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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13
Stole an Orchard,

A novel theft has been reported to the
sheriff by a farmer who lives near
French Camp, ON the turnpike. This
farmer came to town Saturday and left
his farm in charge of his young son for
the day. The boy saw some men dig
ging up fruit trees in the young orchard
his father had started and went out to
them to inquire what they were at.
The men said they had bought all the
trees from the owner and were digging
them up to take them away. The boy
thought of course it was as the men
said, and that his father had really sold
the trees, so he made no protest. When
the father came home, he was greatly as
tonished to find that his orchard had
disappeared during his absence at Stock
ton.
The young son told him what had hap
pened, and steps were taken at once to
find some trace of the trees if possible,
but without success. None Of the nurs-
erymen here has bought any trees an
swering the description, and it cannot
be learned that any of that sort have
been shipped from Stockton. About 800
trees in all were stolen. Stockton Gal J
DISPATCH.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13
Small Fortune Under Her Mattress.

Mary Connolly, 60 years old, was found
dead recently in the small rear room in
which she lived for the last three years
on the first floor of 80 Baxter street, a
lofty tenement house known as the "Ker-
ry Flats"
Under the mattress of the bed were
found three bankbooks showing depos-
its in the Bleecker Street Bank of Saw
ings, the Immigrants Industrial and the
Bowery Savings banks which amounted
to $3,258.70. There was also found a
purse containing $1O2.17.
Cornelius Sullivan, who keeps a saloon
in the basement, was told by his wife
that one Of the windows of Mary's room
had been open all the preceding day, and
the lonely occupant had not been heard
stirring around. Sullivan called in Po-
liceman Brophy.
Brophy entered the rear room through
the window. AS his feet reached the
floor he stumbled over the old woman's
body. She had evidently been dead for
several hours. The corpse was in a
cramped position between the wall and
a small table, with her chin pressed rig
idly down on the breast. 1t is supposed
that she became i'll and was opening the
window to obtain air when she fell back
either unconscious or dead from heart
disease.
She was rather eccentric and persisted
in living alone. She was never married.
For several years she was employed as a
scrubwoman in Chambers Street hospi-
tai, but recently she had lived upon what
money she had saved. Her nearest rela-
tives are two first cousins-one living in
Jersey City and the other in Port Jervis,
N. Y.-New York Herald.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13
Had Dined and Was a Man Again.

The other morning tall, stout man,
with a scraggly, half grown beard and ev-
cry indication of poverty in his apparel,
entered the Riggs House and approached
the desk where Proprietor de Witte was
standing.
81 have not had anything to eat except
a sandwich yesterday morning for two
days." he said in voice that trembled
with weakness. Cant you let me have
something?'
Mr.. de Witte gave him a card to the
steward, and pretty soon he was vora-
ciously disposing of plentiful break
fast. When he had finished, he uncon-
sciously dipped his fingers in the water
glass, passed them over his lips, and dry
ing them on the napkin arose from the
table. Drawing himself up, he smiled
with satisfaction, and putting his hand
into the pocket of his tattered vest he
drew forth dime and proffered it to the
astonished waiter. When the latter re-
fused the tip, the man appeared to
awaken from dream, and with redden-
ing face he muttered something and hur-
riedly went out.
His gait, bearing, manner and poise
generally were those of a man who had
known better days, and the unconscious
recognition of the waiter showed that
the power of habit acquired in the days
of his prosperity had asserted itself when
the momentary pleasure of square meal
had caused him to forget his present
plight. Washington Post.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13
RAILROAD JoTTINcs.

Colonel II. A. Dupont has been elected
president of the Wilmington and North
ern railroad.
The Transatlantic steamship lines are
trying once more to control the immi-
grant traffic west Of Chicago.
George II. Graves has been appointed
superintendent of the indianapolis, De
catur and Western road to succeed L. A.
Boyd, resigned.
For third time the proposition to re-
establish the railroad commission in
Florida has been before the state legis-
hture and has been defeated.
A. A. Mcleod. ex-president of the
Reading railroad. has bought Herbert P.
Bisselrs house at Buffalo and has de-
cided to make his home in that city.
New York expects less blockade and
quicker transit on Broadway because of
the cable cars which have commenced
running on that congested thoroughfare.
The Clearfeld and Mahoning, a branch
Of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg,
has been opened from Dubois through
to Clearfeld, 2j miles through some of
the best coal lands in the state.
The Pennsylvania company had a TO-
tai income last year Of S2,Sl7,304, and
net 81 200 .974. out of which per cent
dividend was paid and S3s9,974 carried
TO surplus. The old board of directors
was reelected.
The Pennsylvania makes an extra
charge of 50 ON the Columbian express
leaving New York at a. m. for Chi
cago, and 81 so from Philadelphia to Chi
cago. No extra fare charged to inter-
mediate points. The Chicago limited
express is run in two sections, and the
Columbian express in three or four sec
tions.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13
STAGE GLINTS.

Jean and Edward de Reszke are now
in Warsaw, Poland, their native city.
Charles Frohman has arranged with
Charles Wyndham for a tour of America
season after next.
Charles H. Hoyt will not turn his pret
ty country place at Charlestown. N. H..
into the Flora Walsh home for old &C.
tresses.
NJ. Maeterlinck, who has been styled
by his friends the Belgian Shakespeare,
has just had a new play, "Pellias ct
Melisande," produced at the Bouffes Pa
risiens.
Augustin Daily will open his new the
atcr near Leicester square, London,
June 20, with THE Tanning of the
Shrew." On June 81 1.-The Hunchback}
will be given. and on July II, "Love In
Tandem.
Liszt is charged by Ehrlich, the Ger
man writer, with having deliberately
stolen themes which the abbe used in
his Second Hungarian Rhapsody from
q piano forte sonata that Ehrlich wrote
in 1S46 and gave to Liszt for examina-
ton.
Richard Mansfield is reported to have
bought land in southern California.
Other professional people having ranches
in southern California are Helena Mod
jeska, Fanny Davenport, Alexander Sal
vini, William NJ. WillIlgon, Nellie Nc
Henry and Albert Blunin1.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13
A Brave Little Girl.

A desperate attempt to wreck train
was made at the little town of McComb,
10 miles northwest of Findlay, o., few
nights ago. The attempt was made on
the fast express east bound on the Nickel
Plate. A pile of ties were placed on the
track half mile west Of town. The OBJ
struction was discovered by a little 10
year-old girl. who brayely Tagged the
passenger train in time TO prevent its
destruction.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13
aEMARE oE SOUTH AFRICA.
One who Has Tried II Says II Is No Place
For a Man In Need of Work.


For "a Man In Need OF Work.
sailed from London Jan. 90, 1898, for
Cane Town. returning the latter part of
MAY. and w9s only too glad when |
reached the States again. Miners think
ing of going to johannesburg would do
better by staying at home, even if times
are very quiet here. The average of
miners landing in Cape Town is about 10
weekly, and they are nearly all from
England They nearly all branch out
for johannesburg, and naturally the en-
movers prefer an Englishman before an
American, and you will find this in all
branches Of business, professional or
otherwise. The colored people do all
the laborious work in the mines, and as
for the positions the white man would
take I suppose there are about so wait
ing for one opening. A good miner can
earn S25 week, and think good
miner can earn more here, and then
again he can live considerably cheaper
here. He would have to pay for board
in johannesburg about $40 weekly. This
is speaking of board alone.
When left Cape Town last May. there
we're hundreds of men in Cape Town
from all parts of South Africa looking
for employment. Lots of them manage
to get down from the interior, and the
first chance they have of returning to
England, either working their passage or
otherwise, they accept. The boat came
back in to London was the Tartar, and
II worked their passage home, and hav-
ing so many applications the captain had
to refusea good many. A stowaway is
a common occurrence.
Board in Cape Town is Sc 25 a week,
and if you wanted position as clerk,
bookkeeper, telegraph operator, ETC.,
they would offer you what they call "a
start" That is to say, it doesn't matter
how competent you may be, You have to
commence with So or So a week, and you
think yourself lucky if you can get that.
There are On an average hundred ap-
plications for each situation.
l took my brother-in-law from Eng
land with me. He was earning there
$40 week, and he tramped around Cape
Town seven weeks and finally got po-
sition, and l have just heard from him,
and he is at present earning $6 aweek at
the same place.
As many people are returning from
South Africa as there are going--that is,
between 400 and 500 weekly. Men that
do get positions, after they have saved, if
ever they do, 5000 to 800, return to Eng
land for good.
Employers will not accept diploma
from the United States of any kind-it
doesn't matter how high the reputation
of the college may be-and any one head
ing there will only be too sorry he ever
left home, as it costs more to get from
there than it does to reach there. The
whole thing is there is too much Eng
lish about it all around, and after hay
ing the freedom of this country you will
find great difference between South
Africa and here.
There are two or three prices ON some
of the necessaries in Cape Colony, and
this is the cheapest place to live: House
rent, from So weekly; flour, 6 cents per
pound; potatoes, 80 pounds for 81; but
ter, so cents to rs cents per pound; ba-
con, 80 cents per pound.-Seattle Post
Intelligencer
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13
smothersd by Dog.

A 3-months-old infant of Charles Sal
mus of Bueksboro, N. j., was smothered
10 death the other evening by a large
Newfoundland dog sleeping on its head
The baby was left alone early in the even
ing and was sleeping soundly. The dog
went TO the bedroom unnoticed and curl
ed himself on the child. IL was dead
when found. The distracted father shot
the dog. -Philadslphia PraaA- ~
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13
SIen,s Waiting Cards.

Mems visiting cards are usually small
and long. They are engraved with the
full name or initials, preceded by MIR.
When not engraved, they should be writ
ten. Printed cards are in bad taste. OF
course doctor uses his professional title,
as does military or naval officer. AS a
mans visiting card is his introduction,
1t should above all things be neat, plain
and unobtrusive.-Ladies' Home Jour
nal
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13

II j. BIGGER, Attorney at Law, salem. Ore
III, gon. Office over Bush's bank.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13
PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS.
p. II. DARCY

TINlLMON FORD, Attorney at law, Salem,
Oregon. ONCE up stairs in Patton block.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13
Thoroughbred Poultry for Sale.

have the following firstelass Thoroughbred
poultry for sale at prices stated; Grated ready
for shipment, purchaser " pay express
charges. Address. care OF JOURNAL once,
PostOnice biz OK. Salem Or.
several White beghorn cOckreln, very nne,
(no pullets for sale) e %.
Black spanish oockrela, 4 70 s months old,
Sl.25.
Brown LeghOrn Bl. spanish, Ind. Games.
L. Brahma eggs, S2.OO per settling. Send fer
eatalOE E Hotter
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13
HOUSE Painting, Decorating,
II Hard Wood Finishing,

Can give good references. Estimates furnish
Cd. Address, GoO. kschstrufh, halem. Real
deucs on salem Motor Railway. North salem
Leave orders Al stelnsr a hlosaers. iied
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13
Steamer Hltond
FOR PORTLAND.

TOH IOItI Lh-ND'
Leaves BOise's dock Mondays, wednesdays
ard Fridays 7:45 .. m
REyrrRSlN0. leayes Portland Tuesdays,
Tbnrsdays and saturdays At 645a m
Fast time for passenger services no way
anding freight handed
ROUND TRIP (nnlimited) s2Oo. One way
gls23.
MEALS "a CENTS
For frslght rates and tiekets apply 70 =; -.
sLEIGhf, Agent, Al the doek' ioot o. ~ stsss ~
slTesL
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13

J.sHAW. N. W. HUNT SHAW HUNT
81 Attorneys at law. ONCE over Capital
National bank, Salem, Oregon.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13

IOhN A. CARSON, Attorney at law, rooms
81 B and 4. Bush bank building. Salem. Or.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13

h. r. BONHAM W. ii. HOLMES.
DONHAM q HOLMES, Attorneys at law.
ID ONCE in Bush block, between State and
Court, on Commercial street.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13

- commercial GtenOg Apply. once, room |
II, Cray block. The best OF work done az rea /
sOnable Iales. Iz-l0
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-13

TOHN BAYNE, ATTORN EH-AT-I AW.
sl COLLECTIONS made aud promptly remitted.
Murphy block, Cor. State and Commercial
streets salem, Oregon. S%it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-31
AN ELECTRIC CARRIAGE.

The probability of electric power be-
ing used in the place of horse power
for carriages has been often discussed
| in the papers. We have no doubt that
the storage battery system will yet
be so improved as to supply the force
that will be necessary for the propulsion
Of different kinds of vehicles. AT pres-
ent it is too crude and too expensive.
When it becomes more perfect it will
supercede the present wire-and-poles
system and enter into general use for
light and power purposes.
A Kansas City carriage manufac-
turer has made vehicle on the lines
of his own invention. which is said to
attain the speed of eleven miles an
hour and to work easily. It can hardly
be classed exactly as a new invention.
seeing that electric coaches have been
run with more or less success in E,1-
rope. But this appears to he in ad-
vance of anything of it's kind that has
been put upon the road. Following is
description of the carriage:
1t is about the size of an ordinary
vehicle. One seat holding three per
sons faces the front, and another one
that will accommodate a similar num-
Der faces the rear. A storage battery
composed of five series of five cells
each furnishes current, and the cells
are arranged three tiers beneath the
seats. The wheels are of wood. with
India rubber cushions on the tires. The
rear wheels, which are three feet two
inches in diameter have on their inner
sides a cas- IRON flange 26 inches in di-
ameter and five inches wide Power from
the battery is communicated to the
f1ange by raWhide friction pulley. re-
volving from 600 to 1000 times a min
ute, and is capable of being elevated
or depressed at will by The driver bv
means of divers on which he places
his feet.
The steering is done n, q teethed
segment and pinion e.ta,i ed to the
axle of the fore wheels and handled
by a steering post manipulated by the
driver VIII his hands The carria ee
can make quick, snort turns. The
storag. batteries will run the machine
about sewn or eigo ho,rs. The car
riage weighs abou 90 pounds and
is quicker anc lighte- than the Euro
pean coaches.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-31
POLICE AND roLrTrcs.

The Lexow committee has gone 'tup
higher" superintendent Byrnes has
testified His testimony seems to be
that of an honest and straightforward
man, a man who has done nothing of
which to be ashamed, nothing he de-
sires to conceal But his testimony has
a value far beyond that of the imme-
date object sought by the committee.
Having served on the police force of
New York for over thirty years and
having risen to be the head of it, he
knows its merits and defects as no one
else can. And what has been the
curse Of New York's police? Super
intendent Byrnes says local politicians
have been, and that so long as politics
continues to be a factor in the force,
the curse will continue to exist.
Students Of municipal government
have recognized this evil and have de-
nounced it accordingly. They have
been termed dreamers and Missionaries
while their views of what was neces-
sary to effect reform haye been
| scoffed at. The practical men, 1.-The
local politicians, have managed af-
fairs and managed them in the fur
| therance Of their own interests. The
public interest is ever made to give
way to the private interest; all munic-
| ipal affairs are looked upon as legiti-
mate subjects for exploitation Ulti-
mately there can be but one
outcome to such a theory-the
honeycombing with corruption of
municipal matters. This corrup-
ton has gone further in New
York than elsewhere throughout the
country. 1t has been organized and
adjusted and readjusted until it seemed
to have. reached perfection. It has
been controlled very largely from AL
bany, and no matter what party was
in power there the New York organ
ization was always able to secure
whatever legislation was necessary
to accomplish its purposes. In the last
resort this was always done through
The local politicians" They never
once loosed their hold nor failed to
use their power when anything was
to be gained thereby. The consequence
was that the welfare of the public was
matter of secondary if of any con-
sideration. The policemen recognized
all this and naturally paid court to
the powers that be. The bipartisan
police board became nothing but BIZ
partisan board making deals harder
because Of the conflicting interests.
And between this upper and neither
mill stone of a bipartisan board We're
the people ground and squeezed. Poll
tics in a police force is corruption in
police force.
Superintendent Byrnes' testimony
regarding the influence of politics upon
a police force deserves to be preserved
in letters of brass.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-31


Gentlemen Of the Commissions. had
you not Better retrace your steps and
not try to work that little game any
longer2''
That is question put by the paper
which has been trying TO work up pub
lie feeling against the Utah Commits
sion bs all kinds of insinua tons and
falsehoods. It is an intlmation that the
Commission has been doing something
which It should now try to undo. But
it Is not addressed to ali the members
OF that body. It is intended for the
three Democrats on the board. who
have been the target for the Tribune
squirt-gun from the beginning of their
appointment.
Now what have they done except
perform the duty required OF them by
act Of Congress and their oath of Of
fee? If their dastardly assailants were
to come down to SPECIFIC details they
could not point to anything they have
done more than that
What part of their career can they
or should they retrace? The Commits
sion commenced the canvass which
the law requires them to make. They
found discrepancies in the returns The
ballot boxes were sent for Was that
wrong? Il was the Republican MEM
bers who first demanded them. On
opening the boxes to make the recount
which the Utah law provides for in
such cases, they found mistakes had
been made in counting to the favor of
some Republican candidates. They
counted them as they found them.
When an injunction was served upon
them to cease until the court had pas
sed upon the legal question involved,
they ceased to recount.
Now let the Tribune tell us specific
ally what the Commission. in Its learn
ed or party opinion. should do
by way Of retracing their steps? Does
it mean that they shall declare they
will not canvass the returns at all? IF
so how are we to have any convention?
Does it mean they shall say they will
not go to the ballot boxes but will send
them back whence they came? Ii so.
who shall decide what is right in view
of the discrepancies which the returns
show on their face And how can
they do that when the court has to
decide as to their right and duty to
make the recount?
Is 1t not a fact that she Tribune is
simply nagging away at the Commits
sion, in driveling way without sense
or reason, and Simply to keep up the
agitation it started against that board.
or rather the Democratic majority
thereof? 1t is about time that paper
ceased its nonsense on this subject and
held its peace until the courts decide as
to the question of the Commissions
powers. But that is what our Republi-
can friends do not want although they
have invoked the judicial power.
The Commission have no steps to re-
trace. All they can lawfully do is to
abide the decision of the courts. And
that DIS what every peaceable citizen
and decent paper will do. But Republic
can newspaper efforts to incite the
populace to some overt act not indi-
Gated, unless the case shall go ,as the
Tribune decides. will prove more than a
5zzle, they will rebound to the hurt of
those that make them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-31
REFUTING ITSELF AGAIN.

What a subtitle logician our morn
ing neighbour is, Tt has been striving
by it own system of ratiocination, for
some weeks to show that there has
been a deep laid Democratic conspiracy
to .steal the election" and later to
steal the convention. But it has not
been able to advance anything WHICH
would lead up to that conclusion but
number of contradictory assertions
and ill-grounded suspicious.
In its latest effort. however, at has
offered some suggestions which have
the effect of disproving its own propo-
sitions, proceeding not at all uncom-
mon with our peculiar contemporary.
After repeating its charge of Demo-
cratic conspiracy 1t queries:
IF the purpose had been to stuff the