-i i i ' - '-- ' " 1 1 ' ' .. i i r . t w t r T v -m k THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY ; FEBRUARY 19, 1892. NUMBER 10. VOL. II. A', BIG FINANCIAL STROKE. Tie Reafliug Railroad is Now One of the Strongest. WHALEBACK STEAMERS IN DEMAND Governor Boies' Silence on the Silver is a Blunder. A I-KOSriROlS MAN SUICIDES. Another Hotel Fire Victims ' of ' Hotel Royal Fire Ban Diego Incendiary. New Yohk, Feb. 11. The late coup of President McLeod is the greatest in the history of railroad financiering .and wakes the Reading as strong a corpora tion as there is in the world. The gross receipts of the Philadelphia & Reading system will hereafter be $20,000,000 an nually, and the number of its employes will approximate 100,000, being more than is employed by any corporation on this planet. It is now plain what was in Mr. McLeod's mind when he acquired the Poughkeepsie bridge and the lines tributary thereto,, which, through the Reading and its entire argumented evstems, goes into the very heart of New Tt the east, with connections with all the , important New England roads, and en- nKlirts if tr iTixf no tr nAntrAl Iha dnal I traffic of that entire region. Mr. Mc- Bapport of A. J. Drexel and the banking house with which he is connected, of John Lawler, J. R. Maxwell and George j F. Baker and the New York Central people who have secured the largest holding there is at present of the Dela ware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, the success of this combination, backed "by the strongest financial institution in this country, is assured. Jumped into the River. New Brunswick, N. J., Feb. 11. George Baier, a prosperous German baker, committed suicide, this morning by drowning. ' He sought the top of the cliffs one mile below the city and took a plunge of 100 feet into the Raritan river. Some fishermen fouud the body late in the afternoon. Baier went to Germany three years ago.- He was then reputed to be a single man, but on his return he was accompanied by a woman and three j children. The woman claimed to have ! married him teu years before. . Baier's wife admitted when the body was taken to the house that she had frequently quarreled with him, and that the suicide was doubtless the result of a quarrel which thev had had on Sunday. Both Want the Whalebacks. Duluth, Minn., Feb. 11. Represen- tatives of St. Louis and San Francisco svndicates are here conferring w'th the McDougall people regarding the lines of whaleback steamers. The St. Louis syndicate anticipated the establishment of a line to ply between St. Louis and European ports by way of Mississippi the Gulf of Mexico. The San Francisco people are considering a line across the Pacific. If the St. Louis project goes through, a shipyard will he established for the construction of whalebafks at .or near Cairo, at the mouth ; of the Ohio river. . Governor Boies' Sac? Mistake. Dubuque, la., Feb. 11. Governor Boies' silence on the silver question at the Denver banquet last night is called a fatal blunder by this evening's Tele graph, which has been an earnest sup porter of his claims to the presidency-,. It declares that Governor Boies' availa s bility depends on his ability to command ' the support of the friends-of free silver. Having forfeited their support at Denver last night, he can no longer be regarded . as a presidential possibility. Victims or the Hotel Fire. - New-York, Feb. IT. Search . for the missing in the ruins of the Hotel Royal fire is ended. The chief of the fire de partment says there are no more bodies in the ruins, but Mears, the proprietor, expresses the opinion that there are still three more bodies there. Seventeen in ' all were taken out, seven being identified. The San DIeg-o Incendiary. San Diego, .Feb,'" 11. Nearly every hotel and lodging-house in the city was guarded last night by an increased force of watchmen, while the number o( con stables and patrolmen on the streets rT. I 7- ml 7; i k V frpm suspended or dropped. 51; rein Jod has had inlhis matter the hearty. oft . f Atal RRfl . Knmmttk were doubled to guard against further j attempts at incendiarism. No arrests have been made as yet, but the anthori- j, ties are working on several clews. The ! opinion is gaining ground that all five j fires were set by the some person. ' -, The Trouble In New York. Albuquerque, I?. M., "Feb. 11. The j Navajos are growing boldei . They are 1 rapidly gathering and now outnumber the cowboys in West Fernalius and Valencia counties. The fight on Cod dington'fl cattle ranch, yesterday after noon, resulted in the killing of three Indians and the wounding of several of the cowboys. The redskins are concen trating their forces, and will swoop down oil the small towns and ranches. Lieutenant Wallace, of Troop A, Second cavalry, and ten men from Wingate, with pack animals, passed Coolidge last night on their way to Mitchell's station. i THESE WAS NO FIGHT. j COolidgb, N. M., Feb. 11. There is no ! truth in the reports sent from this vicin- I J .4 ikot vu.-Kira lia1 a ficyhi. with thp i ' . r . i , 1 t"l. JNavajo Indians yesteraay anu Kiueu threeofthem, Everything is quiet now. Probably no serious trouble will occur. Grand Army Election. Salem, Feb. 12.-State encampment of the department of Oregon, Grand Army of "the Republic, today elected officers as follows for the coming year: Department Commander, Major II. H. Northup, Portland: Senior Vice-Corn roander, R. A. Crossan, Vice-Commander, O. M. Salem ; Junior Dodson, Baker, City; Medical Director, Joseph P. Gill, Eugene ; Chaplain, Wiley Knowl Mc- . '7, T " " : . campment, A. B. Bailey, J. P. Galbra.th, Capt. E. Lombard ; Alternates, Capt. J. surface. Such theory is " . " " "-"""7" 19Q5 ,n durf r year by muster, 405 ; by transfer, 194; 2591. Barlal or Spurgeou. London', Feb. 11. Finafervices over the remains of Rev. Mr. Spurgeon were held at the tabernacle today Several members of the commons, the Baroness Burdette-Coutts and deputations from sixty religious bodies were among those present. The services were simple and touching. Rev. Mr. Pierson, an Ameri- can minister, made a most eloquent ad- j dress, at the conclusiou of which the re- j mains were taken to the cemetery. . The j tabernacle and the streets on the way to the cemetery were crowded with people Some Expensive Trials. . Okovili.e, Cal., Feb. 11. Trials have been going on . here, for nearly two months over stealing a band of cattle. Two men on the same evidence were sent to prison, one was acquitted, and in two cases the jury disagreed The district attorney stated he will move to I . r - dismiss the remaining prisoners, four iii ! ' i-trike of the Coal Porter, number. Seventy witnesses have been j Lonuos, Feb. 11. The strike of the examined, and the trials have cost the ; coal porters, of whom 10,000 struck - yes county nearly $20,000. j terday in one djstrict only, if it continues, - r--- ', it threatens to bring about a coal famine Thurston Fears the Alliance. . . , t . . ,. , , ,. . w ,n tnia Clty- The directors of the chief Omaha, Neb., ieb. 1 1. -Hon. John M. f, (.6mpanies this morning are setting ii,urewu .i, .,...i,UB , '"' formally declines to allow his name to gcidriving coa, deliverv vSnS( and ,n otil. betore the convention as a eancnuaie ior vice-president, owing to : Blame s with- j drawal. He predicted - that Harrison" will be the nominee, and says there jvill-j be a stubborn fight. He fears the alli ance will be strong enough to cause a republican defeat. . Troubles In Brazil. Ri6 Grande, Brazil,' Feb. 11. Vis count Pelotas has assumed command of the province of Rio Grande do- Sol. t Corumba the garrison deposed Governor j Martinho and declared Corumba the capital of the state. They ' nominated Mr.- Rocha in his'place. The revolutiqn ists are now marching" on the city of Cuya'ba. The rebels in Santa Catalina have deposed Governor Mueler. I'residentlal Nominations. Washington, Feb. 11. The president sent to the senate today the following nominations: Joseph McKenna, of California, United States circuit judge for the ninth judicial distsict; Rowland P. Mahany, of New" York, minister to Ecuador.' - , : - . .: . . " ' - Hoir Thejr Should Act. Annapolis, Md., Feb.. 11. The house of delegates today adopted a resolution expressing ta sense that the national house of representatives should act npon the tariff question in harmony with Pres ident Cleveland's message of 1887, and the MillB bill. ... f -A Hotel Burned. - El Paso, Tex.," Feb. 11. The. Grand Central hotel was burned -' early this morning.. The building and furniture werednsured for $59,000. The losses are fully covered., : ; '.; MISS MATTIE MARRIED. Oregon's , Share of -'the" Retained far Money $200,000. ' EDWARD M. FIELD INDICTED. Prof. Davidson Ridicules the Sun Spots Theonv HOUSE 1tE80tl.TI"N OX TARIFF. , tM in Itlo Feared Brazilian Troubles Strike of Coal Porter. . j rJABi8 Feb. 11. The jriageofthe Duke de la religious' mar Rochefoucauld and Miss Mattie Mitchell, daughter'of J Senator Mne.l, of Oregon, took- place today at the Church of St. Clothilde. The church was crowded with friends of the two families. Many army officers, members of the nobility and leading Americans at present it Paris' were ; ""'""s l"c lao"'u"al"c "1,u,,!- . - 1 1. .. r . .1 . : . 1. 1 . l . . .. . Effect of the Soots on the Sun : s F.vrM,;n iVh ,, T)i.nat(hP8 j f observatory at Harvard Univer- isity state that the sun spots are used as a , for the liction of t gtorm8 , . atmftsnhRri rPBHpasnMS on 1 ridiculed by. Professor Davidson. Speak- ing of the matter today, tie said "It is impossible to say there can be affinity or resultant atmospheric activity of the earth's atmosphere. ' We cer tainly have no reason to fear storms or anything of that sort. These solar dis turbances are something , difficult to image. Our earth ". could be . dropped into one of . those depressions on the sun's surface with no more effect than a scuttle of coal might have if similarly tnrown in. - iney tried once to prove, that Indian typhoons were the result of solar disturbances, but they had to give tf ti rt t.-f tlAr lia1 nri rnsf " - Xeed JJot Criminate' Himself. Siiringfield, I1L, -Feb." 11. In the contempt of court case of Richard Dowle, general manager of the Great Eastern fast freight line, of Detroit, on investiga tion before the United States grand jury regarding an alleged violation of the .in terstate commerce law by cutting rates, Judge Allen, in the. United States dis trict court today, decided that Dowle need not answer questions that would criminate himself. - jan exampie to subordinate officials by o v,t t tM v.,0;.,, " . .. . , Trouble Feared In Klo Janeiro." : ! " London, Feb. 11. A dispatch 'from j .Rio Janeiro states affairs there are. in a very bad shape. Three ministers have resigned," and this is taken as an indica tion the government is'breaking'up. "At Pelatos, Rio Grande do ful, the' feeling between the populace and the govern -ment is very bitter, and it is feared conflict may occnr at any moment. 'j - . ' Classification of Assorted Wools. "Washington. Feb. 11. The attornev- . general has directed that an appeal be taken in the case of Higgins Co. against the United States, recently de- cided in favor of .the claimants in iSew York. " The case involves a proper classi fication of assorted wools. - Field Indicted for Forgery. , - - New Yohk, Feb. 11. The grand jury today returned an indictment for forgery against Edward M. Field, alleging that he forged the name of E. Moore to a bill of lading for. a large quantity of wheat ! last Novembers . " , , ' . ' Oregon's Share.. ' . Washington, D. C, Feb. .10. The house 'committee on claims today re ported favorably a biH granting to Ore gon and other states the money paid out during the war for war purposes, ' Ore gon's share will be about $200,000... 7 Anarchist Plot Discovered. . Berlin, Feb. 11. The Kreuz Zeilung says the police have discovered and frus trated a wide-spread anarchist, plot. The recent fires ip the royal palace at Konigsberg, it is said, were the work of a Berlin anarchist society. Lincoln' Birthday Banquets. -Chicago, Feb. 12.--Tbe 'Marquette Club celebrated the birthday of Abraham Lincoln with a banquet at the Auditor ium hotel tonight, at which covers were laid for ', over , 500 persons. The great banquet hall was resplendent with elec tric lights and, appropriately decorated with flags, banners and fe toons " in the national colors, interspersed . with por traits of Lincoln, Washington, Grant, and other national heroes. Prominent republicans from all parts of the country J were bidden to the feast, and a number I were present. The principal address of the evening was by Senator Shelby M. ;CulIom,'who recently announced him- t self as a candidate for the presidency of ! the United States, and who responded to j the toast "Abraham Lincoln." I.-,' TnE PHILADELPHIA BANQUET Philadelphia , Pa., Feb." 12. The j Pennsylvania Club, a political orgaiza j Hon of this city, tonight celebrated the i birthday of Abraham Lincoln, by a din- ner at which the principal guests were i Attorney-GeneraLMiller-, Solicitor-Gen-jeral Taft and Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire. C. Stewart Patterson, dean of the law school .of the., university of Pennsylvania responded to the toast, "Abraham Lincoln." THE COLCMBCS GATHERING. '": . Colcsibus, Ohio, Feb. 12. The Lincoln banquet was given tonight.;' A telegram :of regret was read from .'Chauncey M. .Depew, who was expected to be present '; and respond to 'the toast, "Abraham ( Lincoln." Also from Jairies S. Clarkson, who was prevented from attending by ilInS9- Representative Storer took Mr, I CI'CH V""-, Allen responded to . Cjarkson's - toast, "The Coming Campaign.?' ov. -Mc- ! Kiney respon dedto ,OMo;- and; was K' "- AS EX-COXFEDEB-KTE S TKIBCTE. . ; Brooklyn,.' Feb, 12. The annual din ner of the Union League Club, of Brook lyn, N. Y., was given at the club-house tonight, .The Hon. John S. Wise, the principal speaker, -responded to ,the toast, "Abraham Lincoln."'. He said, in part : "I speak as one who, while yet a boy, embarked enthusiastically in the confederate cause. The nomination of Lincoln, I pictured in boyish' fancy, as the elevation of a bad man by an insane faction with cruel, quixotic purpose, I j laughed in my heart in- the springtime '! t loan- i tUnnk. - ikn nn.l.in of 1860 at the thought that anything could uproot and destroy the social and political fabric by which I was sur rounded.. ' .Within five years from that time I stood upon the same spot,. a par oled prisoner of the army, of the .dead Contederacv. Mr. Lincoln had the un questioned right to proclaim the freedom of the slaves as a war measure. . 2fone' but a bold, strong, independent, nature would have assumed all the reaponsibil itv for the danger which the step in- j vove(j to himself, his friends and his cause-.' Looking at its consequences, friend and foe alike now concur that ; it was the matchless stroke of a master hand. Lincoln will be remembered .for all time to come by friend and foe alike as the great, sad, almost lonely helms man of the Union in : the hour of its peril ; who, steered by the nnfailiug light of a single constellation ; who, never veering a point,, was always guided by his self-made chart; "with' malice to ward none and charitv for all." BUTT.ER OPPOSES FREE COINAGE. ; j Boston. Feb. 12. Abraham Lincoln! .u . ; all tl.a " . vmw, speeches centered at the banquet of the i . . ..... . . .. Butler Club this - ... . : .. r - d..4a was his declaration in opposition to free; coinage of silver. . -"''. .. - The Warm Springs iTeservatlon. .Wasihngton.D. v., Feb. 12. Senator r-. . t V'j . j itchell, of Oregon, todav introduced a l..v..., w. ,, . r Mitchell i bi'J permanently fixing and defining the j'bouudary line of the.Warm Springs, In- dlan. reservation in Oregon, and declar I inff If in lu that. Tmrt nf thn linf rnn nnd surveyed by T. B, Handley in 1871, from the initial point up to and including the twentyrsixth thereof ; thence -in, a due west course to the summit of the Cascade mountains, as found by Commissioners Mark A.. FuUerton, William H. H.'. Dufur and James F. Payne, in their re port to the secretary -.of the. interior of June 8, 189K ' ',. '; . .... 4-.- . . ... .- Mayor Wyman Convicted. ." PiTTSBBUG; Feb. Hi Mayor Wyman, of A,llegheny City, was' convicted this morning of extortion. A charge-of em bezzlement is still pending. . Famine In Bombay. . - ' - 'Bombay, .Feb. V2.H0fHclaj ' notice is given that famine prevails in this prov ince. . It affects 1,500,000 persons. : Vlllard is. Again Elected. New York, Feb. 12.-Trn8tees'of the Edison General Electric Company today elected Henry Villard presidents OLD ARMY REVENGES. Statement From Gen. iL Alger Disclosing -an Army Reyenge. . THE BOODLERS IN MISSISSIPPI. The Truth About the Sufferings of the . Peasantry in Russia. FEA8AXTV FREEZING TO DKATH. Relief for the Distressed Famine Hombay German Anarchists Arrested. Detkoit, Feb. 12. In answer to charges against Gen. Russell A. Alger, that had been dishonorable discharged by Custer 23 years ago, Gen. Alger says : " Along in June and July, 1864; Gen. Custer requested me- several ' tunes . to have his bi other Thomas appointed as a lieutenant in my regiment as he wished to have him serve on his staff. As he did not belong to my regiment I de clined, and in a hot controversation about it one day he told me I would re gret it some day. I said to him I would rather resign than to have an outside of ficer promoted in my regiment when I had deserving men in the, ranks. I never knew or suspected that there was the slightest question about my being prop erly sent with a large number of sick : and Wounded. to Annapolis; or of Gen. Custer's recommendation. If he knew the fact it was one of the most cruel outrages ever perpetrated upon a sold ier.' Again he says: "I was honorably discharged from the service, and was not dismissed as stated." IJ says that in August, 1864, he was eick and was sent to a hospital at Annapolis, Md. After his partial recovery he was detailed to court-martial duty at Washington, but not liking it, and being unable to return to the field, he resigned. He never heard of the charges till 1888 during the Chicago convention. In this connection he says: ' "I had never, heard a word directly or indirectly up to that date almost twenty-four years that there had been any such, recommendation, which I found afterward, to my surprise, was true. " I never had any more sus picion that I was not regularly sent to the hospital than anything improbable on earth. There was never a more cruel, unjust act committed by man. I served three years, participated in sixty-six battles and skirmishes, was promoted to all the grades from captaip to colonel, and was breveted brigadier-general and major-general without my application. I never was absent from my command a moment, except on aecount of ''wounds or sickness. I never received a censure froin hry superior officer in any way, shape or manner during the war. Had I known of the existence of such a docu ment during the lives of Gen. Sheridan, who was alwavs a warm personal friend. J and Gen. Custer, who always claimed to I be a friend and visited me frequently, I could easily have had the record cor- i recteo; out wnen i nrsi iiearn oi it vjen- Sheridan was on his death-bed and un- , , able to see anv one, and Custer was 'dead. . 1 romineut Leclnlatur Crooked. Jacksos, Miss., Feb. 12. The intrO- i-sduction in the assembly of a set of reso- 1 IiilTiina mnoArninu thn' nfTilirR fif the i , . , mo ', penitentiary, brought several members I" , f: ... ,1...:- fan - and tha rpaii It . nmmiRM and the L VJ 11I1.1L 1 L V V ) HUM .v..lt I - - " sensational disclosures involving several prominent legislators. The resolutions charges that money was used to post pone the penitentiary farm bill for -two years, and 'calls for an investigation. The storm which followed the introduc tion of the resolutions compelled with drawal before a vote was taken, but the subject will come up in new' form in a few days. It is charged by members that undueinfluence'was used in having the plea for a - penitentiary farm post poned for two year's, and the object of this resolution 'was to see how much truth' there was in" the charge. ' It is'nn sinuated that persona desiring, for per sonal reasons, to have ' the leasing system continued as long as possible, had muctrto do with the .postponement and this rumor . . ,' ;- :-' : ; r z Facts Concerning Starving 'Russia. -London, Feb. ' 12.--A dispatch from Penza, Russia, -sayB the thermometer registers 58 deg. below zero, and there is terrible suffering among the- peasants. A number of men were frozen to death on the high roads. A quantity of grain for famine sufferers has arrived at Penxa, but it is impossible to distribute it, be-.. : cause nearly all the .horses have been ; killed for food or sold to procure money 'with which to buy the necessaries of : life. - It is estimated that nearly 1,000, 000 draught animals have been killed throughout the empire since autumn. ' Typhus fever, smallpox and diphtheria : are decimating the inhabitants. Around j Penza 200 peasants hare died from these diseases. The dispatch adds that the ! governments of Samara, Saratov and j Nijni Novgorod are in a condition far i worse than in Peuza. In those ' three governments the peasanty have fallen' ' victims to hunger and disease. In the ' governments of Charkov and Kazan ty I phus is especially terrible in its ravages, the inhabitants are dying by hundreds. The Ninth Clroalt jadgeshlp. j. Washington, Fl. '3 Varo rumors have been floating "about re I garding the judgeship of the ninth cir 1 cuit. It is said, among other 'things, ; that the opposition to Pritchard, of Ta corna, has endangered the promotion of ' Judge Ilanford from the district to the circuit bench. Representative' Wilson, interviewed regarding -these rumors says: "1 have absolutely no knowledge ofany opposition whatever to the ap pointment of Pritchard. . His indorse ment" has been hearty and universal throughout the state by the leading lawyers and .attorneys in all sections. He cannot, however, be appointed until a vacanc.t is created, and that vacancy will not. occur utitil Judge Hanford is promoted to the circuit judgeship, and confirmed by the senate. The presi--dent states he will consider only the- cir- ' cuit judgeship for the present,' and in due and proper time, should a vacancy occur in the United States district judge ship of Washington, he' will then take, up and dispose of that matter. This ; is the true and natural way to look into al of the matters appertaining to the judge ship in our section. The delegation is now and has been all the time using its best influence to secure the circuit judge ship for the state of Washington. The" president, however, will give no indica tion at any time of what he will do, or what conclusions he has reached. He has stated that be cannot and will not treat these matters like postoflices and other federal appointments. An inquiry at the department of justice develops the fact that they have absolutely no knowl edge of any opposition to Mr. Pritchard's appointment, and I personally .know of none myself. All statements of this . kind are entirely ithout foundation." It looks now "as if there was not the least possibility of any man from Wash ington state being' appointed and the contest of a half dozen men from Oregon, two or three from Washington and some from other states have perplexed "the president a great deal, and he may de- .. cide to go to California for-his other' judge, but the Oregon people think that '. when the appointment comes in .it will bean Oregon man. In spite of what Representative Wilson save, the compli cation of the circuit judgeship has en- ' dangered the chances for the appoint- ' nient of a Washington man, not on ac count of theopposilion to Pritchard, but because the president will not consider ' these two appointments together. Ieath' of Young .las. G. Fair. San Fuanciwco, Feb.- 12. James G. . Fair, jr., eldest son of ex-enator Fair, died suddenly early this morning from heart fajlure. Young Fair returned from an extended visits East Wednesday last, and spent last evening with his father at the Lick hotise. He passed some time in reading on retiring to his ' room, and then suddenly fell with a cry of pain. Physicians were summoned . but he died shortly after the attack. He ' was born in Virginia, Nev.;, and was ! 20 . years of ageSei.ator Fair is 'now the . only member of .tfie family on the Coast, .' Miss (Virginia Fair being in New York ", with her sister, Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, and Charles Fair, a younger son of the senator, being in Europe. ' Itelief for the Distressed. - St.' Petebubkug, Feb. 12. The gov ernment has granted the further sum of 60,000,000 rubles for the relief of suffer ers in the famine districts. Organising Political Clubs. City of Mexico, Feb. 12. Ciubs hav ing for their object the advocacy of the re-election of President. Diaz are being organized through the republic." They Have Mot Kevolted.'' London, Feb. 12. A dispatch received here from Montevideo states the report that the troops in that city had revolted is without foundation.' Arresting German Anarchists. Berlin, Feb. 12. Arrests of anarch ists are beiug inade here almost -daily, and already a large number of them ' are waiting trial. - -