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AN OPEN RIVER.
From all parts of the country tributary
to the Colombia river from Walla Walla
to Astoria come the cry for an open
river. The action of the Oregon legisla
tion in appropriating $60,000 for the
portage railway at the Cascades has only
helped to swell the volume and intensity
of this cry. The most important and
hopeful action yet taken is that of the
merchants and citizens of Portland,
when on last Friday evening they issued
a call for a meeting to be held in Port
land' oh the 8th of April, of the repre
sentatives from the districts most in
terested for "consultation and if possible
devising some effective means by which,
at least, a temporary mode of overcoming
the obstructions may be accomplished.
In. view of the fact that an open nver is
. a pet scheme of the governor, it has
been suggested that he might be induced
' to call a special meeting of the legislature
. to make an appropriation for the work,
We think the idea is a foolish one, for
two reasons. In the first place, there is
no assurance that the members, if con
' vened t the call of the governor, would
consent to make the needed appropria
lion. The same influence that was at
work to defeat the Baley bill, during the
last session would be revived. If it did
not switch them off on a scow, something
. equally effective would be resorted to ;
and in the second place there is not the
least liklihood that the governor would
consent to a special' session; and we
' don't blame him. He had enough of
the last, and he has no great love for
legislatures anyhow. The present agita
tion will have affected much good if steps
are taken in the near future to ascertain
the cost of constructing a portage road
on the Oregon side. If this had been
done before the meeting of ' the
last legislature and it had been found
by any reliable authority to be imprac-
: ticable, the people would now be satis
fied. The thoughtless unofficial remark
of a man who had never, by his own
confession, surveyed the road, was grasp
ed at and used to defeat the measure,
' while its friends, having no available fig
ores to offset the absurd idea that the
road would cost a million, were helpless,
and it would have been the same if some j
one had said it would cost five millions,
We have been repeatedly assured by
men who are familiar with every inch of
the way, between Celilo and The Dalles,
that there is no good reason why the
road should cost even as much as was
named in the Kaley bill, $400,000. The
O. K. Sc. N. company surveyed a road
wholly south . of the present tract and
actually expended sixteen to twenty
thousand dollars on its construction, and
afterwards for some reason abandoned
It. There is no man living capable of
believing that the road would cost $90,
000 a mile-, Mr. McCoy to the contrary
notwithstanding. So besides we are
well assured, both from personal know
ledge and from that of all who are famil
: iar with the country, back of the Colum
bia that- a perfectly feasible roadway
can be found by following op Fifteen
Mile to near D. J. Cooper's ranch then
crossing a low pass in the hills and re
turn to the Columbia at the mouth of the
Deschutes river. ' The route would, of
course be longer than by way of the Col
umbia but it could be built, we are
assured,' at comparatively little cost.
Whatever may be done at the coming
meeting In Portland, we hope a thorough
examination of the Oregon side will be
made before it is pronounced impracti
cable to build a road there. The advan
tages that Oregon would derive from
portage road around the dalles would be
greatly increased by having it built on
this side of the river.
matter to the merchants and citizens of
The Dalles and bespeak their hearty
support. We have no need to commend
it to the people of the districts more im
mediately concerned for we are confident
they will pull together and respond
liberally.
"NO FLIES ON UNCLE JERRY."
Uncle Jerry Rusk the Secretary of
Agriculture has been doing some shrewd
and very effective work in the line of
opening op the European markets to
the admission of American cattle. Quite
recently a number of American capital
ists have been purchasing large herds of
Canadian cattle for shipment to Eng
land. It is well known that the gov
ernment of Great Britain places very
severe restriction on the importation of
American live stock shipped from the
United States. At present they can
only be landed or killed at three
points and that under such harrassing
restrictions as to make the business im
profitable. Uncle Jerry proposes to have
the Canadian cattle, upon which there
are no restriction shipped to Great Brit-
Lain just to give the people of the rural
districts a taste of the quality of Amer
ican beef. When they get thoroughly
familiarized with it, Uncle Jerry thinks
the battle towards free importation will
be half won. He relies on the Federal
Meat Inspection Law to do the rest. In
the meanwhile under the provisions of
this law the secretary had his agents in
spect certain shipments of land-certified
animals, and after inspection certificates
were issued, under authority of the
United States, these animals were quiet
ly sent to Paris, Antwerp and Hamburg.
The authorities at these ports could not
well refuse to receive them on the old
plea, that being American they were of
course unsound, particular- as Uncle
Jerry Rusk, backed by the authorities of
65,000,000 people, affirmed the contrary.
So as a matter of course they received
them. Paris took in 681 bead ; Ham
burg 1307 and Antwerp 3622 head. This
is eood for a starter, and now Uncle
Jerrv proposes to lead all the forces
American cattle growers in the United
States towards an attack on Great Brit
am. wun every nope oi a ravcraoie is
sue. Whatever foreign trade reciproc
ity fails to capture Uncle Jerry will
corral by strategy. All of which goes to
show that farmer Jerry Rusk is not
much of a hay seed after all.
USURY LA WS AND DEAR MONEY.
Governor Laugh ton states incidentally
in one oi nis veto messages, mat ine
prevalent rate of interest on safe invest
ments in the state of Washington
seven per cent per annum. The average
rate, on similar investments, is . un
doubtedly higher in Oregon, and there
is no reason that this should be so ex
cept one, namely, the unequal discrimi
nation against capital in the construc
tion and application of our assessment
laws. If the people think it right to
have a law that insures the taxation of
all loans secured by mortgages on real
estate while all other loans or credits
map escape if they can, and they gener
ally can ; if the people want a system
that taxes real property at twenty
five cents on the dollar, and money and
credits, when a man is honest enough to
give them in, at their full face, well and
goood. Bat they must not, under such
a system, expect to get cheap money. If
the people must have a law that leaves
non-resident capitalists liable to a tax
on their investment of from two to four
per cent, let them have it by all
means, but these same people must not
btowI because money is scarce and dear
and because foreign capital goes else
where for investment. This, state is
simply reaping what she has sown. She
has sown mortgage tax and usury laws
and she is reaping dear money. She
has discriminated against outside capi
tal and outside capital discriminates
against her. ;
THE TYQH HILL ROAD.
An effort is about to be made by the
- people living contiguous to Tygh hill to
raise the funds necessary to build the
county road already surveyed and laid
out and granted by the county court
over that mountain. The grade is
. good eagy one and ll a good road were
made, heavily laden teams could wind
up the mountain with comparative ease.
- The building of the road is of immense
importance to the citizens of that neigh
borhood. " The settlements on Tygh
- Wamic, Wapinitia and the newly set
tled plateau known as Juniper Flat are
already producing more farm products
than they can find a market for, and
with facilities for reaching The Dalles
these settlements are capable of produc
ing much more. The present road is an
insuperable barrier towards reaching
market beyond mere local consumption
and demand.', Time was when the
greater portion of these settlements was
open range for sheep and cattle and
horses, and stockmen were able to use
all the surplus. That day is -now gone
, forever and the people must look for
'another market. The Dalles is their
only hope and only natural outlet. To
it therefore they are entitled to look for
help to carry out a work that they are
scarcely able to accomplish themselves,
We do not doubt that the people south
of the mountain will contribute to the
full extent of their means and ability to
the furtherance of this work. And we
have just as little doubt that the merch
ants and monied men of The Dalles
will come to their assistance. As a mere
matter of investment, if the appeal were
to no higher motive, anything con
tributed to this work by the citfzens of
The Dalles will come back to them with
enhanced interest. - The subscription
lists are already printed and will be in
the field as soon as the parties to whom
they will be intrusted find time to give
them attention. It is proposed, when
the sum of $1500 is assured to commit
the management of the work to the
charge of a committee of three or four
responsible citizens who shall have
power to let the work by contract and
have it commenced forthwith. An ap
peal will very probably be made in due
time to the county court, for such assist
ance as it my feel justified in granting,
nd as the appeal will have the moral
rapport of every man who ever drove a
team sper down Tygh hill and hed .to
A SILLY CALF.
Kalakau was a thirty-third degree
Mason. He was also master of one of the
Blue lodges, scribe of the chapter and
warden of the Templars. Ortgonian,
r eb. 18.
The Prince of Wales was again elected
last evening to be worshipful grand
master of the English Free Masons.
Ureqonan, March b, '91.
The oldest son of Prince of Wales is
master of Berkshire Masons.; ;
Masonry, monarchy, monopoly,
money. Where are your liberties, fellow
citizens?
The above is cut from the'Reform Jour
nal, a paper published in the interests of
the farmers' alliance. It has a mighty
big contract on hands when it undertakes
to reform everything, masonry included,
One secret society trying to reform
another out of existence because it is a
secret society scarcely commends itself to
our judgment. The types never printed
anything more silly than the last alliter
ative paragraph. The sooner the alliance
men put a wisp of straw in that calf 8
mouth the better.
SHOULD BE REPRESENTED.
The state board of agriculture has
taken up the matter of raisine $50,000
for proper representation of the state at
the world's fair in 1893. There certainly
should be public spirit enough in Oregon
to raise that amount. It is hardlv
enough, but beats nothing. The board
has appointed a committee to attend to
this important matter. The idea is to
have five delegates from each county to
meet in Portland June 15th, to devise
ways and means for raisin ir the monev.
and how best to use it.
According to the county assessment
rolls, each connty wonld be taxed as
follows:
Multnomah 120,000
Columbia 300
Clatsop 1,500
iiuamooK luu
Washington 1,600
Yamhill 100
Polk 1,500
Benton 1.500
Clackamas 1,600
Marion SOOj
uin 8.000
Lane 2.000
Douelas 1.2901
Josephine .'. 300
Jackson IMOi
Coos 800
Curry
Klamath .
Lake
Wasco ;
Sherman . .
Morrow . . .
Umatilla..
Union
Baker.....
Wallowa . .
Malhuer . .
Grant
Harney . . .
Crook
I 100
300
200
1,000
200
300
2,000
1,500
1,000
100
200
300
800
300
Total ..150,000
It is not, we believe, generally known
that the governor's veto of the district
fair bill does not affect the law already
in existence making an appropriation of
$1500 each for three district fairs, two
in Eastern Oregon and one in Southern
Oregon, lnese annual fairs which in
cludes our own will be held as before
and have the same appropriation. The
bill that the governor vetoed was an
amendment to the existing law, and
made provision for four district fairs in
stead of three two in Eastern Oregon,
one in Southern Oregon and one in
Western Oregon, the latter intended to
include all the counties not contiguous to
Salem or Jacksonville. The amended
law also provided that each district fair
should have an appropriation of
$3000 a year, instead of $1500
as nnder the old law. The amended bill
was, we believe, the work of the zealous
members of our own fair association and
was in every respect a perfectly just and
equitable measure. The amount asked
for each district was in no way excessive.
Farmers cannot be expected to bring
their stock a distance of a hundred to a
hundred and fifty miles for an exhibit,
when even if assured of the highest
premium such premium would not meet
their necessary expenses. Besides dis
trict fairs are right in principle when we
take into consideration the immense size
of the state and the impossibility of the
greater portion of it availing itself of the
privileges of the state fair. The annual
fair held at Salem is, geographically,
nothing but a district fair and such
it must for ever remain. Yet the
Salem fair gets from the state
funds a vearly appropriation of $50) K)
and when other districts equally as large,
relatively of as much importance and
financially in more need ask the paltry
sum of $3000 each the governor most in
consistently and unjustly interposes
with his veto. But this is not the worst
of it, as far as the governor is concerned.
His excellency, we are reliably informed,
most emphatically promised that he
would not veto the bill and then went
clean back on his word and did it. Two
members of the legislature and a gentle
man, well known in this city, all of his
own political persuasion, had the assur
ance from his own lips. To the gentle
man from The Dalles he said : "Go. and
telegraph to your friends its all right."
and he did so. The next thing beard
was that the governor had gone back on
his word. The governor had played it
fine, too. The bill bad received such
large support that its friends have not
the least doubt that had they known in
time the governor's deception they
could have passed it over his veto.
Mentally he is singularly constructed, is
the same governor. A $60,000 portage
road was all right, although it must
be frankly admitted that more than one
half of the state will receive no direct
benefit from it. A $90,000 dome on the
capitol was all right, although no part
of the state will ever receive any benefit
from it at all. Even the $5000 appro
priation for the state fair, is we suppose
all right, although three-fourths of the
state gets no benefit from it, while a
measure that would have benefited, and
that equally, the whole state must be
vetoed.
The long and the short of it is we are
going to have a fair in spite of the Gov
ernor, and the Chronicle may be relied
upon to do everything in its power to
make it a sucess. A meeting of the fair
commissioners will be held in this city
on the 3d of April next to make all
necessary arrangements, and when these
are made due notice will be given.
Meanwhile we ask the fanners for whose
benefit the fair is gotten up and without
whose aid it cannot be a sucess, to bear
it in mind, while their crops and garden
truck are growing during the coming
season. We have only to add that we
hope the commissioners will have learn
ed from past experience to fix the time
for holding the fair, as far as human
foresight can do so, when it will be most
convenient for the farmers to attend.
For God and Home and Native Land.
' EDITED BY
THE DALLES W. C. T. UNION.
There are many yet in the school-room
that consider the three R's quite enough ;
they believe those to be "cranks" who
call for anything more. History repeats
itself ; at every stage in progress the cry
is , We pitch our tents here. " At every
stage there are those who feel the need of
advancing. Whether the teachers ad
vance or not the people go forward.
They breathe 'a different atmosphere
from what their fathers did, read differ
ent newspapers, and come in contact
with different ideas. One who reads the
newspapers sees that the effort (started
in this city by. that noble man J. Edward
Simmons) to increase the reverence for
the American flag, is a duty that must
be taken up by the schools. We have a
large number who enter our country en
tirely ignorant of our past if we simply
say they are ignorant the matter is ex
plained enough and who have been
kept in order by bayonets up to this
time; these, with no gratitude to ns.
would tear down this splendid govern
mental fabric. America is becoming the
resort of nihilists, anarchists, and wild
talkers of all sorts. Some want the gov
ernment to divide up the property of
those who are richer than they ; some
want the government to furnish them
with food and clothing. The foreign
element among us must be made loyal
and clear-headed, and this work must he
undertaken by the public schools.
This means a broad training and not a
narrow one. On every school-house
should float the American flag ; it should
be on the wall as a decoration ; the pu
pils should be taught to reverence it.
What a government is should be taught,
and the duty of being an honest worker
in the great field of labor. The new re
spect that is to be paid to labor through
manual training will help on this result
verv much. The pupils will go out able
to do something.
If it be asked why should the schools
essay to do this rather than the homes,
we reply that ttie school is a community,
and certain thing can be taught to a
number that cannot be taught to a sin
gle individual. Impressions can be
made upon a group that would amount
to little on an individual. An exhibi
tion of the flag and an impassioned
speech will make a lasting impression.
Let it be looked at, day by day, as a part
of the furniture of the school-room The
teacher of power molds all his pupils in
to a mass and implants nis influence like
yeast. The teacher who simply follows
routine loses all this and much more.
Renresentative J. It. Tavlor of Ohio
has favorably reported to the House of
Representatives, from the coiniuitee on
Alcolholic Liquor Traflic, a bill to prohi
bit the importation, exportation and m-
ter-state transportation, in violation of
local laws, of alcoholic beverages. The
committee notes in it is very interesting
rejort that seven entire States, and ma
jor part of several other Mates, and
many places in most ot the remaining
States, have prohibited the traffic in al
coholic liquors as a beverage. "This
tact, says the report, "together with the
large favorable vote in constitutional
amendment contests where prohibition
did not carry, and other signs of the
times, clearly show that commerce in
alcoholic liquors as a beverage, the use
of which experience has proven is so de
structive to the public morals, will not
much longer pe tolerated by a majority,
the ruling power of this Republic.
The same gentleman favorably re
ported from tha same committee a joint
resolution proposing a constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manu
facture, importation, exportation and
sale of all alcoholic liquors as a beverage
in the United States, and in every place
subject to its jurisdiction. This report
savs, "This evil is a confluent eruption
affecting every part of the national sys
tem, and it cannot be cured while in
any part of the system the evil is
humored."
niiTmoiomu
England Accepts Harrison's Invitation
to the World's Fair Great Loss of
Stock in New Mexico.
IT WAS A BRITISH STEAMKK.
Last Services Orer Southern Hero and j A
Brave Man. j .
Wash, March 24.-The funend a British Steamship Goes Ashore on
services over the remains of the late ! .. '
General Joseph Johnstson, almost the! the North Carolina Coast with
last great commander of the confederac v. I Much Loss of Life.
took place in this city this morning, and
by request of the deceased, the cere
monies were devoid of all Detention or
unnecessary formality, and was co'nduc- (
ted with strict simplicity.
The services were in character with
the man. There was no display of uni
forms, battle flags or military trappings.
There was a large attendance of distin
guished persons. No services were held
at the res.dence of the deceased, but just
before 11 o'clock the remains were taken
to St. John's Episcopal church accom
panied by the family and near friends.
The party was met at the church by
honorary pall bearers. All the men who
fought under General Johnston during
the war were drawn up in double line.
Along the side walk were about 100 men
of Robert Lee camp, confederate veter
ans, without uniform, stood with gray
beads bared as the body was borne be
tween their ranks.
The casket was a plain one, covered
with black cloth and without ornaments.
A silver plate bore the inscription :
"Joseph E. Johnston, born February 3,
1807, died March 21st, 1891."
St. John's church was crowded to the
utmost capacity with delegations of ex
confederates and different societies and
many prominent people of .Washington.
Services were conducted by Rev. Dr.
Douglas, rector of the Episcopal church,
and were confined to the simple Episco
palian burial service for the dead.
At the conclusion of the services the
remains were removed to the Baltimore
& Potomac station and left there on the
12 o'clock train for Baltimore, where the
body will be intered in Green Mount
cemetery.
THAT NKvV ORLEANS AFFAIIt.
Ashore on the North Carolina Coast.--
(treat Loss of I.ife.
fihkt bepobt.
Wasiiixgton, March 25. The eeneral
superintendent of the life saving service
is in receipt of a telegram stating that a
Swedish steamship went ashore a mile
south of the Chickamicomic life saving
station, North Carolina, and there is
little prospect of saving any of the crew
unless the weather moderates as the
vessel is fast breaking up.
Latkr.J
Norfolk, N. C, March 25. The
steamer which went ashore a mile below
the Chickamicomic life-saving station, on
the North Carolina coast, yesterday
morning, is the British steamship, Stra
harlia, bound from Santiago De Cuba to
Baltimore. Out of the crew of twenty
six nineteen were lost including all the
officers except the second mate. The
steamer will be a total loss.
The Timen-Mountaineer alluding to the
"Epitaph" which appeared in yester
day's Chronicle says :
"Shades of Shakespeare, Byron and
Pope protect us ! If the B., C. and L.
B. organ will not inflict us with anv such
doggerel as it did this evening, we will
willingly subscribe towards making up
the $125 a month salary of the defunct
preacher. If this is a child of Gourlav's
brain, it is a pity he ever quit fanning
and preaching. '
For shame, Brother Michell ! One re
tired minister should never thus speak
of another. Come now, isn't this the
case You tried to be a preacher and
couldn't, Gourlay could have been a
preacher and wouldn't. Then you see
when, your brains were all burned up In
the fire that burned your manuscripts
yon couldn't make a lawyer, and a
'stickely" lawyer, as the Scotch say, is
poor material for an editor. So you are
a failure all round.
Twice $50,000 would be none too much
to properly advertise the state to the
world at Chicago in 1893.
Walt Whitman is popularly reoresen.
ted as having no sense of humor. This
is a mistake. The other day a senti
mental youne man dropped in noon him
at his humble home in Camden. N. J..
and, introducing himself as a Doet. beor-
ged permission to read some of his vers
es. "No, thank you," said the Good
Gray Poet, "I have already been paraly
zed twice."
It is with peculiar pride and we fear
not a little vanity, that we receive from
all parts of the county where the Chbon
iclk circulates the repeated assurances
of the approval of its readers as to the
stand it has taken in its fearless present
tion of what it believes to be the truth.
'It is the first time" they say "that The
Dalles has had a paper that was not
afraid to tell what our representatives
do at Salem," As a consequence our
ubscription list is daily receiving so
many accessions that we believe not
many months will elapse till we shall
have the largest circulation of any paper
in Eastern Oregon, It is a question if
any other paper publishes east of the
mountains is so carefully read as is the
Chboniclk. The man who does not
subscribe for it has to borrow it from
one who does. There is abundant evid
ence that its bitterest enemies are its
most careful readers. All this is very
encouraging; but we want more sub
scribers and in return we promise that
no expense of time or money will be
spared to make it a paper that the people
cannot do without.
"Their Works do Follow Them."
It is a beautiful home, and every
thing gives evidence of abundant peace
and plenty, but the dread monster,
death, has 'entered and torn the only son
from loving arms, and silence that is
oppressive broods over all. In the room
lately so filled with joy by his merry
presence, now so saddened by his absence
lies the cold form, but brave, handsome
face ; and to those who remain "yet a
little while" there are only sweet mem
ories left of a true, happy Christian boy,
who, from life filled with sunshine and
faithful serving had heard the Master's
summons: "Come up higher." How
quiet he lies, and how peaceful. He is
"asleep in Jesus."
Yet how fast the tears fall, as one by
one, old friends come in to take the last
look at the loved one, for, Oh ! how they
win miss mm. Among the many who
enter that house of mourning is one old,
poorly dressed woman, whose face shows
sorrow's traces, and whose bearing shows
humiliation. With timid steps and slow
she passes to the servant's department
and knocks. She asks to see the afflicted
mother,, and no tears of sympathy have
been more heartfelt than hers. For
while no words are spoken, for fast falls
the tears, bnt presently, making an ef
fort, Bhe says : "Mrs. S., Joe my hus
band wanted me to come over and tell
you how good Mrurice always was to
him. He says he is too wicked to come
himself, but he loved Maurice, and
wanted me to tell you why. You know
Joe will get drunk, and the school boys
tease mm and can mm old drunk Joe,'
but Maurice never did.. Instead, when
he noticed Joe could not walk steady, he
wouia qmetiy unit nis arm in his and
take him safe home, and now Joe is so
sorry for you, for he loved Maurice."
Was it a little thing? Yes, but many
such testimonies came to that mother,
showing her that her boy earned his
Christian principles into every dav life,
and brought comfort to her, and although
twento-hve years have passed since
then, those memories are precious to her,
It was a little thing but can we not do
as mnch? Dear friends what are we do
ing "as the days are passing by?" What
kind of a record are we making? The
end is drawing nearer and let us remem
ber, good or bad, "Iheir works do fol
low them."
Says the Portland Welcome: No won
der the special police are "fatandsaucv."
for from the Chinese gamblers alone they
get $970 a month. The forty tan games
pay H a week each, or a total of $540 a
month; the thirteen lottery games pay
$2.50 a week, or a total of $130 a month,
while the chuck -a-luck games now re
duced to ten pay $5 a week or a total
monthly blackmail of $200 a month.
General Booth's "In Darkest Eng
land," is substantiated by terrible facts,
among them that England has 750,000
homeless people : 10,000 of them in Lon
don, and that over 1,250,000 heads of
families are out of employment,
The New Orleans Prisoners trill Ke
late the Particulars of the Mafia l'lot.
New Orleans, March 22. The prom
ised expose of the Mafia' plot bv Sunze-
ria and Nattalia, two of the Italian
prisoners now in jail, caused a great deal
of excitement in Italian quarters. This
afternoon a secret meeting was held in an
old building, near Congo square, which
was attended by 100 Italians, who dis
cussed the report for nearly an hour.
The xjlice have information that the
subject of Saturday's lynching was taken
up and certain phases 'of it debated, but
they have not been able to learn whether
or not any threats were made. It is
claimed both Snnzeria and Nattalia have
already told most of their story to At
torney General Rogers and to the mem
bers of the committee of safety, and they
have consented to repeat it to the grand
1'ury whenever that body gets ready to
lear them. . When the" grand jury re
sumes its inquiry into the jury-Dribing
matter tomorrow it will hear the stories
of the Hennessey jurors who have been
accused of having been bribed by O'Mal
ley. The object of this investigation, it
is given out now, is to get at the' men
who were associated with O'Malley, and
particularly the ones who are believed to
nave employed him to "fix" jurors.
Governor Nicholls' long-expected reply
to Secretary Blaine's telegram, demand
ing a report ot the Saturday uprising.
has been written at last and left for
Washington on last night's late mail.
From all that can be learned about the
letter it will not give Mr. Blaine either a
great deal of satisfaction or a great deal
ot news.
THK O'SHBA DIVORCE,
The MaBa In New York.
New York, March 23. An evening
paper this afternoon says :
Chief Inspector Byrnes fully realizes
the necessity at this time of curbing the
revengeful spirit of Italian- colonists of
this city and preventing exhibitions of
too much aggressiveness over the recent
episode at New Orleans. Detectives
Sergeant, Perrezo and Sissano, of the
central office, have been unremitting in
their labors among the Italians during
the past week. They succeeded in locat
ing the whereabouts of the two leaders
of the Mafia of New Orleans, who ar
rived in the city Friday. They are being
watched. Already agents of "the Maiia
are at work among the members of the
fraternity in this citv. Several secret
meetings were held yesterday, but
Byrnes had an agent in disguise present
at each gathering, and today is in mjs
sessiou of the knowledge of the complete
proceedings at each meeting.
Gibons
, faeallistei' & Go.
Dealers in
GROCERIES, HARDWARE,
FARM IMPLEMENTS.
WALTER A. WOOD'S
REAPERS and MOWERS.
Hodge and Benica Headers, Farm Wagons, Hacks, ; Buggies, Road Carts G
and Sulky Plows, Harrows, Grappling Hay Forks, Fan Mills, Seat Cush
ions, Express and Buggy Tops, Wagon Materials, Iron and Coal,
etc. etc.
Agents for Little's Sheep Dips.
Lime and Sulphur, etc.
AComplete Line of OILS, GRASS and GARDEN SEEDS.
The Dalles, - - - . . Oregon.
DEATH TO STOCK.
Loss of Large Herds in New Mexico Iiy
Starvation.
Albcq.uerq.uk, March 25. A great
deal of distress is reported among the
cattle, sheep and other live stock in this
territory. Kepresentative Frank Hub
bell has lost in the last three months
over 30,000 head, from starving and
freezing. He also reports heavy loss
among all the large sheep owners. The
weather has been cold and the ground
coverea with snow, ana the sheep can
not get anything to eat. Such weather
as that of the last two months has never
been experienced before,
MONSTER LI'MBKB TKC8T.
Ability involves responsibility.
er, to its last particle, is duty.
Pow-
Is Jay Gould going to try the same
game out here that he has so successfully
worked everywhere that be has got his
fins in? It Is reported now that he is
going to throw up the O. B. & N. lease,
the presumption being that he will
wreck the company and gather it in at
squeezed rates. He has a precedent in
j Henry Villard's action as to the Oregon
ian lease. The Attorian does not view
! such action with dismay. ' Any change
I would be good, and if the U. P. were to
PeOple'S intentions Can Only be decid- hi a. n'v it run A tint nin mnph rr!of
ed by their conduct. I in this latitude. Attorian.
The Floor Gave Way.
Salt Lakh, Utah, March 22. Almost
a panic happened tonight in St, Paul.s
Episcopal church. Rector Lane was to
preach to the newspaper men and the
the house was packed by the fraternity
and their friends. The audience had
just been seated when the floor gave
way, resulting in almost a panic, and in
juring a number of persons. No one,
however, was seriously hurt. .
Honors of American Artists.
Paris, March 22. The American
artists in Paris have been officially in
vited to partake, as a distinct body, in
the coming Berlin art exhibition. With
one or two exceptions they have accepted.
The Americans are the only group of
foreign artists who have been thus non
oredtoy the authorities at Berlin. It is
expected that there will be a total of 100
pictures by Americans.
If you are not right toward God yon
Can not be so against man ; and this is
forever true, whether wits and rakes al
low it or not. Lord Chatham.
It Is Now Said the Lady Object to Mar
rlag-e With Parnell.
Dublin, March 22. The decree just
obtained by Captain O'Shea against his
wife will assume the character and force
of an absolute divorce in six weeks,
which fact is greatiy increasing the dis
cussion of the question whether Mr.
ParnelT will avail himself of the oppor
tunity offered to make the lady his wife.
It has all along been admitted that the
couple have intended to be married so
soon as they could legally do so, but it
is now stated the wedding is extremely
unlikely to take place, not, however,
through any disinclination on the part
of Mr. Parnell. It is learned upon ex
cellent authority that the objection pro
ceeds from Mrs. O'Shea, who, it is
alleged, has become disgusted with Mr.
Parnell 's conduct, and now believes the
gentleman is actuated by no higher
motives in wishing to become her hus
band than to obtain possession of her
money to bolster np his personal cause.
NO MORI TROUBLE.
Got. Nicholls Assures Blaine there will
be no more Italians Killed.
' Washington, March 24. Secretary of
State, Blaine, received a letter from
Governor Nicholls, of Lonisana, this
morning dated March 21. After review
ing the killing of the eleven Italians the
letter states that there is no fear of fur
ther trouble and that the affair is now
being Investigated by the grand jury.
The governor is satisfied that most of the
killed were American citizens but it is
probable that two or three were Italian
subjects.
Parnell Will Resign.
London, March 20. It is definitely
stated that Mr. Parnell will resign and
offer himself to the electors of Cork, and
people are again beginning to turn their
eyes 'toward the situation in Ireland.
The McCarthyites say they are delighted
but do not look it. So many priests are
flocking to Sligo that their numbers at
tract attention, and they are the subject
of irreverent remarks. The Parnellites
claim to have received encouraging ad
vices as to the prospects of their envoys
in America. Both factions are in need
of money, but the Parnellites seem to be
the easier as to hinds for election ex
penses. -
American Capitalists Go Into a Large
Scheme in Honda ran.
Chicago, March 25. The Honduras
Iumler company composed of American
capitalists-have organized here with
paid up capital of a quarter of a million.
The company possesses stumpage on
two million acres of land in Honduras
on which is hard wood lumber valued at
over seven million dollars. Mills and
funniture factories are to be erected and
the products will be shipped "to the
Latin-American states of South America
such as Buenos Avres and also to the
U nfted States and Europe.
Legislative Whitewash.
Sacramento, March 25. The joint
committee of the senate and assembly
appointed to investigate the contents of
the waste basket found . in the state
library, have made their report. The
report concludes : "The committee
found nothing to show that seventy-five
hundred dollars in currency was used in
any manner to influence any member of
the legislature in reference to the sena
torial contest and if $7500 in currency
had been improperly used before the
legislature the committee is unable to
state for what purpose it was used.". '
Collision on the Northwestern.
Racink, Wis., March 25. The north
bound Chicago and Northwestern pas
senger train collided at Bacine Junction
this morning causing the loss of one life
and the fatal injury of one or more per
sons and serious injury to half a dozen
other employes of the company.
The American Express Co., lost several
thousand dollars destroyed in the safe in
the baggage car. Several thousand
dollars worth of jewelry were melted by
the fire. -
AN OLD PIONEKR GONE.
at Salem
Captain A. P. Ankeney Died
Yesterday.
Portland, Or., March 24. News has
been received here of the death of Cap
tain A, P. Ankeney at Salem, last night
at the age of seventy five, Captain
Ankeney was an old pioneer, coining to
this coast in 1847, He was well known
throughout the northwest.
Cokestone's Gamr Kills an Officer.
Clarksville, Texas, March 25. A
desperado named Cokestone and his
gang were overtaken near here yester
day by a sheriffs posse. In a skirmish
that followed Officer Whitman was
killed and Cokestone wounded. Two of
the gang yas captured but Cokestone
escaped. '
England Will Come to the World's Pair.
London, March 25. The British gov
ernment has formally notified Blaine,
United States secretary of state that
Great Britian accepts president Har
rison's invitation to take part in the
World's fair at Chicago in 1893.
The Dalles Mercantile Co.,
(Successors to BROOKS & BEERS.)
The Dalles, Or.
JOBBERS -A-IfcTD DEALERS
STAPliE and FAfl GY GROGERIES,
Hardware, Flour, Bacon, Etc.
Headquarters for T:as, Coffees, Dried Fruits,
Cajined Gopds Etc. New Brands of Choice Gro
ceries Arriving Daily.
Hay Grain and Produce.
Of all Kinds Bought, and Sold at Retail or in Car
Load Lots, at Lowest Market Rates. Free deliv
ery to Boats and Cars and all Farts of the City.
390AND394 SECOND STREET.
Harry Clouqh.
Andrew Larsbn,
(Pacific Fence M:
Comer of Second tnd Laughlin Streets, The Dalles, Or.
Manufacturers of CoibinatioD Fences,
The Best Stock, Chicken and Rabbit Fence
Hate.
Also Manufacturers of
Strong and Durable Wire Mattresses.
CLOUGH & LARSEN, PROPRIETORS
Snipes & Kinersly,
Leading Druggists
Deafers In
Paints, Oils and Klindom Glass,
"Wcll Paper,
COAL and PINE TAR,
Artists Material,
Imported Wegfc and Domestic (Jigai
12 Second Street,
The Dalles, Oregon
THE DALLES LUMBERING CO.,
No.
INCORPORATED 1888.
07 Washington Street. . .
. . The Dalles.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers and Manufacturers of :
Building Material nod Dimension Timber, Doors, Windows, Moldings, House Furnishings, Etc.
Special Attention given to the Manufacture of Fruit and Fish;
Boxes and Packing Cases.
Factory and Uumber'Srarcl at Old ZH. Salloai.
UFK COMES C9K4.P.
for
"Sandy" Olds Gets Only On Year
KOIIhk Webber.
Hillsbobo, Ogri., March 25. Charles
Olds, familiarly known as "Sandy" Olds,
who was convicted of uiannlanghter on
his fourth trial, was today sentenced by
Judge Taylor to one year in the state
penitentiary.
Will Fight the Pool Ordinance.
San Fhancisco, March 24. A new
ordinance prohibiting the sale of pools
on horse races except at places where
actual racing takes place went into
effect this rooming, A test case will be
made in the courts.
The V. P's. Usual luck.
Db-vvkb, Col., March 24. The fast
freight train on the Union Pacific for
Cheyenne was ditched near' Brighton;
this morning and fireman Burns in
stantly killed, j
Joseph C. Painter Appointed Receiver.
Washington, March 25. The presi
dent appointed Joseph C. Painter, of
Walla Walla county, Washington, re
ceiver of public money at Walla Walla,
Washington ; vice, Robert M. McCully,
deceased.
Will the Peaee of Europe Continue.
Paris, March 25. Whether the Rusia
French understanding will result in
cementinir the peace ot i-urope, or
whether it will tend to aggravate the
powers, is a matter which the cabinets
of Europe are at present anxiously
discussing.
The Burlington Flyer Wrecked.
Omaha, March, 25. The report
reaches here that the flyer on the
Burlington road was wrecked this morn'.
mg near SMitton, AeDraaica, ine
engineer was killed and the fireman in
jured,
Chicago Wheat Market.
Chicago, 111., March. 26. Wheat,
steady ; cash, 1.00; May, 1.02;
July, 1.00. ..
San Francisco Market. '
San Feancisco, March 26. Wheat,
buyer '91, 1.61 X- '
DRY Pine, Fir, Oak and Slab WOOD Delivered to
any part of the city,
New Umatilla-- House,
THE DALLFS, OREGON.
HANDLEY & SINNOTT, PROP'S.
LARGEST : AND : FINEST : HOTEL : IN : OREGON.
Ticket and Baggage Office of the O. K. & N. Company, and office of the 'Western
Union Telegraph Office are in the Hotel.
Fire-Proof Safe for the Safety of all Valuables.
chas. stub Ling,
PROPRIETOR OF THE
G E RMMN I TZi
New Vogt Block, Second Street.
WHOLtES ALiE and lETAILt LtlQUQf DEAIiEr
M ilwau kee Beer on Draught-
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