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FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1891.
NUMBER 15.
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Director of the Mint Leach Says the
United States Law on Gold Bar
Shipments is Now Operative.
Comptroller of the Treasury- Orders
Bank Closed in Philadelphia
(iompers Wants Ponds.
DIRECTOR LCECH'9 VIEWS.
The fitted States Must Stand on 1U Dig
nity en the Gold Bar Question.
Nkw Yobk-, SI arch 20. Director of
the. mint, '. Leech, was interviewed to
day regarding the policy of the mint in
refusing to exchange gold bars for gold.
He said: "It is undesirable and
against, public policy for the government
to furnish . gold in its mwt convenient
form at a sea board port to shippers of
gold, and we propow to exercise the
same discrimination that has been exer
cised by European countries. In regard
to the export of gold, this policy is exer
cised now not because of any change in
the monetary sitnation in the United
States, not because there is any defi
ciency in the gold supply, or of any dis
trust there may be in regard to the de
mand for gold,.. but "solely bee use the
law is now for the: lirst time operative
which permits us to exercise this dis
cretion. .
THE GOLD BAK9 SirST OO.
RfGIITS I The I'topla. Anson and Kodney All Fine - GOULD HAS ENOUGH.
i Ship. 1
: New Yokk, March 18. The Utopia, It is Announced that he
I which was wrecked in Gibraltar nay,
j belonged to the Anchor line Steamship
: Company, and was an iron screw steamer ;
'of 231 tons displacement and 1678:
horse-power. She was built in Glasgow,
Scotland in 1874, and was commanded
bv CaDtain Mitchell. The Kodnev.
which sank her, is one of the recent ad- j
ditions to the British navv. and is con-
sidered one of the most powerful iron- I
iclads afloat. She is of 9ti00 tons dis
placement, twin screws, 7500 horse
power and mounts ten heavy guns, four
of which are sixtv-three-ton guns, her
armor is steel-faced and has a thickness
from ten to eighteen inches. She be
longs to the same class as the lien bow,
Anson and Howe. The Anson, which
was in collision with the Utopia, is a
sister ship to the Rodnev, the only
difference being that the Anson is 10,-
Intends to Re
pudiate the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Co.'s Lease.
Oxford Wins the Great Boat Race A
Large Shipment of Gold to Eu
rope Xo Poison Was Found.
OOITLD TO KEPrDIATK.
THE NEW ORLEANS EPISODE.
THE CHRONICLE A NECESSITY.
i-
An InreNtieation ot the Affair to
Commenced by the Grand Jury.
New Oklkaxh. March 19. Before the
giand jury today
The Wizard to
Drop the
Lease.
-It is reported that
Omaha, March 21.
Gould is laying the
tion of the Union Pacific lease of the
Oregon Railway and Navigation Co's
lines because the lease entails a yearly
loss of one million.
Thomas C. Collins
tfstified concerning the bribing of the
jurors in the Hennessey case, coiiins
was in the secrect service of the city, but
managed to gain the confidence of Pri
vate Detective O'Malley, who took him
into his employ. His 'testimonv today
i was, ol course, secret, Dur startling ne-
velopments are expected. ,. .the city
attempted another coup similar to the
j Collins scheme, but this, although well
planned, fell through. A detective was
brought here from Italy, arrested upon
a charge of counterfeiting, and sent to
the parish prison. He was put into the
All Available Coin Taken and Govern
ment A liked to Allow Gold Ban
Shipped.
New York, March 20. Heidelbach,
Ickleheimar & Co. have taken $525,000
in gold coin on the sub-treasury for a
shipment to Berlin. This makes the
total taken and requested $1,350,000.
Supt Mason of the assayer's office will
telegraph a request for gold bars to
Washington, an answer is not expected
until after bunking hours. It will be
difficult to take the bars and get them to
the steamer in the short time between
the beginning of business and the hour
for sailing tomorrow. '
. THE RESERVE TOO SMALL.
000 tons displacement instead of 9000
tons.
The Utopia was- not insured. The
cargo was valued at $2000, and the
steamship Assvria, of the Anchor line,
which was at Geneva at the time of the
accident, has been ordered to Gibraltar.
By this delay the Utopia's passengers
will not arrive here until after the new
law ("that no immigrant without effects
shall be permitted to land") gees into
effect. Colonel Weber said today that
the survivors ot the UtoDia would nrob-
ably be examined in Gibraltar, and the
destitute and sick and crippled be left
behind, only those with baggage and
able to take care of themselves being
brought. He had notified the Anchor
line people to do this to avoid trouble
later on.
GOLD IS INCREASING."
Kstiinates
Bullion
or Amount
rroduced.
or Gold
A. National Bank Cloned by Government
' . Order.
Philadelphia, March 20. The Key
stone National bank closed its doors this
morning by order of the comptroller of
the currency. Its largest depositor is the
city of Philadelphia, which has about
$400,000 in it. The authorized capital is
$500,000. , A; surplus of $200,000 is
claimed.' i
' No statement of the bank's liabilities
and assets is attainable; It is said that
the bank was closed by the comptroller
by reason of its reserve fund having
fallen below the amount reqnired by the
national banking law. The bank has
deposits amounting to about $1,;JOO,000
and it is claimed it has asset, sufficient
to meet this amount.
It is thought that depositors will get
their money in full. No one' will lose a
dollar except the stockholders.
A WYOMING SENATOR TALKS.
SNELL FAMILY'S TRIALS.
Alleged l'olaonliif or the Murdered
Banker Daughter-in-law.
Chicago, March 18. A new chapter
in the troubles of the Snell family was
unfolded todav, which bids fair to have
sensational developments, A few days
ago Hattie Juerst, a nurse-girl employed
in the tamuv of Albert J. Snell. son of
the murdered millionaire, was arrested,
charged with larceny. Now comes the
storv that larcenv was onlv a Dart of the
charge, for several weeks Mrs. knell s
health has been failing rapidlv. finally
it was noticed that a tonic she was taking
was having a decidedly bad effect. One
day she found fu the bottle a white sedi
ment, which the doctors said was not a
part of the touie. Then wine was an In
stituted, but the same bad effects fol
lowed, and the doctor told Snell his wife
was being poisoned. An examination
disclosed the presence in the wine of the
same powder found in the tonic. Detec
tives were employed and Hattie Juerst's
arrest was soon followed. In her trunk
was found three hundred dollars worth
of Mrs. Snell'a property, and a vial of
white powder, apparently identical with
that found in the tonic and wine bottles.
Both powders have been submitted to a
chemist, and pending his report the at
torney for the Knells refuses to talk
further about the rase. '
New York, March 21. The production'
of gold in the United States occordingo
the official estimate of the United States
mint was $64,000,000, for 1889 and 1890.
There has been an increase of gold in the
form of bullion or coin to the approxi
mate amount of $230,000 in the United
States in the last two years. In view of
the above the increase of stock gold in
the country it is difficult by any financial
review to account for the nervousness
with which the exjort of a little gold is
now regarded.
piar. ior a repuoia- . section with the other Italian pris
oners, .out the assassins uecame uisirusi
ful of the new -omer, and nothing was
learned. Sheriff Villere, in his report
concerninz the occurrences at the prison
last Saturday, after giving a list of the
Italian prisoners, says lie received no
intimation that the prisoners were to be
disturbed. He says he saw the call for
the meeting of citizens and he at once
went to the prison and instructed the
fourteen men on duty to take every pre
caution. He then drove to the court
and reported to Judge Baker. On the
way he noticed there was much excite'
ment. and this prompted him to call up
on the chief of police for a force to aid
his deputies in repelling an attack if one
should be made. The chief referred
him to the mayor. He called at the
mayor's office, but that gentleman had
not yet arrived. At about 10 :30 he went
to see the eovernor, who gave him in
structions to formally demand from the
mayor assistance and to report the re
sult to him. While at the mayor's he
was informed of the attack on the jail
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.
Harrison's Supporter' Bolt end Make a
Sensation,
THE EMBARGO RAISED.
AGREED TO A COMPROMISE.
The
Present Silver Law in Correet and
Should Have a Fair Trial.
Washington, March 20. Senator
Carey, 'of .Wyoming, in an interview to
day said : "The so-called free coinage
' craze In the west has been largely exag
gerated. The great mass of the clear
headed and conservative element are in
favor of giving the present law a thor
ough trial,' believing that it will fully
meet . the business requirements of the
country." Though full of western busi
ness, .we believe in sound money as
much as our brothers in the east, only
the west believes in a larger circulating
medium." The senator, thinks that
President' Harrison will be renominated
BRIGANDAGE IN AMERICA.
A Prominent Detroit Citizen Captured
. ana neia xor buhbi.
'" Detboit, March 20. Joseph . Perrier,
a, wealthy citizen of this citv, was called
to his door last night by a stranger with
a message puportdug to come from a sick
friend. Perrier entered a coupe with
the messenger and drove away. Early
this morning Perrier's nephew ' received
a message from his uncle stating tliat he
was held for ransom and asking for $30,'
000. The police are investigating.
THEV WANT FUNDS. ' - , .
. Gladstone ha a Narrow Escape.
London. March 18. It has trausoired
mat uiaaatone, alter his speech at lias-
tings yesterday, had a narrow escape
from a serious accident. The coachman
who was driving the carriage which took
Gladstone to the railroad station, lost
control of his horses. The linrsOH went
stopped with difficulty. The coachman ' nam
was lined for drunkenness todav. the
charge against him having been pre
ferred by politicians.
A Newspaper Man Chosen.
President Gompera Asks for Money to
Aulit la the Coming Strike.
" - Boston, March 20. A call signed by
Samuel Gompers, president . of the
American Federation of Labor Unions of
America,' which urges the necessary and
immediate contribution of funds for the
150,000 coal miners whose Btruggle for
eight hours per day is to begin May 1st,
, lias been issued.
The "Randy" Old Trial.
Hills boso, Or. March 20. "Sandy"
Oldsjoase was resumed this morning.
Several witnesses for the defense testified
similar to that adduced at previous trials.
. Court adjourned till one o'clock. The
case will probably be given to the jury
' tonight.
After the Konlajic-ixt.
: Paris, March 20. The police raided
and searched the houses of a number of
Boulangists. They also made -several
arrests. Many revolutionary doenments
were seized by the police and will be
used in evidence at the trial of the men
in custody.
The Malta Sending- Threatening Letter.
Sr. Louis, March 20. Dispatches from
Texas say the New Orleans Mafia is send
ing threatening letters to persons who
expressed disapproval of their methods.
' The Batavta Get Off Safely.
Astokia," March ' 20. The steamer
""BatavW was towed off the' bank by
the tug "Atoria" this morning without
-damage. -
Mlsaonrl Make Handsome Appropria-
tloav
i
St. Loins. Marth 20. Tbe legislature
- todav passed a bill aDDronriutkie 150.-
00 for state exhibits at the World' Fair, I pxent 10 per cent, a month
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A Prominent Aetre Obtain Twenty
It ve Thousand Dollar.
New Yobk, March 18. It was re
ported yesterday that Miss lula Vane,
leading actress of Charles iroham s "All
the Comforts of a Home" company, had
received $25,000 in compromise ' of the
suit for breach of promise that she
brought recently against a wealthy Buf
falo man named King. He had fallen in
love with her and left a will, it is said,
giving the actress all his fortune.. It
was discovered that he was insane, and
he went to Paris for treatment. He is
now in an asylum in Buffalo. The ac
tress agreed to waive the liberal pro
visions of the will, under certain con
ditions, and the $25,000 was paid over
yesterday, so it was reported, and the
actress' " written acceptance ' obtained.
Miss Vane declined last night to talk
about the case, and would neither affirm
nor deny it.
Chicago, 111., March 21. The demo
cratic city convention for the nomination
of a candidate for mayor was the scene
of a sensation this morning. One hnn-
dred delegates, supporters of ex-mayor
Harrison, bolted the convention and
repaired to another hall. The remain
ing delegates will renominate Cregier.
The disaffection of Harrison makes it
certain that there will be two demo
cratic tickets in the field. Harrison has
the support of the German democrats
and the Personal Right's league.
Legislator Assaulting Each Other.
Sax Fkancisco, March 21. The l'ol'
Sacramento special says, that assem
bly man Burner of Humboldt has caused
the arrest of assemblyman Low of J
Santa Clara on charge of assault for the
latters action at the time of the intro
duction into the assembly yesterday, of
a report of the committee investigating
the Bruner charges. The mayor of
Sacramento it is stated has grunted per
mission for Bledsoe, who is a small man
to carrv fire arms.
RAILWAY EMPLOYES.
Pay
Tnion Pacific Trainmen Want More
. for Their Labor.
Omaha, Neb., March 18. The com
mittee of trainmen from the Pacific
division of the Union Pacific was in con
sultation with General Manager Clark
all day. No settlement was reached.
The men have presented a schedule for
regulating the pay of the trainmen of
the Pacific division, and ask it be
adopted. . The committee holds that
living wages cannot be made under the
present schedule. The men say that
Mr. Clark does not seem disposed to
grant them any concessions, and some
of them are in favor of returning to their
nomes ana resorting to other measures
to accomplish their purposes.
DETECTIVE O'MALLEY.
Moonshiner Kill Revenue Officers.
Washington, March 21. The
yester-
com
missioner of the internal revenue bureau
has received a telegram from Greens'
boro. N. C, saying that R. J. Barnwell
a revenue officer was killed and deputy
marshal Brim mortally wounded
moonshiners in Stokes
day.
Death from an Amateur Prize Fight.
Savannah, March 21. Robert Willink,
who was knocked down last night by
Byrnie Murphy in an amateur prize fight
at the athletic tournament here, died
this nyijng from concussion of the
brainJ-'rtlllink was a son of Henry
Willink, owner of the Savannah Marine
Kailwav.
American Cattle Can Now Be Landed at
Hamburg.
Berlin, March 18. Owing to the an
tiring efforts of Mr. Phelps, U. . , inin-
isted here, Chancellor Von . Caprivi has
removed the embargo placed on Ameri
can cattle that landed at Hamburg and
it is likelv that Phelps will be able to
obtain the removal of restrictions placed
upon the importation of American hogs.
Aiready 300 American beeves have leen
landed at Hamburg as an experiment
Phelps, at a series of dinners which he
has given at his residence here, has giv
en his guests American beef, and has
thus introduced its use in the families of
many distinguished members of the
fashionable circles of Berlin.
- In turn Hamburg local officials are
making costly permanent improvements
in landing facili tied now at the disposal
of importers of American cattle. The
object of the Hamburg officials in mak
ing the improvements referred to is to
encourage and develop trade in Ameri
can cattle. Chancellor Von Caprivi is
now considering the point made by
Minister Phelps, who asks that American
hogs be allowed to land in the same
manner and under the sauie inspection
as American cattle.
The interview with Secretary Rusk,
of the United State department "of agri
culture, in which he is quoted as saying
the United States does not ask, but de-
; mantis the repeal of hog restriction, is
t largely, quoted in the hostile press and
. I may delay matters.
He 1 Said to be now In Hiding In
Chicago. :
Chicago. March 18. Detective O'Mal
ley, of New Orleans, is said to be in
Chicago. He left New Orleans, and is
reported to have been seen at the Grand
Pacific hotel Monday night, in company
with Seligman, foreman of the iurv in
the Hennessey case. There is a rumor
current that O'Malley came here from
Cincinnati, and is hiding with one of
his friends, a prominent saloon keeper.
The latter denies that he is here.
A Coal Oil Ship Lost.
San Fkancisco, March 21. The steam
ship Oceanica which arrived from China
and Japan early this morning brings ad
vices that the J. C. Warns, bound from
New "York to Ningapo with a cargo of
kerosene oil was lost . after leaving
Batavia. No particulars are known.
Oxford Win.
Lonpon, March 21. Oxford won the
eight oared race over Cambridge today.
The race was rowed from aPutney to
Mortlake. The course distance is about
four miles. Oxford's time was 22 min
minutes. Betting wad three to one on
Oxford.
Working Men's Co-Operative Store.
Chicago, March 21. A workingmen's
co-operative society has lieen formed
here. The first store will open for the
sale of meat and groceries only and it is
intended to extend them to other
branches as fast as the growth of the
society may warrant.
Gets a Life Imprisonment.
San Fkancisco, March 25. Frederick
C. Beck, the waiter who killed John M.
Bowen, a grocery clerk, Novemlier 1,
1889, was wntenced by Judge Murphy
today to San Quentin for life.
A STATE WE I0 NOT W A NT.
The New Foundlander'to Apply for Ad
mission as One of 1's.
Boston, March - 23. The Herald
Halifax special sayi : "Great excitement
exists in New Fauudland over the action
of the imperial government in referring
only one feature of the fishing trouble
with France to arbitration and attempted
passage of the act through the British
parliament to coerce the New Found-
landers carrying out modut vivende.
In the legislature, party lines objected
and most Violent speeches have been
made by men on both sides, denouncing
the cowardlv and treacherous conduct of
the British government.
Delegates will be sent to London to
formally protest. However, they do
not expect to accomplish anything and
in this event the legislature will pass
resolution setting forth that by neglect
and ill-treatment for a century, England
has forfeited all claims to further
allegience. A formal appeal will then
be made to the United States for protec
tion and for admission as a state of the
republic. .
A LAW UNTO THEMSELYES.
A Receiver Appointed.
Birmingham, March 21. On the peti
tion of the Merchantile company of
Baltimore, Colonel Montgomery has
been appointed receiver for the Birming-
Powderlv and Bessemer railroad.
Chicago. March 19. Louis Hume, of
the Inter Ocean, has bean anrxiintMl
foreign correspondent of the bureau of i elt concerning her.
promotion and publicity of the world's
fair, vice Dr. Weston, deceased. It now
transpires that neither the government
nor the local directory has money to
construct a pier for the proposed line of
battle ships tor the naval exhibits, and
in all probability the vessel will have to
be built on shore.
Ship Long Overdue.
London, Morch 21. The British bark
Dumfneshire which sailed from San
Francisco, OctoJier 20th for Hull is con
siderably overdue and much anxiety is
The Chinese of the Coast Enforcing their
Own Laws.
Ottawa, March 23. A detective who
recently visited British Columbia on
business for the government, stated to
day that he was convinced that the
Chinese in Victoria were administering
punishment under their own civil and
criminal code. He said he learned of
two cases in which criminals were be
headed unknown to the authorities. ' He
is of the opinion that many Chinese are
thus secretly put to death on the Pacific
coast.
Scalped by the Indians.
Marshaletown, O., March 19. T.
Jacobs, living near Waterloo, received a
telegram stating his 12-year-old son, who
had been visiting in Nebraska, was cap
tured bv a band of Indians. A party
started in pursuit, and as they ap
proached the redskins, the latter split
the bov's head open with a tomahawk.
scalped him, ami then escaped. The boy
was dead when the men reached htm.
I From the first issue of the Chronicle
till the present hour the Times-Mountaineer
has not ceased to use all its power of
vituperation, malice and ridicule against
this journal and its proprietors. When
the present editor took charge he had
hoped that the quasi friendship which
had existed between him and the editor
of the Times-Mountaineer for several
years would have spared him, at least,
from any personal malicious attack. In
this however he was sadly mistaken.
Most gladly would he have pursued the
even tenor of his way in a race of gentle
manly and friendly competition ; but it
must not be. The Times-Mountaineer
wanted a fight and wanted it badly, and
the unmanly whine that the Chronicle
was started to "starve him out" was re
vived with ten-fold intensity, while the
proprietors were charged in various
rhetoric, with being "bankers, capitalists
and land boomers" and the editor their
hired lackey." All this and much
more of like import might well pass un
noticed but for one consideration. They
are the charges of deceptive scheming
demagogy intended to create a false im
pression and sympathy outside the circle
of those familiar with the facts.
The CnaoNiCLE was not started to starve
the Mountaineer out. Had this been bo
the dictates of common manhood should
have kept the Mountaineer silent. It
is but a cur that whines at attempted
punishment. Before ever a dollar was
invested in the Chronicle plani an offer
was made by the projectors of that paper
to the editor of the Timet-Mounlaineer in
propria pergonal, to purchase his plant, at
the full price he authorized the present
writer to say .he would take for it,
namely $5000. Less than ten minutes
after this offer was conveyed when a rep'
resentative of the Chronicle called to ar
range for the trade, Mr. Michell raised the
price to $5,500. After a short time the
representatives of the Chronicle agreed
to give this sum, but Mr. Michell again
liacked out and all further negotiations
closed. These are facts that Mr. Michell,
accomplished as he is, dare not and will
not deny. Does this look as though the
Chronicle was started to starve him
out? They wanted to buy him out. He
hod offered to sell. Twice they offered
him all he asked and all that the plant
was worth in the world and more. With
the blind infatuation that has so often
pursued him he refused and now he
would pose before a sympathizing public
as a miserable mendicant, suffering the
pangs of anticipated starvation at the
hands of T tankers and capitalists and
their hired lackey. His Anglo-Saxon
ancestors should blush in their graves at
such a Cornishman.
But the proprietors of the 'Chronicle
are "bankers and capitalists and land
boomers." The reference' to "land.
boomers is apparent and is answered in
one word. No man, whom even Mr.
Michell would call a "land boomer,"
has ever contributed a dollar to the
CnRONici.E fund. No "booming" adver
tisement was ever inserted in the
Chronicle, for which regular advertising
rates were not charged. If it were a
crime to advertise a boom for pay, Mr.
Michell is guilty of the same crime. He
advertised North Dalles property as long
as he was paid for doing so. When the
advertisements were stopped he pro-
clamed the whole thing a swindle, but
his virtuous indignation was criminally
latent. To avoid suspicion he should
have commenced sooner. ,
If we were inclined to special pleading
we might say "bankers, capitalists and
land boomers" have as good a right
to start a paper as any others. They
have one advantage, they are able finan
cially to make a good one. But the
covert insinuation comes with bad grace
from the obsequious fawning tool of a
banker, and a tool not by involuntary
necessity, but by the ready volition of a
distempered will. The men at the back
of the Chronicle, tis true, are some of
them men of means. Is this a crime?
Then it is a crime that Mr. Michell,
above many, would like to commit. The
men at the back of the Chronicle are
the leading citizens of The Dalles. They
are the front and support of every move
ment for the advancement of the city
and country. If The Dalles has done
little in this respect, without them she
could have done nothing. - What little
the board of trade has done these men
when the debt is paid, at a mere nomi
nal price : because he disgraced himself
and the party to which he proposes to
belong, by one day entering a bitter pro
test against the gubernatorial nominee
and the next day after the candidate had
paid him a little visit, accompanied by
his little check book, he became his ob
sequious apologist and defender to the
end of the campaign: because while
posing as a republican he is a republi
can for revenue onlv and because the
people needed a paper that would tell
the truth without fear or favor and on
which they could rely at all times and
under all circumstances to advocate.
with unswerving devotion, the best and
highest interest of the city and country
in which it circulates. Until the Chron
icle ceases to do this, and becomes the
pander of a faction or the slave of cor
ruption, ana not tui then, it has a mis
sion and it hopes to fill it, and the Times
Mountaineer has an equal right to try
and "starve it out" in the only way it
can, by repenting of the evil of its ways
and bringing forth fruits meet for repen
tance.
A SCHOOL LAW AMENDMENT.
A law was passed by the last legiala
tion that will put an end to the difficulty
that many school districts experienced
last year in dealing with the surplus left
over and not used for school purposes
during the year in which the appropria
tion was made. It will be remembered
that an act was passed in the session of
1889 making it compulsory for the school
aistricte to use all the monies coming
into their liand from the state and
county fund during the year of its dis'
tribution. The law has been so amended
that all monies so left over and not used
are to be returned to the county treasur
er and the same shall be added to the
school funds on hand and be redistribued
to the various districts of the county.
The law is eminently proper. It will
stop the turning of school districts into
private banking institutions and insure
the use of each years appropriation for
the purpose for which it was intended
during the year of its distribution. The
poorer districts will not suffer by the
new law. . As a rule thev could always
profitably use more money than they re
ceive and if the richer districts do not
from any causy so use up the yearly ap
propriation the poorer ones during the
following year will reap the benefit of it
in the re-distribution. . - . f
THE JURY SYSTEM.
Whatever good the jury may have
effected in the past and whatever lene-
fits other countries may derive from it
now, in the United States it is fast be
coming a law word and a mockery. So
frequently have the ends of justice been
defeated through venality and ignor
rance that the finding of a jury is no
longer considered as the expression of a
wise or just conclusion. As the practice
is, in many cases, the stupidly ignorant
are alone competent to serve. The man
of information, of reading, the man
familiar with passing events is necessar
ily debarred. The fact that he knows
anything shuts him . out. Ignorance,
gross, stupid, stolid . ignorance is the
prime attribute of an American juror.
What a grim satire it is upon the jury
system to have it stated that the counsel
in the Sandy Olds' case now being tried
at Hillsbore, was anxious to form a jury
composed of men "who had not read the
Oregoniau." An inocent man, charged
with serious offence, who has not money
sufficent to bribe the venal or fee a high
price lawyer capable of working on the
feeling of the ignorance, had better
thousand times be tried by a second rate
judge ; whereas a guilty one, with suf
ficent means, has only to resort to these
expedients and he is free.
A dispatch from Washington dated
March 17th, informs us of a decision
made by Secretary Noble under the new
public land act of March 3, 1891, which
is of considerable importance to the peo
pie of tljis and adjoining counties. The
case involves the right to cut timber
from the public lands, when the timber
so cut is for one's own personal use,
Cyrus P. Rawson of Bishop, California,
was charged with unlawfully cutting
747,000 feet of lumber from public lands
in that state. The record showed that
Rawson has used 580,000 feet manu
factured into lumber, for improving his
own ranches, by building barns, houses.
iencing etc., ana that the remaining
187,000 feet had been sold to others,
T , ...
xutwBun uaa moae a proposition to pay
the government for the lumber he had
sold but contended that he was entitled
to what he had cut for his own use
secretary Noble sustained the view of
Ranson.
Of Course He Would Accept.
Washington, March 23. Ex-Senator
Blair has accepted the Chinese mission
and has arranged to sail from San
Francisco for the "Flowery Kingdom
the 1st of May.
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AS. BENNETT, ATTORXEY-AT-LAW.
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Dalles, Oregon.
Of-
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Land for Sale and Houses to Rent r
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There is one crime that the Chboniclx
in its heart of hearts, never laid , to the
charge of Hon. E. O. McCoy. It never
accused him of writing his own defense.
Such allusions as that of "spleen and
venom" being "evoivea trom some
one's "own inner consciousness" are
clearly the product of the fertile genius
who is, as all the world knows, the sole
and original inventor : of the . term
"congealed element" as the beautiful
and appropriate synonim of what was,
have affected it. If money is to be raised up to commencement of the last decade,
for any purpose these men must foot the vuhjarly called "snow.'
bills or nothing is raised. How much
ha the banker and capitalists at -the " is a mistake to suppose
back of the Mountaineer contributed
towards the line of steamers?
The Oold Exports Over Million. '
New York, March 21. Gold coin to
the amounnt of o00,000 was ordered
this morning for export to Europe, mak
ing a total for today's steamers of (1,050,-
0OO.
Lincoln's Law Partner.
Springfield, III., March 18. William
H. Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's law
partner, and author of the "Life of Lin
coln," died todav of la grippe at his
residence near this city. He was 72
years of age. His youngest eon, Will
lam,' died six hour before from the
same disease. -
Oau With Ms Vrtrnd's Money.
St. Locis, March 18. James S. Elisor,
notary public and attorney-at-law, and
wellknown in business and social circles,
has disappeared. It is said he has mis
appropriated some $8000 loaned to him
by friends to whom he had promised, so
goes the story', to return on their invest -
A Rmall Conflict.
Lisbon, March 21. Rumors are cur
rent that another conflict occurred be
tween the English and Portngnene on
the Limpopo river,
A Missing Olrl.
Portland, Or., March 21. Nellie
Randolph, aged 14 years, lias been miss
ing from her home on Portland heights
since March I2th.
Moorned for Their Compatriots.
New York, March 21. Menorial -service
was held this foremoon for the
eleven Italians who, were lynched at
New Orleans, ' .
Englishmen Keen re a Valuable Kaneh.
Han-ford. Cal., March 18. The sale
of the famous Laguna de Tache ranch of
49,000 acres, in Tulare county, to an
English syndicate is reported for 1 ,000,-
000.
"Corked" Vp at Last.
Cork, March 23. William O'Brien
and John Dillon, members of parliment,
undergoing terms of imprisonment in
Galway jail, were transferred today to
the Cork jail.'
A Kallroad President Dead.
Boston, March 21. Levi Wade presi
dent of the Mexican Central R. R. Co.
died this morning.
Today's 8ilTer Purchases.
Washington, D, C, March 23. The
amount of silver purchased today is
526,000 ounces at prices ranging from
.98.99. '
"Handy" Olds Ahead.
Hillsboro, March 23. The jury in
"Sandy" Olds' case rendered a verdict of
manslaughter. '
: Chicago Wheat Market.
Chicago, 111., March. 23. Wheat,
firm ; cash, 1.021.02. -
We mistake, they have subsidised the
Mountaineer to do the growling.
But the editor of the Chronicle is
hired." Be it so. 'Tis true 'tis a pity
and 'tis a pity 'tis true. He at least is
neitner a Danker nor a capitalist nor a
land boomer, and albeit he has to
work for wages, like many a better man,
he hopes he has a sufficient supply of the
instincts of a gentleman, never to esteem
poverty a reproach in any man.
. Why was the Chronicle started? Be
cause the Times-Mountaineer would not
tell the truth ; because it abused any
thing and everything not ground in its
own mill and hammered on its own an
vl ; because while posing as a republican
the editor was a mugwump and gloried it :
because he was one day administring
taffy when. he wanted office and anon
sulking like Achilles, (we crave Achilles
pardon,) when he. didn't get it: because
he abused everything and everybody
connected with the city government ex
cept one ; because like an ill bird that
fouls its own nest, he proclaimed to the
world that The Dalles was Inhabited by
nothing but Silurians and Mossbacks,
two only accepted and he, himself was
one of them; because be maliciously
charged the council with corruption
when they refused to accept his theory
of procuring water, by pumping from
the Columbia, and chose rather a sys
tem that will secure as good, and abun
dant a supply of as pure water as ever
j gushed from a fountain, and, eventually,
It is a mistake to suppose that the
lynching of the eleven Italians in New
Nothing. Orleans the other day r was the result of
a national prejudice against the people
of Italy. It was nothing of the kind.
Some there are no doubt who are nar
row and small minded enough to hate a
man because of his nationality but they
are so insignificent both in members and
intelligence that like all other excep
tions they only prove the rule. An It
alian is as good as any other man, when
he is as good. and not otherwise. The
same is true of men of every other na
tionality. The intelligence . and worth
of the American nation never blames a
man because of his foreign birth. A na
tion of people, the majority of whom are
only one or two removes from a foreign
ancestor? cannot afford to be so snob
bish. The only real American is the
American Indian. We are all foreigners.
No country on earth ever disgraced any
body ; but thousands have disgraced
their country ; and this is emphatically
true of those eleven bloody cut throats
whom the righteous wrath of offended
justice would not suffer to any longer to
polute the earth. ,
ft is a fact that was well known at the
time and well attested that E. O. McCoy
busied himself going around among the
members of the house, the' day before
the final vote was taken on the Raley
bill urging the members to vote for it
and the very : next day, without any
warning, he got up on the floor of the
house and made an : earnest speech
against it. This sudden conversion, it-
sou, is SUBpiClOUB.
Jewelry. Diamonds,
SILVERWARE,:-: ETC
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
Repaired and Warranted.
165 Second St., The Dalles, Or.
John Pashek,
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Third Street, Opera Block.
Madison's Latest System,
Used in cutting garments, and a fit
guaranteed each time.
Repairing and Cleaning
Neatly and Quickly Done. .
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Collections made at all points on fav
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We will pay the above reward for any case of
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, In
digestion, Constipation or Costiveness we cannot
cure with West's Vegetable Liver Pills, when the
directions are strictly compiled with. They are I
purely vegetable, ana never tail to give ratlsiac-
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Pills, 26 cents. Beware of counterfeits and imi
tations. The genuine manufactured only by
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leading to the conviction of parties cutting
the ropes or in any way interfering with the
wires, poles or lamps of Th Electric Light
Co. H. GLENN.
Manager.
FOR SALE.
IF
AVING BOUGHT THE LOGAN STABLES
In East Portland, we now offer our Llverv
Stable business in this city for sale at a bargain.
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Pmiident. . Viee-Preddent. CaiUor.
First nation EaiiL
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A General Banking Business transacted
Deposits received, subject to Sight
Draft or Check.
Collections made and proceeds promptly
remitted on day of collection.
Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold on
New York, Sun Francisco and Port
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DIRECTORS.
D. P. Thompson. - , Jso. S. Scbbhok.
T. W, Sparks. Go. A. L. .
H. M. Bcall.