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o c. D O THE ENTERPRISE. OREGON CITY, UREGO.N, NOV. 37, 1371. Important '.to Our Readers. In accordance with the pz&lal law, from anl after ttise first of January, all postage on jTipers ninst bo paid at the office -where they are mailed. "Wo shall therefore, after that date be required to -pay postago on all the papecfs whicii go outside of our own county. Tis 'will add a heavy expense to us ery week, which we are willing to bear on condition that all subscriptions are paid in advance, and we shall be compelled to enforce pro-payment in all cases after that date. "We cannot afford to supply our readers a paper and pay their postage fff fthem and wait for our pay one, v'6, threo or four years.. "We muf adopt the pro-payment system.' On the first of Janu ary we shall commence the pre-pay system, and from and after that date we do not propose to enter any names on our sr Ascription list that are not paid in ".dvance. "Wo shall also discontinue such of our present patrons as are in arrears to us, as we may deem proper. It is hard for a newspaper to gt its just dues at best, and when it comes to paying out money for sllw subscribers, it is more than most ft the country press can stand. Thill .re-pay system is the best and oiy correct one on which newspapers can bo success fully conducted, and we propose in the future to devote the means we have heretofore appropriated to buy vhito paper ami pay for labor for slow or non-paying subscribers, to the improvement :f our paper for the benefit of taoso who do pay promptly. "We desire those who will bo dis continued to understand that this move is not out of any disrespect for them, or doubting their willingness to pay, but necessity requires us to make a rule to apply to all, and we cannot discriminate between the good and llioso wotdo not know their dispositions. As Ao are busily en gaged all our tim In our office du ties, wo have notUno to devote to collecting up old accounts, and hence, wo shall give the bills into the hands of a gentleman for collec tion. The paper being discontinued to a person in arrears will not liqui date the debt, and wc propose to collect what is due us. . Hemember that we shall furnish the japer at tho present subscription rate, $2 50, postage pid, in all cases where ad vanco payment is made. We hope that our patrons will pay us what is due, and trust" that we shall not be required to discontinue any of our subscribers on account of this change. Having trusted them in the past, wo think they can now, when the necessity of the case requires it, trust us in the future. The Itcsult. The San Francisco Examiner, in an article what the result of a Demo cratic House -will be, says that the fruits of the recent victory will be the discovery of the leaks through which so much of tho public treasure has been wasted, and the saving by an economical administration of the Government of thirty or forty mil lions of dollars in tho next general appropriation bill. That sum, as large as it is, may be saved without in any degree inquiring the efficien cy of any department of Government. The expenses of the Administration, less the amount paid toward extin guishing the public debt, will prove this. During the last fiscal year the expenses were 320,000,000. In Sec , retary Boutwell's report of 1872 the gross expenditures were $361,G9 1,229, out of which with the premium on gold sales the sum of nearly one hun dred million, was paid to reduce the Federal debt. At that period the interest on that item was 117,359, 829, leaving the ordinary expenses S153,199,SGG, which wero higher than was thought necessary by manv of the Republican leaders. The expenditures of 1871 have largely exceeded the estimates of Mr. Bout well, and there is not the anticipated surplus of thirty-three million after allowing for interest on the public debt and a sinking fund of twenty nine millions. Tho promises made by tho Administration to the people have not been kept, and the rebuke it has received from them, as all ini partial persons "will admit, has been most justly deserved. The differ ence in tho ordinary expenditures letween the year 1S72 and 1S71 ex ceeds fortv millions. (wheat Men Coming to the Front. It is stated that the probabilities are that Judge J. S. Black will be elected Senator from Pennsylvania; Ex-Gov. Seymour, of New York; Henry Clay Dean, of Missouri, and Dan. W. Yoorhees, of Indiana. If the De mocracy elect such men as the above to the Senate, the time for small brained individuals is fast drawing to an end. All the above are men of eminent ability and unimpeachable characters. Such minds are needed in the councils of fho nation. O O Returned. Hon. II. G. -Strove, Secretary of Washington Territory, returned home last week thorough ly vindicated of all charges against his official and personal character. Happy Over the Result. If there is a place in the Union where a Democratic paper has just grounds to be happy over the recent victory, that place is Massachusetts. The Boston Post may therefore be pardoned for itst exuberance of joy at the result of the 3d inst. "We quote: "Were the Boston Post ten columns larger than it is, it could not adequately express its gratifica tion at the results which its crowded pages this morning so gladly chron icle. Tho popular revolution has come. Without violence, with hard ly an unusual demonstration, dis trict after district, town after town, and last, but God bless her, not least, the noble old State has uttered its note of reform, and with an emphasis that will carry dismay and confusion into the ranks of an unworthy politi cal organization throughout the country. "The news is too good! Call the roll of States, and Massachusetts leads them all. Butlerism is down, trampled upon, squelched! And with it goes Grantism and terrorism and the pestilent elements that have so long debased our politics, State and National. There is no recovery from such a blow. Tho people have fairly the control. " This has been done against the intimidation and threat of the State Police, against the whole power of the Custom House and Federal office holders, against a Navy Yard colo nized at an expense of thousands of dollars daily and against the influ ence of money and of promises lav ishly scattered. It means that the people are at last in earnest; that neither the terror of the bloody shirt nor the sacredness of party obliga tions, so earnestly pleaded by Mr. Dawes and Mr. Blaine, can longer hinder them from getting rid at onco and for all of this reproach." Successfully Refuted. The Bulletin has been charging Superintendent Watkinds with buy ing lace and other stuff and using it in his family. The following affida vits most emphatically deny the false charge. We take the card from the Oregoniau of the 20th inst. The Bulletin has charged repeated ly of late that I bad made way with certain lace and damask, or curtains uiacie of those materials; that I had taken the same to my dwelling, etc.; charges that I propose to have the joint stock company of the Bulletin prove at tho projer time, and wish you to do me the favor to publish the accampanying affidavits in refutation of those charges: Yours, respectfully, W. H. Watkixds. State of Obegox, County of Marion, We, Kobt. Thompson, Assistant Warden of the Penitentiary, and Jos. Meyer, being first duly sworn, say that wo are acquainted with the man agement of the State Penitentiary for the two years past; that to our certain knowledge the two items of Nottingham lace and damask, refer red to in the report of the Investigat ing Committee, of which J. N. Dolph was chairman, page 22, were made into custains for the use of tbe pris on, in the office and sitting room; that they were put there and have been there ever since. Robt. TuoMrsox, Jos. Meyer. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 18th day of November, A. D. 1874. . D. II. Murphy, County Clerk. State of Oregon ) County of Marion, f I, W. II. Watkinds, Superintend ent of the Oregon State Penitentiary, being first duly sworn, say that I purchased the foregoing described lace and damask for the purpose of making curtains for the office and sitting room at the prison; that I paid the sum of one dollar for hem ming said curtains to the Misses Campbell and Nicklin, dressmakers of Salem, the latter of whom is a sister-in-law of Mr. Scott. Custom house officer and, as I am informed, assistant editor of the Bulletin news paper; that tho curtains wero used in the offices named from then until now; that said curtains are account ed for in the Prison Inventory, page 30, of the Superintendent's report for 1871. W. II. Watkixds. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 18th day of November, A. D. 1871. D. II. Murphy, County Clerk. There are now but two Cabinet officers Belknap, of Iowa, and Wil liams of Oregon, who represent States which are now Republican. Des Moines llegiter. The Register will please correct, so far as Oregon is concerned. It is a reliable Democratic State, with a Democratic Governor. Ottunnea Democrat. And it might as well be stated that Oregon has long since repudiated her representative in the Cabinet, and is ashamed of him. He was a can didate for re-election to the Senate, but owing to his unpopularity the State went strongly Democratic and left him out in the cold in 1870. He could not be elected constable in any precinct in Oregon to-day. Oregon is thoroughly Democratic, as she elected her entire State ticket last June, including Congressmen for the 41th Congress. In 1SGG Horace Greely said that "the attempt to base a great, endur ing party on the hate and wrath nec essarily engendered by a great civil war, is as though one should plant a colony on an iceberg which had somehow drifted into a tropical ocean." The Radical party made that attempt but the iceberg has at last melted from under it, and it is left in danger of being drowned. State Centennial Hoard Proceedings. The Director General of the Cen tennial Exhibition to take place in Philadelphia, in 187G, having ap pointed a State Board, or executive committee for tho State of Oregon, consisting of Governor L. F. Grover, Bev. E. It. Geary, C. P. Burkhart, M. Wilkins, and S. G. Reed. The said committee held a meeting in Salem on Wednesday tho ISth. We give the following synopsis of their proceedings: Governor Grover was called to the chair, and S. A. Clarke, Secretary. On motion the following commit tee was appointed on permanent or ganization, Messrs. Dufur, Geary and Burkhart. The Board then adjourned until threo o'clock p. m., when the com mittee made their report as follows: Tho Centennial Board of Commis sioners for the State of Oregon shall consist of one Executive Committee of three, consisting of Gov. L. F. Grover, Hon. A. J. Dufur and James Virtue, together with an Advising Committee of seven as follows: Rev. E. R. Geary, Hon. C. P. Burkhart, Rev. Thos. Condon, Hon. S. G. Reed, Hon. M. Wilkins, W. L. Halsey, Esq., and Hon. M. P. Deady. "With a view to facilitate future action, and that all branches of in dustry might be fully represented, thd various departments were assign ed as follows, . the various members to represent the same. Rev. Thos. Condon, Geological and Mineralogical. lion. C. P. Burkhart, Agricultural Productions. Hon. M. Wilkins, Toxtiles Fabrics. Hon. S. G. Reed, domestic native animals, public works and and and transportations. W. L. Halsey, Esq., machinery, metals, native woods and their man ufactories. liev. E. R. Geary, religious, edu cational and scientific histories. Hon. M. P. Deady, history of the progress of tho State and her various organizations. The report also recommended that Messrs. Dufur, Geary and Condon, be appointed as a committee to can vass the State to solicit articles for exhibition. Tho report was, on motion, accept ed, and tho committee discharged. Resolutions were passed calling the attention of tho Oregon press to the importance of tho enterprise, and soliciting its hearty co-operation. Also a resolution requesting the va rious transportation companies to extend the cou Secies of their routes to the Board, in view of the fact that tllcir labor is gratuitious, and their aim to advance tho interests of the State at largo. Quarterly meetings of the Board were agreed upon, to take place on the first Tuesdays in January, April, July and October. The press throughout the State were requested to publish the pro ceedings of the Board and render all the assistance in their power in fur thering the actions of the same. The duties of the Board, as set forth in instructions by the Director General are as follows: 1. To disseminate information re garding the exhibition. 2. To secure tho co-operation of industrial, scientific, agricultural, an other associations in their Dis tricts. 3. To appoint co-operative local committees, representing the differ ent industries of their Districts. 4. To stimulate local action on all measures intended to render the Ex hibition successful and a worthy rep resentation of the industries of the country. 5. To encourage the production of articles suitable for the Exhibi tion. G. To distribute documents issued by the Commission among the manu faclurers and others in theirDistricts interested in the Exhibition. 7. To render assistance in further ing the financial and other interests of the Exhibition, and to furnish in formation to tho Commission on sub jects that may be referred to them. The Board then adjourned to meet in Salem on the first Tuesday in Jan uarv. 1875. Miscellaneous Paragraphs. Dan. Vorhees is tho coming man for United States Senator from Indi ana. Under Grant, the number of Fed eral office-holders has increased from 54,207 to 8G,GG0. Massachusetts wants to rob Ken tucky of her prestige. She wants to bo called the "Banner Democratic State. The Landmark says that it is no trouble to get your cocktails now. Every Democratic paper is full of them. A New York astrologer predicts that President Grant will be impeach ed or die before completing his term of office. The Ottumwa Democrat says that the Radicals claim that it will purify the party, and asks if it don't look a little like cremation? From a summary of the expenses of Congress, it appears that each member of that body is credited with eighty-four pounds of toilet soap during each session. The Charter of the Oregon and California Railroad requires 20 miles of new road to be built each year, and the company intend to push on 40 miles north of Redding next sum mer. The Democratic masses of Ohio are in favor of "Honest Old Bill Al len" for the next Presidency. Bill ia the hero of the late Democratic re vival, and would inspire more enthu siasm among the Ohio Democracy than any one else. A Missouri paper says: "We r.on't want to be considered impertinent but we would remind Mr. Schurz that there is a Sen.itor to be elected by the Missouri Legislature this winter." It might as well have said that Schurz's time was up oa the 4th of next March, COURTESY CF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY CF CALIFORNIA. Orand JubileeSound Resolutions. The Democracy of San Francisco held a grand jubilee over the result of the Eastern elections in that city last week. Eloquent speeches were made and the following resolutions unanimously adopted. They will meet with a hearty endorsement from every Democrat in Oregon: Whereas, A public recognition of events, fraught with lasting benefits to our country, is the natural dictate of patriotism, and, whereas, we wel come the results of the October and November electioDS in the Eastern, Western, and Southern States as the harbinger of a better era in the his tory of the Republic, giving promise of reforr j much needed, and presag ing the end of manifold abuses in tho administration of the Federal and State government; now, 'therefore, having assembled to give public ex pression to our rejoicing over results so auspicious, we do hereby resolve, First That our gratification at the overwhelming rebuke . which the people havo everywhere administer ed to the present Administration, is not caused by any expectation of mere partisan advantage, but hy a conviction of '' the necessity of a change in leaders and in measures and policies which have caused wide spread - distress and suffering, and have for years 'prfsfput the very ex istence of republican government on this continent in peril. Second That we understand the principles and measures in favor of which the popular verdict has been recently given with such emphasis tft be these avowed in tho following lan guage by the Democrats of New York: 1st. Gold and silver tho ouly legal tender; no currency inconvertible with coin. 2d. Steady steps toward specie payments; 'no step backwards. od. Honest payment of tho public debt in coin; sacred preservation of the pnblic faith. 4th. Revenue reform. Federal taxation for revenue only; no Gov ernment partnership with protected monopolies. 5th. Home rule, to limit and local ize most zealously the few powers entrusted to public servants, Muni cipal, State and Federal; no centrali zation. Gth. Equal and exact justice to all men; no partial legislation. 7th. A free press; no gag law. 8th. Personal freedom; no sump tuary or prohibitory laws. 9th. Official aceon-iability Oiiforc od by bef z- civil and criminal reme dies; no private use of public funds by public officers. 10. Corporations chartered by the State alwaj's supervisablo to the in terests of the people. 11th. Tho party in power respon sible for all legislation while in pow er. 12th. Tho Presidency a pnblic trust, not a private perquisite. No third term. 13th. Economy in the public ex penses, that labor may bo lightly burdened. To which wo add: 14th. No more grants of public funds or property to private corpora tions or individuals upon any pre tense whatever. 15th. While we award just praise to tho consistency which under de feat and discouragement has inspired the Democratic masses not to despair of the Republic, we desire frankly to acknowledge that the overwhelming triumph of sound principles in tho recent elections has been largely due to the faithful exposure by a free and independent press, of the corruption, abuse and malfeasance of the pres ent Administration; and, also, to a revolt of the honest and incorrupt able rank and file of tho Republican party against tho continued betrayal of public trusts by their party lead ers; and we rejoice in the hope and confidence of the harmonious co-operation hereafter, with us, without regard to the pust party affiliations, of all who desire the accomplishment of the reforms and the success of the principles above indicated. H. H. Haight, P. A. Roach, Wm. H. V. Cropise, J. C. Tennie, T. N. Wand, Committee on Resolutions. Williom Gaston, Governor-elect of Massachusetts, is a native of Killing Ij, Connecticut, and fiftv-fonr vears old last month. lie graduated at Brown University, and has served three years in tho House, one year in the Senate, two years as Mayor of Roxbury, two years as Mayor of Boston. He is one of the leaders of the Suffolk bar. In private life he is an estimable gentleman. Owing to tho great and immediate demand for crape, the World says, telegrams have been sent to Europe for a new supply. No less than 100, 000 ofiice-holdcrs havo been thrown suddenly into mourning. It is no ticablo that the cheapest class of mourning.is in request, owing to the distressing" state and unfortunate prospects of the poor mourners. Is it not about time, asks the New York Sun, that President Grant should give his promising son Fred, another jump, in the way of promo tion? He has only about two years in the White House, and ho can hardly push the youth up to the rank of Major-General before his term ex pires, unless he begins to send him ahead again pretty soon. "Dignity," remarks the Indianap olis Journal, Morton's organ, "is what prevents the President from saying anything about the third-term business. But dignity does not pre vent him from attending Boss Shep herd's banquets." -- Never before, remarks tho Boston Herald, did a great political organiz ation, entrenched in office, and wield ing the national service and the na tional purse as weapons for self-preservation, go so suddenly and unex pectedly to destruction. m The Washington Capital sarcastic ally remarks that the neatly arrang ed rows of bootsoles in the Treasury window indicates that the industri- f ous minions of the Government have returned to the scenes of their inde fatigable labors. The Oregon State Agricultural Soci ety summary ot Iroceedincs ol Hoard, Nov. ISt I. Office of Secretary, Saleji, Nov. 20, 1874. j In accordance with the instructions of tho . Board of Managers, at the meeting just closed, I give tho fol lowing summary of the proceedings, including the receipts and expendi tures of the Fair of 1874, as also the indebtedness of 1873, and that of 1874. The attendance was larger and the business of tho meeting was prose cuted with an eagerness never before known in the history of the Society. The accounts of the Secretary and Treasurer were subjected to a most rigid examination by the Finance Committee, consisting of Messrs. S. G. Reed, Portland, W. P. Watson, Wasco county, and A. Duelling, of Washington county. The report of the committee as received and adopt ed, shows that tho sum of $101 95 is due tho Secretary for the year 1874, over and above all receipts,"as money paid out by him in excess of that re ceived. The Treasurer's account was also approved. RECEIPTS OF FAIR, 1874. Gate money $9,817 10 Entrance fees 1,003 25 Rent 120 00 Licenses 2,127 50 Grand Stand 273 59 Sundries 428 52 Gross receipts.. 613,709 9G msr.rnsKMENTS. Expenses of the Fair, includ ing improvements over $1,000 83,257 57 Paid on premiums and or ders 1872, 1873. 1S7J.... 5,304 SI rj"'! on premiums 1874. . ... 3,775 58 Paid on Swcgle note GOO 00 Paid on Webber note COO 00 Paid interest on orders 1873 232 00 Total $13,709 INDEBTEDNESS NOV. 1873. Ladd & Bush note (money borrowed) and interest. . .3,300 00 Note of P. O. Riley for 70 acres land purchased in 1S71, and interest 3,300 00 Interest orders drawn fop premiums duo and unpaid atfjvir 1873 3.GG1.82 Note of diss. Sweglc (money borrowed) and interest.. GOO 00 Webber note (money bor rowed) and interest. ..... 550 00 Total indebtedness. . .11,471 82 INDEBTEDNESS NOV. 1874. Ladd & Bush note and in terest $2,085 00 Note of P. O. Riley ami in terest 3,300 00 Orders drawn at fairs of 1873 and 1874, unpaid 1,3G3 87 Total indebtedness $7,748 85 Reduction of indebted ness $4,322 97 Messrs. Ladd & Bush, bankers, Salem, were elected Treasurer, iu place of Mr. J. H. Moores, who de clined longer to serve. The President, Secretary, and General Superintendent were elected Executive Committee, with instruc tions to give notice in April, 1S75, for the removal of all buildings within the enclosure belonging to other parties than tho Society, and for the erection of new booths, a suitable building for offices for Pres ident. Secretary, Treasurer, Chief Marshal, and General Superinten dent; also instructed to make the needed changes and improvements for beautifying the grounds, and adding to the comfort of the patrons of the fair. They were also instruct ed to thoroughly revise the list of licenses. Tho list of premiums was revised though not materially changed from last year, except by adding a list for graded cattle and sheep. Geo. Downing of Marion was elected Chief Marshal; F. M. Wil kins, of Lano county, was elected Marshal of Pavilion. Lewis Savage, of Marion, elected General Superintendent.. The time of commencing the Fair of 1875, was fixed on Oct. 12. Several special premiums were offered, among thorn two ly T. Cun ningham & Co., Salem, of two line plows, and several by W. C. Myers, of Jackson county. T1)G following resolutions were passed: Revolted, That tho thanks of this Board are hereby tendered to tho O. & C. R. R. Co., and tho O. S. N. Co., for favors extended. llcsolved, That tho thanks of this Board are hereby tendered to the Agent of the Alden Patent Fruit Dryer, for favors, and that wo hear tily endorse the invention, and wish the enterprise now commenced in Salem, and others in contemplation,' complete success. Resolved, That in view of the long and efficient services of J. H. Moores as Treasurer of this Society (now resigned), we tender to him the heartfelt thanks of this Board. Resolved, That tho Fair grounds and buildings of tho Oregon State Agricultural Society, are hereby ten dered to tho Oregon Pioneer Asso ciation for their annual reunion of 1875; provided, " that the proporty and grounds of the Society are pro tected from injury by the Associa tion. The Seretary was authorized to secure a loan sufficient to pay all outstanding orders and interest on notes. Also, to give notice that as soon as money was received on the premiums of Mr. Yick, parties enti tled to them would receive the same. Also, that the diplomas would be forwarded as soon as received. The Board adjourned at 11 p. m., Wednesday, Nov. 19. E. M. Wait, Secretary. When the roll of the Forty-fourth Congress is called, there will be mourning in Isreal. There will bo lamentations for Butler and Hoar and Dawes and Hooper and Parker and scores of others whose names are unhappily too familiar to the whole country. The places that late ly knew them will know them no more forever. It is a curious fact that the crimin al records of the city, of Shreveport, La., show a larger number of whites murdered by blacks since the war than of blacks murdered by whites. SUMMARY Ol' STATU NKWS. Mrs. R. Clawson, a Quaker lady, preached at Salem last Sunday. The grand jury of Marion county reports the Penitentiary well kept. The bridge across McKenzie's Fork, in Lane county, has been com pleted. It cost $G,G50. The Agricultural Society will offer more and better premiums next year than ever before. The Grangers had a harvest feast at Dallas, last week, and enjoyed themselves hugely. - " The citizens of Dallas'are discuss ing tho feasibility of establishing a public reading room in their village. Messrs. Boise, Stapleton and Klip pel. Capitol Commissioners have fil ed their official bonds with the Sec retary of State. Mr. Shortridge, of Lane county, raised some oats last season which weigh a bushel and a half, or 50 pounds to the bushel. It is reported that Chaplain McCabe has given $2,500 toward the liquidation of the indebtedness of the M. E. Church at Salem. A gold bar which weighed 402 ounces, and valued at $8,000, was the result of the sixteen days, run of the Virtue Mill in Baker county. A commodious warehouse erected at North Yamhill by the farmers has saved them a handsome per cent, this season, and been a great convenience. The State Agricultural Society- offer to lease the Fair grounds for conditions to be tho year 1S75, on learned by applying to the Secretary at Salem. Thercq tvero sold on the streets of the Dalles, one day last week, five good cows, three calves and two two year old steers, for the sum of $70. Rather cheap. Judge Prim, of Jackson county, will shortly move his family to Sal em, to enable his children to avail themselves of the superior education al facilities to be found at the Capital city. A large lake lias been recently discovered at the head of East Des chutes river, in Southeastern Oregon by John Blair and Andrew Foster, formerlj' of Benton county. They named it Bear Lako. It is thought that the bar at the month of the Coquille river can be improved so as to admit vessels large enough to carry coal and lumber profitably for the amount asked for of Congress $200,000. Mr. James Goodchild, of Eugene City, has presented the Journal office with a mess of green peas raised in his garden, at the north end of the city, in the open air. They are a rarity at this season. The Corvallis Gazette contains an appeal in behalf of tho Willamette Valley and Coast Railroad. Tho people are apparently indifferent, and the projectors urge them to aid it pecuniarly and otherwise. The Oregon Granger is to be resur rected by a publishing company composed of Grangers. A power press and material are to be secured, and the first number issued Decem ber 1st. A. S. Mercer is to be editor-in-chief. Forty soperatc and distinct build ings have been erected in the town of Astoria and twelve at Upper Asto ria, so far this year. The aggregate cost of these buildings, which in cludes the new docks and two can neries, amount to $103,000. Mr. Joseph Wood, of Washington county, has received the sad intelli gence that his son, O. A. Wood, was run over by a loaded wagon in Click itat valley, which crushed his breast badly. There are hopes, however, that tbe young man will recover. Mr. Jerry Despain, of Pendleton, has, we learn, lately heard from his brother Benjamin. He was camped near Marysville, California; men and hroses all doing well; so he and they cannot be the party from Umatilla county, reported murdered and scalp ed near Chico. On last Sunday the funeral of John, son of Mr." R. Imbrie, of Washinton Co., took place. Amon" UuiCiiueu A . . was iir. uarn son, one of the neighbors. He went awav from home careless! v livirrr $3G0 in coin in the house. During his absence his house was broken into and the money taken. A company with a capital stock of $10,000, inshares of $25 each, known as the WSt Side Agricultural and Mechanical Manufacturing Companv has been organized at Lafayette, and has filed articles of incorporation. Tho business of the company is the manufacturing of agricultural and mechanical implements. Tho Statesman says: The Medical Department of the Willamette Uni versity, in preparation for the better accommodation of its stundents dur ing the coming course of lectures, has had the basement story of the University building fitted up for that purpose, and tho Faculty are verv proud of the appearance of their new rooms. A prominent citizen of Lane coun ty, who is supposed to be wealthv, was arrested a short time since on a charge of perjury and bound over for his appearance at the next term of the Circuit Court in the sum of $1,000. The crimo charged is that he made a false return to the Assess or of his taxable property. A man by the name of Downs, a teamster, in tbo employ of Mr. Ad. Edgar, at the Cascades, was taken with a fit on Wednesday, while driv ing his team from the lower to the upper landing, and fell from the wagon to the ground, expiring al most instantly. He was a stranger, and had only been at work a few weeks. A Baker City letter to the Statesman says: Rye valley, in that county, is just now the exciting point among the people, rich strikes having lately been made. Green's Discovery, at water level, actually assayed $10,000 to $35,000 silver" to the ton. Com plete and extensive reducing works are now in course of erection on this and other mines in the district, which will all be in working order in the spring. Workmen will be en gaged under ground all winter in getting out ore from the mine. TERRITORIAL NKWs ITliMs Snow at Banner City, Lial10, afw having been packed down bv tl l fnX8rdip.Veather' iS "tblS Specimens of the sugar beet rail near Dayton, W. T., indicate tS the vegetable can be grown thero successfully. Mrs. A. J. Dnniway has delivered a number of lectures before Co2 houses at Walla Walla this fall still sojourns there. ' &TXil It is reported tnat "Iron Clark " well known character about'OIyninia has fallen heir to the styn of $yo Urn by the death of a near relative'. ' ,Mitcheal Hartigan, who was t have been executed at Vancouver on Friday next, for the murder of one A. Vobwintrel, in January last had death sentence commuted to impris onment for life. An old gentleman named Starr who has been afflicted with consmW tion for years, and who arrived at Boise City some three months aR(J from the East, in search of health died at that place on the 11th inot ' Arrangements have been perfected" to procure the iron for the Pueblo and Salt Lake Road, the pavine therefor to be secured by first mort gage bonds of the Companv. Tho work on the whole line will be com pleted by October next. As an instance of the attention the mineral lands of Washington Terri tory are attracting, the Transcript re ports the sale at the Land Office at Olympia of over 1,100 acres of coal L:nd in King county, at $10 per acre. Seven entries in all made on one davj Capitalists in San Francisco are tho moving spirits. The Courier says: Scarcely a week passes that discoveries aro not made of coal mines, gold and silverledges, etc., in the Puget Sonnd basin anil the mountains adjacent. Well-defined ledges of iron, lead copper, plumbago, silver and gold, of great er or less degree of richness, aro known to exist in the Cascade monn tains. Of all but gold and silver there is no question or doubt of their extent and value. Summer Iake. A correspondent, signing himself M. Quad, which is Frank Homing, a young man formerly employed in this office, writing to the Corvallis Democrat, from Summer Lako, gives the following news from that nectiou: Summer Lake valley is situated about 250 miles southeast from Cor vallis, and about 80 miles from Gooso Lake. It is a small valley bounded on the east by tho lako of the same name, and on the west side ly a range of mountains, it lting nlMut twenty-five miles long, and averaging about one mile in breadth. It is sought by the weary pilgrims that inhabit its borders for its healthful climate and its once fine grazing fu tures. It numbers thirty-seven mil itary subjects; has two blacksmith shops, run by Henry Fuller and S;im Hamilton, while A. J. Scott does tho carpentering for the valley, and An drew Foster and John Withers 1 the fiddling; has no stores or whis key mills, and but for on thing its inhabitants would l happy: it in like old Rome was in her infancy no schools or churches are known within her limits, and the principal occupation of the settlers is herding stock and hunting. There are about G,0O0 head of sheep and 2,IXH hen, of cattle in the valley, which is en tirely too much for so small a valley as this. Cattle are welling very cheap; large three and four year old steers are selling at from $20 to $2S jer head. Hardly a day passes but finds some weary traveler journeying to this region. Game of various kinds nnd sizes abound in countless number. Deer, bear, jack rabbits, cayotes, lynx, badgers, geese, ducks, swaiw, sage- hefts, prairie chickens, and num berless water-fowls are the principal species of game. Messrs. A. J. Scott and J. A. Foster built a lear trap out of large logs, not long since, and baited it with a beef head, and in a day or so thereafter had a monster grizzly bear caged, which was tilled by Andrew Foster. It was one of the fattest animals that has been killed in this valley. Summer Lake valley raises turnips that measures fifty inches in circum ference the weight is unknown. Mrs. Hadley, of that valley raised potatoes that weighed 4 "pounds. Mr. James Foster, formerly of Ben ton county, raised a small field of barley as an experiment that grew to the height of three of four feet, and which, had it been threshed, would in all probabilities have yielded sixty bushels per acre. Mr. Hamilton, living at the upper end of the valley, planted a small field of wheat, which done as well as could be desired. The soil is sandy and gravelly, mix ed pretty well with alkali, and must be watered occasionally in order to produce rich vegetation. Democratic States in IHH. The Democrats in the elections of 1874 have carried, by clear majori ties, 2G4 votes for President and Vice President or 55 more than one-half, the entire electoral vote being 356. The States thus carried with tho electoral vote which they cast, are as follows: New Hampshire Connecticut New York . .- Delaware New Jersey Maryland Virginia West Virginia Ohio Indiana Illinois Missouri ; Arkansas Louisiana Texas Kentucky Tennessee Alabama Georgia North Carolina Oregon Nevada o 6 35 3 9 t 11 5 22 15 31 15 G 8 8 12 12 10 11 10 3 3 27 Pennsylvania - Total 264 How does that look as a stand point for the next ptesidential cam paign? "