The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1893-11-03

should represent the people and their wishes.
The mortgage tax law should be re-eracted,
as we'll as Il carefully guarded exemption
for Indebtedness clause; the militia appro-
priation cut down; state fair and copitol
expenditures retrenched; extra allowances
for the governor and other state officers cut
off; the general appropriation bill uruned
of its numerous steals and economy and
retrenchment made the watchwords of the
session
In addition to this the railroad ecmmis-
sion owned, operoted and controlled by the
5 Z Co., should be abolished forever.
The asylum and renitentiary manage
mentS should be thoroughly investigated; +;
the books and records of each state office
carefully inspected, and the board of school
land commissioners made to show how its
CLERK makes so much money ON n compara-
lively small salary.
The fish and game commissioner 2hold be
relegatee to priuate life instead of beipg
paid salary for making himself n public
MERE CURIOSITY The following from
Rosebug viii be Of interest: "The
statement that Superintendent Fieisfs
fAnd an engineer had inspected on behalf
of the Southern Pacific, the Oregon Pa
| citic's property, is declared by Manager
koehler TO be without foundation. The
fact which probably led to this report is
| simply this: SuPetinteDdentField and
Master Mechanic Younger, while on an
| inspecting trip over Southern Pacific
lines, stopped OF at Albany. They put
in a halt hours leisure time IN looking at
the roundhouse of the Oregon Pacific at
tina, place This was all. The inspection
| made by them was exclusively for the
! purpose OF gratifying thsir o3n curios-
i;y." Mr Fields, though, was in albany
two hall days, and the inspection. from
certain things that happened. was un-
doubted more than curiosity.
4 BIG INDUSTRY. B Plummer agent
for Meeker in the hop business has made
canvass of the hop industry in Polk
county and kindly furnished us with the
following figures as the ontpus of 1898:
! Number OF bales. 6 6,365; ~ $50 pounds to
the bale, Z, lis, 100 pounds. At !Sc per
pound this would bring into The county
the neat sum OF $2962l6.o0. This beats
wheat raising awsv yonder in more re-
spects than one. The acreage is nothing
I beside wheat and the amount OF none,
put in circulation through caring for
| them is $50 10 81 in comparison TO say
| nothing ot the neat margin that is reaped
/ by the raiser. Now wait till our prunes
get started, ana then we'll show You
something Transcript
FATAL AccDKxr. - An accident oc-
CURED about noon last Saturday. which
resulted in the death several hours later
OF David Gerard, who lives fiFe miles
southwest OF Philomaih Mr Gerard
was en- route to Philoma,h. and while
descending Bier's Hill it is supposed that
the break OF the wagon gave wav, the
| wagon run on to the horses and runa-
| Gay resulted. After running over a
couple of snail stumps, the wagon struck
a third, and was overturned j. The IN
fortunate man was thrown cut, the
| wagon seat fell across his back and the
| wagon bed fell on top OF the seat. He
was picked up shortly alter in an uncon-
scIous condition and was taken TO the
residence of Augustus koverstein. DIR
Logan was summoned and found that
six ribs were broken and blood was pour.
ing from his ears. without recovering
consciousness, Gerard fingered until
Sunday m, when he died - Corvallis
Times.
EGYrnAS wHgAT.-R C Kiger has re-
i
OF what which had prodiginus gro&th
on his place this season, mention oil
which was made in these columns Il is
Egyptian wheat and the original seed
came from Florida. The Weld of The
little patch grown BIZ Mr. kigrr this sea.
son is estimated at Is bushels per acre.
He soIed thirty acres Of i, during the
first rains little more than & month age
and It's growth has bean so marvellous
that tits nov ready 10 be sheeped. Mr.
kiger refused FIVE dollars for 4 single
bushel vi this wheat. Corvallis Times.
4 HARD Hn Cell. Xan Cleve, ediiol
Of tire only paper printed in Lincoln county
the Leader-lately al.udei-to Coz. PspI oY-
er,as 'four hsnisone ard oyer-di esss igoyerl.
or. His excellency says that he considers
this A. o4e cf the haf,.5Et '-hita" he has
ever received, Anyoue who hes SEEN Ore
con's governor ~lll readily admit that he il
hzndsoBe bat when y cames TO bting
over dressed hs Is Tar from thas. The
horc.ed gentleman velcs plain, every ~
clothes II keeping " in his fiieiai pogiti 20 b.
He Is not as mach of 'au as Van bin
self -State3msu.
/ CASDrDArEs.-Ca Candidates for city Office
are coming to the front. For Marshal. {
o Lee. john Hoffman. Allen McClain, ant
II e Dickey are candidates on the democrats
side, while Mr. McFeron and Geo Burkhar
are said TO be candidates on the republican
side. For Mayor the names Of DrJ l. Hill
Jason Wheeler. II II Hewitt and David
Froman are discussed. The name Of NJ
Klein, the shoe dealer. Is suggested as {
suitable republican candidate for council
man in the third ward As yet We are not
informed whether the populists viii put NJ
ticke. or not.
a POINTED RENARR-Ih followin.
from the Corvallis Times in reference Il
the Job failure contains considerable cream
in reference 70 bank failures generally:
the failure IS a big burst up financially a
with this bank. ard 5200, 900 Of deposit
are reduced by the failure TO fifty cents ol
: the dollar-ihose who caused this fearfu
shrinkage-eyen though nothing crimina
was intended, can not hope 10 escape publi
censure. Men who trust TO the credit G
others and lose money thereby are slow {
hunt up excuses as 10 tie why's and where
fores-in fact no explanation Is or can be j
order.
ALBASY ALL RIGHT "A correspond
. ent Of the Harrisburg Courier says; All
any. OI0 Linn county btdss ~" EifS
greater promise oil being trade centr
han ever. The solid improvements be
.pg done by ner business men and ih
general determination manifested by II
/, people TO DO all possible for its enhance
meat, will, undoubtedly, push it forwar
q approximately, TO its greatest possibii.ie
Ard only by snCh united actions can
town hope fer any prominence.
SAWED HIS HAHD D.-WilI Couch,
ALBANY, vino owns and operates a woo
saw about town, met with painful az
cident late Tuesday afternoon. He vi
in the act Of feeding number OF smf
oak sticks 10 the saw, when the baC
OF his right hand came in conts
with the saw, which ripped its WI
nearly through four Of his fingers, nei
the knuckles. Two of the multilated Fl
gers were amputated by Drs Farra
as Wilson - Corvallis Times.
7 " a Powerful
Flesh Maker.