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VOL. II.
THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1892.
NUMBER 38.
CHICAGO IS SINKING.
Tiie Board of Trade IMn Setting ttte
Precedent
THE BLUE CLAY STRATUM BROKEN.
It is not Strong Enough to Support
Such Massive Structures.
FfECT OF DBEDOING TflE K1VEB.
To
Increase Displacement Will Cause
That Much More Settling of
Building.
Chicago, Aug. 26. The statement
that the board of trade building is sink
ing iuto the ground, and that it has al
ready gone down eight inches, is not
surprising to those who are acquainted
with the nature of the soil of this city.
The foundations of such structures as
. the board of trade building- are on the
blue-clay stratum which underlies the
city. While this blue clay is strong
enough to sustain the ordinary building,
it is not sufficiently strong to support,
without yielding, such massive struc
tures as some of those which of late
years have been erected here. Of course,
where the bunding settles evenly, no
serious results are likely to arise from
anything that can now be foreseen. It
is only where they settle unevenly, as
in the case of the board of trade building
and the government building, that the
results are really serious.
Engineers say that there are evidences
that the weight of the buildings resting
upon the blue-clay stratum is gradually
forcing the bottom of the river upward
In many places in the river the bine clay
has been dredged out repeatedly, to riee
-tip again in a few weeks.. It has been
assumed by the engineers that to dredge
the river to any great depth, as has
been suggested at different times in
connection with the drainage policy,
would increase the displacement of blue
clay in the river, and consequently
cause the settling of the great buildings
just that much more.
BENEFITS OF AN Ol'EX 1UVEK.
What Might be Experienced Through
out The Inland Empire. -
From toe Spokane Review.
The portage railroad at the cascades,
built by the state of Oregon, was com
pleted last year in time practically to
open the Columbia from The Dalles to
the sea before the shipment of the grain
crop 1801 began. The immediate effect
of this was telt throughout the entire
section tributary to The Dalles, and was
marked by a marked increase in the
business transacted. The following fig
ures from The Dalles Chronicle show
to what extent this increase grew in a
single year.
in lsau the total shipments 01 g'am,
flour, feed and mill stuffs were 462,150
pounds. Last year it was, of wheat
alone, 10,313,596 pounds, requiring 51C
cars for transportation. In 1891 3,000
000 pounds of wool was Ehipped from
The Dalles; this year it will exceed
5,000,000 pounds. Careful estimates
place the prospective shipments of wheat
from the Dalles this venr at flO.000.000
pounds, an increase of 79.204,655 pounds
over the aggregate shipments of the two
previous years.
The acreage tributary. to The Dalles
has been greatly increased. New settlers
have been encouraged to aid in develop
ing the country, and all industries have
been stimulated by the better opportu
nities afforded for reaching market and
the cheaper transportation rates which
competition has granted.
the benefits which have occurred to
that section from the building of the
portage road would bo experienced
throughout tho Inland Empire were the
entire river opened to navigation. The
thousands of acres now under cultivation
would be increased to tens of thousands,
the flocks and herds would grow in pro
portion, and all lines of industry would
feel the quickening influences afforded
by an open waterway to the sea.
The resources of the great section
drained by the Columbia and Snake
rivers are manifold, and while to the
railroads is due much of the prosperity
now experienced in this territory, the
fullest development can not be had until
both streams are loosed from th'er rocky
fetters and water transportation affords
a cheap and safe means of reaching the
ecuuuaru.
JUSTICE IN EQliADOR.
THE . PORTLAND EXPOSITION.
Gross Indignities Heaped Upon an Am
erican Citizens.
SUIT TO BE BROUGHT FOR DAMAGES.
The Only Explanation is That be Was
Mistaken For Another Man.
e
TOLII TO GET OCT OF THE COUNTItY.
Remarkable Resemblanee to an English
Swindler Account For the Brutality.
The Last Strike.
Buffalo, Aug. 26. An evening paper
giving an account of the final ending of
the strike here savn "The. 1nt strltrn
brought blood from the nose of the ,,!an of edncat5on experience, it is a
Grand Master Sweeney." He was met
Theosophy I Spreading.
Review. Theosophy is close in line
with voodooism, faith in Indian thera
peutics and trust in the Chinese doctor's
unique ideas about the human form and
how to keep it in health. And since
several thousand oth rwise intelligent
people look with awe upon a rabbit's
foot obtained in a graveyard, and other
thousands will buy a nostrum heralded
as an Indian herb cure, in preference to
a standard preparation of some Dhvsi-
by a crowd of strikers yesterday de
manding that he declare a strike from
New York to Chicago. Words ensued,
and Switchman Quinn, pf the Nickel
Plate yard, struck Sweeney a ferocious
blow, knocking him down. The blood
flowed in a stream from Sweeney's nose.
V4U1UU gut ma leaaera Dead against a
telegraph pole and punched and pounded
him until pulled away. Much excite
ment prevails. A visit to various rail
road offices elicited the information that
the roads will not take back the strikers
to their old place in the body. Many
will not be taken back at all, and all
ujusb uiHKe tueir applications soon, as
the new men will be considered m the
same order as other applicants.
matter of small wonderment that the
osopby has obtained a foothold in this
country and is spreading. All the dis
coveries that have been made in nature
in fifty centuries have done nothing
toward opening the sealed book of fu
ture existence. The scientist of today
knows no more about the bourne from
which man cometh and that toward
which he journeys day by day than was
known by the cave dweller of prehis
toric times.
Washington, Aug. 2G. A sailor
named Edward Carlin formerly employ
ed by tho Pacific Mail company, a citi
zen of the United States, has entered a
claim with tho state department against
the government of Equador for $50,000
damages. Carlin says he went to Equa
dor in 1888. At Cuanco, an interior
city", he was siezed by the police author!
wen ana tnrown into tue vilest sort of a
dungeon, where he was brutally treated
for several months. He was then forced
to work in the mines for a year, and
after that was returned to prison, where
he was kept nine months more. He
was then released and told to get out of
the country. The only explanation of
fered for the indignities heaped upon
him was that he was the wrong man.
After his release Carlin discovered that
he bore a remarkable resemblance to an
Englishman who had swindled a number
of people, and it was on this account he
had been arrested. Carlin's story has
been corroborated by a number of Am
ericans and Englishmen at Cuanco and
has a good case. v " --'.' .
tbe'hojik rclk hill.
The Forerunner of the Great Chicago I
Worldg'Falr This Tear.
THE TOURISTS ELYSIUM
t
It Main Linos Given by a Prominent
London Paper.
London, Aug. 24. The Chronicle this
morning give the following as. the main
lines of the home rule bill, as believed
to be agreed upon between Messrs.
Gladstone, McCarthy and Dillon :
First That the present land legisla
tion shall not be disturbed for five years.
Second That the police and judiciary
shall be in the bands of the Dublin par
liament.
Third That the balance of the Irish
A private note from the business-like
and operoso superintendent, R. W.
Mitchell, of the Portland exposition, in
forms us that premiums this year ex
ceed, in amount and number, those of
all former years, notwithstanding the
alleged fact that "times are as hard as
the winter of 1881."
The Portland Industrial exposition
for this ycaf will be the repository of
the Chicagd exposition of 1893. This
should be sufficient inducement to sug
gest to every enterprising man, woman
and child in the state that an unusual
effort be made towards presenting some
thing from every part of the state, to
the - end that . the same, at the proper
time, may be forwarded to Chicago.
They will give free storage and take
good care of any and all exhibits at the
close of tho Portland exposition, which
exhibits are intended for Chicago. Par
ticipation mean 8 a rehearsal for the
great showing of 1893. Mr. Mitchell
says: . ' - j
"Twelve counties have already signi
fied their intention of coming in with
county exhibits. It is our desire to
give every county an opportunity to
show what it boosts of, and what it has
in toe way ol inducements to settle
ment. To enable each county to ex
hibit, the different transportation lines
have given greatly reduced rates. . These
rates took effect August 16th and are as
follows : AH articles for exhibition at
the Portland expositions on which full
tariff rates may be paid to the exposi
tion, will be returned free-to- point of
origin, if on the railroad line, and to
junction point: if on an originating or
connecting line. All that is required is
that the shipper shall present, within
five days of the close of the exposition,
certificate, signed by the secretary,
stating that the articles have been on
exhibition, andhaye not changed own
ership".' " . The only exclusion Js race
horses. Articles of a perishable nature
that, for any reason, may. not be re
turned, and ,on which full tariff rai
have been paid to the.exposition, will,
be treated as follows; Consignees of
such articles shall be refunded amounts
paid, on presentation, and surrender to
the agent of the original expense bill,
accompanied by a certificate from the
secretary of the exposition to the effect
that the goods were on exhibition, have
not been sold, and no revenue - derived
from them. . I . '., ;.
"The Portland industrial Exposition
was never started with the idea of mak
ing money, or a holy .show of itself; it
was organized for the benefit of other
people. We believe' it should : be ' sup-
Report No. 1 From The National Editor
ial Association.-. -
EDITOR HUGH LINDSAY'S VISIT,
Though Small in Population The Dalles
is Large in Generosity.
A CBAND TBIP UP THE COLUMBIA,
Visit to the Cannery And Other Points
: of Interest in Company With Mr.
'; K. Sehanno.
North Powder Grain.
TT ! TV 1 ,
viiiuu nepu oiican. Last Sunday a
Republican representative visited the
great wheat-growing country in the vi
cinity of North Powder. The crops . in
tnat section are going to be immense.
It does one good to look upon the oceans
of waving grain, such as is to be found
mere, we walked through a field of
wheat on the Davis Bros.' ranch, in
which the grain measured from three to
five feet high, and so thick that it would
scarcely stand alone. This field is one
land a quarter miles in length and con
tains about 300 acres. Last year this
jSeld produced an average of forty-seven
Bushels of wheat to the acre. This is
pnly a sample of the thousands of acres
hf growing grain in that productive sec-
ion. The acreage tills year is much
arger than last year and large tracts of
pew lands are being broken every year.
When , that entire section baa been
laced under cultivation the quantity of
pain that It will produce, will be aston
Jibing. '.'
K. of P. Election.
Kansas Citv, Aug. 26. The supreme
lodge of the Knights of Pythias elected
the following officers yesterday: Su
preme chancellor, W. W. Blackwell.of
Kentucky ; supreme vice-chancellor,
Walter B. Richie, of Ohio; supreme
prelate, T. Blackmer, of California
supreme master of exchequer, F. J.
Willey, of Delaware ; supreme keeper of
records and seal, L. C. White of Ten
se; supreme master-at-arms, J. H
Lyon, of Kansas; supreme inner guard.
A. C. Gardner, of New York ; supreme
outer guard, John H. Thompson of
nnaiungton, v. j.
. . . . . .
church fund shall be at the. disposal of P?1 not 111 mxaT ana.8ty,e Dut ,n
the Irish legislature. plain, every-day sort of way. It is will-
Fourth That thi F.noii.h' "gto, and has, for the past four years,
general of the bill of 1880 shall be dis- afc least' earned support- This year,
Densedwith ' it will present a dress rehearsal, eo far
Fifth That on the other hand there M lne racmc northwest is concerned, of
shall onlv be one nefam ffonaif mant I nat is expected ox ns at Chicago. We
and the Irish parliament ehall not have ave a prett? biS exposition. It
power to levy separate duties. wm ue aneaa 01 anything yet given to
Sixth That there nlmM h mwoi e people ot uregon, rich or poor. For
vote to be exercised on the advice of the
English ministry.
beventh That thirty Irish members
shall be retained at Westminister.
The Chronicle believes that Gladstone
abandoned with great reluctance the
idea of a receiver general in deference to
the wishes of the McCarthyites.
Bow It Applies.
lacoma Aews. The peoples party of
King county "resolved" that the Wash
ington canal would be a benefit to the
whole nation ; on the same principle,
we suppose, that axle grease on the
axle is a benefit to the whole wheel.
the first time, we have. succeeded in
getting manufacturers to agree to
operate their exhibits; and this alone
will attract like a new hat on another
woman. All the exhibitors are in with
us, and we anticipate a real good time.
Come and see us on press day. We will
be busy, but will be on deck. Yours
for an Enlightened Press. "'..".
c R; w- Mitchell.
Col. Chapaians Bill... - . .
Tidings. Col. vi W, Chapman, of
Portland, is out with the draft of a bill
to be presented to the, Oregon legislature,
providing for the establishment of some
arbitration to prevent labor strikes in
eeas jczpoanding. tnisEtate. The question will undoubted-
It Was the Washington IndenamlAnt I ly Come before the lepitilatm-e at ita npvf
uiuue jsemocrac. 1 see tnat X nomas which develnnml thonnlo or), ! it, I session, nnrl lnn oot o W. . ,
Inventor Thomas Edison.
The Huntington. Pa.. Dailv Local
News of August 4th, gives the link in
the journey ' homeward, "frbni ' Portland
toCelilo, of that section in which its
editor, Mr. Hugh Lindsay belonged, on
the return trip of the National Editorial
Association, June 1st. Mr. Lindsay
says : The scenery along the route be
tween Portland and The Dalles is grand
beyond description. For twelve miles
we course along the Willamette river to
ita junction with the famous Columbia
river, where a magnificent view can be
had ofMt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, Mt.
Adams and Mt. Ranier, a little farther
on ie Fort Vancouver, an army station
beautiful for location. Next rises be
fore us the stately palisades of tho Co
lumbia, and following in quick succes
sion come bold and impressive rocks,
charming glens, solemn crags, and the
enchanting waterfalls, Oneonts, Bridal
Veil, and Multnomah. At the latter
the train stopped as If to bathe us in the
glory of the scenery. The beautiful fall
springs from a height of 828 feet," plunjr
ing down the mossy mountain side, and
spreading into spray and foam the water
finds its way into .the-bosom of the
mighty Uolunlbia. Reaching the cas
cadea, where the vast volume, of the
river comes dashing through the solid
mountain walls, the excursionists trans
ferred to take a steamboat ride farther
dp the river to The Dalles. There are
many legends told of this romantic sec
tion, once the home of the Chinook.
Twelve miles below The Dalles is Mem
aloose island, bleak, bare and rugged,
the burial place of the Indians, and
where Victor Trovitt, an eccentric Or
egon pioneer, was buried at his own re
quest and a white monument has been
erected- to mark tho spot. ;
While surveying The Dalles, we made
the acquaintance of Mr. Emil Sehanno,
a retired wealthy citizen, who kindly
prottered to escort H. II. McQuillan and
wife, of Massachusetts, and self and
wife, to the salmon fisheries, about two
miles up the Columbia. The invitation
was accepted, and after a drive behind
a beautiful pair of sorrels through sand
dunes made by the wind driving the
sand from the banks of the river for a
great distance inland, we arrived at the
fishery at 5 o'clock in the afternoon,
just as the fifty Chinamen were quit
ting work in the canning process. -:
The cannery we visited was known as
The Dalles Packing Co., owned by Ever
ding & Farrel, established in 887, with
$100,000 capital. The gentlemanly man
ager, J. H. Havely, informed us they
have fifty-three Chinamen employed
under contract with a boss Chinaman,
and the workmen make from $1(J to $30
a month. The legal season for catching i
salmon is from April 10th to August
10th. Since April ' 20th this cannery
has put up about 400,000 pounds of sal
mon. There are forty-eight cans to a
case.. Last year they' put up 10,000
cases, but they expect to put up 35,000
this year. Their capacity is twenty-five
tons per day, but in' 1800, which was an
extraordinary year for salmon, one
wheel caught forty-one tons in ono day.
This is not as big a story ns the one told
by George Francis Train, who eaid he
visited the dalles many years ago, and '
the run of saimon was so groat in the
Columbia river that he wnlked across
on the backs of thelish. We asked the
proprietor of tho hotel about this story,
and ho said that Francis Train did not
walk across the river, but he did get
half-way over on the backs of the sal
mon, and then got frightened and turn
ed back. The redoubtable George Frau
ds Train is still living, however, and he
and tho landlord can fight it out.
It is an actual fact, whether our read
ers believe it or not, that we saw salmon
that weighed sixty pounds caught in one
of these wheels. We wanted to bring
one home to convince any who might be
disposed to doubt their veracity, but
didn't want to bring more than wc could
carry. If you doubt us take tho first op
portunity and goto the Dalles. We had .
the pleasure of sampling one of the
small fry salmon, which was kindly pre
sented to us, and never tasted a better
flavored fish.
It is near the cannery that you see the
gorge from which the dalles takes its
name. - It is two and a half miles long,
but the depth has never been fathomed.
The river above is from 2,000 to 3,000
feet wide, and in flood time is often a
mile in width, but for this two and a
half miles the great body of' water is
compressed into a narrow oloft about .
130 feet across. Tho water in the Col
umbia comes from the melting snow in
I the mountains ; during a June rise the
water has risen here sixty and seventy
feet. The river was getting on a high
when we were there, and we thought of
the denizens of the Juniata valley in the
memorable flood of Juno 1st, 1889, when
the river rose, twenty-five feet, but
sympathy with the people of The Dalies,
would be useless, as the flood is a ferti- '
lizer and never does so much harm as it :
does good. - - ."
Low Freight Necessary.
Astorian. Every cent .that . is added'
to the price of wheat here gives an im
pulse to its production. It is cheap I
transportation that has enabled the
Dakota grain grower to raise wheat
profitably hundred of miles west of Du
lutb. It is cheap transportation .that
permits the Kansas wheat growers to .
compete successfully in foreign markets
with those of Oregon and Washington.
There was a time when the grain grow
ers of the west raised small crops and
received scanty returns therefor. - They
now raise immense crops and make fair
profits. . All that is due to low freights..
Like progress will take place here when
low freights enable our farmers to make
more money by growing wheat.
I , Unlimited Resources.
Seattle Telegraph, And now we are
fold that the foothills of the Cascades
are the natural home of the honey bee.
Emigrants fnotn the limited east, when
they come here, will please bear in
mind the sentiment, "If you don't sot!
what you want, ask for it." There may
be things which this bounteous west
does not produce, but we have no use
for them.
Bad for the Third Party. -
union-journal. The wheat ctod of
Washington this year will put $25,000.-
V0 in the pockets of Washinirton'a
broers. It will also take all the curl
lit of the hair of the assistant democ
Icy, otherwise known as the peoples
Edison Is rated at $3,000,000," said 8. J,
TT 1 1 -r . m . .
nouw), "i Knew xom wnen ne was a
barefoot boy living at Fort Gratiot,
Mich. He was always tinkering' with
telegraphy, and once rigged up a line
from his home to mine, - a block away.
I could not receive very well, and some
times 1 would come out, climb on the
fence and hollow over to know what he
said. ..; That: always -angered him. he
seemed to take It as a reflection upon
his telegraph line."
. L'onfldence In New York.
Dispatch, 24th. Dr. Cyrus Edson,
the sanitary superintendent. tavn:
- r j
Personally I feel very seenre iir regard
to the cholera, and dread tho epidemic
very much lers than Iwould one of ty
phus fever.' It would be absolutely Im
possible for an immigrant to come into
this country with the latent cholera
which might develop after he passed
(he quarantine."
Will Beat the West Then.
I'ress-Times. When- the state of New
York has to settle damages for the
switchmen's strike, it will encounter a
bigger Buffalo Bill than can be found in
the untamed west.
What Will be Done.
Review. Whether the Olympia con-
i . Ml r l . r ,. ... .
veuuun win iaii into tne aitcn. or
whether It will throw Hazzard in it and
tarn its back upon both, or whether it
will take Lewis and the canal pill sugar-
coated, are questions beyond the ken df
any living man. In a general way, how
ever, it is generally safe to wager that
Inland Empire to display hostility to an of progress in the right direction by an at
open river. The editor of that .paper is I tempt at general arbitration than in any
now a candidate for the Washington lee- other way yet suggested. The strike is a
islature on the democratic ticket.. In a powerful weapon, but it ia a two-edged
late issue of his paper he says : one, and its execution is felt most sev-
- For the sake of the trreat mam nt nnr erels bv those whn ccicM it TIia manor.
ftl Pablic i8 always affected by a.strike of
against whom, cronifo aii i nnn .Y" "J"!?"iiuae, ana tne unmeet is one
of the mighty Pacific dashes her crestort in "hich tho state has. the most vital in-
foam. let us arise as one nun and hnrl I terest. - If there hn a T.raMlral mufo
every boodling candidate to the dust of in legislation it cannot be found too soon.
tnt 't-ds to bring capital and la-
anility, it necessary, to tmrnnin rWth ""L "1LU uuser unison ana toieaa to ami-
struggles with our enemies on thft flnrvra I cable adjustment, rather , than hnntlla
oi our Bwienouse ana prove to the world contention over noints of difference, is
that the common. neoDle of . WanhfnbnSnn
i ii. i j ... .. .
nave riKnts ana aare maintain them in
just demands
If Bro. Mays was left to interpret that
expression on the stump he would per
baps say that it meant a vote for him
self. The people, however, will inter-
surely in the line
statesmanship.
of wisdom and true
, Explained at Last, . ', ; ,
Tacbma News. -There are 165 saloons
in.Seattlej according to nenercurT of
ires wie sentence ainerenuv. ana snow I that nitt, xv j- in. -.i : :
tha -ABtruJw. tA- M. - vi j ...... . , ... . T ' M ami.:,. W
" " uu nuu muiimunron election aftV witn rlcin I mno K.. a .... 1 I
I , a vuv muni iwr ecuuuncre
muuucr. - I wmte ballots. - . - t
they
royalT
CUBIC. INCH
cr
Baking Po .vJci
Will produce One Hun
dretl cubic inch.:; of leav
ening gas, and will raise one third r.?ore biscuit
han thc quantity of any other baking
poyvder, and will make them lighter, sweeter,
purer and ; more . wholesome. Sec U. S. Gotfi
Report on Baking Powders, . 13.