THE DALLES "WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1895.
Ths Weekly Ghroniele
THK DALIES
OBEOOS
Entered at the postofUce at The Dalles, Oregon,
as aecona-oiaiuf m&u muner.
STATU OFFICIALS.
Governor W. P. Lord
Secretary of State H K Kincaid
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
apt. of FuDiio instruction ..u. jh. irwin
Attornev-General C. M. Idleman
" (G. W. McBrlde
Benators ...... jJ H MltcheU
' (B. Hermann
juOTmi-ii J W. R. Ellis
State Printer ....W. H. Leeds
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Jndge. Geo. C. Blakeley
Sheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk , A. M. Kelaay
Treasurer wm. MicDeii
r. .. (Frank Kincaid
) A S. Blowers
Assessor F. H. Wakefield
Surveyor E. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy uneiiey
Coroner W. U. Butts
WAR ON THE COLUMBIA.
From the time of Jonah to the time of
the convening of the Clatsop county
grand jury in Jane, 1895, fish have given
. a heap of trouble to the world. Big
stories, diplomatic correspondence,
weeks of argument by great lawyers be
fore courts of international arbitration,
threats of war, war and rumors of war
indictments and finally threats of arrest
against Clatsop county officials, wIjo go
acroBS the Colombia to enforce the will
of the Lord. The pious people of Ore
gon, who are willing to submit to the
Lord's will upon all questions except the
. senatorial and coinage question, are of
fended because the worshipers of Mc-
Graw, the idol of the Washingtonians,
persist in desecrating our Sabbath by
going fishing ou Sunday. And it comes
to a question whether the Lord or the
idol McGraw shall rule the waters of the
mighty Columbia; whether the fish of
the river ehall have a day of rest or not.
And a war is threatened, which we pre
sume the chroniclers of the future will
designate as a religious war, and the
sceptic readers will call a fish story. As
we are on the Lord's side, we are sure we
are right, and the catching of fish on
Sunday should be stopped at whatever
cost, because people who go fishing on
Sunday are always drowned and because
the stories they tell when they return
are always contrary to truth and encour
age falsehood in the rising generation.
But aside from moral questions, the
legislature of Washi ngton made a serious
mistake when it repealed the law. pro
hibiting salmon fishing on Sunday, and
the people of Washington engaged in
this industry 'ought to be glad that
.-another state is willing, at its own ex
pense, to protect the industry. Instead
of that, they are threatening to arrest
Oregon officers, who attempt to enforce
Oiegon law north of the main channel.
In this instance the Oregon law is for
the best iuterest of those who are oppos
ing it.
tioned accident was entirely due to bad
roads or not, or whether careless driving
or bad loading had something to do with
it. But the road should be looked after
and if it need repairing it should be re
paired at once.
THE FIRST DIVIDEND.
SWARTZ QOILTY.
The trial of Swartz, for the killing by
stabbing of his own son, has resulted in
his conviction of murder in the second
degree; Hie fact that the father was
drunk was the only thing that saved him
from hanging.
Now if the supreme court will not at
tempt to find an excuse for reversing the
case and the governor will not interfere,
the community will be about as well rid
of this worse than worthless human
beast as if he were executed. Much has
been and will hereafter be said in con
demnation of the jury system, and juries
are too often blamed for not enforcing
the law ; there are no doubt many occa
sions when juries are summoned and
impaneled for the purpose of pardoning
a criminal and then they usually meet
the expectation of those who selected
them ; but where one man is pardoned
by the jury a dozen go free by the
supreme court's search for an excuse to
reverse the case, and a hundred by the
governors turning them loose. Unless
we are mistaken Oregon criminals, who
once get into the penitentiary, are very
likely to remain there at least for the
next four years. But the supreme court
will go on finding excuses to set Aside
verdicts which, in justice, ought to be
sustained. If they would search as dili
gently to find reasons for sustaining the
judgments in criminal cases as they do
to reverse them, justice, in cases like the
Swartz case, would .more often be done.
Today the D. P. & A. N. Co. pays to
its stockholders the first dividend upon
the stock, We congratulate the present
and past ' managers npen the success
which has crowned their efforts and
made this division of profits possible;
and for the people of Eastern Oregon
we thank the men who put their means
into this enterprise which has done so
much for the producers and consumers
of Eastern Oregon and Eastern Wash
ington.
This dividend is large, but it is the
least of the dividends which have been
paid by this company ; all former divl
dends have gone, not to the stockholders
whoee money established and main
tained the line, bnt to the producers of
Wasco, Crook, Sherman, Gilliam and
Grant counties in Oregon, and Klickitat
and Skamania counties, Washington.
It has been paid daily ever since the
first freight shipment went down the
river on the Regulator, ana in amount
would aggregate a sum so large that
should we attempt to state it bur accu
racy or veracity would be questioned.
It has been paid an every bushel of
wheat, every pound of wool, and every
head of stock that has been shipped
westward from the middle Columbia
since the fall of 1891 ;. indirectly it has
also been paid on all shipments to and
from the East.
Before the Regulator turned her
wheel, rates on merchandise from Pott-
land to The Dalles were one-half the
rate from Chicago to Portland, and rates
from Chicago to The Dalles were the
through rate to Portland plus the local
rate from Portland to The Dalles. We
are now a competing point among many
transcontinental lines, and are freed
from dependence upon any one of them.
The Cheoniclk extends its heartiest
congratulations to the directors, stock
holders and patrons of the people's
transportation line. Long may it pros
per and continue, as now, a Regulator
of transportation along the Columbia.
MR. GLADSTONE.
THE CLEVELAND CONVENTION.
No political gathering of the year has
attracted, or will attract, closer atten
tion than the gathering of the Republi
can League Clubs. No better evidence
is needed of the fact that the nation is
looking to the republican party to draw
it out of the slough of despond, into
which the democratic party hae misled
it. Voters are impatient; for the time to
come when they can again summon a
republican to guide the nation ; and so
positive will be the voice of the people
for protection of home industries and
for an honest and safe currency, that we
wiil wonder that we ever doubted re
publican success. Indeed, the doubts
are rapidly disappearing, and when the
campaign is opened by the national con
ventions the republican party will enter
the contest with a confidence which will
insure success.
WASCO COUNTY ROADS.
Wasco county had best haul in her
lectures to us about roads and more
dutifully attend to her own. Recently,
at the junction of the free bridge and
Miller bridge roads. C. W. Fairchild of
Grass Valley, with an 8-horse team and
two wagons, loaded with 9.000 pounds of
wool, went over the nasty narrow grade
at that point, barely escaping with his
life. Both wagons were demolished by
tumbling to the bottom of the chasm, 60
feet deep ; . four horses were pulled in
after them. There are laws in Oregon
which hold counties to strict accounta
bility for damages such as this, and it
may appear later on that Wasco county
has cause for congratulation that this
casuality was no worse than reported.
If The Dalles wants to retain this busi
ness she's better look to some roads
other than those that lead to Sherar's
loll bridge. Moro Observer.
W will not attempt to deny that if
The Dalles desires to retain her business
.he must look after the roads ; that is
fjnst what Tax Chboniclk has been
preaebing and we thank the Observer
'for joining forces with us. . We hve no
The democratic orators employed by
the - national committee, are actually
coming to this coast. They will avoid
discussing the silver question, and con
fine themselves to "preaching democracy
pure and simple." We are somewhat
surprised at this proposed plan of cam
paign, for we have lately wondered
whether any two democrats in the
county could agree what "democracy
pure and simple" it; yet here are four
men coming to tell as what it is. It will
be well for no two of them to address
the same audience, for we suspect they
will be very much like the blind men
who went to visit the elephant; each
afterward described him as being like
the particular part they had touched.
We shall await with interest the coming
of these great teachers. There are a
host of ex-democrats in this state who
will be glad to hear described what they
were before the Wilson bill went into
effect democrats pure and simple.
England is just now in the midst of
one of its frequent changes of adminis
tration, the liberals having suffered de
feat Friday in the house of commons,
According to political custom this ne
cessitates the resignation of the liberal
cabinet and the formation of a cabinet
from the opposition. Only a few months
Mr. Gladstone, the greatest leader the
liberal party has ever had, retired, from
its leadership because of infirmity and
age. When he left parliament the great
est man in Europe, in respect to states
manship, literary attainment and force
of character was supposed to have per
manently laid down the great labors and
responsibilities of English governmental
affairs ; bnt now the party he has so
long led looks to him for counsel and
leadership. .
Mr., Gladstone was born in 1809, and
is therefore 86 years of age. He entered
parliament very - early in life, at the
time when Sir Robert Peel was a great
leader, and, in the words of Macaulay,
has been a dlstingued debater in the
house of commons ever since he was 21
years of age. He began as a tory, giv
ing promise of becoming one of their
greatest leaders. He closed his career
as the most efficient and boldest oppo
nent the royalty of England has thus
far known. While his career has not
been, consistent, that is, not governed
throughout by tne same yiews of public.
policy, no one has ever accused him of
dishonesty of purpose or inconsistency,
as that term is usually applied to the
ac'.s of politicians.
Notwithstanding his constant atten
tion to governmental affairs, he has been
able to contribute much to the study of
classical literature and mythology, and
his literary work will stand as long as
literature is studied, a splendid monu
ment to a great intellect. Though a
politician from boyhood, and although
so much of his time has been given to
the study of classics, he has found time
for careful study of religious subjects,
and his broad conception and true in
terpretation of the spirit of the Chris
tian religion has placed him among its
greatest advocates and writers, and his
work in this direction has done much
to recommend Christianity to the
thoughtful students of all nations, and
place it the foremost of religions in in
fluence for good to men.
In view of his long service, his age and
feebleness, it will be most remarkable
should he again accede to the wishes of
his old followers and re-enter publio
life. Were Mr. Gladstone twenty years
younger, there would be a strong proba
billty that he would live to see home
rule in Ireland and the abolition of the
house of lords, two things which he
aimed at during his last years in parlia
meut.
gon, and especially of The Dalles, who
do not wish to bear the shortcomings of
another town. The next change in the
salary of this
crease.
At The Dalles,
postoffice will, be an in- g T R "Y
NEW YORK POLICE COMMISSION.
July 6
Tie IflliB jnouaici of all Tented Eipoons !
Its Record Unimpeachable, Imperishable, Unblemished;
Above the Reach of Jealous Rivals.
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COMING IN ALL ITS' ENTIRETY!
Not before within the present century
has, the New York police department
been in the hands of men of national
repute as leaders in civil service reform
and administrative ability. Theodore
Rosevelt, who resigned a position on the I
national civil service board at Washing
ton to accept the appointment ,of police
commissioner of his own city ; Col. Fred
D. Grant, formerly minister to Austria;
Mr. A. D. Andrews, a graduate of West I
Point and a lawyer of prominence, and
Mr.. A. D. Barker, constitute the new
board. .
If the iniquity of the police service of
New ( York is not wiped out under the
management of these men, there will be
little use of attempting . to secure an
honest service. It is certainly a clear
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inu.cation t.nai municipal reiorm nas Mon8tar Uaeea TrlpIe Ci Great E,ey.te1 8ute. D , Menagerie g
made rapid strides in the right direc- tacular Pageant, Grand Aggregation of New Sensational FeatnrVa P
tion in New York City, and that the
agitation commenced by Dr. Parkharst
has not been in vain.
? M Great Sulci Sta,
PARIS HIPPODROME.
THE GERMAN CANAL.
The opening of the great German
canal, which opens a short route from
the North Sea to the Baltic is the great
est event to Europe of this century
is the completion of a great waterway.
and gives new facilities to a large com
tnerce. But this event means much
more to all Europe ; it is an assembling
of all the great nations bb guesta of one
of the greatest and most progressive,
Even France is compelled, however
much it may be against her will, to" ac
cept the hospitality of Germany. Her
people have manifested an ungracious
spirit, but the. welcome of Germany is
none the less cordial.
This celebration brings together the
representative war yessels of the great
powers, and - the eyes of each is noting
the weakness and strength of the other,
But we believe the greatest consequence
of the gathering will be the creation of a
better leeling among nations, a strength
ening of the bonds of peace, which will
bring to the world a greater blessing
than all the commercial and strategic
advantages it brings to Germany.
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BASEBALL SEASON OPENED.
cilities are doing for the. producers who
knowledge as to whether the above-men- jprjarket their products here.
The payment of the floating debt of
the city and the dividends of the boat
company will put into circulation here a
considerable amount of money, most of
the city warrants and of the biat stock
being held here. We sincerely hope
this capital will find investment here.
The only enterprise in which everybody
has ' capital invested is proving to be a
good investment. Let's try another a
woolen mill and clothing factory for ex
ample. ;
FOOLS ARE NOT ALL DEAD YET.
The price of wool keeps going up, and
nas reacnea ten cents at The liallee,
This is tough on protectionists who have
been preaching that free trade in wool
would ruin the industry of wool growing
on our public lands. Hood Kiver fcila
cier.
Yes, the price of wool has been going
up at The- Dalles, and has reached the
unheard of price of ten cents (unheard
of since the Wilson bill went into effect).
and if the price advances a cent or two
more in the markets of Boston and Phil
adelphia, there will be a flood of foreign
wools poured - into this country to meet
the 'demand ; so says the latest market
reports- from thoee cities. Yes, it is
rough on protectionists. (All wool rais
ers are now protectionists.) we nave
been preaching that free trade in wool
would ruin the industry.
Before the democratic party went into
power wool sold in The Dalles (and The
Dalles-was not then a competing point
among transcontinental railroads, as
now, and was not the best market on
the coast, as now) for 13 to 20 cents;
now it is from 7 to 10 cents. Sheep sold
at from $3 to $4 per head ; now from
$1.50 to $2. A large sheep raiser from
Crook county, a life-long democrat and
who voted in 1892 with his party, re
cently sold .his clip of extra fine and
light wool here for 10 cents. He said to
us that the protection and free trade
controversy was forever settled last fall,
and no party would ever again be fool
enough to advocate free wool. If the
Glacier is in line with its party, and
we suspect from the above that it is,
our Crook county friend is mistaken.
But one thing is certain, there are no
more free wool men among the sheep
raisers.
A large clip of wool of extra fine qual
ity and light weight sofd at Pendleton a
few days ago at 8 cents. . The papers
speak of it as a remarkable price. At
The Dalles it is a poor quality of wool
that will not bring 8 cents, and many of
the better clips have been sold for 10
cents. That is what transportation fa-
The dispatch in yesterday's Orego-
nian, saving the salary of the postmas
ter at The Dalles had been reduced from
$1,300 to $1,000, was cleariy a mistake,
and yet an unwished-for impression
could go abroad concerning it. The
salary of the postmaster at this place is
$1,800 and the receipts of the office, in
stead of decreasing, are increasing
steadily, till only a slight raise further
would advance this, office into a higher
class. It is doubtless .Dallas, Polk
county, that is meant, and makes the
demand for a change in name all the
more urgent. .There has always been
great confusion between the two places,
and many serious mistakes have result
ed. As The Dalles was here first, and
is' progressing at such a greater speed,
we do not see any. other way than to
have the name of Dallas changed, pro
vided the department at Washington de
sires to accommodate the people of Ore-
The Dufar and Hood Blrer Ninas Play
at the Fair Grounds--The Score
Was 33 to 9.
RIKLTO. THE STRONGEST MAN ON EARTH. iICTORITt. the
most Majestic Roval 'Bengal Tiger ever in captivity. THE ONLY RIDING
TIGER IN THE UNIVERSE. Actually performing equestrian feats beyond con
ception on the back of a flying thoroughbred while encased in an iron cage that
circles the ring, to be seen only with these great shows. $10,000 school of Educat
ed Sea Lions. No other show potsessire such an attraction.
By an arrangement with the leading Shows of America this will be the ONLY
CIRCUS that will visit this section this year.
EXALTED IN AIM AND PURE IN TONE.
Yesterday the baseball crank and the
amall Ytfm nrArA in thaii olnrv. - A era ma I
auhefafr 513? .ittS "S an Unabridged p Unparalleled Program'
wind and dust quite a number climbed
the long hill and proceeded to watch the
contest. It could hardly be called a
league exhibition though the poaching
was loud and terrific, but there was an
airy smoothness with which the ball
would glide from out the player's bands
that would cost some releases in the
days when Bobby Geis and the other
stalwart players used to make the crowd
howl with delight whenever The Dalles
nine was in the diamond. Still the
Hood River nine put up a good game
and the Dufurs would have done better
if they had practiced more and used
team work to better advantage. From
the start the result of the contest could
clearly be seen and naturally the sym
pathy of the crowd was with the losing
nine. Some of the visitors from Hood I
River did not like the encouragement
which the Dufur boys, received, but as
Hood River had the victory it won't be
grudge any shouts which the Dafur boys
received. Some of the plays were very
neat and were appreciated by the I
"cranks," but there will have to be a
closer contest to cause much genuine in
terest in the game. The Hood River
boys show careful training, if not this
year, in other years and play together in
the proper way. When the Dufar nine
has practiced more they will be worthy
to meet any foe as some of their players I
are individually very good.
The manager of the Hood River club
wishes to challenge any team in Wasco
county to play the Fourth of July in The
Dalles. We have the talent here to THE CSEHTEST BAREBACK KIDEUS that the
accommodate tne,ia it somebody will I
agitate the matter. Ths Chboniclk
hopes this challenge will be met.
The following is the score :
HOOD BIVEB.
Iorns, ss.. TIAf A
Castner, p 6 1 I W J
Kand, c .4
Lucky, 3b '..3
Stranahan, lb ...1
Isendorf, cf 5
Cassner, 2b 1
Handbury. 2f 4
Loyd, If 2
DUFUB.
Keller; c 1
Maloney, p ..2
Dufur, lb ....1
Ragesdale, s 1
W Hendrix, If 2
Steats, cf 0
Hendrix, 2f 0
Sweat, 3b ..." 0
Blacksmith, 2b 2
4Big Shoous Combined-
(00 Sensational and Startling Acts.
The Best Performing Elephants!
Leopards, and Baby Camels !
40 GREAT CIRCUS ACTS I
5 Great Bands in Street Parade!
Conrtly Knights and Dames!
A Drove of Monster Camels 1
Zebras, Bears and Baby Monkeys I
20 GREAT LEAPERSI ,
Richly Carvsd & Gilded Tableau Wagons
Myriad Cages, Dens and Lairs I
DJorld has Ever Produced.
THE ONLY FLOCK OF GIANT AFRICAN OSTRICHES.
The Largest Birds on Earth and the Only Show Possessing such a Feature.
MENAGERIES OF WILD BEASTS
And open Dens of Savage Brutes, Mammoth Elephants, Lions, Tigers,
Hyenas, Bears, Wolves, Leopards and Panthers. Zebras trained to
drive like horses. Knights in Armor, Ladies as Princeesess, Male
and Female Jockeys, Squadrons of Princes, Nobles and Cava
liers in Royal Robes, and Rich Costumes, Mounted on Spirited
Horses like Days of Old. . Be sure and ask your Station Agent for
Cheap : Excursion : Kates
Every Railroad Gives Low Rates to this Big Show. ,
Beal JCstato Transfers.
Wm. Chambers and wife to Johanna
Goellner, lots J and K in block 22, Fort
Dalles Military Reservation Addition to
Dalles City.
United States to F. M. Thompson,
ne2, sec 17, tp 2 s, r 13 e ; patent.
Don't fail to. see those Kimball pianos
and organs, at the old Chronicle building.
At 10 A. M. a Glorious, Grand Holiday Free Street Parade.
ONE DAY ONLY; AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.
DOORS OPEN AT 1 AND 7 P. M.
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Thia will positively be the only Circus that will visit this section this year.
General Admission,
50 Cents.
Children under 9 Years of Age, 25 Cents.