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SALEM, OREGON, "MOTDAT, DECEMBER 28, 1891.
"TO-DAY'S NEWS TO-DAY."
NO. 250.
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OF ALL GRADES AT
T. McF. PATTON'S.
See Ad Tomorrow.
NEW YEARS IS COMING!'
Do you want to make it a season of genuine mirth, jollity, satisfaction and surprise If you do,go to the BACKET
STORE and look over their stock of NEW HOLIDAY GOODS which they have been getting in during the past
two weeks. We have an IMMENSE line of Dolls, Toys of every descripiton, Story Books, Scrap Albums, Photo
graph Albums, Toilet Sets, Games, Silk Handerchiefs and everything else that it takes to make the old as well as
the young happy. And they are SELLING at PfUCES lower than ever before. While looking over the Holiday
Stock it is well to remember that they have a full line of Boots, Shoes, Hosiery, Qnderware etc, etc. Which it will
pay you to look at before buying.
161 Commerci
K. F. OS BURN, .
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS
THE ENTIRE STOCK
MUST
BE - SOLD
By January 1st, IS 92,
F Consisting of the most Elegant and Complete line of PICTURES, MIR ROUS, MOULDINGS, FRAMES
TnASTCr.K TmASS STANDS. ARTISTS' MATERIALS.
Baby Carriages, Christmas Cards, Stationery, Notions, Flogs, Albums, Toilet Cases, Toy Furniture, Tops and
, ctuicy vjtuuus vt uuucu iu ouicm,
WILL BE SOLD REGARDLESS OF COST !
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- 307 Com
'I St., Salem,
W. 1VL SARGEANT. '
Going Out of Business I
Please call earlv and examine his fine line of Christ
mas toys, fancy notions, mustache cups, fancy cups and
saucers, mush sets, children's tea sets, fancv perfumes, cuff
and collar boxes, toilet sets, work boxes, albums, whisk
brooms, games and children s blocks, rocking horses, drums,
children s trunks, swings, dolls, bird cages, picture irames
and mouldings, frames made to order, croquet sets, doll
buggies, tinware, express wagons, baby buggies, easeis,
feather dusters and baskets of all kinds. He has the
finest line in the city and less room. Please call and look
through before purchasing elsewhere, lor these gooas
must go.
Churchill Sash, Door & Manufacturing Co.
Sash, Doors, Blinds & Mouldings, Turning & Scroll Sawing.
House finishing made to order.
DllX KILN, by whloh we can always keep a full supply of 'seasoned stock of all
InOs. Agricultural Works, Corner of Trade and Hign streets, Salem, Oregon.
New
kinds,
Sash, and Door Factory
Front Street, Salem, Oregon,
The best class of work in our line at prices to compete
with the lowest. Only the best material used.
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AGRICULTURAL REVIEW.
Speaker T. T. Geer of Uio
. Oregon Legislature Sub
mitsa Candid Review.
DOES FARMING PAY.
Dairy Products, What a Hen
Buy, Changes in Farming, Soil
and Climate, Roads, Oregon's
Greatest Need an Increased
Population, Transportation, In
vestments, Crops.
Harritt &. Mclntire
CHURCHILL & BURROUHGS.
Tinners, Plumbers, Gas and Steam Fitters,
Stoves Blacked, Repaired and bet Up.
i 4n.A.n.iiirinAiii.tinA TOO Ohamsketa Stroa
Estimates on all work-In eur line.
ZOO Ohomeketo Street,
-SUCCESSORS TO-
WELLER BROS.
HEAD QUARTERS .FOR RED STAR
STAPH IB MHCT
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At the old Stand, next door to Post Office.
"The Best"
"The Best"
BOOTS 11 SHOES.
Wm. Bwwn & Co.,
231 Commercial Street,
Salem, Oregon.
"The Best." "The Best."
SNOW THE YEAR ROUND
At luu gnemeKeia street.
House - and - Sign - Painting.
S alcm Trad 4 Dray Co. S
t) flee 8
DRAYS AND TRUCKS
always ready for ornera.
ana ueiiver wooo,
coal and lumber. Of-
Utnfn Ht nnnnallAHa.
I em Iron works. Drays and tracts may be foundjthroughout thedayat
tne corner 01 ocaie nnu uouimeiciai .
B. F. DRAKE, Proprietor, T. 6. PERKINS, General Superlnteide.it.
SALEM IRON WORKS,
SALEM, OREGON.
Manndctures 8TEAM ENGINES. Mill Outfits. Wafcr Wheel Governor, Fruit
Drying Outfits, Traction Engines. Cresting, eta Karm mkcWnery rasas , and reim'red-
General acents and manufacturers of the celebrated Wautotrom l'atent Middlings
Purifier and Keels. Karm machinery made and repaired.
rnwe. T.ATvrF.S' KTTrVES Rnil'hv O. G. Given aro manuS
factured by his brother, A. K. Given, at Lynn, Mass., and
-, m.mnfioi1 in Avnrv rpsnect. None but the best goods
kept in stock. Dongola Goodyear volt ladies' shoo for
62.75.
BREWSTER & WHITE.
Flour, Feed, Hay, Straw and Barley Chop. ,
LOWEST PRICES AND FiEE DELIVEYB
1 C6URT STREET.
Barr
Fetid
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Plumbers and Tinners,
seSty. J&Umatea for Tinning and Plumbing Furnished.
jff GlBBB: 4'
PIANOS, ORGANS,
AND
'MUSICAL XJEMCJTAITDISX,'
P. H. EASTON & CO.,
310 Commercial St, Sal,
J-Iuety fottftMl lor Ulk, receptfoaa, etc
OUR president's message.
The JuuuNAti takes pleasure in
submitting tlio following article
prepared especially for Its columns
by Theodore T. Qeer, n successful
Marlon county farmer. Ho lias
made grain nud stock farming a
specially, being one of the best hog
rnifecrs In all this section. Mr. Geer
Is still a young man, was speaker of
the last legislature and wo call his
review of the farmer's conditions,
wants nml prospects our New
Year's edition president's messsgo.
NO FARTHER WEST.
Tho "star of empire" will not go
west any more. Tho great geo
graphical march which civilization
began 2000 yean ago bus ended and
new conditions are confronting tho
bumau race; tho old question of
"what new country shall I go to" Is
one of the pa9t and id superseded by
that other one, "how can wo best
improve the condition of tho
country where wo are?"
While moat Oregoniaus concur in
the opinion that they have the
most deslrablo section of tho United
States, there are many Imperfections
In our business system which must
bo obvious to all, and which can
be and, no doubt will be, easily
removed in the near future. Civili
zation with all its humanizing In
fluences, is ftS niiuljr'lntrouiihwl In
our institutions and among our peo
ple, as in any portion of our Union,
but many advantages which attend
what raurht bo termed "uu older
civilization," have not yet Identl
fled themselves with our customs
and conditions.
OHEOOK NKEDS IMMIGRATION.
No one objeot will provo so potent
an agency in atiecung n ueBirauio
change as a largely increased popu
lation; this idea Is generally accepted
by our people, though many of our
older farmers, who have "grown up
with the country," who had a
square mile of land given them by
aot of congress or who havo since
acquired largo landed possessions aro
sometimes heard to pay that boards
of Immigration aud kindred organi
zations aro a detriment to tho
country aud that wo hare too many
people already. Such men have
been of Incalculable valuo to man
kind In the great moral and physi
cal heroism which Jed them to con
quer a wilderness aud formed an
empire, and every true citizen will
bow in reverence to, and chival
rously defend their memories wbeu
their work Is dune; but the day of
the powder horn und Kentucky
rifle is gone aud the conditions
which made them necessary will bo
with us no more forever.
IMMIGRATION DESIRED.
In these days of rapid transit,
sharp com ptt It lou aud multiplicity
of organizations, when bargains are
made and contracts concluded by
lightning and when electricity
promised to become tho mysterious
material, binding this world to
the next, it Is tho Isolated com
munlty that takes the place of tho
laggard and pays the freight.
Hence, the more enterprising of
our people see aud acknowledge the
necessity of an Increasing popula
tion and of adopting the best means
of obtaining It.
A a thought drifting out from
this theme I have been asked to
auswer the query, "Are the farmers
of Oregon prosperous?" In the New
Years edition of TJIirJoUKKAt. which
will be largely circulated In the East.
In doing work or this kind I fully
realize the care which should govern
one'a statements, for If one In
dividual should he attracted to
Oreeon by a misrepresentation of
facta, It might result lu lifetime
financial vmck to himself aud
should bean endle'i source of tor.
ment to tbe,wrHer.
OBOOOH VAKKtKO VAVflf
'With the underttandloc tl'tt tola
question applies to it very large ma
jority of Oregon farmers, with iudh
Vidua! exception taU question may
wifely bo rwpoodtd to with a decid
d affirmative, end yt their pros
perity bt be Urgely enhgoefd ty
the application of business princi
ples, somo of which aro within their
reach at present and some of which
are not.
No etato in the Union is situated
farther from the great raanufactur
ing'ecnters of tho country than oure,
and certainly nono other buys bo
olosoly up to 100 per cent, of all tho
manufactured articles that constl.
tuto the necessities of modern lifo.
This eutalls a flnanclal burden
greater than we would suptioso at
flrst though, but results lu sending
hmidrcds of thousnuds of dollars
from the state that should bo kepi at
homo to swell tho "circulating
medium" whloh causes soma of our
dismal friends so much couoeru.
With endless quantities of raw
material and matchless facilities for
mauufacturlUR enterprises, it can
bo but n mere matter of time when
these dlsndvatagcs w.lll bo removed
and this vost per cent, of our earn
ings bo added to our profits with the
additional gain of several thousand
workmen to feed, w ho aro now con
sumpra of farm products lu tho east,
But wo have no right to coraplalu
of this abnormal condition until we
succeed in supplyiug tho market
already open to uJ. Wo farmers are
a queer class of men. Wo will con
gregate In tho cornor grocery these
rainy days aud deuounco every
Known species of monopolist, capital
ist and otherhuninnmoustrosltles.lu
eluding every political party oxtant,
and not ohiy mugulfy our own woes
butulso the errors of all other men
but ourselves. This amusing past
time does us good, and we regard it
aa one of our "inalienable rights."
A FARM KtiS' IKSTITOTK.
I was in Sllverton two weekB ago
attending u farmers' lnsUtuti, and
between sessions several of us wore
sitting In n small store discussing
tho dairy business. One gentleman
who enjoys nothing so much as to
proclaim the farmer's woes, re
marked that there was nothing in
the dairy business in this country
nor lu any other huslness to whloh
the farmer could turn his attention.
Jnst at that moment tho clerk was
walling on a customer who wanted
some cheese, aud as ho cut a fresh
one I asked him if It was otio of
Cranston's (Waldo Hills) cheese,
and was told that it came from
California, aud the additional in
formation followed that Mr, Crans
ton was out of clrecso atfd that for
six mouths of the year California
Highest of all in Leavening Tower. Latest U. S. Gov't Food Report.
RoY&l
Baking
Powder
jmsag
ABSOLUTELY PURE
who are still applying tho brakes
that havo retarded our progress
heretofore. Tho prlmo factor in this
doYolopomont will bonn increased
immigration until our population
reaches one million people. Tho
basis for suoh a commonwealth Is
already hero and well grounded In
tho popular faith. Wo have a combi
nation ofBollandolimato unequaled
ol6ewhero on this continont.
SOIL AND CUMATK.
Men sometimes say derisively,
"why advortlso your climate, people
cant live on climate?" Well thoy
Just can; at least I would rather take
my chances la climate without soil
than with good soil and uo climate.
If western Kansas had tho ollmato
of Oregon It would bo a veritable
Eden, but as it ls,it is little better far
agricultural purposes than rv con
densed sltoo of purgatory.
One year ago last February a
gentleman was in Balom on a visit
from Missouri; the weather waa
warm, tho birds were singing, peaoh
trees woro in blossom and he told
his friends ho must shorten his
visit und go homo to plant his
potatoes; so ho went homo and
found the thormometer registering
13 degrees below zero, and ho lived In
a latitude sovoral hundred miles
south of Oregon.
1IETTEU FARMINCJ.
Pho eastern farmer who comes to
Oregon with means to buy honestly
a homo and brings with him
tho advanced system of farm
ing provalont there can, in my Judg
mcut, easily euhanoo his moans of
comfort by one-half. Wo havo no
blizzards nor sunstrokes here, but
sunshlno and moisture, tho two ele
monta of nature which produoothe
largest posslblo wealth In vegetation,
add to these bcIouco aud tho sum
total or agricultural perfection will
bo reached.
Wo havo excellent facilities for
will supply the Oregon market with I schools, churches, telegraphs, rail
cbecsc.though our hills and pastures
aro today (Christmas) as green as
those of May and Juno.
The shelves of this store wero also
adorned at Intervals with tho frisky
Chicago Hum trhooo oommnrcial ex
plorations aro an absolute terror to
the "calamity shrlekor" who sees no
opportunity for tho Oregon farmer
but to go over tho hills to the poor
house. Every grocery store in
Oregon is stacked with starch in Its
various forms, all Imported from
other Rtates, while thousands of
bushel of potatoes are now lying in
tho ground undug. Tho Portland
market Is Just now supplied with
eggs apd' butter from Iowa in fabu
lous quantities and that, too, wiicn
(hbso commodities bring tho best
prlcts of tho year. Nevertheless,
while our hens are roosting in the
apple trees and the cows hump up
against a straw stack for shelter, we
assemble ourselves together in a
corner grocery and swear vengeance
against our oppressors, whoever
they uro.
POULTRY RUBINKB8.
Thirty years ago my father was
extenblvoly engaged iu the poultry
business In this community. There
was was no market then for
chickens except In Portland, and' I
remember that In tho fall of 1800 he
took a load to that city with n team,
the only means of tratmjtorlatlon In
the "good old times." The round
trip occupied flva days aud tho price
realized was f3 per dozen, Jti tuose
days one lien would pay for hut
little more than one pound of uugar,
For the past two yeara we have sold
our chickens at the farm house door
for ft price often reaching (0 per
dozen. With sugar now selling at
four centa a pound, owing to, recent
beneficent legislation, ft hen will
now buy twelve pounds against one
or two pounds thirty yeara ago be
fore people became ao corrupt aud
dishonest.
TIIH FARMER'S K.VKSIV.
go fur aa the Oregon fturmoT U
concerned ho acema to have no
enemy so inercileui aa tho Iowa
farmer who competai succaufully
with him lu his own niarkcU aud
the railroad companiea which put
freight rates ao low that he can ao
compete. When tho time cornea, as
it surely 1 rapidly coming, that wo
can atop our whining about every
body' hand being turned agalntt
us aud exchange our frowns and
irrowl for srulles and tr!, we
may begin to appreciate the goodly
heritage left to u by the pioneers of
tha '40. If we but only lCglt! to
do for ourselvt what eaeterit
feratra w now doing for u we
would have fesetlcae to theorist aed
ftm hlgh-swindlfig roIutlou
ftgaiaet the "oppr&ors of the
people."
CIUNOE J FAKMIMa.
ThUtaleUJuon the dawn Jug
verge of ahangA in Ju tytXtm o(
farming that will uioukii tba
roads and all other appliances of
modern civilization, but a dense
population, up to a certain limit,
means better schools and churches
aud especially docs it mean better
roads,
UETTKR KOADS NKBDKO.
Denmark, with ft population of
120 to tho square mile, has a system
of publlo roada throughout Its cntlro
domain that amount practically to ft
pavement; to the toamntor there it is
literally true that "December's as
pleosaut as May." It takes people
to mako roads, or elso money, nnd
yet we have n fow meu who, on one
hand, declare that mora peoplo
would be a detriment to tho country,
and on the other, kiok higher than
Hainan was hung if a quarter of n
dollar Is added to their taxes for any
purpose under the uu; aud tho
same meu will force their teams to
Salem during these winter months
throned mud belly deep, and curso
tho road supervisors for being in
competent and lazy i
IMMIGRATION NKHDRD.
For ovory coonomio reason imag
inable, Oregon needs an Increased
population, and tho conditions are
now1 favorable for tho movement to
bcglu. Notwithstanding some of
our citizens arc deposed to growl
about high taxes, it la an Indls
putabio fact that no other atato has
a government aa economically ad
ministered as purs. Tho legislative,
executive and Judicial depurtmonts
(rforni their respective dullea for
less remuneration than can bo found
In any other state, while the general
character of our legislation la safe
and wholesome,
OL'K RAILROAD LAW.
Tho last legislature enacted ft rail
road law similar to tho one now ao
successfully In operatlou In Iowa,
and jt now only nt with the
courts to say whether the farmers
shall have Justice an to the matter of
miuoed freight rate. The Jegl.
lature has done IU duty In the
matter, and It cannot he doubted
(be Judiciary will ho true to the
Interests of the nuuw of tho people,
an Qran RIVER.
When the attention of congr
shall bo turned to the neceasity of
making a navigable stream of the
Willaruetto river during tho entire
year, which cau be done by a renaoH
able appropriation for that purpose,
tho farmer of thla Motion of the
state will be mote Independent than
the average national banker. When
I wa a boy, I rwMfiber, boat ued
to run to HarrloUirg during the
grefttfrf part of each year, The. chang
iageurreuts of theiutervenftig yeara,
with (tepoatUBff Bd Imuw aud ana,
have reidei ttvlttoo
oua aud eyes impmuJAq lu grwU
part of the river during ct of wwh
yrvr The fartnora ot thb eetloj
know only too well the ruwsita
extortion of the rUle4 twufWHkw
M to tho frhlpfJ polflUl Wfe
mvlffaUow m 1M tfvr fom m
competition. With an "open river",
which would mako tho port ofYa
qulna accessible tho year round and
n competitor not ouly with existing
railroad lines, but with Portland
and Astoria, tho condition of tho
Willamette valley farmers would bo
Improved by nearly onivhalf with
out further delay. The importance
of this matter cannot bo overesti
mated, nnd it cannot bo doubted
that In tho near future congressional
aid may bo expected,
INVESTMENTS.
Thero Is no field in the United
States which promises a greater re
ward for Investments In the various
lines of human labor than Oregon.
I do not refer to those who would
arrive hero penniless or nearly so,
but to that large class who could
como in a condition to buy a hotiM
and "grow up with tho country."
STAI'LK PRODUCTS.
The three btaple articles of htm
produce In this state are wheat, oate,
aud hops, all of which reach beo
Iuto perfection. Durlug six month
of tho past year, wheat has sold for
from 80 to 00 cents per bushel; oats
55 nnd GO cents, and hops 35 to 40.
I am not one who claims that all
farmers aro prosperous, but with the
forcgolug prices prevalent, tho farm
er who is uot doing fairly well, must
necessarily lay tho fault elsewhere
than on somo persistent outside
onomy. Whore so many farmers
aro prosperous, tho one who falls
behind can usually discover tho
causo in somo characteristic peculiar
to tho farm Itself,
co-opkratioN.
Wo need each other's advice, ooaa
scl and help, legislative and other
wise, and to remember that no hmr
1$ so great uu enemy to our calling
as he who ignores all the facte awl
seeks to dlecourage we atvdourtf
by holding before eur vWoa He pic
ture hut one of destruction, decay
aud death. In IU onward mweli
agriculture has tnb bright a prospect
to listen to the croaker, and it Jeett
lies a hope that cannot afford to
entertain or foeter the fear of an Im
pending calamity too awful to eott
template. URriilin'n nuno
It Is gratltylug to know that th
farmora of Oregon are "getting
move on them" whloh hide Mr to
leavo tho professional agitator with
out a calling, Unteen he hi sup
pressed, another genortlo will tee
no boya on tho farm hecauea the
gospol of gloom is ovrtn uioro repell
ing In Its Influences when applied to
agriculture than to theology.
I believe wo aro tho salt of ibe
cdrtii and tho fullucss thereof, nil ft
Judicious combination of Jntellieitee,
Industry and economy, wiW be
adorned with crown of proafHMrUy
and happiness. T. T. Qmm.
The New Wmwy.
You have hrd your frlemta aud
neighbor talking about, it. You
may yourself be one of the numy
who know from personal expervHiee
Just how good a thing k to. If yew
have ever tried it, you are ote w Ha
suunoh friend, because the wonder
ful things about it to, that wbeu
once given ft trial, Dr. King' New
Discovery over after hold v pte la
the house, If you never used it (i4
should bv aflflotcd with h cough,
cold or uy throat, lung or eheefe
trouble, secure a bottle at ooe watt
givo it n fair trial. It la guanHitoed
every time, or money refunded.
Trial bottle free at Fry'a drugstore,
22& Commercial struct.
Thero aeema to bo a era, a-moa
Willamette valley boya lately to ruft
away, uumcroiw cases havlug been
reported of youngetew with Wg
visions starting out to seek ttodr
fortunes, Albany had awch a ea
Tuesday. JIarry Pollock, a 18-ih
old boy, took the noon train fat tto
north for fluid green aud paetoxa
new, His father lrited ef the
affair and telegraphed to Stdew,
when) the hoy w stopped and
turned to Albany,
William Murray, of gbaeto, Uu!
was followed one night tort wk
for two tulles through the w0V to
a huge panther, Murray wa
luckily provided with a taptew,
and the light, probably, to all Um
kept tho panther from wakluif a
attach. When wlthlu a few yn!
of town the fuuither gave un
earthly yell and dfeappeaNMi, Tfc
animals aro aa-ld to he wwiMeaam la
thevMnlly of Jhat.
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