DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL.
SALEM' OREGON EBlDAY. JULY 1, I8!T.
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STATEMENT,
Anual Export Statement.
Over One Billion More Export
Than Import.
Washington, July 10. The annual
statement of imports and exports of
the United States, issued by the
bureau of statistics, makes the re
markable showing that never before
In the history of the country have the
exports of merchandise, which in
cludes practically all the exports ex
cept gold and silver, reached so high
a figure as during the fiscal year end
ding June 30, 1897, nor has the excess
of exports over imports ever been so
large. The only time these ligures
were approached was in 1892, when
the United States was making heavy
shipments of grain to Europe, to feed
the people suffering from deficient
harvests. The statement of 1897,
with comparisons, is as follows:
ExportsNof domestic merchandise,
$1,032,098,770, an increase over 1890 of
about 8170,000,000.
Total exports of domestic and for
eign merchandise, $1,051,897,091, as
compared with $982,000,938 for 1890.
The total imports of merchandise
during the fiscal year just closed
amonuting to $704,373,903, of which
$381,932,005 was free of duty. The
total imports were about $15,350,000
less than last year, and the excess of
exports over imports for the year was
$287,013,180.
This is an excess of about 8185,000,-
000 over last year, and an excess of
about $23,000,000 over any previous
year.
The exports of gold, including ores,
for the fiscal year 1897 amounted to
$40,359,780, as compared with $112,409,-
447 for 1890. A ,
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$85,013,575, an incease of about $51,
500,000 oyer 1890.
The exports of silver during 1897
amounted to $01,940,038, and the im
ports $20,533,227.
The excess of gold imports over ex
ports therefore was $44,053,795, and the
excess of silver exports over imports,
$31,413,411. Never before has the sil
ver movement, both export and im
port, reached so high a figure.
International Conference.
London, July 10. A joint proposal
of bimetallism was presented on be
half of the United States and France
at a conference held at the foreign
ofllce between Baron De Courcelle,
the French ambassador, representing
France; Ambassador Day, Senator
"Wolcott, former Vice-President Ste
venson and General Paine, represent
ing the United States; Lord Salisbury
Sir Michael nicks-Beach, chancellor
exchequer, and A. J. Balfour, first
lord of the treasury, representing
England, and Lord George Hamilton,
nccretary, secretary of state for India,
representing India. The proposals,
after some discussion, were taken un
der advisement, and the British cabi
net will give its answer at a subse
quent conference.
It is reported that an International
money conference will be summoned
probably to meet in the United States
with Great Britain participating. All
the delegates will be un-lnstructed
with regard to ratio, although it is
well known that the United States
favors 10 and Franco 15 to 1.
According to yesterday's report
England's participation would mean
the re-opening of the Indian mints,
and there is a prospect of some con
cessions as to the Bank of England's
reserve and silver certificates.
Stuart's Attractions.
Carson City, New. July 10. Dan
Stuart writes to his Carson agent
from Chicago that he has signed
Sharkey and Mahcr, and McCoy and
Creedon for the fistic carnival In Car
son this fall, and has four other fights
in view, which, he says will be
"corkers," but mentions no names.
CUBA,
Gomez Invasion of Havana,
Insurgents Marching on Havana
Reports Suppressed.
New York, July 10. A Herald dis
patch from Havana says.
The Invasion of Havana province
by Insurgent forces on their march
westward is now an accomplished
fact. The local papers are prohib
ited from publishing even accounts or
"olllclal" victories in that province,
the subject being to discredit the
news of activity. General Weyler
may suppress news, but lie cannot
conveniently hide wounded soldiers,
and these keep coming in.
The Herald correspondent at
Matanzas writes that Colonel Alyarcz
Armandez, with 70 men, was com
pletely routed July 11, near Jaguey
Grande by the Insurgent, General
Carillo. The Spanish lost 20 killed
and about the same number wounded.
During the fight 25 of the Spaniards
deserted and went over to the In
surgents. A report Is current and generally
believed In Matanzas that the -Insurgents
have attacked and partially
burned Cardenas. There arc fully
500 rebels In the vicinity of Matanzas
and Cardenas.
General Weyler has not .ucceeded
In capturing Gomez.and has evidently
given up the Idea, for he has left
Sanctl Splrltusand Is now at Clen-
fuegos on his way back to Havana.
SPAIN and japan.
London. July 10. A Paris dispatch
to a newspaper here says that inquiry
at the American embassy there has
elicited the confirmation of the rumor
that the governments of Spain and
Japan have arranged an offensive alli
ance against the Uoitcd States The
terms of the undertaking, which is for
the mutual protection of Cuba and
Hawaii, provides that, in the event of
an aggressive action ot the part of the
United States tending toward inter
ference in Cuban affairs or persistence
in the annexation of the Hawaiian is
lands, both Spain and Japan shall de
clare was simultaneously against the
United States, and shall make hostile
demonstrations along both the Atlan
tic and Pacific coast lines of that
country.
Must Break Rock.
Kansas City, July 10.The order
of the police commissioners, of Kan
sas City, Kan., that women prisoners
must work on the stone pile along
with the men, has caused a great
commotion, and has not yet been put
into effect. Perhaps it may never be.
The Current Event club, an organiza
tion of women, has expressed -Itself as
immeasurably shoe ked and has called
an (Indignation meeting to protest
against the "threatened disgrace and
degradation of womanhood."
The members threaten that the
enforcement of the order means the
retirement of the police" commisllon
ers from office at the first opportu
nity, and as women vote in Kansas
municipal elections, the threat is not
regarded as altogether an Idle one
and may have Its desired effect. Their
principal objection to the rock-pllo
plan is that part of the order compels
the women to work without skirts
and to wear overalls Instead.
The police, of this city, stand by
their order and say that the first
women prisoners, whose fines are not
paid will go on the rock pile.
Death at the Stake.
Florence, Ala., Julylfl. A negro
named Anthony Williams, who out
raged andjwurdered Miss Bene "Wil
liams, an 18-year-old white girl,' at
West Point, Tenn., was captured in
this county. A mob has started back
to West Point with tho negro, and
proposes to burn him at tho .stake on
the scene of ibis crime. It will take
them three hours to reach West Point.
Five hundred men with bloodhounds
have been on his trail.
TRANS-MISSISSIPPI CONGRESS.
W. J. Bryan at Utah Convention
Proceedings. Salt Lake, Utah, July lO.-Thc
Trans-Mississippi congress was called
to order with a large audience In the
galleries, and delegates' scats well
filled. Tho large attendance was due
to the fact that Hon. W. J. Bryan,
president of tho congress, was expected-
to bo present. Besolutions
were introduced and referred as fol
lows: By tho California delegation,
Instructing the secretary of war to
take immediate steps toward work on
San -Pedro narbor; by cx-Govcrnor
Prince of New Mexico, urging the
admission to statehood of the terri
tories of New Mexico, Arizona, and
Oklalioma;by Keller,of North Dakota,
fayoring the government taking con
trol of the Uriton PacluVand Central
Pacific railroads.
The regular order of the day, mines
and mining, was then taken up.
Tirey L. Ford, of California, read a
lenghty paper on the "Necessity for
establishing a department of mines
and mining.1' He was followed by
Judge Royal, of California, on the
same subject.
At this point W. J. Bryan entered
the hall and was grccled with the
wildest enthusiasm. Black, of Cali
fornia, then moved that three cheers
be irlvcn for Bryan, which the latter
said was out of order, but the cheers
were given, nevertheless.
Bryan, in taking the chair, said it
was a matter of great regret that he
was not able to be here earlier, but he
knew the congress had been ably pre
sided oyer by Messrs. Whitmorc and
Craig. He said he was fully in accord
with the movements of this congress,
which represented the great empire of
the West. There were numerous mat
ters in which this section was partic
ularly interested In, and that was one
of the reasons why the congress had
met here for an interchange of views
on tho matter, arui, another reason
was that the transMississippl states
were part of this ureat nation and in
terested in everything of national
Importance. They bad a right to se
cure everything which would tend to
their advancement, but did not desire
to do so at the expense of another
part of the country. The more he
traveled over this vast region tho
greater it seemed.
Touching upon Irrigation, he In
dulged in a little pleasantry by say
ing Democrats had! found out that
water was very Important, especially
In this part of the country. Ho felt
more and more hopeful of the future
of this western couitry, and it was
not beyond the ranre of possibility to
see millions of people Hying in the
fertile valleys of tie West.
Bryan concluded by saying:
"We will reach a people In the
great West that wll stand for Amer
ican liberty and American progress."
After the speeel Bryan was pre
sented with a magnificent bouquet by
Mrs. Warren, delegate from Colorado.
The regular order5 of business was
then again taken ip.
Bryant, of Loulafana, Introduced a
long resolution on tho subject of en
larging the channel of the Mississippi
river, and urging congress to take ac
tion In that direction.
Ben C. Wright, of San Francisco,
read a paper on "alio Contrlbntion of
the Western Stafes to the Gold and
Silver of the Country."
T. M. Pattersoniof Colorado, chair
man of the icsolutjon committee, re
ported the follwlng resolutions,
which had been amroyed by the.com
mittcc: Favoring annexation of Ha
waii, favoring obstruction of the
Nicaragua canali expressing sympa
thy for the cause f Cuban Indcpend
ence; providing fc a national board of
arbitration, and fr fostering the beet
sugar Industry. Tje congress adopted
all these resolution excepting those
referring Hawaii and Cuba, which
were made a specif order for the eve
ning. 1
The First OAn-Last evening the
first car of fruit frou Western Oregon
left for Chicago. ;t was shipped by
tho Oregon Fruit ind Produce Co,
W?If ome to Y. P. C. E.
Forty Train loads Are Passing
Through
OREGON'S CAPITAL CITY
From San Francisco Enroute
- East.
Banquetted With Luscious Fruits of
Western Oregon.
A Car-Load of Plums Are Given
Away.
Literature to Advertise Oregon and
"Capital Journals" Free.
A few more excursion trains of the
national Christian Endeavor conven
tion passed through Salem today, en
route for their homes In the cast, and
tomorrow a dozen , moro trains will
pass through. These people aro all
highly pleased with Oregon, and
especially with Salem, the capital
city. Hundreds of them get off -on tho
platforms and talk with the people.
One man from Maryland remarked
today, "this country looks better to
me than anything we have seen since
crossing tho Missouri river." An
lowt man remarked: "This looks
Just like home." Many similar ex
pressions are made.
The glee clubs sing their excursion
songs and sing the praises of tho town
and its hospitable people as Well.
They come from every stato in tho
Union, and hardly any but find peo
ple from their native state living
here.
The work of tho local committee
that lias volunteered to supply the
excursionists with free fruit is espec
ially appreciated. These gentlemen
aro Messrs. M. L. Kirk, II. G. Sonnc
mann, F. N. Derby, Jeff Myers, O.
Marsh, J. B. Stockman, J. A. Bradley
and others who have yoluntarlly 60
cured hundredsof bushels of fruit and
distributed it among the eager-people.
They all enjoy the lusclousproducts
although there Is hardly anything in
season just now except tho early peach
plums, which are not ranked among
our good fruits. The passongcrs
nearly all express themselves as more
than pleased with our green -valley
country, after leaving dried-lip Cali
fornia. Many aro stopping off and
others will return from Portland,
when they can dispose orjiholr tickets.
All want information, and for tho
benefit of thosoyet to come The
Journal prints a special edition to
day with tho following article about
Salem, which was written by Secre
tary A. I. Wagner of the Salen board
of trade, for tho San Francisco Call,
Inst year.
This Js not a wild region. As a
town Salem is now (1807) fifty-four
years old. Thlity-clght years she has
been the capital of a state. Some of
the lands tributary to the city have
endured, without showing any sign of
failure, a half century of steady culti
vation. The country Is not untried.
Our climate, soil and general re
sources arc well understood. We
guess at nothing We wish to over
state nothing. Salem Is not a "boom
town," staked out on the prairie or In
the woods, with no past and no future.
Neither does she depend for her fu
ture on the will of railroad companies
or ether greedy combinations of capi
tal. We rely upon our location and
natural resources and the spirit and
enterprise of our people.
Our advantages are natural, not ar
tificial. A goodly number of people,
still Hying, have known our climate
through a constant residence of from
thirty to fifty' years. In all that
time they hayoseen nothing of dang
erous or destructive storms, nothing
of withering cold. They have seen no
failure of crops in that half century,
or blighting winds or grasshopper
plagues. They have seen a hIow but
steady improvement In tho develop
mentor tho country, with nothing to
shake their confidence In tho bright
ness of Its future
Placing Salem In theccntcr of a re
gion within radius of 25 miles wbhave
an area of 2500 square miles. Not one
squaro mile of this entire area can be
properly designated as waste, arid or
unproductive. There are 00 postolllces
within Its bounds, and outside of Sa
lem sixteen towns and villages rang
ing in population from 200 to 2,000.
Salem has a population of 15,000. The
population of the entire region Is not
rar from 45,000. Deducting the popu
lation of tho towns and villages we
liavc an agricultural population of
not moro than 25,000 or about ton per
sons to the square mile; including the
population of tho towns and villages,
about twenty to the square mile. Yet
no one acquainted with the agricul
tural, horticultural and manufact
uring capabilities of this magnificent
region will doubt for a moment its
capacity to sustain in comfort and
prosperity, and without crowding g
round half million of people. Multi
ply its present population by ten an3
you will then only placo It In posi
tion to begin that course of Indus
trial and social development to which
it is most certainly destined. For
every man, woman and child, then,
now living within the limits named,
wo have room, work and welcome for
nine more.
Salem docs not aspire to become a
great commercial center, although
her situation on a transcontinental
railway and on the banks of a naviga
ble rlycr gives her easy access to the
markets of the world, and makes it
entirely possible for her to becoruo a
distributing center for arts and man
ufactures. Paramount among our manufactur
ing cstablishmcnto arc tho Salem
Woolen tmllls (recently burned, but
now rebulltt with enlarged capacity)
converting Oregon wool into taxtile
fabrics, aggregating about $150,000
annually. The Salem flouring mills
with a capacity of GOO barrels per day,
and tho Wallace cannery, with an an
nual capacity of 25,000 cases.
A soap factory, two sash and door
factories and two Iron founderlcs,
besides soveral smaller enterprises.
Other enterprises -arc on foot, and
there is room for still more. A line
electric-power plant is now In full op
eration,-designed to furnish power in
any part of tho city to any amount,
from one-sixth of a horse power up
ward. This will enable small manu
facturers of all classes to locate on
cheap grounds and obtain safe and re
liable power at reasonable rates. Sur
rounded as she is by a region capable
of producing every variety of grain,
fruit or vegetable known to tho tem
perate zone; having at her door every
kind of raw material In unlimited
abundance; commanding cheap and
easy means of export for such surplus
as her own people do not consume, It
Is dllllcult to see anything to prevent
Salem becoming a manufacturing and
distributing cc.ntcr of considerable
importance.
The census of Marion county re
cently completed shows the following:
Stock and wool-
Wool, lbs 96,659
Sheep 29,237
Hogs 21,081
Horses ".081
Mules 253
Cattle. 25,803
Products
Acres under cultivation 168,799
Wheat raised during preceding
year, bu 599,870
Oatsrahed, bu 064,565
Barley and rye raited, ba 3o,0?4
Corn raised, bu , 25,816
Hay, tons 37-43
Flaxseed, bu , 16.253
Tobacco, lbs 2,799
Hutter and cheese, lbs 435.548
Hops, lbs 8,087,422
Roots,
Potatoes, bu , , 591,864
Fruits.
Apples, Im 61,636
Prunes and plums, bu , ..i.V, .... 12,569
Fish
Salmon, lts ........ 3,295
Salmon, cases 41
Lumber
Lurr.br, feet... l, 2,455,300
Salem is the county scat of Marion
county, and of course has all tho
county buildings. The constitution
of Oregon requires all state Institu
tions to bo located at tho capital of
the state. This requirement secures
to Salem permanently tho state prison,
Insane -asylnm, reform school, and
Institutions for tho deaf and blind.
All these Institutions are now reason
ably well equipped, -and aro making
frequent additions and Improvements
to thelnbulldlngs.
In educational advantages Salem Is
behind no other city on the coast.
There aro ilvo public Bchool buildings,
four of these of recent construction
and exceptionally creditable In equip
ment and appearance, Willamette
unlvorslty, the oldest Institution 'of
Its clas in the North .vest, attracts
students from a wide extent of
country. The Human Catholics have
a school for girls, the Academy of the
Sacred Heart. Tho Society of F.iends
have recently established a Polytech
nic institute in which it Is designed
to combine industrial and literary
training. Kindergarten work la
fairly started under the guidance of
an association organized for that pur
pose. Tncre is also a well managed
business college.
Streets aro wide and lined with beau
tiful shadetrecs; residence lots are
large, and there are two large public
squares. Water and gas mains arc
laid throughout the city, and the
streets are well lighted with electric
ity. In May, 1890, streetcars were
first opcrated.by electricity". The sys
tem was started with two cars on
two miles of road. There are twtlvo
miles of this road well built and
equipped, and the lines aic being con
stantly Improved and extended. They
even now reach out into tho garden
ing and fruit-raising districts, and
comfortable rural .homes can be ob
tained within cheap, quick and easy
reach of the business ccnterof tho city.
Few people realize how largely these
modern Inventions improve the pos
sibilities of a placo situated as Salem.
Under the stimulus of these pleasant,
safe and rapid means of transit there
Is practically no limit to its growth.
In a few years it will be hard to
tell where town ends and country be
gins. Famalies can so locate so as to
enjoy all the freedom of n country
homo and yet bo within easy reach of
the social life and business ad vantages
of tho city,
Though u half century old, Salem
has Just begun to be. Tho place will
grow. It Is growing. It has Increased
in population at the rate of 25 per
cent a year the past four -years. Our
position is In a land of plenty and
wouderful productiveness. Our mer
chants do not fall. Our banks, of
which we have four, aro sound .finan
cial institutions. Not only suburban
and .rural homescanbo obtained at
moderato prices, but city residence
property and business locations as
well. Thero aro opportunities for
poor people to obtain modest
homes, and one does not need to be a
millionaire to make paying business
Investments. A. I.'.Wagner.secretary
board of trade In San Francisco Call.
THE WILLAMETTE
Is tho leading hotel of Salem. Special
rates to all O. E. delegates.
The Willamette Is located In tho
business center of tho city, also in tho
same building as tho Wells, Fargo &
Co's. ofllce. Ladd & Bush banking
house one block north. Tho electric
street cars terminate and leave this
hotel every few minutes for all pub
llo buildings and other points of in
terest. Every and nil conveniences
aro offered to our patrons. Tho Wil
lamette is headquarters tor all public
men. It Is one of tho largest and best
equipped hotels In tho Northwest,
A. I. Waoneh, Prop.
Flowers for tho excursionists will
bo distributed by the Salem ladles
tomorrow. Mauy have already been
glyen out, and all persons having
(lowers are requested to be at tho
depot with them. Trains begin
coming at 5 o'clock and continue all
day.
Hop Growers Attention,
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USGful InVfilltflll hv A. .T .lormnn. rt
Switzerland, on exlbltion at Wm.
Brown & Co.. 2.'iOCnmmnn-lnl Rt.roiyt.
every hop grower hhould have one.
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Royal makes the food pure,
wholesome and dtllclwJ.'X
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