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THE DATtT.ES WEEKLY . CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1893.
IN THE DEADLY RAPIDS
iKiflent at the Rirer Improyement Scow
Near Lewlston.
JOUR LIVES LOST IN SNAKE RIVER
The Fate of Young William Wiggins and
his Companions.
1IWXFT INTO AN CGLI WHIBtPOOI
Vap.ia.d Into the Icy Waters Men on
Board Darned by the Horrible
Situation.
, Spokane, Nov. 26. A special from
" Xewiston speaks of the finding of two
"bodies drowned on Thursday from the
cow in use by the government making
improvements of the Snake river - chan
nel. At the time of the disaster it was
anchored off the mouth of dry hollow.
Two men were aboard and six were in a
kiff alongside the drill-pipe. The water
runs very swiftly at this point, and there
were some ugly rapius. In a twinkling
the skiff was capsized and the occupants
were floundering in the icy waters of the
river. Two of the men, named Mohl
and Kuhn, swam ashore, the scow being
nly forty or fifty feet from the bank,
"but the others either could not swim or
-were afraid to make the effort. They
olune to the capsized boat, and were
uicklv swept down stream some 300
feet. There they were caught in a whirl
wool and torn away from the boat, and
all four were drowned.
The victims were William Wiggins,
member of a prominent family in Lewis
ton ; E. W. Evans, foreman of the scow,
aged 40, who leaves a widow and family
in Ellensburgh ; Harvey Williams, from
England, aged 50; Reuben Neumeyer,
aged 25, who had been working as a
farm-laborer at Lewiston until a few
weeks ago, when ha, went to work on the
cow. After the men were swept into
the whirlpool they sank, and none of
them came to the surface. For a min
ute the men on board the scow were
dazed by the horror of the situation.
Then another skiff was manned and an
effort was made to rescue the victims.
After a chase ior two miles the capsized
oat was overtaken, hope being enter
tained that some of the men might yet
e clinging to it, but this proved a dis
appointment. It is thought that all of
tbe victims were swept loose in the first
whirlpool.
THE TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM.
island Empire Terminals to Receive
Just Recognition
From The Spokane Keview.
It is evident that there is to be a revo
lution of the transportation methods af
fecting the Pacific coast. For one reason,
the present system of discriminating
rates againt the interior is illegal ; for
another reason the railroad companies
have grown weary of the unequal fight
with the ocean carriers a fight which is
growing more and more burdensome for
the land carriers. The managers of the
old companies have partly realized this
in the past; but the conditions were the
result of long growth, and they have
been loath to bring about the disturb
ances of a revolution . They have drifted
along under a desire to temporize, hop
ing that something might turn up that
would bring about a better condition
At last their hope is to be realized. The
Great Northern has built through to
the coast, and President Hill, starting
with a clean balance sheet at the termi
nals, shows a decided disposition to
force the revolution which the old com
panies desired, but were afraid to pre-
There is to be a readjustment of rates,
and the Inland Empire will almost cer
tainly be given rates common with the
terminals, and possibly a relative mil
cage rate below that charged for the
through haul. At the terminals we
shall probably see a division of traffic ;
the ocean carriers taking that tonnage
which the overland carriers find them
selves unable to transport with profit,
and the land carriers advancing rates
npon commodities which the sea car
riers can not transport successfully
against the quick passage by rail. In the
end this will result advantageously to
all concerned. The terminals may suf
fer some at the start, but as business be
comes readjusted, they will regain the
lnaa-in fhA PTlnaivn hnomoag nrtiiiti will
tome to them by sea, and more largely
in the increased prosperity that must
extend to all parts of the Pacific north
west. The railroad companies, relieved
of the superfluous haul to tidewater and
thence back to the interior, , will earn
-quite as much money as of old, and will
operate their roads more economically.
Energy will cease to be wasted; there
will be a fair and even profit for all the
service rendered, and with the more
stable conditions which these changes
must bring, business generally will be
-conducted upon a safer basis. '
?' ' Current Topic. , ;
'Although long neglected by the gen
eral government, Alaska is receiving
earnest consideration at the hands of
Washington democrats who would like
to be its governor. ' "
In spite of the approach of winter
cholera increases in virulence in Russia
To prevent its outbreak in this country
next spring great vigilance is necessary,
In the meantime every reasonable pre
caution should be taken.
The march of electrical science is on
ward. Carriages are now operated npon
the Btreets of Chicago by electricity. The
world will hardly be surprised, what
ever applications may hereafter be made
of the latent power of nature.
The search for the north pole exer
cises a strange fascination over the
human mind. Lieutenant Peary, not
satisfied with his late experience, wants
to conduct another expedition over the
ice hummocks of Greenland to that mys
terious point from whence longitude
emerges ana wmtner latitude vamsnes,
Mount Pitt, an extinct volcano in the
Cascades about 60 miles due east of
Grant's pass, is said to be smoking again.
C. A. Woolfolk, who has been in sight
of it recently, says the black smoke
shoots straight up in large volumes from
the snow-rapped peak, and the sight is
a grand one from one of tbe summits at
the head of Bloody run.
In 1880 a friend passing Cheyenne
mailed to Dr. W. D. Baker at Astoria a
horned toad. It turned up last month
in Salem, and J. H. Haas, the jeweler,
found it in his dooryard. He - has had
his toadship at the store in a box of
sand ever since. He wants somebody
who knows how to attend to him, to tell
him what to feed him. The toad has
lived on wind for three weeks.
Okanogan Smith, the pioneer pros
pector, died last week of typhoid, fever,
He was chosen a member of the Wash
ington house of representatives at the
last election. For the past quarter of a
century he has denied himself the ben
efits of civilized life, in his devotion to
the mining interests of Okanogan. His
death will be regretted more because of
the apparent dawn realization of his
'long deferred hopes."
The dials of the clock on the Oregonian
building are fifteen feet across, this being
the largest clock face in the United
States, with one exception. The figures
on the dial are about zU incnes m
lungtb, and the dots which mark the
minutes are about five inches square
person who imagined that the dial
would be large circles of glass with the
numerals painted on it, was much sur
prised to find that the nuineials and
ircles surrounding them are cast in
metal, these parts of each dial weighing
several hundred pounds.
A worse land slide is reported in Fair-
haven than anything in Oregon yet. It
was at. avalanche which came down the
mountain on the east side of Lake What
com sweeping tne house occupied by
Warren Burgess and his wife, together
with his entire farm, into the lake. It
seems that they were asleep in bed when
the avalanche came down and awoke to
find themselves 500 feet out in the lake
on a pile of debris. Mr. isurgess had
his leg crashed in a jam of trees, but
managed to swim with his wife to the
shore. There they lay in a terrible
storm without clothing for seven hours
before help reached them. Mr. Burgess
well known here, having formerly
lived in the Inland Empire. Sonic
years ago he removed to the sound, and
had by hard labor cultivated and ini
proved a farm on the bank of Lake
Whatcom. The house stood on a little
plateau about fifty feet from the lake
shore. Every vestige of the improve
ment which his toil wrought was swept
away by the terrible landslide.
SILVER IN BRUSSELS
Something Definite Expectefl Froi tie
Conference Today. .
LEANING TOWARD ROTHSCHILD
"CIe Detective Work.'1
Europeans May Possibly Enter the Mar
kets to Establish Values.
MANY I1LB RUMORS CIRCULATED
Text of tbe Pending: Agreement Baaed
Upon Certain Condition! in the
United States.
Another New Comet.
Boston, Nov. 26. A cable message re
ceived tonight from European astrono
mers announces the discovery of a faint
comet by Mr. Freeman of Brighton,
Eng. Its position on November 24th
was 389 Greenwich mean time, right as
cension 10 hours, 29 minutes ; declina
tion north 30 degrees 9 minutes. It has
a motion directly south of three degrees
daily, and is about six detrrees south of
Holmes' comet. The Science Observer,
a comet circular issued here today, an
nounces officially two elliptic orbits of
the Holmes comet, one computed by Dr.
Kreatz and cabled from Europe and the
other computed by Luther Zears of
Washington. The two orbits agree on a
period from six to seven years for the
comet in an orbit, which is more nearly
circular than that of any other comet
except Fayes. . The comet passed its
nearest point to the sun some mouths
ago and is now going away from both
earth and sun. For a comet so distant
it is exceedingly bright, and should this
prove to be its normal condition and not
due to some outburst, there seems to be
no reason why it should not be seen con
stantly for some years to come.
Needs Inspection.
Review. The secretary of the state
board of horticulture is calling the at
tention of orchardists to an important
fact. ' He says that much nursery stock
is being distributed throughout the
state, some of which is liable to be ' in
fested with the wholly aphis and other
destructive insect pests. He says that
fruit tree agents' should be required to
'show certificates of inspection to the ef
fect that their stock is free from the
fruit peats. ' ;s ; '. - . '
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New Yobk, Nov. 28. Dispatches
from Brussels state that there was no
voting at .the international monetary
conference Saturday. The proposals of
Alfred De Rothschild, one of tbe Eng
lish delegates, will be made public to
day. General expectation centers on
the plan of Rothschild. The bimetal-
lists are sangnine it will form a basis for
the solution of questions before the con
ference. On the other hand the mono-
raetallists declare, in view of the posi
tion taken by German and Austrian
delegates and the probable attitude of
British representatives, the conference
is certain to fail and it will onlv be a
waste of time to prolong the discussion
Rothschild's proposals will be in final
shape today. Among rumors in circula
tion to which the delegates -attach irn
portance is one that various European
powers will yearlv buv silver to the
minimum amount of 5,000,000 sterling
at a price to be fixed by general agree
ment, on condition that the United
States continues silver purchases to the
extent of 54,000,000 ounces. The report
is generally credited that Rothschild's
proosal contains the statement that an
international syndicate should be formed
to buy silver until the normal value of
the metal is re-established. x -
The Submarine Boat.
Chicago, Nov. 26. George C. Baker's
submarine boat was tested twice today
on Lake Michigan in the presence of
two members of the torpedo board of
the United States navy and Mr. Baker,
who witnessed the experiments from
the tug. " Electrician McCarthy aud
Kugineer Roe were the only persons
aboard the submarine boat. At the
lirst trial the boat would not sink, being
l..o buoyant, and additional ballast was
secured. Another trial was then made,
proving more successful, but whether
wholly so was not made known. A re
port will be made to Chief of the Ordi
nance Bureau Folger, who will make an
official test of the craft in the torpedo
service.
The Canal Inquiry.
New Yokk, Nov. 28. Paris dispatches
intimate that nothing good will come of
the Panama canal inquiry. After ex
amining M. Prousl the court decided to
request the public prosecutor to inquire
at all the banks whether Prousl received
through any of them the check he is al
leged to have received. M. Kobn, sen
ior partner of the banking firm of Kohn
& R. Elnach, requested to be allowed to
deny before the committee the charge
made by Dalahaye that his bank re
ceived 5,000,000 francs from the Panama
canal company.
Laws.
Civil Set vice
Washington, Nov. 26. The report of
General Rosencrans, register of the
treasury, says, regarding the operations
of the civil service law, that the most
important betterments during tbe year
are. those indicated by the president's
order of December 4, 1891, aiming to put
each clerk's efficiency record beyond the
reach of accidents, which chiefs may be
liable to make in recording standings.
Rosencrans suggests that some defects
be remedied, among other things decry
ing tbe competitive examinations and
holding the monthly record of efficiency
greatly superior to the haphazard re
sults thereof.
Union Pacific Wreck.
An Omaha dispatch to the Buffalo
Courier of the 22d tells of a collision on
the Union Pacific at Alda, Nebraska, in
whi'ch four trainmen were instantly
killed. The wreck was caused by a col
lision between the Overland flyer and a
freight. The freight train had been do
ing some switching and had just pulled
out of the Alda yard when the flyer
rounded a curve and the two trains
crashed together. Both engines were
completely wrecked. The baggage and
postal cars were telescoped and tbe
freight cars piled on top of the broken
mass. Following are the names of the
killed : Engineer A. G. Barrett, Engi
neer B. M. McDonald, Conductor J. W.
Keeler, Fireman Owens, The injured :
Fireman Castillo, fatally hurt; Mail
Clerk Lyons, fatally hurt; Brkeman
Sutherland, badly injured and scalded.
Only one passenger was hurt and he but
lightly. Fireman Castillo and Brake-
man Sutherland died that afternoon, i
The Chronicle reporter was
Thursday intrusted with some . "clever
detective secrets ;" but as we do not be
lieve in the policy of trying a case until
it gets into court, nor revealing facts to
a culprit fugitive until he is safely be
hind tbe bars; we do not propose to
give away any of the secrets of . work in
trusted to our keeping this week ; and
whatever we may say here now has been
picked np on the street. There is no
longer any secret about the arrival here
of twenty-one armed men ; of how they
chartered teams and loaded themselves
and their beds (blankets covering Win
Chester), aud baggage (satchels filled
with cartridges), and took their way out
of town in different vehicles, each ap
pearing to be a stranger to the other
They drove into the Inland Empire an
separated, temporarily ; a part, of their
party returned to The Dalles with Cal
Hale, who has been identified as the
man who struck Mr. Abernathv over the
bead with a - revolver in the Roslvn
bank, and was one of the cow boys im
plicated in that r6bbery.' They also, by
this clever piece of detective service,
captured another man (Kimsey), impli
cated in the same robbery and have got
an eve on others. This is all news
picked up on tbe street today.
in addition to the above we are in
formed by one who was told by a de
tective, that the "pointer" which put
them on track of the robbers was
couple of horses captured from them at
the time the citizen's posse was chasing
the band in the mountains near Roslyn
The Roslyn robbers belong to a gang ex
tending from Mexico to British Colum
bia, and they steal horses in one place
running them to another .place, revers
ing the order for security and sales,
The captured horses had been stolen
from Eastern Oregon, in the vicinity of
Fossil, and taken as a clew, lead to the
discovery of the rendezvous.
There are a number of stories floating
about, one of which sniffs out the light
cast upon the rendezvous of Son tag and
Evans as pictured by the San Francisco
Examiner man who pretended to visit
them recently in the mountains of Cal
ifornia. Our informant says a "detec
tive" told him that a hostler in a stable
was told by a tramp who got- it from
Harney sheep herder that Sontag and
Evans are up this wav, and that the
latest recruit at the rendezvous is Bur-
dette Wolfe, whom they are after be
cause of the reward, it is said the
other thugs, thieves and murderers in
camp make it hot for Burdette, and if
he only could be assured that his pen
alty might be imprisonment for life, he
would gladly surrender. But,his chums
are watching him now, and he is, so- to
speak, "placed between two fires."
All jokes aside this is a serious sub
ject. Officers in pursuit of criminals de
serve the support of the press and the
public; and that justice may be done
they usually have such support; but
when they destroy the verv influence
they are most in heed of, and tell Tom,
Dick and Harry this and that item,
which forms the wool of the web they
are weaving, it must be expected that
their plans will be frustrated. This ar
ticle is compiled wholly from current
rumors oh tbe street today. Had The
Chronicle been disposed to do so, the
story might have been published on
Thursday, but we preferred to keep
silent and give the "detectives, a
chance.
JL iiea man
can be made, out ot one that's
"used-up," bilious and dyspeptic.
It's done by Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. It starts the
torpid liver into healthful action,
purifies and enriches the blood,
cleanses, repairs, and strengthens
the system, and restores health and
vigor. ' As an appetizing, restora
tive tonic, it sets at work all the
processes ot digestion and nutri
tion, and builds op flesh and
strength. It's the only Blood and
Liver Remedy that's guaranteed, in
every ca, to benefit or cure. If it
doesn't do all that's claimed for it,
the money is promptly refunded.
But it keeps its promises that's
the reason it can be sold in thii
way. .
" Discovery w " strengthens Weak
Lungs, and cures Spitting of Blood,
Shortness of Breath, Bronchitis,
Severe Coughs, and kindred affec
tions: "Don't be fooled into taking
something else, said to be "just as
good," that the dealer may make a
larger profit. There's nothing at
all like the "Discovery." - ,
NOTICB.
All Dalles Citv warrants remstered
prior to January 6, 1891, will be paid if
presented at my omce. interest ceases
rom and after this date.
Dated October 13th, 1892.
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