THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1892.
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He In Said To K - Disgusted With The
Treatment Accorded Him.
New Yoek, Jan. 4. The 'Sun' Wash
ington special pays: Roger Q. Mills
left Washington today for Texas, to be
absent for three weeks or more, He
was accompanied by his son and they
have "gone on a hunting trip," whether
for votes or game is not stated. . Repre
sentative Sayers, of Texas, will osk in
definite leave for his colleague when the
Silver plated Knives, ' i,ouse meets Tuesday. Mr. Sayers says
he does not think Mr. Mills' hasty de
parture has any bearing on his relations
to Speaker Crisp. There are other
members, however, who sav that the
: defeated candidate for speaker has en
i tirely washed his hands of any responsi-
i bility fr or connection with the pro
THE DALLES, OflEGOfl : gramme, or business in the house, and
j that his hunting trip is intended to em
i phasize his disgust at the treatment ac-
j corded him by the speaker in the inake
l up of the committees. It is said, more-
j over, that Mr. Wise, of Virginia, wih
j act as chairman of the committee on in-
i terstate and foreign commerce, until the
j return of Mr. Mills, who will then re
: fcign the chairmanship, to be formally
succeeded by the Virginian. There is
i no definite verification of this statement
i obtainable, but it is made with much
j positiveness by those who know the
facts.
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Washington, Jan. 4. There has been
! a great deal of talk about' preventing
David B. Hill from taking his seat in
: the United States senate because he con
: tinued to serve as governor when his
term as senator began ten months ago.
It was thought that it might be good
policy for a republican senate to refuse
i to seat him, but it is now generally be
lieved that nothing of the kind will be
attempted, and that Hill will be sworn
: in and will take his seat as if he had not
ignored the senate for nearly a year.
, There is nothing to be gained by refus
: ing to recognize his title. Governor
Flower would reappoint him so soon as
; the seat was declared vacant, and the
legislature of New York, having been
! declared Democratic by Hill's great
! steal, would re-elect him immediately,
: and his triumph would give him 'a
! greater place before the country than to
; ignore him altogether. It is possible that
! the action by the senate might make
him the democratic nominee for presi
' dent, and in that view of the case it
might be good republican politics to turn
i him out, as he would lie doomed to de
: feat.
i
Electricity to I!un Mills.
St. Paul, Jan. 3. It is announced
today that a revolution in flourmaking
as great as the introduction of the roller
; process some years ago, is to occur here
i in the next two months. It is no less
than the substitution of electricity for
water or steam for the running of an im
mense mill to be erected on West Third
street, on the site of the St. Paul roller
mill, burned two years ago. The plan
is that of Kingeland Smith, whointro-l
duced the roller process of wheat crush
ing twelve yeais ago,, and who is a prac
tical miller of many years' experience.
Mr. Smith has been experimenting for
the past thirteen months with electric
ity for moving mill machinery, and said
tonight:
I have become thoroughly convinced
of its cheapness and its entire practica
bility, I shall introduce it in the big
St. Paul mill with entire confident that
it will settle the question of cheap
i power. '
tVamlc Items.
Wamic, Pec. 20, 1891.
Editor of the Chronicle : ' '
Last Tuesday we were visited by a
heavy galo, which blew down fences,
trees and scattered shingles off of barn
root's in all directions.
Thone present at the ball on Christmas
eve at Wamic hall, pronounce it a grand
success. inc attenaance was more
than expected, sixty numbers being
taken.
Mrs. Strickland who some time ago
received a stroke of paralysis, received
another stroke December 13th, from the
effects of which she died December 14th.
All her children were with her in her
last hours, except the youngest daughter
Martha Kelly of Lafayette, who coming
to ee her sick mother, met the proces
sion going to the cemetery, her grief was
unutterable. Mrs. Strickland was a
good and most affectionate mother, and
her departure is a bitter sorrow to the
children, who have the heartfelt .sym
pathies of all who know them.
There are two cases ol measles re
ported in our settlement. Those that
have not had the experience this dread
disease affords, mav have the oppor
tunity before they complete their rounds.
Miss Edna Driver at present lies quite
sick with what seems to be a stroke of
paralysis. -
Mrs. Elsie Harvey has taken her two
daughters to Dufur, to attend the Dufur
school. Misses Neva and Laura are two
bright little girls, and we hope will
meet the approval of their teacher and
gain the respect of the school.
We see by the market quotations in
the "Chhoxicle" that wheat still de
mands a goed price, the cause of which
seems to be the demand and scarcity of
this cereal. The ukase issued by the
Russian government seems to havestim-
j ulatedthe market quite perceptibly. The
Russian ukase forbidding the export of
breadstuffs from the empire in connec-
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FOLLY'S ANSWER.
We admire the Salem Journal as a
good honest paper but it can sometimes
lie as silly as any of its contemporaries.
In an article in its issue of January 5th,
entitled "The attacks of folly" it speaks
dispanngly of one paper that
clare it to be a species of unjust dis
crimination for railroad companies to
grant passes to "gentlemen eminent in
public service, officers of the states,
prominent officers of the United Statesr
members of railroad legislative coinmit-
j teee and persons whoscgood will is im-
j jitri iuui, ij wic wroi uuuu gritiuwjg wie
I passes." This decision will meet with
the approval of the people. Passes
granted to the persons named aliove are
nothing less than bribes to secure tho
favor of those to whom they are given.
Why are members of congress and of
state legislatures granted 'passes unless
it be that the grantors of passes expect
to receive their equivalent in legislative
favors? Railroad companies are not in
business for their health. Neither are
they charitable institutions. If they
were they would confer their gifts on
those who needed them. The commis
ioners concluded to investigate the mat- .
soeuals"
because mortgages have been put ui to I ter granting passes to newspaper men
face value by the state board of equaliza- 1 tor the nominal consideration as it often
tion while sheep are fixed by the same
board at $1.60 a head, the cash value of
the commonest sheep being double that
amount and mutton sheep worth $4.00
and over. This "squeal" the Journal is
pleased to call cheap demagogy and then
it proceeds to answer it by a quotation
from the Albany Democrat, th gist of
which is that the cash value of a thine
is not the amount it will bring at a
voluntary sale but the amount a man
can borrow on it. This is a new defini
tion of cash value unknown both to law
and common sense. Thus the Democrat
illustrates and the Journal approves the
illustration of the meaning of cash value
by supposing the case of farmer who has
100 head of mutton sheep worth $4 a
head who cannot borrow more than $100
on his sheep because they "might die or
the cayotes catch them." Or again the
case is supposed of a farmer who has a I
humdred acres of land worth $30 an
acre. On such land a monev lender will
is of a Ittle cheap advertising. The
Chuonicle will be mow than pleased if
the commission is able to put a stop to
this iniquity. When legislation is
bribed and newspaper muzzled by rail-
road favors the maspes can expect little
help from either.
tion with the known fact that there is a j advance 'to the extreme limit" not
shortage in tlie wheat surplus the world j more than $1000 or 33i per cent,
over, seems to have startled the great j "This," says the Democrat, "is the cash
grain centers, and prices have advanced.; value" that the money lender will place
through channels of speculation as well nPon the sheep and land. Surely it is
as through the actual need and demand j n"t necessary to say that in neither case
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ight Druggists always in Attendance.
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ters of Credit issued available in the
Eastern States.
:ght Exchange and Telegraphic
nsferssoldon New York, Chicago, St.
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ttle Wash., and various roints in Or-
p and Washington. '
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DAMES CITY.
At the Foot of the Cascade Locks.
The Czar Does not 'Wish its Horror
Itecome Generally Known.
j St. rETEKSBUKo, Jan. 4. It appears
I that the czar does not wish any wide
; spread impression to go forth of the hor-
rors of tho Russian famine. General
j Maneei, general of cavalry and aid-de-I
camp in command of the corps of the
j guard, joined with his fellow-officers in
! a movement to give up their pav for a
I time for the relief of the famine snf
j ferers. The offer was communicated to
i the ciar, who, instead of receiving it
j with satisfaction, showed that he was
; offended, and said there was 110 famine,
' but merely a partial failure of the crops,
whicli was being relieved by the govern
ment. "As General Maneei has stood
high in the favor of the czar, this ex
pression of feeling is regarded as showing
that the czar considers the famine report
as reflecting upon himself as an autocrat.
of breadstuff's for the impoverished
sufferers. ' '
Taking the statistics fciven by Wood
Davis, the Kansas statistician, concern
ing the shortage of wheat, and rye the
world over, and as Secretary Friedlander
of the Produce Exchange and California
Board association says there will be only
00,000 tons of surplus wheat at the end
of the year 1891 in the United States.
It seems by these authorities, the world
is shorter of breadstuffs at present than
has been known for many years past. If
this be the case how many years will it
take to replace the surplus that was on
hand at the beginning of the year '91
and will be consumed on account of the
deficiency of ci ops this year. It seems
prevalent that by the time another crop
is ready to be harvested, "unless it be
an unusual heavy crop," the demand
and need of the cereals for breadstuff's,
will be ae great or greater that it is at
the present time.. If this be true the
price of wheat will be governed accord
ingly and may go still higher than it
now is or has been, and if it proves to be
thus the farmer will naturally ho in
clined to sow more wheat ; consequently
the acreage sown will be larger than has
ever been in Oregon before.
Unclk Tobv.
"IteMponftible" .TournuliKin.
.Sun of January 6, under
"An Unauthorized State-
A Sample of
The Vaco
the heading
nient," says:
An item is going the rounds of the
press, originating in au irresponsible
paper of this city that The Dalles board
of trade is about to issue a circular letter
urging the congressional delegation of
Oregon, Washington and Idaho to pro
cure an appropriation for the construe
tinn r( o nnvtooo tailnrn VknfifrAAn tKia
city and Celilo. No such letter is being I ia rlght
is the amount loaned the "cash value"
but only one third of the cash value, an
amount that experience has proved to
be, what in all ordinary circumstances
it is perfectly safe to loan on property.
In fact the Democrat supposes the
shejjp to be worth $400, and fie land
$3,000 yet it would have them assessed
at of these amounts because that is
all that could be borrowed on them. It
is just such methods of reasoning reduced
to actual practice that have made our
methods of assessment a laughing stock.
A man owing a band of sheep worth
$3,000 in cash or a piece of real estate
worth tlie same amount has only 'to re
turn a thousand dollars of indebtedness
to the assessor and he is tax free. Thus
if all the taxable property in the state,
rated at one third of its value, amounted
to one hundred and fifty million dollars
and all the indebtedness of the state
amounted to fifty millions and was re
turned as owing to the banks or to Port
land merchants the state and counties
of Oregon would not get a cent of taxes
from all the property in the Oregon
commonwealth. The Journal however,
somewhat atones for its folly by de
nouncing the iniquity of assessing rail
road property at but a fraction of its
value while land adjoining it, as is cer
tainly the case in this county and pos
sibly in other places, is sometimes taxed
at every cent it is worth. The state
board has not rectified this evil. It ha?
not made the attempt, but it has "equal
ized" the tax on mortgages, which is in
variably paid by the borrower by mak
ing it fifty per cent higher than the
average of nearly all other property,
and about five hundred per cent, higher
than railroad property. Of course this
An Oregonian who has suffi-
FRKK WOOL, PRACTICALLY.
In view of the fact that the present
tariff law contains the following provis
ion for a rebate on all exported articles
where imported materials on which
duties have been paid are used in their
manufacture, it is difficult to understand
the force of the claim that free ool
would stimulate American manufacture
of woolen goods and enable the American
manufacturer to compete more success
fully with the foreign market. Under
the present law the manufacturer for ex
port has to all intents and purposes free
wool saving one per cent, of duty. Here
is section 25 of the McKinley bill.
Sec. 23. That where imported mater
ials, on which duties have been paid,
are lined in the manufacture of articles
manufactured or produced in the United
States, there should be allowed on the
exportation of such articles a drawback
equal in amount to the .duties paid on
tho materials used, less one jcr centum
of such duties: Provided, that when
the articled exported are made in part
from domestic materials, the imported
materials, or the parts of the articles
made from such materials, shall so ap
pear in the completed articles that the
quantity or measure thereof may be ascertained.
Report has it that Roger Q. Mills has
bebome disgusted with the treatment
accorded him and has gone on a hunting
trip to Texas to be absent for three
weeks, It is said that the defeated can
didate for speaker has entirely washed
his hands of any responsibility for or
connection with, the program or business
of the house and that his hunting trip is
intended to emphasize his disgust at the
treatment accorded him by the speaker
in tho make-up 01 the committees. If
this report is true it only shows the un
fitness of Mills for the position he
aspired to. The man who cannot brook
disappointment is not capacitated to re
ceive honor. If Mills has sulked and
ran away it shows that ex-Speaker Reid
sized him up correctly when he said if
Mills were elected speaker he would be
throwing tho gavel at Reid before a
week.
The Robber Sly Identified.
j Sr. Loris, Jan. 2. Sly, the suspected
' Glendalc express robber, has been iden
1 tilled as the perpetrator of the postoffice
j robbery at station C, November i'4.
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j St, a F.; Mrs. C. Melvin, 1S6 Kearny St., S. F.,
and many others who have found relief from
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Vegetable Sarsaparilla. I recognized in it at
once an herb that the Mexican used to give us
in the early fiO's for bowel troubles. (I came to
California in 1838,) and I knew it would help me
and it has. For the first time in years I can sleep
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THE DALLES, OREGON.
sent out by The Dalles board of trade.
This is not a new "break" of the Sun.
It is an incident in one continuous
break that has been going on ever since
the present editor took charge of that
paper. What the editor expects to gain
by such a course is beyond our ken.
The utter falsity of the statement will
appear from the letter of the secretary
of the board of trade published in
another place. The circulars have been
issued and signed officially by the secre
tary of the board which footed all the
expense connected with their issuance.
For the rest the Chronicle makes the
assertion that The Dalles never had a
body of men who have done so much for
the material advancement of the city
and county as this same board of trade.
To it, more than any other set. of men,
the country owes the Cascade portage.
To it absolutely the city and county owes
the line of boats now running between
here and Portland. While the board of
trade has been quietly working the Sun
has been making a fool of itself.
cient enterprise to borrow money to 'en- j
ablS him to extend his business or make
needed improvements ought to be !
cinched and the Journal and Democrat, i
j
in theory, would encourage the process. 1
Friendly Terms Deftlred. .
Ijkiii.ix, Jan. 4. Emperor William
has sent a very cordial New' Year's mes
sage to the pope. In reply the pope
said he desired always to be on friendly
terms with Germany and wished the
emperor every success in his struggle
with socialism, the' common enemy of
religion and empire.
The Grip In England.
London, Jan. 4. There were nineteen
deaths from the grip in this city last
week. The 7 disease is now prevalent
throughout Great Britain. Whole fam
ilies are prostrated. There seems no
prospect of a change for the better in the
near future.
A woman whose husband had squan
dered $15 over night in a saloon in New
York City went to the place in the
morning and asked to get the money
back. Of course she did not get it, but
she took from a basket which she had
on her arm two plain homely-looking
bricks and, with them as a weapon, she
devoted her best fighting energies-to
demolish about $500 worth of cut glaes
and French mirrors. The law would
say that this 6piteful little womon
should be punished, but where is the
jury to be found that would convict
her?. It does not exist. Not even if!
selected from the saloons of New York
itself.
The Behrlng sea Difficulty.
London, Jan. 6. Sir George Smith
Baden-Powell, of the fishery commis
sion, speaking at Liverpool last night,
said that England and the United States
bad agreed on a basis of settlement for
the Behring ea difficulty, and hoped
that the matter would 1 "brought to a
satisfactory conclusion, lie also hoped,
before the world's fair, to see a fast line.
of steamers in operation between Eng
land and Canida that would have a good
share of travel between the Old World
and the New.
A Frightful Train Wreck.
Wheeling, W, Va., Jan. 6. A ter
rible accident happened to the Baltimore
& Ohio Chicago limited express today
near Fairmount, W. Va. A truck under
one of the baggage-cars broke down
while the train M as running forty miles
an hour. The entire train was com
pletely derailed. Charles Applegate,
express messenger, of Newark, O., and
George Halsarn, baggage master, of Bal
timore, were killed, and Engineer George
Scham is dying. Thirteen passengers
were more or less hurt, but details are
not yet to band. '
Eastern Oregon roads are bad enough
in all conscience, bnt we have few that
will equal oe in Western Oregon that
we read of tlue other day a leading
county ,road at that that was covered
Horrors of the Russian Famine.
London, Jan. 6. A Berlin corres
pondent of the New says : , "The pas
tors of a number of German colonies fn
Russia have appealed direct to the Ger
man consulate in St. Petersburg for as
sistance to prevent thousands of Ger
mans from starving. It is said thev not
only suffer from famine, bnt are exposed
; to cruelties from fanatic mobs, who ac
' cuse thorn of being responsible for the
; failure of crops. Several Germans were
i killed and their houses burned, it is
'said."
Plot to Free a Murderer.
San Fbancibco, Jan. 6. The Fxam-
with water to such a depth that the su- J tner this morning prints a statement
pervisor had setup ("takes to indicate j that Edward Campbell was paid $2000
the road ought to be and a trav- ;
where
eler passing that way and not keeping
his eye on the stakes got off the "road"
and came near being drowned. No wou
der the Dallas Observer man says "Oh,
that the people . of this country would
rise as one man and swear by the eter
nal that our roads must be improved."
The interstate commission have an
nounced a decision by which they de-l1.60.
by wealthy relatives of Sidney Bell, the
convicted Jacobsen murderer, for affi
davits setting forth that bis testimony
on w hich Bell was convicted was false.
Campbell is now believed to be in Chi
cago, but it is stated that Mrs. Campbell
has confessed the details of a nlot to free
iBell.
' Fortlund Wheat Marliet.'
Poktland, Or., Jan. 7. Wheat,
valley l.(21 Lfi5; Walla Walla, 1.57V,