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THE ENTERPRISE.
PRECOX CUT, OREGON, .JULY 10 1374.
The Litigant taw.
During the late election this law
was made an issue in the campaign,
and all parties were pledged to its
repeal. We are of those who regard
party platforms and promises above
individual interests, and hence we
Consider it the duty of the next Leg
islature to repeal this act, let it fall
upon whom it will. The bill, how
ever, has been very much misrep
resented, and its merits have been
kept out of sight. The people have
been gulled withithe idea that their
liberty to contract with whom they
please had been infringed upon, and
that exorbitant prices have been
charged. by those who have held this
franchise. This is not so. The
prices charged are less than former
ly by the county press, as we have
frequently shown. Before, the pub
lishers charged what they pleased,
and should the bill be repealed and
no other provisions made to guard
the litigants, they will do so again.
There should be some protection for
the advertiser, and we apprehend
that the Legislature will feel it a du
ty to' the public to give them another
bill which will guard them against
exorbitant charges where they are at
the mercy of the publishers. The
question of price never enters into
consideration in this matter. If par
ties are at liberty to do their,, adver
tising where they please, the Demo
cratic officials will give their patron
age to Democratic papers and
Republicans give theirs to Republi
can papers. The same with attor
neys. The price is seldom, if ever,
asked, and hence i is no infringe
ment on what has been falsely called
the freedom of the people. The leg
islature, therefore, should make a
law by which partisan officials and
attorneys cannot keep up at extrav
agant rates their respective organs.
But we will now take other views
of the present bill. It is well known
to every intelligent man that there
are certain publications necessary to
be made antecedent to the consuma
tion of many legal proceedings. Be
fore subsequent steps can be taken,
in several suits at law, due notice'
must be given to defendants through
the public prints. Especially are
absent defendants interested in the
manner in which this notice is given,
"and lit knowing the definite direction
in which to look for its appeai-ance.
Without such a law as the well-abused
" litigant law," how can such ab-
CAn fnAc 1w nrnnm-lr infnrmpl n Q In
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the litigation instituted against
them? In many of the counties of
Oregon there are four or more ia
pers published, in any one of which,
under the former law, a legal publi
cation might be made. The defend
ant interested, being abroad, or even
at home, not a subscriber to the pa
per selected, could, "and we know of
many instances where they have
been, deprived of their rights in the
premises, in perfect ignorance that
they were at all in controversy. The
law does not compel any to take the
paper. It only suggests that they'
may look into some designated paper
for such information. In the city
of Portland there are seven papers
published, some of them very ob
scure. Yet, if any one desired, they
it ii" i i. i l: -1 1
most obscure paper in that city, and
persons whoreside next door to the
office would not bo aware that they
w had a legal notice concerning them
selves printed.
o It is argued that the present mode
of selecting the litigant organs is
unjust, and that it gives undue in
fluence to the appointing power.
Wo have too high a regard for the
publishers of any of the papers who
enjoy the present franchise to believe
that they can be actuated in their
duty as journalists for the con
temptible little support they receive
thronirh this bill. We feel oursolf
c
under no more obligations to' Gov.
O Groycr for giving us tho franchise
than we M ould to the individual who
patronizes us under the act. But
should the bill be repealed, and all
parties have said it nfhst be, wo cer
tainly shall feel under obligations to
the officials or attorneys who shall
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make the press subservient to the
dispensors of the county patronage,
while now, the duty of the Governor
is plain, and lie must comply with
tho law. If it gives the Governor
too much power, let the appointing
power be transferred to the Judges,
or some other person. But one
thing is certain, the Legislature can
not "regulate" the price of adver
tising unless it gives to some parties
n franchise thereby. The law, as
far as we are concerned has not been
Vof any benefit to us. On the con
trary, it has beerf a detriment. Wo
are in earnest when we say the Leg
islature should5repeal the act. But
we would caution them not to leave
the doors open too far for the pub
lishers of papers to ag-ain charge, as
they did before the'passage of the
present act, what they pleased, and
were paid without a word from their
partisan supporters.
The New York 11 V thinks that
the most significant feature of the
result in Oregon is the complete fail-
ure oi
tuo so-caUeJ rnderondenC '
movement.
The Dawn of Brighter Days.
Under this head the San Francisco
Examiner says that the principles of
political economy, which during so
many years have been ignored by the
Radicals . in dealing with financial
questions, are now asserting their
power. Thirteen years of erroneous
teaching has failed, to convince the
country that .irredeemable paper
could be made by Acts of Congress
and decisions of the Supreme court
the equivalent of gold and silver.
The few Democratic members of the
Senate and House, aided by the
Democratic press, have at least caus
ed the true standard of value to be
recognized, and the moral value of
their triumph is enhanced by the
fact that a thorough conversion on
that subject has taken place in the
mind of President Grant. A few
years ago, when there was an oppor
tunity to have declared that gold
and silver were the legal measures
of value, he neglected .to improve
the occasion,. but appointed Justices
whose decisions, given soon after
their appointment, confirmed by the
dictum of our highest tribunals, a
fallacy iwhich has yet many support
ers. The effect of the decision to
which we refer has not only been
used to keep afloat the largo amount
of irredeemable paper issued during
the war, but it has created a party
who in time of peace desire to fur
ther increase its volume under vari
ous pretexts.
Only a few months ago the infla
tionists succeeded in passing a bill
to permit tho National Banks to in
crease their issues, and it authorized
tho Treasury Department to do t':e
same in a similar proxjortion. The
amount of circulating notes that
would have been authorized, had the
bill received executive approval, was
8S00.000.000. The elections held in
several States immediately prior to
the passage of the bill proved to tho
Px-esident that the scheme met popu
ulr condemnation, and when he ve
toed it we awarded him the credit
deserved by his resistance to a 'ring'
of speculators marshaled by the lead
ers of the party with which he had
acted in the past. We predicted in
our remarks that he had broken with
Radicalism, and in doing so had giv
en the ism, so long powerful for evil,
its death-blow.
The Butlers, the Mortons and Lo
gans, had long directed, by legisla
tive combinations, the policy of tho
country. The unexpected defeat of
their inflation scheme did not dis
courage them. They have improved
their time to devise other projects to
to meet the president's objections.
They have endeavored to accomplish
their purposes by reducing the
greenback issues and allowing the
National Banks to inflate in a certain
ratio which would have effected their
object while apparently meeting the
objections to their first plan contain
ed in the veto message. The artifice
has proved to be too transparent. It
was tho same scheme clumsily dis
guised. It was to allow the Banks
an increased share of the profits of
issuing paper money. Tho time had
come for Presedent Grant to define
his position, and he did so, some
days ago, in a semi-official manner,
by writing a letter to Senator Jones
in which he makes known the prin
ciples that will guide his actions on
the currency question. He desires
that on July first, 187G, the currency
of the United States shall be equiva
to gold, and that the Centennial may
be marked by the fulfilment of our
promises to public creditors.
Wo have perused the "memoran
dum," and it deserves the approval
of every Democrat. In this contest
with the inflationists Grant has
sought argument to maintain his po
sition, and he finds it in tho able
Stato papers of the democratic Pres
idents. The messages of Jackson
and Van Buren contain in plain lan
guage the arguments which Presi
dent Grant might have quoted with
advantage had he felt disposed to ac
knowledge that in this issue ho had
derived support from their messages.
Though he has omitted to pay that
small tribute of respect to tho writ
ings of the illustrious dead, the De
mocracy know where the arguments
originated, and have reasons to con
gratulate themselves that they have
been unearthed to instruct the coun
try at the present time. The ability
to have our national issues" of paper
redeemable in coin in 1876 is verj
probable. After the panic of Sep
tember gold fell to 106. Had not
the policy of inflation been carried
out by the illegal issues of Mr.
Richardson, our notes might now be
at par in gold. With that gentleman
out of the Treasury, and an honest
energetic man in his place, public
confidence will be restored, and the
appreciation of the currency by the
slightest per centatre Tier mnn tVi
bring it to par even before the sun
of
yuij oi ioid, uawns upon tho
land."
Grant Offered a Third Term.
A correspondent of the St. Louis Re
publican says: Grant means a third
term. He don't want the Radical or
ganization to be kept in line. He
wants it demoralized so that its nom
ination of any other man would not
amount to anything if it should nom
inate any other, and meanwhile he is
industriously at work gathering in
all the elements of personal strength
that are lying about loose.
Beautiful souls have beautiful
thoughts, and beautiful thoughts
make beautiful faces. Our looks are
i t a i : i ,
governed anuusi euureiy uy our
i thoughts and actions.
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Our Special Washington tetter.
Washington, June 22, 1874. -The
District Investigation has run
its course and the Committee has
presented its report, in which it
condemns the acts of the District of
ficials from beginning to end; pro
nounces tho present form of govern
ment a complete failure, and closes
by recommending its abolition, and
the substitution, until the next ses
sion of Congress, of a Commission
of three persons with limited powers
and the appointment of a committee
to prepare a plan of permanent or
ganization. This bill came before the
House and was passed almost unani
mously, and its passage has been ef
fected in the Senate, and even with
less debate than in the House and
without amendment. As there is
little doubt that it will receive tho
President's signature, it may as well
be considered as the law for the
guidance of the inhabitants of the
District, at least until the next sess
ion of Congress. The main reason
for its hurried passage, without
amendment, and almost without de
bate, was that unless so summarily
disposed of, there was no chance of
it3 getting through in the last days of
the session. Yet if there is any truth
in the rumors as to the legal defects
and crudeities of the bill, it would
have saved much future trouble and
many perplexities had it been sub
jected to discussion and amendment
in both Houses. It is hoped, how
ever, in the interest of the people of
the District that when the Act is
practically tested these defects will
not prove formidable as predicted.
On the 10th inst. the Civil Service
Bill came up for the consideration of
the House, and was met by a telling
speech from Gen. Benj. F. Butler, in
which he joured forth a stream of
sarcasm and contempt on this scheme
which the President so earnestly sup
ports. . Though some few of the
members were bold enough to speak
out their thoughts on tho subject,
the larger number quietly allowed
the Bntlerites to pass the bill so
amended as to virtually discontinue
the Commission; (i.e.,) the amend
ment provides that the money previ
ously appropriated for the use of the
Civil Service Board, should bo con
veyed into the Treasurj', thus depri
ving them of their means of exis
tence. The truth is the scheme has
very few real friends in Congress.
Even those members who have been
its most active supporters, and who,
of course, are desirous of seeing a
reform in the civil service, express
themselves as being greatly dissatis
fied with the manner in which the
President has administered it at
times enforcing it rigidly, and at
others waiving his "rules" for the
benefit of some favorite in pnrsuit of
office.
After the astonishing defeat in the
House, and failure of tho currency
bill to pass in the Senate, last week,
the Conference Committee have pre
sented another which on Saturday
got through the House by the large
majority of 221 to -10. This new bill
is apparently intended to propitiate
the West. It gives that section fifty
five million dollars, more currency,
at the expense of the East. An im
portant inducement to accept tho
boon will bo that no reserve will
have to be held against the notes
which will make their issue a much
more valuable privilege. On the
other hand there is no positive in
crease of the circulation against
which the hard money party could
object. Thus the bill is a comprom
ise between the two parties, and will
probably place a quietus on this long
vexed qustion for some time to come.
As the time for the adjournment
has been set both Houses have been
unusually active. The House is far
in advance with business, and but
for having met with a serious obsta
cle, in the presence of the Civil
Rights Bill, would bo ready to ad
journ at the appointed time. This
bill on reaching the House was
placed on the Speaker's table. It
now becomes a stumbling-block in
this wise: If the House proceeds to
business on the Speaker's table, all
bills come up in their turn, and be-
fore long the civil rights bill would
be reached. If reached there is a
clear majority to pass it. Thus, ap-J
parently, the only wny to keep it
back isto refuse to goto the business
on the tblc, which requires a two
third vote, and this the supporters
of the bill do not possess. But the
trouble comes up in another form,
for not only is the 6ivil rights bill on
the table, but also a multitude of
small jobs, such as land grants, relief-bills,
and railroad subsidies.
Many of these bills would pass, but
those interested in them are afraid
to order legislation which will reach
them, inasmuch as tho civil rights
bill is between the layers of the mass
of documents on the Speaker's table,
and would before long come up for
consideration. So, unless some com
promise is made the civil rights bill
must fail, but its failure will he
shared by a host of those bills, which
are the dread of all economically dis
posed persons lobby bills.
With regard to the adjournment,
it is generally conceded that by hav
ing sessions night and day Congress
will be able to adjourn on the 23d
day of June.
The publication of the President's
"memorandum" on the finance ques
tion has elicited much comment.
Though it was quite generally known
that he was in favor of a speedy re
turn to specie payments, still the
expression of his own private views
on this subject was totally unexpec
ted. Some of his recommendations
are wise while others would be im
possible to put in practice. To con
clude he says that if all the condi
tions he lays down are complied
with, he then sees no objection to
free banking. This is the only con
cession he makes, and the "paper
money people" will doubtlessly have
to put up with it. R. D. M.
Telegraphic News.
Washington, July 3. General
Ketchum to-day accepted the ap
pointment of District Commissioner.
He was selected after the President
had held an interview with Denni
son and Blow, who said the appoint
ment would be very agreeable to
them.
The committee of army officers ap
pointed to select a model for the
equestrian statue of Gen. George H.
Thomas have agreed upon that des
ignated by Ward, and will have the
statue erected in Washington if the
necessary appropriations shall be
made by Congress.
New York, July 3. The overland
railroads are reducing freight rates
to San Francisco just before the de
parture of each steamer, and increas
ing them afterward. The steamers
are consequently , carrying freight at
twenty-five dollars per ton.
Over twenty-one thousand emi
grants landed here during the month
of June.
Jewell, Minister at St. Petersburg,
has accepted, by cable, the Postmas
ter Generalship. Marshal, First As
sistant Postmaster Gen. will serve
until the arrival of Jewel.
Omaha, July 3. The Union and
Central Pacific roads have re-established
the second-class fares taken
off two years ago. The prices by
second class express train from this
city to San Francisco, Sacramento,
Stockton, . Maryeville and Lathrop
are $75. The fare to Cheyenne is
25; Ogden, SCO; to Salt Lake, $G2.
Philadelphia, July '3. Lewis,
trustee, has received a letter from
tho President of the Oregon Steam
Navigation Company inclosing 'a
check for a dividend on ,91,500,000
stock held for the estate, amounting
to 837,500 in gold, which was ex-
Lchanged for currency, and produced
over 341,000.
D. L. Watson has been appointed
Collector of Customs for the South
ern district of Oregon.
A. H. Holt, of Illinois, it is said,
will be appointed Chief Clerk of the
Internal Revenue Bureau, vice Mr.
Avery, appointed Chief Clerk of the
Treasury Department.
Charleston, (S. C), July 3. The
Governor pardoned the three County
Commissioners of Marion County,
lately convicted of malfeasance in
offieo and sentenced to imprison
ment. Buffalo, July 5. A party of eight
were outT sailing on Lake Erie last
night, when the boat capsized and
five of the party were drowned.
New Haven, July 6. The number
of wounded in the Stony Creek dis
aster is now given at 7S; the larger
number only slightly. Every car
was overturned and the engine
thrown partly upright. Tho acci
dent was caused by a switcii becom
ing misplaced before tho whole train
had passed.
The town of Pontiac, Illinois was
nearly consumed by fire on tho 4th.
The fire was caused by lire crackers.
Tho loss is estimated at $200,000.
bT. 1'aul, juiyo. a dispatch re
ceived from Pembina to-da' states
that a party of Sioux. Indians at
tacked the settlement of St. Joseph
yesterday and killed four persons.
Several children are missing. A de
tachment of soldiers have started
for the scene of the massacre.
w AsiiiNiiTox, July u. it now ap
pears that the report of the military
court which tried Gen. Howard and
exhoncrated him entirely, was car
ried by tho votes of Generals Sher
man, Meigs, Reynolds and Miles.
The opinion of the Court was sent to
Judge Advocate Holt for review
The review is verv elaborate. He
criticises the action of tho majority
in manv instances excluding testi
mony, and dissents from the views of
the Court on many important par
ticulars. He attributes to Howard
inexcusable ignorance in his man
management of the Bureau.
San Francisco, July 7. Dispatch
es from all parts of the State show
that the 4th of July was generally
and patriotically observed.
Victoria Woodhull says a grand
Stato Convention of women will
soon be held here for the purpose of
considering the social and free love
questions af the day, and declares
that California will be the banner
Stato in the grand free love move
ment. The funeral of Dr. Julius Eckman
the First Jewish itabbi who came to
California, took place this afternoon,
and was largely attended.
Owen Thorne, a prominent Demo
cratic politician, is under arrest for
having used vulgar language to the
Chief of Police. The Chief denies
the statement published in the pa
pers, that he caused Thorn's arrest.
Salinas, July 7. -Mr. Tully, one
of Vasquez's counsel, has been in
town for several daj-s, and avers
that himself and client are ready to
proceed to trial at once.
Washington, July 7. J. D. Mills
the Indian Agent at Osage City,
Kansas, telegraphs that large bands
of Indians are now on the war path,
and that they had killed and scalped
five persons near Cheyenne. It is
supposed that over 2,000 Indians are
on tho war path.
The War Department has ordered
the Sixth Cavalry to the scene of
hostilities.
Foreign Telegraphic News.
London, July 5. The anniversary
of American Independence was cele
brated at St. Petersburg with a din
ner at the United States Legation.
Minister Jewell presided.
Bayonne, July 5. Tho Carlist3
have again invested Bilboa on all
sides.
Santander is being- threatened by
strong bodies of Carlists. The au
thorities have telegraphed for rein
forcements. Several ships of war
have moved up ready for action.
Madrid, July 2. The Carlists at
Estella number 38,000 men. They
energetically deny the massacre or
mutilation of prisoners.
.The Vermont Democratic State
Convention, yesterday, nominated
for Governor, W. H. H. Bingham;
for Lieutenant Governor, Henry
Chase; for Treasurer, Otis Chamber
lain. Resolutions were adopted re
newing devotion to the Democratic
party, favoring the repeal of the pro
hibitory law and the adoption of a
stringent license law. The conven
tion was largely attended.
Epitaph for a ; cannibal " One
who loves his fellow-men."
Territorial News Items.
J. C. Robbins of Owyhee, Idaho,
was recently arrested for bigamy.
S. T. Ross of Vancouver, has been
returned to the Insane Asylum at
Steilacoom.
Flour is $22 50 per barrel at Hel
ena, Montana, and but little to be
had at that price.
The population of Yakima county,
W. T., is 1,026, 481 of this number
being children.
Geo. Harrington was shot and in
stantly killed by a man named Gibbs
at Granite, Col., on the 4th inst.'
A Mr. McCormack was instantly
killed by a man named Ritchie, near
Fountain, Colorado, on the 24th tilt.
Farmers in the Sound country say
that grain and hay will be better
than any cut before for ten years.
A little child of Mr. Kulper, re
siding on Lewis river, got lost in the
woods on the 23d inst, and was not
found until the next day.
There is a lamb in Idaho whose
head and neck are covered with
what might be called feathers. It
has but one eye, set in the centre of
its head.
The Indians in Washington Terri
tory seem to be in trouble about
"new departures" in Indian Affairs
by Government officials.
Tho Supreme Court of Washing
ton Territory will convene in Olym
pia on the 13th inst., Chief Justiee
Jacobs presiding.
Prof. A. B. Nicholson of New York
has accepted the professorship of the
Territorial University at Seattle, and
is expected soon to take charge of
the institution.
It is reported that the Yakima
river will prospect anywhere from
three to five cents per pan of dirt,
and miners are rocking out from two
to five dollars per day.
Rev. Mr. Condon after visiting the
Seattle coal mines, for scientific pur
poses, gave it as his opinion that the
coal formation is from peat, chiefly,
and is some 60 million years old.
The Washington Standard, pub
lished at Olyrnpia, under date of
July 4th, comes to us in illuminated
patriotic colors, "red, white and
blue."
John M. Murphy, editor of the
Olyrnpia Siandard, has been elected
a director of the Olyrnpia Sc Tenino
Railroad Company. There are twelve
other directors, two of them beside
Murjdiy being printers.
An appropriation has been gr.-nted
by Congress for a survey of Snake
river from Shoshone Falls to Lewis
ton, with a view of ascertaining the
cost of the removal of obstructions
to navigation.
Parties of five or more can obtain
excursion tickets to Puget Sound
and Victoria at the reduced rates
over the Northern Pacific railroad
Company's line.
l)r Ollson writes to a friend in Vir
ginia, Montana, an interesting ac
count of the Stickine mines. Ho is
of the opinion that they are a bilk of
huge dimensions.
The Montana election will take
place on the 3d day of August. The
Democrats will probably put up
Hon. Martin McGirmis for re-election
to Congress.
In the trial of Wintermuto for the
killing of Gen. McCook in Dakota,
the jury returned a verdict of man-
siaugnrer in me nrst degree. a. new
trial is demanded.
Tho Rev. Norman McLood has
leen appointed to represent the New
Northwest at the National Council
of the Congregational Association, to
be held in Newhaven in October
next.
We are happy to see by reports
from Ottawa, writes a Canadian ex
change, that tho proposed union of
the Presbyterian bodies in this Pro
vince is likely to lie ensily and im
mediately accomplished.
The Piocho Record remarks of an
Alta woman: "They are blessed with
a live woman at Alta, Nevada. This
sweetness locates a mining claim,
sells it, and then gets her husband
to shoot the purchaser. This amiable
lady has evidently solved the diffi
cult problem of sclliug property and
yet retaining the ownership."
The Fourth at Albany. Tho
Fourth of July was celebrated in a
magnificent manner at Albany. Del
egations from the Portland and Sa
lem Fire Department arrived on the
express train the evening before, and
on the morning of tho Fourth the
Corvallis Fire Deparment arrived, on
a special steamer chartered for the
purpose. At ten, a. m., the proces
sion formed at the Court House, led
by the brass bands of Albany and
Corvallis. The Liberty Car was fit
ted up magnificently. The oration,
jriven by Hon. Mr. Shoup, of Port
land, was well received and appreci
ated. In the afternoon the firemen's
drill took place. Fireworks and a
grand ball in the evening closed the
exercises.
Tho pay and perquisites of Presi
dent Grant for tho four years of his
present term amount in round figures
to $362,000; those of President Lin
coln during four years amounted to
6194,000. Thus four years of Grant
cost the country 268,000 more than
four years of Lincoln; and Grant
says: " I would provide for an excess
of revenue over current expenses. I
would do this by rigid economy."
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Capt. I. W. Smith has just com
pleted his survey of the Upper Will
amette river. He estimates the cost
of the required improvements to ren
der the river navigable at low water,
in four parts as follows: First, from
Oregon City to Albany, 825,000; se
cond, from Albany to Corvallis, 818
000; third, Corvallis to Long Tom,
825,000; fourth, Long Tom to nar
risburg, 825,000. Total, 893,000.
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The -papers contain a report that
L. S. Lang, a wealthy breeder of
fine stock in Maine, a relative of J.
W. Nesmith, contemplates removing
to Oregon, with a view to engage in
fine stock raising in the Willamette
valley.
Summary of State News Items.
Mr. Smith, of Corvallis is stricken
with the small-pox.
The Woman's Rights Club at For
est Grove has collapsed.
The new steamboat at Yaquina will
make her maiden effort this week.
Jacksonville is rapidly outgrowing
the devastations of the great fire.
The mountain road from Linn
county to Ochoco is fairly opened.
An elegant Catholic Church is to
be built at McMinnville this sum
mer. The famous Virtue Mine of Baker
county will soon be put in operation
again.
The Albany Register is offered for
sale, the present proprietor intend
ing to go East.
The haying season has commenced
in the valley counties. The crop
will be an unusually large one.
It is estimated that Linn county
will this year produce over a million
and a half bushels of wheat.
Sarah Edwards, a Baker City wom
an, made two attempts to drown her
self in Powder river, last week.
Fall wheat is beginning to fill.
Thousands of acres of it stands six
and seven feet high.
The Odd Fellows and Grangers of
Summerville, Union county, are mak
ing preparations to erect ft hall
jointly.
Lieutenant Brodie passed through
La Grande on the 28th, with a com
pany of soldiers bound for Camp
Harney. .
Ten thousand dollars were paid
out in Union county for cattle in last
month, and many fat droves are still
for sale.
G. P. Goodall, of Baker City, is
out of luck. Last week one of his
8300 horses broke his leg, and a 8500
sickened and died.
The snow was two inches.deep on
Oliver Creek, Grant county, on the
17th of June, and remained on the
ground twenty-four hours.
It is reported that valuable gold
mines have been discovered on the
headwaters of Briggs Creek, in Jose
phine county.
Minnie Myrtle Miller left Empire
City for San Francisco with her
mother, who is in feeble health, hist
week.
The Moor sawmill on Panther
creek, Yamhill county, owned by
Messrs. Stephenson Sc Wright, was
burned last Monday.
The Masons of Jacksonville intend
building a two-story brick this sum
mer, the upper story to be used as a
hall and the lower one for stores.
The case of Wm. C. Pettyjohn,
charged with arson at ralem, was
dismissed last Friday, after examin
ing about forty witnesses.
Most of the sheep raisers have
sheared their last sheep. Tue wool
clip is bettor than ever before, both
as to quality and amount.
Work lias commenced on the wag
on road from Canyon City to intersect-
the Winnemucca wagon road.
It is intended to finish the road to
Malheur Agency this season.
The late rains in Powder river val
ley have prevented the necessity of
artificial irrigation. Crops of all
kinds, especially small cereals, look
better than usual.
Hugh Starr, of Independence,
eloped with Miss Nichols, of Dallas,
last Saturday. They were married
by a Justice at Portland, before the
enraged parents of the bride arrived.
A Salem correspondent learns of
but one farm in Marion county on
winch the wheat crop3 were injured
by the rains. Nearly all wheat fields
in that county promise remarkably
well.
A man named Thos. J. Watson tri
ed suicide by laudanum at Albany,
Thursday. A doctor interviewed
him with a stomach pump, and now
atson says he will try it again.
On tho 27th oflasfc month, while
out driving near Forest Grove, Miss
Putnam. Miss Goodsell and Mr. Put
nam were thrown from a buggy and
severely injured.
Santiam Lodge No. 27, I. O. O. F.
elected the following officers for tho
ensuing term, at their regular meet
ing, June 25th: W.H.Stewart, N.
G.; D. Norton. V. G.; F. L. Cran
fill, R. S.; J. W. Tate, Treas.
Union, Union county, is building
up since it has the county seat. Dr.
M. Baker has the foundation laid for
a new drug store, and several dwell
ings aro in course of erection.
The La Grande iSniinc says "the
question is being agitated whether
the Sheriff, Clerk and Treasurer will
not attempt to hold over for the want
of a legal County Court, fcc."
Allen Rhodes, who formerly kept
a fish market on State street, and left
for tlie East less than a year ago, re
turned with his family to Salem last
Thursday. Couldn't'stand Connect
icut. A. J. Marshall has been appointed
Deputy Recorder under Mr. Story,
of Multnomah county, and B. L.
Norton has-been appointed Deputy
Sheriff under Mr. Jeffries. Both are
excellent appointments.
i... T n-n . !
uaiiiiuty ocuuii:, o line i4in. Arn-,
go Lodge No. 28 I. O. O. F., elected
ney, Treas
Tho Success landed at the mouth of
Mary's river, Benton county, last
Wednesdey, the large turbine water
wheei intended for use in the flouring
mill now being erected by Messrs!
Hurst, Grey & Co., on the site of the
one burned fast year.
The statistical report of the State
Sunday School Convention at Port
land, shows the following for the
past year: Total number of schools
as far as obtained, 7G; total number
enrolled, including officers and teach
ers, 7,254; total number of officers
and teachers, 926; total number of
volumes in libraries, 6,754; total col
lections for all purposes, 82,611; to
tal number of papers each month,
4,903. Twenty-eight schools make
no report on papers.
the following oincers for the ensuing
year: C. C. Dryden, N. G.; John
E. Metz, V. G.; T. G. Owen, R. 8. ;
Thos. Bradley, P. S.: H. P. "Whit
A lively interest is taken by Linn
county farmers in the subject of ?
narrow-guage railway between AlL
ny and laquiua Bay. It seem
meet with the greatest favor and it
the project is put upon a proper ba
sis, they will contribute liberally
ward its construction.
Prices of lands in Lane cmt
vary from 810 to 830 perTf
land under cultivation, owing to ill
remoteness from market, quality of
land etc. Good improved land can
be purchased all the way from 3 t
820 per acre in that county. v
Charles Logsdon killed three con
gars in Blodgett's valley, Benton
county, on Sunday, June 28th one
of which measured nine feet in
length. Two Scotch terriers treed
them. In the stomrch of one cougar
a sheep's ear was found, bearing the
mark of the person who slayed him.
The La Grande Times says: Grand
Ronde valley is situated on the great
sugar beet latitude, and the experi
ence of persons will warrant the con
clusion that there is no country or
land that will yield ft greater number
of pounds or a better article than
Union county. Thousands of acres
of land can be found in a body that
will yield 500 bushels or 25,000 lbs
to the acre.
Bishop Morris of the Episcopal
Church, held servico at the Congre
gational Church in the Dalles one
evening last week, on which occasion
Mrs. Geo. H. Knaggs and her two
children, Misses Amanda and Annie
Thornbury and Miss Myra B. Hand,
were confirmed members of the
Church. Also Mr. Harry Kerrison's
daughter Mary and Miss Cora Allen,
were baptized. '
Mr. Joseph Southwell, a wool
grower near the Dalles, raised 5,786
pounds of wool from a band of 800
sheep (an average of a little over
seven pounds per head), which ho
sold for 25 cents a pound, realizing
the snug little sum of 81,446 .75. He
has also an increase of 500 lambs
which he values at 82 per head this
makes 81,000 more. Total increase
from 800 sheep for one year over
82,400.
On Tuesday of last week a largo
number of people from various parts
of the State, but principally from
Corvallis and Benton county met in
tho Court-House, at Corvallis. for
the purpose of hearing about the im
provement of the Willamette river,
and- of taking steps lonking to tho
construction of a railroad to Yaquina
Bay. The attendance was large, and
much interest was manifested in tho
subject.
Following is a list of the fleeces
sheared from Col. Joe Teal's thor
oughbred Spanish Merino bucks
last week: Warior, 23 pounds,!Gor
ernor, 21; Crusader, 16; Challenge.
25 H; Robert, 20; Ocean wave, l'J';
Chief, 165 J; Wiftiam Tell 20; B.
Goldsmith, 20; Rising Sun, 22; Or
egon Boy, 18: Shakespeare- 19; Far
mer, 20; Green Moifntain. 17: Gol
den Age, 24Ji; Young America, 17,'.
His thoroughbred Merino e-e.iLfar-ed
an average of 13f pounds.
Tho 3fttntaiieer of tho 4ih snvs:
Deputy Sheriff AV. G. PicEett. and
Wm. Foster, of Ochoco, arrive.1 hero
on last Tuesday afternoon with two
men who were arrestrnl at Eugen
Luckey's house, on Crooked river,
on the 25th of June, for house break
ing. These men lately came over
the mountains from the Willamette
valley. They gave their names as
Micheal Donovan and Samuel White.
Donovan says he worked thjs spring
on the new capitol building at Salem
as a hod -carrier. Their chances for
the penitentiary; seem excellent and
beyond perad venture.
The Jacksonville Times says a
shooting affray occured last week in
Josephine county, about five miles
from Kerbyville which resulted in
the death of John IMiaatter. It ap
pears that Mrs. Briggs, wife of
"GoTernov" Briggs, with her son
David, went to the hoxise where Del
matter was teaching school, and ac
cused him t seducing her daughter,
which he denied. After parteving
some time, Mrs. Briggs informed
him she had come to settle the matter.
Delmatter seeing young Briggs with
a Henry rifle, went to t.fke it away
from him. Mrs. Brings followed
him, beating him over the head with
a cane she had brought along with
her, but he finally got possession of
the gun. Mrs. Briggs and the ly g
men went lor him, and by sundry
manoeuvers sueeeeded m
throwing:
hini and recovering the
boy then drew up the weapon and
shot four times, one or more taking
enect. Delmatter lingered several
hours. School was in progress and
the house full of children at the time.
liritish Columbia News Items.
The Agricultural Show will be held
at Victoria on Thursday tho Sth day
of Octobei.
W. A. Macdougall, a native of
New Brnswick, was drowned at Bur
rard's Inlet, a few days ago,.
Tenders for the construction of
the Comas wharf have been opened
and the contract award en to Mr. Mc
Phie of Coinox, for 83,370.
Tho officers of the wrecked vessel
"Prince Alfred," have been transfer
rod to the Taber, with the exception
of the Captain and Chief Engineer.
Victoria gave up Saturday after
noon to the celebration of the anni
versary of tho Oaeen's coronation.
The chief feature was tho horse race
T ir.Ml
" JJcnv.uu Xll.il.
It is expected that the steamer
Ventura will take the place of the
Prince Alfred on the San Francisco
route. The Wm. Tabor is nowun
ning temporarily.
The Victoria Standartl savs that
Mr. and Mrs. Suir,Sr.,of Woodside
Farm, Sooko, recently celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of their wedding.
There were present at dinner twenty-eight
descendants, oomprising
children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren. The old couple wero
drawn around the farm in a buggy
by the younger ones.
The Colonist says : Mr Pearse is
about to recommence the work of
dredging the harbor of Victoria. The
rooks will be blasted out. Pia?
powder and nitro-glycerine will be
largely used in the blasting opera'
tions, which will involve many
month's labor. Captain Devereaux,
a worthy and competent gentleman,
will probably be placed in charge of
the entire works.