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THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1892.
NUMBER 51.
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- METEORIC DISPLAYS.
Eipansiye Heayens Fillefl Vitn Celes
tial Fireworks.
NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, FLORIDA
And Other States, Have Grand Views of
The Imposing Scene.
ARB VI PASSING A COMET STREAM,
The Display Come From Every Direct
ion Filling: The Sky With Stream
ing; Fire.
A New York dispatch says the heavens
were tilled with celestial fireworks
last night, and those who kept
their eyeB and minds on things earthly
missed a beautiful and interesting dis
play. All over the sky bright spots and
streaks of light were darting and stream
ing. They came from all quarters, and
darted in every direction Some gleam
ed suddenly and brilliantly and sudden'
ly went out like the intermittent flashes
from tropical fireflies in the dark forests.
Others flashed across the sky, leaving
behind them a streak of reddish light
that often seemed to extend clear across
the firmament and last until the bril
liant head and all were swallowed up in
blackness. Astronomers were not plenti
ful on the streets, and an authoritative
pinion on what the meteors can mean
ould not be obtained. Some people
suggested that they were the particles
left straggling behind by Biela's comet,
and that we are now passing through
that stream of particles-.
The heavens above Pittsburg, Pa.,
were ablaze with flaming and shooting
meteors. The mysterious celestial mes
sengers darted hither and thither
through the skies in great numbers and
with great brilliancy, interesting the
whole town and country, and alarming
quite a number of timid persons.
Chicago says something in infinite
' space went to infinite smash. Between
:30 and 7:30 o'clock enough stars
dropped from the firmament to .stock a
mew world. On every side the brilliant
meteors could be seen falling. The dis
play was largely confined to the north
and east. The sky was clear, and the
might cool and dark.
'In Denver there was a considerable
display of meteors, filling the whole sky
with streaks and streams of fire. They
time from all directions, and were quite
startling in their number and brilliancy.
The Btreets were crowded with people
with their faces turned up to the sky,
and there has been considerable excite
ment throughout the town and around
about. Many people think it was a
omel.
Jacksonville, Florida, was visited by a
hower of meteors, which illuminated
the heavens for three-quarters of an
kour.
In Washington there was a meteoric
hower about 9 o'clock. This shower
was predicted for the 27th.
Galeaburg, Illinois, had a meteoric
shower. Shooting stars were flying
around in all directions.
Good Suggestions.
Tacoma Ledger. Mr. Powderfy made
some suggestions at the general meeting
at the Knights of Labor yesterday that
are worthy of careful consideration.
One is that the order should go further
with its ballot reform work than it has
done hitherto, and insist that no man
shall vote who cannot read his ballot.
He also favors the further restriction of
immigration, that no foreigner )e ad
mitted to this country who' cannot give
evidence of ability to support himself
and family, if he bring a family with
him. Both these suggestions deserve
the support of everybody who thinks
our present form of government worth
-maintaining.
Stranded Goose Hunters
East Oregonian. Levi Ankeny, the
Walla Walla banker, enjoyed two days
of gunning last week at Switzler's Island
and left for home with thirty of the
fowls. Two other Walla Walla gentle
men, Rev. Dr. Law and Mr. Bitz, the
nurseryman, have not been so fortunate.
They were stranded on an uninhabited
island near Switzler's, being unable to
leave on account of the wind, which has
bedecked the Columbia with white-caps.
They put off in their boat Saturday, but
were compelled to return to the island,
and at last accounts were still hunting
geeee.. . ' .
Fighting the Australian Ballot.
San Francisco, Nov. 24. Judge Law
ler last night granted a temporary in
junction restricting the election com
missioners from the official canvass of
the vote cast in this city at the last elec
tion. The suit is brought, by James
Welsh, who alleges that the Australian
ballot law prevented his enjoying the
secrecy of the ballot as guaranteed by
the constitution, and that therefore the
law is unconstitutional. Welsh avers
thiit he is partially blind, and he could
not vote under the Australian law with
out assistance in making his ballot. A
few days before election Welsh attacked
the validity of the Australian law by
demanding of the registrar of voters and
secretary of state that he be furnished
with the official ballot to prepare at
home. The request was refused and the
matter taken before the supreme court.
but owing to the shortness of time before
election the suit was dismissed without
prejudice by mutual consent. Welsh's
attorney says the result of the national
election will not be affected by the suit,
but the legislative and municipal ticket
will be knocked out if the suit is decided
in his client's favor.
' Arctic Explorers' Coolness.
Philadelphia, Nov. 24. The coolness
existing between Lieutenant Peary and
Professor Heilprin, leader of the Peary
relief expedition, has at last resulted in
an open rupture between the two scien
tists. The strained relations were made
public by Peary's action in securing the
influence of the Academy of Natural
Science to procure his three years' leave
of absence without informing Heilprin
of bis steps in the matter. He had al
most concluded negotiations through
(General Wistar, president of the acad
emy, with the navy department, when
Heilprin became aware of what was
going on. i n e rupture is tne result oi
Heilprin's assuming that he rescued the
Peary party from certain death. Peary
claims he could have made bis way' back
to civilization without assistance. On
this second expedition Heilprin dis
tinctly said: "I will not have a party
sent out to rescue him."
The Monetary Conference. -
Brussels, Nov. 24. The statement
has obtained currency here that the
American delegates to the international
monetary conference are not prepared to
submit proposals to the conference when
it meets tomorrow. On the contrary, it
is true the proposals have been definitely
formulated by the American delegates,
and that they will be laid before the
conference tomorrow. There was some
delay in arranging proposal six, but this
was due to the fact that the American
delegates came from different states, and
had no opportunity of conferring upon a
final .adjustment of the minor details
until they reached Europe. The pro
posals are in such a form as will serve as
a basis for practical discussion. Private
meetings of various sections of the con
ference are proceeding today for the
purpose of considering the information
and views that have been interchanged
during the last two days.
Sugar Cane Prospects.
Havana, Nov. 24. The sugar-cane
contracts made public this season were
at Guareirazs in the province of Matan
zas. They are on a basis of 5i to t
arrobes of a centrifugal sugar to be de
livered at Matanzas for each 100 arrobes
of cane delivered at the side of the mill.
There is still a wide difference in the
estimates of the coming sugar crop. On
one hand the fine appearance of the cane
at Remedios gives rise to the belief that
the crop will exceed that of last season
by from 10 to 15 per cent, while on the
other it is asserted by some persons who
claim to be well posted that in the prov
ince of Matanzas there will be a decrease
of 15 per cent.
Fittingly Stated.
Review. The difficulties now being
experienced by the transcontinental
railroads in the operation of their lines
through the Cascade mountains afford
additional evidence of the erroneous
policy of hauling merchandise over those
mountains only to haul it back again to
the interior. The severity of the grades,
the interruptions to travel, and the
waste of energy all protest against the
present policy.
Driven to Their Death. '.
York, Nov. 26. The wrong
Nitw
parties were rescued in an accident par
ticulars of which come from Constanti
nople specials. It seems that an in
ebriated coachman, who today was driv
ing a carriage in which rode Keman Bey
with two distinguished friends, persisted
in attempting to drive the carriage over
the drawbridge, connecting Stambonl
and Galata, in spite of the shouted
warnings that the bridge was open. The
carriage fell into the water and- Keman
Bey and his friends were drowned. The
coachman and footman vera rescued.
S. P. R. COMPLICATION
Alter December fill Ignore all Othe:
lines at Portland.
MUST BE LOCAL TICKETS OR NONE
Will Issue no More Through nor Will
any be Received by Them.
IT 18 MOT IN ANT SENSE A BOYCOTT
But it Means That no Further Impost
tlons Will be Tolerated by the '
S. P. R. Lines.
lhe southern Pacific Railroad com
pany has issued orders, announcing that
after December 31st, neither one-way
nor round-trip tickets will be sold, or
baggage checked through Portland to
points on the line of the Southern Pacific
in Oregon or California, via the North
ern, Canadian, or Union Pacific. The
Southern will not honor these tickets
after January 1st, except such as are
sold prior to that date, and will not ac
cept any baggage for Portland under
these checks. This order cannot be
construed to mean a boycott, as reported,
but it is intended to operate on single
and round-trip tickets, including those
for return for California points through
Portland over the Northern and Cana
dian Pacific, also passage from Portland
or Tacoma, to San Francisco by steamer,
with return by rail. Commencing Jan
nary 1st, the Southern Pacific will exact
local rates from Portland on any tickets
by way of the Union Pacific from Port
land to points on its lines in Oregon or
California, and on round-trip tickets re
turning from California through Port
land, over the Union Pacific, it will ex
act its local rates to Portland. Another
object may be to keep the Union, Can
adian and Northern out of the field for
California business. At present each of
these lines has officers in San Francisco
and is making an effort to secure travel
from that city, bringing passengers to
Portland over the Southern and thence
east over its own lines. This action of
the Southern is in line with that of the
.Union Pacific in refusing to accept
coupon tickets issued by other roads,
and is an effort to secure the through
business for their own line, instead of
giving other roads the long haul from
Portland east. Canadian and Northern
can only handle California business via
Portland by paying the local rate over
the Southern or on the steamers of the
Union Pacific. Whatever the outcome
may be, the stand taken by Huntington
adds interest to the already very much
complicated railroad situation.
En Konte to Turkey.
East Oregonian. D. P. Thompson,
the Portland millionaire, was a passen
ger on Wednesdays east-bound train.
Mr. Thompson will grace the . Sublime
Porte with additional sublimity by his
presence at Constantinople as minister
from the United Siates, and is now on
his way to the domainof the Turk. When
asked if he had any obligations to ex
press for the Thanksgiving Turkey al-
loted him he vouchsafed no reply, evi
dently considering the question irrele
vant. Minister Thompson was accom
panied as far as Pendleton by State
Senator-elect C. H. Woodruff, of Port
land, who spent the day in this city.
Editor Mays Overcome.
Washington Independent. We are
hungry a little too for federal considera
tion and have it in black and white from
those who can speak with authority
that we shall get what 'we want. We
are so dazzled with possibilities we
know not what to ask.
The Only Hope.
Inter Mountain. There is not a man
in Montana outside the Warm Springs
insane asylum, who believes that the
democratic party with both houses of
congress and the presidency, will ever
pass a free coinage bill. The only hope
for silver lies in the international con
ference, which is a republican idea.
A Weather Forecast.
Review. Indiana,on the Cceur d'Alene
reserve predict an extraordinarily hard
winter. Inhabitants of eastern Wash
ington will hope that( they . prove true
prophets if a plenteous snowfall will in
sure next season a crop as bountiful as
h at which followed our last hard winter.
COSTIW- "ABTY.
Thanksgiving Eve suitably Observed at
The Academy.
Wednesday evening the pupils of
Wasco Independent Academy entertain
ed their friends in the art studio, appear
ing in costume, and masks. The follow
ing characters were represented : -
Georgia Sampson, Kate Greenaway;
Pearl Butler, Grecian costume; Homer
Angell, Clown ; Freas Saunders, Clown
Evie Heppner, Alsatian girl ; Daisie
Alloway, Flower girl ; Myrtle. Micbell
Old Mother Hubbard ; May bel Riddell
Japanese girl ; Maybel Mack, Chrysan
themum ; Burnside Taylor, Topsy
Daton Taylor, Milk maid; Miss Aque,
and Miss Holcomb, Nobody's chilluns ;
Forrest Fisher, Colored base ball player;
William Fredden, Gentleman of the 14th
century; Fred Snipes, African
Dude ; Walter Johns, Candle seller ;
May ""Sechler; Night; Anna Taylor,
Astrologer ; Ethel Baker, Priscilla ; Julia
Hill, Topsy; Laura Thompson, Butter
fly; Willie Crossen, Grover Cleveland;
Neddie Baldwin, The Press; Bertie
Baldwin, Soldier; JakeMcCown, School
girl ; Willie Fields", Brownie ; Clara
Davis, Pearl Williams, Male Beall,
Bessie French, Gypsies ; Beulah Patter
son. Cleopatra; Harrv Kelly, Shy lock ;
Aimee Newman, Evelyn Newman, Annie
Williams, Macbeth's witches; James
Maloney, Gypsy; Charles Clarke, Sweet
Sixteen; JSmmaconney, dypsy mother;
George Dufur, (jypsy.
After the masks were taken off sing
ing, tableaux, and charades were given
the whole concluding with chocolate and
refreshments. It was a very pleasant
evening to alt invited truest.
' Wedding Bells.
Married at Tangent, Oregon, Nov. 17th
1892. at the residence of the brides sister
Mrs. Marv Churchill, Frank B. Stevens,
of Condon, Oregon, and Miss .Lillian
Rohrer. of Mt. Vernon, 111. Rev. Lee
officiating.
The rooms were beautifully decorated
for the occasion, and at the appointed
hour for the bride and groom to make
their appearance, the mellow light
streamed out on a scene of beauty. The
guests were a happy party of relatives
from different localities, who appreciated
the importance of the occasion also the
delicacies of the wedding feast so lavishly
spread. .Handsome and valuable pres
ents formally presented by relatives of
both parties. The bride has for years
held a "position in the foremost . ranks
among the prominent educators, both in
her old home in Illinois, and in Eastern
Oregon. The groom is well and favora
blv known as a successful stock raiser in
Eastern Oregon. Both parties have a
large circle of friends who unite in send
ing after them kind wishes for their
prosperity! and happiness. May they
live without a discord to break the sweet
music of domestic happiness, and their
lives be attuned to harmony and useful
ness.
Bad Place For a Hennery.
It is given up by all the best authorities
that a hen is the most provoking animal
that exists ; and certainly Dick Power,
the gentlemanly station agent, post
master and merchant at Mosier ia will
ing to bear added witness to that truth.
For two years he has been justly proud
of a band of fine leghorn chickens, but
his varied experience in the time named
has so discouraged him that he has
almost decided to abandon poultry rais
ing. Many have been killed by the cars,
killed by passing tramps, and occasion
ally, perhaps, been mulched by friendly
train hands. But laterly they, have
taken to riding away on freight cars,
havjng flown up in search of grain, and
failing, through either perversity or ter
ror to fly down again when the train
is in motion; On one occasion recently
it made Dick so mad to see his stock
passing majestically by that he quickly
got his shot gun and pursued the fleeing
train, killing five of them, and bringing
them home in triumphal glory.
Dying From Hydrophobia.
Danville, Va.f Nov. 25. A little Bon
of J. A. Lee, of North Danville, was
bitten by a dog September 15th. The
dog also bit forty or fifty other persons
and five days later died, showing symp
toms of madness. Two days ago young
Lee was taken sick and today developed
a genuine case of hydrophobia, hie is
not expected to live. As so many others
were bitten by the same dog, North
Danville people are in a state of great
excitement tonight.
' Is an Exception.
Garfield Enterprise. The democrat
who has not been named for a cabinet
office or at least - as a minister to some
foreign country is very small potatoes.
Skaters Drowned.
Nebraska City, Nov. 25th. Miss
Lola Burnett and George Kennecutt,
both popular young people and en
gaged to be married, fell through the ice
while . skating yesterday and were
drowned. The bodies were recovered. ,
THE FARMERS MUTUAL
The New Benefit Association Organ
ized in Illinois.
PLANS OF ORGANIZATION MAPPED
Driven to Their Death bv an Inebri
ate in Constantinople.
A SMART CHICAGO JOCKEY THICK
Electricity Stirs Up a Horse on the
Track-
A Case of Hydrophobia
Skaters Drowned.
Champaign, 111., Nov. 25.-The national
assembly of the Farmers' mutual bene
fit association closed its labors by adopt
ing resolutions of faith in the future
greatness of the order, and calling upon
the members to assist in reviving the
work; demanding free and unlimited
coinage of silver, and an increased circu
lating medium, and recommending the
establishment of postal saving banks, in
lieu of the present method of perpetuat
ing national banks; that congress
should prohibit dealings in futures of
agricultural and mechanical produc
tions, and the adulteration of foods and
medicines; demanding an equitable
system of ,a graduated tax on incomes,
The assembly provided for a resubmis
sion of the amendment making women
and boys and girls over sixteen years of
age eligible to membership.
Will Modify the Tariff.'
Bloomington, 111., Nov. 26. The
Hon. Owen Scott, congressman for this
district, but defeated for re-election, in
speaking of democratic policies today
said : "The democrats may modify the
McKmley law, but as to repealing it,
that ia another thing. In the way of
modifications ' they will put raw mate
rials largely on the free list and make a
general reduction all along the line of
manufactured goods. They will abolish
the sugar bounty and put sugar on the
free list. By this they will destroy the
sugar trust, which is drawing from $25,-
000,000 to $30,000,000 annual y from the
peoples' pockets. They will probably
reduce the duty on tin-plate. Nothing
will be done in the way of repealing the
law taxing state bank issues. That
question was voted on in the last session
and was voted down. I do not think
there will be an dxtra. attempt to de
crease the pension list. Our party is a
friend to the old soldiers."
Anything to Win.
Chicago, Nov. 25. Jockey Euus was
caught stirring up the horse Little Crete
with an electric battery at the Roby
track this afternoon as the horses came
to the post for the third race. The at
tention of the judges was attracted by
the unusual activity of the horse when
he came in contact with Euns' heels.
The jockey was searched, and under his
jacket was found a broad belt with cart
ridge-shaped attachments,'each of which
contained an electric cell, with wires
running to the spurs. Nothing could be
done with the jockey nnder the rules,
but the judges immediately amended
the regular ones so as to cover the case.
Needs Improving.
Fairhaven Herald. It is to be hoped
that the legislature this winter will
amend the Australian election law so
that the results can be ascertained and
published much sooner than is possible
under the present system. Provision
should be made for separate officers in
each precinct to count the ballots as
they are cast. There is such a law in
New York now and its operation is very
satisfactory. The law in this state is a
very severe tax upon the endurance of
the election officers as well as the
patience of the candidates and the
people. '
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MRS. BESANT'S PICTURES.
A Theosophist's Somewhat Lnoid
El-
planation of Ghosts.
Prom 8t James Gazette.
'' In the course of a lecture which Mrs.
Annie Besant delivered at Milton hall,
Kentishtown, dealing with, the subject
of apparitions, she said that what
science meant in talking of ether was
what the theosophist meant when he
spoke of astral matter, only iu the one
case it bad been subjected to .experi
ments and was understood, while in the
other case the experiments were at pres
ent of the most elementary character,
and although most promising for the
future they were not yet very reliable in
the explanation of certain curious
and abnormal phenomena. Now
they got a number of appari
tions which had ' this common
characteristic, they were unconscious.
A person awoke and saw a form which
said nothing and did nothing except
stand there. It generally looked some
what -mournful and disconsolate, and
speedily disappeared. This was a most
unsatisfactory kind of thing, afforded no
explanation of its presence, and there
was nothing to show why it came. The
person who saw it real or fanciful was
not quite sure whether he himself were
awake or asleep. The apparition
appeared at night, frightened for
a moment and the next moment it
was gone.
This kind of apparition has nothing
more than what theosophy described aa
a picture or revelation in the astral
light. The modus operandi was this:
There was an intense thought in ' the
mind of some person. That thought
was a real energy, a real force, quite as
real aa electricity. It was quite as real
as an electric force that could be sent
through space ; and it was not without
significance that whenever they got
thought action they got electric action.
Their medical man would tell them
that when there was thought in con
nection with the brain there was elc e-
trical action in connection with the
brain. When they thought intensely
on the physical plane they set free elec
tricity, and, on the astral plane, they
set up a current through this astral
matter or ether. They thought in
tensely of a person, and the current set
up in astral matter or ether went in the
direction of that person' -as cjjjtainly as
they could- nd yonrrent along a wire -when
they wished it to reach a distant
town.
This set of etheric vibrations, reach
ing the person who was intensified in
their thought, affected the person by the
same medium, and, in some cases, ap
peared as an objective reality. In very
many cases only as a mental impression
was the person thought of.
What were the conditions under which
this unconscious picture was produced?
It was constantly produced where a per
son was dying, and where the dying .
person was exceedingly desirous of see
ing some absent friend or relative. It
most often happened between those
closely united by ties of blood or of af
fection. Most of these astral pictures
were between close relatives or close
friends, and the evidence was, to her
mind, indubitable that such occurrences
did take place, for they might find over
and over again, instances in which the
person seeing the apparition had made
note of the day, the hour and the place ;
and it had been subsequently found
that at . the precise time a friend had
passed through the change called death,
and that the news which was thus car
ried by these astral vibrations was news
as true and as real as though it were
flashed along the electrical wires.
Steamer vs. Railroad.
Nkw York, Nov. 26. The temporary
injunction obtained by Edward Lauter-
bach restraining the officers of the Pana
ma Railroad Company from entering in
to any contract with the Chilean line of
steamers in the suit between that com
pany and the Pacific Mail Steamship
company will come up for argument on
Tuesday, and the case itself will be
heard on its merits a few weeks later.
The temporary injunction is asked for
in order to restrain the Chilean company,
represented in this country by William
R. Grace & Co. as financial agents, from
carrying passengers or freight from any
one or more ports lying between Panama
and Acapulco.
Baking.