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THE ENTERPRISE.
OREGON CITY, UREGO.N, NOV. 37, 1371.
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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.
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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."
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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? "