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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-01-24

case, for the whole United States could not
get train to Portland on time at present,
not even if the life of the government it,
self was depending on it.-Baker City
Blade.
The domestic animal commission created
by the last legislature. composed of Gov
ernor Pennoyer, Secretary Mcbride. State
Veterinary Officer Wythecombe and D. H.
Looney met at Salem Monday. and after
an extended investigation issued all order
to DR. Whythecombe to slaughter any and
all cattle found affected with contag agious or
infectious diseases. This order will be
strictly enforced.
The business OF the Roseburg land office
pre- -emption filings, 65S; number of home.
stead entries from Jan. l. 1885, 43O. Num-
Der Of final entries from Jan. l, 1889, to
Jan. l, 1890, l65; number of final cash
tries from Jan. l, 1889, to Jan. l. 1890, 4lO;
Amount of acreage covered, "a, 900 acres.
Amount of cash receipts. Sill, ,543.2s.
In six dsys the new electric light plant
at Dallas will be ready for action. 1t has
f'een placed mat cost of 5000 and consists
of seventy five incandescent and twenty
arc lights. This new enterprise st"rts off
with every evidence of successful and
useful career. One evidence of prosperity
is in the fact that eighteen residences are
to be supplied with light from the plant.
Moot Of tho h,,ci,
ing the metropolitan convenience by SUBJ
scribing for lights.
Oregon, Washington and British Column
bia constitute grand lodge jurisdiction of
| the A. o. U. w, with a membership of
about 4, 800. During the calendar year just
closed there have been fifty deaths upon
which the order has paid beneficiaries of
So, 600, amounting in the aggregate to $780,.
600. This $1,000 beneficiary payment in
nearly every instance has gone to families
who, otherwise, would have been left in
| very straightened circumstances. The ex-
ceedingly meritorious work of this order
accounts for its rapid growth all over the
country.
There is living in St. Helens, says the
Mist. the man who devised the set of sig
nails used by the head sewyers in nearly all
the mills on this coast, to indicate to the
screw turner's by the movements of his
hand and fingers, no far up or back to
turn the screws of the head blocks on the
log carriage in saving up logs. T. G.
Watts, to whom that honor is due,
commenced at the age of fourteen years to
handle the saws and with but few, inter.
missions has followed that business for the
past twenty seven years, the greater part
! of that time in the mill at this place. Find
ing that with the old system the screw
turner's frequently got the old signals mixed, Z,
causing delays and frequently spelling lum
Der, MIR. Watts invented his system, under
which it is impossible with ordinary atten-
tion, for the screw turner's to make a mis-
take, as to the required tnrns to make.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-01-24

For SALE.-A recorded short
horn bull, Aaron, five years old.
Murray & Budget, Corvallis, Or.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-01-24

A NICE PRESENT.-John Span
gler stepped into the GAZETTE
sanctum on Tuesday with a grip
in his hand which caused the re-
porter to think he had gone into
the drummer's business. He laid
it upon the table, and on opening
it disclosed beautiful silver solo
cornet-he having been presented
with it on Saturday night last.
The persons from whom he receiv-
ed it We're the members of the
Presbyterian church of this city.
in which place of worship he has
been acting as cornetist to the
choir for the past two years. The
''musican" is of the very latest
pattern made by the G. G. Conn
mandatory, at Elkhart, Indiana.
The case alone is a handsome
one. John is verv proud of his
present and, no dou!t, will keep
up his same old reputation as a
first-class musician for long time
to come.
THEIR OFFICE.-The gun store of
G. Hodes has been moved back TO
the building in which it was for
merly, near Knights furniture fac
tory. The cause for the move was
the raise in the rent for the room
in the Webber brick. This latter
room will be occupied by the Cor
wallis land company, and the same
is being fitted up now. Lyman is
busy lettering the large windows,
and, no doubt, when the company
is already to commence business a
nicer Office cannot be found in
Oregon.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-01-24

For a short time only. Lots in Schenck's
addition to Astoria. Terms easy. Buy
now of HAIRLESS & Dayisson.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-01-24

DoMINo.-A "dolnino" party
will be given by the Corvallis
hook and ladder company in the
opera house on Friday evening,
February 14th-Valentine's day.
The usual excellent social time
will be had.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-01-24

WAS CoRRECT.-The GAZETTE 5
account of the accidental shooting
of Otto Stone, OH the first o. this
moth, acas correct. Several other
papers published an entirely diff
ferent report. Otto was not be-
hind the target, he was standing
by the side of his uncle when the
gun, in the latter's hands, was ac-
cidentally discharged with the
fatal result.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-22
BACKED BY THE FARMERS.

MEDICINE LODGE, Jan. 90. 1890.
Friend Murdoch: Go on. Keep it up.
We are your hackers. We are only
all we can. We have tried to support
our families. We have looked ahead
with hope for big crop to have better
times, it has come; that crop of 1899
was all we could ask, but the prices we
got for our stock and this crop is in the
tide of lost hope. We must drop politics
and work hand in hand. and with will.
We will have things our way in little
while. You and your paper have the
credit of making Wichita what it is to-
day, and if you will stand by us farmers
as you do now. with the help Of other
papers. who can't be beat. we will have
better times as soon as we elect one of
our number 20 help make laws for our
protection, which we are going 10 do by
our votes at the next election, and don't
you forget 1t. Our homes cali for it, our
families call for it. No politics In the
next vote.
1t must be that men viii make
laws which will give us justice. Oar
country is bountiful, but viii not, can
not pay such interest and taxes aud inn
prove our many homes. All we earn
goes to make a few richer. Ii must stop,
and stop in 1890 and 81. We are read
els of your paper. We wish to hear
from other farmers. We want their
ideas. 1t spreads ike wildfire. We are
waking up TO better state of things.
Matters have been going wrong. They
have gone a little too far. There are
breakers ahead. Yours truly.
ELI BENEDICT.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-22
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Cotton seed oil will be great industry
in Oklahoma
Saltwater is the only town in its section
of the country.
One Saltwater man took 40 fresh eggs
to Guthrie to sell.
Right now is thought to be the best time
to strike Oklahoma.
The firms that sell cotton-gins a re talk
ing about Oklahoma
4 paying investment in Norman would
be the erection OF a good hotel.
The people of Reno City who have door
bells 10 their residences belong to the
200
Oklahoma City plumes herself exceed
ingiy on that convention, and she has
right TO.
One hunter in the Chickasaw nation is
said TO have Melted over coo quail IN one
weeks time.
In new soil as that of Oklahoma You can
raise fifteen hundred pounds of cotton, in
the seed, per acre
The faro banks and the keno furniture
are beng traded off for cattle aud proper
ty. This is good sign
Lincoln, the colored community. is the
banner Republican city IN Oklahoma Its
club numbers 1,lsJ members
c. ". Cady. OF KinSfsher, was elected
chairman of the Republican league OF Ok
lahoma. W. G. Mcdonald was made sec
Rotary.
Five car loads of -four arrived for mer-
chants OF Norman last week As matter
Of fact Norman IS net only alive but also
growing.
The Cherokee strip business is almost as
quiet as Gutnrieis jus. mayor, Mp. Dyer.
Does be expect nothing OF the new terri
toriai government?
The Oklshomaites who are awaiting Ok
laEcua lexIsIatior are little bis anxious
over The yeracity OF that statement 'sGat
eYerythia1 comes 70 hin WAC waits"
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-22
RIGHT IN PRINCIPLE, BUT WRONG IN
EFFECT.

A recent decision of the supreme court
puts snug sum of money into the
pockets of the silk importers. They
were plaintiffs against the government
to recover $1,000, 600 which they had dis
bursed in the payment OF duties on i'm
ported silk ribbons. The silk tariff
schedule was ambiguous regarding this
item. and they were charged 80 per cent
duty, whereas, they claimed, they
should have been charged but 90 per
cent. The supreme court has decided
the suit in their favor, and the enormous
sum of 100000 is returned to their
pockets.
The excess of duty thus wrongfully
collected does not of right belong to the
government, and should be refunded if
it could be restored to those from whom
il was collected, but since this
is impossible it should remain where
1t was, in the treasury of the
government. Clearly it does not belong
to the importers and dealers, because
they added the per cent TO the selling
price of the goods and 1t was paid by the
consumers, and of course these cannot
assert their claims thereto for obvious
reasons. The importers and dealers Ger
tainly have no claim on the government,
for the reason stated, that is, that they
have received the amount paid thus in
excess back from their customers. To
refund 10 them the amount mentioned
will be TO simply pay them double
profit at the consumers expense. In
view of these facts, therefore. the money
involved in the matter should remain in
the treasury. OF course the decision of
the supreme court fixing the rate of du-
~ TO be charged hereafter as long as the
duty is imposed is all right if it did not
carry with it the other feature of refund
ing the excess already collected, and ac-
cording to the strict rules of equity this
perhaps is all right, too; but that is out
of the question, as we have attempted to
show.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-22
LESSON IN ADVERTISING.
From the Atlanta Constitution.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
For some years past the state of YER
mont has been IN serious trouble.
A steady stream of emigration has
been pouring out of thai commonwealth
and new settlers have not been coming
in So far from building up the waste
places and making the wilderness bios
som as the rose, the wilderness has ex-
tended, and the waste places have multi
piled.
But brighter day is dawning for this
unfortunate state. The story of the
change is we'll told by the Boston Globe.
1t seems that various methods of secur.
ing immigrants were tried without sue
cess. 1t last it struck the leading spirits
that if advertising was a good thing for
a business man it was also good thing
for a state. So the farms were adver-
tised People in the four corners of the
earth found themselves deluged with
newspapers, pamphlets and posters set
ting forth the cheap lands and the nat
ural resources of Vermont. Millions of
letters are now coming in to the commits
sioner of agriculture asking for informa
ton. Capitalists are buying up farms
and villages. The rush of immigration
has commenced in earnest and it will fill
the state with people.
1t is the old story with its never-failing
result. Georgia, or any southern state,
by adopting the business methods of Yer
mont, would in short time attract
millions of immigrants. The population
of the south, however, is increasing rap
idly enough, and it is perhaps better to
grow naturally than TO force dollhouse
growth, and bring suddenly into our
midst strange elements and strange prob
lens.
Still the story of Vermont's rehabilita-
ton carries lesson with it.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-22

i The society columns in the Sunday Cap
| ital of Guthrie would make some elder
communities in the east, who don't bank
on anything but society, open their eyes.
A good deal of cotton seed is being ship
ped into Oklahoma from points south.
Some of it is being used for cattle feed.
but most of it will be reserved for plant
ing in the spring.
The Indians have slick way of getting
bones to sell. They wait until some poor
devil has worked hard all day picking up
Il load of bones in the Cherokee strip. and
then notify the scouts, who order the bone
gatherers to unload. and after they have
done so and departed, the willy Indians
load the bones up in their own wagons.
take them to town and get $3.50 per ton
for them.
The following are the names of the Re-
publican clubs in Oklahoma and the num-
Der of membership: Guthrie, 1000; Deep
Fork, So; Crooked Oak, Il; Seward, 200;
Reno City, 120; kingnsher. l1l2; Britton.
Il; Barnes, 81; Hennessey, 240: Harrison,
IS; Pathfinder. 81: Central City, 81; Deep
Fork, No. 3 10; Rural County, ID; ElReno,
Al; Downs; SIG. Lincoln, 11S0; Mattison, 10
Items from the Hennessey Courier:
The cook at the Metropolitan claimed
his rights with a dishrag.
The parties who carried Oft our cord
wood will greatly oblige US by returning
the same
Some of the boys are going to build
three-story bricks next week.
How many lots did you get?
The colored people got their share of lots
Tuesday evening.
Z. Fisher can handle spade with as
much grace as any OF the boys.
John Zoll will have company on his lot.
This is my lot" was the watchworo
Tuesday night.
Two campers in the strip, few miles
north of town, one night last week, were
not prepared to meet the thrilling expert
ence through which they passed. Some
time after dark their horses began to snort
and show signs Of intense fright. Peer
ing into the darkness one of the men saw
an object that looked like large nog. or
possibly an Indian on all tours. When APP
preached the object retreated and disap-
peared in the darkness. 1t soon reappeared
and again retreated at the approach of the
men. Finally the campers decided to shoot
at it, Indian or no Indian, and to aid them
in getting a "bead," placed a lighted
lantern out some distance from their
wagons. Soon the object again approach
ed, and to their aInaZement proved TO be a
large black bear. One of the men fired a
charge of turkey shot into bruin as he rose
to his launches; but the other man was so
much amazed or badly frightened that be
for the time forgot he had gun, and be-
fore he could realize the situation. the bear
scampered off This is no fish story"
but "bear story" Of truthful origin
Saltwater Gazette.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-22

Accounts that are now coming from
the west in relation to the weather show
the worst conditions existing in a large
scope of country known for years if ever
before. Railroad trains have been
showed up on nearly all the roads and
Geographic communication seriously in
terrupted. Great destruction to live
stock is feared, and intense suffering
among the people and many deaths will
undoubtedly be disclosed as the present
stress gives way and affairs begin to as
sumo their normal conditions. We
think we have had a pretty stiff two
weeks spell down in this latitude but it
has been mild and pleasant in COMPARE
son with what they have had in the
mountain regions to the west and north
of us
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-22

The counties of Seward, Miami, Dick
inson and Comanche yesterday notified
the secretary or the State immigration
Bureau of their actions, respectively, in
joining the movement There Is little
doubt that every county in the state will
participate actively i'll the movement at
an early day, as soon as necessary local
action can be had. 1t is most gratifying
and encouraging to see the unanimity
and promptness with which the state
has taken hold of this most important
matter. 1t means success to the under
taking, and this means prosperity to the
state
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-22
AND STILL A LITTLE MORE OF IT.

The most unjust burthen, the chain
whose links rankles the deepest down
| into the industrial life of this country, is
the dividend demanded by the holders of
the watered stock of great corporations;
| it is the money exacted from the labor of
the country to pay interest on fictitious
holdings; it is the toll squeezed from a
defenseless public on investments that
never had an existence outside of the
forged evidence offered by worthless GER
! tificates. These exactions and robber-
les are applied to everything which it is
possible to put under monopoly rule,
either through patent laws, franchises or
combines. Watered stock is every
where, and absorbing the pro-
ducts of labor, not only in
untold millions and billions of wind
dollars in the transportation lines, ex-
press companies and telegraph com
panies, in wharfage, storage, etc. of the
country, but in almost every line of
manufacture, under the rule of the com
bines and trusts; in leads and in oils, in
iron and glass, in sugars and in spirits
and in many classes of prepared food.
Hundreds of bushels of wind-wheat are
sold for every actual bushel produced,
sold for future delivery, and sold short.
The bulls triumph not one day in thirty
and the victory is of such short dura-
ton as to never reach the producer. only
the rich holder. The bears rule every
where and rule eternally. They bear
down all things Of commercial or mer-
charitable character, all that is produced
by the farmer or by the laborer, and in
bearing down these they PROSTATE the
business of the merchant and destroy
the value of the mechanics labor, and
that inevitably.
There is but one power which can
reach these abuses and troubles, and
that is the power of the general govern
ment as represe nted by the congress of
the United States. To this body. to its
composition and action, can the people
only look for relief. The only trouble is
the 'dollar, whose potency is well nigh
immeasurable. The dollar is becoming
almighty OK L eCuuId NOA bcl 10 OuS
motto of the voters. Wall street does
not own the people of this country, yet
it directly and indirectly controls
large minority OF them, which minority
represents the legislative and executive,
and, to some extent we fear, the judicial
powers of the country. AT
the ballot box alone does "vox
popuh vox DEF hold good, and unless
the ballot box is. in the very near future,
protected from the bribe-giver and bride.
taker, money will rule that also, in
which event the individual power of the
people will have been lost and liberty
and self government be but name.
Lift but for a year or two these i'm
posed burdens from the industry of
America, and the farmer, the mechanic
and the laborer would all be rendered
happy in the enjoyment of abundant re-
turns, and in turn the merchant and the
professional man and all the middle
classes would be kept proftably busy,
and prosperity bless this great land
which is now unreasonably and unjustly
burdened.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-22
a Lucky storekeeper.

From the Pistsburg Dispatch.
At Henderson, KY, the other day, a
countryman entered the drug store Of
Charles Z. Kliederer aud called for some
article, giving IN exchange a piece OF
money which the proprietor of the store
at the time supposed to be twenty-five
cent piece, On taking his cash out of
the daawer he was struck with the odd
ify OF the coin an application Of soap
and water revealed beautiful Roman
gold coin, bearing the date Of 1898.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-22

The Kansas liar has been at work
again at his old tricks of defaming the
state. Under Kansas City, Mo-, date he
sent a telegram east which was pub
lished in the daily papers, among the
rest the Boston Heard, stating that
Kansas had been visited by the worst
blizzard known for years; that snow had
fallen at Wichita to a depth of fifteen
inches and at some points in the western
part of the state the snow had drifted as
high as one-story house, and that trains
had been abandoned on all the railroads,
and so forth and so on. Well, with the
exception that we didn't have any biz
zard to speak of; that we didn't have any
railroads blockaded or trains abandoned
and that we had only about three inches
of snow, the statement was approxi-
mately correct.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-22

ambition to be senator from Ohio six
years ago, the simplest way for him 10
obtain the Office was to buy it. When
Calvin S. Brice desired to be his success
sor he pursued the same direct methods.
Both were working for themselves. This
being established as the thing to do, and
the men who had money finding that
money was wanted in the party, they
worked for themselves by the use of
money. 1t was inevitable that the new
qualification for office should bring the
result
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-22

Governor Lowrys message to the Mis-
sissippi legislature shows that in the
past eight years, during all of which he
has filled the gubernatorial chair of that
state, the free school attendance in the
state has increased from PA, 600 to 1885,
900, and the annual school expenditure
from $3.50, 900 to 81 10000 This seems
to be doing pretty well without the aid
of any Blair bill federal appropriation.
This may be taken as an encouraging
augury for the future of that state in the
matter of civil equities, though such
beneficent effects are not yet sufficient
ly marked to be seen by the naked eye.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-22

If Kunze, the Cronin suspect who was
granted a new trial at the time the 9TH
ers were convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment, is innocent as he alleges,
or if the dime museum manager who is
paying him $3.50 a week as an attraction
believed him innocent, or if the people
who flock to see him and pay their
money for the privilege believed him
guiltless, he would be without the fat
Job he is now holding down. There
would be no curiosity to see him.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-22
a NEW YORK REPUBLICAN ON SU-
GAR AND POLITICS.
NEW York City. Jan. IA 1890

NEW YORK CITY, Jan. IA, 1890.
To the Editor of the Eagle
1t is with great satisfaction that learn
that the leaven is working in Kansas,
and that there is one editor in the state
with sufficient courage and self respect
to disdain party chains, when the party
is clearly in the hands of monopolists
and corruptionlsts. At the same time,
in community like Kansas where the
Republican vote Is so overwhelming,
more good can be accomplished by re-
naming in the party aud instigating
and agitating necessarily, than by re-
nouncing the party and going into the
Democratic camp. In the latter case
the party hacks jump on one, and his
power Is weakened, nav lost: and the
Democratic party Is not 10 be entirely re-
he'd on-many Democratic congressman
owe their election to the money and IA
vor of protected interests and chartered
monopoilsts, and many support the ten
cts of the party in prefunctory way.
The rising tide of discomfort will
sweep over them all. The little modi-
cum OF reduction which might have
pacitied the discounted few years ago,
will not satisfy people when they are
thoroughly informed of how atrociously
they have been bamboozled and robbed
for twenty years. Sweeping away the
internal taxes on whiskey and tobacco
and increasing tax on blankets, barbed
wire. etc. will not suffice. =
feel pretty sure prohibition is doomed
in Kansas. / received a
sample of Kansas sugar. am surprised
at the fine crystal OF this sugar. | should
have pronounced 1t fine quality Musco-
vado, had l met with it accidentally.
\. c.