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THE ENTERPRISE.
i) i! EGOS CITY, OREGON, JlLY 2 1870.
Extradition.
The extradition treaty with Eng
land is dead, and each country now
becomes an asylum for rascals of the
otherr England has brought this
result about, and, singular to say,
has done it upon the plea of afford
ing a stronger guaranty to freedom
atad ju'$t.iee. The old treaty worked
well, though susceptible of iinproVo
meifti Which experience had suggest
ed,1 It was jtffictly observed by both
countries until the case of Winslow
came upon "the stage, -when for some
reason tho plain provision of the
(treaty; requiring the prompt surren
der of the fugitive, was disregarded
by the British government. Our
government was entirely right in its
demand, and England wholly wrong
in its refusal to surrender. Such
will be the irreversible judgment of
the civilized world. And the Presi
dent is quite right in taking the
grounaVthat England having treated
the extradition clause of the agrec
a ment as a nullity, we should do the
same, and in future take no cogniz
ance of demands under it, should
any be ade by England a thing
hardly, probable after her' recent
action.
The point which England makes
is this; that the government which
demands the surrender of a fugitive
should give a guaranty that the al
leged criminal shall not be tried for
any other offence than that for which
lie is surrendered a condition evi
dently not though t of when the treaty
was made and never embodied in any
other treaty. By a subsequent act
of Parliament, it seems that this con
dition was required to be inserted
in every treaty; but not until wo
make a new treaty with Johnny Bull
can we be mado to see his right for
enforcing it.
This question has grown out of the
situation of England with reference
to neighboring powers. England is
a free country; but some at least of
her neighbors are not free, and have
severe laws for tho punishment of
political offences. In the extradition
f criminals without such a guaranty
ns England demands, a fugitive might
be surrendered on a charge of for
gery, for example, eaud when once
o obtained might be tried for a purely
political transgression. It does not
appear, so far as we have seen, that
extradition treaties have ever been
thus abused; but there is a possibility
that it might be done; and the peo
ple of the United States, not less
than those of England, would say
the contingency should be carefully
guarded against. This country, like
England, has always been a safe asy
lum for political fugitives, and it
always will be. Our sympathies,
therefore, are naturally with the
principle which England is anxious
to assert, and there ought to be no
ilifSculty in comitg to a new agree
ment that shall recognize and em-
Cbody it.
o The best way of doing it would
seem to be to enumerate all the of
fences for which an alleged criminal
should be surrendered, all political
offences being excluded of course,
and then to stipulate that no'surren
dered'criminal shall be tried for any
other than the offences mentioned in
the treaty. Tin's would protect po
litical fugitives, would furnish a rule
entirely acceptable to our people and
in harmony with the genius of our
institutions.
o But the soundness of this principle
affords not tho least justification for
the course of the British government
in refusing to surrender Winslow.
There was no pretense that he was
guilty of any political offence, or
would ye tried for one if surrendered.
CThe right course for the English
authorities to have pursued would
have been to surrender Winslow as
the treaty required, and then at once
to have proposed negotiations to
aiend the treaty to accord with the
principle. This course should now
cbo adopted without delay; for it
would be a shame and a stinging
reproach to have these two countries
each an asylum for the fugitive crim
inals of the other.
Thero has never been any prospect,
hays the N. Y. Sun, of the success of
the parties who have been trying to
oicn the doors of the Philadelphia
Exhibition ou Sundays. The great
majority of the Centennial Commis
sioners are opposed to Sunday open
ing in a way that admits of nochange
of judgement; and they have been
made to feel that the wealthv and
influential portion of the community
was on their side. Nevertheless,
they agreed to listen to arguments
in favor of Sunday opening; and on
Thursday last, a number of represen
tative men delivered sueh argument
before them; but when the vote on
the subject was taken yesterday it
as found that three-fourths of the
Commissioners took ground, as they
Lad always done, against Sunday
opening. It i of no use to agitate
the subject further, so far as the hope
of practical results is concerned.
o " -
Chicago Las settled its mayoralty
dispute, byea new and popular elec
tion, and Monroe Heath, Republican,
was chosen by a large majority. The
Tribune regards it as a great Republi
can and reform victory over the
bummers. o
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Clackamas in the Legislature.
Our two Senators and four mem
bers of ho Lower House, we venture
to say, will compare favorably with
the delegation from any county in
the State. Mr. Offield, the holdover
Senator, is a gentleman of practical
views,- and severe honor. He is a
farmer, and Democrat, and by his
most intimate friends is considered a
"tiller of the soil' second to no one
in the county. Mr. John Myers is a
well-to-do merchant in this city, and
everywhere known for his broad and
comprehensive ideas, and powerful
judgment. Having been a Senator
before from this county, he is but
renewing his acquaintance with old
scenes and familiar practices, and
his record is ore of which he may
well feel proud. Captain "Will is a
Republican, chosen at the late elec
tion, and, like Mr. Offield, is a farm
er. This gentleman is one of the
strictly utilitarian kind, anything
visionary being as foreign to his
nature as effeminacy in a Spartan.
Among his neighbors he is consulted
as a man of good understanding, and
is everywhere respected for his prob
ity and strict sense of jnst'ee. Mr.
John Cochran is a Republican, and
farmer of extended reputation; hav
ing one of the largest and most pro
ductive places in the county. Form
erly a Willamette river steamboat
captain, he is perhaps better qnalifi
ed to legislate upon tho much vexed
transportation question than any
man who will this session agitato
the topics in tho new capitol. Al
ready ho is busying himself in can
vassing among the people of this
valley to learn their sentiments re
specting a new line of steamboats,
and otherwise striving; to solve the
freight problem. Mr. J. M. Keid is
also a farmer, and, like our other
representatives, is a gentleman of
liberal views, of unimpeachable char
acter, and undeniable Democracy.
Mr. II. Straight is a Democrat of the
"dyed in the wool"' ersuation, and,
though"husbandman or acres broad,"
is also sufficiently wt-11 versed in
materia mediea to have won the sou
briquet of "Doc." by which name
he is generally known. Ho is the
youngest member of tho delegation,
and we prognosticate a bright future
for him. Taken as a body we cannot,
otherwise than feel proud of our
representatives, and we take this oc
casion to warn those harpies who
usually infest the corridors of the
Legislative halls, that not one of our
members are marketable, and to
broach such a subject will result in
their own discomfort. We have ev
ery confidence in predicting tha the
Clackamas county delegation will
always be found on the right side
and "sternly arrayed against the
wrong." All bills of public benefit,
as the proposed improvement in the
assessment law, for instance, wo feel
assured will meet with their cordial
snpport; while every attempt to sad
dle debt on the community and in
crease taxation will bo strongly op
posed. We trust our high hopes
may not bo blasted nor our confi
dence njisplaced.
The Army Reduction.
In their eagerness to economize,
the Democrats have mado many
blunders. In pruning too closely
they have lopped off the army limb,
and we are now, in the Black Hills
country, called upon to witness its
inherent folly. Prior to the passage
of the bill by the House, we took the
ground that 23,000 troops were little
enough for a country so large as ours,
and that we, especially, in a State
filled with Indians of questionable
docility, needed as many national
guardsmen as could bo possibly
spared us. Tho Portland Standard
aughed at our fears and considered
our army little elso than a useless
ornament. The death of the gallant
General Custer and his brave staff
and followers must put a very differ
ent face on the Indian question, even
to such an ultra Democratic paper as
the Standard. "Men grown old in
wars" from all parts of the country
have seen the utter futility of send
ing the poor skeleton in blue, deris
ively call "the army," against the
hordes of well-armed Sioux, and havo
telegraphed to the Secretary of War
at Washington, their willingness to
enlist and help swell the force to
numbers necessary for the war.
Democrats themselves see the mis
take of robbing the people of their
defenders, and the latest dispatches
from Washington are to the effect
that the army reduction bill is a dead
letter and will never be enforced.
It is no pleasure to us to crow over
our Democratic contemporary when
it must be done at the expense of the
lives of some of tho best and bravest
men in the army; but inasmuch as
we took decided ground against tho
army bill at its very inception, we
feel entitled to remind the Standard
that its ideas on political economy
are not infallible, and that Democrats
in their zeal to cut down expenses
to be used as political capital are
very apt to take a step too far, and
that too into the dark or slough of
ignorance. -
A lot of ex-rebels at Oronogo.Mo.,
proposed to celebrate the Fourth by
raising a rebel lag, but the loyal
people armed themselves and notifi
ed them that the fii-3t man who at-
I 1 V " lVL reoei nag on
I the soil of Missouri would be shot.
The Assessment Law.
In order to call out discussion we
publish the following communica
tion which appeared in the Oreyonlan
July 11:
I would not havo thrown down
the gauntlet on the need of a reform
in the assessment law, as I did in
your issue of the Gth, only that a
worse enactment rucnaces ns. and
for that reason 1 felt that a disension
of the question should be commenc-
ed in time, in order to avert the oth-
er peril that, stares the business
community in me race, l rom tne
favorable characterof your comments
I am emboldened to write again,
feeling that with your aid to champ
ion the reform, we are assured of
success. It is true that tho sugges
tions I made would not touch" the
matter of ratable adjustment of as
sessments, and they -were not so in
tended; that can only" be reached
through a State board of equaliza
tion, as yon suggest; but such a
board would have but little to do ex
cept to adjust ratable values on real
estate, and that duty would not at
all contravene or traverse the prev
ious duties of an assessor.
Finding your assent to the tenor
of my suggestions to be shared very
generally by a large number of citi
zens with whom I have conversed, I
will proceed to advert to the partial
ity and injustice of the amendment
r a. i -- .
to the assessment law passed by the
last Legislature, the evil results of
which were fortunately averted by
an unconstitutional defect found inits
preamble, by means of which a worse
law than the present one was defeat
ed of its sinister purpose. A law to
declare that the debtor no matter
how much he is indebted shall be
allowed to deduct but 1,000 from
his asessment is a cool, unblushing
extortion and a conspiracyjagainst the
interest and welfare of the business
community, affecting collaterally
every industry, and crippling every
enterprise. It was a design destined
to throttle the onward progress of a
new countiy, and inimical to every
project in which capital must bo
borrowed to push forward improve
ment. No excuse, real or fancied,
or having the semblance of justice or
equity, can be educed why this ar
bitary discrimination should be
made, and leaves us to but one con
clusion, namely that the legislators
of the last Assembly, goaded to des
peration by the injustice of the pres
ent law, struck out blindly for a
change of base, disregard fnl of the
consequences. It has been said
that.
"The reckless youth who fired the Ephc-
sian dome
Outlives in fame the pious fools who roar
ed it."
Rut I believe a contemporary in
famy will only as much attach to
those who reared this tottering muni
ment, as to those who tear it down
to up build a worse one. Still, Mr.
Editor, thero is danger unless a
thorough enlightment is had on this
subject, the incoming legislator will
re-enact the law of two vears ago.
cured of the defect that prevented it
becoming a law then, which was on
y technical, but habilitated with the
same objectionable features, with re
gard to its injustice to the borrowing
classes. Its chief promoter is a
member of tho incoming administra
tion, and declares his purpose to
push his scheme to its fulfillment.
and now, Mr. Editor, I would ask
von to grant to the Jlon. .John
Myers, State Senator-elect from
Clackamas eountv, space in which to
educe justification for refusing to
permit the man who owes two thous
and dollars from deducting that
amount from his legitimate assess
ment, and whv one thousand dollars
is arbitrarily fixed tho ultimatum;
space also to show whv an assessment
as proposed in my article of the Oth,
coupled with your proposition of a
board of equalization, will not meet
the demands of equality and bring
tho rich, tho poor, the honest and
the dishonest, tho willing and the
unwilling, on one common plane of
exact assessment, meting out to each
man that God-given and inherent
quality of justice to which we, as
Americans, are entitled under the
technique of the law. X. Y. Z.
The National Washington Monument.
Wo are glad to learn that in this
Centennial year the bill to complete
the Washington monument at Wash
ington was unauimously passed by
tho Senate.
The half finished shaft has been a
disgrace to us for so long a time that
the nrpropriation of money for its
completion will' meet with general
approval, even in this time, when
economy is sternly demanded by men
of all creeds and classes. Wo have
spent government money so lavishly
of late in good, bad and questionable
ways that the unfinished monument
has become an exclamation point to
emphasize our want of reverence for
our greatest man's memory, as shown
in our neglect to give to the comple
tion of his only national monument a
little of the money which we have
given so freely to less worthy pur
poses. As wo say, it is a good thing to
finish the Washington monument,
but there is something amusing in
the alacrity with which the Senate
and House of Representatives have
adopted a resolution to that effect.
For years members of Congress have
observed the unfinished and unsight
ly work without emotion, and they
have neglected to do anything for it
when the country could better afford
to have something done; but now, in
this Centennial year more especially
in this political Presidential year
when at least a resolution in relation
to tho matter i3 introduced, not a
member of either party dare to make
a sign against it. Party hopes and
fears for once have secured an end
which the public will approve.
Lots of folks celebrated the Fourth
by getting married. One Brooklyn
clergyman had 11 marriage-calls on
his list; another 12, and another 7.
Sheridan is to take
the forces in tho field
Sioux.
command of
against tho
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Eastern.
Washington, July 22. Hendricks
has evidrjitlv made a vote by the
House in favor of repealing tho re
sumption act, an indispensable con
dition of his acceptance of the nomi
nation. He wants a practical soft
money interpretation of the St. Louis
platform before he steps upon it.
His labors havo had some success,
Wike of Illinois, a member of the
I bauking and currency committee,
! having indicated that ho is disposed
' to favor repealing the clause
of the
resumption act which hxes tno date
for resumption. The committee con
sists of eleven members; heretofore
five have been hard money men, con
sisting of four Republicans and
Wike. Randall Gibsonbeing absent
investigating the New Orleans cus
tom house the committee stood five
to five. When Gibson returned he
declared for hard money, but Wike's
defection gives six for repeal against
five. As this committee can report
at any time, if at the next meeting
thev order a bill reported repealing
tho"date for resumption, the majority
vote of tho House can sustain the
previous question and bring the
House to direct decision of the issue.
The probability is, this will be done
by the middle of next week. Tilden's
influence in the House will give the
movement sufficient aid to insure
success, in the belief that it will
help the Democratic ticket in Indi
ana, Ohio and Illinois, although all
know it. cannot pass the Senate or bo
signed by the President.
Munroe's telegraph bill authoriz
ing a number of prominent Califor
nia capitalists to lay cables to Asia
has been returned to the House of
Representatives, Davis withdrawing
his motion to reconsider by which it
was suspended after its passage in
the Senate. It has yet to pass the
House, and meanwhile efforts arc
making to enact a bill, also recom
mended ly the Senate foreign rela
tions committee, granting permis
sion and privileges to all persons who
may w ish to lay ocean cables.
Secretary Chandler, acting on tho
advice of the Attorney General, who
is the law officer of the Interior De
partment, lias finally decided that
entries of land under the soldiers'
additional homestead law are not re
quired to bo made in person, but
may be made under powers of attor
ney. This decision confirms the ti
tle to large tracts of California tim
ber entered by Alvinza Hayward and
others last year.
Wigginton, by authority of tho
House committee on Territories, has
reported favorable on Lane's bill to
annex Walla Walla and Columbia
counties to the State of Oregon, pro
vided a majority of tho voters of
those counties so elect. Tho reports
argue that the enactment of this
bill would give Oregon the natural
boundaries fixed by the State con
stitution when applying for admis
sion to the Union; that the interests
of these counties are identical witli
the interest of Oregon, and not thoso
of the rest of the Territory, and that
their inhabitants experience great
inconvenience in transacting busi
ness with their present seat of gov
ernment, and desire the proposed
change. Representative Fort, as a
minority of one, distents from this
conclusion, and submits the argu
ment that the rest of the Territory
should have a voice in this matter;
as the two counties include an area
of 3-1,000 sni-jare miles and a popula
tion of 10,0! )(), or one-fourth of the
entire Territory, their annexation to
Oregon will not only throw the
whole burden of the Territorial debt
upon tho remainder, but would in
his opinion postpone tho admission
of Washington into the Union.
Booth from tho Senate public.
lands committee has reported favor
able on Kelly's bill perfecting title
to Oregon donation land claims,
technically covered by abandoned
military reservations. Tho bill is
strongly recommended by tho In
terior Department.
New York, July 22. The Sun has
tho following editorial doub
le loaded: We have not
too much confidence in tho Demo
crats who lead the party in the pres
ent House of Representatives. Most
of them are comparatively small
men, creations of accident. If the
oarty had really, strong men there
Robeson would have been impeach
ed, tried, convicted, removed and
disqualified long ago, while such
guilt would have been proved against
Robeson's confederate, Cat tell, that
he would ere now have been an in
mate of New Jersey's State prison.
The Democrats must have stronger
men in the next Congress.
The IlerahVs editorial: We con
gratulate our reform House of Rep
resentatives on the suppression of the
fast mails to the West. Now let's
put an end to railroads and tele
graphs. The work of reform should
go bravely on. The Herald says:
Now that-"tho Republicans are cast
ing about for a State ticket that will
harmonize the party, let ns make
this suggestion: For Governor,
Roscoe Conkling; f;r Lieutenant
Governor. Rebun E. Fenton.
The Times editorially says: If
Democratic editors understand the
meaning of the adage, "People who
live in glass houses should not throw
stones," they will stop circulating
their slanderous dispatches concern
ing Grant's habits, otherwise they
may be obliged to consider evidence
which they will not like to examine
concerning the condition of their
candidate for President on the night
he received the news of his nomina
tion. New York, July 22. The ITerahVs
special from Laramie states that the
Fifth Regiment of Cavalry marched
eighty miles and overtook a band of
Indians, who were outwitted and sur
prised after a sharp fight, in which
Yellowhand was killed by Buffalo
Bill. The Indians rushed for the
reservation, leaving behind all their
provisions. Merritt pursued them
till night, when the whole command
went into camp at the agency. The
Indians left their dead, and admit
having more killed. They also lost
six ponies. Their friends at Red
Cloud say they never dreamed that
tho Fifth Cavalry could get there in
time to head them off. The regiment
sustained no loss. It arrived 'at
Laramie yesterday, and leaves for
Crook's camp to-morrow.
The Herald's Washington dispatch
says: The desperation with which
tho Western soft money men are pur
suing their project of repealing the
resumption .act, obviously reveals
their object, which is nemo other
than to drive Tilden from the ticket.
The leaders in it are those who are
opposed to Tilden's ascendency in
tho party, and will not hesitate to do
anything that will embarrass or crip
ple him. The prospect to-night is
that they may succeed. It caunot
be denied but what Hendricks has
encouraged this movement very re
cently, and since his meeting with
Tilden at Saratoga. It is a plain
fact that Hendricks can't make up
his mind to be the tail end of the
ticket.
Chicago, July 23. A Washing
ton special to tho Tribune says that
Mr. McPherson, in examining the
official copy of the Democratic plat
form adopted at St. Louis, fin order
to prepare a correct copy for his
manual, has discovered two changes
in the document as read at St. Louis
which are given the Democrats much
annoyance first, one as in the frac
tional currency plank, including tho
part which followed the charges that
legislation by the Republican party
had always impeded the return to
specie payment, which was read as
follows: "Such a hindrance we de
nounce as the resumption clause of
1875, and we here demand its repeal.'
In the official copy since prepared,
the word "clause" is changed to
"date." As the general understand
ing that tho repeal demanded
was of tho entire resump
tion clause, which involved much
more than the simple date, and as
this has been deliberately changed
by some one in a way to simply
make it demand a change in date for
resumption, Avithout affecting any of
the act, it has naturally caused much
commotion among one faction of the
Democrats. Tho other change is iti
the official copy of the Mongoli
on plank. It will bo remembered
by all were at tho St. Louis Conven
tion, or who recall the report of the
proceedings, that when Dorsheimer
read the Chinese plank, he omitted
that part which he said was in pen
cil, and which lie could not read,
but that the clerk would when he
had finished the rest. Thereupon
tho California delegation insisted
it should be read. After some con
fusion their demand was complied
with. This part was a demand that
the present treaty with China should
be so modified as to prevent the fur
ther importation of Mongolians. The
Pacific delegates wert particularly
persistent in demanding that this
should go into the platform, and it
was adopted as part of. This plank
has now been left or.t entirely.
Washington, July 23. N.-ime
changed Unity, Pacific county,
Washington Territory, to Ilwaco,
and James D. Holman appointed
postmaster. Postmasters appointed
L Shepley, Monroe, Benton, Ben
ton county, Oregon; Henry Gans,
Oswego. Clackamas county, Oregon;
Nicolas Dacroix,-Sublimity, Marion
eountv, Oregon ; Thos. W. Pi osch,
Seattle, W. T.,Jas. H. Pnrdin.Selah,
Yakima eountv, W. T.. Mrs. Eliza
beth i. spinning, bummer, 1'ierce
county. W. T.
Chicago. July 25. Tho six com
panies of Infantry arrived at Bis
marck yesterday and left for Yellow
stone this morning. Capt. Miles is
in command. They took on board
here 100 recruits, two 3-inch Bod
man gnns, horses and supplies. The
Josephine will -follow them this af
ternoon, Col. Hughes returning on
her to this post. Army officers gen
erally blame Crook for a failure to
co-operate with Terry believing be
was anxious to win laurels without
assistance or interference; but a gen
tleman but little inferior in rank, in
sists that Crook knows little of the
plans of the Indiana anyway, and
lacks the necessary experience which
an officer must possess who is com
manding an army operating against
a wily and savage fo. AH agreci
that one of the greatest mistakes in
the campaign is the under estimate
of the number of Sioux and their
disposition to fight. Gen. Miles
savs he is satisfied r.eaily all the
fighting men from Standing Rock
are out, and he stopped there long
enough to look the ground over; and
the agent at Lower Bruly adds that
his Indians are all out and also those
from Cheyenne agency, not to speak
of Spotted Tail and Red ICoud, who
are certainly with them. The hos
tile bands have been largely re-in-foced
sincctho battle.
Washington, July 21. A commit
tee comprised of gentlemen from
several States, identified with the
independent greenback movement,
are here, urging upon the secretary
of the national executive committee
the propriety of placing the name of
Albert E. Redstone as Vice President
on the Peter Cooper Presidential
ticket.
Chicago, July 21. Tho Tribune's
Washington special say an impres
sion prevails to-night that the
dead-lock on the remaining appro
priation bills will be broken in a day
or two, and Congress will adjourn
about the middle cf next week.
Cincinnati, July 25. W. A.
Wheeler, Republican candidate for
Vice President, in'a reply to a letter
from Wm. Ampt, of this city in re
gard to his action against Ohio river
interests while in Congress, writes as
follows: "The whole extent and na
ture of the opposition on my part to
the Ohio river interest has been
grossly misrepresented. Gen Gar
field is now preparing an opening
campaign speech wherein tho matter
will be fully explained."
Pacitic Coast.
San Francisco, July 21. A man
calling himself John Lawless, was
arrested to-day on a charge of pro
curing young girls to be sent to
Portland to enter upon a life of
shame. The arrest was made on the
complaint of a young girl, one of
his victims, who arrived to-day on
the John L. Stephens. When taken
in charge of by the officer, he tore
up some papers and threw them
away, which, on being put together,
proved to bo the letters of a woman
named Jennie Savage, keeper of a
house of ill repute in Portland, urg
ing him to send more girls quick, as
she wanted them for the Centennial
week, and not to send any more such
voting ones a3 heretofore. Lawless
was locked up for examination.
The ship Sumatra, whish nails
soon for Hong Kong, has been engag
ed to carry home about 400 Chinese.
Want of employment is assigned as
the cause of this exodus.
Smallpox seems to have taken a
fresh start within a day or two. Six
new cases were reported on Saturday
eight yesterday and six to-day up to
noon. Three deaths have occurred
within the same time.
Victoria, July 21. Sensational
rumors have been circulating through
the town for several days to the effect
that Lord Carnarvon has informed
(he government that he cannot inter
fere in tho differences between this
province and Canada. The Colonist
pronounces the rumors untrue, no
intimation of tho kind having been
received, and that tho reverse is the I
fact.
Great preparations are being made ;
for the reception of Lord Duffcriu. j
San Francisco, July 21. Pursu- j
ant to call, a meeting of retail mer
chants was held at Dashaway hall
tin's morning to consider the silver
question. About thirty were pres
ent, mostlyd ry goods men. A reso
lution was adopted making gold the
basis of transaction and taking onlyT
at the ruling market rates. The
meeting conld hardly be considered
representative of the general retail
business, but a committee of ten was
appointed to canvass the city and
obtain signatures to the resolution.
Foreign.
London, July 22. Turkish repre
sentatives abroad say that the Sultan
will appear in pnblic in few days,
when a firman announcing certain
important reforms will be promul
gated. Trivate telegrams from Con
stantinople says the Sultan is suffer
ing from delirium tremens. The
Sultan's brother has been sent to the
war in order to induce the Sultan to
postpone his intended abdication.
Lord Derby and Minister Pierre
pont aro negotiating for a new extra
dition treaty.
London, July 25. The Marl: Lane
JCcpresss says the prospects of good
crops seem now certain of fulfill
ment. Hay has been gathered in
excellent condition, though it is not
quite so plentiful as it would have
been with more favorable auspices.
Crops are now suffering for rain.
Tho French and German wheat crops
are satisfactory both in quantity and
quality. The local trade exhibits
continued depression, wheat has de
clined a shilling per quarter and
will probably be lower. Floating
cargoes showed general depression
and declined ls ls Cd, but the num
ber offering has been steadily reduced.
The current low rates must check
shipments.
SUMMAKV ' STATE NEWS.
Ashland wants a bakery.
Roseburg is going to have a Grange
store.
The Portland celebration cost $11,-
C90 GO.
Ashland woolen mills havo re
sumed work.
Salem ministers are rusticating in
the mountains.
The great want of Douglas county
is a woolen mill.
Sheridan is to have a portable
steam grist mill.
Tho telegraph line has been com
pleted to Astoria.
Hay sells from wagons at Albany
for 38 to $.10 per ton.
Salem has levied a tax of 9 mills on
the dollar for city purposes.
500 sheep wore sold m Polk coun
ty the other day at 1 per head.
Marion countyT has lot the contract
for building a poor house for 82,975.
Father W. A. Verboot, a Catholic
priest of Cornelius, died ou the 11th
inst.
Henry Thompson won the foot
race at the White House last Satur
day. Pendleton boys are beginning to
get scaly from being in the water so
much.
The Statesman thinks the vonng
men of Salem are fit .subjects for a
brass band.
Prof. Curtis, late of the Umpqna
Academy, is to take charge of the
Astoria school.
The Christ tan Messenger, of Mon
mouth, has been enlarged to an
eight page paper.
A man by the name of Bonman, of
Portland, has bought the Silverton
Mills at a cost of SiS.OOO.
About 30 hands are employed in
tho Woolen Mills at Brownsville.
No Chinese labor employed.
Albany is to have the meeting of
the State Grange in September, but
has no hall of sufficient capacity.
A. D. Scott, residing near Silver
ton, was seriously injured last week
by a team running away with him.
An old gentleman named Mont
gomery, of Polk county, fell from a
wagon last week and broke his neck.
Thos. Anderson, second mite of
the ship City of Sparta, was drown
ed at Portland last Monday evening.
Wm. Syphert, ago about 18 years,
mysteriously disappeared from his
home near Sublimity last Saturday.
During the year ending July 1st,
Polk couuty received 828,253 21 for
eountv purposes, and paid out $27,
295 03.
A trader from Montana has pur
chased GOO head of horses from the
Indians iu Umatilla county at about
$10 apiece.
Hon. John S. Phelps the Demo
cratic nominee for governor of Mis
souri, is the father-in-law of J. B.
Montgomery of Portland.
The new Oregon steamship Geo.
W. Elder, Capt. Connor, has ar
rived at San Francisco. She will bo
put on this route in about five weeks.
Bear are very familiar up above
Dement's place on the Coquille; one
came within a few yards of the house
the other night, after mutton for
breakfast.
Mr. Gant of the Coquille took a
fleece of fourteen pounds of wool
from a two year-old Cotswold nheep.
He is stocking his ranch with that
breed, he paid $250 for five head last
year.
Some bands of Indians from tho
tribes east of the mountains, are
making arrangements to go and fight
the Sioux; two of tho Nez Perces
were with Custer in hi3 fight, .and
were killed.
It is now thought that Mr. A. D.
Scott, who was thrown from his
horse between Salem and Silverton
last week and badly hurt, will not
recover. His physiciau is reportod
to have pronounced his caso hopeless.
reaping a rich 1
vest at Astoria
it Astoria. Warren & MUv
sers to the tune of 81 350
offer a reward of $000 fr.1
are loser
they oner a reward of fiCOa
conviction of the thieves and the
-w inn
rc-
Two young men, Smith and Clarl
iave been sentenced to the peni'ton!
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The first robbed a Chinaman
Bucua " ista, and f lie latter stole
case of knives at Independence
Capt. Wilkinson, assisted bv
large party from Fort Stevens, kille'i
a huge bear back of the fortrccontlv
They fired fifteen shots into oil
bruin, cut his throat, and then Jis
covered that he was caught in a trap
Bv the railroad accident at Drain
Station ' last 'week,"' the 'train
s
thrown from the track wrecking ODo
or two cars and severely ininn'n
"was
Conductor Stroud, baggage master
Consor and breaking the shoulder
blade of a Mrs. Philbrook, a passen
ger on the train, and breaking the
arm of a child, son of Mart Taylor
Last week Sheriff Sargent of Uma
tilla county arrested James Wilson
of Butter creek, charged with steal
ing a horse valued at $100, the
property of Rachel Yoakum. ' "Wil
son was indicted by the grand jury
of this county in 1873, but kept out
of the way until last week when ar
rested; he gave bonds to the amount
of $300 to appear before the circuit
court. Another arrest made at
the same time was that of J. C. "Wil
son, charged with the seduction of
Angelina Yorlett. Wilson gave
bonds in the sum of $500.
The Mountaineer says: "TheDalles
and Sandy wagon roa'd is now com
pleted to Hood river, and as soon as
the county bridge is repaired over
that stream, wagons can go throngu
to any point on Hood river prairie.
Mr. John Marden, the superinten
dent of the work, from whom we
gather this information, says ho will
continue tho work on down the river
as far as the money will take him.
The road commissioners have $12,
000 in State warrants left, and if
they can negotiate them at a reason
able figure. Mr. Marden thinks lie
will be able to complete the roal
this season to the Cascades."
On last Friday, says the Salem
Mercury, a lad named Wm. Lewis,
aged about 11 years, was let down in
to a well being dug on. the premises
of Wm. Stanton, near Sublimity.
Marion county. The well was 10
feet deep and no person had been in
it for three or four days. When
young Lewis was in it in a few mo
ments he called out that he was
sleepy and asked to be drawn up.
Thoso at the windlass attempted to
draw him up but he had lost the
power to hold on and fell out. His
brother went down after him, hut
he too inhaled the noxious gas ami
had to be drawn out before he could
save the unfortunate victim. After
about two hours Wm. Lewis' hotlr
was recovered. This is another sad
warning to men who are working in
cess pools, wells or other excavations
in the ground. It is always best to
make some test before going down
into them.
TEKKITOHIA3, NEWS ITEMS.
Hay is worth $12 per ton at Olym
ua. Farm hands are in demand around
Walla Walla.
Mr. David Kurtz has been appoint
ed U. S. Vice Consul at Victoria.
The Senate has confirmed Maisnn
Bragnor. of Wisconsin, as Governor
oi Idaho.
IT. S. Stevens is a candidate for
re-election as Delegate to Congress
from Arizona.
The sum of 810.550 was paid into
the land ofiiee at Boise in June for
Government lands.
Mr. A. M. Richards
been appointed Lieut.
has recently
Governor of
Lritish Columbia.
Ex-Governor Bennett declines the
appointment of Governor of Idaho,
in place of Gov. D. P. Thompson,
resigned.
A small band of Umatilla Indians
passed through Boise City the oth
er day with about one thousand head
of cay use horses.
Five emigrant wagons drove into
Walla Walla last week, just across
from Missouri. Their teQms were
looking remarkably well.
The late Capt, E. A. Starr was a
native of Chenango county. New
York, and at the time of his death
aged 51 year and 7 months.
In Stevens county, W. T.. thero
are 250 whites and 100 Chinese. They
have 10,000 head of cattle, 1,000 hor
ses, 500 sheep and 150 hogs.
Colorado produces $15,000 in sil
ver for every 21 hours, $10,000 in
gold and $1,000 in other minerals, or
$20,000 daily, equal to $7,008,000
yearly.
The skating rink at Seattle is un
dergoing changes which will convert
it into a neat little theater, with all
tho appointments necessary for tho
proper rendition of the drama.
Our Helena exchange says the peo
ple of Eastern Montana are arming
themselves for protection against tho
Indians, who are quite saucy and nu
merous in that section of the Terri
tory. The tide carried of all the clothing
of two Olympia ladies who were
bathing some distance from the town,
one evening not long since, except
the shawl of one and collar of tho
other. They went back to town un
der night's sable covering.
Gov. Thompson has tendered to
the Secretary of War J. D. Cameron
500 volunteers from Idaho Territory,
on ten days' notice, to help punistt
tha Sioux and avenge the death oi
the gallant Custer, if thegovernment
will arm and equip the men.
The Walla Walla Stitesma says:
William Maskeyliue, a stock raiser,
living out on the Tucanon, disap
peared from his home about iuo
Fourth of July, and has not sinto
been heard from. ne and m
brother have a large sheep ranch ouj
on tho Tncanon, and are botU ,
good circumstances. Ea "J"
month ono of them came to Y"'
Walla, and on his return homejojin;
his brother William missing. M"1
lant search was made for the mlin
man,-but without result. W e
he wandered awav or has been fonn
dealt with, is a matter of conjccim-
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