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VOL. VI.
THE DALLES. WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1896.
NUMBER 43.
THE TIDE HAS TURNED
Confidence Being Restored
in' Business Circles.
UNLOCKING THE BOARDS 0 GOLD
Certainty of McKinley's Election (shown
in the First Wave of Returning-
Prosperity.
New York, Sept. 25f R. G. Dun &
Co. 'e weekly review of trade will say to
morrow :
A very moderate and distinct im
provement is seen, no longer in the buy
ing of materials, which continues at Buff
er prices, bat also in orders for prod
nets of some industries, in money mar
kets and in export of staples, and it is
yet littla more than a step towards bet
ter things, bat has already started some
imDortant works and prompted a few
considerable contracts.
Continuing arrivals of cold have
raised the treasury reserve about $125,
000,000, strengthened the -banks and re
lazed the stringency in commercial
loans, so that at about 1 per cent lower
rates more business was done than in
three previous weeks. Hoarding is no
longer reported, but same hoards are
being unlocked.
The movement of crops continues
large, and purchasers for exports have
advanced prices or prevented depression.
While the gain in working force is not
great, it seems clear that, fur the first
time iu many months, there is some
gain. An important change is the gen
eral advance in produce, and especially
in wheat, which rose sharply on Thurs
day and Friday, closing bVc higher for
the week, with much buying, apparently
for foreign account.
Reports of crops abroad njere supposed
to be the chief cau?e, as visible supplies
in this country increased largely; but
for the first time since July, receipts fell
below those of the same week last year.
They are still large, and for the first
quarter of the crop thus far have been
62,721,158 bushels against 40,414,351 last
year, a gain of about 30 per cent, and it
is conceivable but cannot be considered
quite probable that such receipts have
come from a crop smaller than last
year's, although prices averaged lOJc
in July and 6.8 lower in August than
last year.
ONE MAN'S VOICE.
Raised ia
Snppurt of the Ottoman
Empire.
Paris, Sept. 25. "It is high time that
some protest was made against the
frenzy which has jaeizr-d a large portion
of the British press and the British pub
lie with regard to Turkish affairs."
Such are the weighty words of Sir
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, M. P., in a long
and interesting letter on the Armenian
question. Sir Ellis says among other
things:
"So far from the Turks being the in
human monsters depicted by Mr. Glad
stone and other fanatics, who are en
deavoring by tbpir frantic agitation to
cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war in
Enrope, the Turks have a moderating
and restraining' influence on all Strug'
gling and warring non-MussuIrnan races,
who bat for Turkish control woald have
exterminated each other long ago."
The great danger to the Ottoman em
pire, be affirms, is the risk of an out
break of religions and race fanaticism
which statesmen have foreseen and have
always Btriven to avert. Such fanaticism
wan aroused by the Armenian outbreak
in 1895, and its result was an outburst of
fury that cost the lives of thousands of
. innocent Armenians with all the attend
ant horrors that were so dwelt upon in
the English preBS.
Sir Ellis calls on the fanatical agita
tors to recollect that the lives of mil
lions ot Ottoman Christians are at the
mercy of the Mussulmans of Asia Minor;
that the queen of England has 70,000,000
Mnesalman subjects in India and their
most important ally, the emir ot Af
ghanistan, is also a Mohammedan ; also
with one or two socialistic exceptions,
the intelligent press of Europe ia pro
testing against the "atrocity" agitation
in England.
"Fortunately," he concludes," "there
is enough statesmanship and common
sense left among the nations and gov
ernments of Europe to curb the mad
fanaticism now raging in England and
to save the English government from
being dragged into the vortex."
The Tale News Apologize.
New Haven, Sept. 25. The ' Yale
News has the following editorial com
menting on the disturbance at the Bryan
meeting yesterday :
"The Yale News must deprecate the
spirit of 'horse-play' this Is the true
light in which the' animus must be re
gardedwhich promoted the demonstra
tion at yesterday's political meetings.
The action of Yale men present plainly
showed a lack of respect for the dignity
of the speaker as a public man, every
thing political aside. A caretul and
fair-minded consideration by any one
will unanimously condemn and regret
the exhibition irrespective of party
affiliations. Yale was the. foster mother
of Illinois college, where W. J. Bryan
graduated. Illinois college was founded
by a party of graduates from Yale, and
has always looked upon Yale as itB
parent institution.'
Talmage Will Net ake a Hand.
Washington, Sept. 27. Rev. T. De
witt Talmage, in a sermon at the First
Presbyterian church today, made the
following allusion to the presidential
campaign: t
"During the last six presidential cam
paigns I have been urged to enter the
political arena, but I never have and
never will turn the pulpit in which I
preach into a political stump. . Every
minister must do as he feels called upon
to do, and I will not criticise him for
doing what he considers his duty, but
all the political harangues from pulpits
from now until the 3d of November, will
not, in all the United States, change one
vote, but will leave many ears stopped
against anything that such clergymen
may utter the rest of their lives."
This statement was followed by a ref
erence to the depression now prevailing
throughout the country, and he said
that never within his memorv had "so
many people literally starved to death
as in the past few months."
He believed the country was better off
after every crisis and that the Almighty
would settle the controversy between
the metals.
GOLD STANDARD WINS AT BOSTON,
Yellow Metal Democrats Nominate a
State Ticket.
Boston, Sept. 26. At the adjourn
ment of the Democratic state conven
today the gold standard wing of the par
ty decided to place in the field a ticket
favoring tha nominee and platform of
the . convention held in Indianapolis
early this month. This ticket as fixed
by the national Democratic state com
mittee of Massachusetts includes Demo
cratic electors and state officers.
HERE AND THERE.
The wheat yield of Umatilla county
will be at least 4,000,000 bushels this
year, which is only a million bushels
less than the average crop.
An eastern exchange suggests that the
demonetization of horses by the crime of
bicycles may have had something to do
with the price of oats.
The electoral vote of the state of New
York equals the electoral vote of the
states of Washington, Oregon, Califor
nia, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Montana,
Wyoming and Colorado.
In a Kentucky town the other day
Mr. Hale asked Mr. Bush for a chew of
tobacco.. Bush refused to do so, where
upon Hale drew a dirk and stabbed bim
through the heart. Truly a finecut per
forraance.
In the east certain women are said to
be wearing unmatched stockings. Thus
we are going from one glorious innova
tion to another, and life grows every day
more and more delightful, to say noth'
ing of more soulful.
Indians who rode into Harney county
with the intention to do a lot of hunting
this fall were told to "clatawa" by the
citizens. The siwashes considered it
good policy to leave the grizzled pioneers
in possession of the wild game in Har
ney county forests, and quietly departed.
The DUrtvery Saved His Life.
Mr. G. Caillouttee, Druggist, Bearers-
ville, 111. says: "To Dr. King's New
Discovery I owe my life. Was taken
with La Grippe and tried all the physi
cians for miles about, but of no aval
and was given up and told I could not
live. Having Dr. King's New Discovery
in my store I sent for a bottle and began
its use and from the first dose began to
get better, and after using three bottles
was np and about again.. It is worth its
weight in gold. We won't keep store or
house without it." Get a free trial at
Blakeley & Houghton's Drug Store.
None Bnt Ayer's at the World's Fair.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla enjoys the extra'
ordinary distinction of having been the
only blood purifier allowed on exhibit at
the world's fair, Chicago. Manufact
urers of other sarsaparillas sought by
every means to obtain a showing of their
goods, but tbey were all turned away
under the application of the rule for
bidding the entry of patent medicines
and nostrums. The decision of the
world's fair authorities in tavor of Ayer's
Sarsaparilla was in effect as follows:
"Ayer's Sarsaparilla la not a patent
medicine. It does not belong to the
list of nostrums. It is here on its
merits."
GIVES JONES WARNING
Tom Watson Says He Is Be
ing Unfairly Treated.
PUPULISTS BECOMING SUSPICIOUS
If Bryan Wants Their Votes, Sewall
Unst Step Down Populism
Bought and Paid For.
New York, Sept. 27. Thomas Wat
son, the Populist candidate for vice-president,
telegraphs to the World a review
of the political situation in which, in
conclnsion, he says:
"Under present conditions, Mr. Bryan
cannot get the fol' Populist vote. He
cannot get it in Kansas or Colorado: He
cannot get it in North Carolina or Ne
braska, in the friendliest spirit, 1 give
Chairman Jones warning. He will
make the blunder of his life if he listens
to the fusion leaders and believes a full
Populist vote can be had for Bryan, with
Sewall on the ticket.
"Populist voters are men who have
educated themselves on political topics.
They will not stultify themselves by vot
ing against their convictions. They will
not vote for a man, who, if Mr. Brvan
dies, will make us another president af
ter the fashion of Grover Cleveland.
They may not be able to break up the
fusion deal, but they can stay at home.
rue contract made at bt. uma lor a
united Democratic-Populistic ticket
should be carried out iu good faith. De
mocratic managers should not expect to
hold as to it when tliev ignore it them
selves. If McKinley is elected, the re.
sponsibiiity will forever rest npon these
managers who have it in their power to
control by fair means, 2,000,000 votes,
and have lost them bv violating the
terms of the compact.
"I respectfully warn Mr. Chairman
Jones of the danger Mr. Bryan is in.
The Popnlist voters are dissatisfied and
suspicious. They feel instinctively that
the fusion policy whieb compels them to
vote for Sewall is tbe beginning of the
end of the Populist party. They feel
the orinciples they love are being used
as political merchandise, and that the
Populist vote is being auctioned off to
tbe highest bidder. They suspect that
Populism has been bought and paid for,
and is now being delivered to those who
bonght it.
"Is the Populist vote necessary to Mr.
Bryan's election? If so, the sooner Mr.
Jones realizes that it cannot be had un
der an arrangement which compels the
Populists to make a humiliating surrend
er of their principles in voting for Sew
all electors, the better it will be for our
campaign."
APPEAL FOR THE POOR ARMENIAN
Miss WiUard Calls on all Christian
People for Help.
Chicago, Sept. 26. A cablegram from
the London International Women's
Christian Temperance Union says : Miss
Frances E. Willard has sent out tbe fol
lowing call to the 10,000 local unions of
the United States :
"Comrades, the cup of wrath is fall.
In these two terrible years when the
massacre of innocents has been done
nnder the eyes of our paralyzed rulers
in Christian lands,' we have thought
men alone could help, bat it is women
who are dying two deaths in the bloody
east, and we, their sisters, cannot longer
wait.
i on nave noDty responded to my
earnest appeal. In the name oi Christ
and humanity, of the borne against har
em, I earnestly and tenderly call npon
you to organize meetings in every local
ity, urging . our government to co
operate with England in patting a stop
to the massacres and giving protection
henceforth to Armenian homes.
"Let these meetings be addressed by
the pastors, the business men and the
most capable women. Let money be
raised by systematic visitation - as
well as by collection and forwarded to
oar national treasurer, Miss Helen M.
Barker, Women's Temple, Chicago.
And may God deal with us at last as we
deal with oar Armenian brothers and
sisters and their Utile ones, in this hoof
of their overwhelming calamity. Yours
for God and home and every land.
"Francis E. Willard."
Altgeld Wonld like to Be Senator.
Chicago, Sept. 27. The chairman of
the Democratic state central committee
said today that should Governor Altgeld
fail of re-election, he will be the candi
date of the silver Democrats for United
States senator.
"Governor Altgeld will certainly be a
candidate for senator should he not win
in the coming battle," said Mr. Hinrich-
sen. "That is to say, of course, in case
the legislative is Democratic. . His
mends would never consent to seeing
anybody else a candidate.
Tour Watson Threatened.
Nashville, Sept. 27. An American
special from Atlanta say s :
'Tom Watson has given out an anony
mous letter, purporting to come from
California. In part the retter reads :
"If yoa had a particle of manhood
about you, you would have resigned long
ago, when yon saw that yoa were not
wanted. One hundred .of us have sworn
to put you off the ticket, if yoa do not
go off of your own accord before October
15. A word to the wise is sufficient.
"General opinion is that the letter is a
practical joke."
Left the Pulpit for the Stnmp.
New Bedford, Mass., Sept. 27. Rev,
H. L. Buzzell preached his farewell ser
mon at the Unitarian church, at Fair-
haven today. He has left the pulpit to
stump the New England states for Bry
an and Sewall.
JOHN ISOYD THACHER DECLINES.
Will Not Run for Governor
of New
York.
Albany, N. Y. Sept. 20. John Boyd
Thacher has declined the Democratic
nomination for governor of New York.
This was the day set for the. committee
appointed at the meeting of the state
Democratic committee Tnesday to offi
cially notify tiim of his nomination ; bat
in advance of their coming be gave out a
letter announcing bis declination
At the outset of his statement, Tbacher
made acknowledgment of the honor the
nomination implied, and in the next
sentence said he was constrained to de
cline it. He said :
'I was away from Albany, at my
country heme, during the convention
and did not learn of my nomination
until after 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon,
September 17. It was not until 9 o'clock
that night that I had an opportunity to
learn the character of the platform
adopted by tbe convention. There had
never been submitted to me a press
copy, a manuscript copy or any other
copy of the proposed platform. If any
one had been entrusted with the duty of
presenting such a copy, tbe trust had
not been fulfilled. I bad no reason to
expect, after the convention at Saratoga
and after the attitude of the delegates
from New York at the national conven
tion, that tbe next state convention
would commit the Democratic party un-
reservedly to all parts of tbe Chicago
platform
Farmers and Laborers Would Suffer Most.
If there is any one thing which should
be free from speculation and fluctuation,
it is the money of a country. It ought
nevqr to be the subject of mere partisan
contention. When we part with onr la
bor, our products or our property, we
should receive in return money which
is as stable and unchanging in value as
the ingenuity of honest men can make
it Debasement of the currency means
destruction of values. No one suffers so
much from cheap money as the farmers
and laborers. . They are the first to feel
its bad effects and the last to recover
from them. This has been the unifoAi
experience of all countries, and here as
elsewhere. The poor, and not the rich,
are always the greatest sufferers from
every attempt to debase our money. It
would fall with alarming severity upon
investments already made, upon insur
ance companies and their policy holders,
upon savings banks and their depositors,
upon building and loan association
members, upon the savings of thrift,
upon pensioners and their families, and
upon wage earners and the purchasing
power of their wages.
"Good Money Never Made Times Hard."
It is a mere pretense to attribute the
hard times to the fact that all our cur
rency a on a gold basis. Good money
never made times hard. Those who as
sert that our present industrial and
financial depression is the result of the
gold standard have not read American
history aright or been careful students
of the events of recent years. We never
had greater prosperity in this country,
in every field of employment and indus
try, than in the busy years from 1880
to 1892, during all of which time this
country was on a gold basis arid, em
ployed more gold money in its fiscal and
business operations than ever before.'
Honesty Leads to Prosperity.
No country can prosper that habitually
tells lies. If the United States stamps
the lie "This is fl" on pieces of silver
worth 63 cents, it will have taken the
first step away from the straight path
of national truth and honor.
Tygh Valley Roller Floor Mills.
Tygh Valley Roller Flour Mills
are
nninS
full time on No. 1 wheat.
Flonr equal to the best always on hand.
Prices to suit the times. Also mill feed
in quantities to suit.
YV. M. McUobklk & Son.
aug8-6mw Proprietors.
Dalles-Moro Stage
Leaves tbe Umatilla house 8 a.
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays..
Douglas Allen, Prop.
! IN PLACE OF THACHER
New York Democrats Com
' plete the State Ticket.
JUDGE W. E. PORTER FOR GOVERNOR
Senator Bill Did Not Attend the
Meeting; -Political and Gen
eral News.
New York, Sept. 28. The Democratic
state committee met tonight to bear tbe
report of the committee appointed to no
tify tbe nominees of the recent Buffalo
state convention. There was a full at
tendance by the members in person or
by proxy, but Senator Hill, who ear
prised everyone by appearing at a recent
meeting of the committee with a proxy
and then made sensational speeches i
favor of John Boyd Thacher, the
gubernatorial nominee, was not preeen
this time.
The committee reported that Thacher
had refused to accept the nomination for
governor, and that Judge Titus bad ac
cepted the nomination for supreme court
justice, and that Wilber E. Porter, tbe
nominee for lientenant-eovernor, bad
placed himself in the hands of the coin
mittee. The meeting of the committee
had been delayed an hour by caucuses,
so when the report was made there was
little delay in the proceedings. In these
caucuses, it bad oeen agreed that the
man to be named in place of Mr
Thacher should be W. F. Porter, the
nominee for lieutenant-governor, and
that in bis place, Fred Schraub, of Lewis
county, should be named for lieutenant
governor. "
FRANCE TAKES THE LEAD.
Getting; Ready to Bring-, the Sultan Up
With a Sudden Jerk.
London, Sept. 29. The Times' Paris
correspondent quotes a Constantinople
dispatch to Temps, which contains the
report that M. Cambon, the French am
bassador at Constantinople, has made a
serious representation to the sultan re
garding the massacre of Armenians
This dispatch expresses the belief that
the sultan has promised to constitute
commission to extend reforms through
out the Turkesh empire.
'The ambassador." the dispatch adds
adopted a tone almost a menace
towards the saltan. There ia not the
slightest fear of dissension among tbe
powers." .
INGEKSOLL TO TAKE THE STUMP.
Will Tonr Illinois and Make
Speeches
for McKlnlejr.
Chicago, Sept. 28. Colonel Robert G.
Ingersoll will come to Illinois next
month and make four or five speeches
for McKinley. A letter to this effect
was received at national Republi
can headquarters today. He will speak
first in Chicago ou October 8th in a big
tent which will be erected for the occa
sion in some locality where the largest
number of laboring men can bear him.
He will then go to Bloomington, Gait s
burg and Galena, and if he consents to
remain longer than four days, other
towns will hear bim. On his tour
Colonel Ingersoll may be accompanied
tv ex-Governor Oalesbv, ex Governor
Fifer and Senator Cullom.
Cubans Were Victorious.
Havana, Sept. 28. Thirty-five Span
ish volunteers, commanded by Lieuten
ant Romero, were surrounded by a
superior force of insurgents as they were
leaving the town of Quivican, province
of Havana. ' A desperate fight ensued,
the Spaniards attempting to cat their
way through tbe rebels. Their efforts
were without avail, but they did not
cease fighting until twenty-three of their
number were killed and four wounded.
Among the killed was Lieutenant Rom'
ero. The volunteers who escaped report
that severe losses were inflicted on the
rebels.
- It May Io as Much for Yon.
Mr. Fred Miller, of Irving, 111., writes
that he had a severe kidney trouble for
many years, with severe pains in his
back and also that his bladder was af
fected. He tried mpny so called Kidney
cures bnt 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, iTice ouc and
$1.00. At Blakeley & Houghton's Drug
Store.
Lor Rates for September 25th.
For train No. 1, Sept. 25th, and train
No. 7, same date, the O. R. & N. Co.
wiH sell tickets to Portland and return
at the extremely low rate of 3.15, good
to return until Sept. 27th.
18-dt25 E. E. Lytle, Agent.
Absolutely Pure.
A cream of tartar baking ponder. Hghet of
all in leavening strength. Latest Vniud StaUt
Government food Report.
Royal Bakino Powdir Co., New York
French Louis' Fate.
Last monday the startling intelligence
was brought to Canyon, bits the News,
that the lifeless body of Louis Adams, or
"French Louis," had been discovered on
his ranch in Silvies valley; just across
the line In Harney county. Sunday
about noon tbe boys of tbe Pacific Live
stock Co. were riding after cattle, when
they saw the Frenchman's team tied to
tbe fence with tbo harness on. and a
broken double-tree still attached to the
harness. Further search across ' the
mendow revealed the man's lifeless body,
with his neck broken. It was thought
that his team ran away with the wagon
and that he was killed by being thrown
off as they crossed 'the irrigating ditch.
Louis quit herding sheep some years
ago, and with the money that he had ac
cumulated by industry and thrift he
purchased the tract of land on Silvies
river known as the "Buccaroo ranch."
Louis lived on his featile acres and made
his home there nntil the time of his
death. French Louis was a peculiar
character while be lived. He was kind
to those around him, and was never .
known to oppress the poor. In all
kindness to his memory, the News re
lates that in life he loved the flowing
bowl, and tells the following incident:
On one occasion, Louis was giving an
exhibition of fire-eating. He had a
saucer full of brandy to which he had
touched a match, and it was blazing im
mensely while he partook of the blazes
by the spoonful, when some fellow
poured kerosene into the saucer while
the fire wizard was looking in another
direction, and the next spoonful burned
his mouth and broke up the show. This
was merely an incident in the life of the
poor fellow, but it points to his socia
bility in this life.
Kingsley'a McKinley club.
Kingslbv, Sept., 28, 1896.
Editor Chronicle: : A McKinley
club organized here on Saturday last
with a large number of members en
rolled. I. D. Whitten was elected presi
dent, E. Williams vice president, and
Jas Kelly secretary. The chairman ap
pointed E. Williams, C. Fraley and J.
Kelly an executive committee.
The Hon. W. H. H. Dutur, of Dufur,
addressed the meeting for over an hour
in his usually, earnest, eloquent and im
pressive style.
The club will hold its meetings on
Wednesday evening of each week. On
next Wednesday evening, at 7 o'clock,
the citizens of Kingsley will be ad
dressed at the school .house at 7 o'clock
by two or three eloquent speakers from
The Dalles. Everybody invited. Young
men bring out your best girls. We ex
pect the Dufur band to attend.
W. A. K.
Something New In Melodrama.
Harry Williams' play "A Bowery
Girl" will be presented at the gt
pera house on the evening of Septem
ber 30th. Life in New York is the
theme in the main, bnt this is presented
in such a radical change of style from
tbe conventional method that it has
been received, wherever produced, in a
spirit of thankfulness for the innovation.
Scenes and incidents of every day life in
great city are herein presented. To
those who are familiar with city life -these
features' will be readily recognized
and appreciated all the more. Those
who have not visited the great metropo
lis can receive a very realistic object
lesson by witnessing tbe production of
A Bowery Girl."
It is tbe 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 onr family
nses it as occasion requires." W. B.
Smith, Mt. Vernon, Ky.
Ripe tomatoes forNiatsnp c entsper
pound at Dalles Commission Co. 8l4-2w