THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONIQLE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1892.
GLADSTONES' SPEECH.
Thelmse Has Kow Met. But wnat
Foif' Tiie Queen's Speech.
THE RETURNS ON THE GREAT ISSUE.
Must the Battles of the Past Six Years
be Again Fought Over?
A VKBDICT AGAINST GOVERNMENT
Valfour Followed Gladstone In n Speech
JBnt It Hal Not Yet Been Repotted.
Minor Topics. '
New York. Auk. id In the Louse of
Commons yesterday, Gladstone began
Lis speech against the government. He
said the government had departed from
precedents in not resigning when the
verdict of the country was against them.
The houso had now met, but what for?
The queen's speech told them nothing.
Was the house of commons to fight the
battles of the last six years over again?
Never had a great issue submitted to
the country been so fully discussed as the
issue decided at the last enthusiastic
general election. Turning to the matter
of home rule, amid loud cheers from the
Irish members, Gladstone said the
claims of Ireland had been for years the
forefront of the battle, and that the
position he held, and the principle of his
home-rule bill were pretty well known
By the provisions there would be a full
and effectual maintainance of imperial
supremacy, while Ireland would be giv
en conduct of her own affairs. He en
tertained no doubt about the duty of the
liberal government in the event of rejec
tion of the home-rule bill. Its rejection
would not terminate their duty. Bal
four followed Gladstone in a speech.
The Scene of the Sixties.
Long Creek Eagle. The Sloan & Has
kell mine on Elk creek would now re
mind one of the scene of the GO's. When
they reached the .spot where O. C,
Cresap had taken out a pile of gold in
the early days they were compelled to
move their entire apparatus to some dis
tant spot up the creek. While this
task is being performed they have put
their force at drifting in the old claim
r t . . . i yi
iormeny. womea Dy pxi. vresap, in
v wmcn it is oeneveu taere is unknown
-quantities of gold yet. " It will require
the remainder of the season before, thev
will be prepared to. run. the hydraulic,
therefore a force of men will be kept at
work'drifting the remainder of the year.
Just So Here,
Klamath Star. The new-mown hay,
dead loads of it, is coming in now, and
the fragrance thereof wrestles with all
. the sweet odors of the gardens; and
comes out on top every time. If
' Shakespeare could come back to life
and walk upon this sweet mountain a
while, his new poetry, all redolent of
our hay fields and flower gardens,
would put its soft charms around the
necks of our soft hearts and hug, oh ! so
tenderly. Klamath's great hay gar
dens are turning out great, sweet crops
this season, and every flower garden
looks as pure and innocent as a married
man at a picnic.
Money in New York.
San Fbancisco, Aug. 10. The sub
treasury train from this city reached
New York at 10:40 a. m., yesterday, on
time and without any hindrance or ac
cident. The amount transferred was
124,500,000. Second assistant Post
master-tienerai Jeu was on nana to re
ceive the treasure, and drawn up in the
enclosure were fourteen mail wagons,
bix cars containing tne gold were
switched back to a siding and the work
of unloading began. The wagons were
soon filled with their precious load and
on their way to the sub-treasury on Wall
street.
The Weather Bureau.
Portland, " Aug. 10. Reports for
Eastern Oregon crops eay : "Wheat is
being harvested steadily and will be a
fairly good crop, except in some por
tions of the northeastern counties. Oats
are doing well enough. Corn would be
improved somewhat by a little rain.
The weather conditions , that have ob
tained during the last seven days have
been, as a rule, favorable to vegetation
in nearly all sections of the state and
were all that could be desired for har
vesting purposes." v
Republican Prospects Flattering,
Moscow Mirror. The Idaho republi
cans stand a big chance of carrying the
state by a large majority. One of the
counties giving the largest democratic
majority is nnder martial ' law, and the
leading democrats are. either in the
guard house or in jail,, charged with
murder or other crimes.
A Decided Dampener.
n m mi a '
pathy expressed by the . democratic
press for Private lams received a sad
dampener when it was learned that
Col. Streator is a democrat. '' - I
Sax. Fbancisco, Aug. 10. June. 1st
Paul Rehm anil August Hermanos,
natives of Germany, who have been em
ployed as mechanics in the Guaymas
railway shops in Mexico, left here to re
visit their native village in Germany.
When they reached New York, they re
ceived letters from home urging them to
return to Mexico, and warning them
that they would surely be arrested un
der the conscript laws, and be compelled
to perform military eervice. . Kehm,
however, decided to take his chances,
and started for home, after having ad
vised his mother that he would remain
at home only one night. In a letter
from Saxony it appears that Kehm pas
sed through Belgium on his way to his
native town. Arriving there at mid
night, he remained until four o'clock in
the morning conversing with his aged
mother, and then left at once for the
Belgian frontier, but was arrested on the
train when only a few miles from the
border. The offense charged against
him was for avoiding Germany military
service. -
Bow i it Done East.
In the Buffalo Courier, of August 6th
there appears an official circular ad
dressed to "All parties interested in
navigation and in the construction of
the harbor of Buffalo," issued by
MajRufliier of the United States En
gineers' office which reads as follows:
"The adopted project for the work on
the outer harbor of Buffalo contemplates
an extension of the main breakwater of
800 feet more to the present structure.
Then the sand-catch pier is to be ex
tended to 16 feet of water, and an arm
2,800 feet long, will be built so as to lap
the south end of the breakwater, leav
ing an opening 150 feet wide for an exit
The funds now available can build all
this work except 350 feet of the break
water and 800 feet of the shore arm. near
that structure. When this is done the
outer harbor would be practically secure
for piers and wharves. An expression
of your views is requested at your ear
liest convenience."
The circular is headed : "Now is the
time to express your views on Harbor
Construction."
Parlies interested in an open Colum
bia river would be most happy to see
some such circular as that issue from
Maj. Handbury, of the United States
Engineers' office, informing us by the
heading that
VNow is the time for yon to prepare
your bids for the completion of the Cas
cade Locks!" ,
Strike Near Olive Lake.
The year of 1892 is in some respects
similar to the year 1862, in the region
of The Dalles, -relative to mining
discoveries. It has been a good year
for .prospecting, and a great many "grub
steaks" have been delving into the bow
els of the earth, some of which show
very promising results. The Eagle re
ports that one of the richest gold discov
eries ever made in Eastern Oregon was
made near Olive lake by Jack Coyle and
B. H. Bennett. They have run two tun
nels in only a short distance, when as
says were made, showing up $114 ore in
the upper tunnel, and $2,457 ore in the
lower. The figures were received from
ore taken from the ledge near thesurfacej
and is quite likely that when greater de
velopments Lave been made," a better
grade of ore will be discovered."
The Last Day for Fishing.
In a communication to The Chron
icle, commissioner Geo. 1. Myers says:
"Will you kindly warn all fishermen
that the salmon fishing season of 1892
will close at 12 o'clock midnight, August
10th. Any devices, of traps, wheels nets,
etc., found operating during the closed
fishing season will be dealt with the full
penalty of the law. I have notified all
parties I know of, that are fishing at
this time, and have also notified the
prosecuting attorney in each county to
take notice of the fact."
Teachers' Institute.
Remember- the teachers' institute
August 22d. Two of the best instruct
ors in Oregon will be here Profs. J. H.
Ackerman and Frank Rigler, of Port
land. President Bloss, of the agricul
tural college, will lecture the evening of
the 23d. State Supt. E. B. McElroy is
expected one evening. A fee of fifty
cents per week, half the usual amount,
will be charged teachers, to help defray
expenses. Board for teachers at re
duced rates.
The Fillibusters.
lie view. Among the historical relics
to be exhibited at the worlds fair is the
chair occupied by Thomas Jefferson when
writing the declaration of Independence ;
the table on which it was signed ; the
silver inkstand used on that occasion ;
Jefferson's sword ; his thermometer and
lock ot his hair. Yet a democratic
majority in congress was pig-headed in
opposition to doing anything for the
fair. Jeffersonian democracy is evidently
on the wane. '
Mr. Albert Owens is a prominent
young larmer near V innebago Uity,
Minn. He spent hundreds of dollars in
endeavoring to recover from nervous
prostration, and a year ago was so low
that a report or his death reached the
editor of the Winnebago Press News.
An obitunay of Mr. Owens appeared in
that paper, and was read by him.
While in this condition he began taking
Miles' restorative remedies, and in a
short time he was a well man. Says he
never felt better than now. ,
A POLITICO-SETBACK.
Tie Peoples Part? as an Ally to Soutn
; . era Democracy.
THE BUCHANAN-TURNEY TRADE.
An Experience Which Will Drive New
Party Men Back to the Old Times.
NOT A BOOM FOB GENERAL WBAVER
Matters are Shifting Around to a Proper
Appreciation of the Mass of
Voters.
Chicago, Aug. 11. Adolph FraMf,
the central! figure in the organisation of
the peoples party, has returned from
Alabama where he took an active part
in the late contest. He says the hopes
of destroying either old party are wan
ning. To an Inter-Ocean interviewer he
said : The result of the election in Ala'
bama is far from encouraging to the
people's party, and it gives a particular
ly sharp setback to Gov. Buchanan of
Tennessee. The' governor had with
drawn from the contest for the demo
cratic nomination, leaving the field clear
for Peter B. Turney, but it was under
stood that he wonld make an independ
ent race, with the endorsement of the
people's party, in which event the state
could scarcely be kept in the democratic
column. The overwhelming defeat of
Mr. Kolb in Alabama, however, may
give Gov. Buchanan pause. He will
think twice before venturing upon a race
which may end in crushing disaster.
And if the Alabama failure of the peo
ples party shall serve to damp the en
thusiasm of Gov. Buchanan in Tenessee
will it not equally and in a similar way
affect the dissentient democrats in the
other southern states? Will it not tend
to check defections and encourage
waverinsr members of the new party to
return and renew allegiance to the old
organization? The Alabama election
was certainly not a boom for Weaver.
The Nigger In the Woodpile.
Ochoco Keview. This begins to look
as if the hope, of the people of the Inland
Empire for an open Columbia river was
to he blighted, or at least that several
years may be required before the gov
ernment can determine just what is to
be done before a contract will or can be
let.; It is certainly an unfortunate af
fair to have work oh this great and much
needed public improvement suspended
for even a day. And it is disheartening
to think that the men who framed and
passed the river and harbor bill did not
know enough to plainly state the facts
so that the secretary of war and his
"able" corps of engineers could under-.
stand the meaning of the appropriation,
and the provisions for letting the work
by contract. There have been so many
hitches about the improvements at the
cascades that people generally, have : for
a long time been thinking that there was
a "nigger m the wooapue" somewnere,
and that some of the so-called friends of
opening the river are insincere, and are
not working for the removing of the ob
structions to navigation of the river,
but to detain the work as'much as pos
sible, and thereby advance the interests
of the railroad company which now al
most has a monopoly of the carrying
trade down the Columbia.
Patronize Home Dealers.
Eugene Guard. The buggy peddlers,
mentioned a few days since,, have ar
rived and we understand are working
Lane eoivnty for all there is in it; Farm
ers and all other residents of this county
should bear in mind the . experience of
former years in buying articles from
transient agents. Our home dealers in
variably carry a better selected .stock
and at lower prices than yon can buy
them of the traveler when the question
of lasting utility is taken into considera
tion. Always patronize your home deal
ers, for it is they who share the burden
of taxes with you, and maintain a home
commerce, without which towns and
cities, with .their manifold advantages
in the way of education and progression,
could not exist. v' -
The Banner Line.
Ochoco Review. r The trip from Prine
ville to The Dalles over Branner'a line,
via Bakeoven, is made in two days,
while on other lines it requires three
days. Fare on Branner's line from this
place to The Dalies, $7.50, round trip
$14.
Denver Is Thronged.
Dknvek, Aug. 9. Over 250 trains,
loaded with passengers, have arrived in
this city wfth comparatively little con
fusion, since Saturday last, and it is es
timated there are 100,000 strangers in
the city today.
The Magnates' Line.
Telegram. President Clark and Jay
Gould are whipping the streams-of
Idaho, and Jim Hill is employed with
his line which is pushing across the
state of Washington to the sound.
. . -H A Curtis Prediction.
'Astoria Herald.: It is reported that
Messrs. Goes and Scbofield are interested
in Ihe Tanzy Point property and that it
is their intention to make that the term
In liS of the Astoria and eastern railroad.
There is no JoSbtbtit the .machine shops
will be located at that point and that
the bnlk of tha shi n.??1 be done
n - i
from there nrvnn a a iha nlot-of rTa
i VVH "W -feUW 4 4 V V V U M
built Just what effect this will have
on Astoria cannot be determined, but if
there is no hitch in the programme the
Herald ventures the assertion, that in
less than two years, Tanzy Point will
have a larger population than Astoria
Sanlisburys Policy.
Uregonian. Lord Salisbury has the
courage to meet a hostile majority in
Parliament, but not to proceed with
legislation in lace of it. His failure to
resign probably means that he wants to
force Gladstone to take the initiative by
an attack npoa the government. He
may think Such an attack will betray
the weakness of the heterogeneous and
disorganized force, with which Gladstone
must work, more folly than negative
opposition to a government measure.
How not to Build a Town.
Oaksdale Sun.. The Spokane Chroni
cle wants to blame the dullness of Spo
kane on the republican party and cites
it as an example of our prosperity. The
trouble with Spokane and many other
places is that such papers as the Chron
icle are all the time howling calamity
and hard times, and as these things do
not exist in other sections, people are
not very anxious to flock to a place that
bids them come to starvation.
Irrigation in Crook County.
Prineville News. Wm. Dunn has
brought the waters three creeks to his
desert spring ranch through eleven
miles of ditch carrying 150 inches of
water. The ditch was only recently
completed, but by its use Mr. Dunn will
be enabled to harvest the' second crop of
hay from his rye field, which, he says is
well adapted to irrigation and is now
showing a better growth than during the
season of the first crop.
Called the Wrong Turn.
Athena Press. It is reported that I.
O
, Jacks, who left Athena a few years
ago and became an enthusiastic Tacoma--
ite, has been very unfortunate of late
and has lost most of his property on ac
count of the hard times, brought about
by the reaction of the boom and the
scarcity of money. His many friends
here will be grieved to hear of his mis
fortune. '
. Pendleton Wheat Market.
.kast Uregonian. .- .No regular prices
have -been jeatablished . Sor ; new.: wheat,
and but. .few transactions have- taken
place j The grain differs greatly in qual-
Uy rand.the price ranges all the way
from .forty- to fifty-six . cents a bushel
Indications are. that when the market
settles quotations for No. 1 wheat will
be 55 to 60 cents. -
Hard to Shoe.
Chicago News. The ' Jollet Republi
can calls Charles A. Dana of the New
York Sua "that grand old democratic
war horse." He may be, but the train'
ers didn't break him well. He is a sort
of a man-eating stallion, and awful hard
to shoe.
Current Topics.
Gen. James B. Weaver", the people's
party 'candidate for president, arrived
in San Francisco. ' There ' was a mass
meeting of the people's party at the
mechanics' pavilion, and Gen. Weaver
was among the speakers, of course.
There is nothing new in the hunt af
ter the train robbers ' and murderers.
Sheriff Kay's posse are all in the field.
All hopes of capturing the bandits are
growing beautifully less. They have
taken to the mountains and will prob
ably be able to defy and evade any
force sent against them.
Jessie Gough, the 9-year-old daughter
of the county auditor, at Dayton,
Wash., was very seriously burned Sun
day afternoon while playing with some
children at a bonfire. Her clothing ig
nited and she ran through the yard.
She was with difficulty caught by Mrs.
Bailey, who threw a comforter around
her and smothered the flames.
From the serenity that prevails in
the neighborhood of Buzzard's bay, we
judge that the bluefish are biting vora
ciously. A Kansas paper says Senator Peffer
has already elected Grover Cleveland,
but. as we are informed, he has not yet
inaugurated him.
A Chicago paper says scientific men
agree that the recent hot spell was due
to the western prairies, being afire with
enthusiasm for Harrisou and Keid.
When the railroad to Jerusalem gets
into operation it will be fun tar see how
the Turkish government will wrestle
with the rullman car porter problem.
The poet who wants "the sweep of
the wild, wet weather" needs only pa
tience. He will get it some day when
his umbrella is. missing.-. Why are po
ets so impatient? -
In Chicago habitual criminals locked
in the police stations and brought - into
the police courtB are now in danger of
coming in contact with small boys who
are. so depraved as to go swimming in
the lake.
GARFIELD PARK CASE.
A Legal Contention Which Needs
laiM Adjudication.
IS POOL SELLING . GAMBLING,
Constitutionality of the Illinois Statutes
Applicable.
A VITAL QUESTION LEFT OI'E.N
That Horse Kaoe Gambling Is a Common
Law Crime is Not a Matter of
Grave Doubt.
Chicago, Aug. 11. The whole United
States is more or less directly interested
in the now celebrated Garfield Park
case. The decision of Judge " Baker
amounts to this : "Pool-selling, book
making, or in other words betting on
horse races is gambling. The amuse
ment licenses of the city all provide that
no gambling shall be allowed in the
places licensed. Therefore, belting on
races being gambling, the mayor cannot
issne a license for an amusement where
admittedly gambling is to be carried on.
Upon this ground the mandamus asked
ior by the Garfield Park club is refused
The court : declined to pass upon the
constitutionality of the statute of 1887,
The statute prohibits pool-selling and
book-making in general, but by a pro
vision tacked on at the end excepts from
the prohibition fair and race-track in
cisures during the time of the meeting
of the association operating the same.
But while the court did not .declare the
law unconstitutional it held that the law
did not repeal the criminal code wherein
is forbidden gambling, which, according
to Judge Baker, embraces betting on
horse races. In the absence of proof to
the contrary the court assumes the law
of 1887 to be constitutional.
This leaves open the really vital ques
tion : Did the legislature have a right to
license gamblers within race track en
closures nnder any circumstances and
conditions? If horse-race gambling is a
common-law crime, as are murder and
theft, the legislature did not have that
power.' That horse-race gambling is a
common-law crime is. not a matter of
grave doubt. But there was no issue
before the court which involved the
question of whether pool-selling is a
crime. Therefore there was no express
decision on this point- It is now pro
posed to have a test case which will de
termine this question. This legal con
tention is perhaps . well enough. The
law needs adjudication. But it is to
the discredit of the' mayor that, with
law and ordinances on his side, be per
mits the Garfield park track to remain
in operation. 'The policy of. Mayor
Washburne is to let the place run and
see if the law is strong enough to close
it. A courageous mayor wonld shut
up the place and let the gamblers hunt
for authority to reopen it.
Prick's Assailant. .
Uuiro, III., Times. Considerable in
terest in the attempted assassination of
Frick was revived here this afternoon
by the publication that Bergtuann is
really Hermann J. Orwartz. Orwartz
was an eccentric Russian Jew, who
came here from Chicago, small in stat
ure, with an irascible temper that kept
the office in trouble for two weeks. He
had a swarthy complexion, black hair
that bung in a mass of curis, wearing a
Prince Albert coat and a very dirty
shirt. . He smoked cigarettes constantly
and claimed that he had once been ban
ished to Siberia for political offenses.
Ho also claimed to have been officially
honored for conspicuous bravery at the
time of the yellow fever epidemic in
Jacksonville, Fla., and in proof of this
exhibited a red cross medal and a di
ploma signed by Clara Barton. He
was an avowed nihilist and his descrip
tion and that of Frick's assailant are
almost identical.
Race War in Oregon.
Oregonian. Chief Peo, of the Uma
tilla tribe, sat down in u colored boot
black's chair at Pendleton and demand
ed a shine. The negro, who evidently
thought his dignity would be compro
mised by blacking an Indian's shoes,
indignantly refused. " Chief Peo talks
fair English,, but he had' to fall back
upon his native tongue in order to ex
press himself. That portion of his re
marks fit for publication might be trans
lated about like this: "I've had my
shoes blacked by a white man in New
York, I Btopped at the best hotel in
Chicago, and you're too black for me."
This did not fully express his indigna
tion, and he returned, after pacing off
several steps, to remark : "You're only
a black son of a gun anyway 1"
The assassin Bergmann is addicted to
the cigarette habit. Comment is un
necessary. It is said he substituted a
dynamite cartridge for the cigarette, at
the time and attempted to commit sui
cide by exploding it with his teeth.
This, it is believed, is the first time on
record that an anarchist's law ever went
back on him. . '
THE PLOT THICKENS.
Is This One of the Knotty Things Major
Handbury Was Looking for?
J Yesterday's Oregonian contains this
"innocent-appearing" dispatch from
Washington:
EIGHT 1I0CUS A DAY.
The navy deportment has about de.
cided to advertise for bids for tbp con
struction of the Puget sound dry-dock.
A telegram from Brannigan, the low
bidder, from Seattle, states that he can
give all tho bonds required if be ia
awarded the contract, bat the new eight
hour law which is . in force, has deter
mined the officers having the matter in ,
charge to readvertise. This new law
prohibits the officers of the government
from awarding contracts to any person
who purchases material of any kind
from any person who does not have in
force, in his business, the eight-hour
system. All government contractors
will have to be bound by that, law now,
and it might mako a material difference
in the course of constructing the dock.
The same law must be observed on all
government work, including the locks at
the cascades and the Portland public
building, when work begins on tlmt. '
now IT WOBKS.
An act of congress, approved Auguat
1st, provides that no officer or agent of
the government in cbargeof any govern
ment work shall require or permit airy-
man employed upon such work to labor
more than eight hours per day, under
penalty of not more than $1,000 fine nor
more than six months' imprisonment.
The act does not apply to contracts let
before its passage. In the caso of the
government steamer Cascades, employed
in towing rock from here to the jetty,
and in many other cases, this law,
which appears to have been framed es
pecially for passage in the year of a
presidential election, is going to inter
fere with the progress of work, and
cause it to cost a great deal more than
originally estimated. The law does not
say that 10 hours' wages shall be paid
for eight hours' work.
A l'ortland Youth.
Portland is the home of the boys and
girls aid society, but judging from the
Telegram last evening, Portland is so
busy looking after the children of her
neighbors that she does not observe the
neglected ones at home. The Telegram
thus describes a Portland youth smoking
a cigarette "in violation of law:" "To
day a small boy, not to exceed 8 yean
of age was observed smoking a cigarette
with a great deal of relish. He was a
regular street Arab shoeless, costless,
dirty, and ragged. . . An old broken,
bleached, dilapidated straw hat bnt
meagerly. shaded-his sun-burned and
freckled face, while there was a gener
ally tough and slouching air - about this
uyenile exile from home and moral in
fluences. It was somewhat amusing to
see this little gamin take a package o
cigarettes out of his pocket, carefully
pick one out and replace the bunch;
then to witness the cool nonchaleace
with which he took a match and struck
t on the leg of his trousers, and pro
ceeded to ignite the cigarette and puff
away as big as life."
The Dalle All a i'ark.
How to appreciate the beauty and
health-giving qualities of The Dalles
surroundings, is sometimes difficult to
the man whose occupation pins him -
down to a daily routine. But an occa
sional paragraph like this, from a Chi
cago paper, brings with it a realizing.,
sense of the noble situation of a home
which, like The Dalles, is all a park.
The Chicago News says : "It is at such
times as these, when t)ie mercury in
the thermometer rises to the top of the
glass, that people realize the full value
of the magnificent parks of the city.
At all times tho parks are beautiful. .
They are in cheerful contrast to the
granite-paved, iron-spanned streets of -the
business quarter. They are incom
parably more beautiful than the most
beautiful residence streets. But while
they are thus attractive at all times
they do not assume a true utilitarian as
pect save when a breathing place is not
only desirable, but absolutely neces
sary. There can be little doubt that.
during the last few days the parks have
done very much to keep down the
death rate. They have done much for
the health of the citizens that the doc
tors could not do, learned and efficient
as thev are."
ttchool Taxes Due.
School Clerk J. M. Huntington ha
officially notified the taxpayers in Dis
trict No. 12 that taxes will be delinquent
after the 15th. Also that the board ot
directors of said school district wiM sit
as a board of equalization at the office
the school clerk on Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday, August 10th, 11th
and 12th, 1892, at which time all com-
plaints as to wrongful or unjust assess-,
ments must be presented. The board
will positively refase to hear any com
plaints or make any correction after the
said 12th day of August, 1892.
Reports from Venezuela show that an
archy reigns throughout the republic.
Many of the petty leaders are collecting:
small armies and are fighting each other -for
the purpose of self-advancement.
The whole country has been pat under
anas.