THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1892.
THE CONTRACT SYSTEM
Applied to Hie Cascades and Dalles of the
- v ColuiMa. "
THE GOVERNMENT BENEFITTED.
Work More Efficiently Accomplished,
Regardless of Congress.
HOUR OF DELIVEBA'CE AT HAND.
Activity Shortly Looked for at the Cas
cades And Another Tear at
The Dalles.
Washington-, April 11. In answer to
an inquiry from The Dalles, concerning
the speedy completion of the Cascade
locks under the contract system, Repre
sentative Hermann says : "The effect
of the contract system is: That the
contractor undertakes to do the work
according to the plans and specifications
within a certain time, and at a certain
price, and takes his chances on the ap
propriations. As congrees appropriates,
he is paid, but the work goes on all the
same, appropriation or no appropriation.
But of course the liability of the govern
ment is fixed, and it is known that the
payment is sure. It is to the contrac
tors interest to do the work as soon as
possible. The war department reports
to congress that it could expend $1,500,
000 during the next fiscal year, and $245,
000 the year following, to complete. If
this could be done by the red tape and
slow process of the government engi
neers, a contractor can do it so much
sooner, and of course so much less in
cost, for this has been fully demonstra
ted by our recent experience with the
contract system at Galveston, Balti
more, Philadelphia and Sault Ste Marie.
- Gen. Casey tells me that he has saved
. twenty-five per cent, by the contract at
Baltimore, which is dredging ; and Gen.
Poe, who has charge of the Sault Ste
Marie canal and locks, tells us that he
will save $1,000,000 on the $6,000,000 es
timate for that work. The hour of de
liverance is now - at hand. Oar next
move can be on the dalles rapids, and
we can consider ia another congress not
temporary and costly transfer road
there, but a great permanent work,
which we can insist shall likewise go
under the contract system, and thus
open up the great Columbia all the way
along its navigable water course. Next
year the people of Tennessee and Ken
tucky will insist on putting the great
Cumberland river under the contract
system, which opens up 600 miles of
contifeious navigation. This was tried
this time, but we could not safely in
clude anv more great works, and hence
excluded the Cumberland."
Recognition of Mormons.
Springfield, Mass;; April 11. In one
of the churches of this city yesterday, a
very remarkable incident in the jour
ney of the eastern delegates to the gen
eral assembly of the Presbyterian church,
which is to meet in Portland, Or., May
19th, was alluded to. It appears that a
number of the delegates, who go by the
Union Pacific, have accepted invitations
from the latter day saints to break their
trip by spending Sunday at Salt Lake
' city, and worship on that day in the
Mormon tabernade. Grave doubts are
expressed as to the propriety of this act.
It is generally felt that this is an atten
tion which the Presbyterians could not
possibly reciprocate, and that it involves
a measure of recognition of the Mormon
church, which is wholly inconsistent
with Christian principles ; some Presby
terians declare that it will be a serious
disgrace te their body.
Harrison and Cleveland. j
Buffalo, N. Y., April 11. In the
long run fair-play in politics brings the
only success worth having. There are
increasing signs of a Whitelaw Eeid
boom for vice-president, but it must be
clear as the noon-day sun, that the presi
dential candidates for nomination on
the democratic and republican tickets
will be Cleveland and Harrison respect
ively. North Dakota has been added to
'the list of states which have instructed
for Cleveland, and it is noticeable that
every convention since Hill's New York
ob, has been a Cleveland convention.
There have been six of them, and they
' send fifty-four delegates. Interviews of
Gov. McKinley and ex-Gov. Campbell
place both as expressing the opinion that
Harrison and Cleveland would be the
presidential nominees. The number of
persons who hold the same opinion ap
pears to be increasing.
PoTerty Stricken Boomers.
Guthrie, O. T., April 10. As the time
for the opening of the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe country approaches, the
crowd of settlers preparing to enter in
creases. Large numbers of negroes are
among the.throng of intending settlers
and they will be no small factor in the
settlement of the new lands. Many are
Almost entirely destitute, making the full
. distance from southern Arkansas and
Mifisissinni on foot. Ucon arrival here
they are dependent on the charity of
. their more fortunate neighbors.
Perry la the Man..
Pomona, Cal., April 11. The mys
tery of the robbery of Geo. E. Holden
of $8,000 in cash, securities and jewelry,
on the Santa Fe overland train, Tetween
Albuquerque and Pomona, last Novem
ber, lias been cleared up. Holden was
robbed of his money and bonds on his
way from New York to Pomona to
spend the winter.' The man who
robbed his satchel is under arrest. Hol
den started for New York . yesterday
immediately upon the receipt of the
telegram concerning' the findings of his
bonds in a boarding house in that city.
It seems Oliver Curtis Peny, who is
confined in jail at Lyons, for the bold
robbery of the American Express car
near Syracuse, February 21st, is the cul
prit. Holden says that he now recol
lects a young man answering Perry's
description being in another Pullman
car on the same train, coming west with
him, who represented himself as the
owner of a cattle ranch in south New
Mexico, and had lots of money to spend
buying Indian curiosities along the
journey. Holden is sure Perry rode no
further west than Prescott junction,
where he left the train in the night
ostensibly to go to Prescott on business
How or when he' had an opportunity to
rob Holden's satchel, the latter does not
know.
GRASPING UNCLE SAM.
What a Chilian Writer in Brussels has
to Say Ahont ns.
BLAINE AND THE LATIN REPUBLICS.
The Dream of a New World Zollverein
for Both Americas.
AN EFFORT TO ALARM EUROPE.
Ibanez Firing; the Heart of Great Brit
ain, France and Germany With a
Chilian Fizz.
Brussels, April 11. Senor Maxini
illiano Ibanez, the well-known Chilian
writer, he reviews the circumstances
of the Baltimore dispute between the
United States and Chili, and attempts
to show that the American government
was quite wrong and unjustly exacting
from first to last. He recalls the annex
ation of California to the. United States ;
the Washington cabinet's interference
in the war between Chili and Peru, in
1879 ; the pressure exercised in order to
induce Peru "to surrender its resources
and freedom into the hands of the Amer
ican firm of Grace & Donoughmore ;"
the medling of the United States in the
recent Chilian revolution ; and, lastly,
the Washington pan-American congress,
where, he says, Blaine attempted to
destroy the independence of the South
American states through the arbitra
tion of a court which would have made
the United States master of the fate of
the new world's Latin republics. All
these facts, besides the proposed Nicar
agua canal, are set forth as showing that
the United States is resolved upon ach
ieving, by might or right, the dream of
the New World zollverein which would
place both portions of America under its
sway. He discards the idea that Blaine's
policy was merely inspired by election
eering purposes and proceeds to show
that it is part and parcel of a general
policy aiming at results highly alarming
to South American states and European
nations, among which Great Britain,
France and Germany stand first.
Demoralized East-Boand Rates.
Buffalo, April 12. The report that
the road had already cut the east-bound
flour rate down from 20 cents to 17
from Chicago to New York finds ample
confirmation. Two lake and rail lines
have taken large amounts of flour
already ; one of them is reported to have
200 cars, and a third line is said to le in
the cut. Add to this the statement that
the roads have positively made a rate of
h cents on wheat and corn from Buffalo
to New York and the situation is already
very interesting. Navigation compels
the railroad companies to lower their
rates. This is the inevitab'e result
when water transportation routes are
open.
'A Mormon Fake.
Independence, Mo., April 11. The
basement of the temple of the reorgan
ized Church of Latter Day Saints looked
like a hospital today. The elders in
attendance advertised they would heal
the sick by laying on of hands, and
many persons suffering with various ail
ments were taken to the temple. Some
were on stretchers, some on cots and
some in chairs. The manner of treat
ment was very simple and consisted of
"pouring a few drops of olive oil, which
had been previously . blessed . by the
prophet Joseph, upon the head of pa
tients and the laying on of hands. No
cures were effected although some pro
fessed to experience some relief. At the
business the conference decided to hold
the next conference at Lima,. Iowa, the
home of Joseph Smith. ;
YOUNG FIELD'S CAUSE.
ProYided for Tbrouli Intercession of
Mrs. Garfield.
HIS FATHER HER BENEFACTOR.
Kindness Awakened in Thankfulness
for Favors Received.
THE PRESIDENT'S HEART TOUCHED.
The Young 9Ian May Hare a Hard Row
to Hoe, In his Chosen Field,
bnt Is Glad to go.
Washington, April 12. Concerning
the report that Cyras W. Field, jr;, of
New York was to be appointed to one of
the several vacancies in the consular
service, the Post has this to say : "He
decided some months ago that he would
like to go abroad in a representative, ca
pacity. He expressed a wish for a place
in the consular service, and Secretary
Tracy and Col. Elliott F. Shepard and
other jj-ell-known New Yorkers interes
ted themselves in his behalf. They laid
the matter before the president, and the
latter promised to give it careful consid
eration. He did nothing, however, and
Mr. Field began to despair. About ten
days ago Mrs. Garfield came to Wash
ington to visit her daughter. She heard
of Field's application, and she heard,
too, that the young man was not a little
disturbed by the president's delay in act
ing favorably npon it. She went at once
to the executive mansion and sought an
interview with President Harrison.
The latter inquired the reason of her in
terest. She replied that she owed every
thing she had to the kindness of Cyras
W. Field, sr. Then she went on to tell
the president that after the death of her
husband in 1881, Mr. Field inaugurated
the movement looking to the creation of
a fund for the maintenance of her child
ren and herself. Mr. Field himself was
a liberal contributor, and through his
exertions the amount finally aggregated
$300,000, which sum was carefully in
vested in her name. It was, she said.
the only favor she had ever asked the
president, and it was the only one she
ever would ask if he would only grant it.
The president was touched, no less with
her earnestness than with her deep ap
preciation of the kindness she had re
ceived at the hands of Mr. Field, and he
told her that what he bad failed to do
for Tracy, Shepard and othersshould be
done for her. Then he sent for Mr.
Field and had a talk with him. He told
him that the pay of consular officers -was
beggarly, as a rule, and that in many
cases they were compelled to lodge over
small retail shops on the continent, in
order to live within their income, but he
assured him, at the same time, if he
wanted to go abroad that the privilege
would be given him. Then he told him
how few desirable places were left. Mr.
Field insisted, however, than he needed
the salary, no matter how unremunera
tive the places were, and the president
told him to go back to New York and
await the appointment, and it is not
improbable that a secretaryship of lega
tion will be offered him.
Company F En Route.
Ontario,- April 11. Company F, Capt.
Powers commanding, arriving here at 6
o'clock this morning, had breakfast and
went to Vale under orders from Gov.
Pennoyer. .The Vale mob. of cowboys
are waiting for daylightf tomorrow, the
time for preliminary examination. Five
prisoners are in jail and Sheriff Fell is
determined to protect them in defiance
of all the cowboys in the country. The
militia will assist in giving the prisoners
a fair examination, which, possibly, they
do not deserve, as good men say they
should be lynched.
Bishop Ireland Approved.
Rome, April 11. The Jesuit organ,
Civitta Cattolica, having adversely criti
cised Archbishop Ireland's initiative in
the Stillwater, Minn., affair, the pope
has-eent Archbishop Ireland a special
note intimating his disapproval of the
Civitta Cattolica 's articles, and urging
the archbishop to attach no importance
to them.. This action of the pope caused
much comment here, as he rarely mixes
in such disputes. The pope has just re
ceived from Cardinal Gibbons an im
portant study on the school question in
the United States, in which his holiness
is much interested.
Opera Company Stranded.
Sacramento, April 11. At 'midnight
tonight the Emma Juch Opera company
was still in the cars at the depot, Man
ager Locke having failed to raise the
amount necessary to transport the com
pany to Portland. The members today
said they had ' no complaint against
Locke, that they had money 'of their
own and plenty to eat an drink. -
Overproduction In Oil.
PiTTSBUROj-April 11. Leading oil pro
ducers of the southwest are preparing
for a general suspension of drilling oper
ations for six months, to bring about an
advance in prices. ,
Accident to Steamers
New York, April 12. The steamer
Australian, from New Orleans for Lon
don, reported with her shaft broken,
has been towed from 800 miles- west of
Fastnet by the steamer Catalonia to
Liverpool. A fire on the-steamer Mon
ravia, at Bremen from New Orleans,
damaged 300 bales of cotton and com in
the after hold. The steamer City of
Fitchburg, of the Old Colony line, from
New York yesterday for New Bedford,
was seriously damaged by fire. The loss
is heavy. .
The American System.
Chihcahua, Mex., April 11. Primary
convention, in imitation of the Ameri
can system, were held recently through
out the state of Chihuahua, and Satur
day last a convention of the chosen dele
gates was held in city Chihuahua. This
convention endorses General Diaz for
the third presidential term, and Senor
Miquel Ahumanda was nominated for
governor by a vote of 39 to 30.
Small-Fox in New York.
New York, April 11, Three more
cases of small-pox were discovered to
day, making eleven since Saturday.
The cases are mostly in the down-town
tenement district. The steampsliip
Fulda, from Bremem, which arrived
here yesterday, had four cases on board.
A CAREER OF CRIME.
How it was Started-Now Mm in a
Lonely Death.
INFLUENCE OF EVIL ASSOCIATION.
1
Takes the Lead of a Gang Which Baffled
- -
the Police of the World.
IS FINALLY LANDED IV PRISON.
Turns Informer Is Released Becomes
an Opium Fiend Gambles Him-
self Away, etc.
Chicago, April 12. George Wilkes,
King of the Forgers, is dying in Bellevue
hospital, New York city. Thirty years
ago his rich uncle secured him a posi
tion in the bank of Brown Brothers &
Co., NewYork. He soon became a fav
orite on account of his talent, but was
finally discharged from his position of
trust because of evil associations. He
then started on a bold career of crime,
which earned for him the sobriquet of
king of the forgers. For twenty years
he was leader of a gang which baffled
the police of every country in the world,
and hundreds of thousands of dollars
were secured by the criminals through
all kinds of forgeries. King George came
to Chicago, his old home, in 1882, when
he and his gang committed a number of
forgeries on banks in Joliet, Lima, O.,
and Kansas City. He made $15,000 on
one deal. Detectives secured the para
phernalia of the whole gang, and the
passers of the checks were fonnd, but
King George eluded the officers. In
1881 Wilkes was the leader of a band of
thieves and forgers in Milan, Italy.
They forged and tried to place in circu
lation bonds and bank notes worth $1,
500,000. Wilkes was arrested and sent
to prison. He secured his release four
years later by turning informer against
his associates. In 1886 he was arrested
in New York for swindling banks in
Rochester, San Francisco, Cheyenne and
Butte City, but managed to escape con
viction, and went to' Paris to lose his ill
gotten money, as usual, by gambling.
King George has been a victim of the
morphine habit for years. A policeman
found him lying unconscious in a vacant
lot in New York city Thursday night.
Some enemy had assaulted him. He
was taken to the hospital, where he is
now dying. .
Drowned in Icy Waters.
Boston, April 11. Last evening In
structor A. F. Norburg, of the Boston
farm school, Thompson island, left this
city with ten boys connected with the
school, in a sail boat to go to the island.
Midway the boat was upset by a squall,
and all were thrown into icy water, but
managed to cling to the vessel. No
relief came, and one by one they chilled
through, slipped from the insecure sup
port and drowned, until the instructor
and eight boys were gone. At the end
of four hours the boat drifted ashore
with the two survivors.
Incendiary for Bobbery.
Vienna, April 11. Incendiary fires
continue here, but owing to the extraor
dinary precautions of the authorities
little damage has been done so far. They
are attributed to anarchists, but it' is be
lieved many of them are set with a view
to robbery during the excitement. A
similar state of affairs is reported at
Lyonfelden, upper Austria. -
1Twu Erar Thus. -
Astoria, Or., April ll. Some splen
did' salmon, averaging twenty-five
pounds each, were at the canneries to
day, as a result of the first day's catch ;
but in8eueral the catch was small, the
weather being cold and the fish scarce.
THE DURAND STYLE.
A Clereland Man Who Has Prohahly
. Heard From Oregon.
THE DANGER OF GIVING NOTES.
A New Phase in the Methods Used by
Swindling Piano Dealers. .
THE CLEVELAND MAN IS IN PRISON.
Notes Duplicated by Forgery Paid by
Pet sons Whose 'Names Were
Signed to Them.
Cleveland, O., April 13. The case" of
B. S. Barrett, a swindling piano dealer,
now in the penitentiary, has made any
amount of trouble, and suits upon notes
given by his customers for pianos have
brought out a new phase in the swindle,
The genuine notes and some of the
forged ones were sold by . him to the
Euclid Avenue bank. Barrett kept
forged duplicates of nearly all the notes,
and when his customers, ignorant of his
having sold them, called to pay install
ments he gave them receipts and indor
sed the amount On the back of the notes
held by him. The bank sold the notes
to J. C. Ellis after Barrett's flight, for
$500 and charged $15,000 to its profit and
loss account. Ellis began suit on sev
eral notes, alleging that as the paper
was held by the bank, payment to Bar
rett could not be regarded as payment of
the note,. One victim. Mrs. Cunning
ham, who holds receipts from Barrett,
showing that she has paid $470 for a $450
piano, was sued on a note for $130,
which may have been forged. Two
notes against her were held by Ellis, one
for $140 and the other for $130. A dis
pute arising at the trial as to whether
one of the notes was not genuine, it was
decided to take Barrett's deposition at
the penitentiary. Barrett on Jbeing
shown the two notes, tore up the one
for $140, which he declared a forgery,
and handed back the one for $130, which
he said is genuine. The attorneys spoke
of the snarl as something frightful, and
piano buyers who failed to keep their
receipts are in much trouble. In one or
two cases heard of, Barrett's customers
took up notes bearing their own forged
signature without discovering the fact,
while the genuine notes were held at the
bank and are now being sued upon.
The individual notes are generally for
amounts from $50 to 150, but the aggre
gate is over $15,000.
Ylllanions Collection of Horses.
Cleveland, O., April 13. This morn
ing in answer to an advertisement for a
horse to represent the drunkards faith
ful brute in the play of A Temperance
Town, about a dozen of the most villain
ous looking horses ever seen in the city
were hitched in front of the Lyceum
theatre. . They were ringboned, knock
kneed, spavined, and. dirty. Most of
them had heaves and spring-halt. Their
ribs protruded like the hoops of a flour
barrel and only one or two-of them could
see. Up to noon the manager naa not
selected an animal quite disreputable
enough to suit bis purpose. The animal
finally chosen will perform an important
role in tne new play.
' Pretty Close Neighbors.
Portland, April 13. The outsider
who has a slim Idea of the expansion of
this city, will be better informed when
an incident is related which occurred to
the east side firemen about 4 o'clock yes
terday morning. Some person sent in a
still alarm to chief Holmes, that a fire
had broken out in Holladay's addition.
The companies ran to the division, hav
ing heard that the Holladay bell had
been rung. After looking some time for
the fire it was learned that a fire in Van
couver had occasioned all the trouble.
Some one hearing the Vancouver bell
supposed it was nearer home. The fire
men returned to their respective houses
minus their usual happy dispositions.
Emerson Bennett.
Philadelphia, April 13. Newspaper
discussion upon the death of Walt Whit
man has caused the Inquirer to refer in
a general way to other noted writers,
among them Emerson Bennett. People
rarely hear nowadays of Bennett, yet he
was widely known twenty years ago as a
novelist, his Prairie Flower having
reached a sale of 100,000 copies. He is a
veteran of seventy and lives in Philadel
phia. Mr. Bennett is still a prolific
maker of manuscriDt. He writes all
night and sleeps all day, as George Sand
was iona oi aoing.
England in Bearing Sea.
Montreal, April 11. The Canadian
Pacificjauthorities have received a cable
gram to the effect that 250 sailors and
marines, destined for the Pacific squad
ron, would sail on the steamer Cartha
ginian from Liverpool for Halifax, and
from there will take a Canadian Pacific
special train, which will leave at once
for the Pacific coast. It is believed the
present detachment is being sent over to
reinforce, the crews already doing duty
in Pacific waters.
Must Re a Sparrow.
St. Louis, April 13. The Republic,
speaking of the South American trofeles
says today: "Three South: -Americas
republics are in various stages of inter
nal revolution. The white-winged dove,
especially assigned to look after the
peace of - South America, must be a
sparrow."
Will Resume at Once. V
Manitowoc, Wis., April 13. The loss
of the Manitowoc Manufacturing com
pany by the fire yesterday will aggregate -$300,000.
The special feature of this
business, school furniture and opera .
chairs, is now in such demand that they ,
will rebuild and renew business on a
larger scale, at once.
The Real Thins;.
Astoria, April 13. Boom, boom,
boom, is the uppermost word and
thought here now, since the croakers
have subsided, with reference to railway
matters, and added additional thousands
to the valuation of their corner lots. If
buu fjicovjib ci-atc vi vuiua continues, WO
expect to hear of investment excursions,
gotten up in the boom centers of the 1
west, iot me oDjeci oi visiting Astoria, to
find out what the real thing is like.
Light-Hearted People.
CniCAoo, April 13. In the fury of the
late devastating ' cyclones Chicago has
marvelonsly escaped. At the Palmer
house today an Oregonian was relating
the exemptions of his state from such
scenes, and he closed by eaying Chicago
has the finest and the biggest business
houses, but said he :' "The occupants of
upper .floors in Chicago's sky-scraper
buildings must feel light-hearted when
they see a cyclone coming across the
prairie."-
Southern Floods.
New Orleans, April 13. The destruc
tion of human lives and property by the
floods in northern Mississippi is .appall
ing. Huudres of lives are lost. Last
night one man rowed several miles in
the dark on the river with twenty-six
bodies he picked up. The flood came
suddenly, and no one was prepared. All
sorts of crafts are being improvised to go
to the rescue of the survivors perched on
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the highest ground without food or shel
ter. The loss of property is over $1,000,-
000. The citizens of Loundes county
will petition Congressman Allen to- ask
government aid, as their own means are
inadequate. The loss of livestock is- be
yond computing but will be enormobs.
A Christian Burial.
Winlock! Wash., April 13. The mur-
derons whisky fiend Dick Hancock, who
attempted to kill his wife ; and perhaps
thinking he had done so, immediately
afterwards killed himself, by sending a
bullet into his miserable heart; was
given a christian burial according to his
puts it: "It was amusing in a ghastly
way, to see the way in which the people
up there vented their indignation, npon
the body of Hancock, whom they would
have hung again had there been any use
in it. They just put him, dressed In an
undershirt and trousers, into a common
dry-goods box and placed him under the
ground without the least semblance of a
funeral service."
Wyoming Cattle Thieve.
Casper, Wyo., 4pril 12. Fighting
between the invading army of detectives,
employed by the big cattle companies,
and the so-called rustlers now seem to
be general along Powder river, the army
being broken up into squads. The
militia has been ordered to be prepared
to march to the front immediately. A
man from Riverside reports that Sheriff
Angus, of Johnson county, swore in 150
deputies' and went Out to arrest the force
sent ont by the cattlemen, and that the
sheriff tried to take them into custody.
Twenty-eight of the regulators and
eighteen of the depalies were killed.
Every man in the town is a walking ar
senal, and the excitement is intense.
Doc. Williamson, from Big Horn, basin,
reports a great fall of enow there Friday
night, and that it is impossible for the
army to get in there unless they go in on
snowshoes. He says they don't expect
any trouble in the Bonanza part of the
basin. - -
Kew York Incendiaries,
New York, April 12. The- esfcteace -
of a gang of incendiaries and anarebists,
who have been starting fires in tenement
houses in Brooklyn since January, was
first demonstrated today. Two-men are
nnder arrest. One of the accomplices of
the gang made a full confession. Their
plan was to arrange with dwellers in
tenement honses who were overinsured
to burn the property for a percentage of
the insurance money. V ; '
Hoi man Nominated.
Lawbbkckbvro, Ind., April 12. Con- J
gressman W. s. iiolman was recomi
nated by acclamation by the democrats
of the fourth district.
Commercial mileage is another name
by which railways hope to inveigle con
gress into permission for allowing cut
rates.
All is quiet in Vale. The presence of
Company F had the desired effect.
Eight militia men are kept constantly
on guard at the jail, but little fear is en
tertained of an attempt at mob violence.
It is expeccted that F company will re
turn today in charge of the prisoners. .
Another report says that an attack was
expected last night and that the cow
boys mean business,