THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE ; SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 21,1896.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
NOTICE.
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STATK OFFICIALS.
Sovernor . W. P. Lord
Secretary of State H K Klncaid
Treasurer Phillip Metsehan
Bnpt. of Pnhlio Instruction G. M. Irwin
Attorney-General C. M. Idlemnn
Ben atom jj Mitchell
Congressmen..
State Printer..
i IB. nermann
JW. E. Ellis
W. H. Leeds
CUCKTI OFFICIALS.
Cranty Judge. Kobt. Mays
Bieriff. : T. J. Driver
C'erk A M. Kelsay
Treasurer C. I.. Phillips
. , - 4A.B. Blowers
Commissioners JD. h. Kimst-r
Avessnr... W. H. Whipple
B'irveyor .J. '-cu
B u-jrintendent ot Public Schools.. .C. L. (iilbert
' 11,' 1 I U....B
Kj niner ,T a..
A CRIME-MAKER.
There is not a week passes, hardly
a day, but that the report comes
from some part of Eastern Oregon of
someone being killed over a trifling
matter. The cause of this is the
reprehensible practice ot carrying
fire arms, or weapons of some kind
A quarrel starts, and with the knowl
edge that resting on his right hip is
a regular arsenal, the owner thereof
thinks that he has carried for the
purpose of using it to "protect'
himself, and imagines the proper
time Iims ccme to show that he has
not been carrying it for fun, and
that he is a bold, bad man who can
not be imposed on and who knows
how to stand up for his rights, even
if he has to kill his neighbor and
friend over a matter of an old sad
dlc-blanket, a six -bit cavuscy or a
broken or neglected fence. The con
renience of the weapon and the ac
cumulated freight bill on it, suggests
its use, and the result is a dead man
and a criminal whose bands are
stained with blood and his sou
damned with murder.
We believe that four fifths, at
least, of the killings in Eastern Ore
gon are due to the carrying of wea
pons, and that alone. We believe
that the enforcement of the law
against the praotice would speedily
l educe the number of murders, and
so, while preventing crime, at the
same time save every county yearly
& large sum now expended in crim
inal trials.
The inventor of the revolver de
seives the execration of mankind.
It is of no use to hunt with, or no
value in w:ir. It has no mission on
earth but to wear out the hip of its
owner's pants aad get him in trouble.
The claim is put up that they are
useful in defense. Where? When?
The robber gets the drop on you be
fore you have time to reach for
j our gun, and nine times out of ten
takes it away from you, and at the
same time it is the very weapon
with which he holds you op. If the
manufacture of revolvers was pro
hibited it would be a kindness to
humanity, for while occasionally they
may be useful, it is capable of dem
onstration that where they get one
man out of trouble, they get one
hundred in.
Eveiy man caught carrying onapf
the measly things should be punished
to the full extent of the law.
RUMORS OF
Officials deny any
WAR.
possibility of
war between this country and Spain,
but at the same time work is being
actively pushed both on coast -defenses
and in the navy yards. The
Spanish minister is reported to have
said yesterday tbmt a war between
this country and Spain is possible;
aiding that ,4it,would be a terrible
one, of which the beginning, but not
the end, might be foreseen." It
hardly seems probable that a war
can occur. The United States has
honestly and conscientiously per
formed all her duties toward Spain,
as a friendly nation. She has guard
ed her own porls closely and done
all things possible to maintain a pol
icy of strict non-interference. The
only excuse ever offered for- this
country's interference was, or is, the
inhumanity of the Spanish soldiers
and the butchery of non combatants.
On 'side of that we have no rights in
Cuba.
'1 bat we will have a big bill of
r damages against Spain for American
property destroyed will no doubt
prove true, but that bill will not be
presented until the matter of Cuba's
independence is settled. At the
proper time the bill will be present
ed. and then there m:tv he war, for
it will have to be settled.
GREAT IN DEFEAT.
The Portland Telesram, while
usuallv fair, has disclosed a rabid
streak that becomes visible in every
mention of the name of W, J. Bryan
Yesterday evening in speaking of
him and the rumor that he was to
write a book on bimetaljsm, that
paper said: '-He is the junior mem
ber of the enterprising fame-building
firm of Mary Bryan and Husband."
The Telegram does not believe in
Mr. Brvan's views, neither do the
American people, not by a million or
more, as the election has just shown.
But while differing from him in po
litical ideas, there is no reison why
either the press or the people should
undeitake to belittle the man. His
tory will deal kindly with hiui, and
he will alwajs stand in the history of
American politics one of its most re
markable figures. When he was
nominated at Chicago, he was what
might be called an unknown man.
He was nominated by a parly whose
chances were estimated at the time
as simply nothing. Its record on
the tariff, the hard times, the sale of
bonds, increasing of the public debt
in time of peace, and, more than all,
its advocacy of the silver standard,
were each, considered enough to
beat it; and, collectively, to ever
lastingly annihilate it. Bryan ac
cepted the nomination ; he put him
self at the head of a discouraged and
a disheartened following. Single-
handed he commenced the fight; he
put courage in hearts where before
was despair; from a flying and de
feated mob he organized solid and
determined squadrons, and m a few
brief months led them into battle.
He was do'etted, but he made a gal
lant fight.
Admit his cause was wrong as we
may, we cannot out admire toe
genius of the man. His speeches
were models, and though made at
the rate of from ten to thirty a day,
he made no mistakes. He made the
fight so hot that he called forth every
effort of his opponents, and in spite
of these and of the immense popular
majority against him, he almost
snatched victory from them.
It is no use to belittle Bryan. He
was a foeman worthy of our steel,
and a true American. He rceepted
defeat manfully, and as we have said
before, will go down in the history of
political parties as one of its bright
est characters.
BAYARD HAD A THOUGHT.
Hon. lbomas t. .Bayard, our
minister to England, is really very
near and dear to himself. On all oc
casions he has something to say, and
each time puts his foot in it. His
last lecture was delivered Tuesday in
London, the occasion being the de
livering the prizes annually awarded
by the City of London college. Mr.
Bayard received high praise from
Prebendary Whittington and the
Lord Mayor on presenting him, and
Mr. Bayard delivered an address on
the subject of "Liberty and the
Value of Individual Thought." We
are glad to note that our great Amer
ican picked up this subject and in
troduced it to our English cousins.
The value of "individual thought"
cannot be over estimated. In fact
it is the only kind of thought which
most of us are capable of. Collect
ive thought, by which the individual,
like our great Bayard, for instance,
means the thoughts that he has
thought when applied and taken as
the concentrated thought of an en
tire nation, are beyond most of us.
Individual thought is all right, but
the other kind, where the individual
thinks the whole country is thinking
a thonght because his mind . has
worked, is a menace to peace and a
threat to national happiness. Indi
vidual thought is possible for all of
us, and now that we think of it, is
there any kind ofsthought thinkable
except individual thought
We agree with Mr. Bayard that
individual thought is valuable, just
because thought is valuable, and if
he had a thought above his individu
ality he would have known that his
thoughts, like all other people's
thoughts, were individual because,
while people may- agree with one
another in their conclusions, each
must think for himself. A partner
ship on collective thought is an im
possibility. Think how much our English eou
sins must have been enlightened at
the. doctrine ot individual thought;
but at the same time weep for the
anguish of Boston when it became
cognizant of the individual distinc
tion concerning thoughts thinkable.
LIQUOR THE NEXT ISSUE.
We firmiy believe that inside of
twelve years the liquor question will
be the issue in the presidential cam
paign. We. do not believe it will
come through the Prohibition party,
either, but that one or the other of
the old parties, most likely the Re
publicans, will take it up and force it
to the front. Even now the ques
tion is causing considerable comment
in places where it has generally been
ignored, and in our exchanges we
note occasionally a sentiment hardly
recognized by those who give it ex
pression, bearing out the assertion
we have made. The question is one
as old almost as tne race, vve can
follow it back to Lot's time, or fur
ther, and the pages of profane his
tory are filled with it. Bacchus with
his champagne drunks, and Silenus
paralyzed on stale beer, or stronger
alcoholic mixtures,, are examples
taken from the Grecian mythology,
while every nation of which we have
a history has something concerning
those who liked a swig at the old
demijohn. The sacred volumes of
eyery religion propound against it;
the Bible, the Alcoran, the Zende
vestas, all point to liquor as an injury
to the race. But in spite of this, man
will have it.
With the Mohammedan it is made
a crime to drink wine, punished by
being prevented entering into Para
dise; yet your noble Turk is a genu
ine lusher. The blue laws of Maine
absolutely prohibit its sale; but it
can be found ia perhaps not every
hotel, but certainly plentifully
enough. Sweden and North Caro
lina have tried going into the business
but that does not stop it.
The general custom has been, and
is, to license it, and thus gain a revc
nue for allowing to be carried on
openly what it cannot prevent pri
vately. Ibe teachings of religion
are asainst its use, but on the other
hand, the poet apotheosizes it as the
avatar of Pleasure. "Fill high the
bowl with Samian wine," sins By
ron. "Man being reasonable must
get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication,"-
sings another bard, and
the great mass of the populace take
kindly to poetry in this case.
The Prohibitionist wants the use
of liquor stopped, but he is small in
number, even though strong in faith
Opposed to hira is the greater masses,
who object to the abuse, but not the
use. These show faith, but little
wisdom, for if the abuse could by any
means he dissevered from the use,
there would be no liquor question.
In just what shape it is to be
brought before the people as a polit
ical question cannot be foictold, but
as an observer of the signs jof the
times, we predict that it will be so
brought forward. Anent all this
discussion, we heaid a gentleman the
other day discussing this very ques
tion. We . might add that he is not
a Prohibitionist, and his idea was
certainly unique. He thinks the is
sue will come in the shape of taking
the -internal revenue off the manu
facture of alcohol, and the doing
away with license of all kinds. This
would put whiskey in the market at
from ten to twenty cents per gallon,
and in our friend's opinionvjt would
then be so cheap that no one would
uirink it. Beer would also be very
cheap and would drive out all other
stimulants, and at the same time fall
into disuse itself.
We do not pretend to say what
effect any law may have ou the ques
tion, but we do insist that it is to be
the next political issue. Al! such
laws as we have made, all such laws
as any civilized country has ever
made, have proved futile towards
stopping the liquor traffic. Whether
the generations coming' are wiser
than the generations past remains to
be seen. In the meanwhile we might
add that the present .system of li-
' censes, however unsatisfactory it may
be, is about the best so far devised.
-The contest over the million left
by the late James G Fair seems to
be all settled. The pencil will and
the claims of Mrs. Craven, his al
leged contract wife, have all been
harmoniously adjusted and now there
is going to be a hasty division of the
plunder before any more brevet
widows or contract wives come to
the front. California's dead mil
lionaires have heretofore broken the
record as to the number of mourn
ing relics, temporary wives and ex
tempore widows left nncared for.
Crittenden escaped by being killed
by one of his deputy wives, but
Sharon, Fair and others have estab
lished the record, a record that will
not be broken until Lucky Baldwin
passes out.
The proposition is being seriously
broached to divide the year into
thirteen months, beginning the new
calendar in 1900. This would give
each month twenty-eight days except
the' last eone, which would have
twenty-nine days in ordinary years
and thirty days in leap years. This
would make the days of the week and
the days of the month the same
through all the year, except the thir
teenth month. We would suggest
that as both Julius' and Augustus
Caesar gave their respective names to
one of the months, that some .other
great general be permitted to name
the extra one. What's the matter
with Hanna?
Do not allow the matter of devel
oping our coal fields to go to sleep.
Agitate the question, talk about, en
courage it, make it go. It means
untold millions for The Dalles if a
good vein of coal is discovered, and
we cannot afford to let the question
rest. If we have the coal let us dem
onstrate it. If we have it not, let us
remove the hope from our minds,
and devote our attention to some
thing else.
It seems almost impossible to real
ize that the Columbia is open to
navigation. The only way to get it
thoroughly impressed on your mind
is to board one of the D. P. & A. N.
Co.'s steamers and make the roucd
trip to Portland. When you come
up through the locks you know it is
so.
Had Himself Shipped In a Box In Order t
Beat the Railway.
Four or five years ago one of the most
celebrated of European prodigies was
the Polish dwarf, Hermann Zeitung, at
one time one of the chief attractions at
the Folies Uerpfere, says the New York
world. Latterly Zeitunjr has been lit
tie in tho public eye, or rather was nn-
fil the. other day, when he started in to
carry out an interesting exploit whioh
very nearly succeeded.
He had himself fastened tip in a box
addressed to a large importing' house
at Madrid pnd labeled: "Fragile. With
care. Top." Holes had been made in
this box for breathing purposes and
one of its sides was so constructed that
it could be opened from within to give
the little dwarf a way of getting out
unnoticed when he reached his destina
tion. The box was fitted tip with a
cushion seat and an abundant supply
of provisions was placed within it.
. The start was made at Vienna, where
Zeitung- had becu living for some time,
and after the dwarf had placed him
self inside and fastened himself in two
lusty porters carried him off to tho sta
tion," having boen paid beforehand a
fee of sixty e3nts eich. They gave tho
box ia charg j to the stationmastor to
be shipped to Madrid by express.
According to Zeitung-, the journey
was an uninteresting one and with
out incident, but when he got to the
Spanish capital his troubles began.
The Madrid stationmaster evidently
had a poor knowledge as to the fragil
ity of glass, for he turned the box over
and over, and at last came to the con
clusion that its contents ought to be in
vestigated. His aids, therefore, opened
it and dragged out the dwarf more dead
than, alive from the shaking he had re-
coived. It would have puzzled a man
less full of expedients how to further
punish Zeitung, but the stationmaster
solved the problem by having him ar
rested for trying to swindle the rail
road companies out of their fares.
The dwarfs defense was that he was
traveling in this manner on a bet of
three thonsand francs, the terms of
the wager being that he was to get to
Madrid without a cent in his pocket.
Three hundred francs, however, were
found concealed in his shoes." The real
reason for his traveling in this remark
able manner was that he mighVsave
railroad fare and also get a' good adver
tisement for the engagement in Madrid,
for Which he was billed.
Tyt-b. Valley Boiler Flour Hill.
Tygh Valley Roller Flour Mills are
rnnning full time -on Ho. 1 wheat.
Hoar eqnal to the nest alwaya on nana.
Prices to suit the times. Also mill feed
in quantities to suit.
, W. M. McCobkl & bON.
Bug8-6mw Proprietors.
THE EAST END.
Everybody
Busy, bat Items
Abandaut. "
Am Not
Ye reporter this morning took in the
East End of the town, casting the lipht
of tii-:ountenance, alike on the Republi
cans thut are, and others that were. He
did not expect to find much when he
started oat and verily, he was not dis
appointed. ..At the Wasco warehouse we inquired
concerning the wool market. A 'buyer,
Mr. Green, said, "Wool la off." Mr.
Lord said, "Wool ia better," then each
looked at the other with a cold, glassy
stare, that finally thawed Into a sort of
armed-neutrality smile. We have con
cluded from this that wool is wool.
Prices have ranced from 6 to 8i cents,
and a few sales have been made as high
as8).
Judge Filloon gave 09 a glad welcome.
He was sitting ,by the etove with hi
chair tilted back, hia heels on the stove
and hia hands, reeling side by side be
tween hia extended limbs. He looked a
picture of contentment, and told ua all
ah. lit the last couple he married from
Hood River, something he should have
done a week ago, and which we cannot
print now because it ?8 a back number.
At Moody's warehouse, Mr. Will
Moody in response to the inquiry aa to
how the coal prospect was progressing,
said, "Oh I We have got a long well,"
and that settled that proposition. It
was an awful pun, bat on account of his
family and the prospect of a hard winter
we spared hia life.
Mr. Joe Worsley was putting the fin
ishing touches to a big box of groceries
he was packing, and told us there was
no news, only basiuess was good and he
had more work than he could well at
tend to, and his bland and childlike
smile gave force to his assertion.
Mr. Van Dnyn made almost a similar
report- and was hustling furniture in
snch a way aa to endanger the limbs of
ye scribe, who glanced in and passed on.
The sound of the blacksmiths ham
mers was prevalent, all being busy, and
the feed varda were all crowded.
It's a busy place np in the East End,
and no one can get an idea of the vaet
amount of business done in The Dalles
without visiting it. .
FOWLER WAFFLE.
Oar "Hrrj" Married a
Wednesday.
Pendleton
The Pendleton East Oregonian has the
following account of the marriage of onr
tellow townsman, "Harry" Fowler, and
Misa Ida Lillian Waffle, of Pendleton.
Harry baa about 4,000 friends in this
city, who individually and collectively
extend their congratulations and best
wishes to himself and bride. We bad
always hoped that some one of our beau
tiful Dalles girla would get her lariat
around Harry's neck and put the brand
matrimonial on bim, but such ia not to
be. The East Oregonian says : '
"Wednesday evening, there occurred
a wedding in Pendleton which will call
for and bring forth expressions of qin-
eerest well wishes from hosts of friends
both parties to the affair. Mr. William
Henry Fowler and Miss Ida Lillian
Waffle were united in marriage by the
Rav. Perry Chandler, pastor of the
Thompson street M. E. church. The
wedding occurred ' at the home of the
borne of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. . S. Waffle, on Lewis street in
East Pendleton. There were present
only the family of the bride, Mr. and
Mrs. B. 8. Waffle, Mr. and Mrs. D. B
Waffle, Eldred Waffle, and Mrs. W. D
Fletcher, who rendered a. wedding march
aa the couple came forth Vind stood be
neath the marriage ' bell, Mr. Edwin
Mays of Portland, nephew of Mr.
Fowler, who waa beet man, and Misa
Effid Jean Frazier, bridesmaid.
Chrysanthemums and potted plants
were used tastefully in decorating the
rooms of the Waffle residence, the
chrysanthemums being formed -into a
marriage bell, the potted plants making
a bank in the bay window.
The ceremony was performed in the
evening just prior to the departure of
the train for Portland, which bore Mr,
and Mrs. Fow'er to their new home.
Mr. Fowler has been for years a trusted
employe of the O. R. & N. Company,
having been regularly on the passenger
run between Pendleton and Portland,
which position he now holds. Miss
Waffle was one of the most popular
and highly esteemed young ladies in
Pendleton. Both possess in a high de
gree the good opinion of the people of
this city and carry with them to Port
land kindly wishes for happiness.
Mr. and Mrs. Fowler will be at home
to frienda at the Imperial hotel, Port
land, from the time of their arrival
there this mo.-ning. They will make
their home for the winter at that hos
telry. .
Important Interest! at Stake.
The suit in equity of the Oregon Lum
ber Co. against Levy and Burns Jones
was argued this afternoon and submitted,
Huntington & Wilson for plaintiff, J. H.
Cradlebaugh for defendant. The caae
grew out of the purchase by the Jones
boys of a piece of swamp land at viento,
on which the plaintiff had its planer,
lumber yard, etc. Levi Jones bought
the land of the state, and subsequently
sold the undivided half interest in it to
hia brother, Burns Jones. They then
commenced an action in ejectment
against the Oregon Lumber Co., which
filed a cross bill, setting np that Burns
Jones was acting as its agent in the pur
chase, and that it furnished the money
to pay for the lands. It then aska that
Bums Jonea be declared its trustee,
and that it be declared the owner in co
tenancy with Levi Joues. The evidence
waa taken before Referee Hill during
Vacation.
The suit involves some valuable In
terests, aa the Oregon LurubejyCo. use
the grounds for landing the products of
their mills on the Washington side, and
cannot well get along without them.
More of the Davenport Robbery.
The matter of the robbery of Louis
Davenport thirty-three years ago, is tak
ing -some decidedly queer turns. It is
now stated that it was not Davenport
who was robbed, but a man who came
down from Canyon City with him.
whose name seems- to have been for
gotten, bin who was generally known as
"Freuuh Louie." Judue Liebe remem
bers the circumstances well, and Mr. B.
F. Laughlin, who was only a boy then,
but who remembers the case, agreaa
ith Judge Liebe. It ia further told
that at the time the robbery waa com
mitted, a man named George Bools waa
suspected of having something to do
with it In consequence he was taken
fa band by a number of citizens and
denying all knowledge of the affair, he
was taken into the pines, then growing
just above the bluff, and still persisting
in his denial, a rope waa placed around
his neck and he was strung up. Being
let down, he still denied, and though
swung off the ground several times, he
stoutly denied all knowledge of the
affair. His determination finally in
duced his captors to believe him inno
cent which he undoubtedly waa, and he
waa turned loose. That was the last act
on account of the theft, and it had al
most faded from the minds of our peo
ple, until recalled by 'the appearance of
the inquiring stranger a few days ago.
It transpires that this man interviewed
Mr. Wm. Lord on hia arriving here con
cerning the identity ot the man robbed.
The latest rumor in connection with the
matter, and we give it only as a rumor,
is, that the stranger offers to put the
right mau in the way of getting the
money, for the sum of (200. Colonel
Sinnott feels positive that Louis Daven
port is the man, bnt Davenport, so far
aa we can learn, has said nothing one
way or the other concerning it.
The Winters of Eastern Oregon.
A. A. Nye tells the East Oregonian
that twenty-four years ago Tuesday, the
17th instant, there waa a foot of snow
and the thermometer registered 13 de
grees below zero. Mr. Nye waa sheriff
at the time and left Pendleton for Uma
tilla with two prisoners on his way to
Salem on that day. The cold weather
continued until after Christmas and the
snow went off and the weather became
mild and pleasant throughout the win
ter. Plowing and sowing of grain was
carried on throughout the month of
February of 1873. It is one of the pecu
liarities of the climate of this country.
Winter covers a period of from three to
six weeks aud it is just as liable to come
before Christmas as after, bat no matter
when it comes it never takes longer than
sixweeks to exhaust, itself. Usually,
however, oar winters are after Christ
mas in January, or early in February.
La Grande Chronicle.
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