THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY. JANUARY 9. 1897.
The Weekly Gtooniele.
NOTICE.
All eastern foreign advertisers are
referred to our representative, Mr. C
Katz, 230 234 Temple Court, New York
Ulty. eastern aaveruniuK uiuoi uo tun
tracted through him.
STATE OFFICIALS.
8Jvernor UW P. Loid
Secretary of State HE Kincaid
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
not. of Public Instruction G. M. Irwin
Attnrniivxniral . CM. Idlenmn
' G. W. McBride
Of u ami. - jj. h. Mitcnell
IB Hermann
jmponieo. , ivy. R. Ellis
State Printer W. H. Leeds
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Cinnry Judge. Robt Mays
Sheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk A M. Kelaay
Treasurer C. L. Phillips
, , I A. 9. mowers
Commissioners I n. H. Klmsev
Assessor W. II. Whipple
flnmnn, J. 15. .01
Saperintendent of Public Schools... C. L. Gilbert
Cmir W. H. Butts
DOUBLE-MINIMUM LANDS.
' The Eastern Oregon delegation
in the legislature should memorialize
congress to pass a bill providing for
the re-payment of $1.25 per acre to
those jersons who purchased the
a.
even sections of land within the for-
feited railroad limits of the Northern
Pacific, who paid $2.50 per acre for
. the land.
In this connection it might be
proper to mention the fact that about
nine years ago D. P. Thompson se
cured powers-of-attorney from many
of these people, authorizing him to
collect excess money of J 1.25 per
acre. At the time it was understood
Mr. Thompson was to go t6 "Wash
ington and pass the bill granting re
payment. This he did not do. The
question has been ' asked us several
times as to what condition these
powers-of-attorne3r held by Thomp
son would leave the settler in should
congress grant them relief. ' Mr.
Thompson, we think, is now out of
the matter, admitting that he was
ever in. He has done nothing, at
tempted nothing. Beside, these
contracts, if not void, were voidable,
and were never worth the paper they
were written on.
- A contract to influence legislation
-would find little favor in the courts.
If the bill can be passed, those sign
ing the contracts need have no fear
that they will cut any figure in the
re-payments.
We have received a printed blank
petition, several of them in fact,
which we are otkcil to sign and for
ward to the Oregon delegation in
congress. The petition is against
the passage of what is known as the
Loud bill, providing for excluding a
certain class of publications from the
list of second class matter. .The
matter proposed to be excluded is
second class all right, that is such of
it as is not third, fourth, or no class
at all, being of the Indian-killing,
moonshine detective sort of litera-
ture that ought to be excluded from
the mails entirely. We cannot sign
the petition, but respectfully request
our delegation instead to give the
bill the benefit of their votes. The
country is flooded with a lot of rot
ten slush, called by its authors litera
ture, that should never be allowed te
'pass outside of the doors of the
offices it was printed in, and the
Loud bill will assist in suppressing it.
The blamed scientists have been
turning their microscopes on the
towels used by the human family,
and pronounce them full of microbes,
bacteria and other disease germs that
would be annihilated if they had to
pronounce their own names. Earth,
air and water are loaded vith death
breeding life: finger nails and teeth
are the favorite breeding grounds of
several varieties; brushes and combs,
hats and shoes, the touch of friend
ship and the kiss of love, are laden
with hundreds . of millions of conta
gion-breeding infinitesimal devils,
bent on our destruction. Every
thing we eat, drink . or wear, touch,
taste or .feel ; nay ! even our very
thoughts, need spraying for lilliputian
codlin moths, or dipping for scab.
Diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus,
rabies and scabies, are no longer dis
eases, they are only the evidence of
germ life going to seed. What we
need is a rest from both scientists
and their invisible bugs.
Senator Thurston, who was at one
time attorney for the Union Pacific
railroad, says he has not taken inter
est enough in the Pacific railroad
funding bill to know anything about
it. . As it only involves a matter of
$130,000,000. perhaps it is too small
an affair foi Nebraska's senator. It
strikes us it is lime he been n to in
form himself, as the matter is now
before co'nsrress' and " serms tothe
average citizen of this coast impor
tant enough to demand the attention
of every senator.
BEET. SUGAR FIGURES.
A Nebraska man . gives, some
figures on the beet sugar industry.
that sound verv pretty, but will not
bear examination. He gives the
importation of sugar at nearly four
billion pounds, with about $J 25,000
000. Then he says this sugar,
grown in this country, would give
steady employment to 2,500,000 peo
pie. It will be seen from this that
one-seventh of the entire able-bodied
male population 'would be engaged
in raisin?: sugar, or making it. The
average consumption ot sugar
about sixty pounds per capita,
13
80
that each" person engaged in the
sugar industry would supply thirty
persons, and that at sixty pounds
would make a total of 1800 pounds
of sugar produced by him in a year.
and this at eighteen pounds for
dollar would leave him $100 as th
price of his wage per year. Not an
exceedingly enticing prospect. Again
he says it will take 1,840,000 acres
of land to produce the amount at the
rate of 1700 pounds of sugar per
acre; but as under his computation
the men exceed the acres at the rate
of four to three, these figures would
show a production of onry 1300
pounds, and 'so his figures do not
even agree.
The beet sugar industry is, per
haps, well worthy of fostering, but
at present it seems to yieid a larger
crop of prevaricators than anything
else.
WHICH WILL WAGT
Mr. Jonathan Bourne would prcb
ably make an efficient speaker, but
just why he expects a Republican
house to confer that honor upon him
beyond comprehension. The
proper thins fr Bourne to do
is to show some respect for the at.
Louis platform before deniaudinr
any favorable recognition fjom the
representatives of the party that is
ndinsr upon that declaration of
principles. Telegram.
The Telegram, like the Orcgonian,
is
much concerned over Senator
Mitchell's position on the financial
question. It thinks in the above
article that Jonathan Bourne should
'show some respect for the St. Louis
platform before demanding any favor
able mention from the party that is
standing upon that declaration of
principles." "As the priest chants
the sacristan responds," and as the
Oregonian gives veut to its deep
mouthed bays, the Telegram yelps
tenor in a key above even the pitch
of a Yaw.
In this case, however, the Tele
gram fails to see what its big brother
is barking at, and so goes nipping at
the heels of the question under, the
mistaken idea that it is assisting in
downing Mitchell. It forgets that
the Oregonian is not satisfied with
Senator Mitchell's position flat-foot
ed " on the St. Louis platform and
wants him to get off of it to prove
his Republicanism, while it (the Tel
egram) wants Bourne to step on the
same platfoim to demonstrate his
party fealty.
The papers under the big tower
need an umpire, or a board of arbi
tration. Congress would do well to pass an
act compelling assisted railroads to
take out patents for their lands, and
for all ci" them. As it is, the gov.
ernment gives the lands to the rail
road companies, and the latter only
take out patents when they sell the
lands, thus escaping taxation. They
should either be compelled o own
the lands or forfeit them.
The first ballot for the election of
a . United States senator will take
place at Salem January 19th. The
Oregonian thinks it is a fig'it between
Mitchell and the field, and that the
result is uncertain. It also asserts
that Mitchell is connnbiating with
the Populists and Democrats, and
that he must have their votes to
elect Of course we cannot speak
for either the Democracy or the Pop
ulists, but judging what is to be by
what has been; it is pretty safe to
say that if Mitchell needs either Pop
ulist or Democratic votes,' he . will
get them. ' If thev are to choose be
tween a senator favoring interna
tional biinetalism and one favoring
the- single' gold standard, . they will
take the former. Mitchell has a
great many ' admirers among both
Populists and Democrats ; men who
admire him still, regardless of his
position on the financial question,
and if anyone can catch their votes,
or a portion of them, he can.
THE FISH LAWS.
" It is quite likely a bill will be in
troduced in thp coming legislature
changing the fishing laws. Hereto
fore the laws have all been made
withja view to conditions existing on
the lower river. This year other
parts of the river will be considered
also, and it is more than likely the
catching of salmon by any means ex
cept gill-nets wi;l be attempted to be
abolished. Of course it will not
win,not if the Eastern Oregon dele
gation stand together. The fishing
industry is one of the utmost im
poitance to Wssco county, and con
ditions here make the wheel the only!
profitable mode of fishing. The bot
tom of the middle Columbia is a
long way down and generally rocky.
The sand bars where seining can be
carried on are few and tar between,
and the gill-net fishing is impractica
ble. Hence any attack on the fish
wheels means the destruction of the
salmon business here, if the attack is
successful.
It will also be attempted to change
the close season. A law leaving the
season open rrom May ist until
November would be an improve
ment on the present plan, and would
meet with favor np this way, though
it would probably be opposed by
those farther down the river.
ISSUE THE PATENTS.
When the Northern Pacific lands
from Wallula to Portland were for
feited, President Oakes, of the com
pany, said: "This action confirms
the title to all the balance of our
lands, which, at a conservative esti
mate, are worth one billion dollars."'
Since that time the Northern Pacific,
puisuing the tactics of the Union and
Central Pacific, has applied for r ai-
ents tc its lands only as it sold them.
It owns, if Oakes' statement is tiue,
one billion dollars' worth of lands,
upon which it pays no taxes, and on
which it will pay none. This sum is
six times as large as the entire assess
ment roll of the state of Oregon.
If the lailroads own the lands they
should pay taxes on them, and some
senator can win fame and the enmity
of the railroad companies by having
passed a bill compelling all corpora
tions that have been given, lands by
the government to apply for patents
within a given time, or have the
land forfeited to the government,
There is no reason why land-owning
corporations should . not pay taxes
on their property.
DISPATCHED.
The Dispatch is dispatched, turn
ing up its little toes tnis morning.
There was never room for it here ; in
fact, is not room for the papers al
ready here, and that it was doomed
to an early death every person who
knows anything of newspapers was
well assured. It had no mission to
perform, no field to fill, and while its
aim was not high, it fell far short
even of that Mr. Miller made a
hard struggle to keep it going, but
it was a task neither he nor anyone
else can accomplish in The Dalles
under present conditions. News
papers come and go, butr it will be
many years before The Dalles .will
support a- morning paper. When we
get our coal fields open, or even
when The Dalles gets awake enough
to raise the money to buy a diamond
rill, then a morning paper may
flourish; but that will probably be
when Gabriel plays his last trump
and everything is turned on edge,
and then us Dalles folks will have no
use for coal or newspapers.
Marion county's judge has pr-
dered that the increase in the assess
ment of that connty by the state
board ot equalization be not paid,
claiming that the increase was unlaw
ful. It is probable a mandamus suit
will be commenced by the, state
ngaint' Marion county to compel the
officers thereof to collect the taxes as
equalized by tLe board. ..
. Sandy Olds, the Portland gambler,
has been arrested for buncoing John
Mohrly. Sandy- should have another
chance in the pen. to consider the
evil of his ways. This time he
should not be huiried, and the full
limit allowed by the law should be
given him. .
: Development . of the mines in the
region rorth of Spokane has demon
strated,' or is demonstrating, that
that is the greatest gold mining region
in the world, and - Spokane bids fair
to oe the greatest mining "center, in
the world."
Concerning the funding of the Pa
cific railroad's debts t the govern
ment, congress can always hare an
infallible guide that is to find out
what Huntington and. his partners
want Jdone, and then do something
else. ,i
Max Pracht announces himself as
a candidate for the position of gov
ernor of Alaska. The Yukon now
has two mouths, one of which is sixty
miles wide; but if Pracht gets up
there, both of them will go out of
business. ' i
Salem's leading hotel is advertis
ing for 500 fat chickens. We do
not doubt the figures, but we draw
the line at the "fat." We've been
there. '
. The Oregonian wants Mitchell to
gel off the St.Louis platform ; and
the Telegram wants Jonathan Bourne
to get on.
W. K. Walther Held Up.
As W. E. Walther was going home
last night about 8:30, and when about a
block this side of his Loose on Ninth
street, two men suddenly stepped up to
him and commanded him to throw up
his hands. "You don't want the only
nickel a man has, do yon?" said he.
"Throw np your hands and stop yonr
talk" was the reply. Walther pot np
hid hands and the men went through all
his pockets, finding just one lone, soli
tary nickel. The robbers - 6corned
to take it, and so returned it
to his pocket. From the amount
of money found on him, they probably
took him for an editor and thonght if
they took that nickvle their victim would
be broke for an indefinite time.
Walther has the nickle, and will keep
it as a remembrance', being careful un
der the present conditions not to carry
any more than ' five cents' worth of
money home after night. He said noth
ing about the robbery, but the little
birds that always stand in w:th printers
told ns all about it.
The Knights at Ilood River,.
Wau co ma Lodge, K. of P., at Hood
River held a public installation of offi
cers last night. The following program
was rendered, after which one of those
elegant suppers for which the lodge is
famous, was served. The solo "March
ing Through Georgia" was given by
Masters Earl and Meigs Bartmess on
tbeir gramophone, and was one of the
features of the evening. The following
is the program :
Opening Ode "America" .
Praver ;
Roll Call of Officers
Installation of C. C
. Rev. Hcrshner
Solo (with chorus) Hiss Ann Smith
installation 01 V. V
8olo "Marching Through Georgia"
Installation of Prelate and M. or W
Solo Miss Vura Jackson
Installation of K. R. S, M. of F. and M. of .
Ladios Trio .-
Miss Ann Smith.Mrs. Canficld and Mrs. Miller
Installation of M. at A. and 1. G. aud O. G. . .
Recitation ;. .Miss Bessie Isenberg
unarge to umcers ana instaument
Master at Arms
Remarks Brother Bradshaw
Male Quartette.
Music ... . Banjo Quartette
supper
The Rathbone Sisters.
The Rathbone Sisters installed their
officers last night as follows: P. C,
Mrs. Phillips; E. C, Mrs. Lytle; E. S.,
Minnie Gosser ; E. J., Mrs. Davis; M.,
Mrs. Kelsay ; P., Mrs. Borden ; O. G
Mrs. Wand. Mrs. Crossen was the in
stalling officer, and was assisted by Mrs
J. Micbell and Mrs. Gavin. -
Miss Maude and Master Clarence Gil
bert furnished some excellent instru
mental music, and Miss Griswold favored
the lodge with the recitation of Bryant's
beautiful poem, the "Bobolink.'' Miss
Griswold is a splendid elocutionist, and
her recitation was received with a storm
of applause. , - '
After this refreshments were Berved,
and a general good time was had. .
Tha Value of Flax! .
From tha test made by competent ex
perts in Ireland on a sample ton of
Paget Sound flax, a report made to Dr.
A. W. Thornton, of Whatcom connty,
WaBh., indicates that, when properly
grown, the flax of - that section 'will, be
worth for its fiber $500 a ton. The im
portance of this news to Oregon lies in
the fact of the similarity of climatic con
ditions in Western Oregon to those of
Western Washington. t It should be
noted that information and skill neces
sary to Buccess in growing flax for fiber
needs to be acquired. Dr.-Thornton is
in a position to acquire this knowledge,
and npon its impartment to farmers of
this region a flax movement will un
doubtedly be inaugurated of great vol
ume and profit. The agricultural possi
bilities of Oregon and Washington are
great, and will appear when we have
thoroughly grown out of the era of sow
ing canlessly, gathering slovenly and
marketing haphazard. Portland Ore
gonian.
THEY WERE ON THE ROOF.
Small Boys Have Good Time, 'and
- Cam Off the Roor Suddenly.
Boys will be boys, and in their efforts
to find some new and exciting amuse
ment, each generation outdoes the one
before it, simply because the oppor
tunities grow steadily larger. But there
are some things that never grow old, and
that generation after generation of boys
all amuse themselves at. One of these
is the cat-like desire to climb.
Yesterday evening Nightwatchman
Wiiey discovered half a dozen or more
boys on the roofs of the houses between
Washington street and the Umatilla.
He called npon them to come down, but
they had not finished their fun, and re
fused. Wiley made a vigorous eearch to
find how the youngsters got np, but
failed. Finally be climbed np a pole
aud gave the kids chase and then they
came down with a run. They fled across
the roofs nntil they struck the arch
across the street at the D. P. & A. N.
office. Over the top of this they scamp
ered as sure footed as a lot of goats, and
dropped out ot . sight. In a moment
they came boiling out of the foot of one
of the columns ot the arcb, like a lot of
mice from a nest. They had discovered
a hole in the canvas, crawled inside of
the frame on which the canvas was
nailed, climbed up inside of it, and so
reached the roof. It was a comical
sight to see them disappear at the end
of the arcb and come scampering out at
the bottom like frightened rats.
By the time Wiley reached their run
way the kids were at home eating sapper
and happy in the knowledge that they
had done something new.
To Cancel Patents on Swamp Lands,
Some time sinc9, United States Attor
ney Murphy received telegraphic in
structions to bring a number of suits
on behalf of the government, in the
United States court, to secure the can
cellation of patents to various tracts of
swamp and other lands, on the ground
that the patents had been improperly
granted. The suits were filed on the
last day possible for this to be done, and
the defendants were as follows: O. &
C. R. B. Co., four caEes; Coos Bay
Wagon Boad Company, and the South
ern Oregon Company, one case: Dalles
Millitary Wagon Boad Company, two
cases; Coos Bay Wagon Road Company,
and TbomasE vans, one case; Coos Bay
Wagon Boad Co. and 50 others, 1 case ;
Oregon Central Military Wagon Boad
Company. In one case, the State of
Oregon and George M. Small, defendant
yesterday demurred to the complaint,
the principal ground of demurrer being
that the secretary of the interior having
decided that the land in controversy is
within the calls of the swamp-land
grant, such abjudication is conclusive
npon the courts. Judge Bellinger, after
hearing the argument, sustained the
demurrer, holding that the secretary's
decision was final, and that the
department of the interior constituted a
special tribunal of its own, and that its
holding in the matter was not to be
overrnled by a United States circuit
court. He gave the government time
to apply for a rehearing, as in case frand
is alleged the decision of the secretary
might not be final. It is probable that
the other cases will be demurred to with
the same result.
Advertised Letters.
Following is the list of letters remain
ing in the postoffice at The Dalles un
called for Jan. 9, 1S97. Persons call
ing for the same will give date on which
they were advertised :
Anderson, Mrs C Bwichard, Geo (2;
Buxwheid,Cbas ' Cannon, Jake
Carlson & AlexanderCrooks,Mrs Cardine
Cook, Chas Cheeseman, H. S.
Cannon, Ada M Cheeseman, Jennie
Donaldson, Laura-B Hansen, Nicholas B
Hayes, Jake Harris, Mrs M F
Heslop, Mrs Johnson, Mrs O N
Kirk, S S (3) Kauck, J M
Lane, Mrs Hattie Leet, O E
Leonardo, Manud McDonald, Annie
McCown Wud (2) McCormick, J E
Mans, Miss M i Morgan, H G
Polley, E Bennington, Jno
Reynolds, OT . Spangler, Phil
Scott, Mrs Mary Sorenson, G C
Smith, Martin . Smith, Williard A
Smith, Ora Smith, O
Spencer, C E St Clair, Alice
Uhlman, OT Vingen, Ann M
Wilder, H N Weston, G
West, FA
J. A. Crosses, P. M.
The Wheat market.
Under date of the 7th inst. the San
Francisco wheat market report is given,
and it indicates that higher prices are
to prevail. As high as $1.62 per cental
has been paid, and it is stated that the
supply in the state has been diminished
75,000 tons within the year and that
there are now not to exceed 250.000 tons
in the state to meet the demand for ex
port, and for home consumption, and
that by the time of the coming in of new
wheat, the old stock will be gone en
tirely. .
A New Tear Keverle.
The editor of the Eugene Gnard, being
undoubtedly led therto by contempla
tion of the office devil, thns breaks loose
in a recent issue :
"Backward, turn backward, ,'Oh time
in your flight; make me a boy again,
just for tonight. Give me the bliss of
that rapturous time, when I would go
swimming, say, half of the time. Give
me the blister that followed the bliss on
the part of my neck that the sun didn't
miss; give me the belting that followed
it then! make me a jubilant nrchin
again. Backward, turn backward, Oh
time in yonr flight; give me one chance
at the teacher who larruped me six times
a day Oh give me a chance at that
teacher I say. And give me the wood
pile as big as a hill ; let the pleasure of
splitting it cheer me and thrill, while
the boys gaily cheer me from over the
fence. Oh, give me that bliss again,
darn the expense! The small reserva
tion just over the hill, where the thought
of the hoeing would give me a chill ; the
cow that caressed me each eve with her
tail as I tried to draw milk for a twenty
quart pail, the hens that forever are
wanting to set, the pig with a stomach
man never filled yet, measles that hit
me, that colicky pain Oh give me the
bliss of my boyhood again ! If you'd fill
me with rapture and cheerful delight,
backward, turn backward, Oh time in
your flight."
Death of Bradford Bonney.
Our account of the death of Bradford
Bonney yebterday was not entirely cor
rect. He died on the Southern Pacific
train near Ashland. He bad been ail
ing for some time, and during the last
week gave nnmistakable symptoms of
consumptiob. He was being taken to
Southern California in the hope that
the change of climate might prove bene
ficial, and expired suddenly and unex
pectedly. The body was brought here,
arriving on the noon train today, both
the Southern Pacific and O. B. & N.
holding tbeir trains so that there was no
delay in reaching here.
The funeral will take place from the
family residence tomorrow (Saturday) at
10 o'clock a. m.
. There Xs Nothing So Good.
There is nothing just as good as Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, so demand it and do
not permit the dealer to sell yon some
substitute. He will not claim there is
anything better, but in order to make
more profit he may claim something else
to be just as good. You want Dr. King's
New Discovery because you know it to
be safe and reliable, and guaranteed to
do good or money refunded. For Coughs,
Colds, Consumption and for all affec
tions of Throat, Chest and Lungs, there
is nothing so goocl as is Dr. King's New
Discovery. Trial bottle free at Blukeley
& Houghton's Drug Store. Regular size
50 cents and $1.00. .2)
Here is another juvenile claimant who
is yonnger than his Linn county com
petitor. The Salem Statesman says
that George Victor Evans, of Marion
county, is the youngest person in the
state holding a certificate to teach
school. He is 11 years old and passed
the examination held by County School
Superintendent Jones last August. His
general average was 734 per cent. He
is a eon oi D. M. Evans, who livea south
of Salem. '
CURSES OF INTERMARRIAGE.
Afflictions Entailed Upon the British Royal
Family by Illoort Marriages.
A' writer in America, discoursing on
the results of intermarrying, gives an
appalling1 list of the diseases and de
formities with which various members
of European royaL houses are afflicted,
owing to this cause. From mere facial
deformity up to insanity, says London
Truth, there is scarcely any distressing
affliction with which humanity is af
flicted which does not find a place in
the list. Very possibly this catalogue
may be incorrect, but expsrier.ee un
questionably proves the fact that there
is a defeneration in royal families. T.o
a certain extent this may be due to in
termarriage, but I suspect 'that it is
still more due to the species of cult that
is paid to royalties from generation t
generation, and which must in the na
ture of things weaken their intellectual
fiber. Nothing enn be more mentally
njurious for a man than to have all his
wishes anticipated by a crowd of syco
phants, and through life to find all
agreeing with him with whom ne is
brought in daily contact, instond of be-
ng subjected to the discipline involved
n social equality. Just as we have lost
the tails that were the appendages of
our primeval ancestors because grad
ually the habit of wagging them fell
into disuse, so all mental virility gradu
ally disappears from families that ore
long regal, because they have no op-
portunity to exercise it.
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