their
working years enough to support them
in old ago, or elso tboy must dopond
on tho bounty of others. Why should
n man in public employ bo relieved
from the need to exercise thrift and
economy? Why should it not bo nec
essary for him to lay up something
out of his income? Thoro is some
justice in providing pensions for men
who arc omployed in a service that
exposes them to injuries and death.
Tho soldier, tho fireman or tho police
man runs tho risk of being changed
from a vigorous man to hopeless in
valid or a corpso by a shot from tho
enemy, a falling wall, or a dosporuto !
criminal It is fair that a promise of j
support should balance these risks.
But clerks in departments run no
risks other than those that men in all
walks of life must run.
Tho employees of tho government,
whether national, state or city, aro
always struggling to increase) their pay
and decrease their work, and they aro
often successful. From tho struggle
to secure appointments to the public
service it will probably bo u long time
before the government will havo to
oiler a pension to secure men to do its
clerical work. When that time conies
it had better oiler a premium to every
one, or, better still, go out of business.
Tho country will not need any govern
ment when that titno conies. Nxaini
nor. HOW MUCH TO OCT.
Thoro is no differenco of opinion
among democrats us to tho need of re
ducing the appropriations by congress
next winter. It muy bo a matter of
pride to republicans that their congress
earned the title of "Billion," and broke
all tho records in tho lavishncss of its
expenditures, but democrats do not
share it. They meun that there shall
be a liberal shavo of the outluys, but
opinion has not unified upon the
amount of retrenchment. Judge Hoi
mun, of Indiana, who has a lengthy
record in congress as an objector to
appropriations of a doubtful character,
insists that a round hundred millions
must bo shaved. Others fear that in
attempting so much failure to effect
anything will result. In tho Uolman
schonio tho figures aro put at $27fy
000,000 for tho current expenses, in
cluding pensions. Theso ho would
not touch. It is not believed that there
will bo an ollbrt to cut down any hon
est claimant a penny in his lawful
duos. There is, undoubtedly, groat
room for reform in tho management of
tho ponsion office and the elimination
of frauds from tho rolls, but the great
saving will not bo in that quarter. A
reduotion of 10 pur cent of tho billion
voted out by tho Heed dispensation is
un idea that should bo turned over in
tho minds of members of tho now con
gress mid familiarized before tho ses
sion. It is a good figure to aim at.
The country expects the democrats to
vludluate their professions by their
work, and Ice. limn the $100,000,000
will not moot tho loqulrumonts. It
miut bo shown (hut tho dtimooruts
huvu not Ltiuii lmply uiug campaign
f - -I
1 "if i'tMVH v w''jwiij'u 1 itrtjliMrrtlii) lioilMi'at ir n liiu ai.uk u i , r ,, , . . r 'I 'i'' 'i a
tUui' 1 i! wMi5!iiii "A I w ,Hnui,u lMt,mU' hmm m)im,,u' wiwr,a muaMnt
buncombe in berating tbc lute con
gress for oxtravngiuicc. It takes more
nerve and courage to cut down tban it
does to let tlio big figures slip through,
but tho aituation must bo boldly con
fronted. An imperative duly of tho
democratic liouso will be to retrench.
There will bo no little difficulty in find
ing places to save 100,000,000, no
doubt, as t c republicans have exer
cised great ingenuity in fixing tho
main outlays so Unit they cannot bo
touched. But tho mark should be
high, and tho approach made us near
us possible without tho sacrifice of any
public interest. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Till: FAKMKll'S VIKW.
There is an old farmer in Michigan
who lias always labored under the im
pression that if he over scratched a
namo on a republican ticket the devil
would at once entwine his digits about
his vitals. lie is a deacon in tho vil
lage church, and his lapses from the
orthodox phraseology of his station
havo usually been duo to his abhor
lenco of the democratic party. lie
has not now been so imbued with
spiritual grace as to lovo his old ene
mies, but ho has learned to turn a
little aside from his old prejudices, und
look at somo present practical facts in
a way not at all uncommon among
intelligent farmers of lato. IIo was
expressing himself somewhat at Hills
dalo tho other day to the loyal post
master, Ool. March, who labored in
effectively to rectify his mind. Tho
Adrian Press reports his lino of re
mark in tin's way :
"This tariff is worrying me. I sco
butter down to 11 cents. Eggs sold
for 10 cents this spring, and now,
when the lions are not layin' tboy aro
wuth 15, but wo ain't got any to sell.
Wool is as good as ever was sheared,
und its down 2 cents below what it was
last year. We take our surplus wheat
to the old country and sell it for gold,
and wo can't trade a dollar thoro with
out being fined. That's right I Don't
roll up your eyes, Kernel, for it's true,
and wo want reciprocity not with a
fow Brazilian natives or South Ameri
can diggers, but reciprocity with tho
countries that buy our produce by tho
millions and pay cash. We want to
trade where we d n please, and at
tho next election I guess tho farmer
will put on a different uniform before
ho goes to tho polls."
HKl.KllOUS riCKSHCUTIOH.
Tho persecution of a Seventh Day
Adventist in Tennesseo because ho
worked on Sunday is a singular pro
ceeding for an American State. No
body protends that this victim of re
ligious intolerance was disturbing his
neighbors. Ho was plowing on his
own land at a distance from any place
of worship, but under a mediieval law
such as certain misguided Californians
havo sought to introduce hero he was
arrested, lined, and from present ap
pearances will be compelled to consort
with crmiuals in jail.
A local contemporary thinks that
Tonnesseeuns havo a right to wreak
religious bigotry on minorities in this
fashion, and that if tho members of the
minority do not like it they can do as
the Jews aro doing in Russia give up
their homes und leavo. Thut is not
the common ideu of American liberty.
Tho principle at tho root of our gov
ernment is that every man has a right
to do as bo pleases so long us ho does
not infringe tho rights ot anybody else.
Tho attempt to confine a Seventh Day
Adventist to live days' work a week
whou other people aro allowed to work
six is a disci imiuatiou so unjust that it
ought to make aTonnesscean ashamed
to acknowledge his State.
At this moment there are probably
hundreds of murderers in Tonnessco
who havo never been molested. It is
safe to say that among tho ultra-pious
neighbors who havo insisted upon im
prisoning an otherwise blameless man
because he kept his Sabbath instead
of theirs, there aro some who havo
taken their guns to church and can
look back upon feuds maintained by
assassination. The State itsolf, whoso
laws make criminals of those who di
vide tho week in tho way laid down
on Sinia, is guilty of keeping up tho
infamous convict lease system, which
has been simply a scheme of wholesale
murder for gain, und now bus brought
the coinmouwoulth to the verge of
civil war. lxuuiinor.
Aeeuta Wauted.
OuraRenU nukofUK) to $300 n month sol
IIiir our goods on their merits. We want
county and giMiortu hkoiiU, ami will t ku
bad all goods unsold it a ooiuit y iigont falls
to clour f 100 mill luponsiu aftor u thirty
day' trial, or u gmuiral acut Iom than t'iM.
We vllUmnl larxo WiMratoil clruulars and
hitter with a special olt'ur to nut territory
applied for. on receipt of three uiiu cunt
utniiip. Apply atouconml Kt In un the
boom. AiltlrtM.
ItHVNUII Ma.SUI'ADI Ultl.SO Go,
tty intfiliuiKu. l
niUTOIUAI, NOTKS.
A fikm at Cleveland bought last
year for $11 a box of the quality of tin
plate used for roofing, spouting and
general tinning work. For nn invoice
of the samo quality fifteen days ago
the firm paid $17.50 per box.
Sknsations must be scarce at Wash
ington when it ia given out that the
secretary of the treasury bus informa
tion that n band of real, professional
thieves havo put up a job to get into
tho strong box this month. Thut is
un imputation upon the intelligence
of the thieves. A perusal of the
monthly statements of tho treasurer
will show them that the billion-dollar
congress has left them little to loot.
The report going tho rounds of the
press in regard to Turner Oliver being
a candidate for tho offico of Secretary
of State emanated from the Baker
Democrat and is without foundation,
although we know of no man better
fitted for tho position. He would
make as good a nice as any man in
tho democratic party from Eastern
Oregon.
A Tacoma man gave tho saloon
keepers written permission to sell his
ten-year old boy all the liquor that he
wanted, und the boy was picked out of
tho gutter dead drunk. The licenses
of the saloon men should be revoked
and the unnatural father should be
placed in a position where he would be
unable to give any more written per
missions. East Oregonian.
In Mississippi tho new constitution
provides for the prepayment four
months before an election of a poll-tax
as a necessary qualification for tho
exercise of the suffrage. The result of
this provision has been, us was proba
bly anticipated, to place the state se
curely in tho control of a white major
ity. The negroes would not, as a rule,
pay the poll-tax. About 8 per cent,
of the whito voters are disfranchised
for the samo reason; but tho majority
of qualified white voters will not bo
less than 50,000.
Tiik fifth annual convention of tho
Oregon Press Association will convene
at Astoria on the 28th inst. and con
tinue three days. A very interesting
programme has been arranged, includ
ing u visit to the government jetty and
Gearhart park. A number of import
ant and well prepared papers will be i end
on various subjects of interest to jour
nalists. We would like very much to
attend tho meeting, and will if we can
possibly do so.
School Fund Distribution.
Hon. Phil. Metschan, state treasurer,
has just finished tho distribution of
the interest arising from the common
school fund, as made by the board of
school land commissioners among tho
various counties of tho state. Tho
total number of persons in tho stato
between the ages of four and twenty
years is 105,022, and tho total amount
of funds subject to distribution was
$153,151.90, giving to each county the
sum of $1.45 per capita, tho same ratio
that it was in 1800, although tho num
ber of children is G0IIG more, showing
a healthy increaso in the fund. Tho
following statement shows the amount
sent to each county, and tho number
of children therein :
COUNTIKS. NO. CHII.nilKN,
Bakor 2,217
Benton :i,G2(
Clackamas (5,1 11
Clatsop 2,512
Columbia 1,770
Coos 3,410
Crook 1.15S
Curry 015
Douglass 4,193
Grant 1,173
Gilliam 1,270
Harnoy 7G2
Jackson 4,155
Josephine 1,709
Klamath 907
Lake 785
Lane 5.S42
Linn 0,000
Malheur 700
Marion 8,311
Morrow 1,527
Multnomah 17,(120
Polk 3,225
Sherman G52
Tillamook 1,203
Umatilla 4,097
Union 4,142
Wallowa 1,628
Wasco 2,900
Washington 5,014
Yamhill 4,300
AMOUNT.
$ 3,214 05
5,257 70
9,300 30
3,042 40
2,500 50
4,957 55
1,071) 10
933 25
0,514 S5
1,700 85
1,8-11 50
1,1-18 40
0,024 75
2,521 55
1,315 15
1.13S 25
8,470 00
9,570 00
1,102 00
12,091 45
2.214 15
25,549 00
4,719 75
915 40
1,831 35
0,955 05
0,005 90
2.215 00
4,213 70
7,270 50
0,235 00
Total.
.105,022 $153,151 90
THE CRY OF MILLION!
OH, TOV BKCK 1
STOP IT NOW,
SOON IT WIIL DC TOO LATE.
I haTt ben troubled msuy year with
disease uftha Uilueyi ami he tried
tnauy different remedies and have
aougbt aid from dlrterent phyeiciana
j. ..... .i ir AtuMtt ihr nth of Aunl
I waa aufleriui Irom a very violent ;
men i uiaauct hw "
When I hat down it wai lmot iuipoible for me
to set up aloue, or to put ou mv clotbea, heu
Und JTuvuleuca ut l)r Henley, with the
OKKGON U1HN8V TKA, to my
hotel. I Immediately commenced
uiin the tea. It had an almost
uuraiulout tflcct, aud to the astou
UumcuturaUUc rucste at the hotel,
in a fctv d,l sappy to atate.
that 1 waa a ntw man. I vill4
iccommrud tua tc to all uttlwtcdl
as 1 Late lcu.
O. A. TUl'l'HK,
rivmUtor (VviJrutal Hotel,
Kowt.Cal.
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Cnncellntion f Cnnntj rrftrrnntt.
Kotice is hereby piven that under and hr
virtue of an Art of the Lcgi.lMtire 0ftK
btntp of Oregon, entitled "An Art to irZ
iniire County Warrants to be r.,nceiu!l
after Seren Ycrs from the Date of fn
nnco.' npproved Kebitwry 2.5, 1569. Ihe M.
owinchM of fonnty Warrant- which hav.
been regularly i-med. receipted for ami
taken away, n ml which hare b-en noir ou
staddiiiR more thsn .flTen year., nd nn
prr.ented for pHymr.nt, ttm duly certifltM
to the County Court and i now advertiwrt
as provided by -aid Act. tn.-nit """"M
aKMmPP,art'm",,' Ko-121)
One in fin or of Willi wkiiT. No Uu
CIiimS. for 10. .cut-.. "- in
One in favor of V. .1. l'helpi, X0. ,in
Cla!..- S. for $1 70. J10'
One In favor of Cohen. No. ion
Class S, for $2.00 ll
One in fnvornf M. A. Ward. Vo Kro
Class S, for ?2.'00. ' ' ' 1679
One in favor of V. Nodine, No. 1747
Class S, for ?4.00. ' 174,
And any person heldliiR any of salrf
warrants 19 notified to present the .am
to tho County Treasurer for payment on or
before the 1st day of September. 1S01, and
f any of said Warrants are not presented
by bald dato they will bo cancelled by tha
County Court and payment thereafter will
bfl refused.
Hy order of the County Cenrt.
TUHNKK OLIVNK. Clerk.
SIIRRIFli-S SALR.
NOTICE IS IIKRKHT GIVEN TIfA'R.
bv virtue of an execution issued ou'
of the Honorable Circuit Caurt of the State
of Orcpon. for Union county, begins dute
the 18th day of July. 1891, to me directed
and delivered, upon a judgment entered
therein on the 27th day of May imi
wherein Uarbara Groth is plalntlfl and Ja'
cob Groth is defendant, for the suni of Two
Hundred Dollars, and the further um of
Forty and 21-100 Dollars for casts and dls
bur.iements, which Judgment was enrolled
and docketed in tho clerk's otlice of jaid
court on the 20th day of May, lSOl.eonj.
mandiiiK me that out f the personal prop
erty of the defendant herein, .Jacob Groth
or if sufficient can not bo found, thci eutof
the real property belonging to suid defend
ant In my county, ou or after the 29th day
of May, 1801, I pay and satisfy the sum of
Two Hundred Dollars, and the furtbursum
of Forty and 20-100 Dollars costH and din.
bursenients of and upoa this writ. Hy
virtue of said writ mid commend Ihavo
levied upon the folloninK described real
estate (no personal property beinjt, found)
situated in Union countv, Oreron, to-wit-The
Njof theNWjiandtheSKWofNWw
and the SVi of NKJa of Sec. 13. Tp 1
North, of ltange 40 K. TV. M. situated In
Union county, Oregon, and bv virtue of
said execution and levy, I nill'sell at pub
lic outcry at the court house dooria Un
ion, Union county, Orejon, on the 22nd dayV 1
of Aug., 1891, at 3 o'clock p, ui. of i-sid day.- ' '
all the riKht, title and interest in suid abore
described real eslate that the said defend
ant had on or after the 21)th day f My,
1891, or suilieient thereof to satisfy said
judgment, costs, disburiemeutu aud accru
ing costs.
Terms of sale: Cash to me in hand in D.
S. gold coin.
Dated at Union thH the 22nd dar of Julv
J.T. 110LLKS. Sheriff.
Uy. W. It. Unnitii, Deputy. 7.2.1
MINING .OTICK.
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To William H. Fowler, or to hi heirs ex
ecutors, administrator or assigni :
A 7 O U A I IK II K 1 1 14 1? Y N O T I F 1 1 ) I ) T H A 1
JL we have expended S208.00 in Uhnr
.111(1 iiiinrnVHnicnt unnn tli Vornai Cimmmn
ijouo, Miuuieu in rraime Mining Ulstrict,
Union county, Oregon, in order to hold
said premUes under the provisions of sc
tion 2,,521 Uevised Statutea of tbo United
States, bein? the amount required to hold
the same for the years ending December Slst
1SS9, and December 31st, 1S0O, to-wit: 'tt
of sum $100. during each of said yearsN.
if, within ninety days after the first publici"
tion of this notice, you or your ptrsunal
rep. esentatives fail or refuse to contribute
your proportion of such expenditure aRaco
owner, your interest in aaid claim will be
come the property of the subscribers under
said section 2;i21.
J. T. FYFF.Ii.
JNO. HAUI.ET.
GKO. W. PKUKINU,
As Executor of Ktatt of llufus l'erkins,
Deceased.
4-10 J. II. McDON'OUGn.
NOTICH.
"VTOTICK is hert'by given U the taxpay
lr ers of Union couty. State of Oregon,
that the Hoard of Equalization will lueet in
tne County Clerk's oftice on Monday the
31st day of August, 1S91, tnd publicly x-aiulnt-
the Asses'inent Uolla and correct all
errors in valuations, description or quanti
ties nt lands, lots or other proparly, and all
persons who are agrieved at thair assesi
inents are required to apply t aid Board
lor correction of the sau. Tha Hoard
will remain in session from Augut SJtto
Sept. 7th unless the examiiution auirVor
rection of the Hvlls ars sooner completed.
j. d. oiai.D.
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