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About Weston weekly leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1880)
X . r. , .... ' ...n. nfe -'-r- VOL. 2, WESTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 42, limits WESTOX WEEKLY LEADER W. T. WILLIAM!, fl. T. M'COLL WILUAHMX et M'COLL. robll.awrs. Issued Eviar Satckoav Mobmno, WESTON, CKATIlXA Cot XT V OR. brrlyU Bale I Om Tsar, (eota) M Moi tin , fane Months. Outfe , .tdTerflsiajc Mates. On siuusre 0 Inch) flrst insertion , Laen aduitiiktl inssruu. TuvNfUWa, ant lasertioa. ...... ...,. fc 00 i OH 1 so ...liltts tt so t W ram Mk..MH Hv-iw., . . 4 so 1 w one S'aarurcvKMui, Bmt MnerOoa Kadi bldiUtfu! iMwdnn S Tlcat advertisers y special contract. Local notice M "imu pr line lint insertion, K'l Mia jtr tin inch o1aluiul insertion. -Advertising Iritis payabe ft,uar- Uirtj . Al loyal norast. will be charged 75 cents per ariare ft iiiMrliuu, aiW 3;i csuU per sipiam eaeh suiutequeat oawrUoa pa.jbto MouthljX Xcmos Slmpls announcement of birth, niarrisjpM and dssthi will Im insrrtad wlthuut chaiy. obituary wiIm ehaqcd lor avMtrdin; hi leiixth. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. S. V. KNOX. Attorney at Law, H ill practice in the Court of thin State aud W sh- riruiu 1'erriforv. Special atiuiitluu paid to Land Olilce oustneo Mia collections. I Mee-Hala Ml.. mIh, i. j 1 T. THOMPSON, ! Attorney at Law, HK Ii -At Court Hoasr. Walls Malta VMKACHEX. Attorney at Law and Notary Public. "a ll rwaetle the Courts in !irKOo and Washington Territory. Collections Promptly Attended To. PriCK. Mala Mrerl. . Wcstoa. Or J A. STEEL. Xotary Public, .and Collector. Agent fur I'Uh, Idaho and Oragon Stage C'o'n, also, lrasr la rajsdlrs. Kata, To). lion. t'lgar Valsarrwi. aad aansrrosia Xnrr artlrlra. f iVAK W. RE A, Attorney at Law. Will practise in all tlx courts of the State. Errs KB. OK. i i W. WESTON. -M. I. I J. Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur. All rails prouiptly ntlriMlril. J K. CKOPP, M. It. rityoiciau aud Surgeon. Office with Dr Blalock, over Day's Drug Store. MAIN ST. WLLA WALLA. J) It. W. R. JONES, ori-irs st tin Ciea-ac Osllrik, Wkston, Okkoox. 1Y Inserting Artificial Teeth, a 8)e ialtt Ta. RS. KELL0(;; Si NIl'HOLS, Homcepathic Physicians and Surgeons . WALLA W.1LLA. OFFICE -Paine Bros' Brick. t srspwlol Attention given Ui dicaes of tlie Kye, liar and Throat. uarClly D R. JAMES DORR. VE Bin RIC BTORC. WAU.A' WALLA AJTToeth estoacted without pain and all work war reatei . II. MACK. DDHTTIST, Of Walla Walla, will make frmrnt prnlrashmal vwiis at WeaWn and Pendleton. D R. EAOAN. rhyxirfan and Surgeon, WE.NTON OREGON . next 4oor to Ifr Drasj Mar. imaall) sttndfd. Calls "JR. W. T. WILLIAMSON, Physician and Surgeon, WESTON. (KiN. hi rratdrarr oa Warr M. D RS. BOYD 4 ALBAN. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, WALLA WALLA. Ose rata Ore's New asv.lr4. Brt.-k Rlork, i JOB-lvr ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTIONS! Port Monnaie9, OOMB8, 33XS.TTSSCZI8 Fishing Tackle, STATIONERY, PLAYING CARDS. CUmiY AND PIPES!! FANCY GOODS, ' . MATCHES. Perfumery, Toilet Soaps, I IKEVCU A.Vlt AMKBICA.V Toys and Nuts, TOBACCO AXD CIGARS, vW;.eule and Metull. Fred. M. Prv.:ly, S. H. Kennedy's Mfg Co MAN I'KACTC IJKKS uf SHEEP DIPS. The T "r33"j of th3 kini ia th i XT- S f9AeU?- Plsasu examine tlie of the Jt ? (liferent diM auJ price viz: kw Dissolved Sulphur Dip. Pricu ii.'.'Jj a gallon, This H equal tu 'M V.m tlm best Sublime Sulphur. Concentrated Extract of Tobacco Dip, Price, $2. a5 a gallon. This Is my FAVORITE Dip be t'CljREK SCATS anil can as j ugrcc of strength with safety. Hemlock Poi-onous Dip, Price, 2.25 a gallon. r AND IS THE BEST POISONOUS DIP IN i rSK. Each Gallon of these Dips Will make eiiuuifh or J5 Sheep after shearing. Special Dip for Scab, Price, &..) a gallon. Reliable at any season of the year, especially so iu the Fall and Winter. Put tip in one and five gallon cans with full directions for use. Pamphlets sent Free to any Address. Sold by all principal dealers in the I". S. J. McCllACKEX & CO., AicrnlH for thr. Piu llloCoimt. SAN FRANCISCO "Bulletin," - THE Leadlne Evening Newspaper West of th Rorky Moiintain. KIBAERirTIO RATES. Diily Mullctin. nnc year Vt 0O Weekly und Friday Bulletin (making toethei a cinnplete Sumi-Weekly S 00 Weekly aloue, one year V 541 I'artu uf a year in proportion. FREE SEED DISTRIBUTION. Kach surwericer will he presented with aet ei al ve ripti,-. uf H.ir., and Valuable TILKK. VEflKTAHLK and KLOWLtt SKKl.s, equal in value to the subscription price ot the paper. Sf Send for Siuiiplc Copy, giving full particulars. Kemit.tuiit-c-t by Pnift, l'o-toniec rder, Wells. Karo & Cu.'s Kxpreu, arid He;;iHtered Letter, at our ri&k. Aniaicss !. '. BI LLr.Tl CO.. Xun t'riinri.ru. al. NO PATENT, NO PAY. PATENT S. obtained for mechanical devices, medical or other com pounds, ornamental designs, trade-marks ami labels. Caveat, Assignments, Interferences. Infringement, and all matters relating to Patents promptly attended to. We make preliminary examinations and f urninh opinions as to patentabUitv, iree of charge, and all who are inter ested in new inventions and Patents are invited to send for a copy of our "uide for ohtnininsr I'atentu," which is sent free to anv address, and contains complete in- i structiotis how u ohtain Pntents ami other valuable ! matter, tuning the paat live years we have obtained ! nearly three thousand Patents for Americau and Koreicn ! inventors, and tan j;ive satisfactory references in almost : every county in the Union. Addr.s: Loni Bugger t C..Soliritors of Patents I and Atiornevsat Law, l.el)riit Buildint.-, V a.shlnsln. u. t . W.J. Heffelfinger's City Express WESTON and CENTERVILLE. I will deliver samls to and from any part ol aald title al most r . asouklr ram. Will carry rrright to and front BLUE MOTSTAIN STATION All orders left with Salln; & Horse. J. K. .tone, n y. ji. lauly at Weston, or took Irvine, C'-ntervts!.. will receive" my preuipt attention. Freight B-'s V.if invaiibly pai'j in advance 3 U if THE BLLK AND T1IE UUY VOU HASCtrCR. from the flowery (troves at the Southland ; And the fields of eott-oa and eane. To the wonderful lake, of Uw Northland, And the pine -clad Mill of Maine. Brave men are dwelling; by thousands, I Who once were ao hot to aiay. When aome wore toe blue of the L'nioa, And other confedamte gray. The panions of war bare subsided, 1 I Its hatreds have gone with the past. And now like an army of brothers, They all cum, together at hut. r My follow man who In battle, tVas brarest among the brave, yL.l whw, ha cn Bhilhe was ended, Wt.1 drat to console and save. M'lth hin. arc his warried soldiers, those that he faced in the fray; The moi. who wore blue are (or Hancock, j it:, those who have worn the gray. Pur peace and the. perfect Union ; 1 For brotherhood over the land. They are forming; shoulder to shoulder, And are marching hand in hand. S'ow, "Down with all thoughts of disunion ."' I Say those who have worn the grar, 'Away with all sectional feeling !" The blue-coated veterans say. Xli.'V rally for peace and for union. ! And who shall dare say them n&y ? They ruy in blue for Hancock, j fur Hancuok they rally in Kray. TRESPASSES ON V. S. LA3DS, ETC. Tlie following instructions have ben i-ecfived at the U. S. Land Office of this District : Washi.vgtos, D. C.July 17, 1880. Okntlemen: I have to direct your attention to the provisions of an act of Congress approved June 15, 1880, en titled "An act relating to the public lands of the United States," of which a copy is appended. Section 1 provides that when any lands of the United States shall have been ontere-j, antl the O-overnxient price i paid therefor, neither criiiiinnl nor civil I suits or ln'oceoili nfs shall ok had or further maintained for or on account of certain trespasses therein specified. Tlie first proviso W'-thfcr section re stricts its application to trespasser, ike., j to date prior to March 1, 1879. This section extends to such trespass- j ers the privilege of pnyiug for th land I upon which the offenses were so com- mitted, at the prices per acre fur which, j under the law in force at date of pay ment, the lands could be sold. This privilege of purchase is not confined to lands subject to private entry, but ex tends to any lands not mineral sub ject to disposition under general existing laws. This section cannot be construed to permit a party who falls within the class of offenders named to enter the land if the valid claim of another person shall have attached prior to his applica tion to purchase ands is still subsisting. Whenever application shall be made to purchase under t'nis section you will require tlie same to be presented under oath of the applicant, giving a full and detailed statement of all the facts upon which he bases his claim to purchase. Such sworn statement should be corrob orated by the affidavits of credible wit nesses, and you will thereupon forward 1 all the papers iu a special letter to this office allowing no entry until so directed ! ty me. Under section 2, duly qualified per i sons who, prior to June 15, 1880," en- tercd, under any of the homestead laws, lauds properly subject to such entry are I permitted tj obtain title by paying the ; ( i eminent price, less the fee and com j missions paid at date of original entry. ' When homestead entries made prior to June 15, 1880, have been attempted ! to be transferred by bona fide, instrument in writing, the persons to whom such ! transfers were made are likewise author ized to obtain title by like payment and , with like deductions of fees and commis i sinus. In allowing entries of the first- nanied class you will require proof that , the partv w-as twenty -one years of age; had declared, his intention to -become a ' citizen of the United States, and was in other respect entitled to make the entry. ! In permitting entries by transferees, you will require the instrument in writ- ; ing, by which it was sought to transfer such homestead right, to be filed, togeth er with the best evidence attainable of the Ixtna fiie character of the transfer, i including the affidavit of the party who seeks to purchase. You will exercise all possible i-:ir in this matter, as it is not improbable. th;:t frauduVnt entries will be :if.:r!j-'d, aftd !h: proper execution of the law will largely depend upon your vigilance and discretion. . In cases where in you entertain a doubt of the propriety of allowing the application to purchase, you should refer all the papers to this office, with a full statement of facts and your opinion. Under the proviso to this suction you are specifically instruct! to allow no i entry which interferes with an entry'of the land under the homestead laws made subsequent to jhe original tttr-f" on ; which application is made to enter under j section 2; and if the land was embraced j in a prior entry at date of such hoine I stead, the section is inoperative, inas- much as in that case the lnnd was not properly subject to entry. The applica tion to purchase must iikewi.se be reject ed, if at date of the original homestead entry a prior claim wliirh has not been abandoned or forfeited existed under any law. I do not construo this section as in- ' tending to permit the parties named as j conditional purchasers to make entry of tracts to which adverse legal rights have attached prior to date of the act. The third section reduces to one dollar and twenty -five cents per acre the price of any lands which were subject to ordi nary private entry at two dollars and fifty cents per acre at the date of the ap proval of the act, having been doubled in price by reason of the grant of alter nate sections for railroad purposes, and which were put in market at that price prior to tlie 1st of January, 1861. Lands which have not been put in mar ket for sale at ordinary private entry at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, or which were so put in market subsequent to the 1st of January, 1861, are not chanced in price "v this section. You will carefully observe the rule, as to price, thus introduced. ' By reference to i your official records, it will be in yor power to ascertain the facts with regard to any lands from which to decide as to its applicability to them. In case of doubt, you may correct your records to exhibit the facts by correspondence with this office. You will further observe that, under section 4, none of the provisions of this act apply to mineral lands, and that no person is entitled to the benefit of any provision of the entire act who falls within the inhibition named in this sec tion. Very respectfully, J. A. WILLIAMSON, Commissioner. The subject of caring for the insane is a question of no small imjiortance. Foi many years they have been kept by Dr. J. C. Hawthorne of East Portland under a contract with the State. At every meeting of the Legislature there has been an attempt made to change this method. The question of building a state asylum is now again before the people's repre sentatives. Tlie plea usually urged is that the state could keep those unfortun ates at a much less expense than by giv ing the contract to a private individual. When we compare the amount of money appropriated for this purpose .with the expense of State institutions, and add the cost of building a suitable asylum, the economy of a change is not verv ap parent. With the manner in which the insane are now kept we have never heard any complaint. This much cannot be said of institutions belonging to the State. Whatever gaiii might accrue from a change f the present system in a finan cial point of view, it is certain that the patients will never be better ket It is good legislation to' let well enough alone. A bill to regulate the practice of medi cine in Oregon is now before the Solons at Salem. We have not learned the pro visions of the bill but we hope that they are simple, and if they become law, will present no loophole through which their violators may pass with impunity. Al most every state in the Union has thou git it advisable to legislate on this important question. Since the passage of such a law in California our State has leen flooded with quacks, who could not receive the sanction of the State Medical Board to carry on their pernicious prac tice. Ir the bill will relieve the State of these pseudo Sons of Esculapius, we hore it will become law. SO-CALLED REBEL CLAIMS. The charge has been made by leading Republicans in Congress, and echoed by Republican newspapers, that the Demo cratic party proposes to pay all the so called Southern claims. A deluge of claims for losses incurred by the Confed erates during the war, it is asserted, will pour in upon Congress, and that body will empty the Treasury and bankrupt the country by appropriating the money !neices8ary to pay tnem. By careful figur ing they demonstrate that the payment of these imaginary 'claims will wreck the financial and industrial interests of the North, and that the South itself will go down in the common bankruptcy and ruin that will follow this wild extrava gance. . Just why a Democratic Congress, and a Democratic chief magistrate should wish to ruin and destroy the industries of the people, these alarrui-sts do not ex plain. In the catalogue of these imaginary claims which the Republicans assert will be settled by a Democratic Congress are claims for all the slaves that were eman cipated during the war, and for all losses incurred in aid of the rebellion bv the Confederate states and the people of the South. To show that there is neither sense nor sincerity in this vulgar clamor, it is only necessary to say, what is known to every intelligent man in the Republic, that all of these claims are forerer barred by the Constitution of tlie United States. No man of any party, in any section of the country, desires to see them paid. They are impossible claims, without a sin gle living "claimant" foolish enough to press them, and without a forum iu which a single one of them can be adjudicated The fourth clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is in the following words Sec. IV. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in surpressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But 'leither the. United States nor any state shall assume or pay any dept or ob ligation incurred in a:id of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave ; bill all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held ileyal and void. By this amendment to the Constitution all such claims are removed from the do main of discussion, and any attempt to agitate the question of their possible pay ment becomes the trade of the demagogue alone. General Hancock in his letter of acceptance expressly declares this and the other Constitutional amendment in violable in the following words : The thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, embodying the results of tlie war for the Union, are inviolable. If called to the Presidency I should deem it my duty to resist with all my power any attempt to impair or evade the full force and effect of the Constitution, which in every article, section and amendment is the supreme law of the land. The ; Constitution fornw the bas,is cf th e nov- eminent of the United States. The members of the Oregon Legisla ture met at L'alem on the morning of the 13th instant, and proceeded to a tempo rary organization immediately. In th ; Senate, C. W. Fulton, of Clatsop Coun ty, was made temporary Chairman, and in the House, C. P. Yates, of Multno mah, was made temporary Speaker. Committees on Credentials were appoint ed, who reported in the afternoon, when the Senate proceeded to a permanent or ganization by electing Mr. Sol. Hirsch, of Multnomah, President; J. C. Peebles, Chief Clerk; G. O. Holmes, Assistant Clerk; George Tatam, Sergeant-atarms; James Acton, Doorkeeper. In the House, the permanent organization is as follows : 7.. F. Moody, of Wasco, Spe-tk- j articles imported into this country, M Cr;C. B. Mnores, Chief Clerk;.!. W. ! hown by the last quarterly report of the cj. v n it j ( chief of the bureau of statistics, demon Strange, Assistant Clerk; L. C. Hada- ' , , , . . '. .. ' strates a tendency which, if persisted in, way, Seargeant-at-arms; T. A. Bacon. ! a.n ,ip.tr v,bis l.hmrnf tr.t Doorkeeper; Charier Cosper Laugbead, Pages. and L. Oh, yes ' You can rely on Wrbfoot oil at all times, night or day, as a sure cure for croup or spasm. Ask ijc it at McCoIU- Miller. OUR vasiiigtox letter; i Washington, D. a, Sept t, 1880 A There probably within twenyywr has never been an impending Prn&eft 1 tial campaign so much in dbt a tbe present one. Both sides crow, lustily tci keep their courage up, while at the same! time both are equally apprehensive! Right here t the capital of th ' je'inT wher there are so. ruaajotBcf holders it is difficult to get a iair expjyjnMn fj r f opinion this for the reison that the; "ins" want to stav in and the great ma-j jority allow their feelings to run away; with their judgment. For this reason in part there is the stiffest kind of confi dence among the office holders that Gen. ' Garfield is going to be elected. Turning r to that class who lias held office under j this and heretofore existing Republican.! -administrations and been disposessetL ! there is the same bias in the opinipu that ' a change is coming; that Hancock will: be elected, and that the "outs," includ ing this class will again be in. The Re-: publican campaign committee does not; regard Pennsylvania or Maine among ( the debatable states. Ther is confi-. dence that both will give good Republi-( can majorities, and that in Maine the majority of last year will be considerably augmented. The conceded debatable: states are New York, Indiana, Connecti--cut ani New Jersey. The Republicans do not feel at all uneasy about the Pacific , slope states. Mr. Blaine is to go to Cai- ifornia as soon as the Maine election is i Over, and his record on the Chinese ques-! tion and his .well known popularity iu :. that section are counted upon to pull the ; electoral votes of all the slope states to the Republican column. This the Dem-; ocratic committee or Democratic leaders ! do not concede. The debatable states claimed by the Democrats other than.! New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and , -Indiana, are California Nevada and Ore- j gon. It is in fact, in connection with ! these states, that during the Cincinnati j convention the claims of Justice Field i for the. presidential nomination were urged on the ground that he was the I only Democrat who could carry the Pa-' cific slope states, k j Mr. Joseph Nimms, Jr., chief of the ' bureau of statistics, has to-day given to j the press his long-expected report on the 1 commercial aspects of the proposed 1 American Inter-Oceanic canaL The i preparation of this report has involved i an immense amount of labor, since it is i based 'upon the commercial statistics of j all the principal commercial nations of j the globe. The result reached by Mr. j Nimins will cause disappointment to tlie , friends of the several canal projects, and , the most interesting chapter of the re- i port is the chapter on trans-continental ' railroads in determining the course of ' tritle between the Atlantic and Pacific ; ports of the United States, with respect ! to the routes by way of the Isthmus of j Panama, by Cape Horn, or by rail acrosx i the continent, are freight charges, time' ! risk, certainty of movement and facilities for distribution. The distance from San Francisco to New York by each of the i three existing routes is as follows: Via . Cape Horn, 1.3,610 miles; via the Fsth- ' mus of Panama, 5,260; across the conti- J nent by rail, 2,824. The average time j required for the transportation of freights i between San Francisco and New York ! by the above mentioned routes, is as foL lows : Via Cape Horn, (sailing vessels) j 125 days; via Isthmus of Panama (steam , vessels) 26; across the. continent by rail, : 20 to 25. The report is accompanied by j sixty-one appendixes containing valuable statistical and other statements. The large shipments of gold to this " country and the heavy balance of trade in our favor during the past Aionth, coupled with the prediction of Treasury i officials that this condition of affairs is ' likely to remain unchanged during ihn j i present month, affords a cheerful outlook. ', I An examination of the nature of tho- our favor. The tables show an iitftvaftA j in tltat cIpks of articles worn as laxprif), j which drain the country of voWyrith ont giving any return. - During the-pawt - j four months this increase has grown to alarming proportions, and the present rate threatens the balance of trade, i ' H. G: rr- ...