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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1895.
VOL. V.
NUMBER 8.
HIS . LAST MESSAGE
Cleveland Informs Congress
of Another Bond Issue.
TERMS OF THE ARRANGEMENT
Will Run Thirty Team Saying May Be
Effected by the Substitution of
Bonds Payable In Gold.
Washington, Feb. 8.' The president
today sent the following message to con
gress :
"Since my recent communication to
congress calling attention to our finan
cial condition and suggesting legislation
which Idt Rtned essential to our national
welfare ana i redit, the anxiety and ap
prehension ;en existing in business
circles have continued.
"As a precaution, therefore, against
the failure of timely legislative action,
cautious preparations have been pend
ing to employ to the best possible ad
vantage, in default of better means, such
executive authority as may, without ad
ditional legislation, be exercised for the
purpose of reinforcing and maintaining
in oar treasury an adequate and e :f-
gold reserve. Iu the judgment of those
especially charged with this responsi
bility the business situation ia eo criti
cal and the legislative situation so un
promising, with omission, thus far on
the part of congress, to briefly enlarge
the powers of the secretary of the treas
ury in the premises, as to enjoin imme
diate executive action with the facilities
now at hand.
"Therefore, in pursuance of section
3700 of the revised statutes, details of
arrangement have, this day been con
cluded parties abundantly able to fulfill
their undertaking, whereby bonds of the
United States, authorized under the act
of July 14, 1875, payable in coin thirty
years after their date, with interest at
the rate of 4 per cent per annum, to
amount to little less than $62,400,000,
are to be issued for the purchase of gold
coin amounting to a sum slightly in ex
cess of $65,000,000, to be delivered at the
treasury of the United States; which
Bum, added to the gold now held in re
serve, ' will so rest in such reserve as to
make it amount to something more than
$100,000,000. Such premium is to be
allowed to the government upon the
bonds as will fix the rate of interest
upon the amount of gold realized at 3
per cent per annum.
"At least half of the gold to be ob
tained is to be supplied from abroad,
which is i very important and favora
ble feature of the transaction.
The privilege is especiallyeserved to
the government to substitute at par with
in ten days from this date in lieu of
these per cent coin bonds other bonds in
terms payable in gold and bearing only
3 per cent interest, if the issue of the
same meantime be authorized by con
gress, and the arrangements just com
pleted, which after caretul inquiry ap
pear under the present circumstances,
and considering all objects desired, to be
the best attainable, develops such a dif
ference in the estimation of the interest
between the bonds made payable in coin
and those especially payable in gold, in
favor of the latter, as is represented by
three-fourths per cent annual interest
In the agreement just concluded the
annual saving of interest to the govern
ment if the 3 per cent gold bonds should
be substituted for 4 per cent bonds, an
der the privilege , reserved, would be
$539,159, amounting in thirty years, or
at maturity of the coin bonds, to $16,-
174,770. Of course there never should
be doubt in any quarter as to the re
demption in gold of the bonds of the
government, which are made payable in
coin. Therefore the discrimination in
- the judgment of investors between our
- bond obligations, made payable in coin
and those specifically made payable in
gold is very significant. It is hardly
necessary to suggest that whatever may
be our views on the subject, the senti
ments or preferences of those with whom
we must negotiate in disposing of our
bonds for gold are not subject to our dic
tation. " ' ' . , J -
I have only to add that, in my opin
ion, the transaction herein intimated for
the information' of congress promises
better results than efforts previously
made in this direction, effectively add
ing to our gold reserve through .the sale
- ot bonds, and I believe it will tend, as
far as such action can; in the present
circumstances, to meet the determina
tion expressed in the law repealing the
silver-purchasing clause, act of July 14
1890; and that in the language of such
repealing act, "'the arrangement made
will aid in our efforts to secure the main
tenance of parity in the value of coins of
the two metals and in the equal power
of every dollar at all times in the mar
ket and in the pavements of debts."
(Signed), Gboveb Cleveland. ;
Executive Mansion, February 8, 1S95.
Desperate Dash for Life.
New Yobk, Feb. 8. Fire started in
Totham Bros., shot tower, which ex
tends 225 feet above the street, early this
morning,' imprisoning Frederick Erick;
son on the top story. The fire was
caused by an explosion of the oil furnace
on the lower floor, and the flames quickly
shot up and checked Erickson's descent
by the stairway. He ran to a window,
but found he could not jump to the roof
of the main building, so he once more
faced the fire. . He sprang through the
flames to the landing below him, was
unhurt, and at once leaped to the next
floor. On the next landing the flames
were thick, but the desperate man never
faltered for a moment. Below the next
lioor he saw safety, and once more leaped
for life, landing in a mass of flames
through which he rushed madly and
SDranz down the stairway wun ms
clothes afire. The superintendent and
several workmen soon had his burning
garments torn from him. He may re
cover.
Train on the Philadelphia Beading
Derailed.
Williamspobt, Pa., Feb. 8. The
Philadelphia & Beading passenger train,
due here at 10 a. m., was wrecked at
Allenwood. Four passenger coaches
were derailed and are lying on their
sides. The fireman is missing. Many
passengers are said to have been badly
bruised. Particulars are meager on ac
count of the condition of the wires.
Still Another Collision.
Toronto , Ont., Feb. 8. The Grand
Trunk train, due here at 8 :15 a. m., got
stalled near Weston, eight miles from
here, and was run into by the London
train. The driver and fireman of the
London train are badly scalded. Two
male nasseneers are missing and two
others are badly injured. The wrecked
cars are on fire.
The Blizzard In New York.
New York, Feb. 8. The worst storm
since the blizzard of March 4, 1888,
started last evening and has continued
uninterruptedly up to this time. The
traffic on surface street railways is much
delayed, and the' elevated roads are
taxed beyond their capacity. The ferry
boats have stopped running, and thous
anda are snow bound on the railroads.
The Storm at Cape Breton.
South Ingonish, C. B., Feb. 8. The
telegraph lines are down and buried in
the wrecks for half a mile. Twenty
houses and shops were washed off the
beach, and nothing was saved. At
Middlehead all the fish stores were swept
away. At New Haven all the fish stores
and dry goods stores are gone, the result
of Tuesday's storm.
The Storm In Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Feb. 8. Snow ceased
falling in this city ehortly after midnight,
but the wind piled up high drifts, ren
dering street car and other travel almost
impossible. According to the weather
office report the lowest point reached by
the thermometer was 1 degree below at
5 a. in. Erie reports 8 below ; Belfont,
9 ; Williamsport, 6.
' Chicago Hotel Bnrned.
Chicago, Feb. 8. The Hotel Royal, in
this city, was burned at an early hour
this morning. Ten people were injured,
two of them, Maggie Bryan and Maggie
Daniels, domestics, being frightfully cut
through leaping through the window and
and having all their hair burned off.
They will probably die.
Bear End Collision.
Brooklyn, ' Feb. 8. While the fast
train on the Long Island railroad was
standing at Morris Park station the
through train from Hempstead,drawn by
two engines, crushed into the rear. .A
number of passengers on
the fast train
were Injured.
A
Blizzard
Raged With
Fnry All
Night.
Kansas City, Feb.- 8. The blizzard
raged with unbated vigor all night. At
7. o'clock this morning the thermometer
registered 10 deg. below zero. A gale
is blowing. Signal Officer - O'Connor
does not promise any respite until Fri
day evening. The railroads are not. in
convenienced much by drifts.
The Climax Beached.
Mabshalltown, la., Feb. 8. The in
tense cold of the past week reached a
climax at 4 a. m. today, when -the ther
mometer indicated 22 to 29 below. It
is the same throughout the state. -
At Chicago. -.''"'
Chicago, Feb. 8. The weather was in
tensely cold here today, the thermome
ters showing 16 degrees below. A strong
north wind added to tha severity of the
cold. '".. ' . '
NEW YORK IS ICEBOUND
A Solid Sea of Ice From the
Narrows to -Sandy Hook.
CONTINUANCE, OF THE STORM
Reports From All Sections if the Kast
and South Are of Kxcesslve
Cold and More Snow.
New York Feb 9. Today New York
was practically icebound. The bay
from the Narrows' to Sandy Hook,
almost a solid field of ice. The upper
bay would be as bad were it not that
number of tugs are at work breaking the
ice to permit the passage of craft and
that small steamers are plying in the
North and East rivere. Tugs are con'
Btantly at work clearing a passageway
for the Staten Island ferry boats. Two
boats of the Lehigh Valley were stalled
in the East river for over an hour and a
tug that went to their assistance was
also stopped by the ice. Reports from
the interior of the state tell of the con
tinuance of the great storm. Trains on
the central Hudson river are from five to
eight hours late. The Dannesburg and
Mechanicsville branch of the Delaware
& Hudson canal road have been aban
doned, and no effort will be made to
operate them until the storm abates
The Uenesee branch ot the i.rie is
blocked. The Port Jatvis & Monticello
railway and branches are so badly
blocked by snow that they can scarcely
be opened before next week. The main
line of the Erie Western is closed, no
through, trams having . passed since
Thursday. All through trains on the
Kome, Water town & Ugdensburg are
abandoned. .
A Lyons telegram says a second bliz
zare began at 6 o'clock this evening, and
within a couple of hours it was snowing
and. blowing harder than at any' time
since the big storm commenced.' : Four
New York Central engines are off the
track in the Lyons yards' and traffic
there is at a standstill.
Through Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Feb. 9. At the Penn
sylvaniaand the Philadelphia & Beading
stations all trains are from five to ten
hours late. The roads, however, are be
ing cleared up and trains are expected to
be running regularly before long. The
situation in the country districts is prac
tically unchanged.
At Carlisle, at noon, the Cumberland
Valley railroad called in all hands and
announced all trains would be aban
doned. Nothing will be done until the
storm abates. The Philadelphia &
Reading also abandoned . all trains in
that section. , Four trains and five en
gines are in the drifts in that neighbor
hood. At bun bury the railroads are
still blockaded and the situation is not
improving. The first mail from Phila
delphia since Thursday arrived at Sun
bury today. A passenger train and
seven engines are snowed in at McClure
on the Sunbury & Lewiston road.
Pittsbueg, Feb. 6. A blizzard swept
over this section furiously all night caus
ing much Buffering among the poor,
The thermometer registered below zero.
Trains arrive from one to four hours.
Through Delaware.
Wilmington, Feb. 9. The situation
of the Delaware road is serious. ' A train
which left here at 10 yesterday morning
and a train that left Harrington yester
day morning are stalled six miles below
Middletown. A relief train is also stuck
in a heavy drift, and a construction train
that left Wilmington this morning was
held by a drift at Farnhurst, near here.
No trains have been run over this road
since Thursday night.
Through Maryland.
Baltimore, Feb. 9. Annapolis is
snowbound. ' Reports come from there
that seven men and their horses were
drowned -today in an attempt to cross
the Severn river on the ice. Cumber
land, in the western part of the state, re
ports that two passenger coaches and
nine engines are fast in a snowdrift on
the West Virginia Central railroad at
Black Oak bottom. The damage on the
Chesapeake bay and tributaries by the
storm is very great. North Point and
Kent Island shore are strewn with
wreckage, and loss of life is feared. ' The
heavy snow and wind was almost un
precedented. Small craft and crews are
suffering many hardships. '
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Charges and Specifications Against Ei-
' Queen LUllaokalanl.
Victoria, B. C, Feb. 9. Hawaiian
advices by the steamer Warrimoo, to
February 2d, were brought tonight, and
are as follows : . '
"There is a lull in the affairs here and
quietness will probably reign until the
military court now sitting will have fin
ished its work. A large number of con
spiracy cases are yet to be tried, and the
probabilities are that the' court will si
for two or three weeks at least. Great
interest ia attached to the forthcoming
trial of the queen. The government
claims to have more than sufficient evi
dence to convict her. What her punish
ment will be in case of conviction
hard to conjecture. Her case will prob
ably come up next Monday. - She is
charged with treason. The charge
reads:
"Treason, by engaging in open rebel
lion against the republic of Hawaii; by
attempting, by force of arms, to over
throw and destroy the same ; by levying
war against the same by adhering to
the enemies of the republic of Hawaii
giving them aid and comfort within the
Hawaiian islands and elsewhere.'
"There are six specifications in the
charge. The military commisson has
brought in findings in twenty-four
cases, ihose in whose cases verdicts
were found are :
"R W Wilcox, S Nowlein, H R Ber
telman, Carl Wideman, W H C Greig
Louis Marshall, W C Lane, J C June,
C T Gulick, W H Rickard, W T Seward
T B Walker, Solomon Kauia, Pelahua
Lot Lane, Thomas Poole, J Kalaknkoa
Robert Patau, J W Kipikane, Killiona
Joseph Clark, D Januha, W Widdifield
Joea Kiakabi.
Of the foregoing, D. Jannha and J,
Kalaknkoa were acquitted. The others
were all found guilty and their sentences
were fixed by the commission, subject
to review by President Dole. The sen
tehees vary much,-all the way from sen
tences of death to imprisonment for five
years with fines. The lowest sentence
for treason by the Hawaiian statute is
imprisonment for five years and a fine
of not less than $5,000.
The six leaders were all sentenced to
be hung. They are : Charles T. Gulick
William H. Rickard, William T. Sew
ard, Robert W. Wilcox, Sam Nowlein
and Henry Bertelman. . Sentences in
the last two cases will be commuted, as
both men have furnished valuable evi
dence for the government. Gulick was
born in this country, and Rickard is an
Englishman. Wilcox is a Hawaiian
The only one of the four who is entitled
to the protection of the United States is
Willam T. Seward. As yet no date has
been set for the executions. . The only
important case tried before the military
court since the departure of the Austra
Ha was that of V. V. Ashtord. He is
charged with misprison of . treason. A
batch of twenty native rebels, charged
with treason, is now occupying the at'
tention of the court.
"United Stetes Minister Willis has
changed his attitude somewhat since
last advices. He is not so belligerant in
his demands. His latest communica
tion to the government is a request that
if the death penalty is imposed in the
cases of any Americans, the executions
be postponed until be can communl
cate with his government. The British
minister has made a similar request.
Thus far, but two men who claim
American protection . have been tried.
They are Louis Marshall, charged with
open rebellion, and Thomas Walker,
who pleaded guilty to the charge of
treason: The government has decided
to banish three persons from the islands
for' complicity in the rebellion. . They
are J. F. Cranston and A. Muller, for
conspiracy to use dynamite, and J. B
Johnstone, a special police officer, who
turned traitor. The men will be Bent in
the Warrimoo leaving for Victoria.
Cranston and Muller were to blow up
the Central Union church on the night
when the rebellion broke out.
A Secret.
If all the ladies knew the simple secret
that a bad complexion is due to a dis
ordered liver, there would be fewer Bal
low faces and blotchy skins. This im
portant organ must be kept active and
healthy to insure a clear and rosy color.
Dr. J. -A.. McLean's Liver &, Kidney
Balm as a purifier, beats all the creams
and lotions in existence and will pro
duce a more permanent effect. Removes
bad taste in the mouth, offensive breath,
yellow tinge in the skin, wind on the
stomach and that dull,' billions feeling
which so surely indicates the torpid
liver. . Price $1.00 per bottle. Snipes
Kinersly Drug Co. ,
Snow at Tampa.
Tampa, Feb. 8. Snow fell here this
morning, for four hours, the first on rec
ord. The mercury fell to 24 degrees
above last night, but is slowly sising to
day. Orange trees were killed, and the
damage to truck and fruit farms is enor
mous. ' ' . .
At Syracuse. ,
Syracuse, N. Y.t Feb. 8. The bliz
zard appeared here last' night with a
rapidly lowering temperature, high
winds from the north and about six in
ches of snow.
BEFORE THE SEME
The President Furnishes
Number of Documents
IN COMPLIANCE WITH A REQUEST
The Logbooks of, Kaval Vessels Cannot
be Obtained, Bat Reports of Their
Commanders Are Submitted.. .
Washington, Feb. 11. The president
today sent the following message to
congress: ,
"To the senate : On the 8th day of
January I received a copy of the follow
ing senate resolution : Resolved, that
the president be required, if not incom
patible with public interest, to com
municate to the senate all reports, docu
ments and other papers, including logs
of vessels, relating to the enforcement
of regulations respecting fur seals.
adopted by the governments of the
United States and Great Britain, in ac
cordance with the decision of the tri
bunal of arbitration convened at Paris
and the regulations under which said re
ports are required to "be made, as well
as relating to the number of seals taken
during the season of 1894 by pelagic
hunters and hy lessees of Pribyloff and
Commander islands; also relating to
to steps which may have been taken to
extend said regulations to Asiatic waters
the North Pacific ocean and Behring
sea and secure the concurrence of other
nations in said regulations, and further,
all papers not heretofore published, in
eluding the communications of the
agent of the United States before said
tribunal at Paris, relating to the claims
of the British government on account of
the seizure of sealing vessels in Behring
sea."
"In compliance with said request, I
herewith transmit sundry papers docu
ments and reports, which have been re
turned to me by the secretary of the
state, the secretary of the treasury, and
the secretary of the navy, to whom said
resolution was referred.
"I am not in possession of any further
information touching the various sub
jects embodied in such resolution. It
will be seen from the letter of the secre
tary of the navy, accompanying the
papers, and documents sent from his de
partment, that it is impossible to furnish
at this time 'complete logbooks of some
of the naval vessels referred to in the
resolution, but I venture to express the
hope that Ihe reports of the command'
ers of such vessels as are herewith sub
mittea, win De iouna to contain in suo-
Btance so much of the' matters recorded
in said logoooKB as are important in
answering the inquiry addressed to me
by the senate."
"Grover Cleveland."
An International Cable.
Washington, Feb. 11. A bill to in
corporate the International Pacific Cable
Company, for a cable from California to
the Hawaiian islands, thence to Japan
and other points in the Pacific, and on
the mainlands of Asia and Australia,
was introduced in the house today by
Representative Charles VV. Stone, of
Pennsylvania.
The incorporators are: William Al-
vord, Samuel T. Alexander, Hugh Craig,
William H. Symond, Alfred S. Hartwell,
Edward B. Pond, John Irwin, Ray
Stone, A. G. Hawes, Herman Oelrichs,
Charles R. Bishop, G. W. McNear,
Lewis B. Parrott, W. M. Buckner, C. L.
Taylor, O. D. Baldwin, Henry F. Allen,
W. J. Adams, John D. Spreckels.
The bill proposes to give the company
the right to hold requisite connections,
land, offices and stations, and to exercise
such powers as may be granted by any
other government, with the provision
that nothing in the action -shall be con-
trued to commit the United States to
any financial liability or guarantee of
carrying out its contracts.
Will Fay Principal.
Washington, Feb. 11. The house
committee on Pacific railways gave a
hearing today to representatives of the
companies. Juery Anderson, receiver
and government director of the Union
Pacific, A. A. H. Boisevain, who repre
sent foreign holdings in tbe same com
panyj and C. H. Tweed, of the Central
Pacific, presented a proposition of the
corporations to settle their government
Highest of.all in Leavening Power.
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debts by the payment of the principal,
by which arrangement the Union Pacific
would pay the United States about $33,
500,000, and the Central Pacific about
$27,500,000.
Representatives ot large interests in
New York city, among them President
Fitzgerald, of Mercantile Trust Com
pany, and J. P. Morgan, a member of
the reorganization committee, have been
sent dispatches asserting that a bill
authorizing the secretary of the treasury
to accept cash payment of the principal
of the Union Pacific debt in full satisfac
tion of all claims upon it, would be ac
cepted and carried out by tbe company.
The proposition was formally made by
Boisevain, for the Union Pacific today.
Anderson said tbe re-committal of tbe
Reilly bill by the house without action
and the failure of congress to give the
executive branch any instructions as to
tbe protection of government interests
left the whole matter in a very unsatis
factory condition. '
. Central Pacific Representative Weed
was not prepared to make the same pro
posal in behalf of that company, but
said if the parties who might advance
the principal of the debt could be pro
tected by holding a government lien as
security for their advances, the Fame
terms could be carried out by the Cen
tral Pacific. Snch security was neces
sary in his opinion on account of tbe ex
istence of liens prior to the government
iien. .
Baptism by Immersion Through a Bole
' in the Ice.
Lancaster, Pa., Feb 11. With the
thermometer hovering near zero, the
Baptist .River Brethren, or Dunkards,
cut a hole in the ice at Conestoga creek,
at Earlville yesterday, and baptized
Miss Groff and Miss Lizzie Stump, of
Bareyille. The Rev. John GraybiH and
the candidates stood waist deep in the
icy water, asking and .answering ques
tions in Pennsylvania German. Then
there were prayers, and the final plunge
of the candidates' heads under the sur
face of the stream, until their entire
bodies were submerged. Another
prayer was offered that their names '
might be written in tbe book of life, and
the ceremony which occupied five min
utes, was over.' ' '
Oyster-Growers Hope the Weather Wilt
- Moderate Gradually.
Sea Island Citt, N. J., Feb. 12. The
oyster-growers throughout South Jersey
are worried over the continued cola .
weather, and say that unless it moder
ates gradually, they will lose hundreds
of dollars. The bays in which the oyster
grounds are situated are frozen solid
and the ice reaching to the bottom has
caught thousands of bushels of bivalves.
If a sudden warm spell should follow
this extremely cold weather, the ice will
carry the oysters away and deposit them
in the creeks and thoroughfares.
A Case of Mistaken Identity In Chicago.
Chicago, Feb. 11. Robert Robson
was passing along West Madison street
last night when a man rushed up to
him, and without a Wordi seized him by
both ears and bit off his nose. Then
with a shriek the assailant shouted: .
"My God it's the wrong man!" and ran
awav. A bvstanaer iouna mr. itoDBon
nose, and it. was put on again, and fas
tened with courtplaster. A physician
was called, but he expreseed doubts as
to the probability of tbe nose growing
again.
A Chicago Washerwoman Makes a
riucky Fight.
Chicago, Feb. 11. The laundry com
bine, comprising all the big firms in the
business undertook to freeze out little
Miss Mary G. Hennesy because she
would not join the association. .The
combine sent agents to Miss Hennesy s
customers and in some cases did washing
free, to drive her out of the business.
Miss Hennesy retaliated by suing sev
eral of the conspirators for $10,000 dam
ages, and a jury has awarded ber $6,000.
The case will be appealed by the com
bine, but Mies Henmssy will fight it to
the last.
A Thaw Has set In in Mew York.
New Yobk, Feb. 11. East river is
still badly blocked with ice and the run
ning of, ferryboats is irregular. North
river is also filled with ice, but the boats
are running lairly well. ine weamer
is decidedly warmer. The thermometer
at 11 o'clock had risen to 26 degrees
above zero, with the sun shining bright
ly. A thaw was setting in.
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