THE DALLES WEEKLY CHROWICLE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13. 1833.
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COS' VICT LMlOK RXFOKM.
The method of employing the convicts
in the state peniteutiarie in order to
recompense the statu for their uiaintaiu
auce is a serious matter. The fact that
recently this queation was a political is
sue does not confine it to the narrow
limits of partiuan politics. It is too
grave a matter to he so treated. There
' is not now, nor has there ever keen any
doubt that the present system might be
improved, and it was witu this view that
Tub Ciirosicls sturted the idea of a jute
sack factory in the penitentiary. The
employment of cheap convict labor in
several tines of industry had destroyed
by unfair com etitlon the same industry
pursued by honext and self-respecting
mechanics. A careful review of all the
conditions doe not encourage a belief
that the convicts t-au be utilized to pre
pare material f ir roads. The difficulty
of such a plan is that the sale of the
material would not be assured. To em
ploy tlicai on the roads would be attend
ed with heavy risks and greatly increase
expenses. The contract system is wrong,
as has been shown iu Illinois, where
the product of the penitentiarr was so
great in one or two lines that it swamped
the market, and was disastrous to labor
and trade alike. Intelligent members of
the legislature will have to handle this
question with good judgment and a care
ful consideration of the welfare of all
concerned, and from our standpoint the
bag factory offers lew? objection than
anything that can be named. The jute
Back factory is not an experiment ; it
baa been salidfaetorilr tested in Walla
Walla. To set the matter of coat at rest
the Union Journal says :
"The legislature of Washington terri
tory, by act approved February 1, 1888,
(page 164, laws 18S7-8), appropriated
$25,000 for a jute mill at the peniten
tiary. By virtue of this law, Co!. l J.
Parker, then a penitentiary commis
sioner, went to California to inquire
into the manufacture of jute bags.
About all Col. Parker did was to re
ceive from the California grain bag ring
olid reasons for reporting to the legisla
ture on December 7th, 18S9, that a jute
mill "could not be made a profitable
concern to the territory." The legisla
ture of 18S9-90 was so impressed by the
report ef Col. Parker, that on February
18, lS-JO, it appropriated $25,000 "addi
tional to that already appropriated for''
a jute mill, (page 23, laws 1889-90), and
continued the appropriation of f,000
by the territorial legislature, by an act
approved March 27, 1890, (188-00, page
61tJ.) The legislature of 1891 appropri
ated 1100,000 "in addition to the money
already appropriated" to cover the cost
of the jnte mill. (Laws 1891, page 20.)
Any school boy who adda the threa ap
propriations together, and they are all
that have been made for the establish
ment of the jute mill, will find they
make f 130,000 and no more."
The assessor of Gilliam eutinty tells
why be did not assess mortgages, in a
note the state board of equalization.
"This county has lieen oat the state tax
on a great many mortgagee heretofore
and as the county court of this county
and myself fall to find any law under
which collections of mortgage tax can be
forced, so nnder instructions from the
aaid court I did not assess them for this
year." The state board may consider
itself stumped. The board has power to
equalize, but not to make assessments,
and on this peculiar occasion there
teems to le nothing to equalize. We
agree with the Journal clear Iv, a county
cannot collect one half of the taxes
aaseswad to mortgages, on account of no
fault of the county, but owing to a de
fect in the law of the state, the county
should not be compelled to pay over to
the state the amount of its levy on the
full mortgage assessment. The law pro
vides that the sheriff shall assess what
property the assessor misses, and Gilliam
county will be none the loser because
mortgages have been omitted from the
assessment roll. The state will lose its
hare of the tax, but that is not the
fault of the county.
It is understood that the big cruiser
heretofore unnamed will be named the
Minneapolis, and the new battleship the
Iowa. Westward the course of naval
nomenclature takes its way. A popular
Tote is to determine which young lady is
to have the honor of christening the
Minneapolis. In order to secure Min
Die, fit. Paul girls are ruled out of the
contest. Minneapolis will do the hand
some thing by the cruiser fortunate to
be named after her. It is a pretty sen
timent this of naming the reese's of the
new navy after the various cities.
Mr. Fetter's bill to facilitate r.rnmo.
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come by most of the gray-ladad en
signs and grandfather lieutenants in the
KKSOKTISO
TO 1'tCKPTlOS. I TIIK WAKRI IU LUL U M aji. i
The Oregoiiiau is square against
tlio
Was
mat
i nropnaed jute sack factory. Thla
j expected. But at the stiiue time It
expected that the Oregonian would not
make aiK'U a shallow statement as it
dot iu this, yesterday. It lay : "To
abolish the contract svt-tem for convict
lsiior in tins state ami set ui a lute mill
)K.rkmfj!wi;irot:O.CKX)it'r y.r hi additional
taxation, without cheapening grain bags
to faruiera. This sum in demanded ofj
, .atiaf,. i,.K.. .:lnr. mr,
taxpayers to satisfy labor agitators
claim that a fow foundry workmen are
injured l-y competition of convict labor
on stoves. And this, it adds, "is aeon
cis-e statement of (he ease."
It is not.
In his report to the legislature, the
sueriutuudent of the penitentiary, Mr,
Downing, is very brief concerning the
oierations of the looms at Walla Walla.
That plant coot less than flSO.OOO, and
has saved that amount of money to the
farmers in two years. The ront is $20,
000 less than Mr. Iloaning states, and
for Oregon in the light of the experience
had in Washington state, f 125,000 would
be an ample appropriation. Sun tjuin
tiu last year produced 2,000,000 sacks fur
California farmers at 5'4 cents each.
How much did Oregon farmers pay
the grain sack ring? u,v and 7Sj' the
lowest.
The hobby horss prepared for the op
ponents of the jnte mill to ride upon into
the good graces of the grain sack ring, is
stated by the Oregonian to be taxes of
$50,000 per year "to pay for protection
of a few laborers in private foundries
from competition of convict labor." "The
labor agitator" this time appears to be the
farmers themselves, the honest men of
Oregon who pay their taxes promptly,
and are as well advised on this subject
as the champion of the grain bag ring or
the magnates of the stove contract.
Sagacious individuals, presumably
connected with the whisky trust, havo
bought np all the whisky in sight and
are ready to take all that is ottered.
This is the way these gentlemen reason :
The democratic party will remove the
tariff on many articles and reduce it on
others. That this will great I v diminish
the nation's revenues they readily dis
cover. In order to supply the dehctency
an additional tax, they believe, will be
put on whisky. The holders of whisky
alreadv taxed will thus realize the
amount of the increase of the tax as a
profit on their venture. Congressman
Owen Scott of Illinois, baa introduced a
bill taxing whisky $1.25 a gallon, an in- j
crease o: W cents, it mar become a
law . The chances of its passage ini prove
with every added ounce of tariff-reform
sentiment in congress. Here, theu, is a
new though thoroughly selfish tariff-reform
really that can be counted on for
sotne efficient lobbving when the time
comes. And it will be a power that will
be felt in congress.
A Washington dispatch yesterday
States that the republican caucus of
senators developed the fact that those
attending had little or no confidence in
the republicans controlling the next
senate, but the republican members of
the committee of privileges and elections
ill get together all facts in connection
ith senatorial elections, in order that
where contests arise they may be able to
prevent the swearing in of men who
may be illegally elected. No tour of the
close state will be made nor any effort
to prevent the combination of populists
and democrats in the close states, and
there should not lie.
There is a class in the state of New
York working for the abolishment of
the death penalty, and it is likely the
legislature will take such action as will
make life imprisonment the most severe
penalty for a crime. Those who favor
this movement do not believe in taking
human lives, and they nrge that many
an innocent man has suffered the death
penalty, his innocence being established
fter death. It is only a question of
time when this plan will be generally
adopted throughout the land.
Clifton D. fcitevens, a young man about
20 years old, a student of the university
of Oregon, at Eugene, was killed about
midnight Kunday night by a shock from
the electric light rire. He was with a
party of friends returning from a watch
party, and playfully jumped and swung
bia weight on the cable which suspends
the arc light. Ilia weight raised the
lamp so as to tarn the current into the
cable which be was holding, and when
be touched the ground he was immedi
ately killed. His death should be a
warning to others, not to fool with elec
tricity. Unfavorable symptoms were noted in
the case of Mr. Blaine Saturday night.
Ir. Johnson visited him about 0:30
o'clock and found that lie bad undergone
n'unfavorable change, and waa weaker
than tie baa been for several days. In
reply to an inquiry he said that at pres
ent he was unable to tell the extent of
the set-back, but he scarcely anticipated
a change oi great seriousness.
Mr. lien T. Cable lias allowed himself
to be forced into the reluctant confession
that he regards the ministry to France
as the choicest plum in the pudding.
A great many letters are sent to Mr.
Cleveland it ia said every day which do
not come to his hands. Though this ia
not the fault of the postal authorities.
i . . -.rajviftamakivn
rhsr-atchea inform us that ft Chicago
paper yentcrday published a lengthy
article showing that ArchhUhop lrvland,
j of St. 1'aul baa preferred formal charges
gamut the Most liov. M. A. lorrtgan,
who is accused of having engaged In an
unlawful conspiracy to weuken or undo
t he effect of the pope's doclaions in respect
to church matters in Amurica and of
having recourse to methods unbecoming
a prelate of the Ibmmn Catholic rhurvh,
and designed to dittcmht and dlwgraee
Archbishop Ireland ami Monsignore
Satolli, the papal al'hynto in America,
These charges, duly formulated, are now
ou their way to Koine, where they will
bo presented to the highext tribunal
in the Roman Catholic church. That
tribunal has power to pas upon the ac
cusation and to fix the punishment of
the accused if they are suitniued. The
decision will bo eagerly awaited for each
ot the prelates has ticen consuleretl as
an object of the po;e'a favorablu regard
in respect to the new American enrdin
alate, which will bo conferred at the ap
proaching jubilee. The difference be
weeu the two archbishops are of long
landing, and each has a largo following
among the hierarchy, priesthood and
laity of the church in America and all
these are likely to bo affected by the de
cision. It is said that the documents prepureJ
by Archbishop Ireland indicate the ex
istence of a conspiracy, of which the
archioplscopal residence in New York Is
the center, and which extends in numer
ous ramifications throughout America
into France and Italy, and even to the
shadow of St. Peter's itself. Soon after
the conference ot archbishops at New
York in October, muttering against the
findings of the pope on the school ques
tion begau to be heard, coupled with
criticisms of Archbishop Ireland and
Monsignore Satolli. The secular precs
began to teem with letters, containing
statements and insinuations, disagreea
bly affecting both these prolate!. When
Dr. McGlynn was res tc red a few days
ago, matters reached a climax, and the
most undeserved criticisms appeared.
Letters expressing the same sentiments
appeared simultaneously in widely sepa
rated cities, with remarkable coinci
dence, and it became apparent that
Archbishop Ireland and Monsignore
Satolli were the targets of a skillful and
far-reaching propaganda. Iu this con'
nection it is announced that Ir. Ld
ward McGiynn will go to Iiotuc, and the
statement is authoritative, and beats
out the announcement made at the time
his suspension was removed by Monsig
nore Satolli.
Failures through a car famine are re
ported from Kansas city because of the
utter impossibility of the rail a ays to
meet demands upon them for traffic.
The greatest car shortage in the history
of the west baa developed there. The
Missouri Pacific alone is short 2,000 cars
to fill actual ordera, and is positively re
fusing all freight for shipment except
regular warehouse merchandise. The
Santa Fe ia short 2,000 cars on Chicago
business and as many more on the west
ern division, and all cars loaded with
grain to the elevators are ordered to re
turn empty in order to move tome of the
business now standing in the ware
houses. The Memphis, too, is short 500
ears, and the Chicago (treat Western is
relusing business for the same reason.
The Burlingtou in every branch ia
cramped so that it can move but little
grain. The grain dealers are acflering,
and failures may be expected through
the famine.
Some materia! changes need to be
made in the election lawa of Oregon, one
of which will be printing of the ballots
in the state printingoffice. Some mem
bers have made application to State
Printer Baker for estimates on the coat
of the arrangements. Mr. Baker has
looked up the expenses of Marion county
for that purpose, and fignres that at the
same ratio the counties of the state must
have paid $11,600 for the printing of
their Australian ballots last June. He
finds that the expense of having the
tickets printed at his office, not includ
ing the paper, for a voting population of
80,000 will not exceed $2,500; this to in
clude four sample and four official bal
lots for each voter, as provided by law.
Labor Commissioner Peck of N. Y. is
collecting adverse comments made about
him recently, with a view of stieing for
libel a large number of newspars
throughout the country that made him
the subject of editorial attack, as an out
growth of the celebrated tariff-wages
controversy during the recent political
campaign.
Vancouver, B. C, ia sending a mis
sionary into Oregon and Washington to
ascertain the condition of the settlors
and state the advantages of British Col
umbia for settlers. He will be absent
about one month and will report his re
sults to the minister of the interior.
Wasco county is bO by 60 miles in sue
Crook ia 80 by 100 miles, Klamath, 70
by 100, Lake, the same, Grant, 70 by
; 80, Harney, 80 by 140, Malheur (SO by 180.
The Paraguayan minister at Val
paraiso publishes a denial of the story
of the alliance between Paraguay and
Chili.
Mr. Thos. Burgees, a leading stock
man of Bake Oven ia in tl.e city today.
Mr. Burgess reports the ground clear of
now and stock are doing well.
Uow ril Alnna thSk?M la Wash
la U ton rrl A lino l.
A voice from Klickitat, a county
which is interested but would pay no
taxes an the. plan reported In the Port
of Columhin scheme. , The GoldeudaU
Sentinel says: The earnest effort that
is now being uiu.lu to open the Columbia
to the rea gives great encouragement to
all persons who are in anyway producers
living within reach of the stream. In
this county of all others upon which It
Wtrdcrs will tho benefit of an iin river
lie the greatest. Klickitat Is alsint 125
miles long with not less than 150 mile
of wuter front. Tho width is nothing
compared with that. Tho most valua
ble, also the most fertile portion of our
county lien within easy hauling dUtance
of the river, and the reduction of freight
rates w ill not only increase the profits
of farming but will enhance the value of
furm land and also bring investors into
the county.
With the completion of the locks will
como the greatest lamutlt of all: the
reduction in rates which are now so ex
orbitant that the life is being choked
out of every little cnturprisn that has at
tempted to exist between Portland and
Pasco. With the opening of tho river a
new era will dawn for t!:o country adja
cent the Columbia and every branch of
businca will prosjier once more.
An increased profit In grain-growing
will lead to greater enterprises in that
direction ; the same with the fruit grow
ers or stock raisers. Lumbering, too,
may be benefited by an open river and
that industry which at present is on the
decline in this count v may be made
quite profitable once more. The con
tract for the locks Is already let. If due
expedience ia used the river will be
open by the time tho next crop will
start on Ita way to a market. Let the
work go on. It is surely needed and
will repay many fold.
Mr. Newton Burgese of Bake Oven,
favorably known by our young people,
le in the city for a fow days.
ZtTEW TODAY.
"Sho'e y' live d' co'plexion kima
aftah T blood what'a dis be a
beau'ful co'plexion guar'nteed if d'
blood am puret Ik'fo' d' Lo'd dt
am salvation fo' Aunt Sophy."
All we claim for it is an nnequaled
remedy to purify the blood and in
vigorate tho liver. AU it year round
you can depend on Dr. Tierce'
Golden Medical Discovery in all
canes of blood-tainta or humors, no
matter what their name or nature.
It' the efteajmt blood-purifier
sold through druptriflts. No matter
how many doses of other medicine
are offered for a dollar.
Why? Because it's Hold on a
fxculiar plan, and you only pay for
the good yon get.
Can you ask more f
"Golden Medical Discovery "iin
concentrated vegetable extract, put
np in large bottles ; contain no al
cohol to inebriate, no syrup or sugar
to derange digofition ; is pleasant to
the taste, and equally good for
adults or children.
The "Discovery" cure all Skin
affections, and kindred ailment.
A GRAND
1 The Annual llall of the
DallesCity FireDep't
Will lie Given at
Armory XX a 11
Monday Evening, I eh. 6, 1893.
The Best of Music Will Be Fnrnislicil
Prizes will be awarded for the beat
suNtnincd lady and gent character.
A general invitation is extended to
the public, but no disreputable char
acters will lie admitted.
C07VfWTTE ES.
Arrang'Tntnin J. II. Wood, G. C. Bills,
John lilaser, Louis Payette, W. T.
Hill, C. A. Klindt.
ftwption L. Payette, C, A. Klindt,
F. W. L. Hklhbe, John Blasur, Aug.
Bitchier.
Veer W. T. Hill, J. H. Fish, W. II.
Butts, Arthur Wyndbam, George
Thompson.
mWm
Maweri Ball
W. E. GURRETSQN.
Lenilinn .fewBfer i
j
lil.X Al.fcMT rK Tilt!
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewolry Made to Order.
18 MaMnit Ht.. Tlis falls. Or.
COLUMBIA
CANDY FACTORY
Campbell Bros. Proprs
(Sioaujii to W. $. cm.)
Msuiilseturm uf Ik anol Knaeh anil
Home ks ls
CANDIES,
kaat o( PitrUand.
- DEALER IM .
Tropical Fruits, Nats, Cigars and Tobacco.
Caa liirulah any oi Uim amta at Whnt'ali
or ktaa
et FRESH OYSTERS3-
la Ery atI.
Icb Cream and Soda Watsr.
KM Keeond Street. The Dalian. Or.
YOUR ATTENTION
Ia called t the fact that
Hugh Glenn,
Dealnr iu Glass, Lime, Plaster, Cement
and Building Material of all kinds.
-Carrte tk riaaat I. Hi .f-
To be found Id ttM City.
72 LLlashington Street.
Ol. H. Young,
EiacRsmiiii & V2QDQ snou
General Blackauiitbing and Work done
promptly, and all work
Guaranteed.
Horse Shoeing a Speciality
Third Street, opposite ttc old Licoe Stand.
The Dalles
GicjaF : Factory
FACTORY NO. 105.
PTfl APC' Brands
orders from aU parts of the country'fllled
U I . . . .
on mn iiiurrai nonce.
The reputation of THE PALLEH CI
GAK has bncome (Irmly established, and
the demand for the home manufactured
article is increasing every day.
A. ULR1CH & SON.
Coanlj TiuMsnr'i Kotla.
All count warrants registered prior
to May l,"l8U, will be paid if pre
sented at my ollice, comer Third and
Washington strorts. Interest ceases on
and after this date.
The ball, Ot. 31, 1802.
W I i.l.l am MicnRM.,
JO.Slsf Treasurer Waauo County, Or.
Piciure
IflOUlfUQ OS
FRENCH & CO.,
BANKERS. 1
Lett..,. I ,,..!;, lnuM Mai'.aL.. fcJ
Knsivrn Siat.
Mcl.l Kxehaimi. and 1 ,,lolfrill)ll. i
TraiiHtcrs 1 on N,w Y.,rk.i:li4"' T
. . .. . various points ia iw
yon end Waaluiigtun.
iH.llmions ma.hi at all point, on f..' !
orablp terms. "T"
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THE DALLES
National Bank,
Of DALLKN CITY, OS.
President ..... y. ,
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Canhler, ...... M.A..
General Banking Business Traai
flight Kxnhangm Sold on
XKW YORK.
BAS FKANCMCO,
CHICAGO
and I'OUTLAND, OH.
Collections made on favorvbls term
at all acreaaible points.
J. a. acasnca,
rtwt.lwiv.
H. Rati J
First Rational Bank.
CHE DALLES. -
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A General Banking Iluaines trans; '
Itartosila received, subject to rij, '.
Pratt or Chet-k.
Coileetiona made and proceeds prompt '
.. remitted on day of collection. j
Bight and Telegraphic Exchange soldi
New York, t-an Fraucisuo and Port
land. i.
DIKEOTOKS.
I. P. Tnoursos. Jxo. S. 5cuna '
Kd. M. Williams, Uo. A. Lisu.
11. M. Hkaix.
A. A. Brown,.
Kai a lull aaaorunutit l j
Staple and Fancy Groceris, I
and Provisions.
klnh hannw si Low Ftinifsa.
SPEGIAL :-: P$7S '
to Cash Buyer.
Hiitat Casl Prices for lm ti f
otter Froince.
1T0 SECOND STREET. ?
Eeoond St., 0pp. Hood's Bubli, j
THS BA.LI.tS, .-. ORIOOt.
Will repair your fine Buggies
and Carriage, shoe your line t
lriviiig Horses, and iu fact do
all your blacksmithing in the
finest atyle. hatisfaetion guar
anteed. GUHfUHG & HOCKMAlt Jrops '
the Dalles j
AND j
Prineville j
Stage i
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J.D. PARISH, Prop. ,
lm Th Dan nt . m. vrr lr ' ,
rlvaaat l flnlll In litrtjr l '"" tJ 1
I'rlusvlllp at . in. fvrrf riny ml arrle t
Tlis iHtllm In tlilriy-aU hiur.
Carries the C. S. Mail, I'asscngcrs and Hpr
Connect at Prlnelll witb- I
Btsgei from Eastern and Southern Or
egon, Northern California and
all Interior Fointi. I
AinmkMAliMfrnnM.tlnn at Ths Palis '
Irani irum I'Of iianu ana an mwrn r""
: Canrtenm dnttis.
Ocod tccdr.ffiodalioni alona the rrad. -
.' FiKl-ciasi coacliet and ioius ised.
.Eures natter lauiled witi can.
All pTrtii wlhln pms miit il
nw XmlutK Inking mw.hii; oIIktu will
rvrnlvotl. Kxprin niunt n wvlillll toni,
or Ih Hlasfl (Jo. will not I iwimlll- ' ,. ;
eoinimnir will Ink no rink on mom'T 'r"U!i
ImI. I'artltMilnr II.Mitlon glum to ""''"Tin .
aaprtM limlUr at I'rhiavllTu " H ""mm ,
pohiU In UrK'i. 1 lvn' rhrgn ' t
paid bjr llieortnipiijr. i
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M. ilhl S Co. Stars. Umatilla
1'rlaaTllla. Ha Walls-
City Blaeksmiih