Oregon City enterprise., April 19, 1877, Image 2

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OREGON CITY, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1577.
California's Loss Our Gain . v
Oregon has long since learned that
she must not look to California for any
kind of assistance, a 1 that when she
asks for a enp of cnll water, that State
invariably proffers her gall. California
has now met with a serious disaster and
we see no reason why Oregon papers
should not advertise it that it may re
dound to our advantage.
Reports frcm all counties south of
San Francisco are most depressing npon
the grain and cattle market, on account
of the dronth. In some places cattle
have been shot for their hides, and in
others driven over precipices into the
eea to save the poor brutes the pangs of
starvation, and the neighborhood the
odors that naturally arise from carrion.
We have heard from a gentleman just
returned from the "lower country" that
second crops planted there have already
turned yellow, and even as far north as
San Jose farmers despair of raising half
crops. Although it is not natural for
county, papers to speak disparagingly of
thef neighborhoods, an item will some
times per force creep into their colnmns,
telling volumes about their wretched
conditions. The other day we clip
ped from two papers the following facts
which show more clearly the deplorable
state of the country in the dry belt cf
California than whole columns of "glit
tering generalities." The Hollister Tel
egram says:
"Mr.Li.II. Cook, formerly of Oregon,
now resident of Santa Ana Vulley, will
Make the most of the dry season by vis
iting the "Webfoot land with a steam
thresher, with which lie will astonish
tho farmers np there in the way of
"drinking np" their ample stacks in a
twinkling, as it were. There will be no
scarcity of grain in any part of Oregon.
C. S. Abbott's great dairy near Salinas
tell a prey to the ravages of th fearful
drouth which prevails, and has been j
broken np. Those of the cows which j
Avere able to make the trip were driven
in the direction of the Sierras in search
of feed; the remainder fifty head
were shot down."
The Wutsonville Transcript says:
"They have given np all hopes of a
crop at Salinas, and Ilolhster is but
little better."
The Downieville Courier says:
""We understand that there were, a
short time since, 150,000 6heep upon
the Pa'os Verdes ranch, but not one
will be found there in a few days. Sheep
;and cattle men are on the move in all
-directions to secure pasture for their
"ilocks and herds. All the desirable
mountain ranges are already overstock
ed There is a regular hegira among
sheep owners. Some are fleeing from
the wrath to como, and others to the
evils they know not of. The mountains
are full of sheep and the grass is grow
ing scarce even in those regions. As
for the the plains, they are almost as
bare as a well travelled thoroughfare.
The sheep are now to poor too kill for
their tallow, and the pelt market stands
a good chance far being glutted."
Another California exchange says:
"Stock matters are in the worst pos
sible stute, owing to the shortness of
fjed and the scarcity of small crops.
Dairymen are offering their crops for
almost any price, rather than hold with
a prospect of starvation, but the cattle
market being just now over-supplied,
there is little disposition to buy. Choice
dairy cows were offered this week for
$15 a head, with no takers."
Other papers speak in this strain:
"The loss on sheep and cattle this
season, owing to the drouth, will be
enormous."
"The assessors of Fresno county are
only valuing sheep at fifty cents a head.
From another source we hear of a band,
after it had been shorn, that was sold
for twenty-five cents per head."
"If the migration of sheep men from
the plains to th foothills continue,
about 500 families who liv there and
have barely enough to feed their own
flocks, will be ruined. Trouble is an
ticipated." The above clippings are but a sample
of what are going the rounds of the
press, and with each publication adding
?a nail to the coffin of California, and
striking a blow for the benefit of Oro
igou. Too much rain may be objection--able.but
where it is rarelv accompanied
by floods, as with us, how infinitely
.preferable to the pa c! ing of all vegeta-
tion for want of such "gentle dews!" It
is within the reach of Oregon, "Oregon
which lias never experienced a orop
failure,"- to increase her population
vastly. It is true we must take advan
tage of a sister State's misfortunes, but
did not California do this with Nebraska
and Kansas, flooding those States with
circulars, shortly after the grasshoppers
had destroyed everything? The iron is
bot, Eastern immigrants are hesitating.
-wane uaiiiormaus are in many cases
preparing to move, and it is our duty to
strike. Now is the time to let the peo
ple of the sun-devoured regious of Cali
forma know of our mild winters and
regular rains. Now is the time to sow
broadcast among immigrants the dan
gers besetting settling in California and
the advantages of casting their lots with
ns in Oregon. The railroad and steam
bip companies may be omniscient, as
most corporations imagine themselves
io be, but if they cannot see by the in
creased immigration to this State.neces
sitating the departure of a steamer for
Portland from San Francisco every five
days instead of every seven as hereto
fore, that it is because of the dissatis
xacuon wun tne Golden State on ac
count of the drouth, and that it is to
their advantage to keep such impres
eions alive, then they had better give
np all pretensions to aid in filling np
our mighty valleys with people. The
sun is shining, and now is our time to
make hay. Agents should visit the
disaffected people of the lower counties
t California and show them the super-
iorities of the Webfoot State. Pamph
lets telling onr many anrantages, in
terse English, should flood that conn
try; and to catch the direct Eastern im
migration well balanced articles on Or
egon and California should bo written
to leading Atlantic, Western and South
ern papers, painting California in all its
dreary dryness and Oregon in its robes
of perennial spring. The fearful losses
attending drouths compared with the
positive assurance of large and good
crops should be especially dwelt upon.
There are many men in this State, who,
if paid by the railroad or steamship
companies, or by the Immigration Soci
ety, for collecting the different facts in
the case, and for the time occupied in
arranging the material in shape suitable
for publication, would b only too f lad
to furnish, the Eastern press with some
such articles. We have California at a
disadvantage, and it is for our State to
make the most of it. W should "keep
it before the people" that our State is
infinitely preferable to the farmers and
lose no time and sparo no expense in
impressing that fact forcibly upon then.
Extra Session of Congress.
Official opinions in Washington are
reported to conflict in rospect to the
necessity of hoTfting an extra session of
Congress. Such an expensive pro
ceeding ought to be avoided if possible
and the party which should give occa
sion for it 6honld be called to strict ac
count. If the new Southern policy
preTails, as we believe it will, it will
turn out that the House of Representa
tives, which insisted upon the proviso
of the Army Appropriation bill, and
the Senate, which opposed it, were both
contending for a matter of no practical
importance. Yet that contest has made
another session necessary if it really is
necessary. Undesirable as it may be,
it would be better to hold it than to
strain the law so far as to break it.
There has been too much of that kind
of straining in recent years, and it is ;
time to discontinue the practice.
However, undesirable as an extra
session may be it probably is unavoid
able, just as fires are in July. To bor
row money or to provide in any irregu
lar way for the expenses of the army
after the end of the present fiscal year,
it is belie ed, would bo an evasion of
the plain and wise provision of the
Constitution which puts the power to
appropriate money and incur public
debt into the hands of the immediate
representatives of the people.
An extra session, however, will be
considered also from the point of view
of politics. We do not mean to say
that the session will be called for party
reasons; and certainly a call for it
could not be justified on those grounds;
but it has been asserted that the leaders
of either party look with more favor
upon a Summer meeting of Congress
than they did some time ago. On the
Democratic side it may be mid that the
knowledge of a small majority in the
House of Representatives is accom
panied by the fear that, it may grow
smaller as time runs on. If there
should be an accession of independence
to the Denocratio ranks, or if there
shonld be open conversions to the ad
ministration owing to its magnanimous
Southern policy, or if any aeeident
should happen, it migh'f bard for
the Democrats to control the organiza
tion next December. Naturally they
regard it as desirable to secure the
Speakership with as little delay as pos
sible. On the Republioan side it may
be said that the leiders of the party are
anxious to stake the most of the extra
ordinary favor with which the Presi
dent's policy and Appointments are re
ceived in all parte of rfca eouatry , aad
especially ia the Soathera States. They
hop that the first impulse ef this ea-
thnsis m will give the Admiistraioa
such strength in the House of Repre
sentatives as to sttcure the organisation
for Republicans, if not in the election
of one of their owa n-imber as Speaker,
at least in the election of an indepen
dent Democrat.
We shall sot undertake to say what
these speculations are worth, if they
axe worth anything; but they oertainly
have occurred te prominent men of
either party. It is not so imnortant
that the Hoqm of Representatives shall
l. : l l 1 m , t .
w in iub iuoai or me iseaoersts or
Republicans the Honse is so elowelv
divided that both parties will be nnt
upon their good behavior as that
both branches of Congress shall agree
wun tne .rresutent in tbe adoption of
moderate measure. If the President
adheres to uis present poliev neither
the Senate nor the House of Repreaen
tatives will venture to oppose it.
Foreign War and Our Factories.
A fine, large war in Europe would be
ssd to oonteuplate from tho moral
point of view. England which has
been recently grimly faction over the
loaded down to the water's edge with
debt and taxes, and her manufacturing
industry, with which her wealth is
identified, has already begun to tremble
and to give way before the eompetitioa
ol low-pnoed goods from America. Her
manufactures rest on cotton aad iron,
and in tot of these items we have
already closed tbe market against her
in this country, and are beginning even
to drive her out of her own home trade
rsnonid sue be so rash and ill-advised
A. 1 it -
as iu unaeruuta a war with Rasaia, the
first result would be that Am'erioa
would step into the place which Eng
land has heretofore occupied as the
manufacturing center of the world, and
w W t e-"ix a . l t
"u7" ugiana snould come out of
the fight first or second best, it would
mo most costly war ever undertaken
ana 10 our AdtanUge most im
densely.
The Evening Telegram.
Portland now has three evening pa
pers, the Standard, the Bee . and the
Telegram. The first is ultra Demo
cratic, the second "red-hot" Radical,'
and the, last "not even good red her
ring.; Bcingtho . offspring of tha
Oregonian it is without politics ex;
cept where it can rule or receive recom
pense. It is owned by Republicans,
edited by a weak-kneed Democrat, and
managed by a nondescript,a"nothing"in
one sense and an "anything" in another.
It will not dare to fight corruption in
either party, but by a lick-spittle poli
cy will endeavor to receive the sup
port of both parties. We can under
stand an Independent Democratic or an
Independent Republican paper, but a
paper which cuffs and oaresses each
party in alternate editorials in a vacillat
iag effort to please readers of either
Democratic or Republican views must
be of as ephemeral a genus as those
whom the gods love.
Portland could barely support two
evening papers, so we fail to see the
object un'ess it be sinister that the
publishers of this hermaphrodite fledg
ling can have. They announced in
their prospectus that their reason for
inflicting a third paper on Portlanders,
was because that city felt the need of a
news paper, but now that it has wofully
failed, not only to "fill the bill," but to
hold its own" with either of its com
petitors, its occupation is gone, its ob
ject in life destroyed. Looking at the
innovation from an impartial stand
point, it appears very ranch as if rhis
new affair, with its corps of all kinds
and conditions of men, had sprung into
existence from the mighty brain of
Jnpiter Pittock, clad in armor and
eager for tbe fray" of killing off the
two papers which have so successfully
of late worsted the Oregonian and cap
tured many of its former supporters.
Of course we may be wrong in these
surmises, but "judging of things as we
find 'em, Mr. Wiggins" and with a. due
regard to the parties interested, we are
constrained to believe that the Evening
Telegram belongs body and soul to the
Oregonian and was created to crowd the
Bee and Standard from Portland in
order that the monopolists' organ might
have a monopoly of journalism. Demo
crats will not support it, neither will
Republicans, whence, thea, will it
draw its sustenance?
The Presidents Southern Policy.
President Hayes Speaks Out.
Washington, April 15. President
Hayes said yesterday in the course of a
conversation that he had no conceal
ments in regard to his Southern policy,
whieh, however, had been foreshadowed
iu oral and written statements. In this
connection he adverted to the Guberna
torial campaign in Ohio in 1875, which
resulted in his election over Governor
Allen, the people of the State having
full knowledge of his sentiments on na
tional questions, including, of course,
those which related to the South. On
the 31st of July, 1875, at Marion, he
freely and distinctly expressed bis opin
ions. Ibis speech was published at
length in the newspapers, and therefore
his views were generally known. In
mat speecn, auer congratniatincr bis
felluw-citizens on their complete tri
umph over those who sought to destroy
the Union and the grand results of tbe
war, he alluded to the coming together
again of Northern and Southern men in
a spirit of harmony and friendship, in
eluding those whe had fought against
one another, and 3 a prominent feature
;n this evidenc of good feeline, he. on
that occasion spoke of the kindly man
ner in which Vice President Wilsoa was
received on his visit South. In this era
of good feeling and reconciliation, he
said .there were still persons who talked
of bayonets, and who sought to revive
the prejudices of the past. This was
much to be regretted, but the-e was
enough tc fill every heart with grati
tude, the hoaee being 10 longer divid
ed, and all the inhabitants having a fair
start in the race of life. In this and in
all his other speeches he earnestly con
detnned reopening the old issues be
tween the North and South, assuring
that the time had come for complete
reconciliation.
The President ia a further con versa
tion referred to the fact that the Nation
al Republican Convention which nom
inated him for tbe Presidency, passed
a resolution sacredly pledging the Re
publican party to protect every citizen
of tbe United States in tbeir civil and
political rights, declaring that the per
manent pacification of the South should
le effected by removing all causes of
discord. The spirit of this resolution
was in perfect accord with his own
previously expressed .and repeated them
in his letter of acceptance of the nomin
ation, and more fully eloborated them
in his inangnral address, consistently
maintaining tbe policy of reconciliation
and local self government apart from
military support, and when he entered
npon the duties of the Presidency he
intended this policy should not be one
of sentiment merely, but of actual ad
ministration. He said:
My belief is that this conrse tends to
give good government to the South;
tends to secure peace between sections
and racta and parties at the South, and
to secure the rights, interests and safety
of the colored people. Therefore I am
in favor of the policy. I do not know
whether I shall sneceed in carrying it
out. because there are Northern and
Sonthern men who. in various ways,
may possibly thwart me, but of one
thing I am oonfideat.nsmely: I think it
my duty to try to carry out the policy,
and I am going to do it.
The voters of Rhode Island seem to
resemble those of Massachusetts in their
disinclination to go to the polls. The
whole number of legal voters in tbe
State is ebowa by t! recent State cen
sus to be 42,741, while the largest num
ber who have voted at aav election has
been 26,615 about sixty-two per oeot -who
went to the polls last November,
Tbe largest vote ever polled at a State
eleotion was 23.846, in 1860. In Massa
chusetts there are 851,113 legal voters,
but only seventy-five per centum voted
last November, when the largest rote
i aver polled in the fttate was east.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
. Telegraphic News.
Eastern.
Washington, April 12. The Treas
ury Department has decided that ves
sels engaged in trading npon waters
wholly within tbe limits of a State and
not having a navigable outlet, are not
subject to the navigation laws of tho
United State?.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
instructed Assistant Secretary trench
to make a list of 20 special enstoms
agents for assignment to duty in various
portions of the country under his im
mediate control. From this it would
seem the Secretary has abandoned the
idea of consolidating the customs agents
and secret service force of the treasury
and international revenue agents into
one organization. Assistant Secretary
French reported that it would be highly
inexpedient to adopt that idea. The
number of customs agents was red iced
by the last Congress from 53 to- 20 as
the maximum.
M. H. Hale, of Massachusetts, C. C.
Adams, of Kentucky, ' . F. Jennings, of
Alabama, formerly special agents for
the treasury department, nave been re
instated, the record of their services be
ing of a character to assure the Secre
tary that there was no just reason for
their removal. Capt. Adams was form
erly chief of the bureau, but was reduc
ed and subsequently removed by the
influence of Supervising Agent Moore,
because of Adams' friendship with Bris-
tow.
Jas. H. Moulton, formerly an officer
of the California volunteers, has been
appointed treasury agent for service in
Alaska.
Chicago, April 13.--The JournaTs
Washington correspondent says the cel
ebrated Arlington estate, near Washing
ton, which was forfeited to the United
States by non-payment of its taxes dur
ing the rebellion and turned into a na
tional cemetery for soldiers, is now
claimed by its former proprietor, Gen.
O. W. Curtis Lee, who in the action of
ejectment sues tbe government for its
restoration. The family had abandoned
the property and gone South to reside
before the forfeiture was made. Several
thousand soldiers are buried npon ths
soil. Lee claims that the tax sale was
unconstitutional, and therefore void.
New York, April 13. Edward A.
Lambert, ex-Mayor of Brooklyn.hither
to of unblemished reputation, is said to
be a defaulter. He was left in chaage, j
nine years ago, or an estate of 7o,UOU,
left by her deceased husband to Mrs. i
N. Cook, his sister-in-law. . Suspicions j
as to bis honesty was first aroused
about three years aero, when the in
surance company of which he was
president was sold out to another com
pany and 89,000 fell into Lambert's
hands for services in effecting the nogo- i
tiations. This he was compelled to
disgorge. Mrs. Cook entrusted the in
vestigation of her affairs to a lawyer,
who declared that he was warranted in
making the assertion that Lamb rt is a
defaulter to the amount of 850,000. He
compelled Lambert to surrender what
property he was known to possess in
restitution for the defalcation. Lam
bert is a married man and elder in Fort
Green Presbyterian church, Brooklyn.
Washington, April 14. The Presi
dent has pardoned Charles E. Bruce,
convicted in the criminal court of this
district April last of forgery, and sen
tenced to a year in the Albany peni
tentiary. This is the first pardon by
President Hayes.
Chicago, April 16. The Inter-Oceans
Washington special says: A gentleman
in' the confidence of Blaine says the lat
ter will attack Matthews at the opening
of the session and combat the Southern
policy in the same spirit as at last ses
sion. He will attack the President's
policy, not the President. It is stated
also that the Maine Republican press so
violently oppose this policy that the
friends of the administration are raising
20.000 to start an administration paper
at Portland.
New Orleans, April 16. Members of
tbe Nicholls House are in caucus to
night, considering the adjustmeat pro
posal, which is that the present organ
ization of the legislature shall rema n
intact; that the roll to be called be the
same as that called by clerk Trezevant
on the first day of the assembling of the
Nicholls legislature at St. Patrick's
Hall, omitting the names of 7 members
who have since been seated subject to
context. The House roll will include
62 Democrats, 57 Republicans, 1 Demo
oratio member having died. It is nn
derstood this arrangement is satisfac
tory to the Commission and to Conserv
auvas of the Hoaae oauous, and was
adopted by tbe Senate to-day. The
Commission, it is stated, advised the
President of the acceptance of this plan
by the Nicholls government, and will
await the President's approval before
submitting the matter to Packard,
foreign.
London, April 15. The Standard's
special from Pesth says: All the jour
nals here are agreed that it is impossible
for Austria and Hungary to remain neu
tral. They argne in favor of an allianci
with England against Russia. Austria
and Huugarv are even more interested
than England in preventing tbe entrance
of liussians into Bulgaria.
The Standard says the last effort is
being made to avert war and a last ap
peal has been addressed to Russia in
good faith.
The Athens correspondent of the
Dally News states that the Greek gov
ernment has given orders that an army
of 60.000 men be in readiness for active
service in casa of need. The feeling in
Athens is of intense anxiety.
A telegram from Rome represents the
Vatican elated at ths .prospect of war,
hopes Russia may gain some prelimin
ary advantages, in which case it has
persuaded itself that the war would
become general. Reports have reached
Cardinal Seminone from Central Russia
intimating that, an international out
break is imminent in Russian Poland
and contiguous Russian provinces.
Preparations for the movement have
been long going on.
A statement has been prepared by the
Bureau of Statistics ahowing the quan
tity and value of fresh beef exported
from the United States to Great Britain
during the eight months ended Feb. 28,
1877. The total quantity exported was
23,200,955 pounds, valued at $2,087,298.
Of the total, 18,968,895 pound-, valued
at f 1,691,577, were sent from New York,
and 4,232,060 pounds, valued at $395,
721, from Philadelphia. The largest
exportation in any one month was in
February, when 4.953,610 pounds, val
ued at $410,457. were exported.
Hon. O. N. Denny has tendered bis
resignation as collector of internal rev-esqe.
State Xews.
East Portland has a cricket club.
Salem is afflicted with hoodlums.
There are three fish-oil factories at
Astoria. '
Snow fell in Powder river valley on j
the 7th inst.
Chinamen refuse to pay their road
tax at Astoria.
Wheat is quoted at SI 10 at Salem,
and no sellers.
T. B. Handley has been elected re
corder of Hillsboro.
A city park is to be one of the new
features of Corvallis.
The Grangers at Drain's station are
erecting a warehouse.
A colony of sixty Swedes arrived on
the steamer last week.
Washington county's delinquent tax
list is larger than usual.
The Siletz Indians are busy planting
gardens and sowing grain.
Coos Bay ship yards will turn out
three new vessels this summer.
Jacksonville now sends freight teams
to Redding to haul merchandise.
Will Boyd killed a 500 pound elk at
Stout's mill, on Gale's creek, last week.
A. B. Colver raised 14,000 bushels of
apples on his farm on Coos river last
year.
Stock cows can be bought in Umatilla
county for $12, and dairy cows as low
as S16.
The celebrated running nag Billy
Bingham is owned by Mr. Cole of East
Portland.
The Christian Messenger has resumed
publication, and is on a better basis
than ever.
Many immigrants are coming into
Rogue river valley. Some are bound
for Willamette.
Intimations of the enforcement of the
law at Corvallis has caused an exodus
of the gamblers.
Mr. Walker Chrisman, an old citizen
of Yamhill, died some time since. He
was 74 years old.
Madame Reno, the astrologist and
fortune teller of Portland, has been sent
to the insane asylum.
Hereafter a steamer will leave San
Francisco for Portland every five days,
instead of once a week.
Alexander Porter, a Scotchman, com
mitted suicide by drowning in the Ump-
qua river the other day.
There are 29 fisheries on the Colum
bia river, and over 3,000 fishing boats,
one firm alone having 62.
By the first of May, Hume & Co.'s
cannery, on the Umpqua, at Gardiner,
will be in working order.
A family by the name of Benton bilk
ed the people of East Portland and
then left for parts unknown.
James McCabe, formerly of Jackson
county, was killed by a fall from a wag
on near Crescent City notlong ago.
Logs are now floated down the Cali-
pooia from tbe mountains to Albany.
This opens a supply of first-rate lumber.
Billy Santon's store, at Salem, was
robbed of 40 in silver coin last week,
while Billy was away driving his wagon.
A vigilance committee has been form
ed on Rook creek, Wasco county, for
mutual protection against cattle thieves.
At Albany, says the Democrat, the
river is very low at preseut about 20
feet lower than it was this titue last
jear.
Members of the Christian denomina
tion of Ashland have subscribed 950
toward the erection of a house of wor
ship. A little boy named Parker was acci
dentally drowned last week at Fuasil,
Wasco county, in the- creek near bis
home.
The commissioner of the general land
office at Washington has approved a list
of 3,113 acres of swamp land in Langell
valley.
A colored man named Jenkins bur
glarized James Reid's house near St
Joe a few days ago, and stole several
article of value.
Hume & Co., of Gardiner, have im
ported Chinamen for their cannery, and
the white laborers in that vicinity are
justly indignant.
The Warm Spring Indian Agency,
formerly under care of the M.E. Church
has been turned over to the United
'Presbjterian church.
Bud Thompson stabbed a man named
Allen at Primeville, Wasco county, last
wak, in self-defense. Allen is likely
to pass in bis checks.
Elwood Evans, of Olympia. will de
1 ver the annoal address at the Pioneer's
re-union, to be held at Salem on the
15th and ICth of June.
The Grangers of Polk county convene
on the 15th of May for the purpose of
taking necessary steps to build a boat
to run on the Willamette.
John Laughlin, of Ashland, Jackson
county, who was a soldier of the war of
1812 and participated in the battle of
Chipewa, is ia good health at the age
of c-S.
A delinquent subscriber to the Dalles
Mountaineer the other day paid the $24
which he owed for eight years' subscrip
tion, oome oi our delinquents would
do well to profit by this glorious exam
ple.
A committee of investigation have
found a deficit of $1,053 in the accounts
of the treasurer and clerk of Douglas
county who stepped down and ont last
June. They will be made to refund the
money.
The Benton Democrat says a bill was
found by the grand jury against Rev.
Mr. Godfrey, of Philomath, for grand
larceny, in taking aome coin whioh did
not justly belong to him not long since,
in that place.
The contract for the building of a
new jail for Yamhill county was let on
Monday the 9th to Messrs. Donelson &.
Middaugh, of Salem. Contract price is
$4,300 without cells, and $5,050 includ
ing three cells.
Albany school district owes $76 97.
Of the tax levy of last year $4,000 is
uncollected. By the death of the late
clerk matters are left in inextricable
confusion. Nevertheless the sohools
continue in full force, the directors
having employed five teaobers.
The Monumental company, Grant
county, have 150 tons of ore on tbeir
dump. They are running a tunnel to
intersect the ledge 300 feet below the
surface. Six tons of the ore produced
$1,574.
Favorable prospects for good placer
diggings have been struck on McClel
lan's creek, about 16 miles west of Can
yon City, Several claims have been
located, and everything indicates the
eetabliehmeBt of a good camp there.
The fishermen at Astoria are on a
strike. They demand 50 cents apiece
for salmon and the canneries refuse to
pay more than 374. The fishermej
have everything their own way, and the
canneries have shut down.
It is asserte 1 that the Central Pacific
Railrosd Company has offered the mer
chants of Jacksonville such reductions
in freight as will permit them to bring
their goods from Redding at the same
cost as tho people of Yreka pay.
A few davs ago an Indian named
William Snooks, better known as Billy
Snooks, a resident of the Warm Springs
reservation, after an ineffectual attempt
to elope with one of his father's wives,
became disgusted with life and commit
ted suicide.
The Grant countv Times says the
grain contract at Camp Harney for this
year will le for 300,000 lbs. of oats and
barley. This is a light purchase for
our old Uncle to make, and from pres-
ant Art.rftnrM t hi annilllA cmin of
-ri- i
this valley will have to be fed to hogs.
The report of the school superinten
dent of Lane county shows that tbe ex
penditures for public schools in that
county for the past year have been 12,
463 30. Sixty school districts are re
ported and 3,782 children of school age.
Value of school property, $21,434.
The black sand mines near Coqnille
are doing well. Simeon Lane has sold
his mi no to a California sharp by the
name of Thompson. Kumor says tne
price paid was 835,000. Thompson is
shipping a good deal of machinery to
the mine preparatory to opening out on
a largo scale.
The Salem Mercien says the- property
on State street, between Gray's and Pat
ton's blocks, belonging to J. K.Gill and
the Wilson heirs, was sold last week to
Mr. Quackenbush, of Portland". We
have not learned definitely as to the
price paid, but bear it stated to be
somewhere in the neighborhood of
$8,000.
The Lafayette Courier says: Some of
the farmers tell us that grain,especially
that sown in the fall, will be likely to
attain such a rank growth that it will
fall over before it arrives at maturity,
and be lost. Grain in this section is
very rank, and the present beautiful
growing weather will help it along
amazingly. The farmers complain that
there is not enough stock to keep it
pastured down.
In the next House of Representatives
there will be at leaifc twenty-one seats
contested six contested by Republicans
and fifteen by Democrats. There will
be three seats contested from Louisiana.
Coug-hs and Colds.
From Samuel A. Walker, Esq.,the well known
Ileal Estate Auctioneer of Boston.
"Having experienced results of a satisfac
tory character from the use of Wjstar's Bal
sam or Winn Cherrv, In eass or gown;
colds, during the past two years, I hav full
Taitn in its if novating power. I was first in
duced to try this medicine by the strong rec
ommendation of a frit-nil, wtio was well nigh
jjone with consumption, and whose relief
trotu tne use ol it satisseu t of its great
value in cases of colds and decline, and most
clearly demonstrated to ray mind, its great
value as a restorative, that only needs a lair
trial to insure a grateful recognition from, the
puonc." !30a Dy all druggists.
Ax I Selling's you can buy clothing made
of Oregon City goods, at reasonable prices.
Rrmtmbtr This.
Now is the time of year for Pneumonia
Iung Ke ver, Coughs, Colds, and fatal results
of predisposit Ion to Consumption and t lie r
Throat and Lung Disease. RotsciiKFL's iER
stan Svbup has been ued in trus neighbor
hood for t he. past two or three years without
a single failure to cure. If you have not
used this medicine yournelf, go to your 1 'rug
gist. Ward A Harding and ask him of its
wonderful success among his customers.
Three doses will relieve the worst case. If you
have;no faith in any medicirie.just buy aSam
pM Bottle of IlOSCHKE'S CiKRMAN .SYHIT for
10 cents and try it. Itegular size bottle 75
cents. Don't neglect a cough to save T cents.
Important to nil Invalids.
lion i x the
HlooU.
Tho Peruvian Svitrrp. a protected so'ution
of the protoxide of iron, strikes at i h root of
disease by supplying the blood with its vital
principle. or life element Iron. This is the
S"cretof the wonderful success of this reinedy
in curing Dysfiepsia, Liver Complaint, Dropsy,
'hronic Diarrhoea, lioi Is, Nervous Affections,
Chill and Fevers, Humors, loss of Constitu
tional Vigor, Diseases of the Kidneys and
Bladder, Female Complaints, and all diseases
originating in a bad state of the blood, or ac
companied by debility or a low state of the
system. Sold by all druggists.
CANCER CAN BE CURED.
Cancer has from time immemorial been a
grat scourge to the human race, and is now
becoming the greater. For many years it has
been held by tne medical profession, and gen
erally believed by the people,' that Cancer is
incurable ; that once Its roots take bold upon
a victim, there is no chance for a sufferer to
escape a lingering and terrtbledeath ; a death
surrounded by all that is distrusting and hor
rible, not only to the sufferer, but to bis
friends. Happily this fell destroyer need no
longer be feared. Dr. H. T. Itond, of Phila
delphia, a well known physician, of large ex
perience, has for four years devoted himself
to the special study and treatment of Cancer,
and the result of his experience is his dis
covery fi.r the radical cure or Cancer, without
the use of either knife, caustic or plasters,
and without pain.
The majority of persons are greatly deceived
in regard to the first symptoms and appear
ance of this most dreaded disease, considering
it painful from the commencement, 't his is
a sad mistake, carrying t housands to an un
timely grave. In most cases there is little or
no pain until the disease is far advanced.
The only symptoms for many' months, and
even for years, are occasionally a stingine,
darting, stabbing, shootintr, smarting, itch
ing, burning, crawling or creeping sensation,
and some cases not any or these. If a
malady Is growing worse instead of
better, it is conclusive evidence it is of a
malignant character, and demands imme
diate attention. If you have a branny scaly,
warty appearance, with an occasional break
ing out of these upon the face, lip or nose, or
any other portion of the skin, attended with
any of the above symptoms, oi a sensation of
a fly being on it, or a hair tickling it, is cer
tain evidence It is Cancer, and there should
be no delay in using Dr. Bond's treatment.
Life Is too valuable to be tampered with.
Dr. Bond's treatment consists of an "Anti
dote" that is applied locally : this at once ar
rests the growth of the Cancer, and by chemi
cal action neutralizes its malignity, render
ing it harmless and changing it to a simple
sore, which nature, assisted by constitutional
remedies, soon heals (when the skin is un
broken, and the Cancer is a hard tumor, the
Antidote does not make an open sore, but re
moves it by absorption) . In connection with
the Antidote is used the fpecific, taken in
ternally. This tones up the general healr
strengthens the patient, purifies the blood
and eliminates the poison from the system'
Dr. Bond's Antidote contains neither caustic
nor poison, and can be applied to the most
delicate tissues of the body without injury
and therefore is the only remedy that can be
used in internal c ancer. such as cancer of the
stomach, cancer of the womb, eto. Dr. Bond's
remedies with full directions for successful
work!" "ent t0 any 1art of th
Pamphlets and full particnlars free.
Adu-Tl?' t, IK. H. T. BOND.
AprilU mly? t'hlladelPhia.
Decay of the Teeth
Arises from various causes, but principally It
mar be attributed to early neglect or the in
discriminate use of tooth powders and pastes,
which give a momentary whiteness to the
teeth while they corrode the enamel. The
timely use of that delicate aromatic tooth
wash. Fragrant SOZODONT. will speedily ar
rest the progress of decay, harden the gums,
and Impart a delightful fragrance to the
breath. It
v,vw iata;.a n nivu svv
pie sustain In their teeth from the use of I
and ael article.
Qetaur
l NINE NTS.
One Kind for the Human Family.
The Other for Horses and Auiatals.
These Liniments are simply th wonder !
tbe world. Their effects are little less tbaa
anirvclous.
Th White Iiainuni i.v tot tbe human,
family. Jt will drive Kheumatisru. Sciatic
and .Neuralgia lrom the system ; cures Lua
bago. Chillblains, Ixck-Jaw, Palsy, Itch, an
most cutaneous eruptions; it extracts frost
from frozen bands and feet, aud the poison sf
biles aud stings of venomous reptiles ; it sub
dues swelling and alleviates pain of ewiy
kind. When pains or bruises occur, Uis ths
most potent remedy ever discovered to heal
the injured parts. The Centaur Linimsal la
used with great efficacy fcr Sore Throat. Teeth
ache. Caked Locusts. Earache and weak Bask.
7'hc following is but a sample ef luatnia
testimonials :
"Indiana Home. Jeff. Co, May 28. 1873.
"I think is my duty to inform you that r
have suffered much with swollen fert aad
t'hord. A few bottles of Centaur LinirnesL
has done the work tor me. I have-not be-
free from these swellings In eight years.
"ow I uin perfectly well. The Liniment
ought to be applied warm. B. BROWN."-
The proof is ia the trial. It is reliable, Jt is
handy, it is cheap, and every family should,
have the White Centaur Liniment.
The Yellow Centaur Uuiinent Is adapt
ed to the tough muscles, cords and flesh o
horses and animals. It has perlornied mora
wonderful cures, in three years, of Spavin,
Strain. Wind-g!wl!,. Scratches, Sweeny, and'
general Lameness, than all other (remedies.
in existence. Head what the great Express
men say of it : c
"'iw Yosk, January. 1S71.
"Every owner of horses should give th
Centaur Liniment a trial. We consider it
the best article ever used in our stables.
"H. MARSH, Supt. Adams Ex. Stables.N'.T
"E. PULTZ. supt. U. S. Lx. Stables, N Y.
"AL. S. OL1N, Supt. .Nat. Ex. Stables, S.Y.'"
The best Patrons of this Liniment are Far
riers and Veterinary Surgeons, who are
continually using some liniment. It heal.
Cialis. Wounds. Poll-evil, removes Swellings.,
and is worth millions of dollars annually to
Farmers, Livery-men, Stock-growers. Sftesp
raisers, and those having horsed or cattle. c
What a f arrier cannot do for $20, the Csn
taur Liniment will do at a trifling cot.
These Liniments are sold by all dealers
throughout the country- They are warranted
by the proprietors, and a bottle will be givea
to any 1 arrier or Physician who desires to
tost them.
Labratory of J. B. Rose 3c Co.,
46 Dey St., New York.
Honey.
o
Pitcher's Catri Js a complete substi
tute for Castor Oil, and is as pleasant to take
as honey. It is particularly adapted to Teeth
:u4caiul irritable children. It destroys worms,
assimilates the food, regulates the Stomach,
and cures Wind-Colic. Few remedies are as
efficacious for Feverish ncss, Cr-up, Worms,
and Whooping Cough. Castoria is a si-ieiitifio
arid purely vegetable preparation, more effec-
griiM's. Prepared by Messrs. J. B. Rose A Co...
4t I)ey St., New York, from the recipe of Sam
uel Pitcher, M. D.,.of Barnstable, Mass..
CARD.
To a!I who are suffering from the errors and
indiscretion of youth, nervous weakness.
enrly d -cay, lovs of mn;ihood, Ac. I will seed
a recipe that wjll cure you, KREK Or
'HAItiE. This irr'-at remedy was discovered
by a missionary iu South America. Semi a
slf-addressed en ve lone tothe Rev. T. Jorpir
INMAN, XtuHun I). Jfilifr Jloiixe, Actc York..
novlT-Iy.
2f. N. N.
MEVSTCRE AiiD
NEW SQGDS,
Af NEW EH A.
Prv RpoIs, Oroe'-ries, Roots and Shoes.
Wooden Ware, Drugs swid Medieines.rheap for
casi. or produce. J. CASTO.
J. M. FRAZER & CO.
? J AVE KNAJED IX THE CATCH OF
& Snltii.-rti at th" Willammette Falls aniL
solicit cash orders from Dealers, at reasonable,
rotes.
We will keep for the citv trade, when we can
get them, Salt Water Fish, Smelt. Poultry..
ilr.ok Trout and (j,im when in season.
WCash paid for Poultry.
Market on CtH .St., Myers Block.
Oregon City. March 1. ISTT-lm
o,
TO WHOM ST KAY CONCERN!
BEi.G DEsmors of aoopti a.
new rule of business, I would request tboao
indebted to me to come and
Pay Up Immediately,
And save inconvenience and expense, as I
have determined to collect what indue me.
I have reduced the prices on Goods greatly,,
and can assure all that I can give
Bargains to Cash Buyers,
Come and see for vour own satisfaction.
A . LEVY.
"Old John 3Iill?r," formerlr of Oregon City.
J. W. MILLER & SON,
Dealers ix
STOVES &. RANGES.
JAPANNED WARE AND HOUSE FUR
NISHING GOODS.
PORTLAND, 93 FRONT ST.
Jobbing of all kinds promptly attended;
to.
ieoi l77Hr.
a-
Administrator's Sale.
In the County Court of the State of Oregon
lor the county of Clackamas.
In the matter of the estate of Jesse Bradly.
deceased.
"VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN
Pursuance of an order and license made
and given by the hon.CountyCourt of Clacka
mas County, Oregon, at the April term. 1T7.
thereof. I will proceed to sell at ptiblieauction
to t he highest bidder at the Court House door
in Oregon City, on
Saturday, May 7th, 177 A. IX,
The following described real estate situated
Clackamas county, Oregon, and belonging
to the estate of said deceased to-wit : Begin
ning at the N. E. corner of the Seth Palma
teer donation land claim in T. 3S., B. 4 E. of
the Willamette Meridian, from thence
29.50 chains; thence S. 13.50 chains ; thence
K. 29.50, thence N. 13.50 chains to the place of
beginning, containing 40 acres.
Terms of sale gold coin down at the time
of sale. Deed at the expense of purchaser.
JOHN. W. PAI.MATEER.
Adni 'r estate of Jesse Raadly, dee'd.
Oregon City April 2. 1S77 p'15-4tA
Housewives, Attention.
For 75 cents I will send you a receipt for
making a superior article of honey, at a cost
of 8 cents per pound, unexcelled for table use.
Also for 7o cents a receipt for making a better
quality of soap, at a cost of one and a half
cents per ound for soft, and three cents per
pound for hard. Either the soap or honey
can be made within fifteen minutes by a child.
The saving made by a household in one year ft
time is Incalculable. Both receipts for 1 an
and a threeeent postage stamp. Ad dress J
Xoblnson, 767, Market st., San Franc Isco, Cat-