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The
Telegram-Heo Affray -Portland
Police.
-Tlic
Last week, after public notification in
the Telesram that unless retraction of
offensive words were made in the Bee
within two days disagreeable resnlts l
wonld follow, and intimating blood
shed. The Standtrd, in commenting
on tin ? sorry spectacle tho day before
the afi'ray, said that unless some more
moderation was exhibited, one or tho
other, or both of the rival papers would j
be in mourning before long. Tho next I
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uay mo prediction was veiiiieu. y is
contend tho authorities had public noti
fication that an affray was pending, and
that they were very remiss in duty that
Macdonald, for hi3 threat, was not
called np and bonnd over to keep the
peace. Peace officers, and especially
tho polio? department, should exercise
more discretion in matters of this kind.
Here were two journalists that had,
from day to day for months, been revil
injand abusing each other like fish
women, and it culminated in a final
Ktiug that was too much for Macdonald,
and he demands a retraction, coupled
with a menace. Then is when the po
lice authorities, had they been alive
and alert to the duties of their calling,
should have interceded and command
ed tho peace; but, instead, all things
were made easy for the culmination of
tho tragedy. No police officer appear
ed on the sceno until long after the af
fray was over, and then came innocent
ly forward, as if tho contretemps was
unexpected. We think a revision of
the police department, and the putting
of a head there, who will not only bo
vigilant to catch criminals, but for
ward to prevent crime, is due from the
powers that bo in Portland, for the
protection of her citizens. We hope,
too, that tho coming Legislature will
enact tho bill of one of the Representa
tives from Marion connty (Mr. Kams
by, in House bill No. 12) , which pro
vides that the calling of opprobrious
names or epithets is m equivalent to an
assault, and that the evil-doer can be
fined therefor as if it were a bodily as-
s.tnlt. Such a law on our statute books
would have prevented tho last affray,
and will save many in the future. A
reviling pen or tongno is the greatest
provocator of physical breach of the
peace of all the appliances of the de
praved. The law should make answer
able by fine, expressions calculated to
enrage and invito to physical retalia
tion. We regret tho tragedy of last
Thursday, but think Macdonald was
fully as much to blame as Mercer, but
the first unfortunately fe'l in the strug
gle; and tLe cries of a widow and or
phan fall unhee'dod over the "dull", cold
ear of death," a victim to a style of
journalism, we hope this tragic event
n will terminate.
The New Senator.
Senator Slater, for six years to shine
like a meteor for the good or ill of all
Oregon, glides into the horizon. Wo
have always ha-1 a good impression of
Slater, as he appears to be honest, ami
well intentioned, and, we believe, has
the welfare of the State above auy care
of partisanship thoroughly at heart,
"There is much for him to do, and, if
accomplished, will have to bo won al
most single-handed so far as the eid or
effort of the balance of the Oregon del
egation will avail. Grover is a detesta
ble milk-sop, who, from his well-known
hermaiihrodite composition, cannot bo
counted as sound and faithful on any
subject. Ho is a bundle of hesitating
abstractions on every question, save
extreme partisanship, and is as cold to
tho vital wants os the State of Oregon
as ho is callous to tho call of consist
ency or honor. Tho duty, then.to take
the beacon light of- Oregon progress
from the able hand of Senator Mitchell
who ha3 advanced it high in line, de
volves upon Slater alone. To sustain
it to that height will requiro great ef
fort; and to advance it on the road,
Senator Mitchell, with the concurrence
of tho people, has marked out, will
make Senator Slater's position more
conspicuous, and more onerous than
any other of- the Oregon delegation.
He is known to be in sympathy with the
enthralled people of Eastern Oregon,
concurs in the Mitchell plan of railroad
emancipation, and will be looked upon
as the especial champion of the Ore
gon idea, as opposed to the menace of
the North Pacific railroad ring. We
believe he lias it in his power, if his
efforts ere crowned with success, to
perpetuate his hold on the ofiice, as the
people of Oregon are not slow to re
ward 'their laureled champions. We
say this much of Senator Slater because
we regard political differences of little
moment. Nothing is now so kaleido
scopic as politics;, and on vital issues,
pave perhaps a lingering fondness for
the musty relic of States' rights, he is a
pood enough Republican for us; and,
from present indications, he will bo
counted out of the Democratic fold
in toto on the financial question, as tho
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Kueemaoie paper money, wnuo oiaiei
is as pronounced the other way. A
hope Senator Slater's star will rise
steadily to the zenith; and if his iuHn-
ence will extend as far, and capacity for
vor La ns prolonged as the man whose
seat ho invades, wo .shall hope not to
eeo it eclipsed in this centur
Clackamas Couutv needs a change in
the manner of working the
is to bo hope 1 that ocrSt;!
will solve the problem.
roads and it
oi:s at Salpra
A Little Faith Yet.
Ever since Galileo made utteranco
to the immortal declaration " that the
world still moves,"we hove had an almost
abiding confidence in the declara
tion. Occasionally things have hap
pened to shak'3 our belief, and for a
! time doubt and mistrnsthave enveloped
j us in impenetrable gloom. Brother
Jasper, of Virginia, who powerfully j
quotes senprureto prove that the ' sun
do move" iiictead of the earth, wa3
one disturbing elr-ineut. Brother Ire
land's incessant end eternal standing
line that "wheat on shore or afloat at
Astoria is always equal in value to
wheat afioat or on shore in San Fran
cisco," whereby tho unhappy Granger
La3 been led to believe that a Portland
ring wa3 gouging him, lias also much
exercised us against the Galileoian as
sertion. Wo have expostulated with
brother Ireland in many ways to get
him to, take down that flaunting pre
varication; we have figured its incon
sistency to him; we have offered him
a thousand dollars a cargo to make the
declaration good; we have transcend
ed gentlemanly bounds, and in the
mightiness of our protestations, charac
terized it as a " lie," but still spbinx-
after week, came the cold, calculating,
vilainous declaration, as if there were
no hereafter, nor no guilty conscience
to answer to. We had given it up;
Ireland would not answer us, and stuck
to the declaration. We had calculated
that the type would wear out in two or
three years, and were gathering all our
reserved powers for the purpose of a
grand out-burst ol pas ionate appeal
by the end of that time in tho hope of
softening tho icy coccles of his heirt,
and to induce him to acknowledge the
corn. Oat of tho gloom of such sur
roundings, what was our surprise and
jay iu a recent issue of the Asforian, to
find that the stereotyped expression WU3
modified, softened, changed, and while
it now no longer trespasses on the
tivith, treads on the toes of possibility.
It reads:
"Wheat afloat or iu store in Astoria
should be of equal value with wheat
aflo.it or on shore in San Francisco."
We begin to feel surer now that the
world moves. Ireland has been moved
and there can bo no disturbance of this
emerald without the balance of the
world sympathizing. Only one doubt
remains to throw a black shadow across ,
our peaceful breast: that is Brother Jas
per, of Virginia. If we could only:-
convince him that the sun is immova
ble; that it is the world swinging on its
huge 'axis that makes it possible for his
congregation to invade neighboring
lien roott3 without being observed,
we shoul 1 feel that there is little else to
live for. What a sumturn bonum of
achievement Ireland converted, and
brother Jasper giving the credit of day
and forage-time where it properly
belongs.
Portland Bridge.
The people of Portland and East
Portland are greatly in need of a means
of communication between the two,
and; find the ferries there in operation
hardly up to the requirement of the
times. This necessitates-tho building of
a bridge, and a bill has been introduced
in the Legislature to permit a corpora
tion to construct one. After the first and
general impulse of a bridge come3 tho
second consideration of where it is to
be located; and as many diverse views
as there aro streets terminating in the
river are to be heard in relation to it.
As an outsider in no way affected by
the final location.allow us to add our chin
music to the general chorus now begun
on that subject. Portland is a city of
sixteen thousand inhabitants to-day,
with a mile and a half of river front;
in less than five years it will be a city
of fifty thousand inhabitants, and four
mile3 of river front. Her present need
is a bridge uniting as nearly as
possible the center of one to the center
of the other. The first bridge being
the center one should be located be
tween Washington and Yamhill jstreets
on the Portland side, a3 this unques
tionably marks the boundaries of th&H
centre of the city, as it will continue to
for time. It will be but a few years
hjjnce that there will bo urgent necessi-!
ty for another bridge between Stephen's
addition in East Portland and the north
line of tho Caruthers estate, and one
connecting Albina with North Port
land, and they are certain to be con
structed. We hear a few timid river
front owners are fearful that a bridge
will impair the valae of their, wharfage
fronts above the bridge, but this fear is
utterly fallacious. Whoever has seen
how expeditiously the draw is opened
for the passage of vessels on Chicago
river will have his fears quickly dissi
pated, as it amounts there to no ob
struction at all. The tug whistles a
signal for the draw, tud in a minute of
time the bridge is swung around, the
vessel passes through, and not five
minutes of time elapses before business
progresses as before
It is an utterly groundless, senseless
and unreasonable objection, and onlv
arises turon?li want of kuowlwVft nf
the scientific means now in use to make
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i the draw-bridge
no obstruction at all.
W(J shouij- raliicr
e should rather regard it as benn
' ficial to the f ion tape above the bridge
! as it will almost inevitably center the
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ireigiitage ot the Upper lllamette
j l"" tl
shutUo of commerce will tly backward j
aud forward through the draw, and no i
j one can be , effected in a hurtful sense
! where valuations are inerp:xinr lav :
1 tlav as thc.V uow are all over Portland. !
A central bridge is badlv needed, and S
'; oe,q located elsewhere would-be a profit- '
iv;-i i:sestrr.ert lor several year? to
come. . .
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Proposed Change of Assessment.
At least a dozen modifications of the
present Assessment-law have already
been introduced by various members of
the Legislature, and it will be very
strange if some one or the other does
not meet the views cf the majority, ami
so change tho present form whieluis
manifestly defective. Among those iu-
troduced, is one by Senator Watt, of
Washington county, which lias the raer
it of brevity and originality combined;
and we are of the impression that it will
be fount? the element wanting to meet
th.3 requirements cf effective and com
prehensive assessment, which has been
a siue-qna-no'i long sought for. Tho
bill provides that the County Assessor
may divide his county into suitable
districts and appoint deputy assessors
to assist him in the different fields as
signed to each. The Assessor must
call on each and every taxpayer, or
property holder in their respective dis
tricts, and require them to give under
oath a list of all tho taxable property
of whatever kind, owned, controlled,
or in the possession of the person as
sessed, on a given date, the first Mon
day in March; the assessment and
oath to be taken on blanks, and a copy
given to tho person assessed, on his ap
plication. The bill provides that no deduction
shall bo made for indebtedness, but
when a person is indebted on the first
Monday of March of any year he shall
be entitled to a credit or set-off from
his creditor on the note to the amount
of the State and county tax for thecur
r3nt year on the full amount of said
note, together with interest on taxes
thus paid, until set off, is allowed. A
tender of the aaiount due on a note,
less the taxes, as above provided, shall
be deemed a full lender. In all suits
to recover on notes, when judgment is
rendered, it shall be fur an amount, less
the taxes, as above. Tho term note, us
used in this act shall be construed to
mean all notes in writing, made and
signed by any person, whereby he shall
promise to pay to any other person, or
his order wnto bearer, any sum of
money therein mentioned, whether
with or without mortgage.
Section 5 reads: "Any property wil
fully concealed, removed, transferred,
or misreprcsnjed by the owner or agent
thereof to evade taxation, upon discov
ery, must be assessed at not exceeding
five times its value, and the assess-
ments so made shall stand."
Section 5 reads: " On receipt of the
assessment list made by Deputy Asses
sor, the Couuty Assessor shall imme
diately proceed to enter the assessments
thus madb in the county assessment
roll; he shall note opposite each assess
ment, in full, or by initials, tho nafne
of the Deputy making the assessment.
Wherever he finds property assessed
more than once, or omitted, he shall
make tho proper correction. When
ever property is assessed at a price
manifestly below its full cash value, he
shall immediately notify the Deputy
making the assessment and tho party
assessed, to appear before him on a
day named, to show cause why such
valuation shall not be increased. Ho
shall make no deductions, except on tho
application of the party assessed, and
on showing of facts to justify. The
county shall be at no cost in such ex
aminations, either to pay Deputy As
sessors, -vitnesses or parties assessed.
i All equalization and
correction of the
county assessments must bo made by
the County Assessor at his office, and
be completed before the first Monday of
June. No oijher equalization shall be
made within tho county."
The Assessor is put under a penalty
of ?00 who shall knowingly approve
of an undervaluation, or omits assessa
ble property, or who fails to render to
the proper authorities tho assessment
roll, completed as the law requires, and
within tho time prescribed.
This is tho substance of tho bill, and
we hope it will become a law. It leaves
the settlement of indebtedness deduc
tions where it properly belongs be
tween tho debtor and creditor. The
evasion practiced by ''trading notes,"
as cited bv Gov. Thayer, would be
f ntile, and it would have the effect of
adding forty million dollars to the as
sessment rolls in the State of Oregon.
We regard it as a bill admirably drawn,
and is perfect in all its details. The
penalty on the Assessor for dereliction
will nervo him to the task of faithful
and impurticai action, and the thimble
rigging of the wily will not avail to
seduce him from the narrow path of
duty.
The bill, operating from a different
basis, comprehends the suggestions we
have frequently made as necessary to
secure " equal and exact assessment,"
and we hope to see it placed upon our
statute books.
l'rayer and Yellow Fever
It is not often that wo feel inclined to
go to Scott's relief, but finding him just
now besieged by a sanctimonious crowd,
among them the lately converted Bee
and Slumlord, who have attacked him
because of his suggestion that sanitary
measures are necessary, rather than
i SDPPcation, to avert the dreaded sway
ot lellow Jack in the South. Tonv is
spasmodic in his moods, and if he had
been sounded iust after the lust elec
tion, he would have bitterly bewailed
the futile uuctiou of prayer, as he
wasn't among the elect; but just now
that his great dispenser cf gifts, for
whom he earnestly prayed, is made
Senator, ho sees cause, on the' far-off
horizon, of 1860 to leadir nreseu
COURTESY OF
UNIVERSITY
thanks and say, " We supplicated and
our prayers were answered."
As for tho Bee, wo think we are able
to discern a hvpocritical cant, which
j may b3 taken as expiation for blood on
its hearthstone, or a holy honor for
; fear of a sheeted visitation from tho
dead, to account for its sudden and uu-,
exampled purity. We differ from the
Standard and Bee, and cannot counte
nance their covert arraignment of
Christianity for all the horror, death,
woo and misery entailed upon that des
olate and afilicted laud, and the self
constituted champions of the failh who
now rush into the breach, to insist on
j the efficacy of piayer as the solvent for
the dreaded scourge, are emissaries of
the evil one to cast imputations ou re
ligion. Hew dreadful tho thought;
how execrable and devilish the idea
that Christians, who had power through
prayer to gtay tho murderous hand of
death, have waited so Jong before ad
ministering the balm. Have they with
held that incense which wafted to the
Throne of Grace would have
brought soothing to tho fevered brow,
convalescence to the stricken and heal
ing to the sorrowful until death's har
vest is nearly over? We resist the im
putation; we cannot f iT5n them as ac
cessories to so dire a visitation; 'they
are not, from laggard inertness until
now, responsible for the abandoned
homes, the desolate and decimated
land under the heavy afiliction of yel
low fever. They have not held the
plow with which death has furrowed tho
soil; they have not helped to rear tho
black shadows of despair which en
shroud tho sunny boutli into whose
impenetrable fold ascend the wail of
the fatherless, the motherless, the child
It -ee, and the hunger-stricken.
Could prayer avert this woe? Then
tho keepers ot t'io iaitli are accessory
to all this human misery. We deny
the presumption, and whoever asserts it
accuses Christianity, as an accomplice
through inertia of festering death, and
the thousand multiplied woes attendant
upon so wide-spread a scourge which
makes death and oblivion tho sweetest
chalice of all.
For once Scott is right. Christianity
is not responsible for tho "deep damna
nation of their taking off." Climatic
causes, ami want ot sanitary measures
for tiie purification of tho atmosphere
aro wholly, and only the causes of the
scourge, and tho remedy lies in the re
moral of these causes by natural meth
ods. The sickly sentimentality of
prayer as a removing or averting means,
condemns its advocates Irom the be
ginning, we insist tuat it praver is
the motor that i!ie Standard and the
Bee should anticipate troubles of this
kind, and keep things moving along
without any lncuon. We would es
pecially recommend to the Bee manage
ment to lay aside pistol and live on
tn-ayor awhile, and all to blend charity
and forgiveness instead of vindiotive-
ncss and malice in their indi
vidua! hitioiiS, an exemplification of
whi-:h we herein by fraterni:dncr with
brother Scott have powerfully illuslra
ted against our-inclinntions.
Silver Dollars for Orccnhacks.
It is evident from the last circular of
the Treasury Department that a vig
orous effort is about to be mado to get
tho new standard dollar into circulation
Hitherto not more than a million have
gone into the pockets of tho people
All the rest, which havo been paid out
in purchases of silver bullion havo found
their way directly back into tho Treas
ury vaults through their receipt
in lieu of gold coin for customs duties
The new plan proposed. Which, it is
thought, may brinf? them into more
pconeral use, is for the Government to
furnish as many as banks located at a
distance from the commercial cities
mny wish to take in exchange for lega
tenders, the Government dofrayiug the
cost of transportation from tho different
mints. Iu this way everybody who
wants silver dollars instead of paper
can have them ai par, and it is probab
ably calculated at the cost of returniug
them iu New York and other points
where they can be made use of in pay
ments of duties will lend to hinder
their taking the course which they have
hitherto followed namely, a bee-line
to the nearest Custom-house. It is
plain that in this action the Treasury
is caring out the intentions of the Silver
bill, and abandoning the policy of ab.
struction3 or iuaction. The people
will now have an opportunity to
get standard dollars if they desire
them, and the only question is, How
many;'. will they take? At the present
price of silver in tho London market
says tho Chronicle the intrinsic value
of the 4.123- grain dollars is loss than
eighty -eight cents, so that adding tho
cost of coinage, it is evident that the
Governments maues a profit of upwards
of ten per cent upon every dollar coin
ed. Whether in exchange for green
backs, tho people will take a silver
dollar which although it bears a Gov
ernment stamp and is a legal tender for
all debts public and private, is rated
at twelve per cent above its actual value
as bullion, is a question which the in-
exouorable logic of facts alone can de
termine. The first llepnplican victory in Maine
was in 1851. In 1S53 the -Democratic
majority on Governor was: 3,898. In
1854 Morrill, lienablican, received 41,
852 votes; Purvis, Democrat, 28,300;
P-eed, Whig, 1,417. Morrill was re
elected Governor in 1555 and in 1S5C
Hamlin was elected by a majority of
24,540. There has been a line of Ile
pnhliean Governors from 1854 to tho
pr-sent.
BANCROFT LIBRARY,
OF CALIFOPJIIA,
The American of the Future.
BY J CLICS LETTER NO. 3.1
The composite nature of onr people,
on which I elaborately treated in my
last letter, kees tho social circle in an
almost transitory state; but in spite of
the traditionary customs of the foreign
rorticn of our population, which they j
lave carried here with them, and to j
which they hold on with a tenacity that ;
is proverbial, the native-born Arneri- !
can has been thus far able to keep up,
and to innovate customs and habits that
are thoroughly heterogenous on Ameri- !
can soil. The American temperament
is an embodiment of alacrity, and as
such requires and demands active is-
sues. The well-deserved sobriquet of
being fast, that tho American people
have earned, is quite as applicable to j
their business habits as well as to their i
i
mode of living. European countries j
have found to -their sorrow that the
young Bepublic of a century no longer
needs their aid; and that, having mas
tered their own necessities, are also able
to supply all parts of the earth with
anything and everything that man re
quires.
It is an iudisxntable fact that the
American people, as a wnole, aro'the
best fed and clothed of nil tho civilized
nations of tho earth. And although
there is a geuoral depression through
out the country, it is hardly noticeable,
except in largo cities. In our inland
towns and villages you wili find the
people living at the same rate of extrav
agance as they did in the glowing times
during tho war. Tho few buildings
that aro here and there being built, are
more or less mortgaged , or in debt, and
the peoplo outwardly appearing pros
perous, but are really insolvent. During
the war, and while cng.iged in suppress
ing the Southern Tie-bellion, the United
States Government were most profuse
in their issues of paper money. As it
fell in value, labor and commodities
rose to most fictitious prices, and these
prices were maintained for several years
after peace was declared. The icople
thought this flourishing condition
of things was going to last forever;
enterprises of every nature weie launch
ed out on the most extensive and gigan
tic scales; factories and mills were
built, of all descriptions; railroads were
built, and largo speculations made in
the mining interest, and vaiious cor
porations allowed fabulous iuduce-
ments to propitiate what was consiaereel
,, , ... . . ' ' , . !
the grand miliemiiom of the American
people. The country enjoyed a great
deal of prosperity after the war, but
the inevitable collapse canto. This was
to a certain extent aceountablo for by
the violent iinctuations which had taken
place in the valno of the iatioual cur
rency. The failure of Jay Cock & Co.
put the fiuishiag stroke to tho closing
scene of Atnerie in prosperity for a time.
The country is still snfle'iug from tho
depression caused by that financial
. .
tllC, lirj':iralU-I'il 111 its illteiiSUJ, and
-. -, .' mi .
it3 duration, lhe evidences of tins
pan
in
are brought home to one every moment
of the' day: the merchant deplores tho loss
of his trade; mills and manufactories
are either closed altogether, or are run
ning with an attenuated staff of hands,
and many thousands, both of skilled
and unskilled artisans are going about,
with their hands in their pockets, impa
tiently awaiting the coming of more
prosperous time3. Tho crisis has al
ready lusted more than five years, and
although there is a growing feeling that
tho bottom has at last been reached, yet
under the most favorable circumstances
a considerable time must, elapse before
any improvement will make itself felt
among the mass of the working popula
tion. So far wo havo -viewed our posi
tion as we stand as a peoplo, politiealy
and socially, and I think we shall not
be drifting too far from tho truh when
we claim that as a whole wo can bear
comparisou with any other nation of
peoplo, with the exception that we have
not got to our level settled down, as it
were, and it is the purport of theso let
ters to show at their close what the
ideas of the writer aro as to the future
of our people.
Heligiously, we are as enthusiastic
and persevering in the propagation of
the divine truth as is consistent with
onr intelligence and means; and the un
restrained liberty of opinion that we
enjoy has given birth to a number of
dogmas and isms that no other country
possesses.
Space will not allow us to enter as
minutely as wa would desire ou many
other minor matters, so we will closo
the social topic and enter into tho com
mercial question next week.
(To he continued.)
Press Convention.
Tlic-ro will bo a meeting of tho pub
lishers aud editors of Oregon and
Washington Territory, for the purposu
of taking into consideration the proprie
ty -of forming a Press Association, such
as has recently b en organized in Cal-
norma and other btates, on Wednes
day evening, October ), at 7:30, at
Salem Oregon. All papers favorable
to this subject, will please publish this
call and add their signature to the
same:
ExTEiauiisE, Oregon City.
Standard, Portland,
liecord, Salem,
Astorian, Astoria.
Independent, Hillsboro,
lie. or('.r, McMinnYille,
Jfuc'eus, Ilarrisburg.
Gazitle, Corvalli.s.
Democrat, Corvallis,
Inland Empire, The Dalles,
An important decision in bankruptcy
casos has been rendered by Judge
Choate of New York. In opposition to
to the rulirg of one of the register he
hold3 that creditors have at nil stages
of bankruptcy proceedings the right to
examino creditors, which is something
of a satisfaction.
Sept 22 to tho wife of John
HAJtlllED.
On Sept. 2-d, at tho residence ot the bride's
mother, near larshtield, by Alex. Thompson,
J. 1'., l- U. Jones and Miss .Sarah C'olson.
ru-;u.
Xei:r Osweiro, Sept 20, Uzzie J.. Wifrt of Al
bert .;. Walling, Jr.. aged 21 yours.
NEW TO-DAY.
Sherirr. Sale.
T" Y VIUTL'E OF A WRIT OF KXFCUTIOX
' 1 issued Auj;ust:ilst, 1S7S, out ol t ho Circuit
court of the State of Oregon, for Clackamas
county, to me, us Slu rili of. said county,
directed pursuant to a dr-ereo entered April
2 'tli, 17H, in a suit, wherein W. Kuene
i Dement, is phrintilf, and T.J. Mat loci , 1 lopie
it". Matlock, John 8. Smiili, James A. W'es
; ton, S. II. Alh-n and C. II. rwis, under the
: linn-name of Alien & Lew:.-., are defendants,
; commanding me to make sabs of the property
hereinafter depcriiied, to make the sum of
j live hu-ntred and tilt v -five and sixt v-six hun
i dredths dollars (?"i.(i(i) in jrold coin, witn in
i terest since April 2-jth, 1S7S, at twelve percent,
i per annum, together with forty-four and
i seventy-live hundredths dollars U 1 1.751 costs
and disbursements, and liity-live and lilty
! six hundredths dollars l.V.o!) In like coin,
, for attorneys fees, bearih.2: interest nt ten per
j cent, per unnurii, decreed in favor of said
I plaint liT, W. 1 uene Dement, and the further
sum of fourteen hundred ami seventy-six
; and sixteen hundredths dollars ($U7.h) in
troldeoin, d"creeil in luvorof defendant Thoo
j dore J. Matioek,; iruinst the defendants Smith
. and Weston, I have levied this l it h day oi'Sep
j tember, A. D. 1873, upu the follovinir
i described premises, s'lluat .- in Clackamas
; county, Oregon, to-wit :
I A part of tiie donation claim of V: T. Mat-
lock, bounded as toiiows: IJejji lining at a
1 point on the south line of s.iid ciaim, twenty
I chains irom the east corner r hereof: rut.niii?
; nlon-j said liiv in i wester';;. direction sixty
i chains, to the south c. rner of said claim;
j t hence, at riht angles:-, in a nort herly direc-
tion nUmtf the west line of said claim twenty
i chains; thence, at rijrht angles, in an easterly
j direction sixty chains; thence, at riht an
gles, in a southerly direction twenty chains,
! to tli: placo of beginning; containing l-U
! e.eres. inr.re or less.
And, in pursi!-incr of said writ, I wili, on
Wednesday,' ictobor 23d, A. 1 . 1"78, at 1 o'clock,
p. ai., proceed to sell the same at public auc
tion, for casli in sold coin, to me in hand paid,
to the highest tedder, at the Court house
door, in Orojron City, Clackamas county. Ore
por, to satisfy the above -described execution,
costs and accruing costs and disbursements.
Said land will be sold in two separate par
cels, to-wit :
1st. A part of the. donation land claim of
W. T. Matlock, known as claim No. S7, in
township -1 south, rane 2 east of Willamette
Meridian, bounded as follows: Hejiinning at
u rock twenty chains south sixty-eiprht de
crees west irom the northeast corner of said
claim; running thence south sixty-eiirht de
crees west twenty-four and thirty-nine huc
dreths chains; thenca norlh twtnty.two de
crees west one chain; thence south sixty
eie;iit decrees west, two and sixty-one hun
dredths chains ; thence north twenty-two ds-
rees west nineteen chains; thence north
i sixty-eijiht decrees east twen! y-Seven chains;
i thence south t wei)ty-tw decrees east, twenty
' chains, to place-ol beginning; containing 53.75
j acres.
! 2nd. The remainder of said 120 ncr- tract,
j J. ( J. 1'Ild.ShUilV,
Sheriff or Clackamas Co.. Ogn.
' Oregon City, Oregon, Sept.:, ISTS-tw.
Johnson, McCc-va &
jlacriiiii, Att'ys.
A ci in i n : strat o r
In the County Couit of Clackamas county,
Oregon.
In the matter of thecstate of Adam Weathers
ton, deee -s; d.
TN I'UTisuance of aN
JL Court made in sa d it, nt
OI-DEIl OF SAID
tter on the 21tn day
! of Sept.. 1K7S, Cue undersigned will, on
j !iauttlay the 2otH tlay or Oct-. A. D.
; 1878, at 1 o'clock p. m., at the Court House
door in Oregon City, Clacka mas county, Or--)
iron, proceed to s"ll at public auction to the
highest bidder, t lie following described prem
' is.'s to-wit: Ail of block frieveu (li) m tiie
; County Addition to Orejron City, Clackamas
' county, Orejron. Said j-rop. rty will be sold
I lree Irom encumbrances an-l on easy terms,
1 to be made known at saie. Deed at purchas
ers expense. J. T. .M'i'ii.K.'.J.N ,
sej t.Jf -lv. Adm'r o- sai'l estate.
U. S. Land Offick, Or.tcr Citt,)
Orefron, Hept. "Itll, IS7S i
TtOMPI.AIXT HAYING RKHX KXTEHTSD
I J at this oi.ice by lloraee c. Urown aaainst
j Thomas J. hamberkiin for abandoning bis
homestead entr-' No. :1'!', !ft; d January
j ,;,u. 1S77. upon tha nor. li h-.if of. i he southeast
fourth of section No. is, township 1 south.
ranjre 1 east, in Clackamas county, orejron,
with a view to th cancellation o said entry,
said parties are her-by siiinmo led toappea
at this ofiiee on the -Z-'ilh day of October, ISTS,
at V) o'clock a. .-vr., to respond and furnish tes
timony concemliiir s.ii.l -.Uietred abondoii-
! ment. Tj. T. rSAJUN". K-srist'T,
1 T. It. IlAi:UION, Uec-'ivcr.
I Oregon City, Sept. -, lTS-tw.
FALL STOCK-
t,bavi:o nETiT.:.::n lately fi:o:;i
San Francisco, with lhe best selected
I would call attention to ti
LATEST STYLC3
Which I will sell, for Cash at
POTL,AXI IMtSCSiS.
The same have been bought at Bankrupt
Sales, so I can give Inducements,
I INVITE THE PUBLIC TO EXAMINE
before purchasing elsewhere.
Xhe following can be had and I
DEFT COMPETITION:
DryCdods Clctlilnjr,
Winter Wev,
Boots a.iil Shoea
Ilatsanii Ca.;-.s,
Groceries, Crockery,
Hardware, (ilassware,
I CiaUery and PI a tod lVare,
Paints, Oils, f
VViiidows, Doors,
and I21iii!x.
All kinds of produce bought and sold
1. SELLING.
Oregon City, Sept. lf, lST3-tf.
i n ; -? :
"VJOTICE IS HEKEKY JIVEN THAT TIIE
X co-partnersh ip lieretolore -xisl ing und -r
the name and style of Fellows & Harding is
this day dissolved by mutual consent; H.J.
Harding retiring. A.!! aeeourts and liabilities
willbescttletlbyE.il. Fellows who will con
tinue business at the old strimi,
E. P.. FELLOWS,
II. J. HAKDINti.
Oregon Citv, Sept. 10. bS7S-;t.
rLELIC EXOI.VITIGX OF TEAt'HEfiS.
A1
LIj PERSONS DESIRING ( ERTII-T-
cates for teaching in the public schools
of Clackamas county will appear lor exami
nation nt t he Oregon City (Seminary on Sat
urday, September :'.th, 1S7.
N. W. RANDALL,
Count v Superintendent.
Oregon City. SopL lit. lS7S-td.
LINCOLN 1SAKEUY.
j "V
j i t
TOTICE TK IIEUEHY THAT I HAVE
uurchased the interest of II. J. Harding
the Lincoln llakcry and will
Contincie liiisiiiess
at. the old sdand. I will pay ail liabilit ies aud
collect all accounts duo the firm. Thankful
for past patronage I hope to merit a con
tinuance of the same.
E. It. FELLOWS.
Oregon City, Sept.. i9, 1S73-2W. '
I0
rgl'-lE tLNDERSKJNE D WOULD RE
JL ppectfully aunnutiw to 1 he public that he
has a large stock of coflins on hand and has
just completed one of the finest Hearses in
tiie State, and is now prepared to attend to
any orders In that line.
C". I. WIXSCT.
Oregon City, Mny . 1S7S tf . .
ZSar this city,
Meldrum, a hoy.
UKSE3TAKER, CARRIGAGi AND
ESTABLISHED 1SGO.
S. & A. P. LACEY.
ATTD R M EYS-AT- LAW,
521) Seventh Stmt, Washington, D, C.
Patents nntl Inventors.
Werseeuro Lettebf Pa text on Inven
tions. Xo attorney fees in advance in appli
cations foe I'atents in the United States. Xo
charges unless the patent is granted.' xf)
additional fees for obtaining and conducthi"
a rehearing. Special attention siven to
terference Cases before the Patent OUiee, Ex
tensions liefore Congress, Iplringement uits
in ditrerent Stall's, and tll litigA'.ion a,ir
taining to Inventions or Patents. We ais pro
cure Patents :in Cunada and other rorei''n
count lies. Send Stamp for Pamphlet givhi"
full instruction and terms. "
tT, S. Courts and Departments.
CI lims prosecuted In the Supreme Court of
the United States, Court of Claims, and ail
nlasses ofjwar claims betore.the Executivo
Departments.
Arrears of Pay anil Bunt-.
Officers, Soldiers ana Sailors of the late
war, or their heirs, are in many cases en
titled to money from the tiovc-rnment, of
which they have no knowledge. Write fu!l
liistory-of service, and state amount of pay
and bounty received. Enclose stctnp, and a
full reply alter examination, will be giveu
you withont charge.
Pensions.
All Officers, Soldiers and Sailors, at present
disabled, however slightly, from wounds,
ruptnre or other injuries, or diseases reeeWea
or contracted in the line of duty in the It
war can obtain a pension. Many now draw
ing pensions are entitled to increase.
C S. General Land OfHce.
Contested Land Cases.Private Itnd Claims,
Mining .Pre-emption, and'l lomesiead Cases
presented before the iiencral I .and Ollico
aud Department of the Interior.
Land Warrants.
We pay cash for Bounty Land Warrants
and Addil ional Homestead Scrip. We invite
nirrMpmi'doncn wltn nil iiirtlufi naviug an
lor sale, and give full and explicit instruc
tions where assignments are imperfect.
We conduct our buisness in seperato
Bureaus, having therein the assistance nf
able atd exiTlenced lawyers and clerks,
and give our closest personal supervision to
every important paper prepared in each
case. Promptest attention thus secured to ail
business intrusted to us.
Liberal arrangements made with attorneys
in all classes of business. Address
U. S. vv, A. P. LiCEV, Attorneys, Washing
ton, I). C.
We prefere to Tion. M. i. Emory. Pmsi-.
dent 2d National r.ank, Washington, D. C. j
C. E. Prentiss, Esq., Cashier German Am.
National PanK, Wnshir.gton. D. C. ; Hon. C.
Eewey, Irest. liar. Xatl. Hank, Cadiz.Uhio;
lion. It. Waldron, V. Prcst. 1st Natl. 15ank,
Ilillsidale, Mich.; J. It. Hann5,E sq.. Cashier
City Natl. Cank, Denver, Col, :J. D. Knox,
Esq., Hanker, Topeka, Kansas..
F.
HANSON
it i
HAS OPESED TUB
B&KLOW HOUSE-
T HAVE GIVEN THIS POPULAR HOI'SE
fl a. thorough renovation from cellar to Kar
ri t, and proiMse to make it a hous second to
none in Oregon, this side of Portland.
Every thins will be done to advance the com
fort of the guests, xhe House, is lar,je and
commodious.
rf:irt ami I: Hiring per week 35 OO
.", jji.I per vt cei. - -i
"Iea.ls and Ecus eacii - j
Krec Cojic? to and fraiR the Hotel.
Oregon City. Auir. 3D. ISTS-tf.
( LACK.V.IIlS o'tXl'f UiKEtTOilY.
TEEMS OF COURT.
Circuit Court Fourth Monday in April and
the Fourth -Monday in September.
' Count; Court First Mondays in January,
April, duly and September.
Vmintt Snt Oregon City.
I cunt- Officer our.tv Judge, J. K. Wait;
County Clerk. W. II. II. Fouts: i-heriir, John
tr. Pilsbury ; Treasurer, V. S. Dement ; .ehocl
Superintendent, N. W. ltandall; Assessor.
Jos. I'-arstoi'.- : C ironor, W. f Greaves ; Sur
veyor, -N.t). Waldeu; Commissioners, .Jacob
Kaujr aud Albert Vi'a'iiug.
I.IVK UUalNE-SS AND PIIOFFKSIONA J. MEN'.
Ijf.cjinr.t Johnson cc McCown, and E. L.
IvtMham.
factors V. X. Davis, Oregon City ; aiiJ r
Knight, Canby.
Ih'i.tUt J. V lei.
Jru:i'i'-tt Ward A KardiTig.
Jlerchnnt Thos. Chartnau, dry goods si).'
groceries; AeUerm.ni I'.ros.. dry goods am.,
groceries: Fellows 'c llariiin, p-i'rl.s: l.
tei iing, dry goods and groceries ; II. A. Hughes,
dry goods and grocer i s.
1 Intel CJiif iiouse, Harlow- House.
cvr Saltxm Chris. Z.iuner, at the derw-.t.
j,n,:-7rrV. H. Highli -id.
li'ioks awl s:!itj,icr:r J. M. Bacon, poslofuce.
Flouriiiri -W.' .1. D. Mill' r.
UrcuTi'ii iln;vii -l & i adder.
Jfcnt'x iC' citrfdi' John Sell ram.
,S'i;c Mit-'s CJeorge r.roTJghton and C.Cutiin.
JAveru Stable E. H. Clements.
Johnson, Mcrovvn tc "d irram, Ally's.
"VOTIfK IS ilEKEUY UIVEX THAT I
j have filed my dual report and account
with vouchers in the County Court of tiie
S'-tdr- of Oregon for the county of Clackamas,
in the matter of theestateof Irfwis IThomas,
dec-used, and it was ordered by said Court
that Monday, the yn day of (ictobi r be set
fur the hearing of said report and objec ions
thereto if a-y there be filed by any erson
therein intsr-'Sted, and it was further ordered
that notice iif said final settlement be ub
lished in the Oregon City Estf.rprise four
week. JOHN" HOOK,
Adm'r estat" Lewis L. Thomas.
Oregon City, Sept. 5, 187o'.4w.
JK. V.A1T. COUNTY JLTCE, tVILL
s bo at his ofiice in this city every Monday
from ! o'clock a. M. to 4 v. sr. fcr the transac
tion of probate business.
Oregon Cit .July IS, lSTS-tf.
ctico.
U. S. L4.ni) Offick, Oregon City. 1
Oregon, Sept. V, 1S7S. J
f COMPLAINT HAYING VKEX ENTEKED
at this orlic" by Pascal Paquelte against.
Lewis s. Wood for abandoning li is homestead
entrv No, J,f!, ilated January 5, 1871, upon
J he west half hi of southwest U of section H,
1 S., li. 1 E in Clackamas county, Oregon,
with a view to the cancellation of said entry:
the said parties are hereby summoned to ap
pearat this ofiice on the Kth day of October,
187S. at M o'clock p. in., to respond and fur
nish t est i mon v concerning said alleged aban
donment. " L. T. PAKLV, ltegister.
sephMw. T H UARiiI.SJN, Receiver.
X. ,1". XOlUX"
PAINTING,
KALS03IINING AND PLASTERING.
WILL CONTRACT P.Y THE SQUARE
or by the job. The best stock in the
market used in every Instance.
Orders left at the Postollice will receive
prompt, att'-ntion.
Oregon City, April 1. IRTS-tf. - -
ThTis. za u r e r ,
DEPOT SALOON,
Opiosite the Railroad Depot,
KEEPSTIIKBKSTBEER A NO CIGARS
in the City. Oive him a call. Js'5-tf.
Choice Dargain.
I X Xt ACRES OF RICH LAND ON
A .09 the Clackamas liver JJji
miles irom Oregon City; I mie from 1
Mill Railroad station ; 25 acres in cultivation ;
5 Si acres of orchard ; 40 acres under fn'.;
tine running water on the place. Price, i,ou.
S8i)() doA-n; balance on time. A mort
gage ius rted on the first r'."1-
Obehon Ctty, Aug Sth, 1S7S-31H.
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