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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1892. FROM THE CAPITAL.! Telegraphic Flashes. ' Presideut-Elect Cleyelanl SensiMy Con- tiiines Secluded. HAS TOO MANY LETTERS NOW. Nine-Tenths of all Communications are From Office Seeker. THE AWAITING HOPK DEFERRED When the Heart Sickens Will be Con tent With Much Lesgened Ambitions etc. It Special to The Chronicle. Washington, Dec. 9. President-elect Cleveland very sensibly continues to seclude himself from the public in as great decree as possible, but be can not close the mails against his voluntary correspondents. From this time until S bis inauguration Mr. Cleveland's mail notwithstanding his recent proleet, will probably average at least 1,500 letters daily. That was about the number President Harrison received from iiu mediately after his election, and jumped to 2,000 per diem after his ar rival at the White House.'1 About nine- tenths of all such communications are from office-seekers. The balance con veys, mostly, advice and suggestions, offer congratulations and give warnings, friendly and otherwise. .' . As is customary at such times, people of all kinds ia every part of the country are. now "taking pen in hand" to address the president-elect by post. Whenever a change of administration occurs a sort of fever for office-seeking becomes epi demic among the people. For months after Mr. Cleveland assumes bis high of fice the time of his private secretary will be chiefly occupied with receiving appli cations for positions under the govern ment, and the ante-room of the White House wil) be crowded at all hours with congressmen and others eager to secure plump of patronage. The "very hungry and very thirsty" will swarm upon Washington like grasshoppers upon a green vegetable patch. All of them will reach here in high confidence of sec ant ing appointments to their liking, and nine-tenths of tbem will finally go away disappointed after eating out their hearts with waiting and nope deferred. The great majority of those who d succeed will be obliged to be content with positions much lower in the pub lic service than they had expected to secure. In numerous instances indi viduals of some local distinction, who had journeyed here with aspirations for posts of high honor and emolument under one administration or another, have been thankful to get situations finally as messengers in the depart- pieuw. History ill inis mailer reueaui riteeii every time one political party goes a . 3 nnnllia. .r. i no it. 'Chrtaa ttrhn "fail on H.uir mnnnv riins low. drift out of the hotels into the boarding-houses, finally falling back on the cheap lodging houses. Last scene of all, which so often ends this sad, eventful history, is the appeal addressed by the disap pointed office-seeker to his congressman for a loan to pay his car-fare home. Undoubtedly these place-hunters are mnat.lv ruu-.nlc nf Rome importance where they live; but the Iev6r for holding -nnhtis. nffinA attupba them, and thev Umlnii pvprvtliintr else to Dursue the id naivo nhatimni. ii eiihv fHiiLiirH il. the glamour of the life holds them so that they are never satisfied to abandon it. If they fail, as so many do, they too often become soured misanthropes, brooding constantly over what "might have been." It is announced that President Har rison's private secretary Elijah Halford will be appointed as minister resident and consul general to Portugal, vice George 8. Matcheller, who resigned .on the 1st of November. The Pittsbnrg coroner's inquest into the death of Isaac Jury, who was a non union employe of the Carnegie company at Homestead, who was supposed to have been poisoned by strikers, shows death was the result of alcoholism. Four masked train robbers attempted to hold up a train on the Chesapeake railway near Huntington, Va., but were driven off by nervy passengers before se curing any booty. Some of the robbers were won u led. but tnev all escaped in the darkness. San Francisco is doing away with horse cars. During the next year the syndicate which has been formed to build the routes, will build 20 miles of rapid transit lines, 15 miles of this being electric and five miles cable. Material for the entire system has been ordered, and as fast as it arrives it will be put in place. Six large well stocked buildings were destroyed by fire in Baltimore yesterday Loss $1,650,000. The buildings were stocked with 17,202 bales of cotton, be longing to leading cotton firms of Balti more, and valued at about $850,000, in eluded in the losses. How the con flu eration stirted is not yet learned, al- ; hough the origin is attributed to upon taneous combustion. THE PANAMA SCANDAL It is Yet The Leading: Topic in Com mercial Circles in Paris. ' BARON REINACH WAS POISONED, Le Figaro Urges the Government to Place Ren on The Stand. WHAT CAUSED HERTZ' DEPARTURE Prominent tofor Political Personages ' Here Unnamed Compromised In the Scandal. - A Mormon Colony In Mexico. l Paso, Tex., Dec. 12. Edward Stevenson and F. Macdonald, Mormon leaders from Utah, will leave here for Mexico with 100 men to establish a Mor mon colony on 600 acres of land near Santa Rosalia and 100 miles from Chi huahua city. The land was granted to them by the Mexican government. A Difference ot Opinion. Seattle Telegraph. We think that the Spjkane Review is wron? when it says that Seattle is set agxinst the opening of the Columbia river. Everything that will aid in the development of the state can count upon the support of Seattle even though it is to be done elsewhere. All that Seattle asks is something for the general benefit of the nation shall not be opposed merely because it will have to be done at Seattle. Blaine's Religious Views. Washington, Dec. . 12. The Rev. Father Ducey, of New , York, came' to Washington yesterday, and his presence has revived the rumors concerning Mr. Blaine's religious views. Last night it was the talk at the hotels that the ex secretary of state is to become a mem ber of the Roman Catholic church through the offices of Father Ducey in a day or two. Fntber Ducey would not discuss the rumor last night. Jay Gould's Starting Point. East Oregonian. It is a popular be lief that the late Jay Gould owed the )Ksition he attained in life entirely to his own talents and exertions, which transformed him from a penniless boy into one of the world's greatest financers. S. P. and W. H. Gould, of this city, are distant relatives of the dead millionaire, and during a conversation concerning him the latter stated that Jay Gould re ceived a fair start on the road to fortune by a lucky windfall. W. H. Gould's father, S. A. Gould, who resides at New Orleans, received in 1869, a parchment letter from a firm of attornej'9 inform- ug him that there were $30,000,000 de posited in the bank of England awaiting claims of the oldest heirs of John C. Gould, of Scotland, who was a wealthy ship-builder on the Dundee river. Later, in the same year, Mr. Gould received another letter, stating that the money fell to the family of Jay Gould. Not long afterwards the king of speculators sprang into prominence, and it is thought owed his sudden rise in the financial world to the fortune bequeath ed him. John C. Gould was his great grandfather. The Gould fainilv of which the Pendletonians mentioned are a part, descended from a brother of the Dundee ship-builder. future in Sheep. Chas. Cunningham, who is in a posi tion to know what he is talking alout, informs the East Oregonian that all the last spring lambs in Idaho have been contracted for at $2.50 per head, to be delivered next spring, and sheep which will then be two-year-old are under con tract for delivery at $3 per head. These figures do not indicate any depression in the sheep-growing industry. In Uma tilla county the condition of affairs is the same. Grown sheep are worth from $3.50 upwards, and lambs command a proportionately high price. Germany For Gold. Berlin, Dec. 12. In the richstag, Count Meirbach, conservative, asked the government to assist the bimetalists in the Brussels monetary conference Chan cellor Capri vi replied that the German delegates were instructed not to give as sent to any proposals that restricted Germany's right to decide what should constitute her own currency, and to de clare Germany is content with her pres ent system and would not change it. Caprivi concluded his remarks by de claring Germany would continue to ad here to the gold standard. German People Excited. Bkrlin, Dec. 12. The town is full of rumors. One is to the effect that the imperial message dissolving the reichs lag will be read today, another that the army bill will be put into effect without consulting the reichstag. Public feeling in the empire is on the verge of an ex plosion, particularly if the kaiser in sists on retaining Caprivi. It will be remembered the kaiser formerly ex pressed a determination to keep Bis marck in spite of anything that might happen. The Bridenee la Conclualre. Pittsburg , Dec. 12. The offices of the Amalgamated association say that the story that the organization countenanced a plot to poison non-union men at work in the mill company is prosperous. At torneys for the Carnegies, however',' say the chain of evidence against the lead ers is growing stronger daily, and prom ises to be so complete that none of them will be able to escape. A Forger and Hla History. Rous, Ga., Dec. 12. Lord Walter S. Beresford, the English forger, who has occupied his time in the Floyd county jail in writing a history of his career, has completed the book and closed a contract for its publication. He expects to appeal his case to the United States supreme court if he can raise money enough. Paris, Dec. 12. The Panama canal scandal continues to engross public at tention. . All the papers publish long articles on the scandal, the tenor of which depends entirely upon . political points of view of the journals. Le ingaro urges the government to get Hertz, one of the partneis in the bank ing house of which the late Baron Rein ach was the head, to speak regarding the connection of that house with th affairs ot the Panama Canal Company the inference being that Hers will be able to explain many points about which doubts now exist. In the course of its article, Le Figaro recalls how, thanks to Clemenceau and Sarrien, Herz was enabled to bond the Electric fore transmission company with a capital of 12,500,000 francs, and that, through this and other transac tions in which he was assisted by con nection with men holding ministerial positions, he accumulated a considerable fortune. The paper further says Baron Keinach spent the greater part of the last hours of his life with Herz. " Only a few minutes after leaving Herz, Keinach returned to his residence and tnat night died under circumstances that led the government to make an autopsy to determine whether he died from natural causes or committed tni cide. On the same night Reinacb dieil Herz started for London, and Le Figaro expresses a strong desire to have the public informed aa to what caused bis sudden departure. Le Temps says the first examination of the remains of Baron Reinach proves he died from poison, j. ne oonrse is unsettled owing to rumors that prominent political tier' nonages, heretofore unnamed, are com promised in the Panama canal scandal , A STi i)V OF KAJtS. THE HUMAN EAR ANO THE TALE ft TELLS TO THE OBSERVER. an As. Too Of ttae Dm- LIKE A FAIRY TALE. Tie Panama Canal Mnfldle Graving - Yery ffincn Worse Rauidly. v "1 An Interesting Dissertation on Bondage ol the Head That Is (an Neglected aa a feature la Uneatioa ot Character. ' Did any one ever go to any of the thea ters when the bouse was crowded and amuse himself or herself studying the ears ot the audience: It will pay the observing man to do so Be will realize then that tnere are ear and earn, those which indicate character iu its several degrees individuality tiruineKH c rejoin-I Don. kindness and its antithesis, and the various other attnouitw which go to make up the widely varying specimen of numanity. - A study of ears may not be entirely cavskd bt a letter pc bush Kd. aacisractory One ia apt to find upon THE LEADING TOPIC IN FRANCE. Kouvicr, Minister of Finance, Has Tendered His Resignation. Still Has Hope. . Brussels, Dec. 12. To a correspond ent senator Jones said:. "I have not given up hope that some plan may be evolved from the discussion now in prog ress, and that before the end of the com ing week. If not, the conference may adjourn for the holidays. In the latter event the governments now opposed to us may see the danger in whi;:h they stand, and come to an arrangement. They will discover that they cannot maintain the present system, but may want time to find a way out of the diffi culty. I will speak on Tuesday. My speech will be academic, for I have been asked to discuss the question thor oughly." A Washington dispatch says : "About 40 democratic members of the next con gress have entered into a more or less definite agreement. Their purpose is to act as a brake on tariff legislation. In their own language, they are going to "stand together to keep the party from acting the fool on the tariff question." Most of the members are from the At lantic seaboard, but several are from the Ohio valley districts. If their ereat prototype were alive, these forty protec tionists would be classed as "Randall democrats." They are entirely confi dent that they will be able to hold down the wild and wooly Westerners, and the members from the cotton districts, to a very moderate revision of the tariff without a material effect upon the pro-, tected industries." The Blundering Ball t. . The people of Massachusetts are sup posed to be as intelligent as those of any commonwealth in the country. Never theless they ' made more mistakes that) the citizen's of any other state in the use of the Australian ballot ut the last elec tion. The official count shows that 19,186 blanks were cast for governor, 32,005 for lieutenant-governor, . 39,067 for treasurer, and 40,894 for secretary of state. The total vote of the state was 400,120, so that the percentage of defect ive ballots was very large. The blanks were caused by the voters checking against individual names, instead ,of in the party circle at the head of the tick ets. Just which party suffered most severely as the result of this blundering is not positively known. Republican Senators In Caucus ' Washington, Dec. 13. Republican senators held an hour caucus this morn ing relatfve to the states in which there are doubtful senatorial contests, but reached no conclusion. The caucus will be renewed this afternoon. somebody else with whom be is not den perately in love a pair of auricular ap pendages wbicb remind him forcibly of those ne sees when facing his mirror. It is rather an odd thing that the majority of men and women however, seldom see their own ears They can do so readily with the aid of a quick silvered glaxa. bnt !!. vanity of tinman nature seems to stop at the features of the face. A woman will spend half an hour ad miring her own pretty red lips and keep the yonng man v. ::)i ! . aier tickets in ol pocket waitin : an Dour while she adjusts ber eyebrows sun get just the ngbt complexion on her cheek but the ear are lefi to take care ol themselves. A wet rag is pnsbed hastily through their intricacies and they have had their share of attention There are excep tions, of course The woman who knows that ner ears are lovely and bound to at tract admiration will play with rhem afftMtlouaUilr and take -are that ber hair is arranged so that no fraction of tnem is hidden from view Then there are people wbose ears stick out like the bead naps -f a jackass an elongated malformation. They can't oetp seeing their ears nnithnr can any one else A RKMaKKABLK PaIK OF RAKS It was at Hooley's the other night that a study was made of the eccentricity of tbe ear J. he auditorium was crowded and the jokes of the comedian emptied into a thousand tympanic cavities What cavities some of them were too' .There was a man with a hole in tain ear which looked as though it might have been one of the Dine mouths of the Mississippi. One would bave thought a steamer could pans through it without sticking, and as for the the and earwigs, a Large colony of tbem could nave babitated there all winter and hardly bave been felt. Be came- the cavity was large it must not oe ttoppooed that the owner of tbe ear was proportionately so. to the contrary this cavity was the biggest part of nun He was a little fellow tbe ideal of a nenpncKral noMiiand. The loudly de veloped channel of sonnd suggested tbe probability of his being accustomed to hear frequent oommaiids to 'go and light the fire." or 'get up and give the oaoy paregoric. " He seemed to be happy this time, for he was alone and there were oo each discordant sounds to offend am neanng Meat nun was a man who bad a de cided inclination to obewty He was tall too. and could nave easily tipped tbe beam at sou pounds. Now, one would nave supposed that hia auricular memoers would have been developed equally with tbe rest of tua anatomy One would nave been disappointed, now ever They were almost midgets aJocur aide of those belonging to the little man. and looked as tboiurb they mujbt uave received a shock in childhood from which tnev nad never recovered. But in pite or their diiuinntivenesa there was a great deal of don t-vareuess about tbem -an independence as to what .they heard and what they didn't hear A wife might nave yelled tire and baby and paregoric at these ears all nigbt and they would never nave neard it, they were not con structed after tnat fashion. A BEAOTiKUL. PAlB Or BARS. Alongside of him sat a woman who evidently tbe wife Her ears were Jong irregular and stood out from the side of ner bead like tbe dost guards in a sleeping car They were ears which, it could oe plainly seen, were accustomed to being on the alert for some familiar voice. There was a startled appearance auout them which, indicated that this Otoe was in the habit of greeting tbem with a command or a reprimand more than anything else. Evidently but few words of affection or endearment bad passed through them. in tbe row ot seats just behind this queenly interesting trio was a perfect symphony ot ears They were not the of men but ot women pretty voumr women witn eiaoorateiy ncn dresHex and aristocratic faces. Indeed, ttuwe were patnciau ears, and tbe blue blood ; conld almost be seen coursing tnroagu tbem I'he irl who sat next to the end bad the prettiest ears of all. Ibey were ueauUea. Moderately small, regularly formed sloping off into an oval at the icoe and thin almost to transparency 1'nere was a piuky tinge about tuem wtucn was ample apology for the poets who sing about coral ears. I hey stood out from the nead at almost an exact 'angle. They were perfect in every par Ocular, but tbey were uot responsive They were acenstomed to hear ing sweet nothings said and sinipiy listening for more Tbey ail plainly that tneir owner was one wrapped up in the contemplation of her own charms. and expected all others to be equally so. and to make it known in words. Loot ing at those ears one would have de scribed ber as follows Deep blue eyes. noae inclined to Koman. red lips, wbite teeth, clear complexion, little animation in tbe face. The description would nave been entirely correct. Chicago Tribune. Newspapers Detail T!ie Death of Karon Relaaeh Political Situation Critical. . New York, Dec. 14. Paris dispatches quote articles from Le Figaro, and other papers, ' on Hens which read like - a fairy tale. Much of it is true and much no doubt is fancy. Nearly all was con clusions strained and twisted. Freycine.t intends testifying to the honesty aiid ability of Herz, who has been a friend of his many years. Senator Girauit has tabled the bill to give the widest juris diction to the Panama investigating committee to collect evidence, and pro jo$iiig a refunding to the company o: all sums illegitimately expended in Paris. Clemenceau, editor of La Justice, dis tinctly denied that Hers used the col unins of La Justice to push his new en terprise. He admits Baron Reinach and Rouvier successively visited him on the night be fore Reinacb's death, but he was out and did not see them.' Rouvier had ex plained to biro on the lobbv of the chamber that Reinach was being driven mad by the campaign being organized by the papers against him, and, as it was for him a question of life or death, he winhed Rouvier would accompany him to see Hers and induce him to use his influence to stop the attacks. Ac cordingly Rouvier with the' baron, and accompanied by Clemenceau, visited Hers together. Herz declared he could not render the service required. . Le (iaulois publishes what purports to ! an account of the last hours of Baron Reinach. The story confirms in msny particulars what has already been stated and credited to rumor. The paper says that after the final interview lietween Reinach, Rouvier and Hers, the baron found all hope of escaping the conce quence of his connection with the Panama affair gone. , He returned home at .midnight, wrote several letters, de stroyed a number of documents, and then swallowed poison. The paper tells the story with great particulars of de tail. The general opinion ia that Rein ach was, with Ak ton, one of the "use ful" men of the Panama scheme. It is known he handled large sums for the company, and the Panama investigating committee are now trying to learn to whom the money was paid and for what services. The revelation made by Clemenceau as to the visit paid him by Reinach and Rouvier, on the eve of Reinacb's death, caused consternation among supporters of the government. It is said that an other ministerial crisis is impending, and that another political upheaval may be expected at any time. Clemeuceau's letter has greatly compromised Rouvier in the Panama affair, and the outcome is hard to predict at present. Rouvier will be summoned to explain bis con nection with the affair to the investigat ing committee. Herz will also be sum moned, but it is dovbttul if tie will ap pear. The political situation is ex tremely critical. WI. Dufur. J. McMillan, Condon streets are now paved with a n rOTmrwinnit ftf (minnljltAl OOTk and 1 " - - . - - bitumen pressed Into blocks and laid like j Dallas 'Woolen Mills. The Dallas Observer of the 8th has this to say of the Dallas woolen mill : Just about one year ago a stock com pany was formed here to erect and oper ate a woolen mill. All went well, (the building and machinery were put up; till within the past few months when bills became due and payable on house and machinery, an additional assess ment was levied on the stockholders to meet the demands. But it was not de creed that all would pay ; hence attach ments were placed on the plant by the sheriff, and the property has been or dered sold at sheriffs sale by the court." It is a misfortune to Dallas that Its peo ple do not come to the rescue and re lieve tbe concern from its embarrass ments, alter it has been inaugurated, and bids fair to be a successful under taking in the county. Oregon can't have too many manufacturing establishments, and to let any, after once in operation, fail, indicates that there is something lacking in the spirit of enterprise. Cause for Congratulation. Antelope Herald. We congratulate the many settlers in this interior coun try upon being able to prove up on their land at Antelope. Heretofore many a man with limited means was deterred from taking up land in this part of the country, because the immense costs of proving up stared him in the face like a They can uow file and prove Farmers lantitute at Dnfur. There i.s to be a Farmers Institute hel io iiour on uie ii,' ide preeea mourn, ttiucn inn- iar to tn" -if -unusua i interest. The sut.-cts that '.-.re to b4 discussed an- tluwc that are of :;al im inner to ine lanuera esperiHlM SO, IS that of the sowing of spring ai.'W fall, heat. The programme as arrant ed wiR be read with interest. Till kkdav Dkc. 29. 1 :30 p.. u, mtsic. ' ' Prayer . Address of Welcome, lief p t:8H, Ml'SIC. Benefits to be Derived from Fanners' Institutes, - A. 8. Robert. Necessity of Making Our Homes , Attractive, Mrs. A. Hatheway. MUSIC. Thursday, Dbc. 29, p. m. Music. The Agricultural College and its Pur poses, Pres. John M. Bloss. . Fanners' Organizations as Political Educators, P. P. Underwood. ' Music. ' i Lantern views thrown upon a screes and explained bv some member of th' College Faculty. Friday, Due. 30. 9:30 7a. m. Music. P Should Wheat be Sown in the Sprisg j- or in the Fall, E. Moore. Music. Economy as Applied to the Fares, Prof, H. T. French. Music . . Thistles, J. H. Trout. Adjournment for dinner. THE DALLES IMPROVEMENT. All Right Here, But No Mew Frojee Can Come In. Washington dispatches today inform us that several members of congress -' bave just found out that no new project ' for river and harbor improvements cast be commenced for at least four yenra, as far as tbe Pacific coast is concerned. -The project at the dalles will be ex- i cepted aa it does not come within the term of new projects. Where survey were made this year and fouud worthy of improvement, it will be fouud neoea- ' sary to provide for a plan of improve- . ment nnder the next river and barber bill, and an appropriation two year . later. It is learned that this arrange ment wag designed with the full knowl edge ol the eiiect it would have upon th improvements, and that it would relieve . the river and harbor committee from th pressure that is always brought to bear , upon it to provide for new projects, net . reported favorably by the engineer. Upon the subject ot the two projects, , tbe boat railway and Seattle canal, Mr.' ' Blanchard, of the' house "committee off commerce, is reported is as saying that' "neither of these propositions had any '' place in the river and harbor lll and' ' for that reason he was opposed to then " in the last session, and made a de- -termined fight to prevent their being: ia- corporated in the river and harbor bill as they might defeat it, jeopardizing all . the river and harbor interests in th . ., country. He said that some very emi nent engineers, who had made private inquiries aa to the route of the boat rail way, claimed that it would be impracti cable. ' One in. particular, who was very anxious to see boat-railway scheme succeed, and whom Mr. Blanchard termed 'a boat-rail wav roan,' said it would be a failure if constructed at th -dalles, and the damage to boat railways would be very great. As to the Seattle canal. Mr. Blanchard thinks that it is rather poor policy to force that kind of legislation,, when nearly half of th stale is opposed to it. He says he be- ieves that if a vote of the two states of Oregon ami Washington were taken a majority of the people would be found opposing both the boat railway schema at the dalles and the Seattle canal." So far as Mr. Blanchard rs remark ' apply to the boat railway, he would find himself very greatly mistaken. . Information Wanted. Seattle Telegraph. May we invite th papers of Seattle to inform the public a to what are the prospects of the canal' bill at the present sessioM of congress? We mean the Lake Washington canal bill. Have they any information for the citizens on the subject? As the P..-I. pointed out some time ago, the Great Northern ' will soon be finished and thousands of men will be looking for em ployment, and they could receive H oa the canal. Is there anything that the - people of Seattle can do to help Senator Squire with this bill? We think it is time that the organs gave the public some information on the subject. Chrysanthemums and Carrots. Review. Chrysanthemums growing in. the garden of A. W. Lachapelle, snow- covered but without frost, are a 'curios ity of the delightful climate of Lake Chelan. The leaves are still green and fresh as in summer on the peach, prune, apricot and pear trees, and Mr. Lacha pelle has in his garden Belgian carrots, averaging two feet in length. To Adopt Penny Postage. London, Dec. 12. The statement l published that' the government has . 1 j . . . 1 1 .i ii jj a . a . .nut wood paving. The especial advantage i up on ianu ai. not more man qniMiuru pmuuianj utciuou w iuhj j,.- ot tbe material Is it elasticity 1 the torraer expense. ' I age throughout tue empire.