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' :J- ' ; ; . iiinii VOL. II. THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1892. NUMBER 49. 1WAR IS The' Argentine Eepnhlic to Inyelye Chili anil Pem. . PERU IS IN FIXE FIGHTING TRIM. Vigorous Recruiting Going On in the Argentine Republic. ARMING WITH FEVERISH HASTE. Chill Tardily Opening Her Eye to the threatened Inaslon Other Topics of Interest. Panama, Nov. 10. According toad vices from Chili, a war is imminent be tween the Argentine Republic and Peru on one side and Chili on the other. Peru is perfectly well armed, and her forces have recently received 100,000 Mannlicber rifles of the latest pattern, toeether with other formidable machines of war. A Chilian gentleman just ar rived from Peru states that in that re public the approaching war with Chili affords the staple for conversation, and in fact a pretense of friendship is only put forth as- a means of gaining time. In the Argentine Republic vigorous re cruiting of both natives and foreigners is being prosecuted, and the govern ment, in feverish haste, is arming troops. There is no longer any doubt a secret compact against Chili, offensive and defensive, exists between the two republics named, and they are only awaiting anything that will serve as casus belli in order to throw an army into Tarapaca and another upon the southern frontier, while strong skir mishing parties will harass the country from the Cordilleras. The Chilian gov ernment has tardily opened its eyes to t.ho threatened invasion, and ordered the steamers of the C. S. A. V. to be prepared for immediate incorporation into the navy, cabling for Captain Pratt to proceed to Valparaiso at once. THE ENGLISH PRESS. How It Feels Over the Election of Cleve land and Stevenson. London, Nov. 10. The Morning Post pavri "The fact of Mr. Cleveland's re turn by a large majority over the mot ley crowd who adopted the McKinley bill cannot be taken as an jnuicauuu fiscal changes are at hand. The adjustment of necessary taxation in the interest of the manu facturers class iB one thing; the con tinuation nf taxes which are not re quired is a very different thing. Per haps Mr. Cleveland would be stronger had he declined the aid ot lammany hall." The Times says : "It is clear that the democrats are by no means prepared to commit themselves to free trade. For the present the party will be satisfied . with the usual arrangements for placat ' ing professional politicians, who have shown their power more strikingly than on any former occasion. The election was not only a protest against protec tion, but also a deathblow to the efforts of party men to manufacture political capital out of the memories of the civil war." The Daily News says: "At present the country has'only decided in favor of freer trade than before. Cleveland cannot move fasterjthan the nation, and the economic heresies of half a lifetime are not to be extirpated in a day. The New York machine, which long has been a vile contrivance for securing the ' private" ends of self-seeking politicians, has received a deadly blow, for tinder . the other name of Tammany it has been compelled to support Cleveland." The Standard says: "Although the McKinley protectionists have received a knock-down blow, the sequel probably will show that protection has been only scotched, andJnot killed. As far as this country is concerned," the article says, . "the victory of one party or the other is not a matter of political importance. Whichever party is in power, there arise occasions on which the United States - government fails in courtesy . toward Great Britain, but everybody knows that these disagreeable incidents are merely electoral maneuvers." The French Victorious. Paris, Nov. 10. The French have captured Cana, near Abomey, the capi tal of Dahomey, with a loss of sixteen killed and eighty-two wounded. This practically ends the campaign. Colonel Dodda has been made a general. , THE DALLES SOUTHERN. A Sample Lot of Timber it is Intending ' to Reach. One of the inducements held out for the construction of The Dalles Southern railway, is a belt of timber in the Cas cade mountains. The forests of the Cas cade and Coast mountains of Oregon have often been compared with the pin eries of the lake region and the New England states, but few realize the dif ference. The pines of the east are dwarfed and stunted, when compared with the giant firs and mighty cedars that adorn the slopes of our western mountains, where . the moisture-laden and the warm winds of the Pacific keep them in constant growth the entire year. Of the belt of timber referred to in con nection with The Dalles Southern, one who has visited it says there is miles of it that will bear an estimate of from seven to ten million feet of standin timber to the quarter section ! much of the timber is the giant red cedar, known as Alaskan cedar, though better in qual ity than the same timber in that north em region. This timber is used for shingles, and is worth $20 per 1,000 feet, The trees are monsters, reaching often 200 feet in hight and eight to tweive feet in diameter, so large that the logs would have to be blasted into halves bo fore they could be bandied in the mills. The fir, which is so much heavier, tougher and more durable wood than the pine, also grow to great girth and tapering more symmetrically than the cedar, reaches a still greater bight in proportion to its base diameter. To look at this forest one might think the supply inexhaustible,' but we are told from the demands elsewhere, and the inroads made upon timber in Oregon that it is rapidly increasing in value. With lavish hands have the settlers of the Pacific slope spent the wealth nature gave them. Millions of dollars have gone up in the smoke, either by the de liberate act of the homesteader in clear ing his land, or by the carelessness joI others in setting fires that have spread over the thousands of acres, killed the trees, rendered them valueless as tim ber, and checked the young growth For all this waste we must some time pay, and the miners are already paying in the decrease in the amount of water in the streams late in. the season. The destruction of the forest should be stopped except for commercial purposes, and some practical method of making good the waste should be adopted. The science of forestry may be able to warn us of the danger of destroying the for ests, but it cannot pass laws and execute them. ' CUNNING COYOTES. One of The Most Remarkable Evidences of Brute Intelligence. Yon speak of the cunning nature of the fox. Reynard will have to take back seat, when compared with our com mon wild dog or coyote. Their schem ing maneuvers in trapping jack rabbits and stealing chickens, have often been talked about, but an incident occurred the other fmornine which places these wild canines far ahead of their tame, domesticated brothers in intelligence. During the past summer and fall, jack rabbits have been unusually scarce in this locality, and besides this, the far mers have all placed highpicket fences around their hen coopes. Coyotes have beer, just as thick, however, and their melancholy howling is, nightly, audible to the residents of the rural districts ADOut tneir only means ot obtaining a full stomach now is to find an occasional cow, which lingers on the railroad track too long. Section men say that when a cow Is Btruck and killed by the night train the skeleton is all that remains to be buried in the morning. Evidently such occurrences are too rare to satisfy the wily covotes. The other morning, as train No. 24 was approaching Echo station, Engineer Harry Mapes noticed a cow on the track ahead. He whistled, and the cow didn't move. As he got closer, he noticed two coyotes herding the cow, holding her on the track. He applied tne air Drakes ana reversed tne engine and had almost stopped before the cow made a move to get off the track. The coyotes trotted off a ways and stopped, looking back in a sneaking manner, as if ashamed of having been foiled in their game. . . An Attempted Revolution. Kingston, Jamaica, Nov. 10. Ad vices from Hayti tell of an attempted uprising at Cape Haytien. Hippolyte was pn the alert, however, and nipped the revolution in the bud. There were many arrests, and it ia rumored some executions. The Manigal party has nothing to do with the affair, and ex pressed much surprise w'hen the sews reached here. ' It may interfere ' with some of their plans by putting Hippo lyte on his guard. . ' . THE DEAD DUKE TALK. Relatives Claim That he Died Alter the ' Plehian Style. ' BREKING MORAL LAW BY HABIT. A Positive Contradiction That he Died an Unatural Death. HE WAS "HIS OWN WORST ENEMY. Fost-iUortem Examination Reveals Calcarous Degeneration of The Heart. London, Nov. 10. Further particulars regarding the finding of the body of the Duke of Marlborough show that when the body was found life had been extinct several hours. The Chronicle says: The late duke of Marlborough was by habit a breaker of moral law and by desire a founder of economic laws. He was man of whose ancestor it was said he provedfalse to every woman and every cause with , which he was connected But the late duke was not connected with any cause. 'Nothing whatever but good of the dead' is more or less the hypocritical fashion of the day. So we may say of his latter years that they were an improvement on his earlier ones." - The Times publishes an inter view had with Lord Randolph Church- ill, in which he said : "Please contradict positively that he died an unnatural death. From all we have been able to gather so far, he died of syncope. There will be a post-mortem examination, and perhaps an inquest. Of course, that de pends upon the result of the post-mor tem." The Times says: "The late duke was his own worst enemy, and by scandals in his private life threw away the certainty of attaining a position of great tinfluence. in the country." The post-mortem examination of the body of the Duke of Marlborough revealed that his death was the result of calcarous de generation of a large vessel of the heart. Prohibiting Immigration. New York, Nov 10. The board of trade and transportation at its meeting yesterday held a lively discussion of the subject of immigration. James H. Sey mour introduced a resolution to request congress to consider the desirability of prohibiting immigration for three years This resolution was adopted. The board also referred to a committee of five, Messrs. Wise, Seymour, Barrett, Wielands and Smith, Jthe question of restricting immigrating, reciting that a grave question now confronts the people of this country by reason of the promis cuous and unresticted.immigration from other countries. . The New Orleans Strike. New Orleans, Nov. 10. Governor Foster is expected to issue a proclama tion today assuming control. The muni cipal authorities are seemingly unequal to the occasion. The mayor issued a proclamation this morning calling on all good citizens to present themselves at the city hall to be sworn in as ' special policemen. Only 18 men answered the summons. The police force are' worn out ancl demoralized with the protracted duties. Eleven military-companies of the state are under arms. Some of the printers have gone back to work. The English Stallion Ormonde. London, Nov. 10. The Sportsman an nounces that the great stallion Ormonde will come' back to England from Buenos Ayres in January. It adds: "He will serve here 10 mares at 300 guineas each before his , new owner, William Mc- Donough, has him taken to San Francis co." ' Killed In a Political Fight. iiempstead, iex., jmov. iu. in a po litical not Charles King and C. McCon nell were shot and killed. - Wanted A Change. . - Alliance, C.Nov. 10. One of the big surprises oft he election was the selection of Dr. George P. Ikirt, dem., in tms (.luctt-iniey 8) district, lor con gress. - Put Into Fort Leaking. .London, Nov. 10. The ship State of Maine, from New York for Puget Sound, pnt into Montevideo with her watertank leaky. .... General Sickles' Eligibility. Washington, Nov. 10. The election in ' congress from the tenth district of New York of General Sickles has revived theqnestion as to the right of an officer on the retired list of the army to a seat in congress in view of the constitutional provision that "no person holding any office' under the United States shall be a member of either house of Congress during his continuance in office." The only question involved is whether retired army officers holds an office within the meaning of the constitution. The consensus of opinion among legal officials on this point is in the affirma tive. There is not even a probability however, that any official of the execu tive branch of the government will at tempt to interfere in any way' with the seating of Geneial Sickles. Therefore, unless some member of the house itself shall make the objection, he will be al lowed to take his seat. To Keep Out the Cholera. Washington, Nov. 10. In view of the still lingering possibility of a fresh out break of cholera in European countries in the early spring, and the consequent danger of its introduction into the United States, officials of the treasury department have determined to main tain' the utmost vigilance in guarding against the entrance of people or mer chandise that might posssibly convey germs of the dreaded epidemic. To this end, immigration will be generally dis cou raged and the provisions of the presi dent's proclamation of September imposing a quarantine of twenty days on all suspected immigrants, will be vigorously enforced. The transporta tion companies have been given to understand that the department reserves the right to remove the restriction in special cases calling for such action According to official construction, all aliens who come to this country for per manent residence are immigrants, and will be treated as such, regardless of whether they travel in the cabin or steerage. The Butcher's Trust. The Union Meat company is what they call the consolidated beef trust in Portland now. Parties from Chicago, however, are in the country, and The Dalles stands as good a show as any point in the Pacific Northwest for being the leading beef market another year, Why not? The location for securing cattle, sheep, hogs, etc., is superior to Portland in every way, and the facilities for marketing the goods are equal to any one of the best points on the Pacific coast. It is a well known fact that the bulk of the hams, bacon, lard, canned and smoked .meats that are consumed in this market are imported from eastern cities. This is also the case on tne en tire coast, and the magnitude of this trade can be better understood when it is stated that carefully-compiled statis tics show that something like 60,000,000 pounds of meat products of the kinds before stated were imported the past year for consumption by the coast states and British Columbia. This is due to the fact hat the large eastern packing houses possess facilities for putting up a more palatable and desirable brand of meats, etc., of this'character than have been heretofore put up by local pro-, ducers. .The reason for this is readily J apparent to all who will give the matter anv consideration. There is no one es tablishment here that is devoted to the packing business, and consequently the hams, bacon, etc., of local production are not at all of uniform quality. The Dalles could have facilities equal to Chi cago, with a Chicago firm behind it; to supply the whole coast with meats of uniform quality. Discussing . this mat ter yesterday the Oregonian says : . As large as the city of Sar Fran cisco is, it was only recently tnat plant 6f this kind was put up1 there, and it remained for Chicago parties the same ones who are desirous of locating here to start the enterprise, the residents of the Bay City not being progressive enough to establish such a much-needed institution. Now that these same gentlemen are about to es tablish 'another great enterprise here they cannot but be the recipients of con gratulations frpm all sources, and with the display of the same zeal and energy shown by them in the past, success is assurred for them in their new field of operations." - - Was Admitted to Ball. Buipalo, N. Y., Nov. 11. Lieut. Cas- sidy, of Brooklyn', accused of having shot Michael Broderick during the switch men'i strike, ; appeared,- before' Judge GreeiS, in the supreme court at a special session this morning, and wasfadmitted to baf in $10,000. Judge Advocate- General Jenks. appeared as his attor- GOSSIP ABOUT MILES Chicago hasProyei to he an Unhealthy . Place for Brigadiers. - GERMANS IX DAHOMEY ACCUSED Where King Bchanzin got His Quick Firing Rifles From. A SUBJECT OF DIPLOMATIC WAR Mysterious Murder In San Jose Gypsle Kidnappers In Idaho The New Orleans Strike. . Chicago, jnov. ii. xne rumor m army Circles that General Miles has asked the war department to let him exchange places with General Howard because of the criticism by the press of Chicago on hip management of the mil itary parades in connection with the ball and dedicatory ceremonies of the world's fair,' is denied by that Indian fighter. . "I have made, no application to the department to be removed from Chicago," said the general. "Rumors are easily started, and they grow rapidly on their travels. I have been severely criticised. Chicago has proved to be an unhealthy place for major-generals, continued General Miles, significantly ; then, after waiting a moment to give the innuendo force, he went on: "General Sheridan, you know, contracted here the disease which eventually ended his life. Then there were General Terry and General Crook, who died while in command of the division." , Good Chance for a Row. Paris, Nov. 11. Many accusations have been made that the German agents in Danomey - nave - furnished King Behanzin - with quick-firing . rifles, These have been denied by the Ger mans, who assert if Behanzin had such weapons he procured them from the British. The latter assertions are borne out by a capture just made off the coast of Dahomey. . The Brandon, a French dispatch boat, cruising off the coast, sur prised the British steamer John Holly, with a cargo of Winchester rifles and ammunition, beyond all doubt intended for the Dahomevan army. . The vessel was seized and the cargo confiscated. The matter will undoubtedly be made the subject of diplomatic remonstrance, A Mysterious Murder. San Jose, Cal., Nov. 11. Henry Planz, aged 25, recently appointed man ager of the Fredericksburg brewery, was found this morning hanging to a tree on Julian street," near Guadalupe bridge, His hands were tied behind his back and his feet tied together and a handkerchief over his mouth. The ground near the tree and for a distance of thirty feet showed evidence of a struggle. The af fair thus far is shrouded in mystery. It is not known what could have been "the motive of any one to get him out of the way. A diamond ring was found on his finger and robbery is not thought to fur nish the oiotive. . New Orleans Strike off. . New Orleans. Nov. 11. An evidence that the agreement by the labor unions to declare the strike off was made in good faith, the street-cars began run ning at 6 this morning and all lines of business will doubtless be fully resumed today. . A Fool and His Money.. . Pbovidence, R. I.,' Nov. 11. George Metcalf, a "crank" living on the out skirts of town, bet $100 yesterday that Cleveland would never occupy the presi dential chair. The bet was taken by a down-town liquor dealer. Has Not Shut Down. Elwood, Ind., Nov: 11. There is no truth in the report that- the tin-plate factory has suspended operations. The plant was ciosed temporarily to put in improved machinery. ' Highest of all in Leavening Power.- Latest U. S. Gov't Report The Grain Crop. The Review says a conservative esti mate places this season's grain crop in the Palouse at over 10,000,000 bushels of wheat and from 600,000 to 800,000 bushels of barley. For weeks long lines of grain-loaded wagons have waited at various stations their turn to contribute to the rapidly growing mountains of wheat heaped up beside the already full elevators and warehouses. The abund ant yield of the past two seasons placed farmers in such a condition financially that but few were forced to sell their en tire crop this year, and as prices have been generally low those who could af: ford to do so have retained the greater part of their grain. Notwithstanding this, wheat is arriving at Tacoma, over the Northern Pacific, at the rate of be tween 100 and 125 carloads daily, and only the greatest activity on the part of elevator and warehousemen prevents a blockade. Over the Union Pacific grain is reaching Portland in equally large quantities, 24 freight trains being re ported recently in one day bound for that city. Throughout Umatilla county and the remainder of Eastern Oregon more wheat is being sold than in eastern Washington. This is due to the fact that farmers gennerally in that section are not so well-to-do as are their north ern neighbors, and can not afford to hold for higher prices. Undoubtedly much of the grain now being ehipped from eastern Washington is sold because of a lack of proper facilities. Few fanners have barns or graneries large enough to hold the produce of their fields for a single season, and these, when obliged to store their wheat on open platforms, naturally prefer to sell to running the risk of damage by storms. , The alliance warehouses have proved a relief to many farmers, and yet, as there are but 35 of these throughout the Inland Empire, their benefits are neces sarily limited. Along the snake river, from Lewiston down, the huge piles of groin are being reduced at the rate of from 200 io 300 tons per day and al though extra boats have been running on the river for weeks, there yet remain thousands of bushels of wheat piled on the hanks of that stream enough, in all probability, to keep the extra . steam boats busy until, the river runs too low for navigation. '' The acreage sown in barley during the past season was greater than ever before, and will be largely increased again this year, it having proved in certain sec tions the most advantageous crop that can be raised. Everywhere plowing and seeding have been greatly retarded by a lack of rain, but as soon as the ground is in proper condition this work will be pushed, and preparations for reaping the greatest harvest next season ever known in the northwest will be com pleted. The Prise Is Drawn. . , Review. Republicans generally man ifest a spirit of prompt acquiescence in the popular will, as reflected in the election of a democratic president and congress. The country has decided that it desires a radical change of policy, at a time when it was never more prospcV ous, and it is willing to entrust the dem ocratic party with the work. No one on earth knows what fruits this will bring. It may bring absolute free trade on the lines laid down by the Mills bill. The logic of the situation is decidedly with the free traders. They can say, with reason and force, that the country re- - jected the Mills idea in 1888,-that the Morrison idea has long been under the ground, and that since the platform for 1892 calls for free trade in principle, and the democracy 'swept the country with that plank, the country should have free trade; On the other hand, Mr. Cleveland has said that free trade is an impossible specter, and in his letter of acceptance has promised to exercise it. Meanwhile the country will await with considerable interest democratic action which will indicate the nature of the prize it has drawn from the political grab-bag. Chasing Gypsies With Bloodhounds. Moscow, Idaho, Nov. M. P. Miller, of Dayton, Wash., passed through here with two bloodhounds in pursuit of a band of gypsies, who kidnapped his four-year-old child. ' m