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; TEE DALLES; WASCO COUNTY., OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17. 1896.
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NUMBER .26.
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: THRE4TENS TO BOLT
Piatt Is Said to Be Much
'Dissatisfied. :
HE CRITICISES THE . COMMITTEE
Mckinley men onlt are placed
i Report 'That ' Piatt aod :. Sixty - Other
New York Delegates Will Walk
i'.' Oat of the Convention.
St. Louis, June 12. Today there was
- in circulation a,, report that Thomaa C
Piatt had declared his intention of bolt-'
J ing if the six contestants from New York
should bo seated. It was learned from
- the members of the national committee
that probably six Platte men willj be
thrown out and other men placed on the
temDoryrolI. Piatt's remark; was"-re-
. ported to Hanna today. '
'I shall not get excited over this, even-
if Piatt said it." Hanna remarked.
When assured that Piatt had made
the remark, he was not disturbed.
Other friends1 of McKinley. said that
Piatt was putting up a grand bluff. The
report, of Piatt's intention to bolt . was
circulated by his friends quite freely.
One stated emphatically that the posi
tion of Piatt was that in case six regu
. larly elected delegates in New. York
were unseated, 60 more delegates would
walk out of the convention. This , view
is controverted by Bime delegates from
New York, who say that 25 to 30 dele
gates from New York are ardent McKin
ley men and cannot be expected to fol
low Piatt.
" Members of the 'national committea
think the talk of New York wholly for
the purpose of influencing the. decisions
in the remaining contests. .
To an Associated Press reporter today
Piatt said he bad not spoken particular
ly of the New York contests, but npon
the whole proceeding in the committee,
r'They are , riding roughshod over
everything," he said. "The question of
a man's title to a seat is not considered
on its merits, but as to his position on
presidential candidates. '
, "Hahn, a member from Ohio, has de
clared the only , question involved in
these contests is whether or not a man
is for McKinley. That line of policy is
what New York objects to." , '
Piatt reiterated that Morton's name
will be presented and voted for. He did
not think Manlcy'a manifesto made any
appreciable difference in , the situation
He thought the ' Maine committeeman
mast have become demoralized. Piatt
. has received a dispatch from Reed, who
says that Manley's utterance was wholly
unauthorized, and expressing astonish
ment that Manley had' taken . each a
course.: ; ; j- ' ; ' ..-
Piatt ib interested in having a gold-
standard plank in the platform. -
"From all I have heard" he. said, "I
think the convention ' will take that
coarse. There seems to be a demand
that cannot be Ignored in favor of a firm
declaration for the gold standard. :'
"Silver men will not be satisfied with
any kind of a straddle, and there should
be no attempt to have anything but a
straight gold declaration."
A CANKERS' COMBINE.
The Colombia River Salmon Packer to
- - -v 'Consolidate. -. " '.;"
Portland, J nne 12. A gigantic' sal
mon combine, to take every interest on
the Colombia river into one corporation,
and backed by unlimited, capital, will
very probably be the unlooked-for result
of the present strike of the .3000 - fisher
- men who want more for fishing than the
packers claim to be able to pay.
The prospects are that the Colombia
River Packers' Association, which was
formed in Portland last spring, is to be
followed by a stronger concern a single
corporation which shall be so firmly en
trenched as to command a vast influence
in the salmon industry, and which will
. dictate and not be dictated to. It'will
be modeled after the Alaska Packing
Company, and it will absorb all the big
and little fishing interests, consolidating
them into one enormous plant and do
business on ad unprecedented scale. ; :
The cannerymen are being driven into
- consolidation for protection of their in
. forests not only from the fishermen, bat
from, the mischievous 'state .legislature,
and by next autumn it is confidently be
lievedno matter what becomes of this
year's fishing that the combine will be
organized and the consolidation effected'.
- If organized in time, the combine's lob-
by will be a factor in the state legisla
ture this winter, and will endeavor to in
fluence the solons to legislate in the in
terests of the fishing induBtry. . ; .'
THE ASTORIA STRIKERS.
Attempts to Commit Murder Continue
. Firing from Ambush.
- The fishermen around Astoria are still
pursuing their bloody work, j 'j v
'. Sheriff Hare of Astoria received a tele
gram from Clifton Saturday evening
stating that masked men had boarded a
fishing boat at Woody island, five miles
below ' Ciift.on, and were throwing 150
salmon overboard. So many boats are
now engaged in fishing up the river in
the neighborhood of Clifton that one
patrol boat is insufficient to protect
them. Arrangements were accordingly
made this evening to put on a second
patrol boat. ; Sheriff ' Hare in .speaking
of the affair, said this evening:
"Just as quickly as fishermen ask for
protection they shall have it", even if it
is necessary to cover the entire Colum
bia river within my jurisdiction with
patrol boats." .
An attempt was also made to murder
a fisherman named Sam" Br6wn, who
was fired on from shore by parties in
ambueh. . Sheriff-Hare's patrol boat im
mediately eteamed for the spot where
the shot' bad been heard, and found
Brown some distance up the sloughs,
daring the men in ambuab to come out
and give him fair fight. "You cowardly
" Brown was heard to say.
yon dare not show your heads and give
a man a lair snow." lne wonia-De
murderers refused to come out, however,
and Brown finally resumed fishing oper
ations. -The following private dispatch
was received from Clifton tonight by
The Oregonian correspondent here:
fTuis morning one of the Cook's
most successful fishermen, while on bis
way to the cannery, was attacked by 25
men, some of whom were masked.. After
disarming himt the attacking party
threw 150 salmon, valued at $150, over
board. ' This afternoon another of Cook's
men was attacked and disarmed, and 80
salmon were thrown in the river. Other
fishermen have been fired npon within
the last 24 hours. One brave fellow
was fired upon from the shore and made
for his assailant, ho took to the woods
Sheriff Hare has placed a posse' of depu
ties, above Clifton, but this is not suffi
cient.- ? We desire more protection, and,
to the credit of Sheriff Hare, be has
promised it," ' '. :.
All efforts to settle the fishermen's
strike through mediation of the Cham
ber of Commerce and the committee of
citizens have proved unavailing, and the
movement was entirely abandoned this
afternoon, leaving the anion complete
master of the situation, and stronger
than ever.
Last Hours of the Grand Lodge.
Promptly at 9 o'clock yesterday morn
Grand Chief Templar W, W. Breeden
called the grand lodge to order and the
beautiful ritnalistic service of the order
was used in opening. -
The morning was occupied in listening
to reports of the subordinate lodges and
by consent of the grand chief templar,
(though out' of the regular order of busi
ness) E. H. Merrill was allowed to present
the subject of a grand lodge organ. He
showed by figures that if all members of
the order would take hold of the matter
a paper could be published that would
be very useful as a medium of communi
cation between the lodges, bucb a
paper could be famished at the very low
price of 15 cents per year per member,
This matter was finally left to a commit
tee to investigate, and George . Ernest
Stewart was appointed chairman, with
power to select the other members of
the committee -
The remainder of . the morning was
spent in routine business, there being
two cases of appeals that were referred to
committees to investigate.
' AFTERNOON AND FAREWELL. "
The- initiation of officers took place
at 2 o'clock, after which reports from
the district, and . juvenile- lodges were
listened to and then with the usual vote
of thanks for every lodge who had con
tributed to the success and pleasure of
this meeting, and with the touching
farewell service, the thirty-second ses
sion of the grand lodge came to an end.
The following is a complete list of the
newly-elected officers :
W. W. Breeden, P. G. C.T.. ;
W.M. Shank, G.-C. T.'"' '
W. L. Blackwell, G. Conn. .
; Eva G. Bryant, G. V. T.
Mm. J. E. Barnett, G. S. J..T. -
W. S. Hurst, G Secy. '-;
r M. D; Markbam, G. T. v ;
Mrs. F. W. Cann, G. Chap. ;
J. E. Haines, G. Marshal. " -,
Miss S. Fain, G. Depty Marshal. -;"
Retta Dawson, G. G. '
G. Dana, G. S. w, '
A. N. Varney, Asst. Secy.
J. H. Diblee, G. Mess. - . '
Edith Randall, Organist.
Representatives to the International
Grand Lodge, which holds its meetings
in Zurich, Switzerland, next , month,
wereu. H. .Newell, St.-Helens and w.
W. Breeden, of Forest Grove. .. ;
lne next grand lodge will hold its ses
sion at Portland the first week in Jane,
1897. ;--".--. .
GOLD PLANK ASSURED
Convention Will Declare for
: Soundest Kind of Money. -
THE SILVER MEN WILL BOLT
They Will Probrbly Pat Up Teller for
' President and Fish for JDemo
' - cratlo Endorsement.'
- St. Louis, 'Jane 14. When Hon
Charles W. Fairbanks, the temporary
chairman, arrived this morning from
Indianapolis, Mr. Hanna and others
others had a long conference with him
over the keynote speech, and later) this
keynote speech was submitted to a con
ference of McKinley leaders., It is un
deratood the keynote speech will be in
the line of the Indiana platform, which
specially shows opposition to the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.
Senator Dubois, of Idaho, and Repre
sentative Hartman, of Montana, joined
Tenator -Teller here tonight. There is
no longer any doubt of the purpose of
these radical Bilver men to bolt the ac
tion of the convention unless they can
have their way about the financial-
plank. They realize that they are in a
hopeless minority, and they have care
fully laid their plans to wait out of the
convention. The programme they have
arranged will probably furnish the
most dramatic and sensational incident
of the convention. They intend, as a
preliminary, to marshal all the strength
thev can in the committee on resolutions
for silver.. They know they win fail,
but instead of their attempting to Becure
a compromise, it will be their plan so to
throw their strength in the committee
as to force, if possible, the adoption of a
straight-out gold plank, believing that
an emphatic gold declaration will put
them in a more advantageous position
for what ib to follow.
' HAS VOTES TO SPARE.
McKinley Claims Six Hand red and-Forty
"" .Delegates.'' ' ' "r'"
St. Lours, June 13. Mr. McKinley's
headquarters have been crowded all day,
and tonight access to them was almost
impossible. Mark Hanna and General
Grosvenor, after tonight's session of the
national committee, said McKinley bad
640 votes, as the conteBt now stands,
Major Charles Dick, who is doing the
tabulating as the committee proceeds
with temporary consideration of . the
contests, puts the McKinley vote on the
first ballot at 633, with 460 necessary to
nominate. The opposition is keeping
ud the fiehLespeciallv the Reed, Morton
and Quay men, and Piatt is not disposed
to make any overtures.
Quay's Name Will Be Presented.
Indianapolis, Jane 13. Governor
Hastings of - Pennsylvania and party
passed through this city, en route to St,
Louis, this morning.
When Hastings was informed that
the morning dispatches stated that
Quay's name would not go before the
convention be said : '
"It is a mistake, for I am to present
bis- name myself. . He has 60 out of 64
Pennsylvania delegates. Surely a can
didale could not complain of that.
These delegates will vote for him to the
last." - -' ' 1
'If McKinley is nominated, will Quay
accept second place?" ; ; , . -
"I am not authorized to say anything
on that point. We are going there to
nominate him for president, and not to
make any compromises. ,
The Grasshopper Plagae. -
South Bend, Ind.,' June 13. Grass
hoppers are doing' immense damage in
portions' of this county. 'Alexander
Smith, of Center township,. has 80 acres-
of wheat from which every blade has
been eaten. Another 80 acres is being
eaten up entire as well : as 15 acres of
potatoes and a large neid ot oats. .
Core for Headache.
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Electric Bitters has proved to be the very
best. It effects a permanent care and
the most dreaded habitual sick headache
yields to its influence. . We urge all who
are afflicted to procure a bottle, and give
this remedy .a fair trial. In cases of
habitual constibatioh Electric Bittets
cores : by giving a needed tone to the
bowels, and few cases long resist the use
of this medicine. Try it once.- Fifty
cents and $1.00 at Blakeley and Hough
ton's Drag istore. .
When Baby Trail sick, -sre ga-e her CaBtarta.
When she was a Chad, she cried for Castorla. . "
When she became Hiss, she chmg to Castarfa.
Winn she had Children, she gave them Castorl,
PLATFORM AGITATION.
Three-Cornered Jright Upon the Money
Issue. " -
St. Louis, June 15. Today promises
to be a day ot. platform agitation. "
three-corned fight has drawn the lines
sharply. . The men from the East' de
manding gold in the . platform are very
determined;
Lodge, Piatt and other opponents of
McKinley seem to feel that they are
placing McKinley in the hole by insist
ing npon an emphatic gold declaration
being made.; Their programe is to force
the fight in the committee on resolu
tions, and if they cannot win in the com
mittee .to carry " it to', the convention
Lodge, the Reed manager, is to lead the
fight for a gold declaration, and if it is
not granted be and other Reed men have
a faint hope that the refusal to put gold
in the platform will solidity the gold vote
on Reed, but the fact that so many Mc
Kinley men are for gold gives rise to the
hope that the gold men may be success
fui. ; . ; '. - "
It has been the effort of the friends of
McKinley to avoid a fight in the conven
tion between the lections favoring the
single standard and against free coin ace
There has been a drift towards a moder
ate expression in favor of gold, and there
is quite a pressure from several states for
a declaration against free coinage, and
not to have the word gold used in the
platform at all. ' '
. Lodge, who has drafted the gold decla
ration, and secured its indorsement, by
the representatives of a number of states,
has been Dressing his plank with a great
deal of persistency, and irritated some
who would prefer a milder declaration
General Grosvenor, of Ohio, said this
Doming: . '.
"We know that there is a great , effort
being made to force a certain form of de
claration, but the probabilities are that
no one will know what the financial
plank will be until the committee on re
solutions reports. It may be the fight
as to the form of the resolution will be
carried to -the convention. The financial
plank will be what we want ; that is all
there is to it."
' The silver men were at first disposed
to aid the ultra gold men in securing the
straightest kind of declaration, but there
is an indication that they are not quite
so enthusiastic in that direction as at
first.' There are some who seem anxious
to make a dramatic exit from the con
vention hall, but the count up to date
finds a number of waverers, and the pro
bability that there would be representa
tives of all the delegations left on the
floor makes the proposed grandstand
play seem a little doubtful as to the ef
fect. There is a disposition toward mod
eration among the prominent silver men,
which nay make the bolt less preten
tious than advertised. ' '
HURRAH FOR OREGON.
Oar Delegation Drafts a Sensible Flnan-
- elal Resolution. .
St. Louis, June 15. The'Oregon dele
gation made the following selections:
National committeeman, George ' A.
Steele; vice-president of the convention,
J. Hv Calbreath ; resolutions, Charles S.
Moore ; creden tials, Wallace McCaman t ;
permanent organization, J. W. Mel-
dram; notification,! Charles Hilton;
chairman of the delegation, Charles Par-
rish; secretary, R. A. Booth.
The Oregon delegation adopted the fol
lowing resolution, and will submit it to
the national committee on resolutions
"The Republican party baa - always
been an. advocate of honest money; . it
points with pride to its financial record
during the greenback movement. ' It
was opposed to the greenback inflation
then ; it is opposed to silver inflation
now. It believes that - every -- dollar
issued by the government should have
the same purchasing power as every
other dollar. We are, therefore; in favor
of the maintenance of the present gold
standard, and except through- interna
tional Agreement, we are opposed to the
free or unlimited. coinage of silver." . "
In addition to the above declaration,
the.delegation .also a doped a resolution
indorsing Senator McBride for his action
in opposing free silver in the United
states senate. ' ,. .
, . : - ' .; - , :
They Were J-alat-Hearted.
Huntington Depot. W. Va.,' Jane .12
Fortv miles east of Charleston, on the
b. & O. read, masked, tnen boarded the
Washington . and V' Cincinnati ...express
train at midnight, and crawled over the
engine tender into the cab with revolvers
drawn.'- The engineer stopped the train.
He was commanded to cat loose the ex
press car. This was done. The passen
gers were awakened and the lights were
extinguished. After ten minutes' work,
the bandits became frightened, and es
caped to the mountains. ;-
- - - .- .
, Alone;) Money! Money 1
To pay Wasco county warrants regis
tered prior 'to July 3, 1892. Interest
ceases after May 15, 1896. ; ' . - V : . - -
. . WM. HICHELL, .
myl8-tf , : : : . County Treas. .
CONVENTION : OPENED
Massachusetts Will Cast Her
' Vote Solid for. Reed.
PLATT TO NAME VICE PRESIDENT
Whereat New Jersey Sorrows Prin
cipal Speech This Forenoon
- Made by Fairbanks. 7 "
Speclal to. The Chronicli: '
St. Louis, June 16. The weather to
day is fine. The delegates at all the
hotels were op earl v and several meet
i ings were held before breakfast. Quay
expressed himself Batiefied . with the
financial plank already agreed upon.
No nominations are expected this week.
The convention was called at 12:20 p.
m. by Carter. Rabbisale offered a long
invocation.' Secretary Manly, of Maine,
then read the call for tho convention. .
' A great demonstration occurred when
Charles Carter introduced C. W. Fair
banks, of Indiana, as tempory chairman.
The nomination was seconded by-Wm.
H. Southerland, of New York delegatiod,
and his selection v was unanimously. in
dorsed. . -'.'".
Massachusetts will be solid for Reed,
though the nomination of McKinley has
beenNronceded. It. is understood the
Hanna and McKinley managers have
giveii Piatt the privilege to name a can
didate for vice president, much to the
sorrow of " New ' Jersey delegates!
who believed their candidate, Garrett
A. Hobart, would be victorious. Piatt
has informed Harrna that he would not
consider the vice-presidency until filter
the president was nominated. - -
, Later. At the opening of the conven
tion the balls were crowded and an ex
tra force -of police were applied for to
preserve. order. The principal speech of
the morning was that of Charles W
Fairbanks, .of Indiana, on the currency
question, which was wildly applauded.
FOR SECOND PLACE.
Nomination of an Eastern Man Is New
Conceded.
St. Louis, June 15. It is generally
admitted that the large numoer ol vice-
presidential candidates will necessitate
adjournment after the nomination of
the presidential candidate, and a conse
quent delay in the work of the conven
tion. ,
The New York delegation has given
up hopes of securing a favorable answer
from Governor Morton, but will urge
him, if McKinley is nominated ib ac
cept. Meantime, however, rumor is
busy with the name of J. Sloat Fasset of
New York, and his name is favorably
received by the Western delegates. The
boom for . Garrett A Hobartis being
pushed with great vigor and he will un
doubtedly prove a formidable antago
nist to the many other men mentioned.
- The Maine people have two candidates,
leaving oat of consideration the move
ment in Dingley's favor. Senator Frye
and Governor Clews had open suppot
this morning in a friendly rivalry. Mc
Kinley people busied themselves today
with the names of two Easterners,
Channcey M. Depew and Warner Miller.
Depew would be acceptable to the New
York factions, and - Miller would not.
It is the general view that the vice-presidential
nomination shall go to the East.
THEY WILL SUPPORT REED.
Colored Deleg-ates Say They Are -Through
With MoKlnl'ey.
St. Louis; June 15. Henry Cabot
Lodge, Joseph Manley, State Insurance
Commissioner Carr and other Maine
workers were extremely active this
morning, yet frank in their- statements
that McKinley had a clear majority.
Senator Lodge had a conference with
South Carolina,. Florida, West Virginia
and New York colored men, and an
nounced that be bad received assurances
from them of active support for Reed -and
a pledge for missionary work. He
said t . - . . - '
"The colored Southern delegates have
been badly treated by the. McKinley
Highest of all in Leavening Power.
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managers. They were promised great
consideration and received none. A ma
jority of them have declared for Reed."
A significant fact in this connection is
that Caleb Simms; of New York, a prom
inent Piatt colored man and instructed
alternate' for Morton, wfts one of the
leaders in the movement of colored men
toward Reed. The Kerens faction, of
the Missouri delegation, owing to the
fact that Hanna is supposed to be treat
ing with Chauncey I. Gilley, bo'dly an
nounced that they were through with"
McKinley, took down his pictures and
decorated for Reed. Naturally there
was rejoicing in the Reed camp.
An Oregonian in Illinois.
. Washington, III.,-June 12, 1896. ,
Editor Chronicle;: -As all the eltj-.
sens of Wasco county take and read
The Chronicle ' (If they don't they "
ought to) it will save me the time and
work of writing many letters by writing
a brief item to you. -. ' . '
- Four . days and fourteen hours of
pleasant and not fatiguing traveling
passed me from The Dalles to Washing
ton, Illinois, a quicker trip than I made
forty-four years ago with an ox-team ;
and instead of meeting on -the route
sage brush, wild, savage Indians and -buffalo
by the thousand, I now find
cities with macadamized streets, fine
brick buildings,. three, four and fire
stories high, and with populations vary
ing from a few hundred to 106,000, '
which latter figure is the population of
Denver, a city without an equal as to ;
order, beautiful streets and buildings
Spent four hours there,' met of the time
01 street cars. ' -
Have now Bpent four days in Wash
ington," where I passed my boyhood
days. Found my sisters, who were the
object of my visit, but very few of my
boyhood associates. They have mostly
been transported across the dark river.
Great changes take place in forty-four
years. .
- It will be a satisfaction to the many
friends of Andrew Auderson to know
he stood the trip better than was ex
pected.. I accompanied him to Topeks,
Kansas. . v
Of all that I have seen on this journey
of more than two thousand miles, as to
climate, scenery, manners and customs
of the peoplej etc., Oregon for iuo.
loure Very iruiy.
- , VV. M. MCOORKLE.
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Eggers, 139 Florida St.' San Francisco,
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everything- else then -bought one bottle
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