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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05
working Girl. Coming Rack.

When the gates Of the Worlds fair al
Chicago were thrown open, there was &
grand rush Of servant girls from all ovel
the country TO secure positions in the no
tells and restaurants. 1t was estimated
that at least couple of thousand of such
girls went from Boston alone. Now
many of the girls are coming back to the
employment offices in Boston and apply.
ing for positions nearer home. Two
months ago the employment offices were
looking for capable girls to take posi-.
uons as domestics in private families;
now they are turning them away. The
proportion of working girls without en-
ployment iii Boston is estimated to be
fully as large as that of men.-Boston
Transcript,
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05
A PEACE COUNCIL.

East Oregonian: The meeting now
in progress at the camp Of Young Chief
10 Thorn hollow Is Of much higher im-
portance than generally thought. II
appears that large proportion OF the
visitors are Bannocks, aud that 1t IL
the first time since the BannOck war
In 1873 that friendly meeting has oc'
cured between the Umatillas and the
Banuocks. AT the time the BaEDocks
v.re desirous Of forming confederate
Of all the Indian tribes for the purpose
Of making general attack upon the
whites. The Umatillas refused
70 enter into the plot and
even 30 far as to actively an
tagonIze the movement, killing high.
up chief of the Bsnnocks and incurring
their mortal hatred. They at last, IL
keeping with a custom In vogue when
they reigned supreme over the vast ter
ritory Of the great west, gathered abou'
the council fires and are smoking the
pipe Of peace. A permanent peace II
thereby being cemented and all is good
feeling and amity. The treaty Is OF
importance to the Indians, however
trivial It may be considered by those OF
paler color.
Those who are present, or many OF
them, as legates from the Bannocks,
are the very ones who came down In
1878 aud were prepared 20 inaugurate
wide spread desolatlon among the
white settlers. The Bannocks are
known ~ one Of the most bloodthirsty
tribes In the country, and have record
for narrowing cruelties and demoniacaI
outrages.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05
TODAY'S MARKETS.
Prices Current by Telegraph - Local
and Portland Quotations.

SALEM, January 5, 4p. m.-Office
DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. Quota.
tions for day and up to hour of going to
press were as follows:
SALEM PRODUCE MARKET.
FRUIT.
Apples-30c to 75c. bushel.
BUTCHER STOCK.
Veals-dressedi 5 cts.
Hogs-dressed 5.
Live cattle-14 tO2.
Sbeep-alive $l.50.
MILL PRICES.
Salem Milling Co. quotes: Flour
In wholesale lots $3.50. Retail $500.
Bran $14 bulk, SIS sacked. Shorts $l5l
164. Chop feed SIC and SIT.
WHEAT.
433 cents per bushel.
HAY AND GRAIN.
Oats-new 30c.
Hay-Baled, new $S to $40; old $40 to
IL. Wild in bulk, IS to $8.
FARM PRODUCTS.
Wool-Best, l0c.
Hops-Small sale, II to 1Sc.
Butter Best dairy, 25; fancy
creamery, 80.
Cheese--l2 TO Is cts.
Farm smoked meats-Bacon 10;
hams, IL; shoulders, 8.
Potatoes 35c.
Onious-2 cents.
Carrots, Sc 90 per ton.
Beeswax -9fc. 'Caraway seed, 1Sc.
Anise seed, 26c. Ginseng, $l.4O.
LIVE POULTRY.
Chickens 5@S. ducks, SOLO; tur-
keys, slow sale, choice. Zoe; geese to &c.
PORTLAND QUOTATIONS..
Grain, Feed, etc.
Flour-Standard. so. rs; Walla Walla.
$500; graham, $2.40; superfine, 1925
per Uafrel.
Oats-New white. SAC per bu grey, ,32c:
rolled, in bags, $6 25@650; barrels
S6 .75@7.00; cases, So rs.
Hay-Best, $lO@l2 per ton.
WOol-valley, lU@llc.
Milstuffs-Bran, SIG 90; shorts, SIG;
ground barley, SIS; chop feed, SIS
per ton; whole feed, barley, 40 cts pei
GENITAL; middling, $23@2S per ton;
chicken wheat, 65@l.l5 per GENITAL.
Hops-'New 10 u l6l.
Hides-green, salted, 60 lbs. 3!c, un-
der oO lbs, 2@3'; sheep pelts, 100000.
DAIRY PRODUCE.
Butter-Oregon fancy creamery, 30@
S24c;fancy dairy, 25@271c; fair to good,
2O@224c; common, 10 to l74c per ID.
Cheese - Oregon, l0@l3; Young
American, 12@l5cper pound; California
l4c.; Swiss imp, 30@32; DOM, l6@lS
Eggs-Oregon, 224c per dozen. Eas-
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05
Broke Into His Former Prison.

The case of persons trying to escape
from prison is of rather common occur
renee, but the fact Of a man trying to
force an entrance into one may be
unique. This, however, is what hap
pened last week at the Plotzensee prison,
near Berlin, where at uight an individ-
ual scaled the prison wall and safely
landed in the yard. On being arrested
he was found to be a former inmate,
come, as he said, to call upon friend he
had made during his involuntary se-
journ.-American Register.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05

Blunders may be made, dIsa ppoint-
nIents may come, but let each POpul ist
20 forward in the good work, doing &C
cordlng to bis ability and oppOrtun ity
and both blunders and disappOint-
ments will be swallowed up in victory
at no distant dsy.--Oregon Populist.
Why not extend this blessed priyil-
ege to all white folks, dear brethren.
Don't try TO reserve all the virtues for
your own circle. Get onto the broader
platform Of allowing everybody to d
1 he best they can regardless.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05
A Woman PIansar.

Miss Bertha Lamme Of Springfield, O.,
has the honor to be the first woman in
the world to receive the degree Of cleo.
trieal engineer. She has led her class all
through the course in the Ohio state
university and has now accepted posi-
iOn with the Westinghouse Electric
company At Rttsbarg.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05

Albany receives city warrants foI
taxes and licenses. but the mayor IN
his message recommends that this prac
tice be stopped. He says: '"The ele-
ment Of uncertainty at the time OF pay
ment adds to the amount OF the charges
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05
An ElectrIcaI Flniirnn.

In the Electrical building at the
Worlds fair are shown flatirons which
have small silk covered copper wires
fastened at the back. so that high and
even heat is maintained at the bottom,
while the top, made of a non heat con
ducting substance, remains quite cool.
In fact, conditions seem SO changed that
the kitchen becomes almost a parlor and
cooking pastime.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05
A PrrserYn LnrIin.r.

Mrs. Rosalie Miller, a quick witted
New York woman, has just patented ar
invention which will be useful TO house
keepers in the season Of canning and pre-
serving fruits. Ii is a preserve jar litter
simple, inexpensive and adjustable, and
Is meant TO remove jars when filed from
The bath Of boiling water which sur.
rounds them to the brim. PHILADELPHIA
Ledger.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05

Clatsop county indulHes In class o.
tariff that Is truly robbery. Farmer'
must pay $40 q month to peddle their
products, the same as all other ped
dlerg.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05

for cashing them. The employees Of
the city, the men who earn their money
by the labor Of their hands are the
principal sufferers and upon them the
loss mainly falls"
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05

Populists are In many counties de
manding the appointment OF thlr'
election judge from the ranks Of their
party.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05

A city council meeting without Ebe
LAHORE sitting In the charmed circle
looks little odd, but then We must try
and get used 10 1t.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05
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SUGGESTED COMMENT.

The Portland central labor council
has adopted resolutions endorsing Pen
noyer's letter to Cleveland.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05

Help better the roads Of Marion
county by attending the road convent
Ion ut the court house Saturday, Jan
18th,
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05

Finding fault with the new fire chief
before he has been tried will accom-
plish no good for anyone.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05

Pulling down others will build III
one up. Neither will throwing mud al
one cause to build up another.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05
Hair Death

3instantly removes and forever destroys OBJ
tJectionable hair, whether upon the hands,
4face. arms or neck, without discoloration
2or injury to the most delicate skin. II
was for nifty years the secret ormula OF
Erasmus Wilson, acknowledged by phyi |
clans as the highest authority and theS
most eminent dermatologlst and hair sPe
cialist that ever lived. During hts private
practice OF lifetime among the nobility
md aristocracy of Europe he prescribed
mis- recipe. Price, 81 by mail, securely
acked. Correspondence confidential. Solel
n agents for America. Address
The SKo0KUM ROOT HAIR GROWER 60.
'ept. X. 81 south Fifth Avenue,New YORK
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BURTON BROTHEkS

Manufacture Standard Pressed Brick,
Nodded Brick In all Patterns for Fronts
ana supply the brick for the New Salem CITY
HAL and nearly all the fine build ngs erected
In the Capital City,
Yards near renitentiary, Salem, Or. Ssdv
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05

Above trains stop at all stations IRON
Portland to Albany inclusive; also at Tangent
Irving, Eugene and all stations from Rose burg
10 Ashland inclusive
The advocate., 1894-06-27
Is Bribery the EecretP

1t is not difficult to understand why
the projectors of the Pacific railroads
have been able to get the government
to build the roads for them, making
multi-millionaires of the operators at
the expense of the people. Those who
cry "psternalismP' when the masses
ask for even-handed justice, are sig.
nifcantly silent with regard to the gov
ernment's fostering care of the hand
full of individuals who have, by the use
of money, so far been able to evade
the payment of their debts due the
government.
The hearings before the house COM
mittee on Pacific railroads are throw
ing some light on the methods used by
railroad syndicates to get government
aid in their individual projects. Shall
we say that the secret of the whole
business is bribery? The statements
made before the committee by the Cal
ifornians who oppose the refunding Of
the Pacific railroad debts are to that
effect. AS our readers probably know,
a scheme is on foot in congress now to
refund the $6O,OOO,OOO debts of the
Central Pacific in 2per cent. bonds run.
ming for 100 years. But if the road
won't pay the interest now due the
government, why may not the same
tactics be used indefinitely to defraud
the governmentP Representative Ma
guire of California, and severaEother
California members, oppose any re-
The advocate., 1894-06-27
PACIFIC COAST.
HUNGARY.

The foregoing figures are for first
class travel. Second-class tickets in
Hungary cost about l6 per cent. less,
and third-class so per cent. On slow
trains the fares are still lower.
1t will be seen that this plan benefits
the producers remote from centers of
population, as well as consumers in
their centers, by giving freights lower
in proportion to the farmers who are
remote. This is just what the Pacific
coast especially needs, and would get
under government ownership. A
farmer here works just as hard as one
in New Jersey or Illinois, and by a sys-
tenn of fares and freights, which is
lower and lower proportiOnately, as
distance increases from Chicago or
New York, the remote farmer is en-.
abled to get for his produce very nearly
what the one near to those markets OBJ
tains; thus distance Is overcome, and
value Of similar labor more nearly
The advocate., 1894-06-27

funding scheme whatever, and advo-
cate the plan of collecting the 500, 0,OOO,-
600 due the government out Of the es-
tate of the four men who were the ben
efciaries of the governments pater-
nalism.
Ex-Congressman J. G. Sumpter Of
California was before the house COM
mittee last week opposing the funding
scheme. He declared that the present
management of the road had brought
moral, political and financial calamity
upon the state; that the cost of the
road had not exceeded $3O,0OO,OOO and
that he thought it could be shown to
have been about $l5,000,0OO. Stanford,
Huntington, Hopkins and Crocker had
not been worth $40O, 900 all told in 1861,
and in 1869 when the road was finished,
they were worth 100000 each.
Crocker had resigned from the direc-
torate to make construction contracts
with the others. Eighty per cent of
the enormous dividends had gone into
the pockets of Stanford, Crocker, Hop.
kins and Huntington. Representative
Geary faVors foreclosure of the mort
gage by the government. He says It
"cannot be denied that conventions
have been bought, that legislatures
have been bought, that senators and
congressman have had their seats
bought for them" He kneaO that, he
said, because he had been elected in
the face Of that opposition; his oppon-
ent had been an attorney of the COM
pany, and had been ordered to make
the race.
1t is very evident that the Central
Pacific management has not only in the
past got in its work with congress in q
very questionable manner, but it is
working its tactics now. Last week
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,, &C.
cording to Washington dispatches, in
troduced a resolution, the purport of
which was to instruct the judiciary
committee TO inquire into the justice
and equity Of the claim Of the United
coneintRd on page n.
The advocate., 1894-06-27

Washington, by its officeholders, Sc
cured the nomination of ex-Judge Fol
ger, and although he was a man Of
splendid abilities and irreproachable
character, the resentful republican
voters from the farms and workshops
defeated him by almost 100000 ma
jority, merely because Of the undue in
reference of officeholders.
Again, the operation of railways and
telegraphs is no experiment, but
matter most satisfactorily tested by
several nations. Telegraphs are oper-
sted by government in Great Britain
and many of the countries of Europe.
The advantages of genuine govern
ment postal telegraph have been dem
Onstrated by the public speeches and
writings of Hon. Charles A Sumner
better than l can hope to do, and fur
ther discussion of this branch is un-
necessary. Railroads are owned by
government in Belgium, India, Hun
gary and Australia, and to some extent
in other countries. France has condi-
toned all railway franchises to obtain
a reversion to the state, at a certain
period, of all such property. There is
no place where public ownership has
not proven advantageous. In Belgium
the average rate for passengers is only
l cent per mile In India the roads and
depots are in splendid condition, and
rates very far below those in the United
States; in some cases about one-sixth of
our charges.
In Hungary, state ownership has
compelled managers of private COM
panies to admit the superior wisdom of
state regulations; although at the out
set they said the state could not wisely
control. The state determined to estab-
lish zones, or belts of distance, in which
the charges should proportiOnately de-
crease from given center, becoming
propOrtionately less when population
was sparse, thus helping those pro-
ducers remote from markets, and the
result was amazing. In a single year
the passenger travel on 5000 miles of
road grew from 5,186,277 to 13,O6O, 751.
There was likewise large increase in
freights, and a relative decrease in
operating expense.
The comparisons for charges there,
and for the same distances, as near as
may be, in California, taking San Fran
cisco as center, are shown by the fol
lowing atrikinr table.
The advocate., 1894-06-27

equalized by state action, for which
purpose a wise government ought to
exist. If now we turn to Australia we
find the state railways of Victoria,
which has a government practically as
democratic as our own, making q grand
success of government railways, where
no one but the state is permitted to
build or operate them. The Chronicle,
in an editorial, February 8, 1890, re.
ferring to this matter, says:
Instead Of letting corporations
build the railroads, and giving land
away to induce them to do this, Vic
tOria has kept its land and built its own
railroads. Seven years ago the income
from the railroads was 8 million dol
lars; in 1867, it was Sl2, ,265, 900, and
last year it was $l6,5OO,OOO. = n
In addition, Victoria, owns not only
the postal business, as the United
States does, but all the express bust
ness and all the telegraphic business,
and last year the profit on these was
over 2 million dollars. 1t
will not be many years before the
profits on the railroads will pay all the
expenses Of government.
The above figures are net income or
profit, as for the same year the total
surplus of Victoria lover operating ex-
penses on railroads, telegraph and
postal business) was 1884, 100000.
Victoria is about the size of Kansas;
has q population of 100000, with
about $500 miles of railroad and TO-
800 miles Of telegraph wires. Although
wages are higher there than the aver.
age in the United States, these rail-
roads had cost only about one-half as
much per mile as those Of the United
States are capitalized at. In proper
tion to her population, the ratio of
persons in public service is about the
same as would be in the United States
under public ownership of railways
and telegraphs, yet no one has per-
ceived any danger of perpetuating any
party in power, but the administration
stands or falls on questions Of policy as
approved or rejected by the people.
What other answers to this objection
of perpetuating party power are
neededP The objection falls flat be.
fore reason and experimental demon
stratiOn.
ITO be cOncluded)
The advocate., 1894-06-27

never be), could uphold any admins
tration against the millions Of people
who would be more than ever desirous
of good government. Add every office
holder, postmaster, telegrsphiC agent,
and person in the public service Of the
United States, and the whole is less
than one out of seventeen voters. To
say that such can establish despOtism
or injure popular right, is an argument
suited only for person who believes
all men mad and fit only for Asiatic
forms of government.
But these employees are all citizenG,
and like ourselves, interested to have
good times and prosperity, which is the
end of government.
Again, the employees of government
when railways and telegraphs pass to
public control will be under rigid sys-
tenn of civil service, and none but the
very chief commissioners of transpor-
tation can be dismissed with a change
of administration, and those only
for cause. Should it be found
advisable, those in public employ
ment might be required to re-
frain from primaries and nominating
conventions. Our federal constitution,
suppOsing presidential electors would
act as deliberate body, prohibits any
person in public service from being sp-
pointed as a presidential elector.
Hitherto no restraint by way of civil
service has been placed upon office
holders, and they have at times been
quite active in politics. But they can
not be compared to employees who
would be under regulations, which
would be of necessity rigid, and strictly
enforced by a department answersble
to the people for national trsnspor-
tatiOn.
But OflicehOlders have never had
m uch weight where any real principle
was at issue between parties. Their
influence is never important, except
when parties are so little divided as to
leave the mass of voters Indifferent as
to who succeeds; and parties change
readily, despite their efforts. The fol-
lowing quotation from an editorial in
the Chronicle, San Francisco, February
8, 1890, expresses the matter clearly:
%'The argument often advanced
against the ownership of railways by
the government of the United States is
that the railroads would be converted
into mere political machines, and that
a party once in power, would be ire
vocably lodged there, by virtue of the pO-
litical influence it could exert through
the medium of the government rail-
ways. This is about on par with the
assertion made every four years, that
the administration cannot be defeated
on account of the army of OffiCeholders;
but it has taken only four years to
doubly disprove such an assertion.
The republicans had the officeholders
in 1884, and were beaten; the demo
Gratis had them, rank and file, in 1888,
and they were beaten. 1t is the people
who elect presidents and congress
men,"
The soundness of this illustration is
more forcibly shown by the fact that
alt hough the republicans were in full
possession of the offices, and of every
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-10-12

leisure time; hence the doctor is neglected
We cannot vouch for the truth OF the story
However, il Is reported, that I'VE editor" had
"A local agent for the sale of his medicine IN
and about OVID. Said agent stepped into an
Office, where he found a gentleman suffering
from a severe headache. After relating the
great curative qualities of his medicine, the
gentleman allowed him to try to effect a
cure, which he proceeded TO do by saturating
his hair aud bathing his forehead freely with
the medicine. Meanwhile, the gentemaa's
cigar went out. which he attempted 10 relight
with match. The lighted IN 1tch, coming in
contact with the vapOr, caused great ex-
plosion, and the gentleman's head was ig-
nited. Ia his rapid movements his head re-
sembled a comet For time electric lights
were set at naught. "Ye editors" A. cent sud
nenly remembered that he had other engage
ments, and imme iately decamped. After
the flames hld bean extinguished the gentle
mans head bore the appearance of having
been In the hands of III Indian warrior.
Hairless. and nearly eyeless, he went into
secusion, since which time there has been a
warrant Issued for the arrest of ''ye editors"
agent; and The gentleman with u Wig and
one glass eye and q loaded cane Is ont look
ing tor big game.-lhe new NJ. T.. min
lister located here Is gaining many friends
de had large congregation last Sunday
evenlng.-Ihe temperance club Is hold
ing very entertaining debates.
CoNMENTAToK.