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SALEM NOTES.
SALEM, Jan. 81, 1893.


The legislature has gotten down to
its work in good shape and will make a
good showing for the remaining por-
tion of the session. There are bills and
bills, covering every imaginable sub.
ject, and some besides Perhaps the
worst of the whole lot is CogswGlrs
tsenate) bill TO prevent the moving of
sheep from one county to another with
out first procuring license OF not less
than nor more than 20 cents for each
sheep, to be paid into the county treas
ury of the county in which they are to
be moved, The idea is to protect the
winter ranges of Crook and other south
crn counties from outside sheep while
their own sheep are herded in the
mountains. The bill being in the in-
|. terest oe one lot of sheep as against an
ther is very improperly numbered
J9." 1t will prove, however, to be
ne one that went astray. The bill to
create Mineral county was up in the
house Tuesday, but only for n short
time, when it yielded not color to the
pan, could not essay to assay, and
passed over to the majority too dead to
skin. Considerable amusement was
had in the senate Tuesday afternoon
over Bancroft's bill providing for pun
ishing train wreckers, etc. The bill
provided that on conviction q train
wrecker could be punished by impris-
onment in the penitentiary for term
mot longer than his natural life,n or
Nv punishment las for murder in the
discretion of the court" McGinn ex-
planned that the punishment was thus
prevented from following its victim
into the life beyond. The house bill
for dividing the sos, 900 received from
the general government, repayment of
direct tax in war times, among the
counties in proportion to their area,
passed the senate Tuesday afternoon.
Wasco county will get about $4,000,
which must be expended on the roads,
The Cascade county bill was read a sec
ond time Monday and referred to the
committee on counties, Monday after
noon, and the committee heard argu-
ments and will receive load of in
formation Wednesday afternoon. The
bill may be reported Thursday, but
whether the committee will make that
report with or without the fatal word
"not," is yet impossible to say. The
Dalles is well represented. Judge Ben
nett has seven cases before the supreme
court this week. Judge Story is here,
presumably looking after his political
Endorsements. Hon. +. B. Dufur was
here Tuesday attending to business III
the supreme court, while opposition TO
Cascade county has brought some 9TH
ers. There are eight county division
bills, minus one which is dead, and
their very number forces a combination
"devoutly not to be wished for"
Coon's bill for strengthening the horti-
cultural committee was beaten by one
vote, but will be reeonsidered and
passed. The assessment law will be
doctored by striking out the exemption
from Indebtedness and mortgage tax
clauses, and will have to stagger along
with that. The bill to better provide
for the militia will probably pass. The
bill to better provide for the militia will
probably pass. The money from the
$95, 900 above alluded to is all that East |
ern Oregon will get this year, for the
Raley bill is too dead to resurrect,
though Senator Smith of Sherman is
working hard for it. The new dome
on the capital is like the mantle of
Charity, is made out of copper, and !
outshines even the braZen counte- |
nances of the third house. Salem is
city of magnificent distances. The |
streets are 100 feet wide, the blocks 400
feet square, and the distance from any
place to any place else is so great that
one does not care to return after having
once left any one spot, especially if that !
spot is the Willamette hotel. Honest |
ly, the latter place is simply q case of
grand larceny, and its bills are longer,
larger and tougher than those Of the
legislature. We paid them So for the
privilege of sleeping on a barbed-wire
mattress covered with bushel of chaff
done up in 10 yards of secondhand bed
ticking. The bill of fare consisted of a |
stylish card labeled "menu," which is |
false. for if II knew l wouldn't have |
gone there. The cold, CLASSY stare of
the proprietor was the primary cause of
the present cold spell; it was absolutely |
glacial in its chilliness. A bill passed |
providing for the county judges send
ing opium fiends to the insane asylum.
We suggest that they be sent to the
Willamette hotel at Salem; one dose
would cure the worst case. 1t has none
of the home comforts of the peniten-
tiary, none of the luXuries of the asy-
lun, nothing but fieshless brick and