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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1895.
NUMBER 8.
ELECT SENATORS
Senator Mitchell Wants the
Constitution Changed.
THE BRITISH GOLD IS COMING
' Count Castellane Intends to Deplete
the Oold Keserve and tne
Oonld Family.
The Hay ward Trial.
Minneapolis, Feb. 12. The cross-examination
of Adry Howard today
brought out facta showing that a violent
hatred exists between Adry and Harry.
Adry admitted he had been charged
with embezzlement from his father
both by lii brother and father, bnt
claimed the money bad been stolen
from his flat by Harry for the purpose
of fomenting trouble. Adry declared
that was all that ever made any trouble.
Mrs. Hayward, sitting beside Harry,
shook ber bead and exclaimed : "Leave
out nothing." ''
. 'Further questionings by the defense
indicated the purpose of setting up the
claim that Adry had conspired with
Blixt to murder Miss Ging. He w.r i
asked if be was not crazy October 7th
- Adry replied : "I'm not in a position
to answer," and laughed. ' when the
court ruled the question out of order
Adry denied he said in his office to his
father October 7th : "I've got to have
money some way. If I don't get it I'll
hold up airain or do something; I know
a scheme to fix Harry, and I'll do it."
He said be told Elder Stewart of
Harry's conspiracy to kill Miss Ging
because he regarded Stewart as his
friend. .
The defense offered in evidence the
pointed shoos worn by Adry, indicating
their purpose to claim that the tracks at
the scene of the murder were made by
Adry. . '
1 1(ne Magazine Was Blown Up.
, LopN, Feb. 12. A.Toklp dispatch
says the Japanese admiral reports that
ti Japanese blew up the magazine of
th-e Whin Tarn fort at Wei-Hai-Wei on
February 8. On the 9th two shells from
tSe eastern torts struck the Chinese
cruiser Chen Yuen, which immediately
.Bank. The Whin Tarn fort has been
silent since the blowing up of Its magi
zine. and is probably evacuated. . The
Japanese having captured the enemy's
torpedoes, the enemy's ships are firing
machine guns nightly in order to avert a
(orpedo attack upon them.
A dispatch from Wei-Hai-Wei says
the Chinese General Tai committed eui
cide February 7, in a fit of anger at the
desertion of some of his officers.
A Shanghai dispatch says the recall of
the Chinese peace envoys was the result
of the consultation of Chinese authorities
with foreign ministers.
MlM Buecker Has Been Summoned to
Osborne House. '
London, Feb.- 12. Messrs. Keller,
Wallis & Co., agent for the North Ger
man Lloyds Steamship Company, state
that the body landed at Harwich yester
day is unqnestionably that of Herman
Gehrets, the doctor of the Elbe. '
Miss Annie Buecker, the only woman
on the Elbe who was saved, yesterday
received a command from the queen to
visit her at Osborne house, the royal
residence on the Isle of Wight.1 The
royal yacht has been placed at her diS'
rinflal for th nnrnnRA nf f.hn viaif. TCm.
press Frederick, of Germany, the en's
eldest daughter, is visiting her mother at
Osborne house, and Miss Buecker will be
given an audience by both the queen
and Empress Frederick.
.Miss Gould's Engagement.
New York, Feb. 12.-George Gould
has verified the engagement of his sister
Anna to Count Castellane. "Yes,"
said Gould, "my sister is really engaged,
to Count Castellane, and we are all
much pleased with the match. I have
known Caunt Castellane some time, and
think- he will make one of the best of
husbands. I cannot tell you yet when
the marriage will take place, but I
think it will be soon.'
Count de Castellane denied absolutely
the rumors that Miss Annie Gould and
he have signed a marrige settlement by
which he will be (2,000,000 richer on the
day he makes Miss Gould a countess.
"There has ' not been a word spoken on
the. subject," aaid the count. "I have
St inquired in regard to her fortune,
rioi- has she asked of mine."
' The Election Of Senators.
Washington," Feb. 12. The senate
committee on privileges and elections
today decided to report back the bill
introduced by. Senator Mitchell of
Oregon for a constitutional amendment
providing for the election of senators by
JO
a direct vote of the people, lhe major
ity and minority reports were afterward
submitted to the senate. ' Turpie, Pal
mer and Mitchell eav in their report:
"The object is to place one depart
ment of the government wholly in the
control of the people. The legislative or
lawmaking department of the govern
ment ought, in our opinion, to be so
placed. The laws of the United States
are made fr congress and in behalf of
the people. It is therefore a matter of
the highest imporatnce that the law
makers in both branches of the national
legislature should be chosen by the peo
ple." -
Speculation In Agricultural Commodi
ties Cannot Be Stopped.
London, Feb. 12. Xu.. the house of
commons today, Harcourt stated in re
plying to a question that he feared the
time, was not ripe for entering into an
agreement with other countries to pre
vent speculation in agricultural com
modities. Gardner announced that because of
cases of contagious pluro-pnenmonia
among Canadian cattle landed at Ant
werp, the Belgian government had pro
hibited the importation into that coun
try of Canadian cattle.
In reply to a question, the government
announced that negotiations in regard to
the Dominion copyright act bad stopped
because of the death of the Canadian
premier, and it was unable at present to
make a statement.
A Guy Jn the pulpit.
Oakland, Feb. 12. Rev. Edwards
Davis, pastor of the Christian, church, a
young preacher .whose bizarre methods
attract immense crowds, preached on
dancing Sunday night, defending waltz
ing, and illustrating its grace by dancing
waltz steps in the pulpit, with an imag
inary partner. On former Sundays he
recited Shakespeare in defense of the
drama and said poker was a more com
mendable game than tiddle-de-winks.
Next Sunday he will wear evening dress.
Glad to Be at Home.
. Cleveland, Feb. 12. County Com
missioner John Vevera, one of the few
survivors of the Elbe disaster, arrived
here yesterday. The meeting between
Yevera and his family was most pathetic.
"America is the grandest country on
earth," said Vevera, "and I do not want
to leave it again. I would not take
another trip across the Atlantic for all
the money in the world."
Another Respite Glren.
Monclora, Mexico, Feb. 12. Adolfo
Yillaerela ,the rich Mexican rancher,
who assasinated David McKellar, the
millionaire English ranchman two years
ago, bas been given another respite by
the authorites. At his trial Villaereal
sentenced to be shot and $40, 000 of his
estate was confiscated by the court and
ordered to be paid to the widow of the
murdered man.
The Rerolutlon Checked.
Colon, Feb. 12. Dispatches received
by the government say that the rebels
who entrenched themselves jn the state
of Tolima surrendered on the 9th inet,
ThoBe in Chiquinqnira will also surren
der. The states of Cundinamarca, Boy-
aca and Cauca are in possession of the
government and the revotion is checked
Unusual British Sentiment.
London, Feb. 12. The Pall Mall Ga
zette, in an editorial on the Hawaiian
question, says : "There seems to be no
hope for Hawaii save in a protectorate,
America is a good friend and cousin of
ours, and if some one must bave the is
lands we know of-no power with a better
right to it."
- Flocking; to Che-Foo.
LoNDok.Feb. 12. A Shanghai dispatch
says a number of foreigners and many
Chinese have arrived there from Che
Foo. Wounded Chinese soldiers are
flocking to Che-Foo - for the purpose of
being attended by doctors and nurses of
the Red Cross Society.
Asked Their Release.
London, Feb. 12. A deputation from
the corporation of. Dublin, headed by
the lord mayor, presented a petition to
the house of commons this afternoon for
the release of the men in prison for par
ticipating in dynamite outrages.-.1
Xiittle Damage Done.
London, Feb. 12. A special dispatch
to the Pall Mall Gazette from Wei-Hai-Wei,
February 7, by way of Hiogo, the
11th, says: Notwithstanding the des
perate nature of the fighting at Wei-Hai-Wei,
little damage has been done.
- Gold Coming; This Way.
London, Feb. 12. The Majestic, which
sails from Liverpool tomorrow, will take
$1,290,000 in gold for the United States.
Saturday $3,710,000 in gold will be
shipped from here. , '
' A Long Sentence. . ' t '
Fort Smith, Ark., . Feb. 12. Bill
Cook; the outlaw, was sentenced today
in the United States court to 45. years iu
the penitentiary at Albany, N. Y.
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UNDER A WHITE FLAG
Admiral Ting's Offer to the
Victorious Japanese.
WOULD YIELD FORTS AND FLEET
Official Report of the Lesses of
Japanese Before Wei-Hai-Wei
Chinese Lost 700 Men.
the
Yokohama, Feb. 13. It is officially
announced that Captain Nurons, of the
Japanese squadron, operating at Wei
Hai-Wei, reports that on the 12th
Chinese gunboat approached the Japan
ese fleet, flying a white nag. bhe
brought a message from Admiral Ting
offering to surrender Wei-Hai-Wei and
the vessels, providing the lives of the
soldiers, crews and foreigners are spared
Captain Nurons reported that the formal
surrender was yet to be arranged. '
The commander of the second Japan
ese army, in bis official report of the
operations before Wei-Hai-Wei, says the
losses from the 20th of January to the
1st of February were 83 killed, including
General Oteara and three other officers,
During thesame period 700 of the enemy
were killed.
Terrible Torture Inflicted on an old Man
Saybrook, Conn., Feb. 13. Charles
Mappell, 75 years old, living near here,
recently employed Jack Antonio,
Spaniard, as a farm hand. Sunday he
found the Spaniard ransacking bis sil
verware and discharged him.
At 10 o'clock that night a masked man
burst into Mappell's bedroom and pre
sented a revolver, demanded the farmer's
money or his life.
The old man on refusing, was then
bound and gagged, and tortured with a
hot poker. As Mappell still refused to
reveal the whereabouts of his money
the robber seized a shovelful of red hot
coals and held the victim's feet over
them until Mappell revealed the hiding
place. ' His visitor secured $294, a gold
watch worth $100 and valuable silver
ware. As he left, the robber tore the
mask from, his face and the old man rec
ognized his farm hand. Antonio had
sleigh waiting and escaped in the direc
tion of the Saybrook woods. ;
A Man and His Wife Klope With Step
' Children-
Napoleon,' 0., Feb. 13. John Rollins,
who lives just over the line in Putnam
county, a year ago married the Widow
Dalyring, who has a daughter aged 17,
John eloped with the daughter Monday
and the wife eloped with John's 23-year-
old son. , Both father - and - eon are
wealthy farmers, owning large tracts of
land, and both have always occupied the
same bouse. The father and his inamo
rita went East, possibly to Pittsburg.
The wife's attorney has filed a petition
for divorce, and the old man's lawyer
will doubtless soon receive instructions
to file a cross-petition.
Many believe that the two couples
will go to living in the same house a
year from now, tbe father married to
his step-daughter, while his son will
wed his father's wife. '
McDonald on the - Stand In His Own
Defense.
San Francisco, Febl 13. Defense in
the trial of E. H. McDonald, jr for per
jury reopened its case today and made
the defendent' a witness. McDonald
testified that he never swore to the bank
statement. He recognized his signature
to the statement upon which the com
plaint was based,' but said he had no re
collection of signing it. He denied he
was ever manager of the bank, and said
bis father had assumed full control, di
recting all business, even when absent,
telegraphing instructions daily. The
prosecution in rebuttal made witnesses
of two depositors who had lost heavily
by the failure of the Pacific bank. Each
angrily asserted that Dick was perfectly
sane and responsible for his actions.
Overtures
for
Peace Will
There.
Berlin, Feb. 13. The Cologne Gazette
learns from Japanese sources that over
turea for peace will not be regarded fa-
Japan until Peking shall have been ca
tured. The Japanese will deman
session of Corea, the Lian Tung
sula and Port Arthur, togethe:
ner.nniarv iridemnitv. .Tana
ia that Eneland and Ens"
this program by bri
their own way,
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Irrigation DW
Fresno
job of w
Irrigat
norc
all along the line of the Herndon ditch
for miles. The Mill ditch has overflowed
its banks at the Eggers vineyard, and
tbe Barton vineyard and in the Gould
colonv. A force of 200 men has been
despatched to the 'threatened points
At this hour (noon) the danger of a flood
in Fresno seems to be past, as the water
is flowing off to the north.
The Southern Faciflo Track Washed
Away.'
Calientb, Cal., Feb. 13. The bigges
flood of the season'is on here in full force
and has washed out some of the Southern
Pacific track about half a mile north of
this place, causing a bad wreck to No,
19, the south-bound passenger train, last
night at 11 o'clock.
The train was a double-header, as
usual, and struck the washout with great
force. Both engines, two baggage, one
express and one mail car were turned
over into the water. Fireman Chester
was badly hurt bv being caught under'
the tank. No others were hurt.
All trains in this section are at a stand
still until a track can be laid around tbe
wreck.
Will Not Be Pardoned.
London, Feb. 13. In the house Clan,
cy, a member from Dublin, moved that
sentences imposed upon Irish political
prisoners be reconsidered. Home Sec
retary Asquith replied that he was con
vinced the prisoners had been justly
convicted. In view of . the ' atrocious
character of their crimes he found him
self unable to extend clemency. Mor
ley, chief secretary for Ireland denied
the assertion that he had promised
amnesty to dynamiters.
They Deny the Sinking; of Vessels
Wei-Hai-Wei.
London, Feb. ,13. A dispatch to the
Times from Shanghai says it is reported
in Tien-Tsin that the Chinese warships
Chen Yuen, Chin Yuen and Kwang
Ting are still afloat at Wei-Hai-Wei
Their immunity from destruction is as
cribed to having netting to protect them
from torpedoes and other quick-firing
guns. The same reports also Bay that
the forts on Lui Rung Taio island are
still in possession of the Chinese.
The Unusual Termination of a French
Duel.
Paris, Feb. 13. A duel with swords
was fougbt today between .Lieutenant
Marcel Canrobert, son' of the late Mar
shal Canrobert, and M. Hubbard,
socialist member of the chamber of dep
uties. The combat arose over an ex
pression used in the chamber by M
Hubbard during the debate on granting
credit for tbe marshal's funeral. Hub
bard received a deep wound in the chest,
Agitation Among Students Has Had Too
Serious Results.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 13. An agita
tion of a serious nature has occurred
among tbe students of tne Moscow uni
versity, and the husbandry institute
will, in consequence, be closed. A large
number of students have been arrested,
The authorities of the university at St.
Petersburg have issued a warning to
students to abstain from taking part in
all manifestations, under tbe severest
penalties.
Threatened by Famine.
Buda Pesth, Feb. 13. Famine i 8
threatened in the district of Hungary,
southeast of Buda- Pesth. Socialists
bave taken advantage of the situation to
incite riot, and gendarmes have been
compelled to disperse the rioters at tbe
bayonet's point. '
Invaded by WolTes.
Rome, Feb. 13. Hundreds of hungry
wolves from the Alps have invaded the
plains in tbe province of Piedmont, and
several villagers have been killed by
them. The authorities bave sent troops
to shoot them,' and many have thus
been destroved.
The Khedive's Daughter.
Cairo, Feb. 13 Tbe harem favorite of
the khedive became the mother of a
daughter today. The khedive is repre
sented as being greatly disappointed
he was hoping for the birth of a
would be an beir to the tliron
After Pnll
Chicago,
Grosscnp
ved
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Feb-'
THE NICARAGUA CANAL
Morgan's Bill Detrimental to
British Interests.
ENGLISH G0VERNMFNT QUESTIONED
England Considers Such a Canal Should
he Under International Control, and
Will Advance This View.
London, Feb. -14. In the house of
commons this "afternoon Sir Edward
Harland, conservative, asked whether
the government was aware that Mor
gan's Nicaraguan cacal bill had passed
the United States senate and was now
before the house of representatives, and
whether in view of the importance of
tbe canal to .British shipowners, the gov
ernment would not make urgent re
presentations to the government of the
United States against the provisions of
the bill detrimental to ;the interests of
British shipping. Sir Edward also asked
whether the government would consider
the propriety of urging oponthe govern
ment oi tne united states tbe impor
tance of the creation of a British and
American commission to deal with the
question of the construction of the canal
and its status when built.
Sir Edward Gray, parliamentary sec
retary for the foreign office, replied it
was not usual for tbe government to
make any representations 'against bills
before foreign legislatures. The govern
ment, he added, considered such a canal
as it was proposed to construct through
Nicaragua should be under international
control and whatever steps it may deem
desirable will be taken by the govern
ment to advance this view. He, how
ever, saw no reason, to suppose the
United States would not maintain the
treaty engagement.
Sir George Baden-Powell, conserva
tive, questioned the government regard
ing the proposed Pacific cables. Sidnev
Buxton, of the parliamentary colonial
office, said negotiations relative to the
construction of the cable were proceed
ing, but it would not be to tbe public
interests to enter into a detailed state
ment of their Btatus.
Mississippi Citizens Stirred Up Over
shocking- Murder.
Meridian, Miss., Feb. 14. Saunders
Carlisle, the negro chargeA with the as
sassination of his landlord, John Hurst,
of Butler, Ala., has surrendered to the
officers there. ' He denies killing Hurst,
but says Hurst's son and daughter killed
the old man. He (Carlisle) was offered
and accepted 40 acres of land and a mule
to do the deed, but on reaching tbe spot
where tbe murder was to be committed,
his heart failed him, and he threw no
the job, leaving it for young Hurst and
his Bister to do it. Tbe trio are in jail
awaiting investigation, but the proba
bilities are they will never reach trial,
as the citizens ate very indignant, and
talk freely of lynching them.
Privileges for Harbor Commissioners.
San Francisco, Feb. 14. The Produce
Exchange today indorsed a bill to be
submitted to the legislature permitting
the harbor commissioners to lease the
ground along the city front for tbe erec
tion of grain warehouses for 20 years,
instead of from month to month, as at
present, to divert grain warehousing to
this city from Port Costa, where it is
now shipped and loaded 'on vessels.. It
is supposod that, local warehouses will
operate in conjunction ' with the San
Francisco & San .lmuin Valley railroad
Secreta
leply.
Washing!
Carlisle to
the rej
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People Who
Weigh and Compare
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the new vegetable shortening, has
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larity. At its introduction it was
submitted to expert chemists, promi
nent physicians and famous cooks.
All or these pronounced .
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every cooking purpose.
The success of Cottolene is now
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Cottolene is sold in 3 and S
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Hade only by
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ST. LOUIS and
Chicago, New Ysrk, Bos ten.
demption was still on hand.
"It is proper to state in this connec
tion," says the secretary, "that when
United States- treasury notes of 1890
were redeemed in gold they were re
ceived into and held as part of the gene
ral cash assets in the treasury, same as
any other money belonging to the
government, and under tbe acts of May
31, 1878, and July 14, 1890, they were
paid out when necessary to defray .pub
lic expenses." Whenever it is possible to
do so, redeemed notes have been used
to procure gold coin by exchange with
banks and other financial institutions,
and in this way a large amount of gold
was restored to tbe gold reserve fund
during the summer of 1893, and soma
since' that time."
The Alleged Perpetrators In Cnstody at
Fans, Tex.
Paris,' Tex., Feb. 14. Deputy United
States Marshal George Stewart arrived
here last night, having in charge Fred
Wilson, charged with, murder and arson.
Last week a house was burned near
Easton, Indian territory, and the dead
bodies of a family named Tucker, con
sisting of five persons, were found in tbe
ruins. They bad ben murdered and
the bouse fired. Wilson was Tucker's
son-in-law, and previously trouble had
occurred between them. Wilson was
arrested by 20 armed men and turned
over to tne United States authorities.
He feared lynching when arrested, and
on being taken to view the charred re
mains of his alleged victims begged for
his life.
Two Trains Demolished aad Five Men
Injured.
Pittsburg, Feb. 14. Two engines on
the Castie Shannon road collided last
evening in a tunnel near Alonongahela.
Five men were hurt and the enpi
26 cars were demolished.
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