VOL. 'VI.
THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15. 1896.
NUMBER 17.
ADDRESSED TO SPAIN
Important Document Draft
ed by Secretary Olney.
CLEVELAND NOW CONSIDERING
IT
Speculation Rife Concerning the Exact
Content, of tli. Document Exist
ing Conditions Deplored.
St. Louis, April 10. A special to the
Globe-Democrat from Washington Bays:
A document of great moment was
drafted at the state department on Mon
day and was carried by Secretary Olney
in person, to the White House. It has
been before the president ever since,
Several times the secretary has been
sent for and has been closeted with th
president. General Schofield, in whose
knowledge of the inter-relations of civi
and military law the president has much
confidence, has been called to these con
ferences.
The document relates to Cuba. It
marks out the immediate course which
Mr. Olney thinks the United States
should take, and to which desires the
president to commit himself. The presi
dent has deliberated upon the matter,
and it is now thought he has reached a
conclusion which will be made known to
the full cabinet today.
Various rumors prevail as to the exact
character of this document. There is
reason to believe that it is addressed to
the Spanish government; that it de
plores the existing conditions in Cuba,
and that it expresses the earnest desire
of this country for a speedy settlement
on terms honorable to both Spanish and
revolutionists.
The document it is said, suggests that
.President Cleveland act as mediator be
tween Spain and the revolutionists.
A HUSBAND'S CKIME.
Murdered Bis Wife and Children, and
Then Suicided.
Muskegon; Mieh., April 10. News
has been received from Pentwater of a
bold attempt on the life of William O.
Sands, president of the Sands & Maxwell
Lumber Company, last night. When
he was within a few yards of home, H
B. Minchall jumped from behind a cor
ner and commenced shooting at him
Sands ran across the street to his home,
the would-be assassin keeping up the fire
JMve snots were tired, three hitting him
in the right arm and one in the leg.
Minchall immediately went home, shot
his wite and two dhildren, and then took
his own life.
The officers found Minchall's residence
locked, and broke in the door., A horri
ble sight was presented. Mrs. Minchall
was lying on the floor of the sitting-room
with a bullethole in her temple. Near
her was the dead body of her daughter,
Buby, about 18 years old. In the cor
. ner lay Minchall, with an empty revol
ver clutched in his hand. He, too, was
1 1 -r .... .
ueaa. xa an adjoining Dedroom were
found the bodies of George, aged 4 and
his infant brother. They were in bed
together, and death evidently came np
on them while they slept. The motive
for Minchall's crime is a mystery, but it
is thought the inquest, now in progress,
will clear the matter. ,
Minchall was an insurants agent and
an attorney. He left a long letter, the
gist of which is that Sands promised him
all his company's business and now de
manded a third of of the commission.
ir: i t i ti . - .
jumcnau was Daaiy involved, ana bis
extreme love for his family prompted
him to kill them rather than see them
suffer.
offices of the United States government
in mediation between Spain and the in
surgents, with a view to a settlement of
the y-oubie and to bring about peace in
second ins note recalls the corre
spondence between this government and
Spain at the time of the 10-years' war,
when President Grant and Sec. Fish pro
posed mediation and the Spanish gov
ernment, though declining to accept it,
promised certain reforms in Cuba. The
fact that the United States was in part
instrumental in bringing about that set
tlement, and the charge that the Span
ish government had not kept its promise
are given as the reasons why the United
States now has a right to be heard in the
case.
Third It is pointed out that the pres
ent re oei i ion in uuDa lias assumed a
much more serious aspect than any for-
THE FISHING TROUBLE
me uemocrauc nominee lor c ingress in
the second district, has declined the
nomination.
DIPLOMACY IS NEEDED
A LONG-DISTANCE l'EDESTRIAN.
Gov's
Lord and McGraw in
Consultation.
and
RIGHTS MUST BE PROTECTED
Governor Lord Return. Home and Say.
the Law. Must Be Sustained In
Protecting Property.
Pobtland, April 11. Governor John
H. McGraw, of Washington, arrived in
this city this morning and went to the
Portland hotel. Shortly prior Governor
Lord of Oregon, had come in on the
mer insurrection, the insurgents having Salem train and gone to the same hotel
apparently taken possession of the is- The meeting of the two governors had
A Colored Woman Who Walk.
A.k. for No Kldea.
La Gbande, April 12. Mary N. Childs
is the name of a typical negro woman;
who is a pedestrian of no mean merit.
She reached La Grande about S o'clock
Friday afternoon from Union on foot.
Aunty Childs, as she likes to be called,
has walked all the wav from Now Or
leans, traversing all the states bordering
toe Mississippi, through the Dakotas
and Montana. She walked over the
Utah & Northern railroad to Pocatella,
and reached here via the Short Line,
She is bound for California, asks for
no rides, and expects to walk all the way,
Trouble With Spain Can Be
Easily Averted.
WHAT A CORRESPONDENT LEARNS
Spanish Government Not Tnlnir
Force a War Coa.nl William.'
Successor.
to
iana, except Havana, and a
tion roundabout.
Spain is assured of the fact that the
United States is actuated by only disin
terested motives and by a desire through
friendship to bring about a more pacific
and satisfactory state of affairs in the isl-
tainine appeals to the Dublic to use her
small sec- "" prearrnngea ana me oDiect a dis- Kindly, and attesting the veracltv nf
ew Yohk, April 13. A disuatch to
the Herald from Madrid savs :
With the employment of a little diplo
via Portland. She carries an autograph T? byhe ?uited State8 impend-
album that is a curiositv in it. w . i"8 "on we witu Spain can be aterted.
. J ,
cussionofthe violent scenes lately 'en
acted at the mouth of the Columbia
river, jn which gill-net fishermen from
Astoria on the Oregon side had crossed
in their boats to a point off Ilwaco.
Wash., and through a force, of numbers
and. Spain is urged to accept our good compelled the destroying of certain fish-
offices in the spirit in which they are ten- ,traPa owned by citizens of the latter
dered, and the hope is expressed that state. Governor McGraw when seen at
the Spanish government will see its way 'h6 hotel by a reporter replied to a ques-
to granting reform in Cuba. tion as to his errand by saying : "I
The president does not ask Spain to Dave come to consult with Governor
grant the independence of Cuba, nor Lord as to the best means of proceeding
does he suggest that home rule be ac- I IQ bnngmg to justice the perpetrators of
corded the people of that island. He tne high-handed outrage at the- mouth
leaves all these questions to be discussed of tne Columbia river, where property
Your correspondent is able to state this
most authoritively after conversation
with the leaders of the two important
parties in Spain. If the United States
will approach the Snanish
ment in a friendly spirit and ask
PXaf".l V whnf. -rirw1if inno'.f n A . ii
slavery flays, before the form.
some of the stories she has to tell.
She has no particular mission, and
seems to labor under the idea that the
Lord has commanded her to travel. In
colored woman of the
She is 55 years of age. Her footgear con
sists of a sort of moccasin, made up of
ticking and odds and ends. .She smokes
an old cob pipe in a way that would in
dicate perfect contentment with the
world at large.
Another Cnre for Consumption.
JSEBLiN, April 11. Intense interest
will grant to Cuba
government recog
nizes the insurgents on the island as
belligerents, the Spanish will meet such
overtures half wav
Senor Sagasta, the liberal leader and
former prime minister, said that the
Spanish government was certainly not
trying to force a war with the United
States,
It has taken," he said, "the utmost
has been aroused iu medical and other
after Spain shall have expressed a will- f citizens of Washington, fully abiding circles here. bJ the announcement of a Precaution to protect the lives and prop
lngness to accept mediation.
BROUGHT TO A CKI919,
President Said to Have Addressed
Note to Spain.
Chicago, April 11. A dispatch to the
Times-Herald from Washington says :
Democratic State Convention.
The following business was transacted,
conclusive of our report ot yesterday : '
J. A. Douthit presented the appended
amendment to the 14th . section of the
platform and resolutions, which was
adopted :
We favor the preservation of the
salmon industry cf the state by abolish
mg the fish wheels below the lower cas
cades of the Columbia, and all fishtraps
and small mesh gear and denounce the
Republican party of the state for refus
ing to keep its pledge to afford such ur
gent relief."
The next order of business was the
nomination of presidential electors, re
sulting in the naming of Dr. Oglisbee, of
Wasco; Edward Kiifeather, of Multno
mah ; J. M. Carroll, of Union, and John
Burnett, of Benton.
The next order of business was the
nomination of alternate delegates to the
national convention, and the plums fell
to B Geither, George C Stont, of Mult
nomah ; F S Harding, of Yamhill ; P
Derby, of Marion ; Pierce Rigsts, of Polk :
G W Smith of Klamath ; J W Morrow of
Morrow; T H Crawford, of Union
Prior to the ratification of the nomi
neesof the district convention, John
Burnett, of Wasco, was nominated judge
of the supreme court.
in tne congresssional caucus of the
first district General H. B. Compton
withdrew, and Jefferson Meyers, of Linn,
was nominated. In the second district
A. S. Bennett, of Wasco, received the
congressional nomination
Dp to a late hour the following judicial
district nominations were ratified
First District Attorney S S Pentz,
second liistnct Attorney J M
Upton.
Third District Al torney S L Hayden
fourth Circuit Judge, G E Cham
terlain ; distiict attorney; M L Pipes,
Fifth District Attorney J E Hedges,
Sixth Circuit Judge, T G Hailev:
district attorney, G. W. Rea.
seventh District Attorney J H
Cradlebaugh.
Eighth District Attorney Samuel
White.
JNinth judicial disti let District At
torney, C A Sweek, of Harney county,
within the law of that state, was de. yUD8 physician, Erich Langhels, at the OI "e"can citizens in Spain since
stroved hv men enmino. fmm ih it f International Physicians' coceress that tni8 trouble began, all anti-American
Oregon, simply because the methods
used in fishing on the Washington side
differed from those practiced by the Ore
gon men.
"My talk with Governor Lord has
he has discovered a new remedy for tu- aernon8lrat,OD8 have . been promptly
berculosis, named antimicroba. Its 8t0PPed and no American, up to the pree
ent time, has suffeied the least harm."
pnuuipai ingredients it appears are
ozone and cod liver oil, applied by sub
cutaneous injectibn. In the experi-
been eminently satisfactory, he beini? menta of tne Pa8t fivP years, be ex-
emphatic in his declaration "that the law Plained tne greatest difficulty to over-
will be enforced, and that such persons come waa that of keePlnfc ozonepure Tribune from St,
who may have participated in the de- and ea81,y available. Of ninety cases of ago it was announced that Paul Schulze
stroying ot nsbtraps at Ilwaco will be '"""-''o u una ireaieu in me ivioao- general agent of the Northern Pacific
promptly rendered on requisition, and " nspuai curing tne paBt year all have land department, who committed suicide
SCniILZE'S STKAL1NGS.
Statement By a Pr mlnent Spokane Man
-St. Pan! Syndicate Swindled.
Chicago, April 13. A special to the
Paul says: Not lone
been cured
Ballway Train. Delayed.
Denver, April 12. The storm of last
nigbt and today was the most disastrous
to railway traffic of the winter. Little
the sheriff and prosecuting attorney of
Pacific county are prepared to identify
any of the principals."
"You have placed members of the
Washington National Guard at Ilwaco?"
"Yes. From the showing made by enow fell in Denver, but trains on all
Sheriff Eoney, I considered it my duty roads running into the city have been
to send to the scene a sufficient force to delayed and the Union Pacific, Denver
administer the law and protect the prop- & Gnl was obliged to abandon all its
erty of citizens. This is not a question trains on the southern branch. News
of fishing or the likes ordislikes of a cer- of almost unprecedented snowfall comes
tain set of fishermen. It resolves itself from all points south of here in Colo
into the right of people to pursue their rado and Northern New Mexico.
lawful avocations. That this
might be
assured, I ordered 43 men, selected from
three companies of the W. N. G., sent to
Ilwaco. The men were dispatched by
the way of South Bend, and arrived at
the mouth of the river Thursday night,
since when there has been no further
trouble."
"What traps were destroyed and what
damage resulted?"
"At the present speaking it is hardly
possible for me to estimate the damage
though lacking exact knowledge of the
WILL BE
Crisis in
CLASH SOON.
Said to Be
Cuban Affairs
Approaching.
New Orleans, April 13. The Pica
yune tomorrow will print the follow
ing letter, dated April 5, from its special
correspondent at Havana :
The condition of affairs is continuing
to draw to a crisis and soon there will
be a clash which will either redound to
the benefit of the Spaniards or the Cu
bans. For the past four davs no official
yn.j repneu i general a office, and rumors are received
xuree p.iearivsrs of a battle in which the insurgents were
tOt.nl ICifta tha rf hor turn Knlnn I .
. . .U(S but there has been considerable hurry-
vui.vu kjj men, xv II a U anri onnwvinr n nA U 7..
'""iniiy uperaiea in 1030, Thl.;nnf , j..s v-
WHO H.mni;.k.J J .1 .-i c . " u.wvuo liure
i, ". j . caused a bad effect here, especially as
trap were pulled and set adrift. , ftaa(, . aoA ? '
"I will return to Seattle tonight with 7 oTthV real de"
tails of the Collazo expedition. It seems
at Tacoma, had embezzled $1,500,000.
This revealed the fact that he had taken
fOOU.UUO from a St. Paul syndicate. L.
C. Dillman, of Spokane, Wash., the prin
cipal member of the syndicate, said last
night: "I have for five years been ac
cusea oi naving secured large sums
wiongfully from the St. Paul land syn
dicate which bought the Northern Pa
cific lands at Spokane, and of which
eet off the fuse, which entered a large
cracker, filled with powder. The bomb
was genuine, though not so dangerous as
to have proved fatal. It was clumsily
made. '
SUCCESSFULLY LANDED.
Another Filibustering Expedition -Reache.
the Cuban Coaet.
Kkt West, April 13. The steam tue
George W. Childs, which became notor
ious as a filibuster about a year ago, is
once more in the service of the Cubans.
and on Friday left Cape, Florida with an
expedition for the island. The Cubans
have been fitting out this expedition for
some weeks, and it is one of the best
equipped that has yet left the United
States. The party was commanded by
Colonel Juan Monson, and there were
100 men in the party, half of whom were
Americans. The Cubans have been stor
ing arms and ammunition on Cape Flor
ida for three weeks. Manv of the arms
were brought here bj steamer, and then
taken In schooners to the Cape. The
schooner Cora I.ee took two cargoes from
this place, and the Dollie three. The
steamer Three Friends, of Jacksonville,
which passed down the coast a few days
ago, also left a lot of arms on the Cape.
It is said that 4000 rifles, 50,000 cart
ridges, five Gatling guns and a large
number of pistols and machetes were
stored there.
The tug Childs left here on Thursday,
ostensibly to bring a disabled schooner
to port, but the vessel proceeded to Cape
Florida, took the munitions and men on,
board, and sailed for Cuba. It is re
ported she effected a landing on the
Pinar del Rio Coast, being met by a de
tachment from Muceo'g army.
The Spanish vice-consul here learned
of the expedition and informed the
United States authorities, who ordered a
revenue cutter to look out for the fili
buster. The. cotter proceeded to Cape
Florida and sighted tho Childs as the
latter was making off. The cutter gave
chase, but the Childs, being very fleet,
was soon out of reach and the United
States vessel returned to port. It is
said the Washington authorities have
ordered no seizures to be made except
within the marine limits. -
confidence that Governor Lord will act
promptly and decisively in the matter."
TKOCBLK AHEAD FOR ELLIS.
that while the expedition was landing its
arms and ammunition, a cruiser hove in
sight and the vessel carrying the expe
dition put to 9ea, being ' pursued by the
cruieer, whose searchlight was used to
discover the vessel. In the meantime.
Po.alble Bound Money Candidate tho
Democratic Nominee Declines.
Portland, Or., April 11. It is likelv
there will be a sound money candidate
for congress in the second district. He the force of the coast patrol came up and
may be a Democrat and he mav . a captured a score of rifle boxes, and car.
Union and Wallowa counties Joint Republican, it has not been leirminol ried them to the nearest town, whinh
senator, u a McAllister. yet. A number ot sound mn TW. was Cardenas, and daced them
Washington, Tillamook and Columbia crats held a meeting in this city tonight I warehouse on the oustkirts of the town
At last President Cleveland has taken Mnntie8 Joint Seoator WvBDiIlard, of and discussed the advisability of putting f the night, the Cuban forces,
Columbia county. a sound money man in the field.. It is which were to protect the landincr of the
Kamnni and iiilamook counties understood none of the oersonp nrpwnt expedition, and who had been informed
Joint Representative, George Cohn. were delegates to the late convention, of the presence of the arms, overpowered
Union and Umatilla counties Joint and should they inaugurate a momment the guards at the warehouse, and. before
action in behalf of Cuba. He has made
to Spain a formal proposition that the
good offices of the United States be ac
cepted in mediation between that coun
try and her rebellious colony in the
West Indies. This proposition was
made in a cablegram of instructions to
our minister at Madrid, Mr. Hannis
Taylor, which was dispatched tndav
No diplomatic dispatoh of equal import- Eepreeentatives V C Lewis, of Wasco democrat to put up a candidate against There
Senator, James H RaleyJ of Pendleton
Wasco and Sherman counties Joint
Senator, J W Armsworthv. James B
Crossen, for board of equalization
Wasco and Sherman counties Joint
for sound money man. they would be reinforcements came, recaptured the
viewed in the light of bolters. There is arms and carried them away, while a
a probability that A. S. Bennett, the guard of insurgents protected the re
nominee for congress, will be asked in treat and held the Spanish trooDS in
withdraw and allow the sound money check.
ance has left this capital since Secretary and F A Senfert, of Wasco,
Ulney's note to the .British government
on the Venezuela boundary question
was sent last summer. It brings to a
crisis the relations between the United
States and Spain, which have been un
settled since the outbreak of the Cuban
rebellion.
The note thoroughly explains the atti
tude of the United States, and the reas
ons which have led to this action.
Ellis, the Republican nominee, in the present.
are two absorbing topics at
One is the attitude of the
was general manager. Until now I
could say nothing, but the Northern Pa
cific has sent me a statement that mv
affairs are straight. Schulze charged
the syndicate over $300,000 more than
the directors of the road asked for the
Spokane land, which included Cliff Park,
Shantyrown, and other lands.
Of the cash that the syndicate paid
to Schulze on' the original price, $312,-
000, he appropriated to his own use
$354,400. Besides this, be got a 40 acre
tract of land valued at $30,000, and he
was to get about $300,000 more of a per
sonai rase-on. x nave presented a
claim against the company for $580,000
in land that I was forced to relinquish
through the cancellation of the contract
by Schulze, and for $112,400 that I over
paid the company above the amount of
$200,000 that the directors asked for it.
I have assurances from the receivers
that a settlement of this claim will be
made without recourse to the courts.
"Schulze told me the price of the land
was $S23,000, and not a cent less, of
which $200,000 must be cash, and on the
rest we could have all the time we
wanted. By October, 1892, we had paid
$312,400. A resolution was passed by
the board of directors of the road in 1890,
and the price at which the land should
be sold was fixed at $200,000, instead of
$832,000. If that should be true, I will
have overpaid somebody $769,000' before
the deal is closed." ' :J i,:
Spanish Pres. Faultfinding.
London, April 13. A Madrid dis
patch to the Standard says:
The presa here evinces ill humor be
cause American juries have acquitted"
the captaine of notorious filibusters in
tended for Cuba. The Ecopa declares
that in the event of a conflict between
Spain and America over Cuba, Spanish
diplomacy would make the matter a
European question, and it insinuates
that Spain is sure of European sympa
thy in such an event.
Te Bomb Was Genulife.
Drift. Twelve Feet nigh.
Palmee Lake, Colo., April 12. One
of the worst snowstorms that has ever
visited this town in the memory of the
oldest inhabitants, started here about -
30 last tvenine, and has been raging
furiously eyer since. The wind blew 75-
miles an hour. The drifts are from 6 to
12 feet high. Pedestrianism is Impossi
ble, and the storm shows no signs of
abatement. Trains in both directions
are delayed between this point and Col
orado Springs.
It May Do a. Much for You.
Mr. Fred Miller, of Irving, III., writes
that he had a severe kidney trouble for
many yean-, with severe pains in his
back and also that bis bladder was af
fected. He tried mpny so called Kidney
cures but without any good result. About
a year ago he began to use Electric Bit
ters and found relief at once. Electric
Bitters is especially adapted to cure of
all Kidney and Liver troubles and often
gives almost instant relief. One trial
will prove our statement. jPrice 50c and .
$1.00. At Blakeley & Houghton's Drug
Store.
Ho-nr to Cnre rtheumatism.
Abago, Coos Co., Oregon, Nov. 10,
1893. I wish to inform you of the great
good Chamberlain's Pain Balm has done
my wife. She has been troubled with
rheumatism of the arms and hands for
New Yoek, April 13. A package ad
dressed to Theodore Roosevelt, at police
headquarters, and marked "Medicine," ' 9,x months, and has tried many reme
was brought to the general postoffice to- dies prescribed for that complaint, but
Grant and Harney counties Joint I hope of drawing Bupport from the sound United States, and the other is the action
Representative, Evefett Hicks,
money Republicans. In case Bennett that President Cleveland will take.
Ifthere'is anyone thing that needs refusea to withdraw.it has been pretty
to be purified, it is politics, so the re
former saysandmany agree thereto.
.but blood tells, and as a blood purifier
and liver corrector -Simmons Liver Reg
ulator, is the best medicine. "I u8e it in
preference to any other." So wrote Mr.
The S. H. Hysell, of Middleport, Ohio. And
pnncipal pointsot the dispatch are:- Dr. D. 8. Russell, of Farmville, Va.,
First The president offers the goodj writes, "It fulfills all you promise for it."'
well settled that an independent candi
date will be put in the field. In the
event that the Democrats fail to put up
an independent candidate there is a
possibility that the sound money Re
publicans will put up a'candidate against
Ellis.
Mr. Bennett Withdraws.
.Portland, April 11. A. S. Bennett,
You hear it almost everywhere, and
read it in the newspapers, that Simmons
Liver Regulator is the best liver remedy,
and the best Sprintr medicine, and the
best blood medicine. Mlhe nnlv medi
cine of any consequence that . ise is
8immons Liver Regulator." So wrote
Mr. R. A. Cobb, of Morgantown, N. C.
And W. F. Park, M. D., ot Tracy Citv,
Tenn, writes : "Simmons Liver Regula
tor is the best."
day by a collector of mail from the
downtown boxes. A postoffice employe
tore off the wrappings at one end, re
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and bits of fuse.
An examination showed that by a
vigorous tearing apart of the wrapping
paper, the matches would be ignited and
found no relief until she used this Pain
Balm ; one bottle of which has complete
ly cured her. I take pleasure in recom
mending it for that trouble. Yours
truly, C. A. Bullord. 50 cents and $1.00
bottles for sale by Blakeley & Hough
ton's Drug Store.
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