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NEW ORLEANS MAFIA
FBOSFCKITt JVST AHEAD.
Its Merlins Knife SneaM for In-
flipaM to Subside. ;.
THE PROFESSIONAL ASSASSIN.
Convicts Landed- in Detroit From
' Boise City.
WHEAT IN THE PALOFSE REGION.
The Idaho Republicans Have a Grand
Bally at Governor McConnell's
Moscow Home.
NewOkleass, Oct. 31. "Since thelast
massacre the New Orleans Mafia has
dropped out of sight, but is far from
being extinct," said the chief of police
last night. "That affair in the parish
prison taught it caution, and it appears
to have put up its murderous knife and
pistol nntil the indignation subsides. I
have reason to believe, however, that its
murderous work is not yet done, and
that it is but awaiting opportunity to
add to the long roster of its victims
The Mafia is composed of the worst class
of Italians and Sicilians, and numbers
anions: its members men who would
commit murder with as much noncha
lance as they eat their suppers. I have
a friend who four years ago incurred the
displeasure of the order. Since that
time his life has b4en twice attempted
Two of the men most interested in his
death were killed in the New Orleans
massacre, but others have been detailed
for the work. He knows that sooner or
later it will coine, and the strain has
told upon him terribly. It is one thing
to brave an open danger and quite an
other to quietly await the good pleasure
of the professional assassin."
A New Development of The Dalle Be
sources Contemplated.
The Chbonicle still holds to the view
that bo soon as it becomes known that
there ia any assurance that the canal and
locks at the cascades are to be completed
within a reasonable time, people looking
out for investments will take a tumble
in this direction rather more rapidly
than ceremonious. This opinion bas
henn confirmed to our mind upon three
different occasions within three days
One of the most important plans for
development of resources tributary to
The Dalles is the construction of
railway a few miles south of here to
belt of choice timber, such as there is
scarcity of on the coast, and for which
there is a bin demand everywhere. If
the parties who are looking the matter
up: there are two separate companies n
terested; decide to take hold of the en
terprise, either will require terminal
facilities in the city, and some induce'
ments to place their manufacturing
plants here, as well as assistance to se-
cure right of way. The Regulator com
pany have extended to them several
favors, and the representatives of the
different companies are expecting to re
turn to The Dalles soon, when the whole
plan will be made public. It of course
depends somewhat upon the cascade
canal and locks completion at an early
day, but with The Chbonicle that no
longer figures as a doubt, and The Dalles
people might just as well get ready at
once for the dawn of prosperity, just
little way ahead.
THE BEEF TRUST.
Landed In Detroit.
Boise City, Oct 31. United States
Marshal Pinkham and two deputies re
turned today from Detroit where they
placed Devine, Murphy, St. Clair and
Petibone in the house of correction to
. serve the sentence imposed upon them
by Judge Beatty at Cceur d'Alene city.
The trip was without incident. At Poca
tello some trouble is being experienced
with men who persist in selling whisky
to Indians. The latter have secured
some money by marketing hay, and
-there are those who will sell them liquor.
'Two arrests were made yesterdav.
Missing Links.
The first elevated road in Great Brit-
-am will be m .Liverpool. Ihe road is
now in the course of construction.
Three hundred and sixtv different
mountain peaks within the limits of the
United States exceeds 10,000 feet in
"bight.
11 we could penetrate the earth s sur
face to a distance of two miles we would
find the place where water could not ex
ist except in the state of steam.
Idaho is to have an irrigating ditch
which will be six miles long and will tap
Boise river ten miles above ' Boise city.
This ditch will cost $1,000,000 and water
100,000 acres. The capital is furnished
by an eastern syndicate, as usual.
The New York reporters who wrote up
' the cholera at quarantine, Sandy Hook
- and Fire Island, talk of forming a cholera
- club. The offi-jees of the club will be
given such remarkable titles as chief
-germ, assistant microbe, bacteriologist,
fumigator, sanitarian, etc., and all the
members will be bacilli. There were
isixty men on the cholera.
A Cleopatra's needle of red granite,
"with a ' pedestal of black porphyry,
which has been lying in the garden of
Austrian consulate at Alexandria for
nearly sixty years,' is about to be con
veyed to Trieste, where it will be erected
on one of the quays, This needle which
is upward of seventy feet in hight, is
considered by experts to be finer obelisk
than either the London or the Paris one.
Meet Organization With Organiza
tion, Is Advised by The News.
Commenting upon the damages re
sulting from the Beef Butchers Trust in
Portland, as given through The Ciikon
ic'le last week, the Prineville News says
This same price depression applies
equally to the cattle raisers of the plains
They can no more keep up the price of
their herds against the attempts of the
butchering companies to put them down
than can the farmers who have annually
from three to a dozen or more beeves to
turn off. One advantage they do have
however, is that it costs them less to
prepare a steer tor market at three or
four years old than it does the farmer
who has not bis "herds on a thousand
hills." The only way to meet organiza
tion is with organization. This is shown
in every transaction of life.
"Therefore it would seem that the
cattlemen of Crook county are in need of
a railroad and further development of
feeding facilities, which would enable
them to handle their own output them-
selves and thus release themselves from
the pond of necessity which now compels
them to accept the price of the packing
companies and yield to them the major
portion of the profit from their beef
herds. They had just as well monopol
ize their share of the beef business as
not, and by securing rapid transporta
tion facilities and the organization of
progressive butchering companies with
themselves as the share holders they
might by reason of the number of ani
mals controlled and the cheap manner
of production, be able to compete with
the older firms for a portion of the city j
markets that would absorb all their
available output at prices which would
add largely to the revenue now derived
fom their ranges. It will tome day be
done, and the quicker the better, for
the halcyon days of the range are gone,
and cold, practical, unromantic business
is creeping over every bunch of grass on
our ranges."
BOGUS TICKETS OUT.
RenorteiThat 50.000 Union Pacific are
v . ' . in Existence.
CONFLICT OF OPINION ABOUT IT.
Passenger Rates Badly Demoralized all
Over the Country.
EVERY LINE IS CUTTING RATES.
What the Scalpers Think of the Alleged
Bogus Tickets for the Union Pacific
Minor Mention.
Peter is Married.
Tin Plate! Illinois.
Chicago, Nov. 2,r-TheiSwansea steel
and tin-plate company of Chicago was
incorporated yesterday, The incorpora
tors are Walter R. Howard, L. L. Shir
ley and J. . Roberts. The concern has
a capital stock of $200,000 and is the out
come of a syndicate of Welsh tin manu
facturers wb.o have been prospecting for
factory sites in the northwest. The first
one is to be established at St. Paul Park,
a suburb of St. Paul, Minn., Eight or
more large buildings are to be erected.
The structures will be begun before Jan.
1st, 1893.
The State of The Case.
Tacoma Herald. Seattle will not ad
mit that Elliott bay is not as fine a har
bor as any bay on the sound. ' Seattle
finds no fault with her natural harbor,
but she wants the government to ' make
her a present of $10,000,000 to build an
artificial one. There is not a cent's
worth of benefit to the state in the pro
posed fresh water canal, but there's $10,
000,00 more or less, in it for a few specu
lators. ''.','. -
Peter the Poet, the famous editor of
the Klamath Star, last week married a
Klamath Falls widow named Mrs. May
field, and here is the graphic description
the Star 'sub" gives the interesting
affair: Peter the Poet has gone and got
married. He and his girl had been fool
ing around the rosy whirlpool a consid
erable time, but they were carried com
pletely under Wednesday evening, their
two lives of single blessedness being
delightfully crushed into one. Peter
said on departing that he did not care
whether he or she was the one, since she
is a Klamath girl, and a Klamath girl is
the best kind of a girl ever blended into
masculine identity. The wedding party
consisted of only a few near-at-hand
friends, and the choice dinner was dis
patched hurriedly, while waiting for the
stage, which whirled the happy couple
off toward the railroad.
A Significant fact.
Post Reveille. Many readers of the
Reveille who attended the encampment
held at Washington, were in daily at
tendance at the Randall house where
Gen. Hobson bad rooms. And all will
remember how gayly and in fact elab
.ately the buildings in this vicinity were
decorated, Grand Army Hall, Willards,
Randalls, and in fact every house on
Pennsylvania avenue from 14th to 15th,
excepting No. 1429. Here not a single
flag waived to show the occupants loy
alty. Not a single banner, but stop,
there was a banner, or rather an adver
tising sheet telling to the hundred thous
sand loyal hearts that passed by, that it
was occupied by the democratic com
mittee. A significant fact; many saw
it ; many remarked the total absence of
flag9 or other decorations. '
A dispatch received from Chicago to
the effect that there are 50,000 counter
feited and manipulated Union Pacific
tickets in the hands of scalpers was a
leading topic of discussion among rail
road passenger men today. In Portland
according to the Telegram, the prevail
ing impression among passenger officials,
seems to be that these tickets, as issued
by the Union Pacific, can easily be both
counterfeited and manipulated. At the
Union Pacific passenger offices, Mr.
Hurlburt was reported out of the city,
and the only statement that could be
obtained was that nothing was known
of it here. No one could be found who
would say anything about the probable
action of the company in the matter,
The usual method of meeting such cases
is to reduce the rates to the prices quoted
by the scalpers and freeze them down to
the price paid for the ticket, but in this
case it is supposed that the tickets were
in a large nieasilre counterfeited out
right, although many have been found of
genuine issue which have been raised
from short to long distance points.
Should the Union .Pacific abandon the
tickets and refuse to honor another one,
the company would undoubtedly become
involved in a number of damage suits,
broilght by innocent holders of the tick
ets ; but if the complication is as bad j
as rsported, railroad men generally are
oi tne opinion mat this is tne only way
to prevent a widespread demoralization.
Portland scalpers say it is an improb
able story. Passenger rates all over the
cotfutrv are in a badly demoralized
slate, and every line is cutting the es
tablished rates. It looks like the Union
Pacific had issued these tickets, which
were placed in the hands of the brokers
at low rates, and now, to clear them
selves of the charge of cutting rates, they
set up a cry ef stop thief, and lay it all
to the scalpers. The brokers are not
taking any chances of resorting to crim
inal methods in a matter of this kind,
and very few of them would knowingly
have anything to do with counterfeited
or manipulated tickets, it is simply a
scheme of the Union Pacific to cut rates,
and shoulder the blame on some one
else. Inquiry developed the fact that
there are more than the usual number
of Union Pacific tickets in the hands of
local brokers, and several methods of
manipulating tickets were unfolded to
the Telegram man, which, it was stated,
positively could not be detected, if ar
tistically done. The general feeling of
the scalpers seemed to be that the story
was a hoax, inspired either to shield the
company's officials or to advertise a cer
tain patent, mentioned in the dispatch
sent out.
Mrs. Lease JTruthf ally Spoken.
As the democracy have disputed the
fact that Mrs. Lease has declared in favor
of Harrison, we copy a part of the in
terview with her in .Kansas in which
she made a sensation. . While accom
panying General . Weaver through the
southern states Mrs. Lease as well as
the General was subjected to several in
dignities, and she believes that a party
capable of visiting unmerited contempt
nous treatment upon representatives of
an honest American party is not deserv
ing of American votes. "If a vote for
Weaver is in reality a vote for Cleve
land," she' said, "then my desire is that
the people's party scratch their ticket
and vote for the Harrison electors." Next
to Jerry Simpson, Mrs. Lease is the
strongest leader of the Kansas populists,
and her expressed wishes have caused
great consternation in the democratic
camp. .
Mrs. Lease is showing that she has
more common sense than she was sup
posod to possess. When she was down
in Georgia with General Weaver she
told the Cleveland democrats that they
were hurting their fat prophet by their
ill behavior, and that every decayed egg
thrown at Weaver meant a "gain in the
west of a thousand votes for Harrison.
She appears now to have made the fur
ther discovery that every vote for
Weaver is an indirect vote for Cleveland ;
that every elector taken from "Harrison
and given to Weaver is merely one given
to Cleveland, while every elector seem
ingly taken from Cleveland and given to
V eaver is still a Cleveland elector, and
that the democratic game is to use the
Weaverites to prevent Harrison's elec
tion and throw it into the house, where
the democrats control thirty state dele
gations out of 44. There is no possible
chance of electing Weaver. The choice
lies between Cleveland and Harrison.
If the populists prefer the Buzzard bay
prophet they should vote for him direct
ly, and not in the indirect way of voting
for Weaver in order to throw the elec
tion into the house, where Cleveland
has a dead Bure thing of it. If they pre
fer Harrison they should vote for him.
They should have too much self-respect
to figure in history as mere stool-pigeons
for Cleveland.
IS NOT INTERESTED
Tne
London . Times Not Entnusiastii
Oyer Onr Elections.
PATRICK EGAX MUCH DISLIKED
A Boston Shooting Party Off for a
Cruise in the Pacific Ocean.
TO THE MO.VEIAEY CONFERENCE
Got. Ireland of Texas 'Ineligible'
the Campaign One Goat Too
, Many for Illm.
fo
lied Tar or Paint.
Very Close Call.
Last Sunday afternoon, as W. E. Fow
ler, cashier of the Arlington Urst Na
tional bank, who had been gunning up
the Columbia river, was riding leisnrely
down the railroad track near and behind
the east bound train, and while in
sharp curve of the road he suddenly saw
a light engine immediately in front of
him and coming at .the rate of sixty
miles an hour towards him. Although
on a rocky embankment, the Record
says he and his fancy horse Jock made a
sudden leap for their temporal salva
tion, and landed, he on his feet in a
vacant spot, and the horse farther do wo
the grade and lying on bis back among
some boulders. The engine and tender,
which proved to be that of Engineer
Patterson on his way from The Dalles,
almost brushed them as it passed, leav
ing a impression which will long be re
membered by Mr. Fowler. He was
nnable to extricate the horse alone, but
soon after had the assistance of friends,
when the party with some difficultv
moved a few boulders and got bim up.
The horse bore some slight injuries only,
while Mr. F.'s shotgun was literally de
molished. "
None of The Extremes.
Telegram.. The great season of storms
has begun again. States of the central
west and far east are to regale the news
papers with stories of cyclones, blizzards,
snow blockades and freezing cold. These
reports will come from all over : the
country lying on the east of .the Cascades,
but the Pacific slope will enjoy a winter
free from these menaces to life and limb,
and will rejoice in a climate that knows
none of the extremes.
Hqppner Gazette. Frank Lee, who is
wool salesman for Christy & Wise, writes
to us from Boston, saying: "lam get
ting a deal of opposition from manufac
tures in regard to eastern Oregon wool,
on account of sheepmen branding their
sheep with tar or red paint. Knowing
bv the acquaintance that I have had
with you, that yon are fully interested
in anything that'would benefit your sub
scribers, I have taken the liberty to send
you two samples of wool by mail. The
one marked No. 1, is Australian wool.
This is sold to manufacturers, and guar
anteed free from any brand. No. 2
represents what came out of one fleece
of eastern Oregon; wool, raised by one of
your prominent sheepmen. I wish you
would call their attention to the injury
thev do both themselves and the com
mission man, by using such unnecessary
brand, and I would suggest to them
that if they must brand with tar or red
paint, they ought to hire one shearer
during shearing time to cut off the
branded portion and throw it away, as
it in jares the sale of their wool at least
lc pe pound, here. In San Francisco,
also, the minute bnyers, who under
stood their business ;: strike to see evi
denceof tar or paint brand on wool,
they doc it lc per lb.. I have quite
number of personal friends among the
sheepmen of Morrow county, and I am
desirous or seeing them get au there is
in Hr especially when they are customers
of Cbristv & Wise."
New . Yobk, Nov. 1. The London
Times, reviewing American politics to'
day takes occasion to say that England
has no reason to be very enthnsiastic
over the candidates. "Cleveland, while
president, distinguished himself by
gratuitous insult to England by demand'
ing the recall of Minister West. Presi
dent Harrison has not been behind
hand in some methods of enrrying favor
with the omnipotent Irish vote. The
appointment as minister to Chili of
Patrick Egan, whose friendship with
Blaine he lately boasted of in public, is
enough to indicate the spirit of the ad
ministration which elected the financier
of the land league campaign for diplo
matic promotion."
A Shooting; Cruise.
Boston, Oct. 31, A shooting outfit,
which is probably the most complete
that ever left New England shores, will
start in a few days for the Pacific. The
crack schooner rattler, of Rockport, is to
sail for Behring sea in pursuit of seal,
walrus and other furs. The Japan coast
will also be visited. In addition to the
regular crew the Rattier carries 12 men,
whose business will be solely to shoot
such game as may be found.
To the Monetary Conference.'
New Yokk, Nov. 1. Henry W. Can
non, one of the American delegates to
the international monetary conference,
had a conference at the Btate depart
ment yesterdity with Secretary FoBter in
regard to the duties and powers of " dele
gates. Cannon and Senator Jonesan
other delegate, and Director Leech of
the mint bureau, will sail on the 9th for
Brussels, where the conference will be
held, beginning the 22d. The remain
ing three delegates will meet at Was h
ington the 10th to receive final instruc
tions from the president through the
secretary of state prior to their depart
ure from New York.
M) ItEWARI) OFFERED.
Ta Reasons Why County Courts' Can
not Aid Financially in Appre
hending: Criminals.
In Portland last weetc one day the at
tention of Judge Moreland was, called to'
a criticism passed upon him for a failure
to offer a reward for the arrest of the
fugitive murderer, Bnrdette Wolfe. For a
reply Judge Moreland took from a shelf
a copy of the 16th Oregon supreme court
reports and turned to page 279, where a
decision bearing npon the subject of
rewards is given. In May, 1886. the
county court of Multnomah county
offered a reward of $2o0 for the arrest
and conviction of any person violating
the bribery laws at the coming June
election. Thomas J. Mountain sub
sequently' secured the arrest and
conviction of Herman Wise and
Julius Centner in the federal courts.
The county court thereupon made an
order in Mountain's favor for $500, and
the decision was appealed to the su
preme court. Judge Thayer, in 'a
lengthy and exhaustive opinion, held
that the "power to make such a con
tract is not possessed by the county
court." "There is no authority, there
fore," said Judge Moreland, "for the
county to offer a reward for Wolfe's cap
ture, much as I should like to do so. If
there ever was a case where justice
would lie served by such an offer, this
certainly is one. The parents of the
girl cannot do so, and I regret exceed
ingly my inability, to move in the mat
ter, but there is no help for it."
Knocked Out By a Goat. -
San AxTONiot'Tex. Oct. 31. A dis
patch from Sequin states that ex -Governor
John Ireland has- been prevented
from entering the. state campaign in be
half of Hogg on account of injuries
which he recently received from a
vicious billy-goat. The bearded animal
was kept in a pasture adjoining the gov
ernor's home. A few mornings ago Mr.
Ireland was crossing the pasture in his
nsaal dignified style, when the billy-
goat struck him with full force from be
hind. The Texas statesman was knocked
down and repeatedly struck by the goat.
He made vain endeavors to ward off the
blows with his feet, but was not success
ful in doing so. He was rescued bv
neighbors and taken to his home, where
ne bas since been connned.
HERMANN WITH VH.
Death of Jake Winters.
San Francisco, Nov. 1. A Carson
dispatch tells of the death of a noted
character, Jake Winters,. a man who has
not washed or shaved himself for twentv-
five years, a deuzen of. Carson valley
When a young man he made a vow that
until the democratic party came into
power be would go unwashed and un
shaved. When Cleveland was elected
he was reminded of his-vow, bnt refused
to take the necessary steps toward clean
ing himself. His neighbors at once at
tempted to wash him, by force, but he got
away and threatened to kill everybody
who tried to clean him again. He was
about sixty years old.
The Long; and Short of It.
Review.' As for the opening of the
Columbia river; well, it was G rover
Cleveland who vetoed a river and har
bor bill and set the work back for years.
and it was the last democratic house
which killed the appropriation for the
dalles boat railway; an appropriation
voted by the republican senate. It is
just as well to be frank in these matters,
and to tell the entire truth. The peo
ple are generally capable of judging for
themselves.
Grain Unsold.
. Des Moines, ' Nov. 2. The Iowa
weather and crop bureau have issued a
circular "to crop correspondents asking
estimates of the percentage of last year's
crops of corn and oats remaining in the
hands of producers Oct. 31. Reports re
ceived from eighty-four counties show
an average of 8 per cent of corn and 7
per cent of oats in farmers' hands on
that date. From some localities reports
were to the effect that as much of the
new crop has been consumed by feeders
as there is remaining of the old crop of
corn. " - -
An Interesting; Address of Over Two
Hours Attentively Listened to.
Hon. Dinger Herfoann, Oregon's , in
defatigable congressman, entertained a
packed audience at the Court house Tues
day night talking upon the political issues
of the day for two hours and twenty min
utes, during which time not half a dozen
people left the hall. He opened by re
ferring to the political change which haa
given Oregon increased representation
in congress and taken bim practically
out of this district, but he should con
tinue to serve Eastern Oregon to the ex
tent of his ability, and it gave him un
speakable pleasure to be 'honored wib
the invitation he had received to be witft
us on this occasion. He briefly alluded
to the cascade canal and locks, and
treated that part of his subject as a work
practically completed, so far as any fur
ther legislation was concerned, congrat
ulating us as a community upon the
near approach of the time when our
steamers and barges would pass uninter
ruptedly to the seaport; laden with the
products of the Inland Empire. He re
ferred to the necessity of action to secure
further extension of time for settlers on
the forfeited railroad lands to make
payments, and to the justness of the
claim for rebate of $ 1.25 per acre to those
who have paid $2.50, on the score of'
honest and fair dealing between the gov
ernment and its people, pledging his
support to any measures needed to se
cure justice to the settler whose appeals
were unheeded because of the mistaken
ideas of members who failed to compre
hend the situation.
Turning to the great issues of the day .
he said this wag a canvass in which we -
could all say there was no cause for per
sonal aspersion. The question was.
which one of the four candidates shall
we support? Consistently and honestly
reviewing the subject Mr. Hermann
proceeded to show that no party had
ever existed which had done so much
for a people as the republican party had
done for the people of the United States
of America. From, the adjustment of
land claims to the advantage of the
farming communities, to' the protection
of all, the farmer, the laborer and the
manufacturer, the policy of the republi
can party had been the policy of progres
sion, and had made America the best
market the world has. Besides this the
American financial system was the best
in existence. Under Buchanan the na
tion paid 12 per cent, yer annum for
money, under Harrison we have all we
need at 2 per cent, per annum, and the
days wages of the laborer will buy more
now than twodays labor purchased then.
Protection of the farm products saved us ;
millions annually, the one item of eggs
alone, taxed five cents per dozen, had
saved to the producers $2,500,000, and
the tax on horses had saved $20,000,000.
Very many sueh items were cited to
show what protection has done for the
farmer. Your city license protects the
local merchant against the foreign ped
lar ; yet the free trader would let him in
throngh our ports with ship loads of
merchandise to compete with our tax
payers. We are 44 nations among our
selves carrying en within ourselves the
practical internal workings of free trade,
but externally we believe as republicans
in protection.
The extent of the commerce of the na
tion was elaborated, but lack of space
prevents a complete report of his refer-
enees and summary of the facts. We
consume one half of the tin of the world ;
one-third of the wool; one-fifth of the
sugar; one quarter of the coal; we have
one-fifth of the world's population, we
are an immense nation. Our savings
banks show the condition of our wage
earners, compare them with the wage
earners of Europe. Other nations who
have come in under reciprocity are our
beat patrons. We now furnish Cuba
with bread. Every shred of evidence
which has come from any reliable source
has indicated a condition of prosperity
in all the industries of the entire coun
try, which ought to be enough to satisfy
any man with two lobes to his brain
that the conditions are as reported.
Trade has been brisk, employment con
stant, manufactories busy,- production
enormous.
It is not purposed in this article to
enter a verbatim report of Mr. Her
mann's address. Such would be impos
sible, as he is a rapid talker, and said a
great deal during the two hours and
over devoted to the occasion. He closed
his remarks by a special appeal to the
young men, asking them to carefully
review the parties, and join the canse
that is just, the party of progressive
principles, the republican party.
At nine o'clock this morning Mr. Her
mann, and several gentlemen from The
Dalles, left for Dufur, where he is speak
ing this afternoon.
Big Creek Mines.
Long Creek Eagle. Sandy Hancock
came down from the Big Creek mines
Monday to take a vacation of a few days.
From him we learn that placer mining
still continues at the Big Creek, three or
four claims being in operation at pres
ent. The Ah -Dick company continues
operations, while the Bob Marshal com
pany is piping off a rich tract that was
passed by the former company. Both
companies are doing well, having a good
head of water. Sandy is still at work on
his claim, but only being able to pipe.,
about two hoars each day, is not in a
position to make mnch progress.