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VOL. 1.
THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1891.
NUMBER 40.
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AN ALLEGED MURDER
M.
B. Curtis, the Well-known Actor
Arrested for Murder in San
Francisco.
An Unsteady Wheat Market A Well
known Stockbroker of Philadel
phia Takes His Own Life.
FRIGHTFUL EARTHQUAKE.
San Francisco, Sept. 10. Maurice B
Curtis (Sam'l of Posen), the well
- known actor, who shot and killed Police
Officer Alexander Grant, who had ar
rested him last night, tells the following
story of the affair : "I was at the Grand
Opera House last night with my wife to
see Bernhardt in "Camille." I left the
theatre about 10 o'clock to go to the Tiv
oli theatre with William Kreling, one of
the proprietors. . We bad a drink to
gether and I left him to retain to the
Opera House for my wife. When I had
' reached the corner of Third and Mission
streets I was saddenlv tumbled into .the
gutter, and after that I remember noth-
ing only somebodv pulling, and jerking
me about until I found myself in a wag
on with nandcuils on my wrists. W nen
Curtis was taken to jail last night he ap
peared to be under the influence of
liquor, and incoherently told of his do
ings during the night, protesting he had
no weapon and that he was innocent of
tne murder. uurtis is known
throughout the United States from the
character of "Sam'l of Posen," in a play
which was created for him. Cortis was
visited by a large number of friends at
the city prison this morning.- He still
adheres to his former statements, and de
clares that Policeman Grant was shot
and killed by some outsider and that he
himself is innocent.
An Unsteady WheatMarket.
J Chicago, Sept. 11. There was a big
break in wheat at the opening this
morning in comparison with yesterday's
closing. The chief cause was the gov
ernment crop report issued Saturday
afternoon which showed an improve
ment in the condition of wheat. Lower
cables . were also a factor in the decline
September opened at 9o96, against
978 at the close yesterday, and dropped
immediately to 95)b- Heavy buying
orders irom outside sources soon forced
the price up to 97 and at 11 o'clock it
had dropped off from that.
Took His Own I. He.
Philadelphia, Sept. 11. About 8
o'clock this morning the janitor of the
Haehulen building discovered the dead
body of Charles M. Stokes jr., the well
known stock broker, lying on the floor of
his office. There was a bullet hole
through the dead man's head and beside
his body lay a revolver with one cham
ber discharged, .. The case was evidently
suicide..
Stokes was about 60 years of age, and
one of the best known stock brokers in
this city. He leaves a wife and six chil
dren. ...
Million Dollar' Worth of Property Des
troyed and Many Lives Lost.
New Your, Sept. 10. The Herald has
a cable dispatch from the city of San
Salvador saying $1,000,000. worth of
property and many lives were lost in
that republic by an earthquake today.
Whole towns were wiped out, and so far
the advices received indicate that hardly
a city in the country, -except those along
the coast, escaped the awful effects of
the convulsion. There have been indi
cations for several days past that a sies
metic disturbance of more than usual
power might be expected. The volca
noes of San Salvador, San Miguel and
Isalco have been unusually active. A
few minutes before 2 a. m. this morning
the earth began to shake. The wave
bad a strong vertical and oscilatory
movement. The people rushed into the
streets in their night clothing, and while
the shock lasted, only twenty seconds,
before it passed away there was a panic
stricken inob making to the open coun
try outside of the city. Men, women
and children were shrieking and pray
ing in the streets. The walls . of the
houses cracked, tottered and fell. There
was a deep continuous rambling as of
heavy thunder. The earth rose and fell
in long waves, and the people were un
able to keeD their feet. All through the
morning there have been slight shocks,
but none approaching in intensity that
which was so destructive. President
Ezeta is doing everv thing he canto stop
the panic and care for the homeless peo
ple until it is considered safe for them to
go back to their homes. J. he towns
throughont the country sphered more
severely than the capitol. Analsruito
ana Comasagua are com pletely destroyed.
Cojutapedua, Santa Tecla, San Pedro
and Mashust are so badly shaken thev
are practically ruined, while the shock
was plainly felt and much damage done
at Santa Ana and other points fully six
teen miles from here. It is impossible
at this writing to form any idea as to the
number of lives lost. Two people were
killed here. It is feared many people
were killed in the smaller towns.
AN UNEXPECTED MOVE
Awaiting Command to Send Troops
European and Asiatic Turkey
Army Maneuvers.
to
Two Young Men Beat Their
Death and Rob Him A
Freight Schedule.
Father to
New
Berlin-, Sept. 12. Hamburger corres
pondence contains a sensational article
entitled "Cossack Stroke of Bosphorus."
According to this act Russia meditates a
surprise to Constantinople by a conjoint
landing of 30,000 troops in European
and Asiatic Turkey. The Bosphorus
forts, it is said, are to be attacked from
the rear and an approach of the hostile
fleets is to be prevented by torpedoes,
while it is calculated the Russian torpedo
fleet could enter Golden Horn at night
and completely destroy the Turkish fleet
and that the whole could be accom
plished in twenty-four hours. Complete
plans for everything are said to be
ready and only command from St,
Petersburg is now needed.
TWO YOUNG SCOUNDRELS.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.
in
. A COLORED FANATIC.
Advises His Congregation to arm and
- , Exterminate the Whites.
- - Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 10. Rev. Tay
lor S. Nightingale, pastor of the largest
colored Baptish "church in the United
, States, has created a decided sensation
by advising his flock to arm themselves
-with Winchesters for the purpose of ex
- terminating the - whites. ' Those who
know what influence the average negro
preacher has over his people will ap
preciate the effect of such advise. A
. large number of his people actually
adopted his advise and have purchased
repeating rifles. Another faction of the
better element opposed him, however,
and for opposing him the pastor excom
municated this faction, and at a church
meeting last night those who belonged
to it were ordered to leave. Not going
quickly enough, the pastor and his sup
porters attempted to eject them, and a
rough-and-tumble free fight took place.
Today a dozen or more of each faction
were arrested on warrants, and the fight
waxes outer, me whites are much in
censed at the incendiary language used
ify the preacher, and he wil be handled
, py the grand jury.. . .
GABBOTED AND ROBBED.
Wealthy Young Englishwoman
Chicago Cannot he Found.
Chicago, Sept! 10. Miss Ava, a
wealthy Englishwoman . who came to
Chicago recently to raise the standard
of living in the slums, is reported to the
police as missing. ' She had been stop
ping at the residence of Rev. Dr. Bolton.
Last evening Miss Ava and Mrs. Bolton
drove to the Jesuit church on the West
Side. ' Miss Ava entered the building, ; rress
telling her companion she only intended
having a few minutes' conversation with
a priest. Mrs. Bolton waited for half an
hour, and finally became alarmed when
Miss Ava did notretuin. She remem
bered that the missionary had spoken of
receiving letters in which her life was
threatened, and feared she had come to
harm. Mrs. Bolton at once notified the
police. Detectives who were sent out
learned from the priest at the church
that Miss Ava called, and after fifteen
minutes' . conversation about religious
matters, had gone away. All attempts
to cam any clue to the whereabouts after
that time thus far have been fruitless.
Miss Ava is'eaid to be very wealthy and
has devoted her lame and money to in
dulging her hobby for "slumming."
Her friends say her crusade against
wrong has made her many enemies who
have threatened her life. " She came to
Chicago the first of last month to carry
09 a work which she had acquired a taste
for doing in London. . Several days ago
she purchased a house on the West Side.
Mr. Mingay said he could not imagine
what had become of Miss Ava. When
she first came here, he said, she contin
ually complained. She was afraid the
Catholics would take her life. Tuesday
she received a letter, and when she read
it became excited. Mingay has no idea
why she should go to the Catholic church.
Beat Their Aged Father to Death in an
. . Attempt to Rob Him.
Beklix, Sept. 11. Two young men
named Hoeffler, aged respectively
eighteen and twenty-four years, broke
into the house of their parents in the
Leder Strasse, this city, last evening,
believing it to be empty at the time, and
proceeded to the bedroom of their father
intending to steal some money which
was . usually kept there. The elder
Hoeffler was in the room, however, and
grappled with the burglars, whose iden
tity was, of course,' unsuspected by him.
A fierce struggle followed, which ended
in the old gentleman being beaten to
death by bis sons. The criminals then
went on with the work oLrobbery, and
bad broken open the money chest when
they were surprised by the return of the
mother, who had been spending the
evening with neighbors, and who was
accompanied by a number of friends.
The two parricides fled and escaped be
fore their mother had discovered the
dead body of her husband. The fugi
tives have not been traced.
THE ARMY MANEUVERS.
Representatives Not Allowed to
Witness the Russian Movements.
London-, Sept. 11. The number of
troops engaged in the governments of
Kief, Padolia and Volhyniais about 100,
000. They are drawn from the interior,
and there is no di'minuition of the great
frontier garrisons, scattered along the
Austro-Russian boundary. The maneu
vers are attended by the leading mili
tary commanders in European Russia,
and press representatives, both foreign
and native, are excluded. The St. Pet
ersburg and Moscow newspapers will be
supplied by the government with such
iniormation as it is thought proper to
give. It is known that the maneuvers
include the feature of educating the
troops to the familiarity with smokeless
powder, and that special attention is
given to the efficacy of the new rifle re
cently adopted by the czar.
A New Freight Schedule.
. Sax Fbancisco, Sept. 12. The South
ern Pacific has issued a circular stating
that the. scehule of the line north of
Ashland has been made to connect with
the schedule south of Ashland, making
continuous freight service from San
Francisco to Portland in 82 hours.
ure in the way of campaigning. The
nominal object is to attend the second
annual meeting of the state democratic
societies of Washington, which will be
I held at Spokane. The partv consists of
Senator Faulkner, General Black, the
president of the national association of
J democrat clubs, Representative By-
j num, Representative McAdoo, JainesaJ
M. Beck, of Philadelphia, and Lawrence
Gardner, secretary of the national asso
ciation of democratic clubs. They will
talk tariff and preach the old democratic
doctrines to the people all along their
route, which will include about all the
northwest, finally closing with an active
participation in the campaign in Iowa.
They will reach Spokane about Wednes
day, the 23rd of this month, where Sen
ator Faulkner and General Black will
deliver the principal speeches. The
night of Thursday, the 24th instant.
there will be a meeting of the state so
ciety at the urand opera house, and Mr.
Bynum will be the orator of the occa
sion. The party will then separate, the
speakers going to various parts of the
state of Washington. On reuniting they
will visit the principal points on Puget
sound as far north as ictoria. can
Francisco will be the next place visited.
There the visitors will attend a union
meeting ' of the democratic clubs of San
Francisco, tseveral of the party making
addresses. They will speak at different
points in California, then eo to Ogden,
i and two of the party will go to Salt Lake
before going into Iowa, where they will
spend a week making campaign
speeches.
THE WATER SUPPLY DURING
THE GREAT FTRE.
THE THIRD PARTY.
President Polk Thinks Nothing
Prevent it Now.
Topeka, Kan., Sept. 13. Colonel
Polk, national president of the alliance,
in company with Frank McGrath, the
Kansas president, returned from Hoi ton
last night. President Polk talked this
morning freely of the political situation
He said : .
If southern farmers are driven into
the peoples party, no power on earth
can prevent them carrying every south
ern state, but the question is, will they
be driven into the third party? Four
months ago I would have said a new
political party was not likely to follow.
It now seems impossible to prevent it.
the alliance is with us and is in such a
condition that it can be chanced in one
day into a political party. It was or
ganized as a non-partisan institution
and has been conducted as such. The
south is a unit on the sub-treasury plan.
Whether the supreme council in Febru
ary decides a third party must be placed
in the field or not, it will be a go any
how, and it will receive thousands of
votes in the south. The democrats have
it in their power to stop the movement
by acceding to the St. Louis demands.
Nothing short of that will avail and if it
is not done the south is lost to them.
When a true history of the great fire
that has laid our city in ruins shall have
been written one thing will be recorded
which at the present moment may take
many outside The Dalles by surprise,
and that is there was never a half hour
from the time the fire first started till it
was conquered when the water did not
now out ot the waste gate of the reser
voir on the bluff. There was never a
moment during all time when the
draught made upon the reservoir by the
fire engines seemed to have an effect
on the supply. The reservoir at the be
ginning of the fire lacked eighteen inches
of being full. In twenty-five minutes
the water was running out at the waste
gate. After pumping from the mains
for twelve solid hours the supply had
not diminished an inch the reservoir
was still overflowing. This is a simple
statement of facts and the Chronicle
defies any man on earth ts contradict it.
We ask those papers that have so freely
tendered us aduice about our water sys
tem to matce note ot this. The reser
voir and mains were full of water all the
time. Ten . thousand pumps forcing
water into the same rese.rvolr from the
Columbia or elsewhere could not have
filled the reservoir and mains fuller than
they were. This is our answer to those
who, while bewailing our misfortune,
suggest that if the council had adopted
the pnmping system we should have had
plenty of water. Outside critics might
well believe that five councilmen, whose
nonor had never been tarnished by a
suggestion of corraption were as likely to construction have been carried out an
that connects this larger reservoir with
the city mains is closed by a gate. The
gale tea closed all during tlie fire. "Why?
Simply because these 300,000 gallons of
water in the larger reservoir were not
needed. The smaller reservoir 12 feet
deep was overflowing all the time, ex
cept about twenty minutes after the fire
commenced when the water was eighteen
inches from the top. If the Times-
Mountaineer will certify in its columns
that this statement is false in any mat
erial point, we promise to produce abun
dant affidavits to prove it true. More
than this Mr. Michell knows it to be
substantially true, himself, for he was
there and saw with his own eyes .that
there was no lack of water In the reser
voirs. Why then will he continue to
endeavor to deceive the outside world in
order to maintain his own consistency,
perhance, by insinuating that there was
a lack of water which another system
would have supplied? Will our contem
porary prove the statements of this ar
ticle false or will he confers he. has lied?
We dare him to the test.
THE LAST COMFORT GONE.
Who told our evening contemporary
that "when the pipes are laid from the
receiving basin to the new reservoir, no
new mains will be laid north of Ninth
street and the old reservoir will be the
only supply with which to fight the
destroying element?" Certainly not
the water commissioners. The state
ment is false. The editor may not know
that it is so, but it is false notwithstand-
PATRONIZE THE OPPOSITION.
Tliis morning at eight o'clock the Reg
ulator left on her first business trip to
the Cascade Locks. The day marks the
beginning of a. new era. A few days
more and we shall have through connec
tion with Portland. Eight car loads of
the rolling stock of the portage railroad
have already arrived at the Cascades and
the locomotive has been on the way since
the 4th inst. The city of The Dalles, on
the lower river, will be ready for busi
ness by the end of this week and some
time the week after, the entire route
from The Dalles to Portland should be
open for traffic. Every pound of freight
that the farmers and merchints, contig
uous to The Dalles, have for shipment,
ought to be sent by the new line, and
passengers should patronize it in pref
erence to the opposition. It is in every
way safer than by rail, and the boats
win not lall lar short of ranroad speed,
besides that a trip by water is much
pleasanter than by land. The old com
pany has so long held us by the throat
while it robbed us that we owe it noth
ing and the man who does not, by every
honorable means, encourage and patron
ize a line whose existence will put thous
ands of dollars in the pockets of con
sumers is not worthv of American citi
zenship.
SjfiFES k iILY,
Wholesale and Retail Draiisii
-DEALERS IX-
Fine Imported', Key West and llomei'j
PAINT
Now is the time to paint your hoii-
and if you wish to get the beat .quality-'
and a fine color iise the
Sherwin, Williams Co. s Paint. -
For those wishing to see the qualit v
and color of the above paint we call thi-Ic
attention to the residence of S. L. Brooks,
Judge Bennett, Smith French and other'
painted by Paul Kreft. v ,
Snipes & Kinersly are agents for thn
above paint for The Dalles. Or. 7.
The Milton Eagle has formulated an
excellent plan for meeting the expenses
of sending home the thousands of China
men who are constantly smuggling
themselves into this country in violation
raid at Rest.
Baker City, sept. 16. the remains
of Miss Bertha Ison, the young lady who- o either system
know what water system was .best
adapted to the needs of the city as one
mayor. The system adopted by the
council is not yet complete. Till that
time comes it is idle to blame it for in
adequacy, it is worse than idle to say
that if tne pumping system had been
adopted the city would have been spared
destruction, ' Did we desire to recrimi
nate we might truthfully say that at one
man's door alone lies the whole blame of
the fact that the water works were not
completed months ago. For nearly a
year ex-Mayor Moody held in
session, and used ui his bank
over $100,000 of borrowed money belong
ing to the water fund, while he success
fully frustrated every effort of the coun
cil to spend it in the work for which it
was borrowed. The pumping system
never contemplated a higher water pres
sure than that adopted by the gravity
system, now nearing completion; but
the crowning disaster of the late fire was
not caused by the adoption or rejection
lhe tire began in a
ing. W'hen the plans now in course of of the law. The Eagle thinks if the gov
ernment is going into the pawnbrooking
and saloon business, as proposed in the
Ohio Third party platform, it ought cer
tainly to start a federal laundry and
when a surreptitions Chinamen is caught,
make him first work out his passage
and then ship him to China
DOES IT MEAN WAR?
WHO IS SHE?
and
' A Portland Man Knocked Down
Robbed by Footpads.
. Poetlaxd, Sept. 11. About 9 o'ejock
last night John Forbes, a well-to-do la
boring man,, was held up and robbed by
footpads on Thirteenth and L streets.
They relieved him of a valuable watch
and chain. He was going home up
Thirteenth street, and as he reached L
he noticed two men coming toward him.
He met them in the middle of the west
crossing, and they parted to let them go
between. One of them however, fell be
hind and the other went on.
The first grabbed him by the throat
and planted his knee on Forbes' breast,
' the second man taking a hold from be-
. bind. Forbes soon fell. He was unable
to cope with two of them. They had
him on his back and rifled his pockets.
Finding nothing, they were about to
leave in disgust, and as Forbes was com-
. ing to heard one say, "He has nothing."
"Yes, he's got a ticker," said the other
man. They secured his watch, pipe and
tobacco, and he yelled out:. "Murder!
. thieves !'.' A street car was passing, but
no one heeded it and he was left.
In Close Pursuit of the Robbers.
' Sax . Antonio, Texas, Sept. II.
Rangers are in close pursuit of the
, Southern Pacific train robbers and may
come upon them at any time. There
are eight robbers and fifteen rangers,
and when the two parties meet there is
likely to be a bloody fight.
The Fire Fiend Again Heard From.
. Albany, N. Y., Sept-11. This morn
ing a large factory and carpenter-shop
; took fire. The burning walls killed one
fireman and injured several others.
The loss to the building is $45,000. In
surance half.
The Dakota' Crop Yield.
Gsajcd Forks, X. D., Sept. 11. The
Hit aid's crop report from correspond
' ents at fifty different places in the state
indicate the yield of wheat to be under
isf"nated. Thev agree the yield will be
A-nnprecedented high grade.
A Peculiar Case. -
Bethlehem, Pa., Sept. 11.' The Cor
nelius Raega, an iron worker, hic
coughed himself to death. : He began
hiccoughing six weeks ago and has fasted
ever since for relief. The attack was
canted by hernia. . '
Miss Ava Appears in Cincinnati as Mys
teriously as She did In Chicago.
Cincin-nati, Sept. 12. The identity of
the woman who mysteriously ' disap
peared from Chicago Wednesday eve
ning with the one who as mysteriously
appeared in this city last night is fully
established by the description of her
given by Mrs. Bolton of Chicago. She is
very anxious to identify herself as Miss
Ava, who was lost at" college. . "Tell
Mrs. Bolton," she said, "and that will.
identify me better than anything else,
that $8000 in money and coupons were
in her satchel, not mine, and they took
it and its contents. : Now Mrs. Bolton
will know from this I am Miss Ava."
A Murderer at Large.
. Alban y, Sept. 12. A duel was fought
here a day or two ago by Jesse Moore of
Berrien county and R. P. Fletcher of
Ewen county, from the effects of which
Moore has just died. There has been
bad blood between the two men for some
time, and when they recently met, ac
companied by friends, they agreed to
fight with their fists. ': After a few
rounds their hatred of each other became
too intense to be satisfied with such
mild methods, and they drew their re
volvers, when five shots were ex
changed, and Moore fell mortally woun
ded. Fletcher w.as also wounded, but
not seriously, and fled from the state
without delay. He has not been appre
hended. . ..
Formally Charged With Murder.
San Fbancisco, Sept. 12. M. B. Cur
tis (Sam'l of Posen), was formally'
charged , with the murder of Officer
Grant this morning. He still professes
ignorance. He stated this morning that
he was a member of the Knights of
Pythias and Oddfellows and Masons.
Russian .Troops Gathering in Force
. Along the Frontier.
Berlin, Sept. 11. A correspondent
who has been . visiting the ' Russian
southwestern frontier of Bessarabia as
far as the Danube, says that troops are'
rapidly arriving aud in large numbers.
This would be the base of departure for
a Russian army advancing toward "the
Balkans and Constantinople. At Tutsch
Keff four regiments were . quartered
where last year there were only two ; at
Valkovo and Kilio, five regiments had
recently arrived in addition to the men
already there. At Kagul three regi
ments arrived also but a week ago, and
atJalpuch reinforcements 'of 7000 men
have recently taken up their quarters.
Troops are pouring in at the same rate
in other villages. These places are of
little consequence apart from their situ
ation, where an army of invasion would
naturally concentrate. In view of these
facts, the correspondent concludes that
Russia intends, at no distant date, to
make across the Danube for Constanti
nople, and that her preparations show
that this'time she means to have a force
snfficient to overcome all obsracles.
THE ITATA CASK.
the Steam-
Failed for 8140,000. ;
Roanoke, Va., Sept. 12. Grandberg
& Morris, proprieters of a New York
wholesale clothing and notion house and
the Boston boot and Bhoe house have as
signed. Liabilities, $140,000 ; assets not
known.
Number Lout Said to be Fifty.
'Athens, Sept. 12. A corrected esti
mate of the number of persons drowned
in the collision of Cape Colonna between
Italian and Greek steamships show that
fifty persons lost lives by sinking taor
inina. .
Will Be Important.
. Washington, Sept. 12. The following
lou'th class post-offices will be raised'to
the presidential class October 1st next:
Forest Grove, Oregon, and Lander, Wy
oming. . .
A New Phase Developed by
. ship Company.
' Los Angeles, Sept. 11. Attorney
William Goodrich, of New York,' as
proctor for the South American Steam
ship company, the new claimant for the
unman steamer ltata, has hied an an
swer to the information for libel against
that vessel, in which he contends that
no lawful seizure of the vessel has ever
been made ; that the seizure at Iquique
in June was without the territorial lim
its of the United States, and the sur
render ot the ltata was compelled by
violence by the United States cruiser
Charleston and was a breach of interna
tional law and the law of nations. Fur
thermore, that the claimant comnanv
which built the ltata for traffic purposes
had no participation in the use of the
steamship for the alleged unlawful pur
poses which caused the seizure, and
ought not, therefore, to be deprived of
its property. The answer prays 'that the
vessel be released and that claimant be
allowed costs and also damageR for deten
tion. . -
Crushed to a Pulp.
Aurora, Mo., Sept. 12. Floyd Brewer,
the foreman of the Floyd Crusher, to
day was caught in the rollers' and la
terally crushed to a pulp.
A NEW DEPARTURE.
was murdered at Blooinington, 111., last
Monday, arrived in this city this morn
ing at 7 o'clock, the scene of her birth
and home for almost her ' entire life,
The funeral party, consisting ' of the
mother, sister and brother, were met at
Pocatello, Idaho, by W. F. Butcher, and
at the state line by several intimate
friends who accompanied the remains
here. When the train' arrived in the
city hundreds of friends were standing
on the depot platform, and the scene
was indeed a sad one. Among the num
ber were many schoolmates of the de
ceased who could not keep back the
tailing tear. ' The remains were con
veyed to the family residence, from
which place the funeral will take place
tomorrow at 6 p. m. Never in the his
tory of Baker City was there an an
nouncement which fell heavier than the
intelligence that Miss Ison, one of the
city's fairest and most highly respected
young ladies, had been shot down by
the cruel hand of an assassin. The news
fell like a pall, and a state of gloom is
everywhere manifest. The remains ar
rived in a good state of perservation and
look very lifelike. -
Wnat are the Authorities Doing?
New Yob k, Sept. 13. Statistics fur
nished by her majesty's customs officers
at the port of Vancouver, B. C, state
that for a period . of six and a half
months, irom January 1st to July loth,
1891, there were disembarked at Van
"couver 7900 Chinamen, ninety-five per
cent, of whom were bound for the United
States, and her majesty's officers also es
timate that at least 7000 of this number
are either in the United States or scat
tered along the border waiting an oppor
tunity to slip across the line. Customs
officers and special agents of the treasury
department . along the northwestern
frontier concur in this estimate. The
prohibited Chinamen cross tne. border in
at least twenty different places. bet ween
Vancouver and Montreal. They are as
sisted across by syndicates of men who
make a regular business of it, who have
fast teams, stations and secret trails in
the interior, and trim clipper sloops
on Puset sound. The United States
government offers practically no resist
ance to this illegal trade. Resistance is
to all intents and purposes useless, be
cause it is so feeble.
small, one storv frame building. The
nearest cistern is only about 100 feet dis
tant at the intersection of Madison and
Secohd. The hand pump was brought
up to this cistern while the steam en
gine was stationed at another two or
three blocks distant. The hand engine
could not be made to work on account
of a broken suction and the men
were left helpless. By this time
the old Grimes' feed stable was a
eight-inch pipe will run from the hew
reservoir, in the pines, north down
Union street, through the cut, thence
east below the bluff and connect with
the eight-inch main on Court street.
This will give an estimated pressure of a
hundred pounds to the square inch and
all the water of the Columbia, pumped
into the upper reservoir could not do
better. Our contemporary has forgotten
that he used- to argue that the pressure
from the upper reservoir would burst
the old mains below the bluff. This was
his pos- tlie one comfort left him when the eravrtv
business, system was adopted in spite of all that
he and the ex-mayor could do. The old
mains would burst and then he would
have the sweet revenge, "I told you so."
Even this comfort now seems to be de
nied him. A few days ago Engineer
Brown attached the fire engine to the
Second street main, one of the oldest of
the lot, and a pressure of a hundred and
ten pounds to the square inch failed even
to burst a single supplv pipe. Thus one
by one the theories of a weak and wan
ing minority .vanish into the darkness of
eternal night, as they are brought into
the presence of fact and truth and actual
experiment.
S. L. YOUNG,
f Successor to E. BKCK.,
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
WM. SAUNDERS Architect. PIbdr and
specifications furnished for dwellings.
churches, business blocks, schools and factories.
Charges moderate, satisfaction guaranteed. Of-
nce over r ranch's banK, The Dalles, Oregon.
J. SUTHERLAND Fbllow of Trinity
Jledicsl Collece. and member of the Col-
letre of Phvsicians and Surceons. Ontario. Phv-
siuian and Surgixn. Office; rooms 3 and 4 (map
man block. Residence; J udge Tbornbury 's Sec
ond street. Oliiec hours; lu to 12 a. m., 2 to 4
and 7 to 8 p. m.
r R. O. D. DOANE physician and sob-
U geon. Office: rooms 5 and 6 Chapman
store.
8 P.M.
-DEALER IN-
Kesidence over IfcFarland t French's
Office hours 9 to 12 A. M., 2 to 5 and 7 to
A S. BENNETT, ATTORNE Y-AT-LAW. , Of
L nee in Mcnanuo s DUiiaitic, up stairs.
Dalles, Oregon.
The
PTCHES, CLQOKS;
Jewelry, Diamonds,
SIIiyErWfllE,:-:ETC.
Watches, Clofcks; and Jewelry
Repaired and Warranted.
165 Second St.. The Dalles.Or.
C. N. THORNBURY,
Late Rec. U. S. Lund Office.
T. A. UirDBOrf,
Notary I'ulU.:
T SID I) ALL Dentirt. Gas given for the
s m painless extraction oi tcetn. Also teeta
owed aluminum plate.
d Street.
set on
Che Golden Tooth, Secow
Rooms: Sign ot
AR. THOMPSON AttorsSt-at-law. Office
in 0sra House Block, Washington Street,
The Dalles, Oregon .
TO OPEN THE COLUMBIA.
F. r. KAYS. E. S. HDKTUSOTOX. H. 8. WILSON.
fAYS, HUNTINGTON fc WILSON Attor-
nbys-at-law. OtHces. French's block over
First National Bank, The Dalles, Oregon.
xnree companies nave now been in
corporated, whose object is to open up
the Columbia river to navigation. There
is the Columbia & Astoria Railway &
mass of flame, the fire waB beyond con- Navigation company, better known as
trol and from then onward it wrought the Paul Mohr company : The Dalles & The Dalies, oreron
S.B.DCPnR. GEO. WATTC1NS. FRANK MK'KFSK.
DUFUR, W ATKINS & MENEFEE Attor
ns ys-at-law Room No. 13. over Post
Office Building, Entrance on Washington Street
The Dalles, Oregon.
WH. WILSON Attornky-at-law Rooms
.52 and 53, New Vogl Block, Second Street,
its own will. An examination has since
been made of the cistern at the corner of
Second and Madison. It was found to
be leaky and the one and a half inch
lead pipe that supplied it with water
from the main was found so completely
filled wfth rust that no stream of water
much larger than a lead pencil could
pass through it. The lead pipe has since
been taken out and a new and larger
one put in its place. The old one can
be seen by any one anxious to inquire
into the matter, though a liberal offer
was made for it by a Portland plummer
who wanted to take it home as a natural
curiosity. . The disaster of Septem
ber 2d did not occur then because
of a defective water supply- but, if from
any avoidable- cause, because of the
criminal negligence of the paid servant
of the city whose duty it was to inspect
the cisterns and keep them in : repair
uescnutes r-ortage Kauway . company
and the Washington & Idaho Railway
and Navigation company. The last
company has grown out of the Water
way convention. It proposes to open
the Columbia river for navigation as far
as the mouth of Snake river, by building
portages around the Cascades and The
Dalles and having lines of boats to con
nect with all points and the lower river.
I lie capital stock ot the company is
$2,000,000, and it now proposes to at
once send solicitors out through the
three states of Oregon, Washington and
Idaho to secure subscriptions to the
stock of the company in $25 shares.
The Paul Mohr company has plenty of
money and backing and it will not
lightly give up the fight for a portage on
the Washington side of the dalles. Only
two days ago this company had a depu
tation of representative business men
TBOPIY&IOlflll,;
U. S. Lad 0 ffice Attoreys,
Rooms 7 and 8, TJ. S. Land
Office Building, ' '
THE DALLES, - '- - OREGON.
pilings, Contests,
' And Business of all Kinds Before the Local
7 and General Land Office 7
Promptly Attended to.
ANEW "
Undertaking Establishment !
Over Sixteen Years Experience.
-WE ALSO do a
General Real Estate Business.
All Correspondence Promptly Answered.
PRINZ & NITSCHKE.
DEALERS IN
Furniture and Carpets.
It is true the wind was blowing a stiff from Portland viewing the route on the
gale and the fire might haue spread in Washington side. We understand that
spite of the best efforts of the fire de
partment, but the bare possibility that
to our business a
Establishment,
the fire might have been confined within
reasonable limits if the cistern at the
corner of Second and Madison had been
in order, makes it imperative that the
fire department, so far as the chief
engineer is concerned, must be recon
structed. ' . :
President OBborne of the chamber of j
commerce was one of the number.
What impression may have been made
on the Portland deputation, no one here
has been able to learn, but the people of J
eastern uregon ana Washington may
surely hope that one or the other of
these three schemes will be the means
of opening the Columbia river to the
sea.
We have added
complete Undertaking
and as we are in no way connected with
the Undertakers' Trust our prices will
be low accordingly.
- Remember our place on Second street.
next to Moody's bank.
Phil Willig,
124 UNION ST., THE
DALLES, OR.
A CHALLENGE.
AN AMAZING STA TEMENT.
WQBLD'8 FAIR TEAE.
be the
Several Prominent JDemocmts ou a Cam
paigning Tour of the vXorthwest.
Wakhington-, Sept, 13. Several dem
ocrats, more or less prominent, will be
gin their tour to the Pacific coast tomor
row! Itii something of a new depart-
Washinfton Park Meeting to
Grandest Erer Held.
Chicago, Sept. 13. It is the intention
of the Washington Park Club to make
their racing meeting of : 1893 (world's
fair year) the grandest ever given 'ir
America. Secretary Brewster an
nounced tonight it had been decided the
value of the American derby that year
will be at least $60,000. The Queen
Isabelle'stakes $10,000, and the Sheridan
stakes $3,000 will also be run, besides
twenty or more valuable stakes for two
and three-year-olds and all ages, includ
ing the guaranteed stake of $23,000 for
two-vear-olds and the Columbus handi
cap for three-year-olds, and upwards of
$:,IXX) to the winner, lhe program lor
the 1892 meeting announces $120,000
added money money in stakes and
purses. ;
.'. SAVING EXPENSES.
Tricky Chinese. Illegally Cross the'ltor-
der in Order to Save Transportation.
.Tucson, Sept. 13. A Chinaman in
jail here yesterday revealed to his
brother prisoners one cause of the exo
dus of Chinese . from Mexico who are at
tempting to enter the United States.
He eays that one Chinaman was just
taken "to San Francisco, who had sent
his earnings from Mexico, where he had
lived several years, to China, and then
deliberately crossed into Arizona; that
he might be captured and sent to China j
at (he expense of the United States.
The editor of ' theTimes-Mountaineer,
without daring to say so plainly, is en
deavoring to give out the impression that
the supply of water, during the fire of
the second inst., was not equal to the de
mand. His motives are, naturally to
justify his past attitude on the water
question. . It would give him a prestige
for wisdom and foresight were he able
to say, "The water supply was inade
quate, just as I told you it would be.
Mr. Michell visited the reservoir during
the progress of the fire. So' the super
intendent, Mr. Norman informs us.
Mr. Michell found the reservoir full,
and, as we said yesterday, not for so
much as half an hour during the ten or
twelve hours the fire was raging did the
water from the reservoir cease to over
flow at the' waste gate. If Mr. Michell
denies this the Chronicle will produce
in answer the sworn testimony of -citizens
whose bare words will be believed
by any man who knows them. We dare
the Times-Mountaineer to put us to the
test. But this is not all. There are two
reservoirs, a smaller one which supplied
the mains, without the semblance of
failure, , and a larger one that received
the waste. The larger one is also con
nected with the city mains by an eight-
inch supply pipe. It contains now and
did contain during the whole time of the
fire,, according to the estimate of the'eity
engineer 300,000 gallons of water, or
enough to supply the mains for six solid
hours, without receiving a drop of ad
ditional, supply meanwhile. The pipe
The Chronicle has not "begged" for
aid for the sufferers by the fire, but it
has not lied as to their condition through
a false and mistaken pride. The Dalles
is not in the altitude' of a beggar and
none of the kind hearted people who
have generously ai'ded the sufferers have
ever hinted that she was. It is no more
wrong for The Dalles to accept needed
aid than it was for Chicago, Johnston,
beattle.or iUler.sDurg in like circum
stances.. The following appeared in the
Times-Mountaineer of last evening :
After careful examination, only twelve
or fifteen families were found who were
willing to accept aid. and from $2,000 to
$3,000 would place these in as good a
condition as before the conflagration.
The Chronicle is authorized by Mayor
Mays, by A. S. McAlister president of
the board of trade and by the chairman
of the relief ' committee Judge C. N.
Thornbury that much as they regret be
ing compelled to say it, the above state
ment is false and misleading, and that
it is their opinion, as it is the opinion of
the Chronicle that not half a dozen
persons within the corporate limits of
The Dalles could be found to endorse it
as true. ',-'"'
Keeps on hand a full line of
MEN'S AND YOUTH'S
Ready - Made Clothing.
Pants and Suits
. MADE. TO ORDER
On Reasonable -Terms.
Health is Wealth !
I "li rr i J Sn.MM
Dr. . G. West's Kkbvb 'ahb Bbxin Tbkat '
KENT, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Dizzi
ness, Convulsions, Fits, Nervous Neuralgia,
Headarhe, Nervous Prostration caused bvtbeuM'
of alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness, Mental be-,
pression, Softening of the Brain, resulting in lu- ,
sanity and leading to misery, decay and death,
Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Power .
in either sex, Involuntary Losses and Spermat-'
orrhcea caused by over exertion of the brain, self
abuse or over Indulgence. Ksch box contains .
one month's treatment. 11.00 a box, or six boxen
for $5.00, sent by mail prepaid1 on receipt of price. '-.
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us for six boxes, accompanied by 16.00, we will -send
the purchaser our written guarantee to re- .
fund the money if the treatment does not effect ,
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BLAKELST ft HOPOHTOK,
: Prescription "Druggists, '.is
175 Second St. The Dalles, Or.
D. V. Thowpsob'
President.
J. S. acHKNCK, H. M. Bxai.i"
Vice-President.. - Cashier '
First national Bant.
THE DALLES,
,- OREGON
Call and see my Goods before
purchasing elsewhere... ....
'FSEflC4 & CO.,
BANKERS.
TRANSACT A GKNKBALBANKING BUKINEfi-
Letters of Credit issued available in the
t Eastern States.
Sicrht Exchange aud Telecraphic
Transfers sold on New York, Chicago, St.
Louis, San Francisco, Portland Oregon,
Seattle Waeh., ana various points in ur
egon and Washington. ,
Collections made at all points on fav
orable terms.
A General Banking Business transacted
iJepoBits received, Buoject to bignt
Draft or Check. . .
Collections made and proceeds promptlr
remitted on day of collection. .
Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold oi
New York, San Francisco and Port
land. " .
. DIRECTORS.
D. P. Thompson. Jno. 8. Schxncc.
T. W. Sparks. - Geo. A. Libbk. -
- H. M. Bkall.
It is with feelings of profound grati
tude to the kind-hearted people of Port
land that we record the fact that
our mayor Mr. Mays, received a
telegram yesterduv, just as we
going to pree, announcing that a thous
and dollar were on the wav from that
$500 Reward!
pop Sale xat a Bargain.
- A GOOD
Traction Engine
Has only been run sixty days.
Buffalo Pitts Thresher
Only used two months.
Chopping Mili, '-
per day;.
eofc
Wc will pay the ubove reward for an case of
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, hick Headnslic, In
ligcction. Constipation or Costivencss we csiutnl
run! with West's vegetable Liver Pills, when li
directions are utrictly complied with. They me
j.iirely vegetable, and never fail to give vstislac
zi'ia. Sugar Coated. Large boxes containiiu; 30
I'll.', i cents. Beware of counterfeits and linl-
. t -,p;;'im. The genuine manufacture:! only by
were ; t!ik joiin' t:. wpht company. cHiftlfiiv
city to
1 Dalles.
hel p
tha necessities of The
jM.IXOIH.
Kf.AKKI.KV i IfOI'fiHTON,
". rreiirrlplfon I)rU(;s;!At,
:ii ecu: St. The Dalles, '
Capable of 15 to 20 tons
J31.
The above will be sold on easy terms
W. L. WARD, ..
' The Dalles, Or.
S2P REWARD. '
VV!LL m i'Aiu r0K ANY INFORMATION
T leadiuar to the conviction of psrllmeuttJ.! f
tne rpes or in miy way
wl'e !lt? e? '-i;tli ot '
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