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OjjEci.X CITU OREGON, FE3,1$ 1375.
Another Radiea? Outrage.
We find the following among the
dispatches of tlie 11th inst.:
The joint Republican caucus com
mittee has completed the political
bill which has been in course of
preparation for some time.- The
points- of the till, which will be pre
sented to the j-kmete and House cau-!
cus, respectively, are as follows:
First He-enactment of the fourth
section of th Ku-Klux act, which
allows the President to suspend the
writ of habe..s corpus in certain j
cases, and gives him full power to
use the army; to suppress disorder
and maintain
beace.
Second Tl
Lj appointment ofJDtep- I
ntvU. S. M
a-shals and supervisors
m full power to con
of election,
duct elections, count ballots, super
vise returns, and arrest persons who
attempt to intimidate voters or un
lawfully interfevs witb the conduct
of election.
Fourth To provide for a full and
fair registration of legal voters, and
to make it unlawful for any of the
reconstructed States to impose ex
cessive poll-tax, or require payment
of such tax as a qualification for vot
ing at any congressional election.
Fifth Declaring the exhibition or
use of deadly weapons on days of
registration or election for the pur
pose of intimidation or violence, a
criminal offense punishable by fine
or imprisonment at the discretion of
the court.
The bill, it is said, received the
unanimous Vote of the joint commit
tee. The first proposition simply is to
give Grant power to control the elec
toral vote of the South by suspend
ing the civil Uiowers, and remanding
the States 1:k to a territorial con
dition. Th Vecond usurps all the
functions orV State. It is to give
power to the venal scoundrels
"Washington to overrun the States
with United States Marshals at elec
tions, and while it is directly intend
ed for the South, the same law will
apply to Oregon, and should it be
passed, the people of our State, as
well as every other Northern State,
may expect the U. S. Marshals to
control, with Federal bayonets, our
next Presidential election. The fourth
is to allow the Federal officers in
States to superintend registration,
and would renuiro the citizens of
Oregon to submit to such regula
tions as the Federal authorities
might dictate, which would entirely
subvert the rights of our people.
The fifth proposition is intended to
surround the Registration Boards
with Federal soldiers, and also at the
polls, under the pretext of prevent
ing intimidation and the disarming
ofi.the people. In fact, the whole
proposition i? an infamy which could
only have been concocted by a set of
traitors to free government, and if it
is carried out in the South, the same
may be expected in every Northern
State where Grant has fears of his
inability to carry it. It is a stu
penduous scheme to retain Radical
power, and iti would not surprise us
if the above i plans are carried out.
Should it bej nothing but a revolu
tion would e-ior get the traitor Grant
out of the A'hite House. On by
one, the people allow their rights to
be taken from them, and if they al
low this last effort to succeed, the'
may as well sing peans to King
Grant. ;
Another Infamy.
A dispatcfVrom "Washington, un
der date of ifo 10th, gives the fol
lowing iu regard to Arkansas:
An Inter-Oceans Washington spe
cial says there is wide difference
among of opinion the Republicans in
regard to the President's message on
Arkansas and there seems to be much
less cu'ance for any action being tak
en in tl3 Senate in the matter than
in the case of Kellogg in Louisiana.
The friends of Brooks here represent
the President as very clear and very
positive in his views. They repre
sent him as saying that he has infor
matton that if the general govern
ment fails to take notice of the meth
ods by which the Garland resolution
was achieved iu Arkansas, eveTy oth
er southern State now Republican
will bo revolutionized by legislators
lately elected, in the same manner as
in Arkansas. They represent the
President as believing that those
changes will all be brought about
within twenty days, if unchecked by
nny action of Congress. Thus far
the President has absolutely refused
to recognize Garland as Governor,
and the letter has resorted to several
expedients to secure such joognt
tiou. After various attempts he fin
ally made a reqnistion as Governor
on the Secretary of War for the quo
ta of arms belonging to the State cf
Arkansas. No attention was paid to
this requisition. Garland was not
even notified that in had been receiv
ed. Soon after he notified the State
Department, as Governor, that he
had made certain appointments of
commissioners for the State of Ar
kansas to thej Centennial. The Pres
ident directed the Secretary of State
to write to him officially, simply an
nouncing that his various letters and
dispatches had been received, but to
admit no recognition as Governor.
Governor Brooks, who is here, feels
confident that if either the House
or the Senate should recognize him
as legally elected Governor, Garland
would give way without resistance.
His friends here are confident in the
belief that unless Congress takes
some action in the message of yes
terday the President will construe
the failure to act as he did their fail,
ure to settle the Louisiana question,
and when Congress adjourns will
fully recognize Brooks as Governor,
and use whatever means he finds
. jsecessary to replace him in power.
Surveyor General's oftlce will not
be removed to Portland until the 1st
of A?ril.
Flax Culture in Clackamas
County.
In a recent article in the- Bicfletin
copied into the Extebprisb, some
facts were given- about the profits of
flax culture for the lint. It is enough
to say feat two part?es from North
Ireland, last year, had over Hwo
hundred acres sown in Marion, Linn,
and perhaps in Polk counties, simply
to raise the lint for export to Ireland.
This year the Messrs. Williamson
brothers have rented 400 acres in
Linn county at $15 per acre for the
same purpose. Besides the lint they
have two grades of tow, which is
suitable for twine, cordage, or up
holstery, and which sells for 80 and
upwards per ton. The lint is worth
500 per ton, or 25 cents per pound.
The Messrs. Smith, in Marion coun
ty, have employed some of the con
victs and hired some of the water
power in the Penitentiary to prepare
their fibre for market, and perhaps
work it up.
Our Clackamas county farmers
want to rtiise something besides
wheat, oats, vegetables and fruit.
Tho soil of this county is rich and is
well adapted to flax. James Wilken
son, Esq., now living on the Dement
farm formerly the Abernethy claim,
came from North Ireland. He is a
linen weaver by trade, and is well
acquainted with flax culture and what
is required. Flax needs rich, strong
soil, such as we have, and of
course like wheat it exhausts the
soil. The flax raised for lint requires
its own kind of seed and its own kind
of culture. But the profits per acre
bring a large per cent, for the invest
ment. The prairie gives about GOO
pounds fine lint per acre in Linn
county, last year, worth 150. The
culture of which costs 10 per acre.
The second grade of tow, for uphol
stery, brought 4 cents per pound or
80 per ton. This business employs
many field and shor hands, and thus
sets the idle at work at a profit to
them and the county.
We spend thousands of dollars for
wheat, oats and bailey sacks which
can be made here from material that
we can raise. Why raise the raw
material and send it to Ireland, and
buy the linen and bags back? Why
send the first class of tow to New
York to be made into shoo thread,
twine and cordage in the factories of
Massachusetts, when we can raise
the fibre and manufacture it here,
and become exporters ourselves?
The world is our market as well as
theirs. Why wait for people to
come when we give the immigrant
little or nothing to do when he ar
rives? Labor has been a drag in
our market for two vears, and our
mechanics and other laborers are
going to California for work, and
perhaps to encounter drouth in a
year or two. We have the soil, the
raw materials, the water power, all
at hand aud wasting, while we are
buying utensils, clothing, and even
food from those who work harder
and at greater cost to get these things
than wo would have to do. Mr.
Wilkinson, or any one, can easily
gain the facts about this culture in
Oregon from his fellow countrymen,
who have tested it among us and can
help farmers in our county to begin
intelligently if they are so disposed.
The culture of flax for seed, to
make oil at the Salem mills, can be
done at less cost, and with less profit.
Yet the fibre of this kind looks well.
It is white aud strong, and seems to
be more suitable for burlaps than
the tow from the lint flax. Surely
an industry of this kind that would
employ the young who can get no
work or trade, would be a great pub-
lie benefit. Remember that our
State imports over 300,000 worth of
sacks per year, which might be made
at home of material raised by our
selves.
Grant Did It. It is now posi
tively known that Grant made the
order with his own hands directing
that tho public advertising should
be withdrawn from theRadical news
papers which had condemned his
conduct in Louisiana; and that he
himself named others to bo substi
tuted in their stead which had ap
proved of military intervention. As
Graut considers the Presidency a
personal possession, to be adminis
tered for his own interest and at his
own caprice, remarks the New York
Sun, this act was consistent with that
theory. It also furnishes auother
illustration of his peculiar devotion
to civil service reform, which figured
so largely in the annual message, and
has been exemplified with so many
striking proofs of his fidelity.
f
- Should Not. It is not always safe
to place implicit faith in the asser
tions of Administration organs. For
instance, before the fall elections the
Grant newspapers insisted that a
Democratic victory in Indiana would
be a vietory for inflation. The Dem
ocrats carried the State, and the re
sult is the election of a hard-money
United States Senator to oppose the
inflation rroieets nf Afni-trtn
j publican colleague.
j Appointed. Judge O. N. Denny,
i well kuown in our State, has been
appointed Collector of Internal Rev
enues for Oregon. As long as Radi-
; cols Lave to hold these positions, we J
know of no more clever geutlemt n
' than the Judge for this position, and
: are pleased to note his appointment.
The Meeting Last Saturday.
In pursuance of a call issued by
Mayor McCown, our citizens met at
the Court House for the purpose of
appointing a committee to act in
conjunction with the State Board of
Immigration. The proceedings of
the meeting are published elsewhere.
Speeches were made by Hon. A. J.
Dufur, who urged the people of this
county, that while they are taking
the necessary steps to induce immi
grants to come here, that the best
advertisement for them would be to
prepare and send to the Centennial
Exhibition the products of their
county, ne showed that this coun
ty had many advantages over other
parts of the State, and all that was
needed to give the public of the East
tho information they desire. The
fruit, iron, timber and other articles
raised in this county would attract
people here, and capital would soon
be employed to use our magnificent
water poM'er; a condensed statement
of our resources should be published
setting forth our vacant lands, their
productiveness and the amount va
cant, and price of improved and un
improved lands. The remarks were
listened to by those present with
great interest, and we feel confident
that all who heard him had a better
opinion of Clackamas county than
ever, and if our real condition were
only known, we would soon have the
vacant places occupied, and our
great water-power brought into use.
Dr. Atkinson followed. He urged
the great necessity of erecting facto
ries, and showed the fallacy
of the argument that we have
not people enough to use what we
can manufacture. He illustrated
this by stating that if wo will apply
this kind of reasoning to rolling
mills, and other manufactories, we
should apply it to wheat, and not
raise a bushel moro than we can eat.
He showed that we are here on the
edge of the markets of the world,
and that we have never raised a sur
plus of anything but" what wo have
found a ready market for it. We
regret that his speech was not heard
by all that class of reasoners who
claim that we must first have popu
lation before we can have successful
factories. This style of argument is
simply folly. We send our pig iron,
the best probably in the world, to
San Francisco, there it is put through
rolling mills, made into nails and
other useful articles, and sent back
again to us. No man of ordinary
sense can successfully maintain an
argument that we cannot prepare
this iron and send it abroad as cheap
as San Francisco or any other coun
try. What Oregou needs is self-
reliance and a proper use of the great
natural resources which lie all over
the State undeveloped. He also
showed the necessity of a diversity
in our products. We regret that
space will not allow us to further
detail his address this week, but we
shall do so hereafter. Speeches
were also made by Judge Randall,
Hon John Myers, Ma-or McCown
and Hon. W. C. Johnson, all ex
pressing themselves heartily in sym
pathy with the movement to develop
our county, and all agreed that
Clackamas can offer as good, if not
better, inducements to industrious
immigants than any county in the
State.
There will be an effort made to
raise funds to print a description of
this county, its resources, valuation,
productiveness and other advantages.
For this purpose our citizens will be
called upon to contribute, and we
see no investment that will pay
back an equal per cent. This is
what is needed, and the farmer, mer
chant,' mechanic, laborer, in fact, all,
are interested. Clackamas county
properly written up and distributed
throughout the East will place it
before the people, and it will not be
long before we will see tho beneficial
results of such an investment. Let
our citizens give this move a hearty
support.
Rather Heavy. We notico in the
proceedings of the Woman's Suffrage
Association that it is estimated that
"1,000 ' of the voters of Clackamas
county were suffragists." That is
good. In fact, it is a huirc joke, and
if the estimate of the strength of that
association is correspondingly incor
rect through the State, the cause is
even in a worse condition than we
have ever thought. Why bless your
souls, there is not that number in
the State, and Clackamas, after mak
ing due allowance, probably, fifty
suffragists, including the women.
The dear people should not be so
badly informed on this subject.
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Who Is He? A late number of
the Washington City Star in men
tioning the notable arrivals, says that
"Gov. C. P. Crandle, of Oregon, ar
rived in this city last evening."
Oregonians will naturally run their
digits through? their matted locks
and propound the startling conun
drum: "Who is he?'' The same pa
per says the same individual was
"assigned a position in the depart
ment of justice on Monday, January
the 25th." Orpjonion.
Postal Agent Underwood is com
plimented for the energy he has dis
played in getting th" mails through
from Portland sin -e the close of nav
igation. In former winters the mails
were allowed to lay over for weeks at
a time, but this year it has been so
arranged as to give ns semi-weekly
communication with the lower coun
try". Wulln JVaftrt S'fifennan.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY CF CALIFORNIA,
Fruit Culture.
There are three essential things
in the profitable cultivation of fruit:
1st, soil; 2d, climate: 3d, a market.
In the absence of either or these es
sentials, there will be a failure in the
f development of its industry. Ohio
was once a garden for the peach and
apple. But the clearing of her for
ests has so exposed her orchards that
the raising of fruit is an unprofitable
enterprise. Michigan was once the
emporium of the peach. To-day her
bearing trees are confined to a narrow
belt along the eastern shore of Lake
Michigan. Northern Illinois, Wis
consin, Minnesota, Northern Iowa,
and Nebraska north of the Piatt, are
consumers instead of producers, and
the the severity of their winters de
cree that it shall ever be so. In fact
the States east of the Rocky Moun
tains do not, and never will, produce
more than a tithe of the fruit that
would be consumed if it could be
obtained at reasonable rates. Grapes
aro shipped east from California and
are sold at fifty cents a pound, while
her pears and peaches aro retailed
through the Middle and Eastern
States at twenty-five cents a piece.
There is a boundless market through
all that region of country for tho
fruits of tho west, if it could but
reach them at a reasonable cost.
California is wonderful in the pro
duction of grapes and peaches, but
her plums do not excel, and her ap
ples do not equal those of Oregon.
Our State is especially adapted to
the development of the apple. The
fruit is large, well formed and sound.
Climate and soil is perfectly adapted
to the wants of this fruit, so that the
the product will be nutritious and of
the finest flavor.
But we lack a market. California,
in limes past, could find a marker for
our surplus fruits at profitable rates
to the producer. But she now has a
surplus at home, and we must look
elsewhere. Our isolated condition,
and the exhorbitant rates for trans
portation, renders this a difficult
task. It can only bo done profitably
l)3T reducing the green fruit to the
smallest possiblo compass. In this
direction the Alden process of curing
fruit is precisely fitted to the fruit
interest of Oregon. It will make u
profitable home market for the fruit
products of the State increased five
hundred fold. In Iowa, green apples
usually retail at 2 per bushel. Six
pounds of Alden-fruit is equal to a
bushel, and retails at 25 cents per
pound, is equal to apples at 1 50 a
bushel, or 25 cents in favor of the
consumer. This fruit is acknowl
edged by all who have ever tested it
to be far superior to green fruit for
all culinary purposes. There is no
waste by decay, no trouble in pre
paring, saves a large per ceutage of
sugar, is finer flavored and every way
preferable. For cooking and table
sauce it is destined to supercede the
green fruit, as the cars have the
stage coach, and the woolen factory
the old fashioned spinning wheel and
loom. If these are facts, aud time
will prove them to be so, would it
not be wisdom for the people of our
State to look well to their fruit inter
ests as the shortest and surest road to
wealth.
Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake
Kail road.
A dispatch from Washington to
the O reyoniau, dated February 12th,
has the following:
During the debate in the Senate
to-day, on the Portland, Dalles and
Salt Lake Railroad bill, Frelinghuy
seu said tho Committee on Railroads,
during this session, has had before
them six or seven bills providing for
subsidies. The committee had con
sidered thera carefully, had heard
arguments, aud had concluded they
would not report any of them favor
ably to the Senate. Many bills thus
treated, he said, had infinitely more
merit than the one under considera
tion. The Senate by a vote of two yeas,
twenty-six nays, refused to order to
its third reading the Portland Dalles
and Salt Lake Railroad bill, Cameron
and Flanagan being the only Sena
tors who voted in the affirmative.
A ' special dispatch to the Bulletin
from Senators Mitchell and-Kelly,
says the fate of the bill settles the
questiou as to all other subsidies
now before Congress; and that the
vote in the Senate stood nineteen
for, and thirty-eight against.
Radical Scoi;nikel.s in South
Carolina. The Radical Governor,
Moses, of South Carolina, has been
indicted for malfeasance in office,
but being tried by a jury as guilty
as himself, he got clear. Recently
new indictments have been found by
the grand jury of Orangeburg coun
ty, against Gov. Moses and J. L.
Humbert, a negro county treasurer,
appointed by the late Governor, for
breach of promise and grand larceny,
in taking $6,000 of the public money
to buy the control of the Columbia
Union-Herald, the leading Grant
newspaper of South Corolina. Eight
indictments were also returned
against Humbert and one McKinley,
late a school commissioner, for for
gery. It is gratifying to see that
some effort is making to punish
thieves in that State; but if all the
public robbers there should be sent
to the penitentiary, we fear the third
term party in South Carolina would
be deprived of its most eminent
leaders.
The Portland Public Schools.
For the Oregon City Enterprise
A few years ago, it was remarked
by . Josiah Failing, that the Central
Free School was the best investment
Portland had ever made. The pub
lic schools, even ten years ago, had
drawn a population of families to
the city. Many of those families re
mained and became most valuable
citizens. As tho schools improved,
others came to share the benefits.
The city has now a large proportion
of children of school age. It is over
2,600 in a population of about 10,000.
Leading men of the city have al
ways given the free schools their
earnest support. Col. Wm. M. King,
in 1819, with his own hands helped
to build the first school house; Mr.
Lawnsdale made liberal grants of lots
for schools; Messrs. Failing, father
and sons, Messrs. Corbett, Ladd,
Deady, Shattuck, Ainsworth, Flan
ders, Thompson, Holmes, Burton,
Farer, Strowbridge, Shiudler, Mc
Cormick, and gentlemen of profes
sional and business classes generally
have united as citizens and acted as
directors to give vigor and complete
ness to the system. Taxes have been
annually voted and baid to supple
ment the amounts received from the
county and State treasuries. Eligi
ble blocks have been purchased in
different and canvenient parts of the
city and commodious buildings erect
ed to meet the requirements of tho
increasing families. The best teach
ers have been sought, and in most
cases secured, on liberal salaries and
sustained in their efforts to instruct
and maintain good discipline.
The first lesult is, that the public
school system has won the intelli
gent sympathies of the people, and
has become a permanent institution,
to be cherished as an essential factor
in the growth and prosperity of the
city. The second fact is that it has
improved in quality as it has grown
in quantity. The wisdom of keeping
the whole city in one district has
been shown in better grade and more
thorough teaching in every depart
ment, and in establishing the high
school for which all the lower grades
steadily prepare every pupil. The
system has become a unit, like the
body, every part feels the impulse
given to every other part. The need
of a Superintendent of the city
schools was strongly felt, and during
the year past Prof. King has devoted
half of every day to aid the teachers
in perfecting the work in their sever
al rooms, there are six grades with
two divisions each, comprising what
aro usually called the primary and
grammar schools. The high school
course occupies three years. Little
children, say from five to seven years
of age. who eater tho B class of the
lowest or sixth grade, are expected
to remain in it tivo months, and at
the semi-annual examination to be
found ready for the A class of the
same grade. This they will complete
in five months more. At the annual
examination, the last week in June,
they are expected to be ready for tho
B class of the fifth grade, aud so on
completing the primary grammar
course in six years. Some drop out
then, but a large per cent, press on
with growing habits of study and
desire of improvement to enjoy the
benefits of the high school.
As may be supposed, the school
rooms are quiet, orderly and attrac
tive 2'laces for the children. The
twenty-six ladies and gentlemen now
employed strive to be examples wor
thy of imitation, in words and man
ners. The pupils show, in and out
of the school room, the results of
excellent training.
The Fubruary examinations have
just been concluded. On Monday
the 15th the pupils began work in
the classes to which they have been
advanced. Twenty-one of thirty-two
candidates passed to the high school
on a test of 70 per cent, and upward
in Practical Arithmatic, Mental
Arithmatic, Grammar, Geography,
U. S. History, Physiology, Spelling,
Composition and Pennmansliip. The
high school extends the mathemati
cal course to Algebra aud Geometry,
adds the Elementary Philosophy and
possibly: one or two sciences, and
makes the Latin, Greek, French and
German optional studies.
Some pupils from other counties
have entered the high school after a
rigid examination during two or
three days, and paid their tuition.
It would aid all the districts schools
of the county if their pupils, on ex
amination, could enter the high
school at Portland free and enjoy the
benefits as the pupils of the city do.
It would lift up the schools of
every county to have a free high
school at the county seat, for which
all pupils might be fitted, and to
which they might look forward. " It
would make the county system of
free schools a unit, and would secure
better teachers, and better schools.
A County Superintendent, giving his
time to it, could do for thirty or
forty districts what a city Superin
tendent does for one.
The town system of free schools in
Massachusetts permits the scholars
in every district to pass, on examina
tion, to their Central High School,
which is usually located in the prin
cipal village of the comity. Michi
gan adopted the same system of free
high schools to 'accommodate the
pupils of convenient districts.
Those high schools become, in
some cases, normal schools for the
training of teachers. They prepared
large classes of well drilled students
for the State University. Thus the
school system for that State is a unit
from the lowest primary to the high
est clossical collegiate or scientific
course. It is obviously better to
work the free schools on a plan the
most approved by experience and
to make the best use of the child's
powers of body and mind, than to
leave the system to be loose, irregu
lar and aimless.
Every artisan, and every profes
sional man succeeds better by attend
ing to one work. Division of labor
is the road to success. This is true
in the school room. The teachers of
the B or A class in any grade will
do far more for any pupil than he or
she can do ir required to teach the
A and B classes of two or three
grades. On this principal of the di
vision of labors the Portland public
schools are fulfilling the wishes and
aims of their numerous friends and
patrons. A whole county or State,
uniting on the same plan, can pro
mote the education of the children
as in no other way.
On Friday evening the 19th, some
of the teachers of the Portland pub
lic schools propose a concert of
school exercises in the Central Build
ing to illustrate by specimen or sam
ple classes and exercises sfjme of their
work for the last five months.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Washington, Feb. 10. The Sen
ate confirmed the nomination of J.
M. Thayer for Governor of Wyoming-
Luttrell, by request of the various
Grange and Settlers' oaganizations
iu southern California, entered a pro
test at the general land office to-day
against the further issuance of pat
ents to the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company for lands on fragmentary
portions of their lines via San Benito
pass, until the existing controversies
regarding it are decided.
Little Rock, Feb. 10. The Pres
ident's message on Arkansas affairs
creates considerable excitement here.
Business is greatly depressed by the
unsettled condition oi anairs.
Augusta, Feb. 10. The bill for
the abolition of capital punishment
was defeated in the House to-day
and the measure is dead.
Chicago, Feb. 11. A fire broke
out about midnight in the store of
Cooper & Graham, Keokuk, Iowa,
destroying the store and the entire
contents. The adjoining buildings
are in great danger, and up to two
o'clock the fire was not under con
trol. New Orleans, Feb. 11. The Con
gressional committee, now en route
for Washington, telegraphed to the
conservative caucus that the terms of
compromise submitted to them were
impracticable, and that in their judg
ment, it could not be carried out.
A determined efibrt will be made by
Alfred Leonard to ratify the compro
mise without intervention of the com
mittee. A New Orleans dispatch says that
Jones, the new Senator elect from
Florida, is an Irishman by birth, is
a lawyer of maked ability, and a
Democrat in the strictest sense.
Little Rock, Feb. 12. The grand
jury, by direction of the State attor
ney, have been investigating the
charges made in the published card
signed by 150 ex-federal soldiers, some
time ago, that a reign of terror exist
ed in Arkansas and that they had car
ried lives in their hands for years,
and have made a report in which
they say they summoned and exam
ined -10 of the sighers of the state
ment, none of whom could testify
any facts to sujiport their published
allegiations, but their testimo
showed that unusual quiet prevails
in the State. No evidence of the
White League or anv
such organiza
tion was obtained. One witness tes
tified to knowing of one man belong
ing to the organization, but when
accused ana summoned, he declared
that he belonged to the Knights of
Pythias.
Chicago, Feb 12. Tho weather
this morning is very cold, the ther
mometer indicating 14 degrees below
zero at G a. m., and 6 degrees below
zero at noon. High wind yesterday
and last night drifted the snow badly
and a great deal of delay on all rail
road lines. Trains on seven roads
are either unable to get in cr delayed
several hours. Reports from all
parts of the west state that great in
convenience is experienced on ac
count of freezing and scarcity of
water for stock.
St. Paul, Feb. 12. The Senatorial
contest has assumed a new phase.
This evening Gov. Davis sent a letter
to his friends withdrawing his name
from tho contest on condition that
Ramsey's is withdrawn. The friends
of the latter promptly responded and
neither of the former Republican
contestants are now candidates. A
joint caucus was held and a new
nomination made. It is understood
everything is again open and every
Republican member of the Legisla
ture is at liberty to vote to-morrow
for whomsoever he please. The vote
will be at least interesting but prob-
ablv not decisive.
Washington, Feb. 12. A caucus
of Republican Senators vesterdav
agreed, bv a large majority to the
House bill passed last session, for
the admission of Colorado as a State.
It is believad the House bill for the
admission of New Mexico was also
agreed to.
Washington, Feb. 13. Samuel
Hooper, member of Congress from
Massachusetts, d'ed this evening.
Heard From. A pitiable case of
the reverse ef fortune, left Roseburg,
says the Plaindealer, on last Wednes
day. It was a man named Earl, the
same who recently attempted suiside
at Portland by jumping from the
ferryboat. A few years ago this man
was in comfortable circumstances.
While residing in Astoria, his wife
deserted him for a paramour, taking
wth her all they possessed, which
happened to be in money, amounting
to several hundred dollars. Not be
ing a strong man, he sank under his
misfortunes, and was; stricken with
paralysis. He is now a perfect wreck..
Ho was furnished a ticket atPortland
for this place. Mr. Louis Belfils
generously paid his fare to Coos Bay,
whither he desired to go.
This is the same individual whom
our citizens were called upon to send
south to prevent him becoming a
county charge. It was Oregon City
that furnished him the ticket, and
not Portland.
Should Look After Them. The
Louisiana and Mississippi grangers,
in a joint address to the members of
the order throughout the Union,
vouch for the entire trustworthiness
of the sub-committee's report, and
bespeak for it a careful and candid
reading. "Believe us," they say,
"this report tells you the. truth."
Gen. Sheridan should look after these
agricultural "banditti," when he gets
through with the clerical and mer
cantile desperadoes, their confed
erates. Daily Astokian. We are in re
ceipt this week of the Daily Astorian.
It is full of local news from that sec
tion, and our old friend Ireland is
making a good paper of it. Success
to him. .
Prof. Condon will -Forest
Grove to Fn mVe f"m
spring. Ea8ne in t
.".mas are general..
over the soil, preparatJrv
wheat rw, !. V- .IUI7 o 8o;
wheat
it. On the hih rrn- 8oicS
3havealrea.lv Com " DgIttS
The frost I T2S
some
in
is in good condition.
gone and land
Mining operations in IM-.
will be conducts on a ll &llnt-T
this year than ever before ?7?
prospects are that the result m
very gratifying to miners am
vantageous to that part of Oregon
The Alden Fruit Preserver '
pany of Albany, have called0. Si
ting for the 15th of March forT
election of directors and tliP w
tion of such other business aVra
brought before it. Ud
The Record says: Although tl,.
supreme court has adjourned tU
judges are busily emloyed preparing
opinions in the cases already decide!
so that they can Iw embodied in
volume of supreme court decisions
In the Albany school distrit ilm
are 282 males between the aa nt t
ana zu; ino. ieiaaies, J0;
number, 572; increase over last vear
G3; No. not attending school during
the past year, 110. Forty-four of tl
whole number under 20 and over 4
years old attended the College dnr
ing the year, and 20 attended private
school. There are 2S0 persons who
vote at the school meetings of tlia
district.
The Yamhill .Courier learns that
the fall sown wheat is seriously dam
aged. That which was exposed so
that the wind had a good opportuni
ty to blow the snow oil" is entirelv
killed, while those portions that
were not so much exposed looks
well. Some contend that the freeze
will be a benefit to the land, as it
will kill out the cheat, wild oats, etc.
" Hop culture is about to be intro
duced quite near Salem. Mr. A. S.
Kightlinger, who purchased 20 acres
of the Pringle island claim, situated
just above Moore's mills, is clearing
and preparing the same to commence
cultivating hops there. Mr. John
Miuto is also negotiating for the sain
of forty acres of his island land to
Mr. Piper, who was Litcly connected
with Lapwai Reservation in Idaho,
and whose intention in making tho
purchase is to commence the cultiva
tion of hops and market garden. q
A Baker City letter of February
3d says: " To-day is bright and clear
overhead, with 20 inches of snov
underfoot; roads good and sleighing
excellent; thermometer 25 dec
above zero; last night, however, wm
very cold. A few cattle and shee;
have died, and sh5hld the grass not
make its appearance before March
more will die, as feed is short; plen
ty of grain but little hay. Town
quiet; trade average for the season.
The Sacramento papers annonin
the arrival 01 A. L. .ueaclinni km
troupe at that city, and the I'nfau
speaks well of his lecture and t!i
exhibition given by O. C. Applegatu
and his Indians, to explain their
customs.
At the clo-e of the winterterm f
the Baker City Academy, among tb-,
young ladies, Miss Pauline Eppii:-
ger took the first and Miss Fanniu
Price the second prize for elocution.
Of the male students Jacob Rjhbiu
was adjudged bfst in the same
branches and Charles Yantis seeoni-'.
There were six female contestants,
and five males.
Abe Hackleman, of Albany, receiv
ed a letter from Oohoeo, written on
the 2Gth ult.. bv his nephew. Win.
H. Jackson, which says that tho
weather over there is cold aud stor
my. They have a good deal of snow
but on the ISth a chinook wind took
the most of it off. He says the stock
look ery well.
The Albany Demorrnt learns that
some one in its neighborhood has
been sending baek"to?3hio for their
job printing, and very properly com
ments upon it and does not hesitate
in pronounce the practice shiime
ful and despicable. Were it not for
such a class of men all over the
State, we might have more manufac
turing interests developing in our
midst.
We learn, says the Democratic Tim",
that Mrs. McCall, wife of Capt. 3.
M. McCall, of Ashland, died at that
place on last Wednesday night.
The Grangers have decided to
build a large warehouse in Davton
for the purpose of cleaning and stor
ing grain.
Thos. Knebel has opened a ledge
of coal on Cayote creek, 8 miles from
Eugene City, which he is using in
his blacksmith shop, and which he
regards as equal to any Pennsylvania
coal.
Oak Point Grange, in Polk county,
has sent t?40 dollars coin to the sni
ferers of Nebraska.
In its river news the Record says:
The Shoshoue'a hull has been filled
full of oil barrels, so that when the
water raises she will float off the snag
on which she is grounded.
A Union county report says so far
there has been no loss of stock, but
should there not be a change in the
weather soon, farewell to many of
the horned tribe. Discouraging
news from Wallowa and adjacent
valleys.
Stock looks well in Polk county.
Wheat sowed early and that bad
good start before the freeze promise
well, but that sowed and just hp
the cold spell came on us may
somewhat injured. Snow has all 1IS"
appeared except on northern expos
ures and shaded places.
Two four-horse wagons leave Rose
burg every morning to meet the
southern stage, and return heavy
freighted with mail.
Richard Tan Houton, agent ej
collected and transmitted t for
Kansas and Nebraska sufferers.
A letter from North Yamhill tott
Reporter, says the cold weather
vast amount of damage in that p
of the country. The farmers are
opinion that the principal part oi
fall sowed wheat is killed. I ,
tatoesand fruit of all kind are u
stroved by the freeze. The
apples that have withstood the fr
without injury heietofore, hae
entirely destroyed. :
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