THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1892.
HORSES IN CHICAGO.
Sales Advancing Readily Botn in Prices
and Numbers.
LIMITED OFFERING IN THE SCALE.
Condition of the
Cattle Market Much
Improved Last Week.
RECEIPTS ABE BELOW ESTIMATES.
Cowl And Mixed Stock Share the Ad
vance of a Brisk Trade The News
Wanted.
Chicago, Aug. 8. You may say that
the Chicago market is active for horses.
Witout any special cause, the recent
dullness started in actively last week,
and prices ranged from 20 to 30 per cent
in advance of previous sales, closing Sat
urday: 1,000 1b. draft, $100 to $230;
1,400 lb. chunks, 1-10 to 100; 1,400 ex
press, $170 to $200; 1.230 chunks, $125
to $175; stceeters and extra drivers in
demand at from $100 to $300' per head,
according to conditions.
Receipts of cattle during the week fell
far below the estimates, being less than
half the arrivals of the corresponding
week. With the usual demand and such
limited supply a mild advance would
have resulted, but orders for all classes
of cattle were on a limited scale and the
trade was only moderately active at an
average advance of 1015c. Heavy
cattle were not even readily salable at
that advance, the demand being very
light, but the good, light and medium
weight steers went off briskly and the
supplv was cleared at an early hour
daily. Cows and mixed stock shared
the advance of 1015c, the trade ruling
quite brisk at that advance. Range cat
tle composed half the supply, there be
ing 2,000 westerns and 3,000 Texans on
sale. Both branches of the trade were
active at the general advance.
HirocmsT of rn:ti : jkkn.
The Billion Dollar Congress and
iu
Counterfeit Counterpart.
The present democratic house of rep
' resentatives, with about 140 democratic
majority, contrasts very unfavorably
" with the last house of representatives,
- with the republican majority, in the
"billion dollar congress." The billion
dollar congress was controlled by men
who had brains and plenty of horse
sense and it gave the people full value
for their money. While it spent only
about one billion dollars, it was worth
at least ten billion to the people. The
McKinley tariff bill alone will save the
people ten times as much money as the
billion dollar congress appropriated,
while the billion dollars went where it
would do the most good, in improving
rivers and harbors, erecting - public
buildings, building war ships and forti
fications, and in hundreds of useful
ways all laudable and necessary, and
the money was put in circulation among
the people, where it belongs, which is
Jar better than keeping it locked up in
-the treasury, as the democrats have
boasted they would do, but have failed
to keep their promise.
After making as large appropriations,
or larger than the republicans did, and
we have no fault to find with them for
this, only because of their demagoguey
and false promises ; they have tried to
cover up their tracks, and make a false
showing of economy bv filibustering dur
ing the last week or ten days against the
$5,000,000 for the worlds fair. This is
;all humbug, they intend to pass the bill
finally, either before the present session
uloses or after the presidential election
next fall ; and arc trying to get votes
under false pretenses. It is very little
better than a confidence game by which
sharpers swindle honest but credulous
people out of their money. Such hypoe
irisy in public servants is disgraceful and
ought to be rebuked by the people.
'She democrats are not entitled to any
credit for their conduct in this matter
but deserve the severest censure.' This
big democratic majority has blowed long
and loud about being a cheap affair, but
it is dear at any price. Eugene Journal.
Conquest of Blot by Law.
. PrrrsBrKG, Aug. 9. When asked
what was the plan of his company to
ward the Homestead strikers, Mr. Love
joy said : "We have started in on his
conquest of riot by law, and it will be
carried to a finish. - There would have
been more informations before this but
for the fact that many of the strikers en
gaged in the riot have ran away. Mean
while evidence against them is being
gathered, and when they return infor
mations will be made against them, and
tbey will bo arrested. If they don't
come back they will bo followed up till
they are arrested, and brought back for
trial."
What Is Needed.
IJWaterville 'Democrat. An open river
to the sea is what eastern and central
Washington wants, and not a big ditch
on the sound. .
THE DALLES POISONING.
A Statement from Coroner Eastwood,
of Wasco County.
From the Oregonian.
I see an article in to-day's Oregonian
in which Dr. Otto S. Binswansger ex
presses his opinion .rather freely con
cerning the , poisoning of Mrs. Matilda
C.Rogers, of this place. It occurs to
me that the doctor is expressing him
self upon a few fragmentary portions of
the "report sent by some one to the Ore
gonian, which does not purport to give
the evidence in the' case at all. It
would seem, therefore, that an opinion
based on such a report roust necessarily
be worth far less than that of the chem
ists who analyzed the stomach of the
deceased, and his judgment as to the
merits of the case far more likely to be
wrong 'than that of- the ' justice, who
heard all of the testimony and the argu
ments in the case. . It appears to me
that one with the information that was
before the doctor is a little presumptu
ous in thus criticising others who are in
a far better situation to understand the
case than he is.
I think the facts will show that he is
laboring under mistaken idea through
out the case. He says the statement
"either sulphate of zinc or chloride of
zinc after the analvsis is made is worth
less. The examination must show with
absolute certainty which one of the two
was contained in the stomach." Does
the doctor know that a quart of em
balming fluid was injected into the
stomach, and two and a half quarts
more were injected into the abdominal
cavity around the viscera, and that this
fluid contained large quantities of both
sulphuric and hydro-chloric acid?
not then he does not understand, the
case and should not be venturing his
opinion upon it. Can the doctor tell
under these circumstances in which
form the poison entered the stomach?
Again, he says that the report says
that Mrs. Rogers died "suddenly" and
that neither of theso poisons will kill
suddenly. Again he does not under
etand the case. Mrs. Rogers was sick
from Sunday until Thursday morning,
Does this give the poisons time to pre
duce death? If so, then there is noth
ing in his argument to the effect that
death cannot be attributed to either of
these poisons. Again he says : "It
very doubtfulthat after a body has been
buried for one or two weeks, even if
was embalmed in the ordinary way, it
would show yet distinct inflamation
of the stomach ana intestines, in or
der to carry some weight such a state'
ment must come from a physician and
not from a chemist, whose knowledge of
pathology is at best very rudimentary.'
The three physicians who removed the
stomach and intestines have all testified
that the same were in a good state of
preservation, while one of the chemists
who made the analysis was also a phy
sician and testified to the evidences of
inflamation. So it seems that the doc
tor is laboring under a .misconception, of
the case throughout. I am informed
that he was consulted in regard to mak
ing this analysis, but the job, for some
reason, was given to other parties. Per
haps this fact accounts for his interest
in the case and possibly dreams of a cor
roborative analysis may have enlisted
some of the sympathies he expresses.
Let the proper officers try this case as
the law makes it their duty to do. That
they will discharce this duty to a con
scientious manner no one doubts, and
the defendant stands in no danger of
being convicted on insufhcient testi
mony JN . M. H.ASTWOOD,
Coroner of Wasco county
Whales at The- Beach. .
A ruturned sea sider says there is great
competition between Clatsop and North
Beach this year. He says the North
Beach people secured a whale early, but
it proved to bo an elephant on account
of the excessive flavor, and a worlds
fair exhibitor was next secured to boil
the whale, and pack the bones in a box
for Chicago. Not to be outdone, the
Clatsop people employed Captain Mun
son, the famous trout and salmon fly
fisher, to coax a school of whale up to
the beach. That he was successful
may.be inferred from this paragraph,
from the Astoria Examiner: "An
interesting sight presented itself yester
day at Clatsop while the tide was flood
ing. Eight large whale were counted
sporting around just outside the surf, so
near, in fact, that one could almost cast
a stone out to where they were playing
about. Later in the evening two more
monster whale were seen, almost in
the same spot. Sea lion are very nu
merous around the beach now, and it is
a common sight to see a score of them
sporting about in the water near the
surf." . .
Current Topics.
The Washington Republican state
convention meet in Olympia tomorrow.
Many delegates to the state league are
are on hand, and President Tom Cava-
naugu expects about 350 will be present
when the league meets tomorrow. The
principal work will be reorganization.
Cavanaugh, who has been president
three years, does not want the office
again. Kreider, the secretary, says
there will be a change all around.
Keep Tour eye on Clatsop.
Dispatch. Dr. Mullinnix, of Astoria,
is in the city. If every county in the
state was-under the management of such
a working democrat as the doctor, Cleve
and Steve would have the electoral vote
of Oregon. ..
THE TRAIN ROBBERS;
SnrronnM With a Prospect or Capture,
Perhaps May . -
GEORGE CONANT UNDER ARREST.
Eis Nonchalant Way of Telling How
he Made His Funds.
said he dad a r atent aik brake.
The Guards Intend to Bold Him More
Securely Than His Predecessor
Orat Dalton.
Visalia, Cal., Aug. 9 News was re
ceived yesterday that the train robbers
are surrounded ten miles from Oroso,
and will be taken dead or alive today,
unless they should escape further into
the mountains.-, John Sontag, one of the
gang, stopped at the New Reedley hotel
July 22d and was very talkative and as
tonishingly profane. He spent the even
ing in the hotel, drinking beer. A drum
mer for a shoe manufacturer in San
Francisco was there.' Sontag made him
drink till they emptied four bottles
Sontaz told Landlord Avres he was
going to Squaw valley to join his brother,
and then they were going shooting,
Conant, who is in jail here is kept care
fully guarded. After their experience in
the escape of Grat Dalton, the officers
keep the prisoner on a ball and chain
whenever he is admitted to the corridor
for air, and no one but officials are per
mitted to.talk with him. Ho retains his
cool, polite demeanor, and answers all
the questions put to him by the officers
and detectives in the same nonchalant
manner as when he was first-interrogated.
An important discovery has
been made at the Evans house in the
6hane of four pieces of fuse, such as is
used in exploding dynamite cartridges.
Around these pieces were wrapped the
business cards of a laundry in' Man-
kato, Minu., the home of George Con
ant. In the light of "recent events the
cynical humor of a remurk once dropped
by Conant is . becoming . appreciated.
He wae a freesper.derof money, and one
evening, whilohe was playing, billiards
at the Palace hotel here, a bystander
asked him : "Where do you i get' -so
much money? You don't ., eeein to
work' for it.'T "On he ; said wth tf
laugh,"! have a patent air brake for stop
ping trains, which I've been out intro
ducing,- and its a great success." When
asked what he had been doing during
his absence this spring he said r "Iv'e
been over the mountains introducing my
patsut air brake" It is belieyed now
that bis patent air brake consisted of a
shotgun and dynamite bombs..-
Mills Started Pp.
Duquesne, Pa.l Aug. 8. At 6 o'clock
yesterday morning between 500 and 600
men, acting unanimously, as previously
agreed to, effectually broke 'the strike
in. the Carnegie mill at this place. They
returned to work in a body and the sol
diers are not required to: -protect them
The repair jtnen . had : the mill ready for
running.; , Steam was turned on. and the
several departments returned almost
full and began to turn out finished
steel. There were many members of
the new Amalgamated lodges, which
were formed here since the strike began,
among those wuo went oacic to worK
and they did it openly and without fear
of what their companions would do
There was no disorder at all.
; Parliament Opened. -
London, Aug. 9. The Queen's speech
was rea'l to parliament yesterday. The
speech 'said that, as the business of par
liament was practically completed be
fore the dissolution under the procla
mation of June 28th, it is not necessary
for parliament now to continue the ses
sion at this unusual period of the year.
Hope was expressed that when parlia
ment meets at the customary season it
will again direct attention to measures
of social and domestic improvement.
The lost portion was greeted with groans
by the liberals. Barton, conservative
member for Midarmagb, moved an ad
dress in reply to the Queen's speech.
To be Tested.
Portland Telegram. i County- Judge
Moreland has purchased at sheriff's
sale several large mortgages on . which
the owners have declined to pay' taxes.
The county now holds these mortgages
by virtue of the sale, and Judge More
land will apply the legal test to the
question as to whether or not the hold
ers must pay any taxes on them. The
question to settle is whether the mort
gage tax law is worth anything. The
supreme court will have toadjudicate the
matter. Should the county win, it will
bo of great advantage to those who aie
compelled to bear the burden of taxa
tion. -.. . :
Cosmopolitan Klamath.. '
Star. Carloads of Iowa pork continue
to arrive in Oregon.' Corn is cheap in
Iowa, but Klamath county don't care.
We raise our own pork, and let the Iowa
corn rustle.
SPECIFICATIONS WAN f ED.
A . Popular Movement Is . Absolutely
... Needed to Start the Work at the '.
..'J' , Cascades.
; A gentleman in Portland, who ia au
thority upon the subject', informs-ns
that nobody about the United States en
gineers office consider that they have
anything further to do with the Cascade
locks on the Columbia. "
They seem to think they are left like
Othello, since the passage of the general
appropriation bill. The clause trans
ferring the completion of the locks to
the contract system left the engineer de
partment without funds, as certainly as
if no bill had passed.
That is the proper view to take of it.
That is just as it is but the engineers
have a work to perform, nevertheless.
Ka contracts can he let, until Hie plant
and tpecijicaliong are prepared.
' Bidders are now waiting" tor these ;
not only in Oregon, but elsewhere; and
there need be no solicitude expressed
fearing that these gentlemen have any
doubts about the ability of the gover
nment to meet its share of the obligation;
imposed by the contract under the act.
It has been intimated that there are
some knotty points at issue, which re
quire time to straighten them ont.
How much time?
The river is falling. '
Time is precious.
' People are on the anxious' seat ; and
want to know whether they are to wait
another decade or so for the plans and
specifications? If so, a little dynamite
must be used to get a move on those in
authority. - . .
The Inland Empire has- been bottled
up altogether too long. When our
readers see what the rest of the world is
accomplishing by their God-given rights
of water transportation, as set forth in
our Buffalo dispatches today; and by
what has been done, by the famous
Sault Ste. Marie canal, they become
clamorous for an open Columbia river,
Tho Dalles is no more deeply inter
ested in this matter than the balance
of the Inland Empire; but of ono fact
the people may rest assured, if The
Dalles and the Iuland Empire do not
force tho matter to a prompt and decia
ive issue it will not be forced. That's
all there is about that. The only help
that can be expected below the Cas
cades must come from Vancouver and
Astoria. Portjand does not want the
river opened, any more than docs the
Union Pacific railway company.
THE . TUNA HEDGE. .
The F-nre of the FutureUtility , Econ
omy. Beauty.
Especially adapted, to this climate;
soil and demands of the people "horse
high, bull strong and rabbit tight.''
"tie is a public benefactor who. causes
two blades of grass to grow' where but
ona bad grown before." The advan
tages of the Tuna hedge are :
1. In two years it makes a fence that
will turn rabbits sheep and hogs, and
in three years It turns everything.
2. It is the cheapest fencing ever
nsed, as it supplies' the material for all
time to come.
3. It does not sap or impoverish the
ground, being strictly an atmospheric
plant, and will hot grow from the eeed
or by cutting the roots, and hence will
not 'spread. - '
4. It grows only from cuttings, and
will grow in the dryest ground, drawing
its sustenance from the air.
5. It requires no trimming, growing
in perfect shape and height for a fence
6. It has been thoroughly aud satis
factorily tested in climates more rigor
ous than ours, and does not winter-kill,
having been successfully grown in
Ohio, Kansas, Texas and Colorado for
the last nine years for fencing purposes.
7. It can be planted any time of year
except in mid-winter. -
8. It ornaments your homes, being
an evergreen and blooming through the
months of May, June and July.
9. This wonderful plant opens its
bloom just as the sun crosses the me
ridian line, making it a timepiece.
10. It also has a small, pear-shaped
fruit, -which is red when ripe and quite
delicious, but, being hard to gather, it is
not much used. .
It will be delivered about October 1,
1892, and in order to introduce it in
this country extra inducements are now
offered. We respectfully solicit investi
gation, and invite you to call and ascer
tain fully in regard to its merits, as
this is an opportunity to secure fencing
material that has never before been
equalled. It does away with the mutil
ating barbed . wire, gives the old posts
and rails for firewood, and supplies
fencing material on the farm. Address
Johnson & Moon, The Dalles, Or.
The Campaign Committee.
Chicago, Aug. 9. The republican
campaign in the west will be directed
from here, subject to the national exec
utive committee, by W. J. Campbell, of
Illinois; J.N. Huston, of Indiana; E.
Rosewater, of Nebraska; E. G.' Evans,
of Minnesota; H. C. Payne, of Wiscon
sin. Campbell will be chairman. The
committee will have supervision of the
canvass over the west, especially in Ind
iana. Illinois and Wisconsin. W. O.
Bradley, of Kentucky, member of the
executive committee, will have charge
of the southern states, and J.H. Manley
and Sam Fessenden of New England.
The Pacific coast has not yet been pro
vided for. , ' - "
WATER V. RAIL ROUTES
Advantages Conferreil Dpra the People
' by the Erie Canal
BENEFITS BY ALL WATER ROUTES.
An Array of Facts and Figures That
Cannot be Disputed.
Al'l'HCABLE TO THE COLUMBIA.
An Aggregate Saving to be Divided Be
tween Producers Amounting to
8135,800,000. '
Buffalo, Aug. 9. All parties inter
ested in water transportation will be
edified by the statements of Edward P.
North, concerning the operations of the
Erie canal last year. Mr. North says:
"Although, on account of the practice
of vessels going up light, only about
30,290,000 tons of freight were trans
ported during the season. They were
carried an average distance of 266 miles ;
so that, multiplying the tons carried by
the distance in miles, we have nijre
than seventeen thousand million ton
miles, or a freight distribution equal to
almost one-fourth of the ton-mileage of
all our railroads. This lake freightage
has been done at an average charge to
shippers of 1.3 mills per ton-mile. The
shipments by railroads, on the con
trary, are averaged by the Interstate
commerce commission at 9:22 mills per
ton-mile ; so that there waB a saving on
each ton transported by this water-road
over the average charges by railroad,
for an equal distance, of $14.48, or an
aggregate saving, to be divided between
the producers and consumers of this
country, of more than $135,800,000. As
the government has appropriated not
quite 130,000,000 for the improvement
of the great lakes, their harbors, and
the rivers that run into them, the peo
ple of this country received, through the
cheapened distribution made possible
by this expenditure in the single year of
1891, four and a half times the total
cost of the improvements ; or, to state
the advantages of this improved water
way in another way, the cost of lake
freight was six and one-half per. cent, of
the value of the goods transported ;
whereas, if they had .been transported
at . the . average charge for railroad
freight, the cost would have been fully
forty-six per cent, of their value. . This
percentage would have, obviously taken
so large a part of tho value of a consid
erable proportion of the goods that the
labor and profits of their production
and distribution must have been lost to
the community, if dependence had
been placed on railroads alone.
Big Works at Niagara.
Niagara Falls, Aug. 9. It is stated
that one of the largest brass and copper
mills in the world is to locate here, and
that preparations have . already been
made for the erection of the plant which
will occupy fifteen acres of ground. The
site has been secured and will front on
Buffalo street. The main building, ac
cording to the plans will be 200x300 feet
in size and three stories high. The new
company is one of the largest concerns
in France and it is expected several
hundred men will be employed in the
mill here. The engineer of the company
has been in the city some time jirepar
ing plans, but the matter has been kept
very quiet tor some reason.
. A Sensible Community.
Junction Times. From a showman we
learn why Robinson's great circus gave
Albany the go-by. He says Albany is
booked as the poorest show town in the
valley. He says further that the whole
country comes in to witness the free
parade, the stores and business houses
close for the same purpose, but when it
comes to pay, they are not in it. "If
we were to give Albany a free show,"
he said, "it would require a tent as large
. . . . , .
as Khode island to accommodate me
people. Its a rank show town, and is
so rated."
All Good Judges, But
Klamath Star. A Portland editor
says any man that votes for protection
in Oregon has hardly as much sense as a
sheep 1 Portland editors are au gooo
judges of sense, but the glasses through
which some of them look at the subject
are often a little too full.
Positire Proof of Insanity.
Klamath Star. The fact that Wilson
the murderer, became his own execu
tioner is positive proof that he was in
sane. A murderer too delirious to put
his hoe into the long and easy row of
technicalities, neither knows nor cares
how rocky-his hoeing is
Ton Put up the Gold
Review. English analysts say that
there is not a trace of gold in the Keeley
cure. We fear that our British cousins
will never understand American humor.
You Bee Keeley puts up the bichloride,
and his patients put up the gold.
A BRILLIANT SHEET.
Digging Deep Down Into-the ' Depth
for an Excuse for Net Opening
' the Columbia Klrer.
A brilliant sheet ia the Tekoa. Globe,
says the Review. . It can generally be
relied upon to find the wrong side of
pnblic questions, and it is, therefore,
not surprising that it should howl for
the Seattle ditch as against the work of.
opening tho Columbia river. With
pitiful incomprehension, or amazing
nerve, it defends Allen, 8eattle, and the
ditch, because' tho railroads make fa
vored rates to the terminals as against
the interior towns and cities, entailing
"an unnecessary addition to the cost of
every article we use, wear and con
sume." How this burden ia to be
lifted by digging a canal to two lakes
back of Seattle ia a point overlooked by
the Tekoa paper. The consumers and
producers of the interior have always
entertained a belief that the only way
to break a railroad combination was by
opening the Columbia river, and men
free to exercise their independent judg
ment know that this relief cannot be
hastened by a policy that asks for
$506500 for Seattle's local Job, and only
$10,000 for eastern Washington and the
upper Columbia. The Tekoa Globe
may be stupid enough to think that the
railroad problem can be altered by tho
digging of a canal at Seattle, but it ia
very certain that nono of its readers
will show such a density of intellect.
Trout Creek Opals.
Prineville News. Within the last
few days a valuable discovery has been
made by Hoskins Bros. & Co., on the
headwaters of Trout creek, in the form
of an immense deposit of opals of the
finest quality. They are said to excel
the opals of the far-famed ' Mexican
mine. They are found in a formation
peculiar to the opal, topaz, agate and
amethyst, and this mine shows them in
their greatest perfection. The forma
tion is Geode, in nodules, the interior
of which contains the gems. - Hoskins
Bros, are experienced miners for pre
cious stones, . and they feel highly
elated over- their 'discovery. Work of
development will begin at the mine im
mediately and arrangements- will be
made by which the lapidary art may be
applied to the stones " of the- mine.
These gentlemen also have interests ia
the Morrow county opal fields, which
have attracted considerable attention
during the past two years.
Bandits Attend Church. . ,
Pittsbukq, Aug. 10. When the posse
on track of the Cooley bandits vera in
formed that the gang attended church at
Smithfield Sunday night they were al
most paralyzed. The gang boldly rode
up to the church door, hitched, their
horses, and entered tho sanctuary as
calmly as the oldest mombers., They
wore their belts with revolvers displayed,
but carried ' no guns. As they sat on
each side of the door' tbey were ' recog
nized by dozen's of the members who
knew them by sight, but the terrified,
congregation were too timorous to go out
past the bandits and give the alarm.
No more outwardly devout than the out
laws on the back sent could be found
among the members, and when the contribution-box
was circulated they all
chipped in. - While .the congregation
sang the Doxology, the outlaws slipped
out, mounted and rode off, yelling like
Indiana. No attempt was made-to ar
rest them. . . .
At. the Monumental.
Eagle. The company of ' Portland,
parties interested with Jack' Powers in
his mine on Greenhorn have made ar
rangements to run another three thousr
and foot tunnel, at which time, when
completed their developments will ag-
gregate about $30,000. They- will then
put up the proper machinery to reduce
their ore. Chas. Miller, who owns the
Monumental mill, is at present engaged
hauling ore from his mine to the mill.
This is a portion of the ore which was
taken out last winter, and which he
could not transport to the mill laBt fall
owing to the great amount of snow, and
unbroken condition of ' the roads. He
will start his mill as soon as there ia
enough ore on hand to warrant such.
Walla Walla and Pendleton parties can
be found on all parts of ' the Greenhorn
mountain working assessments on their
newly discovered property.
Has the Merit of Novelty.
Union-Journal. The East Oregonian
wants a law enacted providing that coun
ties can issue scrip in denominational
amounts of from one to twenty dollars,
bearing eight per cent. It argues that
this would give the peoplo that inflated
currency they so much desire. Draw
ing interest, as they wduld, there would
not be an overplus, because as the silver
mounted np, the scrip would be with-,
drawn from circulation and held as an
investment. This would keep all script
at par, while enough would be lost or
destroyed to' reimburse the county for
the interest paid out on the balance. It
is offered by the E. O., as the greatest
cure for our present financial system. It
has the merit of novelty, at any rate.
Timely and Appropriate."
Telecram. Bishop Morris' protest
against the cnrisicniog evrviue mvuo
exposition is timely and appropriate
There is no occasion for making the
sacraments of the church a drawing
card for a secular performance. The
things which belong to Caesar should be
kept distinct from those which belong;
to God. '