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ry "VV 'rfV'VV S"X( g.ooi i.o i t.ooi i k Ti3 J f Independent and Oregonian l om via ron t.ooi a.ooi J Mj?0 t.oo i ( Independent and Oregonian ? 1wo DoUaraJ 1 IVAI SSSW-'--- M Vol. XXV. HILLSIiORC) WASHINGTON COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JANUARY 21. 1898. No. 33. liirihiliiiiiiirihliwfl GENEItAI IHKECTOKY. h i a i v. urm kiih. llnvnnmr Wn, P. Iiird .-v.,i. tiiry n( hu le Harrianu K. Klucsui I rensnrer r'b'lliii Meisoiian i I'uliliii Instruction O. M. Irwin , M an fruiter W. U. rhaa. K. w Divert. K. H. I lean Y. A. M.sire luH-e Fifth ItixtrMil . T. A. Mullniia Alo.ruiy riftti Kmlrirt .. .. T-J.t lw lcn miNIi tirr'ICKHH. JiliUI tViiuniaHioliers I'l- ra s,..nfl Il nonler 1 1 asi.ri r . . fr-4"Htr .... . . . . SuluHil rimsriiilenilent Surveyor ... l.riHM-r . ...H. P. (Jurnehua It. I. Keaanuer . . T. U. lixld I. A. 1 ' . .W. I). Ilradlord K. l. MW!ruilck A. I. aoy tiwirge H. Wiloux . . AiiHiin r.i g L. K. W liken ('. I.. L-irg' OltKUON CI IV I.AM) Ol-rlOK. (ha rt in. . II. Moon-i tinuiiisiiy . . Kegister lleoetver I IV OKHCKIIS. I ..w N. Miirrelt. Mayor . . . Tlnm. Tucker J. M. Ureear timrd of Trustees W. II. Welirun J. II. mauley II. II. Oieer . .J. P. Tainieaie ilwionliT .... I'raastirtir Marshal.... fiistioe of I'eHoe ,114'iiton bowman .. V. . Mitcliel ... W.T. Lane W l. Hnuth J. 1'. Hick II WT omen inkokmation. IIim nmilH clone at the Uillaboro l"oat . MlliM. iliil I V (IImiwki, Weal Itaion, llethany and Cedar Mill, al 11:1) a. in. Ili.iiw M1111M1. H:M a IU. Ooiiiy to I'ortlnud and way-offloea, 6:6 a Vor FaruiinutoD and Lanrel. Wedoewlnya ind Hiiturdnya at IV M a. ui. Clll 11(11 AND HIMIIKTV NOTIOKh. M IMIK K(JA IK IN AL fJMUUCHI, oorner J Mum aud Fifth atrreta. tTeaobinii w..i.i.ut i. nmfiiinj ami eTeninii. nab, t tb aohMl at 10 o'olook a. m. Fray?' n..i.tn I'linriutHV AVI'lllllll. Y. P. H. K. unuay at A:M p. m. All anryica b" .hurt, hriKh1. uit.-re-.tmit and helplui Kviiryone corillally el onie. KVAS T. IIIK1HKI?. PaU.r. HVANOKUCAI :ill K(!H. Corner I J Fifth and Fir I'reacblUK eyery Monday MVHIIIIIl Hi n II. III.! . J it II a. in.: Mundiiy aobiMil at 10 a. m urnver iihIiiiii eyt-ry Wednesday eyeniUK leiKilirra meetinu every Sunday II. A. Ii li, paHlor. eyeuimi, IIIIHT ChriNtian Cbnroh, K. Ii. Khrlley I PHBt.ir. Kam-lme ana i uini. rreou.u ...... M,..i,.v nt II a. ni. and 7: p. " 8iindayHiiiHl, 10 a. ni. Ihurndiiv. M:IH) l. m. V. I'rayer nieetinK, H. b. 0 U.. Hon day, 7) p. ni. t- mii wi'il li A. A'lkin. raator. Al I'reanbuiir every Mnhhath mornuiKand evelllllU 8iili''Bltl h. ihmii eery DiiiKnn in. I.nhiuh iii-ft uiu eyery Munda al .ui - i.mver meetinu every I l.nrH.l.iv eviiiiiuu. lieadera aud Hteward'a tiieetiiiK the ihird I'neadiiy eveninK of aaob noiitb. A. O. I. . f I ii.i.snoico 1.0IH1K nn. iii. a. . ii. I 1 W.. iiii-i'ta every brat auu uii Kri.luy eveiuiiu in the month. IUS. KL.1NKMAN, M.l I. II. HAl'UIIM AN. Kiwirder. IIiiiikIiIimh of Ki hektth. 11 IM.SIUIMI KKHKKAH UHKJK NO M, I. O. O. F., niwta in Odd Fellowa Hull every huturduy ev. innK. ISAUAU WILLIAMS, N.O. I', of II. I lll.LHKOHO OUANOK, NO. W, meela 1 1 and and 4th Kutnrdayaof each niontb II.nj. N iioriaun, Maattr, ANNia iMiiuia, ni-o. I. o. o. . a UN I k.l MA LODOK. NO. 1, meetn .li Welni'Mtliiy eveninnaat o'olook,ln l.O F. Hall. Viaitora made weloome. KllHlAKD HKMISH, N..tl. I). M.C. 4t i.r, Heo'y. i . . . : MKK'I'M very HiindiiyeveriiiiKat 7o'elonli in the i'hrintian elmroh. Yoo an ordially invited to attendita nieetmiia. KIA A HAMS, I'rea'U Pi'icrcr of llouoi. '1 MV. HF.OKKK t'K IIOXMt. A. i. v- W., inix'i" nlM I renoa nan even lirat and UlMil rrniav eviiuiK ... .... inonlh. M M. riitetiKi r, t . of H. Mra. IW'lle Itroa n, Ke. order. IliitlilHiiie SUIera. 1IHKMt lA TKMl'I.K NO. 10, IC K, m.-elneviTy '.'ml and ii Ii Friday inea. li nionlli ai 7: V'"Vl... k in I. O. O. K. Mall. M h. MMK f T AN I.KY. Jinn. M. A. HiMhk, M. IC i M. ol li. and I-. k. or r. )IKKMX I.OIHIK, NO. .14, K. OK I'., 1 nneta ill M !4hih' Hall on Monday veniim of each wiHk. Mojoiiruinu brethrei' .e.o.nue.1 to l-.tK-e n-- w A , , I.. A. Uimi, K. of li. A 8. A. I', ttinl A. M. IMA I.I IV I.OIKIK NO. , A. K. A A. M., in win every Saturday muht on or after nil niiHin of eaeh nuMith. W. l. WtH)l, W. V. K. l'aiM l, Serrelary. o. v.. s. 'M'AI..riN fll VI I Kit. M).31.t. K.8.. niiHi at Maiuiin I -in pie on the ini tnd 4ih r.-'l'v oi nu ll in. nth. Ma. W. 1. II KK. W. M. Urai l'nil, Secretury. w. c. t. r. Ull.l.SHOKO. W.t'. r. I'. MKF.IS IN the l"iiiirieJiiii"n ii t'hurrh on the ..n Friday In noh month at S o'clock r". M. k. 0. T. r(l.. TKNl, N. K K. t. T. M.. meem in O.l.l Ki-lh.au' Mail, on ee .n,l f.mrtli riiiir.l:y evt-ninira of each onth. 1 A. I.OM1, Hicir.-a l'owa , torn. K. K. . UT XHINtMO FNt'AM I'MEN t N-. !f4. I. l. O. F.. meeta on hmt and bird Tn. -dv of e.noh niontb. I. M. C O.ri r, S-vilie. UY.y. ROH l'linr. SO. !. . A. B. t K K TM IN 1I FKI I.OWM II All. ON .It th,' lirt an. I Hurl Miur.layof ea-h m -nih. all ski o'i'kx k. I'. M. J. I". Ilick, II, U lM-ke, r I". tilinnni. wi:s. KiSMiniKis so. 4;. n k. r. M' IN Ol I' FKI. LOWS HALL IMI.Nir... on i'ie lt- tn.l S.I. Friday ' of each month at 1 . p. m. Mrs. Cranda aff.Onha Oarllle ft ritOrfcHHIoNAI. rUC US tHm. H. TOM, I I, It. B. THS--II Notary I'm, lie. Til OS II. ft E. II. TO Mil n, j TTOKNKY.S-AT-LAVV, j uim;ioiu, oukon. ()rrii): K m.iiim :i, I, a 3, Morgan Hlook w. . uaarrr, i . iDtna HtKKETT A AHA US, Jl T )HN E YS-AT-LA W, 1111.1 1MIIW, OKKOON Orflcg: feutral rilnca, Koouia 6 ud I. HilH'MAN Notary flllilio. w. D. aatiTH SHI1II HOW HA. ATTORNEYS-AT LAW. HILlliOKO, OUKOON. Orriui: Uooma ft aud 7. Miran block. V. K. k IS 111 . YTT)HNKY-AT-LA W, lOUTLANU. OUKOt.N IhxiM : No. 8, Portland Havinea Haul, HmldiUK. Heooud and WaahinKtou btreeta j. n. ihv.wn. ox. . a. bach. IIAia.FY t I1K0VV S, YTTORNEYS-AT-LAW. HII.I.SIIOIK), OUKCION. Heaident aucnt lor Koyal Insurance Co. Koohh: 1,2. and 3, Hliulo Unihlini;. II. T. ItAI.LFY, A TTOKNKY AND V tX)UNCi:U)HATl.AW, HILLSIK'KO OKKOON. Deputy District Attorney for WaahiiiR ton County, orvit'B: It, mm No. 13, Morgan aid Hal ley lliock. JOHN T. WIIAI.LKV. UIRINCI B. Mr KW A K r WIIALLtY & SIKWAHT. TTORNEYS-AT-LAW, I'OHTLAND UliKtiCN. OrKtci: 415 CIihiiiImt of Coinim-rce. . T. LISKLATKK, M. II. C. M. PHYSICIAN AND HUJtOKON UlLLHHOHO, OKtOON. Dinm: at reaidenoe. east of totirt Honae, where be will lie found at all iiuuis when not vimUiuk patienta. J. I'. TAMIESIE, M. !.. g P. K. II. SUKuKON, UlLLnitono, outuuB. Ovrtoa amd Kkhuienc!! : oorner Third and Alain Htreeta. Oihue bonra, ttulU to 1.' a. in., 1 to 6 aud I to It p. ui. Telephone to reaidenoe from llrock A neia' iruiHore ai all bonra. All oalla promptly attendee, uuibt or day. W. 1. WOOD, M. I., J1IYSICIAN AND SUH01-X)N, UILLHHOKO, OKEGON. OrFira. In Chi nette llow. Kninrnc oorner First aud Main street. t'. A. IIAILEY, M. II. PHYSICIAN, SUIMIKON AND 1 AWOUl'llKUlt. HILLSI)IU). OHKOON. Ornnt in I'harniacy. I'nion Itlock. Callr attended to, niuht or day. Iteaideuoe, H. W Cor. Kaae Line and Heooud streets. R. SIXOS, JENTIST, KOl'.KSr OHOVE, OKEOON I snow niakma teeth for f.VOO and 1 7.N' per set; beat of oiaterial and woikniniianip will compare vmn Beta ooainiK i"-"1 extracted withont pain. rilluik'S at tue Kiweet prioea. All work warranted. Orrin: three doora north of Hrick iUire. Omoe bonra from V a, in. to j p. m . A. K. IIAILEY, l. 0. S. IKNTIST, I11I.1.SHOKO, OKKtlOS. Kooma I and M.-ruan A Hailey III... k ( . K. lil.K.KK, UDMKOPATHIC imi sii'an ami sri:(iKo. KOKK.sr tillOVK OKKt.i'N. I'lliil In V,iiu'H I.) M.hIiimI an, I Suricirul Dii ;lm' . u-.li.- un.l 1 hihlrcii and all dir. Oitiice and r tii'iru' uve., wen l.li'lHM'. Itowlhv til F.irt'Kt tirove li, llHUNt', Icl. TIIOS. I. Ill 'fll'HKElM. V ' 1. V . V l -1 X' 1 1 A V I I A IWT It ACT 1 N II OF flTI.FX U1LLMIOKO. OHElKIN. Legal pa pem drawn and I.oan on Ileal Ftate novotiated. Knsineaa attended to with promptness and dfpaoth OFtc: Man Street, opnte t'ouri Honae. r. RESMIS. RAtTICAL MACHINIST HlU.SHO'iO OK ON. All kln.U of rroairiuu on in Fnslnea and hollers. Mill Nkork. Tbn-ahine Machines Mowera, Feed I utters. Sewing Machmea Waahina Maehinea, Wrmeera. lumps. Sea Us. Soiaaora ground, (Ion and 1-ocks tnuthinu. Sawa ground and filed: and bave large number of aeoonil taaru engines ana boiler for sale. All work warranted. A RUBBER. ST. JACOIDS DL FOR SORENESS AND STIFFNESS. ! Ik la.! i th kaitwat ajra baAie pm kaa. Aitaal toau aha it aaaaaaa bOYS Ml POWDER Abtolutel Pure Tlitt vi-riiict or New York Jury in auHrtlinjc Antony ComHlm-k (cnlH Ih riiiiri-t4 Tor an nlleod lilx' hi it a'iin-it him, is KThaKt the worw- llinf ilnvtii any mm in this court iry ever hml. Coin-ttocks cammign HHinst thti circulation of I in mora lKMik-4, while it has a foundation ol ji-cl which all 1,'ihhI x-oile flilaud hn.s U-cn carrietl on hy auvh methods that the approval of the public han not only Inh-ii with hclil but as III is verdict implicH a dccllcdly adverse senlimi-nt exists Htfrtinttl both him ami bin works. l'his leads to the thought that there, must be as much attention paid to methods of reform as to the reform itself, Ileformers by their (ITi'iisive methods defeat their work U it never so meritorious and then indulge in ill-timed rail ings touching the wickedness of man. The Klondike rush has commenc- ed for the season, as is evinced by the crowd of passengers and the vast quantity of freight which the Elder took from Portland on the trip just started upon. She will he followed hy the steamer Oregon loaded to her luliest cn parity. Hun lo Preveut I'lieuiiioula. At this time of the year a cold is very easily contracted, and if left to run its course with the aid of some reliable cough medicine is liable to result in that dread disease pneunion ia. We know of no better remedy to cure a cough or cold than Cham tier Iain's Cough Remedy. We have used it ij'iite extensively at.d it has always given entire satisfaction. Olngah, Ind Ter. Chief. This is the only remedy known to be a certain preventive of pneumonia. Among the many thousands who have used it for colds and la grippe we have never yet leiirned of a single case having resulted in pneumonia. Per sons who have weak lungs or have reii-on to learan attack of pneunion ia should keep the remedy at hand The 2") and 50 cent bottles for sale by the Delta Drug Store. Educate Your llowela With Caacareta. t'anily Cathartic, cure constipation forever. Dc.C&c. II C. C. C fail, druKKista refund money. Don't lie ersuaded into buying liniments without reputation or mer it Chamlierlin's Pain Halm costs no more and lis merits have been prov en by a test of many years. Such letters as the following from L. tl. Ilngley, Ilueneme, Oil. are constant ly being received : "The best rem edy for pain I have ever used is Chamberlain's Pain Halm, and 1 nay so after having used it in my family for several years." It cures rheumatism, lame back, sprains and swellings. For sale by the Delta Drug Store Una 'I Toharro ftpil to See tnr life Away. To quit tobacco euMIy and forever, be uiag aetic. lull of life, nerve and vitror, take No-To-ll;u'. the vrnn.icr worker, that make weak men strong. All dniifirists. ,soc or f I. Cure guaran teed Itooklct nn.l sample free. A.KIresa Sterling Kcmeily Co , Chicago or New York. After hearing some friends contin ually praising Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Hemedy, Curtis Fleck of Anaheim, California, purchosed a bottle of it for his own use and is now as enthusiastic over its wonderful work as anvone can be. Die ..') anil 4(1 cent sizes for sale by the iH'lta Drug Store. Kflnrnt Vottr ItnweU With rrretil. Cp.!v t'thartlr. cur constipation forever. lOc.Cf-r .' 'CC tv.X UruAreiia'srrfuml mooej OAfiTOniA. UK Krerrhody ay do. Cava rets ("and v Cathartic, the moat won. uerful miHlical ilii-oi rrv cf the aire, p'eaa- ant and reln shir.i: to tne tasie, act gently and iHisitlvely on ki.lncvs. liver and bowels. clcat.sn.c the entire Fist-in. dliel colds run- hca.laclie. fever, I i ilu.il ronstipalion and hi ioine. P eaae buy and try a be I of 1". C. C. t.iar; in, -ii, si . etiis. tioid and guaxaumx) to run- by all urutgist. OABTOniA. io-T-Hmr for Fifty teat Cufntod lol-vo babtt crre. trakm weak ttea ironr, bHHi purr. fcc. 01. All druirirtftl cure In two or tftrM vigorowa rubats FOR CURRENCY REFORM Abstract of Report of the Mone tary Commission. NEW BANKING SYSTEM PEOPOSED, Ta Babstltute Bank Motea Tor Treaaary Certlttcates and Do Away With the le- paalt ol Honda With the GoTerautent. The Whole Heheme la I H-tail. The report of the nuiui tary comiuia inn, coutaiutug the plau of currency reform proponed by it, together with full discnruiiiu of the aubjoct aud a iiiusm if valuable statistica aud other iufurnia lion, hag been sent out by the exueative rommittee of the Indianapolis ooiiven tion. FollowinR are the main points of the argument and the plau in detail The Standard. The most anrtona evil of our present gituation ia the threattinod degradutiou of our monetary standard. The concurring habits uf individual mankind fix the standard by which to measure the vulue of lubor and property. Ooyernineuts cannot try to chango this staudurd without making mischief, The Htaudard tlius fixed is now gold. This is a fact of civilization. Government, if it serves the people. well, accepts this fact aud records it in law. As an immediate means toward this end we recommend that it shall bo pro vided by law that all obligations of the United Status, existing and future, shall be payable in gold except when other' wise expressly provided. Ily the wise and courageous action of its executive oflioers the government has onheld that standard by paying its obligations in gold, but uutil such payment is required by law and the door thus closed to all question as to the meaning of the word "coin" in too obiigutiousof the govern ment we shall not have an established sold standard in the full sense of those words. Demand Obligations of the Government. At the present time tiie government has no fuud for the payment of its do mand obligations except the goueral balanoe in the treasury applicable alike to the payment of all dues. Our reve nuea ore uncertain in amount, and our expenditures are largo and growing and liable to vary. It is thcrcfure uncer tain whether we shall have at any par tioular time an adequate fuud for the redemption of the demand obligations withont recourse to borrowing. Humm ing is an ineffectual resource, because under the law as it stands the notes which have been paid must bo returned to circulation, and so may Iw used over and over to draw out the. borrowed gold. The issue of bonds, moreover, rests with the executive department, and whether it will be resorted to or not will depend upon the personal views and discretion of the officials at the bead of that do. partment More serious still is the fact that it is in tlio power of the executive department as the law now stands to decide whether the government notes shall be paid in gold or in silver. An end should be put to this anomalous and hazardous situation by making specific and adequate provision for the payment of the demand obligations and directing in the law that such payment shall be in gold at the demand of the holder. A paper currency issued by the gov ernment and circulating year after year without redemption educates the people in false notions concerning money. It appears to those who do not look at it critically to derive its value from the government stamp. It ceases to be regarded as a promise, to pay money and seems to possess the virtue of money in and of itself, and it is so easy to create that when times grow bard the cull for more is perfectly natural. There can be no doubt that the aberration of judg ment on the money question by so many of our people in recent years has been largely due to the misedticatinz iutiu- race of the jrropnback currency. t-uch a curaency also lacks tho im portant qnality of automatic adaptabil ity to the varying demands of business. A paper currency created by legislation is fixed in volume by the law of its crea tion and can neither contract nor expand in response to those varyiug conditions which are bound to occur in the affairs of men. More important than this is the fact that soch currency puts upon the gov ernment a burden in the maintenance of the credit of all the financial institu tions of the country. If the government should fail to red(em its notes, all bank notes, bank deposits, insurance losses and debts and dues of every kind not siecitically payaLle in gold would bo payable in the depreciated piper or in silver. Every passing incident, there fore, which raises an apprehension, however slight, of a possibility, how ever remote, that the government may be unable or unwilling to maintain gold payment of its obligations sends a nerv ous tremor through the whole business system of the country. Sovereign gov ernment cannot tie compelled to pay its iebts. It pays them only when it wills o to do, aud the existence of doubt in the public mind as to tho continuance of the will of our government to pay its demand obligations in money satisf jc tory to the holders then of is a serious drag on business enterprise. The existence of a largo outstanding debt payable on demand is also a source of weakness to the government in its international relations. Modern warfare is so expensive that it is almost as much a matter of mouey as men. A nation suddenly confronted by the alternative of war or dishonor would be greatly handicapped by a large demand debt which it must provide for at enee. Ureal additi. nal force is given to this consideration by the fact that it wnld be acuroely possible for this nation to engage in war in its present situation sonnting as part of the situation the im perfect development of clear conception on tbe subject of money in the minds of tbe peiaple without a snspeniou tf specie pnvnients and a re rt to further issues of government n- tcs. There iim donbt that if our government were re lieved of its existing demand obligations and our currency system put in working order opoti a gold basis it would l en tirely possible for ns to go through a war withont suspension cf specie pay ment or any derangement i f our mone tary system. If war should com-, tbe I value to the country of the at l'.itv to ' thus avoid the indirect losses following from dt utwciaiod currency, iuflatvd piicis am financial demoralization Mould be no great that tbe burden of paying off now oar demand obligations would 1 us nsitbing in comparison. We have total volume of paper and ilver in circulation amouutiug to f'JUM, 72M.Orj,, all resting for its value on tbe .r.-.m .., uyveruiueni, Umm uuly the i, union vuluo of tbe silver. That cred is inaiutaiuuble only as a wbola The p!er of the United States could not be dishonored and its silver upheld. It is necessary, therefore, that the govern uieut should keep a large reserve fuud in sold. Such a fuud in tbe hands of tbe government is d, Senseless against at tack. In countries whi re the govern meut has nn demand debt outstanding und tiie gold reserve is held by banks the uation's stock of gold is capable of some degree uf protection through the rato of interest charged for loans. But our government has uo such resource. its great gold reserve Is an open mine true to all who bring its notes. Aud as the entire monetary system of the coun try hangs upon that one reserve the sit uatiou is one of uncertainty and hazard against which no insurance is possible. As agaittst these serious disadvantages there is uo advantage which can pos sibly be claimod for paper money in the form or government notes over any oth er form of paer mouey equally good except tbe saving of interest on so much of the public debt as is represented by the notes. But this supposed economy is more apparent than real. Indeed when we consider all the facts such notes aro an extremely oostly form of money. In order to creato the gold reserve ro quired for resumption in 1879, bonds were sold to the amount of $1)5,000,000. During IH94-H $203,815,400 more were sold to protect the same reserve. The situation was then complicated by a d icit in the revenue, aud it may be said that the necessity for the later sales arose partly from that causa Not to enter upon that question closely, it is clear that with interest to pay on $357, 000, 000 of indebtedness incurred chiefly, if not wholly, in consequence of the exist euceof tbe government notes and $100, 000,000 of reserve lying idle in the treasnry, the saving in interest by the United states notes is a small gain com parod with tbe unending burden of pro vidiug for their redemption. Wo have ulready redeemed them in gold nearly twice over $548,681, 016 since 1879, and they are all outstanding yet Worse than tins, however, is tbe in jury which results from tiie element of uncertainty which is inseparable from such a currency. Such injury is none the less real becauso it may be nnper- ived. It may go long unnoticed, like friction in machinery or malaria in the air, but it bus Its enect nevertheless, aud when it reaches an acuto manifes tation, such ns we have experienced within the last five years, tbe loss occa sioned is beyond computation. The Silver Currency. We have $jfi4,S55,0Sl of notes of $5 and under and $110, 190,788 of silver dol lurs in actual circulation, making a to tal of $414,551,81)9 of current money in use, exclusive of gold, in denominations of $1, $'.' aud $5. Our total stock of sil ver dollars is $1.713,793. This is an excessive qualify to have at the exist' lug discrepancy between their legal and actual values. But with further ooiuace of them discontinued and their parity assured by the exchange of gold for them on demand it is better to retain them as they are than to attempt a final solution at this time of tho problem which they present By withdrawing all silver cer tiflcates over $5 aud all other notes un der $10 a place will be made for nearly all tho silver dollars in a way which will give the country the full benefit of them for current nse without imposing upon the treasury any serious burden in their maintenance. Hanking System. Tbe chief difference of the proposed from the existing system of bank notes is that it gradually does away with the requirement that there shall be a do posit of bonds with the government ai a condition for the issuance thereof. As now the notes are to be a first lien upon all the resources of the banks, includ ing the stockholders' liabilities. This nance is necessary because of the scarcity of United States bonds, and the attempt to substitute other bonds would lead to many evils. The change ia wise because it permits the issuance of notes in the way and at the time when and for tbe purpose for which they would be issrn-d under natural conditions if no law prevented. Such a system would more perfectly than any other give the country a circulating medium. It would readily aud quickly adjust itself from season to season to meet the wants of the business of tbe country requiring bank notes for its convenient transaction. Under the present system the problem presented to a bank when its customers call for currency is not tbe amonut of its own assets, but its ability and desire to make an investment in something quite apart from its usual business as a bank, in order that it may be in a posi tion to provide a man who wishes to move property or employ labor with the tools most convenient at the time for is purpose. Notes secured as herein provided cannot fail to be safe because, being based upon all tbe resources of all the banks issuing them, they are based upon the whole business of the country. and that business is tbe thing which gives life and value to all securities, government, municipal, railway and in dividual ol, ligations. Should all the re sources of the bank ever so shrink in value as not to be ample security for tne amonut of notes that could be issued under this plan, then all other securi ties, even government bonds, wonld be come valueless. The kauks are bound together for the security of these note to accomplish the same purpose that the deposit of bonds is intended to accom plishnamely, to guard against loss through tbe misfortune or bad manage ment of tiugle banks and thus save tbe bolder of a bank note the need of as certaining tbe standing of any bank Tbe objection that is sometimes made that tbe larger banks in tbe great cities) would not issue notea because of an nnreheudi'd liability for other bank, is nhnvru by statistics to be groundless. Tbe year of largest bank failures wat 1-H3. but bad all the banks of the coun try then issued notes p to 80 per cent nf their capital the amount of their as aeesment to make good the ascertained ! di ficiencies of that year op to the time ' ef the comptroller's report of IMrl would have been only a small fraction of I per cent Had 80 per cent of the cat.ir.alof all national ranks been iayd HAS!. Marcus Hanna is re-elected senator from Ohio. This is the best thing thai could be done. While the sen ator is perhHix not the best man ft place in the state, he was the candi date of the party, made so by tbe re- puoucan- state convention, it was his tight ami he won. The oppowi tion to him was brought about by the silverites who used the jealousies some Ohio republicans to further their own ends in the hope that the republican party might be disrupted and they failed. It will take Kurl ami llusiinell many years to recover if they ever do. When a traitor wins he is sometimes forgiven, but if he looses, never. It will have the ef fect nf preventing chism in the party Mr. Hanna is sound nn all republics questions and will strengthen the hands of the administration. It would have been a national calamity if he had been succeeded by a sllver ite at this time when votes for the maintainance of the national credi and honor are so badly needed in the senate. Plaindealer. . It is to be regretted that some of the factionists in Oregon could noi see the matter In that same light In stead of engaging in factional fights and consort I ng with populists as they have done in times past. IS KETKOSPtX'TIOS. The way the dictatorial democratic leaders are attempting to lead the populists ol Lane county lo the laughter reminds us of the com par alive vote ol the two parties at the last regular election. The populists cast 1270 votes for W. 8. Vanderburg, for congress, while democracy brought up the rear with 1089 for their candidate. Myers. The populist cast 1081 votes for Joseph Gaston, an attorney of no Judicial standing, for supreme Judge, while the democrats only had 1030 for Judge John Burnett one of the old est and best knun lawyers of the slate. The populists polled 1094 votes for Elmer Yarnell, of Mohawk, after he had been betrayed by the demo crats who had promised him a fusion support while Kpencer, democrat who was too honest to be dictated to by the ring only led Yarnell by 542 votes. And so it went, populists leading he democr cyj and now democracy is dictating for an other attempt at fusion. The insult heaped upon the populists by such presumption is sim ply appalling and the effort will ov er reach its mark as far as it did two years ago, and the republicans will elect their ticket assisted by all the loyal voters who put principle above siHiils, and thoir county and state above iersonal spite, Register. SHAME OF JEFFEKSOS! The Times argues for Initiative and referendum, which like flat money, are the unsubstantial fantasies of pop ulistic dreams. Local democrats are too practical to really believe In such impracticable schemes, but they want the paying offices and will accept anything in the way of belief that the populists can invent. Hut the Times argues for the ini tiative and referendum from the Ore gon legislative fiasco, and among other things says: "organization of the session certainly meant repeal of the undesirable Hws, ami the organ! r it ion was agat prevented." To the red it ol the Times, it did not uphold he holdup. But every populist elec ted to the legislature helpexl prevent the organization of the house, and et it is those same populists and the party they represent who are behind this tlemand for the initiative and referendum. So wonder the plain, everyday citizen not given to ica and isms, looks Usin the Initiative and referendum proposition as a sly scheme of selfish politicians -pretty on the outside, but loaded. Oaz -tte. THAT 18H0 PI ASK. In 1890, Harvey Scott was waited pon hy the committee from the state convention in his private room and to him was submitted the platform which received his hearty approval and was by the convention at that time adopted. Portland Tribune. The cause of the calling up of the circumstances of the adoption of the state republican platform in 1890 Is because it contained a declaration in favor of the tree coinage of silver. The writer was a member of that con vention, and secretary of the com mittee on resolutions. The platform was not prearrange!, but nearly ev ery member had a plank to offer, Mr. Scott was not waited on In his private room but came lo the com mittee room, probably by Invitation, ind was shown the platform. The silver plank did not meet bis approv al aai other members objected there to. Hut if the writer's memory is Dot at fault, J. F. Halloran, then of Clatsrp Bounty, and formerly a Ne vada man, said it would do no harm tnd would please tbe mining elf ment ttkMt Hair City. That plank, that not 20 men in that entire convention td iced nr thought anything of, has been the cause of untold mischief in the party. The attention of the con - vent ion was centered on the tariff and lis al uuestions. Miver was not men an Issue. What ever may have heeii the party's attitude on the silvi question In this stato Ih. r., it iswpuar ly against the silver folly r.ow and wilt so remain unless proved to Is? i the wrong. Plaindealer. Polk county's republican county court in appointing judges and clerks of election has disregarded the ballot law. and has given the democrats and opullsts a standing and represen atinn on the election board. How ever, their action will have to las ver ified by petition on the official ballot at the Juneelection. There was no such a thing as a democratic, wpu list or union party ballot cast at Hi last election. The ballot was "dem ocrat, populist, silver-republican. representing one party. If the Pol county court intends to stand with everything that is against the repub lican arty, they had better come out and say so, and not try to run any "sandy" on the boys. Dalles Obser ver. There are some men so timid and fearful lest they be unfair that they lean to the outside and in fact are unfair to their friends. The Polk county court is probably made up of that variety. I hope to see it (the republican par ty) go down in 1900, and I pledge you that I will do everything in my power to drag It down. Senator Tel ler. Very few as)ple are worrying over the fate of the republican party half so much as the distinguished sen ator from Colorado. No one expects him to do otherwise than to lalsir against its success, and, as far as we know they are doing business at the same old stand without soliciting aid from that source. Senators Mantle and Cannon who withdrew iroin the same convention for the same reasons And other means of consolation, or vengeance if you please, without an nonncing their future intentions at every opportunity afforded them lndeKndeiice Enterprise. The Grant's Pass Courier says that E. M. Corbus, superintendent of ;the Powall's Creek Hydraulic Mining Company, has returned from San Francisco, where he went to purchase the necessary hydraulic plttnt to equip the company's extensive prop. erty on Powell's creek. He brough up with him two No. 1 giants anil 1400 feet of hydiaulic pipe, varying in size from SG inches down to 6 inches. The company now has in its employ W) men building a ditch 1) miles long, 6 feet wide at' the top, i) feet wide on the bottom and 3 feet deep. Columbia county is now reaping good results from Its efforts to collect delinquent tax in the past. When the county has secured a lien UKin the land, it has been shown that the ien works to perfect satisfaction, so far as the county Is concerned. Dur ng the recent term of county court more than $700 was collected on land redemptions, which the county held as security for taxes. Out of this amount the county made a prolit of over $200, accruing from costs and interest, the latter averaging 25 per cent. The federation of labor asks con gress to "stop the indiscriminate and dangerous use of the writ of injunct ion." Why? Has any harm ever befallen a person or corporation Is?. cause of the enforcement of the writ? It has often called a halt on lawless mobs, and angry litigants, who oth erwise would have woiked mischiif befi.ru toe ordinary machinery ol the law could be brought to bear. It de prives no man of bis rights. Its ob ject is to protect. He who expects to obey the law and do equity is not mplaining of the writ of injunction. Snow balling in the vicinity of California orange groves, is an unus ual pastime that is said to have been indulged in one day not long ago. No damage Is reported, but they can not bave very much of that kind of business with ut serious results. It might be fun for the boys for a few ours, but it would be fatal to the oranges, at least Florida found it If it is true the silver forces are thinking of placing Messrs. U'Hen and Harkleyon their ticket for the une election, we are unable to com prehend Mr. Cooper's admonition to the convention of silver forces at Portland Friday, "Put only true and incorruptible men on guard." En terprise. A brother editor de-cribes a situa tion which is known in every news paper office when it says that a man doesn't think of his mother's feel ings when he gets into a disgrace ful scrape, but he ex -cts the editor to have the tenderest regard for that mother's filings, and to omit men tion of his name in telling the shame ful story. The dis-umentary evidence upon which W. S. U'lVen was tried before the populist committi of Clackamas county has been made public, and Is rich, rare and racy reading, but the committee exhonorated L"IU-n ju-t the safiHfce-itaindeader. 1 QUp Jg $JATE ITEMS j Items of Interest From All Parts of the State. TWO BOATS r'OK THE kl.OSDIkE James Petts of La mat I, Itralalh As saalts bis 17-jear old Mister. Tim Moro Observer says that there will lie a quarter more wheat pro duced In Sherman County this year than was grown there in 197. The tax levy for Clackamas county is for general fund 12 mills, schistl 7, road 4, ami state 3); Total 20 ,V ltst year the levy was for all purposes 27.2. Fox, the newly appointed Colin-tor of Customs has resigned his pliuo on the state board of pilot commissions. Anil now Gov. Lord has l i divide among a lot of anxious candidates. Krutz of Ohio aud Jonathan Bourn of Oregon, had lietter organize a company and go into the business of holding up State legislatures in the interests of the miuoiity, Sheridan Sun. A woolen mill Is projected for Portland. It is a little surprising that the metropolis has not before this had a factory of that kind seeing there are so many at other towns in the state. It Is said that ore reduction works are to be insta'.led at Oswego or some other Miint near Portland of a capac ity sufficient to handle 400 tons per day. Oswego Is considered laycause of the fine water power and ,the lino wood supply. The farmers' short course Is-gan at the Oregon agricultural college last Tuesday. There seems not to Is- the interest manifested in this feature of the college work that ils U-nellts warrant. Up to a recent date there had been no applicants for admission to the course but it is possible that a sufficient number may yet come in to give the instructors sufficient en couragement to prepare for the work another year. Glen Powers, of Eugene, received from the East recently two boats that expects to use on a trip to the K ondike, The boats are Hi fe -t long each, andiwelght 80 pounds.' A cas ing enclosing a large pneumatic tube, completely encircles the ups-r edge of the boat thus Insuring safety from sinking in case the boat should lie punctured and Oiled with water. One of tho boats was tried on the river at Eugene and was found lo ho satis factory. James Petts, of Lamati, a married man, aged 21, years last week went to his fathers place, 3 milca east of Lemati, and demanded that his sis ter aged about 17, years, cisik his dinner at once. As she had just fin ished the family meal and the .same thing had occurred several times prior, she refused. The Eugene (iuard says that he then knts-ked her down and struck her a numts-r of times with his fist, bruising her bad ly. In fact, the father had to pull his son off his daughter by great force He also told her that if she dared to complain he would kill her. Not withstanding the threat, the sister went to Cottage Grove anil sworn out warrant for the brute, and he was arrested. A game of Indoor hascliall was layed between the pink and the blue teams of the Y. M. C. A. in Sal em in their .gymnasium ball. The inks won by a score of 12 to 9. Tho mem bers of the association have di vided themselves into teams for a contest to s which can secure the largest membership and turn the most money into the treasury during he month. The ladies' auxiliary is also divided into teams to i o-opcr- ate with the Y. M. C. A. The teams have ciiOMen colors, one selected pink, the other blue, and they have taken their names from Itlieir colors. The earns comprise the entire member- hip of the Y. M. C. A. and the lad ies auxiliary and each memls-i wears ribbon of his or her color. The teams are soliciting memls rs for the association and a little riblsin Imiw of ink or blue is pinned on every new acquisition. Pink or blue ribtsm is encountered on every hand now, and enthusiasm is growing. A inusicale, the proceeds of which will be given to the pinks, was given at the resi- enoe of ex-Oov. Moody, last Wed nesday night, Tug-of-war, taffy-pulls and other forms of amusement are in contemplation the proceeds to go lo- warl swelling the funds of the pinks nd the blues. The content will end January 31st when, at a public meet ing, the funds of each team derived from membership foes and entertain ments will be tunied into the aswx-ia- on treasury. The side turning la the largest amount will Is- l--clarsl the winner and all Its inemlsrs will Is; treated to a turkey dinner, hile the loosing team will Is? given plain mush. That Is tbe news report. Query: Will the spiritual life of t) aTiemU-rs be quickened by this fanrl
