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Democratic State Out nil Com
o niitteo Meeting.
A meeting of the Democratic State
Central CVr.iniittetj is hereby called, to
t.j held in the city of Portland, on
Thursday, ilu; 2ltli dav of June, 1S75.
IIKNIlV KLdPPKL,,
Chairman.
Jacksonville, May 19, 1873.
Democratic papers please copy.
Questions in regard to Oregon-
A gentleman of this county lias re
ceived a letter from n friend in the
w East, seeking information in regard
to our State,, which ho has handed to
us with a request to answer the same.
Wo shall number the questions ask
el and the answers:
1. I wish to know the price of im
proved and also unimproved farms
in your country, and what chance
thers is of making something at
farming over and above supporting
a family?
2. What facilities there are for
.schooling?
what nationality is the country set
tled with generally?
4. What kind of a market have
you, and what is wheat oats and
wool worth, also beef, pork, butter,
and cheese?
R Wlmf i M!re crop of tne
usual farm products?
C. What could a man do there in
raiding sheep and wool?
7. What kind of clmiafe have you?
Is it healthy? Do you have any fiver
and ague there? j
8. What cild I;dJ with, say
four thousand dollars; &c. ..vc.
1. Tho price of improved land
-"ranges from 5 to f2o per acre owing
to improvements and locality. The
best answer we can give to the
second inquiry to question one is,
that our farmers, those, who are in
dustrious and work, are generally
doing well and accumulating some
thing every year, and we are of the
opinion that farmers can do better
in Oregon than in any of tho West
ern State.? East of the Rocky Moun
tains. This question is probably
more fully answered in question live.
2. Wo have a good system of pub
lic schools in out State. An annual
tax of three mills is raised by the re
spective cconntios, and an amount
equal to about half this sum is de
rived from the irreducible school
fund of the State. This revenue
will keep a public school in every
district in tho State which has forty
scholars, at least six months in each
year. Resides we have boarding
schools and the higher institutions
of learning in many of the towns
throughout the State.
u. The society in Oregon will com
pare favorable with any place in the
Union, peaceable and Law-abiding.
In regard to nationality wo can claim
representatives from all the nations
of the earth, but the principle popu
lation is American.
1. We have a ready market for all
onr farm products. Wh.iat is worth
at this placOgfroin 80 cents to one
dollar per bushel, ami ct times goes
as high as one dollar and twenty-five
cents in coin; oats bring from i0 to
50 cents per bushel; woqI from 25 to
i0 cents, and has been r's high as 50
cents per pound.
5. The aVerage. crop of wheat is
from 25 to 30 bushels to tJie acre,
and some localities reach far above
tho latter figure; .barley about 35 to
40 per acre; oats 40 to GO.
Butter is worth from 20 cents to
10 in the summer, and from 30 to 50
in tho winter; pork last year sold
readily at from GH to 7J per pound;
beef is worth from 5 to 8 cents per
pound; cheese from 20 to 30 cents.
G. Sheep raising has been profita
bly carried on and still i, but owing
to tho settlement of this valley
the range has been Hunted and
ihero are other portions of the
fstste better adapted to this kind of
iiasbandry.
7. The climate of Oregon is mild.
We have considerable rain during the
winter months, but seldom any cold
weather. Tho thermometer hardly
fier gets to zero, and our wiil4-ers as
l iuiU aro so open that stock keep'
fat tu p&aturage during the entire
"wviuier. The health of Oregon is
good. We Lave localities where fe
ver and ague aim -prevalent, but not
to any very great extent. The nights
are cool, while the days are not ex
cessively warm during the summer
reason. Tho thermometer hardly
ever reaches 00, while the average
temperature is about 65 to 73 during
the summer months. We have plenty
of good healthy water in every part
f the State. " v
With this sum of money a per
son can buy a comfortable farm and
a little stock to start with. In fact
we are of the opinion that this
amount of monev will give a man a
good home and put him i,i an inde
pendent position.
School teachers. in the common1
schools get about 125 quarter
fem.des from &0 to $1(V, y,ith board'
This branch is pretty urtl supplied,
yet competent leaeiiers can get te-dv
and almost steady employment. "
A. Woi;tuy Titim'TE. Th t5.imdav
Welcome pays the following : deserved
tribute to ex-Vice President Breckin
ridge: John C. Breckinrid;
:o js ijt-A
l. lb
was one of the most gifted, the pur
est, and the greatest anion;; the bril
liant constellation of statesmen this
country has produced. His nobilitv
of soul will be his endurincr morm-
ment.
What They Want.
The course that some of our Dem
ocratic State exchanges have taken
towards persons named in connection
with the probable candidacy for
Congress, is just what the Radical
organs and politicians desire. Somo
of the persons named have really no
desire for the nomination and if our
Radical friends ca-a be successful in
bringing about bad feelingit is one
pr-t in their favor. The wholesale
abuse socae of the party papers have
heaped on certain Democrats and
which has been copied by others, as
well as the entire Radical press, is
certainly in bad taste and out of
place, to say the least of it. The
persons alluded toj are private citi
zens and are not subject to the per
sonal attacks of papers. Should any
of them receive the nomination of
the convention, and these editors
have pictured their true character, it
would then be their duty and right
to refuse them their support. Then
they would become proper subjects
for abuse, but not before. It is al
ways bad policy to persno a course
that gives your opponents a club to
knock you down with, and the pa
pers referred to are evidently engag
ed in furnishing ammunition for the
enemy in time of war. The Radical
press is engaged with all the .energy
it possesses to create dissension and
discord among Democrats and the
course persued by the party press is
only calculated to aid them in their
endeavors. We do not propose to
dictate to our party brethern as to
the way they should conduct their
papers. This is their own business.
Rut one thing is certain, they are
giving aid and comfort to the enemy
whenever they stir up strife among
the members of their party. It is
hardly probable that the Convention
can nominate more than one candi
date, and lie will certainly be the
peer of any Radical that will be
nominated against him. Democratic
Conventions generally show good
sense in its selection, and to it be
longs the selection of the candidate
and not to the party organs. Trouble
and discord in the party is all that
gives the Radicals any hope of suc
cess, and we are sorry to see our own
party organs aiding them in this ef
fort. Easily Explained. The ready ac
quiescence of the Radicals of tho
Louisiana Legislature in the terms
of the Wheeler compromise, whereby
the political complexion of the Lower
House was changed, lias excited some
surprise, but it is easily explained.
An irresistible argument was brought
to bear upon the anti-adjusters of the
Radical party in a threat to withdraw
the Federal troops from the State
unless they consented to tha ratifica
tion of the decision rendered by the
members of the late Congressional
Committee. Tt-at clinched the mat
ter. If, however, the Senate, next
December, when it takes up Pinch
back's case, decides that tho seat he
claims is vacant, and if the Louisiana
Legislature fails to elect Brother-in-law
Casey to fill the vacancy, the
New York Sun asserts, that there is
no telling what may be the result.
A President who uses tho army of
the United States to carry out his
personal views at any time, without
the slightest regard to law or consis
tency, may always bo depended upon
to give his admirers fresh surprises.
Sensible Talk. T. B. Barnum,
the great showman, was recently in
augurated Mayor of Bridgeport, Con
necticut, on which occasion ho gave
expression to the following sensible
remarks:
No person needs be unemployed who
is not over fastidious about occupa
tion. There are too many soft hands
(and heads) waiting for light work and
heavy pay. Better work for half a
loaf than beg or steal a whole one.
Mother earth is always near by and
ready to respond to reasonable drafts
on her never failing treasury. A
patch of potatoes raised "on shares"
is preferable to a poulticed pate earn
ed in a whisky scrimmage. "When
fashiou teaches economy, instead of
spending for a gaudy dress what
would comfortably clothe the family ;
when people learn to walk until they
can ride; when the poor man ceases
to spend moro for tobacco than for
bread; when those who complain of
panics learn that we "cannot eat our
cahe and keep it;"' that a seive will
not hold water, panics will ceaeand
prosperity rtturn.
False Rumor. In our hist isstiJ
we gave publicity to a rumor in cir
culation to the effect that Mayor
McCown, of this city, is an aspirant
for congressional honors. We had
at the time our doubts as to the truth
of this report, and since that time
Mr. MeCown kas called upon us and
assured that ha is not an aspirant
in that direetun, aor would he ac
cept the nomination if tendered him.
He proposes to devote his time and
talents to his profession and consid
ers office-seeking detritaejital to any
person who kas a legitimate business
occupation. Our friend Mc. is cor
rect in Li views, and after hi ez
pressed and emphatic declination,
his name may a,s well be dropped
from tlie list of Congressional aspir
ants, and his client will ulways find
him ready to attend to their want
and interest.
Funeral. The funeral of ex-Vioe
President BreckinridgA took place at
Lexington, Ky., on the 10th, and
was attended
br an immense con
course of people.
Unjust to the Farmers.
An exchange forcibly remarks that
it ought to be clear to the com
mon mind that the tariff, which at
present burdens this country, is no
friend to the vast agricultural inter
ests of the United States. The farm
ers 'have a heavy handicap upon all
their energies in the tariff. To till
their lands and toil for a subsistence
they are indeed free, but they must
stand by and see the fruit of that
toil put in bonds the moment it
reaches maturity, even see it doubly
shackled on the boasted free soil of
its birth. When it is ready to be
sold, it is forbidden to seek its full
worth, where that full worth awaits
it in the foreign markets, out is
forced to the market at home only to
come back to its producer shorn in
its estimated value. For, this is the
true and tainted root of the system,
that it deprives the farmer of tho
foreign markets, where bis products
would obtain cheaper and better
manufactured articles in exchange
and restricts him to the inferior do
mestic' article, enhanced in price by
tho duties.
The farmers are thus forced by
these duties to accept less for what
they sell and pay more for what they
purchase. And all this in order that
a favored few may enjoy a monopoly
of supply to the American people,
putting their own price on their mer
chandise. Is it not obvious that
any such procedure contravenes the
primal irinciples of justice, those
principles which give to a man a
possession in his own property, and
a right to dispose of it as he chooses
of his own free will? Let this disre
gard of individual right, which un
dertakes to prescribe where a man
shall sell his property, and what he
is to receive for it, be spread over a
continent and the freedom of its peo
ple become an idle exaggeration; for
that cannot bo legislation in its true
sense which tampers to such an ex
tent with the fundamental law of
justice, but it is rather of the nature
of an imperial edict like those which
at times were promulgated from an
cient Rome to lay her vast provinces
under tribute to the Ciesar's exorbi
tant capacity. As long as the drain
continued, the people remained im
poverished, trade languished, no
wealth entered, and population
avoided the burdened land.
Are not these the very evils which
the exhaustive demands of the tariff
bring iq!?n t!e agricultural indus
tries of the country '.' lovr can the
abundant source of wealth be struC
without drying up its beneficent out-
nowmgs.' jNowhero is the injustice
of the Radical tarilf system so appa
rent as in its enects upon the roots
of our national prosperity the farm
ing interests.
Historic Printing Press.
THE FIRST OS THE SOUTHWEST COAST
lion. J. Quinn Thornton Dear Sir
Being in Salem, on business, and
knowing the regard you had for my
late husband, the Rev. Henry H
Spaulding, and knowing, moreover,
the interest you have ever felt in
everything pertaining to the Mis
sionary and Pioneer History of Or
egon, I hereby and herewith present
to you the hrst printing press, type
and other material and fixtures for
printing, that were brought to the
.Northwest coast of America.
This precious memorial of the ear
ly history of Oregon, and, indeed, of
the estern coast of America, I con
fide trustingly to your hands, as a
most sacred legacy, with the request
that you make some appropriate dis
position of it; and until that shall be
done, you will store it in some place
at least reasonably' secure from fire.
And it is my further request that
the historic relic which I thus com
mit to your present keeping, shall
always remain at the seat of the State
Government.
At another time I may be able to
give you a more detailed and accu
rate history of this press, and of the
work it has accomplished, than I
now can. At present I can only say
that it was sent to my late husband
by the Sandwich Island Mission, to
assist him in his work among tho
Nez Perce Indians, and that it was
tho first printing press brought to
Oreeron, which at that time was
bounded by the latitude of 54 deg
40 min. on the North, the 42d paral
lel on the South, the summit of the
Rocky Mountains, East, and the Pa
eific Ocean on the West.
From this press was issued the
first book printed on the West coast
of America. In addition to other
matters not remembered by me, the
Gospel of Matthew in the Nez Perce
language was printed on it, also a
Hymn book in Lnglish and Nez
Perce. This last contained various
translations from the Scriptures, and
some prayers. A Nez Perce and En
glish Dictionary, the joint author
ship cf my late husband and of some
one not known to me, was also issued
from this interesting relic of the his
tory of the great Northwest.
Some time after the massacre of
the mis.-ionaries at Wa-il-at-pu, No
vember 23, 1847, this pioneer press
was brought down to the Willam
ette Valley and placed in the care of
the Rev. J. S. GriiSn, near what is
now Hillsboro, where it still remains,
ready for removal by you to the
Capital of the State.
I ought, perhaps, to add that after
this press had thus come into Mr.
Griffin's possession, he issued from
it a monthly periodical entitled "The
American and Unionist," and that
this was the first periodical pam
phlet issued upon this coast.
I have the honor to be yours, re
spectfully, R.( ntr. J. Spai-lii-i.
S.ixw, May 3, '.$73.
Dost Co.ve. T!;. following State
papers fail to re.'K-ii this office: The
Mountnineer, Ji i,i'z,-, Jacksonville
Sent! nil, Umatii, Tribune and the
Independent. Wt occasional ref
erence to these pt;srs ia our State
exchanges and presae tley are yet
published.
Is It Justice?
j We are reliably informed that cer
' tain parties in Portland take special
pains to misrepresent this county to
; immigrants arriving in the State.
The story comes to us from different
sources, tliat wnen imiuigrauw comu
who have a little money to pay for a
farm, they are told to go up the val
ley and purchase themselves places,
being informed that there are no
good farming lands in this county.
At the same time, if the immigrant
has no money to pay for a farm, he
is readily recommended to locate in
this county, being told that he can
get cheap lands and in a few years
he can make himself a good home.
Now we ask but justice in thi3 mat
ter in behalf of Clackamas county,
and no more. Through misrepresen
tations of this character, our best
farming land (which aro equal to the
very best in the State) are not worth
more than from 10 to $20 and at the
very outside figures 30 per acre,
and the latter priced must bo close
to town and on the river and railroad
while an inferior' quality of lands in
counties south of us, and from ono
to two hundred miles from market,
aro worth and selling at from 15 to
45 per acre. We know, of some of
the best farms in our State located
in this county which can be bought
at from 10 to 20 per acre, within
two to five miles of the railroad and
close to the river. We know that
there is some of the very best agri
cultural land in the State in Clacka
mas county, and that farms can bo
had for a less pi ice than in any other
part of the State. While Clackamas
county does not lay claim to broad
and extensive prairies, she does claim
some of the best agricultural lands
in the State, and immigrants can do
better here than elsewhere away from
a market. It is true we have a good
part of our lands in timber; but it is
equally true that we have much ex
cellent land already cleared and un
der cultivation, and a great deal
which can be placed under cultivation
for less than one-half the increased
price which is asked for prairie
farms, while it is an acknowledged
fact that when our brushy and roll
ing lands are once placed under
proper cultivation, they are more
productive and moro certain -of a re
munerative crop than any lands on
over-flowed or low prairies. Clacka
mas county may bo kept back for
selfish purpose, but we feel confident
that t-hc time is not f ir distant when
her close proxiui!fv to market, her
fertile soil and her healthy aiifl pure
air, will . be appreciated and taken
advantage of. We would ask person's
who have good farms to sell to leave
their address at this office, rnd give
us a complete description of the land
offered for sail. We know of several
that can be bought at reasonable fig
ures, and if we can once get a share
of tho immigrants now arriving in
our Stato to look at our county and
its great advantages, we feel confi
dent that Clackamas county's repu
tation will be materially improved
The representations made to tho im
migrants at Portland are partially
substantiated from the fact that when
they pass along the river or railroad,
they see a dense forest and do not
stop to inquire or look farther than
their observations go while traveling
on these conveyances. To show how
eager some people are to run down
UlacKamas county, we will cite a
fact that has come to our knowledge
recently: An immigrant was passing
up tho road a few days ago, when
crossing the Barlow Prairie, ho r
marked that there was a fine body of
land, and asked what county it was
in. The person addressed was an
old Oregonian, and knew in what
county it was, but ho replied that it
was in Marion county. This is the
way our neighbors try to get a repu
tation at our expense. Let immi
grants come to Oregon City and ex
amine for themselves, and we feel
confident that they will find it to
their benefit. Wo will say, as a
matter of justification for those who
make these misrepresentations, that
they know nothing of Clackamas
county, haying never traveled off
the railroad or river within its boun
daries the distance of half a mile.
But persons desiring to procure
homes slrbuld look for themselves
and examine into this matter before
they purchase.
Will ke Consecrated. The Yam
hill Reporter says that the Reverend
Bishop Morris will be at this place,
according to appointment on Sunday
the 6tli day of June the second Sun
day after Trinity. . On that day St.
James Church, McMijnville will be
consecrated according to the rites of
the Church. It is a law with Epis-
cojjalians that no Church can be con
secrated to the worship of God so
long as one dollar of indebtedness
rests against it. St: James' Church
could be consecrated to-day for all
that law. It stands free of all in
debtedness, and Rev. Mr. Summers
holds the receipt of the last creditor.
So when Bishop Moms visits our
beautiful little village on the 6th of
Jun next, he will have the last sol
emn rite to perform on the comple
tion of another temple for the wor
ship of the Lord.
A man was indicted, tried, con
victed and sentenced to six months
imprisonment at Walla Walla last
week for the crime of assault com
mitted in 1863.
SUMMARY OP STATE NEWS.
Washington Hall, a pioneer of
thirty years ago, who has been ab
sent from Astoria fisteen years, re
turned by the John L. Stephens this
week to claim possession of Chinook,
wrnich has been recently decided to
ueiong to iiim.
Wild strawberries are 50 cents per
ganon at Eugene City.
A Salem manufacturer is shipping
iurniture to Lugene.
Salem is shipping wooden water
pipes ana pumps to Astoria.
Mr. John Marden is getfng along
iiuciy , uuuaing tne wagon roau round
the Cascades, and has it completed
to within one and a half miles of the
lower landing.
The Pioneer and Historical Society
oi uregon. on the 17th. instructed
the committee on rooms for a library
at Astoria, to proceed and fix the
same for use and occupation.
Edward Ashley! your sister, Mrs
Sarab A. Crabtree. of Baxter Sorinsrs.
Cherokee county, Kansas, is anxious
to near ironi you. If you are ih Or
egon, write to her immediately.
The man called "Naught" in the
papers, who was killed near Amity
last week by Rurrows, was not named
Naught but Knott. Knott was not
killed but only bruised, and he and
Burrows have mutually charged each
other with assault with a dangerous
weapon, and that is all of tho Polk
county homicide.
The editor of the Messenger says
no must enlarge his paper.
Tho contract for building the
Christian church has been let.
Tho Plain dealer says Gen. Joseph
Lane visited Roseburg last week,
looking as hale aud hearty as of old.
Twenty mining claims were record
ed in the office of the County Clerk
of Douglas last week.
Mr. George Prior says there will
bo about 20,000 bushels of small
grain raised in Camas Valley this
year. Heretofore, 5,000 bushels was
the usual crop.
We copied an item last week from
the Hillsboro paper to the effect that
a man -named Chamberlain, in Wash
ington county, had been held to an
swer a charge of killing a young man
named Steventon. The fact is Cham
berlain was only accused of threat
ening the life of Steventon, and was
bound over to keep the peace.
The land office at the Dalles, with
Capt. L. Coffin as register, and Mr,
C. N. Thorn bury as receiver, will bo
opened for business on the 1st of
June.
R. II. Lamson, Judge II. Hurley
and A. R. Burbank have been ap
pointed as a local board of immigra
tion for Yamhill county by the State
bcrnd.
A Baker City correspondent has
visited Rye Valley, last week, and
thoroughly inspected the "Granite
Mountain." He says "it is full of
rich quartz lodes and will devclope
into a first-class quartz camp far
better than War Eagle Mountain,
Canyon City but being f n an out-of-the-way
country, capitalists know
nothing of it. If men of money !
would 011I3' come and see for them
selves, they would invest, and witli a
small amount of money expended,
would realize moro profit in one year
than they could elsewhere."
Ou tho 7th day of this month the
State Board of Immigration for Ore
gon forwarded to David Newsom, of
Marion county, a commission to act
under them, in behalf of immigrants
in giving inforn a ion about lands to
sell or rent and about employment
for immigrants wishing to perform
labor.
Crops are looking well throughout
Mai ion county. So says King L.
Hibbard the county assessor.
There aro a good many cases of
typhoid fever reported up in Sweet
Home valley, Linn county, this
spring.
Hon. G. R. Helm, of Linn county
has long been confined to his bed by
sickness, but is again able to walk
about.
The Baptists are actively canvass
ing the city of Albany for aid to
build a new church edifice. Success
pretty well assured."
Suit has been cammenced by W.
W. Moreland, of California, in tho
U. S. Circuit Court for the district
of Oregon to recover from Marion
county the block in Salem on which
the court house stands.
Tho grain crop of Linn county is
now generally in, and a careful'm
spection reveals the fact that at no
time since the settlement of the conn
try has there been tho samo pains
and care taken to have tho ground
in good order and the seed properly
put in. This not only speaks weil
xl r 11 ' t . .
ior me iarmers, one is 01 liseit a
guaranty that there will be an abun
dant harvest.
The Right Rev. B. Wis tar Morris
and Rev. J. H. Babcock held services
in the Congregational church at Al
bany, Monday the 17th inst. After
the close of the services sufficient
money to purchase a lot was sub
scribed, in answer to the appeal of
the Bishop, who subscribes a further
sum toward building the church.
A lot has already been purchased.
Geo. Settlemeir has just returned
from a tour through Southern Ore
gon, and gives tho Granger some
notes taken by the way. He says
the Galice creek mines are virtually
a failure, and that those who visit
them generally so decide. Times
are dull and money scarce. The
cinnabar mines near Roseburg, Mr.
S. thinks, are a reality, and will
prove of benefit to the State, as well
as profitable to the discoverers. But
thewhole matter is summed up by
saying that it is useless to cro sonib
in search of better times, or a better
country.
There are nineteen miDils in fliA
Deaf Mute School at Salem.
C. H. Humnhrev has sold nni 1n"o
interest in the Benton Democrat.
Gov. Gibbs is to deliver the Fnnrfl,
of J uly oration at Junction.
An unfounded report was rmhlisli-
ed in the Portland papers last Tues
day, announcing the death of S. N.
Arrigoni, at Astoria. He is quite ill,
but hopes are yet entertained of his
recovery.
A man named Arthur Cox lias been
held to appear before the Grand Jury
of Marion county on a charge of at
tempting to aid the penitentiary con
victs to make their escape. He is
charged with having furnished them
with weapons.
The number of sheep driven to
Eastern Oregon this year will be
greater than in any preceding sea
son. It is reported, says the Sentinel,
that the rock taken from the Yank
ledge is proving richer and'richer
the farther from the surface the ore
is taken.
Mr. H. Klippel brought to Jack
sonville one day last week, cinnabar
which he had discovered somewhere
in that vicinity, which Mr. Campbell
informs tho Sentinel assayed CO per
cent.
non. H. W. Corbett has let the
contract for the building of a private
residence which will cost 25,000.
Mr. E. St. John received the con
tract. The Reiorter learns that Yamhill
county is out of debt; that about all
the county warrants have been re
deemed, and when the last one is
paid there will still be a small sum
in tho treasury.
The Albany Democrat tells that one
of the children of "Bud" Thompson
who used to publish the Mercury,
recently fell into a well and was
taken out to all appearance, dead.
The parents, however, being deter
mined to resort to all available means
for restoration, Mr.". T. knocked two
of its front teeth out and succeeded
in pouring into the aperture thus
made a sufficient amount of brandy
to accomplish the baby's resuscita
tion, aud event nally its complete res
toration. Onr correspondent at Hillsboro
writes a facetious letter this week,
which he winds up by. saying:
"Times are very quiet. There are,
however, a few individuals hereabout
who persist in dickering on horses,
lands, etc., just as though judgment
day never was coming, and the
weather was always going to hold so;
but such men sometimes slip into
the Church, and die happy, in spite
of an overruling Providence."
The Smithsonian Institute has re
ceived two specimen Salmon sent
from Astoria by Mr. James Welch.
The Jacksonville Times says the
mail between Linkville and Ashland
is now tri-weekly.
Prof. J. D. Fountain, of Ashland,
will deliver an address before the
Allumni of the Corvallis college on
Juno 11, 1875.
The counties of Jackson, Josephine
and Curry are planning to build a
wagon road from Jacksonville to
Chctco, n the coast.
Mail transportation from Linkville
to Fort Klamath costs only to'.) bb
a month, semi-weekly trips are made.
The Astoria.i hasn't "any compli
ments to waste on the G ivlord famil v
says it was "sold, badly."
The Odd Fellows of Cornelius
have negotiated for a beautiful site
for a cemetery, situated about a half
mile north of the town. They pro
pose fixing it up in good style.
Contradiction. Mr. Reid of the
Stato Board of Immigration last
Tuesday sent the following telegram
to the Associated Press of New York:
Portland, May 25, 1875.
77e Associated Pres., JVtH? 1'orJ.-:
Contradict the false statement receiv
ed from Kansas, that Oregon is too
much crowded with immigrants.
Although a large immigration is ar
riving weekly in Oregon, mostly
farmers from the Western States, all
are satisfied and provided for. Wheat
and all other crops are exceedingly
heavy. There is room for thousands
of farmers and sheep-raisers for years
to come. WiiiiiiAM Reid,
State Com'r of Immigration.
Order of Odd Fellows. The
report of the Grand Lodge of this
Order for the State of California, for
the year 1875, shows it to be in a
nourishing condition. On the first
of April it numbered 18,51G members.
Its net total of property, including
building, cemetery, library, etc., is
1,050,5G1 85. Against this, the
debt of tho various Lodges in the
jurisdiction amounts to but 86,727
40. The amount expended for relief
from April 1, 1874, to April 1, 1875,
was 110,568 18, and the amount of
all other expenses during the same
period 140,154 20. Four districts
had failed to send in lists, and record
of their membership is obtained from
their reports for the term ending
Dec. 31, 1874.
Southern Sentiment. Ex-Governor
English, of Connecticut, who
recently returned from a Southern
tour, gives the following encourag
ing report of the political status of
Texas: "The people in Texas have
seemingly forgotten that there ever
was a war, and from every act and
expression I gleam the information
that they welcome auybody who will
come here to better their condition,
regardless of any political associa
tion. It is a very rare thing for them
to refer to a man's politics; not half
so much as we in New England do."
Corroboratory Evidence. At a
Democratic conference in Ohio, re
cently, Senator Thurman expressed
his belief that the Radicals will reor
ganize the old Know-Nothing Lodges
that played such a conspicuous part
in our political history twenty years
ago. That was the idea in Washing
ton before Congress closed its ses
sion. The course of the Radical pa
pers, their violent assault upon all
foreign-born and Catholic citizens,
gives corroboratoi-v evidence tn that
etfect J
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Failed. The New Englanders i
failed to extort from President Grant
a disclaimer of " the third term pro
ject. The New York Sun. thinks that
he will probably disclaim it about
the time he takes the temperance
pledge.
TERRITORIAL SKWS ITE
A tiny ' Wade fly is said to be k; 1
ing the grasshoppers in Colorado
and tho ranchmen? are praying that it
may achieve 11 complete victory.
Five houses were burglarized. in
Salt Lake City Sunday night before
last, and the Tribune says some of
the victims bad not reported u-p to the
hour of going to press.
An Eastern exchange remarits .af
ter its reporter had interviewed ft
fellow all the way from the Black
Hills: "If that man told the reporter
the truth, then indeed is the Black
Hills country good, and we wondir
greatly that the aforesaid should
leave it. When you find rock which
yields 120 to the pound, it is well
that you find all of that kind of peb
bles possible. That is our individual
opinion, and it may be that we ara
prejudiced."
Olympia now boasts of two boat
clubs, the members of which aro
ladies. It is understood that a chal
lenge will be made to row for the
silver cup which was won by Vie.
Tull three years ago the coming
Fourth of July, and the champion
ship of the Territory.
Laboring men are wanted by hop
growers in Tacoma valley.
The snow fell to the depth of three
inches at Silver City, Idaho, on tho
16th of this month.
A vessel namo unknown has been
chartered in San Francisco to load
with spars
on the Sound for Cork,
Ireland.
The Couriers Seattle correspon
dent says Beriah Brown has been ap
pointed clerk of the district court
vice Mr. Andrews removd.
Grasshoppers have made their ap
pearance in Millard county, Utah.
As yet they have done but little dam
age to the growing crops..
Col. John McCracken, 33d was on a
visit to Walla Walla last week, and
instituted Columbia Lodge of Per
fection No. 5, of the 14th degree of
said rite. Tho following officers
were elected to serve for three years:
Frank Kimmerlv. G. M. ; Sewall
Trnax, S. G. W.fjohn Goudy, J. G.
W.; W. II. Egan, G. O.; B. L.
Sharpstein, G. A.; Park Winans, (1.
T. Ralph Guichard, G. S.
In the last issne of the Idaho
World, T. J. Sutton announced that
his connection with that paper ceased
with that issue.
Bishop Blanchet, of Vancouver, i
at Walla Walla on a personal visit.
The pastor of the M. E. Church at
Vancouver had new potatoes for din
ner on Wednesday last, which hj
had himself planted the present sea
son. The gentleman would certainly
mako a good agriculturist, judging
frm the lesult tf his amateur exer
tions. The Alia of a recent date has a re
view of the condition of the States
and Territories of the Pacific sh
remarking that "Idaho is stationary
The chief hope of tho Territory at
present for advancement is fixed on
a number of quartz mines which aro
being opened, ami some of them art
very promising."
Major Henslee's great good for
tune iu having suddenly recoven-d
his sight after being blind for years,
has created some little oscitt-ment in
Vancouver, wh re it is looked upon
iu the light of a miracle." Every ono,
however, is heartily graVfi l that the
Major has been relieved cf his disa
bility, and all express the hope that
it may bo permanent.
There are in Seattle between 2,40
aud 2,500 inhabitants, including 1;.")
male and 12 female ( h;ncs, a id
about 100 Kanakas and Indians; aIo
real and. personal property, (at its
assessed value) to the amount of one
million one hundred and sixty odd
thousand dollars; and also 301 'dwel
ling houses occupied by families.
In the county, outside the city thero
are nearly 1,800 inhabitants; somo
8700,000 of assessable property, and
210 farms which are occupied. Theso
returns as contrasted with those of
some four years ago, make a very
good showing. There were then
1,142 inhabitants in the city and
1,002 in the county outside the city
limits.
Speaking of the necessity for a
bridge across the Willamette, tho
Vancouver Register pays the follow
ing neat tribute to the city of Port
land: Her public buildings will com
pare favorably with those of any
city in the Union, and her improve
ments are generally of the most sub
stantial kind, and with the largo
number of steamers and ships in port
from time to time she has the appear
ance of one of the finest cities in tho
nation for her size. When we take
into consideration the fact of her
central position as to trade and com
merce, with her river and railroad
privileges, backed by her immense
wealth, her enterprising citizens, her
many most excellent papers secular
and religious as published in the
city, we are ready to conclude that
she has a bright future as the second
city on the coast, and in time we have
no doubt that she will be the Phila
delphia of the great West.
The Record says the walls of the
capitol building are all up for the
second story, and the joists are being
laid for some parts of the upper floor.
The two heavy girders of boiler iron,
fifty-seven feet long, that span the
center rotunda, are almost completed
and will be in place during the pres
ent week. Contractor Mann is push
ing the brick work for the third
story, at the south wing, and consid
ering the hindrances of the weather,
is making rapid progress, and half a
million brick have already been laid.
The building is on a grand scale,
and there is considerable more of it
than the Stete of Oregon needs to
finish up and make use of for a few
years to come. Mr. Piper says one
other appropriation will suffice to
finish up all parts that will be essen
tial for many years, and the work to
be done this year and next will gi.v0
the State abundant room for all its
wants.
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Reward Offered. A "Women s
Peace Society" has been formed
London which hn nnblished an offer
of 100 for the best tract written a
woman on the subject of peace. The
title must be, "In what way do wars
affect women, and how may they best
use their influence to prevent war.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
xLi, CALIFORNIA