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THE DALLES. WASCO COUNTY. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1896.
VOL. VI.
NUMBER 44.
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ATTACKEDTHETROCHA
Terrible Loss Inflicted on
the Spanish.
THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE
A Dispatch from Havana Has a Differ
ent Coloring of the Affair
General Hews.
New Orleans, Oct. 2. The Times
Democrat's Key West special says :
" Advices from Havana state that An
tonio Maceo, in a recent attack on the
trocha, inflicted terrible losses on the
. Spanish, over 1000 being killed and
wounded. The attack was made at night,
and was careinlly planned. The fight
ing was general all along the line, bat
fiercest near Artemiss, where Antonio
Maceo led a Spanish colnmn command
ed by General Aralas.
The Spaniards were taken completely
by surprise. They were aroused from
sleep to find a hail of insurgent bal
lets falling upon them. General Aralas
and his staff, half-clad, rushed from their
beadqnarters and tried totally the Span
ish troops, who were panic stricken. It
was half an hour before a semblance of
order could be restored in the Spanish
' column, and daring that time, the troops
remained huddled together.
While the attack was in progress at
Artimisa, Maceo's lieutenants were as
saulting the trocha with equal success
ob the right and left. The attack raged
from Bahia Honda on the north to Ma
kando on the south, and at all points,
the line was demolished. Maceo could
easily have crossed it with his entire
force, but it seems he had no such pur
pose. ENGAGED MACEO'S FORCES.
A Brisk Engagement Between Span
lard and Insurgent..
Havana, Oct. 2. General Melguizo,
supported by Colonel Ulmnsm's troops,
commanded by Colonels Hernandez,
Frances and Romera, left Mantua, prov
ince of Pinar del Rio, on the morning of
Tuesday last to attack the insurgents
under Antonio Maceo.
Hernandez column proceeded in the
direction of Tambas de Torino, and af
ter an hour's march engaged Maceo's
forces, dislodging them from their posi
tion. Continuing the advance, Colonel
HernaDdez, at 1 :30 p. m., again met the
enemy.
By this time the insurgents had con
centrated their forces, and a severe en
gagement followed, lasting until night.
The Spanish troops dislodged the insur
gents. The operations were conducted'
. during a heavy downpour of rain, which
considerably hindered the advance. The
troops pushed forward the following
morning, and were met by four cannon
shots at short range from the insurgent
. position. The insurgents were again
driven backward, and the troops camped
in the enemy's position, bat left it later
to carry back the wounded and secure
provisions and ammunition.
A column of troops commanded by
Colonel Frances entered Manajal and
engaged the insargent forces commanded
by Fercio Diaz, Pyaso and other dis
tinguished men . at the point of the
bayonet, compelling the enemy to dis
perse. In two engagements the insur
gents left eighty killed and a quantity
of arms and ammunition on the fields
and reti.ed with over 200 wounded. On
the side of the Spaniards eleven men
were killed and M jor Yeqnirdo, Captain
Pann:s and eighty privates wounded.
Ot the Spanish wounded thirty one men
are in a serious condition.
Spanish forces under the command of
Colonels Zerrano and Cano have been
engaged with the insurgents under Al
varez and Traillo at the' Guissmal farm,
on the Narranjo river. Alvarez and
twenty other insurgents were killed.
The troops had five men wounded.
The steamship Juan Forgus has ar
rived from Spain, bringing forty officers
and 1,200 soldiers.
WATSON MAT RETIRE.
. Rumors to This Effect Are Gaining
Credence. ,
Atlanta, Oct. 2. Publication in this
week's issue of Thomas P. Watson's
People's Party paper of an editorial at;
tack on Chairman Marion Butler, of the
Populist national committee, is con-.-
sidered significant in view of the rumors
that Watson may retire from the ticket.
The editorial is as follows :
- "Attempts have been made to show
' that Mr. Watson favored fusion in the
state of Indiana. This is not correct.
Watson took the position at the begin
ning of the campaign that no Populist
could consistently vote for a single j
Sewall elector any more than he could
vote for a Hobart elector. He filed with
Chairman Butler a written protest
against Butler's fusion policy. Butler
has ignored Watson's protest and gone
stsadilv forward on his own line.
"Watson's position is now what it was
when the Georgia state convention met.
He is for a straight middle-of-the-road
ticket.
"In no other wav can the Democratic
manage be forced to abide by the St
Louis contract. Mr. Watson's position
has been humiliating and embarrassing,
and he has been compelled to submit to
policies he did not approve."
CHOSE A WISE COURSE.
South Dakota Democrats Will Cooperate
to Defeat Bryanism.
Huron, S. D.,Oct. 2. At a conference
here of the national Democratic party
the following resolutions were adopted :
"That we proudly proclaim onr allegi
ance to the principles adopted at Indian
apolis; that to further the cause, of
honest money, the maintenance of
national honor and integrity and to pro
mote, to the extent of our ability, the
future welfare and prosperity of the
nation, we deem it best not to place an
electoral ticket before the electors of
this state in support of presidential
nominees of the national Democratic
party."
Another Sonnd-Money Convert.
Columbus, O., Oct. 2. Hon. George
L. Converse, who for 12 years was the
Democratic congressman from this dis
trict, replying to a letter from Professor
W. H. Johnson, of Denison university,
urging his acceptance of the congress
ional nomination in the Seventeenth
district, announces his intention to sup
port Major McKinley.
HOW WILL YOU VOTEt
The Lines of Division Between the Parties.
HOKB8TT.
Everybody who
DISHOKXTST.
Everybody who
wants less money, or
wants his money to be
worth only one-half of
its present value,
should vote for the
party which promises
to give us 63 cent sil
ver dollars, which will
drive our t600.000.000
of gold out of circula
tion. .
wants cheap money
that is, money which
is loaned at low rates
of i n t e r e s t should
Vote for the party
which is pledged to
maintain the present
standard of value un
der which onr stock of
money has increased
and interest rates have
steadily declined dur
ing the past 23 years.
Everybody who
Everybody who
thinks his wages are
now too high, or that
the prices of his neces
sities are too low
should vote for the sil
verite candidates.
wants a stable meas
ure of values which
Will be Just to both'
debtors and creditors
and will best serve as
a medium of exchange
should vote for the
gold standard, which
the experience of all
countries has shown to
be better than silver.
Everybody who
Everybody who
wants to -see hard
times, brought on by
laok of confidence on
the part of investors
-and business men, and
a financial panic, caus
ed by the general call
ing in of loans, should
vote with the silver
agitators who are un
settling trade and in
dustry. Everybody who be
lieves that the govern
ment can and ought to
make some men rich
by issuing flat paper
dollars or half fiat ail
ver dollars should vote
for the party which
will try to carry out
those schemes.
wants the country to
be prosperous, confi
dence restored, capital
abundant and banks
willing and able to
make loans should
vote with the men who
stand for honest mon
ey and a stable finan
cial system.
Everybody who
knows that congress
cannot create a dol
lar's worth of proper
ty and that if the gov
ernment makes soiae
men rich by law it
takes the wealth it
gives them from some
other men should vote
for the party which is
opposed to the idea
that the government's
flat makes money val
uable. Everybody who be
Everybody who
thinks that men who
borrowed 100 oent dol
lars Bhould be enabled
by law to pay their
debts in dollars worth
63 oents should vote
for a debased and fluc
tuating silver curren
cy. lieves in common, ev
eryday honesty and in
the obligation of debt
ors to return as good
money as tbey borrow
ed must of necessity
vote this year against
the party of repudia
tion. From a Great Democrat.
A depreciation of the currency is al
ways attended by a loss to the laboring
classes. This portion of the community
have neither time nor opportunity to
watch the ebbs and flows of the money
market Engaged from day to day in
their useful toils, they do not perceive
that, although their wages are nom
inally the same, or even somewhat
higher, they are greatly reduced, In
fact, by the rapid increase of currency,
whioh, as it appears to make money
abound, they are at first inclined to con
sider a blessing. Andrew Jackson,
Eighth Annual Message.
We cannot by law fix the value of
either metal or coin or of any of the ar
ticles that enter into the wants of life.
The great law of demand and supply
affects the value as it does iron, copper
or zinc. All have fallen in market value
by means of new discoveries and im
proved methods of production. Senator
Sherman.
Female Help Wanted.
. Wanted Bed-beaded girl and white
horse to deliver premiums given away
with Hoe Cake Soap. Apply to anywhere.
SAVED THE GROUND
Portland's Fire Department
on Exhibition.
A FREE SHOW ON THE EAST SIDE
Yesterday's Fire Burned Itself Oat The
Chief and His Mea Rattled
An Engine Disabled.
Says today's Qregonian :
Had every engine, truck and hose,
with every man connected with the de
partment, remained quietly in their re
spective houses yesterday morning, the.
fire on the East Side could not have
burned any further than it did. The
fire department was entirely impotent.
Chief DeBoest was in command, and
it was bis first fire since being promoted
to the place of a fireman, and he made
a dismal failure of it. He clearly
showed that he possessed no command
over men, and while lie stood helpless,
the "Jim-Crow" members of the de
partment took orders from ex-Chiefs
Thomas A. Jordan and Joseph Buchtel,
and ex-District Engineer Charles Double-
bower. There were men there wearing
the badge of the fire department who
did not even know how to couple a
length of hose, wasting their time in try
ing to joint "he" butts, and so thorough
ly ignorant as not to comprehend that
a reversal of a hose length was only nec
essary. After the waste of fully 20 min
utes, water was finally secured by hose
No. 2, through a long stretch of pipe,
but by that time, the puny stream had
little effect on the rasing flames. . At
the sand dock, there were two inclines,
from where a full supply of water from
the river could have been got: At the
foot of Belmont street, there is an easy
roadwav to' the river edge, and at the
foot of East Alder street there is also
abundant means to secure water, but
not one of these sources of supply was
used. . Engine No. 1 lost a great deal of
time, the new crew being so entirely be
wildered that the men had no idea of
what was to be done or how to do it.
Engine No. 4 was "plugged" at the
star), that is, the engineer turned . the
water in from the hydrant, started up
his engine, but failed to open the dis
charge gate, and consequently the en
gine was filled with water. If it had
been carrying any great head of steam,
the engine would have been blown to
atoms. ,
Engine No. 7, on the East side, did
not get to the fire. When the alarm
sounded the horses rushed to their places
at the pole, and the harness snapped on.
Then the driver and other members
went out on the street to look at the fire.
While so engaged, the intelligent horses,
who knew that duty called them better
than the green men, grew so restive that
they started to go. to the fire on their
own account, and in doing so snapped
the tongue of the engine, and so dis
abled it. Chemical No. 3 met with a
similar accident, and will have to go to
the repair shop.
The fire was the worst managed of any
in the history of Portland.
The following are the losses sustained
by the owners of the property destroyed
by the unchecked fire, and on which
there was not a dollar's worth of insur
ance: ,
Portland ventilated barrel factory 0,000
Dock on which factory stood, owned by
E. Shannon 1,500
Dock of Russell, Macleod fc Blyth 2,500
Two engines and 12 coaches and fiat cars
of Portland Consolidated Railroad Com
pany 10,000
Shacks and other property 500
Total loss $20,500
Grand Jnry to Investigate.
Leadville. Oct. 3. Judge Owens to
day impaneled the grand jury to investi
gate the killing of six men at the Coron
ado and Emmett mines on September
21, particularly Fireman O'Keefe. An
effort has been made to secure jurymen
not connected with mining interests.
Max Boehmer, merchant, is foreman.
Judge Owens appointed A. Dickson as
special prosecutor, and Coroner Nelson
in charge of the jury. Dickson will be
assisted by Assistant Attorney General
Thome, who has been sent to Leadville
by Governor Mclntyre. Judge Owens,
in his Charge strongly denounced the
crimes they were called upon to investi
gate, and urged them to sift the matter
to the bottom.
, Depew Will Marry 3,000,000.
NkwYobk, Oct. 3. The World this
morning says :
The engagement of Miss Edith Collins
and Chancey M. Depew is now practic
ally acknowledged by their friends. The
wedding may be looked for in November.
It will be celebrated at St. Bartholo
mew's church. An intimate friend of
Miss Collins received a letter from her
yesterday. She is now in Russia, but
will reach New York the latter part of
October. Miss Collins . is a -beautiful
yQUg women, has a fortune of $3,000,'
000, and is a granddaughter of Commo
dore Vanderbilt.
WHEAT CLIMBING UP.
I'rospect that Farmers Will Yet Real
ize 75 Teats Per Bushel.
The farmer will be rejoiced to hear
that wheat is climbing up by leaps and
bounds. The market -has at last been
struck with a sudden, but stable, up
ward tendency, for which there are rea
sons eassly assigned. -Bayers are al
ready out throughout Wasco and Sher
man counties, and traveling far and
wide, anxious to secure all tbey can at
present prices, knowing that, the market
is on a rapid rise. No one can predict
when the top price will be reached, bnt
it appears at present as though 75 cents
per bushel will easily be reached before
many months. Sherman county wheat
sold in The Dalles yesterday tor 50 cents,
and Walla Walla sold in Portland at 60
to 63. '
There seems to be a tremendous short'
age in the old countries, late dispatches
stating that bread riots have already oc
curred in some places across the tea.
The southern part of Russia is now in a
state of actual famine, caused by n 'fail
ure of crons, and the bread product is
conceded to be shorter than for many
years. Arrivals in Europe of 1,700,000 bu.
from other countries only sufficed for ten
days' consumption. An Associated
Press dispatch from San Francisco yes
terday tells of an advance of six cents in
one day at San Francisco. The dispatch
reads as follows :
Sas Francisco,' Oct 1. Today was a
great day for wheat. Prices went up
from $1 to $1.20 a ton, or fully $6 since
the movement began some weeks ago.
The figures touched were the highest at
tained since January last. At that
time tbey went booming on a prospect
ive demand from Australia, but specula
tion overshot the mark, and a decline
soon followed. This time, the advance
is predicted upon a shortage of exporta
tion to the United Kingdom, and thus
far is supported by -the London and J
Liverpool markets, for all this, a cer
tain timidity exists among dealers.
Prices went shooting np so fast today on
reports from Chicago that many opera
tors feared td follow, and a bear move
ment at the city ou the lake met a re
sponse in San Francisco, though the
market remained . unchanged abroad.
Still, even the reaction was slight. The
result of the day was a gain of from h
to 6' cents a cental, and meant a great
many thousands of dollars to all who
took advantage of the up movement.
Flour advanced side by side, with
wheat, and there was a scramble among
the trade to buy on the upward market.
The advance was 20 cents a barrel on a'l
kinds. Taken wi:h an advance of 15
cents on Tuesday and of the same
amount just a week before, this is an in
crease of 50 cents a barrel in nine days,
or about 14 per cent over the prices
that then ranged.
Do Yon Xike Free Wool? Look at Its
Results.
The American Flock Ok Dec. 31.
Nnmber. Value.
1892 47.273,553 $125,909,264.
1895 38,298,783 65,167,735.
U.S. Depart, of Agriculture Report.
IMPORTS OF WOOL'.
1892 167,784,490 pounds.
1895 248.9S9.217 pounds.
U. S. Treasury Statistics.
IMPORTS OF SHODDY, RAGS AND WASTE.
1892 321,586 pounds.
1895 ... , 20,718,108 pounds.
U. S. Treasurv Statistics.
TOTAL IMPORTS OF WOOL GOODS,
Valnes.
1892 $37,515,445.
1895 60,319,301.
U. 8. Treasury Statistics.
A Railway Accident.
Ottumwa, la., Oct. 3. The special car
of Superintendent Levy, of the Burling
ton, with a nnmber of officials on board,
was Overturned in the w reck at iCrum
this morning. None of the official were
badly hurt. Harry Moore, a flagman,
was killed. The wreck was caused by a
passenger train backing from a sidetrack
into a freight.
As Ions as irold. either from its in
trinsic superiority as a metal, from its
raritv or from the prejudices of man
kind, retains so considerable a pre-emi
nence in value over silver as it nas mtn-
erto had. a natural consequence of this
seems to be that its condition will be
more stationary. The revolutions, there
fore, which may take place in the com
parative value of gold and silver will be
changes in the state of the latter rather
than in that of the former. Alexander
Hamilton.
Will Mot Support Bryan.
Dallas, Texas, Oct. 3. Judge Woods,
the Populist elector at large, and M. M.
Williams, elector of the Tenth district,
made public ths announcement that
they will not support Bryan for presi
dent. The Watson feeling is intense.
DIED DOING HIS DUTY
Insurgent General Sanchez
Killed in Battle.
WAS A VETERAN PATRIOT LEADER
Bad Served Under Maceo During the
Previous Insurrection Fate of
an Insurgent Colonel.
Havana, Oct. 5. An important en
gagement, in which General Serafin
Sanchez, a well-known insurgent leader,
was killed, has been fought on the Re-
serva plantation, in the province of
Matanzas. . Sanchez was widely known
as a Cuban leader. He .served under
Maximo Gomez, in the previous Cuban
insurrection.
After the capitulation of the Cubans
in Sangora, Sanchez reappeared in Las
Villas at the head of a large body of
men, but was finally allowed by the
Spanish governor to leave Cuba. In
June, 1895, he landed in Cuba with the
George W. Childs expedition under Gen
eral Roloff, and since has been active in
theinsurrectionist cause.. He recently
crossed the trocha from Pinar del Bio,
entering the province of Matanzas.
It is reported that the rebel lieutenant-colonel,
Mirabel, formerly a bandit,
alter being Beriously wounded at the
fight on the road from Havana to San
Jcse de las Lejas, was shamefully aban
doned by the young Havana recruits
composing bis command. A negro ad
jutant and two mulattoes alone remained
and lost their lives while attempting to
bear their wounded chief from the field,
from under a rain of bullets. When
finally captured, Mirabel begged to be
allowed to speak with the Spanish guer
rilla captain, but the latter, refusing to
bear bim, ordered the prisoner to be dis
patched at once.
NAntonio Maceo is reported to have
used artillery in his recent attack upon
the Spanish positions at San Felipe in
Pinar del Kio.
Superintendent Saco, of the govern
ment battalion at San Quentin, wounded
in that engagement, has since died.
Maceo's forces outnumbered the loyal
troops four to one. He commanded in
person, surprised .the Spanish camp at
night during a terrible rain storm and
besieged it for eighteen hours. The
commander finally evacuated it and cut
his way put, retreating toward the coast,
to telegraph Captain-General Weyler at
Havana that another victory bad been
won. Trustworthy 'unofficial reports
from the engagement give the Spanish
losses as fifty-nine tilled and sixty-four
wounded. The rebel loss was seventeen
killed and twenty-three wounded.
The rebels who raided and burned the
town of Lat Canas, near the trocha, last
week, are reported to have been led by a
Cuban boy 17 years of age, a son of Gen
eral Carillo, of Remedios.
Havana, Oct. 5. Later advices from
Matanzas say that it was Lopez, the in
surgent leader, and not Serafin Sanchez,
that was killed in the engagement at
the Reserve plantation.
THE FLOK.II A ELECTIONS,
Democrat Expect tbe Usual Majority
for the State Ticket.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 5 Not since
1876 has there been bo much interest
taken in a state election as is displayed
in the contest that will be settled at the
polls tomorrow. In addition to state
Issnes, there are many county differ
ences to be adjusted. Ah a rule, only
Democratic and Republican tickets are
in the field, but in some cases there are
Populist and Independent candidates.
The fight, however, is between Demo
crats and Republicans, and in, tbe fight
for important state offices the Democrats
will win by large majorities. Fifty
thousand votes will probably be cast,
and of these, it is estimated that Blox
ham, Dem., will receive between 30,000
and 35,000 for governor.
KILKENNY CAT FIGHT.
Fopocrats of Oregon Wbo Want to be
Called Democrats-
Salem, Oct. 5. A Kilkenny cat fight
between the national and Bryan Demo
crats is now on, and Secretary of State
Kincaid doesn't know what to do. In
answer to tbe protest by the national
Democrats, comes F. A. E. Starr and
George C. Stout and file an answer in
behalf of the Popocrats. Mr. Starr ap
peared in pet son before tbe secretary to
day, accompanied by P. H. D'Arcy and
W. H. Holmes, and pleaded that tbe
names of the Popocratic electors should
appear as "Democrats."
The secretary had the attorney-gener-
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al present as his adviBer. The attorney
general adheres to the written opinion
that he filed with the secretary Sept.
2, in which he held there could be no
nomination unless the law was complied
with. The law, the attorney-general
holds, has not been complied with, as to
their being Democratic nominees.
Cockran's Speech Spoiled.
St. Lodis, Oct. 5. An immense crowd
assembled at the Auditorium tonight to
listen to Bonrke Cock ran on the money
question. So frequently was he inter
rupted, however, by askers of questions
that the effect of his speech was almost
spoiled. There appeared to be a prear
ranged plan on the part of the question
ers, and there were at least 100 of them.
On several occasions portions of the
crowd took exception to' certain asser
tions made by Cork ran and became
boisterous. The disorder increased as he
progressed, so that many people lef . the
hall.
The officials of the Gold-Standard
Democratic Club, under whose auspices
Mr. Cockran was brought here, are high
ly indignant over the outrage.
POLITICAL STRAWS.
Connecticut Town Blectlons Show Re
publican Gains..
Habtford, Conn., Oct. 5. Town elec
tions were held all over the state today,
except at Hartford, New Haven, Bridge
port, Ansonia, Darby and Naugatuck,
and the results show a decided gain in
Republican strength and are believed to
be an index to the greater political bat
tle, which will be waged at the polls
four weeks hence.
The extreme satisfaction at the result
expressed by Lieutenant-Governor Cook,
the Republican gubernatorial nominee,
found a reiteration at the headquarters
of tbe Republican state committee,
where it was stated tonight that McKin
ley and Hobart would get upwards of
38,000 majority. '
Though today's elections present many
local issues, which complicate the efforts
to arrive at an intelligent idea of the
leading parties' strength in the few
towns that had both gold and silver
Democratic tickets in the field, the gold
men were greatly in the majority.
The weather was unfavorable for a
large vote, but the leaders of both par
ties realized that upon the result of to
day's elections, an estimate of the prob
able majority in Connecticut would be
formed, and an effort was made in al
moBt all towns to get out the fullest
possible vote.
Hartford county, with twenty towns
heard from, gives sixteen Republican
and four Democratic towns. There are
seven towns not beard from.
Litchfield county gives seventeen Re
publican and four Democratic towns,
while Tolland shows the usual Republi
can strength. .
Windham county is looked upon as
the hotbed of Republicanism, and in the
election today maintained its reputa
tion. In several towns, notably Wind
ham, the echool and liquor questions
were injected into the campaign. Tbe
heads of the tickets were, however,
voted for on straight lines, and a Re
publican gain was manifest in every
case.
It May Do as Much for You.
Mr. Fred Miller, of Irving, III., writes
that ti YiaA a aflvnrA kidnev trouble for
many yeare, with severe pains in his
back and also that his bladder was af
fected. He tried mrny 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. Price 50c and
$1.00. At Blakeley & Houghton's Drug
Store.
There's more clothing destroyed by
poor soap than by actual , wear as the
free alkali rots them. Hoe cake ia
pure. , , jly24-i