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VOL. II.
THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1892.
NUMBER 37.
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THE VILLARD LINES.
Tee Original Meas of Tie First Pro
- ioter: Maturing.
THE PURPORT Of HILL'S VISIT EAST
The Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company's Property.
MOUNT COFFIN vs. VANCOCTEB,
The Strength of The Chronicle Story
Plain to Those Knowing Anything
of The Past.
Chicago, Aug. 19. The object of the
present visit of President J. J. Hill,' of
the Great Northern, to New York, ia
fully set forth in a special today which
will be published in tbe San Francisco
Chronicle. The dispatcher has been ad
vised that Mr. Hill is about to secure a
controlling interest in the Oregon rail
vway and Navigation company's line,
consisting of 1 ,000 miles or more of track
between Spokane and Portland, -this
property is under a 99 years' lease to
the Oregon Short Line and Utah North
ern,' the controlling interest in whose
etock was owned by the Union Pacific.
Under the terms of the lease the Un
ion Pacific guaranteed interest on the
bonds, six per cent, interest on the etock
and the expense of reorganization.
Thero are but two ways in which Hill
can gain control of tbe Oregon Railway
and Navigation company's lipe : Either
the Oregon Short Line or the Union Pa
cific has so defaulted under the terms of
the lease as to make that instrument
nugatory, or Hill must hold a controlling
interest in $20,000,000 of the Oregon
Short Line stock. The Union Pacific at
one time owned $14,000,000 of this stock.
but it is very possible that it may have
sold enough to lose its controlling inter
est.. In eituer case it would be a com
' paratively easy matter for Hill to secure
control. Such a conclusion would in
stantly make Hill master of the Union
Pacific coast railroad situation and
both the Union Pacific and Northern
Pacific coast' terminals. He could also
dictate the rates to be charged on Pacific
coast traffic, And the annual contracts
which now give the Union Pacific almost
a monopoly on Portland business. With
a transfer of the Oregon Railway an
Navigation company would go . the line
of steamers plying to every ocean and
river port between San Francisco and
British Columbia, and river lines cover
ing 2,000 miles of territory.
The Great Northern Kast.
Buffalo Courier, 15th. President Hill
of the Great Northern was in Cleveland
last week, and while there closed a con
tract with the Globe Iron works for two
new vessels, to cost in the neighborhood
of $1,000,000. 'The plans for the now
vessels are not completed, but it is un
- derstood they are to be the finest boats
eyer built for the lake trade. They will
be patterned after the ocean greyhounds.
and built for speed and passenger ac
commodatioa regardless of freight car
rying capacity. No expense will be
spared and the result will doubtless be
two palaces such as never before floated
on tbe waters of the great lakes. The
.projectors of tho enterprise figure on
making tho run from Buffalo to Dnluth
in fifty hours, and as President Hill de
manded a guaranteed speed of tw'enty-
two. miles an hour before closing the
contract, it will be an easy matter to
. make the run in the specified time,
This will make a trans-continental line
with the Erie and Lackawanna roads at
this end and the Great Northern from
Dulutli to the racihe coast. -The time
by the new lake route will be several
hours shorter than by the all ran route
via.Chicago.
, Nineteen to Thirty-four.
xacoma imager, mere can be no
question of the strong sentiment in the
state opposed to the canal. It is espec
ially strong in the river counties, and
there are 19 of them in a possible 34,
The people of these counties know very
well that the canal job defeated the very
necessary appropriation for the improve'
ment at the dalles, that would . have
made the Columbia river an open high
way, and thus certainly delayed the re
alization of their hopes of cheap trans
portation for two years and possibly
longer,. By sending the job to the front,
with the indorsement of. the state be
hind it, there can be no doubt that it
will take precedence over every genuine
and deserving improvement, and so de
lay them indefinitely. J
IT FBOBABLY 19 TREE.
Report. Concerning J. J. BUI and the
Oregon Ball way and Navigation
Company.
The Telegram says that a dispatch
similar to the one which we pnblieh to
day from Chicago, . concerning the
present mission of Jim Hill to the east
was shown to Hon. D. P. Thompson in
Portland yesterday, and Mr. Thompson
thought there was no foundation for the
story.
While Mr. Henry Vlllard was exhibit
ing his menagerie of distinguished men
and hogs in Portland, from Europe and
America, tbe occasion being the formal
opening of the. Northern Pacific Rail
way, he the hero; an ugly rumor be
came current that Mr. Villard had been
thrown down in the house of bis friends
friends.
There were scores of men then who.
like Mr. Thompson today standing near
to Mr. Villard, could say exactly what
Mr. Thompson said yesterday : ,
"I do not think there is anv founda
tion for the story. So far as I know, no
transfers nave been made, and unques
tionablv the company still holds a ma
lority of tbe stock. No, I feel certain
there is no truth in the story."
we snail not at present oner any
suggestions to dispute the proposition
ine inlorruation which we have seems
to justify the conclusions of the tele
graphic dispatch.
. There is no questioning the fact that
President Hill, of the Great Northern is
casting out his lines to get ali the rail
way line he can, and it is well known
too, that he had a tilt with the Union
Pacific people about the sound ex ten
sion. it win be remembered that Hill
did not want to bridge the Columbia at
Vancouver, but wanted to cross at Mount
Coffin. Therefore, when the Union Pa
cific refused to accede to his wishes, he
refused to put up any more. money
though he had not advanced his full
share. At that time tbe Union Pacific
was in close financial straits, and, hav
ing run out of money, work waB stopped
as everybody knows. Ever since then
President Hill has been eyeing the Un
ion Pacific system with covetous glances.
The question with us should be:
What effect will it have upon The
Dalles? We are free to say that in this
respect, to us it seems that the benefits
are doubtful. We believe that Mr.Hill
will come nearer carrying out the origi
nai intentions ot Mr. villard than any
one else that could be named. In . fact
that the two men are now so closely
allied, with the Kelly and other St.
Paul and Eastern,' and European
millionaire interests backing them, that
it would not be strange to hear. Drettv
soon, that some of the bears creating the
aownian oi Mr. viuard would be much
more surprised at coining events than
they were to hear that the Montana
farmers were actually feeding Diss eorn
i,i .
in tne ear.
THK COLUMBIA RIVER ROUTE.
The Best Market is The Market Keaehd
by the Cheapest Route.
Ftexu the Spokane Review.
That which is of most benefit to the
producers is tne ability to reach a
market at the lowest expense, and It
does not require a volume of political
economy to convince any reasonable
man that the ability to reach the cheap
est market will redound to tbe best in
terest of the state in which the pro
ducers are located. The natural, sim
plest and cheapest outlet for the pro
ducts of Eastern Washington is the
Columbia river. If the facilities that
may be afforded to the great wheat pro
ducing regions of Eastern Washington
by means of the opening Of the Colum
bia river enabled the producers to lay
their products down at tidewater cheap
er than they can do so by rail at Puget
sound, who can justly say that the re
sult will not be to the benefit of Wash
ngton at large?
So far as the great producers of this
state are concerned, the reduction of
transportation charges and the number
of middlemen necessarily will result to
their advantage and of necessity to the
advantage of the state. If, by opening
the Columbia river, the 15,000,000 or
20,000,000 bushels of grain . produced in
Eastern Washington can reach - tide
water by way of the Columbia river
cheaper than by rail,, why should not
the unanimous voice of that great sec
tion be in favor of opening the Columbia
and Snake rivers? There is not a farmer
in the Palouse or Walla Walla wheat-
growing districts that does not know
that the comparatively short navigable
section of the Snake river resulted in a
difference of fifty cents a ton between
wheat shipped by Snake river and that
shipped by rail north of Snake- river.
When growers in Whitman county were
paying $6.50 a ton some years ago to
Portland,, shippers along the Snake
tiver, those In Idaho, paid only (8, an.
aggregate amount and tax upon produc
ers in the Palouse district of between
$100,000 and $200,000 every season. I
THE COAL CREEK WAR. !
Causes of Tlie DistuHiance IMcli
- ' flow Very Serions.
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CONVICTS LEASED AS MINERS.
Takiog Bread From the Mouth9 of
Honest Law Abiding People.
THK QUESTION OF FUSE LABOR.
Altogether Different From the Home
stead, the Coenr d'Alene and Like
Affairs.
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 19. In stating
the situation of affairs at the Coal creek
mines, the Globe-Democrat says : This
is a nght lor bread for tree citizens,
against the mistaken policy of the state
officials, leasing convicts to work the
mines. It is a very unfortunate affair,
and the sympathies of the people would
go out to the free miners unstinted had
not the miners over-stepped tbe bounds
of reason and taken the law into their
own hands after the fashion of mob'
unions." A special from Knoxvillesays
it is reported a battle is raging between
the troops and miners, cannonading is
heard in the distance. The streets are
crowded with a mob. The greatest
citement prevails, live newspaper
correspondents who went to. Coal creek
were captured by the miners and held ns
prisoners.
- A Chattanooga special says :' Gov,
Buchanan inclines to the opinion that
tho prison inspectors should declare the
leases void, because the lessees claim
the authorities do not protect them
against a mob, and refuse to pay for the
support of the con victe. Gov. Buchanan
has ordered all the organized militia in
tbe state to the scene of the tronblo in
tho mining region. He made requisi
tions on the sheriffs . of Davidson,
Hamilton and Knox counties for posses
of 1000 men each, and on the sheriffs of
Anderson, Roane, Morgan and Marion
counties for 500 men, or more if they
can raise them., The penalty for any
sheriff's refusing to obey his order is a
term of imprisonment-and a fine. All
the troops will mass at - Chattanooga
this morning, with a brigadier-general
in command, and proceed at once , to
Knoxville, and from there to Coal creek,
armed with all sorts of pistols and guns.
Two companies of infantry, one battery
of cannon and two Gatling guns com
pose the Nashville troops. -
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The Freight Blockade. . -.
New York, Aug. 19. In consequence
of the switchmen's strike beef is very
scarce and growing scarcer. Dealers be
lieve that although beef will bo higher
tomorrow there is no danger of a beef
famine in the city on account of. the
strike. A special from Buffalo says:
There is a blockade of freight that from
present appearances will take weeks to
remove. Only, perishable freight is re
ceiving any attention and that is getting
little. A long line of sentries surround
the Lehigh and Erie yards, and it is
near Cheektowaga, and it is next to
impossible for strargers or strikers to get
anywhere near the yards. Soldiers
have strict orders not to admit anybody,
except those who really have business
there of the utmost importance, and
these are cross-questioned and only ad
mitted inside the lines on passes. There
are guards everywhere in fact.
Tacoma Sunday Amusements.
Trade. Sunday seems to be changing
from a day of blessing to a day of horror
and bloodshed in Tacoma. Two weeks
ago last Sunday policeman Cudihee was
murdered, last week Sunday Thomas
Gourcki was killed in a saloon brawl and
last Sunday Henry Harris brutally mur
dered his daughter and then committed
suicide.
Other "Cities" Should do Likewise.
Eugene Register. . Many of our ex
changee still persist in calling ' this
"Eugene City." We would inform
them that there is no such, place. Our
amended charter is now nearly -four
years old, and according to that the
name of this city is plain and simple
"Eugene.'. . .- . . .
The Burbon Usages. . .- -Review.
: The infamous convict laws
of Tennessee and other southern" states
were passed by democratic officials. The
burbon clings lovingly to old outrageous
usages that smack so strongly of slavery.
TOURISTS ON THK COLUMBIA.
A Delighted Tourist Party from Port
, ' Iwnd.-to he Cascade Lock.' "
lhursday morning - an excursion
party, of about a dozen persons,-boarded
thestesmer DalleB City for a tripp the
Columbia to the cascade locks. Among
the party were some tourists from New
York, South Carolina and Texas. To
theso people the scenery along the
Colombia was grhndi and they were loud
in praise. The Kodak was brought into
use at every noted point. : At Bonneville
tbe boat was hailed by some tourists
that had gone up there on the train.
They had been misinformed about the
trip. The wanted to eee the cascades,
but hud been told that there was no
boats running that" far up the river.
For the benefit of tourists we will state
that there is a line of boats running from
here to The Dalles. That the steamer
Dalles City leaves here every morning
(except Sunday), at 6 o'clock a. m., for
the cascade locks. Thcro is a transfer
by rail of about three-quarters of a mile,
and then the steamer Regulator conveys
passengers and freight to The Dalles.
At this season of the year a' trip up
the Columbia is one that can never be
forgotten, The different .. water-falls
pour down the mountain side, glisten in
the. sunlight like a bright flow of eilver;
the -gigantic rock formations, Rooster
rock, Cape Horn, Castfe - rock j in fact,
all thj places of note show themselves
off just now to good advantage. '-The
long mosses and lichens ' which . hang
gracefully down the face of these rocks
and greatly to their grandeur. One of
tbe tourists remarked that he had been
in the Yosemite valley ; visited tbe Big
Trees, but saw nothing in all his travels
that could be compared with the scenery
ub the Columbia river ; and his trip had
more than repaid him for the; distance
he had traveled.
One Old gentleman from New York
expressed the wish that he wonld like
to have Castle rock In bis back' yard at
homo, but when told that. the,, base of
the rocfc.coveietf over ioTtf&eteil he de
cided not to take it home with, him,
it tootr up mors ground than . he sup
posed it woald, Tho party, returned in
the evening well' pleased with the trip,
and the many courtesies shown them by
Captain Short, and Purser Butler will
commend all tourists to take the. steamer
Dalles City for the Cascade locks. The
boat goes every morning except Sunday,
at 6 o'clock a. m., from the foot of Yam
hill street. ' . ' - '
-The Presa Association.
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Portland Chronicle. The Oregon Press
Association will meet at The Dalles on
the..2ith. of : September.- Preparations
have been, completed for making 4t one
of the most Interesting' : assemblages of
the editors ever held in the state. Sup
erintendent Mit shell of the Portland Ex
position, has set Saturday,'' September
24th, as Press Day. at the Exposition.
This data has been set so that members
from other parts of 'the state can attend
the Press Day gathering and the con
vention at The Dalles on the same jour
ney. The session will be held two days
and about 130 members are expected to
be present. -It ia arranged that a large
number of the delegates to the Wash
ington assembly, which meets at Spo
kane that week, will try and visit their
Oregon brethren; and the compliment
will be returned by. a number of : The
Dalles delegates.
, Bears, Berries,
Etc.
. Pnneville . Nbwb. - Bears and black
berries and picknickcrs are thick in tbe
Cascades. .:. Last, week near one of the
Prineville camps they got too thick and
the ladies left tbe berries to the tender
mercies, of the bear, which ferocious ani
mal "howled .too fearfully awful."
When the men came in from hunting
they repaired to tbe scene and found the j
threatening tones to emanate from the
tops oi two trees that were being chafed
together by the wind.
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Presa Association Meeting.
Heppner Record. Tho Oregon Press
association will meet some timeJn next
month at The Dalles. The meeting will
doubtless be made a source of pleasure
and should be made a source of benefit,
but if the meeting is conducted as they
have been heretofore we fail to see where
the benefit comes in, and they had just
as well not meet at all except for pleas
ure.
Baker County Squirrel Hunt.
Democrat. Polecats are becoming
disagreeably numerous in the city and
he trace they leave behind them is even
more obnoxious than the smell emitted
from the basement of the Hotel War-
shauer under the most favorable condi
tions of the weather and the olfactories
of those who are compelled to endure
tne nuisance.-
THE UNION PACIFIC.
Dispatcnes Cansing jenerons Smiles in
V..-:. ' Portland "
STEAMERS TO CONNECT AT ASTORIA
Efforts ace Undoubtedly Being Made to
Swipe the P. M. S. S. Co.
LII'K or THK TRANSCONTINENTAL.
Tbe New York Meeting Will Perhaps be
of Historic Note In the Pacific
Northwest. ' '
; Portland, Aug. 20. An articlo on
the railway situation in general, and
the Transcontinental association in par
ticular, which appeared in the San
Francisco Chronicle yesterday and was
telegraphed here, has caused a generous
smile to play about tbe foatores the offi
cials of the companies mentioned. ' The
Chronicle says' the fitrht being made by
an Francisco merchants to have freight
rates to and from the east reduced has
placed now the Union Pacific in a posi
tion, to very soon take a . band in the
competition for the business, and that
company- is. making preparations to
that end. - The Pacific Mail Steamship
company, controlled by the Southern
Pacific company, has always been, ban
died as a club with which to threaten
an' intending competitor on water. As
it is likely that the Transcontinental as
sociation will .refuse to pay the subsidy
any , longer, the Union : Pacific will be
ready for, the business by placing dai
ly line of steamers to. Astoria, from San
Francisco.---' The rlew-railway line from
Astoria to Portland, it is an open secret,
is being built by TEe -Union Pacific. The
distance between, "txe two towns is 100
miles, and one-quarter of the road is now
completed. When this line is finished
Jhe Union", Pacific steamers will land
their freight at Astoria and will then
send it direct east. .There is no question
but. the effort to stop the subsidy to the
Pacific.Mail Steamship company will be
made at the meeting to be held in New
Yorjs' next week, but . that the
Unjou ' Pacific contemplates the
establishment of a daily steamer line
between San Francisco and Astoria is
ridiculous.' The company i9 now oper
ating three steamers, which are adequate
to the demands ot trade, though another'
steamer wight be added. . So far as the
building of the rond from here to Astoria
is concerned, Union Pacific people are
not trying to disguise their hand, and
frankly admit that, they are interested
in the measure. Every . Union Pacific
official who has come west during the
past year, says the Telegram, has gone
down to Astoria, not for their health,
but to look after their interests. Apro
pos to the Transcontinental meeting,
and tbe fight in the Pacific Mail, a well
known railroad man said : "The. meet
ing may end in a collapse. The associa
tion boards are dissatisfied because thev
-are compelled to pay an annual subsidy
of $850,000 to. the Pacific Mail, which
is nearly ' controlled by the Southern
Pacific company." " ;
HORN.
In this city Aug. 19th. to the wife of
Hugh Chrisman, a son.
Pay the Price of the
Royal for Royal only.
Royal Baking Powder is shown by actual
chemical tests ' absolutely pure and 27 per cent,
greater in strength than any other brand.
: Many , grocery stores have recently been
stocked with second-class brands of baking
powder, which are urged upon consumers at the
price of the high-cost, first-class Royal.
These powders cost from 8 to 30 cents a
pound less than the Royal, besides being of 27
per cent, less strength. If they are forced upon
you, see that you are . charged a correspondingly
lower price for them.
American Bleats in Demand.
Washington, Aug. 20. A cable from
Berlin, stating that trichina; had been
found in American hams and bacon, is
positively denied by Sec. Rusk. He
says: "We have not - been officially
notified that any hams or bacon bearing
our governmentcertificates of inspection
contained trichina?. - There have been
meats which did not bear the govern-,
ment stamp but were certified by some
German consuls in . the United States
which passed into Germany. They aro
doubtless those alluded to in the dis
patch. We have been unable to meet '
the demand in Germany for our in
spected meats. They sell fifty cents per
hundred pounds higher than uninspect
ed. Germany has never refused our in
spection. We have no objection to their
inspection."
Cheating the Native Sons.
Sheridan Sun. - Tbe gobbling np of
large tracts of fine timber lands in the
coast range is cheating many a native
and adopted son of Oregon out of rights
under the law to a homestead. No one
ought to get government land in Oregon
except by actual residence upon and cul
tivation of tbe tract selected, according
to the law.' The law governing the par- .
chase of lands has been grossly abused,
and hundreds of men have perjured
themselves to secure land for corpora
tions whose aim is to cut off the valua
ble timber and bold the large tract ac
quired at speculative figures, thus impe
ding the settlement of the country,
which, if it is done at. all, must be by
the needy but actual settler. .
Westmlnester Refrigerator.
Columbian. The fish refrigerater at
Port Essington is a profound mystery to
the Indians. They cannot understand
how the building is kept cool when
sparks, smoke and steam are almost al-;
way 8 issuing from the place. This re
frigerator is used principally in putting
up white salmon, which are shipped in
ice filled cases to Italy, where there is a
great demand for the fish thus preserved.
These fish have hither been cast away
as useless, whereat they ' now realize a
fair price,' and thus afford a new channel ,
through which whites and Indians alike
may profit in the future. ,"
' - A Pull Together
Condon Globe. ' Plenty of water has
been found in the various new wells
which have just been dug in different
portions of town, sufficient to supply a
town five times the size of Condon; If
some of our citizens will now stop then
peevish, childish jangling and pull to-'
gether more harmoniously, instead of
encouraging the town to divide np into -a
half-dozen different factions, we will .
soon have the leading city of tho Inland
Empire. No town ever prospered much
until its citizens all pulled together for;
jte improvement. - ' .
Gasoline Stove. Disaster. .
Cmco, Cal., Aug. 20. As a mart
named Wright was tilling a gasoline
stove, which had been burned , out but.
retained a spark of fire nomewhere, it'
exploded, enveloping himself, wlto and
3-ycar old child in the flames. The.
house was burned down and the child'
perished in the flames. Mrs. Wright
cannot live and Mr. Wright is badly,
burned, his arms to the elbow being'
fairly cooked. One hand will be crippled
for life. . - .
I nwelcorao Visitors.
Moro Observer. Tho quietude that
prevades the Phelps ranch at the mouth
of the Deschutes was somewhat disturb
ed last week by the presence of a rattle
snake, it wild cat and n grav fox. The
trio furnished considerable spoit for
Fred and his brother, it being the first
appearance there of such novel visitors.