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About Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1890)
EVENING CAPITAL JOURNAL. .K VOI.. 3. SAIiEM OHEGON, FRIDAY, MAY 23. 1890. NO. Qd. 11 a GOING The Goods at tin Grand Capitol it venture Are going off Call early arid, secure the Bargains. Opera House Block. J. C. BOOTH, 99 Htate street, Real Estate Broker, Insurance and loans. Some fine city property. Also farms of all sizes and prices. Call and see me, it will cost you nothing. James Aitken. Grange Store, NO. 126 STATE STREET, SALEM, OREGON. -o- Ski anil Fancy talis ! o 1ST A full line of Crockery and Glassware and everything usually kept in a first-class establishment. Our aim is to give entire satisfaction to every customer. All market able produce bought at full cash prices. THE lie NEW W. Tine Clothier, Has A New Store, -New Goods, And although old at people NEW DEAL GENERALLY Prices Right, And et:ery body is invited to call and see. Goods not nearly all in yet, lot more are constantly arriving. ii -1-m.i ii i ." UniOn I 1116 ADSIraCl L0. lem nnd all lauds in Marlon .,, ... , . . ,,n,aA j, tviii-,11Hlnallpartsof thedty. We do a commission business exclusively. I county. Office at 2S8 Commercial street, formerly occupied by k iuiuim wIhh t'Q j, 8t your piuirty with u, Huburban tracts a specialty it. Euglaud'i bnk. pavke nitimiFOi THE SECOND HAND STORE, i MOORE & OSBORNE j Dealers In Furniture, Notions, Queensware, Glassware, Cigars, Tobacco, Candles aud Nuts. All kinds of becond band goods, taught aud sold. Qooda Bold on commlbtloo. Cor, State and Liberty bt. FAST!! Clearance Bale of tho with a Rusli. BaJem Oregon. a New Building, the business of Salem a offers the 257 Commercial St, COMPLETE abstracts of Ba Coin BUY. STORE CONRAD Put Your Money where it will A Real Estate Investment pays better Interest than any other adventure. Those who get in first have the best chances of improvement. x.igm noi liflilant Eight houses approaching completion In Dn.r (III and contracts for Ten more left. Lots In North Pacific addition to" Astoria steadily Ihcrcnslng In value. A few more small fruit farms at Sunnyside still on the market, The Oregon Land Co., with its main office in Salem, and branch offices In Portland, Astoria and Albany, Ore., buys and sells Stock, Grain and Fruit Farms, and has a choice lot of city and suburban property. BOOTS AND SHOES, James Denham (t Co. 118 Stato Street, - Salem J -WK CAIMIV A LADIES', MISSES' & CHILDREN'S SHOES, -OXFORDS AND RLIIT ERS. PRICES THAT WILL SUIT. Our 8.00 Shoo, For BUSINESS MEN. BUTTON, LACE and CONGRESS In C-AL1 EVERY PAIR WARRANTED. Keep You.r Eye on 118 State Street. Repairing neatly and cheaply done. 5-10 F. S. DEARBORN, SuccofiBoi to Has Just Removed to At 263 Commercial Street. And now offers a full and complete Books, Sheet Music, Tissue Puper, Etc. Remember the Place , Big BOOlC Sign. Sffl-Mall orders a specialty. J. H. LUNN has a flno Dress Goods Embroidrics, Parasols and Sun Shades, Boys Jersey Suits, Gents Furnishing Goods. 239 Commercial St. Opposite Bush's Bank. THE GLOBE M n is urn 292 Commercial M Has a large list of choice farms and cliy property for sale on easy terms. Homesteads located. MONEY tO LOAN On improved farms aud city tn. t .... i ... Kxrv e nave himj in tonni-i-woii PLOYMENT and GENEHAL INTELLIGENCE Bureau, where all orders for help will be promptly attended to, and situations also obtained for tne unemployed. ATTENTION ! We hove farms, Urge and small, Geo, G. Van Wagner, Has Juxt received a fine stock of ,j Wall Paper and Picture Mouldings, Lounges and Mattresses- Pricture framing done Prlos am Low do most good. Addition Our $2.00 Calf Shoes. FULL LINE OK- Our $4.00 Shoe, HAND SEWED CALFaud KAN G A 1100 Shoes are unsurpassed for perfect llttlng & dressy appearance. J. It. Starr. His New Quarters line of Books, Stationery, Blank line of- Ladies Wraps, Ladies and Misses Blouses, Trunks and & St,, Salem, Or. property at low rate of interest. - . in. .. -...i ....-.., t f....... .... 1-i.r w nit uur rim mime uuriijcnn, uu -u.u-i lots from f0 up, and houM.it and lots, If you PAYNE k BIUDUFORD. with care and neatness. m th Lowt, fclO-U 1 -J'i1!MB RffilMlffl THE CAPITAL JOURNAL PUBLISHED DAIl.Y,EXCErTSUNDAY, BY TIIK Caoltal Journal Publishing Company. (Inoorpomted.Y Ofnce, Commercial street, in P. O. Hullding fcntored at the pcwtotllco at $atem,Or.,as second-class matter. HOFER BROTHERS, Editors. TUB OFF1CK OF STATF. SUIUUUN TKNDENT. This is really the most important state office thnt Is to be filled at this election. It is I he office that comes most nearly homo to every family in Oregon, and tho one that effects most of nil the coming citizenship of Oregon. Legislators may make laws, and executives may onforce, but it is the force that shapes the education of our growing genera tions that builds tho future state. The office ot Stato Superintend ent Is ouo that represents the educa tional interests of tho state, and its relations to the nation and, in that way, Its fame- abroad. A grand school system is our best advertise tnent abroad, and to have a grand school system wo must have a man of broad character and high stand ing as an educator, and who com mands tho sympathies of the wholo people and Is not obnoxious to any element of them on account of his personal qualifications or former oc cupation. He should be a man, all will admit, who makes education primarily the duty and profession of liis life work, and who has dedicated his life work to that cause. He should not be a man who has fol lowed some other nrofession, and now takes up the direction of the educational affairs of a great stato as a temporary political expedient, or to enable him to come befro the people as a political reformer. Supt. MeElroy has tho qualifica tions to give the stite of Oregon still better services than ho has In the past. Ho is an official with a staluless record so far as wo know. As an educator ho ranks high, be ing recognized among tho men of great ability in the councils of tho National Educational Association, and having Important parts to .per form on tho program of tho national convention that meets in St. Paul next month. Supt. MeElroy was a uuion soldier aud is a Grand Army -mm In high standing? As trcltlr.en, ho Is universally well esteemed and has made himself beloved by his genial, enterprising and public spir ited character. Wo say this to show that any citizen can voto for Mr. MeElroy regardless of politics, ami know that a good man will bo chosen If ho Is elected. The democratic candidate Is a man of high standing as a citizen and has all his life been in the reg ular ministry of the Baptist denom ination. He has a fine reputation as an orator, and whilo ho was not in the Union armies, he has a medal as assistant surgeon in the army corps that won immortal fame at Balakiava. The democratic candi date has also some reputation as an educator and It Is not our purpose to belittle him Wi tho least. The office to which lie asplies should be free from all political or religious bias or Interference, and wo bellove it is an office that should bo filled u nearly as possible in a non-political manuer, though that Is hardly pos slole by our method of election. Asldo front his stumping the state for the democratic state central committee and the fact that he is still in tho ministry, there can be no objection to Mr. LeRoy. Wo aro a firm believer in the policy of a strict seperatlon of church and state, aud If the republican paity would put up a minister of tho Methodist or Catholio church for state super intendent we believe- tho democrats would Imj tho first to criticise tho act. We do not believe in selecting for an important educational stato office, thut serves alike all the peo ple of tho stale, a representative of the theologians of any wet or creed. Tho only way to keep our schools free and clear of all sectarian Influ ences is to elect men for state siior inieudeut who are not enguced In the propaganda of any church, but who aro educators and engaged In that as 'their llfo wik. Mr. Mi EIroy should be re elected. I'KNNOYKK ANI ACTT M. sKTl I.KIH. Tun JOUHNAI. has not yet seen uny wxplanation of the connection of Governor Peniioyer with the Hti.te house laud ring. When the Gov ernor stales his side of the case wo shall give It to our readers dally and weekly In full. The following edltorlul from Thk Dalles Tinies-.Mountaliiter throws . , ,..,.. ....,,.,. .i.i,... " -m-uh." ' "j-..; THKiKiirouiAi-. The letter whioh we puLllshed yesterday frmn the register and re - culver of the laud olllco In this district U very significant In more particulars than one. To under- stand the matter thoroughly, the facts should be known. By an act of congress sections 1C iud SO were given to the state of Oregon us school lands, und these weredlsjio- ed of by the governor, secretary of state and state treasurer ut .'St xx acre. Borne of these lands are comprised In the Warm Springs reservation, und, according to the rulings of the department, the Loard of tho state Is allowed to Indemnify .itself in selections contiguous thereto aud In tract" of at least 100 acres. A portion of one of theso sections Ho on Mutton mountlan, unfit for any purpose except for grazing, and tho number of acres of school lauds com prehended In tho reservation amounts to about 30,000. Tho board of school land commissioners, of whom tho governor 1s chairman, selected small tracts, of forty acres each, in tho most favored portlous of Morrow, Gilliam, Sherman and Wasco counties, aud a syndicate-of three or more gentlemen sold theso Inadvanco for 53.B0 per acre. In order to make the title clear to these tracks they must bo approved by tho commissioner of tho general land office and "listed" as school land in the land otllce of the district. The selections were sent to Wash ington City, and that department asked tho opinion of tho local office. Before this tho register was ap proached In the most attractive manner to approve liicso selections. In fact, ho says in his letter, that the office was besieged in tho same manner that tho "bung-hole of a cider barrel is Infested with files" to do the bidding of tho state officials. To the honor aud credit of the register and receiver of tho land otllce in tills district they refused to do anything which would defraud lioiHHt, bona title settlers out of their rights In the public domain, aud plainly signified this in the letter to tho Interior department. To the discredit aud dishonor of Governor Ponnoyer and other officials deeds were given to theso idemnlty lauds, without the least regards to the rights of bona fide settlers or tho In tegrity of the state. According to tho letter from the register and re ceiver of tho land office, these lands were -uld in advance for $:!.o0 an acre, ami were -elected in tho most eligible -lOuciu traetH In the counties In this district. The facts are simply these: A syndicate of tlireo or moie poisons purchased these lauds from the stato for $1.25 an acre, and sold them for $3.60, thereby realizing a galu of $G7,500 on the purchase. We do not say that tho governor or clerk of school laud commissioners realized anything from this manipulation; but they wcrevery anxious to have 'tins "lands listed in this office, and even oilered peisonal perquisites if it should lie done. The syndicate realized 107,500 from this "deal;" but Gov. Pennyer Is too honest for tho idea to be entertained for a mo ment that ho reaped any advnntigc. Of course not. Tho only mystery about the matter is that lie should have' been so importunate that this land office should "list" these scetlous. It could not have been In tho interest of t lie bona fide settler, and must have been for the benefit of the syndicate which was making a princely fortune in the transaction. Voters lu the Juno election should bear in mind that the ballot for Peuuoyer is one lu favor of this un blushing larceny of tlio public do main, in which tho best laud in Morrow, Gilliam, Sherman and Wasco, counties was taken from tho public domain and from the opera' tlon of the homestead law, fur tho benefit of men who owned countless wealth, and who were eager to in ereuBo their riches by any means Gov. Peniioyer, by tho aid of ills Greek classical erudition, may be able to explain this; hut I he honest toiler who Is attempting to make a living on the bunch grass prairies of the Inland Empire, cannot bo satisfied with any hucIi sophistry. coim,ncoi;HT. t. okku Whatever criticism I lie demo crats have to make on Mr. T. T Geer as a legislator or public man they do not pretend that he Is not a man of supremo grit and real courage. He is as brave as a lion in asserting his convictions and stand lug by his record. Ho plainly tells the people what lie thluits about public, matters and If they want such a representative they are at liberty to elect him. The assaults of his opK)iicuts on his record on the 'public road Mils 1 are met in tho same spirit of candor, 1 Mr. Geer admits ut tho county can vas" meetings loforo tho pcoplo that ho voted for certain of the bills for county roads. Ho furthermore bo llo vos that lie was right lu so doing. He says If ho was wrong, Governor Peniioyer was a great deal more wrong In not vetoing them. Mr. Gcor stands on the hroad platform of favoring all expenditures of pub lic money for public Improvements i that uro properly drawn and guard- , I ...1 iitifl tL'llliln flu, r.Miiili j.f Mm iii, ami TV.I.1,11 IMV ,.:(.., ... I.W treasury. It is a plutform that the progressive people of Oregon will Jupprove. No man need bo afraid to favor appropriations lor publio lm provements Judiciously expended, lie will always be upheld by the people. Mr, Geer is equally fruuk his votes on the Portland water bonds bill. Ho voted agulust the measure. After the bill was vetoed the house attempted to pass it over tho Governor's head. Mr. Gecr's vote would have done that. He did not give his vote. If the gov ernor U entitled to great credit for vetoing that hill, Mr. Gter U en titled to greater credit, lu rcslshujr tho almost two-thirds majority of tho houso which with his voto would havo made the bill a law In, splto of tho governor aud after It had passed out of tho governor's coutrol. Wo believe that nil Independent thinking pcoplo and republicans generally will honor tho courageous action aud fearless defence of posi tions taken by Mr. Gcor. CAPITAL JOURNAL JOTS. A fresh baked smile is always better than a crusty look. Making friends is a knack many understand. Keeping them is au- other thing. Men do not go to tho dovll lu splto of tho devil, but by tho help of thatgeutleman. It's tlmo to commence makinu ar rangements for the coming Fourth of July. Astorlau. The mail who has n family of children and Inebriates himself is a trillo selfish in his pleasures. The subjects you do not under stand you aro very apt to think can not be understood. Ono fact will hold good about Salem real estate will be higher be- fuie it is lower. Tin: Jouhnai. Is designed only for those who cant ge't anything to suit them better. Every community has a Bill Nye hoi t of clown, If you could only find hlu. and get him to expiess himself. Other crops aie not so certain in all parts of tho state but the crop of Republican votes Is going to ho quite large. The persistence of the convict who lias Just broken out of pilson for the fourth time Is worthy of a Letter causo, Astoria papers ofi'er to publish want advertisements for nothing, and yet nobody seems to want any thing. Tho Journalist who makes the dis cussion of every subject revolve about personal matters Is not fit for the position. After opposing the MoKluloy bill all through, tho Orogoiilan discov ers altor it has passed the houso that "it Is iifurmor'abllll" Bless your sleepy soul, Saloin has raised the money and completed all arrangements for the biggest blow out ever seen iu Western Oregon. A Journalist's anneuncement: "With this Issue begins Vol. X. or tho Dally Morulugllar, There will be no diminution in the volume or quality of lies." The pcoplo should bo told that the democrats lu congress voted solidly against free sugar. They aro lu favor of taking oil' taxes all the year round, until It comes to a vote, and then they voto the other way. The third party politicians In this county can find nothing good enough lu their own platform to udvocate it, and nothing good enough in the Itopubllcan platform but to denounce It. Yet, one of their most Intelligent leaders says the Republican platform is largely modelled after theirs, except on pro hibition and woman's suffrage. Oh! Shades of Consistency, where art thou? Congressman Bweney, of Iowa, litis introduced n bill which, If It pusses, will bo hard on several Now York newspapers. Tills bill pro vides for tho exclusion from tho mails of any "pamphlet, magazine, newspaper, story puper, or other patter devoted to the publication or principally made up of criminal ' news, police reports, or accounts of criminal deeds, or pictures and stories of Immoral deeds, lust or crime." Oregonlau, May 22: Nothing lias been heard yet from Governor Peu uoyer In reply to tho letter written by tho democratic register and re ceiver of the land olllco ut Tho Dulles lust November, In which letter tho stato land hoard, of which the governor is the head, was ac cused of fraud agulust Loth tho United States and tho state of Ore goo In tho selection and sale of In demnity school lands. It seems to be high tlmo that this subject wus receiving the governor's attention. This "honest and elliuleut ad ministration" would do well to re spond right soon. One thing Is ' .......! t f . Iiu I....... millliii. lndit IIJIIUIII, T,. uunuvvunvMiMh lil for which no title has yet been re- ' eel ved from tho United States; and the democratic, brethren of The Dalles laud otllce say that when they were sold by tho state for $1.25 an acre they had already been bargain til away to members of tho "gang" for f0.o0 uu acre. Here will be something fur the legUluturo to - look Into. TJIECOLORED JENNY L!ND! MI6S FLORA BATSON, Tire Greatest Colored Hlngcv In the Worlrtfl at tho 1 lh ft Church, Wednesday Eve, Jne Tho reerless Mezio-Boprano. New York STho Colored Jenny Ltnd. New York A mewo-soprnno of wondcrAiNronge. Ban Francisco Kxamlncr. Has earned tho ramoofbelnetbpgreatest colored singer In tho world. Vtcksburg (MU8.)l'ost. . .Jk. , . Tho sweetest volcolktiver charmed a Virginia audience. Ujlfctiburg (Vo.) Dally Advance. f ... . All her numbers wore staff, without, court ns tho birds sing. MObllo (Ala.) Dally lieglstor. . a highly cultivated mezzo-soprano, of great sweetness, power, nnd compa-9, and (it dramatic quality. Charleston (S. O.) News nnd Courier. Her vocal regis! or has a wbndcrfnl sweep. mini lowest comnuio iimei iv mjiiruuu i heights. I.os Angelo (Cnl.) Eve. Express, m ifcrnrtlottlntlon Is so perfect her rcndl- fj tion seem llko recitations set to muMC. Kausus City Dispatch. Tickets 50 cts; Children 25 cts. llcscrvcd without extra cost on and after May 2Jih, ut Dearborn's book store, td INSUItANCK Gumpany. I Flro and Ma rine. JOS. ALURltT. Agont. Salem. Oregon, BLACKSMITHING, - Wagon and Carriage Making and Repairing Horseshoeing a specialty. All work guar anteed. , JOHN HOLM, Corner of Commercial nndChoinokcta sts Hiiloui, Oregon. J. jVEACY, Livery, Feed and Sale Stable Corner Htntoaiul Front Sts.,Kalom. Good accommodations and good rigs. Havo n quantity of good hay forsalo. 3 8 1m J MACV. . Founded 1868. Oldest and largest llanklng houso between Hncnunento and l'ortland. LADD & BUSH, jBeinlcers, Iron building, Halem Oregon, Exchnngo on every part nf tho world, bought and sold. UnitUiof Enslorn banlii' taken at par Accounts of banks tind Individuals solicited Collections made throughout IliuUultod states and llrltlsb America. Wanllcrntir patrons every ac commodation consistent with consorvetlvo lumping. lPdlm Capital City Restaurant Jas. Batchelor, Prop'r. Warm Meals at All Hours of the Day None but whlto labor employed in this establishment, A good substantial meal cooked In flrst eln km stylo Twenty-five cents per meal. I IS D PKONT, Court street, between Journal Ofltco nnd Mtnto'H Livery. SPRING Ih here! And so U E. SCH0ETTLE,. With a Itiio stock of spring and lummt SUITINGS. Everything mnuo up In tho latest fah Ion and a perfect tit guaranteed, Don' forgot to will ill Buhocttlo's bcfoio you mukaukulecllon, Pioneer Bakery AMOS STRONG, 271 Commercial Street, French and German Wheat and Ityo Breads in City Stylos. Vlfiina Rolls. SPECIALTY OF FANCY CAKES. Pastry nnd Confectionery Baking In Full Stock. My new bread and cako bakers uro llrst-clasH artists In their lino, and I aim to havo Bverjllilng as Fine as the Finest. Insure in Your Home Company I "The State," Which has for the past six years PAID MORE TAXAS, Issued More Policies, Received More Premiums And Paid More Losses Uxn property located In Oregon or Wash Ingtou than uny other compuuy. It was the First Company to Pay all Losses in Full anil in Cask lly tho threo great oounagratlous of Seattle Elleiuburgnnd Hpolcano KalU, GEO. X. HEELER, . Cltyjtgcnl im Bpcviui AEvui i,r mannn wiumy. Otlkti hi the company's pullalui, tWIwrC T iiiKtX Mind wnd.r1n nni. Boots lMrw la nr vg, IWlwoliUtrvm J lAV a t mllulHL I'M, " -l . ifK, I i nnllMttull 1-im !. yn-T lulluii ta frr4. A, J... 3 VirthAw, NYw.,