THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1892.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY.
Entered at the Poatoffice nt The Dalle, Oregon,
as accond-class matter.
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pass. This would cat off rivers and
harbors, public buildings everything
in fact needed for the improvement and
development of the country;' . Two hours
are to be devoted to the discussion of
the proposition to day. It is an outrage
to devote two seconds to the discussipn
of a proposition so utterly cranky and
preposterous.
A MUCH .NEEDED REFORM.
The final report of the grand jury of
Multnomah county, filed on the 16th
inst., charges that the county assess
ment rolls have been tampered with
while in the hands of the county clerk
to be copied, so that the "taxes of cer
tain persons have been reduced." This
is quite a serious charge but the grand
jury was UDable to bring it home to the
perpetrators because "parties would not
give evidence to criminate themselves."
The g.and jury, however adds a para
graph that will find an echo outside
Multnomah county. It says "We think
that all the laws creating and regulating
our county offices should be revised as
quickly as possible." It is simply an
outrage on the taxpayer that the sheriff
of a , county like Multnomah should
have an income equal to half of the sal
ary of the president of the United
States or a clerk or a sheriff of
a county like Wasco should have
an income so large that a hundred
men in the county as good and efficient
as ever filled these offices could be found
at five minutes notice willing to under
take them at one third the income of the
present incumbents. It is with no
thought of iuvidiousness that the
Chronicle makes the broad assertion
that it is by no means an uncommon j
occurrence that men are elected to
offices and salaries of .the character
The Hood River Glacier says it has
frequently heard the nameof Captain A.
S. Blowers mentioned in connection with
the legislative ticket in the next election
and adds that it knows of no one in that
section better qualified to fHl the
office than the captain, nor one
who would make a better run.
Hood River is entitled to be recognized
when the time comes to make up
county tickets, and if the legislative
lightening should happen to fall in that
precinct it could hardly strike a better all
round man there or any where else than
Captain Blowers.
the late duke's account as out of sym
pathy for his much-loved mother, the
Princess of Wales, and above all for the
4ady who was to be his bride in less
than a short month."
Multnomah county has rejected all bids
for voting booths and will now buv its
own lumber and have the supervisors
make plain, cheap booths, that, it is be
lieved, will answer all the purposes of
the new election law equally with the
more expensive kinds.
THE - - GOVERNOR'S
LETTER.
Hr Urges the Governme to Build the
Portage Road. .
COMMTXICATION. TO CONGRESS
The River ' and Harbor Committee
. Miown the Necessities of the Case
Special Features and Data are Given.
Is
The Washington gun foundry is work
ing its entire force twelve hours a day,
instead of eight, the legal limit and all
is in readiness for the establishment of
a twentv-four hour svstem.
The farmers' alliance and the grange
are doing a great work in the education
of its masses. The farmer " has hereto
fore taken too little interest in the
science of political economy. He has
been content to follow the plow and
rear his stock, then sell at whatever
price might be dictated by capital, and
buy at rates over which he had no con
trol. Such a course, notwithstanding
all our advantages, has left the farmer
comparatively stationary while mil
lionaires, made so by his labor, have
sprung up on everyside.
It is said that the meaning of the two
syllables tcal-la, found in so many
Indian names is not known and the
dissyllable is not found in any living
Indian language. As it is applied in at
least live instances, to streams of
water, it is quite probable that it means
a river or stream or simply water.
Hence we have Wallamett, Smoothwater,
Piwalla, Sandy or cold water; Toomwalla
(Deschutes) Fallingwater; Vmatwalla,
de-! Treeless water; Totowalla, Small water:
scribed who are unfit to earn fifty dol
lars a month in any clerical capacity in
the world. It is time these conditions
were altered for others more in harmony
with reason and common sense. The
governor of the state, who must be a
man of intelligence, education, business
capacity and social standing gets $1500 a
year. A representative who ought to
be equally endowed .get $3 a day. A
sheriff or clerk whose only capacity it
may be is his ability to command votes,
gets $5000 or $(5000, or, as in Multnomah
county, $20,000 to $25,000 a year. Here
is work for the grange and alliance.
The Cuno.vici.E does not believe in
cheese paring, but it does not believe in
a foolish wasteful and criminal extrava
and Walla-
Walla, many water.
A new political party is in process of
incubation. It is to be called the Col
umbian party. The chief incubator is
James O. Means the shoe manufacturer.
: Just now James is trying to hatch mug
wump eggs into Columbian chickens
with what success the future alone can
tell. It is becoming, however, more and
more evident every day that the greatest
crank on the American footstool will
have no trouble finding some party with
which he will be at home during the
next presidential campaign.
W. Lair Hill was expected to return
from Washington to his home in Seattle
on the 16th but his friends do not think
he will return with the circuit judgeship
in his pocket.
Senator Dolph has been given the
chairmanship of the senate committee
on public lands.
NORTH WF8T NEWS.
The democratic majority in the lower
house of congress has passed Mr. Hol
man's resolution pledging congress to a
rigid rejection of all appropriations not
essential to the carrying on of the gov
ernment. The resolution if strictly en
forced will work a decided hardship in
many places, especially in the North
west, where so many public improve
ments are needed. It will most likely
De interpreted to exclude all appropria
tions for the improvement of the Colum
bia and this would be nothing less than
a calamity to the people of the Inland
Empire. However from a purely demo
cracic standpoint the resolution is right.
The democratic majority was elected on
a platform of retrenchment in public ex
penditures and rigid economy. It is
manly and honorable for the party to
carry out its pledges, though the minor
ity may seriously question the wisdom
of confining appropriations within the
limits of necessity. However if the
people want it that way they will have
-a chance to say so before many moons.
The Portland Dispatch can always see
a silver back-ground to a democratic
cloud. Speaking of the cat and dog
time the club meeting had in Portland
last Saturday when Chairman Whitaker
had to use some vigorous cuss words to
j preserve the shadow of order the Dispatch
says : "The lively time had in the
democratic club meeting Saturday after
noon is evidence of great vitality in the
Oregon democracy." That's so.
The faction fight going on in Ireland
has recently developed at least one
amusing feature. The Parnellites allege
that Tim Healy has in his possession a
written guarantee of the Irish lord
chancellorship with an Irish peerage,
under the title Viscount Healy in case
the McCarthyites are the winning faction
when the liberals come into power. The
charge is preeminently absurd, but me
Lord Tim Healy is good.
The republican state senators of New
York are reported to be seriously con
sidering the proposition of one of their
number of resigning in a body. The
member in question claims that Lieu
tenant Governor Sheehan informed him
at the opening of the session of the leg
islature that there was no need of re
publican senators coming back after ad
journment. If . the plan prevails the
senators will resign in a body the mom
ent one of their numbers is unseated.
They will refuse to stand for re-election
and will issue a manifesto declaring that
they have been deprived of their rights
and that resignation is all that is left.
It is a bold step and will require very
strong cause for its jusification.
Mr. Martin of Indiana has introduced
a joint resolution in the house the title
of which reads as follows : "Looking to
the adjustment of international desputes
without resort to war." The object of
the resolution is to provide some just
international agreement for the creation
of a tribunal wherein desputes between
nations may be honorably adjusted,
without the arbitrament of war.
General Coon of San Diego, a veteran
of the civil war has telegraphed Presi
dent Harrison, asking permission to
raise a brigade of troops for Chili. The
barbarous treatment of American sea
men in Valparaiso has aroused the
patriotism of the old soldiers and an or
der to enlist would cause thousands of
veterans to offer their services. '
Chilian affairs have now come to such
a pass that war can only be evided by
the failure of congress to declare it or by
such action on the part of the Chilian gov
ernment as shall make war unnecessary.
The president and his advisers have set
tled down to the conviction that Chili
will not offer such terms of settlement
as the United States can accept. It is
believed that Chili will do one of two
things propose arbitration of the diffi
culty or submit an expression of regret,
coldly and loftily worded. It is believed
that neither of these expressions will
avail so far as the president is con
cerned. - '
Last Wednesday Objector Holman
introduced in the house and attempted
to "put it through under a gag. A
resolution to the effect that all appro
priations, except those for the actnal
existence of the government should not
The decision of the state board to
make the state levy from the assessment
rolls as revised by the state board of
equalization will meet with the approval
of the people. To have ignored the
work of the board through a mere tech
nicality would have plaited our taxation
laws in still more inextricable confusion
than they are. If Portland is aggrieved
she knows her remedy.
Two English brewry syndicates operat
ing at Chicago and Milwaukee have begun
a war of extermination on the smaller
concerns that have sprung into exist
ence since the formation of "the two
great trusts and as a result beer is sell
ing at $4 a barrel.
Rumor has it that a brewery will be
started in Rineville within the next
year.
The Portland license committee has
refused to grant any liquor licence to
Chinamen.
W. Cobins died at Gervis on the 13th,
according to the coroner's jury, from
excessive drinking.
An Albany man only married on Oct.
4, 1891, advertises that his wife has left
his bed and board. Marriage continues
to be a lottery. Democrat. .
It was a Kansas preacher who startled
his congregation by exclaiming in his
prayer, "God bless the farmers from
whom all blessings flow."
Chas. W. Nordstrom, charged with
shooting Willie Mason at Cedar moun
tain, was found guilty of murder in the
first degree at Seattle on the 12 inst
he state, board of equalization has
increased the gross assessment of Wasco
county in the sum of $282,872, and of
Sherman county in the sura of $14,864
A Jewish temple will soon be erect
ed in Spokane and it is claimed that it
will be the first Jewish house of wor
ship in the states of Washington and
Idaho.
Chief Garry, of the Spokane Indians,
died in tepee in the outskirts of Spokane
on the 13 inst. He was " very old and
led his tribe at the time the confeder
ated tribes met Colonel Steptoe in- 1858,
James Loton, chairman of the state
central committee, has issued a call for
the committee to meet in Portland on
February 3. The princpal object of the
meetine'will be to fix ths time for hold-
the republican state convention.
A number of ladies at Rineville recent
ly started a movement to close the busi
ness houses on Sunday. It was met
with a remonstrance, which, it is said,
contained the name of every business
man in the town, except one."
At the meeting of the Farmers's Alli
ance held in Baker City last Thursday,
an important action of the alliance was
a resolution, passed after a thorough
discussion, to put an entire ticket in the
field at the June election The meeting
was an enthusiastic one and representa
tives from the different unions of the
cauntv were present. The matter of
establishing an alliance mercantile
house in Baker City was discussed at con
siderable length and a committee will
investigate the matter.
Landslide on the Northern Kuries a
Steam Shovel.
Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 16. The largest
landslide occurring for vears on the
Northern Pacific road came down the
bluttaide at tagle (Jorge last evening
about 7 o'clock. The slide completely
buried a large steam shovel, worth
$8000, and the main line for a disiance
of 300 feet. Engineer J. M. Dixon and
Division Engineer Bihter said this
morning that it will take his force five
days to dig out the shovel and ascertain
the damage done. The force at Eagle
Gorge numbers 150 men, who started to
dig out the big shovel today. The bluff
there rises up from the Green river to a
height of over 100 feet. The slide
brought down the entire brow of the
bluff, including huge boulders, etumps
and trees. The earth will be taken
away by work trains. A side track was
run around the scene of the slide at
Eagle Gorge, which trains are using.
Two dozen men quit work on and around
the steam shovel an hour before the
slide occurred.
John L. Sullivan is said to h'ave de
clared himself in favor of the McKinley
tariff and of Blaine for president. That's
a strong endorsement.
The death of the Duke of Clarence has
caused wide-spread and profound sorrow
throughout England and all the British
dependencies. This'is not so much on
Effective Support Promised.
Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 17. Representa
tive Breckinridge, of Lexington. Ky.,
passed through Pittsburg today on his
way to Granville, O., where he lectured
tonight before the Dennison college stud
ents. In speaking of the present conr
gress, he said :
It is going to last until August. The
delay has been unusual. I do not be
lieve it will be anything but conserva
tive and steady, although so largely
democratic. It will also give the most
effective support it can to President
Harrison in connection with the Chilian
trouble,and it will be no fault of the
democratic congress if the honor of the
United States is not sustained.
Arms and Amnnition. -
Eagle Pass, Jan. 17. A. L. Lepman,
in from a ranch near Quemados, reports
four wagon-loads of arms and amunition
sent into Mexico near there three or four
days ago. r
Governor Pennoyer is endeavoring to
persuade the river and harbor commit
tee to make an appropriation for the
portage railway at The Dalles. He has
embodied his ideas on the subject ia a
letter to them, which carefully discusses
the situation. It is given herewith :
"Gentlemen: I sincerely trust that
you can incorporate in the bill of appro
priations for rivers and harbors, which
you at this session of congress will pre
sent to the consideration of the house,
the sum of $431,500 for a portage railroad
from the foot of the dalles to above Ce
lilo falls on the Columbia river. This
appropriation has the unqualified recom
mendation of a board of engineers ap
pointed to report upon tne advisability
of building a boat railway to overcome
the obstructions to navigation in the Co
lumbia river, between the two places
mentioned, of date December 18, 1888,
and the approval of the chief of engi
neers of the date January 4, 1886. (Ex.
Doc. No. 73, 50th Congress, second ses
sion.) The chief of engineers in his
letter to the secretary of war of above
date, concerning the deliberations of the
board, said : "The board, after discuss
ing the various projects presented, con
cludes that a single-track portage rail
way, which is estimated to cost $431,500,
and could be constructed in one year,
would undoubtedly be the cheapest and
quickest solution of the existing difficul
ties. I agree with the board in these
views, and that such a road would be a
vaiuaoie aiu in tne construction ot an
other and more satisfactory solution of
the problem which the growth of com
merce may demand. As it will be seen
by reterence to the river and harbor act
of August 11, 1888, this board was in
structed to report as to the feasibility
and advisability of overcoming such ob
structions bv means of a boat railwav.
and as their recommendation for a port
age ranroaa undoubtedly was not satis
factory to the delegation from Oregon in
congress, which had, unfortunately for
the state, committed itself to the boat
railway scheme, it is to be presumed, at
"the instance of such delegation, the
board made another report upon the
boat rail way scheme of date, November,
1889, which concludes as follows:
" .'It is to be seen that tire solutions
were presented by the board on a port
age railroad in Washington, described in
detail by the report of December 18,
1888, and the continuous boat railway
herein described. The first is a cheap,
and speedy solution, adequate in the
opinion of the board, to meet existing
requirements. The second is suited to a
considerable commerce and it is recom
mended as a most feasible and conven
ient method of passing a large commerce
over these formidable obstructions with
out transshipment of cargo. The esti
mated cost of the portage railroad is
$431,500, and that of the continuous boat
railway, including lifts, is $2,860,356 25
(Ex. Doc. No. 64, 51st congress, first ses
sion). It may be added here that the
estimated annual cost of operating the
baat railway, equipped to pass sixteen
boats in twelve hours, is estimated at
$80,000, to pass sixteen boats each wav
at $150,000, and to run at full capacity,
passing forty boats each wav in twenty-
fous hours, at $275,000.
For the reason, therefore, that the
portage railroad can be constructed and
operated at such a trifling cost when
compared with the construction and
operation of a boat railway, that it could
be constructed in one year, that it really
has the approval of the government en
gineers in preference to a boat railway,
and that the people of Eastern Oregon,
who would be onered relief by such
portage railroad from the undue exac
tion now demanded of them in the ship
ment of their farm products to the sea
board, I do appeal to you to incorporate
the sum of $431,500 for the buildine of
such portage railroad in the bill, which
will be presented by you- to the house.
The question of the practicability of a
portage has entirely been removed from
the field of conjecture. Tha state of
Oregon at the last session of its legisla
ture made an appropriation of $00,000
for the building of a portage rail
road at the cascades of the Columbia
when the government for the last sixteen
vears has been at work endeavoring to
build a canal. Worried with impatience
and almost disheartened, the state made
an appropriation to do that which was
plainly the duty of the Federal govern
ment, and the road was built and is now
being operated by the state at an annual
cost of only $5000, the crews of the boats
being compelled to load and unload the
cars, thus limiting the force employed by
the state to conductor engineer and
brakeman. Not only has the portage
railroad project the recommendation of
the United States enginers, but it has
the indorsement and approval of the
whole people of Oregon. At the six
teenth session of the Oregon legislature
the following concurrent resolution was
unanimously passed in both houses,
February 1"', 1891 :
" 'In view of the foregoing recommen
dation of the United States engineers,
the expressed will of the people of Ore
gon and the great advantages that would
accrue to the state as the result of such
a needed expenditure, allow me to ex
press the hope that your committee will
recommend to the house the appropriar
tion above indicated.' "
'The resolution referred to is house
concurrent resolution, No. 24, and is as
follows :
" 'Resolved, by the legislature of the
state of Oregon, That our senators and
our representative in congress be re
quested to present to the congress of the
United States the appeal of the people
of the state of Oregon for a sufficient ap
propriation at this term of said congress
for the construction of a portage railway
at the dalles of the Columbia, to be main
tained until the completion of the per
manent improvement above mentioned.
" 'Resolved, further, That our delega
tion in congress be requested to use their
utmost efforts to secure at the present
session of congress an appropriation for
such portage railway, and a further ap-1
propriation for such percianentju) prev
alent by means of a boat railway.' "
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