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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1894)
Lebanon Express. H. Y. KIRKPATRICK, Editor - and - Proprietor. THE CHAMPION HOC. Pullman's own evidence before the arbitration committee convict? himself of substantially all that his employes charred him with He admitted that the capital stock of his company had increased from $ 1,000,000 to36,000,000; thatithad paid dividends of from 12j to 8 per cent, the latter percentage being paid to stockholders even last year amounted to (2,800,000; and yet he insisted on reducing wages. The fair, dispassionate people of the country can not regard Pull man and his partners, after thif confession, in any other light than that of oppressors, tyrants and pub licenemies. Such people recognised the necessity of reducing wages in many instances; that labor must bear its Bhare of the unusual burd ens lately imposed upon all classes of people; that employers are not bound to ruin themselves to keep up wages; but here is a different case. The Pullman Co. could have kept up wages. Its stockholders had made collossal fortunes out of the 1 tbor of their employes. Yet while still paying 8 per cent ' dividends, twice what almost any other cor poration in the country would have been content with, they think they have their employes at their mercy, If Mr. Armour would put Pull- man und Wickes in his slaughter pens, he would have more hog than is contained in all the thousands slaughtered in any day of the year. It's a pity he can't be authorized to put them through the same pro cess as the other hogs, except send ing them to market Welcome. When we consider the amount of killing yet to be done in the China-Japan war before the closely packed population of the Celestial Kingdom is thinned out, the pro gress is provokingly slow. There are some hundred of millions in China that are doubtless the most degraded people on the face of the earth. .The inhabitants have multiplied for centuries till there are in the cities the most intricate masses of paupers that month by month and year by year, through centuries of life in moral and physical filth, are in a pitiful con dition. The productive lands with out the cities are occupied and parceled off in Bmall tracts; they have been worked for hundreds' of years till their fertility is destroyed and life is a toilsome, hopeless bat tle for mere sustenance. There has been little advancement in the arts and the sciences of ciulizaiion among the " Chinese. What has taken place lias, not trickled down to the lower stratum, to the millions. The stand still. They simply breed and interbreed like jste and the contest for subsistence becomes continually more irksome and more hopeless. There has come to them no light from without. All the learning and all the history of the world is to the Chinese masses a blank. All the power and great ness and civilization of today is known to them faintly as was the Eldorado of the sixth teenth century to the Spaniards. There sordid superstition and the inherent sus picion of the rulers has formed an unconquerable barrier against the incursions of knowledge. And . this muss of humanity, little more than a festering sore on the earth, will continue in its slow decay if there are not unusual conditions to disturb it. The war we supposed would produce those conditions. The Japanese, perviul to the ex perience of other peoples, have adopted modern fire-arms and being enthusiastic it was supposed that they would prosecute the war with vigor, destroying the hordes of China by the thousands. Bo fast as these soldiers were tent out under generals that were un trained and with primitive weapons they could be killed and were the process to last long, , there might be an appreciable deorease of China's vast population. It would let lesBt convince the emperor that ignominious defeat, it would, be necessary to use civilized methods of warfare and the invasion- of civilization once commenced could not be checked. But the war goes on bo leisurely that many years will be required to accomplish these results. The Japanese should understand that every Chinese army destroyed by them is the annihilation of such igorance. Let the war rage fiercer for the greater is the benefit to China and to the world. Tomhawk. .',..- , The whwt market remains m anangea tne lowest price ever offered in the Willamette valley 35cts per bushel. The only salvation for the webfoot farmer is to ndulge in diversified products of the farm is the only thing that plants a silver lining to the black cloud that is hovering over the farmers of the webfoot state. We have the best country God's sun every shown upon; but- her natural resources lie dormant, and her rivers to the sea run down, with power enough to set every wheel in the entire world in motion, a condition almost wholly traceable to a free trade policy of competion, existing between Web foot and the older eastern states. Let the Webfoot farmer get move on, ana make the best of these God given advantages, and the cry of hard times will not be heard nearly so mubh. Tomahawk "There is one peculiar thing about a trip to the summit of Mount Tacoma," said Julius M. Seymour, of New YorK, who madr the ascent of the mountain last week, to the Tacoma Ledge;. A person finds it impossible to eat auything in the high altitudes. In our ascent of the mountain we virtually had nothing to eat from Sunday morning, when we reached the high altitpdes, until Monday evening, when we got hack to camp at Paradise valley. The guide, Henry Carter, ate some of our lunch while we were going up to the summit, and almost immediate ly vomited it up. I account for .this peculiar state of a person's constitution by the fact that there is no oxygjn in the air, the-efore very little consumption of .muscu lar tissue takes place, and the stomach does not require food to supply waste during the short time tourists remain on the mountain." On the 15th of August, 1894, Roger Q. Mills, the great demo cratic war horse, in reference tu the nondescript tariff bill recently passed by congress, said he neither attacked or defended the hill He said: "The least we can say about that measure the better- it will be. It is the most remarkable mensurp that has ever found it eif upon the pages of any of the statute bo )kn of any country. I make bold to say that that bill does not reflect the sentiment of one thousand peo ple of the United States." Again he says: "I do not believe I will be far from the truth when I say that the great masses of the demo cratic people of the United States condemn it." l he legislature to meet -in January will be presented with u million and a half or so of brick at the penitentiary, manufactured for the jute mill, for which the lust legislature made an appropria tion aggregating some (200,000. These bricks will nave co. t some $4,000 or 6,000. The legislature should promptly pass a vote of thanks to the three State officers for neglecting to carry out the act for spending only the $4,000 or (5,000 repeal the law and pass another to use the brick in build inaa beet sugar factory States man. According to the La Grande Chronicle, M. Baker has a field of 100 seres of wheat in Union county which presents a fine st-md, a por tion of which would a. o rage 40 bushels to the Acre, but it will hardly pay to harvest it, and be has turned into the field 50 head of hogs, and will turn in more. In this way ne has fair prospects of a good price for the wheat, which would hardly pay harvesting ex COMPETITION. ' "Competition is the life of trade" is a maxim which has long been proven true. The fact that com petitors for trade put their best foot forward and advertise by evory legitimate method has much to do toward enlivening traffic. If a business cannot withstand lionest competition it must be on an insecure footingeither in its methods r its finances. Press competition let not thnt press you, might be fair paraphrase on poor Richard's well known maxim. If a merchant believes he has better goods or cheaper prices than a business rival, he assures his customers of the fact in convincing language. 4 Advertisements in the newspapers should be as plain, as straightforward talks to strangers as the merchant gives his uustomers over the counter. The difference is this: when conversing with your patron you merely retain a custom er. By a newspaper advertisement a new customer is not only intro duced to your store but if the advertisement appears continuous ly with periodical change, offering some new, treasonable bargain at drawing price, the old customer is recalled to your store again and again. ' One of the surest means of making your advertisement read is to makeitattractiveand interesting, The regular announcement which is looked for and eagerly read by intending purchasers sells goods, The merchant Whose advertise ments have an honest ring and who lives up to them behind the counter seldom lacks customers and needs not fear competition. Mar ion County Record, The scenes of destruction and desolation in the flooded 'district 100 miles east and west of San An tonio, Texas, are simply torrible. Thousands of acres of farm and pasture land are under water. The damage to crops in the Leona river valley will be (500,000 and an equal amount in the valleys of the Saco and Sabinal. Many people b ave been drowned, and half the houses in Uvalde, a town of 2,800 people have been swept away. The 8. P. railroad's loss is (1,000,000. Thf Treasury Department is in receipt of reports stating that the red salmon which have been so plentitul in the waters of the ex treme Northwest have been de stroyed at such rate by wholesale fishing for canning purposes that unless Congress interferes to impose some restriction the finish will soon become extinct. Every paper in the state, especi ally Republican papers, should demtind, from this time forth until next January, the abolishment by the iroxt legisl .ture of the com mission at least the expensive and worse than useless railroad comimission. But if they do, and if all the oeople join in the ap peal, it won't be done. Sunday Welcome. Now some of the Pullman ex employes are showing sense. Backed by capitol ind patents on improvements, they are to start a new car company. If the plan succeeds, and the railroads will give the tmterprise encouragement the publics can satisfy its grudge against Piallman, if it has any. Japanei le residents of China are alarmed and fleeing from the coun try. It e teems there is no protec tion for tl tern tiiere. The Japanese say the suirendered prisoners wer executed immediately after they wire gjvsn up to the Chinese authorities. Trades tuiions have existed in China for aver 4,000 years. The celestial . workman levies toll on eve' y transaction according to laws lold down ly his trades union, and without for a moment taking into consideration what his employer may cousider-proper. ' XnEPas "8 "ow w 250,000 words in the English language ac knowledged by tiie best authorities or about 70,000 more than in the Genua nFrnoh,fipaoistiinil Ital- You must have CFieap (Joods to suit the times I .,.,i'v..,;;rv. WE SELL Ladies, we have a $3 shoo a line of Oxford Ties at 90 cts. comfort. Is full wid complete. WE LEAD IN LQW PHICES. . We ire. selling 30-inch dress goods at 15c per yard; 38-inch all wool dress goods at 40c per yard; fine dress goods .. 50c, 75c, $1 por yard; fine dross cashmere, worth 35c, soil at 25c..' Calicoes, 16 yards to the dollar. We always have good, new 8:ylos arriving almost daily. We are closing out fine line of clothing'cheap. We are expecting a line of boots and slices dally, the best and the .,hnnnut Ynn Kbnulil Imv wliore vou can cot the best L'oocif tr"tho least money la order to do this, you must buy The Leading Nolle U hereby ntven'tll.t tho uiatersUpieil has bMn duly appointed by the County Court o Linn county, Oregon. Die administratrix of the mute of Jacob Nowman, decerned, and hiuduly qinllned as well administratrix. All purtlt-H having claims against said eMute ar- hereby warned to present the same, duly verined. within ill month from Juno 29, IMH, tt the untlernuraed at the office of Sant'l M. (iarlaml at Luonuoti Oregon. Babah . Kinmer, Bax'l U. Oakland. Adminlrtralrlx. Attorney for Administratrix. AUinlnlBtratrlx'n Notion. Nntir, la lierehv triviMi tliut the ttmlor- signed has been duly appointed by county ranrt nt I.lnn rnnntv. (IretrCin. tile admin- iatratrix of the estate of Alonii) Ames, de ceased; mid lion duly qualified as such ad ministratrix. All nci-Mima linvins claims against the mtnte are hereby required to present mem. wnn proper mucuers, wmjin ly nimtiliH frnm the mitt! hereof, to the undersigned, at the ollico of Hnni'l M. Our- land, in tebaunn, lnnn county, Oregon. Dated, this 17th duy of August, m. Hsstbk A.in Ames, Bam'1.M. Oakuanu, Administratrix. Att'y for Administratrix. r I Douglas sTMJftE' IITHtlUT, PIwbioasucAKiNa S. CSRDSYAn, raf UPUA. CUiMCi I FnPAl r 3.?P0LI0E,3 SOLES. 2A2Boychml5hoes. .1 snurc , SEND rwMiuwuc u.L.DSUaLAS. ancKTOH. MASS. In tan taw ? ar realnt VV. I llouilae Shoes, . Bmmm, we are the largest mamliaeturers u. advertised shoes in the world, and guarantee UK value oy siampuiK m - the bottom, which protects you against high urtces ana ine miuaiemH y'u,"- -uVl custom work In style, e.ay Siting and .1 lowtr orices for the value given than any other make: Take no substitute, ir your dealer cannot supply you, we can. Sold by Hiram Baker, LebanoN, Oregon. LEBANON PRODUCE MARKET. (Changed Kvery Weclt.l ' Wheat aie. Oat-20c Huy $4 to $0 per ton. Flour $0 6fl,70 per sack . Chop $1 00 per ctvt. Bran 7Gc per owt. MlddllnKSfl DO per cwt. Potatoes 40c. Apples Dried, Sc per It Plums Dried, 4jc. Onions 2j. Beef Dressed, 6c. Veal-46e. Pork Dressed, 5. Lard-14. Hams 12J per lb. Shoulders 10c. Bides lie per lb. Geese ?5 per doz. Ducks 3 00 per doz. C'hlckens-$2 253 00, Turkeys 8c per lb. EifrJt 12Je lordoz. - Btitter-16 20c per lb. irlidea Green, lc; dry, 2c. ELECTRIC TELEPHONE to Oitj, Villuf 'or Ootui'ttT- Tnw11 In vrf a.u ...l.t. .nut Alvvalr AituntM j tiome, lUOPi iwrfl nnu uriice. uimv wmvh- i isstiw and ltwlltjroniirtn. ArU mm from to ISO r mv. II Dm ii mldanca meani ft Ml to Ell tha DlbbAni. Kin iDrtrumantti. o tori, work 4 avnTw libera, aj dlntBce, Complete), rendr for I om wbn lMt(d. Cu be put up by nr oaf, FIRST, THEN we fell fur $2.50; a'$2 shoe Our $2.80 shoes beat tlio; j ,; , -Our Dry Goods Department of , . . " Dealer in General Merchandise. HIRAM BAKER, . Lebanon, Oregon. The Yaquina Route: 01li;QON TAC1FIC RAILROAD, Chaa. Clark, Receiver,,, Dirnct Line Quick DiMpotch , Low Freight 'Rates. Connecting with ntwtmei' Ho mer between Yin)uina and San Francisco.' ' Fur freight and pnssciigiT rates upply to any agent. Chab, J. IIodkys, Son A Co. Kos. i! to 8', Market St., San Francisco, Cal. Ciias. Oi.auk, Receiver. Corvullis,, Oregon. BARBER SHOP llest H. invert, Hail- Cut or 8Iiiiiiiiui at BORUM & KIRKS' Shaving Parlor. NKKT DOOUTO HT. CHAKLKH HOTEL, Elegant Bath. Children Kindly Treated. Ladioi- Hair Dressing a Specialty, PliOMil' PBOOltHSHlVB -POPfUR Northwest irirc iml Mm'liie INSURANCE COMP'Y Head Office, 2()9-!J'l Chambnr of Commorce, Portland, Oregon. TH2 LEADING HOME OOMPANY. The Northwest Wll.l. 1N8UHK YOUR- 1 llouiK and Barn, I (lmwln Oraln, Hiimu'liolii Furniture, Drftlu In Wareliotue, Huy, feed mid Hluck, 1 Hup Kilns, Fitriii Impli'mi-nts. The Northwest HouDiTri Youn Patkonaoe. KICE&RAWUNGti, Rjal Xstkte and losuranca Airis, UlAnoo, Or. II I SPENT. for only $1.50. We are closing world f.r. wearing, beaulj; and ' ,: "' Albany Steam Laundry RICHARDS is PHILLIPS, Pioprs, : A.llmiiy, ,Qr?g:oii A14 Orders Seceivi'Prdmpt , Attention.." , Special Rates for r ' Family Washings. Hutisfuction Ciuarnutced or Money ' Refunded. t J. E. ADCOX. Agent, In HniiUi'sDrugKtiire. I.clxiiion,- ' - Oroitnn. Lebanon , Meat Market,' . Ed Kellenliergerj Propr. Fresh & Salted. Beef Pork, Muttpn,, Sausage Bo. logna. 'and Ham, I-Bacon and Lard Always on Hand Mitltl Htnut, Lebanon, Or, .P . .. . gift- '' '' '" V .. order- fd kvi uimwu trow jm ror iu regular nt(H. ' ! ian lttilpagei egjtttwd.