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ci) A.1 (7 VOL. II. THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 4892. NUMBER 26. f II mm SUNDAY AT THE FAIR. Re Antnorities Hare Already stalled tb8 KatM. Fore- A CONDITION, NOT A THEORY. the Old Hudson Bay Steamer Beaver to CO to Chicago. BKKIOr.S CHAKGES ON NTKSE8. JM In Michigan Forest Fire in New .Tersey Another tee Broken Other New. : Ohicago, June 3. It would be just as well for those persons and there are hundreds of thousands of them in the United States ; who are trying to bring about the closing of the world's fair on Sunday to bear in mind that the very thing against which they protest is now in full operation. The gates of the world's fair are open every Sunday, and hundreds of sight-seers go to it, they being admitted readily on payment of the established fee. The world's fair directors have thus decided the matter of Sunday opening while the whole country, represented . by congress, by great religious gatherings and many other influential bodies, is still debating the matter. It may well be asked : Are the world's fair nutflorities justified in forestalling the judgement of the nation in this matter? There is little real differ ence between the present arrangement at Jackson park and that winch will be in force if the fully erected enterprise shall be thrown open to visitors on Sun days a year hence. Because of this action of the directors the question now under debate by the whole nation is not, "Shall the worlds fair be open on Sunday?" but, "Shall. the pre sent condition of Sunday sight-Beeing at Jackson Park be changed after the for mal opening of the world's fair?" The worlds fair is open on Sunday. It is a condition, not a theory, that confronts j The rioneer Steamer Beaver. Albany, N. Y., June 3. Robert H. Benedict, of Victoria, B. C, is in Albany trying to form a company for transpor tation to Chicago of the first steamer that entered the Pacific ocean around Cape Horn. He feels confident of the euccees of his project. Benedict is one of the owners of the famous steamer, the Beaver, the first of her kind to leave England, brave the dangers of the cape d sail into the Pacific. This . was in 835. All her original machinery and the ve oak timbers of her hull are as sound the day the steamer passed out of the Mulder's hands. Only one person who me on the Beaver's maiden trip now ives. Hospital Scandals. Cincinnati, O., June 2. There is a big sensation here over, the death yester- ay of a prominent' citizen at the city hospital, having bled to death unat tended. Last night, too, a patient at the hospital committed suicide, leaving note saying death was preferable to Jhe abuse of the nurses. Charges have teen made for some time past in the ublic press against this hospital, alleg Ig negligence, incompetency and im morality. The principal charge was vainst Mies Murray, of Philadelphia, in barge -of XQft trained nurses' depart ent. Theawperintendent was recently ismissed on tDfs account. - A Forest Fire. Landing, N. J., May's Landing, N. J., June 2. A treat fire started in the woods between is place and Egg Harbor early yester- y morning, and burned fiercely in a luable tract of timber all day. About 'clock yesterday afternoon it was car ed within one mile of Hammonton. large force of men fought it all day ith little success, and last night it de- royed hundreds of acres of timber pry hour. It was turned off from ammonton by back-firing and plowing fe ground on all sides of the town, but 8 now burning so fiercely that there breat fear of the place being destroyed. Michigan In the Swim. " tband Rapids, Mich., June 2. Tha Irst storm ever experienced here- oc Jred last night. It was a reenter udburst. -' Crops were destroyed for me around, and the track of the Grand bids and Indiana road - was washed for three miles. Storm anil Cyclones. Chicago, Jane 2,-Advices give fur- ther details of the loss of life and the destruction of propertv bv storms and rvolonea in the south west. Lott. Ter.. r- a a " f reports a cyclone near Durango, which . . caused the greatest havoc, sweeping everything before it, over a space of a quarter of a mile wide and several miles long. Houses were, utterly demolished. Many people escaped injury by entering cyclone cellars, but five or six are known to be killed, and a number were injured, some fatally. The effects of the rain storms which have prevailed since Mon day throughout Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Indian territory, and which continue in many places are be coming evident in the rising rivers. All streams in this territory are rising rap idly, and promise to exceed the high stage of water recently recorded, where it is not already exceeded. Enormous damage has been already . done, and much''greater is in prospect. The dam age by rain and wind in the neighbor hood of Texas has been estimated at $500,000. ' A Canadian Cruiser Ottawa, June 3. The protest of the United States government against Can ada constructing a revenue cutter for service on the upper lakes has been of little avail, and the keel of the vessel which is to be of steel throughout, is now being laid at Owen soqnd, on the Georgian bay. The objection from Washington wus based on the agreement of 1817 between Great Britain and the United States, one of the clauses of which prohibited either country from building a "vessel of war" on the lakes. It has been discovered, however, that this agreement was abrogated by Secre tary Seward in 1S65, and consequently the Canadian government will construct the cruiser. Even had the treaty been in force this government would have re sented United States interference, . as the new vessel is simply being built ' for revenue purposes and the United States, it appears, has ftt the present time four vessels of this class on the lake, viz: One each at Oswego, 'Detroit; Erie and Milwaukee. Getting; Heady. Minneapolis, June 3. Preparations for the interesting affair next Tuesday are going on apace, the managers having fully fixed upon the' programme of the inaugural ceremonies. The new conven tion hall will be filled to the doors with delegates and visitors. There will be music by a brass band and a chorus of 1,500 voices will sing such patriotic music as cannot be construed into re flecting partisan feeling. The addresses will be delivered by Maj. McKinley, the energetic tariff-lifter, and Mr. Depew. There Is a distinctly festal character about all this. The day to follow will be one of toil and voting and of anxious delegates growing hoarse with shouting. People throughout the country will be hiving around bulletin boards and jost ling each other over tickers. But the eve of the combat will be as festive and joyous as a carnival. This is pleasant. Even busy Mr. Harrison, down there at Washington, will feel some polite in terest in the proceedings that are to follow. - Not Lawfully Detained. Laksing, Mich. , June .3 The Supreme court has filed an opinion reversing the conviction and ordering the discharge of Aaron W. Hamaker, who was recently convicted in the Jackson Circuit court of attempting to aid a convict to escape from prison. The statute makes it a crime to aid in the escape of a prisoner who was lawfully detained, and the court held that the information did not show that Donovan,, the prisoner whose escape Hamaker attempted to aid, was convicted of any offense known to the law and therefore that he was not law fully detained. Donovan is doing a ten I years's sentence, having been convicted in Ogemaw county 1887 of the crime of entering a saloon in the night with in tent to commit robbery. This, the court says, is not a crime known to the law, as no breaking was charged. Under this state of facts Donovan will experience but little difficulty in securing his liberty also. ' '' A Lake Steamer Soak. Detroit, June 2. The steamers Brit ain and Progress, both of Cleveland, collided, this morning , at . the .mouth of the Detroit 1 river. The Progress sank immediately, but the; crew , was rescued with difficulty. The Britain was comparatively uninjured. ,..' A Canoeist Drowned. Pobt Jervis, N. Y., June 2.' Commo dore C. F. Weeks, of the Brooklyn Canoe Club, was drowned yesterday while at tempting to shoot a dam across the Deleware river at Laka waxen, Pa. j 11T 1 I7PP JIT Till TDfU'C jJNAIllij Ii lilt IKEIIj. I i I T7 A i A TT1 . i . T t -P tneci oi me liecenuiooa m roruons 01 Illinois. FISH AND SNAKE STORIES. ' ; , . ; - Reptiles Driven to High Lands and Take Refuge in Willows. HUNTERS HOKKIF1KD TO FINII THEM Pastures Filled With Fish Which the Farmers Gather by the Basket Full Minor Mention. Macomu, III., June 3. William Bar ker, manager of the electric light and gas plant of this city, together with several companions, has just returned from a hunting and fishing trip to Crooked creek in the vicinity of Col war. The entire region around Colmar, a way station on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad between Quincy and Galesburg, is one sea of water. The water stood several feet high around a line of willows which had been set out for a fence. Barker and his companions got into a boat and rowed up around the trees in hopes of finding some sort of game, when they were horrified to see a huge snake drop into the boat. The reptile was quickly dispatched, when the hoys discovered that the trees above them were literally alive with snakes ; a mass of hissing, writhing reptiles, con sisting of water moccasins, rattlers and many other varieties. The thoroughly frightened men began a fusilade with their guns and in a short time they had killed over one hundred big snakes. Some of them were monsters. The high water has driven hundreds of these reptiles into the surrounding country. The- fish ' stories that now pour in from this neck of the woods are equally ' marvelous. One farmer found his ' pastare full of buffalo fish one morning and gathered a bushel baBket full. Another native captured a huge cat-fish that weighed' over one hundred pounds. Fishing is all the go. The small streams are full of the choicest kinds of fish. vua. iDiniun. , i St. Louis, June 4. The convention came tor order at the appointed hour. The permanent organization was affected by chosing Hon. George L. Converse of Ohio, president ; Horace Davis, of Call torma, senior vice-president, with an additional vice-president from each state, and an executive committee on the same basis; and secretaries D. H. McAdam and J. C. Broadwell. Mr. Converse, on assuming his duties, thanked the con vention for the honor conferred, and then, reverting to the objects of the con vention, declared the building of the Nicaragua canal was as necessary as the casting of the cannon or the bnilding of ships in the time of war, and for that reason, as well as being a commercial necessity, the government should have control of so great a waterway, which, it is felt, should be constructed at once. These remarks were received with great' applause. The report of the committee on resolutions indorsed the canal as feas ible, and recommended government as sistance, with protection secured to the government interests. It recommended investment in the canal company's se curities to the American people, and di rected the appointment of two commit tees, one to visit each of the great na tional conventions of political parties to secure the indorsement of government control of the canal. The report was adopted. Then, after an address by Rear-Admiral Ammen,. and the usual resolutions attending the closing ' of a gathering, the convention adjourned. Sidney Dillon's Illness. , New York, June 2. Sidney Dillon, president of the Union Pacific railway, who lies critically ill at his residence in West Fifty-seventh street, continues to grow gradually weaker. , He is greatly emaciated and cannot even tnrn in - his bed without assistance.' The only nour ishment which he takes is a ' preparation of fermented milk, "but how mnch of its nutritive quality ia assimilated the at tending physicians are unable-to deter mine.' Both the nerve and noscular forces of the patient are Idaily becoming diminished. His mind0 remains clear, bnt he does not speak of business mat ters. ' It ia eleven weeks today since Mr. Dillon was last down town, and for five weeks he has been confined to his bed. Fe",,1,'nt' "trengtn. Minneapolis, June. 4.-Thirteen j states have instructed their delegates to , cast tneir votes at Minneapolis cast their votes at Minneapolis for the renomination of President Harrison. These are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, ; Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas, i These states will cast 290 votes in the ' convention. The president would lack 1 155 of a majority if he had to depend on ! them alone. But in the 31 states that 1 have given no instructions there are Harrison delegates as earnest and as j firm as those froui Indiana and Illinois. 'The nninstrncted delegates number 598. , It is gratifying to find that the custom of instructing delegates has so far fallen ! into disfavor that nearly two-thirds of j the delegates are free from such dicta ! tion. All schemes to stampede the con : vention for Secretary Blaine are now i practically abandoned. The promoters j of these plots admired Mr. Blaine, but j they admired themselves more. They hoped to j promote personal aims by ' creating confusion in the republican i ranks. They desired to create enmitv between tlie president and Mr. -Blaine in the hope that an open quarrel might ensue which they could turn to account. The sincere friends of Mr. Blaine ac cepted his letter of declination in good faith, and bestowed their support on the president under whom he has served with so much distinction. Mr. Blaine has done well to respect this course, and in so doing has followed the dictates of honor as well as courtesy. Strike in Okanogan. Spokane, June 4. News of a rich free gold strike on the Similikamen river, about a mile and one-half south of the British line, has reached this city. The mineral is found in quartz ledges which stand out like huge reefs against the side of the bluff trending north and south and being exposed, showing the ledge to be 300 feet wide. H. Ballard of Con conully, a well known engineer, arrived in the city IasL night and gave an ac count of the discovery. He said that the ledge was bonded to F. W. Dunn about 30 days ago, but the reports of value did not reach Conconnlly until a few days ago.' Seventeen claims have been located and large numbers of men are going to the scene of the strike daily. Mr. Ballard said that he has often driven over the ground, and about a year ago broke out some rock from the ledge and carried it to Conconnlly, intending to assay it, but he thought that the ledge was too large. "If it had been a ledge three feet wide," said he, "I should have tiatjti it" Tha nmnwli ia Bust.- nt awuii ana is tne subject of much discussion Fruit Shippers Complain. Yakima, June 4. The Northern Pa cific railway company complains that Yakima fruit shippers are not particular enough about the packages in which they ship their fruit aid other products. To this a shipper replies that- last year he shipped a crate of watermelons to friends in Montana. He pait several dollars for the melons, had a new and strong shipping crate built, put up the! balance of his money and mortgaged several years of his life to pay the trans portation charges, and then waited patiently to hear encomiums on the ad mirable qualities of the Yakima - water melons. One lone watermelon arrived at its destination. , There was no crate to it and it was cracked, and passed by the brakeman and railroad employes on I account of being unwholesome, and so, I in line with the officers of the Northern Pacific, he would advise shippers to nse more precaution. They should thor oughly investigate the good qualities of the various safes, procure a time lock, and then take their chances. A Raid on Sacramento. ' Sacramento, , June . 3. Excitement runs high in the Chinese quarter. Yes- i - i.i - r: . : r VY.n l u i vT j I formed Chief Rogers that 40 highbinders were enroute to this city, from San Francisco, to avenge the murders of Tnesday night. ' They left San Francisco by steamer and are' expected to arrive this morning. From a reliable source it was learned that the self-constituted avengers -are members of ' a big high binder society, and have sworn to kill the promoters of last Tuesday's murders. The peaceable Chinese are leaving the city, fearing violence at the hands" of the new comers.. The .local highbinders are arming themselves and are prepar ing to give battle to the intruders. -'. ' ' . : ' : I The Birkenhead Disaster. . . Prague, June 3. The frightful roll of j casualties in the disaster in the Birken- ( berg silver mine increases. It ia now j known that fully 400 miners lost their , lives. Many bodies were burned beyond j recognition.' The accumulation of gas in the mine greatly interferes with the work of removal of corpses, and it ia be lieved that the work of rescue will not be completed inside of a fortnight. '. WHOOPING UP BLAINE. As tiie Contest Nears the End it Deepens In Interest FACTIONS ' BECOMING EXCITED. Some Very Harsh Things are Being said by Men on Both Sides. NOX-I'aKTISANS FEAK KESILTS. Blaine's Friends He Forced Him Into the Position of a Passive Candidate. Minneapolis, June 4. If another letter is not forthcoming from Blaine within thirty-six hours it is impossible to predict what the convention will do. The intensity of the situation may be understood when it is stated that repre sentatives of the associated press are questioned every hour 6y anxious party leaders as to whether any declaration has been made, or is expected, at Wash ington from Blaine. The contest is growing in interest hourly. Men are be coming unduly excited. Factions are begining to say harsh things. Non partisans are beginning to fear the re sults of the campaign, which ever wins. Either by or against his will Blaine's friends have forced him into the position of a passive candidate, and the Harrison people are not unnaturally saying many caustic things about the secretary's position, insisting that good faith will compel him to write another letter of declination. The Blaine leaders are working hard to bring about a break to him from Har rison instructions in hope that it will be accepted as a precedent by other in structed delegations, with the result of further breaks to the man from Maine. Wherever possible this will be helped along by the argument that Harrison in structions were only given on the sup position that Blaine would not be a can didate, and that the strong Blaine senti ment in their state will now justify them in ignoring the instructions given under these misapprehensions. Among the conspicuous figures in the Harrison headquarters this morning I were those of Powell Clayton, of Arkan I sas ; R. C. Kerens, of Missouri ; W. O. Bradley, of Kentucky ; H. Clay Evans ton, and ex-Governor Warmoth, of Louisana. - There is a contest as to the right to seats at the national republican conven tion, in the third North Carolina district, where two factions have chosen dele gates. This makes contests in three dis tricts. . Want the Pheasants. Colfax, Wash., June 4. Several sportsmen of this city are at work upon a proposition to introduce Chinese pheasants into Whitman county. The plan is to secure several pairs of these birds from Oregon, and build a yard for them where they will be cared for and allowed to increase until a sufficient number is secured, when they would be turned loose and protected by law until snch time as it was thought tney were thick enough, when they would be pro tected in their season, the same as other game birds are. They are very numer ous in Oregon and are one of the finest i of birds. The pheasants are as large as 'an ordinary chicken, with very white meat. It is estimated that the cost of procuring enough of the birds to make the start and making a yard to take. care them in would be about $150, . . All the Marks of a Blluard. . Cheyenne, Wyo., June 6. A storm having all the marks of a midwinter. blizzard raged here all day Saturday. A blinding snow fell, which was piled by the wind in great drifts.. The snow was over eight inches deep on the' level. Traffic was suspended. The storm was general throughout the 'state,, and will cause a severe loss of cattle. ..... Highest of all hi: Leavening Power. Latet U. S. Gov't Report. An Old Mine Sold. Spokane, June 6. A deal was con summated in this city, on Saturday by which W. P. Haskell, one of Spokane's most prominent citizens, will acquire for himself and an eastern syndicate one of the most historic,, largest and richest mining properties in the United States. In fact it is the first mining property of which there is any record in what is now the United States. It is the old Copper canyon, in the wilds of New Mexico, but which is now only twenty-two mile from a railroad that has recently pene trated the heart of the . country from which the Montezuinas extracted fabu lous wealth lone before the advent of the Spaniards.': The history of this, the first scene of mining operations in this coun try, is quite interesting considering the great proportions to which the mining interests have grown from the time the ancient workings were in successful op eration until the present day, when so much interest of the same nature centers around Spokane. The Copper canyon was worked in A. D. 1540 at the time of the Spanish invasion. The Mississippi Still Ittaing. Chicago, June 6. Advices to the asso ciated press show that the Mississippi river is rising at and above St. Louis. The probability is that it will not begin to fall until after, the June rise', and it is giving cause for grave apprehension when that event takes place. The Arkansas and other rivers in the southwest where recent heavy rains have fallen also con tinue to rise, and threaten further des truction to property. Means are being taken to warn the inhabitants of any sudden break in the levees, so that they may Wee to places of safety. Wants to iilve Forever. Walla ' Walla Statesman. We should like to live long enough to find out the true secret of Charles A. Dana's unre lenting and unvarying hostility to Grove r Cleveland. Various surmises have heeu hazarded, but it is not believed that the reason has ever been stated; Dana is so bitter and so persistent in his assaults,, that we' might almost believe that Cleveland had done him some great favor,' though there' is nothing in Cleveland's publieoaretr to support such a theory. A Terrible Tornado. Vienna, June 3. The Agram-Brod mail train was wrecked by a tornado near Nowska station last night, and the passengers had a fearful experience. . Suddenly complete darkness fell upon the traiu. The enginees and fireman crouched upon the floor of the engine. A terrific gust lifted the engine, weigh ing 70 tons, and five carriages, and threw them over an embankment into a cut. half fall of water. The station at Nowska was converted into a hospital for the in jured, 23 in number. , Dynamite In Chicago. Chicago, June 3. A morning paper says the police have dicovered a carefully-devised plot to blow up the Mc Gregor boiler factory, whose men are on a strike, with non-union men filling thoir places. Wires were strung to a point at the rear of the factory running to a room recently taken by three men. Jn this room were found a largeqnantity of dyn amite and an electrical apparatus for ex ploding it. Washonts and Washouts. Pitttiil'rg, June 6. Heavy rains in Pottsville, Reading and Scanton Satur day amounting to a waterspout in some places and in others accompanied by hail, did mucn damage to crops and caused washonts on the railroads, which , have blocked traffic. . A Farmer Found Dead. Albany, Or., June 3. Daniel Houck, a well known farmer, living near Tan gent, was found dead this morning about 8 :30 o'clock, lying in a barnyard, where he had been milking cows. No marks of violence were visible, and it is sup posed he died from heart failure. Robbed the Stage. Billings, Mont., June 3. The Bill ings and Great Falls stage was held up by masked men yesterday, and the treasure-box and mail taken. The passengers were unmolested . The robbery occurred on Painted Robe hill, near Museel Shell river. ;'' TT