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VOL. II.
THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1892.
NUMBER 29.
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"DAMMING." CHICAGO.
Possibly More Brimstone than Portland
Cement Used.
IXDIGXAXT PRESS REPORTERS.
Muffled Speeches aire Loudest in Con
demnation of Aliuses.
SHK IS NOT A CONVENTION CITY.
SollIer Not Safe in Wyoming--Another
rioter Meeting Ravachol
Moot Hang.
Xkw Youk, June 24. The last dis
patch to reach the world yesterday af
ternoon, while the clerks were making
the footings of the vote for vice-president
read as follows : "The routine is
completed. Terrible storm here. Dark
as night, 3:4(5 p. in. Thunder and light
ning. Rain coining down in streams.
Dam Chicago." It is possible that ma
terials such as might turn the stream
were not- convenient, but brimstone
must have been abundant. Not a del
egate nor a visitor to the Cleveland con
vention this year, will ever vote again
for a convention in Chicago. It is not
true that "Chicago is in every sense a
convention city," but quite the reverse;
and if better arrangements are not pro
vided for the accommodation of people
at the Columbus worlds fair, Uncle
Sam will regret that he ever invested a
dollar in the scheme, and those wh.o at
tend will join in the refrain with those
whose experiences of the past week ira
pel thoughts of a blasphemous nature
even though they rode in the band
wagon at the head of the most joyous
processions of successful people.
Anothxr UHter Meeting.
, London, June 24. A crowded union
ist meeting was held to support an ap
peal of the protectants of Ulster to Eng'
land on Thursday. , Many titled and
prominent persons were present. Sir
George Chubb presided. The duke of
Argyle delivered a speech in which he
declared it was a slanderous falsehood to
say the people of Ulster were aiming at
religious ascendency of the "village rut'
fian and the parish pope." The reso-
lution commending the appeal of Ulster
to the British electors was unanimously
carried. ;
Soldiers Not Safe in Wyoming.
Cheyenne, June 24. The sheriff of
Sheridan county has made a demand on
the military authorities to surrender
the soldiers of the Xmth cavalry who
attacked the town of Suggs last Friday,
and killed a citizen. Gen. Brooke of the
department of the Platte, has refused to
turn over the prisoners to the sheriff un
til he can hear from Washington. . He
" says the state of feeling in Wyoming is
such that he does not consider the lives
of the soldiers safe in the hands of the
civil authorities.
Kavachol Must Hang.
New York June 24. A verdict of
guilty has been found in Paris against
the anarchist Kavachol, and he has been
condemned to death. Beleau and
fc'obere were acquitted.
Democratic Platform.
The democratic platform begins with
reaffirming the allegiance of the party
; to the principles of Jefferson and sol
' emnly declares "that the need of return
to these principles was never more
urgent than now, when the tendency to
centralize all power at the Federal
capital has become a menace to the re
served rights of states." It warns the
people that "the policy of the Federal
control of elections, to which the repub
Jican party has committed itself, is
fraught with the gravest dangers, scarce
ly 'less, momentous than would result
from a revolution, practically establish
ing monarchy on the ruins of the
republic." , . . . ,
It denounces the republican protec
tive policv as a fraud upon the labor of
a great majority of the American peo
ple for the benefit of a few. It declares
it to be the fundamental principle of the
democratic party that the federal gov
ernment has no constitutional power to
impose and collect tariff duties, except
for the purpose of revenue only, and
demands that the collection of such
taxes shall be limited to the necessities
of the government honestly and econom
ically administered.
It denounces the "sham reciprocity" of
the republican party ; recognizes in trusts
and combinations the natural conse- j
quenceof prohibitive taxes which prevent i
free competition and demands a rigid
enforcement of the laws made to prevent
and control them. It denounces the re
publican paity for giving away the peo
ple's heritage to railroads and non-resi
dents aliens and claims credit to the
democratic party for having restored to
the people 100,000,000 acres' to be sa
credly held as homesteads for oar citi
zens. It denounces the Sherman act of
1890 as "a cowardly makeshift; holds to
both gold and silver as the standard
money of the country and to the coinage
of both, but holds that the dollar unit of
the coinage of both must be of equal in
trinsic and exchangeable value or ad
justed through international agreement
or by such safeguards ' of legislation as
shall secure the parity of the two metals.
It recommends that the prohibitory 10
per cent, tax on state banks be repealed.
It reaffirms the declaration of the dem
ocratic national convention of 1876 for
the reform of the civil service' and calls
for an honest enforcement of all laws
regulating the same.
It claims that the democratic party is
the only par iy that has ever given the
country a foreign policy consistent and
vigorous.
It favors the maintainence of a navy
strong enough for all purposes of na
tional defence and to properly maintain
the honor and dignity of the country
abroad. It condemns the oppression
practiced- by the Russian government
upon Jewish subjects, and tenders pro
found and earnest sympathy to those
lovers of freedom who are struggling for
home rule in Ireland.
It approves all legitimate efforts to
prevent the United States from being
the dumping ground for the known
criminals and professional paupers of
Europe, and demands a rigid enforce
ment of the laws against Chinese im
migration and the importation of foreign
workmen under contract, and condemns
and denounces all attempts to restrict
the industrious and worthy of foreign
lands.
It favors just and liberal pensions for
all disabled union soldiers, their widows
and all dependents.
It favors' the. improvement of -the
Mississippi river and other great water
ways of the republic and holds that such
aid should be extended on a definite
plan for continuous work until the per
manent work is secured. It recognizes
that the early construction of the Nica
ragua canal and its protection from for
eign control is of great importance to
the United States. It holds that con
gress should make the necessary finan
cial provision for the worlds fair. It
recommends to the several states the
most liberal appropriations for public
schools and opposes state interference
with parental rights and the rights of
conscience in the education of children.
It approves the admission into the Un
ion of New Mexico and Arizona and the
early admission of all territories having
the necessary population and resources
and holds that while they remain terri
tories the officials appointed to admin;
ister the government should be bona
fide residents of the territory or district
in which their duties are to be performed.
It favors legislation to protect the
lives and limbs of railwayjemployees and
those of hazardous transportation com
panies. It favors laws for abolishing the sweat
ing system and convict contract labor
and for prohibiting the employment in
factories of children under 15 years of
age and opposes all sumptuary laws as
interference with the individual rights
of the citizens.
On this statement of principles it asks
i for a change of administration and a
change of purity and order that there
may be a change of system and a change
of methods, thus assuring a inaintain
ance unimpaired of the institutions un
der which the republic has grown great
and powerful.
Disgustingly Thunderous.
Klamath Star. The crv of reform is
louder today in the mouth of the dema-
gogue than ever before. From the I
stnnip and from the editorial column
that cry has got to be disgustingly thun
derous. The world is sick abed and
gets nothing to do it any good the dem
agogue teHs us.' It will die and go to
perdition if it don't take great gulps of
his reform. The moment we hear the
word reform we invariably slide out of
the meeting. We know, there is noth
ing there but a sombre cloak with a
demagogue in it, and a voice loud
enough to raise a Mansard roof.
All States Represented.
Astorian. The Episcopal convention
has brought here many observant, in
telligent gentlemen, who will go away
favorably impressed with Astoria and its
bright future. While our people are in
tent on money making, ' the visitors
must Observe that they are in sympathy
with the intellectual progress and the
moral advancement of the country.
Nearly all the states are represented in
the busy, aspiring population, which in
habits the noblest location on the conti
nent for a great city.
ASTOR PAYING RENT.
Tafins up His Residence kwn Tie
Spriss of Gentility.
LIVING IX L0XD0X IS SO ENGLISH.
Bnys One of The Finest Sites
Europe on Leased Crown Lands.
fHE OLD HOME OF KING GEORGE IV.
The Price and Yearly Rentals Com
pounded Would be a Snug Sum
For New York.
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alQOrt
'London, June 24. William
Astor has purchased the crown lease of
the splendid residency on Carlton house
terrace which until a few weeks ago be
longed to the Muriettas. Mr. Astor
has secured a great bargain, for the price
which he paid for it $275,000. Muriette
purchased it seven years ago from the
late earl of Granville for the sum of
$350,000,and then spent another $150,000
in decorations. The house occupies one
of the finest sites in London, being situ
ated at the extreme east end of Carlton
house terrace, commanding a view of
the whole St. James park. It is held on
a lease direct from the ;rown for an un
expired term of seventy years at a
ground rent to the crown of $2,350 per
annum. This house constituted formerly
part of the palace occupied by King
George IV., both as prince regent and as
king. Its first tenant since the conver
sion of the block into private residences
was the late duke of Hamilton, who
sold it to the duke of Newcastle, from
which it was purchased by the late earl
of Granville. The house has a large
terraced garden, which overlooks Bird
cage walk and the horse guards' parade.
One of its features is a gorgeous elevator,
all in white and gold. Among Mr.
Astor's near neighbors are the American
duchess of Marlborough, Mrs. MacKey,
and the German embassador, Count
Hatzfeldt, whose wife hails from the
west side of the Atlantic.
IRRIGATION IN IDAHO.
A Magnificent Water Storage System at
Mountain Home.
Last week an epoch in irrigation mat
ters in the Inland Empire was marked
at Mountain Home, Idaho, on the com
pletion of the magnificent water storage
system inaugurated by the Elmore
county irrigation company, under the
management of A. W. Hager, by which
more than 40,000 acres of desert land are
reclaimed for agricultural purposes, ad
ding a large empire to the already great
west. The event was celebrated in a
most impressive manner with a parade,
music, oratory and flowers. The little
town was wild with excitement on the
completion of the scheme, Over 300
buggies and wagons filled with people
went over to the reservoir and saw the
immense system of storage. Water
from four large rivers is running into
the reservoir, and held in store against
a dry spell by a gigantic dam sixty-two
feet high and 200 feet thick at the bot
tom, with a wing 4,000 feet long. It
stores 5,000.000,000 gallons of water.
The system as completed so far has 20
miles of canals. The outlet from the
dam into the canal is tunneled through
1 450 feet of solid rock, there being no
other outlet. The pressure of . water at
the lower gate is 3,000 pounds to the
foot. No work of a like character has
ever been attempted. It practically
solves the', problem of irrigation for
Idaho, Mr. Hager demonstrating beyond
doubt that the proper system is thaf . of
the storage of water. The celebration
wa8 participated ?n by hundreds of out-
siders and was presided over by A. B
Clark of Chicago. W. E. Borah delivered
a masterly oration, in which be paid a
.fitting compliment to the genius and
unconquerable zeal of Mr. Hager.
Speeches were also made by Silas W.
Moody and others. All agree that the
system is a inarvej of mechanical and
engineering skill. The exercises con
cluded with fireworks and a grand ball
at night.
Chicago, and all northern Illinois
were nearly drowned out by the exces
sive rains of the past three days. The
damage in Chicago is chiefly confined to
the flooding Of cellars, many always dry
before being filled with water. At Ga
lena, Ottawa, Rockford and other towns
small rivers have swollen to raging
floods. Bridges being washed away and
railroad tracks flooded or. 'covered with
earth causing a total suspension of traf
fic. At Ottawa, every business house in
the town was flooded to a depth of from
two to seven feet. ... " ' '. i
Thankful to Know That Tliev Are Still
on Duty.
The Klickitat Leader of the 23d intro
duces a letter on the subject of the re
ported withdrawal of The Dalles, Port-
i land and Astoria Navigation Company
' as follows : "It is with extreme pleasure
j that we can announce the fact that the
I peoples' company is still onjthe warpath.
jThe rumor that found so much credence
along the river that the company had
sold out to the Union Pacific is most em
phatically denied by the company, and
in answer to a letter sent from this office,
j the following communication will , be
read with vast interest :
Dbak Sih. Your favor of the 16th re-
i ceived, and in reply would say that there
I . it. 1. . " . . i .L.i
is iiu irubu wnuwver in lue report, uiat
this company has sold out to the Union
Pacific railway, neither have they made
any kind of compromise with them. Our
tie up is solely on account of circum
stances which could not have been avoid-
wi vy me company mis season, as oniy
actual experience could demonstrate the
present cunuuion
of affairs. We fully
trust to resume operations bv the 15th
' Proxim0 an1 t,lat we will be "fully pre-
, TMirprt in t.hft fntnrft tr Imro inv War
boat in such shape that with better land
ing facilities at the cascades a tie up in
any stage of water will be unnecessary.
We have kept our boat running semi
weekly between The Dalles and Cascade
locks to accomodate the people on the
Washington side of the river, and al
though regretting that we could not give
a daily service, we trust this has been
appreciated, as it is the best we could
do. We would thank vou to express our
thanks to the people afong the river for
their generous patronage, and assure
them that the Regulator company have
Dy no means given up the tight.
The Leader adds: "We hope this
will satisfy our correspondent, as well as
other people, who were afraid they were
going to be subject to the exorbitant and
exacting freight rates of the Union Pa
cific railroad. Remember that the peo
ple's boat is on the river to stay. When
the Regulator was tied up something
like 1,000 tons of freight was in sight,
and the indications pointed to more bus
iness than possibly could be managed.
The captain of the Dalles City was satis
fied that the boat could not safely make
the landing at the cascades, and re
ported accordingly, so the company,
rather than take the risk of losing the
boat, tied her up. As soon as it is prac
ticable the boats will be running again,
and let the farmers of Klickitat this fall
see that their wheat is shipped by the
peoples' boat, thus giving their support
to a company which manfully started to
oppose a grinding monopoly."
THE BOAT RAILWAY.
Practically Imperilling the Entire Ap
' propriatlon by Adhering to
That Item.
There is no longer any doubt that the
dalles boat railway project, at least so
far as the present session of congress is '
concerned ; is defeated. The people of
Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam indeed,
the whole broad Inland Empire,
are more than all- others inter
ested in thiB matter. The Congressional
Record at hand, containing accounts of
the last struggle in the house over the
project, clearly shows the defeat. We
may as well admit a fact, patent to all ;
the bill was loaded down too heavily ;
and as Oregon'had "one of the contract
plums" as our opponents term this sys
tem of carrying along large national im
provements, it may readily be seen that
the attempt of one of our senators to de
mand still another, with a large sum at
tached to it, naturally produced jealous
ies, contentions, and bad feelings, for
what we have already secured in the
bill. . By some who have a' kindly feel
ing for Oregon otherwise, it has been
claimed that ' this demand jeopardises
the entire river and harbor bill. All
things considered, as shown by the rec- i
ord, our representatives have made a
gallant fight, buttha measure is lost, so
far as the dalles project goes. That we
should no longer carry on the contest for
that item, at this time, it is urged that
we are perilling too much ; to longer in
sist. If the canal and locks can be com
pleted in two years after the contract is
let, and the dalles improvement can be
made available for transportation pur
poses within six months after work . is
begun, it seems to us wisdom dictates
that we should let up on the dalles pro-'
ject for another session.
Telegraphic Flashes. T"
British Columbia Indians report that
a steamer, supposed to be the Standard,
foundered off Cape Mudge in a tide-rip.
According to the Indians, she gave sev
eral sharp whistles, then went down.
One man was washed ashore unconscious.
The scene of the accident is near Sey
mour narrows, where the United States
gunboat Grappler sank.' The Standard
was- of thirty-one tons register, com
manded by Capt. Carroll, and owned by
the Standard canning company. She
left 2v anaimo on the 17th, bound for
Skeena, and carried a crew of five per
sons. " i
i OUTRAGES NEAR HOME
Bmtal Outrage and Crnel Murder Near
MURDEROUS ACT IX C0RVALL1S.
A Citizen Assaulted in His Bed With a
Club bv Assassins.
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AFTER MONEY IN THE MAN'S HO(:SE
T, Kaed to FInU the Treasure, But
.
Nearly Killed the Victim of
Their Crime.
Portland, June 25. Last Thursday a
loveable girl of 13 years, Minnie Walsh,
was brutally outraged and cruelly mur
dered in the brnsh near her home in
the vicinity of Milwaukie, Clackamas
county, where she was pieking berries,
supposedly by a tramp, but of whom no
clew has yet been obtained, although
the whole neighborhood is searching,
armed, and determined upon lynching.
Several burglaries have been commit
ted recently in Corvallis and considera
ble cash and clothing have been stolen,
but the climax was reached last night,
! when someone broke into the bedroom
of Carl Strage, a bachelor, and almost
killed him by beating him over the head
with a club. Strage lived all alone and
had about $300 in the house at the time.
The burglars evidently knew this, and it
is supposed they slipped into the house
and knocked him senseless while lying
in bed before making a search for the
money, which they were unsuccessful in
finding. Strage was found in a ibarn
this morning in his night clothing, al
most demented. His face was lacerated
and swollen so badly that no one recog
nized him, and it was several hours be
fore his identity was revealed. He is
now lying in a critical condition. The
citizens are very indignant, but no clue
to the guilty parties can be found.
Latek. The murderer of little Mamie
Walsh, referred to in the dispatches;
has been captured, and is in Hillsboro
jail. He confessed the crime. He gave
his name as Sullivan. It will require
great caution to prevent the people from
lynching him.
WASHINGTON SENATORS.
Senator Squire May be Forgiven But
, . How About Allen?
From the Spokane Review.
Senator Squire may be forgiven for his
advocacy of the lake Washington scheme.
It is a local deal of glitteringossibilities,
and as it offers advantages to his home
city he naturally desires its advance
ment. This may not be exalted states
manship but it is modern jolitic8. But
what can be said in (justification of the
attitude' of Senator. Allen, who repre
sents a constituency that would receive
no benefits from the improvement, and
whose fondest desire of an open river to
the sea is manaced by it? The Review
has spoken favorably of the legislative
services of Mr. Allen in times gone by.
'Very recently it gave warm approval to
his efforts for the opening of the Colville
Indian reservation ; but it cannot stand
by and maintain silence when he is en
tering upon a course that we know, and
that his constituents know is wrong and
indicative of moral weakness.
The grab ought to be strangled in -its
infancy. If the entering wedge is driven
now the government will be committed
to a course that will entail the expendi
ture of millions of dollars, all of which
must be diverted from the rivers and
harbors, the postal service, the. public
domain of the state and the educational,
interests that have' been so generously-
endowed with broad holdings of public
lands.
The canal would add nothing to j
the general wealth of the state. It
wouldjnot even draw hither an additional
sail. It is distinctively a local im
provement, and should be paid for by
the local interests benefited. ' The con-
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
ABSQlMTEUf BUBS
ception belongs to Villard. In the hey
day of his power he took up the matter
and started engineers and experts upon
the work of compiling estimates and
running levels. . But he never dreamed
of tapping the United States treasury for
the money required in the work. He
was to contribute half of the requisite -funds,
and citizens of Seattle were to
contribute the other half, and they were
to share the benefits and profits.
The claim that more harborage is
needed for the requirements of commerce
is too preposterous for serious consider
ation. Seattle has all the harborage she
will require for the next century, and
there is enough of the article on Puget
sound to last for all time to come. The
real purpose of the scheme is to bring
about the expenditure of eeveral million
dollars in Seattle to open up timber
preserves owned by combinations and
corporations, to create an artificial water
power, and to give Seattle an advantage
over the other Puget sound cities in the
way of fresh water berths for ocean craft
coming to these shores. As we have.
paid before, the canal would not add a
bushel of wheat or a pound of ore to
the wealth of the etate, and could in no
respect affect the question of freight
rates either to the seaboard or thence to
Europe. Instead it is a menace to the
opening of the Columbia rher, and when
it is supported by Senator Allen that
gentleman plays a dangerous game of
political chess.
From the Klickitat Lcschtr.
Eastern Washington cannot thank her
senators or representatives for any pub
lic improvement sanctioned by the gov
ernment for this section of the state.
Their eyes seem only to discern the
Sound cities, and any pet or personal
scheme undertaken there is sure to have
their support, no matter whether it is
good, bad or indifferent. For an illus
tration we refer our readers to the per
sistent manner in which they advocated
the appropriation for the lake Washing
ton canal. We detest , men who repre
sent a state that will labor most ener
getically for one part and entirely ignore
the other. . Nothing will help Eastern
Washington more than the improve
ments in the navigation of the Columbia
river being completed at once, yet when"'
it comes rifht down to whether the Col
umbia river or the lake Washington
canal should be granted an appropria
tion, we find they stick most tenaciously
to the canal, while for the river im
provements they appear no more inter
ested in than if it was a river back east..
If it was left to them the chances are we
need not look for relief .until dooms day.
But, thank goodness, we have men in
Oregon who are not only cognizant of"
the benefits that that state would de
rive, but also to H ashington and Idaho.
The conferees on the river and harbor
bill, alte,r being in conference four days,
failed to reach an agreement on the ap
propriation for the construction of a boat
railway around the dalles, etc., and the -other
for the lake Washington canal. .
These were the only two things that .the
conferees refused to agree to, which is to,
be taken up again this week.
Stark Street Ferry.
The Stark-street ferry is doing a better
business than during a long time past.
The people use it largely because the
bridges are opened very frequently to
let water cratt through, causing deten
tions and delays to those who want to
cross the river. The Stark -street ferry
has more luckthan the republican party.
This ferry was the greqt first cause of
the republican overthrow in Portland.
Ex-Boes Lotan, one of its owners,
brought the republican party to grief by
hurling it against the' great oncoming
locomotive r.iogul of consolidation ; but
the ferry escaped and is doing well. Xow
if ixtan can get the collectorship he will
be fully vindicated, can be cheerful once
more, and begin to sing, "Everthe risjht
comes uppermost and ever . is justice .
done!" Oregon ian.
Sullivan Not the Man.
. .Okeuon Citv, 'June 27.' After Sulli
van became sufficiently sober to realize
the situation in'which his drunken talk
had placed him, he made haste to undo
the work, and is clearly not the ravisher
and murderer of Mamie Walsh. . Rich-
ards the German arrested as the sus
pected criminal,-may not be' the right
person.'
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