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ICI.K." The Dalles, Oregon.
LET VAGRANTS AND
ir A RE.
THUGS BE-
piiatic aiiu'alive. it is u mi very givul
hesitation that we declare our surprise
at tlie secretary's response to the liberal
subscription that came from Astoria.
After thanking the citizens of Astoria
for their kind and unsolicited subscrip
tion, he added : "We hope and lielievei
however, that we will be able to take
care of our own people. If this is found
impossible we will use the funds so gen
erouslo offered." This may be very self
reliant and sturdily, independent, but
the question is, Is it true? Does it ex
press the sentiments of the people who
the facts?
We unhesitatingly answer, It does not.
Again, what is meant by the last sen
tence? Is it intended to store the money
away and only use it sometime in the
in case of supposed necessity?
The only time to use the money is right
now. A month from todav it won t be
There eau scarcely be a reasonable
doubt that some of the four disastrous j are thoroughly familiar with
fires we have bad in the short period of
four and a half days had their origin in
incendiarism. It is in fact unreasonable
to suppose that four fires should have
nrenred in so short a time" and two of future
them within a few hours of each other
without extraneous aid ; particularly, as
not one of them can be accounted for in
any ordinary way. It is the history of
all great city fires that the scene of the
calamity soon becomes the rendezvous of
all the thugs and toughs for miles
around. It was so in the great Chicago
fire, and 6o here. There is not a doubt
in the world that a gang of thieves made
away with everything they could possi
bly carry off, and did this nearly as fast as
the generous-hearted express-men, .who
gave their Services for nothing, could
carry it to a placeof supposed safety. It
is even rumored that boats were em
ployed on the river to carry stuff rescued
from the flames over to the Washington
side, and that wagons left the city loaded
down with plunder, and the supposition
ia perfectly reasonable. In no other
way can it be accounted for that many
things that the owners knew were car
ried to the edge of the river should have
disappeared as if by magic. Be that as
it may, the mass meeting of yesterday
was significant of very serious conse
quences likely to follow the presence in
. our midst, any longer, of men who can
not give a satisfactory account of them
selves. There1 is no mistaking the spirit
of the neoDle at this hour. The life of a
man caught in the attempt of setting
fire to a buildidg in The Dalles at this
moment would not be worth the snuff of
a candle, and ten times the regular force
of officers could not save him. And this
is just as it should be. There is no
place on the Almighty's footstool where
the miscreant ought to be allowed to
live who would deliberately and malic
iously start a fire that would leave hun
dreds of women and children homeless
and penniless, and be the occasion if not
the cause of the loss of valuable and
precious human lives. . One thing is
certain, the climate of'The Dalles will
for some time le very unhealthy for
tramps and thugs, and as they them
selves value their worthless lives they
had better steer clear of here.
A Cold Water Convention at Worcester,
Mass. The G. 0. P. of New York
Convene at Rochester.
Mormons Not Wanted in Great Britain
A Budget of Home and For
eign News.
THE
DALLES MUST
SWIM.
BE IN THE
That the city will be largely rebuilt as
. coon as men and money can do it is be
yond question. Stores and dwellings
are needed immediately, and as soon as
they are erected they will be occupied.
Every indication of the "outside world
points to a time of unexampled prosper
ity in the near future for the whole na
tion. The burned city must rise from
her ashes and get into the swim and
keep in it. There will come into the
hands of the producing classes of the
United States, from this year's crop, a
thousand million dollars more than the
usual amount earned by that class. This
means general prosperity to all classes.
and in this prosperity we of The Dalles
are bound to have more or less participa
tion. Hundreds of thousands of dollars
are now being paid out by insurance
companies to the losers of property by
the great fire, and much of this will be
spent for labor and material to repair
the ruin. This means employment for
hundreds of laborers and craftsmen at
- good wages for many days to come, and
plenty of business for the trading com
munity. The fire in Chicago, twenty
years ago was greater in proportionate
magnitude than that which has visited
this city ; vet it was but an incident in
her history. Croakers then, as now
said the city was ruined, yet she rose
from her ashes greater and more beauti-
ful than before. A city was needed
there. Tne geographical position de
manded it, and the same is true, though
of course in a less degree, of The Dalles,
and the men who now stand shoulder to
shoulder with her in her temporary ad
versity will reap their reward in her
coming prosperity.
needed. Hundreds of people were
burned out of house and home, were left
without food and without money. All
they need is a little temporary help till
thev are able to so to work again. It
may be given in the form of a loan or in
anv other wav, but it ought to be given
and siven now. There are scores of
women and children, not to say men,
who were left with scarcely enough cloth
ing to cover their nakedness, let alone a
change. Thev are not paupers. They
will never ask for help from the relief
committee. Some of them would die
first ; but they need help just tiie same,
and to be of any service help must come
immediately. In all this we have not a
thought of reflecting on the work of the
committee, but the contrary. e sim-
nlv exnress our conviction that it is a
false and foolish pride that refuses aid,
generously' and. reely offered, when
nine-tenths of the people of The Dalles
know in their hearts that this aid is in
manv instances sorely needed.
THE DALLES NOT ASLEEP:
The Salem Statesman remarks that "it
cost The Dalles a million dollars to go to
sleep on the water question." The
Statesman is mistaken. The Dalles did
not go to sleep on the water question
Everything that both the council, the
water commissioners and a large ma
jority of the tax-payers could do to im
prove the water system was done, and
in a few weeks more the new system will
be in operation. That it was not in op
eration at the time of the fire was no fault
of the council, the water commissioners
nor the tax-payers.
Another exchange says: "Two fac
tions quarreled over a water works sys
tem for over a year, during which time
$50,000, which the city had borrowed for
water purposes, lay idle. Now a fire
comes along which causes a loss of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars which
might have been prevented by a good
system of direct water pressure." This
is true with the exception tnat the sum
was not $30,000, but twice that amount,
and the quarrel was not between two
factions. If writers will insist on criti
cizing, which they nave a rignt to no,
they ought first to be informed.
BUSINESS MEN WILL STAY WITH
THE TOWN.
An exchange quotes approvingly the
apothegm, "Low taxes signifies an in
telligent people." That depends. Low
taxes may signify inoss-backiein. A
community content to get along without
public improvements may have a tax
rate low enough to be exactly propor
tionate to their lack of intelligence. A
school district that refuses to levy a five
mill tax for educational purposes in or
der to reduce taxation, is a case in point.
The town of Milton did not display re
markable intelligence when it refused
the other day to vote for an increased
tax that would have given them better
school facilities liesides a new water sys
tem and an electric light plant. If low
taxes always meant high intelligenoe
then the savage in his native wild ought
to be the most intelligent man in the
world.
Worcester, Sept. 9. The prohibition
state convention was called to order this
morning. The platform denounces the
liquor traffic in the usual manner. The
seventh plank is as follows: "We de
plore the depth of degradatian to which
the national department of state has de
scended in becoming a drummer in for
eign lands for the beer lords of this
country and add to this other facts of
refusal to unite with other nations in a
treaty for the suppression of slave trade
and rum trafllc in Africa. The presi
dent who finds five kinds of wine neces
sary for his official banquets, the vice
president who applies for a liquor license
for his 'shoreham,' the senate that will
not banish a bar-room from its wing of
the capitol and the house that strangles
all inquiries into facts of liquor traffic,
and we have a perfect demonstration of
complete dominancy of rum in foreign
or national affairs.
New York Republican Convention.
Rochester, Sept. 0. At noou Gen
eral Knapp, chairman of the state com
mittee, called tlie republican state con
vention to order. He spoke briefly in
reference to the "man from Maine" and
was received with terrific and prolonged
applause. William Goodrich was then
chosen temporary chairman.
Goodrich in his speech said upon the
subject of silver, "An honest dollar for
an honest debt. The democratic party
is like a lizard, changing its color accor
ding to the envirions. At the south it
stands for prohibition ; in the north for
free rum. On the Pacific coast and in
Montana it demands free coinage of sil
ver, and in the Ohio convention it
adopted a free coinage plank by a bare
majority, and places a hard money man
upon it, and at the east it demands gold
and silver coinage on an equal basis.
We sorrowfully behold the governor of
this great state as he stands like a mod
ern Colossus with one foot in the execu
tive chamber at Albany and the other
in the senate chamber at Washington,
his eves greedily fixed on the presiden
tial chair in which he will never sit.
The coming contest is that of Hillism
grafted onto Tammanyism against the
political conscience of the voters of this
commonwealth, and on such issue we
shall suffer no defeat.
11111 ' t-H1' '' ' '"' uniting HUH"
noon at 2 :4o o'clock two young men
sailed from Rockaway beach- in a dory,
bound for Boston. Harry Tumbenback,
the captain, sat in the stern just before j
starting, while -Robert Valkenberg, the
mate and crew, went forward
and christened the craft Little Rover.
Then they sailed. Two hours later they
had made about half a mile. Their boat
is seven feet long and two feet six inches
in width. It has a square stern, is flat
bottomed, lias a centre-board, and car
ries a mainsail and jib. ith its two
occupants it draws about six inches.
-while its gunwales are about eight inches
above water, lne sides are made of a
single board about three-quarters of an
inch thick. The mainsail is five feet
high and about three feet wide. In this
cigar box two men expect to reach Bos
ton in about nine days. They expect to
capsize irequently, ana so they carry a
reel and a long line. When they go
overboard thev will swim ashore and
draw the boat after them, bail her out
and proceed. Both voyagers are robust
young fellows, who have made a record
as life savers at Rockaway and Asbury
Park. They will trust to their swim
ming powers rather than to the boat to
save them. They will pass up East
River through the sound and around
Cape Cod, keeping as near shore as pos
sible. They carry canvas to shelter
them at night. It'is said they are sail
ing for a purse or wager.
DIED IN JAIL.
Ship's Crew Stricken Down With
Scurvey and no Medicines jn
Board Two Dead.
NO PLACE FOR MOISHONS.
Missionaries Looked Upon With Indig
nation in Great Britain.
London, Sept. 9. Public opinion in
Great Britain at present is turning with
indignation upon the Mormon crusade
being made in many country districts.
Revelations just made show there are
200 Mormon "missionaries" at present
working in Great Britian'and Scandi
navia. Particular attention has been
called by the press to the operations of
two young mormon missionaries who
have been working in the village of Lan
cashire, and some strange disclosures as
to the proselyting methods adopted
were made.
DRIVEN TO DESPERATION.
The assessor of Umatilla county some
time ago sent a circular letter to every
mortgage holder in the county, whose
name appeared on the records, in order
to obtain informaSon regarding any of
the mortgages that might have been paid
in whole or part. Some four or five hun
dred replies have been received and as a
result the assessor has checked off from
the mortgage transcript $163,1 79 in mort
gages, some of which were paid four or
five years ago, but which according to
the law had to be placed on the roll
every year. asco county could copy
the example of Umatilla with great
profit.
The business men of the city who were
horned out during the late fire are dis
playing remarkable energy in getting
ready for business again. As fast as
houses or offices could be procured they
their losses are adjusted, and sometimes
before, they go to work with a will to
repair their broken fortunes. This is
only aa it should tie. Business men who
' have lived here for years and have made
a name and character for themselves can
not afford to leave and begin life anew
amid other surroundings. Besides,
where will they go to do better? Every
other place is filled up. There are few
towns on the Pacific coast that possess so
many natural advantages as The Dalles.
It ia the gateway of an empire ; it has an
enormous trade for a town of its size and
population. This trade the fire has not
materially effected, has not in truth,
effected at all, except it may be 'tem
porarily. Who knows that the 'fire may
not have simply burned the moss off the
backs of some of our citizens, an 1 that
they may come out of the baptism with
more energy and vim and enterprise
than they have ever shown before?
HELP IS NEEDED.
We are thoroughly in accord with our
weekly contemporary, the Sun, in the
opinion that the responses being s?ot
out from this city by the secretary of the
relief committee, in reply to inquiries as
to the needs of those who have suffered
from the fire, are not in accord with the
sentiments of the people. Hitherto we
have hesitated, lest our motives be mis
understood, to put this opinion ou r.c
ord, bnt it cannot have escaped observa
tion that the mayor was sending one
kind of ft response and the secretary of
the relief committee another. We have
made it onr business t ask the opinion
A t'OMMITTE OF SAFETY HERE.
While the citizens have every confi
dence in the ability of the mayor and the
officers of the law to detect and pun
ish crime, and while they hope that the
dernier resort of lynch law will not have to
be resorted to, these considerations have
not prevented them, as we are well as
sured, from forming themselves into a
comuiittee of safety which will supple
merfevery proper effort to detect and
punish crime and to drive criminals
from our midst.
A Itusslan Jew Murder II in Entire
Family.
Berlin-, Sept. 9. From Kieff comes
the account of a horrible tragedy.
Jew named. Kaplan, driven to despera
tion by an order to leave Russia, he hav
ing been deprived of a comfortable bus!
ness bv former decrees, first shot his
wife and then one by one his five chil
dren. He afterwards killed himself,
Kaplan left a note, stating the motive
for the crimes, which was a desire to
save his family from otherwise inevit-
able misery. From other parts of Rus
sia comes news of tragedies attendant on
the laiiure ot the harvest and the conse
quent suffering and struggle for exist
ence. hue no cases of cannibalism
have been reported, there have been
several cases of mysterious disappear
ances that are attributed to suspected
cannibalism, and in Bessarabia the
police are carefully watching for evidence
ugauiBP persons uiiuer suspicion, many
suicides are stated to have occurred
among the peasontry, who, owing to
strong religious feeling, have been, as
rule, slow to commit this act. There is
nothing reassuring in Russian advices,
and the propect for the winter is terrible
to contemplate.
Murdered and Thrown In the River.
Eureka, Cal., Sept. 7. The body of
Ludwig Stein, an old German, was
found in Mad river yesterday. A hand
kerchief with a lot of stones was tied
around his neck. An autopsy showed
the man was dead before the body was
put in the water, and the coroner's iurv
rendered a verdict of death torn an un
known cause. Stein had trouble with
his son-in-law, Adolph Fisher, lately.
The Dalles never was a boom town
Like all other solid towns it simply kept
pace with the country that supported it.
The Dalles never took a spurt ahead and
then had to wait till the country caught
up. JNow she ia a little behind in the
race and the country will watch with
interest while we spit on our hands and
take a fresh start.
A single-tax fiend recently lectured to
an audience of 10,000 people in Mystic,
Conn., and solemnly assured ihem that
f the single tax were in force there
would be univeral brotherhood and war
would disappear ! It ia a system of won
derful potentialities and possibilities,
that same single tax.
The late census has shown that the
per capita wealth of the people of the
United States is double what it wns
thirty years ago. Here is a text for
calamity orators.
Extensive Car Shop Burned.
Port Huron-, Mich., Sept. 7. The
large car shops of the Chicago & Grand
Trunk railway were partially burned
yesterday afternoon. Eleven cars were
destroyed, besides a large quantity of
lumber and the carpenter shops. Loss,
100,000. Two hundred men are thrown
out of employment.
Major Bandy Dead.
New York, Sept. 9. A cablegram
from Reid, United StaFes minister to
France, received here this morning, an
nounces that Major Bundy, editor of the
Mail and Express, who has been in Paris
for some time, is dead. The cause of
his death was apoplexy.
Fatal Locomotlre Explosion.
Jamaica, L. I., Sept. 9. A locomotive
on the Long Island railroad exploded at
Oyster Bay station this morning. En
gmecr Donaldson, Fireman Dickerson
and Brakeman Mahoney were killed and
onaucior Jones scalded.
An English Clergyman's Love for Liquor
Causes His Downfall. ,
London, Sept. 7. Gloucester, is ex
cited over a clerical scandal. Last eve
ning Henry Rudge, the senior curate of
Newent, near that city, who was well
connected and had been highly con
nected, died in jail. His downfall has
been rapid. A short time ago he began
drinking, and it was soon learned by the
parish trustees that he was using a large
amount of parochial funds. Through
the influence of friends, who restored
the money, the matter was hushed up
and it was hoped that the minister's
failings would be controlled, but after a
briel period ot uprightness he again leu
from grace, and it became necessary for
the parishioners to dismiss him. A
week ago Rudge was forced to leave his
house for non-payment of rent. Over
come bv despair and enanie ne at
tempted to commit suicide, but was pre
vented from carrying out his purpose
and was sent to jail for the offense of
trving to end his life. It is believed he
obtained poison through some friend
while in jail and was thus enabled to
finally complete the wotkot sen-destruc
tion, as an autopsy shows signs of poi
son. Very few of the curate's parish
ioners had an idea of the disgrace into
which he had fallen ; the prevailing idea
that he was suffering from nervous pros
tration. The revelations following the
suicide have caused a profound sensa
tion.
REFUSED TO HOLD FlIM.
Drowned in a Mysterious Manner
Balmaceda Upholds Minister Egan
Other Brief Xews.
Sax Francisco, Sept. 7. The bark
Royal Tar, from Australia, anchored in
quarantine yesterday morning, reporting
fever and scurvy on board, and the cap
tain and first mate both dead. Dr. Law
ler, quarantine officer, sent the sailors
to the Marino hospital. On his return
to shore, he stated they were in a fearful
condition, caused by foulness of the ship,
shortness of provisions and medicines.
The Royal Tar left Australia June oth,
with Captain T. A. Franklin, two mates,
eleven seamen and a boy. Very soon
after starting most abominable stenches
arose from the hold, and in a few days
an on boaad became ill. June loth,
Captain Franklin was down with tvohoid
fever. Then it was found the medicine
chest had not been filled, and nothing
could be done tor him. The last day of
Union is not going to have a woolen
mill after all.
A new paper, the Leader, has been es
tablished at North Yamhill, with Ira A.
Phelps as editor.
Friday quotations at Albany show
wheat was only bringing 81 cents there
and 82 cents at Salem.
It is reported that the O. & W. T. R.
R. will soon commence work on a depot
building at Pendleton.
State Senator Raley of Pendleton is
said to be willing to take his chances for
congressional honors at the next election. Saturday morning last, John, the 17
Many carloads of melons and fruit are I year-old son of Benjamin Windsor, of
being shipped to northern markets from Lincoln, Polk county, fell and was
locations li a ve been made and develope
ment work is the order of the day.
Andrew Person was killed at Haynes'
slough, Coos bay, last week, while cut
ting down a tree, which split and
"kicked" back injuring him so at he
died in a few hours.
There is talk of a salmon hatchery be
ing established "on the Umpqua river.
The California board offish commission
ers have ordered 3,000,000 trout to le
raised at Sissom this vear, all goes
well.
While hauling oats from the field,
The yield is large and
August the captain died and was buried.
Then the first mate fell ill with the
fever and died. Second Mate McCall
took command, and succeeded in getting
through without furiher deaths, though
an on Doaru were in with lever. In
July all stores gave out except tea and
fiour, and on this the crew had to live.
Jio antiscorbutics were on board, and
the men suffered fearfully. Ten days
ago tne uerinan oarK iivara eave them
a little meat and quinine. The appear
ance of the men is frightful. Some are
toothless, others pitted and scarred with
gangrene. It is believed the lives of all
will be saved by care and rest.
FATAL PLEASURE TRIP.
Minneapolis Authorities Release a Pick
pocket Wanted at Portland.
St. Paul, bept. 7. John ioley, a
somewhat noted character, commonly
known as "The Goat," was released
from imprisonment at Minneapolis to
day upon the understanding that he
would leave the city. Foley is a pick
pocket. His favorite plan of operation
is among women at funerals and other
solemn occasions, where the people's
minds are on the ceremony. He was
arrested at the exposition by Detective
Hoy. The authorities at Portland, ur.,
wanted Foley held until an officer could
arrive from that city. The county at
torney thought it would require too long
a time tor an omcer to come irom tne
coast, and that the prisoner would have
been able to get out a writ of habeas cor
pus in the meantime. Foley was ar
rested on general principles at Portland
alwut a year ago. He broke jail and
came east. About four years ago he
stole a pocket-book from Mrs. John
Fleethaine's pocket, - while that lady
was attending a funeral in East Minne
apolis. He was arrested at the time but
managed to escape conviction.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Young
Baker
of
Doctor Shoots Miss Ison
City, at Bloomington, 111. '
Bloomixgtov, 111., Sept. 7. Dr. Chas.
E. Ballard, of Haybrook, 111., and Miss
Bertha Ison of Baker City, Oregon, and
daughter of the late Judge Ison of that
place, was found dead this morning,
Dr. Ballard, a young physician came to
this city and ever since then has been
importuning Miss Ison, who came here
with her mother to attend college, to
marry him. She thought much of him
but begged him to postpone the event
until after her education was completed.
This morning he appeared at the house
and nad an interview with Aiiss ison in
the parlor. While talking with her he
pulled out a revolver and shot her twice,
once through the head and once through
the heart, producing instant death. The
doctor then shot himself five times dying
in a tew minutes.
A Man and Woman Drowned in a Mys
terious Manner.
Atlanta, Sept. 7. Jefferson D. Stu
art, a married man with four children,
and Mrs. Jane Kennedy, a married
woman with two children, went out for
a boat ride on Ponde de Leon lake after
8 o'clock last night. They had with
them, in another boat, two companions,
Gignilliat and Miss Ida Harmon. The
lake is away out of town and is in a
lonely spot. The two couples took sepa
rate boats and there in the dark were
having a pleasant time. Suddenly Gig
nilliat heard a scream, and looking
around beheld no trace of the other boat.
It had disappeared with its occupants as
completely as if it had never existed.
Miss Harmon fainted, and it was with
difficulty that Gignilliat saved himself
from the fate of his companions. Reach
ing shore and laving his unconscious
companion upon the grass, he rushed off
and gave the alarm. About 10 o,clock
200 men had gathered from the city
with drags and grappiing irons. For
four hours they dragged before success
rewarded them. The man was first
fished up, then the woman. The watch
in the man's pocket had stopped at 8 :03
Stufrt had visited Mrs. Kennedy's
hou. e early in the evening and suggested
the trip. His wife is on a visit to Ten
nessee, while the woman's husband is
in Douglas county.
MATTERS IN CHILI.
ACCIDENT OR CRIME.
The Baker City Blade had an editorial
on the 4th inst. on "Laced Aemonian
Valor." -AVe bu ncl) grass editors are
ready to tackle any subject on earth.
Brother Jackson of the East Oregonian
has discovered that man is an individual.
Now let the world hold its breath while
the Chronicle bows in admiration.
Big: Blaze at Brooklyn.
New York, Sept. 9. A four-story
1 !1J! ' Tl i i ...
uuuuiiig in jsrooKiyn, occupied by a
number of mercantile firms was burned
this morning, lne total loss in phH-
mated at flOO.OOO, fully insured.
Weather Forecast.
San- Francisco, Sept. 9. Forecast for
Oregon and Washington, local rains in
the northwest and extreme eastern
Washington, and near Roseburg and
Baker Oify.
Chili is Offered Money.
London-, Sept. 9. A syndicate of
European capitalists offered to advance
the Chilian junta 500,000 with which
to meet pressing requirements.
" He Cheats the Gallows.
Hartford, Conn., Sept. 9. Louis
Laner, accused of murder, hnnged him
self in his cell last night.
A Wealthy Ranch Owner Gives His
Friends Poison to Drink. .
Hartington, Neb., Sept. 7. Andrew
Olsen, a well-known farmer of this vi
cinity, died last night from the effects of
a dose of poison taken in a drink of al
cohol. Marlih Knulson, neighbor to
the deceased, lies at the point of death,
and Hans Seager. another friend, is
slowly recovering from the effect of
poison. Dennis Flaherty, a wealthy
ranchowner with previously a good rep-
1 1 . 11 ,
umuuu, lias ueen arrested, cnargea with
poisoning them. Last week he met
them and after a brief friendly conver
sation offered them to drink from a flask
of alcohol which he drew from his
pocket. He asserts he had two flasks,
one containing alcohol and one poison.
The men who drank asserts he had but
one flask, that the liquor therein was of
a milky hue, and he remarked it was
not clear as alcohol should be.
OREGON'S TOBACCO INTERESTS.
Figures Relating to the Industry in This
State.
Washington-, Sept. 5. Special Agent
Hyde, of the census, has made up the
figures of the tobacco industry in Ore
gon, lhe plant is grown m fourteen
counties, Linn being the banner county
in the product. The number of planters
is fifty-nine ; crop, 3325 pounds ; value,
$666 ; average yield per acre, 277 pounds.
in comparison wun otner states in
which tobacco is grown to a cheaper or
less extent. Oregon stands third in
average value per acre, twenty-ninth in
the number of planters, thirty-third in
the average yield per acre, and thirty
fifth in acrege in the production and in
the value of the product.
Desperate Fight Between Convicts.
Louisville, Ky., Sept 7. In the pen
itentiary at franKiort Sunday morning
Eli Lucas and William Bell Meyer, both
long-term convicts, fought. Lucas was
literally cut to pieces, and will die.
Meyer was beaten until he was uncon.
scions. William Johnson, another con
vict who interfered, had his sknll
cracked. j
President Balmaceda Upholds United
States Minister Egan. :
San- Francisco, Sept. 7. The Exami
ner's Santiago correspondent, under date
of August 8, reports an interview with
Balmaceda, then president of Chili, in
which the latter claimed foreign specu
lators had more to do with the disrup
tion oi tne government than was gener
ally known, and that a great deal of
money had been advanced the insur
gents by foreign capitalists. He refused
to state whether or .not United States
Minister Egan had expressed an opinion
as to wnetner tne united states govern
inenc lavorea tne uaimaceaan govern
ment or , the insurgents, but said the
United States minister was a very con
servative man, and had chosen to re
main silent as to his own sympathy in
the matter. Balmaceda expressed the
opinion that the chastisement which he
said Egan had received from the Ameri
can press was not merited, and that the
insurgents were trying to "down" the
latter simply from spite. The interview
was brief, as the correspondent says the
president reiused to discuss armv or
state affairs.
A Desperate Woman's Deed.
Atcbisox, Sapt. 7. Justice Moss, of
Everest, yesterday held Mrs. John
Bradley without bail for the murder of
the infant of her cousin, Miss Curley.
The child was the illegitimate offspring
of Mrs. Bradley's son. Charles. The
condition of Miss Curley, and the gen
eral knowledge that young Bradley was
the cause of her trouble, threatened to
break bis marriage engagement with
Julia Garvey, whereupon Mrs. Bradley
poisoneu tne cniia and drove tne uuriev
girl, who is simnla-minried. ftwav Slio
however, returned to visit the grave of
ner cniid, and the story came out.
Grant's Pass.
quality "good.
Saturday the Salem flouring mills
bought 14,000 bushels of wheat at 85,j
cents. About 6000 bushels more were
bought at 82 cents.
The Grand Ronde Valley Agricultural
society has been incorporated with a
capital of $50,000. The society proposes
to hold a fair on October 5.
Thomas Waterbury, an Oregon pioneer
of the year 1847, died at his son's resi
dence, near Long Creek, Grant county,
August 31, aged 79 years.
The natural gas wells of Ohio, Penn
sylvania and Indiana arc giving out and
it is becoming difficult to find new
"pockets" containing gas.
Several good horses are being trained
for the fair races, and Josephine will le
well represented at Central Point. They
will soon be removed to the Fair As
sociation's track.
The distillery at Medford will com
mence business as soon as the bonds of
Frank Galloway and J. A. Whitesade,
the storekeeper and gauger, are approved
at Washington and their commissions
received here.
While William King, a farmer near
Stayton, was oiling a threshing machine
his right arm was caught and drawn
between two cogwheels. The arm was
so terribly lacerated that amputation
was necessary.
The Brownsville Times says that H. B.
Moyer has in contemplation the lighting
of Brownsville by electricity,, and at
the present time is figuring on the ex
penses and also the incomes to be de
rived from a "plant."
George Engle, of Ashland, last week
finished his first 2000-cord contract for
furnishing engine wood to the Southern
Pacific company, and is now engaged on
his contract south of the summit, which
calls tor the same amount.
S. B. Cathcart is arranging to put in a
stone sawmill at the head of navigation
on North Coos river. There is plenty of
first-class rock there with good water
power, and stone could be sawed out to
order at very little expense.
The slate mines near Merlin are at
tracting an unusual share of public at
tention at present. They are pronounced
ced by experts to be among the best in
the country, and will no doubt be op
erated on a large scale for roofing slate
of high quality in the not very far dis
tant future.
Myron Judkins was thrown from a
horse last Wednesday, in this city, and
fell very hard on the back of his head.
Dr. Paine was called and found that the
base of the brain was quite severely in
jured. He is lying at his home very
low, and doubts are entertained of his
recovery.
Oregon are being filled with news
paper graveyards. In the last year
nearly every county in Oregon has had
a burial, and several more severe cases
of consumption are reported. Among
others, Jefferson, Junction, Drain, Eu
gene, Springfield, and even Albany have
had their experiences in this line.
The little village of Lostine, Wallowa
county, suffered quite a loss from fire
last Saturday evening. Someone set
fire to the livery stable of J. V. Luttrell,
which was consumed with all its con
tents, including what feed there was in
it. The loss is estimated at about $2500,
partially covered by insurance.
The cable and fixtures for the pro
posed new free ferry across Rogue river
were last Thursday taken out to the
ferry site by A. Betz. The cable is 1?
inches in diameter, the largest ever used
in the country, and will be perfectly safe
for three times the strain to which it is
contemplated it will ever be subjected.
crushed under the wheels. He got up
and drove home but soon sank away
from internal hemorrhage.
The common council of Milton, Uma
tilla county has passed an ordinance for
holding another election, to submit the
question of bonding the city for $10,000
for an electric light plant and an im
proved water system. The Eagle be
lieves that the proposition will pass al
most unanimously.
The road from Tillamook river to the
to the light house will be built by the
government next summer. This is
about $13,000 of money remaining of the
appropriation to build the lighthouse,
and it is thought that it will be an easv
matter to divert it to the road fund, un
der the circumstances.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
Corvallis wagon and carriage factory
building. It is expected to be completed
by the 1st oi December, it will give
employment to about 300 men. It is
possible that the wagon factory will
prove f more benefit to Corvallis" than
the recent gold and silver discovery.
John Austin and John Guthridge, the
Grant county men who are in jail at
Pendleton on the charge of stealing cattle
from the cattle monarchs, Lux & Miller,
have been arrested on another com
plaint. One of the steers n the band
which they brought to Pendleton, it is
alleged, was stolen from Robinson &
Son, Malheur stockmen.
Thomas Waterbury, of Long Creek,
died last week, aged 70 years. Mr.
Waterbury has been ailing for time.
Mr. Waterbury was a native of New
York, coming to Oregon in 1847, settling
in the Willamette valley, in which
place and Western Washington, he spent
most of forty-four years. He was an
exemplary citizen, and has an almost
unbounded circle of friends.
Last Wednesday night the little 7-year-old
girl of C. C. Zahn, or Lebanon,
was sick and her mother gave her some
home-made cough medicine. The little
girl afterward got the bottle and drank
all in it. Mrs. Zahn, discovering this
fact on her return, promptly summoned
physicians, and the little girl's e was
saved. The physicians say that there
was poison sufficient taken to kill three
men.
Good Coke Coal on the Sound.
San Francisco, Sept. 10. Robert
Ramsey, superintendent of Frick and
company's great coal mines and coke
works, Connelsville, Pa., the iron and
steel company of Youngstown, is in the
city. He is of a party now exploring
the Pacific coast to look up coke and iron
researches with a view of manufacturing
coke, pig iron and steel, "we have
looked over the country," said Superin
tendent Ramsey "from Fairhaven down.
We have found good coking coal from
the Wilkinson mines on the Puget
bound. As to iron we are not certain
that there is a supply of bessemere ore,
but we think there is. We are satisfied
the Pacific coast has coal to manufacture
good coke."
Blaine is Their Choice.
hociiester, js. 1., Sept. 10. A can
vass of delegates to the republican state
convention as to their preferences for a
presidential candidate for '92 resulted as
follows": Blaine, 639: Harrison, 16; Fos
ter, 2 ; McKinley, 1 ; Alger, 1 Absent,
6; non-committal, 107. Fifty-six marked
non-cammittal admittdd they favored
Blaine but did not wish to be quoted.
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TUESDAY, SEPT. 22, 18'Jl.
Kack Xo. I. Running Saddle horse, stake l
enU-rauce, fjO lidded. Five to enter, three to
start; catch weights. The officers of the society
to have the right to reject any entry that in their
judgment does not strictly constitute a saddle
horse. Half mile dash.
Race Xo. 2. Trotting Yearling stake, 1U
entrance, and G0 added; to payable July 1, 1S1,
when stake closes and entries must bo made
balance of entry due Sept. 21, 1KM1. Half mile
dash.
Race No. 3. Trotting Two-year-old class,
mile heats, best two in three, purse of ITS.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23. 1891.
Race Xo. 4. Running-Inland Km pi re stake
for two-year-olds, fJO entrance 75 added ; flu pay
able Sept. 1, 18'Jl, when stake, class and entries
must be made, balance of entry due Bept. 21, 1891.
Colts to carry 110 pounds, til lies and geldings 107
pounds, non-thoroughbreds allowed teu pounds.
Hnlf mile dash.
Rack Xo. 5. Running Three-eights of a mile
and repeat. Purse of I1U0.
Rack Xo. 6. Trotting Gentleman's roadsters
stake, 5 entrance, o0 added ; live to enter, three
to start. To be driven bv the owner to road cart,
half mile heats, three in'tlve.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 21, 1891.
Race Xo. 7. Running Half mile diisli. nurse
of flu).
Race Xo. S. Trotting Three niiuute class,
mile heats, three in live, purse oi flu).
FRIDAY, SEPT. 25, 181)1.
Race Xo. 9. Running Half mile and repeat,
purse of f 150.
Rack Xo. 10. Trotting 2:40 class, mile heats,
two best in live, purse of f 125.
Saturday, sept 20, lssn.
Race Xo. 11. Running Three quarters of a
mile, handicap Entries close Sept 24, 1S!1, with
payment of f5. Weights announced 2:U0 p. m.
hept. 25. Acceptance of weight and balance of
entrance money due by !):uu p. in. same day,
purse of f 125.
Race Xo. 12. Trotting Free for all, mile bests
best three in live, purse of f 175
Race Xo. 13. Trotting Three-year-old class,
mile heats, best three in live, purse of f 100.
Conditions.
Eligible only to horses owned and located in
the Second District, Oregon, and Klickitat county
Washington, prior to April 1, 1K)1. -
Entrance in all purse races 10 per cent of the
amount of the purse; four or more toenter, three
to start f i '
All entries In trotting races, not otherwise
specified, to close with the secretary, at The
Dalles, on Sept. 1, 1891. AH entries in running
races, not otherwise specified, close with the
secretary, at The Dalles ti:00 p. m. the night be
fore the race takes place. Xo money given
for a walk over. Entries not accompanied by the
money will not be recognized. Xominatioua to
be made in writing, giving the name, age, color,
sex, sire and dam (if known, and when not
known that fact should be stated,) and colors of
the owner. This rule will be strictly enforced.
in case the purses above given do not fill with
four complete entries, the board has the pow er to
reduce the amounts of the purses as in their
judgment seems proper.
The board has and reserves the right to post
pone races in case of inclement weather.
Any horse distancing the field shall be entitled
to first and third moneys only.
In all races, not otherwise specified, monev to
be divided 70, 20, and 10 jier cent, of the purse.
All running races to be governed bv the rules
of the Pacific Coast Blood Horse Association.
All trotting races to be governed by the rules of
the Xstional Trotting Association.
tf Srnd to J. O. Mack, Secretary, The. Dalle,
Oregon, ami obtain blank upon trftici to mate your
entries..
JAS. A. YARNF.V,
J. O. MACK, Prenident.
Secretary. "
SHERIFF'S SALE.
In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for
Wasco county.
n. Knight, Plaintiff, vs. A. S. Cathcart, De
fendant --
BY VIRTUE OF AX EXECUTION ISSUED
out of the said court and cause on the 1st
day of July, 1891, upon a judgment rendered in
saia court on tne unn any oi January, 18U0, 1
have levied upon and will seU on Saturday
the 2th day of August, 18'Jl, at the hour of 2
o ciock p. m. ot saia aay, at tne court house door
in Dalles City, in said countv and state, at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash in hand.
BuujTCi to n-ueiupuou, me ioiiowing described
real property ,'to-wit: 00 feet off Bouth end of
lot one (j) of block fifteen (15), Laughlin'a addi
tion, to Dalles City, in Wasco count-, State of
Oregon, to satisfy fll8.44 with interest thereon at
the rate of ten per cent per annum from January
10th, 1890, and lor $20 as attorney's fees; and the
further sum of $22.03 costs, less the sum of
$34.00 paid thereon February 21st, 1890, Uigother
w ith accruing costs herein.
Dated this 30th dav of Jul v. 1891.
D. L. CATES,
Sheriff of Wasco County, Oregon.
The Texas Train Robbers.
Galvestox, Tex., Sept. 7. Reports
received at Galveston last night concern
ing the story of a battle between the
authorities and the perpetrators of the
train robbery on the Southern Pacific
railway Tuesday, lack confirmation
Dispatches tonight fiom Del Rio report
that a part of the train-robber gang is
being trailed into tne lastnesses of tne
Santa Rosa mountains, while the rest
have taken up the Rio Grand, crossing
ana recrossing to ooiiterate tneir tracks.
Several mail bags, with piles of half
burned letters, have been found on the
Santa Rosa trail.
Yield over sixty to seventy bushels of
wheat to the acre are confidently looked
for all over the basis in Klamath county.
The crop is urfdeniably better than it
was last year, and then it will be re
membered that a considerable portion of
General Miller's field turned out at the
rate of sixty bushels to the acre.
Mr. J. R. Crosby, who resides on Up
per urooked river, lost 1ns barn and
about twenty tons of hay by fire a few
days ago. The fire was set by a little
child who "wanted to see it burn."
Mr. Crosby's loss is a severe one to him.
as it would be to any poor man. A
horse escaped from the barn after being
somewnat scorcned. fnnemlle News.
Distress In Knssia.
Loxdox, Sept. 9. The Standard's
Moscow correspondent, commenting on
the demands that come from all quar
ters for measures to relieve distress, says
it is plain the .distress is greater and
more widespread than was at first sup
posed, and that the worst is still to
come.
He Wandered From Uoine.
Portland, Sept. 10. Edward Holt,
aged 70 years, who was visiting at the
residence of B. O. Severance wandered
from the house this morning partially
dressed while in a fit of mental aberra
tion. Efforts to find him thus far have
been unsuccessful.
ASSIGNEE'S NOTICE.
"NOTICE is hereby given that A. A. Bonner
i.1 has duly assigned to the undersigned, for
the benefit of all his creditors in proportion to
the amount of their respective claims all his
property, both real and personal. All persons
having claims against said assignor are hereby
notified to present tlie same with the proper
vouchers therefor to mc at the office of Slavs,
Huntingtrtn Wilson within threo months
from the date of this notice.
The Dulles, Oregon, June 12, 1891.
ROBERT MAYS Assignee.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
undersigned has been appointed adminis
trator of. the estate of Theodore VonBrostcl,
deceased. All pereons having claims against
said estate are hereby notified to present the
same to mc with the proper vouchers at Bake
Oven, Oregon, within six months from the date
of this notice. GEORGE VOX BROSTEL,
Administrator of the estateof Then. Von Brostel.
Dated September 1st, 1891. scp3-oet!
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office, The Dalles, Or., July 21, 1891.
Xotice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of her Intention
.make final proof in support of her claim, and that
said?proof will be made before the register and
receiver at lne Dalles, or., on September 18.
1891, viz: '
Mry J. Griffin,
II. D. Xo. S570, for the X W Sec. 23, Tn 2 8. R
13 E W M. 1
She names the following witnesses to nrnvo lipr
continuous residence upon and cultivation of,
said land, viz: Joseph Beezlcy and Robert Mavs,
of The Dalles, Or., and Thomas tilavey and John
jHiiiuu oi jjumr, ur.
jiy.w-sepK JOH.N w. LEWIS, Register.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Arab Marderer Cmptured.
New York, Sept. 6. A Lock port
pecial says: Herbert Saad, the Arab
peddler who killed his cousin, Katherine
Saad, in the woods at Mapleton ten days
ago, was captured at Guelph, Ontario.
today, by Deputy Sheriff Korney. The
clue was furnished by the letter that was
written from Guelph to the New York
dealers in the goods that the Saads han
dled. District Attorney King left for
the frontier last night, and will endeav
or to run Saad over without extradition
papers.
Disastrous Storm In Ohio.
Alliance, Sept. 7. The most des
tructive electrical and ram storm ever
witnessed here passed over this section
of the state Saturday evening. No less
than twelve houses and barns were
struck, resulting in total . destruction,
aggregsting a loss of from $50,000 to $75,
000. The electrical display was bewil
dering in its intensity. It is also re
ported that a number of lives were lost,
but owing to imperfect telegraphic faciU
ities, nothing definite can be gotten.
Influenza Again Racing:.
Berlin, Sept. 9. Influenza is raging
at Kharkoff, Kief, Kherson, Warsaw
and other places in Russia. I
The Dalles has suffered from disas
trous fires before and recovered, and she
will do so this time. The Dalles is a
good business point, and doubtless this
fire will have the effect of making her
property owners more wide awake to her
best interests. Fire is frequently a good
thing for business, indolence and unpro
gressiveness. We hope this will prove
so with The Dalles. East Oregonian.
A regular old-fashioned thunder
shower made its appearance in the Har
ney valley last Wednesday. The rain
fell in torrents for about ten minntes,
the level ground in this vicinity being
entirely covered with water, and the
main thoroughfare of Burns resembled
a rapidly flowing stream, so great was
the volume of water that ran into it
from the adjacent hill.
The Lower Powder Irrigation Com
pany has been incorporated at Baker
City. The incorporators are A. T. Mer-
win, Herbert Cranston, and A. d'Hespel ;
capital stock, $10,000; object, to con
struct a ditch or canal to convert the
waters of lower Powder to the uses and
DurDOses of irrigation. The canal, to be
constructed and finished inside of sixty
days, will be six miles in length, with
capaciiy of about 1500 inches of water.
The party which left Pendleton a few
weeks ago under the direction of Civil
Engineers Adams and Gemmell to make
tne preliminary survey iur an extensive
irrigation on the Walla Walla and
Touchet, have returned. A line was
run for a forty-mile canal heading for
the mouth of Mill Creek, on the Walla
Walla river. The project is so far being
carried forward by private capitalists of
Umatilla county and Walla alia.
A big enterprise ia nearing completion
near Central Point, Jackson county,
whereby the Rogue river will be turned
inro a new channel. The ground has
been thoroughly prospected, and shows
To Kleet Their Leader.
New York, Sept. 10. The Herald's
Valparaiso dispatches say the Junta at
a meeting held yesterday decided an
election to be the best method to bring
about the tranquility so much desired
and that October 18 next be accordingly
j ; . i l . j
ucaigiiuieu as election uay.
She Recovered S3.SOO.
Portlaxd, Sept. 10. In the case of
Phoebe J. Colburn against the Portland
& Willamette Valley Railway company
to recover $5,000 damages for the killing
oi ner nusoand, A oner is., ualburn, the
jury tnis morning brought in a verdict
tor $3,500 for the ylaintiff.
What the Prussian Loan Iiequin Jr-
Loxdon, Sept. 9. A Paris correspon
dent of the Times, discussing the situa
tion in Russia, says that after Roths
child's refusing of the loan to Russia, it
was found it would require $12,000,000
to relieve the distress there.
Land Office, The Dalles, Or., Aug. lit, 1891
Xotice is hereby given that the followiiiir-
named settler has filed notice of his intention to
make final proof in support of his cluim, and
that said proof will be mude before the n-vlstor
and receiver of the V. S. Land otlice. The liallns,
Or., on September 22, 1891, viz.:
George W. Robertson.
Hd. Xo. 3998, for the WJ4 SEJ-i, and E'4 Hy:.
Sec. 5, Tp. 2 8, R 14 E W. St. 2 4
He names the following witnesses to prove hi
continuous residenco upon and cultivation of,
said land, viz.: Toomas H. Ward, A. I. Fergu
son and R. G. flnster of The Dalles, Or. and ilsr
tin Wchman, of Xansene, Or.
augU-sepl8 JOHN W. LEWIS. ReMster.
7
A Blr Failure.
London, Sept. 10. Alexander & Son,
the coin brokers, have failed. Liabili
ties, 1,870,900 and assets, 27,000.
They attribute their failure to losses in
curred since last May in speculation in
grain.
Major Bundy's Funeral.
Paris, Sept. 10. Simple and impres
sive services were held over the remains
of Major Bundy, lare editorof the Mail
and Express of New York, at the Amer
ican church this morning.
Congressman Clarke Dead.
Watertow.v, N. Y., Sept. 10. Ex
Congressman Clarke of Neenah, Wis.,
died at 3 o'clock this morning. He will
be interred at Neenah.
Chrisman Bros.,
(Successors to F. Taylor.)
: PROPRIETORS OF THE t
GITV PHPT
UNION STREET.
Dealersin allkind? of Meats.
HAMS, BAGON and SAUSAGE
ALWAYS ON HAND.
DIAMOND - ROLLER - HILL
Weather Forecast.
San Fkaxci8co, Sept. 10. Forecast
Oregon and Washington, generally
cloudy and rainy weather.
San Francisco Wheat Market.
San Francisco, Sept. 10. Wheat
buyer '91, 168g, season 1767g.'
Portland Wheat Market.
Portland, Sept. 10. Wheat, Valley
153; Walla Walla 145147.
A. H. CURTIS, Prop.
Flour of the BestQual-
ity Always on Hand.
THE DALLES,
OREGON.