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THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1892.
NUMBER 43.
SMUGGLING THEM IN.
A Detroit, Chicago and New Tort Syi
fticate DiscoyereL
THE CHILIAN INDEMNITY FUND.
The Money Will Be Paid Over in New
York on the 4th of October.
THE WAR AMOKG ASTRONOMERS
Prof. Bolden Aced of Beating Idea
Into the Heads of Astronomers
Under Him.
" Detroit, Sept. 30. R. L. Montgom
ery was arrested in this city yesterday
for smuggling Chinese into the country
He confessed that he belongs to a syndi
cate with members in New York, Chi
cago and Detroit, whose purpose it was
to bring Chinamen to America.
Indemnity For The Sailors.
New York, Sept. 30. The information
given out at the state department that
Minister Egan will be in New York on
Tuesday, with $55,000 in gold, voted by
the government of Chili as an indemnity
for the Baltimore sailors, has started
speculation us to the manner of distribu
tion. The families of Turnbull and Rig-
gen, who were the only members of the
crew killed, will have the largest share
of the indemnity. The eighteen others
who were disabled by wounds will come
next in order, and each of the thirty
six men who were imprisoned will
doubtless get something. A large claim
for indemnity has also been presented
by the merchant sailor who was subse
quently imprisoned and roughly treated
by the Chileans, but it is said that his
share pf the funds will be very small.
War on Professor Holden.
SaS Josk, Sept. 30. At a meeting of
the chamber of commerce a resolution
was adopted requesting, the regents of
the state university to remove Director
E. S. Holden, deploring the m a 1 treat
ment by him of the astronomers under
him, and authorizing the appointment
of a committee to appear before the leg
islature and request that no appropria
tion be made for the Lick observatory
while Holden is in charge.
Still Headed for the Hills.
San Francisco, Sept. 30. The old
chestnut about Evans and Sontag, comes
from Daulton Station this time to the
effect that Evans and Sontag were seen
there yesterday. . Mrs. Faust, wife of a
section foreman, who formerly lived in
Visalia and knew Evans there, posit
ively identified Evans. Both men were
heavily armed and very cautious. They
were headed for the foothills. Detective
Smith and party arrived at Daulton on
the early morning train and will start
on their trail at once. From the hills
around a full view for miles can be bad.
This will give the fugitives a great ad
vantage over the officers.
An Indian Seool.
Cceur d'Alene American. Fifty-one
years ago congress donated 600 acres of
land on the banks of the Cceur d'Alene
river, and each year since has paid $5,
000 for the maintenance of an educa
tional institution there. The following
copy of a notice posted in the vicinity
shows with what success :
xotis.
old mission, Idaho Bept 7. 1892 the
voters of scool destrict no 17 ar Re
quested to mete at the scool House at
Old mission Saturday sept 17 for the
purpos of Electing one truste and chare-
man tor same scool Destrict and such
other Beisness as mite come before the
meting. A. Halpin dark
An Old Lesson Unheeded.
Nelson Miner: The fines inflicted by
, the customs officials on the merchants
I ' of this district have footed up to a very
considerable amount.' While within
its rights, the dominion government has
come very near to killing the goose that
laid the golden egg. Money which has
been set aside for other purposes, and
which would all have been spent in
keeping the country moving along, has
had to go in paying these fines, or taxes,
J or whatever they (may be called. .The
dominion government is laboring under
- a great mistake if it imagines that the
- best way to rear and get good value out
of her children is to jump on and knock
the stuffing out of them during their
infancy. ' i
The Water and Ball Combine.
Speaking of the reported combination
of the great ' Northern railway with
traffic lines on the lakes, a Duluth letter
to a Buffalo paper says :
Straws tell the direction of the rising
wind, the wise ones adjust their bear
ings accordingly. Your correspondent
has been chasing this combine phantom
clear up the lakes to Duluth, and at last
finds its substance to be about this. If
we can just live on our income for the
present and be content to wait for ulter
ior results there is a rich vein of promise
opened. It assays somewhat like this.
A trace of wirl-silver to bind together
the fragments of disconnected lines into
a solid northwestern trade ; a filament
of copper to electrify the new-forming
embryonic giant of transcontinental
commerce ; a base of iron to solidify the
whole; and a still finer chemical process
shows specks of gold dust that will sift
out into the laps of Buffalo tradesmen
as the increasing volume of this traffic is
shifted ;at their dock and freight-yards
for distribution to the east, northeast,
and southeast. The Canadian Pacific
has been generously ministering to the
people of the Pacific coast states for
some years, and our noble-hearted
Northern Pacific would have done like
wise to the people of the intermediate
states but for lack of facilities on the
lakes. Now this water region of explo
ration parties must become the highway
of swift trade with the advent of these
new passenger ships. It means a re
vival of the luxurious inland water travel
of the old Mississippi steamer days. A
foreign illustration of this point of inti
mate freight communication is France.
She began building canals and highways
100 B. C. and has kept on ever since.
It is the secret of her manufacturing
supremacy in Europe and her marvelous
recuperative capacity. There is just the
same difference between a community
with poor channels for. commerce and
one of the instances cited as between a
man with a torpid liver and chronic
headache and a man whose circulation
is in perfect order.
The above extract is so suggestive of
possible developments along the Colum
bia, when it is opened, a free river to
the Pacific ocean, that we reproduce it
as a sign pointing in the direction of the
near future when solid lines of packets
for through freights may be established
between the Inland Empire and the
outer world. A significant fact is that
thirty of the finest new ships of this
year have been built for the lake traffic
at Superior an4 Erie ports exclusivelv.
Advertising for bids to complete the
Cascade canal, which may be done in
ten or twelve months when once begun ;
may call for many new water craft on
the Columbia with results here similar
to those above noted.
THE ASTORIA RAILWAY.
The Same Old Snake in the Grass Mi
Mallory Goes to Ogden.
Mr. Mallory, of Mason, Ehrman & Co.
passed through The Dalles at 12 o'clock
last night for the purpose of meeting
people at Ogden to have a conference
concerning the suspension of work on
the Astoria and Portland railway. He
feels confident that matters will be ar
ranged in a few davs satisfactory to
Corey Bros. Mr. Mallory informed
representative of The Chbonicle that it
is some satisfaction to the managers to
ascertain definitely who the silent ene
mies of the project are, that have pre.
vented the completion of financial ar
rangements on the part of Goss and
Schofield. It is the same old snake, that
has heretofore laid in the grass to
frighten off timid ones bv its death-
rattle. They are now known. When
shown the following dispatch Mr. Mai
lory said it was substantially all the
facts in the case: "It is a fact that we
have suspended work on account of the
apparent inability of Messrs Goss and
Schofield to pay .our claim against them
for the work we have already performed.
We have received no money from them
since we took the contract for the road-
and we feel unable in the light of sim
ple business methods to continue the
work without a remittance from them
Mr. Goss left for New York some time
ago with the apparent intention of raiB.
ing tne money with which to continue
the work. We filed a lien on . the road
on the 23d mst. for S230.500, and
immediately discharged all the labor
ers in our employ on the grade, and
we have since been paying them ofT in
this city. All of our construction ma
terials are now on the line of the road,
and we are ready and willing to resume
work on our contract as soon as our lien
is satisfied. I believe that Goss and
Schofield will be able to adjust matters
in a short time." Mr. Mallory expects
to return by October 5th.
A Future Great City.
. Goldendale Sentinel. ' Job Angell, a
mining expert of Portland,' came up
Saturday and will leave in a few days
for the Golden mins, about which at
present there is considerable excitement.
If these mines prove as valuable as
many expect they will7tbe future great
inland city of Washington will be built
there, on account of the vast territory
underlaid with coal and ore.-' -
THE SIX COMPANIES
Charley Kee of Chicago , Defies The:
Authority as law.
THE SUGAR TRUST INDICTED.
Flagrant Violations of The Federal
Anti-Trust Law.
IT-PUT A BOVCOTT OS A UKOvEK
Because lie Refused to Retail nt an Ad
vance of One Cent per round lu
I.ynn, Mass. '
Chicago, Sept. 29. Charley Kee, one
of the most intelligent Chinamen in
Chicago, this morning defied the edict
of the Six Companies, and made appli
cation for a certificate of residence. The
application is the first filed in this dis
trict under the Geary act.
Why Sugar is Six Cents.
Boston, Sept. 30. The Daily Adver
tiser, showing up the workings of the
sugar trust yesterday, says that the
American sugar refining company
(which is the sugar trust) has been
flagrantly . violating the federal anti
trust law in its dealings with M. P,
Longley, a Lynn grocer, who does $200,
000 worth of business every year, and
whose business integrity and credit are
unquestioned. The sugar trust has boy
cotted Longley, so that for days at
time he has been unabled to supply bis
customers with sugar. It has done this
because he proposes to retail sugar at
five cents a pound instead of six, the
card price, which the trust imposes on
retail dealers. United States Attorney
Alien assures tne Advertiser if, upon
examination, the evidence against the
trust proves adequate, a prosecution
will follow. He will examine into the
case at once.
Another Whaleliack.
Dulctii, Sept. 30. The new whale-
back steamer James Colgate was
launched at West Superior on Saturday.
She is a duplicate of the Wilson and
Mather and is 300 feet long, thirty-
four feet wide and twenty-four foot
beam. There will be three more
launches at West Superior this season,
including the whaleback passenger boat
for the Chicago fair. . i
Uncle Sam Says So.
Washington, eept. za. lo settle a
dispute between the city and health au
thorities at Detroit, the surgeon-general
will have additional inspectors ap
pointed to enforce the quarantine there
between the United States and Canada.
OUR DISTRICT FAIR.
Rules of the Management Suggested For
y Fatrons and Exhibitors.
1. If you have entries to make, attend
to them at once, and when your stock and
articles are entered, see to it that they
are in time and place for examination by
the committee.
2. Take no rumors in regard to the
business of the fair. If yon do not know
what to d) inquire of those whose duty
it is to iell you. One-half the disap
pointment and trouble at the fair is oc
casioned by relying on heresay. Attend
to your business yourself. If it is done
wrong, you will know where the blame
lies.
o. ii you are a superintendent or
committeeman, report at the secretary's
office at six p. m. Transact your busi
ness before doing anything else. The
public will be better pleased, and the
business of the fair will progress with
greater satisfaction.
4. Read the rules, and, by example at
least, assist in enforcing them ; but don't
ferget that mistakes will occur where
thousands of people tare congregated.
The board endeavors to do justice to all.
5. Read the programme. It super
intendents are not always ready at the
hour, keep your stock and articles where
you can command them at any time.
A Famous' Building Burned.
Deneee, Sept. 30. The famous signal
station building at the summit of Pike's
Peak burned last night. While the
building was used by the weather bureau
it was the highest point of observation
in the United States. This year it was
utilized as a cafe for passengers on the
Cog road.
' Bias Declared President.
Mexico, Oct. 1 Diaz has been for
mally declared president four more
years, beginning December let. -
Svn Feancisco, Oct. 1. Sheriff Cun
ningham of Stockton, to whom informa
tion was given yesterday concerning the
action of Evans and Sontag the train
robbers, believes they will attempt to
reach San Francisco and escape by eea
He has planned accordingly and has t
hope of capturing the desperadoes. The
information given by the rancher, W.
D. Wright, who lives on the road be
tween Tuolumne City and Grayson, is
to the effect that the robbers came to
his house about 10 a. m. Thursday. He
srys: "Thev were on horseback, and
came from the south. The animals
seemed blown, and evidently had hard
work. Evans asked if I could give them
something to eat, I invited them into
the house and had my wife cook some
breakfast. Before eating, Sontag took
the horses into the barn and fed them
The men made a hearty meal, and then
asked for a bed. Evans kept watch
while Sontag slept, and visa versa.
They retnainecLnt my place for OTer two
hours and seemed as unconcerned as
possible, though always on the alert and
watchful for an attack. When they left
the house they forced me to take my
wife and children to a room in the sec
ond story which has no window and lock
them in. Then I was made to accom
pany thein some ' few miles along the
road to the northwest. About three
miles from my house they took me into
a field and tied me to a tree 'saying : We
are sorry to do this, but doubtless you
will be found in a few hours.' With
that they left me and rode off. Evans
had his left arm bound up with strips of
his shirt at a point just below the shoul
der. He had seemingly been wounded
in the last meeting at' the cabin. It
must have been another two hours before
I could get loose, and I came at once to
Stockton to notify Sheriff Cunningham."
PANAMA QUARANTINE.
No Further Communication With Ameri
can Ports at Present.
San Fbasci'sco, Oct. 1. A Panama
dispatch announces the intentions of the
Columbia authorities in the matter of
closing communication with ports of
America, since the appearance of cholera
in New York. It has been extended to
all vessels sailing from the Atlantic
ports of the United States subsequent to
the 12th. The United States mail-
steamship Newport which arrived at
Panama from New York yesterday has
been admitted. She will not sail on her
homeward voyage before the 3d, as she
will wait to take up all incoming passen
gers and freight from the Pacific coast.
After her departure no more communi
cation will be held with outside ports
during the prevalance of the cholera.
This is considered absolutely necessary,
as there are no means of establishing
quarantine in Panama. The British
and French ministers protested. The
Royal mail steamship Atratio, which ar
rived at Savinalla after the declaration
was made that the port was closed to
foreign vessels, was not only ordered out
of port, but the order was emphasized
by three volleys of bullets from a file of
soldiers. The shot fell short of the ves
sel, perhaps very fortunately for the
shooters.
Inspecting Coal Fields.
In the Buffalo Courier we find a Pitts
burg special, giving an account of the
travels of a party of experts in Pennsyl
vania, inspecting the coal fields at var
ious points. One of the members of the
party is Mr. E. L. Hedstromof the
leading coal firm of Buffalo, E. L. Hed-
strom & Co., well known to many citi
zens of The Dalles. It will be remem
bered that he visited the coal fields at
Fossil, in the spring 6f 1890. He is in
terested in fruit lands in The Dalles, be
ing of the firm of Taylor, Hedstrom &
Burnside.' We trust he will soon de
velop coal lands in our immediate
vicinity soon. The special above re
ferred to says : "Messrs. Seibert, Roberts
and Hedstrom while here were the
guests of Messrs. Lawrence and Dean.
It was their first visit to the great Con.
nellsville coke region and tne mines
along the Pittsburg and Lake Erie, and
they were greatly impressed with the
magnitude of the coal fields, as well as
the extent of Pittsburg's industries.
Yesterday they visited the plant of the
Loyalhanna coal and coke company as
the guests of C. M. Watt of Philadelphia,
its general manager, who is a brother of
M. Watt of the Pennsylvania's Mo-
nongahela division. .Today they- will
visit the coal fields at Beynoldville in
the Allegheny Valley, on their home
ward journey to Buffalo." '
For sale or trade at a bargain a hotel
of 28 rooms in Albina, doing a good busi
ness. No saloon connected. Near the
shops wi th good pay in z boarders. Reas
ons for selling other business.
Address. - uepkeb menefke,
. . No. 521 Delay St., Albina, Ore.
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NEW CATTLE MARKET
What J. W.Miller Has Started in to
do for the Inlanfl Empire.
PORTLAND, CHINA AND JAPAN.
Full Details of a NewvSteamship Line
Soon to be Annonnced.
THE UKF.F EATERS OF THE ORIENT
One of the Finest Markets in the
World for American Beef Cattle
When Opened.
Portland, Oct. 1. The possibilities
arehat the Inland Empire will soon be
connected with Asiatic ports by a steam
ship line via. Portland. Negotiations
are already on foot for the establish
ment of such a line, and it will be in
working order just as soon as an under
taking of this magnitude can be put
unaer way. rue ooject oi tne projec
tors, the Telegram says, is to establish a
fast passenger and freight steamship
line between Portland and Japan and
China. One of the parties interested in
the matter is J. W. Miller, a wealthy
cattleman of Oregon. He has just re
turned from the Orient, where he has
been looking at the cattle interests of
that country, with an eye to the practi
cability of establishing a market for the
beeves and mutton of the Inland Em
pire, lie states that in a short time the
proposition will be in shape to admit of
full details being given to the public.
He will leave on the next steamer for
China, where he will complete arrange
ments at that end of the line. In speak
ing of the matter, Mr. Miller says:
"China and Japan offer one of the finest
markets in the world for American cat
tle.. They do not begin to raise the
beeves and mutton necessary for home
consumption. They are obliged to draw
Heavily from foreign markets, and at
present this supply is being met by
Australia. There is no reason, why we
should not only be a formidable compet
itor, but eventually drive them from
the field.. As soon as I return from
China we will proceed immediately to
put the line in operation, and intend to
make one of the finest transpacific
steamship lines of any plying between
Asiatic and American ports."
The liehrlng Sea Muddle.
New Yobk, Oct. 1. Dispatches from
London and Ottawa quote free comments
of the press upon the attitude taken by
the Ottawa authorities in the matter of
the seizure of Canadian sealers. The
Morning Chronicle says: "The Cana
dian ministers find a great deal to say to
Ottawa journalists regarding the dis
patching to Behring sea of cruisers. It
will not be out of place to remind them
that in dealing with such a powerful
European power as Russia it is not by
any means the part of a diplomatist to
say all ho thinks. The first duty of a
British cruiser sent to Behring sea is to
rescue destitute sealers. Reprisal is not
intended; if it had been, a solitary
cruiser would not by any means have
been chosen as the sole force sent to the
sea by the British government. Lord
Roseberry clearly is content to adopt
the more reasonable course of awaiting
explanations from St. Petersburg."
Victory For The Pilots.
New Yoek, Oct. I. Hon. B. F. Tiacy,
secretary of the navy, has issued the fol
lowing order: "All existing orders and
regulations restricting the emplovment
of pilots by commanding officers of ves
sels of war are hereby revoked.
Commanding officers will employ
pilots wherever in their judge
ment their employment is necessary."
This is not only an order needful to the
safely of the service, and will be taken
as a relief to naval commanders, but is
also a victory for the pilots. While per
sonally it may induce some commanders
to navigate their own ships in and out of
dangerous harbors says the World, the
majority will doubtless be only too
glad to escape the responsibility for ac
cidents, which are liable to happen even
with expert pilots aboard.
Highest of all in Leavening Power, Latest U. S. Gov't Report
Dufur Dispatches.
Satuhday, Oct. 1, 1892. The Dis
patch says: Mr. M. Callahan, one of
the Tygh Ridge prosperous farmers,
just returned from Sherman county', and
reports things awful dry,' but everybody
putting in a larger acerage than ever.'
These Sherman county men have the
grit and go in them.
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Klinger and Lon
Woodcock came back Tuesday from
their trip to Klamath Lake; Louie re
ports this his best trip for years; ex
cellent shooting of water-fowl and larger
game ; some of the largest fish stories on
hand that he ever had ; four-horse wag
on load by one man in a day, etc.
If tho summer must die, it dies out
in beauty a-nd in peace. The cooler
airs that now come stealing in are the
bints and beginnings of the season's
change: and they give us some of the
finest mornings and days of the year.
Singing school opened again last week
and every Wednesday evening the
young folks will have an opportunity to
train their voices and pass a pleasant
evening. Profs. Frazicr and Vander- ,
pool engineerthe train.
Long strings of grain teams in sight
at all hours of the day. More grain
moving from the south than ever before,
and much of it comes this way.
Several loads of hogs went to market
Wednesday. It is a good plan for farm
ers to make the grain carry itself where .
it is most wanted.
"You'll get a thrashing soon," said
the corn to the wheat. "Better get
thrashed than- have my ears pulled, "
said the wheat to the corn.
Some very fine Hungarian prunes,
grown without irrigation, from .' the
ranch of Polk Butler, Tygh Ridge.
- The new hall is beginning to show up
in shape, and a fine one it promises to
be, the largest in the county.
Mr. J. B. Manley, of Juniper Flat,
is still making use of the Tygh hill road .
to get his grain to market.
The harvest work being about over
our mechanics are not working day and
night, as last month. -
A spell of pleasant weather, answer
ing to the "Indian summer" of the
eastern states. - .
Harvesting is pretty much all done,
and the result generally satisfactory.
The big scale is getting right along, -
and will be a great improvement.
The Tax on Sugar. ' '
Havana, Oct. 1. At a meeting of the
sugar planters association resolutions
were adopted approving all the steps
taken by the board of planters in their
efforts to secure a reduction of the tax
ation on sugar, and authorizing the
board to continue its efforts to this end.
A dispatch from Prague, Bohemia, states
that this yeur's crop of sugar beets is
expected to be twenty percent, less than
that of 1891. Heavy rains havo some
what brightened prospects, but tho
prices of raw sugar are still tending
higher. At all events, the exportation
of sugar from Bohemia will fall consid-.
erably below that of last year. No lees
than 2,000,000 hundredweight of sugar
required is ordered in advance. Bohe
mia will scarcely be able to supply
foreign markets with the quantity cf
former vears.
The Alaska Mirage.
Chicago Herald. Many stories have
been written about mirages and delus
ions, but none nave been more interest
ing and curious than that of the Silent
City mirage, which makes its appear
ance near the Pacific glacier, in Alaska.
The discovery of this wonderful mirage
was made by the Indians, who would
tell of tho citv which is built in the
clouds. The mirage can be seen in the
early part of June from 5 to 6 p. m. It
rises from the side of the Pacific glacier.
It first appears like a heavy mist, and
soon becomes clearer, and one can dis
tinctly see the specter city, well defined
streets and trees, tall spires, huge and
old-shaped buildings, which appear to
be ancient mosques or cathedral.' It is
a city which would seem to contain at
least 23,000 or 30,000 inhabitants. As
yet no one has been able to identify it,
although several have claimed to. recog
nize the place. There is no city like it
in Alaska, nor in any country about it
for thousands of miles.
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