3l)c (Enterprise.
OREGON CITY, Till RSI) AY, JAN. 10. 17?.
Uow Not to Build Itoii roads.
Ii is a sprioua question vbcther the
"railfcii.l war" as r.ow bciug wjigeil ly
the Portland" papers, will ever result in
any good. Instead of spending all
their time in decrying e ch other and
dragging in the hngbear Mitchell, at
one time as a Bolivar and at another as
a base trickster, they would make man
ifest their respective good points, and
bnild np, editorially, their roads, in
stead of trying to destroy the opposing
lines, think much good might come
of it. The N. F. R. K. accuses Mitchell
of being the tool of the Central Facifio
road, and as there is no prospect of the
P. D. & S. Jj. road being built, he has
been instructed to make a demonstra
tion in its favor in order to take off the
upport of the Eastern Oregon people
from the N. P. road -which could be
easily built if the people woold only
unite in saying bo. On the other band
the defenders of the Dalles road, say
that a road from Portland to Salt Lake
would pass through and open a vast
amount of Oregon land to settlers ; that
joining -with the XJ. P. road, it would
escape the terrible and almost im
passable (in winter) snows of the
Northern write. The advocates of this
road make it plain that' the N. P. road
would never run down on tad south
bank of the Columbia, as it would be
worse than throwing money away to
lay track along a navigable river, the
neighborhood of which ia sparsely set
tled, not giving work enough for the
tfteamboatd now plowing it. They
maintain that the road can be built by
the sale of the land grants, and as the
country to be passed over is compara
tively level, the construction expense
will be low. We are of those. who con
cider a half loaf better than no bread ;
and while we would first rather see
both roads built, and next the Portland
Dalles and Salt Lake road, if such be
impossibilities, than let us have the
N. P. road, but with the express stip
ulation that it shall run on the Oregon
e'de of the Columbia river. By this,
wo don't wish to insinuate that we have
faltered in our Lope that the P. D. &
B. L. road will be built, or that we have
gone into the camp of the Jay Cooke
Corporation. Our voice shall be for
the Dalles road forever, be there but
the slightest glimmering prospect of
its ultimate construction, but if it be
made apparent to us that this line can
never be bnilt, then we will go over to
the next beet, and work for the
Northern Pacific. Now we think it due
the people of Oregon that the leading
advocates of these rival roads, instead
of throwing dirt at each other should
make a clear statement of how it is in
tended their respective roads shall be
bnilt on the passage by Congress of the
needed bills. "With such information
- At At 1
ueiore inem me people coma mucu
more readily form their opinions than
how, and the one presenting the best
prospects of finally amounting to some
thing would necessarily receive their
support. Decrying one another is but
double murder ; show your own good
points, and leave the public to give the
verdict, which of you shall be sustained
by it. This is the only rational course.
Licensed Murderers.
Just before the last Legislature we
argued with all our little might that a
bill be passed making it a criminal of
fense for anyone to practice as a regular
physician, who had not received a dip
loma from some medical college of ac
knowledgement. The bill was killed
as dead as the patients of some of these
quacks, and before the necessity of
such a measure is f 01 gotten, we wish
again to call the attention of our lead
ing men, of both parties to its import
ance. There may justly bo two sides
to almost every question, as for instance
we do not think those who favor free
iraae are icuois necessarily, uut on a
topic of this kind we sct but one side
men must be crazy to argue to the con
trary. Thero may be justly a diversity
of opinion on laws regulating our
monetary affairs, our human conduct.
and an honest difference between men
ju almost every public topic, but
where the question arises, shall un
educated boors be licensed to trine with
human lives ? There can be one true
answer, "No." This ia a matter of the
gravest import, and we hope our solous
in their senatorial squabbles will not
overlook it.
The Cuban rebellion was officially
announced to Lave come to an end
ob6nt the time when Congress met ; if
we remember rightly it came to end
tbout the time the previous Congress
met, and, in fact, the only news from
Spanish sources for eight years with
regard to the Cnban rebellion has in
variably been that it was over. Ac
cordingly we are not surprised to learn
that the late news from Cuba informs
ns that insurgents Lave been dispersed
with great loss, etc., etc. A rebellion
that can keep up such lively fighting
.After it has come to an end is, to say
the least, a very animated corpse.
Being somewhat unaccustomed to
humiliation and disappointment the
fact that no other paper joins us in de
manding that Harvey W. Scott be made
Mitchell's successor in the U. S. Senate,
ha-) figuratively stabbed us to the heart.
We still 4he Scot standard, how
wer, and are determined to make
something of him, since he himself has
h signally failed in his efforts to attain
atuesa.
Proposed Income-Tax.
There is but one
argnment
against
the income-tax that has
and that i. the man who
any weight ;
ha3 been left
iiu estate that xys hire an income or
haa amassed suOioient in former years
to enable hi ax to live no uueneas, is ,
taxed only as much ns the hard work- j
-r master mechanic or salaried clerk,
who by superior abilities ad strict at
tention to business, is able to make an
amount equal to that thrust upon the
man born with a silver spoon in his
mouth.
This, however, ia but a small objec
tion, and on the ground that thero was
never an Act of Parliament passed that
a coach and four could not be driven
through, there was never a law that
the people at large can find less fault
with than thi3 one. As Senator Thur
man truly said in a late speech : ''All
the legislation for years past has been
in favor of tho rich, those who need it
not, and the time has now come to pay
a littlo attention to our yeomanry."
Laws have been passed making the rich
men richer and tho poor man poorer,
until the distinction between a capita
list and on ordinary citizen is almost as
marked as the difference between a
Skobelloff and a serf. Rich men are in
variably influential men, and when
their interests are at stake they com
bine, and nothing seems able to with
stand them. How often do we read of
a delegation of New York bankers or
railroad Presidents waiting on the chief
executive in relation to pending bills
favorable or adverse, to their interests ?
The fact is notorious that men of this
character have paid lobbyists and spies
continually in their employ, and when
the cood of the people at larpre is
placed in antagonism to their further
greed, a power is brought to bear on
Congress that is irresistible.
The proposed income-tax is a move
ment in favor of tho masses against the
'bloated bond holders," and we most
earnestly hope that the managers of the
new bill will stand like adamant against
all overtures or attacks from the money
kings of the country. It is a dogma in
political economy that it is prima facie
evidence that those who have money
have made it in the country and should
pay a certain proportion of it towards
the country's support. From those
who have not it is difficult to take, and
in all justice those who have garnered
up the treasurers of the earth should be
the first oue3, and willing ones, to foot
the country's bills
As a matter, of course, the Oreyonia.ii
takes strong grounds against the in
come-tax, as tho organ of rich men and
corporations, and dilates on the argu
ment cited at the head of this article in
a most garrulons and absurd manner,
It is opposed to the income-tax because
those who are heirs to fortunes or who
have in former years accumulated
sufficient to give them no forebodings
for the future, are apt to be perjurers
and creatures who will not tell the ex
act amount of their annual rents. Tim
is a severe speech from one of their
own number, but fortunately we cannot
believe that all capitalists are as bad as
their spokesman would have us im
agine. The Oreyonian further says,
that " capital is taxed in other ways
(than by the income levy), and if tUo
tax on it is not high enough it should
be put higher." Why higher ? Is n't
there any danger of perjury or con
cealment in other kinds of taxes ? I
will let tho Oreyonian answer in its own
words. "Experience shows that when
the tax is put very high, it is an in
ducement to fraud and a direct loss to
Government." Surely tho master mind
of the pre-eminent sheet has got things
sorely mixed 1 The dread that he may
have to pay some taxes to the Govern
ment appears to have injured
reasoning faculties.
his
The Standard seems a little chagrined
that Clackamas county has two good
Republicans, fitted respectively for the
office of Governor and State Treasurer.
Sorely that paper does not suppose
that all the brains of Oregon are cen
tred in the Portland Democracy?
Clackamas County Republicans are not
greedy, but when acknowledged leaders
reside among them it is no more than
right that they should be brought to
tho front.
The tempest in tho teapot on the
Texan border ;has subsided into its
normal spluttering. There are bad
men living along the line of the Lone
Star State and Mexico, those claiming
to be Americans being every bit as bad
as the Greasers, and until a sufficient
number of U. S. and Mexican troops
are kept in that vicinity to over awe
the desperadoes, trouble will continue.
Governor Carroll, of Maryland, in his
message advising laboring men against
organizing as a distinct political force
in opposition to their employers, says
no special platform is of any use to
laboring men in a free country like ours.
The questions of capital and labor must
always adjust themselves, and are regu
lated by conditions which politicians
cannot control.
The N. Y. Tribune comments on the
foregoing thus: The workingmen are
sure to find this ont at some time here
after. They have been used to further
pursuit of adventurers and wasted their
time and muscle in useless if not lawless
efforts to improve their condition.
There are due the State for delin
quent taxes, levies made prior to 1877
sums as follows: Baker conn t v.31 795 75
Grant county ,$441 93; Umatilla county'
$7,522 19; Wasco county, 3,119 30.
Total, $16,334 60.
Burglars are
nes3 at Salem.
doing a thriving busi-
A P!e;i for Man.
The other day a man named Graham,
shot and killed another named Ochil
tree, at Comstock's Station, Lane
County, for alleged improper intimacy
with his wife. Graham it seems had
frequently cautioned the deceased to
en awav from his house, advice
which he unfwttunately failed to heed.
It is safe to say that thero is not a day
passes that somewhere in the world this
almost identical horrordoes not happen.
It is tho old story, the wife grows in
different, to her sworn companion on
account of attentions bestowed upon
her by some prepossessing young man ;
the poor husband quickly detects the
estrangement ; ho forbids the young
man his hi use ; clandestine meetings
occur, upon the heels of which quickly
follow the rnin of the woman. When
a married women meets a man not her
husband secretly, she courts danger,
which almost invariably ends in her
ruin, and she has but herself to blame.
There is a great deal of maudlin senti
ment wasted on tho poor weak women
who are led astray by arch fiends, and
all that sort of thing, but if a woman,
when she is. married has not sense en
ough to repel the improper attentions
of a third party, sho deserves her dis
grace, for she brings it upon herself.
Just as it takes two to make a bargain,
so it does in affairs contrary to honest
marriage ; and to lay all the blame on
the man, who has perhaps been not
only met half way, but tempted beyond
endurance by the woman, is a down
right injustice.
Where it can be proved that the wife
is a woman of weak mind, and that she
has made the victim of a studied plot
on the part of some sweet talking vil
lain, then give the wretch bullets
enough in his vile carcass to sink a ship
but not otherwise. We may be con
sidered as uttering an abominable
heresy, but we actually believe that
there are such thing-) in existence as
bad women, and to lay all the blame of
everv misdeed in which a married
woman and man are the principal ac
tors upon the mala is simply absurd
Bad men there are in abundance,
granted that tho good ones are the ex
ception but we seriously doubt if
there ever was a creature so degraded
as to cold-bloodedly plan the ruin of an
innocent woman a woman who had
not in some way encouraged his ad
vances. There is an atmosphere of
virtue surrounding women, that is only
made impure by their own desire
Men Lave enough villainies to carry
without making them shoulder the sins
of women.
IXexry Wari Beecheb recently
created a sensation in Plymouth
Church. He said : "The doctrine that
God has been for thousands of years
peopling this earth with human beings,
during the period of three-fourths of
which it was not illuminated by an
altar or church, and in places where a
vast population of these people are yet
without that light, is to transform the
Almighty to a monster more hideous
than Satan himself. I swear by all
that is sacred that I will never worship
Satan, though lie should appear dressed
in royal robes and seated on tho throne
of Jehovah. Men may say : You will
not go to Ileaven !' I reply a Heaven
presided over by such a demon as tl):it
who has been peopling this world with
millions of human being and then
sweeping them off to hell, not like
dead Hies, but without taking the
trouble even to kill them, and gloating
and laughing over their eternal misery,
is not such a Heaven as I waut to go to.
Tho doctrine is too horrible. I cannot
believe it, and I won't."
The Washington corresijondent of the
Chicago Tribune thus accounts for Sena
tor David Davis's failure to voto on the
admission of Butler: He believed that
that neither contestant was properly
elected. Hud ho voted against K.itler
it would have resulted in a tie, and the
casting voto would have kept Butler
out. Then the question would have
come up on Corbin's admission, and
had he voted against him tho tie and
casting vote would have admitted Cor
bin. He therefore stepped into the
cloak-room, and his absence let But
ler in.
State ivews.
There are 228 patients in the insane
asylum at East Portland CC females
and 1C2 males.
Robert Pentland, proprietor of the
Dalles water works for 13 years past,
has sold out to Samuel L. Brooks and
Mrs. Phoebe Hnmason for 819,000.
Norton, of the Salem Record, will is
sue a weekly edition soon.
The Jacksonville Sejitinel lias closed
its 23d volume.
About eighty Chinamen stopped work
on the Seattle and Walla Walla Rail
road last week, because they couldn't
get their pay.
J. J. nembree.of the Lafayetto Cour
ier, has been matrimonially tied to Miss
Emma Perkins,
The Roseburg postoffice did 812,218
worth of money order business.
Simon Lane, of Indiana, brother of
Gen. Jos. Lane, arrived in Roseburg
cn the train last week.
In Polk county certain citizens are
advocating the claims of Independence
for the county seat as against Dallas.
On Friday last a man named Frank
Ochiltree was killed by George Graham
at Comstock's mill on Pass creek. Och
iltree was screw turner at the mill and
Graham was edger. The former was in
the habit of going to the latter's house,
though warned to keep away. On the
morning of the 4th Graham went out
hunting, and on his return found Och
iltree at his house. Ochiltree started
to run; Graham told him to stop. He
paid no attention to Graham but kept
on,;when Graham fired at the retreating
man with a Henry rifle, tho ball from
which penetrated his body, killing him
instantly.
During the year 1877 the cost of mu
mciple government at Albany was 87,
9C8 08. Receipts were 88,084 54. Li
censes produced 82,657 45, and fines
8153.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, V
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA .
Washington Letter.
Washington, D.C. , Dec. 21, 1877.
The adjournment of Congress with
the consequent hegira of members, and
he hordes of lobbyists.for their homes,
restores our city to its characteristic
quietude. Saturday last was a gala day
in the House, for the Republicans had
it all their own way. That charitably
inclined political saint, Mr. Wood, of
New York, be bought it a good thing
for his party and tho nation, that his
resolutions Iookiug to universal and
everlasting investigation of the execu
tive department should be adopted, and
therefore from pure goodness of heart,
had all public business laid aside that I
the proper vote should be had. But he
counted without his host, as he had not
enough of his brethren with him to j
make a quorum, and the Republicans ,
had the hardness of heart to decline to
serve such purpose. Little Boo Peep
lost his sleep; as had Fernando, and
like Boo Peep he came to grief. The
Republicans interposed dilatory motions
and refusing to vote thereon, the roll
call showed "no qnornni,"thns putting
Mr. Wood between -XLe upper and tho
nether mill stone. Ho kept up his
hopeless fight till after 3 o'clock, when
he threw up the sponge, acd consenting
that his resolutions should go over till
Jan. 10, an adjournment was soon effect
ed. It was intensely amusing to note the
squirming of the discomfited Democrats.
They hod determined to cast out a drag
net over every department, and fish in
every cranny and pigeon-hole for some
thing calculated to give comfort to the
expectant Democrats of the country,
and it was mortifying indeed that Re
publican generalship should prevent
accomplishment of their nice little
scheme. Several times since Oct. 15
have hard blows been dealt them, and
this was the "unkindest cut of all." A
belligerent member, Mr. White, of Pa.,
in his wrath, wanted all tho Republican
members consigned to the Tombs by
the Seageant-at-Arms, because he said
there they sat witl their mouths shut,
thus making constructively no quorum,
while every one h the hall could see
them in their seat). We are not so sure
that all the Denocrat3 could see so
clearly as Mr. Wlite, as it was evident
that some of .the members had been in
dulging in "cole tea," "roast apples,"
or other articles - hat tend to liy to the
head," or make one sleepy, and thereby
dim the eye sigit. Mr. White's col
leagues laughed heartily at his absurdi
ties, and one of tuem, Mr. Savior, from
Ohio, reminded Lim of the homely ad
age of leading a aorse to the water and
being unable to mako him drink. Mr.
Randall left the el.air at one time and
went among the Republicans. He, like
baj lor.apparently enjoyed the situation
as a huge joke; such a one as he played
on the Republicins in his memorable
fight upon the force bill, and in which
he handled his Democratic forces with
such superb skill and generalship.
though in a decided minority at the
time. But ht could not now give his
brethren any comfort tinder the turned
1 tables, and there was nothing left them
but surrender. The Senate had had its
fight, and after an hour or two of de
sultory proceedings, adjourned, hence
midnight founl the Capitol like Tara's
Hall, deserted.
Our streets ire thronged with people
'luisied Avith preparations for Christinas.
Our shops and stores have put on their
brightest holilay attire, and old and
young, white and colored, are in full
enjoyment of rtght-seeing.for our whole
populace seeus out of doors. Every
where in the s?nth Christmas has a pe
culiar significance which wo never met"
in the north. ,Ihe last week of the year
was, in old shvery times, by universal
custom, given to the slaves, and so com
pletely did Christinas and the succeed
ing days belong to hini, that no one,
save tho exceptional tyrant whoso hard
ened heart cut him off from all human
izing influences, dared impose any bur
dens of labor upon him, tho slave. On
Christmas Evo he began his week's
round of pleasures. With his banjo he
could serenade his dusky ladylove, and
join in the daace, not only on his own
plantation, but that of his neighbors,
undisturbed by those influences which
mar.e him truly a slave the other weeks
of tho year. His time now was his own,
and right jollily did he use it, for there
never was a race of people more light
hearted and fonder of Christmas gaities
than these slaves. Whatever burdens
weighed them down at other seasons, it
was cheerily put aside during tho holi
days, and as forgetful of past cares and
sorrows as children, they, heart and
soul, gave themselves completely up to
their pleasures. During tho war we
noticed this turning of the contrabands
mind to Christmas, as tho Mohomaden
turns to tho east, and several years of
subsequent experience among tho freed
men enabled us to observe this peculi
arity much more freely and extensively.
Though hard times presses sorely upon
our freedmen, yet they never get so
poverty stricken and so deep in want
as to forge some kind of recognition of
Christmas, and in the extreme south,
upon the cotton plantation, where he is
more cut off from contact with the
whites than here, he dictates the week
pretty much as before the war, to his
own amusement.
Tho telephone is in successful prac
tical operation between Police Head
quarters and the Insane Asylum, a dis
tance of 8 miles, nearly one-third of
which the wire runs under water. So
well pleased are the officials with its
workings that the removal of the tele
graphic instruments will soon occur'
from all the police stations, effecting a
saving of several thousand dollars an
nually. One of our citizens was killed yester
day by the cars a few miles from the
city, while crossing the track in a bug
gy." As he was warned by the flagman
not to cross, the engineer was exonerat
ed from blame by the coroner.
One of our most promising young
artists, Mr. Frank Hickey, was buried
yesterday. His paintings in oil evince
rare merit, though he is but 21 years
of age. Junius.
Mrs. Wells, the widow of DrTWeiTs
formerly of the Umpqua, was engaged
in nursing a sick lady at North Bend,
Coos Bay, and on the .30th nit., while
she was sitting before the fire with a
cotton quilt wrapped about her, her
garments caught fiae.and before it could
be extinguished . she was burned so
severely that sho died next morning.
A young man named Louis Hoosier,
who lives just cast of Eugene, while out
hunting last week, slipped and fell, dis
charging his gun; the ball just grazed
his neck, cutting a gash about three
inches long. It was a close call.
Henry Elkelea, a young hoodlum cf
Portland, has been committed to jail to
await the action of the Grand Jury on a
charge of stealing a trunk from tho O.
S. N. Co.'s wharf.
In Lane 110 persons and corporations
pay above 100 taxes c&ch ; 00 pay be
tween 875 and 8100 each, and 100 pay
between 850 and 875 each.
DIAIUUBI).
In this city, Jan. 5, by Rev. V. I. Nichols,
James King and Moliie Curley, both of Clack
amas county.
At the residence of Arthur Warner, Ksq.,
Jan. 'Sth. by Kev. P. B. Oray. fElliott J.
Ku-nnYird. of Salem, and Miss Clara Vinson.
of Clackamas county.
NEW TO-BAY.
JOHft CRAft &CO
GREAT CLEARING SALE!
THIS ID AY.
W will commence
SWEEPING CLEARANCE SALE I
Prpraiory to stock taking. The aett
iuulit(ti(l rUnsnUf tlie pmt yef will
be offered at prices tbAt -will snow the
publl tliAt we mean Insines. In the
following departments we have laid oat
large lots, which we will sell 25 and 30
per cent, below regular prices
Black Cashmeres,
Colored Cashmeres,
Dress Goods,
f Va terproofs,
IllaiiUetM,
Sheetings,
Towels,
Table Linen,
' Hosiery und 1'n.lsi wear,
Felt Skirts,
Shawls,
White Hann!,
Colored Kla nueln,
Urubrrlluii,
And Fa ticy G;toii.-i.
JOHN GRAN & CO.,
Jan. 10. 78-tf.
POIITLAM), Ogn.
fiotice.
U. S. Uxn Office, Oregox Citv, )
Oregon, January 9, 1678. )
CIO M PLAINT HAVING P.F.EN ENTERED
J at this oiliee by Ii. C. Pat ton, of Washing
ton county, against A. E. Ini;raham for aban
doning his hoiiuv.tead entry, No. 1KO, dated
August 21, 1S7I, upon the north-east quarter
portion 20. township 2 north, range 2 west, in
Washington county, Oregon, with a view to
the cancellation of said entry: the said par
ties are hereby summoned to appear at this
ollice on tho 7t h day ot February, 1X78, at 10
o'clock A. M., to respond and lurnish testi
mony concerning said abandonment.
I. T. IJAUIN, Kogisier,
JalO,7S-lt. T. It. IIAItltliSON, Receiver.
CITATION.
In the County Court of Clackamas County,
State of Or-gon.
In thj matter of the est ate of Austin G. Reebe,
deceased, and the application to sell thy
real property of said estate.
rgO CHAIILOTTB liKKIJK, AX!) AI.I
other persons unknown, interested in
said estate. In t he name of the State of Ore
gon, you and each of you are cited to be and
ar pear before this Court at a, term thereof to
be held on Sat urday, January 2'ith, 1S78. at
tho hour of one o'clock P. !., to show cause,
if any exist, why an order sliou Id not be made
by this Court, to s.dl the following described
real prop.-rtv belonging to said estate, to pay
the dehts thereof, to. wit :
The West, half of the K. M of sec. S, and 4r,
acres o:T the W. side of the E. of t lie K.
thereof in T. o s. It. 1 E. of the Willamette
Meridian, containing 2'J5 acres, anil situate in
Clackamas county, "rogon according to the
pot ii ion of G. W. KUh, administrator of said
estate, filed in this Court Oocomber 1st, 1S77.
i It iiess my hand ami the seal or
I..S. said Court t his ISth day of
) December A. 1). 1S77.
W. II. If. KOUTH,
dec20,77-lt. County Clerk.
Grand Removal Sale!
4 S WE INTEND TO REMOVE FROM
J:. the Store we now occupy
TO THE HEW STORE,
Now building on the southwest
Coo nor of Salmon and Kirsi Streets,
On or about January 4, 1S78, and In order to
Reduce Our Stock
SAV13 UESIOTAL
we will
Sell All Goods
From now until January 1, nt very much
KUDUUISA KATES.
Qasket CSoth Dress Goods
In all Colors, 35c p r yard.
Basket Cloth Dress Goods
All wool, 50c per yard.
A fine line of all the new shades In
DRESS GOODS
At 25c per yard.
All Wool Black Cashmeres
At 75 cents, worth $1 00.
All Wool Black Cashmeres
At U 20, worth tl 50.
Colored CnsUmere tnd Silka to Match)
Black nnil Colored Alpucus,
and Kmprexs ( lolliH
All Qualities at Reduced Rates.
Waterproof ClonUliiffn, all styles,
At Reduced Prices.
FELT SKIKTS at 73c and upwards.
Best American Prints,
15 Yards for $1 00.
large Size noncycomb Bedspreads. 90c;
IM Ifcavy Marseilles Bedspreeds, $3 25.
A Large Stock of all Qualtiies
BEDSPIiKAI), BLANKETS,
CONFOKTKHN, TOU'KLM,
AND TABLE LINENS,.
And all Domestic Ooods at Clearance Prices.
Zephyr Wools in all Colors,
Rest Qualities at 12 Mc.
A Full Line of
GENTS' FT ItNISHTNG GOODS,
IIOSIKKV. EMKKOIDKfUES,
AM) ALL FANCY" UCODS,
At Low Prices.
.
Call and Examine onr Stock,
As we certainly offer better Inducements than
- are olfered elsewhere.
J. F. D. WRINKLE & CO.
PORTLASD, OGX.
Orders by mall promptly filled. Sample
8Cnt on application. lXx. 13,s 1B77-Ini.
THOMAS CHARMAN
ESTABLISHED
185?.
FSIRES TO INFORM TIIKCITIZKNS Of
Oreuron City and of the Willamette Val
ley, that hois still on hand and doing b i
ness on tho old motto, that
A Kimble Six I'cnceis Hetter ttian a Slots S7iilHnv
I have Just returned from San Francisco,
where I purchased one of the
LARGEST AND EEST SELECTED
STOCK OF GOODS
ever before offered Jn this city ; and consists In
part, as follows :
Boots and Shoes,
Clothing, Dry Goods,
Hats and Caps,
Hosiery of Every Description,
Hardware, Groceries,
Oils, Paints and
Sash and Doors,
Chlnawaro, Queens-ware,
Stonwara, Crockery,
Pltelwaro, Glasswaro,
Jewelry i Various Qualities
And Styles, Clocks and
Watches, Ladies and
Gents' Furnishing
Patent Medici nes. Goods, Fancy No-
Rope, Farming tions of Every
Implements of Description
AJ1 Kinds, Crpets,
Mattings, Oil
Cloth, Wall Paper, $et.
Of lb abors list, I can say my stock; la JLh
MOST COMPLETE
ever offered in this market, and was selctcd
witu. especial care for the Oregon City trad. All
of which I now ofTer for sale at the
Lowest Kiarket Rates.
No use for the ladies, or any one else, to
think of jyoinn to Portland to buy (?'ds ffr I
am Determined to Sell Cheap and uot to allow
myself to bo
UNDERSOLD IN THE STATE OF OREGON.
All I ask Is a fair chance and quick; pay
ments, believing as I do that
Twenty Years Experience
in Oregon City enables me to know tho re
quirements of the trade. Come one and all
and see for yourselves that the old stand of
THOMAS CHAIRMAN
cannot be beaten in quality or price. It would
be useless for metotellyou all theadvantapc-s
I can oifer you in the sale of i;xis, as every
store that advertises dm-e that, and probably
you havy been disappointed. All I wish to
say is
Com.", and See, and Examine for Yourselves,
for Ido not wish to make any mistakes. My
object is to tell all my old fnds now that I
am still .alive, anddesirous to sell poods cheap,
for cash, or upon such terms as agreed upon.
Thanking all for the liberal patronage hereto
fore bestowed.
TIIOS. CHAUMAN,
Main Street, Oregon City.
Legal Tenders and County Scrip taken at
market rates. TI U S. CHAKMAN.
7-50,000 Ihs wool Tvanfe.l bv
nov. 1. "75-tf THUS. CHAKMAN.
LIVERY, FEED, AHD SALE
-o-
rjMIE UNDERSIGNED PROPRIETOR OF
1 the Livery Stabl" on Fifth street, Oregon
Cify.Orrgon, k"eps constantly on hand
U fies, ',t'arriaj;
and Hacks. Saddle
unci lisijiy Horses.
Prices Xvcarsoiinljlo
Oregon City, Nov. 5, ISTi. Proprietor.
. S. A. BHOUOriTe
"Yvronn im-'oum the citizens of
t ? Oregon City and vicinity tLat he is i rv
pared to lurnish
Fir & Cedar Lumber,
Of every description, at low rates.
anmi
APPLE BOXES.
ALSO,
DryFloorin;r, CeiSina-, UtiMtir,
lSrii!-e, (for shelving). Lattice,
1'ick.ets, a.jl Coiice-Posts, Cedar,
Constantly on hand.
Street and Sidewalk lumber furnished on
the shortest notice, at as low rates as it cau be
purchased in the State.
Give me a call at the
ojtxaox cit r sa if mills.
Oregon City, June 10, 16b :tf
CLIFF HOUSE.
OR EGON C 1 TV, O REG OX,
T. W. RHODES,
110 p i i e t or.
Transient Hoard. 91 to 04 per" I)..
Single Meiil SO rpiitu,
lliwrc! ;ut Week ...... OO
llounlanil Lodjrlnjf. Ier veeli "SO OO
Tho Table will bo supplied with the best lue
marKet artoras.
Ball Suppers furnished on short notice, and
at reasonable terms.
Nov. 19. 1875 .-tf
L. JAGGARS,
DZALEK IX
FLOUR, HAY, STRAW, UATS, POTATOES,
WOOL, ETC.,
GRAIN SACKS AND TWINE
?Thr highest market paid in cash for all
hinds of produce .
One floor south of PostolHf.
Oregon City, Sept. 13, lSTT-if.
CT "T-v Oreatchancetomakemoney.
H p j 1 If you can't get gold you can
get greenbacks. Wo need a person in every
town to take subscriptions for the largest,
cheapest and best Illustrated family publica
tion in the world. Any one can become a suc
cessful agent. The most elejjant works of art
given free to subscribers. The price is so low
that almost everybody subscribes. One agent
reports making over lo0 in a week. A lady
agent rejiorts taking over 4IK) subscribers in
en davs. All who engage make money fast.
You c:in devote all your time to the business,
or only your spare time. You need not be
away from home over night. You can do it
as well as others. Full particulars, directions
and terms free. Elegant and expensive Out
fit free. If you want profitable work send us
your address at once. It costs nothing to try
the business. No one who engages fails to
great pay. Address "The People's Journal,"
Portland, Maine.
MOORE & PARKER'S
Celebrated
TURBINE WATER WHEEL!
F1. WALLACE,
Agent for
Clackamas County,
And the State In general. This Is one of tho
best wheels in use on the Pacinc Coast, and
gives erfect satisfaction in every instance.
Any one purchasing a wheel which does no
come up to the guarantee, if proerly - put In.
the m'onev will be refunded and all daniag
raid. For further Information apply to '
Vr wii.i.APf.. at tOnt tine's Mill, near v 101a,
CI ack'a m a o. , or at tn is oinoo. .
Sept. 13, 1877-Omos.
w.
NOTICE OF COHSOUDATIOH
XTOTICK IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
,th0 l'nV. ?Vr' t'o. and
llodys -.iiell it Co.. heretofore enc-ap-ea in
the wholesale Drujr, Paint, Oil and Glass busi
ness, at Nos. 71 and 73 Front street, resin-ct ive
ly, have this day consolidated under the firm
name of
IIODGEDAVIS fc CO.,
and w continue t he business i
street tilluriher notice.
it No. 71 Front
CHAR. IIOHGE.
T. A. I.VIS,
GF. v. SN ELL,
1". Iv. ARNOLD.
Po nd, Otfn.,
January 1 1S7.
ft? E NORTHWEST GRAKGE3
Washing Machine.
Sec ISais illsicStatae
Bcforo Purchasing Elsewhere.
Publlfl attention Is called to tfci pleriST
Machine. It Is an Oregon Invention, and
took tho
First Premium
atthe
LAST OREGON STt FAIR.
It will bo
MAMFACTIKED AT HOME,
By a resjion.sible firm. It cont ains four cor
rugated Rollers, equal to four wash-boards
working in unison : will not. injure butti.ns
orlothes, ami is the most useful and erfect
ma'Miine ever onereu to me public I atenteil
October 10. 1SJ(. Heing manufactured here, in
case any of its arts an broken, such part,
can be replaced at a low flgure without buy
ing the entire machine : and such parts will
be supplied froe where there was a defect in
the machine sold. County and State right
for sale. Address
A. M. COllNISLirs, Patentee, '
dec.l3. .-If. Oregon City, Ogn.
A CARD AHD PROSPECTUS.
Having opened a free Intelligence f lliee, for
-he purpose of assisting newcomers to our
State to all possible means at my command,
whereas.- kept tiles of all leading neuspnjM-rs
published id Oregon and Washington Terri
tory. 1 have also determined to establish. :
land journal, to be called
THE OREGON AD WASWftiSTCH
LAKE5 REGSSTER.
The obj.'ct of which is I o bring Ijind Owners
and Real Estate Agents into closer com muni
rat ion with the thoi-.sandsof Immigrants who
are arriving in this city with a vi"Wtothe
Ultimate purchase of lands. It will be printed
in regular newspaper form, eirht ag", l.xl.S.
inches, and will be devoted solely to the pur
pose for which it is established. The l-rst,
edition of 5,txjo copies will be issued about,
t he l')t h of I-'ebruary, i7S. and as otten t here
after as the intiiix ot immigration demands.
Inscription of farms and other prooerty fos
sale will be eondens.-.l to occupy ten lines
words) or less, and wi!, be charged lor at the
rate of one dol Inr ach.
It is more than prohnhl" that from tuer.tj
five thousand people will be added to our
population during t ho spring and summer of
IK7S. Nearly all immigrants who ti-me
Oregon and Washington Territory land firs;
at Portland, and v i'l r -cieve a copy o! 1 1,
paper, as it will be disi nbsi:-d irrnt ii it i !:.! .
It will ther fore be the tx sr ps-til!e ap-ans ',f"
bringing lands and ot her pr..irty It. r t-iile t.
their notice.
Descriptions of prop..- rty for sale- tr.ay i
written oi't in full, g;vi g enaract'T, loe.-iiioe,
price, terms of sale, arid alt ad-a!;tag-'s ot
schools, churches, road, etc., which will 1:
editorially condensed to r;.e r.tmir. d. spne .
and the letter numl ril to corn s,: on l witu"
t he deseript ion. ami fi!-d in my oi'tiec for r--ferenee.
,Vo ciiarg-' -iii mu te for sa!. s
rtrrang'd through this ag-!ic the only fee
required being one doi! .r for -ach d t np: ion
inserted in the Land H is.tv.r, which must,
be for .varied with tli" .!. -.. ri ; .1 i n . !t :n:(v b .
sent in silver by registered i . -tier, or t.y ...v.;ii
order at my risk.
Correspondence rn nil sn! jeets corir.i : :
with the development f portions nt ih
Stati and 'territory i s;--t luiiy solicit- d.
I keep a r.-gisiT iri my otKee in which .-sr..
, enter"-.! the wnnts of a!i p.-i.-ts ot the .v:;,ie ana
i territory tor i-ujorcr.s, m.-etia:; ic.-, if.-reh'nf
etc., which is open lorthe fr-e iss.-, ,; i, u of
newcomers. Noti-e i: .-i;eh w.uirs resp:-.t-iully
solicited. A'l m.-.M. r intend-d for pub
lication in the la-rul register mu.-f be r:!tet.
on one side of the p:pronly, and I - 71 prior
to the (irst of February, 1ST-'. All d scrii tioi.s
of property for sale will he i;:s; rt-d i:i tho
order of their arrival Uh-scj coming first or
the outside pag-'s.
Believing that this pu Mica: ion will beirretd ,'v
to t he ad van ag? of Itoth buyer and r, I
respectfully solicit t he patronage of fhepub.j'c.
Address all comniuni'-at i.ins to me it Port
land, ongon. ik sti:ai:;.
Portland, Ogn., Ikc. , IsTT. Ja.rtr.
Guardian's SaFe,
TOTIfB IS HERKP.Y CIVEN THAT IN
pursuance, of an order of the Count v
Court of Marion 'county, Oregon, mnrle on
the 15th day of October, A. 1). l-i77, I will otr-r
for sale to the highest bidder, all the right,
title and interest of Itee Wright, Orr Wright
and Ella Wright, minor heirs of Joseph A.
Wright, decerts. d, of atui in and to the foiiow
ing described parcels of land situate in ( l.-ick-amas
county. State of Oregon, to wit: Lot :i
of section lt and the S. W. H of the S E.
arid Lots I, 'J, 3 and 4 of section 2, all hi T. 4
S.. R.2E. of the Willamette Meridian, con
taining lift acres more or less. The interest of
said minors being each an undivided one
third interest in said above described land.
Said sale will take place at the Court Houso
door in Oregon City, Clackamas county, Ore
gon, at the hour of one o'clock P. M. uu
I'ueuditj-, the JJOth. ctuy of .Tanuwry, A. I.
1S7S. Terms of sale gold coin in hum.
U. C. RAMS BY
Guardian of said minors.
Deo. 27. 1S77-5L
Administrator's Sale.
1Y VIRTIE OP AS ORDKB AMI IK-
cree of the County Court of the County
of Clackamas and State of Oregon, made and
entered on the 4th day of October, 1S77, tho
undersigned, administrator of the estate of
the .-... I .f T..1..1 ii-.. .Iua.., n'itl .all ' .
public auction to th hitihest bidder it thv
Court House door of said county, on
Saturday, January l!Mh, 1STS,
at the hour of 1 o'clock P. M. of said day, all
the following described real iropcrty, iH-long-ing
to said estate, and situate in the County
aforesaid, to-wit : A certain lot of land, de
scribed as follows : The N. E. of the S. E. H
of section 20, and the N. of the S. W. H, and
the N. W. h of the S. E. H of sec. 21, all in T. 4
S., R. 2 E., of the Willamette Meridian, con
taining lt0 acres. And also the following de
scribed tract, being In T. 4 S., R. 2 E.. of said
Meridian : Ilegmning at a jxunr, 'Jif chains
East and 20 chains South of the N. V. corner
of sec. 21, in said township ; running t henco
South 0 chains; thence West 29.7" Chains 1
thence North 20 chains; thence East 2!.75
chains to the place of beginning, containing
5UH acres.
Terms of sale ; One-half of purchase monev
to be paidlown in gold coin ; balance in or.o
year in like coin, with interest at 10 cr cent.
per annum.
.ach tract to io sold separately.
JOHN Nf'YER, Administrator.
E. L.. EASTUAM. Att'v for adrnT. declMt.
READ! READ!! READ!!!
We call the attention of; allj who want
to buy goods to give us a call and compare
prices before buying eisewhere, as tlierm
nant of stock must bo closed ont in a short
UmC" SECOND AND LAST CALL I
Those who are indebted to us must mako
payment within thirty day, after that time
Hccounts will be placed in the hands of an
officer for collection.
'ACXCRMAN BROS.
Oregon City, Sept. 20, 1H77.
BLANKS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION FOI4
Sale at t ti is office. Just Ices of th.0 J-Vaco
can get anything In their llnev