THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 18.. 1896.
The Weekly Chroniele.
j NOTICE.
fjBT Ail eastern foreign advertisers are
referred to onr representative, Mr. E.
Katz, 230-234 Temple Court, New-York
City. Eastern advertising mast be con
tracted tbrongb turn. ' .
STATIC OFFICIALS.
ejvernor W. P. Lord
Secretary of State HE Kincaid
Treasurer Phillip Metscban
Bnpcof Public Instruction G. M. Irwin
Attorney-General , C. M. Idleman
. . (G. W. McBride
Benatora.: Jj -w Miti-huU
Congressmen. .........
State Printer
I B. Hermann
W. R.
EUla
H. Leeds
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge... Robt. Mays
Sheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk .....A M. Kelsay
Treasurer u. 1 runups
, . ia.s. mowers
Commlsidoners in. 8. Kimsev
. Assessor W. H. Whipple
Surveyor -J- 5;,V""
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .C. L. Gilbert
C jroner W. H. Butts
THE TRAMP PROBLEM.
The tramp problem has caused, is
causing, and will continue for an in
definite time to cause comment as to
his wherefore and suggestions as to
his whitherness. That he is an un
mitigated nuisance is undoubted;
that he is a source of danger at all
times, a hreat to property ana a
menace to peace is freely conceded
. by all ; that he is often a dangerous
criminal, always a petty one, his his
tory shows.
Wbnt then to do with h!m, and
how to control him have become im
portant questions. The remedies
suggested have been multitudinous,
ranging from the rock pile and en
forced work to a great national home
for him, where he may be sent and
cared for until his moral nature gets
thoroughly renovated and he becomes
a good citizen, by contagion.
The tramp disease, like leprosy
once contracted is incapable of cure
It goes from bad to wcrse, eating
into the morals, into the manhood of
the victim until disease or a slip from
the break-beam sends him into the
beyond.
It seems to us that the proper way
to deal with the tramp is to prevent
him, and we believe this can be done
asily. We premise that the great
mass of tramps were not born to that
condition, but made sol that they
were not born with criminal instincts,
but acquired' them through circum
stances. The only difference, after
all, between your moral citizen and
the criminal is a lir.lt dozen or so
meals. When hunger makes the
demand, crime will, if necessary,
furnish the supply. What then is
the remedy? By making steady em
ployment possible, the first step in
tramping will be avoided. How can
this be done ? By stopping immi
gration, or so controlling it that it
will be reduced to a minimum.
With 350,000 to 1,000,000 people
coming here annually, besides our
own natural increase, the supply of
labor outruns the demand. The re
suit is steadily decreasing wages,
trending ever to the level cf those in
Europe, and forced faster and faster
to that level by the sharp competi
tion of the labor of Europe imported
and competing with that already here
The laborer, accustomed to certain
wages and to the mode of living per
nut ted from them, becomes disheart
ened as year after year his wages de
crease and the practice of the most
rigid economy is forced upon him
He refuses to work fer the reduced
wage and takes a tramp seeking
some place where he may better his
condition. The European laborer,
accustomed to lower wages, goes' to
work willingly, for to bim it is an
increase in pay. The result is that
the new immigrant is employed; the
older one and the American becoming
idle and tramps. The mining re
gions of Pennsylvania and Ohio are in
consequence practically foreign coun
tries.
.The tramp cannot be . cured by
punishment, but he may be prevented
by wisdom. Have we as a nation
the latter quality?
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admitted. It is a matter, between
the parent government and its colo
nies. The only excuse for any inter
ference must be based upon the man'
ner in which the war is conducted.-
Hisher than international law or
international courtesies is moral duty,
To take part in the war is beyond
ns; to stop the butchery of women
and children is our duly. Warfare
at its best is a bloody butchery of
men, but civilized nations have cer
tain well-defined rules that govern
the conduct of all warsi One of
these is thdt non-combatants shall
not be disturbed. Another that pris
oners shall be treated humanely.
Spain has violated both of these
rules, and has turned her licentious
soldierly loose to rob, to ravish and
to murder. As long as Spain con
ducts war against the rebellious sub
jects, according to the rules of civil
ized warfare, It is none of our affair;
but when she resorts to the methods
of the savage, it becomes our duty
to stay -the red-hand of murder.
This sentiment is shared by fifteen
millions of free men in this country,
and it is high time the head of the
government discover this fact. Let
Spain stop her butchery of babes, or
let her be swept by the strong, hand
of free America trom her last toot
hold on this side of the Atlantic.
EDITORIAL MUSINGS.
" the " jjrippixg bain;': 'i
- 1 never sea a summer shower '."-'.
Bnt memory brings again
A scene, a dream of Joug ago, ""
Mixed with the falling rain.
I see the gnarled apple tr e, ,
Its pink-white petals wet.
And under its protecting leaves
My boyhood's Vio!et-,
I see her wistful eyes ol blue
Uplift to gaze in mine;
I.feel her arms two links of love
My bending neck entwine;
Jl feel the kiss upon my lips
By trusting girlhood given :
The first, the last, the only taste,
I ever hope, of heaven.
I feel hi r heart throb next to mine;
"Good bye!" I hear her say.
And through tlie softly-falling rain
I sadly ride away.
She striids beneath the apple tree,
I turn, and turn again,
Until the picture fades from view,
Dimmed by the dripping rain.
Ah ! That was thirty years ago.
And all these passing years
Have left their scars of venal sins,
A heritage of tears.
Bnt memory of that long ago
Comes mingling with the rain
To lift my heart from sinfulness
And bid me hot e again.
the heavy top came down. He was
in a sitting posture, and the top of
the bed caught him, bending him
down in such a manner as to break
his back. Suiely no man knows
when his time shall come. When a
man's bed joins the vast number of
other things that rise up, or fall
down, to crush the life out of him,
where shall he find safety? To
what sudden and terrifying dangers
are modern inventors leading us?
Has it come to . this that an insensate
and measly bed shall conspire to a
man's undoing? Shall man ro to
und trembling as
Shall he fold the
couch about him
prospect that the
his bed with feat
to the guillotine?
draperies of his
with the pleasing
IMPORTANT RAILROAD. DECISION
Contracts Releasing the Company from
Liability In Case of Injury Are Void.
A MORAL DUTY.
Tfie dispatches yesterday lead us
to believe that the administration
foresees the .possibility of trouble
with Spain, and the probability of
being compelled to interfere to settle
thp struggle in Cuba. . That this gov
ernment has no right to interfere in
the affairs of Spain or Cuba is freely
The English government acceding
to the demands of the United States
for the arbitrtion of the Venezuela
boundary lines, is more of a victory
than it at first seems. It is not the
concession in this particular case that
is of importance, but the acknowl
edging ot the principles expressed in
the Monroe doctrine b' the greatest
government on earth, except our
own. It was not Venezuela's border
lines that were in issue, but the ques
tion as to whether the United States,
looking after its own interests and
providing for its own protection,
might interfere between the govern
ments of Europe and those of South
America, or rather of this continent,
and compel the submission of differ
ences to arbitration. The United
Slates, in England's opinion, at least,
has this right, and the far-reaching
effects of this admission can scarcely
be estimated.
Cuban affairs seemed to have
reached a crisis.- According to the
latest dispatches, 'General Weyler,
with 60,000 troops had attacked
Maceo, the insurgent leader, who has
but 7,000. The latter, however, has
the advantage of position, and the
continuous firing indicated that the
battle was a severe one. Spain fears
the meeting of congress, and is urg
ing Weyler to crush the rebellion be
fore that time. It is understood
that Weyler must either win or be
recalled, and this is what has sent
him into the field. The result of Ihe
battle is awaited with great anxiety
by Cuba's friends in this country,
they feeling that it may be decisive.
It is quite probable that within the
next two days we shall have news
that will indicate the final result of
the struggle. Should Maceo hold his
position the blow will be fatal to the
Spanish cause, while the contrary re
suit will make things look black in
deed for Cuba.
The beauties of the grand canyon
of the Columbia, where it cuts its
way through the mighty mountain
chain of the Cascades, await the
coming of some poetic soul to drink
them in and tell them in the flowing
measures of noble verse. Th me the
grand bluffs on the Oregon side, ex-
pending from Eagle gorge to where
Multnomah pours its billows of lace
a thousand feet down over their
majestic battlements, are simply
overpowering. The bold head-lands,
the towering precipices, the castel
lated peaks, buiit by Titan hands and
fashioned by Nature in her grandest
mood, fill the soul with awe and the
heart with wonder at Nature's handi
work. But awe inspiring, magnifi
cent as they are in their towering
and silent grandeur, the great Cot
umbia, flowing at. their feet, chal
lenges them in ' its majesty and
strength. The one stands the grim.
silent emblem of eternity ; the other
moves, the swift, noiseless, uuswerv
ing rush of Time.
sheets may be winding ones ere the
dawn or day.-' fehall the prayer
learned at his mother's knee, "If
) should die before I wake," be biought
forcibly to the mind of the old, and
bring the careless sinner to his knees
from very fear? Shall he rise from
nis coucn in tnaukruJness and ap
proach it at night in dread ? Heaven
forbid! Sickness and sudden death
are frequent enough now, but from
the treacherous bed that smites one
to his death in the silent watches of
the night, may the saints prcserye
us.
THE ASYLUM MUDDLE.
In three weeks congress will be
again in session, and our valued ex.
change, the Congressional Globe,
will again resume publication, en
cumber the mails, load the editorial
table, and finally find the waste
basket. It is one of the most in
tensely stupid publications foisted
upon a helpless public, but for this
is not to blame. Senators and
congressmen furnish, the copy in
stead of newspaper men. There are
speeches handed down to posterity
in its pages that would jar the pop
corn off the Christmas tree, or make
a campaign orator put a seal on bis
mouth and swear off talking forever.
The rains are coming up the river,
and the river is coming up itself
since McKinley's election.
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
ight years and find it the best medicine
we have used. "We think there- is no
such medicine as Simmons Liver Regu
lator." Mrs. M. E. 8. Adington, Frank
lin, N. C' Each 'member of onr family
uses it as occasion requires.1-' W. B.
Smith, Mt. Vernon, Ky.
Go out on the farthest point at
the head of the rapids and watch the
great flood as it gathers itself for the
will dash over. the rocky barriers.
See! There by the island the cur
rent sweeps silent and swift!- power
ful! majestic! restless! See the tide
glide ever faster and faster, its blue
surface spotted wiih bubbles of foam,
until, as you watch, it seems the
rush of a mighty leopard swift in
pursuit of lis prey. There, but &
little further, the whitCToam breaks
up in feathery, streaks, darting in and
out ana across, Dither and on, ns
though all the Naiads were plyin
their shuttles' and weaving their
bridal laces of delicate spume
Fiercer and more resistless grows the
sweep of the azure tide, and now it
is no longer a leopard, but a royal
tiger, showing the milk of its teeth
twixt its teeth all a-wnnkle. Silent
still, yet with a sensate desire in each
throbbing drop to outdo its fellow, it
heaps itself, arching its spine, and
just there where yon Titanic bowlder
of basalt lifts its head in sullen and
stubborn defiance, it gathers its su
perb strength, the blue foam-flecked
wave lifts itself for the leap, and as
it springs you see the blue change to
green, to yellow, then to the glow of
an opal, and with one mad dash pour
its whole mighty torrent down onto
the black basaltic bowlder, and
shiver itself into a million crystalline
splinters, into a hundred million
atoms of diamond, that blush up to
the sun in a rainbow at their own
mad wantonness. Panic-stricken it
flees away with a rush and a roar,
and the Naiads shriek from very ex
uberance of joy and fly away with
the swirling foam, flinging' their
white arms up through the spray,
riding the foam-flecked race, as the
spirits from out the cave of the
winds go forth with whip and scourge
on the hurricane. Then in a mo
ment it gathers again andi rushes
away down twixt the mountains that
lift their1 heads a mile or more above
it, down ever down, home ever home,
to lose itself in the bosom of its
mother, the sea. ' . .
A NEW DANGER.
At Chicago, about a week ago,
Warren B. Mason was killed by the
sudden dosing of a folding bed. He
arose to ascertain the time, and in
getting back jarred the bed so that
The decision of the supreme court
in the branch asylum matter 13 no
doubt in accordance with the law,
but what effect will it have on the
treasurer or the secretary of state if
called upon to issue or cash warrants
in favor of state institutions outside
of Salem? Can the members of the
supreme court, for instance, draw
their extra allowance of $1500 per
annum for holding their term at Pen
dleton ? Or, for that matter, can the
secretary or treasurer issue or draw
a warrant for any of the state Insti
tutions not located near, but at
Salem ? In speaking of the present
condition of the branch asylum mat
ter, the Baker City Democrat says :
The financial status of the Eastern
Oregon branch asylum muddle is
about this: About 1500 has been
drawn on the Eastern Oregon asylum
appropriation including one attorney
fee of $250. All necessary expenses
connected with the asylum will have
to come out of the appropriation
levied for the asylum at Union. , All
has been converted into the general
fund, except the $40,000 levied this
year. What was levied in 1834 was
turned into the general fund. The
warrant of $25,000 that was issued
for payment of the land is out,n.
dorsed by the state treasurer. "It
was issued in the name of Phi! Met
scban as a member of the staie board,
turned over by him to Thos. Wright
of Union, who in turn passed it over
to a Portland bank, where it is now.
The title to the lands have passed to
the state, and are on file with the
secretary of state. The deed is to
corded in Union county. The land
is paid for, but not by the state, al-
though the state owns the land. ,
A decision of importance to railway
beneficial .associations has been ren
dered by the United States court ot ap
peals. An employe of the Burlington named
Miller obtained judgment against the
company for damages occasioned by a
derailment in Colorado. The company
set up that Miller was a contributor to
the Burlington Voluntary Relief asso
ciation, an organization for employes,
and in hie application for membership be
agreed that whatever amounts he might
receive should be in satisfaction of all
claims for damages arising out of in
juries for which he drew benefits. The
court sustained a demurrer to this plea,
and the railroad company Bppealed from
this findiug. The court of appeals ens
tains the court and affirms the judg
ment. Judge Thayer save that several well
coneidered cases sustain the theory of
the demurrer the courts holding that
employes may elecU whether to take
benefits in such an association or to re
serve the right to sue the employer, and
that each contracts are not contrary to
eound pnblic policy ; bat he remarks
that in this case the plea of the de
fendant failed to show with' requisite
certainty that the corporation had
legally obligated itself to the members
to maintain the organization and to
supply the funds necessary to ran
it. It did not appear that if the relief
association was at any time short of
funds a member, could maintain sort
against the company to recover the
amount due him. Neither did it appear
what money, if any, the corporation
had contributed to the association, but it
did fairly appear that the moneys ex
pended by the relief association were
paid from moneys deducted from the
wages of the members. The corpora
tion had not shown that the arrange
ment was fair and reasonable to the
men, and Judge Thayer hints that there
are reasons for holding it to be voidable
for lack of valuable consideration.
Judge Caldwell, as perhaps was ex
pec ted, took still more radical grounds,
declaring that ''each contracts', in so far
as they attempt to release the railroad
company from liability for injuries in
flic ted on its employes through negli
gence, are without sufficient considers
tiOD, are against public policy, and are
void, and mnet ultimately be so de
clared by all courts."
must be two-thirds of the states present
for a quorum, and a majority of the
states elect the president.
If the house of representatives fails to
choose a president before the next
March 4th, the vice-president acts as
president.
The vice-president will have been
elected previously, In all human prob
ability, because if he has not been
named by a majority of the electoral
votes at the joint session of congress, the
Lsenate is directed to select him by ma
jority vote irom the two highest nam.
here on the original list, a two-thirds
quorum being required for this action.
Beyond the provisions of the constitu
tion, an act of the forty-ninth congress
covers all proceedings in case of dispute,
and also fix the presidential succession in
the emergency of death, resignation and
disability in the following order : Sec
retary of state, treasury, war, attorney-
general, postmaster-general, secretary of
the navy and interior. But this acting
president mast hvae been approved by.
the senate as cabinet officer, and within
constitutional requirements for presi
dential legibility. He is compelled to
convene congress immediately and with
twenty days notice.
Rood Hirer Notes.
SOME WEATHER NOTES.
The Rainfall Uaeqaaled Since the Year
1875.
LOOK OUT FOR BURGLARS.
All Inland Empire Towns Invested by a
Thieving- Gang;.
Burglaries and thieving have been
common in Pendleton, Athena. and
Walla Walla and all towns in these
parts during the past month. In Pen
dleton only a few have occurred and
the vigilance of the city police officers
has kept down the number of cases
there. . Bat Athena suffered no lees than
half a dozen last Saturday night, Walla
Walla bad another case Wednesday
night, and all the towns appear to be
infeeted with a gang of lawless cbarac
ters such as go the rounds every fall in
this country and were due here several
weeks ago.
The advance guard began by stealing
crips and bundles from the cars in Pen
dleton and Walla Walla, says the East
Oregonian, and about one dozen cars
were reported robbed daring one week a
month ago. Rewards have been offered
in some cases. Business men should
take care to secure their places from the
burglar by barricading the doors more
than usual and the people should see
that their dwellings are locked and no
opportunity given for the thieves to
break through and steal. The Athena
robberies constitute a' rather remarka
ble instance. It is reported that six
stores were entered daring one night
and all the money taken from the tills.
But little merchandise was taken, only
articles that could be worn with little
danger of detection were stolen. Sheriff
Hoaser and his deputies have the Athe
na case in charge, bat no clues have
been found. La Grande Chronicle.
Cash In Your checks.
All county warrants registered prior
to July 11, 1892, will be paid at my
office. Interest ceases after Oct. 20,
1896. C. L. Phillips, '
' County Treasnrer.
From Mr, S. L. Brooks we learn that
rainfall so far this month has not been
equaled eince 1875. In November of
that year a trifle over 6 inches of raiu
fell. We have had, to date, 2.85 inchee
of rainfall this month, 2.65 falling during
the present storm. The barometer ie
low, 29.44, and etill falling, with the
thermometer at 55, indicating more rain,
. Contrary to the stories that the rain ie
confined to the territory immediately
along the Columbia, the storm is gen
era, extending south to Los Angeles
and eaet at least as far as Idaho. Snow
is falling in the Blue 'mountains and at
Baker City and other points east.
A peculiarity of the storm is that it is
unaccompanied by wind, a dead calm
having prevailed through it all . This is
the more noticeable when the reports
ehow that at Portland yesterday the
wind reached a velocity of seventy miles
an hour, almoet a hurricane.
From 5 o'clock laet night to 3 this
afternoon .76 of an inch were added to
the rainfall. In Sherman county
farmers are plowing in the rain, and al
Bakeoven, Mr. Burgess, who came in
day before yesterday, eays (he rainfall
has been heavy.
No opposition line of boats on the
river so far. The Regulator line has too
many friends to make a competing line
profitable.
A big land elide occurred on the
Washington side of the Columbia, below
the Knapp place, laet Monday. The
loud report of the avalanche was dis
tinctly beard at Franklin, where it
seemed as If the slide bad occurred on
this side of the river. '
Mr. J. N. McCoy received word
Wedneeday that his danghter, Mre. Ag
nes Jones, living near Boise City, Idaho,
way lying at the point of death. Mr.
McCoy being in feeble health, could not
make the trip to Idaho, but Mre. Milton
Odell left here Wednesday night to go to
her sister's bedtide. 1
Hood river was booming last Sunday
after the heavy raine of Saturday and
Saturday night. There had been a big
fail of snow in the'monntains. and the
chinook winds melting the enow caused
a big rise in the river. At the head
gate of the Improvement Co.'e ditch
there was a rise of eleven feet in the
river, and floating loge threatened the
flume, bat it escaped uninjured.
The board of directors of the Improve
ment Company appointed H. II. Bailey,
L. Henry and Joseph Wileon to go op to
to the head of the ditch Wednesday and
inspect the first half-mile of flame that
is now completed, with Water running
in it. Another half-mile will be com- '
pleted before the end of the month, un
less the weather should be too severe to
continue work. The flame was expected
to reach the bridge yesterday. Glacier.
A Good City -to Lea re.
How the President Is elected.
The exact procedure of a presidential
election is known to comparatively few
people, and a recitation of the principal
points is always worth while.
The election takes place on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in No
vember.
The vote is for electors, the number
of whom in each state mnet equal the
whole number of representatives and
senators from the Btate in congress.
The electors are required by the con
etitotion to meet in their respective
states on the same day, and congress
has decreed the second Monday in Jan
nary following the election ae the date.
The electors vote separately for presi
dent and vice-president (one of whom at
Ieaet shall not be from the same state as
the elector), and the list of voters, after
being signed, certified and settled, ie
transmitted to Washington, directed to
the president of the senate.
Congress Is required to be in session
for counting the ballots of the electors
upon the second Wedneeday in the fol
lowing February, the president of the
senate opening the certificates in the
presence of the senate and house of rep
resentatives jointly assembled.
A majority of the electoral votes elects
the president and likewise the vice
president. -
If no one has a majority, the election
goes to the bouse of representatives; the
three or two candidates having the
highest number of electoral, votes being
voted upon by states. The representa
tion from each state has one vote ; there
Mrs. E. M. Wileon received - a few
days since, a letter from her sister, Mre.
Grover, who is living at Lausanne, Swit
zerland, giving an account of the condi
tion of Constantinople. Stopping with
Mrs. Grover is Mrs. Marshal, an Eng
lish lady, one of the refugees from Con
stantinople. In speaking, of conditions
there, tbeudy says, "They are eimply
indeecribable. The Saltan lives sur
rounded by five or six thousand fanatics,
and no one can approach him. The
Turks would gladly accept any kind of a
government if the Sultan could be de
posed and some semblance of law and or
der restored." Lausanne is filled with
refugees, as nearly everyone who could
get oat of Constantinople has left it.
A Bridge Gone.
Saturday night the bridge across Her
mann creek, just this side of the Cas
cades, was carried oat by that stream,
which we are told has assumed the
magnitude of a torrent. It has remained
so high that nothing con Id be done
towards bridging it, and so, the through
paeeenger trains have made a transfer at
that point, and the local and all freight
trains have been abandoned. Sunday
morning the pile driver was started for
the scene ot the wreck, but it bad either
swelled or the tunnel shrank, for it
wouldn't go through, bat stack fast and
was smashed to a limited extent. How
long the delay will laet ie bard to say,
bnt it ie quite certain that the danger
will be repaired as soon as it is possible.
Public School Report.
The following report of the public
school for the quarter (four weeks) end
ing Nov. 6, 1896, show the gain over the
eame period laet year :
189fi 1R9S OA IK
No. in altd during quarter 1..... -.729 644 86
Average number belonging 662 597 66
Average dally attendance 637 572 65
The quarter ending laet week hae in
the totale of enrollment and attendance
greatly surpassed any previous period in
the history of the city.
The Mosler School.
Following is the report of Wood vale
school, district No. 52, for the term be
ginning Aug. 24 and ending Nov. 13,'
1896:
Number pupils enrolled, 28 ; No. pu
pils belonging, 26; No. of days taught,
60 ; No. of days absence, 40 ; No. of days
attendance, 1039; Average daily at
tendance, 19.2; No. of vieitore, 24.
Katie E, Davenport, Teacher.