THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1897.
The 'Weekly GMonieie.
NOTICE.
Ail eastern foreign advertisers lire
referred to our representative, Mr. tu.
Katz, 230 234 Temple Court, New York
City. Eastern advertising must be con
tracted through him.
STATE OFFICIAtS.
a JTernot - CL-t:
Secretary of State HE kineald
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
Bupt. of Public Instruction G. M. Irwin
Attorney-General C. M. Mleman
. G. W. McBride
INnatora..., j.:h. Mitchell
4B Hermann
Congressmen W. K. ElUs
BUte Printer i W. H. Leeds
CODJiTV OFFICIALS.
County Judge... RobL Mays
fcberitf. T. J. Driver
Clerk A M. Kelwiy
Treasurer v. rniuips
Commissioners
Assessor.. - W U. Ripple
Surveyor 'oii
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .C. L. Gilbert
Coroner W. H. Butts
I A. S. Blowers
( D. 8. Kimsey
THE SENATORIAL FIGHT.
The senatorial situation is decid
edly mixed, and what the result will
leMs very much in doubt So far
it is Mitchell against the field, and
all kinds of combinations are being
made or suggested. Among the
Republican members Mitchell is said
to have thirty-eight votes that can
be depended on, or eight short of a
majority. Wuile he is making his
fight as a Republican, it is quite cer
tain that both Democrats and Popu
lists feel more friendly to him than
to any other Republican that could
be named. The important questio
is, "Do thej feel friendly enough to
vote for him?" That no one can
tell. Younsr, the chairman of the
Popu'ist state central committee, as
serts that Mitchell will get no Popu
list votes; but Young may not have
the Populist members buttoned as
tightly in his pocket as he imagines,
In tue meanwhile there are rumors
of sacks, and more sacks, jnstas
there always are. Bourne is said to
have one, and a long one, and others
are reported that are of full depth
The fight is growlnjr warm, but will
not reach a welding heat until the
19th, when the first vote is taken
The legislature will meet and or
ganize Monday, and will adjourn
about Tuesday or "Wednesday until
the following Monday to give the
speaker a chance to name his com
mittees. Portland is the battle-ground
just now, and valiant warriors, rang
iug from the bi rifled 1C00 pounder
from Portland, to the homeopathic
pellets from some 'of the country
precincts are gathered for the con
flict. The latter are really suf
fering from the weight of responsi
bilit' each feels resting entirely on
himself.
Our guess at the result is that
Mitchell will succeed himself.
bill will be submitted to the legisla.
ture, and we . think passsd without
material amendment.- The law is. a
good one, and would give u3 an ab
solutely fair election without possi
bility of fraud by colonization or
otherwise. When we have n elec
tion law that permits every citizen to
vote and have his ballot counted,
and prevents every person not a citi
zen voting, nothing more can be de
sired in that line. The proposed
law will accomplish this.
THE FUNDING BILL.
The funding bill is creating whole
lots of fun in the lower house of con
gress. Johnson of California waded
into Hearst, the owner of the San
Francisco Examiner, and Boatncr
and others waded into Johnson
The real fellow who needs just such
an ignoble death as being talked to
it, Collis P. Huntington, was not
mentioned by either side. Johnson
drew the enemies fire away from his
boss. ; The funding bill is a dead
cold steal of $130,000,000 and inter
est for 100 years, that is all that can
be gotten out of it. It proposes for
the government to lend the money
to the railroads at one . or two per
cent a year, and as the government
pays about four per cent, the differ
ence between what it received and
what it paid out would be 1300,000,-
000. The roads have cost the gov
ernment enough now, and it should
foreclose, get whet it can, pocket its
loses, and be dune with it.
Among the other matters coming
before the legislature will be the
making of some arrangement for
working the state convicts. There
seems to be a general objection to
convict labor being employed at any
work that competes with free labor.
In vieiv of this it is probable that a
bill will be passed providing for the
employment of convict labor on pub
Jic roads. This would not interfere
with anyone, for if there is any place
a white, man hates to work it is on
the public highway. There the good
citizen imagines all he has to do is
to put in his time and do nothing.
"We print the proposed registra
tion law in fall that our leaders may
know just what the law will be. The
It is thought a vote on the funding
bill, re-arranging the debt of the Pa
cific roads to the government, will be
readied today. The Oregonian yes
terday defends the bill and accuses
Californians of wanting the govern
ment to foreclose the hen, and then
to operate the road for the benefit cf
California, and so build up San
Francisco at the. expense of the bal
ance of the coast
We have followed the bill through
all its stages, have read the argu
ments made ' in congress, as well as
the editorials of California's leading
papers, and we have been unable to
discover any such ulterior put pose as
the Oregonian suggests.., California,
it is true, has been cinched by the
Pacific roads as 'no country on the
earth was ever cinched before.
. Railroad rates have been made,
net on the basis of what the service
was worth, but on that of how much
the product would stand. The ques
tion at bar is not what effect this or
that action by the government will
have on California, but is simply one
of collecting its debt from a treach
erous and thieving debtor; of settling j
its business transactions with these
robber corporations, the Union and
Central Pacific; ot ceasing to fur
ther do business with them, and to
further bh2k them .up in their rob
bery of the people. It is not ex
pected that the government will
operate the roads, but it is expected
that it will get as much of the money
owing it as possible out of them, and
quit them dead cold.
The United States cannot afford to
be an accessory to the robbery of the
people; it cannot afford to put up
the people's money in the hands of
Collis P. Huntington and his sssoci
atcs to aid in the enrichment of the
lattei and the impoverishment of the
former. Unoer the arrangement
proposed by the roads, they will owe
the government, or the government,
will have to paj' for them, one billion
of dollars, an " "amount equal to the
present national debt The funding
bill will, if passed, saddle this debt
upon the countrj-, anJ yet congress
wrangles over it, and newspapers,
Senator John H. Mitchell, whom the
people want to succeed himself, and
whom the politicians' want to. sup
plant The state of Oregon was car
lied by a plurality of barely 2,000,
Senator Mitchell made fifty-five
speeches in the campaign and led his
strongyfollowing tafely into the Re
publican fold. . We detract nothing
from the earnest labors of others
when we say that without the ener
getic action of Senator Mitchell
without the aid of his strong per
sonal following,' Oregon today would
be what the Oregonian calls a dis
honored state. And yet that paper
dares to question his Republicanism
has been true to them, to his party,
to his friends and to himself.
DECIDED LONG AGO.
TRUE TO HIS PARTY.
jealous of California, and some in
fluenced perhaps by more tangible
reasons, advocate its passage, l be
secretary of the interior says the
liens can be foreclosed and all, or
nearly all, the money due the gov
ernment collected. If this be true,
why extend the time of payment one
hundred years practically without interest.
Collis P. Huntington saj-s he wanls
"a breathing spell" in order to get
ready to pay. He wants one hun
dred years. In the meanwhile the
roads demand cash for currying the
people's products over the railroad
built with the people's money.
Whether the govornment ever
gets a cent of its money or not, it is
certainly the part of wi&dom to lose
what has already been advanced,
rather than to continue to advance
more for one hundred years to come
and then lose it all. It is more than
probable that long before ' the hun
dred years have expired, transporta
tion will be curried on under entirely
different conditions and that the
railroads will not be worth anything.
Toe sensible thing, to go is to get
as much as possible of the debt,
charge the balance to profit and loss,
and get out of the business.
HE SAVED THE STATE.
Today at noon the Republican presi
dential electors met at Salem and
cast the four votes for William Mc
Kinley. At the sarre time one of
four was selected to carry the vote to
Washington and deliver it to the
president "of the senate. That it was
Republican electors instead of Bryan
electors that performed that duly at
Salem today is due to the action of
Some of the leading Republican
papers of the state are opposed to
the re-election of Senator Mitchell,
This is a matter in which every citi
zen has a right to think and act as
he pleases, to choose whom he
pleases to support. No fault can be
found with them for that. But the
.reason given by some or them ior
their opposition to Mitchell is open
to criticism. They say Mitchell is
not in accord with his party. He is
not a gold man. He is not a good
Republican. Let us see what this
"holier than thou" soit of argument
is:
The state Republican platform in
1890, when the legislature which
elected Senator Mitchell was elected
was not inimical to silver, while the
platform of 1892 and 1894 were
practically free silver platforms.
Senator Mitchell, i n bis votes and
his speeches, was in accord with the
party of his state. He was not in
the senate to voice solely his own
views, but to express those of his
party in hi? own state. This he did,
and did ably. When the great mass
of the party saw the danger threat
ening from the growing power of the
silver taction, it called a halt, and in
the national convention at St. Louis
made the financial plank of interna
tional bimetalism. Senator Mitchell
at once accepted it as the will of the
party. He returned to Oregon, and
on the stump delivered fifty-five
speeches, in every one of which he
expressed his fealty to his party, and
that he stood, as he asked the mem
bers of his party in this state to stand,
squarely on the St. Louis platform.
Hundreds of his personal friends who
believe in the doctrines of free silver,
expressed their confidence in his
judgment on the financial question
by voting the Republican ticket, and
Lwe assert, without fear of contradic
tion by any intelligent person, that
without Senator Mitchell's active and
energetic work in the campaign, Ore
gon would have been in the ranks of
Bryan states. There is not a Repub
lican in the state but will 'admit
this.
The state platform of 1896, the
platform on which the legislators now
assembled at Salem were elected, was
much more favorable to silver than
the St Louis platform. It was so
broad that Ellis stood on one end of it
as a free silver man, and Tom Tongue
stood on the other as a gold man,
It was so favorable to silver that that
strict party organ, the Oregonian,
which is so lachrymose about other
people standing on the platform,
bolted its party platform and organ
ized an independent movement, with
a solid gold plank as its basis and
Judge Northrup as its avatar. It
undertook to beat Ellis for congress,
and came within a few votes of elect
ing the Populist candidate. It em
bittered the friends of Ellis and
Mitchell, and made the carrying of
the state in November almost hope
less.-
There never was a campaign in the
8 tale where the outlook at first was
so gloomy; none where so gallant a
battle was fought All honor to the
brave Republicans who proclaimed
the doctrines of the party in every
hamlet . and in every school district.
All honor to those who laid aside all
bitterness over Jane and buried all
personal feelings to achieve a victory
in November; and among these ret
the work of Senator Mitchell be re
membered with pi ide.
Mitchell may go down to defeat at
the hands of an ungrateful party,
but if he does, he will retire from the
office which he has so ably filled,
with the esteem of the people, who
know that under all circumstances he J
The secretary of the interior has
decided the case of Rufus H. King
against the Eastern Oregon Land Co.,
successors to The Dalles. Military
Wagon Road Co., in favor of King,
Our contemporary lays considerable
stress on Mr. Story's position in this
case, and the remarkable coihei
dence that it is the same position as
is taken by the secretary of the in
terior. The tmth of the matter is
that this question had aJready been
passed upon by the secretary in the
case of White and Ward against
Higginbotbam and Powell. Judge
Bennett prepared an elaborate brief
in that case, and that brief proved
the conclusive argumeut.
The case of King against the East
ern Oregon Land Co. is exactly .on
all fours with the White and Ward
case against Higginbotham and un
der the- doctrine of stare decisus the
decision in the King case was a fore
gone conclusion, just as the decision
in all . other of these cases must be.
Judge Bennett stood the egg on end ;
anyone can do it now.
THE RESULTS OF LOHQ, HARD RIDIHS.
FULLY 3,000 MILES ON HIS WHEEL
He Makes Some Reflections on the Benefits of the
1 Sport and Tells of its Dangers.
From the Press, Vtiea, JV. Y.
Mr. Walter Germain, whom w
presume must be an authority on
dress,' since he writes learnedly on
the care of clothing, among other
things advises thuslv: ''Never
lounge about your room in your
clothes, nothing destroys them so
much. When you come in during
the afternoon or at night, remove
j'our coal, waistcoat ana trousers
and put on a bath robe. Alway
have an old coat at the office."
California has taken a regular
wheat scare, and among the specula-
tors the bulls express the opinion
that "wheat will bring $2 per cental
or ft. 20 a busnel beiore the new
crop comes in. Californians are fig.
uring the state supply as that of the
world, and are, of course, mistaken,
Boyd Items.
Editor Chronicle :
I have seen bat few items in your pa
per from this section of the country
this winter, so I will send you a few
eatbered from- Bovd and the Burround
ing country. -
The farmers have been very busy dur
ing the present spell of pleasant wea
ther, doing their spring plowing, so that
there will be a very large acreage of
grain put in next epring, and the pros
pects for large crops are very flattering.
The Msc Cnlloch Literary Society held
its regular meeting at the Liberty school
house last Saturday evening. The main
feature of the program was a farce in
two acts, entitied, "The Irish Linen
Peddler." The school house was well
filled, and every one was well pleased
with the evening's entertainment. The
play was well rendered, every one per
forming their parts well. The characters
were as follows :
Mr. Darling Scot McKcIler
Mrs. Wade Mrs. W. J. Harringtou
Miss Darling Miss Bessie Hastings
John Flannagan Roy Selleck
Mollie Miss Inez Woolery
Irish Peddler ; .'. ..-..B. E. Selleck
The play consisted of a series of very
laughable mistakes. The society will
give an entertainment in the near
futnre, for which an admission will be
charged, the proceeds to go for the par-
chasing of an organ for the school bouse,
Everybody is cordially invited to attend
the meetings every Saturday evening.
The Boyd school re-opened the first
Monday after the holidays, with all the
pnpila present, and several from the sur
rounding vicinity who have moved to
that place so as to have the benefit of a
winter school. The school is under the
management of Mr. Boy Bmler, a young
man who will spare no pains to make
tbe school a success.
The Liberty High echool, now under
the management of Mr. W. L. Harring
ton, is flourishing. The school is for the
benefit of the older pnpila who wish to
take up higher studies than are taught
in the common district school, and those
who are attending are making very
rapid progress.
The country near Boyd can boast of a
practical joker as well as The Dalles.
Last Friday evening while some of the
yonng people were gathered at one of
the neighbors to practice their parts for
Saturday evening's programme, some
one wired some ot tne gates, inrougn
which they wonld have to pass on their
way home, but they were not smart
enough to get - away with it, for they
were detected and the next morning had
the pleasure of nnwiring the gates them
selves. The next time they will be
careful to see that no one is watching
or them. "Fat."
Cash in Your checks.
All county warrants registered prior
to July 12, 1892, will be paid at my
office. Interest ceases after Dec. 5,
1896. '. C. L. Phillips,
County Treasnrer. '
Ey
The Rev. Win. P. F. Ferguson, whose pic
ture we give above, will not be unfamiliar
by sight to many readers. A young man, he
has still had an extended experience as
foreign missionary, teacher, editor, lecturer
and pastor that has given him a wide ac
quaintance in many parts of the country.
in an interview a lew aays ago Be saia
la tne early summer ot a l went u
a tour through Canada en my wheel.
route was irom utica to (jape Vincent tnenc
by steamer to Kingston, and from there alon
the north shore of the lake to Toronto an.
around to Niagara Falls. I arrived at Cape
. Vincent at 5 o'clock, having ridden against
a strong neaa wina an oay.
"After a delightful sail through the
Thousand Islands, I itepped on shore in
that quaint old city of Kingston. A slight
snower naa taiien ana tne streets were damp,
so that wisdom would have dictated that I,
leg-weary as I was, should have kept in
' doors, bat so anxious was I to see the old
city that I spent the whole evening in the
streets.
v " Five o'clock the next morning brought
a very unwelcome discovery. I was lame
in both ankles and knees. The head wind
; and the damp streets had proved an unfor
tunate combination. I gave, however, little
in which a good deal of space was taken by
an article in relation to Dr. Williams' Pink "
Pills. I did not at tliat time know what
they were supposed to cure. I should
have paid- no attention to the article had I
not caught the name of a lady whom I
knew-. Reading, I found that she, in similar
circumstances, had been greatly benefited
by the use of Pink Pills, and knowing her
as I did I had no doubt of the truth of the
statement that she had authorized.
The first box was not gone before I saw
a change, and the third had not been
finished before all signs of my rheumatic
troubles were gone to stay.
"I say 'gone to stay,' for though there
has been every opportunity for a return of
the trouble, I have not felt the first twinge
of it. I have wheeled thousands of miles
and never before with so little discomfort.
I have had some of the most severe testa of
strength and endurance, and have come
through them without an ache. For ex
ample, one afternoon I rode seventy miles,
preached that night and made fifty miles of
the hardest kind of road before noon the
next day. Another instance was a ' Cen
tury run,' the last forty miles of which were
made in a downpour of rain through mud
and slush.
" You should think I would recommend
them to others f Well, I have, and have
had the pleasure of seeing very'good results
In a number of instances. Yes. I should
feel that I was neglecting a duty if I failed
to suggest Pink Pills to any friend whom I
knew to be suffering from rheumatism. -
thought to it, supposing it would wear off in
a few hours, and the first flush of sunlight
saw me speeding out the splendid road that
leads toward fiapanee.
" Night overtook me ata little village near
ope but found me still lame i rested
Port
the next day, and the next, but it was too
late ; the mischief was done. I rode a good
many miles during the rest of the season, but
never a day and seldom a mile without pain.
"The winter came and I put away my
wheel, saying ' now I shall get well,' but to
my disappointment I grew worse. Some
days my knees almost forbade walking and
my ankles would not permit me to wear
shoes. At times I suffered severe pain, so
severe as to make study a practical impos
sibility, yet it must be understood that
I concealed the condition of affairs as far
as possible.
From being local the trouble began to
spread slightly and my anxiety increased,
i consulted two physicians and followed
their excellent advice, but without result.
So the winter passed. One day in March I
happened to bike in my hand a newspaper
-itdaw', i1
-mm. V ;
THE PRESBYTERIAN CmjRCH IN WHITES
BOBO, OF WHICH BEV. KM. FERGUSON
IS PASTOR.
"No, that is not the only disease they
cure. I personally know of a number of
cures from other troubles, but I have needed
them only for that, though it would be but
fair to add that my general health has been
better this summer than ever before in my
life. . .
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain all the
elements necessary to give new life and
richness to the blood and restore shattered
nerves. They are sold in boxes (never in
loose form, bv the dozen or hundred) nt SO
cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may
ne naa ot an aruegists or directly by mail
from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company,
Schenectady. N. Y.
EDIBLES FROM REFUSE.
Scarcely Anything Is Wasted
In
Anything 1
France.
All visitors to Paris rave about the
delicacy of the food arid daintiness of
the service. They do not know som;
of the ways followed by restaurants
ajid chefs. At the lower class of Paris
restaurants a very ingenious f saud lias
been in practice for half a century.
They mijUe- beef tea or bouillon without
beef warm water colored and flavored
with burned onions and caramel as
bouillon. To supply the little grease
bubbles which connoisseurs demand
as the only trouble. Finally a cool: hit
upon the ingenious device of blowing
spoonful of fresh oil over ihcssini.
The oil immediately forms', in t'nv
beads on the suarfcee ant! there in ycur
soup. Aov.-auays ev::ry cafe oi this sor;
has its employe aux yeux de bouillon.
whose sole duty is to make the little
eyes or bubbles of grease on the soup.
Parisians of a certain class ere im
mensely fond of ham, so much so that
the number of hams eaten in Paris
could not be furnished by ail the pigs
killed in France, even allowing1 for the
shoulder as well as the leg being' cured
this beiing the French practice. The
demand is supplied by buying up old
ham bones and ingeniously inserting
them into pieces of pick.ed poik, which
are trimmed into shape, covered with
grated bread crusts and then sold for
am. In this way a bone d?s duty
for hundreds of times. Still, the sup
ply of bones was limited, and it war.
not inconvenient to be put cut if one's
neighbor did not return the ham hoiw
which the dealer relied upon securing
the day before to recover for ycu. So
man conceived the idea of manufac
turing ham bonrs wholesale, and made
fortune from the sal?- of these arti
ficial foundations. Nowadays, there
fore ham is plentiful in'Paris.--Eoston
Herald. ' ;'
A FROG HUNTING DOG.
Looks Are Deceitful. -She
I think a girl looks awful cheap
when she first becomes engaged. '
He She may look cheap, but you can
bet she's not. Yonkexs Statesman.
All persons holding orders from Peaee
& MayR, or other con pone on Herrin's
photograph gallery are requested to
present them before January 15th.
MRS. V. J. XlKSBlfl.
The Queer Work Performed by an Irish
Setter.
"Talk about your dog stories," said
a prominent sporting man the other
day. -"I saw something out at CutoiE
lake which beat anything I ever heafd
of. I was out there hunting snipe and
saw a mam riding around on horseback
end .in front of him was circling art
Irish setter. As the fellow did not
havo any sun, my curiosity u as aroused
to know what he was doing, but I sup
posed he was simply breaking his dog.
In a few minutes I saw hirh ride up to
where the dog was on a dad stand
and the horseman proceeded to jab a
pole he was carrying down into the
ground and, bringing it up, took some
thing off the end of it, My curiosity
v. a- gTer.tr.r th;in ever, a:id circling
around I came up with the horseman
and asked h'in what he was doing.
" 'IIint:-:g frogs,' was tiic reply.
" 'What is the dog doing'." said I.
" 'Hunting frogs,' vas the laconic
answer.
" 'You don't mean to tell me that the
dog will set the frogs, do you?'
" 'I don't mean riny thing else.'
"A few more questions and answers
brought cut the fact that the dog had
seen his master hunting around in the
grass for frogs a.nd spearing them and
had of his own accord taken up the
task of locating the green beauties.
He was a thoxoughlj' trained hunter
on bii-ds and he soon became very ex
pert in. locating frogs, so his owner in
foimed me, and my observations of his
movements confirmed the man's state
ments." Omaha Bee.
A Cure for Lame Baofc.
"My daughter, when recovering from
an attack of fever, was a great sufferer
from pain in the back and hips," writes
Louden Grover, of Sardis, Ky. "After
using quite a number of remedies with
out any benefit she tried one bottle of
Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and it has
given entire 'relief." Chamberlain's '
Pain Balm is also a certain cure for rheu
matism. Sold by Blakeley & Houghton.
M. Crevrenil, being about to leave tbe
city, offers bis fine stock ot artificial
flowers, plants, etc., at greatly reduced
prices. Rooms in Maaonjc build-,
ing. - v." 4ec3l-tf
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