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EVENING CAPITAL JOURNAL. In n. miSSHHs . i i jAu mimmm.mmmiAm VOIi. 5. "THE PEOPLE'S PAPER." wSALEM, OREGON, SATTTRDAT, JAISTUARY 23, 1892. "TO-DAY'S JSTEWS TO-DAY." NO. 10. $100.00 In Casri to be Given Away. NO LOTTERY SCHEME. NO RAFFLE, But a Straightforward Donation of $100.00 in Cash to our Customers. With each Dollar's worth of goods purchased for Cash at our store, we will give a Cash Coupon, good for Five Cents in Cash, and when One Dollar's worth, or twenty of these Coupons are presented to our store by any one persou, we will cash them, paying One Dollar in Silver for same. We want everybody to take advantage of tins grand donation. We are headquarters for all goods in our line, and our prices are "rock bottom." Come and see us and bring your friends and neighbors. Ask for a "Cash Coupon with your purchase. T. McF. PATTON, 98 State Street, Salem, Oregon. E Mens' Dress Shoes $1 45 Mens' Plow Shoes 1 15 Mens' Heavy Boots 1 95 Mens' Rubber Boots 2 25 161 Commercial Street. Harntt SUCCESSORS TO- WELLER BROS. -HEAD QUARTERS OOZMiSlESIO STAPLE MB MM MM At the old Stand, next door to Post Office. We To say that people who patronize ns save money in all lines, but especially on 1 N !l t I I 1 a JJlJU11ijli1l1IiUi We are not in the trust and no combine makes our prices. We buy all stock and supplies of the manufac turies and supply work at the lowest living prices. 1 8 years experience. A. B. BUREN & SON. OMETHING NEW! AT Pioneer Grocery Store. (Established in 1857.) Having done a large credit business, for the last 34 years, and, as times have changed, making it necessary to sell groceries at a very low margin, I propose to adopt a new plan, commencing on January 1, 1892, and sell for CLSXHC OIffX.'Y,5 AT BEDROCK PRICES. NO MORE CREDIT, A general slaughter on crockery, imported china ware, glassware, lamps, etc As I have an immense stock of this line to arrive in March and April, I am compelled to make room by closing out the present stock. Now is the time for the Indies to replenish their houses in this Hue, while they can get bargains. All knowing themselves Indebted to me aro requested to call ami set tle ou the first of the year. JOHN G. WRIGHT, 227 and 229 Commercial St. Barr i Hi ) m 247 Commercial street, Salem. Garden Hose nnd Lawn Bprlnklera. A complete linn of Stoves and Tiuware, Tin roofing and plumblug a seecialty. Estimates for Tiuning and numbing Furnished. You can get the latest MUSIC, Finest Line of Pianos, Organs, Banjos, Violins, Guitars and Mandolins. LOWEST PRICES - AT - i EASTON'S, ANEW DEPARTURE!: SOMETHING FOR NOTHING!: F. OSBXJRN -CAN SAVE YOU Boots, Shoes THE FOLLOWING IS A inm inn Chilli u FOR RED STAR- "JELA.S'S.. THE - Undertake Plumbers and Tinners 8IO Ooromarolat Strt. Qnd tor Catalogue KJIKB MONEY ON- and Rubbers.; FEW OF HIS PBICES: Ladies' Calf Shoes Ladies' Fine Shoes Childrens Shoes Misses' Shoes HE RACKET nnTri for Infants "Castorlats bo well adapted to children that I recommend It as superior to any prescription fcnown to me." H. A. Ancnrn, 1L 0., Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. "The use of Castoria' is so universal and its merits so well known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it Few aru the intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach." Caioos Mirtyk, D.D , New York City. Late Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church. Tmt CiNTAun Churchill Sash, Door & Manufacturing Co JSash, Doors, Blinds & Mouldings, Turning & Scroll Sawing. House Finishing made to order. New DRY KILN, by which we can always keep a full supply of seasoned stock of all kinds. Agricultural Works, Corner or Trade and lllgn streets, Salem, Oregon. 3E&J& Sash and. Door Factory Fronti Street, Salem, Oregon. Tho best class of work in our line at prices to compote with the lowest. Only the best material used Salem Truck & Dray ft. lem Iron works. Drays and trucks may be foundjtbroughout the dav at tho coruwr of State and Commercial streotn. I). F, DRAKE, Proprietor. T. G. PERKINS, General Superintendent, SALEM IRON WORKS, SALEM, -.----- OREGON. Manufoctures HTEAM ENGINES. Mill Outfits, Water Wheel Governor, Fruit Dryltiu Outrun, Tratllou.Kngl lies. Cresting, etc. Karm machinery made and repaired. General agents and manufactures of the celebrated Wahlstrom J'uteut Middlings Purifier and Heels. Farm machinery niadt and repaired. REMOVED ! an enlarged stock and Is offering his customers, old and now, greater bargains than ever. Bopairlug a specialty. BREWSTER & WHITE. Flour, Feed, Hay, Straw and Barley Chop. LOWEST PRICES AND FREE 1)1 COUItT STREET. M. L. CHAMOEltlilN, O. M. 8MITJI, President. Hecretary. It M. BHANHON, GEO. II. BOUUKItr, Vice 1'rciident. Treasurer. UNION TITLE ADSTltACH CO. 275 Commercial Htreet. Makes the neatest and best Abstracts in the country. THE WILLAMETTE, BALEM, OBEGON. Hates, $2.50 to $5.00 per Bay. Ilia best botel between Portland aadBan Francisco. Klrst-dass In all 1U appoint, menu. Its tables are served with the Choicest Fruits drown in the Willamette Valley. A, !, WAGNER, Prop. . - v ( 3 $1 15 .'' 1 45 35 1 00 STORE. and Children. Cattorla cures Collo, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Kructatlon, Kills Worms, elves sleep, and promotes d gestlon. Without Injurious medication. " For soveral Tears I have recommended your ' Castoria, ' and shall always conUnuo to uo so as is aas mvariaoiy proaucea ocneuciai results," Edwin F. Paiidbb, M. D., "Tho Winthrop," 123th Btreet and 7th Are., New York City Comvurr, 77 MunnAT Btreet, Nbw Yon. DRAYS AND TRUCKS always ready for orders. Sell and deliver wood, hay, coal aud lumber, Of fice State 6t..onnosltoria O. G. GIVEN, THE CASH SHOE Dealer has removed to 289 Com mercial street, one door north of Gilbert & Patterson, whero ho has DELIVEYR E. O. CROSS, Butcher and Packer, FUt8t. nndCourt;Bt.Th best meat delivered to all parts of tbecltr. DUGAN BROS' Plumbing and Heatiag Co., Wholesale and retail dealer.ln STEAM AND USING GOODS. V9 Commercial street, 1elepaonNo,W, THE CAPITAL JOMAl. ilOFER BROTHERS, Editors, UU1JSUKD DAILY. KX.CK1T8UNDAY, BT TITS Canital Journal Publishing Company. (Incorporated.) Office, Commercial Btreet, in P. O. Building Lntercd at tko postofflce at Balem, Or., ns peccnd-clnfs iratt(r. CONG11E83IONAI. KXTltAVAOANCE. It costs about $75 000 a session in congress for committee clerks, uiauy of whom never draw a ppn. They get about $1800 each for u session. In the present congress an eflort was made to cut them oil' but tho committee in charge reported back the usual uutnbur. Tho minority reported tho following facts: "From auv inspection of the re ports made wo ilnd that the com mittee on expenditures in the slate department and tho committee on public buildings have made uo re port to this houso on any subject within the last six years, and they have had clerks at a cost of 15400 each, or $10,800. "The committee on expenditures in tho department of agriculture has never mado a report. It' has had a clerk at a cost of $1800. "The committee on expenditures in the war department has only two reports in six years, at a. cort for clerks of $5400. "The committee on expenditures in the navy department has only made one report in six years, at on expense of $5400. "The commHte on expenditures in the postolllco departmout Iiuh made but two reports in six years; its clerks have cost $5100. "The committee on expenditures in the department of Justice has made five reports in six years, at a co3t for clerks of $5400. 'Thc committee on the militia has made six repoits In six yeais, tit a mat rf $5400 (none in tho lift -first COIli;lM). "The committee ou alcoholic liquor traflla has made seven lepoits i'i eix yiars, at a e st of $5400. "Tho oomniltleu on tho revision of tho laws has made seven reports in six yeard (only one in the fifty-first coutrees) ul a cost of $5400. "The crmniitlte on ventilation and acoustics has mado four reports in six years, two of them being theoretical discussion of the subject of alr ships,' at a cost of $5400." The committees on mikage, mines aud mining have no work for n clerk, but have ouo just the same. If this congress will break the road and abolihh this leading Item of extiavugance it will merit the thanks of the people, as two-thirds of tho clerks employed are enjoying a mere slneeurc. WHAT WII NEi;i). Tin: Journal transportation platform is meeting with great approval in Bepublican and Demo cratic papers. For convenient ref erence wo reprint it the third time: First Government appropriations to opeu and keep opon the Willa mette and Columbia. Second Free locks at Oregon City, owned and controlled by tho state, aud all back dues converted to the school fund. Third A second stato portage railway, to bo built iu 1602 ut Tho Dalles, owned and operated by the state. Fourth A free pilot system on the Columbia, controlled by tho state. Fifth Btate control nnd regula tion of lailroad frclghte. By discusslug these propositions and emphasizing tbelr-lniporlanee and absolute necessity, the reform eltmcnts of the slate can gain the ear of tho politicians sufficiently pel haps to havo ono or more of these propositions carried Into the ptotfoims and thus becomo a polit ical issue and eutuio their enact ment into laws. F.ut.tir,i:s ani politic. The Lane county granges and Alliances havu held a convention and ufckcd each political party to place In nomination for tho edicts of county Judge, commissioner aud Jeglslaturelmeu who aro iu sym pathy with tho farming interests of the stale. Tho convention die claimed all intention of taking any political action by the organizations reprete uted. It stems to us this is a proper course to pursuo and tho fanners' organizations till over tho statu should emphasize tho impor tance of tbo offices above referred to. A writer In an exchange says this. The Farmers' Alliance, wherever it has (rained a foothold, seems tolly the track completely, and instead of having to those who think, the task of governing aud framing laws, they orgaulzo tliemselvod into a committee of tho whole and under take to regulate national bunks, (he turlir, tho sliver question, in fact the government, coiupldtely luting sight of tho fact that they are farmers. This is u uico pleco of Imperil uenoo. To say (he Icatt, farmers are as uipable ut thinking and as u rule do think as much and as straight, m the average city politician. VANTKOAN IIPK" KIVRU CO' aitftisIATf. Evidently lion. H. B. Miller, of Grout's IW, l still listening to tln W merry buzz of the congressional bumblebee; for, according to a Hose burg paper, he has bought an organ, the Oakland Observer, nnd is going to move It to his town to voice the roaring of his boom. Tho volco will be about iu proportion to the boom, neither long nor loud. A paper that is a personal organ Is not flt to read, nnd a man that needs a personal organ is not flt for a con gressman .Telegram, An orgau will do Mr. Miller little gocd. What is wanted Is a repre sentative in congress who can realize tho existence of tho Willamette valley nnd who will not barter oft tho interests of the richest region containing n majority of tho popu lation for a few town-lot specula tions with no commerce whatever. This district has not any ubo for a mete substitute for Mr. Hermann, SUOGlCSTKl) COMMENT. Brokiuolc and cinch parties aro tho rage at Boseburg. Eugeuo has offered $3000 to get a cracker factory located there. Salem ''should havo a block of good broken rock pavement to test tho matter. The last issue of the Cathollo Sentinel is very worthily devoted to tho lato Cardinal Manning. In addition to other attractions as a world's fair city Chicago now advertises beer at lOcts a gallon. Tho Dalles Chronicle thinks tho Oregonlan hates Christianity. But thnt still gives tho Oregonlan tho benefit of a doubt. Dr. Harvey Lauo has been ap pointed guardian of Vera, minor child of tho late George Haynes, who leaves an estato of $20,000. Boad supervisors in Benton coun ty receive small pay tweuty-threo getting $200 or on average of less than $13 each, and one getting nothing. Capital is being organized to bust tho whisky nnd clgorette trusts, but 1b not enlisting the moral sympathies of tho country to any alarming degree. A bunoli of Uncle Bam'a flve thoupand ton warships in Chilian linrbois would havo a consoling effect upon the nerves of patriotic Americans at least. The JouitNAii arguments for a special scfslon as tho only way to get Tho Dalles portngo railway built iu 1802 have not been answered, and aro endorsed even by Democratic papers. Eugene Begister: Whdo other counties havo paid exhorbltaut prices for steel booths, Lauo county will get a good, convenient solltnlro box at about one-fourth tho prlco paid by other counties. Multnomah county has rejected all bids for voting booths aud will havo the supervisors mako plain, cheap booths, that it Is beliovcd will aiiHwer all tho purposes of tho now election law cqoaliy with the more exponsivo kinds, A Benton county paper says: Tills has been a favorable winter for stockmen. Cuttlo havo been graz ing ou tho hillsides all winter and keeping fat on green grass, nnd tho indications arc they will need no other feed this winter. Powderly calls tho people's atten tion to tho fact that tho Chinese exclusion act expires next May. Mr. Powderly's appeal to tho American workiugmen to immedi ately petition congress for a reuewal of tiio law excluding Chinese from this countty, will not go unheeded. Gross receipts $30,843, net profit $12,004 80. Thnt Is Secretary Mit chell's very flattering showing for tho Portland exposition of 1801, Whon it Is considered that nucli en terprises aro nearly everywhere ou tho wane, tho results for 1801 aro cer tainly encouraging and a credit to Mr. Mitchell. A Camus Valley Donglass county, correspondent says: "It has be come almost Impossible to hold pub lic meetings of any klud, religious and nthcrwiso, Young men aud boys filled with bad whisky, come into tho house and break up reli gious services or go to the timber near by and howl und swear so as to make It Impossible for tho minister to proceed." The editor of tho Salem JouitNAb nsl.s why lie should not bo per mitted to act like u fool V Consider ing his splendid achievements In that line, wo glvo It up. Boseburg Bevlew. Such request would bo absurd and entirely superfluous In the case of tho Boseburg editor who arrogates to himself the right of making a fool of himself all tho year around, A Clatsop county paper complains ut tho total tax of twenty and nine tenth mill, $148,067. It Add this: "That Is in addition to the city tax aud the district tax and tho school district tax and the poll tax aud the fHoeuimcntji for other purposes. It Reyai Balling tVw'dor a is Sspenoa to Every Other d The United States Official " Investigation Of Baking Powders, recently made, mider authority of Congress, by the Department of Agriculture, Washing ton, D. C, furnishes the highest auf.horitative informa tion as to which powder is the best. The Official Report Shows the ROYAL to be a cream of tartar baking pow der, superior to all others in ' leavening power u). is an imposition on tho community and whilo it is ono thing to levy It is quite another to collect it. "This foolishness might as well stop now as any time." Thcro Is a general rebellion at high taxes iu a number of counties. Tho "Twlce-n-Week" St. Louis Bepublio coutalns nioro and fresher news than auy weekly paper pub lished, iu America. It is issued each Tuesday nud Friday, and consists of from fourteen t,o sixteen pages every week, yot tho price Is only ono dol lar a year. It is tho leading Demo cratic paper ot the country, and haB a Special Tar I IV Department, edited by Hon. Wm. L. Wilson, M. C. It will bo indispensable during tho gicat political campaign of 1802. Send for free samplo copy to Tho Bepublio, St. Louis, Mo. Thousands of soldiers would havo purchased tho memoirs of theso his toric captains when published had tho prlco been placed at a reasonable figure. There is nn opportunity, however, ns "Tho Cosmopolitan Magazine" has purchased 000,000 volumes of tho members In tho ori ginal subscription editions, bound In greon and gold cloth, and is almost giving them away In con nection with a subscription to that popular magazine Not only should members of tho Grand Army bo In terested in tho Older, hut every man aud woman In the country who Is at all up to tho times will bo Inter ested In theso books, Tho writers are dead; tho memoirs can never be rewritten. They contain tho per sonal history of tho great commnud ers, and form an indispensable part of tho history of tho country. No library, private or public, large or little, Is comploto without thorn. If you aro Hot acquainted with tho Magazino, scud at onco for a free samplo copy to tho Cosmopolitan Publishing Co., Mudison Square, Now York City. ' I'ronoanccd Hopeless, Yet Saved. From a letter written hjMra. Ada E. Hurd, of Greton, S. lT?wo quete: "Was taken with a bad cold, which settled on my lungs, cougu Botlu aud finally terminated lu consump tion. Four doctors gave mo up, say ing I could llvo but a short time. I gave myself up to my Saviour, de termined if I could not stay with my frleuds on earth, I would meet my absent ones above. My husband was advised to get Dr. lung's Now Descovory for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, I gave It a trial, took In all, eight bottles; it has cured mo. and thank God I urn now a well and hearty womau." Trial bottlo freo at Daniel J. Fry's drugstore, legular size, 60o. aud $1,00, ha (Jrinpo. Tho tondonpy of this dlscoso to ward pneumonia Is what makes it dungorous, La Grippe requires pre cisely tho samo treatment as nsovero cold. Chamberlain's Cough Bemedy is fumoiiH for Its cures of sovero colds. This remedy eflectually counter acts tho tendency of tho dlseaso to result Iu pneumonia, provided that proper euro ho taken to avoid ex posure when recovering from tho at tack. Careful Inquiry among the many thousands who havo used this remedy during tho epidemics of the past two yeurs haa failed to discover a single caso that has not recovered or that has resulted in pneumonia. 60 cent and $1 bottles for sale by G. E. Good, druggist. That tired, languid feeling and dull head- aohe is very (llsugroeablt). Take two ot Carter's Utile Liver I'll Is before retiring and you will ilnd relief. They never full vo uo guou. They nuke one feel as though Ufa wm worth living;, Take one of Cur tar's Little Mvor I'I lis oner eating; It wilt relieve dysiepkU( aid digestion, give tone und vigor to the system, You oardly reullto thst It U medicine, whan talftiif. f..luJ. f.ltff.. 1 Iu... Mill... they re rery small: no hod eilecU; nit troublt-a from torpid liver are relieved by their use. For (he Children. "Jn buy lug a cough medicine for Children," says II. A. Walker, a prominent druggist of Ogdcn, Utah, "never bo afraid to buy Chamber lain's Cough Bemedy. There Is no danger from it nnd relief Is always sure to follow. I particularly recom mend Chamberlain's because I have found It to be safe and reliable. 60 cent bottles for sale by O, K. Goode, druggist. .associated Press Reptrt aid Digests of all Important News ot Te-Day. MISCELLAM. MOBH DETAILS OP THB HOSPITAL 11UHNINC1, Indianavolib, Jau. 23. There were 240 patients and thirty nurses sleeping in tbo two four-Btory build ings iu which tho institute is located, In imminent dauger of tholr lives. Tholr rescue, tho light with the flumes and final recovery of tho dead children make a story rarely paralleled. Among tho many thrill ing experiences was that of Mrs, . D. Purdy, who, with her little daughter, slept on an upper floor. She had only tlmo to throw a quilt over tho crippled child and escape Into tbo hall in her night robe. Boo dragged hor llttlo girl about seventy flvo feot to tho head of tho staircase, mado her way half way down the steps leading to the third floor, when sho lost her balance and fell. The mother and ahlld were found on tho lauding shortly after by John Gavin, who picked up the child, while a traveling man took Mrs. Purdy. Theso men fought their way out with their burden through the smoke aud crowd. Mrs. Purdy aud tho child will recover. At least 125 persons were taken from tho windows by firemen and carried to an adjoining storeroom. At Weddoll's restaurant, where eovonty or eighty of them were taken, tho sight presented, as one entered and looked upon the Indis criminate gathering of the suffering cripples, many of them maddened by tho pain of burns and anxious for friends, was ono that almost de fied description. Spread on the tablo were llttlo children, crying, coughing, their faces blanched with pain, thoir lungs sore with pungent smoke thoy had Inhaled. William Kimball, a young man, both of whoso logs are crippled, aaki: "I was sleeping on the fourth floor. I awoke with a sense ef strangula tion. From less than a foot above my luce up to tho celling was a dense uiossof smoko. I Just rollsd out of bed. I could not move about with my braces, so I took them off, lying curled up on my sldo. It was so hot I thought I was going to die. I culled ad loud as I could. "Help holp, hero, 00 1 Just then there was tho crash of a door, and a big color ed man foil over me. He picked ins up, dashed through tho hall, aud down tho stairways and brought tee hero. God knows I am thankful." One of the most pitiful cases was that of a little 8-year-old child, Ethel Piatt, duughter of James H. Piatt, of Plukuoy vllle, 111, Ltttk Ethel was fouud its bed on the third floor, hulf strangled with smoke, aud helpless from spinal trouble, Wrnpiod lu a blanket, she was taken up In the arms of a rlremau, carried down to tho next floor, through tho denso smoke, aud past tho roaring flames to a window, and, as tho crowd gathered below and extended their arms, she was thrown out of the window. With a broken leg she was taken across Illinois, street, placed ou a table and covered with blankets. She urTwd des perately, and frequently wrwUsMd out In great agony. Lazarus Stearns, of Dubuque, la., a helpless cripple, Jay ou a ld, aud yelled for aid. The Mrs burned through a partition at the foot of the bed, and he bcasaetnoonelous. When rescued It was fcwud his limbs weroso bacUy iNMraed that ttw flesh burst Muaifaf. What started tt Mm is not talnly knows, but It Impn I Ih olUce or th secretary abets said night. The mm t4 with atMazlsg rapWity, atwl aeon ktvoivod both tHiikttafti. The scans is QrHKth'srwIwiraat, at the Grand Hotel ami Mm W4dU house, whew tkwluj m& fcsvd baton taken, was yery mi. 8eft aftor 0