THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, JANUARY 16. 1897.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
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- STATE OFFICIALS.
Sjvernoi W. P. Lord
Secretary of State EE Kincuid
Treasurer -Phillip Metschan
Bapt. of Pablio Instruction O. M. Irwin
AttnrneT-Oenernl C. M. Idleman
. " G. W. McBride
owauin - w H- MitcheU
- IB Hermann
-"'S"" W. R. Ellis
State Printer W. H. Leeds
,- COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge ; Robt. M
Sheriff. T.J. Driver
Clerk A M. Kelsay
Treasurer ... C. L. Phillips
Commissioners ID. 8. Klrasey
Assessor W. n. Whipple
(Surveyor . '0
Superintendent of Public Schools... C. L. Gilbert
Cmracr W. H. Butts
THE PASS FAKE.
THE COAL QUESTION.
Senator J. B. Smith or Washington
has introduced a bill making it a
misdemeanor for any public officer
of the state to accept a pass. If
there is one thing more than any
other that makes the average citizen
weary, it is a spasmodic attack of
moral colic, of the kind that fears a
public officer is going to be led fr m
simple Virtue's rocky paths with a
few dollars' worth of transportation.
Is it possible pur legislators have so lit
tle faith in the public servants.or tbein
selves,tbat they are afraid to trust their
rectitude in the same suit of clothes
vith a railroad pass? Why not go
to the full extent in this kind of leg
islation, if it is gone into at all?
Bhinehart objected, saying that that
senatorial body was beyond the reach
of prayer; that it would do them no
good. Of course 'we cannot speak
definitely of the Washington senate,
but Senator Khineharla remarks
would apply very appropriately to
most legislative bodies. Where the
one." Of course the most expen
sive way of catching the fish, and the
slowest way is ' the best, and this be
ing true, why not make it unlawful
to catch them in any manner except
with hook and line? As they do
not bite, this ought to furnish them
protection and give thousands of
great mistake is made is in having a people work. On the same principle
chaplain to "pray for the legislative we should thresh our grain with a
body. The correct thing when a flail, harvest it with a sickle and haul
legislature meets- is to have all the it to seaboard, in wagons. We
ministers, regardless of creed, offer should, on this theory, do aay with
up petitions for the people. They all modern inventions and get back
are the ones needing the watchful to a closer communion wilh Nature.
care of a divine Providence. At the
conclusion . of the prayer the secre
tary sang, by request, "iNearer. My xhe subsidized members of con-
God, to Thee," which suggests that gresg are already at work doing the
most of the members must have been wjH cf their masters, the bond-aided
a long ways from the fold previous railroads. No sooner was the Pacific
to going to Olympia.
A BOLD THEFT.
house should pear this in mind, and
so conduct themselves that it will not
be "positively their last appearance.
The bituaticn at Salem remains un
changed, the h'ouse being still unor
ganized. - It looks as though Jona
than 'Bourne had the whip band of
the whole business, and will either be
speaker or there will be none. The
state is saving considerable in clerk
hire,, but there is some important
legislation that should be' attended
to, and our legislators do not want to
overlook that tact. "
railroad funding bill killed than
these tools of those companies began
scheming for some other plan to gel
The committee from the Com mer- the best of the government and rob
cial Club is now engaged in soliciting the people of the entire sum owing
subscriptions for the purchase of a them. They claim that the govern-
diamond drill. Wo realize as forci- ment will not get a cent if it f ore-
bly as any one, how hard times are, closes its lien, and pose as friends of
and bow almost impossible it seems the people, while standing in to rob
to let go of -a dollar for anything them. They know, just as every
not absolutely necessary, and yet we sensible man knows, that if the gov
cannot but urge our business men to einment forecloses its lien, it will get
make this venture. , Five hundred its money. They know that rather
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dollars suffices to thoroughly pros- than have the government take ros
pect our coal fields. It will settle session of and operate the Union and
the question. If it demonstrates, as Central Pacific roads, that a syndi
we think it will, that we have good cate would be formed inside of i
paying coal veins, the result will be week to pay the government debt.
so stupendous in' proportion to the The other trans continental roads do
amount involve! that we cannot not want an opposition road managed
afford to refuse to take chances. If by the government. It would run
If the sheepmen of Eastern Oregon
expect to do nnytbing-towardslopen-
ing the Cascade reservation, it be
hooves them to get their memorials
passed by the legislature, and also to
have two senators from this state.
One of their own men is standing in
the way of the organization of the
house, and if be continues to do so,
they can blame onty one of themselves.
Why not make it a misdemeanor to
take a drink or a cigar with anyone successful, hard times here, at least, them all out of business.
who is within the canonical degrees will be a thing of the past, and bust-1 An' scheme to fund the debt is a
of relationship of any railroad presi- ness will increase so rapidly we will plan to rob the people. The mem
dent, officer or eraploj-e? Why not not know where we are at. bers of congress know it, and most
forbid any public officers from hay- We hope our business men and of the people know it. The time is
ing a speaking acquaintance with property owners will take a sensible approaching when the welcoming of
any representative of a transporta- business view of the situation and a few congressmen home with a coil
tion company? contiibutc cheerfully to the fund, of hemp, a barrel of tar and a feather
A man whose morals wi'l not If succcessful, it will return a thous- bed will become a popular fad.
stand the strain of a railroad pass, and fold
would fall dead before k champagne
supper. The man who would be in
fluenced by 17 worth of transporta-
THE WHEAT OUTLOOK.
Those who are responsible Jor the
situation at Salem deserve the se
verest condemnation. The members
of the legislature were elected to do
The wheat market continues to
lion, would not be able to resist the hold steadily ud. and the indications
-superior blandishments of a twenty are that prices will be higher rather the business of the state, to pass such
dollar piece. We have done business, than lower. San Francisco quota- legislation as was neeaea, ami inci
in a small way, witu the railroad tions todav are S1.G0 to 81.65 for "c"""'Jr " a ,i,lcu "
rnmnnnip) fnr vnnra ThA wrinr L;ii.nn .,,i i fr w 1 ator. Many of them seem to have
hereof has carried a pass, in some The market holds up on account of for2etlen already that they are in
form, in his pocket fcr so many shortage in the season's crop in the
years that he catches cold when he Southern hemisphere. Argentine,
hasn't one. let he has never been whose harvest is row on, had last
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asked by any railroad company to yeai twenty million bushels for ex
guage his editorial comment of the port; this vear she will not have, ac
roads' actions on that account. cording: to the most favorable esti
Its all rot about officers being pur-, mates, more than half as much. Aus-
Salem to carry out the wishes of
their constituents, instead of gratify
ing their own. The election of a
senator is asecondaiy matter. There
are plenty of men in the state capa
ble of filling the office, and the plain
duty of the legislators is to organize
The following bit of delicate hu
mor is from today's Oregonian:
l'The Salem Statesman complains
that The Oregonian has 'hot held
the legislature up to scorn' for its
delay in organization. The Orego
njan has held many legislatures up to
scorn, but it never seemed to do any
good."
C. F. BAKER ARRESTED.
In Jail for Obtaining Money Under False
' - Pretenses.
The true inwardness of the situa
tion at Salem is that Mitchell now.
has a majority in joint ballot. The
anti-Mitchell crowd refuse to organ
ize, Loping by delay to weaken
Mitchell's forces. That's all there is
in it, and that is why our great con
temporary is so happily quiet.
Secretary Herbert says the gov
ernment is paving $382 a ton more
for armor plate than it costs to make
it. One would think Carnegie would
be satisfied with that kind of profit,
but at the same time the report
comes that wages are being reduced
by that gentleman.
There is an impression in Salem
thai the light in the house is to be to
finish, and that no organization
will be made prior to February 9ih,
so as to kill all chance, of electing a
senator.
Jonathan Bourne is said to have a
sack long enough to pay all the ex
penses of the legislature. Of course
it is all rumor, but the wad is said to
amount to $60,000.
REPUDIATE THE STATE BOARD.
chased with passes, or influenced by tralia has had a bad season, and will first and let tbe majority name the
them.
The lower house of the legislature
had not organized last night, and it
seems possible that the day mav go
by without its getting in position to
work. As long as it is not organized
it is doing no harm, and the clerks
are not drawing pay. One-twentieth
of the session had slipped by last
night, and almost before the wrangl
ing legislators know it they will be
watching the hands of the clock
crawl along toward midnight of the
last day of the session. This will be
February 19th, and our noble solons
will, on the morning of the 20th, be
astonished to learn how they have
shrunk. A legislator during the ses
sion is a nickel-plated aggregation, a
hand-painted dinner set, a prize win
ner, and all thai sort of thing; but repairing and
the dav the rnhe of oflFW. fulls frnm Even ID these
have to import six million bushels.
So that from those two noun trios the
shortage will amount to thirty mill
ion Dusnels. .Last years poor crop
in
senator. If Mitchell has the major
well and good. If he has not
then agree on someone else. Ou
members from this county were liot
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India and Russia has left their l"e"eu " lue question
granaries bare, and even a good crop nor is il tlesire1 lhat thev should be
wnnMnnt le.ava them anvthins- for P'ecigeci now. xney owe IE to ttlCir
Xport. I t'u"'1-uc;uio tuuuu, iu uaoiai iu ui-
The United States must this year ganizing e legislature, ana we are
" I 1 1 a, a. a-U - a. - M 1 A. m
supply nearly all the usual foreign Meuw!U LO UUU! luai au out one 01
market, and lack of competition will tDe "emoen rrom vvasco.and the
keep prices well up.
BRAVE OLD SHIPS.
district are in their seate ready to at
tend to business.
' The situation at Salem shows no
Secretary of the Navy Herbert material change. The anti-Mitchell
has several times called the attention elements know that Mitchell has the
of congress to the fact that the good majority and will he elected if the
old ships Constitution and Hartford house organized. They seem to
are slowly rotting away, and asked think that anything they may do is
that an appropriation be made for justifiable, provided it defeat Mitch-
preserving them. eii it j3 not probable the people
utilitarian clays, we wni fek against this action. Amer-
his shoulders he finds that people should permit ourselves sentiment icans are so accustomed to being led
know, and knew all the time, the enough at least to preserve these old around by their1 noses and to sub-
kind of anfmal that was masquerading battle ship?. While we aie paying mitting to the bossing of the politi
ln the lion's skin. more than four hundred thousand cians, that anything goes. The
There is some legislation needed, dollars a day in pensions, we might country used to be run on the prin-
but the people have become so timid not be utterly ruined financially by ciple that the majority ruled; but
concerning modern legislators, that spending a few thousand on the old that is an obsolete doctrine. To the
they really had rather get along with wooden veterans that carried our flag fair-minded citizen it looks as though
the ills they have than take the chance to victory in many a desperate con- the majority of the members of the
of having those ills increased by the flict- Their decks . were reddened legislature should be permitted to
legislature acting at all. Wltn heroes b!ood,their canvas spread
If our present legislature will elect t0 tne free winds by as gallant hands
a senator, pass a good registration as cver lought for liberty
law, simplify the assessment laws. It is well to keep them, a memento
abolish all con-missions, and adjourn, of earlier days, and congress will fail
the people will think themselves for- of its dut3 lf jt does not .provide tbe
tunate. They, however, will expect means for their repair.
some evil with this good.
Governor Rogers of Washington,
Senator Rhinehart of Whatcom in his inaugural address, recommends,
county, Washington, is what might among other things, the doing away
be called an up-to date man. When with fish wheels, traps, and rll other
the senate was organized Monday, ways ofj catching salmon, except
the president requested Senator Van with gill-nets. The reason he gives
Patten, who is a minister, to open for this is that "the wheels catch a
the session with praver. Senator hundred fish to the noor fisherman's
vote for Mitchell if they want to.
In the legislature yesterday, Som
en), in reply to U'Ren, who called
him to order because there was
'nothing before the house," shouted,
"The people of the state of Oregon
are before the house." With all due
deference to Mr. Somers, we are in
clined to the opinion that he is mis
taken. He has the cart before the
horse. The house is before the peo
ple of the state of Oregon, and is
making ' a spectacle of itself that
causes the people of the state of Ore
gon to blush. The members of the
LIdu and Other Counties In the Valley
Take Radical Steps.
Action taken in other counties in re
gard to the raise in assessment made by
the Plate board of equalization for some
of the counties in the state, will possess
local interest, in view ot the fact that
heavy tax pay ere have petitioned for the
county court to ignore the state board's
action. The coanty court has refused
to grant tbe petition, pleading "want of
jurisdiction." The Eugene Guard has
the following to gay today :
"Iu the matter of the raise of the as
sessed values of the property of Linn
county as returned by the state board of
equalization for the year of 1S96.
"The order having been presented to
the county court, by the secretary of
state, as authorized by tbe board of
equalization, raising the assessed valu
ation ot all city and town lota 10 per
cen, merchandise and acconnts 10 per
cent, and cattle 25 per cent, from the
assessed values as enumerated on the
assessment roll of Linn county for 1896,
as lawfully made and returned by tbe
county assessor, and it appearing that
this arbitrary and unjust raise in as
sessed values is not warranted by fact,
justice, equity or law, and it further
being shown conclusively to the court
that the property affected by said order
is assessed by by the county assessor as
by law required at their true cash
value."
Marion and several other larsje valley
counties have taken action similar to
that taken in Linn.
The Grandest ltemedy.
Mr. R. B. U reeve, merchant of
Chilhowie, Va., certifies that be had
consumption, was given up to die,
sought all medical treatment that money
could procure, tried all cough remedies
hecoud bear of, but got no relief; spent
many nights sitting up in a chair; was
induced to try Dr. King's New Discovery,
and was cured by the use of two bottles.
For past three years has been attendin
to busines, and says Dr. King's New Dis
covery is the grandest remedy ever made,
as it has done so much for him and also
for others in his community. Dr. Kings
New Discovery is guaranteed for Coughs,
Colds and CoBumption. It don't fail.
Trial bottle free at Blakeley &Hougbton'a
Drug store. 1 12)
This morning's Oregonian has the fol
lowing account of the misdoings of
young nan formerly of this city. - He
was arrested here for conducting a fake
bicycle raffle, but never brought to trial.
Hia father resides here and is a most es
timable man and citizen, who will have
the sympathy of all in the worse than
death of his son. The etory of the crime
is as follows:
C. F. Baker, who claims to be a real
estate and insurance agent, was arrested
in the Hotel Imperial bv Detectives
Welsh and McOxire at 8 o'clock last
night. The charge against Baker is ob
taining money under false pretenses,
preferred by A. B. Steinbach & Co., but
it will probably be changed tj one of
of forgery today.
Yesterday afternoon Baker entered
Steinbach's store and bought clothing,
amounting to $06. He offered in pay
ment a check for $200,'made in favor of
Rosa Jones, and bearing the signature of
T. A Seufert, of The Dalles. The check
was indorsed with a lead pencil by a
well-known business man of the citv as
follows: "This is C. F. Baker. R
W '." After some hesitation the sales
man who sold Baker the clothes took
the check and returned him $o0, promis
ing to pay the rest when the check was
cashed. Baker left the store, and when
he had gone, 'some one learned that
Seufertjwas in town, and was stopping
at the Hotel Ipiperial. He was hunted
up at once, and denied having issued
any check to Baker. Last evening the
aliened real estate agent was traced by
the clothing men to the Hotel Imperial,
and they immediately telephoned to the
police station for an arresting officer.
Captain Barry sent up Detectives Welsh
and McUuire, who. arrested Baker and
took him to tbe police station, notwith
standing his protestations of innocence
and threats to make monkeys out of
them if they did not let him go.
When he was 'searched, three notes,
each for $200, were found on his person,
all three signed by Rosa Jones, and a
warranty deed conveying some property
from Baker to Rosa Jones for the con.
sideration of $800.
There was also a mortgage on the
property given to Baker by Miss Jones.
The detectives started oat on a search
for Miss Jones, .having a clew to her
whereabout from some of the papers in
Baker's possession. They soon found
her in a room in the Marquam lodging
bouse, where Baker and his sick wife
were also rooming; They at once knew
her as Rosa Lovelace, who is very well
known in Portland. The detectives took
tbe woman to the police station, and she
told them how the checks happened to
be made out in her name. She said
that elie and Baker went together to a
lawyer's office and had the deed, mort
gage and three notes made out, which
were afterward found on his person.
Then, in the presence of the lawyer, she
indorsed the cheek and gave him the
three noHbs. - The object of tbe whole
transaction was to shield Baker in case
he was detected in passing the check
and tbe Lovelace woman was to receive
elice of tbe money he got from it.
After hearing her story, the detectives
sent her npstairs, and she will be held
as a witness against Baker.
Mr. Seufert came to the police station
last night and informed the detectives
that Baker is wanted at The Dalles fc
obtaining money under false pretenses
there.
Baker is a man of about 35, smooth'
shaven, and has an intelligent counten
ance. He has been about the city for
three weeks and has a wife lying ill
room 47, Marquam lodging-house.
A few days ago Detective McGuire
saw him trying to borrow $20 on the
same check from a storekeeper, but as be
did not know whether or not the check
was genuine, he paid little attention to
tbe circumstances.
And the defendant lay unconscious all
this time waiting for not the verdict
but death t Both were against him.
The captain was stricken on Monday
and died on Wednesday morning of last
week. The verdict in his case was
agreed upon at 2 o'clock in the morning
and tbe captain died at 11 nine hours
afterward.
Had death came before the jury in
Judge" Sears' court had agreed on the
verdict, the case woold have had to be
retired against bis estate, inasmuch as
the proceedings would have been im
proper. .. As it was, the defendant was
still alive' when the verdict was agreed
upon and reported, and therefore stands.
It was for the full amount claimed by
tbe plaintiff, J. R. Kelly, and, as it is
well known, was brought about by the
defendant repudiating his agreement to
purchase the ship James Nesmitb.
On Tuesday, wbem the case was
closed, the captain was very low,
and was expected to expire at almost
any hour. At tbe hospital the nurses
kept a watch, according to instructions,
through the night ready to mark the
minute when the captain died. At the
courthouse Bailiff Hill kept tab on the
jury until they agreed. Telegram.
Schedule oj Expenditures.
Showing tbe amonnts of all claims
presented, the names of all claimants,
the article or claim for which payment
is made, the amounts allowed and the
claims continued or rejected at tbe
Jan. term, 1897, of the county court for
Wasco county, Oregon. The following
list, however, does not contain any
claim for which tbe salary- or fees are
provided by statute :
Asher McCollora, hauling lumb.f 29 75
D S Fisher, bridge lumber 3 00
Grim Death and a Verdict.
The circumstances under which Cap
tain A. Y. Trask, the San Francisco
shipowner's case, was concluded fn
Judge Sears' court last week, it is safe to
say, will not be duplicated soon, nor
have they often been equaled in the past
in any court.
It was a curious sort of race between
a jury's verdict on one hand and death
on the other, with tbe case against the
dying captain as tbe stakes in the
contest.
Captain Trask lay dying at the Good
Samaritan .hospital from a paralytic
stroke before he had an opportunity to
give a word of testimony in a suit for
$12,500, in which he was defendant.
After he was stricken, the connael
Judge Williams and C. E. S. Woods, for
the plaintfff, and Attorney W. W. Cot
ton, for the defendant stipnlated the
admission of certain statements the
captain would have made had he been
present, and in this way the case pro
ceeded. .
As it was realized almost immediately
after the defendant's illness that it would
prove fatal, then tbe attorneys began a
peculiar contest. On tbe one side there
were subterfuge and technical hitches
and skillful inventions of delaying tbe
proceedings in the trial waiting for
death. " . '
On tbe other side was the equally as
skillful efforts to press the trial, and
hurry it to a cloBe, and get the jury on
the verdict before the defendant's death.
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B S Tucker, " 23 23
Nickelsen & Haynes, brdg lamb. 49 35
Alex Stuart, use of polling place. 2 50
S M Baldwin, " " " 2 50
Mountain Stage & Livery Co. ser- 7 25
J M Filloon, examination insane 10 00
Geo D Barnbart & Co, sup clerk. 25 00
I C Nickeieon, supplies clerk. .... 75
T B Stimpson. services arresting
criminal 1 90
P F Burn ham, hauling 2 50
r A JLircheiner, use of polling
place 1 2 50
C L Gilbert, service on tvx roll. . 8 00
C L Gilbert, stamps -2 00
Prinze & Nitschke, supplies clerk
and sheriff's offices 9 00
Ward Kerns & Robertson, team
for grand inry 5 00
J Harmon, hauling crave! 1 00
H Rice & Son, sup Mrs Ward ... 5 00
H Rice & Son, supplies Willis. . . 3 40
Mays & Crowe, repairing sewer
at courthouse 9 75
D W Mann, expressage 50
Glass Prodhomme, supplies clerk
and sheriff 14 20
Pease & Mays, supplies " 25 99
Irvin Hodaon Co, supplies clerk
and sheriff 150 25
J A Obarr, board and lodging for ;
pauper 4 00
W E Garretson, care of clock 40. 00
Hood River Armory Co, use of " !
polling place 5 00
J H Aldrich, conveying Damon .
to soldier's home 9 00
Mahel gt Mack, clerical services. 37 00
Ida Wakefield. " 8 00
Dalles City Warer Works, water. 19 75
Dr Hollister, examining insane. . 20 00
A S Blowers & Co, material for
bridge...... 50
A S Blowers & Co, supplies pan.-
per , . 1 35
Grant Mays, supplies pauper 4 45
Dalles Lumbering Co, supplies
pauper 11 50
J P Mclnery, supplies sheriff 3 75
E E Sauage, blacksmithing 1 90
L Rorden & Co, supplies 1 22
4 25
Jacobsen Book & Music Co, sup.
C L Schmidt, suDDlies nauDer. . . 5 00
T T Nicholas, board panpers 4 00
Blakeley & Houghton, supplies
pauper 16 90
Chronicle Pub Co, printing. ..... 21 75
Maier & Benton, nails 4 50
Dr Kogan, professional services. . 11 50
Ward & Sons, lumberdist 4 218 50
Ward & Sons, lumber dist 15 22 19
John 8 ton Bros, supplies pauper. . 19 82
Geo Cooper, hay 9 90
frank Haworth, legal blanks. ... 5 50
T J Driver, telephone bill 75
Irwin Hodson Co, supplies sur
veyor 20 60
Times-Mountaineer, printing. ... 21 50
Geo T Prather, work on Hood '
River bridge .. 9 50
Davenport Bros, lumber. 23 22
M Uloon, examining insane
person 5 00
A Keller, rent home for Mrs
Brooks 8 00
State of Oregon, i
tXmnty of Wasco)
I, A. M. Kelsay, county clerk of Wasco .
county, state of Oregon, do hereby cer
tify that tbe above and foregoing is a
full and complete statement of the
elaims presented and action taken there
on by the county court of Wasco county,
Oregon, sitting for the transaction of
county business at the Jan. term,
1897, thereof, save and except all claims,
the salary or fees of which are provided
for bv statute.
Witness my hand and seal of tbe
county court, affixed this 16th day of
January, 1897. " .
Seal A. M. Kelsay,
By Simeon Bolton, . County Clerk.
Deputy. ,
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