THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, MARCH 7. 1896.
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BTATK OFFICIALS.
GJTernoi W. P. Lord
Becretarv ol State II K Kincaid
Treasurer -Phillip Mctscnan
Bupt-of Public 1 instruction u. n. irwin
Attorney-General C. M. Idleroan
. (G. W. McBride
Henators ij.'H. Mitchell
Congressmen..
State Printer.,
B. Hermann
W. E. Ellis
...W. H. Leeds
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge.....: Geo. C. Blakeley
Bheritf. T. J. Driver
Clerk A. M. Kelsay
Treasurer Wm.-Michell
, , (Frank Kincaid
Commissioners Af Biower8
Assessor F. H. Wakefield
Bnrveyor E. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy Shelley
Coroner
.. W. H. Butts
THE
JUDGMENT IN
STEEVES CASE.
THE
' After several months of consideration
. the supreme court has eet aside the ver
dict in the Steeves murder case arid
granted the defendant a new trial.
Steeves was convicted, along with Bunco
Kelly, for the atrocious murder of, old
man Say res, and was given a trial before
m jury of his peers. He was ably de
fended, or had the opportunity to be,
and claimed and received ali the protec
tion whi'ch the law gives to those charged
with a crime of this degree. The jury
returned a verdict of manslaughter, and
Steeves received a fi;teeu-year sen
tence in the penitentiary, besides the
penalty of a heavy fine.
Beyond the immediate circle of the
defendant's friends, the action of the
supreme court will not meet with ap
proval. Steeves was given a fair trial,
no substantial injustice being done him
during its progress. The jury was an
average one for intelligence and honesty,
and the judge leaning to the side of
mercy. Through the raising of fine
technical points, the defendant's law
yers have eucceeded in having the case
remanded, and more than that, Steeves
bas been declared acquitted of murder
in the first and second degrees, and can
only be arraigned for manslaughter.
It has long been 'conceded that some
thing is wrong with our administration
of justice. Opinions may differ as to
where the fault lies, but the general
conclusion is the same. The supreme
court is the weakest spot in the system,
for it is there where the principles of
justice are made of less concern than
the rules of law. Juries may be con
. (learned, and sometimes justly; but if
the history of the courts were searched,
it would be found that even poised jus
tice had received more of her due at the
hands of juries than from the supreme
courts the Oregon one particularly.
j
Olds cases is remembered to the dis
credit of the judges. Repeated convic
tions by the jury resulted only in the
cases being reversed at one time the
point being raised and considered that
the speech of the district attorney was
bo eloquent that it swerved the judg
ment of the jury. , "
Steeves will be tried again and ac
quitted, for the same reason that the
jury in the last Olds case returned a ver-1
diet of manslaughter because it was
felt the supreme court would overrule
a verdict cf higher degree. It is inci
- dents like these that have brought our
courts into disrepute and made them
by-words for chicanery and untrnst,
rather than the resorts of justice, for
which they were intended.
out that the locks could be operated
with the completion of the then existing
contract. This farther work was a
means of precaution simply.
Now, like a bolt from a clear sky,
comes the statement that the locks can
not be operated without this additional
appropriation, steps to secure which,
Mr. Day says, have been laken. If
eighteen months ago thi9 necessity was
seen, and there has been no intervening
occurrence to lead to such a conclusion,
why was not the matter made clear to
the public so that a move could be made
to secure such action by congress? We
have been misled on all pides, and whilst
Mr. Day; midst the popping of cham
pagne corks,, told of boats passing
through the lock9 by March 1st, the
people, like simple-minded folk, be
lieved him.
If the year 189G passes without the
locks being operated, there will have
been perpetrated upon the people of the
Inland Empire a monstrous wrong, an
injustice which will cause the blood .of
every honest man to boil with indigna
tion. Mr. Day is riaht; the people are im
patient, and refuse to be comforted by
his soothing words as they have been in
the past.
A POET BY ROYAL EDICT.
THE
OREGONIAN
LOCKS.
AND THE
PERSONA NON GRATA.
Mr. J. G. Day, brevetted "Colonel"
by the Oreeonian, has accused the
Dalles papers of being too impatient.
It is possible that a people who, through
years of waiting have shown an unpar
alleled forbearance, should, when exas
perated beyond measure, give way to a
feeling of impatience which may dis
please Mr. Day and the horde of govern
ment engineers whose stock just at pres
ent is below par.
Mv. Day states that the contract will
be entirely completed in the course of
several weeks. It may and may not be,
The people have absolutely no faith in
Mr. Day or his promises, and fail to see
any reason why the work should be
done several weeks from now any more
than at the present.
' Mr. Day has proved that his promises
are brittle as glass, made only to be
broken, and he need not ponder long
why it is his statements are not given
credence by those people . who have
watched his actions during the past two
years. The people have been patient
and the press silent because it was de
tired that no obstacle be placed in the
way of the contractors ; but we are free
to say that their methods during this
time have been open to condemnation.
The point is right here. The engi
neers state tUat the flood of 1894 demon
strated the need of walls between the
locks and riprap work upon the bank
touching the river. At that time Major
Post said an additional appropriation
would be necessary before, the locks
The people are becoming aroused over
the situation at the locks. It is the uni
vereal opinion that we have been cattle
long enough, and that It is time to iin
press upon our senators and represents
tires that if their political future
amounts to anything in Eastern Oregon
it will be because they show at this
juncture that they are made of the right
kind of stuff.
A cause of disappointment to the citi
zens of The Dalles is the silence main
tained by the Oregonian, the paper that
supposedly leads all others in the North
west in moulding public opinion. The
Oregonian mnst know, as we do, that
promises regarding the locks have been
most shamefully violated ; that there
must needs have been crookedness some
where to produce the result that exists ;
that the cherished hope of the people of
Eastern Oregon, among whom the Ore
gonian is valued as much as among our
neighbors west of the Cascades, has been
shattered, and that disappointment, cha
grin and indignation exist. And yet
the Oregonian is silent.
We have waited to hear some expres
sions from that paper. We have waited
hopefully, for we knew that an expres
sion from the Oregonian would have
more weight than all the pleas the
Mountaineer and Chronicle could put
forth ; but we waited in vain. On to
day's editorial page there were articles
on local politics in Multnomah county ;
the belligerency of Cuba;" the chance of
the Democracy to declare for Found
money; the short food supply of Great
Britain; the troubles in the Salvation
Army ; the Panama canal and the North
ern Pacific receivership, besides para
graphs regarding various topics, some of
importance, otners not: out never a
word regarding the Cascade locks and
the hnmbuggery that has been practiced.
We dislike to carp at the Oregonian,
because it is like the weak railing at the
strong; but we can tell that paper, if it
wishes to continue as the leader of opin
ion in Oregon, and possess influence in
this section, it must have more concern
for the welfare of the people.
The Oregonian knows that the condi
tion at the locks is not what it should
be, and yet it says not a word in protest,
Much as we prefer the Oregonian to the
Examiner, and papers of its kind, we
believe the latter would have opened its
batteries against the men who are doing
Eastern Oregon such an injustice.
Can it be the protestations of friend
ship from Portland are false, and that
after all they do not want the locks
opened? It is for the Oregonian to say.
The attitude of England towards the
Armenians, however reprehensible it
may, appear in the eyes cf civilization,
has been the means of showing upon
whom the poet laureatesbip should have
been bestowed at the time it was given
to Alfred Austin. As proven time and
again by the events of history, the occa
sion, while it does not necessarily make
the man, gives him an opportnnity of
revealing himself in his greatest stature.
The sufferings of Armenia have given to
English npets this opportunity, and the
way they have improved it tells in what
unskilled hands the Iaureateship, hon
ored by Wordsworth and made half di
vine by Tennyson, has fallen.
The world remembers "yet, though it
will not much longer, the dull lines of
Austin written on the death of Henry of
Battenburg, verses which are re mark a
ble for nothing, save their commonplace
ness, and which breathe a sicklv senti
ment of toadyism that cannot help diS'
gust his countrymen, no matter how
imbued with the spirit of allegiance to
loyalty. Austin writes like a school biy
whose task must be performed, but who
has neither the capabilities nor spirit of
a student. His lines bear repetition
here, not for their merit, but as afford
ing a comparison with those of a poet
who by x all right of genius should have
been decorated with the laurel wreath
Austin apotheosizes Henry thus :
"Another Albert shalt Thou be. so known.
So known, so honored, and His name shall stand
1 he sponsor to your syotlessness until
Your soul, your self, and that high mission laid
on an oi sucn oegetung, you can seize
The scepter of your will, aud Uiuswise armed
Against the sirens of disloyal sense,
Like to your pure progenitor abide
In God's stern presence, and surrender never
That last prerogative of all your race,
To live and die for England V ' i
While the poet laureate has been
singing his dirges to royalty, William
Watson, stirred by the monstrous wrongs
which every day are being heaped upon
a helpless people, is calling Jnglana to
account for her .murderous negligence.
From the many verses breathing Eng
land's Bhame and telling of her dishonor,
we select this one, which shows a poet
with a mission :
pOp SPRING
and SOlWJVTE
Ladies
Shoes
Still, on Life's loom, the infernal wnrp and weft
Woven each hour! Still, in anenisb renown.
A great realm watchingunder GiMi'sgreatfrown!
Ever the same! The lictle children cleft
In twain; the little, tender maidens reft
Of maidenhood ! And through a little town
A stranger journeying wrote this record down ;
"In all the place there was not one man left."
0 friend, the sudden lightning of whose pen
Makes Horror's countenance visible afar,
And Desolation's face familiar,
1 think this very England of my ken
Is wondrous like that little town, where are
In all the streets and houses no more men.
While Austin, with his dull words, is
paying his debt to royalty, wateon is
arousing the English heart as V hittier
did the American forty years before.
The laureatesbip means nothing to
Watson, but England would have
brought honor to herself by recognizing
the genius that dares to cry out when
wrong is being done.
We are showing the latest fads in-
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Any of our lady friends wishing an idea of what Dame Fortune has dictated to
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ing our early arrivals in .
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- . , also in genuine Russet, Needle Toe.
Southerns Ties, in tan, Newest Shade, latest Needle Toe.
Ladies' Cloth Top Button Boots, in Russet and Kid.
Every pair warranted. Widths B, C and D.
Admirers of nice footwear will find it interesting to look'over our stock. Prices
reasonable. .
A M WILLIAMS & CO
POPULAR
CLOTHIERS.
represent the best elements and prin
ciples of the party the Republicans can
command victory.
MISSOURI AND REPUBLICANS.
We are under the necessity of recall
ing the invitation extended some time
ago to the people of the Northwest ask
ing them to take part in the celebration
at the opening of the locks. The cele
bration will not occur, it having been
decided otherwise by the Messrs. Day
and the officious engineers, whose work
is the laughing stock of all who are ac
quainted with it. Don't ask us when
the celebration will take place, as it is a
sensitive subject and one that nobody
knows anything about save the Days,
the engineers and the Almighty, and we
are not sure that the latter has been
consulted.
Ex-Senator Dolph delivered a speech
on the money question before the Mt.
Tabor Republican club, the printing of
which occupied two pages in the Orego
nian. Dolph made a good record while
in the senate, but it nevep-came through
ability to interest his hearers. It looks
as if Dolph intends being an active can
didate for Mitchell's seat, and if so he
does not want to make many speeches
like the one delivered at Mt. Tabor. In
the United States senate, where time is
of no account, lengthy speeches are ad
missible, but the people of Oregon are.
too busy to give much time to them.
- The development of photography by
the Cathode rays promises to bring
about great things. If the process could
only be perfected bo that between now
and the June election the craiiums of
the various candidates could be photo
graphed and their real views revealed, a
conld be called fully completed, but the great boon would be conferred upon a
impression was fully and officially given I suffering constituency.
The reason for the interest which the
coming Republican canvass in Missouri
is beginning to arouse throughout the
country is easy to grasp, says the Globe
Democrat. As the Empire State of what
bas been known as the solid i,South, it is
natural that Missouri in the present
transition period in politios should oc
cupy a large share of the general public's
attention. The Republicans of the
whole country recognized this situation
by choosing the State's chief city for the
meeting-place of their national gather
ing, nothing but the foolish dread of the
Democrats of the Eastern States that a
convention held here would be exposed
to a dangerous free silver influence pre
vented the National Democracy from
following the Republican example in
this particular.
When Missouri was carried by the Re
publicans for the state ticket chosen in
1894 the country saw that an epoch bad
been closed. A new era, with different
political ideals and other and larger in
terests and aspirations, opened with that
victory. In that canvass was dealt the
bl.ow which shattered the solid South.
Bight there was seen the beginning of
the rising tide which swept the Repub
licans into power in Kentucky and
Maryland in 1895, and which will put
them in possession of several other
States of the eaine region in 1896. That
swing in Missouri from 41,000 Demo
cratic plurality in 1892 to 3000 Repub
lican plurality in 1894 marked the divid
ing line between the period of sectional
and of national politics throughout the
country. . .
It is hardly necessary to point out
that these very conditions impose a
heavy responsibility upon the Republi
cans of the state in the coming canvass.
The good work of political enfranchise
ment for the state which was started in
1S94 must be rounded out this year by
the rescue of the offices still in Demo
cratic hands. The Republican party of
the country at large expects this, and it
must not be disappointed.. The busi
ness interests and social reputation of
the state demand it, and their claims
can not be disregarded without subject
ing the Republican party to serious dis
credit. No party in any state in which
there ia ordinarily an "approximately
equal division between the great organi
zations ever started out nnder -more
hopeful conditions than those which
present themselves to the Republican
party this year. All the indications
point to Republican success. Yet in
order to make success certain the Re
publicans must show that they deserve
success. By nominating a ticket which
The reverse of the Italian arms in
Abyssinia means eerioua things . for
Italy. A nation that is on the very
verge of bankruptcy cannot stand any
further drains. The only hope for a
government like Italy, which is torn by
internal dissensions, to perpetuate its
existence is to maintain such a brilliant
foreign policy that the people forget the
misery at home. The Rome of ancient
days did this, and when its foreign con
quests ceased its domestic strength
quickly failed. There promises soon to
be an upheaval among the European
nations, and Italy will be the first to
pass nnder the new order.
NEARER HOME.
A KlcU Void Field Ten Mile from
The Dalles.
acres of
pay dirt
Captain General Weyler, who because
of his reputation for cruelty, was placed
in command of the Spanish army in
Cuba, expresses surprise that a nation,
which he always supposed friendly to
Spain, bas taken steps to recognize as
honorable . enemies people who burn,
steal and destroy, and who hang peace
ful citizens for no other reason than
that they are enemies. For a man like
Weyler, whose sole fitness for command
is his willingness to practice all sorts of
cruelty, to talk thus is like the devil
preaching the Sermon on the Mount.
Ihe recognition of Cuba by the United
States is to assist that nation in escaping
the domineering of Spanish barbarians,
among whom Weyler stands in the
frout rank.
REGARDING THE LOCKS.
Pendleton East Oregonian : March
the first is here, and no boat has passed,
or is going to pass in the near future,
the locks at the Cascades, as has been
repeatedly promieed bv tlm government
contractors. The government teat con
tinues to give down too rich milk to
those on the inside, hence the people are
to he trifled with tor some time to come,
while the "jiiilkicg" goes on and more
- i i
government money is equunuereu vy
political knaves and their friends, as
sisted by the army officers in .charge of
the works and the contractors.
Foesil Journal : It is with deep regret
we learn that the date of the opening of
the Cascade locks or the Uolumcia river
is a matter of doubt and uncertainty,
and that there is no probability of the
river being open for traffic by the first
of March, as was promised. To be sure
a boat may be passed through, bnt if so
ft will be a grand farce. It is very dis
heartening to have the cup dashed from
our lips just when we were ready to
quaff the delicious contents. Who is it
t,hat has lied, anyway?
Awarded
Highest Honors World's Fair,
Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair.
CREAM
Most Perfect Made.
40 Years the Qtandard.
Two hundred and twenty
ground, and every foot of it
from the surface down !
Articles of incorporation have been
filed in the clerk's office of the Cape
Horn Mining Co., with a capital stock
of $3,500.' The incorporators are Messrs.
. I. H. Taffe, R. Hesse, J. P. Mclnerny,
E. J. Collins, C. B. Johnson, A. Bettin
gen and James L. Taffe. The business
of the corporation is to engage in placer
mining on the following-named claims,
situated in Wasco county: "Evening
Star," "Morning Star," "Kitty," "Blue
bird," "Sixteen to One," "Sunrise" and
"Golden Fleece."
The above-named and designated
claims comprise a little gold field all by
itself, containing 220 acres of ground
below Celilo Falls-, and within the space
comprised by the Columbia river and
the railroad from north to south and
bounded by ridges of rock on the east
and west. Every foot of it is pay dirt
from the surface down. It is part of the
old river bed whero once flowed the j
Columbia. It has been worked over for
years by Chinamen, who were satisfied
to work with the primitive rocker and
clean up from $1.60 to $4 per day,
The company have iwned the claims
about eight months, and have done
more than enough development work to
entitle them to hold the property. This
work consists of a flume, from Celilo
Falls to the diggings, and a shaft. The
deeper the shaft has been sunk, the
richer has been the pay. They are now
in a black gold-bearing sand, which
averages 25 cents to the pan. Twenty
five cents a pan, or even one cent,
means fabulous riches, if the pay dirt
holds out. There is no fear on this
score. It is nniformily impregnated
with the precious metal, having been
deposited as placer by centuries of ac
tion of the rolling currents of the Col
umbia river. If bed rock 19 once struck
it will be literally coated with gold
The company having plenty of water
and fall for it, and sufficient capital be
bind it, will operate the field according
to the latest approved method. They
will flume the water to a bulkhead,
where it will enter a large hose and tnrn
the force loose from a nozzle the regu
lar hydraulic process. The. dirt will
thus be forced through flume boxes,
when the gold, being beavieet, will sink
to .the bottom and be held by cross
pieces or riffles, while the dirt, robbed
of the precious metal, will go onward
through the boxes and form piles of
what is cal(ed "tailings."
The shaft has been sunk to the present
level of the Columbia, Vhere water was
encountered. Pumps will be employed
to keep the water out. -
There is no doubt that paying gold
fields can be found wherever there bas
been an old river channel, and though
the Celilo field is pretty well corralled,
there are nndoubtedly others both above
and below it. It is very likely that the
Columbia river once floated at the base
of the Klickitat hills, about four miles
from its present channel, and should the
present channel ever shifty though no
one will feel disposed to wait for that,
gold may be found a foot thick on the
bed rock at the bottom. This is proven
by the sand everywhere along the river,
which always shows "colors."
With bat little care and no trouble,
the beard and mustache can be kept uni
form brown or black color by using
Buckingham's Dye for the whiskers.
Real Estate Transfer,.
James M Smith and Mary Jane Smith
to John P Thomsen, lots G and H, block
53, Ft Dalles Mil Res ; consideration $250.
Mary D Axe to A 8 Bennett, undi
vided fifth interest, in forfeited railroad
land claim of Rogers' heirs, ne qr nw qr,
sec 5 and lots 3, 6 and 7; consideration
$200.
R F Gibons to A S Bennett, ouit
claim deed, to certain lots in Trevitt
addition; consideration $1.
State of Oregon to A S Bennett, lot 4,
sec 5, tp 1 n, r 13 e; $26.63.
Thomas R Coon and wife to Lyman
Smith, lots 3 and 4 and wuth 37 feet,
lots 1 and 2, block 8, Winans addition
to Hood River; consideration $200.
Helen J Smith to Lyman Smith, lot 6
and nw qr ew qr, sec 35, tp 3 n, r 10 e;
$1 and other valuable considerations.
Annie Sylvester and W E Sylvester to
D Siddell, two feet of east side lot 5,
block 8, Bigelow addition to Dalles City ;
$1 and other valuable considerations.
Emma B Emerson to John J Wosley
lots 32, 33, f 4, 35, 36 and 37 in block 9 of
Irvine's and Watson's second addition
to Hood River; consideration $600.
Henry C Coe and Kitty Coe to J R
Galligan and Mary G Galligap, lot 9,
block 2, Peck's addition to East Port
land ; consideration $3,000.
Wni John Ashby to Mary R Steers,
(quit claim) Iota 9 and 10, block 3,
Laughlin'e addition to Dalles City; con
sideration $1. -
J B Ashby et al to Mary R Steers,
(quit , claim) lots 9 and 10, block 3,
Laughlin'e addition to Dalles City; con
sideration $1.
Kitty Coe and H C Coe to L N
Blowers, lot 5, sec A, South Waucoma;
consideration $800. -
For mt.tS an Acre.
Eighty acres unimproved land three
miles west of The Dalles, for sale. In
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