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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1895.
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NUMBER 43.
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Men's Suits, Boys' Suits, ;
Men's and Boys' Overcoats,
MACKINTOSHES.
ROBERT E. WIIiLIAHS,
Opposite the Diamond Roller Mills, THE DALLES, OREGON.
MASSACRED BY TURKS
Anotjier Slaughter of Ar
menians Reported.
FIFTY SAID TO BE KILLED
Japan Dues Mot Wish Territorial En
largementShe Has Enough to
Care For.
London, Oct. 15. A dispatch to the
Daily News from Constantinople says :
Reliable news has been received that
50 Armenians were killed, and a number
wounded at Althissar, in the village of
, Adin, on the Anatolian railway, by a
Moslem mob.
The slaughter occurred on. October 3r
which was market day, when many Ar
menians had gathered from adjacent vil
lages. Early in the morning, a Turkish
rough, finding that the Armenians were
not armed, picked a quarrel and shot one
of them. There was then raieed on all
sides the cry. "Why hesitate to mass
acre the infidels?" A mob of Turks,
armed with revolvers, then looted the
market and massacred the helpless Ar
menians. Their bodies were thrown in
to wells. It. is stated that the murder
was responsible for the attack. No
women or children were injured, probab
ly on account of the maimalkan, from
the village of Gleve, three miles distant,
who made valiant efforts at the risk of
'his own life to save the Christians.
Otherwise the slaughter would have
been complete. The panic is reviving in
Constantinople on account of this attack,
and the Armenians are again locked in
to the churches. The police disregard
the safe-conduct cards given to the Ar
menians by the foreign embassies, and
they insult and' maltreat the holders of
them.
The Constantinople correspondent of
the Standard blames the Armenian rev
olutionary party for forcing the Armeni
ans to close their shops and maintain the
appearance of a panic when the Armen
ians themselves are ready to resume
business. '
"I vieited the prison,' said the corre
spondent, "and questioned the prison
ers, and found there were no serious
complaints against the police. The in
specting commission sent a list of 6
prisoners for liberation while I was there.
The revolatiotary leaders are responsi
ble for the continuance of the dead
lock." A dispatch to the Times from Athens,
describing the growing discontent with
the Turkish rule on the island of Crete,
says a band of a thousand, armed Chris
tians recently met at Klima to petition
the sultan to restore the charter abol
ished in 1S89, and for a reform of taxa
tion and of the gen d'armierie. The
'governor of Crete sent troops against the
petitioners, who withdrew to the mount
ain fastnesses, whither the troops did
not dare to follow. ' They now threaten
to foment a rebellion in favor of annexa-
, tion to Greece. - The Greek government,
fearing complications, deprecates such a
Cretan movement, but the eituation is
perilous.
Japan and Hawaii.
Washington, Oct. 15. Mr. Kurino,
the minister from Japan, denies that
Japan has any desire to get possession
of the Hawaiian Islands. He said to
day :
"We do not contemplate making war
upon the United States, and unless we
did the Hawaiian Islands would be of no
use to ns. The policy of Japan ia to
maintain herself and not to expand ter
ritorially. Her strength is in her com
pactness. The acquisition of territory
might be a source of weakness. Circum
stances and the military sentiment at
tending the war with China compelled
her to take possession of territory there,
but that does not mean that we want to
extend our domain. The Hawaiian Is
lands are not necessary to our commer
cial advancement, and we hare no am
bition to figure as a great naval power
among the nations. We want to be just
powerful enough to protect ourselves,
and by acquiring territory we would in
crease power of self defense.
"We do not want Hawaii. I suppose
the report that we do Is started by those
interested in securing the annexation of
the island to the United States. They
want to say to the United StateB; 'You
must take us or else Japan will." '
TO SECURE WALLERS KELEASK,
Petitions In His Behalf to be Circulated
in This Country.
Topeka, Oct. lo.-VEhe executive com
mittee, charged with the duty of trying
to secure the release from the French
prison of ex-Consul John L. Waller, of
Madagascar, today issued an address to
the people of the United States, which
is accompanied by a petition for signers.
The address relates that it is general
ly, believed that a great wrong has been
done an American citizen, and that that
wrong should be' redressed.. It is not a
question of race or color, but the value
of American citizenship." The petitions
when signed are to be sent to Congress
man Curtis, of Kansas, at Washington,
to be presented early in December. Ex
Governor Thomas A. Oaborn is presi
dent of the committee.
Mare Island Property.
Washington, Oct. 15. The navy de
partment . is . now engaged in a corres
pondence with the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company with the object of secur
ing the return of compensation for about
$16,000 worth of property. Two years
ago the Pacific Mail steamer New York
was cast away just outside of the Golden
Gate. As wrecking appliances were
lacking at the time, the company bor
rowed from the Mare Island navy-yard
a quantity of chain cable, with. which to
raise the ship. The effort faile1, and a
good deal of the chain, which had been
passed under the ship to make a cradle,
was left at the bottom of the sea. The
navy department has been endeavoring
to cause the company to replace this
chain, or pay its value, estimated at $16-
000, and, although the company has
promised to do one thing or the other,
so far it has failed to keep its promise.
Indiana Alan Killed.
Liberty, Ind. Oct. 15. John Orr, a
wealthy farmer, while crossing the rail
road tracks near this place this afternoon
was run down and killed. His horse
was also killed and the buggy demolished.
Mr. Orr was 65 years of age. There was
a suspicion this afternoon of suicide, n
Mr. Orr had some disappointment about
an $800 investment and he ' remarked :
"Well, life is not worth living, anyhow."
He was warned of the approaching train,
motioned the person who gave it, but
seemed deliberately not to heed it.
American Board of Foreign Missions.
Brooklyn, Oct. 15. The 86th annual
meeting of the American board of com
missioners for foreign missions .was
opened in the Academy of Music today.
The Rev. Dr. 11. S. Storrs presided, and
will occupy the chair throughout the
session, which lasts nntil Friday. The
greater part of the afternoon was taken
up by reports of the various officers of
the society. .
Government After C. C. McCoy.
Tacoma, Oct. 15. The United States,
through Attorney Brinker, is about to
begin twelve suits against C. C. McCoy
of Walla Walla and his bondsmen for
failure to carry out mail contracts oyer
certain rontes in Oregon, Wyoming, Col-
orado, and California, entered into in
1889 for four years. The amount of
damages, it ia claimed, will aggregate
$20,000. ' ;
Charge Against a Minister. '
Denver, Oct. 16. Rev. Frank Hyatt
Smith, of Cambridge, Mass., appeared
before United States Commissioner Cap
ron today and gave bonds for his ap
pearance at Boston to answer to the
charge of sending defamatory letters
through the mail to members of his
congregation. Mr. Smith says the
charge ia unfounded.
Revision of the Bible Completed.
London, Oct. 15. The revision of the
Bible has been completed, including the
apocrypha upon which the reviewers
have been engaged since 1881, and it will
shortly De issued from the Oxford press
in various sizes, uniform with the re
vised Old and New Testaments.
Communicated.
Mb Editor: May I occupy a few
lines in your paper to criticise a critic
in a great magazine? I want to have a
little say on the eternal topic of
"Woman," and I fear the magazine
that published the criticism would not
give room to my unknown name. The
subject is this : After giving statistics
on various lines upon the college woman,
it says: "In the generation that has
passed since she began to be no longer
'comiDg, but here (Vassar has been
sending out its graduates for forty
years) she has made little or no impress
on the world of letters, she has written
few or no books, she occupies few lec
ture platforms." In short, it appears to
me she behaves very mnch as an edu
cated, well-bred lady would do in a
world where the making of many books
finds no end books, catalogues, adver
tisements, book-agents, premiums. Is
not the world already so well supplied
that a little reticence, a little modesty
about adding to their number is re-
freshing? The article referred to SDeaks
as if this were another fault or defi-
ciency to.be added to her already long
list. To me. I confess, it seems alto-
gether admirable.
The simple truth is, it is well to know
it, the proper place for woman is to be
a target for fault-finding. This is her
chief mission since the days of Adam,
and doubtless will be as long as man is
man and woman is woman. She is not
charged by this critic with not using her
superior advantages of education to
make her a better daughter, a more
sympathizing sister, a more agreeable
neighbor and friend. It is not said that
she has not thereby developed her own
personality, the highest duty of any
mortal, but only "she won't write
books." That, too, is not quite true;
but as far as it is, in the name of the
Golden Silences, let her be commended ;
at least, not reproached for it.
..College Woman.
Going to Atlanta.
Washington, Oct. 16. The president,
with members of the cabinet and their
ladies, will leave Washington Monday
night, and 'arrived at Atlanta about
noon Tuesday. They will start on the
return from Atlanta Wednesday even
ing. ' -
Pendleton's Woolen Mill.
Pendleton, Or., Oct. 1". The , full
amount of stock required lias been taken
for the woolen mill, and it will be in
operation within three months. '
Human life is held too cheaply when
the individual who neede a tonic for his
system, seeks to cover his wants by pur
chasing every new mixture that is rec
ommended to him. Remember that
Ayer's Sarsaparilla has a well-earned
reputation of fifty year's standing.
TO PRESERVE SEALS
Conference Between Inter-
' ested Countries.
JOINT PATROL OF THE SEAS
Proposition to Stop Fishing; for
Year to Give Herds a Chance '
to Increase.
Washington, Oct. 16. Important de
velopments are expected soon concerning
the Bering Sea seal fisheries. Secretary
Olney will make valiant efforts to pre
serve the seal herds, which are now
threatened with destruction. His first
effort will be to induce Great Britian to
agree to stop seal-takirig for ten years,
in order to give the depleted herds
chance to gain by natural increase. If
Great Britian agrees to this plan, ar-
rangements will be made for a ioiut Da-
Urol of the waters in which seal are
I usually taken
state department officials fear that
Great Britian will decline to enter upon
an .agreement of this nature, and in that
case Secretary Oluey will make the best
terms he can with Sir Julian Pauncefote
in the regulations for next season's catch
ing. The secretary wili ask to have all
firearms on board the vessels sealed up,
because must of the seal now taken are
in the shoal waters during season.
Next week a conference between the
representatives of Great Britian, Canada
and the United States will be held at the
state department to arrange settlement
of the claims of British vessels eeized by
the United States under the award of
the Paris arbitration tribunal. It was
these claims that- the late Secretary
Gresbam agreed to settle for $450,000,
provided congress assented, which, how
ever, it did hot do. Consequently these
claims must now, under the terms of thi
arbitration, be adjudicated by this f up-
plemental commission.
The British claims, on their face, ag
gregate over $1,000,000, and the Canadi
ans profess to be very much disgusted
with Sir Julian Paancefote's acceptance
of less than 50 per cent of the value they
place on their vessels. American ex
perts, however, who visited the ports
from whence these vessels operated.
have since produced what they regard
as convincing evidence that $450,000 is
more than 100 per cent in excess of the
real value of the property seized.
Reforms in Armenian.
Constantinople, Oct. 16. Said Pasha
has accepted the scheme for reform in
Armenia drawn up by Great .Britain,
France and Russia, and it now awaits
the signature of the sultan.
The scheme is almost identical with
the proposals of last May, which was in
substance, that the governors of Van
Lrzeroum, Sivas, Bitlis, Khartoum and
Trebtzond should be Christians or Mo
nammeuans, according to the inclina
tl0n of tne population, but either the
governor or vice-governor should be
Christian, and tne appointments are to
be confirmed by the powers. The local
and not state officials are to collect the
taxes and enough money is to be re
talned before it is forwarded to Constat
tinople to pay the expenses of the local
administration.
Complete changes are to be made in
the judicial system. Torture will be abo
lished and prisoners will not be under
surveillance. The police will be com
posed of Christians and Turks equally,
and the laws against compulsory conver
sions to Islamism will be strictly en
forced.
The ambassadors of the powers expect
the whole question will be finally settled
during the week by the promulgation of
an imperial decree.
Contrary to general expectation, the
high commissioner charged with the ex
ecution of this echeme of reform will be
a Christian. This was the hardest pill
for the porte to swallow, and for a long
time threatened to bring about the most
serious complications. .
A Russian warship has arrived here.
The situation at Ismid is critical, and
Christians are apprehensive of a Turkish
outbreak.
GENERAL. GIBBON CHOSEN'.
Elected
Grand Commander of the
Loral Legion.
. Washington, Oct. 16. The comman-dry-in-chief
of the Loyal Legion of the
United States met here in biennial
session today. General Lucius Fair
child, grand commander, presided.
There were '77 delegates, representing
every state except Oregon.
The first ballot for grand commander
resulted: General Miles, '27.; General
John Gibbon 16; General Swayne, 11.
General Gibbon was elected on the sec
ond ballot, receiving 57 votes to 20 for
Miles. General Miles lacked only one
vote of election on the first ballot, and it
is believed would have succeeded on the
second ballot but for the superior age of
General Gibbon, which influenced many
delegates to vote for him..
UNION PACIFIC.
some provisions of the Altered Pl.n
of Reorganization.
New York, Oct. 17. Channcey M.
uepew, when asked about the report
that the Vanderbilts' interests would
dominate in the reorganization of the
Union Pacific, and that fhe result would
be that the Vanderbilts would practical
ly secure control of the road, and by this
would satisfy a long-cherished wish to
own a transcontinental line, replied :
We saw the story printed while in
the West, but there is not the slightest
truth in it. The report has grown out
of the fact Mr. Hughitt and myself were
appointed members of the reorganiza
tion committee, but that ia only the
frame-work on which to build the story.
We are not trying to attend to any
schemes of that kind. '
It is said that among the provisions of
the Union Pacific reorganization plan
are these :
An assessment of $15 on stock, for
which preferred stock may be given.'
An issue of $100,000,000 4 per cent
bonds for the firsts and the government
debt.
An issue of $75,000,000 preferred
stock.
Bondholders will get new bonds at par
and five shares of preferred stock for
each $1000 bond.
The common stock will probably re
main unchanged. People who are now
applying for an interest in the Union
Pacific under-writing syndicate are told
that they are too late, and that earlier
applicants are getting much less than
the amount applreu for. The plan will
probably be announced at once.
AFTER UTAH'S BUSINESS.
San Francisco Merchants
Want
Share of It.
San Francisco, Oct. 17. Traffic Man
ager W. B. Curtie, of the Traffic Associa
tion, has undertaken to secure from the
roads doing business in Utah a conces
sion which all the influence of the South'
ern Pacific Company has failed to obtain
Mr. Curtis has in preparation a tariff of
reduced rates on shipments of merchant
dise from San Francisco to Utah busi
ness.
Briefly stated, the Eastern connections
of the Southern Pacific in Utah will
have to agree to the proposed tariff or
they will suffer the inconvenience of a
boycott by the merchants of San Fran'
Cisco. 1 rathe Manager Curtis has map
ped out the campaign with care and
with confidence of success. Curtis in
tends to submit his tariff to the Eastern
lines at the Salt Lake conference, on the
28th inst. The meeting has been called
for the purpose of patching up the differ
ences ot tne various lines interested in
tho Utah business.
"I think the merchants of San Fran
cisco are in a position to compel the Utah
lines to make this concession," he said.
"If the roads insists on shutting San
Francisco out of the Utah market, the
merchants here have their recourse.
They can refuse to do any business over
any of their lines, and when it is consid
ered that the San Francisco merchants
contribute a large porportion of the rev
enue ot the lines interested on both East
and west-bound freight ehipments, it
goes without saying that the arguments
we have to offer will have considerable
weight."
The lines which will be aflVcted by the
boycott, unless they adopt the traffic
association's tariff, or promise one just
as advantageous to San Francisco, are
the Union Pacific, Rio Grande Western,
Denver & Rio dande, Colorado Mid
land, the Rock Island and the Burling
ton. PEARY'S WORK.
What He Has Accomplished
by Bis
Arctlo Explorations.
Chicago, Oct. 17. Professor R. D.
Salisbury, who recently returned from
Greenland with the Peary relief expedi
tion, spoke yesterday at the university
of Chicago on "Peary's Work in the Arc
tic Regions."
Professor Salisbury declared that Lieu
tenant Peary knows more of the Esqui-
Highest of all in Leavening Power.
gmiiaiui
Take a small quantity of Cottoleat and a
little cream; warm in s frying pan. Break
6 eggs in is and stir until slightly ooojead.
Bene hot.
Use not more than two-thirds
as much Cottolene as you
1 would butter and be sure that
you do not overheat it before
I dropping in the eggs. This
i is always essential in cook
I ing with Cottolene.
r. Gonnin Cottolene Is solo ererrwhere u
flics with trade-marks "Oottolem" and
fer head in toftow-efowt tcra(A .
z on Tory tin. Made only by '
g THE N. K. FMRBANK COMPANY. SI. Louis.
E Ulan " KnmrWe, MW, Orrfm,
H Aew Vara. ImIm. .
tiairiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiwuHMiMiiiiiiiuaiwiuMiMMnininal
maur, their life, customs and language
than any other man living.
"Lieutenant. Peary," he said, "was
the fii man to attempt extensive Arc
tic explorations by means of overland
travel. He has authentically established
the northern limits of Greenland, made
an accurate chart of 1000 miles of the
west const, discovered 11 hitherto un
known islands, collected a series of val
uable records and otbained more knowl
edge of thejiative inhabitants than has '
ever before been secured.
THE VANDatltUILTS WILL
RAVE
CONTROL.
Thurston Partially Admits Tttelr Influ
ence In Union raciflc A fl airs.
San Francisco, Oct. 16. United'
States Senator Thurston, counsel for the
Union Pacific, is in the city and wa
asked what he thought of the report that
the Vanderbilts were endeavoring to se
cure control of the Union Pacific.
"It is quite apparent to the most cas
ual observer," said Mr. Thurston, "that
the Vanderbilts must be having a say in
the Union Pacific's affairs when such
men as Channcey M. Depew and Mar
vin Hughitt are two of the committee of
five who are to reoiganize the road's
present indebtedness. I can not state
that the Vanderbilts are going to take
the Union Pacific, but I would not be
surprised if the Vanderbilts should soon-
er or later be found to have an influen
tial voice in the property's direct man
agement." .
Meeting: of the Bar Association
Portland, Oct. 17. The fifth annual
meeting of the Oregon Bar Association-
convened this morning in the United
Stases courtroom at 10:30 o'clock. The
attendance was quite large, the legal
fraternity of Portland being well repre
sented, and a number of attorneys from
various parts of the state being present.
round Guilty of Cattle-Stealing.
Umon, Or., Oct. 17. In the case
against J. D. Heedennch and G. D.
Biggs, the La Grande butchers charged
jth stealing a cow and a eteer, the jury
after being out 24 hours, returned a ver
dict of guilty as charged. The defence
will ask for a new trial.
Ayer's Hair Vii;or, which lias outlived
andsuperseded hundreds ot similar prep
arations, is undoubtedly the most fash
ionable as well as economical hair dress
ing in the market. By its use, the poor
est head of hair soon becomes luxuriant
and beautiful.
Net learnings Increased.
New York, Oct. 17. President Bray
ton Ives, in a circular to the Northern
Pacific stockholders, says the net earn
ings for the year were greater by $1,384,
204 than the preceding year.
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