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VOL. VI.
THE DALLES. WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1896.
NUMBER 42.
THREE FASTEST HEATS
WHERETHE WORK1NGMAN WILL GET IT.
A CONTINUED CRUSH
READY FOR THE MATCH
Remarkable Performance of
sStar Pointer.
BEAT ROBERT J. AND FRANK AGAN
Lowned the World's Record for tin
Fastest Heat Ever Paced, and
Might Have Done Better.
Medford, Mass., Sept. IS. Star
Pointer, at Mystic Point, this afternoon
not onlv beat two accredited faster
horses Robert J. (2:01M) and Frank
Agan (2 :03) but nased the three fast
est beats ever made in competition, the
time being 2:02, 2:03 and 2:03, an
average of 2:03'. He also lowered the
world's record for the fastest heat ever
paced- -2 :02V as well as the records
for the fastest quarter and half 29
and 69, respectively.
The race between the three pacers
was phenomena, for. while in the first
heat Robert J. was beaten by ten
lengths, in the next two he was close on
the leaders, coming in second in the
third heat. Frank Agan in the whole
race was never a length behind, and at
one time was a nope to the good. Star
Pointer, however, managed to go under
the wire first in every beat, and must
have had something in reserve, for Mc
Cleary never raised his whip in the
three times.
It was shortly after 2 o'clock when the
gong rang for the pacers. Robert J. was
the favorite, 100 to 200, with Agan, 65 to
200, and Star Pointer, 35 to 200. Star
Pointer had the pole, and, after two at
tempts, the threee were sent away well
bunched. The pace from the start was
terrific, much too fast for Robert J.
who dropped behind the other two.
being five lengths in the rear at the first
quarter, which was made in sec
onds. Pointer and Agan were neck and
neck all the way down the back stretch,
making the half in 59, with Robert J
still further behind. The three-qnarter
pole was reached in 1 :3l, with Pointer
still in the lead, and, notwithstanding
the fact that McCarty applied the whip
the son of Flora could not reach Pointer
and the two riiBhed under the wire in
the record-breaking time of 2:02
Robert J. being ten lengths behind.
The second heat was still more exeit
ing, Frank Agan poked his nose in front
of Pointer in the back stretch, but it was
only for a moment, and, with a little
burst of speed, Pointer soon regained his
place. Robert J. showed up much bet
ter in this heat, and was close on Agan
all the way through. The quarter was
made in 31. the half in 1 :02, the third
quarter in 1 :33 aud the mile in 2 :08.
In the third heat, Pointer led from the
start, but. Robert J. managed to over
take Agan at the three-quarter pole and
last furlong was the most exciting of the
whole day. Pointer, however, won the
heat and race by a nose, in 2:03, mak
ing the quarter in 30, the half 1:01J
and the three-quarters in 1:32.
RIOT AT LEAD VI LIB.
Threatened Assault by Striking Miner
Has Began.
Leadville, Sept. 21. At 1 o'clock
this morning, three heavy explosions
aroused the sleepers in the eastern part
of the city for blocks around the Coro
nada mine, which is the one that first
resumed operations, and which was
heavily barricaded, and well stocked
with provisions and arms.
The explosions were followed by
fusillade of rifle shots, apparently from
within the barricade, and rapid bat ir
regular-shots from the outside, apparent'
ly from a widely scattered attacking
iorce, who were on hand to proteet the
retreat of the dynamiters.
The shooting lasted for ten minutes,
and all was silent for about five minutes,
when desa tor v firing was renewed, and
has been kept up ever Bince.
This office is now being watched by
several hands of men grouped in dark
corners and alleys, and this may mean
they propose to prevent any communi
cations with the telegraph offices, the
watchers not knowing that we have the
leased wire and long-distance telephone.
The city is in a panic of fear. County
and city officials are looking after the
work of the police and sheriffs. Bullets
frequently whistle over this office, and
altogether the situation is warlike.
1 ;60 a. m. A bright blaze has just
broken oat at the Coronado, or in the
immediate vicinity, and shots are still
being exchanged.
2:10 a. m. Citizens have gone to
the scene with whatever arms they can
gather, and a militia company quar
tered across the street has just marched
toward the Coronado under arms.
' The whistle which calls out all citizens
in case of emergency has just sonnded, j
Prom Harper's Weekly. Copyright, 1890, by Harper & Brothers.
Betan to Workings!!: "Now, hold still, and I'll cut your dollar in
two without hurting you a bit. "
and the streets are fuil of rushing me,
crying women and children.
2:45 a.m. Everything is on fire at
the Coronado, and the fire department
ia now working to save the houses,
which are thickly clustered about the
fated shaft-bouse. Women and children
are ruahing to the spot looking for rela
tives and mingling with those w ho are
being driven from their houses by the
flames, create a scene of pathos beyond
description. The firemen hope to save
the houses, and are helped by a heavv
rain, which began falling a few minutes
ago.
The miners strike, of which tonight's
lawlessness is the outcome, began three
months ago yesterday. The union scale
of wages in Leadville was $3 for every
body, but in 1893, when the price ot
silver dropped below 00 cents an ounce,
an agreement- was made that $2.50
should be accepted for some classes of
work until silver should return to. S3
cents.
All the State Troops OrJered Out.
Denveb, Sept. 21. At 2:30 this (Mon
day) morning, Sheriff Newman, of Lead
ville, and Judge Owers, of the district
nnnrt sf T ana itnnntir oallarl nnnn Hnv.
T . r " . ,, I
ernor Mclntvre for troops to quell the
riot at Leadville. The governor at once
issued the call, and before daylight the
entire military force of the state will be
en route for the scene of the trouble.
The troops from this city, two infantry
companies ana a battery, will reach
Leadville by noon.
A Unique Epistle.
Washington, Sept. 18. The personal
letter from the emperor of China to
President Cleveland, which formed the
credentials of Li Hung Chang, has been
placed on exhibition in the library of
the department of state. The letter is
written on a scroll of lemon-colored
parchment paper about five feet in
length by a foot and a half in width, a
portion being in ancient Chinese and
part in Chinese characters with the
royal red seal and the emperor's auto
graph in the center. The envelope is
unique, being a great sheet of yellow
satin embroidered in gold and silver,
with exquisite workmanship, with five
large Chinese double dragons, conven
tionally arranged.
Maeeo Near Flnar Del Bio.
Havana, Sept. 18. The rebel leader,
Maceo, has left his stronghold in the
mountains, and is encamped with a large
force on the Danes estate, south of Pinar
del Rio Citv. An attack on that city is
momentarily expected.
It is rumored here that Captain-Gen
eral Weyler will soon take command of
the Spanish forces in Pinar del Rio, with
the intention of expelling Maceo from
the province. If true, hard fighting is
expected. The Cuban chiefs have de
termined to make any sacrifice to effect
Captian General Weyler's capture.
The Wasco Warehouse Co. begs leave
to inform Farmers that they have STOR
AGE 'ROOM for . 200,000 SACKS of
WHEAT and any one wishing to store
their wheat and - hold for later market
can do so on usual terms. Also, thev
will pay the HIGHEST CASH PRICE
for Wheat, Oats, Barley and Rye. s2w
What 16 to 1 Has Never Done.
It has never kept gold aud silver at a
parity.
It has never once given us, under free
coinage, practical bimetallism that is,
the concurrent circulation of gold and
silver.
The ratio of 16 to 1 was adopted in
1834. It represented the then commer
cial ratio, the market values of the two
metals.
In the 40'years following the adoption
of this ratio and np to 1874 there were
coined less than 7,000,000 silver dol
lars, or not so many by 500,000 as were
coined from Jan. 1 to July 1 in this
year.
And never during the whole period
did gold and silver circulate freely to
gether as equal money. What reason has
Mr. Bryan for his "firm conviction"
that they will do so now under free,
coinage, when the difference in the com-'
meroial ratio is far greater than at any
time during the period from 1834 to
1878?
For Sale, Exchange or Lease.
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bead of good brood mares and a thor
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Will sell either separately or all together
on easy terms. Or will exchange for a
small, well improved, unencumbered
farm in Oregon or Washington west of
the Cascades. Or will lease same to re
sponsible party for five years. Old age
is the reason for wanting a change.
Call on or address resident owner,
T. J. Moffit,
s2-wtf Gorman, Sherman Co., Or.
Died.
' Major P. Gallagher, formerly Indian
agent at Fort Hall, died at Warm
Springs agency on Sept. 10th at 5 :20 a.
m. of heart disease. He was a native of
Ireland, coming to Virginia in 1852, and
served in the 45th Virginia regiment
under Stonewall Jackson. He came to
Warm Springs agency about the middle
of June, and has been in poor health
ever since bis arrival. His body was
brought to this city this morning, and
will be taken toPocatello tonight, whete
his family now are,
It is the same old story and yet con
stantly recurring that Simmons Liver
Regulator is the best family medicine.
"We have used it in our family for
eight years and find it the best medicine
we have nsed. "We think there is no
such medicine as Simmons Liver Regu
lator." Mrs. M. E. S. Adington, Frank
lin, N. C. Each member of our family
uses it as occasion requires." W. B.
Smith, Mt. Vernon, Ky. S
Oldest Woman In the Country.
Dexison, Tex., Sept. 21. Mrs. Sallie
Alberson, aged 115 years, who resided
near Colbert, is dead. Mrs. Alberson
was the wife oi Chief Alberson, who was
in the Creek war with Jackson in 1812.
She was the oldest person in the nation,
and has great-grandchildren who have
passed the half-century milepost. ,
Thousands of Kailroaders
See McKinley.
NO HALL WAS LARGE ENOUGH
Senator Sherman Speajcs In Montana
Mitchell and Ford at Newport,
Oregon.
Canton, Sept. 19. In spite of the bad
weather people began pouring into Can
ton this morning at a lively rate. With
the single exception of yesterday, today
furnished the largest crowd of the cam
paign. The first arrivals were railroad
men. There were eleven trainloads of
these. ' '
Besides the railroad men the delegates
scheduled for the day were: Republi
cans of Hulton, Pa., two trainloads from
the Carnegie steel works at Homestead,
people from stations between James
town, N. Y., and Newcastle, Pa., from
points on Western New York & Penn
sylvania railroad, commercial travelers
of Cincinnati and Pittsburg and a num
ber of trains from Northern Ohio.
The Hulton, Pd., delegation of 1,000
arrived at 11 o'clock. Rain was pouring
down and they were received in the
Grand opera house. The good wishes of
the visitors were extended by General C
A. Litchfield and Dr. C. M. C. Camp
bell. Major McKinley responded.
During the meeting delegates from the
Carnegie-eity mills, 1,200 strong, came
in, and their reception was also held at
the opera house, L. T. Brown, superin
tendent of the mills, introducing the
party. At 12:30 ten trains came, com
pleting the Chicago railroad party, and
bringing 4,800 railroad men.
No hall could be found sufficiently
large for the crowd of railroad men and
they braved the rain to hold their re
ception on the lawn. It began to rain
just as Major McKinley began to speak,
but he declined to have an umbrella
held over him, and stood the shower, as
did his audience. He spoke at some
length on the importance of the railroad
interest, and how it is influenced by the
questions of the present campaign.
When this reception was finished, about
3 o'clock, the representatives of Mercer
county, Pennsylvania, were awaiting an
audience, and behind them was a large
delegation from Butler county, Penn
sylvania. f
Sherman In Montana.
Helena, Mont., Sept. 19. United
Slates Senator John Sherman, of Ohio,
is out West for an outing with General
Miles, and has been visiting in Helena
while General Miles went north on a
hunting trip, talked about sound money
to a large audience in the Auditorium
here tonight. The speech was under
the direction of the officers of the Btate
central committee of the Republican
party. On the platform were Senator
Thomas H. Carter and ex-Senators'
Power and Sanders, besides a number of
members of the McKinley and Hobart
club of Helena. Governor Ritkard's
private secretary, A. B. Keith, of this
city, asked permission, at the opening
of the meeting, to submit a list of ques
tions prepared by the silver Republi
cans to answer, and sent them to tne
platform, but Senator Sherman said that
be had given it out beforehand that
those who wished to have questions an
swered should send them to him during
the afternoon, and he would pay no at
tention to those that had not been sent
in that way. The main part of Senator
Sherman's address was on the financial
question. He went over the history of
the coinage acts of the government ever
since the beginning, and declared that
the silver dollar had been left out of
consideration in 1853, and that the act
of 1873, known as the "crime of '73,"
did not demonetize Eilver at all.
CUPIDITY JUSTLY KB WARDED.
Bad
Investment Made
hy an Oakland
Woman.
Oakland, Cal., Sept. 21. The very
natural desire of John Patton to be made
comfortable for the remainder of his
days and the hope of Mrs. A. F. Steele
to increase her worldly store, already
ample, have furnished a sensation which
has to do with the peace and quiet of a
lady well-known and highly respected in
society's most exclusive circles.
Patton, who is an old soldier, said he
had located a mining claim near Grant's
Pass, Or., bnt bad no money with which
to work it. His story interested the
woman of wealth to such an extent that
she had the claim prospected and agreed
to support the old man for the rest of
his life. The mine did not pan ont to
the lady's expectations and now she is
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A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of
all in leavening strength. Latest U:iitti States
Government Food Report.
Royal Baking Powder Co., New York
trying to rid herself of her pensioner.
But the old man holds an agreement in
writing, and he refuses to abandon the
lead which he has struck late in life,
and which has thus far yielded more pay
dirt than anything he ever tumbled on
to in the olden, if not golden days of his
prospecting.
Mrs. Steele has invoked the aid of the
police to rid her of the drain on her
purse, but "the officers of the law are
powerless to interfere, and the lady goes
paying Patton his pens-ion, viewing with
alarm his rejuvenating health. When
she first saw him he was wellnigh
starved, and his days on earth seemed
numbered. He has improved greatly
with the aid of her donations and
threatens to live long enough to make' f.
sad rent in her fortune.
WOULD SET VP A REPUBLIC.
Desire for Freedom Infects - Chinese of
America.
New York, Sept. 21. It is whispered
around the city that an influential and
far-ramifying conspiracy exists to over
throw the dynasty of 'China and estab
lish a republic. While the Chinese em
pire is in no imminent danger, there is
an organization with headquarters ir
New York which has for its ultimate ob
ject its overthrow, but will content itself
for the present with an agitation looking
to the betterment of the Chinese people.
This organization has its headquarters
in New York and a large and influen
tial offshoot in San Francisco, and
branches in every city where Chinese
abound. Its members are banded by
solemn oaths, and no Chinese are ad
mitted who are not intelligent and of
good moral character.
The president of the organization is
said to be Walter N. Fong, the first
Chinese graduate of Stanford university,
and bis principal colleagues and ad
visers are the Chinese graduates of Yale,
Harvard and other American univer
sities. - They propose an incursion ' of
school books and the Bible into China
and have secret emissaries well supplied
with literature and argument among
the Chinese to arouse them to the ne
cessity of a new order of things.
WOBK
OF THE RIOTERS.
Five Lives
Known to Have Been Sac
rificed.
Leadville, Sept. 21. Five lives at
least were sacrificed in fighting and the
work of destruction at the Coronado
mine and the Emmet mine.
Bert Meir and James Benson, both
miners employed at the Coronado, were
killed ' by the explosion. They were
identified only by papers found on their
bodies. The dying are: William
O'Keefe, foreman of hose company No.
2, shot through the stomach.
J as. Higgms, a miner, employed in
the Coronado mine, shot eight times in
the arms and stomach.
John Mahoney, a miner, shot through
the stomach.
Frank Telle and Martin Scott, Coro
nado miners, were snot but their in
juries are not fatal.
Today hundreds of miners say they
will go to work at once. They bitterly
denounce the extremists and say their
action has lost the miners the strike
The arrival of the militia is anxiously
awaited despite the apparent calm
Local companies have been sent to the
hills and armed citizens are patroling
the streets. The-city council today de
cided to1 aid the state officers in appre
hending the rioters. At a mas meeting
this afternoon the lawless element will
be denounced and it will bj demanded
that troublesome men leave the camp.
Bucks For Sale.
About one hundred head of thorough
bred De Lane Bucks for sale. These
thoroughbred sheep were imported from
Michigan. They are fat and clean. Par
ties desiring to see them at once can go
to Glenwood, Wash., as they are pas
tured in the mountains near that place.
For further particulars apply'to
Kerr & Buckley,
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Only a Spark Needed to Pre
cipitate War in the East.
THE TURK CLEARED FOR ACTION
Awaiting; the Word to Slaughter All
Christians aud Bombard the For
eign Colony of Constantinople.
London, Sept. 21. The Berlin corres
pondent of the Times quotes a Constan
tinople dispatch to the Vossieche-Zei-tung
from an nuusually well-informed
correspondent, which is said to have
evaded the censorship of the Turkish
officials, and which says:
"Last Wednesday and Thursday,
everything was ready for a general mas
sacre of Christians, and a bombardment
of the foreign quarter of Constantinople,
should the European warships attempt
to pass the Dardanelles. There were 43
guns placed in position on the heights
above Para, and the Turkish fleet in the
harbor was cleared for action. The
street patrols were cleared for action.
The street patrols were composed ex
clusively of palace troops, while the
Sopatchis and Kurdish cavalry, although
apparently unarmed, loitered in the
streets, awaiting the word of command."
The Times has a dispatch from Sebas
topol, which declares that a portion of
the Russian Black sea fleet, consisting
of four ironclads, three gunboats and
several torpedo-boats, is cruising off
Otchicnakoff, at the mouth of the Dneip
er, under orders. On receipt of a tele
gram from the Russian s.mbaseador at
Constantinople, they will join the ad
miral, leaving Sebastopol with the re
mainder of the fleet , and go direct to the
Bosphorus. The whole fleet has been
placed on a war footing, and has em
barked three battalions of infimtry and
troops. The south of Russia has ' also
been placed on a war footing.
How's This!
We offer one hundred dollars reward
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Testimonials free. 1-5-9
True Worth Is In Being, Mot Seeming-.
Many odd jokes can be adapted to, the
present political situation, as for exam
ple:
Mr. Goldman If you call a dog's tail
a leg how many legs has the dog?
Mr. Silverman Five.
Mr. Goldman Wrong.
Mr. Silverman How so?
Mr. Goldman Because calling a dog's
tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
(Exit Mr. Silverman scratching that
soft part of his head Tn which had
lodged the absurd notion that calling
fifty-three cents worth of silver a dollar
would make it a dollar.)
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For Sale.
A lot of Merino sheep, (bucks) also
stock ho8 and milk cows, belonging to
the estate of S. Hauser. For informa
tion inquire of Mrs. S. Hauser, at Tygh
Valley, or the undersigned.
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816-dAwlm Administrator.
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Telephones 128 and 255. Ring 'em
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Treasurer's Call.
All warrants registered prior to July
9, 1892, will be paid at my office next
door to T. A. Hudson's office, Washing
ton street. Interest ceases after this
date.
The Dalles, Or., Aug. 13, 1896.
C. L. Phiixips,
Treasurer.