STATE-
k , : l every Tneiay and Friday by the
l:tzixx FuEiiiisa compaxt:
s. mofoTcr. Manages.
T. T. Gi-tK, Editor. :
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t x xaonttm. tn advance ' j&
lrr months, in idnm m
VWJW, OB UBM ..... ....... Ut
The State-anaa 1m tees established w aaarly
E:iy-w.s years, ana it am mmm subscribers who
. nmeiyea it nearly uias and many
who have ad it lor a rnrukin hm !
,t)ics bjeca t ha Tint ta paper dia-onUnsd
" um i iipiauoa 01 uietr suMeripuoas.
'r tbs benefit of these, ana for other rcaaona
hare eODCi tided Uxilaeontlnn uhtoHntiAM
"'i woww noun. Boraona DavtB
tint t f k.a
iv fie lx month, tbo rat will b ILa
Barsatter we will aaad the paper to ail
waro aotecrlbtur. or iA1n tm .j.....
a rear. 1
ropvtMioM pcroona woo orari n IDOUjrh tber
may not send the mouey. with the anaratnd
In thattbay are to pay U2i a year, to caae they
lt the jubsciipUon aoeouat raa over eU
tootha. Ia order that there nay be ao aim
Uerttuntin. we wlU keep this notice -'"-f
at Uia pla la the paper. . "
CIRCULATION (SWORN) OVER 4000
REPUBLICAN TICKET
C r
uj rura luzeiuer ana
ward making up that
which Eastern
dently looking.
lo tor part to-1 with alarm,
TT O 1 ."l.- a,
For instance, in 1SGG, by
Republicans are eonfi
for a xicnple executive Jcre. fe ordure!
GOOD EOAD3 AGAUr
There ia some danger., that trith the
cessation of the rainy season if, in
deed, there should be such cessation
interest ia the good( roads movement
may become lukewarm, roach a if the cel
ebrated Arkaosaw Traveller refused to
repair bis leaky roof when it was dry
weather because be didn't seed it, and
refused in rainy weather because at
such times he couldn't work at it. ; "
Bat renewed interest ia good roads
should mark the coming of dry iweather.
The time ; to . construct good oads is
when they ; are needed the least but
while the work can be easily land the
most cheaply done. This is the best I
the discontinuance .of the coinage of
silver dollars by the government mints,
and there was not another one coined
in the United States for thirty years.
Compared with this outrage on the
Brow of Labor,' the Crime of '73 was
an infant in arms. Really the wish of
the Statesman is that the Democratic
party might get together on some of
the principles of Jefferson and do busi
ness. : .
- The reported shortcomings of Super
intendent Potter "of the Chemawa In
dian sebool should be taken with a full
degree of unbelief in its correctness
until they are proven true. Mr. Potter
baa been the "most efficient superinten
dent that institution has had ad while
be may not have at all times complied
bous'larics ia lDd, but in tea years its
property is-worth; one million. But no
other community is worth: any less on
account of the gain. In fact,' every oth
er community has probably increased is
value in the same proportion. Kea are
constantly creating wealth, not destroy-
IBg It. ' . j
Wbea Jay ' Gould died ' it was esti- j
mated that he was worth one hundred j
millions of dollars. Many ox the de-
elaimers against the millionaires of the
country -pointed to " Mr. Gould's im-
From
IKe '
Officb
Window
'2 :
ICtUtorial Sidelights ,n& Oberv.tlon on Vaxioua TeopU
Lnd Thing,, Picked Up nd Scribled Down at Odd ! Timet.
Abrabim Lincoln Nearly an Oregonian.
An historical fact aot generally
mense wealth as. an illustration of bow : known, is that Abraham Jneoln at one
the- mnaef of the United Stites vai t;m Hm imrlv liMmiiir l Vitiiro
gradually drifting into the hands of the0f Oregon. He took an active -part in
few; but-Mr. Gould had very little of 1 the election of Zaehary Taylor to the
the actual cash of the country. His j presidency ia 1848, and afterward made
property was in railroads, principally, I an application to him for the appoint
with the eivil service rules governing
time of the entire year to grade and ! Lis office, it is doubtful if any harm
STATE.
Tor, Justice of . the tin pr eras Court,
IV A. MOORK.
r r State Food and Dairy Commit
. ttoaer, . T
J. W. BAILEY.
Fr Presidential Electors, -
': J. N. HART.
. . Jab. a. ee,
- " GRANT B. DIM1CK,
- A. i. HQUGIL
,;- '- COKORESSiONAX
For ,; Member Congress First
triet,
' . BINGES HERMANN.
Second District,
. J. N. WILLIAMSON.
Dis-
JUDICIAZ. DISTRICT.
For Judges, ,
CEO. II. BURNETT, of Marion.
B. L. EDDY, of Tillamook.
For Prosecuting Attorney,:
JOHN H. M'NARY, of Marion.,
MARION COUNTY TICKET
f County Judge John II. Scott.
, Uheriff W. J. Culver.
Clerk John W. Roland.
Assessor Fred J. Rice.
Treasurer W. Y. Richardson.
, Recorder John C. Siegnlund.
School Supt. E. T. Moores.
'j Commissioner I. O. Needham.
Surveyor B. B. Herriek.
. Coroner A. M. Clough.
- Representatives Jos. Calvert,- nub
bard; J. G. Graham and T. B. Kay, Sa
lem; John Kitetne, Scoots Mills; Jesse
n. Settlemier, Woodburn, ,
! COMMTTTEEMXb..
Chairman State Centra Committee
rsnk C. Baker, Portland. f
Chairman CongreMiqnal Central Com
mitteeWalter JU Toose, Wooiuburn.
' Member State Central Committee
Hal D. Pattoa, Salem.
Chairman County central Committee
Chas. js.. Murphy,' Salem.
For Justice of the Peace,
" II. II. TURNER.
For Canstable,
, ... ROBT. O. DONALDSON.
" i
drain roadbeds in a way that the work
will have the best effect. Even if na
more is done than the grading, should
be accomplished before the dryj weather
begins, as a few rains after the group-!
is j stirred and levelled will tittle the
new work and prevent the surface be
coming a bed of dust through the sum
mr months and a bottomless slough of
toud in the winter. . j
The National and International Good
Roads Convention will meet 1 -in St.
Louis on May 16th, to be ii session
three days. May" 19th is set apart for
a general discussion of the best and
most practical means to adopt for the
securing of good roads in the different
parts of the country. This (question
has come to the front within the past
five years more rapidly than any other
economic interest, and will grow in inu
portanee until tangible results are
achieved. , There is every reason why
it ! should. One of the most! marked
i . -
characteristics of eivilizatioa is the
disposition of people to move about and
to! know something of adjacent eom
muni ties. Civilization means trade and
barter, means commerce by land as well
as by sea, and to exchange commodi
ties implies a means of transportation.
People living in communities ten or
five miles apart, have, business with
each other and are necessarily contin
nally going back and forth, j It is as
necessary to have a good wagon road
from Salem to Silverton or to Dallas or
Mi-Minn ville, as it is to have a rail
road to Portland. Indeed, the xistenee
ot a railroad in no manner lessens the
re3essity lor a good wagon road rath
er increases it. In the eastern states
where the network of railroads is the
most dense, the interest in he good
roads movement is greatest.
baa been done to the institution, by
reason of it. A full compliance 'with
some of the civil service rules would in
many cases have a paralyzing effect on
needed progress. The Statesman would
ask a suspension of judgment as to the
charge of misappropriation of , funds
nntil something is known about the
matter. ; Sensational reports of this
character are more common than true.
Oregon, baa already bad more than its
share of these reports from Washing
ton which proved to be no more than
papers signed without being read. It
would be well to remember the ease of
Booth and Bridges. '
TJTC REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.
N.vTbe Malesmaa devotes considerable
space this morning. to a discussion of
tfie merits of the different Republican
candidates for various offices, county
and state.' It has not been intended to
unduly praise any candidate but to
" give a fair, summary of his capability
' for discharging the duties of the office
i to which be .aspires.
t Marion county Republicans have this
year nominated an exceptionally strong
titket of honest, capable men. Many
of them, have been renominated after
serving one term and." their records
tpeak louder in their praise than any
special words of commendation. TheH
new men on the ticket are well known
citizens who can be trusted to make
: excellent, officers.
.This being a Presidential year, the
.-Republicans should make every effort
to-poll a full vote, that. the majority
in the county and state may reach that
i figure which the. actual strength of the
party entitles i. , Marion is a Repub
lican .eounty on; a full vote by fully
SOO majority, and the ticket this year
should" receive practically every Re
publican vote in the county. There is
no disposition to oppose any candidate
T.within the party and a degree of good
feeling permeates the" rank and y file
which presages and old-fashioned vic
tory of the old-time proportions. Let
Health
- Fbf 23 years I htTe never
missed taking Ayer'a Saraaparilla
every spring. It cleanses my
blood makes me feel strong, and
iott rae rood in every r. -Jobs
P. Hodnette, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Pure and rich blood
carries new life to every
part of the body. You
are invigorated, refreshed.
You feel anxious to be
sctive. You become strong,
steady,courageous. Thars
what Ayer's Sarsaparilla
will do for you. Sfe
Ak your doctor what be thinks of this
yruxt old familT medicine. Follow his
adrtc and we will be aatis&ed.
! v Ayer'a Pins aid the Sarsaparilla
t greatly s They keep the liver active
j an4 the bowels regular. -S
J.C.ATraCO Lowell, Mata.
The states of Massachusetts Conner
ticut, New Jersey and New York are at
this time doing more to improve their
roads than any other part of the coun
try. They 'are building roads on an
extensive scale, and are inaugurating
systems of co-operation by. pe state
with counties and town ships.) In nine
vears over $00 miles : of eood roads
have been built in Connecticut the last
Legislature appropriating 4(H),000 for
that purpose. In Massachusetts . the
annual appropriation has been! as much
as $$00,(1 0, and there is no expenditure
of public money which is as popular
with the people as that providing sup
port for good roads' building. !
.To be sure, Oregon is young by com
parison with these states, but we spend
some money and energy eaebl year ia
this direeteion, and the point is that
these expenditures should be used in a
permanent manner. We can well af
ford to increase them materially and
the slip-
annually
cannot, afford to longer pursue
shod methods of the past of
worsiug-- me roacts waicn would i
many instances be much better if left
alone. Every county in the state should
take a forward movement in this mat
ter. The time for Smith to
good road is while Smitn is
travel it.
enjoy a
here to
NO BOAT TO CHAMPORO.
The Statesman regrets the necessity
for announcing that the reported ar
rangement for a boat to (jhampoeg
Monday morning was not correct' and
that the only way to reach that place
Monday in time for the celebrstion
will be to take the. early train to Or
egon City and make connection with
the boat from Portland to Ghampoeg
Returning, the boat will reach Oregon
City in' time to connect with
ing train to Salem.
Word that a boat would go
lem Monday morning at 6:43
here and the statement was also print
ed several times in the Portland pa
pers. The mistake is to be greatly re
gretted as s number had made arrange
ments to go and the attendance from
here will necessarily be limited to
those who are willing to go by way
of Orgeon City. - v
the even-
front Sa
was sent
It is not at all disparaging to other
candidates on the Republican ticket to
predict that Judge Frank A. Moore will
rreeiye the largest popular vote of them
alL Being a - candidate 'for a judicial
office, with the prestige of having made
an excellent record during bis-twelve
years ' service as supreme judge, be will
receive an unusually large vote. He
was county judge of Columbia county
before bis election to the supreme
court, and bad served four years as a
member of the state senate. He was,
also, at one ' time superintendent of
schools for Columbia county, by ap
pointment to fill a vacancy. Judge
Moore was born in Ellsworth, Maine,
and came to Oregon in 1877- He was
elected to the supreme court in 1892
and re-elected in 1898. - ' ,
and the money be was supposed to have
was in the bands of other men. Gould
was not a pattern to follow, to be sure,
bnt he ie referred to as a sample of
wealthy men whose wealth is not in
money. . j " ' . : ' ; '. '
Very few of the wealthy men of the
world, have within their possession theJ
actual currency of the country in which
their business operations are carried on.
A man highly gifted with business aca-J
men, with tome money and a liberal
credit, can proceed along some line of
endeavor and create millions of dollars
of wealth without wronging anybody.
In fact, the labor of the country finds
meat to the position of ,U. 8. land com
missioner. This was . ref used htm but
the President offered .to appoint him
Governor of Oregon. This was in J849,
just after General Lane had taken bis
seat as; the first territorial Governor.
President Polk bad appointed ) Lane,
who took the oath of office in Oregon
City on the 3d of March, tbe day before
Polk's erra expired. Ia tbe summer of
that year Taylor offered the place to
Lincolnf who refusal it, and John V.
the prayer of the petition to Mrs.
Nancv t Johnston Avery., alia '.Mrs.
Isaac ErEwin Avery, a she may choose,
It is fort her ordered, adjudged-Jlnd ie:
ereed that this decree, together with the
petition, be entered upon the minutes
0 the term.-i-Thomas J. Shaw, Judge
Presiding." i 1 v;.'.)".
,- This is. a very unusual proceeUng bat
to le married to a -corpse is not nearly
s bnu ! as some women have unfortn
nately done. Mrs. Avery has all the
joys and lUstincttoa of being a widow
without going thrmigb all the unpleas
ant experiences of a - divorce eoort.
Since she was bound to be a widow, she
followed the' example of Jim Bludsoe
of ithe Prairi Belle," whO 'seen bis
duty a dead sure thing and .went for it
thar and then." And thia is not a bad
idea, after all. " What, a. flood of possi
bilities this program opens to the dis
eoqrsged old maid! And if there is any
thing in the : not ion-r-more .or less gen
enilly entertained that a widow is us
ually more popular in the matrimonial
market than the woman wba baa never
been married, here is tbe long looked
Gaines was appointed.
Lincoln refused, largely, it is said, j f opportuvity for escape; (f)
Because ms wire was very Blum up-
posed "Jto coming . to the far-off: coast
its employment at the hands of men who : where civilization bad scarcely shetl its
can command millions, without whom,
large enterprises would never be under
taken, labor would be illy employed and
poorly paid, and the development of
the nation would be a generation behind
what it is-: -.. "f ' ' :' f-
During the populistie . uprising be
tween ,92 and 96 the theory was indus
triously taught and believed to consid
erable extent, that no man could beeome
richer without some other man beeam
ing correspondingly poorer. .The money
theories - of the jopolist party were
based upon the claim that ? there is a
fixed amount of wealth-which s being
handed aronnd, " that if there Were tB
men in a commnnity who were worth
pin feathers and it was regarded gen
erally as being in one sense out of the
world. ; I But "for his wife's objections.
Lincoln would without doubt have come
here in, 1830 and settled in i Salem.
, Any old maid can marry a dead man
-marry him in spite of any trivial ob
jection be may offer. In fact, be can't
offer any. He will be utterly helpless
almost as much ao as if be were alive.
And for the purpose of .becoming
widow, one , man thus used will be as
available as another.' Besides, in mar
tt si! i ji.i.i A . !
' m -j 1 .. -, -'-
one - cannot ..... . .
profitless as broad yet
avoid wonder trg what would have been
the result as it mgbt have affected not
only th history of Oregon, but of the
United States. '"r "N - '
The Statesman shares the profound
convictfon of CoL Watteraon that great
events I in - the world's . history are
shaped by ; the hand of Divine Provi
dence and that Abraham Lincoln- was
sirable name, totally lacking in those
pleasing elements that appeal to the
ear, but . under this new. method every
attention can be paid t to the name it
self and the: man that was ean be
permitted to rerpiieecat en pace .right
This straight cut to widowhood is
ine statesman would like to see:
every Voter in Oregon register, and,
having registered, voe. It would like
to have every voter go to the polls
and express bis choice for or against
every candidate for every office. Let
the Democrats all register and vote, as
well as the Republicans. Good govern
ment comes from a' general interest in
the selection of "public officers, and
much harm is done, often, by the better
class of citixensdeeiaring their lack
of : interest in politics. ,Every man
should cultivate an interest in such
matters, especially, business men, men
who have property and pay taxes. Let
everybody register and register new.
; t 1 who rt mlinaAal In rrf"i rt mipviitM i
ten thousand dollars each, and in five with the divine plan which doetli all 1 ., . .. , , ,
years afterwards one of them was worth j things welL , Gaines no doubt made as j , - J .
tWATITT. tnnnsanj ' a-a tiaaiMcmll- I rrtui. 1 a. J l.ni-avi: ... - flvairAik .a. 1 .1 '
m tv i v- u -' .i i ii t- . i lieve the men of that embarrassment
necessity or
the father
1-". 1 i.ll i . J ' a v. a- a . a ivuauuiLli
. . . u t. - I that domestic tranquillity for whieb
" f ' hilh tM.ttA. 4a W Haaa.M
I wan f a a a:, a lj lc Ill.l r JalJl? CUUM.Cl
have been known to incessantly yearn.
of the other ten men had in some have Lincoln, and Mrs. Lincoln's ob- . . , ,
. -tii ' . i ,i i u .which always attends the
lost ten thousand. dollars, r jeetions. trivial as they seemed at the . .
... ... . . . - - -7 , . . propcs:ng to tbe girl and
at wealth could be created was not time, were the means of saving him for ...
t . . m ... ; -f ,. ' .... .'and; in many eases would
way
That
thought of. . The Amount of wealth was
"fixed" at some indistinct time in the
past and merely' changed hands in the
eonrse I of business. - Happily, : this
In this connection it is interesting
to recall that CoL Wat ter son's father,
idea, nd longer bainy Jmlgment in tbe J Harvey Watterson, was offered the
minds of ' tnotigbtial people. It is one j Governorship of Oregon in territorial
of the myths that has been permanently
exploited. ' . ; K r
THE .AMERICAN FLAG.
new idea it is worth thinking
WEATH AND WEALTT MEN.
few moments upon' the seemingly small
events that Sometimes combine to
change i tbe whole tenor of one V life, I
occasionally affecting ' the J "conrse of
Old Maids and Widows.
as a
OVer. . ' 3 ,
: i O O
; Tho Territorial SUU House. "
.In territorial days tbe Oregon Legis
lature met every year on the first Mon
day in December. In tjbe. early fifties
thi Jocntion of theterrioflal capital
was1 what might have been called a
burning question. Before it was finallv
settleil it became the cause of much bit--
ter-" feeling between the prominent men
of the territory, involving the Gover-
1 nor and the supreme court. .: Darine the
Johnston, of sixth regular; session, which met in Sa-
been4 lem in DhmdiW. 1SS4 it m-.. iM.'.t
J'
Lyman J. Gage, ex-Secretary of the
Treasury, delivered an address before
the Young Men's Bible Class at the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in New
York City a few days ago on the ques
tion, "Is the Acquisition of Individual
Wealth Inconsistent With the Welfare
of 8oeiety." It was a masterly discus
sion of a most interesting question and
among the many truths which be de
clared was this:
"There is a blind Idea if a man has
money he must have taken it from some
body who had it before him, and that
there is a fixed amount of wealth which
is being bsnded around. That is not
so at all. New wealth is being produced
all the time. The men who have ac
complished the great things are the
most poorly paid, no-matter how weal
thy they may be. "
The central idea in this statement of
ciays, and refused for the same reason
that actuated Lincoln. ' Col Watterson
referred to this circumstance in con
versation, with the writer during bis
recent visit to Salem and moralized a
jor the benefit or the pubhe schools
of Salem, where the question was under
discussion a few. days ago, the States
man has been asked. by '-one of the
teachers why there are thirteen stripes nations; and of hnmanity itself;
in the American ilae. I I O O
During the first yeais of the Aemri
i a it ucfviuiiDii mure were aeverai sons I A1im I Jancy t omey
of flags used, but I on, June 15th, 1777, 1 Birmingham, Alal was to have
Corgress provided that "tbe flag of married o Mr. LiE. Avery on the lGth that the capital be removed to Corval
the thirteen United States should eon- 0f April, bat before the arrival of that lis. This was brought about h a com.
a it. i f : a. a I -m . - .
aim oi imriccn sinp?s, rea ana wnne i day be: diel, and JUlss Jonnson ipeti- I-mat ion of the influence of Bentdnnnd
alternately, and tnat j ttte union should I tioued the district court to change her Jackson counties ia th intprt n
ie a wne Beid containing thirteen stars, name t Mrs. Isaac Erwin Avery. Thi curiae a part of the nublic Imildin .a
t-i-ir-iniiiK a. new conaienaiion. i the court iid 4 a formal decree, wm.-b tbeir share of the nublie-favnra
ism on January lam, j Congress pro- reads as follows: i f Accordingly the Legislature met
uri MUJ Mt liaK I . jUl(" i .Minn 1 .iniiin
should consist of fifteen stripes and fif- County Si.rior otirt, April Term,' been k no wm as MarysviHe until a short
teen stars, un Apnia Jin, iih, tae I JtHH-ln the m-tler .f the petition of -time before. The town was located t.
the flag was re-estalpisrel with thir- Naney jForney Johnston: Upon ead-j. C. Avery,U man prominent in his
teen horizontal stripes alternately; red ing the petition of Nancy Forney John-; day, and the name Marysville was giv
and white, with twenty stars, and pro- ston, aid on motion of Avery A Avery, ? en it in honor of h! ir r.. nr
viding that one star should be a3ded ! attorneys, it is adjuilced that the name' Arr Jin.. ..' .:: .
- . . i i -7 . .. .. I i - summer ot
upon tne aumission pc every new state, oi tne petitioner, 4ancy rorney John- 185T, Congress hearim? bow th terri
1IW ,,"""" ' "uinorm-u in ig ston, oe cnangea in aecocrdance with ' torial capital was beinw hm
nnf nnAii t K A flat vn t en f Tiilw I - : L - ' ' "-' ' 1
ball for political trades and coftd.iaa
tions, ordered it back to Slenij Hut t-ie
Legislature met la ('otvulU in Decem
ber, 1855, just the same,and, naturally
the first subject coming up for diuu.
sion was the legality of ther meilx
away' from Ki em. Then and tliere v.,
waped t i.e f the hottest andlbir.ft
fights ever ' pulled off " in OrfgVi, l .t
the majority decided that Congremt Lj,;
better be obeyel and in. the coure ,.f j
week or "ten days, the I-gi!;it.re f.
traced its steps to Salem and IB
business again in the state house th "
bad been so' recently deserted.1 ;
; Tbe . territorial atate house - ai lu.
cated on peeisely tbe site of the pres--'
pnt one. It was a wrMKlen, two story
structure, not at all pretentious, arcbi
teeturallyt and was not finished, thoarf
a part of it had been in use for a ston.
time. Alter the Legislature ha.l r.
turned to Salem about the middle t.t
eember, 185. the feeliug .:..;cst fit.
lev in many parts of the statf , eaj.ecijf.
ly in Corvallis, was extremely; ?.ittr
and when on .Sunday ' morning, i Decem
ber 29, 1855 it half past one oVl.Mjt
the atate bouse was found to W-on foe
which resulted in its complete lam. the
charges and counter charges iti-lulne.,--
by people in various parts of the terri
tory were pyrotechnieally spectatubr.
Specific charges were made as to the
authors of tbe. alleged incendiarism, bt;t
the loss had to be endured and the Ir.
islature renewed its work in thf "tene
men houses" at the svith eujljuf f,0.
mercial street, in the "Keetor HuiM
ing," and others, until it was. Joeate.l
in tbe Holman . buildiug on tli! corner
of Ferry and. Commereial, in li(J ?
- o o j
The first session ot the Legiisl.iturc
ever held in Salem convened on i'eeeia
ber 1, 1851. There is no record s to
where it iucl bijt in a few days after
wards a committee cons. Ming- of War-
mire, Deady and Itvejoy, apMitUe.l to
procure;. a room for the purpose, report
ed that, they 'had secured "the! In Mo
ment story of the Oregon Institute, on
the right baud a you enter the' front
door, including staves and seats, 't -The
House consisted of seventeen niwrnbers
andtlie Council of nine. i I
Complaint has been .made to tbe
Statesman that many ; working! men
have no opportunity to register because
the clerk's office is cloWd before they
can get away; from their work.' The at
tention of the clerk, who is always as
obliging officer, is called to the fact,
with the suggestion thst on some stat
ed evening, ,or evenings, special ojijw
tunity be given to accommodate such
men aS cannot leave their work ierias
he hours when the clerk's oftce i
kept regularly open. j
'". ,o. o VI '
In deciding to make a canvass of tlx
county the Republicans have dose the
proper thing, the people expect it, have
a right to e and hear the candidates,
and it is a courtesy that any caD!idate
owes to the people whose support he
seeks.. And if the Democrats wsnt to
have the time shared' with them, that
should lie grunted. The people shouM
have the fullest opportunity t jt'lj(e
in all such matters.
u-!i o o
On December 18, 15.1, Mr, J, C.
Peebles, of Marion, presented a petition
f rom J. L. Parish and others, to change
the name of Salem to Chemawa, anl -during
the same session a projiositiun
was made to j establisU "Tijemookz"
county. ;' ' I ' ,
pressed,
populist
height in 1896.
It was the very kern
: succeeding the admission of the .state. Mourned aV. so early a date during a
The flag went into effect on the fourth I presidential year as the 29th of ApriL
of July, 1818, ; i But not for thirty years, perhaps, have
. It is evident that "the fathers' in-j condtions affecting all lines of industry
tended at the beginning for one stripe been sd satisfactory as at present, nor
to be added with the admission of each has there been so little demand foti new
new state, the extent to which the legislation nor for modification of exist-
busi-
wa: left
Mr. Gage's was never more forcibly ex-1
movement which was at lU . im isis. With tkit nricrimf nrAVia.Ai. a. ..,i i. sn . ,
I . ; : r 1 u.t nti ICS, Cliy IB
eibly ex- J Union was going to be extended not be- j ing statutes. Very little, if any,
el of the ( injf at all foreseen. Hence, the change Iness that needA to be done was
Every man of great
wealth was to be considered a robber
nd an enemy to the general welfare.
It was not eonsedeied possible for any
observed to the present time, a flag of the koawledge that the danger' of tin-
forty-ve stripes ; wSuld require a mdeb I kering with existing conditions is fover
taller pole than is usually seen, if its for thefyear. Congress did well to ad
ample folds' were to float eracefullv to I iourn. inr it w..
man to acquire a fortune of one minion the breeze a. a. inspiration to the sons anything bnt to let well enough alone.
- jmoi.j i ana aaugnters or America.
A MISCONCEPTION.
A Democratic contemporary com
plains that the Republican papers of
Oregon are 'doing their best to keep
the Democratic party split - asunder."
This is an admission that that party is
already split asunder and a charge that
Republican papers are tryiag to keep
so. But this is a maaifest mistake,
at least, aa it may apply to tbe States
man. This paper ia merely anxious
that every Democrat should return ta
priving some other man or men of the
larger share of it. Tbe foundation of
this absurd idea restetl upon the theory,
so aptly expressed by Mr. Gage, when
he said "there is a blind idea that if
man has money he must have taken it
from somebody else who bad it before
him, and thai there is a fixed amount of
wealth which ia beinir hand.!
To people who entertain this idea that
wealthy men become so only aa they
ean filch hard-earned property from oth
ers,, the possibility of creating .wealth
is aa "irrideseent dream," There is a
fixed amount of wealth to be handed
arouad." When a' man withaa million
dollars uses it in building a railroad he
disposes of a million of dollars bnt has
in its stead the newly created property.
If be pajs for the materal and labor,
whieb be always does, oac million dol
lars baa been added to the wealth of
lie eonntry in the form of the railroad, J
which be owns, but bis million' in M.Kl
belongs to the laborers and manufac
turers whose efforts created it.
In this case there are two million of
-'lars where there was one before. The
Tt who bas thus nsed h
7 1
Not for thirty years has Congress ad-
A TEXAS WOri PER
HALL'S GREAT DXSCOVE&Y.
- One small bottle of the Texas Won
der, Hall's Great Discovery, cure all
kidney and bladder troo .es. removes
gravel, cures diabetes, .seminal emis
10ns, weak and lame backs, rheuma
tism and all irregul ritiea of the kid
neys and bladder in both men and wo
men, regulates bladder trouble ia chil,
dren. r If ' not Bold liy your druggist,
win be tent by mail on receipt of $L
One small bottle ia two months' treat
meat. Dr. Ernest W. Hall, sole nan.
factarer, F. O. box 629, St. Louia, Mo.
Send for testimonials. - Sold by all
drnggisU and Dr. S. a Stone 'a Dm
Stores. . "
Oregon will have the largest loz to
be on exhibition at the St. Louis expo
sition. I It weighs 50,000 pounds and it
required the exercise of much ingenuity
to unload it from tbe ears when its des
tination was reached. Finally "ways
were prepared and a regular launching
was necessary to get it into final posi-
LlOjO.. f J I, i ; ,..f - ; . V m
lay chasing -their shadows or tails
aronnd the straw pile or afound tb'o cor
ner of the piggery, Corvallis Gazette!
No doubt their youthful friskiness is
but a playful symptom of their later de
velopment into full grown Holy' Rollers.
An exchange hits thenail on the bead
when ii aays there are, generally speak
ing, two kinds of wives, those who are
as good as their husbands and t hoe 'who
are better.
REMINDERS.
READ THIS.
To .'Whom It May Cobcot.
Thia ia to eertifr that t was dawn
for nine months with kidney and blad
der trouble,. and tried all known rem
edies o no avau u&tu a neighbor in
duced me to get a bottle of Texas
Wonder, one half of which cured me
sound and well; this I would cheer
t oily swear to, and fioctbe benefit of
.Oregon stands well at St. Louis at
the very begianinng of the big5" exposi
tion, Her exhibits were1 all in place
on the opening day and ready for visit
ore. It s a safe prsuraption that . no
state was better prepared" on that! day
than Oregon- W. II. Wehrurg was there,
and that is the way he does things.; He
learned how in Oregcs. -H : :L
The Heppner Gazette reports that
Heppner has almost reeoverel from tbe
effectf !of its awfal disaster last June.
The entire; state will rejoice to know
of the pluck which Is being shown by
tbe lttle meeropolis of Willow, Creek
valley.- Tbtre are a lot of hastiing
people there, and tbe spirit whieb made
tbe TtrineinlaPS of JefFerBnn rni. ka "T
mft wm a r nna m a m Fam Dh..U ... 1 i t . A n - i . I . .. t 1 1 -in - -
iauuxanu ... i.4tWr anu creates property. A sriven ooio-a mv bouse, located on West
Jefferson did a great many - thirds cramnnity has one hundred thousand f llth tret- Yours truly,
that the modern Democrat would svicw tlllar8 worth of wnnertv within : -; .tr 8EALE,
MedXord, Oregon.
Everything around the O. A. C. is tin
glL'g with life aad motion. ? The little dozei others had starteifto Portland
Tbe Stateman of May 27th, 1887, re
lates that some races had just taken
place at the Fair Grounds, and that the
principal contestants were horses owned
by Dr. Reynolds and George Good; that
Leo Willis was doing an immense busi
ness in real estaate; that John Q. Wil
on had just sold 4000 bead of sheep at
Heppner, also same cattle, and it was
predicted that he would return to Saletn
and locate permanently; that the base
ball season had just opened but with
little interest, and the season in Port
,mn1 Fan less interesting than usual;
that the seven-yrr-old daughter of Mr.
Wanlese had a narrow escape from
drowning ia North Mill Creek; that Ar
.v:.. t i. . -'.-. .
was Dfisiiy engaged in
drawing plana for the fiew Brey brick
building on the corner of Commercial
and Court; that the State Grange waa ia
session ia Salem, with R. P. Boise as
Grand Master; that many sewers were
being constructed in various paits of
the city; that small pox was causing a
scare ia Portland; that Professor Li 3.
Powell was not expected to live, being
oa hit death bed at felt home ia Seattlej
that the funeral of E. L. Rristow had
just taken place under the auspices of
the -X, O. O. F.; that at 5 o'clock the
morning before Lot L. Pierce and a
on
3 p. m.; that they did not arrive there
at 5, and that Lot put his wheel on
board the train and came -home the
same evening;:-that wheat was selling
at 92 cents, with an. upward ten-leney,
oats were from 50 to 60 cents and jta
toes were $1 per bushel.
A TIMELY SERMON.
r may be 8e at aU times of the tSir bikes, expecting to arrive thereby
(East Oregonian.)
Just keep on carrying guus sifl
drinking booze, boys. Iori't listen fa-
anyDOdy. fill up on fighting whiskey
and clean out the police force. Gov
ernment don't; mean much, anyway,
from your standpoint. Good "order is
something to be extolled by. old women
and children. ; To be a bad man is the
proper ambition "of all brave, ' young
fellows, yoa thinik. Organized society
is just a nice (thing to read in books
and magazines, You think it don't ap
ply to everyday actions. People spend
millions in making laws just for fun.
Officers are elected just as a pastime.
Jails and prisons are built because
nothing else will "pay." Two men
are dead and another facing the hang
man in Corvallis, through your policy.
It all came about through your prac
tice of carrying a gun and drinking
bad whiskey, j Two lives are snuffed
out for no cause on earth. Those two
strong, healthy men mighi be ni
should be alive today. You young
bloods will learn, nfter awhile. You
may lose your life in the process, but
yotj will learn. Laws and ordinsncJ
mean just what they say. If you bop
to live to be- a good old man.wits all
your limbs and faculties intact, j"31
cot out thia inareby. It is better to l
a ; goody-gooly boy, alive, , than to be
a -brave bad man, dead, any time.
Bad blood and indigestion are deallr
enemies to good health. Burdock .B1m'1
Bitters destroys them.