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EVENING CAPITAL JOURNAL. "THE PEOPLES' PAPER." SALEM, OTIEGON, TUESDAY, MABOH 17, 1891. "TO-DAY'S NEWS TO-DAY." NO. 322 VOli 3 ytfv JUd! wntnL inn &n3 3E LAUGH C0W1ES IN In the Fact, tlmt the regular every day sales, twelve months in the year at T McF. PATTON'S Book Store, 98 Sta'e Street. .SCHOOL ROOKS, FINE STATIONERY, ALBUMS, LEATHLR GOODS and all Stationer's Goods can be had 10 to 20 PER CENT CHEAPER Ttian at an Otlier House in Salem EIBSr &JBtJLJEZHa THE CAPITAL JOURNAL HOFER BROTHERS, Editors. PUHL1HUEO DAILY.KXCEFTSUNDAY, BY THK Canital Journal Publishing Company. (Incorporated.) Offlce.CommercIol Street, In 1. O. IJulldlng Entered at the poatofllce nt Salem, Or., as FcroDd'tluit nnttir. Has Been We sell in Your Friends this Call, IB ditig.bTf!jssLrS,t ,ll"T:SKir. hair brushes lOc-12 good JIXIJ - v i zo3E2-iwx,,:o:i Voiar Midst, It Was None Of tt "a? :rac x - ec 3? 3b Look here it we did not. 240 Tooth picks for 5c Good, black ink lead pencils lor 5c. C091G AN SEE OUR PRICES ON TINWARE ! Small dishpans for 25 cents. All other kinds ot tinware Extra largefrlshpans only 35 cents. ANT IT WILL JPAY 10U- i i v 1 ...Jn - nef rmioViinr.-l v 1rv nrifPS n rn . is 4-i-rt hoar, nn.iiii iiillui . ivu iwiuuujimifi'. , .. w- ... ToSee our shoes iromouo -- " , , . , months, only 00c. Coffee mills ..: o i . ,rt i nnia. "uiuainvu .." - . - - uius -u iv """ v ' o r-Tn ir mmbs 10 and ioc. oome JJ, .A.-."--" ,? ,. rr3S!5"ESTT"ffi.'Mr - - 2G1 glEIES?55 .lgffl-M..C g --tJLr . ? Umbrellas trom 60c to $1.25. x Safety 45c. Lamp burners only in and see us. . Commercial Street. HENRY SCHOMAKER Will have something to say in this space about . AGRICULTURAL .IMPLEMENTS For the next six months. Keep track of his tale. , AGENCY OF STAVER k WALKER. Tta Orp.Grnn I anrl fin.. MUSIu I IIV VI jr- Jll ..Vlliui v v.J -wltli Its- he ice- a Oregon, Of all kinds Pianos, Organs, Violins, Guitars, Banjos and Mandolins, (whole ale and retail) over 800 of the latest and i.'cnri?17T MnUTP most popular oxxixux xvkji.. If you contemplate the purchase of a ma- F"") " "" sical instrument write to us for .an illus- HKl-r trated Catalogue by mail. Ill L.SL-B P. H. EASTON & Co., 310 Com'l St., Salem, Or. (In the State Insurance Building) and branch offices in Portland, Astoria and Albany, Has for sale a large list of drain, Stock and Fruit Farms; also City and Suburban Property. The Oregon Land Co. was especially organized for the purpose of buying ndBub-divIding large tracts of land, and has during the past two years fought and subdivided over 3,200 ucres into Fi?e to Twenty Acre Parcels The Buccess Placed nn th, choice land in Fruit, i of thin iiiwWinkln. in fihown in the fact that out of 280 tracts placed on the market. 225 have been sold. We claim that ten acres oi AUVU4 WELLER BROS., THEGROCERS Commercial Street. The Best for the Money all the Time. Wil Yield a Larger Income than 60 acres of wheat in tho Mississippi Valley. Wo also make valuuble unnrnvonin.it.. i- ..- ,.,.i .iu,iriinr tiiA lnnd. fences, etc. VVB fc. ... ""'-" "- J """"' """" , . . .. vnil veil a Binuii tract of land lor tne same pnuu yci "- j would we to pay for a large farm. m for Pamphlet and Price List. AS. AlTKBN, GROCERIES AND PRODUCE. -TUB BEST CANNED GOODS Choicest Fruits and Vegetables in Season Garden Siiedjj, iold Seeds and Flower boeds, Fresh and true to name. rh'Grane store, 186 State "St.," Salem, Or. 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Sellnd deliver wood hay,cxalandlunber Of befoutlUBhout'thedayati 1. It has (1 Tf lina o t. i, a. tim iHfpfct and tc?t form u, jvi'wmii ."V-' .V.i'Ik.j. ulHnl. r. H has me mjeijv mm w ?mv.. , h.a utiif.)i'in be lengthened or si n nc at full speed. No fuetenlpK neceswiry; niiij, i TTIMm.. porfwitlon of a slu chine RURT CAHE, Agent, 827 Commercial strtvt ii iiiii ijijljjij ULJ,- V riKht. emulator. IJy simply turniiigBHJrow lorfened while the maohluula run- No fuBtenlnc necessary: It taya wherever you Tif TTitlniate Perfect inn of a simple family eewlnu ma,. Churchill Sash, Door & Manufacturing Co, Sash Doors, Dllnds & JlouWings, Turning & Scroll Sawing. it.... vinl.hinir made to ordorv . . "7T .1. .r ran alirara keep full supply or stuooed Uclc tfll KfcSS? 5&wWwKSaWT&lP.. JI.8!,Pktt..bew.ron. AKGUMENTS THAT W1I.I. NOT OO II OWN. Tho Portland Oregonlan says: "It is stated that capital is leaving Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas and going toothers, where it will not be in danger of conllication, Rauks are closing their doors in all directions, and the money supply is limited even for ordinary aud necessary business. Not a dollar is loaned In either state, except on good con tracts with the highest security. Farmers cannot borrow money for auy purpose whatever. Mortgages are being foreclosed and other debts ire unpaid. No cities are so dead as tboso of these states. In Iowa hos tile railroad legislation has so do pleted the revenues of tho corpora tions that they are not able to ren der adequate service to the public, and it is not possible to see how there enn be any improvement In the future. The laws have cut rail road charges down lower and lower, but for some reason the reductions have brought no beueflt to manu facturers, farmers or other produc ers. Tho manufacturers that were growing up with tho state haye been removed to other sections of the country, where railroads are operated under more hospitable laws, and where, by wise discrimi nation without injuring any body, they can assist in building up strong manufacturing centers. Tho condi tion of the Iowa railroads except a few big transcontinental lines that cross the state, Is miserable, with poor cars, tracks out of repair, shab by stations or none at all, and Willi a general appearance of delapida tlon and coming bankruptcy. In Kansas and Nebraska conditions are as bad, or even worso. Nor is it probable that the states which have taken this peculiar course have not yet seen tho worst of tho hard times that naturally follow upon this course of extraordinary lolly." It must be remembered that but few years have olapscd since Iowa enacted its laws regulating cor porations. The Iowa law em powering tho railroad commis sion to ilx freight rates wont into effect under Governor Lurrabee, the predecessor of Governor Boles, the present governor of Iowa, who has been In office little over a year. Governor Boies who has all his life been a railroad attorney, would have been as apt to know of tho distress of railroads and capitalists as any one. il8 UOeS nofc mouuim menuu- Ject over which tho Oregonlan is so wrought up. The only uepresseu class ho has referred to are the farm ers, who he alleges have been unable to ralso corn on the fertile Iowa prairies except at a loss. Kansas and Nebraska have just had expire sessions of alllanco legislatures, whose legislation against corpora tions aud capitalists, if any was en acted, has not yet gone into effect. In all three of these states farming interests have been depressed sluco years and the general complaint of the farmer has been that tho rail roads took two bushels of corn for hauhug one to markot, aud that the money-lenders got both interest, orops and ultimately tho farms. Capital and corporations have hither to had largely their own way. If thoso states did not prosper it was not because capital and railroads were driven out and oppressed, be cause it Is only recently that they have not had things pretty much their own way Iti Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. The Oregonian's arguments will not bear Investigation, but are cun ningly contrived to prevent tho peo ple of tho northwest Pacific coast following In the lino of legislation adopted by those states In' the Inter est of the people. How' many times has the Oregonlan told 1U readers that the d'eprsaslon was caiised In Iowa and Kan8aa y prohibition? Does prohibition no longer depress? All then understood that it was out of puro love for tho tomporauco cause that it commiserated mose states. All understand now that It is unadul terated allbctlou for th pooplo that leads It to lament tho woes of Jay Oould aud Wall street. The Oregoulan cannot prove that Mi? Slates referred to aro suilerlug auy greater depression than n.uy other Western Hta.ten. It oaunot sustain, He. assertion, by competent testimony or faoU. Iu assertions aro for a purpose. It bas abandoned Its theory that Iowa was being ruined by proUibition, to. scoro a point for other Iuterea.U more dear talta present frame of rnlnd. The facta are lands iu jowa aro Increas ing in value. IU principal cities are In a ruoxe nourishing oouuition to day than Portland. Tl Iowa Btate UegUter of March 8th describes the building boom In that city as some thing enormous. One man, Mr. Conrad Youngernmn, has Just torn down a tliree-sitory brick with rental income of $0000 a year, to make room for a finer block of im mense proportions. Aro any such buildings torn down nt Portland, to make room for better? Tho samo paper tells of another building, tbo Equitable block, just contracted for by the Equitable Insurance Co., of Bostou, to cost $442,000. Boston capitalists are not alarmed at the ruin depleted by tho Oregonlan. Tho fact Is, It misrepresents for a purpose. Referring to tho Northwest cities, the Oreuonian Ravs: "Business Is paralyzed and building operations practically suspended." In Wash ington no bostllo legislation has been had towards corporate Inter ests. Yet there Is paralysis, etc. Wo ask readers to study the picture of tho Oregonlan and then study the facts. They will bo convinced that Its argumeutsaro not sound. OREflON NEWS NOTES. fELEGIUriHC DISPATCHES. THE CALIFORNIA IUNKEKSTUItOW OUT A FEISLKR. At the Los Angeles bankers con vention the following resolution was oilered aud discussed: Resolved, That this convention respectfully request congress at its next session to devise a more uni form money system for tho people of tho United titates, with tho gold dollar as the standard unit of value, using gold, Bllver aud currency for a circulating medium, In a cuulcieut volume to fully meet and keep pace with the growing wants of tho bUBl- nncc rvf tlin milltltrV! foUUdlUlI tllO issue of currency upon the wealth of the whole nation; maKing goiu, silver and currency a legal tender aud exchangeable at par on demand, and iixing by a constitutional amendment the legality of puch a circulating medium and preventing tho dangers of Inflation, contraction, repudiation or change in the stand ard of values." The California bankers represent an enormous volume ofeapital and nro nerhans tho most conservative class of men who could be got to gether to express nn, opinion on finance. The resolution is a liberal one, considering klta source, and shows qulto a growth of popular sentiment oven among bankers. The idea of "founding tho issue ot currency upon tho wealth of the whole nation" is not now. It has been the fundamental principle of old-time republicans and members of the greenback party that tho nation had power to issue a cur- rnnnv founded UDOn the Wealth Of the nation. It is quite surprising to behold recognition of tho flat, prlncl pie. at a bankers' convention, vine proceedings do not show that the 1-ooninHnn wnsidoDted. It was not challenged however, and was un doubtedly thrown out to feel of pub lic sentiment. If it becamo neces sary, wo presume the. banking Interests, as welljns tho politicians, would bo willing to retain political power by pretending to stand upon a platform which they would after wards evade. Tho Introducer of tho resolution construed It Into a (lomnnil for a creator volnmo of currency. In Biipport of tho resolution Judge Wlduey addressed the convention at length. In speaking of the financial storms that perloaicauy sweon over the nations of tho earth, he said that with every decade they aro Increasing in .Intensity and fre quency. Tho wreck of tho last financial storm In tho United States was frightful, tho failures amounting to over $00,000,000. When fully analyzed tho causo of these panics was found In tho stringency of the money markot. There Is not enough monov to iro around by hundreds of millions. While tho people hud the money tho bankers wero hard up and when tho banks got It tho peo ple were hard up. Tho circulating medium had not begun to keep pace with the march of civilization and the enormous increase in business transactions. In the United States this is particularly so, for an easy calculation shows tho small sum of $272,000,188 In coin Is forced to do tho nation's business of $180,000,000, 000. Add to tho former figures the paper money in circulation outside of tho treasury and bank reserves and the total auiouut Is $000,000,000. Tho speaker hero introduced statis tics that clearly proved that this sum waB not nearly sufficient for tho nation's wants. Judge W'Uiuoy suggested as a remedy a constitutional amoudmout prescribing what shall constitute our circulating medium, iixing its volume, establishing one standurd of values and vestlug in congress authority to laiuosuch money, mak ing It a legal tender, aud backing It with tho wealth, nower and re sources of tho nation, making It ox changeable for gold at par at any time. Tho amendment should fix tho sum of tho circulating medium at $20 per capita, as shown by the oensus of 1800 and by each succeed ing census. Such a currenoy, the speaker contended, would be pro tected against intiauou, couiracuou tttul repudiation. Judge Wlduey advocated the malntenanooof the gold dolluros the standard of values and tho preser vation of the national bank system, IIu said of tho farmers' alliance scheme that it had some Bound points Iu it, Tho following letter was received by Sheriff Bolles a few days ago nnd handed to us for publication. It Is self-explanatory: St. Johns, Or., March 8, 1891. Bin: I have a confession to make to tho jMJoplo of Union Co. and would llko to have it printed in one of tho local papers, Iu 1884 I with a nothcr (whoso uamo I will omit as I canuot coufess for him) took about 14 head of horses ofT tho ran go and sold them at Lebanon aud Sclo. I confess this hoping forgiveness for tho rong I have done my fellow men. I have reformed nnd trying to lead a good Hfo my sins was many but God has forgiven them aud from hlnco forth I mean to do what Is rite nnd now oak tho forgiveness of man as woll as God. humbly Robert C, Ciark. Union Republican, Assessor Guild, of Uulon county, has recently discovered over 80,000 acres of laud that havo heretofore escaped taxation. During n protracted meeting at Baker City, a baby in a basket was left by some ono at tho church door. Tho little ono was taken in charge by tho minister. A correspondent of tho "Uulou Republican says: Joo Yowell has beeu under tho weather lately. He drank a pint of turpentlno by mis take. It is a wouder it had not killed him. Brother S. M. Driver has Joined a local concert compauy at Union. As an end mau in burned cork it would not Burnrl8e us that ho takes tho cake. "Monoy wanted for Chrlst'B sako," is Brother Driver's motto, and ho'll havo it if tliero is any m circulation. ua urauuo Chronicle. Spring has come; butteroupa aro blooming; Uncle Elam's cow is again abroad In tho land, and Tom Berry Is out with his new red dray. Mil ton Eagle. Chlckeus have advanced to $5 aud $5.50 per dozen. This Is a good advance on poultry. Tho olty jail at this placo has been repaired with a new floor. Tho old ono was railroad ties laid together nnd was very cold. Cot tage Grove Leader. Anoxchango says; Oregon will "loom up" at tho world's fair llko a two-bit pleco In a mud hole. The farmers around Cottage Grove should not complain of not having a market for their products this year. At present thero aro no potatoes to bo had hero nnd feed is very scarce. Bacon has a ready markot at nino aud twolvo cents, potatoes ono dollar per bushol. Tho farmers would certainly make more money raising vegetables and fruits than grain to sell. Leader. A train consisting of flfteon cars, lniulnd with 425 immiirrantB from tho eastoru states, passed through Pendleton on Saturday. Four en gines wero required to haul it over tho mountains. It was tho longest passougor train ever known on that division of tho Union Pacific Fossil Jeurnal: A former resident of Tho Dalles aud well-known cattle Associated Press Report and Digests of all Important News of To-Day. MISCELLANY. LOCKED OUT. Bt. Paul, Mlnu., March 17. The Journeymen plumbers of St. Patll, 1200 in number, will be locfted out on an order Issued by tho master plumbers. This action is in retalia tion for a boycott begun by tho journeymen a few days ago on a St. Paul boss plumber, who em ployed a cornice maker to do plumb lug. It 18 stated the fight is to be td tbo death and that the master plumbers intend to break up the local Journeymen's union. is IT TRUE. New Orleans', March 17. It is believed here that tho better elo meut of Itallaus aro glad that a sa lutary lesson has been administered to tho Mafia, as they have for years been in dread ot it. It is stated that when tho verdict was returned ou Friday, two men bolonglnK to tho Mafia went to tho levee flagpole, whoro one of them put hs foot on tho American flag and hoisted tho Italian flag. Tho American flag was then hoisted under it. A. num ber of Italians who wero standing about, und asked later why they permitted this, said thoy wero afraid to Interfere. ARIZONA TERRITORY, Phoenix, Ariz., March 17.-Gov. Irwin has approved under protest the exemption bill passed by the legislature. Tho bill provides that all railroads built iu the noxt thirty years shall be oxempt from taxation for n period of twenty years. L. H, Wilson, auditor of tho Prescott and Arizona Central, immediately after tho signing of the bill, tiled wlh the secretary of tho territory tho Inten tion of his road to extend bouiu from Prescott to Phoonjx, a hun dred and ten miles. The legislature yesterday passed a bill oxomptlng from tnxatlgp for ton years, all sugar beet factories built In tho territory within ono year. The democratic gerrymander bill redisricting tho territory was vetoed by tho governor; the council passed tho bill over the veto, but tho house refused to do bo. Another appoint- ment will now be mado. the coke workers. Scottdale, Pa., lar. 17. Tho great fltriko of tho 15,000 coke-workers of the Coknollsvillo region entera upon its sixth week. Whllo tho leaders of tho United Mlno-workora will not say so publlclyhey private ly admit that tho men have been defeated. Tho wages Joss has thus far reached over. $000,000, and will in a few doys pass tho million mark. When the light began, Gonera! Manager Lynch, of tho A. O. Frlok company, of which Andrew Carne glo Is ono of the chief partners, 'de clared that if Mr. Carnegie would keep his hands oil, ho (Lynch) "would beat tho strikers clean out of raiser hereabouts, E. F. Humason, sight." It would appear mat wr. ,im ima iwn on trial for somo davB Carneulo has not interfered iu any Newly mado up suits from our choicest goods, or meti and. loya, are arriving every day ut tho Wool en Mill ritore, past at Spokano Falls on a charge of cattle stealing, has been lounu guilty, tho jury returning a verdict after a short deliberation. Ills attorney stated that an appeul would bo taken, and Humason Is out on a $5000 ball. A correspondent of tho Fossil Journal says: Our valloy Is in mourning over tho veto of our road appropriation by the governor. Sev eral plugs ot tobacco and a few bottles of glu hat) beou bought on tick by the boyB in tho expectation of getting a Job on tho road. When tho bill passed botli houses, several of our good and iudustrlous men happened to remember thut thoy were old road builders and used to "biuret rock" in Arizona, and ac cordingly offered their oxperleuce aud services as roud supervisors, so as to handlo and apply the appropri ation honestly and Judlolously aud placo It where It would do tho most good, but I nm sorry to say, their memories served them a little too lute und thoy got left. Fossil Jeurnal: Chas. MoKouzIe returned from Portland Wednesday, whoro ho purchased all tho machin ery necessary to place tho Butte Creek saw mill lit good order. " While in Portland he called upou 1 . - !. Uroto a W imams, agonw ior uie E. P. Allia roller Hour mills, nnd thero saw the contract of Smith, Kleppln ii Royal with .them for tho machinery for the Fossil flour mills. Tho machinery is full roller procesn, weighs forty tans, and costs $0000 on board cars at factory. James Uutterflela has been placed under $500 bonds for attempting tho life of Ins futher-ln-law, Mr. Gam ble, at Weldron. It soems Butter field was Bcoldlug his wife, who was nick and had been very low, when her father interfered. Biittcrfleld attempted to shoot him, but the cartridge lodged, nud the Winches ter falling to snoot no BiruoK Mum ble on the head with tho gun, in flicting serious Injuries. Mbw Jen nie Giunble wa summoned from Prlnevllle talver father' ledalde. Ml t ............. !- way. tub mere oircuiuBwuco mu tho Frlok ahd other large compan ies havo hold ont ao long is indica tive that If they wish thoy can starve strikers Into a return to work at a reduction of wages instead of even the old scale, for an advance upon which tho struggle began. The iron trado is not In a uufllciontly healthy condition to mako tho demand for coko pressing, 'and it is said tho ope rators cannot undergo another month of idleness without acrlous loss or inconvenience. BOUND BOATS. Seattle, Mar. 17. D.8. Lubbock, 8upervlsinginspectorofhullHandboll ere of District No.l, whloh includes all of the west coast, who has beeu here all week, leaves for Port Towu sond to sottlo a yory important ques tion In his lino ot official business. The local Inspectors, Messrs. W, J Bryant and GeorgoBullene refuso to permit sternwheel vessels from the upper Souud to ruu to Port Towu sond. Tho chamber of commorco of tho latter city regards this as a hard ship, nnd recently mntl" application to the treasury department to secure a revocation of the order of the local inspector lu tbo mutter. Mr. Lub bock goos to Port '1 owjisenu unoer orders from Washington city. Ho will personally investigate tho mat ter as completely as possible and will meet tho chamber of commerc? to couhuU on tho matter. He will then report ou tho case, nnd on the result of his findings, thO depart ment will be governed In its reply to the request. The grouud takou by theocat in- Bpeotora ior their declalqn was that it is unnafo for Btornwuee vessel o tho character of those now running on Puget Bound to run to Port Towniiend. Borne etemwbeel.TWtr Dels have gone to Port Towbmh4 in the summer time on special permits, but in tho winter time it Is foroW don absolutely. NAKUQW KSCAl'K, OuvroN, ArU.( March M.-'Tlw Detroit Copper Company's boartliPK