THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1892.
THE NICARAGUA CANAL
. An Address to the People of tlie United
States From tlie Company.
COST OF CAXAL CONSTRUCTION.
Oae Hundred Million Dollars andto be
Complete in Five Years.
THE GREAT SAVING IX DISTANCE.
flow it Will Enable the Pacific Coast to
Lead out on the High lload of
1'roBperlty.
. The'committee appointed by the Na
tional Nicaragua Canal Convention at
its meeting in St. Louis, to prepare an
address to the American people giving
. information as to the feasibility of the
Nicaragua canal and its commercial and
other advantages to the United States,
has just finished the preparation of such
address, which takes the position that a
canal, joining the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans, should be constructed for the
The fruit industry would quadruple in
two years from the opening of the canal J
for business and last retrigeraior steam
ers would deliver fruit to New York in
ten days, to'Liverpool in fourteen dayt,
and to New Orleans in eight days. The
mountains of the Pacific coast are rich
in lead, copper, silver and gold, while
the plateaux and valleys afford a cereal
belt with a soil more durable, and more
favorable seasons for seeding and har
vesting than any part of the world, and
the committee thinks the completion of
the Nicaraena canal is only needed to
develop that country to production of
gigantic proportions and double the
population of the Pacific coast in a few
years.
Among the beneficial results foreseen
are a more practical drawing together of
the remote parts of the vast domain of
the world and a firmer cohesion of the
widely-separated sections of the United
States, added to a stronger feeling of
neighborhood and community between
the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards. The
consummation of the work, whose feasi
bility has already been demonstrated, is
asserted to be of far greater importance
to the western hemisphere than the Suez
canal is to the eastern. It is said that
410 precedent can be cited upon which to
predict the future of American commerce
when the gateway of the Inter-Oceanic
canal across Nicaragua shall be open
to it.
The bigeest dredging plant jn America,
thilt formerly used at Panama, has hi en
purchased, and over a mile of the canal
GAY NEW YORK CITY.
BeantiM Procession of Cnilflren in tie
Streets of. Gotham. ;
SECOND DAY OF THE CELEBRATION.
All the Public Buildings and Offices
Elegantly Decorated.
AN IMMENSE THRONG
PRESENT.
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Reviewed by Viee-Presldent Morton,
Ex-President Cleveland and
Mayor Grant.
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most impjrtant commercial, strategic
and patriotic reasons, and declares that
the only feasible route for such a canal
is by way ot Nicaragua.
It appears that all the engineers have
agreed in expressing a decided preference
for the Nicaragua route, because, among
other reasons, only 264 miles of the
entire distance of 169)4 miles from the
Atlantic to the Pacific ocean through
Nicaragua, will have to be excavated.
'The other 142' miles consist of Lake
Nicaragua, the San Juan river and de
pressions in the surface of the earth.
Lake Nicaragua will constitute a harbor
sufficient to accommodate the navies and
commerce of the world. It is 100 .miles
long, sixty miles wide and is 250 feet at
its deepest points. Vessels entering the
canalom the Atlantic ocean will sail
on a level with the ocean for 12? miles,
at the end of which they will be raised
by three locks to the level of the lake.
They will sail along the San Juan river
and the lake on the lake level to a point
within three and one-half miles of the
Pacific ocean. Here they will be low
ered by the locks to the level of the Pa
cific ocean. "
The committee says the cost, includ
ing the pavment of interest during the
progress of the work, will be less than
$100,000,000, and the'tinje required for
f Iia mmnWinn nf t K A nrnrlr 1Q wifHin
nve years.
What- a commentary this is on our
snail like pace at the cascades of the
Columbia
The address shows that the distance
saved by the canal between New York
ind the Columbia river is 5,665 miles.
The wheat crop of the Pacific coast in
1891 was over i,8W,uuu tons ana eignty
per cent of the wheat was ''exported by
sailing vessels and a large proportion of
it passed around the Horn. The Nicara
gua canal by shortening the route to
Atlantic ports would not only save the
producer cost of freight but the revenue
of the canal at $2 per ton toll would be
nearly $3,000,000 on wheat alone. It is
shown that there are 500,000,000 thous
and feet of merchantable timber in Wash
ington and Oregon to the value of which
over $2 per thousand feet would be ad
ded by cheap water transportation via
the Nicaragua, canal. The gross
addition to the value, would amount to
the enormous sumof $1,000,000,000, even
at this low estimate of $2 additional.
has been dredged. The exclusive fran
chise of the steam navigation of the San
Juan river and lake Nicaragua and an
extensive plant for the navigation com
pany have been acquired. . The govern
ment of Nicaragua has acknowledged
that the company has complied with
the canal grant, which provided that
$2,000,000 must be expended the first
year. It is shown that the amount of
money spent to date on the enterprise is
over $6,000,000. The enterprise is en
dorsed by the leading business men of
the country, and that it will be judi
ciously and economically managed is
assured by the character of the board of
directors, who, by the charter of the
company, are accountable to the govern
ment of the United States. The secretary
of the interior has the power to make
public all the details of the corporate
management, thus protecting the in
vestor against misuse of the money.
The Suez canal, it is shown, saves only
3,600 miles around the Cape of Good
Hope, as against 10,000 miles saved by
the Nicaragua canal.
The committee says it is no longer a
question whether the canal will be built
or not. The only question is as to who
shall build it, and who shall control it
when built? It says it has been in
formed that European syndicates have
already made overtures to the canal
company, but the committee believes
the United States cannot afford by care
lessness, hesitation or neglect to permit
an enterprise of such magnitude and of
such far reaching advantage to pass un
der the control of any foreign company.
"It therefore behooves us," the address
concludes, "as a nation conscious of the
power we wield and of the greater influ
ence we may exert upon the destinies of
this continent, to perform the duties
without delay which we deny other na
tions the privilege of assuming, and to
adopt now the best means of securing
the early completion of this work, whose
advantages we are willing to share with
the world but who6e control should,
never be allowed to pass out of our
hands."
New York, Oct. 10. The celebration
of the Columbus anniversary was taken
up this morning with a parade of stu
dents in the schools and colleges, in
which about 25,000 young people took
part. It started at Fifty-seventh street,
marched down Fifth avenue to Seven
teenth street, back to Fifth avenue, and
thence along Fifth avenue, and under
the arch at University place, where the
parade disbanded. The procession was
made up of 20 regiments of grammar-
school children numbering 10,500, tnd
1000 children from the Long Island city
schools. Roman Catholic schools were
represented by 5500 scholars. Then came j
the student 8 of Columbia college to the
number of 1000, University New York
1200, College of New York 500. These
were followed by students of the medicaj
and pharmaceutical colleges, art and
other schools, uniformed military
schools, private and other church and
miscellaneous schools. The day opened
at sunrise with a salute from the cannon
of old Fort Columbus, on Governor's
island.
The city is in gala attire. Everywhere
public buildings, busiuess houses and
private residences, elevated trainp, sur
face cars, wagons, trucks, cabs, even the
horses, are decked with bunting and
flags, streamers, gonfalons, rosettes,
shields, fee to ns and garlands, iu honor
of the day. The weather is perfect with
bright sunshine and crisp invigorating
air. On improvised stands, front steps,
windows, trucks and wagons, at the in
tersecting streets in fact, everywhere
the coign of vantage was seized on by as
many as could gain a footing to view the
procession. .
The marching column was reviewed
by Vice-President Morton, Governor
Flower and Mayor Grant. The boys
preserved excellent order, and passed
the stands with the steady tread of vet
erans. On one stand ISJOO school girls,
dressed in red, white and blue, sang
patriotic songs as their mates passed
by. Ex-President Cleveland was among
the witnesses of the parade.
TUB SCREW STEAMER WINS.
Rare Between Two of the Great Sound
' Steamers. Puritan and . Feck.
Nkw York, Oct. 8. A sight rarely
witnessed on the waters of Long Islaud
sound was seen this morning in a race
between two of the mammoth steam
boats that comes to this city. The race
was between the Puritan of the Fall
River line and the Richard Peck of the
New Haven line. It was a test between
different systems of marine machinery,
and to determine the relative qualities
of the compound beam engine that goes
with the sidewheeler and the modern
triple expansion engine that drives the
twin screw propellor.
The Puritan is a side-wheeler, one of
the largest floating sound palaces, and
the Richard Peck is the first screw
steamboat to go in service on the sound.
She was built on the Delaware river and
has only been in service a month. The
agents of the Fall River line sent a chal
lenge to the people of the New Haven
line to test the speed of their fast boats.
The challenge was accepted, and it was
decided the ra?e should be between a
point near Stratford shoals to FoTt
Schuyler, a distance of 56 miles.
The Peck left New Haven at 10:30
o'clock last night. When she got into
the sound she slowed up and waited un
til the Puritan came np and the boats
were atem and stem . Th en they started,
and for the first fifteen minutes neither
seemed to gain an inch on the other.
The passengers on each boat shared in
the excitement, and though the weather
was cold and rain was falling, most of
them remained on deck. Finally the
Richard Peck began to forge slowly
ahead. Gradually the distance between
the two boats increased, and at last the
Puritan was left far astern. When the
Richard Peck passed - Ft.
Puritan was a mile and
and had lost the race.
THE IDAHO CAMPAIGN.
Democrats Declare. They. Will
Vote With tie RepWicans.
BIG MEETING AT BLACKFOOT.
The Cleveland Electors' Withdrawal
Has Paralyzed the Party.
THE HEADLESS ROOTEK TYl'ICAC
The Bone and Sinew of the Democracy
Will Not Obev the Orders to
Surrender to Weaver.
Better Kead up a Little.
Telephone Line Coming:
Pendleton Tribune. The local mana
ger of the Inland telephone and tele
graph company here has for the past six
months been trving to arrive at some
understanding with the company and
the people interested relative to build
ing a telephone line from Pendleton to
Pilot rock, Camas, Long creek, John
Day and Canyon city. The manager
has finally come to an understanding
with the company which he thinks will
be satisfactory to the people, as follows :
"The people are to furnish the poles on
the ground. The company will set the
poles up, furnish wire,- labor etc., and
put the line in working- order." This
may appear to be asking too much, but
when you consider the large bonus given
to the railroads here and the large
amounts offered for the building of fac
tories. the asking is not to much. It
will be a long time before a railroad or
telegraph line will be built along the
route mentioned, and the benefit of a
telephone line until telegraph is com
pie ted r and even after, would' be very
great to Pendleton and other places
mentioned, manager Fletcher reports
meeting with success in Pilot rook Satur
day and ia of the opinion that the line
will be pat in within the next sixty
davs.
Boise Cm', Oct. 11. The largest
political, meeting ever held in Bingham
county was held in Blackfoot, the home
C T-v 1 1 1 .
01 denaior uuoois. special trams ran
from Idaho Faljs and Pocatello bringing
as many as 1000 people to Blackfoot,
jucLyonneii ana benator Dubois were
present, and Sweet and Dubois spoke on
issues of the campaign. Hundreds of
democrats announced openly that they
will vote the republican ticket and hun
dreds more say they will not vote at all.
The withdrawal of Cleveland electors
paralyzed the democratic party in Idaho
and the democratic state committee is
ccuuvier rneir0undly denounced. In the torchlicbt
many banners and transparencies. One
represented a rooster with his head cut
off, typical of the democratic party in
this state. One had a motto, "Obey
Orders from Tillinghast and Beane, Ye
Democrats, and Vote for Weaver." In
formation comes from all sides that the
democrats will not sanction the betrayal
of the party. It is rumored that the
Idaho Democrat, the oldest and leading
democraticorgan in the state, will openly
repudiate the action of Tillinghast and
Beane in withdrawing the democratic
ticket. It still carries Cleveland and the
electors at the head of its columns. Jfo
single democratic paper in the state has
up to- the time taken down theCleveland
electoal ticket.
A Taconia paper, speaking of the lost
whaleback steamer Wetmor says : "It
will be a long time before these craft
win popular favor."
What? A fleet of whaleback steam
ers will enter into active competition
next season with the railroad propeller
lines between Chicago and Buffalo for
the immense trade in merchandise, flour,
pork, and other heavy freights which
form the bulk of the shipments between
Chicago and the seaboard. Two steam
ers for this traffic are now already un
der construction by the American steel
barge company at West Superior, and
five or six more will be commenced as
soon as there is room in the whaleback
yards at west Superior, These merchan
dise steamers are 275 feet long and 88
feet wide and will carry 100,000 bushels
of wheat. At present the general mer
chandise tariff between Chicago and the
lower lakes is monopolized bv the steam
er lines directly owned or in control of
the trunk lines. There are over fifty
steamers yet engaged in it. The new
passenger steamer for the Columbus fair
will be launched about December 1st.
Over three hundred men are working on
the boat. More than half the frames
are up and the 6teel plates are being put
on. She will have fine lines and will
undoubtedly be one of the finest passen
ger boats afloat on the lakes next season.
She will be 362 feet long, 42 feet wide
and 25 feet deep. The steamers for the
Chicago-Buffalo trade will be launched
next month. They have seven ports on
each side, and will be so arrarrged that
freight can be run in any part of the
boat through these ports.
SECOND DISTRICT FAIR.
for the
A VERT, CLOSE CALX.
Got. Moore Arraigned.
' Union Journal. Ex-Gov. Moore is
doing his level best to turn Walla Walla
county and the state of Washington
over to Cleveland. Possibly he is doing
this because Harrison made him an ex
Governor. '. 1
Lumber Ship Wreeked.
Sax Fkaxcisco, Oct. W. The brig J
D. Spreckles arrived this morning from
Kahului, Hawaiian islanafc, and reports
the ship William A. Campbell, Captain
Havens, from PortTownsend for Queens-
town, was abandoned in a gale August
28th, in latitude 14 north, longtitude
120 west. The mate and ten men and a
boy arrived in a -boat at Kahului Sep
tember 20th, bnt Captain Havens and
wife and child and the remainder of the
crew, who embarked in another boat,
had not arived when the Spreckles left,
and it is feared they have been lost.
The Campbell sailed August '2d for
Queen6townj laden with lumber, valued
at $10,000, in command of Captain E. E.
Havens, who was accompanied by - his
young wife and child. The captain be
longed at Thomaston, Me.,' and
26 years of age, and the Campbell
his first vessel. 1
was
was
Eggs ts. Glory.
Klamath Star. Said the Hon. John
Minto : "The man who would breed a
hen with the capacity to transmit to her
progeny ability to lay twelve eggs per
year more than the best hens now lay,
would do far more to promote the actual
welfare and enjoyment of the human
race than he who breeds a horse which
breaks the speed records." We suspect
the Hon. Minto don't know how glorious
it is to get there. Had John's father
been bred with the capacity to transmit
to his progeny the ability to breed horses
with which to break the record,. John
would have been breeding horses now,
instead of covering our glorious record
breakers with eggs instead of glory '.
v A Result of the Strike.
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Pittsb ubg , Oct. 10. The Hebrews of
this city have been in the habit of sell
ing goods to pack peddlers on credit, and
they in turn sold to the Homestead mill
workers on credit. The Carnegie Btrike
made the workmen unable to pay and
the peddlers are unable to- pay their
creditors.- The result has been the' fail
ure of half a dozen of the latter within, a
week with aggregate liabilities of over
$200,000.
The Dalles Breaks Bread.
Klamath' Star, Tuesday the Oregon
Press Association opened its annual ses
sion at The Dalles, and the preparations
being made in, that enterprising city for
the event proves for the 999th time that
enterprise- and hospitality go hand in
hand. The Dalles, the great wheat cen
tre of the Inland Empire, breaks bread
with the Oregon editors this tiraer and
we doubt, not that the entertainment
will be altogether royal. The enterpris
ing entertainers are smart enough to un
derstand the advantages to be derived
from treating the country press- well.
In fact, any i-ommunity is lamentably
blind that cannot preceive the vastness
of the influence the rural editors are
capable of exerting in the best direction
for a place like The Dalles, whose in
dustry, intelligence and get-up struggles
to make known to the outside world the
shape of their city's ' destiny. There is
no state of like wealth and population in
the nation wtiose press is ahead of Ore
gon's in the matter of making: people
feel that it is there. So, knowing their
annual session to be promoti ve of suc
cess, welfare and happiness all around,
we are looking sadly to the pressure of
the duties under which we dole out
our regrets this time.
Conference of the Mormon Church. -Salt
Lake, Oct. 10. The 62d annual
conference of the Mormon church has
closed. The president failed to come
forward with the customary new revela
tion. Reports of the various states in
Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Ari
zona and New Mexico showed a total
membership of over 250,000. It was de
cided to dedicate the new temple April
4th, 1893. This was commenced forty
years ago, and cost $2,500,000.
Law Salt for a Kidney.
CijJONJfATi, Oct. 10. Attorney J. C.
Black expects to begin tomorrow a re
plevin suit to regain possession of a
wealthy man's kidney. It is claimed by
Mr. Black that two years ago a well
known surgeon of this city removed a
kidney for his client, but it was a sound
kidney and not diseased. ' The removed
kidney is wanted aa evidence in a dam
age suit, The surgeon admits that he
has the kidney but refuses to give it up.
A Tatsenger Train Sared fronv Bmitm.
tion by a Tramp.
Passengers who wished to go to Port
land Friday morning were delayed five
hours at the start and the train did not
get into Portland until 11 a. m. The
cause of the delay was a slide in the Bine
mountains, and it furnished some thrill
ing incidents. That the train wa not
hurled to destruction, and the passengers
killed, was owing to the exertions of a
tramp to save them. He reached the
point ahead of the train, and seeing the
danger built a fire on the track and
commence to remove the obstruction.
He had been over the track the day be
fore and knew about when the express
tram was due, so that when he heard it
coming he seized a braus.from the fire
and dashed' down the track to meet ft.
The engineer saw him, reversed his
engine and almost brought the train to
a standstill, when it struck the rocks.
The place where the accident happened
was on the side of a hill where the road
bed is built on a shelf cut out of the
rock. At this point the road curves,
Had the engine struck the obstruction
at the speed at which it was running,
the whole train would have been thrown
into the ravine below. As it wasv the
forward trucks of the tender were thrown
from the track. . As soon as the passen
gers understood the situation and saw in
what peril they had been placed;, tbey
made up a. handsome purse for the
tramp.
The
Trials of Speed Programme
Week, Etc.
There were three races todav, and
there will be three tomorrow, and as
follows up to Satnrday :
WEDNKHDAY.
Running Inland Empire stake for
two-years-olds ; entrance $20, $75 added.
Colts to carry 110 pounds; fillies and
geldings 107 pounds ; non-thoroughbreds
allowed 10 pounds. Five-eiehths-mile
dash.
Trotiing Threcyear-old class, mile
heats, three in five. Parse $75.
Gentlemen's roadsters For trotters
or pacers; to be driven to cart by. the
owner; half-mile heats, three in five.
Purse $50.
THUUSDAV.
Running Three-eighths-mile and re
peat. Purse $75.
Trotting Three-minute class, mile
heats, three in five. Purs $75.
fbiday. . ...
Running Half-mile dash. Purse $100.
Trotting 2 :40 class, mile beats, three
in five. Puree $100.
SATUUDAY..
Running Three-quarter-mile handi
cap. Purse $100.
Trotting Bree for all,, mile heats,
three in five. Purse $150.
PLAIN TALK TO CORPORATIONS.
Marriage Serrlce Amended.
Baltimore, Oct. 10. The Episcopal
general eonvention resumed its sessions
this morning. After devotional exer
cises and memorials for deceased mem
bers, the revision of the prayer book was
resumed. The following was inserted
in the marriage service between the
words"which!' and "is commanded :" la
an honorable estate, instituted of God in
the time of man's innocence, signifying
unto us the mystical union that is be
twixt Christ and his church, which holy
estate Christ adorned and beautified
with his presence, and the first miracle
that he. wrought in Cana of Galilee."
Grare Outlook for Farmers.
London, Oct. 10. Commenting upon
the special account of the condition of
the British crops published in its col
umns, the Times says : "The conclusion
on the whole is, that the present year
will be disastrous for the British farmer.
The chief loss will be in wheat, while
there will be no adequate-set off in any
other crop. The outlook for the winter
is gloomy for all classes. . It becomes a
grave question how many farmers will
be able to struggle through it."
Mrs. Harrisons Condition.
Washington, Oct. 10. Mrs. Harrison
did not rest well as usual last night, but
at 9 this morning she was sleeping comfortably.
An Important Rulins; Respecting Certain
Irregularities- on The PaelAe Coast.
A Washington dispatch, says an impor
tant ruling was made by the general
land office yesterday. Through either
negligenceor incompetency of the South
ern Pacific's Washington land attorneys,
thousands of acres of land in California,
as indemnity selections by the Southern
Pacific, are forfeited by the latter bv
reason of defective filings, and its entries
will be canceled unless the railroad can
succeed in straightening out its land af
fairs, which are said to be iu a very bad
fix. Forty thousand acres of railroad
company's indemnity lands in California
were cancelled yesterday, 3200 being in
the Visalia district and 30000 in the In
dependence district- The general land
office today sent a letter to Henry Beard,
Washington land attorney for the de
funct California and Oregon railway com
pany, yesterday in which Commissioner
General Stone said i "In reply to your
verbal request to be informed as to what
lists, if any of your pending indemnity
selections are defective or invalid under
the department requirements. I have to
advise you that a hasty examination of
those now pending show that all, with
two or three exceptions, are defective for
want of a proper specification of losses,
while some are absolutely invalid for
want of any specification whatever. The
amount embraced in these lists aggre
gates 5,000,000 acres, while something
like 180,000 acres are now pending on
appeal by the company from rejection of
local officers, which are in the same
condition. Hence, before these lists can
be favorably acted npon, it will be neces
sary for the company to make them
conform to the departmental require
ments as heretofore stated. Should,
however, the company neglect or refuse
to comply with said demand and fail or
refuse to make its list selections conform -to
the requirements of the rules of the
department, such of them as are defective
when reached in the order of business
will be held for cancelation, and such as
are valid will be canceled." A similar
letter was sent to Beard as attorney for
the Southern Pacific and the defunct
Oregon and California railway compan
ies. In the case of the two last named'
roads 1,5000,000 acres of land filings are
defective or Invalid, and will be canceled
untee8 the companies can make them
conform to the requirements.