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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1896)
4 Lebanon Express. H. Y. KIRKPATRICK, Editor - and Proprietor 4FTER-TE0UGBT. The) election is over. The popu- liats have gained the three most important offices in the county, the court, the clerkship and the sheriff's office. With these offices under their control, they are able to put into actual praotice the reforms that were so diligently advocated during the canvass. The main argument used against the present administration was the alleged extravagances in the sher iff's office. The people must have believed that such extravagances in fact existed,, because the votes ousted the present officials. They must, also have believed that the populist nominees would correct all these alleged abuses. Will they do it? That is the question. ' E they cut down these expenses to the figures given on the stump, 4hen all credit will be due the populists. If these or other ex- - travagances are permitted, there will be no excuse left the populists. ' They have made great promises,and the people have trusted them. To betray that trust will be to sound ' the death knell of the party. The people have great expecta tion of reform from the populists. Just here, it would be well that the people give them a fair trial. Do not too harshly or too quickly judge them. Give them reasonable time to get used to their new duties and then watch their official acts and judge them honestly. They cannot consistently ask for leniency jjor they proclaimed their ability to 'reform these alleged abuses and swore to the sincerity of their intentions. We all understand each other now, and the eyes of the county are upon the populists. Bo let them keep in the straight and narrow path. , Speaking of Monday's election. Ex-Governor and Mayor-elect Pen ' noser aaid : "Wages, prices, values and the volumes of business have all been reduced to a narrow gold basis, but the- salaries of officials and the expenditures of govern ment have not been reduced and1 so our people re feeing ground to poverty between the upper mill Btone of high salaries and extrava gant expenditures and the nether millstone of low prices and stag nated industries. I shall endesvor to reduce expenses wherever I can to meet existing conditions, and I will now gay, what" I could not well say, and what I did not say before election, that while endeav oring to faithfully discharge mv duty as mayor, I shall take but one-half of the salary. That salary should come down with the de cline of prices and values and hall gee that it does come down Jf President Cleveland, whose financial policy has nearly doubled he purchasing power of his own salary, had voluntarily reduced it in conformation to the general reduction of prices and values resulting from the gold basis he has forced upon the country, he would have performed an act of simple justice that would have received the approbation of the world." A street railway boycott in Milwaukee, Wis., is assuming such proportions as to cause a loss of upwards of 11,000 a day to the street car companies, with pmB pects of iits becoming more severe, instead of lessening in the least. The men who were in the employ of the companies endeavored to gain more favorable rules and a better wage rate from the compan ies and struck. New men were put in their place and kept at work under the protection of the police force, made larger for the occasion. The labor Unions declared a boy cott, and Started bus lines in op position, and to effectually have they carried out their idea that lew business men of the city have the courage to trespass upon the wishes or mandates of the union. " The street car companies are now con sidering the advisability of prefer ring oharges of conspiracy against the leaders of the several labor organizations. Sous of the local freaks of the votes Monday in certain counties are curious. For example, Linn county gives Vanderburg nearly 1,100 votes more than Tongue, while Lane county, adjoining, gives Tongue a plurality of over 400. In Linn, Myers' home county, Myers gets only 442 votes, about 1 in 10, while in Lane, a republi can county, he received 1,084. Douglas county, too, which might be Biipposed to beHermann's stronghold, gives Tongue a hand some plurality, "while Marion, sup posed to be republican by l,GO0, and Washington, Tongue's home county, make about a stand off between him and Vanderburg. Welcome. The Oregonian bus not made a very favorable showing in its gold standard fight. In the first con gressional district the vote shows almost a two to one sentiment in favor of silver, while in the second district, taking the vote of the four congressional candidates, it is three to one, Judge Northrup, who represented the single standard, coming in fourth best in the con test. We hope the Oregonian and its followers will realize from this public expression that the majority in Oregon are in favor of free silver. It is now no longer a reasonable doubt as to public sentiment on this question. Dispatch- . The majority of the clergy and laity at the M. E. conference is a good deal like the average senate and house of representatives, which remand the woman over and over again to the whole of their constit uency for a rehearing of their cases because they are too cowardly themselves to resume the responsi bilities to which they haye been delegated.. But the women ques tion in the Methodist church, or anywhere else, will never be set tled until it is settled right. Paci fic Empire. The Cottage Grove Leader says that slander is a conjugation of evils, the source of infinite mischief. It undermines peace, saps the fountain of friendship, destroys families, rends in pieces the very heart and vitals of charity, and makes an evil man at the same moment, the accuser, witness, judge and executioner of the innocent. Man may practice it, the world listen to it, the devil favor it, but God will judge and fearfully pun ish it. J. H. Albert, a Salem banker, in commenting upon the election, said: "If the democratic national convention should nominate a gold standard candidate for president. and the St. Louisconvention should nominate a man on the same plat form, the populists would win against the two candidates. I am in favor of and will cheerfully sup port a presidential electoral ticket composed of two democrats and two republicans." Ex. The St. Louis cyclone is the most horrible affair of its kind ever happening in the world. Other cities have been destroyed by other means of destroyed by other means of destruction, and other tornadoes have swept just as violently as this one, but never before has the fierce and unrelenting tornado swooped with such fiendish fury upon a great center of civilization and left in its path so many ruined homes and so much misery and suffering. Oreqon's governor is said to be considering the advisability of call ing out the militia of the state to quell the disturbances along the Columbia river. Tiere are some islands to be looked after, if the rioters are to be reached, and the experience of the governor of Washington in holdingSund inland is yet fresh in the minds of all. The Lord may be more omnipotent and all-powerful, however, than the Seattle banker. Medford Mail. 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Republican. f Democrats. pears and prunes. This is very gratifying proof of the claims which have been put forward as to the superior natural adaptability of this state to the production of these fruits. Ten thousand dollars has been offered for the capture of a fiend down in California, who murdered five or six innocent people. Won derful efforts are being mado to capture him. If caught it ii doubt ful if he will be allowed to face a jury. . Sechetary Wii.icutt, of the railroad combine of San Francisco, has been sentenced to a $500 fine and five days' imprisonment for contempt of court. Got our prices and quality ot stock before buying your- groceries, boots, oboes or gonts furnishing goods else where. PUOH A MUNSKY. of Linn County. go:. : : ; : UWfl. ""; fletungi UOlMflj SSwtaotifcoo&goXe&e I " -'attiaoj mniJH. "" ejouiog, "S. "WodnqaJ. ' ' ' k1AU ' w(un nt stnqoHt T"'gt ' vrsot pisqiuaiVJ nuipjn. ppaoqnKi siuoji, liomoSjnoKl gl!Mt ' tunuipng ll!HJ t People's Party. Scrofula Hakes lilt misery to thousands d pop. It manttNta itult in maaj iifltrmt vrsyi, Uk fottrt, nrsllinff, tnnnlnf sons, boils, salt rheum and plmplw and otlxt eraptlona. 8earet IV A BUB bl WrhAllv fMa fc II U tome form. It din(i taaatiotuly nnlil w w nup m eronuons pottos If ndicaUd by Bnai'i SampviUt, (ht On Trut IIhI (Vyrtftor. Tbowtadt et voloaUry IttUaothb toll tf tulbrinr froa scrofiila. eftu tabttittd tad Bott taaMioof.potitiTt- if, ptiftetly tadptmaMaUytortdby kGarsaparilla ""I" mnvi tmt ml? Mctrnft. NtwModtl. Cor- f Jf -f 4 Styles, f f money Short Ik Ungtht. II trial tot Bttt to-f"? " Sttlthc ttrlali. f.rf&urv. f catherbone Corset C Set Itanufutorvxt, KALAMAZOO, MICHIQAN. raiMuiv' HIRAM The Leading Dealer in DRY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, ETC. Lebanon, Executor's Notice, Nottae Ik hereby Riven, that, by an order or the County Court of Linn county. On-Kim, the tmrlcr lUnen Ima twen duly appointed, and now K the duly qualified and acting Executor or the emnle of John Settle, dcee iKd. All parllea liavliiR clalmfl axainst haul eoutte are hereby renulml to present liie aa..ie, pioperly yerilleif, williln lix Rionthe from tlte 20ih duy of February, IMK1, Hie ilate of the flnt millical-ou hereof, to the under Igned at the oOlce of Bam'l M. Oarkud, Ub auou, Uua county, Oregon. J. M. SRTTLit, Executor. Sas'l M. Oabuxd, Atty. for Kxecutor, Notloe for Publication. anA Office it Oreiton City, Or.l May 23, m. ( Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has Hied notice of his Inten tion to make filial nroof in sumiort of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the county clerk of l.inn county, at Albany. Oregon, on July 20, I KM, vli: Djvid Bylveater, H. K. No. 9713, fur the H. E. 'A of H, W . W of Sec. 2. Tp. 12 H., K. 1 W. He names the following witness to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of. said land, vii: J. 11, Kits water, John Prior, J, K. ('harltou, of Leb anon, and J. O. Hardin, of haComb, Or. Kotiirr A. Mium, Itegister. Notloe for Publlontion. Land Office at Oregon City, Or.,1 May 29, 18WI, ( Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has tiled notice ot his inten tion to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the county clerk of l.inn county, at Albany, Or., on July 20, mi, viz: Benja min White, H. K. No. 8420, for the 8. W. y. of Bee. 22, Tp. II 8 K, 1 . He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous upon, and cultivation of, said land, viz: Joseph F. Uarland, David I. Myres, Orvllle J. Downing, James (J. Hurdin.of UiCoiub, Oregon, Robsht A, Mili.rk, Kegistor, J. M. RALSTON, UBOKE It, Mfuston Blook, Albuny, Or Money to loon on farm security, also small loans made on personal security. City, county and school warrants bought. Collections made on favorable terms. Fire Insurance written In three of the largest companies in the world, at the low est rates, RUPTURE Instantly Believed and Permanently CURED WITHOUT Knifo or Operation. Treatmont Absolutely Painless CURE EFFECTED From Throo to Six Week, WRITE FOR TERMS THE 0. E, MILLER CO. Omcsa : I:omi 700-707. Harquam Bulldlnt PORTLAND, OREGON. tUtctmaU in uthorfawl BAKER, Oregon Thos. F. Onkes, Uonry 0. l'ayne, Henry C House, Receiver. N ORTHERN PACIFIC R. R. R U N Pullman Sleeping Cars Elegant Dining Cars Tourist Sleeping Cars MlniiaftyolU Fur.. Urud Vorkf . Crunk ton Winnipeg HlQal and THROUGH TICKETS-p Ch Ion go Nw York Ititntiin nnd nil Ptiliiti Knot nnrt Month Fur infi.rnmtiui), tlnio cnuU, maps Rtict tickets, cull on or write W. C. PETERSON, Agent, : - LEBANON, - - OREGON. on A. D. CHARLTON, Asst. Genl. Pass. Agl, Portland, Oregon. Rlpans Tabules. Hlpuns Tabules cure nauaoa. Rlpans Tabules: at druggists. 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