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THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1891.
NUMBER 16.
SPOKANE SHOOTING.
Charles Elliott Pistols Two Dive Act
'. resses and Then Blows His Own
Worthless Brains Out
A Fearful Accident to a Buldwin Loco
motive Exhibition Parry Current
News of the
Day.
MrKDEK A1 SUICIDE.
A Spokane Sport Goes Gnnnlns;
for
or , Variety Actresses.
Spokane Falls, Wash., March 27. A
doable murder and suicide occurred at
the Casino theatre at half past two this
' morning. Charles Elliott a faro dealer,
had been occupying the box nearest the
stage on the right side for about an hour
when he was seen to lean forward from
the box and nre three shots at the per
formers ou the stage. He then placed
the muzzle of his revolver in his mouth,
fired again, the bullet going through the
top of his head. Three of the shots fired
at the staee entered the left breast of
Mable DeBabian. a variety actress, an
other bullet entered the back of Carrie
Smith just above the left hip, inflicting
a dangerous wound, which may prove
fatal. Before the doctor arrived Mabel
DeBabian had died.
Mabel DeBabian was about twenty
three or twenty-four years of age and
: quite pretty. She was a general favorite
with her associates.
' In the pockets of the dead man was
found a number of cartridges and the
following note :
"Lulu Dubakd: I have wanted to
carry ont my purposes but haven't had
a favorable chance yet. It was an old
score but I had to fool with you. I
trust to luck and a good shot to accom
plish my purpose.
(Signed) Ciias. Elliott."
' The fact that Lulu Durand was on the
stage at the time of the shooting makes
clear the fact that she ws one whom the
- shooting was at.
Carrie Smith, who was shot in the
. back, was taken to the Sacred Heart
' hospital. ' At last accounts she was
somewhat improved.
Lulu Durand stated that she believed
that Elliott intended to shoot at her but
being somewhat behind the other girls
-- she escaped. .
"WON'T WANT AMERICAN ENGINES.
"An Ag-ent of the Baldwin Locomotive
Works Meets With a Sad Accident.
" Nkw York, March 27. A corres-
pondent at Rio Janeiro sends an ac
count of a fatal accident on the railway
' running from San Francisco south. An
agent for the Baldwin Locomotive works
of Philadelphia was showing the officials
of the road a new engine. For the pur
- pose of making a practical test, the
agent with the manager of the road,
master mechanic, chief clerk, engineer
and two firemen, boarded the locomo
' tive and tender. After proceeding a
' short distance the locomotive- left the
track and rolled down the bank seventy
five feet high, badly injuring the agent
. and killing the others.
The agent was arrested and thrown in
to a vile dungeon, outside of which a
frantic mob howled for his life.' After
enduring much torture, diplomatic cor
respondence finally brought about his
release with half-hearted apologies.
THE SUGAR TKFST.
Aa Attempt to Cheat the Governmont
Ont of 1-2 Cents a Pound.
Nsw York, March 24. The sugar
trust, in anticipation of a heavy loss on
. a large amount of sugar held by the con
. cern April 1. is getting in some fine
work to protect themselves, as outlined
by a well-informed . sugar man. The
. move seems to be nothing short of a plan
' to make the government pay over to the
. trnst more than enough to cover the loss
. in selling these goods at the April de-
dine. The law provides for a drawback
of 2s cents per pound on export sugars,
and the same drawback is precisely what
they are believed to bp after. The
popular opinion is that the sugar will be
sent abroad in order to secure the darw
back and then be brought back and sold
at April prices.
A. Larye Amount or Wheat Will be Car
ried Over.
Sam Fhaxcisco, March 27. In re
sponse to an inquiry as to how much
-wheat is likely to be if carried over into
the next harvest. Secretary Friedlan
ler of the Produce Exchange, places the
estimate at about 50,000 tons.
A New Way to Pay Church Debts.
Abkkdebs, S. D., March 25. The plan
devised several months ago, by the
Methodist pastors of this district, for
sowing wheat for the liquidation of the
church debts, is about to be put in opera
tion, the pastors furnishing the seed
wheat and the farmers furnishing the
land and doing the work. ;
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ParnelPs Audiences Small.
i
" London, March 25. Mr. Parnell's
audiences today were small and not at j
all enthusiastic. It is evident that the !
church is gaining ground in its campaign !
against him. The withdrawal of the
enratea from active work in his behalf
has greatly weakened his cause.
Qnlnn Appointed Collector.
. Washington, March' 27. The presi
- dent today appointed J. Quinn of Califor
nia, collector of Internal Revenue for tbe
first district of California at San Francisco
vice Sears, deceased.
Secretary Proctor Inspecting; Ports.
Sam Antoxia, Tex., March 27. Secre
tary Proctor spent the day inspectin g
Forts Davis, Hancock and Bliss. His re
ported retirement from the cabinet July
1st, he said was pore gossip.
The Silver Purchases.
f Washington, March 27. One hun
dred and fifteen thousand ounces of sil
ver were purchased yesterday at prices
ranging from 998.10 to 99S.26.
Struck Coal OU.
S. H. Tester, who was digging a well
t his farm in Red bills, south of Salem.
Snick what he pronounced coal oil, and
he result quite a little excitement
Jen occasioned in that neigborhood.
FEDRKAL MONEY FOli OK BOON.
Senator Frye Think This State Beat.
All for Oettlngr Appropriations.
! Washi.ngtox, March 24. .Senator
Mitchell sat in the fume restaurant a
j few days ago with a party of friends, when
! Senator Frve, chairman of the senate
I committee
on commerce, entered and
sat down. Alter tne senators naa ex
changed greetings, Mr. Frye nked Mr.
Mitchell when he was going home.
"In a month or two," remarked Mr.
Mitchell. 'I have some cases in the
supreme court, and am at work prepar
ing briefs."
"When is Dolph going home?" asked
Mr. Frve.
"Oh, he will be here for some time
vet." responded Mr. Mitchell.
"Well, the treasurv of the United
States will not be entirely safe until the
Oregon men have gone home," remarked
Mr. Frve. "That state has away ot get-
tine roonev in appropriations which
beats anything I ever saw."
"We have been rather successful at
this session," replied Senator Mitchell,
and, turning to his friends, said : "I am
afraid they are laying this up against ns,
and in future congresses we may bo met
with tbe assertion that we have been
well treated in the past, and must not
expect so much in the future. However,
we will try and keep the things going
that are under way, and get as much
more as we can."
It is a fact that the success of Oregon
in the matter of appropriations during
the present congress has caused a great
deal of talk at the capital.
HARRISON ANXIOUS.
And Will Visit the Coast if Public Bnsl
ness Will Permit Him Doing; So.
Sax Fbancirco, March 25. Congress
man Morrow, who haa just returned
from Washington, was asked today if he
thought President Harrison would visit
California.
Well, I had a talk with President Har
rison about visiting this coast, and he
stated that he was very anxious to make
the trip. He will, if possible, come
here some time in the spring, that is, if
his public offices will permit him to
leave Washington. There are a great
many questions requiring the presence
of the president and the members of the
cabinet in Washington, and if it should
appear that matters cannot be post
poned the president will be compelled
to remain in Washington. If he comes
out here he will start between April 5th
and 15th and will travel on the southern
route and on the way will stop at San
Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and
other points of interest.- He will also
visit the Yosemite valley on his way to
this city. He will remain here a" few
days and will leave by the Northern
route, and will probably" visit the states
of Oregon and Washington.
THE CHURCH IX POLITICS.
The Spirit of the Bennett Law ' Agita
tlon in Wisconsin Will Not Down.
St. Paul, Minn., March 25. The
religious feeling in politics has not died
out yet in Wisconsin. The spirit of the
Bennett law agitation will not down
In the senate at Madison today a bill
came up for consideration, which pro
vides that all officers authorized to com
mit dependent children to industrial
school, asylums or other institutions for
care of dependent children, shall before
commitment inquire into the religious
beliet of such children,- and take such
belief into consideration in selecting the
institution to which the child is sent.
The bill was introduced at the instiga
tion of the Roman Catholics 'of Milwau
kee, and the measure met with consid
erable opposition. A long debate was
precipitated-, in which Senator Joiner led
the opposition la a two hours speech.
He endeavored to show the relation be
tween church and state. The speech
created great excitement, and the hill
was laid over.
.NEW POtTNDLAND RESENTS.
The Tyrannical Treatment of the Colony
by the Mother Country.
St. John, N. F., March 26. There
was an exciting scene in the house of
assembly yesterday when the governor
came to the council chamber to give
assent to the masters and servants bill.
The usher of the black rod summoned
the members of the assembly to attend
him. Mr. Murphy, a St. John member,
moved that the house of assembly de
cline to wait on the representative of the
imperial power, in order thus to snow
their resentment at the tyrannical treat
ment of the colony. Speaker Emerson,
Sir William Whiteway, the premier,
Mr. Bond, the colonial secretary, and
six others went, but twenty-five mem
bers kept their seats. The galleries
hissed those who went, calling them
traitors, and wildly cheering those who
remained in their seats. Speeches were
made to justify what was done.
TERRIBLE SUFFERING.
Hardships of the Crew
of the Bark
Humboldt.
London, March 25. The steamer Don
has landed at Plymouth the crew of the
German bark Humboldt, who, when
rescued, had suffered terrible hardships
and were in a dying condition. The
Humboldt sailed from Altata, Mexico,
on the Gulf of California, in September
last, pound tor J? al mouth, on the voy
age tne crew were stricken witn scurvy,
and became so weak they were almost
insensible. Their teeth "were loosened
and their skins became swollen and
and livid. When spoken by the Don,
the Humboldt was in disabled condition
and sinking. All her boats had been
smashed. Two of the crew were already
dead. The survivors were so exhausted
they had to be hoisted aboard the Don.
Thev had been ill for three months.
The First Tin Plate Works.
St. Louis, March 2ti. The. St. Louis
Stamping company, of which ex-Congressman
Neidringhaus us president, hits
inaugurated the actual work of eriiting
"LT;:l,n:P-La.t:'03:,i, .Ul,8:roun-.tP' i
wirn pic3riii rvuiii jimiit. 1 lit; i
iron now uwed bv the company in the :
manufacture of plates comes from Ten-1
nessee, but it is projKised to establish a j
mammoth steel mill andiron foundry ;
just north nf Madison, Ills., to turn out
all sheets used in the manufacture of tin
plate. Employment will be given to
2000 men. "
Aledicai men are always discovering
At,: ti i - t 5 '
suuiein-Jik. iic n. j.u7 nave jiuw loiuiu
out that of the children born on the sea
coast the females largely outnumber the
males, while in the interior this is re
versed. "Along the coasts of France,
Great Britain and New England, as well
as in China," says the doctor, "where
the family diet is largely composed of
fish, especially among the poorer classes,
the rule is an infallible one, and statistics
have been gathered that show its truth.
No cause is assigned for it, but the fact
remains." .
Grand Rapids, Mich., leads tf e world
in its percentage of divorces to marria
ges. This year the ratio was one to five
and last rear one to six. . We always
knew that the Valley City of Wolverines
was booming, bnt this" surprises us.
This is a moral may of swelling the pop
ulation, not yet adopted by Western
cities. Catholic Sentinel
rOBTLASl) JTEWS.
I
silver Ore Arrives from Chill Suit for
Rreach of Contract.
Portland, March 28. The British
bark Aboona, which arrived here from
Antofagosta, Chili, brought 1637 sacks of
; silver ore consigned to a local firm.
Each sack contains about 250 pounds of
ore. The customs authorities are
puzzled to know the value of the ore in
order to fix ad valorem duty. Some of
the ore will be taken to the Linnton
smelter for reductionin order to fix the
duty.
Esther Lyons, formerly leading lady
at Cordray's musee and theatre today
entered suit against J. F. Cordray to re
cover the sum of $17,734 for breach of
contract and damage done her reputa
tion.
HYPNOTISM ALLEGED.
A Murderer Said to Be Liable to Mes
meric Influence.
Fauoo, X. P., March 28. It is pos
sible that the trial of Joseph Remington
for the murder of J. T. Flett, may be
come one of the most famous in the
United States. As the case at present
stands it will be almost impossible to
convince any jury of his innocence on
the ground of msanitv, or anv of the
common pleas. Hence, it is almost a
settled fact that the defense will be on
the same line as that in the trial of
Gabrielle Bompard in Paris last year,
where it was claimed, and so clearly
proven a case of hvpnotisin, that her
accomplice was sentenced to death and
she received a term of imprisonment.
The theory in Remington's case, it is
understood, will be that he was hypno
tized by the Minneapolis woman, whose
name Has been so freqentlv mentioned.
Since the murder of Agent Flett compet
ent authorities, who have visited Rem
ington in jail with this theory in view,
are of the opinion that he is so consti
tuted as to be liable, to mesmeric influ
ence. Should mis line oi aeience ne
adopted It will probably be the first of
the kind m the Liuted Mates.
VICTIMS OF LA GRIPPE.
The Weekly Dt-ath-ISoll of Chicago Will
Show Nearly one inuusana r ergons
Dead.
Chicago. March 28. The grippe
apjiears to be on the increase in the city,
lieing favored py tne extremely disagree
able weather prevailing for some time
past. Tbe death-roll for the six days of
this week ended tonight reached a total
of 920. and the figures for the week will
be higher than ever known in the historv
oi Vnicago. j-aihi. v rtJK tuc luuti wa ou;,
and that was looked upon as abnormally
large. All branches of business are in
r ll " T 1 1 i 1 Of U I
convenienced hv illness anion? the em
ployes. The police and fire departments
and street car lines also have many men
laid up. By far the larger portion of
deaths reported are due to pulmon
ary trouble, for the most part result
ing from the grippe. Several physicians
have died within a few days. This
morning Dr. Charles T. Parks," a physi
cian and surgeon widely known, and
who for years has been prominently con
nected with medical colleges and hos
pitals here, died of the pneumonia fol
towing an attack of the grippe.
The Conceit of Sperry A Co.
San Francisco, ' March 28. A
dis
patch from Portland stating that
Canadian Pacific steamers would
the
cut
rates on flonr for the Orient from 6" to
f5.50 per ton, led Jamee Hogg, vice-
president of Sperry & Co., to say today :
"If there is going to be any rate cutting
up north I expect we can depend upon
the Pacific Mail Steamship company to
follow suit. Portland flour ought not
successfully compete with California
flour in a fair market."
The Storm in Pennsylvania.
. Lancaster, Pa., March 28. The snow
fall in this country is about over. Snow
on the level measures about nineteen
inches and the turnpike and country
roads are blockaded with drifts from five
to seven feet. The Reading and Colum
bia railroad is badly blocked. A number
of freight trains are being abandoned
One train was unable to proceed with
three engines. The telephone service is
also badly crippled.
Will Not Grant the Requisition.
Providence, March 28. Upon the re
port of Attorney General Slocum, who
examined the papers, Governor Davis
refused to allow the extradition of Thos.
Grant wanted in Connecticut for embez
zlement, forgery and jail breaking. The
attorney general fouud the seal upon the
requisition not the state seal of Connecti
cut but merely the sign manual of Bulk
ley's private secretary.
The O'Brien Jury Disagree.
Cork, March 28. The jury in the
trial of Michael O'Brien, Dalton and
others charged with rioting and assault
the police at the the time of the trial of
O'Brien and Dillon at Tipperary, today
announced that they were unable to
agree on a verdict in the case of Gill and
Dalton but rendered a verdict of not
guilty as to the other persons.
Old Rosa" will Retain His Office.
San Francisco, March 28. A ppecial
says concerning the rumor that he was
tired of the efforts of , being made to
oust him from office, General Rosen
crans said last night that he did not
intend to resign and did not believe the
President intended to remove hin.
. . A Flurry of Snow,
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Ittsbubo, March 28. The heavy
snow storm which prevailed here last
niirht and this morning has ceased, and
the weather is clearing up. In the out
lying districts the fall of snow is five
inches.
Quarantine Against Cattle.
St. Louis, March 28. Governor Fran
cis has issued a proclamation ordering a
strict quarantine against the southern
cattle on account of Texas fever.
Well, What if She Hasn't?
Dublin, March 30. Anna Parnell
denies the statement that she has not
spoken to Parnell since the latter was
in the Kilmainham jail.
Portland Wheat Market.
Portland, Of., March 30. Wheat,
milling, 1.30 1.45 per cental..
San Francisco Market.
San Francisco, March 30. Wheat,
buyer season, 1.52 J.
THE GREAT STRIKE.
The Strikers Destroy Many Coke Ovens
and Railroad Track.
Pittsburg, March 30. Nearly a thou
sand strikers attacked Frick's coke works
at Moorewood at two o'clock this morn
ing, and destroyed the coke oven and
railway track. The mob broke in the
windows of several houses. Several of
the raiders have been arrested. Riots are
also reported at Leissenring and Leith.
A considerable property has been des
troyed. There is great excitement
throughout the coke country, and ser
ious trouble is apprehended. The
troublers assumed a new phase and now
threaten to develop into a war between j
operators and labor organizations.
Frick stated today as heretofore, that he
has not antagonized labor, but in the fu
ture he did not propose to stand idly by
and see his property destroyed.
Dispatches from Scottdale says there
is rioting at large. A large number of
the coke plant mob of 1500 infuriated
strikers swept down on the Jimtown
plant today and routed the workmen
assaulted several men and threatened
the superintendent's life.
A bomb was set off at the west Leis
senrine mine and the men are notified
not to go to work.
The Leith works near Uniontown were
also raided and workmen put to flight
Labor leaders are trying to allay the ex-
citeinent as other raids are feared. Frick
coke company officials here have notified
the sheriffs to increase their forces.
THE WORK OP A DEMON.
Fires Into a Room Full of Colored
School Children.
New Orleans, March 30. A brutal
attempt at wholesale murder was made
at New Zion church near Lilierty, Miss.,
Saturday night at the school ex m inn
tion and concert given by the scholars
of Parson Hill's school, where Miss Ida
Dixon, colored had just closed a session
of public school for colored children
A chmble-barreled shotgun, heavily
charged with shot, was fired into the
crowd by some unknown miscreant,
wounding, ' it is said, fourteen persons.
some of them seriously, and others
slightly. Baldwin Hays will die. The
assassin has not been discovered.
THE INDIANS MAY FIGHT AGAIN.
Father Craft Says We Will Have More
Indian Troubles Caused by Agents.
Providence, R. I., March 30. A letter
dated Pine Ridge agency from Rev.
Father Crafts, the Indian missionary
who predicted the recent Indian troubles,
earnestly points out the danger of more
serious trouble unless the Indians are
placed under control of the war depart
ment. He declares the Indians are being
robbed and misused by the politicians
under the present arrangement.
A LCCKT MONTANA MAN.
Thomas H. Carter is Appointed Commis
sioner in place of Grotf.
Washington, March 30. The presi
dent today appointed Thos. H. Carter, of
Mantana, Commissioner of the General
Land Office -vice Lewis A. Grotf resigned.
HARRISON'S TRIP.
Nothing Yet Definitely Arranged as to
What Time he Will Come.
Sab Francisco, March 28. W. W.
Stone, who has charge of the Grand
Army May day excercisea, has received
the following letter, dated March 21,
from President Harrison's private secre
tary: '"The president directs me to acknowl
edge the receipt of your letter of the 15th
inat. He contemplates making a trip to
the Pacific coast, but has not yet ar
ranged any of the details, and cannot say
now wnetner ne will oe in ban ! ran Cisco
May 1, or not. The trip will necessarily
be a hurried one. and nis movements
during his stay at San Francisco will be
governed largely by the local committees.
As soon as anything definite is decided
upon it will be made public through the
press."
Wholesale Arrest of Indians.
Wilcox, Arizona, March 30. Nine
prominent Apaches were arrested during
the last forty-eight hours and placed in
irons at San Carlos. Among the prison
ers is old Chief Eskimizene, called "Skfll-
niy" for short. The first five prisoners
were arrested for the murder of a white
man years ago, but Eskimizene and the
other three were apprehended for giving
help to "Tokio" the notorious renegade
and murderer, who has thus far defied
and eluded the authorities and for whose
capture the government has expended
thousands of dollars.
The Supreme Court Decides on An Impor
tant Question.
Washington, March 30. The supreme
court today refused to grant application
for a writ of habea corpus in the some
what celebrated murder case of Dick
Duncan vs. McCall sheriff of Beepar Co.
Texas in which it was sought to bring
into question the validity of the entire
penal code of the state of Texas.
Japanese Laborers for Guatemala.
San Francisco, March 28. It was re
cently stated that Japanese were flocking
away from their native island, and that
California was receiving more than her
share of them. Advices from Guatema
la just received report a scarcity of labor
ers there and that an agent of the Guate
malan government had been sent to
Japan to obtain 1500 Japanese to work on
the coffee plantations. .
Will Demand Higher Wages.
St. Louis, March 30, Journeymen
carpenters and joiners here are prepar
ing to make demands on their bosses for
a forty cent per hour rate comencing
May first.
Snow Storms In England.
London, March 30. A heavy snow
storm is sweeping over the northern part
of Great Britain. All horse car lines and
railroads of Aberdeen are blocked.
Had a Fearful Fall.
Portland, March 30. John Lawensen
employed on a four story frame building
fell today a great distance and sustained
serious injury.
Chicago Wheat Market. -
Chicago, HI., March. 30. Wheat,
iteady; cash, 1.02(ai.02?i
THE GRANGE AND THE ALLIANCE.
It is with no intention of drawing any
invidious comparison between the
grange and the farmers' alliance that we
venture to express the opinion that the
former has within it certain elements of
strength, stability and usefulness that
will secure its vigorous endurance when
the latter shall have attained the period
of decrepitude and decay. The grange
is not strictly a political organization
and herein lies much of its strength and
promise for continued usefulness. The
members of the grange are free to fol
low their own party preferences, while
the constant discussion, in their ordinary
grange meetings and councils of such
matters as relate to the common inter
ests of the farming classes has tended to
make them intelligently and practically
united. The grange has always been
wisely conservative. " As a result it has
quietly achieved and is still capable of
achieving an immense amount of practi
cal good. Just because it has wisely
steered clear of mere partisan politics it
has been the less afflicted with design
ing politicians. Just because it has lit
tle or nothing to offer to the political
demagogue, it has been the less troubled
with this social parasite. Its principles
have bravely stood the test of passing
years and today it numbers forty states
and territorial organizations in as many
states and territories. During the past
two or three years it has taken a new
lease of life and a new and firmer hold
on the steady conservative element of
our farming population.
The farmers' alliance, on the other
hand has flashed into existence like a
meteor. For the moment it threatens to
carry everything before it. But it is a
political organization, and its very suc
cess is its weakness. There is no mis
taking the fact that it is infested with
mere political demagogues, whose only
object is to use it as a stepping stone to
place and power, and its tens of thous
ands of honest adherents are simply be
ing used as tools to accomplish this pur
pose. The old parties are in many
states slobbering and sliming the alli
ance all over, preparatory to swallowing
it at one gulp. It is with no unfriendly
spirit we say so but rather, if possible,
as a warning to a society with many of
whose objects we have the warmest
sympathy. It is with very great regret
that we notice within it the elements of
disintrigation and decay. We believe
many of its schemes are wholly im
practicable and visionary and that at no
great distance of time from the present,
the members themsejves, many of them,
will see them to be so. The society
undertakes too much. Some of its
measures of reform belong rather to the
church and the school room than to the
political arena.' Its financial reform is
financial retrogression. Its clamor for
usury laws and unequal taxation- of
money can have ' but the one effect of
driving capital out of every state that is
foolish enough to pass such laws. Itde
nounces class legislation while it de
mands in another form the very thing it
denounces. It would suppress the
national banking system without pro
viding any adequate substitute. Its
system of free coinage of silver, by
which a silver miner or bullion dealer
can take a quantity of silver for which
he cannot get more than 80 cents in any
market in the world, and have it coined
into a dollar is simply a species of the
worst form of class legislation.
the United states has no more
right to create a market ' for
the silver miner and dealer in bullion
than in has to create a market for any
thing else. We take issue with the
alliance movement on these matters
with very great regret. We would not
be true to our convictions if we did not
do so. In everything that tends towards
a sound moral reformation of our cor
rupt political methods the alliance has
and will always have our cordial sup
port. We are none the less a friend to
the movement because we venture to
offer a friendly criticism. Many of its
warmest adherents have no faith in the
wisdom of the measures we have ventured
to disapprove and the friends of the
alliance will do will to heed the ad
vice of friendly criticism, lest by a plat
form' burdened by impracticble meas
ures . they imperil the sucess ot a
movement otherwise fraught with much
hope to the people and to the nation.
A YEAR'S FOREIGN TRADE.
From a valuable article in the March
number of the Youth's Companion we
extract the following :
The exchange of products between this
country and lands beyond the sea in
creases steadily. . The returns showing
tne extent ot tne foreign trade for the
calendar year 1890 have recently been
issued. They show that goods were im
ported to the value of eight hundred and
twenty-three million dollars; the value
of domestic goods exported was eight
hundred and forty-six millions.
Of the importations of the year 1890
rather more than one-third of the value
consisted of goods free of auty. The
value of free goods was two hundred and
eighty-eight millions ; of those subject to
duty nve nundred and tnirty-nve million.
The largest single item of importation
was coffee, of which more than eighty
four million dollars' worth was received
during the year. This, however, was
but one million dollars more than the
value of sugar and molasses, which has
heretofore always held the first place on
the list.
The value of texile goods imported is
also very large, in spite of the efforts
made to secure the market of these goods
to domestic manufacturers. Woollens
and worsted goods imported were worth
fifty -four millions; siik forty-one mil
lions ; cotton thirty-three millions ; linen,
hemp and jute twenty-seven millions.
Other important items of importation
are chemicals and drugs forty-six
millions, and iron' and its manufactures
forty-four millions. The articles we have
mentioned represent quite one-half of the
total value of imports. There are no
other articles of nearly so much im
portance as any one of these.
On the export side the trade is even
more closely confined, in its large items,
to a few articles. Not less than two
hundred and fifty-four millions of dollars
was the value of cotton exported, and
this alone stands for thirty per cent, of
the total. -
Provisions is second on the list, one
hundred and forty-three millions; bread
stuffs third, one hundred and forty-two
millions ; and petroleum, crude and re
fined, fifty-one millions, is next. There
is no other class of poods which repre
sents as much as forty millions. But
the merchandise enumerated includes
nearly three-fourths of the value of
American exports.
Where do we buv, and where do
sell? The returns of trade bv countries
are not complete, but the character of
the foreign commerce does not change
much from year to year.
By far the greatest amount of trade
with Great Britain. One-fourth of all
the imports are from that country, and
one-nalt the exports are sent there.
Germany is second and France third
counting the trade both ways ; but the
imports from the West Indies are greater
tnan those from f ranee.
There are three things which public
men are now trying to enect. in connec
tion with the foreign trade, namely, to
increase the amount of exports of manu
factures, to augment the trade with
Central and South America, and to
restore a part of the carrying trade to
American ships. During the year 1890
less than one-seventh of the imports and
less then one-tenth of the exports were
carried in American vessels.
HOSPITALS VERSUS
TIARIES.
PENITEN
TS East Oregonian seems to think that
all crimes are but the evidence of a dis
eased state of mind and that "criminals,
instead of being confined in the peni
tentiary should be sent to some kind of
an hospital. That paper seems to think
that it is very bad to take a cold blooded
murderer and hang him. The poor dear
man should be taught "economy and
ethics" as a means of reformation and
when graduated turned loose again. The
paper of course rejoices that Sandy Olds
got off so cheap, and must have .a high
conception of the ethical and economic
erudition of the Hillsboro jury, whose
only qualification for the office of jurors,
as it seems to one untrained, we suppose
both in ethics and economics, was
stolid, stupid ignorance of passing events
as dense as that of an inhabitant of an
African jungle. The man capable of
thinking that crime is always evidence of
disease and that it should be treated
remedially and never punitively well
we suppose the Almighty made him for
some purpose but to use an Irish bull, if
we were hanged we couldn't see what
that purpose is.
OREGON'S GOVERNOR
WITH
THE PEOPLE.
There is now considerable fault being
found with Governor Laughton of Wash
ington for his too free use of the veto
power. He is charged, pretty generally
over the whole slate with having vetoed
almost every measure that would have
afforded the people relief from the ex-
horhitant charges of railroad corpora
tion. We. too, have a governor who
could beat the record of Cleveland him
self, m the exercise of the veto power.
but with all the evils that the people of
Oregon can justly deplore we have one
thing to be thankful for a governor
that can be counted on pretty confident
ly, and at all times, when it is a ques
tion of the rights of the people as . op
posed to railroad or other corporations
The worst enemy of Governor Pennoyer
cannot truthfully say he is not an honest
man. He may be a crank, but an hon
est crank is a heap better than a dishon
est pander to corrupt corporations, and
the governor whatever else he may be is
not that.
THE
EFFECTIVENESS
CLUB.
OF
Trades unions or the organized confed
eration of the laboring classes have af
fected much for the laboring poor. It
too frequently happens that there is no
way of the employe obtaining justice
from his employer except by a club,
Moral suasion and an appeal to justice
and righteousness have little influence,
these days, with capitalists and monopo
listic corporations... It is therefore re
freshing to find that through the influence
of organized labor the meanest employe
of the biggest -corporation can, as a rule,
demand and obtain all reasonable con
cessions to his just demands. A corpo
ration whose untold millions give it the
power to crush the poor at will, is power
less to deal unjustly with the poorest
servant in its employ where such associa
tions are in good working order. This is
just as it should be. When a sense of
justice is absent a club is an excellent
substitute.
EXUBERANT VERBOSITY.
The Dalles charter bill did not "die an
ignominious death m one of the com
mittee rooms of the recent legislature."
It was killed in tbe senate chamber in
the face of open day and at the bidding
of a small and rapidly waning faction in
this city because it attempted to prevent
repetition of the edifying scenes en
acted in the council chamber last summer,
when a capricious and stubborn execu
tive, elected to carry out the wishes of
the people, set his judgment against the
whole council and a large majority of the
tax payers and prevented the payment
of the purchase money for The Dalles
water works after the bargain had been
closed, till the city had to pay some
$1100 of interest on the money, while
$100,000 of the people's money, on which
they were paying six per cent, interest,
was lying idle in his bank. And now
the .fawning apologist of this infamy
prates about "free institutions resting
upon the consent of the governed." It
is but the hoot of the screech owl, the
cry of the demagogue, the song of the
pedant bewildered by the "exuberance
of his own verbosity."
There never was a bank failure in Or
egon. Inat is a record wnicn any state
should be proud of. The young boomed
state of Washington cannot say as much.
The cook who lighted the fire with the
manuscript of Caryle's "French Revolu
tion" died in England recently.
He that can quietly
endure overcom-
etb. , .
MORE VETOES.
Governor Langton of Washington
Bwiufl w uave vemeu auuui every uiu
passed by the last legislative assembly,
whose obiect was to crive the nennla Any
j o- i j J
relief from the railroads. He has also
vetoed what was known as the anti
Pinkerton bill, which provides that no
person, corporation or association or
their agents should organize, maintain
or employ an armed body of men in the
state for any purpose whatever, under a
penalty of from $1000 to $5000, and a
like sum for each day they should conr
tinue to offend. This latter measure is
one being demanded by Ialior associa
tions throughout the whole United
States and is perfectly just and fair and
should have been approved. It is to be
hoped that the farmers and laboring
classes will take care of Governor
Laughton if he ever asks anything at
their hands again.
The president is undecided whether to
visit the r-acinc coast, or not. Uome on,
uen, it win do you good, we'll fill yon
up on tne nnest salmon you ever ate,
not Hoosier salmon, full of wisps, but
fat, jucy Chinook, that will make your
hair curl. His excellency will never
realize the greatness of the country of
which he is the chief magistrate, till he
visits the coast.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
O. D. DO AN E PHYSICIAN AND 8UB-
GEON. Office: rooms 5 and 6 'hnimnn
Block. Residence oyer McKarland French's
store. Office hours 9 to 12 A. M., 2 to 5 and 7 to
AS. BENNETT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
flee In Schanuo's building, up Btairs.
Dalles, Oregon.
Of-
The
D1
R. G. C. ESHELMAN Hov&oPATHic Phy
sician and bCRGEON. Office Hours : 9
to 12 A. if ' ; 1 to 4, and 7 to 8 P M. Calls answered
promptly day or night' Office; upstairs in Chap-
UIHU J1UC1L
T BIDDALL Dentist. Gas given for the
painiens extraction oi leein. Also teem
set on flowed aluminum plate. Rooms: Sign of
uie uoiaen room, becona street
At. THOM PSON Attqrnky-at-law. Office
. In Otiera House Block. Washington Street.
in Onera House Block. Washington Street.
i oe uaiies, uregon
P. F. MAYS. B. S. HUNTINGTON. H. 8. WILSON.
AYS, HUNTINGTON & WILSON ATTOB-
NEYs-AT-LAW. Oflises. French's block over
First National Bank, Tne Dalles, Oregon. ,
.B.DUFUR. GEO. WATKIK8. FBANK KENIFIB.
UFUR. W ATKINS fc MENEFEE Attob-
NEY8-AT-LAW Rooms Nos. 71. 73. 75 and 77.
vogi -iocs, second street, i ne Danes, uregon.
YI7 H. WILSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Rooms
f 52 and 53. New Voet Block. Second Street.
ine uaiies, uregon.
S. L. YOUNG,
(Successor to E. BECK.)
-DEALER IN-
Jewelry, Diamonds,
SITtVFPWflPF vFTC
i
' f ' T 1
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
Repaired and Warranted.
165 Second St.. The Dalles, Or.
John Pashek,
s
Mellaril Tailor.
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.
French & co.,
BANKERS.
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
Letters of Credit issued available in the
Eastern States.
Sight Exchange and Telegraphic
Transfers sold on JMew York-,(Jhicago, bt.
Louis, San Francisco, Portland Oregon,
Seattle Wash., and various points in Or
egon and Washington.
Collections made at all points on fav
orable terms.
$500 Reward!
We will pay the above reward for any case of
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, In
digestion, Constipation or Coti veness we cannot
cure with west s vcgetaDie uvcr nils, wnen me
directions are strictly complied with. They are
Surely vegetable, and never fail to give satisfac
on. Sugar Coated. Large boxes containing 30
Hlis, a cents, iteware oi counterfeits ana imi
tations. The genuine manufactured only by
THE JOHN C. WFST COMPANY, CHIGAGO,
UXLJUIS.
BLAKELET HOIOHTON,
Prescription Druggists,
17S Second St. The Dalles, Or.
$20 REWARD.
TTTILL BE PAID FOR ANY INFORMATION
T T
Eft? XteThl
the ropes
wires,
poles or lamps of Thjs Euctbic Light
Co.
11. GLENN.
Manager.
FOR SALE.
HAVING BOUGHT THE LOGAN STABLES
in East Portland, we now offer our Livery
utaoie Dusiness in tms city lor sate at a Dargain.
WflTCIIES, CLOCKS
J. M. HUNTINGTON & CO.
fw 4 i .
HStFclGt6FS
J 9
Real Estate and
Insurance Agents.
Abstracts of, and Information Concrn
ingLand Titles on Short Notice.
Land for Sale and Horn to Rent-
Parties Looking for Homes in
COUNTRY OR CITY,
OR IN SEARCH OF
Bi$ie$ Location
Should Call on or Write to us.
Agents for a Full Line of - '
LeaJiiii Fire Insurance Coipaiiei';
And Will Write Insurance for ;
-A.3ST3T -A.-MlbTJlSrT,
on all
T3-Frit4i k?.A-RT.-n EI3KH. ;
Correspondence Solicited. All Letten'
Promptly Answered. Call on or
Address,
J. M. HUNTINGTON & CO.
Opera House Block, The Dalles, Or.
fSN 1 HhlS A KINF.KST.KV
a
Wholesale ail Retail Driiisli-
Fine Imported, Key West and Dome-tie'
CIQABS.
(AGENTS FOR)
C. N. THORNBURY,
T. A. HTJDSOH,
Notary Publis
Late Bee. U. 8. Land Office.
THQHHBUBY &H0DSGX
ROOMS 8 and 9 LAND OFFICE BUILDIN8,
Postofflce Box 588,
. . -
THE DALLES, OR.
Filings, Contests
And all other Business in the U.S. Land Ofliei . .
, Promptly. Attended to. -
We have ordered Blanks for Filings, '
Entries and the purchase of Railroad
Lands under the recent Forfeiture Act, '
which we will have, and advise the pub- -lie
at the earliest date when such entries ,
can be made. Look for advertisement
in this paper.
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ThornDurv & nuason.
Health is Wealth I
Dr. E. C. West's Nxivm akb Bsaik TrsaT-
mknt, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria, DUd-. '
ness. Convulsions, Fits, Nervous Neuralgia, ,
Headache, Nervous Prostration causea Dy tne us
of alcohol or tobacco. Wakefulness, Mental De
pression, Softening of the Brain, resulting in in
sanity and leading to misery, decay and death, :
Premature Old Aee. Barrenness. Loss of Power .
In either sex. Involuntary Losses and Spermat-'
orrhoea caused by over exertion of the brain, self-. .
abuse or over indulgence. Each box contains
one month's treatment $1.00 a box, or six boxes
for $5.00, sent by mail prepaid on receipt oi price. .
WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES
To cure any case. With each order reed red by .
os for six boxes, accompanied by $5.00, we will ,
send the purchaser our written guarantee to re- '
fund the money if the treatment does not effect
a cure. Guarantees issued only by
BLAKELET & HOUGHTON,- '
Prescription Drarrlsta,
175 Second St. The Dalles, Or.
D. P. Thompson'
J. S. SCHINCK, H. M. BlALL. ;
Vice-President. Cashier.
President.
First National BanJc.
THE DALLES,
- - OREQON
A General Banking Business transacted
Jjeposita received, subject to eignt
Draft or Unecfc.
Collections made and proceeds promptly
remitted on day of collection.
Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold on
JNew York, ban francisco and Port
land.
DIRECTORS.
P. Thompson. Jno. S. Schcnck.
W. Spabks. Geo. A. Lxkbk.
H. M. Bsall.
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