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ill Mm Ml Ay VOL. III. THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY;, DECEMBER 16, 1892. NUMBER 1. s sysysy FEARFUL COLLISION. 6ne Serions Accident Causes a Worse one in New Jersey. ONE MORE BRIDGE TO BE BUILT. LjRailway Telegraphers Ordered out on a Strike by Chief Ramsey. WILL HO 8KBIOU8LT INTERFERE The Bosk Island the Only Lin Affected by the Strike far Other Hentlou. '.. Ckebiivillji, N. J., Dec. 8. At 11:30 this morning the Boundbrook express, en route for Jersey city, struck and killed a woman in front of the depot here. The train stopped immediately. Another train, outward bound, on an opposite track, whose engineer saw the killing, stopped hi train. Behind him, ii the same track, followed the third express. The stopping of the first was o sudden he could not stop in time, although he applied the air brake. The engine plowed through the rear car lor half its length, crushing timbers, glass, etc., with a report heard for blocks away. It injured about a dozen passen gers. Miss Gilroy, of Elizabeth, was badly hurt, her injuries may prove fatal. One man had his collar-bone broken. Ordered to Strike. Chicago, Dec. 9. Chief Ramsey, of the railway telegraphers, says the strike . on the Rock Island road is now on and that all the telegraphers went out at ten a. m. yesterday. A Davenport special ays the strike would not seriously in terfere with the use of wires for train work in Iowa from the Mississippi river to Council Bluffs, not more than twelve perators having left their keys, and on the division from-Davenport to Kansas City fifton to twenty had gone out. Trains are moving regularly by the dis patchers' orders except where the snow torm had interfered. At El Reno the oerators have the sympathy of the citizens, and it is believed that the com pany will have trouble putting non mnion men in the strikers' places. Be- tween Ft. Dodge and Des Moines only fcur men are at work. Thev are station agents not members of the order. Train service is considerably crippled there As far as can be learned, none of the operators on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern road have obeyed the order to strike. Southern I'aciflc Jtriage. Washington, Dec. 8. The senate bill for a bridge acrows the Mississippi river above New Orleans for the use of the Southern Pacilic was passed. It is very rgent that this measure become a law . before the final adjournment of congress. Of Interest to Frnit Men. Pacific Farmer. President Cardwell, of the state board of horticulture, who has just returned from an extended trip ' through the frnit sections of California is very enthusiastic in his description ot the interest taken in that industry by the prominent men in the state. He ays that . there is more brains and nionev engaged in the raisin of Calif ornia Iruit than in any other business. Almost ail of the prominent men have an interest of some kind. Inonecounty they figure that they have enough wine grapes to supply the world. These grapes sold as low as six dollars per ton during the present season. And wine sold for eight to ten cents per gallon. The growers also figure that they will inside of five years according to the acreage now planted raise enough French prunes (400,000,000 pounds) to supply the cidKitry. Their prunes in size can not compare with the Oregon product, but as it is lett to ripen and then dried in the sun it is of excellent quality hold ing much sugar. It is a mistaken idea to think that fruits dried in sun are not of good quality. The large size and ex cellent quality of the Oregon prune will always place it at the head in the prune market if It is put up in an attractive inanm-r, as it will always command the highest price and the best class of trade. The loading growers of California are of the opinion and so expressed it that on account of the superior quality of the ' Oregon apple in comparison with the California apple, that the growers of Or egon should devote more of their land to the pr jduction of apples, and the doctor ays that a ship load of Winter Nelli' pears could be sold in the Sun Frt : r: aaarket. Current Topics. The Heppner Gazette says: News comes from Harney county that W. C. Byrd will not be one in the race to be decided on the 20th inst. It is reported that John Daly will run on the demo cratic ticket, but who will be the choice of the republican and populist parties is not knowD, though it is presumed that Gowan and Fenwick will try it again. If the later should not. decide to make the race, the democrat will doubt lens be elected. The enrollment in the state normal school at Monmouth in this state is 355. The corresponding enrollment last year was 320. The District of Columbia is left by a decision of the supreme court of the district without a law regulating the liquor traffic. An old statute of the legislature of the district relating to the licensing of various vocations has hither to been treated by the commissioners as giving them power to grantor refuse the licenses to sell intoxicating liquors, and as subjecting those who sold without license to penalties, in May last the supreme court or tne district, neia against this view of the power of the commissioners. It is ot urgent impor tance, therefore that congress should supply, either by direct enactment or by conferring discretionary powers upon the commissioners, proper limitations and restraint upon the liquor traffic in the district. The district has suffered in its reputation by many crimes of vio lence, a large per cent, of them result ing from drunkeness and the liquor traffic. The capital of the nation should be freed from this reproach by the en actment of stringent restrictions and limitations Uxn the traffic. The Heppner Gazette says: J. C Luce advocates a slice cutoff from Grant countv and be added to Morrow. Mor row county opposes slicing any more. Portlands water system is getting to be a ponderous institution. They find that their revenue is insufficient to meet the requirements on their interest bearing bonds, and as soon as the pipe line is finished they will fall short $75,- 000 or more than their receipts on in come for water rent, and are compelled to advance rates before the new year. The Dr. Briggs Trial. The Dr. Briggs trial is getting to be tiresome. They have made the accusa tion that the Dr. teaches that Moses was not (the author of the pentateuch, etc. Dr. Birch said the only authority of the authorship was the bible itself. He said : "If Moses did not write the pentateuch, no Jew can be blamed for rejecting Christ. If Moses did not write the pentateuch, Christ himself is dis honest." When Dr. Birch finished his sech, Col. McCook took up the club und made the discussion very warm in his effort to prove the heretical theories of Dr. Briggs. To the common reader this discussion is not very savory and does not advance the cause of Christianity with the ma- joritv of readers. The christian world wauts less dogmatism in this nineteenth century, and more simple Christianity It doesn't make any difference to the most of mankind whether Moses wrote the "pentateuch, or whether David did, as long as the spirit is there. Million Without Charity. In all the lives of wealthy men 'who have been favored with millions of do lars ; who have been prominent charac ters in the world ; have had an under lying thought and spirit of benevolence, they have realized that the world had contributed to their pleasures, to their comforts and their successes. While they had absorbed a share of its wealth, they owed much for it, and as a remem brance, forgot not its benefits. There are but few instances where the hand of charitv has not been felt, the weak made strong and talents returned for charity's sake. In Mr. Jay Gould's life there is an exception. He gathered from the world, and kept what the world gave him without thanksgiving, Hia hundred millions he bequeathed to his sons and daughters. Charity, for public good, was not his thanksgiving. The offering was forgotten. "As the worm dieth so he died.'' American Cholera. From the Daily Reveille, Whatcom, Wash. "T. C. Burnett, the democratic candi date for sheriff, was taken violently ill at Clearbrook. He had all the symp toms of Asiatic cholera, and for an hour or two it was feared he would die. They finally gave him a dose of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which revived him until a physician ar rived." That is precisely what the manufacturers of that medicine recom mend for cholera. Send for a physician but give their medicine until the physi cian arrives. If cholera become preval ent in this country next summer thin preparation will be in great demand be- f?'ltl It f1:W SliViTS W !! (! utv A BATTLE EXPECTED Tag Usual Results of a Mississippi ... snooting Match. LOSS BT A FIRE IN CINCINNATI Breaks Forth From the City Armory and Spreads Quickly. A GANG OF ROBBERS I If ST. LOCIS Hailing from Chicago and Operate with the Utmost Boldness John M. t'ohn Suicides. St. Louis, Dec. 9. Excitement has settled down somewhat in consequence of the Elam. mob, but a battle is proba ble. The mob was composed of several hundred men,' friends of Edward E. Elain, who was shot and killed by George E. Money, son of Congressman- elect P. D. Money, in a fight on the streets of Car roll ton last Saturday, now on its wav to Woodstock landing to lynch young Money, who is stopping with his uncle, James P. Money. When Money's friends learned that a mob had started to Woodstock fifty men; armed with Winchesters, started in pursuit A telegram was also sent to Greenwood, which is about ten miles from Wood stock, apprising the citizens and author ities oi the intentions of the u ob, and the sheriff, with 400 men heavily armed, left for the scene at once. Destructive Fire at Cincinnati. Cleveland, Dec. 8. tife broke out this morning in the city armory on Long street and, tanned by a heavy wind, quickly spread -to the police station, which is now burning. The -prisoners have been removed .to the county jail. There was an explosion in the armory, part of whose walls fell before it oc curred. By hard work the firemen suc ceeded in saving the police station, but the armory was entirely destroyed. The light artillery lost four guns, and several companies occupying the armory lost all their belongings. The entire loss to building and contents is $150,000. A Gang or Kobbers in St. Louis. St. Louis, Dec. 8. A gang of robbers from Chicago have been operating with the utmost boldness in this city, as they recently did in Chicago, but the police went to work with. such good results that the band appears to be broken np. Over 40 arrests of crooks have taken place, and a Chicago detective has recog nized about 30 of them as members of an organized gang which have been holding up and robbing people in broad daylight in that city and suburbs. Re quisitions will be secured for- the whole gang. ' Canyon City Defaulter Canght. San Fhancisco, Dec. 8. E. A. Brack- ett was arrested today by Detective Cody upon a requisition from the governor of Oregon. In 1887 Brackett was clerk of the school district at Canyon City, Grant county, and taking about If 1,100 of the district's funds, fled. An indictment was found by the grand jury, but it was only a few weeks ago that Brackett was traced, and then he was serving 250 days ;is "trusty" in the city prison for carry ing concealed weapons, .since his re lease he had been working for a local al and wood dealer. Sheriff Combs and Deputy Brown will take him back immediate! v. . Kuiclde of a Lawyer. Chicago, Dec. 8. John M. Cohen, a awyer, well conuected in Philadelphia, from which city he recently came to Chicago, committed suicide yesterday by shooting. He was temporarily in sane because of insomonia. Alluminnm Alloy Composite. nas given entire satisfaction to iron, steel and brass founders, 2 per cent. added to mixture of cheap low zrade metals gives 30 per cent, increased strength, makes hard metal soft, sound and non-crystalizing, prevents blow holes and sponginess. Allnminum al loy unites copper with iron, and lead with iron and copper, heretofore consid ered an impossibility. It is not as ex pensive a metal as has been supposed. It can be produced at the small cost of five cents a pound .in small quantities and four cents bv the ton. The govern ment tests made at the Rock Island ar senal has given such perfect satisfaction that it is being nsed in the manufacture of armor plates and ordnance. Experi ments bare proven that the resisting druir-! power is superior to anything hereto ' I fore nied. KITKR9 AND HARBORS. Special Reports of the Secretary of War Upon the Pacific TTortnwest Coast. A dispatch from Washington states tha- Secretary Elkins has sent to con gress estimates on several Pacific Coast surveys, among them for the removal of the existing obstructions in Coos river, Col. Mendell also suggested that the snags, logs and boulders in Coos river be removed. . No additional survey is neces sary, because the conditions of the river are constantly changing. Capt. Svmons reported in favor of improving the ud per Columbia river at two places, one from the dalles (far up the river) to the international boundary, fifteen miles, and the other from the head of Rock Is land ranids to Foster creek, just above the mouth of the Oknnogan, ninety miles. To make a survey and prepare improvements $4,000 will be necessary. The department concurs in the recora mendation. Major Handbnry : thinks the Willamette above Oregon City should be made safelv navigable at all Benson on account of the great com merce carried by that stream. The river trade would increase, and at ,the same time freight rates would go down. For surveys and preparatory work $12 - 000 will be necessary." We are glad to see that the Willamette is to be provided for, at last. Com merce on that river has been about as .shamefully neglected above Portland, as it has been on the Columbia above the mouth of the Willamette. If the press of Oregon does its duty, however; the days of such neglect will be very soon numbered. Upon the topic suggested by the reports referred to, the Telegram last evening say s : "The reports show, the increased at tention that the navigable, waters' of the Pacific Northwest are receiving and their growing importance to commerce. When a comprehensive review of the Oregon, and Washington waterways is made, Hie description of present and future needs cannot be very briefv There are no two other states of the union that have more navigable harbors than these lusty commonwealths of the Pacific Northwest..: - "But there are many people who live here who do not appreciate it. Not one man in ten in Portland, if suddenly asked to name the harbors that indent Oregon's coast, could tell ttiem or their general location. Yet waterways are of the utmost importance to the develop ment of a section. Take two states with all things equal, except that one has harbors, and the other has not, - The one will so' far forge ahead of the other in population and wealth that they would not be classed together. Many people think Oregon is grow ing rapidly now, and that her commer cial influence is steadily increasing. That ip granted. But give a deep water entrance to all her harbors, let there be j well-built jetties at the mouth of . other rivers, as well as the Uoluraoia, let all other navigable streams be cleared of snugs and-dredged of sand barH, and the advance will not only be rapid but al most phenomenal in the development of cities and country, the influx of capital, and the increase of all kinds of business. Oregon has fieen treated fairly well as appropriations go, but she can take care of and spend well all the money that, congress gives her for river and harbor improvement." , . The Telegram might with propriety say also, that, not one man in 500 in the city of Portland could tell how many passengrers were carried by steamboats on the Columbia river for the year ended Nov. 1st, 1892. The Dalles Chhoniolk can tell you: 436,000. No? -au one man in 1,000 in the city f Portland tell yon what the 55,000 dollar po.rtage railway at the Cascades, built by the state, by a Dalles ' city man superintendent, on an appropriation of fCO.OK), in connection with The Dailes steamer Ri-giilator line has saved to the people of the Inland Empire. The Chkonicle can tell you: $2.50 upon every ton of freight carried, both bv the-railway and steamboats; $7.00 apon enclt horse, una in similar propor tion upon cattle, sheep, wool, fruit, etc. That portage railway might be made to do even better than it has. The bur den of the reductions, has fallen upon The Regulator Line. But of this more anon. ,We hope that justice may be done to all ; even though Portland be swalluwed np its mud, its prejudices, its jealousies, and its lamentable ignorances respecting the balance of the state. It ia quiW time to inquire, upon bended knees, for "More Light." . Crisis in the Cotton Trade. - London, Dec. 8. Secretary Mawdsley, of thv' Lancashire - operative spinners, said t(day that in bis opinion the crisis in the cotton trade would not be reached before the end of January. The accumu lated. 8 ocks would then be exhausted. Orders f ir the spring trade would raise prices and the master spinners would find it necessary to reconsider their present decision. WANTTO RULE OR RUIN EniM Delegates Trying to Mnolle flu Conference. SEEMS TO BE A DESIGNED PLAN Bertram Currie and Sir William Houlds- worth Hare not a Single View. DI8LIKB IA;H OTBEK'I VI It W 8. To Foul the Conference in Coming to any General or Special Solution of the Silver Question. Brussels, Dec. 6. The bimetallist delegates to the international monetary conference are discussing whether or not they shall unite in signing a memo randum on the obstruction offered by Great Britain to a determination of the questions before the conference. If the conference resumes its sittings after prolonged adjournment, such a protest, it is conceived, is likely to induce the British government to present to the conference a decided policy through its delegates acting in unison thereon. The present British delegation appears to have been sent purposely to muddle tho proceedings. Thire ia no cohesion among . the .British . representatives either as to principle, or procedure. Each delegate appears to act as an indi vidual agent, except Sir C. Rivers Wil son and Sir Fremantle, deputy master of the British mint, the latter of wh nn used his official position to declaim any responsibility tor the proposals pre sented bv Rothschilds. ' Bertram Currie and Sir William Houldsworth have not a single idea in common, and have a strong mutual contempt for each other's views. -neither (jenenH . Ktrachy nor Sir Guilford Molesworth, the Indian del egates, have official orders as to the course to take. It has been made clear the British government has purposely avoided giving any instructions tending to the common action of its delegates upon any point whatever. It is now obvious this course was designed to fool the conference in coming to any general or special solution of the silver question. Two Brave Girls Save a Train From Disaster. Tacoma, Dec. 8. Two brave girls, with a lantern, saved a heavily laden Southern Pacific passenger train from total destruction, near Grant's Pass, Or., Wednesday evening. The wreckers had removed the outside rail over the high trestle across Cow creek canyon, and had not the engineer been signaled just as he was approaching it, the entire train would have plunged to the bottom of the rocky gulch, 45 feet below. The full story of the attempted wreck, which the Southern Pacific evidently sup pressed, is told bere tonight by Dr. G. V.. .Calhoun, one of the Washington presidential electors, who arrived this evening from California. He says that the displaced rail was discovered by two young ladies who crossed the trestle with a lantern jut before the train ar rived. They were horrified at the dis covery. Just then the train was heard approaehhig. One of the girls instantly rushed up the track swinging the lan tern over her head, seeing which the en gineer stopped the train at the approach of the trestle. The train consisted of twelve cars containing 250 passengers and Dr. Calhoun says the loss of life would have been frightful had the train not been stopped. The wreckers did the work quickly, as the track was all right when the watchman passed over the trestle half an hour before train time. When the pas.tngers learned of their narrow escape they- made up a purse and appointed a committee to learn the identity of tl e brave virls and buy each an appropriate Christmas present. Highest of all in Leavening Power. ABSOUiTECtf-. RJZS3 ' Timely Invention. . St. Paul Press. Frank Millet, whose name on the corner of a square makes it worth a small fortune, has invented a machine to paint the white buildings at Ja-kson park, with the assistance of this machine two men can smear as much paint or k-dsomine as forty men with brushes.. The invention is a very simple one. It worl:s like a charm, and aside from the speed with which it decorates a building, it possesses the advantage of never going out on a strike or quarrel ing with the boss for shorter hours or larger pay. Necessity was the mother of this invention. It would have been impossible to get enough of painters in the building to color them before the gates opened, and the expense wonld have been enormous. - Somebody men-V tioned this to Mr. Millet one day and he went to work to produce the machine. After a number of experiments he put the device in running order. It is sim ply a gaspipe about a foot long pounded flat at one end so as to leave an opening about an iuclr acroes and wide enough ' to insert a sheet of cardboard. This pipe is attached to a long piece of rubber hose. The other end of the hose is dipped in a barrel of paint, and an elec tric motor pumps a current of air and a lot of paint through the hose. The force of the air scatters the paint in a fine spray as it comes from the gaspipe. , The painter simply seizes the gaspipe, holds it about eighteen inches from the surface he is decorating, the electric motor is started and the work is done. Ilunr Outlook. The Commercial Review in summing up the flour trade and the prospects for the future, says the outlook tor better prices for flour is not yet very encourag ing, and from appearances flour is going down. We are informed that mills are selling flour at $3.80 per barrel. 'This is a loss to the mill owner, and shows poor business judgment. The only remedy millers have at the present market price is to closedown their mil Is. There is an over-production now for the Port-, land market, and it seems foolish to, run their mills losing money.. The mills in Oregon and Washington made no money, in 1891 and we are positive" that they are all losing money this year We havo not yet seen a plan of the O. & W. Millers' Association that is feasible to overcome this loss.' The best plan at the present time is to close dowu your mill and await a rise in the market." - Not Worthy of Improvements. Washington, Dec. 8. Captain Sy- mons, who was directed to examine, Rogue river, from Grants Pass to its mouth, repoi ts to ti e war department that ih river is not worthy improve ment, and congress is advised to make , no appropriation for the purpose. He says there are too many waterfalls and rapids in the river, and the commerce does not justify ' improvements at the. mouth of the river. Official Pleural from Massachusetts. Boston, Dec. 9. The official vote of Massachusetts shows the highest repub- lican vote for an elector was 202,914 ; the highest democratic vote, 176,813. Gov ernor Russell's plurality over Lieutenant.. Governor Haile was 2,534. Insurance Company Ketfre. Olympia, Dec. 10. Secretary Weir was notified yesterday that the Cascade - Fire Insurance company, of Seattle, has reinsured all its unexpired business in' . he Farmers' Insurance company, of that citv, and will go out of business. Wasco News says : The matter of ' j umng couviub wuur aj lujfjruw uur juu lie highways is being seriously agitated in the state an-1 it is more than likely the mutter will at least be given a trial. It receives generul indorsement, as in thi.- way convict lalior can be used with ' out iioniing in competition with legiti mate free labor. ' There is a large amount of work needed on the roads in this state. The Rothschild proposition and scheme in the Monetary conference, is declared to be the same with a few slight modifi cation9, as that of one Levi, a German financier of small pretentions, who ad vanced the idea ten years ago, and -no attention was given it, because he was not a Rothschild. Latest U. S. Gov't Report