THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1892.
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MODERN SKA GOING CRAFT.
A New Canadian Teasel which May toad,
on the Columbia for any .Port. " -
Tr T.lnns TTnhhard calls attention to
the new monitor steamers, described by
' a Toronto paner, which will undoubtedly
be competitors of the whalebacks, in
carrying the inland products of onr conn
try to all seaport markets, wherever wa
ter transportation can be used from the
grain fields and mines" to the ocean, and
will prove strong factors in increasing all
values to the producers- The following
is from the description referred to: "The
John Doty engine company, of Toronto,
is building a steel steamer of the monitor
type.to engage in the grain and coal trade
between Kingston and the upper lake
norts. for the Canadian steel barge com
pany. The design is by V. E. Eedway.
y The boat differs somewhat from the car
go vessels building in Cleveland, Detroit
and Buffalo, and to which the same pe
culiarities have been applied. The ma
chinery is placed nearly amidships, with
" a view to making the vessel trim better
when light.4 Instead of the cigar-shaped
bow of the whalebacks, this boat has a
ram bow, with a forecastle deck forward,
the top sides . of which flare outward
- slightly, something like the mold-board
of a plow. She is fitted with seven self-
trimming batches, the openings being
raised about three feet.above the top, of
the rounded deck, and so arranged as to
be easily accessible for loading and un
loading cargo. Her keel is 225 feet, full
Welland canal size, beam 38 feet, hold
20 feet. She will be fitted with fore and
aft compound engines, having cylinders
26 and 50 inches in diameter, 40 inches
stroke, with two cylindrical boilers, 12
feet in diameter, 11 feet long, and is ex
pected to have a speed of 13 knots on a
coal consumption of 1,000 pounds per
hour. She will register about 850 tons
and will have a carrying capacity of 2,200
xons oi aeaa utirgu, ouwt, turn ci;.,
i t t t.Ai. sn
.a draft of 15 feet of water." With the
cascade canal open and the improve
ment at Celilo completed, these and
other steamers will be able to transport
products direct from the upper Columbia
to any sea port in the world.
Chinese Exclusion in the Senate
Washington, April 25. The Chinese
" exclusion bill was taken up today in the
senate and the presiding officer put the
question on the adoption of the substi
tute reported by the committee .on for
eign relations. Sherman gave the only
affirmative vote, and, there being no
' vote in the negative, the presiding officer
declared the substitute adopted. Im-
inprliatplv afterwards, however. Mitchell.
who had the floor to speak against the
substitute, came into the chamber, and
the presiding officer was proceeding to
put the question again when Butler
- said he understood the substitute was
adopted. The presiding officer admitted
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would put the question again. "While
tbe chair did so decide, it. will count it
as 'no vote.' Is the senate ready for the
question?" "No sir," said Mitchell
Instead, however, of proceeding with
his argument against the substitute, he
yielded tbe floor to Squire, who argued
in favor of the house bill, or some other
vigorous measure, to enforce the exclu
sion of Chinese. He declared, however,
the great trouble in the matter was the
lax and ineffectual manner in which the
existing laws are executed, and to" sua
tain that, ripw rpful. mninnn ATfrflrifl
from the testimony taken by the senate
committee on that subject a few years
ago.
Senator Mitchell then took the floor,
He said as much as he regretted to an
tagonize the deliberate judgement of the
committee on foreign relations, he felt
impelled by a sense of duty to vote
against the substitute and in favor of
absolute Chinese exclusion as expressed
in the house bill. The discusion was
continued until 4 o'clock, when a vote
. was taken on the substitute measure as
reported from the committee on foreign
relations and it ' was agreed to. The
vote stood 42 to 14. Piatt's smonrlmviit
-was next rejected, io to 8. The bill was
-then passed without division, and the
title was amended so as to read: "To
prohibit the coming of Chinese persons
into the United States." A conference
- with the house was aBked.
As Early as Possible.
Washington, April 27. In a comma
nication to the senate respecting the in'
-ternatipnal conference on silver, Presi
dent Harrison says : "It may not' be
inappropriate to say, believing, as I do,
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that a ratio agreed upon by the great
commercial nations of the world would
;yery highly promote the prosperity of all
their people. I have not and will not
let any favorable, opportunity pass for
promoting that most desirable result ; or
if free international silver coinage should
not 'presently be attainable, then to
secure the largest practicable use of that
metal." He will inform the senate at
the earliest moment after definite in
formation can be properly given. '
1 Idaho Cattle Thieves. -
. B&xcicrooT, April 26. The informa
tion is just received that a party of cat
tlemen from Wyoming, hunting cattle
theives in Johnson Hole, the alleged
rendezvous for all horse and cattle
thieves for hundreds of miles, came upon
the habitation of two parties known as
Burnett and Spencer, and in their
efforts to arrest them both Burnett and
Spencer were killed, and it is found that
they were in possession of over fifty
stolen horses. ... .
The, Rood Hirer Picnic,
The Odd Fellow's picnic at Hood Kiver
Tuesday drew a large crowd of" excur
sionists from The Dalles, enough to tax
the full capacity of the Regulator. It
was a happy, well ordered crowd that
thoroughly - enjoyed the trip, and the
picnic, and returned, save about a dozen
who remained for the ball, at the early
hour of 7 :10 p. in.,- without a single mis
hap to mar the pleasures of the day.
Delegations of Odd Fellows from I
Latourelle Falls and Cascade Locks met
The Dalles excursionists at Hood River
and proceeded to the Odd Fellow's hall
where thev organized, donned their
regalia and thus formSd a line of march
to the picnic grounds, a shady sheltered
spot on the old Coe homestead. After a
hearty lunch, the crowd answered the
bugle call to the grand stand where, un
der the presidency of Mr. M. Watson
the exercises of the day were opened by
n prayer by a local pastor, Eev. Mr,
Auks. Then came music by the band
followed by . a . fine address on
"fraternities" by Hon. E. L. Smith
which in turn was followed by music by
the local glee club, and then came ,a
stirring speech by the orator of the day
Editor John Michel!, of this city. The
rest of the day way spent in music;
baseball games and other field sports till
nearly five o'clock when The Dalles
excursionists left for the boat landing,
About a dozen candidates, for county
and state offices on both tickets, took
part in the picnic. "U. P. Sam" con
tributed an amusing feature to the day's
entertainment by singing impromptu
songs in praise of the candidates and of
Regulator. . The Dalles excursionists
speak highly of the day's enjoyment and
of the courtesy and care exhibited by
the officers and crew of the Regulator.
Indiana Divorces.
Greensbubg, Ind., April 26. The
present term of the circuit court here,
which has just begun, is not able to get
through for the large number of divorce
cases on the docket. There are twenty
one cases docketed, in twelve of which
the wife is the complainant. This is tbe
largest number on a single docket in tbe
state.
In The Tolls.
Cheyenne, Wyo., April 26. The lead.
ers of the regulators were in consulta
tion with their lawyers today. After
the interview was over the captives
were not in the best of spirits. They all
believe that they will be acquitted of
charges of murder, treason and arson
which will be preferred against them,
but they are now ready to admit that
their freedom will not come in two
weeks, as they had boasted.
Monument to Gen. Grant.
New York, April 27. President "Har
rison arrived here this morning to lay
the corner stone of General Grant's
tomb at Riverside Park. He was ac
companied by Secretaries Elkins, Tracy,
Busk and other officials. Secretary
Elkins will deliver an address. The
oration is by Chauncy M. Depew.
The Missouri Outlaws.
Ozabk, . April 26. Attorney-General
Wood passed through here yesterday, on
his way to Forsylhe, the attend court
there tomorrow. It is believed now that
the men- who composed the mob at
Forsythe which killed Deputy Sheriff
Williams will all be indicted, as the at
torney-general is going to be with the
grand jury and see that indictments are
found against the offenders of the law.
Gentleman and Man.
From the Chicago Tribune.
When the landlady entered the room
he rose from his chair and said :
"You have a room to rent, I believe?"
"Yes, sir; front room on the second
floor," she replied. -"Are you one of the
gentlemen who advertised for a room
with board?"
'I'm one of the men who advertise
for a fair sized room well lighted."
one oi the men Y
"Yes, ma'am."
"How did your advertisement read?1
"un, just said, 'A business man
desires a fair sized room, with board,
within a mile of the business part, of the
city.' "
"The advertisement read 'a man?' "
" Certainly."
" Not 'a refined gentleman?' "
"No, indeed." -
"Well, I'll take a few dollars off the
price, then, I've been looking for a man.
m ratner urea ot rennea gentlemen.'
They generally play poker all night, and
leave without paying their bills."
Church Notices.
German services will be held next Sun
day at 10 :30 a.m. ; Sunday school at 9 :30
m. ; weekly school everyday at 4 p. m.
A cordial welcome to everybody. A.
Horn, pastor. .
The association of Methodist ministers
will convene in this city next Tuesday,
at fl a. m. " Tbe subjects for discussion
will be varied and interesting to all.
The various ministers of the city are in
vited to participate in the discussions.
The session will continue two or three
days.
No more option buying and selling on
the floor of the San Francisco exchange,
will be tolerated after May 31st. Option
dealings have been on a limited scale
for a long time past, and a number of
operators are disposed to try a few new
experiments in the hope- of increasing
their business. .. . ' .
DEAD IK KABSBST.
The Battle
for Temperance
. County. '
in Benton
..-'' From The Oregon White-Kibbon.
f One of bur Corvallis members was dis
turbed at nearly midnight by a man
who had evidently ridden in hurriedly
from a small town eighteen miles dis
tant. He was anxious to see her hus
band, a lawyer, on business. The tired
man got up and dressed, curious (not
being a doctor) what the business could
be for which the day - was not long
enough. It was to attest 'the man's
signature to a remonstrance petition to
be brought next day 'into court, and so
thoroughly in earnest was he, that, hav-
ing discharged his errand, he was soon
hurrying home again to be ready for his
next day's work. , .
These people at Monroe are in deadly
earnest; the rum party undoubtedly so.
who had been discovered to have forged
signatures on their petition, and forced
others by' intimidating threats of rough
usage, and who announce their intention
of putting an end to the new minister.
because he has - stirred up all this tem
perance ferment. : They knocked the
last liquor seller who tried to introduce
a saloon out of court last December. It
was the same minister who telegraphed
for our national-organizer, Mrs. Delia
Cox, to come and give an address after
the Thanksgiving dinner, then to organ
ize aW. C. T. U.
There is one man who stands in dan-
ger of falling between two stools. - He is
a church member, and his name stands
on tbe saloon petition but he vows he
has never placed it there. If he did, he
is to forfeit his church membership, and
if he has it stricken off the whisky
party declare they will make him pay
for it with his life.
"The Dalles not in it." '
There is a matter in which '.'The Dalles
is not in it," said a leading banker of
this city to a scribe of The Cheonicle
today. It was. an appeal for financial
aid to carry out the programme of the
centennial at Astoria, next month. It
seems that The Dalles was left off the
programme entirely, not a name men
tioned, and while The Dalles is not
kicking, its leading citizens perhaps feel
as if they had about as much right to
object as those Astorians themselves,
who raised such a breeze because the
invitation tickets located . Frankfort on
the beautiful design prepared by their
artist.
Railroad Discrimination.
The Arlington Record, which has been
raking the' Union Pacific over the coals
for discriminating against freights ship.
ped by the peoples' boats to The Dalles,
and thence by Tail to Arlington, contains
the following, in last weeks' issue :
" An agent of the Union Pacific called
at our office this week, and quite plainly
expressed himself in regard to an article
which recently appeared in the Record
entitled Railroad Discrimination. He
claims that the employes were to blame
for the over-charge therein referred to,
and not the company..
' He further informs us that had Mr,
Smith gone to the company in the first
place they would have given him rates
from Portland to Arlington with the
same saving that he could make by pat
ronizing the Regulator ; that his money
would be refunded, as also that extorted
from the Condon merchants, whenever
the same was demanded with such for
mality as the company considers regular.
'We were much obliged for the infor
mation on these two points,' as we had
always thought that a corporation could
only act through it agents and era
ployees. and had also entertained the
opinion that such reduction as he sug
gests to the merchants in question
would be railroad discrimination.
'The company would no' doubt at
tempt to evade the law against discrim
ination by saying that they could, carry
as cheap as they pleased as far as The
Dalles by river transportation, but would
only do so when they were certain that
parties who had from time immemorial
paid them extortionate rates, were about
to patronize the Regulator.
"Then they generously say, if you will
meekly request us so to do, we will carry
your freight just as cheap as the Regu
lator does. Should the company who
does this receive the support of our
merchants?" -.
The Diamond Field.
Among the sports at Hood River Tu
esday was a spirited game of base ball,
between Hood River nine, - and The
Dalles nine. The Dalles won, 17 to 3.
Time of playing, two hours. The two
nines consisted of the following named
gentlemen: '' , ", ;
HOOD RIVER.
THE DALLES.
. Burns, p.
Bonney, c.
Maloney, 1st b.
Saunders, 2nd b.
Phelps, 3d b.
. Montague, 8. 8.
Morse, r. f. ;
Crate, c. f .
Rowe, 1. f . .
Smith, p.
Overbauer,' c.
Hunt, 1st b.
Luckey, 2nd b.
Graham, 3d b.
Graham, s. s. -Rand,
r. f .
Watson, c f. -
bhoemaker, 1. 1.
The Ohio is thirty-nine feet high' at
Shawnetown point, and is still rising.
Bottom lands are flooded. Many acres
of fine corn lands are under water, and
planting will be late. ,
Italy is the only nation which has
shown any disposition to enter the pro
posed international silver conference.
Telegraphic Flashes.
Chili
had a light earthquake last
week.
Mary Brown has been appointed post
master at Hillsboro, Or.; - -
The Morrow Alliances have placed a
full county ticket in the field.
Those ninnies, Drayton and Borrowe,
are again parading over Europe,
Parano Baptista in all probability will
be the next president of Bolivia. -
The trial of Deeming, the demon, has
been postponed, to' give time for witness
es to arrive from England.
a,, jo. Adams ana j. it. rerkins . were
drowned in the Coqnille on Saturday.
They were drinking- when last seen
alive. - ' ;
It was thought that Judge Marr. of
JNew Orleans, had been kidnapped. It
is now believed that he fell into the Mis
sissippi river, and was drowned.
William Astor, the New York million
aire, died in Paris on Monday night.
r. Astor was the father of Mrs. J.
Coleman Drayton, and was greatly wor
ried over the Borrbwe-Fox-Millbank-scandal
in which she was involved.
Hon. John Leary of Seattle, and wife,
are off for a bridal tour to Asia and Aus
tralia. Mrs. Leary is the daughter of
Gov. Ferry, and is a charming woman.
The wedding at Olympia was the grand
est event of its kind ever celebrated in
that citv.
Both railroad officials and the repre-;
sentatives of the employes of the Read- j
ing system, deny there is any occasion
for, or prospect of, a strike on that road.
But this is the old way of sending out
news," a statement one day and its
contradiction the next. .
The Paris police- have been working
up a job for themselves. They now pro
pose to strike for an. increase of pay
April 30th, or turn the city over to the
anarchists on May day. According to
this, it was pretty nearly a true predic
tion that the police had a hand in the af
fair last month.
Ernest Ragnon, who located in Salt
Lake City a short time ago., struck
quarry of lithographic stone on his land
which is inexhaustible. At present the
world is supplied from one small section
in Bavaria, and the discovery is worth a
silver mine,
Capt. A. M. Simpson has sent one of
his vessels from San' Francisco to
Astoria, to represent Capt. Robert
Gray's ship Columbia at the Columbia
Centennial next month. , She is to show
how Robert Gray, found the Columbia
river and made his way into Gr&je bay
Gov, Barber, of Wyoming, insists that
justice must be- done through civil law,
in tbe cattle troubles. Tbe prisoners
confined at Fort Russell will be delivered
to the civil authorities whenever the
status of the proceedings, in the judg
ment of the conrt, requires it, and tbe
excitement has so abated at to render it
safe.
Secretary Blaine estimates the coat to
the United States' for carrying "out the
Behring Sea , sealers arbitration treaty,
between the United States and Great
Britian, will be $150,000, and through
the secretary of the treasury has sent
the house of representatives a request for
an appropriation - tor tms amount ot
money.
The first free coinage silver club of
Oregon has been ..organized in Baker
City, with forty charter members, in
eluding bankers, merchants, miners and
farmers from all political parties. The
club is non-partisan, and the members
pledge themselves not to vote for any
candidate who does not favor the full
remonetization of silver.
The new Reading combination is
threatened by a strike from '. dissatisfied
employes.' Since the 'famous "Reading
strike in Pennsylvania, which resulted
in President Corbin and Vice-President
McLeod utterly uprooting the labor or
ganizations, there has been little organ
ized labor on the Reading road.'
A dispatch from English, Ind., says:
'The Little Blue river, gorged by saw-
logs, has backed up and flooded the
business portion of the town to a depth
of five feet. Many cattle, sheep and
hogs were drowned." ' ' Why the sheep
and hogs were in "the business portion
of the town," is left to the surmise of
the night editor who fills in the
skeleton" dispatch. This was neg
lected.
Senator Teller is kept busy denying
the statement he is interested in a third
party movement, the basis of which is
the farmers' alliance, and in asserting
he has no presidential aspirations. The
article whieh caused the senator so much
annoyance appeared in a number of
papers, and reported he favored a party
which would adopt the free coinage of
silver as a platform, and ' would seek
votes from the democratic and republi
can parties.
Another tin plate factory will be
opened at Ell wood, Ind., next Monday.
large number of prominent protec
tionists have been invited to attend tbe
ceremonies, among tbe rest governor
McKinley, of Ohio. The factory is ex
pected to employ 500 men and turn out
2,500 boxes of tin- plate a week. Its
proprietor, Col. L. L. Conger, of Akron,
O., says that after tbe industry has been
fully established the company will not
object to the repeal of the provision in
the McKinley bill made for the purpose
of fostering the business. - , - "
GOVERNOR MOOSE SPEAKS.
The .f;t sentiment for a -Washington
Statesman.
From the Orejoiiiau.
Hon! Miles C. Moore, of Walla Walla,
a prominent citizen of the state of Wash
ington and the last of its territorial gov
ernors, was recently at Washington city,
Upon bis return home he gave out for
publication in one of the journals Tf his
town a statement about the apparent in
difference of the Washington senators to
the opening pf the Columbia river an
undertaking in which Washington cer
tainly ought to assist, since the river is
so largely within that state, and since
its improvement would do more than all
other measures could to cheapen trans.
portation for the great agricultural dis
tricts of Washington. Among other
things said by Governor Moore was this,
viz :
I refer to the Statement mmln hv Son.
ator Dolph that our senators were not
supporting with any zeal his measure
for the appropriation of $1,750,000 for
completion of the canal at thn
of tbe Columbia, claiming that it was an
Oregon measure; and, furthermore that
tney were pressing vigorously for an ap
propriation of $750,000 for a canal from
Puget Sound to Lake Washington, a
measure of purely local importance, and
su Dominating tneuoiumbia river appro
priauon to tne otner. it struck- me as
almost incredable that there should be
any failure on the part of our eastern
Washington senator to sunnort a meas
ure of such importance to all the river
counties of the state, and especially to
me iarming interest oi nis own section
Ibis is tbe right view for eastern
Washington to take of the matter. - It is
natural for Seattle to want the canal to
connect Lake Washington with Puget
Sound, and Oregon's delegation in con
gress undoubtedly will help to t get it,
isut it is, as uovernor Moore says, "a
measure of purely local importance,"
and it ought not to stand in the way of
making the Columbia river navigable,
It is extremely narrow to say that im
provement oi tne Columbia river is an
Oregon measure merely. The Columbia
river drains four-fifths of the area of the
state of Washington, and if made navi
gable, as it should be, it would be the
main channel for transport of nearly all
the agricultural and a large part of the
mineral products of thestate. Oregon's
delegation in congress, in .working-for
improvement of the Columbia river,
have wrought for Washington not less
than for Oregon, and they ought to have
the co-operation of Washington's repre
sentatives in Doth branches of congress,
The Boat Railway.
In presenting tbe boat railway bill to
the senate, yesterday, Senator Mitchell
stated that this bill had three times
been favorably reported by the committee
on transportation routes to the seaboard,
and had passed the senate three times,
and in view of the great interest' which
it would serve, he thought it was about
time for the senate to incorporate it ' in
the river and harbor bill, and if provisr
ion was not made for the entire amount
asked for, $2,800,000, he hoped a part of
the appropriation would be made and
provision made for putting the work un
the contract system, so tbat it could be
be assured to tbe people of the upper
Columbia. Action upon this bill will be
once more patiently watched with deep
interest by all people of the Inland Em
plre, and should their hopes be again de
ferred, will then move these two states as
of one mind for positive and decisive ac
tion, which win open this river
Accident to MaJ. O. W. Ingalls.
Major G. W. Ingalls met with an ac
cident Tuesday forenoon tbat will con
fine him to his room for a few days at
least and might have resulted much
more seriously. He had gone across the
river on a horse belonging to O. D. Tay
lor and had dismounted at the Splawn
ranch for the purpose of crossing a worm
fence. : While attempting to remount
and with one foot in the stirrup the
horse shied. The Major was thrown
violently to the ground, his right tem
ples-striking the hard earth. As his foot
became disentangled from the stirrup,
the horse give him a violent kick, plant
ing his abod foot on the Major's right
leg a fewT-inches below the knee, the
shoe calk cutting into the bone. The
above is supposed to be the way tbe ac
cident happened, as the Major was
knocked unconscious and his first recol
lection is of finding himself limping to
wards Mr. Splawn'8 residence with his
right boot filled with blood that had ex
uded from the wound in his leg. Here
he was taken care of and brought to The
Dalles in the afternoon. Mrs. Ingalls
who is residing in Portland, was tele
graphed for and arrived on the night
train, and under her care the Major is
getting along as well as could be ex
pected.
England Following Wyoming.
London, April 27. In the house of
commons, Sir Albert Kaye moved for a
second reading of the woman suffrage
bill. He declared that, although much
had been said derogatory to woman's
exercising the franchise in Wyoming, he
bad official documents showing that it
was beneficial in tbat state.
Punished for Declaring.
London, April 27. A dispatch re
ceived by the news agency of this city
from Rio Janeiro states tba$ the Bra
zilian government has ordered its con
suls abroad to refuse to dispatch vessels
for Matte Grosso, which state has de
clared its independence of the Brazilian
republic.
The Great Bank of England Swindle.
Four Americans, named George and
Austin Bidwell, George McDonald and
Edward Hills, contrived to defrancLthe"
Bank of England of nearly 1,000,000.
They accomplished their swindle by tak'.
ing advantage of a custom of the bank
which had grown np through tbe gen
eral honesty of business men and meth
ods in England. The bank was accus
tomed to receive bills of exchange in
deposit on account, without verifying
their signatures of the acceptances
Probably until the Bid wells began to
experiment on them the bank authori
ties never had had such paper offered
them otherwise than. in good faith.
These men contrived by pretense and
falsehood to secure the necessary Intro
duction to the bank officers, and opened
an account with them nnder an assumed
name. They then had several hundred
bills of exchange printed on counterfeit. -plates
and flooded the Bank of England,
with these bills from all over the world,
all signed and accepted with apparent
regularity. The bank unhesitatingly
cashed these and put the proceeds to the
credit of the swindlers, who drew out
the money in ostensible business trans
actions in such a way as to excite no
suspicion on the part of the bank of- -ficials.
At last the rascals betrayed themselves
Dy neglecting to aaie tne acceptance or.
two of the fraudulent bills. The bank,:
sending these to the acceptors to have
the omission supplied, discovered the
fraud at once. After an exciting chase
by detectives all the men were arrested.
then tried and convicted, and all sen
tenced to prison for life. In 1883 George
Bidwell was pardoned and allowed to "
return to the United States.. The others
are still in prison. London Letter.
Boring Dogs Along the Mile.
In Egypt roving dogs are lees numer
ous and less ferocious now than in an
cient times, but they become at times
terrible to strangers. It has often hap
pened to me, when casually passings
through a village of upper Egypt about
midnight, to be reminded when 1 met
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novels, "a biter of man and a killer of
chickens for sport, which usually lived
on the right side of tbe street, but also
hid himself on the left side, so as to be
ready to jump upon the passer by."
As it is nnder Tewfik Pasha, so it was
In the time of Rameses U, and the ex
perience of the present day enables as
to understand exactly what our scrib
meant in the passage I have just quoted.
Pittsburg Opium Factory.
Pittsburg, April 28. While nosing
about the Chinese quarters yesterday,
in citizens dress, on search for smuggled
opium, officers struck a fine lead ; and
search revealed large quantities of the
crud material of which opium is made.
In a moment it flashed on the officers
where all the opium was coming from.
The Chinese had learned how to make
it from the raw material, thus escaping
payment of the high tariff on manufac
tured opium. The officers are today
making investigations along this line in '
large cities, as It" is believed that this
manufacture of opium is conducted on a
wholesale scale in" several of them.
There is every indication that the Chi
nese have been carrying on a large and
lucrative business 'ever since tbe new
tariff went into effect. ,
Nobody Cares.
Pobtland, April 28. A ' synopsis of
the annual report of the Union Pacific,
submitted to the stockholders at their
annual meeting in Boston yesterday,
shows a decrease in tbe gross' earnings
of 1890,' of nearly a million dollars.
Earnings from passenger traffic have
fallen off $853,000, about 9 per cent.
Jay Gould on Top.
Omaha, 'April 28. The election of
Union Pacific officers in Boston yester-'
terday was another victory ' for Jay
Gould. Even if he is on the verge of tbe
grave, be will continue to rest one foot
on the neck of the oppressed. The
Wor'msers turned the votes to Gould,
thus turning the election and retaining
the Missouri Pacific officials in the man
agement of the Union Pacific. .
Forced to Tote.
Ottawa, April 27. A bill in the house
of commons to compel voters to exercise
the franchise was considered yesterday
by a special committee. After a long
discussion, two' clauses were agreed to:
First, to make.' every man without a
reasonable excuse vote under penalty of
$10; second, that' prool of reasonable
excuse shall rest with defendant.
Ontario Crops
London, Ontario, April 27. The gov-;
ernment's crop report says fall wheat
presents an exceptionally promising ap
pearance. Telegraphic Flashes.
C. O. Whitman, professor of zoology
in Clark university, Dorchester, Mass.,
has accepted a call to the head professor
ship in the department of biology in the
University of Chicago.
Chas. W. Austin, a Salt Lake journal
ist, crazed by drink, who made a sensa
tional attempt to rob u.9 cashier of the
Utah National bank Saturday, has been
placed on trial today for insanity.
President Harrison has informed the
senate that in his opinion it, would not
be compatible with public interest to.
lay before it, at this time,' the. corres
pondence which he was 'requested by its
resolution April 23d to furnish, concern
ing any step taken toward securing an
international conference to consider the
question of the free coinage or enlarged
use of silver. -