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Tli-C OKEOON STATESMAN FlilDAV, JUKtJ 1' 1 1 WEEKLY STATESMAN Pobliabed Tery FrMaj by the STATESMAN PUB. CO. STBSCBIPTIOS KATES: Om year, tn limn Ix nontht, in advance. ,.i SUBSCRIBERS DK8TRTSG THE ADDRESS ol their par chanted mart atauj the of their former postoffie. u well ai ol tk office to which they wUh the paper hanged. All subscriptions outside of Marten and Polk counties will be stopped promptly when the lime paid for expires, unless the subscriber has well-known financial standing. You mar al ways see to what date your subscription is paid by looking at the tag on your paper. V-O KEW SUBSCRIPTIONS WILL BE A eu unless paid for in advance. TAK NEW POLITICAL 5IETHOBS. The organization and working methods of the labor party of 2sew York city pre sent some novel and interesting features. In every assembly and in most election districts, regular monthly business meet ings are held, and in nearly half the dis tricts permanent headquarters have been secured many of which are open every evening. These district organization have no pecuniary resources outside of the parses of the members. I lie hat is passed around to collect funds to pay rent and current expenses, and each member is assessed tea cents a month, but the charge is not strictly enforced, and receipts from that source are meager and uncertain. Under the circumstances the maintenance of a vigorous organiza tion indicates the zealous devotion of the party to its objects, and accounts for the confidence with which its leaders declare their ability to carry the city at the next election. It is the social side of this political movement which forms its most remark able feature. Members take their wives and children with them to the business meetings of the district assemblies, and in some cases remen take part in debate. The assemblies hold "entertainments" as often as business meetings, and speeches, recitation and music displace liquor and -tobacco, which by tacit consent, are for bidden at these labor meetings. A piano is almost as constant a feature of the vari ous district headquarters as a secretary's table, and often very fair amateur concerts are given. In some districts semiweekly deliates on economic subjects are held, and the speakers often show close famil iarity with the works, not only of the prophets and teachers of their own politi co economic faith, but of the leading au thors on various sides of the question. No such instance of the wedding of social and political affairs has ever been known in the United States, except posaiblly in the grange movement, but there the condi tions are bo different that a parallel can hardly be drawn. What the ultimate effect of this feature may be on the methods and prospects of the party re mains to be shown, but unprejudiced ob servers admit that its immediate result is good. No doubt it grows out of an enthusiastic faith that this political movement will bring about a decided change for the better in the condition of -the working classes. Anticipation is apt to outrun possession in this, as in any other matters, and it would be unsafe to predict the permanence of this feature of political life in Xew York, or its develop ment in our other great cities. Nebraska is getting to feel very big nowadays. An Omaha editor is writing a book. Nothing since the queen visited Hon. Buffalo Bill's show has made the heart of Nebraska swell so with local pride as this announcement of develop ing genius. Only one drop of bitterness has fallen into the general cup of joy, and that was when a measly Lincoln edi tor remarked that it wouldn't do to bind the work in calf, as there ought to be some difference between the inside and outside. Before the 8th of November the people of Oregon will learn the difference betveen a hard-shell prohibitionist and a temperance man. There is as m uch differen-e as there is between white and black. The town that waits for good times to come along and boom it gets left. The town that makes good times is the kind of a town that boonifi. We are the archi tects of our own fortune. Every crank that has a theory thinks that be is a martyr. Gniteau thonght he was a martyr. A few such examples as his would run the martyr business into the ground. All anarchists, socialists, and others, who do not like this country should emi grate from it. It would be a case of leav ing their country for their country's good. Ik the boom that is coming for the whole section Salem does not propose to get left. She is swinging intopoeiticn to be the storm center of the boom. There are two things you don't want to talk about in the presence of a Portland resident. They are Taeorna and the Or egon Pacific railroad. Take down the awnings and banging signs on thettreetfi of Salem, end relegate these tel es of vill igehood t the moth--aten past i Ql'ICK. One of our Consuls in Saxony 1ms j dared to so far depart from the usual routine of consular reports as to tell a j story which will bear repetition for its suggest! veness, if for no other reason. He savs that a young Saxon, who was born and had spent most of his life in that rather slow going section of the Old Wold, went to the United States to "grow up with the country." He se cured work in New York as a clerk in an importing-house, but within six months from the date of his departure he was back in his beloved Saxony again, and being asked why he did not remain lon ger in America, his answer was, "It was too quick for me over there." Consul Good in, who tells the story, goes on to say, no doubt with much truth that while the Germans like to exjwrt their products to the United States, there is in the German mind an underlying suspicion of American productions which he cannot all at once get over. He reads of trains being run 100 miles without a stop; of people traveling across a great continent in a week, living all the while luxuriously and only twice changing cars ; of trains breaking through bran new bridges or running off from one that has just been carefully inspected, then taking fire and roasting passengers to death ; of toboggans that are sped for pleasure at the rate of three miles a minute ; of boats that are sailed on ice almost as fast ; of horses that trot a mile in 2 :10 or less, and of other things all surprising, and his comment is like that of the Saxon youth who tested life in New York "too quick." It is by no means ceitain that at bot tom the sentiment shared by the Saxon youth and his fellow-countrymen is cor rect, and that we in America are not, as a universal rule, "too quick." It iB customary to account for all this ush and hurry, this straining aftar speed, by at tributing it to the spirit of the age, but this is only a paraphrase for the rest lessness, the uneasiness, the yearning for change and motion of the people who live in the age. There are just as many hours in a dav as there were in the fifteenth or the eighteenth century : there are just as many days in the year in Saxony as in America; and yet the human machine can accomplish only so much, be it here or there, of this aee or another. The spirit of the age is the spirit of humanity which frets out its brief span in that age and nothing else. The rule of mechanics that a gain in speed connotes a loss of latent power is a rule of general application. Whether it be applied to exertion of mind or body, it is equally true. Wear and tear in crease with added speed not in arithmet ical but in geometrical proportion ; for as the argot of the turf has it, it is the pace that kills. We cannot run the brains, or the muscles, or the nerves at top speed without having sooner or latter, to pay the price for the extra velocity. Apoplexy, paralysis, neuralgia, insanity in its varied forms, and, finally the absolute cessation which we call death, are the penalties which nature, our remorseless tyrant, im poses for violation of her laws, and too often from a couch of bodily torture or from the barred cell of an asylum, the worn out body or tne shattered minu re grets, with bitter and helpless anguish a Life lived too quick. A BAD PRACTICE. Men should not carry pistols. Brave men seldom do. A pistol is a coward's companion. In a civilized community, there is no reason or rule of common sense that will permit a private citizen to continually carry a pistol. A passionate man, or an intemperate man, esiiecially, should not carry a pistol. A local trage dy calls the attention of the public forci bly to this subject. The practice of car rying concealed weapons has been the cause of tragedies without number, and the ruin of many bright prospects. Teach your boys that it is unmanly and cow ardly to carry pistols concealed about their persons. If they are allowed to ac quire this habit, pretty soon they will be perforating somebody with them, and they will land in the penitentiary or get divorced from their breath at the end of a rope, with the usual dull thud. Ion't carry pistols boys. Use your fists, ii you want to settle a grudge, and always be sure that the other fellow is smaller than you are. The law is hj slow in dealing with these scoundrels, who have been so han dy with their pistols, notably in the cae of Alex Goldenson, of San Francisco, the unfeeling wretch who killed a school-girl. He is allowed a breathing spell by an ap peal of the cane from the decision of the lower court. A few prompt and well ad vertised necktie sociables would have a tendencv to dampen the ardor of some of these fiendish pistol practicers. Some one has asked th" Statesman what is the salary of the governor of Or egon, together with the fees of the office. The salary of the governor of Oregon is 11500 per year, and besides this he is paid $:0 per year as chairman of the board of visitors to the penitentiary, and 1100 per year as chairman of the Ward of asylum commissioners. This makes I1H00 in all, and this is the full amount the governor is allowed ' from the state. There are a number of men in Salem, and dozens of them in Oregon, who re ceive larger salariei than the governor of the state. Too AX OTHER J'fcJi PJCTTKK. Editor Statesman: I'm rather given to pen pictures. That is a spicy one you give in your editoriul columns this morning, and I join hands with you in castigating that Englishman that is in your "mind's eye, Horatio," and is "not only an enemy to our laws, to our govern ment, to our liberty, but an enemy to Christianity, and it our society and to all our democratic institutions." Out on such a fellow, Mr. Editor. The room of such Englishmen is better than their company. I'm not the success at pen pictures that you are, but let me try my hand on an Englishman, too. Let us begin with his boyhood. His father is a "High churchman" and brings him up in the full belief of state and church going hand in hand, with the state con siderably in the lead. His father, as a short-hand-writer in the English parlia ment, mixes with knights and lords and dukes, and the boy is occasionally patted on the head by these aristocrats. lie is taken to see the queen and to throw off his hat and to hurrah for loyalty, till un consciously he imbibes somewhat of the idea of the "divine rights of kings and queens to do wrong." He is sent to a private school and strictly cautioned against playing with those "poor" boys who go to the public schools. All the po lite, aristocratic, civil service society that he mingles in are fashionable wine drink' ers. While yet a boy a glass of weak beer is put by his plate every dinner time. Soon he is allowed a half glass of wine with the dessert. A little later he is allowed a full glass, and is taught to bow to ladies and drink health with them On the cricket field gentlemen in vite him to drink India pale ale, bitter beer or "half-and-half" with him. A book bv an American, entitled "Pass ages from the History of a Wasted Life," falls into his hands. The writer who has been wrecked by the eocial drinking cus toms, begs the reader whoever he may be, to abstain from all intoxicants as a bever age. He says to himself that is good ad vice and safe, if it is an American who gives it. And down goes a voluntary pledge of total abstinence, on the flyleaf of the book. Then he goes about to bands of hope persuading the children to take the safe course. He travels many hundred miles, often afoot and alone to persuade people to enter the temperanee ranks, and he neither asks nor receives anything for the work. He comes in con tact with a "sect everywhere spoken against" called simply "Christians," and said to be quite numerous in America. After thinking and reading, as a matter of conscience, he secedes from his fath er's state church and unites with this (then) "feeble folk." He clerks, or teaches school, and still speaks for tem perance and learns to preach, asking nothing for the labors. He obtaind a good, paying position as book-keeper in a large wholesale liquor store, but soon gives it up, because persuaded he never could expect the blessing of God or drink cursed humanity on the business. He heard Henry liussel Bing "To the West, to the West, where the mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea," and he resolved some day to make that his home. He had a relative by marriage who had been in America, and they daily discussed with great warmth the rebel lion then raging in the United States, he defending the Union and opposing slavery, while the relative sided with the secessionists. Finally he took wife and babies to America, the land of free church, free schools., and withont title, aristocracy or monarchy. In court he solemnly swore allegiance to the United States government and renounced al legiance to all sovereigns and po tentates, especially Queen Victoria. He has continued in the temperance. church and common school work as time, strength and money would allow. In Band of Hope, Good Templar lodge, and W. C. T. U. moral (evasion work, he has been an active participant. He had to choose a political party. Believing the re publican party was the champion of the oppressed, favored free schools, had pre served the union, and thinking it would ultimately favor the suppression of the drink slavery as it hud the African slave rv, he joined that one. Not until he lost ail hope that us a party it would ever take that stand did he leave it and join the prohibition party, meantime urging his prohibition friends to stay r.ith it yet another year and another, in hojies it would take the advanced stand. He moved to Oregon because he was told that for years long before the hard-shell prohi party had an existence the tem perance people, both republicans and democrats, bad been contending for a right denied English people in England, that of deciding by popular vote whether they wanted the liquor trallic sustained or abolished. He was assured that if made a non-political tight, it would sure ly carry, for the republican leaders and paper would not fight but aid it. He thought that would be a good state in which to raise his family. He laid aside party predilection and stands shoulder to shoulder with all democrats, republicans, greenback or labor party men in trying carry the amendment. lie is a tiiorn in the flesh to saloon men, gaublers, the immoral and to politicians and editors who stand between the people and the liquor traffic to protect the latter. I might mention his many mistakes and faults, but it would too long. P.espeetfully, J. W. Webp. i A TRAVESTY VPOX RKt.lGTON. The Methodist Church South is still "playing Injun" in the matter of the Cor vallis college. They gave the institution over to the charge of the state, but now they want to trade back. They will not succeed. Hut in their foolish attempts these representatives of the skeleton of Bout hern slaverv resort to all sorts of dark and sinister methods. They evi dently are of the opinion that a lie well stuck to is as good as the truth. The board of regents of this Southern Confederacy school held its annual meet ing at Corvallis last week, and at this meeting a resolutien was passed making it a secret session. They are afraid of the light of day. They try to gag the press. They attempt to throttle public opinion. They show their infinite littleness and contemptibleiiess by their sneaking conduct. At this meeting an attempt was made to oust Prof. . Arnold, who has done more to build up the school than any other niltn, and who is a Christian gentleman with a character far above that of any of the howling iiack who are barking at his heels. They wanted to put in a Southern Confederacy preacher named Reddiek of California. But these foolish designs, conceived in darkness, and nurtured in the breast of venomous jealousy and political hatred, will fail of their end. These "Confed- rit X RoadB" preachers may as well save their wind and spare their pains. Their childisj conduct reminds the writer of an illustration the Kev. Mr. Newton, now gone to his reward, used to make. He said the ranters against religion reminded him of an ant on a railroad track, meet ing a locomotive at full speed. The ant raises its feeble iaw and says to the iron monster: "Stop! I'm here!" and the next moment there is no record that his ant ship ever existed. The Corvallis college will lie turned over to the state, according to the provis sions of the law, so soon as the building, the work on which will soon be com menced, is completed. The "Confedrit X Iloads" preachers may as well try to turn back the wind by blowing against it as to break this contract made and enter ed into in good faith. They may howl and yelp, but it will be as vain as vanity itself. It is a surprise to the writer that the authorities of this church will allow their subordinates to persist in standing up for this breach of trust and outrage on honeBty and fairness, to hold up this tra vesty on religion as though it were a work of honor, to disgust the friends of fair dealing and bring the name of the church into disrepute. If they will jiersist in the duplicity, trickery, and dishonesty, in their attempts to steal a school from the state, the warning is plain. Some of the members of this board are opposed to the resolutions and actions of the majority. Tliese members are guide by the dictates of reason and the princi ples of honesty, and are deeply grieved at the actions of the majority. A 1'ICHKK. I tear readers, let us paint you a word picture. If a man comes to this country from Russia, or from Germany or France or Italy or England, or any other country, and advocates a theory of government undemocratic and unreasonable, a man who does not believe in private owner ship in land, and wants a social govern ment that will own everything and run even-tiling if an anarchist or a socialist advocates his murderous and visionary theories in this country, he is called an enemy to our welfare and to our demo cratic form of eovernnient. You will ad mit this. The subject does not need ar gument. But here is your picture. An Eng'ish man comes over to America and east about him. He i of a troublesome dis position, unreasonable, and prejudiced in favor of the institutions of the country where they yell their throats sore for the queen, who was born into a throne, and holds it not by voice of the people govern ed. The Englishman has no conception of the full meaning of liberty. He does not understand the true status of a demo cratic form of governient. He is preju diced against it. This prejudice is horn in his blood. It is received as nourish ment in his mother's milk. This man, who has been accustomed to look to his government for all authority, naturally joins the ranks of the hard-shell prohibi tionists, for he thinks it is the buiincss of the state to exercise an espionage over her people. This lelief is the fault of his prejudices and his training. He has no idea of reform without law, when the fact is law is not an instrument of reform at all, in a democratic form of government. It is more likely to be a hindrance. But this Englishman goes on airing his theo ries in and out of season, stooping to de vices far beneath the dignity of his call ing, resorting even to methods that are questionable in the light of honesty and fair play. His theories are not supported by experience or good reason, any more than are those of the followers of the murderous red tliig or of the longdiaired socialisti-. Now there is your picture. Is not this I'.n'.inhinan, whoever he is, an enemy to o ir democratic form of government, h its t'-li as the anarchist or socialist? lit is, certainly. Ilistheo- ries have the sami tendency. He is not, only an enemy to our law s,to onr govern- ment, to our liberty, but tie is an enemy to Christianity, and to our ,:i ty and all democratic institutions. PROHIBITION AND OTHER THINGS. EniToK Statksmas : Is there nothing of imiortanee to be considered save tho subject of prohibition ? We find onr cler ical frietuls hard at work in tho prohibi tion harness, regardless of everything else of local imiMrtance. If exiierience had shown that prohibition was a complete success, and contained the elements of reform, free from criminal methods to circumvent it successfully, we would hold up our hands in its behalf. Prohibition has closed many saloon doors, but bus never destroyed saloon influence. Nor has it reached the cravings of an appetite fur strong drink in a way to satisfy that appetite without liquor. The entire drink ing community is arrayed against arbi trary laws on this subject, and this class succeeds in getting all the liquor needed despite these laws. How? By deception and corrupting practices. These schemes have their effect uon men and will upon generations. If men In daily life will de ceive, become sneaks and liars, as boih sellers and drinkers must lieeoine to evade prohibition enactments, what will their jiosterity lieeome? The surroundings of the dark places that prohibition creates will have their effect upon those depend ng nton the guilty for supimrt. The spirit of hostility to prohibition law will never cease. It has on the contrary grown in every state where prohibition has been adopted. Even in the boasted state of Maine, where prohibition has ex isted for years, as a moral failure, we find this opjiositlon to prohibition fear lessly taking undisturbed position in the streets. That liquor may lie openly sold it has lieen imported direct from England in convenient packages, passed through the custom house and sold in these origi nal packages to the people of Maine. There is no law to prevent it, but there is law to sanction it. But why talk of law, if prohibition in Maine for thirty years has not had the desired effect to so mould public sentiment that liquor would not be deBired or sold ? Prohibition has done nothing to create a resisting appe tite, and this one fact demonsttates its entire fulling. may well ask, if thirty years' extie rience in prohibition had done the work claimed for it, who would dare to defy the local law by selling original imiiorted packages of liquor protected by the laws of the United States in the streets of a city of Maine ? Would not the public see that it would lie but a pastime of pleasure, where convictions could not overcome this sentiment. But this sentiment does not exist in Maine strong enough to tie effective, any nun? than prohibition has been. High license, we are told, is respectable, and recognizes the respectability of the liquor business. One thing is certain : it leaves the drinker and seller free from the charge of being either a liar or a thief. Oregon h?s pros jered under a strong teinperanc" senti ment. It was stronger before this agita tion than it is now, and yet there is not one gallon of alcoholic drink sold to-day in Salem where there were live gallons ten years ago. What has done this? Nothing but corrected appetites, influ enced by a prowr public sentiment. And no reform can lie made in liqncr drinking, unless we reach the drinker bv honorable and elevating means. Oregon has not much to complain of in drunken ess, compared to the prohibition states of our country. One can count in every community, outside of Portland, our drunkards on our fingers, but in prohibi tion states they are a hidden legion. The zeal of the reformer should not destroy him, as it docs in prohibition. Gauge this reform by the appetites of men and and their willful power to gratify them, law or no law, and we have our )iersona! duty marked out. Prohibition will no more reach these cases than bullrushes would resist the currents of the sea. The moral support to the drunkard i in an open public sentiment, and not in the dark and demoralizing excesses into which his appetites draw him. Ttiere is no merit in a scheme where public senti ment is one of disgust ut its universal failure. It is so with prohibition. Iest we make our remarks too long, we will refer to what we desire to notice. We have in our community other evils than intenqierance. We have gamblers, young men and old. Is any one expos ing this evil, worse than drinking? We have great wealth here, suHicient to give employment through desired enterprises to hundreds of men and women, but no thing is done. The reason is because the neighbor's hand is against his neighbor. If one starts a business here that may help the masses, there are others that will pull him down. Churches are filled with good mothers and children, and a few men, on Sunday. In them we never hear a word on the subject of jiersonal forbearance and mutual work for the masses. Is there nothing but saloons to fight? The appetite of the inebriate, the hindrance in society to its prosperity, the enemy to all improvements, the gambler, the want of united effort of our men of means to make our city prosiierous and contented, the reduction of taxation by uniting these leading interests in efforts to extend the facilities of the city for a greater and more rapid growth, and other important matters are needing at- tention. Turn the power of the pulpit so that it will cover all needed reforms. Had we the shades of a Beecher, or a Talmage, those persons who are blest with a superabundance of this world's foods, and who use them not for the ben- eflt of those out of whotte Industry they were wrought, but rather to oppress them, would soon have their great re sponsibility jiointed out to them, and be made to feel their duty to'thir fellow men. We want to see temperance pre vail to the utmost extent, but wiUi a sup port that will not fail as yearn multiply. We want aid in promoting profitable in dustries. We want our capitalists united and working together for the best interests of the public. We want our condition benefited by miituul co-operation ia everything that may bring support to our people. Give us reforms that will feed and clothe the masses. Prookkbs. Tiikhe is a communication in one of the Portland patiers that reflects very se riously Uon the character of Mr. Shack elford, swamp land agent of Mr. Sparks. As Mr. Shackelford is a pnblic officer lie will no doubt take immediate Bteps to dispel the charges again Ht him if they are not true. Our laws on the matter of liliel tire very Btrict and are otien to his vindi cation. The supreme court has affirmed the decision of the lower court. And Wm. Ilighfield of Oregon City will be compell ed to pay $7000 for trifling with the af fections of Mrs. Kelly, of Portland. This is cheap enough. Experience comes high, but then some men must have it. Sai.km will present some attractions on the Fourth of J uly that cannot lie wit nessed elsewhere in the state. The students of the Indian training school on parade, and more than half a hundred men on bicycles, for instance. After the Kth of Novcmtier next the hard-shell prohibition agitation, correct ly photographed, will look like a large sized wud of nothing struck in the bead with a club. KF.SOLl TlO.NS OK SYMPATHY. At the last meeting of Chemeketa lodge. No. 1, 1. O. O. F., the following preamble and resolutions wee adopted : Whereas, our worthy grand master, appreciating the great los the order has sustained by the death of our distin guished brother K. L. Bristow, P.G.M.), lias recommended that a suitable record of the sad event be made in each lodge within the jurisdiction ; and whereas, the lone and faithful service f Brj. P.ristow, and his great devotion to the interests of the order, merit the special honors to his memory suggested bv the grand master ; thert-fore, Kesolved, That the death of this emi nent and faithful brother is deeply felt and sincerely mourned by the members of this lodge, and that, in testimony of our resiieet for his memory, it is hereby ordered that the charter be draped in mourning for thirty days, and ttiat the members wear the usual badge for the same peri' si. itesolved, That this lotltre heartily sym pathizes with tiie family of the deceased, the community, of which he was an act ive, honorable, and resju-cted member, and the order which he loved so well ; and to our sister lode of which he was a nicmlicr we suy, " This line is laid also iion u." Kesolved, Thiit in recognition of the unselfish devotion of I'.ro. Bristow to the interests of the ni-il-r in this jurisdiction, in which he came l and attained the highest honors and rank, we favor the erection by the grand lodge of a suitable monument over the remains of our de parted brother. IT PKTKKSOVS Bl TTE. Last Wednesday a party Peterson's Butte to sek climbing to its lofty Light. U'pms at Mr. Liggett's barn. went up on pleasure in We left our Each gen- tleman armed himself with a lunch bosket, and to the order "Forward, march!" we proceeded on foot. Soon our leaders brought up in the rear. Four of our number thought they would take the shortest way, and were "soon making their way through burnt los and stumps. They had the honor of gaining the top first. The rest of onr number arrived at VI o'clock, lieing un hour and a half as cending. We were well paid for our labor, for the view was grand. On the north, west, and south, the uruirie stretches for miles and mile, a map of beautiful farms, dotted with houses, interwoven with timber; and six cities and towns could lie seen. After enjoying the view for an hour we then turned our attention to the lunch basket. Oinner was ssjn announced and our "table" groaned under it burden of good things, too numerous to mention. I 'inner over, w e soon began to descend, ami all vowed we would as soon go up bill as dow ii, "unless shoes were made Inrger." We ca;iie home by way of Sislaville. That those seeking for pleas ure v. ill not find it until they have once gained the summit of Peterson's Butte is the opinion of 1'ruf. Ktubblelield, Jay Swank, llurnie Marks, Orva Thomtison, Norman MeCohnel, Mack Ih-nnie, Misses Etta, Lizzie, Iora and Sudie Marks, Iiiliaand Hova Swank, Ella Thompson, and Ella iH-nnie. Havseed. Talhiian, June 12, 1W. NOTICK ) 8ALK OK I'KftttONAL 1'KOP :KTV. VOTICB l.S HKKKHV (ilVEN THAT I WILL ennui: to lie aulil ill v"vili'm, Oietfuii, ou the Dlh 1hv (if July, by the nhurifT of Marion coun ty, oue bay burs of alxiut years ot age, Ui satisfy a linn which 1 have upon (mid home (or pBtiinise and feed and cure of naid home from .lanuiry.ith 1: to July M 1kh7, amounting to the mini of 1.V7... The proceed of said sn'.e w:ll be applied 10 pay aaid lieu aud tne costn and expeii v of nlc. lione m .-iaiuiii thi lllth day of June, lsi7. I7-ii .MkS. DAMfcLU.AKK. A fl-LLGAI K & BY I, A NIL (J. A. APPLE .TV Kate, o. II. Ilyland.) Attorney and o.iim nei.irh at law, Haleni, Dregou. Will practice hi all the court of Oregon. Otlicc in Moore'n building, over Ociod's drug store. (iw MONEY TO LOAN. bY TI1K STATE IN aurauce (lompaiiy of thin eily lor oue, two, three or five ysnrn, upon uoud improved real en late located iu thin county. iHA-d-lw-wlm OTKAYED. -A UKINDIK H ALP JrKKEY 3 cow. All ( ha'sen will be pi id t yr ill ruing to K. S. 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