THE DALLES WEEKLY CHROmCLE, SATURDAY," JULY 20, 1895.
The Weekly Gtooniele
THE DALLES
0BEOOH
Entered at the postoffice at The Dalles, Oregon,
as secona-oiaw mau nuuier.
BTATK OFFICIALS.
B.vremnr ' : W. P. Lord
Secretary of State H R Kincald
Treasurer : ...Phillip Metschan
Buptof Public Instruction... 6. M. Irwin
A ttnmt.s-flf.nwnl CM. Idleraan
. G. W. McBride
""" )J. H. MitcheU
' IB. Hermann
wnjiranimiu. 1V. K. Ellis
State Printer W. H. Leeds
- COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge Geo. C. Blakeley
Sheriff. . .-. T. J. Driver
Clerk A. M. Kelsay
Treasurer Wm. Miehell
Commissioaers .
trrauc nincaiu
(A. S. Blowers
Animor ..... F. H. Wakefield
Burreyor E. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Public Schools., .Troy tsneuey
; Coroner W. H. Butts
ARE AMERICANS LITIGIOUS
Mr. Joseph Choate, the celebrated
lawyer of New York, stated recently
that England has only thirty-two judges
to attend to the wants ot 3U,uuu,uou peo
pie. while the state of New York alone
has 140. This contrast is an instructive
' commentary on the litigioas disposition
of our people. Two-thirds of the htiga
tion in our courts is without valid ex
cuse. We men to law for nothing, and
a large part of the contentions in our
courts do not rise in ditrmtv or import
a nee above the quarrels of schoolboys.
Uregonian.
We question the assertion that the
people of the United States are of
more litigious disposition than - the
English. The condition of their prop
erty and the courts and bar are so un
like that of the people of England that
any comparison in this respect does an
injustice to Americans. In this coun
try almost every bead ot a family, ex
cept in larger cities, has, or claims to
bave, an interest in real property; many
own small tracts of land ; estates are
divided among heirs upon the death of
the owner ; conveyances' of real property
are frequent, and contracts pertaining
to the sale of real property are much
more frequent ; real property is easily
encumbered; and in many other re
s pec t s transactions out of which litiga
tion arises, though less in importance,
are far greater in number in the United
States, '
1 Again, litigation, except perhaps in
. equity, is much more readily disposed
of there. An Oscar Wilde is tried twice,
sentenced and imprisoned within a few
days. A case of that importance here
would have occupied weeks in a single
trial. In England the ablest lawyers
only are placed upon the bench. In
many of the states men of little ex peri
ence are frequently elevated to the
bench. Such men will require days to
try a case which should occupv only a
few hours. Again, lawyers are easily
made in this country, and the expense
of litigation to litigants is less ; but mis
trials are on this account far more fre
quent. Nothing helps a trial court to
correctly try a case so much as able
lawyers ; nothing renders appeals neces
sary so much as ignorant ana inexpe
rienced lawyers.
The trouble is not with the disposition
of our people so mnch as with the courts
and bar. More care in the admission to
the bar and in the selection ot judges
for both the trial . and supreme benches
would greatly reduce the work of the
courts.
DEATH OF A. N. TOWNE.
In the death of A. N. Towne the Pa
cific coast loses its ablest railroad mana
ger. Whatever may be said of the poli
cies of the Southern Pacific railroad,
everyone, both in and out of the employ
of the company, who knows anything
of the management of its affairs, concedes
that a most successful executive in rail
road matters has been taken. For forty
years he has been in the service, work
ing his way from freight brakemen to
general manager of the greatest railroad
corporation doing business on the coast.
He left an estate of about three-fourths
of a million, yet he was one of the men
with whom English snobs would not, if
they are consistent, associate, because
be could not say he had never earned
his . living by manual labor. Although
rich, few men worked so hard, or were
so entirely a servant. .
. His success was due to industry, care
and intelligence. In America he was
gentleman and a laborer; . in- the eyes of
an Englishman, who lives, like tramps,
upon the labors .of others, he would have
been a laborer, and not a gentleman,
The nobility of a man who raises him-
self from freight brakeman to a position
like Mr. Towne's, is not to be compared
to that of the Prince of Wales ; it is as
much more real as is the natural rose
when compared to the tissue, paper imi
tation.
PRICE OF WHEAT.
The East Oregonian remarks that it is
' surprising that the promise ot republi-'
. can success in 1896 does not. have some
effect on wheat as well as on wool. The
. price of wheat, we claim, is affected. It
'is about twenty-five per cent higher
than it was eight months ago ; and the
change would be still greater if wheat
was a commodity which required one or
two years in which to reach the con
sumer, or which was a commodity of
import, like wool, instead of export.
Wool goes up because there is a good
prospect that it will be protected by the
time the goods to be manufactured from
this clip will be placed on the market
Wheat goes up now because the restora
tion of manufacturing increases the de
mand for breadstuff's the world over,
But give us a protective tariff,, and
wheat will be all rieht. at least so far as
this country is concerned, and wool will
be as much higher as the amount of the
tariff. ' ' U -
SHERMAN AND THE PRESIDENCY
John Sherman save he is not a candi
date for president. It is not probably
he could be nominated and lees likely he
could be elected. Eugene Ornard.
This is undoubtedly true and yet in
davs cone bv a more suitable man for
the presidency than John Sherman could
-not have been found. Cool headed, able
and patriotic he had none of the. dema
poena -in him. but stood as a rock of
strength in any emergency. . Sherman
never had in him the . qualities that
would make a popular candidate for
president, but hod be ever attained the
executive chair the country would have
had a clean, forcible, American adminis
tration. We do not always chiose bur
best men president as the defeats of John
Sherman in repeated conventions and
James G. Blaine at the polls plainly show
MIDNIGHT CLOSING OF SALOONS
"Citizen" in yesterday's issue suggests
the closing of saloons ' from midnight to
o'clock in the morning. This has
been found to be a very salutary regula
tion in other places, and ought to be the
law everywhere. No man has any need
of a saloon after, midnight, and when
trouble arises in them it is oftener after
than before midnight. As suggested by
the communication referred to, the bet
ter class of men in . the business would
no doubt be glad to close at midnight, if
all were required to. Let us have such
an ordinance.
There seems a discrepancy in the re
port -just submitted by Major Post re
garding the Cascade locks, and the
statements from time to time given out
by the contractors. Major . Post speaks
of the enormity of the undertaking, and
closes with the hope that boats may
pass through the canal by June 30, 1S96.
This is considerably later than the time
set by Mr. Day, and would turn the
Christmas gift into a Fourth of July
offering. But we will not murmur;
either date will be satisfactory to the
people of Eastern Oregon, and all we
ask is that the locks be ready for.next
year's clip of wool and crop ' of grain.
The Regulator line haB made waiting
bearable.
The recommendations a man gets
from his. friends after he has helped
some other fellow into an office sought
by his sponsor, are more sincere, if not
more accurate, than those which boost'
ed him into prominence. McCowan
now thinks that if the president could
bave cast bis eye upon the countenance
of Henry of Heppner, that the aforesaid
Henry would not now be in a position
to turn down so ignominiously the afore
said McCowan. We wonder what Mc
Cowan said to Secretary Carlisle when
he placed the collector's indorsements
in his hands. It makes a heap ot differ
ence where we stand when we look at a
man's character and qualities.
The attention of every thinking person
is centered on Chicago, where the great
Horr-Harvey debate is now in progress,
It is a pleasing thought, that the two
champions of different sides can meet
together, for intelligent -discussion and
seek to find out the truth above all
things else. No matter which side
proves the stronger the result will be
triumph for the breadth of 'American
thinking and a universal desire of free,
intelligent discussion of important ques
tions. If only the speakers will seek to
prove their statements and not merely
make declarations many minds now
muddled on the silver question will be
shown the light.
The debate of Messrs. Horr and Har
vey will attract much attention, but it
will be read with- far less interest now
than if it bad taken place eight months
ago. Business is starting up, and peo
pie are astonished to find that there is
plenty oi money with which to do it;
besides, many are now too busy earning
a dollar to stop to discuss, or read dis
cussions, about whether the ratio be
tween silver and gold should be 16 to 1
When fish are running well, as Colum
bia river fishermen say, we don t stop
to develop theories why they don't run,
we hustle to -catch them as they go by,
and leave discussions for off years when
fish don't run. .
Grain speculators in Chicago continue
to "monkey" with the wheat market,
and it is ul cerly impossible to determine
what is the real condition of the market.
If it were made a crime to deal at all in
grain not now in existence and ready
for delivery, or to sell what the seller
could not deliver within a week's time.
the' producers and consumers of the
country would be much better off.
In toe United States there are now
two classes only ; the nobility, composed
of all those who earn their bread bv
honest toil,- and the tramps, composed of
those who live without .working. We
had a third class, composed of agitators,
but they have either joined one or the
other of the two classes or gone to jail;
the country had ho place for. them.
WOOLEN MILL NEEDED.
The wool clip for 1895 has. been sold
for the most part, and the larger portion
cf it has been shipped away from our
warehouses. With it went from three
to four million pounds of grease and
good Oregon dirt. For the shipping of
that grease and djrt to Boston we have
paid from $23,000 to $30,000 to the trans
portation companies. If a cleansing
establishment could be paid one-half of
what it would save on freight and could
have for one season the cleansing of the
entire clip marketed at this place, it
would pay for its plant and have some
thing left, unless a plan t would cost
more than we suppose. , ,
We ship our wool to New England and
the middle states, pay the freight on it
and ship the manufactured goods back,
paying another tribute to transportation
companies, and usually paying, in addi
tion to freights, a profit to the jobber;
nevertheless we have here all the condi
tions requisite to the cleansing, weaving
and manufacturing. The Dalles should
have these industries ; who can suggest
the way to get them? ; .
COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS SHOULD
BE FUNDED.
There probably, has never before been
a time when there has been so much idle
capital seeking safe investments in
Wasco county as at present. The low
price of wool and wheat during the past
two years has withdrawn much capital
heretofore invested in these industries.
The funding of the debt of the city has
released a considerable amount and
some other local causes have tended to
release money from employment. Had
the county followed the example of the
city and funded its debt, as it might
have done by act of the legislature,
there would have been no trouble in
placing its bonds among local capitalists
to as equally good advantage as did
Dalles City, thereby saving about $2000
per annum to the taxpayers. If Wasco
county is properly represented in the
next legislature this will be done.
Stanford University is in a hard row of
stumps. It is being prodded by the min
isters of Chicago as well as the Ore
gonian. Mrs. btaniord's ideas upon the
liquor question are not approved by the
clergy and the free silver notions of one
of its professors is distasteful to the
Oregonian; so its days are numbered.
Too much silver and too much brandy
are dangerous to the youthful and the
ignorant, always, and this young college
will have to quit its brandy and its
silver, or' shut up shop; otherwise the
Oregonian and the other preachers will
do it up. ' "
. The great debate in Chicago promises
to be one of the notable meets of recent
years. The champions of the two finan
cial beliefs have put forth their gladia
tors and the combat is to be a merciless
one. Every word the two men utter
will ' be read the world over and the
good that results ; will be lasting. The
only danger in such a contest is that the
debaters will be prone to make personal
thrusts and wander from the main issue
into sallies of wit and sarcasm at one
anothers expense. Such proceedings
would serve to take away what influence
the debate would otherwise possess.
The wool market throughout the
world is . still active. American buyers
are conspicuous in tbe London market,
and are shipping in large quantities to
the United States. Present prices in
Boston range from 11 to 14 cents. With
a tariff of 2 or 3 eents per pound, the
government would realize more on wool
this year than it has, or will, from the
income tax -by several dollars, and there
would have been distributed among wool
producers who market in ttiis city from
$120,000 to $180,000 more than what has
been paid. Thus free trade helps tbe
sheep industry.
The loose rock in our streets remain
where they were some- weeks ago, an
annoyance to people driving and riding
and a menace to bicyclers and 'bievcies.
Can't our combined marsball and street
commissioner round up enough hobos to
clear these away? . Mr. Officer with the
combination name, please confer this
great boon upon a long suffering com
munity and we will applaud to the echo.
Within a ehort time two merchants
from a neighboring, and to some extent I
rival, city have located in The Dalles.
We welcome them here, and wish them
success. ' They evidently see into the
future, and appreciate the promising
outlook for our city. '
If the saloons had been always closed
at midnight a former nightwatchman
would have been leas likely to bave been
held up, as happened in The Dalles
some time ago. Men have been known
to lose their guns by being on duty in
saloons between midnight and morning.
The American people will undergo
more discomfort to find comfort ' than
one unacquainted with them would sus
pect. Just consider the campers along
the Columbia this chilly, weather trying
to ' be comfortable about a camp fire.
We : ace almost happy that we can't
afford to go camping. '.
.- A year ago almost every day the
papers contained an .announcement that I
this or that railroad had gone into the
hands of a receiver. Today almost no
new receivers are . being -appointed.
This. is another evidence of returning!
prosperity. '
The "horrid" bloomers are no where
at this season of the year ; just go to the
beach and look at the bathing suits.
But who was ever so bold as to suggest I
that the ordinary bathing suits are im
modest.
WHAT ANIMALS ARE TAUGHT.
Intelligent Trainers Instruct Them In
Movements Natural to Them.
A celebrated trainer says ; "Animals
are never forced to execute, at the com
mand and will of the intelligent trainer,
any movements which are not natural
to them fn a free state." Monkeys love
to swing in the tropical creepers, there
fore they are placed on a trapese; goats
seek pointed rocks, hence they are nat
ural equilibrists ; dogs instinctively rise
on their hind legs; so they are taught to
maintain inemseives in that position
A trainer is guided by the forces of fear,
devotion, hunger and habit. Watch for
these points when you see the Great
Wallace Shows.
Hansen School Report.
To thi Editob : Following is the
term report of the Nansene school, Diat.
No. 34, Wasco county, Or., beginning
April 15th and ending July 11th : Num
ber of pupils enrolled, 15; number of
davs attendance, 788; number of days
absence, 64; number of times tardy, 34;
number neither absent nor tardy, 1;
term average, 13. Those receiving 100
for excellent lessons and behavior are :
Vena Moore, Mabel Woodford, Lottie
Butler, Hattie Adams, Dora , Moore,
Bessie Gaunt, - Daisy Butler, Rhoda
Adams, Claraj Moore, Jessie Gaunt,
Belle Adams, Berniece Gaunt and
Pearlie Woodford. ' '
. Nellie Hudson, Teacher.
The Training of Lions.
There is one .fact which no one would
suspect that it is easier to train an adult
lion taken in a snare than an animal
born in a menagerie. The civilized lion
would soon be spoiled for work, and the
inherent deviltry would break forth with
awful dieaster. Another strange fact is
that the older an animal grows, partic
ularly oi tne leune tamiiy, the more
dangerous it becomes. The Great Wal
lace Shows bave both animals born in
captivity and those taken in their native
jungle. "
Are Yon Going: to the) Coast .
This summer? If so, take the Regulator
line. Tickets on sale for the season, at
rates lower than ever. Connections
made with all steamers leaving Port
land. Through tickets, - and baggage
checked to destination. (No transfer
charges at Portland). . . ,
, W. C. Allawat,
. . ... ' General Agent.
The Wasco Warehouse Co. have on
ale at their warehouse Seed Wheat,
Feed Wheat, Barley, Barley Chop, Oats
and Hay. Are sole agents in The Dalles
for the now celebrated Goldendale roller
mills flour, the best flour in the market
and sold only in ton lots or over. 9-tf
When Baby was sick, wa gare her Castorla,
When she was a Child, she cried tor Castoria. .
When she became Hiss, ahe clung to Castorla.'. '
When she had Child mn, aim gare them Caatorla.
Cuticura Soap
And a single application of CUTI
CURA, the great skin cure, will
afford instant relief, permit rest
and sleep, and point to a speedy,
economical, and permanent cure of
the most distressing of itching,
burning, bleeding, scaly, and crusted
skin and scalp diseases, after phy
sicians, hospitals, and all else fail. '
Cuticura Remedies
Exert a peculiar, purifying action
on the skin, and through it upon
the blood.' In the treatment of
distressing humors they are speedy,
permanent, and economical, and in
their action are pure, sweet, gentle,
and effective. Mothers and chil
dren are their Avarmest friends. '
Sold throuchout the world. Potths Dws akd
Chut Coar., Sole Props., Boston. W "All
about Baby's Skin, Scalp, and Hair," mailed free.
it tired, aching:, norrous moth
ers knew the comfort, strength, and
vitality in Cuticura Plasters, they
would nerer be without then. Ia
erery way the sweetest and best. '
Dr. Miles' Nerre piaster, for Bheumatism. I
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FOR SALE BY BLAKELEY & HOUGHTON.
Closing Out Sale
of DRY GOODS
CLOTHING, FURNISHING GOODS,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS and CAPS.
Past or present values cut no figurepas goods .
MUST be SOLD
Give Me
J. P.
A New Store
on a Cash Basis.
The credit system is a heavy weight to carry, and
those who pay must make up for the ones that do
not. ' The only way to have low prices is to sell for
cash, and that is what we are going to do. '
Large Stock, Fine Goods,
Prices "Way Down.
, We. sell for cash, buy cheap, and our patrons have
the benefit. We have bought out the business of
H. H. CAMPBELL and will be pleased, to see old
. patrons and . new ones. We ' are in the field for
business. ' : . '"
W: A. Johnston,
No. 113 Washington
New England Marble Granite Works,
Calvin H. Weeks, Proprietor.
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Fine UJonnmenial Woflj
Do not order Monumental Work until
that, for good work, our charges are alwavs
fas preferred can be arranged for at greatly reduced figures. : Send address for de
signs and prices. Second and Third-street cars pass our salesrooms. . :
720 Front Street, opp. the Failing School,
Blakeley &
DRUGGISTS,
175 Second Street,
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the lowest. Cash or time settlements
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The Dalles, Oregon
prompt attention.