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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1898)
s .. fc"'vbîZ I £he 3 <^ew3, SCIO, LINN GOUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, . ■ IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, BY/ BOY B. GILL & ALBERT CQLE4 IN THE CITY OY ^cio, tmsr co., A Column Devoted To The O regon . Interests of Farmers. TERMS; Per annum, invariably in advance....... $1 50 Sixxnonths, ‘‘ ff Per annum if nqt paid in advance............ 3 00 An experienced breeder gives this rule for judging a cow or calf by its : With the eye measure Advertising rates at fg,ir, living rates,tp be distance frqm the tail about half paid monthly. Transient advertisements must be paid for way down the rump, as it drops hen the order is given for thepr insertion. straight down, and the year line of the thigh and the greater the dis? tance between those points, and thp THE WRY80F THE WORLD, more curving of the thigh, the bet Drink, and the gang drinks with ter the cow. The hips must curve away from the tail as an indication you, of a good milker.—Connecticut Swear off, and you go it alone— Farmer. For the bar-room bum who drinks your rum Nature’s method of feeding hens Has a quenchless thirst of his own, is a grain at a time, and constant Feast, and your friends are pnfiny, searching and scratching during Fast, and they cut you dead— meal time. This method we should They’ll not get mad if you treat imitate as far as possible.—Farm them bad JouruaJ. So long as their stomachs are fed. In all grain-growing district? by the Brown-Swiss cow, Brienz, at straw is plentiful, and wfjere it is the American Fat Stock and Dairy used as feed it is reckoned, and Show in Chicago in 1891, where her rightly, ag food of very inferior nu? average daily yield of butter fat (or trition. The idea of using it to fat three successive days was 3.11 ten stock is said *o have originated pounds, the equivalent of of 3,63 lbs with Joseph Mechi, a London Al; of butter. The largest yield of but derman, who a generation ago made 1 ter at the World’s Fair in 1893 for his name famous by his writings on < one day was by the jersey cow, agricultural topics. He largely im Brown Bessie, 3.48 pounds. ported linseed meal for fattening A breeder made the experiment beeveg. But lie found that if cut hay was used to extend the ration of feeding s.ome milK cowsand some only a small amount pf the linseed fattening, steers the same ration as meal could be used withoiit cloying to materials. It consisted of bran, the animals. If clover was fed still earn meal and qilmeal. He wished less of the meal could be eaten. to find out which it cost the most But when he used cut straw» which to produce—a pound of butter or a lias no proteids, a good deal of the pound pf beef. He noted each meal could be eaten with relish, and pound of grain made by the steers, the animals fattened faster, But likewise each pound of butter the when he fed Indian cornmeal with cow produced. The result was that straw less of the cornmeal would be the cost was for the beef, 3.4 cents, eaten than when fed with ci?t hay, for the butter, 3 cents. > Thus it cost This vindicates the practice of Am a trifle more with the above feed to erican farmers, who feed much Ind produce a pound of bpef than a ian corn and comparatively little oil pound of butter, which is worth at least four times as much. Still, if ipeal, Steal, if you get ?. million, For then you can furnish the bailor Jts the great big thief who gets out on leave While the little one goes to jail. —Exchange. The Coming Newspaper. The low aims, purely commercial motives, and sensational methods Of some American newspapers promise to eventuate in one su preme good. There has developed a large want for a newspaper of a higher tone. The inaccurate state ments, the garbled news reports, the false interviews, the vitupera tion and abuse showered upon pub, lie officials and prominent men, the personalities, gossip and slander which fill the columns of many dai lies, have created a class—and a very large class—which desires a representative newspaper. A paper which shall be high in its aim, broad in its scope, reliable in news, clean in methods and moral in its influence. * * * The coming newspaper will elim inate the vicious tendency to exag geration, the triviality of purpose, thè vulgarity aud village tone which characterize so many news papers. The impertinent designa tion of and offensive allusions to those whose only crime is that of occupying a high station in life, the two and three column reports of lo- cal happenings will all be omitted or abbreviated. A foreigner, reading some of our newspapers, would come to one of two conclusions—either that we are governed by a set of rascals, or that we are a race of unmitigated liars. », » .* The newspaper of the future will endeavor to tell the truth, whether that truth be opposed to the individ ual views of those who manage it or not. Fairness will constitute its most notable characteristic. It will give due prominence to internation al and national events, considering at length that epochal news 'which moulds thought and furthers pro gress. This paper will be not only a jour nalistic success, but a money-maker. It will establish a standard for reli ability and purity which other pa pers must live up to or go lame. It will acquire a degree Of influence which nothing can withstand, for there is.no power;;li^>intpgrity,— Brief. President Dole of Hawaii has now been in Washington nearly two weeks, the guest of the nation. On «very side he is praised for his dis creet manner of conducting himself, as well as for bis modest and unas suming ways. Although he is nat urally interested in seeing the an nexation treaty ratified, he asks no questions of the Senators who call upon him; contenting blmBelf with merely giving full information in reply to questions asked him. He shows wisdom, for the least bit ef officiousness on his part in behalf of annexation would be exploited by the anti’s as offensive meddlesome ness. The House has passed a bill ap propriating $288,000 for the relief of the Book Publishing Company, of the Southern Methodist Church. This claim, Which arose from losses by the company incidental to the War, has been before Congress in one shape or another for twenty odd years. The bill passed by the House was a substitute for a Senate, bill, which authorized the claim ants to bring suit for the money in the court of claims, and will, there fore go back to the Senate. NO, FEBRUARY 11, 1898. We ape N ot “Closing out at Cost”, nor purpose selling at C ost at all, because it takes money and P rofit to keep a business going. But beginning with tomorrow and lasting until further notice we will sell goods at unprecedented low prices. Frankly we do this in order to get hold of a little money to pay our debts, and at the same time reduce our stock, which is too large for this time of the year, and there by make room for spring goods. The following prices will show you that we are not talking through our hats. $2 50_ Leather boots, paens » - $3 50 & $3. Fine shoes, ladies - - $150 Heavy shoes, ladies - - - Childrens shoes proportionately low. We have a few children’s mackintoshes at - 1 35 A big line of shirtings, outings and satteens at low prices, Brown muslins 20 and 25 yards for - - - - 1 00 Good dark calico 25 u - - - 100 We have one of the biggest stock of dress goods in ., the country and will sell everything at C ut prices. 52 inch lady cloth, the very best 40 cents per yard n 20 32 ” Tricot, all wool and excellent value » Nice half wool goods 15 n 25 Flannels of all colors, the best on earth Our prices on Clothing nobody can beat. Jerseys range in color from the very lightest fawn to so dark a brown that it might well be called black, and are frequently more or less spotted with white. Linri Count’s First Election. pave Templeton was in a reminis cent mood the other night and told the following incidents of pioneer life in Oregon: “I crossed the plains in 1847 with the company of emigrants of which T. J. Carter was captain, I was then a lad of 16 years. We settled in what is now Linn county,about three miles east of the present site of Brownsville, my fath-- er purchasing the 640 acre donation claim of a bachelor named Potter for a mare, an old gun, two or three pairpf socks ana a little ammuni tion. This was two years before the county of Linn was organized including what is now known as Lane county. During these two years we paid no taxes, had no law yers and, of course, no county offi cers of any kind. As at first organ ized the county was divided in two precincts, one called Keys and the other Kirks. The first election was held in the fall of 1849. The voting place of the Keys precinct was at the present site of Lebanon, and that of the Kirk precinct was at the pres ent site of Brownsville. There was only one ticket in the field. I acted as one of the clerks of Kirks, al though only 18 years of age. The other clerk was a man named Kea- dy. The judges of election were E. Griffith, Alex. Kirk, from wnom the precinct was named, and a Mr. Walters. The precinct polled 37 votes. At Keys (Lebanon) they for got all about the election until the day bad passed. We elected a man named Barber for county judge and John McCoy and John Dunlap for county commissioners. For sheriff we elected Isaac Hutchins and for clerk Wm. McCaw. On the first as sessment of the county the sheriff collected $1600, and the county court sat in almost contlnous session till they had used almost the whole am ount in salaries and then adjourned. I remember being at Clerk McCaw’s place' one day when he said to me: “Do you know when county court meets again?” I knew no more about the date than the clerk did, but I saw quite plainly that he wanted to get another whack at that $1000. Court was held in fair weather under a maple tree that was still standing when I attended the pioneers’ meeting at Browns ville last year. In rainy weather ft adjourned- to Kirk’s smokehouse. All that I ever knew it to do. for that $1000 was to adjudge a man named Jake Coon to be insane. As we had no asylum, Jake was given to the sheriff, who set him to making rails till he got well enough to be releas ed.—Prineville Journal. • The belief that the number thir- I teen is a harbinger of ill luck is the ) most deeply rooted and widespread Long-leg Snag Proof boots, good as ever sold - 3 50 per pair of popular superstitions, It is of Long-leg common ' x ” - x - - 3 00 even more general circulation than the prejudices against Friday. •Short-leg Snag Proof ” good as ever sold - 2 50 An emblem that fairly bristles - 2 00 Short-leg common ” . - with the supposedly unlucky thir Ladies first grade over-shoes -> 40c teen is the twenty-flve-eent piece, or quarter dollar, of the United States. And lastly have you heard how our prices on coffee make our poor The thirteen colonies that revolted compeds. turn pale?----- Read: against England rule were not hand Arbuckles & Lyons 10 cents a package, 10 packages for 1 00 icapped in the end by the fateful ness of the number. It was England Good broken roast, 20 pounds for , . _ _ 1 00 that had, the bad luck in that in (Our compedsask 11 cents per pound for the above.) „ stance. That may be an argument for the believer in the malignity of 14 pounds Green Rio for - X - - - 100 the number. But to the American Baby Elephant Soap - - - 4 cents per bar quarter and its combinations of thir . teen. In the first place, the head on the WE ALWAYS PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR PRODUCE. face of the coin is surrounded by All kind of poultry is high. thirteen stars. On the reverse side the words Large fat old hens, j * $3 50 dozen z “quarter dollar” contain thirteen Good last years chickens from $2 50 to 3 00 ” letters. Good geese 7i cents per pound or 7 50 ” There are thirteen stars in the constellation over the head of the Dried aples, sun dried 5 cents, machine dried 6 & 61 cents per pound. eagle. Eggs - - - . 17 cents per dozen. There are thirteen letters in the inscription. “E Pluribus Unum” on the streamer |ihat floats from the eagle’s beak. There are thirteen . feathers In each wing of the eagle and thirteen feathers in its tail. The lower part of the shield on the eagle’s breast is divided Into everybody went to making butter Analyses made at the Colorado Prof Snyder, of the Minnesota thirteen stripes. experiment station, talks in the Experiment Station show that pea instead of beef the price of the but There are thirteen arrows in the Northwestern Agriculturist of the vine hay is richer in protein than ter would soon be lower than that sheaf held in the right claw, and of beef. — sources of loss on the farm. Much either clover or alfalfa. The pea there are thirteen leaves upon the of his article reads strangely to an vinesjeontain materially more nit I have tried many remedies for olive branch held in the left claw. eastern farmer. He says that in rogen than alfalfa, and are valuable each ton of straw there are ten for green manuring. There is a caked udder, all of which failed to A Missouri editor says he stepped pounds of nitrogen, worth 15c per considerable amount 'of pea vine hay give satisfaction until I got a lini pound, the farmer who burns 150 made in Colorado. The variety ment, of which the following is the into thestore of a business man who tons of straw, which seems a small grown for that purpose is known recipe, and any person can make it: did not advertise, and was suprised One ounegy spirits turpentine, one to find him busy. The storekeeper matter to some farmers, is robbing as the Mexican pea. teacup two,thirds full of cider vine had the itch and a Waterbury watch, his farm of $225 worth of fertility.— and when he was not scratching Exch. The largest butter record for a full gar, white of one egg. Put all into himself he was winding his watch. year is claimed for the bolstein cow, a bottle, shake thoroughly, and it is A calf dropped in the fall should Pauline Paul, 2199 H H B, 1,123 and fit for use, Always shake before Sing a song of penitence, a fellow be a good one to rear—that is, of 63-64s pounds, made in 1890, owned using, I had a heifer this fall with course,.providing it has good blood by J C Dutcher & Son, Pawling, N- udder as hard as a stone. Three full of rye; and twenty serpents teaspoonfuls applied in three applica dancing in his eye; when his eye and is- .of likely appearance. The Y. fall calf begins life in a warm world, The largest seven days’ record is tions removed all the cake and in was opened be shouted for his life and one in which flies are not as claimed for the jersey cow, Princess flammation. and. I had no more wasn’t he a pretty chump to go be- for his wife? His hat was in the troublesome' as during the summer 2nd’ 8046 A J C C, 46 and 50-64th lbs, trouble with it.—E Van Allen. parlor underneath a chair, his boots months, and the little animal has made in February, 1895, while the At the Chicago fat stock show the were in the hallway, his coat was on plenty of time to begin to grow, and property of Mrs S M Shoemaker, become weaned and accustomed to Baltimore, Md. This record also in heaviest 2-year-old steer was a Here the stairs; his trousers in the kitchen, hay and grass by the following cludes, as far as we know, a claim ford that weighed 1,830 pounds; the his collar on the shelf, but he hasn’t spring, when It is in first-rate com for the largest daily yield, which second heaviest was an Aberdeen- any notion where he was himself, dition to go to pasture grasses. The would be a close approximation to Angus, 1,756 pounds; the third when the morn was breaking some heaviest, a Shorthorn, 1,630 pounds. one heard him cal); his head was in fall calf has much to recommend it, six pounds. The highest record ever reached The Hereford won also the sweep the ice box, which was the best of and there is good reason to expect all, it to make a fine cow. by a cow in a public test was made stakes prieef. GUM GOODS, PRICES “OUT OF SIGHT” ■ 19 '■¡.'.■V'A j X1-.!..- -T.ï -. ikrf SAY, LOOK HEREI Why don’t you patronize the School Library at Peery & Peery’s? It contains the books of our best authors. Reading for short or long periods at eery low rates. Call and examine it. ^UUUUiUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUiU^ Shavinii X’ailots. On and after January 1 1898, the old prices will be resumed» towit: Haircutting, 25c; Shaving, 15c; Shampooing, ,25c; Seafoam 15c; Baths, 25c; 6 Bath t’ks. $1 Shaving by the month, (cash in ad vance) two baths included, 1 50 H, L. Sumner, Prop. Ross EL Hibler, Scio » Ml, irmer, World, 1 Fireside, „ „. 1 71 1 81 20 1 75
